skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any of these are problems.

When I want to start using a system like this, as I'm sure everyone does, I spend a little bit of time reading the about pages and working out if this is a company whose values align with my own.

I was very excited about Flattr, but then I read the small print and decided that they weren't for me.

When I found gittip, I read the details and thought all of the aspects are laudable. I gittip an extremely small amount, but will continue to do so and will gradually increase it as I become aware of more projects that deserve my support on it.

The vision to create a new kind of "open" company is interesting in itself and is directly related to many of the reasons that I feel motivated to use the service.
> CS graduates are overqualified for 90% of current internet jobs. They are also underqualified...

This is 100% true for new CS grads I think.

It's even true for people like myself (who have been working in industry for over 5 years, but then don't know a particular tool that a new tech job is asking for...if I don't have to use it at my current job, and I can only program small things on the side using a particular language/tool, how does one get the needed experience that the startups want you to know if they won't hire you so you can learn it, firsthand?).

I just finished a 3-4 month stint having a past student volunteer with me so I could give him the additional direction and practical experience I knew he needed to actually get a job locally (and web developer positions are few and far between where I live). This is a few years AFTER he had already graduated from San Diego State's CS program.

Now with that additional training he was able to get a part-time position at a local web development firm (a foot in the door) and is also on his way to a 2nd interview for a web developer position at our local county office.

It hurts when you can see the potential in someone and know that it's not being developed properly because no one else (a.k.a. potential employers) can see it and make the jump to hire the person based on their potential and then give a bit of their time to train that person properly.

It's also awesome to know that my past student is going in the right direction now through my guidance (partially) but also through his hard work these past few months to acquire the needed skills :-).

P.S. I forgot to mention in our area, most of the graduates of our CS program can't find actual software development jobs (because there are hardly any available) so many of them end up in regular IT work, which makes them even more overqualified (and underqualified) since their schooling really didn't teach them about the IT stuff, per se, so they have to learn a whole lot on the job (once they are even able to get one).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humerus
>I’ve gone through a postgraduate qualification and nine years of experience to get to where I am, so don’t presume to know more than me about how to teach children - and if you do, expect that I will be justifiably miffed.

This is the thing about teachers that just irritates the hell out of me. I had plenty of teachers who went through postgraduate qualification and had 20 years of experience who couldn't teach for shit. Getting trained as a teacher doesn't mean you're going to be automatically good at it, just like getting trained in CS doesn't mean you're going to be a good programmer.

I've been taught by plenty of people who didn't have the title Teacher, who taught me way more than my Teacher ever did. I've also talked and taught plenty of people who thought they were stupid because their formal University Teacher, armed with postgraduate qualifications and years of experience, couldn't communicate a simple concept to them. They go through life thinking they're dumb because this trained teacher made them feel that way because the teacher failed at teaching and passed that failure to the student.

So to see this person talk about their qualifications and how she thinks these qualifications confer teaching ability leaves me quite a bit miffed, because it comes off as just an arrogant dismissal of criticism.
if you must buy special hardware just to compile code, well... that's not normal for any other eco-system's developers. Nor is having to pay for the privilege of being a developer... nor pay for dev tools, etc.
They will be launching their smartphone. Source: http://bgr.com/2014/04/15/amazon-smartphone-photos-specs-kin...
I fail to see what police malice you're finding. The author of the police doesn't criticize them at all.
Huh, the article addresses this issue pretty directly -- did you read it?

Because the car would still rely on its regular
rechargable lithium-ion battery most of the time and
would switch to the aluminum-air battery as a backup only
if the lithium-ion battery ran out, and because most car
trips are 50 kilometres or less, Alcoa estimates the
aluminum-air batteries would only need to be changed
about once a year.
Ask HN: Can job application be withdrawn due to already accepting another offer?
I've already accepted an offer at one of the big tech companies. I applied to a competitor because the offer was for a position that I don't exactly enjoy, and thought I'd be honest about my offer acceptance. They said they would like to honor my commitment with the competitor and withdraw my application.
>'CS knowledge is, I think, valued highly (or at least valued) in the tech sector itself, but once you leave the sphere of companies that make tech products for tech people, or if you happen to be outside one of the major software hubs, the atmosphere can become rather absurd.'

Spot on.

By my estimation, the most common sort of work in IT has little resemblance to computer science. It's something more along the lines of very environment, industry and proprietary platform specific operations.

There's a very wacky disconnect between what's taught in schools, desired by students and expected by employers.

I'd liken the situation to one in which mechanical engineers, ASE mechanics and truck drivers were all lumped together as simply 'TI' (Truck Industry).

