skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much this.

Recent grads aside, screening is stupid and hipster edgy "only the best" companies tend to do this kind of stuff. Unless the company legitimately does cutting edge work (quant trading firm, Google, etc) there's is absolutely no need for this.

On topic though, the problem is an interesting exercise in AI. Could be fun.
Any other (big) international business follows local regulations and gets fined when they don't. That it is a nightmare: deal with it.

I find it surprising how acceptable it is that certain company can ignore so many regulations, while another company has to abide by them. Unfair competition.
>"should really read Atul Gawandes Being Mortal."

PBS Frontline (which consistently produces awesome journalism) recently did a documentary based on this book:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/being-mortal/
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I've been trying to keep a problem log for arch updates for the past few months [0] but I haven't tried not updating for a while.

Now I'm curious, so I guess I'm trying it for a month [1].

[0] https://arguggi.co.uk/blog/list.html
[1] https://arguggi.co.uk/blog/Not-Updating/
This is so neat. I have often dreamed of undertaking afforestation on a truly massive scale. In northern CA, every time I hike through redwoods (2% of their historical range) I wonder what prevents us from growing them faster. Not enough water? Not enough nutrients in the soil? Transporting either all the way up the tree? Can we engineer our way around these problems, or is it truly the case that the planet is incapable of recovering from the havoc we have wrought until long after we are all gone.
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> I am 10,000% behind tolerance and acceptance for people of all genders and sexes and

Really?

Would you suppport former man who legaly (no operation or hormones) changes his gender, to avoid military service or to study for free?

Would you support woman who becomes lesbian just to get attention?

Or how about men who becomes gay just to adopt a kid.
> The point I'd like to make though is that sometimes we use science to justify intolerance

What? How can discovering the natural laws of the universe be a justification for intolerance?
And of course, XNA itself is essentially deprecated now, and isn't capable of targeting Metro either. A number of devs have started switching to MonoGame, but the support there isn't quite complete yet.
Some'big data' approaches to negating stealth include analysing holes that the aircraft create in the fabric of shortwave radio and cosmic background microwaves.

It does seem that the detection people have data and CPY on their side.
Overwhelmingly: Send a quote for the upcoming year, get a PO number corresponding to the quote, send an invoice referencing the PO number, wait an interminable amount of time, a check magically appears in the mail.

The last one was 9 months late in paying. Enterprise life, yay.

Salient point to keep in mind: the people responsible for everything that happened in that workflow after my customer passed the quote to her purchasing department are a) not my customer, b) not even on the same campus as my customer, and c) just. don't. care. A six figure check is just another piece of paper to them, which they'll see several hundred of this week.
Why not? They could just make it opt-in through the admin console like almost everything else that companies might not need/want (Youtube, G+).
Hey,

First of all thank you for all the comments!

@fit2rule:
Yes, that is exactly my intention! I've also been working on a MOAI-based game and I love MOAI and the guys behind it. It also has a great enthusiastic community and a great/clean C++ source code. That is my next move: to use MOAI.
And I think Luvit is also great (on my TODO list there is also a LuaJIT integration so Luvit will fit perfectly).

@hwh:
You're right. It's not built on top of the kernel, it uses the Android-flavor kernel.
Also koreader looks like a great project!

@StavrosK:
Thank you! That's not forgivable :) I think I was overenthusiastic.

@dimman:
Thank you! I was in a hurry but I'll fix that.

It's really nice to see so many people interested in this! I'll keep you posted!
Imagine if the person you bought your house from told you "I've disabled all the locks on your doors and windows so that I can pop in from time to time and leave a fruit basket on your dining room table."
>But it's a pointless argument to make when your 1% margin of error includes 70 million people.

You say that like it's some huge number. 70 million or not, it's still 1%. Numbers get their significance relatively, not in themselves.
>Isn't that kind of the problem?

Maybe. Leaving things in the abstract can certainly be confusing sometimes.

>I have no idea why it's a good abstraction for anything or what sorts of things it's a good abstraction for.

I think once you understand Monads for what they are (i.e. accept that it's just something with bind and return), you start seeing where it makes sense to use Monads. Until then, you can just use whatever concrete Monad implementations you're aware of. It seems like you know perfectly well that there exist Monad implementations for Lists, for example.

> Because it says what it does on the tin, rather than being buried under several abstraction layers.

IO, List, and most other Monads do what they say on the tin, even if you're not aware that they're Monads.

You don't have to know if something is a Monad or not to use it. For example, I've been using Lists my entire programming career without it occurring to me that I could use them with bind to model nondeterminism or the ZipList Monad.

