skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is the question to be asking - it's only a matter of time. I think the only way to fight it is if the good guys are smarter and create the tech to protect us from these potential murders just like our immune system protects us from intruders
Very impressive. I'd appreciate if they could get WINE working under this though..... :-)
Toshiba Kirabook Laptop Computer Review
I'm assuming apple is smart enough to know their gold watch isn't going to win good press (then again any press is good, right?), rather a price anchor for the base model and something to throw so they can be in the same league (at least in price) as serious luxury watches.
3rd Edition of “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” Free to Read Online [pdf]
Does this imply that the Intel-style Tick-Tock model is most effective - where you divide your time on a calendar between doing the current thing better, and building the next thing?
Some of it is. He also rents space with Hurricane Electric.
Spidermonkey Year in review
If you don't fail 90% of the time, you don't try hard enough - don't know who said it
At which point we get to sit around with one company having 90%+ of the market for the next couple of decades until some VC wants to sink another few billions into doing the same thing again.

Wait, why's this situation better than the taxi industry again?
Carotene – Flexible Real-Time Messaging for Web and Mobile Applications
Haha of course not because then I would have to human instead of Interviewee #23564
Chapter 11 was the turning point for me (for the better; much, much better), and I understand it's like that for many people.
Under "Limitations", just reading this now:

"People who choose to use psychedelics might have better initial mental health before using psychedelics, and people who experience problems apparently related to psychedelics may choose to not use them again."

Psych ward patients who got there via psychedelics wouldn't be included in the study also.

What is written in their abstract seems irresponsible in the extreme, given the above limitations:

"We failed to find evidence that psychedelic use is an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Psychedelics are not known to harm the brain or other body organs or to cause addiction or compulsive use; serious adverse events involving psychedelics are extremely rare. Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure. "
Yes, it's far from trivial to even learn what's already implemented in the software. PHK got money to fix the bugs in it and instead he started to spend the money in "writing from the scratch" which certainly throws away a lot of what's already solved, tested and debugged through the decades.

See the other comments here about that.
don't you think it's dangerous to argue from a monopolist position? we have laws against the type of reasoning you think Uber should be using... I'm not sure they are in a position to do as you suggest.
This was one of the most terrifying sights in San Francisco when I was a kid, and the best my parents could do to explain it was to say it had something to do with TV.
Why readers are leaving this blog post

It's light text on light background, also if you click (Chrome) it puts some overlay of some sort over the page and stops it from scrolling
> Maybe not the best examples, but people do tend to think of the usage as something new, while it's been around forever.

To bad then that I never said anything about history, but just widespread adoption. So there is not much need to condescendingly point out Shakespeare and Austen, when they are just tangentially related.
Google in talks to buy Indian startup InMobi
I guess it goes like this: at first you don't understand a particular construct (pointfree style, monads.) Then when you kinda get it you tend to apply this new tool to everything. After a while it just get "downgraded" to its right place: just another useful tool in your programmer's toolbox.

In the case of pointfree style, there's a code golf aspect to it as well, it's kinda fun trying to rewrite a particular expression to eliminate variables and maximize the amount of non-alphanumeric characters!
The article failed to give any attention to what kind of software and hardware the computer will run. While I think that it is important to focus on other aspects, and us techies often focus too much on the technical, this lack of attention to the choice of software platforms is worrying to me. I hope that these children will be exposed to a standard set of tools or an open platform, rather than being lead into a proprietary platform where their skills will be reliant on the grace of a single corporation.

Think of all the children who today learn Microsoft Office. They have been trained, not to be users of computers, but to be customers of a single platform.
No, but my wife does. Pretty much every day of the week.

We have a range cooker.
Why are these not Pis? Anyone know?
That's not true. They could have easily told me I need to work on my Javascript, understanding of System Design, etc. There are many ways to deliver agnostic feedback. I don't blame them either. My mother is a lawyer...I have a pretty good understanding of liability. Were talking about engineering reviews. You can easily say..Douglas your code would have run way too slow.
About ten years ago I did the college-esque backpacking trip through Europe with my girlfriend (now wife) and being hit hard by the weak dollar compared to the Euro. I easily ended up using most of my savings (which was only like 4k at the time) from dishwashing and ended up living like a miser for the rest of the summer. Totally worth it though. Now that I'm finishing my PhD, the weak euro makes a strong lure to go back...
Super easy self-help support for your apps (updated)
I use RethinkDB for http://soopara.com with PubSub. http://rethinkdb.com/docs/publish-subscribe/python/
Are you targeting your adverts? $5 (~£3) would get me a few thousand views rather than <500.

Everyone arguing against boosting seems to say "They liked our page, they want to see our content!" Nope. I liked a band. I don't care what drivel they're posting every 10 minutes in a hopes of it going viral for publicity.

