skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are really snooty imho. I suspect the snootiness is both the reason these houses exist (I have a bigger house than you) and the reason this criticism exists (I have a nicer looking house than you).

I feel like it's a rather toxic cultural thing to care at all about other people's houses. Likewise with cars. It's also something that's not nearly as prevalent in mainstream culture outside the US (snobbery is the domain of the upper classes exclusively).
Can you flesh out an argument that Cook and/or Apple is "running out of time"?
Says a lot about the security architecture of these boxes.
Well, okay. Then my favorite framework's getting speed optimizations. I'm not complaining.
It's not clear to me if you are aware that the video you are commenting on is from a comedy show satirizing Silicon Valley and it's billionaires...
>mediocre devs

Really? They pretty much hire from the best (Stanford, etc) - how are they mediocre?
Seeing as former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joined the show as a writer I think this isn't a huge leap.
I'd take any of the McMansions shown here. sorry.
You can make art for the sole purpose of money. Lots of writers and musicians churn out pulp and jingles to keep the pool heated. And some of that stuff is really good art.

I think you're stuck with a particular definition of jazz, the one that's putting the proverbial pillow on it. If you define jazz as that stuff that had its moment in the past with Coltrane and Bird, etc, of course it's going to be boring and old hat. If you listen to Robert Glasper's Black Radio and understand it a contemporary expression of jazz as well as R&B, then it's easy to be amazed at how much jazz has evolved and enthralled with where it's going. Jazz has never been "pure" - it has always reached into different music genres in subtle and unexpected ways. It remains misunderstood for that reason.
Collect coins if you enjoy it, but for an investment they are terrible.
All VDOM systems are. The difference is how explicit the data binding is: I maintain implicit 2-way binds, Angluar style, are a Bad Idea.
Worth noting that most of the money comes from big donors. In Vue's case, there are 79 donors, but 9 donate $500/mo, and 1 donates $2000/mo. (and those are essentially ad placements)
Denied. This is patently obvious.
We can debate whether they're good things or not, but they clearly confound comparisons with non-charter schools, which do not get to apply those kinds of selection powers to improve their published outcomes.
It seems to me that such laws punish people for associating with certain individuals who go on to commit crimes, requiring everyone to essentially be psychic or predict others' actions correctly 100% of the time to stay on the right side of the law. Either that or avoid associating with anyone.

It's insane--and certainly unjust--that a law that makes such impossible and ridiculous demands of people is considered just.
... because?
I was a biophysics grad student at the time of the Hunts' shenanigans. The lab I worked in used a lot of x-ray film for crystallography and electron microscopy. At that time x-ray film was basically silver halide stuck to plastic.

Our wizard lab tech cooked up a nice little electrolytic gizmo, involving a screen made of thin copper wire and a battery, and dropped one in each fixer bath we used to fix the x-ray film. The copper wire became coated with metallic silver.

The lab made thousands of dollars at the peak of the Hunt-induced silver bubble by selling that recovered silver. That was good, because the cost of film went completely nuts, and we were able to keep from blowing through our budget.
Lobbying can get great returns if you target it well plus bring in people on defense side into your organization for "old boy network." I don't recall if Palantir does that but I wouldn't be surprised. Far as lobbying, to illustrate the ROI's achievable: oil companies spending tens of millions got billions (Solendra too with less); casino industry got $650 million in tax breaks donating around $3 mil to Nevada reps; banks probably put in tens of millions then got $1 trillion bailout; big defense contractors put in millions plus give Pentagon chiefs or acquisition folks six-figure salaries to get billions in return at good margins. Common stuff, my man. Nothing unusual with effective bribery, err corporate participation in democracy. ;)
I think NASA's use of "systems engineering" is more or less in line with how everyone except the software industry uses "systems engineering". You'll sometimes (not always) see "systems engineering" in the software industry refer to operating systems, or operating system like stuff (for example, game engines, certain types of real time application, etc). You'll also see it called 'systems programming'. In that context, I can understand why the standard systems engineering role might be considered more 'managementish'.

In most large roles, systems engineers are at least one step removed from the majority of design. In many ways, he works on an abstraction layer of the design, but also provides abstraction layers to the other engineers he works with or DIRECTS.
My general point is that SVG is an extremely complex format and that its complexity is preventing further adoption. Removing SVG fonts isn't going to change anything about that, as nobody but webkit bothered to implement it anyway.

> This particular attack is no longer possible in SVG 2.0.

You still need to configure your xml parser the correct way, this doesn't really change anything.

> But it's certainly not difficult to parse a data string if you pay close attention to the spec.

