skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Party neutral?

They list MoveOn as a key partner:
https://github.com/ProgressiveCoders/functions/issues/196

This document clearly states the organisation is founded by Berine Sanders supporters:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P8iL3kTWO0Y9aYe8lndcUWTJ...

And they built something called the "Resistance Calendar", containing events like:
https://tockify.com/resistance.calendar/detail/384/149523120...

I mean for the most part it seems to be stuff I would support (personally), but to call it party neutral is at best true by way of technicality.

I doubt you find many Republican events on that calendar. Of course, I wouldn't expect to given the name of the group, but let's not play games and pretend it isn't partisan?
This trick still works in Google, and it's especially useful for finding fonts: intitle:index.of Aldine cursive

First result looks promising.
It's not actually neutered because there are variants without a kill switch.
Uber threatens to fire Levandowski if he doesn’t comply with court order
It's a widely known myth, but I'm pretty sure that Inuit absolutely has 100+ words for snow: it's just that's a meaningless and unsurprising assertion. The Inuit languages are polysynthetic and can say in a word what European languages need a sentence for, so Inuit can sidestep Zipf's law on word frequency.

But also, English has plenty of words for snow, here's 50: https://www.thoughtco.com/snow-terms-types-3010117
If you are under the age of 35, you are essentially immortal, because if driving is incredibly safe and it is the most dangerous thing you do.
Turns out only the rich have enough money to invest. Everyone else is living paycheck to paycheck.
I ran the 3 visualizations at the end of the article and made imgur albums:

Images are in order.

JOLSample_22_Compaction: http://imgur.com/a/agJaR

JOLSample_23_Defragmentation: http://imgur.com/a/A74k9

JOLSample_24_Colocation: http://imgur.com/a/RTrhL

In JOLSample_22_Compaction, Aleksey writes: "It happens because many temporary objects are allocated while populating the list.". I'm having trouble knowing exactly what are the temporary objects. Is it the implicit c.toString()? Maybe also the "int minCapacity" in ensureCapacityInternal in ArrayList[1]? Is there more?

Also, in JOLSample_22_Compaction it is kind of nice to see some gaps spaced by growing powers of 2 in http://imgur.com/4T5dBi8 ; it must be the actual pointer arrays of the ArrayList, replaced successively to grow in size. And the current one being in green color. Or am I mistaken?

Fascinating.

[1] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j...
I don't understand this terminology. In the US, probable cause is a set of circumstances that can lead to a stop or an arrest. "Probable cause for a crime" makes no sense, unless it has a different meaning in Sweden. If the Swedish prosecutor thought she could win the case, why did she not press on with it? Hypothetically, if Assange had shown up in Sweden but refused to answer any questions, how would her case have changed? Was the issue that Assange was not present and a judge had to rule in absentia? If so, why did the prosecutor drop the case instead of allowing the judge to rule on it?

This just doesn't add up.
Why You're Not Getting Value from Your Data Science
Shot of espresso in the morning. Probably like 10-12 beers a night?
I felt the need to write a full article as a response, and link it here in place of a comment in the hope that it won't be viewed as gratuitous self-plugging:

https://likewise.am/2017/05/19/in-response-to-the-cult-of-re...
I cannot downvote your comment, either. http://i.imgur.com/FKKP9bx.png
You might like Operator, by Hoefler & Co. [0] or Cartograph by Connary Fagen [1]. Both have monospace options with some cursive elements in the oblique cuts. Nothing as extreme as what's pictured, however.

0. https://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator
1. http://connary.com/cartograph.html
Online privacy remains an issue that upsets people, but at day's end, neither companies nor the Trump administration have any real interest in protecting privacy.

Does not surprise me at all.

As a very early adopter of Twitter, I have to say I thought this platform had a lot of promise at one time. Unfortunately, it's becoming a textbook case of how massive ego corrupts and destroys a product, a company, and now even a country. It started with the lockout of developers' ability to write frameworks around the APIs and is ending, naturally, with these massive political bots owning 10K+ followers, spam that always ends up on the top layer of search.

