skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One premise of the article is wrong. It says "As Apple Mac Continues to Grow Market Share".

In fact, Apple's Mac market share is declining:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-mac-lost-most-pc-market...
This presentation is not about Kernel thread versus green thread, it's about threads vs events. In this regards, Goroutines are as bad as threads since it requires some synchronization witchcraft (channel or locks) and the author advocates for your «second best one» (events).
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Medical diagnostics have to be held to a high standard. False negatives (the app says you're fine when you have cancer) and false positives (the app says you have cancer when you're fine) both have significant consequences.

False negative (24%) means you are not getting the treatment you need as soon as you could. Imagine people delaying a real mammogram for a few years because they have an app that says "all good!".

False positive (35%) means unneeded tests and doctors visits. This is less concerning as a bad outcome, but it does mean more stress , more expense and longer wait times to schedule a doctor visit.

This is an interesting exercise in ML, but there is little chance this app would get approval as a diagnostic tool.
I mean compared to structured file formats like JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and whatever (including binary such).

Obviously it's not harder to parse than a PDF.
Indeed, most of the things created on the Ethereum platform are just shittier versions of things that exist - while decentralization can be a huge boon to some things it needs to combat its inherent complexity increase for users. Ethereum does not lend itself well to that, as such almost everyone is there for a get-rich-quick scheme, not for the higher applications on its platform.

Wait for the hype to run out, then look at it again when it's not at a peak value.
I personally don't see it as anti-gun, but I do see it as anti-civil liberties. It is for the same reasons I oppose voter ID, or any other hoops at discouraging the opportunity to exercise the right to vote that I oppose universal background checks.

As background checks discourage the opportunity to exercise a civil right, I believe it should be viewed with the same degree of judicial scrutiny that voting should be.

An imposition of fees or taxes on the right disenfranchises the poor, just as a poll tax does. An imposition of mandatory registration or waiting periods is an imposition of delayed exercise of the right, and I believe Martin Luther King, Jr. had the right of it when he proclaimed that "A right delayed is a right denied". The imposition of any sort of vetting or background checking process seems to me to be a violation of the presumption of innocence, which in turn diminishes the effectiveness of the first and fourth amendments, and seems ripe for opening the door towards warrantless searches, stop and frisk, etc.

I personally could give two shits about guns, but because I'm a fan of the rights we're afforded as American citizens, I respect the second amendment. Failing to do so diminishes all of the other rights, as they're all subject to high-water mark interpretations of judicial scrutiny, and the lower the bar goes for bypassing scrutiny on one right, the bar is lowered for all our rights.
Good to know, though... thanks.
My eyes are bleeding from all the bureaucratic jargon. "Special Committee", "Oversight Committee", "Independent Committee" for the promotions process, checklists for alcohol consumption, human resources training, etc. I dearly hope it doesn't take this many layers of control within a company to ensure a livable atmosphere for its employees.
Cool concept, but would require a complete revamp of our sessions infrastructure....I am looking to slap something on to our codebase to check email formatting after the '@' symbol.
I'd argue that it's hard to parse because it's so open-ended. E.g. Markdown is only one example of how to structure textual data in plain-text with additional "syntax".

Imagine it wasn't decided on Markdown. E.g.: I don't use markdown when making plain-text notes. I make it all hierarchical and indent using "- ". I.e. headings are top-level, sub-headings are indented by one, and so on. Eventually, you realize that all things can be represented as just lists of nested lists. No need for some arbitrary "heading" type, just nest it all based on the concept.
Why not target verilog directly?
Chisel is just a verilog generator in the end.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14543757 and marked it off-topic.
Non-countable sets defy intuition on several ways. The silver lining is that we don't have any evidence a non-countable thing exist on the real world.

I don't think anybody even has a procedure for gathering that kind of evidence.
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This is cool but where are the metrics, examples?
What are the largest US cities by population?
https://www.continuum.io/blog/news/continuum-wins-darpa-xdat...

It was blaze and bokeh. The description of blaze given in the article is pretty out of date at this point.
It seems like every time I read something about the history of Commodore I learn about some oddball prototype that never went to market but existed in a functional form within Commodore. I'm a lifelong Commodore fan (got a 64 when I was about 8, and was a C= user until after the bitter end; I finally gave up on my Amiga a year after the company folded...I currently own a functional C64), and still had no idea about this one.

This time it's the VIC-40. I've never even heard of it, but apparently, it was a 40 column version of the VIC-20 with 16k of RAM. The C64 killed it, even though it was announced as coming soon by Commodore. Given how small Commodore was, relatively speaking (the same handful of engineers seemed to build everything), it's surprising that there were so many dead end projects. At least the VIC-40 was canned before it went to market; that would have been a colossal waste of resources.

