skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all kids. Not everyone is self-driven or naturally curious (although I believe anyone can practice these).

I was homeschooled until high school and I had a tremendous amount of freedom in my learning after I had gotten the harder and less interesting subjects out of the way (for me, spelling and creative writing).

I graduated nearly at the top of my class, but I hated how high school felt like prison. No free speech. Led by incompetent adults. Some of these adults went on power trips. The school system is broken, at least it was for me.

College is fine though, surprisingly. Maybe it was just my high school that was terrible...
Jonathan Blow's language/compiler/live performance.

https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/playlists

See https://sites.google.com/site/jailanguageprimer/ for some fan-made notes from the videos
It was pretty widespread in the (European) morning
I agree, the interviews I did with them recently didn't involve pointer/char array questions. Most of the questions were a lot more interesting compared to interviews I had with other companies at the time.

Disclosure: I start at BBG in June.
I wonder why that is an issue? Controlling the message? Feels like a PRC measure - as a UK citizen that'd make me feel very wary about public news.
America’s Money Newspaper Reports on Child Custody Without Mentioning Money
This is really fascinating. I'd be curious to know how different genres compare, especially pop music.
2005 to 2007, but things might have changed since then.

One of the "fond" memories was during our training where the guy basically said that when you compile your function (or app) the first time, you run the command and then get a cup of coffee cause it gonna take at least 20 mins, due to cyclic dependencies in the codebase.
Italian hardware startup Solenica wants to bring more sunshine into your life
Personally I feel like wikileaks is doing more good than bad. I'm glad people are getting upset over this.

>If we decide that it's up to thieves to decide what we do or do not get to keep private in our own lives, then we'll have fallen so far as a society. Good luck when they come for you next.

You're assuming that you can't keep your private life secure. The longer people try to hide and minimize the damage of data leaks the longer we'll have insecure systems.

Wikileaks and "thieves" are creating an incentive for the tech sector to become more secure so that things like this don't happen. By continuing to sweep these things under the rug we're just leaving our selves open for another attack. Wikileaks is forcing people to take this seriously.
Wasn't this a thing, a few years ago.

http://talks.php.net/show/digg/7
> I mean, if your USB port or display stops working, it's going to be a bit of an undertaking fixing it, glue or no glue.

I've changed the display on my Dell XPS 15 laptop and it was very easy, since there's no glue. Open the case (~8 screws), pull out keyboard, unscrew the entire "monitor" part (1 screw), pull out the cable between monitor and motherboard, pry open the "monitor" with a guitar plectrum or a screwdriver to get to the glass, push in the new glass, perform above steps in reverse.

I've never done that before and with YouTube's help to find out which screws to leave in and which to take out the whole operation took about 30 min. No glue!
Eagerly awaiting the day that we use this to speedrun the universe.
I think it's more like Disqus, just with per-paragraph comments.
_American_ society puts those obligations on businesses, and those obligations have created an economy that rewards those who are either already wealthy, or the backing of those who are. This is very directly giving more power to the rich. I don't see how criticising the very necessity of health benefits, one of the biggest costs of hiring employees, is at all a separate argument. There are many other countries which don't have such strict requirements around employee classification, yet are still serious about important obligations such as workplace safety and protections against harassment.

I don't want to spend my morning dumping on the US, but I'm amazed at just how often your poor and very poor are convinced to support causes that only help the very rich.
Of course, it's absolutely shameful; Wikileaks is absolutely shameless.

Note that there is also a due process for whistleblowing; there are Inspectors General whose entire professional careers are based on handling allegations of misconduct. The leakers in previous cases chose not to follow that process.
Presumably many institutions would have other sources of pricing data too - I know this is the case in many sell-sides, not sure about everywhere else. I've worked in a few sell-sides and you see bloomberg screens all over the place, but usually alongside front office trading systems like Fidessa which are powered by direct feeds a lot of the time.

Probably a much bigger issue for everyone who doesn't have exchange connectivity, but you'd also hope they have some sort of fallback for exactly this scenario. I.e. reuters or something.
Yes I think to replace them someone needs to create a marketplace for different aspects of Bloomberg and you buy access to specific services and data as you need it.

Would be an amazing business that, supposing you could get buy in from a load of other firms.
Company in foreign country does not really mean lower taxes. You still tax your income in country of residence. But it often means lower administration.
"Just because your services are dispatched through a smartphone doesn't make you a technology company."
My post was answering a question. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393256

>>"What's the actual legal status on this? It definitely seems to circumvent the law - but is it clearly criminal?"

