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Cops may ask you not to record and even threaten you with arrest for recording. Do not be intimidated; it is your right to record without obstructing. If you find yourself in a sit…

I think this is a great idea. Perhaps the "Github for data" copy could use some work, but the concept of obfuscating real data for use in building systems without the overhead or c…

I graduated this past semester (Fall 2018), but I started working in industry a little over a year ago. I knew in my second/third year that academia wasn’t for me. However, grad sc…

It seems that the HN community responds interestingly to topics of discrimination in tech (or, "lack of diversity"). It seems that there is a bit of denial in this community that t…

To some extent I agree with you that behavioral science/psychology needs a unifying theory. Attempts at this have been made and are still alive and well. For example, take a look a…

Interesting. There is actually a concept from behavior analysis called "behavioral momentum." [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_momentum

... per megabyte.

>> "a vulnerability in the gem installer that allowed a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files" Yeeks. Not good. (sudo) gem update --system ASAP

Most meaningful applications will require the use of pointers. For example, unmarshalling json comes to mind. I wouldn't "avoid the use of pointers" if I were you. Rather, use them…

I think it would produce a runtime error and return a stack trace. Someone more qualified than me should chime in though...

The link works for me. :)

Wow. That's impressive. Thanks for the example numbers, Matt!

Great work, Go team! Standout points in my opinion: Overall performance improvements: >> "We observed a 5–35% speedup across our benchmarks." Decreased compile times and binary siz…