skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, too often people correlate Marketing with Promotion. While marketing is much larger than just promotions. As is evidenced by the 4 Ps of Marketing.

The goal of marketing is to "invent complete products and drive them to commanding positions in defensible market segments" - William Davidow (of Intel) in his book Marketing High Technology (1).

The book may be dated, but it provides amazing insight into the other Ps of marketing.

(1) http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-High-Technology-William-Davi...
Singularity: Containers Without the Container
Don’t be surprised when Microsoft Android shows up
Secretive human rights group fights abuses with military-style precision
In what scale?

What it matters is if it is fast enough for the use case being targeted.

As side note I remember when C compilers for home computers generated worser code than junior Assembly programmers.
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I believe the logic is that error handling (std::cerr) is optimized for being immediate because you need to see that last error message before your program went off the rails.

Logging (std::clog) on the other hand is optimized for throughput since you expect to use some of that even in the happy path and don't want to bog everything down. I believe that since they're both associated with stderr, the error handling routine will also flush the last of the log.
George Lewis wrote a realtime improv AI in forth back in the 90s it used midi so the sounds were like general midi at the time but the interplay between human trombone and the machine listening to his playing on the fly was amazing given the limitations of the machines at the time. To be AI jazz it has to be able to jam with humans or other machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lewis_(trombonist)
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While we are on this topic I would like to recommend to all who have not seen it yet "The Seventh Seal", Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece on dealing with death and God's silence when we face it. Action is set in medieval Sweden, during the time of the Black Death plague.

The opening scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yXBIigZbg
I wonder if the Linux folks are even aware of this paper. Maybe they're not?
No, I'm fine with "inappropriate comments", sexual and harassing in nature, falling under the designation of sexual harassment. But if you are advocating for making "inappropriate comments" illegal, then I'm going to have to disagree.

Imagine that a man says to a woman "No pressure, but if you're up for it, I'd like to put my popsicle in your purse." That is certainly sexual harassment, and in a workplace a firing would be a likely and not unreasonable resolution. Calling for armed agents of the state to drag the man off to jail (or use the threat of violence to compel anything) is an overreaction.

That is why an advocacy for making sexual harassment a criminal offense works against the proponent's interests. Sexual harassment would be redefined much more narrowly, because you can't lock people up just because they're dirty loudmouths.
I'd be more impressed if they had trained it on Kenny G and Pat Metheny liked the results.
I'm going to guess that the penalty for that is a slap on the wrist compared to what would be recorded.
RTFM for which flavor of machine? Mostly works when you control your own bare metal server, other scenarios, not so much.
Advice like "say no" and "stay in groups" is neither difficult to obtain nor helpful. (And: "carry a hat pin"? seriously? this is the 21st century here)
RE: the (or Rust) comment-

All of these services would be better suited for a language which has blessed async IO, concurrency, parallelism primitives. Go has these, Rust does not. pthreads are not the answer.

I much prefer Rust, but Go's stdlib and concurrency features far exceed that of Rust at the moment.
Most states also forbid sexual harassment.
They'll get there. It'll take time for them to realize what a gold mine they abandoned, but they'll get there. In the West Coast, that's happening with a lot of lines. Los Angeles still owns a good amount of the old Red Car right of Way, and many of the transit lines opened over the past 25 years have been built using that land, with a lot of the proposals for the next 25 years doing more of the same. The Bay Area did similar with BART, using a lot of newly abandoned rail right of way, and up here, many of the proposed projects have essentially been to reopen one rail line or another that's been closed for 40-50+ years.
I, too, have a special place in my heart for diodes.

When I was a kid, I had one of those 200-in-1 electronics kits. It had a germanium diode on it. The diode was clear. I connected a 9V battery directly to it, no resistor or anything else. It glowed super bright bluish white for a second or two and then burned out.

Now my EE friends tell me that no one uses germanium diodes anymore, and it makes me sad.
Yeah, I've got three stories banging around in the back of my mind. Sitting down in front of a screen (with nothing else asking for my time) to get bits into a file is hard for me.
> Instead of putting all KU subscriptions in a big pot and then dividing the pot among all authors by page read, divide the income from each individual subscriber among the pages he/she reads (so a read from a user who reads less would effectively be worth more).

There's a few side-effects to this, some may be beneficial depending on your point of view, others not.

- People who read more are paying less to each author than those who read less. I might find an author I like, and voraciously consume thousands of pages of her works in a month. My total payout to her would be the same monthly fee. Popular and/or good authors shouldn't be penalized.

- What happens to the monthly fees for people that don't read anything that month? Does Amazon get to keep it?

- It runs the risk of incentivizing click-bait titles and synopsis, which may cause readers to think most the content on the platform sucks, and leave. Everybody is worse off if the platform fails entirely.

