skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is indeed an FFI -- I played around a little bit with it a while ago.

> you should consider using it only if you're ready to do just that: heavily hack on its implementation.

That's unfortunately another problem: the current Ur/Web compiler, or at least when I last looked at it about 6 months ago, is tens of thousands of lines of SML, with almost zero comments or documentation. It's truly one of the densest and most impenetrable code bases I've looked at. I have no idea how Adam Chlipala is able to grok it -- I guess he's just that smart. Unfortunately, it makes outside contribution (especially from a person with limited experience with compilers, such as myself) nigh impossible. That, plus it's not hosted on something like Github or Bitbucket, which would make it much easier to contribute to.
China’s V-Day military parade in Beijing 2015
Does anybody know what "Commodore Format infamously burned such things in almost ceremonial fashion." refers to? I could not find anything.
there are disproportionally more blacks in prisons and disproportionally less in Silicon Valley. Doesn't it hint that the root issues lie earlier, that bifurcation point happens well before that in time and causal chain, like in school and the environment where the childhood is spent.
I'm too old and tired to do this, but somebody should
I think the manual said to use vinegar to remove mineral build up. I don't worry about deep cleaning it too often. I do rinse it out immediately after I use it.
2,000 cases may be overturned because the police used Stingray surveillance
That wouldn't be a single serving for me. :)
The Swarm Manned Aerial Vehicle Multirotor Super Drone Flying
>not exactly the right aesthetic to chase

I'd say not only. A procedural generator that took account of architecture and reason could probably make a more interesting game, not everything needs to point towards that goal, but it'd be neat if some did.

I'm bothered more with many first person shooters more which design environments basically just as long kinked up hallways you have to walk through while pretending to be in a place supposably designed with a purpose in mind.
Top of the line Apple phones are veblen goods. But the mid-market stuff may not do as well.
A 3 year old ignored bug is one thing, but this is just a feature request. I don't understand all the outrage just because BitBucket doesn't yet consider this a worthwhile feature. They're under no obligation to implement this feature and they would probably get even more flak if they had said "maybe" or "eventually" once a year.
60,000 Antelope Died in Four Days and No One Knows Why
"A work of the United States government, as defined by the United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties."[1] In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law.

This act only applies to U.S. domestic copyright as that is the extent of U.S. federal law. The U.S. government asserts that it can still hold the copyright to those works in other countries.

Publication of an otherwise protected work by the U.S. government does not put that work in the public domain. For example, government publications may include works copyrighted by a contractor or grantee; copyrighted material assigned to the U.S. Government; or copyrighted information from other sources."

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

Things might be a bit different for this since this falls under the 1976 revision of the law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th... but I'm pretty sure these guys sorted it out.

Anyhow 79$ is a bit steep considering you need to cough up about 30$ more for shipping to EU even more to Asia...

Would've paid 2-3 times that price to get a replica of the original tho the reprint doesn't look that impressive to me...
After spend an hour reading Retraction Watch it's absolutely clear to me that academic scientific publishing has nothing to do with verifying correctness and everything to do with politics. [1]

[1]: http://retractionwatch.com/
CHeck Macintosh Garden.

And Lubuntu PPC with Scummvm.
Yeah great game. Wonder how much nostalgia is part of my mindfak.
The media most certainly does have a diversity problem. It's self-inflicted though - aspiring journalists are expected to "grind it out" and "pay their dues" via years of unpaid internships and underpaid Jr/associate work. Complicating matters, orgs prefer hiring candidates from pricey tier-1 private liberal arts colleges. This means the only demographics that can participate are people who come from financially-secure families who provide a measure of patronage for their children starting out in these industries.
I'm very interested in ECS's startup latency characteristics. Do you know offhand about how long it takes to provision a new container, and if this is subject to wide fluctuation?
> My assumption was that Social Security typically only effects most US citizens after 65 and/or working(paying income tax).

Social Security, because eligibility is contribution based, effects people (from a tracking perspective) from the time they start working in a Social Security covered job (pretty much all legal jobs other than the subset of non-federal public sector jobs that don't participate in social security.)
If only he/she actually bothered to throw coins before writing that comment...
Sorry, I misunderstood you. I retract my snark :)
Though, it's not even remotely okay if your documentation and marketing material indicates that consistency isn't being sacrificed for performance. :)

I suspect that no experienced programmer expects to get data safety for free. We do expect that the documentation doesn't lie to us when describing the level of data safety provided.
TCC isn't a JIT-compiler, the script-option compiles all and then runs it on the fly. This allows C-files to be executable by themselves with a shebang-line.
The mysterious life of UX Designers
The field is wide open at the moment. It's an interesting time - there hasn't been so many options in a while.