>but unless they actually mean something solid, how are they useful in explaining or solving a problem?

They are useful because they are examples of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_structure .

You can use the definition of an algebraic structure to prove things about all instances of that structure.

Monads are, in fact, quite useful even in their most general definition.
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My take is that it's an APL inspired language. I stumbled on it because I am interested in Iverson's APL refresh, J. It solves the problem of APL's specialized character set by mapping mathematical notation out to the same sort of psuedo-English as other programming languages. On the other hand, Iverson kept closer to his original intent and mapped everything to ASCII symbols in J.

In a sense, I think all three languages occupy the same sort of space as Fortran and Matlab [and increasingly Python]: numerical modeling where `3` doesn't just represent the mass of a sack of beans but a particular three kilo sack of beans itself.

What I found interesting is that it is only superficially more comprehensible than J or rather that J is only superficially less comprehensible. I need to look at the documentation in both. Symbols aren't any less syntactically clear than pseudo-English keywords. The advantage of J is that it assumes that the meaning of symbols isn't obvious.

[APL]: http://pckeyboard.com/page/product/USAPLSET

[J]: http://www.jsoftware.com/
Why would government need to investigate how to persuade? Just fine them and/or shut them down, possibly go after the people running the company.
They probably meant 'serious discussion' as a proxy for 'discussion demanding the highest available accuracy.'

But that doesn't really work in this analogy because quantum physics essentially assumes Newtonian physics as axiomatic, so there is no way to avoid it no matter how 'serious' you're trying to be.
I've read them. If no one mentions that things are off topic, how will people learn?
> "[1]State public defender quality varies, but the feds are very good."

Somebody who is in unfamiliar territory in this sort of situation, which would be just about everyone who isn't a lawyer, very likely would not know that. This makes the threat of financial ruination effective, even if financial ruination isn't actually their only option.
> highly accurate approximation

An approximation, by its nature, is simplistic compared to reality. That's what makes it an approximation.
If you need a solid easy-to-config security wrapped around Solr I would recommend taking a peek @ Fusion from Lucidworks, http://lucidworks.com/product/solr-enterprise/
From the linked page:

> Fluctuation-resistant

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C#/.Net has so many advantages over Java (and lots of cons too), and you choose "unsigned integers"?
But of course we don't kill, we just feel stress and anxiety. And then, eventually, the stress goes away. We get used to being an eternally-broke marginal citizen. We hang out with the other marginal citizens. We work on our software projects and collect foodstamps.
No, they don't. Behind the scene, it's Lucene that is creating a set of inverted indexes. While extremely performant for text search, it is also destructive and partial comparing to the initial dataset. So, there is no way to migrate an index to another one.
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I see problems with them as well. There's the security risk that the products might have vulnerabilities that expose end users. Secondly, they may cause other problems that are not security problems. For instance, I have experience of a solution where HTTPS proxy mangles AJAX stuff that goes over HTTPS. This will cause very weird problems that are hard to debug.

Here the problem is not that the proxy would be trying to insert advertisements to the content. Just changing IP addresses within AJAX content may break functionality in nasty ways. For instance, so that things work with some browser and not another one, or reuiqre a particular engine setting in MSIE11, or some such. There is no problem in the service itself, but the service gets the blame because people can't think that a Cisco product in between might be the cause.
PC-BSD looks ok - actual FreeBSD is behind in the desktop department; if you like minimalism, Slackware appears similar to Debian.
I think they edited the article. I'm pretty sure it was previously worded to imply they funded the created of New Transport (digital variant). It would be nice to get a clear answer on this.
Bitcoin, overwhelmingly.
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Go does many small allocations behind the scenes. A "select" with more than one case does some allocation. The Go compiler generates special-case code for a single-case select. More than one case uses a complicated N-case library function that does some allocation.

Passing a parameter as an "interface{}", or creating a slice, also causes the creation of temporary objects, which are usually (always?) on the heap. This may or may not be a big problem depending on how the allocator and garbage collector work. Anyone know?
There's also the difference between what they say:

"We will not preload *this* software in the future."

and what they don't say:

"We will not preload *such* software in the future."

(Emphasis added)
There is also negligence. Like in the original case [1] where a woman got ill and suffered emotional distress after drinking bottled ginger beer with a decomposing snail in it. Even though the manufacturer had no intent to sell "snail beer" -- a consumer has a trust relationship with them: in exchange for money they can reasonably expect the manufacturer to take enough care not to bug them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson "it was reasonably foreseeable that failure to ensure the product's safety would lead to harm of consumers."
I think treating Solr/ES as a primary data store would be a horrible idea. But the problem is equally annoying if you're using it as an expendable search index.

