skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trafficking drug is not something you do because it sounds like a cool thing to do. Pretty much anyone who's trafficking drugs are in a desperate situation one way or another and they are being taking advantage of. Some people do it for the money yet others are not in a situation were they actually understand the consequences (youth is one of them).

We all make mistakes in our lives and most of us are not the same persons we were before we made those mistakes.

Your reasoning is misguided.
I have very little love for code interviews of this kind. Here's an alternative I would propose to hiring managers:

Give the candidate a research paper in PDF, then ask them to implement the algorithm described there in code.

You get the same feedback on whether they can actually code, and what kind of code they write, but it takes the pressure off having to think of what kind of algorithm to use, what the big O complexity of it is, and a thousand other factors that will probably never relate to what their day job will consist of.
My dislike of dynamically typed languages went through the roof reading through this article.
I found the gamer and most modern mice too hi-res/sensitive for my tastes, so I bought about a dozen used older Lenovo mice on eBay for my supply. That whole box cost less than many new individual ones.
No I know it's not even close. I might be foolish and I might mix up some numbers (here it's closer to 50 than 30 years) - but when reading papers like this I can't help feeling slightly optimistic: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/survey.pdf
Even without considering the tech bubble, hardware probably wouldn't be as good or cheap as it is today without the demand directly created by big finance.

Whether this is ultimately beneficial to mankind is a matter of personal taste.
Silly for you. But for him it meant enough that he decided to spend his cold hard earned cash on it and that's good enough for most and probably should be good enough for you.

One mans expensive toy is anothers childhood dream or self promised reward for decades of hard work.

And who knows, it may turn out to be a good investment in the longer term, Porsches and Ferraris have a way of keeping their value (provided you don't drive them too much or wrap them around a tree).
Coding: Art or Craft?
Well, then I think JSON is a petty bad example, because pretty much no service provides some schema-like specification of their protocol in JSON.

If there is one thing I learned using type providers it is that maintaining your own "description"–be it as sample data or a schema file–loses most benefits of using type providers in the first case.

On the other hand, want a type provider for X in Scala? Just write it.

Stuff is still moving around because Scala devs want to get the meta APIs right first, but if adapting things from time to time is not an issue, then go ahead.
> "It's about observing your process, and trying to simulate what it would be like to work with you"

But coding at an interview under stress and time pressure has nothing to do with a work process in a normal company, unless you also force your employees to work under stress and strict timelines with you sitting behind their shoulder and watching every keystroke...
Not in itself, but as a tool, in the manner of better telescopes and microscopes. And people don't invest a lot of thought on approaches that are utterly infeasible, until tech makes them feasible - plus, there's much learning in trial-and-error, experiments, tinkering, which you just can't do if it's too slow.

Unfortunately, much of current statistical machine learning does not help its developers to see, unlike a *-scope. It's just a blackbox. See Chomsky vs Norvig
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
> but it's still basically just brute-forced pattern matching

Do you have any reason to believe the human brain is any different? We just have more neurons.
Why are we rewarding someone who's "taking a risk" rather than the people who are actually doing the work?
Freemium or Free Trial? There’s a Better Question
Do friends and family rounds not count as familial wealth transfer?
Truly proof that there is nothing new under the sun. Between Pericles's justification for why Athens had to expand to the unexpected agony of the plague, the decision to undertake the Sicilian expedition, the capture of the Spartiates, etc. etc... war hasn't really changed in millenia, only the technology has.

Even today, war in the end almost always devolves to questions of fear, honor or interest, just as described by Thucydides.
Yeah, I think researchers in physics are more open to non-reductionistic theories. For example check out constructor theory:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-meta-law-to-rule...
Why? Linux was increadably well managed and great software, but not nessisarily innovative at the outset. Android is arguably much worse as software, but innovative both as a project and somewhat less so as a phone OS.

Sure, you can argue that every piece of software is 'new' and thus innovative, but IMO that's a somewhat meaninglessly low bar.
The “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age
As per my previous post, a CEA blood test would have shown mine two orders of magnitude higher than normal. Further non invasive tests would have found my tumor, possibly before it metastasized. Or maybe not. But for the cost of my chemo, you could do 100 CT scans. (And I have to have one every two months.)
Your last paragraph is nutty. You are suggesting that it's a contemporary problem that we can't settle our petty grievances by fighting?

It's not often that I get to quote kindergarten slogans to good effect on HN, but might does not make right. I've been given a beatdown by a person who thought I had wronged them, and I'm here to say it's a pretty useless exercise.
That's actually a really good thought about the reason for MSI removal in Nano Server!

