skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to say that an iPad is the right device for you, but I wanted to share a couple notes in case you ever want to try again:

> My problem was the lack of multi-tasking…

The current iOS does this pretty well. http://www.imore.com/ipad-multitasking

> …and no mouse support.

Okay, now this is more of a stretch. :O) BUT, with a Lighting to USB adapter you can (technically) use both USB mice, and wireless mice that use USB dongles.
> And, of course, 1984 is drawn from Soviet communism, but not "about" communism.

I wouldn't say that 1984 is actually drawn from Soviet communism any more than it reflected the overall trend of the times towards ever-more-centralized government...a trend visible in both Britain and the United States at the time.

It was more a complaint about nationalism and centralization ( http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/12/george-orwe... ) and police states than a comment on the Soviet system.

~

Also, if you "don't really follow any of this", I think you're being facetious or willfully dense. Let's try again. You claimed:

> in fact, THT's dystopia is more relevant today than Orwell's was or is.

I claim that you are incorrect in this, to a borderline hysterical degree. You say that the THT is more relevant, when 1984 actually features a lot of things that have come to pass and will continue to pass.

Compared to the future sketched in THT, we do not have Old Testament class hierarchies and uniforms. We do not have women being completely unpersoned by the .gov for not bearing children. We do not have the Constitution any more likely being suspended in any meaningful way than we did 16 years ago. We do not keep an underclass of women for breeding purposes. We do not ban women from reading or writing or playing Scrabble. We do not prevent women from voting. We do not prevent women from owning property. We have not rounded up African-Americans for forced relocation. We have not purged Catholics, Jews, or Muslims. We do not execute homosexuals. We do not enslave women.

Now, looking over at things that have actually come to pass from 1984, we have: Secret government torture rooms (Guantanamo Bay, and your own city's black sites). Televisions with two-way cameras (Samsung smart TVs, in this case) surveilling owners. Effect two-minutes-hate of America's enemies over on Fox News (or the Left's or Right's enemies if you read Twitter) every day. History being changed and edited electronically (Wikipedia edit wars and other operations). An ever-expanding lower class, Orwell's proles or what people who don't live in affluent neighborhoods might call the poor, kept asleep with booze and drugs and sexual imagery and vice. A permanent state of military conflict justifying the state security apparatus of every major player.

It's pretty obvious that 1984 is the more relevant dystopia today, tptacek. Would you prefer to elaborate on why you think that this is not the case?

(there are other, more appropriate future sketches than either of those two novels, but they aren't being discussed here)
I always question that. I've played online too, and ever got to "know" some people (as much as you can know an anonymous nickname). But in face to face situations, the online interactions really weren't very useful. Did you find face-to-face easier because of online experiences?
Every day?
Gold fillings are significantly more durable than amalgams.

http://www.webmd.com/oral-health/guide/dental-health-filling...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_material#Gold
Because your course is based on outdated materials.

In the 80s and 90s academia and high-end computing was taken by a RISC illusion. RISC architectures were simple and clean and easy to implement at higher performance than any CISC processor of the time, so people assumed that of course RISC would be the feature, right? Well, no. CISC, or, to be more truthful, x86 was a mass-market item with competing manufacturers with deep pockets (like Intel and AMD).

In the mid 90s both Intel and AMD broke RISCs neck (though it was not immediately clear perhaps what a groundbreaking innovation this was): They introduced processors that translated x86 instructions to other instructions (µops) that were then scheduled and executed. Turns out, this is pretty efficient for a number of reasons (1- you get existing software 2- x86 code can be really dense; RISC had instruction bloat issues 3- decoding insns is only a very small part of what a CPU does and does only consume a minority in transistors 4- you can change the µops, they are an implementation detail, to best suit the exact core at hand; something impossible for RISC). This allowed x86 all benefits of what RISC previously had for itself.

By ~2000 most RISC architectures were dead (Alpha, SGI, ...) with only POWER and SPARC surviving in their niche markets.

In summary: The importance of the ISA was vastly overestimated by researchers, who assumed that this was a blocking issue to make x86 go faster. In the end, x86 won, because x86 had the bigger market with more money in it.
Can you elaborate on how the ideas(essentially treating interviewing as a skill) in the blog post exhibit post hoc fallacy?
I was lucky to see a scene from "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail"[1] when I was in junior high.

But really, if you consider that "politics" is the art of directing policy, and policy is just another word for legislation, technically all prisoners are "political" prisoners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Thoreau_Spent_in_Jai...
"The experience" - starting with the constant pop-up nagware, moving on to the dismal performance, following with the whack-a-mole update of the week "thrills", etc.
AMD and Intel can afford to spend a large amounts of money on design because x64 chips are sold at high margins in high volume. If you are interested in the economics of the chip business, [0] is a great Usenet post by John Mashey[1].

