skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has worked on HFT systems for a decade, if there is one piece of advice I can give on the matter, it is this: test with production-like data. Having processes, 'performance-culture' and unit-wise perf testing is all good and fine, but unless you test your features with production-like loads, you can never be sure.

I've seen features that were regression/unit tested and code-reviewed to death fail in production because all that testing was done at < 10 transactions/sec with a dataset of about 100, when typical production values were in the neighborhood of 1000/tx/sec with a dataset of perhaps 10,000.

At the very beginning of the design process, someone needs to ask, "How frequently will this feature get invoked? What kind of latency can the user tolerate?"
Maybe Netflix wants to eliminate alternatives to their "display every movie we have in every category" scheme.
aka: parallel construction
Agree. HR is often not the employee's ally in this situation. Their goal is to protect the company from claims and repetitional harm. Sometimes this aligns with the employee's best interest, sometimes not.
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This is a somewhat alarming site to view without javascript.
I think the question is how the character of the surveillance changes when technology allows it to be done at larger scales with longer retention and more data mining. I think this a central question in modern privacy policy. You could argue that since its appropriate for the cops in a patrol car to look around, and cite someone they see jaywalking, it would be appropriate to install 360° high resolution cameras, to programmatically analyze the footage to cite everyone for jaywalking and other similarly trivial offenses, and to retain the footage indefinitely. Or you could argue that the aggregation and automation changes things.

It has taken society centuries to come to the notions of privacy and public rights against the state that we have today. If the aggregation, retention and analysis enabled by technology changes things, as I think they do, and I think many of us here think they do, then we as a society have our work cut out for us to update our notions of privacy.
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There is a line of thinking by many in this thread that if two parties enter into a transaction, and one party has significantly more wealth than the other party, the party with significantly more wealth is automatically guilty of exploiting the party with less wealth, regardless of how said wealth was accumulated. While this may be the case in a small number of transactions, it forgoes the assumption that one is innocent until proven guilty. It also isn't really a productive line of thought in trying to find a solution...assuming guilt/exploitation by those who are better off than us does not make us any better off.
but is there a leftpad package available?
No answers here, sorry.

If I was asking this question, I'd want to know where the premium places are for finding information. As a Python user I'm comfortable with python.org and stackoverflow, and I can distinguish between good resources and bad on a google or ddg search. Any problems I ever had with anything .net or ms in general has been that my view of searched information makes it look like a maze with no exit.
These POWER chips are an open design; thus, anyone who wants Google as a customer and has a chip fab ready to go (like, say, AMD) could, in theory just fab some up to sell to Google.
Jobs did that by good marketing and design plus use of sweatshops, lockin tactics, legal attacks on outside innovators, and hoarding of most cash results. The latter are a common way to make lots of money. The great design and marketing let him make more than the rest. The only real impact, though, is in a few areas: inspiring people to put desktops into phones (big one); lockin of those (another big contribution); one company's, balance sheet.
I've seen speculation that the reason you never see melatonin pills less than 1mg is this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5449683:

"the dose of melatonin administered ranges from 0.1 to 1.0 mg of melatonin"

The larger dosages supposedly have less risk of running afoul of the patent.
Has anyone got a checklist for package managers? There are so many it'd be nice to be able to predict what problems they're going to face in the future (and hopefully prompt better design in the process)
This is a very poorly reasoned article. First it frames the options as either poor people are lazy, or rich people are exploiting them into poverty. There are many possible causes of poverty, other than either option.

The title is also ridiculous. Yes, in a market driven economy, some people are going to make a profit off of poor people, but that's true for every economic level. As far as I'm concerned that's only a problem when it's exploitative.

The premise is that landlords are keeping them down through rent, but that is BS as well. There are many voucher programs, and those that receive them don't miraculously escape from poverty.

I'm not opposed to providing housing subsidies for those in poverty conditions, but it is not the cause of poverty.
Also he is talking about a particular type of restaurant -- the "trendy" type where people want to pay high prices in order to be viewed as successful and maybe to see a celebrity or two at a nearby table. No, a bowl of ramen shouldn't cost $28 (or even "just" $17). The ramen places I go to, run by (and largely for) immigrants, sell excellent bowls of ramen for well under $10. Such restaurants are in no danger of going away.
The difference is that in this case Facebook controls the complete platform including access to the customers that your startup requires to survive and prosper.

Paypal had independent access to markets. It just grew fastest via eBay because it solved a problem that eBay initially could not.

Clone PC makers had independent BIOS and MS-DOS so IBM could not snuff them. It finally lost when it tried to move PC users to the PS/2 platform and customers would not follow.

