skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any Googlers are reading this: What does the new Earth require that Firefox is missing? I'm happy to help file things in Bugzilla so that this Chrome App can grow into a standards-based Web app.
Yep. SpriteClub.tv, a mugen stream, showcases a bunch of these kinds of characters with hilarious results.
Sure, I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment you're expressing, I'm just saying that today, HTML forms aren't as tied to the backend as they used to be.

Though personally I wouldn't want to have to start adding ids and names to things in the markup just for Selenium to find them.
Erm, this product isn't done by some random web developer but google themselves... so yeah, they made another essentially proprietary website.

it honestly sucks but your phrasing puts the blame on inexperienced developers, which most certainly doesn't apply here.
No, they can't stop anyone else from carrying on with the project. It hasn't had much take-up so far though. A few people have starred it and forked it but hardly anyone has contributed to it. I think what they are most concerned about is the MLS integration piece I'm working on at the moment which is not yet complete.
Though not comprehensive in that it doesn't cover state/local government, the federal government does publish a monthly statement that does go into a fair bit of detail: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/mthTreasStmt/b...
24 hours later it's still down...
["other browsers in the near future"](https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...), so maybe there isn't one?
> if Sublime had gone open source it might be different, but then what would his revenue source be?

The revenue would be the same of today. You can sell licenses of an open source software. One might argue that nobody would buy because you can get for free, but it's not different today with the infinite trial.
I live in SF. The entire city is a community tech space. I go to meetups, but not to learn. If the topic is relevant to my work or interests, I go to talk to those in attendance. I largely don't care about the presentation material.
Having one person work on bugs and then rotating that person or group makes a lot of sense for a small/medium size team. If the company is very small the most senior dev usually works on the difficult bugs but you usually support your own feature. Big company there would be teams for each.
To a degree, yes.

I use my main Twitter feed for development news and info sec stuff so the people I follow are pretty visible in those industries.

My news feed is done through feedly, which includes more mainstream news, celeb gossip, architecture and other random topics I'm interested in.

If I combined the two, I'd go nuts in a day trying to sort through it all. I've learned over time to curate my own feed and to never "cross the streams" if you know what I mean. It works well and instead of trying to filter thought so much cruft, I have specific apps for the topics I want to keep up on.
A bill cosponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would provide a mechanism for Canadian drug manufacturers to sell to U.S. consumers and pharmacies.

They do realize that for branded drugs, the "Canadian drug manufacturer" is the same as the US drug manufacturer, right?
There are also tons of people who do this without the sponsors. I've been living in an RV for a while while at the same time working remotely (http://therecklesschoice.com if you're interested). Lots of people work as campground hosts or seasonal workers. If the mobile lifestyle speaks to you, spend the next 6 months finding a remote job and just go do it. Don't wait to find a "sponsor".
We should probably switch to base60, just to be safe.
Really? Would it not surprise you? Or are you just being a bit _wide_, as we'd say in Scotland?
Haven't read it, but: the class was amazing and difficult. There was an older lab notes companion book we used, but mostly it was "Professor draws a circuit, explains it via a metaphor, along with a rule of thumb or two... now go build a thing". Like learning a foreign language through total immersion.

So I can't speak to this particular book, but I can say that there's a (a) decent chance it's quite good and (b) expect to do a lot of work if you want to really understand this stuff.
So essentially exactly the same as what users of Google Chrome do, except that it's significantly less likely I'll enter China in my life and be prosecuted and locked up on the border due to my browsing history? :)
San Francisco definitely has resolutions better than 1m/pixel it feels like (for buildings downtown) At least, you can clearly identify segments that would be < 1m across.
What is exVIM?
Device that can literally read your mind invented by scientists
Apple Punycode Phishing
I don't remember voting for that, or having the opportunity to do so.

This isn't a democracy, it's a representative republic. We vote for our representatives, and trust them to make decisions we'd agree with (or at least agree to go along with.) In turn, they appoint and hire people to make the more detailed decisions needed for day-to-day operations.

A failure to keep track of the government's books is absolutely a failure of the government, and not a result of taxpayers "deciding" that the government shouldn't do it. The representatives and their appointees/hires should have performed that task without being micro-managed to do so, because it's the responsible thing to do. (Not to mention that they require all of us to do it for our own finances.) They've failed to do it, and will probably avoid responsibility for it by using the complex structure of the government to point blame away from themselves.

