skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but the Github user sure is interesting. Have to wonder how Terry feels about https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/hgbd and https://github.com/tramplersheikhs/uriel -- is the Temple being desecrated?? Either way, seriously cool stuff.
"We define a mobile DAU as a user who accessed Facebook via a mobile application or via mobile versions of our website such as m.facebook.com, whether on a mobile phone or tablet, or used our Messenger mobile application (and is also a registered Facebook user) on a given day. The numbers for mobile DAUs do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their
other activities on Facebook."

What does that mean?

Why did they use the word "accessed" vs "authenticated"?
Did the user leave a tab on their cell phone open after they logged into facebook?

Many users log in once and forget to logout... Does that continue to present itself as someone accessing facebook?

How many users access via the app? via the mobile web page?

If you take out people who used Messenger app what would this number be?
Also, can I be a Messenger user and not a registered Facebook user?

Pay attention to the footnotes. It shows up on many pages of the presentation.

I would prefer knowing how many logged in each day. How many did something purposefully like look at a friends timeline, search a friend, look at possible friends. How many posted a comment, did a "like", clicked on an ad...
USPS vending machines are well-known as the main non-bank source of $1 coins. (E.g. insert a $10 bill for $7 worth of stamps, and get 3x $1 coins back.) IIRC, a long time ago they didn't actually take these coins as payment in the first place...
Apple investigating accessory that turns iPhone into full-fledged laptop
I don't disagree about licenses not making sense for programmers, but there's more ways to hurt people than physically. Think of people who lose money to fraud, get their personal details published, or get stuck in some process that costs them time and money just because they ended up in an unexpected state of a large and complicated system.
> The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 14-14B lays out the wage floor for its operators at $73.91 per hour. That’s $150,000 a year before overtime, plus benefits equal to $32.50 an hour. When the operator is behind the controls of a tower crane, he gets a $2-an-hour bump. On weekends, when cranes are moved, pay doubles. With overtime, many union members earn half a million dollars a year.

The union in the article.

EDIT: I also wonder how they get so much overtime. Surely it couldn't be because of 'controlling the supply of labour'. Yeah, that's right. Give them their half a million dollars a year. It's only 'decent'.
After several temporary deactivations over the years, I finally deleted my account as well in February. My reasons were similar. The constant flow of outrage seemed to be decreasing my quality of life, and indeed, I feel happier without it.
I feel blaming a language for errors is like blaming a gun for killing people.

The fact is, mistakes will happen, but in general if you follow the best practices you'll be fine. Failing to follow the best practices means you could be a better programmer. Just because the language gives you an option to do something, doesn't mean you should.
to expand -

Shough package systems are based on the same code, syscall/binary level compatibility has diverged, so it does entail a separate installation on another partition/disk/etc and separate set of application packages, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin

You can also see http://www.shmoop.com/atlas-shrugged/dollar-signs-symbol.htm... which discuesses this.

"The dollar sign? [It stands] for a great deal. It stands on the vest of every fat, piglike figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook.... It stands – as the money of a free country – for achievement, for success, for ability, for man's creative power – and, precisely for these reasons, it is used as a brand of infamy....It stands for the United States."
>Though it's possible that you're correct on this specific issue, you've offered absolutely no support for your argument.

The comment provided specific examples of where unions have resulted in inefficiency.
Regressive. The loss of privacy is scary. Having to ideologically conform to certain arbitrary standards even in the privacy of your home cannot be the right way to go forward. Larry didn't hurt anybody, everything was consensual. Moral police following you into your bedroom is unacceptable. The fact that you're a perfectly healthy, productive, and sane member of society is not enough, you must be punished for thought crime.

The last thing I want to know is what my coworkers do at home in their spare time, what kind of sexual preferences they have and how they choose to express their sexuality and kinks. Why is this so important for the Drupal community?
Top Algorithms every computer science student should know
One thing that really excites me about getting this into runC is that now we can work on making other parts of container orchestration and management run as an unprivileged user.

Huge props to the Cloud Foundry team who already have taken rootless containers and have some experimental support for them[1]. It'd be awesome if we could do something similar to Kubernetes so that you could start clusters as an unprivileged user (in my mind the networking is the hardest part and I think the only way right now is to implement pseudo-bridge interfaces in userspace). But I'm pretty excited about the possibilities. :P

[1]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/garden-runc-release/blob/dev...
Yes. Example. I had a series of articles that I expected people to read in order, but found that the 3rd one was getting more traffic than all the rest combined. That's because people wanted to know something specific about that subject and found my page through Google. Well that page acted as a very poor entry point to the subject so I improved it by rewriting the article to look better as a standalone article instead of just making sense in a series.

