skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors change the game theory in company's model. A company without VC doing the exact same thing as with VC will perform and act differently. Pretty much all we hear about in the news is that VC money is good for startups, founders, employees, the scene in general here and the tech economy. In reality, I doubt that's true long term. My rationale is that the WHOLE game is significantly altered when people who have stored trust get involved in a big way. Stored trust being capital, money or stored work. The game being the market we entrepreneurs look to game in moving forward.

The effects of these consolidated investment cycles result in bubbles. The more stored trust involved, and the more systems put in place to bring more stored trust to bear on an idea, market, company, etc., the more disruption there will be on the changes in the cycles. Cycles are a thing with technology, probably due to the discovery phases of market bubbles. All theory, of course. I'd like to see it put to analysis though.

Better?
(y) :)
Design Journey from Skeuomorphism to Flat to Material Design
You are calculating the probability for a randomly selected individual of the test to have been given a false positive result. That is different from the test's false positive rate, which is just P(+|M') [Where I assume M' represents that the subject had not used meth.]

It doesn't matter what the prior probability is of a random person having used meth (or whatever you are testing for); it only matters how likely it is that someone who has not used meth will be given a positive result.
Only, it isn't knob and tube or asbestos.

It's much more like comparing crawling (machine code), walking (assembly), C (bi-cycling), and higher level languages (faster to write, more built in safety features, etc).

Each is a good fit for a given role, and sometimes you need to get through tight spaces where using one of the lower impact methods is more effective; or maybe you just can't afford something 'nicer'.

Use the correct tool for the job.
What is the significance of 804?
Well if you can implement a kernel that does everything that Linux does, and is entirely backwards compatible, then I'll say "ok, the reign of C is over". Till then, C is going no where.
Sorry I was confused about terms, what I was thinking of was Javascript vs native. Native code can do more than a browser sandboxed client can.
It might also give Nvidia some sorely needed worries.
It's the number of this flight that just vanished.
It's a full body motion sensor like Kinect, but it works with any mobile VR or GearVR
That was the nice part too. The old crapy dirty 70's contrete was the one left standing. But yeat given the choice I would avoid CDG.
I think this is a great intro into the different components.
https://www.airpair.com/aws/posts/building-a-scalable-web-ap...

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to our forums, or drop me a line. =)
It's possible it was trained on GPUs but ran on TPUs.
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Every midwife I've known has oxygen and at least one assistant. What do you think the oxygen is for?

(not that it gets used much -- your case is far from the norm -- but they DO actually come prepared)
>I suspect this has a -lot- to do with performance.

It's questionable whether people wanted that performance though, at least when it resulted in less security. About bounds checking in ALGOL 60: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds_checking

A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interest of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to—they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous.
> We're seeing the same thing happening with Zenefits

Sorry to contradict, but that's plain wrong. Both the founders of Zenefits - Parker and Laks, know more about the insurance industry than your average broker. It was Parker's frustration with the amount of insurance paper work he had to deal with at his prior company, that led him to actually start Zenefits so that the pain can be eased for others.
The Mediterranean is more of a small lake compared to the Indian ocean. So this one will be found.
That's unfair to Techcrunch. Most countries have accepted China's claim for a while now.
IMHO it is OK if you are only going to call a few simple one, but for calling a few hundred complex ones (callbacks with variable argument list, etc..), it becomes a bit cumbersome.

BTW I am not implying that is Rust's fault, actually I can't think a syntax that would make it less verbose, and I am a huge Rust fan.
I fly a lot and that has never happened to me ever...unless your idea of large numbers of people is 2 in a radius of 200 m.
There are at least two ethereum implementations, the main one and one in Rust.
When I've mentioned what you propose to other programmer I always get baleful looks and a statement that, 'that's not how C is supposed to work'. Mention bounds checking, same thing.

I used to think it was hopeless, especially as each new language that came out required garbage collection or worse targeted the JVM. Perhaps cloud services will motivate people to fix this stuff since now computing costs are a hard line item on the books.
Yes.

But i forgot about the resistance from the load back to the source so above where I said 6m should actually be 3m. Or if two wires are parallel both from source to load and load back to source then we're back to 6m.
I don't think so. They might not receive similar 401ks, but free lunches are usually for everyone (at places like Facebook).
It's not possible, if only because memory-backed queues are not durable by definition.
I don't have any consistent experience with airport staff generally, but when it comes to immigration workers, I've found most countries to be staffed by pleasant, cheerful people, including in the USA.

The one curious exception has been the UK, where I've had a solid run of miserable sods who don't seem to appreciate that anyone would want to visit their country.
Lets wait for a few days before coming to any strange conclusions.
There are so many to choose from. Here is one I just thought up:

void free_circularly_linked_list(struct node *head) {
struct node *tmp = head;
do {
struct node *next = tmp->next;
free(tmp);
tmp = next;
} while (tmp != head);
}

Can you spot the undefined behavior?
I think the correct response then is especially in security for long layovers: cheap bunks for commuters to sleep in. Why not profit off the supposed "bums"?

