skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're trying to assess the training instead of the trainee, which is what the article was touching on, I wouldn't be so sure. You've got to take the long game into account.

If we keep with the lifting analogy, I know a lot of guys who could lift some serious weights in high school--but with terrible form. Ten years later they're all messed up with joint and muscle problems due to bad training. They've dropped out of the fitness lifestyle, and aren't about to recommend their HS football coach for anything.

But then you look at guys like Arnold or Scooby who've maintained a high level of fitness throughout their lives without a debilitating injury, people tend to take them more seriously. Of course, then we're talking more about integrals--which would be even harder to fudge than deltas.

I think the worst part of the whole sorry situation is that our modern economy is becoming so detached from reality that the credential has more value than actual performance. I've seen so many nutritionists who are fat and tired and will probably not live that long, but they bought a certification from state U, so now they have a job and people listen to them. Or hairdressers! So many can't even give a decent haircut or keep their tools clean, but they got their state cert, so they can go out and charge for haircuts while mom can't. Or even people with 4.0 GPAs and a masters in CS. I can't tell you how many of those I've had to let go because a high schooler ran circles around them.

Computing is one of the few fields, like music or acting, where you can still just go out there, perform, and get paid for it. I wonder how long that will remain the case...
You seem to be misunderstanding my point. I'm definitely all for passive listeners. But I am very much against putting more workarounds for shitty developers directly into the browser.
> by prioritising children expressing their individuality

It doesn't happen. You're wrong. You're being very firm with your assertions, but they're based on something that doesn't happen.

Have a look at common core standards for English. Most of them have nothing to do with "expressing their individuality", but about introducing a topic, making an argument, and supporting it with evidence.
Chrome gives nice warnings when passive listeners are not used[1]. This is demonstrably[2] causing people who have not used passive listeners / may have written poor code in the past in the past to take note and use them. It works.

1. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2016/10/avo...

2. https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=non-passive+event...
And these are all points that apologists don't seem to understand. Why we can't just have rational discourse, debate about these issues, come to a middle ground. You know middle ground and compromise means in issues like gender and race inequality? That at the end of the day, the minority is still treated as less than. Hey there's been some progress, isn't that good enough? No, of course not.

We've been discussing these issues for generations. At some point the discussion has been had. No one is saying anything new. But every new group of people believe they have something worthwhile to say about it and until they get to regurgitate their own brand of ignorance they'll whine and cry about how they're being oppressed for not being able to maintain the status quo.
It should not be possible to spoof caller ID. This hole is what allows all of this. Nobody would do this if you could reliably report them or call them back.
I had the same experience using SVG to render music notation. We hit a performance issue - high CPU usage, skips/stutters - with several hundred to a thousand nodes, some animated. Switching to canvas increased that limit, in that we were able to keep smooth rendering with larger documents.
I don’t know how they got my number. AT&T said I should have a verbal passcode one the account AFTER the damage was done. That would have been helpful for them to mention when I set up the account. Or you could buy a prepaid burner and use that.
It looks like they require a 4-year bachelor's degree. This seems to exclude european-educated students, as bachelor's are usually only 3-year degrees here. Has anyone had any experience with this?
I know, right? Now mapping it to the sequences coming from the numbers stations? Totally different story!
Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet–But Is That a Good &#$ing Idea?
Ugh, sorry to be that guy but I can't remember the trick to get past the paywall and the web link doesn't seem to be working. Can someone remind me how to access the article?
Here's the cost breakdown per course and semester: https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/cost-payment-sched...
A Brave New World of Student Computer Controls and Surveillance
> How would I even find the right entity to sue. All I have is a spoofed number.

You probably never will, not without stringing them along and getting them to slip up and mention some identifiable information about themselves.

There's a pretty good Reply All episode about this: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/long-distance/
And by "encouraged" you mean "highly incentivized by economical reasons" instead of "encouraged to like working in tech"?
83 percent of Bay Area renters plan to leave, says survey
Analysis/Comparison of Different Twitter Channels using R https://github.com/amrrs/TwitterAnalysis-in-R

Highlighted some insights based on the way Tweets were made. Got an offer from one of those brands' Data Science team and finally found out that my Analysis became benchmark in the company for Social Media Analytics of Twitter.

Edit: Though the job wasn't my first one!
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I agree. My point is that the assumed user problem is running x86 applications on an Rpi and the suggestion of qemu comes with a big learning curve for most people [consider that the default OS for an Rpi is NOOBS].

In this context it doesn't really matter how good virt-manager is because it does not directly solve the problem. Instead it is just a for of the rabbit hole of Linux systems administration...I mean suddenly KVM got thrown into the discussion. That's great for someone whose goals include learning the difference between KVM and qemu. It's not great for someone who wants to run Winzip in NOOBS and doesn't really understand why it should be a technical issue.

