skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a performance regression in JSC. Maybe the other implementations aren't as good as JSC's.
Awesome, is there any data like this for SF / bay area?
San Francisco's Housing infographically
Considering they do $60B worth of business in services, and given the poor success rate of major upgrade/integration projects, I'd say IBM is one of the culprits here.

I'm a BH investor, and frankly I don't like them going into this space.
Xerox Parc innovated. It's usually based on the a high pain point the founder has with the product.
'public gathering' is perhaps intentionally ambiguous

the other disjunct: in any legislative, judicial, executive or administrative proceeding open to the public; led me to interpret 'public gathering' as bagley-keene(o) does

> 11122.5. (a) As used in this article, “meeting” includes any congregation of a majority of the
members of a state body at the same time and place to hear, discuss, or deliberate upon any item that
is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the state body to which it pertains.

stead of just anyone standing at a bus stop

(o) http://ag.ca.gov/publications/bagleykeene2004_ada.pdf
I think they have their place, and they probably have a lot of evolving left to do, but I think they shouldn't be the sole focus of programming for kids.

I have taught kids as young as eight JavaScript. They really take to it. JavaScript is not an ideal language for teaching beginners, but the availability means you can do it anywhere.

I made a little library to provide easy to use functions and start with programs of the sort I would have written in basic when I was young.

This is the program I start kids off with

http://fingswotidun.com/code/index.php/TinyDraw (You can edit and run the code from within the wiki)

The etch-a-sketch program is a program kids like playing with and it is small enough that they can look at it and understand how it works.
That definitely sounds like it should be reported as a bug.
A Messenger bot so smart it “fooled” Facebook
There is, actually - the US has a (slightly worse) government data repository, but there's several LIDAR sets of the Bay Area, mostly from coastal surveys.
People were leaving!

In 1950 the population of SF peaked (at the time) at 775,000, by 1960 it was down to 740,000, then by 1980 down to 678,000 (13% drop over 30 years!).

Hard to believe it living in SF today.
Since it was so obvious and inevitable to you at the time, I assume you put all the spare money you had into Apple in 2006?
Yeah, I've heard that it's supposed to be a gotcha, and the "actual" test is that only drunk people will attempt it, while sober people will, allegedly, refuse to try.

Because refusing to obey a police officer who's considering arresting you is such a sober decision.
Very happy to see the camera connector.

Anyone interested in the exact stock count figures? http://stockalert.alexellis.io/ along with full source-code and blog write-up on how it works.
Is there any scientific evidence suggesting that marijuana treats depression or schizophrenia in any meaningful way? I don't believe so, which would suggest that you've merely been lucky not to have had additional episodes; for the safety of yourself and others, I would suggest you seek real, professional treatment and medication for your schizophrenia before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Al Qaeda Mag Urges Attack on Koch Brothers, Buffett, Bloomberg
>Isn't it much more secure to always use a breathalyzer.

The field sobriety and breathalyzer tests are just excuses to get suspected DWIs into the drunk tank nowadays.

Once there they'll draw blood for drug and blood-alcohol testing. That's the test that will be used in court if it gets that far.

>I'm also quite sure that you could train for soberty tests

Not a doctor but I don't know that you could fake out a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_sobriety_testing
Hi!

My current model is motivated by being able to provide a really good service for the people who are paying. I'm afraid the quality could suffer if I go for a freemium model. Anyway, I appreciate your honesty and will consider it :).
Intel recently unveiled PoET - proof of elapsed time - in Sawtooth Lake. https://intelledger.github.io/introduction.html
Google gives up on messaging, realizing they will not beat Facebook, WhatsApp, etc? Then they should create an open protocol! "If I cannot have it, then nobody should."
It's hard to blame them for that, though. They made a blog with a 140-character limit and it became one of the most valuable companies in the world. Who knows what it will become if they fiddle with anything?
there is a police conduct complain procedure. but it can only be used within 30 days of the incident, not an option when you are in enthralled in proccedings. also mountain view PD for example hides the complaint forms from you, and only provides them on demand. Also many Califiornia PD use an anti constitutional clause on the complaints forms, which states that any complaint can land You in jail if found unfounded. And almost every complaint will end up unfounded when filed, still worth it cause it stays in the police officers file indefinitely and if those complaints add up the officer will not be trusted by courts. Point is everybody is discouraged to complain about police misconduct. Myself, i can't dedicate my life fighting this one incident.
I use both.

