skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To an American, a British accent conveys prestige and sophistication.

Which British accent? It's unlikely that you associate prestige and sophistication with scouse, cockney, geordie, scots, west country, so on and so forth. These are generally played up as being working class or not smart in movies and other media.
> You end up with lots of different closed-source, for-profit companies in the list, but none of your data is concentrated in any one large player.

But many of these companies are going to offer their services for free, which means advertising and you're right back to square one, except now your data is in the hands of someone completely unknown.
Well, there are ways to make a point and emphasizing an idea without resorting to swearing. The Linux kernel project has lost some maintainers because of this.

Now to be fair, one merit of Linus is that he is direct and says he doesn't like something, and not weasel language like "maybe later" or other time-wasting expressions that force people to guess what he is thinking.
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Sorry but I have no idea who you are or what you are talking about. What kind of market are you referring to?
I've started to think that a lot of what we are isn't present inside our heads although it informs them. Things like books, culture which are all intergenerational memories. We're constantly immersed from the earliest developmental stage in what dawkins called our extended phenotype. Of all the animals humans have the most extraordinary extended phenotype, particularly our information infrastructure.

If we take the much vaunted abilities of humans over computers, such as creativity, and we had a human being who was brought up without any contact without any exterior sources of information such as reading materials or other humans to play with then I doubt their 'human ability' would amount to much. It'd be arguable whether they were a true human. They'd seem developmentally disabled to other humans though biologically they could be in rude health.

When you look to monkeys and other animals like ravens you find they test better than we do on a range of cognitive tasks and yet we are us and they are them. I believe there really is something different about us but that may exist at the collective level instead of the individual.
Here is a pull quote from an article that published today

"As People Get Weary of Sales Automation, Direct Sales Contacts Prevail

The email automation era is becoming very easy to spot, and it’s happening everywhere. Multiple emails like this land in our inboxes on a daily basis. This robotic tactic may even begin to harm a brand’s reputation.

Sales people will go back to being people and will personalize an email or pick up the damn phone. The excitement of automation in the digital era will also make people realize that they like to talk to people"

http://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/marketing-trends-sh...

Seemed relevant ;)
You're not missing anything. It starts out that (code is crap) and you just get better the more stuff you write , and even then you never quite feel like you're writing "good code".

The biggest thing that accelerated my growth was working with people who were much much better than I was. You'll learn so much faster, and become so much better than you can ever by just plugging away by yourself.

Just remain humble and open to learning and you'll wake up one day and realize you're actually not bad at this programming thing ;)

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher"

– Japanese Proverb
Truth!
Minnesota has a significant Scandinavian heritage, that's where the socialism mindset comes from. And I think it works pretty well.
> Seriously, though; how is my life negatively impacted (in actuality, not hypothetically), in a way that I can notice the difference, by letting Google track me?

People have lost their freedom because their Google search history was used against them in court:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/02/subpoenas-and-your-pri...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/01/csi-google-winnin...

http://www.oddee.com/item_98930.aspx

http://volokh.com/2012/06/07/search-history-as-evidence-in-a...

https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/25/google-search-history-murd...

https://www.cnet.com/news/police-blotter-web-searches-lead-t...

http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/08/ho...
You hit the nail on the head. Having developed with MLS data before, my opinion is there's little incentive for MLSs to make the data easy to work with. As long as each MLS gets their data distributed on the large portals that most consumers use, there's little reward to update (read: spend money on) their systems to implement a modern format to help indie developers and startups. That's the status quo. I don't think anything is going to change unless the large portals band together and spearhead some kind of industry-wide effort to fix this problem.

As an aside, I'm working on a RE investment product that solves challenges similar to this one and I'm looking for RE investors to join me. If you're interested, shoot me an email at hello[at]myname.com.
They've had several excellent investigative articles recently - the investigative group is headed by a pulitzer award winner.
I wonder what America would have been like if slavery abolitionists, women's suffrage leaders, and Civil Rights leaders took your advice.
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In https://meaningness.com/finding-god-in-a-casino, he says explains religion as an addiction to warm fuzzies, kept alive by the brain's ability to everywhere find patterns.

I agree that such can describe many people, but orthodox Christianity doesn't prescribe wishful thinking or worse, blind faith. If you read the Bible, it is very much an evidence-based religion. A good summary is More Than a Carpenter, by Josh McDowell (192 pages).
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(...) if they can bill their clients directly.

Can you explain what you mean? Letter generation etc is still usefull, I don't see what billing has to do with it. They can still charge what they want to.
The tutorial you linked is for developing against mono using Paket and FAKE. I also found it difficult to work with F# and mono. My recent and positive experience was with developing against .net core.

