skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your contribution is very interesting : it shows how little a diploma (a.k.a. "education") has to do with any kind of ability to produce anything useful.

http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/475.abstract

http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/538.abstract

http://ner.sagepub.com/content/224/1/R29.abstract

https://newrepublic.com/article/124943/america-overeducation...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/03043932949...

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/lpritch/Education%20-%20docs/...

http://repec.iza.org/dp5401.pdf

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2013/December/Differ...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289605...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862754

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2016/11/01/are-we-still-goi...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_l...

https://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-...

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/21-myths-th...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/05/06/federal-stud...

http://longevity3.stanford.edu/blog/2014/10/15/the-consensus...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2016/11/01/are-we-still-goi...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-12-31/research-...

http://economics.mit.edu/files/10414

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162505...

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18315

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19895

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/upshot/how-to-improve-grad...

http://hechingerreport.org/how-often-do-community-college-st...

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/28/half-of-co...
To be honest, studying for 8 months isn't so bad. A lot of us studied for 4 years (to get a degree).
An easy to follow example is Coffeescript (where everything is an expression), which transpiles in javascript (where not everything is).
I'm 40 and don't feel that way at all.
They still had remote positions the last time I looked but they were more client facing roles. Sales and tech consultants.
We have genetic engineering, and we're general intelligences, but we haven't figured out how to build better humans yet.
I feel like this is some sort of promotional piece, but I can't quite get the angle - is he a fictitious individual made up by Google? Is this an attempt by Apple to make Google employees look weird? Is he a real person who's looking to publish a book?

Perhaps it's entirely legit, but it just seems so, so strange to me.
>the Devil knows more from being old than from being the Devil.

brilliant. what's the origin there?
I agree - I'd cite the example of the UK magazine Private Eye. For instance, they've run several articles recently criticising the proposed expansion of London Heathrow airport, despite every issue of late featuring a full-page ad propagandising in favour of it. The lobbyists are no doubt paying a pretty penny for that ad campaign, but there's no sign that's affected the Eye's independence at all. And that's just one example - they've reliably shown themselves happy to bite the hand that feeds.
The intrusion happened more than a year after Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo.
Doesn't seem like the patch is for El Capitan, as all the kernel fixes only list Sierra.
Its rather arrogant to simply proclaim someone is living a bubble and that everyone should agree with you that certain words are disrespectful. Perhaps you should take a step back and ask yourself if you're the one whose in a bubble.
No, the percentage tells me nothing about how long I can expect to keep doing what I'm doing. I haven't memorized the power consumption profiles of every task I use my laptop for.
Cash transactions provide Privacy/Security; Govt must give Gun-Licenses to Common man if it really wants a Cashless society; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...
kinda like how trump acts when it comes to foreign relations eh!?
I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
Unfortunately, you are correct in that brain deterioration progresses faster than other forms of deterioration, which is why it's smart to focus on it over some other age dependent diseases. Your brain is a part of your body like your heart. Any cure for aging would obviously include the cure for mental deterioration.
Could you tag this with a "Show HN:"?
So stop clicking on them?

Fake news would be an entirely artificial story similar to tabloid garbage, a headline like "Colombian Chimpanzee Doctor Grows Alien Baby in codeddesigns Brain!" or "codeddesign Takes Control of Hacker News And Shuts It Down!!!"
I can't comment too much on this article, as I have a very, very limited view on LISP - basically just a couple of minor tutorials and one of the open-source interpreters. For me, it's always been one of those "I need to learn this" kind of languages, but I've never had a use case for it, and so it remains a curiosity to me more than anything.

I do know, though, that LISP allows the creation (or at least I have heard) for DSLs - so I am curious what people here think about this.

I'm also curious if anyone has an opinion on JetBrains MSL:

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

...and whether that would be a better thing to learn before or after learning LISP, as well as how it compares to LISP?

