skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can really tell when web developers don't actually use the website they're building (especially contractors). Same for applications and for overly complex software where developers only use few features themselves (hence web browser bugs).

Only very talented or disciplined people manage to write flawless code without stumbling over their own bugs first. A good, opinionated, statically typed language helps, IMHO (scripting languages are one of the reasons for crappy web pages).
Was your password based on a phrase that's in a book TV show or movie? It could have been guessed by a dictionary attack. Even a phrase from urban dictionary could be guessed for example.
I still fail to see how you need 200 people to run a CRUD app that streams audio. Or, at least, I fail to see how you would need that many people if you had a small team of computer nerds that knew how things work. Given the job market seems to be skewing more towards bootcamp grads, and given the general paucity of practical intelligence that I seem to encounter from businesspeople, maybe you're right on that one.

And of course Soundcloud wouldn't consider a business relationship that lets customers block acquisitions! Nobody would! That's why there needs to be a way for people to block it anyway.

That said, my earliest uploads are 6+ years old, and I had an account prior, so I think I have been around for at least part of what could be considered "humble beginnings".

And for the record I have never had an issue over their need to charge for premium accounts. That's fine. It was a bit bullshit when they switched to their "casette tape" model, as it fucks over the DJs in the crowd who use SC for hosting hourlong+ sets. I am not advocating for Soundcloud being completely free and 100% available to all -- you are right, it wouldn't survive.

The problem is that once SC was acquired, their tone shifted. SC slowly grew to be this place that was about more than indie artists posting their work -- SC started targeting big fish (like everyone else, sigh), and attracting large volumes of new users. The larger user pool has been slowly diluting what was once a relatively tightly packed (and very communal feeling) community of artists. You could write an artist and actually expect an answer from them! All this has gone away in the years SC has grown considerably.

SC should follow the model of DeviantArt, or Craigslist. Pick you niche, and dominate the shit out of it. Charge money only where absolutely necessary, from the subset of your customers most likely to pay, and do it in a way that supports the rest of the business.
Hey Pradeep! We still haven't received a response for our late application. Did you?
How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors – And Kept Its Values
The Pacific Ocean was contaminated down to Hawaii after Fukushima. On the other hand, Chernobyl caused massive atmospheric conmamination in Eurasia. Fortunately tech was in place and dangerous clouds were mostly brought down in Bryansk region. Good for Poland, winds blew to the East.
You cannot directly compare the magnitude and severety of consequences, but you can compare organisation and effectiveness of countermeasures. The Soviet Union in this was far more advanced country than modern Japan.
The Trump Effect
Or LispWorks or Franz Allegro (esp AllegroCache) that have made real money for years by letting people code circles around others with better tooling. Scripting languages have closed the gap a lot but not fully. I'd say at least two commercial tools are quite practical.
WordPress适合宣传广告的网站模板 – ClassiCraft
How LeEco, the “Netflix of China,” Plans to Overtake Apple and Tesla
Would doing the linux frontend in swift/gtk leverage any existing swift code?
I think this is the inflection point when the 3D printers went from "local" maker fare to corporate without regard for their users. It's like having a local grass fed product suddenly strike a deal with Whole Foods and expands productions all over the place and are no longer local --they move production to increase capacity but may lose on the localness.

At least it feels that way. It's not the same feeling as if production of cheap sunglasses gets off-shored.
tl;dr: a late 90s diesel light-truck engine puts out about the same levels of NOx, far from unprecedented.

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One of the main violations is NOx emissions. Current EPA standards are 0.043g/km. The TDI engines tested under real world conditions at 0.61g/km - 1.5g/km.[1]

A quick google brought me to some testing in 2004[2] of a 6.5l diesel engine typically used in the military version of the Humvee and most Chevrolet light-duty trucks from around 1994 to 2001. The testing shows NOx output levels between ~55g/hr to ~355g/hr.

Comparing that to the VW output, lets take an average speed of 100km/hr so the VW is pumping out between 61g/hr and 150g/hr of NOX. Likely closer to the 61g/hr as most of the engine power is used during acceleration. Yes, a 6.5L is more than 3x the displacement of the 2.0L CBEA engine, however, the power output is only about 30% higher.

Far from 'unprecedented,' though clearly in violation of EPA regulations.

Sorry for citing wikipedia. It's late and I'm tired. Source 63 is the one you want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

[2] http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA449196 (PDF, "EMISSIONS FROM A 6.5L HMMWV ENGINE ON
LOW SULFUR DIESEL FUEL AND JP-8")
The code that triggered this long type inference loop seems pretty normal. It's not like Damas-Milner's pathological case (deeply nested instantiations of type schemas), which is genuinely uncommon.
There are a few ways to do it. It is not that difficult in principle, you need to collect selectivity statistics for both writes and queries and have a storage engine that is flexible enough to rewrite layouts on the fly. The mechanics are pretty simple, since rewriting a shard can be viewed as a trivial subset of splitting or replicating a shard under load. Some closed source databases also do this to one extent or another, adapting layout to load.

