skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Does anyone know if theres a webassembly to js compiler to support legacy browsers?
Google issues guidelines on bloggers and links for freebies
Thanks, this is good to know.
No one is imagining turning into Rambo and overthrowing their local sheriff. The idea is that there are limits to how far the American people can be pushed before we - as a group - simply refuse to go along anymore.

This stems directly from American history. The Constitution was written in a time when things like the Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill, and Col. Parker's stand in Concord and Lexington were fresh in the collective consciousness.

> Perhaps a little rational thought is required to comprehend that a document written ~227 years ago is probably out of date with modern reality when it comes to firearms.

I don't believe it is - and there are millions of others who agree with me. We're armed to the teeth, so good luck changing it. That's the whole point :)

> It's a combination of amusing, frustrating, and bewildering to witness a large number of Americans' behaviour whenever this topic resurfaces. Honestly, most of the rest of the world out here just can't understand how you people are so goddamn self-indoctrinated into keeping your guns. There is no reasoning that I can apply to even begin to validate the concept that guns in the hands of citizens is a good thing.

I understand that. Sitting here in Virginia, I cannot fathom how the Brits gave up their weapons without a fight less than a generation after they were literally asking the American public to donate firearms in preparation of a German invasion.

That's OK though, because I don't live under their rule. I'm happy to share my perspective and learn about theirs. I hold no ill will against people on the other side of an ocean that don't understand my political views.
The Battle Between Banners and Native Ads
"you would be silly not to include some form of practical test"

Yes, I'm coming to the realisation that it's idealistic to assume that anyone with N years experience will be at a certain level of ability.

"(potential) is best measured by talking with them about a project they really cared about"

I agree. I've always thought that once you've made sure that a candidate's programming knowledge isn't fabricated, the best way to evaluate them is to get talking about code. Whether that's proprietary code they've written but can't share, or it's on a GitHub profile for all to see shouldn't make a huge difference.
Although to be fair, there was ICQ2GO (go.icq.com), and a bit later meebo. Both worked fine on the road, at internet cafes, or at school.
The Chilling Math of Inequality
Someone needs to read their history.
> The fact that so many employers treat candidates like this

Don't give up. Most established companies aren't run by 20-somethings. If the seniors are already in their mid-20s and lack professionalism, then most likely there are other issues going on at this company. You may have dodged the proverbial bullet.
You're presuming that the person breaking in to your house at night wants to harm you. If they're breaking in at night they probably want to steal your stuff without you encountering them. So the best course of action is probably to stay in your bedroom, stay quiet, and call the police. Pull out your gun and that bad guy probably also has one and you've put your own life in danger and made a non-violent situation life threatening.
Breaking into web development from the back end
Going after scary 'military assault' guns is an easier political sell than tackling handguns.

The majority of US gun murder is one guy with a handgun shooting another person, which won't ever make national headlines
Learning curves and user interfaces
what I've been lead to believe in the news

I think I found the problem.

Dunblane was a freak incident in the UK, but would be a regular occurence in the US. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/02/mass-shooting...

The mass shooting phenomenon seems to be a side effect of US culture's relationship with violence, and especially "righteous" violence.
You seem to be right about that. Thanks.

Traffic fatalities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...

Gun fatalities: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

Suicides do appear to be about 2/3 of the gun fatalities.
> But I do not think as a society we can manage the general public having guns, Australia and the UK are a very good example of how new laws have come into place

There are numerous other developed/OECD countries with "high" rates of firearms ownership and use that do not have the same rate of violence seen in the US. Not to mention the millions of responsible gun owners who safely use firearms for hunting, sport, and self protection. Violent crime with firearms still occurs in both the UK and Australia - both countries have a seedy underbelly that occasionally spills over (e.g. the gang related shooting in Sydney yesterday or the drive by shooting in Brixton last month). Gun control is a spectrum - there are other other countries that have sensible gun control measures that help to limit violent crime without penalizing responsible gun owners. Personally I have no issue with sensible control measures, but I do wish society would also address many of the other associated issues (access to mental health services, inequality/poverty, the war on drugs).
The Lavabit case was decided on entirely procedural grounds—the Fourth Circuit never said that it was OK to compel the disclosure of the SSL keys, only that Lavabit had waived its objections in the district court (at which stage Lavabit was acting without counsel).

Source: I briefed and argued the Lavabit case in the Fourth Circuit.
You say that like the ad-supported model is abuse free, or like people would not adapt and develop mechanisms to avoid the abuse.
Google Will Ask Congress to Create Special Rules for Self-Driving Cars
I would say that crime is reported very low, as a lot of trouble makers usually "disappear".
> You know that's a very recent turn to read scripture literally?