But yes, they'd have to be pretty cheap, but make them cheap enough and even the most comfortable terminal chairs will be less preferable to a couple of bucks for an hours sleep on a mediocre bunk.
Who needs to cut off fingers when you've got a 3d printer?

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140308-world-first-3d-printe...

http://openbiometrics.org/publications/arora20133D.pdf
What are you talking about? VMs are the same across any cloud if you just want IaaS.

They all have their own proprietary services which are valuable but it's completely your choice to use them.
What's to keep this non-hire from logging into Glassdoor and warning everyone else (and existing employees) about the offensive contract verbiage?

If that's not legally actionable, then what's the ethics / negotiation cost/ben of that same non-hire implying at the beginning that this would be the eventual recourse if (s)he wasn't hired?
Given there exist software engineers at Google who sleep in their vans ... maybe yes if the OP's employer doesn't have free food? At least in tech, we don't have student loans. I've heard of Doctors leaving the Bay area because they were fed up of housing + commute. Have you seen the prices in MV downtown? Apartments seem to have doubled in prices. In my opinion, what happened is low interest rates allowed some big hedge funds/property management companies to buy all the properties in the prime spots ... they did a bit of renovation, tagged the places as luxury apartments and here we are. My last place, the apartment manager mentioned that some 2 bedroom apartment had 4 roommates .. that's how people afford this crap.
My C programs have crashed much more often than my bicycle...
I've been out of the states for 10 years now and have noticed the motto being applied in states as altruistic as Switzerland, and it definitely rules in here China, much more than in the US.
K&R taught fundamentals and a good style. It is timeless classic, because the principles doesn't change within successions of mass hysteria.

Plan9 dialect of C is another example. There is portable mk package, with includes core libs (libbio, libutf, etc. which also served as core libs for earlier versions of Golang) to appreciate what C supposed to be.

I would paraphrase - attention seeking by attacking classics is a poor style.
I could have missed something, but wasn't it 803 days? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+between+8+March+2...
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This is not true because K&R does not address multithreaded programming at all.
What definition of nationality are you working with? Wikipedia defines it as "the legal relationship between a person and a state."

I'm not confusing anything, I know the difference between nationality and ethnicity (and language). The non-Han people in the PRC are of Chinese nationality because they are residents of territory that is under the PRC's political and military control. That statement is not true for the people of Taiwan. They have their own government, and many people including elected officials in that government want to remove the word China from the country's official name.

So are Taiwanese people of Chinese nationality? No. Chinese ethnicity? A slight majority. Chinese speaking? A larger majority. So again it depends what you mean by "Chinese."

The rest of the facts you're stating are true on paper only--they are political fictions perpetuated by the cold war.
To me, legacy code has cost. Great cost.

You can't just leave old code alone and the features remain. Any time you go to restructure some code, or support some other mode, or do some other kind of action, it ends up affecting this old code and you have to go and make changes to it as well. Then that old code breaks on a new version of the compiler, so you have more fixes to make. And it increases compilation times, binary sizes, and lines of code. It's another vector for malicious attacks. It's more to keep mentally in your head all at once.

I suppose it's one thing if you have a steward willing to take over, say, the a.out branch of the binary loader. But it's quite another in my case where I'm the sole developer of my software, and no one shows any interest in maintaining the legacy UI, or versions of the emulation core that focus more on performance at the expense of compatibility, so I have to drop that stuff. (Yet it is a bit disappointing when people are willing to fork the entire codebase instead to achieve the same goals, but I digress.)

Again, I agree with what you're saying, and I'd say Linux or Mozilla Firefox or Qt certainly has the manpower for this sort of thing. But as a solo developer, I can see why people would sacrifice this backward-compatibility from time to time.

I'm not sure on your point about getting a feel for interfaces. Certainly, it seems that every year or two, I feel like I've made great strides and am finally on the cusp of stable interfaces. Yet invariably, a year or two later, I look back and think the same thing again. I've come to the conclusion that we never stop evolving and that thinking we've reached perfection is always self-delusion. But, maybe I'll get there in the future. I certainly hope so.
Agree. It's important to underscore what was promised and what was not. Otherwise you might get the impression that a promise was broken (when it was not).
That's somewhat helpful but doesn't fully address Chris's story. Would Chris be able to write his own implementation, interoperable with AxolotlKit (the iOS Signal Protocol implementation), from scratch, without any explicit code reuse, and then publish it under whatever license he chooses?

