skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except most of the activities that are cited as "dying" in the late 1800s are still alive and well. Long walks? Check, still here and valued. Letter writing? Not as prevalent, but still done. Conversation? Still existent, despite naysayers in the 1800s and people claiming text is the death of conversation.

I think the difference people are noticing is that as some things begin to have an alternative, the minority (or majority) that would prefer said alternative can now express that desire where it was not possible before. Take the quote about sitting down and enjoying long meals. Maybe that's not everybody's cup of tea, but now it's a lot easier to get a quick meal on the go and some people prefer it.
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I suppose I'm just by nature not a very spiritual person.

I've spent a lot more time using the 6502, but I like both. They are represent two very different styles. The Z80 is a lot more practical in many respects, with its 16-bit registers and relocatable stack pointer. Some 6502-style register-indexed indirect addressing modes wouldn't have gone amiss, though...
For some types, not all of them.

Also, 'Unmanned' does not necessarily means "remote-controlled". They can be autonomous.

We are making progress: http://www.naval-technology.com/news/newsus-navys-x-47b-cond...

This is after carrier landings and takeoffs and formation flying with manned aircraft.

And all that developed at a fraction of what the F-35 program will spend on engines alone
Every air force in the world wants these expensive beasts, it's the entire identity of the service - TOP GUN knights of old jousting for supremacy. The command structure of most air forces comes from the fighter pilots, it's a common complaint in USAF that transport, which is maybe the most useful day to day function, is a career dead-end.

Nobody in the military will take seriously a "warrior" that runs a joystick on a RPV, and when these things gain more autonomy it's going to eliminate the necessity for whole ranks of command. So the Air Force will fight to the bitter end for these things, long after they are will be effective solely as air show entertainment.
I'm an American. So what I can't help wondering is ...

How comprehensive is the data analysis system that my government uses ???

Is it more ... or less comprehensive ???

Do they really only use it on "bad" actors ??? Or do they use it on everyone to determine who has the capacity to be a "bad" actor ???

Etc etc etc.

Articles like this, at least, give me a good idea of what they are probably doing. However, I have to say, I'd like more articles on how to remain invisible to government surveillance systems. Though I'm pretty sure it is impossible at this point. Or, at the very least...

impractical in the extreme.
Yeah, like Erlang on Xen... it's ready to deploy to AWS

http://erlangonxen.org/try/ec2
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I responded to the statement that Theo De Raadt is always complained about people not contributing back. The rest of the quote, including the "GPL fan" and "we cannot get it back" is only leading to the regular flame wars and do not contribute to the question: Do Theo De Raadt always complain about contributions? Yes, No?

I dislike labeling like BSD fanatics, BSD fans, GPL fan, and GPL fanatics. Neither contribute to clam and reasonable discussion. Thus I did not include it.

I also find the implied statement that proprietary licensed software can be relicensed by anyone to BSD to be very misleading and wrong. If a author who license something under a proprietary license later decides to relicense part of it under BSD, then a author of GPL licensed software can equally do so to part of their code. The BSD author has as little entitlement to proprietary changes as to GPL changes.
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I don't know about this program as I've never heard of it before, but I just want to commend you for the idea and running with it. This is precisely the thing to do to empower these kids.

Most of us got jobs and internships because of connections from our parents' friends, or parents' professional contacts and such and such. These kids don't have the luxury of having those connections, so they can't even get their foot in the door. Best of luck.
Interesting take. Relevant comic : xkcd.com/224
I sometimes agree, but it seems pretty useful for search results. I mean, do you often find yourself bookmarking the second page of a google search?
That used to be a case for a very long time but it is _slowly_ changing. We still mostly rely on contributions by individuals.
Out of curiosity, what's the rough outline of your curriculum?
That is why some choose to license their work under AGPL.
'What if'?

Prohibition is one of the examples - the policies aren't at all guaranteed to be good.
The US Navy has said the F-35 is probably that last manned fighter for them. The X-47B is done after the refuel testing so it makes one wonder what is the next test aircraft.
I have my picture taken next to an F-35 thanks to a friend who is an F-35 pilot. I can assure you that it's fake. Most likely made of paper mache. The helmet's pretty cool though.
Ah, I gotcha. I just assumed (as I'm sure others will) that your advice link was for feedback, since you put it at the end after a request for comments. I figured you'd accidentally forgot to include the link to the main site in the original title.
So this is a linter? What does this give me that django-lint and pylint doesn't?
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Is internet over ham radio still a thing?

In this particular case, it could help a lot of people, enabling them to quickly and efficiently update their status with their family via email / twitter / google person finder.
This.