Also, you don't need to use yeoman, "dotnet new --lang F#" produces a blank F# .net core project and then you can add all of the dependencies manually.
Good luck. I used to work at a Startup that tried wrangling MLS data. There is the not-so-trivial problem of gathering all of the data together into one schema. But to offer services on MLS data (like a forward facing website) you need to have a physical office in the MLS region your providing. This problem seems to be more legal than anything.
What I don't get is how one kernel maintainer can make such a massive decision that affects all of Linux. That's some near-totalitarian level of power.

After reading the arguments, I'm kind of on AMD's side. I get what Dave wants, but it seems extremely idealistic.
What gets me is how arbitrary sound levels seem. I'd expect sampling in the theatre to set the volume level to avoid hearing damage and make the levels comfortable but what appears, to me, to happen is the projectionist sets the sound level - so if you get a projectionist that is [seemingly] practically deaf then the volume level is far too high.

Went to a kids show, some disney tripe or other, volume was painful for me and made my youngest at the time cry ... movie theatres clearly have a thing about being loud but surely that doesn't help to make them a place anyone wants to be. Yes, I went out and spoke to someone and had the sound level lowered, it was still loud; I'm sure it was beyond the safe working volume set by Health & Safety Executive [UK] though. Amazed that it's not monitored and set automatically.
Be very careful trying to solve this "problem". While MS Word change tracking may seem abhorrent to you, most lawyers are well trained in its use and are very comfortable using it. Also, switching costs are huge. A lawyer would not only need to see the benefit of an alternative but also convince all other lawyers they work with to put aside the solution they are already comfortable using and try something new.
> Busting your ass to get ahead is an American exaggeration at this point. In general, most employees just get by

Exactly my point. Now imagine an entire country full of nothing BUT that. Imagine no Elon Musk driving electric cars forward, or space travel.

Answer me this question about what you perceive as the ideal system: Why would you remove a system which rewards effort, and replace it with a system that rewards everyone the same, regardless of effort.
Newrelic is converging on this. Also you should take a look at Looker.
> But in web services you often care more about the tail-end latency, the p90, p99 etc.

For sure. I think Theorem 2 in the paper implicitly addresses the latency distribution in this scheme. They're saying that in the limit of a large system, the queue length distribution at a single backend server depends only on the service time distribution (how long it takes to actually process each job) and the service discipline. So if for example job sizes are exponentially distributed and handled in FIFO order, then the wait time distribution is also exponential.

It would certainly be nice to see a more explicit discussion of the tail latency, especially in the simulations the authors did.
A lawyer friend of mine told me his firm doesn't use software to check all the "hereafter referred to" are bound to their template and vice-versa. They instead have to print the document and go through it with a highlighter.

The firm charges their clients on an hourly basis, so they don't really have an incentive to be more efficient.
Millions of Ukrainians died in the camp and due to artificial famine. How you can compare this to 'hot water is not always available', I can't comprehend.
I still get virus / malware emails from the AOL account of an IP lawyer I worked with in 2011 / 2012. Also a blast from the past every time.
The security considerations are valid, but this is missing the point.

The point is rather that google is in the business of selling personal information, and that telephone numbers are valuable personal information. As such, some people don't trust google with this information despite the valid pretext.
Too many 80s rock concerts mean there's a giant downward notch in the center of my hearing range. I gave up on socializing in loud environments long ago because people speaking is what I hear the least. I will definitely give these a try!
We are actually in the process of changing our Font Awesome font usage into svg versions of the font (via Icomoon's free converter tool) due to some of our customers blocking web fonts on IE11 via Windows Registry settings, claiming security issues...

But one nice side-effect of changing it to svg versions is that our clients are now loading icons on demand and only the ones being used in the app, as opposed to the whole web font.
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Well if you don't think a modern FP language needs higher kinded types you probably do need vodka.
On your phone or another machine?
I think the transition Cabinet already shows that there is some difference. Clinton would not have dreamed of trying to abolish Social Security.
That's how the kernel development works. As far as I can tell, if you get maintainer status from Linus you can do as you please for the understanding is that you're acting as he would.
It's about having high-quality information about these people. Google would rather have fewer people that are more valuable.
Why do you have "remove cargo" in your roadmap?
Can we get in touch? Currently building something in this space and would like to understand your problem better. My email is in my profile!
AI can engage into financial transactions, especially now with decentralized currencies. At scale that would be really hard to regulate and can lead to a taxation crisis.
I think assert() is usually used by people who are going to just turn them off during a "production" build (with -NDEBUG).
He does this stuff all the time, he's always used language in a very Orwellian manner. It's much easier to promote "freedom" (which means all sorts of things to different people, all of them positive) than it is to promote copyleft and all that it entails. Everybody loves freedom right? But it is obfuscating, hence the neverending confusion about exactly what he means when he uses terms like "free", "freedom", and "free software".

