skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IT, and well, the governments up to now have done a relatively well job in the sector by providing a framework where small-scale startups can compete on fair terms with big monopolies (just look how big Cloudflare grew). Then again, the tide seems to turn a bit, I'm not exactly sure.
Awesome, have you guys considered open sourcing your software? Maybe you could get donations in terms of OSS contributions to help build your technical infrastructure.
I have already used one such tool for C++ in one of my teams (aastyle ? Something like that). It's only the firs step. Then you have to wonder/discuss: what actual style to use? There are many C/C++ styles out there (stroustrup, linux, gnu, OTBS, etc.), so you have to discuss about that. Now, when you have chosen one, you have to discuss about minor fixes: "ok, so OTBS is cool, but what about line lengths? Should we choose 80 cols? That's silly, why not 120?"
etc. All in all, you end up taking a whole hour (even more) about this issue.

With go, that doesn't happen. You call gofmt and you're done. Another side effect: when you get external source code (open source, code written by another team, etc.), you know it will be formatted exactly the same way as yours.
Did they have a full spec, or implementation though? It's not like getting the folks at Github upset is very difficult or truly reflecting controversy. Everyone I know that's read the underlying research (there is literally a researcher looking into what a "feminist" programming language would be, though the main pull from the published work was "what does this mean?").
Here are some other entries on that page so you can tell how seriously you should take that list:
"LAMP system”
"Content"
"Compensation"
"Creator"
I'm glad somebody is taking the time to do this. I'm going through and marking every one of these reviews as "helpful" so they float to the top of the Amazon reviews for these products.
I'm pretty sure they don't. There are PRs campaigns saying they would like to get closer to those quotas, but I don't think any engineering management is actually going to let their interview process be changed.

At companies I've worked at I've seen the leadership cheerleading race & gender diversity, but not interfering with engineering management's hiring practices. I assume that the leadership is just playing the Public Relations game, because being seen as a proponent for diversity is good press, but not letting it actually change anything. If I'm being even more cynical, then leadership is just clueless, and is also clueless that they shouldn't be averaging engineering with marketing in order to say that we have a good gender ratio.
Not the entire companies, just the part that could boost competition and innovation by nationalizing and opening it up. Aren't Amtrak trains regularly prioritized far beyond freight trains, resulting in a massive problem for passenger train service?
Wait, yeah, this doesn't sound right at all. Carroll provides exceptions for cars where there is probable cause. I too would be surprised that 'unlocked door' constitutes probable cause.

Though, here the police are explicitly giving the items back (if the backpack they take doesn't have weed, I guess). Civil forfeiture, as a practice, is legal but really shitty (if the police think you made money from a drug ring, you're never touching that money again, even if you're acquitted).
Rail is still incredibly cheap and efficient in the USA. In fact, the USA has some of the most cost effective freight rail in the world. [1]

Rail freight is also quite a bit larger than truck freight in the USA. A lot of things are railed across in an intermodal and then hitched onto a truck for regional delivery. [2]

In short, rail freight is massive in the USA and our primary mode of goods transportation.

[1]https://www.aar.org/BackgroundPapers/Cost%20Effectiveness%20...

[2]https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0362
This is awesome, and I really hope more companies do this.

I wonder though: from the few reviews I've looked at, it seems that the main complaint is that the cable does not identify itself as a legacy connector, and can result in the device drawing too much power from the port, potentially damaging whatever is on the other end.

Definitely an unfortunate result, BUT: I wonder, is it still a common concern when the device on the other end is (for example) a wall plug-to-USB connector? Because if it's not too much of an issue in that case, and the device on the USB-C end is not at risk, wouldn't a non-compliant cable result in faster charging?
Its funny, when I saw the title the first thing I thought of was "COBOL vs FORTRAN". I guess FORTRAN (as Fortran) did make it into business use, but I'm pretty sure COBOL never made the equivalent jump.
So if I understand you correctly the railroads would basically be the same as the Interstate highway system?

I don't know enough about how the railroads work to comment on how feasible such an arrangement would be.

Does the government currently subsidize railroad maintenance and/or construction?

Edit: Is there a precedent anywhere else in the world for nationalized railways?
I think I would rather line the house with smoke detectors and pay the homeowners insurance than grant the cops the right to enter my house at anytime for a "safety check".
I'm no anti-government activist (far from it), and in general, I think safety regulations are a good idea. But I'm having a hard time getting worked up over this. Are the sort of train accidents that this technology would prevent really so frequent or devastating that we should stop everything and fix it? Especially compared to, say, guns, nutrition, pollution, etc? I mean, I'm all for tackling low hanging fruit and making things safer, but I'm not sure how much effort should go into this compared to other safety issues.
The basis of it is interesting to me: breakthroughs in finding collisions have lowered cost estimates to about $75k to break a single collision (based on GPU rented from Amazon EC2). It's interesting to see it quantified that way.
Cool, so if/when the guile vm is default, does that mean we could finally get better process control in emacs?

