skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm primarily a coder. So it doesn't take long to identify something that I have to repeatedly do manually, and then automate a solution that would reduce the incidences of it.

A feature can be pushed out as fast as a day or sometimes take a week, if it's a complex problem.
> This is why big countries suck

Yeah, for the small countries that have no influence whatsoever. Sweden once also was a great country (I doubt you would have complained back then) but it overextended in its wars and got basically castrated by the Russian Empire.

I believe you have other problems in Sweden right now after your men allowed your country to be invaded.
That sounds like hell to me. But on consideration, I can't judge; with good search features I lose all drive to organize my files cleanly, and only bother locating things I won't remember the name of.
Because I work in the public policy sector and have seen the trend charts and polling data. It's going to pass in most states by a greater than five percent margin.

I'm reclaiming cuck.
The keyword discovery at first was mostly accidental. Basically after the techcrunch article was pushed out, I eventually noticed that certain keywords were ranking based on that article, and certain ones were converting to sales. Then it was a matter of pushing out more publicity to rank higher, and then later on identify other keywords.
You are overestimating the effects of climate change.

Sea levels will rise by a meter over the next hundred years. That's really not very much in the scheme of things.
Python bindings for CGAL -- no subsitute for reading through the C code (or implementing your own crude algorithms)

https://github.com/sciencectn/cgal-bindings
> alternative to constant warfare

How about the existential threat of climate change? Either way though, the driver is survival.
If you don't have a solution, or you're not happy with your current solution, take a look at parsec style parsing. you can make a lot of progress with just a few combinators, and those style parsers are pretty easy to read.

You can get an implementation working with a fairly high level of confidence that it's right.

If it's not fast enough, make a pretty printer for your AST. Then do a CPS transform (by hand) on your library and parser, so you can make the stack explicit. Make sure the transformed version pretty prints exactly the same way.

Then make a third version that prints out the code that should run when parsing a document, rather than doing the parsing directly. You'll get a big case switch for each grammar you want to parse. Your pretty printer will help you find many bugs.

It's a pretty achievable path to get your grammar correct, and then get a specialized parser for it.
"Built right the first time" does not match the stories I hear from my civil engineering friends.

There's a reason that as-built design docs are provided. They're frequently different than the originals.
That's a good description. I would just expand it even a bit and compare software development to building a whole city or town form nothing without knowing anything about the conditions and circumstances going in. Sure, you can maybe reuse certain libraries, but before you can do all that you even just have to get an idea of the purpose of the project and then make 1 million other choices that will impact all other later decisions in a profound way.

Washington DC is a good example in many ways in how it was designed in its rough layout with the interconnecting streets that are symbolic connections between the branches of government and choices like keeping a line of sight to the Washington Memorial from the White house so the President may always be reminded of Washington's ultimate gift to America. Preceding those kinds of decisions came 1 million prior choices and decisions and was then followed with 10 million more before the city even just had a slightly built out grid and layout with relatively functioning systems.
Thanks for your thoughts. Raising the mindshare sounds like they are just doing a public service out of the goodness of their heart. But you are right, it can't hurt them in the court of public opinion.
Uh, what experiences have you had that make you think otherwise? Google is the greatest information-finding service invented but it can still surface poor results.

But in this case, I don't think Google was necessarily "fooled". The developer happened to be multitalented enough to create a game that was popular. Assuming that the traffic it receives was legitimate (which I imagine Google can know based on Google Analytics), how is that not a signal that the domain belongs to someone of more notability than just some random domain? The problem would be if Google used that signal as the sole determiner of whether Instapainting.com was a place to find good paintings. But there's no indication that that is the case, just that clout gained from the popular game may have helped Instapainting overall be seen as a legit domain, generally.
It's more complicated in practice. Prior to PHP 7.0, the official JSON extension was replaced with a completely different one in many distributions due to licensing issues, and since PHP 7.0, PHP's official JSON extension is yet another completely different implementation.
How then did they conclude that it's "probably carcinogenic"?

Based on what we know about these things, I actually believe that it is, but lets see how they reached that conclusion. Show us the data.
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I think you're coming to this with preconceived notions. Not all artists registered are "cheap Chinese labor," and that label is also disparaging to the artists that do happen to be in China, and are Chinese, including myself, as I was born in China. I wouldn't like it if you called Instapainting a piece of work produced by cheap Chinese labor (which it could very well be described since I only made about 36k salary in the first year).

That being said, for this product category (photo to painting), nearly all sellers on Etsy, Ebay, or other sites, are dominated by Chinese sellers. We don't produce the product, rather these sellers are selling through us.