All those roles are needed and all have ready and willing candidates available, but most employers have no clue how to compensate, hire or task each appropriately.
I'm pretty sure this formula is correct, but I haven't seen it published anywhere. John Cook has some veiled references to a closed-form solution when one of the parameters is an integer:

http://www.mdanderson.org/education-and-research/departments... [pdf]

But he doesn't really say what that closed form is, so I think his version must have been pretty hairy. (My version requires all four parameters to be integers, so I doubt we were talking about the same thing.)

Sadly I couldn't get the math to work out for producing a confidence interval on |p_B - p_A| so for now you're stuck with Monte Carlo for confidence bounds.

Thanks to prodding from Steven Noble over at Stripe, I'll have another formula up soon for asking the same question using count data instead of binary data. Stay tuned!
So is the issue that there's no guys in the picture or that the women are too beautiful?
I have no time for someone who claims to be quoting "the legal documents" when he is in fact parroting one side's case in a domestic violence dispute to which he is not a party. Thanks for clarifying what you are, though; that's useful, albeit hardly surprising.
FWIW, I applied to the competitor because the company I accepted the offer with could not place me in the field I was interested in.
Pro-tip: don't bother upgrading to Mavericks, Mountain Lion is better and lighter (even with the memory compression thing), don't upgrade unless you really need to use something specific in Mavericks
Talk of amazon phone with multiple cameras:

http://www.cnet.com/news/rumored-amazon-phone-six-cameras-su...

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485698

Going back more than a year: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-said-to-be-developing-3d-sma...
I'm not debating whether it's right or wrong. I'm simply pointing out the fact that his approach, even by your suggested guidelines, is still very much illegal in the UK.

Legality to one side, I would be interested in hearing more about this. Surely any hiring decision that's even remotely swayed by gender opposes the entire concept of gender equality?
I worked at a large automotive manufacturer in near Detroit a number of years ago when they were considering whether or not to design and manufacture an electric vehicle. The had engaged in full "well to wheels" analysis of potential designs as well as that of competitors and concluded that the energy economics never made sense. That analysis considered how "carbon expensive" it is to spin up manufacturing, manufacture, service and operate a vehicle going all the way back to raw materials sourcing. They felt more optimistic about diesel hybrids but also chose not to pursue that. I find it unfortunate that we don't see a more standardized process for conducting full "well to wheels" analysis that takes into account the full life cycle of a designs, manufacturing and product lifecycle. Would be awesome if a consumer watchdog group existed that had the access and technical competence needed to audit these technologies.
I think the general overemphasis on sports in this country (are other countries as bad?) is ridiculous. Resulting in things like parents getting into fights over it. And parents ignoring doctors recommendations to pull the child out because of a concussion ("But they need to get back in the game!" "My son is no quitter!"). Its just insane. Is it really that important that you be the best at throwing a fucking ball around?

Me personally, I'd rather be the best at creating something.
This code looks eerily similar to Stripe's jquery.payment (https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment/blob/master/lib/jqu...)
Here is another one I heard. IBM got the contract to upgrade Vodafone India infrastructure. Contract was valued at around $300 million. They in turn sub-outsourced it to Amdocs. However they were not able to deliver in time. Vodafone threatened to cancel the project. IBM project head in turn was planning to withdraw from Amdocs. Israelis called Obama who pressured Ginni Rometty to let it continue.
Go, go, go! And then make it 100% distributed via torrent like app (okay, last step may appear bit involved but I'm sure someone can bend torrent/bitcoin/namecoin/whatever enough to make it happen!)
I saw this on Dribbble a little while ago. Sleek site and great idea!
There is a video under "June 18 | Seattle" on the linked page
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Yes. I decided not to mention IMUL to keep the post simple.

There are also issues with detecting overflow of SSE multiplies (signed and unsigned).
We're not quite there yet. You don't see the Koch brothers trying to assassinate Obama. (No, attack ads are not the same.) You don't see a shooting civil war between Koch supporters and Soros supporters. And all that happened during the Roman Republic.

Moving on to the Empire, you don't see soldiers assassinating the president (or members of Congress) because they want higher pay.

I know that it feels similar, but we really aren't there... at least not yet.
The problem is that the women are overtly sexualized. Which is fine if the ad is for a strip club. But it's not...it's for a tech event. Context is key here. We've been desensitized by accepting these images of women as normal...they're not. And especially not for a tech event.
too heavy for a TE, too light for an OL/DL
> I was writing standard Java/C#/Python-eque code, however, which requires all those try/catches.

No, it doesn't; wrapping each function call that might throw an exception in its own try/catch is recognized as an antipattern in all of those languages.

