skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and realize that sex is probably not a significant contributor to outcome"

It is sort of a doubled edged sword, if race and gender have no significant effect on outcome, then in a way that could be used as a justification for blocking those people from said positions. On the other hand, if it's the opposite then is purely superficial.
Not even that, Go does have generics for its special magical builtin types (map, slice, channels, … are generic) or functions (close, delete or the aforementioned append are generic)
Probably yes - though pragmatically, you could also check if you actually needed a kernel-mode driver for your hardware to work - especially if it's in-house only and a slightly more complicated deployment process is acceptable. Some possibilities would be:

- If you can modify the hardware, equip it with an ethernet/wifi/bluetooth module and talk to it via IP.

- if you need kernel-mode access, you could develop a linux driver instead, run it in a VM (or a raspi) and communicate with the windows PC using IP. (Admittedly, that's a bit rube goldberg-ish)

- Communicate using the good old serial interface instead and use a user-mode program/library on windows.
if done correctly I'm sure it removes shit from between the teeth that would otherwise decay
Caching authenticated requests using NGINX
There are downloads: https://bitbucket.org/marco_rockiger/wryte/downloads
Chrome has fixed the granularity a long time ago https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/637776d1183... and I guess most other browsers have fixed it as well.
On the Topic of Retrospectives
I will even pay extra for software that removes the padding :P
Hated, yes, but the wheels of justice busted Shkreli for some other fraud in the past, not the price hikes. The most-hated-man status is in the court of public opinion, which isn't an actual court.
Key Takeaways from Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Ep 45: DevOps and Security
I'm confused by your response. I haven't claimed anything along the lines of your response nor am I implying anything about Angular nor JS. I simply just communicated my results from completing the tutorial.
" I think the average person underestimates the violence inflicted by a bullet because our human intuition fails us for small objects traveling that fast"

My opinion is that this is caused more by glamorization/trivialization of violence (in all its forms) by the US movie industry.
May I offer this as an alternative?

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/
Thanks for the link! (HN needs a fav feature)
WordPress plugin allows authenticated users to execute any PHP on page load
Pokemon GO Python API List
cDa29 is a cone that is a deuteranomaly, which is a kind of altered sensitivity to green light. So, presumably she has better discrimination of yellows/greens/reds, and not blues.

See this 2010 paper for details on this person:
http://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/papers/JordanDeebBo...
The First Satellite to Ever Perform Quantum Experiments
I recently wrote something on a typewriter, got half way though the page and spelt a word incorrectly, tried to fix it and somehow destroyed the whole page...
Livement Lets You Skip Lines for Tickets, Food, and Parking at Sporting Events
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I have similar complaints about most YouTube "how to" videos. The first few minutes are typically spent providing context which I usually don't need, especially if I'm rewatching. All digital content should have a "jump to point X if you don't need background" option.
iPhone's are quite nicely designed. Nothing's perfect though.
Any reasons why the sse code wouldnt be written in rust itself?
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> The current state of the code is quite rough. The code isn't well organized, and it's basically not ready for prime time.

From what I can see in https://github.com/google/font-rs/blob/master/src/font.rs, this is what is missing:

* support of CFF-based fonts (that is "postscript-flavored outlines" (i.e. cubic) OTF files)

* "Advanced Typographic Tables" (see Opentype spec: https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm), this is what is needed to render more complex non-latin languages like Arabic etc, because it defines context-specific replacements and positioning, but also opentype-level kerning

* support for the kerning table

* support for slightly more exotic TTF variations like EOT and WOFF for webfonts

* hinting support for smaller rendering sizes

Most of these things are supported by Freetype, and are probably a considerable amount of work to add. Once you add them into the rendering calculations, the abstractions in the code would have to be refactored and the code would become more complex and probably slower.

Having said that, it's still a nice implementation and easy to read, something I wouldn't necessarily say about Freetype ;)
> As for array bounds, it should work so long as you don't access out of bounds, and you can do that by making sure you know what you're accessing. It's not that hard

Judging by the flood of out of bounds array accesses in shipping code over several decades, actually it is pretty hard to consistently get it right.

> even if you want, you can get your compiler to tell you when you do out of bounds access at runtime.

At the cost of making your program slower than Java. So at that point why not use a memory safe language?
> > Differing use cases lend cause to different tooling.

> What?

Different needs, different languages.