In the end, Amazon wants a market where good authors can get paid, so they'll come, and they want good authors because that will attract subscribers, which is how Amazon gets paid. Pairing subscribers with authors they like, and allowing an exchange of money for services as frictionless as possible is in the best interest for all the legitimate actors here, so hopefully Amazon will find a better solution soon.
The exact paragraph you quoted from section on "sexual harassment" is copy-pasted from section on "sex-based discrimination". And it's not law, but some guidance/advice/faq/whatever.

You are overinterpreting this thing.
Ah, yes. I'm familiar with this argument, as I've seen it in tech.

"Let's just hack this variable so it stops paging us."

"No. Let us re-write the entire thing in Rust and deploy to a new cloud provider, because putting this hack into place will just lead to bad things."
95% (arbitrarily) of people will not give you a straight no. Even "Sorry I am not interested" which is honest can come of as impolite. I think saying "I am flattered, but I am not available" is clear and leaves room for a peaceful interaction in the future, or at least to ensure the other person does not leave hurt. When rejecting others it is very important to think of the pain it took them in the first place to approach you. If anything I can respect their courage.
That wouldn't accomplish anything; it would just free up more fossil fuels to be applied to marginal uses by people with far less restraint: "Hippies don't like oil? More for me!"

This is a collective action problem; if we don't collectively limit or penalize the emissions, we're just leaving grass on the commons for someone else to graze.

With that said, cutting back can prepare you for the time when collective limits or taxes are in place. It can also signal your own belief in the seriousness of the problem. But individually refusing to overgraze the commons cannot be blamed for commons going barren; the refusal to implement real limits, however, can.

And no, subsidies for more efficient grazing aren't "limits"; they make it worse.
>It's probably not worth engaging with you

Oh, don't worry about me. Worry instead about the dumb, ahistorical position you've staked out here.

1) You claimed VZ's oil industry was "incompetent" and that its "talent fled" leading to the people of VZ being "unable to understand" their industry. These were your exact words. But when I correctly summed up your argument with the paraphrase "they're too dumb," all of a sudden you back away from your own argument, as if it had shat itself.

That cheesy evasion on your part inclines adults to be MORE suspicious of your argument, not less.

2) Literally every argument for colonial extraction of resources from indigenous populations has, for centuries of history now, been made in exactly the manner you have made it: the locals aren't advanced enough to realize the value from their resources. Therefore we HAVE to mine the gold, drill the oil, harvest the fruit, etc. Thus, foreign "investment" is necessary.

This is capitalism at its most disgusting: dressed up in frilly underwear with "altruism" stitched across its ass. The argument is the definition of self-serving, and, as I've said, adults should be able to see through it by now. I can tell you the indigenous peoples of Iran, Chile, Nigeria, Canada, the US, Australia, Venezuala, ad infinitum, already do.
I don't think your assertions are correct. This article[0] is a bit old (2015), but it puts the number of SUVs on the road at 35%. There absolutely are things you can do, though obviously you, personally, aren't going to solve the problem. For example, skipping meat one day a week can have pretty substantial affects on emissions[1]. Or you can get involved with a group that is organizing around climate change.

[0] - http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2016/01/usa-suv-crossover-marke...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock's_Long_Shadow
I have seen women in superior positions comment on the attractiveness of men in work meetings in ways that would get the superior in a lot of trouble were the roles reversed, and then go on to justify and defend it.
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>This soup of loosely related keywords betrays your thought process

Yeah, I'd change the subject too if I had nothing.
You're such a lucky boy. My biggest challenge is making buildings from tape and VHS cassettes in my childhood.

-- Adam muzik seti hastasiydi, sanssizlik aq.
Peer review is free. The referees do not see a cent of the money paid to publishers.
I believe quantum computing is a pre-requisite for strong AI, so I think you know where I'd vote.
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Yes, the NOR pension is ditching* coal.

That said, you're not fairly representing the context of my comment. The parent comment made this exaggerated critique, saying that "all of modern capitalism" can be considered tainted based on PRIOR behavior (assuming the grandparent's comment were valid.)

This is not only a strawman, but absurd.

I'm pointing out that it isn't limited to prior behavior for what we're talking about. Here, we have a petro-state with 2/3 of its exports STILL in O&G (aka "dirty technology") taking a stance on coal because coal's not Environment Friendly™. This contrasts with countries that were built on "dirty tech/slavery/whatever" and are no longer utilizing similar means.

To clarify, nobody's saying NOR can't change course or exhibit environmental leadership. I'd argue NOR's investment implications and the $2.3B change in allocation aren't significant.
Are you familiar with the benefits of React in general?
Would that we could bend SO to match the need rather than the other way 'round. The audience that needs to read this probably doesn't spend enough time reading the SO help/advice on asking questions.

