skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best Apex Programming Books for Beginners 2017
"How a CEO with Dyslexia and ADHD Runs His Company"

Backwards and really fast?
"Bigly" is about 600 years old.
a newer library targeted at deep learning: https://github.com/HuwCampbell/grenade
Why do you call it a product?
Machine Learning for digital media
there are tools for him if he really can't avoid to write that memo; like this spell checker http://www.ghotit.com/ (I am a contributor to the project)
Yes it is, if you are coming from a GUI life, start using the shell for the first time, and suddenly get thrown into some unnamed editor by git. :P

It breaks about every convention on editors and discoverability that you're used to.

Start GNU nano. It puts me in a position where typing edits the file I opened. It shows me the name of the program. It shows some keyboard shortcuts for interacting with the program. (Though for beginners the ^X syntax isn't obvious either).

Vim, doesn't give me any of that. I infrequently use vim and I still tend to open a file and start typing without hitting i first, because it's behaviour that's inconsistent with every single other editor I have ever used.
I think the school bullied him.

"The dean told Walgren that they believed Corey had left the building. She said they asked if there was any reason to believe he would hurt himself."

The school went overboard in trying to scare him, didn't care to make sure he was physically at school and safe. If the school had an appropriate first response to the situation, why would they ask if he would hurt himself? That sounds to me like they know they bullied him and were worried he actually wasn't safe.
> So the confusion between programming-language and type-theory senses of the word began with the very first paper to use the latter.

Okay … but what's the confusion, exactly?

Wikipedia defines type theory as[1],

> In type theory, every "term" has a "type" and operations are restricted to terms of a certain type.

Which sounds very much like how programs use it: terms in expressions in statically typed languages do have a type; in some, functions themselves, much like Wikipedia's addOne example, have a type.

Whereas the Wikipedia article for type system says[2],

> Assigning a data type, termed typing, gives meaning to a sequence of bits such as a value in memory or some object such as a variable.

This is, I feel, a better definition. Or at least, it gets at what programmers are concerned about: the meaning of the sequence of bits (and from that meaning, the set of valid possible values and operations, and more importantly, that not all values (of differing types) are valid in all operations; I would argue that the bits aren't so much involved, since there are multiple ways to store the same sets of values. E.g., Unicode strings can be stored in a number of bit forms).

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system
Uber miscalculated earnings for New York drivers. Now it’s paying them back
Over the last 12 years I have interviewed dozens of candidates for jobs. Not a single wore a suit.

The suit is really dead in the workplace (in Silicon Valley)
Leases tend to be low mileage which is not conducive to taxi driving. Yes lots of people do this.
> except they seem to have solved the scanning-speed problem

By way of a GaN chip, which is the standard solution for anything requiring super high clock speeds.

Considering another company is pitching a $50 solid-state LIDAR for autonomous vehicles, I don't think this qualifies as a breakthrough[0]. It's just the market pushing prices down.

[1]: http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sens...
1. Not really for highway traffic but don't double park especially if there is another car double parking nearby in the opposite lane. try and drive a block ahead to see if theres any open space to squeeze into, and if not then double park as a last resort.

2. stop using your horn as a means of relieving frustration. horns should rarely rarely be used as that 1 second to honk it could be used to REACT instead.
That job they're "just doing" is, as it's drilled into their minds, to act as a barrier against anything that even might be a threat in some form or fashion to their country.

They may get that drilled into their skulls, but I think it's more that they just don't want their boss to yell at them.

No police officer arrests a DUI and says "but I'm just doing my job." It's only when the other person (the traveler in this case) has an entirely legitimate reason to resist them that "I'm just doing my job" comes out, with an implied threat that the authority they're appealing to (that they themselves don't have) will come down on everyone involved, and they don't want that.

Also, they don't have any personal liability for anything that goes wrong in this process, except perhaps that the company they work for will lose the contract (unlikely here). Again, "boss will yell at me."

These people are better thought of as clerks than cops. And yes, they can inconvenience you, but that's not the same thing as compliance.
Skimmed that whole page, and now feel that I understand even less what it is than when I started.

So, it's like a Smoodie?
It's hardly fair to assume you can compare two k-bit objects in O(1), logically it should be at least O(k) (got to read every bit at some point). Which would make quicksort O(k n log n) rather than radix sort's O(k n).
Yes. Just walk in and wing it.

Ok, so I generally do research about the business to make sure I understand the problems they are solving and have good questions to ask, but never CS interview prep. And I'm not some coding genius...I couldn't rattle off big-o for any algorithm off the top of my head, for instance...maybe a little above average.

