skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more incipient problems. We've recently had an issue where some CCDs - readily available from China - work just as they're supposed to, but have some weird surface coating that causes interference effects. The up to date models, bought from a reputable distributor (e.g. Digikey et al) seem to work fine and look physically different.

It's not clear whether the ones you can buy on eBay or Aliexpress are simply older models (and the manufacturer then removed this coating), or are actually knock-offs. We have no way of really knowing.

It was a good lesson: most of the time it's just not worth it especially if you're not chasing pennies on your product margin.
I dunno. It seems pretty descriptive to me. It identifies the source of the fakes (China), the product being counterfeited (the venerable 555 Timer), and the price they're being sold at.

I found this on eBay - 100 pcs of thru-hole 555's for $3.29 (3.2 cents each) with the TI logo printed on them. They say brand new and unused - but that's just not possible at that price.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100PCS-NE555P-NE555-DIP-8-SINGLE-BIP...
There's https://github.com/wfhio/awesome-job-boards ... looks like it needs to be updated with some of these mentioned boards!
Of course Kannada evolved from ancient Tamil. If you know both the languages, you can easily find root words for most current day Kannada words in ancient Tamil sangam poetry (like ooru=>oor referring to town, kaaveri=>kaaviri, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages

Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam all have higher degrees of impact due to Sanskrit but they are all dravidian languages, derived from ancient Tamil.
> The point is that both sides are prone to spouting bullshit

I expect that you can provide examples of this. Until now, the ones spouting bullshit is the anti science one.
Who can clarify?
Google says: Qbvious - easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent.
> I worked from the executable provided by SIOU, first interactively under GDB (but it nearly drove me crazy, as I had to wait sometimes one hour to trigger the crash again), then using a little OCaml script that ran the program 1000 times and saved the core dumps produced at every crash.

rr can often be a time-saver in situations by providing deterministic replays up to the point of a crash, whereas coredump analysis is a single retrospective snapshot.

http://rr-project.org/
Yep. FTA

Take off for the Intelsat 35e mission is scheduled for 7:37PM ET on Monday from the launch pad at 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. There’s a 58-minute launch window, too, so the Falcon 9 can take off up until 8:35PM ET. Originally the launch was supposed to take place on Sunday around the same time, but the mission was aborted just nine seconds before takeoff, after the computer detected something “out of limits.”
I will be surely downvoted for this, but I would like to remind everyone how this bug is just one of the many consequences of Microsoft's evil policy of encouraging the sale and distribution of proprietary software in executable form.

There is no other reason why a 64bit multi-core CPU developed in 2015, that makes heavy use of pipelining and other advanced and complicated code execution strategies, would need to support instructions that address the second-to-last byte of a register (eg. %ah) while keeping the rest of the register 'unchanged', which of course means making a complete mess of the code execution path.

The only reason this crap still exists is to keep Windows users' ability to run random EXE and DLL files from the 90s, if not random COM files from the 80s, at the expense of CPU cost, stability, and correctness for everyone else (such as the OCaml developers and users who ran into this bug.)
Although it's pretty clear that the us has a problem that other countries don't, whenever I see asymmetric comparisons like these I get suspicious of sensationalism. Why not a Per capita , number of shootings year by year, and if you need a headline, "US has 10-100x more police shootings than the these countries"?
Google DeepMind NHS medical trial broke UK privacy law
[45%]~ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets/master/crypt/crypt |grep openssl -c
6

[45%]~ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets/master/crypt/crypt |grep gpg -c
0

D=
Generalization here isn't very useful. One-on-one meetings are often very useful, regardless of gender. But there are risks. One party may fear assault, and another may fear false accusation of assault. And even without intentional assault or intentional false accusation, there's enormous potential for miscommunication.

Self-awareness and prudence are the answer, I think. Don't meet one-on-one with someone until you know them well enough. Well enough to judge their intent. Well enough to get a sense of their communication style.
I think, outside of Hollywood. The Tech industry in general is one of the most ageist.
Disclaimer: A Tamilian but doesn't know to read or write it (lived in the northern states)

I didn't know that it came before Telugu or neither about the fact that Malayalam or Kannada is derived from it. So yeah, it was a new information for me.
At my first junior gig as a programmer ( I was still a student ), a co-worker learned me this :

"If you don't have the time to help others, you are not doing your job right".

Which he learned from a senior in his internship.
Low quality - clearly not driving hard enough and not buying enough beer!
I specialized on one narrow technology that's new and in high demand.
It might not, but the GCC code has a potential issue in how it does things https://stackoverflow.com/a/41574531 (curiously the question is about GCC not doing it, apparently not always)
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These are all architecture ideas I've been interested in, I'll have to check out the book.

