skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And someone took that offer. And I bet he complained about the engineer he got at that price. Summarily launching into a tyrade about how important it is for non management to know their place--manager here--and just like his big brother Bill, didn't understand how non managers were making a manager's salary. Meanwhile, better paid engineers were making the job of many FLMs redundant by turning the employees they manage into scripts. Sounds like a good reason to pay a programmer like a manager, huh?
I'm not sure if I clicked upvote or downvote, sorry. Using HN on a small screen right now. I meant to upvote.
No one needs turing complete smart contracts. The overhead of this unnecessary feature will likely sink this project.
> The problem was that the OTA was reality-based and reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Speaking about bias ...
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The AM335x PRU is exactly the Cortex-M core that they were talking about :). It just happens to be on-die with the main core.

Very cool project, thanks for linking!
> PyPy exists and works as both an open source project and as a codebase, which is no easier to achieve than coming up with an idea.

I have no idea what you are getting at here.
Hasn't that been demonstrated false? Women (girls) start out just as interested in everything including technology. They are socialized away from math and science. Any physiological bias is in the noise.
Mod: it would be good to fix the capital "S" too.
This is not about collecting census data, is it?

So, sticking to what it is about, if you think your invoking of the Nazis and the Holocaust was even remotely appropriate in this thread, explain how banning anonymous SIM cards aids a future genocide.
The slide about "real engineers" is priceless. Real engineers don't care about money? They want a "mission"? Ha! Good luck hiring engineers in ad-tech, finance, etc. What's the mission? Showing more annoying ads to users? Yeah!

I guess I'm not a real engineer, cause I care about money. I sell a skill, provide a service, this service has value, pay me.

Now, TBH, a few good advice in this presentation, but often weirdly worded. Making sure the spouse/family is happy is a good advice, but doesn't have to be presented as "the wife/girlfriend".
Could you do this in less time without ego?
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And I thought the character of 'C' in the Spectre(2015 film) was a bit over the top. How silly I was, the fact that it culminated only on one character was actually a massive understatement
The danger here is that you are assuming that the main dominatedness of a field does not alter conditions around it in a way that is potentially self-fulfilling.

What I am suggesting is that while I agree that these disparities were likely due to class differences that manifested themselves in racial and gender inequalities, we now have a world where the industry is dominated by one gender and a few racial groups. Does the present situation makes it less likely for more women and minorities join tech? Without an activist drive, the answer seems likely.

A lot of what the author brings up here are forces today that makes the reversal you are hoping for less likely, unless an equal but opposite activist force is applied.
I guess I haven't been paying attention to the latest from a man who would give toddlers a run for their money in the tantrum department (well, other than telling Wild Tangent to leave me alone). Why he's getting the time of day, I have no idea. Sure, he did something something DirectX twenty years ago at Microsoft, but if he's done anything of note since other than run his mouth, I must have missed it.

If anything he has to say upsets you, ask yourself "why?" Because he's a brilliant game dev ala Carmack? Because everyone wants to work for Wild Tangent? Because of those lovely AAA titles Wild Tangent cranks out one after another? The answer to all is "no". So why do you care? Hell, his own offspring doesn't want anything to do with him. You can't stop VentureBeat and TechCrunch from writing it, but you don't have to read it.
Add inherited from Chrome dev console and awesome logo! ;) I'm trying to use it as main browser today. Only annoying thing is [x] button on the left side of the tab.
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For some softwares like Nginx you should use official repo from the Nginx team and not rely on your distro repos.

http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
I personally feel it caused an unhelpful epidemic of snark about technology. When you have a bug you're trying to squash and you take a break and skim Twitter, this kind of sentiment is like salt in the wound.
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Heat pump.

EDIT: Unless you live somewhere where the ambient temp goes below ~0F, get a heat pump.
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> This, folks, is a racial (and gender) pathology claim.

Could it not also/instead be a social upbringing thing instead?

If the media I see regarding African Americans is indicative to their culture, we have no further to look than BET and the cornucopia of movies like "Hot Tub Time Machine", "Black Coffee", and "Dear White People".

The current african american culture appears broken. Single parent households are everywhere, anti-intellectualism is paramount... Book learning is "white people stuff".

It's always a pleasant shock to meet those from the African nations over here. They're kind, intelligent, and well spoken. It's especially funny/sad when american blacks try to communicate with them, and get distant and nasty when they realize they are from Africa.

