skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought that a rolling tenure system would be cool. Depending on how risky your research is, you can apply for 5, 10, 15, or 20 year chunks of time in which you are guaranteed a position at the University. This would allow professors to take on longer term weird or crazy research projects, but would prevent professors from defacto retiring immediately after hitting associate professor.
> Recognizing the
potential profit opportunity, the Nagoya merchant bought the future harvest of his region by
paying approximately 10% to the farmers and writing drafts for the rest of the negotiated
amount. These drafts were not to be presented for payment before the rice was actually sold.
When the harvest came in, he stored it and after three or four months sold it with a profit of 30-
40%, as prices had climbed in the meantime.2

It is interesting that this sort of financial instrument would have been totally impossible with water logged veggies.
Why can't you still do it? I'd read that.
> and do not use a linker option to prevent it

What's the linker option?
This feels like a more advanced fork of cocaine.ninja.
98% of interviews wont tell you why you got rejected. So do you not interview anywhere?
Man, top grade data presentation here!
The `with` statement seems similar to Haskell's `do` notation for monads, where the monad(ish) here is pattern matching.

I'm new to Elixir but I've definitely run into the "byzantine case-clause" issue and it can be very annoying. My case was very similar to the example: pulling something from a form, validating the format, validating it in the database, and returning something. All failable, single-purpose functions in sequence to narrow down the result.

I grappled between using a monad macro library[0] to simplify `{:ok, _}`/`{:error, _}` signatures versus just raising exceptions. I ended up doing the latter for the additional benefit of stack traces. Exceptions seem culturally discouraged in Elixir, though I don't quite grok why yet.

Out of curiosity, would you be willing to show how you might refactor the post's "create_organization" example?

[0] https://github.com/rmies/monad
So why doesn't the industry have lobbyists of their own, pushing the proper narrative then? If politicians on either side want to get it right, then why aren't industry leaders going to Washington, testifying in front of committees and telling these people how this should be handled?

I haven't seen ANY politician coming out and saying they support encryption. As soon as the Apple and FBI case came out, you saw both republicans and democrats divided even on this fairly simple case:

Democratic congressman Mike Honda of California has come down firmly on the side of the tech company, saying that the DoJ sought to increase its authority “with the tyrannical impulses that were the very reason our country was created”.

By contrast, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California called on Apple to cooperate immediately following the “terrorist attack in my state” and threatened legislation, though she said she “hope[d] it would not be necessary”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/29/apple-fbi...

If the tech industry wants to push the needle forward, then they have to get in the game. As of 2016. I haven't seen many people in the industry rushing to try and educate the politicians in Washington. Sure, they like to write articles and stand on the side of Apple and other companies, but that doesn't count for much in my book.
I had always assumed chrome.storage.sync API is all about using sync rather than implementing it. I.e. extension acts as a client, rather than provider. I mean, that API already provides a localStorage-like objects that one can use to put and get data. Technically, one can listen for events and have a custom backend this way, from my understanding, this is extension-local, and not browser-wide interception.

Now I wonder - maybe I got it all wrong? Does it actually allow to completely override built-in Firefox Sync (and either ditch Firefox Accounts requirement for Sync engine to start[1], or override those as well) and replace those parts with a custom implementation?

Say, I don't want any Mozilla nonsense, and want Firefox to sync with a simple WebDAV storage (rather than their proprietary protocol), and do so authenticated with a sane(r) X.509 client cert rather than an ugly mess of BrowserID, HAWK and OAuth2. Is that possible?

____

[1] This part is probably easy through messing with browser's preferences (the ones in about:config), but I'm not sure there's a WebExtensions API for this. Have looked for it and haven't found anything.
"16.25in" barrel so it's not a SBR (Short Barreled Rifle, register with the BATFE and pay $200 etc.), so you'll get more energy out of the rounds, and presumably better hollow point performance, but I wouldn't be confident about that without testing with calibrated gelatin.

Me, 1911 for retention, and maybe a long gun if I'm bunkering waiting for the police to arrive (slow to access in the main gun safe).
None of these ideas seem outright specific to Python and I don't think it makes sense to attribute all these changes to Python influence. C# and D, for example, have had most of these features for a few years. One could just as easily say "how C++ is becoming Haskell" or "how C++ is becoming Go" (both of which have many of these features). I think a better title for this would be something along the lines of "Python idioms in C++".
I always put my vm to host escapes in the sort section of stackoverflow.

Not to say that this is not actually a security threat, but I would say a VM is safe enough
People in FreeBSD-land have been look at launchd on and off:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
dude, you can do almost all of that with a simple google spreadsheet. You can just invite others to collaborate on the doc and add a column for who the task is assigned to etc.
so what happens if you run this on Amazon (or any other cloud provider that would cooperate with govt intrusion)? do you need your own servers to make it work as intended?
Thanks for the info, Zuse is fascinating.

