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The stream consists of edits only in major languages on Wikipedia. It doesn't include all the languages in which Wikipedia exists.
If such edits are also included, imagine the rate at which new knowledge is being created.
The article seems to suggest that yes, the vans will be driven around randomly.

"American Science & Engineering ... has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, ...."

Likewise the image on the 2nd page of the article of an SUV with the driver still inside.
These kinds of issues come up in every issue. It's not just tech.

They do not, however, come up in every company. Culture matters.
all else equal, the fresh undergrad is a tabula rasa, generally untainted by the habits from working for another employer. You have a real opportunity to train them and instill good practices.

in my experience, its very difficult to correct certain really nasty habits (e.g. style) but its easy to train new people in how to do things the right way.

though it should be said that it requires much more day-to-day intervention to deal with the kid, so its an investment
Ben Kepes is a New Zealander, f'n Australians....;)
I like the idea of making INT_MIN == -INT_MAX, but I already think null pointers are a bad idea, and having an invalid integer value might be even worse. You'd have similar problems as with floating point NaN, where the unexpected NaN != NaN case can cause subtle bugs.

In any case, processor vendors aren't about to change the way they do integer math so this discussion, while quite interesting, is completely academic.
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Completely agree, and that's becoming one of my pet peeves. I like to keep in mind that the "original" terrorists were a government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_terrorism
You write a long post the need for serious evidence in response to a post which documents a series of accusations against Rachel By The Bay for which there is precisely no evidence what so ever.

The posters didn't say (as you did) nothing in the story seems to indicate sexism to me. They said a whole load of other stuff for which there was no evidence.

Perhaps you would like to take it up with them?
If the Hacker News people need a guide to notice how FreshDesk guys are motivated to draw the attention of people by making bullshit, I'm going to stop reading HN. Shame on you the readers voted this article up.

This is completely bullshit. If you take a look at the website of Freshdesk, you'll see that they stole the design of Zendesk. They probably did it to draw the attention of Zendesk and gather some angry tweets that can be used in such a way you see.

This is the last article I've seen in HN. I'll never enter this website again. Seriously, enough bullshit for a coder.

Time to leave HN alone with the embarrassing promoters and gossip girls.
Nice. Is it possible to cross-compile it to other languages?
Right. Please troll elsewhere.
Secure communication protocols such as SSL assumes the endpoints are secure, but the network between them is not.

It sounds like they work by installing covert software on the subject's devices via unpatched vulnerabilities. It very likely is NOT as easy or reliable as they are making it sound, but that's marketing for ya.
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For both business value and effort? Also, by hours for tasks during the sprint?
Perhaps there is a more euphemistic term than "shame", but I agree that Scrum and code reviews harness this shame in a positive way.
He didn't apologized.
This is what makes it masterful. It is a campaign in any sense of the word because he worked his ass off on this site.

However, it doesn't detract the truth of what he said. In fact, even as I deconstruct it, I still find myself siding with FreshDesk. Mind control at its best.
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I was referring to Christian Marsh, who has "syd" in his twitter moniker.
We need an app that makes smartphones screech loudly whenever this kind of radiation is detected. If there was a cacophony of annoying noise drawing attention to their actions whenever this is used, they wouldn't use it much. I have little doubt that these are already being secretly used in places that would elicit a WTF from your average citizen.

Are there any sensors on a smartphone that might go detectably wonky when hit with this?
Personally, my evidence of institutional sexism (racism, etc) comes from glancing at rooms full of software developers, knowing a bit about the world (what gender have all the US presidents "coincidentally" been?), and simply asking female-bodied people. Not to mention probing my ideologies, and those of my fellow men.

Learning is an active process. You probably wouldn't be impressed by someone who demands that each Erlang blogger (in each random post) convinces them of Erlang's merits. Instead, they earn an informed opinion by actively exploring it and confronting their own prejudices.

You mention, "Nobody wants to believe there's sexism in their industry." If true, we're irrational men whose emotional wants strongly determine our beliefs.

A more rational approach is to want to believe the truth. I believe every society I know is fundamentally sexist, and the guys in them (including me) are sexist, growing up benefitting from our gender's privileges and being led to act in strange ways.

When I read this article, I can't demand that it convince me. (It's not her burden to convince sexist men of their sexism. Instead, it is up to ethical men to dismantle their privilege.) Rather, it has helpful nuggets on What Not to Do.)
Ask HN: Is this the time for leaving HN alone with gossip girls?
No, I said "be a little bothered by it" not "support eliminating it" or "get nutty and pitch a fit over it".

