skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think about user facing features all the time. For example, should we display midpoint estimates, or just stick to credible intervals? Can we give an empirical conversion rate %, or will customers misunderstand and make a bad decision based on it?

But ok, lets say I'm a typical software engineer, building a CRUD app used by banks to set up a new customer with an HSA. What's my unique non-Indian perspective on that?

I can understand how there might be a useful purpose for token diversity on the UX teams for some consumer products. That's an exceedingly small part of the tech world.
> Pike

I think you're confusing Rob Pike with Dennis Ritchie. :) Pike has designed many languages, but C was not among them. I say this especially because Dennis Ritchie Day was just last week: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-day.html
Yes, we have plans to open source our software in the future. Stay tuned!
All that European stuff uses metric.
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Yeah, i can see how it could be interpreted like that. I didn't have any strong expectation of how it should be. Merely a number of guesses as where that number could end up. To me it seems reasonable that the number would end up somewhere between half of the local percentage and 1.5x of the us percentage (assuming foreigners are not statistically significant), which would put it somewhere between 2.5% and 25%. To me numbers outside of that would be unexpected and surprising.

Interestingly, the 30% number seems to indicate that twitter actually does pretty good user-wise.
That's not really the only possible way. You could write an (arbitrarily slow & simple) interpreter in e.g. C to compile the compiler with itself, or translate to C, or use something like a p-code machine as an intermediate step (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine) with an assembler-written interpreter. The problem with using older versions is that in principle, you'd have to keep maintaining/porting them for newer systems/architectures.
If that were the end of it, I would be completely on board with the concept. Most people are pretty good at determining when someone is just plain being a dick. (Which leads to "with that in mind, why the document?")

Unfortunately, that never is the end of it. Again, certain people are oversensitive and respond to completely civil and good faith requests/criticisms/etc with over the top behavior/accusations (see this thread for example). It's part of HN's CoC to avoid saying things that you wouldn't say face-to-face to another person.. on divisive topics like this, it usually doesn't work (again, see this thread) unless someone with the admin bit steps in to remind people to behave themselves and occasionally hand out a vacation or two.

The problem is that you've taken something that is inherently subjective to each and every person and tried to codify it. People do exist that hate being told "no", that hate all forms of disagreement and treat those who regularly do so as enemies to be destroyed. Given a vague legal method to retaliate, how do you think someone with such an unreasonable mindset will behave?

Also, it's possible to be a complete and utter asshole without ever being uncivil. I've been witness to enough Wikipedia politics over the last 5 years or so to make that declaration.

But anyways, you've just begged the question. It's not a given that the absence of CoC's results in "shouting matches", or for that matter, that their presence prevents them. In my own anecdotal-as-hell experience, they don't chase away anything but the most brash of assholes, it just results in a thin veneer of pseudo-civility over the same old crappy behavior and mindsets.

It's a lot easier to eject loud and visible assholes than the stealth ones! In other words, I think it's better to have "Don't be an asshole" as an implicitly understood element of any social group, with implicitly understood punishments for breaking that norm, rather than codifying it in such a way that it gives people ideas as to how it can best be twisted and abused.

(And should it come up: Yes, I find being accused of "sea lioning", whatever the hell that means, to be highly offensive and over the top.)
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I've been a lot more impatient this go-around than I've generally tried to be in previous incarnations of this topic. It just gets frustrating. It feels like I've tried patient education, over and over, and it falls on deaf ears. Clearly the blunt approach goes over even more poorly, and I've known that, too, but I'm running out of ideas for things to try.

I do not consider any significant number of people who are actively engaged with mainstream science to be crackpots, so you needn't worry on that score. (Goodness knows that with my specialty, I'm living in a glass house on that one.) So (as was my point earlier) I have no idea why NASA is continuing to lend their funding and their credibility to what is to my eye a clear crackpot project. My whole point is that this case is an exception to my usual expectation that (at least) scientific work that receives mainstream support deserves at least the benefit of the doubt. (The crackpots I'm talking about are usually very much on the fringe of mainstream conversation, with only tenuous connections to any sort of active, mainstream lab or university or research group. But their ideas still occasionally go a bit viral among non-expert physics enthusiasts. I'd much rather see that wonderful enthusiasm directed in support of halfway viable ideas, even if it means acknowledging that our sci-fi dreams are farther away than we wish they were.)

