skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will notice that University of Wisconsin Madison is not on that list. This is because Dr. Harry Steenbock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Steenbock) with fantastic vision started the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF http://www.warf.org/about-us/about-us.cmsx) where discoveries made at UW get the help of the team of lawyers to guide through the patent process while the royalties paid then go back to the university. Starting with his discovery on fortifying food with Vitamin D by method of ultraviolet light in 1925.

WARF is an enormous success at UW and last year alone contributed over $100 million back to the university.
$50M is peanuts for this scale of a project and the engineering that will need to be done. Seems like this is likely only enough to get to a small scale POC.

I think it's a great start, but it's still super early to know if this can even work.
What I find interesting about all this debates about programming languages is that most of the time people fail to remember that they are just that "languages"... Each one has its strong points and flawns, at the end of the day what truly matters is how competent you are at expresing on them and carrying out your goals.

For decades people have been complaining about Php, and how afwul it is, yet still, for decades successful projects have raised (and still do) having Php as its core, just today there 2 posts on the front-page about big companies (Slack, Dailymotion) talking about their Php codebase...

The argument that due the huge volume of programmers using it, it is "bound to" return a few success cases here and there is BS... if that were true we would be flooded about news about how X and Y company succeed "thanks to" using Python, Java or whatever language you deem as "superior", but that doesn't happen... because companies don't suceed "in spite of" Php, they suceed "with" Php, in the same way companies don't suceed "thanks to" X or Y language but "with" them.

When people set to built a piece of sotware they don't have in mind "I wan't to build the most technically perfect code base" or "I want to build the fastest piece of software" because nobody writes software for the sake of it, everyone has a goal... they want to build "a messaging app for teams" or a "video-sharing website" and the best programming language for that, is whichever enables them to do so on the way they need it, with the resources they have, and within the timeframe they set.

And rant as much as you wish, but Php remains king about doing exactly that "enabling people".
The story now has coverage from motherboard.vice.com

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-theory-about-a-russian...
Moonshot
It's going to reward people who might otherwise have a very human loss of concentration, and everyone around them. That it might also put pressure on careless pedestrians doesn't bother me too much, in the grand scheme of things.
HP Inc to axe up to 4,000 jobs over next three years
Wouldn't this mostly be because of what your search process is biased to find? I won't pretend to know how this is investigated, AFAIK no agency is remotely interested in 'finding' the teenage girls who trade their bodies for either money or gifts in school or shopping galeries; it seems natural that most detected cases would be rape and/or abuse, as it's certainly more noticeable.
They claim he was spoofing trades... That's more the domain of HFTs, where you can automate the process, not a lone trader, however sophisticated.

They have him in emails literally saying things like "If I keep entering the same clip sizes, people will become aware of what I am doing rendering my spoofing pointless" and "I need to
know whether you can do what I need, because at the moment I’m getting hit on my spoofs all the time and it’s costing me a lot of money."

It's not a huge reach for the government to claim he was spoofing when he himself claims he was spoofing.

How could a small trader like that possibly move enough volume to even budge the market as a whole, never mind crash it?

I think people who aren't familiar with trading (especially futures trading) don't understand that Sarao was spoofing massive size. He was placing orders for 500+ contracts at multiple levels in the book... that's on the order of $100M notional value. He was more of a pro than people like to believe.
We moved our production server cluster (approximately 50 machines) over to 4os recently and the results have been great. Customers love it, the product is faster, easier to maintain, and new developers onboard quickly. We were able to get our existing team of 200 developers up to speed on Forth in about 30 days, and everything we do now is written in Forth for an OS built in Forth. For us it was a no brainer.
Everybody should do what they think is right. But if the government is going to impose limits on the behavior of people, it should do that through laws.
I appreciate your contribution.
I've apologised for the 'US' comment in the other thread. It was out of place. However, I don't think you're being entirely fair either.

FWIW, you said 'Notably, in the UK some police forces were saying that children could chose to become prostitutes, and these children were promiscuous.', implying that what they said was incorrect, and children could never choose to become prostitutes.

If you only meant the 'vast majority' of children doesn't want to become prostitutes, then I don't know what the point of the quote was.

Similarly, nothing about your parent post mentions an age range more specific than 'children', which by default I take to mean anyone legally underage and thus not allowed to make decisions.

15, 16, 17, what's the difference? Somewhere between 12 and 18 both boys and girls become interested in sex; some of them will want to use it to gain higher status.
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My notion of these people (developmental and increasingly genetic) is that they exist as the scar tissue of humanity. I fear this new propaganda will only leave more scars than the old.
Careful when using Clementine. It reorganized all my music collection, and it took me several months to revert all those changes.

