skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always curious which enhancements to C# are just syntactic sugar vs. requiring IL and/or CLR enhancements.

Microsoft released the CLR code required for async/await separately, enabling back-compat for .NETv4.0. The F# language has supported it back to .NETv2.0.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bclteam/2012/10/22/using-as...
I recall he tried to close Gitmo and was blocked.
If automation pushes people out of high paying jobs into low paying jobs then it will result in lower productivity.
Or that robots are taking jobs at the same rate humans are leaving the workforce. Baby boomers are retiring and automation is increasing, so if they're at the same rate, unemployment wouldn't necessarily go up.

However the more likely answer is that the measurement is wrong.
So we need a course called: bullshitting people who want to be bullshitted?

I'd worry a lot about the personal/existential implications. Gramsci says that the demagogue is the first one bitten by the snake of his own demagoguery.
Professional artists are more likely to be proficient with the commercial apps. Said pipeline might have room for simplification or optimization. There could be a lot of reasons.

In Factorio's case, they've ended up remaking a lot of their art assets to a higher standard of quality, so that would have been as good a time as any if they had wanted to switch.
I guess, depending how you define "a lot".
Even if there isn't, support for right wing politics for purely financial reasons is still worrying.
I completed an Information Security and Assurance MS at a different school and in retrospect, I wish I had done it online instead.

I could have done it for 1/3-1/4 of the cost and in the same amount of time but with far less time spent commuting.
I know that there are extensions to accept XBMC/Kodi-style .nfo XML files for metadata. I would think it possible to use those to tell Plex to use whatever you explicitly set as the title.
Ah, of course, you're right. That makes a lot more sense. I'm not sure what I was thinking :P
Couldn't you (gently) use the wayback machine for this? Or just start crawling feeds with something like scrapy? There isn't enough RSS, I feel, to make this prohibitive.
> Most of my friends are never going to pay it back.

It scares me that people are taking on these loans with that assumption, spurred on by people like Martin Lewis.

The government has changed the rules before... they may change them again.

To be fair to Mr Lewis, he apparently put his money where his mouth is and engaged lawyers to challenge the recent changes, but I haven't heard of any results... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing... Does anyone know if it was just posturing for the press at the time, hoping we'd forget about it? Was there ever a ruling or result?
I have two use cases, one is that I want to watch a specific movie or I'm watching through a show like The Americans in a deliberate, serial way. Plex does everything I need in that area.

The other use case is, I want to work or browse the web for several hours, or work on a puzzle, or clean, or whatever, and have something on in the background. There's some media I'll only watch deliberately with full attention, (The Americans) and other media I can rewatch repeatedly in background mode. (Sitcoms, or certain types of movies.)

When I want background programming I'd like less friction. Traditional TV works best in this area, in the sense that I tune to a channel and the programming is already set up. I don't want to stop every 22 minutes and pick a new episode, or choose one movie out of dozens. I'd spend too much time trying to decide. Pretending my library is made up of channels lets me choose one to tune in to, and I'll be happy with what happens to come up on that channel. There's a freedom in offloading the decision. (As long as I also retain the freedom to choose what to watch when I have a specific preference.)

What I can't control with cable TV is the content, I can only hope there's a channel with programming I want to leave on for a while. Sometimes there isn't. But I've got a lot of media and would do the work to set up my own channels.
Fuck Meetings – The Startup – Medium
Huh. From the title and the themes, I was expecting an amazing article. But this isn't it. It struck me as confused, poorly written, and not well supported.

Personally I think Apple is in trouble. Sustaining their dominance was never going to be easy, and I don't think they're rising to the challenges. So I expect too soon read something like this, but engaging, succinct, and persuasive.
Would you rather see a fast site with rubbish content, or a slow site with good content?

My guess is that some altruistic folks at Google see AMP as a way of offering the best of both worlds.

But most of us know that in big business, every good idea gets abused for short term profits.
These projects have completely different scope. Wikipedia on RISC-V:

> The designers claim that new principles are becoming rare in instruction-set design, as the most successful designs of the last forty years have become increasingly similar. Most of these that failed, failed because their sponsoring companies failed commercially, not because the instruction-sets were technically poor. So, a well-designed open instruction set designed using well-established principles should attract long-term support by many vendors.

* * *

> Not asking this rhetorically

It’s hard to take your comment seriously, since you don’t seem to understand what the Mill people are trying to do (even in basic concept, i.e. rethinking the entire design of the CPU).

I recommend you watch a few of Ivan Godard’s lectures. That will give you a much better idea than reading discussion here.
As a terrible human being, I tested Chinese-to-English translations on f-word-based profanity on the demo page (https://demo-pnmt.systran.net/production). The results were arguably not as good as Google Translate, which can recognize the colloquial form 操[^1] but not the more orthodox 肏. PNMT's results were great in another way as they form more fluent English.

