skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally the first kernel I fiddled with was Haiku's, followed by BSD. The latter especially was far easier to understand (especially the old versions) than linux is today, IMO. Not that that's a bad thing per se, as linux is incredibly functional, but when I was getting into os development, having something to read through that I could grok easily was more important. I'm currently hacking on RetroBSD, which as it's based on BSD 2.1, is quite nice! Runs on my new Fubarino board too, at least in theory. I haven't quite got it booting yet ;)
How do you think it would help with composition?
Many programming language related terms, movie titles, cities/postal codes, ... All those things can be judged better when the search engine has prior knowledge about you. You don't have to be "truly locked into your own tiny little world" to have previous search be a valuable predictor of what kind of results you expect.
Here's a better link for Analogy is the Core of Cognition:

http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.h...
I can't speak to your personal experiences, but clearly you didn't really struggle to gain acceptance on merit, despite the discouragement you encountered .. your enthusiasm and ability overcame that.

From what I understand, once these people heard you speak or worked with you, they treated you basically as one of them. That some were initially "surprised" with a female hacker wearing heels likely has less to do with stereotyping than sheer probability.

But what you seem to be asking is that they change their identity so that "outsiders" would feel more comfortable. That seems like a lot to ask, of anyone, for any reason.

I'm totally ok with this point of view when it comes to large tech companies. As a company like Facebook grows, it has to mature and accommodate a more diverse workforce, the majority of which would not self-identify as "hackers".

Startups, and the recent hullaballoo over pg's interview, are a slightly different beast. Founding a startup is somewhere in between a marriage and a business partnership. You can't tell someone who to marry or who to be friends with .. and consequently what to look for in a co-founder. You also can't force users to like products or services they simply don't want.

And when it comes to high school, there are a (lot)^2 worse problems than fashionable girls temporarily feeling slightly unwelcome at the computer club. Such as, for example, the psychopathic bullying that is part and parcel of high school life and that many "stereotypical hackers" had to endure.
If they are seizing and searching your laptop, it isn't because you're violating ITAR or carrying dual-use spreadsheets. There are few legitimate reasons why the authorities should be at all interested in the data on your devices when you are entering an area where both free speech and privacy are considered rights.

Among other goals, they are assembling profiles on dissenters, to be used against them later. If you give them something that appears legal but still potentially embarrassing, that's disinformation that might save you from a stronger attack later.

This differs from a narcotics search in that having data on electronic devices is not a crime. They could not perform such a search anywhere but at a border crossing.
It's been suggested that the sweetening of acidic wine using lead vessels was a far greater toxicity risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate#Sweetener
Stanford, while i applaud the effort, you're not revealing anything. Code poetry has existed LONG before anyone in your halls had the idea for such an event. Here's an example from 1990: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

Have some humility.
This subject made me remember a famous quote by Alan Kay:

"The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs."
Yep, that's the one I was talking about.
If you're a man and are gender queer or gender fluid you could always apply here: http://kernelnewbies.org/OPWApply

If you happen to be a person of color or disabled you could always apply here: http://www.findinternships.com/2013/04/Explore-Microsoft-Int...

Or if you happen to be a straight white man you can apply for one of hundreds of linux kernel internships already dominated by straight white men (e.g. http://jobs.akamai.com/job/Cambridge-Linux-Kernel-System-Sof...)
If you're into this kind of thing, here's a great tutorial breaking down creating Justice vs. Simian Mobile Disco - We Are Your Friends... The teacher does a fantastic breakdown on how to create this type of sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c03Gm3rMAmI
When something is described as "prententious" it piques my interest. I often admire pretention and don't take is the pejorative most people seem to intend it as.
This! The branding of Bing is terrible. When I see the big picture I always think: this has nothing to do with what I'm looking for - and "what I'm looking for" should be the single most important thing for a search engine.
If you don't make some allowance for other people's behavior in your ethical system, your ethical strategy can easily be subverted by someone else that does.

In game theory simulations, strategies that respond to counterparty behaviors, such as tit-for-tat, always outperform those that do not, such as always-cooperate, always-reneg, and random-choice strategies.

Your strategy is apparently always-cooperate. It's a loser. If you do not penalize bad behavior or unbalanced deals, they will become more prevalent in the environment.
>> GVR himself has acknowledged everything I said

> I hate to be picky, but he only acknowledged portions of what you said.

