skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else pointed out to me, its not just the US, but the world. There are abuses to the system everywhere - in some places it is better than the US but in many places it is far worse.

Law enforcement is actually pretty good here in my opinion (when you look at the big picture). But our legal system (as in, the court system) benefits mostly lawyers, wealthy people, etc.
Check this out... here are the two source code pages (digitized from original printouts) for the Kalman filter, dated July 14, 1969!

KALMAN FILTER USER'S PAGE NO. 1

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ScansForConversion/Luminary099...

KALMAN FILTER USER'S PAGE NO. 2

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ScansForConversion/Luminary099...
I am in the habit of persistently deleting comments. Sometimes my disagreements are just one half of a conversation I should be having in my head, alone.
Also this. I bet you're speaking of Kansas City. I've been seeing some very interesting startups in the area.
Using a system like Z-Wave you can already do this. The problem is that as you need a lighting controller, multiple motion sensors and a base station it's not cheap - mainly due to licensing fees.
is it fair to guess that you use elasticsearch for product search and mongo for tracking item level prices? i.e. most of your mongo queries are direct key lookups?
I'd definitely upvote this one as being a prime reason.

And it's not like the jobs we're talking about here are completely "dead-end" (I wouldn't call a well-paying job a dead end and I definitely have one of those).

As an example, I got an email this morning from Whitetruffle mentioning a company was interested in me (which is always a nice boost to hear) for a position. However, the position was in New York City, and I live in Southern California. Researching the company, I find the salaries offered are probably so-so. Work-wise, I have no idea how it might be (it could be great, it could be similar to my current place, it's hard to tell because of that "grass is greener on the other side" one starts to get after being in one position for a while and seeing all of the neat new companies that come up), but in general I tend to look at the big picture of how such a job would affect me and my family.

In my case, the reasons for staying in my current position are definitely a combination of stability (working for a public college provides certain benefits in that regard for pension/job security), my current pay (at this point I can't really move to any other local organization because none of them would pay similar to what I'm paying now...I would be forced to somewhere else), liking my small town commmunity, being able to be close to my parents, and having a small family (one 6-year old daughter with another on the way).

A few years back I took an opportunity to go up to the Bay Area and work for eBay, but I was uncertain about job security (combine the Glassdoor reviews mentioning mid-year staff cuts and my own impostor syndrome feelings made me feel like I could be one of those people), work-wise it actually wasn't more fulfilling than my current position (I had a lot more freedom to define my own projects and work at the college)...plus the salary wasn't really much more than I had already been making when I factored in cost of living changes...then to top it off my family was much further, and my wife (fiance at the time) and I weren't living together so that added additional stress.

So in the end, I ended up making the decision to come back to the college (and luckily it was to a slightly upgraded position).

It's not perfect, but overall, I definitely feel like I made the right choice.

Would I love to work for a startup? Definitely! I think there's a ton I still want to learn and can learn, but at the same time I don't want to place myself or my family in any sort of bad financial position because I don't know the future and which company out there would be even more perfect than my current job.
I've been using 3.4/Asyncio recently and coming from a background of C/Objective C it's hard to believe Python got by for so long without having something like Asyncio as a core package (yeah I know Gevent and Tornado have been around for awhile) It's still new"ish" (summer 2014) so there's not a lot of good documentation floating around yet, but it's easy enough to get the basics down if you've worked with Async stuff before.
Another factor: people with negative moods have marginally more time to comment, and more need for the affirmation of quick-reactions (positive or negative) – feeding a cycle of adverse selection on the most-active threads.
True and important, though honestly I just think of it (very loosely) as a functor composition operator and note that the composition happens to be a monad as well.
Yeeup. Perhaps this ensures business in case they lose out on contracts with the existing computer-makers.
To be clear, I have a mortgage and family, small savings but not for unemployment. At the end of the day, I am the only person that can change my situation, so I did. Yes its scary but, If i believe in myself enough and have the courage I will make it work one way or the other.
Doesn't eBay use MongoDB at scale (ref: http://www.slideshare.net/jaykumarpatel/cassandra-data-model...).

