skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

- Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts

- The Tao Te Ching

- The Gateless Gate (Koun Yamada translation/editing)

- The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World) by Neal Stephenson

- The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

- Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

- Iron John by Robert Bly

- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

- The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman

- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

- Pharmakon by Dale Pendell

- The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss

- Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton

- The Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual by Gary Gygax et al

- Introduction to Algorithms by Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein, Ronald Rivest, and Thomas H. Cormen
I'm not denying their success. But I'm also not attributing it to the quality of their product.
Maybe I should have prefixed that with "relative to other Western countries".
Seems like a knee-jerk reaction to a knee-jerk order. As usual, the sufferers will be people with less access to quality education all over the world.
This kind of reply is what I love about HN. So many stories come out biased or simply factually inaccurate. I wish newspapers like the NYT and WSJ had a prominent chat feature to promote fact-checking.
"Streets are for People: A Primer for Americans" -Bernard Rudofsky
"The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church" -Bro Michael Dimond
TBH this makes Berkley look pretty bad.

The classes and videos should have been ADA compliant in the first place.

And I don't like how they're handling the response. The court ruling doesn't require them to delete the videos, only to make them accessible. But instead of doing the right thing and captioning the videos, they're kind of throwing a fit and deleting them all.
The interview process is great for employers...

1. Make qualified job interview candidate feel stupid by asking difficult questions unrelated to the job

2. Offer candidate low salary and argue that they barely passed the job interview

3. Profit

Best solution I can offer is to not play their game. You'll lose no matter how hard you try. You're better off studying marketing and psychology for job interviews.
> as this order isn't targeted at "Muslim immigrants"

Not sure whether you're acting naive to prove a point, but the countries represented aren't majority Muslim by accident - they were picked for a specific reason. Not to mention, Trump himself alluded to a "Muslim Ban" with a similar structure before, as did multiple aides. He's run on a platform of xenophobia. It's not a stretch whatsoever to make that point - everyone understands why the poster is labelling it that way.

The implication that the person that posted is injecting ideology into that comment is ironic, since willfully choosing to ignore the political context of the ban is just as bad.

> the categories "Muslim immigrants" and "natives" both contain substructure

Yes, all language does.

>not taking a side on whether the order is a good or bad idea

You're taking a side by turning a blind eye to the ideological ramifications and context of the ban. "I'm just playing devil's advocate" is always problematic because it purports that injecting something dangerous like this into the conversation "doesn't count".
This link is broken.
Voxa, an Alexa framework that uses state machines to create beautiful skills
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse had a big impact on me when I was a teenager. The message I took from it is to not depend on teachers, mentors, or answers-from-above, and instead forge your own path in this world.
I was in the same situation a couple of years ago. I had over 15 years of experience, was invited for a technical interview at Amazon, and failed.
At first I was irritated, just like the author. But then I decided to turn this negative energy into something positive and followed a couple of courses on Algorithms on Coursera, also I discovered Hackerrank. And I found out that I actually loved solving algorithmic problems!

Now it is a couple of years later and I actually was able to land a job thanks to my new skills (not at Amazon though). But what's much more important: I found a new hobby that will keep me entertained for many more years.
Silicon Valley is full of conservatives that are there because that's where the jobs are.
Make this claim about a place like France with a strait face (Muslims make up 10% of the population, and 70% of prison inmates, not to mention most of the crime).

Yes, in the US and Canada immigrants, refugees and Muslims generally assimilate well. Because we have limits and take the best of these groups.

But this claim is a bad debate tactic since Muslims commit crimes at a higher rate in many other countries. Now of course part of this is due to rebellious youth who can't integrate into a fairly closed culture, but countries which have taken in large amounts of Muslim immigrants quickly haven't always fared so well...
Great stuff! Would you mind elaborating on how does OT differ from operation-based CRDT? They seem very similar, one described as functions , the other as a data type with operations.
As a Berkeley graduate, I can say that this is PRECISELY how they would operate.
Meat, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, leafy greens, onions, mushrooms... Also fruit or berries if I want something sweet. No bananas though, because they make me hungry. A great lunch for me would be a lot of chicken with cream, mushrooms and onions, then an orange for dessert. Washed down with water (I hate soda).
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I understand that people can seek status in every group. But that doesn't mean that talking about your career, in a status section that very few people bother to check, is the same as gloating.

