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If you're having problems with finding technology workers, consider the idea that you're not a tech company. You build human traps. That's why you are getting the talent you are getting. You don't need programmers. You need digital plumbers.

TRIGGER WARNING: This guy is a super big evil meanie who needs rainbows and huggie hugs..... but he's not wrong when it comes to who you attract and why you attract them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Y4uzaf2HA
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It works well,is not handicapped by verbose idioms, works on most platforms and environments, can glue together other technologies, and the community is pretty good.

I just wish it supported the functional paradigm.
Wow, my project is on the front page! Happy to answer questions if anyone has them.
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This reminds me that the laws for firing vary by state. I think California is one of the strictest in this area, right?
Sadly, in some places, it's not what you know, but who you can bullshit.

Why didn't you guys fire him? Why did you just let him stagnate until he quit?
Works just fine on the NEC, where it's been in use for over a decade. The real problem is that this was a huge unfunded mandate imposed by Congress on the railroads, both public and private, which is why they've been less than eager to meet the deadlines. In some particular cases, notably Caltrain, it's been a disaster, but that's because they decided that they have totally unique requirements and want a totally custom system rather than going with either of the relatively proven solutions.
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I believe it’s all cognate with Raj, due to the influence of Sanskrit on Indo-European languages.
Interesting! Will the tooling be written in the same medium as the production programs? I think forcing the early need for tooling is very interesting, but I'm wondering how you'll keep the complexity from making the tooling difficult to understand.
Awesome project joey, the documentation was neat.
You need to decide what you might be interested in first. Then search for a small project on Github, Bitbucket5, etc., that does something like that or related to that and see if they have any open bugs that need fixing or a list of features that they want implemented.

It's probably best to ignore any projects that have not had any recent contributions at this stage because the maintainer might have lost interest so you won't get any feedback about your contributions.
No Sir, you should invest in the stock market according to your own risk tolerance! For me it works perfectly and I am very happy with my own strategy ;-)
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Managers that can't do are generally shepherds. Only sheep follow them.

Yes, it's good that managers can know a lot about a broad amount, but they should be skilled enough to dive fairly deep and realistically be expected to jump into anyone's job.

Otherwise, you're hiring an administrator or a non-technical manager.

And there's a place for that, but not one I want to be near.
Are you designing things or just printing other people's designs. For me that's the major difference. I almost never print others designs except when testing the machine.

And when I'm done with the iteration I'm likely to machine it.
When I think of harassment, I think of it as an intentional action. If you did that with the intent to disturb people, I think it would then fall under you being the harasser and others being the victim. But then on the other hand if they intentionally threaten or make you feel threatened, they are harassing as well. My definition based on intent may be incorrect, but I feel as though it makes the argument slightly less subjective.
"not the dominant organizing principle" is very different from "will go away".
For example, sometimes I would take a medicament mechanically while doing something else and just a few minutes later, forget if I took it or not. Solution: say loud to myself "I'm taking a pill".

My solution for this problem: I have a cron job which sends me an email every morning. If I see that email, I

1. Take a pill out of the bottle and put it on my laptop keyboard

2. Delete the email

3. Eat the pill.

This sequence ensures that even if I crash and lose ephemeral state (err, I mean, get distracted) I can immediately recover by looking at my laptop.
The point about extrasolar planets is great. Technically we can't say we discovered an extrasolar planet because it's impossible to ascertain it has cleared its neighborhood. It could easily be a dwarf planet.
>Lack of technical expertise is a problem sometimes, but it

>can be nurtured. Lack of personal skills is a huge problem

>in an office environment, and is much, much harder to

>nurture. But neither of these are regrettable in-and-of

>themselves.

That's actually a cool attitude. When looking the first time for a full time job 7 years ago I was astonished how static employers seemed to perceive skill - at least in Germany. I had various conversations with headhunters/recruiters and oftentimes it went like this: "Do you know [insert simple technology X]?" - "No, but I can learn it quickly as I have experience with [similar technology Y]" - "Ok, but I asked for X". I found that really frustrating.

Also in most jobs I worked in between I had to learn everything on my own initiative - no matter if that was tech or people skills. There were countless occasions when people, especially ones in manager(-like) positions would discourage me from spending time learning certain skills. I'm happy that I didn't follow so much on that.

Anyways, on my recent job hunt I was very surprised to find companies that actually have programs to develop their tech employees on a wide range of skills. Luckily I'm now working at a place that at least has interest in developing their people.
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Until you ship a product so late that its declared DOA. Perfect coders are more dangerous than shitty ones. They usually slow down progress in the name of perfection so much that nothing gets done. IMO.
> 'shipping something today' is concerned, that's what keeps me from learning vim.

