skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in Apple's best interest to continue supporting both. Why? Let's just remove the POV of app developers and simply look inside Apple.

The article mentioned a very important point. Apple itself has not adopted Swift as fast as the developer community. This is because (I don't know this for a fact, but am quite sure), a large portion of hw/sw engineers know how to write C, C++, and Obj-C. They don't just know how to write it, I bet a lot of them are damn good at it and if not, top in the industry. Why convert? As many mentioned in the comments, it would be a huge overhaul and what about Apple's internal engineers? Would they put themselves out of a job?...Not likely.

Maybe in 20 years (if there still is an Apple...), there will mostly be Swift engineers. I just don't see them shooting themselves in the foot by removing obj-c in the near future (as in 5-10 yrs).
1987 for me. Oops..
Well there's Gorgonia[0] (shameless promo: I wrote it). It's like TF/Theano. I'm finishing up porting/upgrading the CUDA related code from the older version (long story short: I needed a dependency parser and so I hacked on CUDA stuff and now I'm paying the price for not properly engineering it)

[0]: https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia
It's Craigslist for music. Low overhead. This could do to the music industry what Craiglist did to newspaper classified advertising.
Two obvious counter-examples: Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds.

10x programmer who says what he thinks, gives brutally honest feedback, doesn't couch his facts behind euphemisms or nice-guy behavior, and has extremely high standards for code quality? To many people, this description fits Linus to a T.

And even if you dispute the characterization of Linus as a jerk, Steve Jobs certainly was. I don't see how anyone can hear stories about the way he treats his colleagues and employees, and not admit that he's a jerk.

Did Linus and Steve cost their respective organizations/missions more than they contributed?

I think a more balanced answer to the value of jerks is... it depends. Some brilliant jerks, if put in senior enough roles and given sufficient influence, can produce outstanding work-product. Outstanding enough to justify the loss of morale and attrition all around them. But if you're going to hire a jerk and expect him to be another cog in the machine, he's much more likely to gum up the works instead.

Some roles require rare and outstanding talent above all else. And other roles require someone who can follow orders, work well with others, and not rock the boat too much. Whether or not you should hire a brilliant jerk, really depends on which type of role you're hiring for.
Ah yes! The CFML guy - @pud (that's how I always remember him from that one blog post he wrote)!

This is really cool, and love hearing about stuff like this. I love the idea of running a small team and scaling a product which doesn't have a huge overhead to make something which beats out the current market by just doing a few things better. Hats off to you man. Great stuff!
As someone who works with autonomy for UAVs, previous simulation tools such as gazebo etc. are great for developing and testing control and path planning algos. However, developing, testing and tuning perception techniques such as visual inertial odometry, vision based slam remains and challenge since it typically requires getting your hands on real world data. Photorealistic rendering envs should make it a lot easier for developing good perception algorithms faster.
The tools looks very promising, thanks for sharing it and keep up the good work.
An awful lot of evil is done by people with the best of intentions. For example, Lenin said: "In order to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs" to justify mass murder.
There's room for exactly one hyper inflated ego in the Linux kernel development team. If you are not Linus, you are 25 years late.
> It's not about rights

Sorry, to me it is about rights and it should be to you as well. It is also very much about public safety to me, both are important. But to me forced procedures would be an unacceptable violation of rights not worth it for the public safety gains. I can understand the point of view that eroding those rights is worth the public safety gains. I cannot understand the point of view that this is not, on some level, about rights.
9 out of 10 despots prefer Coke to Pepsi. Maybe it's just because Coke is better and you don't need a magical conspiracy theory about how Coke is the cause of despotism.
One lifestyle change that directly leads to genetic is the age of the parents. This has been rising:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db232.htm

I can't find similar data for age of the father at birth (or rather conception), but the human clinical geneticist I know always emphasizes that age of the father is just as important.
haha this is brilliant
I'm looking at this from more of a security perspective.

Automatically block known malicious sites, but leave it up to the users and voting system to decide which sites have good articles.
I also wanna add Gorgonia (https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia) - it's not quite production ready on the GPU end, but on the CPU end I've been using it for about 4 years.
love the foreign students.
I worked with a brilliant jerk. He's a MD PhD w/ a 160+ IQ, sometimes yells at colleagues in meetings, and can do things nobody else can do. Wouldn't trade the experience for any I can think of.
Well, that's what "reasonable" means. Not that it's the correct view, but that it's understandable and, well, reasonable. Some people may have that view, and I don't think they're being unreasonable. The opposite view is also reasonable.
NSA is part of the bureaucracy, not the political machinery. Despite the common patter, well funded government agencies are incredibly powerful engines to deliver whatever services they are empowered to do. This is true at the state and local level as well.

