skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a discussion of a larger problem in tech would seem very warranted on HN, but this article is very specific in its scope and it comes out in the discussion that formed around it. I.e. lots of, "this individual is disgusting" vs "this ties into the larger problem in tech." Again, I completely agree with the sentiments expressed - but HN is an explicitly walled garden.
Yes exactly, it is IndyRef lite! She is hoping they lose, thereby negating calls for IndyRef proper. I din't say it wasn't going to backfire spectacularly. I think the whole thing is a huge mistake. Brexit is happening, Article 50 has been triggered and is irrevocable. Unlike the rest of UK, Scotland still appear to have a choice. I can't see how the Tories ever thought this was going to end well.
Unfortunately such articles don't get the same number of clicks
What harm is caused by using non-gendered language in commit messages? Time-wasting? Really?

If it doesn't matter to you, fine. But if it matters to other people, why complain about it? Do you really think Chromium is suffering as a project because the developers are wasting too much time on ensuring the codebase is inclusive?
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Do Not use namecheap.com for any large site or important domain
Namecheap.com seems popular for a lot of tech companies. However, they seem to be not only cheap in price but in management.

I run a forum site with MILLIONS of visitors and about 5,000 TB of traffic per month.
Namecheap.com suddenly sent me a link warning that they will suspend my domain completely within 24 hours, if I did not delete two problem images (which were inappropriate/troublesome images but in the context of the forum posts, "a very poor attempt at humor").
I deleted the images and avoided being suspended, but the way they threatened to suspend my domain due to two images was ridiculous. If I missed the warning email or checked my email after 24 hours they would have completely suspended my domain.
I'm talking about a site with MILLIONS of visitors per month and ten thousands of posts per day, not some small blog.

They may be suitable for some blog, but I can now say to NEVER use them for any enterprise site.
The eight year old in me cheers. My grade school teacher beat my singular use of they/them/their out of me. At the time, it seemed ludicrous not to use they/them/their in cases when I didn't know someone's gender. I assume this was due to my first language. Farsi doesn't have gendered pronouns: everything is "it".

Bahaha! Now I can gleefully write "when the user enters their password" and be right.

I'm not sure how I feel about this bit though...

> For new code/comments, consider using just ‘A’, ‘B’ as names.

Perhaps consider using unisex names instead? Maybe "Alex" and "Bo"?
I know at times I may sound like a shill for Patreon, but I have no connection to them whatsoever beyond "normal customer", and don't care if you use a competitive service to them or whatever. But if you are in the position of finding yourself with a growing show like this, I implore you to set up some sort of voluntary subscription revenue as soon as possible, before you embed into the very foundation of your content a dependency on ad dollars. Even if you use it as an augment to ad revenue, it's so much better for you. It's more stable against Youtube deciding to tweak an algorithm one day. It's more stable month-to-month. It's even more socially stable since it releases you from having to chase ad dollars by keeping advertisers happy instead of your "actual" customers. If your primary money base is subscriptions rather than ads, you could even completely shift video services if you need to without crashing your income.

My interest in pitching this so often is my desire to play my little part in sticking a stake in the idea that getting advertising money is the default path to monetization. I'd rather move to a world where it's either merely one option among many, or even, dare I dream, a last resort considered vaguely déclassé.

Oh, and I would also implore you, let your patrons download video directly somehow. I'd love to not even have to go through YouTube at all. Of course, I'm a crazy Linux user for whom YouTube isn't as convenient as it could be, but it's another way to detach your patrons from a particular video service.
ummm no. I can name many Bibles in physics and neither of those are in the set.
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akerro got it factually incorrect and may be trolling. However, the gist of the point is correct. Womens' rights in predominantly Muslim countries are lagging quite a bit.
We haven't received anything either and we're on the east coast in U.S. We're guessing it will be very late tonight.
One of the malls in my hometown (College Hills) kept the anchor stores (Target, Hobby Lobby, Von Maur) but tore down the middle parts, and built the more modern strip islands and parking in its place, where you can just go directly to the store you want. This previously dead space now has a Starbucks, a Coldstone, a Yankee Candle, a nice pizza place, several clothing stores and gift shops, and it's constantly busy, so it seems like they made the right choice.

Here's an article of the history and some pictures of it just before it closed if you're curious: http://www.labelscar.com/illinois/college-hills-mall
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Can anyone see this?
It's weird when all the comments here prove why what said needed to be said. I thought this wasn't Reddit.
How about trying an audio book. I was also struggling with reading books while I kept buying new ones. I then tried an audio book and to my surprise I really liked it. Now a days I finish an audio book in a week.

