skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time it was a good idea. It avoided bottlenecking everything through the CPU in an era when CPU power was extremely scarce: A 200MHz G3 chip doesn't have a lot of surplus horsepower.

Let's also hear your whines about how the C64 didn't have protected memory and the Apple ][ was so easy to hack because you could open the lid and poke around with a logic probe.
I was a consultant for a bunch of startups for 4-5 years, selling my services as a "CTO for hire" to them, and was full-time CTO in multiple startups to boot.

I had a general line/rule of thumb. At < 6 engineers, you had to write code regularly as the team was so small it couldn't carry the weight of a member of the tech team who didn't commit regularly.

At 12+ engineers, you didn't have time to in order to do the other work (management, prioritisation, reports, strategic thinking, etc.), well enough.

At 6-12 engineers (where I spent most of my time), I didn't have time to write code, but had to in order to keep the company moving. Cue 60-100 hour weeks for 10 years. Yeah.

I went to quite a few CTO events, and in all honesty, it was a surprise to many of them that I both knew how to code and that actually spent any time doing it. I thought it was insane that there are CTOs - many of them - that aren't interested in the practice of creating technology at a hands-on level, but I could also understand how that happened: in my location (London), it's quite normal for non-tech CTOs to pick up from founding CTOs after a few years.

It's a weird situation to be in, and eventually a couple of years ago I decided to evaluate what I wanted and wrote a list of what I liked and didn't like about my job as a CTO.

I realised all the things I enjoyed were actually the responsibilities of a senior engineer, and all the things I didn't like were the management and board duties of being a CTO. Slept on it for a week, resigned, applied for senior roles, and generally am much happier (2 years on).

It's worth really thinking about what you want from the role. If you're a co-founder, you can shape it, but you have responsibilities to your investors, wider board, exec team, managers and developers. Most importantly, your have responsibilities to yourself.

Choose your own adventure when it comes to being a CTO, but choose wisely and carefully.
My team was discussing the embarrassment of customers not being able to download our app in our own stores. Plus there is actual real world data showing smaller apps are downloaded more.
The fine has been levied against an individual, not a company. He won't be able to afford it.
It's not Edge or IE11. It's Edge or Chrome or Firefox.

I don't mind Edge, not because I like just, just because once I switch the default browser to chrome it doesn't bug me. Just some dead bytes on a large SSD. I mind a lot more the other features that bug me all the time.
What's the plan for obtaining other comparable recordings?

A single patient recording might be able to yield some insights specific to that person, but they wouldn't provide much information to generalize from even if they're over a very long period of time.

To have any power to evaluate machine learning effectively you'd need at least 5-10 subjects (IMO) with most confounding factors controlled in some way or another. At that scale it doesn't seem practical to have people self reporting as they find the database.
Yes, but for a locked down OS version it should be possible to have administrator privileges denied to an application. So the Store could have a flag of which apps might need admin, and only those apps can be run as admin. This would prevent Word from being run as admin, since it certainly shouldn't have that flag.
Why should Task Manager, on such a locked-down machine, allow you to run arbitrary applications?
Nice. But no RPN? I pass!
Windows is an operating system, not a game. Many of us don't necessarily want the latest bells, whistles, unlockable achievements, and optional DLC, and we resent having them shoved down our throats with no input in the matter.

And as for bug fixes, many of us were perfectly satisfied with the stability and even the security of Windows 7.

Hence the appeal of LTSB.
"stock market crop circles"
Don't forget, they just ruined any opportunity for their children to also have a anonymous genome.

Literally, if there is some hereditary disease, they may have just made it so their kids can never get affordable insurance -_-
Given their actions and the deaths they have caused what reason do you have to claim they are not pursuing a goal of murdering groups of people to extermination?

Re-reading this a few hours later and this stands out.

If western soldiers goal was to exterminate other groups of people I'll say they have failed quite spectacularily.