> I think the concept is cool, but I'm not sure people would be so willing to pay if they knew some desperate artist in China was getting paid below minimum wage to create the artwork. I guess what I'm saying is you are selling the idea of a premium service at a great price—too good to be true—and it is, because it's not true.

I can't guarantee all the wages the artists are paid, as many sellers on the site are simply reselling or doling orders out to subcontractors (the artists). However from the ones I've visited, they are paid well above minimum wage, and in fact above the average salary in China.

Most people do know that the paintings come from China, and I'm actually one of the only sites that publicly reveals this (I released an article about the painters in China on the company blog). But as you can also understand, putting big text on our home page that says "Get paintings from cheap Chinese labor" would sound condescending, not be 100% true (since we're a marketplace behind the scenes), and probably negatively affect sales as well.
I would :)

Was going to run the tests myself later but needed a box with python3 on it!
> Programmers have no standard certifications, and in fact are often actively hostile to standardization and formal training.

I hold the unpopular opinion that we need those things. The current state of things is that we're not much more than kids hacking away on computers with minimal supervision.

I'd love to see most (if not all) software written with the rigor required to write safety-critical systems.
Turchin has made the point elsewhere that agriculture is important because food production is a fundamental constraint on population growth. But it's warfare that provided the impetus for scaling societies past the tribal level.
I've been using it for about 10 years in a somewhat modified and ever-evolving version. I spend about 15 min per day staying organized, plus maybe an extra 30 min once a week.

Results? I've been told by co-workers at multiple workplaces that they're impressed with my organization and follow-through. I've seldom had a boss suggest that I'm focusing on the wrong priorities at a given moment. Mind like water? Maybe an exaggeration; but I'm able to handle about 10 times as many simultaneous responsibilities now than I was a decade ago, with less stress.

Though flexible, GTD is an extremely extensive system that can require a pretty significant amount of overhead, and doesn't fit everyone's style or type of work perfectly. Personally I find it less helpful outside work, for instance. But it offers a lot of principles and techniques that you can adapt into a personalized system that works for you.
There's a lot more to the state of a building than a human interfaces. When the ambient temperature changes, the state of the building changes. When the wind blows, the state of the building changes. When it rains, the state of the building changes. As materials age, the state of the building changes.

We're just so much more familiar with these forces and states that we can reliably model and design for them, and then (as with your comment) not worry about them anymore.

We take it for granted that our buildings won't fall down in a storm. But the knowledge of how to do that had to be developed and standardized at some point.
Can Religion Make You Healthier?
You can already get a Wacom and attach it to a random computer.
Well, I don't use Windows any more so I cannot speak from personal experience on the matter. But in my free time I experiment heavily with new platforms and languages, and as I'm working through support forums, freenode, blogs, there is a tremendous amount of noise from fellow experimenters trying to get something going on Windows [0]. Perhaps the really smart folks out there don't have this problem, but for the average joe blow developer who just wants to have some fun exploring technology, it is very obvious that things just go a lot more smoothly when installing and compiling and running various platforms on OSX compared to Windows. There is rarely any difference between the OSX and Linux steps to get all setup, while the Windows steps are often a non-trivial obstacle for the average developer. And many environments carry disclaimers about known issues on Windows that can affect operation. Even WSL often needs to be patched just to support a platform that works fine on OSX. Or we hear, "you can do this better in the next version of WSL..." sigh, that's not what most people want to deal with.

You are perhaps well above average and so these issues don't affect you. But that doesn't help everyone else who struggles in the Windows environment for things that prioritise Linux/OSX.

[0] Heck, even one of the principal Clojurescript developers doesn't even support Windows, he just asks for patches from Windows users who managed to figure out how to get something working. That is not an isolated attitude.
7 Ways to Make Your Business Fail
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1113579-REG/wacom_dtk...

There you go
GP said "regardless of whether the natural monopoly is municipal or Comcast", i.e. both are bad options. Not sure why you are asking the GP to defend a claim that wasn't made.
> "Quantum supremacy" experiments are those that can show that quantum computing can indeed do things that classical computers can not [...]

Putting it the way you did is very misleading for folks not familiar with the difference between complexity and computability.

Quantum computing is not about computability, because it is well agreed that a quantum computer can solve exactly all problems a classical computer can and vice versa (Church–Turing thesis).

What is not agreed on is if there are problems that a quantum computer can solve more efficiently than a classical computer (where more efficiently means either in time or space and has a strict mathematical definition).

Now, put simply, if someone could come up with a computer that would solve a task faster than the theoretical limit of a classical computer that would put an end to the discussion once and for all. This is what Quantum Supremacy means in the article, or in the words of Scott Aaronson:

> But what quantum supremacy means to me, is demonstrating a quantum speedup for some task as confidently as possible.
It makes sense if you buy into the premise that a large subset of frequent alcohol users would make the switch to marijuana in a legal setting.