[^1]: Everyone hijacked the character.

On the other hand, OpenNMT appears able to translate the "f* you!" sentence to "你妈！" in Chinese, a form of "操你妈" with the F word not spoken but implied. The single-f-word sentence generates amusing variations when used with different punctuations, although many ("...", "?", "!", "") fail by reducing the sentence to a normal call for one's own mother.

These experiments make me curious about what kind of corpora the system was trained on.

* * *

The test sentences used were:

操你十八辈子祖宗！[^2]
操你十八辈祖宗！
操你妈！
[^2]: This one is technically wrong.

For the orthodox version, replace all instances of 操 with 肏.

As an additional experiment, I tested some variations of "mother" profanities without "操":

1. 你妈！
2. 他妈的！
3. 他妈的。

Between #2 and #3, PNMT appears more sensitive to punctuations than human do. #1 is only included as a round-trip validation.

Edit: (#1) ... and is not supposed to be translated back into profanity due to high false positive rate.
What's wrong with the chrome browser on iOS? I've never had a problem with it.
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully after completing the program you still enjoyed it :)
It's not that complex but I think it's just that .NET naming and versions are currently quite confusing. I did a lot of reading on this for the book I wrote and I still find I need to double-check things.

I guess this is what you get when you try and munge three platforms together. Package support is very important for uptake and many library authors were waiting for some stability. I found this out when researching the support matrix at https://anclafs.com.

If you look at the volume of MS docs on this you would be forgiven for thinking it's complicated:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introduci...

https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/li...

https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xa...
It's exciting to think about a 10x improvement in CPUs. This would literally change our lives.

For anyone considering getting involved or investing could you fill in a couple of bio details?

>Ivan Godard has designed, implemented or led teams for...an operating system, an object-oriented database

Cool, which OS and database?

>taught computer science at graduate and post-graduate level at Carnegie-Mellon University

Which courses?
Welcome to medicine. I grew up the child of a doctor, and she always, ALWAYS, bought the generic. They're required BY LAW to have the same "active" ingredients; you just might be paying for a slightly different pill shape, packaging, or taste.
I was once on a train for 30 hours. I had a book with me that was two inches thick, fine pages, small print, an anthology of 50's science fiction. I was rationing it carefully toward the end of the trip, because after the train ride there was an 8 hour flight. I wished I had a Kindle so I could carry more books - I haven't been without one since.
> Why? You just said it almost never helps.

Yeah, great question! I didn't really address that part.

What I really meant is that I almost never "win" the argument. I've overtly changed someone's mind before, but that's like 10% of the time, at best. So making that my goal wouldn't be a good idea.

More often, I can get the other person to expand their point of view, even just a little bit. I can gain some credibility in their minds as someone they may disagree with, but can respect. And it opens the door to the perception that maybe the point of view I represent isn't directly opposed to their tribe. For people I tend to debate repeatedly, I can tell there's a shift over time.

Not to mention the fact that I'm not always right. I learn a lot from people who aren't already inclined to mindlessly Like everything I post. Debating people makes me a better thinker and persuader.

But I think most importantly, I do it for the audience. I suspect that in many of these debates, the lurkers are much less entrenched in their point of view than me or the person I'm debating with. Those are the people I really want to move. And that's a big reason why it's crucial to be civil, sincere, and avoid blowing up on people. Nothing turns off a neutral onlooker like someone being an asshole, even if it's righteous.
Montana TV station EAS system hacked a few years a go [1]. While I applaud for the humor, I am still in awe of how little attention this Orson Welles(ish) episode got.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQWtqJylMKQ
From reddit:

Clarification here, CVS cut the retail price of the existing generic for Adrenaclick (known as Epinephrine).

This generic has been around for a while, but isn't an A/B rated generic so it's illegal for a pharmacy to dispense this if a prescription is written for EpiPen. We can dispense this if a prescription is written for Adrenaclick or Epinephrine.

Make sure your doctor writes a script for Adrenaclick or it is illegal for us to dispense this cheaper generic to you

Edit: The injection device of each product is what limits the A/B rating. Adrenaclick and EpiPen have different autoinjector systems. Yes the regulations are that strict. Here's[0] a video showing the difference between Adrenaclick, Epipen, and AuviQ (which has been recalled and discontinued).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRgqwgCh4Fs

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5njj2x/comment/dcbyju...
Software Development Automation, your own great code in half the time
While I prefer an 12.5" ultrabook with Arch + a tiling window manager (i3) as my daily driver. There're still moments I need my Macbook Pro:

- Sketch (this is macOS' killer app, there is no other app on any OS where you can create mockups that fast and accurate)

- Support of multiple 27" screens with 5K (5K makes a difference and the new 15" MBP can drive 2 (!) of them at the same time)

- Xcode (and if it's sometimes just for using the iOS simulator)

- Word (for contracts) and Excel (rarely)

- And of course the trackpad: sometimes I have to deliver and when in panic mode, the touchpad must work 100%

But when I look myself at the list above, it's not much left to migrate fully to another OS.