My disenchantment had been growing for a long while. Finally shut down my accounts earlier this week after they refused to offer "verification" my ecosteader account. Ten years I've been waiting it out, promoting this company for free, adding Twitter links to websites I build for customers and clients... and they do not even grant a courtesy gesture to show people that yes, the owner of these Twitter accounts is indeed associated with these websites.

Instead, like everything else on the Internet these days, it's all about popularity and ego and bribery.

Apparently, the rumor that the best way for a small company or org to get verified is to cash-bribe somebody who works there is true? If that's what you wanna do, go for it... but at least document your corrupt dollars needed and standards for bribery somewhere, so people can have some reference before they waste their time. The echo chamber and circlejerk thing has gone on for far too long.
I remember when we launched Triplebyte expecting the hard part to be convincing "good" engineers to go through the process but so long as we did that, every company would want to hire them. That turned out to be our mistaken assumption that every startup has before they launch.

Ammon talks here about how little consensus there is amongst companies on what a "good" engineer is. As he says, "we’re more often in the situation of sort of broadening people’s vision of what a skilled engineer can be".

This concerned us at first as it seemed like an intractable problem to work on improving the hiring process when no one can agree on what a good candidate even means. It actually turned out to be a huge opportunity as we realized the value was in what we're doing is matching candidates to companies rather than trying to define what the universal definition of a "good engineer" is.
The security manager can be disabled using reflection. If you don't allow you loose some libraries like Akka. The main thing that is missing from ScalaKata is autocompletion and it will be implemented in the summer during the GSOC. AWS lambda could be worth investigating. We don't expose an API for evaluating but others have expressed this need. Can you create an issue on GitHub for that?
People also take painkillers to recover from surgery...That is how many folks get hooked, and in some cases, eventually switch to heroin (because they can't afford the pills off-script at black market prices)
How can voice recognition change the driver experience?
That was his stated concern. I don't think it makes any sense because he could have been arrested by Swedish or British authorities long before the alleged rapes occurred.
> To have any "serious" position in modern foreign policy is to support evil.

Saying the trial of the Brighton bomber is a "show trial" and protesting it has very little to do with foreign policy. The IRA did not represent a foreign government and the five people killed were neither military nor government ministers.

Neither does mourning Fidel Castro, after he's dead.

Also:

- The mainstream left people you'll find not voting for Corbyn are normally referred to as 'classical liberal' - liberals have always been against people inflicting violence upon others. The people handing out copies of 'Socialist Worker' outside the tube, Corbyn and you are 'extreme left'.

- Acting as if supporting Momentum is the only way to challenge the conservatives on privacy is insincere.
London under the microscope: bacteria on public transport UK
Whilst in theory users have an option to 'opt out' in practice most users are unaware of this and the process varies considerably depending on ISP.

Do you have any robust data you could share about that? I'd be interested to see it. The only reports I've seen were informal/anecdotal, but if anything they suggested the reverse usually happens, with not many customers opting into filter programmes and those who were signed up automatically generating a fair number of hostile calls to ISP customer support people about wanting to opt out (and quite a few of those in connection with sites being blocked inappropriately).
This is a dupe but Pursue should be prosecuted and held accountable for the total fucking disaster Oxycontin has wrought on our country. They should be considered enemies of the state. This shit is worse than any drug lord in Mexico or any ISIS leader as far as impact to US citizens and they knowingly perpetrated it.
BlackRock Becomes Linux Foundation Gold Member
How does Google Assistant stack up against Siri on an iPhone? – The Verge
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I don't like it either. What I'm saying is that this is something people who support net neutrality has to be able to refute.

