skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take this chart with a grain of salt, given the FB paper. Peregrine is no longer in service, IIRC. It was a friendly rival to Scuba, and was eventually replaced by Presto, which is not even mentioned. Also not mentioned are several important things like the pub/sub ecosystem built on Scribe. Haystack is long dead, except for maybe some archived stuff. Lastly, PHP-to-C++ has not been a thing since early 2012.
I think the big difference is that finishing college is a signal that someone is willing to conform. Important in an employee but not so much in a founder.
The company litigation lawyers called him a business predator and a person beyond reason, saying that he is equivalent to a drug dealer in terms of his ethics. The litigation lawyer says that the reason he invested in our company initially was to steal the company to take it over soon.

We were one of the most promising companies in the state. Now with the 7-month litigation, we are running out of money and the company is insolvent already. We are facing possible immediately either bankruptcy or voluntary dissolution. I am trying my best to close more deals to get revenues into the company but in the healthcare space, no sales happens fast enough to keep up the legal fees.

This is my first start-up company which I worked my ass off for three years. For the first 2.5 years, I did not take any salaries and instead invested almost all my money into the business. With this litigation dragged along for 7 months, I did not have any income and my husband has been nagging me every single day to quit and just find a job.

Right now we can file a Federal complaint against this bastard for all the serious damages he has done to the company, but the business lawyer said that the damages are hard to quantify using numbers and mostly can be counted as stipulations, and in the end, we may not get anything from him. Plus we will run up a huge legal bill for Federal and State litigation together. Another option is to file company dissolution or bankruptcy. But it seems a real mess from other advisors' feedback.

Please advise what to do to protect the company or get out of the legal mess!!! Thank you very much!!!
Uni-level math on the reals always bugged me for the exact reason that I thought well-defined problems not involving funny self-reference tricks ought to have algorithms. Despite this, math professors kept presenting us with patterns to match, but no exhaustive algorithms.

Little did I know, considering the reals are uncountable, so you can't really come up with exhaustive algorithms for lots of things dealing with them.
Gill Pratt on DRC: It's not just about robots, it's about community
It looks very cool, I just give The Order a hard time because I need a console to play it ;), I often like linear gameplay.
Most books I've read that talk about this custom (and, despite the claims of the article that it's not talked about, in Western literature it's talked about A LOT) attribute it instead to the idea that money is "impure", and handing money directly to another person (whatever the class relation) is a bit improper.
> This is not because microservices-first is inherently flawed. This is purely a skill set issue. Microservices demand a greater skill set.

Actually, from the perspective of someone building them for the past nine months, the actual service is the easiest part to deal with because the loose coupling drops the requirements to service constraints. The hardest part, by far, has been coordinating common changes, tracking deployments, and running no-downtime migrations.

The hardest part of micro-services, BY FAR, is the management, communication, and coordination changes that MUST accompany a successful move from a monolithic codebase to many smaller codebases. Some of these are easier to address than others, but the barrier is NOT technical so much as it is social.
There also is nothing wrong with proprietary software. Don't run it, or purchase it if you have some moral disagreement with it, but many people don't and are perfectly happy to pay money for it.
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You could try asking that question on http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
Advice for incoming CS students
For an incoming EECS student this fall interested in programming, software engineering and technology is general, what is the best way to get started in the tech world? How to learn, explore and gain experience in this world?
>Into what areas would you direct your energies?

Classic advice from Richard Hamming on life & work. What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? ... Why not?

Here's a video presentation from 1995> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
Marketroid term for game that has a huge dev team and production/marketing budget. Marketroids which bandy this term about are often under the delusion that this makes for a good game.
It means only the first. I've never seen it used to mean the other ones.
Yes, I deliberately chose the term "prominently visible" and not "celebrity". The context is different with PGP.

Maybe I should have used high-profile as the specifier in that sentence too.
At one point Sacca was the biggest investor in twitter from his own personal investments, raising funds, and buying early employees out.

He tried this at Uber too. Kalinick shut that down super quick, and I think he is banned from the premises.
- "This will change your life as a developer"

- "The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived."

How can those possibly be factually correct brags?

