skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They work on ideas they never really tried to think through sufficiently to know if those ideas are good or not.

And this is very, very common, at least in people I happen to know. It's hard to look at yourself objectively, we all know that - do you think that looking at your ideas objectively is easier?
PG: You're quoted as being skeptical. Why?
So it would still be possible for the thief to boot to the recovery partition and wack the encrypted partition. Clean machine but at least none of my data.

Is there a Boot Loader or Bios password type option to beven prevent the user from holding down 'Option' and selecting a boot device..

NOTE: Yes I know it is EFI, but everyone knows what a BIOS password is, I think.
The Apple store is really creepy. 
Apple has many of the markings of being a "build the best, not the cheapest" company. A reflection of this would be extending employees the power and trust to become autonomous, to disregard "corporate guidelines" and think for themselves. To dare having employees that can't be replaced. Google has/had a lot of this stuff.

What about Apple? I know this culture applies to the most senior employees. But what about "most" employees?

It seems like Apple is actually a lot more factory-like than google-like, on many fronts.

I started thinking these thoughts after visiting a few apple stores for the first time last week. It was eerie.

The employees have strict scripts for every kind of customer interaction. It's like talking to a robot. The customer service is on par with what you'd expect from a fast-food worker or a telemarketer.

The employees don't seem competent, but they don't need to be, and in fact they aren't even allowed to be. The most an employee can do is guide you along their little scripted interactions.

I've noticed there is no employee in the entire store, not even the manager, who has any power at all to circumvent the automatic process.

The greatest exercise of authority I saw was a case of a customer wanting to purchase extended warranty on an iphone, but he was a little bit past the due date to do so. This was an easy case, 90% of managers would make a call on the spot to just let him do it, the store was busy and it's a small deal with a benefit to the company anyway. The manager wanted to make the same call, but the limit of his power only extended to picking up a phone and calling up the chain, explaining the case as you would to a 4th grader, and asking for permission to make a decision.

I bet Apple is proud of their retail store design. They built a system that doesn't depend on people. They can hire any people at any time because they are disposable. Do you think it'll last?
It's a definite possibility. However, with Android and iOS many people are learning that the world doesn't end after Windows and Ubuntu is very user friendly.

The typical PC user uses a web browser, an office suite and videogames. With Chrome you have an excellent web browser regardless of OS; LibreOffice is fine for many users and it's interface is similar to that of Office pre-Ribbon, which many appreciate. Games have been a painful issue, but with browser-based games and Valve porting to Linux it's getting really better.

I believe it's a matter of time until users begin questioning the Microsoft tax when they can get a useful OS sans viruses and malware for free.
Wow, that sounds fantastic. Checking it out now. Thanks!

(That sounded very shill-ish... I'm not associated with these products. <g>)
So great startup engineers should have focus, compassion, balance, responsibility, and openness. When would you ever not desire these traits in someone? The opposite is scatter-brained, indifferent, unbalanced, irresponsible, and uncommunicative; all rather undesirable traits.

I'd much prefer to learn about some trade-offs. Is lacking any one of these traits a deal-breaker? What if someone's very focused and compassionate, but a little irresponsible?

And most importantly, how does one evaluate these traits?
If that's what you think of police you've been reading reddit too much.

There's also a bit of the man bites dog thing going on. Nice police: Normal, not news. Bad police: Very unusual, so news.
The idea of a measurable "G factor" isn't incompatible with Flynn's work. He simply argues that the value of G is determined by social context and background. So to go straight for the hotbutton interpretation: arguments of the form "Blacks are less intelligent than whites due to genetic factors, as measured by IQ scores" is unsupportable simply because those same whites are smarter than their own grandparents (i.e. the same gene pool) were at the same age, and as measured by the same tests. That is, there is clear proof that non-genetic factors can cause that effect, so absent specific evidence arguments for "racial intelligence" must be dropped via Occam's razor.
The general sense I get from people who support the decision is that Samsung 'copied' various iOS motifs, therefore it is fair game for Apple to use whatever means to punish them.
1) If you aren't going to be sincere, don't apologize.

2) If your expectations aren't being met, ask for what is missing. Don't come out as an antagonist belittling the author.

Thatnk you for your consideration.
Unless it's a company that cures cancer over the internet, your startup isn't enriching anyone's life. "Capture eyeballs, monetize later" mantra has failed in almost all cases, save for few select companies who are just breaking even on momentum alone.

