skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree these are just claims, but when I look at the something like the following it is hard not to see the power that comes from simplicity.

;lazy-seq of Fibonacci numbers
(defn fibo
[]
(map first (iterate (fn [[a b]] [b (+ a b)]) [1N 1N])))

You can apply this to a larger set of problems and realize that issues can be solved with less code and that yields less errors. Correctness is also easier to achieve with FP because you don't have the typical problems of non-FP languages (index out of range in a loop for example), I think.

I personally think that the following has much more impact on modern CS than the Hughes paper linked above.

http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

This is focusing on the reality (operating system threading model, no shared memory across processes -in the Erlang world-, communicate only with message passing, etc.) and this yields to a much higher impact. If you look into Scala features you can find many that came from Erlang, or through Erlang (some of them originally from other languages).

SCP also gave a bigger kick to CS (even though it has very little to do with FP) and it seems that FP languages were adopting it faster (I might be wrong on that).

http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
Seems harsh that so many people downvoted this, I dig the Slumdog Millionaire reference!
Initially I was excited, because by coincidence I have to work on the exact same problem. Enhancing the precision, to enable gesture recognition without having to carry a device. My plan was to use WiFi and rebuild this project: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enab...

We have built an Indoor-Navigation-System with a POI-Editor for OSM and Route-Planning algorithms and more.

The article is disappointing, because it doesn't tell much more than you already know by reading the title. Here's the original article: https://wncg.org/research/briefs/centimeter-accurate-low-pow...

Then there is also an even greater TED Talk by Todd Humphrey: http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_humphreys_how_to_fool_a_gps

You can find more about their plans for the VR-Application here: http://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/videos/280-precise-augmente...
I understand why you would demand peer-reviewed experiments to justify productivity, or maybe even correctness. But modularity needs nothing more than a qualitative argument.

It is neither disputable nor disputed, that pure functions are more modular than procedures: their result is independent from the order of their evaluation, and their data dependencies are explicit. That makes them easier to connect to one another.

It is neither disputable nor disputed, that first class functions enable more modularity than first-order functions alone. Just see `map`, `filter`, `fold`, which separate loop structure from loop body, in a way that would require special constructs or macros in first order languages.

It is neither disputable nor disputed, that in the absence of side effects, lazy evaluation is more modular than eager evaluation. Lazy evaluation lets you cleanly separate producers from consumers, by avoiding the full evaluation of what would otherwise be infinite data structures.

You may argue that the claims of increased productivity and correctness are extravagant, but you can not reasonably challenge the massive increase in modularity.

Some claims don't need "studies". Sometimes, a compelling argument is enough.
I think that would just encourage contestants to buzz in immediately, since I imagine that the risk of penalty of not knowing a question pales in comparison to the reward of getting to answer for a strong contestant. You effectively eliminate the only downside of buzzing early since contestants would get to hear the entire question regardless.
Matlab SimBiology from Scripts: loading and running simulations programmatically
Up to now, no, they aren't.

They are expensive as any computer fabricated at low volume, they aren't faster than current clusters. It may still be a good specialized architecture, but didn't prove itself on any problem.
A distributed, embedded, graph database engine
That makes more work for people to do, makes a bigger attack surface for hackers.

Also 12MB of memory used on compression (as seen in Someone1234's link) would be pretty bad for a web server.

Edit: Also, do phones have trouble keeping up with gzip decompression? Isn't it layout that's the limiting factor?
I used it to evolve soccer robot team programs for the RoboCup simulator league in 1997. My entry, which was entirely done through genetic programming and coevolution, beat half of the field.
> People are having kernel panics and struggling to keep their machines running with current software.

Not here. My Mac is at about 11 days of uptime and it's under constant use. At this moment, I can't say it's less reliable then my Linux machines.

In this specific case, however, I'd consider ditching the enclosure and ducting cold air through the internal chassis/heatsink. A Macpro is, essentially a heatsink with boards mounted on it and I'd just let the chassis do that part.
So, to be fair, they should have added a delay to the "you can buzz in now signal" to match the slowness of the human visual processing system. Without that, if all players knew the answer Watson won every time.

Also, the ASCII feed should have matched human reading speed.
Tesla already has 38,000 reservations for the Powerwall, but use case is narrow
I live in an NYC apartment, but if I were in a single-family house that had electric metering tied to time-of-day I'd buy one on principle.
1. Don't pay for anything out-of-pocket for a fly-in interview without solid assurances you won't be screwed (What assurances do I have your accounting people won't give me the indefinite run-around?) or disbursement delays forever (When can I count on being repaid?). Expense reimbursements normally requires receipts, prior approval (specific person in HR or hiring mgr) and talking to accounting to submit the right forms.

