skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top Twitter Spammers Still Going Strong
There's a huge population of Chinese and descendants of American-Chinese from the US rail road and gold digging days in Vancouver, so it kinda makes sense for them to concentrate there. But is it Canada only and not also San Francisco and similar locations of Chinese population on that continent?
Location: near Dayton, Ohio

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Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, ES6, Bootstrap, Java, Python, C#, Ruby, Express, React, Redux, Angular, REST, WebSockets, API Design, IoT/Embedded, DevOps, Postgres, AWS

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I'm a strong developer with a lot of experience, especially with JS and Web technologies. I've worked everywhere from tiny startups up to huge megacorps and also run my own business before.

I currently work remote for IBM on the Watson team, doing mostly developer experience work (SDKs, demos, example code, etc.) + some internal tooling work to automate various processes.

The Watson group has a new manager that wants everyone to move to a small handful of cities, and I'm not in a good position to do that at the moment. I've requested an exception, but if that gets denied, then I'll be moving on to a new position.

There are a couple of other managers outside of the Watson group that want to hire me already, so there's not much chance that I'll actually be unemployed, but I thought this may be a good opportunity to look around and see what else is available.

Things I'm good at and enjoy doing:

* JavaScript: This is kind of my specialty - I've been writing AJAX-driven web apps since before jQuery even existed, and working with Node.js since v0.2.

* Developer Experience / API design and development: essentially UI and UX for developers :) I have a lot of experience here.

* Automation: I'm a big fan of Continuous Integration & Deployment, which essentially means I'm good at writing unit tests, integration tests, etc. I also like to automate business processes to speed things along.

* Open Source: I like doing Open Source work, and I believe that there is often significant value to be gained by releasing certain components of your codebase.

* IoT: I'm not really an expert here, but I've done a few projects with Arduino, ESP8266, Raspberry Pi, etc. and had a lot of fun.

If this sounds like it may be a good fit for your business, please get in touch. I might just be the purple unicorn that you've been looking for ;)
I have made a secondary Facebook account, where I add interesting people I have met. I use it exactly for the purposes you stated above.
Magnitogorsk, Russia's steel city
I agree with that. I only disagree with putting up a caricature/straw man and discussing based on that. There's no point in having a discussion if the tools being used to discuss are flawed.
Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]
Maybe, but also because it is in Vancouver. You can find similar articles for London and Russians which are mostly white.
Winning Moments from the Struggle Bus
We found this a few months ago. It was perfect for the application we were looking to build. I had to invert his recommended process for mixing it with Angular, allowing Angular to bootstrap naturally, then initializing GL. If you go that route, you just have to manually wire the window resize to resize GL.
Securing the border is now racist? Do you lock your house when you leave? The left is dead and out of ideas, get ready for a swing to the right.
As a comparison, if a containment in the water supply caused 10-15 year reduction in life expectancy, that would be considered a crisis, and there would be outrage.
The Curious Case of JavaScript’s `sort`
Apparently dead forests release less carbon into the atmosphere than expected:

"Overall, we discovered that after a tree die-off, the loss of carbon in the soil results less from increased respiration by microbes but more from the fact that trees are no longer sequestering photosynthesized carbon into the soil," Moore said. "There seems to be a dampening of the carbon cycle rather than a big pulse of carbon release. So even if the forest now goes from a sink to a source of carbon dioxide, it's not as dramatic of an effect as we thought it would be."

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/dead-forests-release-less-c...
Couldn't agree more. Living in a college town a few years ago, visitors would always mention the sheer number of Chinese students around. Nevermind the fact that there were just as many students from India, European countries and other regions around every corner.

If they bring ambition, ideas and pay taxes, who cares? That is just my opinion, of course.
Accel raises $500M for a huge, new venture fund in Europe and Israel
Aggregate Error Alerting Using Logback/Log4j and Axibase Time Series Database
Microsoft adds QR codes to BSODs in Windows 10
(link takes you to the pwn'd page, be careful)
> I have a ton of weird files that I wrote in VIM while I was tripping most heavily.

Which of course is the normal state for anyone who uses VIM by choice ;-)
Cheers. It's true, there is no "minimizing" as such, it's just a toggle between maximised and original state.

Similarly the close icon does close a popout window, popping it back in can be done via the button in the bottom right
Wow, this is completely different than my understanding and viewing trigger warnings being used. They were used to simply say "hey I'm going to talk about this, if you don't like it you might wanna leave, I'll let you know when I'm done".

Could you explain further some examples of trigger warnings IRL that you've dealt with, because I assume there aren't widespread studies about this sort of thing and you seem to have a vastly different experience than mine. I'd like to understand it.
Str.lua: a string module with useful methods to Lua
debian supports something like this, if you remove the jessie-updates line and only have the release source (which is never changed) and the security source in /etc/apt/sources.list

I'm not sure if this is recommended, I could imagine that some security fixes might be based on updated packages from jessie-updates.

