skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust's control flow primitives are coming to be defined by libraries, not the language, and tend to grow over time. For a long time, we've been able to get by with a small, well-understood set of control flow primitives, those defined by Wirth many years ago. Now we have this in Rust:

Type Option. The 2014 version.[1] The 2016 version.[2]

(Coming soon, the "?" operator.[3])

Here's an example of excessive cleverness [4]:

fn main () {
let number: f64 = 20.;
// Perform a pipeline of options.
let result = Some(number)
.map(inverse)
.map(double)
.map(inverse)
.and_then(log)
.map(square)
.and_then(sqrt);
// Extract the result.
match result {
Some(x) => println!("Result was {}.", x),
None => println!("This failed.")
}
}

(It's surprising that you can use .map on a singleton. Does this actually generate collections of one element and discard them, or what?)

The designers of Go knew when to stop. The designers of Rust don't.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140814230239/http://doc.rust-l...

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31436

[4] https://hoverbear.org/2014/08/12/option-monads-in-rust/
I think it depends upon the role.

Working as a researcher in one of the labs committing the fraud? I can't imagine you getting a job with a reputable company for years.

Working as a developer on their website? It's entirely conceivable you had no idea what was really going on.

Hopefully people will be level-headed about this sort of stuff.
One needn't sympathize with those things to downvote unsubstantive snark on HN.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649468 and marked it off-topic.
Well those people are right. The parking garage should be built underneath the apartments. Unfortunately then they'll complain about traffic concerns.
I'm sorry you're upset. I regret my original comment, and trying to remove it, today I found out HN doesn't let users delete comments older than a certain small amount of time.
Just jump through these 12 traps. When you're done, there's another 37 subtle gotchas. No biggie.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Any chance of adding 16-bit floating point support in Epiphany-VI?
Dash being for developers https://caskroom.github.io/ I barely use the AppStore, only for OSX updates
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That is exactly what I was curious to know -- thanks!
The world is bigger than web companies.

For contrast, one experiment at CERN produces 40TB/sec of sensor data, before downsampling and filtering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Muon_Solenoid#Collecti...
A perfect example of Twitter's problem actually. It's a great platform for witty famous people and their fans, but that does nothing to put money into Twitter's pocket.
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This is sort of what Hyperthreading is. Though you'll notice the ratios are not as good as what you want.
Respectfully, if you are asking that question you probably don't have enough info to warrant doing this unless you like to and can afford to gamble.
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(Thanks!)
x is literal. For context aware auto complete of a word try C-x C-n/p. For a line try C-x C-l. For a directory do C-x C-f. And remember that this is context aware, you can hammer C-x C-n C-x C-n or C-x C-l C-x C-l. Stuff is really powerful. Changed the way I program and I never see enough articles mention it.
I think Mongo lives in the "we probably shouldn't have chosen this, but it feels scarier to try to tear it out than to make do" place.
I'm no less concerned because:

1. The basis for pricing is cost to produce rather than value produced.

2. The anchor price for the enterprise product is the low price of the cloud product.

3. Suppose the tag line for your product was "It returns 50x its cost every month!" At 100 euro per ten seats that's 500 euro per seat per month before switching costs and administrative costs. In many businesses 500 euro per employee per month is line noise and 5000 euro in a department is rounding error. At 100 euro a seat, the numbers are more likely to be meaningful.

4. Adding analytics across teams isn't going to be a 90 euro add on to a 10 euro product. But it's a version 1.1 feature for a 100 euro product.

5. The amount of value that it is possible to create with the revenue from a 100 euro seat can potentially be leveraged into a 200 euro seat. Getting from 10 euro seats to 50 euro seats is likely to be harder.

6. The argument for lower prices is not backed up with a model higher showing higher revenue.
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Man that sucks.

I ended up removing my app from the app store after I realized that Apple would never actually allow me to do what I wanted to do without having me go through hoops to get it approved every time i made an update.

Never been happier. I am sure Dash will do just fine outside the app store too.
How intense is the math required?
My argument in context is that a paper cannot change because it has been published.

I think this statement is, if not completely untrue, grossly misrepresenting how existing papers are interacted with.

First of all papers, as with all publications, have errata published all the time. These errata may be included in future prints, or published in a separate location that can be looked up by people using the paper. Publishing errata is not a new occurrence, and although perhaps technically the original paper remains published unchanged, it is disingenuous to claim that this means the paper cannot change.

Modern publishing methods, such as the arXiv, allow for new versions of the paper to be uploaded, literally changing the published version of the paper.

As you point out yourself, literature reviews should point out issues with existing papers. Do you think that the original authors throw their hands in the air, thinking to themselves "oh well, it's published, nothing can be done"?? Of course not! If they are still engaged with the subject they either defend the paper, correct obvious mistakes, or continue experimentation or investigation in response.

