skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's response (English):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/24/c_136311925.htm
"my" parents?

"my" employer?

"my" spouse?

"my" country?
A wormable code-execution bug has lurked in Samba for 7 years
The hockey stick graph was a lie and a fraud -- there never was any such thing.

Moreover, as in

Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the
Last 2,000 Years, National Research Council,
Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last
2,000 Years,
ISBN 0-309-66264-8, 196 pages, National Academies Press,
2006.

the temperature in year 2006 was essentially exactly the same as in the year 1000 before any role for CO2.

Moreover, also from that report,
the increases from the 100 years before 2006 were essentially exactly the same as in the 100 years before year 1000. So, the increases in the last 100 years or so are not unusual and not necessarily from CO2 -- there can be other causes. Nearly year 1000, there really were other causes.

Moreover, we've been pulling out of the Little Ice Age since the late 1800s or so. We were deep into the Little Ice Age when Washington crossed the Delaware and when Napoleon returned from Moscow, and NOT from lower CO2.

The real hockey stick curves were from climate models that made predictions of hockey stick increases that have all been proven wildly wrong by now -- only a tiny fraction of the models made accurate predictions, that temperature would stay essentially the same. The graphs are at, say,

http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc1.jpg

Again, yet again, once again, over again, one more time, in the whole 800,000 years of the Antarctic ice core studies, there were lots of significant temperature changes but not once was significantly lower temperature closely preceded by significantly lower CO2, and the case for higher temperatures is nearly the same.

So, there are other causes -- CO2 can't be the only cause.

Moreover, the evidence that CO2 is increasing temperature now is junk -- temperature hasn't changed significantly in about 20 years while CO2 concentrations have increased.

Again, It's not getting warmer now. It's not particularly warm now and was significantly warmer often enough in the past. CO2 is from not a cause at all or at most only a minor one -- the main causes are elsewhere. For the last 800,000 years, the good evidence is sun spot activity -- good luck trying to stop or change that!
This is precisely what is happening in Somalia (as noted in the article), although in the inverse: the value of the money fluctuates (down) with the cost of production.
Dr. Doll is amazing. 13/10.
You most likely work for a company that hasn't yet been overrun by the corporate world's version of "career politicians" who are there to leech a paycheck at all costs.

They often blame others while finding very sneaky and specific ways to, despite all odds, rise to a relatively insulated level without any modicum of technical or managerial prowess

congrats!!!
You asked a .Net dev for a solution and he specced you one...
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>They are using React as a replacement for something like Jquery or Angular

How about the fact that it is just flat-out superior? Do you really disregard the tool entirely simply because there are alternatives? React is amazing. I am guessing you don't think much of front-end development?

>They see typical Facebook users as consumers

Who is "they"? Every single person at Facebook? I think you are painting with a broad brush. People work at businesses; they don't follow the party line of said business.

>I wish more programmers would just admit they are supremacists

What is your point? That people who have written enough code that they are capable of developing software think they are more knowledgeable about software than people who haven't written enough code to be capable of developing software?

What about this makes a software engineer a supremacist vs. a mechanic, a scientist, a mechanical engineer, a ....
It becomes false when you remove the "discretionary" from the label and just call it Federal Spending. And the the labels aren't that useful anyway. Mandatory spending isn't mandatory, it is just pre-programmed. One the main reasons we are in debt is that the only place that there has been any focus on cuts is the discretionary side. And if you make across the board cuts in discretionary spending as happened with the Obama budget deal, that pie chart doesn't change because there is no visualization of it shrinking versus the other 50%+ of spending. Defense spending had been shrinking for the last 5 years as a percentage of GDP.
You're right. The gaming opportunity for Nvidia is groing to at most grow at a ~20% CAGR through 2022, and this is largely being driven by the international markets. The US gaming GPU market is only growing at low-single-digits for the foreseeable future. The autonomous driving and datacenter opportunity are a completely different story. The datacenter business is already growing at >100% y/y and this market has only just started to kick off about 6-9 months ago. How big it will be in 5 or 10 years is still up in the air, but it looks like it will be massive.
The auto opportunity hasn't picked up yet but it's becoming increasingly clear GPUs will play an integral role in any level 4 or level 5 ADAS vehicle. Both of these markets were a completely neglible portion of the NVDA's story just two years ago.

Today, with the stock up more than 250% in the last 18mo., the implied market size (and market share) estimates in the stock are already pretty ambitious. In my opinion, they're not too ambitious, but the question now becomes, when will it become clear that they are conservative? What will it take? SoftBank has a long time horizon, they're comfortable waiting for when this happens, whether it's in 4 quarters if datacenter growth grows from even these remarkable levels or in 4 years when the autonomous driving market with be beginning to take shape...
like CNN, you don't get to define fake news. Fake news is as simple as it sounds: articles that are factually incorrect. Sadly, from random images to all major media, everyone is guilty of it.
Targeting a higher API should still allow you to install on lower version at least that's my understanding of API targeting (not an Android dev so might be wrong).
So basically say anything you think will give the right impression, not what you really believe. SAD
> It requires effort to figure out what exactly will happen: Even as experienced Clojure programmer I haven’t developed a skill to parse such structures easily.