For some reason I can't really explain, sports teams seem to make an occasional exception.
This should be titled "How Integers Should Work (In CPU architectures)". Programming languages have little to work with currently, and it is very inconsistent across architectures. Having an IEEE standard for integer math like we have for FP numbers could (...) help in the long term.

The only explicit "invalid" value I know of is available for floating point numbers. NULL in C is usually* not an invalid address, even if user-space programmers often seem to think so. Rather there are no pages mapped at that address and the kernel hands this page fault to user-space in some way. There is plenty of hardware where physical memory starts at 0x0. Lots of fun can be had debugging such a thing.

* IIRC there was a CPU architecture that interpreted "9" as an invalid address, but I can't remember what it was..?
If the amount of training they will both need and their intelligence is relatively equal, I would go for the one who found me and is interested. Passion goes along way in making up for talent. If he is smart and passionate, chances are he is going to be a good employee. Passion cannot be taught, if someone is just not interest or mildly interested, there is not much you (an external force) can do about it. They can if they chose to, become interested and passionate, but that takes internal action on their part. Again, others factors short of experience being equal, I would go for the guy that already shows the interest, because it is an indicator of possible passion for the subject domain.
I think that problem is better solved socially than through engineering. Walking two times ten minutes every day will not harm anybody who is fit enough to travel by public transport. On the contrary, it would be a contribution to the fight against obesity. So, we should strife to promote this as a _free_ way to work on one's health.

Yes, the climate may be harsh at times, but that Segway will have trouble in a foot of snow or in a monsoon, too.
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"Law enforcement, DOD and other similar agencies are always going to have rights that normal citizens don't have."

I'd nitpick here and say that there's a world of difference between rights and powers, whether those powers are legitimate or otherwise.

They don't have the right to bombard us. They do have the power.
It's funny I think the opposite: I kind of like the idea of an iNaN, but I've never been bothered by the asymmetry of INT_MIN and INT_MAX. I also don't think overflow should necessarily cause an iNaN right away. "INT_MAX + 10 - 20" is legit, even though it overflows twice.

> In any case, processor vendors aren't about to change the way they do integer math so this discussion, while quite interesting, is completely academic.

I thought so too initially, but really every processor already has a status register that shows you when overflow happened (otherwise big integer algorithms would be hard) which is all you really need for this proposal. But it does require a bunch of tests around and integer arithmetic which makes it unlikely to be a good candidate for a C language addition (a language whose main impetus is speed).
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I... don't think so. Not in the way you're thinking of, anyway. In this BrainF example, your language "compiles" (translates, really) to Racket expressions; then, the Racket VM "compiles" it to Racket bytecode just before running it.

For something as simple as BrainF, it's not hard to write your own translator. Just replace every [ with while (* ptr) {, replace + with (* ptr)++; replace < with ptr--; and so on. Then it's essentially a BrainF-to-C translator.

It's not so simple for racket in the general case. Danny Yoo is working on "Whalesong", a javascript interpreter that interprets racket bytecode so you can run racket in your web browser. http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/ It's still not a Racket->Javascript translator though.

I'm not aware of similar projects for other languages.

(Edit: formatting ate my asterisks)
I'm not downvoting you, but you're implying that the difference between hardware and software rendering is irrelevant which it certainly is not.

What's interesting is not only how fast the graphics are rendered, but the graphics performance compared to power usage. If the software stack doesn't give you a big performance / watt advantage when using a GPU, that's the fault of the software stack and will make that stack perform worse compared to one that does make use of hardware acceleration.
How does this compare to the MinGW/MSYS (http://mingw.org) project?
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Bingo. If you can't find a way to tie any honest but possibly harsh comments back to either getting work done on time, customer satisfaction or (ultimately) the company's fortunes, you might be in the wrong.

As it appears that the blog author was in the right, framing is critical to put attitude in perspective.

I'm not a woman, I have been in situations similar to these and made similar responses and gotten different but functionally similar reactions (i.e., don't put blame where it belongs, you might make the incompetent person feel bad).

After trying to connect the success of that particular task to the project success and company welfare and getting nowhere, I eventually left.
Where are the personal attacks on that page? I see none.
Thanks, this is my favorite article on Hacker News in months.
I was merely pointing out a flaw in your argument (which was not the lack of proof. That was for the author's argument) and then pointing out a flaw in the author's argument (that nonetheless would have not detracted from any point but was confounding the main problem) and then elaborating upon a possible reason why the response from the community was so visceral (which I think is an adequate response to you thinking the situation is unbelievable).