If you want to learn vim (I would definitely recommend you do), learn a little at a time. Vim is better suited to this approach than you might think.

People tend to focus on vim's learning curve, but as soon as you grok 3 things, you can do everything you used to do with normal editors. Then all you need to do is learn one small function at a time.

1. :command

:w save the file
:q quit vim

2. Normal mode

You are here. Pressing a key runs a function. Escape cancels. u is undo, Ctrl-r is redo.

Every key has some specific use. You can learn them one at a time.

My favorite is . (the . key). It repeats the most recent action at the cursor.

3. Insert mode

Pressing i puts you in insert mode. Here you can enter text like normal until you press Escape

Remember that everything that happens between pressing i to pressing Escape is one action that can be undone or redone.

Later you will learn that a s r and o all do similar things to i.
Good to know, thanks. I do remember my friend saying that income tax in SG was low, but 5% seems quite low, which is good.
Indeed, semantics has nothing to do with undefined behavior. Claiming that undefined behavior in C is what prevents us from defining its semantics is quite similar to the assertion that the fact that the division by 0 is not defined is the reason we cannot obtain semantics for the arithmetic notation.
Generally these sort of discussions are not focused on the laws about firing - but more about the risk of valid or invalid accusations of violating EEOC enforced laws[1].

The risk in most places is that firing is often subjective, and folks rightly worry that the firing is done on subjective means, especially if the person is a 'protected class' which is generally loosely interpreted as anyone other than a white male under 40.

There are rules and laws that govern firings, especially with large layoffs at large companies - but the 'fear' you hear in Silicon Valley and other places is the fear of a lawsuit about the firing more so than breaking a law per se.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/
Like JavaScript Allongé, I am planning for it to be readable by someone with just a smattering of programming familiarity. But also like JavaScript Allongé, I hope for a fairly substantial learning slope.

I don’t imagine writing the first interpreter will be onerous. Here’s one I wrote specifically to be “pessimum” without being gratuitously so:

const aMachine = (() => {
const HALT = 'HALT';
const LEFT = 2;
const RIGHT = 3;

function kiss4({ description, tape: _tape }) {
const tape = Array.from(_tape);

let tapeIndex = 0;
let currentState = description[0][0];

while (true) {
if (tapeIndex < 0) {
console.log('moved off the left edge of the world');
console.log({ tapeIndex, currentState, currentMark, tape: tape.join(' ') });
return tape;
}

const currentMark = tape[tapeIndex];

const rule = description.find(([state, mark]) => state === currentState && mark === currentMark);

if (rule == null) {
if (currentState !== HALT) {
console.log('no rule for this state and mark');
console.log({ tapeIndex, currentState, currentMark, tape: tape.join(' ') });
}
return tape;
}

const [_, __, nextState, action] = rule;

if (action === LEFT) {
--tapeIndex;
} else if (action === RIGHT) {
++tapeIndex;
if (tape[tapeIndex] == null) tape[tapeIndex] = 0;
} else if ([0, 1].includes(action)) {
tape[tapeIndex] = action;
}

currentState = nextState;
}
}

return Object.assign(
({ description, tape = [] }) => kiss4({ description, tape }),
{ constants: { LEFT, RIGHT, HALT } }
);
})();
Frankly if you give more detail on what kind of NLP, we can give more pointers, but for comprehensive resource, 3rd draft Jurafsky/martin standard text, missing pieces TBA: LSTM's, vector embeddings (word2vec etc), seq2seq/neural translation etc

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

(you can email questions anytime)
Yes, I would say that just browsing a table of contents gives you an idea of what's being talked about and what's getting the most attention, even if you never click through anything. And I don't think the algorithms are that good. It's probably just sorting people into a few discrete buckets.
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The documentation on this is an awesome read! What were the costs associated with this build? What would you do differently the second time around?
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There's an option in the HN settings to change the color of the topbar. When I first signed up I didn't know why it was there (I still don't) but I changed it to a fetching shade of green[1].

