skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that kind of test tends to be fragile and the outcome is unpredictable.

There's no need to inject the double everywhere in other tests because the built-in version is the behavior we want the function to work.
The percentage of bootcamp grads that are female is much higher than the average across tech (~30% for bootcamps v ~15% across industry/university). I don't think bootcamps make up a large enough group for that to make it 'likely' that any given woman is from a bootcamp, but it probably means there's a few pockets where all the women at a company went through a bootcamp.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3050171/where-are-the-women-in-t...
I work for the NGO that is asking people to call Congress in this article, and we also have the impression that this is a useful way for constituents to lobby their representatives (though some people say sending a paper letter is more effective, perhaps precisely because even fewer people are willing to do it). It would be interesting to hear more on this from people who've worked in various Congressional offices.
The Role of Science and Mathematics in Software Development
I'm excited about exposing to app developers a way to ask for ratings. Specifically, the ability to opt out of them.

I think this doesn't address the real problem though, which is that ratings reset after every app update. This means that app developers have to constantly ask for reviews, which is exhausting as a user.
If anyone wants to see, we are using next.js 2.0 on https://kimmel.com. Yes, the designer added way too many fonts, but overall it's a really nice static site thanks to next and the programmatic api allowed me to generate blog post pages!
Also, those in here arguing that numbers are fundamental, basic, and universal might appreciate Ted Chiang's story "Division by Zero", also in "Stories of Your Life". http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumbe...
That deals with responding to reviews of your app, not an ability to leave a review for iOS itself. Either way, I don't think the average consumer will understand that they've lost data because of a bug in a new filesystem.
And if you are an app with appreciable market share and something goes wrong, I doubt one would be able to mitigate a crush of negative reviews.
The alchemist
In what way? I'm a human being full of intertwined contradictions and personal mythologies. I have many ways in which to be influenced.

I've read so many books and they've all left their impression on me one way or another; even the most boring drivel!

If by influenced you mean to imply, as a programmer, then I would say perhaps Programming in the 1990s if that counts as "non-technology." It's a book about maths and using logical proofs as a tool for creating specifications of computer systems. Prior to reading that book I had treated "software specifications," with the same reverence as a sketch on the back of a napkin. As far as I was concerned the only specification that mattered was the source code and the tests that exercise it. I feel as though that book has greatly changed the way I approach problems and how I think when I'm thinking about software.
So Microsoft is still mediocre security-wise, despite all of those people claiming the company has been reinvented?

I can belive the reinvented claim (that's the kind of thing a new, good CEO can influence), but quality goes very deep, into each employee. Any one hire can screw up fatally. It takes a lot of hard work to build a security conscious culture/company hierarchy.

(Edit: Hello Redmond people!)
Gives a new meaning to the Macbook Air. Thin enough you can carry it on a plane.
Medicare drug plans do say no. There's even tools to find one that works best for a given patient.

https://q1medicare.com/PartD-SearchPDPMedicarePartDDrugFinde...
> You can't point out things that are wrong without someone being able to spin your comments as some kind of toxic masculine impulse to show basal-primate technical dominance through demonstration of superior shamanistic technical knowledge.

Who hurt you? I suggest you find greener pastures if you truly believe that.
I agree there are significant political problems associated even with life extension, let alone immortality. I suppose a charitable view might be that either or both might drive us to colonize our moon, Mars, etc.
But what doesn't seem to get much attention are the psychological problems of living hundreds of years (or a more extreme 'upload' of your mind). My instinct is that there a whole host of psychological disorders waiting in the wings for people who manage to live much longer than humans have lived before. Not that there couldn't be treatment for those as well, but physical health is only part of the picture.
Amazon considers opening augmented reality furniture stores
Why teens paper smoke in their teenagers days is similar to starting a startup
While a lot of charges is been pressed against drugs and the likes of smoking.
there is a global label on cigarettes ‘Smokers are liable to die young”,
But the act for smoking may have started in many since childhood.
Look at most male child today, whom try to paper smoke at their early teenagers days.

The cause varies.

Some people start smoking when they are in their teens and are addicted by the time they reach adulthood.

Some have tried to quit but have returned to cigarettes because smoking became a strong addiction.

It is a force of habit that is very difficult to break. There are many different reasons why people smoke.
Concisely, teens smokers is Curiosity drive and while they get older tends to become more fascinated because of the environment that continues to enable them to smoke.

In the startup world, there is echo of "Success is not guaranteed" yet lots of us want to enter into it, our curiosity is success driven, and our hope is to build a strong addiction while making things that people want.

