skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "type qualifiers" you refer to are an extension of the capabilities-secure nature of Pony. They are themselves also a form of capabilities, specifically because the underlying language is itself capabilities-secure.

You may be interested in the type system paper that covers this:

http://ponylang.org/papers/fast-cheap.pdf
I beg to differ. Most of these "grumbling devs" must have never seen what poor documentation looks like if they think Android's SDK has issues with it. On the contrary, its very well documented in my opinion. The tools are solid too, you can't really complain about IntelliJ as an IDE basis and the build system is good too ever since they switched to Gradle.

Of course you could bitch about how they constantly release new APIs for everything, but so does every other platform.
I believe the OP's point is that the demand is for applied statisticians and not for AI experts (in the sense exactly as defined by you).
I've been using the APU board with great success at home for a good while. I upgraded from the Alix board to make full use of my 1G/1G broadband.

Doing some speed tests I've seen speeds fluctuate around 500/700. Never really reached 1Gbit on any public speed test yet but it's helluva lot better than my old alix router.

I love the fact that the APU has an open bootloader, and as far as I can remember it was cheaper than what is mentioned of soekris here. I seem to remember the whole package costing me around 100 eur.
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I think (not sure, as I don't closely follow the work) AGI people and MIRI work along the lines. (i.e: how to make sure a super AI doesn't go wrong, but comes with Objective functions beneficial to humans. https://intelligence.org/)
Hardly. IntelliJ is far superior to that bloated IDE they call Visual Studio. 12+ gigabytes to install an IDE is just insane.
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This assumes "an alerting system".

Not guaranteed a valid assumption. (In fact, anecdotal evidence suggests it's the exception rather than the rule, at lest for businesses below a certain size.)
Experts on a subject that doesn't exist? Like professors of theology?
What is proper lexical scoping? Does JavaScript get it right?
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100829012006...
+1 for the Stanford course.
Great intro to AI and super easy to follow - I've done it after my uni class elsewhere, and it helped to internalise what I've learned there.
I live in NYC and the startup I had found before had an office in L.A. In fact the first time I had ever been to L.A was to get that office / team running.

Here are my 2cents:

1. At about 50% of NYC's economy, LA is the second largest GDP contributor. So, one can expect all the pluses and minuses of a large economy. As a side, economy of LA county alone will make it 21st largest "country" in the world by economy.

2. It helps to think of LA as a string of different "Cities", each unique in one way or another. This is different than how NYC behaves. Yes, you can argue that each neighborhood in NYC is unique, but by and large, NYC behaves like a single organism.

3. The people. It is just different, how people communicate, connect and further an Idea in LA. It seems much more peppy, group-hug (not being cheeky) kind of a collective progress, than the cut-and-dry of NYC. If you like that sort of diffused but more social way of progress, you will like LA.

4. Weather. All around it is nicer than NYC. But air quality is significantly worse in LA than in NYC. If you are Asthmatic, or just breathing-in vile air bothers you then LA may not be for you.

5. Traffic. I took the Bus or walked in LA. I realized only poor people took the Bus and no one walks (for commute. Not including the joggers).

6. Cars are status differentiators in a way that most New Yorkers do not even get. If a fancy $50K car is out of your reach, you need to get a Hybrid and lean in on your green credentials.

7. The Valets (they are everywhere) and Wait-staff are better looking in LA compare to NYC (most of them are aspiring actors).

Source:
Economy : http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/here-are...
Air Quality: http://www.lung.org/press-room/press-releases/healthy-air/SO...
Residents of Tallinn doesn't pay for public transport in the city.
>what Elon Musk implies with his illustrations

I think this is a very uncharitable interpretation of that 'illustration'. The illustration makes no explicit claim that the energy is produced by the solar panels on the roof, let alone solar power. And I think it goes without saying that heavy industry cannot be supported by a small cluster of panels. There are even wind turbines in the picture, which further discredits the idea that Musk is trying to imply the solar panels can do it alone.
This trend is in most companies business-driven, in others it is technical-driven. Few companies have technical leadership that can manage true AI resources. If you remember the ML courses from Uni and experts in that field, you can imagine why. In many universities AI departments are assigned to schools of psychology and philosophy. Only companies with a deep engineering culture as those mentioned here can build up true AI departments.

The other driver is business-driven. And this is where management demands 'AI experts', when what they really want is data-miners. And in many cases management prides themselves on 'AI algorithms', but we know that this is a term for anything that gets the results that management wants and may be far from intelligent and in most corporate cases a bunch of SQL scripts.
He's making the argument that functional programming is bad. If it were a terrible design decision then the language precluding its implementation (as he claims functional languages do) would be a positive or at least not a negative. So, he must be making the argument that it is a good thing, or at least a necessary thing.