They are both great and with modern smartphones having both installed is no problem.

Whatsapp is a bit more secure by default it seems and Telegram keeps adding and improving features monthly it seems.

I love both of them and have my inlaws on T and my stubborn family on W.
I think blood alcohol content counts as an objective standard.
Yes. What I'm saying is that conceptually I understand Buffett's implementation of the circle of competence, it's just that his circle seems immutable, and I believe for many people they develop insights into new areas/categories of investing, while he seems to have focused on a specific area for his entire lifetime.
Don't be a dick. Have a conversation. Be kind.
I will bite the bullet: Do you have a sense of how many devs use Safari compared to Chrome/FF for debugging?
Until they catch up with demand, yes.
If you have a good reason to switch blockchains, the developers of the clients users actually use should have a good reason to support the switch. If you can't convince people to change, you're stuck with the status quo. That's just a fact of life, not a flaw of blockchains.

> Sure I extract a set of the stuff I want and carry on with the new fork, but no one else comes along, their data is lost, so they don't come along.

That's not how it works. When you fork, you typically bring the entire history with you. It's the new data after the fork that causes problems. If people don't switch or publish to both, you're stuck.
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Sure, maybe not the worst thing (I don't use Ruby primarily) but just one of the many things where the "expressiveness" of the language itself is can be as much of a boon as it can be a nightmare.

Misbehaving classloaders sounds like a straight up bug, or a lack of standardization around how a classloader should work. That doesn't sound so much like a failing of the language itself, but again, Java isn't my primary language so I'm not entirely privy to the landscape of Java fuckery. :)
I would like to believe this opinion, because I am able to speak both English and Chinese. 因為我會說英語和中國話，我願意相信這意見。But the best considered opinion, according to a well reported article in The Atlantic earlier this year,[1] is that there is no strong evidence that bilingualism is especially helpful for cognitive function in old age. No problem. 沒問題。

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-battl...
Expect to see t.co/links-that-look-like-this
How a Promising Kickstarter Campaign Devolved into Embezzlement Allegations
People have been saying "you're never again going to see a generation that has the patience to X" for generations, when really X is just no longer a thing anyone wants to do.

When was the last time you typed in source code from a magazine? These days we all expect software to be more complex than what you can fit on a printed page. People have patience for the things they find exciting: nobody is excited by dinky type-in games any more.
No, it's not. But SF's prices could easily make the investment worthwhile.
This was addressed by the source article. It happens a bit, but it isn't magic: one of the author's models found that for every 1% increase in housing, rents dropped by 1.7%.

Lowering rents enough to make SF affordable for poor people requires construction on a scale that isn't just impractical -- it's economically impossible. No developer would choose to build into such a market with fixed construction costs at hundreds of dollars per square foot.
It's a wonderful service.
I really like that Scanner. Good ideas.
There was a very nice comparison between the type systems of Rust and Haskell a few days back on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4jh8hv/question_about...
If you allocate another $20k for the land itself

The tricky part is finding those $20K plots of land in SF.
Using Python's CherryPy for Quick Scalable Prototypes
Whenever I read articles about Rails performance I often think about the saying from the early days of Twitter, "Rails doesn't scale". However as most of the comments have said here, the biggest factor that typically affects an app is I/O.

