skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess one of the benefits of living somewhere rural by HN standards is that there's few local meet-ups that are relatively well attended, everyone gets to know each other, every other meeting is at a bar, etc, etc...
I think they were just been paranoid about potential legal penalties, so take it easy.
Id say that these forums are dominated by people with too much time on thier hands, a group where the underemployed are probably overly represented.

Knowledge does count in a non-saturated market. Only where there are thousands of qualified applicants do the interviews count for so much. My new job required two interviews, and one of those was basically just about making sure i wasnt a felon. There were aptitude and medical checks, which took months, but none of the extensive "culture fit" sillyness.
Maybe you should work harder and smarter. Inequality exists because of laziness.
Agreed, I'm asking out of curiosity as I'm unfamiliar with the economics. Let's say a board of scientists creates a environmental cost curve for various levels of CO2: C(T) represents the marginal cost of emitting one ton/day of CO2 when T tons/day of CO2 are currently emitted. If we apply a CO2 tax of amount C(T), then CO2 emissions will decrease to account for the higher marginal cost of production. The question is: Will this new production level be environmentally sustainable?
> Anyone looking for some insight into how to write an AI engine for a game today will be disappointed.

And yet, it was really effective and fun. This is like a magician revealing how a trick was done, it's always a "letdown".
Define "fine".

It's a bit like pointing out to environmentalists that the earth itself will be fine; it's true but glossing over a huge amount of detail of what might actually be lost.

Possibly the most accurate prophecy I've read on twitter is that we'll gradually forget that people used to migrate to the UK from Ireland for economic reasons, as it becomes the other way round. The UK is likely to move smoothly from importing workers to young people going abroad (with greater difficulty) in order to find work. And the Home Office net migration figures will declare this a success.

Brexit won't demolish the UK, but it will cripple growth and cut us out of a whole bunch of global opportunities.

(Unless the Home Office goes to kick out the 3m Europeans already here, in which case we're back to tanks-in-the-streets apocalypses)
Seems to be unfinished as in the UI.
What a cool service. The spending by our country (and the associated deficits and debt) shouldn't have to be a partisan issue clouded by smoke and mirrors and political handwringing.

I didn't care much for how Ballmer ran Microsoft (except for his developer conference chants), but I'm really warming to the post-Microsoft Steve Ballmer.
Imagine vanlife in a self-driving house-on-wheels. That is my plan for the next phase of my life. I’ve been saving every penny I can for when the first self-driving RV hits the market.
It's still AI though.
Men are better at sports. That's no social construct. Having men and women compete on equal footing would result in women always losing.
It's not that it's upsetting as an individual event, and I can't help but feel this is a bit of a straw man.

What's maybe more of an issue is that is there is a long-term bias in the use of gendered language, across multiple projects, in code and documentation and comments, then that does seem like an obvious bug. It's a very small thing, but one of those things that in aggregate could contribute to the perception of a more general gender imbalance in the industry.

But think off it another way – for no cost, you can make other people feel slightly more comfortable in the long term working in this field. Why bother fighting it?
2007

Read it, thought I'd read it before, noticed the old social networks, halted at FOAF... checked the date.

Still valid though.
Oh yeah, I forgot all about that! Thanks for reminder. It was both ingenious and really screwed up.
Please bear in mind that (1) the existence of a standard does not imply immediate global compliance of new software and (2) the existence of compliant software does not imply that people are actually using it. In the 1990s, when Lennart would have been at university, he would have been exposed to Unix servers that had been installed 5-10 years previously, at least. So the timeframe we're looking at isn't 2001, but the late 1980s / early 1990s.
I didn't have any problem until today with namecheap.
I think you can tell a good service from a bad service when a real issue arises like today.

It is ridiculous that they gave me 24 hours to delete two images or suspend my domain without any warning.
I didn't even know that was possible!
If I had missed their email or checked my email 24 hours later, my domain could have been suspended.
This is a site with visitors in the range of hundred thousands per day...

I am still shocked on how they managed this.
You say you mean to go and then 99.99% of the time you don't. When I mean to attend a meetup, I RSVP "Yes". I presume you do too.

If you can't make it, please be courteous and release your "yes" RSVP so that people on the waitlist can get in and so that the organizers can plan more accurately.

If you aren't likely to make it in the first place, please don't RSVP "yes" for the off-chance that you feel like going - please wait until you know you are going for certain to update your RSVP.
I wouldn't say it is gender discrimination (today) so much as acknowledging the undeniable difference in physical capabilities of the sexes. The fastest female marathoners do not even remotely compete with the top men - top men run just a smidge over 2 hours, with the top women running 2:15:00+. Maybe someday there will be an equalizing of physical abilities, but that end does not seem to be in sight.