The email indicates that they were planning to structure their donations "by making this a focus of our individual giving from execs" ie: 'fundraising'.

>>"$50k is a heavy lift since most of it needs to come from individual contributions (only $5k can come from corp.), but I recommend we do it. Cuomo has been a strong protector of the film incentive – even amidst recent criticisms of the program. Also, given the shows we’ve got there and your relationships I think it would look a bit odd if you weren’t on the host committee."

>>"I think we can get to the 50k commitment by making this a focus of our individual giving from execs this year (versus the federal PAC)."

If you want to argue about what "fundraising" means in this context, be my guest; but, I've probably heard it before, and I'll probably think you're either naive or deliberately obtuse. Are you expecting a single email that perfectly implicates the entire board of a multinational corp. in a crime? Do you expect a contract for illegal services to be included as an attachment or something?
How to move YouTube comments from any video to another
What Meerkat Needs to Do to Win
Meerkat of late got the most press they probably ever got especially without trying,and all of it; Negative, all this because Twitter purchased Periscope. And now all the rage's Periscope and everybody's sort of asserting, namely Bloomberg - that Meerkat's dead.

Meerkat is certainly in a peculiar position and I think a very good position because they have all this press, press they didn't beg for nor pay for - that's the good part. Meerkat is the app that really got the conversation going about live video streaming from your mobile device - so credit to them.

So, I've used both apps and I've gravitated toward Periscope but I'm really pulling for Meerkat.

Here's what Meerkat needs to do to win: 2 Things
First thing - Simplify the UI across all screens. Strip it down to the bare minimum. Make the app EXTREMELY easy to use. I spent most of my time on Periscope for this reason. When I used Periscope - everything was just where I thought it should be, nothing felt out of place and all the icons did what I thought they should do. On the other hand though - Meerkat felt cluttered and difficult to use - which doesn't make for a good user retention rate. Before long - I existed the app and downloaded Periscope and didn't even realize that I didn't go back to Meerkat. This was due to the UX of/on Periscope.

Second and most drastic thing:
Meerkat should totally get off the Twitter grid. Make the app a standalone app and quickly get to Android (Kudos to them for the recent talks of expanding to the Android ecosystem). A move to Android and going solo/off the grid would open them up to a wider audience - with this approach they'll win!

* I only wish Twitter would now change the name of Periscope to something sexy; something that rolls a lot easier off the tongue and sounds better to say than Periscope.
Why do we lie about laptops on the beach?
The girl game archival project that’s rewriting geek history
That equate from what I hear to 128gb+ memory usage!
For me personally, main problem with Scala is somewhat hard to explain, but can be summarized with few very abstract phrases which are overlapping:

* Dirty (opposite of Clean) language.

* Relationship between theory and practice is so far away from being "1 to 1".

* "Not In My Head" anti-patterns (something that will constantly require checking your notes/internet if you haven't worked with it within e.g. a month) everywhere.

Everything seems to be made overcomplicated on purpose for no reason (apart from JVM compatibility I guess, which is no excuse for me as user). Starting from simple things, variable function declarations, so many ways to declare functions, so much theory on var/val/def/lazy/ and how they differ at some corner cases. Function vs. Method stuff in combination with currying/partial application makes things so overcomplicated with so many corner cases which I will never be able to remember. I mean I have many pages of my notes from time I studied Scala, consisting just of corner cases and explanations of why they are present.

If you consider how Golang is viewed by many - as huge step back in our knowledge of language design. I consider Scala as step back in what is known in clean code, overall lessons from designing nice products. It just makes me feel like, it betrays everything I care internally and if Scala becomes dominant platform, it would just show to me that we as an industry just don't have standards and can accept just anything, we will never have something nice, close to perfect.

So my stance on Scala:

* If you just want to learn functional programming - pick something else, F# for me looked a lot cleaner and much closer to "1 to 1" - you can just apply functional theory without fighting the language.

* If you looking for language to make you happy - don't pick Scala. Unless you're into "The Abyss" thing @ Crockford.

* If this is for the money or because it sucks less than X (e.g. Java) in some ways - Scala is good consideration.
Because you want to guarantee a certain error margin, regardless of the error detection & retransmit/correct capability of whatever networks/file systems/media it traverses in the interval till you want to read it.
>"virtual machines and garbage collection which when java first appeared were still ridiculous concepts"

So I'm listening to a guy's thoughts on programming languages who apparently never heard of lisp and is seemingly unaware of Guy Steele.