Overall architecture in development is still early on in maturity.
As much as I love RR, I am not sure it would've helped here, as the bug requires multiple threads to concurrently run? Also, RR is based on achieving deterministic replay IIRC, so I am not sure it'd be the first choice for a nondeterministic hardware bug?
Being sweet-talked into raping the world for other peoples awesome profits comes easier when you're 20. The real problem is the messed up priorities of most companies these days; older coders are more likely to call bullshit and demand a fair share of the cake.
Net neutrality issues are the symptom, not the disease
"Tamil is the eldest" is not a propaganda but the truth. A truth that is actively buried by the central Government of India, by spreading propaganda that Sanskrit is the oldest language and by doing things like stopping funds for excavation projects like Keezhadi to hide the truth, etc. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/keezhadi-ex...
A* and bidirectional Dijkstra visualized using road network
How can large companies innovate?
Anyone knows a good job board for remote jobs in Germany? Thanks!
Apple has built an office for grown-ups
IIRC the Skylake loop buffer is not any faster than the uop cache, instead the reason for it's existence is to save power by not touching the cache. So you'd have to test power consumption instead?
yes i dislike as much wine as I like, I find beer a lot more reliable.
The article mentions their increasing focus on Azure.

I'm amazed by the number of people we're talking about. If you follow the links in the article back a few years, it appears Microsoft has laid off close to 30-40,000 people in the last 4 years, less than half of which were from Nokia. But with a global workforce in the range of 120,000 people, I guess that's not completely out of proportion.
South Africa only
Also: Be a mentor to somebody else. Nothing gets rid of impostor syndrome like, "Hey -- I can help you with that!"
You jest, but systemd (the project, not exactly the PID 1) already handles device recognition (udev) and after they rolled in a bootloader, NTP, and DNS, I wouldn't even be surprised anymore.
The issue really surfaces when you dissect "statistical training". I had a conversation with a colleague getting the a PhD and about to publish a paper. She was mentioning to me that she tried "a bunch" of different specifications and the one that was significant was [I forget what the variables were, but this is in the education field].

I pointed out to her that, since she tried a bunch of specifications and chose the one which yielded the "positive" result, wouldn't that fundamentally alter the interpretation of the p-value, and possibly invalidate her claim?

She looked at me like I was a moron, uneducated, and trying to be difficult.

I'm forever indebted to my econometrics professor who helped me build a tremendous mental model about how to think about these issues. But between the really poor training (most people I encounter in the field just run STATA/SPSS commands with limited/no understanding of what they do mathematically) and the terrible incentives facing researchers (you don't see many negative results published, do you), it's no surprise that when people come in and attempt to seriously replicate even foundational findings, they often come away disappointed (thinking about the Reproducibility project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility_Project)

I, too, don't have an answer to this. But I can only imagine that the way to prevent is to push the industry in the direction that truth-seeking, not novelty, is rewarded. I've mentioned this before here, but I know professors who established their entire careers on the backs of research which was later completely refuted -- even in cases where their actions where fradulent. And they are still teaching -- and successful.

As academics - like media and enveryone else -- are chasing our ever-dimming attention spans, I think this'll be a really tough nut to meaningfully crack
Thus the moral hazard. If geo-engineering were a major point in climate change discussions, some would feel a false sense of security. Ultimately, this could increase the odds of such drastic measures would be needed. The other thing is that we just can't know how much acidity it would take to cause an ecosystem collapse until it's too late.

That said, sulfate aerosols are one of the oldest proposed plans and our technology has advanced considerably since then. Perhaps some people working on or funding work on a better solution are on reading this thread.

I sure hope someone is quietly tackling it because the political efforts around CO2 emmissions agreements of the past 50 years are not working very well despite a great deal of activism.
2 reasons why you will OR won't be hired as an old programmer:

1- "programmer" is the entry level in a software/hardware company. Rising stars move up in the ranks over the years and take more responsibilities. Manager, sr. manager, director, VP, etc. still a programmer at 40?

2- If you're still programmer at 40, you might really like it! We're looking for programmers and need age/exp diversity in our group. You are rare my friend and valuable.
I've been meaning to give Wallabag a shot, and might actually have the wherewithall to do that now.

I'd used Readability, until it shut down (and still have nearly 800 articles now identified only by its rdd.it URL shortener, which is to say, utterly useless to me).

I've been using Pocket for the past two years or so. Unfortunately, the more I use it, the worse it gets.