Edit: Looking in to swisspol's real world profile... I must admit he's achieved so much that he probably does have the right to brag, so this may all be a moot point anyway ;)
There are ways to systematically get at DE solutions, the first that come to mind are power series or fourier series or decomposing into other orthogonal functions (of course, assuming the solution obeys relevant boundary conditions), but that won't give you an elegant result unless you have the time to wade through the recursion relations and sum it up. Sometimes, a smart guess just gives you the result, so why not do that?
So you say, but popularity "in every thread" (whatever that means) is a silly metric. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "then GPL would have won instead of MIT". Its not a war, even if some trendy corporate wannabe hacker tries to convince you that it is so that you give him the fruits of your labor for nothing. And if it was a war... show me the MIT licensed toolchain, the MIT licensed OS, etc. I'm not hating on permissively licensed free software at all, I appreciate those who write it and give it to the world... but I'm going to call you out if you try to sow the seeds of division among hackers.
I kind of have the attitude (and have exercised this in the past) that if my employer oversteps the bounds in such a ridiculous way, the contract becomes meaningless at that point.

It is, at the end of the day, paper with words on it.

The idea that this could affect future prospects is true, but only in a sort of vague way that doesn't really matter.

Imagine that a company works you to death and eventually you just can't turn up any more. Does it make sense to worry about references then? Do you ever want to work for such a company again, or even for someone who respects them? I wouldn't.
I guess I just don't understand
There are two main scenarios for fork(), and the lack of distinction between them is what I suspect led to some of the articulated worries.

The first scenario, in the spirit of traditional unix, consists of the sequence fork+execve. This scenraio is supported in midipix, yet requires that the (optional) subsystem performs execve on behalf of the forkee. As noted earlier, if all the child does is call execve, then application authors should consider switching to posix_spawn not only due to its better portability, but also for performance reasons.

The second, and arguably more interesting scenario, takes place when the child brnaches away from the parent process, performs (in parallel) a designated portion of a larger task, and then exits. This second scenario has been thoroughly tested and works as expected with respect to IPC, I/O, signal delivery, and nested forking.

In either of the above scenarios, there is no expectation that the child could interact with csrss, create or operate on GDI handles, or otherwise use the WIN32 API directly. Then again, it is expected that a process that calls fork() will not have any of the GUI libraries loaded at the time the call is made. Any limitation here, if any, has little to no relevance to existing applications that depend of fork, but only to what I fondly call the "fetishization of fork" in discussions about posix-to-windows portability. Applications that truly depend on fork were written with neither WIN32 nor GDI in mind, and therefore will not break due to such windows-specific interfaces not being available (as an aside, an X11 application calling fork() from within its event loop is an equally bad design regardless of whether the operating system supports that or not).

Looking forward to further cooperation! I hope this addresses at least some of the questions you have raised.
There is a good chance that someone eventually arrives towards the middle of a service time. Once there is a one person line, it is very likely that every subsequent arrival has to wait.
For Sourceforge specifically? Sure.

In general, the way the comment was worded? No, suspicion does not equal hard fact.

We were talking about the latter.
Oh ok. Yes, some places put your change in a tray (which I've seen in the US too), but you still hand money directly to them. It's really not the same thing that's discussed in the article.
I'm not a competitor or gatekeeper, I'm a user. Frankly, my next phone is unlikely to be an iPhone.
This bothered me too. Actually, it started with the computation of anti-derivatives (integrals) in high-school.

Isn't there a theorem that says that no closed-form, analytic solutions to such equations can be found, in general?
The article says that during 1600-1870 most businesses operated on credit with semiannual account settlement. I'd think this would make quick-weigh gold-dust transactions pretty uncommon. :)
Love that place. Nothing like a round at Phillipe's after a 2600 meeting at Union Station ..
VA Linux Systems set a record for largest IPO and then tanked. The vast majority of Free-software based businesses have tanked too. RedHat is really the exception.
I don't think most recent AAA games count as "challenging", the tendency has been going in the other direction for a while, minus accidents like Dark Soul. I'd say it's mostly about the budget, and as Hollywood demonstrates regularly, it's extremely easy to create a flashy but ultimately mediocre product with a huge budget.

