skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes? It sounds like you're agreeing with me, and disagreeing with your own GP comment. Or maybe I misunderstood the point of your GP comment—it sounded like you were trying to use some sort of metonymy to equate Firefox/browsers in general with Servo, as an implicit counterargument to my GGP post in the sense of "it'd be bad to write a browser in Rust for [reasons you gave]; a rendering engine is part of a browser; a rendering engine thus has the same lifecycle as the browser itself; and thus, a rendering engine is not actually a good example of a good use-case for Rust, despite Mozilla's ambitions. QED."

Clearly, though, you know what a rendering engine is, so I'm not sure what your argument in the GP post was. Was it just a tangential statement (i.e. "rendering engines are well and good, but it'd be silly to write the browser itself in Rust, for [reasons]"), rather than a rebuttal...?
>>People by nature I think are very externally motivated (society, wealth, materialism)and if you didn't make people go to work, would they? If they did, would they still put up with the crappy parts of it?

Is this not just a function of upbringing and experience? There are many creative types for whom motivation is completely internal, that producing the "perfect" symphony is driven by internal desires completely divorced from any acclaim (or criticism) that it may attract.

I think the other question that needs to be addressed is that we seem to be specifically talking about paid work. Some of the most difficult "work" I have done recently has been working on clearing and renovating our back yard garden. All unpaid.

You only have to look at the actions of the many very rich philanthropists who spend their time working for the greater good. I would admit that in a lot of cases they have gained their wealth through hard work (paid type), but their are many who have inherited wealth and still work (unpaid) long hours for the greater good.

I think the big difference between those who when faced with no (paid) work and given the resources to live, who will do nothing and those who will look around for something useful to do will be education.

When people are shown that there is useful fulfilling activity that can be done even when you don't have to put bread on the table, and are given the skills to work creatively, I think many, if not most will step up and take on activity (lets call it work) that will extend our society in ways we cannot now imagine.
Facebook is at least successful at that: Twitter jeopardized their core business, took on huge operating costs, and is struggling to pay for it despite making what would otherwise have been a quite successful revenue stream.
Manager said I should feel comfortable telling him I want to leave the company.
Watch YouTube videos offline on mobile in select countries
A state funded by capitalism.
This is assuming that whole thing is free of bugs, which is never going to be the case.

Just like the fastest code is the code that is never executed, the safest code is the code that is never written in the first place.
I flew first class once. It's the difference between being uncomfortable and being slightly less uncomfortable.
It pays well because supply is constrained and demand is inelastic.

It isn't clear how much the grueling training actually factors in to limiting the supply.
I'm a former healthcare administrator and just want to point out that many many administrators work much more than the 9-5.

I'm also working at a healthcare tech startup aimed at reduced the administrative burden to doctors, administrators and insurers of managing their patients at home, which is where the worst outcomes often happen.

Each segment we work with feels this burden, it is not isolated to the physicians.
The author cites and answers many possible objections. You either have objections he doesn't mention, but don't wish to share with the class; or have better counterarguments which you don't wish to share with the class.

Mere gainsaying is not a contribution to any discussion.

As for style - I'm interested in the substance, he didn't go full on Platonian dialectic so consider yourself blessed I suppose.
I have a friend who is graduating from med school this week and starting residency. The stories of med school drama, gossip, backstabbing and cheating are insane - on par with anything on television drama. Moving into residency, they also feel alone, exhausted and anxious... I don't know how many people manage.

I think knowing a doctor, or someone becoming a doctor, has changed my perception of doctors entirely.
Amazon already sells books for below the cover price (often, at least) so it's already the case that people buy from brick and mortar because of something other than price.
Did Christianity Speed Chicken Evolution?
More book recommendations on HN should be a link to a good review like this, instead of just an Amazon link.
The kids blow the wealth more often than not and the grandkids spend every last dime of what the kids couldn't.

http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

(That's ignoring the fact that people who grow up 'set for life' tend to be truly terrible human beings)
The first stage does not have enough delta-V to reach stable orbit which is the sole reason for existence of second stage. Building something that can reach orbit with only one stage is in fact the holy grail of cheap space flight, it is my understanding that such thing is physically impossible when you carry entire used reaction mass from the surface of earth.
You could also try out pybullet, the official Python bindings for Bullet Physics which uses the same underpinnings as Roboschool: pip install pybullet and you are up and running, quickstart guide is at http://pybullet.org. It has a Minitaur quadruped robot as one of the examples.
speaking on hypotheticals

let's say that through investigation there is found to be conclusive evidence that there was treasonous collusion between the current administration and foreign entities

everyone is talking about impeachment but would there also be another 'emergency', or expedited, general election?