So maybe I'll ask you for advice. Set aside this specific case, if you'd like, and consider a hypothetical situation where a fundamentally flawed idea for some reason gets a lot of press and generates a lot of public excitement. You're an expert in the subject, and you recognize fundamental flaws in the idea. You see other experts whom you respect reaching the same conclusion (and none on the other side, expressing support). How would you recommend communicating that to non-experts?

(As previously linked, here's what I tried last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473209 You can see today all the good it did. I'd really love to know how to communicate this sort of thing successfully.)
I worked on wearable sensing technology over the last couple years. Coming from a pure EE/Physics type background it was a real eye-opener to deal with the variability in human physiology. Even in the simplest sensors, it's nearly impossible to account for all the variability one encounters in the entirety of human population. Basically you always have a percentage of the population that your device just won't work on.

I can only imagine the difficulty in building a device like an artificial heart. The fact that these artificial hearts work at all for any length of time is really a marvel of modern engineering and science.
Vmconnect(1) is a local exe. The best experience for a console to your Hyper-V VM is remote desktop, but that requires a Windows guest and virtual networking. If you are trouble shooting networking or boot, or are using Linux guests, vmconnect is very easy to use (no network required) and works great.

I'm not sure of any way to get a console through IE. Can you explain?

(1) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282274.aspx
Part of the reason Amtrak trains are always late is because they're getting stuck waiting for freight trains to clear a track.
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Try valgrind
Why? Swift is pretty easy to use from Objective-C, especially if you take care to make your API Obj-C friendly (which I would assume they did).
Is it ad hominem if it's true? "articles like this are detrimental to equal rights movements" (phrased as a question, not as a statement, but that's a cheap rhetorical trick) is a position taken almost exclusively by the beneficiaries of racial and gender privilege. And jonesb6 did not address the substance of the article, but rather the tone.

What it really boils down to is this: "As a beneficiary of privilege, it makes me uncomfortable when people point out that racism and sexism exist. I can't say they're factually wrong, so I'll talk about the tone instead. If they would just stop being so uppity and find a way to solve the problems of racism and sexism that do not make white men uncomfortable or take any action, everything would be fine. But they haven't, and it's their fault."

Does that seem like a "concrete, non-racist criticism" to you? Sorry if I can't magically remove race as a factor in the tone argument, but reality interferes. The tone argument is made almost exclusively by whites. You can call it "racist", but you can't change the fact. Calling it racist is a cop-out, a convenient dismissal of a valid and problematic point.
My first post was tongue in cheek, my second one a response to your literal interpretation of it. What I was really saying is that I think police are overstepping their bounds on this. I would rather that no one enters my private property to save me from myself over small things. House on fire? Thanks a million for helping. I'm a dirtbag that leaves a dog in a hot car? Smash my window by all means. I forgot my phone in the cup holder and I'm dumb enough to leave my car unlocked? I will learn a moderately expensive lesson and won't do it next time. It's not up to the Federal or State government to treat me like a kid.
I think it's pretty clear. Except in the dramatically unlikely case that the racial quotas are precisely tuned to have no effect at all, then having racial quotas necessarily means that more qualified applicants of one race are rejected in favor of less qualified applicants of another race, explicitly because of their race. If you're in a jurisdiction in which this is illegal (such as the U.S.) then racial quotas or preferences are illegal. Why no one else seems to realize this is illegal (as well as immoral) is beyond me.

Edit: Downvotes are nice, but refutations are better.
Would it be possible to temporarily power your own artificial heart with skeletal muscle? For example, by turning a crank attached to an artificial heart?
Though with some products this is helpful. I was just looking at air compressors on Amazon, and there were a few models that seemed to arrive damaged in the vast majority of reviews. Given that feedback, I might pay a bit of a premium to buy one locally.
It refers to the SRFI process and proposals (http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-process.html), specifically: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-19/srfi-19.html

They may want to alias these to memorable names, like 'sfri-time', for this one. There are probably drawbacks to using such a scheme, though, like possible ambiguities if two SFRIs cover the same topic differently.
>In contrast, Germany--as part of the EU--has done the same for only about 20 years, and is even now poised to break/bend the agreement to deter an influx of migrants.

Wait a minute.

1) It's not just Germany. The Schengen area inside and partly outside the EU is playing catch-up with the consequences of increased work migration. We can even say the whole EU has tried to come up with solutions since the Eastern European states joined.

2) Currently Germany is one of the few countries /not/ trying to deter migrants. That does not only apply to refugees but also migrants from South and East Europe. It's a couple of other countries bending rules here.

