skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is both notable and unsurprising that the Drupal code of conduct [1] makes zero mention of any of the topics in this debate. Nothing about sexuality, nothing about feminism, or equality, ... Yet every discussion about this immediately turns to gender politics. I think this shows the duplicitous nature of COCs: no matter what the letter says, the intent, as understood by nearly everyone, is to apply it to filter by reigning morality, under the threat of public punishment.

When it comes to Drupal, the only gender problem it has is the people who keep manufacturing major incidents out of minor slights, even when the people involved don't mind. Case in point, the Drupal Association member who resigned because he called his friend a pussy, who in turn didn't mind it.

It is disingenuous to uphold a code of respect, diversity and inclusion while simultaneously expecting everyone to conform to the wishes of the most easily offended. More so to act like the only way to be respectful to women is to treat them like fragile flowers. Some people prefer traditional gender roles, in or outside the bedroom, and some are women.

The last thing these inclusion activists want is diversity, it would expose them as the sheltered and privileged upper class they are.

[1] https://www.drupal.org/dcoc
What's the market for something like this? It seems every few years somebody is releasing a new OS/2. Who is buying it and why?
Transactions certainly make it easier to maintain global consistency, but one possible contradiction with the above is that if your modules are sharing transactions, then your boundaries are no longer narrow and well defined. By definition, your entire database and all its internal workings are now part of the interface.

This is one problem that I've observed with all the monoliths I've worked on. Because modules are colocated and sharing a database is easy, eventually somebody will do it (even if it wasn't originally intended), and you get lots of ostensibly modular code intertwined with other modules in non-obvious and subtly problematic ways.
I morbidly curious how many terrorist attacks we are away from actual laws that will attempt to outlaw encryption as used by WhatsApp (even if it wouldn't make sense to do that). Resistance against such measures outside of the tech scene would probably be low. The "I've got nothing to hide" mentality is actually quite widespread among the population, so I don't even think it would be a risky move politically.
Combine this with Detexify?
blekko had these features, and almost no one used them. The google guy who teaches advanced Google searching says that almost no one uses Google's advanced search, either. So if this is a viable niche, you'll have to figure out how to find these users...
I wonder whether this even also displaced dark matter.

And if both dark matter and black hole are displaced will galaxy just disintegrate?
Podcase 192: Button Connected to Nothing (from Embedded.fm)
A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)
Those are all things Google can already do but decide not to. Which means if any startup attempts and gets a moderate success, google will of course decide to do the same. Your startup will be nothing more than an R&D department Google uses for free.

Disruption happens by doing something completely different that happens to cannibalize the incumbent's business in a way that they can't change. All these little features mentioned are something Google can easily do so these are not really disruptive.
It's a crowded market, even though Google has basically withdrawn from it.
A long way? Real democracies do not spy on their people because it isn't a democracy anymore when you do. Whether that was always just a... well it is another matter. Business had a reasonable expectation of safe-passage. Who will want their traffic coming through the UK now? What multi-national/trans-national wants all their IP belong to the UK government? They will just go elsewhere. It's the economy stupid. Rudd is using the recent murders to her own twisted ends.
I have personally found that TV and social media checking are not particularly restorative activities after a stressful day. Light exercise or a nap on the other hand are like a magic elixir. Perhaps the ultimate YMMV.
Why GANs for this?
Thanks for sharing your experience. As a bad amateur musician, I've wondered about what it's actually like to pursue a career in music. It's sad that the odds seem to be highly stacked against people who want play classical and/or jazz music professionally.

I live in Pittsburgh where we have a wonderful orchestra. The musicians went on strike this season because their compensation was going to be significantly reduced (after already having suffered cuts recently). I wish I knew what to do to convey a love of this music to others, such that there could be more financial support for orchestras. It seems like the supply of talented musicians far exceeds the demand.

Also, since you're a fan of jazz, I was blessed to hear what would become Phil Wood's last concert. He played here in Pittsburgh while on oxygen -- he called it his "amplifier". Members of the Pittsburgh Symphony joined him as he played selections from "Charlie Parker with Strings". Besides the fact that every solo he played was perfect, he ended the show by telling the story of his musical career (and also, to the surprise of all gathered, announced his retirement from music). He passed away only a few weeks later.

I hope that we can find a way to not only maintain but to expand the richness of these musical genres for future generations. But with the challenges that you've described, I fear that many musicians will not be able to take part of it.
They are a distinct art style that the algorithm was able to identify. I don't have a problem with it being used as an example. Why isn't it ok?
uh, this is 2017, not 1930s. let's judge China by today's standard. You can't absolve a sin from someone today because someone else "used to do it" 100 years ago
"If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first 6 sharpening my axe" - Abraham Lincoln

If you delivered the initial thing in 4 weeks vs 8 but you'd spend way more in future development and developer time, would you say you made the right decision?

