skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That cracked me up. Is that blue circle a gaze tracker? because it keeps pointing at virtual boobs whenever he looks at the models :)) not to mention sending avatar to the kitchen, priceless :D
NICE does a pretty good job in the UK.

https://www.nice.org.uk/
Some pictures of London coal plates here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/opercula?src=hash

They gained some brief national attention in Britain (at least among those who follow politics) when Jeremy Corbyn was revealed to be a fan. See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11867...
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I absolutely agree that lots of new stuff is not necessarily better than the old. Particularly when they end up more complicated than what preceded them. I think maybe I overstated the issue of time (what came before, etc.). I should've written it more generally: "Is it inconceivable that one idea/concept/product/language might be better than another?"
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this was nothing but subsidised Microsoft training.

"Subsidized Microsoft training" is what most people actually want and need to get the sort of job they aspire to. People with this "Subsidized Microsoft training" are also what many companies are looking to hire. So why is it such a bad thing to offer people this option?
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I initially thought this was a NYTimes self promotion piece. As in "Think NYTimes is hot right now? Just Wait".
Idea: a marketing/e-commerce company that takes existing unbranded consumer products, invents generic startup names for them (Noun & Noun), and resells each on its own simple, well-designed site with hipster aesthetic. Piggyback on Amazon fulfillment. Get better margin by reusing the same tech and overhead on each site. Employ low-paid "founders" who can tell a good story but don't have any particular business skill to create some marketing material to try to build buzz for "their" startup. The 2016 version of the dropshipping hustle.
Thank you, and may I say what a well written comment.

Poor old Tony Hoare (algol was mentioned earlier (rightly) as an exemplar of innovation) but Null in a safe memory managed context is a different beast to a true Null reference.

Null appears then as something between a known state and an not quite an exception, it carries different semantics from either, and whilst this could be seen as more complexity, I think the "I just don't know" case in practicality is useful, if harder to reason about.

Your point about the runtime is very true. Partly because of this - error checking is overrated! Yes I said it! We have go code that has been running in a reasonably high scale production environment for over two years and there are `if:...;err != nil` blocks that have never been touched in millions of calls per day, for 2 years. We have redundant services and trap panics in the rpc handlers, the nil becomes very clear and the rest of the system makes good progress. We save lines, save tests, and release a single binary fast. One example of where Go helps us deliver value faster, by being able to choose to ignore exceptions. Many people find this very uncomfortable. I say they are mistaking where the true project risks lie.
These maps are based on emission trends continuing, assuming no political action will be taken. But wouldn't a hotter world tend to exacerbate emission trends, with human needs for AC and desalination rising, plus forest fires? Moreover, there might be some tipping point for large scale methane release. The 'tail risk' to global warming has appreciable density a long way out.
The title of the post is not really clear.. Maybe it should state that they are building a datacenter in a Nuclear Fallout Shelter in the middle of Paris?
FUD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
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Enough rhetoric.

"Ah, but what do you propose, eh, Mr. Expert?"

-"Oh, maybe this?"

"AHA! This flaw would prevent that from being a workable solution. Keep the status quo!"

As if (a) understanding that there is a problem necessarily means that one must understand the solution, or (b) as if we live in a vacuum and this hasn't been addressed by dozens of other nations.

It has been addressed. In a dozen different ways, with different pros and cons. I can't tell you if the British or German or Japanese method is better, but I can tell you that we're the only schmucks going bankrupt to avoid death by bee-sting.
Bandwidth isn't a scarce resource for almost anyone in the Western World.
I used "callbacks" when needed in objective-C in my app days and got sh#t done just fine. I think the best thing to come from node is the ability for a younger crowd to jump into proton/electron desktop apps without needing to get into sdl, qt, or some platform specific language like objective c or the .net C# whatever family. Nose might not be the finally language to take us to that area but it's a start and a ton of awesome open source apps came out of the scene quickly.
Any more details? "Timeline" is basically an I searchable term, even when I tried filtering by "Apple iPad app" and similar variants.
I think that bloated piece of software is one of the worst things to happen.
Ignorance of the (irreversible) consequences is sufficient reason to avoid messing with the composition of the atmosphere, no?
> self contained VR headset with no wires

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/16/12503948/intel-project-all...
Erlang, Elixir, & Go have nicer models.
Then try tint https://github.com/trueinteractions/tint2
I'll take a stab at a positive case.

I've seen several small businesses whose only function is to pick things up from Ikea and deliver. If people are comfortable buying sofas online, it will apply to a range of home furnishing items. Furniture stores have been selling "rooms" for years for this very reason.

