skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is more whether it's a reasonable preference to think syntax X is helpful but syntax Y is hiding things. Thinking deeper might show that the issue is actually familiarity, and the two should be rated the same in terms of abstraction.
annnd you're dead, thanks Vigilante! Maybe they'll push respawns in the next update
There was a twitter bot that would do this for you. Unfortunately it got to many copyright complaints and was shut down. Here's one it did for me: https://twitter.com/sep332/status/705882039720013824 (scroll down for the result)
Why are we still testing for developers we wanted to hire 20 years ago?
I thought someone would nitpick that statement. Microsoft supposedly designed and built .NET as a cross platform framework, even though they only released it for Windows. Yet many years after .NET's release and the .NET Core announcement, they're still struggling to achieve parity with Java.

Meanwhile, many of the examples from your list don't compare 1:1 with .NET profiles, because... :

- Android Java

This was caused by Google, so not $VENDOR's fault (Sun/Oracle).

- Java Micro Edition

This is moribund these days.

- Java Embedded Edition with (compact profile 1, 2 and 3)

This targets a totally different use case than the average .NET profile (most .NET profiles are minor variations on a theme).

- Java Standard Edition

Let's just call this "Java" :)

- Java Enterprise Edition

Let's call this "Java" + libs. It's hardly a profile, it's just Java + stuff on top.

- MicroEJ Java

I don't really know about this one.

- Real Time Java

See my comment about Java Embedded.

.NET profiles are IMO, just an ugly hack to re-add portability to a platform that was designed with portability in mind but then lost it gradually as it became more and more integrated with Microsoft platforms.
It seems similar to other bigger IT companies in the region. Nothing special - but then again I never did any deep research on the subject.
On the right hand side of that chart, it says he gets his data from both reconstructions and modern temperature measurements. How on earth are you supposed to compare those two? This is essentially just another hockey-stick graph.
It got supplanted by Transit [0] as an interchange format. Both are only really used within the Clojure community. I use Transit for internal-facing APIs.

[0] https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
Thanks for the extra explanation - I too doubted this could exist (surely the session existing alone isn't enough to assume a user is authenticated - need a variable set & checked every request?) but I see that it could.

I look forward to the disclosure to understand more about this - and check that the frameworks I use don't have this problem.
I'm not sure why you say (yeah, right.) Is this something you've had an issue with? I've never not had a message go through whether via iMessage or SMS, assuming I'm actually online/on cellular.
I had a good experience interviewing with Google earlier this year. Sometimes there were a couple weeks between steps of the process, but I always had a clear sense of when I'd be contacted next, and the recruiter and interviewers always held to the schedule. I was rejected, and got the notice promptly (a few days after the interview).
Sure, a small slice of the people on the flight cannot afford $25 each way. Most people I've observed do not, at least, appear to be that broke. I usually solve "cannot" afford issues by doing less, instead of choosing to make everyone around me suffer.
But this is backwards! You don't become a kernel developer by being assigned to the job by your employer. Instead, employers hire people who are kernel developers. Source: I myself contributed a teensy tiny bit to the network stack loooong ago (2.4 kernel), and I worked with real kernel developers when I worked at one of the major Linux companies and for them with large (mostly US) software companies.
That doesn't reduce the number of cells touched, and would make the algorithm more complicated. It would also probably hurt cache locality. Going backwards is also pointless complication, you could just as easily cut into two sections and go forward in both.

And furthermore why split in two? Why not split the range into three sections, or four, or N and completely unroll the loop?

Probably not a good-tasting construct at all.
"Not ASOS, no. I worked on KSOS-11"

Darn. Oh well. I'm aware of KSOS as we discussed it before. I appreciated the perspective on it.

"This is why microkernels are the way to go."

I've been thinking more about the alternative where you do monolithic ones decomposed internally like microkernels with medium-assurance techniques for development. Basically done like this without formal proofs:

http://flint.cs.yale.edu/certikos/certikos.html

Might be a better model as CPU's with more-efficient, isolation mechanisms come online. I'm recommending micro and separation kernels with mediated middleware in interim since they're proven to be better than traditional monoliths. The newer style of development might make new monoliths way better than before, though.
Glyphosate is a key ingredient of the herbicide Roundup,

That's right.
Hybrid drives are a good call for professional graphic designers and video editors. I have moved my video editing efforts to hybrid drives because of price/space ratios while maintaining performance.

Pure SSDs only shine for gaming and compiling, and much more for the former than the later.

A machine where you're constantly shuffling for space is no fun.
It's not coercive, it's agreed upon. But some people are just itching to restrict other's freedom of association, I get it.
They absolutely should not be wrapping npm. npm is attempting to do a job that package managers should be doing to begin with
Definitely agree for long hauls.
Windows has a 2.5% mobile market share. If you're JUST launching an app you will not focus on Windows. You'll be happy you got both iOS and Android to work.
Which 5 communities have the most growth in violent crime?

