skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny probably is not the right word, but I like it when mathematical breakthroughs reinforce the public's perception of mathematicians as living in their minds, not in the world.

Because of that, I would find it more 'enjoyable' to see a proof that a polynomial time algorithm for TSP exists, than to see a proof by example, or to see a proof that go is a win for white or chess for black than to see a program that plays the game perfectly (and of course, within the space of constructive proofs, there are gradations. Exhaustive search would be extremely dull; a theory that generalizes to other problem spaces would be more interesting. Moving to another problem the various O(<n^3) matrix multiplication algorithms are 'funny' because, AFAIK, none of them has practical use.
Rather than focus on getting women and minorities hired at tech startups or encouraging them to major in computer science in college, there should be a push to turn them on to the discipline when they're still teenagers—or even younger.

Most movements and organizations dedicated to advancing minorities in CS have largely focused on the former.

While starting off younger does have advantages (although your skills might stagnate at a certain point where a person who started later has just caught up with you), I'm not familiar with any push to do so.

There's a push to introduce compulsory coding classes, but that's distinct.

Unsurprisingly, the article's only source to this claim is PG's out-of-context statement that already got beaten until it was a carcass.
std::vector does not have any virtual functions, so how comes it needs the vtable for this?

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/src/dbinit_stl_views-1.03.t...

Here they have some functions that inspect vector by means of _M_impl and friends, why can't gdb do this?
Basically look for the pro amateur demographic?
Will there be a Ubuntu package for Light Table which ensures all dependencies are met.
Google’s Robots and Creeping Militarization
I like langpop a lot, but is it showing C# correctly? On langpop, C# is shown as less popular than Ruby. Most of the other data sources that I have checked show Ruby as being only a fraction of the use of C#. C# is the dominant Microsoft language, and Microsoft still rules inside of large enterprises.

I do not work in large enterprises. In the universe that I inhabit, Ruby is popular and C# is unknown. I have always been curious that my own career seems so far out of step with what organizations like TIOBE show.

If it turns out that langpop is the most accurate of the data surveys out there, then it deserves credit for correctly showing the rise of Ruby.
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Why? Because they can and because they can sell the data. The only way to disable it would probably be physically removing the said device. Or winning a class action suit forcing Ford to provide disabling option as a recall fix.
I'm also in a similar position, although I found that my experience of shipping SaaS and software largely on my own is completely ignored. Never mind the challenging software design decisions and the amount of unpaid work one must put in before it starts to make money (software is hard but that's because I'm an Economics major with no clue about engineering and only useless information about the stock market I'm supposed to be able to predict). Not to mention that I've actually worked as software developer at a company for 2 years because obviously what could a guy without a CS degree actually have done such as changing and influencing the company's product design and features?

None of it matters because I don't have a CS degree and apparently reciting algorithms and your ability to solve it in the shortest time possible is an absolute indicator of your ability to contribute to a tiny fraction of that company's product that is far less challenging than anything I've done by myself.

I've pretty much given up going to interviews and back to focusing what really matters, ship more software and get rich.
I agree. Rich Hickey's talks are an excellent resource, and he refers to them as talks not as courses, even though he expects and hopes some people will learn something from them.

There's nothing to apologize for. It's just that it isn't a crash course, or a course of any kind for any meaningful meaning of "course".

And I meant what I said about the amount of effort and thought that the article represents being worthy of praise...and what I said about there being a need for actual courses in Clojure.
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While we are suggesting features, folders within folders please.

An estimation of how much your proof readers can actually read in the allotted times (i know it varies but perhaps 1000-1250 words would be better than 15 minutes).

A friends screen so I can share work without emailing.

Some of this might already have been done but its been a while since I used draft
The Lambda Calculus: Its Syntax and Semantics
Beyond the DNA database this could create, it's also for a for profit company and not a publicly released research?
no...
HoN was a good stopgap between Dota and Dota 2 - the engine was smooth and in the early days when they still worked with Icefrog the balance wasn't even too bad.

But I really think D2 outshines it in every way possible, mechanics, engine, art, balance, valve didn't sell my email to spammers, etc.
The third listed benefit of participating is

> Upon request, we will be happy to share your experimental results. It is understood that this is not an approved diagnostic test and results should not be used for medical diagnosis.
Don't forget to add PFS, Microsoft. And no NIST-corrupted curves, please.
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Ever wonder why you should choose VPS hosting over shared hosting. Hosting is important these days with the idea of 100% uptime.
Product/Market fit. Most think about changing the product, this is just changing the market.
Wow. Try this next time:

> Hey, thanks! I didn't write the css, and I can't change it, but I appreciate you trying to help :)
Incidentally, if you haven't tried writing something in Draft, I recommend it unreservedly. I haven't written a whole lot in it, but for the things I have written there, the process has been supremely pleasant, particularly when soliciting opinions from reviewers.
First time I heard of it was in the context of dogecoin which I assumed was something inspired by the Venetian Republic.
I'm not a sports fan by any means but I've been enjoying many of the ESPN sports documentaries.