In fact, I don't think there is a single professional sport where women would even finish in the top 10 when competing against male opponents.

In the same vein, most sports have recreational, amateur, professional, and masters (older people) competitions, because there are undeniable physical differences between the old and the young. It doesn't have anything to do with ageism or discrimination. I mean, I can off-the-couch trounce any octogenarian in (probably?) any sport - pitting the two of us against one another is not really a competition, or fun, for either one of us.
Read the full sentence:

> "Ms." began to be used as early as the 17th century, along with "Miss" and "Mrs.", as a title derived from the then formal "Mistress", which, like Mister, did not originally indicate marital status. "Ms.", however, fell into disuse in favor of the other two titles and was not revived until the 20th century.

It wasn't until the 1960s that "Ms." appeared as a formal category in the United States on forms.
Please don't violate the guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you drill down to any individual metric, e.g. http://usafacts.org/metrics/12892 it says "Sources for this data are coming soon" & "Download coming soon". Give them some time, they just launched.
Super slow for what should amount to HTML - why is this website so slow?
That was a beautiful scientist.
I've come across so many otherwise intelligent people who just reflexively go "oh I don't _get_ Twitter at all". It reminds me of the people who are all "I hate / don't understand / can't do math" without giving it a chance. What I'm pondering here is maybe there's a mental hurdle here at play, in addition to the UX issues cited in these other comments.
Or Flir Lepton. A bit more pricey (~$200), but image quality (wrt. noise) and resolution (80x60) are much higher.
Precisely that they are paid by the taxpayers?
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For how many centuries must we edify ourselves that programming is for men?

Are your gendered "modes of thought" so fragile and unattractive that they can't subsist in consenting minds, and must instead be protected, and foisted upon the unwilling?
From 2007-08-17...
That should be mentioned in the title.
Take note people. See the mental poison infecting all aspects of culture. If you disagree with this nonsense, you need to push back and speak up.

For an example of how bad this can get (and has gotten) see:

https://youtu.be/04wyGK6k6HE

One of the most captivating interviews I've watched recently.

Don't say you weren't warned.

edit: Isn't it funny this thread is dead/flagged? You can't even have an opinion on the issue that doesn't fall in line with the established "correct" position. No discussion is allowed. The pros and cons cannot even be enumerated without censorship.

On an issue that directly involves development practices and would necessitate more work for developers. Talking about it is off limits! If that's not the very definition of suppression of speech, I don't know what is. People that have reservations about this are viewed as "sensitive" and worrying unnecessarily. But look at this very thread!
You stated:

> ""Ms." didn't exist until the 60s"

So, yeah... clearly you were talking about formal categories on US forms...
Is CloudFlare flagging a HN stampede as a DDoS?
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Please leave out the name-calling like the guidelines ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't this just likely to be caused by the census data?
That is ridiculous.
They threatened to suspend my domain within 24 hours if I did not delete two images.

I don't even use their nameservers... They threatened to yank my domain in a registrar level which is so amateurish it shocked me.
https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/ has a bunch of resources. Robert Harper's Programming in Standard ML book plus the notes from 15-150 at CMU are good for general FP concepts.
I always thought that the I in AI stood for Intelligence
I'm actually more suspicious of anything claiming to be "non-partisan" than something that wears its foundational beliefs on its sleeves. At least if something says "We are a Libertarian non-profit" or "We are a Socialist non-profit" or something like that, I know better what specific grain of salt to use when reading its materials.

Anything that claims to be non-profit is merely hiding the slant that its people have put on the data it is providing. The idea that anything can be presented free of the biases introduced by the people presenting it is a silly myth. Which is not to say people shouldn't make an effort to be fair and unbiased when trying to present facts, but we all have inherent biases that are basically impossible for us to remove ourselves.
The sort of stupid shit that you have just posted is why these kinds of steps are important in the first place.
This really is not true, and inequality can often dictate how hard and smart your are required to work for success. Most people are blind to the small advantages and inequalities the benefit from
It's just Javascript, but served from Google servers. For a fix to work for other users you'd need them to use a plugin that applies it.
>In the second chart half a million more people decide to die every 10th year?

Or it's from another source that gives different metrics obtained every 10 years (e.g. from census) with some extrapolation?

In any case, the differences are small in this instance over the long run, it's the lack of source and other metadata that its more troubling.
> When people are asked how they should spend their own money, they're very careful with it and analyze expenditures and benefits carefully. On an individual basis, money is spent efficiently and people understand that.

We seem to know very different people.