Honestly I love emacs but it is not the most performant thing on the planet. Redrawing taking tons of time bugs that have existed for years, non blocking i/o to things like processes doesn't really exist etc...

It could do for a lot of spit and polish in the concurrency/threading land.
> On the other hand, if the laws of physics are invariant under reflections then they are also invariant under rotations because you can make rotations out of reflections. So you could say that conservation of angular momentum is the corresponding conservation law.

This is an interesting idea, but, I think, too weak. It is true that every rotation is a composition of two reflections, but there's such an important difference between rotations (orientation-preserving) and reflections (orientation-reversing) that I think one shouldn't say that invariance under the former implies anything about invariance under the latter.
I find the numbers a little weird. While 'black' and 'hispanic' are underrepresented in the graphs, 'asian' is heavily overrepresented (in yahoo's case, it's triple the percentage), and 'asian' isn't a single ethnicity. Not only are south asians not east asians or west asians (culturally or physically), but Chinese aren't Koreans, who aren't Vietnamese, who aren't Filipino and so forth (these are the groups in the BLS report). The author seems to be using 'diversity' to mean 'proportion of black faces', rather than diversity across the board.
As every operating system is, right?
> like Seattle changes weather

From the perspective of having grown up in the midwest, Seattle's weather might as well be Old Faithful.
I remember watching the first Jarvik 7 transplant on PBS as a kid, thinking that by the time I was an adult it would be a routine procedure and how amazing that was.

Reality kicked in of course. It's always surprised me that an artificial heart is so difficult to perfect. The heart is probably the simplest organ in the body, yet the devil is in the details.
In Germany, it does - DB Netz, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, gets huge amounts of funds for infrastructure maintenance and construction, and the competition building on said rail infrastructure slowly begins to manifest.
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It makes sense to have a representative oversee the guidelines for building the product, I don't see how it matters who actually gets to build it.
Calling BNSF a monopoly would be pretty hard. The shipping options are multiple. Google is closer to a monopoly than BNSF is ever likely to be.
Definitely agree with this.

I use my phone heavily (Ingress mostly) and it's not uncommon to go through 3 or 4 full charge cycles a day or to just keep my phone plugged in all day.

Before I started buying Anker's cables, I would burn through a cable every two weeks or so. First monoproce, although I quickly dropped those. Then several other brands. Another point in Anker's favor is that the profile of the USB-C plug on their cables is much smaller than most other brands. This is important when you have a hefty case on your phone.

Anker's external battery packs are awesome too, as are their wall and car chargers. Most if not all of their products put out 2 Amps which is the charging limit of most devices (certain tables accept up to 3) as opposed to many other wall chargers that put out .5-1 Amps.
Cool. So what (if any) implications does this have for providing a linux based rump kernel? Is it basically aiming to do the same rearchitecting/cleanup of the Linux Kernel that NetBSD did in order to support things like rump kernels?
5x More Mac OS X Malware Seen in 2015 Than Ever Before
This is cool, but being from the online marketing world, I can already see people copying this in bad ways. "Hi this is Tom, I am from iPhone Development Team 6 here at Apple and we have been testing [product] in our labs. In our opinion, [affiliate link to other releated product] is far better because this product [technical critique that few will understand but will serve to bolster reviewer's credibility, can be copied from random highly technical review site]".

