skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have liked to see what would Gate would have managed to do if he was born in the slums of India not in Seattle, a lawyer as a father and a person in the board of directors of a bank holding as a mother.
You should take a look at what the guys on /r/unixporn do.
I'd like to just point out that iq used to work for Pixar[0] :)

[0] http://www.iquilezles.org/personal/curri/curri.htm
Yes, a very important aspect. You even have to lead your manager/boss sometimes.
They get arrested and even convicted, but then almost immediately pardoned. Only in very few cases do the convictions and sentences actually stand. Mostly they just go back to business.
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You are right. I'm not from the US and my definition of Midwest was totally off. This map confirms my ignorance: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/2522624ada2c1f9e0fafb75cca09442...

Thanks for pointing it out.
Well, yeah. Imagine there's heart surgery which has only 20% success rate. So every time 100 people go in for that surgery, only 20 survive.

Now, someone makes a robot that has 100% success rate, but every 100 operations, it has a glitch in the sofware, where it stabs and kills the patient instead. It has been calculated that on average, using the robot only kills 1-2 out of 100 people going in for surgery, compared to the old method of 80 people out of 100. The robot is clearly 80 times better than manual procedure, so why not keep using it?

The answer seems to be - because robot killing people is not an unavoidable outcome. It can be fixed. It's a software problem, a mistake that costs someone their lives. Similarily, an auto-driving Tesla may be killing less people on average than manual drivers, but that doesn't mean that any software problems that lead to it don't matter.
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I know the rules, and how to apply them. But they are not trivial. The fact that such documents need to be written in the first place, and the fact that utilities like cdecl exist, is a strong testimony to that.
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The only thing they need to do, from investor perspective, is to slide on profit/loss margin line while eating market in big chunks - until human drivers can be phased out.
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Amazon is going to kill more American jobs than China did
Reducing the H-1B count will only increase use (and abuse) of J-1, L-1, O-1 visas.

Doesn't the immigration system favor big corporations of the tech industry enough? You want to make it even harder for everyone else, without addressing the real issue?
That explains how they ended up with context-dependent syntax - you're right, in the absence of typedefs, it's context-free to parse because of tags. But it can still be a pain to read, if you run into things like arrays of pointers to functions.
There are a bunch of tools to map LinkedIn profiles to emails. I've found https://www.nymeria.io to be best so far, especially if you want personal emails as well as business emails...
Part of the reason is that most variables do not have much meaning.

What name do you ascribe to "a continuous function from R to R"?

Another detail is that you are rarely juggling more than 10 or so names at once.

A lot of math at a higher level becomes abstract enough to where elements no longer have a concrete meaning. What does the x in integral(f(x)dx) mean? It's more about some things being harder to write in point free style rather than anything else.

This is perhaps why it's common to have short names for arguments in functional languages as well.
We hired 50% of a 10 person startup team from Angel List, rest from referals, no luck hiring from LinkedIn.

For startups AngelList makes a lot of sense and solves for problems like a wide variance in salary, non existent recruitment pipelines and general match making. Although the candidate pool is much smaller I think it helps keep the search focused. My personal experience with LinkedIn was a lot more spray and pray. LinkedIn does have much better candidate filtering if your looking for something very specific.
Guess I'm not upgrading soon! Thanks for mentioning
Of course, thanks for the good work :)
Well, I don't know about her, but I'm spending a considerable amount of time of making my system usable as a two-in-one device (Lenovo Yoga).

Still beats the hell out of using Windows, because I can actually fix things that I don't like instead of accepting them.
She has a long history of working in container security.

It seems to be an exercise in overengineering.
>Hipchat's perf is horrible

I've noticed that Slack performs a lot worse than HipChat.
perhaps state what you actually hope to achieve in doing this rather than run native in macOS?
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The latest episode of Risky Business podcast (risky.biz) had a good section with Alec Muffatt about this too.[0]

It's well worth listening to, with Alec being both considerate and colourful at the same time.

Disclaimer: regular listener, otherwise not affiliated.

0: http://risky.biz/RB439
While I agree that you can increase you "luck surface area" (e.g., by taking more chances), that doesn't mean it will help. It implies you also are increasing you "unlucky surface area", so if you "somehow" attract (?) more good/bad luck, you might as well just end up being far more miserable than if you had not. In other words, I don't believe luck to be a variable, it seems much more of a constant that you've been born with.
The almost immediate modal pop-up on those pages is pretty annoying. It's just as easy (if not easier) to close the page rather than the overlay.

