skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, as I did this in the 90's while in college working as a raft guide on the Arkansas river. We were allowed to camp on our employer's land for free. There was no social media to pimp our activities on, and I imagine it would've been looked down on at that time.
Remember nonprofit is a tax status, not an indicator of morality.
LiveJournal is still quite alive in certain parts of the world... But yes, FB ate 'em all.
How many startups, do you guys think will get invited for interview this time?
Sublime, last time I used it, had a nag window every x saves(?) if unlicensed, which I'm sure encouraged a lot of people to pay. I doubt so many users would convert if it was totally open source and they could easily install a nag-free build.
Media plays both sides of the coin because they don't care about what happens to other media sources, they care about the ad revenue from clicks to their site. Playing both sides of the coin only increases clicks since both perspectives are engaged.
Logically yes, but this one is very misleading to say the least and i am very interested to know how Allen validates any of those claims
Ha. And now it's been flagged off the front page. Apparently people both like and hate stories about barbecue! Fascinating.
Many people doing OO have trouble structuring their classes, splitting functionalities and responsibilities properly.

OO kind of lets you do anything you want, allowing you to store data anywhere and having any kind of flow you want. It's very easy to do something that "just works", and while there is a lot of value in that, you can keep bad habits for very long.

FP is a lot more constraining, and will force you to adapt how you think to fit said constraints.

Having to think differently offers a different perspective on code architecture, that will eventually give you ideas applicable beyond FP languages.
Sorry to reply twice; I can't edit my previous comment any more.

It looks like there's been another poll today that is consistent with what I've seen reported previously: about 1/3 of Lib Dem voters at the last election voted Leave in the referendum, and currently Lib Dem loyalty is lowest among the major parties, with a similar proportion of Lib Dem voters at the last election expecting to vote for someone else at the next one.
>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.

Except if the trend line is based on the other data source, and the peaks on the census data.
I don't think this comment is particularly helpful. Sure there different ways to slice and dice this but the data set was previously unavailable anywhere. Let's just be happy that you can get some of this information today without having to drive around scanning paper documents.
I'm not defending a free market in drugs. I actually don't believe such a thing can exist. I'm simply observing the price board does what almost all price boards do: maximizing short-term political gains. It's a response to parent pretending a complex discussion has one true answer.
I don't buy this. Unless you believe someone will get a monopoly on autonomous vehicles, at which point we should just shut down the patent office. Other than that, Uber and Lyft can just buy autonomous vehicles from the makers. The real problem is this changes their business model. The market will set the pricing, and the winner is going to be the one with the biggest brand, most installed apps, etc.
Cycle-accurate NES emulator with API
S/git/GitHub/

Fixed that for you.
Company leadership being replaced is not going to magically change the laws of nature.

Well, that's just it, we haven't hit the physical limits of computing yet. But we are indeed close to the limits of what is practical with CMOS photo-lithography.

At some point even Intel investors will have to accept that there are such things as physical laws and nature doesn't care one bit about your quarterly earnings reports.

This acceptance process will be quite painful, and someone, some way, some how will step in to promise greater returns.
I use Caret[0] where my project is saved in an SFTP folder on a server, so it's kept off the machine in any case (and guessing you can set up some kind of deployment hook from it?). If you've not tried Caret, do give it a go, really speedy and whilst not as good as VSCode, makes development on a Chromebook (and work laptops that don't let you install 3rd party programmes, but do allow Chrome extensions ;) )

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret/fljalecfjcio...
Well, we're certainly not so blatant about it these days, that's for sure.
In Boston, I'm going to use Python as an exapmle, we have a regular Python Meetups [1], in addition to a Python Project Night [2], it sounds like you're looking for something like the later, which involves a bunch of people of various skills, hacking on projects, with some experts of the community circulating around the room, etc.

I haven't been in a long time, but they were great.

[1] Example of regular Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/events/234430898/

[2] Example for April: https://www.meetup.com/bostonpython/events/237146736/
> "The intent of H1-B was to get talented immigrants for jobs for which we had a shortage of American labor."

Actually, the intent of H1-B is to fill jobs for which there are no Americans that have the skill set. A "shortage" simply means that they aren't offering high enough wages.

Of the major tech firms (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, ...) only Google has a presence in NYC of any size even though NYC has far more software people than SV, SF, Seattle. If there really, truly was a shortage as they claim, they would have much larger offices in NYC.

My understanding is that Gates in founding Microsoft in Seattle instead of SV did so precisely because he did not want to have to compete with SV firms for their tech labor which is another way of saying that Microsoft was in Seattle to maintained depressed tech wages.
I'm sorry, what's CEF? I haven't come across that acronym before.
The NSA knew they were burned and these exploits would be used against American interests shortly. I imagine they sent them to MS. Note these particular fixes have no source, which while not uncommon, is very telling considering its multiple items with no credit.