Slide 4 shows eBay's MongoDB cluster size: Hundreds of nodes, > 50TB, > 2 billion ops/day
"Dead end" is a bit of a hyperbole, but in two years I certainly don't want to be doing the type of work I'm doing now (finance). What keeps me here is my massive student debt balance and the prospect that this job could pay it off relatively quickly. At which point I intend to start my own thing. Side projects keep me sane in the meantime.
One problem among many is that US police are both allowed and trained to use deadly force very quickly, when under any kind of threat. German police will often (successfully!) shoot to disable, not to kill, even when confronted by someone armed with a knife.

It's a common American meme that when police fire a gun, the only rational decision is to shoot to kill, but it's just not true.
Illuminati official website exposed
I check out the official illuminati website and give you my take on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQ1LvbFJTQ
Creation is overrated: Sturgeon's law applies to almost everything (and perhaps undercounts). The most important part of creation is criticism: until you learn how to edit and kill your babies, you won't write anything more than a sentence worth shit. Similar applies to programming. Of course, learning these skills requires writing and programming a lot (for most people: there may be some prodigies).
>What makes the perspective of someone in a position without power more authentic than the perspective of someone with it...

Well someone not in a position of authority or power doesn't have to worry about losing said authority. If you tell too many uncomfortable truths or offend the wrong people, you may in certain instances loose some of your power. So it makes sense that the likely hood of getting an "authentic" story seems to get less and less as the person telling it rises in stature, power, authority.
I was thinking Seattle...but not like I'm biased or anything cough cough
Why not start your comment, "Hello. I agree with your points. I'd also like to add ..."?
I've seen countless instances where an anecdote is perfectly reasonable and interesting by itself, yet the anecdote itself is denigrated or at least devalued. [1] I don't like it. I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to have research at arms length in the general case.

1. I say this anecdotally, of course.
thanks for the link, I wonder how they use it? The companies I've been working with have made the mistake of using Mongo as their sole data store for everything, rather than for one specific purpose.
That's what you had to do to use Amazon's app store within an app as well:

> Instead, the first time a user tried to download an app, they were prompted to “enable downloads” if they haven’t already adjusted their Android phone’s security settings to enable downloads from outside of Google Play. Amazon’s app also walked users through these steps making the entire process very simple.

So if you want to use Amazon's app store, either before or now you'd have to turn on "Unknown sources" for app installs. This doesn't change that.
The article makes some excellent points, but the comparison to Europe rang a little hollow to me.

The U.S. is an order of magnitude more violent than the U.K., and always has been: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona.... In 1960 there was no drug war, there was no prohibition, the country was prosperous, but more than eight times as many people were murdered per capita than in the U.K.

> Sentences are harsh. Some American states impose life without parole for persistent but non-violent offenders; no other rich nation does.

In 1993-94, years where the per-capita murder rate in the U.S. was 9x higher than in the U.K., California and Washington voters approved the three strikes laws that lead to these harsh sentences by 3-1 margins.

It's easy to talk about the things that are wrong with the justice system in the U.S., but it's a pretty cursory analysis until you tackle the real question: when exercising their democratic will, whether in the small on grand juries or in the large through referendums, why do voters keep supporting the system?
I had an internship at a company where all email was scanned, labeled, and encrypted based on the type of content in the email. Access to email was restricted when not using the corporate network. The information policy was strictly enforced; no personal emails on the network, except when work is affected (ex: "my relative is getting married, so I'll miss the meeting"). The net effect of the company's measures would have protected employees from the situation Sony Pictures employees find themselves in; unfortunately most companies are not so stringent, so they are vulnerable like Sony Pictures.

I think that, yes, people should not expect privacy on a corporate network, and yes, people should distinguish corporate from private email. However, the employee's attitude is impacted by the corporate attitude, and many companies are not nearly as strict as they should be with information policy.
It's a great feature for people who know what they're doing, but you probably don't want all Android users to allow third party installs- it just opens people up to too much risk.
Yes and I think a sarcasm closing tag would be suitable here.
I work remote and have plenty of time to work on side projects and learn programming. I still get excellent reviews from my peers and manager so the raises and yearly bonus have been decent. I want to make the switch to a developer role but I am insecure about my coding skills. In addition, I love working from home and I would have to replace my aging car with something more reliable if I commuted to a new job.
What you are really saying is that we should held people accountable for their own choices and, as a society, attempt to help those who cannot make those choices.

