skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really important point. Lots of time sunken in confirming the compiler that could have been used in exploratory programming. Humans are fundamentally explorers not conformists.

Nice duality you exposed right there!
What do you mean licensing doesn't establish experience or expertise? That depends entirely on what you use to qualify people for licenses.

Naturally, you won't hire a heart surgeon to do a brain transplant, but then you don't have a generic "surgeon" license, you have separate "brain surgeon" or "heart surgeon" licenses. You get a Cesarean from someone licensed to do it, and that won't be a thoracic surgeon.

And it _would_ make hiring easier, because you have a much smaller pool of candidates to look at. The problem with licensing is that you end up having to pay for a license, and technology changes to fast to keep licensing relevant. And so much of tech education is expected to be done without guidance or experience.
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It's an interesting issue. The right to move around freely seems more appealing than expecting people to be essentially imprisoned in their countries of citizenship. On the other hand, there are obviously billions of people living in poor and otherwise dis-functional countries, and if even a fraction decided to move to a country like New Zealand, you can imaging it becoming ridiculously overpopulated.

Alternatively, should we accept that population groups that have a higher birth rate should naturally dominate future generations, or is it acceptable to fence off certain parts of the world with lower birth rates and a better natural environment?
Navy pays millions to keep using Windows XP
Have you tried this : https://support.google.com/a/answer/33561?hl=en
The danger is this exact situation, I am now no longer free to work on my machine. I must bend to their will and buy replacement hardware that they sanction, which may or may not or may in the future be hard to source and/or high in price. The danger is a working piece of hardware could be rendered non functional for want of a simple and otherwise easily sourced replacement if a company goes put of business.

I said nonsensical not irresponsible. I say nonsensical because the situation I described in my last paragraph shouldn't be my worry as the owner of hardware that otherwise would be compatible.
For me most awful thing in immigration that i can't marry green card holder at all. Because we need to wait 5 years abroad and she can't leave country for more than half year for conversion Green Card to citizenship and i can't came to US because i am married in permanent resident. Why, hell, i can't may woman that i love and with whom i want to make family? I am extremely skilled worker and done two businesses in my country and i wanted to make more in US.
"Also, IPv6 is nowehre to be seen on the clouds, so addresses are more scarce than they need to be in the first place."

We've[1] had ipv6 addressable cloud storage since 2006.

Currently our US (Denver), Hong Kong (tsuen kwan o) and Zurich locations have working ipv6 addresses.

[1] You know who we are.
The fourth item of the second bin is the fourth item of the remaining items after you've looked at one bin.
In the US, most H1B hires I personally know have had their green card sponsorship started within an year of hire. Then it takes about 2-3 years to get it finalized. I knew of one who even got the process started in 2 months.

So there are some differences from other countries but no 5-10 years wait.
Only incrementally safer.
Well, if the mysterious sdfghjkl34567 is to be believed, then you don't get to decide what neoreactionary means, and so don't get to decide if you are one or not as far as others are concerned.

On the other hand you did start a petition to turn over government rule to Google, and believe the bottom 1/3 of the population should be live in servants to the top 1/3. What this has to do with neoreactionarism I have no idea, but apparently many people think it's associated.

P.S. I'm still not convinced that you're not a troll, but then again I'm not sure if this is not exactly the kind of $#@% that needs to be stirred up.
Well can't be taken seriously. Real life works most of the time. Only theoretical thought experiments could work all the time.
Can you show me a clock that worked more than 10K years?
They are still trying to invent one (and we're not having it yet)
Maybe it operates in someway by taking advantage of small time private investors.
rsync.net cloud storage has been ipv6 accessible since 2006.

I'm surprised that is still interesting/noteworthy.

HN Readers discount, since we're on the subject. Just email.
Our company does like to give a 2-4 hour take-home exercise after the technical phone screen, but (barring exceptionally bad submissions) we make a point to collectively spend as much time reviewing it as the candidate spent implementing it, for this exact reason. It's proved to be a very helpful filter so far.
> For those selecting to immigrate why not put the onus on them to integrate too? Why should the onus be on the established population to adapt?

What's the point of assigning blame? The established population can either close the borders completely, or help immigrants immigrate at their own expense - becuase THEY are the ones who stand to lose or gain the most. Purely as a matter of pragmatism, it's the established residents who will have to pay, as they're the only ones who can. They can also choose to close the borders completely, but I don't think there is any other alternative. To assign blame may make one feel self righteous but it is hardly a solution.
I mean internally, once you get in. Most countries, especially G-20 level countries are very difficult to immigrate to.
What is SBT?

But yes, these are all table stakes that Haskell has been lagging on, in part because Haskell library versions break compatibility very frequently, and Haskell has a very non-local/modular way of building source.
And developers have been bending over with beaming smiles on their faces for just as long.