The basic webpage simplifier aspect of it is fine. The problem is that an archive with more than 100 or so entries in it is effectively write-only. The abililty to search and utilise the store is all but nil.

I've over 6,000 articles saved, with the goal of supporting a research-oriented trove of previously-viewed, vetted, and categorised articles.

It takes several minutes to scroll through my set of tags. There is no text-based incremental search. Nor any other form of text-based search. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The one saving grace so far is the ability to export a list of URLs and tags, though working with that takes considerably more effort.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/688oc9/pocket_...
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Tessa Is a Big Pile of Sh_t
Not every scheme is a Ponzi scheme, you may want to read up on what that means.
In a word, the answer is still "cost". You can try to dance around it and talk about how " A single-payer program would inevitably incur additional taxes, but the overall health care costs would be lower for most people and businesses", but at the end of the day, it's going to cost a lot of money. This article claims it'd "only" cost about an additional $100b or so in CA; I think critics would be very skeptical of that, especially since costs are claimed to come from "reduced overhead" areas. I'm not sure that governments have a history of keeping costs low, so voters would likely be skeptical of that.

Ultimately I imagine it boils down to voters in a state with already very high taxes (by American standards) being very wary of voting to significantly increasing their taxes again.
I always advocate building up a walking skeleton of the system because only then does the architecture begin to emerge. I want to see how the data moves through the system to handle the core functionality; the actual goal of the system. I've sat in too long meetings where someone with their architect hat on spends hours going over this wonderful architecture for Core System Rewrite(tm) and not one time ever mentions the actual CORE functionality the system is trying to model. It's all gibberish about layers and entities and buses, etc. We're building a tire inflater, you have not one time mentioned how it actually inflates tires!
Writer's Alpha and Omega
Who have you agreed with?
Software has to be predictable and easy to maintain. It is great if you can predict what the class does based on its name. It is also great if you know what you have to search for based on the name of pattern.
Software is there not to express the creativity of a given programmer, but rather to meet the requirement of the technical tasks.
I think it's something like p(x) = smallest positive solution of z^5 + z - x. Compare sqrt(x) = smallest positive solution of z^2 - x.

But it's a _long_ time since I've done Galois theory and I can't find a decent math exchange answer for it right now, so don't treat this as gospel.
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That's a bit too clever.

The issue is whether a society that has mutated to a system funneling meaningful wealth gains to 0.01% of its members is on the path to long term health or on the certain path to some sort of catastrophic system failure with a generous dolling out of collatoral damage to the 99.99% that were on the receiving end of "value added" goods and services [only].
The sharpest laser in the world
Request / recommendation to the Wallabag team: please provide a video or slideshow (I'd actually prefer the latter, mostly) which shows an advanced-use workflow.

The wallabag.org video shows ... pretty much nothing of any value.

I checked YouTube and found several "how to install" vids, but nothing showing actual use.

As I've described in an earlier comment (and extensive posts at https://dredmorbius.reddit.org), for someone who's looking for a true archiving tool with research interests, and for whom porting an archive of several thousand (or more) references is not a trivial undertaking, lowering the ramp to understanding the value of this tool is crucial.

Thanks.
That's not being lazy. That's being proactive in improving your productivity. This is the opposite of lazy.
Did you miss the part about where the bug was found using the current versions of GCC to build the current versions of OCaml?

It's lazy to the point of dishonesty to act as if Microsoft is the only one with decades of accumulated code.
I went to https://www.similarweb.com/website/recalll.co (the site watermarked on their stats image) and it shows a different number, search doesn't work, both of which could be forgiven if you didn't claim to be one of the best...
Docker to Moby Fallout: Go Dependencies
Older programmers can do just fine in those algorithm tests, if they have been programming recently at their day jobs, and not PM/managerial work. Years of 8 hours of programming per day is actually good practice. They might have to brush up on Big O notation. :)
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The US is not alone in having a lot of illegal immigrants. It's hard to say to what extent the US is exceptional in their number (again, taking into account the size of the US).