I agree, to an extend, but the reality is that there are a series of factors, besides the moral or 'self-evident' reasons, that make companies/governments fund these projects.

Moreover, forget about these factors for a second. The bottom line is that very few people would care if you found the cure for a very rare and destructive disease. Lots of people would pay a lot of money to avoid being fat.

And by the way, why exactly do you think that those lifestyle choices are easy to change?
Very few people want to have diabetes (I assume). So there must be something else besides pure will that we should take into account when thinking about this issue.
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The most important point of creation is to makie decisions.

That is what you train for. To be able to do as a creator without too many barriers between your intuition and your ability to transform that into something.

A jazz musician who apply critical thinking to her improvisation is not playing.

A writer who think is not writing.

She might not like what she ended up deciding but there is nothing to throw away, no babys to kill if nothing have been created.
i think that when we type, we use a different part of the brain than when we speak. I have no evidence to back this up but sure as hell know that people won't say half the crap they spew on youtube etc.

I actually find the "negative" comments refreshing on YC. Youtube comments are the bane of existence...
some interesting numbers...

> This year 46 policemen were shot dead
and

> the police shot and killed at least 458 people last year

10% or so of death involving police is a policemen. Not that it justify the police force level, but an interesting statistic.
I wish you kids would use "summary:" instead of "tl;dr"
though kudos for putting it at the beginning rather than the end.

I mean this in a friendly constructive way, and realize you may not be a kid. But while there's lots of positive innovation happening in culture and esp related to the Internet, I feel strongly that "tl;dr" is not one of them, its a step backward. It's typically placed in the worst possible location (the very end rather than the very top/beginning) and it's far less likely to be understandable than "summary". It's also reinventing the wheel. Again, not a criticism of your comment, meant more for other readers, esp younger or less educated ones, who don't know about the word summary and how it is traditionally used to solve the need well already. :-)
> The civil legal system is supposed to be the correct way for an injured party to recover losses from the party causing the injury. Sadly, this doesn't always work as effectively as it should. Probably because lawyers.

Even if you assume away any problems caused through either ill intent or simple not being perfectly omniscient by lawyers, judges, and jurors (all of whom can cause failures in the civil legal system), the impossibility of that system being a complete mechanism for recompense lies, among other places, in the fact that it is possible for the liable party to have caused harms to the injured party that the liable party is not capable of compensating. The harms a person is capable of doing are not limited by their capacity to pay -- someone with no assets can do an injury causing millions of dollars of property damage.
On many of these benchmarks, with no memory allocation, since Go is compiled with zero dynamic loading (not even modules) it should be only slightly less fast than C due to range checking and lack of controls for fine tuning, but instead it is half as fast. Benchmarks using memory are 1/6th as fast.

Go should be faster than JVM Java at microbenchmarks due to no dynamic loading and precompilation, instead it's only faster on some really tiny algorithms possibly even due to just fitting in the cache better because the GC runtime is so basic. So if you want to write some simple command line tool Go maybe it'll be slightly faster than Java. On anything that uses much memory JVM destroys Go on performance.

So performance is not a reason to write something in Go -- in fact it's just the opposite. Since you can't control the coroutine scheduling you can't do anything about latency spikes or starvation or anything else that can cause performance problems in multithreaded programs.
Why you should be watching 'Black Mirror' on Netflix
I am class of 05 so my intro class was the last one to use ada. I also remember it being very easy on beginners. At the time I was annoyed the underclassmen got java, but now that I know java, no thank you.
> Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest

An easier reason: They get a lot of eyeballs.
I was in the same boat for years, and just avoided offering any kind of hosting or SLA services.