Then again, I've only worked for 5 employers in a 19 year career. I think that was something like 18 interviews total in my career. A grand total of 1 or 2 required any deep CS knowledge and those were questions like "write fibonnaccci on the whiteboard*" or write a linked list in a code editor. I don't consider those to be worth studying...you should be able to do those off the cuff. And also, I'm pretty sure I can come up with a reasonable solution to most problems presented under pressure...something I know throws some people off.

Anyway, those 18 interviews yielded something like 9 or 10 job offers. And the fibonacci one...no offer...stared at it for 5 minutes after getting stuck on one of the conditionals before finding my mistake and didn't get the job. But whatever. There are always more interviews.

Now, I've also never approached a job like "I really want to work at Google/Apple/Facebook/etc so I have to ace this interview". I've always taken a broader, more laissez faire approach to try to find the right fit for me. So it might just be a matter of your approach to a job hunt.
UX, the early days.

I once typed "EDIT" to Interlisp when in the wrong mode, and Warren Teitelman's "Do What I mean" system printed "=EXIT" and exited the program without saving. DWIM was tuned rather closely to Warren's personal typing errors.
> people who walk barefoot every day are not worried of stepping on tacks :)

As a manager, I wouldn't be worried about them being worried. I'd be worried about them suing the company if they injure their foot.
I ran all over Creation barefoot as a kid. He's not wrong. Your feet toughen up, and you're aware of what you step on.

On the other hand, I've worn work boots since high school, and wouldn't give them up. (Literally! Uniform required penny loafers or better. I got chewed out more times...) Callused soles won't save you on sun-hot asphalt or gravel, and knowing what you're stepping on won't do you a lick of good when 120 pounds of server and handcart run over your toes.
My experience is that dressing in black does stand out. Most everyday people wear colors, even in New York, so it's much more striking to wear all black/monochrome - especially if you get interesting streetwear-y pieces. Or go full Rick Owens.
Some licensing and status tidbits:

- http://ec-lang.org/ and http://ecere.org/ point to each other

- ec-lang says "designed in 2004", ecere says "founded in 1997", both point to https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk - unsure what to make of this

- https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE is BSD 3-clause (revised)

- some of the demo screenshots on the ecere website list something called "GNOSIS", a closed-source 3D library (with free educational licensing) also written by the project authors

- the GitHub repo lists forks of emscripten ("This branch is even with kripken:master.") and binaryen ("This branch is 2 commits ahead, 35 commits behind WebAssembly:master.")
I've had similar experiences with CBP too. It's still a pretty silly unqualified comment. They tend to be on power trips any chance they get, brown or black or white.
Thinking that's low. A car is $2500+ to wrap. Lots more area on that RV. And it's not a DIY job for sure.
First, an anecdote about knowing someone smart related to a physicist means hardly anything. I happen to personally know two prestigious scientists (NAS, HHMI fellows) who both have children you'd consider very mediocre (one in his 4th year of community college).

I am not taking the position that genetics does not contribute to intelligence. Of course it does. Like you pointed out, humans are smarter than other species, like apes. What we are trying to determine here the degree to which systematic genetic variation within our own species contributes to intelligence. One thing we know for sure is that this claim...

> There is no doubt that intelligence is purely genetic.

...is certainly wrong. Oddly enough, you've already conceded that, twice:

> Yes, environment counts but if you give everyone their own personal most ideal environment,

> given an ideal environment, intelligence is purely genetic.

That's equivalent to saying both genetics and environments affect intelligence; which is equivalent to saying intelligence is not purely genetic.
ala -> aka "The War ...

Not sure of the specifics but by context I'm assuming that was the intent.
Ah, but you're not alone without FB and LinkedIn! You have us, here, and Reddit over there, and...
Basic profitability math in a cloud mining crypto currency domain
Hey everyone,

I was looking into buying some cloud hardware for mining today. Found a cloud service genesis mining and did some basic math to justify an investment for me. Got disastrous numbers. Is it my math is wrong or service is a scam? Here are details — http://leonov.co/2017/сloud-mining-profitability/

Thanks in advance for the provided feedback.
Early hieroglyphics: "tipcoin! 1 beer"
A fun thing about this is that they joke that vi occupies 1310720 bytes on disk (which in context I think is meant to seem extremely, unreasonably large). But in 2017 my current vi binary (which also uses a lot of external files!) is 2923968 bytes, over twice the size of the imagined binary in the joke.
Spawned a blizzard of popups on my Nexus 5. Flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14398175
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14403734
I didn't mean to comment on the use of racial profiling; I've just noticed that there's a lot of confusion about the difference between TSA and CBP.
I actually understood the article. Great job!
Richard Branson is dyslexic too as far as I know.
Thanks, didn't knew about hg-git
> I am somewhat tired of people approaching kickstarter with the idea of "I am buying stuff and they turn out to be vapor". This is not understanding what kickstarter is.