If this is going to be a thing, Amazon should offer the ability to certify that the user at least has an email address for the company they claim they are with (@apple.com, @google.com etc) and show a "certified Googler" or similar logo next to their name.
Most of the people who I have met who hate on jQuery haven't used it extensively and can't write a piece of software without npm.
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Because the situation around PHP has massively improved with PHP supporting real OO programming, huge performance gains and cutting cruft like register_globals and other insanities.
Browsing this portion of their site induced me to (attempt to) subscribe to the print edition of "Traveler." However, their subscription page automatically signs me up for "auto renewal" (with no option to opt out) and also notes that they will sell my information to other companies with no direct way to opt out. Changed my mind. I have encountered this same issue with other magazines and each time I balk when I read stuff like this. Treat me like your customer, not a product to sell to someone else. And don't require me to auto-renew before I've even read a single issue.
The kind that plug in to the 12V "accessory" port, skipping the car's own USB entirely?
If you're in the (to me, enviable) position of never building a user-facing feature in a piece of software -- if you purely get to think algorithms all day, and you never draw on any knowledge or experience you've gained outside a classroom or a book -- then who knows. Maybe it doesn't matter what life experiences you've had. I personally have never had a job like that. My interests, personality, experience, and wisdom gained outside of work have always made a difference to what I do.
I agree to most points. One thing I struggled trying it is lack of information on interenet as compared to more mature languages like c++ or java.
Since most of the cockroachdb team including founders come from google, I wonder if they have access to better advice too.
Depends what you expected those initial coins to do. Did you get them as a speculative investment with a chance of "interest" of x%/year? Then a 100% increase is pretty damn good as far as investments go, you shouldn't feel too bad about selling now. You'll have regret if it continues to grow to the moon, so maybe sell half or 3/4. But also calculate the potential unrealized earnings if it went to the moon -- i.e. if your little pile was only worth $100, now $200, even if it doubles twice more the difference is just $600.
Yes, they discussed in the comment section of the post that when theoretical computer science researchers have tried to find actual graphs which existing algorithms do not handle well, they had difficulties finding them outside of some very specific (and vanishingly small) classes.
I think in some cases it might have been enabled by default, but it still could be disabled.
Just slapping the "the other end is 3A capable" resistor onto the cable isn't good enough, because a cable has no idea what's on the other end.

You can still rapid charge with a compliant type-C/A cable, but it needs to be negotiated through one of the other specified mechanisms (that directly talk with the other end and thus can figure out what the type-A charging side can actually provide).
As I remember, this is by design - better to have the cable break than the socket (as it was with miniUSB).
I'd say the opposite - the industry is in general being a lot more comfortable with investing in AWS to the point of lockin being acceptable now. More people are treating cloud providers less like a big pool of IP addresses.

Not saying it's a good or bad thing, but attend AWS reInvent or something and it's pretty easy to percieve huge uptake.

If you adopt extra management stacks running on or against your cloud you lose a lot of the benefits.
Right. This is from a resume site. How many people are going to put on their resume that they dislike something?

Analyzing the main Stack Overflow site would be more useful. You go to Stack Overflow when something doesn't work.
ser2k's comment seems pretty concrete to me.
For sure! This review[0] was particularly interesting. The vendor wrote back a nasty response about how their cables are tested at, and capable of delivering, 5A of juice--which is the point. The USB A device on the other end could get smoked.

Mr. Leung responds by painstakingly pointing out everything they have to do to fix their cables.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/review/R2DQ7OH7PQG24F/ref=cm_aya_cmt?i...
Anker's support seems great too, with a sample size of one. I had one their larger USB battery packs, and it had a problem where it would turn off the juice after a few minutes every time I plugged a device in. I submitted a claim through their support website (which, admittedly, is pretty bad) and they mailed me a new one. I don't even have to return the old one, not that it's usable anyway.
I'm not an American, but aren't the railways in the US split up in dozens of small-ish companies (forming local monopolies), each with own regulations etc.?
No, Mr Fusion is fine (hence no need to go trying to find ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGGAWATTS). The flying circuits were fried.
But seriously, in order to achieve proper racial quotas, we're gonna fire most of the asians. #getready
That doesn't change the fact that a lot of people still hate on PHP like it's 2008.

"What do you mean it's not real object oriented programming? PHP5 has been out for TEN YEARS."
EWD692: Dijkstra's Review of Backus's Turing Award Lecture [pdf]
My belief is that there probably isn't one. I'm still waiting for someone to provide one.

As a Bayesian, I can certainly tell you how my perspective differs from folks like Leonid Pekelis or Evan Miller. As a person who leans towards parametric statistics and modelling, I can tell you how my perspective differs from the machine learning types.

Why is it so difficult to provide the (alleged) black perspective?
Ultimately that's what we do and I agree. We don't allow cops to randomly enter our homes for safety checks. That said, the situation discussed in the linked article is similar, but not entirely the same. While the police are entering private vehicles, it's in the pursuit of reducing and preventing crime, not the case in the hypothetical situation you posited.

I also think the notion that this is all a front for probable cause is a bit far-fetched and cynical. For one, do only criminals leave their cars unlocked with valuables in plain sight? What exactly would the "cover for probable cause" strategy accomplish?
It does appear, if the citation of IPUMS at the bottom (a cool source of data, for those who haven't seen it: https://usa.ipums.org/usa/ ) means anything, that they are at least using standard classifications.

