skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is the thing I commonly hear when people rail against remote work. It usually all falls down to a lack of planning and organization. They basically want the capability to interrupt any person at any time so that person gets pulled from their work to HELP THEM. Which is definitely efficient for the person who does the interrupting, but what about the person that got interrupted?

I'm not saying employees shouldn't help others, but there is a time and place. You can schedule calls, send an email, or even send something in a Slack channel. All three of those say "a response in a few hours is acceptable" instead of HELP NOW!
Oculus and Vive running on same computer in same app
Is Med Tech Venture Investment Waning?
> * Meetups and Networking Events - seems very inefficient and so far I've come across very few technical folks at these events, at least in digital health

I haven't tested this idea, but... consider starting a meetup that would draw more technical folks. I would personally like to see deeper technical meetups near where I am, but I haven't pulled the trigger to try and organise anything yet.
> The fact that something is furiously developed by hundreds of developers is a very poor reason. What does this rather meaningless "health" of Neovim gives to the end users? Fresh new bugs?

It's not like Neovim (or any open source project) is an open house where anyone can come, throw some code over the wall and get it merged. Like any big project (Vim included), it is being maintained by a set of core responsible developers who know better. Neovim has a huge focus on automated tests and CI also. I don't see any reason why a big contributor base should make the end product worse.

> I just don't see any logic in your argument. You speak about loosely defined "health" and "momentum" as if there was a clear link between software quality and amount of buzz around the project.

Of course there is. Look at Linux, ReactJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Firefox. The more momentum a project has, the more contributions it gets. Open source projects succeed because of the community around them.

GNU Hurd was not able to gather momentum and look where it is today. Contributors flocked to Linux so it flourished.
Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, which led me to the non-fiction book Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen. I'm reading the latter right now and blowing my mind.

My understanding of the American history of racism was basically that it was generally getting better over time. Slavery, Civil War, Jim Crow, and then the civil rights era. What this leaves out was that things got rapidly better after the civil war for a few decades, and then got substantially worse. And that it didn't get worse in the south; all over America white people drove out non-whites from their towns. They created "sundown towns", places where African-Americans weren't allowed after dark.

This is an era that goes unmentioned in most official local histories, and I never heard about it growing up white. That was the case even though it was happening all around the area I grew up. E.g., not far from where my family lived was a major vacation area built by and for well-off African-Americans because they were kept out of the white ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild,_Michigan

I had literally never heard of the place, let alone known its history, even though I know the name of almost every town an village nearby.
Experts split on how soon quantum computing is coming
Perhaps it's just that they assume they should list the more hacker-y ones?
Don't even get me started on packing when you have arrays of structs...
It doesn't mention what the "blacklist" actually is, or does.

Does it actually prevent purchases on world.taobao.com from US buyers?

Edit: Found the actual document "2016 Out of Cycle Review - Notorious Markets". Pretty much a curated list of where to buy counterfeit stuff, if you're so inclined: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2016-Out-of-Cycle-Revie...
The State of Unity and Linux/SteamOS Support
UWP = Universal Windows Platform, did not know that.
What's wrong with a wind farm, out of curiosity? I personally love driving by a windmill farm that's near a local highway.
If Your Software Development Blog Doesn’t Bring Leads, Think Twice Who It Is For
The problem is the milliseconds of delay from Airpod to Airpod, apple can't figure out how to fix that.
C now has static array indices.
For example

void func(int arr[static 8]) {}

imposes a limit on the size of the array that can be passed as an argument (you cannot pass an array of 7 or fewer elements.)

I'd suggest that to the author, but given the article, I fear it may give him a heart attack.
There are several alternative ways to address this, for example products bought by consumers might account toward their CO2 emissions. Or just apply the CO2 tax to companies directly.

Anyway, let's not get lost in the details, I was just offering a trivial counterexample against the claim that

> Any proposal that significantly reduces energy usage almost certainly involves telling a large portion of the world "no, you don't get a washing machine"
How developers cope with mental fatigue?
It was possible a long time ago (pre-VS 2003) to embed a real copy of gvim as an OLE widget inside Visual Studio. I'm looking forward to being able to do that in a less hacky way via neovim.
> Maybe you will allow a nuclear plant in your backyard but most people already have a problem with wind power.

In fact, I do have a nuclear power plant in my backyard (relatively speaking). Per Wikipedia, it's the largest power plant in the US by net generation. I'd be happy to see them add 3 more reactors to the site and double operating capacity to ~8GW.
I finished Seveneves today. I agree that there's obviously a huge difference between the first 2/3 and the last - but how can you tell the second part is bad if you only read the first?