If the answer is yes, I strongly encourage you to publish an official statement from OWS stating so. I know for a fact that FOSS projects are losing their funding because of the impression that even if they write their interoperable implementation from scratch there would still be licensing questions.

You've clarified this somewhat on Twitter before, but if you can publish a short statement on behalf of OWS, that would go a long way into clearing up the issue for a lot of free software developers. Thanks.
I get the why people want to use Promises in general but when they're used to simply wrap a standard node / browser call feels dirty to me because it changes what you expect it to return (e.g. a promise instead of whatever it normal returns).

I dunno I just don't like to give the impression I'm changing anything about how I'm accessing / using the standard library but I guess this is a bit subjective.

> versus sometimes the "pyramid of doom" callbacks can create

If you structure the code well you never run into this (callback soup is very overblown; if you find yourself in that position then someone screwed something up). But I get promises and async / await are nice :)
Why is it that we can track boats with satellites but not planes? In fact we have a complete image[1] of boat activity in the area at the time of disappearance.

It seems as crazy to me as how we can offer in-flight satellite-based wifi but not GPS tracking.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/XYvC5gI.jpg
Please stop.

Oh wait. Flight number is 804: 8 + 0 + 4 = 12

66 people aboard: 6 + 6 = 12

Must mean something!
>T-Mobile

If you're from the US and you have T-Mobile you get free roaming almost everywhere...at 2G. I ended up buying a datapass which gives you LTE if possible at 50 usd...for 500 MB for two weeks. I ended up using it all, but hey, even when that was gone, I could still connect albeit slowly.

Last week, I used it across London, Singapore, and Seoul. It was a god-send without having to buy a new SIM...yes, it used my old number, from what I understand.

EDIT: The free 2G is real...no extra fees. It's free data (out of your usual plan) and texts, but I think it's a couple of cents for calls, as if I give a shit about that.
Look at the size of the search regions in the Indian Ocean and along the Australian coast in response to Malaysian 340's disappearance. Those are relative small lakes compared to the entire Indian Ocean, but they're still massive swaths of water.

Don't underestimate the difficulty of a SAR operation, especially at sea.
Starting my 48-hour media blackout around this topic. If I've learned one thing from trying to follow aviation incidents, it's that almost everything popularly reported in the hours after the incident is either wrong or lacking important context.
Those people paid for tickets same as you, their travels have worn them out enough that they want to sleep in a public place, they're stuck in airport limbo long enough to actually go to sleep, and you think they are "monopolizing" a resource of which you are more deserving... why, exactly? What do you imagine they should have done instead?

Why can't you just walk a few gates down to one with an open seat?
Reminds me of prions... mad cow disease and the like.
An SF startup tries to create synthetic wine
Things look different from the outside than they do on the inside. The old saw of "science advances one funeral at a time" is true in lots of fields, you just probably see a lot more examples in programming because you spend more of your time there.
[pdf] Solving and Verifying the Boolean Pythagorean Triples Problem
I am talking about the Bay area as well as North America. For a while, I kept getting recruiters trying to interview me as a data scientist when they saw a PhD in my linkedIn profile. I ended up having conversations with said recruiters explaining to them PhD != data scientist.
The `tmp != head` comparion is UB because `head` is a dangling pointer after the first loop iteration, right?
> still partly filled parched reservoirs in Northern California and, more critically, partly replenished the mountain snowpacks that provide water into the spring and summer.

This article is so misleading. As I recently pointed out in another thread both the California snow pack and reservoirs are only a bit below average for this time of year. CA always has water issues this year is no exception.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.act...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160330-california...

Edit: Statewide snow pack is actually now down to 33% of normal, as of today, due to melt.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action
What are some of the biggest lies ever told?
Ah I'd state the opposite. Your design will have new problems showing up when going from FPGA to ASIC

Especially if you try to make it go faster
> Sure, but if you might have to downgrade, then simply don't write code that depends on 6.5 features.

Ah but see that's the rub. Hindsight is always 20/20. I've actually run into similar issues in the past. Ultimately if they're consistent with versions then it's not the biggest deal (because if you have an issue with 6.5 there is probably a good chance you have an issue with 6.1 as well) but with semantic versioning I always expect code written against the major version to always work across all minor versions unless it relied on some weird bug side effect.

It just seems really inconsistent to me.
> I suppose Zed just meant this to be personally cathartic, and didn't realize he posted it on a public web site where other people can read it?

He's done these kinds of rants repeatedly. It's his counter-productive style. I can't judge his arguments on a technical level, (I do think his introduction to various language guides are excellent.) but these kinds of rants surely just alienate more people than they persuade?
Stop using MCU from the 1980 and you can at least use C++.
In what sense in this a great news? Yes, it's a progress, so what? After all, you - programmers - earn money for your jobs and pretty soon you might not have one. Because of these kinds of great news -- "Whayyy, this is really interesting, AI, maching learning. Aaaaa!".