(or 10 or 20 if you feel like it)
> no consistent way of selecting from cursor to end of line

cmd+shift+right-arrow. I've once had to use an app in which it didn't work - the developer was using the shortcut for cycling between tabs. But it definitely works in all the apps I use right now.

I still love the keyboard shortcuts on macOS. My favourite is alt+<any function key> to open the respective section in System Preferences. Hard to discover (like most shortcuts) but also really hard to forget about.
No, apple didn't write it, but I am surprised it made it to the app store at all. This seems like it is ripe for abuse -- get instant updates on where the police are heading next!
Of which we had not the slightest inkling until a computer simulation told us so.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Would love to test your product whenever is ready.
Dear Microsoft,

Could I just have that display please?

Thanks.
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If there are two servers/services that communicate via JSON and they use different parsers, these types of issues can lead to rather nasty problems. Even if both parties fail gracefully on their own.

This gets even worse if your software is an integration layer between two services you do not control.
Lol, the Marshall Plan.
Indeed. The model is seeded with only two interesting bits of information: agricultural capacity and military technology. They then compared that model with one that only knew about agriculture. Because the first model was more predictive, they concluded war was the primary cause of civilization. That result seems suspect.

Looking at the little maps in the article, I might hesitate a guess that this model has been over-fit to a certain idea of "civilization". It predicts Egypt and Rome and Greece, things people know about. But it doesn't seem to predict the Byzantines, Sogdian and other Central Asian empires, peaks and troughs of Chinese dynasties, etc., which were just as long-lived and influential but are less well-known.

I wonder what would happen if they modeled resource availability, language overlap over time, political ideology (large empires tend to become inward-looking), etc. War is certainly an important factor, but not the only one.
Interesting. Your comment gets at the question of what constitutes art.

I think there are many forms and purposes of art, but the kind we most often consider authentic usually seems in many ways crude compared to what preceded it:

- Jazz began as something that sounded cacophonous compared to the more obvious order of hymns and classical music. Jazz transformed what had been brief moments of dissonance and arrhythmia into elaborate intereleavings of tension and resolution, structure and chaos.

- Rap began by taking the repetition and rhyme of poetry and the rhythms of african music and created something many would not classify as music when they first heard it.

- In order to be deemed fresh and worthy of recognition, fiction must not feel like a rehash of the great classics. In most cases the best new fiction smashes conventions in at least one narrow way. I'd argue that an unattributed work from a great author would not likely be publishable today because of that. Quality is not just subjective, it is relative.

- In fashion, the moment a style is obvious it becomes outdated and means something quite different. In some cases the latter can be marketed successfully, but it is hard to think of it as art by that point. Think of the way iconic things felt when they were new (and ugly to most people at that moment) and someone was making them iconic.

So while these algorithms create believable surface features mimicing established instances of "art" (they might persuade me that a short story was written by Fitzgerald when in fact it had been written by a grad student and run through the algorithm) they won't necessarily make it a good short story.

But in another year researchers will likely understand what makes humans consider things stylistically novel and then all the above points will be irrelevant.
Turchin, like I suspected. War and Peace and War is his first book on the subject, which is well worth reading. He's an ethnic Russian in the US, and focuses on US and Russian history; his model explains both countries very well, but he openly admits in the book that it doesn't explain Italy (or Aquitaine), so we know that there are other factors in life.

I'm not convinced that "Turchinian cohesion" is really a good thing, though; it seems to be a way to get people who hate each other to toe the line and work together nonetheless, and he kind of praises how all cohesive societies suppress dissenters...

Another book to read, for those interested in neo-Toynbean searches for underlying patterns: The Fourth Turning, which deals with generational cycles of values. The authors, writing around 1990, expected a high risk of some sort of crisis -- possibly even a large terrorist attack -- somewhere around 2000, and a general atmosphere of crisis that would last about 20 years afterwards. Either their model's pretty good, or they just got lucky; if they followed their own investment advice, I imagine they came out pretty well.
I'm sure he speaks exactly like he did in this press conference when he's at home with his family!

Acting != make believe. The dude was hamming it up to the point that he seemed like a caricature of a product announcement.
UWP is mostly a validation that Microsoft employs brilliant engineers. They took all the knowledge of their platforms over the years and condensed it into a unified story. For that, UWP works.

However, the same problem that plagues the Mac App Store, UWP code is sandboxed in weird ways that make it hard to just recompile your existing IP into the new environment. Plus Microsoft developer relations pushed C# as the defacto way to write apps targeting the platform, something that doesn't scale when you also need to support Android and iOS.