The goal is to give quality content and make your readers satisfied. If they bounce off your page and go back to Google search results, Google takes note of that and thinks your site isn't serving its purpose.
Machi Koro - light and breezy
Caylus - medium to heavy

Both manage to accomplish what modern Monopoly grasps at in distinctly different ways. They are also fun and end before they've destroyed any relationships.
I flew Hanoi to Da Nang and then da nang to Bangkok. IPad and phones out both times
That's right, and the subject might as well be a dog, or any other audio signal source, just like anything that reflects light can be a suitable one for the photographer's creative process. Cute puppies; water lilies; sunsets ...

The thing is, I somehow don't hear the studio's creative input either when I hear the latest auto-tuned Fido or Bowser. They're just applying some automatic something that's supposed to make the dog sound like a more able dog.

This is like when people just batch apply the same color enhancement and sharpening of their Florida vacation pictures. I've seen one instance, I've seen them all.
Reminds me of the soap dispenser that doesn't detect black skin. [1]

1: https://mic.com/articles/124899/the-reason-this-racist-soap-...
I'll add to my reply, because this is a really good question.

Red doesn't have all types in place yet (e.g. date! is coming, and maybe an @ref type, among others), but can still load the following:

at 10:00 send gregg@host.dom a link to http://red-lang.org (216.239.32.21)
delete %/c/temp/junk.dat
assign #DECAFBAD-7337 to John
make the main window 800x600 with a color of 255.0.0
answer: yes

Here's a quick console session showing what types it found:

>> blk: [ at 10:00 send gregg@host.dom a link to http://red-lang.org (216.239.32.21)
[ delete %/c/temp/junk.dat
[ assign #DECAFBAD-7337 to John
[ make the main window 800x600 with a color of 255.0.0
[ answer: yes
[ ]
== [at 10:00:00 send gregg@host.dom a link to http://red-lang.org (216.239.32.21)
delete %/c/temp/junk.dat

>> unique collect [foreach val blk [keep type? val]]
== [word! time! email! url! paren! file! issue! pair! tuple! set-word!]

And you can parse at that level:

>> parse blk [
[ some [
[ 'window set val pair! (print ["size:" val])
[ | 'assign set val issue! (print ["issue:" val])
[ | 'link 'to set val url! (print ["link:" val])
[ | skip
[ ]
[ ]

link: http://red-lang.org
issue: DECAFBAD-7337
size: 800x600

Of course, you could do something similar in ES6. If you use template literals, your data might look like this:

at time`10:00` send email`gregg@host.dom` a link to url`http://red-lang.org` paren`(ipv4`216.239.32.21`)`
delete file`%/c/temp/junk.dat`
assign issue`#DECAFBAD-7337` to John
make the main window pair`800x600` with a color of color`255.0.0`
name`answer:` bool`yes`

Sorry for getting carried away. :)
'Homogametic engineers' is probably a better term.
One big misunderstanding could cause an article like that. I don't think that's a workable standard.
If only worked under SIMH being ran under 9front...

I can't even get running the Altair one.
Weird again... schiphol was the only one where I didn't take everything out, even the laptop could stay in. They had newer scanners, probably more powerful
Balsamiq - https://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
Similarly I'm confused at the 'personal recommendation' of gulp over npm scripts. Does anyone really use gulp for new projects..?
There are neither source releases, nor tags in git repository yet (except the 'swift' repository).
Very cool! I had never figured out where he worked.
I had one, and absolutely loved it. It was great when I had my own house and could charge easily, and also had space for a second gasoline car that I could use for longer trips. When I moved to an apartment with backwards landlords that wouldn't let me use an outlet by the car, it had to go sadly.

For $4k it's an absolute steal for a daily commuter car. It made me realize that driving could be a fun activity.
The Differences Between Muscle and Pony Cars
Uber’s self-driving cars are back on the road after Arizona accident
The latency of a regular SATA SSD is more than good enough if you want a log of writes to spinning rust. The increased write endurance might be appealing for something like a ZFS intents log (ZIL).

Too small to provide much of an cache, when you can have 256GB of SSD for the same price.

It is a pity that the marketing docs don't address how this impacts on write consistency. Instant write sync is the primary advantage of hardware RAID, but still, how much better is this than a normal SSD?
Holy crap, yes, that video should be the center piece here. That's an absolutely amazing idea.
Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains with Computers
I would point out that the crystal field splitting energies happen to correspond to the region around visible light, which means that being able to finely distinguish gradations of visible light would lead you to be able to visually distinguish between many different organometallic ions. I suspect that matters more than the flux of visible light in the solar spectrum.
All of these can be reduced to... learn what you need to learn to build your thing, learn that, then go build your thing.
Maintaining state was just one example. See my other comment [0] for others.

