skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be really interested to see success typing applied to ruby.

http://user.it.uu.se/~kostis/Papers/succ_types.pdf

TL/DR:
Success typing considers all possible types a value can have. If a function returns either a bool or an int and you then pass that value into a function that accepts a string or an int, then the success typing checks out. It doesn't mean your program is correct, but that it could possibly be correct. On the other hand, if you pass the "bool or int" value into a function that only accepts a string, the type checker will complain and you know for sure your program is incorrect. In other words, you will get false negatives but never a false positive.
You could argue the same the other way 'round.

Just assume that military is the standard, and in order to qualify as consumer, you need to add extra features.

So far your argument is symmetric.
Whatever the upside or downside of net neutrality may be, the fact is that net neutrality laws are specifically and only about regulating the choices made by routing software. You are claiming that the government not regulating routing software on an extremely fine grained level is somehow "facism". You are as ridiculous as the politician in this article.

In fact, net neutrality favors large monopolistic ISPs, while possibly making them slightly easier to bear. It forces information transmission to be a commodity, ensuring that only large monopolistic commodity providers can survive. It makes it impossible for any newcomers to take market share with innovation by making innovation illegal.

Locally based networks providing fast access to their subscribers and filling in the slow times with other traffic? Illegal.

Decentralized mesh networks allowing people to "mine" cryptocurrency with a transmitter on their roof? Illegal.

Those are just two of the business models made illegal by net neutrality. I'm sure there are many more that I can't think of right now.
Your concern is duly noted sir/ma'am.
According to the media article linked on the submission, the activist was stopped for a "routine search" of the car for more than one hour on the frontier with France by spanish national police (CNP). One week ago she was stopped again near the city were this convention took place.

So yeah, even if this is private investigator grade hardware, according to the info available it would not surprise me if this was either CNP (police) or CNI (our joke version of the CIA).
Scanning doesn't generate a new copyright, in the USA at least, since it's not considered "creative" enough. See for example http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/who-owns-the-copyright-...
I'm in Australia. Is this why I can't access http://firsttuesdayjournal.com/the-rises-and-declines-of-rea...

I get:

journal.firsttuesday.us - Access Denied
Error code 16
This request was blocked by the security rules
2015-03-07 01:51:36 UTC

Edit:

Google cache works but no images.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4JhJyDG...
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You sure it wasn't just an excuse to bash dynamically typed languages? ;)

In any case, I'll be interested in seeing how it ends up getting used. It's nice to have it available.
the people working on surveillance tech already know how to do it better. the comment was for the rest of us to get a glimpse of how the tech might be modified if it became cost effective to do so.
I recently did a Sidekiq background job in ruby passing messages to a python script using zeromq. It was a blast.
If you look at Chinese-speaking regions outside mainland China such as Hong Kong or Taiwan, foreign brands such as Yahoo!, Google or Facebook tend to dominate and are more successful.

A third possibility is that these foreign companies were not able to gain early traction in mainland China, due to government policies (the Great Firewall) and/or the company finding it hard to navigate the Chinese bureaucracy. Perhaps the companies at that earlier point in time (late '90s/early '00s) simply did not pay enough attention to the Chinese market and focused on expanding in the more developed parts of Asia with better Internet bandwidth and speeds, leaving room for native Chinese companies to grow and reap the first mover's advantage.
> Guaranteed bandwidth shared lines are a violation of net neutrality. Tell me how this differs from having a Priority Lane that's reserved for Comcast's real-time video streams. Tell lawmakers how to write laws that differentiate them, even when cable companies are playing word and classification games.

The solution for this is quite simple. The customer can buy whatever performance and quality of service they like, but it applies to all the customer's traffic, to any transit peer up to and through the peering point.
...and it would be readily defeated with some Xanax, and a bunch of false positives from people afraid of flying, authority figures, or missing their flight. Or any of 1000 other human reasons why people get stressed.
We weren't super transparent about it, but we tried really hard in a lot of other ways to take hiring seriously as a customer service problem, so maybe we came out ahead anyways.
Why can't they have stacked tabs and web page notes while using the Blink renderer? Saying that dropping Presto made those features go away doesn't make any sense to me. Its not like the Browser is built using its own renderer. The web renderer renders into the area of the tab ... the rest of the browser functionality exists outside that real-estate--and should be independent of the renderer.
You gave the game away completely when you named your company Starfighter. Some of us lived through the 80s too =P
The goop on the chips is the funniest part - I've taken apart various bits of equipment (mostly from China) and they often attempt to obscure the part numbers to obfuscate, but even they know to grind/laser them off instead of putting goop on top... and it's still possible to figure out what they are just by their package and pinouts.