Apple's behavior might change if the developers keeping it alive left for other ecosystems in sizable enough numbers. Unfortunately, that has yet to happen in the mobile space, so Apple continues to have no problem shafting mobile devs (the desktop space is a different story, however, since Apple is not dominant there except for very specific market segments, like hipster Ruby programmers and/or art students).
Speak for yourself, buddy. I contemplated my existence all the time, as a child.
For most people to sponsor an employment green card you have to show that you cannot find a qualified citizen or PR to fill the position. This is easier for some professions (STEM most notably) than others.

Also there are restrictions on when a company can file. For example if the company has gone through layoffs then generally it can't sponsor people for several months.
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Is that a lot different from what happens now? Right now if you check the "Cache during playback", you'll get the recent songs saved. Also anything that's pinned is always saved. What goes out of cache is a bit magic, but it's unlikely to be the very recent stuff.
Sure, if you don't mind living in a place where cost of living is inflated to Bay Area levels.
Oh I guess I misread. It's still not dangerous at all. You aren't going to die or suffer injury from the wifi card or lack thereof, even if Lenovo goes out of business. You're choosing words that falsely amplify your point.
I prefer to pick that sort of thing up from mathematical texts or a textbook.

The principles are pretty simple from a probabilistic perspective: it's just a matter of making inferences from the available information and choosing an optimal course of action from that. Information theory provides a nice framework for this basis, imo.

You can find this introduction (including topics like Kelly's criterion etc) in Cover's Elements of Information Theory, a good introduction to information theory in general if you like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_and_information_theor...
> But there is a problem with identifying entropy as the driving force behind the arrow of time. For this to be true, the universe must have started out in a very low entropy state. The puzzle is: why?

It's interesting that simplicity is the goal everywhere else in science, but it's bad when it comes to the initial state of the universe. After all, having a lot of neg-entropy is just another way of saying "takes very little information to describe". The fact that the initial state is surprisingly simple to us is oxymoronic in a way.
If you've been to LaGuardia, it's basically a sea of iPads: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ipad-is-a-big-part-of-lag...
subtitles are out of sync
There is Acestream, which the authors claim is based on BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the client software is allegedly a bit dodgy, and nobody can tell for sure as it's all closed-source.
Yes I know there are a lot of people who supported you during that time. I also know that there was a big move to boycott Mozilla.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/04/05/backlash-...

According to Forbes the boycott crossed a line.

We are seeing social justice warriors take on FOSS projects like the Github project Opal. One contributor was accused of making a transphopbic tweet and they wanted him removed. Then they closed that issue and made a new issue to make a code of conduct. That is when the trolls came out with zero day accounts.

We haven't seen the last of this thing, and it seems to be targeting the tech industry because that is where a lot of good paying jobs are that are held by mostly white straight males.

They see you, a White straight Christian male as the ultimate enemy. These attacks are coming from the left-wing groups.

I too want to see more women, minorities, GLBTT people in IT jobs, but not at the cost of discriminating against white males to do it.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/07/nozilla-surprisingly-no-on...

Apparently conservatives didn't like it that Mozilla caved in to bullies, and ignored that you stepped down and resigned and didn't get fired.

It seems like Mozilla got hit on both the left and the right.

I still use Thunderbird and Firefox, it is because they are good software and open source. I'm sorry to see you and Mozilla got hit by both sides of the same sex marriage debate.
People have kids for all sorts of reasons, ranging from emotional to rational to accidental! Plus plenty of variation in parenting styles and the benefits thereof. I'm not sure there's much to say about a single purpose.

However, your ideas about the passing of the big questions to a new generation does strike a chord.

Speaking as a non-parent, the biggest mistake I see parents make is to live through their kids. I get that it's natural, partly because parents want the best for their kids and try to give them all they can, but in my opinion kids need role models more than almost anything else, and if their role models are martyrs is it any wonder that the cycle continues?

It takes wisdom to balance life as a parent with life as an adult, I'm sure it's not always easy, but I hope that if I'm ever a parent I'll remember to try, as it seems healthier for both kids and parents.
Ethics and business strategy aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
The relative nature of time is kind of what Mercati is working with (I think). He's trying to describe entropy using only a self-relative framework. That is, without using fixed metrics like temperature or distance in an absolute frame of reference.

There was another article about this on HN previously.[1]

Why is it that the causal relations existing as a result of elementary forces spreading from one particle to another only ever change in one direction in time? When you map the space of the universe onto two dimensions, you see the effects of forces radiating from their origins as circles. But when you reduce all of space to one dimension and add another dimension of time, those forces only appear as cones, all pointing the same direction. What is stopping the forces from flowing backward, or even sideways in time? The math we're using gives no indication why this is the case. That's what has physicists scratching their heads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561654
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/03/zillow-negative-eq...