Microsoft negotiated and blocked exclusive licensing and control by IBM of MS-DOS before the first IBM PC shipped.

So yes, you can succeed if you have a way out of the inherent trap of being just another sharecropper. And to do that you better have negotiated a much better deal where you have options that cannot be easily blocked that are not being offered to everyone else. But you cannot expect to win much if you accept the publicly offered terms.

Facebook's terms of use for their platform allow them to cut you off from "your passionate users" at Facebook's whim.
You can use this to include Node.js libraries on your Qt/QML projects: https://github.com/quickly/quickly
Yes people have the gumption to ask for numbers like that, and yes that's how it works. What you described is a heavily abbreviated version, but it's pretty much it.

Startup founders sit down with corp dev folks at a larger company.

They've had a dance with them before even setting foot onsite, now they'll dance again in this meeting and similar meets for several months.

A number will be proposed to the founders by the corp dev folks after they've done a fair bit of wooing, the founders can choose to push back or take it. They'll hash out details of the acquisition, such as finances, logistics, long term strategy, etc.

But long story short, yes, they ask for really high numbers. It's not so much "gumption" as it is "you know what you're worth and you don't want to leave money on the table."
Do you mean "actually" or "perfectly"?
This appears to be the trend in most countries, as enabling a population to vote themselves money puts incentives in all the wrong places.
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qstring.html#rightJustified

:)
I like it. There's definitely an opportunity here. `iostreams` is stateful and using it for formatted I/O has a faint masochistic flavor. `printf()` is fine, but recall that the compiler writers had to learn to critique the comparison between formatting characters and remaining arguments for a reason. What you want is to smack things together into an output pattern that's good enough. The leverage of callability is clearly a point in favor.
You can also check out www.dxflights.com for realtime HFDL tracking on a map view.
I own a Cessna 182 that was originally owned by the Washington State Police. While they owned it they added an automotive-style muffler (planes don't normally have mufflers) to use it for stealth surveillance. They tore that all out before they sold the plane.

There's a pretty complete description of what they did in the Form 337 history: http://mike.laiosa.org/N6594E/Airworthiness.pdf - see in particular pages 27 and 55.
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It probably won't; I can see a child assembling this more easily than building a reprap though. I think the target audience are children and I see this (as their whole lineup)
as an educational product and gateway into engineering.

On the one end we have these fully assembled one-piece 3d printer. On the very other end we have DIY with or without a construction kit 3d printer. None of these are really targeted towards kids; this is, I think is.
You hear people talking about you, and you think you are being pushed out. I expect you will dismiss this possibility, but...

It just occurred to me that my brother had this too. He was certain that people would talk about him being gay. It wasn't actually happening. He was starting to get schizophrenia.

If this is happening to you, you won't want to believe it. Prove it: get checked.
I had always presumed the vast majority of economists working in tech were simply doing transfer pricing... shuffling profits overseas to minimize taxes.
When an API "default" can ruin the life of people, it's really sad that such "IP intelligence" was not thought right from the beginning to answer "can not be found".

Similar story [0] to a lesser degree is still horrible to the people it affects.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/
The NSA intervened during an Airbus tender worth $6 Billion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns

Harry Potter generated revenue: over $24 Billion:

http://www.statisticbrain.com/total-harry-potter-franchise-revenue/

"National security" is money.
Yeah exactly. Google waves these around from time to time to have something over which to negotiate.
Yeah great guys. This after the other GCHQ feel good on smart metres. No thanks GCHQ.

PR on a dodgy govt agency that thinks the rules don't apply to them delivered via state web site.
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Found your channel for those who might be interested. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzx5KAxuUZAjiXbaJpVxuw

Cheers mate :)
As an aside, I'm surprised tax code simplification isn't a bigger issue in this current US presidential election. Apple and Google hold billions of dollars outside of the US in order to pay lower taxes. I would have thought more people would be looking for solutions to this common problem.
I'll agree with your last, but your first statement is as incorrect as well. How do you know they care about it?

If somebody is passionate, then they certainly do care about it, but you are correct lack of passion does not equal lack of care, so I'll revise my statment.

Public service is the last place I want somebody who is not passionate about their job.
Is there a list of packages anywhere? Seems strange to download a package manager and just hope there are any packages.
Radar has been used to do continuous ground surveillance since the 60s [0]. Most people associate it with anti-armor, but it was originally used to track humans beneath the jungle canopy. Systems had been developed to collect and integrate that data for event analysis long before its application in Iraq.

Ross McNutt is simply selling a product, and cameras are easier to sell than radar sensors.