It's yet another "thing" that has caught my eye over the years, but again - no use case, and so it remains on the back burner for now...
That's different, the re-release has new content which wasn't in the original that you bought? And the original continues to work?

Instead imagine that half the disc you originally bought turned out to be self-destructing ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3064327.stm ) but you can buy a re-release without the issue for a discount if you trade in the old disc.
Considering the outgoing President saw no reason to work with the Congress that the people elected, I'd say this is a step "forward."
Guide to reading Western Philosophy
At least in the mainland UK, I think those kind of plans were replaced by Economy 7/10 tariffs that offer the same rate for all off-peak electricity usage regardless of what it's used for a long time ago.
That happened in 2009.

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Business-Globalization/SAS...
Haha. Well, I've got a few more steps (graphic design being a huge one) but here's a sample. The full book has just over 300 activities to try; this one has 50. All of the content is final, so I hope to get the book to the major self-publishing outlets in the next month or two.

http://www.friendlyskies.net/files/etexts/sample/300-INTJ-St...

Scroll way down for the meat. Love to know what you think.
Yes, even if you install the December 2016 security update for 10.11.6; only 10.12.2 is protected against this Filevault vuln.
> USCIS has given guidance on a "grace period" for H-1Bs

Phew. Boy oh boy it was a constant strain on us for 8 full years. It is pretty disturbing to not know if you are committing a crime if you were laid off while on H1B and need to look for another job!
> "With increased lifespan, expect increased specialization."

This is an interesting point. "Advancement" doesn't mean the fields are only getting narrower. Advancement means having to deal with increasing number of multi-disciplinary fields. So, the expectancy of convergence is positive.

With marginal increase of lifespan one may only see specialization. But if one dares to imagine a 1.5x to 2x lifespan, the meaning of "time" will change.

All economical decisions are also subconsciously factoring lifespan, with a mental model of "division by time" to see if something is worth that fraction of their life.

The imbalance created by say a 1.5x or 2x rise in lifespan will surely make way for more scientific enlightenment of masses.

Edit: corrected word "Specialization" into "Advancement"
Microsoft is so uncool
Windows 10 is steadily improving too.
The people elected Congress to represent them.

They are literally representatives of his constituents.
I tend to informally address mixed gender groups as "you guys," and I know that bugs some people. Unfortunately I can't think of any better gender neutral terms that maintain the informal feeling.

Sometimes I wish I was southern so I could get away with "y'all." It's such a useful term, but it sounds so wrong coming from my north eastern accent.
Like all big companies your experience depends more on your group than the company as a whole. I've got a number of friends at MSFT in various tech roles, some have their own office as a developer, some are in a cube or open floor environment.

Note that the post you're replying to uses the past tense. The vast majority of my tenure at MSFT was in a private office, but that was over ten years ago. It is my understanding that things have changed since.
might have to do with the callous way he talks about encryption, censoring the internet, and the "cyber"

from the way he talks and from his background it's clear that he doesn't possess a technical understanding of the kinds of technology these people create and maintain.
How to train and classify images using Google Cloud Machine
Most definitely, chemical energy storage is fantastically dense.

I think that as intermittent renewable energy sources get cheaper and cheaper, in addition to time-shifting of arbitrage from batteries, energy storage in chemical bonds may make sense. Methods to create synthetic fuels from electricity are in their very early days, and all of them are terribly inefficient; most go through hydrogen and that step alone results in a huge loss of energy.

So for applications where energy density is needed, e.g. jets, the fuel costs will just be that X% higher than being able to use straight electricity + battery.