Don't get me wrong. I am fan of free software and think Stallman is right and has changed the world for the better. But I'm ok with people paying money to solve their problems and $50 is cheaper than hiring a consultant to setup qemu or virt-manager and configure it to solve the original problem. It's also cheaper than the time it takes to discover virt-manager and decide that it is trust worthy and understand what it does and why it solves the problem and get it installed and configured.

I mean the typical event sequence is hear about qemu. Try to figure it out. Maybe install it. Struggle to get it to work. Read some more blogs that are written by people who already know qemu. Maybe see something about virt-manager after a few days. Install it. Struggle to get it to work. Read some blogs by people who already know virt-manager. Hear about KVM, think maybe that's the solution. Etc.

The difficult part of Linux is that in the end the answers lie in man pages and info files and the ability to read and parse those has a long and often steep learning curve. Spending all one's workdays in a community of people working up the same learning curve makes it easier. For the person who is often the most technical person in the room simply because they can run command.com and type dir, qemu and virt-manager are not NOOBS friendly.
Interesting.
I wonder what (if anything) the 13F means for a company like RenTech. Who knows how long they hold positions for (minute or less, or days and beyond), perhaps this could have just been a snapshot of an instant, or no?
I ask this, since humans apparently do not trade there, they are not like a more traditional fund like Appaloosa, where humans decide when to get in/out of a position.
Isn't this an even further argument for cloud computing? If cost savings all come from having more cores at the same price, but end user devices can't put all those cores to work, having more of the compute intensive work happen on the back end amortized over many end users seems like the only way to benefit from improvements in cores per chip.
Benchmark: We should have sued Kalanick sooner
> To be clear, I don't agree with what nazi's say, but like voltaire I support their right to be able to say it.

Here, read this: https://qz.com/1053957/charlottesville-neo-nazis-and-the-cas...

I do not support the Nazi's right to say what they want. Nazism resulted in the murder of 30 million people. It engulfed much of the Western world in a war that ravaged nations and killed millions. It calls for ethnic cleansing and racial oppression. It is literally the opposite of the liberal democracy the United States is based on. It runs counter to the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and it does not promote freedom, equality, and justice for all. Much of the same can be lodged against the people who support the Confederacy.

I'm for dissent and speaking out. I do think, however, there is speech, which while is not libel and slander, crosses a line that should not be tolerated in a free and just society. Slippery slopes, intolerance, etc. A good litmus test is to ask if your speech calls for the killing or enslavement of those who are different than you. Considering we waged 2 wars over Nazism and the Confederacy, I'd say those ideas fall into that category.
Apple, the company that can't even draw a gun (emoji), is going to compete in Hollywood? Anyways here's to hoping we end up with at least a few good shows out of all this competition.
> Nobody has the right to be offended by facts.
What are the "facts"?

He doesn't back up his claim with any data at all. Where is his supporting data that Google's hiring practices in regards to minorities hurts Google? He's just making a baseless claim that doesn't logically follow from any of the evidence he provides before it.
Indeed, most of our users run on-premise / air-gapped. I recommend trying our cloud API to make sure it's in the right ballpark, and then we can get you setup!
To a certain extent.

Truth be told, anytime I read that someone is a marathon runner I associate that with a red flag just as much as I do obesity.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ischemic-colit...

Ischemic Colitis. Also called Runner's Colitis. Basically endurance running can cause the colon to become inflamed to the point of bloody stools, among other symptoms. If there's blood in your stool your colon is clearly in a great deal of distress and you should probably put a halt to whatever's causing it. Indeed, given the known factors that increase colon cancer, you can boil all of them down to one root cause: inflammation.

Oh, I'm not giving our modern diet or lack of exercise a pass mind you. I mostly eat plants nowadays because the research is pretty clear that eating meat all the time elevates your risk and I avoid sugars save for a twice-a-week pastry because sugar is probably even worse. That being said, I'm troubled by the fact that in modern society millions of people feel compelled to take up a sporting event inspired by the heroic feats of an ancient Greek messenger who promptly collapsed and died after running what would become known as the very first marathon. Perhaps it helps them feel better than average, perhaps it's a way to overcompensate for how unhealthy our lives are. In the latter case we're probably only making things worse.
Mesh algorithm for setting up indoor locations
Maybe you're getting some bad Driscoll's. I've been impressed with the improvement in both looks and taste over the past few years. They also sometimes offer giant, beautiful strawberries which one would expect would sacrifice taste for looks - but they don't.

I agree that tomatoes are terrible.
Don't just talk to your users. Befriend them.
Unfortunately, that seems to be one of the bigger hazards for SVG.