Facebook would be unusable if it didn't pick and mix what it shows on my feed
Calculus has been part of the foundations of nearly all modern science since its inception in the late 17th century. Its genesis shaped the course of modern physics, engineering, chemistry, and architecture, and has consistently for the last several centuries.

Linear algebra has really only come into its own since humans have had powerful computational systems at their disposal, as a large part of linear algebra's usefulness (including its relevance to the examples you describe) is efficiently organizing and performing calculations in higher order systems. That is not to say it is irrelevant or non-impactful - far from it! I'm just saying linear algebra has taken hundreds of years for its real power to be leveraged, and in the intervening time, calculus has reigned supreme as a system for modeling and describing real systems.

(FWIW, I agree with the author and the paper in question, but I think OP you replied to is absolutely correct that teaching both gives perspective that neither alone would impart.)
My company have this kind of activity each year. Teams of people from different functions identify problems, present them and their proposed solutions, what's thought needed to get it done. Present to everyone present including the GM. It can get pretty direct, but question asking and feedback are not allowed.

A month later, the chance to apply for any role (or create a new role) is offered to everyone in the organisation, again done so presenting to VPs and the GM.

I'd not encountered this in a large company; this company is around 150 people.
And this is how you create more terrorists. When you see an innocent family member being killed and you have nothing around you - no food, no education - hate overpowers you and you hate the people who did this to people you loved.
Extremely hard to follow, since the subs don't match the audio at all. They actually seem to be talking about completely different things.
I use `where` for finding stuff, but that's based on structure rather than scraping.
> Git [...] relies on some features of Linux filesystems for speed.

Modern NTFS versions support all the things that git needs, so it has less to do with having magical features in Linux filesystems per se and more with the fact that they aren't properly mapped onto respective NTFS features in the abstraction layer (MSYS or similar).
Tubes vs. Torrents: The Ethics of Piracy
Why is Apple making a gold watch?
The BBC is also launching a season of coding-based programmes and activities. It will include a new drama based on Grand Theft Auto and a documentary on Bletchley Park.

How does a 'drama based on GTA' help at all?
why do you mention being a simple pizza delivery man in all your comments?

One of your recent comments:

>Well, that's possible with compile-to-JavaScript languages. Also you have the option of plugins like Unity, if you're going for something graphically adventurous.

>That being said, JavaScript is a powerful tool, if wielded correctly. It's so flexible. In a lot of ways, it's like a pizza. One man orders a pizza with anchovies, another with green peppers. And on and on. Eventually it's like they've got two completely different dinners.

if you know about compile-to-JavaScript languages, and consider JavaScript a powerful tool and so flexible, why are you a pizza delivery man? (An unskilled job requiring no training.) Why don't you get skilled work as a programmer, even entry-level?

And why would you make an inappopriate pizza analogy in a thread about javascript, or mention

>When I knock on someone's door, and then hand them a hot box of pizza, they smile and often hand me money: $5's, $10's, sometimes a $100. I'm just doing my job, just like this Harlan "Father Time" Stenn. I suppose we take for granted, that which we can't see.

in a way that is completely unrelated to the story you posted it under? Are you using this as a 'novelty account'?
Just flicking between the two - either I'm completely tone deaf, or I just don't get what you mean.

He says "everybody get up"? Is that what you mean?
>Think of all the children who today learn Microsoft Office. They have been trained, not to be users of computers, but to be customers of a single platform.

They are trained to be customers of a single platform that many jobs (all of the ads I looked at recently) specifically require skills in. I am a big open source fan, but until businesses start asking for people proficient in any office suite then I recommend schools stick with MS Office.
Details of the "Micro Bit" machine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/makeitdigital/mi... Interesting that it has a built-in display (array of LEDs) and is specifically 'wearable'.

A lot of people will say "Why isn't this a RaspberryPi?", but I think you only have to stop and imagine the power of getting an 11 year old to build a wearable device that scrolls their name or shows a symbol they chose (smiling face, for example) to realize how much that could spark imagination and curiosity.

I own multiple RaspberryPis and have actually used Scratch on one. It's nice but it takes a hell of a lot of set up and the programming environment is restrictive.

The LEDs on this device will be what makes it fly because anyone can suddenly think "Now, what could I make those little lights do". You don't get the same effect with a Pi.

The pictures I've seen show the CPU as an ATMEL Mega32U4: http://www.atmel.com/devices/atmega32u4.aspx
A drama based on Grand Theft Auto? Aimed at 11 year olds? Umm...
I don't think it's so much that Betty need to buy a subscription, most people just aren't willing to do that, they would rather just deal with ad filled pages. How many people for example pay for gmail? Same problem.

