skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing doesn't take care of itself. Cities built on the American car-centric model work fine until they reach a certain size and then traffic chokes them and quality of life for everyone goes down. Atlanta, a southern city, is a good example of a city whose economic growth is limited by traffic.

Society and government exist to help us citizens coordinate our efforts to solve problems bigger than any of us. Building public transit and forming density-friendly zoning rules are what we should all be doing together.
I seriously doubt we will ever encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life. There are a lot of obstacles - the distances involved, the fragility of life, and the fact that not every intelligent life-form will develop advanced technology.

All that said, I am certain it such life exists elsewhere.
The problem with that is it removes the incentive to sign up until you need an organ yourself. The vast majority of people don't need organs (at any given time), so if you allow them to opt in only once they need an organ, very few additional people would register, basically defeating the purpose of the idea.

I agree that it would be better than the current system though -- there would still be a small increase in the supply of organs, but not a big one.
Hey Chuck, the weird thing was I wasn't trying to pull anything off. I walked into his office and something about just told me to go that way. I'd say it was more him than me, he had a persona that made that the right approach. I just went with it.

Don't get me started about Garlick (or Kannegard), oy. Having Roger say you have his blessing the wack the kernel is a pretty big deal, he was very protective of it.
Do most londonese share this feeling of mine that it's kinda expensive or this is just me being a bit dumb? :)
It wasn't principled and so the pivot to infrastructure spending will come without any political consequences because the Republican opposition was strictly partisan. It wasn't against the idea of improving infrastructure. It was against who was improving infrastructure.

If Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice do something, that's OK. If Hillary does the same thing, it's treasonous. Got it?
I did look at that paper. Here is a quote from that paper:

> Based on this review, all three approaches to computerized training – classic cognitive training tasks, neuropsychological software, and video games – appear to hold promise for improving cognitive abilities in cognitively normal, community-dwelling older adults who have a higher risk of cognitive decline as they age.
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My uncle is a Realtor, and I built the software for his one man operation (sales funnel, analytics, etc).

If you want to see when those price inelastic momentum makers have left the market, watch the trailing 10, 30 day listing to sales price ratio. 10 day trailing gives you a hint, but it should be clear as day after 30 days when you see inventory selling consistently below asking.
Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug
One funny side effect of this was that dev kits for the PS3 were rack mounted 1U (?) units. As a game developer this was ridiculous because we each had one of these on our desks, usually with a tv sitting directly on top of it. Thankfully this was changed to something reasonable on PS4. The PS4 dev kits are pretty cool looking IMO.
I live just north of Houston in a 1600 sq ft, corner lot, large porch, 2 car detached garage, 3 bedroom house. Currently valued at $130,000.
Always cool to see new implementations of SOCKS.
Good list;
Please add Containers to the list http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/
>They also result into overengineerred interfaces, which gradually morphed into a "DoEverything" interface, like DoEverything(ActionOptions, RuntimeEnvironment). ActionOptions literally captures every options you can have on anything; and RuntimeEnvironment includes all data for the action to happen.

Also known as a function on the IO monad. The people who were writing that might have a good time with Haskell.
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Thank you. Same to you and others. May 2017 bring health, peace, luck, and fortune. :)
The main advantage of developing for consoles is targeting exactly one hardware configuration. I don't think that's lost if the specs for the console are public.
That is quite normal for the SLC area
https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/815227058334892032

"Hope everyone remembers just before Trump took office @ggreenwald was praising Breitbart & @jeremyscahill was joking about working for Putin"

^ This
The point is not whether the investor can tell the difference between fraud and poor investment. It is rather whether an actual fraud was committed as determined by a court of law. Investors should do their due diligence anyway.
Some thoughts:

- I can also imagine a world where the 0.01% continue to accumulate wealth, they will certainly have a growing ability to protect their position. The world has finite resources, when "immortality" is discovered will certainly have an effect on wealth and power distributions.

- I would argue many people today forget what happens to them/society within years well within their lifetimes.

- "Population control / other measures" -- hence my dread.

