skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand why you think that. TypeScript explicitly prefers real world usability to theoretical soundness, so if the community is vocal about the need for these features, I don't see why TS would turn them down.
Multiple Linux distros fix Sudo vulnerability
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she promotes women as leaders, props for that

damn $900K a week... what does one do with such income hahaha cries

edit: damn I take it back, I was thinking of Facebook's COO sorry
Aside: screw Forbes. Between the pre-load ad screen and the autolay ad video (which for some reason I couldn't even close), their site is downright unusable.
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Even Microsoft skips ME nowadays.
Because this is too much of a difference, and these usually lead to happenings like 1793 France. It's not my saying, it's what history is indicating.
Yeah, you're correct. Though it doesn't change that it's a deceptively named variable -- you have to read the runtime docs carefully to realise that it only refers to the number of threads concurrently executing Go code.
it would be great if you could improve the design of the language to prevent common mistakes from happening in the first place.
A simple explanation of Bitcoin “Sidechains”
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Expressive C++ Template Metaprogramming
Very cool.

That said, one of the best things about Omni (and similar) was the surprise of each issue coming in the mail (or picking it up on a news stand). Such (multi-nationals) experiences define a brand, and etch themselves into the human memory (and heart).
>I know this is going to sound bitter but I could have trained a monkey to do her job..

You could have. But you could never have made the monkey make it to the interview...
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Criticisms of existing unions might be valid, but you seem to be attacking the very concept.

Most of us are forced to sell our labour or starve. Therefore the labour market can not be a free and fair market. Having unions and collective bargaining makes it a more efficient and fair market.

Otherwise, unless you are one of very few workers (who are over-represented on HN) that have considerable power in the job market, you will get shafted.
I don't think on average anyone else would have made better acquisitions. Sure in hindsight we can say other acquisitions would have been better, but I don't think anyone else hireable would have done better than MM other than through chance.

Having said this I think Zuckerberg is massively undervalued as a CEO.
Sorry, but that sounds horrible.
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Please link to some information.
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I mean for me that was BSD. On the other hand my concept of straightforward install is messing around with config files and running a command.
Celulares e tablets podem prejudicar a habilidade das crianças de se comunicarem
why does it need to be even a question whether she was overpaid. these ceos always are. in this case even more, because they paid for a big name. names dont produce results, but they cost a lot of money all the same.
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> current blockchain platforms rely on digital signatures, which are vulnerable to attacks by means of quantum computers

There are many digital signature schemes (such as SIDH, New Hope, Lamport+Merkle, SPHINCS, etc) which are not vulnerable to any important quantum attacks.
Nvidia CEO Says Moore’s Law Is Dead
the salary is absurd for any outcome. anyone getting paid that much is irresponsible, as is anyone paying then.
Ask HN: When you charge for support, what are you charging for?
I'm curious as to what companies really pay for (with Open Source Software) when they pay for support. What's the actual service you are providing?
> real world usability to theoretical soundness

The soundness we are talking about in this case isn't theoretical at all and in fact such an argument is anti-intellectual. This is anti-intellectualism.

As for the "community", we are talking about one where the majority has never worked in sane static languages.
PG and company managed to bankroll 100's of startups with that kind of cash. And probably much less, considering that that was the whole take of the sale of Viaweb and I'm sure they didn't invest all they made with that sale into YC.
Did anyone else get a Dolores Umbridge vibe from that first photo? I'm not saying she's like that but I could not help thinking it.

EDIT: "Marissa Mayer says working 130 hours per week is what created Google." Maybe not a coincidental impression.
Yes, it is really a valid claim. It's not even "un-enforceable," it's just "difficult to discover."

Murdering someone and getting away clean doesn't make murder legal.

Largely because, as an extension of the fact that we're discussing the real world and not a fantasy (https://xkcd.com/538/), everything is eventually discover-able, and if you give the government sufficient incentive, they will discover it.
I would expect it's partly because coal royalties paid to the state government for every tonne they dig up keep underpin the state government budgets.
So, Where Are All Those Robots?
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Someone said this and it feels correct: it is not a bad language, but it is also not a good language.

> Google & adoption

I think it helped get around the initial cycle of drawing in the curious. An argument counter to claims regarding the importance of the people involved would point out Plan9 etc. that are hardly widely known, much less adopted.