Yes, and if you read my first now unfortunately gray comment, I addressed exactly the literal readings as those that limit what's easy to pass in the US: I wrote that Pi "doesn't question the literal interpretation of the Bible, 6000 years and all that. So let's celebrate that innocent number." It's right there.

> >it is claimed that the texts in the Bible are the preserved words received directly from the God //

> Not by mainstream Christianity or the Bible itself

I've meant the texts of the "ten commandments" in the Bible (you've cut the first part of my sentence, it's obvious it's about the ten commandments and I've mentioned the whole Quran as the exact words as believed by Muslims(!)) not the whole Bible, of course! If you're a believer, do you consider the text of the "ten commandments" (e.g. in Deuteronomy 5:4–21) as the actual words of God or not? Were these words exactly preserved or are they already "corrupted" in the Bible?
I mean, it's "clear and obvious" to me, but since it's a major issue every campaign season and the risks presented by our old and crumbling infrastructure, global warming, and other menaces that don't make gruesome cell phone videos is not most people don't seem to have noticed.
> Proprietary software is incompatible with education.

That's an astonishingly sweeping statement. I learned to programme over 30 years ago using the proprietary ZX-Spectrum basic. In what way was I not educated?

Meanwhile my kids taught themselves all about the creation of logic gates using redstone dust and pressure switches in Minecraft to control their roller-coaster layouts.
I like Jeff Atwoods approach[0], hire the candidate for a short project (2-3 weeks) let the candidate a feel for the product and team while getting paid. And at the same time let the team get to know the candidate. I would love to go through a hiring process like that :)

[0]http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-ever...
You realize that all of that (except the last point) happened after Scala got traction?
does this mean i wont have to learn javascript, css, d3, svg, typescript, jquery, etc ... to make webistes and web apps
Distrust is not the same thing as fear.

I distrust my toddler, because she is incapable of making rational choices. I'm not going to let her walk across a parking lot by herself.

I distrust a venomous snake for the same reasons. I'm also extremely cautious around them, because they can cause pain or death if mishandled. That doesn't mean I'm afraid of them.
And more toddlers die in backyard swimming pools than by any terrorist. Once again, the CDC has an amazing list[1] of what kills US citizens in the USA. Violence doesn't even make the top 15 anymore. Self-harm is at position 10 and we really need to work on that. Plus, all the places with the most restrictive gun laws in the US are the most violent and have the most murders. Stop blaming an object, and start blaming the policies of government that create a cycle of crime.

1) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm
AMD HSA is more compelling. These look like they will be just as hard to program as adding in an accelerator card, only the bandwidth between the CPU and the FPGA is higher. Everything is merging into an amorphous blob, FPGAs have been adding hard blocks for years, GPUs have been adding scalar accelerators. The vector and the scalar, the hardwired and the adaptable are all becoming one. Hell, even the static languages are adding dynamism and the dynamic languages are adding types. Floating point is becoming succinct [0]. Computation is becoming a continuum.

[0] http://johngustafson.net/unums.html
That seems like a bad analogy. The web wasn't built as a real-time one-to-one communications medium, it was built as a way to publish documents. Later on, enough stuff got added to the system to enable comment forms and chat boxes and whatnot, but the basis of the thing was always document publishing.

Take a look at the original web site:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

That's clearly a non-interactive (aside from navigation) one-to-many system. What is that if not "content"?
For the contact discovery to be private, the phone has to calculate the hash. So the server cost also depends on the performance differential (many entities would likely still spend $50,000 to discover the contacts of a high value target).

Adding information increases the cost, but it also reduces the likelihood of a match.

You've edited your comment since I wrote the above. Anyway, if the attack is directed at a single user, there's only one 10^10 involved (and really, the phone number space isn't that big).
I recently used Inform 7 for a workshop and have a half cooked game done using it. It's interesting and the whole culture around the genre even more so. I wrote about the workshop and posted the sample game here http://thelycaeum.in/blog/2016/02/24/inform_7_talk_at_fossme...
There's got to be some middle ground between that and wasting all your time off/free time.
I feel like that White House petition is a honeypot.
To some degree I agree. The problem with most vocal proponents of "reasonable" regulation in this space is that they are negotiating in bad faith. In many ways it reminds me of the current debate on encryption. Fundamentally these people don't want to seek a viable middle ground which protects freedoms while mitigating problems, they want to remove the rights or protections entirely. It therefore becomes almost impossible to take anything other than an absolutist stance because every negotiation involves the outcome of previous "reasonable negotiations" being used as the starting point for the people on defense. Their fundamental goal is to slowly chip away until there is nothing left.
Check out Netronome. www.netronome.com

They do exactly this in a programmable PCIe card and custom ASIC.
Then on the other hand we have:

Exhibit A) Switzerland, 25 guns for 100 inhabitants, two mass shootings in the last 100 years

Exhibit B) France, extremely restrictive gun laws, two mass shootings in less than one year

So there's that...
It's not meaningful to categorize this as 'Far Left-Far Right' by only picking out the views of Sanders and Trump. Just about everyone high-level politician or candidate claims that China manipulates its market (in a way they don't like):

Clinton (2016): "Clinton vows to impose tariffs on China to fight currency manipulation" - http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/rupee/clinton-vows-to-impos...

