skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen some people in this field, I don't know how mature is their research but they're not joking. Funny that they still encounter resistance based on superficial argument and lack of renown.
The Buck Institute [0], featured in this article, is a pretty outstanding organization -- they're unique in being a sizable research center devoted to researching aging. I'm excited to see their idea of age-related diseases as biological maintenance problems gaining some traction.

I'm not entirely sure where the interviewer was going with this statement, though.

> There’s a lot of Silicon-Valley buzz about longevity and many startups working to develop immortality pills.

I've yet to hear of a startup working on an "immortality pill."

[0] - https://www.buckinstitute.org/
This makes his assertion a politically motivated non sequitur.

Only if you incorrectly assume a particular intention on my part. However, if you take what I said at face value, it's simply a valid observation. I think it's one of the most important and fundamental observations to be made: that of the power dynamic. Feminism has much to say about such power dynamics. I think your bias is clearly showing.
this article recently posted on HN is addressing this http://programmingisterrible.com/post/162346490883/how-do-yo...
On my white phone it looks bad, but on my black phone it works - I wonder what the dev had? ;)
The application looks pretty nice, I would highly recommend releasing a version in the future that also runs on the iPad and iPhone that automatically syncs (iCloud integration) all of these to capitalize on the opportunities that await you. I would also recommend making this available in the mac App store to increase the visibility of your application.
The people accused of harassment in this article are VCs, not "social isolated tech-types", so I don't think your statement is relevant at all.
Agreed. Avoid any software consulting job where someone technical isn't in the feature design phase. It will suck your soul out, crush it, and then the project will fail anyway.
I've been digging a bit into Dart as I've read through Fuchsia's docs and poking around with the source.

It looks like a great language, but I think it hasn't done well on the web because it has very poor interop capabilities with JavaScript and its ecosystem. I'll note that I haven't dug that deeply into Dart, so maybe there's some great resources I've simply missed so far.

TypeScript and Flow are both great options because they work completely with existing codebases. They can be adopted gradually and integrate well with the ecosystem.

Another language that looks promising is Reason [0]. It's still very young, but they seem to be working hard to create an awesome language with a great interop story. Check out their getting started [1] guide. Most of the info related their interop is in the BuckleScript User Manual [2].

[0] https://facebook.github.io/reason/index.html

[1] https://facebook.github.io/reason/gettingStarted.html#javasc...

[2] http://bucklescript.github.io/bucklescript/Manual.html
Yeah, I agree in what concerns the mobile space.
Well starting of with your question to how to focus on one field or idea. I would say just by thinking this kind of product would give xyz$ a year of something is really a bad practice.

Starting or working on an inception or idea requires huge amounts of market research and ability to analyse the effort you can contribute to make your product or service an everblooming money making machine. Even if you think of hardware and software product with AI and robots and while you might have great idea but if you don't give your efforts back to the business you won't end up well. Your efforts will come to great value when you decide and make decisions into what drives your interest. Even a mediocre idea can be turned into multi million dollar business.

The whole point lies in whether you would contribute vigorously to make your idea into money making machine. This will mainly depend upon your situation and decision taking capabilities. Start thinking on your situation to decide which idea will favour you the most and whether your interest lies into that idea.

And even if everything goes wrong with your decision, start working on another idea. You never know where that idea will end up taking you with.
There's a big gap between "fuck that" and "fuck you", actually.
I wouldn't call him crazy, just... peculiar.

Displaying scantily clad women in the workplace in any shape or form would most certainly warrant an HR action. As a manager of an offending individual I'd certainly be the 1st one to react.
The factory jobs were doomed anyway. Look at American steel production. We produce 80% of the steel we used to, but only employ 20% of the workers. And in a few years it will probably be a lot less than that because of improving automation technology. Does it really matter if it was a Chinese or a robot that took your job?

Economically it's superior. If a robot, or a Chinese factory, can produce goods cheaper, why not take advantage of it? Cheaper goods benefit everyone. The pie isn't finite. A more efficient economy means a bigger pie, not fewer slices.
Not if the GPU is blacklisted for whatever reason, in spite native games not having any issue with it.
Better for who - better for Americans? Or better for the world?

This is the free market in action. It has dictated people want chinese goods more at their price point than american goods at theirs.

The overall quality of life worldwide has gone up. 96% of the world's population - 7.2 billion people are not American.

If you are a human being you should be happy humanity is better rather than selfishly worrying about the 4% of the world whose lives improved less than the rest.
We are still stuck in the past:

1 - Machines use a Unix filesystem model even cruder than the Multics model it was derived from

2 - Network services and especially micro services essentially use an object model (mostly JSON)

3 - And with phones, sandboxes, containers and security concerns, applications are reverting to file silos (where a given app's data won't interoperate with other applications). This happens at a macro level too where the FBs of the world understandably want to rope you into their "walled silo".