That doesn't mean their distinctions make sense, but at least they're openly available and documented.
If only there were some way for google to get high quality usb-c cables to customers! Like not charging $13 plus shipping for a 1m cable (a ridiculous profit margin), and keeping them in stock. Or hell, throwing 5 of them in with everything they sell that uses usb-c. I mean, that would have to cost dollars. Whole dollars, on a $500 phone!

https://store.google.com/product/usb_type_c_to_usb_standard_...
You can buy a copy of the source code from Digital Mars if you like. It's a bit old fashioned, though. At some point I'll probably just make it free, though it'll still have the Symantec license on it.
Ha, yeah, now I know not all tax professionals are created equal. He of course acted like he knew how to handle it right up until the end and only let it slip once that this was the first time he'd actually handled them. His advice ended up being "they're not taxed, just ignore them until you sell the actual shares" which I knew was wrong.
Ask HN: How do corporate trainer find clients?
Is it just networking and cold calling?On the other hand how do companies find them
Investors better off when spoofers preying on HFT traders are brought to justice
Neither C# nor Windows is on the graph the parent comment is referencing. On the other end of that graph is linux and scala.
When I download the source and try to open index.html in Chrome, it doesn't work.

"Unhandled promise rejection DOMException: Failed to execute 'texImage2D' on 'WebGLRenderingContext': Tainted canvases may not be loaded."

Does anyone know how to get it working? Thanks!
Well that explains it, as i have yet to get up to speed with the C stuff. I do recall though that older stuff should have a resistor in the charger itself to note if it is a charger port or not (if it does not have the electronics to do proper handshake on the data pins).

Sadly Apple have a variant of that floating around, resulting in confusion and devices that can do 500mah to anything, and 2400mah to Apple devices. Or anything if you fake them out via rigged cables etc, giving us the monstrosities called "charge only" cables.
Sorry it didn't make sense. Definitely something we need to iterate more on. If you want some specific help, we are definitely happy to provide us. We have an intercom/message us chat system that we love to help users with.
> 42 and 0x2a are actually the same noun, because they're the same number. [...] But semantically, 42 has a decimal span and 0x2a hexadecimal, so they print differently.

A babbling load of twaddle which in and of itself wouldn't be a crime were the word "semantically" not involved as an abuse victim.
> What is wrong with the statement "We won't lower the bar"?

1. Assuming hiring a more diverse workforce would lower the bar.

The statement precludes that a more diverse workforce would implicitly lower the bar. This makes no sense. Increased diversity means increasing the many ways one can look at a problem, which improves problem solving and improves creativity. If the very first thing this guy thinks about is that hiring more women or black people would lower the bar, that's fucked up.

2. Assuming non-diverse workforce would not lower the bar.

If you hire shitty people, you lower the bar. There's plenty of white male tech workers who could lower the bar; keeping your workforce from being more diverse does not guarantee you won't hire a bar-lowering white male.

So at the very least it's inaccurate and misleading, and at the worst it is classist, racist, and sexist.

> Some people criticize that that statement is racist, but they aren't thinking about the context.

People who haven't had the advantages of white males have a harder time getting the same job, so an attempt is made to 'level the playing field' for someone who probably has exactly the same job competency but not the same socioeconomic advantages. That's the actual context.

> When people ask companies to do something about diversity, they're normally asking to carve out more quota for certain minority group, just like how universities carve out certain portion of their student quota for people who donate large amount of money to get in.

It is illegal in the United States for any employer, university, or other entity to have a quota for a certain race. Furthermore you're also assuming that donations preclude acceptance, which it doesn't inherently. The fact that the kid's parents could afford to pay for the best education up to that point gets them farther than the money alone.
Citation, please. With evidence that it actually works with real markets.

This sounds a lot like the kinds of claims that are routinely made in technical analysis for stocks. To the best of my knowledge, new claims can always be generated because humans are very good at imagining patterns in random data, but attempts afterwards to verify those theories uniformly fail. However stock brokers have found that it is very good for business to have customers who believe in technical analysis, because it is always easy to convince those customers to trade. Therefore lots of people get exposed to all sorts of technical analysis theories about "psychological support levels" and so on. But it doesn't actually work in reality.
The complaint wasn't that black employees weren't individually invited, but that the resource group for black employees wasn't notified.
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.
The fact that the VP's first reaction to the author's question was to assume that hiring more diverse candidates somehow directly equates to lowering their hiring standards is what's wrong with the statement.

I can't see what one has to do with the other.
Team Participation on Programmer Hiring
Looking to find out what the industry practices are on letting a team participate in the hiring process. That would include examples of companies large and small that integrate their technical teams into the hiring of a new member, the level of participation (recommendations? veto?) and any anecdotal evidence you may have on how appealing / off-putting this practice is in your experience (as a lead / employee / candidate). Thank you!
Well, if JavaScript were meant to be used as an actual programming language, then it would make sense to develop an SDK for it.

I'm only half joking there :)

In all seriousness, though, it did make my brain tilt about 15 degrees to see the words "JavaScript" and "SDK" next to each other like that.