skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legislative roadmap shows how Donald Trump will destroy the environment
Medical grade ECG monitor just released
«`lambda` and function application alone are Turing-complete, as McCarthy would have known. The credit here belongs with Turing and Church, not McCarthy»

I have sometimes pedantically quibbled with people that it is properly named the Church-Turing Theorem (of Computation) and that that distinction of including both esteemed mathematicians helps to push people towards the realization of how groundbreaking that effort was (two mathematicians separated by an ocean and using vastly different approaches to the mathematics of computation realizing how intricately linked they were), and also how the Lambda Calculus truly was integral in the definition of "Turing-complete".

Without Church's work on the Lambda calculus and without the Lambda calculus being so very different from the Turing "imperative" model of machine, we'd probably have a much narrower view of what "Turing-complete" even means, if we even had the concept at all.
These changes had been ordered but not implemented by the time of the Snowden leaks. The current head of the NSA was appointed in 2014, after both the policy implementation and Snowden leaks had happened. Within two years of his appointment, the IG was being investigated for whistleblower retaliation.

I don't know what you expect, but getting a large bereaucratic organization to have a major shake-up like that within a few years is fast, and so far as I can tell, the NSA has made major changes in the last few years, for the better.

Even if you dont believe in the rest of it, the behavior of the admiral sends a message to those serving under him: "I took on the IG, a career politician, to defend this change in policy, and I expect similar performance from my staff." The military fundamentally operates on such acts of leadership and direction, and that alone can have a huge impact on how they operate.
Yeah, too bad that people were apparently confused about it. I think an HVDC grid will be key as renewables take up a larger share of electricity supply. It might not be windy or sunny here, but it probably is somewhere else.
We don't have a carbon tax in the US and we don't have requirements for carbon sequestration systems. Yet, the coal industry is still contracting. Now you could remove the regulations that require limiting emissions of things like mercury and NOX and SOX and it would make coal cheaper. But people really don't like acid rain or mercury in their water. Coal is already phasing out and it's because natural gas is cheap and renewables are getting cheaper every year.
This article loses credibility with the opening line...

FTA: After years of missteps, the software giant is among the few titans of the 1990s to figure out the new world of mobile technology and cloud computing.

Saying MSFT have figured out mobile is a little too much of a stretch. They have tried many things in the space, they have figured out more of what doesn't work than what does. Unfortunately the market doesn't reward learnings alone.
If you insist on the assignments:

x = something ? ((a=foo()), baz(a)) : ((b = bar()), baz(b));

Otherwise:

x = something ? baz(foo()) : baz(bar());
Have you tried Gumroad's follow form?

There is an example of its use near the middle and bottom of my blog's About page:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/about-vasudev-ram.html

May not be too customizable, but is functional.

You can also sell your products via their site:

https://gumroad.com
I was recently working with an older developer. I don't know, maybe of 65 or 70 years. He was working on aerospace network intrusion detection systems, and I was helping him set up a simulation system. He was slinging around low-level computer architecture terminology, while I was quickly trying to access what I remembered from a college class 15 years prior, just to keep up with the conversation.

Older programmers are worthless, simply due to their age? Ridiculous. I hope to someday be as skillful as this guy.
I can perhaps understand that sort of attitude from people fresh out of their computer science degree, or even after half a dozen years of miserable grind in the workforce - but this guy looks to be in his forties, has (apparently) already had a successful career... and yet he has a blog called "Googley as Heck" and his LinkedIn headline is "Future Googler". Is this not all a bit weird?
I think it makes sense if I rephrase it this way:

"Many valid incidents of harassment are dismissed/ignored, and many invalid/borderline incidents are punished unfairly, and therefore the current system sucks for everybody".

Which seems entirely possible.
So the pendulum has swung yet again!

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Software development life cycle in practice
yeah..it was an obvious typo "2nd to last"
I would definitely agree that Trump and the Republican party leadership were antagonists or opponents (depending on how you look at it), though Trump had some support within the Republican party. It will be interesting to see whether he demotes or gets rid of the individuals who went against him, or finds some way to work with them.
How Trump’s White House Could Mess with Government Data
Agreed. It's a bit naive for a bunch of AI researchers who know nothing about VC to be judging a few VCs for showing interest.

First, which VCs? There is a very wide range. And second, which people at those VCs? A lot of associates will reach out speculatively whenever some company or project makes headlines, but there's a ton more diligence and vetting that would go into getting a partner meeting let alone all the way to an investment decision.
What's this Notion? Couldn't find it online
I'd be interested to learn more about your language. Is there a web page about it, or a paper? Are you the D Clark who's at UCL?

The way things are now can be changed.

For most applications users care more about response times than CPU clock rates. Hardware has speeded up by several powers of ten (Moore's law) but software has at the same time slowed down (Wirth's law), resulting in little if any net gain, and that has nothing to do with the use of lists: most applications don't use them.
Sorry, the concept here is mildly depressing.