It is partly my fault because I wasn't careful what I was doing. But I never thought a media player would do such extensive reorganization on file level.
Farther down on that same page:
"the fertilization of an ovum by a sperm in the Fallopian tube followed by implantation in the womb"
Yeah, what I find crazy about this story is that it seems like the poster decided to start a startup based solely on watching "The Social Network" and reading a couple Inc. Magazine articles.

I mean, "let's take $50k spend most of our time/money on picking a baller domain name and making logos"? What? Startup culture is toxic.
I'm sad that I had to scroll that much down to get to this response. Any other approach is still not secure, might output strange characters for specific inputs or both.
Why do you dislike Cassandra?
In CLs, anyways. In Schemes, we usually only have 1 and 3. Maybe 2 and four, but only sometimes.
I abandoned the LDS blogosphere (the "bloggernacle", if they still call it that) many years ago. This article would be salient and useful if it stuck to its initial point rather than going on to advocate explicitly for HRC. That should've been a separate article.

I'd love it if Mormons got a more realistic/normal perspective on the White Horse "Prophecy", as the author advocates at the beginning of the article, but I don't think saying that we have to vote for a specific candidate to invoke it (just not the candidate you would expect) really helps anything.
We call it the lottery factor to try and put a more positive spin on it.
If we live in a simulation evolution is still much more probable explanation of the life we see than creationism.

With big enough computer and interesting enough set of unerlying rules you can run a simulation to see what happens and there may be life somewhere in the simulated universe. We even do similar experiments [1] right now (but the rules are very simple for now, and the generated life isn't very impressive so far).

I find this much more likely than a Programmer designing not only the universal rules (relativity, quantum nechanics, etc), but also small details of chemistry, biology, and all the organisms (if not all - how comes they look like they evolved - that's LOTS of stuff to fake).

I can easily imagine humanity to be able to create simulation on big enough scale to create some artifical life in future.

I can't imagine all the advances in math and chaos theory and fractal design and however to even call all that fields that would be required to design artifical life working in simulated universe "by hand" in such a way, that it seems it evolved from first principles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life
Right, but using a true vacuum as your comparable for the construction of a partial vacuum is nonsensical. This structure has a differential closer to an airline, not a space shuttle. Airplanes can handle that pressure differential with a thin layer of aluminum. They can even have windows!

Thinking through this a little more. In basic terms, you just need a tunnel big enough combined with low enough pressure that at speed, the train has significantly less air to push out of the way. I'm sure it is some complex math, but someone who understands the math could figure it out.
Where are you located? Your job market sounds like the opposite of my experience in California.
The author is likely right. Self-driving cars will stay in their right of way at all times, and do their best to avoid collisions within that constraint. Departing from the legal right of way to "avoid" a collision will likely be a no-win for liability reasons.
Where are they from? I want to avoid it at all costs.
The problem is that ctype_digit does not magically get converted to a string, it instead just returns gibberish.

If ctype_digit(100) magically got converted to ctype_digit('100'), that would not be a problem.
Thunderf00t's video got that same response quite a few times. He made an additional video that directly responds to common complaints about the first video: https://youtu.be/DDwe2M-LDZQ?t=238
They can't afford getting divorced, with divorce rates being in the 50% and common knowledge no one wants that.

Even if it was affordable why would you want the trouble?

Divorce forces you to effectively hate the person you loved, and likely still love and care deeply about even if you are separating.

Long term breakups aren't easy, adding a financial and legal mess into them isn't something anyone would be looking forward too.
You've attributed a lot to me that I never said. I do not call for a purge of SJWs, as you seem to imply that I do. I'm happy with winning the argument. I see no need to try to ruin people's personal and professional lives.
It's not as bad as previous poster states, but it's not quite as simple as you make it seem either. A green card holder forfeits their residency if they leave the US for "more than 6 months", or if border patrol people feel like they've abandoned their residency for any reason. This doesn't affect most employees, but if you're a consultant working on-site in another country for extended periods, or simply travel often, you have to do way more work to get everything cleared. And even then, there's no guarantee you won't run into problems.
> “Why are you stuck with this old version, why haven’t you rewritten it with React.js?” Sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s not a great idea. Sometime down the road legacy applications become expensive to manage, but rewrites almost always deliver zero value to the customer. It’s about balancing development efforts. Building a team of people who only want to touch the freshly baked technologies is not sustainable.

I wish more people would realize this.
Honestly, I'm just glad that the project isn't dead after the recent kerfuffle. Hiring decent people may be a good way to get back on track and attract more investors.
Poe's law corollary 135: Sufficiently advanced tech hipsterism is indistinguishable from satire.
FWIW this old school games programmer (think Atari IIRC) talks a lot about Forth: http://prog21.dadgum.com/33.html

(a lot being relative, here meaning "some")
Good question. But considering that a vote is more likely to matter under a PLPR system, I would assume it does. The system doesn't grant people more votes or less votes for that matter.

