skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem to have changed the meaning much. If anything, I think it's a bit easier to read at a quick glance. I like to scan titles or I'd never get past the first few pages on HN.

GOOG Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB/sec.What it "sees" making L turn

vs.

Google's self-driving car gathers almost 1 GB/sec
So as long as a piece of malware is commonly downloaded, you have nothing to worry about.
workers could get what they are actually worth

What if we can reduce job searching to an approximation of perfect competition?

What if...

1. A central third party certifies your "ability" or "smartness" in certain areas (this prevents dumb things like "can u implement merge sort? lol!" ten times over). The certification would be temporally limited to, say, 60 days. After 60 days you would have to re-certify if you are still job searching.

2. You interview a few places for cultural fit and specific technical issues, then multiple companies (time limited to a week or two) submit public offers for you (if you are as good as you think you are).

3. Employers bid against each other for you (standard "each bid extends the bidding by X time units" rules so you don't get sniped).

4. You take your pick of employers based on how you personally weigh comfort, responsibility, pay, distance, and cultural fit.

Is that workable? What would the gross objections be?
I had originally planned to ask for a quick review of this post from someone but I got lazy :(

I'll be in there to pester you guys sometime at the end of next week I would image, and thanks!
Am I missing something- I like that the blogs are in circles- kind of fun but does it help me find blogs I wouldn't find otherwise?
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How do they assess it?

I'm not convinced that anyone can even measure what an individual programmer is worth, especially because project/person fit is always a contributing factor but huge at the upper levels. So I'm curious as to how they would do this.
Whoa. Didn't really expect Google to respond to this and that too so quickly!
keeping up with maintenance is probably the most important thing towards making either self-driving or human driven cars safe. faded, worn, or poorly-visible road markings and signage has got to be a huge challenge. Signage and marking is already very well standardized and optimized for low ambiguity.

making anything special is probably just going to make things more difficult - the cars have to be able to drive anywhere, regardless of whether the road has the correct markings or not.
Hopefully they can use some of that money to safeguard my information since they refuse to delete it from off there servers. Or alternatively they could use that money to issue their federally mandated privacy statements that they refuse to do.
It's likely far cheaper to store it than it would be to run the test again. This is Google, they can certainly afford it – I'd be incredibly surprised if they weren't storing it.
In that case don't you think we would have seen many more reports of this shady practice? This seems to me a combination of purposefully bad UI and the user not paying attention.

Still the same practice spammers use, but very different from "covertly uploading my contacts data and texting everyone without telling me".
Early emulation teams with GNU tools to hasten embedded projects
Among probably a couple dozen other sci-fi books. But Rainbows End was a good one nonetheless.
So should a software developer's code include armaments, or not?

If it does, it would never get mainstream acceptance; if it doesn't, but does cover the topic of this post, it will be ethically absurd.

I don't see how this is a straw man; when building a professional code, one has to choose what actions to allow or disallow, and this seems like a topic that would obviously come up. What do you think about this scenario misrepresents the idea of a developer's professional code?
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"some people"

Oh, just call a marketing guy a marketing guy.

I'll have to look into how it manages trust, for things like this.
A City That Turns Garbage Into Energy Copes With a Shortage
How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon
wow, I (like many others, obviously) have experienced many of the things described in the msdn blog article you linked to, yet never really thought critically that those things don't have to be there!

Things are going to look different to me now when I'm on a windows machine.
We don't need an oath. We need to stop using Path. We need to get everyone we know to stop using Path. No need to over complicate things.
Not to mention different teams within a corporation will probably have their own accounts due to communication issues.
I just think women would read this and believe that this company is looking for a male, not a female. I know I would. It would emphasize a bro type of environment.

Your only reference to "he" being gener neutral was from the 1700s... do you have a modern example?
Producism: Is This Capitalism 4.0??
Two words: Government Regulation.

Once Congress puts a bill forward to deal with this issue, it will be the beginning of the end for this type of behavior. I'm sure Obama will get behind it as well, as it will help the computer market immensely.
In this debate I am a strong rebase advocate (though more than that I'm for very carefuly and actively avoiding there being remote head contention - for instance by having feature branches with clear owners, or having a PR and code-review based integration style), but when merging features in these should definitely be (--no-ff) merges.

It's not a dichotomy, it's about clear semantics - what a feature branch is (clearly defined linear progress off of an upstream) what a merge means (integrating that progress and vetting the result).

I feel like this echoes the tables vs divs debate: use a table for tabular data and position containers for layout.

In both cases, there are some fringes who argue that you should do one or the other for both use cases - semantics be damned. Git is newer so the fringes are just bigger.
I wonder at what point there is a backlash here?