Aside from brand and customer relationships, if the delivery infrastructure for furniture is different than other items, that will provide a moat.

But is furniture a high margin business? Ikea's numbers suggest it is with gross margins over 40% in 2011 and 2012.http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_JP/pdf/yearly_summary/ys_welcome_i...
It's under heavy load at the moment (probably some scaling issues), so responses are a bit slow. You click on the pink lines (and wait).
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Maybe because JS is not really a decent language, just the pile of awfulness that we've had to grin and bear it with to do web front-ends for too long, and Erlang or Elixir is nicer to work with to start with.
I only use JavaScript on the browser, there are so much better alternatives outside of it.
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Appropriate username is appropriate.
So 14 of the 15 hottest years ever have taken place since 2000. I'm wondering, if this is the result of global heating due to emissions, why do we see so many new record highs only now?
The industrial revolution has been going on already for over 150 years. Why were there so few records broken in, say, 1980 - 1996, and so many in 2000 - 2016?
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"Unfortunately this site is only available from Great Britain." - but the Google Cache works: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
How so? The GPL grants permission to distribute derivative works in general under the GPL, and additionally to distribute derivative works consisting of object code that is the compiled form of system libraries (narrowly defined) without including that source (though AIUI still under the GPL); that's all. If someone were distributing a derivative work of a GPLed program not under the GPL and therefore without permission (i.e. without being otherwise licensed by the copyright holder), that would be copyright infringement. The question of what is or is not a derivative work in the general case is absolutely a question for the court. The FSF explicitly says as much: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
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i kind of wish lots of online "presences" would go back to being paper - based. So much shit, it's clogging the tubes.
This graphic could've used a Brett victor style tangle.js based simulation model. Then we could play around with it assuming future emission rates going down or up etc.. http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
Not that I agree with this persons opinions at large, I do recognize that he got some points. Perhaps he may be a bit sexist but so are most people and feminists at large are extremely sexist at large in my opinion.

A quote from the second link:

"The whole issue is being overcompensated now. On some technical forum I’ve seen somebody ask for advice on whatever. Another user replied with a link to women.debian.org. What the fuck? Do we have “men.debian.org”? If you’re no different wrt. technical matters, then you need no different website. If you need different treatment, then don’t be surprised if you’re treated differently."

Couldn't agree more on that point and matter, I do think we should treat each other with respect and integrity but why treat people differently because of their gender? Can't we just treat everyone the same?

Honestly, that is not what society is doing and especially not so in the IT sector. I think this is one of the points the OP is making with his post. Just because he has these views does not necessary render his views on nodejs or whatever else nil.
"irreversible"

{{citation needed}}
also for reference ~10W is Pentium ~100MHz territory. Afair 133MHz was the first one that required fan on top of the heatsink.
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Sure, but name any specific computing related thing that doesn't categorically reside within either frontend or backend. And don't say Javascript.
FUD of what? Generally FUD is used to gain some financial advantage. The only party who has anything to gain from continuing with the economic policies which acerbate climate change are the owners of fossil fuel sources. These constitute billions of dollars of future profit - but only if it's burnt up into the sky. Everyone else is only going to lose in the long term.

If one does not understand anything of climate science, one use the help of political insight to understand the underlying dynamics of the discussion: who has the greatest incentive to lie?
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Not sure about the downvotes, that's pretty funny.
Those poor people :(
I think it would be better if biographers wrote philosophy rather than projecting their own onto their subjects. Once you have a critic writing about a biography you have a two layer cake to peel apart.
I still don't understand why people couldn't have just learned Make, instead of reimplementing it badly two or three times in every different special-snowflake language.
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Care to explain? Your comment is not adding anything to this conversation.
The media can describe the distinction when it is relevant to the issue at hand, possibly with the jargon of the field and possibly without. In the article, the distinction between AR and VR wasn't relevant.
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How is the child driving the car?
Let me help you out by rewriting the sentence you were responding to:

Ignorance of irreversible consequences of messing with the composition of the atmosphere is sufficient reason to avoid doing so, no?
castAR is also 'pivoting' from computer accessory to self contained unit
Can you share which startup that is?

Or, maybe clarify what "practicing the cargo cult dance and building paper mache airplanes" means?
Turnover can be high, often depends on industry and country.