Yes, we can make a big deal out of this and eventually vote to replace our representatives, who can then replace appointees/hires, and change the rules to make sure the accounting is done. My point is that we, the citizens, should not have to micromanage the government this way. That's the whole point of a representative republic; pure democracies don't scale.
> - Why does Corbyn's opinion matter? Well back when Cameron did a deal with Clegg, they did a fixed terms act, meaning elections had to happen every 5 years. This one is within 5 years of the previous, so you actually need a two-thirds majority in Parliament to trigger it.

May says she'll call an election under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, and obviously that's the first choice, but now that the Tories are governing without the Lib-Dems, they can also simply repeal the Act (with an ordinary majority).
I mean to move the requirement for signing up until after they have built with the tool. Take them directly to the builder, and when they want to save their progress - ask them to login.
A great organizer makes all the difference. Meetups were more interesting to me when there was less great content on the web. Now you can find tutorials on everything, so meetups are networking and not much else.
I remember when inbox launched it could be only used under chrome/chromium. Then somebody changed their user agent in firefox to chrome and magically it started working just fine. So you might want to try that.
> Economists

And given the power their theories and related models have in the political world, we should all be very very worried.
If his quotes in the article were genuine, there's hope.
I agree, but I think someone's actions on a personal and moral level should be more important factors for adoration than how successful he is.
AI != IF STATEMENT + RANDOM
Of course I tried asking for more - I'm not completely dumb ;)

The project is called PropertyWebBuilder
I was thinking the same thing.

Why should it stop when it has the potential to be much more efficient? Just give it sufficient oversight, and I'm fine with this.
It's sad that someone needed to write this. If only we had a pervasive moral organization like religion that could show us that all genders and races are to be equally respected. Oh, wait... we do... but they don't :(
The price differences between domestic and international medicines can be truly outrageous. I just got back from a work trip to a hospital in Sierra Leone, where the anthelmintic medicine Albendazole costs the equivalent of $1 USD at a private pharmacy (or even less if you don't care about packaging). The same treatment in the US (a single dose) cost me $430 USD (before insurance). This medicine is out of patent; the R&D costs have been recovered. There's no reason for it to cost as much as is does in the US, apart from greed. It's more of a niche drug in the US than it is in sub-Saharan Africa, but it is shelf stable unlike say the antibodies of an immunotherapy, or the rabies vaccine, so it's not perishable. I trust the purity of the US version more than the version sold internationally, but that is probably an irrational fear. Even with added costs of laboratory purity testing and import tariffs, those in the US would still be better off if we could import drugs from overseas.

Some medicines are expensive for a reason: they're new and need to have R&D (and FDA) costs recovered (this is why we have patents), they have niche use and are produced in small quantities (cancer immunotherapies), they're perishable (biologicals), or all three. Many others are expensive because we have no regulatory protections against price gouging. Epi-Pens are another example. A 1mL vial of epinephrine costs ~$5, and the syringe to inject it costs pennies. Auto-injectors add some value, but not the $700 Mylan charges. They're fundamentally a pre-filled syringe a spring, and an injection molded case.

I wonder what the system would look like if we granted longer pharmaceutical patents (say, 30 years), with the change that upon expiration of the patents medicines would be produced by the government and sold at cost (or provided for free).
How to choose a side project that you'll actually complete
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app
It's not really that important, no. It's totally legitimate – though you might not agree – to make the argument that male pronouns being used for people of unknown gender is anachronistic. In that case, use of a gender-neutral pronoun seems like a reasonable evolution of English which takes into account modern sensitivity to gender issues.

This, of course, assumes that you're not of the trivially ridiculous belief that language should never evolve.
Seems like there's some debate over what "memory leak" really means. On the one hand, you can just inadvertently grow some resource -- say, by appending to a list indefinitely -- until your sever crashes. But in this case, if the list goes out of scope it should be garbage collected, so such memory is in practice reclaimable.

The more interesting case is allocation of memory which is not in practice reclaimable (as described in the first answer.)

The former seems pretty trivial to understand, but if the original interviewers meant the latter I doubt I would have been able to come up with a good example off the top of my head.
Nah that would be Cleanroom, Eiffel Method, or Praxis-s Correct-by-Construction if it's an alternate history focused less on testing. Cleanroom and Praxis got defect rates under 3 per Kloc with either money saved or 30-50% extra cost.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html

https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

http://www.anthonyhall.org/c_by_c_secure_system.pdf
I think VS and VS Code are about as similar to each other as Java and JavaScript. In other words, the names are similar, but everything else is not so similar.
Boeing Is Laying Off Hundreds of Engineers
Not joking at all. Functional languages have a reputation for being hard to learn mainly because they aren't what most people learn initially (and switching paradigms is never easy, no matter which direction you're going.)