In hindsight, it seems like the curse of Commodore was just trying to do too many things with the limited resources they had and heading down too many dead end alleys. Often it took the form of trying to capitalize on the success of their low-end lines toward the end of their useful life, rather than putting all their resources into the next generation. e.g. the C64 turned into the C64GS after better gaming systems already existed and the Amiga was five years old, the Amiga 500 effectively got a re-release as the Amiga 600 at a time when the 500 was ridiculously under-powered. Likewise CDTV crammed an Amiga 500 into a VCR box and removed all of its computer-y bits, making it a shitty computer, a mediocre game machine, and a novel but ultimately pointless pre-cursor to DVRs (it could play shitty video from CDROM, but couldn't record or otherwise do much that any ordinary desktop computer could do better at the time).

OK, rant over. When I was a kid, I used to think that "kernal" was an accidental misspelling that stuck; that seems so unlikely to me, today. It seems like it's more of an intentional in-joke. It's interesting to think that the best-selling computer in history was made by a team small enough, and a company casual enough, to let something like that slip through to production.
What the heck does "nation-state activity" means?
> hacker news has this ethic (?) of down voting anything that seen as not positive

We must not be reading the same Hacker News...

Anyway, the comment you're quoting is just a shallow jab that belittles the GNU developers' work without contributing anything new or meaningful. It's telling that you had to spend two paragraphs to justify cross-posting it here.
I know this works, but how come we can see the output of pv when it is redirected to /dev/null? Maybe I just don't understand how pipes and redirection works since I rarely use Linux :(
HR lie to multiple victims of harassment to protect the harasser. This does not happen in normal companies. This is not about the number of harassers, but systemic protecting of them.
Because a problematic upgrade could harm or brick every user it rolls out to.
What's your point with this post?
Wow, I'm surprised that this is the first funding they've ever got.

It wouldn't be a big stretch to say that 90% of quantitative hedge funds use Numpy in some fashion, whether its directly, or via a library that sits on top of it like pandas or tensorflow.

I can't think of a more ubiquitous library in the financial space, maybe QuicFix (http://www.quickfixengine.org/)...

Maybe numpy's problem is visibility?

Possibly it does its job so well that people don't know they are using it when they use library libraries like scikit learn and Pandas?
You could have said the same thing about many things that in the end resulted in a technological paradigm shift. Ethereum is only a couple of years old.
She is a rising star before joining Yahoo, and she basically turns Yahoo from a 20B company into a 5B one, and rewarded with a huge chunk of money for leaving the company.

And among all those astounding achievements, you only think people are judging her because she is a female, you must being living in a bubble.
I'm not making any claims about the absolute accuracy of the test or whether it's useful as is. I'm responding to the criticism that (1) the test is less accurate than a lab test and (2) who cares about putting it in a smart phone.

Also, FTA:

> The code will be the deliverable to iSono Health as a baseline model for further algorithm development.
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>> expensive, hard-to-source hardware engineering skills.

If only that were true.

Lots of hardware engineers have moved into software.
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Maybe because there's always the potential that a new version may contain an even bigger bombshell?
Wasn't Google funding the lead dev on NumPy for a while?
I would argue that the distribution you used to pick a random number was not uniform. Not all the real number were equaliy likely to be picked by you. Hence the probability for some numbers was > 0.
Ask HN: How to get a job when you suck at coding?
I have a strong feeling I suck at coding. I have a B.S. degree in CS from an average school in the USA.

1) I have a bunch of projects, but they're terribly boring and have ugly looking code. For example, I spent a year working on an ecommerce site. It does what it needs to do, but there were no smart decisions behind the back end. I never had to use design patterns nor data structures. I just pieced it together.

2) I have a lot of trouble with "HackerRank" style problems. I just finished one, an hour ago, called Codility. Even though I passed all the shown test cases, the final results showed that I got the following scores 13%/95%/0%. The 0% was a debugging problem that required a max of 2 line changes. I have absolutely no clue how I got a 0% there.

I've been trying to get a job anywhere, doing some programming, but all the rejections have destroyed me. Aside from the above coding problems, during interviews companies always seem to want experience in X technology. In one of my most recent final interviews, the VP grilled me about not having Python experience (I don't list it on my resume, but the job required it) and stuff I have barely any knowledge on. For instance, I said I did automated testing as part of a software engineer contract (2 months long), but it was not a job requirement so I didn't get any knowledge beyond writing simple unit tests for my personal benefit. The VP started asking me if I used stuff like path testing, error testing, and a bunch of other words I've never heard of in my life.

Is there any hope for me, or should I look elsewhere?
What are the rates of gun ownership among hackers? Conversations with old alumni from school indicate that back in the day, a lot of them were firearms enthusiasts, but it seems that trend died out near the turn of the century. I know MIT still has a rifle and pistol range, however.
I'd like to have nested projects as well. For instance I want one top-level having my talks, and then sub projects for each talk. Now I either have to clutter my repos with many small projects, or have one big repo with many folders. Which I don't like, as issues, comments, stars etc. should be directed directly to the talk, not a big project.
Other top level projects would be one for various PoCs, learning different languages, programming competitions, maybe one for stuff I did at university etc.