I know/do banking with staff in China, around 300 mainframe engineers, with average tenure around 5 years, which is miles ahead of India. If you'd like pointers for mainframe in China, drop me a mail.
So did I. Why was the article title prefixed with "NYTimes:"? I haven't seen that before on this site.
Both Teva and Sanofi have other drugs using auto-injectors in the market.
I think .Net Core is the new hotness, but I've enjoyed using the self-hosted Katana OWIN webserver components for the last couple of years. Slap something like WebAPI or Nancy on top of that, and it's really easy. Of course, Windows-only...
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are you implying that design decision is good?
The city of Paris ("intra-muros") is actually the densest capital in the Western world.
A bit of a stretch to make claims like "growing 13% per week!" and "20% margins!" on tiny businesses.
Meh.. You're too optimistic. They'll have a contract company incharge for the robot or algorithm, with contract terms covering for failures and downsides resulting from it. They'll only be responsible for choosing the company and contract terms (or may be good lawyer).
> These maps are based on emission trends continuing, assuming no political action will be taken.

I think this is a very realistic assumption.

Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9988890...
I've done a fair amount of messing around with javascript.

1. Recompiled webkit into javascript using emscripten/asm.js (webkit.js)
2. Created a desktop version of node (tint2) using FFI calls for OSX/Windows
3. Reconstructed much of the oracle o5login/tns/tti protocol for giggles (and if you want to see a very head scratching way of packing 64 bit signed ints, look no further than 11g).

What I can say is it isn't perfect. But it has one gigantic advantage is you don't need to build or compile to run, but still get nearly the same performance from compile time languages.

It's a near perfect prototyping language, and for most peoples use (e.g., 99% of crud/general business humdrum logic) it's perfectly fine.

Just stay away from relying on too many npm modules.
The original comment mentioned being able to decouple Go code from specific implementations of functionality by relying on self defined interfaces instead of specific functions. pcwalton's example seemed to confuse this point, which I wanted to clarify.

As to that point, your interface types will only match standard library ones if you're trying to unify them. In which case you probably want them to have the same signature.
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Buying a winning lottery ticket always looks like a great investing decision in retrospect...
I think you're misunderstanding the arithmetic. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_recor...

The Nth "hottest years" are relative to the present day. So in the graph, it looks like 1981 would have been a record hot year - but now it's only the 30th (or whatever) hottest year.

If the graph were a completely smooth upward-sloping line, then you'd expect that 15 of the 15 hottest years would have been since 2000.
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I'm assessing building a GPU based rendering service for animation and small film studios to utilize. Bare metal, full access instead of shared hardware/virtualized. With NVIDIA's new Pascal GPUs, it would provide much better price/performance than whatever is currently available out there. Do you think it still makes sense to build a rendering service in the face of so much competition?
I didn't know if it was just because I now have a 2 year old, but New York summers have definitely seemed harder to deal with each year I've lived here.

Is there a commonly accepted minimum temperature difference threshold that is perceivable by humans? E.g., if summer in 2016 was hotter than 2015 by X, I will notice?
The irony in all of these comments is that they almost all fall back to, or start with, discussing language design, and on the whole ignore the tools and processes that have a consistency from Go team to Go team. The value of this power and consistency is probably overlooked in this and many other conversations because they are complex to discuss, and it is simply easier to focus on the almost provable value of the language features, missing or present (maybe another availability bias at work?). The point of the article was to try and refocus on Go as an engineering tool in a much broader context.
They do... the Cortex A/M coprocessor scheme can be used to add instructions & functionality IIRC.
Is that really a comparison though? This seems more like taking one of those ubiquitous x86 Windows tablets (to form an analogy to an iPad) from years ago and using it as a second display.
But if it is not learning, can you really call it NN?
Essentially, think compound interest, except carbon in the atmosphere. More carbon in the atmosphere causes and uses more carbon to combat this. Everyone using A/C is a good example. Also China and India are industrializing right now, at a scale we can't comprehend.
Well, I do live in Sweden in a city where everyone bikes. So I am happy :)

I just like to promote our model of society since it's so much better on so many levels.
What I find interesting is, that everyone has rather hard feelings for any language but Python.

There seem only 2 things people complain about Python, performance and the two major versions out there.