Private organizations do all sorts of scheming, but they usually lean on the government to do heavy research, and like anything else, in most cases their conclusions are directly correlated to whatever the guy who writes the checks thinks.
So artist pay $20 per year, and to quote the article "100,000+ artists", he's looking at $2,000,000 gross per year? Three employees. Amazing
In what way does an individual have the right to not be vaccinated? More generally, in what way can the state not impose on the individual's health (Especially when it believes it is improving it)? There is a lot of talk about rights here, yet no explanation of why the right to not be vaccinated exists. The reason why the U.S. has a Bill of Rights is because many things we consider rights are not inalienable.

The exact argument, and I present two quotes from the Supreme Court, that vaccines can cause harm [0] and that they therefore should not be allowed to be mandatory have been heard and refuted [1].

[0] "The defendant offered to prove that vaccination 'quite often' caused serious and permanent injury to the health of the person vaccinated; that the operation 'occasionally' resulted in death; that it was 'impossible' to tell 'in any particular case' what the results of vaccination would be, or whether it would injure the health or result in death"

[1] "It seems to the court that an affirmative answer to these questions would practically strip the legislative department of its function to care for the public health and the public safety when endangered by epidemics of disease. Such an answer would mean that compulsory vaccination could not, in any conceivable case, be legally enforced in a community, even at the command of the legislature, however widespread the epidemic of smallpox, and however deep and universal was the belief of the community and of its medical advisers that a system of general vaccination was vital to the safety of all."
>"Some people are unable to get a vaccine, largely if you are immunocompromised (new born, ...)"

This is wrong. In the case of newborns they do not give the vaccine because the baby is already immune (which interferes with the vaccine):

>"The most important factor affecting the success of measles immunization is the disappearance of maternal anti-measles antibodies."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14604165
I don't think there's a causal relation between brilliance and jerk level, but:

It's a sliding scale. Does the contribution of the jerk outweigh the loss of contribution from people offput by his attitude?

Linus is a jerk, and while Linux might have been even more successful if he wasn't, that isn't who he is. Should we ignore the success of Linux just because the original creator can be an asshole at times?

I'd much rather work with a brilliant nice guy than a brilliant jerk, but sometimes you don't get that choice. Sometimes your choice is a brilliant jerk who has the vision, drive, and ability to succeed at whatever your goal is, and a nice guy who doesn't.
I think this is the case. When a relative of mine went to Germany as an exchange student she very much intended (as the program advises) to make a lot of non-English-speaking friends. But speaking German was effort for her in a way that speaking English isn't, and after awhile she naturally gravitated toward other English speakers when she was ready to relax.
That reads like the introduction to something that could be good. But the meat isn't there yet. Maybe he needs to write a book.
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Correct only for money. But a language MUST go for reach.

Is no that is bad to try to catch the fat-money, is that them forget the rest.

This make Delphi fade. And impossible to some of us to even continue using it.

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The current free version is something new, however this have been try before but never consistently, so is unsure if I get Delphi free now it will continue.

This make risky to get it.
And MIPS in general needed a NOP between a write and a read. That was as-designed, however, because of the way its pipelining worked.
I expect that portability is actually a reason why often even visual ultrasound isn't used. Doppler scanning is often all that's needed to monitor heart rhythms
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That's very well put. The "mid-wit egomaniac" is much more destructive than the "brilliant jerk." The jerk at least knows that rewriting working code is expensive and risky.
I had never looked it up, and it seems the CDC (unsurprisingly) is involved in applying these laws.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

From that site, it seems that isolation and quarantine is largely done at borders between states and country. It's also very serious, and it's not something the CDC takes lightly: the last major enforcement of the rule was in 1918 for the Spanish Flu (though it cites there were other minor applications - the ebola scare last year may be one small instance of that).

In context of this, I would imagine that measles would need to be added to the list of diseases quarantine is enforced (I haven't spotted this list yet).

EDIT: found the important list, and it mentions specifically measels are NOT on the list:

The list of quarantinable diseases is contained in an
Executive Order of the President and includes cholera,
diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox,
yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers (such as Marburg,
Ebola, and Congo-Crimean), and severe acute respiratory
syndromes.

Many other illnesses of public health signficance, such as
measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox, are not
contained in the list of quarantinable illnesses, but
continue to pose a health risk to the public. Quarantine
Station personnel respond to reports of ill travelers
aboard airplanes, ships, and at land border crossings to
make an assessment of the public health risk and initiate
an appropriate response.