I was not agreeing or disagreeing with any of the community's response.
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We don't.

The most effective teams I have worked on at Google have a healthy balance of experienced and inexperienced engineers.

Senior engineers are in extremely high demand at places like Google and Facebook precisely because of the points you bring up.
Agreed about the overriding concern of sovereign invasion, and the motivations for a potential invader are myriad: claimed "humanitarian" intervention, desire to repatriate lost citizens, trade disputes. The fact a seasteading vessel will have to trade with conventional nation states exposes it to the risk of invasion, since eventually one nation state may decide that benefits to invasions are not outweighed by its counter-arguments (international UN-style law, ethics, etc).

Perhaps a comparison may be drawn to China's ongoing desire to repatriate Taiwan.
He addresses delaying iNaN generation in Premise 3. Adding explicit overflow tests after every integer operation is clearly a non-starter for a systems programing language.
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Team of 3 built this as a 24hour project for AngelHack.com. Judging starts in half hour! Wish us luck.

As you can see, we heavily exploited the Twitter Bootstrap css framework :).
Fair, but we could find things zendesk is a knock off of, no?

Maybe some folks start to believe their own legend too much. Originality and innovation is far rarer than we'd like to think.
Why is this getting voted down? Is there something about cloudflare i don't know about? He said he hadn't implemented caching yet so I told him an easy way to do it...
Loving how easy it is to manage virtual investments on AngelLists. Following a startup only takes you so far
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The single most negative reaction I've seen to a blog post on HN was directed at Jason Calacanis (with #2 going to Michael Arrington), though I agree only a minority get strong negative comments.
I'm less likely to give my money to either of these companies now.

I hate when companies publicly bash each other, even if it's in retaliation.
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A lot of successful products are copies of something else, and more power to them. The company I work for* had a competitor make an "embarrassing copy" of our flagship product, and they managed to get acquired because of it. But you know what? I don't hold it against them, in fact, congrats to them. If anything it validates the space we're in.

* I'm deliberately not mentioning the company or product by name, because I don't particularly want to start a subthread about this situation - the particulars would detract from the point I'm making.
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Okay, here's the deal.

I want to build up my portfolio, so, I'll do free web app prototyping.

Here's the stuff I'm good at:

* Python (Flask is my favorite framework)
* Ruby on Rails
* MongoDB

I'll write clean and good code.

Stuff I've done:

https://github.com/Poincare/jquery-delectable
http://microjs.com/ (the ShinyCar library is mine)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/afgfjdmmedalicgdpfeonfhlgfdbbeng
http://dhaivat.webfactional.com/

So, email me at dhaivatpandya AT g m a i l DOT com if you're interested (you don't have to disclose your entire plan right away, something like "note sharing system" or "online store" will suffice)

Thanks
What other trivial commercial use would there be ?
On an other topic there are diseases like food alergies that can only be cured by a specific diet. They can be heavily handicaping but can't be cured by medecines, so don't get any love from pharmatical companies and are ridiculously under-researched. Even though more than 1% of a population can be subjected to this kind of deceases.

Why would it be weird or surprising that research in casual communication and social behavior would be primarily targeted at marketing and sales ?

>you are a narcissist who thinks we care about how you talk to your friends.

I guess they would be right, commenting on a post centered on how people respond to friends.
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This is a question that's been on my mind lately as well.
What are people's opinions of LISP, or variations thereof?
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Is there an SSH server for Windows that will work with this?
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Correction: in the first paragraph "one zone identity" should be "one's own identity".
Yes, I noticed that assumption too, and a few others(for example the assumption of "car parked outside home" - now you have to value either the cost of car ownership and parking, or the time cost for an on-demand fleet to reach the passenger) With a lower speed target the system may still offer benefits over roads and mass transit in terms of reliability/availability. The number of existing PRT companies continuing with this approach suggests it has some merit.

Maglev PRT still seems worth researching for intercity traffic though - the requirements for routing get a lot easier, and you still have benefits of speed and lightness.
We have enormous land still readily available far cheaper than ocean living. Barring a major breakthrough, this isn't going to change soon. As for the political reasons, we have plenty of liberal governments here on land. If you can escape a lousy government to get to a "Sea-Land", you can get to a normal country easier, and they're more likely to accept you. There just isn't a compelling reason for these, aside from frustrated libertarian fantasies.
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Rachel By The Bay ought to be a respected member of this community based on her blog - instead she is being attacked in a bizarre way.