[0] https://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no2/12...
I asked this on the original thread too but never got an answer, and I ask it again because I'm not familiar with how publishing works: If I submit a series of short stories, would I still retain the right to collect them into a book and have it published elsewhere, like Asimov did with Foundation?
Where is the correction? I just grabbed the article from two different IPs and it says the same thing. Do you think that 600M is 10 orders of magnitude larger than 17M?
Yes, that was a pain. Particularly because it was only true of list comprehensions, not dict comprehensions or generators:

Python 2.7.10 ...
>>> a = 3
>>> [a for a in range(10)]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> a
9
>>> a = 3
>>> list(a for a in range(10))
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> a
3

Guido called it Python's 'dirty little secret'. It is fixed in Py3 though.
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AMD doesn't have a chip fab - they are fabless now.
I went to a Chinese restaurant in Beijing that had a dish of fried lamb with cumin that was served with a side of french fries. Something got lost in translation though because the french fries came with a dipping sauce which was a whole can of cold tomato paste.
Is it so hard to grasp that local optimization does not necessarily lead to globally favorable conditions?
Love the concept, good sci-fi is hard to come by.

Design thought: the reading experience would be vastly improved by a larger font size and shorter line length. See https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ or similar for inspiration.
Build your backend and all its parts, then use curl or python or something equally "simple" to access it.
[jk] a package manager of package managers is coming to rule them all )
Not at all, but it is representative of the best of Perl culture: smart people who enjoy playing with unexpected corners of a complex system, while remembering the difference between "work" and "play." See Ton Hospel's insane Roman numeral calculator: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=594299
Calling a voluntary consumer purchase a "feudal model" is really stretching it.
Some, yes. However, a lot of economist work goes into real-time ad auction platforms, marketing, fraud detection, and many other places where human interaction and incentives meet automated systems.

As an economist in the technology/data science space, I've found that the training and methodology brings a lot to table, such as the feature engineering side of ML or investigating business processes for incentive misalignment.
I prefer `spdlog` which comes with the `fmt` library which is a (type safe) implementation of python/C# style string formatters.

However I do like the ability to provide arbitrary additional operators provided by this system.
Can the Internet of Things give you a green thumb?
Hmm, maybe delaware should jack up pensions.
Will the package manager manage itself?
> print("hello",who,"answer",answer,'\n'); -- This is cute, ... but what if you need an integer in hex, or a floating-point number to a particular precision, and so forth?

Then you can use a helper function to convert them to string objects first.

print("A:", hex(r.a, 4), " X:", hex(r.x, 4), " C:", integer(c, -10, ' '), "\n");

If your string class is smart enough to do small-string optimization (SSO), then this won't even need heap allocation, so the overhead is really very minimal.

This is basically what I do for my string library. But I also have a special format mode for things like UI localization:

print(tr("{1} is the value of {0}\n"), format{name, value});
//tr returns "{0}の値は{1}です\n" for Japanese locale

This goes further than printf by allowing you to very easily reorder the arguments. (omitting the indexes and using just {} makes them sequential.) [I've heard printf can do this too, but I don't know if that's standardized. I've never seen anyone do it in the wild.]

The format{} builds a list of values [I convert them to strings but you could use an any type if you wanted), and when print() gets a const format& as a type, it applies the list to the current string before it. It would be a trivial exercise to extend the token syntax to support formatting rules, eg "{0,-4h}" or what not.

Further, adapters can be added outside the library. So for SQL, one can have bindings via:

database.execute("select * from user where name=? and age >= ?",
escape{name, minimumAge});

Still, I'll freely confess that this isn't in the spirit of the C++ standard library: you pay a tiny bit of performance overhead in return for niceness. But unless your application is I/O bound to string formatting, I strongly believe it's worth the (minimal) cost.

String interpolation would make C++ print statements even nicer, but that's unlikely to ever arrive.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I will certainly review the link you sent! I don't have any volunteers who have front-end design experience, so there is a lot of room for improvement.
I think there's something super creepy about a secretive government agency flippantly exhibiting power creep.
Just even having a page, with a small bounty, and a secure means of submitting a exploitable bug. If you want to dig deeper, I'd contact professional bug hunters and ask them how to insure that the value on the bug matches the reward.
My "logic" is real, not theory.

Without laws, there are people making $0.50/day and the air is not breathable in China.
I saw that one, but I think this one showed what tech stack you were using, for example, Ruby on Rails or PHP.
Well.