My favourites:

Muhammad and Larry

The Two Escobars

Into the Wind

Once Brothers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30
Because of that, I am not sure can use them to count the number of 1 bits in a JavaScript number. For example, if x&0xFFFFFFFF equals 356621, what do you know of x?
Five or six postage stamp countries plus Norway, an extremely oil rich nation (in oil per capita terms).

The US remains the landmark.
"Even Microsoft VS does it better?" I have yet to see any debugger that's better than Microsoft's. Their compiler is behind GCC, clang, and others, but their debugging environment is unmatched.
This will merely make trolls create shell companies for each individual lawsuit. If a shell loses a lawsuit (i.e. patent found invalid), the winner can just pick up a lot of nothing.
Your stupid website can't display plain old text in a reasonable format without JavaScript. Go fix your stupid site.
That's a rule to be applied with a bit of nuance. Some things, especially in languages like Perl whose syntax already reads like a half-deliberate attempt to force an obscurantist style on the programmer, can't be made really obvious without doubling or tripling the length of the code in which they're implemented, something which imposes its own cost in readability and maintainability. In cases like that, it can be useful to add a few comment lines which briefly restate what the code implements, as both an aide-memoire for the original developer, and a minimal but immediately accessible answer to the question of "what the hell is this doing?" on the part of those who follow.
In other words, don't use elliptic curves? And, therefore, don't use forward secrecy? Does current browser support for curves even allow you to set up a "NIST-free" ECDHE TLS server?
So, why stop short of implementing PFS? An oversight?
A company like home depot or kelly moore paints would have a tough time relying on open source for all their operational software.

For vertical software systems, probably. For applications developed in-house, I'm guessing that even at Home Depot or Kelly Moore it's the other way around -- more and more, you have to make a good case for using a proprietary library. The connotations of "open source" have changed somewhat, and open source libraries are becoming the norm, even at large old-school software businesses, where the lawyers hate open source.
Or find people who know they're doing something inefficiently, but need it done badly enough that they're doing it anyway.

Ridiculously common case.
Tu quoque?

Yeah, there's corruption in the US/Europe/Japan et al, but that level of corruption is dwarfed by the deeply systemic corruption up to the highest levels in China and Russia, among other places. The fact is you can't even tell what China's GDP is within a factor of maybe +/- 50% due to that corruption.
Issuer: "Microsoft Internet Authority"

Just like with Google: Google Internet Authority. Interesting to see big companies not trusting intermediate CA's anymore that they go through the length of becoming a CA themselves. However it could also be a cost effective strategy.
This report was published in early 2013, and it appears the only update since the beginning of May was for MySpace[0]. The report doesn't take into account any of the new information we acquired in 2013 or the "transparency reports" some of these companies have added. As others have pointed out, considering what we know now, the approach (or at least the categories) probably isn't particularly relevant anymore--we need to take much more into consideration. I'm looking forward to what the EFF comes up with for this year.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130501214421/https://www.eff.o... , https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.eff.org/who-has-yo...
Is "Social Media Guru" still a thing?
Netflix/s3mper: consistency for s3
>Economies are power. If you have the largest economy you are the most powerful nation because if push came to shove, you can out produce a lesser economic power and win a war of attrition.

If that were true, China would be on similar footing to the US, militarily. But it's not. Not even close.

I'll grant that given equal military spending, China would catch up to the US eventually, but it would probably take a decade or three. That's a decade or three of equivalent military spending. And right now China isn't spending anywhere near the US rate.
[This is also a bit promotional]

Although I do think Medium is doing a great job of letting you discover some good reading material, I often find it a bit confusing too.

Not too long I co-created http://thetechblock.com out of similar frustration of not being able to find good tech-related articles. Reddit often doesn't show the stuff we find, Techmeme is very Silicon Valley oriented and HN can get a bit noisy. Feel free to let me know what you guys think.
No, that's what people tell themselves so they feel better about second place. In fact, it's both a little infuriating and embarrassing.

America didn't/doesn't have to fall to second place but we kind of did it to ourselves. We're going to be #2 in a lot of things, so let's get over it now.
Yeah its bad.