Media and publishing business are dying. What a strange example to illustrate a point.
I believe Perl in bioinformatics was a combination of three or four factors. At that time, sequence analysis was mostly equivalent to string processing and executing command-line programs. Perl was a natural fit. Bioinformatics work used Suns running Sybase, so the researchers knew the Unix way of doing things, which is what perl builds on. This was the early days of the web, and bioinformatics people were very much into data sharing. They used perl to write CGI programs (both cgi-lib.pl and CGI.pm were written by bioinformatics people), so they had one language which they could use for sequence research, for system administration, and for data sharing.

Other languages evolved through a different path. Chemistry, for example, tends to be more Python related. (I develop software for that field.) I think it's because the chemical graph data structure is harder to write naturally in Perl. Gene expression analysis uses a lot of R.
I definitely think I'm going to go for Rails. I've heard a lot of great things about Django as well. One of my coworkers swears by it. Thanks for the advice.
I've heard this argument before: I'll build my product using X because nobody else is doing it, so all the best Xers are going to line up. I can't speak for the author, but I haven't seen it quite work out.

Unless you're talking exclusively to language/stack zealots, the best guys are evolving the tools, and the next-best are evolving with them. That's not to say that all things old are bad and all things new are good, but we do tend to get better at different classes of problems.

As the author suggests, though, Perl has this incredible longevity and extensibility. I really like it whenever I work with it, and it wouldn't be a turn-off if I was considering working there. But if someone came to me and said, "I want you to develop a To-Do web app in C++," I'd probably pass.
Perhaps you could use window.open() to get around needing chrome.windows.create, which would allow you to remove this permission.
I doubt it will actually bring much in the way of new blood. But it will make the life of existing linux users more pleasant (one less wine/virtualbox work around)
Researchers find critical vulnerability in Java 7 patch hours after release.
My hunch is that, in the original environment, PostgreSQL with the right indexes would be as fast as the bloom filter. I emailed the OP about adding an index on movie_person(person_id), and he (besides being very cool and gracious about everything) said that he was going to add it and re-run his timings. I suspect will see new results soon.
Citing one example of where cleverness was more effective than kindness falls far short of proving the statement that it is never more important to be kind than clever; you might want to tone down its sensationalist tone. A single counterexample will refute it :-)

To say that "Kindness nothing but a particular sort of shortsightedness" falls into the same problems of provability. Kindness is a great many things more than a particular sort of shortsightedness.

The idea you put forward seems to imply that basic human emotions are unreliable all the time, in all places - when in fact they work great at most times and in most places.

Kindness is not independent of cleverness, or of morality, or of decency. The common senses of the words do bleed together.

For example, were Dr Ludwig Guttmann to accidentally cause the deaths of fifty patients, his colleague might comment, "Dear Doctor, that was not frightfully clever of you," and he would say that because the Doctor had done something monstrously unkind towards them and their families.

The colleague uses (in part) his emotional faculties to determine that killing people is bad, and he uses (in part) his analytical faculties to determine ways to avoid killing people. But it's useless to try and rigidly separate the sets of faculties because they live in the same brain; there's no context where they can be exercised completely in separate.
It may be semantics, but genetics certainly does not determine "race" alone. If it did, "african american" and "hispanic" wouldn't exist as "races". The idea of classifying people like that doesn't work genetically. First, people have been interbreeding like rabbits throughout history; there are no "pure" stocks anywhere. And more importantly, the amount of genetic variation between any two individuals from the same "race" is much higher than it is, statistically, between the aggregate genetic profiles of distinct "races".

Basically, "race" is a cultural distinction. It's a label we apply as a proxy for other stuff (usually cultural). Scientists (well, except anthropologists studying that cultural stuff) don't use it, and for good reason.
There are always tradeoffs, but sometimes you can find "the best tool for the job". And that may or may not be the tool that you know. You gotta be flexible and open to learn other tools that may suit the situation better.

In the post I don't bash any other languages at all. In fact, I encourage people to learn other languages too. At the end of the day, it'll help you evolve your thinking process and extend your skill set.

Thank you for your comment :)
OT: Just me, or does browser zoom not seem to increase font size for this page in Safari and Chrome?
> After some research, and speaking with attorneys, I think there may be a problem with the way the verdict was decided.

That's exactly what this article is saying.
She's spot on. I consider myself a competent developer (6 years experience, "big fish in a small pond"), and I don't really interview often. I've interviewed at Google twice, the first time doing 2 phone interviews and a round of on-site interviews, and the second time not making it past the phone interview.

I have prepared well for the interviews every time. I understand the algorithms, the data structures, and can program them on my own time no problem. But the second I'm in an interview setting, I lock up and can't think. I stumble across stupid thoughts (How many bits are in a byte? Oh yea, 8. But what about the 0th bit? What to do?!) and just work myself into a corner. All the while trying to seek approval from the interviewer. After about 2 minutes, I become a wreck and am hopeless.