Most consumers only want slow traffic to many websites and fast access to a few websites, but the are paying for a lot more. The example of "sites" might be a bit convoluted. We could as well make the differentiation based on geography, which is sort of already the case. Get 1 gigabit domestically and 10 mbit internationally. Now it up to people who want to host something to buy transit into the country. (This is sort of how it works in China, where a lot of people don't speak English anyway).

> Back to your scheme, the customer would not pay less. Costs have to be recouped somehow.

People who use the Internet less would presumably pay less and people who used the Internet more, including setting up servers, accessing services far away or anything else that require more infrastructure, would pay more. Which is sort of the case today with upstream bandwidth.

My overall point would be that the open Internet costs money and I'm not sure people can be convinced to keep it ones there's an alternative.
Dart is available on Android and iOS via Flutter (in alpha):

https://flutter.io/
This is an interesting conversation to have here really.

'Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut'
Extreme Programming: Pairing Matrix
If you look closely, my numbers don't quite add up -- $50/mo is $600/yr not $500/yr.

I was guesstimating about $200k/yr in operating expenses (and that's with a lot of volunteered expertise, as you note).

But structured as a social-purpose non-profit, with everyone paying in being a member who elects a management board, who allocates the money as they see fit (perhaps with some constraints chosen by members), I think this actually bypasses a large amount of compliance work -- if you never return the money, and are strictly a non-profit investing in local businesses which rolls returns in to future investments -- because the members aren't actually making investments: they're paying for a non-profit's operational funds to support local business ventures. Structuring this way also makes for a better case to get donated expertise, eg from local lawyers and investors, and probably makes your tax situation a lot better.

You probably need some rules about earning lifetime membership after a certain pay-in, and definitely some about conflicts of interest (eg, funding member's ventures) but those are more technical details.

It's not a good financial investment vehicle, in that even in the best case you'd almost certainly have negative returns and in the worst, you'd have no returns at all -- but if your goal is changing the function of the market to support local enterprises and you're willing to pay in to make that happen, I think it'd function excellently. (Of course, you only really need to seed one or two Starbucks to have the whole portfolio right-side up again, even after decades of total losses. So at a generational level, it might work as a financial instrument as well.)

Worth noting, even as a non-profit, there are ways to "return" the money besides the value of the businesses started if you do find yourself with extra funds -- investments in local parks, schools, art programs, etc. It'd never come back in currency returns, but I expect "investors" would see tangible value in their lives, quite possibly exceeding the monetary value they put in.

tl;dr: It's easier if you structure as a one-way investment in your community, and collect dividends from the output of a vibrant community.
I also use and enjoy Decipher Chinese. Another thing I would recommend is reading the books posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesebookclub/. It's really difficult at first but I find that reading actual Chinese books (with frequent word lookups in Pleco) has helped me improve my Chinese rapidly.

(I don't get through the books in a month... I'm actually only 70% through the first one I picked up several months ago).
But Windows 10 was for the same reason largely not affected: it was patched and rebooted.
you should include postings from http://www.calhr.ca.gov/ . there are tons of programming jobs there in different classification.
Or if you are not too "brainwashed", you can decide for yourself how much time in front of the computer is too much.
When Programming Was No Longer Fun
VW's approach clearly wasn't business optimal, given it almost bankrupted them.
I made a Windows application for drilling oneself in kanji meanings and readings.

http://www.kylheku.com/tankan/

It is browser-based. It runs a tiny webserver, controlled by an icon in the system notification area.

If you go through the license workflow, you get full use of the program for a limited period. Put in "hackernews" into the promo code field and I might provide a generous extension.
I was chatting with a startup that recently raised £1m crowdfunding as their second round. They were really happy with their choice and not having VC strings attached. I think an undervalued aspect of this is how powerful crowdfunding can be in creating a few thousand early product evangelists (who have vested interest in the company).