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.arch/9T...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey

Edited to remove a duplicate footnote.
Just did the whole intro and them some. You're right--but it's accompanied by a whole lot of other lessons that all take the same clear, humane, approach. I'm willing to accept a little hype for such a comprehensive presentation overall.
It's an interesting time in the crypto world. Bitcoin dominance has been plummeting in the past few months. In January, Bitcoin made up 87% of all crypto currency. Today it's 60%. Most of the movement has been to ETH, but all of the alt-coins have benefited from the movement. Alt-coins now have a 15b market cap!

http://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentage
For all of Ethereum's features, it has a minimal amount of moderate value use-cases in production. I'm not talking about wishful thinking of future use cases here. Ethereum has yet to find a killer use case to take it mainstream. Although the DAO was suppose to be the big use case, all that did was expose the fact the developers and leaders of the project are willing to fork the chain to protect the early investors.

Frankly, it might as well be a Silicon Valley startup, except it doesn't have to justify having good use-cases or adoption. Just keep the hype machine going and it'll do well. If hype trends off, without finding a killer use-case, well, I don't suppose it will matter much.
I heavily considered purchasing a Lumia 950 when looking to upgrade my Android phone. Unfortunately, the community pretty much drove me away, not because they were toxic, but because they claimed the platform was dead and no one suggested getting into Windows Mobile 10. If Microsoft releases a new WM 10 phone with a fingerprint sensor and a decent set of specs, I might consider picking one up and bearing the "app problem". I like the fact that Microsoft updates the devices directly and I can go into a Microsoft store if I have a problem.
Facebook Litho review
"I got a tech job after doing these things, therefore these things helped me get the tech job."

There is a lot more nuance to tech job interviewing (including luck that you got a good interviewer/interviewer was not in a bad mood), despite the changing landscape which emphasizes trick coding.
This was good from the discussion you linked:

As a counter anecdote, I had someone tell me they did an interview loop where the guy interviewing had social anxiety problems so he would talk to a hand puppet instead of the interviewer. He got all the technical questions correct and was hired, apparently, so there's that.
Further those 5% move at a glacial pace, you could be given a week to write or improve a BST.
https://github.com/mpw/pLucid-osx is a port of plucid to OS X.
Eight visualization challenges with ggplot2
Another unaffiliated happy customer here, ShareLaTeX is awesome.
That's Amazon's charter. Google has "Organizing the world's information", Airbnb is something along the lines of "Belong anywhere" etc.

Sounds like some good Koolaid
> Bitcoin dominance has been plummeting in the past few months.

Bitcoin's price is at an all time high. Please clarify what "dominance" means from your perspective.
> Tech industry is not at all great for engineers these days.

Plenty of jobs outside the 'Tech' industry bringing stuff into other companies, it's not as 'glamorous' but it pays the bills and you get through the door a lot easier.

I'm from the UK and consciously stay out of the local start up scene because I think the culture was/is toxic and have for a long time but there are solid and interesting programming jobs out in the wider world.
They most likely found a source for NOS (new old stock) chips. I find it highly unlikely that they started another run.

Considering the age of the chip, the masks are probably not even available in a digital format and the fab that made it had been shut down a long time ago. Recreating these processes is a massive undertaking that takes a lot of manpower.
This is wrong on so many levels, I suppose you mostly understand it, but here are the counter arguments:

> Written for longevity

OSS is much better at longevity than proprietary. Even if the authors all die without will, it is possible to fix the little bugs that prevent you from using the software on [NewTechnologyHere]. I've done it countless times with Java software; If anything OSS is the guarantee that you own your future and that the system will exist in the legacy.

> Use paid flavor

It's good, but what's better is joining the golf club of a principal maintainer. He's key in paying him to fix the issue you're having quickly and merging upstream.
> For pdf deliverables regarding things like a resume, I am wondering if it is just better to create an html document using FE web dev skills, and render it to pdf (having done the latex resume thing recently).

For a resume, I think something like Google Docs is better. You want to have a lot of control over the layout so it fits on a page or two. Latex is good for automated document generation but with resumes it's not common you'll be generating them more than every year or so and you should be tailoring them to each job.
Call me stupid all you want, but I was looking for a clause that prohibited running unauthorized benchmarks, and neither my nor your search results corroborate​ that.

You aren't allow to publish benchmark results, a condition that is both upsetting and not at all unique as commercial databases go http://m.sqlmag.com/sql-server/devils-dewitt-clause
He already did. Market share of cryptocurrencies.
Regarding single-threaded performance it just seems increasingly likely that we finally hit the wall of what the current technology is able to support. I don't expect major advances here until other manufacturing tech is used.
I maintain a P2P on-premise FTS search. Though this one indexes many types of text (plain, HTML, PDF, DOCs).