I think it has been a good thing so far. Considering who tends to get access to new things first the ones that would still be living would most likely not be the nicest men and women of all times but rather the greediest.
I am a darknet and tor virgin and I am grasping at straws to grab a name and just ask for help. How do i find a hacker for targets phone and faceboook? princesspageantroom@yahoo.com PLEASE HELP ME I AM A WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN CHEATED ON (DEB)
It is terrible they saw it at all. It is terrible they acted on the information. As much as I dislike the tea party, I'd rather not have people targeted for auditing based on their (flawed) political affiliation or connections with wealthy donors.

GCHQ is way out of line here. I am very concerned that the agency will eventually use these capabilities to blackmail our elected leaders. As much as I'd like to have leaders who aren't corrupt, we have what we have. I'd still not want our corrupt politicians to be slaves to shadowy organizations.
Damn, you're the first person I've ever downvoted, and it occurred accidently while trying to upvote you, sorry!

To your comment, I'm sure it's possible. But you may want to also ask if it's worth to add to the cognitive overload of behaving rationally, while also fighting our innate tendency to think in terms of narratives. I think narrative/metaphorical rationale is actually a very useful cheat to (a) communicate effectively to others and (b) rewire your own behaviours.
Oh wow. Is there a good reason for this?
I'm not sure what it's attempting to do, but the data it provided me was completely wrong. It was claiming there were only 6 days left in the year, for example. (It's April 10th, so there are many more than 6 days left.) It said 20 minutes left in the hour, but it's 8:22, so there's more like 38 minutes left. WTF?
> "Not nearly as much as if you lived in another developed country, where your money would be paying for healthcare for all, higher education for all, etc. etc. "

Really, you're going to trot out American healthcare? There is no place on earth with higher healthcare costs than the USA.
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In Firefox, you can click the little book icon to turn on better readability. (Reader View)

It definitely improves the layout, you can copy that design basically. Smaller content width, bigger fonts.

Also, thanks for putting this together!!!
You have not offered any argument, you have simply said "if you don't see it my way, you should reconsider".

Why should I reconsider? What about your view do you feel is better than living healthier for longer?

The way I see it, if you take advantage of doctors at all you are already competing against your own ideals.

We have made huge leaps in health such that even if we die at 80, our lives will have been much more healthy and active up until that point.

If I can be healthy and active until 80 and then die at 100, then I will do that. It isn't immortality they are after, it's just more high quality life.

There is nothing graceful, or more respectable, about succumbing to death because it is the social norm at a certain age. I will cling on to life until I can no longer.
These were some of the drones and surveillance flights over South Bay during the Super Bowl: https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/696475657375625216
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bootstrapping package manager, yes )
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I'm not going to read all of that right now. Buy you've earned yourself a subscriber.
Are you sure? Global Foundry is owned by AMD, no?
True, though if you go significantly to the west, many people will keep track of a more sane local time too.
The last commit I saw was "shry15harsh committed with ChALkeR on Apr 7, 2014"

edit: interesting, github shows two different dates. I guess the commit date and author date are very different for the latest commit.
I'd assume the following reason: Planes are the "easy" default, clearly legal to operate, well-understood and most people don't think twice if they happen to see a Cessna somewhere.

Drones probably have legal issues, big ones (range, payload) are also quite expensive to build and operate and require more specialized skills (unless there are tons of ex-military drone operators to be hired cheaply?). Would also probably attract more attention.

Blimps have been proposed and tested for all kinds of surveillance tasks, but you'd get the main benefit again if they were autonomous. Seems to be in development, but not there yet.
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I'm sorry I missed your question the last time around. Yes, you retain the copyright, I just buy 'first world electronic print rights.' This means that I'm buying exclusive rights to publish electronically for a period of time (in this case 6 months) and after that I have non-exclusive publishing rights (so you can sell or publish reprints any time after 6 months). After 3 years you have the option of terminating my non-exclusive rights altogether, although you don't need to to sell your own reprints. I've been told by authors that my contract is the most author-friendly they've seen (it's based on SFWA's model magazine contract).
I can only speak from anecdotal memory, but I'm pretty sure Wit.AI primarily used clojure (arguably one of the most expressive lisps of all time) to go from 0 to acquisition in 18(!) months for what was essentially a pure software product.
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The reason 90% of everything is crap is that these things like performance and quality are almost directly opposed to business interests/needs. That seems unlikely to change. And it is a good reason to bet on free and open source software.

Manager B would most likely be politicked out of his/her job.
There are already whole fleets of autonomous planes in the air. They have autopilot. The only difference is that when something goes wrong in the air, you can't just pull over and get a tech to the plane. You need someone already in the cockpit who knows what they are doing.
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Well, at the very least I hope they aren't trying to package C++ with this...