skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's being extremely sensitive. It's like an American complaining at "a Katrina-like response to the disaster." Or soviet-like queues.

It's not complimentary of course, but it's also not untrue. Moreover, many, if not most Venezuelans would complain about the market conditions there themselves.
Yes good point. Especially when the difference is not significant.

I wonder if this is what caused the error in the article?

Where they use 0.6 grams in one place, and 1 gram in another place. That's quite a difference.
Paleo here. Can confirm it's been great for me as well. And I just wrapped up a month with no sugar (drinks, candy, added sugar, etc).
Can you explain how this moves us further down the road of oligarchy and what the alternative scenarios are that wouldn't have done that?
Well, rewriting a 80+ line comprehension as an 80+ line series of nested loops and conditionals wouldn't increase readability in my opinion. What would make it easier to read is to divide the computation into several smaller steps, which could be done either with several comprehensions or several loops.
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What kind of database? Flat file, column store, graph, relational, document? Will it need to provide realtime information? Will it need to be distributed? Which is more important: consistency or availability?

My point being that "database design" is non-trivial to the point that "cut and paste" is at the application level not the schema level.

Good luck.
For some reason I remember there being a web version of flow that was being compiled through js_of_ocaml. Maybe I'm confusing this with another project, though.
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The browsers follow the spec fine. The requirement for SSL was almost in the spec, and support for non-SSL is optional for a reason.

Pushing people onto SSL is good.
N1 actually works offline. Obviously it won't fetch new mail, but you can read, archive, compose, and search for local messages. When you reconnect, those tasks will persist to the backend and Gmail/iCloud/Exchange.

Search is definitely an area we can make dramatic improvements, and we're working on it.
Thanks. It said one electrode and after glancing at the picture I thought the ear clips were headphones for some reason.
That's a much different headline without the question mark.
The language used for a server backend is far from a guarantee of efficiency and performance. It's very easy to write a D or Rust backend that doesn't optimize queries and handles caching badly; you'll get just as terrible response times from those as you would on the "typical" slow websites that you refer to.
There are a couple books about it. The other place they trained them was in Ithaca, which is why there is still a big tibetan community there and that's where the Dalai Lama's summer home is. It's a pretty crazy story though; iirc after China found out about the program the CIA just disowned them rather than helping to further support or extract them, and just left them all over there to die.
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Why does that trigger in his mind show character, and what does character mean in this context?

I'm asking seriously, not facetiously.
> So I'm pitching this to bored devs and entrepreneurs: Help us, and many other projects, by creating a "Github for mailing lists"

Hi. I'm from the Discourse team, and I recently "soft-pitched" an idea that seems very much in line with what you're looking for.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/becoming-the-new-standard-discu...

Regardless of the above, we're gonna be doing a significant push for better mailing list features during the months to come, so any feedback you or any other open source projects may have, please nudge me on meta.discourse.org or send me an e-mail (my first name, erlend, at the company domain).
> having our first child and expecting our 2nd

Just to be clear: my wife was doing the hard work :)
Library books used to have a little pocket stuck to the back cover, with a lined card inside. If you wanted to borrow a book, you would take out the card, put your name on the next line, and give it to the librarian. When you gave the book back, the card was put back into the pocket.

The system was to keep track of who had borrowed a book, so that they could be tracked down if it was not returned.

I remember it being really fun in grade school, to realize I had checked out the same book as an older friend.
The quality of the view and the angle determine a lot, but generally our accuracy is above industry average for human counters and other systems.
First 1 GB / month	$0.00 per GB
Up to 10 TB / month	$0.09 per GB
Next 40 TB / month	$0.085 per GB

So around USD 2,345.-
you only need two spaces, actually

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
> He is doing SOMETHING with 99% of his money for the greater good.

Well, he has talked about doing something with his money that he thinks is for the greater good.

I think it's reasonable to question the talk vs action part. And I think it's very worth asking whether his idea of the public good is the same as everybody else's.
Relying on dependency injection is even worse than setters. Will DI behave the same in tests as in real code? Are you sure?

The right thing is to use an actual constructor that takes constructor parameters. Guice and Spring can both handle this correctly (you just put the @Autowired on the constructor itself). The trouble is that in Java this requires ~twice as many lines as putting a magic annotation on your fields.
I have a colleague over there. What with transport blockages, loss of power and communications, etc it's been a rough few weeks. My colleague's home has now flooded and the family has moved in with relatives in another city, so at least they are safe. The team over there has done brilliantly, with people staying in each other's homes when they got cut off and the company putting people up in hotels, but it's been a losing battle. The office is shut down now and everyone's just getting to safety. The next problem is going to be sanitation and disease prevention, with the drains blocked you can imagine the issues.
The source is available now. The git repo's not up yet, but it's still 'open source' now.