I know myself, personally, I almost never download "free" apps anymore, because the IAP is so obnoxious.
Would you then recommend focusing development around some unit tests and eval-ing them as you do work? (that's what I am trying so far, seems ok)
You can do it based on country code, and, if you want, NANP for North American numbers. That would get you a time zone (or range) and you can easily use that to not spam people at 6am.
I had a scary moment, looks like UofC still may do ten weeks of SICP:

http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/courses/description/CMSC/10500/99...
Specify module version ranges in Pinto
God wants us to plant on Mars.

God says...

19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those
things.

And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in
times past.

19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from
him.

19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his
house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.

19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the
javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the
javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and
to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying,
If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

-----

Pilot's stick?

God says...

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faults Unchangeable INCIDENTAL embracements planets hastened
copyright corrupted constraint concubine 100 Might weariness
unexplained peculiarly tediousness Albania
I feel the need to commend you on a very elegant and resourceful way to reasonably approximate an important piece of information!
I'm sometimes amazed at how many people have problems with what I think are simple questions.

Simple is not the same thing as relevant.
Dwolla better than Bitcoin? Way, way better marketed. Better UX.

Dwolla can improve its tech stack and have it be the UX layer on top of Bitcoin if it chooses. I guarantee you there are folks at Dwolla working on this. Dwolla = front end of payment protocol. Dwolla = bank?

Competing payment protocols = Bitcoin; Bank routing/Swift + Forex. There were efforts to abstract gold into a payment protocol in the 90s but they failed.

Bitcoin or one of its numerous derivatives (feathercoin, litecoin, terracoin, ppcoin, ixcoin, novacoin, namecoin, freicoin, "govcoin") will likley win as a payment protocol.

The bitcoin investors have zero incentive to spend the money marketing it and building a sexy interface on top of it. There is money in interface.

BTW, a paypal competitor IS interesting! It's a 10bn+ market. but dwolla could be the "bank". it could be the secured storage. ....

note: andreesen has also invested in ripple/opencoin. reminds me of their simultaneous bets on dalton cadwell (immeem)'s picplz, and instagram.
The "they" we are talking about are AirBnb employeees, not some random people. It's no different than giving a copy of your passport to the bank teller - in theory they could also use your info for bad purposes, but it's much less likely than a random person.
Dwolla has lower fees than credit cards or PayPal.
Wadler's critique seems mostly rooted in Miranda vs. Lisp, rather than critiquing the general contents of the book.

Is there another book that is like SICP in overall thematic content that uses Miranda? (Or I guess Haskell might be a more likely choice today?)
I don't see any reports from iOS folks about this happening. It's definitely against the Android Play store TOS, though.

The Play store definitely has a more laissez fair approach to apps, but spamming like this is pretty a pretty blatant violation. Google might want to consider suspending their app.
And, this is the other side of the trust coin. Who's data and is it the "real" data. (obviously I don't mean you personally but more like scientists generally)
Men are not a protected group. Do you know of any government program aimed at compensating for male underperformance or that is biased in favor of males?
Actually, yes you are right about the 'reply' function on Amazon. Apologies. I think I mostly have problems with Yelp. They require business owners to have a paying account in order to respond. It fosters an unbalanced power dynamic that is left unchecked, since moderation there only serves the purpose of Yelp itself, rather than quality user generated content.
I'd love to see better integration of live traffic safety data into the cars' navigation (ie. Highway police logging lane or road closures). So, if there's a big accident on a major freeway, cars will automatically begin to find early detours rather than getting caught in gridlock.
High-performance Infrastructure-as-a-service
Ah and just arrived in my inbox: a notification of a new system update for the Wii U!
This kinda reminds me Tom Groves' "Corkboard" idea (except these are topic bubbles, and Tom actually created floating topic "Post-its")

http://web.archive.org/web/20040725085305/http://www.tomgrov...
Wow that's interesting. I'm glad farmers and others are fighting junk food. Thanks for sharing that!
>>>> The oath is to remind you to use your head, your best judgement and a body of ethics

Why you need an oath for that - shouldn't it be always the default behavior?

>>>> and to act in the interest of the public.

"Interest of the public" is a very dangerous thing. I can remember a lot of very bad things that were done "in the interest of the public". You can make almost anything pass as "in the interest of the public" if you want to. Murder? Millions were murdered "in the interest of the public", because they were of the wrong ethnicity, class, physical features or just in the wrong place in the wrong time. Robbery? Millions were stripped of their property and reduced to utter poverty because it was claimed it is "interest of the public" to do so. And so on, and so forth.