There is no technical reason why Solr/ES could not do diff-based indexing. ES (I don't know about Solr) admittedly uses a single Lucene index per logical index, so changing a single field mapping involves reindexing the whole index, not just that one mapping.

But if the mappings were properly versioned ES could simply create a new version, index everything (from the original contents), and then swap. Locking the original index should be a non-issue.
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My father died from complications from ALS last year, 70 years old - he was only diagnosed with it a few months before he died, although his first symptoms appeared a little over a year before that.

Having been spared from most terminal illnesses, it was surprising that such an unknown and fast working illness exsited. I knew people could get sick and die, but I always imagined it would be something more ... well known, like cancer. Or perhaps a stroke or heart attack.

That we still have illnesses that we know so little about is surprising. What makes ALS so special?
I do live in an apartment building. It's pretty telling that you assume that I can't possibly relate to the common man, and if only I was in their position, I would be more sympathetic.

I am in their position. And I am anything but sympathetic for that very reason.
I tried Backblaze a few years ago and it choked due to the number of files I had (millions, IIRC). Crashplan was going to take months for the initial sync. Have either improved?

I'm currently using a Mac OS X app called Arq, which offers similar features (incremental backups, end-to-end encryption), but backs up directly to Glacier/S3 (or SFTP, or Dreamhost/Google Drive/Google Cloud Storage/etc). It works well.

I prefer backup software that uses open protocols with commodity/"dumb" file storage providers. Given client-side encryption, there's not a whole lot of value to be added by middlemen.
Yeah that's another point for the "don't blame us because we're stupid" argument. They're actually so stupid that they use a password, that's stored in the same place as the cert. If they used any of the standard anti-reversing techniques, that would have implied enough sophistication to be expected to know how TLS certs work, thus enough sophistication to know to just generate new certs on first use. One would have expected Commodea to make this automatic for their poor stupid customers, however.
> In the end, even something as simple as reading a list integers in the IO monad can be an exercise in frustration

Only if you need it to do it in less than 164616 bytes, otherwise I'd just use:

replicateM 1000 (return 42)
The real problem is the wasted time. You may save $20 bucks a week shopping around, but if it costs you 45 minutes and you make $40/hour after taxes, you are spending 45 minutes to save 30 minutes.
This is something that I haven't seen a straight answer on yet (from Amazon). When you make the restore request, you restore a "block" of data (or container, can't remember what they call it). And you have no control over how fast they restore that container -- if they take 4 hours, it is one price, but if they decide to take less than an hour then they bill you more, for something that isn't under your control -- correct?
I did see where you can request a partial container restore (range restores, I think they call it), so you can at least have some control over the retrieval rate (you can, for example, every 2 hours request 10% of a container to restore). But that still seems like a lot of areas that can go wrong.
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Absolutely everything is compromised.
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Those are poor arguments.
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I'm glad to hear that. I write by reading a page or two where I left off, then starting to type. What comes out is often a surprise to me. Of course there's much editing afterward, but the story happens 'by itself'.
You're flat out wrong. This type of system can be responsive to so many elements that it can literally be tweaked to just cut back the most distracting consonant sounds or whatever and only to the degree that is desirable. In other words, it can be tweaked to get whatever balance people feel is best, including reinforcing the cacophony. So, no, it doesn't necessarily ruin anything — it's just a matter of who controls the settings and what they choose to do with it.
It's hard to predict what beings more intelligent than us will do. Yes sex and race cease to become very valuable concepts when people can configure their bodies to be whatever they like in any mix at any time. But we can also consider that having machine-memory allows us to be very specific with the characteristics we want to advertise. e.g. from one of my favorite sci-fi books The Golden Age, the main character's full name is "Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified (augment) Uncomposed, Indepconsciousness, Base Neuroformed, Silver-Gray Manorial Schola, Era 7043". We won't lose labels, and objective superiority in certain areas won't go away. (A singular human-sized machine can't hope to compete intellectually with a Jupiter Brain. A machine made of bark will be physically weaker than a machine made of diamond.) But the negative associations could go away, which would largely end racism/sexism, the thing we really care about.
Or alternatively spread so much random DNA around the crime scene that its impossible to sequence all the samples. Reasonable doubt in a can.

(I think 'Almost Human' had something like this in one of the episodes)
ES, by default, stores the original document in the nested "_source" document, which could be used to reindex data from scratch.
(Christian from Stripe here.) We credit USD to our user's account when we see a transaction that we believe will become confirmed. The time-delay between when the customer pushes the transaction and when we notify our users is typically less than 15 seconds and almost always less than 60 seconds.
Not to mention that over the next 20 years, it seems very likely our nuclear delivery options will expand to the UAV field in some manner or another.

