skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox. Human TV signals are already dying out as they get supplanted by cable/fiber, and what's left like cell phones is constantly being engineered to use less power.
I agree. I mean, I can see it being useful for things that you "know" how to do but just forgot the syntax... But the chances that a random javascript snippet on SO are right seems pretty damn low to me!
I would assume "liking each other" is usually a given job requirement. Also putting too many criteria into a job ad increases the risk for discrimination lawsuits, so it's probably better to just be generic.

Also, saying such things beforehand would make them too easy to fake.

I am btw not advocating to hire based on musical taste. I only mentioned it because it seems to be something people often talk about when they get to know each other, and because it might indicate likelihood to get along.

"The fact that you assume that you need to work at a particular kind of startup with a particular culture to have that just shows how prejudiced you are."

Where did you get any of that? I never mentioned startups, nor did I say one culture is better than another. I just think people should be free to choose.
This is why I prefer https://github.com/radar/forem by the "Ruby hero" Ryan Bigg. It's also for Rails but without the bells and whistles from Discourse. A.k.a. "The best Rails forum engine. Ever.", it's perfect if you want to build something unique from the ground up.
Simple, you just keep tapping it with a rubber hammer until you get alignment.
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Here in the UK, they introduced rules last year to get rid of conflicts. No more kickbacks from the money managers to the advisors.

Result, lots of the advisors have shut down, as that was their main income.

Difficult to say, whether no advice is better than biased advise! My gut feeling is yes. Forces us to think for ourselves.
Maybe the falloff in output has convinced them our civilization is dying and not worth contacting.
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If you don't do business in the US then this chart is probably of little use to you.

Cedexis provides real data for free after registration; http://www.cedexis.com/radar/

If you don't do business in the US then this chart is probably of little use to you.

The chart is of no use to anyone, neither inside the US nor outside the US. It is worse than useless because it is actively misleading.
Right, and the militarization of local police forces by the federal government puts those forces under federal control - not explicitly or illegally, but as in this case, they are subservient to - and answer to - the federal government rather than the local population they are meant to protect.
I'll post what I said in the comments of the article.

Well, this is the device basket in which I'm throwing all of my eggs. My mobile devices are currently a 2006 Dell 17" laptop running Windows 7 and an HP Touchpad running CM10.1. I've been waiting to upgrade until the right "hybrid" device came along, and this is the one I'm banking on, albeit the i7/512 model.

My usage is a little atypical. My work requires me to occasionally spend time on construction sites creating sketches and recording measurements. I am hoping this device will allow me to skip the full size (24" x 36" or larger) architectural prints and the paper sketch pad and simply carry everything on the SP3. After I finish on site, I am often going back to a hotel room for the night, or spending the next few hours in an airport/airplane. I make heavy use of AutoCAD, and being able to make tweaks in the field, or even the hotel, should be amazingly helpful. I don't expect to be at full productivity, but then again, even on a typical laptop, running AutoCAD on one small screen will never be as productive as running on 2 or 3 large desktop displays.

In theory, the SP3 should be perfect for me. I do worry about the batter life though. I suspect that I might need to pick up an external battery pack for those times I'm on site without access to a wall outlet. Time will tell, I guess. I also think about general durability. I am generally not on fully active construction sites with lots of dirt and dust, but I will be in environments that are not office-like. So we'll see if there is some sort of rugged case or screen protection available for those scenarios.

All in all, I am really looking forward to getting my SP3 in August. I just wish they would release it already since I could really use it mid-July. But I've waited this long, so what's another couple of weeks.

Thanks for the nice review. This is the one I've been waiting for, and it didn't disappoint.
This is exactly why I switched to Fastmail. It isn't for the 'tinfoil hat' crowd, who already know to avoid any service with assets in the US. Some of us think having an advertising company handle our email no longer makes sense.

I think anyone looking for a third-party commercial email service free from government snooping is already off to a bad start.
80 columns - I'm surprised to see this honestly.
Can't I just spend an evening decoding a binary format? When I'm done, can't I just put it on a wikia without sitting around to make sure my name stays attached to it?
I doubt the US would try to extradite me. I'm not profiting on copyrighted materials or divulging state secrets.

