skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has it even been tried in a developed country in the last 100 years? The US has had distorted markets dating back to the 1930s at least.
The introduction with WW2 era radar and chaff was a great starting point and I think other privacy-related discussions and articles should follow suit: framing the whole discussion in relation to some real-world phenomenon makes it a lot easier to follow and understand, especially for non-technical people.
This probably explains why I'm often tempted to binge eat instead of working.
> The use of TDD at the class level, with mocking hell, is the cause of most of TFA's issues.

What's your approach with testing? Do you typically do E2E tests only?
Agree the academia-touted benefit of type-checking isn't that helpful in practice. But types help with documentation and tooling (completion, data-mapping etc).

Types are (apparently) crucial for large projects. However, the #1 benefit is speed, which I don't think Typescript can provide.

Sorry I can't quantify any of that.

EDIT I am curious why this was downvoted.
Specifically structural record types, and many statically typed languages don't have them. (not Java, not C++, not Haskell, not Rust, yes Swift, yes OCaml)
Can you like google around please? What I'm saying isn't as unsupported as you seem to believe.

You are talking about electric analog, I'm talking about photonic analog.

How is the brain mostly digital?
I always knew women had an unfair disadvantage in this industry. But I never realized it was this bad. This is a whole different level then I imagined, and makes me want to throw up. On behalf of my gender (im a male if that wasnt obvious from my lack of awareness) I would like to sincerely apologise. Women, please keep telling us these stories. Please have the strength to "go public" with this information. It helped me realize the severity of the situation, hopefully it will spread.
Why don't they just change the current +/-inf to NaN, and then have the adjacent values be -inf or +inf.

Or is that exception hard to implement?
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Hi everyone,

as I do quite a bit of public speaking I have been trying to hone my rhetorical skills. One thing that really helps me is listening to great speeches: "I have a dream", "Yes we can", etc. So I just wanted to ask around which speeches/speakers you would recommend watching or listening to?

I'm also open to reading suggestions, if you know any good books on the subject.

Thanks :-)
> objc_msgSend is written in assembly. There are two reasons for this: one is that it's not possible to write a function which preserves unknown arguments and jumps to an arbitrary function pointer in C.

Wow... this is a bit off topic but can anyone expand on this side note and explain why?

(Every Objective-C implementation requires assembly code?)
This is silly. Don't reduce me to some risk averse weakling because I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward. If you're like that, and you regularly go to Africa to help people, more power to you. I'm not. Most people are not.
This reminds me strongly the usual stories from Hollywood, the big music industry and even medical world.

We in IT are definitely not alone dealing with this bullcrap. I wonder why there's no more "unmasking" in these other sectors. Maybe the victims don't want to risk being unofficially blacklisted?
Don't forget you get a greater abundance of "meetups" type clubs and meetings than you did a couple of years ago, which can offset the reduction of "third spaces".

Ok, meetups are in my experience still a niche / nerdy occurrence but it is getting more and more main stream.
It is interesting to see how someone not familiar with these sorts of projects interprets this stuff.

The quote has nothing to do with who is trained in signal processing in the abstract, and everything to do with who has a detailed understanding of this particular machine.
It seems like this post is implying that Trump is on his way to becoming a tyrant, but for all of his faults and bad manners I have a hard time viewing him as more than a temporary setback or perhaps even a wake-up call for the establishment. Why do some folks apparently perceive him to be a threat to our democracy or otherwise speak about him in such dramatic terms?
If you've ever read U.K. media you'd know that they're far worse than us in terms of political ridiculousness. Not to mention far ahead of us in creating an Orwellian surveillance state.
You don't want logic gates.
The federal system was supposed to help with this by allowing various approaches in various parts of the country. I think the state of politics today is due to the nationalization of every issue.

If California and Texas (for example) each decided it was more important to govern themselves than each other, it would be lower stakes and more productive to talk about issues like this.
Recruiters also constantly write about how they are searching for "The best ...".

I mean, know many people who are better developers than me, so I'm certainly not the best. I'm always thinking "Then why write me??"

Sometimes they are hiring for a global corp and I kinda can understand that biggest players need the best people and also can pay the best people.

But when some recruiter comes and talks about how he searches the best talent for a job in some no-name company, I can't help but chuckle.