2. Don't do a fly-in interview without the following minimums: a phone screen with HR, hiring manager and a video call or two with someone on the team, otherwise they don't have enough invested because they've not qualified you enough to not waste your time and money.

Or: find another or start your own company where people's time and money are not abused. (There's always some time / money invested on both sides of the table, and it's mostly wasted... The wise move is to reduce it as much as possible while still giving people enough of a chance.)
This is a TV show - the entire point is to make it fun for the audience. The audience is what brings in ad dollars, which pays not only the winnings of the contestants, but costs to run the show, and of course, the profit.
Apple Watch Waterproof Test
Currently, no.

1. Apples EULA does not allow OSX on non-apple hardware.
2. Some major updates can break customizations and require some modifications (bootloaders, etc) to be re-installed

I have no problem helping a friend set up a Hackintosh when they want to save a few thousand dollars (I have set up a few already) with the understanding that they need to backup before doing any system updates and expect things to break after updating.

While Hackintosh's work well for personal use as long as you are somewhat techy and pick the hardware carefully, (putting aside the EULA issue) it does not make sense for anything large scale.
Great idea. Probably more of us around then most people realize.
Why would they? If they don't have to pay out money to people who get screwed by Uber, they profit.
Some detailed info about the timing and the buzzers: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-buzzer-factor-did-watson-have-...
The URL proves that for the certain problem that set of people could come up with the best solution in Haskell. This might just mean that whoever was programming in ADA wasn't as good. The sample size is so small that makes it hard to accept it as evidence. Also almost everybody got A in the evaluation, if the others were C or B- I would see it a little bit more relevant.

I am with you, I also think that functional languages the way to go and I almost exclusively using those, but I would not make this big of a jump.
Doesn't the App Store take a cut of in-app purchases?
Literally just threw my phone across the room in frustration over this.
The World's Oldest Deck of Cards
This is your brain on zero-g
Cristiano Ronaldo Footy Hack Tool No Survey 2015
Or even worse: "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Curiosity – A Culture of Asking Questions
Didn't they lower IPC with Bulldozer?
In that regard, it's been a fact since the division of labor was first outlined (and then fetishized) in the late 18th century. In terms of breaking down the tasks needed to build the final product, early Ford factories were just as efficient as modern Foxconn assembly plants.

I'm not arguing whether it's a fact or not. Culturally, in 2015 America it's a fact. In 1915 America, the same "fact" would have been handily rejected, even by conservative minds. Most people only read the first chapter of Wealth of Nations where Adam Smith extolls the virtues of the division of labor. The second half of the book, where he warns that the division of labor taken to the extreme could result in unfathomable social ills, and we ought not ever travel down that path, is usually conveniently ignored.

I'm all for automating jobs that technology deems unnecessary. The solution isn't to push everyone into some multi-disciplinary creative class. Many people would be very happy as uber drivers, or any other menial job, if they were treated with respect by their employer. I'd say the solution begins with treating workers with dignity and respect.
Communism has worked numerous times and continues to work today, most often using democratic or consensus governance: look at communes and kibbutzes.

> Which kind of explains why communism always leads to tyranny: it is based on the essentially tyrannical assumption that communists alone have the knowledge to decide how everyone else should be spending thier time, and the moral authority to impose that judgement on others by force.

Calm down McCarthy. Not every communist is a Soviet. Communism is a form of economy, not of government, and is entirely compatible with democracy.

> The problem is that no one has ever found a way of granting such power of central decision making in such a way that either:

> a) central planners have access to the information and computing power distributed in the market such that they can make well-judged decisions even by the theoretically pure criteria they claim to be using (that is, communism is inefficient)

> b) central planners have no incentive not to make decisions that serve their own interests to the detriment of all others (that is, communism is corrupt).

No one you know of has solved these problems, which only goes to show your ignorance.

Scale is an easy solution to both these problems--a small economy in which all parties can interact with all other parties removes the need for central planning entirely and allows all parties to balance their own interests with the interests of others.

> Given that theses results are incredibly robust and widely known, it is weird that anyone would suggest communism is an interesting alternative to anything. Reform capitalism all you want, but why bring up the political equivalent of a perpetual motion machine as the solution?