I've had it that way for so long that HN always looks odd to me when I log out and it goes back to orange.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/r6tbAt4.png
Co-borking?
I wish this wasn't a joke.
I add passport when I'm heading to an international flight. Wallet and passport.
OpenAI has released several open-source packages (see https://github.com/openai and https://openai.com/systems/) and several open research publications (see https://openai.com/research/)
I don't, and only hear of these things when they show up on HN. No idea about YC but I doubt it.
Congrats for such a great project! Does the robot can promote pieces by itself?
The tooling will not, initially, be written in and running on Turing Machines.
It's reasonable to suppose that if in one experiment you replace each particle by it's antiparticle you will get the same result. (Symmetry C) The problem is that this is not true in all experiments :(

It's reasonable to suppose that if in one experiment you make a mirror image of all the part of the experiments, with the mirrored version of all the velocities and spin, you will get the same result. (Symmetry P) The problem is that this is not true in all experiments :(

(I'll skip T symmetry.)

For some technical reason it's more easy to expect that if you combine both symmetries and change all particles by the antiparticle and make a mirrored version, you will get the same result. (Symmetry CP) This is almost almost almost true. Not completely true, but it's difficult to make an experiment where the result is different.

So, in some experiments the CP version is different from the original version. It is possible to measure this in a laboratory, and this is one possible explanation of the different of the amount of mater and antimatter around us, but no one is sure about the details. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation#CP_violation_and_...
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Have you ever gone and quickly learned it and called the recruiter/company back?
Papa state said it first- those are dangerous thoughts, better not thought.
Read something valuable, like Jules Verne, who would never educate you too make Nitro Glycerin.
Or read a good comp-science book, instead of learning how to craft a virus.
S/he who can engineer a building, can tear it down- deal with it. And by virtue of reading, anyone can do that- and this is only going to get worser.
Any teenager tomorrow will be able to crisper up a plastic eating bacteria, turning any journalists notebook to black goo under there fingertips. If only those teenagers had some perspective, something to loose, some dream to be held hostage- you could actually prevent this.
But doctoring at the symptoms- its so much easier. The other thing- that is almost work.
To teach everyone how to craft a china masterpiece of art- that is a nightmare, to declare playing soccer illegal, that is doable.
I wish there was a refund on wasted time on propaganda.
Yup. Did not feel great.

The worst part is that I admitted to writing code that rely on order of evaluation on Hackernews.

To my defense it is _very_ old code that I converted from an even older turbo Pascal program I wrote as a teenager
people talk to themselves all the time on the trading floor (the kanko part of the shinsakanko). rather look like a weirdo than lose a couple thousand bucks (or worse) on a 100% avoidable error.
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Is this an April's fool joke? I can't find this setting.
Take the money you need to build a nuclear reactor. If it takes 15 years to build, with the same money you could have built a solar panel factory every year, the oldest of which would have built 15 years worth of panels and by the final year you'd be making enough panels to equal the output of the nuclear power plant every year thereafter.

If you focus tightly in on the gloomy and northerly UK then you may think nuclear still has an advantage, but if you treat global warming as a global problem then driving solar down its production curve makes much more sense.
Unless you lose state between step 2 and 3.
Not american, but it seems like you have some information that you should contribute to your country's tax collection agency. I'm sure they would be grateful.
Joel Spolsky's Guerilla Guide to Interviewing lays out the rational for two simple filters:

1. Is the person smart?

2. Can they get stuff done?

Good read.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
I'm not surprised that Python performs miracles (the title is a bit biblical). I've not done much with Python, only made a couple of small hobby scripts, but both of them were programs I would never have wanted to make if python didn't exist - too much effort and code spread and loss of focus.
There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.
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No? The option is under "minaway".

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png
It should be called "topcolor"
Ah I meant not hard to vote your preferences, it can definitely be hard to understand the outcomes. I think you might be right that that's what the parent was talking about. Nice work injecting some research into this thread.
Regardless of the validity of the premise, the conclusion—and the point—of the article is valid. Debating over the definition of planets is silly. It feels as if this is done just so school children can pass astronomy tests by residing the names of all 8 planets. Otherwise there is no point in holding this definition, or any definition for that matter.

It is a known problem classifying most natural phenomena is at best difficult—but most likely impossible—to do so under a simple definition. What most naturalists do is to holding a set of common beliefs over what belongs in which category. For example, there is no easy definition of a bird. Rather we have a set of common beliefs over which animals can rightly be called a bird. Worse, the set of “common beliefs” varies depending on field of interests. Some people might talk about viruses as “living” because that servers their purpose (it makes their work easier; it makes more sense) while other wont.

I hope that we soon stop this silly debate. Our definition of a planet will not hold for long. The more planets we discover the weaker the current definition will become (this is the authors point). When that happens I bet people will talk about Pluto (and Eris, Sedna, etc.) as a planet just because it matches peoples idea of what a planet is. Just like people talk about viruses as living organisms just because it fits nicely into what we think life is.