No, you're listening to a guy that has met Guy Steele personally several times and knew about him and Scheme (maybe even before you were born, if you're 20-something), that is making a specific point from a SPECIFIC context (of the enterprise IT at large).

When Java appeared, a VM and GC was laughed at in the huge majority of programming jobs, both for "shrink wrapped" software (where C++ still trumps all to this day) and for enterprise development.

Neither Lisp, nor Scheme or Smalltalk or any VM lanuage had made any great inroads to those areas at the time, so from the context of the software houses/enterprise IT industry it just as if GC and VMs didn't exist at all...
With respect to #1 and #2, I've been skeptical of startups that seem to having such problems and twice I've turned out to be wrong.

That not to say that it's always like that, but a little optimism goes a long way.

Certainly, though, if you feel like shit, you shouldn't continue. Startups aren't everything if other parts of your life are suffering.
Forget it: his holier-than-thou attitude basically means that he really needs feel good about himself. Arguing with that kind of mentality just means increasing his insecurity, not understanding.
Well, the majority of the ~300 million US citizens don't seem to be up in arms against this. Is the US populace mostly complicit in this too? Can't we take their inaction as a vote of consent?

In that sense you could say, in the same way that the US populace has allowed for the Fed to steal trillions from Americans over 100+ years, this same US populace sometimes picks "private" individuals and companies for targeting its complicitness. This time they picked Sony. Why do you seem to be more angry about this small choice the US populace made, when the bigger choice they made causes a lot more harm overall?
The point about U.S. dollars being the default is fair - though I personally don't think it can be the whole explanation.

>> Why should he use a new thing?

But this is not actually the same question as the reputation assignment. It's quite possible that the consumer could decide that there was NO positive reason to use Bitcoin without having made the negative reputation assignments that have become common now. I'm not trying to make the case that there are sufficient positive reasons to use it - just that the reasons to not use it aren't rationally assigned.
Maybe our settings are set correctly, but HipChat's notifications seem half baked. I've been trying out Slack on another org, and I noticed the biggest issue in the way we use Slack is that most of our communication is person to person.

This seems to come about because any HipChat message to a room you are in notifies & alerts the whole room on OS X. Because of this, most communication happens in private person to person rooms which defeats the purpose of having public rooms for transparency. I haven't been able to get any of the rooms feature to stick and so what commonly happens is two people discuss things on chat, then repeat those conversations to everyone who should have been on it in meatspace.

All of this because HipChat still doesn't let you set per-room notifications.
How much are you trying to raise? What are the obstacles? If you suddenly had $5k in the bank to keep going, would you be able to hit cashflow? email me if you'd like more help, brian at refreshmiami .com happy to give feedback, just need to know about the business itself
That's right. That hasn't changed.

Its natural for a normal OS to map their "processes" to Mill turfs. I make that jump in the explanation, but hold out hope that we can teach people to adopt a finer-grained approach where they sandbox and protect things within their program.
This has been discussed a lot, but there is something real and genuine going on here that is, unfortunately, masked by the obvious nonsense.

Briefly let me introduce the main ideas.

When -1<x<1, sum_{n=0}^{n=oo} x^n = 1/(1-x). We might be tempted, then, to say that

1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ... = 1/(1-x)

But that's obvious nonsense when, say, x=2. The LHS clearly makes no sense, even though the RHS exists and has the very sensible value of -1. It therefore cannot be said that:

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + ... = -1.

However, underlying all this is the concept of Analytic Continuation which says that under certain circumstances, this is a reasonable thing to be doing.

Sort of.

Here it is being done properly:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclauri...

Here is a Hacker News discussion of that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078744

If that has whetted your appetite for more you might like to follow some of the discussions and links given in previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078489 : 53 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7073976 : 29 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057049 : 19 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7038809 : 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7081885 : 4 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8843219 : 4 comments

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7033444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7079921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7096326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638147
Looks to me like the Dev Edition is actually a $100 cheaper:

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=cax13u...

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=cax13w...
A lot of companies bet early on microservers (including Intel, see the C2000). Risky business.
I'm a professional java dev - groovy definitely does show up on our radar as it's used as the glue for a lot of tools related to our "production" code.

