skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was covered in detail in Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal articles about Theranos and Holmes.
Absolutely. An alternative title for the comic would be "For the love of branch permissions". The second developer in the comic is doing the right thing by creating a feature branch.

However even in a strict branching workflow, there's still a chance you'll have genuine integration failures when two branches are merged, even if they independently pass the tests.
It's also one of very few changes I've seen (one of which was changing the icon and word for the favorite/like action [which was a breaking change as far as I'm concerned; it changed the semantics of past discussions and eliminated the personal bookmarking aspect]).

I cannot imagine what Twitter is spending its time doing.
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Programmers badmouth everything, because the state of programming languages is a horrifying trash fire and these things deserve to be badmouthed, in the hope that the same mistakes won't be made next time somebody builds a similar system.

In other words, if somebody says "stop badmouthing [crappy tool]", it doesn't just mean they need a thicker skin, but that they value their arbitrary emotional connection to the tool over the ability for the world to improve. They would rather have a crappy system that nobody talks about than a good system.
Google's Noto Sans CJK JP contains 9 font files, each about 13MB. You can edit fonts to subset glyphs or glyph sets you expect to use to further reduce the file size, although I suspect the CJK languages are never going to be as easy to get to fast web speeds. The JIS X 0208 subset still weighs in at almost 4 MB for a single OTF.
Can you clarify how that differed from the previous open-source license?

I thought, prior to 5.6, you could go licenseless if you provided a way for the user to replace the (dynamically linked) Qt libraries with libraries of their own.

Was it just too nebulous before, and most companies just didn't offer a way to do this or buried it in some backdoor or something?

Yeah, I agree it's a shame that a lot of companies don't want to license up, but if you've seen what they want for a per-device fee these days you'd probably understand. I did a product in 2008 and it was maybe $1/unit, now it's an order of magnitude larger.
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Is the Shippo API powering this Shyp app?
Already commented here, but http://www.runway7.net/blip has coordinates.
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This is a cultural problem not a technical one. The social contract in a dev team should strictly enforce no cowboy commits to master…ever. If Bob thinks that’s OK, there are more issues than a UI warning is going to solve.
"CSS4" is a bit of a misnomer.

The CSS spec was modularised so all the various parts (like selectors) are versioned independently of each other. So there's no longer one version of CSS but a combination of various specs that each might be at totally different versions.

Besides, no browser ever fully supported ALL of a particular version of a spec anyway.
I use uuid as primary key when I plan for scale and future sharding. It's negligible performance hit of at all and I can move entire datasets from one db to another without worrying about references.
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FYI: ssh-agent in Sierra needs "AddKeysToAgent yes" in $HOME/.ssh/config to automatically load your keys, see

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253779/macos-10-12-...
I hope you're all happy when the product gets fingerbanged to death by legions of mediocre corporate managers at whichever soulless quarterly-earnings addicted too-lobbied-to-fail corporate institution acquires them, just so the financiers can get their fucking Twitter check.

If Twitter didn't change a fucking thing for the rest of my life I'd still use it and love it. Forever.
I don't have any inside information, but it seems like they have different goals. Roboto is primarily designed to evoke certain emotions and to display well across devices, whereas Noto is primarily designed to render consistently across languages.
Of course, I'll do that with one of them very soon. Not that I will sell many copies without marketing...

Sadly, in the German book market Sci-Fi is almost dead. The reason for this is not so bad, though. There are so many outstanding English writers that originals and a few translations here and there cover almost the entire program segments of the traditional publishers.

Unfortunately, Amazon is not the ideal solution either. They are kind of evil and universally hated by bookstores. It feels a bit like selling your soul to the devil.
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You're completely spot on about consistency. I was told long ago that when practicing guitar (scales, ideas, etc) it's important to actually focus on the activity, not just half-way paying attention while watching TV or something. The focus made the connection, and from there growth and results came forward. After 20+ years of guitar, not as my source of income, granted, I gave the Eric Clapton method (myth?) a try: Put it down for 6 months. That was really refreshing. Callouses come back.

Also, totally a personal experience thing, but I've tended to favor music creation when in "cheerful" head space (usually summer) and gravitate more toward writing projects when in "downer" like conditions (usually winter). They barely overlap, and the pattern has taken me years to notice, but it's there. I've frequently felt like creativity in my realm is not often controllable, but more like an eruption to be harnessed. Thus the discipline and "making time" for hobby-like efforts in the creative realm is where the real effort and hang-ups tend to happen for me.
> I think discussions about alt-meat need to discussed in a way that acknowledges they are solutions to a solved problem.