You can do adaptive layout rewriting at either the page or shard level, depending on the design. There are advantages and disadvantages to both models. Some designs can do layout conversion in place without the need for garbage collection but it is much trickier to do correctly.
Money is the loudest voice, every time. And nobody has lost a single dollar because OS or database research is lacking.

Even a major revolution in database tech would maybe reduce costs, downtime, or latency by 10% or so, max. Since that sort of expense is never the dominant factor in a company's success, it will never be worth serious commercial investment. And as far as academia goes, there is research happening, it's just a slog because all the low hanging fruit has been picked and now people are just optimizing. Fields always slow down after the good stuff is discovered.

IMO AI is the only pure CS field worth studying right now, that tree has barely been touched at all. The mundane stuff like OS, databases, and languages have been studied to death, and unless an Einstein comes along, there's not going to be any serious motion unless the AI nut gets cracked first.
Well, the T-Rex had feathers for one. Actually, most of the dinosaurs in that movie had feathers. And raptors were tiny little creatures. Still, you have bones to try to reconstruct a dinosaur. It's just a painting of what any old moon or planet could look like. It's like trying to draw a police sketch based on the description of "it was a person." It's actually worse than that because we do kind of know generally what people look like having billions of examples of them to draw from.
"No, because it's possible to implement efficient hash tables with C's primitives -- in fact that's how hash tables in essentially ALL languages ARE implemented."

Because each architecture has a C compiler that's been highly optimized. Popularity plus money invested. That's it. If you were right, we'd see optimizations coded in C even when alternative, optimizing compilers were available. I got a one-word counter to that interestingly enough from "high-performance computing" field: FORTRAN. Free Pascal people are doing fine in performance and low-level code as well despite little to no investment in them.

Seems throwing money at a turd (eg FORTRAN, C) can get a lot of people's hands on it despite some of us shuddering and saying "Get that pile of crap away from me!"
In a similar vein, applications that output in red when everything is running fine cause a lot of wincing.
I think the general problem with CloudFlare is the mismatch of what standards they hold other people to, and what standards they set for themselves.

They market themselves as a sort of savior of the internet, enforcing very tight control
of what comes into their systems to protect their customers (c.f. the recent discussion about tor users), while at the same time they have an extremely permissive attitude for anything happening on their own networks.

The more specific problem with them is, that they aren't actually the hosters for the content that they serve, but just provide DNS service and Rproxy service for their customers.

This means, they also become a reverse-proxy for abuse complaints made to the backend hosters, which is where the real trouble lies.

The problem isn't really that CloudFlare decides or doesn't decide what should stay online, it's that they are preventing communication with the hosters in the first place.
I'm boycotting the New Yorker for failing to mention D&D even once in the article.
More than $1.5 trillion to Detroit and $1 trillion to Wall Street (plus the usual subsidies to all other sectors, including some trillions of military spending).

Besides, at least China has actual manufacturing jobs and exports instead of tons of service jobs...
Our doctors are striking for patients, not money
Yet, https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface
At the bottom of the article, John mentions REX Computing, which I am the founder/CEO of. John has been a friend and advisor, and we have played around with minimal unum implementations, but haven't been able to commit the resources to a full one until after we tapeout our first chip in a little over a month (which will be using IEEE float). We also funded "dnautics" (a HN user who also commented here) to do a soft implementation of unum 1.0 in Julia.
Last year while waiting at a bus stop in Hangzhou in front of an intra-immigration office, I saw a Chinese police officer (shove, kick, or throw (it was a year ago)) a protester from behind. She was part of a crowd of other protesters. It looked like the protester bumped into him seconds before, while being herded away from the office by the police.

The woman was already in front of him and walking away, but the officer's facial expression made it clear he was very agitated. It seemed like he just wanted to 'get back' at her for bumping into him beforehand. His impact made her lose her balance and she nearly fell to the ground.

Maybe having someone physically and emotionally detached from a physical setting could have positive benefits in some situations. I am still not sure whether the remote controlled cop is a good thing though.

As an aside, the broken internet in China is crippling entire generations of people into ignorant irrelevance. I don't think enough people appreciate the magnanimous ramifications of making an entire country deliberately ignorant.

It's not just Google and Facebook that are blocked, it's Chinese Wikipedia, Wordpress, and the free press in general. You need a license to publish anything. Corruption and blatant scandals can't get published without approval from the Party. All the state-owned enterprises, including the public universities, are run by the Party. The Party will not often allow anything to be published that exposes anything related to itself or its co-conspirators.

All foreign-hosted websites have soft blocks, where they will randomly not load, with no explanation given, subconsciously driving people to only use domestic websites that always work.