No offence at all intended to the author, but you're not an experienced programmer if you can't work out what (comp str/capitalize str/trim) means immediately. It's extraordinarily simple.

This is basic functional programming.

>The star was chosen because it resembles C/C++ pointers.

Argahhhh plz don't do this. * is for special variables in Lisp.

>Use two empty lines between top-level forms

Please only do this if the things you are separating with two lines contain things you separate with one line.

Don't separate defns with two lines. Those double-spaced functions are just awful.
Startups are draft picks. Existing companies are free agents. Both can pan out, both can be busts. Draft picks can be first round draft picks or fourth round draft picks. Free agents can be expensive or cheap. It is what it is.
What? Do you think every single developer is some noble professional only focused on the project?

15 years with software dev experience and every single dev team at midsize and larger companies has always asked for far more time than necessary. Same with almost all enterprise consultants.
I disagree. Under 18 U.S.C.A. § 2384 I think people have been prosecuted and will continue to be when they speak out against the government and advocate for its overthrow. Whether violent or not, sedition is illegal, and if you make too much notice I believe you will be prosecuted.
Sounds like something a guy could make some money printing with a 3D printer.
Reality Check:What Does, and Doesn’t, Protect Your Smartphone-The New York Times
Get to work. If you don't know what to do, listen to someone who does and try to figure out if it makes sense #for you#. Figure out means integration, testing, exploration, reflection, then, reflectipn.
Good rule of thumb if you're an individual investor. If you're China, well...
Nothing protects you from a government that is willing to imprison and torture you and your family, friends and associates. But in Silk Roads case, they had a murder for hire plot, knew the defendants had bitcoin, and the defendants were willing to bargain to reduce sentences.

If you are a businessman in Venezuela, it's unlikely the local corrupt politicians will know you have bitcoin. They can search your properties and find cash, bullion, etc, but they should never be able to find your bitcoin. If you travel or leave the country you dont need to hide it on your person to get away.

Once out of the country you can easily turn it into cash and other assets. You can easily return and rinse/repeat.
Probably this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326726

The linked article headline "Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power: Build more reactors now!"
Speaking of WebAssembly and games, has anyone tried building their Unity projects in WebGL and exporting in Web Assembly? I hear they have that feature in the latest 5.6 version
Peloton raises 325M at 1.25B valuation
Assume a family and a couple of kids, health care, child care, and transportation and according to this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-expensive-is-san-francisc...

You're already at 91,000 for basic expenses.

That puts 200k right around the mark for a livable wage and 300k pretty comfortable (and also at the high end of a senior dev wage by a fair margin).
Android applications take 2 SDK versions into account:
'target SDK' and 'minimum sdk'. The target value allows you to use APIs up to that version but also uses that version's toolchain, thereby enforcing any behavior changes or new requirements (in a backwards compatible fashion). Minimum SDK is just that: the absolute lowest Android version the app will run on.

A brand new blank slate app will be configured with a target SDK of 25 (latest Nougat) and a minimum SDK of 14 (Ice Cream Sandwich iirc). This means it will run on ancient devices but also be able to use the latest Nougat APIs (when available.) However, because it is targeting 23+ (6.0), it will force you to use runtime permission prompts and stuff.
Has he confessed to the fraud?
>The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission estimates that by April 2010, of all mortgage-backed securities Moody's had rated triple-A in 2006, 73% were downgraded to junk.

Anything Moody's says must be taken into context given their history of taking money to lie to and cheat investors. Their executives should have gone to prison and the company should have been liquidated a long timo ago.
Out of curiosity, does anyone here use tig[1]? I've been wondering if it's worth learning.

[1] https://jonas.github.io/tig/
firefox has media.autoplay.enabled and media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground flags in about:config
> Science a huge pr problem, one so bad you might as well say science is broken.

Science has a huge PR problem in that it is FAR less funded than the people with money and power whom it sometimes comes into conflict with.
Hunting down one of the “Two Hard Things” lol
So, if you don't want to discuss the dev's reputation, why did you go so deep down this particular sub-thread?

Is this you, Kapeli?
Check Freeter. https://freeter.io
Your comment goes pretty hard against the popular opinion of what happened. It would be good if you could explain your reasoning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV32Cs_CMqo Unreal Engine 3 (may 2nd release vid) very cool! Can I use WebASM to do amazing music visualizations?
If it was random, you'd be right, But that image wasn't arbitrary, it was deliberately misleading and created to generate hype/outrage, and the numbers in it now come up as fact. It would be like taking a particular 5 year snapshot of temperatures that were declining, graphing it and labeling it "Climate Change Debunked."

