skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In France at least, attempts to liberalise labor laws tend to cause riots. I don't know about Spain or Italy but they have famously sclerotic labor markets that never seem to get reformed. It's just not a priority of the voters.

Not sure what's going on with more liberalised countries like the Netherlands, but consider the massive influxes of people from continental Europe to the UK, which has relatively relaxed labor laws, and that may have something to do with it.

Also, note that most of the people the article covers don't have any skills worth talking about. They studied art history, social analysis, hotel management and things like that. Such people would find it hard to find a committed employer even in better times. The first example is a doctor, but she suffers from a double whammy of regulation: not only labor laws but also licensing that makes it hard for her to even relocate to a better run country.
And to be sure, if they are talentless jerks, there's no reason to put up with them.
I don't think this is the "end of brick and mortar" which doesn't mean it's a bad idea for Buffett to sell.

If you look at the holdings, Walmart doesn't really fit with the rest of the business and isn't likely to grow anymore like it has in the past. Especially, when you consider that they haven't been able to get much of a foothold overseas. So the question then is hold or sell for Buffett. Clearly, he think's it's more likely to stagnate rather than pay a steady dividend and make more cash for the rest of the business, so it's sell.

IMO, Walmart's going to have more consolidation ahead and may not make the margins they were, but they're also the only game in town for a large part of America. And they will be until we get better broadband through much of the U.S.
We are talking about companies worth billions. They can't manage to exist in a more regulated environment?

Or is it that they don't want to, in which case the obvious question is why?
To be extra, extra pedantic, clock speed is not the only factor. You must also take in to account the number of NOPs executed per cycle (NPC).

Indeed, chip architects would struggle to find a way to execute vast quantities of NOPs efficiently until the release of the Itanium in 2001.
> As long as the person you are saying it to understands that you respect him/her

what kind of person would say that with full vitriolic sincerity to someone they respect? Why say that when you could say, "I strongly disagree for the following reasons..." or something else similarly diplomatic and actually productive?
The ad is also in the URL:

https://github.com/axibase/atsd-use-cases ...

Still, its a TSDB that I wasn't aware of, so it worked on me!

Actually a really practical way of showcasing a product without markitecture brochureware. A GitHub repo and links to Docker images.
I just love this idea. If only I didn't get stares and outright contempt for my (leftist) political views. If only one of the two parties here in America actually ran on a social democratic platform (let alone further left) and won. If only there weren't literally ICE raids sweeping up undocumented people like its interwar europe. This position is just bizarre. Flat out bizarre. It serves only to stfile debate and keep the frame of rhetoric for anyone from the center right over squarely within "I'm in the minority, I'm the victim".
I don't follow the logic in your original statement. You don't think MIT is motivated by the fact that they have students and professors from these countries, who have nothing to do with autocrats? Surely you're not accusing every Iranian MIT professor of being a despot.
Russian hacker Rasputin breaches over 60 Universities and Government Agencies
I think it's more likely that we are just getting better at diagnosing it, and the autism spectrum has not only existed throughout human history, but a large minority of our most celebrated artists, scientists and mathematicians were likely on the spectrum to a degree or another.
I wish! Windows servers is an excellent excuse to not have it. Two years running now there still isn't a practical solution for Windows servers and none in sight for the foreseeable future.
Here's the thing: some people are jerks. Calling a jerk a jerk is fine, IMO. (Some people are racists; calling a racist a racist is also OK.)

Avoiding calling someone exhibiting a negative behavior by the accepted label for that behavior is healthier than tiptoeing around and pretending that Hannibal Lecter just has different dietary preferences and that's OK.
$300 in prizes for testers
Interactive algorithm visualizations
Of course you shouldn't mix servers that handle and ignore the leap second in one pool, so OpenNTPD servers aren't accepted in the ntp.org pool. Doesn't mean you can't run OpenNTPD as an internal server for your machines :)

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=143544318718489&w=2
When such "decisions" mean me and my family are incurring a substantially higher risk of getting some deadly disease, things are no longer so nice and well-manicured as you describe them.
Bootstrapping: CouchDB as event store
Why Today's Decision Over Who Invented CRISPR Matters
The Sony hack had a significant negative impact on her career. The parent post asserts that this "is a dream come true for the people who take infrastructure and security seriously." because people in powerful positions won't care / listen to their security teams unless they fear the consequences of ignoring them.
So, replace people in charge with non-humans ? On the bright side the political spectrum can be perfectly defined to the average of the voters. (People would vote on ethical, moral, socialism-liberals problems basically.)
But the code is not going to be easy, or easily accepted ;)
The entire thing is built on the ecosystems created by companies that were all venture backed at one point, though.
That's exactly the point. All the talk from Microsoft about dev platforms has been about C# and .NET for over a decade now, but their flagship apps are actually still developed in C++.
That probably applies much more to underfunded grassroots activists then to large corporate lobbyists. The large corporate lobbyists have organized long term plans working from state houses to DC to accomplish multi year goals. Take a look at ALEC for example.