Alcohol use benefits casinos' bottom lines. Marijuana doesn't have the same wallet loosening effect.

The casinos are indirectly profiting from alcohol's prevalence, so it makes sense they'd defend it.
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Right and so if the reasons are benign then there's nothing to be done. Sorry if that was unclear.
Especially here as you see the Dial incorporated into a Pixelsense environment, it's a very interesting start to convergence between a lot of the things explored and prototyped on the old Surface tables converging into the new brand. A lot of the concepts of the Surface Studio feel very much like more polished concepts "back" from the Surface table. The drafting desk form factor of the Studio very much echoes the tables, only smaller and more convenient.
> LEO and emergency personnel are trained to respond to these situations, and are paid to put their lives on the line.

The keyword here is paid. We need more market forces in policing. It needs to be easier to fire bad actors and promote the good ones.
I get paid to sleep on overnight shifts, does that count?
Just do Command+W, Command+T really fast on the last tab
This is the project homepage: https://hackaday.io/project/1507-usb-megadrive-devkit

The cool thing about this, IMO, is that he has an FPGA with some kind of cpu core running a gdb stub. What a hero!
Are you looking for the best programmers, or the best purists?
Coworker who is extremely loud on the phone. I get 0 work done when she's on the phone. She's so loud I can't hear people when I'm on the phone. We have an "open door" policy at work so if I close my door to my own office it looks weird. If I tell her she's being too loud I look like an asshole. We're moving to a new building and I'm going to be on a different floor than her and I can't wait. So many years of listening to half of a conversation is enough to make you go insane.
OVH's closest offering is $13.49/month not on sale. 2x Xeon E5v3 @ 2.4GHz, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GB SSD (raid10), unmetered 100Mbit bandwidth, 1 IP.
As a software eng. this is not something I need. I have realized that because computers are designed and programmed by engineers, we had what we need from the very beginning. I am glad that now its designer's turn to get some tools.
I think a lot of people have experienced situations where they'd like to know (or at least have the option to know) what is happening around them.
I'm not an asshole. I'm an introvert
>Trump is receiving support in states that were traditionally blue, you should stop reading the HuffPost and go outside.

I work in public policy running massive computations on polling data. Our firm has a greater than 95% percent successful prediction rating with regards to policy measures and ballot initiatives. Two math PhDs, one of whom is a Fields Medalist, worked on the models we run. I know more about what's going on than you do.

>She is so far from a motherly figure that she makes Thatcher look positively saintly. Hillary may dream of being America's Golda Meir but she is no Golda Meir.

Matriarch doesn't mean "motherly" in the sense of caring or compassion. It literally means the female head of a family or tribe.

>Washington Post, colloquially referred to as Washington Compost? A powerful move? Get real, WaPo has sacrificed editorial integrity to turn into a rag that peddles tripe.

And in the process influences literally millions. It has higher page views and click throughs than the New York Times. It broke the story on Trump's groping.

>It's aspirations of megalomania

Exactly, aspirations. Hence my original comment.
Method count forces multidex insanely early into development and for people who want the best UX that alone is a show stopper.

Very slow compiles (contrary to what you claim).

Language style encourages constructs that cause GC spikes, closures are not low overhead

SDK dependencies automatically meaning what? The thing AS does for imports from AppCompat and co?

Better instant run?
Huh, that must be a pretty recent thing. I remember checking a year or so ago and being disappointed that neither of them run on Windows. Thanks for letting me know it's changed.
Doesn’t seem so: https://material.google.com/material-design/whats-new.html. I think it’s just this new website ignores Material design and does its own weird thing.
You'd think now that it's the Surface Pro 4 they wouldn't have those kind of issues. For the first and second models I can understand. But the fourth?
Exactly what I did :)
Instead of having a headset, I'd rather have a room with projectors and sensors that can make it more immersive... Besides clothes - guess you'd have to physically change those unless you had some small glasses to augment certain real things.
> micro-services, which is crucial in allowing me (the
> only developer) to migrate the site to new technologies.

I know it's 5 years old, but I still don't see why it's been so crucial to have kept migrating to "new technologies"?
I wonder if your view would be shared by those artists in china. Do you think they would like to lose their job? Are they actually being exploited, or do they also have a far lower cost of living? Are their wages on par with the other opportunities that they have access to? Do you feel that they'd be able to demand US wages if they went at it on their own?
It's much worse than that, NYC is 789 km^2 of land, the metropolitan area is 8,936:
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US35620-new-york-ne...
> 75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server

I think we should credit a Harvard Law grad and undergrad Columbia Univ. that has security staff and technical staff briefing him that he would know that government domains end in ".gov" and not ".com" I believe that he would know that the SOS email address domain is "state.gov"

Regarding past SOS, .....
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was appointed after AG Gonzales was dismissed wrote that criminal charges should be filed [1].

