skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's talking about an education in computing for teenagers who will typically be sitting exams at ages 16 and 18, for GCSE and A-Level qualifications respectively - not a rant about undergraduate education, as you seem to be implying.

Here's more details on what these subjects are composed of; it's quite basic stuff: http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/ict-and-computer-science
So does the phones without physical keyboards, using touch pens, until Apple figured out how to eliminate that damn pen and just use fingers and here we are today. I give it a benefit of doubt - I doubt that what has been done to 3d displays is all what can be done ;)
As someone who went to school at Waterloo, I think I have to side with the author here.

Where did I learn how to use git and how to write Android applications? Certainly not at school -- I did it on the dime of some very generous employers that were hoping to woo me into working for them after I graduated. Students gossip about which employers are best -- if a co-op student isn't growing during their experience, then (as an employer) you're going to have a hell of a time retaining the kids when they graduate.

What did I learn in class? Algorithms, data structures, and other fundamentals that are required to grok (let alone answer) the kinds of questions that come up in interviews. Interesting stuff, but almost entirely tangential to industry skills.

The only reason Waterloo students post-graduation are "useful" in the workplace is because they've been in the workplace -- with almost two years of experience!
Great job. Tks
How Jurgen Klinsmann Plans to Make U.S. Soccer Better (and Less American)
Least some on read the side note.
Some perspective, but doesn't necessarily change my point. Why should we allow CS to be bludgeoned into the same awful educational pattern of memorization and ...irrelevance... that we've allowed to happen to mathematics? Students often hate math because of the awful, disconnected, uninspired way it is taught. Spend time teaching students how to make games with Unity or iPhone apps or whatever! Not only can teachers use those as amazing vehicles for CS fundamentals, but a teenager who builds something real and has fun doing it has a much better chance of actually becoming interested in CS.
Watch the movie.
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If the RS/6000 and System Z lines are anything to go by, then, yes?
yup! i will do that!
for now, the link you found on the github repository is just for test purpose, so feel free to create an random account with a fake email account just to try it out :)
I've thought long and hard about it... Still makes no difference.

For it to make a difference you would have to leap to the conclusion that a woman stole the car, stole a kid (?), and then left the stolen car and the kid in the parking lot, which is now very conspicuous in the US (apparently). That could only make sense if you assumed average moms are child snatching car thieves.

I'm told only 2 in 10 mom's snatch kids and only 1 in 10 of those steal cars. So there's only a 2% chance of that happening at once!
Source? There is no mention on Macrumors on "Swift" before June 2.
I assume it was unintentional. Your last paragraph appears rather opaque to my tired mind.
> Only bloggers have the patience (or obsessive compulsive disorder) to follow one company every day.

> I wrote story after story, [... but] I was naive. My hope was that when it became clear to the public what was happening at [...] that things would change.

Bet you were called a stalker and cyberbully.
Want to buy a jail, never used?
There are a few companies that host Mac VPS instances, and the one I used back in 2011 was running on XServe's using what looked like a bare metal VMWare solution (Parallels had one too I believe). Rare even back then though, Mini's are definitely more common.
I did this recently and was able to start directly with Mavericks with no trouble.

This is also a useful article that I read in addition to Gabriel's work to get this working:
http://blog.ostanin.org/2014/02/11/playing-with-mac-os-x-on-...

It's great that we can finally virtualize OS X with no hacks to the guest.
I hope not - an application that does something that looks almost like video already available to any modern phone and requires motion to be displayed? Hardly worth the launch event, hype, marketing money&effort and doesnt seem any way revolutionary or cool to me. But of course, I might be absolutely wrong about it and that's cool too.
yes, circa 1996 maybe...
I thought ceramic dust was toxic, at least in the large quantities a fleet of cars would produce? Is that not the case?
I hate being a naysayer - this is cool technology - but the energy economics won't work out for metal-air batteries if they're used as the main power source. Recharging a metal-air battery is grossly inefficient, and a big part of the advantage with electric cars is that they use less energy in every step of the process except initial manufacturing. This means that the general economics of metal-air batteries will not work out either, because the system requires a physical supply chain that is much more expensive to build out than the electricity distribution network that already exists. Add to this that range anxiety is for the most part eliminated with >60kWh electric vehicles, and this is a no-starter.

Where metal-air batteries could have a place, is as a trickle charging device that will be replaced only rarely, perhaps during an annual checkup, and used as a backup only on the few occasions where fast charging is unavailable or unwanted. But battery vehicle companies are onto this idea already - the Tesla Model S has space for what some suspect is in fact an upgrade slot where a metal-air trickle charging battery can be installed.

