skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt that the people working for GCQH know as much as anybody about encryption. The question is, are they smart enough to convince buyers that encryption with backdoors is secure against hackers. Because if buyers don't believe encryption with backdoors is secure, they won't buy it. If the buyers won't buy it, it's going to be very hard for entrepreneurs to succeed in selling it.
There was a reason I provided both ancient and current examples of high-reproductivity in dominant males.
How would increased taxes and mandatory benefits reduce the cost of employees?

Increased employee costs make an employer less likely to take risks and produce pressure to hire less workers. Then a few workers gain at the expense of others not having a job at all. Why do you hate workers?
You have state even in functional programs. My original point was about simplifying the program so it is easier to reason about in the first place, rather than write tests for a yet-to-be-overengineered-mess :)

What if you get very tight memory/cpu constraints and FP/immutability isn't available/affordable? What if your programs runs on millions of networked nodes simultaneously?

GUIs are still very stateful even with FP for one! So if you're going to write property-based tests after you know what the properties of the system are, and these will cover way, way more cases than you'll ever think of writing tests for manually, why even bother?

What I do see is people deluding themselves into thinking their software is reliable when it definitely isn't and they're now even less careful when developing because they've got tests to protect them.
Well this provides immediate confirmation that not only is your number a valid, in-use number, but that it's owned by someone willing to answer the phone.

It's significantly more effort than necessary when you don't recognize a #.
Alaska isn't really considered "mainland" even today, and it wasn't granted statehood until after the war.
It would be interesting to compare the the actual average number of steps vs that of people competing against each other. This sample is biased towards people competing with their friends to see who takes the most steps.
Issue tracking for the homo-sapiens project
There was one on Mission St in San Francisco until last year. Expensive but worked in a pinch for basics (through-hole capacitor kits for example).
It was clearly intended as an attack in this case, and that's not ok, regardless of how wrong the other person is.
True Object-Oriented and Immutable Java Web Framework, 1.1 Released
(2) is the big one. It's hard and expensive to find software devs who are actually good (ie. smart, skilled, motivated, effective.) Once you do find them, you take another big financial hit to bring them up to speed, which can easily take 3+ months during which they're not only not productive, but they're taking up your other devs' time too.

Once they're up to speed, you have to get as much work out of them as quickly as possible because smart, skilled, motivated, effective software developers don't sit still. Even if your company has enough internal career progression opportunities to keep these people around, your team will still be losing them before too long.

Another significant factor is that if you're doing something for more than a certain time per day (varies per person, for me it's 6-7 hours) then it gets permanent head-space and you'll find yourself mulling over algorithms in the shower, pondering your caching policies while you lie awake at night, etc. So if you let your devs only work 5 hours a day, you're not getting their shower thoughts for free.
Agreed. Ever try working with a team from a different timezone? Waiting a day to answer a question every time just kills productivity.
Just wait until after the nuclear world war in the early 2020s.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
All of which is also true when Apple set out to make a phone. They had no competence in RF engineering, or interaction with the diversity of cellphone network providers throughout the world, the conventional wisdom at the time was that an outsider couldn't just break in to the phone market without acquiring an existing manufacturer.
Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip
You can recreate it using any VOIP provider with whitelisting.
My guess would be that Monsanto has show itself to be a overly litigious, generally "evil" corporation. While it does not pertain to GMO crops, look at what they did in Anniston, AL. The effects are still quite visible even today.
Disclaimer: I live in Anniston
What makes a Mac a Mac, to me, having grown up with a 512K and then some subsequent, high tier machines by the same company, there are two things that make a Mac a Mac:

1) It is the most appealing user experience and immediately gratifying "THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO" computing platform for normal people, and especially creative types, and

2) There are frustratingly idealistic components or limitations on the hardware/software that make the experience one of perpetually having to think creatively so the flaws don't kill the functionality.

What this really boils down to is a love-hate relationship with the platform. Love being able to do creative stuff? Great! Make sure to back up your work on a JAZZ drive. Like FPS games? Great! Play Marathon and then realize none of your friends IRL can play with you. Let's build a whole professional video editing studio around Final Cut Pro! Oh shit wait you're going FPX and abandoning the suite? WHARRGARBL.
Enjoy this while it lasts! Once (if) you add a partner and a couple of kids (especially ones who don't sleep through the night!) and your life will be very different.
tl;dr: You need a way to be able to convert these issues into a format that management can understand.

Tough situation. Onboarding new hires is always challenging and you're probably stuck with this new hire ("NH") for the next 3-6 months.

If you accept that NH is not going anywhere for at least the next 120 days, why not treat it as an opportunity to stress test some of the companies internal systems.

The goal at the end of the 120-day period is to have data and documentation that supports a business case that you can then bring to management.

