skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say it, but The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

The book itself is largely dull, overwritten, and characters are afflicted with "Ayn Rand Syndrome" - where the protagonists are always perfect and the world around them is fundamentally flawed and can only be fixed with free market capitalism. It's like "Joss Whedon Syndrome" without the smarm.

BUT, I did glean an appreciation for following a path of one's own creation, committing to your goals even as the world sets out to discourage you and undermine your work at every twist and turn. It was quite inspiring and invigorating to read this book in my late teenage years.

But then again, I have recently found the same theme to be more accurately and entertainingly portrayed in a Japanese anime: Gurren Lagann
It does serve someone because it forces publishers to be inclusive to people with disabilities.
Awareness by Anthony de Mello
30% in a year is "solid"? If Apple released something that failed 70% of the time on launch day they would never hear the end of it. The original Newton's handwriting recognition was way better than that.
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett.
Trouble in Venice: can this trendy LA enclave reconcile a deep divide?
Currently racism/religion-ism has a greater emotional impact than environment, clean water etc... This gives the media and people a bone to chew on, and something to be satisfied about with each revision, feeling like they are accomplishing something while the Trump administration is gutting the US environmental framework with little opposition.
Renoise is great, especially for breakbeat/jungle drum programming. Just load up your break of choice, put in some slice markers (or play it with offset commands like on old trackers), and you're set.

I do find the pattern-based workflow a bit of a productivity killer though (I usually get stuck on perfecting the same 8/16 bar loop).
If you want the guaranteed authentic version you should buy it from the original journal.
- Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard

- What has government done to our money? by Murray Rothbard

- For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard

- The Law by Frederick Bastiat

The world is a rotten place thanks to politicians, and at the same time the world is a beautiful place in spite of politicians.
Second this, great tool for practising, huge step up from doing it in front of a mirror (free/cheap as well)
Getting started with Docker and Node.js
I could read it just fine.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Right go Jeeves by Wodehouse
++ Thinking, Fast and Slow

Great book, textbook-ish, but reshaped how I look at people and problems
I'm kind-of on the fence about this topic.

On the one hand, algorithms is a broad subject, so there's a large hole for false-positives and false-negatives to slip through. Sometimes it's like they'd pass on Gerry Spence as a trial attorney because he flubbed their question on tax law.

On the other hand, can't totally drop the brain-teasers because you'll need all the IQ points you can get before the corporate retardation sets in.
Generics would make go code safer, less reliant on complicated tricks to circumvent language limitations and the need for reflection and ultimately make programs less brittle since it would reduce the amount of code needed for a task in general. The only valid argument against them is compilation speed but it hasn't been tried in real.
This isn't some hobby project. This is a commercial offering, submitted to HN by the corporate account of the company that created it. I don't see why anyone should hold it to hobby project standards.
Which spec is this? As far as I know `http://google` is completely fine, and the period at the end is only necessary for the browser address bar heuristics we're talking about. `http://to` was operated as a URL shortener for a while.
I was like “wow, how'd they get on that TLD reserved for academia?”, but then I realised that .ac is most likely a country code, unlike .ac.uk which is GB's .edu
5 Programming Languages Fading Away
Students, super high achievers / superstars, and people who are willing to "play the game" and re-study everything for 2 weeks or a month.
I've been looking for an embeddable language other than Lua to use in an ncurses app.
> instead of focusing on legacy content that is 3-10 years old

Plato's Republic is almost 24 centuries old. De Re Metallica is almost 500 years old.

I imagine that lectures just a few years old are not worthless.

A university should not be in the business of taking down knowledge, and the Department of Justice should be ashamed of itself.
I call bullshit on this train of thought.

I've been reading about this on HN and reddit for years now. This last December, I was promoted high enough, that I could design the entire interview process (with executive help) for my teams. Which was important, I very much need to hire some people.

So, keeping posts like this in mind, I designed as follows:

Phone Interview - We talk about you, the company, etc. Then a few technical questions. Do you know certain things about js that make me think you are genuinely familiar with the language (as opposed to just jQuery)? Do you know certain things about sql that make me think you are genuinely familiar with the technology (as opposed to just using a table designer)?

Assessment Test - Do a quick crud app, that will require some thought behind how to query the data. Make a point when talking to the prospective applicant that the code will be read by the team members they'll be working with, so while you can do the test quickly, please spend enough time on it that we can talk about the code, your choices, etc going into the technical interview. Ie) don't just link together 3rd party plugins.

Actual Interview - Interview with leads, interview with actual team members. Offer both use of Visual Studio / SSMS / IDE of choice or whiteboard. Ask questions about technology in general. Ask the applicant to explain how he'd design out a new feature. Change the feature spec, so that there's a little bit of a hard problem. Have to populate a tree from flat sql data, or aggregate data from a service, or some other not-quite-an-algorithm question.