I write 100-line scripts in Perl that rip apart text files and extract the bits I want. I don't write 100,000 line embedded systems in Perl.
way to take some facts and complete rearrange them to fit your narrative. ARM was founded in 1990 and Nvidia 1993. Probably a good 15 years before the market found it's way to their technology. Also I doubt if Apple hadn't picked ARM as a supplier would we be having this conversation about them. Also, Tesla is building a giga factory which would be much closer to intel's business model than any other. None of which supports or doesn't lean methodology. If your a giant company, a good model to look at is facebook and microsoft. Buy competitors before they become dominate.
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Keystroke Dynamics as a Biometric for Authentication [pdf]
It's worth noting that the Rust project itself doesn't consider our current error setup as good as it could be. Set "RUST_NEW_ERROR_FORMAT" to get a preview of what we've been working on.

I do like the current errors, but that's no reason to rest on our laurels! There's a lot of ways in which they're not great.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KxXSpHj...
Since you feel you had to reply with

> Um, it is someone's right to feel offended,...

it certainly shows that you dispute the right of the person to say what he had to say - so my point stands. If you accepted his right as well you would not have felt it necessary to make that statement. As I said,

> Which means we don't need to have this discussion and just accept both the
> offended and the assholes.
> This argument seems to me to lead nowhere...

I see you arguing for one side's right to speak their mind only.

Either you see their right as more important, or your post is completely unnecessary and you could just have let everybody say whatever they felt like.
You should try Ardour. It can even use windows VST plugins on Linux.
For organizations that require certain documents to remain internal only (no 3rd party server storage), are there any options besides Amium's AWS hosting?
Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City
I think as related sensation is the feeling of control, or at least understanding, over our technology. You can see exactly how a typewriter works; each letter you type is a direct result of your action, through a clear causal chain. When you type on a computer, letters appear on your screen through a much more convoluted process we take as magic, and especially for someone unused to the technology, that can lead to a feeling of loss of control.
I'm not complaining because I know that's forbidden, but how loosely is "anything that good hackers would find interesting" being interpreted these days?

As best as I can tell, nothing is off topic... (?)
Isn't Redshift also based on PostgreSQL? Edit: it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Redshift and RDS supports many different RDBMS flavors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Relational_Database_Ser...
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Floss can remove food particles that get stuck in between teeth. That food will promote bacteria that cause a rather foul odor, so it should be removed. I've been around many people that don't floss and the smell of their breath is noticeable and disgusting. At the very least, one should floss to help prevent that.
When London looked at the population growth and how it could "keep" the city moving, they needed to get 5% of the population cycling all year round. It is very much a nudge psychology.
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It's a fairly good project-based React tutorial, but based on the title I was really expecting a much different kind of article. I thought it would be an overview of the most commonly used tools and libraries or something.
Interesting. I had to Google it - it looks like 2% of plants tolerate salt water to different degrees. It looks like an interesting field for breeding or potentially GM to cultivate seawater tolerant food crops
Billionaire Peter Thiel thinks young people’s blood can keep him young forever
ive tried to explain it until i was blue in the face to my girlfriend, finally gave up.
DC/OS 1.8.0 released
> Once you add them into the rendering calculations, the abstractions in the code would have to be refactored and the code would become more complex and probably slower.

These features don't have much to do with the core rasterization algorithm, which is where the vast majority of the time is typically spent. So I wouldn't expect things to go slower.
Test the effects of caffeine on your productivity
pretty straightforward google analytics API data gathering. easy to make, this code makes it even easier.
The Round Up by Enzer No. 41
> The claim is that GCed languages make for poor interpreters - and also poor JIT compilers and runtimes.

Have you ever spent time with Graal, Truffle, PyPy?

30 years ago I used to take the flak for arguing about C++'s suitability for writing programming language tools in comp.compilers instead of C.

Yet here we are praising C++ virtues over other languages for writing interpreters and JITs.

One thing I learned in all those years reading compiler related papers, is that many times the main issues are actually human and not technical.

The majority just want to have something running, and take the shortcut of using whatever works to achieve their goals, instead of taking the effort that might bring the technology forward but would delay getting everything to work.
Extremely impressive and exciting, kudos to the author!

It would be interesting to compare the memory footprint and code size of font-rs vs freetype; comparing just speed doesn't give the full picture.
> Most arable land isn't coastal though

A very large share of arable land is at a low elevation above sea level along waterways; land distance from the coast doesn't control the effect of sea-level rise.

> If you flood, say, all of China's, America's, and Europe's coastlines, nobody will have to go hungry.

Well, except that its impossible geographically to do that without also flooding inland arable areas. Flooding America's coastline also means flooding (among other prime agricultural areas) much of California's Central Valley.
HTC revenue drops 44%
Have you made a significant amount of money from this? What is your profit margin? This sounds like a good business.
I'm partial to "hello-bark" myself.