3) Stop conflating intra-EU migration with the refugees.
So, nobody is ever going to leave their car unlocked in East Rock again. Ever. Is that a win?
No, I most certainly was not. It was sarcastic, but not in agreement.
Actually, in public Internet traceroutes are reasonably reliable. It's corporate networks where you would expect weird stuff like that.

> (About #12, WTF? Weird!)

There is a fairly boring explanation to that. Similar to public IPv4 exhaustion, RFC1918-style private IPv4 addresses can easily be exhausted in a big private network as well. If you have noticed, MS has actually run out of RFC1918, and uses RFC6598 (a.k.a. 100.64.0.0/10) network in Azure for their "classic" segment. 100.64.0.0/10 was not supposed to be used as RFC1918-style general-purpose private IP space, but rather as a local side of a CGN pool. But then again, if you squint a bit, well... it's still private, so will never be advertised into the Internet, so it's fair game to use it if you run out of RFC1918, right?

Some people choose to squint even further, and declare anything that is not advertised into public BGP as a fair game. I've seen a big ISP "borrowing" 44.0.0.0/8 (amateur radio AX.25) subnet to deploy video segment of their huge "triple-play" network. 33/8 (US DoD) is also popular as "borrowed" private space, 1/8 was fairly popular until it actually became real public address space handed to APNIC (oops!). Now we have an example of using 25/8 like that as well.
This sounds callous, but 245 deaths in 45 years isn't that bad.

Yes, of course I would like safer trains. I would like safer lots of things, especially cars, because so many more people have car accidents and die each year.

Ideally, our government would calculate lives per year saved versus cost for all kinds of proposed laws and regulations. And then we could more fairly decide which things to implement first, based on which would save the most lives.

This requires us to place a specific dollar figure on a human life, which everyone seems reluctant to do.
But why spend that money on a project that we already know is almost certainly wrong? Surely there are bold, crazy ideas out there worth exploring that aren't in violation of well-tested physical principles! Fund a hundred of those.
Yeah the site is a bit silly. But this news piece is genuine; I saw the same article elsewhere a week or so ago.
Ops, I forgot shaving cream. Do I A) wait a week, B) spend 45 minutes going to the store, or C) pay someone 15$ and have in tomorrow when I need it.

Option C is not always going to be the winner, but doing something even twice a year * 100,000 people is a real market.

I mean plenty of people spend 20+$ extra on a meal when they could make food at home in less time.

PS: 15 minute drive, 4 minutes parking, 2 minutes shopping, 5 minutes checkout line, 15 minute trip home, 4 minutes parking = 45 minutes.
Some amount of dependencies is a reasonable expectation; for example, requiring a certain minimum version of libc is entirely reasonable. Or, requiring a certain minimum version of the kernel.

However, if newer versions of libc or the kernel are not backwards-compatible, that's a failure in the system itself (not the packaging). (Linus, as an example, has a strict rule about not breaking userland applications due to kernel changes.)

It's impractical (and undesirable from a security and other standpoint) to statically link all dependencies into every binary simply to "simplify" packaging. Not only would that be a waste of storage space and memory, but it prevents fixes (security or otherwise) applied to the libraries used by the application from taking effect without patching everything that statically-linked it.

Even if you ignore the storage space issue with some amount of hand-waving, larger binaries means greater I/O and network bandwidth requirements, which means it takes longer to update systems or create images for deployment. That in turn leads to increased downtime or increased sustaining costs, which effectively leads to reduced availability of the system.

This can be mitigated somewhat by using difference-only-style update mechanisms, but it only partially mitigates the issues created by statically-linked binaries; it does not eliminate them.

Dynamically-linking dependencies also ensures that future performance and security updates don't require a rebuild of existing applications; you can simply update the dependency, and if done properly, every application linked to it will automatically receive the benefits.

Obviously, if a given dependency is only ever used by a single component, and the component is always rebuilt when the dependencies are, it doesn't matter if they're statically-linked. I'm referring only to the system dependencies common to many system components (such as libc).

In the end, a carefully chosen set of dependencies that provide robust backwards-compatibility provides the least downtime and the most compelling administrative experience.
A good engineer isn't just sitting at a computer coding algorithms they are actively engaged in helping guide the direction of whatever product they are working on. For something like Twitter, I can see any number of ways in which having a diverse view point could make significant impact on the direction of product. Take for instance the existence of "Black Twitter". That is a very unique use of the platform and community that has arisen over the years. It encompasses everything from #BlackLivesMatter to awards show coverage. It drives a lot of the media coverage of the platform but if you aren't a part of that community, if you don't understand the slang, if you have never engaged in any of the conversations, if you don't know what things those users care about how can you make educated inferences on what features those users need, want and care about.
I'm replying to: "That doesn't mean they'll give different answers to a question on how to traverse a linked list. But they'll give different answers on how to build a content moderation feature, how to prevent abuse, how to protect freedom of expression on the platform."