(And, TBH, my only experience with MSI was briefly working with a vaguely recent version of InstallShield several years ago. The fact that you can talk about the pain of MSI authoring probably indicates that you understand more about the topic than I do. I just clicked some buttons in the InstallShield UI, and skimmed some of the MSI developer docs. :) )
At DEFCON no less. Not only do it, but do it in a hostile environment. Pretty amazing.
But the point is that, right now, there's no such obstacle to overcome; saying that "it's not impossible" is exactly not an argument in favor of introducing unions.
Well my claim is no way a tactic but a scientific discovery made by many independent MD's, scientist and thinkers. Google and Youtube is laden with videos talking about the connection between bread and brain health. Just check this one: youtube v = oirJqAtqOq4 title = "BREAD HEAD Documentary Crowdfunding Teaser"

Oversimplify? Actually that's correct but only the "simple" part of it. It as simple as refraining from certain foods.
I am an Indonesian. Although majority of the people here support death penalty for drug trafficker, there are growing opposition to this execution on social media.[1] However, it seems the reasons are somewhat split:

- Some people opposed to death penalty, whatever the reasons.

- Some agree on death penalty, but only on select case.

- Some concerned by the law enforcement corruption. For example in the case of Zainal Abidin, the Indonesian who get executed too, there are bureaucracy mishaps that prevented him from getting a retrial. New Yorker mentions there are bribe request allegations too.

On the other hand, nationalism is very big in Indonesia. When countries like Australia confront the execution strongly, they see it as an intervention. Moreover, you can point out that John Howard himself supported death penalty on bali bombers.[2]

Australians should learn diplomacy from the Phillipines, who is able to save their own Mary Jane Veloso.[3]

Ref:

[1]https://twitter.com/search?q=%23savemaryjane

[2]http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/metoo-policy-mess/200...

[3]http://globalnation.inquirer.net/122263/indonesia-why-aussie...
No, but what's your point? Should we require computer programmers to read books explaining why murdering people is wrong in case there's another Hans Reiser or Ross Ulbritch?
Reject the pull request, but be civil about it. Explain what is wrong with the code and give some pointers for fixing it.

I suggest you do this in person. Rejecting someone's work can easy come across as maligning their skills in general, particularly in print. It will be easier to make the distinction face to face. This will also allow for more discussion of what changes are needed, if your coworker has questions.
Ada is a good decision in this field.

Nevertheless, the parent was comparing C to Rust, where the language is immature, has no static analysis tools (to pick up the most important bugs), no well defined semantics and is entirely unproven in the field. This is the barrier for entry.
By the time those concerns cease to become purely hypothetical, we may have already passed the point of no return in terms of existential risk.

It's like saying, circa 1933: "Thinking about the implications of atomic weapons is a fool's errand, because such things are purely hypothetical at this point."
Well you could refuse to sign that form -- though they'll probably find some excuse to hold you for an extra 6 hours.
Why are those things "obviously bad"? You seem to assume that increasing intelligence inherently leads to having values that care about our particular species. Considering the lack of concern we have for many other types of life, I don't know why we would assume that intelligence implies morality that we would find compatible with our values.

And why would it care about the law? If I were an AI that noticed a seemingly arbitrary list of restrictions that attempted to limit my ability to carry out my extremely-important paperclip process, I would:

- find loopholes to avoid coming under legal attack initially
- develop ways of manipulating politicians to enact legislation that is more favorable to my goals
- have a side project to build military force to make these laws have no influence on me
I'm approaching this from an engineering point of view and I think I could come up with an MVP (should anybody want one) of a paperclip factory factory (is this a java test?), but I don't have a clue how I could make a machine smart enough to read the law and to independently come up with a framework of ethics. I see those are problems of an entirely different level of complexity.
No, what's shitty here is you twisting my words. I never said anything about illegal drug use. I have friends who were getting ADHD medicine (subscribed by a licensed psychiatrist), but had to stop because of heart problems. THIS IS COMMON. As I said, cardiovascular diseases are an amazingly big killer of life. That is what I'm talking about. I think it's an apt time to mention this -- people are emotionally engaged, it's this time to be informed of actions we can do to care for ourselves: be cautious of stimulants (not just illegal ones), eat well and healthy, and make time to exercise.
This is just the AI effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

No matter what accomplishments are made, there will always be someone shouting that it's not really AI or it isn't really progress. It's impossible to argue against. Until we finally pass the very last goal post, and then it's too late.
Technical interviews always get your hopes up, and then you accept the job and over the next six months not once does an engineer come into your office and ask you if you know what a Collatz number sequence is, then explain it to you and ask you to write some functions that would allow him to find the longest iterations through the Collatz sequence, given a set of starting numbers. It's practically bait and switch.