As far as mobile's concerned, it was continuously mismanaged, release after release.

* First they paid Seattle contractors to rewrite top-tier iOS apps for the original Silverlight C# version of WP and then dumped the resulting code onto the companies hoping they would continue the effort. I took a look at that code at the startup I was at at the time, and it was a mess, full of proprietary dlls that we couldn't even inspect.

* Second, they moved the kernel to Windows NT-lite from CE, meaning all the early adopters essentially got fucked over and it crushed early momentum.

* Third, Microsoft would go a year before announcing relatively inconsequential updates. (Oh that's nice that the same software will run on 512mb devices, is that what you spent the entire year working on?)

* Fourth, updates never seemed to hit devices, and the only way to get updates was with actual firmware. Android solved this problem by moving most of the interesting bits to the Play store.

Ultimately for a platform in 3rd place, Microsoft never gave the impression they were busting their butts to catch up. Everything seemed to move at a glacial pace and felt like run by a tiny greenfield team.
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If your language doesn't come with JSON in the stdlib, you're really on the cutting edge. Or using a language meant for embedding :)
Thanks for this. The comment you're replying to gave a link to one study of a complex phenomenon, that partially conflicts other studies. As you point out, there's not total consensus on what's happening. But the comment's suggestion that this one study settles the question of Antarctic mass loss is wrong.

The linked study (Zwally et al.) uses satellite radar altimetry (ICESat) to measure height of Antarctic ice, and thereby quantify mass losses. Other studies use satellite-derived gravity (GRACE) to get more directly at mass changes. They conflict.

One possible reason (among several) for the discrepancy is that the overall height of Antarctica is also changing as it rebounds from ice loss in the distant past, i.e., some of the height increase seen by Zwally et al. is due not to ice increases, but to inter-ice-age rebound of the continent beneath the ice.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
"Outside of that zone it is by no means universal."

I'd say that outside of your two examples, you'd be hard-pressed to find a Fortune 500 company that doesn't have >90% of its corporate fleet (not servers) being Windows boxes.
According to Wikipedia only one bond villain ever had a Z name. That was Max Zorin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_villains
When McDonalds will treat minimum wage workers better than you are treating people there is no excuse.
Would be cool if you could connect a real machine to the display and touchscreen, would that be possible with the DisplayPort?
Great question.

When I was a kid (11-12) I injured my neck and was pretty worried, stuck lying down, and my pop called 911 to ask for help. A neighbor two houses down was a volunteer fireman so he heard the call over the radio. He headed over and helped make my family and I much more calm while we waited for emergency professionals to show up.

Caring about the safety of people in your neighborhood is a great start. Technology playing a role feels like less of a gamble and more of an inevitability.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

There are few "open" hardware/firmware efforts going on now.
To be fair, that aptly describe being a package maintainer in general -- you spend all day adding workaround patches so build systems stop doing things the "wrong way".

edit: Where "wrong way" is defined as "differently from the target distro's best practices"
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Nickel-78 is a ‘doubly magic’ isotope, supercomputing calculations confirm
Not responding burned bridges not just with him but everyone reading this, sending a polite no would have maintained them.
Maybe he is lying, maybe not, but I would hardly say this is proof. Most mail programs today default to showing the name of the sender, not their address. Even if he did see the server name, I would imagine he has many more things on his mind.

And, let's say he did know she was using an outside server -- that doesn't mean that he would have any reason to suspect that she was sending classified info through it: in fact, only a tiny handful of emails containing classified information have been recovered.
> The 1ms is network overhead, witch is nothing considering how long it takes for the image to render on the screen.

Yes, latency for a single bit of payload to ever hit the client. The rest of the data then needs to be transferred as well. Transferring that amount of data constantly would be terrible with regards to battery life.

> The CPU and the GPU could be several miles apart.

How exactly? Would you send draw commands over the internet?
All of the people in the video who are using the app and responding to the alert are actual users who have been actively participating in our beta in New York City.
How is Opera "unsafe" exactly? Are there any serious bugs or vulnerabilities?
Baltimore's had Lexington Market for 130 years. It's been one of the saving graces of the city for donkey's years. It'd be great to see something similar arising in Detroit. Michigan certainly would benefit from exposure to a broader palate of cuisines and spices.

It seems like the large arab community (out of Dearborn) ought to be front and center in any new Detroit food market. "The Motown Bazaar" has a great ring to it. And don't forget the east european foodies around the Hamtramck area.
And, there's a pretty large oversupply of talent in the bay area, so there's plenty of potential candidates to burn through, for a region of this size.
The OSS (Apache 2.0 license) version has a simpler URL:
http://openui5.org/

Of course, most links just send you to

https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/

Complete with enterprise level Star Wars scrolls:

https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/explored.html
They already have that in Continuum: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3065895/windows/windows-conti... although I'm not sure it has a future given the shaky status of Win10 phones.

