skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this could be easily covered by an NDA though, and documenting the visit to Boeing. Plus, this is a physical product, I'm speaking more in terms of software patents where the friction to use is much, much lower. Perhaps my idea wouldn't work for general patents, but that's also not what I believe is horribly broken at the moment.

Thanks for the insight either way, great thought.
JS won't be entirely obsolete. You won't be able to access the DOM from WebAssembly. It will be way easier to make way more performant web apps though.
You don't have to maintain your own Docker image if you don't want to, though that's probably the best route for the fastest, most efficient build.

You can choose a base image (or machine, a VM), and then go from there. No custom Docker image.

Also, what's wrong with Discourse? It's not perfect but surely the best forum system around I think.

Aside from CircleCI Discuss, we also have actual Support and Docs.
Given that literally copy/pasting the sentence "less than one percent of people have the ability to choose individual stocks that perform better than mutual funds" into Google found a reference, it probably took me less time to find this than it took you to scoff in disbelief and ask that question :(.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/almost-no-one-can-beat-the-...

(Note that this article mentions multiple slightly different studies, so if you are the kind of person who is going to glance at one paragraph and then scoff in annoyance that it doesn't sound like quite the same statistic, I recommend you keep reading. You can start to quibble at the end ;P.)
This is the most regrettable college major in America
I think I did a cool game: Cruncher – Math and Numbers Brain Teaser
>students spent less than 5 minutes on average using the internet for class-related purposes (e.g., accessing the syllabus, reviewing course-related slides or supplemental materials, searching for content related to the lecture)

I wonder if that could be skewed, because it only takes one request to pull up a course syllabus, but if I have Facebook Messenger open in another tab, it could be receiving updates periodically, leading to more time recorded in this experiment.
I have a new Ryzen 7 CPU (you know, 8 cores, 16 threads), with 64GB RAM and for HDD a Samsung 960 PRO M.2 drive.

But when I went and plugged in an external Seagate 4TB drive, and tried to "dd zero" the s#it out of it, my whole system became unresponsive after a while, obviously I had to reset the machine as it wouldn't "kill -9" the process that made the system unresponsive.

Trying to type was a no go as keys would sometimes become "stuck". Moving the mouse around was an exercise in predictability too.

All this happened in the latest Ubuntu 17.04 64bit... #sadstory
You can also start with a base Docker image and then install any extra dependencies. Should be faster than the machine VM.
I'm still wondering why external drives are cheaper than internal ones.

It seems silly that if I wanted to buy an 8TB drive for my desktop I should buy an external and toss the enclosure.

My only guess is market pressure because of higher demand. Possibly externals drives are pulled from older stock? Does anyone have another explanation?
> Express might be 100% faster than Rails but it will take you 5 days just to get something running vs what you can do with Rails in a matter of minutes.

You should compare Express to Sinatra, not to Rails.

Express is ridiculously easy to learn, btw. Coming from Flask (under Python), i learnt Express in 3 hours. Seriously.

> Regarding the fast/slow it's simply bull-crarp, seriously. It DOES NOT matter for 99% of us. It simply doesn't.

Speed DOES (caps, emphasis) matters for many projects, in particular the projects that will go to real-life, to get massive use by consumers/common people. However, I do agree that for prototyping, startups, or simple apps that don't demand lots of performance, the speed of development under Ruby and its tools is a very important asset.

> I don't get the hate that Ruby and Rails are getting. Really don't.

Agree with you, one shouldn't "hate" Ruby, no reason, really.
Its funny that ECMA website is not more modern. Maybe they are too busy with the spec to change it. Who knows?
Enough "I" statements already. It's ironic how many people seem to think their personal experience is somehow relevant on a post about "critical thinking."

The ONLY sane way to answer these questions:
- Does math increase critical thinking?
- Does critical thinking lead to more career earnings/happiness/etc?
- When does math education increase critical thinking most?
- What kind of math education increases critical thinking?

Is with a large-scale research study that defines an objective way to measure critical thinking and controls for relevant variables.

Meaning you don't get an anecdotal opinion on the matter on your study-of-1 no-control-group no-objective-measure personal experience.
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But it can _start_ [what quickly becomes] a close relationship, first time I met my partner of multiple decades was for 2 minutes, you have to start somewhere!?
That's not the problem with MDN. MDN's big problem has been a confusion of out-of-date versions of documentation. It doesn't help that they've tried hard to get developers to use Mozilla technologies, from Jetpack to Firefox OS, which were then abandoned.

Firefox's drop to 15% market share has a big effect on developers.
I've watched my add-on usage drop in lockstep with Firefox's market decline.
I often run from usb flash drives, never tried a recent micro sd; I wonder how different they are in terms of everything.
KDE Neon is wonderful IMO.[0] I like the Ubuntu base but I never liked Kubuntu and I really didn't like Unity so I never used it much after they left Gnome 2.