I try to draw out these details when trying to answer questions on SO. Sometimes askers just can't seem to express those details clearly. But most of the time given enough dialogue we can get to the crux of the issue.
"Employees like being exempt. They like the flexibility of not having to track their hours."

From my understanding, they should still be tracking hours in case they misclassified the employee as exempt when they should not be [according to the DOL during a review or audit].
Wouldn't want google to pick up keywords such as Chancellor Katehi + conflict of interest + student protest + pepper spray
Depending on what you need to do, UTC does not always work: http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...
That's not correct.

In a typical jazz swing drum beat the high-hat is closing on 2 and 4 (the upbeats).

In a typical rock drum beat the bass drum is on 1 and the snare drum is on 3 (the downbeats). There's almost never emphasis on the upbeats.

The two styles are almost completely opposite in feel and that Metheny track is using the rock style.
I disable JS on my phone, and I disagree with you: the vast majority of the text content web is perfectly readable without JS.

If you want to watch video, you're out of luck. If you want to use a web app, you're out of luck. But if you just want to consume text content, the majority of the web just works, and a lot faster too.

(I've never been able to get NoScript to work right, it's always given me problems. Perhaps part of the problem is NoScript?)
No, the minority pay si that can benefit, it just happens that others who haven't paid benefit too.

Like when a country act to reduce their industrial impact on the atmosphere, their citizens benefit with cleaner air/water or whatever but there's a benefit to the rest of the world too.

Being altruistic leads to greater overall benefit. Being miserly leads to global detriment.

Applying Kant's Imperative as the moral measure leads to say it's morally wrong not to pay as if no-one were to pay we all lose out.
If main memory is so slow, would it be better to treat cache as memory and handle it directly in code rather than try to trick it into doing what we want?
And Dreamworks', and Marvel's, and...
SMS Read: You can start with manual entry of phone number verification. Top of the line android and iPhone apps still use manual entry of verification code and still offer good User Experience.

NFC: Except for payment, I never used NFC for anything, never seen any of my friends use it for any practical purpose. If your app is using payment systems, forget react native.

GPS: Supported by React native.
Innovators are chipping away at concrete's environmental downsides
The only service in this list that I can see the GC mattering for is NTP, but then, you can design a tight NTP server that virtually eliminates the GC's work in Go, taking advantage of the rest of Go's high-level features that C lacks.
Nor does collective national pride do net good.
Plenty of police in jail in America. They're just harder to convict. Easier to get them fired. Italy is exponentially worse than America on this issue.

And I say that as an activist against police corruption here who also lives in a murder capital. Police pulling shit that bad here is rare outside the "hoods" where it's thugs and low income people nobody cares about. Still usually just a ticket, thrown on a car, or a brief taser. The worst plant shit on people but they're very rare.
I don't have anything against fun things, but seeing the same memes we have all seen every day for years now is not really funny.
Using a straight-up "no" can turn it into an outright confrontation, which can be pretty dangerous if the guy isn't the type that will take "no" for an answer.

While it is not evident a guy will take a no worst than a girl would, I agree that a straight "no" will always lead to an unpleasant outcome.
Some employers will deduct PTO hours for any time under 40 hours (or 80 for a two week pay period) in the office but don't give or allow accumulation of hours or 40 (or 80) for weeks they go over.
If you ignore all women socially at work, you're going to end up discriminating against women. People have a strong tendency to select for what they already know. If you have a hiring choice between a theoretically equal woman and an equal man, you'll probably want to select the man because you'd feel safe to interact with him socially. You won't because it's Wrong, but what about all of the little decisions you don't think about so hard? Even if you were outside of management, you'd still be marginalizing the women on your team by your actions -- making an in group and an out group.

It's possible to run so far from sexual harassment you run into sexual discrimination. I don't know if there is an answer to this other than "be a nice person". Not trying to pick on parent in particular, just trying to illustrate how thorny the issues are.
Why don't you provide examples rather than insisting I read your intentions in vague statements?

I was discussing the context of my comment, not the world in general.

So once again:

Please provide examples where homogeneity on both the gender and race axis occurs so frequently this could be considered a reasonable event?

And the boss is attracted to that gender?

EDIT:

> There are a bunch of places that hire out of whack to the natural distribution of the population.

That is what I was talking about xD
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/20320
Having the shared library that can be replaced by itself, instead of deploying N things, is nice. Not sure it's the end of the world, but it's nice.

On the flipside, though, this is probably a case where using something like Rust could be excellent: stronger language support for eliminating entire classes of bugs but also able to be compiled down to something that can be a shared library.

I'm not an ML expert, but reading about the things the Mirage project has done related to TLS, leveraging OCaml to provide compile-time guarantees, sounds very exciting. Rust feels like it could be that bridge. Start rewriting core libraries in it: cleaning up old code, removing dead code, avoiding bugs by virtue of the language/compiled, in one fell swoop.
I've been thinking about that recently. How would you engineer a workplace that is amenable to say...sustained work?