Women, on the other hand, are trained from elementary school that they are good at "english, social studies, and soft sciences". Boys do the hard stuff. That is little to do with capability, but bad training from a scholastic age.
Intel isn't "Papa's Fabless Semi Company", and they've got better things to be doing with their expensive fabs than running chips through them to sit on shelves for the rest of time, hoping that someone comes along and buys them. I completely understand why Intel's not interested in wasting a ton of money doing a big production run of these chips, and then having to worry about things like the product's lifecycle without a large enough financial incentive to back it.

That isn't to say "they won't sell their solder on chips to distributors," because they absolutely do: Go to Mouser, select Intel, and look - Quarks and Atoms galore, even high end networking chips, all available for purchase.

One of the sad things I've learned first hand about the tech business is that even profitable small products are just not interesting to billion dollar companies. You need large enough revenues to make a splash as well, and these tiny MCUs selling at quantities of 10K here or 20K there just isn't enough to make Intel want to work for it.

Furthermore, if Intel wants to compete with these SoC vendors, they need to start acting like them - the Curie being a good example of that. They built a custom chip to do what their customers asked of them, and now they're selling it directly to those customers. Everything they're doing is fitting the strategy they've laid out.
It's good advice for most. I'm sure poker champions want their money invested similarly (instead of having their children attempt to grow their wealth by following their footsteps). But we shouldn't deny that investing is a skill.
Voting is an inefficient way to find the truth. And weighting votes against celebrity posts is just punishing success.

I think Stack Exchange does this best with the ability to edit answers, but at the very least people who disagree should be able to state their case without being pushed to the bottom of the thread.
>It's what company founders tell employees to exploit them, to get them to work overtime as a norm for crap normal-time pay.

Um, that's precisely his point since he's writing it from the POV of a employer.
thanks for the info. This would fall under trademark actually (not copyright). I would assume my use is such as using "Git" in products like GitHub, but you are right that it's not something I'd want to get in a fight over. I'll try to figure out an alternative name for my next release.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542005, since the author posted that one.
Exactly.

I'd love to see an experiment where they put one female in a class of men of various backgrounds and aspirations. Perhaps: liberal arts class, Ag class, business class, etc. and see what happens.

I'd be willing to bet that the engineering class would be the most respectful.
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How do we know that human infants don't respond that same way, for the same reason? Perhaps the voles reaction to heat signals a more sophisticated understanding in comparison to the child who cries regardless of temperature.
> Google Chrome will no longer support HTTP/2 on vanilla 14.04 after May 15th

Doe this mean 14.04 with Apache 2.2 is affected? Their blog doesnt explain and leave plenty of people confused...
>I've always wondered if the answer to this was due to the culture and class demographics.

You could probably make a well supported case for why this is true for minorities, but what makes the entire hypothesis shaky is if it was a cultural and class issue, what does that say about middle/upper class white women?

Now let's assume that these women were discriminated/discouraged out of tech. How are we sure that in 10 years those same forces won't do the same to minorities?

I don't have a solution, but I don't think the computer penetration problem sufficiently answers the question.
We merged that discussion into this one, which was posted by the author.
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Handy link for those who haven't seen it:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Another way to explain the sign shift, though, is that the thrust might be zero and experimental errors come out both positive and negative.
Ooh, can you do that? Broadcom driver drives me up the wall every time I tweak something...

(Apart from that and the HiDPI, the latter of which is the DE devs' fault, the laptop is awesome.)
What totally pisses me off about Quora is their real name policy. I am blessed with a fairly rare name- surname combination, and I definitely don't want to give to anybody with google and a couple of hours of spare time the chance to build a complete record of my (possibly ever changing) interests, opinions and life anecdotes. Also the reason I use facebook as little as possible - never, basically. I just can't believe how others can be so fond of carving in stone and committing to eternity the result of their idle time and their fleeting thoughts about anything from food to politics to world peace, all carefully labelled and tagged for later retrieval and collection.
And, this page being news about Ubuntu, one should note that this has been true for Ubuntu for fast approaching a decade, now; Debian having followed in the footsteps of Ubuntu, in this regard.

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh/Spec

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.htm...
So, notifications, and the AR (or is it MR?) equivalent of a data puke dashboard. The technology does seem cool, but the killer app isn't quite there yet, is it? Kind of screams retrofuturism.
yeah, i'm searching, digging deep for sympathy for someone naive enough to accept a 35k offer in a 100k+ environment, and i'm failing.

the stress, the hours, the burnout, it's not for passion, it's for MONEY. you can go work on your passions in absolute leisure on a beach in southeast asia and never worry about money, but for the kids out there reading this, don't be tricked into thinking developing throwaway shitbox games for some asshole ex-microsoft millionaire is your passion.

