skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a difference between the firmwares that like the b43 driver uses, and the ones that the brcmfmac driver uses. I've got a laptop with a bcm4312, and it's got a very different-looking set of firmware files than the ones used in my Pi3.
Would you have any sources for this?
Worth mentioning that the page takes keyboard arrow input to move around.

Very smooth, thanks for sharing!
I think it's more nuanced than that and one can consistently hold both viewpoints at the same time. You just need to have the experience that a soa-first approach is even worse than the ball of mud.
A dude I used to work with changed his name to "Nobody In Particular." It was hilarious. Reminded me of the movie "My Name is Nobody.
I didn't believe the rumors at first until I saw his paycheck come through the mail line.
Just checked my copy of TurboC++, which is a single 867kB EXE (how does that work on a 640k system?)
No matter how you look at it, the UK loses. And most people don't give a fuck, they think Brexit is over.
> It doesn't have to be about immigration, that's silly.

I said "demand can only be controlled through restriction on immigration...". For example, if the Bay Area wants to control demand to keep house prices lower, it has no ability to that because it does not have a border. It cannot stop people moving there. Only the federal government can do that at a national level by controlling how many people can cross the border to immigrate. And as a second matter influence birth rates through public health programs (but birth rates aren't a problem in the USA).

> The US currently had supply and demand issues amongst it's growing and declining cities.

Yes, but cities and states cannot control demand. They can only control supply.
Just the mainstream programming not changing that much does not mean that the guiding principles were right, it just means that the original ideas of computers and programming worked well enough to sustain themselves and win and maintain the place of mainstream way of automating things with computers.

Once conventions are set and basic computer systems (platforms) get built, building anything new will most probably be done in the same paradigm, even if there is a better way of doing things.

Consider the C language, which was very successful and today is a mainstream language via which we develop and control vast majority of computer systems. Programming in C today is, I think, very similar to programming in C when it was introduced. Would you say, considering the experience of those decades, that we use C because the principles of C were right? Or did we just get stuck with it because it was good enough in 70's and now it's too hard to detach ourselves from it?
Any title that ends in? -> The correct answer is No.
Code samples for each language would be appreciated
Regarding nazis, this just happened at a Forbes 100 company. Brand new office promised tailored to the workers needs. There was only one crystal clear wish, please not make it open plan. The management stated they will respect the workers decision 100% with just a little adjustment. It will be open plan.

In my experience open plan fetishism is clearly management driven.
Because it's unsafe to depend on Earth providing said sperm and eggs - that a highly technologically advanced civilization as the Roman Empire could basically disappear with all their knowledge (e.g. running water, sewage channels, street building and other) in less than a hundred years should be a warning that this can also happen to Earth now. All it takes is an all-out nuclear war, an asteroid strike or a catastrophic volcano eruption.

And I'm not sure if it's wise to send sperm/eggs via space craft... while "inside a human" the cells are protected from radiation and especially they're (re)generated, not so much when they're frozen in space.
That op-ed was mocked mercilessly.
Because it's a joke. It's just not Python. Not half of the Python libs work on those things. You don't have serious introspection, most of the stdlib is missing, the stack trace doesn't work as expected, you can forget about async / await and yield from, etc.

To run Python in the browser correctly, you need the entire 3Mo Python VM. Transpiling is not enough because Python semantics are complicated as it is very, very rich.

Comparatively, js is incredibly basic.
What's the definition for contributing to open source code here? Is it publishing code (ie pushing to a public repo on GitHub), putting in the effort to maintain/market it, identifying reproducible issues in other open source projects, submitting patches/features to existing open source?
because it seems like the 'deeper' problems he seems to be facing are rather quotidian (not being properly valued by management? not being taken seriously by a romantic partner?) Hell, some of us should be so lucky as to get a job or a romantic partner in the first place.
Sad. I guess this will give her legacy some attention.
The way you think is very dangerous.
I chose them a long time ago for reasons I don't remember. It seems to be working well so I don't see a reason for changing. I would probably to something open source now.
I'm not convinced that making finance more expensive produces any winners.
It's different, because the HR manager closed the door by preemptively assuming Maria wasn't up for it. My point is that if the manager and the employee both fully buy in to the possibility of a productive future, that's a necessary (but certainly not sufficient) condition for success. In that case, some type of explicitly shared strategy for getting there is crucial.

But yeah, if you, as the manager, have decided it's a lost cause, it's best to just go ahead and initiate the separation. In that case, I agree with the HR guy.

And I certainly agree with you that in many instances, the PIP is a reflexive CYA move from management or HR.
While an important issue, the article states that it is still in the proposal phase.
>May we please have a black bar?