No, alt-meat is a solution to a problem of how to influence behavior to create particular results that is rather emphatically not solved.
Systems such as Genera were a lot better as development environments than the Unices which replaced them.
Exactly! This is in my opinion only reason they do it.
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Orbital Insight (http://www.orbitalinsight.com) | Palo Alto, CA | Full-time | On-site

Orbital Insight is a Geospatial Big Data company leveraging the rapidly growing availability of satellite, UAV, and other geospatial data sources. Our goal is to understand and characterize useful trends at global, regional, and hyper­local scales. Backed by top tier VCs, including Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta, we build products that have never existed before, and could not exist without the ongoing proliferation of rich geospatial data sources, computer vision & deep learning, and inexpensive cloud computing.

We are looking for:

Computer vision / Deep learning engineers: https://orbitalinsight.com/careers/computer-vision-engineer/

Some press about us and the overall GIS ecosystem:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/orbital-insight-lands-20-m... (our recent B-round)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/stunn...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-08/satellite-...
The big environmental movement started in the 70's. I remember as a very young kind in the 90's that it was drilled into our innocent minds at school. People have been worrying about resources and the environment for a very long time before that, as well.
I don't think this communicates the _incredible_ amount of creative and technical work required not only to simply fill out over 100,000 characters in the UTF-8 space but to make them stylistically consistent.
That only works if you use Google's hosted fonts though, right?
Anyone who has upgraded - Have you had issues with it prompting for your keychain password every time you wake your computer up and occasionally throughout the day?
"A key thing in becoming a good engineer is learning how to delegate certain technical decisions to those who are better equipped to handle them."

Like someone with a good understanding of computer science?
Chickens need to be protected from predators, need to be sheltered from the sun, need to be protected from the cold, need to be fed in a way that minimizes waste, need to be watered in the same way, etc.

Also, don't underestimate the cost of land. Even if it's just $5,000 per acre, if scheme one packs chickens in at factory farming levels, and scheme two packs them in the way I do (remember: 450 times less densely), then we need an additional 449 acres of land.

That's $2,245,000 in land costs.

Plus, how do you distribute food and water over those 450 acres?

Factory farming may be cruel, but it's not dumb. Farmers are smart micro-optimizers.
It's better than the quick brown fox too.
Worth pointing out that everyone with any significant involvement is still free. The arrested people are essentially support staff and social media reps.
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I disagree. Meat CAN be ethical, and often is.
They meant only private keys.
It loses money and stopped growing a long time ago. The product you love is unsustainable unfortunately.
On Symbolics Genera they had the option of using C, Pascal, Ada, Fortran, or Prolog.
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The high sierras have cold nights in the winter.
>Since you can't actually write a program that takes no arguments that produces an infinite piece of data

Huh?

inf = Cons 1 inf
My intuition is that the converse is impossible in general. There is an axis along which an object with infinite volume is infinite, and taking cross sections along this axis you should be able to prove that the object has infinite area.
I'm not sure any asteroid has ever incinerated every tree - I suspect not - but realize that even fairly mild extinction events such as the one that killed the dinosaurs had rather dramatic consequences: in particular; that the planet never recovered what it lost. AFAIK no (fully) land animal even close to the size of a human survived Chicxulub and its aftermath. Crocodiles were the only large (50lb+) "land" animals to survive, and they're semi-aquatic, don't need a lot of food, and the ones that survived may well have been smaller than humans anyhow.

So, you're right that there is little risk of humanity wiping all life off the planet's surface, even if we all tried. There is, however, a considerable chance that humanity might wipe most large animals and lots of plants off the surface of the planet, and it's a least imaginable we'd completely wipe ourselves out (and take with us most other vertebrates). Smaller pockets of humanity certainly managed that.

You'd have to be quite the misanthropist to say "meh" to the consequences of a serious ecological collapse. I'm assuming it won't come to that, but it's not at all inconceivable.
A level of $25 billion or more would also represent a significant premium to Snap’s most recent valuation, which was pegged at $17.8 billion in its last funding round in May. That would bode well for a new-issue market that until recently suffered from reluctance on the part of public investors to match the private valuations of many Silicon Valley startups.

I honestly wonder how they come up with these numbers.
Note however the different profiles (see https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#profiles). Notably, the dynamic profile excludes :has, and that's what's expected to be used for selector matching in CSS in browsers. (:has can't be matched in a single-pass of the document with a single-node lookahead, which is something no browser vendor wants to give up.) The static profile is likely to be used by querySelector and similar.