I'm open to it being in some other category of fake, but then we need a label for it.
Not the potatoes but they can search and find gold and cash easily. They can't search your iphone unless you give them the code, and even then you don't have to store your BTC on your own device, you can easily store it in an encrypted server out of the country.

Customs can easily catch you smuggling cash, gold and potatoes, but they have no idea you are leaving to cash out your bitcoin in another country.
It sounds more like a parable, not an actual story.

The point is that if enough people make prediction, some of them will right over and over and over - even though it's all random.
> They can't realistically move, or revolt

Some can. Those are the ones who matter. No man rules alone--political leaders are only powerful insomuch as they can incentives or coërce others to act for them. A ruling class whose living standards is falling is a ruling class more willing to entertain other leaders.

"Certain types of unemployment are likely to be perceived as more politically costly than others - e.g. because returning to family farms acts as a kind of safety valve, even though a significant fall in living standards, unemployment among migrant workers is likely to be less costly, or because university graduates are presumably more communicative and have higher expectations, their unemployment might be more costly" [1].

[1] http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/66221
I agree that food is pretty darn close to having a constant, stable value to all humans.

However, the edge cases aren't imaginary, and they give us a chance to refine our ideas.

Say there is a huge harvest and a town now has much more food than it can eat. A food merchant passes through the town and wants to sell some of his goods, however obviously no one is interested. Has the merchant's food lost its intrinsic value? Why doesn't anyone want it?

We can also consider the vastly different food preferences found all over the world. And so on...

Being a bit pedantic, food isn't really a specific thing, it's an amorphous category. It's literally defined as "anything people eat that provides nutrition", so it almost feels tautological to say that food has intrinsic value.

Finally, almost any other concrete, specific example I can think is much less universal than "food".
I had an Amiga 1000 and loved it. That said, a lot of the things we thought were so epic about it were just smoke and mirrors. The iconic bouncing ball demo, for example, was made to spin by switching the color palette and made to move by changing the address of the video buffer in memory. The same elegant system couldn't have extended to something as simple as a second ball on a different trajectory or rotating at a different speed. A modern computer, on the other hand, could render 1000 of those balls and grab coffee between frames. It's hard to imagine what you could throw together on some breadboards in your garage that would be streets ahead of the mid-range PC you're lamenting.
As an aside: I've been waiting for Libertarians to declare Somalia to be heaven on earth. I wonder why they've never picked up on the obvious real-world example of a nation with no central state government with a monopoly on violence?
Thanks! I appreciate it. CSS is my favorite!
Not sure if you are trying to be sarcastic, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...
If the central bank is buying counterfeits with the new currency, won't that encourage the creation of more counterfeits just so they can be exchanged?
The original railway station master was Tama, who ran Kishi Station for eight years with her assistants Miiko (her mother) and Chibi (her sister).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat)

Before passing on a couple of years ago, Tama trained Nitama to perform her duties, so the station remains in good paws.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/japan/ar...
Can we ever get away from the misnomer of "prototype-based OO"?

In Self we have two ways of specialization:

1. Prototypes
2. Parents

Prototypes are objects that are "cloned" to create instances, a very simple and direct notion of inheritance. We create an object (a "prototype") with properties that apply to a larger set of objects, and then for each instance we copy (clone) it and then add or modify properties as necessary for the instance. Self had optimizations to deal with this so instances did not end up being very fat.

Parents are objects that other objects "inherit from". At run-time property lookups are delegated to a parent. The difference between a parent and a prototype is that changes to the prototype do NOT affect the derived instances. Changes to a parent DO affect the derived instances.

So, when I read about "class-based" versus "prototype-based" languages, I cringe. It is really "class-based" versus "parent-based". How did cloning get confused with run-time delegation?

Self introduced the notion of self-describing instances. That is the essential coolness. The simplifying notion.

http://www.selflanguage.org/_static/published/self-power.pdf
Given that this guy benefits financially from investor sentiment, I would take his advice with a very large grain of salt.
I've recommended to plenty of people that they read "Principles of Macroeconomics" by Greg Mankiw, but weirdly enough no one has. Maybe I just didn't urge urge urge them enough?

Actually, if you believe economics hasn't changed since the 18th century you really should read it. Who knows, maybe you'll even reevaluate your understanding of economics.
They likely do a huge amount of data analytics.
> The central banks, obviously. Many of them not being beholden to a nation but to private individuals.

Example? The largest countries' central banks are accountable to their governments.
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I believe this was actually the plot of an episode of the kids educational show "MathNet"* in the early 90's. I've often wondered if people just do this over email now, but automated. And why write to just 512 people about who's going to win tonight's football game, when you can have your script write to 1,048,576? Or does this happen?