- I think improving quality of life is very different than extending it into multi-generational periods.
Seems to me like the western scientists (I have no idea about the eastern scientists) royally fucked up and thought there was like some kind of emotional region that only exists for women, when it turns out males , in reality, have emotional regions too. If this doesn't make sense, guess what, you don't make any sense either.
So far so good! (age 59 and still cursing bad code)
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Your Android reference doesn't even figure into this.
The pickup and delivery costs don't make sense given the high cost of labor. In India it's significantly cheaper so good to prove the concept out there - at least until drones arrive.
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And again, not the feature under discussion.
The conclusions are of particular note:

"The IP addresses that DHS provided may have been used for an attack by a state actor like Russia. But they don’t appear to provide any association with Russia. They are probably used by a wide range of other malicious actors, especially the 15% of IP addresses that are Tor exit nodes.

The malware sample is old, widely used and appears to be Ukrainian. It has no apparent relationship with Russian intelligence and it would be an indicator of compromise for any website."
> I tell students that the best way to make an impact is to focus on the details

Thank you for the insight in your last paragraph. Do you have references that will help me explore this even more?
It appears to have come back.
Marcan mentions FreeBSD is not a particularly secure OS.

My understanding is the BSDs have a reputation for being more secure than Linux. Is this not the case?
Investing in companies is supposed to be risky. If someone acts foolishly as per your narrative then that's their problem. I don't see why everyone's freedom needs to be curtailed just to save the fools from themselves.
So post some ads locally and make it happen.
Also this:

https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/815251935666327556

"Did Russia hack the DNC? Yes. Is the DHS/FBI report good? No. Does either have anything to do with the electric utility in Vermont? Nope."
That's not really what my point was.
This was my experience as well! I intended to learn Python so I could build games, and ended up forgetting about the game and just kept programming.
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Evidence please? Particularly given that these issues happen to pretty much fall along the major cultural and political divide in the US.

I suspect that the same root causes of our political discord, are also the root causes of our lack of educational consensus.
> Those who don't remember the lesson of history are doomed to repeat it

This maxim is hardly a law of nature; it's sometimes true and sometimes false.

Also, we have managed to escape this problem many times in history: by studying history. Human knowledge accumulates and is refined throughout the generations. Sure, more information has been lost than retained, but repeating mistakes is not inevitable.
And those people would rather to pay taxes to have their children taught to disdain and look down on them.
I was wondering who this leap second was going to affect!
I genuinely want to know where people use these algorithms in their code. I'm a non CS dev to begin with so may be I don't know where to use them since I didn't get formal CS education.
This way of interviewing is not what I prefer. I have been told I write better code than my CS grad peers but I have no clue about these algorithms and data structures. What do you guys think about this form of interview?
The fundamental problem with equity crowdfunding is that there is always going to be a huge imbalance of power between the company and the investors. In traditional VC investing it is much closer to equals and one might argue that the VC's even have the upper hand. That's why you see those investor unfriendly terms in crowdfunding, when you are just one tiny fish of 1,000 you have zero leverage. Not only do you not have anything the company needs, people with 1,000 bucks are a dime a dozen, but it's also unlikely you would go to any great cost to hold them accountable since it would cost too much to do so.
Super-ager, not super rager as I was reading. Really changes the context of the article.
Most video players support changing the playback speed. In mplayer it's controlled with the '[' and ']' keys and in VLC it's set in the Playback -> Speed menu.
Convex hull is in the number theory category?
Exactly. People were making supercomputers and computing clusters with PS3 when it was possible to install Linux on them. It was at least partly because it was cheaper than paying for full-priced hardware.

http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...
This was shared a while ago, but it's relevant again: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.htm...
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I don't see it as one. It just happens to be the one I encountered that had the feature. Please suggest better, I wasn't that fond of R.
I worked on a few postcard apps about 5 years ago, for my experiments the economics were very difficult unless a) you charged a lot b) of recurring revenue c) for a niche. I gave up even when I found a viable model because I didn't want to spent the next 5 years working on this, thought I could make a lifestyle business but I think to be successful here you have to move a lot of postcards and that takes marketing muscle and ensuring a high CLTV. Margins are good but absolute profit is tiny. Also support costs will be high, people will be emailing you about lost postcards (inevitable given the many ways they can be lost, and they will be pissed) when you stand to make 30 cents. Giving one away for free seemed to help "validate" that delivery has an existence proof for a given address, but is very expensive.

Anyway free info: the thing that seemed to have legs was an app that lets parents send monthly postcards of babies. (Recurring, high margin.) Grandparents and other relatives still have the ones my friends sent on their fridge. I think if you took this idea and executed well you could be successful, but you would need marketing capital or capital to get a partnership with a big brand.