Same for organizations, where I work we now have hundreds of repos in a flat structure. Impossible to manage.
I wonder what they plan to use it for. Numpy kind of seems finished already.
You say this, and yet here you are, posting repeatedly on HN. :-P
I'm no expert, but I looked into this issue for my mom some years ago (had cancer on her liver) and what you're looking for specifically is Silymarin, the ingredient in Milk Thistle that actually has the protective benefits.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21466434

The issue with raw Milk Thistle supplements is that it's a lower dose of Silymarin as you're just getting the plant, you'd want "Milk Thistle Extract", which is concentrated Silymarin. As with all supplements though, read the label and research the brands you buy. Counterfeit products are rampant in the industry, as is inconsistent dosing.

Mayoclinic has some dosing reccomendations:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/milk-thistle/dos...
Depends on the Google cafe.

A few started dinner at 6:00. I think most started at 6:30 but I wouldn't be surprised if a couple didn't start until as late as 7.

Breakfast ended at 10 but often it didn't actually close until food ran out. I think some had late breakfast going until 11.
Immediately cancel /close/delete your Uber account. As in the linked article, Uber does not allow you to remove a payment method only change it to another card or to Paypal.

You could also immediately cancel/freeze your credit card until you've resolved the issue with your stolen Uber account.
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We're travelling all the way from Australia for this (thanks to my epic girlfriend). Got a roadside motel in Pleasant View, ~50 miles from maximum totality (Hopkinsville), for <$200. Only booked it the other week.

Not expecting it to be anything flash, but there's stuff out there. Don't be put off!
But is that a greater risk than millions running a known-vulnerable browser?
There is an open source Javascript package for OrgMode file parsing and converting here[0]

Example demo javascript webapp[1]

Orgmode Vim[2]

OrgMode IntelliJ [3]

OrgMode Atom [4]

OrgMode Sublime [5]

OrgMode VSCode [6]

[0] https://github.com/mooz/org-js

[1] http://mooz.github.io/org-js/

[2] https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

[3] https://github.com/skuro/org4idea

[4] https://atom.io/packages/organized

[5] https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode

[6] https://github.com/jsonreeder/vscode-org-mode
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I thought it was odd as well, but I'm not sure that it's sponsored? From my understanding, FTC guidelines necessitate that publications disclose sponsored placements and I imagine The New York Times would be at the forefront of these requirements ... Or am I mistaking?
> just toy applications that have no practical purpose

What? Look at all the ICOs:

https://mona.co/

and this:

http://www.coindesk.com/150-million-tim-draper-backed-bancor...

and here more:

https://www.coingecko.com/ico?locale=en
How the fuck are some government orgs still on Windows XP?? Seriously, we need government-wide standards in place so this sort of thing doesn't happen.
So what is going to be the unrestricted device? Looks like it won't running on Windows or MacOS which are going very quickly the locked down route. I would be happy if there was a good alternative.
No. Rational number are countable, but have the same property of zero probability for an item in a uniform distribution.
I really wish I could help!
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This may be the purest distillation of Hacker News brogrammerism I've ever read.

By her own words, she thought Google had a 2% chance of success. Is that not enough risk for one life?

http://fortune.com/2011/10/03/marissa-mayer-i-thought-google...

Also, her experience running hundreds of projects and experiments at another billion dollar tech company is exactly what they wanted. Not whether she does all-nighters and knows Rails. I'm not going to argue that the Yahoo board made the right choice, but you would definitely have made the wrong choice.
Everything you say after your first paragraph is correct (presuming people always answer questions with "Yes" or "No" honestly), but…

No one said anything about "Mr. Jones has told you…", here. There was nothing about asking Mr. Jones a question and him providing an answer according to some process.

Rather, the question was simply "Mr. Jones has two children. What is the probability he has a girl if he has a boy born on Tuesday?".

There are implicit conventions involved in reading this, but not particularly problematic ones. This implicitly means "Out of all families with two children, at least one of which is a boy born on Tuesday, what proportion have a girl? [Presuming that out of those families, birth gender and day of the week for the two children are all independently uniformly distributed]". And this is a straightforward counting problem.

So the wording seems fine and the problem well-posed to me.
1) Not so sure this is true. You may get more done individually in the short-term, but over the long-term, your anti-social behavior will cause the rest of your team to shut you out in turn, and your lack of visibility and understanding into what your team is working on will affect your future productivity and earnings. This is a Nash equilibrium at work, and good management will explain how the Nash equilibrium of co-operating on teamwork serves everyone's best individual long-term interests, even if the metrics naively seem to favor short-term action.