Even so, the ML's all support this type of behaviour (with globals).

In the same way, we do not criticise functional languages for not allowing goto style control flow.
You have actually posed two separate questions (that for me would have different answers).

QUESTION NUMBER ONE:
Is the Bay area the only good place for Software Engineers?

I think most would agree there are other good cities. Seattle or Boston are great examples with large tech companies located there.

The fact that most people can't answer if Switzerland is good option is very informative in and of itself.

How many large Tech companies can you name from Switzerland?

I have been to Geneva before and didn't find a very compelling tech scene. I bet there would be some scientific companies that would be great though, but I don't know enough.

QUESTION NUMBER TWO:
Would you be missing anything?

Absolutely. Whatever city is behind Silicon Valley in second place, is very far far far behind. The best and the brightest talent head straight to silicon valley. Peter Thiel made the statement that they are not opening Venture Capital offices in any other city because they didn't think there was enough value, meaning that the big ideas come to Silicon Valley - so venture capital will wait for it there.
Not only is there no enforcement by the language of the single-assignment style (as in Clojure, Erlang or Haskell), but there is even no way for the programmer to enforce a single assignment of a specific variable as in, say, Java and C++.

So no single-assignment style and no single-assignment without the style in Go. Not only is mutability not discouraged, there's even no way to turn it off for specific types/variables. Go is fully in the JS/Python/Ruby camp when it comes to mutability.
That's basically the mechanic in the game Frozen Synapse: http://www.frozensynapse.com/

Every player plans their movements for the next fraction of a second and all turns get executed simultaneously.
Then it could be reduced to merely a historical coincidence. There aren't many English element names (or the etymology) that still accurately reflect the properties of the elements. Human names do not need to reflect any facts; and even they once did, they did not need to remain updated as our knowledge is updated.
Generate realistic fake identities, credit cards, gps tracks, etc.
Are you just speculating or did you read this somewhere? You make it sound like fact until the creator of Braid comes in and says it ain't so.
Perhaps more precisely, they're "statistical engineering" jobs. A machine learning PhD can derive an algorithm and provide you with a reassuring bound or guarantee regarding performance in terms of runtime, convergence, etc. They have to be able to understand not just the volume of the data but also how to trade off accuracy for speed, and myriad other constraints.

IMO, the "data science" label is too broad to properly differentiate statistical engineers. A fine definition for a data scientist is someone who runs experiments on user/company data and can assess the results. It's important work, but you don't need a PhD in stats or ML to do basic hypothesis testing.

You could simply call them "machine learning" experts, but that could be a bit too academic. People who are focused narrowly on theory or niche areas may be experts in ML, but they may also never do anything outside of running matlab simulations. It's unlikely that those people will make very good statistical engineers since they may never have had to think about the challenges involved in scaling algorithms.
Highly agree. It will grow mature in time (probably a lot faster than iOS did - 30 years) and will feature a lot of new and useful paradigms.
Hardly draconian. Since Truecraft describes itself as a clean room implementation it would be hypocritical to accept contributions from people who have read the code.
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I was about to say "not really, the only current VLIW GPUs are ARM's Mali" but after reading more of the documentation I guess you're kind of right... Maxwell requires explicitly encoding when to dual-issue instructions, which is basically the defining feature of VLIW.

That said, VLIW is designed/intended for architectures that are highly superscalar within a single thread of execution. GPUs have eschewed that model in favor of simply executing more threads. So a better (simplistic) model of viewing modern GPUs is "AVX-1024 with massive hyperthreading"
http://www.icr.org/article/evidence-for-young-world/

Don't ignore the evidence!
That's interesting. So, is a time-reversible language Turing complete? How would one write a trap-door function in a time-reversible language?
General and most frequently required data needed to describe an average user, such as name, location, ID etc. Randomly generated address taken from the real public sources.

Financial and bank-specific data associated with a user's economical life, such as account number, credit card details, tax rate etc. The list of banks, as well as credit card issuer suffixes are real.

Physical parameters of a user's body, such as height, weight, blood type etc. These parameters are generated in accordance with the average statistical values across the country.

Realistic GPS data made of random NMEA sentences. Simulates a feed from GPS navigators or other GPS equipment.
But, in the end Java won. Open sourcing their CLR was pretty much a sign of defeat as it was never gaining traction.

As for the language differences, Java will eventually catch up with all of the syntactic sugar.
> I was both surprised and disappointed by how hard it was to find a simple numerical list giving the following information for each element: number, symbol, English name, Chinese character (traditional and simplified), Pinyin.

