skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because hard pull requests don't necessarily mean wider adoption. It gets down to which projects are represented on GitHub v. other platforms and those projects' source management philosophies.

GitHub is (or was, at some point) written in Rails and attracted the Ruby community early. Rails is developed on GitHub, as are many other major Ruby projects, including the Ruby language itself.

Python is hosted on its own Mercurial repository (though it is shifting to GitHub later this year) and that community never had the tribal draw to move its development from things like mailing lists into GitHub. Patches are still handled on the Python bug tracker, etc.

As for individual project source management, some projects will have all contributors with their private fork and have them make individual pull requests as part of the code review process, some will give a core of contributors direct access to make raw pushes, and so on.

Because of not every project uses GitHub and because GitHub's unmanaged pull request object is not a reliable unit of measurement, it's better to trust a survey that directly reflects real-world observances than to make extrapolations based on an unreliable metric.
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Demand speaks nothing of their balance sheet.
Ok. You can investigate that one for yourself.
"women in particular have responsibilities outside work"

Yeah? And men don't?
Be super smart, in the right place at the right time, meet the right people, work super hard, make a whole series of seemingly trivial but ultimately critically important life decisions/sliding doors moments, make a whole series of deliberate major critically important life decisions (correctly), have alot of luck. Rich!

I'm just not interested in the financial advice of the mega wealthy. Far more interested in the financial advice of those who have done moderately well.
This. A RAM based cache sounds substantially more performant. I think this may be for clients that can't do much more than swap hardware to make their setup faster. Either it's a lack of control over their OS setup, or a desire to fine-tune caching for a specific device, or a lack of ability to change existing settings.
No. But if you want someone to cooperate with you, the carrot can work better than the stick.
If I wanted to help someone out I would give them money. However I'm not getting into a car hoping to hear the story of why this person needs money beyond what I'm already paying for their service.
Uber isn't taking a cut. They're subsidizing fares. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/uber-true-cost-uh...
waterless ones are patented and without a water line you'd be locked in to higher priced products and/or have to spend a lot of extra money to run a new water line after the walls go up. Generally the situation with waterless ones is people endlessly social signal their green superiority about them, then the incredible stench makes them install real urinals. Even if only 5% or so install real urinals the net cost is still lower.

Its kind of like an electrician demanding a ground line be run to every outlet while someone who knows nothing about electricity demanding that ground wire almost never carries current therefore is a waste of money.

Perhaps a better analogy is its like adding another fiber optic strand, before or during the project the marginal cost is extremely cheap, after the project is complete its unimaginably expensive to add another strand after the dirt has gone back in the ditch.
At the end of the day this is a war on the population. If you under educate people, they lack the tools to determine fake/sponsored science just as they can't differentiate between "fake news" and "real news". In the end it allows the political body to limit the discourse in their (or their financial backer's) favor.

Additionally, if people die younger they are less likely to diversify the topics important to voters. So control the populace through ignorance and through bad healthcare and poorly funded science, hope they die before they wise up. I don't see this as the aim of any single group, it's just the system we ended up with and unless there is an economic reason to change it, it won't. What's more scary is that economic gain can be had by going further in this direction. How rich could we get if we defunded all research and used the money to fund the military and just invade and plunder the rest of the world? It sounds unfathomable, but there are economic benefits, so the possibility that it could happen hinges directly on public opinion and the less you make self directed thought a priority, the more possible it is for those in power to do it. Knowledge is power, you take it away from people and they become your tools/votes/income source/cows. </rant>
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I think this type of attack being described was (is) actually done by hijacking requests that should have returned DNS NXDOMAIN. You tried to visit a URL that did not exist, but your DNS server failed to make that clear in the standard way to your browser, and now your traffic is sent somewhere else, instead of sending you to the familiar (or ugly, they might argue) NXDOMAIN browser error page.

So there aren't really any packets being modified, since you already get your DNS from your ISP. They're just returning bad information to requests that your browser naturally had directed at them.
Pewdiepie made his money off really really really young audience.. those of you old enough to make up your own judgement/mind and talk about it weren't the ones Disney really cared about.. It's the fact that MILLIONS of young viewers - aged 6+ (probably mostly 8 to 11 years old) watched something that tried to normalize something most kids in that age group shouldn't normalize...