You might also run into fixed bugs by ignoring stability fixes, personally I don't think it's worth it.
When it goes both ways it can be called a "spiral" or "trap". Poverty does that on a wide range of issues.
"Use stored procedures instead" - in most use cases this is prolly a really really bad idea.
Yeah, YouTube didn't even register a view of my video and nobody did the demo. I suspect being a solo-founder was an almost automatic disqualification for me not to mention it seems as if the caliber of startups I see coming out of each class is getting better and better.

I am more disappointed about not getting a fellowship interview than a core interview (haven't locked down first customer yet so probably not ready for that stage). Oh well. Now to do my fifty cold calls for the day!
Or something else contributes to both income and health (intelligence seems like a good candidate, there's a similar multi year life expectancy difference between the high and low ends).

I wonder how much simply controlling for parents' money and health would make this go away, although that doesn't separate effects from monetary inheritance.
> an eternalistic view of (space-)time is more likely correct, as seems to be implied by the theory of relativity, I know that my life here on earth won't disappear as a consequence of death

Can you expand on this? Do you mean to say that your life won't disappear because you'll always exist at a specific point in time space?
The two kinds of migration are very much part reason for the rich cultures we have in many places. I always suggest to check the local country's dictionary for the etymology of words. I don't understand how the caucasian-looking US population can claim to be the real Americans, ignoring that the US has been one of the richest mix of immigrants.
> Are there laws that prohibit you from showing brands in videos shot in public places now?

No, but that doesn't stop the companies from filing lawsuits or threatening too if they don't like the context their brand was shown in.
Maybe the gentrification is an issue, but you either have a free market or not. Deciding to not sell real estate to foreigners wouldn't fly with the rest of the world.
I agree with that point. I only disagree with caricaturization of a viewpoint you disagree with.

I will ask, is there much wrong with a group of people organizing a safe space for themselves? It's impossible to make a public space "safe" but is it possible for individual groups to make spaces for themselves IRL? For example, my research university had an area in which LGBTQ people had meetups for bi people, LGBTQ of color, etc. I found that perfectly possible to exist.
Our software must get better
Perhaps GP means that 2% of the "DNA" can't be traced to recent African ancestors, so it "must have" come from Neanderthals?

Ah, nice, that meets my steelmanning quota for this week.
There are laws about disclosing ads, no machine learning required.
Not for Python, but for a lua-like language: terralang.org
that's because it's Montreal.
I'm using http://docker.webcabin.org/ and I love it. This looks great though!
That's the whole point of anger towards them. Thats dirty money. That's money laundering. They don't pay income/corporate tax in Canada.
The fantastic SimEarth had a great daisyworld simulator that illustrated the concept well. You had two species of daisies, light and dark, and their balance had a huge effect on the world.

Of all the Sim games, that's the one I'd most like to see get an update (though "Planet melting? pay $29.99 for in-game carbon credits!" would be an off-putting business model).
> We've already had AR. It was called "Google Glass".

That's a poor outlook IMO and a mindset that would kill innovation. Hadn't there been plenty of touch screen/smartphones before the iPhone? Failure doesn't indicate the end of technology, but a good opportunity to improve.
Doctor invents a $0.75 voice prosthesis, current alternatives cost $300+
I had a similar problem with some Anker cables - they'd die with light use. I found at least one culprit in that my wife would rest her thumb on the cable connection while the phone charged. This bent something enough the cable would stop working.

But some of them have simply stopped working after use on my desk or being carried around in my backpack for a while. I've switched to aukey for cables for that reason. Whether they're any more reliable is TBD.
I for one would love the strength of SPARK with a more newfangled, perhaps rusty syntax. Call it Oxidise.
So they've unveiled a new 'tree of life' for Bacteria.
> I don't think SEH actually calls destructors when unwinding C++, unlike C++ exceptions. This makes it leaky to use for anything other than fatal exceptions.

How do you come to the conclusion that SEH is a leaky abstraction instead of the behavior of C++ destructors?
PCI device forwarding. Holy mother of DMA attacks!