Why? Would her life be any more or less significant with a minor change to the stylesheet of a fringe web forum, or less without?

Memorial threads here are bad enough (although in this case obviously on topic and I won't be protesting too hard), but the pointless value signaling of demanding a black bar to validate a person's death needs to stop. The only thing the black bar does is contribute to arguments about whether and why someone is black-bar worthy or not.
I'll also plug my own canvas rendering 3d library: http://seenjs.io/
6 Odd Ways Top Entrepreneurs Found Success Going Against the Grain
Even a name close to a famous one can attract attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp2JntuZ3c
A minority shareholder can force a liquidity event. For example, the founder gives 5% to a valued employee who after vesting and several years of company growth gets a divorce. Husband wants his 50% community property interest in those shares and the employee minority shareholder doesn't have enough cash. Court forces a sale.

Alternatively, employee pledges the shares as security for a loan and then defaults. Lender forecloses.

My point is this: there are ways for a minority shareholder to force a liquidity over the objections of the majority shareholders. Therefore those shares have value.
Compare the economic vibrancy of the Boston metro area (all the way out to Rte. 128) with the San Francisco Bay area (including Silicon Valley). Boston is a major educational hub, with some 250,000 students at a time at many universities and colleges including MIT and Harvard. And yet, the SF Bay area has left Boston in the dust when it comes to startup creation. There's nothing in Boston comparable to Apple, Google, or Facebook. And Boston was once a major hub of the computer industry, with Digital Equipment, Data General, and several smaller manufacturers -- that's all history now.

This is pretty strong empirical evidence that although enforceable noncompetes may be better for existing companies, they are a drag on the regional economy.

(Taking your current employer's clients is not exactly the same thing -- IANAL, but I would think that would be covered by the trade secret protections.)
I can't even begin to understand how it's not immediately apparent to you that after five, six, or more years at a company, people might be sticking around longer than they otherwise would because it looked like they had an overwhelmingly likely chance of walking away with millions.

Take that incentive away and you don't have anything to offset the burnout from the work environment there.
Did you communicate to them that their absence blocked work? If you didn't, they likely thought that there were no problems and continued in that behavior.

Part of what makes corporate America suck is the kind of passive aggressive resentments that never get expressed. Suddenly the remote worker finds that everyone hates him and has no clue why.
This is definitely a modern thing but I think it's a bad thing, or at least a move in the wrong direction.

Language-specific package managers tie you into a single language. It's hard to use multiple languages in a project, even when that would make sense, or to migrate to a new language.

You end up needing a separate layer on top of the language's package system. Big projects like Unity have their own package managers and build systems.

I think it would be much better to have a generic package system that can be used for everything, and a generic build system that can be used for everything.

Admittedly, existing generic package managers and build systems aren't very good! So maybe this is a bad idea and it's just too hard, or maybe there's some key insight or advance we're missing.

I think Google's build system Bazel is along the right lines. Unashamedly aiming for 100% correctness, so it's really reliable and therefore usable for all build tasks.
This (edit: or something like it) is on the list.
The catcher of secret codes. The special Ukrainian has started the revolution
>> more than 1 kid, and spouse doesn't work...

>> my partner would like a big family...

>> She also grew up in a richer family than mine. She seems to be used to a higher life quality. I feel some pressure about it. but I have never talked with her about it for the fear for disagreement...

This is not about "career vs. family" but "your way of life vs. her way of life". If you want to build a company and try to make a fortune first and have a family later then you have to tell it to her. She may leave you, but hey, living your own life as a single entrepreneur is much better than living someone else's life as a married man.
About 50% of the companies I consulted for between 2004-2013 had no issue tracker. Most emailed and/or emailed spreadsheets around.

What's even more shocking is about 25% of them didn't even use a VCS, most relying on some poor guy to sit there with a diff tool and merge everyone's shit into something cohesive. One company used a wooden spoon as an ownership lock.
Not sure why this is titled "A Hacker News For Literature". The site is very clearly writing focused and the about page says "This is a community based on lobste.rs. First and foremost, Write.Narwhal.Space is a link-aggregator for writing-related articles. If you're interested in learning more about the writing field, bettering your writing in general, or simply talking to other people interested in writing, definitely take a look around!"

I would suggest changing to "A Hacker News for Writing"
Hi Damon,

Here is a link to mod_core serversignature documentation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#serversignatu...

Disable by placing at the bottom of your core http configuration file:

ServerSignature Off

If this doesn't work after a restart, then it's being overwritten.

Override hierarchical context for ServerSignature in Apache 2.2 is:

server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess

Find the config file for each level and search for "ServerSignature".

If you still don't find it to work, try looking in mod_security conf files or security conf files.