I find wikipedia is ze best tool for cross-language reference research

1. go to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

2. click the last language item on the left column

3. you got this http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%83%E7%B4%A0%E5%91%A8%E6%...
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Hmm well if Mark Miller says Pony is capability-based then it must be. I apologize if I've misunderstood. I'm confused, though, by two things:

1. Your documentation introducing capabilities specifically says: "Pony capabilities are completely new, no other language has them." If you really mean "capability" in Mark Miller's sense of the word, then this statement is incorrect. Many object-capability languages exist.

2. What your documentation describes as "capabilities" looks to me like type qualifiers. The documentation says "A capability is a form of type qualifier and provides a lot more guarantees than const does!" But this doesn't sound anything like capabilities.

Is it possible that Pony is an object-capability language but you are also using the word to refer to a different concept? If Pony is actually an object-cap language then that's excellent, and I even more so encourage you to rename the type qualifier concept to avoid the confusion!

FWIW, Sandstorm is very interested in adopting a high-performance ocap language, but would probably shy away from one which uses the word "capbaility" to mean something else, for fear of confusing developers.
I am not too familiar with flexbox and I should learn more. But how does it impact the components or css inside of it though?
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I'm working with a design team that has members in Europe and both coasts of the US. We're having difficulties iterating quickly because stakeholders are in so many different timezones. Any tips on organizing a team like this? Or design teams in general for that matter?
Most of them do it because everybody else is doing it. Every time some poor soul gets tasked with interviewing candidates, he just fires up a google search to find good interview questions. He reads about puzzles, fizzbuzz and "analyzing your candidate's though process". And with nothing else in sight, he accepts them as the golden standard.

The best part is that each and every one of these interviewers thinks they're special. Like they are somehow clever and intelligent by asking this type of questions. They don't even realize that they are using the same lazy approach everybody else is taking.

The truth is, tech interviews revolve around your interviewer. How you make HIM feel. I've seen idiots get hired because they were enthusiastic. And extremely intelligent people rejected because "they couldn't communicate the way I like it".

So in an interview forget about your skills, experience and anything else related to the job. It doesn't matter. Just woo the person across the table and you will get an offer. This works most of the time for shitty companies with lazy interviewers. And that's most of them.

Personally, I found that that companies that allow this type of interviewing behavior will overwork and underpay you. Because they don't care. They just want to push things out to make a quick buck. If you want to be treated like an expert that has a brain in his skull, avoid them completely.

Instead, find the companies that trust your experience. That act like you're as good as you say. And just make a quick check to see if you know what you're talking about. They are rare and most of them are startups. But the higher pay and better work environment is completely worth it.
The NIC used is also important if you need the router to do PPPoE. Most Intel ones will support jumbo frames which can let you still get 1500 byte packets to the ISP.
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I would like to check for a mobile phone batch activation software/program/webapp. my friend keep on saying that it is available, but he couldnt even find it for me. I would like to check if Big boss or anyone in this forum know about it and will be kind enough to PM me or share with me. P.S. some other friend recommend me to helios.infinitiq.com but it doesnt seems right as the infinitiq.com is redirecting us to a webcam page and i am unable to login as well. i'd be great if someone can go in and take a look at whats inside.
> there lacked any incentive in the comp system for people to take care of the existing userbase

Can you explain that? Are there incentives to do other stuff?
I appreciate that link. Currently, Solar and energy storage is at 30kwh. I'm sure within five years it will be competitive with the current grid we have in America. First gens are always expensive but at 3k usd, no one was expecting that yet. Tesla looks like they are accelerating the trends.

To add more to the energy debate, I haven't seen too many people talk about replacing ships fuel, since that accounts for ~20% of our CO2 pollution, from sources I read a few years back.

Maybe replacing our grid and all grids is a feasible goal which is why companies are tackling it now?

Trucks, ships, and rockets consume a lot of fuel and are horrible polluters. When we can replace perishables fuels with renewables we will finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The article is about tech firms and universities stocking up on research centers of AI experts, with the claim in its title that there is a high demand for those AI experts.

There might also be a demand for applied statisticians, but that doesn't make AI experts statisticians. I understand the confusion, as the term AI is often misused, but when you see the names mentioned in the article it's clear they're talking about actual AI researchers.
OK, then I'm very confused by this documentation:

http://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/introduction/

It seems to state that the type qualifiers are the capabilities, and explicitly claims no existing language support capabilities.

