skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-composed characters were needed to make transcoding to ISO-8859-* fast.

Also, for Hangul, though decomposition is the better form to use normally (since it's phonetic, not syllabic), conversion to pre-composed syllabic form is very useful sometimes.

Even without pre-composition there would have been multiple equivalent forms of writing any character that requires more than one combining codepoint.

The only way to have avoided normalization altogether would have been to have no combining codepoints, and only a complete set of pre-compositions. This would have been less flexible, and very obnoxious for Hangul and possibly others.

I believe the need for normalization was simply unavoidable. It's not the fault of Unicode but the fault of humans' script designs. And it's OK.
It's worth noting that both Dan Osman and Dean Potter died in part due to park service policies.

The park service allows all kinds of activities that cater to motorized tourists, but bans specialized activities like base jumping. Yosemite is one of the best places in the world to base jump, not just because of its beauty but because the cliffs are oriented well for base jumping. The ban pushes jumpers to fly at dawn or dusk, and hide their activities, in a way that pushes the safety margins.
Don't use Tinc if you care about performance. Tinc is implemented in userland, and is an order of magnitude slower than a kernel-negotiated encryption. IPsec and GRE tunnels are much better solutions.
HypeSCREEN wants to be “Online TV” for everyone
So this not that thrilling but my BMW r1200gs has this bus. I dropped the bike recently and killed one of the turn signals. Canbus lit up saying you have a light out. I fixed the turn signal and it still lit up. I thought I needed to reset it or something.

Turns out I killed the headlight in the drop as well. Without the canbus it would have been months before I would have caught that. I thought it was a BMW over-the-top thing but it actually helped me, it was the daylight running headlight that went out. Good to have that one.

Like I said, not thrilling, not programming, but an upvote for the Canbus.
Well, he was standing around getting his picture taken when a big wave came in and washed him away. Whether he was free soloing or suntanning, it wouldn't have made any difference. Really sad, he was a massive talent and his solo of Romantic Warrior was astonishing.

http://images.summitpost.org/original/281779.jpg
500kbps is typical. That's not super-slow, IMO.
You can ignore the K forms. So that's two forms, really, NFC and NFD.
It's implementation dependent. Most implementations JIT Wasm up front (I think Chakra is the only engine that interprets). So, JS loads faster because almost all engines interpret first (all?).
Yes, you do have to pay to publish chrome web store. Only $5 though: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/publish
But why do they need to use a bank in Romania and create some infrastructure for that? Can't they just use some bank in eurozone to gather money from customers and send out payments to the users in their local Romania bank, or something like that? There are payment providers which do that.
The guy aggressively jumped into a discussion addressed to women in tech, dismissing the premise in a way that's actively harmful to underrepresented minorities in tech. The first time I was reasonably polite. The second time, frank.

Exactly none of those statements is a personal insult. Some are assumptions, but all are reasonable. If I got something wrong, he can correct me.

I will note that you are also a white dude, and have spent a lot of energy on "aggressive dismissal" of people's concerns here. So apparently you're fine with the behavior as long as it reinforces the status quo.
Does this new round have the same preferences that the 2015 round had?
I have not proposed a counterfactual, contrary to what you allege. I simply do not automatically trust what the DOJ believes simply because the FBI swore to it in an affidavit. The government lies.
Two years ago I moved from Albuquerque to Denver, explicitly for work related reasons. The difference in available engineering jobs is night and day.

ABQ is a starkly beautiful midsize city with an unusually high number of nuclear physicists. That's necessary but far from sufficient for being a tech center. And as far as I could tell, the city's ideal is for a relatively small number of relatively large employers, not in hundreds of 5-20 employee firms.

Besides, if you're interested in working for one of those firms, let alone starting one, Denver's only six or seven hours north.
Yes, Tesla still uses CAN buses. It has 6 buses if I remember correctly.
"In those beginning stages, I never would have been able to pay for warehouse space in the Bay Area while waiting for investors to commit"

You'd be crazy to start a warehouse in Silicon Valley -- run your development and operations there, but when you're ready to move out of your garage into a real warehouse, put the warehouse (and product assembly) in Tracy or someplace like that that's an hour's drive away and much more affordable.
There are used beds that use the bus available on eBay and other auction sites. Be aware that it's only on their high-end beds, If you're looking to bid on one, know that they weigh over 600 lbs and need wide doorways (ask me how I know..) Current prices are $900 and up, and often don't come with the inflatable mattresses (hospital may not want the potential biohazard liability, so disposes of it first).
You can use dotEpub[1] to make a .mobi version of the webpage for your Kindle.

