skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why do people conflate them so? Python is strongly typed by any reasonable definition, but it's also dynamically typed. To contrast, I've heard C described as weakly, statically typed.

Strong typing is awesome. I personally think that dynamic typing is wonderful, too, but opinions vary about that.
I'm surprised these guys are still around.

I remember having a hearty chuckle when I first saw it on either HN or Product Hunt, thinking to myself "wow, does anyone take this seriously?"

A rising tide lifts all boats I suppose. Even if your boat is actually a floating piece of debris.
As the author mentioned, shareholder voting is ripe for disruption with a blockchain based system. What is the market size at stake for the middle-man companies?
A lot of companies post their job listings on their own site, then stick the same descriptions on recruiters' sites.

The job posting sites often seem to mix it up and purposely anonymize these job descriptions, but they're pretty lazy. You can google little unique sounding bits of the description and find the actual company.
Never saw that one. Wild stuff. Here's the latest on open FPGA's:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-43...
The complexity is a feature that allows investors to play fun games with each other. Let's not take that away from the investing world.
The problem of literate programming, as with many of these systems, is that they presuppose a text file on disk with a parsing order. Fundamentally code is a graph, we've just badly flattened it to a poor on disk format.

If we could work, and annotate, at the graph level we'd see far more literate programming.
I see, and make, this argument often in relation to a lot of things.. with one caveat, which I think is important.

The 'because' in "it is opaque 'because' it is in the interest of.." does not have to be a causal because, or even an intentional 'because'. Most conspiracies I have known and loathed are, for better or worse, simply emergent. Each party can be relied on to play their part in conspiracy because playing their part is how the conspiracy came to be.

As I said, I think this is an important distinction. Not least as the hangup most people have about believing in such complex and wrong behaviour, is that so many people can be so smart and organised and so intentionally evil. But it is a real eye opener when you realise these things can function without organisation or intent..
You can file many kinds of complaints on the FTC website, but AFAIK, this is not one of them. It's a shame—I've encountered several websites, both as a consumer and as a startup founder, of pay-for-play reviews. Hopefully they'll create a category so that people can file complaints about this.
I wonder if this had something to do with someone I countered a day or two ago thinking all you needed was a NAND gate to do anything. I said you need memory and some other things for most hardware. Maybe that commenter got the idea from this project's name...
> But in social relationships, immediate 1-for-1 reciprocity actually damages the relationship.

I'm not sure if your opinion here is anything more than cultural bias.

I see nothing inherantly damaging about such behavior.
This is a very timely and relevant headline right now, in the year 1998.
No (sadly). There are lots of other cities with cultures that do value your experience, though.
>> The first thing you learn as soon as you release a product into real world is that people say one thing but do another--so many people say they love something but they never use it. >> @galostoca above

That right there, is the whole truth. Not only do they not use it, they don't buy it to begin with. What sells and what people like are not the same as what they need or think they need.

Case in point. I developed a process, software and hardware, to take an ordinary photo and turn it into a 3D carving in the early 2000s. There were CNC programs that could do it with a lot of human touch-up, mesh manipulation, and machine coding, but mine went pretty seamlessly from photo to 'send it to the machine'.

Everybody, everybody is not just family and friends, loved it when they saw the photo and sample maple hardwood output side-by-side. People made statements like, 'I would pay an arm and a leg to have a door carved for my house'.

I brought the carvings to wooden boat shows with my and my partner's handmade seagoing kayaks, and people flocked around our table/booth. 'Can I get this on the kayak too?' Not one sale! The only money ever made by it was doing carvings on wooden urns for a local animal or pet cemetery. In similar fashion, I had an offer from a company that did bronze bas relief plaques for tombstones for a one-time purchase of my software! Needless to say, this didn't help with my emotional state, Stephen King references aside.
I'm referring to one specific core dev. However they all know each other from MIT so it makes it difficult for them to deal with that fact. I can point to 3 public examples, in addition to a couple of private reports about problems which allow me to be certain. But admittedly it's all second hand to me (from people who work close to the language).
>AND it was easy to parallelize

This is what is killing me when I use Python. So hard to run things in parallel.

I have had luck with Go trying to do this and set up a concurrent application.
Attention span
Because index sets in mathematics are typically indexed beginning at 1? The most notable, and relevant, being indexing in matrices
Traumatic Brain Injury: The Hidden Epidemic
I wonder what the 'layers of decision making software' on top of Watson mean. Are these rule engines ?
You can't say that government is controlled by rich people, and then say the fundamental nature of that government is "semantics".