They're also very nasty for sysadmins. smb exploits giving SYSTEM level access on servers and domain hacks are pretty much worse case scenarios. I pity any shop who hasn't updated yet. The attacks are weaponized and are in the wild right now packed into trojans, ransomware, crimepacks, etc.
Apple settles patent dispute at last minute before trial
If you're "kicking people out of the group" and telling people not to "RSVP" unless they're 100% committed, then I feel like you're more effectively making people disinterested in your group than you are solving your attendance estimation problem.

If your group is so large that you have a waitlist, I'd be willing to bet there's a consistent statistic of RVSP vs Attendance that you could rely on. Maybe check records of your past events and see if there's much fluctuation?
Nice. How many of us started on these machines?

You should get your disks imaged.

:D
Thanks for the encouraging words! I don't have any future plans yet, depends on the feedback I get and if there's enough interest for further features.

I think you're touching a valid point, but it goes even further. There are many different use cases for a bio-software; a bench-worker has different requirements than a geneticist, microbiologists vs cell biologists etc, WGS and RNA-seq need an even more different toolset.
It's impossible for a single software to cover all possible aspects of biology. The only thing you can do is focus on one group of users and try to fullfill their requirements.
Amazon lost billions to create/invent/perfect the shop-online market and dominate it; a decade-plus of losses and dire predictions later, it's profitable.

Uber has lost billions to create the global smart-phone ride-sharing market, vastly expanding the "pie" of consumer/users/riders in cities that had been artificially restricted and ruined by the awful regulated no-competition taxicab model for 80 years. Uber deserves a Nobel Prize of some kind for destroying the old -- very bad -- order and has made riding around in first-world cities affordable, safe and reliable -- all of which regulated taxis were not. Millions of people happily/gratefully use Uber or its competitors every day. If Uber wants to make a profit, all it has to do is raise its fares 10 or 15 percent and fend off competitors/upstarts. Why does everyone assume Uber can't handle the competition in an ever-expanding market for its kind of service; Uber is still an under-30 market. If Uber wants to make its whiniest drivers happy and shut half of its moronic media critics up, all it has to do is add the tip function to the app. If it wants to get the rest of the press off its back, Uber has to learn how to do PR 101 -- which means it needs to point out the benefits, enormous benefits, that its micro-transit has brought to cities and the poorish people who until Uber/Lyft came along had to live with lousy public transit systems and the thieves and idiots who run them. It may be too late for adding tips to the app; Uber soon may be forced to add tips by the moronic politicians who mis-run NY City -- the same morons who artificially held down the number of taxi licenses for 85 years until the price for a medallion hit 1 million bucks (before Uber came along). In any case, it doesn't matter to non-investors much if Uber survives; it's already contributed greatly to urban society worldwide, in spite of the personal and professional shortcomings of its execs and a creepy few of its 1 million drivers. If Uber goes the way of the Sony Betamax, no biggie; we'll still be able to push a button on our smart phones and get a ride.
I did ask one of the great docents there to explain blue boxing to me. He pulled out an blue suitcase-like box and showed me how it all worked.

For what it is worth, they can't do the 2600 line seize there, but they could patch directly into a trunk and send tones from there.
Raw numbers will not be unbiased because people are involved in collecting them. That's true of anything that passes through human hands, but it's especially true in anything involving public policy, where it's understood that the opposing side will be looking for any slant they can get, which means the publishing side will be looking to CYA as much as they can get away with.
I don't use my phone for my primary nav device, I use a decade old Garmin for most stuff but if I'm going somewhere I've never been on a more than 1min notice I just Google map it and plan my own route based on that. In urban areas street view is available and I can use that to make sure the Google route and my revisions are sane. In rural areas there aren't as many options or pitfalls so GPS generally works well if. Both the decade old GPS and Google maps have about the same effectiveness when it comes to finding residential addresses on small streets.
"Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet. Try this link in Chrome instead. If you don't have Chrome installed, download it here."
Note: the code to extract this data has not been released to the public alongside the paper.
Well. I guess that the NYT, WaPo and WSJ can be proud of their accomplishment.

They managed to hurt the independent media on its revenue, but to their vein it seems like most youtubers actually have a passion for what they do and their subscribers are also smart enough to see through all this bullshit and support their favorite content creators through other means than watching ads.
Do you think they will ever go back to building what people want?
> composing higher level functions typically means little control where the intermediate results are stored

Exactly.

I need my code to access sequential RAM addresses as much as possible, because performance.

