skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I (and anyone) can and someties do misjudge others' comfort level. But part of becoming a team means getting to know each others' stregths, weaknesses, preferences and so on. And communication about communication is important too. Taking into account authority is important too. (A team lead or any higher up has to be very sure about the above not to misjudge the appropriate language used.)

So, yes, drama drains productivity, but being a faceless cold drone hurts it too. Team fit is important. (And it's very important to recognize that there's a difference between communication style and abuse, disrespect, lack of empathy, etc. And discussing sexual topics might be ok, might be not. I've seen/heard it done in a fun way and too many times in a cringeworthy way. Luckily, I haven't seen/heard it in a seriously bad/offensive/harrassing way.)
You can always give veto power to direct vote, and keep the government organized as usual.
> But you still breathe. You can still smell.

Not if you have a cold.
I live in Manhattan and packages regularly get stolen from the hallway, behind the locked entrance doorway. Either we have thieves, or residents naively hold the door for thieves. Or bike deliverymen are thieves.
> two of which appear to be unused (I'm not sure how they reached that conclusion, I can't see the video).

Have seen the video. Der8auer planned a test to ascertain this, but was unable. AMD later confirmed it to him.
Hasn't been an issue yet.

But it ever does, I'll probably adopt and adapt one of the solutions from this thread [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4zrsc3/keep_your...
Its not there yet, but seeing that skype is repositioning itself as a shitty wanabe snapchat/instagram, instead of the conferencing and telephony app, I hope it will mature and become a thing. (Hey microsoft, what will the office365 customers do with skype minutes, when you finish the repositioning?)

They could sell SIP minutes and make it simple to set up, and that could provide a revenue for them.
The point is that the article is taking bits of research into simple correlation and extrapolating that into embryo selection, guesses about IQ points being raised and all sorts of other things. It shouldn't be taken seriously in any way.

> The parents there WILL act on embryo selection and genetic engineering when it is available and safe.

It seems a bit of a reach to be so adamantly sure of what other people will do in an already predicted future.
The visualization frameworks that are part of this initial suite are:

- deck.gl - High performance WebGL powered layers for geospatial and infovis use cases.

- react-map-gl - React components for Mapbox GL (integrates seamlessly with deck.gl)

- react-vis - An extensive set of React charting components.

- luma.gl - WebGL2 components powering deck.gl
I like that it has the syntex support which seem to fix some of Markdown faults related to HTML
History has demonstrated again and again that tax breaks are not an effective economic stimulus.
How I built a wind map with WebGL (2017)
Don't know, but it's been discussed publicly rather recently:

https://github.com/Microsoft/cppwinrt

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx

"Teams within Microsoft are already starting to use C++/WinRT to build WinRT components for the OS itself."
React on steroids
This is a crazy thing, guys but it will change the way of development in future. The union of React, Pug and SASS in one isolated component. Please check out https://github.com/askucher/lsxc .
I like the idea of visualising the decisions. Break down an issue into its constituent parts, then show all the graphs and see-saws - if you vote x, then it a, b, c will change like this, and l,m,n will change like this.
One thing I wished this app had was a playground that teaches you how to interact with the iOS SDK. After all, you can use it in the blank playground, might as well show people how to use it.
Both perspectives are necessary. This might give guidance to shape positive meaning to the truth and attain trust.
No it's not because I don't have a Google Home.
woohoo! nicely done =)
You will find hate everywhere. The US, UK, India and Czech Republics are, broadly, multicultural success stories, but you can find absurd hate, murder, and terrorism in all of those places.

Despite the talk that "coders are masters of the universe", "girls should learn to code", "Mark Cuban wants you to learn machine learning", software development is a labor intensive business (I see managers with a $120k a month payroll wringing their hands over a $9k a month AWS spend) and labor-management conflict as real as it is for coal miners, longshoremen, hotel workers, fast-food workers, etc.

IT workers in many parts of the U.S. have seen operations and jobs go to India. Some Indian companies execute very well, but some do not and then we see the double whammy that IT workers lose their jobs and then system failures have a negative impact on remaining workers, customers, investors, etc.