I worked for a few startups and the hiring managers always said two things "I need good people, but there aren't any on the marked!" and "I interviewed someone who was really great, but too expensive."
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Aren't these things too personalized for each project/developer to be worth hardcoded patterns?
I agree. I work with Java at my $dayjob, and I must say that the introduction of Java 8, as well as JavaFX becoming a de-facto standard Java UI toolkit, made this language much saner to work with for building anything GUI-based. It's no Common Lisp, but coupled with a decent IDE Java today isn't significantly less productive compared to other mainstream languages.
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This is a cultural issue where because of how we conceive of correctness we are trapped in an ever-shrinking emotional range that is more and more distressing yet offers no way out without also giving up the implied right to power that is derived from our sense of achieving authority.

Fucked unless we give up on propping up old ideas of the truth and what it's possession implies.
Real life is complicated. Who decides what is in their control? What if it's a combination?
The big thing I liked about Flow over TypeScript was the more accurate type checking. 2.4 looks like it has finally fixed that.
Happy hat-birthday America!
Eevee's Law: Facebook and Wikipedia could have been written in Brainfuck, as long as they can find enough smart people to mangle it. The fact that a major site is written in a language doesn't say anything about the quality of the language.
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Society gains incredible wealth from the desire to gain outsized credit for those we care about.

Economic evening can quickly become a poison.
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They aren't hardcoded, they are generated per project - if you mean the deployment target, that is.

As for the actual environments (deploy to S3, or Azure Tables, or have index.html in Redis), yes, those are slightly more personalized. There's a list of options to choose from though that cover most cases: http://ember-cli-deploy.com/plugins/
It's a nutty idea. America has no king. America needs no king.

But in fairness the presidency is a powerful position and has grown more so over time. And there are other ways of doing things. In some republics, the president is a fairly minor figure, largely ceremonial. Does that work better?
It's a _very_ selective dataset, this doesn't show much. The idea's cool though
It's pretty easy to tell if someone is interested in you. It's when you ask them on a date, and they say yes.

If they say no, the respectful thing is to drop it.

Do the respectful thing. This is really uncomplicated. There aren't any "ifs" or "buts" after that. The notion that this is the time to start wooing is absurdly wrong. That's the time to know you've been rejected, and move on.

Accepting rejection, incidentally, seems like something many of these VCs have trained themselves to be terrible at professionally.
> No 16 year old should have to pick up a second job so they can pay their parents rent.

I helped pay the bills as a teenager. It wasn't the worst thing in the world. It's not preferable, but it's not cancer.

> Nobody should have to take on their parents massive debt because their single mother got breast cancer in her early 40's.

Agreed on this, but at some point we're angry at nature, not society. I'm not sure at what point I'm supposed to be mad at society or individuals or whatever about natural disasters, disease, and death.
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The number one benefit is that it makes it painful to write certain classes of error prone and hard to read code.
I was wondering does this make it possible to use proposals which have support in babel but not yet in typescript (e.g. do expression) when writing typescript?
where there's smoke...
While that's obviously not okay, I'd be hard pressed to come up with predominantly-male industry where that wouldn't happen once in a while. Over drinks with inhibitions lowered? Creeper's gonna creep.
>A shell needs to accomodate for both, but maybe we really just need better command line tools for simple hierarchial processing of arbitrary text file formats (ad-hoc configs, CSV, INI, JSON, YAML, XML, etc.).

Start with record based streams first. Text streams requires [buggy] parsing to be implemented everywhere. It should be possible to have escaped record formats that allow the right side of the pipe to use AWK style $1, $2, $3, etc.

After removing the need to parse the fields, the next priority, imo, would be to introduce integral types so the actual data itself doesn't need to be parsed. u32 on the LHS can just be 4 bytes and then read out on the RHS as 4 bytes. This could save a lot of overhead when processing large files.

Only then would I want to get into hierarchies, product types, sum types, etc.
If projects were shareable then that would be nice, so I could share a report with a cofounder or advisor. Also having edit/view permission for people would be good to control who can edit the budget. And if you're going to do sharable reports, then live edit would also be amazing.
I'm not trying to say they're equal problems. I'm trying to say that the one problem contributes to the other. In your example, the one man who dated up creates that possibility in the mind of the groper in those other 1,000 incidents. It's like the 1 super lotto winner among the millions who bought tickets. The event doesn't have to be likely for people to think that they might get lucky...people generally suck at estimating risk/reward. If there are zero winners, no one buys tickets, but since someone wins, millions play.