Regardless, you can't maintain state with closures in a pure language. You could close over some local "variable", but that variable would be immutable. In an impure language that would work, but then you're back to managing global state, even if that state is not defined at the top level (i.e. global in the sense that different closures could still have access to the same piece of state, concurrently).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965917

EDIT: just to clarify, monads manage state purely. I.e, instead of writing:

function statefulFunction(state) {
(a, state1) = f(state);
(b, state2) = g(a, state1);
(c, state3) = h(b, state2);

return (c, state3);
}

you can write:

statefulFunction = do
a <- f
b <- g a
c <- h b
return c

But the resulting function is still pure, i.e. (state) => (c, state).
Has nothing to do with unions. Waterless urinals were not allowed by the NYC Plumbing Code until May 2009 [0]. They became allowed as part of a water conservation plan. NYC has its own building codes because construction practices and urban density and infrastructure (e.g. fire and emergency services) are unique relative to the model building codes.

In terms of building codes, real-estate development interests have significantly more clout than unions. Partially that's because real-estate development is general seen as a net good. Partially it's their money talks several magnitudes louder because it is several magnitudes larger.

The fact that waterless urinals are allowed might be seen as evidence of the disparity.

[0]: http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/50076-22-09_build...

See also: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/local_laws/ll41of2012.... for the larger law as of 2012.
Haha, such an appropriate comment thread in a post about linguistics!
Why should a melon cost as much as a car
I think it's hard to say how well this was communicated to the public without knowing the total amount of users of the service. Maybe 99.99% of people did NOT upload public documents by mistake. Maybe only 95%. Depends on how many documents are safely private.
It's interesting and fun that Terry's odd but impressive project is getting a little cult traction. This is kind of neat, though the physics and animations could use some work.
they don't have 70 billion in cash. They have raised 8.8 billion so far and have spent a fair chunk of that as is.
> Great. Someone should do something about that.

The institutions pushing for change in IT are often not IT specific. The question is why do they focus on IT. They are the "someone" who should be doing something.
https://youtu.be/5gfoDHycEi0?t=2m12s

That sentiment! I know that feeling so well.
In the case of the medical device company in question, the trials took place in Europe due to an easier regulatory process around testing. As I said, it's their personal story, but here is an article that describes the differences between the systems:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhle1113918#t=articl...

I didn't mean to imply that US drug prices necessarily have anything to do with its regulatory structure, or that the European regulatory structure had anything to do with their prices, only that the companies have probably optimized their development and pricing strategies for the economic and political situations in the local markets.
Are you referring to the BBC Micro, or the Commodore 64?
You can't write an article about "very basic Data Science" and start it with a Bash script of regular expressions.
Amazon Delays Amazon Go (due to technical issues)
Why would it make sense? There's nothing supporting the idea that if we "work it out" we will understand better, faster, or some other kind of -er. It's certainly an easy way out, but I at least find it unsatisfying.
> how do you maintain your energy or sense of self when you are consistently trying to meet other people's needs?

Some people thrive off interactions like this, I think. If that's not you (and I count myself in that category also) then I think the "best" compromise might be to turn it on only when and where it matters (even though that sounds awful and self-serving). That probably means with valued friends and close family, and people you're trying to impress for some reason (personal or professional).
Android creator Andy Rubin teases his new smartphone
> Please read all the way it does sound pretty blunt, kinda a rant. I'm a guy. Not a very liberal response.

I approach this sort of writing with a stern charity.

Asking questions is never wrong. And I even entertain discriminatory assertions that have a compelling basis in reality. This is the charity.

But you damn well better be right, or at least not obviously wrong. If you have no compelling reason to believe what you preach -- if even the most cursory investigation would disposes you of a controversial and harmful if incorrect belief -- then you're just a bigot. This is the sternness.

So, let us evaluate your claims. Namely, that "you [women] shouldn't complain when it is difficult because you [they] are swimming upstream". I.e., that women are somehow naturally predisposed to poor software engineering.

Engineering requires a combination of technical aptitude and clear communication.

Let us first consider technical aptitude. It is instructive to consider other fields that over-lap with Computer Science and Software Engineering -- Mathematics (obviously important in CS and SE), medicine (requires systems-oriented thinking), and other sciences (requiring general technical skills).

Mathematics is more gender balanced than Computer Science. The most technically difficult aspects of Computer Science are basically applied mathematics. So technical competence cannot explain the CS gender disparity.

Medical Doctors are, on average, smarter, better credentialed, harder workers, and even better compensated than software engineers. And yet, the gender disparity among MD's is much lower than among software engineers.

Women outnumber men in several sciences, none of which you could reasonably call "pink-collar" fields without completely ignoring a good 20 years of history (let alone 100 years).