For example gradle buildscripts are groovy, as is the spock test framework.
They also have some neat ones for Pythagorean's Theorem, the area of the circle, and other questions:

https://www.google.com/search?q=a%5E2%2Bb%5E2%3Dc%5E2+calc+a...

https://www.google.com/search?q=area+of+a+circle

https://www.google.com/search?q=find+the+diameter+of+a+spher...
Can it also be used to power other electronics attached to it, such as a CPU?
> In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Well, doesn't that sum up the modern West in a nutshell. War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
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My interview at BB actually was 90% about pointers and character arrays, 10% about the keyword static in C. I got the job worked a great 3-4 years there. Also, that was 13 (!) years ago.
Productivity Tricks
I'm not sure the network stack in userspace is going to help MUCH in this scenario.

sendfile() does the disk (fd) read / enqueue to network socket (fd) in the kernel space. This ends up being DMA to pagecache from the file and hopefully DMA to network socket Eg. zero copy. In reality the TCP stack will have some overhead (segmenting).

If they have a network stack in userspace you need to make syscalls to for disk IO and you end up making copies from the page cache to your application buffers. You can do DMA from disk to your userspace buffer with O_DIRECT, but then you lose the page cache (and you'll end up having to re-implement it in userspace).

If you don't have disk IO that needs be performed. Say you have a in-memory hash table then you might be able to get a measurable improvement in performance by using a userspace network stack.

Lastly, you still need (some) elevated privileges for networking to a TCP in userspace so you end with a vulnerability vector there.
Yes. That's how I'm confident in what I said. If there's something you disagree with, I'll be happy to discuss it with you if you say what it is.
In the example case, though, it isn't about giving it a name. It is about using the name in the first place. Is no different from:

class Foo {
void test(String arg) {..}
main(..) {
Foo foo = new Foo();
Object s = "sd";
foo.test(s); // Boom
}
}

Note that if that were instead:

class Foo {
void test(Number arg) {..}
main(..) {
Foo foo = new Foo();
Long n = 4L;
foo.test(n);
}
}

Then things work, because the subtyping is chosen. In the generics case, there is no relation between Foo<Number> and Foo<Integer>. If there were, then the capture could potentially treat Foo<?> as Foo<Object> and then depending on if you went co or contra, could allow the call.
This is really poorly explained and man those prices are ridiculous. A free personal site gets you only 10 comments!? There isn't even a list of features that I could compare to other commenting systems.

Honestly, I've never really liked these kinds of per-paragraph/section commenting systems (I'm guessing that's what this is by the landing page) as you can't really have lengthy comments and it's cramped off to the side (possibly only this implementation is on the side, not sure)
My father passed away when I was 18, my mother passed away a year ago. Both from illnesses which no one had in my family.

As someone in his late twenties, it hit me hard. Even today, I cannot seem to enjoy anything since I feel the void of my parents, both of whom I was deeply attached to.

A friend who saw how broken I was gave me the book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and.... It changed my perspective on death. It made me realize that nothing is permanent and it's best not to be afraid of death. A must read for anyone suffering from loss of their loved ones.

To live without the fear of death and to accept what happens, sets you free in many ways.
Oh no! I've been going around telling my clients that you can only verify the existence of a bug, not their absolute absence, and that expected behaviour from years ago may not always match what you expect today. I hope none of them see this, and realize that I'm just too lazy to properly install the Windows debug kernel.
Entrepreneurship, Mindfulness and Buddhism – A Book List
You can get a very good bike for less than the cost of yearly car insurance. Even very-discounted-for-years-of-good-driving car insurance.
I think you're forgetting that a corporation did not send these emails. People did. As others have pointed out, these emails include a great deal of very personal information that have nothing to do with Sony the corporation, or any other topic of public interest.

If Wikileaks had reviewed these emails and released only the ones that are of genuine interest to the public (or did not disclose sensitive personal information), as it did with the Manning leak, that would be one thing. But I can't agree that it's responsible to release the entire trove of emails simply because they were sent to and from corporate email accounts.
The day after the Pearl Harbor attack my grandfather literally dropped everything he was doing and enlisted. Why? A visceral disgust that resulted in a sense of responsibility, or duty to take action. I know a lot of people who did the same after 9/11. War is dumb but a strong military is necessary, and I'm sure others here can explain the game theory behind it all.
> You can be humble and you can be honest, but you cant be both

I... I literally have no words.
Yeah, I think the techniques sound really promising. In his Ted Talk* he mentions stats like identifying 80% of bugs by looking at just 4% of the codebase, which could make code reviews and manual testing a lot more efficient. It would be interesting to see such techniques included in tooling to automate such analysis, and it wouldn't require any changes to working practices - it's just from the source code repo.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_hplxTYJw