Z3 is very impressive, telephone relays were much more reliable than the valves used in Bletchley's Collosus by Tommy Flowers.

Failing valves prevented Collosus working until Flowers showed valves failed when powered off and so Collosus ran without cessation.

Wonder why Flower's didn't use relays, he was a telephone engineer so was familiar with them.
I agree, but like I said, I can't think of a more politically acceptable alternative. Maybe one day science will get sexy again and POTUS will be able to do Obamacare for science. Until then it's up to the markets.
An Historic Day: Ethereum, the DAO, and Berkshire Hathaway Webcast
I have never done any sort of illegal drugs in my life - but the day after I got my CPAP machine in 2001, I said "this must be what being on crystal meth is like".

So his comparison is not out of line. You feel THAT much better/energetic/etc.

I had no proper REM sleep for 4 years (the sleep study said I never slept for more than 30 seconds at a time), and then with the CPAP machine, I slept a solid 12 hours. Just imagine how much better you would feel after that - and give the guy a break for comparing it to coke.
this is like anti circlejerk
Basic research, in the short term, can only be motivated by a thirst for knowledge. The kind of psychology that allows us to devote our lives to things that will only show up on a factory floor years after our death is absolutely different than the kind of psychology that drives us to till the fields and pivot our verticals.

The fact is, no self-utility optimizing human will see with a horizon beyond one lifetime. Governments can barely do it, and corporations can hardly see into the next quarter.
My number one gripe is missing TCO because I find writing recursive functions more natural for many problems. We can't have everything.
However, if you ping me on my profile email after I put up a job on Who's Hiring, and I send you back an email saying "hey, can you answer these few filter questions, take your time" and one of them is "what is multicollinearity", chances are you'll google it and tell me what you typed above and it will be fine. It's not like you can't use Google or take your time.

What I'm dealing with is people who are dumping their CV and a standard cover letter on me at high frequency and I do not want to put an HR filter between them and me, because I want to spot the guy without a LinkedIn profile (HR red flag), who dropped out of college (so no brand - HR red flag) but has plenty of useful experience (so no buzzwords, because real experience looks unremarkable on a CV - HR red flag). I know no more efficient way. Would love to hear of any.

I did make the mistake many years ago of rejecting a PhD in stats because she admitted not knowing about neural nets ("but my lab buddy is doing some research in them"). I'm still kicking myself, but have learnt a bit about hiring since then.
...more likely it is being considered for withdrawal from circulation altogether for all the usual war-on-cash reasons. Indeed, in large amounts, 500 euro notes are already selling for 515 euros for reasons of moving money outside of the banking system (demand very high in China), so as to avoid that system's prying eyes, and also for reasons of negative interest rates becoming the norm. The GBP 50 has the same bad reputation in bien pensant policy circles.

Anonymous, large-denomination notes have this amazing attribute that they are not easily controllable by politicians and central banks, the latter in their quest for negative rates particularly stymied by them. By contrast wealth in your bank account, or the dematerialized stocks and bonds that you might own, can be switched off completely with a few SQL queries, on demand.
The developmental obstetrical dilemma
"As a developer who used to build systems in embedded C++ and now spends all of my time building web backends"

I'm curious, what motivated your switch from embedded to web?
I would love to know if the number of show HN on the front page has declined over time.
"Secure" anything is a myth, it's about what levels of risk you are willing to accept.

The bottom line is that yes, this sort of setup would be worse than PGP email, but it would still be better than traditional web mail which the vast majority of people use.

On an interesting aside: You don't have to audit the code every single time. On first execution of the code, it can store itself in the browser's application cache indefinitely, and manage upgrades in the same style as traditional software. This is fairly new ground though :)
Magic Instruments – A new type of guitar anyone can play instantly
Indeed. My mother's RN residency was just before the original anti-psychotics came into widespread use, and she did 3 months in a psych ward. After she was finished and then working in the same hospital, she was amazed to see a "hopeless" (for thousand of years) case working in a custodial or the like function at that hospital.

Where I suspect he got some extra help to keep on that nasty class of drugs and otherwise manage his life. Little did she suspect they, and lithium for bi-polar disorder, would be used as an excuse to dump the mentally ill on the streets, saving money that could be better used in other ways to buy votes.
It's unfortunate that qemu probably can't run on iOS due to its JIT code generation. qemu (without KVM acceleration) doesn't run nearly as fast as native, but it runs orders of magnitude faster than Bochs.
Is it anything like Pen Island?
> Indeed, another example of this is how NBA basketball players are worse than all the amateurs on the streets!

Hours of training are hours of training.