For Photoshop alternatives there's Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo.

For Illustrator there's Sketch, iDraw and Affinity Designer.

All we need now is a good InDesign alternative.
I'd say some form of alert when you login of changes that you can read more up on, link to examples or video etc beyond release notes.

Could see when last logged into and with that be able to pull changes that are new from that time and now.

That way, you have the information alerted at a point the user will not miss and from there they are aware to read up more or not if they like.

Email's are nice, but be shame not to have that information more tailored at point of interaction. That way if a user login say 6 months later they would be advised of changes since last logged in, compared to going thru how many emails that build up and end up getting filtered into some folder hardly viewed.

But the ability to view changes from a point outside the release cycle of changes allows somebody to glean what is new for them and if case of some feature tried and then withdrawn during there last login then no need for them to even read about it as moot to them. Sadly many release notes gear towards having read all the previous, even ones that later get superseded.

This also avails the ability to alert to changes when the user approaches those options and if some subset they do not use then they won't need to read upon those changes as a priority. But that is another angle of approaching how changes are communicated to a user.
I don't understand your rebuttal, how does increased spending on social programs lead to higher unemployment? Are you suggesting that increased social spending leads to people tactically becoming unemployed in order to gain benefits while not working?
I imagine you'd:

A. Include it with your resume before hand

B. Bring it up when asked about previous experience tangential to it

C. Bring it up when asked about your outside work activities or what sort of continuing professional development you've been doing lately

D. Mention it when asked about the "coolest/most fun" thing you've hacked on lately

E. Whip it out when asked the usual "what do you think we do here and what can you bring to the table"

Or, when you start asking your questions about the company/culture/ect. (DEFINITELY ask those types of questions), weave it in with a question about what kind of side-project or 20% type program they offer/support.

You could also throw it up on a design site or your blog and drop it in whichever social media channel they may have.

Cultivating a curious attitude (or sincerely making an effort to fake it) will help calm your nerves a bit as well.
I appreciated the comment on TFA from their former lobbyist. Those creatures rarely crawl out from under cover, but apparently this one is really pissed about not getting paid. I want to give NIST the benefit of the doubt on this one and assume that the "deal" he cites was actually just, "we'll call you, sometime, we promise!"
Who said "all or nothing"? I simply said that they shouldn't make program admissions decisions based upon race or sex. Why not live up to the program's name, and find smart people of any race or sex that are interested in technology? You cannot address the effects of the problems of racism and sexism by practicing them.
Heh, mine is much more simple looking, and has very few fluctuations.
http://ryanmyers.ca:8088/
Scummvm under Linux Mint PPC should run faster than OSX.
Why is your goal to increase the X:Y ratio? Isn't the goal merely to avoid excluding people, and allow them entry if they want (and are capable) of it?

Also, if X is an overrepresented minority (e.g. Chinese, Indians), the only way to fix the ratio is by reducing their numbers or recruiting unrealistic numbers of every other group. Do you favor this?
The idea that peer review has nothing to do with verifying correctness is extremely misguided (as would the idea be that politics don't enter into it at all). Or do you feel that the existence of retractions invalidates the entire scientific process?
I don't forbid anything at all. All decisions are made as a team. And all have to be justified. I own the company. I am not the king. Yet, with this a given I have yet to run into a single engineer who's suggested we use vim extensivey. It does see use while supporting servers and that's about it.

Don't get me wrong, a nice IDE can be a pleasure to use. Does it make a significance difference in ROI or project timelines? Not at all. If we are working on an IMU for an aerospace project the time spent on the editor is almost a rounding error.

I think a lot of people on HN view the world through web development lenses. That is most certainly not how the rest of the engineering world works. For example, when doing muliti-GHz PCB design you can quite literally blow WEEKS of work if you make a mistake. Weeks. And so the idea of fretting over keystrokes per second or amazing refactoring tools --in that context-- is nothing less than laughable. And that's why, in my world, nobody has ever come up and said "you know, if we took a couple of weeks to get good at vim we could rock this thing". It hasn't come-up because, in our context, like I said, code entry is a rounding error. Nobody cares because it does not matter.
Not to mention how amazingly QUIET they can be! In the front of the cabin the engines were a barely discernable whisper. Also, I was always intrigued at how far back the wings are mounted, probably due to the rear engines bringing the center of gravity further back.
Neat, it's too bad they seem to be tying it into some awful software and mapping system. Just sell the part that you're good at and let other people do the software!
Oh, it's bad when MSFT does it, but not vice versa?
The pressure is a little higher than real life, but the problem is easier. The phone interview questions are things like "write atoi()", not "write a database system to handle 4000 transactions per second per entity group with globally-consistent reads across three continents", which is the kind of work you might be interviewing for.