35k is a very different kind of 'fuck you' money.
Thanks for taking that journey. I've never had such joy in coding as since we started using C4.1 in our projects.
I don’t think everyone needs to go try to solve some big, world-changing problem
See the square windows on the Lockheed Constellation? The window corners turned out to be the weak point during pressurization, leading to failure, so windows were rounded after that.
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And the most popular girl in my high school can't ride a motorcyle. I took her to prom but I'm not inviting her on my next cross-country ride. What's your point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_programming_language...

Regardless you don't pick a toolset based on popularity. You choose it based on capability. 100,000 front-end HTML developers asking the same "how do I regex?" question on StackOverflow 10,000 times doesn't pre-qualify an ecosystem as the perfect tool for shell automation.

And at this point you're just trying to save face after you jumped in to explain why it's such a great idea that this project uses Javascript. It doesn't. I'm moving on and suggest you do the same.
RTOS means a bunch of things; hard realtime is a very specific subset of that.
The main issue is that PyPy's commercial target audience (people who need fast Python, particularly for numerical calculations) doesn't care about Python 3. There's not nearly as much potential funding for Python 3 as for Python 2.

Technically, Python 3 is not any harder to implement than Python 2, it's just useless.
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So the UK intelligence wants the capability provided by the Echelon surveillance network back?

It's actually not as chilling in the sense that this would be nothing new - rather, I'm sure the spooks are grieving the fact that people are moving to secure technologies.

I'm pretty sure that before the internet no envelope or phone call was inaccessible.
I'm commuting every day through the a section of the Autobahn where the speedlimit is 130km/h and some sections go as low as 100km/h. Posting about personal experiences is obviously equal to inflamatory trolling and should be voted as such.
pain is information
Is sending and receiving messages through facebook messenger still limited to the official app or did they add back an API to replace the old XMPP interface?
Not really, going by the graph linked it increased from 1.2 to 1.3 Petahases/sec from a month ago to today, which is not 28.2%
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I think many people would say that bitcoins aren't apolitical, but a new kind of gold buggery. Making it difficult in principle for a government treasury or a central bank to make certain kinds of decisions about monetary policy is political.
Thats a satirical line from Stephen Colbert.
TLDR: Saudi Arabia wants to turn itself into a hedge fund to be less dependent on oil.

What could possibly go wrong?
Payme0
This is not a Startup, this is an ACTUAL BUSINESS that generated over $50,000 in Sales already. It's been 3 years now since We are working on this. -Got all the PROOF-

There are 100s of 1000s of ivestors just waiting for some reliable place to put money. We offer websites creation and managment services.

Revenue and Profit:
We are generating profit by charging our clients a "managment fee" after few months. We take 30 to 40% of every penny in profit which our websites will make. Constant increase of profit for lifetime + generating our own line of successful startups.

Competitive Advantage
We just have 2 big competitors in the WHOLE World. Flippa and Empire flippers but none of them are offering Managment services. Invest with these companies come with a calculated risk.

We would need $100,000 in funding to get some real progress and cover the distance of 2 years in 2 months. We have got everything in place
> More electricity is being burned to do the same amount of work.

Not true at all. The total hash rate has gone up a factor of 10^11 since the early days of Bitcoin, but total electricity consumption certainly hasn't gone up by that much. Data here: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png

Most of that can be attributed to efficiency gains. More efficient miners are coming on the market all the time, and in any given year, the vast majority of increased hash rate can be explained by better hardware, not another 100-1000X in electricity consumption.

This latest hash rate increase is most likely caused by the release of the latest batch of mining hardware, see, e.g., Antminer: https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020150827084...
Thanks, I reloaded the page and was very confused.
Just moved here from Florida... Did not enjoy the winter.
What a load of crock. I work in fintech. And every week or so, someone will mention 'blockchain' completely out of context, presumably because they think it makes them sound intelligent.

Blockchain won't solve anything. Sure, it's interesting as a distributed ledger, but that's as far as it goes. You think financial institutions care about innovation? Think again. They'll gladly talk about the latest buzzword if they think it can make them any money, but no one is working on anything credible using blockchain in fintech.

Banks are scared of decentralized services, and they will gladly pander FUD at governments who are willing to listen.
Thanks, actually no. I've linked it many times before, assumed it's still the same.
Maybe the reasoning is : "get his partner to agree to the idea of him doing 80 hour weeks"...
What in the world difference would it make if they're familiar with CRUD apps? They're not writing code for government infrastructure
While I see your point, the idea that I as an end user have any real control now is absurd. All I can do is hope the people who package stuff for their distribution know what they are doing.