Or you just change the spec to follow the buggy behaviour when a few implementation have the same bug: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Apr/0042.ht... which leads to new bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1284409

I think the amount of issues you can find around svg paths with a bit of googling make a pretty good case that the format is overly complex.
The totalitarian authority in 1984 actually has the exact opposite goal. They wanted to control creativity, self expression, and thinking of new ideas as much as possible, and one of the methods to achieve this goal was to try to reduce the number of words being used in the general vocabulary of the public.
Oh, good. I would have pasted it in but I'm on my phone and it's a pain in the butt :-)
Silicon Valley’s co-working boom is no cure for its crushing loneliness
CSS for HTML has the color currentColor which can satisfy that sort of a requirement.
Sounds like an excellent plan to end up with outdated libraries and full of security holes.
A unified package system for BSD family can reduce some friction.
>Legal experts say his case is rare, even in Texas, the execution capital of America — and a state that allows capital punishment for people who did not kill anyone or did not intend to kill.

Forty six US states have Felony Murder statutes. I don't think this is all that rare for states with capital punishment. According to the wiki "...the death penalty may be imposed if the defendant is a major participant in the underlying felony and 'exhibits extreme indifference to human life'."
I think the main feature is being able to easily leverage shaders with a nicer API. Having done a fair bit of SDL over the years, dropping down to pure OpenGL and shaders can be a bit... low-level, which is to be expected. This seems to make that quite a bit nicer?

Edit: For example, check out this http://dinomage.com/reference/SDL_gpu/group__ShaderInterface...
> The NASA definition the original one, I would think. How are people using "systems engineering" as a term elsewhere, that is incongruent with the NASA definition?

The term has been co-opted by people in IT doing (I think) operations type work.

It certainly makes a job search much more frustrating since the number of IT positions greatly outnumbers those for the traditional definition.
Every discipline and even hobbyist/fan-group seems to have their own little “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”s.

See.
I didn't realise that and googled some more: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/449035/is-it-possib...

Apparently "four cubic Bezier curves and gives an approximation whose maximum error is 0.0196% of the radius"
Percentage of employees working more than 50 hours per week, 2014 OECD area
Right there with you; I could give or take the architecture (though I am a huge fan of '50s era modern and '20s era craftsman), I like homes that we well-built. It's funny, but it seems like the majority of these early 19th century Sears specials that are all over Portland are better built than any modern home.
In my mind, a McMansion's defining characteristic has always been that it's far too much house on far too small of a plot.

It has pretenses of elegance that are betrayed by a gaudy claustrophobia. It's like loudly proclaiming "LOOK HOW MUCH HOUSE I HAVE," while generally sticking out like a sore thumb from the other houses in the neighborhood.
That's really not accurate.

While it happens, there are many projects and efforts that are tightly controlled, managed, and executed.

And when projects go off the rails, people are generally pretty unhappy. The government is huge though, so bad apples and bad actors exist... but it's not accurate to write hyperbolically as you do.
Gourmet Food, Beverages, Favorite People and Live Jazz
I interpreted that as, someday it might yet be a mega hit. It's still a relatively new product that's only had one iteration, and even though it didn't set the world on fire, it didn't bomb either. Most tech companies iterate on things a few times before giving up on them, unless they are just fundamental market failures like the iPod HiFi.

What did you like about that statement? Your interpretation made it sound like you didn't agree with it.
To be fair, it's becoming pretty common to have RAM and storage soldered to the board these days on small form factor laptops, so it's not just Apple.
> PS: XFS is about to gain COW and data checksum support, probably generally available next year.

Do you have link for that? XFS supports metadata checksumming already and cp --reflink IIRC but I've never heard about data checksums and "real" COW e.g. snapshots?
Would that exercise be the following? I'm not sure I understand what's being tested.

const f = (k) => {
const funcs = [];
for(let i = 0; i < k; i++) {
funcs.push(() => i);
}
return funcs;
}

const test = f(4);
console.log(test[0]()); // 0
console.log(test[1]()); // 1
console.log(test[2]()); // 2
console.log(test[3]()); // 3
Did you know that Warren Buffett also got in on this same silver trade in 1997?

> Our second non-traditional commitment is in silver. Last year, we purchased 111.2 million ounces. Marked to market, that position produced a pre-tax gain of $97.4 million for us in 1997. In a way, this is a return to the past for me: Thirty years ago, I bought silver because I anticipated its demonetization by the U.S. Government. Ever since, I have followed the metal's fundamentals but not owned it. In recent years, bullion inventories have fallen materially, and last summer Charlie and I concluded that a higher price would be needed to establish equilibrium between supply and demand. Inflation expectations, it should be noted, play no part in our calculation of silver's value. [0]

[0]: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1997.html
> and since Charter schools cannot serve the entire population

Citation please. Seriously, I see no reason whatsoever why charter schools, over time, could not service 100% of the population.

There is no reason per se to reform the public school system, just like there is no reason per se to continue to develop DOS—just use Windows. Or Linux. Etc.

