skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. I would describe the experience (and the languages) as nice. And respectful of my time.*

* Waiting patiently for my JDK9 JShell
Asset pricing for rare Kumikos?
Handing over ICANN control to the UN was a mistake.

I have very little faith that this won't be used to censor free speech in the not-so-distant future.
Brussels Airport Eases Travelers Minds with Accurate Wait Times
Usually authoritarian - Monarchy = dictatorship

Maybe not Iran (Weird partial democracy with clerics ultimately in charge)
Don’t let visitors see a broken site while you’re doing maintenance
It pops up every now and then in Java Language Summit presentations, usually in comparison with .NET, which does support it.

So who knows, maybe some day the JVM finally gets it.
With 15% of its population undernourished, India still has a serious hunger problem
http://qz.com/807050/with-15-of-its-population-undernourishe...
Functional and OO always go hand-in-hand. I love Swift Protocol, Generic and soon Reflection.
It doesn't meet your 10 generation bar (not sure there would be even 4 generations of non Maori baking in New Zealand) but I can name 3 second generation bakeries/kitchens and the staff work very hard and have high standards. The things they make get high prices and they appear to be doing very well. I went to school with 4 of the younger generation and they now mostly run one of the companies.
> I don't know if you can do that in Rust (I suspect you can with some effort)

You can, using some web framework crates, but PHP is many many years ahead from Rust in making web apps. And I'm not sure if its the right language for the web. You'd probably be fighting with the borrow checker and type system most of the time while the php dev is busy cranking out new features for his/her web app. There is also the problem of compiling huge websites.
I got asked some of these questions literally yesterday by Google and you're right. The wording was how you've presented it, not how he did.
How Multiplayer Networking Works in Valve's Source Game Engine
Never forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Most average people don't even know what a 'chan' is or even know what 4chan is all about, except for the times it gets demonized by the media. And it becomes just associated with something sensational and negative.

The higher ideal: the philosophical context of freedom through anonymity resulting in great creativity is completely drowned out by the petty stuff.

There's a reason it creates a major portion of culture,memes, and ideas on the internet. It's one of the few places unimpenged by materialism or status or th ability of your boss to find your account. This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing.
>investors have been discouraged from investing in productive assets and investment vehicles by the low interest rates

Not really. They've been discouraged from investing in productive assets because of anemic demand - caused in turn by high income and wealth inequality.

No point in building another factory if the people who would purchase its output are stuggling to pay down student loans, rent and spending the little disposable income they do have on an iPhone.
Javascript runs in the browser natively. It's primary advantage is that you don't need to install anything other than the browser. The reasoning behind node.js is that a lot of front end engineers no longer need to learn and use a seperate language for the server and maybe even can reuse libraries between the server and browser.

Javascript is the bash of the internet. It's not that great but it does have a "killerapp".
If you are a researcher looking for a 4chan dataset spanning a much longer time period and many different boards, I would recommend looking into the archive.moe database dump[0] that was uploaded to the Internet Archive after the owner decided to stop his activities.

[0]: https://archive.org/download/archive-moe-database-201506
We do have a few elected Independents, not many though.
Culture is correlated with technology, i.e. certain technologies appeal to certain kinds of people.

You can go to any Ruby meetup and you will see it's different than PHP meetup which both are quite different from Functional Programming meetups.

Thus I would say that it's not about the technology but about people whom you attract (i.e. culture).

I skip luck & timing, these are mostly random and one has very little power to influence them.
Hey ChuckMcM - curious if you have any build reports of your 2D plotters. I've been very interested in them ever since seeing the Hektor and Victor project but haven't had the time/resources to build one myself (though I'd love to have one sitting at our office drawing out cool line drawings exactly as you described).

http://juerglehni.com/works/viktor
I agree, I still don't see the benefit here.
Poke around alibaba and you'll find several companies selling 4-5" touch screens with decent resolutions for around $2-3 a piece for order of 1000+ units. If you're on the ground and speak the language you can certainly get a much better deal than that.
this would not show any planets beyond saturn for solar system, for example
I can absolutely understand and I feel the same way. I can't understand this infatuation with stacks. They're just a tool for solving a problem. If another tool is better for solving a particular problem then you should use that. It's nothing to be obsessed with.

If you present yourself as just a bunch of TLAs you're effectively selling yourself short. Put bluntly, if you do that you're presenting yourself as a code monkey who turns other people's ideas and solutions into that nasty computer code the people who do the "real thinking" can't be bothered to deal with.