To put it another way, delivering the wrong thing faster doesn't make it any more right.
In Emacs there's an option to change that.
The resentment is quite reciprocal as well. Almost every Chinese mainlander shows resentment toward Japan (and Korea) to the extent that they don't even buy their products.
If a micro service is independent it makes no calls to other micro services. Thus the system has a single service and that service is a monolith. Contradiction, thus a micro service cannot be independent.
I can ask the same. Why should a suspected rapist, assassin, drug dealer, corrupt politician, be free or unjustly imprisoned, because of lack of evidence? Do you think we should help criminals?

Nowadays here are other more efective ways, than encrypted WhatsApp (secrecy), to fight bad governments and ridiculous laws.

North Korea and Saudi Arabia are obviously very extreme examples. Internet encryption must be the least of their worries.

Governments with working justice systems should be trusted with power to provide security.

There should be No technical means or backdoors globally accessible.
Information should be provided on request basis, based on a warrant for that suspect. And data stored should follow data protection laws.

If you think you country justice system is not working properly there are ways to fight that. And probably there will be people and institutions already doing.
I think experience makes you humbler, at least it has in my case. You realize you don't know everything, it's always good to have someone to review/give alternate explanations and methods, and that things are not usually as simple as the appear at first. I'm a far better listener, more openminded, and willing to accept feedback from others than I was when I started my career.
"Fix those two problems, and a new search engine could be better than Google. Whether anyone would notice is questionable."

Yeah, I don't think many people will care about the difference between good and perfect. You might be able to find a niche in search that Google is ignoring, but you would have a hard time expanding from there into general search.

In that sense Google is a bet against technology - you would invest in Google if you believe the Web's going to stay the same for a long time and nothing will replace it.
Thanks! That was a really helpful reply. Started reading the Aaronson intro to QM you linked and it does seem like a very direct and understandable approach to the subject.
That game only works in the US, as it seems.

But if you set the cookies

document.cookie = "age_checker=pass; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2037 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";
document.cookie = "is_legal=yes; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2037 12:00:00 UTC; path=/";

It does work elsewhere, too. (Otherwise it just redirects to your local wolfenstein info site)
Not really, it's just another example of uneven performance improvements. Peak CPU performance has increased massively, but achieving it requires the use of vector instructions (and multiple cores). It is true that the speed of persistent storage has increased faster than sequential CPU performance (but it's still quite far off).
This keeps popping up and more and more. Being a programmer isn't some completely unique snowflake experience. Concentration exists in all fields. Try writing a novel or composing a song. Having someone interrupt your "zone" is just as unsettling and frustrating. Because we have to think through some patterns and logic doesn't mean our focus is any more enlightened. This just feels like continued gatekeeping.
The way I explain it is that the biggest part of what I do is building a mental model of how the subsystem I am working on should work, or how it does work, in my head. That this model has many, many pieces, and building it is akin to painstakingly building a house of cards, one level at a time. Then I get interrupted, and 'whoosh', the house of cards comes crashing down. Sure I can get back to there, but I have to repeat the process of building the model. This may not be the way it is for everyone, I am a very pattern-oriented thinker.
Partly using human curation is an area that Google doesn't want to go into... that was blekko's sustained competitive advantage. Wasn't big enough for us, but maybe someone else could make a go of it.
Science Fiction as Prophecy
So by making a complex task much much easier, we have traded efficiency for larger numbers of wasteful systems.

The Crux of industrialization?

The future of mankind? Make task easy. Get more people to do task.
>They ...do not have free healthcare [no citations necessary]

When I lived and worked in China, for a government entity, the insurance didn't cover anything I ever needed it for and I had to pay out of pocket 100% of the time for all costs. The private healthcare industry is exploding in China right now because the public healthcare system is inadequate.

There is no such thing as free healthcare. Even if you install single payer and ration health supplies to the extent more people die on waiting lists like in Canada, the government will still be paying for the little care that remains through your own taxes or debt obligations.

More enlightenment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peVLkW7uirI
It's just showing the results when Mao-era propaganda posters are used as input.

Not sure I understand the concern. I guess "Communist" is a bit broad, but I don't see it as offensive.
Could you elaborate more on the Vanguard scripting? How could one get started with that?
Ditto. Newer projects at my employer use git. Anything older than about 3 years old uses Perforce. On the other hand, I think we left CVS under 5 years ago.
> It's not clear what her contribution to science or literature was actually.

Her dissertation is here: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/70983...