To claim that errors should not be pointed out simply because the original authors can do nothing about the errors is diversionary at best. Of course errors in published results should be made public. How else can we trust any of the works?

If errors in existing research is always hidden, squelched, swept under the rug, we have no reason to trust it. It is the openness of research - publishing in the open, criticising in the open, discussing in the open - that allows us to trust research in the first place. Indeed, that trust is already eroded by revelations of systemic issues like p-hacking within published research.

You may be suggesting that posting these analyses to the individual papers was the wrong way to do it, that it would be better done in a literature review or paper.

I completely disagree.

It is essential that anyone looking to reference a paper with a glaring mistake in it (which many of those affected are) is able to see that mistake and correct for it. Leaving the old research be is just ensuring that incorrect ideas are allowed to propagate, and have more of an impact than they ever should.
Never underestimate the stupidity of people.

My friend works at a Samsung store and had people trying to return their Galaxy S4s.
Well, to each his own, but I don't think the product was the problem. Lots of people love RethinkDB. The comments here are proof of that.
> We have a new executive team leading our work toward obtaining FDA clearances, building commercial partnerships, and pursuing publications in scientific journals.

hm, that's funny, no mention of products or services...
Reminds me of Willamette Week's recent story about Portland's failure to build enough affordable housing. The reported reason? The city funds "cool" projects run by "cool" nonprofits instead of spending money where it will do the most good. Super frustrating but also informative.

http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/09/28/portland-needs-to-build...
Yes, for how much now, ~5B. And what are its prospects? It's only been downhill for Y! since then. Marissa did a decent job trying to salvage it after nearly half a dozen CEOs prior to her vacillated, but it just never got its bearing and I fear similar is the case for Twttr.
The goal is to stretch out the deceleration. Instead of going from 16 to 0 instantly (probably more like 1/10th of a second when you count the capsule deforming), it's going from 16 to 0 over a much larger fraction of a second.

It's probably the difference between running full speed into a brick wall and running full speed into a large foam pad.

The foam pad decelerates you in less than a second, but it's a whole lot more comfortable than the brick wall.
He decided to waste his effort on the locked-in closed platform.
He totally deserved it.
you're not very specific, but a couple thoughts i'll share:

1) So important to be intentional about your time, and your energy. Start planning your day: http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-import...

2) first and foremost, take this opportunity to find/create more challenging projects for yourself in your current role. additionally, start planning/preparing for how you can move to position with more responsiblity and interesting work -- either within your own group, or elsewhere in the firm, or by seeking a job offer elsewhere.

3) if what you really mean is brain fog or lack of focus, these are the main areas to tackle:
- cut all web surfing (this gets back to being intentional about your time, and also resetting your dopamine mechanism -- web surfing is our equivalent of rats pressing hte lever over and over for a treat -- totally useless)
- cut sugar
- get adequate sleep

4) if you are just not feeling software development (or whatever your current work is), it's possible you want to explore a change of role altogether. i have less to say about that, but worth doing some reflection in the evenings -- perhaps with some pen and paper, or by taking some walks and being alone with your thoughts -- to explore this.

and with that, I should follow my own advice and log off HN. :)
GNU Social supports that and even entirely locked down servers. Want one for your own family and no one else? That's one of the configurable options.
It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one of the pics from the article. What if it was viable? What midevil type of weed would that be?
https://mastodon.social/auth/sign_up

requires registration to be able to use it. I still don't get why people are down voting my post.

I don't mean github account at all.
Go five levels up from your comment and you might find a joke you're missing—unless you're in on it too and it's sailing right over my head
Dunno about Australia, but this was about washing machines in the US: http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/28/news/samsung-cpsc-washing-ma...
Elegant in theory maybe, rough in practice.
Oh, that's why it got shut down. Thanks
What is the core purpose of the new Self - Driving Nanodegree - to crowdsource knowledge or to graduate students funneling them into this sector? It seems like there are two uniquely different value propositions at play here and the advantage is entirely on Udacity's end.
As testament to doing things that didn't scale, Ooshma turned up to my apartment in Palo Alto a couple of years ago (mid-2013) to fix a botched order. Ultimately, the switch to dinner kits wasn't for my family, but I always remember that occasion as a great example of the principle.
>Agriculture is ugly, and always will be.

Wrong! Agriculture is a low profit business. If you're cruel to animals or take shortcuts you will go broke. I used to work with farmers as a fertilizer guy and I've seen it all the time.

First off most of these truly are family farms. It may not look that way but because of the high degree of automation available a single family with a couple of employees can farm thousands of acres or milk thousands of cows.

