skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: the bulk of this video is a scientific funding pitch for "Mission Centaur", which is a small satellite proposal to look for planets around just Alpha Centauri A and B. Nothing wrong with that, but this doesn't attempt to be a dispassionate review of Kepler.

> Mission Centaur is a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit corporation dedicated to studying Alpha Centauri. We support investigations that advance the state of the art knowledge and technology for exoplanet exploration, the ultimate goal being the discovery and characterization of Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri. We envision a new way of engaging with science where experts, institutions and the general public can be part of humankind’s most ambitious and transformational quest: the search for life beyond our solar system.

http://missioncentaur.org/about/
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I don't think you can put this all on Mayer. It's basically a tug of war between two different groups of key investors, with the concerns about the IRS also playing a role.

One group thought that Y! had a shot at a viable business. The other group wanted out, but didn't want to sell until they got their cut from the Alibaba/Y!JP investments (which also propped up the stock price for the whole thing). Mayer was hired by the first group to try and turn the tide. The second group agreed in the hope that it would also bring the stock price up a bit and make the non-Alibaba part of the company more valuable.

The IRS finally ruled that Yahoo can't just divest Alibaba &co. without paying a huge bill, and Mayer hasn't been able to do anything about the rest of the company. Which means the second group of investors is basically winning out and spinning off all the assets so they can close out their price at the value of the Alibaba stake and make their profit.

It's difficult to say that Mayer is 100% responsible since a good chunk of the board/investors didn't care or were actively against her from day one. Also, she didn't have all the tools that a turnaround CEO has at other companies because she had to protect the share price around the value of the Alibaba investments or that second group would simply fire her. It was always a longshot IMO.
I do that for convenience. I'm at work during the day, shipping to my office ensures somebody is there to receive the item. Item doesn't get stolen from the door-step and item doesn't bounce back and forth between warehouse and house waiting for a signature.
You're probably right, from a political POV; but from a freedom POV: hell no.
Having a web content business incentivizes ISPs to provide faster internet.

Case in point: Google Fiber
When customer service says "can't" or "impossible" what they mean is "won't" or "don't know how".

Hang up the phone and try your call again. If that doesn't work call the sales number and pretend you're evaluating the unit for possible use with a school full of kids.
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Curious, could I ask the country? I've lived in both the US & UK and would say that the vast majority of companies I've been involved with (via employment or simply interviewing) haven't cared about my degrees, but instead care about what I've worked on in the past and what they perceive I could learn/add to the company.

NB I don't have a CS or EE background.
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12155394 and marked it off-topic.
I think back in those insane dotcom bubble days valuation and stock prices did not play well together. The acquisition moved forward because it was sound business (Yahoo's planned to become a media corp) and increased shareholder value, as the best way to profit from an overheated market was to hoard investors attention relentlessly.
I also make sure to ask for their full name and let them know, that I am writing it down.
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Yeah, they have billions to spend on buying companies like Yahoo, but they can't upgrade all their rotting copper to fiber optics. That's Verizon for you.
> This is a feature. This triggers a review of the new warnings introduced by the new compiler version, to see if they have found bugs, or should be squelched per false positive, or should be squelched project-wide.

The thing is, the software already had these bugs, and worked well enough for most people despite them, its not worth breaking the build over unless you are the developer.
For further utility in benchmarking Rust programs, see cargo-benchcmp: https://github.com/BurntSushi/cargo-benchcmp
Non idiomatic code is an error. Not because computers have an issue, but because it wastes fractions of a second every time someone reads the code.

PS: It's the same reason you capitalize the first letter in a sentence.
Hmm. I could swear this wasn't the case in one of the build environments I ran into (possibly an older version of clang or something? or perhaps I'm thinking of some other non-diagnostic pragma...)
The day they made batteries unreplaceable was the day I decided to never buy HTC ever again
Could you elaborate on what barriers and mismanagement you experienced?
Related: E-Prime, writing English without the verb "to be", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
I can't talk about "extreme BLM propaganda" (although there are issues with some people directly affiliated with BLM), but there definitely are black race-extremists out there: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideo...
May I ask why not?

I feel OpenVZ gets a bad rap simply because of the "pop up" VPS providers who oversell and under-provision. It is a mature, maintained containerisation system. Yes it still requires kernel patches (created before Linux had namespaces/cgroups etc) but the team is actively working on merging missing functionality upstream and adapting OpenVZ tools to support things like namespaces and cgroups.
This article spends a lot of time on Donald Trump, The author doesn't understand his supporters or why they tolerate his truthlessness. They do it for a reason. I know this because of an article I read today, a dialogue between a journalist and a Yale law grad who's written a book on the white working class he grew up in.