Most likely, you'd want to do one try block, with possibly multiple catch blocks for more specific exceptions (but only if you can do something useful to handle those exceptions), although, really, if you are reading a configuration file and the function you are writing can't do anything meaningful with errors but rethrow them, you probably want something more like (and this would be a case for catching generic Exception):

try {
f = os.Open(filename)
callFunctionThatMightErrorOut()
.
.
.
}
catch(Exception e) {
throw new FailedToReadConfigFileException(e)
}
If you use cstore_fdw with PostgreSQL you can use the full PostgreSQL SQL dialect for querying your table. However, we don't currently support writing to your cstore_fdw table using SQL commands like INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. PostgreSQL added foreign data wrapper support for these commands with their 9.3 release and it is something we're considering adding to cstore_fdw in the future.
It's definitely a phone in the video: http://i.imgur.com/MgBcxMw.png

You can see its top at the bottom of the photo.
No, i assumed that these problems also applied to the Web Audio API. Thanks for the info
Fast-forward 6-12 months from now, and one or more regulatory agencies will nix this just like they did the AT&T deal.
that would lead to even better thing - silicon-air cells :)
That would match from the way you can see people in the video holding their hands.
My (rather large) gut tells me the regulators will say no, and T-Mobile will yet again use the breakup money to invest in more spectrum, and come out on top.
But, if you did something, you'd then be prosecuted for some other crime.

Soon you're probably being arrested for breathing from the wrong nostril.
Well, it depends. If you believe that Armin Meiwes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes is wrongly imprisoned and must be released, then sure; you also win the who's-the-most-consistent-libertarian contest. On the other hand, if you believe that humans possess certain unalienable (which means not revokable, and not relinquishable, even voluntarily) rights, then the fact that the football players are volunteering for brain damage is not necessarily enough to make it okay.
I thought PCI DSS 3.0 was the new standard?

Isn't certifying to 2.0 like saying you're Windows XP certified?
The police didn't act in a crazy fashion at all. They responded to a complaint, collected evidence, checked it against vehicle owner records. Then they visited the owner of the vehicle, gathered some more information. When an arrest warrant was issued (by the court, not by the police) months later, the police telephoned the author of the article to advise her about it and make arrangements for her to come to court.

I've said repeatedly that I don't think there was any point in bringing a prosecution. since you don't live in the US maybe you don't appreciate that the police and the public prosecutor are completely separate entities. The police didn't do anything abnormal in this case.
I am specially intrigued by "Do you have machine learning experience?" question in the developer section for the invitation request.
It sounds like you stopped reading my comment after the first paragraph. I later accounted for the reality that people have limited vocabularies.
Russian super-sonic solid fuel anti-ship missiles burn aluminum based fuel in their ramjet engines :)
Weird. I don't see it. Could be Ghostery or some similar ad blocking plugin I guess.
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Reminds me of the opposite of the sexism LinkedIn was accused of[1]. It'd have been interesting if the two individuals in the posted pictures had been developers as well. I wonder if that would have changed the dynamic of the conversation at all.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-accused-of-sexism-fo...
You can see the implementation in GCC here [1], for example addition starting on line 74. What machine code gets emitted for that obviously depends on the target architecture but it is reasonable to assume that the optimizer recognizes these patterns and uses hardware flags where available.

[1] https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/libgcc2.c
If you're going to reduce this to a logical contradiction, then it does take away from the gender issues. I doubt Techweek will smell like roses or deserve to come out Scott free. That doesn't mean we should set a pattern for knee-jerk vilification. (That ship may well have sailed and entered a canal to an entirely different ocean.)
fwiw, I'd really like to see and actually would invest time playing a civ type game that treated the history/technology angle seriously. link it to wikipedia, for example.
Sold Down the River (widespread IPMI exposure)
I also have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, but I do graphics development and use Adobe products, so I ended up switching completely over to the Radeon.

I'd like a new Mac, but I'd really prefer to have something better than the basic Intel HDwhatever integrated graphics... Based on benchmarks, the Iris seems like it could be good enough for non-Retina MacBooks. But of course Apple has chosen to use it on the Retina MBPs where it's still underpowered. Sigh.
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/312e819c130acb5d17a5a8568...

Same issue here, but that's what it should look like.
I don't see what good will come of this, but I will try genuinely to help you nonetheless.

Would you be happy (rather than surprised) to see a photo of two male models on your invite to this event in the same style? Maybe with their shirts undone to their waist, sharing a kiss, anything that's approximately equivalent?

If not, you might like to consider why that choice of image would be uncomfortable for you and that this particular choice of image might be uncomfortable for others.