"In the fourth quarter of 2014, the U.S. negative equity rate – the percentage of all homeowners with a mortgage that are underwater, owing more on their home than it is worth – stood at 16.9 percent, unchanged from the third quarter. Negative equity had fallen quarter-over-quarter for ten straight quarters, or two-and-a-half years, prior to flattening out between Q3 and Q4 of last year.

While this may not seem very notable (after all, overall negative equity didn’t go up, merely flattened out), this represents a major turning point in the housing market. The days in which rapid and fairly uniform home value appreciation contributed to steep drops in negative equity are behind us, and a new normal has arrived. Negative equity, while it may still fall in fits and spurts, is decidedly here to stay, and will impact the market for years to come. "
I never had a "cord" to cut.

I grew up in a family that didn't watch cable TV, because cable was not even available in the neighborhood. Then I went to college and got my own apartment in the city, but didn't have money for cable. (Technically, I got cable, but with the internet-only plan. I ditched that as well when I found that dry-loop DSL was cheaper.)

Nowadays, I could easily get cable if I wanted, but I don't see why I should. Since I never had it, I don't know what I'm missing, so I don't miss it.
FWIW, a lot of US public assistance programs (including TANF) already have minimum-length-of-residency and work credit requirements for people who aren't US citizens: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-public-benefits-...
One method I think I've heard somewhere, is to start the beat frequency at the dominant brain frequency (so 10Hz in this case), and then slowly slide it to the target frequency. Think you could try that too?
This is true in the abstract, and a good point.

But in this case, they have a pretty densely sampled and well-calibrated spectrum from one of the instruments (http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/vir_gallery.asp -- there appear to be ~100 spectral samples), so they would be able to make a black-body assumption, derive a temperature, and then validate the extent to which that is correct. In other words, it's not just a plain IR image, it's a whole spectrum.
Having kids is a great way to give yourself some perspective and curb existential angst.

This is going to be a touchy subject as people have children for many different reasons - I'll describe a few significant groups:

- Those who do it to pass on knowledge, teach kids to be inquisitive and enjoy making/learning. This kind of parent themselves love learning, and raising a child is a massive part of their life journey

- Those who figure it's the next logical progression in their life/relationship, who wind up so tired from the combination of work and raising a child/children that yes their existential angst has been effectively banished. Some may find perspective when they finally find the time to reflect. Most are ultimately happy that they had kids

- Those who seemingly have Stockholm syndrome, evangelizing the joys of having kids in one breath and telling their children to shut up in another. The kind who had kids because they're a status symbol, a Rubicon of the aspirational class

The first kind make the best parents. We shouldn't try to sell kids as a solution to life's problems - otherwise we'll just keep making the second and third kinds of parents with each generation.
Information on Renaissance Technologies is so incredibly sparse. It must be a fascinating workplace! It's fun to speculate on the nature of their success (specifically the Medallion fund).

3 possibilitiese spring to mind:
1. Best in class execution on winner-takes-all strategies. Eg. 10 hedge funds all try the same arbitrage trade but only the quickest one make money.
2. A killer app that no one else knows about. Like, I dunno, artificial intelligence...
3. Medallion is just a legend built up to lure investors into their public funds and collect the fees.

Joking on that last one.

What I drew from this interview was that while Simons is obviously incredibly smart, they key thing was that at Stony Brook he learned how to put together a team of other very smart people, and that more than any individual financial insight has generated his success in investing.
What's the paradigm that fits best for CUDA?
My wife actually did a study of this a long time ago for her Master's degree after having dealt with EEG Biofeedback training under supervision of an MD for years. She had a bunch more participants. In short, Binaural Beats don't work.

edit: I'll see if I can get a link to her paper
If you can mount near a switch for a light, you can usually get access to unswitched mains right there (1 hot, 1 neutral wire).
Do me a favor, any time you are inclined to read "conspiracy" in what I'm saying look up how Julian Assange famously used the word here:

http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

I think you'll find we have a similar understanding.
That's not really true in my experience. Used it in many European and other countries and it worked just fine. Sometimes some artists are service/region-limited, but that's because of their stupid labels - this mostly affects the top100 ones.

Where did you run into issues with play music?
Something does not have to cause mortal harm to be dangerous. Denying free speech is a dangerous thing to do, but it poses no mortal harm.

Not owning what I buy is a disturbing trend that I believe is dangerous to our society.
There is an entertaining book by PKD called Counter-Clock world with exactly this premise. The mores around eating and digestion shift drastically...

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Clock_World]
L1c: A conceptually simple formally verified compiler
Proof once again that if the headline is a question the article invariably answers "no".
See my other comment but I think the differences are the immediacy of the time pressure, the sophistication of the thinking required and the all-or-nothing outcome.
Couldn't agree more. When I'm trying to think through a problem I want everyone around me to be friggin' quiet and leave me alone.