I can definitely imagine a world where creating synthetic fuels from excess grid energy is cheaper than fossil fuel extraction, but it involves tons of research and development in those synthetic fuel methods, and many decades of improving renewable technologies at their current rate.
It's blocked behind a registration which is free. How does someone registering for the site get them money?
The choice exists only if you have a single form to evaluate subject to the condition. If there are two or more, of course this is imperative programming and (when condition form1 form2 ...) recommends itself over (if condition (progn form1 form2 ...)). If there is only form1, either one will do, so then it's down to a decision based on whether form1 returns a useful value and/or performs a side effect.
Only because going one more bit to 64 is too far, and one less bit to 16 is too young.
At what point can we safely assume that Balmer was simply incompetent?
That sounds like most normal Best Buy / Office Depot / Microcenter deals.
I guess it all comes down to how expensive they'll be (at least for consumer applications). The $3000 cost for the new developer edition doesn't bode well, IMO.
Christmas soundlights with Raspberry Pi
A good organization has a mix of old hands and inexperienced young people. They have complementary strengths.

Put it another way. When you board an airliner, are you happy to see a fresh faced pilot?

Or my (old) dermatologist. He said he could spot skin cancer from across the room. I asked him how, he said half his business was skin cancer - he looked at it for hours every day.
Trump has demonstrated time and again that he will try to kneecap a company and its CEO if he feels that the CEO says something negative about him.
I tried https://news.ycombinator.com/rss just now and I see entries. I can't swear that they're totally up to date, but at a quick glance it seems to at least roughly match the current front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss also seems to be working.
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Cucumber TestRail integration module
Yeah, "types of mail", not "sources of mail". The difference here is that PF Chang's and my local Chinese place are equally as capable of sending me bulk mail.
Rejected for being over 30.
There are very many engineers (e.g userbase of /r/cscareerquestions) whose sole purpose in life is to get a job at one of the Big 4.
They both can be problematic. They both can lead to "agendas" by agendas I mean they may not be out there to solely find out and expose things but expose particular things to drive or influence opinion to further their political views.

So far as I know there isn't an easy answer and some of these alternatives may be better in practice than others, but only marginally so.
I think the issue of finding a job may be across most other industries, and thus older people will have difficulty regardless.
Couldn't agree more, if immigration policy for high skilled workers made them equals to their home-grown peers, it'd put upward pressure on salaries assuming there were reasonable limits on visas granted each year.
This scenario is already playing out and it's largely due to market forces. More people are employed in the solar industry now than are employed by the coal industry. Simply put, coal in the US is dead because it can't compete with gas, solar, and wind. That is why it is silly when people say we need to prop up the coal industry. We would much better off by just training those workers to install solar panels or become wind turbine technicians because there is actually a growing market there.
Some can't choose.

A friend of mine worked in a startup that was bought by MS.

Somehow MS didn't want a few of the devs, but the CEO made a deal and they all got "included" into MS.

So if he weren't lucky, he probably wouldn't got a big corp job in the first place.
Amazon is secretly building an 'Uber for trucking' app
Lisp is an interesting thing because once you learn it, you start seeing use cases for the ideas you've picked up during the process all over the place.
Same here. Despite the fact it may no longer be supported I wanted one because there is nothing else in the market I want to buy to replace my Fitbit. With Amazon it costs a zillion to ship here in Italy and the only seller that ships has it white which is a problem for somebody that almost solely wears black clothes... On Ebay they started to sell it like if it was a greek repert of 500 AC. Too bad.
Nassim Taleb: The Black Swan of Cairo (2011)
"Trump is listening to people who were assholes to him, even though he has no obligation to do so.

Trump has no obligation to listen to people who are assholes to him.

The POTUS has no obligation to listen to people who vehemently disagree with him.

If you disagree with the POTUS, your voice doesn't need to be heard.

If you disagree with Obama, he doesn't have to listen to you."

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but all of these statements logically entail each other. I feel like I've shown your position to be absurd/contradictory.
ContainerOS would have been a good compromise.
The story as I have heard it before is that John McCarthy wrote a Lisp interpreter in Lisp and Steve Russell translated it directly into machine code to get a working interpreter. Wikipedia indicates that Steve Russell implemented Lisp in machine code twice but gives no details.