The problem is, most mainstream news articles writing about progress in battery-electric vehicles are already far behind the state of the art. Tesla's innovation and execution in this space has largely removed range anxiety for all but a small (<5%) number of trips, and already have a very strong quick charging presence in multiple countries. The future is electric and is already here - most people just haven't noticed.
Linux Boot Process in a nutshell
pySpread is very close to what you are looking for. Leo editor lets you embed python scripts into other documents. IPython isn't all that far away, but a different direction.

http://leoeditor.com/
http://manns.github.io/pyspread/
Yeah that div check works I guess, but as you say is horribly expensive.

For the latter it looks like at least on recent versions of gcc, you can do something like (WARNING: Just a vague proof of concept, please don't use it. It might kill kittens):

uint64_t func(uint64_t a, uint64_t b)
{
unsigned __int128 res = (unsigned __int128)a * (unsigned __int128)b;
if (res >> 64) {
asm volatile ("nop;" ::); /* handle here */
}
return (uint64_t)res;
}

Which compiles to this in gcc -Os and -O3:

0:	48 89 f8	mov %rdi,%rax
3:	48 f7 e6	mul %rsi
6:	48 85 d2	test %rdx,%rdx
9:	74 01	je c <func+0xc>
b:	90	nop
c:	f3 c3	repz retq

Which I'm pretty sure could be optimized further by using the overflow flag, but the compiler doesn't seem to want to ignore the upper word.

edit: and it probably suffers the same problem as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848771 -- and also probably has general issues with signedness that would need to be further checked.

edit2: changed it to uints to simplify and avoid a whole class of problem. I still don't think you should go use this, though.

(inspiration from SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13187798)
The Cowboys themselves were modeled after the Hogs and Giants offensive lines of the 80's. The competing archtype in the late 80's early 90's was the lighter, more agile offensive lines of the 49ers.
This doesn't make sense.

You're saying that Football (where hitting another player is illegal) is as dangerous as American Football, where hitting another player with the full weight of your body at high momentum is the point of the game for most positions.

Does not compute.

From the study you linked to:

> Contact with another person was the risk factor responsible for most concussions among high school athletes.

You could play an entire season of Football without ever coming into contact with another player. Unless you were a Marvel superhero, that wouldn't be possible in American Football.

I skimmed the study you linked to an the conclusion was merely that Football and American Football had the highest rates of concussion... compared to what... track and field athletics? DUH!!
Oh cool, I definitely missed that!
Looks like they're moving around a 3D cube on a tablet screen.
The idea is it's a backup battery instead of a backup gasoline engine. Being "nearly as expensive as gasoline" could still be a win because it could be used in electric vehicles without having to add a backup generator engine. Also it could have other benefits like being safer (less combustible), producing fewer emissions on the road, and weighing less than gas.

That said, I'm not saying I'm believer in this tech
>Every issue you described are issues from 2-3 years ago.

Sorry, these issues were experienced by me this year. On hardware that is not defective as it works flawlessly on Windows.

>They have all been solved, especially in the major distros.

No they haven't. It has not been fixed. Neither my GPU issues nor my Audio issues have been fixed.

>A current version 14.x of Ubuntu, or version 20+ of Fedora will work "out of the box" with zero tweaking.

It was running out of the box. It just didn't work properly.

>And to touch on your gaming comment -- actually, Valve has found the same games perform better on Linux using OpenGL than they do on Windows.

Yes, I know. OpenGL works, and all that. However, the harsh reality I have found is that the graphics drivers didn't work properly and frames would be delayed (not elongated; delayed) making Half-Life 2 unplayable under both WINE and natively.
I'm guessing that the guy you're responding to games, and yet still prefers OS X (like myself).
> The cost of doing it in software is just a highly predictable (not taken) branch after every integer arithmetic operation that the compiler can't prove stays within bounds. The article presents no data on this cost.

The article does mention a 5-10% cost on JavaScript VMs, as one datapoint. And as another, that languages like Rust choose to allow overflow to avoid the overhead, despite preferring the security of not having silent overflows (implying they measured a slowdown they find unacceptable).
Chip + pin debit cards are reasonably safe. Credit cards are much less safe, essentially every time you enter your details there is one more party in on the secret.

I try to use my CC online as little as possible and in the real world only when I have the card in view at all times and the pin verification terminal is under my control while I enter the pin, and crucially, contains the card (so I won't use it if the terminal is in one spot and the card in another).

I never use swipe.
No, your argument is weak because you changed the facts to fit your narrative.

Why? Why would a random parent

Yet again, the assumption of parental status based on hindsight. The police who answered the 911 call at the shopping center had no way of knowing that the author was the parent of the child in the car, and given that that person did not match the description of the registered vehicle owner, such an assumption would have been entirely unjustified. In California, there are about 1900 cases of family child abduction and 50 cases of child abduction by a stranger every year. the chances that any given suspicious episode like this will be a child abduction are thus about 1 in 5000 - a remote probability, but of a sufficiently severe nature that it has to be followed up.