The outstanding farms care about their employees and their livestock. I knew one farm where every one of 1500 cows had a name. Not USX1102 but NancyJo or William. Every profession has outliers. Usually when you see a documentary it's that exceptionally bad farm.

I've been on hundreds of pig, cattle and dairy farms and you're seeing the exceptions in those documentaries. It's sad but it drives city dwellers to get entirely the wrong impression of today's farmers.
Nope, they can't.

First of all, if it's actually fraud that totally doesn't scale.

But in a more nuanced case, look at the iMessage App that allowed people to send images that looked like a stock Messages blue bubble. Good idea for humor, not so good for non-trolling UX. Apple pulls it but gives the developer a week to see if there's any way to salvage the situation to ease the heartstrings and pocketbook.

IMMEDIATELY calls go out to download the infringing app, several thousand more than anyone who might otherwise (full Streisand effect)...

Then imagine that app actually has Malware! Lots to think about, and if people hate on Apple for this, fair enough — as an iOS dev it's tough to defend. Really love Dash. Hope it gets straightened out. 8 years in on the platform and you can do a ton of things you couldn't do back in 08, and vice versa.
Google is a singular noun. Although it is comprised of a collective of individuals, it is an individual entity.

To use a plural, indicating that those collaborating as part of the team effort that Google, The Company represents, is better termed as those "Googlers" over there.

Googlers represent a plural aspect of the collective efforts of many.

Google isn't a rock band, like The Who.

You might say The Who are touring Europe.

In contrast you'd say Google is creating a new product. Or, alternatively, a team of Googlers are creating a new product, which happens to be evil.

Why anyone should have to spell this out is beyond me, but hey, the internet takes all kinds.

I mean come on. This is not hard stuff. People should just kind of "get it." Oh well.
You have to be careful quoting offer prices. Microsoft's 2008 offer for YHOO today would be ~$46.80/share.

It is best to look at market cap to determine value - Microsoft's 2008 offer was $44.6B; Yahoo's current market cap is $41.65B.

The discrepancy from then to now comes from the number of shares outstanding. There are fewer outstanding YHOO shares today than there were in 2008.
It's my understanding that all Lithium Ion batteries can fairly easily catch fire if they are not treated somewhat carefully, typically by a circuit that prevents loads that might cause it to heat up.

Is it theoretically possible that malware could be designed that would cause a Lithium Ion powered smart phone's battery to catch fire? I'm thinking it would be more of a low-level firmware update where a programmable logic device was used as part of the battery protection circuit.

Thoughts?
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Want more service jobs? Make sure people have money to pay for services. This feels like a strong basis for UBI
Because the whole of Google's ad business stands on people wanting to click on the ads shown, and buy the products offered through them. That's why they spend resources on detecting misleading or fraudulent ads, which by your reasoning they wouldn't care about as long as they paid. PR is very important for this business to be sustainable: If the goal was for every user to click through one ad, and then never again, that might not even pay one engineer's salary.
Absolutely agree on a.

I think the popularity of Electron is a travesty.

I live in Australia, but despite it being a first world nation, the Internet speed is miserable and bandwidth is precious. (I pay $50 a month for 100gb, at 1.5mbms). Size still matters.

I do quite like D and the structured process of developing the language they use.

But I also find it incredibly depressing that Nim has a better optimising compiler.
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She's a mighty good leader. It takes a rare and special talent to build a 9 billion dollar company using only smoke and mirrors. Even after all that has transpired she hasn't given up, she's still trucking.

She doesn't see herself as a fraud at all, her faith in her mission, however delusional, is ironclad. She inspired her investors to take insane financial risks without so much as a whiff of due diligence. Elizabeth Holmes is a modern day Joan of Arc.
You're right, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Most people actually want to legalize it because it's fun. It's disingenuous and harmful to pretend this isn't the reason. It has other benefits, but the real core issue is that demonizing the common drive to modify our state of mind is, in itself, the demon. Pretending it's for the medical benefits or for some spiritual woo is harmful. A step backwards.

We need to stop making dangerous things illegal which we should instead be educating how to respect.
> The certificate is only valid for the following names: www.cs.toronto.edu, cs.toronto.edu
I don't care much about this whole ordeal but your numbers are plain wrong.