Let me know if this doesn't work. Good luck.
That is all true but it still doesn't negate the fact that you should have a rainy day account and having said account has a high cost because:

1. Those 401K's and IRA's have a yearly cap, so anything above that cap doesn't apply.
2. Saving your "rainy day" account is a one time thing. Once you reach 4-6 months of income, you are done.
3. Like we agree, you can put it in a non-tax sheltered fund.

Also, not sure if you are going to get 8x return in 30 years. Maybe 50 years ago. When I was in college you could expect to double your money ever 7 years. I don't believe that's still the case.
Can't say. Was TCpp released that long ago ? I ran TP7 on a 586class machine, and it was probably designed for 486 ones. Also I think TP7 was split in a few runnables, and the largest one was around 600KB .. could fit all in memory in theory.
That's sometimes a sign that you're onto something. Donald Trump was mocked mercilessly. Looks like he got the last laugh.

The sandwich shop example is a little weak, but I agree with Brook's point. There is a cultural segmenting of American society into the top 20% and the rest, and it's a strong barrier to social mobility. At the college I attended, there was a clear social barrier between the kids from upper middle class urban families, and those from lower middle class suburbia. The differences in interests and life experiences were profound and hard to overcome. Ironically, the much derided fraternity system was one of the few effective measures for bridging that gap, by creating common experiences and a new shared identity.
Oh totally, this isn't something I would see Google doing, and I agree that Photos is definitely a more sensible place for this to start showing up for their consumers en masse. This would definitely a targeted startup type product.

If you had a system to:

- batch ingest new photos

- stylize them to your own style

- categorize them

- autoselect candidate photos for final tweaking

- back up final album photos to local storage and S3

- archive to Glacier the rest of the photos from the shoot that will likely never be touched again

You would have a product that I think would be very attractive to professional and semi-professional photographers.
This comment contains some fairly pejorative language

I can assure you that there are real-world high performance python systems with per-event budgets of far less than 1ms being used for critical systems in large organisations. Sometimes with the help of compiled components, but made understandable by being coordinated in python.

Of course these systems are atypical, but the idea that ‘actual’ engineers always use c/Java, while python is just a scripting language is just ignorant
For some reason, I find this idea extremely disturbing; almost dystopian. To me, the sentence "a program is a text file" is one of the first axioms of computer technology.
Where do I find the lecture 14? I was able to find only 7 lectures here - http://course.fast.ai/ .
Might be OT, but what is the opinion on Martin Fowler in general?
Nice :)

Interestingly, the O(n) Python is still about 4x slower than the O(n) Pandas -- the same relative difference as in the original O(n^2) implementations from the blog post.

So despite the mishaps of this "Senior IT Business Analyst" choosing an unsuitable algorithm, his relative graphs pretty much stand.
But can you think of any programmers clueless enough not to realize that there's a built in null value, and use the string "null" instead?
Oculus reveals Marvel Powers VR, a full funded game on Marvel heroes
You have to know this stuff to be a useful programmer, though. (Or at least, it's very tough to be useful if you don't.)
I'll wager it cut pretty close to the bone for some.
The chaos game and the Sierpinski triangle
In Java at least, appending a null reference to another string will append "null":

"" + null == "null"
>To me modern programming is more the wider adoption of concepts borrowed from languages like Haskell: like pattern matching and safer null checks (like Maybe or Option types). It also includes easy to use coroutines or a good concurrency story. Programming with new languages comes with more compile time checking and linting, less chances to make simple stupid typo-like errors that take hours to debug.

How old are these concepts? When I read this, it reads more like, "things I was unfamiliar with before, but I've heard of recently".
Do we have something like this for income tax?
This is speculative (and similar to other comments), but I would think this is mostly about the schools holding a vested interest in being able to advertise attractive bar passage rates. I doubt it has much to do with disadvantaged students or expanding access to the profession, if you dig into it, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it had something to do with school administrators worrying about keeping the applications, student loan money, alumni donations, etc. coming in, and the school rankings up.

If you're familiar with the legal market in California, if anything, the exam should be made more difficult. I personally thought it was overdue when Whittier shut down - put it that way.
Or, I don't know, maybe the companies will sign cleaning contracts with car wash companies, and send their cars to the wash once a week?

Even well behaved humans make goo. This is why even the most obsessive person has to take a bath and clean their house.

If a company can't keep their cars clean, the well heeled consumer will change their habits to prefer the company's cars that are cleaned out from time to time.
Ah I always thought that Gyaru and Gal were the same fashion style slightly lost in translation, but now I see that they were actually different styles!
HN limits usernames to 15 characters, so a UUID won't fit.
But—only in very metaphorical ways is a program a text file.
So to get the tech vibe, start giving out free Goldman Sachs t-shirts and golden colored jeans to the techies. If you give it away for free, all the techies will start wearing them all the time.
Take a commercial flight where you have a chance to look down on the rainforest in Brazil or Peru.

