skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof in Idris that exponential and linear time fib functions are equivalent
A more accurate analogy is that you contact the home owner and advise them that their home is at risk of being broken in to because of whatever security they're lacking. No need to actually break in to the home, just point out the vulnerabilities.
For anyone looking for an ~20 minute intro to why this is a big deal and the impact it has on small tech companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4

tl;dw: There are some over-broad patents on usage of very common technologies (using wifi or selling on the google play store are two egregious examples) that are being used as a bludgeon against small and medium sized firms that can't afford to defend themselves. It costs about $3 million to defend against such a suit, and the Eastern district is known for refusing to force plaintiffs to pay defendant's attorney's fees even if the suit is ultimately dropped.
I dunno. How many qbits one would need to improve DFT chemical calculations?

You don't need too much precision to determine if a chemical reaction will happen or not. You do need many operations, but not many bits.
I teach at a prison on occasion, and our program results in a dramatically lower recividism rate. Could come from a number of variables but take that evidence as you will.

They probably can't get remote work though.
The law is designed to cover cases you might not immediately think of. Protecting men/women from "legal" harassing communication in the work place, protecting homosexual couples from discrimination, etc. eliminating such protections to stick it to nazis is, to put it mildly, naive
Ahh, yes, you're correct.
I feel like ND is a bit of an outlier though, I can try and find the data to back it up. I lived in rural MS for a while, and parts of it felt close to parts of rural India that I've visited.
I don't fancy getting home at 2am.
I'm not an American, but I don't despise socialism because I think it will bring totalitarianism. I think it's an unnatural and unfair system. And I think this mismatch with natural order always results in failure and collapse, which has many forms. One of those is totalitarianism.
Canada is bigger and with just 30 million people and the infrastructure is good. I live in a small city of 30k and sometimes I'm surprised how deteriorated the infrastructure is in big cities like Montreal (I also lived there for some years).
> With shell one can just use "${path_var##*/}"

The reason I use python whenever I need something "shell" like. Cryptic symbol salad that makes code golf fanatics green with envy.
For the backend, Kotlin on Intellij. It's crazy awesome and you can use it now for android clients as well.

The Javascript transpiler is probably not ready yet (in beta) so I would use a Bootstrap and/or Material Design library with lots of components and tie it together with javascript.

Database Postgres. You can go hard relational if that's appropriate or use the Json support like a better Mongo.
Finally, a bit of justice.
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How can I be a data scientist with no computer background?
A bit harsh, that accusation, especially when I can't find any of your quoted sentences in the linked article.

For what it's worth, I was talking about this following excerpt:

> In the Lewis model of a dual economy, much of the low-wage sector has little influence over public policy. Check. The high-income sector will keep wages down in the other sector to provide cheap labor for its businesses. Check. Social control is used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the policies favored by the high-income sector.
Companies don't start because of a low tax environment, but because of market demand. If low taxes mattered, Kansas would lead the way in business creation and economic growth
I think the more correct pronoun would be he. He was lied to and lived most of his life as a female because of it.
Everyone is posting layers upon layers of components and frameworks. It just seems so bloated, so hostile towards the developer.

From my experience, the more independent projects you include, the harder an application will be to maintain, let alone configure and build. Am I just old and cranky? Or is there reasonable justification to do this?
Isn't everything overpriced in San Francisco? Does the median salary there even tell us anything about the market for lawyers in California?
You want to be born there because they are relatively small groups born on top of huge reserves of oil. Not really applicable or relevant to the economy in the US.
It's my understanding that, from a constitutionalist perspective, states were meant to be sovereign and the Federal government was meant to have minimal presence. The idea is that states would be responsible for themselves only, through both success and failure.
This probably isn't much consolation, but as a workaround, separate Chrome profiles for work versus home is a good way to avoid account switching bugs. (Or use two different browsers.)
In my experience semi-open layouts are the best. A handful people working in the same room on the same project generally seems to work well at encourage pair programming and exchange of information while having an actual room isolates from other distractions.

That said, I think in the programming world, remote work will eventually become the new office because it's the ultimate cost cutter and greatly opens up the pool of applicants.
Is the major chord heard when a Mac boots up a reference to "A Day in the Life"?

Also-- there's a complete transcription of the Beatles output published by Hal Leonard. For the orchestral gliss from "A Day in the Life" there is an ascending line drawn on a single staff, and the staff is titled "orchestra". I thought that was pretty funny.
>After all, if someone is built out of artificial DNA and has no direct link to human parentage, could they be made liable for their own existence? Kind of like college loans, only starting from birth.