You bet Kickstarter uses that confusion to its advantage.

Unfortunately(or fortunately) there is so much people you can scam out of there money multiple times...

Most people shouldn't even touch these platforms to begin with, we can all agree on that.

In fact they should be heavily regulated, just like any risky financial product. And they will be.
If you're a MS/.NET leaning person, why not F#?
Well, why don't you MARRY safe science if you love it so much!! :)
Best version I could find:

http://imgur.com/a/Kkck7
They call it a job killer because of all the extra taxes needed. More than doubling taxes in a state that already has very high taxes will have an impact.
Vi predates the Ctrl+C.X.V convention. Shame on all those Windows apps for not using the Esc key properly.
> People wouldn't care except that your "personal" decision affects them.

Yes it's perfectly logical under a single payer, universal healthcare system. So the reaction by some is: this is exactly why we should not have universal healthcare.

> Everyone pays for insurance. So if you're making premiums more expensive then that affects me too.

It muddies the water quite a bit by having a marketplace of different private insurance companies. If you see me doing something risky you have no clue whether or not I'm even covered under the same insurance company as you. So maybe I am, maybe I'm not affecting your premiums. Single payer universal healthcare removes all doubt.
> it's paid by the occupier, not the owner.

This is true of property tax in the US as well. Not directly, perhaps, but renters are most definitely paying the property tax for their landlords.
ARTHUR: Well, I AM king...

DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! ....If there's ever going to be any progress--

WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?

WOMAN: King of the who?

ARTHUR: The Britons.

WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.

DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. ..... A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.

DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
Wouldn't a more apt comparison be wearing gloves?
terminal_velocity
I'll save you a click. This is an obvious advertisement for Gusto with lots of pictures and few words.

If you upvoted this, why?
Keep in mind that this is the same outfit that completely botched the rollout of Wave. They KNEW it was a product dependent on the network effect, and instead they drank their own Kool Aid. Simply further proof Google is an algorithm company that dreams electric Apples.

Helen of Troy has no fear of Google. None.
I remember when I entered the work force back in 1978 right out of college and went to work for Bell Labs. We were required to wear a suit, ties and white shirt. You were not allowed to hang your jacket over your chair; it had to be hung in the closet. You could smoke at your desk, I am not a smoker but many others took advantage of that. You could smoke in conference rooms during meetings and in elevators and many did so (See Mad Men).

It has been very interesting watching the norms shift over the last almost 40 years. Women and minorities filling the ranks, casual attire, smoking prohibitions (all very good things in my view).

One, funny interesting side story, if you will indulge this old timer. When I was in high school, my father was a budding attorney and of course had to wear a suit, tie and white shirt. My mother was a struggling artist. My father wanted her to wash and iron his shirts to save money and only have to pay for the dry cleaning of the shirts. My mother refused (an early feminist perhaps). They had a huge fight over it. In the end, my Mother relented and agreed to endure the task. However, in classic passive aggressive style, she "accidentally" got a red sock in the wash with the shirts turning them a slight shade of pink. Of course that made them, for that time, unusable ! So he had to toss them. After that he simply had them laundered. Ever since then our family calls this ruse "red-socking-it", which basically means intentionally fucking up to get out of doing something you don't want to do. I think we can all think of times when someone at work "red-socked-it".
"And, in the grand scheme of things, it is mostly true today that cryptocurrencies don’t have meaningful “industrial [or] consumer use except as a medium of exchange.” What he is the most right about, though, is that cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value."

One point: bitcoin is inherently deflationary. Anyone who uses it as a medium of exchange, specifically, who buys something, is economically irrational.
https://i2.wp.com/www.sopitas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05...

Courtesy Tineye[0]

[0] https://www.tineye.com/search/c9d37d27e89b6836f417109fc993ff...
You might want to avoid claiming that as a great achievement.
Funny, I had a phone screen today and in the midst of asking about how I saw my future and what I wanted to work in, the recruiter was tiptoeing around a situation where someone at the company had suggested React or something and the devs had pushed back (successfully) on the basis that the site didn't need it. I got the feeling he was trying not to step on my dreams of being a cutting-edge JS frontend trailblazer, but it is really a point in the company's favor (to me) that they were able to resist the urge.

Basically, they are looking for web developers but it seems like they have to filter out all the frontend ninja rockstars.
Welcome back!

One of the worst parts of open source is when someone who has been happily getting value out of your free product for 4 years opens an issue to complain about how quality has gone downhill, and you need to fix a few things.
A big rolling tire, complete with wheel, once was hurdling towards me on the highway.

I honked the horn at it.