In the same way, if those advances were never successful, these men would quickly get the message and stop playing. But that doesn't seem to be the case since it's still happening way too frequently. If we want to stop this problem, we need to figure out how to get the message through that even in the cases where the advances were welcomed, they still did something wrong. And that requires more than just laying into those unfortunate few that are unlucky enough to do this kind of thing to women brave enough to come forward. It will require calling out those instances where the advances were welcomed.
Is it "necessary"? Of course not. Lots of people have done without. I do find that it makes it more productive and easier to debug, especially if you're making something like a SPA with complex functionality.

Also, the point isn't so much that there is one major, hard-to-fix bug, but that there are lots of small ones that you never encounter.
Actual indictment is here:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/977606/...

The main thrust of the problem seems to focus on faked financial statements, as well as forging his online brokerage statements in an attempt to use his (fictional) stock holdings as collateral with the investor.
This is a very wordy paper that basically just says: People want to own their pictures (and associated (Facebook) comments/likes) and similar and want to know what happens when they delete them, and ownership may be the most important aspect to visibly preserve.
Oh yeah, that's another great point (although you're still stuck with the fact that somebody can access object properties by key).
Because he seems to be actually creating an oligarchy in the USA, firing and hiring people for top administration like he sees fit in order to concentrate power around him.
> Prices for things are certainly not set on open markets.

You say this, yet Americans pay twice as much for care that is of considerably lower quality than other civilized countries. Do you think it's a coincidence that in one of the most privatized for-profit healthcare industries in the civilized world, we pay more? Sure, other systems have issues and are not perfect, but that doesn't excuse America's substandard healthcare system.
That's bizarre. Also bizarre that they call it natural, as if anything is natural about these devices.
I think the article goes to certain lengths to explain that but yes that is certainly one part of it. I think another one, speaking as a minority, is simply one of not standing out too much. When most of your coworkers are a certain race and gender, one feels a greater impetus not to stand out too much simply because of that (i.e. gender, race etc.) but because of one's efforts, work ethic etc.
Maybe those material objects are also ways both kings then, and poor people now medicate themselves.

Think of how it was to be a part of royalty - there's a lot of isolation involved. Humans need social interaction. When we can't get it, sometimes we fill our lives with stuff that owns us. That doesn't work, so we try drugs.

Perhaps it's more like, we're not fighting the root cause of the problem: we're all lonely and scared.

No amount of money, or social status, or stuff is going to help us how to learn to love, and be loved. It's just going to make others envy us and envy isn't love.
I find the costs of static typing very low. What costs do you have in mind?
Does it matter? In analogy to other types of singularities the technological singularity is commonly defined as a point beyond which predictions about the trajectory of human development aren't possible anymore.

So, by definition beyond that hypothetical point all bets are off and any prediction is guesswork at best.
In some cases, that may be your legal job title. If the 4 person company has incorporated as something like a C-corp, you have job titles to pick from the articles of incorporation form. Of course you can make up your own titles, but the department of commerce (depending on state) is gonna want to know who your C*Os are.
That is actually not a bad idea. My only concern is such a position must not be hereditary.
Small, homogenous rural towns aren't so bad if you fit into the culture that is there. You'll always be an outsider, but it'll go well enough. It'll be a bit harder if you seem like an outsider, but if you are normal enough, this'll pass. Lots of folks will act friendly to you in the meantime.

However, if you are weird or alternative enough? Perhaps you aren't keen on religion? Or something similar? Yeah, these places can get pretty lonely and some of those folks don't extend their kindness to you... unless someone will see them.
> Outputting a NaN is easier than raising an interrupt

That's probably why the recent RISC-V architecture doesn't even give the option of raising an interrupt on floating point errors ("As allowed by the standard, we do not support traps on floating-point exceptions in the base ISA, [...]"). Going even farther, it also doesn't raise an interrupt on integer divide by zero (https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-s...). That probably simplifies out-of-order implementations, since the only things that can trap then are the instruction decoder (instruction fetch errors and invalid instructions), the load/store instructions, and special instructions (system calls, breakpoints, and like).

(It also doesn't propagate NaN payloads, always returning the same canonical NaN whenever an operation produces a NaN).
It helps detecting counterfeit blocks claiming some transactions never happened.

