skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's never too late to switch.

I'd suggest figuring out which niche of data science most aligns with your personal interests and start there. Hiring managers don't discriminate based on "too many years in academia", it's more what's the reason they should hire YOU over candidate y?

Diehard animal lover? I bet the Sierra Club would love a statistician who could help them quantify how many elephants are being poached in Africa per year.

Interested in sports? Strava gets millions of data points a day, I'm sure they're looking for help finding signals in the noise.

Can't get enough of financial markets? Finance jobs all over the place for quants.

If your profile is too generic they'll see no good reason to hire you, but if you're passionate about X it can really work in your favor.

The job search is depressing but never give up hope.
>I can say with experience that access to pornography produced by consensual adults is largely unhindered here.

Then you're wrong. Drawn pornography that appears to show fictional characters who appear to be under the age of 18 is illegal, and there have been prosecutions under this law. Even such written material is illegal.

My definition of true freedom is anarchy (which is why I am an anarachist), but I accept that there is a different definition under the current liberal democracies of the world, and even by those standards, Canada is not free.
Why do you feel the need to stop her from going? She's not going to become a master at computers, but maybe it will spark an interest in the field.
It seems like this is always the case with people either forcing coding onto people or trying to persuade people to not even touch a computer. Just let people do what they want.
My answer would depend on several factors.

Has she ever tried coding, and if so does she see herself enjoying it as something she'd be doing several hours a day?

What is her reason for an interest in programming? Is it an interest in tech, solving big problems with tech, money, something else?

Would she be OK knowing that the job search for a bootcamp grad with no prior coding experience may be rather challenging (many grads go to work for the bootcamp itself, which is mutually beneficial as it boost placement stats while also giving the grad a job)?

How is her financial situation? Can she absorb a hit?

Is she incredibly bright and dedicated to the point of potentially being able to enter the field based on n months of self-directed education for free (MOOCs, online tutorials, videos, books, etc)?

The question is a bit more complex than it seems.
sounds interesting. we're definitely interested in figuring out ways for these protocols and formats to be as useful to others as they can be
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RuleBook: A Simple, Intuitive, Lambda Enabled Rules Abstraction for Java
Threads, like drugs, make you do strange and unpredictable things.
monster.com is still in operation.
Also:
Hacker News has jobs at YC companies
LinkedIn.com
Glassdoor.com
indeed.com
simplyhired.com
anglelist.com
Ask HN: What is your source of motivation at work?
Looking for honest answers.
For medical devices yes, but for research instruments there aren't major hurdles. You can even build instruments for medical research with virtual no certification.
I think the learning mechanic still holds. You've still got to learn the old paradigms, but if/when there's an impetus to migrate, you need to learn the new paradigms and (hopefully) provide useful & cost-effective knowledge during the migration (my last project as an intern at a Fortune 500 company was to rewrite a legacy batch-processed mainframe Cobol application to a web-based .Net application. I had to learn at least enough Cobol to understand what was being done in order to replace it. Went from about a 45kloc Cobol program to about a 10k .Net program w/ about 5k of xml configuration. Point is: even if you're not going to write in a language, sometimes you need to understand a different one. I think I saw perhaps the worst language I've ever seen: "MOVE NEXT SENTANCE", which jumps, unconditionally to the next period in the source. Yes, a statement "MOVE NEXT STATEMENT" jumps to the very next period, aka ".". It's a very large goto statement that jumps to an extremely terse label. I don't mind appropriate usage of gotos in C/C++/C#, but this construct is just ripe for abuse and misunderstanding.
Yeah, what's a good intro on understanding all of this? I've got an EE/Chem/Math background.
Would you say the same if she wanted to go to an expensive acting workshop that promises she will land a job with Hollywood in just 12 weeks? (And that might not even be a lie, since someone needs to be the extra that gets shot in the first 5 seconds.)

Not saying all or even most coding boot camps are like that, but based on my reading of HN submissions, some definitely do overpromise and underdeliver.

Finding potentially more fitting ways of getting into the field could simply be helping out.
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Spend 80 hours on Lynda.com first. Then decide if coding is really where you want to be.
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The first successful console FPS. I guess it's notable for creating a mostly usable gamepad control scheme for that type of game.
> clearly Cambridge is doing something right

I suspect one factor (there are probably many, not least the network effects of recommendation) is the number of large scale events with numerous student performers (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ball ).
Hmmm ... people controlling oil arguably have more power in the world, and possibly more wealth, than people controlling anything else.
numpy on pypy may well solve that issue for python though.
There are some false negatives here as they're linked to without the www. I haven't visited https://okcupid.com but I have visited https://www.okcupid.com. Therefore, it doesn't have a red dot when it should.
You're correct, but it is also described in the book, "Mythical Man Month".
Yes. And this may be the most important part of the original article:

Demand for oil will peak just before then, according to Royal Dutch Shell Plc projections, as alternative fuels and electric cars gain popularity, putting Middle East energy producers on shakier footing.

