skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. It may be, but it may be not. Any way, writing any application based on MS
Access seems a big no-no. You should rely on a decent database that can be
reliably shared with another processes (publishing the thing over network
share is not a reliable solution). If you really want to stick to Windows,
then .NET is the way to go.

And for building something that needs to work, just bring in an experienced
programmer. It will be worth the cost.

2. I don't see much work for VBA. Current trend in the industry appears rather
to be to move away from Microsoft platforms.

3. Python? Ruby? Web applications?
The reasoning goes (and I have absolutely no idea if there is an element of truth to this or not so don't hold this against me) that advertising increases the velocity of the total amount spent and as such can actually increase the size of the total economy. So even if people do not insanely accumulate wealth it does leave their pockets faster essentially causing a decrease in total savings.
>Everything listed is just common sense, and there is still a catch-all clause open to interpretation.

And, as I've been repeating ad nauseam, these codes of conduct fail to distinguish between genuine harassment and garden variety ass-hattery. Attempting to govern the latter is a fool's errand, and good for nobody in the long run.

I don't think anybody can honestly claim to have never fallen short of absolute professionalism and kindness. These codes of conduct are little more than pretexts to ostracize and publicly shame arbitrary individuals.
ddos is a pretty mainstream term by now imo
This issue's been around for awhile. See this post (http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) from 2007. The problem actually inspired me to create a piece of kinetic sculpture I'll be offering as a series later this month on Kickstarter.
Those example images are of really low quality video. Usually people who care about image quality do not care about that. Can you show some ~720p 5mb/s x264 versus 3-4mb/s VP9 samples?
:%s/convent/covenant/
My understanding is that sites like archive.org honor robots.txt retroactively not because they are required to, but to best honor the wishes of the content provider.
Wow, that web page is amazing. It's straight out of the 90s but it also has a Geico ad on it, which I cannot fathom why they would possibly need or want that.
Using extreme examples does not prove a point. Especially when one of them advocates criminal violence.

Saying I don't want to hear what you have to say and actively preventing speech are two completely different things. If a group of students don't want to hear a speaker, they have the right to not show up. They don't have the right to prevent the speech from happening. I don't know if you intended it, but your response is an effort to change the context of what I stated.

"Freedom of speech is not freedom to be heard" is what people actively preventing free speech fall back on to justify their actions against the speaker. Not that I'm lumping you in with that way of thinking, just pointing it out.
Start playing around with JavaScript’s ES6 code right at your browser
Firefox Brings Fresh New Look to Windows 10 and Makes Add-Ons Safer
AFAIK the tests account for that and test different scenarios (i.e. not all unsafe modes are created equal; a product can still fail the relevant test cases in fast-but-unsafe mode). We pass the fast-but-unsafe tests (i.e. we fulfill the guarantees you'd expect in that mode), and also pass the stricter guarantees in the slow-but-safe mode.

However you're right that we don't pass stricter guarantees in fast-but-unsafe mode (but I'm not aware of any products in the space that do).
Are planned trades by insiders public information? Or are they only made public when the actual trade occurs?
Why cities aren't covered in empty cans of coconut water
"Privacy for me but not for thee," says the former Secretary of State who used a private (rather than government) mail server for correspondence, possibly in violation of the law.
> Microsoft hit the spot twenty years ago with XML-RPC.

Well then, why are we even arguing about this? You like pasta, I like pizza, and never the twain shall meet. REST was born out of rejection for XML-RPC (and SOAP, which was its logical evolution once The Enterprise got involved).

If you like XML-RPC, by all means keep using it. I just don't see the point in advocating (as TFA does) that people should abandon working on REST implementations in order to embrace what is basically JSON-RPC, i.e. a completely different thing from a philosophical and design perspective.

(I've ignored the ad-hominems and bad guesses on my work history. Can we keep it civil?)
This question isn't even relevant to the article, which discusses search, not insert.
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Yes, you can build a commercial product with RethinkDB in the backend without paying us any money; that's explicitly allowed by this licensing scheme.
(Fails to make the claim that many (but not all) websites shutting ) -- Not the intended claim. Kants 1 deals with "universalizability principle" (See other comment)

Kant's 2nd Imperative -- Incorrect perspective. Analyzing whether adding ads to your site isn't the question we are analyzing here (that might also be unethical). Blocking ads is what we are looking at.

Utilitarianism -- Incorrect perspective. Analyzing whether adding ads to your site isn't the question we are analyzing here (that might also be unethical). Blocking ads is what we are looking at.

Rule -- Incorrect perspective. Analyzing whether adding ads to your site isn't the question we are analyzing here (that might also be unethical). Blocking ads is what we are looking at.

Social Contract -- -- Incorrect perspective. Analyzing whether adding ads to your site isn't the question we are analyzing here (that might also be unethical). Blocking ads is what we are looking at.