Kaisch (2016): "If the Chinese are going to be participating and be a part of the market basket, you understand that that means they've got to come clean because they're going to have to let this thing work out. They can't keep manipulating things." - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets-usa-kasich-i...

Romney (2012): "Mitt Romney has loudly and frequently said on the campaign trail that he would label the People's Republic of China a "currency manipulator"" - http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/19/currency_mani... - and "Romney has vowed to declare China a currency manipulator on the first day of his presidency for artificially depressing the value of its currency" - http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-agree-obama-china-currency-issue... .

Rubio (2015): "in order for China to join it, they will have to change their policies on imports, the way they manipulate exports, the currency manipulation, how they steal intellectual property and secrets from our companies." - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/08/28/marco_rubi...

Don't forget that "In September of 2010 the House voted on the Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act to address the Chinese manipulation of currency. The bill passed the house 348-79." - http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Ohio/Dennis_...
"who in the world needs an assault rifle?"

People interested in self defense. The term "assault rifle" or "assault weapon" was made up by the media. An assault rifle is just your typical rifle that your great grandfather would have used for hunting back in the day. It is not what the media and politicians will lead you to believe.

I think what leads people to ask this question is an major misunderstanding that an "assault rifle" is a big scary machine gun. They are not. An AR15 or AK47 are not machine guns that spray bullets with a single trigger pull. (Those are fully automatic weapons that are already heavily restricted). Assault weapons account for, on average, 2% of all firearms used in crimes, with the highest estimate being 13%. [1]

The semi-automatic AR15 or AK47 are actually very effective and safe home defense firearms for a few reasons:

- The round they use is less likely to penetrate through walls compared to a standard handgun round. This has been ballistically tested numerous times but no one likes to mention it when talking about the issue.

- They are easier to shoot more accurately at close range and longer distances.

- They hold more rounds. Why do you need more rounds? Because one shot is unlikely to stop most threats. Shocking I know, this is also something that is not how it seems in the movies. Also unmentioned when talking about self defense is that there may be multiple attackers. It's not so uncommon to have more than one attacker in a home invasion.

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf
Shouldn't Lee have had the opportunity to train 1 year against this AI before the competition?

training
(Human vs Human)
not the same as
(Human vs Algorithm)
or
(Algorithm vs Algorithm)
I think the commenter meant homicides by saying "murder". Your graph clearly aggregates all gun related deaths
>Because guns are expressly designed to kill.
And whats wrong with that? There are always two sides to every situation, a party that is bend on taking away someone's assets (possibly life) and another party defending that.
I'm definitely not writing about wtf
I believed the negative hype about Trump till I actually listened to what he had to say in context. I don't agree with the guy on a lot, but the emotional reactions instead logical debate really need to stop

>Trump phenomenon fueled on xenophobia, racism, and authoritarianism, which is scary for minorities, is an example of a gov that could go crazy.

Sentences like this are not arguments they are emotional regurgitations of fear created by endless news cycles of ad hominem attacks and half truths.

Trumphobia is the irrational fear of Donald Trump created by media attacks on a candidate they can not control.
One can still use TBB inside the functions to make use of it alongside getting MPI parallelism from easyLambda.

Moreover, easyLambda has data flows, map, reduce which in a way improves the way programs are written and composed. There are no classes to be declared for anything. It has many syntactic sugars, for column selection, control over parallelism, i/o etc. I personally like the style of coding in
it for various problems, keeping parallelism aside.
Would love to share experiences or collaborate (contact in profile if you are interested).
The Amazon Tax
But this doesn't include only questionable interpretations, it includes data that is outright incorrect.
> You can't cast a character array to any type and dereference it.

So making your own malloc backed by a static char array is undefined behavior?
In an argument about a literal "backdoor" - an entry in every person's house - you could also argue that people choose to live in houses instead of under the stars.
No, GP's statement assumes only that serotonin in the bloodstream outside the brain has different effects from serotonin in the brain, so let's put that lid back on that kettle of fish.
Hope you never buy anything other than the fastest GPU and CPU for a given model :)
In a world full of corporate sponsered politicians who make the laws without regard of the masses, a power mad executive branch that uses state of the art tech to monitor everything in an attempt to detect precrime, the mass incarceration of males based on balance sheet projections, and wide spread police brutality, and growing geopolitical unstability due to interventionalists refusing to allow the markets to reflect risk, it is no wonder the fourth estate and their loyal cadre of narrative worshippers want to totally eliminate gun ownership.
Context: Razer apparently makes a VR headset, which this is for. http://www.razerzone.com/store/osvr-hdk
I am on my way to get my US Citzenship in couple of years. I've been dreaming about visiting NorthKorea almost everyday for past 3 yrs.

