skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why should we skip it? Does it make the article invalid?

If he's a liar, I might think differently, but the mistakes you mention seem irrelevant to me.
Looks like worth reading, although the themes of the novels covered in the article look pretty much rehashed from other authors like Arthur C. Clarke of course, but also Larry Niven comes to mind.
We're adding the new "descendants" property to all items. Thus they've changed.
IOTA: a documentation browser built with NW.js
My big problem with Hired.com and similar sites is that there's no incentive for anyone to be honest. I have no incentive to say "not interested" to anyone, and they have no incentive to back up the salary they post. It's the equivalent of the "always swipe right" strategy on Tinder -- it's in your best interest to say "maybe" or "interested" to everything, because otherwise you don't know if you're missing out on opportunities.

What I really want as a hiring manager is for someone to show up and say "Here's Candidate A. We think they're strong because X, Y, Z, and here's the proof." Someone whose mission is to honestly find me the best candidate, who isn't just trying to place someone as fast as possible so they get their commission. Most recruiters I know are interested in placing a good candidate as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of problems with this. "Good" isn't "best", and often times the recruiters don't know the difference between Java and Javascript, and I wind up with junk resumes in my inbox.

So how do we fix this? I have no idea. But there's gotta be a way. I don't think that way is going to be scalable with a simple web application. I think you have to have a secret weapon that nobody else has, and maybe that's just a group of in-industry professionals that vet candidates on your behalf, or maybe it's some incredible machine learning algorithm, or maybe it's something else entirely.

As a job seeker, I want to get the best job I can, and as a boss, I want the best employees I can get. And I don't think those things are mutually exclusive at all.
I Hate Myself Because I Don't Work for BuzzFeed
What is the most beautiful theorem proof, and why?
Do you have any hints that he plagiarised this article or do you follow the principle of "misbehave once, be damned forever"?
"It’s digital rights management, the coffee equivalent of Steve Jobs’ attempt to fill iPods only with music sold through iTunes."

What?? Not really. Keurig machines refuse to use anything other than a Keurig-brand K-Cup. The iPod always played non-DRMed music. It just wouldn't play music with DRM from other stores.

Any store willing to sell music without DRM is/was perfectly compatible with the iPod.
What is the use case of 'contracts' exactly? From what I understand this is not standard ruby, it's something that comes from another language, right?

Why should I use contracts and not do something like: "var.is_a? Float/String/etc." using exceptions to handle errors, which looks much more elegant/rub-ish to me.

ps. I'm an developing ruby applications for fun mostly although I have received a few ruby job offers. I am not an advanced ruby developer, so feel free to verbose :-)

EDIT: Okay, maybe this can be used to enhance a testing framework?!
> I wonder if any adult working a minimum wage job isn't living a very bleak existence anyway, and in fact isn't being exploited for having a brain disorder we currently call "addiction"

Assuming you consider 28 years old to be "adult", I can confirm that there are such adults.
This is great! I've always equated consulting with freelancing, in the sense that say if you were consulting as a data scientist, you actually do the model building for the client, but this changes everything!
Who, exactly, is this "lot of people" you refer to?

> "anything the government does is fine"

I have literally never met a single person who believes this. I have met someone who believes that anything the market does is fine (revealed preferences, doncha know?) but fortunately he's a minority, even among libertarians. If we instead interpret your statement as hyperbole with the intention of accusing people of complacency, then...

http://xkcd.com/610/

... you're no better.
Why are YOU learning to code?
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Nespresso coffee pods are recyclable. Our Magnapower eddy sorter has separated aluminum from plastic after crushing the pods. Video here: https://vimeo.com/118085045

I don't think K-Kups would present much a problem either, but I haven't had the chance to try shredding and sorting them yet.
Show HN: SMS Travel Map
In Summer last year, I drove a car from London to Mongolia (and back).