I'm all for asking tough questions about the need ti spend ou tax money in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However as I mentioned above: either they have failed spectacularly or they haven't tried to exterminate those people.
I'm starting to feel this effect, having just bought my first new laptop in 9 years. It's supplanted my desktop for almost all my needs- only thing missing is moving all my old files from there.
Why are you in a romantic relationship at all then? Non-marriage romantic relationships have a -MUCH- higher failure rate. At least be ideologically consistent.

You should probably just break up with your girlfriend now because you have some very serious commitment issues.
I agree. That's why I think that universalism is short-sighted. Having many societies with very different cultures might lead to conflict but the alternative is one global society with no alternatives if it becomes dystopian or fails.
apologies, i forgot that everything the US does is evil
So yeah, I left San Francisco and Slack to move to Paris
When a person searches for another person's name, I don't think there's any way for Google to know what the connection is between those people.
LLVM IR is being changed at a high rate. While there are some weak backward-compatibility promises (older, but not too much old, bitcode can be read by newer official IR readers), new features are introduced overnight. I expect this project to be a high maintenance job to keep up with the LLVM trunk.
Even if it was in the middle of a hurricane with twenty foot swells on a moonless night you'd still expect a destroyer to be able to spot 29,000 tons of metal coming at it.
That's not-invented-here at Berkeley.
That just proves that you don't care -- not that those who care are few (which is a different assertion).
> He should have requested help from the ACLU, sued the person who made the call that he needed to be forcibly taken in, and sued the police department for illegal search, while making the case VERY public.

While I agree with you in principle, it should also be noted that some people may not want their mental health treatment to become a matter of public record. It may affect their future in unpredictable ways (employment, relationships, legal disputes, etc). It could be used against them down the road.
It's not Swift. App sizes are mostly increased by graphic assets, and libraries. Here is a 15,000 line swift app that compiles to 11 megs.

https://blog.halide.cam/one-weird-trick-to-lose-size-c0a4013...

I'm skeptical Swift creates significantly larger binaries, let alone 3x-4x, but I'd still use it if so. Using optionals and stronger typing is makes it easier to write correct code, and anyway we can save users from wild pointer crashes is super valuable. Far more valuable than the cost of a couple megabytes of code in an ocean of PNGs and Cocoapods.
I wish there was a way to give a psychologist all my online tracks (down to Slashdot posts when I was 12), context of what I was thinking around the posts, and along with the usual story of my life. Then diff it against "normal" and provide advice--"because of X you seem to react Y so maybe try Z".
How about endless nags from the OS about how you're wasting battery power running that boring old Firefox, and how you really should upgrade to the latest Edge experience for whiter teeth, better gas mileage, and more bedroom endurance?

Microsoft brought every last bit of this criticism on themselves.
Even a consumer grade radar would be able to spot a 9,000 ton vessel from a thousand yards away no matter how "stealthy" it is, and they got closer than that.
There's a difference between "latest bells" and having basic bug fixes like proper response to HiDPI screens and working start menu.
USPS new thermochromic ink stamp commemorates solar eclipse
Considering the size of the US navy, around 430 ships, that's extremely unlikely. There's not enough submarines in the world to sneak attack them all at once.
Buy earplugs with a small case you keep on your keychain and take everywhere.

The best earplugs are the ones you use!
Another interesting take on tea (in India) is the rather strong tea you (used to) get at Irani restaurants in India. They boiled it for a long time, is why it was strong. There is a community of Iranians (not Parsis) who had come to India several (maybe a hundred or more) years ago, and settled here. Some of them started a typical (for them) kind of restaurant(s) - with bent rosewood chairs, marble-topped tables, mirrors on the walls, etc. There are (mostly were, now, sadly) a sort of institution in India. College kids, working people - both blue- and white-collar, oldsters meeting to chat and gossip, all kinds used to hang out at those places, have the famous / standard items (apart from their unique take on tea) like bun + butter / brun + maska, omelettes, samosas, khari (a dry baked wafer), etc. The younger generation of them unfortunately didn't want to continue the businesses, plus the restaurants were often situated in central areas in Indian cities, so had high real estate value, so many of them have been closed and the spaces sold to Barista, Pizza Hut and the like. A loss ...