Good luck!
Not necessarily true. Type systems can ensure safety without too much effort. For example in Haskell, you might have some sort of format function with the type signature

-- Given appropriate Error and Context types
format :: Context -> Text -> Either Error Text

Which would be guaranteed to be safe (there is no way this function can execute arbitrary code or read from your file system, short of egregious abuses of unsafePerformIO in its implementation). Note that the signature I wrote above takes an explicit context (presumably some sort of mapping of available variables), which removes the need for supporting arbitrary attribute access in the first place, and is more explicit to boot.

There is no reason other languages or libraries could not implement a function with the same degree of safety, although their type systems might not be able to guarantee its safety. In fact I would wager that such pitfalls are only likely to be found in dynamic languages, which support runtime eval (which is, after all, the root of the described problem).
Do you really find you can ignore data structures and algorithms in your work (and if so, what sort of work do you do)?
Or the current administration, who declined to challenge Russia militarily over the Crimea seizure or Syrian bombing campaign?

Is anyone talking about a war with Russia besides folks like Greenwald and Taibi, for whom it is making a nice straw man?
Please don't link directly to the pdf. It's being treated as a download. :)
Indeed! I understand that getting symbolic reasoning out of NN-like architectures is the new "body-mind" problem (J. Tenenbaum ?), but I mean we already have that with PGMs and Markov logic and all those things.

I really don't see why DNN change the game fundamentally. I mean graphical models, they really changed the way of thinking in the field. DNNs in contrast are really still fundamentally building on things built by Yann LeCunn and gang.
Not really. You definitely can get close with eBay/Craigslist + Shyp[1]

[1]:http://www.shyp.com
"If you actually pay that, I won't hesitate to send you a book of..."

i'm tempted.
I guessed most big services would be using something akin to time smearing [1] since the first big leap-second outages years ago. Is there any reason why cloudfare would be unable to use this technique?

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
you seem to be of the opinion that because concussions are bad, the idea of exercise aiding aging or other mental benefit isnt supported? that's absurd. there's significant evidence of the benefits of physical activity to mental health. which is pretty obvious considering that muscle contraction is entirely driven by the CNS.

here is some study into these various ideas. google your heart out but this was the first i found.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2015/Novemb...
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Didn't you just point out that some of those fields could be sensitive, like password info?
I like what Gravit.io has done for an online app it's my go to for getting anything out on Twitter fast ( quick templates). I read somewhere Gravit started out as the old Macromedia Freehand base code - don't quote me on this one. Go kick the tires , they also have YouTube videos up. ps. I have also used Affinity Designer beta it was fast and I liked it. I have also used Affinity's lighter weight InDesign software X8 an that worked well for an ebook / PDF.
All other things being equal, someone who understands these algorithms/data structures and how/when to use them would be preferred over someone who hasn't put time in to get familiarized with them.

I think in many positions it probably isn't necessary to have knowledge of how to implement from scratch -- yet again, if the company could find someone that gets it, they may produce overall more efficient solutions. Whether that matters to the company or not is another story -- but things like finishing some scheduled task in 10secs instead of 2hrs can be really useful.

I used to have a mindset like "these algorithm quizzes are BS!" Yet when I have learned more about them, it is amazing to see how inefficient things can be produced, without the foundational knowledge to process/store things efficiently

EDIT: All that being said, I think the usual software engineer interview format is terrible. It's like an intellectual hazing gauntlet or something..
I'm guessing CloudFlare runs their own custom DNS server software?
My CDMA phone dropped service for a few minutes after the leap second.

It's absurd that we continue to keep subjecting ourselves to these disruptions and the considerable amount of work that goes into handling leap seconds for the systems that aren't disrupted by them.

Leap seconds serve no useful purpose. Applications that care about solar time care usually care about the local solar time, while UT1 is a 'mean solar time' that doesn't really have much physical meaning (it's not a quantity that can be observed anywhere, but a model parameter).

It would take on the order of 4000 years for time to slip even one hour. If we found that we cared about this thousands of years from now: we could simply adopt timezones one hour over after 2000 years, existing systems already handle devices in a mix of timezones.

[And a fun aside: it appears likely that in less than 4000 years we would need more than two leapseconds per year, sooner if warming melts the icecaps. So even the things that correctly handle leapseconds now will eventually fail. Having to deal with the changing rotation speed of the earth eventually can't be avoided but we can avoid suffering over and over again now.]