One of the executive orders is linked in that list:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2003-04-09/pdf/03-8832.pdf
Yup! https://mesosphere.com/blog/2016/04/19/open-source-dcos/

(I am a Mesosphere employee.)
> The contention is "(jerk present) → ¬ (success)"

The contention in the article is not "you can't ever succeed if you have a jerk on the team" or "a jerk will always cause your team to fail". A property doesn't have to be universal to be common enough to be worth writing about.

So no, a single instance of succeeding despite a jerk does not "disprove" anything relevant here.
To be fair, any company making a net profit is doing better than most VC-backed startups.
>"cases where children are too young"

This is a myth, see my other post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656462
+1 Amazing IDE and yes I have made a couple of commercial applications in it now :-)
Good suggestion, I just edited my original comment.
Is this ad featuring a skydiving hockey player and a kitten funny or not?
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I worked with someone like that once and it made me conclude it does not really matter whether the intention is good.

If code review forces you to adjust hundreds tiny details according to someone elses preferences and opinions (as opposed to when you have something really wrong), you can not take ownership of that code. Because it is not your code in the first place. If you want people to take ownership and responsibility, you need to allow them to do so - not really possible when top dog is micromanaging them.

Imo, the developer in question should have work alone on some core part of the project he would have responsibility for and not do code reviews frequently.
I'm willing to bet that there is a correlation, to some extent, of level of jerkiness one can tolerate and income. The more jerk you can tolerate, in many types of companies, the higher you can move up. (to a certain extent, above a certain threshold; and the correlation is probably stronger among larger companies.) Mostly due to shifting upwards and towards the business side of things; management, strategy/biz development, or what have you.

For example, the person who wrote this article, is less of a fit for a cutthroat, decisive, business-minded management position; and might maximize their relative potential (in their current situation and state) by reaching a level that's below any business-minded interactions.(captain of a development team, answers to a manager who isolates them from business/mean/jerkish discussions.)

Edit:grammar
I would assume things like Genetics, history in the family, etc.
Squirmy babies shouldn't be too much of an issue. They do cardiac MRI all the time and hearts are hopefully beating during those ;)
Heh, I just wanted to checkout the DBaaS he mentiones, but it seems http://www.xeround.com/ is now a really shitty Alibaba "clone".

Edit: For reference, here's the old website: http://web.archive.org/web/20071019010255/http://xeround.com...
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CDC has fairly good, neutral, quantitative information about potential side effects from most vaccines:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

In general, I've found that a very useful heuristic for evaluating the trustworthiness of a claim is to take the inverse of the amount of fear & outrage generated by it. So if everybody is screaming in very shrill tones about how outrageous some conspiracy being perpetrated on the American people is, it's probably false. If there's indignant recitation of facts & circumstantial evidence, it may be true but likely isn't all that important. If nobody is talking about it except for a few well-qualified voices, you should be scared.

So applying this to a few issues of the day - "vaccines cause autism" = false (this has already been established, the guy who published the original story admitted to falsifying data and lost his medical license over it). Pizzagate = false. Trump being the next Hitler is probably false. Clinton e-mail scandal = true, but inconsequential. Radical Islamic terrorism = terrible for folks in Syria, but inconsequential for most Westerners. Trump administration ties with Russians = probably true, also inconsequential. Global warming = should be moderately concerned, but likely not the biggest pending environmental calamity. That drunk driver you don't know about = will probably do you in. Either that or a constant diet of more calories in than calories out.
> What happens to civilization/nations/etc when this all anyone is fed for a generation?

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? Probably some variation of that, but worse.
Kind of funny they say they're making the data public... 61,000 raw keck observations should be... ~600 GB?

I kind of wonder if they were forced. Most proprietary observations with Keck or Hubble or whatever come with a little caveat that you only get the data for 1 or 2 years before it get's publicized. I'm guessing that running their code on their released data set _after_ they've published is gonna come up with a big fat nothing new. But maybe mixing with dupe detections from RAVE / LAMOST / SDSS / APOGEE (massive spectroscopic surveys free to the public after proprietary times) and running their code might turn up one... highly doubtful though.

Anyways, there's loads of huge data sets out there that are free. TGAS-Gaia was free to the public as soon as it was made free to the community, so that's where all the big boys are playing right now (The _really_ big fish are fighting it out with the Gaia-raw, minus the tycho supplement that makes TGAS). This summer Gaia2 is coming out to the public the same time as the community again -- people are already setting up war rooms around the world to hack out papers in week long sprints the day after release.