My conclusion is a question,
What are the various startup enabling environment that will enable success and make us hard to brake or give in to failing ?.
Assume it is a disaster: do you propose to stop it, and if so, how?
I would add that he also does a wonderful job capturing and describing human nature. He is writing right after WWII, and the Arthurian legend is just a vehicle for his observations about humanity (and the war).

Wonderful book - I just finished reading the first section (the Sword in the Stone) out loud to my daughter, and I hope as she gets older, she will read the rest on her own.
C also needs a runtime, it is called crt0 on UNIX and it is what calls main(), sets up global initialization functions (constructor functions in GCC C), emulates floating point,...

As for Ada, you can selectively disable which parts of the runtime actually land on the generated executable via compiler pragmas.

Deallocation can be done via pools or controlled types.
I've never seen an HBO show I didn't think was excellent. The Pacific wasn't as good as Band of Brothers, but that's not exactly a damning statement.
I prefer everything about Netflix's user experience on all devices EXCEPT the auto-play trailers on Roku. They are the worst invention in the history of UI! 1) It took me forever to realize they weren't the episode/movie starting. 2) I now have to rush instead of leisurely browse through the menu (unless I turn the sound off) 3) ULTIMATE SIN: There's no setting to turn them off! I actually dread going to Netflix now on my Roku and sometimes go to Amazon first (gah!) just to avoid that one aspect.
Reminds me of a cooked-in version of LaTeXiT [1], a utility I find invaluable when it comes to combining figure drawing (e.g., with OmniGraffle) and LaTeX annotations of arbitrary complexity.

[1] http://chachatelier.fr/latexit
Read The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane <https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnet.... The myth is that charisma is "natural function of who they are." The reality is that charisma is a set of discrete behaviors, any of which can be analyzed and broken down into steps that anyone can learn.

As the Time article suggests, a huge part of charisma is being a good listener who genuinely makes a conversational partner feel valued. But being a good listener has many different variations and components. Obviously, there are the mechanical parts such as maintaining eye contact and not speaking over the other person. Then the active listening includes phrasing replies in a way that shows that you're empathetic and have actually heard what they've said. And then there's what you bring to the conversation: are you the kind of person who deeply groks what someone's saying and potentially builds on their thoughts to create something amazing in a conversational moment? Do you naturally exude authority about a subject or in a certain environment? Do you see the big picture in a way that inspires people to take their ideas to you to be told why what they're doing is important? Are you a kind, warm person who people open up to when they fear being judged by others?

Everyone has at least a little charisma. This book helps you find it and develop it.
Is there room for new challengers in this space, or are all of the media incumbents going to lock down the rest of the digital entertainment space?

I live in Atlanta, and the cost of production here is much cheaper than California. I've been mulling over the merits of someone here launching a streaming platform for some of the locally-produced content.
It's because they have a whitelist of allowed version numbers:
https://pikeralpha.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/4398/
React Native – A First Try
Nice.

I use Dropbox Paper to take math notes, and it works great with math formulas and Latex support. You get sharable Paper documents, downloadable as MS Word docs and Dropbox paper overall feels light, fast and minimalistic.

The only thing I'd improve about Paper's Latex support is to add some autocomplete features that make it faster to type out Latex and a couple of minor bugs, like the incomplete Latex disappearing when you switch tabs.
What does "cooked-in" mean in this context. Never heard of this expression before ;)
My main beef is if I try to look up any old movie ever, It's almost guaranteed to not be on Netflix. It's the first place I try and it fails every time.
I think Elon Musk's concern over A.I. has been widely misunderstood. His concern is NOT A.I. replacing the human species. As he clearly stated in this interview[1], his concern is that the immense power of A.I. owned by a small group of organizations or even individuals, which IMO, is well justified.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBQmEqBCY0
How do I reach you dbarrett83? Email?
It could be that they just don't want to deal and test with older versions. By only specifying a certain number of supported displays they essentially guarantee it works for those, that doesn't mean however it can't work on others, you just don't get the assurance of it.
Apart from whether "publicly searchable" should be an explicit / implicit setting, this seems like something that could also largely be mitigated with some simple keyword flags. Words like "SSN" or "confidential" or the like are probably good indicators that this doc shouldn't have been shared and something that requires an extra approval dialog. That keyword list could also be something you'd expand over time and could use to retroactively remind users that they might have inadvertently shared something they shouldn't have.
Academia should be the primary means of drug discovery. Drug manufacturing and distribution _should_ be a commodity business

You're missing a big step! The key role drug companies play today: drug development.