Read it and for me he did not acknowledge anything at all.
See: Christopher Alexander
Yes, and he has discussed his fear on the launch of Read it Later, but the non effect (it was it a slight bump?) on his sales. To me however, that is a courteous approach. Apple saw and copied with a better implementation that 3rd parties couldn't copy.
I'm working on an android app that will sync to a git repository. The very basics are working. Been putting off the sync settings UI, though.
How To De-lid Your Ivy Bridge CPU Without a Razor Blade
Lichess activity
Bam. Lovely book.
#1 is exactly why I'm about to start coding an Evernote->Plaintext export script in Python. Look forward to it in the next couple of days man.
While we are at it, any advice of how to market such software? I mean, when there is more or less saturated market.

Thanks!
Here's an experiment: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/367278/report-new-york-...

I.e. there are zero controls for the ballots, at least in New York. What data your assertion that this is impossible bases on, again?
Yes, working remotely works for me. Freelance is a good thing but I wanted to be part of a company to learn and understand organizational structures and how hierarchy really works at software companies. I've read a lot about these things. I want to experience them and learn through my experience.

I'm interested! I would love to do open source stuff. I program in Python, Ruby, JavaScript mainly. I know pretty decent Java, Scala, SQL, and shell programming.
Very few UL power adapters are as good as the ones Apple makes. I ran a bunch of my USB charger "cubes" at medium load and looked at their output on my o-scope one time. Most of the UL listed adapters had way more noise than the Apple one, even at just 500mA. There was one other manufacturer's charger that was as good as the Apple charger, but I can't remember off the top of my head who it was... I think it might have been HP or Asus or something.
Try their other site. MyPermissions.com
Visualizing the iOS App Store via D3.js
Empirical evidence of this theory: bacteria still haven't developed a resistance to soap, which we have been using to kill them for at least a hundred years now.
Folks,

We hear your concerns. I just wrote about my thoughts on the subject, and our plans for 2014, on our blog: http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2014/01/04/on-software-quality...

Thank you for caring enough to be on this thread,

- Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote
Why are you giving more details to the recruiters? Based on what you wrote, shouldn't you say "we don't work through recruiters" and hang up?

I gave the geographical one as an example that was easy to understand. I work in a specialized subfield of computational chemistry. I work for myself. There are three major classes of developers: 1) people working in software companies, 2) people working in academia, or 3) people working at pharmaceutical companies. I'm in group #1. The developers I know are in group #1 and #2, because those working in #3 are usually working on in-house software that typically remains private for several years before doing any publications.

If I wanted a job, I would want to work in #3, because I like working directly with scientists. On the other hand, I don't have good contacts outside of the actual developers in various companies. While a good recruiter would.

Even better, consider an in-house software developer at AstraZeneca near Boston (group #3) and who wanted to work for another pharma or biotech in the area, of which there are many. Odds are that person wouldn't have that many contacts, because most in-house developers can't talk about their jobs in public, or work on public projects related to their job. It seems that a good recruiter would be the way to go even there.

"building a database of tech companies in Madrid would take an evening"

Yes, that's a large city. Santa Fe has 65,000 people. People in those situations have to be a lot broader in the search, which takes time. There's lots of small companies that I could have worked for, ranging from chemistry or GIS to futures trading or human factors analysis, and there's no centralized listing for those.

While in a large city you can search for "<specialization> Madrid", and odds are that someone at least has put a decent list together already.

"No it doesn't."

I was reacting to "They’re going to complain about overtime." I worked overtime. I worked a lot of overtime when I was starting off. I am convinced that overtime is generally an indication that the company wants its employees to work for free. Want to convince me otherwise? Pay your employees time and a half for working overtime.

I worked overtime even in a company with two days per month vacation time. Which I like nearly everyone else never took, because we felt we needed to work hard in a startup. Many even came in to work on the weekends. And in the end, those stock options? Worthless.

I was also reacting to the "bad-ass senior developers their extortionate hourly rates." I am a "bad-ass senior developer" in my field. There's a reason I charge "high hourly rates" - my time is worth it. That you think the rate is "extortionate" (and not simply "expensive") implies that you don't think bad-ass senior developers are worth market rates. Since you likely want bad-ass senior developers, this suggests you would rather pay people less than they are worth.
It might be a bad assumption on my part. I have no idea what it's like to work at Apple. Perhaps all employees are allowed to work on whatever they want, and pursue their personal passions.
I hardly ever smoke it in public, and most cops I have come across don't seem to be that relaxed.

