skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of an article I read on some guys that updated the controls for a sewage tunnel that runs under the Hudson river. The more they investigated the dynamics of a 1000 foot long, 10 diameter pipe full of poo, the more terrified they became. And more impressed with the long dead engineers that originally solved the problem in the 1920's.

Original controls were all mechanical.
Is it possible to cross correct the data using heart rate ? I believe it's lower when actually sleeping rather than just being in bed.
I'd love to see their requirements for a bioinfo dev.
Chinese from the mainland still goto HK to shop, if only for the lower taxes and greater selections. The lack of wepay is hardly a concern, and many places in HK actually take it.
I wrote one once, a bastardized xpath that was used in a web crawler. I think it worked because it was extremely limited in what it could do and because normal code was a fallback in several places, it was never intended for non-developers. With it we could condense several hundred lines into < 10, with much lower error rates. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if the term "DSL" had been coined at the time, or I was unaware of it in any case, "creating a language" was not something I was attempting to do.

Since then I've encountered several in the wild that have been maintenance nightmares. Some were too simple that they were useless. Others were too complicated, so we ended up having to maintain a language and the code in that language.

There's one lying around here that was intended for support people to program in via an expression tree editor with a clunky UI. That was a disaster. We've got another one which is a terribly bastardized regex that was built because "support people don't understand regex". The don't understand this one any better, they would have been better off learning a life skill like regex.
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They're also fingerprinting every user. I noticed because it caused Firefox to hang for over a minute.
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Seeking for "normal", I just took the top 15 most populous countries, representing two-thirds of the entire human race.

Maybe by "normal" you meant "ideal". Or maybe you meant "where I live". But if "normal" means "usual", I think you are wrong.
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You can't do "or pay $600/year to take the web site down". There are laws against that. It's called extortionate. That being said, they could be more subtle like Glassdoor / Yelp / etc. People would actually have to find .feedback domains useful for that to happen however. My sense is that this will just go nowhere, no business will be made, and it's all a lot of sound and fury over nothing.
As one would expect. The deferred code runs after the normal code in the function has ended, and before the calling code has resumed. Named return values are in scope and can be read and modified.

Try it and see: https://play.golang.org/p/1ozFWDj15a
Amazon makes that money in about 6 seconds. I don't think they would even bother to threaten them, but that's just my opinion. Maybe that's the motivation behind the scam as well?
You can easily access and modify the named return variables from a deferred function body.

If you had a variable declared in a block just before return, then you return it, you have no way to modify it in defer.

I personally don't like this style of code, but I can see some uses.
I'm normally thrilled to hear about new TLDs.

This is an exception. It'd be great in theory, but the preregistered scam domains are absolutely ridiculous.

I hope the likes of Google and Facebook come down on these sites, and come down on them hard.
The United States isn't far behind in making it illegal to report criminal behaviour. Consider ag-gag laws, consider how whistelblowers get punished.
Because rich connected kids in Beijing don't get into 人民中学 because of their parents money? Let's ignore all the BMW, audis, Mercedes waiting to pickup kids outside the school. That is an example of mainland China's "rule of law", which is largely hypocritical and never what CCTV says it is.
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for smaller companies, this also happens in the sales process when customers want to know the history of your company.

emotional embellishments happen.
> Any expert or researcher here who can say with facts and not just theory.

It's impossible to predict the future. No one can tell you what's going to happen with facts.

Using the same set of facts (current state of the market and regulations), researchers come up with some wildly different projections. That's why you've seen so many different years (as have I).

The real answer is that no one knows.

One thing to note is that India and China have very aggressive electric car requirements. One (or both, I can't remember) of those countries have mandated that all cars be electric by a certain date.
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There's some nuance here: It might be that a rational insurance provider encourages their clients to do regular checkups for conditions that can be caught early and treated at a much lower cost.

I'm a member of Kaiser HMO, and they do just that -- they regularly notify me of screening tests I should be doing and they offer several ways to contact my doctor without actually seeing my doctor.

If I'm not sure I need to go in to see him for that lump on my toe, I can call a triage nurse for advice, set up a phone call appointment with my doctor, or do a video chat with him.

For my last annual checkup, my doctor emailed me, asked me to go in for some bloodwork, then a few days later, I went to visit the doctor and we talked over the results while he conducted the physical.