To summarise quickly: In district 1, parties A, B, C and D run. Each party has a list of candidates in order. Each voter can vote for a party or a candidate. If they vote for a candidate, they technically also vote for that party. If they vote for a party, they also vote for the next candidate on the party's list to need their vote.

District 1 has 4 seats. Party A gets two seats, party B and C gets one seat, respectively and D gets no seats. The remaining votes from this district (for each party) is used on the national level.

The national level has an additional 30 seats, here party D obtains 4 seats, despite not winning any district seats.

As an example of how FPTP is actually working against the one man, one vote principle, consider the last UK general election in 2015:

Every vote cast in a constituency for a candidate that did not win in that constituency is lost. That's about 50% of the votes. But also, every excess vote cast for the candidate that won (e.g. if the next candidate got 5000 votes, and the winning got 6000 votes, that's 999 excess votes) are also lost. And that accounted for about 25% of the votes.

In total, about 75% of votes in a UK general election are pointless.

As an aside; I'll grant that effectively, each vote is counted in the UK, it's just that a lot of them end up having no influence at all. So I guess, it's more a philosophical question about what we mean with 'one man, one vote'. Are we being literal or are we being meaningful?
I wonder if they've fixed the basic engineering errors from the first proposal: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/

> Neither of these is possible for the Hyperloop because the high speed of the capsule zooming along inside it means the pipe curves have to be very gentle. How, I wondered, is Musk going to solve the thermal expansion problem?

> The answer turned out to be simple: he didn’t. There’s some hand waving and, possibly, a complete misunderstanding of how thermal expansion acts, but no actual solution.

The rest of the article is a deep dive into the problems with the earlier Hyperloop proposal.
It's very unlikely. The US came much closer to a 3-way split in 1968, when George Wallace, running under the American Independent Party, carried five states, and got 46 electoral votes. Nixon had such a big majority over Humphrey that he still won; it wasn't close. (Electoral vote: 301/191/46). No third-party candidate has won a state since.
Yes, much better. It establishes that we are a "clean code" shop, and that sloppiness isn't tolerated.

This is important when dealing with junior contractors.
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I enjoyed reading this and generally agreed with up until discussing maintaining legacy applications. One major reason to rebuild a legacy implementation is scalability, this is a reason for the "business" to accept it's expense. Newer technology can certainly allow the application to scale. Drop SQL and Java. Use NoSQL and Javascript, you'll get scale, performance and the best developers in the area. You can turn technical debt into technical wealth.
The Scheme I was thinking of using to re-learn LISP and Scheme was Racket. Its environment + How to Design Programs looked like a strong combo. Do you know how it fares on this list?
So, not luck. Despite all the down votes
>The electoral college is designed to protect the country from manifestly unqualified presidents.

Well, it doesn't do that in practice. The electoral college which goes against the will of the voters will quickly become the last electoral college. As it's politically untenable for the electoral college to do anything but heed the will of the voters, it's vestigial. All it does is get in the way of a democratic election.
Because ambition drops slower then opportunity: https://rationalmale.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/smv_curve1....
You could probably do so with a browser extension.
No new permitting. The existing permitting process is well defined and understood.
It costs next to nothing to get married at a courthouse if you don't have much money but still want to get married.
Related: publicly funded research that leads to privately held patents results in a form of double taxation. The consumer pays taxes to create the product, then turns around and pays patent-level pricing to buy/use it.
Php documentation is the worst. Some of the reasons..

1. They have exactly one set of documentation pages for all the php versions.

2. Another thing is that documentation can be quite wrong for even the fundamental stuff. I have seen a core developer blast out in reddit that "The documentation is wrong!", when the other party pointed them towards a piece of documentation.

3. Incomplete or shallow description. Go check out the documentation page for Exceptions in php and try to find information regarding the behavior of return statements in a 'finally' block. Now go an see the respective page in Python documentation and see how in depth the documentation is.

And having code samples is not exclusive to Php's documentation..
When this article came up before I ended up being persuaded that it was probably mostly bullshit.
This is pretty much rule #1 for my team. If you make a mistake, I'm not going to yell at you, but

1) If you try to hide the mistake I'll be mad. As soon as you know there's a problem, we can mitigate the damage by addressing it immediately.