Could you give me a citation for this please? Google is unhelpful and only refers to "PCI compliance" which is not at all the same thing (and also a problem for different reasons).
If anyone thinks that this behavior is desirable, download BuzzOff [1], it blocks BuzzFeed and other click bait on the web. It is more than a simple DNS block, it removes entire elements that contain click bait from websites like Facebook, so that they never even appear.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/buzzoff/jhnikgaddd...
Another issue is that some of these rich kids usually don't integrate and have no desire to do so. They just milk the system. I studied at UBC. You will be surprised how many students can't speak basic conversational English.
I like it too! Streetware, fashion: its like the new liquid asset right now. The part where buyers can "bid" on price is particularly compelling. I'd also like to see the "sell" side of the interface: in other words the data you are going to present to retailers and brands since ultimately they are the ones you will be selling this product to ;)
I spent an hour reading this thread and I still have no idea whether I should try it or not. I always leave confused when I read about LSD, as if it's both amazing and horrible.
Clickable -> http://london.nodeconf.com/
The internet greatly magnifies the perceived prevelance of this "infantile culture". I think most people do not see this effect hardly at all in day to day life, but love to get enraged about it online. It's a fad that's going to blow over when enough people get tired of being upset/vindicated by it, not some crazy Orwellian scenario.
There's no problem with newspapers writing a stock pieces for either eventuality, and yes, sometimes someone will accidentally press the wrong button, and the wrong version might go up for a bit.

But the wrong story they put up wasn't a generic piece. It has specific claims about specific actions, which obviously didn't happen. They made claims about how the defendent acted upon hearing the judgement (Knox "sank into her chair sobbing uncontrollably while her family and friends hugged each other in tears"), it had quotes from Italian prison officers, etc. It was clearly an outright fabrication. They wrote, in detail, about Knox' reaction to the verdict, before the vedict was handed down. And we only know they made it up because they cocked up.
Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go
Humans are not rocks, nor are we trees. Our nature demands growth, change and action in order for us to flourish.
Obviously rich could afford fresh, non-junk food, less toxic environments, better ecology (less polluted, less crowded areas with better water sources - less infections, less hazards, etc).

Mere environment matters a lot.

Update: What is wrong with that? Look how rich segregate themselves and where they used to live.

Also ask any sociologist or comparative historian.
That's the first I've heard of it if so. For example, this statement which appears to have a lot of supporters in the community says nothing about hallway conversations, and merely objects to him being chosen as a speaker:

https://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io

If it was, "this guy keeps harassing conference goers and holding unofficial mini sessions on how awesome racism is" then I might reconsider my position, but that's not what I've seen anybody (besides you, here, anyeay) say.
Vancouver is a better city in terms of weather and the scenery.
My go-to story whenever anyone says "money can't buy happiness" is this:

A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Liver Cancer around the same time as Steve Jobs. Both lived near SF, and both were put on the waiting list for transplants around the same time (+- 2 months). She was young, very sick and otherwise healthy so was a good candidate to be high on the list.

Then I heard about Steve "moving" to Tennessee [1] to get on a different, shorter transplant list - and thus receiving the transplant needed. She died shortly after, never receiving a transplant, while Jobs lived two more years.

This is not a complaint or gripe about fairness, but just a demonstration of how two very different people in a very similar predicament had massively different outcomes based almost entirely on wealth, fame and power. Money buys access, which create options, which enable health, freedom and longevity. It's so simple and obvious I don't know how people can argue otherwise.

[1] http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/southern-transplants-ho...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6Nq_bN_XY
> I fail to see the relevance of safe spaces and trigger warnings to what you wrote. Large portions of the student body hated the anti-abortion stuff and you protested against it and worked around it. Go you. That's how things should be done.

Well, you see, the tunnel was called a safe space. And people were waving around signs saying "trigger warning: gore pictures ahead".

> No one's forcing you to attend the Marxist/Nazi/Libertarian/Socialist speaker's talk. They're objecting to the attempt to prevent them speaking at all.

I don't see how this is possible, because the internet exists and also because people can make their own talks off-campus or so. Of course, no business establishment or property owner, or even university is obligated to give them a platform. No one is obligated to give any idea or viewpoint a platform. Certain subjects are approved of for platforming by the people that set the rules for how their buildings are to be used. Is that censorship?
"Gay & transpeople people are ill and/or preverts" is not an extreme. There are a great many people and politicians who make those claims today. Just look at North Carolinas' new law.
The only way to reduce fear is exposure to its trigger. To confront it head-on. If we stop facing what makes us feel bad, stop discussing what is unpleasant, we will not just fail as individuals but as a society.
It may well be a cancer buts it's won the battle. Better to accept the mutation to the business model while you still can before the cancer kills it
Big cities always have rich kids.

There is an undercurrent of racism in this article and in Vancouverites' attitudes towards rich kids from asia.

We tend to think of these kids through a lens where we think of our own childhoods and imagine adding enormous wealth. "Just like my childhood except add a $150,000 car allowance".

This is often not the case though. These kids can experience very difficult childhoods. Sent to a foreign country to attend boarding school, or live with a nanny in a big empty house. Hostile, often racist citizens all around them, and people constantly critical of their wealth. (how can you blame a 17 year old for having rich parents?)

I grew up in Vancouver with many kids like these around me. The vast majority of them are good, decent, friendly people who frankly have a tough time in their circumstance.