Personally I think both parts of the story are good. I think that it could possibly have been split into two different books to give the second part a bit more space. As it is now, the second part is a bit rushed, and ends quite suddenly (in classic Neal Stephenson fashion).
The license on the Github repository seems much more reasonable:

OpenJDK binaries are released under the GNU GPL v. 2 with classpath exception.

Project icon is taken from Nuvola icon set, it is released under the GNU LGPL v. 2.1.

Build scipts are released under the Apache License 2.0.

Other sources and binaries in this project (cygwin, freetype etc.) are released under their corresponding licenses.
The article says it's only the Taobao site.
> How was the New Deal sold in to owners of capital who presumably controlled the press and political system?

Communist parties were gaining steam back then, and we were under threat of having our own Red October if something extreme wasn't done to blunt the effects of the Great Depression.
Hmmm I've received so much counterfeit stuff from amazon. I wonder if we'll also block the American company of a politically well connected billionaire?

Well I can dream.
Wow, hundreds of developers and 7 newsletters!1!! Has Netcraft already confirmed that Vim is obsolete?

EDIT: Go ahead and downvote -- leave the drivel I'm responding to in the green.
Yes, because I like to have power at night ;)
"Being blacklisted does not carry any penalties, but it is a blow to Alibaba, ..."

So apparently nothing.
Congratulations ! It seems you built something people needed and loved :) .

Your story is an inspiration to people who think they're too "green" or "new" to contribute :)
In this context "IP rights" are a protectionist policy, just one that happens to benefit America, which exports heaps of IP. If it's the same handbags made in the same factory but cheaper...
If a key part of your organizational strategy is to tax companies more than your peers and get sad when they leave, you're probably the United States government.
Huh, is Alibaba really very comparable to Amazon for the everyday consumer?

I was under the impression that they weren't exactly targeting the same consumers. I thought Alibaba was moreso for resellers, folks who buy in large quantities and such to sell it themselves later.

Would you recommend that I, an American, start looking at Alibaba as an Amazon alternative for everyday things?
I dont understand. Why adnauseam clicks ads? isnt that against the purpose of an ad blocker?
I think they were trying to give you context for tax purposes..
Has anyone used both Elixir and Go enough to give a comparison of the feel/productivity for backend web dev?

(I know it's apples to oranges... but for some tasks, like backend / high concurency microservices etc., both an apple and an orange are perfect fit, so it's worth comparing. I've heard of Ruby or Python people jumping to Go or Elixir, but not of any comparison.)
and also the second safest form of power generation, according to the IPCC, over its entire life-cycle (from mining to waste disposal and remediation). Incidentally, hydro is the first.

I'm surprised that hydro could be considered safer than nuclear. That seems incorrect based on past experience.

Hydro dam failures have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths during the past 50 years or so. That's far more than Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters, even accounting for later deaths due to radiation-related diseases.

The Banqiao Dam failure alone in 1973 killed 171,000 and displaced more than 11 million people.
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis

The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross

The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

The Prince by Machiavelli

William S Borroughs: A Life by Barry Miles

Programming in the 1990s by Edward Cohen

On Numbers and Games (again) by John H. Conway
The article says "Being blacklisted does not carry any penalties". I'm pretty sure it's just a reputation thing.
All the operating systems, since 1984, have let the user configure his keyboard layout. Therefore since 1984, on all the computers I've used, I've used the US-QWERTY keyboard layout.

Ie. this is a non-problem, solved since 1984.
What version of C is this in? And do modern implementations (clang, GCC) adhere to it (without extensions)?
Could the poison fruit be to prevent fish from eating them while they float through the ocean?
It depends on how the nuclear reactor is managed. Have companies shown they care about the people over profit? Has government proven to not be inept at regulations and inspections and punishments? On top of that, a natural disaster can cause one to melt down.

If we move to thorium, it's almost impossible to have a disaster, but it can't be made into a weapon and the profits are low so nobody wants to build the best source of feasible big power known to man.
A Nonlinear Genius in a Nonlinear World
Also busted on Dolphin Browser.
agred 100%
Sure and who will pay the Oracle devs on OpenJDK?
>to answer questions like "What feature was this commit part of, originally"

Neither system will answer that. If you're relying on branches to tell you what feature sets changes belong to, you should be adding that to your commits.

>"How and where did the merges happened?"

Git will do this faster and in a more correct manner. In a complicated history graph, Mercurial will actually hide information from you if you try to query it and sometimes even mislead you. I'm starting to think you haven't used either system extensively.

>Parse what exactly?

Arguments and output.

>Oh it does support it plenty.

It does not. If you can't give an example, you can just admit that you don't know what you're talking about.
The median NFL salary is $1.9million. The median NFL career length is 3.5 years. If you're in the NFL for 15 years, you are an extremely fortunate outlier.