Besides, your favourite stack today might fall out of favour tomorrow. If you invested a disproportionate amount of time into learning all the intricacies of that particular stack you might have wasted a lot of time.

Being able to analyze and solve problems regardless of the toolset is a skill that likely will never fall out of favour.
Do you have a longer write up on the changes you had to make? It would be beneficial for other app developers to read I think.
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Because I know some of us are lazy I compiled most of them in one youtube section: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MHkuCGUxMY6Q_yjPuzSgA/cha...

To the list I added three for those interested in iOS:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/CodeWithChris/playlists

* https://www.youtube.com/user/Archetapp/playlists

* https://www.youtube.com/user/veasoftware/playlists
Potentially, yes. In our case we're doing a bit of additional work to prevent this from happening though. Other sites would get access to the built-in web server, but they wouldn't get anything apart from a 403 error.
> nuclear is unfashionable at the moment

It's more than that - this isn't just hippies, it's every major power on the planet. To fly Orion you have to put hundreds of nuclear explosives in orbit and pinky-swear that you're not going to use them to obliterate your enemies. Nobody is going to accept that.

Orion's a fun paper rocket but will never be more. Engineers and they "yay nukes!" crowd will drag it out every couple of months for a repost, though.
I have no idea if it's true, but I've heard it said that some types of pastry are very hard/impossible to make in some climates due to humidity. French pastries can be bought uncooked from France and baked after the flight for this reason. May be a gimmick but I worked by a place with French owners that did this. The pastries were excellent.
I worked on it for a few weeks while contracting at Cisco. At the time it was a set of tools for deploying a Mesos + Marathon cluster, and K8s was being looked at as a sub-in replacement for Marathon. I think that's now been done + much more.

There wasn't any particular magic in it, more that it was a neat package of terraform+ansible tooling for getting mesos and the surrounding ecosystem going. This was about a year ago, so things may have changed since then. I do like the idea of not inventing your own paas, but rather having a consistent framework for deploying whatever kind of paas you need on whatever cloud is available.
Run your international lotto. (Ethereum Smart Contract)
> This array of integers is sorted ascendingly, and that index is a valid index into this other array which points to a number between 48 and 58

These are difficult to encode in a way that lets the compiler check the code that sorts or calculates an index.

They are trivial to encode in a way that simply tags the values. I still need to be concerned with making sure my sorting is correct, but that's a very isolated concern. I still find it very useful to know whether I've called a function on the array that depends on it being sorted, and that doesn't require any heavy lifting at all.
Well, somehow that tax payer money has to be put to use. I love the rare Pepe collection at the end of this paper.
Ya in my opinion limited it to just food and drinks(?) is a horrible idea.

If its food AND drinks, then generally a rule of thumb is you don't want a first date over dinner for example. Its a terrible return on investment. Most first dates end with one person not wanting to see the other. So its just awkward.. who pays the guy or a split. If its a guy then he's paying a ton of money for the potential to see that person again which usually won't happen

I never had a first date with anyone over a meal. It was always something where one party could easily cut it short if needed or people felt a lot of money wasn't invested in a first date.
Well they are actually doing it, but the UNIX crowd is so inflated that most mobile OSes use a UNIX kernel that they don't see it coming.

Hint, for Swift, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, Android, Dart, .NET, the kernel doesn't matter at all from the API surface point of view.

And I am only listing the official mobile OS SDK languages being forced on 3rd-party devs as you say.
Kickerstarter doesn't require any achievement, innovation or novelty - success there depends only on your ratio of marketing folks to engineering folks (the higher the better). Oh, you also need a bunch of bay area hipsters saying how this product transformed their life.
GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n and some kind of sensible response is not too much to expect someone to know. HTTP is super easy and I see the HTTP transaction test as "did you ever get curious as to how exactly a core part of the current Internet actually works". I'm sure that there are app developers out there who can spin crud stuff all day and have no idea about this, just as there are curious people who couldn't stand up todomvc to save their life, but in general, all of the most talented people I've worked with knew their stuff front to back, and had at least a few areas of expertise.

CGI is also cool to learn about the workings of, since it almost seems too simple.
All living things have a beginning and end. If humans are around in 25mm years, there will no doubt be other forms of life to celebrate and enjoy.
Biggerpan – Search less, find more
The idea that the Mafia defraud themselves is quite funny and those endless movies/tv kitchen scenes would be funnier for it, "don't burn the sauce and use the real oil".
Apart from the fact that it isn't always the best sorting algorithm and it's pathological worst case is in fact as bad as a bubble sort's worst case (O(n^2) with a higher base operational cost, as at least bubble sort's worst case is somewhat cache friendly). This happens in three cases; 1) all the elements are sorted in descending order, 2) all the elements are sorted in ascending order, or 3) a special case of 1) and 2) combined, all the elements are equal.
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Simple JavaScript library for drawing ascii tables in the terminal / console
A truly interesting addition to SA's already competitive market.
Peter principle – Wikipedia
I stopped taking this seriously after "the documentation is really good".