Best case scenario you're able to create a framework that identifies and corrects NH’s shortcomings. This framework can be used for future new hires.

Second best case, you’re able to identify and show how bottlenecks are being formed in your department. You can then make the case that 1) chargebacks need to be increased to human resources ( or maybe business development) to account for the unscheduled work and the resources used to train NH; or 2) you need a raise to to cover the time you spend training NH.

Worst case, you have some material to talk about as you interview for other jobs.
What? Why would anyone answer an unrecognized number? I have no problem hanging up on a telemarketer but why let it even get that far?

It's NOT ignoring your friends if you don't pick up the phone every time they call. Regardless, my friends numbers are in my contact list. Crazy huh?
Reasonable argumentation is a precious social resource that we should cultivate, promote, and protect. I think you express a view common to many here, and I hope this forum is able to continue fostering a culture of reasonable disagreement over combative, substanceless posturing. I happen to agree with the commenter you responded to on many points, but also found the presentation combative rather than constructive. I second your appeal to use more precise language, although I sympathize with the anger implicit in the poster's comment.
Cargill and ADM are just as bad. Monsanto gets most of the public vitriol for its vile lawsuits against small farmers for unwillingly growing their genetically modified shit. Kind of like having someone who infected your computer with malware then suing you for patent infringement.
Turning the ringer off also works.

I don't get talking on the phone. It's the lowest quality form of communication - it's ephemeral, and unlike actual face-to-face communications, all nuance and body language goes out the window. Not to mention the all-too-often piss-poor audio quality, mics that don't work half the time, and the "Can you hear me now? What was the last thing you heard?" and "Sorry, I was on mute" dances.
I was going to say that my first thought was the original Silk Road -- but looking at the title, I understand your confusion. In previous uses I've seen, "Silk Road" means the website and "the Silk Road" means the trade route...
It was not an attack. Being addressed by name is a natural consequence of telling people your name.
Thanks so much for posting! Doing a bit of research in post-war research and technology and source material such as this is the ultimate!

I personally love the adverts from the 1940-50s that beckon entrepreneurial spirits to enroll in a radio or tv technician correspondence course. The copy is so similar in tone to modern day "Learn iOS" adverts from Flatiron School and the like: seize your destiny, build the future, get paid to do what you love, while changing the world.
I have a shorter checklist but the result is the same as yours. I guess I'm more efficient. Others wonder why I carry a phone at all - I don't know why.
I suppose it's the only single definition that works for both continuous and discrete variables. Although I actually read it as the more common Riemann integral definition (i.e. mean = integral of x*f(x)dx) until you pointed it out.
Without 20/20 hindsight it was absolutely a huge risk. What if Microsoft had failed after five or ten years? He would have lost all of the time he could have spent earning a college degree and developing/working his network. Given that his parents were well off and he went to Harvard of all places, that is an insane opportunity risk to the vast majority of people if they didn't know that their efforts would become one of the most valuable companies in the world.
It's not nearly as simple as you're implying. The most obvious reasons have already been discussed, but I'll add that the construction industry in Vancouver is operating at full employment and has been for a long time.

So where do these workers come from? Who will employ them, and better yet… where do you house them? Chicken meet egg.
Hmm, I think your first two points are a bit harsh and don't cover the whole picture.

1) Religion is not really the problem. There are a over a billion muslims in the world, and a little more than that who are Christians. The percentage of each that are involved in violence, even major wars, is so small to be statistically insignificant (definitely less than 1% or even 0.1% (or even 0.00001% if you just consider terrorists)). When religion does come into play its typically in a more ethnocentric way - e.g. religion-as-race.

2) most of the current problems, including those coming out of iraq, were not due to 'petroleum', but rather internal rebellions and foreign interference that is probably more political/ideological than financial in nature. A certain mindset might attribute a lot of the problems in the middle east to politicians a decade earlier seeking to win elections by looking tough on dictators, but not having the willpower to deal with the aftermath of their intervention.

The other points are good, though blaming 'freetrade' as the cause for unemployment and/or other financial troubles is probably a bit simplistic.
> Simply saying "opinion vs opinion" is a false equivalency.

No, it's not. That "one researcher" made an opinion that he thinks nationalism is at play. “They want everything to come from China.” is literally an opinion.

> but I've lived and studied International Relations in China (at Tsinghua University, where many of China's leaders studied), and I saw first hand how research was corrupted and self-regulated to draw certain conclusions that agreed with the Government's known or perceived position.

That's anecdotal. The snippet I included, directly after the nationalist's opinion, is a Chinese guy (part of the "they" I assume) at a Chinese university, disagreeing with him. Do you have actual numbers of how widespread the nationalist agenda on this particular issue is? Or is this just more opinion? Also, that sounds similar to lots of PhD's lives trying to get funding from their government.