The main issue is how do news websites make money? Other than spamming us with ads, which itself has low ROI, no news website has been able to figure a good solution. And if you point to sites like NY Times, ask yourself first if they are really succeeding if they also didn't spam us with ads too...
I understand your point, but as the owner of a "serious luxury watch" (I've had mine for 15 years) I don't understand the motivation. My watch is a thing of beauty. The Apple Watch maybe cool, but beautiful, in the sense that my watch is, it ain't. A fitness band is useful, and not beautiful. And I can wear that on my other arm, so get the best of both worlds. In this context I do not understand Apple's thinking. It's also why my dev time is spent on the Microsoft Band, and won't be invested in the Apple Watch.
By simple algerba, we can now prove that a picture is worth 1,000,000 vectors.
I think the point is that Eliezer's main strength - at least as I expect he would espouse himself - is his rationality or metacognition. This is what he would bring to those endeavours.

In the same way that a clever computer science can be useful to many industries purely through the application of computing, he is hoping that his thought processes can be useful to many different industries, quite separate from actual in-depth knowledge of that particular industry.

I don't think this is a far-fetched idea.

Whether Eliezer is actually good enough to do it is another question, to which I don't know the answer.
The Belgian Startup Manifesto
BBC – The Micro Bit
much smart. very learn.
Totally agree with the #2 conclusion.
This is one of the things that's always driven me nuts on Linux, and also one of the things I really like. Some projects that are interesting like this seem to disappear for a while, but often the concept will be resurrected under a new project. CoLinux is one of them, UserFS (now FUSE) is another one that went away for a couple kernel versions and is now back. I'm still waiting for an SSI (single system image) to make a comeback though (Mosix, OpenMosix, OpenSSI, but none of them work with newer kernel versions).
Original Prompt:

Tech Team related. Why do you guys have to enforce 8.30am to 8pm sort of timing? Do you really expect a good developer to be able to be in the zone for 12 hours straight? I know there's no strict stay till 8pm rule, maybe even there is. But it is clearly frowned upon if a guy regularly leaves early.

Why do you guys not use team communication tools? People in tech team do not know what all is being worked on inside zomato itself. Agreed, one guy would have his own task to deal with but awareness of what all is going on at least in the tech team helps in increasing the feeling of being connected with the team.

The culture in tech team is toxic. Contributing to open source isn't even considered. In office hackathons, people are expected to work on zomato related things only. How do you expect great developers to want to work in such environment? Great developers almost always tend to have great side projects. With the kind of timings and environment that is being provided, this is simply not possible while being in Zomato tech team.
HPMOR is a wonderfully entertaining book, one of my favorites along with George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and (non-fiction) Robert Caro's The Power Broker. The first ~7 chapters are clunky and then it really gets going. Harry vs. dementors is particularly amazing.

Even his detractors [0] call HPMOR a "cracking good read".

[0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
Open source back end for mobile apps
Review: New Chromebook Pixel is still lovely hardware with limited appeal
There are much more efficient ways to find engineers that build high quality applications. I wish you good luck my friend. I hope you do get the job honestly and I'm sure they are a great company to work for. I think it's easier to get hired on through an acqui-hire. My suggestion is don't waste your time trying to impress thrm. Build an application. Get some users. Monetize it. Or move out to Silicon Valley to get a taste of being an engineer at fast paced startup. If you spend the next 12 months solving problem sets versus building applications I think you will havd fallen into a trap. Hopefully not. The title of the article does provide some shock value...I'm sure there are dumber interview processes.
I have to disagree with you there. It's simply not a good idea to have a works-sometimes syntax for "if property is unset". The brevity doesn't make up for the fact that you sometimes have to fallback on the explicit check anyway. It may look clever but it's an abusage, and you're eventually going to get a production error, unless you're testing for it, and if you've got tests for that, brevity has already lost.
In one report, "Attempts to kill 41 men [using drones] resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November [2014]." http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-... .

25 innocent deaths for each enemy kill? Is that really enough to justify "less likely" as a defense for drones?

In any case, as hizz pointed out, this specific report is about an attack where the information was gathered by drone, but the killing done by manned helicopters.
Maybe it's a drama based on the making of GTA, rather than the game itself? Rockstar North is in Scotland after all. Is there an interesting story behind it?
His comment doesn't imply that he doesn't believe in contributing, he just says that they don't have resources for it (currently). I bet the situation is same for many startups, which struggle in finding profitability.
It doesn't convince me. There's no one answer that's correct for all situations.

Sometimes, had it been written well from the beginning, there wouldn't have been as many bugs in the first place, though.