This is a map of my route: http://smstravelmap.com/map/0f0mvsnc

I built a service to provide travel mapping for everyone, even where mobile data is impractical.

http://smstravelmap.com/

Would love to hear what people think!
Employers can't afford to be picky anymore. The unemployment number is now 5.5% and we've had a year of 250k+ jobs added per month. If you want to use anecdotes about Walmart, even they have been forced to increase their wages to retain talent recently.

The axe against ex-cons is an ingrained bias that hurts competitiveness. It is an unfortunate 'reality' that it is a bias that is tolerated in America today.
Clickable links:

My map: http://smstravelmap.com/map/0f0mvsnc

Index page: http://smstravelmap.com/
Is there a way to have RuboCop automatically clean up things it detects? Obviously I would run this one file at a time, and git diff it before committing it.
This man repeats over and over again that he believes humans are not inherently Evil, while he justifies the behavior of guards on the way the experiment was designed.

For me that proves that people could be inherently Evil while not realizing about what they are really doing(until they suffer from it).

For example, at the start of the WWII killing and abusing for the Germans and Japanese was so easy because there was such a power imbalance, like in the experiment with guards weapons,horses against tanks in Poland in WWII, that they actually abused and killed without actually thinking about it. They were Evil, but most of them did not really knew at the time, because all the propaganda they heard and so on(radio told them they were being heroes).

It was only when they started to loose that they understood what they had done to others, because they started being on the Evil receiving side.

Today you see this power imbalance in Iraq, any American soldier could kill 100-200 people from the other side before one American dies. So they don't really think about this until a terrorist attack kills 10-20 people in the West. Control on the media means the thousands of people dying in Iraq is not displayed on TV, so it does not exit.
Since Windows 8 system menu icon reappeared in file explorer's titlebar.
As I understand it, cashier is a low-skill job with high trust requirements (since they work directly with money).
well it is not like government doesn't have entry level jobs it could apprentice the recently paroled into. From janitorial to grounds maintenance to even becoming a fireman or similar first responder.

I do note that this business in the article is not really subject to costly losses from theft. There are likely others of similar nature where this can work.

Lastly, back on the government angle. There isn't any reason to not develop programs that start in prison to guide people into jobs with private employers who do not high skilled workers. From wage and transportation assistance there is opportunity there. It won't come free, but is has to be many times cheaper.

I wonder how many felons would vanish off the rolls if all marijuana convictions were pardoned?
What he did worth much more...
Not in your lifetime, or your kids lifetime! Relax, keep calm and code on!
how can he do that?
+1 for the Computer History Museum! When I went a little over a year ago, they had a full size working replica of Babbage's computing engine.
You are correct that U.S. policy is in some ways broken, but incorrect in assuming that warrant canaries serve no purpose or firms can be compelled to lie. The far better arguments are that such an order would be unconstitutional -- look at the NSL 1A litigation for a good parallel.

That's why CanaryWatch.org is run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, NYU's Technology Law & Policy Clinic, and the Calyx Institute. I moderated an event at HOPE X last year with Nick from Calyx (and Ladar from LavaBit) and they have spent quite a bit of time thinking through this.
I'll try one more time to get my point across. I agree with this:

> if you're incompetent and you assess your work and it appears to be good, then dunning-kruger says you don't have the competence to make that assessment and it's probably not good work.

Definitely. Ergo, if my work looks good to me, I should not assume that it is. Instead, I should look to improve my ability to evaluate the work. (What D+K call metacognition.) One way to do that, of course, is to have other people evaluate my work and tell me what they see. But there are plenty of others.

> if you're competent and you assess your work and it appears to be bad, then dunning-kruger says that it is not as bad as you think.

Exactly. Therefore, I should not be discouraged, but instead focus on upping my game to the level of my taste.
The -a flag will do this for some of the offenses.
https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/wiki/Automatic-Correction...
Backup your business: Advice for non-technical co-founders
Interesting, I hadn't seen that package. Gate does look very similar to Throttler, though it isn't very well documented.

