skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it isn't progressive, right? An individual in CA who makes 50k gets less in Federal funding to projects that would benefit them, than if that same individual moved to another state, and made the exact same amount.

Not saying I agree with the conceit that a state should have the level of economic autonomy argued for the the original post, but your argument doesn't hold water.
There have been frameworks for writing native-like apps since the very first iPhone was released.

At some point, you reach the limit of what the framework provides, and you need to write some native code.

I've always felt that most frameworks required you to rewrite your app in native code once you hit these limits, so it was better to just start with native code in the first place. React Native is the first framework that doesn't make me feel this way.
Yes it was a human response. One totally within the rules of the protocol - that those using it chose to no longer use it in it's current state but they do chose a slightly modified one. Humans were always the ones responsible for the network as they are for bitcoin.
When will we see processors with a subset of llvm ir in hardware ?
As Mike Tyson put it: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
The Three Bay Areas
Because the report is 215 pages, searching for "satisfaction" doesn't produce anything useful, and most other surveys I've seen use the metrics in that way.
These comments are hillarious. Literally the first result for nightly sweep:

https://www.google.com/search?q=nightly+sweep&oq=nightly+swe...
1) Cap'n Proto doesn't encode/decode messages thus it's nuch cheaper for processing and memory management

2) protobuf in the proto3 design doesn't cary default values. So if you have a bool field and want to explicitly send false, well you have to change it to some other type or use the default values all the time

3) protobuf generates incredibly large serialization/deserialization support coce for each template. For some languages like Python in can be in hundreds of kilobytes. Cap'n proto messages are significantly smaller

There is more for CnP but Protobuf has much better support and is by default used in projects like gRPC. Also new CnP is lacking speed in new development in comparison to Protobuf.

But I'm using in one of my side projects and I'm very happy with it
boost.coroutine can be optionally used with segmented stacks. Copyable stacks are a problem in C++ as objects can have custom copy semantics.

Anyway, large stacks (assuming you want at least 1 page per coroutine) do not waste memory, they only waste address space which is plentiful. If you want slim coroutines, there are the shallow generator style coroutines of the other proposal.

There is some hope that we will have the best of both worlds, stackful coruoutine semantics plus annotations to opt in to the stackless coroutines optimization.
> If you start on the ends people will actually pay money to ride the train

The initial operating segment runs through the Valley to San Jose; that's pretty close to the S.F. end , and is the third biggest city in California (and the second biggest covered by the whole Phase 1 LA-to-SF alignment.)

Obviously, the initial operating segment isn't going to connect both ends, and short of doing that, where specifically would be better than the actual planned IOS?

Sure, the initial construction segment is a small section in the valley that would probably see little ridership without being connected to some place nearer to the endpoints, but the ICS is not the whole IOS.
This level of logging is easy to come by forensically, even on a stock windows install - except the year time window, probably need to archive logs for that
Yes. And I believe, the more screening there is, the less "benefit" a country receives.
i can't believe someone as smart as he is would just blatantly stick in a usb. With how much money he was going to make he could have researched some more annomous ways to get it. Not the least would be to intercept a team members auth/pw and use that to access the data.
I disagree with your "tax grab" angle since there is no evidence of that. Unless you mean that the city of Austin was somehow going to make money off fingerprinting?
Agreed -- if you're doing audio/video effects, or making a non-trivial video game, you'll probably want to be writing in C++ (and on Android, using the NDK).
Unless I'm completely mistaken, the mods already do that (at least they've said "we'll take flagging privileges away from users that abuse them")
Why wouldn't we? It's the customer of any financial product's job to do sufficient due diligence. That's like saying "selling stock is just a way to move risk oversight and responsibility from the company to the shareholder", every time the market dips.

The only problem with the subprime housing crisis was that its sheer scale caused the government to have to step in, and almost caused the collapse of the banking sector. However, correct me if i'm wrong, but there's no such risk here. And as such, this is just some investors making a bad bet - which is perfectly fine and to be expected in the course of capitalism.
Yeah agreed the bar for E2 is a bit high and a bit contrived (also not very transparent). But I also understand the government's desire to prevent visa fraud as well.
So they can be sold to charities and pension funds, aka "muppets."
I didn't say that. And, depending on the other country's justice system, I would not care as long as they think the person is free.
They've been there for three years coming June. Not sure why they would disappear now?

If it's legal to do so, you could use a YouTube video downloading platform to grab them? :)

EDIT: Didn't know about the whole legal case thing. Thanks for letting me know (and down voting me... lovely.)

I've snatched a copy of it all.
The math still doesn't work.