But if I got into a situation like the Goldman Sachs programmer who they are re-trying in state court? I'd say f it and leave the country.
PC Pro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Pro) is a UK computing publication and more importantly a Dennis publication that had a big impact when I read it during formative years as a teenager. For me it had big influence on my life and got me interested in computing professionally and academically. I don't know if Felix Dennis had a direct hand in the formation of PC Pro, but I am grateful that he did set up a publication house that allowed something like PC pro to exist.
Oh, part of that explanation assumes you know how to use Bayes' Theorem. If you don't, this doesn't look like a simple explanation, it probably looks like the ravings of a madman because I'm assuming you know a few of the properties and common manipulations of the formula.
If you are comfortable building from source it's already out. I've had it installed for a few months now
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Laser (as in the mouse), I guess, should work.
Easiest way in is to enroll in a masters program, then apply for student internships. The hiring barrier for interns is much lower than for FTEs, and a good internship will almost definitely turn into a full-time offer pending graduation.
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The meme used to be "do things and publish in journals about it" now it's blogging because that's easier. But it's always been important to put yourself out there if you wanted others to use your work.
Just got mine yesterday (typing on it for this post). There are some problems on it I wasn't expecting.

- Drawing apps like Fresh Paint don't work sometimes when on split screen. By doesn't work, I mean it won't recognize the pen on start up. I would have to full screen the app, use the pen, then I can use the pen on split screen.

- Apps aren't adjusted to split screens correctly. The resizing of the apps gets rid of functions like creating a new page that can only be seen when app is in full screen.

- Chrome Windows 8 mode sucks. That thing resized to a quarter of the screen, blacked out the other 3/4ths and it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to undo it because the menu button on Chrome was blacked out. Figured out that they were still there, just not visable.

- Chrome sometimes disables my trackpad click recongniztion? I can activate links and tabs via the touch screen, but not by clicking the trackpad. All was good after restarting Chrome.

- Tablet does not recognize that I took off the keyboard sometimes. This causes orientation lock. I would have to reattached and detach keyboard.

- Trackpad kinda stuttering with movements. Sometimes jumps around so not very precise. This happens more when using on my lap for some reason..

- Changing screen orientation is sorta laggy, definitely more than a 1 second change. I have the 8gb/256gb version.

- I'm pretty sure Flux crashes this tablet. Froze it twice in 30 minutes after install. Perfectly fine now after uninstall.

I'm actually getting used to Windows Metro...strange. This is the first Windows machine I bought myself after 4 years. I was a Windows user for most of my life until college.

EDIT: Pen holder could have been designed better. Everyone at the store trying it out was confused it wasn't there. It's basically a stick on piece that comes with the keyboard, but none of the floor models have them at the Microsoft store. It's also uncomfortable placing the pen in there. I know it has to be tight so it doesn't fall out, but it's a struggle every time. Probably takes a good 3 seconds to fully place it in. If you don't think that's a long time wait until you're leaving a meeting and everyone is waiting on you. Bad user experience on the pen holder.

- Too heavy to hold for tablet use. Wasn't really expecting it, but have heard reviews about it, and this is the lightest pro version too. Good thing the kick stand can rest on my knees (actually pretty good for posture with knees bent because you're neck won't be pointed down the entire time).
I have a lot of ideas, many of them good, some great, but quite a few are horrible. Just one person to bounce them off of (and who isn't afraid to say "no") is incredibly valuable.
> "I don't know/am not sure, but I think..."

Coincidentally, this answer takes more confidence than bluffing. Bluffing is actually a signal of low confidence in a person. Too afraid to be wrong.
>correctly perform the operations specified therein

Not sure how you're reading the JVM docs to the contrary, as the actual JVM instruction set differs quite a bit from a normal CPU.

The JVM has limited operations for calculating memory addresses for arrays. Typically, this is a great thing, as it means that all memory accesses are bounds checked and an entire class of memory errors are eliminated.

However, if you're trying to do what geophile is trying do with memory layout, you want a calculation
like

i * (sizeof(struct) + base_pointer

But with Java the sizeof(struct) can only be one of the base types. And then you have to pop memory addresses and treat them as different things, etc. And even if you store things as byte arrays and perform an extra multiplication and add on your own, you then have to collate bytes and cast, which involves lots and lots of jvm operations.

With special JVM support, it may be possible, but it's not something that is the least bit natural. And you'd want some sort of standardized support so that you could ensure that your JVM would support the special translation of 10 instructions into a single machine instruction every time, basically the Value Types proposal, I guess.
My favorite has been Panic's Prompt.

https://www.panic.com/prompt/

I find the UI to be very polished. I admit that on iOS I tend to use SSH more from my iPhone than the iPad, and have not really given the other SSH clients a fair test on the iPad.

I trust the app with my private keys. I base this trust on the fact that Panic is a very long time and well regarded Mac OS developer. Additionally, I have used their Mac OS Transmit app for SFTP since the original release (I think that is over 15 years ago).