The low integration of the design suggests that it's probably at least 5 or more years old; these days, all that functionality would fit in 3-4 tiny BGA ICs.
All I can say is that I'm sorry you believe that. I literally can't remember the last lie I told.

I actually can't imagine what someone would have to ask me that I would have to lie. I guess we just have drastically different life situations.
> "One of the fundamentals of a pyramid scheme is that early entrants profit, and continue profiting as the scheme plays out. How does this apply to the housing market if you don't get continual returns on resale?"

You buy your first house, flip to to the next sucker/investor for a profit, use that profit to buy a second house, rinse and repeat. As long as property prices continue to increase, you'll always win. Until the world runs out of suckers.

At least, that's what's happening right now in my home country.
it's different. SSC would have been much, much better than LHC.
I had no problem with editing pages. It's just that a separate "edit mode" for a wiki page is what most users (well, at least me ;> ) expect.
That way it's harder to edit "by accident", and you can use some markdown for styling.

But if you added all that it wouldn't be so simple or different from normal wikis, would it ;).
Just did a search from Oslo to Montreal, and do see some Iceland air options (see link below).
https://www.hopon.com/add/flight/results#dates=2015-06-10%2C...

In terms of how to book group/family trips there are a couple ways supported right now, and we're adding more workflow paths regularly:

1) You can invite friends/colleagues who can customize and book their own trips themselves - just click the big red "Invite" button in your triplist and invite the other teams to join you.

2) You can also ask to plan and book travel for a friend/colleague (See Account/Profile/Authorized users - they get an email, add their own password and approve you), then you can book for them using their profile information (you can add their profile info yourself if you want to) and your payment information - perfect for admins/team leaders managing a group of business travelers, or a parent buying for older kids. Booking for children that don't have an account is something we're planning to add. Here are details about how Authorized Users work:
http://support.hopon.com/hc/en-us/articles/201240029

Hope that helps! You can always reach us directly at support@hopon.com
This was my thought as well - I work with large contact networks for epidemiology, and while getting away from hairballs would be good in theory, I'm not seeing how a figure built using this technique will make me go "Oh! Yes, now I see it!"
> Apopo says its rats can each search 200 square metres of land in just 20 minutes; people using metal detectors would take five days to search the same area.

Why would it take 5 days for a human to search approximately 2000 sq ft of space? Seems incorrect.
Edit: sorry, should have mentioned - we can't do remote at the moment.
I would instead gather it's entirely too superfluous and divisive for the HN crowd who is routinely above such pettiness.

I fall back to Carmack on this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmbW4ueGdg
Sorry about that. I got laid off twice in 2013, it really sucks. Good luck to you!
You can always freeze your hashes in Ruby for safety if you want to. All that's missing is some sugar for declaring immutable hash literals. I guess one way would be to allow clojure-style minimal punctuation map literals and make them immutable...
Insurance AdWords are among the most expensive. Insurance leads can pay upwards of $100. Seems like Google decided to get a piece of that action.
Perhaps they were taking notes about the interview on their laptop?
We can interpret the comments in two different ways.

1) Nope, this doesn't mean girls are good as boys.

or

2) That's nice but this doesn't mean we have achieved gender equality.
Also not available in Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia. (Those were the only states I checked)
That appears to be a TQFP-120, and there aren't that many MCUs available in that package; I'm almost willing to bet it's a Renesas/Fujitsu part.

GPS + GSM modules are available (now - maybe not when this thing was designed) which would shrink the whole tracker down to one module, a few voltage regulators and related passives, and a battery:

http://wm.sim.com/producten.aspx?id=1058
people were discussing stackexchange testing people with google docs as well. Writing code in it sucks; it's surprising how annoying the wrong indent / return behavior is. I also was surprised how much I clearly rely on autocomplete, though java's api is so fat who can remember all of it.
Card processors require retailers to provide transaction receipts to cardholders.
Tessel 2: Moving Faster with io.js on Linux
You have two cows
Quickly proving sukilot's point, are you? Gender issues are petty and superfluous?
Secrets of the Conditional (ternary) Operator
Sometimes instead of serializing the man hours, it's more effective to parallelize them (see FoldIt, GalaxyZoo, etc).