And sometimes my RAM layout is fixed, because I’m directly sending large sequential blocks of RAM to GPU (e.g. on Windows, by calling ID3D11Device::CreateBuffer or ID3D11DeviceContext::UpdateSubresource), and GPU can only consume C-array of POD types with very specific alignment and padding requirements.
It's such an amazing program. I've never been so inspired in a school setting. After witnessing the students in this program, I'm confident they'll all go on to be rockstars in their future endeavors.

I feel like all schools should be preparing students in this way.
Connectivity: The Essential Ingredient for Reliable, Safe Autonomous Vehicles
Republican scientists negotiate the Trump era
Tahoe Least-Authority Filesystem
That may all be true, still, H1-B's were not an important issue in the election.
Shut down my Facebook years and years ago, maybe missed one or two parties? Started up a Twitter, almost never check it.

Like, it's not really a big deal to shut this stuff off, and it'll help you get back in touch with reality.

I never got on LinkedIn, and it has in no way hurt my career.
Even so, 430 times the lowest price shows how distorted the market is.

Unless it's okay because we can rationalize it as "it helps make the product accessible to poorer countries".
The article has a certain vibe which reminds be of USSR's political persecutions.It's pretty disturbing how the author heavily implies that the children have to undergo some kind of renunciation ceremony in order to atone for the ideological beliefs of their father.

Perhaps a more fitting title for the article would be "Ancestral sin: an excessively long article about confederate flags and white privilege, with bits of historical moralization"
I haven't been to a programming meet-up for a very long time. It was pretty fun when I was in San Francisco, because I felt like there were startups everywhere, and everyone was excited about lots of cool technologies. And I got so many free shirts.

This post has actually inspired me to check out some more meetups conferences. I might see if I can fly in for the React Native conference in Portland [1]. Firstly, because React Native is my new favorite tool, after using it for the last few months. And secondly, because my wife and I have just decided that we might like to move to Portland one day, and we've never been there before. We might go check it out for a weeks.

[1] https://infinite.red/ChainReactConf
That kind of attitude is why my entire career path exists. QA Automation is something that I'm constantly surprised people don't know exists. Product devs resent writing tests so we are the ones who do that exclusively.

As a counter to your experience I've spent a great amount of time stamping out issues with record-and-playback tests. They're a passable stop-gap if you desperately need testing and, for whatever reason, haven't written any. Sikuli is possibly worse, though it's been a few years since we last evaluated it and quickly decided against using it in any serious capacity.

Using manual testers as discount automation testers is a waste of everyone's time. They're the true experts in actual use of the product. I've seen them find more issues that from a code perspective shouldn't really be possible that it's given me an implicit trust and respect of their abilities. If someone wants automated testing it's another thing they're going to have to spend money on. Doing it half-assed is more than likely going to do more harm than good.
Whimsical suggestion

https://www.ons.gov.uk/

Use some examples from the above for the class presentations, then homework is to replicate with US data.

PS: if you decide to publish your presentations/course materials freely, do post the location to HN
You're correct but that's kind-of missing the point: I imagine the parent was trying to say you can have the deterministic management of non-memory resources like C++, without the downside of loosing memory safety.

It's low-signal to say that memory leaks are possible, since, as the article in question demonstrates, it's perfectly possible to get leaks in languages like Java.

On `forget`, it's equivalent to the following Python, which can be translated into pretty much any language one wants:

holds_reference = []
def forget(x):
global holds_references
holds_reference.append(x)

There are cases where one needs to think about avoiding leaks, but no more than C++.
Exposing Containers of Unique Pointers
There Is No Functional Programming, Only Culture
Apple is replacing busted fourth-gen iPads with the newer, faster Air 2
Perhaps it could have something to do with termonology (%value vs %transactions).

For value I get:
42588 / (891015+222753) = 3.8%
Shielded Value / (Cumulative Miner's Reward + Cumulative Founder's Reward)

Perhaps it is 28% of transactions are shielded worth only 4% of zec value?
Yes, there's certainly an element of that going on, and it's not surprising that a lot of people are concerned about it.

I suppose to be balanced we should also acknowledge the other side's similarly daft argument that they accept that people voted for tea and yet propose a scheme in which you can't buy any of tea bags, tea leaves, a kettle, an urn, or an instant hot water tap, though it's possible that milk or lemon will still be negotiable. :-)
2-3 months is not enough to float safely. You'll want a 6 month cache before you even think about taking time off, and even then only the time over that 6 months should you take off. That 6 mo cache is for emergencies.
Weather is awful, traffic is worse. But other than that PDX is great, esp. the restaurants.
I am deeply skeptical you will ever experience such a thing.
I really thought of this before, we package apps to our customers with a USB because they work on the intranet. I always thought make something easy ISO installable without using Ubuntu Kickstart/Preseed nightmare. It would really solve many hours for us.
Arduino board adds Sigfox low power wireless for IoT
How to vote to stop the Tories
How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud.