The only thing new with :lang in Selectors 4 is wildcards (with "*"). Note that if you do want to use attribute selectors you likely want to use |= rather than just =. |= allows either the exact value or a string that starts with it followed by "-". :lang exists for similar reasons to :link—making selectors generic, so they can work with things except (X)HTML.

I don't get why you'd ever use data-lang rather than lang, though? Notably, data-lang wouldn't get passed through to the AT layer. You can use lang on any element, not just the root.
IMO banning patents on algorithms would be a better idea. They should not be suddenly be patentable just because it is implemented in hardware instead of software.
thanks for the response. I'll drop them a mail.
I'm only describing how the term faith is used by religious believers. They take a certain set of claims "on faith", and when contradictory evidence comes along there are various reactions, like outright denial, shelving of the issue entirely in the hope of getting answers later (like after you're dead), reinterpretation of the religious claims to better fit the existing models or to be completely unfalsifiable and therefore out of reach of investigation, and full on apologetics.

I've been a religious believer for decades, and have been surrounded by religious believers my entire life. I enjoy talking with them about what they believe and why (when they're willing to engage of course). They can be completely rational and skeptical, appropriately adjusting their worldview according to the evidence with no problems in any other realm except when it comes to the religious claims they have been brought up to believe. The psychology of it is fascinating to me.
I hope in that universe everybody won't be downloading a copy of Chromium/Webkit/whatever with every desktop app.
For some definition of ethical, maybe. I guess fundamentally my question to you is, why do you think that human life is worth more than animal life, because that is the foundation of our differences.
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I think with Electron, making desktop web apps become as easy as knowing HTML, CSS, and JS. So perhaps it's easier to style? I'm not sure, that would be my guess though.
No, you publish the results that you cannot reproduce.

Then maybe the next generation of researchers documents their work better.

Or maybe the original researcher publishes a v2 edition of their paper.
Governments are lazy because citizens don't want to pay for them not to be. I don't think this changes your argument much, but this is a rare case where other-izing government actions doesn't reveal much; even the lazy approach being taken here has broad public support.
Also, I don't think it's obvious that whatever replaces the current habitable zones will be nearly as large or fertile as what we have now. It's by no means a necessarily long-term zero-sum game.
With regard to #1, most definitely yes. Over the last 30 years or so, real wages for factory (inflation adjusted) workers have gone up by about 10x in China. Today, it's about $4,000 to $6,000 per year for unskilled/semi-skilled labor. Still quite low, but a HUGE improvement.

30 years ago, your typical person in china was a subsistence farmer or worked for about $500/yr (in today's money). What that meant was that they were dirt poor and under threat of famine in bad weather years. Dirt poor means no shoes for your children, no radio or TV, no bike or scooter, meat is a treat instead of a part of your daily diet. Real poverty still exists in China, but is now confined to a fraction of the population instead of being the typical lifestyle. Quite an improvement by anyone measure, IMO.
what are your thoughts on aqui-hiring a side project instead of just purchasing a side project, but incorporating the sole developer(creator) too?
how would you estimate the valuation in that case? would you offer him/her the price to purchase the side project in addition to a salary? or offer a unique compensation package that takes into account of the valuation of the side project?
Please do not use these fonts directly from Google servers. This is an another attribute for Google to track the whole browsing traffic. This is too much power for one company.
At the time I wrote to one of the team members who worked there (maybe a Program Manager - I forget exactly) and they sent me a beautiful book showing off each of the fonts with a description of why the font was made, how it achieves the goals, and some info on the font's designer.

I still have it at home - really impressed me with the attention to detail and the self-styled publicity.
Amazing breakdown. I've always been interested to see how these negotiations go from both a developer perspective and armchair entrepreneur.
Then your results are not reproducible and your conclusion is suspect.
The trees come back. 150 years ago, for example, Yosemite valley had many fewer trees (see this painting, as an example: http://www.timkenmuseum.org/collection/american/cho-looke-yo... ). Not just in America, I was visiting some homesteads in Scotland, and they said 70 years ago, the trees were all gone, but they'd grown back.
Kuka, the world's largest robot arm manufacturer, got acquired for $5B [1]. I'm not sure how that's a "small market." If Google believed in robotics (beyond autonomous cars), which seems to be the case given the acquisitions, then they need to start somewhere.