Virtue Ethics -- -- Incorrect perspective. Analyzing whether adding ads to your site isn't the question we are analyzing here (that might also be unethical). Blocking ads is what we are looking at.
Question: Does this include mostly startup / monetizable projects, or could it include new open source projects also? I've been trying to figure out when some of my projects are ready for wider promotion, and even how to promote an open source project (without feeling "spammy", and since it is open source [no income potential], taking out web ads isn't really appropriate).
Geico is a BH owned company
We should be able to make it available on brew very soon.
The Open Code of Conduct is just too long and specific. To me, it feels like an attempt to preemptively head off 'rules lawyer' casuistry by ensuring that everything that could be a cause for ejecting someone from a community is explicitly listed. In my experience, this just provides a much larger surface of attack -- and the OCoC seems to be suffering from exactly that now.

The Contributor Covenant's approach seems to be to make a clear statement of intent, and relying on the community to apply it correctly. It doesn't specifically ban, say, offering a backrub, but the necessary and appropriate response to someone saying "ha, but there's no rule against repeatedly offering a stranger backrubs, IS there?" isn't to draft a new rule, it's to show them the door.
Does Apple's firmware support Secure Boot? I've always heard of it in connection with Windows 8+. If they support it, is it enabled by default? If either answer is "no", it seems like the Option ROM vuln is pretty severe for Macs.
That seems a bit of a stretch to call that insider trading.
If you need to redirect all your function calls through a giant array, you can technically do that with static linking too. Just sayin'...
Even more ideally you wouldn't need intrinsics. You'd just say what you want, with all constraits. E.g. I have two integers, this is their signedness, this is the range of expected inputs, this is the probability of the inputs, and this is what I want with them, nothing more... now you compiler figure it out.

Now the compiler too often generates suboptimal code because it has to take edge cases that it doesn't know don't matter here into account.

And then you have only those limited not actually well specified operators of C (something as simple as "+" is not fully specified on signed integers), so you can tell even less well what you actually want to the compiler... You can't even do a simple overflow check without bordering on undefined behaviour that allows compilers to do whatever they want.

If you could tell better what you want, the compiler could better choose the perfect CPU instructions for it.

So imho, a programmer shouldn't choose the CPU instruction as that doesn't allow portability, but the programmer should have the ability to specify things better than C now allows :)
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>I'm not dismissing that group; I'm dismissing a class of arguments against codes of conduct.

If you want to actually convince other people, you're going to have to engage with their arguments, not just find ever more elaborate ways of ruling them out of bounds. There is no royal road to victory in a debate, there's just the long, hard slog of talking to a whole bunch of people who disagree with you.

>And with that ad-hominem dismissal of one of the most concentrated sources of useful information and references, my interest in continuing this discussion with you comes to an abrupt end.

While we're at it, "go to the website run by your political opponents and believe everything they say" also isn't going to get you very far. We're discussing a CoC that was largely written by Geekfeminism and/or its allies; it's highly likely that someone who doesn't like the CoC isn't going to be especially trusting of the people who wrote it, either.
Only made public some time after the trade occurs.
Google Creates Alphabet, but Runs into BMW and Many Others
You're making the assumption that if everyone just stopped caring about anything but code, problems would just evaporate. If there weren't a problem to begin with, sure, that might work. When there are pre-existing problems, shutting down discussion of them makes them worse.

Random example, if you want one likely to apply to an issue tracker: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... Reporting a bug about fixing such an assumption will almost certainly involve some discussion about identity. And if you tell people to shut up because their concerns aren't technical, the bug won't get fixed, and the next bug like it won't even get reported because you've made it clear that you don't care.

Another example: submitting a patch to change "master/slave" terminology into "primary/replica".

Another example: submitting a patch to avoid assuming male pronouns in documentation, in an effort to not make the default assumption that the reader is male.

> So is Linus' behavior hateful or not

When he's creatively explaining how a piece of code is broken, there's nothing wrong with that. When he's telling people that they should have been "retroactively aborted", yes, that's hateful. As mentioned, I've seen a lot less of that lately.

> Which one were those numbers pulled from?

Life isn't Wikipedia; direct primary research is perfectly acceptable.
I'm not really how it would be confirmation bias. The NYT doesn't have multiple stories on the same topic with differing conclusions that it A/B tests with.

As the article states, it'll suggest articles about Hillary Clinton if you've read articles about her previously, but it doesn't say it'll only give you positive ones. There is a chance that it'll narrow people's interests (if you only read sports, for example) but that already happens anyway.
A good analogy from a guy with experience at union and non-union shops, is one "code" is like a detailed union contract with detailed union work rules often with a bit of a political grandstanding included, and the other "code" is like a non-union workplace where the employee handbook boils down to act like professional educated adults, or else.