No, because minors can't enter into a contract. Not to mention that they didn't even consent to it.
(2011)

Punchline: he lost it all in the Mt. Gox collapse. Putting your money on an unregulated, uninsured exchange is like keeping your money in a sock under someone else's bed.
As someone who was in sales as a first job working with all kinds of companies, small and Fortune 500, this is absolutely true. Unless you learn to pick up a phone, learn to ask for what you want in an agreement, and learn what it takes to communicate the value of a product effectively you'll have a handicap in starting a company, but also fully understanding any company for which you're working.
Another aspect is that so much of the web these days is JS and CSS, with HTML being a bunch of div tags that the former two latch on to.
Any advice for engineers interested in trying sales?
> all the different strands of evidence agree

Are you referring to evidence that suggests climate is always changing (in which case I also agree!), or evidence of AGW? If it's the latter, I'm afraid you'd be ignoring an incredibly strong body of evidence on the contrary.
Fifth Amendment – The Right to a No Adverse Inference Jury Instruction
How Facebook allows users to post footage of children being bullied
Yeah, JS is still the easiest way to build a native app and get the most cross-platform bang for the buck with the most UI shared (HTML is HTML and browser inter-compatibility is strong these days).

The push at build was even past the Hosted Web App to Progressive Web Apps in the Fall update when Edge has broader Service Worker support, etc. PWAs build on the footprint of the Hosted Web App, but include some of the standards efforts that others such as Google have also been pushing to the Progressive Web App space, including things like Service Worker-based caching (rather than Hosted's Manifest-based caching).

Hosted Web Apps and PWAs still have access, when installed, to the UWP APIs and it would be great if there were some APIs to composite things like Acrylic or certain XAML elements into an HTML page, in a Progressive way (fallback to HTML elements when the XAML ones aren't available).

I think, however, the focus for doing JS with Native UI has shifted over to React Native, which should have full support for all of that.
This is a great answer. It shows a good approach, I think to working on something moderately over time util you make the decision to switch.
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I'm not affiliated with anyone doing this, but a) I haven't seen anything yet, and b) in general, the availability of (even commercial) options is valid discussion. Plus, I'm not unsympathetic: developer tooling is notoriously difficult to market, and it's hard to pass up an opportunity like a Hacker News front-page story about an almost universally loved service (GitHub) building a dev tool marketplace to talk about your dev tools! When Valve announced Steam you think game devs weren't gushing about their games? Of course they were.
> While increases of 10x in a month would typically be an obvious sign of a bubble, it’s a little different with cryptocurrencies because no one really knows how much they should be worth.

no, that doesn't make an obvious bubble not a bubble.
Indeed - I used to write them when I was young and had more time :)
I'm not seeing anywhere near the $h!+storm of pointless standups I used to see every morning. I'm also seeing the return of the weekly status meeting. Give it time.

Then again, I'm someone who's threatened to enact the 6 mph standup meeting wherein the second anyone drops below 6 mph on foot, the meeting's over because how can we practice Agile if we aren't agile? That wasn't received well.
Link is broken for me.
Machine learning and programming education in general.
The routes could be planned so that they could always crash on some place where they wouldn't hurt a human. You don't need the same kind of safety features in an unmanaged cargo drone as you do in something that transport humans.
I suppose you mean SSD disks.

Rotating disks are surely affected by not contiguous operations, even if done with sector granularity.
(I work for google, but nothing to do with firebase)

How exactly is what I think is best summarized as "we had a bug in our pricing system that was undercharging a miniscule number of users by an order of magnitude, and when we fixed the bug, they were informed of the price increase and we even gave them ways to mitigate, but their app architecture was terrible which made it difficult or impossible, and then after they raised a stink about it we reduced the cost/credited them enough to be mutually agreeable" as predatory?
Explorers
Well yes, there are also elements of power and control. Management worries that employees will do less work if they are not present and under observation (sad truth: for the bottom 90% of employees, they're probably correct). And open floor plans, as the high-tech sweatshop model that they are, provide the lowest cost and maximum observation.

But to my point about the degree to which fads and fashion come into play... it's bizarre that so many peers either:

(1) argue in favor of open floor plans ("More collaborative! More fun! Not all old and stuffy like cubes!"), or

(2) argue in favor of work-from-home ("More productive! Less distractions! Not all old and stuffy like cubes!"), or

(3) both, from one sentence to the next.

Open floor plans and work from home are POLAR OPPOSITES. The only thing they have in common is that they're both "not cubes". So it's bizarre to me that there aren't more moderate voices calling for on-prem workplaces of higher quality.
That, and people aren't typically paid for the time covered by non-competes.
It is a technological issue. Without the real-world audio samples to use as training data, the system cannot be improved enough to work reliably.
Plenty didn't incorporate in East Teas (my home area) and still sued and won anyways. This ruling wouldn't really stop them from incorporating or not. Just going to make them think twice about actual jurisdiction. Many companies won't have lawyers that know of or understand this case, and as such some companies will try taking advantage of that fact. Notice - we had to go all the way back to the 50s to resolve this case, and since the earlier 90s is when out-of-true-jurisdiction cases started happening. It took almost 30 years to stop that.