The GP argued that "People who are into something for fun are more likely to out effor into getting good at that thing." (emphasis mine).

> And lets not forget how the cousin of your boss that enthusiastically read some tutorials on the net is a much better programmer than you.

If you're in it just for the money then quite possibly. I can quite easily tell for whom programming is not just a job but also a hobby, and for whom it's just a way to make a living - coding skills tend to be much stronger in former.
That was far worse, IMO. The last song should be highly emotional, but the stresses where in completely the wrong places.

The closet thing I could think of was how being readers can say words without understanding their meaning. The stresses follow the difficulty they are having not the content of a story. If you hear them speaking you can follow their emotional responses, or hear the words, but doing both set's up dissonance. Listen to 0:40 to 1:00 here and I think you can get what I mean. https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/guided-reading-introd...

PS: While I don't think this is any more subjective than body language, the negative reaction might go away if I listened to a lot of this stuff. A speak and spell quickly goes from odd to just that's how it sounds.
The "elite" are not actually elite, they are just a wealthy mediocrity. Much more capable people than Meyer are likely sitting around in a cubicle right now, but due to their lack of 'correct' connections/pedigree/experience they will never have even 1/100th the opportunity as Meyer.
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YKK epitomizes why Japan, despite the recent decline, continues to be a major economy: manufacturing giants that continue to serve as the backbone of the global economy.

Another example is FANUC [1], a manufacturing device maker headquartered in Yamanashi, Japan's equivalent of Idaho (i.e., there are people there, and I'm sure it's nice to live, but few travel there for vacation).

There are countless such examples: Minebea [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minebea has 60% market share for miniature bearings (ex: the trackpoint for Thinkpads) and has been more than doubling their revenue YoY.

As long as Japan's high-end manufacturing sector stays healthy, they will be fine for a little while.

[1] FANUC stands for Factory Automation NUmerical Control. You've gotta love Japanese people's creativity when it comes to company names.

[2] Minebea stands for Miniature Bearing. Again, very creative.
Live in Europe: Next gen XPS 13 developer edition
1. Google if someone had the same problem and fixed it.

2. Hope you're using OSS software and simply browse the source to find answers.

The second approach is a bit slower at first, but after you dismantled a bunch of repos it becomes natural, you get faster and the answers you find are more reliable.
On Being a Modern Bard
If you keep pressing into your draw, WITH YOUR FINGERTIP. That's not how the release button is intended to be used. When someone NDs with a non-Serpa nobody blames the holster -- they blame the idiot user for doing it wrong.

The Serpa has a secondary retention feature -- the button is blocked when there's upward pressure on the gun. It is not easy to snatch a gun out of a Serpa.
By way of example, I do not have a LinkedIn profile, and I left a Ph.D. program with a master's only. Though my degrees are from pestigious schools, I don't think school status should count for as much as it does.

I am lucky that the prestige of my schools is high, that you can easily Google some of the actual research work I did, and that I am very highly ranked on Stack Overflow.

If I didn't have those, I think more employers would simply reject me for not having a LinkedIn account, because employers use the dumbest shit (like LinkedIn) as hiring cues.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to fire her and not give her an insane severance package?

Have the "elite" somehow made it illegal to get rid of them without multi-million dollar packages? Or is this just an example of, we do it because it's always been done this way?
Lego Unveils the Stunning 42056 Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS
What a strange question. I've been poor for more than one period of my life. And I've had differing ideologies at differing periods, including both full-blown objectivist libertarian and full-blown ban-money communist. I can tell you though that it has nothing to do with ideology, and more about getting to a basic standard of living. The government of the US is extremely corrupted and wasteful, and unable to support this standard of living for many, and the propaganda fed to the public, poor or not, is meant to convince people otherwise. Poor people in China believe the country should go back to full communism. Plenty of poor in the US believe that the country should deregulate as much as possible. What do you think causes this difference in opinion? Could it be genetic? Or perhaps it's the ideas they are fed through the education system and top-down controlled media.
It's possible to statically JIT the hotspots, then statically link that code into the app. You'd probably have to rewrite lots of qemu code though..
An interesting thing about zippers (the post doesn't specify who's factory this is, maybe it's not part of the YKK group), is that you can fully automate their manufacture, but then you have to make them with a small notch at the top of the handle [0]. But customers perceive the notch as a manufacturing defect, so some guy in china has sit and feed zipper handles into a machine all day [1]

[0] http://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/zipper/zip_difference.jpg

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364
I've been impressed with Joseph's other recent work like "hit record". For me personally I can't think of anyone better for the role.