Edit: And now it's on GitHub.
"copyright owned by the contributor" means that as the project matures there will be way too many contributors. To change the license for the project to something that is not Apache-compatible Apple would have to ask every contributor to re-license their code, and if the code author disagrees re-implement corresponding parts. In practice that's a signal to every one that the licensing terms are very unlikely to ever change.
So because Apple did some things one way 8 years ago, they need to do it exactly the same today or someone screwed up? Really??? Nothing changes in the modern world?
Repositories starting to go public now on Github - https://github.com/apple
US Supreme Court case that threatens representation of children and non-citizens
The story is explicitly about a bad citizen in Javaland.
21BC demo – Mechanical Turk – machines paying BTC to humans for work
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Nobody is saying that – but the site links to a github repo that doesn't yet exist. Chill.
Super Wi-FI for the IoE: Is Using White Space the Best Solution?
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There's no scenario under which this is a tax dodge. A charitable foundation would have been superior when it comes to limiting taxes. People ignorant of LLCs and the tax code are the only ones claiming this is a tax dodge, it's an easy smear because so few understand said tax code.
Encrypting stored passwords gives users a misleading false sense of security.
I'm from a more metropolitan area i guess. we used library card numbers on those instead of names
Congrats to Chris Lattner and the others at Apple who were promoting this! I've been watching Swift develop from the initial announcement because it would be a bit like C#. A great backend language that gives you first-class access on one of the most popular platforms.
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Hmm. Yeah.

I’ve thought about it for the last few hours, and decided that the best solution is to just use RSA in client.
People asking me a quick question doesn't bother me in the slightest - if I don't want to be disturbed, I put my headphones on. If a 30 second conversation can stop them having to set up a meeting, or allows them to get on with what they were stuck on, then great.

Of course, if someone comes to talk to me when I've got my headphones on, that's a different matter...

As for why don't people start with "Hi Phil, my question is..." - if you're not available now, I'll go and get the answer from someone else. I don't want to type out a big long question if you're not ready to respond. If I don't need an answer now(ish), I'll probably email.
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Github repo is live now. https://github.com/apple/swift

First ever commit found here https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5...
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I ran into https://github.com/Zewo/Epoch the other day when I was look for a Swift web server and it looked very interesting.
This article has the issue completely wrong from the first sentence. LLC and corporations are both organizational structures; either an LLC or a corporation can be a regular, tax-exposed operation, or a tax-exempt non-profit under the tax code (including a tax-exempt charity under 501(c)(3)). The fact that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is an LLC does not distinguish it from a non-profit; the fact (if it is a fact, and I can't really see drawing a strong conclusion on that on the basis of an article that starts out from a premise that confuses organization structure with tax-exempt non-profit status -- but the other discussion in the article from other sources seems consistent with it being an LLC that is not intended as a tax-exempt non-profit) that it doesn't comply with any of the categories for tax exemption and hasn't applied for recognition as a tax-exempt non-profit would.

Really, a non-tax-exempt entity (whether LLC, corporation, or any other organizational structure) makes sense to coordinate philanthropic activities if you want to have flexibility that a 501(c)(3) wouldn't have and, since the funds are all coming from you, you don't need the incentive to donors that the tax-deductibility of donations to a 501(c)(3) would provide. If its a disregarded entity for tax purposes (which it can be with a sole owner or, IIRC, co-owners who are a married couple who file jointly), then anything the LLC donates to a 501(c)(3) has the same effect on the taxpayers liability as if the taxpayer had donated directly to the 501(c)(3). The same person could even establish one or more 501(c)(3) entities -- again, of any organizational structure, including LLCs -- through which to which the non-exempt LLC would donate funds for purposes that are within the scope of what is permitted for a 501(c)(3).
> The Swift compiler, on the other hand, will obsessively stop me from fitting a square into a circle

You might really like Haskell :)
Libraries. Inertia. The IDE is actually far more polished than Spyder. It makes things easier for non-programmers with many wizards, and excellent help files. The toolboxes are uniformly fairly high quality. I should mention again the help files. Matlab documentation is comprehensive and far better than any of its competitors.

There are many research institutions and workplaces where the cost of the tool isn't really thought about at all. In fact, the cost of Matlab and toolbox fees is a small fraction of a senior scientist/engineer's total compensation.