When I'm thinking about an abstract concept, trying to visualize how the pieces fit together, 'talking it through' is not helpful either. It's really goddamn distracting.

The feedback I got from my last 'cs 101 algorithms whiteboard quiz for a web dev job' was, "You need to talk more and explain what you're thinking." Ugh. Do you want the code or do you want me to talk, because you're not gonna get both.
"My prediction is simply this: The oil will run out, the cash will run out, and the kingdom will collapse."

Obligatory Syriana clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtcaIA9SU7o
Start with A Brief History of Ancient Greece to get a sense of the social-political-historical context. If you have time, Hamilton's Mythology.

Then Homer. Opinions vary on which translation of the Iliad is best (and it makes a huge difference). I'd stay away from Pope which is more of a remake than a translation. Lombardo is very modern. Lattimore is typically used for academic purposes. I would recommend Fagles.

After that, it depends on what you're into.

Philosophy? Pre-Socratics -> Plato -> Aristotle. What you choose here again depends on what you're into. There's politics, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, etc.

History? Herodotus -> Thucydides -> Xenophon (The Landmark series for all 3)

Theater? Oresteia, Medea, the Theban Cycle.

Mythology? Hesiod.
You can use any method to program the VXLAN forwarding table, you don't need to use multicast.

This can even be done on the command line using iproute2 utilities: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vxlan.tx...

Though you should probably use netlink to do it programatically. Personally I like to combine netlink + Zookeeper or similar to trigger edge updates via watches.
Coming to Ireland is pretty painless and the economic climate is favorable (but not the weather)
> that maps OpenGL primitives onto SQL result sets

Here is a set of vertices, now draw me a 2d image that represents the 3d scene those vertices represent from a certain viewpoint.

It boggles my mind that this logic can be twisted into running arbitrary SQL logic. Does it actually do something as magic as overlying SQL set logic onto a graphics scene...where the results of the SQL query are equivalent to the set of vertices that are calculated to not be visible when rendering the scene? Amazing stuff.
(POC) Evade malware detection though use of Node.js interpreter
Anybody know if the company is still alive? I´m from DF and would love to order a couple BUT their site lists preorder deliveries by February 2015 and their twitter profile appears to be silent since september....
> "Android" app on my iPhone

How can you tell it's an "Android" app?
For me, James Simons, is first and foremost a tax dodger.

Renaissance Technologies LLC used contracts with the banks to establish the “fiction” that it wasn’t the owner of thousands of stocks traded each day

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-21/renaissanc...
So, (and I'm speculating because I don't have any of these streaming services)

Power TV, wake up media PC, navigate to Hulu+, navigate to or search for show, navigate to episode, hit play, wait while it buffers, watch show.

I'd argue that until it's as dead simple as cable: Power, 45, ENTER,
...it's not going to catch on in the mass market.
Very little about American policy is "conscious" at the level of us simple citizens. Ignoring that, this is a neat morsel of sophistry! The hundreds of thousands of people who are imprisoned in USA, who would be free in any other nation anywhere ever, aren't "innocent". And why not? Because we define them to be guilty. Ingenious!
> This is not true. I'm on an H1B, and I can change jobs freely.

To another employer willing to sponsor your H1-B. Correct?

However, doesn't this cause timeline issues? There were lots of problems with changing companies resetting your timeline. When did that change?
Please keep comments like this off of hn.
One thing in Silicon Valley is if you are not an engineer, business development, marketing or a few other support positions, it is very hard to find opportunities. The remaining positions just have lots of candidates competing for a few jobs.

My wife had a hard time finding a business analyst position when she moved with me and has yet to find anything.
I've worked in both (Not SF necessarily but San Jose). San Jose definitely has way more start ups to choose from.

I don't really know what you're looking for, but if I found an equally good job in both areas, I would rather stay in Seattle because the rent is much more reasonable and there's no state income tax. Weather in CA can't be beat though, unless you actually like rain or having seasons.

There are significantly more start ups in the Bay Area though. In Seattle, it's very common to meet people who work at Microsoft or Amazon. In San Jose, almost everyone is working at some start up and knows how to program. It's both kind of neat and also a bit annoying. Every start up thinks it's going to be the next big thing. There's way too much kool aid for my tastes, and I found the lack of diversity not to my tastes.
So, without any work samples from the author, it's impossible to say if it really was a "racial" thing, or he just wasn't very good at whatever position he was trying to get hired for. I've seen plenty of reports from people of all races being treated much the same way. I'm not saying the author wasn't discriminated against, merely that it's difficult to tell that he definitely was from an outside perspective.