Go study for 8 months to be awesome, focusing your time on subjects directly related to improving your awesomeness.

If your awesomeness happens to match a need at Google, great. Otherwise, you're still awesome and will wind up somewhere worthwhile....
Well said! 'pivot' is too limited of a concept for what they're doing.
The TXR Lisp dialect provides an awk macro that implements a language closely resembling Awk in its structure and semantics.

For example, write the third field of every record (if the field exists) into `file.{recnum}`:

(awk ([f 2] (-> `file.@nr` (prn [f 2]))))

The manual contains a translation of all of the Awk examples from the POSIX standard:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-03D16283

The (-> name form ...) syntax above is scoped to the surrounding awk macro. Like in Awk, the redirection is identified by string. If multiple such expressions appear with the same name, they denote the same stream (within the lexical scope of the awk macro instance to which they belong). These are implicitly kept in a hash table. When the macro terminates (normally or via non-local jump like an exception), these streams are all closed.
I assumed as when the runners in the advert jumped it made the coin nose that would be what happened in the game , jump IRL to jump in game that would have been cool
That's a good point too, and the happy surprise of recent low prices for new offshore wind projects indicates that wind will remain competitive in many scenarios.
I recommend you give up on this one. It sounds defensive and isn't helping your argument.
You are only as old as you believe you are. I'm 42 and won't trade spot with any 20-something for a job. The knowledge and experience I have today, most 20-something would love to have but.. they have to live some 20 years to now gain.

WTG putting this message together, good luck!
But internet connectivity is somehow inherently limitless and deliverable for free?
Christmas Trees in WPF, 2016 Edition
I take it you've never actually moved datacenters before?

Please don't do this. It may be that their system was simply easier to move. We've moved from DO to a local DC earlier this year and it really wasn't a problem, because (1) we didn't have that much data, and (2) we can take a couple of hours of scheduled downtime.

And frankly, I suspect that our situation is closer to the norm than yours. How many companies outside the Fortune 500 really have humongous quantities of data?
It takes learnings to get to earnings or to have any other worthwhile yearnings.
The kernel version was incremented due to kernel fixes (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207423). The Filevault vulnerability was fixed in 10.12.2 with a firmware update, part of the incremental update.
The Ultimate Comparison Mixpanel vs. Kissmetrics vs. Woopra
Knowing when to stop throwing good money after bad is, in a sense, figuring things out.
I'm not sure you're really comparing qualities of alphabets here.

Whether there is a good phonetic correspondence between phonemes and written syllables is independent of the alphabet.

If you read German or Italian, the correspondence is close to perfect. In English or in French, it's awful.

It's possible that there is a better phonetic correspondence between Hindi phonemes represented by Devanagari characters and French phonemes (in the case of "Poisson") than with English phonemes represented with roman characters (e.g. no satisfactory transcription for the French "on"), but that's unrelated to the alphabets.

If you were talking to people who could read French, you'd show them "Poisson", and they'd pronounce it perfectly. It just so happens that English speakers pronounce "on" a different way.
> Percentage is pretty darn accurate actually. Mostly because it's based on remaining charge

This is incorrect on both counts. It's based on remaining available energy, which is actually quite hard to calculate.

There are two ways you can estimate the remaining energy in a battery under load, and neither of them are very accurate. You can measure the voltage, the relationship between which and remaining energy depends on a huge number of factors including effective internal resistance (which changes with battery age, temperature, and across batches), particulars of the chosen chemistry, physical profile of the cells, current draw, etc. This is probably what you're talking about when you suggest measuring this "at home". It's not what any decent quality laptops use. It works OK at equilibrium though.

The other approach is dead reckoning. This involves estimating the discharge profile of the battery (which isn't as simple as "how much charge" the battery holds) and then integrating a non-linear function of the measured current draw based on the discharge profile. This works OK, but you need to combine it with occasional voltage-based recalibration to avoid integration error drift. That usually happens during charging.

Either way, not as accurate as you think, and you have to make assumptions about future current draw. If you give me a AA battery, it's literally impossible for me to tell you how much energy you're going to get out of it. It can easily vary by a factor of 20 depending on how you're going to use it.

Once you have a rough estimate of the remaining energy (which, again, is different from remaining charge), you can use that to formulate a percentage. But for human factors reasons, the displayed percentage almost never correspond to the actual remaining safe power. Most products stretch out percentages near 100% and 0% to give an impression of longer battery life and to give the user plenty of warning to find a charger.
Getting your email = you are a "lead" and they will send you marketing emails, hoping to get you to pay for their services.
"[USNS] Bowditch had stopped in the water to pick up two underwater drones. At that point a Chinese naval ship that had been shadowing the Bowditch put a small boat into the water. That small boat came up alongside and the Chinese crew took one of the drones."

