skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got it. Guess I was a bit late to Yammer as it was already morphed then. Wish I knew and took this into consideration early. Still useful now, and thanks a lot for the share.
Ah yes, the * VZs. From my perspective, there's a few reasons. One, my friends were very privacy conscious and would often either not sign up or use a weird name (like some people do). This made it hard to find people. Two, the user experience sucked hard. Third, they had different domains for different subgroups (I remember one for school children and one for students).

Finally, if you went travelling to any other country (except Austria or Switzerland maybe), the rest of the world had Facebook. So to keep in touch, you also needed Facebook, which had a better user experience. Why bother with both?
The alternative I've been leaning toward increasingly is to have user-controls-data as the model. Rather than pop up to a particular vendor, supply auth tokens, and have them pull up their information on you, you show up, they provide their tokens, and you provide your information (in their formats).

Combine this with a strong regime prohibiting inter-enterprise transfers of personal data. So that if Firm A want to talk to Firm B about User X, Firm A submits User X the request, Firm B confirms, and User X either complies or doesn't.

This would ... change certain dynamics of use of personal data.

Avoiding data loss: mumble, mumble something PKI key escrow trusted parties distributed encrypted data. Some form of personal data server as data origin, with re-shares distributed around social infrastructure. It may be a pipe dream, but at the very least it's a different model for considering pervasive data. If the user's Personal Data Stick or Home Server Box is destroyed in fire (or stolen or the cat eats it, or ...), then they and a trusted set of key escrow holders if necessary can reconstruct the data from shards spread amongs some n other systems, no one of which could individually reconstruct the whole.

"Services" in this model would be applications distributed out to operate on the user's own data directly.

Among other implications, the concept of coming up with a common base universal data format seems like a possible outcome. That could still be modified for individual service use, but the transforms would still have to map back to the core.
Simple solution and clear code
It's quite popular in the NGO/SJW world to do informal "manus manum lavat" deals to gain credibility: you help us with our current campaign, we put your name on our future publications.
Yep, and when devs watch me key in the s_client pipe to OpenSSL to dump the cert info it's like I've become Neo and entered bullet time. I guess they don't need to know this stuff, but trying to do things like editing a hosts file in OSX, flushing dns, opening an incognito tab, looking at the SSL cert through the GUI, manually comparing it to one in an editor....vs a pretty short one-liner with curl or OpenSSL and a diff....I guess I'm either biased or lazy. I also almost never get asked WTF I just did, just a "wow, thanks" at most.

A previous employer had a sysadmin wiki. We call it Devops now, but I really liked working with the plain-text files of Dokuwiki there. Confluence is good for some things, but as a notebook of shell snippets and when to use them, it's not great.
Think of this as a startup case for 2016: an exciting idea on paper with a very improbable, cumbersome and practically impossible execution = non-viable, fail fast, goodbye.
I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago. I do think that documentation is always nice though, so maybe you should reconsider that.

Also the option to give an array of objects would be nice, so something like this:

var body = [
{id: "#1", name: "Harry"},
{id: "#2", name: "Sally"}
]

new WordTable(body);

would result in the object keys being used as headers... Just a suggestion :)
Where does PHP stand in mobile platforms?
The allocation fixes are scratching on the surface of the compiler. It must be something more fundamental underlying the long compilation time.
We sit here causing mass extinctions, destroying beautiful complex ecosystems comprising interconnected relationships that that have taken billions of years to evolve and the the response is 'something will possibly crop up in a few more billion years?'
Hey, I'm the author of this blog post, I'll try to respond to your comment :
This is not an antisocial and greedy attitude, every society have this problem. Dailymotion invests a lot in teams, and servers. But sometimes you have to think differently, "is there something to do before I buy new servers / rewrite all our application ?", to let more time for co-worker to implement a new architecture.
They could be useful for some specific applications, but lasers have very limited effective range as power delivery systems when you're looking at the interplanetary scale. Unless you have very large collectors that is.

For example, for the lunar laser ranging experiment they use telescopes to direct the beam at the moon, but the beam is still 6.5 km wide at the moon's surface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
Developers care about cognitive load, and people care about security.

Sure, they'll be some guy who's memorised all of PHPs quirks, but for most of us the inconsistencies make it hell to program, because you're always looking up stuff. As a result, writing secure PHP is possible, but far harder than it should be.

IMO the laughable security track record of e.g. Wordpress have damaged PHP's reputation more than anything else.
>> In general, Americans don't value high quality food.

What precisely qualifies food as "high quality", and what meaning does value have if it's allowed to be subjectively redefined by others?
If by 'author', you mean the author of the posted article, I agree completely. The parent poster I was responding to stated 'people are spending more money on luxuries (such as their houses)'... which I think gets the causation backward from what you describe. I'd wager that most payment buyers aren't lacking for other things to spend on.
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Rare Pepe is the "name" of the meme as far as the subject specific custom pepe images/shops go.

