skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That cuts both ways. Signing it would have made a lot of people feel good without actually doing anything.

All the accords and agreements in the world will do nothing to help get us out of this mess. There is only one thing that will save us: technology. Clean energy sources, clean storage, more efficient use, etc. And it has to have a lower price across the board than what we already have, in order to ensure adoption. It also has to work just as well or better than what we already have, or no one will use it.

Nothing else will help, because no matter what pieces of paper are signed, people will not give up their lifestyles and they will not pay more for what they perceive as the same thing. They will continue to drive cars, fly, eat meat, and so on. And those around the world who are not already living that kind of lifestyle are working as hard as they possibly can to get there. The only thing that will be palatable is to give people things that they perceive as being just as good (or better), with the same or lower price tag. Nothing else will work.

Need an example? Just look at CFCs. Did the world stop using them because everyone cared about ozone? That's what everyone said at the time, but in reality the change only happened because there was an alternative that didn't come with a higher price tag and didn't have any significant disadvantages. We got lucky. If the alternative had cost even a tiny fraction of a penny more per unit, or not worked every bit as well as CFCs, industries across the world would have spent untold sums of money lobbying against it, calling ozone depletion a myth, and so on, just like we are seeing today with climate change.

If you truly care about climate change, you'll stop worrying about political agreements and start working on clean technology. Nothing else will work.
Google cache:
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> I'm not willing to pay 35 bucks to read the IEEE article however.

Me neither: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.sci-hub.cc/document/6444314/
A great source, but was creating a subset of Javascript really necessary?
Not independently wealthy / well off enough and not a 1 in million over-achiever who's able to overcome that.
I really doubt it. Sure one learns details, but all the evidence points to there being no game-changing secrets that the hoi polloi are not privy to. That said, perhaps when you become president people close to you try to see to it that gaps in your knowledge are filled, and Trump may have had especially many.
Thank you for the fascinating insight into socio-sexual dynamics in business, and highlighting some of the symmetries of the issue.

The most interesting part to me is how you forbade the investor from investing in your company (not that he cared). You were both participating in a sort of zero-sum game[1] - you tempt him with your sexuality and hope he invests, he tempts you with investment and hopes you sleep with him. In either case, the first one to break "loses" the game (as you pointed out, in your earlier headhunting career, nobody got to sleep with you and you were very successful). It's "winner-takes-all".

I would like to unpack why this "winner-takes-all" system, objectionable though it may be, is still vastly preferable to a more straightforward exchange of sex for resources. In your story, given that you had already resolved to sleep with him, what would have been the terrible consequences if he had, subsequently, decided to invest?

(Forgive me if this question comes across as callous - I can well appreciate some of the reasons why this might be. But I'm interested in your perspective and don't want to lead the witness.)

[1] Obviously not completely zero-sum - if he invests you hopefully both make money, and if you have sex you hopefully both have fun. But you get the idea.
It isn't at all clear from the article (or from the source article either) whether it is talking about UC Berkeley (aka Cal) or the UC system. The source is British and might not see the difference. Cal is a fair comparison with Stanford, MIT, .... The UC system wouldn't be.
Lispworks has a free "Personal Edition". It's good enough to get through something like Practical Common Lisp and get a feeling for writing lisp, however since it uses an old version of ASDF, it's a bit difficult to use the "modern" quicklisp ecosystem.
A Better Spaced Repetition Learning Algorithm: SM2+
Ability to automate creation of news = ability to automate creation of propaganda = ability to automate censorship of news.
so why are you blaming the US specifically and not any of the disparate partisan groups that directly built ISIS? the islamist militants from MENA, the saudis funding wahhabist madrassas abroad, the gulf monarchies giving arms and funding, the former iraqi ba'athists that make up its officer corps... and instead you choose an entity directly fighting ISIS? why is that? almost as if you have ideological blinders on...
A world without work might be totally awesome, but getting there might be hard
So does Frege [0]. (Your Haskell dialect that runs on JVM) But you know what compared to something like SBCL or Clojure they are just not that popular. They do deserve more attention though.

[0] https://github.com/Frege/frege
ISIL (or something like it; the name/identity couldn't be predicted) as a substantial force with territory, was a foreseeable consequences of the US invasion of Iraq, the inadequate allotment of troops for occupation compared to pre-invasion expert-identified requirements, and bungling of details of the occupation like de-Baathification, particularly the wholesale and disorderly dismissal of security services.

The US (and specific US policy makers) are directly responsible for that.
Weird, that doesn't happen for me.

http://imgur.com/a/2auu0
But the cleaning lady doesn't take nearly as much time vacuuming as a roomba I just don't think it's a comparable service at any level or that it can replace a cleaning service - it can supplement it by vacuuming more often.
sending them back to China, India and elsewhere

I doubt they're going back to China or India. Far more likely is that they're coming to Canada or going to Australia or Europe.