Discovery is the cheapest step in the process. Running clinical trials is where most of the money goes. I just can't picture academia funding tens of billions of dollars of drug development. Where would that money come from? Are they up for the risk?
Even they believe (non-negative) integers.
I find the vast majority video blogging long-winded and rambling. This isn't particularly surprising, since it's much more work to shoot and edit a video to be short and to the point than it is a written work, but unless there's a particular need for visuals and motion I really prefer reading.
To me the the big story here is that seed rounds fell 27.6% last year.
As our resident security expert pointed it, it really depends on the office. My evidence is purely anecdotal, but it mirrors the experiences that friends of mine who interned in other offices had. One more thing that I can add is that most of the Reps we worked for had been in their seat for 15+ years, and it may be that they consider their seats safe enough that they don't need to reference the daily numbers much, or they have a deep enough understanding of their constituency that they can instinctively know how they will feel or react to an issue. Or it could be N number of other things.
Agree. For a product that you pay for whose very DNA has evolved around businesses and organizations, this is unfathomable.
A friend of mine once claimed that Amazon could sell at cost and still profit - they'd charge the customer for an item immediately, but have 30 or 60 days until they had to pay the supplier, so the interest on the payment in the meantime was profit. Not a lot on a $15 collection of toilet paper (for example), but multiple by the number of Amazon customers...

Of course, that skips the costs of Amazon staffing and infrastructure, and I'm sure Amazon sells most items above cost (and potentially some below), but I took it as a good example of how the scale involved meant that few can compete with Amazon.
If you read a lot of blogs online, you need to check out NewsTab Reader
I have a number of acquaintances in the situation where they tried to go out and raise a proper Bay Area seed of $1-1.5m, got told they needed more traction, and wound up giving up part of the way through, stopping the round at ~$300k and calling it an angel. Then, traction appears and they come back to finish that initial seed round. Every time I've heard of this happening, the issue was investors becoming more careful with their money rather than founders underestimating how much money they'd need.

Small sample size and all, but if this is the way things are going, it'd be a good thing and force more founders to focus on metrics that matter early.
It's a pity that this book has deserved so much attention over the years when the real research that made it possible is beautifully covered at Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers first published in 1962 and updated periodically
Are you sure math is doing much better than tech? The others I know are much more balanced but I thought that women were underrepresented in math as well.
Honestly, how many other companies, government agencies, or other organizations would hold up under the kind of coordinated, orchestrated drubbing that the media has dished out to Uber over the last couple of months?
> (far) superior UI experience.

Seriously? It's just a bunch of overlapping lists to bloat the appearance of lots of content. There are many things I would change about the UI. They should get out of the UI business and let us choose one that meets our needs, or better still, roll our own.
Laser sintering is a known technology. 3D printing drugs is a buzz word and a technology that doesn't even exist. As a chemist I can tell you it's a pipe dream. Chemistry just doesn't work that way.
React Native: a first try
Practical CSS Grid
The iOS filesystem environment is WAY more controlled than OS X. Updating OS X first would be fewer machines but is the much more difficult task. This would also be one hell of a production test. They obviously think they're ready.
The last question seems really misleading. Most modern CPUs have a cache size of 8MB (max), yet the answer is >300MB?
Yes, for personal blogs it's much easier to write on Medium or Tumblr then running your own thing if only for the network effects but also the required costs (domain + hosting). Or if it's shorter posts/ideas use Twitter, maybe with screenshots of text in iOS notes for longer ideas.

Unless there is a product I find there is no real reason to do what is needed which is hustling. I find hustling to push your own brand is weird. Most of us are developers. I myself am not trying to "become famous" or anything I just want to share my knowledge and experience the way others have before me.

How do you hustle a product? "Growth hack", post on all channels, target your messages, build a newsletter, etc.
Compiling X to C and then C to assembly is not more complex that compiling X straight to assembly. In your orignal comment you wrote that the complexity of such setup is bigger, to which I responded: no, not really.

Yes, C was not designed to be intermediate compilation step and this yields losses of some information (e.g. debugging metadata, but also some semantics of source language may get lost). I never argued with that. I never said that this is a perfect setup that doesn't introduce any new problems. I just said that compiling to C is very close to what is actually happening inside the compiler targeting assembly from higher level language.
Intel releases consumer M.2 Xpoint SSDs: Endurance problems on a gumstick
Hi, I'm Jonathan, a co-founder of Aeroscope. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
That came out in the movie too, and it was not remotely believable there. It was where you had to turn on your suspension of disbelief and enjoy the Blinkenlights.
I think the musical metaphor makes more sense to us, with the obvious analogy to the length of a vibrating string. "This part is D-flat long, when it needs to be C-sharp!"
Its pretty crap for the consumer market. Your typical MLC SSD (or even TLC SSD) over SATA is more than sufficient for the consumer market, at prices that actually will be used (although even a TLC SSD seems to be considered "high end" by my family members...)

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The Optane memory seems to have a niche in replacing DRAM servers. So instead of running Redis, MySQL, or Postgres on DRAM, you can run it on Optane instead.