> but I've stood in the centre of Antwerp smoking a joint chatting to a police officer

Did you offer him next up?
Re: Your response to point (1). My statement stands. A development cost of $50k is a development cost of $50k regardless of how many copies are sold. Pirated copies do not cost the developer extra production expenses the way stolen physical merchandise would. If someone stole copies of Excel from a Best Buy, there would be costs associated with the packaging, DVD production, distribution, etc. that would need to be absorbed in order to replace the lost product. The only added cost per item online is the bandwidth cost, but that is absorbed by the person distributing cracked software rather than the original developer.
Yes, don't get me wrong. Overall the article was really good, and captured nuance and details on how the Ocean deals with this sort of thing in a way that I haven't seen done before. I just think it could have been an extraordinary article if she'd co-authored with an expert in Nuclear Radiation.

She (slightly) committed the sin of believing that just because she's an expert in Oceanography, that she could also carry water in another scientific field.
I have perfect pitch and I find it to be generally enjoyable.

It's useful, to some degree, in a musical setting; I find it very easy to hear music and reproduce it immediately (including chord/key analysis, etc). It's fun to take random songs I hear during my day and go about dissecting them.

However it has its pain points. I waste time analyzing useless things like the hum of the refrigerator or the sound of water dripping because everything sounds like a musical note. Also, I can't stand people / instruments that are not in tune. This includes professional pop artists / singers -- a lot of them sound awfully off key to me, even though in reality they probably are within a tolerance level. Ditto going to karaoke with friends who cannot sing. It destroys my ears and gives me headaches.
I guess that works well when the 50 companies know what the fuck they're about. There are only 2 or 3 companies that have pragmatic programmers because they do real stuff. The rest on the list pop the champagne at mediocre results. No thanks, that's not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking to challenge myself with something worthwhile. I'm not looking at fat salaries. No!
"All .pyc files now kept in a __pycache__ directory"

That's actually great.
All you need to do to get that done is disable the extension. Once that's done, there is no access.
I mentioned it because the solicitation is a fact that may have a place in the discussion. Even if ultimately proven unrelated, I don't think it's irresponsible to bring up hard facts that can add to the discussion.
It seems to me that a project that should take a year should have contracts that last for the entire duration.

If we're talking about professionalism, at what point did you bring up to the client that their quarterly contracting strategy leaves them extremely vulnerable to losing critical personnel before the work gets finished? I think what happened there is that they leveraged their project management flexibility against your sense of integrity, and you lost.
That's disingenuous - I was talking about the normal limits on free expression (shouting 'fire' in the theater) and gave some concrete examples. Surely you're not suggesting it is viable for a foreign company to undermine a country's judiciary in the name of it's 'free expression'? (And let's not pretend that Google is following a social or cultural mission rather than a business one.)

Media ownership limits are about market monopolies, not scarcity, newspapers being a prime example.
> OO is not the "one true way"

Personally, I think C++'s big win over C++ is not OOP but generics. You can do OOP in C if you want; you can't do generics efficiently and safely.
i think it's a good concept but I'm not sure it's good enough to compete with existing methods of finding movies.
The funny thing about radioactive materials is that there's a big tradeoff in terms of short-term vs long-term danger.

Say we have two samples of radioactive isotopes, both of equal mass and which produce the same particles when they decay. Sample A has a very short half-life (let's say minutes). Sample B has a very long half-life (let's say centuries). Sample A is much more dangerous right now but, in a few weeks it will be mostly gone. Sample B, having hardly decayed at all, will be the bigger threat then. In a single catastrophic release, as in the case of Fukushima, you'd probably prefer to have a lot of B sent out. It'll be around for a while, but it's not too deadly and will disperse, effectively raising the ocean's background radiation by an imperceptible amount. A huge release of A might do a lot of localized damage. If you have a slow, continuous leak, B might actually be worse though, since it could build up while A will not.

Cesium 137 and 134 have moderate half-lives of 30 and 2 years respectively. Iodine 131 has a shortish half-life of 8 days. It's been 666 days (Gee, I wonder why this is popping up today!) since the Fukushima incident, so the Iodine 131 had now decayed to 0.5^(666/8) or roughly 1e-25 of it's original strength. It's basically gone. The Cesium will be around for a while, but it's a lot less dangerous than the Iodine was.

Funny Aside: Cs-137 is very commonly used in undergraduate student laboratories. Samples of it are relatively safe to handle without safety equipment and it doesn't need to be replaced very often. I once TA'd a lab course where students were asked to do some experiments with CS-137 and, in their write-up's, calculate the effective dose they received. Most got the right answer, but a few messed up their units and wound up with ginormous doses that would have killed a zombified rhinoceros! Some of these students noticed this and reasoned they must have made a mistake, since we probably wouldn't try to kill our students. A couple did get very concerned though! Most just didn't notice, which was a tad depressing for me.
Frankly, if I were choosing which of Richard Stallman and Bill Gates had demonstrated a more effective way to make money, I'd probably go the other way.
True, but we have to look at the risk. Is cleaning your hands thoroughly with sopa after going to the bathroom makes you healthier or cleaning your desk often with chemical makes you healthier?

