skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My economics professor had an ax to grind but he's right in that we don't live in a free market.

He gave the example of how the sheriff paid a gas station a visit when gas first reached a dollar. He said the gas station had two choices: sell at 99.9¢ or lower or shut down the gas station.
I would love to see a very different use case. Lets build a virtual space with the known parts of the universe and let anybody travel in it and visit planets, pull up details. That would be much more appealing use case to me than the ones demoed in this video.
Develop this on GitHub. It will have huge public impact and will pick up steam fast!
Rebrand it as a "Neural-network-AI-assisted seawater greenhouse". And VCs will fund your 200M$ in a minute.
I've never used Ventusky before. Wow. I am very impressed.

Panning out creates a Starry Night effect. :)
First of all, very interesting project! Had to do some small Magento jobs in the past and it was my worst experience as developer in my career so far.
Do you plan to build it on top of one of the existing Swift frameworks like Vapor, Kitura, etc?

Apart from that, i don't think the name of the project is a good choice. I guess 9 out of 10 Google results for a problem with your project will return information about the Swing Java Framework.
An Extended Validation or EV Code Signing Digital Certificate
They're specifically saying that it's the first language they've experimented with, not the first language in general, FFS.
You are not well informed. In Colombia the majority of the victims of the conflict support the peace process. You can easily see it in the map of how the people voted and you’ll notice that those territories where the war was actually fought got the big majority of the votes supporting the peace treaty.

The process didn't legalize the crimes nor allow the guerrilla to keep their drug dealing money. That's just FUD. The kind of FUD that made uninformed people vote no.

Uribe fought the guerrilla fiercely, but he did it by getting alliances with paramilitary groups that were even worse than the guerrilla.

The peace treaty is not perfect, and yes, there were some concessions made to the guerrilla. Like the possibility to have 10 out of 270 positions in the congress even if they didn’t get the votes, but only for two periods. It’s not easy to negotiate after 50 years of crude war, but all the lives saved with it are completely worth it.
Arent White Helmets a subversive CIA group?

There has been pictures of "rebels" with guns for a day, then a White Helmet the next day switching back and forth.
Creating your own newspaper in LaTeX
> The nice thing is that in C++ can be implemented purely as a library.

The bad thing is that they suck.
You're missing something. Spacemacs defines a lot of keybindings for many plugins and so on. Evil only defines the basic Vim keybindings. If you want more, you have to write it yourself.
same backend, slightly different design?
yes, they wrote someone was republican and I thought 'who cares?!'
I was both surprised and very confused at that wording.
Because I want to store something that is a 64bit int? I mean this is really a weird question. There are a lot of things that require this starting with timestamps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Actually the gas station was already selling at 99.9¢ because that pricing was already in effect from when one gas station owner sold it at 12.9¢ per gallon and everyone copied him since they were losing business.
Details (some features they provide or can provide), Swift's enumerations and Rust's enum are both implementation of the older concept of Algebraic Data Types (ADT), which can be found in pretty much any language inspired by ML (directly or indirectly).
D is more like C++ and I guess SBCL isn't too far from that realm in some cases (certainly slower in most). Rebol, python, and picolisp are all interpreted though and quite slow by comparison.
Its possible. I'd say its very unlikely though. But that doesn't explain old no-longer-existing hotmail addresses. My point is that there are many cases which are incredibly unlikely to have gotten into linkedin's database legitimately.

I mean, sure, it could have very well been that they tricked me somehow. Likely in fact (more likely than them knowing some kind of cross site scripting vulnerability in gmail). But in my opinion that is just as illegitimate scum tactics as hacking my inbox and IMHO should be illegal. I do know that I did NOT authorise this action, whatever it may be.
Bungling humans and systems failures outshine cyber attacks, say infosec bods
PostgreSQL Now Available for IBM's Little Endian POWER8 Architecture
Solar mirrors need to be extremely clean to be efficient. And that requires a lot of soap and clean water.
Could it be a deal breaker in that kind of systems?
"CAP theorem" is a pretentious name for the idea that in the event of network partition you have to give up availability or consistency. Or both ;)

And yes, I too keep forgetting this name but I could talk about the issue if they explained what real problem they have.

As for bubble sort, I'd just write

for (i=1; i<n; i++)
for (j=i; j>0; j--)
if (X[j-1] > X[j])
swap(j-1,j);

and see if they notice that it actually is insertion sort, my personal favorite O(n²) algo. If they still want to reject me then well, I probably don't want to know them anyway.