But I still can't believe that there is a research paper out there where there is a section which describes the researcher's "collection" of rare pepe memes with visual aide samples.
If you read the book (by Freeman Dyson's son) or even the wikipedia page, you'd know the bombs were quite specialized. And it would certainly be possible to allow some verification (the trigger would not need inspection, that would probably be the really sensitive part, from a technology secrets point of view).

[Edit: The bombs would be directed, throwing light weight molecules up against the pusher plate.]

Also, there is no direct lack of ways to distribute nuclear devices to capitals today, for the countries able to build an Orion. Compare that with the possibility to launch enough material to e.g. start on getting an industrial infrastructure going outside the atmosphere.
why do you think people are replacing Javascript with Typescript ? Ultimately, type resolution at compile time is better than an unmaintainble javascript.
You are right that the sweet spot for this tool (toy) is very narrow. Let's say I'm still surprised that you can rope-hang a router like that and get usable results, let alone ~millimeter accuracy :)
Why is it a poor metric? Isn't the point of hiring employees to ideally build and launch successful products?

I think Google is pretty good at hiring "qualified" engineers who are very good at maintaining and scaling existing systems, but the process definitely selects against entrepreneurial product-focused engineers. Maybe Google thinks that's fine though: they can always pick them up through an acquisition later, albeit at 100x the price.
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Yeah. We solved that problem by still not using those variables.
It does. I have already said it in another thread, but I have been asked the exact same questions at Google (applying for a Java developer job)

Several other people have come out and said the same.
The Reef is doing just fine, folks.
Henry George theorem
This article commits a grave rhetorical error. The reef is not all dead (about 25% irreversibly I believe) but will be soon unless we stop most emissions. They don't make this clear at all. This leads readers to ignore and shy away from the issue further because we think it's too late. Humans like to pretend bad news isn't there and will jump on any excuse for cognitive avoidance.
Not a Ruby response per-se, but I tend to be very function orientated when I code. On completion of each new (as in never written it before) function I add a test call to the function at the top of my main module followed by an 'exit/end' statement. I then compile and run, and ensure the function works with test data. If it passes I then use the function in the code flow as normal and comment out the test call, if it doesn't pass, I tweak it until it does.

I guess this is a form of unit testing, although I never seen anyone talk about it in this way.
>php's performance was an order-to-two or magnitude better than rails

Again PHP (the language) vs. Rails (the framework).

What framework was that `big php app` using?
This means every one is simply judged by what ideas they create and I think thats a beautiful thing.

And it drives higher quality content because of it. Most people do not realize that a lot of the popular memes and internet jokes shared on more mainstream platforms originally came from the "chan" culture.

To your point though the high quality content is often difficult to find in the cesspool of low-quality spam on these boards.
You might like Karagarga :)
Would be much easier to try out recipes on the net if people would use scales for flour and sugar instead of a cup...
Like "software engineer", "chef" is a pretty much unregulated title. You can be hired as a "chef" as a fairly low skilled short order cook, or as a highly skilled, highly trained master of fine fusion cuisine.

And at the top tiers (like people who do $2000 wedding cakes), pastry chefs are definitely highly skilled and highly trained.
I don't know why they downvote you. Even in Java with no value types yet, there are ways to write useful code with no or almost no managed heap allocation. And if you don't need ultra low pauses, mixing these techniques, e.g. using managed heap for 80% of non-performance critical stuff and using careful manual dynamic allocation for the rest 20% (e.g. large data buffers) typically gets you all good things at once: high throughput, low pauses, almost no GC activity when it matters and convenience of writing most of the code.
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Started to use python recently, coming from Go, I found:

- the official docs are useless, return types are often not documented (wtf ?) and docs aren't structured and clean. Python documentation is a giant mess.

- mypy is a god sent I used it from day one to document my Python code, but it needs better integration with python doc tools, 3rd party linters and co.

I'm ok with optional type checking. A team can make it mandatory during continuous integration while not breaking legacy code, but I hope mypy will be directly integrated to Python in the future and not a 3rd party tool.
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> good luck with writing a unit test against an API not created by you

Is that a good idea?
Off topic. But I'm currently looking at getting the Shapeoko 3, and I'm wondering why you chose the OX CNC (which I'll admit I haven't really looked at)
I've been ordering from Banggood. So far so good. $2 Arduinos are pretty fun to play with or give away to people.
The library sends statistical data back to CloudRail to provide statistics and notifications for required library updates. We handle this in a way that the library still works even if the CloudRail server is down or slow. The data itself flows directly between library and cloud provider. Currently we don't disable libraries because they die anyway without updates eventually.