Here's the article. It's better than this one.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-polit...
Why avoid recompiling? Why this reluctance to do a full rebuild?

I started programming in a world where you had to wait a day to get 300 lines of Fortran built. Now I routinely build the whole 44Gb of community ports of a major Linux distro in three days on a three hundred buck box at home.

There are 24 hours in a day, and your full rebuild will go just fine while you sleep, so long as you DON'T use -Werror.
> Perhaps you should read the article again or work on your reading comprehension.

You're making an interesting argument; please don't spoil your comment and discredit your point by being rude, even if someone else is wrong and/or missing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
profit first
It's search and ads, which may or may not be their "core" as they've got a number of other properties (mail, tumblr, flickr, media). Not to mention that their entire shareprice is basically propped up by the value of their Alibaba investment.
Or it incentivizes them to hinder competitors who are routed through their network. It's a clear conflict of interests.

Case in point, Comcast is capping their Internet in order to hinder competing video services, but their own video is not capped.
There's alot of mixed opinions about HTC customer support on the vive subreddit currently, with people trying to get various HTC vive faults resolved. The secret seems to be that you keep contacting until you get a competent support rep.

I've seen a few people suggest the US support is worse than the EU support, but I've not personally had to deal with HTC support so can't really give any personal anecdotes.
Yes, because hiding the corruption is a better choice.

I'd argue that ALL government official communications must be recorded and made public.
The author clearly has no idea of Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma's history. She's a potentially powerful figure in South Africa's ruling ANC who is in a cushy job that is really political exile.

As such, she's free to talk up ideas that sound great in The Economist (conservative macro-economics, zealous climate change action, consumer protection, gay rights, health laws) but never have to convince a single member of the electorate about their merits. Issues are somewhere between "don't care" and "when hell freezes over" in the electorate's mind.

This particular issue is on the extreme end of frozen hell. Poor South Africans perceive foreigners as criminals and/or a direct threat to their livelihoods, and the tension regularly boils over into violence. There's plenty of room for nuance: the violence is extreme but it is a fact that we have an appalling history of (and in some cases ongoing) exploitation, including hiring seasonal foreign workers (illegally) for lower wages than locals.

Regardless, nothing like the EU freedom of movement is ever going to happen.

Republicans in the US are more likely to support Obama immigration reforms for Mexicans than South Africans would vote for millions of Congolese, Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Malawians, Sudanese migrants/refugees to be allowed to hold jobs here.
Actually, this has been pretty common at nearly every workplace I've worked at (here in Australia).

If you're working full-time, it makes perfect sense.

Your billing address is probably going to be your home address.

But assuming you're working, you wouldn't get packages shipped there - there's nobody at home to sign for them (assuming your spouse/housemate etc. also works), get sent to the local post-office, and you'd have to drive out there during office hours to go pickup your parce. That's a colossal waste of your time.

So often your shipping address is simply your work. I mean, at my current workplace, they've really streamlined it, and they have mail "pods" where you can swipe in, and you have an allocated shelf for each person (well, more a letter range, but yeah, same idea).
I always argued compiling/looking for errors are two different things and should be two different tools.
Developers need linters/warnings.

Packagers don't need this information unless it will stop the software from functioning as it has previously been functioning (prexisting bugs included).
I cannot believe that this is the talking point the Clinton campaign manager is using. It is a no-win situation. Nobody cares that hackers in Russia hacked the DNC...this breach was reported a month ago and they didn't care then. Also, attempting to relate this talking point to why Trump and Putin's potential relationship is dangerous is presupposing that American voters are going to vote this fall on primarily foreign political issues and not domestic
> 5. Reference semantics may result in unexpected sharing

> This has more to do with reference semantics than objects.

I would argue that these are intertwined. You can't really have objects without aliased identity and therefore reference semantics. Otherwise, you are in "land of the anonymous values" where FP techniques are much more useful, while objects clearly have names. (I'm an OOP fan BTW, but also heavily use FP.)
China has a 50% cap on foreign ownership. I've been invoked in a few companies forced into this JV arrangement to do business there and its typically not been a great result. I'm amazed they are allowed this as a member of WTO. I imagine this will be a point of contention in coming years.
Bias isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the false equivalency between the the politics of the left and the right. Pretending that the subject matter itself is equivalent, and that the mental gymnastics taken to defend the subject matter are equivalent.
Not sure that's true... It takes a lot of effort to translate text into concise science speak ("I'd have written a shorter letter if only I had more time").