Edit: Thanks for the downvote but why?
These guys could probably use your skills > http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-vertical-fa...
They removed PPTP, which is a terrible protocol.

>"why in the hell are you still trying to use that piece of crap"

I'd've retorted with "Why the hell are you still using PPTP for your VPN?"
I've also seen and thought of that retort lots of times which is why I made sure to qualify my statements.

What you're saying is true, but there's not that much you can say about languages that ISN'T personal preference, in the end. What I'd really like to hear is from someone that's enjoyed lisps, AND other languages, and feels that another language would be the one on which to make this claim (the claim that a language was the "end-all-be-all" of programming languages).

You mentioned not building it yourself on top of lisp, but that wasn't my point. My point is that if I DID have to build it myself, I would choose lisp as the language to amend, not that it makes sense that everything is built on lisp. That's what makes me think of it as a possible end-all-be-all language for me, and what makes me think I could make that claim about it. I can't think another language that is as expressive, flexible, yet as simple as lisp.

My point was that, knowing and liking languages other than lisp, Lisp is the only language that I could consider making such a claim about. A haskeller COULD easily say they like an opinionated language, and that would totally be their choice, and they'd be right, for them. I simply offered my opinion why I could imagine myself making that claim.
A lot of people want the brand name because they think it might be better. They don't do the research and they don't want to take any risk with their health, so they just pay for the brand name. Sometimes this is a reasonable choice (as you say, not all generics are exactly equivalent) and sometimes it's not. People who won't do the research won't know which case they're in.

As for insurance companies, they're probably paying far less than the listed price, and have either negotiated it down to be the same as the generic (why not, it costs the same to make) or got close enough and are willing to absorb some extra cost in order to attract people who think it matters.
Chromecast (first-gen) gave me lots of annoying issues, just not beefy enough IMO. We upgraded to a Roku 4 and the difference is night and day, much better performance everywhere, interface doesn't get hung and require an unplug, stream hiccups are very rare, things like YouTube can be smoothly controlled from phones whereas Chromecast would constantly choke.
I have side project where we charge 60€/month to our customers (mostly small businesses but also individuals).

What we did to build a userbase is to pay a small fee (1,5€) to freelancers of our trust who would find possible clients (not random but selected people) and write a personalised message for them that we would send. Whenever someone becomes a client, they get extra money (7€).

If you run the numbers, it's just a matter of probability the fact that we make more money from paying them to find people (and knowing that a lot will fail) than from staying with our userbase without growing.

So far, it's been a good method.
> how it's unsurprising for a physically-healthy person to take for granted the ability to use stairs

I broke my arm a year ago and I was surprised to see how much rote behavior I relied on using my left hand for! It was pretty enlightening and I try to think about what I take for granted from time to time.
Not sure I can speak to this question since I'm not affiliated with admissions at all, but I can tell you the makeup of my cohort.

Most (I'm guessing 75%, possibly higher) have some work experience. Most have either strong math background or strong software background but there are exceptions. Lots of former engineers of all kinds, chemical, mechanical, software, etc.
Yeah but being a demagogue is a lot of fun. It feels like you're telling me the wealthy are suffering, or the role reversal in Hegel's master slave relationship.
I'm not sure what you are saying. My argument is that it is a myth that most things will get only security updates.

That is, the version scheme States the point is to somehow be in a position to get only security updates. However, unless there is an org specifically for maintaining a library, your only hope of getting updates is to take all updates. So, to stay on the latest.
I also graduated with a MSCS from GT. While I agree that a Masters degree is not a good signal for a job candidate, having Georgia Tech as your last institution of study instead of your potentially "lower" undergraduate program is.

The question remains is if an online degree has the same credibility. Looking back at my time at GT, I cannot see how operating solo, without the constant feedback from your peers and faculty, is as good. There is more than just what is in the study material. The other question is if the entrance requirements are still as stringent.
In addition to what nathanaldensr suggested I would add that you should try to architect your application in a way that you don't have to wait for the DB to give your ID back.

Using GUID as ID is an option, but there are plenty of other methodologies to generate the ID in the client and not be held hostage by the DB to get your IDs.
I have one. I'm writing a Forth for it at the moment, using the ISA simulator as well. It's nice hardware in terms of looks/stability, has arduino compatible pin layout, etc.

It has a lot of Flash for your images or whatever but very little SRAM, even compared to e.g. the Arduino Zero. Only 16KB. So that's quite unfortunate. I only had a Uno R1 though, so it's an upgrade for me in every dimension.