2) I want to see that you're learning from it. A pattern of repeated mistakes may take some explaining.
I think this is one of the situations were the intuition of non-engineers should simply be ignored. If we go with the numbers from the article, one fatal accident per 2 million hours driven, and if we assume that this is in the ballpark of trolley problem situation, then we need for the trolley problem detector something like six-nines reliability so that the false positives are just in the same ball park as the true positives. And make no mistake, false positives means that the automatic car decides to kill the group of children even though it could just drive safely. So the best code is the empty line, it executes reliable and predictable, does not introduce bugs and is really fast.
Ask HN: Best user model for a web application?
What are the evolving best practices for new web applications that need to authenticate users? Which of the following do most users prefer?

username (short alphanumeric, no spaces, not an email)
email address
full name (longer, allow spaces and unicode)
social auth (eg. FB connect, OAuth)

The classic username/password is low friction but lost passwords can't easily be dealt with. But if you use email for auth, you still need some kind of username or real name in order to refer to users without publishing their email address.

What sites do you know of that do user account management very well? Very poorly? Any pointers to good research on this from a user perspective?
Is there a rolling window?
Old Gnome and new Gnome are very different. The old Gnome is now Mate. Also Cinnamon from Linux Mint has captured a large portion of the user base. There is Unity that comes by default with Ubuntu and many people(like me) are too lazy to switch. And finally, there is up and coming Pantheon from elementary OS.

It's largely fragmented I guess...
Enjoyed this as a thought exercise, but unfortunately, in reality, Republicans have been demonstrably terrified of upsetting Trump's core supporters, no matter what he does. They'd just vote him in.
Right - but laws should be based on moral considerations. You can't claim that a certain moral problem is solved just because there is a law that applies to it.
TIL about SMV = "sexual market value".

Seems to jibe with Okcupid's data: https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-wom...

"A woman's desirability peaks at 21, which, ironically enough is the age that men just begin their "prime," i.e. become more desirable than average. Following that dotted line out, you can see that a woman of 31 is already "past her prime," while a man doesn't become so until 36. As we mentioned above, after age 26, a man has more potential matches than his female counterparts, which is a drastic reversal of the proportion in young adulthood, when women are much more sought-after. Because men's dating preferences skew so young, and women's are age-equitable, men peak later, and have a longer plateau of desirability, than women."

EDIT: Don't shoot the messenger, I didn't make the personal choices underlying the dataset.

EDIT 2: I'm very curious how this data correlates with data about vast swaths of underemployed or completely unemployed men who simply aren't interested or able to compete in the economic system to signal status to attract a partner:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-quiet-catas...

along with the data that women are more particular about dating men below their own education level, causing there to be an imbalance between women and men in the dating pool:

http://www.vice.com/read/youre-single-because-there-arent-en... (TL;DR There are enough men, just not enough that meet the standards of single women in the dating pool; law of unintended consequences of societal employment changes, men's attitudes shifting from past generations about what happiness and responsibility looks like, and much larger cohorts of college-educated women in the dating pool)

"So, where are all the men?

I mean they exist, they're just not going to college. This isn't China or India where they have a man-made gender imbalance because of all sorts of horrendous things. [Men are] out there, they're just not going to college. Last year about 35 percent more women than men graduated from college."

"But there have been multiple studies on this and it turns out Americans have become less likely, over the past 50 years, to marry and date across educational lines. So educational intermarriage—I don't know if that's a real term, maybe I just made it up—is at its lowest rate in 50 years."
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They're the people that bought all the POWER's (SP2 onward), Alphas, Itaniums (eg SGI), Cell's, and so on. They'll take risks esp if they think the firm will be around to supply the upgrades.
The best ever FIFA 17 pack This guy is so lucky
Not going to happen because it's not clear that there's a way to call such a convention without giving it the power to basically do whatever it wants. See the last constitutional convention for precedent.
Why wayback machine? Is it dead by now?
Plus the suppliers are already making enough to justify building these things. It's existing products being extended with a new interface to support new products. Whatever Intel does probably won't kill the existing products. With that in mind, I think the move can be only beneficial for Intel's competitors given they're already in an uphill battle needing differentiators. What you think on that angle?
They don't mention the figure of 30 million on there, is that from somewhere else?
If you think it's actually clever, you're overthinking it.
Facebook is my counter example. Its the biggest social media site on the internet. Produces nothing that gets reified in the form of internet culture.
Love cloud and containers? Bitnami is hiring SREs (SF / Remote)
The idea of creating a miles long pressure vessel "for cheap" always seemed to be the most insane part of the project. It is certainly technically possible to build a structure like that, but I have no idea how they plan to make it affordable.
He's a pretty strong advocate of getting independent candidates national ballot access. Winning a state and causing turmoil (even if he isn't the ultimate winner) would be a great first step towards breaking the two party vicegrip.