Is it even possible to embrace a more flexible and powerful model at this point or are we stuck?
Just a Standard N.D.A
> This means taking consistent backups is not straightforward.

And they're not even straightforward to begin with...
Is it this?

https://www.demandrush.com
"Creating value" is a vague concept, but from the context we can be pretty sure it entails aggressive self-promotion, which is a nuisance for your audience and does not benefit them. That's why it's a red flag.
This is the problem with a welfare state: it makes industrial and border protection into an absolute necessity.
>You'd need tens of thousands to make a dent in a business account

I already made clear that the cost per attack per address is 1 Satoshi + transaction fees, which is around $1.5USD in today's network conditions. You only need to pull off one successful attack to taint an entire business account.

>a business account would simply call up the exchange and tell them what happened

And a drug dealer on a Silk Road clone can just call up the exchange and tell them that some strange bitcoins landed in their account and that they have no idea how it got there, but they sincerely hope that it won't affect the withdrawal of their other completely legitimate bitcoins.
Swing is only a shitty UX framework in the hands of unskilled UI developers.
Here's a high-level article about performance in general, but it shows how a UI and query could map to (for example) a function-driven API (this could be local to the server or remote):

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/optimizing-your-graphql-requ...

Examples more specific to a particular backend technology feel redundant because my assumption is that once you're in the land of calling functions, we don't need to hold your hands anymore.

The most important thing is to be aware of the different batching strategies that are available to you in each GraphQL implementation because I believe this is the most critical part of getting a GraphQL server to perform well with anything other than a graph database.
Both bettermotherfuckingwebsite and motherfuckingwebsite have seriously brightened my day, thank you for that :)

>>Sadly there is this trend of designing sites in reverse and people doing all the CSS and JavaScript first, and only when they're ready they start adding actual content.

So, I find this to be really true. Maybe because it's easier to present a code solution to a design problem than it is to present a design solution to an extrinsic problem? But, this is exactly the problem I want to solve. I want to watch a screen cast of a designer solving a design problem the same way I can watch a screen cast of Ryan Bates solving a Rails problem.
That's the thing with these kinds of situations, whatever the OP original intentions had been, they don't matter anymore as soon as the other party thinks he/she is being "hit on" and feels offended about it.

If the other party is actively looking to be offended, then there's literally nothing one can say/do to make it not worse, just walk out of the situation in silence and take a break.
I also am not aware, but given this is the NYPD, isn't there an opportunity for the developers to become unionized?

And I wonder, the software developers for the larger trade unions, do they get under the union umbrella or do they get the short shrift form the unions they would work for?
You say "women aren't being kept out," but then admit there is a "social stigma against women going into tech." Which is it?
you don't improve efficiency by working your staff longer hours
Awesome link, thank you!
Great interview. I thought his comments about the upper limits of human lifespan were especially interesting:

> There currently is an upper limit, and the upper limit is probably around 115, 120. You have a very large number—100 billion people to choose the number of people that have ever lived—and you have only one who has made it through to 122, Jeanne Calment. The second oldest was 119. It does seem there is an upper limit. Some people have shown that in the last hundred years, even though we have progressively increased the average lifespan, the number of people who live above 115 has not increased.

I also couldn't help but think that his remarks about immortality being the naughty "I-word" is a roundabout way of addressing some of the excitement stirred by a certain slightly sensationalistic wizardly chap in the aging field.
OpenBLAS: An optimized BLAS library
Freakin' cool stunt dogs at Six Flags
Reasons it's still illegal

1. Pharma lobbyists

2. Private prison lobbyist
This looks handy, I've got a 3COM Etherlink III and mbrutmans TCP stack in my IBM PC but it rules out a lot of older software that doesn't know anything other than a modem.
> am I missing some sane way to do a cost-benefit-analysis for cannabis policy that winds up showing costs (or negative externalities) that are big enough to conclude that criminalization is the best answer?

Yes, you are missing one thing: you classify "locking up millions of people" as a cost. For those who created and are perpetuating this practice, it is considered to be a benefit, not a cost. Consider private prisons, for instance: they would go bankrupt without such policies. Consider also that it is overwhelmingly black people, or hispanics, who go to jail on minor pot-related charges. A fundamental purpose of these policies is to provide the ability to lock up millions of colored people. Without this policy, the legal persecution of minorities would become more difficult.