The main difference appears to be that Throttler wants to know the total number of jobs up front and so doesn't need to be told that a new job is starting, where Gate more closely follows the WaitGroup concept of incrementing and decrementing the counters manually.

Group is also interesting, but I don't mind running my own error channels and executing my own routines so that I have a little more control.
Weird to see a positive article about the benefits of letting people who have served their time get back into work juxtaposed with your post saying, essentially, Burn him he's a plagiarist.
I lived in Monterey for a few years and, as my first few impressions of SF were essentially just the Wharf with the rest of my time spent driving, I had a very negative view of the city. It wasn't until I started walking those dreaded hills and exploring the city on foot that I really appreciated how amazing the place is.
Thanks! I have a friend that raves about Vimperator for FireFox. But I use Chrome and hadn't got to looking for an analog yet.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimperator
Yea, there are lots of ways to address it, and we talk about it every now and again though haven't come up with an elegant solution yet! One the first link it states that deleted files will be removed after 30 days. A removed hard drive acts the same as a deleted file, since it's no longer on your computer. I'll chat with our team and see if we can make it clearer.
I've a different idea. Rather than try to recover old photons that left earth long ago, can recover and collate the remnants of these photons. This might be possible if these photons left a holographic imprint on matter which is still present – buildings, old trees, rock formations. I envision that in the future there will be a field of "photonic archaeology" where scientists will reconstruct past images from these trace holographic signatures. Same thing could theoretically be done for acoustics.
How to get your own email newsletter off the ground
Programming Language Primitive Safety Score
The AeroPress does indeed produce fantastic espresso. If only the process didn't involve near-boiling water and plastic ...
Yeah, if you just want some quick coffee, buy a jar of Jacobs Krönung or another decent instant coffee. If you want nice coffee, you have to either do a bit of work or buy a fancy machine that grinds beans and everything. At least in Europe, you can get those for under $400.
Here's a better idea for a USPS mail truck: End the USPS.

All I get is spam. Why are taxpayers subsidizing advertisers?
Um.

https://xbenjii.co.uk/i/jcu1Z
Free Gold Watch. Play some pinball (they also do screen printing). http://freegoldwatch.com
Hilarious. No problem for the company, but I wonder if they installed two or just sent the data to both of them...

I have a car I don't use very often and often forget where I park it. DX and BangGood have GPS trackers you can buy for $20-40 that you can install a prepaid SIM card in, text message and receive coordinates. Not a bad roll-your-own-LoJack.
Two little known gems:

Hiller Aviation Museum - San Carlos

Exhibit – A collection of aviation history spanning over the past 30 years by Stanley Hiller. Collection includes 50 aircraft exhibits and numerous displays such as:

1869 “Avitor” Hermes Jr. (early heavy-lift airship - unmanned)
1883, 1905, & 1911 gliders (Montgomery)
1903 Wright Flyer Replica (first manned powered flight)
1911 Eugene Ely’s Curtiss Pusher (the first plane to land on a ship).
1913 Lincoln Beachey’ “Little Looper” (early aerobatic airplane).
1945 Hiller 360 (first inherently-stable helicopter to be licensed by the FAA).
1955 Flying Platform (first ducted fan, man-carrying, VTOL aircraft)
1955 Grumman Albatross (flew around the world).
1956 XROE Rotorcycle (fully collapsible helicopter)
1970 Boeing 747-100 cockpit (fully accessible)
1985 Czech AERO Vodochody L-39
1986 Boeing Condor (spy plane with 201-ft. wing span)
And many more. Visit our exhibits page.

Facilities – The museum’s 53,000 square foot complex consists of a main exhibit hall, an entrance atrium, 35-seat Theater, two 50-seat conference center, gift store/restoration shop/and kitchen facilities for catered events.

Location – The museum is located at the Northwest corner of the San Carlos Airport, San Mateo County, and immediately adjacent to highway 101.