If OP prefaced every comment with "by the way, I was the founder of such-and-such which was acquired" and then went on to discuss something completely different, THAT would be status seeking. Instead, it was a very short, objective summary of his career in perhaps a dozen words.

My point is simple: not everybody is status seeking all the time. Sometimes people are just trying to communicate with no ulterior motive.
So if something isn't offered in every language, transcribed, sign language overlay, CC, and let's say color blind mode... it's half baked educational content?

I'm asking honest where you draw the line.
The number of people who trip over power cords is almost definitely much larger than the number of people who need VGA output, or need four USB ports (given the easy availability of USB hubs).
I think tech interviews are broken. I've been on both ends of the equation and the process usually seems both unfair and random.

I work hard, get good reviews, have nice looking work that doesn't crash and scales - and I can't interview either.

I've also interviewed great candidates that get shot for no reason at all.

That said, it is a numbers game, if you need a job keep at it - you have not other choice.

But in the long term I think our community needs to chill out a little bit.
Well, that is an improvement, as it means our border guards won't get the chance to disgrace the nation by mistreating travelers.
Plain old Django.
I had the exact thought in my head while reading the article!
With amara, there already is a software solution for crowd-sourced transcribing (and even translating).
I made React Native fast, you can too
Freelancers do no tech interviews?
Easy to lift but a ton of inertia?

Weaponry sounds like a good application.
Certainly there are a number of AAA games that fit that description.

At this point we are conflating too many topics to really talk clearly. Simplest response would be "you should plan to spend years developing if you want to and if you do you need a budget and a way to fill that budget". See early release games as one example, expansions are an older one.
Laravel and MySQL
Cross-platform embeddable VM language written in C for iOS and Android? Strange, I've been doing this for years using Lua...
> This is a commercial offering

looks like gravity an mit-licensed open source offering.
It really should be considered. I'm a registered (civil) EIT. IT would help towards the ambiguity in hiring and the ever increasing absurdity in interviewing.

Especially since the conflicting statements of "software jobs need protection to ensure good salaries" and "everybody needs to code" are all to prevalent here.

Being a PE means you have a certain level of experience and skill. It's a distinguishing feature and sets you apart as a "real" engineer. Additionally, it holds you to an ethical code.

What continues to astound me is the lack of rigor and ethical backbone coming from engineers in important places. Yeah you're not building a bridge, but incidents like Volkswagen and Yahoo could have been prevented if people's jobs were bound by not being unethical.
What's new in the Skype for Linux beta
Right, google created what they call the "Knowledge Graph", which is explicitly meant for facts.
I am talking about the full stack from the lower layers all the way up, integration with peripherals, audio engines,GPGPU, 3D that doesn't look like Glide demos, ability to fully utilize any kid of wireless communication,composition engine, GUI components, security, 2D acceleration that is guaranteed to always work, ...
It puzzles me that all these spam/fishing operations are being uncovered by an accident and there's no proactive private or nonprofit organizations pursuing these criminals.

Overall our current state of (an average user) security can be described as Swiss cheese where anyone with malicious intent can poke a hole and use it without any repercussions.
Go statically links to all Go libraries, and only dynamically links when interfacing with C code. (As of the last time I used it, a couple years ago; this may have changed since then.)
Oh look another "the moon landing was real" guy.

^ See what I did there? I made a comment on the Internet, and called into question the legitimacy of your comments.

Anyone can do it! So what we really need is HN to moderate our comments to filter out comments like yours so that we can just read the truth without having to filter out the garbage. I don't want to hear about how you think the the earth is round just because I'm on a NASA thread. One thing for sure is this is HN's fault.
The Breakout List seems to be a better list of "hot startups." It's still VC heavy, but there are a few other companies listed that aren't your traditional VC-backed startup. The companies listed are going after large markets (for the most part), growing fast in terms of revenue and generally have good financial backing (although that's not a prerequisite from what I can gather).

https://breakoutlist.com/
Unless your assessment was more specific, I would not know what it is that you are looking for, picked up some libs, plumbed them together and got ready to defend my choice. I would not be willing to spend more then couple of hours for it, since I wont be
able to use it anywhere else
(unlike general knowledge like ago or sql).