I would suggest to listen to the audio book at a fixed time everyday like early morning or before going to bed. In my case I found the routine to be quite helpful .
Why is this any different from tesla selling you software locked batteries?
I find it ridiculous that someone sees this as an issue.
I can't believe people invest time in changing things like master/slave to leader/follower.
Okay, I will assume:

1. You are unlikely to make more than $10k

2. If you do make some money off it, it will be much more than $10k

That is to say, there is a 90% chance of making $0 and a 10% chance of making 100s of thousands.

In this case, it is worth more than $10k from an expected value perspective.

The value of the product might be much greater for the community, and you might get speaking gigs and so on out of it. Not sure how much you value those.

If you don't need the money, I would not take it.

If you do need the money, who am I to tell you what to do?
"Emphasis is added: unnecessarily gendered code is discriminatory and condescending, and reading biased code isn't enjoyable."

Well... thats some heavy bullshit. If you get offended by gender you shold even be on the internet... you will be offended by literally everything.
I wonder why people think in US-Centric only terms

Guy is a common French name
I just remembered another consideration: The geographical center of North America is in North Dakota. Minneapolis is the closest large airport. As such it on average uses the least fuel to use Minneapolis as a hub.

Though why Fargo isn't a hub by this logic I don't know. Also a population weighted geographic center is probably a better consideration than just pure geographic.
It is not true that this result was previously known. Please see the section “Comparison with related work on Monero linkability.” in the paper (https://monerolink.com), which starts "We note that earlier reports from Monero Research Labs(MRL-0001 [10] and MRL-0004 [7]) have previously discussed concerns about such deduction, called a “chain-reaction,” based on similar insights as described above. However, our results paint a strikingly different picture than these." and then goes on to show those striking differences in the new results and the previous knowledge.
You'd expect just that to happen. The domestic market for human-rated albendazole is so small that it will sustain just one manufacturer, it's effectively a monopoly, and the monopolist can set prices to whatever he wants. We know what to do in such a situation (turn the monopolist into a regulated utility), but the current political climate won't permit this action.

See the vet, get fenbendazole for huge dogs.
Got a CloudFlare error here. Error 522.
As a female software engineer, I haven't historically found "he" to be a huge barrier-- the bigger barrier is too few comments to begin with :) I would generally prefer any comments, gendered or not, but, all else being equal, it seems like we may as well un-gender them. I think here of Geena Davis's comments about the movie industry (loosely paraphrased): When people complain about the lack of realism in showing big company boards as full of women and people of color, she said, why shouldn't we? Movies are the one place we can say, "Poof! Everything is magically evenly distributed!" and maybe in doing so encourage more women and people of color to dream of being board members and the like. Similarly, in comments, we can magically make things more equitable with almost no investment, and if that helps traditional outsiders even a little, then, great!
I feel like these quips intend to caution you before doing something inane like s/he/it/g.

I found it funny and in good taste.
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It's funny because the NYT pushed an entire beat about companies needing to limit their digital advertising to only respected outlets...you know, like the NYT.

In hindsight it was easy for them to play up the "offensive content" straw man, get a few execs riled up, and convince google to kill their upstart competitors.
The parallel he is attempting to draw is fairly obvious, which suggests that you are being deliberately disingenuous and/or oblivious.

It's a low quality argumentative technique, and is generally employed in the hope that your opponent will respond with something easier to attack, aka an attempt to generate a straw man. 5/10 for enthusiasm but 2/10 for technique.
This is all tongue-in-cheek. There are guys named Guy in the US too.
> Why only do one while you can do both?

Theoretically you can do both. Practically, few languages give you the tools you'd want to ensure functional purity.

C++ is a multi-paradigm language, for instance. But it doesn't have any concept of immutable data. The 'const' keyword exists but it only does a very shallow check for immutability (i.e., the pointer won't change but its data might). And even with a 'const', there are still huge backdoors (the 'mutable' keyword).

Point being, it's possible, but you'd be relying on convention in your design and care in your implementation to make it work.
What a gigantic waste of time and resources. How fragile is someone's self identity that it falls apart when they see a pronoun used that isn't the same as their own?
I agree that there will be some challenges and hopefully future changes fix that.

However current reality is that very few startups employ H1. I founded a startup when I was on H1 hired someone else on H1 and it was a pain to go through all paperwork. Right now, if the potential employee doesn't already have an H1 - the startup will need to apply for H1 lottery where odds are 1/4 and if they win it wait for 6 months before the employees can join.