More specifically, it provides confidence that some minimum amount of energy must have been used to calculate that hash. As blocks n+1, n+2, ... are added, the amount of energy that must have been used to create an alternate history of transactions since block n increases. After a certain number of blocks have been added, the cost in energy to forge a longest chain that does not include some transaction (while that transaction does exist on the original chain) will eventually exceed the potential benefit gained by "stealing back" that transaction's BTC. Note that this doesn't guarantee such an attack doesn't happen, it just guarantees such attacks would be uneconomical.

Thus, the "energy waste" of mining is really more like a security limit on transaction amounts and latencies. As the energy used--more specifically, the cost of the energy used--for mining increases, Bitcoin becomes more useful for transferring larger amounts more quickly.
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Ask HN: “Software Testing execution on cloud” future?
Hey, I wanted to discuss the product fit one solition. Whether this is real world problem or not.

Software testing is moving on cloud, market is divided into two segment right now. Tools/framework for automation testing and when you build test suit, you need cloud to execute it.

There are tools like browserstack, saucelabs, Jmeter etc.

My questions are as follows:

1.) Do you really see test execution is real problem because setting up test infrastructure in house is expensive?

2) Do you really see you need to execute your tests on different browser, OS and devices? is this blocker in your test process?

How big you think cloud test execution market could be?
Decetralized learning is also possible.

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-c...
There's several way of achieving computation in this scheme. I'm not quite settled on which of these is the best. But why do you think that this property would be translated when going from electric to photonic?
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Everything required to add that to regular Javascript: transpilation, extra markup and understanding and mastering a new tool. Another layer to manage and debug if you will.
One case I ran into: using css-loader/style-loader for my css. TS doesn't understand importing css files, so that's where Babel comes in.

In the end i decided to stick to 'old-fashioned' SCSS with an npm script; the downsides of adding Babel to my stack weren't worth the upsides of css modules. Difficult decision to make though.

I guess what I'm saying is that while there is a use case, so far it's been worth it to just stick to TS without Babel, much as I wish it'd be different.
Apologies for the off-topic nature of this, but:

Something that's been capturing my imagination recently is sshing into a machine, pushing an appropriate shell binary to /tmp, and then executing it. If you have an exotic preference for shell (or vim config, or whatever), we've presumably generally got sufficient bandwidth these days to do a virtually instant user-space install and execution, no?
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Your wife is clear winner. I kind of like those titles.
It's hard to "prove" anything in discussions like this. Having been thrown in a few million loc projects, all written rather badly, I found it way easier to figure out what was going on in the ones with static types. At the very least, if you're inheriting an unknown codebase static types are in my experience a 10x speedup when measuring time to actually getting productive.
It's pretty bad in IT. Maybe worse than most other major industries today.
Unfortunately people are really bad at reigning in their own power. So whichever side holds the federal office will naturally impose their view on the rest of the country.
As an owner of both a Surface and an iPad Pro, I can confidently state that the stylus experience is much better on the iPad.

The stylus is a neat gimmick on the Surface, but usability suffered after they stopped licensing their stylus tech from Wacom. Sometimes it tracks the stylus when you’re not quite touching the screen, so you get messy little lines before and after your strokes. The pressure sensitivity isn’t very good either. It doesn’t track well enough to take hand-written notes at the scale you’d write on paper, so you have to write in huge letters. Microsoft should go back to Wacom.

As for Apple’s Pencil, it’s fantastic. It’s actually better than my Wacom Cintiq (admittedly, it’s a previous gen Cintiq. The new version may be better). The accuracy and latency are great, pressure sensitivity is excellent, and tilt sensitivity works well. The only bad thing is that you have to charge the stylus, but a full charge takes about 20 minutes.

So if I were Microsoft, I wouldn’t be using the stylus as a selling point, considering their stylus is way behind the competition. And seriously Microsoft, you have no business trying to develop your own stylus tech just to save a few bucks. Wacom has this stuff figured out, so just pony up the dough and be done with it.
There is another interesting article on msgSend,

its hacker news comments[1] may answer your question (I'm not sure)?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6984421
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Agreed. To me a "churn analyst" is meaningless. So are other titles in Finznce, Legal or HR.

I guess we just have more of them in tech, no matter how you think hard, a "full stack dev" is not something you can guess if someone has not explained it to you.
There were constitutional protections for exactly this reason. We just decided they didn't count any more.
We're all lonely and scared, and we all believe that we're the only person on earth who is lonely and scared.

We love to distract our own terrifying thoughts with stuff (work, television, busy social lives...), instead of learning how to handle an overactive brain that spends the majority of its time trying to scare us shitless.