What really needs to happen is anyone's guess. Every system someone comes up with will likely have a flaw to be exploited.
Forgo a pizza a few years ago and end up with $20MM
It will be interesting to see if the patent trolls have now been incentivized into relocating to East Texas. This is definitely a step in the right direction, just curious to see what new unintended consequences might arise.

EDIT: Ah I read it wrong, it's the defendant's incorporation location that takes priority. Thanks for the clarifications.
Especially on the East of Texas
What about ignore how report works and fixing the gerrymandering?

I don't know how, but lets presume there is some way to fix gerrymandering so that a legislators constituency was a statistically fair representation of their region/state. Then the extreme views would be canceled out and the best way to win a primary would be to win a primary would be to appeal to the moderates.
For those of us who don't understand how these things work, does someone know the answer to these questions:

1. So does this mean that almost all patent suits will be filed in Delaware?

1a. If that is correct, does someone know the TL;DR of the rules that make it a better choice than other places. (I mean, juries are juries).

2. Will tech companies now incorporate in non-Delaware states because there are even better rules somewhere else?

Thanks for helping us understand the context.
I think reading Dan Kennedy would be a good start. He is a bit old school but these methods, which I think were primarily created for direct response marketing, haven't changed much.
Sue the Eastern District for unequal application of the law. It's easily provable with the current track record.
> Are you implying that the author [a PhD candidate in neuroscience] doesn't understand the difference between different measures of central tendency?

They probably are. There's this tendency in geek circles to assume that someone—especially an expert in another field—doesn't know what they're talking about unless they spell it out in such excruciating detail that those geeks (who actually don't know what they're talking about) can follow along as well.

I don't know why it is, and it's frustrating as hell. It seems like it's related to the Principle of Charity, but I don't know if it's the same thing, or just a similar thing.
> ruling that patent infringement suits can be filed only in courts located in the jurisdiction where the targeted company is incorporated.

That should immediately put an end to the one district in Texas that has a cottage industry of patent lawyer tourism, right?

I suppose it opens up the reverse problem: Find a court that never upholds patents, incorporate in the local town, and infringe everyone's patents with relative safety. Somehow that seems like a better problem to have, though.
Let's not pretend ... if babies can be artificially created, why not tweak its genes a little bit? It's harmless right; what's wrong with going for brown hair, green eyes? What's wrong with cutting the risk of getting fatter/cancer?

Then there's the social consequences worthy of a Black Mirror season.

It's a slippery slope me thinks.
>(who do you call if gmail craps out on you?)

When was the last time gmail crapped out on you?
Mourning EBay’s Days as the Internet’s Kitschiest, Most Surreal Mall
Enumerate the cost and I can reduce it to dollar-equivalents based upon my experience and preferences.

I suspect it's pretty close to free for me.
If I am taking a shower, and the solution to a work problem comes to me, am I at work or not? In thought-oriented jobs (especially software engineering), the lights are never really out. I regularly wake up in the middle of the night with an idea.

I don't take my desk-hours too seriously because I know that while I'm out running errands, exercising, taking a shower, sleeping, etc. I continue to chew on problems, and sometimes taking the slow path to a solution produces a much more mature one.
I thought you have to sue where the defendant is incorporated. Otherwise, why would the tech company get excited by the rule?

See from the article: "The justices sided 8-0 with beverage flavoring company TC Heartland LLC in its legal battle with food and beverage company Kraft Heinz Co, ruling that patent infringement suits can be filed only in courts located in the jurisdiction where the targeted company is incorporated." [emphasis added]
The less dense areas don't or won't soon:
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...

The Republican philosophy means rapidly shrinking public services. These area already have super low taxes and the conservatives who moved there don't want to pay anything that might benefit someone who isn't them. Such is the price to pay when selfishness is the primary political philosophy.
Tony Robbins fills that niche
My read of the article is that they have to be incorporated where the (allegedly) infringing ("targeted" in the article) company is incorporated, so it wouldn't matter where the NPE is located.

EDIT: added "allegedly"
But it was never released with no news about when it is coming out.
Yes that's just what we need, more paymetons exclusive content.
https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass
Isn't "backroom deals" just a negative way to describe cooperation and collaboration? If not please explain it to me and pretend I am really dumb on this topic, because I am.
Eh. None of this is new, and we already anticipated this with LMDB back in 2009.

The fact that NVRAM is directly addressable (and thus can bypass the page cache) will eventually play out as irrelevant. It will always be a fact that slower mass-storage will exist, more cheaply than fast in-core storage, persistent or not. The page cache will still be needed even for NVRAM, and the "page" will still be the necessary atomic unit of memory interchange. (Direct access is of course a great thing, but it will be direct access to virtual addresses. Virtual memory, and paging in/out between primary and secondary storage, is never going away. Every commodity system that has tried to do without PMMUs has failed, for numerous good reasons.)