It really is an amazing graphical tool. David Dailey has been posting some amazing stuff on Ello: https://ello.co/ddailey

(Which also uses SVG for most of its icons and buttons.)

But ... the potential for advertising/marketing abuse (or just sheer bad design / misuse) is so high. Unless there's a way to quash it....

Sigh. This is why we can't have nice things.
The converse is that in Europe the caller pays (or used to pay?) more based on whether they're calling a cell phone or a landline. Why should I care what kind of phone the person on the other end has? That seems like their burden, not mine.

This whole line of argument is about ten years stale, anyway.
just want to say thanks to all involved in this interview. This is exactly the kind of discussion that imho can change minds and move this issue forward. I have so much respect for these women.
Johnny-come-lately but with a big bank roll... Might work this time but I have doubts old Sony execs can pull off anything on par with GoT or HoC. We'll likely just get more warmed-over remakes of successful old TV shows from the 80's and 90's.
Well, I started before repos were a thing and even before source revision control was invented. I pestered a professor with questions about the assembly language that I got the CDC 3500 fortran compiler to cough up. Annoyed, he pawned me off to a professor who ultimately became my advisor and gave me my first job the summer after my freshman year. That job involved writing an input module for a program that he wrote that was finding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors in a 500x500 matrix on a computer with 35k of memory. With no disk.
Same with apples, at least around here. The correlation is usually "small, ugly, wrinkly → tasty and cheaper". Plus almost always produced nearer.

I frankly don't know why anyone buys the shiny ones more than once.
Not really - since GPUs have started to hit the same "Process" size as CPUs - and haven't been showing a lot of growth in that area. The best improvement per Wikipedia's chart is a small foray into 14 and 12nm, and those haven't doubled the transistor counts (per square mm).

What we are seeing is an increase in die sizes; more parallel cores. Parallel cores still require parallel algorithms, so I stand by my earlier statement.
That works well if your coil component is small and is just acting as a microwave RF component or something, but in my case I had a pretty complicated coil design (although simple conceptually) that spanned the entire PCB and interwove with other coils and wasn't arranged in a simple rectilinear manner. My original plan was to design the whole thing in Solidworks, which I did (and it was pretty easy to do), but there was simply no easy way to convert that into an actual PCB for manufacture (there is a Circuitworks module, but it's designed only for importing circuits to design around in Solidworks, not the other direction). Sitting there and manually making arcs and such in the PCB design software was just a non-starter. There are no parametric modeling features to speak of, and it's actually way easier to do what I did.

I think I used OpenSCAD to export to SVG.
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Isn't the point of contextual behavior to consider things like that? So it would act differently in comments.
Huh, I did't know there was lineage there. Coincidentally, I've actually used Beanshell; integrating it in to a project was a SUPER pleasant experience.

It was some weird find/replace thing I contrived in college to let you do weird crap like define a bunch named regexes and use them to match and transform stuff. Contrived example that chops the "L" off long literals in files with the (optional) beanshell integration:

integer {
-?[0-9]+
}

really_bad_long_chopper {
<integer>L
} -> {
String original = match.group(0);
return original.substring(0, original.length() -1);
}
Xmake v2.1.6 released, a make-like build utility based on Lua
I cannot see AMP remaining viable in the long run. I think there is going to be a lot of push back or non adoption because the walled garden is just a way to track users and advertise to them better.
iPhone 7 Remained World's Most Popular Smartphone Model in June Quarter
What about when you're in shell?
Link to a couple good sources in this recent HN comment branch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14929835

Sounds like Nintendo Power had a dedicated machine in Japan while some other magazines were stuck photographing CRT monitors.

If a IIfx was involved, that wasn't until many years down the road (given the release date of the NES and the IIfx).
In what order?

Have you ever looked at a text dump of a PDF?

Assuming it's a text-PDF in the first place, there's no guarantee that it's in any sensible order.

Of course, most Web writing is pastiche anyway.
Nobody ever looks at my repos :(.

Software hiring is stupidly broken. Google has done much research on hiring and a code sample+cognitive ability are the two most important predictors of job performance.

Tell that to anyone that hired me ever.... The first time you'll even talk to another dev is your on-site.

When I was in charge of hiring once we made a huge deal of user repos and probably spent more time looking at them than resumes. Got some damn good engineers from that. But almost nobody does it that way
Full disclosure: I work for First Orion (the company powering the analytics behind T-Mobile's "Scam-Likely" technology)

We have a couple of apps out in the wild that aren't mentioned in the article here (seems like our media relations staff isn't working too hard)!