In sum, I think the role of Google in one becoming a Go programmer depends entirely on when it happened. Today, of course Go has its own brand name. 8 years ago, it was Google that eased the debutante phase of the language.
US FCC Ajit Pai, draft NOI on ways to facilitate greater consumer choice of ISPs [pdf]
Pausing and then quickly unpausing AdBlock when the page starts to load is a workaround.
~350K / year afaihdp.

Consultants can and do make (much) more on a weekly or monthly basis but they rarely have their dance cards fully booked, so then you have to discount the weekly rate by how much down time there is.
My workplace has eliminated e-mail and is asking clients to fax instead
I can't answer for anyone else but I can say with pretty good confidence that Yahoo! would not exist today if they put me in charge. I would fling poop left and right the moment I discovered the back door. I wouldn't have gave two poops about shareholder value. I am sure "they" would have found something sketchy about my past life that is worthy of at least ten life sentences and I would be sent away for good.

I was already a little skeptical by the time Y! bought tumblr but I think the effort was there. I saw bringing in Katie Couric and David Pogue as a way to ease older people to watching "live TV" on Y!. I still don't think there was any fault with the vision. It might just be that the execution was a few years too early or bit too ambitious? I mean getting younger audiences to watch the news is not easy and getting majority of the "old" people to go from lean back to lean forward isn't easy either. It feels like a gamble and I still believe it succeeded in a parallel universe.
I know right, I can't understand how we still place so much importance on the character sitting in the CEO's chair and not the people actually working on the products.

I suppose not all companies do that. It's sad about Yahoo, my first email address was Yahoo, signed up around 1998. I still have it and use it.
Whistleblower Snowden warns of looming mass surveillance in Japan
Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.1 released (ECM)
> entities that maintain strong anonymity

An impossible task for the vast majority of people. Especially since bitcoin is not anonymous.
CERN fast-tracks plan to develop three time bigger particle collider
Apache Fineract 1.0.0 released – core banking as a platform
Is it really hard to believe that MM knew about the Alibaba stake, calculated that Yahoo was beyond saving, waited some time and cashed out?

Is it possible that the Loeb told her this and they made a deal?

He needs a star performer and she probably has met a dead end in Google.

It's a win-win for them, not so much for Yahoo employees.
Instantly rechargeable battery could change the future of electric automobiles
Company with $50B market cap is searching for a new CEO. There are two candidates. A is asking $50 million per year, B is asking $25 million per year. How much more should A increase ROI% to justify his/her higher paycheck?
The French revolution? That really doesn't apply here.

You can't just compare 1 salary against another - this job comes with responsibility for thousands of employees with large risk and control factors which are mirrored in the pay. It's also not done in isolation as the shareholders and board have to agree that this is a valid amount.
Summary: Mayer earned $240 million for pushing Yahoo further into decline, while a Yahoo investment that predated her skyrocketed, tripling Yahoo's stock price during her tenure (despite her destructive impact).
handmade hero series of videos might be your best bet. prepare to put in a lot of time!
Something must be done to rein in executive pay though. I am not talking about MM in particular. She is probably a fine executive. However, my point is that unchecked executive pay is not good for anyone. We don't live in a free market. There ought to be some way to cap pay.

A progressive income tax that caps out at 90% of income above $3M a year? So if you make $3,000,001, you pay 90 cents in taxes on the last dollar you earned sounds fair to me.
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I didn't say that the problems are because of the registry. I just hate the registry because it's a really bad, unusable way to configure the systems and turns into a mess and tightly binds everything together when it should all be loosely coupled. The INI file was a much better solution for configuring things.
You are misunderstanding what I said.

Either one of the 2 issues I linked would fix the specific problems you outlined. You don't need a globally sound type system, H-M inference, or anything like that to fix those specific problems; local inference and opt-in nominal typing would work just as well.

Having used TS daily for a few years, I can vouch that your cases are pathological, and don't come up in practice often, if at all.
Can you tell me what exactly is their product?
Do you believe that this lawsuit will be based on what you are already selling or for what you are researching with the R&D money? Personally I wouldn't worry about it until the papers show up. But in the meantime I would sell like crazy to stockpile cash. Plus selling like crazy is never a bad thing :-)
Yea, it's baffling that the abstract doesn't mention post-quantum crypto and make some sort of argument that it's somehow not vastly easier to implement.
It's like SystemD for Windows.
I think we live in a democracy, and the people set the rules. If we the people say that large cash transactions get preemptively intercepted that's ok, because the people are sovereign.
JSON is UTF-8 by definition, so at best you'd be using a format that looked similar.
Inside Grado Labs: A legacy of hand built headphones
More than half of the US live in big cities, a number which is only going to get bigger. The 20 largest MSAs account for about a third of the population of our country. Getting a comparatively small number of mayors, governors, and state legislatures on board could go a long way towards reducing our carbon emissions, even as Washington aimlessly spins its wheels for another administration or three.
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Secret Life of Machines – The Fax Machine (1993) [video]
Nice summary, a couple of minor corrections.
* SQRL is not a 2FA, it's a better 1st factor
I'm not a vegetarian, but sometimes I feel pretty un-evolved walking around dressed in animal hides!