We have tons and tons of Chinese people coming to Canada to go to school. It's not a stretch to see them setting up shop here after they graduate. Wealthy Chinese families recognize how safe they are in the West. They don't mind paying high taxes to get away from the CCP.
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
Sorry, but I don't think it helps to just blame everything on Trump and his supporters. You could just as easily turn it around and ask why nobody's done a good job explaining and convincing them that these things are important. Your post seems to imply that a big group of people are just too dumb to know what's best for themselves, and that doesn't help anything.

In any case, it's not a problem that just popped up overnight when Trump was elected.
My understanding is that Andy Grove was a big fan which probably played a big role.
> Giving such text a human name as the author is indefensible.

Why is it indefensible in your opinion? I think it is only fair that if I have a job of writing some output based on some inputs, and I define a process to do that that can be automated, the end product is still my labor, and I can sign it.
Many, but I'd like to add Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to the list of names we're considering.
To me, the idea of functional languages seems a bit of the wrong abstraction and functional programming style is a better one. Sure some languages make it easier or harder to program in an imperative or functional (or object oriented) style...I mean it is easier to program in an object oriented programming style using Smalltalk versus Common Lisp (even though CLOS is robust) and much easier to program in an imperative style in C than Haskell due to the way Haskell treats non-idempotentcy.

In 2017 the status of Lisp is about the same as it has always been only more accessible than ever given faster networks over which to download tools and to find documentation...e.g. the Racket ecosystem. And a person who starts exploring one of the Lisps today will learn as much or perhaps more (due to generally better access to diverse information about programming) than at points in the past.

My opinion reflects my bias, but in general I think Lisps are more accessible than Haskell because there has been more time to smooth over the rough edges related to the more significant underlying mathematical/theoretical concepts (lambda calculus versus type theory) and perhaps because lambda calculus is a bit more easily understood than type theory (or perhaps not). There's also a much stronger pedagogical tradition of Lisps as teaching languages (forty years or so) at the undergraduate level than with Haskell.

But in the end, why not both?
But this will solve the problem only for the languages which are similar to English, because they share the same grammatical structure differing mainly only in the keywords. This is trivial to fix with approach you mentioned, But for the rest of the family of languages this require more change, (Sometimes change in the whole programming model)

For example in Kannada language (or any other Dravidian language) sentence formation itself is different. In English you can read 'if' statement as a proper sentence ("If a equals to Zero") but in Kannada conjunction appear at the end, 'if' sentence is more like "a equals to zero 'then'", so these kind of changes requires non-trivial changes to programming languages. As an example I was trying to 'alias' basic functions (if, for, define... etc) to Kannada languages in Lisp (because its easy in lisp!), but these kind changes breaks "S-Expression" format due to change of the position of the function in the list.

And typing in these languages in typical US-en keyboard is whole new problem in itself!

But I believe that some problems can be expressed better in languages with different structure or at least better to its native speaker.
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>https://www.google.com/searchq=the+golden+book+of+fun+and+no...

Sorry, typo in that URL. There should be a "?" between the "search" and the "q":

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+golden+book+of+fun+and+n...
"This book is five dollars" vs.

"The price of this book is five dollars" vs.

"This is five dollars" (meaning "this book's price is") vs.

"This is five dollars" (meaning "five dollars are sitting here on the table.")

I know what you're saying, there is ambiguity, but these make sense to people based on context.
First thing that came to mind here too. Wikipedia has some fascinating reading about the GE and AEG networks in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan
> I find it very interesting, the constant A/B tests that Trump is keen on.

I think he's not doing A/B testing, he's just random…
I was talking with a colleague the other day about "strategies for how to focus for 4 straight hours".

The one that works best for me is for the deadline to be 4 hours and 15 minutes away.
I'm not a C++ developer by trade (mostly C#) but this looked compelling when I was looking to create high performance Windows app middleware: https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt
Berkeley couple’s mysterious deaths raise public health fears
Funny. But, here's a real answer:

Too many people do not like Hillary, and they stayed home instead of voting for her. That's the bottom line. Right or wrong, fair or unfair, she is not well liked enough to get elected.

The thing is, that was never a secret. It was obvious even before she got her ass kicked in the 2008 primaries. It was even more obvious afterwards.

So why did she run last year? For her own selfish reasons, that's why. She should have known she would lose. If she actually cared about things as much as she claims to, she would have stepped aside and let someone else, run instead. Then we wouldn't be where we are today. But because she couldn't put aside her own wants and do what was best for the nation, here we are.