[0]: but then again I always liked KDE except the 4.x series which was too experimental IMO.
You're conflating choice with canon/convention. The choice was made arbitrarily by someone. There was no convention at the time the arbitrary choice was made. The choice to use alliteration was as arbitrary as the choice of which Greek letters to use. There are other equally arbitrary possibilities.

Also don't confuse arbitrary with random. Having a reason doesn't mean a choice isn't arbitrary.

Bigger picture, maybe I'm misinterpreting you, but I feel like the logical conclusion of your argument is that nothing can change now, because canon. And yet basic math notations have changed throughout history.

It would take a lot of effort to change the summation symbol from sigma to something else. But if something else made learning math faster, the canon is exactly the part that needs to go, not an excuse to stop improving.
This is also called "package by feature, not layer" in Java.
They might ask what you've been doing for the past month.
Do you have a good answer?
Saying you're 'fully against policy X' while cooperating with someone who is implementing policy X is a self-contradictory position. It seems as if you're assuming different policies to be totally independent of each other and that there is some objectively good direction for the the economy as a whole which is clear to all.

I'm curious, do you feel the same way about insurance companies that expressed dissatisfaction with the Affordable Care Act and stopped participating in the exchanges, or do you view that decision as purely business-motivated?
This is a lack of AGC (automatic gain control) - usually even on the (shortwave and Ham) radios I've seen it on, its switchable, otherwise (in certain conditions, like rapid fading) you can end up with gain pumping, which can sound like the audio is surging.

What it normally does is reduce gain on high strength signals, and increases it on weak ones to give a constant volume level.

I'm honestly surprised the radios in general aviation craft are not so equipped, as its generally a standard part of most AM radios.
Isn't this "dip transform" basically the (inverse) Radon transform[0] used in CT and MRI?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform
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I'm sure a lot of people have read it, but it's the best book for me. The Tao Te Ching (I have the Stephen Mitchell translation).
Everyone interested in this should know the David Parnas piece on it from the mid-80s. Excerpt and link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13935004.

(I went to find the Parnas reference and realized it was on an earlier copy of the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929633, i.e. this submission is a dupe.)
See my other comment. It's an entirely novel approach to fluid scanning and includes 3d density scans.

http://www.romansystemsengineering.com/our_product.html
Frankly, if it weren't for the stupidity of the patent system, I don't know that Cloudflare would even have the patents. Has Cloudflare ever initiated patent litigation against anyone?

The fact is that most patents for things that are "invented" but entirely virtually don't really deserve patent protection. Rarely is there significant research, expense or tooling to implement. Patents on software, processes and most extension patents are ridiculous in premise. That's what trade secrets are for.
Good question. Right now I am using AWS spot instances + credits bought for Bitcoin. This makes the thing maybe 70 times cheaper than on-demand instances paid normally.

But when I go above several billions of images, I'll need some investment for sure :-)

Tineye indexed about 20 billions of images, and my estimates show that I should be fine with my own resources up to 1B. This is good enough to improve and test the tech
The article isn't compelling. I'd argue most scripting languages, including Ruby are too slow for many situations. The author is thinking of one request. What if I have multiple Ruby APIs to hit? 100ms for each one adds up quickly. The frontend being a mess of many megabytes and taking 15 seconds to load is also not an excuse to make the backend shitty. Fix the front end, then the backend speed will matter. Yes, there are other considerations, but these days there are plenty of languages to choose from for the back end that offer memory management and instant reloading of code like Ruby and other scripting languages while being quite a few times faster. They also offer a chance to escape with a decent app in case the company you're working for hired a bunch of idiot architects that put in database wrapper code that takes 10x as long as the database itself to run and you don't have time or resources to rewrite the last four years worth of work in a faster language with a proper architecture. I personally cannot see choosing Ruby or any similar language (PHP, Python, JS) in the future for webdev stuff.
This account seems more like poor planning on part of the lawyers. I would assume representing a client would imply a sort of temporary boycott on the part of the lawyers towards the client's legal adversary.
> why is it even the case in the first place?

1) Because VCs were working on 'fixed income' 2) because they could. The standard deal historically is "2 and 20", i.e. the VCs get paid 2% of the fund raised per year, and the first 20% of the profit. That 2% is used to pay for salary and office space, and doesn't increase until you raise a new fund, and the 20% isn't realized until the fund ends in 10 years. So pushing the cost onto the startup saves them a decent amount of money when you're doing dozens of deals a year.
At multiple GHz large die also creates complications. And it is also problematic for yields, hence $13k price for one of the top SKUs
> , I produced a full working system with full UI, REST API, 100% coverage, rolling data import, containerisation and deployment scripts for all services, pseudo-branding, documentation, GitHub organisation with repo per service, and to top it off, deployed it to a $5 droplet and provided credentials.