Not sure whether this is your real opinion or you are just making fun of people who say that.
Looks like someone made a ton of new accounts to advertise this site!
Java has also alternative approach:

final a;
if (predicate) {
a = 3;
} else {
a = 5;
}

`final` makes it possible for variable to be assigned exactly once. Verbose but useful when "?:" is not a good fit.
That doesn't hold I'm afraid. The newly discovered galaxies are small and dim, so won't change the numbers very significantly. It's not as radical a discovery as it appear at first glance.
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Ok, how about "What is the firing order on a Chevy LS1?" ?
Most Pelletier chilled assemblies use magnetic bearings for fans, so very low shake. I use an Orion star shoot G3 (can't really recommend it), but vibration from quarrying 20 miles away is more of a problem than the fan.

Oh, and that's on 2032mm f/10.
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No, this is a common misunderstanding of the implications of first to file.

Publication or public practice of their work is prior art. It immediately precludes third parties from patenting their work. (And, after a grace period will preclude them as well)

First to file deals with interferences, when two parties try to patent the same work at the same time-- it doesn't change how prior art works.

Of course, it is still useful to file defensively since relevant prior art is much more likely to be discovered when it exists as a patent... if it's not discovered a patent could be incorrectly issued. (The patent would be invalid-- but could still be used to harass people until put out of its misery by a court. :) )
The mass is pretty tiny ( smaller than the ejected fuel pellet); I presume it's the fact it has huge velocity, hence huge momentum? What about photons; do they have the same effect as other particles, or is there a different effect?
browsers absolutely SHOULD do that. A page on the internet shouldn't have access to localhost by default ever.
This is higly correlated with regulatory laws governing agriculture in US and Europe.

EU has much more strict policies, limits on pesticide use, no GMO rule, plus specific laws to protect traditional (sometimes centuries old) product recipies from being faked by inustrial-scale producers, replacing natural ingredients with chemicals.

That's why food generaly tastes much better in Europe.
> It did one thing and did it better than anything else of the same era

I would argue that it still does. It's not a great language, but to just get something working I still can't think of anything better that doesn't require lots of planning or infrastructure
I have been working remotely for 10 years now. And not setting foot in a office is my first requirement when vetting potential employers. It is doable.

You will be amazed at what dedicated team of people could do in a year using only skype, whatsapp and basic competence.
The issue is that we caused the death, it didn't come naturally.
This may be very well received in the model railroad community. When building a layout, one of the techniques (called cookie cutter) for creating the subroadbed is to cut out shapes from a sheet of 4 by 8 plywood similar to this gadget. See this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqcUKofeElc
And if the fan is well balanced and on magnetic bearings, there should be no vibration.

The main thing I contend with is backlash on my mount - imperceptible amount of play in the worms means I have to overbalance the scope significantly.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, distant quarrying (oh, and moles) cause far more shake than a good fan.
> The nobel price

You aren't even trying.
"9. RARE PEPES
In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection."

Things that you have never thought would appear on a bonafide research paper for 800$.

EDIT: 4Chan thread regarding this paper, this is worth the read on it's own.
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/92612923/a-longitudinal-m...
> You can't learn about someone's capabilities by putting them on the spot with trivia questions.

But that's not the point of these questions. These questions are a 5-10min phone pre-screen before getting to the actual interviews. They test if the candidate has experience in a given field, not if they can search for information or what are the precise bounds of their capabilities.

It's trivia, but it's trivia that is a reasonably high confidence proxy for experience in e.g. network programming/design (resp. other fields). If someone claims they have networking experience and don't know SYN/SYN-ACK/ACK it's in my opinion a large red flag.
Searching for F# seems to return all .NET-using companies, even if they're explicitly listing only C# or only VB.NET in their page.

Perhaps you could add a "search related tools" flag? I can imagine an experienced Java developer being OK with Kotlin and Scala jobs, but maybe a Scala fan wants to look specifically for Scala postings and avoid the majority of general JVM positions.