In general, he seems to be almost obsessively sensitive to how the words used to frame ideas can influence someone's feelings towards those ideas ("GNU/Linux"...). Which of course is true, words are very important. However, he channels this obsession with words towards obfuscation rather than clarity. He's very fond of always using derogatory puns for things he doesn't like in his essays, or incorrect acronym expansion. For example, always referring to DRM as "Digital Restrictions Management"- apropos and humorous as it may be, for me it's hard to not feel like he's treating his audience like children and thinks they can be influenced by wordplay. He has expended an utterly tremendous amount of energy over the past 3 decades scolding people for using incorrect terminology, when in fact the confusion over terminology almost entirely comes from him trying to redefine common terms, or him trying to change the term people commonly use to refer to something to another term that carries some sort of loaded meaning.

It's a rhetorical technique, but it's a particular type of rhetorical technique that has always raised massive red flags for me, regardless of who is using it or for what purpose.
Not limited to those with bad hearing, auditory processing issues are common amongst those with ASD / autism spectrum disorders / Aspergers / The Geek Syndrome.

This looks like an excellent product, and great work to their engineers.
you also put on a backpack that cant be taken off. So once you no longer need it or want to put on another, it becomes a burden.
>"Anti-diversity" is a rather uncharitable term to use;

I don't think it's uncharitable for people whose explicit, self-proclaimed position is that diversity makes things worse than homogeneity.
There's $BNs waiting for you.

Who would be the primary customers? The entire 3D capturing market is currently several $B per year, including services. Where would be the customers that aren't getting served today that would double this market?
The operating system can perform page zeroing during low load times and give out zero pages "for free" during higher load times. (So this can serve to smooth out CPU usage in spiky loads.) Or the OS may use special hardware that is inaccessible to userspace (e.g., Intel I/OAT) to zero pages in a way that doesn't consume CPU cycles.
Syringes are a medical device: they're cheap and available to anyone.

Where are you and why aren't hearing aids available to buy for anyone who wants them? Is that a legislation thing, do hearing aids damage not-as-hearing-impaired people's hearing?
Can you post the link to the github repo?
I'd really like to see that. I'm eager to build a small program that takes style offenses like nested ternary operators and replaces them with a still functional brainfuck equivalent, to highlight how anoying that style of programming is to read.
May be regional, I'm not sure. Might have picked it from in either Limburg, Noord-Brabant or Gelderland. Pretty sure though that it's fairly universal, even if it's not something lots of people say every day.
> I have a number of friends who ended up becoming officers and I sympathize with a lot of their struggles.

Oh yeah, I am not saying that all cops are bad or that you will get killed if you call them. Just that there are risks to doing so. I should also mention that my father worked as a cop and has given me similar advice in regards to interaction with police (don't), based presumably on his personal observations of the job and his colleagues, and it did not even occur to me to mention that in the post above. I certainly don't mean to demonize cops.
I have no stats to back up a position, but I wonder if this truly is the safer choice.
I have the same problem and also was tested with "normal for age" hearing. But I know that most people can hear conversations in busy restaurants, loud cars, etc.

What could this thing be? ENT was very unhelpful.
That's not true. The decision about whether to press charges is up to the prosecutor. The prosecutor will often take the victim's wishes into account when deciding what to do, but they aren't required to.
this is an absurd agreement, i have never heard of something like this in germany. Is this common in other countries?
And GP is right that in that case, you really want calloc to return NULL rather than an overflowed (short) non-NULL allocation.
> Ex of bad question: Implement a stringbuilder.

We used to ask people to implement standard date-related functions. "That's stupid, all the date functions are already written, and they handle all the weird edge cases for you!" That's right - we want to see if you can think about all the weird edge cases.

It's not about the obvious functions, it's about whether or not you can plan reasonable interfaces and think about edge cases.
Would be very cool! Probably not possible to find data extending back 30 years, though.

And NYT findings are of course not entirely representative, though we did run a small validation on Reddit.
That's uncharitable and definitely incorrect.
It barely impacts anything else.
Do you need a mentor? What kind of teams do you work on?
Nah, that saying isn't nerdy, just wait for the UDP jokes...

(... which nobody gets.)
The author had a bug report in front of him. The behavior was repeatable and certainly unexpected. That is worth tracking down.