While it is true that the market has a tighter feedback loop, that does not ensure good individual decisions. It just means that individuals are punished for bad decisions and rewarded for good decisions quickly.

This is a nice feature of the market but that doesn't mean that it is the only system that can have tight feedback loops. Look at the military for a good example of a non-market structure that has a tight feedback loop and, generally, does very well outside of the market system.

The government may lack some features of the market that doesn't mean that it cannot be as accountable. Good data and analysis for the people is one nice step toward greater government accountability.
I don't think it has really changed the mindset of developers. All it has done is lessen the consequences of not caring, or of caring and getting it wrong.

I once took over an app that did a live search of a dictionary as the user typed. Looking over the code, I noticed that the memory management was a little funky, so I did a leak analysis on it. Turned out it was leaking something like 3,000 objects with every single keystroke. It still "worked," because the OS acts as the ultimate GC by cleaning up all of an app's memory when it terminates. Users mostly didn't leave it running long enough for the objects to build up, and if they did then it would die on its own eventually.

There's a famous story of Microsoft's heroic efforts to maintain backwards compatibility in Windows. The original version of SimCity would free memory and then read from it. This worked fine on Windows 3.x because the newly freed memory would be left undisturbed until something else allocated new memory. Windows 95 didn't work that way, so SimCity started crashing. Microsoft added code to check if SimCity was running and change the behavior of the memory allocator to stop it from crashing.

I've been programming on Apple platforms for a long time. The current standard languages are Objective-C and Swift, both with automatic reference counting (which is mostly a GC, although you have to manually break cycles). Automatic reference counting is a relatively new addition to Objective-C, and before 2011, everyone did manual reference counting instead. For a long time, the state of the art was to follow the official rules for writing refcounting code and occasionally look for leaks and crashes by running memory debugging tools on the live app. About eight years ago, the Clang project put out their static analyzer which could look at Objective-C code and tell you when you weren't following the rules properly. The reaction of every Objective-C programmer I knew, even the really good ones, upon running the static analyzer was something like, "holy shit, I had no idea my code was so full of bugs!"
This doesn't have a scoring function or objective function hence is not 'solving' a problem. it's just mimicking a behaviour. There is quite a difference.
The pervasive use of males pronouns in technical documentation — not to mention roles of power at large in society — intimates that "someone like you should" NOT "work on the project", if you're not male.
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We've banned this throwaway's main account for repeatedly creating new ones to violate the guidelines with.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136636 and marked it off-topic.
I agree with you, but the fact that they lost $500 million last year means that they have to do something. IMHO they should focus on trimming the fat and try to get to a sustainable, long term business model.

This neverending focus on growth isn't healthy at all.
Because thousands (millions?) are stomping to it, as it was just announced and went viral?
"USAFacts was inspired by a conversation Steve Ballmer had with his wife. She wanted him to get more involved in philanthropic work. He thought it made sense to first find out what government does with the money it raises."

Had anyone made the comic strip version?

Wife: it breaks my heart to hear about the many suffering Americans. We can't take our money with us when we die, let's help our fellow Americans?

Steve: that's what the government is for.

Wife: I thought you might say that so I ran the numbers.

Steve: hmm, I'm not agreeing with your interpretation. I think we're going to have to do additional modeling.

USAfacts was born.

Months later...

Wife: are we ready to really help the poor?

Steve: this data is fascinating!
How about a compromise. Travel for one month. Instead of unplugging for one year, you go on a nice long vacation. After the month is up, you come back home. If you are ready to work again, then you go find another job. If you want to keep traveling, then you end the lease on your apartment, and hit the road again.
In normal countries they have price controls. That approach works extremely well, in fact so well that price controls on pharmaceuticals in America are politically unworkable.
Here's the link to the office hours/tutorials meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/learn-python-nyc/

Here's the link to the meetup that does talk nights:

https://www.meetup.com/nycpython/

We have two separate groups so that people who just want to go to talks can easily avoid emails about office hours.

And there are other meetup groups you should check out. Some are good, some are not so good (in my humble opinion) but here is not the place for me to rank meetup groups in NYC.

I really like the emacs group (I've volunteered to coorganize, but I'm not an organizer yet), and since I don't think enough people come, I will mention them:

https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Emacs-Meetup/
I love how the tools we praise are also the very tools that trip us up. That spelling of Woz's name is more common so I imagine the spellcheck 'corrected' it, essentially getting the name wrong of its creator. There's a level of irony here that's hard to miss.
Anyone over 40 could have told you this.
You want a private cloud and in what way is that different from managed infra: None.

You folks popularized a misconception and hoped to monetize it in perpetuity and were eventually corrected by reality. So goes all big $$ software.