it would seem to me that if trump were to be removed then the entire cabinet and all of its subsequent decisions would need to be removed as well

pence, gorsuch, any bills and executive orders

these would in effect be policy and decisions made under treasonous intent and by an administration being led on by foreign entities so should be treated as such
Maybe iPads will be a growing market segment, after all...
Scenario One: Digital Insecurity Is the New Normal
You might be interested in joining: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/health-techies
Are we still at war with Russia or something? I don't understand why Russia is being demonised in the media so much the last 6 months.
Can it be used to find Windows machines without MS17-010 installed? :)
Is Russia an adversary to the USA in the war on isis?
In SF and NYC that 80k is laughably low because it's expensive to live but also because companies there are abusing young engineers and getting 60+ hrs per week in many cases. I have a senior engineer I pay 130k for 40 hours of work. He tries to bring me salaries of some of his friends that get paid more and I ask him how many hours do they do? 130k@40 hrs is 162k@50 hrs if you value your time. I always negotiate based on desired work load. Tech jobs should really be more clear about hourly expectations for the given salary.
I would like to believe this, but given the amount of spam that gets posted to CL—and given how well a sophisticated, heuristic anti-indexing WAF would block spambot request traffic as a simple side-effect—I find the idea a bit dubious.
If the device firmware that checks for signatures has a bug then it can already be exploited by anyone who can find it.

Creating a new iOS version in no way increases the attack surface. If you think it does then you probably don't understand how the technicalities work, or I'm misunderstanding you (in which case please sketch a scenario where Apple doing what was requested increases attack surface).
Maybe 'cause it wasn't a commercial operation, but a "retaliation at a time and place of our own choosing" that spread outside Russia before the killswitch could be hit via their cutout.
One of my relatives near Toledo, Washington, USA pays $75 USD per month for 10/10 fiber [1]. $250 per month gets you gigabit service.

[1] http://www.toledotel.com/our-services/internet/
How do we know that 5000 year old humans didn't make jewelry out of 35000 year old materials?
iPads are part of the ban, as are Kindles.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/12/heres-how-the-laptop-ban-w...
Medicare is obviously a big part of healthcare, but is this same pay for performance happening with private insurance? How has the consolidation of hospitals impacted this? Has it become harder to negotiate these deals with massive hosptital networks?
Really cool idea
yeah; wmi is incredibly powerful. before osquery linux and os x had nothing like it. it even has performance counters (albeit at slower intervals than win etl) at the ready.
I never know when I have to use find vs grep. And linux grep is different from macOS grep so I google about it every day lol. I just never figure it out.
I think I'll be a heavy user of FSQL.
Server-Side I/O: Node vs. Go vs. PHP vs. Java
I should be clear that I like good documentation, and will happily write it when necessary. It's just that over the years, I've a) found a lot of ways to make it unnecessary, b) grown to despise useless or out of date docs, which is the bulk of what I see, and c) grown very tired of writing documentation that people end up not reading.

> [...] plain English is always much easier to understand than computer code [...] This is especially true if you have junior-level or intermediate-level people on your team.

This is why I'm a big fan of collective code ownership, pair programming, and frequent pair rotation. That has a variety of benefits. It also has substantial advantages over documentation. A big piece of which is that the need for documentation is always speculative, whereas answering a question always works from a confirmed need.

> It is also true if you ever end up coming back to some piece of code you yourself wrote a year ago.

This is what I use tests and journals for. Well-written tests are essentially machine-verifiable documentation. They tell me what the intent of the system is. If I want to know the history of the intent, then I turn to my journals.

> But look at it this way: code is for computers. Documentation is for humans.

I couldn't disagree more. As Martin Fowler says: “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Code and tests are primarily means of communication between developers. They have the constraint that they should result in a running system. But we stuff most of the work of that into compilers, optimizers, and run times. Our tools are -- and should be -- optimized for human productivity. And since programming is mostly a team sport, the biggest value of our tools is in how they enable that teamwork.
>Classification is only one problem in machine vision. As in, not even 10% of the whole.

Classification is extremely representative of the challenge of machine vision. Good classifiers can often be adapted to do localization and other tasks, e.g. by scanning the image to see what parts contain an object.

The Imagenet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has 1000 classes which you can browse here: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2015/browse-synsets I forgot that Imagenet itself has more classes than that. But it's best known for this specific competition of 1000 classes, and everyone uses that as a benchmark.

>freaking AlexNet was not a fraking cat recogniser.