Being devils advocate for a moment, is it the "cage" look thats alarming? Without those bed fences, millions of people around the world, in different countries live very similarly.

Personally I never understood why people think the world is overpopulated. The split side is that maybe the rich and the above-average families are just living too wealthy with so much real estate. As that becomes more of the perceived "standard" for prosperity, the low income class would live in a such tragic condition.

- Basically as the rich want more, the poor would have less.

- Granted I am not talking about distribution but actually talking about if the mentality of living more frugal are in for most people, then there might be a possible economic shift.
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I would rather see an actual, functional product take off (even without miners). The resistance to Ripple just enables an endless series of me-too fundraisers.

The ethereum proposal is the most technical yet. Hopefully it sets a new minimum bar in the market for crowd-funded vaporware (I'm highly skeptical of them all).
Or you could try designing a better site if you want people to read your content. Trust me, I'm sure we can all live without it. Line length should never be that long. Also, many sites are not just one column of text so there are many reasons I would have my browser this size.
I built a number of those open source libraries (Summingbird, Storehaus, Algebird, etc) - often more than 50% of our contributions would come from outside Twitter. Scalding has far more outside activity than inside, where a few talented folks are holding down the fort.
So far, no outside/foreign social networking site have successfully exploit SE Asia even after their explosive growth in that region.

Friendster, dead.

Multiply, dead.

Plurk, soon to be dead (or dead already).

There's a big boom in Asia in general that is a known fact. But when it comes to SE Asia, the profit margin is small in USD unless you're operating under the local currency (i.e.: have your office there, do your business there, etc).

If the HQ is in SF where everybody lives and breathes SF bubble and not in SE Asia or Indonesia, you won't have much insight other than some generic dataset (country X loves to post pictures, for example).

Web-apps that make money tend to be E-commerce sites (http://tiket.com) that have complex affiliates behind it.

Eyeballs type of apps (web, mobile, anything) generate lifestyle business, not Facebook level IPO.

The real winner is the founder who can flip his/her company for multi-million-(usa)-dollars to the highest bidder (typically the conglomerate family).

PS: Oddly enough, SE Asia is where the phone companies peaked and die. Nokia, Blackberry, the pattern is striking!
Here's the problem I see with both population decline and life extension: lots of research indicates that the creative peak happens from 20-40 or so. Geniuses rarely continue to be the same level of productive after that. In other words, progress is probably better served by giving two people the chance to live 50 years than one person the chance to live 100, though resource consumption is about the same. An aging society, one without new generations of people with new ideas, is not a vital and creative one. Progress is served by turnover.
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Note that the ultimate source for this chestnut is a recruiter at JobSpring. Whose livelihood revolves around propagating the idea the labor market is so H-O-T-T, and that it's so impossibly hard to find developers without resorting to outside recruiters.

So maybe the real story should be "why no one wants to talk to recruiters anymore, no matter who they're hiring for, or how much they're offering."
"could you just really quickly" is a long way from a sincere attempt to help.
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Smart ass kid gets owned :D
zsh has this feature built in. Look up named directories.
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Literate comments are as a gateway drug to literate programming.
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Going to need those TPS reports.
It's unclear from what you just said whether it would consist of just one algorithm problem, or whether it would consist of one algorithm problem and then other questions about frameworks.

Algorithms generally means data structures and algorithms. Stuff like hash tables, sorting, linked lists, binary search, trees, tree traversal methods, runtime complexity. Despite what it sounds like, this is considered basic data structures and algorithms, material that can be covered in one CS class. It's material you could learn through self-study over the course of a month.

For front end developers frameworks/stack/communication probably means questions involving basic knowledge of jQuery and how the DOM works. Also might include questions about anything you list on your resume (e.g. if you list Backbone.js on your resume you might expect questions about Backbone's MVC system, events, etc.). Also might ask you non-coding 'architectural' questions where they ask you to describe in broad terms how you would construct something.
Only if you have an ego that shatters at the lightest feedback.
Cue the self-documenting, we-don't-need-no-stinking-comments rabble rousers in 3, 2, 1...

AND that's one reason why we're not an actual profession, people.
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043851

In short: SE Asia is where Social Networking sites die.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see people come and try to turn this around (e.g.: make money as a hi-tech company in my home country) but so far the facts have stated otherwise.
it was funny that just 3 days ago wallstreet journal talked about this: IBM Struggles to Turn Watson Computer Into Big Business
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230488710...

It would be more convincing if Watson accomplished some real knowledge archievment such as finding a cure for a specific disease, or publish some papers enhance our understanding of some research topics ...