"I'll get fired, won't have money for living and AI will take my place, but the world will be better! Yes! Progress!"

Who will benefit from this? Surely not you. Why are you so ecstatic then?
Boats are tracked by their AIS beacons on board, not passively by radar. The beacons can be switched off or stop working just the same as the beacons on planes.
Like another commentor here I don't have a huge amount of trust in early media reports but what I read was that it was within radar range when it disapeared.
Damnit, I was tricked into reading something by professional troll Zed Shaw. The hypocrisy of him complaining about "the dark side of programming" is hilarious consdering he is a very good example of that. His style of debate is to insult and call people names who have offered non-judgemental and constructive criticism and I'm sure nothing I'm saying is news to anyone who has a passing familiarty with him.
Theranos throws out all Edison blood test results from 2014 and 2015
We have "security free" flights today. The only difference is we will no longer have to wait in line.
Both PRC and ROC consider themselves the real China (hence Chinese), which was my point.
What are some unknown facts about Friends tv?
Those boats are presumably sending a signal that allows them to be tracked. When we "lose" a plane, it stops sending its tracking signal.
> that means you've got a HTML renderer, so you've gotta push updates every 12 weeks or so

Tell that to Android
I looked at Zed's books but didn't find them either containing much of useful material, or written well enough to be worth reading. Granted, I'm not a novice to subjects he writes about. But still, I find it peculiar that his high opinion of his works seems to be rather detached from reality. The books are written in a simplistic and sometimes demeaning style and it's obvious that many people will not like it. But when someone writes an honest review, he seems to get too upset about it. While he obviously likes to critique other peoples' works (such as K&R), he's very sensitive to critique of his own books. Zed thinks that it's acceptable to insult the reviewer (Tim Hentenaar) in response. Reading his response made me cringe. Insulting reviewers is just not what respectable authors do.
Found fathers did a fine job, by not enumerating rights and giving them to the people.
But ignore that for the moment. TSA's mandate is "Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce." TSA's mandate is not limited to the airports.
So no, the TSA doesn't believe you have a right to travel unimpeded (even if by walking or riding a horse or a bicycle)
I'm based in SV, and I see a lot of big name entrepreneurs rallying behind her and I don't understand it. You cannot be cavalier/lean about human life. These people deserve to be jailed.
I feel great! For me, age doesn't really factor into it. I'll probably push my last code from my deathbed - hopefully in the form of committing my conciousness (kidding, not kidding).

My career just keeps getting better. It's not hard to stay up to date if you stay interested and engaged. And if you're interested and engaged, you find yourself not really aging in the way a lot of people do.

Another nice benefit of aging that's helped my career is wisdom earned from experience. I started at AOL in '98 when I was 16 (it was cool then) and have worked in the industry since. There's not much in the way of team dynamics or project mishaps I haven't seen, and that gives me clarity and calm during crisis, which tends to make people want to put me in charge.

I've also learned a lot about interpersonal relationships, confidence and finding mutual benefit. While those aren't typically skills most people associate with staying relevant as an engineer, they are skills that put you in positions to succeed in any walk of life.

I'd say the problem for some veteran developers isn't aging itself, it's getting into a mentality of aging. As long as you embrace the new in technology instead of clinging to old methodologies, you'll be fine. I know developers much younger than me that gripe about new frameworks and libraries like it's a chore to learn. It's still as exciting to me today as the 2400 baud modem I got from my parents in '92.
> POTS wires are 24 gauge ... transmit 12V * 3.5A = 42 Watts.

But AWG24 cable also has a resistance of 0.08Ω/m (0.024Ω/ft). With a 10m (33ft) cable this amounts to (current has to travel both ways): R=2⋅ℓ=1.6 Ohms, at 3.5A this drops 5.6V. So, in the end you'd loose RI²=19.6W in the cable and only get 22.4W (3.5A at 6.4V) in the load...
Yep! To do this properly requires something more like:

void free_circularly_linked_list(struct node *head) {
struct node *tmp = head->next;
while (1) {
if (tmp == head) {
/* Has to be a separate case since even assigning
* a dangling pointer is UB I believe? */
free(tmp);
break;
} else {
struct node *next = tmp->next;
free(tmp);
tmp = next;
}
}
}
Premium services often cost a little more money, it's a trade off between money and time.
There's nothing stopping people flying if they can't afford the PreCheck, it's just a little longer.
Anyway the regular line actually gets shorter when more people use the PreCheck line.
Disclaimer: I'm a frequent traveller to the USA but I'm a UK citizen so I cannot use PreCheck.
Reddit's live page on this is a surprisingly good source for up to date infos on this.

https://www.reddit.com/live/wy0st0j6out0