(Even her campaign slogan spelled it out: "I'm with her". Clearly, it was all about her, and not about the country.)
The easiest way to take care of this problem is to continue to live like you're in undergrad but take a well-paying job in finance or tech afterwards, work for 4-5 years, pay off your loans, and bank a lot of money. If you're earning $160K/year but living on $20K/year, debt goes down really fast.

You start later than someone who went to Stanford and comes from a wealthy, well-connected family. You're not going to be Mark Zuckerburg or Evan Spiegel and found a billion-dollar company at 22. But realistically, you're looking at late-20s, which is about when your Ph.D and M.D. friends are starting their careers and still gives you plenty of good productive years ahead of you. And the time you spend in industry is invaluable for learning how the world really works, which problems are really important, and all the other stuff they don't teach you in college.
"Apex will need a small amount of natural gas to heat the air it compresses to maximize turbine output."

As far as I understand they need to heat up the turbine as air (a gas) cools down upon (adiabatic) expansion.

And while accumulating / compressing air in ground lacunae, pumping it into the storage, we are just heating up the ground.

Am I right in my understanding of the process thermodynamic ?
Ok let's try :)
Did I ever claim on 48TB on AWS ?
You are seriously claiming DynamoDB will be holding full 20TB in RAM if yes I have a bridge to sell you :).
The price for i3.16xlarge was quoted for 2 instances the IOPS used for calculation is 1/8th of actual max IOPS that instance can do.
Blockchains from the ground up: Part 2
Would you say contracting on the side is taking on too much? I think I could handle it.

I like having the stability, so easing into contracting might be a viable option for me.
Cryptocurrency Investment Guide for Starters
[2016], and not really this weekend, just fyi.
IIT grads get funded to study using taxpayers money in India and they migrate to the US. There is no use for the country funding them with high quality education. We should stop funding IITs with tax payers money which is of no benefit to the people or the country. India's brain drain.
Which commonwealth country executes prisoners? The US is not a commonwealth country.
Yup. This is how you write when you want to be read emotionally: evocative and clean. This is something to take notes from, not complain about how unbloggably purple the prose here is (especially when it isn't).
no offense, but jvns is kind of known for her drawings & doodles that explain key concepts of a larger, confusing subject. They are awesome, to the point & great for digesting information we need to know, quickly.
It looks like a bunch of their team was part of the Storj team previously - maybe a fork of Storj's core to be compatible with Onion vs Blockchain?

It looks like their website is also based on the same theme.

From a commented out paragraph:
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ORC is a non-profit free software project sponsored by <a href="https://counterpoint.info">Counterpoint Hackerspace</a>. It's team is composed of previous authors and contributors to <a href="https://bitcore.io">Bitcore</a>, <a href="https://storj.io">Storj</a>, <a href="https://ipfs.io">IPFS</a>, <a href="https://ethereum.org">Ethereum</a>, and <a href="https://z.cash">Zcash</a>. We are strong proponents of anonymity, decentralization, and community and we are building ORC to bring those qualities to the cloud. We are passionate about the work we've done but we <a href="https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/orc-distributed-anony... help</a> to continue hacking the planet!
</p>-->
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Seems I misremembered the "deadly" part. But still quite serious, says http://www.scopemaking.net/mirror/mirror.htm
you see all those weird straight lines when you look at the political boundaries on a map of the middle east? those are lines drawn by former colonial masters. they look inorganic because they aren't natural.

this alone is a seed of conflict: unnatural borders that don't reflect a social reality. throw in prized resources to compete over, and it's incredibly fertile ground for violence.

now, look where else you can see these national border geometries for a glimpse into the future...
I'd guess that about a third to half of the "financial news" articles I see on finance.google.com are generated from some sort of template, with a script filling in the details. I'd love to see Google identify and remove these sites from their search results (and any sites that link to them), but I think they either don't think it's a high priority or they don't know how to solve the problem.

What will be creepy is if the auto-generated story algorithms get good enough that you can't tell what's written by a human and what isn't, there will no longer a human filter between what some powerful institution wants a news article to say and what makes it into print. Most journalists have a sense of journalistic ethics or at least a reputation to defend; an algorithm has neither of those.
There definitely isn't any overarching design. You see the same thing all throughout Linux's interfaces (containers are another great example). If you contrast this with the Solaris or BSD interfaces you notice that Linux has always been odd in this respect (DTrace, Jails/Zones, ZFS, pf, kqueue/eventports and so on).