There are so many hard problems that can't just easily be solved that we should be spending our efforts on. Leapseconds are a folly purely made by man which we can choose to stop at any time. Discontinuing leapseconds is completely backwards compatible with virtually every existing system. The very few specialized systems (astronomy) that actually want mean solar time should already be using UT1 directly to avoid the 0.9 second error between UTC and UT1. For all else that is required is that we choose to stop issuing them (a decision of the ITU), or that we stop listening to them (a decision of various technology industries to move from using UTC to TAI+offset).

The recent leap smear moves are an example of the latter course but a half-hearted one that adds a lot of complexity and additional failure modes.

(In fact for the astronomy applications that leap seconds theoretically help they _still_ add additional complication because it is harder to apply corrections from UTC to an astronomical time base due to UTC having discontinuities in it.)
I've been a team lead and head geek for a small software company for a good number of years. I'd say that these questions matter a lot more than you'd think.

Using the wrong data structure or a data structure in the wrong scenario can make the difference between an application which can serve 1000 users per node or 100. That impacts the number of servers we recommend deploying in our cluster and in turn the hardware and maintenance costs for a customer buying a license for our software.

An understanding of Big-O and algos is very important and any good software eng or team lead should refresh themselves on the topics regularly since these really can make the difference between a performant app and one which brings the host device to its knees.
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Wish you and your family a very Happy, Prosperous, Healthy and Peaceful Year 2017
I believe you're mistaken. Look into the "wildcat banking" era in the US for numerous examples of banks stealing or defrauding customers when there were no federal regulations on banks.
Widely used only applies when the paper was written. Actual code snippets put more future demand on readers when those languages are potentially no longer popular. I would strongly suggest the use of an abstract version merely for the authors to abstract their own thinking, then additionally have embedded concrete versions.
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So really you're saying that actually you don't need to be able to implement these off-the-cuff, but you should understand big-O and based on the sort of data you have, pick the best algorithm from a table like this one: http://bigocheatsheet.com/ ?
This is simply not true. It is basically never widely known when there is a bubble, that is why there is a bubble. There are lots of false positives and false negatives.

No one has successfully timmed the market over a long period of time.
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I'm curious what if anything would be problematic if everything just effectively "ignored" leap seconds (i.e. would this outage not have occurred?) --- one minute is always 60 seconds, an hour is always 60 minutes, and a day always 24h. I mean, if you consider the fact that human society has managed to function perfectly well with almost everyone not knowing nor caring what a leap second is, and yet apparently some software does --- leading to problems like this --- something doesn't feel right.
Eh. I wouldn't put it that way. I'd say you need enough experience to know what you don't know. Which is hard and will vary based on the problem you're trying to solve. A simple cheat sheet won't be enough.
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You typically don't. This form of interviewing is cargo culting Google's interview process.
Part 1 - launch https://www.neuralobjects.com - we're getting close to being able to launch at least a closed beta, but still a lot of work to do.

Part 2 - (re)-launch many of the existing Fogbeam Labs products under a SaaS model. We'll still do "on prem" if somebody calls wanting it, but going SaaS is definitely first priority.

Part 3 - add some more new products to the catalog. Not much I can (or want to) say about that now, but I think we're going to be able to do some cool stuff.

And, as a corollary to all, and ultimately the most important goal - get some paying customers! 2017 is the
year we get serious about sales.

(Aside: we were there around the end of 2014, and then I had a heart attack. That kinda derailed everything, cost me most of 2015 from working on business stuff, and just generally killed any momentum we had back then.)
As a working developer for 20 years, the majority spent at Microsoft, I'd say that I have to understand data structures and algorithms in general, but I certainly do not need to know how to implement the ones that have names.
Or maybe we just need to code system that handles leap seconds correctly.
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PS4 hdd is indeed removable/upgradable. I swapped my 500gb for a 2tb.

Sony even gives out instructions on how to do it:
https://support.us.playstation.com/articles/en_US/KC_Article...
Is this not it? https://github.com/cloudflare/dns
Health insurance is commonly provided by employers if you are a software engineer.
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This is a great list.

One omission is the spreadsheet memory model. The spreadsheet can be argued as the multi-dimension array like in Fortran, but it's not. Both the data of primitive types and the computation declaration are stored in the table cells. Data dependency and computation are declared. Computation order is not specified and is run on the whole table as a dependency graph. It's kind of unique.
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Or maybe we should start holding project managers accountable for these issues instead of simply basing their performance on deadlines.
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But is it a bug or network saturation under people wishing each others a happy new year? (And Perhaps more so with a selfie than a text msg as prev yrs)