The criminalization of pot is fundamentally about institutional racism. Yes it's expensive for the taxpayers, but the racists in power consider the price tag to be worth it.
yeah, that definitely sounds like an appropriate question in that context, then. sounds like the problem isn't with you there :/
Used Relay Classic for a year and a half, been using Relay Modern for a month or so. You are absolutely right, the documentation situation is terrible. The fact that the new mutation API has practically zero documentation is troubling.

I've been sticking with it though, and I am enjoying it. I feel like I have a greater grasp of what's going to be executed and when than I ever did with Relay Classic, and the file size + performance improvements are worth the cost of admission in my mind.
> They weren't able to automate away the expensive process of having Forward Deployed Engineers do data integration work.

Enterprise in a nutshell.

And honestly, not what the customers want. If they're hiring you in the first place, they generally suck at tech. So they'd much rather have "Stanford grads on site every day" as proof of how they're spending money.

So it's a non-starter for Palantir's management when they're looking at existing customers and their desires, and the continuing trickle of naive tier 1 undergrads. Just keep the company cool enough to attract the crop under Google, Amazon, & FB...

And if the customers don't want 100% software data integration, then why spend a lot of money to automate 85% of it?
It's not fainting couch feminism, it's pragmatic feminism. These interactions happen in a context where peoples' livelihoods, their hopes and dreams, are on the line. Are you going to expect them to jeopardize that by overtly calling someone out?

I am a bit amazed that simply expressing your preferences when overtly asked is to be thought of as "calling someone out." If a coworker was to always pretend to agree with you on all matters of taste, I'd think of that person as spineless. Yet, most matters of taste are far less important than preferences of companionship.

At worst, it can result in negative repercussions

Nowadays, the phrase, "I don't feel comfortable with..." has negative repercussions in the same league.

If you consider yourself a decent person, why would you put someone else between a rock and a hard place like that? There are literally billions of women on the planet, and 99.99% don't work with you/for you.

If you read the thread, you will discover that no one was working for anyone, and this was for a volunteer organization outside of work.
How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
CC0 is not a great license for code weirdly enough. OSI never approved it as an open source license because of a clause about patents. https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero
Nice link, thank you! It's a fair point, maybe I have not copied enough and am trying to run before I can walk.
Racism can be used to justify a lot of senseless, expensive actions...
If you already had a need for a durable database, and so you properly implemented Postgres streaming-archiving + disaster recovery, at much personal effort for your tiny startup... and you now need a durable queue as well... then "just installing Redis" won't get you there. You'll need to that whole ops setup all over again for Redis. Whereas, if your queue is in Postgres, the ops problem is already solved.

If you have a full-time ops staff, throwing another marginal piece of infrastructure on the pile isn't much of an issue. If you're your own "ops staff of one", each moving part of your infrastructure—that you need to ensure works, to guarantee you won't lose client data—is another thing slowing down your iteration speed.
If you got "boys will be boys" out of what I said, you obviously didn't read very far. Feel free to read the whole post and make half an effort to see what I was saying. I also didn't say there shouldn't be consequences.

Not that it matters much, you've already wrongly assumed how these people work. You're free to do that, but if you don't understand what motivates someone's behavior, your efforts to improve your own situation or that of your allies is doomed to be counterproductive.
I'm going to get downvoted to hell, but I love that we both used throwaway accounts to respond similarly at the same time.
Me too.

I think for most young people it's obvious that cannabis should be legalized and regulated like other "vice" substances like tobacco and alcohol. I'd stop short of wanting to legalize "hard" drugs, but I would like to see a focus on addiction treatment rather than virtual criminalization of the addicts --I'd still be for criminalization and controlled distribution of drugs that can have immediate deleterious effects on people's health, wellbeing and functionality. Alcohol, while dangerous, unfortunately is well ingrained in society, so even though it qualifies as dangerous, it might have to remain an exception, given it would be hard to extirpate (see prohibition in the various countries and its lack of success).
Is this how discrimination ends
> Marijuana smokers will still face fines of up to $600 if they light up in public places, including casinos, bars, restaurants, parks, and concert halls, and driving under the influence of the drug remains illegal.

Anybody know if that includes when you're in your hotel room or just on the open casino floor? If so, does "non-smoking room" apply to marijuana as well?
No, but the masses are not complaining. It is as it is most people think I guess. I find it false advertising but apparently not false enough to be illegal. What I find more annoying though that they don't have plans for people who actually want to pay. If I want a subscription for 5TB/month, why can't I pay (as in reasonable, so like it works for other things; if you buy a lot it gets cheaper, not crazy expensive flatrate per mb as it is now) for it even if I want to? I mean I get 25gb for E29/mo here; why can't I just pay E100 for 100gb?