One 8c server (running about 10 workers) can handle 8 to 10qps, depending on the depth required. This is on an index of 20 million documents. If the number of workers is constant, doubling the index will have the qps. 2 million docs take about 50GB of disk space (20 million = 500GB, 1TB with redundancy).

It's better to go with SSD arrays here, since random IOPs are much higher than for other workloads. This can skyrocket cost.

So for this (our) system, it could be as cheap as $1k for the hardware, e.g. using the Foxconn Purus cloud server: http://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/cheap-e5-2600-lga2011-sixte...
They clarified with context in the very next sentence. They were talking about market share. They even provided a link.
This is a better list:

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

We've used this as the basis for training we're doing with NGOs, the press, and some legal groups.
How could I go about getting in that position to flip a switch and get 1m or 100K unique?
So, one of the greatest minds of our time uses Plain TeX, it seems. Given that his texts look more complex than any other mathematical texts that I have seen, why would anyone prefer to use LaTeX instead?
I don't argue this. I think it's fine to set up a forum that only allows pro-communist or pro-capitalist posts. In fact, I think doing so is critical to building communities that actually function.

The issue that demonstrates the loss of free speech as a social value is that a large number of people enthusiastically pursue and endorse the censorship of legitimate political discourse on the networks that have general applicability and have become the de-facto publication platforms of the modern world.

Facebook, Twitter, et al are not really networks by themselves, at least not in most respects; they're platforms for networks. You use them to build your own communities; communities of your friends, family, businesses, etc. The platforms don't present with any ideology because they present as applicable to every ideology. If they're going to make such representations, it's not unreasonable to expect them to adhere to them with some consistency.

Additionally, when 1/8 of the world's population depends on Facebook for its news and information, and Facebook presents itself as a place that's appropriate for all users, I think it is completely legitimate to hold them to a reasonably strict standard of fairness. Regardless of the legal situation, we can and should be doing this socially.

If we enshrine free speech as a social value, we should all be concerned when good-faith political discussions are removed from these platforms, no matter how repugnant we find the actual views expressed. All views must be allowed to compete on the marketplace of ideas. Forcing legitimate policy positions into hushed tones only builds a tension that leads to a violent snap.

The core question is whether Facebook, Google, et al have reached a level where their corporate-enforced censorship policies have a real effect on the aggregate political dialogue. I think that it's undeniable that they do at this point.
SiriControl: A Voice Control System
Phase-functioned neural networks for character control in games
It's almost always better to have a dedicated chip implement some algorithm, if it makes economic sense to do so. From hard drive controllers to Google's TPU.
I doubt children realise how expensive textbooks are, and the bullied child won't be as worried about a torn book compared to a broken ipad
> By ~2000 most RISC architectures were dead (Alpha, SGI, ...) with only POWER and SPARC surviving in their niche markets.

You forgot ARM, which is a major omission.

> In the end, x86 won, because x86 had the bigger market with more money in it.

It's not the end yet. :) x86's dominance in the future is hardly assured, and in fact if you measure by total number of microprocessors sold, x86 is a small niche--300-400 million sales per year compared to 15 billion ARM chips sold.
I've been using onXmaps Hunt. Their property and land data is pretty amazing, and have offline support. They have a lot of nice features geared towards hunters like tracking, drawing lines, shapes, but it is still useful for non-hunters like me.
About 18 years of development and only at version 0.69, I love it. Almost no commercial software company would number their software so.

I love open-source software's simple websites, dorky logos, and straightforward --- even self-deprecating --- self-descriptions. And I'm someone whose background is in graphic design, communication, etc.

It's just a refreshing contrast to the bloat and bluster of corporate projects. I would trust most open-source projects' version 0.69 over most commercial software's version 6.9.
Azure offers a managed version of mssql, which I'm quite happy with.
Out of Aces (Re: Bridj Shuts Down)
Chekhov's short stories are one of the great accomplishments of any human being ever.

His plays also began the modern theatre.
I would be very hesitant to use this. It's not "more intuitive" as the author would like to think. In fact , our visual system has been trained to instantly recognize a!=b in code, and I read code a lot more often than Math formulas. Plus code is not math (e.g. 1+(a>0)), confusing = with == will lead to lots of errors etc.

If I get used to this font on my machine, i will have a real problem when parsing code in another terminal/editor. Unless all the programmers in the world decide to switch to it simultaneously, this introduces a mental translation that's counterproductive.
This thread is about high performance. I.e. desktop, workstation, server processors.

> Why are x86/64 processors used for most high performance applications then?

Also ARM, the architecture where most cores have between three and four distinct frontends, hardly qualifies as R ISC.
Those in practice fixed bugs in mysql themselves and had to make it more performance themselves. Which basically means larger development team and more time. The parachute is meant to avoid that expense.

Oh, and those who did it were above oracle in terms of data size making it rational decision too. The calculation is still different for majority of companies.
True.