Sometimes it seems as if many people don't realize that timber companies plant the most trees - who else has the incentive to?
After seeing the elevator from last week, wasn't sure if this was the same one. Was hoping for one that truly behaves like a real elevator....stops 6 times before you finally get to the top...
I've went through the same thing as OP. I'm a student located out of the US that applied for internships at all major companies in the US (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, Palantir, etc) for summer last year. I really have to disagree with people mentioning cover letters or costs to bring international students. I didn't submit any cover letter and got accepted for two of those companies for an internship in the US and accepted an internship with one of them.

Google for example really doesn't care about cover letters. This used to be at Google's Job FAQ:
"Cover letters are optional, and applications with them are not preferred over those without. We recommend using a cover letter only to bring up anything that would not be evident from the rest of your application. It can also be an opportunity to let Google know about you as an individual, in addition to why you're a good fit for the organization. We strongly recommend using your resume to represent your candidacy."
http://www.google.com/intl/cn/jobs/students/sga/mba/internsh...

By a Google Screener:
"As a heavy interviewer and occasional resume screener at Google, I rarely look at the cover letter. Your resume should give me enough context for whether you have the key experience for the role."
http://www.quora.com/How-should-a-cover-letter-for-Google-lo...

I've noticed you've probably studied a lot already on how a resume look like, I can see you're using Gayle's template for CVs and I did the same thing. Your CV is pretty good and better than mine, it should definitely be attractive to recruiters because of your awards (ACM ICPC 2015 World Finalist) and your previous experience (multiple internships).

Here's the thing, the hard part is getting a recruiter to actually read your CV. Coincidentally or not, only the companies to which I was referred by full timers actually bothered to interview me. I have the impression the strength of the referral also makes a huge difference. For one of the companies my referral was from another intern and I didn't get an interview. Was your referral from an FTE or another intern?

The one difference I can pinpoint between us is that you're applying from the middle east and I applied from Europe. I'm really not sure how much of a difference this makes, but I can tell you that I did not see many foreigners from that region during my internship last year. I'm not sure this should actually make a difference, because my visa situation wasn't quite simple either and the company didn't seem to have any issue with the fact I'm from south america and applied for a J1 visa while living abroad in Europe. My guess would be your CV isn't getting read and to try to get stronger referrals.
Is there anyone unhappy with the F-35 program who does have a fiscal/political stake in it?
Maybe it's because I'm on mobile, but all it did is scroll to the top really slowly. It probably took about 5 seconds total, which feels like a lifetime when browsing the web in this day and age. Am I missing something?
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Here it is! https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/curriculum
Fred Rogers (aka Mister Rogers).
I watched him on TV occasionally as a child, but it wasn't until I was an adult, and started reading about him and watching interviews with him, that I realized what an amazing person he was in real life.
They should genetically mark these, patent the DNA, and then license the rights to chop down trees.
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Having never used this specific product I can't makes claims about any of its functionality, but what I have found is the gap between what one _can_ do, and what people _do_ is very very large. Yeah you can implement all this yourself using pre commit hooks, but do you ? Right now you could pay a little money and vastly improve the quality of your code base. There is value to be added by getting a packaged version of something and having it just work.
Thanks for that. Yeah I have a bad habit of changing my twitter handle every now and then.

If you're interested my handle is https://twitter.com/haakathon
I was thinking mostly about air-to-air combat. Other missions (recon, bombing, ground support, refueling, etc.) can or are done with UAVs now. But on thinking about it further, the UAVs of tomorrow can be much faster and more maneuverable than any manned fighter aircraft once you remove the requirement of keeping the pilot alive. I don't know that it could be done today, but I imagine in the not-to-distant future we'll have effective air-to-air UAVs.
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Are you serious? Why would a U.S. company want to hire an intern that they have to get a visa for? Unless this guy is applying for internships with Facebook in Egypt, there's absolutely no incentive for a U.S. based company to seek to employ foreign nationals for a position that is largely non-skilled.
Autonomous military drones seem politically unlikely. At least, I hope so, what a nightmare.
As a student myself, in my final year of University and I do feel that there definitely needs to be more control/transparency where the tuition fees go.

The faculty that I am on is one of the lowest scoring areas of the university according to the National Student Survey. I assume this is due to the lecturers not having the knowledge or experience when compared to the students who are passionate about their field which they are currently studying for a degree in. Most have managed to get the job with little industry experience to share with students and don't have experience with a modern workflow such as using Linux, git, etc.