Title is "A Novel Role for Fyn in ApoER2 Regulation"

I can't help but wonder whether you have questioned her contribution to science if she was a man and wrote the same article. I'll let you say whether you think you would though, as I could only speculate.
Show HN: Embedded Device Hacking Tools from the /dev/ttyS0 Site
As it stands, this doesn't sound dissimilar to America (which also spends billions on making the world love it in the name of soft power)
That link doesn't work.
The point I was referring to is that the words are not all monosyllabic. The existence or nonexistence of multisyllabic characters is irrelevant. Character != word.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/595185?seq=1
Let's be clear, I dislike slow apps, I think current behemoth web pages size is a monstrosity and every time I start an electron app (minus the excellent vscode), I scream in my head.

Yet.

Most electron app I tried have a ratio result/effort far better than any other solutions for the dev.
How are they not ok? Is the color palette used in propaganda eternally tainted in some way? The algorithm distilled the content into a representative palette, nothing more.
Google the name of the article and click on it,somehow you can bypass it this way.
Keep in mind that it's been 20 years since Google's differantiator (PageRank) was invented. It's been about 10 years since Google's last meaningful changes to its search UI (autocomplete and "instant" search). So, while I respect Google's omniscience and omnipotence, I disagree strongly that Google/Alphabet are in a position to respond to a serious upstart competitor. Their primary response, as you hinted would be to acquire/acquihire, which is unimaginative and not exactly how you remain on the cutting edge. That strategy falls on its face as soon as it meets that one damn company that doesn't want to be purchased.
Such distinctions are only ever understood by most when they care enough to pay attention, and that usually takes time and a body count.
We have a similar thing for performance appraisal, but it does not evaluate technical competencies. Rather, it takes a generic set of skills ("focus on customer", "influence", "strategic thinking",...) and describes how someone in your role ("software engineer", "sales account manager",...) could apply these skills at the team, business unit or company level. The whole thing​ is a 100 page book, but really you only care about the 5 pages for your role (x2 if you are a manager). And it is explicitly not used for promotions. As a tool for identifying opportunities for improvement and personal development, I found it valuable.
Show HN: An app to meet new people anonymously and unlock their profiles
It's a zero sum game, of course. For each person who achieves their goals after stopping watching TV, someone else has theirs crushed.
Yes, but Elasticsearch requires a dedicated server, you may have to use a river, you may have to shard, etc. Some people (most people?) don't want to think about shards & rivers and just want something to work. Algolia seems to do that.
Docker Storage Drivers Performances
Some customers are listed at http://ecomstation.com, probably they have complex enterprise apps that work reliably and are cheaper to maintain than rewriting code and retraining users:

Alstom, Germany
AustriaCard, Austria
Belgacom, Belgium
Bilfinger Mauell GmbH, Germany
Boeing, USA
Bowe, Bell + Howell, USA
Canadian Coast Guard, Canada
Caterpillar, Singapore
Colgate Palmolive, USA
Fujitsu, Japan
Johnson & Johnson, USA
MIT, USA
Max Planck Institut, Germany
Michelin, France
Norwich Union, UK
OCE BV, The Netherlands
Pittsburgh Embossing Services, USA
Qatar Petroleum, Qatar
Siemens AG, Germany
Standard Bank, South Africa
Trustco Bank, USA
US Postal Services, USA
Universal Instruments Corp, USA
Truuuue. :)

But my point is my searches usually end up in:

wikipedia, blogpost, *overflow, twitter, reddit, papers ...

So making a search engine for only those sites, could be a usable search engine indeed and I would use it if I had to. :)
British Government takes aim at Whatsapp for encryption
I've recently had an idea that I'm really excited about, but it's totally outside of my wheelhouse. It's a biotech idea and I have no training in biology or chemistry. I started watching open courseware lectures but then decided to try using a biology text book instead. I went to a local salvation army and picked up a biology book for $2. It's been working pretty well, but I'm trying to figure how to self sustain my motivation. That's always the hardest​ part of self learning for me.
Chinese tour groups are notorious for disrespecting and/or destroying everything they come in contact with. I've had to personally deal with them in several countries and it is never a pleasant experience.
At least there are articles/opinions written down for what is happening in US which you can quote. For China, in many cases, you can't even do that given press/govt restrictions.

Also, to say that China has better human rights record vs. US is almost blasphemy. Why even quote that?