I think success at a phone interview question is a good positive signal. That's all you can get in interviews, signals.
But if you combine that with a progressive tax rate wont the government take large swathes of that back in the form of taxes?
How Victorians “Photoshopped” Photos
W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous
I don't think you even need anything that fancy - pretty sure just encrypting the leak again with a fixed AES key would do the job well enough. If someone manages to get hold of the AES key they could use it distinguish backdoored keys from random, but at that point you've been caught anyway.
I'm aware of how Babbage referred to her in the mid-1800s. That's the point.

[Edited for clarity]
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Guy doesn't know if he spoke to telemarketing AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSYEpTDO6q8

The guy says the 'robot' laughed. So my question is, is there a proof of concept where an AI has been programmed to detect a humours situation -- ie. when to laugh?
Incredibly insightful. Thank you!
NIPS 2015 Accepted papers just posted
Google’s self-driving car didn’t hit a duck-chasing granny
hipsters gonna hip
> Twitter had a neat turn of phrase in their recent diversity document: "these new goals focus on increasing the overall representation of women and underrepresented minorities"

> underrepresented. You don't count as a minority if there's already too many of you being successful.

why would you focus on minorities that are overrepresented?
THE ATTRACTIVE MAN ACADEMY: DOES IT REALLY WORK?
Apple and the TV Market
At what point do we admit that Babbage was using this mediocre celebrity-by-birth to get his articles published and maybe some funding?
The Sexiest Investors of Silicon Valley
Most software projects fail because they don't have an adequate plan. The number of times I've been brought into a software develop project where there wasn't a plan, is like, every single time.

Waving you hands while telling a story IS NOT A PLAN!

People can't even seem to do basic wire frames. It's ridiculous. How on earth are you going to be able to make an estimate on something for which there isn't even a basic plan? And I'm not even talking about a spec here, just even a higher level plan that describes the project from a user point of view, proposed functionality, features, expectations, budget, etc.

I get it, making a plan is difficult and boring work, but you know what? If you can't make a freaking plan you certainly won't be able to build a product. The plan is there to gain insight in the problems you're going to run into. Let's solve all of the shit we can solve before we start writing code so that when we do run into issues, they are genuine issues.
The reason you aren't allowed to have dogs on Katahdin is because that type of animal doesn't actually go up into the alpine zone of Katahdin. The plants there are extremely sensitive and cannot survive being stepped on by animals. And they are only able to grow for a couple weeks a year, so one dog can kill decades of growth by stepping on a small plant.

So, I agree with the woods part, bring all the dogs you want onto the trail when you're in the woods, but when the rangers in Baxter State Park complain about people bringing dogs up the mountain, they are absolutely in the right.
I know of an Asian man who graduated from an Ivy League law school. Neither of his parents had gone to college (they were immigrants from Asia) and yet he was penalized because his ethnic group is successful. He was upset about that.

You will find that there are many blacks in undergrad, MBA, law, medical schools but not so many in engineering/science schools. I believe it is simply that blacks are not interested in engineering/computer science and choose these other fields instead.
It seemed like a good way to frame her but incompetence is a more likely reason.
I think you touched on a key point a lot of people don't consider. Not all data is the same nor does it have to be treated the same. Many distributed systems will choke on a piece of data here and there and may not give the appropriate response. But you need to consider what you're working on and if that's OK from time to time given the advantages the system you're considering offers.

What might be considered an appropriate data store for one data set may not be for another. And the type of information a lot of distributed systems are handling are far from bank accounts, for example.

And if you're handling ultra important, sensitive data there are techniques that have been available for many years (two phase commit, for example) that can help.

I love this series but I'm blown away by how many engineers here automatically assume a system is a failure because it doesn't pass a certain type of test from time to time. I do agree with the series that the marketing materials shouldn't claim things, however. Companies should be honest with what their systems weaknesses currently are.
The "american design" probably makes maintenance easier?
It's a shame, I typed out a whole reply to the previous message you posted before you deleted it.

Who said "all or nothing"? I simply said that they shouldn't make program admissions decisions based upon race or sex.

Sure! In an ideal world they wouldn't! In reality, they are having decisions made about them dozens of times every day based on their race. So having one or two of those decisions have a positive outcome for a change is a worthwhile thing.

If you can't see the difference between racism and something that is attempting to counter the effects of racism then that's a shame. Except that I'm quite sure you can, as can everyone reading this. Boiling these issues down to "everyone should just stop seeing race" is a very easy, convenient way of dismissing the issue. If you propose we stop programs that benefit minorities, perhaps you could outline your plan for stopping the racism that these minorities face every day?