The rest is understandable. Whiteboard, cause you want design and it will be faster to point, talk, erase and change. Unless you do some deep tech, people who can do general algorithms will be able to adapt fairly quickly.
Put 5k in NYSE:BND for your emergency fund, Fidelity/Vanguard/Etc work about the same. Then put 5500 in Roth IRA NYSE:VOO. Then do the same for your work 401k account if you have one. Put the rest in a brokerage account in NYSE:VOO, maybe save 5500 for 2018 IRA.
Seconded. On the iPad it's one of the few games that are decidedly better to play with the Apple Pencil or another stylus if you have it.
Basically all the previous countries except Iraq.

The Pentagon raised concerns that the previous ban on Iraq hindered many Iraqi citizens (translators etc) who were actually helping the US.
The interpretation of the open questions could definitely use some semantic analysis; I agree that it really does look like there's more frustration around packaging than generics, based on how they interpreted the results.
I run 100% in AWS too and still use the (free) Google Cloud Shell for doing dev and orchestration and running terraform and docker-machine and whatnot.
I will comply in the future. Thanks for the fair warning.
Portability was important for Unix's success. The other operating systems were free (as in beer) but wouldn't run except on the expensive machines they came on. ITS could have been free, and wasn't proprietary, and was (at the time) a better development environment than Unix, but it was limited to PDP-10s.

MS-DOS was proprietary but was more popular than Unix, because it ran on even cheaper hardware.
In case "hunt the link in a PDF" isn't your favourite game, here are the images:

http://download.lww.com/wolterskluwer_vitalstream_com/PermaL...
How do you conclude that that the guy or gal who knows interview riddles and "hide the ball" questions, will somehow care more about their craft, than someone who does a great job on an assessment test?

It sounds to me like you just had a bad crop of people, most of whom wouldn't have passed an "algorithms" style interview either.
Does ability to solve brain-teasers correlate with a drop in "corporate retardation"?
Kind of off topic but I love relating programming to law. Both are enormous fields where no one has mastered all fields but the general populace (non-tech/legal) fails to grasp that. The interview process for engineers seems to have failed, to some extent, to understand this as well.
Wow, those are bad.
Quite some overlap with others here, but to add some of my own favorites:

- The Shock Doctrine by N. Klein

- The Anarchist Banker by F. Pessoa

- Collapse by J. Diamond

- Thinking, Fast and Slow by D. Kahneman

- a few books by Noam Chomsky

EDIT: nearly forgot:

- Brave New World by A. Huxley
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I really like what the company is doing with their other products, mainly their design tool. It looks interesting.

But I have the same question as yours. Why not just leverage Lua. I wish they made it clear what they're gaining. Maybe the end bundle size is smaller than Lua?
I had a fair number of classes I simply did not attend because the material was basically taught from the book, verbatim. Class was only needed if you didn't understand the book. I showed up to turn in the homework, get assigned the next set, and for exams.
Realm is pretty close (it is not offered as-a-service, but they have a free version you can run yourself).
Yet to see how accurate his words sound, replace "elderly healthcare" with "banning books".

If I want to ban a book, lets say, "Huckleberry Finn" for having the n-word in it, or it doesn't even really matter why, then all I need to do is not locate a braille or audiobook version, file ADA, and they either have to remove the content completely or provide whatever ridiculous format I request until they cave in and remove it or go bankrupt trying which also removes content. I can harass any institution providing service to the public that incidentally contains content that I dislike for political or religious reasons or any reason of my choice. I can deny service to millions using theoretical lack of service to hypothetical individuals as my weapon.

Why, I could go after HN for presenting your comment itself in textual form instead of braille or audiobook format. They could fix that technologically, but I'm sure it would be easier to delete your comment entirely. The fact that I'm only bringing up deletion of your comment because we disagree politically is mere coincidence, I assure you its solely for ADA compliance that I must ask for HN to delete your comment ... surely you must agree with my reasoning that your comment must be deleted, right?
Is there a way they can disagree with (presumably) you without being "dismissive", or to avoid that accusation do they simply need to implement some version of generics?
This might be an alternative: http://presentator.io/en
Rudy Giuliani is on record saying that the original clusterfuck order came about when Trump came to him and asked him how to do the Muslim ban legally.

The people doing this think it qualifies, and this is a case where we should probably believe them.
I believe the GP was trying to point out that the visa suspension was targeted at forms of travel other than immigration. I believe the logic is that immigration requirements are already strict enough, but procedures to get a travel visa needed to be strengthened/reviewed.

I point this out strictly as a response to your reading of the GP's post, not as support of the travel ban.
I found Kill La Kill to be an amazing little story. Campy and farcical but also really profound in a certain way. Total deconstruction of a whole genre of fiction as well as a fascinating social commentary on one of the defining aspects of human society (clothing/fashion/social status).