If I want to install software that's outside the stuff that the packagers have prepared, like Firefox with correct KDE integration on Kubuntu, I am relying on a number of hard to track things working correctly together. Which tehy have regularly failed to do for me in the past.

Contrast to the OSX install experience: An application is a folder which contains everything related to the application that the base system does not provide. It's brilliant. Installing is copying. Uninstalling is deleting. As a user I feel more in control of the process than with apt.

Depending on the software stack you're looking at, dependency isolation might or might not make sense. I think OSX and Windows both are good case stuides that show that some level of isolation is sensible.
It's just the latest batch of mining hardware coming online (which is more efficient per watt than the previous generation). Design and manufacturing is highly bursty on Bitcoin difficulty increase time scales.
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Former neuroscientist here. In grad school, I TAed for one of the profs who tried (and eventually renounced) to teach Nim Chimpsky language. I am well-versed in this.

For starters, we need to make a clear distinction between communication and language. Many animals communicate information to each other. But the hallmark of language is flexibility; the existence of grammar allows us to communicate novel sentences we have never spoken and others have never heard in a way that is clearly impossible with conditioning.

Second, anthropomorphism is a big problem; It's why the field ultimately rejected the project to teach chimps language, and why they are dubious about language in parrots and dolphins. The evidence was, and is, relatively weak. Many researchers heard what seemed like language from chimps (e.g., Washoe's infamous "water bird" for swan), but when they analyzed Nim's total corpus, the connection between utterance and meaning vanished.

Other than a few holdouts, the field largely concluded that all the chimp behavior observed could be just as easily explained with conditioning (utter that in this circumstance, get a reward, if no reward, try a new utterance, etc).

Regarding the dolphins, I looked at the abstract of the original paper. Nowhere do they use the word "language", and the lead scientist also says they don't know if it's language. It's not clear why the Guardian article's author wants to argue for more.
Ask HN: Investor Animated Video – draft critiques wanted
Hi all, the thing I'm building is very complex and I have a difficult time simplifying it for potential investors and customers. Yes, I know a lot of people wouldn't say this is a MVP. To me this is. The point is to provide a better social network that is ad-free, allows for anonymous use (and free), encrypted group voice chat/messaging, calendaring, mapping and some AI magic for interrupting the social flow (safety and efficiency). It's targeting women in social/sporting clubs that travel together. How can I really grab audience attention with a short pitch on this?

I made a simplified animated video (draft form) to help explain what it is. Any feedback and definitely suggestions for a simple "what it is" line to catch investors' attention would be super helpful. Thanks! And I understand this might be brutal, so please be honest.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8zm79m566wnftg/11.mov?dl=0
Then why do women make up a large proportion of life sciences and medical degrees?
Go-to video for "there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Javascript" statements.
That's why I always put "#!/usr/bin/env bash" at the top of my scripts. Most were written to be portable, but unless it's been well tested, it's best to consider it not portable. Fail early and predictably rather than in strange ways.
or in the worst case, train them to attack people for change

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8787802...
Just to point out, if you have a distaste for this monetization strategy and you're reading this in Chrome I've got some bad news for you.
The ones that don't involve a small list of nodes that you are required to trust to get anything done.
Uncertain
Phuket, Thailand. Nice touch.

Edit: Oh never mind it is pronounced like pucket.
What? You think I accepted that offer? No no no, Instead, I went to a post-IPO company while the stock was down from the dotcom crash and did just fine when it recovered.

In-between, Craig Venter offered me $45k, so glad I have standards. Everyone should have standards, no?

Edit: +1 for "35K is a very different kind of @#$% you money."
The post I was replying to was misunderstanding "this is new!" as "this is the first time this exists!" when it's more about "this is the first time this is available!", where availability is complex and defined by factors like governance, distribution, quality, accessibility, infrastructure, communication ... these are the things that tend to be make or break long after novelty had its moment.

Whether "this is the first time this is available!" is true or not is open to debate (it depends in part on how you weigh the listed concerns), but parent's post didn't read on it.
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Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag'
> This whole saga has been uncomfortable from the beginning--and now I'm cringing harder ever than ever. Not because I disagree with much of what Amilia has written, but just because it's painful to be, in some way, a witness to the rift that this piece makes evident.

Yeah. I honestly don't care so much about the idiot father's claims but rather just the fact we are witnessing a rather painfully public collapse of a family.
The difference is that in spy movies it looks cool and glamorous, not a bunch seedy dysfunctional ex-military types pretending life is like a james-bond flick. Maybe if someone like Tarantino got their hands on this.
Why don't you ask them how to help fix it?

https://twitter.com/18F

https://chat.18f.gov/