The minute Tesla and others get electric vehicles to have sufficient range and low enough costs, we're going to see demand for oil go into structural decline. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039490)
A fancy place to meet people, apparently.[1] Reminds me of salons.[2]

1 - http://www.businessinsider.com/battery-club-2014-7

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)
> Saying that FLT_EVAL_METHOD==0 robs you of the ability to choose

Kahan never defined something like FLT_EVAL_METHOD==0, he wrote the PDF you linked to, and the PDF doesn't contain claims that in the form you say it does, and I'm not making them either. He says in his suggestion to "fix" Java, among other things: calculate the partial results which aren't specified explicitly to higher precision, the target sizes should be respected as the programmers specified them. That is not what the example program produced with -O flag. And I don't see anywhere that what Kahan suggested has equivalence to

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/climits/FLT_EVAL_METH...

"FLT_EVAL_METHOD==2 all operations and constants evaluate in the range and precision of long double. Additionally, both float_t and double_t are equivalent to long double"

He never mentions something like "float_t" and "double_t" there as far as I saw? He mentions K&R C which never had any of these. And where float x = something meant x is 32-bits. And tan( x ) meant pass 32-bit x to the double tan and return double, and float y = tan( x ) meant store the double returned from tan as 32-bits.

The program in the example that started the discussion is explicitly producing two double sums (that is, that's what the programmer wrote) so it should never compare one 80-bit and one 64-bit sum. That behavior is surely not something that you can find in Kahan's suggestions.

Please read once Kahan's document carefully to see if he writes what you believe he writes (because you keep referring to the definition he didn't make, and he explicitly knew that not "everything should be long double"). I claim he doesn't.

> An implementation of 80-bit floating point that doesn't allow you to store an 80-bit value in a variable is pretty much a toy implementation no matter what.

x87 instructions have it: FSTP m80fp and Kahan wanted that in the higher level languages too (pg. 77).

"Names for primitive floating-point types or for Borneo floating-point classes:"

"long double = 10+-byte IEEE 754 Double Extended with at least 64 sig. bits etc."

He also writes (pg. 43 of his PDF):

"Of course explicit casts and
assignments to a narrower precision must round superfluous digits away as the programmer directs"

And on page 80, regarding false arguments:

"At first sight, a frequently occurring assignment X = Y¤Z involving
floats X, Y, Z in just one algebraic operation ¤ appears to require that Y and Z be converted to double, and
that Y¤Z be computed and rounded to double, and then rounded again to float to be stored in X . The same
result X ( and the same exceptions if any ) are obtained sooner by rounding Y¤Z to float directly." That is, the standard and the x87 are already designed that it can be done directly.
Cool! I usually suggest people pick up a book and try learning enough to build something simple first so they get a feel for what's involved and whether they like it.
A year out? Oculus touch dropped in December and PSVR in October. It's barely been three months.
> It's never clear who controls whom

It's as clear as it gets. The United States guarantees the House of Saud'a rule in exchange for military and regional policy concessions.

If the KSA quits, America can pull its security guarantee and the regime falls. If the United States quits, the KSA can...sell Treausries and stop selling us oil?

The United States was 61% energy independent in 2013, with net energy imports falling [1]. We also import lots of oil from Mexico and Canada. The energy threat isn't existentially potent.

Regarding Treasuries, the accounts could be frozen and sanctions levied. Again, power is asymmetric.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_energy_indepen...
Then you missed Lithium batteries, which were more than a 2x improvement on state of the art.

But in any case, batteries are good enough today.
Or maybe 4chan will have fun with it for a while, and then everyone else will decide it's a cesspit and turn it off? I don't see anything in the proposal about how comments get moderated.

In the meantime, we can keep using Hacker News.
(Foreword: I went through a bootcamp, had a positive experience).

The only reason not to go through a bootcamp, presuming it is reputable, is price sensitivity. They offer better value than a college degree (salary offer wise, both for technical and non-technical roles in tech industry), accelerate the pace of early-stage learning, and create healthy habits that are distinct to programming (e.g. tests, debugging, pseudo-code).