This would have a huge added benefit of making per review easier, making science more approachable, and making it all less pedantic.
It looks so good
The question of bias is a red herring. Everyone has bias whether they admit it or not. The issue most people should have with Fox News is that their opinion leaders frequently prosecute their agendas with deeply misleading and often hypocritical slants on their opponents and their views.

For example, look at the way Jon Stewart chose to skewer Sean Hannity recently. Say what you will about tone and bias, but the meat of it was a legitimate question of hypocrisy backed up with citations. (Tellingly, Hannity's response was exclusively ad hominem and ignored the central charge.)
If you're american and don't believe you guys, as a country, love shitposting in every form, then you are honestly badly out of touch.

I spent the weekend talking to a lot of americans about the events in munich, and a big majority of them was happy to quite simply shitpost about it en masse even if every evidence that came out contradicted them. CNN didn't help either.
Loads of Latin and Italian words were modified across the world, not unlike what happens today with English; it's perfectly possible that accountants trading predominantly in the New World or some other remote area could have come up with their own approximation for a word (milione) that is not from Classic Latin and is actually pretty recent (wikipedia says XIII to XIV century, whereas lira and soldo are much older and denario goes all the way back to Rome fighting Carthage).
This reminded me of my experience with HTC Desire S about 5 years ago. Bought it from Amazon, used for about 3 months with the utmost care possible only for the phone to get bricked when trying to install an over the air update.

HTC customer support asked me to post it to them. I did as I was told and after a few days they respond with a quote of about £120! According to their report, the LCD unit and the microdrive had to be replaced due to user abuse. I was totally disappointed that instead of admitting that it was a faulty device they tried to charge me for no fault of mine.

I paid £20 for return of the device without repairing and reached out to Amazon who refunded me fully without asking a single question. Notice any difference in customer service by these two companies?
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The idea was that a CPU + GPU company would be a lot stronger than themselves trying to defend against their respective #1 competitors. Instead, both the CPU and GPU market leaders got stronger and leveraged their massive capital to turn the #2 into a very, very distant #2.
No it asbolutely is not pro-consumer. It's reducing their liability not in anyway helping consumers prevent fraud.

I frankly abhor that you even said so as its this sort of ill thought complacency that allows organizations to continue this behavior.

What they should do is eat the cost of fraud or invent better fraud detection.
Title is absurdly overhyped. As noted, this is currently limited to diplomats and heads of state (!). Talk is cheap in the AU, and even in the unlikely event that they do manage to "create the conditions for member states to issue the passport to their citizens", it's likely to end up a boondoggle like the APEC Business Travel Card:

https://www.border.gov.au/Busi/Trav/APEC

Which also grants visa-free travel to APEC economies, but only if you can fulfill a huge list of mostly arbitrary conditions that de facto make it impossible to apply for unless you're sitting in the C-suite of a listed company, have someone to do the paperwork for you and travel a lot.
>I don't have any idea what you're talking about when you say 'functional came before OO'.

Lambda calculus is technically the first functional language, and predates computers. But if we're talking about actual programming languages, SASL, one of the earliest functional languages actually implemented, was released the same year as Smalltalk, and was influenced by the older ISWIM, which was never implemented.

>I'm guessing you are talking about Lisp, but not only are Common Lisp (and the languages it evolved from) not at all functional in any technical sense of the word.

The functional style (writing most of your code as pure functions, keeping impure code isolated), however, can be practiced in ANY language. It makes your systems easier to reason about, because you know if state is being modified. And Lisps had many constructs that made FP convenient. Like map. So while Lisp, on the whole, wasn't functional, it was one of the easiest languages to write functional code in for some time.

>On top of all of the above points, nobody in the world other than a few extreme language-philes ever use any of the functional languages, and for good reason.

On the contrary, FP has heavy use in finance and other places where there is a low tolerance for error, as well as Microsoft and many other conpanies. It has heavy use in programming language research, and a functional programming language was used for program analysis to aid in the optimization of FFTW, which is still one of the fastest implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform.

>Stop talking nonsense.

As the above demonstrates, you're the only one who's doing that.
My roommate and I really had a great time watching this over a couple of beers. We're not even especially gifted in the realm of solder and circuits, but it was fun speculating and marveling at the thorough breakdown.
even slightly different versions of gcc do emit very different warnings. its not very predictable.
I can't excuse the right for being post-fact, but the left who control much of the media and work environment hardly set a good example themselves.