[1]: https://dotepub.com
Well then why not allow it to be used in practical exercises? What good is a lecture without practical application?

Edit: The author does state "Responsible teachers and tutors should stop teaching it to new C++ programmers"; I misinterpreted his point.
I've been consistently surprised by how little optimization MySQL does on joins. As of 5.6, it didn't even eliminate join clauses that weren't referenced in either the select or where clause which should be a pretty basic optimization and one whose absence hurts a lot given MySQL's nested loops join algorithm.
Everyone gets to live their own life and choose their own path. To each their own.
Source control shouldn't be a deal breaker I feel. The on disk representation would just need to be optimised for source control. For example an AST in the form of s-expressions could represent the visual structure of the program and would be amenable to VCS manipulation
> IPv6 will be a huge mess, if I only think about sending emails via IPv6, how should that even work properly?

Can you clarify what you mean by that?
Trump's blocking of Twitter users violates U.S. Constitution
what do you think is the reason that twitter/pinterest didn't/won't run a lean operation, and why did they choose that path?
I don't know how that works, but I'd be surprised if there were not a sort-of abbreviated check?
> We launched with a workforce of vetted independent contractor (1099) caregivers, who we endearingly referred to as “Heroes”.

How often are pompous titles like that just cheap window-dressing meant to hide some kind of underlying smelly ugliness? I'm getting really skeptical whenever I come across them.

What are some other examples? I know I've seen stuff like this before, but the only other ones I can think of are title/job descriptions like "guru" or "ninja," which are similar but don't quite cover the same space.
hey, actually no one maintains the routes in an official capacity. there are groups of climbers who voluntarily will upgrade fixed protection, or individuals who do the same, but certainly no governing body. it's not like a hiking trail, for example. it's pretty wild west, but generally people work together.

as far as the objective risks, they include loose rock, broken holds, wet rock, birds spooking you, base jumpers spooking you, hornets, climbers dropping things by accident on you.
Ya know Ford supports all this in the open right

http://openxcplatform.com/
Recently I read comments about "the art of learning" by child chess prodigy and expert in martial arts Josh Waitzkin about coaching and how to conquest excellence. My take on that is that if your family or society inspire on you the value of hard work and incremental improvement, you will obtain a strong motivation to get better in whatever you do and that will give you an enormous opportunity to succeed.
Speaking from my own experience, in my high school our math teacher had a voice problem and on top of that he used to speak very quickly, hence it was really difficult to understand what he was saying, but that was not a problem for me, I learned all the math in a book and became the right hand of that teacher, my duty was to try to teach to other people in class. Another nice anecdote was how I discovered the multiplication table, I was a dumb body in my childhood, I repeated several years until I was nine or ten years. I didn't know what was 2 x 2, then someone told me that the multiplication table was written in our pencil and that to answer that you have to memorize that table, that was my start on math. It seems that all the ways to a solution are written somewhere.
Anyway I wouldn't change any bit my wild education, I have really loving memories from my chilhood and school. I would never change that for a formal education, let nature teach you, something in the spirit of Mark Twain novels.
Discourage disabling the harassment/auto updates but ultimately make it possible?

Imagine if windows just kinda foisted it upon you. People would be upset.
Some people don't have any fear; Sometimes I forget to clip when I'm lead climbing.
Seems like kind of a paradox. Too much to do, so you'll sleep when you're dead. But sleep deprivation will kill you, so you won't be able to finish all those things that are keeping you busy. :)
​Red Hat Supports NFS in Ceph Storage 2.3
Routing IPv6 can be less expensive as you need to do one checksum fewer than for IPv4.

Email works fine.
Apple 'Genius' definitely falls in that category.
>Yes, there is a wide spectrum of competency/skill amongst all the practitioners of a profession; that's not a remotely novel insight. That's not an argument for underpaying them.

Well the politics are not there currently to support teacher pay raises in many states. Its shitty but that is how it is. If at some point we get a political culture able to reverse that, great!

>Which students deserve to get taught by the bottom 25% of shitty, barely-tested software chugging algorithms designed on specious theories? Not your kids, I'd bet.

>My daughter is already a guinea pig for this stuff. Her public school uses i-Ready. http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/diagnost....