* Actually a show within the actual show "Square One TV"
Tangentially, I've been trying to identify a font. I have a small example as a jpeg image. I tried https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ without finding an exact match. Are there other good resources for doing this?
I believe Amazon is more robust if your website gets hit by a lot of traffic.
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Matterport makes a 3D camera and web platform that allow users to easily capture and display 3D models of physical spaces. Check out some example spaces in our gallery: https://matterport.com/gallery

The Backend Engineering Team works on our Platform and APIs. The stack is Django/Python/Postgres on AWS, and Fastly as a CDN. We're a small team right now, at 4 engineers who mostly do Django and 3 who mostly do infrastructure and developer tools.

We're hiring more in this area because we're starting to get some very interesting scaling challenges:
- We host over 500,000 highly detailed 3D models of real places captured by our cameras, amounting to over 500TB of data.
- We serve over 15 million 3D views every month, which amounts to over 7 billion requests and 300TB of data.

Our APIs are used by all parts of the company: 3D data gets uploaded from our cameras, processed by our vision pipeline in C++, Python, and TensorFlow, and consumed by our Javascript/WebGL and VR applications. The Backend team makes new additions to the API constantly, and works to ensure the APIs are secure, scale well, and are well tested.

Read more here: https://jobs.lever.co/matterport/5aeef2b8-c9da-4959-bfd7-66d...
You're right that companies diversify into other asset classes, but cash is still a major asset class and that risk needs to be managed.

In contrast, Apple and Qualcomm sell product all over the globe and are currency diversified by default. Softbank revenue on the other hand is overwhelmingly in yen, hence the vast diversification into foreign companies. Since they don't export much they also miss out on higher margins internationally if the yen were to fall.

Also, the BOJ's negative rate policy allows SoftBank to raise cash cheaply with uncommonly low yield A-rated bonds, effectively subsidizing their foreign buying spree.
How do you know it was more time than necessary? Did you give them the time they asked for and notice at the end of the project people were sitting around bored?

Or did you not give them the time they asked for and declare yourself correct after squeezing in a deadline? And if so how do you know what corners were cut or what technical debt was accrued to make a deadline the team did not sign off on?

Whether every single person is noble is irrelevant. People are making broad generalizations here against the reputation of developers with what I see to be weak and anecdotal evidence.

If someone has made serious inquiry into the subject and controlled for complexities like I suggested above then by all means let the chips where they may.
The average US citizen should say the US citizen holds much of the US debt. Since they do. About 70% is domestic, and 7% is owned by China.

The Chinese are in a similar boat. About 60% of their debt is domestic. Their inflating debt, however, is in part what is driving the gap between the two, and they are ramping up foreign debt faster as a result.
This looks like another way of sharing stuff that big companies don't want you to share. I seem to recall this story not ending well in the past. And AGPL? - such an unappealing license - it's the license for open source extremists.
It makes things tricky if you want to opensource just one of your projects.
So here's another way to do this for free

Turn on multiple desktops

Put all the windows from one project on this desktop

Leave all these windows open when you decide to stop working on the project and switch to another desktop

Maybe put a unique, project-appropriate image on each desktop

Price: free

I guess it breaks if some projects require using apps that don't play well with your CPU or network or something? Maybe?
Oh I see, GPL v3, but the OP has accepted pull requests and makes no mention of copyright assignment, so the source of Apple App Store version also under GLP v3, so OP is also violating the GPL?
You probably haven't looked that hard. Somalia case studies are ubiquitous in libertarian (anarchist-leaning) circles. The general claim seems to be that, yeah, stateless Somalia is way worse than high-functioning governments like the United States, but better than its neighbor states and better than it was before it became stateless.

Leeson's article is probably the best on the topic:

http://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf
On my ops team, we've gotten some flak for not building robust enough of a request queue for some tasks. But it's been down several hours in the past year. The server almost never needs maintenance. None of the workload is real-time. App restarts are acceptable if memory leaks occur.

If we did everything by the enterprise book, we'd still be 70% of the way to a deployed product, instead of 15 months into its completion.

Sure. Except if this Ops team is like most Ops teams, they'd prefer to do it the (cue dark, brooding orchestral dum-dum-dum musical interlude) 'enterprise' way rather than be woken up by PagerDuty in the middle of the night because a new release push lead to the CPU spiking.

Sorry, but I've almost never seen situations where people have skimped on HA and someone else didn't get excoriated during an outage.

Maybe other people's experiences are different, but as a DevOps guy, even in a relatively new environment, my priority is stability. Not faith-based-computing based on someone's positive seat-of-their-pants past experience.
Turn on multiple desktops. One project per desktop. Command-arrow between desktops.