For the last point, what are you trying to say? Democracy doesn't work - lets all most to the communist model!? I know you are trying to be a the devils advocate, but using one off examples (while ignoring everything that China represents) to justify your points seems wrong.
A Sprinkle of Seaweed Could Deflate Gassy Cows (2016)
Another issue is spam/false matches. Why does Google return illegitimate results? Because, let me tell you, any search for "some nifty computer book pdf" returns pages upon pages of bogus links leading to ad link mazes. A crawler should be able to trivially crawl such a page, determine that no PDF is linked, and blacklist the result, but this doesn't happen.

The problem is interesting, but I think you make it seem easier than it is. What if there's a CAPTCHA, as there often is? Should the engine still ignore it? That could lead to a whole lot of missed content.
We need a competency matrix on Matrix Competency.
HN regularly has threads about self teaching math, theoretical compsci, physics etc, they're hard to google for.

Best is to find a study group or willing tutor but for books/youtube, MOOC,

- Cal Newport's books/blog

- Garrity "all the math you missed", math for physics books by Boaz and Arfken et al.

- "Passing exams for Dummies" yellow book

- Barbara Oakley's books and MOOC,

- Lara Alcock and Keith Devlin's "how to study" books

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13060398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13068215

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5gu1kr/selfstudy_math...

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5xnhuj/how_do_you_rea...
So you have to be able to fix something before saying it sucks? You must be busy in the "Counterfeit items on Amazon" threads.
well, then you probably need reading comprehension classes.

the world isn't black and white, it's shades of grey
That's nothing. Here's code that does 77GFLOPS on a single Broadwell x86 core. Yes that 77 billion opertaions per second.

http://pastebin.com/hPayhGXP
Your argument has a name: tu quoque.
well i wanted to troll. But I'm done with technology from google. I can't change my whole codebase every 6 months. Stability might not be cool, but however.
Investing time in angular is just not worth it. there might be success stories with it, however I've didn't seen a major site/framework/whatever that could've used angular 100%.
Well I think vmware used angular 2 for their html5 ui, too which I don't know if they also call into other stuff.
I think the odds that Uber would make money developing self driving cars was approximately zero. Look where Tesla Motors is after fourteen years in terms of producing and selling automobiles and without internal competition from another primary line of business.

Self driving vehicles will have the same profile as the existing automotive industry: high capital costs and commodity margins. The existing automotive mega-corporations already have the capital investment and distribution networks like ships and rail cars and lots and auto-carrier semi-trailers. Tesla is building some of that and the jury is still out on whether Tesla will make a meaningful dent.

Even the idea of Uber rolling out a self-driving fleet means a massive infusion of capital that is at odds with its current cost structure. And the existing automotive mega-corps can step into the ondemand business with a cost advantage in regard to rolling out vehicle fleets.
Why would the rental company not just scale up to match morning demand? Even if a car is only used for an hour a day the cost of having it parked up somewhere for the rest of the day would be very low.

And you're talking about a car as if buying it is a one-off expense that'll never be added on to. That's not true at all - insurance, maintainence and repairs are all ongoing costs that you'd be similarly unable to afford if you lost your job.
> I'd estimate that you can run at least 50 JVM, Python and Node.js processes on a typical single machine

Unless someone has convinced you that Spring is the right way to build microservices, in which case you're going to need a gigabyte per instance, and most people won't be able to run 50 on a typical machine. I worked on a project like that, and our beefy iMacs really laboured to bring up ten services.
Here's what I want in a search engine:

Charge me $15-25 dollars per year

Let me decide what demographic information I wish to share- make it easy for me to control and help me protect my information. Because you are charging me money you can afford it and I trust you.

Give me two search options: one, I'm only seeking information. two, I'm looking to buy. Do this for me as an advertiser: help me qualify the clicks I'm paying for

Perhaps allow me to pay per 1000 impressions (CPM) instead of per click.

By the way, I would also subscribe to a facebook that did this.
Isn't a microservice just a small application behind a network boundary? Moving what might be a big ball of mud into smaller ones?
The "software engineering" section seems like it was composed by a person who has conflated "configuration management" with engineering, and also asserts that "TDD" is something that describes a "high level" of proficiency (an assertion which isn't generally true, in my view). In fact, a lot of the items under the "Programming" section should be under "Software Engineering."
You'd be amazed at how many people just don't get it. I know people just like the ones described in the article who are more social butterflies, never needing to get "in the zone" as you put it (or needing to get into it much less often). For them, it's never about understanding depth, but more surface level stuff.

For me, everyday starts with a period of time (15 min to half an hour) spent just trying to get myself to get back in the flow of what I need to get done, and if I'm interrupted by, say an unplanned meeting, or an impromptu chat with my manager, then I need to start all over again! :(

When I'm in the zone, I can crunch stuff up in half or even a third of the time compared to if I'm repeatedly interrupted, but that's pretty much a nobrainer I guess