Long list of positive reasons here, as long as mindset going in isn't "I'm going to be a developer in 9 weeks" (true only on the loosest definition of the word).
Yes, but unless you're going to move your house to the bottom of that hole, someone is going to have to install and maintain the power lines to get that power to you.

In that way it's very similar to oil.. no one has to pay to create the energy contained in oil, but they do have to pay to dig it up and distribute it. And yet, oil is not even close to being free.

Edit: a better comparison would probably be hydro.. which also isnt free.
Once at a particular job, I'm primarily motivated by wanting my coworkers/managers to think highly of me and want to fast track me for various things.
Advocates of anarchy are invariably those least-equipped to survive it.
Vive and Oculus would both need to multiply their pixel density several times to be able to accurately display an image of an HD monitor on a desk in front of you. That's pretty low-res.

Sure it's "good enough" for many games, but it's also not something I'm going to spend a large chunk of money on. I'd much rather wait a generation or two.
Good strategic planning shouldn't be driven solely by crisis.
I really enjoyed the WaPo article that was a Trump speech with genius annotations. What that means for genius, no idea.
I would argue that the value provided by hackernews and reddit (and possibly stumbleupon? I'm not familiar with it) are content discovery AND comments, a huge value provided by both sites is in the comments, but being able to annotate web pages alone doesn't cover the dicoverability provided by the sites.
Ask HN: How do I manage a large student dev group?
A friend and I just launched a developers club at our university. We have way more turnout than we expected (about 50 people) and have a lot of people who are quite interested in building things. My friend and I have independently built things in small groups, but have never really managed a large club like this.The current plan is to build an app to help solve a problem in our CS department. How do we manage all these people?

There's wildly different skill levels. We have some people who have been programming since before they came out of the womb. Others have just finished their first CS 121 class.

What's the correct strategy to break up tasks and keep people engaged in a group like this?
e.g. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/binary-log.html
So, did this guy quit banking to pursue sushi? What's the story here? I'm interested.
Yep. When we are brokers of energy at a scale where it can't be considered infinite, we will also be a fundamentally different species than we are today.

That being said, until we have highly optimized how we utilize that unlimited source, it will remain a scarce resource.
I'm pro-Trump mainly because I'm against Obama policy toward Latin America.
http://www.gluckman.com/DubaiBiz.html

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel," the Sheikh was fond of saying.
You are forgetting that if large enough section of the population is wronged/backed into a corner, they are going to protest/rise/riot. It certainly seems to be heading that way...I would be seriously worried if I were one of these student loan companies that are giving loans to people with no prospect of getting paid back.
There's a false equivalency here: Only one side is barrel bombing people indiscriminately, torturing people by the tens of thousands, and systematically exterminating an entire group of people.

You're right, no war is without war crimes, but the Assad regime has given up on appearances and is simply playing for keeps. They're beyond the point of no return, they're going to end up like North Korea in terms of diplomatic ties, if they survive this rebellion.
> Bloomberg is the king, and if you don't have money you use Reuters

That is true for now. But chat is trivially implemented and the monopoly only holds due to network effects. And in the last few years Bloomberg have been so arrogant with all of their clients that there is critical momentum now to migrate away the chats and have everyone bar the actual traders share terminals.

(In unrelated news, Bloomberg's recent antics pissed our firm's senior guys off enough that made a few hundred Bbg terminal users migrate to Eikon, just to send a message...)
I'm not proposing a fork either. Each thread would open a separate socket with the SO_REUSEPORT set. The kernel would then have a separate queue per socket.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
And you are reading way more into my comment than I wrote, sorry for that.

The only point I make is this phrase:

"We didn't look into it deeply" ... "works for our purpose."

Is the definition of technical debt. The opposite of technical debt is "We looked at the options available, we clarified the requirements and the assumptions we depend on in the code for it to work, and we put these regression tests into place to warn us if someone tried to use the system in a way that violated one of our assumptions."

That sentence, which I quoted, and you wrote (its right up there in your comment) is my definition of technical debt. That my explanation wasn't clear, and that your above response still doesn't mention how you insured this its pretty clear we have very different ideas about what technical debt is and how it is mitigated.

My apologies.
Small changes in oil supply greatly affect price. If oil demand gets cut half, then oil prices plumet to 20$ a barrel and stay there for decades. And then the oil countries go bankrupt.
Glad dhh is starting some pushback.

Just as a minor aside, for anyone interviewing out there, don't fret about syntax that much. If you forget, tell your interviewer "i forgot the exact syntax, but let's assume it takes in x,y,z".