So, is it possible that women are somehow innately impoverished in the technical aptitude required in Software Engineering? I don't think so. But even if they are, this alone does not explain the gender gap in Computer Science.

Technical aptitude does not provide a compelling justification for your viewpoint.

That leaves us with communication. A technical genius who cannot communicate -- in code, in documentation, and in conversation -- makes for a dreadful engineer.

Perhaps innate communication ability explains the gap between men and women in software engineering? But all the women I know write much more clearly than you have in this post! And surely you are an excellent engineer.

So it seems I've run out of charity.
That is a very interesting point regarding Word2vec, but it's inappropriate to call this example racism based on the evidence provided.

Only 16% of the US population is Black, while 70% is white. If the error rates between Caucasians and Blacks were the same that would, in fact, be racist - or at the very least undemocratic.

It's like asking that everything in the world be symmetric when only 10% of the world is left handed.
Before sanitary sewer regulations, people got cholera and such:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html
Promote them.
Yeah I'm also wary and _never_ check a bag. But there is literally no option, they were very thorough and serious about this. You do not want to be stuck in Doha, Qatar- with no visa- arguing over your {iPad}. They had setup a new scanner checkpoint _at the gate_ to our flight.
Just an anecdote about the immense value that can be derived from it amongst all the newsfeed crap:

This week, I moved 16000km away from home. Brand new to the city, after being here for 3 days, I get a notification that friend X has posted a local facebook group I'd joined that week.

I hadn't seen friend X (more of an acquaintance) in 4 years or so, but because of seeing this notification, he also saw a similar notification from a post I made, we both reached out at the same time, sent a few messages and ended up spending the entire day together.

Turns out we're both here for at least the next 6 months with similar intentions and have way more in common than we'd previously thought.

I've got a few other examples of serendipity that have happened due to social networks and as much as I hate the cancer that populates the newsfeed, messenger, groups, instagram and the directory itself provide immense value.
As they say:

Built to code == the worst construction that is legal
Neoliberalism, and for that matter democracy (our Republic actually, since USA isn't a democracy) WAS devised by the 'elite' class. -- Washington, Jefferson, et al were all the elites of their times, Jefferson was a very rich slave owner. The problem I think is we get tied to the 'historical' or national pride of the constitution when there's many flaws in the way our government was setup, and it was always a rigged game - rigged for those with money/economic sway. There has never been a gov't yet that really put the needs of it's poorest people at the forefront of the constitution. (Some european countries come close like Denmark) -- but only after recent changes in the past 100 years -- the problem is changing ANYTHING in a country as big as America with a political establishment that contols BOTH parties is nearly impossible.

Should we blindly follow people who are rich enough to command others? Now that we have the internet/technology why can't we have where we vote on issues, or pick ANYBODY we admire and trust to vote for us? -- I don't want to vote on all tech stuff so I might delegate my vote to Bill Gates on issues tagged 'tech', environmental stuff I'd delegate to Bill Nye, etc..

They could vote or re-delegate their collective votes to someone else like Bernie Sanders, or John Mccain.
Are there any facts available? Maybe I missed them. So far all I've read is a post saying this guy's values conflict with Drupal's.
You'd... know if it was him. He'd, uh, have some choice words about Bomb Man.
Yes. either the capitalist or sovislist extremes would be our horrible horrible middle ground. Our healthcare inanity is one of our greatest threats.
My point was more around addressing global warming from the perspective of mitigation rather than prevention. There seems to be a lot of reports that indicate our opportunity for preventing global warming has passed or will soon pass[0][1][2]. So if that's the case, it seems like it would be pretty important to work on solutions to survive the effects of global warming instead.

0. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9988890...

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/climate...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change#Current...
> This is no different from Apple having a whitelist for TRIM support of SSDs in earlier versions of macOS. People were under the impression that there was some good technical reason for this.

I used to force-enable TRIM on my non-Apple SSDs for years, it was irritating but I think they were right to be cautious. Disk controllers have a history of serious bugs being triggered by external commands.

My go-to example is my Samsung HD204UI drives, they shipped with a firmware bug[1] that led to write corruption whenever a specific command was issued to the drive. Samsung issued a firmware fix without bumping the firmware version, so even today several years later, smartmontools prints a warning every time it runs, because it's impossible to tell which drives have been fixed.

Stuff like that is so common[2][3][4] the Linux kernel maintains a list[5] of devices that certain commands shouldn't be used on for various reasons. One has TRIM completely disabled, several have NCQ TRIM disabled due to known corruption issues, including one I still own: the very same drive I used to force-enable TRIM on when it was in my Macbook.

[1] https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cda57b1b05cf7b8b99a...

[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71371

[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900...

[5] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/ata/li...
The problem is not unions or corporations per se, but when the government intervenes to unfairly benefit them.
Quantum computing for everyone (2008)