Yes, our unified interfaces are the lowest common denominator. We provide functionality which is not available among all providers in a separate interface. The only exception are functions where the developer needs to be prepared to get an empty result. E.g. some users just don't set a profile picture on social, so you have to handle it anyways.
Is it possible to find remote job on F#?
We're going to shine at Web Summit 2016 in Lisbon
https://yandex.ru/search/?clid=2233511&text=nasa%20embedded%...
Tracking Putin's plane flying to Geneva to attend to Putin's tax evasion needs - that's just comically silly.
Does what humans actually do matter? What matters is what we want the machines to do, which is going to be worked out between buyers, manufacturers, lawyers, lawmakers, and the rest of us.
No it doesn't, HTML5 has offline features.
>I can expand beyond 140 characters if you like. The OP claimed that in the past ten years, as a result of their hiring practices, Google's product output quality has noticeably declined, presumably as compared to the search product on which their name was made, and gmail, which they launched in 2004. And it's easy and fashionable to knock Google because maps is not as good as you remember it used to be, or because they shut down reader, or because plus didn't manage to unseat facebook.

I don't necessarily blame them for plus (facebook was clearly a marketing success, not a technology success), but maps' decline isn't anybody else's fault. It has declined in quality and that is plainly an engineering failure not a product failure.

>Well, in 2006 Google was a 10 billion dollar search and ad company with a fledgeling email business without a revenue model, who had just bought youtube. In 2008 they shipped a mobile phone operating system. That's now a thirty billion dollar business which has been built up through talent within google. They undermined Microsoft's office monopoly with an online office suite (okay, some acquisitions underpinning that).

Well, yes. Acquisitions underpinned all of that success.

>I've got no particular reason to stand up for Google, they're quite big enough to look after themselves, but the idea that their product flops in the last decade outweigh those product successes, and can be held up as evidence that there is something deeply rotten in their hiring model, seems to be cherrypicking to me. 70% mobile OS share, 70% search share, and 50% of global online ad revenue... that's a pretty good kind of mediocrity.

All predicated upon outside purchases or the original self-reinforcing search monopoly developed before 2004.

What's worse is that they've often used their search monopoly to try to break into other markets (flights, shopping, etc. - plenty of stuff like this got preferential SERPs treatment) and failed because what they released was crap. That is, they failed even with a huge home ground advantage - the kind of monopoly advantage that let Microsoft make IE6 (IE6!) the industry standard for years and got them slapped by the DoJ couldn't even be put to good use by Google.

I'm not denying that they have some good engineers but the idea that they're the creme de la creme of the industry with the best hiring process is way way off base.
The ocean reacts to temperature changes in the order of decades. The effect of things we do today will only really be apparent in approx. 20 years. Even if by some stroke of universal good sense we stop global warming today (this is not going to happen, of course), this only gives us hope for whatever's left unbleached at that time.
Guile does not listen on any port by default. To make it listen the `--listen` option has to be provided.
All theses are supported by any modern browser, you can launch the camera from your IOS browser, HTML5 support offline features without Service Workers and Geolocation works , there is not "not quite yet" for any of these 3 features there are here already.
Yes, just launch a rocket with a sold lead ball as a payload. Point defense is still more science fiction than reality but it requires a delicate target so you can detonate near it and destroy it. However, without air resistance there is no need for a nuclear or HE payload just go faster.
Thanks!

1. Xamarin support is heavily requested and we are working on it. Unfortunately I don't have an exact release date yet.

2. That is a very interesting point. Let me discuss that in our team and I'm sure we will come up with a solution. So basically you charge a one time fee for the app and then go back to them if an update is required and charge again for that?
Memcpy, memmove, and memset are obsolete
Those rocks need to be brought into orbit at similar costs to begin with and you need a hell of a rock to do substantial damage.

On the other hand if the habitat is in low earth orbit nearly any actor with anything slightly more capable than a sub orbital sounding rocket can blow it out of the sky.
No, I have been asked the same questions by a person with @google.com email address that clearly said he was a psychologist and not a technical guy. His Linked in info at the time was Google Recruiter.
I remember reading how people would keep track of if/where a CEO of larger company would fly prior to a quarterly report. Apparently there was a strong correlation between short trips to holiday places and good earnings reports.
I have these in my subscription list:

LearnCode.academy: https://www.youtube.com/user/learncodeacademy (Web development)

thoughtbot: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThoughtbotVideo (I watch them for Vim and emacs videos)

and funfunfunction: someone already mentioned it
I don't know if that's true. I've had some pretty awesome pastries in French speaking Africa, made by French trained patissiers. Pastries that rivaled ones made in France. And this was in hot and humid climates.
[The Australian Government] shortly after approving the largest coal mine in its history, successfully pressured the United Nations to remove a chapter about the reef from a report on the impact of climate change on World Heritage sites. Australia’s Department of the Environment explained the move by saying, “experience had shown that negative comments about the status of World Heritage-listed properties impacted on tourism.” In other words, if you tell people the reef is dying, they might stop coming.