It's like the difference between some GPL open source project and Google's latest Android release.
"I think the risk that my child might get polio and develop horrific, crippling, and permanent physical disorders that will make the rest of their life a struggle is acceptable given how horrible autism is!"

Ask someone older than 70 what polio is like. They all have stories of someone they know being struck down by it, and even those that squeaked through and survived never did well.
Hey, you sound like a jerk:

- stating your opinion as fact

- not trying to mentor or give learning opportunities

- relying on being 'right' (I'm rich and successful because I manage jerks the right way)
PUD has a well deserved reputation among solo entrepreneurs. I think Distro Kid is his fifth startup.

All but one of his companies (the one unsuccessful one) were powered by CFML.
That's pretty cool. I've considered doing things like that to set up a secure overlay network to lock down a 'sort of' private l2 network.

Any reason you didn't use weave?
FWIW, predictions in my neck of the woods (the SF peninsula) are uncannily accurate. Rain is usually predicted with high reliability a week in advance, and we can generally rely on the hour-by-hour predictions a day or two ahead. I realize that our location is particularly easy to predict because of how our weather is dominated by the Pacific ocean, but you've got to take your wins where you can find them.
One more objectionable fact about TF: There's a separate better documentation repo for Google insiders only. That's not kosher.
Earth imaging company Planet and the ISRO break records with 88 satellite launch
Met @pud once while he was CEO of Blippy. Very nice guy and great to talk to. I also absolutely love his post: "Why Must You Laugh at My Back End" (http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...). He's built lots of crazy impressive stuff by himself and DistroKid is no different.
The last recession in the US ended officially ended in 2009. I know the recovery has arguably been sluggish and uneven, but it doesn't seem like the slow & steadily rising GDP over an eight year span should explain much of this shorter-term jump in vehicular deaths.
Why have there been no Diep.io updates lately? Would you like to join our Diep.io Discord: https://discord.gg/vJVqhTf#discordbutton?
Προσεκτικά οι ομάδες και στο στοίχημα
rustbuild is actually pure-Rust. The entire Rust build is written in Rust (Rust is bootstrapped all the way down!). The python scripts are a slim wrapper that downloads the bootstrap compiler to get into the Rust world.
> completely wrong about Gandhi.

Was he?

I've always thought his worst error was in shipping the Cossacks back to Stalin's machine guns.
Nothing in that story suggest ability to tolerate potentially biting criticism from other people. The story suggest ability to dish it out.

The dude presented opinions and preferences as facts. Is there any reason to think he would easily accept when one of juniors called him on it? Because if he would be able to accept the criticism, one of colleges would be able to convince him that some of his criticism is wrong. To me it sounds more like he used the biting criticism to keep the "top dog" position.

People who can tolerate potentially biting criticism wont present preferences as facts all that much, because there would learn from people criticizing them for that in the past.
> And frankly i am not sure how much "he" won it and how much he basically survived it.

He was very active in creating a military build up long before the war started, Britain could have fallen had it not been for his planning.
Drug-slinging catapult seized on US-Mexico border
You found the perfect words for how I currently feel.
This is scary enough when you have an administration that's able to deal with a crisis in an effective way.

Right now I'm not sure the US administration could manage to bungle up something only as badly as the Hurricane Katrina response.
This article was written with the intent to make its readers worse at recognizing patterns. Put bluntly, it was written to make you more stupid for the benefit of the authors or their principals.

It doesn't belong here. The persuasion is ham-handed and obvious, but clearly effective enough to get it on the front page here.
It’s Really Hard to Fill in a Web Form When Your Name Is Mr. Sample
Oracle has burned so many bridges they're living on an island of their own creation.
I love what you're doing! But have to observe disparity between:

> beating VC-backed startups

and

> DistroKid intentionally has a small team and no investors. We’re here to make the world a better place for musicians — not to make billions from them. We’d make ludicrously more money if we charged what the other distributors do.

It sounds like you're coexisting quite nicely with different objectives.
It used to, but it doesn't anymore, presuming you use a reasonably recent compiler. If you enable optimizations the assembly for that snippet and the default constructor are identical, I last checked on some GCC 5 flavor, but I think it was like this all the way back in GCC 3 something.

Compilers can do some pretty fancy things with literals because they know they optimize constants known at compile time.
Chez Scheme as the Racket VM
This article is the best example I've ever seen of how smart people can convince themselves of anything, no matter how absurd, if they want to believe it enough.