There are so many uses for polymer foam, I think this has amazing potential. Maybe it doesn't work out in energy terms, but it is a great idea to try
Seen elsewhere:

* Them: You'll have to send a fax

* Us: We can't send a fax from where we are.

* Them: Where are you?

* Us: The twenty-first century.
> You can't just compare 1 salary against another

Yes, you can.
He got a point, I'm following this topic closely as I believe it will shape future trends.

He is also talking his book. Nvidia is providing specialized silicon. Everyone is now looking to exploit chip architectures that until now either were more expensive than simple scaling and thus ignored so far and/or require large number of transistors.
If you are interested in new alt coins I would suggest that you may want to look into Decent https://decent.ch . It is a content distributing network with very good substantive potential, IMO. It is scheduled to be released in the next month or two.
Also check out the Graphics Gems series.
Better Javascript than .Net
That must be due to Vista being so late, all the oems had barely any lead time to get on board with it. Whereas by 7 rolled around it was old news.
I like it a lot. I declined the free upgrade offer. Why take the risk?
It may be stupid but that syntax makes me feel a little uneasy. The unmatched single quotes reminds me of TemplateHaskell.
I don't think focusing on Mayer is helpful. It is one of the more egregious cases but it shows just how badly c-level compensation, accountability and agency is broken.

It also shows how some economic theories that sound good don't remotely work in the real world. And sometimes economic theories are designed to sound good.

There are real world consequences of skyrocketing executive pay disconnected from performance and accountability. Bad or short term strategies can result in losses of thousands of qualified and experienced people, plummeting productivity and revenue, mid and long term setbacks and serious harm to future prospects. Golden parachutes usually mean no consequence to the implementing c-level teams. They usually end up easily soft landing at a consultancy or another gig.

Carly Fiorina and Stephen Elop come to mind. Robert Nardelli and Home Depot also come to mind. You can't be hand waving around this for 2 decades counting.
ponzi scheme is not to be taken literally. people say it because the people creating currencies benefit at the expense of everyone else, without offering much in return. i know more or less how it works and that is why i say this. the founders of bitcoin have huge stocks of bitcoins, artificially restricting the bitcoin supply to keep the price up. however if that was not the case the supply of bitcoin would be more or less fixed as it gets harder and harder to mine. also there is nothing of value behind a bitcoin, just people's belief it will stay valuable. because of the inherent impossibility to adjust the supply of bitc depending on demand, it cannot ever function as a currency, because its value cant be adjusted for demand. when demand lessens, as is inevitable, investors will lose their money and the major beneficaries will be those who created bitcoin and sold it for dollars.

the only real value it currently offers, is it allows people to dodge tax and launder money. it also enables the criminal economy, with things like drug-ecommerce when the government does not approve (im all for legalisation, btw). so it undermines goverment authority and enables criminality.

i get that i get downvoted because people here believe strongly in privacy and tend to dislike their governments. but i don't. you have to think about how much of your life depends on government authority in order to understand the danger anything that undermines it poses.
Hmm, this is worrying. Certainly makes it less appealing to move to the US any time soon.

Though I also wonder whether you can avoid this by simply having two accounts, one with a fake name and details that the controversial stuff goes on and one with your real name that's mostly squeaky clean. How much do they research this stuff?
>Didn't Wozniak give out stock to people he felt bad for?

Yes. And I think, as opposed to Jobs, his legacy will be rewarded.
Your comment reminds me of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/12/ratio-tec...

Is it the nature of network effects that drives this somewhat characteristic industry dynamic?
What is really worrying though is the normalization of privacy devaluation. Soon the uk will follow suite and then others. And sooner than later we ll be "back" to 1984
I recognised the dog kennel one! Anyone had success with that it sounded like a gooden.
Swift's Evolution
> The author belies the libertarian quirk of mind that conflates something being regulated with something being made illegal. Quite different things!