And insertion sort actually is better. It can be made to work online, keeping all elements seen so far sorted before receiving the next element. And I think it ought to be more cache friendly than bubble sort.
NewLisp is over 25 years old.
Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures (1974) [pdf]
Well, in early 2000-s suddenly most of computers in the world became connected to each other and then after some time everybody got a powerful and networked computer in their pocket. I think this is pretty impressive too.
Exactly. I didn't appreciate this as much as I perhaps should have while working with RethinkDB, but I've been working on optimising SQL queries lately and... man I wish I were working in ReQL. It really made me appreciate how easy (compared to SQL) ReQL is to mentally estimate performance.
Senator Warren is really good at generating sound bites for people who have no idea about how companies work but are abstractly mad at them. The idea that WF would engage in systematic fraud to goose revenue by about $2.4 million is absurd (or add a bunch of accounts generating only that much in revenue--as if Wall Street analysts won't compute revenue per account).
That's the constant battle. "Oh, this library kind of does what I want, but this behavior kind of sucks, and this bug hasn't been fixed... Do I shoehorn it in and write all the glue and adapter code? Fuck it, I'll just start over, and build yet another grid component, or datepicker, or rich-text editor."
It's unfair to blame SMART stats for this. On their own, SMART does not declare a drive 'healthy' or 'unhealthy', it's up to the user to decide. Each stat on its own seems very specific, e.g. Number of reallocated sectors. I'm not sure how you think this is 'poor specificity', the stats are measuring one thing exactly, you can't get more specific than that!
They are certainly nowhere as nice as a builtin language feature, but they are not too bad. They are in fact quite usable.

In the next 10 years C++ might even grow another leg and incorporate them in the basic language (together with proper pattern matching).
Qubes + Whonix + Store-bought Thinkpad with the motherboard/circuitry xrayed and diffed with other 'clean' / non-tampered Thinkpads = Win

Bonus points for:

- Basic internet hygiene. Clear that history!

- Compartmentalization. Don't put all your eggs in one basket!

- Low footprint. Don't stand out in the crowd!

- Avoid prismware like Windows at all costs!

- Blanket encrypt everything no matter how non controversial it is!

- Throw out your smartphone! Buy all the old Nokias!

- Don't order laptops from Amazon!
Tech Billionaires funding research to break out of the Matrix
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Does anyone know if this is available as a hard copy?
Digging out the wounded and dying is a subversive act?
>hiring friend/referral/former colleague, especially en mass is much bigger issue that's rarely talked about because it's not necessarily illegal.

And it's not necessarily wrong.
Desura, I seem to remember, was buggy as hell and didn't support half the games that steam did. However, even with those problems, I think the problem of coming in late to a space that's already dominated did most of the damage to them though.
Table of Contents:

* High Dimensional Space

* Best Fit Subspace & SVD

* Random Walks & Markov Chains

* Machine Learning

* Massive Data: Streaming, Sketching, Sampling

* Clustering

* Topic Models, Hidden Markov Process, Graphical Models, and Belief Propagation
But... don't the process by which this is observed (I mean literally, the machinery used to measure it) introduce energy into (or draw it out) this system?
Yes, reverse discrimination[0] is an example of discrimination.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_discrimination
> Is there a notable prize for civil disobedience or similar?

The Rafto Prize comes pretty close; its purpose is more or less explicitly stated as raising awareness of lesser-known human rights activists to make their work easier and provide the modicum of protection that international awareness gives.
ترجمة و معنى كلمة gust في قاموس المعاني. قاموس عربي انجليزي مصطلحات صفحة 1
And for the legalisation of contract killing or the legalisation of slavery. Of course one might think that drugs or prostitution should be legal but then you don't need to "allow" a special marketplace for an illegal activity.
It's true that insurance companies have been fairly effective at keeping their costs down - mostly by finding clever (and often dubious) justifications for refusing to pay for treatments. This is of little consolation to the customers who've found that they can't get life-saving medical treatment due to insurance company shenanigans.
Eich ascribed the result less to internal Netscape politics and more to the Scheme interpreter taking
longer to implement than expected and there needing to be some scripting language in the browser that shipped - it was either JS or something that he described as being very like PHP avant la lettre.

IIRC this happened in comments on jwz's blog - cite on request, though you'll have to excuse me
for waiting until i'm back at a machine with a keyboard and a big display before I go hunting it down again.
Conference calls. Team Meetings. Seeing your family when travelings. Playing games with kids. Lots of use cases. Live concerts. FB 3.0. Online Gaming. Virtual Amusement Parks. Doctor Visits. Online Shopping.
This segment from "The Clouds" nicely illustrates the mockery which a person who observes and rethinks the nature scientifically receives from the religious people, who only trust the dogma.

It's obvious that only Socrates here claims that the rain comes from clouds, or that the thunder is the result of the discharge, and gets mocked for that.

Even today very much alive.