The problem with these intrusive tactics is literally the next thread on HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439828
Never been to /r/unixporn but ricing my desktop and Linux os is what taught me Linux to the point of becoming an SA, then an SE. Amazing way to learn Linux.
But for an enterprising upstart, there's a super welcoming continent that's more than happy to help you rinse the market for a little while to further their own objectives.
i3-gaps + Polybar + random color scheme and a wallpaper?

I'm using the same combo right now, but /r/unixporn just isn't as exciting to me as it was maybe a year ago. Everything posted there seems to follow one specific path nowadays.
I do not see steps 4-7. After 3, I stay on that page. Sometimes in the past I would see an overlay on that page. I don't get redirected anywhere, and I'm 100% sure I never was (there was only popup). I wonder where's the discrepancy coming from.

Also, google bot would be redirected too, unless of course it's simply logged in :)
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That's also a solved problem - Mercedes cars have "attention assist" which can figure out how attentive you are by measuring how you drive. If you are literally falling asleep at the wheel, the system will get very annoying and insist that you stop for some rest.

Of course, whatever algorithm they are using won't work if the car is driving itself, you can't judge the reaction time if all the driver is doing is holding the wheel.
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An argument from personal incredulity is still a logical fallacy. It's easy to see why this line of reasoning doesn't make sense.

If we're living in a simulation the thing most likely to running the simulation is ourselves, in the future.

It's easy to see why that would be valuable, e.g. this could be a simulation to see what happens if a war broke out in 1914, and all the downstream effects on that happening.
>There are no visual cues in the design - characters and scenery share the same palette, important elements (like payloads, turrets, etc) don't stand out.

All key characters/items have a unique silhouette which makes it easy to pick out at a glance

>(no indication of where the playload will go).

There's a giant colorful line on the ground that denotes the path the payload will take

Not saying you have to like the game (It seems like it's not for you).
This is now fixed on the stable release, but space is only released when you restart docker at present. Online freeing is being worked on too.
SA = System Administrator, SE = Software Engineer?
Systems Engineer. Started as an SA, worked my way to SE, but being a Linux hobbyist is what taught me all my knowledge on Unix. Never went to University. What the guys on /r/unixporn do is pretty much what I'd do with my OS, but add the networking and server-side stuff too.
Singapore is doing it because the alternative would be to use much more of their tiny island for car-related infrastructure. The total cost of that infrastructure would be much higher than what the sum of the COE's[1] would cost.

Are you sure Singapore is artificially inflating the cost, or that where you live isn't artificially subsidizing the cost of car ownership?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Entitlement#His...
The person you tell that might not agree with your assessment, and in fact feel even more insulted. Also, I am not sure if everybody can reach the same level of competence. Not saying it is impossible, just that I don't know what is the current state scientific knowledge with respect to that.

Certainly, for example with men and women, there would be physical tasks were women can not reach the level of men.
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Windows is quite configurable if you put the time and effort into it. Not as configurable as Linux, but it can get to about 80% of the way there (to get to 100% you need serious COM/Win32 chops).
Docker does cache COPY calls AFAIK.

If you're copying your whole directory though the cache breaks if any file changes.

The normal way of doing it is to copy stuff like requirements.txt, package.json, Gemfile etc first and install stuff, then copy everything else at the end
CSP mitigates the risks of XSS attacks.

If you look at : https://cspvalidator.org/#url=https://github.com you'll see that the CSP policy directive defines the origins from which images can be loaded

'self' data: assets-cdn.github.com identicons.github.com collector.githubapp.com github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com *.githubusercontent.com ;

Previously, images could have been loaded from additional domains (gravatar) and could have been used to leak CSRF tokens.
Funny coincidence. I happened to point to some papers and code for superaccumulators in a StackOverflow answer yesterday: http://stackoverflow.com/a/41741276/392585
Thanks for the experimentation and report, would love to have more details.

I've been wondering myself about using docker for user stuff, and not just developer stuff, like I do currently.

Biggest problems I've figured:

* the memory usage must be very high, unless you have a hybrid system where only some apps run in container and smaller ones do not

* programs basically can't operate with each others, like accessing ssh agent or using dbus for ipc

* finding files using locate now requires a script that will run locate in each container

Are those things you already addressed, or at least you have ideas how you could address them? Or maybe, once used to a docker based system, they're not that a big deal?
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I've been a professional web developer for 20 years and I have no idea what this might refer to. If anything, many web developers share things far too readily without giving things proper consideration first.
I mean, Trump is UK slang for fart anyway. Between this and his first wife, I'm pretty sure he's doing it on purpose at this point.
As a recent graduate (actively looking for a job) I have been using LinkedIn for a while, and I am very disappointed.

I get around one response per 50 applications I send via the platform.

Recruiters don't classify their posts correctly, so when I search for "entry-level" positions, I get mostly positions that require 5 years of experience, or just list all possible web technologies so they land more search queries, etc...