Not to say that all AAA games are like that, of course (eg, Alien Isolation looked pretty decent).
Really cool HR app built on Bluemix
This is a pretty cool HR app built on Bluemix that pulls in candidate profiles and compares them with a current employee. Basically the goal is you have an awesome employee you want to clone. IBM Watson helps find a personality match. This could be easily extended to use Twitter and LinkedIn data as well
(disclosure: i work at Google and picked the name)

comments above are right -- we wanted to stick to the nautical theme that was emerging in containers and 'kubernetes' (or helmsmen is greek) seemed about right. the fact that the word has strong roots in modern control theory was nice also.

fun fact: we actually wanted to call it 'seven' after seven-of-nine (a more attractive borg) but for obvious reasons that didn't work out. :)
> technical justification for this new architectural mold

The technical justification is easier than the cultural or managerial justification: you can make more granular technical decisions by splitting and merging code across services and servers. This is very powerful.

Microservices aren't going away—they are the core of a successful, scalable distributed system. The hype surrounding the term is definitely loaded with cultural and managerial implications that are rarely addressed, however, and I hope that changes soon.
Let's say it becomes possible. Then what? If your project is popular, it would be on softpedia, filehippo, majorgeeks and many other "free software" aggregators. If your project license allows others to distribute your software, you can't stop them.
Wow, I would really like to see my American coworkers' starting salaries the same way they are able to look mine up in this table :)

Don't think that would ever happen though, it would be labeled as a shocking breach of privacy.
But they're not encouraging users to switch to a different phone, they're encouraging users to harry Apple.
Right, and that's why its up to you to decide what to do after you read the Instavest research.
Artificial Skylight that looks just like the sun
Jesus Thinks He's Tough Enough
While I will acknowledge that it is possible parties won't place ads to try and persuade people to support their point of view, I personally would find it amazing considering how many ads are run on TV around any election or vote by special interest groups.

Also regardless of me being a hypocrite you were reading into it. Just because I do something something stupid doesn't mean you should.

While it doesn't make my hypocrisy better, the only assumptions I stated as anything other than personal opinion is that there will be ads by interested parties, and that most people are stupid. In the second post I made I expressed my view of the outcome, I clearly stated it as personal opinion. Your message however tried to state my personal opinion, and did so incorrectly.
What you said about my resume being priority-2 in a sea of P1s is spot on in my opinion. However the OP's assertion about fearing a legal reprisal on the grounds of discrimination is farfetched to me. People don't just go around trying to sue people who send them nasty rejection letter. If the candidate could afford the legal fees then they probably wouldn't be looking for a job.
John Green states it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsFa_MJ0gBs
Great Lives – Ada Lovelace
This degradation in comforts of air travel is very regrettable. Especially when it comes to seat pitch, coach class is clearly denied what is necessary and, worse still, this is intentional. There's a lovely quote by a French engineer named Jules Dupuit going back to 1849, which explains the conundrum. I think he was talking about railroad cars but the argument applies to air travel just the same. Quote:

"It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriage or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches ... What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich ... And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class customers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous."
I'm glad someone got a chance to see it! Let me know how it works out for you, I would love to get some feedback about it. And if you like it, please share with your colleagues :)
You forgot to add their extreme luck. Also, don't forget Gates was born a millionaire. That makes it a lot easier to drop out of college.
You are right to point this out. The United States has tried many times to use social media platforms to cause uprising in other nations. These very same nations (including the ones enumerated above) do cut off the services. Take the US installation of ZunZuneo in Cuba and the governments crackdown on personal phones in response - China's ban of Google for US influence and foreign surveillance - Russia's machinations against Facebook for influencing its audience - Kiev's ban of CSOs as Western organization through UNITER was revealed - North Korea's hacking of SONY in response to its partnership with the US State Department and CIA on The Interview - Israel's hatred over Jeremy Bird's participation in "OneVoice" political campaigning over Twitter - etc, etc.

Continuing to use US private companies as soft weapons will increasingly harm the reputations and global standing of these corporations. The military-industrial complex gig is up. Other nations know what's happening. It's merely a matter of denying the company access to a population while making it look not so bad from the PR side.
Perhaps you would like to study constructive analysis, a la Bishop? You lose a lot of intuition in the hypotheses, which necessarily become more complicated—or perhaps I should say that you are forced to develop a different intuition about hypotheses—but you gain conclusions of exactly the sort that you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_analysis

EDIT: Also, the fact that a structure is uncountable doesn't prevent you from operating algorithmically on it (not that you claimed it did!); it just means that there are some elements of it that cannot be singled out algorithmically.
GATEWAY ULTRA 3.2.2 and what does bring to the old 3DS
+1 I was going to make a rather sarcastic comment that this is for "professional engineers", but is OS X only. Ubuntu on a VirtualBox on Windows for me.
High-end contracting within not-so-common software and / or specific business domains.