Personally, I would be much more happier if the lecturers have a basic salary but then allow students to give more of a percentage of their tuition fees to the departments that keep up to date with their field.
And you can from proprietary licensed modifications?

FSF recommendation is that you use the same license as the project which you are contributing to. If you use a BSD project, contribute your patches under BSD. If its GPL, contribute under GPL. If you combine work under BSD and GPL and write modifications, contribute back the modifications based on what code you are doing modification for.

The proprietary way is to release modification only if its make a business sense to do so, and I don't know if OpenBSD actually has a official recommendation in this aspect. If they do, its not something I have ever seen.
>that people will take code - put it under a different licence and modify it

Ok, although the 'take code and put it under a different license' is untrue, you can't re-license code unless you are the copyright owner, I gather that he means someone making modifications/enhancements and placing them under a license which OpenBSD can't use while remaining fully BSD licensed.
I would be more interested in after taxes earnings and things like holidays, healthcare and so on. Also you are most likely not able to get your family to the US to visit you. This is a huge downer I can imagine for a lot of people.
Co-founder here! That's a valid point of course and I agree that it's hard to check for the "why" using automated tools and without prior knowledge of the programmers intentions. However, it is absolutely possible to take your own idea of "good code" and translate it to a set of custom code checking rules in our tool, which you can then enforce automatically throughout all of your projects. So as long as you know what "good code" is for you and how it should look you can automate the checking.

You can also share your own code patterns with other users btw so that they can use them in their projects, and you can use rules created by other users. Crowd-sourced code quality so to say :)

Feedback is highly welcome btw since it's still a pretty early version of our product, so if you have comments, bug reports, suggestions or feature requests feel free to get in touch with us (@quantifiedcode, andreas@quantifiedcode.com)
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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/minnesota.music.down...

"A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs."

(After long battles in courts, the penalty was ultimately settled at $222,000).
If the lecturer is solely responsible for the final grade then there isn't necessarily any correlation between how bad the lecturer is and if you pass or fail.

One of the worst lecturers I had at university (thought the course he was teaching was way beneath him and basically didn't give a fuck) also gave such extremely easy tests that basically everybody passed almost despite themselves.
Using a fast, scalable and flexible tool called Fluentd:

http://www.fluentd.org

Here is a good presentation of Fluentd about it design and general capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVGsQgMHIo

note: it's good to mention that Fluentd have more than 300 plugins to interact with different sources and outputs.
Thanks for the kind words pen2l!
Every point you have made here is subjective.
I'm not sure what your comment has to do with the motivations of the person in the "idea room."
I dont think this is supposed to be taken seriously. It's part of the effect, it goes slowly and plays music
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Damn it !!

Well hope people will see your comment and mine then.
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Thanks for responding. I've seen this code used an an example before actually.

Not that buffer reuse/avoiding heap allocations was unknown to me, it was just surprising to see this in an application that spent most of it's time waiting on the network.

I will say as a positive point that the equivalent D code to a C++ implementation was much cleaner due to build in array slicing among other things.

There are other areas where heap allocations are not so avoidable however (some hashmaps, some std's). My main point is that like at all languages, heap allocations are slow, but here they bear an unnecessarily large contention factor.

I really like D so I hope this is helpful feedback.
Immediate shader mode is fairly stateless, pixel and vertex shaders are as functional as one can get. Let's not talk about the fixed function APIs that no one uses anymore.
I think you're being downvoted because all you're saying is, essentially, "no you're wrong" without any details.
I highly doubt this has to do with cover letters. From Google's Job FAQ:
"Cover letters are optional, and applications with them are not preferred over those without. We recommend using a cover letter only to bring up anything that would not be evident from the rest of your application. It can also be an opportunity to let Google know about you as an individual, in addition to why you're a good fit for the organization. We strongly recommend using your resume to represent your candidacy."
http://www.google.com/intl/cn/jobs/students/sga/mba/internsh...

From a Google Screener:
"As a heavy interviewer and occasional resume screener at Google, I rarely look at the cover letter. Your resume should give me enough context for whether you have the key experience for the role."
http://www.quora.com/How-should-a-cover-letter-for-Google-lo...
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Makes a big difference. Applying for work visas for someone from the EU is totally different than applying for a work visa for someone from the middle east.
I didn't say he developed it. He used it 3-4 years before it became widely known and was responsible at least in part for its proliferation.

Finding your way to an elegant solution does not mean you created that solution. In 1999, Google had 8 employees. Not every algorithm was available at his fingertips. He had to care, seek, and find that solution to use it back then, which might not seem like much now. That's a manifestation of his caring about his craft; not inventing an algorithm.
We could clear out all student debt in the United States and have a handful of change left over...