The RESULTS?

Recruiters figure out what questions you are most likely to ask during the phone interview, and school the candidates.

The assessment test? No one bothers, everyone just hands in the simplest 3rd party libraries plumbed together with shitty code. Was the question select top per group? How about top 1 *? The really good devs shine through here, but a huge percentage don't even bother.

Actual Interview? No one uses IDE / SSMS. All of them choose whiteboard. The ones who genuinely know how to code, have no problem answering, and would be fine answering algorithm questions straight out. The ones who can't, get confused somewhere or other. They try to implement hacks around the problem (I'd have the dba do it), then fail to actually solve the question.

So In Short? I completely understand where this guy is coming from. But I also think, that at this point, I'm so tired of interviewing people who clearly don't care about their craft, that I want to start asking nothing other than algorithm questions... because the guy or gal that actually answers them will actually care about their craft. And at least with algo questions, I can change the question easily, and frequently. Coming up with real code problems, and good probing questions is much harder, particularly if they're going to have a short shelf-life before recruiters start training their candidates with answers.
I wish someone should offer a "firebase for OT" SAAS that offers an API, SDKs for JS/iOS/Android and a few working samples.

Every time I want a collaborative OT like environment for apps that I build, I end up:

1- implementing some sort of janky locking scheme, or

2- having to learn how to install and host a tightly coupled server and client environment, or

3 - Abusing some other service (like firebase or couchdb) that has pseudo-OT semantics and getting close enough

I know there a bunch of people working on this, but I've never seen it offered as a service. If one of you do, please add my to your list of potential beta testers.
Hey man, nothing personal.
Not saying there aren't negative things going on in the world. Heck, it's probably true what you said, the 2 might be related somehow.
But without pointing out why, I can't just assume the 2 are related, right?
As a practical exercise, try coming up with a system that could determine individual views as you suggest, that:

1) isn't trivially avoidable ("are you now, or have you ever been, a Militant Islamist?"), and

2) doesn't rely on extending the surveillance state further.
Are we going to make the PE exam a requirement for the title of "Software Engineer"?
Correlating VC investment to promise is a bit of a leap. Identifying hot VCs by the number of promising startups in their portfolio, when "promise" is based on VC investment, is a bit crazy.
Sure. Does not seem that difficult to infer from context what I was referring to, but you're technically correct. The terms are not that far off from each other in either definition or literal wording.
It doesnt look like this solves inlining library calls?
Not trying to speak for the parent commenter that posted, but those books are part of an overall shift in my career/business thinking from "me working more" to "building assets/systems that work for me".

I'd throw in Ramit Sethi's writing as well in shifting me from trying to "cut" as much expense but rather to grow the profit side of my work.
The presentation makes a distinction between mid-stack and leaf inlining, and apparently it was only done on leaf calls before because this is less confusing in backtraces.
You can come up with all sorts of examples where complying with the ADA imposes costs that are out of proportion to any possible benefit. (e.g. handicapped accessible ramps on mountain cabins only accessible by a steep rocky trail) However, the legitimate concern is that, if you start allowing for a lot of exceptions, before you know it, organizations start finding reasons why just about everything should be an exception.

I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with the decision in this case but there are sometimes good reasons to have hard and fast rules even if they lead to arguably bad outcomes in specific cases
A prime example of an overreaching state.
This is really cool! Have you discussed this work with Joseph Gentle, author of ShareJS/ShareDB? (He's the one who first exposed me to the concepts and seems like a sharp guy.)
Everyone else can down-vote me because this really doesn't contribute to the conversation but I have to say it: Gurren Lagann is a better inspirational substitute for The Fountainhead?! The geek in me understands completely and I think that is SO awesome!
I found "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" to be horrible. He said he built a lot of wealth by camping outside bankruptcy lawyers' offices and buying the houses from people filing for bankruptcy for super cheap. Then he'd turn around and sell them for full value. He seems like a total charlatan.
maybe they need teaching about the Quran in a patriotic way.
"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
"On the Shortness of Life" - Seneca.

More an essay, but profoundly impactful.
Jacques Neveu, Mathematical Foundations
of the Calculus of Probability,
Holden-Day, San Francisco.

Random variables and the associated
probability theory and conditional
probability theory are surprisingly
relevant, especially now with computing,
in the real world. That the set of real
valued random variables X such that E[X^2]
is finite forms a Hilbert space, e.g., is
complete, is astounding. So is the
martingale convergence theorem.

Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.

Heavily about how what people do is in
response to the anxiety they feel from the
realization that alone they are vulnerable
to the hostile forces of nature and
society.
A thing is worth what another is willing to pay for it.