Overall I have the feeling most devs thing it's pretty okay.
Compiles?
My recent win7 sp1 upgrade kept failing. Turns out it needed the 100MB system partition marked "active" in Diskman. I think Grub had changed that when I dual installed. I found stories of people who deleted the 100MB partiotion and had to do a full reinstall.
How does this differ from Mesos or Docker Swarm?
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I would tend to agree, based on instinct, that Go is poor for data science work (as it happens I am about to find out for real in the coming weeks :| ). To build systems to feed data into some other analysis platform: definitely, but dynamic number crunching, not so much. Rob Pike probably knows this better than most; Sawzall would probably not exist otherwise.
I don't think that was the point.. They shouldn't say "All iPads!" but rather "All Current iPads!" or something clearer like that.
What's so bad about that? It actually seems like a pretty sensible and well argued bit of feedback - with some slightly colorful language but nothing that seems that extreme.
What about sqlite?

https://sqlite.org/
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Unfortunately I can't edit the title :-(
Is the name a geek joke for UK people? NATS control planes, etc.
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So, we have:

- Seizing companies literally run by criminal organizations.

- A single time during war when companies were nationalized, and which was then ruled "an unconstitutional abuse of presidential power".

- A bailout of the shareholders and creditors of failed companies.

The only relevant one seems to be the second, and the outcome in the courts doesn't sound promising.
It should be noted that North African is generally not black and in fact genetic testing of remains of some individuals living in the region of Carthage at the height of its power show them to possess a European haplolyte that has since mostly disappeared, and survives predominantly on the Iberian peninsula.
We will probably end up pushing changes to Prod then when everything goes wrong realise we were not testing apples with apples, and then it's too late cause nobody took a backup because we were so sure there would be no issues.
Package management is another typical complaint. Admittedly it's a complaint in nearly every language that has packaging tools.
Oh god it's one of those app opening videos isn't it?

Yep, it is. D: Well here is a tip that should be somewhat obvious: unscientific measurements of which phone loads apps faster when you click from the home screen isn't any basis to claim a phone "beats" the other, especially when we were talking about processor performance.

By the way, the iPhone beats the S7 on single core and the S7 wins on multi core performance. Which makes sense seeing as you are competing a dual core with an octa core.
Umm, I read the article from the Lion's Claw, and it seems internally consistent.

It cites an actual study on mathematical prowess, takes its results, and uses mathematics to demonstrate a banal fact - that a small mean deviation in ability combined with significant competition yields unintuitively disproportional results. shrug

You may consider that the study was flawed(perhaps - I haven't particularly dug deep into it), or that he cherry-picked a particular study(something readily admitted in the text, as it describes how difficult it is to execute a study on mathematical ability). Simply declaring the OP "a sexist baboon", however, seems like an emotional outburst rather than a rational takedown.

Edit: I read OP's article(his site was down when I wrote the comment), and it seems like a rant. Comparatively the Lion's Claw article is cleanly and concisely presented, so I wouldn't really put those two together as an example of sexism.
Complete speculation, but it probably has to do with how Americans look at the use of their tax dollars. To Americans, setting up prisons where prisoners are in suites, and can leave on weekends, it sounds nicer than the lives of some free people! All of this on the American tax dollar also. Why reward prisoners for breaking the law, so make prison terrible.
The part I find especially frustrating is that, on average, a New Yorker has a lower carbon footprint than the typical American, probably due to the heavy use of the train.

So even when I do the (I think) eco-friendly thing by not having a car and using public transit, I'm still being punished for what the rest of the US (and the rest of the world) does.
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>There exist strongly typed dynamic languages that are good at both.

What concrete examples were you thinking of? (You didn't mention any strongly-typed-dynamic languages in your replies to the others.)
>I cannot find a reference

Stop here.
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This is exactly the intention of optional/gradual type systems. You can prototype away just as freely as with a purely dynamic language. Then when you have learned enough to be more definitive you can start putting in types. Dart is a good exponent of this (I think). Its a fully dynamic language but the compiler will catch the majority of static type errors (for types you define) and you can run it in checked mode during testing to catch other type errors. Typescript also has optional types (without runtime checking) but when I tried it it seemed to be harder to mix and match dynamic/static.
I think the point of the metaphor was that 'the best programming language for the job' is often rather subjective.
Nah, I misinterpreted the word "connection". Xterm.js aims to be as close as possible to the original xterm's functionality as a terminal emulator, that runs in the browser.
On the other hand, it doesn't have to work 100% of the time to be viewed as a threat, economically. Make it widespread, make it reasonably effective and you will likely succeed in driving the price of the certified EpiPen.
Even at retail (i.e. just walk into pharmacy with your prescription and buy it like you'd buy a coffee) they are £50 per pen/£90 for two [1] ($66/$118 at today's USD-GBP rate)

The weird healthcare system in the US is one of the main reasons I've resisted calls to relocate there for work. Stories like this are just really off putting.

1 - https://onlinedoctor.lloydspharmacy.com/uk/allergy/epipen
The glorious fix during Apollo 13 mission,
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