And I think TheDAO - though it was too early /fragile, had a half-baked voting model and got too big too fast - was onto something. I think cryptocurrency based equity/ dividends and decentralised, crowdfunded companies will definitely happen at some point in the future.
I prefer a powerful laptop + monitor + keyboard for work. Sometimes I like to take my laptop somewhere else and work, like when there's a meeting in a conference room or I want to work from a coffee shop for a little while, etc.

It's a pain to keep to computers in sync with one another, set up exactly how you want, etc.
Well, there was this glaring hole that let the server MITM secret chats on every key negotiation back when they were all cocky on HN.

That was not theoretical at all, and very much something that could be used without detection, even if the users verified fingerprints, since it made clients create insecure keys.

The guy who found it got their maximum bounty IIRC.

Whereas the best attack on signal was somewhat sort of relay thing of very questionable usability to an attacker.
So... I showed up for this interview without realizing it was going to be on video! Can you see the terrified look in my eye? But Craig did a great job and got me through it. Thanks Craig!
How L1 and L2 CPU Caches Work, and Why They’re an Essential Part of Modern Chips
You might have checked but here is IanT's reply on "Why golang garbage-collector not implement Generational and Compact gc? There is also interesting discussion in thread.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/KJiyv2mV2pU/wdBU...

"However, modern memory allocation algorithms, like the
tcmalloc-based approach used by the Go runtime, have essentially no
fragmentation issues. And while a bump allocator can be simple and
efficient for a single-threaded program, in a multi-threaded program
like Go it requires locks. In general it's likely to be more
efficient to allocate memory using a set of per-thread caches, and at
that point you've lost the advantages of a bump allocator. So I would
assert that, in general, with many caveats, there is no real advantage .."
A React PDF renderer: react-pdf
Don't Read Your Logs
> The supervisor came screaming because you guys cant get it done

Every car company ever.
A relative works at BMW, and had a nice story. One of the "Zeitarbeiter" hired for disassembly-work on a old production line cut the main power-cord - that supplied the new assembly line drive unit in the other part of the hall.
Suddenly - lights out (Zeitarbeiter wasn't hurt).
Then those faces starting to search for the origin of the trouble. Guys like my brother are called to fix it, the clock starts ticking.
If the clock ticks too long the usual choir shows up, including if the delay is long enough -
factory management.
And they chant exactly what was in the text.

Funny thing is also if you get a task in the inter-production-weeks repair gap.
They are still producing at the line going out - while your team rips the robot out, and replaces it, measuring in, teaching
and - its all with the big stop-watch in the back of your mind.

Program changes are usually prepared ahead of time in this scenario- but when the unexpected Situation hits,
you get a constant stream of "Visitors"- i guess supposed to improve the "productivity" by applying "pressure".
Usually you play as a team then, one "Catcher" keeps the "Suits" busy and away from disrupting
the guy who has to code as if his life depends on it.
My boss would have to tell you more funny storys..

TL,DR; Yes, Tesla makes Cars
I generally don't drink coffee, it makes me jittery and anxious.

Alcohol...once a month but in large quantity. Usually go on a bender while barhopping/at a party with friends. Definitely need to shake that habit.
China is 175th in GDP per ton of emissions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...

US is 80th, not great but there's really no comparison to Chian. For rich country comparison, UK is 22nd and France is 9th.
Setting Up and Deploying a TypeScript, React and React Router 4 SPA from Scratch
How does wrapping up code in a closure "fix" the need for comments? And what's wrong with having comments anyway? You haven't demonstrated that comments are an "anti-pattern", all you've demonstrated is that you personally prefer a different style.
Not really. You could easily argue (and I would) that people simply don't value it highly, on average. You are free not to visit websites that track you, or use various other technological solutions (Tor, private browsing, ad blockers). There's not a great deal to learn about the "free market" here.
Basic economics? Pay and labor supply are part of a demand equation. If we leave it alone, pay will increase substatially in the next few years as labor runs short. Worse thing we could do is apply an external force to the system making it take longer to stabilize.
Generally, yes. There's still places liked Shanghai where there's a very strong local language culture, but Mandarin should always suffice.