Currently I'm my image of the ideal workplace (assuming no resource constraints) hovers around: quick internet, sufficient computing power, multiple screens, +100sqft/employee, spacious desks, 1-3 person offices,
windows (the glass version), lighting, etc. It's a wishlist, for sure.

Then there's also the question of an ideal restplace. I believe most people (including me) are incapable of doing challenging work for 8 hours a day, and anyone who thinks that we are is lying to himself. I think 2 hours are good, 4 brilliant, and 6 are almost impossible. That means from 9-5 there's at least 2 hours, if not 6 spent doing things that are somewhere between work and decidedly not-work. If I could use that time to think/nap/mediate/sit in a really nice massage chair in a quiet room, I'd be a lot better rested. Fully resting instead of pretending-to-work-resting should be more time efficient and more effective, which hopefully allows you to take on more challenging work after a shorter rest.

Thinking deeply about issues seems to be another component of knowledge work. How do you set out thinkspace? Trails, gardens, mazes, solitude and complex layouts seem to lend themselves to getting lost in a problem, but that's just a personal hunch and requires more study.

I think the fundamental difference between knowledge workers and industrial workers is that industrial work solves a given problem thousand times a day, and that knowledge work (ideally) solves any given problem once, and if it crops up twice, you automate and abstract till it solves itself. That requires a different approach, and therefore a different environment to facilitate.
Like in programming, there are upsides and downsides too!

While you spend your time rewriting your code in Rust, your competitor launches with a hackier version and your market opportunity is gone. Or maybe you don't rewrite it, and you end up with a buggy platform that's difficult to scale, while your competitor with a rock solid alternative starts to win your customers.

Pragmatism is always advised, but there is a cost and benefit trade off between pragmatism and idealism.
Using automation and delegation to bring employment advantages to freelancing
Yes. Changed from "85 cents of every $1 spent in online advertising goes to Google or Facebook". I'm not sure whether that was an earlier NYT title (they do this), but if not, the submission violated the HN guidelines by rewriting a title when it was neither linkbait nor misleading.
> cronyism put incompetent people in charge of factories and industries they didn't understand.

GP's words.

> leading to the people of VZ being "unable to understand" their industry

Your words.

Those do not mean the same thing.

GP is referring to the cronies in charge when they say "people". Not the people of Venezuela.
I understand what you are saying. It isn't wrong to judge the claims of other people with a critical eye. It is wrong when you don't turn the same critical eye to your own views or work. In life, as in science, it is important to design your observations so that they measure what your intend to measure.
Interesting the article references the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III but makes no mention of the tv show that aired on CBS in 1982 that was based on this incident.

I thought it was one of Tom Hanks better performances. [/sarcasm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters
replacing openssh with something you've written yourself seems like reinventing the wheel, just because you can.

the sheer number of person-hours at developer salary rates in north america would probably amount to at least a few million dollars.
Really cool and free Angular dashboard
> A disability is when you have less ability than everybody else.

What percentile?
That might be unintended. For example some software might stupidly hardcoded /usr/bin/git instead of using the default one from PATH, or the PATH is actually quite tricky on Mac (bashrc controls what comes by default from bash, but the PATH in GUI is controlled by other files).
We've changed the title from "85 cents of every $1 spent in online advertising goes to Google or Facebook" to that of the article.

Submitters: it's against the HN guidelines to pick one detail from an article and make that the title. That's a form of editorializing. Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait. If you wish to say which detail you find important, do so by commenting in the thread. That way your interpretation is on the same level as everyone else's.
Guys do. Some people (men and women) are just very clear cut and they do not try to understand the subtext. They say what they mean and they expect the same. They are usually thought of as arrogant.
Thanks Ashwin for your support. We are launching with gmail, outlook, dropbox and google drive support. Will be adding desktop/laptop support immediately after that. Let me know if you have any followup questions.
Thanks for the link. Im shocked that I never saw this on US media. Idk if it was censored or I just missed it. This is so brutal it puts Abu Grhaib to shame esp given the targets. Makes me want to get a team together and take a plane to Italy to clean house.

Doubt it would help much at this point. Damage is done. Still pisses me off though.
The laptop I'm using right now has a 1366x768 screen, a maximized browser window is 1306x768. I bet many other users of of that size are going to have browser windows that have the full 1366 px width, but then some height <768 px. Details depend on the OS, the size and position of the taskbar/dock/whatever, ... It's not much, but it adds a bit or two of data.

Custom sized ones make you easier to identify only if you don't change them.
First Solar is making PV panels for less than China’s biggest producer
I guess I just think of the DnD panic to be from the 80s so for someone to take it so seriously in 2006 I find unusual.