There isn't really a right or wrong answer, in that the stereotype is usually true that workplaces that are horribly mismanaged or have certain inherent issues tend to be unionized because they really need it, and workplaces that are better managed or have different inherent conditions tend not to have a union. Likewise there are some groups of humans that need more... political thought police... than other groups of humans. And the groups that need thought police, frankly, do need them, and the groups that don't, tend to really not need them, to the point where it wouldn't be just a merely useless appendix but an actual cancer on the group.

Most of the drama (for both unionization and conduct codes) comes from insider debates about exactly which category a group belongs to, worst case its kinda 50:50, or from outsiders just rabble rousing as political operatives often do. Sometimes ignorance breeds hatred, when otherwise well meaning folks who don't really know anything, none the less have very strong opinions based on lack of experience, or anecdote.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042404
I think we are there.
"In other words, the new best estimate is a prediction made from previous best estimate, plus a correction for known external influences.

And the new uncertainty is predicted from the old uncertainty, with some additional uncertainty from the environment."

Crystal clear - great article, thanks!

I also recommend Ramsey Faragher's lecture notes on teaching the Kalman Filter:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rmf25/papers/Understanding%20the%20...
You gave it the wrong number because you missed on letter. We were talking about 10 K km/s (10000 km/s), not 10 km/s.
Nomogram's remind me of slide rulers!
The point is that the vast majority of people reading this thread aren't working on weapons systems. They're working on web app software to create ad space they can sell to leverage their userbase as a source of income. Dialog boxes are terrible UI.
Genericity usually comes at the cost of performance. But it seems that we've come to terms with a handful of basic datatypes in our databases, and so I think it makes a great deal of sense to specialize our fancy, theoretically fast, generic algorithms for this handful of datatypes. Also, I don't see how you can "beat" someone in terms of genericity? But I agree, the title could be a bit less abusive of the STL "brand": it could've used the word "performance" and downplayed generics.

Funnily enough, the HTML title behind the link is indeed "Performance Engineering at Realm: How we optimized binary search".
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Isn't that what https://news.ycombinator.com/show is?
Yes it's a problem, but perhaps less than you might think.

First, in most cases PR spin has a "smell". Spotting that in an article an editor may dig into the edit history - where the story will be pretty clear of which links are removed, wording changed etc.

There are about half the editors that there were a few years back, but many will work on a very wide variety of articles, and in many cases spotting and resolving "spin" issues doesn't require special expertise - and just highlighting that spin is going on can be useful in itself.

Pro-tip: When reading anything on Wikipedia it's often useful to check the associated "Talk" page for any ongoing controversy, and the "History" page to see what the article said 6 months ago.
This makes more sense. He's basically saying, "I love this, but let's not get too carried away." I now see where that comment's coming from!

Thanks. Nit-picking again, but drinking the Kool-Aid does mean "unquestioning, ... without criticism" implying that those who are drinking wouldn't have such reservations. That's what I was confused about. Oh well. Language is evolving, what else is new.
They seem to be saying the right things, but there's no schematic? How is anyone supposed to evaluate, discuss, and independently test whether their design fulfills their criteria?
I've been really disappointed with my new Mac-book. I have a Thunderbolt Display and 4k monitor both connected to my old MacBook through thunderbolt connection.

The new MacBook has a single usb-c connector and I can't charge my iPhone, iPad or connect my thunderbolt screens to it ... WTF Apple?!?! I purchased an adaptor that has usb and a single hdmi port but what about my dual displays?

I've gone back to my old MacBook, and the new one is gathering dust. Next purchase will not be Apple
https://xkcd.com/386/ - there's a limit to how far I'm going to argue with people who disagree on fundamental premises and are not willing to question those premises. Leaf-level arguments depending on those premises are not interesting if there's a disagreement on the premises themselves. And anyone who is a "political opponent" of the geekfeminism folks is really not someone I care to have a detailed discussion with.

Also, on top of that, this entire discussion is nicely demonstrating why the proposed Code of Conduct included "We will not act on complaints regarding: [...] Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts". This kind of thing takes a large amount of time and energy.
for 64 bit size_t it's pretty academic, but no, not correct.

suppose low is M-3 and high is M-1 (where M is 2^[#bits]) then mid should be M-2. but (M-3 + M-1) is (modulo M) equal to M-4. and half that is M/2 - 2, which is a lot less than the correct M-2. (pretend it's 2 bit unsigned ints so M is 4)

the correct 'mid' computation is low + (high - low)/2.
Very funny considering the uneasiness people have towards "putting Linux on a computer". For the Raspberry Pi, the reality is completely reversed as NOOBS is the absolute easiest, most convenient way to put any OS on any computer ever.