I've travelled in parts of China (Xishuangbanna in particular comes to mind, in southernmost Yunnan) where they have truckloads of non-Han minorities, and Mandarin was the lingua franca, and got me around, but I frequently spoke it better than anyone around me on the street.

OTOH, if you travel out to say, Xinjiang, I'm told you might be better off speaking Russian - the people out there are not Han, and really don't want to be part of China. Speaking the language of the empire out in the colonies might not make you many friends :)
Skyliner.io is joining MailChimp
I see somebody has never heard of JIT compilers.
I think what works is companies losing employees to other companies who have realistic WFH policies.

So, the business success piece doesn't matter. Losing key employees will turn things around quite quickly.

Or it wont, and the business suffers, and maybe eventually fails, maybe eventually doesn't.
Yep, that's what a labor shortage looks like :) Labor can ask for a price that's higher than the ROI of their labor for many businesses. In comparison, there's an excess supply of unskilled labor so businesses can purchase unskilled labor for minimum wage. Those people survive but do not profit from their time investment, and cannot invest in acquiring skills (aka poverty trap).

The issue is that automation drives efficiency, but large corporations are buying most of the limited supply... which crushes smaller businesses and drives down wages of unskilled labor.

My answer is that we need to invest in adult education and infrastructure. The labor market is struggling to adapt to demand because the cost of acquiring technical skills is prohibitively high for adults, and struggling consumers have undermined domestic manufacturing chains by both being unable to afford the output and unable to fund competitive infrastructure due to low wages.

We need to seek the healthy equilibrium is where most labor has enough demand to personally profit, and enough supply that most businesses can afford to compete.
I've been learning Japanese for fun for like 10 years now.

IMO, you have to have a reason for the language. Mine is that I wanted to read and watch anime/manga/tv/books/games that weren't being translated. Of course, these days they're all being translated faster than I can read them. But it was enough to get started, and I definitely enjoy them more than if I didn't know the original Japanese, too.

But I've tried to learn other languages that I don't have a use for, and I've found it nearly impossible. There just isn't enough motivation.
Actually another service I would recommend if you want to work on your listening comprehension is http://www.fluentu.com/. They take various clips (music videos / dramas / youtube shows) and subtitle them in a slick player (you can add vocab words straight from the videos).
This PR is about obscuring the military basis of Chinese maritime territorial claims.

Incidentally, it's not the first time methane clathrates have been used as cover for military purposes. The CIA-funded Glomar Explorer was nominally built for clathrate mining; in fact it was a recovery vessel for a sunken Soviet submarine.
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The strong point of kotlin is definitely that it's "java pseudocode" - it's what you'd have to write on a whiteboard to leave no questions about what was elided. Like data classes - in kotlin you write the attributes, but get setters and getters, so you could to validation on change or whatever you might need steers for beyond beans.

Given that; it's a pretty simple language - a lot like python or ruby, but with a touch more of syntax beurocracy.

If you only have some javascript, it would probably be best to learn it from a proper kotlin book - there's a few out/coming out - but I've not read them.

But if anyone took a typical "java as a first programming language"-book and shifted it to idiomatic kotlin, such a book would probably be a decent first programming book.

Note that I do agree somewhat with the comments about kotlin being lipstick on java's broken and strange single-inheritance oo, which leans more on Simula than Smalltalk. But I think the result is rather pretty. Maybe just because it manages to get rid of so much cruft from java ("Doctor it hurts when I do this." - "Then stop doing that.").
> and from that there's a whole slew of problems

That's the whole point - doctors have more work, so they can ask for more money and pharmaceutical companies make a killing. Doctors are not interested in curing their patients nowadays, they are interested in making money for pharma.
It's so much easier for a person to follow an Instagram account than follow a blog these days. I don't want every blog to email me for every post.