FYI Twitter's revenue has basically doubled every year the last 5 years.
"seek remedy for damages arising from your stunted career"

Stunted career? As adults I'm sure they would have been capable of leaving any time they wanted from legal point of view. It's not goverments job to protect people from partaking in risky ventures. Who would want to create a startup after litigating "too risky product that turned out to be bogus".
Twitter revenue is growing at 20% y/y as of last quarter, not 5%.
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Nah, it would have been this:

"Our foray into nanotainer tech was too early for the market. However, we've established that there is a market for disruptive tech in the stodgy lab biz. In terms of leadership, we're moving on from Ms. Holmes who saw this from the start, and she's agreed that the best for the stakeholders is to step aside due to the misunderstanding around her tech, but the company itself will persevere in breaking the stranglehold Big Lab has on healthcare costs, while Ms Holmes moves to an role in charge of disruptive R&D use of nanotainer and other disruptive tech in the lab/testing biz."
Sure they decided. They could fight back with legal challenges. They could spin off the labs into an independently run entity. There are lots of choices besides shutting them down.
Does anyone else think Amazon will come sweeping in at the last moment and make an offer? Bezos already owns WP and Twitter has a significant user base of media outlets.
I'm not sure why everyone is caught up with the competition between Apple and Samsung when the Blu R1-HD sells for $59. Most people I know would be indifferent between the Blu R1-HD and a higher end phone (considering performance, battery life, form factor, build quality, camera and screen quality).
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I've definitely known some older folks who didn't know what phone they had. It was typically selected or even purchased for them by a family member.

That said, it's relatively unlikely that these folks would have a brand new flagship phone so soon after release.
While the GGP idea was just misinformed and basically outright dumb, it doesn't mean that just because a politician chooses to use a tool or a person a a given time then they will protect that person or tool in the future. The world is full of examples in the contrary.

Bottom line, just because Hilary's campaign is using Signal, it doesn't mean that in the future her administration won't gag them or make legislation available in order to use them so spy on their own citizens.
The userbases are definitely comparable, even if the impact and potential revenue differs -- Orkut did not have the same reach in the U.S. as Twitter currently does. Also, AFAIK, Orkut was always a part of Google? I was thinking along the lines of, has Google shut down something that they paid billions to acquire? In terms of pure dollar amount, assuming that Twitter will go for at least a billion, only YouTube, DoubleClick, and Nest are in that neighborhood.

Too soon to make a verdict on Nest, but YT and DC seem to be the kind of acquisitions that Google paid a lot for, and from which Google advanced its bottom line and reach. FeedBurner ($100M), on the other hand...$100M is not nothing, but not as major as a Twitter acquisition would presumably be.

(AFAIK, Feedburner is still alive, but the APis have been deprecated a few years ago)
Holy crap. And yes, it definitely is; if you haven't looked up Industry 4.0 or Industrial Internet, that entire sector is making a push to sensorize.

As a rearguard defense: Yes, but, what percent of the time is CERN running an experiment [that generates that data]?

According to a quick Google search, average time spent driving is 101 minutes / day.

Totally makes sense that CERN (and, likely, any large Science! efforts) produces that level of burst data, but wouldn't these cars produce more data over time?

As a different topic, a different friend of mine is of the opinion that AI is dependent on the throughput of data through the system; think about the amount of information your body feeds to your brain, and how much time it was doing that before you were capable of communication.
As pointed out by another comment here [1], Google doesn't give you a "fair choice" in these things (beyond the ability to install competitors' offerings as separate apps) either:

> Google's MADA agreement forbids OEMs from making anything but Google Now/Voice Search the default digital assistant on Android devices with Google Play.

> Google is telling it's hardware partners for Google Home and Google Cast they're forbidden from supporting competing digital assistants.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649533
Note: WP = Washington Post, not WordPress.

Confused me there for a second.
I have always wondered why there isn't a tech company that just does kick ass documentation for companies. Seems like a small group of people who make kick butt stuff in this area.

Really, you did have fantastic documentation, as the original said. Kudos.
Promotion and great tech can't make up for leadership running the entire company into the ground.
Don't short the stock. You'd buy options for strike prices your predict the security to reach. This limits your liability (unlike shorting a stock, which has unlimited liability).
I think the argument is not against unwillingness, but when and how.
I've encountered a few different attempts at "simple explanations" of the Kalman filter, but what I really want is a "simple explanation of implementing a Kalman filter".

Anyone know of attempts at that? (Or applying one to a real situation?)
At least in the last 40 years of that graph, recessions seems to be it.

A recession hits, some people get fired (sticky wages, etc, etc), the recovery comes and it's cheaper to automate stuff than hire people. Then things coast for a while. The cost of automation keeps falling, people keep getting relatively more expensive, but in good times generally you don't get people getting fired en masse because times are good and the employer is making a profit anyway. Then a recession comes, and the cycle repeats...
Because employees of manufacturers have more power in the value chain than in most other jobs that employee high school graduates. This pushes up middle class wages without government intervention.
At this point yes, it would be pure gamble. I thought there might be objective information that could have come out of this post :)
Then, I would take a rational decision.
Holmes had extremely good family connections. I'm sure it sounded credible at the time. From VC:s point of view the type of people she had connections to functioned as social proof and some of them even probably as celebrity advocates (i.e. Rumsfeld).
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