I think the main difference between someone putting their health on the line as an NFL starter and as a CEO is that, as a CEO, you know what you're getting into. There has been, to my perception, a concerted effort to avoid educating football players about the risks they face and the precautions (financial and health) they need to take to ensure safety after their time in the league.

I agree that there are great owners and individuals in the NFL; it's unfair of me to paint them all with the same brush.
Words matter. The word used was "hate" but it's possible that was not the correct word. I live a few miles from where GSW play. The team we lost to in the finals last year is a good team and there is no way I would ever use the word "hate" to describe how I feel about them. In fact, I like a lot of players on their team. I just want my team to win, of course.

I've witnessed a lot of strange and awful things in r/nba (toward my team and others). It does appear there is a lot of hate. There is strong evidence that people from r/nba spend significant time making fake accounts and downvoting posts in r/warriors. As I said above, if that's what you're into, then it's time to turn your gaze inwardm because you have a problem.

EDIT: any it looks like this thread is fairly polarized. Lots of downvotes, which don't seem warranted. Kinda proves my point.
How to Build a Better Company Culture
There are alternatives to massive expensive reactors from companies like Nuscale, might be a good option to round out energy production in areas where other clean energy sources aren't available.
Their aliexpress.com site is targeted at end consumers, lower quantities, etc.
As a layperson, I found this to be a pretty accessible background that ultimately leads up to a useful description of HyperLogLog. I had never heard of Philippe Flajolet before, and now I'm glad I have.
Ten people to get NHS bionic eyes
Not 100%, for example JavaFX.

Hence why there is a parallel OpenJavaFX project.

Or GUI rendering code, hence why JetBrains has their own fork for those that don't want to use commercial JDKs on GNU/Linux.
Windows Server has the promise of native SSH, but it isn't part of the OS builds yet. I think that it's fair to say that Windows remote access today is PowerShell and RDP (which is awesome, but not for this).

To me, that's sort of where Windows is now. It has some really impressive stuff: Windows 2000 was an avalanche of innovations, but most of it was built for the corporate LANs of a decade ago. Put Windows Server on a cloud, and most of this stuff is not relevant or useful, and Windows is not great at some fundamentals.

Logging is one of those. If you are interested in this kind of thing, I'd genuinely encourage you to spin up a Fedora or Debian system and look at the thing work. We are currently in transition between logging systems, but the feature sets are impressive and the error messages are useful. Windows logging is even more patchwork, and the (Microsoft) products that bother with the core logging system tend to fill it with chaff. It might get better, one day, but it's not a good experience today, and hasn't ever been.

Another is software management. Package-based software management has to be deeply integrated into the OS for it to provide it's full value. Debian have done this for years, and Red Hat have caught up. Microsoft have a muddle of multiple software management systems, and individual admins can't fix it. We just have to work around it and do the best that we can, or decide that the platform is what it is, and move on.
Good resource! We're interested to see how all of this Deep Learning evolves and becomes more tangible in the future.
The recent Family Guy spoof nailed its weaknesses pretty well, I thought.
Exactly, and the problem with DRM then becomes that, outside making the pirated content a superior product, it outright antagonizes the legitimate consumers.

In short money is poured into making the product less desirable by making it harder to acquire and consume legally.

Of course this is all lamenting how utterly bonkers DRM is conceptually. It still leaves the problem of pirates unaddressed. To survive in the digital age we need a debate about how to make a business model where this problem is a fact of reality rather than putting on blinders and saying it can be prevented.
The best use case I know of is avoiding the common Python & Ruby pitfall of "just stick everything in a dictionary and index it by key". Welp, forgot to update every instance of that string index (particularly if that name overlaps with anything else, including variable and function and class names... so, like, a lot of the time).
I do. My wife buys fabric there literally 1/5 to 1/10 the price at the local store. Its only practical for some things, though.
If we taxed carbon that highly we'd end up just building nuclear plants anyway. Solar and wind just can't provide baseline power or on demand power, at least not yet.

Reducation is use needs to be a key part of global warming mitigation, but it isn't going to be the only part. Per capita is falling, but the world is still growing. And per capita usage is skyrocketing in the third world.

And per capita electrical grid usage might increase as electric cars start replacing ICE cars.
AliExpress is for consumers.
Taobao and Alibaba sell more things in bulk.
It's not unusual, but the cause is unfortunate. If she's 14 years old and you feed her dry food, she probably has bad teeth. Does she have 'cat breath'? When they have bad teeth, it's a balance of the pain from hunger vs the pain from eating, and tend to be skinny. It might be time to add some wet food to her diet.

Bad teeth aren't a problem for cats in the wild because they live on average 3-5 years, but the majority of house cats will have teeth problems as they get older.
We'd be happy to use OpenJDK, but few days ago we discovered a bug (feature?) that works differently in HotSpot - so we had to migrate our services to it.
Background: I currently lead a Data Science team at a big non-tech company. Previous to this I worked at a software company that had a Data Science team in their customer facing consulting group.