But in any case, sort by match % by default! I had to scroll quite a bit down to find the first actually-F# result, even though it was (correctly) matched as a 100% match and all the ones above were at 0%.
Vick Strizheus Four Percent Group
Two people collected the data, two did the analysis and wrote the paper, three helped a bit, one got the grant which funded the lab. Or something similar.

The incentives for giving credit to everyone who participated even a bit are quite strong: in most academic disciplines you get more than an eighth of a paper's worth of 'credit' for an eight-author paper.
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More complex electronics like phones is where I'd draw the line.

I've ordered things like a dirt cheap soldering iron, a multimeter, a bluetooth mini keyboard for controlling the laptop when watching TV, USB charging cables, PCIe cables, LED strips, flawless, high quality knockoff sunglasses, etc and never had any issues. If you sort by most orders you normally filter out the worst of the crap.
Probably also by externalising a lot of costs — such as waste management, by tipping toxics into holes in the ground?
https://www.baopals.com/

All the expats in China use it. You need to figure out shipping though.
I agree with you in innovation terms, but there's a big economic difference: sailing used free energy and therefore could be developed over the long term by many actors. There are huge energy cost barriers to solar system travel which require bigger bets on economic return to be viable
Nice concept, and I love their philosophy about openness. I'm interested to see how well it works!
Hey, I'm the author of this blog post, I'll try to respond to your questions:

> Wow, I didn't think that PHP application code would be such a bottleneck. Maybe it's not that, but if the entire codebase is written in PHP, and you replace it all in one shot, you just get such an improvement. But I thought DBs, etc. would play a bigger role

Indeed front-end servers not the only bottleneck to handle more queries. We also made data migrations on mysql databases to optimize memory utilization, two months after the php7 migration. Code migration and the validation that we hadn't introduced new regressions / errors by redirecting a small percentage of the traffic through two servers with php7 configured during few days before full deployment. Full deployment on our production farm (more than 250 servers) was done in less than two hours with the possibility of rollback)

>> It took less than a week to migrate our codebase (a 10 years old PHP monolith)...
>> And it took 4 hours to migrate our custom extensions.
>That seems like a very small amount of work; I'm impressed at how smooth a transition that must've been.

We used phan and phpcs to discover our incompatibilities, it doesn't find 100% of problems, but it really reduced time to find where there was backward incompatibilities. It's a first step before unit tests / small load test on production. I wrote a small blog post on how to use this tools to migrate your applications : https://medium.com/@colomb.thomas/php7-how-to-migrate-your-a...

Thanks!
This is true and there are others too. However everyone eats, not everyone gets a zap to the brain. The below link suggests nearly 40 million cases of food poisoning and 3,000 deaths per year in the US alone. Obviously that isn't all from pastry chefs, but it's vastly more than I'd have guessed. https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/
At a guess, you left everything in development mode. I've seen similarly specced hardware easily handle around 100 requests per second just by configuring Magento and Opcache for production (as per documentation).
> And if we look at Javascript, it is even worse than Ruby. How do you call Javascript if PHP is "garbage"?

I think JS is better than PHP, at least when it comes to: 1.) consistency of std lib and 2.) type casting. There are many surprises with PHP's type casting. See /r/lolphp sorted from top all-time: https://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/top/?sort=top&t=all
I'm not so sure. I'm the sort of person that quite enjoys going to expensive restaurants and tries to keep up with what's happening in that world. And I've never heard anyone say "don't go to restaurant X, they might have a good wine list and the starters and main courses was great, but their deserts are terrible". At worst they'll say "when you go to X, don't bother ordering deserts".

The truth is that while having a great pastry chef is a really nice perk, for the vast majority of restaurants the quality of the deserts are near the bottom of the list when people priorities which restaurant they want to go to.
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Thanks for your feedback scottmf! We're mostly working with frontend developers and trying to simplify their workflows as much as possible. One of the first and most important steps are great learning resources. That's why we're focussing for now on frontend technologies such as Relay, Apollo, ...

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Yes... but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
PHP array is equivalent to LinkedHashMap and yes, it has 40 bytes overhead per entry in Java.
Filtering the noise, why its matters for your business
This sentence -- not to mention the rare pepe collection at the end -- made me pause a bit and wonder if the paper isn't a particularly elaborate chan troll. Clearly "rare pepe" is a chan in-joke.
Seems like a sector that would be ripe for automation ie grunt work of prepping.

Surprised it hasnt taken off yet but maybe because wages are still reasonable.

Pretty sure that would change instantly if wages started rising.
Wonder if putting your cellphone inside this would stop malls and supermarkets tracking your shopping habits?