You're understating how blurred the line is. A Texas regulation on abortion clinics was struck down last year for being too close to a ban on abortion. Regulations on tobacco products are introduced and strengthened over time with the goal of eliminating the use of tobacco. Gun control lobbyists commonly push regulations on gun form factors, bullets, magazine bans, and all sorts of other things since a ban on handguns has been consistently ruled unconstitutional.
The US destined travel is down since October and the trend downwards is consistent. Square who should have fairly up-to-date stats recently published their stats: https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/coming-to-america-52831...

At one point these trends will be impacting main street but by then it will be too late.
>I would fling poop left and right

Username checks out :)
France takes a lead in ensuring Net Neutrality
We added this section for the write-ups. We want to be able to republish write-ups and their code if we want.
iamroot
Maybe it depends on your experience / field?

I don't do C++ or games programming generally so for me it was amazing. I'd actually go so far as to say it's one of my favourite technical books of all time.

The style is great and I went away with lots to think about.

So for anyone that's thinking of giving it a miss based on my parents comment - I'd recommend you read it yourself (it's free) to make your own judgement.
Oh I think there have been terrible injustices, and appeal ought to be easy and swift. There are injustices everywhere in law enforcement; innocent people get killed in the US by police because of the policy of carrying guns, combined with rules of engagement covering their use that minimize discretion. But that doesn't mean I'd advocate disarming police in the US, not without a lot of other changes too.

The point I'm making is that you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. There are tradeoffs in public policy, and organized crime is a particularly tough omelette to fry. I'm OK with targeting their binding protein, their assets, with a reduced presumption of innocence, because I think it's works. I'm thinking of the Criminal Assets Bureau in Ireland in particular.

http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=28
Third HEVC Patent Pool Launches with Ericsson, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp and Sony
Do you think tax is robbery too?

The people are sovereign in a democracy. That's how it works.
Martin already replied, but to provide a bit more detail, the benchmark results published at: https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/benchmarks

are generated using GCP, AWS, and an NVidia DGX-1, all using exactly the capabilities any ordinary user has on those platforms. The K80 distributed training results are AWS.

There's also a very useful set of suggestions for how to tune TensorFlow for best performance both, and scripts that repeat the benchmarking results: https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/

I see that since my comment, Microsoft has updated the claims in the cited page. It's still not true that there are two versions, but I'm glad you're trying to provide more detail. I'd like to stick a big [citation needed] on the claim that the internal version is much faster.

At the time Mu Li did his performance analysis of MXnet vs Tensorflow, we hypothesized that gRPC overhead was one of the reasons that MXnet was showing better scaling numbers than TF. That turns out to not have been very correct - there were several things that the TF team identified that closed the scalability gap to a pretty narrow degree around the 1.0 release. I don't feel confident that gRPC is much of an impediment to scalability. (I'm also not saying that it isn't -- just that I don't think there's a lot of evidence one way or another).

I'd love it if the CNTK team or someone else were to publish high-quality, head-to-head scalability numbers using the best practices and scripts identified in the TensorFlow performance guide, and using the equivalent CNTK best practices. It benefits everyone when Microsoft and Google work hard to out-do each other. :) (And throw in MXNet as well, with Amazon's best guidance.)
Brad Spengler accuses KSPP of plagiarism (again)
most of these assets get you something. like (parts of) voting rights in a company. or the ability to sell those rights at a fixed price at some fixed date. bitcoin just offers you the right to say 'i got 10 bitc'. if you'd say every currency is a ponzi scheme that is harder to disprove. because if space aliens invade and bring their own currency, your dollars will be worth zero. all the same real central banks have the ability to adjust money supply depending on demand. which ensures that money keeps its value as long as government does not fall. bitc is worse, because it annot insure this. because it has no central bank and its supply is more or less fixed, ensuring that once demand drops, the value of bitc drops as well.
UpWork now I think. I was working there a lot but it in total was not income to live on. It helps to have near 100% rating. My rating dropped, I had some contracts that were open for a while (didn't bother to close them) that murdered my rating... I also wonder how easy it is to game that system ie. hire a friend to hire you, and offset your score.

Still... the overall experience of bidding on jobs and possibly getting 1/20 tries not a very pleasant experience. Also I'm not an expert so... sore loser I guess.
Lying on these forms is what they WANT you to do.

That way they can have a pretext for nabbing you whenever convenient.
I assume gp meant "Linux kernel namespaces" not namespaces for the code?