The main competitor is Python. However, using a general purpose programming language is often too hard for non-programming oriented scientists. They are not able to compile a Python package on Windows, never mind actually package and distribute their work to colleagues. On Windows, if the package isn't in one of the distributions like Anaconda, it may as well not exist.
Western meddling in Sino-Tibetan affairs by the US government is understandable and is just international politics. But meddling by so-called 'anti-establishment' celebrities is the height of irony. The equivalent of Russell Brandt yelling "Free Tibet" at Glastonbury would be Al Wei Wei (famous Chinese social activist / artist) holding a concert in Shenzhen with proceeds going to some Singapore-based non-profit called "Free Cherokee Nation". The odds of the Cherokee Nation miraculously gaining sovereignty from the USA, and Al Wei Wei's ultimate benefit, if any, are so large and so remote, respectively, that we couldn't help but view such an act as self-serving. And so are all these western celebrities viewed by those in Asia (if at all). It is, in a sense, an self-aggrandizing gesture for a purely Western audience with little effect on China. It is, therefore, a circle-jerk.
I think there has been a shift in recognition of what a browser is: at the time Microsoft added IE into Windows, Netscape was still a relatively large company with a vested interest and browsers were seen as commercial products. Microsoft argued that the future of the browser was not a standalone product but an operating system component that would be a requirement for an operating system moving forward.

I do believe that Microsoft was ahead of the curve in that forethought, and that in retrospect Microsoft was right and the world was changing out from under Netscape's feet. But I also don't blame people for questioning that at the time, the internet was young and nascent then and we were still feeling out which "apps" on it, such as the web, would be ubiquitous services that everyone would need access to.

(I'm much more angry about the similar XP-era decision that anti-virus was not a core operating system component, to appease some greedy companies, and I'm glad the statute of limitations on that mistake has passed. Go, go, Windows Defender.)
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Money aside, Isn't the government already an oligarchy too? I'd much rather be "reliant" on the extremely wealthy than the politically powerful: economic capital is not a zero sum game so it's fundamentally more easy to disrupt by a person less endowed with it than political capital.
Growth Over Revenue: A Sign of the Startup Apocalypse?
Why would this at all be interesting?

Good grief, not everything is some mysterious conspiracy or some such nonsense.
Swift GitHub repo
No doubt JetBrains will step up to the mark.

They already have support for swift in AppCode, but surely a community edition "SwiftStudio" can't be too much to wish for.

It worked wonders for Android development outside of Eclipse.
Interesting, the compiler seems to be implemented in C++.
I forsee Swift has a long future on the server-side.

That will surely be taking up some of the dev't that would otherwise be done in Go.
I don't think you are arguing in good faith judging by the size of strawman you have to build.
And besides what's stated there, there has been at least one case where the state intentionally flooded an area in order to prevent a dam burst that would have had an even worse impact.

(I have friends over there, too, and it's been ... hard to maintain contact.)
I suspect you're joking, but I'll go ahead and answer here anyway, because I find it interesting and think others might as well.

The term "diabetes" refers specifically to the production of large amounts of urine. The diseases most people are familiar with are fully known as Diabetes Mellitus, type I and type II. The word "mellitus" is latin with roots in the word for honey and means sweet or sweetened with honey. So really both diseases are named for the fact that the produce the symptom of large amounts of sweet urine. Biologically this is because uncontrolled type I and type I sufferers have extraordinarily high blood sugars. Some of this excess glucose is excreted in the urine and osmotically pulls fluid along with it increasing the total urine volume.

It's worth noting that diabetes (the symptom) can have multiple other causes. Diabetes Insipidus is caused simply by the excess ingestion of fluids. (i.e. you urinate a lot when you drink too much water)
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Type ":help". That is, type <colon>help. The : is used to differentiate between commands to the repl and swift code.
I really think apple missed on the aesthetics with this one: they should have gone with a round watch and used the rotating bezel (either physical or touch) for input, rather than a tiny crown. Even if it remained a niche product, which always seemed the most likely outcome, at least there would be some interesting design work to do with a circular UX.

I think that Ressence Watches (which are, ironically, mechanical) has done the most compelling modern watch design:

http://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-3

Something like the Type 3, with a touch-rotating bezel, would nail the smartwatch aesthetic the way that the iPhone 5 hinted at the platonic ideal of cell phones.
It's not anymore.
In 2016, can DevOps keep pace with consumer expectations?
Am I the only one who finds it odd that while pushing two high level but performant languages (Objective-C and Swift) Apple wrote their Swift compiler in C++?
Right now there is!: https://github.com/apple/swift Also, the dependencies to build swift looks fine to build it on other architectures. I'll try to build it for the Raspberry Pi 2 to see.
It is absolutely fair and necessary to be critical of Zuckerbergs Philanthropy
Given that Murakami is 66-years-old, I imagine that the school he went to used paper and pencil/ink to record transactions, and like most school libraries, failed to hire someone properly certified in data retention regulations who would have properly disposed of those records...I'm only being half-facetious here..I think you're wondering if there is some machination resulting from a mass surveillance policy at play here...it could be something much more innocent: papers that are just stashed away in a school's storage room:

> The cards were apparently leaked to the paper after a volunteer who once taught at the school came across them while he was sorting out old library books that were to be thrown away.