Not everything needs to live forever, including "public schools".
Something about that doesn't quite add up. At one point they owned 6 billion in silver. They had another 10 billion in futures on top of that? At what price? In theory, they could still cover that position. There's some numbers here and there in the article, but not enough to really recreate their paper position.
> and are usually not obligated to provide special education services

This is 100% false in California.
This isn't true at all. What's necessary is code written in a verifiable way, qualified reviewer assessing it, trust in that reviewer/assessment, and way to ensure you're using what was reviewed in evaluated configuration. It's how main, security certifications work if you do it at high-assurance level. Lower levels are paper BS or simply inadequate given short-term, code review only catches so much.

I broke it down here with a quick revision just now:

http://pastebin.com/pjc0cueA
Slight correction (that seems to be divisive on the issue), McMansions are generally characterized by not being cookie cutter. A neighborhood full of mcmansion's does have the distinguishing feature that each one is different, but they will all still feel the same. It's the result of each owner wanting something more unique and fancier than everyone else, and just smashing stuff on to do it.
Computer Vision in 1980 – Cromemco Cyclops Camera and Altair/Imsai Computers
> The difference between this and the typical Haskell library where you need to be mathematically sophisticated to even know what problem it solves is pretty stark.

I'm a Haskell developer and the most math I know is algebra 2. I also don't have a degree. I write Go for work. You don't need to know much math for Haskell. Go's lack of generics is a HUGE mistake and bites my teammates and I often.
They are recommended quite often for icons now (but I don't have numbers on SVG vs icon-fonts)
Do you honestly think anyone is "pro-crime"? Being against 3 strikes is just about believing judges should be using their own discretion when sentencing as far as I can tell and not required to hand down mandatory sentencing.
Gotta hand it to them for the realism though getting the actual code conference interviewers.
Because…"publicly-run."
You can also consider using Caddy for TLS termination, it automatically fetches certs and supports HTTP/2.
New, Nearby Earth-Like Planet Discovered
I can attest that the NASA definition is the one used in our semiconductor company
I think it's the most used by non haskeller's. I'd say most used and most famous is the ghc Haskell compiler.
The facts of the topical case aren't that ludicrous. The link goes into enough detail where it's clear he was complicit in the murder, even if not present for the physical shooting.
I used to know an architect who designed stamped-out houses. According to her, she'd present an aesthetic design, and then the building corporation would trim away all the better elements to cut costs, leaving an ugly vaguely historical-looking box with windows, a door, and a roof.

> the absurdness of McMansions appears to be driven by a desire to be fancier than anything anyone has seen anywhere else.

It's easy - and fun - to scoff, but I think a lot of buyers and owners genuinely don't notice the difference between crapchitecture and something with real style and flair.

Also applies at the high end. Take a virtual drive around houses for sale in Beverley Hills. There are some real kitsch classics available - including some real architect-designed modernism-in-a-box neo-kitsch stand-outs.
> Our challenge is finding the best model we can that can be replicated at scale

Or we can recognize that each area is unique, and stop trying to force a specific approach on everyone "at scale"?

Seriously, consider that there is no educational approach that works "at scale" across vastly different socio-economic, cultural, genetic, and other factors.
You keep referring to military service as labor, the draft as forced labor and comparing it to other labor. That's an economic concept. The only type of war where that is a coherent position to take is a war for profit. So obviously the draft would be forced labor and unethical, because the war itself would have to be.

Few people are pro-conscription, they are choosing between the incentives present when conscription is the only path to war and when mercenaries or professional soldiers recruited from those of lower status are used. If the war is considered just by a democracy then many will want to fight, because it will be obviously necessary, defensive, and those chosen must be chosen fairly.

Perhaps you think this is an argument for the continuation of American global continuous war combined with conscription? Because it's very much not. It's a statement that the only just wars would inevitably result in conscription also being just, even without the incredible moral hazard present when democracies can vote for wars to be fought by labor.
Ww3 anti us nato base on fire not reported by media
This is a 2015 piece, so old news. Can we note that in the headline?
The beauty of harsh weather is bullshit design doesn't survive.

Though, I'm a form follows function guy.
Whoa, why would you do that ?
IMO, the real apparent injustice in this case is the prosecutor's use of a forensic psychiatrist who apparently has a cottage industry in testifying against defendants:

> Wood was committed to a mental health hospital after he was found incompetent. A neuropsychologist had testified that Wood was delusional, unable to grasp the issues about his case and the reality facing him...

> The writ of habeas corpus, filed in July, spotlights something else the jury did not know: the troubled history of a forensic psychiatrist whose testimony resulted in Wood’s death sentence.

> James Grigson was no stranger to capital murder cases: By the time Wood went on trial, in 1998, Grigson said he had testified in 163 such cases. Prosecutors often sought his testimony to secure the ultimate punishment for defendants. Often, they were successful, earning Grigson a nickname: “Dr. Death.”