Would visiting NK cause me any trouble getting my US citizenship?
Battle for Wesnoth runs on phones iirc.
External bandwidth is, this isn't going to change. The fpga will have full access to caches, this is where it will shine.
You don't need any of those to make websites and web apps already (or to be less pednantic, you don't need most of those) so I'm not sure what your question is.
Good developers can make fast sites (though that's not a given!!), but product managers will absolutely bloat your site.

"Add this third tracking/analytics tool";
"Add this custom ad format here";
"Oh this partner will give us tons of money if we put this widget on the page";
"Oh let's use Brightcove video player";
"Oh let's auto-play videos"; "drive-by A/B testing";
"We don't control this third-party 2MB image",
"The widget streams a 23MB .WAV file for background music that only auto-plays in mobile";
"Why build this in-house when we can just use this good third-party library?";
"Good third-party library costs too much, let's use this horrible but much cheaper one instead"; etc.

AMP allows you to tell your product manager: "Sorry! Not supported." Of course, with enough responses like this, a decision eventually comes down to not use AMP.
You are correct, but beg the question: why are so many popular websites so slow even if they are essentially static content?

If putting a brand on a set of techniques plus offering CDN space and serp priority gets publishers to actually build fast websites, then I am all in favor of it.
Maybe this is a stupid question... But why not straight up copy Chrome and jump up to v50 instead of v5.0?
No, most things will still be done in javascript as the benefit of doing it in Wasm is negligible.
I see this stated a lot, but I think it's exaggerated. My car's adaptive cruise control follows at about 2.5 seconds when on the maximum setting, which is where I almost always keep it, including in heavy traffic. People do occasionally jump in, but then the car just backs off a bit and starts following the new car at 2.5 seconds. It's not a constant churn, and it doesn't cause any significant delay. And this is in the DC area, with dense traffic and ridiculous drivers.

When people say that it doesn't work, I really think they're just saying that they can't stand having other people get ahead by breaking the rules, and they'd rather drive more dangerously than let that happen.
Google’s Computer Program Beats Lee Se-Dol in Go Tournament
ICQ was insanely popular in the US as well. I remember getting on it and chatting with my friends when i was a teenager in the late 90s.
Sigh...good guys with guns, again? Right. Your good guy with a gun is only that up until the moment he decides to go on a mass shooting spree. Is he still a good guy with a gun then?
> I really wonder how they dropped the ball.

In my country, ICQ died when Microsoft started shipping MSN Messenger with Windows and worked hard to make people aware of it. (Microsoft even did a silly marketing campaign for MSN that involved a guy dressed as a butterfly). People used the Messenger that was already installed in their OS, and ICQ was history.

I believe the same thing happened in most other countries, because it only took a couple of years for all the foreign ICQ buddies I had to move off to MSN.
The link to the study about optimizing fat loss got cut off - sorry about that: http://www.t-nation.com/training/hierarchy-of-fat-loss
personally I use Dropbox for that.
Think of all the technologies you have to learn to make Desktop or Mobile Apps, or both. You'll need a language to compile to Web Assembly. Then you'll need a target display layer: DOM, SVG-DOM or Canvas. DOM support for text and user interaction is way better than SVG or Canvas.
Node.js Stable tries to follow the V8 version from latest stable Chrome quite closely (i.e. soon after the corresponding Chrome release), but occasionally a V8 version may be skipped, e.g. if it has problematic API changes.

Node.js LTS branches stay on a fixed V8 version.
> Taking up hours of a candidate's time is excessive, but it seems reasonable to ask for some demonstration of your ability, when so many candidates simply cannot code.

So why not simply ask technical questions during an interview? I'd think you'd be able to determine whether or not someone know what he is talking about by simply asking him a few questions on the matter.
From my experience, you'll probably find a degree carries more weight with companies that are larger and further from actual tech.

Looking to do big 4 consulting? A degree will go a long way.

Looking to dive in at a start-up? A portfolio probably carries more weight - regardless of a degree.

There are always exceptions, but that's on par with what I've seen.

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Found an easy way to call on iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voices-advocacy-tool/id96569...
Interesting feature release even though it doesn't impact many of us (e.g. 150k/yr buy-in). I'm very curious to see exactly what level of personalization and per-user optimization their Optimize360 suite offers. I think this is the sort of thing that is going to take enterprise testing to the next stage and probably give Optimizely and VWO a very hard time.

Also, side note, did Google borrow the 360 branding from Adobe or the other way around? http://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/web-analytics.html (see: Adobe Customer360)