It looks like jashkenas is getting into the soft-serve business with "backbone.dq".
No tools available, or at least, none that are easy to use. It's the classic parallelism problem: tools are either too low level (e.g. CUDA/OpenCL for the GPU space) for day to day developers to leverage effectively, or too high level to provide the performance in the other 10% of the codebase, wiping out your parallelism benefits. In this space, the low level alternative is manually writing SIMD x86 instructions, or using a similarly low level C library to do the same. The alternative is switching to something like haskell and using one of their high level array manipulation DSLs. In the first case, you have to explicitly manage the parallelism, and there _will_ be bugs there, in the second case you probably lose more performance in the other 90% of your application by switching to (say) haskell than you gain in parallelism.

In terms of automation, SIMD is hard to automatically implement (i.e. through the compiler) with a lot of traditional programming languages (e.g. C), and hard to add to dynamic languages, as you end up adding extra code paths/jit passes for each new type of simd/parallelism hardware construct available.
So if fresh water will become scarce, and renewable sources of energy are essential, where can individuals invest to provide financial backing to companies addressing these issues?
The gemstones bit is drawn from Huysmans' À rebours (which is referenced indirectly in Dorian Gray), which is basically an entire book of that. It's great!
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Not all arguments from expert opinion are fallacious. In this case I think that those authors are recognized, themselves, as excellent prose stylists. Therefore it's reasonable to accord their opinions more weight than the average person's. If I'd said something along the lines of "Dan Brown says Proust is a master prose stylist and he's a writer..." then you'd have a point. Also, they are pretty representative of the critical consensus on Proust's particular strengths. Finally, they all happen to have written on Proust and what they like about him, some of them quite extensively. (Sadly, not all of it is available online. John Updike penned a very nice piece years ago on the ways Proust shaped him as a writer and the difference he found reading him first in the Moncrieff translation and then later in French; doesn't seem to be available anywhere.)

>> Well, arguing about literature never really leads anywhere.

A problem with the inherent subjectivity of art in general, I suppose. But nonetheless, it can be an enjoyable past-time if kept civil and respectful. Anyway, I appreciate you explaining what it is that you don't like about Proust, even if we don't see eye-to-eye.
Ugh.

I hope Apple Photos releases a simple social network that lets you share photos without all this annoying crap trying to hook young adults.

I liked IG a lot for it's intended purpose: easy to use photo app.
> I think that Facebook and other companies need to consider that it's better to change nothing than add the wrong feature

Instagram seemed to be following this policy until very recently, now the users have got bored and FB is trying desperately to catch up.
Over half a million drones have been registered in just 8 months
Marketing used to be beneficial to consumers by helping them become aware of new products and their features. In an era of instant information search and retrieval, this is no longer necessary. It's all zero-sum spam intended to overwhelm one's decision making capabilities coupled with surveillance to enable better price discrimination.
Let's say that A punches B, causing B to fall backwards onto a hard surface, resulting in death.

If A intended to kill B, that's murder.

If A did not intend to kill B, it's manslaughter, a lesser crime with lesser punishment.

You are sitting on the jury, with the prosecution flashing between two frames of a video of the punch and arguing that A altered the trajectory of the punch to cause B to fall onto the hard surface.

Two frames is, say, 33 milliseconds, or somewhere between 2cm and 4m (I admit, I was surprised by that speed) of neural pathway, taking the lowest and highest nerve conduction velocities I can find. How many intentions and motor changes can you perform in 33ms?
Sr political people don't need complex PR strategies. They have working relationships with the top reporters.

If they're unhappy with press coverage they just phone the reporters and try to explain their position.
Ah, my least favorite part of reading 19th century literature.
"Tom Hanks on Typewriters", the newest web framework (latency and scalability are still a bit of an issue with it honestly).
I've been to a couple of Instagram ML meetups. I am not surprised that this is what they came up with. There seemed to be a lot of technically gifted people there, but I always felt there was a lack of creativity and deep domain understanding. All the projects seemed to be in the line of: we added this feature, and we saw our user engagement increased by this percentage. Everyone seemed to be working on incremental improvements without a purposeful leadership and vision.

They do have the technical talents though. I think one of the word2vec authors was there, but he was giving a talk about using the same technique on emoji icons :-( I would think there are more interesting problems to tackle with the available resources at FB.
Totally agree.