Disclaimer: The above is an opinion. Double-blind trials have not been performed!
Is it possible to turn it off? I don't want these, but looks like I have effectively given you password to my email account. Can you remove it from your database?
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Better watch out for 0xBABE though.
What metric do you use to say it "beats" a human judge?
My least favorite thing is the always-in-attendance Master Bikeshedder.

"So at my organization... {2 minutes of uncomfortable and unnecessary context}... would this solution work for us?"

after presenter mentions some syntax offhand "Can I use a special character here? What about casing, does that matter? What about {some contrived example, unrelated to the topic}?"

Really turns me off of a given meetup group if I know this person is a regular.
Are you as an individual not responsible for your cultural impact at all?
You're confusing GAI and AI. AI covers anything that's making a system seem intelligent, essentially. Expert systems and game AIs are both very condition-based.
If the judge loses in hand-to-hand combat.
Netflix's biggest competitor? Sleep
jpfr's comment is an anecdote and deals with a very small community. It doesn't proves an absolute claim that every organizer's goal is to get people to network, even if a valued side-effect.

Many are built around the core principal of providing interesting enough of content to draw people. Because meeting other people in a given field is ridiculously easy. But if you say "let's all meet at XYZ and socialize", generally the turnout will be abysmal because most people are not there to just to socialize, and actually need some prescribed value to justify their time. So most are built around some premise of providing a value. It's the disconnect between the promise and the actual that causes issue.
I believe you can get the photos by using the street view person. (That is, drag the street view person over the map and the photos show up as pins)
Me too. Example find involves stacks. I always hated things like stack canaries. I said they should just fix the problem of data flowing toward stack pointer. MULTICS had a reverse stack. Overflows dropped into newly allocated memory. Makes much more sense...
I did my first ever tech talk at a meetup just a few weeks ago (http://bit.ly/2oIWHiH). I hope I prepared sufficiently and didn't suffer too much from most of the pitfalls discussed, but I have been to plenty of meetups which are exactly as the OP describes. Almost all of them seem to be thinly veiled networking / hiring events from my experience.
A good portion of .NET developers that used it were surprised to find out that they needed to call the Dispose method on certain database objects in order to free/release their native handles/resources.

If the dispose pattern is implemented correctly, you strictly speaking don't have to call Dispose, the finalizer will eventually free the unmanaged resources. But there are not many guarantees when this will happen and so you may hit resource limits before unused unmanaged resources are freed and therefore it is of course a good idea to explicitly free them by calling Dispose explicitly or implicitly.
Oh dear....

Could we demand that they pass a course in machine learning before they use it?
> These algorithmic outputs inform decisions about bail, sentencing, and parole. Each tool aspires to improve on the accuracy of human decision-making that allows for a better allocation of finite resources.

It's really not clear to me that much is gained from having very precise decisions made about bail and sentencing. Trying to predict the future is a fool's errand, whether a judge does it or a computer. It'd be better to just set fair, uniform standards (particularly for bail where bail should be granted presumptively unless unique circumstances are present).

Unfortunately, using machine learning for sentencing is just the tip of the iceberg. "Scientism" is rife in the criminal justice system. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, for example, are utter gibberish. Sentences are calculated to the month using complex formulas: http://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2016-guidelines-manual/2016-c....

> The total points from subsections (a) through (e) determine the criminal history category in the Sentencing Table in Chapter Five, Part A.

> (a) Add 3 points for each prior sentence of imprisonment exceeding one year and one month.

> (b) Add 2 points for each prior sentence of imprisonment of at least sixty days not counted in (a).

> (c) Add 1 point for each prior sentence not counted in (a) or (b), up to a total of 4 points for this subsection.

> (d) Add 2 points if the defendant committed the instant offense while under any criminal justice sentence, including probation, parole, supervised release, imprisonment, work release, or escape status.

> (e) Add 1 point for each prior sentence resulting from a conviction of a crime of violence that did not receive any points under (a), (b), or (c) above because such sentence was treated as a single sentence, up to a total of 3 points for this subsection.

But it's not like this is based on an empirical statistical model correlating sentences with recidivism or deterrence effects. It's classic scientism, believing that an algorithmic sentence based on completely arbitrary rules is somehow better than an arbitrary sentence handed out by human judgment.
This is the worst kind off middle-brow bullshit where you have parroted an unrelated quote with no commentary whatsoever on what possible parallels you see between these two concepts.
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons of the past.
> In English, male pronouns may legitimately be used to refer to individuals of unknown gender.