If people feel he was "holding back his freedom" then Disney should NEVER have been a sponsor and WSJ did a service to wake up the community to sponsorship of content creators not creating content for the demographics in which his revenue was being generated.

my 9 year old used to love him, sang "this sammich doesn't have turkey on it" all the freaking time but now won't even admit his existence mostly because kids want to watch youtubers have fun and not hate.. even if its in satire - its not the right demographics..
Interesting. Are there plans to make any of this available online, e.g., Coursera?
Yes but Uber will have to raise prices at some point. Will you be loyal then?
I don't think the article is that one-sided. It also raises another issue which is that the total lack of transparency even to the person being prosecuted is problematic.

The comments from the DA side about this have been few and self-contradictory so that partially the reason the article is the way it is.
nassim taleb aphorism comes to mind: to become rich, work with the poor. to become poor, work with the rich.
Yeah, Elon Musk is the only one I could personally recall besides Travis Kalanick, without looking at an article listing the other members.

Not a lot of people seem upset about Musk's presence on the committee, or about anyone else's for that matter.

Funny. I'm sure it's all just a coincidence, or karma, or a spontaneous self-organizing feeding frenzy, or something.
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And when people advocate for programmers unionizing, I don't see why we'd be any different. There'd be people employed doing X, a programmer would make something to automate X, and "our" union would be trying to save their job.
Look through most MegaCorp press pieces, and you'll find that the individual team members rarely get shoutouts. It is disappointing.
> - Javascript exec turned on/off by domain

Opera used to have this ;'-( before they fired the entire Presto (browser engine) team and switched to webkit/chrome.

I've been giving the "modern" Opera a test run for the past week and while it's still way snappier by miles (compared to firefox and chrome, on a slow laptop) but it still misses so many features I used to depend on in the 2000s.

Yes you can get add-ons for almost all of the functionality, but you'll grind firefox or chrome to a halt before you even get close the the functionality of the old Opera that just came with all that stuff, batteries included.

(before accusations of bloat: installer/executable size was tiny, I seem to remember below 1MB for medium-old versions)
There is no privacy without open source software.
This article with the recommandations to buy Netgear stuff or commercials VPN services is just a farce.

The author don't know shit, writing this type of false articles will lead to another privacy disaster.
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Why our brains grew so big? A change in diet?
I'm at the point where I feel like I can't start watching any new show because I will be able to predict everything that happens before it happens, making the whole thing feel like a waste of time. The storytelling is boring and the foreshadowing is more like foreshouting due to how obvious they make it.

Case in point, I never read the books and I put off watching Game of Thrones for a very long time until my brother finally convinced me to give it a shot a few months ago. When he came to me asking about how shocked I was about what happened at the end of the first season I literally laughed in his face because it was telegraphed from episode 1.
MacOS 10.12.4 update brings Night Shift to the Mac and not much else
There is no chicken-and-egg problem because the OS already does color management to map your source color space (sRGB, mostly) to your target monitor's color space. If it didn't, you wouldn't be able to view sRGB content correctly on wide-gamut monitors, for example.

The real challenge is in developing display backlight and phosphor technology to reproduce colors outside of the standard gamuts.
Hmm. I think it is a relevant post - given I worked at construction sites (as an excavator) and my granddad as an actual crane operator, I have a bit of background in the field ;)

Also, it's about legal blabla that is abused to protect certain classes of work from any disrutption by startups - just like the dozens of similar startup posts, only that this one is in the "non-digital" spsce.
It's a bad example and not representative as far as performance is concerned.
For any given job where biology is not a factor (which is all of them except weight lifting and highly athletic sports), cultural norms are.

Women take care of children, typically, and their shit does not smell like roses. So you need a new hypothesis.
> - has it's own unique filesystem called Hammer (and work is being down on Hammer2 which is a complete rewrite)

You said "interesting", but superficially "a complete rewrite" WIP doesn't sound like a plus when choosing a production system OS.

If anyone is interested, this is what the DBSD man page says about hammer:

HAMMER file systems are designed for large storage systems, up to 1
Exabyte, and will not operate efficiently on small storage systems. The
minimum recommended file system size is 50GB. HAMMER must reserve 512MB
to 1GB of its storage for reblocking and UNDO/REDO FIFO. In addition,
HAMMER file systems operating normally, with full history retention and
daily snapshots, do not immediately reclaim space when files are deleted.
A regular system maintenance job runs once a day by periodic(8) to handle
reclamation.

HAMMER works best when the machine's normal workload would not otherwise
fill the file system up in the course of 60 days of operation.