The key thing I'm look for is an understanding of what a function does and how you're going leverage that to solve the larger problem at hand. I'd hope other interviewers are the same way.
Maybe moderation should be outsourced, e.g, AdBlock lists are crowdsourced, but there are different lists you can subscribe to. Wikipedia, Reddit, HN, FB, Youtube, Twitter, each have their own moderation policy, one could simply opt-in to a policy they choose to not necessarily maintained by a single party or an organization, but possible if desired.
That is a difficult comparison. If all of my debt was denominated in a currency that I explicitly controlled the supply of, I wouldn't need to declare bankruptcy, I'd just increase the supply of money so I was solvent.

At this time, the cost to the nation of servicing the debt is around what, 6 percent of income? I bet a lot of consumers (more than half) would find that to be very affordable.
Given that the utterly misleading emails story dominated both Clinton coverage aand polling of voter awareness, whilst Trump's Russian connections and worse continuously were swept under the rug,vry much of it.
Negative visualization is the biggest thing I would say.
Mate,
Care to elaborate? I got offer from goog but something seemed off about the manager. He is of Indian origin. I have offer with total comp of 1/3 of what you make. But, I want to make sure that I am on right team and right manager. What are things to watch out for good/bad managers?
Signed SSH Certificates
Multihash table doesn't contain those functions but this doesn't mean that you can't change it. You can open an issue and thus start discussion about it. I am sure that it will be accepted in some form.
I use a wiki too, I have a bookmark that makes an entry on the page I enter along with a comment.
Anarchy does not mean "anything goes", it is the rejection of the class system and systems of unjustified authority and people being free to make voluntary associations with the abolition of money, private property and implementation of direct democracy in those voluntary institutions.

I'm not quite sure what you want to get at.
No the problem is when you have a method that takes three parameters you want know what these parameters are and what you can do with them. Trying to figure this out in a dynamically typed language is not fun.

In TypeScript (with a decent editor, like VSCode) you just hover the parameter and you can immediately see what it is.
I know that the series 30, 40 and 60 supported J2ME, I'm talking specifically about the "new" series 30+[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30%2B
I think you have a wobbly misunderstanding of physics.

Iceland uses geothermal. They have it easy due to geological circumstances, but that's mostly a cost-saving measure. Any country can do the same.

There's also geothermal systems for homes that cost far less that work by tapping the temperature differential in the ground: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/geothermal-heat-pump-how-...

Oil is expensive because it's a scarce resource that requires a lot of effort to extract, process and transport.
You don't have to support hashing with all hash functions. In theory you could accept just few (and thus have their implementations) and error out in case of one that is not supported comes through.
Mattering your location and whats around I would advise meetups and/or hackerspaces. It would give your cousin a good feel for the local environment. As well she might meet some people that try the boot camp out. If she does do the boot camp I would advise her to do some self study before hand. These boot camps try to cram as much info they can into a short period of time. She would probably get more out of the boot camp if she tries to learn coding on her own first. There is a ton of free resources she can try before hand.
It is really a chicken and egg problem. We need more affordable hardware to create a market for the software, but to create the software we need that market to already exist.

The only real solution is for the VR hardware manufacturers to invest in development of software until they get something good.

I own a vive and there are some really cool experiences, but in my library of games there is not really anything that i'm itching to come back to. It mostly just sits put away till something new releases, or I want to show it to a friend.

Further complicating the issue is the hardware split. Vive/Oculus can somewhat share things if you are dedicated and willing to accept poor control schemes, but PSVR is out on its own. Then you get into the whole seated/roomscale issue, and things like motion sickness from locomotion and you find that it is really hard to develop something that can apply to a large population right now.
> 24-7 ultra-responsive skilled help who are responsive in around 30 seconds

True apart from the "skilled" part. They have cut-n-paste monkeys staffing 1st line help-help support and you know it.

Any question that actually involves thinking (bugs in their software or interesting questions about the API or details of their financial models) just gets passed through a game of telephones until you reach the actual competent people hours or days after you have devised a workaround for the burning issue yourself.
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> If the KSA quits, America can pull its security guarantee and the regime falls.

Well, that's a pretty shitty outcome for the US, so the KSA has a ton of leverage here and they know it.

> The United States was 61% energy independent in 2013, with net energy imports falling...

Yes, and this might be one of the reasons that Saudi oil prices were pushed down. Shale oil and fracking was becoming a problem and they moved to correct that. This also took care of the Canada problem as well, setting back development by another decade.

Don't forget the oil market is world-wide. The US could be self-sufficient but if oil is crazy expensive because Saudi Arabia is on fire that will wreck the economy.