> In 1995, three years before Wood’s trial, Grigson was expelled from the American Psychiatric Association and its Texas branch at that time, the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, for predicting a defendant’s potential threat to society based solely on a hypothetical. The expulsions followed an investigation by the Texas association’s ethics committee, which cited Grigson’s “willfully narrow rendition of psychiatric knowledge.”
Actually, taking into account cost of living, I don't believe the Bay Area pays any better for the median developer than other competitive cities.
Setting aside the death penalty aspect, this case is not about association - it's about explicit participation in a felony that resulted in the death of an innocent victim.

Doesn't require a psychic to determine that committing a robbery with someone whom you know to own and carry a firearm could result in a death.
The difference is that when you call a function, you can easily know what will happen: the function will execute. You can use your knowledge about the function you are calling (and the functions it calls, etc.) to ensure it does not violate any invariants you set up.

Whereas, if you have an implicit yield point that goes back to the event loop, the event loop can run arbitrary other tasks---not ones you can locally reason about or predict, but simply those that are ready to be executed.
I wonder how NUMA compares to MAYA HEAP as far as memory performance goes?
Of course, but that's a feature, not a bug.

People seem to believe that "the best" students will have identical achievement no matter who their surrounding students are. This is (at best) unproven and seems to defy common sense.
I made money doing it one time. They told me I couldn't prove an arbitrary program would halt. I wrote a program that loaded an arbitrary algorithm into a process, counted down to zero from starting constant, attempted to kill the process when at zero, and otherwise shut down the whole system. "sklogic" similarly showed how pointless the question was when he said he could just put a while loop around any algorithm doing basically the same thing within the program.

So, not only can you prove a program halts using a verified halter, the techniques for doing so have prevented and detected many real-world problems. One of those situations where abstract math ignores simple, concrete solutions. :)
Oh cool, I don't normally meet math trained poets. Any links to your work? (I am not a poet myself, just highly involved, publishing, editing, etc).
> * Inner city schools are such a disaster*

Inner cities are a disaster, full stop. Which probably explains why the schools there are also a disaster.

After all, wouldn't it be strange if inner cities were a disaster but the schools located there were a paragon of academic achievement?
Designing a mutable bi-directional tree safely in Rust
From the article, the "explicit participation" isn't all that clear, and not required to be proven by the prosecution? (but it's not purely association either)
It astounds me that Americans think themselves to be the pinnacle of civilisation, when they still gleefully enact the death penalty. It disgusts me that this vile, barbarous country has so much power in the world.
The problem with this idea is C is an advanced language requiring one to be very careful with memory (referencing, allocation, deallocation, etc). If we are to keep C in its essence with well-defined behavior, managing memory still seems to be part of the job description.

I think what you are describing is Rust, Go, C++11 RAII with reference counting, Objective-C with ARC. I like to think of C as an abstraction of assembly. Of course, the above languages often use libraries or OS APIs implemented with C function calls (as well as having resource handles); these library functions may not always have a nice wrapper around them.

C is a very concise, barebones and syntactically simple language. I think some of the problem is that there is a lot of behavior that is not well-defined resulting in different interpretations in different compilers. I think there are proposals to make C more standardized.

I think C++11 has made great moves to being consistent across all compilers. Having a thread library that is cross-platform, for example, is a very good move.
Cloudy with a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s “A Prehistory of the Cloud”
Fracking was deployed as early as 1949, with references to earlier work in 1945:

https://www.onepetro.org/journal-paper/SPE-949001-G

http://sci-hub.bz/http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/949001-G

The "Hydrafrac" process, as it is now being used, consists of two steps: (l) injecting a viscous liquid containing a granular material, such as sand for a propping agent, under high hydraulic pressure to fracture the formation; (2) causing the viscous liquid to change from a high to a low viscosity so that it may be readily displaced from the formation. To date the process has been used in 32 jobs on 23 wells in 7 fields, resulting in a sustained increase in production in 11 wells.

The myth that hydrofracking was researched only in the 1990s and brought into play in the 2010s is a as false as the idea that God created Earth and Man in His Image 6,000 years ago.

There's also the slightly inconvenient truth that fracked oil is not a sustainable replacement for conventional oil.
They can't scale their "magic".

Working on the watch means that they aren't working on the Mac or the iPad. They are a victim of their own success in that a successful, well thought out, and profitable product like the watch is viewed as a neutral.

They've also flopped on the TV.

That said, their ability to execute is amazing.
> Frustrated at programming's long-term career trajectory (Nobody will hire you after 40).

Simply not true. At 40+ I'm making the highest salary of my career thus far, and have no problem switching jobs. Had three offers last time I switched (8 months ago). I post this as a warning to anyone less experience reading this thread and taking this as fact, when it is most certainly anecdotal.