I would rather steer clear of anything that has "interest of the public" written on it, at least until it's very clear what is underneath. Too many things that were underneath such writing proved to be a disaster.

>>> no one still thinks they're swearing to Apollo.

Swearing to a document composed by a faceless bureaucracy is no better. If you have code of ethics, live by it, if you do not - get one. What Apollo or his modern equivalent, the almighty bureaucracy, has to do with it?
Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts
What happened with Bicicleta? I love the premises I saw listed in response to Perlis.

LT will be open source, just want it to get a bit more stable first.
This reminds me of Altavista search back in 1999 (it would string together words that were connected, creating a web - exciting stuff back then).

Except I can't figure out how Gravity would be useful at all. I can't, for example expand the "tech" section.
> 1. A central third party certifies your "ability" or "smartness" in certain areas

I can see the strikes now...
The impressive bit is paying attention to that much meaningful data. It would be extremely taxing to actively pay attention to that many screens for an extended period of time; granted, filtering limits that, just as peripheral vision does for us. I tend to take for granted the immense amount of data processed subconsciously.
> Not deleting your content, though. I hate that.

Why? Having worked on a semi social app last year, deleting a user and all their content was a huge undertaking. Marking them and their content as deleted was simple and had the exact same effect--user and content never get returned from DB queries. Guess which one we implemented?

I guess I'm trying to say sites don't (always) do the deactivate thing because of some nefarious scheme to steal your content/identity at a later date. Sometimes it's just a technical call (or lazy programmers, depending on your point of view).
I doubt that 100% CPU use for 20 seconds is going to make either of those things happen. Maybe reserve your anger for things that occur.
> have some sort of paid medical leave program in place for complicated pregnancies

Anecdotally, lots of women in Italy have "difficult pregnancies" because the incentives are there for it. They're happy to have extra time off, and doctors, when in doubt, are not going to choose the riskier option.
I know the air is compressed when they flood the tanks, but I'd assume that some power is needed to blow or regulate ballast, just from a mechanical standpoint of opening and closing doors.

I'd be surprised if there were no backup generators at all. Maybe not in the front, but somewhere where the primary backups aren't. Shit happens.
We should talk. I have an idea that would incorporate this. I doubt that I'll be able to get the resources and will probably be starting a regular day job instead (and I never go into a job intending to "hop") but discussing the idea would be useful.

Assessing programmers is a good idea, but what I would really like to do is start measuring companies and managers for how they affect peoples' careers, so we can reward the faithful and punish defectors.

If you look at salary trends, you're also picking up reputation, which corrupts measurement. Of course anyone leaving Google is going to be getting a bump. If you could asses actual skill and noticed that it wasn't doing much for the underlying (e.g. their actual capability growth) which will have more effect on their careers in the long term.

Now, the problem with the auction site concept (not to say that it won't work; but you'll have to make the ability verification both very accurate and very respected) that you're talking about is the "ghetto" effect that most recruiting sites get. Good engineers are nervous about signing on because it's still stigmatized to be looking for work at all. Top-end employers are going to prefer word-of-mouth for similar reasons. It's really hard to make a job-searching site not a ghetto, and once it is one, trust-sparsity sets in and it's inferior to the (non-scalable and infuriatingly intermittent) word-of-mouth economy.
Reading the edited title, I wasn’t going to click through to Twitter. I figured it was just a one line tweet that wouldn’t explain much.

After reading hammock’s comment, I clicked the link to see the picture. The ‘[pic]’ suffix to the title was informative, no need to remove it.
Well, ideally you wouldn't be using tiny numbers. If you're using huge numbers, then what you're describing is the equivalent of a rainbow table technique. It's going to take an extraordinary amount of time, computations, and comparisons to be able to figure out what a value was originally, and once you do you've only done it for that one key, whose value you still don't know.

Besides, the big foreseen uses of HE is in applications where the confidential data is going to be changing constantly, so once you've finally figured out what one value was, it'll be worthless to have it because computation has continued.
Show HN: FeedTarget - scaling targeting and context for Facebook content
I'll argue that signage and marking is already very well standardize and optimized for low ambiguity for human vision, but we are able to build things that humans cannot see but technology can.

The cars do have to be able to drive anywhere, but that doesn't mean we cannot improve quality of service in other areas. Suppose we can build roads where self driving cars can safely travel 100mph+ due to special infrastructure - I do see that as a big benefit.
Nice idea, showing the workflow of the design process can be sometimes very helpful ..
I'm on the beta-track: 21 is the latest beta. You have the latest official release.
I can't believe that you were willing to abbr. "Google" with "GOOG" but had to use "almost" in this sentence (utterly redundant word here) or "1 GB/sec" instead of "1 GB/s"

Sorry, i don't know how much "effort" you put into your abbreviation but your title looks like a dirty hack, i would never want on the front page.