Do you have a source giving additional details of what happened?
> they charge a licence (I think around 300€)

Pretty interesting if Microsoft can charge €300 for an operating system that ships on €150 (£150/$199 or less) laptops ;-)

The Windows installation fee used to be around $42-$44 and some versions cost around $11-15 (Windows XP Ultra Low Cost PC version). IBM used to pay $27 (which we know because it complained bitterly about Microsoft tripling the price).

The tablet version of Windows 8.1 cost $10 but OEMs got a $10 kickback for making Bing the default search engine. (Microsoft did not describe this as free, it said it was "zero paid".)

Be nice to have a current figure if anyone wants to break the non-disclosure clause, but the fee for Windows is a lot closer to €30 than it is to €300.

OEMs also charge software houses to distribute software (ie crapware). This can reduce the cost of Windows to the user almost to zero. In fact, when users subscribe to a pre-installed AV product, the OEM gets recurring fees which means the pre-installed Windows has actually generated a profit.
Google I/O 2009 – The Myth of the Genius Programmer
On the other hand, you also get all the negatives while losing many of the benefits. Unions have some positives and some negatives. Some of the positives you benefit from even if you're not in it, some you don't. Some of the negatives you are impacted by if you're not in it, some you don't. It's not a clear case of "getting a big bucket of benefits without paying the cost" if you work for a company w/o joining the union.
Could you explain what you mean by the "base rate" popularity?
Bandwidth is also limited.
Note: This comment is not based on the article, but my personal experience (in the UK - if that matters)

Honestly, having a third party involved has worked well. Sometimes, misunderstandings linger and fester, and then even the most innocuous things can be construed wrongly. A third party (a good manager is ideal) saying either "you're being too sensitive" or "no, they were out of line, i'll talk to them" helps. I don't know of anybody who's refused to iron out issues, and I firmly believe most people are decent enough to help.

But at the end of the day, you don't have to like everybody you work with, as long as there's respect from both parties. That's being professional. If respect isn't there, either you or your manager is going to have to make a call sooner or later. For better or worse, this is probably going to come down to team dynamics, as teams that work well together are very valuable. This might suck, but I've never seen racism or sexism being the dominant effect in a small team (<8) of people who know each other - a lot of caveats, at least there's hope.

I guess it helps if it's "just" a job to you. Normally, I'd simply start looking for a job elsewhere, but if I was at Apple, I'd want to stay there.
Trust me, guys who listen to what women say, respect their opinions, and make some form of effort to show that respect, get laid. Regularly. Male feminists are hard to find, and people like dating people who share their political beliefs.
> You mean like it's done over the last couple hundred years?

Yes, imagine the world before penicillin and after it. They are not the same.
The media tells us what to think about. The billionaires want to control media so they can sway public opinion and get what they want.

1. The media creates an "issue"

2. The "issue" riles people up

3. Calls are made to congress critters

4. Facebook posts are posted

5. Twitter hash tags are create

6. Billionaire suddenly has a plan to correct\fix\control issue
> Rust has such a bright future ahead

I believe it'd be mutual - Firefox would have a bright future because of Rust...and vice versa.
I've had a python{2,3} script for, like, years, collecting advanced details using ioreg.

Sample output:

~> ~/Workspace/toolbelt/battery
Temperature = 2967
CycleCount = 384
DesignCapacity = 6600
MaxCapacity = 6362
WearRatio = 96%
CurrentCapacity = 5886
ChargeRatio = 92%
Voltage = 12162
Amperage = -1061
InstantAmperage = 64286
InstantTimeToEmpty = 8:34
TimeRemaining = 5:33
AvgTimeToEmpty = 5:33
FullToEmptyTime = 5:59

https://github.com/lloeki/toolbelt/blob/master/battery
Sooo no age requirement to submit a resume? How old is an "oldster"?
I just can't agree with this conclusion.