Used to hang out regularly at such places in school and college days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irani_caf%C3%A9
The surrounding earth acts as a temperature storage buffer, so without ventilation, it will be extremely difficult to remove heat. Instead of the more difficult problem of trying to remove heat, I would rather focus on simply reducing the total heat produced in the lower levels. That can be done by having the lower trains be only for express, so they aren't accelerating and decelerating as much (which is when the heat is produced), with fewer trains in general, and then save the tracks closer to the surface focus for the more heat-producing non-express trains and for the more frequent trains.

On a related subject, the temperature of any cave will remain almost constant at the location's average annual surface temperature. So another option would be to focus on not producing so much heat in the entire city in the first place, to lower the average temperature.
How do you prevent fake science?

This article tells us why its bad for the state to manage information flow. But Facebook and the alt reality around Trump show us that society is not smart enough to separate reality from fiction.

I suspect in a city full of developers we could make science work. In a city with half the people are below 100 IQ, I am not sure the end result will be great. So many ways it can go bad.
I don't have a high-DPI screen, so that's neither here nor there.

And nobody running Classic Shell is complaining about not having a working Start menu. Those complaints are all coming from people with a stock Windows installation.
Both captains were asleep. The question is why the American one was when, given it's a military vessel, they should be concerned about being approached by other ships. Aren't they held to a higher standard than some random container ship crew?
I for one can't wait for it to pass. We have people running around calling words violence, catcalling rape, and normal human sexuality sexual harassment.

And you can't ask for balance and fairness in the discussion without being told you're pro-rape or part of the problem.

No one is pro-rape, but the things being labeled as rape right now are outlandish. Rape is a violent act, it's not some jackass standing on a corner cat-calling you.
Yeah, Swift should only contribute a small, constant amount to account for the runtime and standard library. 3-4x doesn't make sense.
They don't do a random draw to see who gets to be the captain. You're supposed to be able to operate under extreme conditions, including sleep deprivation, if it's necessary.
Transactions are never needed with a fully normalized model so if transactions are needed it is probably because your model sucks.

Or it is because you denormalized your model because your db engine's performance sucks in which case the transactions will probably just make it worse.

Good schema design and lock-free/wait-free (transaction-free) algorithms are not "reimplementing transactions in the client."

OPs example is garbage but his proposed transaction solution is garbage too.
It just seems unlikely. I suppose it's not impossible, but in my experience robocalls start immediately. And maybe it would work if you pressed "mute", but without that, you'd leak environmental noises into the call. (People talking around you, cara going by on the street...)

It might just be a trick that people pass along regardless of effectiveness.
I was specifically responding to the claim that 'unwanted advances' could be considered sexual harassment under the law.

yes, technically you could consider rape to be an 'unwanted advance', but no reasonable person would ever characterize it as so. The very fact that it's characterized as an unwanted advance tells you it's not sexual harassment, it's just someone chasing another person.
I think it's fair to say there's an implicit assumption that a user, given the right knowledge and intent, could circumvent this protection at which point they're on their own.
Here's the problem. Windows is for everyone, the vast majority of people will run Windows on their desktop and laptop PCs. The vast majority of people also know nothing about computing and OS security. The vast majority of people will rely on someone that is "computer savvy". If Microsoft had an OS that met the needs of what probably amounts to < 1% of the total market; that is people that want to, and know how to manage updates; it would be abused by those "computer savvy" people and by extension ultimately wind up in the hands of people that have no business running it as an OS. Then we end up with a whole bunch of computers that will fall victim to the next "Wanna Cry" and you know who people will blame, Microsoft for not keeping their device patched and secure.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft as part of the Windows org, but generally do not work much on the OS or its applications and the opinions I put forward are mine and mine alone.
Some is an indeterminate amount. It can be anything from 1 to Infinite.