You're proposing a theory of government; it is your job to get right the basic facts.
Some people are struggling against the laws of physics though
Contracts can be tricky, and expensive, to enforce across national borders
No summer of code students have had projects that involved work primarily on the core language since 2013. Not that many posts happen on julia-dev because most of the development communication happens on github.
This is what the Dodge site that appears in that video looks like now: http://www.dodge.com/en/
>If you can tolerate working without a REPL

This is going to be a tough sell for any data analytics work.
> We were behind on payroll taxes

Don't ever do this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080884
NodeServices for asp.net
For better or worse, most development discussion happens on GitHub rather than julia-dev. I've been catching up on GitHub threads recently, and the progress towards 0.5 is really impressive -- both in the language itself, and in the tooling (especially the debugger). I think the nature of priorities has changed somewhat as the language matures, but I disagree that development has slowed. (disclosure: I'm a Julia committer, but have been a bit out of the loop for some months now)

There is certainly a need for better interim communication on progress between releases, to let people know what is happening without reading every GitHub thread.
Ah, ok! That's a lot more reasonable.
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What I'd give for my 19-year-old-self's attention span.
Hrm. Not in Shah's World Tales, though I still recommend that as well.
Small companies don't have to filter thousands of candidates, and can innovate around how they hire. They have to be like moneyball.

Big companies whiteboard because that's how it started, everyone who works there knows how to whiteboard, and you can argue that it's correlated with skills used in development. They don't have time to pair program. They can afford to throw away people who could be good based on their arbitrary metrics.

Startups can make innovating around hiring a selling point to candidates. They can talk to candidates about what sort of process would best demonstrate their skills and be in their comfort zone. They can look at non traditional candidates based on github accounts or OS contributions. They want people who can deliver.

Google's hiring innovations are more likely to be small steps. By being agile, startups can get ahead of them.

As to what best practices are, behavioral interviews that ask people what they would do in a particular situation are correlated with job skills. So is actual work, so paying someone to work for you, or perhaps even volunteering to help them with something by pairing, may give you insight into them.
Because then it's basically just another todo-list app that shares lists between parents and children. That's neat, but hardly the kind of thing that needs a whole company behind it with lots of funding.
Father does rap cypher with daughters.. And they kill it Great Job dad
That's the intention, yes.
Software engineers work in a field where accreted complexity exists at every turn. Windows has 20-years of bug-for-bug compatibility because of the pressures of hundreds of millions of people relying on it every day. And it's also a field where the dangers of rerwrites are well known and appreciated.

So why is it that many engineers are so ready to see complexity as the product of conspiracy, rather than organic evolution, in every other field?
How about you read the article the entire discussion is about? You will learn what is meant right there.
Do you happen to still have the extension installed you could pack...? I'd love to get my hands on it.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Yeah for the first couple of times I was heartbroken (It still happens), but now I've learned to embrace it. Nowadays when I have an idea, instead of asking the same dumb question to people "Would you use this?", I try to build an MVP as quickly as possible and let the product do the asking, and users answer with action instead of words.

Like Steve Jobs said, people don't know what they want. This is not a condescending comment, it's a great insight that comes from being able to understand how human mind works.
Standards-setting bodies typically address this today through the use of standard-essential-patent policies. IEEE, for example, requires assurance from such patent holders that they will either not enforce the patent against those implementing the standard, will grant a license free of charge, or will grant a license "under reasonable rates."

https://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/approved-...

Not sure why improving this state of affairs would require a change in underlying patent laws. We just need standards bodies to adopt more general patent policies--which could be accomplished by preferring to use standards from orgs with better patent policies.
I've been at Autodesk's demo center in San Francisco when the guy who did the lighting system for the Bay Bridge was controlling it from a laptop.
Cheap shot. Gibson may not be current, but he's one of the few out there trying to explain issues to a wider audience who are outside of our bubble, and he does a fairly good job at it (though I wish he'd give Leo LaPorte a good slap).
Why was I downvoted heavily for this, without even a single comment explaining why I'm wrong? This was a serious comment, and I still believe what I said, so it's rather rude to be treated this way.
Apple Confirms Music Deletion Glitch, Says Fix Incoming in Future iTunes Update
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> Paying a child per chore teaches them to treat their family obligations as transactional obligations, rather than teaching them about the nature of reciprocity in a close personal relationship.

Plus, the child then has the option of turning down the chores if they decide they don't need the money.
ReplayTV. I was able to record TV, and easily transfer shows to my networked computer for later consumption. I still have all the Good Eats episodes from 15 years ago.
I think they are different topics under different environment. Software changes, a lot, over time. You can hardly recognize a software's source code if you don't touch them for a decade. The features changed, new features added, old features deprecated, etc. On the other hand, over the life time of a person, their DNA will not be changed dramatically. What their cells need to do is just an exactly copy of its genes. There won't be a case where one person needs to grow a third arm, while in software world, we constantly change requirements.