As it stands right now, I can fire up Visual Studio and write a UWP app that'll run on phone, tablet, and desktop.

The problem is that hardly anyone is using Windows Phones, and the smartphone market is one that MS hasn't had much luck with. Maybe the rumored Surface Phone will help if it ever materializes, but I'm skeptical.
Its kind of like the model of aging (as I understood it presented by Aubrey de grey). There are many things to solve and if you dont solve them all, the first one to go gets you. No reason to board faster if you cannot do refueling faster, no reason to refuel faster if you cannot load baggage faster, no reason to load baggage faster if you cannot board faster.
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That switch can already be seen in the discourse
Instapainting – From $4k in debt to $32k/mo in passive revenue with no employees
Glyphosate was discovered by Monsanto and is one of the main components of roundup but it's not patent protected anymore and it's used in one form or another globally in 100's if not 1000's of herbicide products. So I don't understand why the focus on Monsanto other than it's an "evil" name that is more or less known.

This is also a weird request since the documents release was requested due to the fact that this was found to be unsafe, even tho quite a few other bodies found it to be generally safe even at pretty darn high doses (2000-5000mg/kg) including the EU Food Safety Agency which is a pretty strict organization.
And will continue to happen in a Wordpress setup somewhere.
Date events including timed reminders - Google Calendar

Goals - Streak (IOS app)

Tasks both timed & untimed - Any.do (IOS app)

Financial - Quicken (IOS + desktop app)

Long term notes - OneNote

Short term notes - Notes

Files - I have a disk structure that makes sense for me. Augments with OSX tagging to ensure documents that require timely deletion are dated & marked for deletion.

These all reside on my phone's first screen home.
Works for Apple. I'm only trolling a little bit. :)
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In particular about "pattern of UAFs scattered throughout XNU", there was missing memory management of task_t references in the sample code for kext drivers. So it wouldn't be enough to just add the missing retain calls in the Apple XNU kexts, because there may be an unknown number of third party kexts out there. Perhaps not as many as windows has device drivers, but it's still the same type of thing. Can you imagine if every windows device driver turns out to have copy-pasted privesc bugs?

In fact I think there was a similar bug-in-the-templates requiring a world-wide recompile in Microsoft MFC/ATL, perhaps it was this one https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2009/08/05/active-te...
Is that the UN whose human rights councils are always headed by the worst human rights abusers on Earth? Just checking.
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could you explain why no business travelers would go for this airline?
See what I already wrote. This is like marketing research - what do you believe, what people tell you or the data about what they actually do? Because the data say what I already wrote. So you might as well interpret this as "Linus is a very humble guy" and have better support from the data.

Or, alternatively, you can believe that a really mean person who doesn't care about others and behaves badly still managed to hold the kernel developers together. Sure, a single or even a few discontent developers can't easily fork the kernel - but if there would really have been a problem even a tenth as large as claimed by some (and I've never seen any of them actually having had any personal contact with Linus) they would long ago have forked. See node.js/io.js, OpenOffice, and other prominent examples for what happens when developers are not satisfied with the project's leadership.
Renewables are already huge. Once batteries get a bit better and solar gets a bit cheaper, things will really get going. The deployment won't wait for the world to wake up about global warming.
Good for you. You probably had a bunch of former AT&T employees on the local board negotiating with cable company twenty years ago. Unfortunately, you're the exception because cable companies are able to exploit gaps in the regulatory framework.

The scaling up of a system to the national level isn't the challenge -- it's the need to scale down to the municipal level that creates the monopoly problems.

The POTS network was regulated by FCC and State utility commissions, and were run very well. Cable is government by franchise agreements at the local level, which results in poor governance because local governments aren't equipped to negotiate these types of contracts.
Why bury it when you can use it as a building material and textile?
any response at all following an interview puts a company at above average these days.

that said, my experiences with google have been way above average. probably one of the few companies where i genuinely enjoyed interviewing (i usually hate interviews). follow-ups were very informative as well. sounds like you got a flaky recruiter.
I get all my scientific knowledge from comics on the Internet too.
> deeply entrenched rape culture where Brock Turners and Donald Trumps can get away with assault in a very public way

"rape culture", in its original meaning, is a society that allows or encourages rape; Perceived sexism or public allegations of "sexual assault" isn't the same thing.

> Rape victims are still terrified to come forward in America because of the culture stacked against them

What is this claim based on?
Isn't people/mile still incorrect because you basically have islands of large dense cities with roads between them that nobody lives on.