I also don't consider myself non-social, and deal with coworkers very well. I still don't understand what it is about the technical interview setting that makes me act like this.
Everyone at Google does great on these types of interviews -- ergo, the process must be perfect!
It looks to me like the study cited previously addresses your point by asking students whether or not they'd like to gave an academic position:

"When asked to ignore actual job availability and rate a range of careers, only about 50 percent gave an academic research career the highest rating; more than 40 percent gave top marks to research jobs in the private sector, while about 30 percent thought working for a startup would be pretty great."
I really hate reading articles on Phoronix because they divide each article in 5, 10, 15, etc. pages. I understand they want to increase page hit but using an adblocker just defies the purpose.
I'm leaning against (but not convinced against) "intelligence genes" existing, at least to the point where some people have them and some don't, because evolution would likely have spread them to everyone.

But the science is much better for behaviors and temperaments being heritable. Some people are more comfortable sitting around only reading; some people are more likely to be comfortable fighting with abstract ideas; some people are more likely to be stubborn when they don't understand something and go at it until they figure it out. These things will affect what we measure as your IQ. My suspicion is that this is the source of the data for genetic differences in intelligence.
How much of that is technological copying/distribution? The printing press caused an explosion of bible and other book/flyer distribution, including an amazing new (at the time) work called "the novel". And that's even without copyright type protections.

And music was always available, we just don't know as much about popular music from the old days because documenting it was hard, and the church (major source of writing) sort of focused on the music written by and for it...
DOJ Targeted Public Library for Lending E-Books 'Inaccessible' to the Blind
Probably that and an intense desire to devote as much resources as possible to Guild Wars 2, which is turning out to be quite a hit.
As long as the browser auto-updates...
I would argue that the "summer slide" is, in fact, valuable. School teaches many skills beyond academics: social conditioning, conformity to inescapable bullies, observation of strict schedules for intellectual work, strict compartmentalization of activities, coping with a homogenous social environment of people of the same level of immaturity, and so forth.

Most of these are profoundly maladaptive in the adult world. We want them to forget most of that garbage. Students grow up to be civilized adults in spite of these teachings, and a large summer break is a great opportunity to reconnect with humanity and the adult world.
I really love how only 'approved' activities are allowed. As a joke we tried adding 'toke' but the app doesn't allow you to add that habit. It did allow someone to add 'fuck bitches'. Classy, and just a little fascist.
Not sure how much it relates to the article, but I enjoyed the war story. Good stuff.

There's a lot of garabge in online HBR in recent years, mainly on their blogs, as they grovel for traffic like any other site using whatever means possible. I am rarely tempted to even read HBR links that get posted here.

War stories are much more interesting!
It depends on how you look at it.

Google wants people who have a strong understand of CS fundamentals (which includes knowing core data structures). Google also wants people who are good coders (which includes being able to translate an idea into code).

A good coder who knows CS fundamentals should be able to do that. Thus, not knowing how to implement a binary search tree is revealing.

And, really, the question is rarely "implement a binary search tree." It may, however, be to implement a binary search tree which support a getMedian() operation.
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That would require all the world governments to agree on what a patent is and what it can protect. As it stands now the nations don't agree much on anything, let alone something as important as patent law.

Edit: clarification
Does anyone have a good source or summary on this "7, plus or minus 2" thing? I teach the LSAT, and have noticed it empirically when students try to solve the Logic Games section.

I've love to know more about the research backing this up. I googled, of course, but I'm sure there must be a good discussion of this that I've missed.
Just use FDE; if the thief doesn't know the password everything is effectively wiped already.
I really want to find the longest route from A to Hitler now...
Party for Chic Geeks - Who Would Have Thought?
Idiot. Who leaves valuables in a car in Detroit? Are you not aware that the windows are all that keeps someone from popping the trunk?
So the real problem is perception of the test, not the fact that one might get emotional...
I think the fact that the police officer was so involved with updating the writer is what stood out to me. It is rare that we see/hear a detailed explanation of what police work entails and unless we ourselves are the one they are speaking with it might never happen.
Indeed :).

Checkout these modules:
Test::Class::Sugar
MooseX::Declare

Thank you for your feedback.
The president had access to Reddit direct ...
TL;DR - I know Perl.
Co-author of Bootstrap (fat) quits Twitter
Chess is an interesting proxy for intelligence. I've seen homeless people with no real training other then playing games become relatively strong players. And then there are prodigies. Most decent players realize they will never be prodigies. But then you look at the Polgar sisters, well I'll just quote wikipedia for Laszlo Polgar:

He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born". Before he had any children, he wrote a book entitled Bring Up Genius!, and sought a wife to help him carry out his experiment. He found one in Klara, a schoolteacher, who lived in a Hungarian-speaking enclave in Ukraine. He married her in the USSR and brought her to Hungary. He home-schooled their three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

"Strong players" is an understatement for Judit's accomplishments which are well known.
Depends what you're aiming to get out of it.
You must be paying the old rate. The old rate was at $3 per month. They added new tiers at $6 per month or $60 per year, and at $9 per month or $90 per year. You'll need the latter tier, called Grooveshark Anywhere, to use the mobile apps.