From the other sources we know that Socrates was then accused "corrupting the youth of the city-state and asebeia (impiety) against the pantheon of Athens" and that he was for that crime sentenced to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates

That's why Platon decided to only philosophise about the "ideas" and not to discuss or analyze the nature phenomena. He didn't want to end like Socrates.
My only criticism (not really criticism)is that Windows is only supported through Cygwin. I will say you can tell the community is very competent. 9/10, the picolisp example on RosettaCode is the most readable while being in the top 5 shortest for loc (kind of hard to beat J in loc).
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How many dimensions would you prefer your hardcopy to span?
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Using graphs to fight financial crime
The high theory stuff is great, but a significant portion of the job is being a data janitor. Being experienced and fast at manipulating data structures, recognizing patterns in text datasets, understanding common formats used in the field and just having domain knowledge in what you are analyzing should be more emphasized in my opinion.
>I still feel this ideal will eventually be realized

Quick shoutout to Urbit here.
Looks like no, there's uTox and Toxic - can't get Toxic to run.... so maybe?
They're only 'good' because they're sterile, and capable of sabotaging mosquito reproduction. If they weren't sterile and "only produce good male mosquitos again", the population would not decrease, they would just be releasing regular male mosquitos.
What does http://boo-lang.org/ have to do with this?
The Siren Song of Automated UI Testing(2014)
Please give your citations for the relevant Jewish cosmology at the time the "creation myths" were made.
I more read the article as a study of the author's own regret at going back to a place that they no longer understood or felt part of. The line you quote, to me, just emphasises the author's own feelings of awkwardness and isolation.

Also, the photography was amazing (and I'm glad that Photog2 was a character!). It's worth skimming for the photos alone.
I think this indeed would be a better approach.

Instead of asking about Bubble sort, ask what is generally the complexity of a naive sorting algorithm and how good it can get for a general case.

I have investigated immutable hash tables but I do not know much about concurrent hash tables. This is my blind spot, so I do not know what the relevant question about the Hopscotch hashing would be.

Instead of asking what is CAP theorem, ask if you can make a distributed system with consistency and availability at the same time.

I think that this was the intention behind these questions after all and is the reason why I am trying to argue in support of them.
You could've said the same about anything related to "web" in nineties and we know how it ends, sooner or later. That doesn't make something economically viable on the long run. I'm all up to self sustained, "green" farming in impossible places, but 200M$ for a moderate size greenhouse seems way too much to be something more than an experiment.
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But you realize that's like saying "Well, I tried IRC but there are dozens of competing clients that all do the same thing."

The Tox protocol is really the core tool. As long as the protocol is well-defined and maintained, I think developers should be free to make whichever clients that they want.

I used tox ages ago, and I used the Blight client or whatever it was called, and I liked it pretty well.

I think a bigger issue is convincing people to use it in small groups. My whole team is just fine using Mattermost/Hipchat/IRC and the majority of them don't see the need for something like this.
Google turns out to be a profit seeking corporation, like every other corporation, jumped into the game of marketing expensive phones.

However they may have failed to generate enough hype to get people lining up for these phones, and having spoilt us with the low-cost Nexus 5 (in the US only please note), it's tough to accept a phone which costs the same as an iPhone 7 or Galaxy S7.
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MD5 Collision Demo
This is all true, but what has it got to do with the W3C approving the standard or not?

The content publishers and the browser makers are severely intermingled and often the same company. (Google, Apple, "Netflix HD only on Edge") We don't even need to pretend Firefox has any relevance in this particular space.

If Google wants to push SPDY or HTTP2 or a DRM technology through, they can just do so through combined browser and YouTube/Gmail/Google Play/Android/Google Docs marketshare. Similar things apply to the iOS and Windows ecosystems.

The W3C exists as place for these companies to work out interoperability standards. They have no other incentive to attend. If the W3C gets in the way of that, what does it matter? They can interoperate or not. There can be a standard or not.

DRM will be there anyway. Be it Flash, be it something else.
When they say that they are manufacturing a 7nm transistor it means the smallest feature is 7nm across. The gate size isn't always the smallest feature of a transistor; it typically is, but not always. And sometimes the larger features can be 4 to 5 times bigger, i.e a drain can be 40~50nm across because it connects to multiple other transistors or is part of a compound transistor. Transistors are inherently analog devices and so feature layout isn't as simple as "I need an XOR gate in this part of the circuit".
right, which means that eventually the entire population would be male and then die off
The kinds of things PG was promoting were call/cc for web interaction flows and macros to create a DSL for the application. These are heavily Lispy ideas and not hugely functional.
Superconductivity is the other facet of the picture - it makes resistance effectively zero. Superconductivity usually needs very low temperatures (usually below the temperature that nitrogen is liquid).
One-Command deploy for apps built with Node.js and MongoDB
There have been a lot of studies on this, and apparently it is safe to eradicate these particular mosquitoes (and given how many people are sick each years because of them, it doesn't feel like it could be worse than not eradicating them).