Here are some facts that will help you lose your job in the post-fact workplace:

- Black Americans commit crimes at around 5x the rates of White Americans.

- Most mainstream scholarship does not explain this by, for example, Black Americans actually committing murder, for example, at the same rate as Whites, but getting arrested, charged and convicted at 5x the rate.

- Most mainstream scholarship (presumably not done by neo-nazis, but in fact by liberals) attributes this differences in part to cultural differences, and not only to objective conditions such as poverty and education. Put another way, it's not possible to construct a regression equation where you put variables like parental education, income etc. on the right hand side, along with race, and the coefficient on race comes out as zero or insignificant. And people have certainly tried.

Note that you have to get past 3 separate layers of non-facts before you get to where most of mainstream scholarship is. And that's not because mainstream academics are to the right of journalists, it's because they don't believe that it's beneficial for ordinary people to know these things because they might interpret these facts differently.

- For heterosexual Whites, the risk of HIV infection extremely low, and HIV infection is inherently more easily spread by anal intercourse (not that other diseases aren't a good reason to use protection).
> There's some research that suggests conservative people have a preference for simple answers

That's quite the study you have there… Also, how simple is the statement "conservatives are the ones looking for simple answers"?

It's also puzzling that you would liken Trump to "conservatives", when it seems like there's quite a few definitely conservative people out there who flat out refused to endorse him (all three Bush for example, Ted Cruz, John Kasich among others).

http://time.com/4372882/john-kasich-donald-trump-republicans...
This. I've used OpenVZ for internal containerisation (before the whole Docker explosion) without any issues. It's fast and provides what feels like a fully blown virtual machine. Yes, it's a bit out of date these days (being on Linux 2.6), but it's still an incredibly useful tool, and I see no reason to stop using it.
>even now functional languages are slower

OCaml is famously faster than C++.
For most industries, Philippines has a cap at 40%, and for some industries, 100% of the company should be filipino except if you put more than $2M in capital ( retail ) if I remember right. Apparently it is going to change with the new president, let's see.
Gyms can't be held for very long, in any scenario other than remote destinations that nobody visits (like a reef 2 miles from the coast or a desert monument). 3 Perfect Pokemon of the highest tier will be burned down by 6 Pokemon of various quality (multiple people using 6 at a time), especially with the rock-paper-scissors counters available.
Let's Encrypt is Mozilla's reaction.
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If the thing you're doing involves 7 bajillion CPAN packages and cross dependencies with something large and complex, you're going to have a bad time.

You might find portgen(1) somewhat useful. For example, try something like this:

doas portgen p5 Net::Hadoop::YARN
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099757 (of the fusion.net version of the same story)
I don't want to eat a 24h overnight full rebuild every time I fix a single typo. I do want to verify it still builds (i.e. I haven't missed one of the use cases of a renamed variable.)

The shorter the feedback loop, the less context I have to rebuild for errors, the faster I can fix the error, the more efficient I am.

I'm not so far along that I make much use of the red squiggly lines generated by my IDE to highlight syntax errors before I even hit save - I use too many languages that can't be adequately parsed that fast for them to be terribly accurate - but it's a sign of just how much people want to shorten that feedback loop.

Have the CI server do full rebuilds overnight? Sure. Although I still have to bug my coworkers to pay enough attention to the CI server to even notice it's gone red from their changes, at times. Convincing them to read through the warning logs is a nonstarter.
It also changed the decision process from "Pick 1 of Intel and AMD, plus pick 1 of nVidia and ATI" to "Pick Intel/nVidia or AMD/AMD" for companies like Dell/HP etc. so AMD and ATI's weaknesses compounded each other from then on.
1. By which crieria is it acceptable to judge groups of people? This is a question that has to be answered whether you want to promote a positive or negative view. Even something as seemingly innocuous as "celebrating heritage" implies a judgement of the accomplishments of a group.

2. Lack of opportunity and recognition: I would accept this as an excuse for an individual, but not a large group. Resource allocation is a task of the group. Still, it is possible to attribute to the wrong group. It wasn't the slave's race that failed to recognize him.
That's true, but really doesn't have much to do with this discussion
And, yet, here is a Lloyd's study of the impact:
http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/lloyds/reports/emerging%20risk...

They do say the worst case scenario would have a major impact--perhaps especially in the Northeast of the US--and affect about 10% of the US population. But there's nothing like "90% die-off" even if, as stated in the report, having "major implications for the insurance industry."