Given that you clearly are completely unaware of numerous working examples of democratic communism, what makes you feel qualified to have an opinion on the subject?
Same for me on an iOS 8 iPad. I only got the website to stop refreshing by constantly holding down the screen and scrolling
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Panasonic/MN101LR05DXW/?...
I think you misapprehend the situation. Based on my experience with suicidality, the "BS" isn't what actually prompts the suicidal thoughts. Rather, it's post-hoc rationalization for the irrational feeling of having no future worth experiencing. In a broader sense, this is something that people do all the time: we experience an emotion, then try to explain it after-the-fact. Our brains are incredibly adept at inventing "reasons" for experiences and sensations that ultimately stem from bizarre defects of biology and other caprices of circumstance. The mythologies associated with sleep paralysis (the hag, incubi/succubi, alien abduction) are perhaps the most vivid examples of this phenomenon.
Same here on laptop.

"Hey Boss, I know a way to increase visits to our site by 6x..."
New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties
There is definitely waaaay more data points that go into the loan process. I remember reading that it uses anything from information from social profiles to your GitHub commit streak to see if it worthwhile to provide a loan.
You could use the CMD keyword in the Dockerfile to ensure that that's run every time the container is started
What we need is an equitable distribution of wealth starting with equal access to land. These guys can't make a living for themselves because they don't have any land.

That was why they called the USA the land of opportunity. In the expansionary phase people could get land near others and generate wealth from it. Now people must exist in the service economy waiting for trickle-down that isn't going to come, spending most of their wages on rent.
The choice isn't between a Mac Pro and EC2. You can rack up x86 boxes chock full of GPUs far more easily than Mac Pros.
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There's a lot of effort going into just that, though there are some stumbling blocks researchers are still working their way through before we start seeing production scaled up.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/spider-silk-silkworms-genetic...
Nothing is original
Aptible (YC S14) is looking for a freelance designer who codes
Bulldozer is "Clustered Mutithreading". HyperThreading from Intel is SMT (Simultaneous multithreading)

Zen I believe will be SMT not CMT.
"as soon as possible"? Because I guarantee if you did that, you'd have people buzzing in as soon as Alex opened his mouth.

Being first to buzz is a huge part of the game, and no matter when you turn the buzzers on, there will be people trying to buzz at that moment.
Ask HN: Why am I having a hard time finding a new job?
For the past few months I have been trying to find a new job and I can’t seem to find the right position one way or another. I have gotten pretty far in the hiring process with some large well known companies, the trend seems to be “we really really like you, we just don’t think your ready” type of deal.

Currently, I work for a healthcare company doing a little of everything in IT/IS. I administer systems, do analytics on large sets of claim, member and provider data, ETL work, SQL development, new system implementation, and now long term IT strategy. I even do a ton of python scripting/dev for analytics and large projects.

On top of working 40+ hours I started to teach myself some new things. I picked up Python/Flask/PostgreSQL about 8 months ago and built out a Geocoding service using Census data. After interviewing for some Java engineer positions and not making the cut, I started to rewrite the geocoding REST service in Java/Spring/Hibernate. I even started to pick up Angular so I could make a decent UI in order to show off my work.

I really would love to become a software engineer – I love solving problems, creating, designing, etc. Trying to switch from what I do now to that type of role has been extremely frustrating. Recruiters seem to think it’s impossible for me to switch and I haven’t gotten much hits for anything close to what I want to be doing.

I’m hoping someone could offer some advice on what to do! I’ve attached a link to my resume and github – maybe I am not marketing myself properly?

https://github.com/taurenk
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77316816/resume.doc
The people making shoes, iPhones, TVs---they don't have to do that. They could do whatever they were doing before that factory came to town. But working in that factory is preferable.

The same thing is true for Uber drivers.

You don't have to feel guilty for any of these purchaes---you should only feel good about them, if anything.

That guy was very rude, but you are just accepting his argument and trying to use it against him. It's not a valid argument.
That was a fascinating read thank you.

Can you expand on why it was so shocking or maybe impressive by the Obama response. I'm confused what the significance of it is.
I think the big picture is that this looks like a joke, and everyone's having fun trying to articulate their feelings about it.
I mention it because AFAIK, all of imgix's direct competitors run in EC2.
GRE (well NVGRE) works, but it's not offloaded by most NICs and it doesn't have port numbers to provide as much ECMP entropy as UDP.
"The only winning move is not to play"

Or, in this case, to play, but play a safer game, where algorithms find their a local minima, and profits are potentially smaller than when using an aggressive stance, but maximized in the long run.