I really don't understand people who want this, with closed source software the learning stops at some point, you can't learn everything about your Windows-Pi even though it was created for learning! Even the example code (read I2C temp sensor, display using webserver) they give on the home page starts with: "// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.". Why would you want this? Can there really be people that are willing and able to build their own IOT but do not want to learn about Linux?
Another Windows 10 default setting that should be changed
Four Oh Four
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043152
It can’t be a coincidence that “flat” design became hip right around the time “HTML/CSS/JS for EVERYTHING” trend really started to gain momentum. Web tech is far more inclined toward flat, uncomplicated designs than it is the sort of detailed, nuanced, multi-dimensional designs that used to be popular. It’s trivial to create silky, sophisticated UIs in native software, but that segment of software engineers haven’t been the ones loudly blogging or writing lengthy design diatribes for quite some time now.
Open-source projects are legit Show HNs, so why not? I seem to recall that Kevin commented on some last time. And the line between startup and not-startup can be rather fluid anyhow.
ESR has political motivations to oppose these CoCs, and the strongest argument that post makes is an attempt at guilt by association. I found it extremely unconvincing.
The default setting is "Full". Described as "which may unintentionally include parts of a document you were working on".
Why? It's effectively the same action as placing a new order. Cancellations are, for instance, how lots of market makers alter their prices in reaction to events.
Good to know. The test code in that pull request only tests the case where read_mode="majority", so I'm looking forward to seeing the other scenarios when they become available.
I'm not so sure. The real cost per transaction is astronomically high.
She fund raises for the others to stay in the leadership not to stay in office. Poor questions from NPR.
Thanks. So another definition of drinking Kool-Aid would be "praising highly" I suppose.
I've skimmed the Relay and GraphQL repos, but I can't for the life of me figure out which database backends are supported. Can I put this in front of Postgres? Redis? How do I stand this up in front of an existing DB?
I'm really hopeful that you are right. I admit I'm more of the type that will be willing to step up early, maybe too early, to prevent things I see as wrong. In the end, if you are right and my concern is not warranted then that's fine. It'll all work out in the end.

My concern is rooted in the thought we've been having to deal with this nonsense since the 90s and it only seems to be growing. Obviously it's a slow trend but most things spread slowly. The thought process at play has already made for hard times for people in and out of college.

By the way, your response has been the most reasonable I've received in this thread. Thank you.
That's not the same at all. This is literally just putting an image on an SD card.
I do not think you can support the argument that Citadel can steal pre-release press releases and trade on them with any evidence.

We get it: you think the law is different from big firms and little firms. Stipulate that it in many ways is, and that still has nothing to do with this case, in which a large syndicate of criminals actually set up a SAAS business selling tradable pre-release press releases.
User:82.148.97.69 – This is the IP address for the entire nation of Qatar
Yeah, ElementaryOS did that, I'm not sure what their numbers look like though
With Donald Trump's rise, Fox News reaps what it has sown
Collectively the computer industry has become much stupider over the decades.

Back in the 1970s, when 9-track mag tape was popular, there was a saying: "no ring, no write". There was a physical plastic ring that needed to be inserted into the tape reel hub before the tape could be written to.

When 8" and 5" floppy disks were popular, you needed to place a physical piece of tape onto the side of the media, to cover a cutout. Without that, you couldn't write to the floppy.

Then 3.5" floppies became more popular and you had a mechanical tab you needed to move to enable/disable writing.

Same with early PCs. In order to update the BIOS you needed to physically move a jumper on a motherboard.

All the above was enforced by hardware. There was no magic SMM that could do whatever it wanted.

But all that was too expensive, or just not friendly enough for end users.

The bean counters and hipsters making the decisions nowadays have learned nothing from computer history. We've regressed.

Now get off my lawn. And be quiet, it's time for my nap.
Could the reduced effectiveness of journalism be because the government has journalists too?

I saw lots of journalists in favor of the war in Iraq. Were there many journalists in favor of war in Vietnam too?

I have only seen journalists as they were already declining, but we saw the decline of independent bloggers as it happened.

What happened to amateur Internet journalism was not a market failure. It was the government's realizing that the Internet is a force multiplier, and they have a lot of force to multiply. Cue astroturfing, surveillance and the 50 cent army...

Could something similar have happened to real journalism too?
I was going to edit my original post, but I will add this separately instead. One thing you may want to consider is building relationships with WordPress developers. They are going to be your target market most likely. The small/medium sized businesses are most likely contracting out their sites to developers and could care less how it gets done, just that it is done and works correctly. Maybe consider offering some kind of affiliate program to get developers in. Or reach out to a few developers and offer to work with them directly until you get started.
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It might not have been the original meaning but when you think of a cult member drinking the Kool Aid (that will kill them) they might be a true believer with no doubt in their mind, but they could also be someone who isn't sure but is being led by peer pressure ao on.