The article and the comments here don't even begin to support the claim "candidates are not even considered for the job because of their race".
I tried OS/2 back in the day. Ordered OS/2 Warp for a DEC PClone (428?). Got the disks and found out I needed a graphic driver for the S3 card in the DEC. Called DEC and the extremely helpful service rep couldn't find anything, so he called IBM's OS/2 support with me still on the phone line. IBM said such a driver exists but I would need to sign an NDA before they sent it to me. I remember asking a lot of "why" with the DEC rep being equally confused. After hanging up on the OS/2 support person, the DEC rep (surrounded by other reps given the laughter and commentary I could overhear) comped me a free Windows NT. I'm still amazed that I got NeXTSTEP running and not OS/2.
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That's exactly what i said in my OP.
9/10/01 - rumsfeld announces that the pentagon cannot account for 2.3 TRILLION.

and how was the budget 2 trillion if they can't account for 2.3 trillion....?
I did, thank you !
Yes, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Car-Charger-PowerIQ-Technology-Motorol...
You said this:

You:> Codes of conduct are not silliness. Almost everywhere that I have seen them implemented, I have seen a better atmosphere over that community.

This implies that you have examples from personal experience readily at hand.

He then said this:

Him:> I'm curious, could you give a concrete example of a thing that a CoC has improved without simultaneously causing implicit pressure on people to remain silent about bad ideas in a project?

You characterize this as:

You:> The sealioning is because you are requesting me to provide you with an extensive example that will satisfy your stringent needs and seem unwilling to do your own research. A more charitable approach would be to go and try to find examples on your own, explain what you looked for, and could not find. Instead, you are (in your eyes very politely) asking me to catalogue a comprehensive example that satisfies all of your bullet points to the letter.

What would be an acceptable way to you for someone to ask for you to share one of your examples?
If "farmer" is the most prevalent in ND and "primary teacher" in FL, then I think the information here is pretty useless.
This article is garbage.
pixie_ was being sarcastic - alluding to how "RESTful" APIs with the wide array of verbs is en-vogue in some circles.
Sift: Grep on steroids
That is a clever response to the request to wear a suit. But if you're not looking to induce any epiphanies, it's probably easier to just wear the suit.
I almost never read a "recommended" list. Far too often it's simply a list of companies that paid to be on said list.
> I will learn a moderately expensive lesson and won't do it next time. It's not up to the Federal or State government to treat me like a kid.

They don't care about you. They do care about the local crime rate, and the amount of work they have to do when you report your phone as stolen. Don't think of this as them treating you as a kid, think of it as them saving themselves some work and money.
>> In the Chicago area, the Metra commuter rail system was saying they would have to discontinue service at the end of the year if the PTC requirement wasn't delayed due to their delays in getting it implemented. It isn't just freight lobbying.

Does that mean they'd go bankrupt? Could someone then buy them for cheap and implement PTC and take over the business? Sometimes it's nice to entertain the idea of "let them fail".
No love after begging for an administration API for 2+ years.

At this point they should start putting some spin on it.

"Help your company employ more people. Dropbox for Business's lack of administration tools will grow your headcount. When you see your admins waiting for a list of users to load, or trying to write their own tools based on scraping the website, feel good about how you're fighting unemployment."
Why should great engineers choose your team over Uber or Dropbox?
Perl is indeed quite polarizing (about 30% disliked, a bit more disliked than .NET). It's just not mentioned often enough to show up on the graphs.
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That makes a little more sense. Thanks!
Correct. China makes a lot of stuff, to be sure, but most of it's pretty low value, like toys and raw materials. The iPhones are actually the exception, statistically. The US still makes just as much stuff as it ever did, just with far, far fewer people.
It was actually 37% of those who voted. Only two thirds of the electorate did, so in fact fewer than 1 in 4 of the electorate actually voted for the party that now has an absolute majority in the House of Commons.

That actually wasn't the biggest quantitative statistical unfairness of the night -- that award surely goes to the dramatic under-representation of UKIP and the Lib Dems in MPs compared to the popular vote they attracted -- but given the implications of an outright majority in Parliament, the disproportionate Tory representation is probably the most practically significant of the statistical anomalies that night.