If the article's predictions come true, gaining control of Uber isn't Google's only motivation. They have a secondary motivation: To set a precedent that serves as an example to other people who have the opportunity to sell or buy their trade secrets.

If there's a $680 million prize for a successful theft, and people think the chances of being caught are low, you'll need a big penalty to act as an effective deterrent.
Why is Pepe a nazi symbol?
Worked with RN for a year now, after 2 years of native iOS dev with Obj-C/Swift.

Declarative UI, hot loading, code reusability, modularity, etc. You name it. Because of all these I feel like a dinosaur whenever touching non-react code.

Native covers the parts where React is clunky - for example some unorthodox UI elements that can't be created with simple views and flexbox styling

Core functionality is there already and with time it's only expanding.

I don't intend on turning back.
Well, people don't realize a lot of the bad stuff actually makes business sense. It's not that the companies are meant to be evil, but once you are a customer, they have little to gain from treating you as well as potential customers.

For example, once you subscribe to a cable TV / cell phone operator / whatever, they'll keep you on that subscription until the contract ends, even if new customers can sign up for half the price. And even then it's a matter of how much you spend with them and if it's worth negotiating a better contract.

This has little to do with the corporations being intentionally 'evil', it's more about insufficient competition or even monopoly (how many cable TV operators / ISPs are in your area?). We have multiple cell phone operators over here, but they have little incentive to compete - the number of people leaving/joining each operator is about the same, and if one operator decreases the prices the others will do the same, eliminating any advantage.
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>Heck, if the train here (minus wages) costs more than it is worth this is a straight-up broken-window-fallacy.

Not really. Lots of projects can start out in the red and then provide more value longer-term. This is particularly true when talking about improving transit to impoverished areas.
Idx: Easily access deeply nested nullable fields in JavaScript
How do you imagine sites that are ad free would appear? What's their business model? I don't think that's a given, especially since most users won't pay (see the rise of freemium style apps vs paid ones in the app store).
The web is less open than it used to be, for some definitions of open.

The barriers to entry to the web nowadays are virtually zero. Anyone can get a free Wix or free WordPress site going in minutes. From their pocket computer no less!

Back when I was a lad, and access to the web was via a modem, the barriers were at least: have some technical knowledge and the right equipment.
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> I think in the Uber/Otto case the theft is pretty specific.

I agree 100%. When you wrote "stole the concept" I thought you meant Uber's original business approaches.
> For example, you can't inline a non-stackful coroutine that has independent state

I'm a huge fan of stackful coroutines (having written multiple variants myself) and I have been lobbying hard for them. Having said that, stackless coroutines, as long as the next continuation is statically known or knowable, are trivially inlineable (they desugar to the equivalent of a switch statement).
Things I learned in college:

- How to borrow tens of thousands of dollars without any concrete evidence that I would be able to pay it back

- How to google (arguably a good skill, but not worth a five-figure price tag)

- How to write small

- How to misuse big words

- How to misuse buzzwords

- How to use Dreamweaver (I later learned that the correct way to use Dreamweaver is to uninstall it from your computer)

- How websites were made in 2004 (this was in 2011-2013)

Things I was forced to learn after college to be even remotely relevant:

- Every single aspect of my job as a lead software engineer
I see you included this warning: https://github.com/react-community/create-react-native-app/b.... I still don't understand why this had to ship with the Expo SDK. You are only going to have Newbies equate React Native with Expo. I am still of the opinion that this is not a right move for a development tool. If you want to help make 'create-react-native-app' then great, but it should not favor a private entity.
> There was certainly a group of engineers who didn't respect her, but there was also a very large contingent who did

I don't know of a single engineer who respected her who worked directly with her. The ones who didn't work directly with her were sort of indifferent, and I tended to discount those data points.

Of course, YMMV, plural of anecdote is not data, but the informed engineering sentiment was neutral to negative.

> Your last paragraph is pretty much pure speculation.

It depends on your definition of "safe". She was in no danger of getting fired, as I pointed out. She also was in no position to be taking on more responsibilities or product areas - the fact that she had much of geo taken away from her is a indication of lost faith.

Internally, geo was not considered an especially well run organization for multiple reasons. The chances of recovering from that in an organization is low to none, in my experience.
If your country is large enough, you probably need to adjust for cost of living for a progressive taxation system to be fair.

Although I suspect much of this effect is explained by the fact that states get fixed senate votes regardless of population.
This was from the BMJ Christmas issue - every year they publish a 2-week special full of nonsense like this. As it happens, 4 of the papers in BMJ Christmas Issues have gone on to win Ig Nobels:

http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6679

- Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches (winner 1994)

- Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal (1999)

- Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006)

- Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis (2012)
In the real world of contract software and digital agencies, RN has been a game changer over the last year.