They're on Google Play and iTunes under the banner "PrivacyStar," and I think they are worth checking out if the permissions / data accessed by other apps (e.g. Hiya) has turned you off in the past. For starters, our apps don't lift your contacts and don't strictly require your personal phone number (the majority of our apps still use your number, but we are moving away from including this data in our analytics). We collect analytic data from devices, but in general it's the minimum amount required to power our nuisance-call prevention systems. (I'm not aware of it being sold or farmed out in any way.)

Anyway, there's my elevator pitch. Just doing my part to get our name out there, we're a small tech company in AR and it's hard to get any attention down here! :)
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At least here, that is false for Driscolls. Both our local grocery chains have store employees stock them, and I've seen them do it.

You're right about PepsiCo/Frito-Lay and other similar brands stocking shelves themselves, due to product quality and freshness being core parts of their branding.
> I haven't read the works of Ayn Rand, but this quote makes her sound like a cult leader.

Ayn Rand was very much like a cult leader if you read all about her and her followers, known as "The Collective".

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/09/possessed-3

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0085E7E3E
"Deep learning provides a way to approximate any computable function as the composition of matrix operations with non-linearities."

Thanks, and I wish this sentence was one of the first things I read when I was trying to figure out exactly what Deep Learning really meant. It's much more comprehensible than the semi-magical descriptions that seem far more prevalent in introductory articles.

It's also fascinating that a seemingly simple computing paradigm is so powerful, kind of like a new Turing Machine paradigm.
If you have 10 rich people with a 50% shot of making it : 99,990 people with a 0.005% shot of making it then the number of people with both backgrounds who made it is reasonably balanced. But, in no way is this a meritocracy.
I'm not sure you'd understand. The first time you realize your mortality, it can really throw perspective at you. Much more of a slap in the face than whatever hottest trending framework happens to be on Front Page HN.
It wasn't my first FT dev job, but it helped A LOT for me to get in the past 2 jobs I've had. The combo of creativity and applied (?) optimization algorithm was very appealing to the people that interviewed me. It helped that it generated pretty pictures. https://github.com/clayheaton/blomster
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Not so fast, if you're under 55 years old and drink more than 4 cups a day then this study found that it is pretty bad for you.

>A study of more than 40,000 individuals found a statistically significant 21% increased mortality in those drinking more than 28 cups of coffee a week and death from all causes, with a greater than 50% increased mortality risk in both men and women younger than 55 years of age.

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-much-coffee-is-healthy-...
Woah, where in Maine? I never see anyone from Maine on HN, since we're basically the furthest state from the silicon valley as you can get.
You are actually trying to stifle debate on a topic you think is so self evident that it does not need any... and you are doing it by debating.
Non-closable popup.
Stack Overflow's "most dreaded X" in the developer survey is a good place to look. I work on Salesforce.com, the #2 most dreaded platform after Sharepoint.

Getting a job in that sector was as simple as having some general development experience and being moderately familiar with the platform.
So my editor starts applying different keyboard shortcuts as I scroll through the same file?

Yeah, I want distinctly none of that.
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Are you saying that the password field returned a password hash of the correct password when you mistyped it?

That's extremely bizarre.
I'm mildly suspicious that this article is satire.

It's not that I don't sympathize--I have a personal laptop on Ubuntu, work computer on OSX from which I sometimes VN into a machine with CentOS, and using spacemacs means I often context switch between a set of shortcuts which takes from both emacs and vim. However, I feel that, of the things which need to be standardized across platforms, the CTRL+* shortcuts really is low priority.
Isnt the more relevant question "does engineering benefit from (basic) science?"

Possibly amended to include "to a degree that justifies the spending"
Hopefully, some of it is better than their cringe-inducing reality TV show "Planet of the Apps" wherein app makers are judged Shark Tank style by people who know absolutely nothing about technology. For the fortunately uninitiated, the hosts are Hollywood B-lister Jessica Alba, pop musician Will.i.am, snake oil saleswoman Gwyneth Paltrow, and VaynerMedia founder and CEO Gary Vaynerchuk. This garbage is all over iTunes and it's hurting the Apple brand.

More info: http://www.businessinsider.com/planet-of-the-apps-review-app...
When donors with different biases donate to causes with different political implications, they don't always average out. Sometimes they cancel out.

For example political campaign donations are obviously zero-sum, as is lobbying for mutually exclusive well-intentioned causes.
lol what. Mine or his? Because if it's mine that seems pretty baseless.

Also your other message is actually kind of scary, where you banned another account:

>We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines and using HN for political/ideological flamewar, which is not a legit use of this site. Would you please not create accounts to do this with?

Are other admins aware of your actions and "justifications" (that anyone can plainly see through)?
Twitter worked for me - https://mobile.twitter.com/martinapennisi/status/89777774905...
There should be a mode you can touch the wood to the blade before it's spinning and it will tell you if it's damp enough to trigger it.