Optane is cheaper than DDR4 but almost as fast (latency wise). Latency is a big deal when it comes to database and/or key-value pair workloads.
The terminology has been butchered, not least because of VCs wanting to get into earlier stage and changing how they deal with companies. I've heard pre-seed as well, but realistically if you don't have significant progress, the days of paper-napkin idea => investment are pretty much over AFAIK.
>ratings reset after every app update.

What's the reasoning behind this? On Android, reviews for prior versions have a "This review was left for a previous version." banner at the top of them, but the star aggregates are all still there. How do apps keep reviews if they're wiped out every time an app updates?
Why can't this be a matter of preference? A lot of people in this thread saying "you're wrong, it DOES increase productivity!" and others saying "no, it DOESN'T increase productivity!" It seems obvious to me that it's not necessary or sufficient for max productivity, but if it's part of your productivity strategy (or not) then great.

I use a single monitor, mostly because I like being able to move around, from the desk to the couch to the coffee shop to my yard. I'm not going to bring a spare monitor into my yard.

I also program in 40 character width, so that helps a lot. I can have a console, debugger, and a browser all open side by side on a single screen. If I want 6 pieces of open open side by side on my laptop I can do it easily, although I pretty much never need more than 2.

I find workspaces work just as well as monitors. I have three, and I four-finger-swipe to move between them. I don't see why four finger swiping would be slower than turning my head or my eyes.
I'm not at all a fan of Uber, but at this point it seems like a coordinated smear campaign.
I'm honestly jealous of both you and @Idlewords. What I wouldn't give to work in the Tech Policy space.
"Death to all" - cloakandswagger -v 3/27/17

Clearly the writings of a deranged individual.
Note that this is hardly the only area of patent law that is suffering from "legislative neglect." The area known as "patent misuse" isn't just scandalously confusing; it offers contradictory legal decisions. But congress won't touch it since large companies aren't unhappy with confusion if it means they can get away with .
> Academia should be the primary means of drug discovery. Drug manufacturing and distribution _should_ be a commodity business

As mentioned below, the discovery is not the biggest driver of costs.

But you should also ask yourself: why is this not already the case? Currently, there's nothing stopping other countries from using taxpayer money to fund drug development locally. Except, by and large, they don't - as mentioned in the article, most of the drug development that happens worldwide is funded by the United States, even for companies that are headquartered in Europe.

The answer isn't that those countries aren't interested in consuming the benefits of that research, because they are more than willing to purchase those drugs that were developed in the US at lower prices. The answer is that they just choose not to fund the research, either because it's too expensive to conduct clinical trials with taxpayer money, or because it's more effective to have that funded by the market, especially when that market is US patients, rather than European taxpayers.
You're changing the argument. The OP said that women leave tech at a much higher rate than other industries. You claim that men enter certain professions at a much lower rate. This is apples and oranges.
i'm pretty sure i read a study a few years ago that said bad bosses were the #1 reason for people leaving jobs, across all demographics.
That is why Apple has had 10.3 in beta, so that developers could test their apps and report breakages before anything goes public. Seems like business as usual to me.
Elon Musk’s LA Tunnel Project and the Fault Line
A small list:

- Type safe enumerations

- Proper strings with bounds checking

- Proper arrays with bounds checking

- No implicit decay of arrays into pointers

- Type safe pointers

- Explicit casts for subverting the type system

- Bounds checking must be explicitly disabled

- Var parameters instead of pointers for out parameters

- Real modules with type encapsulation

- Type safe function pointers

- Language support for concurrency

- Open arrays for variable length parameters

- Exceptions

All of this available in 1978.

By no means anything exceptional, Niklaus Wirth inspired himself on the programming language Mesa, used by Xerox PARC to create the Pilot OS and the Star workstation, as Xerox wanted to move away from BCPL in 1977.

Also many of these features were already available in Algol.
You've got to imagine they're doing a slower rollout than usual for this somewhat major change.

The first .01% requests might get it until they know there aren't 11th hour "in the wild" problems, then they'll jump it to .1, 1%, 10%, and eventually 100%.
The messed up thing here, if I understand the article correctly, is that documents shared via a private URL containing a private key were all searchable via the search box on docs.com.

That's beyond being a UX issue, it's just.. wrong. So wrong that I could see lawsuits from this issue.

It's also a class of bug that I really couldn't imagine happening outside of Microsoft in terms of consumer software services from large-scale companies.

Here's a free idea for Google: Create a safety index service for saas stuff and then apply it to Chrome. I'd use it.
I suggest focusing on source materials rather than articles in masthead newspapers (the financial press particularly seem to have endless third hand pieces about this, arguably as filler material)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_artificial_intel...