Example : I search for a position with PHP/JavaScript listed as technologies. Then when contacted by the recruiter it turns out to be a JavaEE position, but "knowing PHP and JavaScript is a plus".

I'd close my account if I wasn't this desperate.

Edit: Added example
The flip side of that imo is that if you don't have Twitter-scale needs for the specific things they've optimized their infrastructure for, you probably don't need their solutions :)
Is the NYT more legitimate than RT? What about the CNN? Don't make me laugh.
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it doesn't help that each implementation is half-baked, incomplete, and unmaintained after 16 months

I couldn't agree more, that's the real problem with CL and the reason why I keep using scheme and Racket. (Well, that and the antiquated package/unit systems with multiple options and caveats.) Just take a look at cross-platform user interface library bindings, there are seemingly plenty of options, but in the end they are all some sort of unmaintained hacks that may or may not work on some implementation/platform combo. Threading itself is another example, by the way. Almost any addition to the outdated standard is a mess that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't work.

It's a pity, since CL implementations are of such a high quality (e.g. SBCL) and it offers everything a programmer can dream of.
That makes as much sense as saying "there is no such thing as a temporary credit card purchase; in most cases, loans are debt".

Also, if we're talking of debt, Twitter ought to be more concerned about its VC debt (investment).
EU commission can't pass new law, that's the prerogative of the EU parliament which is directly elected by European citizens and as such fully accountable.
Back in 1996, having just joined a developer tools company, I recall my new CEO at our first meeting saying "The developer tools market is such a shitty, shitty market"
There was a coach bus crash in the Alps a few years ago, and in the investigation they found out that one of the factors contributing to the crash was that the driver only had few years of experience, and only ever drove modern, top of the line buses. The problem with those is that they drive as easily as a small hatchback, despite being 20 meters long and weighing 17 tonnes. The engines are powerful, the transmissions are usually automatic, the brakes are strong - so you can easily forget that you are driving a 17-tonne fridge, and no matter how good your brakes are, you can't be braking continuously on a 15km long mountain descent, because the whole system will fail. The bus was equiped with engine and magnetic retarder for the drive, but like I said, on a modern bus that drives this easily, the driver just never had any need to use them. I think the report concluded that a driver with more experience in driving older vehicles, where you couldn't rely on assisted disc brakes, where all you had was a set of brake drums and just had to know how to use the 2 other braking systems, would have saved the bus.

Similarily, airplane pilots spend so much time in autopilot mode that they forget how to operate a plane in emergency situations.
Google Cloud is the least geo-distributed provider around. Which is a major problem if your use case has requirements around (a) latency and (b) data locality due to legal requirements.

In 2017 they will finally have datacenters in Sydney, London, Singapore, Frankfurt etc.
Completely, what is that?

Well, comprehensive unit tests for a start...
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This is kinda a weird thing to call "luck" though. "You" could also have been born a duck, a 1000 years ago, in the future or in another universe (maybe). But then "you" would have been somebody else and hence, not "you" at all.

In other words, "you" had 100% chance of being you. No luck involved.
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> my operating system source code, my compiler source code, my server source code, etc.

Actually, you sort of do. You may not know it yet, if you were fortunate enough to never hit a problem with an update to one of them.
Great to know, and good article. Can't help but feel that the author should have put in the full compressed images so we can view them. From the table at the bottom, Skia looks like it has quality issues, but it is kind of hard to say without seeing the full-sized compressed images. The uncompressed ones are on github, unless i've missed something, the compressed ones aren't.
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Yeah, that's the reason.
Ask HN: Where is there actual innovation in government?
We're used to fast progress and easy to identify losers and winners in the business and especially tech world. I can't think off the top of my head where there's actual progress in governance, though surely it must exist somewhere?

I like Ranked list voting, voting tests, doubling official salaries, no working for people you regulated, private voting in congress, less corporate money buying elections.

Are these system oriented approaches being done or tried anywhere? Is there some other good innovation going on somewhere?
If your assumptions were true, then software engineers, medical doctors, or persons with whatever well-payed jobs there are at a given point in time should always end up on the bright side if they are hard working and disciplined.

To that I can counter that I have met many hard working persons with excellent higher education (IT, medicine, engineering, science, no matter) in my life, but then bad luck struck and destroyed it all. Their kid died and they didn't overcome it. They had to flee a country in war and are now 50+ and unemployable. An extreme example a lawyer told me: An entrepreneurial woman with a great company stopped to help a person in an accident; Along comes a crazy car, crashes into all of them, and the woman looses both arms in the incident - now she's in deep dept and the company in ruins. And so forth...