I never said it was... It's actually a dog recognizer mostly : )
Remember that little hole in the Death Star that blew the whole thing up? It was the C FFI. ;)
"and they confirm that it could not have been made by homo sapiens or Neanderthals"

Could not? Really? I would be very interested in seeing how that could possibly be true.

Without a better explanation of this line, I find this article very suspect.
from the abstract

> Intuition from our everyday lives gives rise to the belief that information exchanged between remote parties is carried by physical particles. Surprisingly, in a recent theoretical study .. quantum mechanics was found to allow for communication, even without the actual transmission of physical particles.

ok, does this also mean that communication is free from restraints that particles suffer.. as in would this allow faster than light communication?
Interesting! So there are laundering services. Still, even if that were a 'terminal' point, you'd know at least where they were going. I'd love to read the story of 'follow the money'
i'm 46 and i began programming when i was 11. Obviously no Google or SO. There were some excellent resources even at that time, but i don't recall having legal access to the internet until i was in university (from eastern europe).

so yes, nearly always learned and traversed bugs in my code the hard way...but i don't recall it being that hard. Mostly it was just awesome.

but here's the thing: then i was coding in BASIC then C from lyceum, university, and the first few years of my professional career and most of the time i was working. While working in C for instance, i recall most of the time i got stuck it was something having to do with memory management--allocating it, reallocating it, recycling it, and re-pointing it. I got stuck, but not in a subject i didn't already know quite well.

today, it's a much different story: i'm at risk of drowning in DSLs (never called that, often "frameworks)--new ones pop up constantly and others disappear.

so when i get stuck today (or for most of the last decade) quite often it's because i need a different kind of assistance--like the kind a noob needs, because quite often i'm starting at some code from a DSL that i don't need to re-factor or debug, but that i need to interact with, and i've never seen this DSL before.
that cant be right given how you can find cl pages on google
Finally, a business use for a Cardboard VR headset: it has no electronics inside; just insert your TSA-approved mobile phone.

On a serious note, I hope they will get a serious pushback.
yes they went financially indy by becoming super duper frugal which is kind of like saying one can stay skinny if they ate 1200 cals a day without ever eating out

sustainable for some but not for everyone
new Java programmers

Or perhaps interns? ;-P

In fact, I've wondered about the origins of the term "intern" since I first heard of it; the technique was already known to me and likely others as "tokenising" before that, however, since compilers would often have to compare identifiers and doing this to them made it much faster.
The wages paid are typically good enough for a single person to live. It's not good enough to support any dependants though.
Can thin batteries really cause huge explosions? Can't they just ban laptops thicker than a certain amount? "TSA-approved size" would become a line in spec sheets, and things would get back to normal in a few months.

The alternative is a serious hit to worldwide commerce flows.

The more I think about this, the more I feel like "As long-established trade routes become unsafe, the empire slowly crumbles..."
I feel HTTP access control (CORS) is missing

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_con...
Kindles too?! Seriously???

Edit: I'm pretty sure the battery in my phone is bigger than the kindle, btw.
or they just decided to allow Google?
Yup. I've been an Android owner since the T-Mobile G1, then I had a Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S4 and then Nexus 5. Especially on the Nexus One and Galaxy Nexus I was all about custom ROMs, but it becomes a several hour project to install custom ROMs and you often have to try more than one ROM to find the right one. I don't want more projects, so I just can't be bothered to mess with that anymore. I just want a stable phone.
Read this if you have a problem with tab management
Chromebooks-delivered-at-the-arrivals-curb-as-a-service
Kindle...LOL, this bureaucracy is beyond me
spoken from experience i bet :)

i can relate on the buying tickets thing. i used to buy tickets on priceline but after travelling every week for a year, i buy directly from american and buy first if the price delta isn't crazy (<$100)

i always buy prem economy though because anything else is asking for a bad time
not on international flights from what i hear
who cares what happens when you're dead
a recognized right to refuse work based on ethical issues (backed by professional association)

One relevant "professional association" which comes to mind is the IEEE, which is actually pro-copyright/IP/DRM. Make of that what you will.
I don't get to control what the TSA does. I do get to control how I handle the problems they create.
You wouldn't wonder what he's been doing for the last 5 years?
The thinking I've seen is about batteries being replaced by explosives.

Even so, the US isn't the first to do this. China won't let you take Li+ batteries beyond a certain mAH in your carryon.
Serious question. At what point is it an airlines responsibility vs. the FAA? I mean, private planes aren't required to do this. Then there are the shared (I forget the name) private plane companies where lots of people are in a pool of users of the planes. Where is the line between private plane, where the pilot/owner decides the risk, and public airline and FAA decide the risk?