People have no way of protesting any of this without getting destroyed by the state, professionally or literally. Unless of course, they apply and successfully get permission from the state to do so.
It's not exactly simple to write QT with C. One could use GTK but many would say the library is dying.
i usually stick to things with aptitude or pacman.
OpenELEC fork LibreELEC 7.0.0 arrives with Kodi 16.1
I never realised people used mosh for persistence. I always use tmux (with my zshrc set up to automatically drop me into a default session) and use mosh so that I can write full commands while operating over a lossy connection. I would use mosh over Tor, but Tor doesn't route UDP. :(
Made a change again. Let me know. Thanks!
To expand: "Why wasn't the Linux kernel written in C++?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405387
Oleg has a nice article on how to implement OCaml-style type inference. It's a more sophisticated approach than just Algorithm W: http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/generalization.html
I'm describing what will happen. Motives are irrelevant to the point I was making.
I'm going to have to try this tomorrow. My builds seem to have gotten slower in the past week or two; hopefully I find something.

Thanks!
Probably not a lot. The Swift code is basically for plumbing to the GUI toolkit. All the actual text processing is done in the core.
thunderbird used to be a great mail client, but became extremely sluggish and I think it's also bloated. So I moved to claws-mail and mutt, they are lighting fast.
Security by policy is worse than security by design. Mosh doesn't have code that implements agent forwarding, so there's no bugs in the policy code I have to be worried about.
We entirely agree that the difference in taxation between dividends and cap gains is ridiculous -- especially since you can "time" cap gains and get a tax advantage from that. Why privilege cap gains more than that, compared to dividends?
It's hard for me to compare the cost of living in Singapore vs (insert American city) because I've never lived there. I can only compare to Australia because I lived there for 5 years after leaving New Zealand.

There's a lot of things that are far cheaper in America, for example I can buy an SSD cheaper on Amazon shipped to Singapore, than buying it in Singapore. But then (having visited only a couple of times) I'm unaware of anywhere to get lunch for $4(sgd) in America.

Singapore can definitely be an expensive place to live. If you choose that sort of life-style. However your federal tax alone is more than my whole income tax. And if Sanders gets his way, that will go up even more. Coupled with State tax, I can only guess my disposable income is more in Singapore than it would be in America.

For example, lets say that USD/SGD was 1:1, with a yearly salary of $75,000. In America the federal tax alone is 17,666. (not including state tax)

In Singapore the income tax on that would be $2000, however every couple of years Singapore does 50% tax rebate up to the first $1000. So the effective tax for last year would have been $1000. Meaning your net income was $74,000 vs $57,334.

This doesn't include singapore's common "13th month" salary which is often an extra month of salary as bonus, usually to cover the cost of taxes as tax is not withheld here like it is in Australia / NZ.

That means you would get an extra $6200 (approx) on top of the 75k, making your net income more around $80,000

If you paid $500/m rent in the US that's $6k/yr, in singapore you pay say $1,300 or $13,000/yr

So that leaves you with:

US: $51,334
SG: $67,000

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes

I don't fully understand how you do taxes in America, but based on my limited research from when I wanted to live in America, and just now, this is what I worked out. This isn't meant to be factual and proof of the cost of living between the two countries.

Edit: Also not a good idea if you're American to move to Singapore to work, since you get double taxed. Even all forms here in Singapore ask if you're American Tax Citizen.
Cleaner air in LA is primarily due to two technological breakthroughs: positive crankcase ventilation, and catalytic converters. That's the proper way to do regulations: once a cleaner tech is invented, make it mandatory. The other way around, mandating a steady decrease de-coupled from technological advances, is more likely to lead to cheating.
For those wondering (all imo and only best guess)

The biggest advantage of kafka is that all of the heroku marketplace all of a sudden becomes "plug and play"

Essentially it's the "backend data" equivalent of what segment does for "frontend data".

Example: What's the benefit of having a graphDB service in the marketplace if most people dont want to / cant invest engineering in keeping the data in (realtime) sync.

With kafka they can establish standards that all partners can adapt to, they will simply offer piping of all heroku postgres/redis changes.
It's for Windows developers who have some existing iOS code.
I found flights to Innsbruck on flychecker from € 58
Device Driver Environment: Linux device drivers in userspace and other kernels
They already are my landlords... :(

Actually my landlords are pretty dope. They're techies (me too) but they live upstairs so they're ok by me. But yeah, the absentee landlord for profit thing kinda sucks. I get a bit of schadenfreude when chinese investors buy their appartment complex in the city and raise their rents.
>Amazon prices its products for thin margins and aggressively moves into new product spaces (sometimes with spectacular failures). Apple prices its products for thick margins and returns a lot of money to investors with stock buybacks. Using profits as a metric to compare these two companies holistically is specious.