I know some people don't like Kaiser, but I've had only good experiences with the system, and I love their electronic records system - I can view test results online, and if I'm referred to another doctor, the other doctor has instant access to my records.
Unless it actually impacts the use case of the application, and has been confirmed by a profiler that is indeed the case, it is just cargo cult optimizations.
They aren't, but they make it difficult to call Hong Kong democratic, with a straight face. Half of their legislature is directly elected by corporations, for Pete's sakes.
John Carmack was my programming god, back in the day. I would devour everything he wrote, which if I remember correctly, was on Usenet, but I'm so old my memory fails me now. Recently I found out that one of my friends was working with him at Oculus via Facebook, I was jealous beyond belief.
They can do this perfectly well with their internal tooling. Unix philosophy says nothing about whether those tools are written by someone else or not.
Having any kind of confidence in the peer review system is, in my opinion, horribly misplaced.

Particularly with regard to Nature, the following website might interest you: http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-journal/nature-retrac...
The headline on the LA Times is spot on. Could that be used instead?

California invested heavily in solar power. Now there's so much that other states are sometimes paid to take it
Interesting history!

>Sorting is a mostly "solved" problem in theory, but as new hardware emerges different aspects of implementations become more or less important (cache, memory, branch prediction)

This makes me wonder what other hardware tricks might be used for other popular algorithms such as ones used in graphs. I'm sure shortest path is also one of those algorithms that have been "solved" in theory but have a huge amount of research, but personally, what would be more interesting to hear about is something that isn't quite as easy. Something like linear programming with integer constraints or even something like vehicle routing or scheduling.
To anyone studying those areas, is there anything you find particularly interesting?
> “may violate” the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

Oh wow, just saw that. So Zillow is throwing everything at the wall including "she is hacking us".

Well one good thing is it looks like McMansion Hell's Patreon account will get bumped up with a few more zeroes at the end. And Zillow just gave her free advertising and in the process managed to embarrass themselves.

Doesn't anyone there do any kind of risk analysis? Even from their totally selfish corporate perspective, someone should have said "attacking a fairly popular blogger and accusing her of CFAA crimes and other crap is probably going to end up not benefiting us, and may hurt our reputation". It would seem like a no-brainer...
I wonder how they define a current customer. I haven't used Blue Apron for a while but, with a lot of these services, if you want to make it so that "don't send me anything else until I explicitly tell you to" you have to cancel.

Added: Interesting. I originally read orders as meals but it does seem be a typically $60-ish order. Which means that their typical customer does seem to be someone who uses the service as an ongoing subscription.

I'm not sure if I'm surprised or not but, assuming I'm reading their S-1 correctly, their customers seemingly tend to be all-in or they drop the service.
The first part sounds like it's solved by a combination of the $release-backports repo, and vendor repos.

The second part sounds interesting - sounds vaguely like using a chroot, so the 'target' just knows to run python, not which specific version its going to run, for instance?
but the person i replied to replied to a commenter lamenting the fact that there was nothing but java and c style development jobs instead of lisp inspired jobs. they weren't lamenting the lack of jobs specific to just common lisp. and to me, it doesn't make sense to "sneak in" an esoteric implementation of lisp on the jvm when clojure already exists. what makes people think that would be easier to sell at a place using java heavily?
It is a scam, but the reality is nobody will ever go to these domains, they will never be ranked in google or bing. So who cares. I could create a site called myfeedbacksite.com/google or google.myfeedbacksite.com.. same thing.
California is an expert at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
It's a bundled prepayment model, similar to selling gift certificates/cards or the like. Basically making money on breakage / float.

It's not just prepayment, but also a negotiated price that's lower than the average person can negotiate themselves.
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> Being a professional programmer is not an entirely stress-free job.

understatement of the year.
Not necessarily. TLDs don't rank any better than anything else. Google/Bing don't rank you just because you have a word in your tld. It's a minor signal.
Some would see that as a good reason to buy.
of course they're different. i didn't say or imply otherwise. the original parent mentioned both racket and common lisp, again different languages, so it was clear they weren't looking just for common lisp and were more generally wanting for some lisp or scheme type of job. and i was asking a legitimate and honest question, as i see ABCL to be a much more esoteric and hard sell than clojure to a place heavy on java development.
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I'm curious how many tries it took to get that. I've tried chopping up samples from piano music using onset detection and then recombining samples programmatically. The results were more interesting musically to me actually, but also not as reminiscent of a traditional classical / romantic piano piece.

So, this is probably the best RNN generated music that I've heard too but overall I'm still not extremely impressed.
defer can refer to and change the return values. This is useful, for example, when the deferred code can trigger an error that one wants to return, https://play.golang.org/p/MBmy9OocAG
Yeah, this is way more likely than paying 600. Amazon lawyers are a very very brutish sort. I've worked with them.