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edit: grammar
Can anyone work out what's wrong with the science in this post?
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Ah! I gotcha.

I'm considering the morals of the state here rather than individuals and either way I disagree that morals are statements, rather than actions. I would term that "stated morals" or "claimed morals", to me actions are what count when trying to determine any actors actual morals.

China, for example, has excellent claimed morals. As does the USA. The voting record and what prompts public outcry from American citizens has shown what stated morals they actually care about, for the Chinese citizens ... well we all wish they had the opportunity to make those same types of statements freely so we could see how they compare.

So it's a subtle difference in ethical philosophy value judgements (totally fair point to disagree on) and a bit of talking past each other regarding who "we" refers to.

As to the "which morals" issue, in this context the imprisoned or killed are/were surely more concerned with morality in practice.
And Iain M. Banks "The Algebraist"
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dammit. I was fooled!

saw the design and though "if I wanted only titles I'd be at HN". then I looked for a "old design" link. when I found none I actually deleted the site bookmark from my phone! the worst part is that I've been there long enough to know even the less obvious than pony April fools pranks.

/slow clap, Slashdot.
You sound like my twin. Wait, are you me?

Seriously, I was surprised to find that Splunk uses Mongo. Given its performance and reliability with Splunk, I'm willing to give Mongo another chance given the right conditions (given that someone on my team has significant experience administering it).
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I recently tried Geany as the chromebook I bought is ARM-based so VS code wouldn't work on it. It's alright.
This argument is of the same quality as those made by people explaining how advocates of racial or gender equality are the real racists/misogynists.
It's almost unfathomable how much good such an amount could accomplish, if it weren't being spend on building underperforming and unnecessary weapons systems.
Ask HN: Do you talk out-loud to yourself when you program?
I remember in the late 90s when I got my first job as a web programmer at my University. I walked in to this basement-cave with several of out of central casting uber-nerds sitting deep in thought in front of their monitors. I remember getting myself set up and being really surprised at the cacophony of mutterings, celebrations, and chuckles that these guys emitted for no-one in particular.

I worked there for several years, but never really joined in with this behavior, maybe I didn't see myself as being uber enough to warrant this (what I thought of at the time as) autistic-like behavior.

Fast forward almost 20 years, and I do this all of the time (though admittedly not in the company of others). I'm not sure when I got into the habit of it, I think it's been the thousands of hours of development I've done by myself, where it seems to serve as a way to keep myself motivated, on-task, and in flow.

Is this something you do, and is this a unique behavior trait to developers? I can't think of any other profession where it would be socially acceptable..
I have no idea. Once they made their first attempt on me, I stayed away for good.
I wasn't aware, I just think it's command line so it must be "lean" right? No GUI. I don't know.
On the other side, OpenAI was previously also funded by YC: http://blog.ycombinator.com/openai/
The robotics components were the pricey part. The breakdown is something like this:

- Table (w/ paint, wood, pipes, lights, etc): less than $50
- Electronics (Raspi, camera, cables, electromagnet, microcontroller, etc): about $150
- Robot arm (structural components + servos): $350

It's hard to say what I would do a second time around since there are aspects I still want to work on, I want to write my own chess engine for it!
Google has the same option.

good luck with that.
I do that sometimes when I'm coding. I want to debug something, or just check some particularly important or tricky part and I say the lines outloud while doing some hand movement pointing to the lines kind of rithmically.
You need 250 karma. Some history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128
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I was trained in biomed and found it completely unsatisfactory. Simply put, I was trained to do pseudoscience (NHST, where you test a strawman "null" hypothesis rather than your own hypothesis and commit an egregious affirming the consequent error). There are also various other institutionalized satellite issues like the extreme difficulty of publishing replication results.

Consider these questions:

1) Can you define a p-value and articulate why you would perform a significance test?

2) How many replication studies have you published?

3) How often do you perform your experiments blinded to intervention?

4) Is there any quantitative prediction that has been made by anyone in your sub-field of research ever? I'm not even asking for an accurate one, just the publication of a point or small-interval prediction.
I really want to agree :-/
Thanks! No at the moment the robot just places it's pawn the last rank. You have to watch the status page on screen to see what it promoted it to. Definitely need to come up with a better way to do that.
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That's a pretty good guess. Makes sense.
the executive driving ad revenue has the same problems and opportunities as the people driving ad revenue at Google or Facebook.

convince yourself all you want of your fantasy, in the end each business unit has their own rules. and jobs is not the anymore.