In 8 hours that's very impressive. Thank you for your feedback. I wasn't aware that remote companies gave coding assignments, but it makes sense.
How many of those immigrants were sponsored by a corporation or investor and restricted in how and where they could work by the terms of their employment?

How many came here as free and full members of the workforce, allowed to pursue their own career paths as they saw fit?

There's a huge difference between supporting immigration and employer controlled visa programs.
"Work together as much as possible to do what's best for the country" -- this is a two-way street. Do you believe the Trump administration is sincerely trying to work with anyone?
Basically, there is no longer any concept of `pre` or `post`. The reason being, they were `pre` CircleCI inferred commands and `post` CircleCI inferred commands. `override` meant instead of inferred commands.

In CircleCI 2.0, there is no longer inferred commands. You just run the commands you want.
>The real solution is to either make sure prior art and non-obviousness requirements are properly enforced or just dismantle the whole thing as unworkable.

Obviousness is the key issue for me. I suspect most people, even those who work in the technology fields, are not aware that it is considered essentially impossible to prove obviousness (source: I have worked as a consultant on several patent litigation cases). So you have the ridiculous situation that almost everyone in the relevant field believes that almost all patents granted are obvious, but almost no litigation succeeds in finding that same conclusion.
> A code of conduct is required for a healthy community to scale up

Only if it's rigorously enforced, as few CoCs are. This is a great test case for setting boundaries on this CoC. There's nothing worse than a toothless/selectively enforced CoC, as it can be used as a cudgel to bring people in line and then ignored by people in power.
Students are also better off without forcible teacher's unions and federal curriculum mandates; no chance of hearing about that.

Maybe the best way out of this mess is vouchers.

If the schools are functioning, it should be obvious to them that the laptops are not working out.
> This is mostly symbolic. The annual ECMAScript 'editions' aren't very significant now except as a talking point.

A spec is never symbolic. If a library claims it implements ES2017 then its consumer expects the library to follow the entire spec.
I'm more surprised that one of my old, known-to-be-insecure passwords is listed as "false". 6.5B passwords and it doesn't include the Exploit.In list (of nearly 600 million)? Quite surprising.

You may have been part of a leak but that doesn't mean you've been compromised because of the leak.

You may be able to find which account was leaked by checking your emails here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
This release also includes FaunaDB Developer Edition which is free and runs on your laptop.
Productivity. Functional programming is like ancient Latin to many programmers. The pool of people with prior experience that you can hire from is smaller and the learning curve for a new hire is going to be greater.
Disengaged and uninterested students will find a distraction; yes, perhaps a laptop makes it easier but my education in distraction seeking during middle school, well before laptops were even close to schools, shows that the lack of a computer in front of me was no obstacle to locating something more interesting to put my attention to.

The real solution is to engage students so they don't feel the urge to get distracted in the first place. Then you could give them completely unfiltered Internet and they would still be learning (perhaps even faster, using additional resources.) You can't substitute an urge to learn, no matter if you strap them to the chairs and pin their eyeballs open with their individual fingers strapped down, it won't do anything. It just makes school less interesting, less fun, and less appealing, which makes learning by extension less fun, less appealing, and less interesting.
This reminds me of the running gag in some college movie where the first day all the students show up.

The next cut some students come to class, put a recorder on their desk and leave, then pick it up later.

Eventually there's a scene of the professor lecturing to a bunch of empty desks with just recorders.

And the final scene there's the professor's tape player playing to the student's recorders.
So the single thread performance isn't _amazing_. The power consumption and multithreaded benchmarks AMD quoted were mostly correct.

Looks pretty solid. Sure not everything scales linearly with corecount but if your task does, it looks like AMD might be worth considering.
I guess this means it now gets enough attention? Last I tried (n years ago) it felt like a second class citizen.
Has Cloudflare ever initiated patent litigation against anyone?

No, we have not.
It was scheduled for 10-5 three days in a row, with a break for lunch, and a short break in the morning and afternoon. One of the days included a ~1-hour guest lecture from Michael Stonebraker, which did not fit into the lecture/problem set/review format. The last day fizzled out from the format a bit early, concluding with some random discussions.

Web page for the course here:

http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/
Hi everybody, I'm Vivian, co-founder and CEO of Sparrho. Thank you very much for your interest and feedback.

Our discovery engine focuses on making it easier for anybody to discover the most relevant papers to them as soon as they’re published - across all fields, regardless of the impact factor of its affiliated journal, or whether you're somehow connected to the authors by citation or social following (like in ResearchGate's news feed).

Some of you have commented we are not a publishing platform for open access journals and that's absolutely right. What we mean by curation on Sparrho is allowing experts to build pinboards that bring together peer-reviewed articles, patents, and their own expert summary to help others understand and explore niche fields of research, like PhD student Mark here: http://www.sparrho.com/pinboard/liquation-cracking-in-high-t...