The reason why we don't hear about these kinds of data leakages is because paper usually gets thrown away. Or a building burns down/floods. And also, paper records don't come up in a Google search (which is the extent of "research" for many people today).

Why didn't the school back then have a policy of throwing away cards after x number of years? Probably for the same reason why anything was done before computers became so ubiquitous...we constantly underestimate how the power of computation and networking changes the accessibility of information. Back when I graduated from college (and by this time, Google was a major player), no one really complained about printing people's names (i.e. mostly students) in the police blotter. Now, I believe it is a rarity for a school newspaper that publishes online to also publish full names of the suspects, even though no federal/state laws have been passed that would require such discretion. The reason why this practice is now rare is pretty common-sensical to us today, but not so much when Google was still relatively new.
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Just wanted to say thanks for the continued tweaks! Use and metrics are great, but here's a +1 human comment on the effort put into improving things for everyone.
I suspect that means that the file hash is published to a trusted third party who then combines the hash with a timestamp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
> I honestly can't understand why

The answer is fairly obvious though, isn't it? For scientists or novice programmers wanting to do some numerically intensive work, Matlab has typically offered one of the quickest (in time-to-solution) prototyping platforms. One of the keys being that you can get started very quickly, with minimal setup (besides the expensive license and installation, something most academics need not worry about). As a former academic programmer and now a consultant that helps companies commercialize such prototypes, I understand your pain, but at the same time I completely understand why a physicist, imaging scientist, or finance major ends up using Matlab over something like C++ or Python. Same goes for LabView, and if you despise Matlab, I challenge you to give LabView a whirl. The gap between the Matlabs and Labviews of the world and the other programming languages is closing in terms of ease of use and setup time, but we're not there yet and also momentum shifts on this type of thing take a loooong time. If you come into a lab and are working on a research project that was started in Matlab, odds are, in the interest of finishing your thesis on time, you're unlikely to port it to another language, even if you have the skill to do so.
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I feel the same way about Android Wear. I got my G Watch in 2014. I still like it, but I'm not doing anything with it that I wasn't doing the first week I had it.

Maybe it's the platform, or maybe there just aren't a ton of things I'm interested in doing on my watch.
Thanks for this info. Did you try, by any chance, Perfect (the Swift web FW)?
The Filezilla forum admin in that thread obstinately blames users for "accidentally" accepting a bundeled "offer", when users are clearly warning project admins that the installer is infected with malware.

Does sourceforge share revenue from bundeled installs with projects?
>You don't have to prove that COBOL-based system XYZ won't blow up in your face or that frames-in-frames webpage mycompany.com/abc won't eventually look unprofessional and affect the company's brand.

You can't tell someone they're doing it wrong if what they're doing is making them money. That is the bottom line.

If my car is running fine, a mechanic telling me about my messed up gear alignment and replacing the clutch pressure plate thats 'about to die' isn't going to convince me to spend $3543 in parts and labor. That is what it sounds like to non-CS people.

You can educate yourself about one aspect of car, but unless you're actually a mechanic yourself its trivial for an expert in a field to bilk someone outside of that field.

As a developer, it would be super easy for me to make-up technical debt, talk about API complexity, brittle design and what not, but ultimately no manager is just going to allow a developer to go about changing the design for no perceived gain (to them). This is not necessarily a bad thing, as the vast majority of developers, are simply mediocre and are poor judges of what constitutes good design anyway.
I've been getting my linkedin spammed by recruiters for a machine learning startup. I ignore them all (despite actively looking for a job). Why? It's a pie-in-the-sky idea which seems more interested in generating hype than actually delivering results. To me, the product sounds too good to be true, and is trying to replace a service which many people still do not trust humans to do. The technology "is just no there yet" for a lot of the claims proposed - and I doubt that a startup focused on making money can accomplish more than academic institutions focused on research.
It's really interesting that they decided to retain the full history! It also gives away some information about the initial contributors and the timeframe of when they started.
Why a German billionaire says that pledges like Mark Zuckerberg’s are really bad
There is a GitHub Repo you can clone. Just had an issue with traffic.
It's cool to see that it was basically all Lattner at the beginning and his decisions about the license/exception still stand.

EDIT: License/Header in each of files were apparently retroactively added.
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