(Also the companies are too big; with my local internet provider, a small company, I made a deal that if I pay 1 year in advance for the most expensive sub, they would ignore my usage. Fine with them.)
The ban on the recreational use of marijuana isn't based on a cost/benefit analysis. It's just something that remains law, because trying to repeal it is not politically beneficial (yet), and potentially career-limiting for a politician.

I suspect that the sunk-cost fallacy (or similar flaws in human reasoning) plays a role as well. Decriminalizing something after it has been highly illegal for decades means coming to terms with the fact that that policy was wrong and a waste of tax payers money — i.e., if it wasn't, why repeal those laws? That's not something policy makers like to do (consciously or otherwise), because of a fear of how it will reflect on them.
I thought it was pretty clear, but the proposal is to close accounts that receive a significant number of mixed coins. That "significant" part is important -- it varies per account. Obviously it needs to be high enough to fend off trolling, but low enough to fend off laundering. That's not a difficult proposition; it's equivalent to fraud detection that credit card companies employ.
Programming is terrible–Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012
This is all well and good if you live in a wealthy family in the US. However, the global economy means nothing to me if my entire family is seeing a declining quality of life, I have to wait for years and go tens of thousands of dollars in debt to find a good job, and I live in fear of getting sick because I don't know how I'll afford it. That's why my priorities are for my family first, country second, and global "community" last.

If globalization is needed so badly to lift the world, we need to find a way to change it in a way that doesn't destabilize us in the process.
And the DEA.
This is a very sincere question: Where in your link does it show that literacy rose due to throwing money at the problem?

I am failing to find that assertion on the page you linke and that isn't my understanding at all of growing global trends in literacy, which are rooted in much more complex trends away from subsistence cultures and agriculturally based incomes. Furthermore, reading is a skill that is vastly different from the problem where talented educated women with ambitions cannot get their foot in the door because most men see them exclusively as sex objects. This is not solved at all by teaching women to code. Plenty of women code. They still face horrible problems due to sexism.
Presumably, as an implementor of an Objective-C compiler, I would choose how to compile methods, and I might just choose to compile methods to functions taking (something memory-compatible with) va_list.
The "gateway drug" myth.
Also, the NSA is funded by government debt. One of the reasons we got off the gold standard was government spending in the first place.
Ira Glass is one of my heroes. It's both inspiring and depressing that you would remind me of his approach; his is the hard way for sure, but maybe the more rewarding one in the long term if true understanding/mastering is what is desired.

Your points below are also excellent. Thank you very much!
You did not get it, so she informed you flat out about how she really think about the situation. You got angry :).

You weren't there, so you're clearly projecting. I didn't get angry. I got very anxious. I didn't say a word. My heart rate went up. I started picturing how my character was going to be impugned. Never did I say an angry word to her. As a matter of fact, we clarified the whole situation via email and we were later hanging out with friends at a convention party.

Now think how it would come across if you projected "you got mad" in a similar situation to a woman. It would strike me as somewhat jerky and transgressive.
SELinux is more secure, flexible and comprehensive, so Debian should adopt it by default...
Anyway if AppArmor gets selected by default, I hope I can switch somewhat easily to SELinux if I want to.
Munchery earns money on every order in every city
> No, that's what you read.

I think you may have misunderstood my intent. I was just trying to say "FP can do these things too".

> Again, this kind of statement really sound like empty FP propaganda to me.

Right, so any type of even very modest support for X is "empty X propaganda". Can we please assume at least a modicum of good faith here?

> Or "abstract data types" is just Encapsulation...

Oh, so "semantics" it is then. Oh, well.

FWIW, I think I'm right in saying that ADTs were invented quite a bit before OOP & "Encapsulation".

I notice that you also didn't answer my question of what Composition actually means in OOP. Do you have an answer? I promise, I wasn't being facetious.
Married, two kids. I have time for projects. Although, if I'm honest, really no social life. I have about 3-5 hours in the evening in which I need to balance house work, projects, exercise, couple time.

It's only through management that I get anything done at all

I have an ideas folder, each idea gets a text file with a summary of the idea. I write it, I leave it for at least 2-3 weeks, often longer. If I still think its a goer after that, I flesh out out, spend time thinking about implementation

If an idea is to be explored, it gets a folder for prototypes, notes, resources etc.

There are people on here far more organised than me, and I plan to steal their methods.

Idea: An AI bot that sums up the main points from all of the answers on an "Ask HN" post
I don't believe this attitude is a US-thing. It's a human thing, regardless of education and background. Singapore, Russia, China, the UK, India, Israel, all have different levels of all the above and I don't see any one of them being an exception in this regard.
"Other times it's someone who has actually eaten with you but forgotten that they had seven beers with their steak."

I think you Bozo can't tell the difference of being drunk and having a hang-over from food poisoning. Tragic!