[1] Clinton’s Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified
Hillary’s explanations look increasingly contrived as evidence of malfeasance mounts day by day.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/clintons-emails-a-criminal-charg...

EDIT: From the article:
"When asked whether she had her server “wiped,” she assumed an air of grandmotherly befuddlement: “What, like with a cloth or something?” she said. “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”

The current news, reported in the Journal and elsewhere, is that her server contained information at the highest level of classification, known as SAP, or Special Access Program. This is a level so high that even the inspector general for the intelligence community who reported the discovery did not initially have clearance to examine it."
Great hardware, interface ideas look really interesting too. This could actually be some vision that can get mainstream in the future.

I would seriously consider buying one, if not for one thing - OS. After recently installing Windows on Bootcamp I can honestly say that I hate the thing. It made me swear constantly for 15 minutes. I wish MS finally wrote a new OS from scratch. They seem to have the right idea about where to go, but Windows looks like a 40 year old after series of plastic surgeries - it's supposed to look young and modern, but after you get passed the surface you can see all those menus that are almost two decades old.
I'm one of the maintainers of this https://github.com/swiftdocker/docker-swift :)
Bought a pair of good closed back headphones after using semi-open headphones for ages. Lots of money you can pour into these, but can't complain having great sound and not able to hear the noise of my colleagues.
There are almost certainly cheaper providers; the question is if you want cheaper. A provider with a good reputation and responsive support costs a bit more, but they're worth it.
Not just npm. My umask bug in Firefox has just celebrated its fifth birthday. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688944
Pure SSD's have come down in price so much that it's irresponsible to spec out a computer for professional use without one.

The SSD impacts every single aspect of computer performance - from startup times, to application start times, to swap space speed, to reducing times when the computer is locked up loading from disk.

And these days, a 1 TB SSD can be had for around $300 USD - at which point, there is no obvious need for shuffling for space. Of course, if you are needing the 3 TB drives for video editing, that's fine. The surface studio specs say 1TB or 2TB - so even at such a high price, I find it really disappointing that it's not offering the 1 TB SSD (which is probably the first aftermarket change I would make if I bought one). For many 3D graphics pros, you would run the OS on a 512G SSD, and load the assets onto a larger 3TB hybrid drive or even better, a 10TB RAID array, for example, but you can't discount how much performance that SSD drive brings just for loading the OS and the software (Maya, or Adobe suite, etc)

Face it - any new machine today without an ssd is one where the manufacture is trying to claw back some profit.
You are totally correct. The Western notion of China and Chinese labor is totally wrong.

Still, do you think people would care if they knew? I ask because I would have totally bought this had I stumbled onto it yesterday not knowing what I know now. I would have bought this for a friend and never thought twice about it. After reading this post I definitely would not purchase. Irrational? Maybe.

Edit: I see your response above. Thanks. I may actually purchase. Just want to think about it. :)
Okay, let's not put weed on a pedestal here -- it gets you high, it gives you pleasurable experiences, and it has some benefits for sufferers of specific illnesses.

I see no reason it shouldn't be legal, but let's not pretend that it's anything other than mind-altering junk food.
No, it's not just you...I'd say Twitter is a sick little bird right now.

It's one thing to be CEO of two companies that are doing well, with a well-established strategy and strong teams of A-grade players that are executing well.

What I don't understand is how Jack Dorsey could believe he could successfully manage two companies, Square and Twitter, at the same time at such critical points in their growth. I just shake my head at the unbridled hubris and over-estimation of one's own abilities that one must have to make this decision. It's very frustrating, because I believe both companies could be so much greater at what they do; they've just touched the tip of the iceberg.

It's hard enough to turn around one company successfully. But even if Dorsey is successful in the end, splitting 50% of your time somewhere else is a needless way to slim down your odds, kind of like smoking a pack of Marlboros a day and hoping to make it to 100. It happens, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

Or to paraphrase from elsewhere: "It could be that the purpose of Dorsey's career is to serve as a warning for others."

https://despair.com/products/mistakes
I'd expect that most devs capable of writing reasonable Linux kernel code would not have difficulty finding employment somewhere else doing something else.
> he is also a huge part of the fight against internet gambling.

Going on the amount of internet gambling that seems incapable of paying out to winners that doesn't seem a bad starting position.

It's only a couple of days since the UK Gov announced a wide reaching investigation of the systematic cheating of customers.