I'm going to speak primarily about applied data science. This means a data scientist who is solving a business need by doing ad-hoc analysis or building a reusable solution (e.g a R+Shiny dashboard) to a business problems.

Jobs: There are plenty of jobs out there, but you have to be careful. Many "Data Science" jobs are really BI, Business Analyst, or Sales Engineer types of jobs where some VP got it in their head that they need a Data Scientist. These jobs are great for people who are okay with Technology and Data Science being 10% of their job - and many people are like that. They don't care about engineering, coding, or tech and statistics beyond the minimum to do their jobs. But if you really want a job that involves solid tech and stats/ML skills you will be unsatisfied at these types of jobs.

Right now there are plenty of hard business problems that people want to turn into Data Science problems because they think it'll give them a competitive edge or something to market and show off. This results in more data science job openings. However, they are not really data science problems. As somebody else said, people will eventually realize they are not getting the value they need with data scientists doing these types of jobs. Then they'll replace that person with an MBA with some DS coursework (e.g. MBA who can use KNIME or SAS Enterprise Miner) or eliminate the position.

People: I interview people and I know people at other organizations who interview candidates for Data Science roles. MOOCs and many degree programs (including 2 year MS degrees) are pushing out people who have a very superficial overview of data science. Basically they teach them about every ML algorithm in the known universe and the functions to call them them in R/Python/SAS. The end result is a mediocre coder or non-coder who boils everything down to a confusion matrix or root mean squared error. But they cannot actually think through a business problem or see why a low error doesn't equal a good model (see http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations)

Finding good people is hard and you have to be flexible to realize great people can come from different backgrounds.
I think this is a rather elementary (and Randian) view of capitalism. I don't know of any serious proponents of capitalism who claim that pure greed and self-interest is desirable. It is also a mistake to equate the existence of private property, or even the existence of limited free trade in primitive society with the effect of a society that is fundamentally capitalist in nature. And mercantilism (aka "crony capitalism") isn't capitalism either. Capitalism isn't the same thing as "some trade exists, that is somewhat free, for some people, sometimes".
How do you personalize your mobile messaging to the end user?
there is a lot of ways of doing advertisement, besides polluting people's browsers, give freebies, discounts, ...... etc.
From outer space to inner eye
Memory is volatile, I would describe it as, every time you access a memory you store the active copy back into memory, allowing for alteration or the data depending on what you feel at the time or external suggestions.
Good. It was one thing we always disabled in our deployment of JRE. One less vulnerable entry point for those who needed it on their workstations.
> ...turning employees into de facto investors is a cheap and convenient solution.

And also unethical, in my opinion. If startups treated their investors like investors, and their employees like employees, they would be able to hire people without needing to look at risk tolerance as a hiring qualification. Perhaps coincidentally, young, single people have a much higher risk tolerance than older people with families. If avoiding the appearance of age discrimination is at all important

They would even fare better if they refrained from treating employee-investors as a lower class of investor, that can be diluted to oblivion while the higher classes of investor still get paid.

Your anecdotal acquaintance sounds like an investor first, who just happened to be able to get hired as an employee. If you job hop while collecting discount equity opportunities, and leave before the success of the company is ultimately determined, how much of that value comes from the work you do, rather than your evaluation of the company and your co-workers? I presume that if the initial evaluation was off, he'd scarper for greener pastures in the middle of the night without waiting for anything to vest?

You can't do that in most of the US. Away from the west coast and the Boston-to-DC corridor, there may only be one or two startups in town that need tech employees, if any. If you're in a college town, there may be few dozen, built around somebody's thesis work. If you don't like the local job scene, you have to move your entire household somewhere else. The startups follow the expectations of the investors, and the investors are looking at the coastal unicorns. I just get sick of all the cargo-culting of SV startup culture, y'know? It only works there because it's there, and I'm not even sure that "works" is the right word to use.
Zero people have the capability to make sentient robots at the moment.

And zero people can even describe how a sentient robot could be constructed, even with theoretical future hardware. "We'll have as many flops as some models say a brain has, and programmers are creative" is about as far as anyone can get, but I don't think that qualifies as a plan.

So, it's a fun thing to think about, but like all sci-fi it probably isn't the best basis for societal planning.
Because having it elsewhere is better?

Here we'd have the resources to hopefully make it safe(r). China doesn't give a damn about the environment.
That's interesting, thanks
Alibaba.com is for retailers.

taobao is only targeting China.

aliexpress.com is an international and consumer facing.

Expect considerably cheaper prices, and delivery times from 2-6 weeks.