Recently I built an Incubator where the intention was to pay market salaries while people try out ideas. And once the idea gets traction - raise funding and spin it out. Everyone on H1 refused to join the spin out because they didn't want to deal with the pains of being on H1 while dealing with uncertainties of a startup.

I hope that these regulations stop the abuse happening on H1. This will help in two ways:
1. No lottery - so people who want to move to US have a predictable path.
2. Better path for Indians to get Green Card. Right now the delay is insane (20+ years). Once they get Green Cards they can participate with more freedom.
A great way to get a taste of FP, but as others noted, not the best way to really learn FP (Haskellbook and SICP are great.)
GP's recommendation (Edgewood) is mid-peninsula.
>Completely false premise. They're not "knowingly" helping the child labor scene - they're just picking the cheap shirt. Walmart doesn't put up a sign "this stuff made with child slave labor!" - they might not even know themselves.

If Walmart did put up such a sign, it might have a shaming effect. Obviously they don't and we shouldn't expect it. People who are aware of what's going on can go in and out while plugging their ears, doing the equivalent of singing, "naah-naah" to the origins of their products.

Meanwhile, government, which I'm to understand is to be equated with society, seems to take no issue with trade with countries where such conditions prevail. Every once in a while, a politician (like Trump) will decry how China (as an example) does business, but there seems to be little action on that front.
I don't see how this example relates. Your C++ example is a real puzzler. Even if `p` were in use during run(), it could still be (and should still be!) free()d before returning from main(). It's a bit tricky but there's potentially LOTS of code that will execute after "`return app.run()`" but before the process exits.
Drop https.
Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)
seems like it is down, 502 error
https://usafacts.org/
Here is a NYT article that explains what USAFacts.org is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-b...

> On Tuesday, Mr. Ballmer plans to make public a database and a report that he and a small army of economists, professors and other professionals have been assembling as part of a stealth start-up over the last three years called USAFacts. The database is perhaps the first nonpartisan effort to create a fully integrated look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments.
> 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

it may not be better, but, isn't it more predictable?

also, doesn't it protect a judge and the justice system against charges of favoritism, discrimination, and other kinds of bias?

i mean, i'm not a lawyer and i truly don't know ... but weren't these the sorts of reasons for coming up with these guidelines in the first place?
Yeah I got a Cloudflare DDOS check then a 503. Non HTTPS seems to be working, http://usafacts.org/
Why should all networks feel the same? A news feed where I can ask questions and get personal answers from real journalists, politicians etc. feels very social to me.
Looks like the first hurdle is that it's relying on the deprecated document.registerElement API from an early draft of the Web Components specs, which prevents the app from booting in Firefox.

Edit: Paul Kinlan reports that Earth is using PNaCl (https://twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/status/854351477506277378), which means it fundamentally can't run outside of Blink.
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Maybe Enron in their final years?
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Can you elaborate on 'fair weather soldier"? As employees of a company we are not soldiers we don't have to obey orders. It would be irresponsible to stick it out at a company that is going to flame out. If the option is work in a horrendously stressful environment with no real upside vs get another job that is as equally rewarding but more stable and less stressful that is a no brainner to me.

I previously was a startup were we worked very long hours over a prolonged period of time trying to turn the ship around. Unfortunately we didn't succeed. Yet I look back at that and don't feel like it was a positive experience where we could collectively feel good about our exploits. I saw what was going on and decided to try and work through it. Yet hindsight being what it is I don't foresee me making the same decision if I find myself in similar situations.
I find it hard to believe that it's really such a problem to suggest that gender-neutral language is a pretty reasonable goal. It's hardly the biggest barrier to diversity in software development, but it's a small bias that seems very minimal in cost to fix over time – and every little push in that direction helps.

More than anything I struggle to understand what actual objection to 'try to use gender-neutral language' one could possibly have.
Rust is certainly my next language to learn. It seems to get a pretty nice balance between high and low level features.
This worked for me too
I've found it fairly common these days for documentation to explicitly use female pronouns when talking about anonymous people - I guess that's just a show of solidarity to our underrepresented female counterparts.