There are plenty of large companies that run Rails and for most up and coming startups Ruby on Rails is probably enough to validate your idea.
The retired. Most boomers have most of their savings in real estate.
I was going to say: it almost sounds like something weird with IIS.

The CLR on Windows was/is top-notch. Now, with Kestrel as an option for ASP.NET 5, you're starting to be able to get closer and closer to the metal, so to speak, and eliminate a lot of the baggage required to actually hit your code from an HTTP request.

At any rate, interesting to hear. :)
They are burning cash trying to get market share.
I was reacting to "which is mostly a background check and regular checkups that you're physically capable for driving people around." Not worthy of downvotes imho.
If you don't want this auto upgrade, here is a tool for that. https://www.grc.com/never10.htm?1
The DAO Bytecode Tour for the Skeptic (Part 1)
"Dad is on his way to the store to buy that much-needed additional 2K memory he and the wife have been meaning to get."

HAHAHAHA!!! 2K -- that's funny. Just goes to show you they never dreamed how dirt cheap and huge memory would become over the years.
No, I am just pointing out the interesting technical detail.
Consider that you can just girdle the tree to kill it, and then the city will then force you to take it down.
The grandparent was probably referring to the fact that Rust allows mutation and side effects, which Scala also does. "Functional" is not a very meaningful term, but Rust has about equivalent support for higher kinded polymorphism as SML or OCaml (in that there is no first class support but another language feature can be used to implement it), which are certainly functional languages. And of course, many lisps are considered functional languages despite not having types at all.
Last weekend I built a project to do music with sonic pi[1] using google's visual programming blocky[2], take a look if you are interested: https://github.com/marianoguerra/sonic-blocks

[1] http://sonic-pi.net/

[2] https://developers.google.com/blockly/
Travel Meets Commerce – Global P2P Shopping -“Grabr: Unlocking the World”
Grabr is the first peer-to-peer service that utilizes travel to bridge the gap in the global shopping market. Shoppers now have access to goods that are widely unavailable or expensive in their country and travelers are able to use the extra room in their suitcase to earn money while making amazing new friends in our international Grabr community on their travels.
I've been contemplating for a few weeks now rooting my phone. My justification for this plan is the convenience and added security of system-wide ad block. But I always wonder if I should be more concerned with the new vulnerabilities I open than with the ones I'm closing. I guess I'm wondering what people here think: is rooting something that makes sense if you're careful, or is it something you do if you're smart enough to want to play with your phone while not being smart enough to know better?
When I used to do C++ the build time was quite long, of course this was in 2005 using lots of STL, so that is not really a fair comparison. As such do you have any open source examples of decent C codebases? I would actually like to try this out for giggles.
Build in a city where you're required to post notice any time you cut down a tree on your own property.

That's because you're talking about one of the most beautiful cities in the world (despite the attempts of some people to decry otherwise) and, as expressed through the will of its electorate, intends to stay that way. It's also a city that's keenly aware of ecosystem dynamics and environmental issues generally, and the effect of removing that removing certain kinds of trees (for example, trees of significant age, size, and/or foliage) -- particularly if they're close to the street -- can have on the neighborhood well beyond the tiny confines of your own property.

If you want to live in a city that couldn't begin to give a flying F* about trees, or anything else green, for most of its history -- and has the corresponding development footprint and visual character to show for it -- try moving to San Jose.
What is your suggested fix?
So basically, you could compare dementia statistics in Belgium or Switzerland (where most people speak more than 2 languages) and the UK or France (where that percentage is significantly lower). Are there any such studies?
So it's a violation of OkCupid's TOS, which makes it a civil matter between OkCupid and the study authors.
Although your larger point stands, about the division of responsibilities, it's important to distinguish "specifying browser module loading" from the Loader spec draft.

The loader repository at https://whatwg.github.io/loader/ is an experimental proving ground, as noted by its title ("A Collection of Interesting Ideas") and its Status section ("This document is a work in progress and dreams of becoming a living standard."), as well as the fact that it's in the whatwg.github.io namespace instead of the spec.whatwg.org namespace. To my knowledge no browser implementers have begun implementation of the experimental ideas here.