If you're super into planets for some reason, Kepler's been free for years. Google "NASA Mast" for all Nasa data. Google "Vizier CDS" for any European catalog. Gaia has light curves I guess, but it's not good enough yet, I'm pretty sure) If there's a specific telescope you like... like CFHT for example, just google it and they got free data.
Was just sharing my experience in downtown Detroit.
Alternatively, we could stop forcing the jerks to work in tightly cooperative teams. Their skills might have been useful if they would be allowed to work mostly alone.
Sony have a sensor business; their own branded cameras are a useful spin-off. They're essentially agnostic as to the future of photography, because they hold such a dominant position in the sensor market.

iPhones use Sony sensors, as do the majority of high-end Android handsets. Nikon use Sony sensors across most of their camera range, as do Pentax and Fujifilm. GoPro have used Sony sensors from the outset, as do most of their competitors. Sony sensors dominate the scientific, industrial and security markets.

If you need a CMOS imaging sensor, you have two choices - Sony Exmor, or something worse.
As a part-time musician, I absolutely love DistroKid.
There is a lot of C# in Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Managed Stored Procedures, IIS Handlers, Office AddIns, Share Point, Dynamics, ...

Also don't forget that before the restructuring done by Satya, the Windows Dev unit was responsible for C++ and DevTools unit for .NET, and they didn't always get along, specially in the Longhorn days.

Also the Office team used to have their own internal fork of Visual C++, not sure how it looks like nowadays.

So don't get trapped seeing technology decisions for what was sometimes actually related to internal politics.
As an aside, I like how the passive-aggression increases line-by-line in your comment.
> But freedom of speech is a political concept which only makes sense for states

No, it's a principle. Morals and principles are not necessarily politics.

> Any smaller community can add rules to the ones that hold by law. Be it you bowling team or software company. That's why clubs have by-laws/charters.

This has nothing to do with my principles. My principles dictate that they are allowed to self-govern provided they don't, themselves, revoke the freedoms of anyone unable to consent.

From my (and other's) principles we can derive laws.

This works as follows: "Murder is unethical in specific cases because <insert logic> so we should <insert law> and if this is broken <insert punishment>".

As you can see, the law is derived from the principle. The law is an enforcement of the group's principles. Laws don't generate principles, principles and morals generate laws.

This can easily be proven by asking the following: If freedom of speech is only a principle to be upheld by government, then what about the other essential freedoms of humanities? The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? If the common man does not need to uphold freedom of speech principles then surely it is ok for us to encroch on other freedoms such as life. It's surely ok for us to kill or own people. It's ok for us to steal. It's ok for us to pollute and otherwise destroy the sources of happiness that the world provides.

These principles, that are self evident, that all men are created equal, that all have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are what our laws are derived from. It's not only our government's job to uphold these principles. It's for every citizen of any civilized society to uphold them. If we loose the cornerstone right of humanity, the right to free discorse, then humanity looses all rights.

Just because something is legal doesn't make it right, and just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong. Legality SHOULD be an expression of the common shared morals of all of our society. Sadly that is being lost and many people like you are now holding opinions that are the exact opposite of what was just stated. You seem to be of the mind that things that just because something is legal it makes it right, and just because somethign is illegal it makes it wrong. Why? I don't understand this. Just because "the government said so" isn't really a good reason.
To add to this, any business that targets $100MM or less a year in terminal velocity revenues will basically be uncontested from VC backed start ups. At the risk of generalizing, VCs these days don't have interest in businesses whose exit price is less than $5-$10B.
Could use the same argument for vegetarianism, environment causes, gun control, etc.

If it were up to me guns and hard liquor would be banned and cars would have limited speed. These are all things that affect me even if I don't use them.
> "saves the lives of newborns"

This is a myth, see my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656462
Free Pascal/Lazarus is great. Glad they finally have Delphi Starter free but still it's not enough and the limits suck.
In the time you've taken to miss the point, Kaplan's probably launched another business.
> Can't we simply extrapolate how many livable planets there are?

Yes, and beyond that you can ultimately estimate how many civilizations there are Out There that might have the capacity to contact us, commonly referred to as the Drake equation.[1]

As Wikipedia notes, YMMV based on assumptions. :^)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
A sufficiently large smallpox outbreak could ruin the US economically, militarily for decades if not permanently.

This is not like sterilizing the poor, something based on junk science. This is based on hard, established fact. Don't make false equivalencies here.

Are you arguing you should be able to carry around packets of anthrax in public if you, personally, are immune to it?
Several articles have suggested nuking your data off your phone before you travel and re-downloading your data when you get to your destination.

It's not clear to me that this makes sense: First, it's going to make you look suspicious to CBP. Second, if they're already in the business of compelling people to give up passwords to access online accounts (e.g. Facebook), why wouldn't they compel you to activate the data restore process and keep you there until (enough of) it is done?
I always look forward to Troy Hunt's weekly update podcasts:
https://www.youtube.com/user/troyhuntdotcom