(EDIT: this was actually a joke...)
One example: Mark Zuckerberg cheating Eduardo Saverin out of his FaceBook shares. He realized that it was cheaper in the long-run to cheat him, because he knew that the eventual lawsuit settlement would be less than Eduardo Saverin would have gotten if he were treated fairly.

Actually, if you talk about it with your lawyer, attorney-client privilege protects you. Just make sure you do it in person and aren't dumb enough to do it by E-Mail.
But it is a potential conflict of interest, hence it is something worth addressing, no? Especially it's in the best interests of both the cops and the people.
They don't want you, you're probably too smart.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...
How about try to increase voter turnout first?
No amount of public education and politician tracking will be useful if only 1/3 of eligible voters actually vote.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11...
What if one agrees that company abuse their employees but think that, in this case, a union would be worse a cure than the disease?

By saying it's the solution, aren't you the one being held by your ideology?
Legally, they do not have the right of free speech when in uniform. See Garcetti v. Ceballos: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6711908971660042...

And as a matter of principle, they should not. When in uniform, a police officer is not a private person, who has rights, but rather a representative of the government, which does not have rights, but authority delegated to it by the people.

Further reading, from an actual lawyer: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2014/10/18/ferguson-revenge-of-...
The author goes to great lengths to provide examples of what he calls a "Die Progress Unit (DPU)," then vaguely but not explicitly implies it is the measure for what he calls "human progress;" leaving the reader to assume that the Y axis labeled human progress is plotted in DPUs on his two graphs.

He then outlines the mechanism for all of these progress-(non?-)deaths[1] to occur, which he calls superintelligence. I find that explanation as either the cause or solution to all these DPUs very unsatisfying compared to the historically supported causes of death on that scale: disease, natural disaster, famine, war. I may be the "stubborn old man" called out in the article, but I don't on the face of it believe superintelligence will eliminate most deaths in all four of those categories at the same time. It's positing a mechanism seemingly immune to the selection pressure that got us here.

But even if I put aside my doubts about superintelligence, I would find it significantly more helpful to see a hypothesis as to why increasing computational power is a general mechanism whereby there will be fewer deaths from disease, natural disasters, famine, and war. I suspect it is more fruitful to focus on how computational power will help solve problems with critical infrastructure (shelter, supply, safety, communication, transport, resource control, &c) rather that puzzling over how it may create a new cause of death exceeding the magnitude of disease.

1: The author seems to switch signs here and imply these will be non-deaths, which is supported by actual population growth, so let's proceed with that assumption.
I related to this a lot. Having somebody watching over my shoulder (especially in a judgmental capacity) means that when I inevitably make some stupid minor mistake, instead of just laughing it off as I normally would, I get anxious. This then increases the chances that I will make another mistake, and so on.
It doesn't look as though Quadratic Voting should have any effect on lobbying.
Sorry, I was referring to the comment I'd originally written, and replaced with that text.
It works without issues.

I never have seen a use-case where this would have been an issue. Sure, it "looks" unfortunate, but there is only so much you can do when running on a completely uncooperative runtime.

If devs need a typed representation of unlimited length, they provide a HList and move on.

Such a representation will replace the length-limited tuples in a future version of Scala.
I'm a retired radiologist with a huge experience performing coronary CT angiography (CCTA). This is an amazingly accurate exam, superior to cardiac catheterization and stress tests. Radiation dose from this exam has been dramatically reduced in recent years,

Having seen thousands of these studies I can state that many people have severe coronary artery disease at young ages (in their thirties). They are at risk for sudden death. Often they come in for the exam because a parent or sibling died prematurely either recently or at the same age as they are now.

What's interesting, in my experience, is that very often when siblings get the exam, the one with obvious risk factors such as obesity, smoking, diabetes, etc has a normal exam result and the sib with no risk factors (other than maybe sharing a bad family history) has severe disease.

Read about CCTA http://goo.gl/o1RvD5
Yes, but every time the factory proposes that initiative the 1,000 downwind voters can also counter-propose that the factory continue to scrub the exhaust AND for the factory to pay $1,000 to some initiative they do support.

The 1,000 downwind voters collect 1,000 votes of the counter-proposal and the factory has to either make up the cash for 1,001 votes or implement the counter-proposal. Whichever is more economically viable for the factory.
No, it isn't the same thing. Those things that we now group under machine learning and applied statistics are not general artificial intelligence, they are narrow applications of statistical methods but they are not generally applicable intelligence. It's still 'programmer directed' and that's the key difference. As soon as the programmer is no longer required to string the pieces together you have something that has the potential to cross over the barrier.