If you bite the bullet (well done!), there are further problems. This is an event to launch a high school seniors employment initiative. High school and sexualised imagery don't belong together.
if this is inferred 3d from head tracking going to be really interesting how amazon deals with this for 3rd party developers. How do you implement and design a 3d mobile app and have it gracefully degrade to 2d? I think the reason we haven't seen this sooner come out of Apple is because of the design challenges, not just for the metaphors that need to be invented but because of all the necessary API/semantic work necessary to have a graceful migration to 3d. If things are not set up to make 3d a natural, universal extension of the mobile experience for all apps, for a phone with enough users that make it worthwhile to do so, it will be doomed to be a gimmick.
He also picked one of the most trivial cases - unsigned addition. Signed data, especially signed multiplication, requires a lot more steps.

I'm working on a set of numerical problems in C now that involve checking for integer overflow. The best way of doing software overflow checks depends on the larger scope of the problem. You can knit your checks into various places in your code in ways that avoid unnecessary duplication of computational effort. However, that is a lot of work and has the potential for hidden programmer introduced errors.

The real problem is that languages like C simply don't allow you to take advantage of hardware which already exists in the CPU without writing in-line assembler. A standard set of "checked" math macros which handled the portability issues would probably satisfy most C applications.

Edit: For addition, subtraction, and multiplication, you just take one operand, calculate the largest possible second operand for that data type which won't overflow, and check that the actual second operand doesn't exceed it (remembering to take signs into account). For division and modulus, check for division by zero. For multiplication, division, modulus, negation, and absolute value of signed values, check that you are not negating the maximum negative integer, as integer ranges are not symmetrical (e.g. one byte is -128 to +127).

If you are looping over arrays and have multiple checks for different cases (e.g. negative, positive, etc.), then you can have different loops for different cases and so avoid redundant checks for that data. I'm working on this sort of application, so the above works out best for that. If you're doing something a bit different, then different algorithms may make sense. Unfortunately, there's not universal one-size-fits-all solution to this problem in software.
Well, I"m sorry your experience was bad. I assure you, it is not normal what you are describing.

Valve has (figuratively) bet the house on Linux as tomorrow's gaming platform... and I'm confident they would not have done so without Linux being ready for prime-time.

As a note, don't game under WINE. WINE is great for applications and such, but a game designed to run on windows won't work quite right even on WINE. But, if you install the Native Linux Steam client and have Steam download/install the Native Half-Life 2 for Linux... I assure you, it works flawlessly... as-does all Source games now, Unity games, Unreal games, CryTek games (or at least they can be ported native now).
All of these websites are easy to get access to, once you find the URL thats it, pay a processing fee and your in.

http://validshop.su/usercp/auth/login

That's one of the biggest CVV websites, they sell the CC#/CVV/FirstName/LastName/Address

These websites are not hard to find, just have a look on a few 'underground' forums and you'll see the advertisements.
Speaking of WRONG!, the University of Waterloo in Canada is not a high school. Not only is there a clarification at the top of the page, the entire article reads like it was written about high school classes. Not just subtle things like "I have studied education at the postgraduate level" or characterising herself as a teacher rather than a lecturer or professor, but complete giveaway lines like "don’t presume to know more than me about how to teach children", repeated a couple of times.
"I would use that alot"
Caused me to actually crack up.
The problem is not that there are fun, beautiful people, the problem is that using those pictures objectifies women by using them as the draw to the event. Two women in skintight outfits almost kissing is not an appropriate advertisement for the party, as it implies that women are meant to be looked at and longed after, which is counter to the nature of the equality movement.
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Sure, linking techs to more details on Wikipedia should be possible. Do you have more suggestions about how to do things better with respect to history and technology?
> These typical ads portrait women as play-things to be gawked at rather than someone's daughter, wife and another human being.

Now here's an objectification - why a woman needs to be someone's wife or daughter? Men on similar pictures are usually also portrayed as models, not husbands or sons. Isn't that sexist? Isn't that misandry?

Honestly, I find most of those gender-related discussions nonsense; it's like autoimmune disease - instead of fighting only diseases, the immune system starts attacking everything around it. You just can't say anything at all about women without being labeled misogynist.

I read an interesting essay on the topic today: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html. It's not only (or even mostly) about gender issues, but the key quote from the ending:

"My view on feminism isn't really driven by my view on gender relations or women or men or society. It's driven by my view on applause lights, on inability to urge restraint, on death spirals, on anti-charity, on zero-threshold medical testing, on superweapons, and most of all on epistemic hygiene. I don't care how righteous your cause is, you don't get a superweapon so powerful it can pre-emptively vaporize any possible counterargument including the one asking you to please turn off your superweapon and listen for just a second. No one should be able to do that."
A short sale doesn't have an expiration date.

And you don't get margin calls if you're not buying on margin.