The phrase "some X" does not connote that X are few, or many, merely that they are existent.
Andrew Ng announces Deeplearning.ai
> but the things being labeled as rape right now are outlandish

Do you have any examples? (I'd prefer some with links, please).
They were very correct in their dealings, and wouldn't tolerate any crap from anyone - customer, supplier, etc. - would bawl them out immediately (including with curses sometimes), which was part of the charm of going to such places.
But this very post shows that they are performance conscious!
Well... good for you for not having a modern laptop or screen? O.o Not sure what your point here is.
Your critique of my analogy reminds me of this web comic: http://imgur.com/a/BqPzT
I absolutely agree with these requests! I am so desperate for an uncertainty-aware/unit-aware calculator that I tried implementing one myself, even though it is quite beyond my skill-set. I gave up and used Mathematica (more on that below). Two comments on the requests:

- Most existing calculators that offer propagation of uncertainty use a simplified formula -- the one with the square root and the partial derivatives. That's OK for lab courses. But in real life, the distributions of the input parameters are non-Gaussian, the formulas depend on each other in subtle ways that are easy to miss, and you have to deal with systematic and statistic errors (precision vs. accuracy). Most researches I know, myself included, sort-of fudge this with pen-and-paper and Excel, and end up underestimating their errors... In my view, the best solution is a Monte-Carlo type calculation, where you draw the input parameters from their respective distributions, then do the calculation, and repeat 10000 times. The mean and the std deviation gives you final result.

- Arbitrary precision is doable, but often unnecessary. To me, it was always more important to know when the result is numerical garbage (in which case I rearrange the equations to make them more computer-friendly), than to choose some precision up-front, hoping it would be enough. For me, interval arithmetic [1] is the best solution. All numbers are represented by the next higher and next lower floating point number, and each calculation results in a new interval, where the result is guaranteed to be in the interval. Often, the intervals blow up unnecessarily, but are still much smaller than the desired accuracy or precision. These days, whenever I get an unexpected result, I repeat the calculation with interval arithmetic in Mathematica or Matlab to exclude numerical errors. Interval arithmetic is not very costly in terms of run-time, and there are great libraries out there.

The unit-aware, uncertainty aware calculator that I ended up using for my PhD-thesis was Mathematica. Mathematica deals with units somewhat well and iterates over lists natively. You can write standard formulas and feed them lists for the Monte-Carlo calculation. However, unit calculations are extremely slow. My workaround split the calculation into one unit-calculation and 10000 unit-less calculations. However, I ran into so many Mathematica bugs and quirks that hosed the calculation ("transparent" Mathematica-updates that changed the result, file corruption (!), swalled minus-signs (!!)) that I cannot possibly recommend Mathematica for anything but toy projects.

Great work! I will keep a close eye on this awesom project!

[1]: http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Seminar/Seminar07/148.pdf
Everything I hate about Justin Caldbeck's statement – by one of his accusers
Running calculator.exe isn't sufficient enough for the claims that are made in this article, since it's already in the 'trusted' domain of the OS.

If they could get 'myPersonallyDevelopedExecutable.exe' to run, then the article would have a point, but the researcher stopped short of trying, so this article ends up being shitty journalism.

[disclaimer, MS employee].
I never found the American flip-out plugs to work very well---the power brick is just too heavy to be held up solidly like that.

But then, I only visit the states every once in a while, and usually run British-style or Australian connectors.
Nicely done. Shows me more of how React works internally, which is good to know when playing within CLJS.
There is always an "Us vs Them" (or tribal) mindset and that's not wrong in itself. There are tribes, teams, and companies and as long as resources are limited (aka always), there will need to be a way to prioritize.