I thought capitalism was a for-profit endeavour. Unless Amazon runs as a non-profit, it's just people investing in perpetuity based on pure belief/speculation of imagined future profit (and of course, on actual stock-based profits). Not that different from any pyramid scheme, which is why historically the stock market has periodical bubbles and crashes.

Those kind of rewards for the kind of actual prospects the company has are more or less a speculative bubble, with little basis on objective reality. $600 billion in "cash" on the other hand, that's something to keep you going and to talk about.

Apple could even get to be privately owned company with their buybacks -- Amazon wouldn't even stand a year as one at their churn rate.

>Amazon prices its products for thin margins and aggressively moves into new product spaces

Walmart does thin margins too -- but with huge revenues and profits compared to Amazon.
Futhark: functional programming language for parallelism
Paying overtime would solve a lot of project management issues in tech companies. Overtime is for free so why try to avoid it? If people get burnt out after a while there are plenty of people who are happy to replace them.
Whoa! Quite similar to the "magic" behind compressed sensing (as noted by the authors of the paper linked by the OP):

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

Nice to see that similar mathematical tools are being developed for similar problems.

Edit: typo
I thought that too when I first heard of mosh. But mosh is actually clever about it and it doesn't try to guess what would happen in vim. It usually only does predictions for prompts. In addition, the predictions are very obviously predictions (they're underlined). It's a very useful feature if you're trying to modify a complicated pipeline over a lossy network.
And it has other security implications (you have to trust the server).
Developers want to build quality stuff that they can be proud of. Time, budgets, marketing promises, and reality have a way of interfering with that. Rare is the job where you can tell your boss "We could release this now, and I could start on the next thing, but I'm not happy with the quality and would rather rework it." and they will just say "Ok, do that. Make it good. We'll tell all of our clients that they'll just have to wait for what we promised would be ready this month. They'll just have to deal with however that impacts them and their business."

More layers = more bugs, both at the software level and the business level. And there are a lot more layers now. We're not just compiling raw ASM or C and handing it to the end-user anymore. Every couple of years we add more layers to both.
I use Qt4 and QWidgets - its by far the most pleasant desktop UI development toolkit Ive used. (Ive used qt, gtk, wx, win32 with gdi/gdi+ and a bit of swing).
Law XVI's exception is XFS, which has had a steadily declining LOC count for years.

http://sandeen.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/fs-l...
"Industry signalling a strong desire to move from analogue to digital"

Industry can sod off. This is about DRM not any consumer benefit. The decent quality is all in the hifi market that's quite happy with jack plugs.
I got a bad one. I tried a few years back to log into flickr with my yahoo account. No matter what I tried, I kept getting this error:

"Hello- new account signups are temporarily unavailable from this network address space used by your Internet Service Provider.'

Flash forward 2 or 3 years. They've gotta have it fixed by now, right?

Nope.
True but it was a... movie... made for entertainment value --and as a nice side effect captured the imagination of millions of children (as well as adults'). So, yeah ,they got known details wrong and in retrospect, as we currently understand, got further things wrong... But again, it was a "blockbuster" movie, not a high brow film or a scientific study. Thus, I don't have anything against how they portrayed the beasts. I think it's understood they took visual license and incorporated sci-fi.
Then he wouldn't have said "I'd rather just "not have it in the first place".
Oh. I can't really press the edge of the screen, because I use a case (the standard Apple silicone case). It's not impossible, but it's inconvenient.
> Keep in mind that when you’re giving a quote like this, you are basically making a promise to get the job done for a certain price.

Favorite quotation from this article. So much insanity and stress flow from this.

But hey, this is a team. We're all in it together. If things go wrong, count on my support ... unless it means you'll miss your deadline. What kind of loser-idiot misses their deadline? I asked you how long it would take at the start! Why didn't you tell me six months ago it would take three additional weeks? Let's try this again: how long will it take to finish level 9? I think you know the right answer now, don't you?
Don't think -so- that I've made a mistake. I can eliminate risk and make the same point:

Suppose you buy a perpetuity, granting $X every year. After 100 years, you'll have 100 times $X more dollars, but you will be worth exactly the same as you were worth before the perpetuity. (This assumes that the market correctly prices the perpetuity so that the expected value of purchasing it is $0).

EDIT:

I'm not talking about "profit" because it's not really a super useful concept here. Having a larger quantity of dollar bills after a period of time does not mean that I've got more value. Trivially, if I have $100 in 1950, and $101 in 2016, I have made a "profit" of $1 but lost a substantial amount in real terms.

I should cite sources and use correct terminology.

Wikipedia provides the following [0]

> The dividend discount model (DDM) is a method of valuing a company's stock price based on the theory that its stock is worth the sum of all of its future dividend payments, discounted back to their present value.[1] In other words, it is used to value stocks based on the net present value of the future dividends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_discount_model