Google Car gathers 1GB/sec. What it "sees" making Left turn

That would have been better in my opinion.

With all due respect, i think the Mod changing the title is justified in this case.
I can't imagine many too many cases where they'd be useful in everyday situations because if the car can't handle everyday situations then it's not going to be a good car and is going to sink to the "we're concerned for safety" lobbying that rivals will engage in to ban it off the road until they've caught up. Perhaps QR-code machine readable parking with the available hours, that'd be useful even without self-driving cars.

see:

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ParkingTransportandRoads/Par...

http://www.tamworth.nsw.gov.au/Images/UserUploadedImages/144...
Especially in context, the phrasing is ridiculous, but semantically it no different from "I refused to be bossed around by my phone".
He is off by an order of magnitude. The Velodyne 64 on that car only has a 100 Mbit connection [1]. Each of the 5-10 radars on that vehicle is connected over a 1MBit CAN bus [2]. The front facing is almost definitely a Gigi-E or Firewire camera so it's at most 1000MBit.

Doing the math: 100 + 10*1 + 1000 = 1100MBit != 8192Mbit (1 GB)

1. http://velodynelidar.com/lidar/products/brochure/HDL-64E%20S...

2. http://www.kvaser.com/zh/about-can/the-can-protocol/19.html
> I don't need to sign some online pledge to keep myself from pushing people in front of trains.

Neither do doctors really need the Oath of Hippocrates to stop themselves from harming people.
New FCC chairman is “former lobbyist for cable and wireless industries”
N64 was the opposite. Great console (hardware texture filtering was amazing compared to what the PS1 was offering), but serious lack of software.
That would be true if the policy gave women 16 weeks and men 8 weeks, regardless of whether or not the woman gave birth. But, as reported, if you did not give birth, for example if you adopted a child, you only get 8 weeks: even if you are a woman.

A larger point could be made that it's somewhat pointless to speculate about whether a policy is sexist when we're hearing a brief summary from a secondary source. A large aspect of this is how the policy is actually worded and carried out in practice.
Implement a programming language in 55 minutes
I would have never clicked the link to the twitter post if not for the callout to the "image".

Titles do change our behavior by proving us with clues with why we should be interested.
> People don't die or get harmed when some social-messaging application spams someone

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8284...
I really like Flex. It's supposedly flowed and buggy and abandoned though.

Yet I can easily write a dozen lines of code with my 1990s GUI knowledge that display 20,000 items in a sortable table and work at full speed in any browser -- while having endless performance problems/memory leaks when using HTML and various "data tables" plugins.

Maybe in 10 years we'll have something that will let you build a GUI right in the browser and will work cross-browser properly.
>> These are important and formative weeks during your child and family's development. A couple of my friends just had a baby, and I can see how much they cherish every moment they spend with him.

This cannot be overstated. The first few moments/hours/days/weeks/months of your child's life (especially your first) are insanely awesome/frightening/joyous/exciting/sleep-depriving/stressful/fun/inspiring/just-freaking-cool.

It's not an experience I would want to miss for any reason. I'll probably never understand people who go back to work after a week or two.
Stop Drawing Dead Fish by Bret Victor
TAOCP Knuth

C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

The Practice of Programming Kernighan and Pike
Ah, so we agree. Microsoft did not screw themselves in any way from their decisions. Excellent.
You're overreacting!

An isolation transformer would be of absolutely no use here and the optoisolator would provide the same functionality that the existing relays on that board do.

I can't see how the PC board is laid out so I can't verify if there is inadequate separation between the control side and the isolated side of the relay (even so, you only need about 5mm separation to be minimally safe at 120V), but barring that, it's fine!

Yes, this particular device is not explicitly designed to deal with all the hazards of switching a high voltage load, but I don't see anything that leads me to believe that it's unsafe for that purpose.
I guarantee you that part of PMarca and co's game plan here is to integrate the OpenCoin/Ripple technology with the Dwolla network.
Curious about Google Glass, Hallmark & Sprint fund Glass Explorer's documentary
New Bret Victor talk, Stop Drawing Dead Fish
Node & Scala haven't even defeated their predecessors yet. Another obscure functional language?
Does this mean that anybody can sign up on Airbnb and browse verified Name-to-Address matches for people? Plus the photos from inside their homes?
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Refusing to be bossed around by an inanimate object still seems somewhat ridiculous to me.