We need some sanity somewhere.
So it's okay that doctor's commit suicide because at least they're paid well?
I was researching WinFS recently and came across this series of posts explaining its vision:

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/14/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/14/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/02/25/winfs-integratedunified-stora...

* https://hal2020.com/2013/03/10/winfs-integratedunified-stora...
It's to either make a pretty penny by suing the company and/or make a name for oneself as a SJW.
We have tried desktop Linux there over 10 years ago, both commercial and open source. Remember Red Flag? They were one of the many competitors.

Turned out nobody wanted Linux on the desktop.
networking. finding a person that knows your work personally that is willing to bring you on for an interview. or craiglist. or that odd recruiting analyst that actually looks at your github and realizes that you can code
According to Elon Musk [1], the first stage could technically fly all the way to orbit (if it weren't lifting the rest of the rocket); it just wouldn't be able to carry a useful payload.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/669132749500887040
I don't know too much about the RACS etc (father was a radiologist but can't recall him complaining about their equivalent in Aus too much, though it's likely the same).

If you have to be a member of this, and that's government mandated, then them profiting from that arrangement is a blatant monopoly isn't it?
Someone has mastered the art of casting and forming explosives into shapes that look like batteries. Put a small battery in to turn device on, and al-Qaeda indulges its love of planes.
Machine Learning: the power and promise of computer that learn by example [pdf]
Your stats are a tad dated - the FDA has far better (in terms of granularity) stats lately that show a pretty steady trend towards 'more approvals' in the past few years - this includes biosimilars and new molecular entities (novel drugs): https://www.fda.gov/downloads/aboutfda/centersoffices/office...
SV must be the least productive society right now: one half just wants to have fun while the other half just waits for the right moment to sue.
Reflection isn't orthogonal to a REPL; it's synergistic with a REPL. When you have a static language, yes, REPLs don't add much; reflection by itself is all you need and an IDE will suit you fine.

But when you are working in a language with runtime code generation—one where objects can build themselves new runtime-native function handles in response to messages—then a REPL will be able to do things for you that an IDE cannot†.

A REPL in a dynamic language (that takes advantage of its dynamicity) can be used to "explore" down CORBA/DBUS object trees; or fluently walk REST or SOAP endpoints without needing pre-baked WSDL descriptors to guide you to them. Heck, an Erlang REPL can hot-upgrade remote nodes. :)

† Or, at least, not a traditional IDE. You would need an IDE connected to a "live session" of your project—essentially a hybrid IDE-REPL. (Examples: Light Table; Emacs' CIDER extension for Clojure.)
Even this can be made safe(r) if you only only only connect to your database nthrough a proxy that sanitizes queries. IIRC vitess adds an implicit LIMIT 10 to queries that don't have a limit.
It's using a custom c++ hashtable:

https://github.com/JetBrains/jdk8u_hotspot/blob/master/src/s...

Interestingly, the hash table implementation it's subclassing has changed from `HashTable` to `RehashableHashtable` between JDK7 and JDK8, so I guess there's at least been work to try and improve the performance there.

The hashmap header is here, code lives in the matching cpp file in the same directory:

https://github.com/JetBrains/jdk8u_hotspot/blob/master/src/s...
For one thing, if you stop working, your are unlikely to be able to step back in the game at that same level. There are people who work less and just keep a toe in, so to speak, but if you just completely stop and let all your connections dry up, you may be unable to make money like that again if you should need it for some reason.

For another, inflation. What used to be a LOT of money isn't anymore. What is currently a LOT of money won't be in a few more years. And the beat goes on.

There are other reasons, but from a practical standpoint, those two are biggies.
Second stage recovery of F9 is not out of the table completely yet. It seems more likely now that there will be attempts in the future.
I taught myself to program in Atari Basic on an Atari 800 in 1981. I still remember the book and the way it described a for loop as an Oreo cookie. I remember subscribing to Byte magazine and typing in code snippets. Later had a 1050 disk driver, Gemini 10x printer with the Ape Face interface, and a Mips 300 baud modem. It was a glorious time, the dawn of a new age. I loved it.
that's what the ban is. It bans any devices over a certain size. Kindle and iPad is also included in the ban.
I do not disagree with your decision to move to online shopping, however I do think that worthwhile human interaction is a two way street. If you want your interaction with the chasheer to be higher value you could try to inject some value yourself. It will improve their day as well as yours. Maybe then they will transfer some of that value to the next person they serve.

Interact with people in the way you would like to be interacted with and you will be surprised by how they respond.
Cancel that card.