Difficult, but seems theoretically feasible.
The traditional College Bowl <TM> / Quizbowl <not-TM> technique is (a) to assign a 50% penalty to the early buzz with an incorrect answer, and (b) since it's game with teams and has two teams, the rest of your team is disqualified from answering the question, leaving the opposite team with lots of time to think about it (and subsequently secure access to the 3x bonus question following every toss-up question.)

Which is lots of fun and very competitive, but a little bit less tele-savvy.
They are actually playing next weekend:

http://www.austinpsychfest.com/portfolio-item/the-13th-floor...

It's kind of funny... I just thought he was some random (occasionally iffy, somewhat nutty) drummer.
Fun with responsive windows
You know how annoying it is when someone tries to finish your sentence and they are completely wrong? I imagine Jeopardy without the rule to be unwatchable.
I can imagine a time in my distant future where I will feel unappreciated and/or unable to keep up with technology the way I can today (though admittedly even today it's not an easy task given the trajectory. I'm pretty certain we're on an exponential curve).

What is the gift that will keep on giving? Write about what you know. Write about your experiences and insights. Even thousands of years from now people may come across your work and given the advances they will be living amongst will almost certainly be interested in what you had to say.
Daimler to test self-driving trucks in Nevada
It's strange that you think you haven't gone there with that post.

I'm sorry to call you arrogant, but I don't know how else to describe someone who thinks they've invalidated millions of man-hours of scholarly work without even understanding what the thing is they are invalidating. The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong here.
For much of Southern Europe (greece, Italy, Spain) the current inhabitants are not related to the ancient inhabitants. But for isolated areas like the alps and Northern Europe the genetics are similar.

Interesting. Do you have any sources?
I think people need to ask themselves - if it's half the price of a regular cab how can this be?

Either tax drivers are being exploited by their employers who are pocketing most of the wealth generated, or uber drivers are underpaid. Or taxi firms are insanely inefficient and uber has undercut them with their web 3.0 brilliance.
Setting up networking requires root but so does creating the container so I don't see what the problem is. Using networking doesn't require any special permissions.
nobody cares, the carbon-fiber diet is not genetic
Just curious, as you moved from language to language do you think there were any patterns as far as the timing of your moves? Did you jump into new languages as they emerged or wait for them to reach a stable mindshare within your peers? Or perhaps waited until you needed to pick up a new language in order to pay the bills?
> Why did working people understand this truth in 1915 but not today? I don't know.

Because of Ayn Rand. You think I'm joking, but she's the only intellectually serious defender of capitalism in the 20th century, and her influence is snowballing. When Rand was alive, members of her circle would rejoice at the extremely occasional mention of her name in print. Now, you can't turn on the TV or go anywhere online without hearing about her.

As a side note, human labor is not a commodity. However, "capital" (as you call it---you use a lot of Marxist terms in your post that do not reflect the reality of society) does not have an obligation to hire you on your terms, either. Labor is about a voluntarily trade.
Agreed, these comments are far better than the article.
I think this is it:

http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Keyword=reram
But why does this site need edge technology? It's a landing page for your game engine.
No clue what was different but I started from scratch and now get

./pixie-vm ./examples/hello-world.pxi 1.01s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 1.021 total

Sorry for the negative report.
Some consumer chips will work. The regulations say they must not work at speeds above 515 m/s and altitudes above 18 km.

Some manufacturers follow the rules as written, and disable if the unit is above the speed limit AND the height limit. Some disable if the unit is above the speed limit OR the height limit.

The former are fine for balloons.
Orson Welles’s Unfinished Masterpiece
See also Piksi - "Low-cost RTK GPS receiver (centimeter level precision) with open source software and board design targeted at UAVs."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swiftnav/piksi-the-rtk-...

http://gpsworld.com/what-happened-to-piksi-the-995-rtk-gnss-...
small comment:

Sometimes I like to see activity (on Github) for more than the last two months. It makes me wonder if someone is really passionate about building things, or is just looking for easy employment.

You did a good job of addressing that in your HN post, but I would bet that a few companies are holding that (good activity, but only fairly recently) against you.

Good news, that problem will fix itself with another two months or so of activity.
Probably a reference to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXX6kuk_XQ