Visitors – More than 85,000 annually.

Operations – 18 staff members and 100+ Volunteers

*'

Farnsworth Lab - Corner of Sansome and Green Streets, San Francisco. Where Green Street deadends into Telegraph Hill from the East.

No museum, yet, only a plaque. Philo Farnsworth invented many of the basics of television here. A block south of here is one of Henry Chung's legendary Hunan restaurants (inexpensive for geeks).
The original vaccine is still good, and it's evil to torture anyone, even Hitler. I think you're stretching too far.
> This isn't 'right' or 'wrong', it's just reality.

Government-supported reality. You can say that this is okay, but please do not make it look like this is just the way it is: The government could disallow access to all felony records (probably with an exemption for police) and even (if it wanted) provide people with a fake background story for the time they were in prison. Discrimination can only be based on things someone else knows, if the government didn't provide the information, how could the employers be "picky"?
The bigger issue with the DRM is that Keurig is fighting their own customers. Great for competitors, not for Keurig. "never Fight Your Own Customers" http://blog.atomicinc.com/2014/12/15/never-fight-your-custom...
Assuming we could overcome the technological/scientific/physical limitations and we did have a 'realtime' video feed from a Google Earth-like perspective of events happening 65 years ago (picking the final example)... I wonder what the societal impacts of that would be?
Couldn't Keurig sue them for selling that?
A very good idea. Although someone intelligent enough to rig this up almost certainly bought a pre-paid SIM with cash.
Sniff. This brings back memories of when I put to bed http://opensymphony.com and http://openqa.org. In the era of GitHub these kinds of organizations seem so odd, but at the time they were critical to some really important projects. Nothing is forever I suppose!
Web 0.999...
It should be 5 plates / 4 consumers, were it not for the late-arriving crab throwing a wrench in at the last minute.
Really cool idea, even if it is a bit hard to follow what is going on. Also I see that the game is not out and they don't seem to have published any updates anywhere in the past year.

They probably could have used the publicity a year ago.
"Does one have to be a genius to do maths?"

The question is vague. What is a genius? and what is "doing maths"? Are we talking about solving a simple linear differential equation, or getting a professor position in a reputable institution? or getting a field medal?

In any case, it seems to me that Tao is giving the politically correct answer, that is everybody can do anything provided they work hard enough. I wonder if he honestly believes what he's saying.

It may be pleasant to hear, but I'm convinced it's far from the truth. Some people are naturally much much more math inclined than others and no amount of extra work is going to make up for the difference in talent.
Wow, can the meta-irony of this particular point be any deeper?

Good thing there will always be a job waiting for him at the bakery.

"Following the release of his book, Chasing the Scream, in 2015, Hari gave a number of interviews where he expressed regret for his actions. In order to quell doubts about his reporting, he also released full audio copies of sources he interviewed for his book. In an interview with the Little Atoms podcast, Hari also stated that he would apologise to Nick Cohen and Francis Wheen."[1]

I think the article is exceptionally well-written, personal, and informative, and gave me, as someone intimately involved with all things addiction for 30 years, fresh perspective.

The fact that he seems to be currently deeply in love with an active addict may be motivation behind the piece, but it takes little away from the insights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari

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You think they offer bulk mail services at a loss?

That seems like the mail they are best able to adjust prices on.

It's also probably cheaper for the government to allow the USPS to fund it's pension system delivering junk mail than it would be to directly fund the pension system.
True at the graduate level. But how many faculty at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, etc. did their PhD at a school outside of the top ~15 schools?
Here is a good introduction to structuring applications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNIttd87xs The talk is given by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) and, quite naturally, also touches the issue of testing.

Much of this comes down to decoupling different aspects of the system: persistence (DB), domain logic (business rules), delivery mechanism (web, REST), presentation format, UI layout, etc. This aggressive decoupling enables one to isolate and test these different facets of the system individually. Of course, building this decoupling requires some effort, and one has to be careful not to over-engineer. As with many things, it is a balancing act.