Contrast that with the agreed-upon work in the WHATWG HTML Living Standard discussed at https://blog.whatwg.org/js-modules, which is relatively finalized and is being actively implemented now in all browser engines.

I think we will see a gradual stabilization of the experimental ideas in the Loader spec, either in the Loader spec itself (with the stable ideas staying, and the experimental ones moving to a supplementary document) or by moving the relevant spec text into other locations (HTML and/or ES, probably). For example, I would hope that we will soon see a very simple promise-returning `importModule("./foo.js")` async module loading API, far ahead of the loader's more experimental in-browser-transpilation APIs or create-a-module-from-scratch-reflectively APIs. That could be done either by specifying it in the Loader spec, or by specifying it in ES with a call-out to a HostFetchModule() abstract operation, which HTML then specifies for browser hosts.
Every time someone has said 'Winter is coming' in Game of Thrones
Well, my response was basically a joke too (of course he meant being hit by a bus), my brain just brought up other possibilities right away and I ran with it to show how something as simple as that phrase can be ambiguous.

Although I probably did come across as a pedant considering how straight I wrote it, so fair enough.
At this point I just assume that any new Google service won't work for me. There's no rhyme or reason for the exclusions so there's no way to predict them aside from a roll of the dice.
Scratch has the concept of functions. They are also called blocks. Custom blocks which kids can create. The blocks can take parameters and are conceptually identical to functions.

I don't know about the other languages mentioned though.

I prepare curriculum for Grades 4 and 5 on Programming using Scratch and Flowcharts and teach kids to create blocks whenever they see that functionalities are getting repeated.

Kids tend to learn a little differently compared to adults. Adults tend to want to know the 'big picture' before they begin and tend to have different preconceptions based on what they've learnt earlier. Kids' learning is much more playful, motivated more by inquisitiveness and curiosity. They don't have the urge to prove anything to anyone, including themselves.

At those grades, their brains are very flexible and they can think of strange combinations and the ultimate goal of having a program solve a problem is not the aim. Even after many years, I find it hard to let go of trying to guide kids towards a goal, rather than keeping my mind open to new things that they are able to see just because they're not motivated the same way we as adults are.
FIY Musk is not founder of tesla.
What should he have done instead?

A more circumspect whistleblower who worked within the system could have exposed wrongdoing without risking legitimate secrets, yes. But whistleblowers aren't allowed to work within the system. Snowden tried and was rebuffed. The tactic he eventually chose was less harmful than allowing the NSA to continue running wild with no effective oversight.
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That's really cool. Wish it was printed in colour :)

If LIDAR data isn't available, you can do pretty detailed 3D mapping with a regular camera and UAV, using photogrammetry/structure from motion. A Phantom or almost anything that flies with a reasonable camera will do. Of course the better camera you use, the better the results. Flight restrictions over populated areas apply, check your local legislation :)

commercial solutions: https://pix4d.com/, http://www.agisoft.com/, http://www.dronedeploy.com

open source: https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap
Indeed construction costs are far too high! Significant zoning changes are needed to make SF more affordable for large swaths of the economic spectrum. And even then, unfortunately, it will take time. Buildings don't go up overnight. The problems that SF is experiencing today are due to decades of mistakes.
How did you "quite literally" have a crash that didn't happen?
That should be nice, I need that option.
Just a small difference of opinion, I honestly asked to understand where you were coming from :-) I've also got only anecdotal information, in all likelihood you could be correct!