>I know there is strong nationalistic beliefs around human origins in China as well, and suspect strongly the same forces that affect IR academic research are at play here.
Fake fossils are also extremely common in China[1][2], and widespread racism, especially toward black people, is difficult to overstate[3] (which leaves many Chinese refusing to believe they may have originated in Africa).

I could replace "China" with "Japan", who aren't exactly strangers to a similar agenda, heck even the NYT commented on it. But I don't claim to assume the whole country thinks that way because I doubt there are numbers on it.
In fairness, by that logic nothing would ever get done.
Microsoft? You're never going to win over IBM. Xerox? You'll always be ancillary to Kodak. GM? Ford is already there.
The Fugger's Banking company? Good luck against the Venetians and the Florentines. Same old story.
At the end of the day, you either try something new or you don't.
Just to clarify, I think you meant to ask why random access is still slower than sequential on ssd.

Writes smaller than the ssd erase size are more expensive per byte because of write amplification. This is not nearly as big of a factor as for disks, but it does seem to matter even on enterprise flash, if you benchmark properly (truly random and enough data so that it cannot be buffered by clever controllers). And as my sibling comment mentioned, the write amplification wastes flash lifetime, too!

On enterprise flash, I've found that random reads top out at the same bandwidth ad sequential reads, but it takes a LOT of parallelism to get there, so sequential reading, if possible, is still nice (let the controller do the parallelism for you!)
No, not always. In many cases - on both sides of the conflict - the "enemy" were slaves as well. Many of those who were free were conscripts.
The author has an awful lot of faith in government--with added expertise it may just move from being slow and reactionary to being fast and reactionary. Government is as much at risk of losing power and influence because of innovation as incumbent businesses.
I have worked for a "flat" structure company and that is true. There is alaways a hidden power structure -- and it rewards those who know how to manipulate and scheme. I think some put more effort into that, than actually writting code. Heck, objectively I can't even blame them as it ended up rewarding them more than writting code.

Now I work for a company with a traditional power structure. There is a manager, he has a manager and so on. Things are simpler, less stressful, tasks are more clear. Manager is great a shielding us from the rest of the beaurocracy and letting us do our work.
So Richard Scary wasn't available?
By that logic, you need to smoke crack before you can make it illegal.
The solution is accepting that the potential for crime, even mass murder, is a necessity for a free society, and that it's better for some terrorists to succeed than for everyone to live under a government that sees all, knows all, hears all and cannot possibly be risen up against. The greater threat to life and liberty always comes from a government's response to terrorism, not from any act of terrorism itself.

Treat terrorism as just another crime, nothing special, nothing existentially critical. Nothing to fight a war against the entire world over. Governments already have the tools they need to fight terrorists without limiting encryption, they simply choose not to use the tools they have, because they would rather use terrorism as a pretext for grabbing power.
heating before freezing might kill lipase activity, but heating after thawing won't turn soap back into fat
The Aleutian Islands are not part of the North American mainland.

If we were talking about talks on U.S. sovereign soil (is that what you meant?) we'd have to include Pearl Harbor as well.

Also, this source gives American casualties as 3,929 (!) of which only 549 (!!!) were combat casualties: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=20

Friendly fire and Japanese booby traps apparently account for most of the remainder. The most infamous friendly fire incidents occurred during Operation Cottage, when the US invaded an island that the Japanese had already abandoned two weeks earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage
Use it as a gateway, a web server (shiningsilence.com), and a music machine at home. At work as a host for a few software packages (Mediawiki, though not since a switch to Confluence, Request Tracker, and a few smaller web services) I'm using it both on hardware and as VMs.

I have never had resource problems other than filling up Hammer volumes because I didn't set the right clean rate relative to disk activity. e.g. I can give it a piddly amount of RAM and CPU and never notice.

I'm the person behind the DragonFly Digest (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/) so it's not a surprise that I would use it.
I hate owning a car. It takes up space, I'm only using it a small percentage of the time, and most of the time when I want to drive around I've been drinking anyway.
I don't believe that at all.

I'd guess fully autonomous and fully electric. I mean everyone here can see the writing on the wall that this kind of thing that is going to happen. If I'm Apple I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Half joking, but if we all answered spam calls and just kept the call going without hanging up, as a result the total number of spam calls would go down and spammers' cost would increase.
Yeah I'd have gone full Uber and ditched the car if it wasn't for having kids that need seats.
NN != brain. Not by a long shot. We still have no clue how it operates, don't kid yourself. There are some processes happening in the brain that aren't supposed to happen, like the massive amount of ions passing through membranes, causing some think there is some time-bending quantum effect making it happen. We simply have no clue.
Because all of the teams are building very contrived contraptions to work around them.
If you're Microsoft with their Azure/IoT setup, it's already happening. I've been spelunking in their SDK and it makes me want to tear my hair out.