And what appears to be the original design doc for Hammer by Dillon:
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf

[& p.s.] Hammer2: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/b93cc2e081...
They're rolling out 13 colleges in 2017.
A tour of iOS 10.3: Checking out APFS, the Settings app, and other tweaks
No, this is Larry's response to Dries, the DA and others (following his first post https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing).
This has everything to do with regulation, certification, union relations, etc., issues in some ways similar to what an AirBnB, Uber, or other tech company will deal with when introducing innovations or different business models.
Don't mean to hijack the thread; but speaking of Tor...If some entity ran enough nodes wouldn't they be able to get a pretty good idea of the traffic sources and destinations?
Yeah that seems to be the way to go to me, i guess maybe they reached the same conclusion.

HBO is a premium product, you pay for it in addition to cable. Netflix is an all in one product, you pay for it to replace cable. Don't try to be HBO, be every cable tv station.
Seeing as though deep structure is by definition unobservable in its direct form, it would be kind of strange to tackle that before building up a lexicon. A more interesting question, IMO, is whether they even have a deep structure.
You have a point there, it can be argued that there's a link. However I do think it's important to compare apples to apples, and not to apple trees. So we should be looking at why men and women leave the industry, and also why they enter.
The entire point is that tipping shouldn't make the difference between being able to pay your heating bill.

Tipping, as it exists in the US, is pretty much a dark pattern.
Having source isn't necessary, nor is it sufficient to determine what the software on a device is doing.

It's often convenient, but just having some source doesn't actually ensure that is the code running on the device.
If your UX involves introspecting content to determine whether it is being misfiled, you're already doing something wrong. Such gimmicks work as 'syntactic sugar' (think google's "did you forget an attachment" message) but they shouldn't be the first the user sees of the feature (in goog's case, having an always-visible attachment icon.)

If they absolutely want to go the idiotic route of public-by-default, a 'private'/'public switch might be too noisy; a 'create new document'/'create new private document' too redundant... Honestly, I don't see why they would want to go that route anyways. The model is practically handed to them on a silver platter; most users want to keep docs private, unless and until they wish to have a document pool for sharing (easy to build infrastructure for), explicitly share single docs (again, just add a 'share' button and people get it), or make it publically accessible (i.e. "post" or "publish" to a platform.)

As I said in another comment here - everything gets explained away once you assume MS' incompetence in things. (I mean for god's sake, there are so many other solutions in this space that they have all the hard thinking be done for them!)
>You're right; you can't spread things out (scatter) using WebGL during a single pass, you can't do the classic Floyd Steinberg implementation the same way you do on the CPU. So it's important to understand that there is another way to do it, and it doesn't look like what you're used to. It doesn't spread things out by pushing error around inside the loop. It spreads things out by letting each destination pixel pull the error from it's neighbors before computing it's own error, rather than pushing it's own error to it's neighbors after computing. This is known as a gather, as opposed to scatter. It is mathematically the same thing, but the order of operations is turned around.

That makes significantly more sense now. I thought you were saying I could do normal floyd-steinberg sequentially somehow.

I am unsure on the mathematical implimentation, but I will keep looking at this. I would think there would be a paper on this method somewhere.

I really appreciate the time you've taken to respond. Not many webgl people out there that can actually point out how it all works and whats possible, and I definitely learned something.
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I didn't interpret that comment as a suggestion that you have an interest in suppressing women and minorities. But you might have a subconscious interest in maintaining your own worldview, wherein you're part of a group of people that 'gets' or 'finds value in' tech, and others aren't.

The subconscious forces that shape the way people think about these issues are the most pernicious.
> If men and women are identical, why do we need women in STEM? The men we have would work just as well

Because it is inherently unjust to discriminate against people because of characteristics that have no bearing on the job, such as their race and their gender. If you don't accept this premise I don't think we can have a productive discussion because it's the basic principle I'm basing my argument on.

> In the long term, the negotiation skillset will simply turn into more profit in other ways and the level of control required to prevent this from happening is so draconian as to be unthinkable.

Maybe. So what? Careless drivers are still more likely to injure themselves than careful ones even if we make everyone wear a seat belt; it does not follow that making everyone wear a seat belt is pointless.
Your assuming their ridesharing business is not profitable in mature markets. There is evidence it is. No outside analysis has yet been able to break down how much of their losses are investment in new businesses and markets.
Perhaps the funding in some areas is a bit too high if about 50% of the research can't even be reproduced in principle (and then less than half of what remains can be reproduced in practice)...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/rigorous-replication-...

http://www.nature.com/news/irreproducible-biology-research-c...
>Two questions face the company. One is whether Uber will continue prospering under Mr Kalanick’s leadership. Silicon Valley and its denizens may celebrate his type, but ...