Unix starts small, it works. Google starts small, it helps us tremendously. Haven't seen something starts as a big business plan can success greatly? even Microsoft started small ...
It should be Government is the Crisis, but let's not shake up your worldview.
With the amount of subdomains they use, and seeing as they each have a browser with significant market share, it's a no-brainer. I'm frankly surprised it took so long for them to bring such an essential security task in-house.
A positive contribution to society and a positive contribution to the planet aren't necessarily the same. Sure, more intellectuals mean faster societal development. That doesn't take away from the pressure an increased population places on our limited natural resources.
I agree. I actually approach my learning in a very similar way. Thus I show value by my portfolio of apps (http://garyyauchan.com/) with ideation and designs, and codes I build through passionate googling.

Granted, the other view is that you need to know the "foundation" and the "why" in order to solve problems more efficiently.
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Yep: http://www.waywordradio.org/mezangelle_1/.
It's worth noting that Doctorow is neither a US citizen nor resident.
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people
don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it
would be a good idea to give them."

-- The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
LOL even my blog with free SSL cert from startssl gets A. I suppose that's nothing to brag about. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ahmetalpbalka...
Is the Mobile Developer crunch over?
Coffee shops, malls, cafes, diners, bars, libraries, Meetups, parks, schools, etc. Build a repertoire, find ways to avoid traffic, crowds, etc. Anywhere you can bring a laptop. Buy a WIFI hotspot. Keep an extra battery. Bring snacks. Variety is the key. They all have advantages/disadvantages. And you'll find entrepreneurs everywhere, not just coworking spaces.
I agree wholeheartedly. The syntax doesn't even have to be extremely obscure, it can be highly useful in lower-level languages such as C as well: Often, I just want to get a quick idea of what the next big block of code is going to do without having to read the entire block of code.
Anecdotally, most people can't really differentiate between what really needs to get done, and what their specific tools do. They might not have the sophistication to be able to abstract "word processor" from "MS Word". To them, they don't do "word processing", they fire up Word and write. (And indeed, some people are so confused that they say things like they'll 'load up Windows to write my paper'.)

The more bespoke the tooling, the more this tends to be true. For example, in areas like project management, which is not an inherently technical discipline, you have good project managers clinging to old tools for dear life because they were really hard to learn, they do the job, and the benefit of new tools just isn't that great (which is especially true of over-promising and under-delivering tools). Yes, practitioners use sophisticated tools, but I think they would be hard pressed to really abstract away what MS Project does for them.
such ignorant, so confuse, nice doge

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I think you're on the right track, because your hardware is going to be ripped off no matter what. It happens to big companies that obfuscate their designs and it happens to open hardware projects too. At least by freely releasing your designs, a legitimate user can manufacture their own parts instead of just the black-market manufacturers.
R u in any way impeding his work? Do you harrass him (explicitly or implicitly) or do any other kind of irritation. That might also be the reason. I don't think its his fault though.
Decide on the best use cases for your project, find niche communities specifically for those groups and jump in.
Thank you for taking the time to organise and post this, very interesting and educational.
Why? Are American manufacturers any more trustworthy? Most electronics products heavily rely on the Chinese supply chain anyway, regardless of where their final assembly takes place.
There's also DHE, which is not "NIST-corrupted" I guess. As far as I know, in theory it should be possible to use the Brainpool curves in TLS, but haven't seen such a thing in actual use.
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If you think they violated any law, then lawyer up. But if you think they might screw you, if you lawer up then u don't have any option.
introspectively, given that you recommend it unreservedly, why do you think you haven't written a whole lot in it?

(no relation to author or project, just curious.)
In High School?

Try: before you're even born.
I thought Draft was already a successful service. You make it sound like this is a Show HN for an unknown site. Still good and valid feedback though.
There are services aimed at e.g. PR departments for enterprise that do something a little like what you've described.

I believe https://hootsuite.com/ is this sort of thing, but I haven't looked into it myself. I don't know how well it integrates into your actual "own site".

edit: also https://onlywire.com/ seems to be the same sort of thing. I've just found these by Googling, though.
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What do you mean by free?
> Here's the problem I see with both population decline and life extension: lots of research indicates that the creative peak happens from 20-40 or so.

I'm not sure that's as clear as you think it is. There's a number of issues and confounds which mean that simply plotting age vs achievement can be very misleading. Check out "Age and Outstanding Achievement: What do We Know After a Century of Research?" http://www.resources.emartin.net/blog/docs/AgeAchievement.pd... , Simonton 1988
"So it's ironic that, despite all these established old-media recommendation engines, there was nothing for one of my favourite media - online articles."

Prismatic[0] comes to mind.

[0]: http://getprismatic.com