Also maybe relevant is his opinion not an opinion after meeting Snowden for research on the role:

> "Now, as he would say, it’s not for him to say whether it was right or wrong. That’s really for people to decide on their own, and I would encourage anybody to decide that on their own. I don’t want to be the actor guy who’s like, ‘You should listen to me! What he did was right!’ I don’t think that’s my place. Even though that is what I believe – that what he did was right.” [1]

[1] http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/18/joseph-gordon-levitt-sn...
in short, I am against this, and will fork and remove it before allowing it into my project.

If this is a marketing attempt, and if it's getting a significant amount of pushback, it's a bad marketing attempt and should be yanked.

I wish the folks behind Capistrano the best of success, but disagree with this marketing approach and hope they explore other approaches that are more palatable.
Lavabit wasn't end to end encrypted. DarkMail will be.(Assuming it ever materializes)
Deep Learning, Meet Genome Biology
There is unbounded amount of technology which could "save thousands of lives a year" which even if it did work perfectly would be widely opposed.

I think we should have mandatory breathalyzer ignition locks before electronic gun locks. Which is to say, I think both are bad ideas for approximately the same reasons.
Why not all of them as a category, or shootings in general? They all fit the concept of "negatives that legislation would attempt to prevent" in the analogy. That's the great thing about analogies: They compare concepts, but the scale of the concepts doesn't necessarily have to match. But I'm sure that you understand that already.
The problem is most scientists now days aren't real scientists. They are closer to laboratory workers or even bureaucrats. What we need to do is reform science as a whole, the very methodology's that we accept for science. Science does not = scientific method, that's a small subset, but we've become deluded into thinking that's all science is. Until we see science as more, scientists will be limited
It's a big deal on some backpacks too. Mountaineering and rock climbers, some backpackers
Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber

Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab

Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour

...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now.
Free will could all be an illusion “choice is brain just tricking itself”
That sounds like black hawk down without as much bad luck...
> Those a better left in hands of experts, they say.

Not sure about guns, but your average driver is definitely not an expert in operating their car. Hell, the widespread rejection of the opinion of experts is a part of the driving culture (speeding, ignoring traffic laws). When it comes to cars, I'm totally willing to trust that (not so) "random programmer" over an average person.
Things like "insults, and a legal demand letter" are very concerning because they're threatening you. Those things aren't normal responses. You should consider hammering that nail in civil court because they're damaging your reputation.
Localhost to Internet in One Command
I don't think the use-case for this is as a web development tool; I see it more as a way of keeping sets of things that have been looked up grouped together. I.e. fixing a bug could be a task and you could have three related stack overflow questions open, researching a new language could be a task with a few different examples open, figuring out what to do for dinner could be a task, with restaurants, recipes, etc. all open in tabs.

I guess, I would use it for anything specifically not requiring security or dev tools.
Yeah... not sure how that slipped my mind, seems quite obvious now. Thanks
I'd argue it's not significantly better than any existing product that uses transport-level security without E2E crypto. Both systems are likely to be broken if there's a server-side breach, though I'd admit there's a bit more effort involved for an attacker (planting a backdoor and collecting keys as opposed to just dumping the whole data set).
https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1355

Average Americans know nothing about Snowden.
The ROI of (Conversational) AI
One could argue that many innovations in computing were funded directly by those with the need to harm people.
The one time I posted a question on SO, it got flagged as duplicate and there were links to multiple other questions that were not even remotely the same to mine. Even more so, the tagged questions were not even mutually the same!

It took two hours to carefully craft my question just to have it immediately shot down. It is needless to say I have not posted again since.
It doesn't have yield.

It also doesn't have Concepts yet, as they got pushed back again.
Windows 10 Task Manager http://imgur.com/R9mbMZY
That would also make that build of qemu app-specific, and for that matter not distributable if it included code derived from Windows.
> However, although there are nearly a billion possible auto-generated urls for the download link and they generally only last a short time

Not enough. One leak can potentially ruin your reputation. So now, I fire dozens of thousand requests per minute and over a couple of hours I'll get something -- assuming there is dozens thousand of files at any given moment.
I found two:

ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/tr/2015/03/UW-CSE-15-03-02.pdf

http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/#project

The first formalized the safety-critical parts of the language to show them sound when used with safety on. The second will try to do that with unsafe. Nobody seems to be working on a full, formal semantics. That's disturbing given how many problems they tend to catch. So, SPARK/Ada combo still leads in safety for now.

Gave myself the idea that maybe someone can formalize a super/subset of Rust much like SPARK for Ada. Code most critical stuff in it with it just becoming functions other Rust code called. My original idea is possible at that point given complexity is minimized.

EDIT: Just finished skimming the first then reading conclusion in detail. It's apparently not Rust's model itself so much as a similar one named Patina that still has to map to the real thing. That's when the problems will show up. Also, Rust type system was updated several times while they were doing all that.