It's pretty likely this is a shove-back for Trump aggravating China over Taiwan.

The mechanics of international one-upmanship are fascinating, it's like watching two big guys doing everything short of actually getting into a bar fight (hopefully), mixed with a prank war.
I want to puke. He agreed, like all security professionals, to uphold an agreement. He is a thief and a liar.
US Defense official: Chinese warship stole US underwater drone
Please go in to some detail on all of the ways in which the Republicans made efforts to cooperate with President Obama during his first term as president; I'm especially interested to hear how they achieved this cooperation while simultaneously setting record levels of obstruction [1].

[1] http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/c...
In this particular case, my thinking says Author is probably telling the truth. She has really no incentive of saying anything at all, she can keep it all to herself.

On other hand - never in my career, I have seen HR truly standing up for the Employee. The goal is always to deflect and maintain plausible deniability. I have never read a single story on Internet that highlights those HR heroes we deserve.
Combatting Cyber-Attacks in the Oil and Gas Industry
I worked for a recruiter for a while, and the euphemism used for age was 'seasoned'.

"Company X isn't looking for anyone seasoned"

"Company Y is open to seasoned individuals"

Companies would also look for people who were a certain number of years of out school. Like, "5 to 10 years experience post-degree." Sure, that could technically mean a 45 year old who went back to school at 35 is qualified for the position, but there is a 0% chance the company would hire that person.

The other recruiters would talk about these things pretty explicitly outside of emails. There were a lot of interesting justifications:

Older people are harder to train

Older people are difficult employees because they are stuck in their ways/used to getting their way

Older people expect more benefits/vacation/pay

Older people use more sick time

Older people don't keep up with developments in the field

Discrimination wasn't limited to age. The recruiters were just as happy to help their clients discriminate on race, or gender, or familial status. Really anything.

In my experience, age was the only protected class that recruiters would try to suss out how the hiring managers felt about while they were trying to determine the ideal candidate. It seemed to me that the other prejudices would only come to light after the recruiter had a relationship with the hiring manager and had sent them a number of candidates in the past. There were still a lot of euphemisms though.

This was just my experience though, and I was working for a small firm. I have no idea what the rest of the field is like at all.
Energy harvesting is essentially heat reclamation.

This makes for a trivial smell test for claims such as these: Think about how much heat is generated as you discharge your phone battery. Now imagine how long it would take you to generate that same amount of heat by swiping on your screen.

Cars, for instance, generate a LOT of heat when you hit the brakes. This makes them an excellent target for energy reclamation.

Now if they can reclaim the heat radiated from a CPU/GPU, that would we worth talking about.
It's a pretty old spanish proverb. I couldn't find where it came from, but for reference, I lived in Peru and heard some older guys say it. Then in college, I worked in a warehouse in the southern united states and older Mexican guys would say it to make sure the young workers respected them.

So, I wonder if it's just a universal Spanish proverb?
This does not include externality costs to offset the harmful emissions of coal and the environmental consequences of mining coal.
Trump campaigned on a stance of abolishing the H1B scam - he even had displaced workers giving speeches on stage about it - so I don't know how Nadella can turn around and say "we need to increase H1B issuance".
It's a very old Spanish proverb, so presumably only the Devil knows the origin ;)
These authors (columnists who plead Snowden's case to the government) seem to be looking for any reason to forgive a horrific array of individuals and organizations which have spent decades abusing power, and hiding the truth from the public.

The persecution of Snowden was not some strange accident, it was the latest in a long series of blows against liberty and human rights.
Large swaths of the American Midwest "have community", in the common sense of people in an area sharing and identity and caring about one another. People know each other. Look out for one another. Spend time together socially and culturally.

Of course, all of this only applies if you're sufficiently like them to be judged worthy of membership.
This article specifically isn't free after registration, unless you are a paid subscriber. I think WSJ makes some of their articles free after a week, but I could be mistaken.
Another 'Run" game - just what mobile gaming needed!

This will fit right along my daughters' other 96 run games.

/sarcasm
I've heard it said before that ageism is the only -ism that everyone ends up experiencing.

You're 30, and I'm 32, which means that in a decade we'll both be in a federally protected class. I don't think there would be federal protections if ageism wasn't a huge problem for 40+ people. In another decade, we'll both be in our 50s, where ageism is definitely a problem.

I think all younger people, myself included, have a responsibility to fight ageism now so we don't get bitten by it ourselves later.
RASA NLU: Open-source bot tool for natural language understanding
There would be no reason for them to call him if their positions were reversed. He's not an expert in anything, nor is he any kind of industry leader like the other people in the meeting.
Did the Congress see any reason to work with the President?
A Full Analysis of the 2015 GCHQ Crypto Puzzle
> Wherever I end up, I’m going in as an entry-level software engineer. I’m not going in with 15 years of software engineering experience because I simply don’t have it. When it comes to this stuff, I’m the equivalent of a fresh CS grad.