Using a specific gender when refereing to someone anonymous grates on me anyway - just seems like poor writing.
I don't think I am? A quick look says he was identified in 2012, and Snowden started publishing in 2013. I'll have to track down the Schneier post to be sure of my dates, though.
This sort of rhetoric might work, but it doesn't in the face of Indian manufacturers who can easily be certified who will produce it for $1 and ship it to you the next day for $1 more. It's simply regulatory capture and a way of printing free money for people who already have money so they can rob the masses who don't. It's a scam, and it's stupid that we fall for it. The rich do get richer, and not for any other reason then they have money to affect regulatory capture. Generics should be nearly free. There is no reason for anyone to be making such large sized gains on generics.
Worked for rs in the early 2000s. The culture was pretty cutthroat and it was the chiselers and greasy guys who moved up.

I worked as a dc tech during the .com bust recovery period
and the level of incompetence and the personalities I encountered led me to leave < 6 months.

Any decent SA from my generation can code a one-off virtualization base without too much problem using kvm/qemu.
LXC is a clean in-fit to that. Sounds like this is standard RS procedure. Fleece the idiots, use the willing, and promote the owlshit.
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Sure it is. AI is a computer reacting to its environment to solve a problem. It doesn't necessitate machine learning, neural networks, or what-have-you.
Have you tried the Alias Method?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
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There is no such thing as a politically neutral fact these days. Where leadership is based on fantastical assertions pulled from the air, the machine measuring daily rainfall is a partisan political pundit to be attacked and sidelined at will. Fact-reporting organizations are moot when those in power care only for opinion and "gut". While i support such efforts, I fear that at the current moment our problems are too fundimental for them to have any net impact.
"Made in Germany" was introduced to mark it as an inferior foreign product and became later a sign of quality.So China may be following in Germany's footsteps.
Holy sit we literally live in a dystopia
I just got back from the Carrizo Plain, it's good but starting to fade but still pretty amazing:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/2017-carrizo-plain

We made down and back in a day from the Santa Cruz mountains.
No, we're not. Our environment is small; only about 100 VMs. We're a Debian shop, so no redhat.

No, it's not a 1:1 replacement. It's a migration. It would also be a migration if we decided to upgrade OpenStack, because we'd be going Havana -> Ocata.

However, there are defined upgrade paths for ESX, we already have ESXi/vSphere in our environment, and we can hire someone relatively inexpensively to help us with vSphere if we need to augment our staff. Folks who understand Openstack are not anywhere near as easy to find and pay.
Why would that be a problem in the first place ?
Vansploitation is back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vansploitation
Oh, interesting! I didn't realize that, but thinking back on how it looked, it probably is induction. Didn't know motorcyclists had tricks for that.

Shame they only put the loop in one of two lanes, though...
I suggest looking up Paul Morrison's stuff on Flow-based Programming. He's been using it in enterprise a long time.

Also, if looking for glue, check out Wikipedia's list of programming paradigms or types of programming languages. Quite a few including some styles you may have not heard of.
Interesting...

When I visit this on iOS, I get a message that says "Google Earth for iOS is coming soon." Of course, there's already a Google Earth app for iOS. When I launch the Google Earth app on iOS, I get a message that says (roughly) "The developer has to update this application to work with future versions of iOS". This is weird since it was last updated in May 2016, though that appears to be a very minor update.

In other words, the old iOS app is effectively abandoned and the new one isn't available.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of any problems like this when I decided to use them for my last few domain name purchases. Maybe I should look into switching. Do you have any recommendations by any chance?
It would be neat if this took some kind of data input in sequence to manipulate the pieces. It would be neat to decode Speex or Codec 2 data as input into this to watch the animation ....
That would work if we didn't tend to organize events which favor men. As it is, athletic and sporting events have mostly been constructed around male affinities so your supposed indiscrimination would result in women being sidelined on the whole.
I don't disagree it could be much better and based on something other than arbitrary nonsense, but these guides are designed to bring consistency to sentences within the same jurisdiction which would make them fairer than completely arbitrary judge sentences. At least everyone is subject to the same arbitrary nonsense guidelines instead of the mood and familiarity of the judge.
With http seems to be working http://usafacts.org/
Yeah, when I'm at work and I see those kind of pictures, I always long for the holidays. Conversely, when I'm on a holiday and think of a cool project, I always long back to my desk :)

Anyway, these bloggers need to upgrade to VR.
Actually the more interesting case is your first: some list is appended to indefinitely. The memory isn't leaked in that you can access it, but by the act of not cleaning it up your run time performance slowly goes down over time: each list traversal hits elements in the list that presumably never need to be considered again. (if you are not traversing the list from time to time why are you keeping a list?) Several real world bugs have been root caused to some variation of this.