Downvote away, but every single argument you have posted in this thread is built upon hindsight bias.
my bet actually is on potassium-air. The known and projected configurations of such batteries would most probably contain organic/aprotic electrolyte, so it is pretty nasty/flammable inside, yet they are rechargeable and availability and cost of components and efficiency seems to beat other commodity materials based schemas.
Moot point, unfortunately. Hydropower displaces fossil energy if the nearby energy markets are halfway deregulated and efficient.
That works too well. I found the comment "that's pretty damn intuitive" the most funny with the image of it being a sex toy in mind.
Dexpot is very good for that, feels basically native if you set it up right.
Getting Linux to work on random hardware is certainly harder than getting OSX to run on Mac hardware. That's not an unfair comparison, because those are their intended use cases.

You're looking at a Porsche and bitching that it sucks at offroading. Well, yeah. That's not what it's for. If you work offroad and need to carry cargo, a Porsche is not the vehicle for you, but that doesn't mean it's a bad car.
There is indeed a tendency to go over board, and end up with the equally disgusting polar opposite. We're not there yet.

For now, we probably just need to nip it all in the bud, at least until we've grown up enough to handle sexuality without using it as a form of gender oppression.
Seems like they don't have any use for 280 pounders nowadays.
The requirement, if you actually read it, is only that the metal must be from Apple.

(just pointing it out) :P
Depends on what he means. He could just mean that he made extra efforts to make sure that his candidate pool for the job wasn't just men.

He could also mean that in a tie for qualifications (between a man and a woman), he would hire the woman; which, while possibly illegal to the letter of the law (in the UK, possibly elsewhere), doesn't seem like a horrible thing. He explicitly states that it's to counter-act male-skewed tech work environments, so presumably if the work place were 50/50 men-to-women, he would relax this preference to women (as a tie-breaker).
From what I understand about people who gamble online is that they move around a lot due to signup offers and other such stuff, so if they are advertising offers on the website I reckon it wouldn't be to hard to make money. Don't take this as fact though, just what I know from friends who are gamblers.
Whenever you see many people (not just this author) talk about a company's "financial engineering" you should be concerned they might cross that line; couple that with an explicit pledge to double earnings/share to $20 by 2015 and the danger should be apparent.
Oh I agree. But the best solution would be just to write better laws in the first place -- laws that can't be interpreted to produce the mess of a patent system that we have right now.
Hello,

the comment system on your blog eats comments, that become lost forever when submitted. You might want to know that.

Apart from that:

1) “2147483650f” is Java syntax. Also this number, written in C++ as 2147483650.0f, actually represents the number 2147483648 (assuming float is the single-precision IEEE 754 format). You might want to denote that number 2147483648.0f, which would be less confusing.

2) the line “const int min = 0x80000000;” does NOT contain undefined behavior. The overflows occurs during a conversion from an integer type to a signed integer type. Overflow during such a conversion is implementation-defined (or an implementation-defined signal is raised). Even an implementation-defined signal is not undefined behavior, but in practice, the compiler you use produces wrap-around behavior, and it will continue to do so, because it has been forced to document it.
So did mine!
In my experience, trying to install OS X on a laptop is an exercise in frustration. I did it with Snow Leopard on a Dell Inspiron-1525, almost identical to a polycarbonate white MacBook of that time and one of the easiest machines to tinker with.

I read elsewhere that desktop computers are much easier to work with, but the OP is explicitly talking about portability and, in that case, it is just better to shell out the money to buy a MacBook... event though they get expensive really quick.
Dang, you've been doing some great work, and I really appreciate it, but won't you just let us talk about what we want to talk about without berating us about it all the time? You've been making some pretty heavy-handed imperatives lately, and while I haven't seen any evidence of you using your powers of moderation to act on those comments, the fact that you're a known moderator, and by all appearances the most active one, does make me a bit uncomfortable. Add to that the extreme difficulty of determining when the mods are using their powers, due to the backend secrecy of HN, and it seems like a very dangerous tack to be taking with regards to the site.

This article has started to drop suspiciously quickly - whether that's users flagging it or you or another mod messing with the votes I don't know. But it's worrying.

In this case, the webpage itself was pretty boring, but it led to a discussion about a very interesting piece of technology and UI idea, one which I and, judging by its high-front-page status, a number of other HN readers, enjoyed very much. I'd hate for discussions like this to be stifled by overmoderation.
Considering the possibility isn't the same thing as leaping to the conclusion. It's not like the woman was pursued, arrested, and thrown in jail before she ever got near the airport. Rather, the police did the sensible thing and followed the matter up by checking with the owner of the vehicle that was seen in the parking lot.

Are you saying that if there's only a 2% chance of something odd being a criminal incident, they should just blow it off?
>The cost of a 3000km battery with 100kg of aluminum is therefore $135, or roughly 44 cents per kilometer, or 70 cents per mile.