In any case, it's not really comparable to idiots killing birds during the GLF, since it was a completely stupid policy based on no science at all.
ToxMe[1] seems to attempt to solve this issue by creating a public databases of emails and Tox IDs, though this defeats the object of the service being anonymous.

[1] https://toxme.io/
Reminds me of the Tao Te Ching:

Not venturing out-of-doors, one may know the world

Having technology actually support this is fascinating.
We don't even need to pretend Firefox has any relevance

And this is a collective fault of many ignorant persons also in this forum who more than often have suggest people to use Chrome. I think that Chrome has gained much support thanks to the wide spread ignorance about the implications.
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You're right. Conflicts involving equality and human rights between peoples and their governments has only happened in the past, and the USA is currently immune from such conflict, so we can hardly define it as such.

I don't regret the sarcasm: your presumption that defining what can be classified as a veritable struggle for human welfare can, in turn, be used as an argument for which struggles are most deserving of praise is what is called a straw man argument, perhaps the most annoying fallacy to refute before an audience of undecided thinkers as it is effective despite being logically inconsistent.
Alt + left arrow still goes back on ff and Alt + right arrow goes forward. It's been that way for quite a while.

The outlook Web app on the other hand sometimes blocks backspace from deleting a character, presumably to stop you inadvertently jumping back from inside a text field. This is only "on" when inside a text field in the first place, so if MS could do it, I don't see why Google's better engineers couldn't.
"some publisher go to great lengths to try to disturb people from copying simple text and images"

Genuine question: why is this a problem if the publisher doesn't want a third party to use their work without their permission, or at all? I ask as an amateur photographer who doesn't want people to use their images without permission, especially for commercial gain. I choose to license my work as CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, but that doesn't mean others will necessarily honour my wishes. How can this be policed on a network as vast as the Internet? I get why DRM is almost assuredly not be the answer, but what are the other options (excluding CC licensing)? My issue here is that we make a lot of noise as to why DRM is bad, but the other solutions that I've seen are as bad, or offer little real protection to the content creator.
> the google engineer started by instantiating the controller from the view

Sort of playing devil's advocate here, but what did you not like about that approach? I'm guessing he should have used dependency injection? Am I missing something else?
Implicit bias tests could end up becoming another big embarrassment for psychology. Worth reading this tweet storm [0] for the little amount of conflicting [1] literature that is available.

I wouldn't treat a Vox article as evidence that something is true.

[0] https://twitter.com/Billare/status/783482251761815552

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfz6CgVWQAELrwZ.jpg:large
You are comparing the sexiest problems of one field with the ordinary problems of another. This is just unfair comparison.

By saying that "we know it when we see it", you are acknowledging that this is a value judgment (nothing wrong with that, just don't present it as an absolute truth). Also, by your definition, sending humans to the moon is not a hard engineering problem. It has been done before; it involves pasting together some relatively well-understood components like rocket engines and guidance systems.
I object to the term because of this, from the article you linked to:

> In a narrower sense, it refers to the specific negative impacts Whites or males may experience because of affirmative action policies. The two meanings are often conflated, which leads to confusion and misinformation.

As companies try to fight historical biases, there will be some from the dominant group that suffer — those that might have been promoted under the old biased system won't be under a new less biased system. Advantages that the dominant group had will naturally be eroded. That's all well and good; an inevitable and desirable consequence of progress in the right direction.

However, if the Yahoo! figures from the article are right, this seems to be a case of active discrimination against male employees, which isn't the same thing at all.

Calling them both "reverse discrimination" elides the difference between those two possible meanings. So I prefer to think of what we're discussing here as active discrimination of no substantive difference to the usual historical discrimination. In Yahoo! some female managers were the dominant group — they had the power — and they used that power to discriminate against male employees to fill the ranks with other women. That's straight-up discrimination.

Of course, the whole thing might be nonsense, but we'll have to wait and see.
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"Lesser known" is probably where Snowden fails the criteria for that one.
Wow taken at face value how did this not cause more of a storm?
Interesting that they rolled this out first mostly in red states (except IL and ME). Was it a coincidence? The Nov 1 rollout is also heavy on red states.
Don't you? The past few years have seen a spate of "high-class call girl" memoirs. Unless you want to make the novel claim they're all fabricated, or try somehow to argue they are negligible, that would seem to suggest that your second claim here is not accurate.
> Software engineering is already diverse by the most divisive measure: by country of origin which completely eclipses differences between races and genders.

That would suggest that there is no need for gender diversity in international politics, and that a group of men, each representing their own country, provides all the necessary diversity needed.

> That's a project management issue, not a software engineering one

Software engineers should be involved in project design. Coder monkeys can get away with "I code what I'm told without providing any further input to anything else".
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