The problem with land, unlike almost anything else, is that you can't move it (or trade for a fungible equivalent). People pay high prices for urban land because that's their preferred way to get closer to other land they want to be close to. When it's important enough to you to have that lot, you are willing to trade a lot of value for it - which may include liquidating some of the value of what you intend to put on the lot (million-dollar lot, build cheap bungalow), or working with others to figure out how to put a lot of inexpensive housing on it (billion-dollar building with 1000 million-dollar flats).

The bankers just help you figure out how you can rearrange your assets & income to free up that million dollars now - when you're willing to pay more later to have the money now.

And nobody is forcing you to do anything. It's your choice to decide whether having that land, right there, is sufficiently valuable compared to the value of what you intend to do with it.

Most land is cheap. It's the land you want that's expensive - usually because a lot of other people want it too, and you're all bidding for it. No imposition of "fair" is going to be any more fair than supply-and-demand.

Want cheap land? Go to zillow.com, enter your state as a search area, and set the max price to whatever absurdly low value you want. I've found many lots for $1000, $100, and even $1 (including a lot in Atlanta for $1; no, they're not going to show you what's inside the building, take it as-is).
Location: New York, USA

Remote: Yes, for the right team and project

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Front-end mostly, javascript, react/redux, backbone.js, node.js, Typescript, D3.

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/syqcXz

Email: g.polu.shkin@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/proll/

I am a front-end developer with 12+ years experience of web development.
> yes, I'm a C++ programmer

If you are a C++ programmer then you know that the latest features that were added aim at making C++ programming simpler and easier. Adding something to a language to fix its flaws is not necessarily adding some complexity.
This may help you also: https://anders.com/blockchain/. In fact is quite better, since it adds more info. Also the code of it is on github ;)
Same here. Especially the essay on black-and-white thinking. You see it everywhere, especially in todays hyper-political times.
So now MacKeeper will use those 1.4B accounts to lure people into installing their own software, and giving them more information?
For sure, I was just pointing out a workaround.
Surge in children being admitted to hospital for sleeping disorders
Were they held for River City Ransom?

(I'm sorry, couldn't resist)
Are you kidding me?! We need to get this law changed ASAP.

Look at this search result. This fake news stuff cannot be allowed to continue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=best+taco+place+in+San+Fansi...
> You need to be just as sure that the partial revert will not interact poorly with other parts of the new code that you are not reverting.

By partial revert, I'm imagining that three people have changesets (A, B, C, in that order) that have been deployed. You notice that A broke and you make A' to revert it. I think the author is arguing that it is easier to review A' to see if it is a safe change than it is to verify that A', B', and C' (the full revert) are safe to revert.

In other words, even if you don't use version control to record that you reverted A, B, and C, you still effectively do that by reverting in full. You just know that the combination of A', B', and C' was safe when it was deployed.

Is that what you're imagining or are we talking about different things? (I don't have strong opinions about this, I just want to make sure I understand your perspective (: )
(You should point out that you're the author of the article! :)
Representing syntax
{I am not a lawyer [1]}

For better or worse, ADA is Federal civil rights legislation. The legal status of a good samaritan exemption in the ADA would be equivalent to a good samaritan exemption for a 'whites only' drinking fountain. The basis of the law is to remove actual discriminatory barriers to access.

[1] As an architect I've been dealing with ADA since 1990 when it was signed into law by the first president Bush. UC Berkeley has been well aware of its requirements since then and modifying built environment to remove barriers. Web page guidance has been available from the DOJ since 2003. This all could have been baked into the process for content creation since it created its very first online course. It wasn't.
Well in this case they are getting nothing, like the rest of us, no?
The thirteenth amendment, as it is written, is a blight upon civilized society.

For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth made about the GULAG program, the US correctional system suffers from all the same moral hazards.
Guide to stoic living is great as well. It makes Seneca a little digestible.
Except that in this case the blind will no longer be able to listen to the audio recordings and the deaf will no longer be able to use the animations and automated closed captions.

They should have struck a deal where all new content will be ADA compliant and all courses will never depend/actively refer to the old material, but keep the old material still online for further research.

Of course UC needs to stay compliant. But that doesn't mean forcing it to take down old material will help anyone.
Correction: Cmd+W to close a window.
The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene.
Yes, mathematics has been, is, and will be at the cutting edge of software engineering.

For historical examples: consider Turing, Knuth, and Page & Brin.

For current examples: consider High Performance Computing (HPC), Data Science, and Data Engineering.

For future examples: wait and see (or study math in the present).