Thankfully, it missed me despite that brilliant decision.
But I think the point is you need a Google suite account. So how much more server-side are we talking about here? Enough worth killing sales for?
Thank you. As much as I would like to take your advice about undergraduate/graduate school, I'm not sure how I would fare as I am already an undergraduate, and my knowledge of Japanese isn't that great (it's been on the backburner for a very long time, usually I haven't paid attention to it) and I'm not sure how I'd fare doing a course in Japan; I don't think I would like to be studying the subject I do (ECE) much more beyond graduate level, though I guess I'll see about that. If it's not too much to ask, what are Japanese university fees and ease of entry like?

Do you have any advice or ideas where to look if I want to go into a career teaching English in Japan, if such a thing isn't too laughable? :)

Edit: one of my biggest concerns is whether I can apply from abroad, as getting into Japan in the first place is an issue.
^C is SIGINT. ⌘C is copy.

I blame Microsoft.
Hello, HN. Co-author, here. Surprised to see this pop up again!

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/vicapow/explained-visually

Wish I had the free time to work on these more.
NSA secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years
Microsoft Just Built a Special Version of Windows for China
I recommend Hiut Denim:

https://hiutdenim.co.uk/collections/mens

Reasonably priced. Exceptional quality. And you get to support a community of jeans makers in Wales.

Also — free repairs for life. I've sent a couple of pairs back a few times because I wear the hell out of my jeans, and they return with repairs almost more beautiful than the original fabric.

Truly one of those rare companies that does one thing extremely well.
I've interviewed and been interviewed countless times in the last decade and maybe once I've worn a full blown suit. I don't have a problem with them, but I don't want to look like an asshole when everyone else is running around in hoodies and jeans.

I usually just step it up a notch from whatever the regular office attire is there (either by asking my point of contact or having known the office). If it's full SV/hobo style I'll do a polo and nice jeans. Business casual and I'll wear a nicer shirt and some khakis. If I really have no clue I'll go slacks and a dress shirt.

In my own office (we're all remote) I still wear jeans and a polo most days. Usually just out of sheer laziness.
I lived about 3 blocks away from him and was friends with his daughter when we were about preschool/kindergarten age. Back then I said I would marry her someday (I grew up and eventually married someone else in the end).

Chip was an interesting guy, he always was a jolly santalike figure and seemed really involved with his daughter's life (She split time between him and his ex-wife). I didnt know then about his sex life (would be weird if I did) but knowing about him now I can admire the way he candidly wrote about himself.

But he was a great author and I remember once interviewing him for a class when I needed some book report insights.

Fun fact. In some essay-book he wrote about a time his daughter Iva beat me and some other boys in a peeing contest. Maybe that s why I never made the cut to marrying her.
> There wasn't any point to the quiz

Knowing fb, there might well have been; if they had a facial recognition webcam up and noted applicant scores no one would hear about it. They'd probably just call it an "experiment in hiring"
Although it would be a fairly decent extra amount of work ... make the quiz available in the top 20 languages and have the person choose which language to view the quiz in.
Next-gen Intel part?
The best 879 pages of urgent meaninglessness and near-constant déjà vu ever written.

I found picking different starting points on later re-reads rather interesting. For anyone who hasn't read it, Dhalgren is circular, but there are a handful of places where it could start that make about as much sense as starting on page 1.

Definitely worth a read, but you'll never figure out how to make that discord on a harmonica.
tldr: "...corporate patent defendants can only be sued where they are incorporated or where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business."

I wonder what the patent-scam scum will pivot to. Probably making sure no one in the Eastern District of Texas maintains a regular business there, then creating new cancerous jurisdictions elsewhere in the USA, perhaps Delaware. That's probably too hard a nut to crack. I think the cancer will metastasize.
So even if this thing can handle very low reflectivity in IR, are there other problems that you would need radar to solve anyway?
Nobody said you have to actually fix the errors, only allow them to be reported. (Which GitHub makes pretty effortless, as I understand it.) At least then someone might be able to volunteer to fix it for them, especially if it is a serious or common problem.
If you, as an innocent person, don't refuse to have your belongings inspected, you participate in making belonging-inspection-refusal into a great heuristic for determining guilt.

This is a form of "citizen duty".
Yes, but arguably more decentralised
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I hope the government at least partially reaches its goals.

There are obviously infinite possible approaches to the problem. This is how I'd solve it if I were the government:

Set up collecting points and pay a generous sum per gallon of poo.

The challenge would be to avoid fraud, but inspection combined with occasional random audits and penalties might work. Or issuing tokens for using the latrine.
Council tax is paid directly by the tenant, who is liable for it personally, and whose name appears on the demand.
but it will be harder to make the troll's arguments to the juries in places where productive companies actually supply jobs
What if a person uses it to buy something that will help them get more Bitcoin (i.e. investing in a business)? Doesn't seem economically irrational to me, so long as the return is greater than the increase in value that would be gained from just sitting on it.