Obviously your requirements for trusting an app with your private keys maybe stricter, and require the ability to inspect the code. However if you are at all able to use a closed source app, I feel comfortable to recommend Prompt.
So you would also say that it is best to leave all hiring to a computer, as I suggested in another comment (to summarize all comments I received)? After all, human perceptions seems to be too flawed?

A computer can administer a psychological test, and it can administer a programming test. Problem solved?

Other than that, again: you can only act based on the things you know. So the conclusion is nobody is qualified to hire (since the article talks to everybody)? Of course it is possible that there are some clueless people in the business of hiring. But people can only do what they can do. I don't see any practical advice in that article.
Why is radio communication slower than visible light based ones? 0s and 1s should be the same speed no matter what the wavelength.
It does - at least sliding from the left or right. I'm not sure if there are others I don't use.
There are mutterings. And they are coming from multiple vectors. Perhaps you should have your political hearing tested? If you have ever tried to buy ammunition for popular cartridge sizes, you could just do the math.

Americans have been predicting and preparing for civil disturbances for decades. For a long time, you had to turn over rocks and poke at the mud underneath to find the people doing it, but now you're likely to have met at least one personally. They will not tell you they are doing it. Firstly, they don't want to be perceived as a kooky crackpot. Secondly, they don't want you showing up to mooch when things go bad. Thirdly, they don't want you to be the one to rat them out to whomever they believe to be their adversary.

It's a lot like figuring out which of your acquaintances is (or are) the closeted homosexual(s).

Ironically, a lot of the increasingly paranoid and increasingly isolationist doomsayers are voting to elect the very people that will bring on the crisis that they fear.

And on the other side of the spectrum, you have people leveraging the new ubiquity of videocameras to reflect even more sunlight into the dark corners of government. They post videos of government employees behaving badly or unlawfully, and file public records requests and lawsuits at every opportunity.

The left-libertarians and the right-libertarians are natural allies against a centrist-authoritarian government, but I wish you good luck getting them to even give each other a polite hello.

And as an American familiar with Churchill quotes, I remain hopeful that we are finally running out of wrong things to try.
I don't know if you need a "trick"... Just several orders of magnitude more precision?
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But it wouldn't work on a cloudy day, presumably.
> I'm sure if they are desperate enough they will overlook the drinking requirement. Maybe the hiring situation is not that desperate yet.

Right now, IT is a strong labor environment [e.g. Programmers get multiple offers if they look for a job and pick the best/highest one].

If you are so foolish as to make "drinking" a requirement, that means you are reducing the pool and raising the cost of the employee.

You are free to do that. Your competitor who is more sensible is going to have more breathing room financially because of your poor choices. That tends to be a feedback cycle that causes them to slowly and inevitably beat you in a capitalist society.
I think you'll be happy to hear that not only has this idea been worked on starting much earlier than 2008, but I was part of a group to implement this for a city in the US. Service is scheduled to start later this year.

As it turns out - many of the hurdles are non-technical, especially without many examples of pre-existing systems to base it off of.
> It's not clear whether warrantless use of Stingrays is unconstitutional.

No, it may be true that no court has ruled explicitly if that were the case, but to claim that this is somehow unclear is just plain false.

They're quite literally constructing a fake, pre-tapped cell tower for your cell phone to connect to.

This requires a warrant by any sane interpretation of the Constitution, it requires a warrant by any reasonable understanding of how wiretaps affect our privacy rights.

If some court rules counter to what I've just said, it is reasonable to conclude that the judge(s) in question is out of his gourd. We have a few bad ones on the bench.

The law enforcement agents who do this agree with me. Why else would they seek to hide it? They know that it can only be ruled unconstitutional, else they'd go get their rubberstamp from the guy in black robes... hell, if anything they're more optimistic than I am, seeing how they feel their chances of a judge ruling in their favor are too low to risk it.
Elaborating on TDRSS a little bit - the ISS has allotments on both S- and Ku-band transponders (there are several per satellite) and hands off between satellites (TDRSS is geostationary) as it orbits, it's rare that another TDRSS customer has something important enough going on that the ISS gets no allocation at all for more than an orbit.

IMHO, the real application for laser communications is for high bandwidth inter-satellite links.
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In theory, yes. In practice there is currently a massive food surplus and there is a lot of cheap land out there just add water.
If you went through the Google Scholar thing, haven't you saved some articles you approved of? Why not point me directly to it? I don't really have time to become an expert in this by dozens of articles.
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> I'm not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck.

Ever used multiple monitors? I used to have the exact same issue but multiple monitors save so much minimize maximize time.
> Edit: re "religious" argument: surely you can get some non-alcoholic drink at a bar?