The contracts are often very long (some many years) and the rates are sufficiently high to get you to 250K and beyond, even after accounting for sickdays, medical insurance, pension, vacation etc.

You can get there through experience in specific technologies like SAS CRM, SAP, Salesforce etc, meaning tech's that are not so common without necessarily being completely niche. You can also get there as a generalist developer with exceptional experience in a business domain like automotive, finance, retail or whatever.

The rates can get extreme when the developer is specialized in both a specific technology and business domain.

A specialist in marketing automation + finance for example or datawarehousing + retail etc.
Thanks for trying GitUp and for the feedback!

> The list of commits (Cmd+D) in the map view is useless

Could you provide feedback on http://forums.gitup.co about what you are specifically trying to do or what your workflow is?
The term AAA implies a sort of rating of quality, which is why it seems duplicitous to me.

It's a bit like the term "blockbuster" in film. Originally it meant a movie so good, lines to see it would go around the block. These days what it actually means is a huge-budget film filled with CG and spectacle, and studios labor under the belief that throwing that much money at a production will lead to blockbuster-scale ticket sales. Then they wonder why their "blockbusters" flop catastrophically at the actual box office.
There's something really satisfying about seeing a visual representation of my git repositories, but my overall impression is that I'm not going to get any productivity gains here.

If you know what you're doing, CLI is just faster. I understand that it's aimed at more novice developers, but I think for those developers it's even more important to use the command line. Developers that get into the habit of using unnecessary graphical UIs always seem worse off because of it.
I remember hearing presentations from their devs about twitter annotations, metadata etc. Such enthusiasm at those times.
> 2D doesn't always age that well either, try to play Diablo II or Starcraft 1. I promise it will not look the same way as you remember it.

One of the main issues with 2D is the fixed resolution. If you can live with that, it's not bad. I actually played D2 again a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Same for Planescape Torment.
The intention is good, but without meaning to be overly negative, this is not very well written at all. There is imprecise and needlessly confusing and unclear phrasing ("To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse [sic] is tangent to a function. If the triangle's width is , then its height is the derivative." is the most confusing and unintuitive way to visualize derivatives I can think of), a poor sequence of examples for someone who is not familiar with ODEs, plenty of things left unexplained (why do I solve \dot{y} = \cos(t) by integrating?) not to mention technical problems with hovering the graphs (at least in FF). It's also way, way too short. You simply cannot go from "an ODE is like an equation with functions and derivatives" to "let's solve one" in 5 sentences.

Honestly, reading the Wikipedia page would be more beneficial for someone who wants to learn ODEs. Like I said the intention is good but I would suggest throwing everything but the pictures away and starting from scratch, preferably with a good textbook by your side to help you not only with facts, but more importantly with the pedagogic aspect.
"Shortcomings in the direct response advertising category have resulted in the company coming in below the financial community’s quarterly estimates."

Well, yes. The problem with all social networks is that ads interfere with the "social". Ads are a big annoying guy getting in your face when you're trying to talk to someone. Or worse, they're your (soon to be former) "friends" who've been tricked into "sharing" (i.e. spamming) ads.

Remember, Twitter's big period of growth was before they had ads. They only put in ads when they had users hooked.

The first one is always free.
Tindr IRL
> H1Bs are not immigrants but they are allowed to try to become immigrants while in the US.

And a lot of them do, so your point about them "not being immigrants" is largely moot.

Yes, there are some people who come here with no desire to stay, but they have been in the minority since around 1492.
It's interesting to note that according to the same data points, Linux Desktop usage for developers is just about on par with OSX usage (20.5%).
> No the idea has previously been that any information gets dumped onto wikileaks rather than wikileaks seeking specific pieces of information.

I'm not sure the distinction between "dumped onto" vs "seeking out" is a real one, but my main objection is that I don't see any evidence that wikileaks has been a passive conduit for leaks that come their way; they do curation of "leaks" that arrive in their inbox, they choose to promote certain leaks in certain ways, etc.
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Getting into a top college is a signal of conscientiousness[1] as well as intelligence and that's just as important.

I'd hope I could interview people well enough to do better than just looking at people's schools but if I were an HR drone without the ability to assess people's technical abilities I'd probably go with the MIT dropout over the Alabama graduate.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Con...