If a desk is infected with some deadly virus or bacteria, then cleaning the desk with chemical is apparently the right thing to do.

But if not, because that odd is low than compare to not washing your hand after taking a poop, then sure cleaning your desk with chemical is not a top priority. I don't clean my desk with chemical. I apply water and I wipe it, unless the stain can only be removed with chemical. Because I know that my desk will just be as dangerous as the rest if I continue to let it expose to the open air. But what is immediate threat to me? Sleeping late, exposing myself in a crowd coughing, not washing my hands after restroom, no shower for a week, and eating junk food every day makes me weaker.
that site is pretty cool although i'm appalled to see they list Aguirre the Wrath of God as highly rewatchable... once is enough.
It's a poor analogy for many reasons, not the least of which is to SJ:
- Taste mattered a great deal - he definitely did have a "fear for bad taste"
- Things being perfect and working perfectly out of the box without "5 mn of their precious time checking a connection" mattered a great deal
- User experience mattered more than price
- SJ wasn't interested in commodities

Also I don't know why you would refer to the guys as "ugly" and why you exclaim that "and these guys are Chinese!" There's something subtly racial about your view in the whole post. Would it be any less of an exclamation if they were Peruvian?
yea there are so many crap movies out there that you need to do some heavy pre filtering
Now that is some cherry-picking.
Keeping it in perspective though, the 2006-2008 crisis had our banks eating up, over three years, an entire year's worth of GDP in government bailouts (including secret federal reserve bailouts). And that was damage reduction.

I am not saying things would not be bad if, say, BCA and similar banks were to collapse here in Indonesia. If they did, the corporate world here (including the toll roads) would be sorely hurt. And people would lose savings. And much more. However, there are catastrophes and there are catastrophes. I am hard pressed to imagine a case where the results would be worse than the 2006 crisis in the US.
I'm very aware I need experience. That's why I'm looking for a job. Okay so my main reason for looking for a job is because I want to grow and learn as much as I can while being on a team at my workplace. There are very few good programmers here (in Ghana) compared to the US or Europe. I can only grow so much if I don't get a job in the top 2 or 3 companies in Ghana. IMO it's different with the US where there are millions way better than me and there's tons of good companies. It's easier to find the opportunity and environment to grow to become a better programmer.

I can move on afterwards.
Our environment is full of bacteria. Our body is capable of having bacteria inside.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but...

But when the immune system is not capable of handling them, you become sick.
Usually they are paid be purchase, irrespective of the number of clicks.
"get awareness among developers for hiring"

Certainly. So is giving everyone £25 for showing up to a meeting. Remember, your reference £9,000 is only paid out when you've actually hired someone. How many hackathons do you need to sponsor before you have an employee?

(While there may be a secondary marketing advantage if the attendees of your hackathon are also potential customers, most likely that's not the case. And of course, there are additional time overheads for any route.)
Some clients use certificate pinning of known popular XMPP hosts. For example, ChatSecure (née GibberBot) on Android appears to use Moxie's certificate pinning for cert chains of a few well-known Jabber servers (like Google and Facebook's), so you will get a warning if they ever start presenting you with new certificates from a different CA.

The implementation leaves a little to be desired; the way it's implemented, any of the CAs for any of the pinned organizations could issue certs that could MITM you, but that's still a lot less than the usual default list of CAs in the system trust store.
I can say, bluntly:

You have absolutely no competence to determine that.
I wish there is a drive like Zip, that is cheaper and slower then HDD and simply allows me to backup with a Plug and Go manner.

And HDD becomes bigger, it is no longer safe to store it on 1 HDD since a single Failure will wipe out everything.
Unfortunately OwnCloud is written in sloppy PHP, and is therefore roughly equivalent to storing things for the NSA.
If you read the links I posted, you would know that a safe temperature for the surrounding water is up to 65C. Why don't you read the links to answer for yourself, what happens if the water goes above that temperature?

(BTW I did use hot in quotes, to make it clear I was referring to the fact that there is still low level fission occurring.)
Shenanigans! I call shenanigans!

I would seriously doubt 10% of a university class on Comp Sci has read this book let alone a high school class of any standard. I remember reading this but can't remember finishing it so I presume I'm one of the multitude who let it slide halfway through.