The author likes Objective C and doesn't like Swift. That's fine. But he's let that emotional state override his rationality to the point that it totally colors and distorts his thinking.

None of his arguments hold together. They're all speculation based on supposition based on guesswork, and all under-laid by an almost desperate desire that this fantasy will come true, and that Apple will drop Swift. It's like listening to a broken-hearted man explain how his ex-lover will soon return to him. How this is a test that only make their love stronger in the end, etc.

Apple aren't going to drop Swift. It is the future of iOS and macOS development, and the sooner the author accepts that and moves on with his life, the better.
Like this:

in the Scheme programming language you would write

(define (add a b) (+ a b))

in my language you would write

.(add).. a b

number

.(+).. a b

to define subtraction declaratively in terms of "add" you would write the following

.(sub).. a b

number

.(add).. () b a

this says "to subtract b from a find the quantity that added to b equals a"

genetic algorithms are used as a mechanism for finding the quantity in question
I posted our YCF Application today: https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoys-yc-fellowship-applicatio...
FC, oh boy, happy days :)
Anti-vaxxers and anti-GMOs are the proof that far right and far left meet each other in the extremes.
I belive that "no jerks" policy basically means that everybody needs to be nice and civil with each other.

This does not mean that mistakes are allowed and things are done by consensus.

The problem with jerks is that they are jerks: people do not like them and it is hard to work with them and that is not good. Nothing else. Sometimes that is ok - but in many cases it is not ok since team and project needs to grow into other areas where that "brilliant jerk" will not be so brilliant.
Apocryphal and incorrectly attributed to make it sound like he never even said something with that sense. The two quotes are more than alike enough in sentiment to attribute the idea to him, if not the exact words.

In which case, "Jonathan Swift once said something like...."
Uh oh, about to get into an argument over terms that have no precise definition, but I believe that in the context of Objective-C vs. Swift, Objective-C is perfectly fair to be considered weakly typed. In fact I think that in the context of Objective-C vs. most other typed languages it is perfectly fair to consider Objective-C weakly typed, especially when the dominant culture involved using id everywhere and since generics were only added very late in the language so your base collection classes were all weakly typed for 99% of the life of the language. I'd find it really eyebrow-raising for someone to not consider Objective-C "more weakly typed" than Swift, or do you think that Swift did not introduce a culture of stronger typing?

But I digress: regardless of whether syntax is trivial or not, my point is that I believe wanting to have a clear break from a syntactic perspective with a language that was plagued as being "different looking" for its entire life was probably a goal in the creation of a new language. Do you really not remember pre-Swift where "Objective-C is weird looking" was an actual argument people would make? Objective-C could have been made more safe, it could not however have its syntax drastically altered without considering it a new language.
Just about sums up why I still use it if I want to get something done.
The "School of the Americas" was a U.S. Army operation originally based in Panama to train military from mostly Latin America countries. It's been criticized on various grounds, but bin Laden never went there.
Or just "Jonathan Swift (paraphrase)"
Despite his intellect, he was a child really and his only hope was for management to rein him in and focus on deliverables (which they did not).
What puts a child at high-risk for Autism?
Or NRA - the ultimate single interest group
CFML is not a "hip" language, so I don't care /s

This a lesson for all of us developers (myself especially!) who end up fussing over what kind of language/framework/server to use before writing a single line of code.

Props to @pud.
Unbounce Review and Promo Codes: How to Create Gorgeous Landing Pages
This is pretty darn cool and the first I've heard of it. I thought there'd be a cheaper way to do what your competitors have and here you've done it. What your success also confirms is that reducing your workload with bots and cronjobs are one of the keys to succeeding with a small team.

How do you handle support?

How are you able to find infringing music?
Ask HN: Is there any affordable V2V technology a researcher could buy?
I am a graduate student in computer science and I want to do some research in V2V communications, but the companies I have reached out to have all shot me down. Is there anything I can buy that works mostly out of the box?
Mmake: Modern make
This is another example that it's a misconception that you have to have a big team and lots of cash to get to the next level

Stories like this hearken to people like Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
Honestly, why would you as a founder of Uber/AirBnB/other big startup want to exit? You are probably already very rich. All your employees are staying put. If you need capital there's plenty to go around. No need to listen to Wall St. telling you what to do with your company. If anything it seems that going public is a necessary nuisance for many of these startups.
I don't think it's nice or well-manicured at all, quite the opposite in fact. I just can't get myself to a point where I think it's reasonable to force a medical procedure on someone. Forced medical procedures have been used in too many evil ways in the past, always under the guise of a greater societal good. I agree that the societal good (herd immunity) is very real and very important in this case, I just can't square myself with the costs of obtaining it.
Trying to frame gay-hating as misogyny summaries quite well what is wrong with current feminism and why many avoids calling themselves feminists even though it is a noble cause in theory. Not everything is about women.