Take a few moments with yourself this evening to seriously think about why this might be.
Opening of UN files on Holocaust will 'rewrite chapters of history'
I meant the odds of Scotland or Northern Ireland leasing the UK may have been different than what the voters thought in the referendum. Or to put it differently: if there had been a third option in the referendum of "Leave, but only if it can be done while keeping the UK intact" how would that option have done in the referendum? (ignoring whether it would be practically possible to have that option).
> This kind of sweeping unsupported assertion is actively harmful for FP evangelists. Anyone who isn't already a fanboy is most likely going to read that and say “clearly this person has no idea what they're talking about. [close tab]”.

That seems as much an unsupported assertion (i.e. opinion) as what I wrote.

I don't think it's useful to try to write a comprehensive essay with no ambiguity every time I comment, and I don't have the time. Doesn't mean I don't believe the things I say. :)

If you decide to close the tab because I said functional programming languages are much better at abstraction, that's too bad, but it's not exactly an unsupported assertion--and I'm not trying to sell you anything anyway.

If it helps, most of my FOSS stuff is written in Go, a language Haskell fans generally vehemently dislike for "ignoring 30 years of PL research." I actually like Go for a similar reason I like FP: It does away with a lot of the bad abstraction (classes) and emphasizes the good (interfaces.)
The advantages of Storyboards or other parts of Interface Builder could have been had without the disadvantages; they just weren’t designed properly.

For instance, there is no particular reason they couldn’t have a “view equivalent code” or “convert to code” or similar button allowing someone to start in a visual layout environment but still see what they end up with (optionally choosing to maintain only the code).

Similarly, Apple continues to be terrible about unnecessarily modifying files and creating revision-control nightmares, and this is just poor design. They could have created Storyboards in a way that works with teams and code repositories.
YC Results Today
Just starting this for the traditional discussion of results. Anyone have an idea when invites will be be sent today?
Are ultra-long airplane flights bad for your health?
I find it more offensive and demeaning that things like this are forced upon people.

I am pretty sure at 25, I can stand reading "He xxxx" in documentation.

The issue isn't the words, it is assuming no one besides someone like you should work on the project.
I wonder if the algorithm is evidence-based, and learns from the results of prior decisions.

In which case it is possible it would eventually discover that in the USA incarceration is very strongly linked to recidivism. It follows that the algorithm might refuse to incarcerate many convicts.

Which is arguably exactly what the algorithm should do, namely what politicians will/can not: employ evidence to advance the methods and improve the outcomes of the criminal justice system.
"With that level of visibility ("down to an invoice"), it's easy for people to take up pitch forks"

I find this reasoning downright despicable. "Not publishing the data because someone might complain"? Seriously? That is the very reason it should be published, to enable constructive criticism.

I agree people might start nitpicking on minor stuff. But it seems the positive outcomes of being 100% transparent would far outweighs the negative ones.
I feel like other functional language compiler writers could target some layer of GHC / Intel HRC / FLRC compiler stack, as a target (instead of say, generating LLVM bitcode or even machine code directly). As someone interested in programming language design (and as a big believer in strong, static typing), I'll consider targeting one of the layers of this existing compiler stack, if I were to build a compiler for a new language.

Also, the related paper for this project is quite interesting and insightful: http://www.leafpetersen.com/leaf/publications/hs2013/hrc-pap...
This is my blog. Glad you like it. I used yEd for the dependency graphs. There's a lot of detail on how I did it in the first segment: http://thewebsiteisdown.com/twidblog/puzzle-dependency-graph.... Also available here in case my site goes down again (http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshuaWeinberg/20160502/27010...).
I'm not sure how the Boston marathon works, but in other marathons there is also a blatant gender discrimination, after all, you have separate start and ending and prizes for men and women.

If we aim for total indiscrimination, shouldn't we just have a single category, let anyone run as long as they don't have any unfair external advantage and just give prizes and recognition to the first places?

EDIT: I find it funny that some people got worked out for me writing it "out loud" the truth that positive gender discrimination in favour of one gender is also actually gender discrimination against other gender.
I actually just went back to it yesterday after dropping it six months ago in favor of JetBrains WebStorm. I was a pretty early user of VS Code and it felt really clunky. The whole tabs vs. sections thing was a fierce debate at the time I started using it and took me a while to get used to it.

Looks as though they continue to integrate full Visual Studio functionality and have added in tabbed navigation, which is great. I'm going to stick with it for a while now since it feels much snappier and easy to use.
When it shows less bias than a human judge. Can also be tied to the failure rate of appeals.
I will go through a few terabytes of encrypted data today just to be sure.