* It's why you provide for your child first.

* It's why you root for your team over those "other guys."

* It's why you help your family before worrying about someone else's.

* It's why your city, state, or country must worry about things within its own borders first.

It doesn't mean the other child is bad, the other family is evil, or some other country is less worthy. It's a matter of "who do I worry about first?" Once those needs are met enough (think Maslow), you will worry about #2.
The point is that social networking could become a decentralized protocol similar to email. Imagine browsing something that looks just like Facebook but underneath each friend's profile it would say "Hosted by Facebook" or "Hosted by Microsoft" or "Hosted by [Startup]". It's feasible technically although Facebook's closed network effect is extremely strong.
Curious. Is it at the point where the money earned is less than the cost of electricity, like bitcoin approached?
I was about to switch to this about a month ago but realized WSL does not work with LTSB. So no BASH for Windows. It will probably be more than a year too...
Run the math for Ethereum and it's even crazier. Something like $15m in cloud computing resources and you can control the eth network valued at >$30 billion. For this reason I can't imagine "shorting" these cryptocurrencies will be possible any time soon as the incentives for attack would be too great. The price asymmetry could resolve in a number of different ways and it will be interesting to watch how it unfolds.
Suicide bombers don't seem to have a long life expectancy.
Its great we have father Microsoft that knows best for all of us. Paternalism ensuring we can't hurt ourselves on the pointy bits.
Yes, please add light years, parsecs. Perhaps weight of planets in our solar system, and the sun?
There is already MiB (mebibytes) and MB (once actual megabytes, now what you call MMB).
What type of computer are you running Windows 10 on? I've had multiple computers running Windows 10 (even a low end tablet) and I've never seen this start menu issue. I've also not seen it on any computers in a retail shop.

Not saying it doesn't happen or you're lying but I've never seen it and I've used many low and high end Windows 10 computers so I'm curious what the cause could be.
The point of Task Manager here was that Word was being launched "directly"—the process was being spawned, outside of the framework that cares about concepts like "apps" or their security manifests.

No matter how sandboxed you make your high-level abstraction layer, you can always just remove the sandbox by removing the abstraction layer. Docker (for example) won't protect you if you cd inside your Docker image and run a binary from it directly on the host.

The only way to really "leak-proof" the abstraction here would be to build "apps" as a concept into the OS kernel itself, such that the exec/spawn syscall itself is responsible for doing the sandboxing and the OS's executable-binary format itself is responsible for containing the privilege manifest. So far, I haven't seen any OS interested in taking steps in that direction, though (which is odd, given that a similar conceit—code-signature verification—was embedded into said syscall in every OS quite recently.)
Yeah, gCaptain has excellent coverage of this and anything else maritime.

http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault/

http://gcaptain.com/uss-fitzgerald-fault-part-2-questions-an...
This is just a rehash of a story often told and contains no new material.
llvm-diff is indeed pretty great, but having the IR structure as an AST that you could programmatically access and manipulate would allow more semantic diffing, or integration into workflows that would benefit from structured representations of a diff.
How is wolfram alpha? I always use it for more complicated pure math, but I don't think I ever used it for unit conversion.
Let me just remind you... since you sound like you care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services: if you're on those services you're encouraged to interact with other people who also care a lot/spend a lot of time on those services.

You're self selecting for a group that re-enforces your opinion.

As of 2016, only ~70 percent of adults in the US use facebook. Of those 70%, ~25% use it once a week or less.

Those who don't care are MANY (probably most).
I wonder what privacy law, particularly outside the US, says about this.
That's exactly my point. Special casing the compilation of 1 specific set of functions is a scary concept, esp. as the tool that can check the types is already in the go toolchain, AND there are plenty of edge cases that can't be caught anyways, so it can create a false sense of security.
There's a very similar procedure, with a different recipe, in Singapore:

https://youtu.be/hodOAEzsNWs