Not to mention the article is incredibly biased.
I tried to build a faraday cage out of a big tube of aluminium (~10mm thick) with similar caps. Machined so very thin gaps, and I even taped them up with copper tape. The weird thing is it doesn't work. I put a BLE transmitter in there and it reduced the signal strength by maybe 40 dB, but I was expecting perfect containment.

Can anyone explain that?
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What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
Creating Yeoman generators easily with yeoman-easily
Define "feature".

Go thinks fast compile time is a feature. How fast is your Algol 68 compiler on a ten million line code base?
HTC Revenue Drops 44%
Website was written in C# (ASP.NET MVC); the data is cached in-memory on the webserver.

I have caching limit (Like Count = 3 minutes, Page info (name, images, etc.) = 1 hour).

Every time one of the resources is requested from the webserver; it's served from memory (initial retrieval on site start); and on access, it's checked how old the data is. If the data's older than the threshold, it's refreshed async and displayed on the next request.
>There's no objective morality and no objective politics.

Really? The majority of academic philosophers disagree with you, and they have very good arguments for moral realism.

One thing to think about: it's not possible to affirm objective standards of rationality and deny objective standards of morality at the same time without being inconsistent, since both epistemology and ethics deal with normative statements (what one ought to do), not fact statements.
I was just reading the Wikipedia article on Tetrachromacy and saw this interesting fact.

"Humans cannot see ultraviolet light directly because the lens of the eye blocks most light in the wavelength range of 300–400 nm; shorter wavelengths are blocked by the cornea.[27] The photoreceptor cells of the retina are sensitive to near ultraviolet light and people lacking a lens (a condition known as aphakia) see near ultraviolet light (down to 300 nm) as whitish blue, or for some wavelengths, whitish violet, probably because all three types of cones are roughly equally sensitive to ultraviolet light, but blue cones a bit more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
Who are you :O? Thats some serious observation skills. Thanks for taking the time to help me isolate the disorder.

Its not that I don't use them[odd and prime numbers], its more like I try and avoid them. :)
The $1000 figure has nothing to do with Microsoft, and will fall.

At the moment there are two kinds of commonly available certificates, EV certificates, and non-EV Code Signing certificates. But rarely do the two meet.

This scheme, per the Secure Boot standard, requires an EV Code Signing certificate which as of the time of writing is only sold by five vendors.

In the future as these become more in demand we should expect to see prices fall. The requirements to get any EV certificate are the same, and flagging it for code signing is free, so there's no real reason any EV certificate cannot also be a code signing certificate.

I doubt it will fall below $100-200 ever however, as that is how much EV certificates cost and the process is similar.

edit: DigiCert already sell them for $224-165/year: https://www.digicert.com/friends/sysdev/
Going off at a bit of a tangent here, but this reminds me of something that I find quite interesting:

I believe history has it that the querty keyboard layout was intentionally designed to slow down the typing speed, because the mechanical efficiency of the first gen/early typewriters (1860/70?) was fairly low, causing the moving prongs to jam if typing was done rapidly.

I also believe the dvorak layout (which got invented later and never gained much popularity) allows measurably faster typing (never used it myself). I think the older Apple keyboards used to have a qwerty/dvorak switch on the backside. Any dvorak users/fans here, I wonder?
Big companies can do things smaller companies can't do.

The only company that makes server chips that are truly competitive with Intel now is IBM. Big company.

ARM based chips come from a complex ecosystem that involves big companies. (i.e. Softbank bought ARM for $30B, Apple develops chips, phone modems come from Qualcomm, you get your chips fabbed at TSMC or Samsung...)

I know somebody who has an innovative but risky idea for a new kind of parallel processor. He is looking at a budget in the $10M-$50M range depending on if he's making an FPGA or ASIC design.

Nobody is going to give him that kind of money unless he's got a customer lined up.

Intel on the other hand can soak $200M into a risky chip, and pretty frequently does. In fact, Intel can make multiple generations of a chip when the first generation fails in the market.

Big companies regularly lay off 10% of their work force; it isn't necessary a sign of real trouble.

There are plenty of business ideas that can be done on the small but some ideas take big money; look at Magic Leap, which got $1.4B of investment (not valuation!)
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More shares per view translate to more views, period. While sites certainly need to balance user experience with their need to grow, aggressively asking for shares works, and sites that do it will always do better traffic-wise than those that don't. I realize that ultra-white hat developers don't like this fact, and many would like to see it cause some sort of detrimental effect on the sites that do it. But unless the implementation is egregiously bad, most users simply don't care.
How does "Many early hackers hackers did LSD" sound like?