Eventually I just bit the bullet. And yes, it was exactly what you'd expect (waking up at 3am to fix problems, being available 24 hours, etc). That's the bad news. The good news is: These problems only exist for the first client who signs up for the SLA. Once you've got 2,3,4 clients retaining you, you can afford to farm the work out to others.

But also, it just forces you to rethink how the systems are designed. Write more test coverage, build better failover mechanisms etc.

Also, don't go for that "respond in 2 hours, fixed in 4 hours" crap. Most SLAs I've seen just state a guaranteed uptime % (99% or whatever) and you start prorating your retainer fee if the uptime slips below that. That way, if you really dont want to wake up (or if you're really unavailable to fix something) you don't have to, you'll just have to refund some of your retainer at the end of the month.
Sad but true. Ballmer could have done the same things but wouldn't have got the same response.

It generally takes Microsoft years to do things. Anyone who doesn't realize all this stuff was already a long way down the pipeline needs hitting with a cluestick ;-)
Oh, there are patterns in LISP as well, such as this one:

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Is there value in that context for a tablet with an e-ink display that's movable and could last long without recharging ?
As I'm academically naive to the topic (though I have a long term interest) I was being 50% tongue in cheek and 50% "well, why not?" so take my comments in my capacity as an enthusiastic but ignorant buffoon basking in the presence of a certified genius.

With that said, I wrote the C equivalent of that Perl code, compiled -O0, disassemble, and it's what you'd expect.. add, mov, cmp, jg. At O3, the entire program is replaced by the no op: xor eax, eax.

I am surely comparing apples and oranges here and missing your point about the control flow nodes, but gcc is making such an optimization on a naive implementation so it seems conceptually possible in a more dynamic environment if the same limitations can be calculated to be present on such an example, maybe?
I think Greenlets are fantastic but unfortunately worried of performance issues as I've read before. It has all the makings to being a node.js killer. Wish I could find that article explaining why greenlets are sometimes dangerous but I feel like the overall benefit of Greenlets outweigh the risks.
The first time -- and still one of the few times -- I ever walked out of a meeting because the BS level seemed too high was when I visited Higher Order Software in the 1980s.
Someone who's in a position of authority or power doesn't have to worry about gaining said authority, while someone who's not very often does. Rationally, the two situations are equivalent. (Psychologically they aren't; there's a cognitive bias that causes people to weight losses higher than gains, but there's also a cognitive bias in others that makes it easier to avoid losses than enact gains, so they roughly cancel out.) You can't draw significant conclusions either way along this dimension: the willingness to sacrifice authenticity for power is a mark of the security<=>insecurity axis, not power<=>powerlessness.
Explain Bitcoin like I'm 5 years old
That's weird. When you download the trail version (http://www.dbappx.com/) the about us dialog box points to another company (http://www.iosxtools.com) who released the software much earlier. Rip-off?

https://twitter.com/iosxtools/status/520805785966637056/phot...
According to wikipedia
"The onboard guidance software used a Kalman filter to merge new data with past position measurements to produce an optimal position estimate for the spacecraft."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PGNCS

In turn the main source of navigation information came from mission control using least squares. A source on that would be nice too!
Hello. I agree with your points. I'd also like to add that it would quickly become meangingless if everyone started to do this.
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Did you consider (and then what did you think of) Javascript and/or Ruby?
Does anyone have a link to a full article without a requirement to log in?
> I don't think it's as simple as "if someone dies there needs to be a trial".

But there almost always is in reality, if there's a reasonable suspect. The only exception seems to be with law enforcement officers.
It lets you define your own ranking /scoring function I think
Until last year, I was living as an expat in a foreign country, whose laws limited my ability to take another job, since employers need to sponsor foreign workers and go through the hassle of paperwork to employ them. I was stuck, then, and now I'm not.

I was also working in a rapidly obsolescing industry, journalism, where demand for reporters and editors is decreasing sharply. People in those positions often feel like they can't make the jump, because they lack the skills to be considered for work in another industry.

While that's not always correct, it is true that early career choices can commit you to economic sectors that end up not doing well. And then you're playing catch up with other candidates who spent their years building more desirable skills.