I mean, when an assertive female is called "bossy" is that misandry? She was shamed for displaying male traits, right?
Your opinion isn't truthful. Your implicit claim is that by educating foreigners we enable despotism to work better, an argument which is self-evidently specious in an era of widely accessible information. .
Someone explained to you already, in a different thread - this is just accidental correlation.

We know it because children who didn't get the vaccine show Autism symptoms around the same time.
There's a growing number of startups in Toronto, mostly in the Fintech space. Amazon's office here has around 500 devs now too, doing various interesting things (I spent 5 years there).

Apart from the madness that is housing prices, dev wages vs cost of living aren't too bad here. Hopefully that housing bubble pops, and then Toronto will really be attractive to developers.
Vasm: A portable and retargetable assembler
Many, many wasted hours.
I've been working on a bootstrapped company building a low-cost MRI for about a year now. We're hoping to have a demonstrable prototype in another year or so.

So we think that we can get to that future where people pick MRI based on application and not cost or availability.
Oh right, and I forgot Marc Andreesen. This was from The Hard Thing About Hard Things:

To: Marc Andreessen
Cc: Mike Homer
From: Ben Horowitz
Subject : Launch

I guess we’re not going to wait until the 5th to launch the strategy.

— Ben

To: Ben Horowitz
Cc: Mike Homer, Jim Barksdale (CEO), Jim Clark (Chairman)
From: Marc Andreessen
Subject: Re: Launch

Apparently you do not understand how serious the situation is.We are getting killed killed killed out there. Our current product is radically worse than the competition. We’ve had nothing to say for months. As a result, we’ve lost over $3B in market capitalization. We are now in danger of losing the entire company and it’s all server product management’s fault.

Next time do the fucking interview yourself.

Fuck you,

Marc
Postgresql testing works the same way it has worked for the last 20-30 years. Each test consists of a SQL script, an expected result file, and a result file. A shell script runs the SQL script through the pg commandline, and dumps the results to the results file. Diff then tells you if the test pass. Also the shell scripts were rewritten in C for cross platform support. Not available via SQL, ie vacum? No tests. Concurrent modifications? No tests. Testing query plans that don't use order by have fun.

They have a new test suite built around TAP (https://testanything.org/) and perl so now they have automated tests for more things like certs, and replication.
This is nice, but the thing that is going to hurt them massively here is standing issues.
All of the harm to the plaintiffs in these cases is very attenuated compared to direct lawsuits from people affected.

The current 9th circuit one has a large chance of getting reversed on standing issues (en banc most likely), and honestly, probably should be.

Past that ,the real best hope is that folks like Thomas, et al will ask "remind me again why, if the constitution gives this power to congress, you believe it's okay for congress to give all of it to the executive branch"

But that seems unlikely.
More likely roberts decides he doesn't want to be on the wrong side of history.
Yes, the Makefiles were an abomination. Nobody could understand them. The reason the makefiles are so heavily macroized like they are is because of cross-compile bootstrapping, where the build rules are the same in many configurations, with slight differences. Effectively, large swaths of the makefiles were parameterized over 4 different values.
It isn't. It's just a derailment tactic to prevent discussion of the brief's own arguments.
I set up a honeypot and made this commit: https://github.com/teaearlgraycold/honey/commit/7c4289717979...

Already had a couple of sassy individuals telling me my honeypot is shit via the tty logging.
As a society we've worked hard to eradicate things like polio, measels, and other violently contagious diseases that left uncheecked would destroy the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of that society I have the right to benefit from our collective efforts because those efforts were done for me, for you, for everyone, without exclusion. These things were given to us by our ancestors, by our governments, by our own individual contributions.

Right now there are people working tirelessly and facing extreme risk to elininate the tiniest pockets of polio in the world. They are killed on a worryingly regular basis because of a form of anti-vaxx sentiment: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36090891

If you're a staunch libertarian your position should be that I can do whatever I want so long as I don't infringe upon your rights, and one of the most fundamental rights is a right to live and do what I please.

Unvaccinated people can strip you of your right to live.
> Prolog is one example of a language that automatically solves declarative constraints but the syntax is bad.

The syntax is fine, but conventional logic programming is insufficient for what you describe; you need something more likely constraint logic programming as inplemented in, among other languages, Oz.
Individual Contributors gotta contribute individually
Rap Jingle Teaching How to Forge Free Subway Rides in NYC
Children also cannot get the MMR until 12 months of age. So for the first year they're vulnerable to infection.
I'm not sure if you were trying to suggest otherwise, but Utah's childhood vaccination rates are quite good relative to other US States: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6341a1.htm
CFML is and always was an inferior tech. Worse than PHP, together with ASP. But kudos to the Guy that makes itvwork the way he need.