And yes, you can do TDD with the UI; separate the UI logic (user actions, UI state, input validation, etc.) from the layout system (and don't try to test the latter automatically). The fun thing is that when the system is decoupled, you can test the user interface of a JavaScript web application without ever starting a real* browser, running a web server or spinning up a database. It is an interesting system design challenge to be able to run even your UI tests at a rate of 100 tests/second.

*A headless browser is not a real browser in this sense
I think the explanation model agrees. For instance if you're a top football club, you can tell who the cream of the crop are, and you'll get your share.

If you want to, you can take a chance on a player. If he's not good enough, he's still got your stamp of approval, so he can be sold at a higher price anyway.
At the bottom of the link you posted is the following:

> The information on these pages comes from a variety of sources, especially old IBM documents on bitsavers.org, as well as information from the IBM 1401 restoration team, especially Tim Coslet's SMS data and Jim Hunt's data. Images courtesy of Randall Neff, also rolyath and maisorbus. ...

That's definitely a shared experience with many birds of the same feather. The IBM 1401 restoration team is pretty famous, with public demonstrations.

It could be completely one-sided. It could be a labor of love for something that was important to the OP but which no one else would ever care about. (Marathons in every country.)

Or it could be useful for a future historian trying to puzzle out some aspect of history.

I am at best an amateur historian of my field. I am trying to understand how changes in computing technology from the 1950s-1980s affected how people thought about certain problems. Almost I have to work with is published or archived papers. Some of the clues I have to work with are oblique, like combining an oral history made 20 years later with a footnote in a paper, or using advertising materials ("can support over 10 million molecules") with records of the hardware of that era to estimate the amount of memory needed and the storage cost per molecule. Someone from that era would have known it on the top of their head, but it's not information I have. I've even contacted the archivist at the Charles Babbage Institute because the information I wanted was only available there.

As a result of this work, I now want to reproduce a 1950s era manual punched card system, to get a more visceral feel for that era. The book "Punched Cards" is invaluable in explaining the details, but putting things into practice sometimes makes it easier to understand the details. (Buying punched cards is almost impossible these days. OTOH, now we have stencil machines, which might be able to automate the production side for me.)

I can easily believe that some future historian of the 1960s era computing center will want to understand aspects of how the hardware works. I am not a hardware expert to guess what that might be, but it's pretty clear that other fields find interest in the historical development of their field, like clocks, engines, ships, bridges and buildings, and study old systems for an understanding or appreciation of certain problems. I've no doubt the same will be true for computing hardware.

It's hard to know what people in the future will want. Watch videos of Jason Scott ("Rogue Archivist" for the Internet Archive) to get an idea of how some of the ways assembled and archived information is used, like "Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time" or "So You Want To Murder a Software Patent".
Just for the record, "horses against tanks" is well known to be propaganda bullshit.
I wouldn't get too excited about that unemployment number. Only ~63% of Americans are even trying to work and a lot of those that are, are under employed.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/628-labor-force-pa...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-06/americans-not-labor...
This is a pleasant, self-honest discussion of purpose-driven software as it is being implemented. The language is irrelevant; it's fun to read this type of piece.
Godel Escher Bach has a chapter riffing on the acoustics version of this idea: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jvt002/BrainMind/Readings/P.... Though the discussion there is about recovering sound waves that are still propagating in the air, which seems orders of magnitude more difficult than recovering sound from impressions on solid objects (which already feels likely impossible in most interesting cases).
Can someone please tell me where the start-up sound is from? It's so familiar.
Back in the glory days of the 1960's you'd often see a scientist who'd made big money for a company get an endowed chair somewhere.
> It's no wonder recidivism is so high in the US.

To those who make very comfortable livings in the US legal system, that is not a bug, it's a designed feature.

Oh, and oddly enough, they happen to be the same people whom make the sentencing laws.