The clock speed is very high comparatively so it could drive some things that may've been out of reach, but they aren't entirely clear on the power usage. The Dhrystone/mW metric is obviously very good but if you don't need raw speed and little SRAM, it's unclear how well it fares power-wise. You could probably get away with less.

The tooling seems to work fine, including the OpenOCD-based debugger (though it has some natural limitations), and compiler toolchain. It'll be nice when the binutils port is upstream so I can get rid of a custom build.

I don't know about the Arduino IDE support. I don't use it. While it's pin-compatible, most Arduino libraries probably need some light modifications to work with the HiFive1 so you can reliably use stock shields/extensions. They have some examples (e.g. Adafruit capacitive display library) on GitHub of doing this. So you can use it with existing stuff if you get your hands a little dirty.

There are no gerber files or masks or whatever I guess, though the RTL they use is available, and they do have directions on how to synthesize the RTL for a small Xilinx Artix FPGA to develop the chip. The FPGA is about $70 I think so you could also go that route and use the soft-core version, though only if you care about HDL.

It's all very new, e.g. the original Dhrystone port on GitHub was a bit busted, but they fixed it very fast. Expect some roughness, but it's mostly been smooth for me since I just use GDB/GCC, OpenOCD and the simulator.

I'd suggest buying it if you want to experiment with RISC-V, support the project, and play with the new tooling -- but probably not as an Arduino replacement, if you have something like a Zero already. Unless you're willing to get your hands dirty, which maybe you are!
I think you are missing the disagreements with AMP entirely. Google, with less effort, could have released a series of requirements for a page to be considered "AMP"ed: (examples) 0 blocking script requests, less than 500KB in total page load, page loads in under 1s, etc. Once your pages meet these requirements, they gain the AMP moniker.

Instead, google built an entirely new presentation method itself. This engineering effort can not be ignored and it was not on accident that this happened. They are quite literally stealing the traffic of users who implement AMP.
> This is not the problem.

It's certainly a large part of the problem. All this unnecessary offloading of processing to the client has gotten way out of hand. Why does a simple Wordpress blog (or any blog for that matter) that is essentially serving read-only pages need React in the first place? I have yet to see a blog that needs to be designed as an SPA.
What happens if you take a loan to study but can't pay it back? I'm thinking it makes it impossible to eventually get any other credit like a mortgage?
In addition, many ASP.NET server-side projects had a fun time making changes required to properly survive cross-thread transfer of per-request data. (This was possible in the past but rarely happened.)

https://github.com/Glimpse/Glimpse/issues/632
(2016)
What has happened to many municipalities that tried is that the incumbent telcos went to the state legislature and had laws passed making it illegal for cities to run their own telecom infrastructure.

Basically, the political will has to be present at the city AND state level for this to happen. And that turns out to be a small set.
My school, Purdue University, has been making a big push towards IBR. The biggest issue with it I can see, is that, as far as I can tell, there's no cap on the money collected. That is to say, if they take 15% of your income, and you end up making lots of money, they will continue collecting their share past the actual cost of college. It honestly makes me feel like they see me as an indentured servant, not a student.
Oh, I certainly understand that. I just find it interesting that there often doesn't seem to be a big distinction drawn between Masters degrees with a thesis component and those without--even though that's a pretty big difference. It's hardly unique to Georgia Tech. My understanding is that many Stanford Masters degrees don't require a thesis either.
On a related note, does anyone know who and what meeting PE Trump was referring to yesterday?

"One of the things we’re going to do, we have some of the greatest computer minds anywhere in the world that we've assembled. You saw just a sample of it two weeks ago up here we had the six top people in the world. They were never the same room together as a group. And we’re going to put those minds together, and we're going to form a defense."
Sorry, Newton didn't "make bets", he was not a Silicon Valley VC. He worked on problems that he found interesting and that he believed would reveal eternal truths established and maintained by God.
I would definitely be on-board with this proposal (or "for one hour, until the end of the day" similar to "Find Friends".)
So you concede that you were being obtuse ;)
This is great thank you. I am applying for the OMSCS currently but this seems to be a better fit for me as I am looking for a combination of math and practical experience with modeling.
HiFive1 is fully* funded. Mine will be coming in the mail any day now. ;- )

* With some private subsidy
It doesn't help that many of the people I personally knew who were mac evangelists (programmers) in the late 80s and early 90s tended to be sniveling elitists.
At least they're stable. I have bookmarks on HP datasheet pages from the early 2000s that still work.
Excommunication, ostracism and poverty.
Nothing - under the current rules the Government writes off the debt after a number of years (either when you turn 65, after 25, 30 or 35 years, depending on when you got the loan and where in the UK you went to Uni). Also, having a student loan has little to no effect on obtaining bank loans or mortgages.
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