Software evolves more like the evolution of a species: Small changes over time to adapt the ever changing environment.
This is probably what made me double-take the most.

I don't understand why Guardian were denied permission to use the code. Sure, OWS aren't under any obligation to, but it doesn't really feel like it's in the spirit of openness at all.

The code might be 'open source', but it's neither free as in user freedom or beer, unless you're giving Facebook or Google your metadata now.

If the code can't be reused, it's pretty hard for users to move to something else. Unless that something else is totally starting over again from scratch.

It just feels weird that because of the Apple situation, in this case the GPL appears to work directly against user freedom.

I think a lot of people have been taken by surprise by that, to discover the platform is not what they thought it was.
Agreed. I've never been depressed in my life, then I moved to Finland!

Seriously though, my first winter was rough, and despite how obvious it was, despite how much I'd heard about it, it took me a long time to recognize the symptoms of not wanting to do anything, and not being productive.

I'm sure now I know what to look for things will be better in the future..
Alex and team, great job trying to bring these products to market. Best of luck in future endeavors. No one will ever know how hard it all must have been.
Andddd shit like this is why bitcoin was invented.

Fund via coinbase!

Thanks for the post mortem.
Not directly related, but Microsoft PowerApps have a very Excel-like feel to them, except you're using formulas to wire up arbitrary controls that you've placed on the canvas, and various tabular or hierarchical data sources, rather than grid cells.
> Are we talking about a data scientist performing initial, exploratory analysis on a very small subset of data?

Yes, that's one example. Also when debugging one usually uses small data sets. There are plenty of cases where runtime is short.

I think the problem is that Julia is somewhat vague on how it should be used. If it stated explicitly that it is intended to be used in MATLAB-like fashion with one long-running instance that would save people from trying to use it as Python or other dynamic language.
The easy way to do this would be to have it be an add-on feature for something like Wells Fargo Teen Checking.[1] That gets teens a debit card. The only allowed operation would be a transfer from the parent's account to the teen's account. It's not a standalone startup then, though, so you don't make tons of money. But Wells Fargo is having trouble in the mobile space, so credible app developers might find it worthwhile to talk to them.

[1] https://www.wellsfargo.com/checking/teen/
This is great, if you're planning to do many things with erlang, our you have a lot of time. If your friend has a weird problem and comes to you because you have a reputation for figuring things out that you've earned by using strace, then you use strace. Incidentally, I'm reading this because I use erlang, but it took about a minute to see the problem (tcp port exhaustion) from the strace.
Nonono, I'm actually curious if in harryh's nuanced view, Meredith Perry (not someone else) had this option open and could have done so once she realized the tech couldn't work. What do you think?
Anytime I see anything AI related it seems context is the key otherwise answers are all over the place. It's the same for everyday life context seems to be the driver of humans.
One bank I worked with essentially had two separate routing numbers - one for the checks vs one for ACH along with separate check and ACH/wire accounts for their corporate customers.
"Glitch" and "fix" are terms that seem pretty far removed from the way Apple was talking about this just last week...
Good to hear that's remained the case @moxie.
Why can't nscd support those other NSS modules too? (Even if it doesn't work with them at present, could it not be extended to do so?)

Rather than having NSS plugins loaded into every process which needs name services, why not centralise all name services in a daemon (whether nscd or sssd or something else)? Then client processes don't need to actually load the NSS code into their own address space, they can just speak a simple protocol over IPC to access this functionality out-of-process.
Look the DOM in the browser inspector, it's definitely Angular. (And angular.version reports 1.2, they need to upgrade). The WebObjects path is probably for backward compatibility.
MacProject and HyperCard
> I see Rust as the big next step for the web—a language that is still a pleasure to develop in, but with excellent static typing and tight, targeted builds without the bloat and buildup I'm accustomed to seeing with current transpile-to-JS strategies.

Maybe this will happen but it won't be through Emscripten. Emscripten is cool and all but it produces really poor code size-wise. Maybe if you lack JavaScript expertise you'll use this as a stop-gap but for a production system that needs scale I can't see it happening.

Now maybe if it can be compiled into the Web Assembly intermedia? That seems like a good route to take.
Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
> rustup install stable-aarch64-apple-ios

> info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-aarch64-apple-ios'

> error: target not found: 'aarch64-apple-ios'

What is the process for toolchain stabilization? I know that iOS support is unofficial right now, but I would love to be able to run the above command at some point.