There is also a certain self-fulfulling prophecy in the whole dynamic, where hostile (often racist) Vancouverites immediately throw scorn all over these kids and their families... and then when they graduate and leave people say "see, they just came here to get an education and make a quick buck from the housing market". Well perhaps if we were less hostile and more welcoming, it would be a different story, and better for everyone including the local economy.
Until recently, the reverse (foreigners buying property in China) was illegal. I believe it's still problematic, company ownership requires a local partner, and there are capital controls.
Yes, people buy a lot of crap they don't need. It's not clear to me that they would stop doing so without advertising, or whether ads are just getting them to buy different crap. Besides, with the constant concern about "aggregate demand", it's far from clear to me that people would actually be allowed to keep those savings.
https://terminal.sexy/ is a better demo of Golden Layout's capabilities.
Actual study (open access!): http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(16)30033-7

Many of the shortcuts taken in TFA seem to lead to confusion rather than understanding, so this might be worth a read.
EOSDIS Worldview
This is pretty close. A simpler way of describing this is 2% of the average genetic heritage of a European is able to be traced back to Neanderthals. This is a lower bound and it may be higher.

The more interesting observation is that the 2% is not the same 2% in everyone of a European genetic background. Overall at least 25% of the Neanderthal genome is present across the whole population.
My junior (at the time) coworker created the 64bit implementations by reading the original papers. But you should be able to find other implementations on github now, since the paper has been out for a while. Our code is pretty tied to software (our allocation / buffer handling).

In hindsight, it might not have been the best idea to say. Hey you just started working with C++ and never worked with SIMD, so yeah... I need to extend this SIMD Fast PFOR scheme to 64bit. But he ended up doing quite well.
> "Use stored procedures instead" - in most use cases this is prolly a really really bad idea.

This is a common recommendation. The basis for it is two fold, 1) You strictly define the inputs for your transaction as the parameters for the stored proc and 2) You have a single round trip from the app to the DB.

For a complex transaction involving says 10 separate operations (insert X, query Y, update Z, ...) that's 10 network roundtrips that are saved. Add to that eliminating the transit of data from the DB to the app server.
Did the author post this having entirely ignored all of the news and discussion about this last week?

This just seems like a seriously tardy "me-too" piece.
That's what they should be about.

They're being misused. If Peter Tatchell (a prominent campaigner for LGBT rights) or Germaine Greer risk being no-platformed that's a pretty clear sign the concept is being misused.
tl;dr; Java 7 still below Java 8, Java 6 phasing out quickly shrinking 2x each year
I forgot where I read the idea but some neuroscientists proposed that consciousness in the brain is more a measure of interconnectivity of activated brain regions. Basically, whatever brain region communicates with each other allows for mixed matching, whatever that brain region does (synesthetic people are very concrete examples of this).

What do you think? Could this be true?

I find it interesting to consider but have a hard time understanding how the brainstem fits into this.

-- psych. & computer science student with a strong interest in cognitive science & neuroscience
Not the parent poster, but I have some experience of geometric algebra being promoted as a superior language for geometric computing. This started for me in the first year of university with a tutor who was keen to introduce bivectors (a GA concept) though officially they weren't on the syllabus. (Bivectors can represent 3D angular momentum in a slightly more useful way than straight vectors.) David Hestenes was presented as a bit of a hero, the pioneer of GA for physics. It didn't stick for me.

At Siggraph 2001 there were for the first time a couple of "GA for computer graphics" presentations given by Leo Dorst and Steve Mann. They were promoting GA as "the way" for doing geometric computations on computer. Dorst is an interesting and pleasant speaker and the apparent brashness of the "one true framework for geometric computing" claim didn't really colour his delivery of the presentation. Again, for me it just didn't stick, though the idea of a breakthrough in the design of geometric mathematics, with strong historical roots in the 19th C, was appealing.

Since then the GA bandwagon has rolled gently on but I haven't seen any killer apps produced so far.

http://www.geometricalgebra.net/
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/GABLE/SIGGRAPH01/
You don't get it. German, French men are white males too, but I don't think any of them would describe themselves as 'white males' the way you do. Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, whatever. The idea of adding your race or skin color to your gender in day to day speech is weird pretty much anywhere apart from US.

> Being a minority is actually hard in this country.

What country would that be? /s

De facto patriarchies exist all over the world, but that doesn't mean that they consist of 'white males'.
from peasants to billionaires.. new money with some of the worst tastes.. that's why the tackiest luxury brands are selling like hot cakes in China..

Buying a BMW is not sufficient, it has to be a BMW not made in China, otherwise, it's considered a step down..
What this might point to is room for a new high-level
language that maps better to the reality of current
hardware.

Isn't that exactly what the author said in his last two paragraphs, including a hand-wavy sketch of what he thinks that high-level language might look like?