Another possibility is that the site is trying to give the impression big companies are paying so when they go after small fry it'll go easier on them.
Here in Paris, many people in their thirties are single like me, and many are on dating sites. I had a lot of dates on a french site called adoptecunmec unlike Tinder. After manual experiences, I started a script which notified me when new girls registered on the website, so I could message them before their inbox would be full. A lot of them were closing their account because of the insane number of lame messages.

I didn't finish this script because I decided to stop all these dating sites and focused on street drag. After work, I visit Paris (which I still don't know well) and talk to girls, as many as I can.

It's successful. I don't have this disapppointment on dates like you have with online dating, people don't cheat with their pictures. Of course, you take rakes, you get phone numbers and girls won't respond to you, but at least they won't next you as fast as online dating people do. Some figures: I would go out for 2 hours and get 2-3 phone numbers, thanks to weeks of practice.

Please stop online dating and get out, you'll get a pleasant time and this will be much less time-consuming.

PS:

- advices on street drag https://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/top/

- this youtube guy helped me a lot https://youtu.be/DTDrnasfg_g?t=330
thanks for confirming that HK is not a good place to start a high tech company. I totally agree with that.
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Not sure if it quite captures what you're saying, but I'd put Dwarf Fortress up as an extreme example. I guess it's not first person, so that takes a bit out of the metaphor.

I built guard squads over decades, and an elite vampire squad, all decked out in glittering steel. Watching the captain die to an animated finger of a fallen comrade was one of the most vivid video game memories i have. I still have some vitriol for that pink 'Ñ' as well. In retrospect, it's kinda odd, being ticked off at a letter. But that letter represented the forces of darkness that slowly overcame and destroyed what i'd worked for weeks to build.
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With respect, the HR department is there to protect the company, and not you.

If you give them reason to believe that they need to protect the company against you, then your remaining time there is likely to be short and fraught. And when you do leave, they will make sure you have no ground to stand on for complaints regarding diversity, etc....

If you can find or make friends there outside of this guy, you can potentially help them learn to lead by example, and thus he would become the outlier.

But everything depends on you and your personality, and them and their personality. How willing and able are you to gently lead them down the right path? How willing are they to learn what the right path is, and follow you?

At some point, you may have to decide whether it is worth your effort and pain to try to stay there, versus leaving and going somewhere else. So, I would encourage you to try and avoid burning any bridges if you can help it.

But sometimes there is just nothing you can do to save the situation, and so you may need to extract yourself.
Insurance is fundamentally a 'data' problem, if you can numerically analyze human interaction. I know insurance brokers, they definitely set up their book based on what they know about their customers.
Intel CPUs had the various "management" features for over a decade. Does anyone actually use them though?
That's been sort of my feeling when I've tried it.

Three fancy-ish meals during a typical week tends to seem like a bit much. I'm also cooking for one at least some of the time. On the one hand this usually gives me leftovers. On the other hand, I don't have the portion control I'd have if I bought the ingredients in the store and not all their recipes lend themselves well to leftovers.

On the other hand, I look at some of the services that more explicitly try to simplify. Those that do more of the pre-prep make sense to me but I also see recipes that make me go: "Umm, I could grab the three ingredients for that in 5 minutes at the store."

All that said, I'll probably give these things a try again when I have some periods at home. I don't actually have a good grocery delivery option where I live so it's easier to justify these services on that basis given that they can cut out a visit to the store.
I very, very rarely use named return values. My usual go-to problem is when one of the return values is an `error` that I want to set inside `recover()`.
I would imagine in a large enough acquisition like that Qt was probably at the bottom and wasn't even noticed much.

For example The Qt company makes about $30M in revenue and Microsoft spent about $7B for the acquisition. That's less than 1% of the $7B.
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I've been watching this language, but seems the ecosystem is small? Plus the libs I do find are 1-2 years old; I'm unsure of their compatibility, & I'm not a fan of beta testing anymore...
> Generally the self-determination of a population is opposed if that population is viewed as the same ethnicity as you.

"Generally" isn't the right word. "In mainland China" would be a better. In Europe there are separate countries that are more similar than different parts of China. It isn't even true amongst Han countries. Taiwan and Singapore are mostly Han and still want to remain independent countries from China. Also how does this logic apply to the parts of China that were not traditionally Han? China would never have taken them over using this logic.

> There's a feeling that once an ethnic group has been gathered together into the same nation state, none of them have the right to leave it. Thus in China today, it's no surprise that the Han population in China (or at least its Han-controlled government) would be uncomfortable with the idea of the Han in Hong Kong (or Taiwan) going in a different direction.