Get ready for the next big thing and first step that...ad nauseam.
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I only see the vectorial map in that link. Is there a way to see satellite, or even better, 3D?
I've always heard great things about Gandi. I might move back to them after hearing about this. Thanks.
Why is lichess free? (2014)
Quite the opposite. Scala is a language designed around a very small core of very powerful, and sometimes hard-to-grasp features like implicits or higher-kinded types. It is a different language than Java and was not designed to replace Java or to be a better-Java.

Your C++ to C analogy doesn't hold, because C++ is an (almost) superset of C, while Scala is not a superset of Java at all. Modern C++ compiler can compile most of C code with at most minor, cosmetic changes.

As for the toolchain - I'm working in it daily and so far it has been great. Ok, compiler is not as fast as Java (point taken), but this doesn't matter as long as I can compile my code fast enough. IDE support is stellar compared to most other popular languages, particularly dynamic ones like Python or PHP.
And we're working on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/ so that one NFS failure can't bring down the site.
These are all incredible new features! Way to go MongoDB.

I'm really excited about the new UI features and queryable backups.
I'm a hiring manager and when I see a resume with a few years of Java I ask the same question.

It's all about objects being "unintentionally reachable" which generally all boils down to putting something in a collection and never taking it out, or completely forgetting about object lifecycle. Just because you have a runtime and a GC doesn't mean you can forget any kind of teardown.
(If you register an event listner and never unregister you are ignoring lifecycle.)

People who have a few years of Java on their resume should have some idea of when an object is eligible for collection by the GC and the common programmer errors shown by other posts in this thread that can cause leaks.
At some point, it's using an API to get the map data. Is there anything that prevents non-Google hosted code from using that API?
The Toyota Way. Yet despite repackaging upon repackaging of ideas in the book, sagely picked up in the book itself as if repackaged being ineffective, many corporate environments can beat the drum but not walk the walk, especially in long-term people-related aspects.
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You have to pay for meetups in Japan and they are universally worse than the ones in Seattle. Frankly, I love meetups: free food and drink and a chance to hang out with people who like exactly the same stuff? Sign me up!
> They may be suitable for some blog, but I can now say to NEVER use them for any enterprise site.

If this is action they take at scale with millions of visitors I wouldn't even risk it with something so intimate as a blog.
Personal attacks are for the small minded.

Developers have enough to worry about without worrying about being crucified for using a word like she or he. Why can't we focus on getting shit done instead of focusing on the minutiae of which pronouns we use.

Maybe we should stop immigrant minorities from speaking Spanish which is an extremely gendered language.

In any case, what problem does this really solve? If we enforce the use of non-gendered terms will sexism/genderism magically be reduced? If it were only that easy!
Were they hosting the site, or are they just the domain registrar (and your site is on servers from another company)?
> spoiled ballot papers counts are not announced at all

That's not true. Returning officers announce the number of rejected ballot papers, and explain why they were rejected, at the same time as this winner is announced.

For example:

https://youtu.be/jbDgT3b-M44?t=117
You are probably missing some of the static resources. I am still getting 503 and 522 for several requests.
Why would it extrapolate 25% lower values on all other years? If the 10th years are the actual data points, the computed trend line through only census years shouldn't be so radically different from the drawn markers.

In any case, the differences are small in this instance over the long run

The differences in those years are _huge_.
Matthew, the person you are arguing with, or rather, hurling snark at, did not make the claim that language should never evolve. I'm not sure why you felt so compelled to end a reasoned comment on such a nasty note.

I am in full support of this code. It approaches a sensitive subject with the care it deserves and does not seek to strip anyone of their dignity. Quite a world away from the punitive actions advocated by Erik Michaels-Ober on other projects.
An interesting article. For me the more languages I look at, the more muddied the inheritance tree.

The more I look at Common Lisp, the more I see it's genetic finger print in Clojure. Racket's #sequence abstraction is very similar to Common Lisp's #sequence abstraction. Clojure's #collection abstraction is perhaps, like Racket's #sequence an extension of Common Lisps #sequence, or perhaps a more direct implementation of Smalltalk's #Collection abstract class.

The more I look at Smalltalk, the more likely I think this may be since a lot of the behavior of Clojure #collections looks like message passing -- i.e. Clojure #collections are also functions that accept arguments.
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I was using a third party DNS AND my own hosting/network.
They threatened me on a Registrar level, which is nearly unheard of.
What would "appear to be planned" look like from the outside? Maybe if they were spotted meeting with execs elsewhere or something, sure. But if it was a termination, that's slow and wouldn't be apparent from outside, and if he just chose to leave, it would be more abrupt, but we still don't, and probably never will, know the reason, and until he says it everything is conjecture.