The opposite, good luck, is just as prevalent in middle income strata, too. Take software engineers: There are usually hundreds if not thousands of persons applying for a job. Certainly there are several in most cases that would be a match. But will you be the lucky one who got picked? Etc. The article itself also has some examples, like getting an career boosting promotion earlier than normal. Yet, in the end, all (first and second world inhabitants only, and only if you were not born to some miserable parent(s)!) striving for that job and not being struck by some bad incident might end up just fine. [As I should add: But not doing maximally great either, unless being struck by one or - more likely - quite a few really lucky incidents.]

In other words, luck plays an always present role in all strata of society, not just the extremes. Only, it might not be that obvious right there, "in the middle." But whatever, the whole point of the article is about the extremes, smoothing those cases with exceptional bad or good luck, not about those in the mid ranges doing just fine...
CNN, BBC and probably all of Western media channels have their agenda, but none of them is straightforward propaganda with direct control by government as RT is. Don't make mistake here, there are no RT counterpart in West, despite RT trying very hard to "prove" otherwise.
Men are also harmed by speech that denigrates through feminization. This should not be news.
> A lot of hardcore Lisp aficionados do the equivalent of a mathematician writing a "sketch of a proof" and saying "left as an exercise", without ever writing the details of the proof. It's occasionally aggravating when you pull in a library and discover that this is the case.

That's exactly "too powerful for its own good". It's so easy to write a half-assed sketch of a library that nevertheless gives you some new powerful feature, that some people end there, and publish the sketch that was enough for their use case.
a) I'm not aware of any relational database that can alter a schema in real time on a hot table with billions of records.

b) You were quite okay to just dismiss scalability there except that's the most important requirement for a company such as this. People don't just choose Cassandra lightly given how significant its tradeoffs are.

c) Most companies are offloading analytics/reporting workloads into Hadoop/Spark and then exporting the results back to their EDW. This allows for far more functionality and keeps your primary data store free from adhoc internal workloads.

d) Nobody dismisses relational databases quickly. In almost all cases they are the first choice because they are so well understood. The issue is that most of them do have issues with linear scalability and the cost to support them quite prohibitive e.g. Teradata, Oracle.
I agree, but on more fundamental level, the problem with these intrusive is that users are penalizing (mobile) websites with intrusive pop-up ads, usually by closing them, or sometimes, by adblock.
What about their own Pop - up ad ?
Under what circumstances does the ECB's role as lender of last resort for a clearinghouse provide value?

A Euro liquidity crisis.

Would not having to provide that service for these clearinghouses be a good thing if it obligates (or effectively forces) the Bank of England to serve in that capacity instead?

Um, the BoE doesn't do Euros. By converting such derivatives to GBP, it would exacerbate a Euro liquidity crisis.
10 accidents where everybody walks away is much better than 1 accident where someone dies.

20 years ago they redid the traffic pattern where I used to live to something many people found really confusing and many people claimed felt dangerous. A study 2 years later found that, while it was true that accidents on that part of the road had increased, the number of injuries due to accidents had plummeted. A follow up study a few years later found that accidents had dropped back to around their original level and serious injuries where still basically at zero.
Exactly, although I would not find it a privilege to be as closed minded to think not everyone can wear them. :)
So what would the conclusions be in the two-test and large-test case? My assumption would be that if one of the two tests would fail, then the correlation in a large test would also have been so low as to mean no effect?
Awesome project. Kind of off-topic: I wish I could buy such a machine or something similar as fully assembled mini laptop device with a large character LCD display.

I've been looking for fully programmable, full keyboard devices with extremely long battery life (weeks not days) for years, and all I can find are old pocket calculators and vintage machines from the 80s. I've had high hopes for the PocketChip, but there you go: 5 hours battery life only. :(
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Right, but we also pay 7.6% in social security in addition to income taxes, along with hefty healthcare premiums + deductibles which you don't have to worry about[1]. We also don't have the benefit of free higher education. Despite the depressed technical wages, overall, I think the French have a better deal from a quality of life perspective -- especially if, as you say, they have children.

I hope their system proves sustainable in the long run... I wish I had a way to participate in it (I could apply for the visa, I suppose), but it would be difficult for my US academic wife to break into French academia[2] at a suitable level.

[1] In a bad year, we're talking $13K in deductibles for a family of four on an average insurance plan.

[2] Now that I think about it, she studies French domestic politics. Hmmm...
jeez, never liked the whole blackface/nerdface comparison. feel so extreme
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Right, thanks. And am I correct in thinking that your final sentence before the parentheses means that two medium tests are worse, because you don't want to filter out likely failures?
Galileo will increase geo-localisation precision tenfold