...or we could build a plane that doesn't fly.
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Firefox has recently released a tracking protection feature[1] that uses Disconnect's blocklist[2].

[1]https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...

[2]https://disconnect.me/
It's easy to blame the wealthy sponsors, but some blame also rests on the people who are convinced that literally all of the taxes they pay on their 250%-of-poverty-line income go to support those on 150%-of-poverty-line assistance programs, and that that's a terrible thing, because of someone they met once who got more than they 'deserved' from the system.

There's a whole psychology there which is missed by the usual "blame everything on the rich" reflexes. It's a problem which will have to be addressed if any social reforms are actually going to stick, as opposed to being pissed away in tax cuts and whinging about how much more deserving the poor were back before they could afford to treat two major diseases a lifetime.
"peaked at around 74 years(for females)"

Why females?

If you actually take time to look at the chart, you will see that life expectancy plummeted between 1965 and 1985, losing full three years male life expectancy and gaining zero for women.

And it "peaked" under the rule of Gorbachev who scrapped that "new citizen" nonsense in favour of damage control, which did not help him in the long run anyway.

It did not peak before Gorbachev was in power.
My internet radio, too.
In the US, employers aren't allowed to ask for that information for legal reasons; as such, it's typically considered inappropriate for a candidate to furnish that information.
Agreed. Are there any websites that you really like the presentation?
This seems to be crazy. Invasion of privacy.
you service an aircraft engine after 416 days of non stop flying?
I think it has, in some respects. We have things like LegalZoom.com, which provide quick access to a law professional for things like wills and incorporation documents.
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This is what I was hoping for. Thank you! lol
I've read enough articles over the years that this move on China's part is not surprising to me at all. I think the average person in China is quite fed up with the lack of morality and social compassion in the general public - due to news articles like the ones I am about to link you.

Extreme lack of good samaritan behavior:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/stories/old-chinese-woman-aba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue
http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/shanghai-pudong-airpor...

Chinese tourist behavior:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2015/videos/thai-model-rants-about...
http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/videos/thai-flight-turned-bac...
http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/mainland-chinese-tour...

I think the majority of the West believes that the government is behind everything. But the truth is that most of these kinds of changes in China are actually reflected in the people's opinion. In this case, the PEOPLE in China are really sick and tired of seeing news articles like few I have linked. The government has just decided that this seems like the best method to achieve what the people want.

I know it sounds kind of crazy, but you have to remember that almost nobody in China has ever read 1984. They don't share your values.
I am hesitant to try this because of the pricing. Maybe its just me, but paying 150 bucks per month for a gloried linter seems insane.

Do people actually pay this much for this product? I would love to see some testimonials on the site, because otherwise I cant see myself liking this 150/mo worth

my 2 cents
It's about graphs. Their whole purpose is usability, and usability is almost entirely subjective.
> Every air force in the world wants these expensive beasts, it's the entire identity of the service - TOP GUN knights of old jousting for supremacy.

I agree that these are shiny new tools for the airforce and its pilots. Here in Canada it has been a public shitstorm of rapidly increasing procurement costs and quality issues.

Canada has officially delayed purchasing F-35 for the foreseeable future:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/f-35-faces-further-de...

It (the purchase of the F-35s) may still happen after the next election, but it isn't something the public wants.
At last, an explanation for the proverbially low price of legal services!
We program so hard we don't have time to think. Or type. At least not with as many characters as a sane person would.
If you think drones, or autonomous planes will fix what governments spend (and waste) on military projects - you're in for a huge disappointment. If anything, "drone" type weapons have meant an increase in budgets.

While the F-35 budgets looks atrocious now - in a couple decades we'll look back and think "how cheap!".
It's more a tool for writing your own linters: We have developed a code-query language (Cody - http://docs.quantifiedcode.com/patterns/language/index.html) that allows you to very easily write your own code checkers.

Using that language we have implemented many checks from PyLint, PyFlakes etc. but for us the most interesting feature is that you can easily translate your own conventions into automated rules and check them on each commit.

So while we offer PyLint patterns as well we give you a way to go way beyond what normal linters can offer.
Starting to think it is time for defense contractors to be disrupted. How many multibillion dollar fuckups of public money have these guys had.
This is posted again and again, and I re-read it every time.

I'm also reminded of this:

You can't make your code run faster,
you can only make it do less work.

I usually put links to previous discussions because I find value in the comments by HN users, but I'm not going to do that this time. You can search if you want to find previous discussions - there have been many, and some contain some real gems.