It's very easy to sit on a message board and wax lyrical about moral absolutes. The actual world outside doesn't work that way, though.
Obviously, this isn't something to do for every place you apply to. However, for those at the top of your list, as is mentioned in the piece, riffing their design or code when you're practicing or wanting to expand your skillset anyway is a great idea. Two birds, one stone and all that.
I'd rather be in solitary than suddenly wake up and find that the world, and I, had aged 40 years.

IMO that's more cruel, but obviously that's an opinion.
Yes, so let's ignore the issues facing adult blacks. It's not like the success of black children depends on that of their parents or anything.
Distributed code review system for Git repos
This Norwegian documentary tells you why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnQPXuU81Q
Yes you are but you are providing no concrete examples of that. I'm interested to hear your examples?
Infinite scroll with stateful routing?
So the conflict of this paradox is that most people will not play this game, but it actually is a worthwhile game to play - if someone were to offer you to play it.

That's not the usual meaning of the word paradox.
'Looking good' is pretty subjective. While a lot of these datastores include some sort of "oh, and you can use it this other way", and their marketing documents make it sound like it is totally suitable, the point of these tests is to see what purpose you can put these datastores to and have them be a proper fit. While some are basically "you can't use this unless you really don't care about your data", the two you list are actually great examples of "provided you use them in their niche, they're great; otherwise, they're not". Cassandra, use when writing high volumes of AP immutable data. Riak, use with CRDTs for AP mutable data.
Also riak with 'allow-mult' turned on:

https://aphyr.com/posts/285-call-me-maybe-riak
> writers who love to preach

God forbid reporters do some reporting.

> I'd venture a bet that my silicon valley co-workers are much more diverse

You're welcome to publish that research. If you look at the tech workforce at Facebook, where they use extremely generous 1% rounding, the sum of black and hispanic employees is 4%. [0] In one sense, comparing the least generous 8% nonwhite figure with NYT Board of Directors, their board has twice (200%) the proportion of minority members than Facebook has across their tech workforce.

Venture that bet. You'll lose the bet.

> Media has a diversity problem!!

Media may be the only place where an African American like Oprah, Beyonce or Kanye West can run multi-faceted business empires. You're ignoring what a huge cultural, intellectual and business presence African Americans have in a lot of media, certainly far more than their influence in Silicon Valley.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2015/06/facebook-diversity-2015/
> San Francisco Bay Area Renters' Federation (SFBARF)

I wonder if they realized that when naming it?

Name aside, this needs to happen. Given demand, that area needs a lot more high-rise apartments and far fewer houses; there's no reason not to build them except the vetoes of busybodies who already have a house in the area.
In practice, the question is if getting to X+n:Y is more than ten times as expensive as getting to X+(n/2):Y+(n/2), does it still make sense to prioritize the former?

This is not an argument against the "Hidden Genius Project" discussed in the linked article; it's clear that Mr. Young's comparative advantage does in fact lie with helping other black men, so you'd still want him working on that even if the broader goal is getting to X+(n/2):Y+(n/2).
I've thought for a long time that by excluding black people from so many tech companies they were, among obvious other problems, missing a lot of business opportunities. Most white tech workers/founders are simply not going to know about a lot of products or services that are common in black society, such as specialized hair care that's already producing a number of startups.
"Dungeon" is a term in game design to refer to a self contained challenge space, which can be realized in many different ways. It does not necessarily mean "dungeon" as in a real life dungeon or catacomb. It can be an actual human built space, in which case you are right, or it can be a Zelda dungeon, in which there is an overarching theme but not necessarily a sense of verisimilitude, or it can be such a simple and abstracted dungeon such as in Nethack or whatever, in which case those concerns are meaningless.
Only distributed SQL store. You want non-distributed SQL, there are options, you want distributed NoSQL, there are options.
How much would that be? 40%? That still close to $5 trillion.

How will willingly pay $5 trillion of taxes after all the hard work only to watch everybody else living of their work for free?
I'm not nearly as sure about that. Software products, like pop stars, come and go. "Call Me Maybe" and "Call Me Maybe" have about equal chances of outlasting one another, as do "Jepsen" and "Jepsen".
It's more shared state than mesos, a strict 2 layer system, which is why the comparisons to kube are more common.
Former Darpa Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment
What happened on Nov 16? :P
Plutonium? Apparently weight is not an issue.
Does anyone have experience with these in their current or prior (CyptoStick) form? It seems to good to be true given the cost of other HSMs.
It is tricky. The expected value is mathematics term people invented for easy calculation. It is different from the "value" in human perception.

How much is a $1 lottery ticket worth? It is probably 40 cents depending on the probability. It's worth zero for all the people who lose and millions of dollar for the luck one. There is no "between" value which is what expected value represents.