Talk about selling yourself short. You've been a web developer for 15 years. I would think you've progressed a little further than entry-level.
Canada’s Oil Exports Are Dead Without U.S. Shale Production
Yes, it's at:

https://oldgeekjobs.com/
I'd rather he uphold the constitution rather than some implicit "security professional agreement".
So what should he have done considering the organization(s) he worked for failed to uphold their agreements?
How I decide between Python 2 and 3 for my projects
Of course but two things. First, Nintendo markets it as a one-handed game and other than pressing the tiny buttons I can actually play it just fine one handed and second, there is no reason to require this tiny, little button area to be pressed when you could more easily press a larger area (as is common in most mobile games).

It's all about using existing UX mechanics versus Nintendo bringing over awkward console mechanics to a touch screen device.
What kind of encryption?
Q-learning plus Bayesian optimization for better learning
I started reading this thinking it was nuts to put so much effort into targeting one specific company. But by the end, I couldn't help but admire his willingness to set a goal and put in some serious work to accomplish it!
A large percentage of the population uses cruise control, probably without realizing that it's the single easiest thing you can do to increase your (freeway) mpg.

It's also apparently pretty common for hybrid-car drivers to adjust driving patterns to improve mpg, partly because the car gives rapid feedback - gamification in real life! - but there's probably also some selection bias, as people who buy high-mpg vehicles are more likely to be concerned about fuel efficiency.
Apple MacBook Pro Review (2016): Touch of Class and Not Much Else
Or maybe one year of experience, each in a specialized topic, which are all intertwined. I have 20 years experience in RF engineering, and probably a few years each in sub-disciplines that combine to form a full system. That is pretty valuable, especially being able to head off problems, due to prior experience with them.
Eight Large Acquisitions Recommended for 2017
This guy is sad. All those people on Quora who ask unending questions about Google are sad. They're suckers. They've eaten up Google's marketing.

You want to know the reality? Whatever's special about Google is long gone. Management let the smoke out a long time ago. Nowadays, Google is just another big software company, with all the opaque politics, purposelessness, and random nonsense that comes with being a big company. It's sad to see people strive to be a faceless drone.
But that problem is entirely due to English, not the roman alphabet. Same in French. No such problem in German or Italian.
He is setting himself up for a business\consultancy\bootcamp where other people will pay him to help get hired at one the big four.

He is already making his pitch: I read x books but you only need x-6 books to succeed. Sign up today, space is limited.
So which alphabet boys payroll are you on?
Belkin introduces 36 dollars lightning to USB cable for iPhone and iPad
Getting laid should not be a focus during professional discussions.
So for pumped hydro you have a massive up front cost and potentially smaller maintenance. Maintaining a large number of moving parts for rail might seem daunting, but these rail cars are made to operate for very long periods of time in unpleasant conditions with minimal maintenance; topping up lubrication systems and visual inspection is basically covering monthly maintenance for the system. I am not sure what the ongoing maintenance cost for most hydro installations is (pipe inspections, anti-silting and other water maintenance, inspections of the system, etc.), but I had to guess I would say that it is probably quite similar to rail.
Maybe the fact that RocketAI didn't have a product, wasn't solving any problem, or was touting a bogus algorithm with absolutely zero details should've set off some flags. They didn't base their interest off of any value they were creating, it was just unsubstantiated hype.
This whole idea of going after young fresh graduates is a ploy from the likes of Facebook or Google to increase their outreach and expand the talentpool they could source from. They are the ones that are on high towers and need people who know react or polymer or stuff like that.

Startups usually, though anecdotal, don't discriminate based on age or length of experience. In fact most of the awesome startups that I know hired solely based on experience and that "fit" into the cultural diversity of the company.
I don't know if Microsoft's leadership is being honest or not these days. But they're also far from transparent, and definitely working against my interests:

(1) AFAIK, Microsoft continues to assert patents against Linux without giving the broader community enough information to resolve the supposed violations. (I'm not positive about this one.)

(2) AFAIK, Microsoft continues to apply for more software patents, without joining the Patent Commons.

(3) Microsoft seems to intentionally subvert its OS's users' attempts to disable snooping. AFAIK, Microsoft not only refuses to say what data are gathered, but also phone home to so many different IP names/numbers that it looks like they're trying to hide the activity from the OS user.

(4) Microsoft is now "embracing" Linux. Microsoft became famous for "embrace, extend, extinguish". People outside of the CEO's inner circle can't know if that's the plan here as well.
It'd be really interesting to use redis modules like this in the future to have redis itself be both the main interface to the database for programs and a caching layer.