I'm working with Cortex-M0/M3 devices kicking bytes over wifi modems, and Microsoft believes a "device" is a desktop-class SoC with an Ethernet jack running Node.
Apple appears to be able to defy gravity in smartphone margins. Let's see how they do with cars. Some people think Tesla has a 25%+ gross margin. And Apple has the capital to do something similar at a the scale of auto industry incumbents.
You're using the word "efficient" in a different sense from what it means in the phrase "efficient market".
> The problem is replacing over 300 unique varieties of corn, and over 40,000 unique varieties of rice with 3 or 4 patented, flavourless, often less nutritious varieties.

Huh? If monoculture is the concern, should the solution be encouraging more varieties of GMO? I mean, creating more varieties of corn with genetic modification seems so easy.
Exactly like that. I should've looked up how to do this.
One extra board with less components than most? That's not a lot of support.
> How anyone could possibly be productive in such an environment. What is it that's so attractive about it to Smalltalkers?

Now you've probably heard that in Smalltalk everything is an object. Sure its an nice catch-phrase but hard to grasp its significance. Consider then, that classes and methods are live objects within the Image. You can operate on them as you work within the live Image and from your application program.

For example, the Pharo mail list was recently asked the following question...
> I want to have many different object instances with different
> behaviors picked at random from a list of available behaviors. What I had in mind was a functionality similar
> to prototyped languages like Self and Javascript in which you
> could change the behavior inside the object and not the class/prototype.

A way to achieve this is to define each behavior as a normal method. For convenience, we'll define two protocols, 'behaviors' and 'non-behaviors' in the system Browser to hold these. For the uninitiated here is a short intro to the Browser. Protocols show in the third pane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQjcZ9SCCs

The class MyObject is defined with an instance variable to hold which behavior to invoke...

Object subclass: #MyObject
instanceVariableNames: 'behavior'
classVariableNames: ''
package: 'Example'

In the Browser, add these two methods to the 'behaviors' protocol...

behavior1
Transcript show: '1'.

behavior2
Transcript show: '2'.

When an object is created, we'll set an object's behavior by asking its class for all its methods, selecting those that are in the #behaviors protocol, then from that collection making a random selection.

In the Browser, add these two methods to the 'non-behaviors' protocol...

initialize
| behaviors |
behaviors := self class methods select: [ :m | m protocol = #behaviors ].
behavior := behaviors atRandom selector.

perform
self perform: behavior.

Thats all that is required.

To test this, from Playground (our REPL) evaluate...
Transcript open.
10 timesRepeat: [ MyObject new perform ].

==> 2221212212

But how do I add new behavior at run-time you may ask? Now since classes are objects within the runtime Image, the application can ask the class to compile a new behavior. This is can be demonstrated by evaluating this code in the Playground...

newBehavior := 'behavior3
Transcript show: ''3'' '.
MyObject
compile: newBehavior
classified: #behaviors
notifying: nil.

To test this, from Playground evaluate...

Transcript clear.
10 timesRepeat: [ MyObject new perform ].

==> 211133212

That flexibility is why I love Smalltalk.
I'm willing to believe that CEO pay reflects poor governance practices to some degree, but this study fails to prove anything. As a simple alternative explanation for the data, suppose that companies that are performing badly have to pay more to attract CEO talent since the proposed CEO is taking on reputation risk if they fail to turn the company around. Then you'd expect exactly what the study found; the more highly paid the CEO, the lower the corporate performance.

This report should have looked at how CEO pay in one year affected company performance the next year and vice versa.
League's first championship was held in June 2011 with a prize pool of $100,000 [1], and the first Dota 2 International was held in August 2011 with a prize pool of $1,600,000 [2]. Not that big of a time difference, and the difference in prize pools has only increased since then in favor of Dota 2.

Twitch was in baby shoes back in 2011 as well. Game streaming overall was still really small, and sites like own3d.tv held a large market share back then.

In addition, Valve built in-engine spectating into the game since day 1. You can watch other games live, or download replays and jump to any moment in time. League doesn't have similar tech even in 2016 [3], they are definitely far more focused on their casual players. League does have an extremely large playerbase in total, so their esports achievements are still remarkable due to sheer scale, but it's much more of a side-part of League than Dota.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends_World_Champi...

[2] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/The_International/2011

[3] From what I understand there is no replay system at all, and the League spectator mode is very basic and lacks most of the features that Dota 2 has.
How does it change anything? If it is an important call, they will leave a message. This is even more true if the call is concerning someone you are responsible for.