I can see that official support for more platforms might hurt development speed (more tests to pass!), but eventually all platforms will be officially supported, right?
Minimum Wage Hike Backfiring? Wendy's Increases Self-Service Kiosks
Being Average
What do I do if I get harassed by a Google Employee?
I know his name and think he is reading my email or chat history. He flaunts about himself in a chat room; he definitely works for Google. Is this the new Google, like hire fast and hire bad. Who cares about not being evil anymore right ? Funny thing is he is posting defamed pictures and it'll be there forever ..shy :(
The extension is open source and on GitHub.
Disregard, we're good! It's really awesome actually and it's a pity such a thing would ever be pulled :(
At Harvard, officially-recognized groups cannot use race/gender/sexual-orietation/religion as a qualification for membership. So, yes, a white person can join the Black Student Association. And yes, a male can join Women in Business.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are allowed to exist. But I, myself, think their gender segregation is gross.

There are male and female sports teams for the same reason heavyweight and lightweight boxers compete separately: we recognize that there's a meaningful difference in type of bodies and so we segment them into different groups for competition. But not that the reason for separation, here, is not gender; it's types of bodies.
There was much early enthusiasm for pneumatic propulsion, and some lines were built. London had a working system, the London Pneumatic Dispatch Railway, 1865.[1] It could carry passengers, but was really for mailbags. Unfortunately, the elevator hadn't been invented yet, and getting the mailbags up from track level to post office level quickly was a bottleneck. Also, the system leaked air at many points. (Good rubber gaskets are quite modern - oil resistant rubber (Neoprene) dates from WWII. Early systems used oiled leather. There were many early pneumatic and steam powered ideas that didn't work because gaskets and piston rings weren't good enough yet.)

[1] http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/londons-lost-pneumat...
That could definitely be possible. Teleport, however, is missing capitals of US states
>At some point every piece of technology that we use was impossible.

I knew some complete misunderstanding of scientific history was going to best posted in this forum.

Count on HN to have unfounded contrarian opinions, just for the sake of.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692360 (41 points, 8 hours ago, 38 comments)
Intuit is just kinda helping along a system that's already built up to allow politicians to give tax breaks and incentives for political reasons instead of just simply generating revenue.
I wrote my first program in HyperCard.
that's why we have to move back to gold standard.
You start by searching for an image that has been released in the public domain or made available under a permissive license. If you can't find one, you can create your own. In this case, the orbit information itself isn't going to be copywritten, so of course you can scribble one out on your own. It's another thing entirely to just google for an existing image and use it without consent.
Note that you can in fact create memory with NAND gates. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)#SR_NAN...
It's interesting to see what assumptions people make and how they make them. You assumed your parent had a pro-Apple bias and that they wanted a Mac OS X build, while I felt solidarity with them because I was looking for a Linux build. The only OS the parent mentions is Windows, though.
Fair use doesn't apply everywhere in the world.

>Fair use is a legal doctrine only in the United States.[0]

In the UK, for example, their fair dealing exception is only for "non-commercial research or study, criticism or review". [1]

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom...
For me the big issue is Mark insisting on holding on to the case that this was a good investment.

Last time he insisted on calling out the non-believers about tech. This time, he only writes a couple sentences defending the tech and is laying the groundwork for abandoning the physics and just supporting the team.

Something like.. 'yeah, we took a chance. Someone has to. It didn't pan out, but the team is great.'

I have done my share of pitching the VCs and they have to uphold the image that they are the smartest people in the room, or else what are they? Just Money who can't possibly know everything about everything? No! can't be.

So, here is a smart person dispensing advice on all things life, entrepreneurship, investment and technology who is clearly been had and out of his depth in this particular field. But smart enough to know that he's been had and the only remaining way out is to abandon tech and back the team.

This is a personal issue for Mark and has nothing to do with science and the rest of us. The science is clear. He just can't admit that he was had, because that kills his standing in his day job.
>WW1 was truly unexpected

Really? I read that Germany had been planning and not so secretly saying they were planning on taking France for years before. (Book, Guns of August, iirc).
Why does the Government place so many layers of regulation just to vote? Don't shareholders want it made easy for them vote on the future of the company?
Doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics
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Chris Granger (of Light Table fame) and his bunch at Eve are working on something like that. There are a bunch of presentations on YouTube. They are more looking at it abstractly as a possible programming / data model, than purely 'compile an Excel sheet to a programming library'.

Eve: https://twitter.com/with_eve
Chris Granger: https://twitter.com/ibdknox