Another anime that really surprised me with its depth and sophistication was Puella Magi Madoka Magica. KyuBey still gives me nightmares just thinking about it.
The language Ragel is written in is fairly inconsequential. Not because memory errors don't happen in compilers, but because compilers typically don't get malicious inputs.

Generating Rust would be useful, but Ragel already has an ML backend IIRC.
The dream was to make your own rules (which includes a ferrari, a private office and all sorts of perks). Getting bought by Google, Facebook, etc. is the new way of getting "fuck you" money.
That doesn't really answer whether it can inline library functions. The fact that it statically links means it potentially could inline methods it finds in them but I don't think that it does currently since it appears that this inline functionality works when compiling source.
>It's not always about efficiency, and that slippery slope you are calling for, historically, ended bad.

I disagree. In a world with finite resources the optimum outcome is one that best applies those resources to serve the greatest possible good.

Berkeley is a publicly funded institution, anything that increases their costs either A: increases the tuition they are required to charge, thus lessening the availability of education. or B: Increases the tax burden, lowering the total net income of the populous.

Now many argue that we can raise taxes in order to pay for these types of things. They say that the costs of this individual mandate is minimal, thus it is common sense to implement it. What they miss is that each percentage raise in tax will render a certain number of businesses non-viable. This will in turn increase unemployment, and lower overall tax revenue. At the same time the demand for public assistance grows. Thus necessitating further increases in taxation.

It doesn't stop there. As this common sense regulation is implemented, more follow, and more still. There is an endless stream of things under the heading of "wouldn't be nice if", where do you draw the line?

The impact of these regulations are hard to measure. How many business owners who now find themselves bankrupt will commit suicide this year? How many teenagers will be unable to find summer jobs, and thus be unable to save for college? How many families will fall apart due to constant frustrations regarding money? You can never say, but all of the data I have looked out shows that poverty cuts wide and deep having negative effects on the lives of children exposed to it well into old age.

So lets take your example of elderly healthcare. Is it worth extending the life of someone in their 80's a few years if it means that a non-zero number of young families will be pushed below the poverty line? I never see this aspect considered. When I search for data I am offered an appeal to emotion. I think regulation needs to be more thought out than that.
I've made a bunch of stuff with Hydrogen. I really like it and it's more stable (as in, does not crash all the time) than it used to be. It has its limitations, but in general I am easily able to create the sounds I want with it.
I am just beginning my studies in computer science. I find discrete mathematics, data structures, theory of computation and algorithms to be the most interesting aspects of computer science. If I took an undergraduate algorithms course (Chapters 1-3, 7-9, 11-13, 15-16, 22-24 from CLRS) would I be prepared for most interviews?

I noticed the graduate course overlaps with many of those chapters and also cover: chapters 18,21,25,26, 29-32, 35.

Ideally, I would like to take both courses out of pure self-interest.
It comes back to bite you in a hurry. You don't need arbitrary precision to represent arbitrarily small things but to not have algorithms break down. Simple things like "is p inside the polygon" changes from true to false by moving both point and polygon 1 unit to the right. See under the heading "geometric predicates can FAIL" here http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/classes/6.838/S98/meeti...

You are right that this happens only in edge cases. But you don't want that in a cad program if you have anything doing e.g point-in-polygon, triangulation or other such algorithms.

I know from experience that you really should bake this into the very foundation of a cad package (if you see 2003 me, let him know)
> The production budget for the biology book I worked on was $10 million

Most of that probably went to lobbying public school district administrators to uses Pearson's edition. you know, "greasing the wheels".
I could be mistaken, but I understand that bombarding the earth with radiation will do plenty of damage to other species as well. According to Wikipedia, a pole reversal could lead to vigorous convection leading to widespread volcanism, and that subsequent airborne ash could cause mass extinctions.
The economics of the ADA were known from the beginning. By definition, it addresses a situation where business owners weren't implementing the changes necessary. Practically across the board, it was cheaper and easier to say "oh well" to the disabled than to make accommodations for what was a small percentage of their customers. It was before my time, but the business community was aggressively against the ADA back when it was being drafted.

From a societal perspective, the entire idea behind the ADA is that the right to equal access for the disabled--including the public accommodations necessary for them to actually make use of that access--is something we value beyond the initial cost of implementing it.