If this is just an issue of misleading documentation then I apologize for raising a false alarm, though the documentation should be corrected. :)
The factory is also clearly much bigger than one hectare. 929,000 square metres (92.9 ha) seems to be the accepted figure.
These are the kind of calculations that make me weep - somebody getting happy with numbers without engaging their brain as to the answer. Obviously the Tesla factory is not going to require 20,000,000 Megawatthours to operate - that is as much as the whole electricity production of the State of New Hampshire.

Assuming their input data is actually correct, I will speculate they are calculating the energy cost of the entire lithium battery production from raw materials, such as extracting lithium from mineral deposits, the majority of which would happen before the materials arrived at the Tesla factory.

I also expect Elon Musk knows what his electricity bill is. Given his investment in green technologies and his general success in delivering projects, I would be rather surprised if he advertised a solar factory if there was a chance he would be out by 4 orders of magnitude on how much power he would need.
Just some small laser that can fry the cam.
I've read that in China they didn't have typewriters and everything was hand-written right up till they got computers.

Edit: They had printing presses, but those are for newspapers etc. Ordinary people had to handwrite.
Just tell your manager that you're bored and want (or need) something more challenging. If they are a good manager they'll figure something out.
when the wsj writes about it means that the trend is over
Did you use deltas a la trie-based immutable data structures, or did you save the entire state every moment? Did you save frame by frame, or did you save ON the event, and then interpolate animations between the two states when reversing?
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The article makes some valid points but anyone who thinks databases should be used for everything and the kitchen sink should come fill out an application where I work. They could then spend the next 10 years debugging hard to troubleshoot database issues instead of easy to troubleshoot code issues. Jamming too much logic in the database is a recipe for disaster in my experience.
Possibly they are counting the mining/transporting of materials to make the batteries too?
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Just to make it clear, I did not come up with this example. Unfortunately I can't find out the source anymore. It also contained some technical explanations about why this works. So if anyone remembers, I'd be happy if you could comment with the link.
Phoenix, Arizona is actually not the most sun-soaked part of the country. The Mojave desert gets a much greater amount of solar insolation[0]. Using those numbers, we can calculate ~511 kWh/m2/year, assuming 15% efficiency as well. That lessens the gap somewhat, but there's still quite a distance - perhaps wind and hydroelectric would account for the remainder?

It may just be flat-out wrong, which is unfortunate.

[0]: http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1961-1990/redbook...
I spent a huge chunk of my adult life in Taiwan, studied there and worked there. I was familiar with about 40 of the words for elements.

>* If people have no difficulty in communicating with other monosyllabic characters, why would they get confused when they refers to chemical elements?*

People don't communicate with monosyllabic characters. They communicate with words most of which are polysyllabic in modern Mandarin. Characters and words are not the same, not even remotely. The relationship is character to syllable.

I absolutely agree with you that it's natural to create new characters. This is fine. The issue is that the more homophones in a given discussion the more likely you'll have to give some more context and say something like "x__的x" as way to clarify which "x" you're talking about.
What's the potential path forward (say projecting 10 years ahead) from the current growth in demand for data mining centric people?

I mean people go and study in response to demand. They learn data mining and AI at Universities. I think it's often people with backgrounds or aptitude in maths. What will the 22 year old with an aptitude for maths that is learning R, SQL, AI-for-business and such be doing in 10 years?

I don't know if the starting point matters much. "Results Driven," even if its optimising inventory or making ad purchasing decisions or data mining old DBs is not a bad place to "search" for advancements. Not everything needs to be fundamental research.
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Ah, here it is: https://twitter.com/spazef0rze/status/523010190900469760
Why does HN give me a SSL warning? (Chrome 42)
For the last few days I've been getting a SSL warning when accessing HN.

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Here's the certificate details screen:

http://i.imgur.com/BRWjsvM.png

I'm using Chrome 42 on Debian 8.
No, the example is unmotivated, but not unreasonable.

For example, say the two functions are computationally expensive, and you want to make them faster. The "piece of state" is a shared cache, i.e. memoization. Furthermore, there's reason to believe that if function A is called with value X, then function B will not be called with Y anytime soon. So if A(X) is called, Y(B) ought to be evicted from the cache.

This is awkward to implement in pure functional languages, but it's not a terrible idea. You can still reason about the functions, test them in isolation, etc.
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"Imagine you've implemented world peace. Now let's try to drop couple of nukes in the middle of this..."

Anyway, the point of functional programming is to have as many "immovable parts" as possible, because mutation stands in for parts in motion. And everyone in engineering knows parts that move are usually the first point of failure.

You might need a moving part here or there in a usable design eventually (not always) but you should do you darn best to have them isolated and as few as possible.