You'll be absolutely astonished and sickened at how much is already gone.
I may be wrong, but GMail doesn't seem to do SSR, you have that progress bar when it loads up, so is not really an essential prerequisite as you make it out to be.
Well that was surprisingly tiring! I started to imagine keeping up with all those styles as they were happening -- sounds expensive. Fashion is inherently, I think, of the moment... in the "now"... and to lay out 37 years' worth of it in a row like that, has the probably unintended effect of laying bare its impermanence, frivolity (not in a good way) and unimportance. Grandpa comment.
This sort of thing is absolutely, 100% these incumbent companies lobbying their governments to give them a short term economic benefit at the high cost to both employees of that company, employees that work in that local economy, taxpayers in that economy, and the local economy as a whole, and even that company themselves medium term. Who would want to work in Idaho after reading this?
A Job Plan for Robots and Humans
Having been to Frankfurt a couple months ago, I totally get it. It's definitely a big banking city, and the logical choice to move to from London. I was also in Madrid a couple months ago, and it didn't seem like quite as good of a match as a big financial city.
working from home is definitely not productive for me.
I'm not sure how you'd write an application without a data model? If you take a look at the first figure here:

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html

it's hard to see how react/flux isn't just dealing with the controller/view bit - perhaps in a better way - but it's still a bridge between the users mental model and the computers data model? And it's likely that the data model is at least somewhat complex, if it involves some kind of MVCC/ACID/transactions and/or data normalization?
I agree with all of that, and those sound like great ideas.

If the EFF would rather not link the issues for fear of alienating some supporters, then maybe some new organization could.
That's just depressing. WHYYYYYY?
Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. I thought his position on TDD was a little impractical, but I wouldn't hold it against him.
If I understand your first sentence, I think it says there are "old languages" that are relatively devoid of footguns. If so, which languages?
A classic, non-computer example of how "in-band signaling" can fail. If only they used some characters which would never be allowed on a license plate, to signify the absence of one...
'70s modern programming: mostly imperative, unstructured

'80s " " : mostly structured

'90s " " : mostly OOP

'00s " " : OOP, garbage collected

'10s " " : dynamic scripting languages

2017: multi-paradigm
> Dressing formally puts you in a different frame of mind. It reminds you that your work is serious and that different standards apply

I wonder, if appearances matter that much, would your staff believe that they can be publicly wrong, admit mistakes, or take any risks that would lead to either scenario? Would they ever ask a question, when it signals they don't already know everything? It seems like once you take on such a formal dress code persona, the ethics of "serious business" might strangle your company's long term survival odds.

> In a society that values formal dress, you can signal your intent to move up the social hierarchy by how you dress yourself. If you want to become an elite, then dress like one and people will take you seriously.

IMO, when a peer dresses formally, I trust them less. It signals an endorsement that appearances matter more than results, and that promotion up the social ladders is important enough to you that you might end up screwing me over if given the chance.

Ideally, social mobility shouldn't rely on the promoting the richest person up to managers and executives.
Our eggs are currently all in one celestial basket. We need to try, desperately, to ensure that the human race does not go extinct (by fault of our own or otherwise). This means an alternative habitat.

We've gotten really good at terraforming the Earth (unintentionally) and killing each other (intentionally) in the past century. In particular, one man has the power to end the world, he has no political experience, and he is in the White House. If we have a nuclear holocaust, the only silver lining can be in human populations on other celestial bodies. Hence, it is in the best long-term interest of humanity to go to the Moon and Mars - to ensure our survival.
When the world no longer contains young men with nothing to lose and the feeling that they are victims of oppression.

The beauty of the War on Terror is that if we are ever at risk of running out of terrorists in the world, it'll make some new ones.
Very interesting.

If I recall the details correctly, there have been observations recently of another NRO satellite in a geostationary orbit above the middle east and west Asia, that apparently can maneuver and reposition itself.

And if I'm still not mistaken (may have been a different satellite) it was confirmed that this satellite had extraordinarily high communications bandwidth and was speculated to be used either for SIGINT or for operating UAVs.

Anyone interested in it, other classified satellites and classified things on the map in general should look up Trevor Paglen. He's a Geographer who's recently begun taking pretty spectacular shots of classified satellites.
I quite like the "web server and stream processors first" strategy, since it will take you much farther and retain the same code efficiencies as the monolith, but will also give more operational efficiency at minimal extra cost.