Depending on your view you can view this as a positive or a negative. One view is to say that Linux is more collaborative, and only the "common core" interfaces are actually put into the kernel (with the higher levels being provided in userspace by vendors). A good example of this is the live patching code that came from a distilling of Red Hat's ksplice and SUSE's kgraft systems. You can track done most of Linux's features to this sort of development model.

illumos and BSD however, usually work far more like traditional software products. Some engineer goes off and implements a really interesting system that then gets put into a release. That's how ZFS, Jails, DTrace and so on were developed (in Sun) and I'm sure you can come up with other examples from BSD. The key point here is that this is a far more authoritarian model -- one set of engineers have decided on a system and developed it mostly in isolation. Linux doesn't permit that style of development because large patchsets need to be broken down over releases.

Personally I must say that I don't care for the Linux style of things, mainly because I feel it hampers OS innovation in some ways. But the upside is that the facilities are more like libraries than frameworks and so you're forced to design your abstractions in userspace. Is that good? I don't know.

Note that following along with the above theme, there is an overarching architecture for Linux's tracing tools (in userspace) in the form of bcc[1].

[1]: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
I think the more fundamental connection is that when goods are perfect subsitutes for each other, under perfect information you always choose the "cheaper" good (where "cheap" is defined by whatever metric you're using).

Somewhat ironically, this fact actually has connections to the concept of dual variables in constrained optimization problems, the theory of which was largely developed in the Soviet Union for use in central planning.
A have a couple friends who work dawn until dusk for their startup. After several months they struggled with depression and managing their work life. After a little over a year they've adjusted and it's just routine.
They are. I avoided introducing an explanation of Curry-Howard isomorphism because I think that would not be very intuitive to many people because the most commonly used type systems have very little power to express logical properties about the program.

I may write another article about this.
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Yet he was elected by people for these petty promises
I have a ~10 year old GE microwave. After using a portable power generator which probably does not have a very accurate frequency, this winter when the grid was out, it seemed to switch itself over to 50Hz, and stayed that way after electricity from the grid was restored.

It was very confusing as the clock consistently ran too fast, and the timer ended before food got as hot as it previously had. I was surprised that something like that would be built into the microwave, and that it would be able to guess something like that. Eventually I unplugged it for a couple hours, and it went back to normal when I plugged it back in.
That would definitely work if you can find it, but it is pretty impossible to find a $160K/year coming out of the local state school. At least where I'm from....
During WW2, the government wanted to increase production, so did some studies. They found that a 60 hr week boosted production for a couple weeks, but then it fell below what was produced by a 40 hr week.

The solution to a sustained increase in output was to do 60 hr weeks in bursts, not continuously.
You need to rethink.

Many doctors will tell you how useful some colouring-in books were to them.

Here's one example, but there are others: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Brain-Coloring-Book-Concepts/...

Richard Feynman said that if you wanted to quickly learn a subject you'd start with the books for children to get a quick overview.
For me, neither was worth reading and since the machine generated version was shorter it was less not worth reading than the longer one...but the longer one contained the logical possibility of being worth reading whereas the machine written one was as good as it could possibly be.

Or to put it another way, while it was not worth the human effort to write the story, it wasn't worth the CPU cycles to write the machine generated version either. The story was not worth writing or publishing or reading at all because nobody cares including the author (which is why a machine can write it).
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You're saying a vaporware blockchain with unproven claims has a more solid value proposition than Ethereum because its founder created two cryptocurrencies that combined have a market capitalization that equals 4% of Ethereum's.

>Ethereum had one: "a cryptocurrency with a programming language beyond opcodes"

It didn't have one until it had working code.
The secret according to my business professor who was an electrical engineer, a sniper in the military, and started a multimillion dollar PE firm, and sleeps <6 hours every night: eat more.
There are some great suggestions already, however, it sounds like many comments are focusing on their experiences as a tech manager and not the interview preparation, which was your question.

I interview a lot of technical managers, and beyond technical chops, I focus mostly on communication skills, charisma, and personality.

I tend to ask a lot of behavioral/situational questions to understand how the candidate would handle different situations and how his personality lines up with the team. We are usually hoping for a thoughtful and genuine answer.

Additionally, I often schedule lunch with the candidate and the key players on the team, without the participation of the recruiting team, so they can speak freely.

You can prepare for some of the situational questions but keep in mind that it is totally ok to say "I don't know" or "I have not thought of that".

Best of luck!
If you do not have one, get yourself an RTL-SDR today. This is a cheap ($10) way into radio and you will be impressed with what you can do.

From radio scanning to public safety radio to airplane tracking all with free software!
I don't believe all ICOs are illegal

ICO tokens are digital commodities/assets that are more similar to app credits or in-app mobile purchases than securities.

Unlike with Ethereum apps/dapps, you can't trade traditional app credits/in-app purchases on an exchange but imagine if there were farmville ERC-20 tokens a few years backs, people will buy thousands off speculation alone, it'll be interesting to see how the SEC will regulate this