Why do we need to entrust these technology solutions to schools? They are pretty ill equipped to evaluate them except for large districts. The school should just be a data source. The actual software should be parent choice, much like we have school choice in many states. If one piece of software gets a bad reputation the parents can choose to use different software. (Much like paying teachers more, this may not be possible in todays political landscape)
i've seen one blogpost where the author tried and apparently successfully managed to run a QT app compiled to wasm. has anyone here tried that?
That basically means Lisp is probably about as fast as C because: C that is portable, easy to maintain, and robust against bad inputs also only runs at 50% of the speed of C.

If you take any fast C program and add all the logic that is missing to make it robust and secure, and refactor it so that it is halfway nimble against changing requirements, it's no longer running at the mythical speed of C.
For fashion, afaik "influencers" are indeed using platforms like Instagram much more than Pinterest. That is certainly a situation where they could have defended their turf more effectively.
How do I backup my iPhone automatically every night to crash plan or Backblaze?

Can't? Ok, Apple sucks. Now that that's out of the way, given the reality we have, it's worth paying Apple for the storage.
I feel like ads on all of the big platforms started out as bad/irrelevant/spammy. They've typically gotten better over time as inventory improves but then again ads are in general spammy by definition.
Why would you be dead at 67 celsius..? I go in to a room near 100 Celsius every weekend (also known as sauna)
Would it be possible to feed CAN IDs to Tech Scan tool sequentially and thus decode their meaning? Would it be legal?
Really great idea. So, the first thing I did was add my wife, because that just seemed like the right place to start. But then I got into this situation where I was adding myself as the significant other. Is this intended? Is there any concept of "me"?
What do you think about Julia language? It's a modern take on a language for number crunching that has support for C and Python code. Also uses some Fortran libraries that are optimized.

https://julialang.org

Far as distributed, see Cray's Chapel and Taft's Parasail for languages trying to improve on that. Chapel's competition was IBM X10 and Fortress languages. Im not sure if those two are maintained any more, though.
No, just developers. Of course, the use of bytes for characters goes back a long time, to times when computers had small memories and disk (and other) storage capacities. And to even before then, to the days of telexes and typewriters. It's completely understandable. But UTF-8 is genius, which is why we use it.

Incidentally, ASCII was actually a multi-byte codeset... since one could combine most lower-case characters with BS (backspace) and overstrike with apostrophe, backtick, tilde, comma (for cedilles), and double-quotes (for umlauts), or with the same char for bold, or with underscore for underline. nroff(1) still uses this for bold and underscore, no?
It is categorically NOT anecdotal. The proper word is "testimonial". You cannot simultaneously "never doubt her account" and label it "anecdotal", look it up in the dictionary.
This. At least someone gets what I'm trying to highlight.

Lead poisoning and intervention doesn't get enough attention. When the black community suffers lead poisoning at 1.6x the rate of the general population and there is solid evidence showing a link between lead poisoning and violent crime and poor impulse control, it seems to me like lead needs more attention than it gets from those that purport to value black lives.

Men commit more violence than women. No one will argue against these statistics. Black men commit more violence than men of other races. Few if any acknowledge these statistics. I see no reason why there is anything inherent about being black that would lead to this (nature), so it's important to come up with hypotheses that could explain this through nurture. The two I can come up with are lead poisoning and the lack of male role models. The latter gets some attention. The former gets none. When you see studies like this one posted today, where the results are so strong, it makes you wonder why this doesn't get more attention if we really care about addressing all factors that contribute to black men experiencing police violence.

A racist interpretation would be say that black men are more violent because they are black. That is not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that their race has nothing to do with the higher incidence of violence crime committed. I'm saying the exposure to lead might be contributing. Black people, especially black men are being victims twice. First, they are more likely to be victims of lead poisoning. Second, they are more likely to be victims of racial profiling, which itself might be amplified by the increased likelihood of violence caused by lead poisoning.
Yeah the whole LuLaRoe phenomenon should be pinterest dominated but instead it is Facebook/instagram.
That's a good run-through, thanks!
Sure, but my experience searching for jobs indicates that those forms of questions are very rarely asked. Instead, questions like "in a N dimensional space filled with M points, find the point(s) closest to a given point" or "figure out if this list of pointers has a loop", or "implement quicksort in Java".