Well fuck you too, Economist. That seems like an unnecessary and ignorant jab.
I'm dying for this feature. Beamer is great until you want to include a video, then your life fills with pain.
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The New York Department of Buildings response to this article (June 2016) :

Skypicker presented the department with plans for a small, truck-mounted crane... However, when we inspected the Skypicker in use at a construction site, we found something significantly different: The crane was attached to a building slab, and appeared to be a hodgepodge of parts from other cranes, mounted on a homemade, untested base.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160623/OPINION/160629...

And the inventor shoots back:

The executive director of the [Department of Buildings] Cranes and Derricks Unit when the Skypicker was approved emailed me that [Department of Buildings Commissioner] Chandler confused the Skypicker revocation with a ruling about an entirely different crane... He’s the one that’s misinformed.

http://buildingnyc.org/crains-crane-inventor-gives-his-side-...
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The NXDOMAIN hijack isn't as bad as this. It involves replacing the response from the resource you requested with the ISPs preferred response.

It can happen either through DNS hijacking (nslookup for google.com goes to isp-fake-google.com) or they can just sniff all the traffic and MITM HTTP traffic for "GET /q=?" with a "Host: google.com". In either case they send you to whatever they'd like rather than the original request (and of course sell the data that User X searched for Y).
Just because you're not interested in Netflix originals doesn't mean millions of other people aren't.
I'm surprised that after working at so many different companies you haven't figured out that companies which don't adapt to change also die. Some Netflix originals have been very successful (House of Cards, Narcos, etc) so I'm not quite sure what you are talking about.
Hmm if I deleted Facebook and still used messenger would I gain any privacy or not really? I'd consider doing that.
I'm not worried about the funding cuts. Those are incremental and can easily be reversed in later years. It isn't a good idea but it isn't the end of the world. I am much more worried about the cultural impact of a president denying basic science. The celeb or athlete who thinks the earth is flat or denies the moon landings is today a laughing stock. But here is an administration full of people who openly deny the basics, and think nothing of making facts out of thin air. Worse yet, they then convince themselves that the air is solid. That example will impact our culture for generations, or at least long after the budget decisions have been reversed.
Skimming through it and seeing stuff like this doesn't leave much headroom for a high opinion, at least from a hard-line Lisp and C expert point of view:

/* excerpt from builtin_op function */

while (a->count > 0) {

/* Pop the next element */
lval* y = lval_pop(a, 0);

if (strcmp(op, "+") == 0) { x->num += y->num; }
if (strcmp(op, "-") == 0) { x->num -= y->num; }
if (strcmp(op, "*") == 0) { x->num *= y->num; }
if (strcmp(op, "/") == 0) {
if (y->num == 0) {
lval_del(x); lval_del(y);
x = lval_err("Division By Zero!"); break;
}
x->num /= y->num;
}

lval_del(y);
}

For people who are newbies to programming and newbies to C, this sort of book can provide stimulating activities and motivation. Ultimately they will probably be unsatisfied with their results (but then nobody is ever satisfied with their results no matter what, if they are newbies in programming and C, struggling to make something).
Was about to say basically the same thing, since f.lux works by dynamically altering the colour profile (which results in interesting bugs and glitches here and there). They've been going out of their way to make things work across the board.
I just subscribed to your purgatory feed. :)
Any commercial vpn recommendations from this crowd?
> The Red / REBOL community seems more than usually self-contained, although it's possible that it's because almost everybody involved is Czech, and I am not.

REBOL being proprietary when the big F/OSS scripting languages were taking off in popularity was probably a problem for mindshare and community breadth.
it only matters if they can. Few rapidly growing tech startups make money while still investing in growth.
Curious what this about, anyone have any more information about this?
One thing I did realize is that I suspect a lot of the "1 monitor is good enough" comments are probably from OSX users.

Frankly, inbuilt window management in Windows (especially with KB shortcuts) is far superior to that on OS X. The Win + Arrow Keys combinations just make multiple monitors so much easier to use.

You can get this on OS X (although it has never felt as nice to me) with BetterTouchTool, but I wonder how many OS X users who don't like multiple monitors have actually tried it with BTT installed.
I upgraded to beta 7 then it let me upgrade to 10.3. Since I was initially in the beta, I probably couldn't make the jump to the GM directly.
This is true, and also, when searching the app store the star ratings displayed next to each app are based on the "current version", so if an app is recently released it might say "0 reviews" even though it previously had thousands.
I have Uber in my phone, not Lyft.
I hope you don't mind me asking: Is there a specific reason behind you wanting to learn Scala "properly"?
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