I've tracked down corner cases like this myself and been correctly told by developers that they're not worth fixing. But you don't know that a priori.
This sounds like something I need, what technology are you using, is this doctor recommendation equipment?
They clearly have to some extent. That's why I mentioned the National Park Service trail. More would be better, for sure, but we don't deny it, nor prosecute people who say it happened.
Anything and everything by this guy: worrydream.com
Patat in Dutch are french fries :D

Though in the south (both south NL and Flemish Belgium) they're called "friet", as in "gefrituurd" ("fries" as in "they're fried"). Still, patat is officially Dutch and according to some website 95% of the Flemish people and 100% of the Dutch people know the word.
There are definitely people who are suffering from a mental disorder who will show signs of imposter syndrome. I would imagine the symptoms cross frequently. Most what I am saying is just anecdotal from myself.
I left Hull/Texas in April 2015 but if you want to bug somebody http://hullsupply.com/page/contact/

ask to be transferred to Gabe, I'm sure he's still IT there.

P.S. I don't know if he'll remember the name but Axel -from the cage and lockshop- if you want a name to drop.
>improve hearing even for those that don't have hearing problems //

That's pretty self-contradictory.

Is it perhaps about people simply not wanting to admit they have hearing difficulties, these make it a "non-medical" issue and so allow people to address their poor hearing by-passing any potential stigma [they apply to themselves].

My mother needed hearing aids for a long time, but wouldn't get them, seemingly "because they're for old people".
Great. Will they give free tier of 3 cartridges ?
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It is low-ish, but not abnormally or excessively so.
no, they did not
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Exactly, thats why I switched to HGST. They really seem to be a cut above the rest.
While this doesn't directly answer your question, but I've found edw519 (a fellow HNer's) past comments on this subject highly enlightening.

If you're looking for something inspiring / actionable to read, checkout this collection by him http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.html

One of my favorite answers -

71. How do you get good at programming?

I believe that there are two ways to get good at anything, "push" and "pull".

Push: You learn from books, classes, mentors, and studying examples, then apply what you have learned.

Pull: You have a problem that you must solve, then you learn what you need, any way you can, to build the solution.

I suppose there are pros and cons of each method, and I imagine that many people here have used some of both.

For the record, I am 100% Pull. I have absolutely no formal training. It took me 2 years to find my first job and then I was thrown into the deep end. It was simultaneously frustrating and exhilarating. There were so many times I didn't know what to do or didn't have enough "tools" in my box. So I had to figure it out and find sources of learning. But I always did. Any when I got that first thing working and then saw my customer's eyes light up, I was hooked.

Your CS degree may make you think that you're a "push" learner, but may I suggest that you adopt a "pull" approach. Forget what you think you know and find a job or a project or someone who has a real need. Then build what you need. You a several advantages over me: (a) It shouldn't take you long to find that job/demand/customer. Just keep looking. (b) You already have tools in your tool box, maybe not the right ones for the job, but you have "something". And (c) It's easier than ever to adopt a "pull" approach. Help is everywhere.

You may feel frustrated, but I don't think you have a problem at all. You're in a great (and very normal) situation. Just adjust you attitude, find something to build, and do it.
Here's Intel's bet on the next generation of storage tech beyond Flash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint
This is just preliminary validation that the 7-X stellarator is working as designed. This is actually a pretty big step for the project, but that's really it. It's still a research project that may or may not lead to commercialization, just like the other fusion projects.

Interesting to hear about, but not a game changer.
I have heard its common in Canada too
If you log all payloads now your logs are subject to DPA and possibly also PCI - potential security fail.
More so than postmodernism, the author seems highly influenced by Mahayana Buddhist 'middle-way'* and 'emptiness' philosophy and epistemology. But presents it in a very fresh and relatively easy to understand way.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamaka
Oh, well.

What I think of as "cryptographic hash function" is a function resistent to pre-image attack, second pre-image attack, and collision generation.

Neither of those are satisfied by SipHash, and can thus not classify as a cryptographic hash function by the normal definition.
The thing is: If you password is exposed once in one site, the rest of your passwords could be guessed eventually. Unless if you take some additional steps to make it really hard for anyone or any software to guess your password. See other comments on this thread.
Chapman was involved in some of the earlier collision between AI optimism and Heidegger's critique of cognitivism (via Dreyfus).
The triple-flanged hearos are all you need[1]. I played drums in a few bands and always used these when practicing and playing live. Nowadays I take em to concerts as well. They sound great.

[1]http://www.guitarcenter.com/Hearos/High-Fidelity-Series-Long...