Yes, and surely you can socialize in a brothel without actually engaging in their primary service, but that doesn't mean that holding part of a job interview there wouldn't create a differentially hostile environment to (among others) people who have religious objections to prostitution.
"This screams "we didn't think this through much"."

That's actually quite rude.
A bit off-topic, but I've always avoided language-familiarity questions. If a candidate has coded a lot of, say, Java, then I do expect them to know the details and their importance, mostly because I expect people to care about the tools they use. But to begin with, I don't at all mind hiring people who have literally never once coded in the programming language my team uses. They'll learn, and that investment is worth it. Moreover, I suspect that trying to connect "how well do they understand Java's reference system?" directly to "what seniority of engineer should this person be?" is not very wise. The things to optimize for in a senior engineer are problem solving skills, organization, experience and comfort with technical tradeoffs, architectural wisdom, and so on. Over the course of the next, say, two years, you'll get a lot more mileage out of that; having deep familiarity with your language of choice is just a bonus.
Why do you say Erlang is event-driven? It's a bunch of communicating processes.
Losing all communications with the ISS doesn't happen frequently though does it? Almost never from what I can tell.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi... Seems like the last time it happened and it was big news. I can't imagine how scary it would be to be in space without any way to communicate with earth. I guess the crew return vehicle would still be usable and the station would still operate as normal for a good while, but it would still be very scary.

Here are some links to the live status of those systems:

http://spacestationlive.nasa.gov/displays/cronusDisplay2.htm... UHF

http://spacestationlive.nasa.gov/displays/cronusDisplay3.htm... S-band

http://spacestationlive.nasa.gov/displays/cronusDisplay4.htm... Ku-band

Click "Show Table" in the bottom right corner of that page to see the raw data for each display.

It would be nice to see some data-rate stats on those connections. Also a better dashboard would be fun to build for the ISS, some interesting data points are available.

Also apparently the high-speed Ku-band is available about 50% of the time. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18pik4/i_am_astronaut_...
I am experiencing many of these issues. I think they will continue to roll out firmware updates. But, the software needed a little bit more work. For Chrome I would disable scaling. 1. Right click Chrome shortcut icon and choose "Properties." (if you do this on an icon in you startbar, then you'll need to right click again on the third one up that says "Google Chrome.")
2. Click Compatibility tab.
3. Check box for "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings."
4. Click OK.
5. It will show small fonts, but you can change that in Chrome Settings under "Show advanced settings" --> "Web Content" --> "Font Size."

The workflow between Metro and Desktop becomes easier and better over the course of a week.
It's not about latency, its about bandwidth. Your data transfer rate is directly proportional to the frequency of the carrier wave. Visible light has a shorter wavelength (higher frequency) than RF, therefore can carry more information in any period of time.
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You can see when the ISS is in range by watching the live video stream. From what I have seen it's rarely out of contact and they obviously have bandwidth to spare for that.
The both-directions is already added into "32 miles" -- the one-way commute is 16 miles, not 32 miles.

People who commute 32 miles one way should get a new job, a new place to live, or work from home.
Is there really a statute of limitations on this sort of thing? I wonder if a lawyer can just wait 2-3 years for them to grow / get enough VC money to be a viable target.
just use siri then http://myechoapp.com/
Well, presumably since laser light is coherent, you only need to worry about the Earth's atmosphere. In this case, it seems that a 2.5 watt laser would be sufficient, assuming you can point it at Earth precisely and ignoring Mars' atmosphere.

There is still a problem with regards to the Fermi paradox: sure you'd want to beam directly, but where do you point your lasers? You only know by observing the not-so-coherent light leaving Earth and arriving at your planet, which may be very far away. You haven't really solved anything because you have to know where to point your laser in the first place.
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"I only know how to do ad-hoc personality tests, so ad-hoc personality tests must be how I can hire."

The very practical advise is to deliver a work-sample test. Tell the person exactly what you are looking for up-front("we want this code to run as fast as possible" versus "we want this code to be very readable") and then measure on what you said you looking for.

If you do a lot of code maintenance, pull up a piece of your code with a bug and have the candidate hind it. If you do a lot of OOP, describe a recent problem and have him design the class.
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The same reason people "waste life" watching TV, playing video games, drinking alcohol, and hanging out with friends. Not every minute of every day need be productive, Mr. Serious!
> NSA didn't even know about Heartbleed

Source?
Von Neumann did not invent the computer. ENIAC was invented by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., and it was the first general purpose electronic computer. The first computer (as decided in the contentious Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand case) was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer from Iowa. There's also the Konrad Zuse's Z3, who invented the first general purpose electromechanical computer, several years before ENIAC.