I supposed if you really think it's too low, you could start paying the newer rate if you want.

http://help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/topics/293-premi...
I don't think that covers it. When people are forced down a path, they find ways to rationalize why it's better than the alternatives. That is, you can't just ask someone to ignore job availability and expect that their view of the job actually does ignore job availability. Their view of the job probably has it already baked in. Self-evaluating a cognitive bias is hard.
Couldn't both sides have expert testimony that state opposing opinions on the same subject?
Stripe CTF had a time limit and required very specific solutions. Figuring out the answers on an IQ test often involves creative problem solving. I don't see a difference except in an individual's preconceived notions about the significance of the test itself.
Nice try, Samsung astro-turfer!

And anecdotal evidence won't get you anywhere.
Glad to see the project continue growing and kudos for your continued work on it...but title is a little grandiose. It's an API for your city's LocalWiki...if it has one (NYC apparently doesn't).
There's a school of writing "modern" Perl, using source filters and object systems. Bare Perl is a mess but, in somewhat of a Lispy way, you can use Perl to rewrite your Perl. If none of your functions have signatures and you're manually blessing objects, your codebase will quickly turn to shit. Using a standard bits (such as Moose) to give you a consistent object system and method call syntax changes things dramatically.
It's just something that I wonder ever time I have to flag a post.
I agree that it does not make sense from long term business perspective.

But then what's left?

I know for sure that my own payment information is gone and it coincided with AdSense system upgrade.

Can anyone with AdSense account share if their payment information is still set?

But even if it's just my payment information lost - it's not a good sign about quality of engineering at AdSense.
If their dream is to work at a big corporation like Google, Amazon or Apple, they should be reading better books to enlighten up their dreams.

edit: I see no mention on your post nor in the article about "dreams". Seems like I am feeling, indeed, pessimistic. woops.
I have a kind of Wiki game that I play aloud with friends. Person A names a topic. Person B must guess whether Wikipedia owns the top Google (incognito/not signed-in) result for that term. Person B gets a point for guessing right, or Person A gets a point if Person B guesses wrong. The fun is in coming up with "stumpers.'
The phrase is from an interesting paper from the '50s about some limitations of human cognition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...
Apple didn't start this. Incumbents did, Apple is better at it and better funded than incumbents, yet even so settled with Nokia. Don't hate them for hitting back hard.
Which is why PostgreSQL is scriptable: the various contrib modules are often better looked at as examples of how to build your own indexes using GIN/GiST than "this is what we provide".

In your case, though, a strict immutable function mapping the bitvector to an int array as part of a functional index should be sufficient to use the existing contrib module: you don't need to store the things you index in the table.
I don't think HTML5 local storage is really suited to storing full songs. It's more of a key/value storage.
Pediatricians Decide Boys Are Better Off Circumcised Than Not
I've spent an hour or two looking more closely at the pointer/counter ordering behaviour in the queue. I'm going to go out a bit on a limb (this is mental code inspection only) and say it's not in fact a problem. It IS a problem in a stack which increments the counter only on push, but it's NOT a problem in the M&S queue because of the checking logic which follows the pointer/counter read. If there has been a torn read, where the pointer and counter don't match, then the main loop will simply iterate and retry, because the counter doesn't match; and it's being incremented on queue and dequeue.
Stop blogging and add a fucking progress bar and transfer speed indicator to your file transfer app, ffs.
We did it all the time with certain hardware OEMs. Not sure where you get that, aside from "LOL EA".
To be clear: they didn't email the code to some random people on the internet or post it to a mailing list. They shared it with employees of Intel Corporation, no doubt under NDA. Those employees happen to work on open source drivers, of course, but they certainly won't be spreading the Source source (heh) around.
We get similar requests fairly often.

Traits:

1. They want free stuff.

2. They dangle the possibility of hundreds or thousands of sales.

3. When the answer is no, they start making threats and/or take to the internet to post lies about the company.

Current policy is no free samples under any circumstances whatsoever.

We do give away copies of our products as gifts sometimes though and we make available review copies to journalists who can actually verify their credentials. (With about 9 out of 10 claiming to be writing a review for a magazine the magazine editor will say they have never heard of the person.)
+1

I definitely recommend reading "Modern Perl". It is a game changer.

http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html