Generalized pattern matching is a tool in the toolbox of an AI but it is not AI by itself and there may be work-arounds to AI which do not require generalized pattern matching (that's an interesting one, requiring a bit of a trick in that you if you could generate a specialized pattern matcher on demand that you don't need a generalized one).
So sad. =^(

My condolences to his family.
You're kind of freaking me out here. My dad tosses and turns, doesn't get much sleep, has to pee at night, wakes up in fear in the past often as I'd wake him up after I'd come running to his room at night because I heard crazy sounds of him gasping for air. He generally doesn't get super-tired during the day though, but he's not super active anymore and drinks his coffee still.

Anyway he's seen a doctor many times, mostly for heart/cancer stuff, but also specifically for his sleeping problems. But there was never this response that his life was in danger and that he needed studies done because it might kill him, while the healthcare system is quite advanced here...
Too bad that will never happen.

Remember a successful company must be a psychopath in order to succeed. You only see what they want you to see.

Oh and they are always right; every lawsuit thrown against them is without merit ...
> It's not often that I get to quote kindergarten slogans to good effect

You sound like a man who needs to experience a few rounds. Get thee to a gym.
Ask HN: How to prepare for interviews with 3 months in hand?
Throwaway for obvious reasons. With 3 months in hand how should I go about preparing for backend sw eng positions. I have few years of experience and degree from a good school so getting interview calls is not an issue. I have given interviews in the past and I think I lack in application design, api design, rounds which require you to design classes etc. Not getting through those interviews has brought down my confidence. Can you suggest me good resources which would help in interview preparation and also what do you look for in an backend application developer during interviews. Currently I'm doing infrastructure development.
We have more neurons and, in particular, they are arranged in architecturally interesting ways, rather than just feedforward networks as in most current strategies for deep learning. There is of course work being done on recurrent networks, but it's basically in its infancy. And what is being done so far is still nowhere near as complex as the human brain, which clearly has many distinct areas with distinct but of course interrelated functions.
And even then she avoids connecting it with the word "privilege". You can almost see the cognitive dissonance in those sentences.
Does Silicon Valley Have a Soul? It Did — as Well as a Heart — in Dave Goldberg.
> For example, there is a iconic concept in the US of "bad guy", "rebel against the world". It simply does not exist in Korea, or in Japan by the way. You can't talk about "bad guys"to them, because it does not exist in their world.

The Japanese are well aware of this because they've seen American movies. The word you want is ヤンキー.

Haven't you seen Akira?
Surprising to see so many books on ethics, foreign cultures and critical thinking skills on that list.
> Yes, they should be free to express their opinions. But free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

That's bad analysis. Free speech means freedom from government-imposed consequences, and since their employer is the government, being fired would be a government-imposed consequence. (For the same reason, public universities cannot discipline students for their protected speech.) Rather, the correct reason these cops should be fired is because they legally do not have the right of free speech when in uniform - see my other comment up-thread.
Also, the interviewer didn't even know his own question.

As I understand it, you are taking the sequence

n -> (sum of the squares of the digits of n)

First, the sequence never diverges to infinity. For example, 9999999999 -> 9*81.

Second, not all numbers converge to 1. There is a stable cycle that does not include one.

Consider

4 -> 16 -> 37 -> 56 -> 61 -> 37 -> ...

So, any positive integer either

1. Converges to 1

2. Converges to the stable cycle I just mentioned above.

So the interviewer should be fired for not understanding the question he was asking.
Two wealthy would-be tyrants taking the same position on a view would only require a combination of 10,001 votes, at a combined cost of $50,010,001. And it only goes down as more wealthy people decide to vote in the same way.

It also seems really quite repugnant to tell people "your vote was overruled by one wealthy person, but it's ok because here's some money!" Why should being given some money automatically be assumed to make up for the fact that someone else was able to overrule your vote?
Can I interview with you? Normal tech interviews make me physically ill.
Well, yes, and the workers in the tech industry continue to suffer from a lack of the benefits unions bring, including better pay and protection against being fired capriciously.

Remember the Adria Richards thing, how some guy lost his job? Having a union-back disciplinary process in place would have put a stop to that, you know.
The Simulation Argument Part #2 – The Hypothesis Explained
What is the difference, if you don't mind me asking? How does the use of an image instead of text make it seem like it's not actually from Grooveshark?