In the crypto world, BTC dominance refers to the percentage of market cap that is tied up in BTC versus ETH and every other alt-coin.

There's roughly a 36 billion dollar market cap of all crypto currencies right now. 60% of that is in BTC. 40% is in Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, etc.
Honest question: I tried using LaTeX for a homework assignment. I had already done all the work on some loose paper, but it was all over the place and thought LaTeX-ing it would help readability. It took me about three hours and I wasn't even halfway done (there were four questions and I had barely done the second one)...
Is taking this long normal for LaTeX? or is it something you get better at with practice?
Fast was just an experiment. A colleague had done it for a year and I was curious. I lost about 8 lbs over 4 months. Other than that, uncertain of health effects.

The idea for it and some health claims are in a BBC documentary you can find online: "Eat Fast and Live Longer."
Agreed, it seems many people look at Maria as a way out if MySQL itself or its licensing ever turns on them, without wanting to support them in the current tense.
Which is why you should let companies filter you out by choosing clear personal boundaries regarding the interview process.
hmm, not so sure I agree to that extent.

[To me,]

FP is more about nobody owning the data. Everything operating on all the data. (Mostly) All data exposed and accessible.

OOP is about certain classes owning data and limiting exposure to that data.
Yeah, I got better at face to face interactions after having a semi-large consistent group of online friends. After a few years we met up once in a while as a group (maybe once a year), and that helped a lot too.
my iPhone has a sleeve?
And the native app model for WP was a pleasure to code against, compared to Android or iOS.
I'm currently studying to find a new job. I intend to memorize all the algorithms I can, all the tricks, and completely fake like I'm figuring out the answers on the spot when I interview. I will dedicate the next 3-4 months on this. That's just how things are these days unfortunately.
Puzzle based interviewing isn't that common. The only places that do that are out of touch. Most technical interview questions for in person interviews are word problems in the form of a requirement.
So? Samsung also sells a lot more smartphones than Apple, yet Apple makes far more profit from them. You can't pay R&D with revenue.

There are probably more PowerPC chips sold via laser printers and such than x86 chips. Conversely, 8051 derivates probably outnumber all of these. So what. Meaningless argument.
Which language(s)?
It takes a little bit of time and effort to get everything formatted perfectly. But it sounds like you were having an especially tough time. It just takes a lot of practice and repitition.
That is not at all how anything works. What is "gang power"? What factors contribute to it? Manpower, wealth, weaponry, or what?
Agreed. I just finished a paper on ShareLaTeX today. Absolutely love it.
That still leaves more than a few decades worth of an active programming lifespan out. Assuming you're in your early 20's, your parents are likely in their early 40's; retirement age is still in the late 60's.

It's a young field, there will be more and more people who code into their 70's and 80's as the first batch of gen-X matures.
Americans are particularly suckers to money. It's cultural. For a lot of folks here, life is about that rat race. Said companies capitalize on that.

It's the same in India and China as well. Too much competition for fewer and fewer resources, chasing money is the norm...until suddenly they're in a hospital death bed, trying to get out of medical debt.
Thanks for the response.

That's another thing I need to do is go out and speak to people which is my next step
How do model binding libraries compare to ORM's w.r.t. performance, e.g. query optimization?
<eyeroll>
Standard libertarian/ancap nonsense that confuses interference with regulation, and actively maintains a blindspot to the role of government in fundamentally supporting every single business within the economy by providing a monetary system, markets, legal systems, law enforcement systems, transportation systems, as well as a myriad of subsidies and direct loans.

Please don't go on about 'privately produced law' or how private roads will replace public roads. I used to be an ancap and looked into PPL quite deeply back in the 90s - the field has made little progress since then that I can see, and appears to serve mainly to assuage the conscious of ethical libertarians, providing flimsy-yet-vaguely-plausible reason that something will fill the void when their desired collapse of government occurs.

>"Government is largely immune from the consequences of their mistakes, even disastrous ones - if a private business does a mistake that harms people, they can be fined, or even put out of business, but if a government agency does it, it usually ends up with somebody getting early retirement with full benefits, and that's it."

Are you freaking kidding me? Private business doesn't make myriad of mistakes and keep on going, even being rewarded? Did you miss the 2008 financial scandal? BP managed to poison an entire vast ecosystem and shoreline populated by millions, they're still going strong. Have you ever heard of the term 'golden parachute'?
People (myself included) usually have very strong ideas about how they think their children should be raised and educated. I appreciate your informative responses. Thank you.
It's because they're not programming tests, but IQ tests with CS concepts as their medium. They want smart people so they test for it the best way they can (i.e. in ways that won't run afoul of employment laws).
While I have never been to the US and the UK, the NYT and the Guardian are two places I occasionally stumble to, to find out what's going on in the world. Well, you don't have to be a New Yorker to read the NYT, and neither is its focus.