Open communication within any organisation is very important so a developer who sits in his own office all day is a concern I'm in agreement with you. I guess I'm just not convinced of the reasons for the behaviour. But I think your observations are interesting and valid, so I appreciate you taking the time to give me a solid answer!
Pyras are up for pre-order. Bit expensive but extremely sexy. I'm getting one (in Thinkpad black, hopefully).
If you're talking about outlying areas, the rest of the bay area is amazingly not dense given how expensive housing is.
I don't think I'll be able to handle any instability in that right now. My primary development focus doesn't involve web development so having the latest and greatest browser won't benefit me that much. I do want to try the latest features, but I have patience and can wait a few more months.
Read history, whenever an industry gets too distasteful for IBM they sell it. E.g. Desktops/Laptops and more recently servers to Lenovo. The products might be supported by a lot of services, a mainframe might not be cheap but nor are mainframe consultants. A lot of large corporates still use mainframes and some probably have no plans to get rid of them.

Edit: Grammar mistake
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Did you read the first three paragraphs of the article where she lays out her experience with these types of blogs?
I really do not understand this argument or belief people have, that they can send out their information into the world, via a network of unknown intermediaries to a private third party in another country, and somehow their data is still "private". That your data is posted for everybody to see on a publicly accessible website, and somehow your data is still "private".

Here's something incredibly simple: if you don't want your data to be public, then don't share it! Don't transmit it! Don't want the other users on OkCupid storing your information? Why did you put it there in the first place!?!? The internet is not now, nor was it ever, a private place.

These guys did nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned, besides maybe breaching OkCupid's TOS. OkCupid can sue if it pleases them, but that's a matter for civil law.
Local PD can't just check someone's papers in the US. The law is such that it is illegal to employ someone "not eligible to work", so it is really up to the employer to enforce the law. Government would only become involved to prosecute the employer for breaking the law once it was known (and only if there are resources to merit enforcement) that illegal behavior occurred.
To a lot of people though, it does. And public transit is already stretched thin with a lot of problems. A second Transbay Tube is being discussed so you're not looking at anything soon.
Messes with calling conventions. Citing Rust: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/00355...
There is a clear difference between targeting all the files of an organization that you know is committing wrongs, and targeting everyone in the world.

When NSA grabbed everything they could, they did not conceive of any limits, literally everyone was a target. Snowden restricted himself to documents about NSA.
Honestly... how do you fill in your compilation time? There's always those free 30s/2min (whether you're compiling js or java) where you have too much caffeine to accept nooping. That's where my addiction to 9Gag and facebook is rooted, and that's how I noticed that grand newspapers fill the pretty mediocre slot of idle-time fillers.
Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away
Singular Value Decomposition Part 2: Theorem, Proof, Algorithm
Apple has a P/E ratio of 9.82. (2015 actual). That's what a mature, profitable company looks like. AAPL isn't overvalued. That's the sort of thing Buffet buys. IBM is at 9.90.

Compare P/E (last full year numbers):

Google: 31.12
Facebook: 80.41
Salesforce: 948.63
Twitter: (loss)
LinkedIn (loss)
It's not a bit surprising that they omit the role of court decisions, especially O’Connor v. Donaldson (422 U.S. 563, 1975).
Trivia: Even SSL Labs was limited to TLS 1.0 and 1024-bit DHE in the early days, because they themselves used JSSE.
Having started functional programming with Lisp and Caml Light, with Prolog on the side for logic programming, it feels strange this modern notion that Haskell is the be all and end all of FP.
Are you aware of https://javascript.spec.whatwg.org/? :) Thankfully that spec is almost obsolete as TC39 has moved much of it into the main spec over time. It used to be the only place important de-facto language features like __(define|lookup)(Getter|Setter)__, or String.prototype.blink, or Function.prototype.{arguments,caller} were specified. You can see the history of it getting smaller in https://github.com/whatwg/javascript/commits/master.

On the subject of the table, it's interesting that Firefox's only failure is in "Date.parse produces NaN for invalid dates". However, as far as I can tell this is not a requirement of the spec, since per https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-date.parse

> If the String does not conform to that format the function may fall back to any implementation-specific heuristics or implementation-specific date formats.