She is not being attacked. If you disagree with the items you quoted then you should present your counter-arguments. Nearly every post you quoted is a rational opinion which deserves a fair refutation. It's insulting for you to aggregate these comments and then pass over them with blanket disregard under the defense that she is a respected member of the community, as if we should all put on the kid gloves when applying criticism to her blog post. Ironic.
He's describing most of the mechanisms in floating point but calling it integer math.
Comments like "I'm pretty sure the author reached an entirely fallacious and baseless conclusion"? In four years, you have never heard anyone say the author of an article is wrong? I'm pretty sure you can find people saying much harsher things in response to any post by Michael Arrington or John Gruber. And if you only want to include bloggers who are also HN members, its seems like Sebastian Marshall (lionhearted) is verbally eviscerated almost every time a post of his makes the front page.

Choice comment about one of those people: "I would go even further and say that 'The Idiocy and Tragedy of XX' is that he thinks earnings are some measure of a human being's self worth." (Name censored because I don't want to bring up an old mean discussion.)

Here's a bonus one I found on another of his posts: "Fuck guys like this". (Neither of these comments was downvoted, bTW.)

By contrast, the commenters on Rachel's post mostly said things which amounted to "This doesn't establish what it set out to" and "It sounds like the boss you're complaining about here is a jerk." Now, you can say they're blind to the truth in front of them, but for the most part, I wouldn't describe them as harsh.
Clearly you didn't read the article.
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Indeed, I was afraid to scroll down further and learn that, in fact, 25 is really quite late and 18 is the proper age for pulling your plan together... ike!
Sweet, hope the demo goes well!
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>As well as other countries that suggest that drugs being illegal is not best for society (Portugal).

Yes. Portugal. It has been quite successful. Well, decriminalization, but good enough.
Team from hell? By the sounds of it they had a clash of egos. I probably wouldn't want to work with Paul or Phil.
For further context, see http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/04/fireandforget/ "Fire and Forget, or Sexism in Software Engineering".
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In PR right and wrong have different meanings that true and false. Mikkel was wrong here because he acknowledged, supported, and then fueled a competing idea in the market helping establish in some small way Freshdesk.

When you are leading, don't elevate small fry onto the same media frame as you by debating with them. You just give them (potentially) free access to your entire expensively earned PR channel for free.
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Under the current economic climate, many graduates don't even find grad-level work and end up taking under-employment - the competition for the grad jobs that are out there is driving down salaries.

I also know people who 10 years after graduating are still not making £35k, although that's not specifically in the field of computer science.

It's rough back home right now :/
> We actually have no idea why that is.

Way to take what started as a reasonable post and trash it with a needless, baseless insult.
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It's communism. Communists don't like being called "communists" because in today's political climate, that label is disapproved. Actually being a communist, however, is not. So they use lightly-coded language like 99%, special interests, police brutality, and equality. Thus, other communists can applaud them without admitting to communism. And on places like Reddit, communists can band together to defend themselves against accusations of communism, using the downvote button to make opponents give up in disgust, leaving them to be communists together and in mutual acknowledgement that they're not really communists at all.

It's witchcraft. Witches don't like being called "witches" because in today's political climate, that label is disapproved. Actually being a witch, however, is not. So they use lightly-coded language like religious tolerance, atheism, rationalism, skepticism. Thus, other witches can applaud them without admitting to witchcraft.

It's pedophilia. Pedophiles don't like being called "pedophiles" because in today's political climate, that label is disapproved. Actually being a pedophile, however, is not. So they use lightly-coded language like equal rights, LGBT, gay marriage. Thus, other pedophiles can applaud them without admitting to pedophilia.
It seems that when you've decided what the article says before you read it, it makes forming opinions (and avoiding cognitive dissonance with respect to your existing ones) a lot easier.
Nice work Jacques! :)
What do you think would happen if you took a time machine back to the mid 19th century and walked around the villages wearing a prominent BSD demon on your clothing?

That would be an interesting experiment.
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You are not entirely right. In python, one line means something as it is only one statement (as mentioned above). Author is also strict about not using eval -- with eval you could snuck multiple lines into one line (using \n in the evaluated string).
I hear Bolivia is really nice this time of the year...

Fellow Scandinavian here, and that rant sure hit home.
Especially the whole hipster mania which is just relentless.

Then again, SAD and a lack of Vitamin D sure doesn't help brighten the day either. But it is nice to see that others also have a bit wider perspective on things.