Also, consider etymology: computers are machines that preform computations; software is code that directs computations and their results on computers; software engineers create code that directs computations on computers; computational scientists define the limits of computing on computers that have given properties, and create novel computational solutions to problems; mathematicians discover the theory that computational scientists (and, more generally, all scientists) utilize.

Note_0: There is a field at the cutting edge of computation, computational science, that requires the most mathematical knowledge of any discipline that includes the compute stem.

Note_1: Math goes beyond providing guarantees of equality, inequality, and equivalence: it is the quantitative basis of computer science (and all science); it provides Boolean logic; it guarantees boundaries/possibilities; and it provides scope.
- Character analysis (W. Reich)

- Meetings with Remarkable Men (Gurdjieff)

- Courage to Stand Alone (UG Krishnamurti)
No, but I did have a conversation with Nate Smith, also involved with that project. That was before I was able to release this code, though.
Believe they originally just stated Ragel had problems and only fixed it to state that they miswrote their stuff after the creator reached out to them.
LexisNexis is one of the aggregator that is frequently used.
Consumer Reports to Evaluate Products, Services for Privacy and Data Security
Interesting! I visited their website on your recommendation. Looks like those guys are moving in the right direction. Thanks for the info, much obliged!
1984/Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell

Manufacturing Consent/Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky(Possibly even more relevant today than it's ever been)

The Selfish Gene/The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins

The Republic by Plato

The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn
I hope Google does something about this. The problem with spam is that once you're on the spammers' lists, it's virtually impossible to get off it.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: why, for example, did the Spanish conquer South America and not vice versa?
angular/groovy/mysql/springboot/hibernate - make the hibernate object model and the code writes itself. Run an embedded tomcat7 server in the WAR for easy deployment.

The bad part about this stack is that it takes some maven config to set up, but once it's running creating new crud apps becomes trivial.
Over 75% of breached organizations thought they were safe from cyber-attacks?
>But why not work with the institution to hammer out a timeline to meet certain standards and while allowing for people to still access the information?

I suspect very little of this actually has to do with helping the disabled, if that was the goal then your solution would be the logical conclusion.
If "software engineers" want to be treated like "professional engineers".

Licensing has been proven to work for other engineering fields.
They give quite a lot of detail in the article, including links to photographs of surgeons stretching.

http://www.aahs.org/medstaff/wp-content/uploads/aparkAnnSurg...
Start New Series – Adobe XD Tutorials 4 Weeks Series
OK, we've changed the URL above to that from https://mackeeper.com/blog/post/339-spammergate-the-fall-of-....
>What should disgust you is the university looking forward to save money with centralized courses that are only for updates and not re-creation; and instead yanking off the project the moment it looked like they'll have to attend more money.

Why? Money's a finite resource. If, as appears to be the case, a lot of this is older and not frequently viewed content, it's not clear to me why the university should spend a lot of money updating just "because." Especially if it's mostly Creative Commons and will continue to live elsewhere.
Good point, done. Otherwise, it would look like a pretty ham-handed attempt at sock-puppetry :)
It's a pretty essential law for maintaining the internet as we know it. If providers could be sued for the content, provided by others, that passes through their services then we can't really have an open internet. ISPs would be afraid to allow anyone to connect because they could be sued for what their costumers do. Search engines would be afraid to index sites because they could be sued for any misinformation on them. Github would be afraid to host projects because they could be sued if any of them violates copyright. It would be a very different internet.
I'd like to see CRTs maintained as long as possible but when I see the rebuilt machines in the barcades (was just at Headquarters in Chicago last night) using LCD screens I'm usually very satisfied with them - even preferring them. Occasionally I play one with unacceptable lag, but I suppose that has something to do with some suboptimal scaler or converter being used. Generally it's a great looking and playing experience.
One major issue is the lack of good easy to understand guides, shameless self promotion, I faced this issue so wrote an easy to understand guide about webdev,
https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...
Computer conquers poker using GTX 1080 video card
Every engineer says they delivered projects on time with great maintainable code. Unless the project is open source, they often have no way of giving any evidence.

I'm not saying whiteboard interviews are the right way to interview, but in my experience you can't trust people's judgment about themselves and their skills. You need an interview that is equally fair to the person that will exaggerate their past successes to the people that are more reserved or the people that don't have much experience yet.
Transparency effects in SNES and Genesis games via composite video artifacts
MacKeeper has 13 million users?? Who would install MacKeeper willingly?
I'm pretty sure these horrible snippets come from the Google Knowledge Graph.
SciFi has definitely changed my world view. The most influential, by far, has been the Culture series by Ian M. Banks, especially Excession which deals a lot with the AI minds from the series. Other influential scifi include Blindsight by Peter Watts and Ursala Le Guin's The Dispossessed.
The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg. We write code to be read by humans as well as machines.