This is a great post! One logical nit though is that just because Netflix (and YouTube) have ~1000 edge locations doesn't actually imply that the world needs that many "medium to large data centers" (with large at presumably 30MW).

The number of world-scale massive bandwidth applications is pretty low. There are so many humans, they're only watching so much video, etc. and that's why Netflix and YouTube before them are at your ISP. Online gaming would be another such example, but would again be served by the minimal number for latency not bandwidth (this depends on your opinion of the relative popularity of gaming versus media consumption).

The regulatory / data locality angle is more likely to be the main driver for needing more data centers beyond the latency requirements. Otherwise, most customers just don't have the bandwidth requirements to necessitate a large facility.

Again, Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Intentional Software to Join Microsoft
Or more precisely, by the lack of census data in years where no actual enumeration is performed.

The big jumps on census years indicate that the census department does not estimate accurately when working with 9-year-old data.
You can beat him with any character. Jump away from him and kick constantly and you will win
Being southern or "from the south" and white does not make one automatically awful. That kind of stereotyping is literally what found us in such a political mess and should be discouraged. Please knock it off. If you were to say awful racist white people, I'd agree, but shockingly, there are plenty of awful racist white people in the north as well as the south, they're just louder down south.

Note: I'm white, from the south, am a veteran, also tend to lean liberal and work as a software engineer in the 3rd biggest city in the US. I think of myself as progressive and voted for Gary Johnson this election.
The article mentions a custom EPROM that was used on Jobs' personal Apple I. I wonder if the contents of that EPROM are available, so someone with a replica computer could use it?
What did your pipeline look like? I just push a commit and let the runners handle it for Jekyll.

Keep in mind by using WordPress you are also setting yourself up for possible defacement that seems to break out once a year when someone finds the new big hole in a popular plugin or WordPress itself.
I'm not yet sure in which direction I want to take thia project.
I don't think there's a big chance to monetize something like this, given the multitude of software that already exists in this field.
The Jupyter notebook is a really cool idea, I'll have to look into this.
From my experience with the Chicago Java User's Group. They've done a fantastic job at getting speakers I'd like to go and see. (And sometimes they get spring speakers .. can't win them all :))

Feedback is collected from the organization team and it is taken seriously. There are speakers that are asked not to come back.

I've never seen a speaker that wasn't prepared at a CJUG talk.

To me it sounds like the writer of the post has seen a poorly managed meetup.
The free rider effects you're referring to are exacerbated by how arduous the FDA approval process is.
But the low to zero cost of meet-ups means there’s little incentive to produce quality presentations.

If in any case you did attend a meetup and you found the presentation lacking, is it right to think that the presenter / organizer would definitely appreciate if you provide an honest feedback that would make the next meetup better? I know most meetups are free and the value that it provides for everyone can be increased by the participants adding value on how to make it better.
I'm left wanting for the real reason...
Crowdfunding for qutebrowser v1.0 with per-domain settings
Or, to cite another case that I see quite often on my commute home: I'm driving a tall panel truck, don't route me onto routes with low-clearance overpasses...

I see beer trucks and U-Hauls with the top six to twelve inches sheared off by the railroad overpass at least once a month.
Microsoft to acquire Intentional Software
[meta] previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13868327
Can you explain the obsession people have with the Constitution? It seems like some people believe all new laws shouldn't exist if they're not in the Constitution.
While I’m learning kdb+, Dyalog remains my favourite language for hacking and is likely to remain so for much of the publishing work I do, because of its solid UTF-8 support.

Iverson was on to something with his iterators. I am still getting insights decades later. When I use control structures like for-loops (even in APL) it feels like talking with my thumb in mouth.
~450
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13951136
I go to meetups (and organize one) 60% to network with people and find customers, 40% to learn and stay up to date with technology. I'm a speaker at somebody's else meetups or conferences two or three times per year.

True learning requires a lot of effort but I remember a meetup about shaders in a HTML canvas. I didn't know much about them, I know where to start from now at the cost of a couple of hours and a twenty minutes walk from home. However I know that attending meetups after work could be taxing. My free meetup has an almost perfect 50% no show rate and indubitably both the price tag and the time concur to it. But if I start it during the day, how many people would come? That's the territory of more well organized conferences.
Cryogenic Memory
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My first passenger-friend is from Thailand. When I first mentioned her in a blog post, I didn't realize she was going to call me back. She says her home country is sort of fucked-up. The Thai king who recently passed away was an engineer who helped bring his country into the modern world... I wonder if his son will be as competent a leader.