The continual allusions to "frequent writes can destroy memory cells" seems to mainly relate to the extremely short lifetime of Intel's 3DXpoint memory, which is from every measure a total failure.

http://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/10/intel-mislead-press-xpoin...

It would be best to ignore 3DXpoint and just focus on STT-MRAM, which is already at parity with DRAM for endurance. (But still lacking in density.)

Much of the other stuff in those slides is still off the mark. E.g., LMDB today has perfect crash reliability with zero recovery time. The "write behind logging" they propose still has logging overhead and non-zero crash recovery time - which equals wasted work. Anything that requires logging or any form of compaction or garbage collection is wasted work. It's completely unnecessary, and that has nothing to do with NVM. Treating NVM DB design as if it's an entirely new and different animal is frankly ignorant. The right design works in all scenarios - as LMDB does.
The funny thing is that your "disturbing trend" has been the status quo for a long time and not far from a more efficient version of the Communist despotism you fear.

Also, your statement that the "democratized political environment is far from perfect" was the understatement of the century.
Linux has evolved a lot. Some years ago it was very likely for you to have to recompile the kernel to get your box running... I haven't been in that scenario lately (using Ubuntu).

Then, some distros/desktop environments are even friendlier than Windows itself. elementary OS for instance, is very minimalistic and simple.

So I have to disagree with you.
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Why “cool” offices don't always make a happier workforce
The Future of Go Summit, Including Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo
In general I do agree that it's hard to have good laptop/linux developer experience. Chromebooks are usually not very strong machines however I've seen people working this way on Pixels.

Heard lot of good about using better laptop with this https://www.neverware.com/ - still it's unclear how reliable it's
You don't consider that your position of authority affected a different dynamic than if you were a lower ranked individual contributor?

> As a side note, this workplace was comprised of mostly men and women under the age of 35 with quite a few right out of college.

I'm not sure how this is relevant. One might as easily conclude that these folks don't know any better due to youth and inexperience as that "it's just a different age and culture."
In fairness, while I agree with your second paragraph, Virtu's example is a very neat case study for the limited dialectic purpose of demonstrating trading consistency, not necessarily profits. I have found that using profits for this particular debate isn't convincing for others, even if it shows a fuller picture; the actual win rate for trades is a simple and quantifiable point to refute comparisons to e.g. coin flipping because it shows that they are capable of doing something over and over in a market that is claimed to be resistant to such a thing.
Yea, someone tried doing this whole 'sextortion' thing to me on FB.

I laughed at them. I used to work in porn, you think you're showing people something they haven't seen (let alone probably want to see again since I 'retired' [AKA got married?])

Sad that shameless people such as myself seem to be immune to this kind of thing. Perhaps everyone should have a career in porn just to eliminate this issue.

Give me a break.
My work to/from work is 25 minutes. I have a habit of walking rather fast but noticed I often get worked up about some issue that's neither urgent nor very important. Only when I force myself to walk at more leisurely pace I find it refreshing.
I had been hearing about Plex for a while and when I bought a Seagate Personal Cloud drive, I decided to give it a try.

I like it. I have moved a lot of media to it and I can watch it all at my convenience from multiple devices or computers in my house.

I have young children and after they destroyed several of the kid-movie DVDs I gave them, this was a godsend.
South Dakota Becomes First State with Online Pardon Application
A Lesson in Timing Attacks (2009)
Right? It doesn't seem like too much to ask for.
Disappointed. This article is basically just tables of contents. No critical appraisal. No indication that the books were actually read or learned from.

Edit: for example, the "texas ranges" pun from LYAH is taken literally and presented as if Haskell has such a thing.
I properly cash in on my time spent learning Linux when I was younger.

My free time is worth a lot now ;)
While that's true, I and many other people on here aren't qualified to decide which are compelling. Since you seem to be purporting to have those qualifications, why not link to a few notable studies, or an applicable literature review, instead of saying "search for this".
How to Setup HTTPS Locally Without Getting Annoying Browser Privacy Errors
You cannot write a good database without a solid understanding of operating systems and computer architecture.
> Find a court that never upholds patents, incorporate in the local town, and infringe everyone's patents with relative safety.

Yes, or -you know- incorporate in another country.
Man Buys Two Metric Tons of Lego Bricks; Sorts Them via Machine Learning
Heh. I had a former cow-orker who hated by Topre board. I told him if he'd (a) keep his computer volume off and (b) not hold impromptu, non-work meetings as his desk at bar-volumes, I'd try to use a crappy board for him.

He was offended. I kept my board.

Again, the root problem is the veal-fattening pens.