If you don't use these as your whiteboard questions, great. But I've not run into you or others like you in my own searching.
WWDC17 – HEVC with HLS
A very interesting idea indeed. I wonder if there exists a metaphorical whistle that can be heard when they whisk you away to Guantanamo bay. I mean to say I cannot believe that they would even allow such a thing to go to court. The war on crypto has gotten my tin hat on.
We can also look at tech from the student side of things:

There is some nice software out there. Desmos comes to mind. https://teacher.desmos.com

But most software that makes its way into schools is not Desmos. It's usually something that merely replicates the content delivery method of teaching. Think Khan Academy. Other software is often just a digital way to practice facts or algorithms (my mind is in the math world for these examples).

I noticed an older comment of yours about expectations your first CS class had including how to navigate a nix system, at least one programming language, and Matlab. Let's pretend this class was instead algebra I where a student is expected to know the fundamentals of arithmetic including properties of operations (so you can use them to manipulate equations), that the equals sign indicates balance, exponentiation, strong proportional reasoning with a solid understanding of multiplication/division, and an understanding of integers.
Combine this with a course where the teacher delivers a lesson each day, you do homework, and then have a test each week, never stopping to go back to things that may not have sunk in, let alone pausing to work on any holes in the things mentioned above that are critical to understanding algebra.
I can introduce Desmos to help you model linear equations in a wonderful interface, but it isn't going to do a damn thing to increase outcomes if a) you are lacking in any of the requisite starting knowledge and b) don't go to extraordinary lengths to keep up with the pace of the course.

I like tech, but I don't think it's any sort of panacea for what ails our schools because it doesn't (and maybe can't) address the root causes.
It's basically newspeak to make people with absolutely no ties, legal or financial to one company ("independent contractors") feel some allegiance, or some team spirit.

Alienation is getting new worrying meanings every day.
Responding to everyday bigotry
OneSignal is hiring mobile developers to make notifications smarter
I've been a fan of Pinterest for a long time, though I rarely use it these days.

I've been fascinated, and slightly horrified, by their pivot away from social functionality and towards a vision of a neutral bookmarking site.

It's not that I'd want Pinterest to be more social in and as an end itself, but rather because I think it better incentivizes people to create good quality content, and it makes it easier to discover things I want to find.

There's very little ROI for cultivating a public image on Pinterest, so few people put much effort into doing it. At the same time, people who have taste similar to mine are a much better way to find things than any algorithm Pinterest has ever released. And yet, they keep emphasizing algorithmic recommendations while disincentivizing people from publicly expressing their taste and making it harder for me to follow people I like.

And then there are the ads, which, as a bunch of other commenters have pointed out, tend to be really far out of line from anything I've ever expressed interest in. It's just off-putting to see a bunch of low-quality ads for tacky crap in the middle of my feed of minimalist interiors.

Maybe they have something up their sleeves, or maybe I'm very different from their target user. Otherwise I just don't agree with their product direction.
>I don't think we will see IPv6 eliminating IPv4 within the next 10 years.

There are large ISP's that already have for the most part gone ipv6-only. Here's T-Mobile USA's roadmap: http://www.rmv6tf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/04-IPv6-NAv...

Apple has already required all apps to support ipv6-only on iOS for some time. I think it's going to be a lot less rocky than you think.
Sorry, didn't mean it was necessarily reflected in MVP voting from the old guard of writers, more in modern sabermetrics. Trout for example, a perennial 30/30+ candidate, his speed, baserunning and defensive play are a big part of what makes him such a generational player.
For those unfamiliar with homomorphic encryption, I found this to be a good algebraic treatment. https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-04261...
Is ZFS fireproof?
Or he commits the crime of unauthorized copying of software. Or building unlocked computers. Or helping people encrypt their data with secure, government-proof encryption.
I always get eight hours of sleep ;) if a project exceeds my time availability, and cannot be automated, I delegate, even if it requires paying out of my pocket.
Going further:

Some AI is interpreting all camera around the country in real-time. A single government employee is adjusting parameters according to what the current elected officials deem important. There is, however, extra CPU time dedicated to cameras monitoring political opponents.

After all, we commit crimes regularly, unknowingly. There are so many laws that not only are there lifelong jobs in the law business, but there are several different types of them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...
I thought Tim Ferriss's interview of Honnold was quite an interesting exploration of his thought process.

http://tim.blog/2016/05/17/alex-honnold/
You bring an important point which raises another point- who enabled/let HR do this? And what happened to them? HR doesn't exist in isolation and I've known big firms' HRs to be trigger happy as long as they can justify it.