I've seen codebases that really shouldn't be redone, just maintained and slightly patched over time - the risks are too high, the maintenance is low, patches are at least understood (mostly). I've also seen other codebases that should be scrapped and restarted. It really depends on the skills, commitment and expectations of the parties involved, and there's no one answer that fits all situations.
These seem a lot simpler than the RasPi. I don't think they'll be running Linux. Looks more like a simple Arduino. Closest thing seems to be the LilyPad.
Thanks for the link! Time to do some reading.
When I went to an open day at a local primary school they were using Scratch to teach coding (~10 year olds I think?)
For me his response to contributing to Open Source (we don't have the spare developer resources) is more acceptable than his response to the concerns about employees being expected to work 12 hours a day ("Come talk to me in person", "we don't force anyone to work here.")
Speaking from a helpdesk perspective, user-caused breakages are rarely by design.
Is time to contribute to open-source really a factor when deciding on place of employment? Seems overly idealistic and unreasonable for start-ups given the serious budget and time restrictions.

I don't understand the outrage in the submission's title.
Also recommended reading:

https://np.reddit.com/r/india/comments/2yr7py/to_mr_deepinde...

tl;dr: he just lot many Zomato customers by doing this AMA.
IMHO, a single USB port is an awful idea

I keep my mouse pluged in permanently. With a single port, I can't use my mouse while charging (unless I carry around a USB hub, which just proves my point).

The same goes for the latest MacBook.
[–]IndianDude-51
How the baby girl?
[–]deepigoyal[S]
Who?
[–]IndianDude-51
Your daughter.
[–]deepigoyal[S]
Who?
[–]isachinm
Your wife's daughter.
[–]deepigoyal[S]
Who?

Fake account alert.
Agreed. Most of the vitriol in the responses focus on the tone of the attitude of "If you don't like our conditions, you don't belong in the tech team and should leave." There's little of note here wrt. open source.
How does a startup get paying customers?
Anecdata: I've seen a handful of people, including myself, take significant doses of LSD, or mushrooms, over a period of up to 4 days, either in an intentionally controlled environment or at multi-day music festivals. Despite taking increasingly large quantities the effects rapidly diminish after the initial dose, and it typically becomes increasingly difficult to even want to continue dosing because you can take more for pretty much no affect. Looking at a handful of trips on the third day and thinking "Why?" and putting them back in your pocket.

Even spacing the doses out to 'multiple times per week' results in rapidly diminishing returns.

I don't personally know of anyone who's life has become messed up because of the types of experiences described above. Some have gone on to 'settle down', have kids, etc. many of us had full time jobs and still do, or finished degrees.

Amphetamine and MDMA, on the other hand, can rapidly turn peoples lives upside down, all the while they think they're being rational people.

Would it be a good idea for everyone to start taking psychedelics? I'm not convinced that's an experiment I want anything to do with, I'm not sure it would scale well. Having said that, alcohol causes, or is a factor in, so much mayhem...
BEM crash course for web developers
From comments I read about that when it was written, it's not clear to me that the author actually demonstrated the same behaviour of Heartbleed. I'm not the person to be the judge of that, but for what it's worth here is the top comment from /r/rust on the topic. Then you can make up your own mind about that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2uii0u/heartbleed_in_...
Richard Lazazzera, the Founder of a Better Lemonade Stand, Shares His Experience
This is not the question to be asking. Not at all The robotic fly question describes a future danger of unknown magnitude. We, western societies, must ask the same question the article hints at: How can we be murdering innocents in the name of democracy? It's happening now, not in some future, it is actionable by us and it affects innocent lives both directly and indirectly.
The Past and Future of Systems Management
Boise, ID? :)

a funny related t-shirt from Raygun: Ohio, the great potato state (above an outline of Iowa).

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2f/ea/93/2fea932c7...
Having two of them on opposite side as the new Pixel does is certainly convenient, even more so because the port is flexible: you can just plug your stuff in whichever port is more convenient in terms of distance/position. Have a power plug to the left? Plug it to the left port. To the right? Plug to the right port. That is by far the main reason why I'm bothered by Apple's MB and its single Type C, while having a single one may be sufficient having one on each side is significantly more convenient.
FWIW, I have a math degree and work in tech.

Both are incredibly important. I would say that linear algebra and discrete methods are more important for computing, but calculus has had a larger impact on science especially physics. Newtonian physics - a revolution in thinking and unification of mathematics and science - is intricately tied to calculus.

Even in the example of economics that you cite, calculus is used heavily for the theoretical underpinnings for finding equilibria and deriving min/max.
Actually there is an effort to make wine compile and run on Windows.

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows
How about: it's available if you want it and have the money, and if you don't there are cheaper models and other products.
oh for sure, i won't claim to know anything about luxury watches, but there's definitely a connection between an owner and their watch that you won't get with the apple gold.
I read the book the article is based on, and it does indeed mention the fact that the peasants were frustrated at not receiving their reward for catching a Western spy .. why does it seem suspicious to you? Remember this is the period of time when the U-2 shootdown incident occurred, and the Soviets were very edgy about these things .. it doesn't at all seem implausible to me - why does it seem so to you?