However, even if this is an exception, the number of illegal immigrants is still too small to catch up to countries such as australia (under the unrealistic assumption that australia has 0 illegal immigration).
A company that's worth millions (instead of hundreds of millions or billions)
Hi, I am the creator of 4vid.co and I'll be glad to get your feedback and answer to all of your questions.
Echo that. Have moved more than once and all bureaucracies suck and cannot be dismantled overnight. A simple how to guide would make a big difference.
Wow, really, like single window immigration? Cool
True, but democracy isn't micromanaging teachers either.
Yes and you can be in a suburb of NYC and be in a different state!
UnicodeMath: a nearly plain-text encoding of mathematics, v3.1 (2016) [pdf]
It was a school assignment
I have the suspicion we have a very big survival bias.
We are all here to express our creativity, that's priority #1 and the only reason we ever went anywhere but in circles. I don't mind descriptive names; these names are not descriptive, these names are part of the process. This is how you really do it: 1) start from the problem you are trying to solve, 2) solve the actual problem in the easiest way possible to get experience, 3) improve the solution until it says exactly what you mean. Bottom up, not top down; skills and creativity, not rigid rules; that's how you build great software.
France needs to lower long term capital gains tax. If you work for 10 years at big risk, the payoff should be big.
Merged, thank you for your contribution
Have you looked at the actual GCC codebase? It's very easy to say something is obvious when you're looking at a problem which someone else has nicely isolated; it's much harder to dive into a complex codebase which has a very wide support matrix and say it's worth the effort to change working code instead of so many other things.

More bluntly, before now wouldn't most people have said it was “obvious” that Intel would support their own documented features?
Even Vermont; Green Mountain Care; ran away from the idea simply because they could not find the stomach to pay for it. It was supposed to start in 2017 when the ACA permitted such arrangements. to even get close to a palatable number they would force cuts in payments to doctors, hospitals, and more, by nearly twenty percent while doing nothing to reduce the operational costs of such providers.

Another nail in the coffin is that of the many proposals to shift tax deductions away from the rich is to remove the Federal deduction for State and local taxes. High tax states need this deduction to hide their spending. It reduces by a lot the amount of Federal taxes paid in those states to benefit local coffers. Without the deduction tax increases become a real threat by increasing the chance those with large taxable incomes move
The US _has_ no compulsory education. It expects all children to be educated to a certain (pretty low) standard, and provides a service for achieving that. You don't have to use the service. You can send your kids to a private school, or homeschool them.* What you can't get is bespoke clothing at ready to wear prices.

*(And if you want to homeschool your kids, more power to your elbow. Just don't do it like Felicia Day's parents.)
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People forgot at some point that design patterns are for solving problems. The key being that you should only be solving problems you actually have, and stop making up imaginary problems in your head before you even start coding.

My code is typically some dumb data objects, static functions to apply rules to that data, and a bunch of interfaces for abstracting external dependencies. The code that ties everything together lives at the entry points, and is hopefully written like one is reading a requirement.

To take the course registration example, the "register" entry point might look something like:

register(studentID, courseID):
// Load student from data store interface.
Student student = this.datastore.getStudent(studentID)

// Business rules for whether a student can still register for classes.
// This would check things like course overload and duplicate registrations.
if (!Students.canRegister(student, courseID)):
return CannotRegisterError

// Record registration.
this.datastore.addRegistration(studentID, courseID)

Advantages:

* Data objects are dumb. No need to even test them.

* Rules are all static functions, so you can call them anywhere, anytime, including for testing. Extremely flexible and allows easy remixing of rules for new requirements.

* All external dependencies live behind an interface, so they can all be mocked away for testing.
The "boffins" are over at the Microsoft research units, there's one in Cambridge and one in Edinburgh at least.
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Queries with emojis (has CS gone too far?)
I've done this. Leave the (open floor plan) office early and go to the library around the corner to get real work done.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686149
Then we shouldn't say "never".
I'm elbow deep in all parts of the recruitment process, and the take-home test and "bring some sample code in" are much superior to anything algorithm-y or whiteboard-y, so +1
Facebook comment “game” hype using Django
or the codebase from a previous position

That was a little startling. Other than open source companies, how many employers would be happy to know their code is being shown off to potential future employers?
There's really no reason for an SME to be running their own servers at this point. The folks selling SBS-type solutions need to re-engage their customers as Azure salespeople with an SME focus.
The confusion is between "the assembly clang generates is the obviously correct assembly for this operation" (true) and "the obviously correct behaviour for a compiler is to generate the assembly that clang does" (disputable, as while the assembly GCC generates is less clear, there may be advantages to doing it that way in e.g. performance). "Clang does the obvious, correct thing." is ambiguous between these two meanings.
They have a base, a collector and an emitter. The low current from the base makes the atoms between the collector and the emitter to allow the electric current to pass. However it may be easier and more safe to use optocoupler if using low amperage and a relay for high amperage.
They're not very chivalrous to be sure. I managed to break out of their sandbox and sent them a proof with a repro. A year later the glaring hole is still there, and my account was banned.
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Ask HN: Is 311 Karma Points good?
Really. I don't know. I like the content and occasionally comment. Have not tried to increase it. Should I? How? Why?