2) You don't need to adjust feature development metrics to get technical debt paid down. You set a target (e.g. 20% time to paying down debt), build a backlog of technical debt you know about, and either add the tasks to your sprint/version target (rewarding the team for completing them, like any other task) or come up with some other manner of getting them done, like Boy Scout code reviews (i.e. leave the codebase cleaner than you found it or fail review).

3) If you think you can ship better code by forcing arbitrary deadlines, then I hate to break it to you, but if the beatings continue, morale will not improve. And if you think you can substitute metrics and cash bonuses for good management skills to get people to work long hours so that you'll ship by the start of the holiday season (or other real deadline), then you don't understand how metrics is a tool for management and not a replacement for management.
> Check for 3rd-party kernel extensions:

Let me add one:

- Not paste commands from the internet into your terminal.

This one's fine! I'm also nitpicking.
Definitely not true. Most jobs are given to people that apply online.
Not if you factor in support costs you wouldn't. (Or sunk equipment costs for small scales.)

Gasoline allows one to use large amounts of power at the same time, say, to run a generator, start a power plant or run power tools for construction.

Bitcoin is not useful in and of itself as the current system of transactions is perfectly workable.

On the other hand, try running power tools on solar power... (including making the huge batteries and plastics)
Few would disagree with "better" (than either pure threads or pure events) but if you're going to say "best" the burden of proof is higher. Please explain why you think actors are strictly better than e.g. promises/futures or agent-based models.
The battery voltage on a Tesla model S is 375 V [1]. The motor(s) supposedly run at 365 V AC.

If you think about it a bit it would be hard to get the stated 300+KW using a 24V motor in a car as it would take conductors which can cope with a current of 12500 A. The P90D has a stated total power of 568KW, giving 23667 A. The thing would glow in the dark...

[1] https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/technical-battery-disc...
Since when Myer is an "inspirational" leader? Oh sarcasm.
This is a pointless observation because you could have also said the same thing about all the useless crap that never amounted to anything.
Kindof a hoot to see these hard-coded string declarations in code.

WORDS .BYT ' BASIC BYTES FREE',13,0
FREMES .BYT 147,13,' **** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****'
.BYT 13,13,' 64K RAM SYSTEM ',0
Multiple formats can be available for distribution. I think that web pages make a sensible default, but having the option to take an ebook and whack it on an e-reader, or open the source in an editor (e.g. to run code snippets yourself) is great.
With great powers come great needs of formal verification.
In terms of safety I think fork-join is better than the actor model. The actor model is all about mutable state - the state of all the actors. Fork-join removes state entirely - it's just about passing values.
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Maybe the support agent just didn’t fully think the statement through, or just didn’t do a good job writing in his/her second language. However, we might be missing the full context. Could she have joked about not receiving a huge salary? Could the agent have misinterpreted her comments as being serious as opposed to being farcical?
There's a total solar eclipse somewhere on earth every year or two. See if there's one coming up near you: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list-total-solar.html

It is an amazing spectacle (provided there are no clouds), and certainly worth some travelling to see it.
Does anyone know any significative achievement made by Mayer in Yahoo?
AsciiDoc is much more complex, in that it supports many more things. Check out the user guide[1]. Markdown takes a couple paragraphs to describe. You can know everything there is to know about using markdown within a couple minutes at most.

1: http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html
Yeah, I think it's for the best that there's no support for emoji on HN, it's a great relief to me at least.
Your source claims the spec contradicts previous adapted ISO standards, not that it contradicts itself (which is what I assume you mean by it not being self-consistent). It does, however, raise the issue of bits like legacy compatibility for Word 97 behavior and scripts not being documented.
Denmark is consistently ranked either first or second in terms of business friendliness, trading places with New Zealand. The US is third.
Not a single one of those shows a vulnerability. Every one says the bug "could be" exploitable. All software has potential vulnerabilities. The trick is to roll out completely before they become actually vulnerable. That doesn't mean you have to roll out dangerously quickly.
Negotiate, get as much cash as possible on signing + a paid vacation of 3-4 weeks + do your operation. After your lockup period simply move on in a civil manner.
I keep a winxp vm around for some old games. Many of the download links at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4025687/microsoft-s... , especially in table parts 2 and 3 for winxp go to 404 pages. Also, ie for winxp does not seem to be able to even open the windows update website any more. Any tips?
There are implicit conventions involved in reading this

Explicitly the question adds no such limits. So, abstractly someone could be asking the question without those limits.

It's like the difference between infinity and how whatever subset of math you work in defines infinity. And yes there are more than one commonly used definition.
The USPS considered it at least a couple of times. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-usps-email/ discusses their E-COM efforts in the 80s, and individual email addresses in the 90s. They were finally legally restricted to physical delivery in 2006.