I got to work in the Baker Lab that developed this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22267011
Yes, but what are the chances that all of my customers will leave at one time?
It's so much easier to just keep passing it around to your friends so they can attach it to as many different cars (or other kinds of vehicle) as possible.

Imagine what your fans in government would think if the logs of your car included long periods over water or a trip to the stratosphere or a trek through the woods. Or they decided to find you once you decided to seemingly leave civilization behind to discover you turned into a bear. An angry bear with a GPS collar.
I want to write some code that will take these systems and send bogus GPS data the spells out FUCK YOU.
Particularly in elementary school and pre-K. Daycares tend not to hire males because of parents and insurance. Add in changes in play that are not boy friendly and you have a trend. At this point, I am starting to lean to separate schools. Twenty years ago, I would have thought that insane.
Hmm, that page says you still ask candidates to write a fuzzer?
Oh man, everything about this post rings true.

I myself am a pretty mediocre developer. But fortunately for me, I realized that tech interviews are complete and total BS.

So what I did was spend a whole bunch of time studying whiteboard algo questions, and I became really good at interviewing. I've gotten a couple awesome jobs that I had no business getting (and usually get fired after about 6 month, because I'm a shitty dev, but whatever, on to the next job).
not available in hawaii
Is there a online forum anywhere that is?
Author here. Happy to explain any technical details I left out :)
also i'd think the more we know how to make better surveillance, the better someone can build systems that can subvert it
1. That's not true[0]
2. This wasn't in the U.S.

[0] http://www.npr.org/2012/03/21/149011887/fbi-still-struggling...
We will add support for keyboard.

Will have a look at xcode.
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This might be the first to-the-point comment I have read on HN that gives a clear perspective on the differences without being arrogant. Needing or not needing a rich numeric hierarchy is a great way to summarize it, I think. All of the hate towards a lack of generics really makes me wonder what programs people are writing that they feel they really need them given the fact that go does have interfaces. Nice post!
I would be more impressed by this if I thought academic success was any indicator of aptitude. As a hiring manager I have completely stopped looking at things like GPA and in some cases even if you have a degree, they are such poor indicators of aptitude. So who cares if girls are doing better in school I still won't hire 90% of them.

We really need to stop caring about how boys are girls are doing in school and start caring why so many people are being given degrees and can't get a job in their chosen field.
I hear you. Let me offer one counterpoint, as food for thought. Life is long, situations change. 10, 20, 30 years down the road you may regret missing some opportunity which requires a degree. If you are able, it would be great to get one while you're young. At any rate I wish you the best of luck.
> He was quoted in a 2011 Inc. magazine article as saying the idea of maximizing shareholder value is "ridiculous."

:)
BioFabric should be able to handle that OK. Import as tab-delimited sif file. Default layout is breadth-first search, in order of decreasing degree, starting from highest degree node. If that is not what you want, can specify node order. See this post: http://biofabric.blogspot.com/2013/05/banish-bipartite-blues...
tl;dr In the past, some (entirely) online eCommerce stores have failed. Thus Amazon may fail since it has a similar business model.
Terrific post, thanks! I am somewhat familiar with this hiring process thanks to tptacek's HN contributions (which incidentally led me to recommending a friend to Matasano). I would like to have a better feel for the context of the hiring problems involved here. I am wondering if the company's particular niche makes the hiring process unusually difficult. Or perhaps the company is in a growth phase with a corresponding shortage of employees? With such low turnover rates, how many additional employees are needed? Is it possible that the company is in a position to profitably hire every qualified applicant it receives? If so, the company is essentially losing money on every hire it doesn't make. In addition to a radically improved hiring process, what about offering remote work and/or extremely high starting salaries? Well-advertised high salaries and location flexibility might allow the company to out-compete many alternatives (e.g., Google, FB, Bootstrapped startups).
Thanks! I knew I read about that years and years ago but wasn't sure if it was still true.
Similarly, Comedy Central elimnated any mention of Craig Kilborn in relation to the Daily Show on their website. They don't host any back episodes with him, and relatively few are found elsewhere (recording and posting shows on the Internet/P2P was not as popular at the turn of the century).

Searching again, they do have a bio for him [0], but it has no mention of his role on the show, and they don't even give him the curtesy of being listed as an alumn.