It's the other way around. If you tell people the reef is dying, they go en masse, which contributes to the bleaching greatly.
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The nighttime sky is filled with light. It's called the microwave background radiation. It's the light from the fiery hot stuff that was in existence in the very early universe, and it has travelled vast distances. It just happens that it has been red-shifted so much that it appears dark to your eyes.
I never thought people would pay for high-end toast, but at least in SF, they are (according to this 10 min video)

Toast: Inside San Francisco's Controversial Bread Obsession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhPrWm-vKSY
Show HN: Electronic breadboard with a hidden Arduino
> large often-changing content. This is where PHP is still king of the web.

PHP is still widely used, but there's a myriad of other contenders: Java, ASP.NET, Python (Django,Flask,etc), Ruby (Rails), Perl, Javascript (Node,etc) and others.

I'm not sure about PHP being the "king". PHP might be the most widely deployed thanks to either FB or the huge number of legacy bulletin boards and wordpress sites, but in terms of new deployments does it still dominate? Probably not. (For novices, a static site generator is definitely the way to go, until you run into it's limitations.)
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> From someone stuck with dynamic languages, mark my words, it's best for your compiler to be a bit slow, than your brain being the compiler!

lol, I'm on a project right now that uses ES2016 (dynamic) and I'm still stuck on a slow compiler.
...in Python.

Please don't. Use proper functional language to learn this paradigm,
otherwise you won't see the difference between imperative and functional
programming. Especially that the presented "functional version" of the code is
inconvenient to use compared to the one with mutable state. Python was not
written with that in mind, so it's not a good fit.
And Comcast has some of the best customer service and engineering because they don't seem to be losing any customers.

Right?
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Well, my joke was that numbers.Number exists, and I think supports those operations, but even someone complaining about this topic is unaware that it exists.
Did you forget `/s`?
>Another example is that I suspect that there is a conspiracy to hold down wages that involves both the government and companies price fixing.

I've read a couple of anecdotes, though never could find anything concrete: the government was more than happy to offer industry the use of H1B visas for high-tech employees.

That way, wages would be suppressed, and the US military industrial complex would be able to outcompete adversaries as warfare was becoming more and more software based.

It might be interesting to see if companies in and around the DC metro area (where many of the associated MIC contractors do business) have a higher rate of acceptance for their H1B requests.

For example, if random banks and insurance companies in the DC area were able to get 2x - 3x the amount of visa approvals vs similar industries in other metros, this would, over time, push wages down in the area for all programmers. This would save the government billions of dollars per year considering how much the US spends on defense.
Apart from the borrow checker there is nothing fundamentally different to other compilers. I doubt that borrow checking is fundamentally more expensive than other type checks.

My guess is: Large compilation units and LLVM optimizations.
We all live in dragon dreams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%AAve:_the_Dream_Ouroboros...
Not to mention the rickroll in page 2.
It was once the case on BSD that filesystem DAC bits weren't applied to AF_UNIX sockets. Can that be universally relied upon now?
Yes its quite irresponsible for an article like this to be published. Yes, the reef and life as we know it is under a huge thread from global warming and acidification etc, but this article is just misleading.
"deriving" is compile time; "Generic" is runtime inspection of the shape of a value (in terms of constructor applications). Something (at least vaguely) similar to Generic exists in many statically typed languages - including (IIRC, IIUC) Java and Go.
I was really puzzled for a while, trying to figure out how a different floor could at all effect the cooking (and whether I would want to eat any food from a shop where it does) until I figured out that it was a typo and that it was supposed to spell floUr... :)
When discussing antimatter for propulsion, it might be worth checking out Robert L Forward. I saw the expression that he took the "giggle factor" out of the subject. :-)

I found this overview, discussing a bit about the antimatter research:

http://www.enthea.org/docs/Forward-Emerging-Technologies-Fut...
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It sounds like a lot of the allocations in the Rust compiler follow the generational hypothesis, even though Rust isn't GCd. If the Rust compiler was using a parallel generational GC then it's possible it'd be a lot faster, as the hard work of the allocation would be done on separate cores and all those tiny unused TypedArenas would die young which makes them rather cheap.
aewsome idea
Ignoring the errors in the article, what can we do? Due to the selfishness and shortsightedness of our race, I think the only way we are not totally screwed is if we (quickly) invent some tech that cleans up the atmosphere and oceans - not an easy task!