And we'll also see advances when it comes to very long range, hypersonic strike weapons that can carry nuclear payloads (Prompt Global Strike, you can bet they'll be able to slap a small nuke on it, whether they openly admit that or not).
Just a nit-pick: "you are the product, not the customer". I think a "consumer" can be either. Further complicating the terminology, many sites where you're the product (and some where you're the customer) rely on you to actually be a producer of content as well.
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You are suggesting that you would have no problem with random groups of people waking you up at night and destroying shared property inside your apartment building?
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And for that matter, bodiless posthumans could still chose to exhibit whichever characteristics they please. I'd wager that most people on second life, given the freedom to portray themselves however they wish, choose to portray themselves as humanoid with apparent gender.
Please explain why these are poor arguments to rebut the claim, The only way this has any effect on anyone's lives is if it is used to catch you for a crime you committed.
Another subconscious anecdote: I read new modules quickly, just paging through and letting my eyes view it, not thinking anything about it. Afterward I can navigate around the terrain much faster than if I haven't 'walked the property' first.
I imagine that whoever made the decision in Lenovo didn't understand that's what they were doing. They heard "(technical jargon)... replaces some adverts on webpages... Profit!" and signed off on it.

That's not an excuse for this, but it smells like incompetence rather than deliberate malice (at least on Lenovo's part - Superfish/Komodia may be another story).
Your proposal makes very little sense in the existing world. Most equipment is setup for specific frequencies. It can't simply transmit and receive on any frequencies whatsoever. Same with the phones; and even more so with the towers. So, most providers have their networks on at least slightly different frequencies, which are often incompatible.

Additionally, such exchanges certainly wouldn't be free to run, so, there'd be quite a bit of administrative overhead in running them. What did the electricity exchanges in California brought us all? Also, do you really want to have varying phone reception every single day?

Legere's proposal makes a lot of sense -- require that at least half the spectrum is restricted away from AT&T and Verizon, and also require that all bought spectrum must be used within X years or XX months in real networks, or be forfeited without a refund.
How do you pay with cash on the internet? You need some sort of card.
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There's also Schemaverse https://schemaverse.com/

I've never played it but it looks interesting.
For a given generation of lithium battery cell and management technology, there is the option of trading off between capacity and durability.

Field-replaceable laptop batteries are engineered as a consumable, and runtime, weight and charging speed are given priority over long life. Laptops with integrated batteries make a somewhat different tradeoff, but still assume that battery replacement will be a maintenance expense for some users. In both cases, the expected average lifetime of the laptop itself is also a factor, which I'd guess would be about 5 years, max.

Packs for laptops make different tradeoffs vs packs for a car, or home power storage. From memory, based on some back of envelope calculations, tesla trades 15-20% of nominial capacity of the cells in their auto packs for >=4x or greater durability. Packs for home energy storage would probably make similar tradeoffs, and might get more life with less aggressive charging rates.
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They are not drones. The are RC Quad copters like any other RC plane or helicopter!
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No we are talking about binary.

In the very link you provided:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_binary
Well what does that 20 billion get us? I think the Corn Fuel subsidies get us exactly dick and should be cut.

But maintaining Americas arable land and having the capacity to use is not only a national security issue but a global food security issue. Especially with the coming global warming crisis.
The Bitcoin community might want to take a deep breath and recognize where Bitcoin has the most real-world use. The idea that my mom will someday use Bitcoin to buy books online is about as realistic as the belief that, any minute now, youngsters will realize that the daily newspaper is better read in paper form, because of the texture and experience and the anonymity of paper. For that matter, I am a computer programmer, and I love to play with new technologies, and I'm utterly unable to imagine why I'd ever want to pay with anything with Bitcoin.

There are a large number of people living in China who would like to get around the nation's currency controls. There are a large number of people living in Russia that want to move money without being tracked. There are a large number of people living in Latin America who want to avoid taxes in their own countries. This is what drives the use of Bitcoin. The only large scale need for Bitcoin is criminal activity, in China, Russia, Latin America and elsewhere.

Currency regulated by the government is a classic "good enough" product. It might lack some features that would be nice, but 99% of the public doesn't seem to care. Rather, they want more money, but they don't want to change money. If they had real doubts about the currency, they would dump it in exchange for real goods. But instead, most people work hard to acquire more money, and they show no real concern with the standard proxies for currency (credit cards, checks, etc).