$135 / 3000km = $0.04 , not $0.44

That is the beauty of metal "burning" in fuel cells instead of gasoline - gasoline is expensive because it is too little of oil on our planet compare to any common metal.
What video is everyone talking about?
It may be a strawman but as there is such a disturbing prevalence of similar comments on this thread, a response:

Yes it is possible to be beautiful and have fun at a rave party, whether you are a beautiful male or a beautiful female (or otherwise). However, were these two peopel selected at random or were they hired, dressed and asked to pose specifically for their looks and gender? I don't seriously believe that you think its the former - you're not naïve, just combative.
It looks intriguing, but why are there no photos of someone sitting in it? They have photos of a man holding it up in the air, but that is not the primary use case of a chair.

Ah. If you go to Kickstarter there are some (small, I cannot find a way to enlarge them) photos of the chair in use. They should put some of those on their actual website.
Except bash, awk, sed and vim. So, everywhere I use regular expressions.
Who is driving all of the trains in Texas then?
I don't see how would base rate fallacy apply if you compare child death rate per hour of being driven around and per hour of being left unattended in a car.
Another factor is the lack of a helmet and padding. Because of this, players are much more careful when tackling. Eg:

* NEVER leading with the head, which is quite common in American Football

* There must be an attempt to wrap your arms around the player. Not doing so is a shoulder charge, and illegal.

* High tackles (above the shoulders) are illegal and can result in yellow or red card depending on severity.

* Spear tackles (picking the player up and driving him into the ground head-first) are grounds for a red card.
I can tell you’ve been at IBM too long, because you say “cloud” rather than “the cloud” or “cloud computing”.

I have a friend who sends me quotes from their work sometimes, like “Good clarity on Data, Cloud, Engagement! Loved your passion about IBM’s competitiveness with Cloud!” or “My key takeaway is to evaluate how I can use information to stay engaged in analyzing data!”.

Whatever are they so happy about, I wonder. Cocaine stipend?
Your firs para: could you imagine the situation where you tell a parent that you called the police because you were worried about their child? That's not an easy conversation.

I agree that people should report early and report often; and allow experts to make decisions. Sadly, reporting early and often just swamps people who are already far too busy dealing with children who are being abused, or it dumps reports with police who take action when they don't need to do anything more than have a chat.
MS is still a business. Why should they care about the vocal minorities?
Nobody is denying anyone the right to use the platform.
"THAN ANY LINUX DISTRO EVER DID," said josteink. Mentat already quoted it once. I thought it was pretty clear.
Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell by Erik Meijer
Clicking through the wikipedia link provided below, I find that six of the twelve non-senior members of the court are described as having worked as patent lawyers, taught patent law, or worked for the USPTO. Several others are described as having worked for firms that do patent law, although their specific duties while there are not described.

The point is that after self-interest affects one's thinking during the first several decades of one's career, one is unlikely to have a contrarian epiphany after appointment to this court.
I didn't downvote you, but while we can all generalize and extrapolate to our preferred points, at the end of the day Techweek Chicago is not at all about "the human experience."

Techweek did clarify their policies. They said they weren't to use sexual language and imagery. Nothing you can say about people being hypersensitive can take away from the fact that this was a completely unforced error.
"but once you leave the sphere of companies ... the atmosphere can become rather absurd"

Total agreement here. A lot of the issue is ignorance. Most small to medium business owners and managers do nto code and do not know how to. They see a CS grad as a white, male, 135 lbs., pasty, skinny genius. Just like Bill Gates, Zuck, and countless movie 'hackers'. They expect your skills to be just as good to, ie. able to 'code' a website in minutes and hack NORAD as well.

Why? They just plain do not know anything about the discipline. They have to go on what little they do know, and that stuff oversells the CS degree by a lot.

I had a boss once that thought I should be able to program a microcontroller in an afternoon. Mind you, the spec sheet is ~650 pages. But he really really did think that it was that easy. Like it was speaking Spanish, it just took a long time to get up to speed, but when you are there, it's super simple.

Its the same disconnect as with dentists, accountants, lawyers, and mechanics. Most people can't begin to think in the way required, and they are helpless without you. That breeds resentment and suspicion.

To help with these issues, a level of trust needs to be established. You have to trust them, and they you. Many employers think that the trust comes from the degree granting agency. University vetted you, so I can at least trust that you know how to do hacker stuff.

Unfortunately, the gulf is so wide between the layman and the professional that trust is ALL you have to go on and a degree is not enough. Possibly a better testing agency, like the Bar, AMA, or ASE is needed as 'hackers' are more and more needed.
Because it's open source, we can figure out exactly what's going on. OP brings up the point from the users' perspective and they might not trust an interface that looks this flashy.