Enabling open access to scientific research is nonetheless part of our long term mission. That will require collaboration, something that’s in our DNA as a company. Most recently we’ve worked with oaDOI to make 10 million free-to-access papers and author manuscripts discoverable through the Sparrho platform.

Following your comments, we've also tuned our quick search to a broader setting. @FTA, please try http://www.sparrho.com/search/climate%20change%20science/ again to see if the results are more like what you expected. We’re seeing >6.5k results for “climate change science” and >48k for “climate change”. :)

If you have any more questions, you can always reach me and my team at hello@sparrho.com or contact us on our Sparrho community Slack channel at http://heroes.sparrho.com
The thing that's real about real money is that you can use it to pay your taxes. You may talk about how you could, in principle, barter goods and services and account for everything in terms of chickens, but the IRS doesn't accept chickens.
> What if I have multiple Ruby APIs to hit?

Then hit them with multiple concurrent threads and move on.
This is addressed in the previous post in the series [0], linked at the top of this one. MDN is refocusing on exclusively providing solid, up-to-date web documentation, and all the old, obsolete, and Mozilla-internal stuff will be trimmed away or moved elsewhere.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/future-mdn-focus-web-doc...
it sells just fine if it's the only thing for sale
'mañana'.padStart(7, '1') => "1mañana" // ok
'man\u0303ana'.padStart(7, '1') => "mañana" // oops

You are being disingenuous here. Those are different strings, with different lengths (try copying this into the console):

'mañana'.length // 6
'mañana'.length // 7

The latter has two stacked characters. These issues are inherent to Unicode and `padStart` is treating the strings correctly. If you need normalization, use the .normalize method you mentioned yourself.

This is a major improvement: double-wide and stacked characters have been there since ES3, but now the language is providing standard tools to work with them.
If luminosity challenges have any consistency at all, then you would think that users must perform better on luminosity challenged themselves.
No one ever wants to remember that a couple years after she disappeared, pieces of a plane just like hers were found on an island a few 10's of miles short of her next stop. At the same spot the skeletal remains of a man and a woman were found with personal effects known to be hers. Someone (probably the family) wanted to keep that 'mystery' going with what was probably denial at first but became their own cash cow later.
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I believe he can have PAs under him writing prescriptions in his name also. For chronic pain I assume there's not much to evaluate but click "approve" in some medical information system.
Oops! Forgot about that. I assumed the OP was griping about Common Core.

BTW, "not even wrong" is a rather rude way to point out a misunderstanding.
Mediocre US-born programmers, rejoice!
> How many people were buying Fujitsu, Samsung and HGST drives before the acquisitions?

Many many many. But the purchasers weren't consumers or even businesses, but other storage vendors higher up the value chain (see: emc, netapp, etc).
Robert Kalpan: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

It's a part travel book, a part geopolitical analysis. In the hindsight, Kaplan was probably wrong on many things, and his views were US and West centric, but personally it was inspiring read, a travel book that was much more than a travel book.
There is such a thing as a too big font. I think it happens when you feel like you physically have to move back from the screen to comfortably read the text.
Honestly, Yocto is a complete mess and a terrible embedded OS system IMO. Buildroot is far better, and takes far less time to build.
> Nobody wants to have to go be retrained every 5 years

Or possibly on an ever-accelerating curve. Something's gotta give at some point.

> Permanent instability

Welcome to this brave new world.
Walking one hour a day is very good at restarting the body functions and having a routine can help immensely for work. So barring any underlying disease, I would start today from scratch and deliver a doable indie project in a week, without resorting to the internet for help. Rinse and repeat with a couple of longer projects in order to become 100% active again in a couple of months. Good luck and no sh*t!
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As I get older, I find that physical notes help me more and more. I write in fairly neat cursive, using a fountain pen, and make it a point to never write down the words I'm hearing unless they're an important quote or something. Doing this helps me process the information while it's still fresh in my mind, which in turn leads to more thorough understanding.
At least they included what kind of doctor they are in the results!
Tangential to your point, but JS numbers are actually 64-bit floats (capable of safely representing 53-bit ints), not 32-bit.

But yes, 100% agreed; this is a major pain point of the language right now. Nice to hear that there's finally some movement on fixing it (as per arthurdenture's comment)!
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I don't think that's true.
Perhaps we need to establish some sort of obvious-evidence protocol? Some kind of common sense argument that can be presented in the court of law and weighed against other evidence?

Example: Someone steals an apple to feed their hungry child. Yes, it's a crime, but sending the parent to prison isn't a solution; the child is still hungry, and now both of them will to varying extents have to be cared for by the state, all over a 59 cent Apple.