0 - http://thedailyshow.cc.com/news-team/craig-kilborn
I was using Opera heavily until about 6-7 years ago when the compatibility just became too bad. The feature I miss most is the keyboard shortcuts (which this seems to have) and 'fast forward'. This was a neat feature for paged sites where the browser would try to parse the site for 'next page' links, preload it and when you hit the fast forward button it would show it immediately. Worked great in all kinds of user forums and photo albums back in the day - although granted, there's much less paged content nowadays. I used to put back, forward and fast forward on the 'z,', 'x' and 'c' keys, sort of similar to vim (although I was never a vim user). It really felt like being in total control of your browser and having the web at your fingertips.
You can still send unencrypted SMS messages to people who don't use TextSecure. You can still send encrypted messages to people who do use TextSecure. All you lose is the ability to send encrypted SMS messages to people who are already using TextSecure; instead you must send messages through the Internet.
I am painfully aware of my limitations as an interviewer. I wish there was institutional support for interviewing as a skill distinct from more specific job requirements. I've worked at big companies, small companies, been a founder, and I've never been comfortable with engineering interviews. So, more power to tptacek in his crusade.
fyi, the android wear app comes with our android app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hall.andro...
I've been arguing for a resume blind hiring practice for years and one of the kickers is that you also need a resume question blind approach.

So really "what did you study in college?" needs to come off the list of things you ask (at least as part of the filter).
Placing infected individuals in the top rows, ranking uninfected individuals by probability of infection, lay out the network. Overall shape of network might give clues to network structure? I find that with contact networks, dynamic networks (links appear and disappear) tend to have problems with force-directed layouts bouncing around a lot.
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As someone who has been in school for his entire life, I've always noticed that the average girl typically outperforms the average male in my classes. But it seems like the distribution of males was much wider.

For example, if each gender's academic capabilities were normally distributed, then I would expect the mean for girls to be higher than the mean for boys, but the variance for boys to be larger than the variance for girls. I say this because I tend to see many boys at the very bottom of my classes, but also at the very top.

Of course this is all based on my experiences in school, and I have no data to back this up. But I'd be interested in seeing distributions of academic performance for each gender.
That's because they all work for the R&D group that HP acquired in 2007 when they bought Mercury. The couple names I recognize on that list have worked on products like LoadRunner and RUM
How would it not be? Women weren't in work at first, because of patriarchy. After social reforms they slowly entered the workforce, but they were not paid as well and not given as good jobs. Things have improved over time, but there's still a gap.

I don't see why it wouldn't be because of patriarchy. Look at history.
I agree with you, absolutely.

What he means is, "You start hiring mercenaries rather than 'true believers.' "

True believers make great cannon fodder. They'll work crazy hours, take prod-support duties with no expectation of reward, and do the grunt work without asking whether it benefits their careers. It's not that they don't care about their careers; it's that they still believe that their careers are perfectly correlated with the success of the company, and will make a lot of unwise sacrifices. They often overestimate how locked-in their promotions are (they expect to grow with the company, and are shocked when it doesn't happen) and the future improvement of their equity position.

See, non-founding employees in most startups get very small equity slices-- it's typically about 2% * N(-1.2) for employee #N; this means that only about 11% will ever be allocated to non-founding employees, which is about right-- and fall into two categories: (a) those who don't take the equity seriously, work 9-to-5, and optimize for their careers-- and this can work out well for the company because there are benefits to doing well at a reputable startup-- (b) true believers who think their initial 0.5% (as Employee #3) is just a "teaser" and will be re-uped to "the real amount" 10x higher once they prove themselves. Of course, that isn't the case. In fact, that only happens in event of a major promotion and those are rare because (although there are exceptions) startups tend to get the Social Climber Complex and hand out new executive positions to externals.

Around 25 people is where employees' equity slices drop below the 0.1% mark, which is when it's clear that they're not really owners or genuine partners in the company, and probably never will be. So the good people (mercenaries) are the career optimizers and the "true believers" you get, at that point, aren't very good. (The TBs that you get early on aren't that talented, either, but they'll at least take a lot of abuse and risk.)
Right. The "owner of the copyright" doesn't have to be the original author.
30 days with swift – Day 06 – Diving deeper
Now we're off into contract law instead of copyright law.
I know you said you wanted "support," as opposed to suggestions of pills to take. However, more sufferers of anxiety need to know about this, so I'm going to say it: get a magnesium+calcium (+D) supplement. If you are magnesium deficient, taking some can change your life. For me, it eliminates the "body feel" of anxiety that I'm always a step or trigger away from a panic attack. It means that other ways of coping work so. much. better.