Microsoft has taken some great steps since Nadella took over. Doing more projects aimed at regular developers and taking baby steps towards open source, but that is not enough to be a leader.

In fact, I think in 2016, we are in a much worse place when it comes to tech leadership than we were in the late 90s and early 00s. The tech world has been poisoned by money and everything is focused on maximizing profit. Almost nothing is being created because it's innovative or really life changing. The new products that are coming out like Google Home or Microsoft Office 365 which claim to be innovative, really aren't. They are repackaging an existing product in a new context. That's called marketing. That's not tech leadership.

In the 90s we had the launch of Linux, the web and home internet access.

In the 2000s all we've really had is smart phones. Everything else has just been building on what was done in the 90s because the people in charge are all marketers and profit seekers.

Do something truly innovative with all your billions Microsoft, and then I will buy that you are a tech leader. No amount of press releases or fluff articles will convince me.
It's better to make new productive areas than to fight diminishing returns and force there to be fewer productive areas. The founding of California and the USA are the result of such thinking.

The powerful, propertied generation dying and being replaced by people that look and do nearly the same hasn't cured any of the ills of which you speak so far. The rich have continued to get richer, and the poor richer at a much slower rate, death hasn't solved any of that, nor is it likely too. What you want is better marketing of good ideas, because that actually works. Wishing people dead for disagreeing with you is at least immoral.
No, it's definitely not random.

Off shore you get 24 hour constant wind, the synoptic wind. When we race to Hawaii, first you HAVE to get past the Farallones the first day and into the synoptic wind. If the inshore wind shuts down, you're bobbing all night with 0 wind. Get to the synoptic wind, set the spinnaker and it's a downhill sled race to Oahu.

At the coast, you get marine layer driven winds in the afternoon, dying off in the evening. Stockton heats up midday, creates a low pressure and sucks in the marine layer. It cools off in the evening, shutting it down.

Now, as to the wind chart, that's CA as a whole. Dunno. But wind is definitely not random by geography and season. Basically, it's solar driven.
I like VSCode, TypeScript and RxJS. But I didn't buy any MS product since Win7.

Seems like the teams behind the JS/TS stuff are pretty cool. Don't know about the rest.
I think it makes a lot of sense for a company--especially one whose primary business is as a consultancy--to carve products out into their own brands. And you have to start somewhere.
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Chinese Navy Stole U.S. Underwater Drone from International Waters
Since when are Lisp-family and industrial languages not overlapping sets?
Trump also had some pretty nasty things to say about the GOP, but he's working with them pretty well..
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+net+neutrality
Microsoft has a huge, huge intellectual capital in Microsoft Research. They have very interesting results and experimental ideas in programming languages and interaction design, and I'm sure they'll have most of it patented.
Robotary, a Swift-Based Robotics Studio for MacOS
you could, in theory, just twist but the problem with that is that any little movement could cause the wire to separate and it would become useless.
I've hated MS a decade ago, because of their position against linux and because of IE6. I've watched them doing big efforts the last few years, and I welcome them - I can't wait to feel good about them. That being, this article indeed sounds too emphasized to not be fishy. Maybe it's a PR article, maybe it's just that the author from this financial publication bought MS shares lately, maybe it's something else, I don't know.

But yeah, I don't see either any major change in mobile MS usage around me.
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Query was adapted from examples:

#standardSQL
SELECT tag, COUNT(*) num_questions, ROUND(SUM(IF(answer_count > 0, 1, 0)) / COUNT(*), 3) perc_answered
FROM (
SELECT SPLIT(tags, '|') tags, answer_count
FROM `bigquery-public-data.stackoverflow.posts_questions` a
WHERE EXTRACT(YEAR FROM creation_date) = 2016
), UNNEST(tags) tag
GROUP BY tag
ORDER BY num_questions DESC
LIMIT 1000
In preferences you can always tune the level of "yellow". I personally, keep it at 5500k during the day, and in the evening turn it down a bit to 4800k.