Mobile app projects under $20k are definitely react native. It also makes mobile app projects at the $10k level now viable. At the $40k level it'll be a tough choice, with the fact that the project wants to reuse parts for a web app being the clincher.

The other obvious reality is of course that RN isn't meant for 3D, games, or so on. But that's been the understanding from the get go. What started out as replication of whatever UI components that the first and second class FB apps were making use of has now grown into a community that covers many, many different UI cases.

RN is pushing Swift, ObjC, and Java engineers upwards to focus on the upper end but it's wiping out the bottom by letting the web devs into the mobile devs world.
A friend's father is a COBOL programmer. He works for a bank (shocker!) and has said that while there are jobs they are not available all over the country but mostly limited to certain areas. So while a Java or PHP programmer will be able to find work pretty much anywhere a COBOL programmer might only find a dozen companies with openings and mostly in places like London, New York, etc. Places with big financial institutions.
With enough users doing this, new sites that are ad free would quickly replace the old ad driven sites.

And how will ad free sites supposed to pay writers to make and keep the site free?

There are already a dozen potential solutions waiting for the incentives to change.

Go ahead and list them...
DeWalt Technicians' fingerless gloves are fairly good. They're not insulated per se but are reasonably thick work gloves that happen to be fingerless. I've used them at work in offices that were cold and typing with them is fine.

https://www.amazon.com/DPG230L-Technicians-Fingerless-Synthe...
They don't really verify things anyway, they wait for people to inform them of issues.

Encryption can be broken, but, one assumes: a) that your backups aren't likely to be stolen, b) that no one cares enough and c) by the time they are, the people whose information you stored are dead

If you logged in you provided the key: NOTE: Logging in via the SpiderOak website does temporarily allow SpiderOak employees access to your password. Due to this exposure, we discourage users from entering your password online if they wish to fully retain our Zero-Knowledge privacy.
Wasn't there a problem with the ratings agencies failing to do their job properly?
the imbalance between what California contributes vs receivers

Do you have a firsthand source for that, or are you just quoting unsupported media quotes? The one study on that topic that I've seen omitted a lot of Federal spending in CA, such as transfer payments, military personnel, CA's share of defense spending, etc.

Remember that CA has had a lot of power in Congress under Democrats, including two senior Senators and the Speaker of the House twice.
I stopped relying on tools. Discipline is what it all takes.

Every year from Christmas I do a retrospective for all 52 weekends, my year goals, personal progress and professional progress. I try to find out where my money goes and my time as well. How Happy I was etc.

Make a year plan and print it and put it in your cube (in your home). Yes, please set up an office space in Home. It works.

Then make detailed plan for 52 weekends and weeks aligning to your yearly goals.

Now buy 1$ yearly calendar from dollarstore and fill it up. WHen I turn it each month I know what I should be doing this month. Also I align or change it with some buffer time.

Mostly I miss my deadlines, because my estimations are wrong or the new technology or programming language I am learning takes more time than I expected.

At the end I am happy that I am two steps ahead by planning compare to some one who has never planned.

Now if you ask about the results between a planner and non-planner, I don't know what to say.
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This proves give it 10 years and Watch_Dogs will be a reality.
Germany gets a lot done too, with the exact opposite mentality
I doubt the other languages are "dying off". Javascript isn't the most elegant language but it's certainly getting better with ES6.

I've been building a React Native app and there are a couple big positives for it.

l. All the web developers at my company can manage in JS. You don't need special talent or training like you do for the other languages. Our native apps are built by completely different teams because of their native skill sets.

2. The app we're building shares most of its code between iOS and Android. This prevents you from building the same app twice in two different languages (and as I pointed out, for us, in two different teams).
Proponents of adblockers are not thinking this thing through.

It takes time (that's money) to create quality content that anybody would love reading. Heck, even content that's crappy takes time to create.
In the weighting function, wouldn't vouching invert the changes that were previously effected by flagging, which in fact took place on an incremental basis? Or are you saying that vouching is not needed?
I think you're both right. Once trained, someone who can fly a 747 can also fly an A320 or an L-1011 since they know how to fly a multi-engine plane.