Universal Robotics was demonstrably worth $300M with (what sounds like) a more-or-less similar product. That seems like a good place to start -- and all big unicorn products start somewhere; very few jump straight from $0 to $Billions.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-midea-group-announces-bid...
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I'm just a grain farmer, but in the highly competitive agriculture world, fortunes are made and lost on seemingly small efficiencies. If the savings on antibiotics and deaths were actually greater than the alternative costs, someone would quickly exploit the gains, and everyone else would eventually be forced into that model to compete.

Which is the same reason why you see barns going up everywhere instead.
I immediately thought of the original but I guess I'm getting long in the tooth.
Use them or not, just be aware that Google is tracking them.
In the US, and for much of the developed world, you are touching upon a very messy, complex, inter-related mesh of issues, all revolving around land-as-an-asset. Throw in population pressure, how debt is used to acquire land by different economic actors, etc., and it gets...complicated. Basically, anytime someone says the cause of a set of ills is cost, and if you can tie it back in any way to land cost as an input cost, it will be a Gordian Knot-impenetrable intermingled mess of issues that prevents one from characterizing space as "the only additional cost".
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In the pre-Crusades 'dark ages', Europeans were by-and-large ignorant of Aristotle. Christianity was popular, and the philosophic framework was predominantly Neo-Platonic.

Fortunately, Aristotle's work was preserved and commented upon by Islamic scholars. Averroes and Avicenna are two important Islamic scholars who commented on Aristotle. After the Crusades, this was reintroduced to the West.

As Aristotelianism was reintroduced to Europe, there was actually an intellectual crisis of sorts, ultimately resolved by St. Aquinas. See 'Scholasticism' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism
Let's hope they don't figure out what having more than 2 children per couple might do to the economy according to their zero sum logic...
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The goal of the purchaser was to save cost of development but the goal of the seller was to get as much as possible. In that case, basing the selling price on earnings makes more sense for the seller. After all, he can always look for another buyer if the deal doesn't work out.
> 1) If you know what a DAG is and how to use it, you can most likely implement and traverse one in way less than an hour.

I know what it is and how to use it. I can implement and traverse one. I seriously doubt I could do it in an hour, especially if I don't have at least standard library documentation available.
The converse is impossible in any context where the isoperimetric inequality is applicable.
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I see conflicts with caniuse.com. For instance :scope. CSS4Rocks says supported in all browsers but IE. caniuse.com says its only supported in FF and mentions it has been removed from the current specification.
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It would be one thing if someone sneaking into a factory farm and filming the operation were subject to the same penalties as someone sneaking into any other business, but due to the horrific nature of what goes on, laws have been passed that result in significantly harsher penalties for secretly obtaining footage of the farms.

We should all be able to see what goes on in our prisons, in our concentration camps (Gitmo, etc.), in our Zoos, schools, and factory farms... anywhere there are basic concerns about abuse of power and suffering.

The various industries that support secrecy in these systems (government, entrenched businesses, etc.) will fight to claim that secrecy is needed, mainly so that their practices will not be deemed atrocities.
It's tempting to define moron as the opposite of genius or domain expert. As very few people are geniuses or domain experts for any chosen domain, it may sometimes appear that everyone is a moron.

The reality is that the observer is just as limited as the 'fools' he is observing. He just doesn't realise that, or perhaps, cannot accept it.

It's especially hard for people to accept that when they feel their position and status in life depends on the grandiloquence and success of their visions, vs, say, high quality widgets made. As beltway bureaucrats rarely produce tangible things except laws, they are very susceptible to thinking that because they have a job in a position of power, they must ipso-facto be qualified to wield that power, and as they are rarely domain experts in anything technical or specific, that qualification must be their generally superior intellect.

It's not just America that has this problem. Recent events in the EU show the problem there may be dramatically worse.
I think it's many things:

- Recent generation of developers who entered programming through JavaScript.

- Node.js being fashionable and hip.

- "Not invented here" syndrome.

- Open-source as a signaling mechanism for hiring and social pecking-order, which feeds the last three points.
I sent 3 boxes (same size) to a friend, the estimate price was $95 + 25 of shipping, the total price I paid was $248.36, even if they had all the measurements/weight within the app. They split my package in 3 and made me pay full price. (When you enter the weight, they don't say it's 50lb max) so they send 3 shipments (they could have done 2 instead of 3, but I guess the guy who packages my stuff was lazy and also entered different LxWxH for the exact same boxes). I contacted the support and got a refund of $60ish. The price you see in the app should be the price you'll pay, not +200ish % ... (Again, they have a picture + all the measurements/weight ...)
We have very different opinions of C++.