Hong Kong's destiny is clearly set, but your reference to Taiwan is a bit odd. Taiwan already "left". Taiwan's and mainland China have been independent countries since the end of the civil war (though many people play word games to pretend this isn't the case). So say it what it is. Mainland Chinese want to invade and take over Taiwan.
Even in 2017, with several uses across Symbian, Blackberry, Ubuntu and Jolla SDKs, Qt is lacking in regards to mobile OS API support.

Unless one is doing GUI apps required without integration with OS APIs or their native UIs, replicating everything in QML (C++ widgets are not supported) and writting JNI and Objective-C++ wrappers isn't that much fun.

Xamarin gets more love from app developers, because even before Microsoft's acquisition they had a whole set of teams dedicated to doing nothing else other than achieving parity with iOS and Android native APIs.
Not to be pedantic but TCP or UDP? I always thought games preferred UDP as it's much more efficient if you don't care about a fraction of the packages being dropped?
Looks like they were already found out in March...? (0)
How are they still up??

The company behind this (1), has .realty .forum .contact .pid and .observer and all the "sell" pages lookalike. Holy fuck this looks dirty.

(0) https://www.icann.org/uploads/compliance_notice/attachment/9...
(1) http://www.topspectrum.com
> It's not reasonable to fault EFF for pursuing her best interests.

That depends on whether you think the EFF's goal is more to protect the general well-being of Kate Wagner or to protect the idea that you can post pictures on the internet.

It's not reasonable to fault Kate Wagner for pursuing her own best interests, but what do those have to do with the EFF?
> Just to be clear — most VCs are also getting universal basic income from LPs.

Fancy definition of "universal" you got there.
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The ACK is also a transaction. Something like this:

1. Receive from server, commit state = NEW, UNACK
2. Send ACK to server, get confirmation from server, commit state = NEW, ACK
3. Start processing, commit state = PROC
4. Got results, commit state = FIN, UNACK
5. Send FIN to server, commit state = FIN, ACK

Each commit is a database transaction where you write the results of that step along with the new state. If anything fails along the way the work-in-progress is discarded along with the state change. The server has an equivalent so if it gets a duplicate ACK for the same (or earlier) state it can ignore it.

In this example, if the client crashes between 1-2, in #2 never gets confirmation, or crashes trying to commit the "NEW, ACK" state then it will retry. The server has already committed the fact that it sent the value to the client and is awaiting an ACK. If it saw the ACK and gets a duplicate it ignores it. If it never saw the first ACK then it will see the second(+) attempt and commit that it saw the ACK before sending confirmation to the client.
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Can the TLD just be blackholed by major DNS providers?
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In all seriousness, you should lurk in the Ethereum subreddit instead.

We have our share of cheerleaders who take the black and white "this good, that bad" position without evidence, but they're not dominant, and we have a far larger proportion of developers who are interested in building cool technology and are able to look objectively at the problems involved.
just lodged a complaint on icann.feedback, should fix it.
no more from the tier-1 cities. go to internet forums with good number of residents from Shanghai/Beijing, see how many posts are still about their shopping experience in HK. 10 years ago, I'd be seeing a couple each day on the front page, now you'd be lucky to have one in a week.

it is also questionable to believe that there are better selection in HK - the sheer number of affordable consumers and their aggregated purchasing power determine where those tier-1 brands go.
Like the US for instance. The British empire has a pretty dark past too.
I think you nailed it, and that's why vantage points matter. Sitting from a VC's vantage point, it seems like every successful founder who comes through the door to pitch you has a deep sense of purpose.

The reality is that by the time a founder has even entered the door of a VC, the persuasion is perfected to an incredibly obsessive level by necessity and through trial and error. It's to a point where even the founder starts seeing their own revisionist history as actual history...because there's really no other option. There's nothing wrong with this - it's extremely rational and a normal consequence of the environment. When you pitch that often and craft your story that often of course you will buy into it more and more over time regardless of the extent to which you bought into it initially.

It's really the attempt to understand this phenomenon from the wrong vantage point that is flawed - as you pointed out.
Well they word it differently I'm sure.
And post IPO, pension funds and 401k's crowd in, give the VCs liquidity... Thus completing the cycle and enabling the VCs to do it all over again.
I never understood why the term "life's work" tends to be singular. There's something defeatist to it.
Google Fiber is a part of Alphabet, though...
Exactly. If China wants to be a first class world power, they need to learn how to manufacture consent like the CIA.

Right now they are having a hard enough time trying to control their citizens. They won't be a superpower until they topple a few democratically elected governments first.