Programming is similar in that once you "get it" the skills transfer easily between languages. Learning a new language is much easier than learning the first one.
>I find it absurd to even consider a person, a HUMAN BEING, to be illegal

I don't understand this. What would you propose as a replacement term for people here illegally? The term 'undocumented resident' just seems like handwaving to avoid the fact that these people are violating the law. If we can't use the word 'illegal' to describe violations of the law, then things become silly (e.g. "undocumented bank withdrawal").
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> Meditech writes all of their own languages, databases, operating systems...The founder hated C with undying passion. No one is ever allowed to use C

Now you have my curiosity piqued. When I went to their Wikipedia entry [1], I saw that their server only runs on top of Windows. You said they run their own OS, so does that mean they effectively run an emulator of their OS on top of Windows? And if they hate C, does that mean MAGIC is self-targetable, or there is a very, very tiny chunk of C within Meditech, or that they develop in assembler to bootstrap their emulator?

An entire OS written in a Mumps dialect and a half-billion dollar company built around it (replete with an ecosystem of consulting companies) or TempleOS [2] vie in my mind for about the same uniqueness level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditech

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-progr...
To make intel a standard in auto chip manufacturing. NVidia dominates this market right now.
I witnessed a DSL for querying a MUMPS database. It used MUMPS to parse a DSL, generating more MUMPS to then query the MUMPS db.

I'm not really criticizing because I'm not sure there's an elegant way to do it, but I fled screaming.
Is this roughly based on the David Allen's "Getting things done" method?
Ask HN: Hackathon Presentation Software/Hardware
I organise a hackathon and need to plan the presentation and other visual stuff.

I really hate it when the transition between presentations is not smooth, how can i solve this (cheaply, i have an raspberry-pi left if it's helping)?

Also i need a fullscreen-countdown, all the websites popping up are not stylable. Ideal would be the ability to place a logo above the countdown.

An real-time schedule-overview would be nice, needs to run on an rpi since i need my laptop.

Any other suggestions?
Which doesn't mean immigration policies have anything to do with that.
Berkeley's statement on why they are disappearing starting 3/15: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/
I think this is a misconception, but I totally do understand where it comes from. The OGC and IC IG genuinely do care a lot about these things but due to the classified nature of the NSA's work any disputes and arguments about all the nuances are occurring behind closed doors.

The specific big case which the public knows about would be the domestic telephony metadata collection. Nobody knows about the discussions related to this or any pushback, or how exactly this was deemed to be a legal practice, and so on. This looks very bad as it causes the assumption to be that there is no proper oversight rather than seeing this as a bad interpretation.

Instead of the learned helplessness and assumptions about NSA, it would probably be far better to have an aggressive push for declassified briefings regarding these kinds of decisions. After the Snowden leaks I recall ODNI declassified and published a good amount of documentation in order to demonstrate the IC"s side of the matter, so it is known that declassification reviews for very sensitive subjects can occur when they put ample resources into it. The IC is very sensitive regarding sources and methods, so that's why most declassified information usually comes from FOIAs and specific "IC On The Record" releases. If they would declassify and publicize information regarding these decisions, there can at least be more of a dialogue on the topic using concrete facts versus assumptions.
> That is why the defenders of public schools nowadays go further and claim that without having had a public school experience, a child literally has no place in adult society and is incapable of functioning normally.

Strawman alert.

I don't think any of the homeschool criticism revolves around this extreme argument. It's more along the lines of - in school, you have to socialize with someone other than your family, at homeschool this is neither required nor expected.

Nor are there any standards or tests in terms of socialization. Thus the stigma.

There's also the issue that if a homeschooler is trained with a large body of questionable content contradicting public understanding, these children could be reared to have their own set of "facts". Clearly this is disturbing to those who agree on other facts.
Sounds like my predicted outcome for a lot of folks I knew back in the day. Got into the industry because dollars, didn't particularly like it, so when (for example) COBOL dies off their career dies with it.

I'm from the same era, how did I avoid it? I never knew just one language, for starters. Unlike the author's father, I never waited around for someone else to train me. I bought a book and wrote throw-away projects in Delphi, VB, or whatever. FoxPro (a primary source of my income for a period) died a slow death? Good thing I know .NET (granted, working on the MSFT VS team kind of helped with that). IOW, I didn't sit around and wait for $IT (for various values of whatever we're waiting for) to come to me or be served to me.

So why doesn't everyone else do that? Because I wasn't learning Delphi with an eye on a job, it just looked cool and I thought it might at some point come in handy. People that got into this field for the money don't do that. They see the hands on the clock go to 5:01 and don't think about computers until 8:59 the next day, at least that's my guess. Would I be a lawyer for twice what I make currently? Oh, hell, no. No amount of money can make up for half my waking hours spent doing something that doesn't look like fun. Don't go into a computer-related field just because of the money, either.
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