In terms of call centers, sometimes you talk to an Indian person for customer support and you get great results, but often you don't. Worse, I have received many calls in the last two years from people from India who want to steal my money on the pretense of being the U.S. tax authority or take over my computer and I read that this experience is common. Now many call centers are moving to the Philippines because U.S. citizens can't place the accent.

(Note it is a big labor conflict because displaced coal miners and manufacturing workers and their families could be doing this sort of work. I think of many black people who got into call centers in the south in the 1980s who are great at what they do.)

That said, hate is not good for business. Should you hate your customers, employees, suppliers, partners, community, government? No. There is not profit in that.

If I were you I would contact the supervisors of those people and tell them what happened. That kind of behavior hurts their business directly, probably more than it hurts you.

If I was the supervisor I would probably not fire the people immediately but I would put them on warning, let everyone know this behavior is unacceptable, and if it happened again they would be out.

What they do is up to them, but you should put the ball in their court.
> It's made by French! /joking

I did not understand the joke. I suppose it goes with the view that outside the USA there are no good software developers, well, because these are all second-class countries.

My friends (most of them are French) and I often joke about French people, how they dislike law and order, how they think their country is the best and the worst at the same time, etc. They're often boastful or xenophobic, but I can't see how they are different on programming, computer science or technology. BTW, the usual "joke" portrait of an American is a fat, uneducated and religious guns-lover. Please don't feel offended if you are from the USA; of course, this is far from the individual reality, but each feature is (statistically) over represented in this country, so joking about it make sense.
NVNaija
Just found a solution, disabling OpenGL rendering. Not sure why this works, but it does:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/112724/all-the-words...
China can indict you in China. US probably won't extradite you to China to face charges, but there's nothing to stop China from kidnapping you from e.g. Thailand if you ever decide to go to that part of the world.
Quill18 has some good Let's Plays - I picked up a lot from him https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs3acGYgI1-tflJyPE7go...
This is a github post that tries to pass itself off as a "paper" (because it sounds official, right), and ends with "And that can change the world". Wow that's academic and objective.

Why are we upvoting delusional content that lacks a real understanding of behavior, politics, and law? Because if you want to change the world, a basic understanding of that might help. He could start with Plato and Xenophon and the Trial of the Generals and then progress to Reddit if he thinks crowds are wise and democracy without flaw.

The next time there is an Arab Spring, the people will be able to replace their leaders with code.

Is this serious? It's every bad Silicon Valley joke wrapped up in a document. In the real world, politicians, and armies, and people with power that you don't even know of have been ruling the world for a long time. If you want to break that you gotta be more realistic than quoting a science fiction book and a Github paper.

To create something scalable enough to run an entire nation with no representatives, we created two cutting edge technologies to serve as the foundation of the platform

Is it reasonable to make this statement without showing any code? They seem to have not scaled beyond writing thought on paper. How do you go from that to "leaders being replaced with code"? Is there not a massive gap to be bridged before such audacious claims are made?

Why isn't there more skepticism of something like this?
Exactly, and even if I complained about the current ergonomics of lifetimes, the amazing work of Rust developers is already influencing design decisions on Haskell, Swift, .NET, Pony and C++ regarding resource management.
Good observation about rdi and its implications for the load of rcx (line 18) and therefore the load through rcx (line 20).

I added a note to that effect and also enabled adding comments to the spreadsheet.
A friend told me that if you use the Ring then 7 days later all your files will be deleted.
Central Texas 5 yrs experience, 95k when bonuses and 401k match are thrown in.
This is simply not true. What causes damage and hurts or kills is rapid deceleration, not speed. Sure, speed is a necessary component in order to achieve the most violent deceleration but speed alone does guarantee damage at all.

The racing world proves this conclusively. Watch Formula 1 or NASCAR and you'll see 200 mph crashes where everyone walks away. Watch motorcycle racing and see guys fall of their bikes at all kinds of speeds and just glide on their backs until they stop, get up and walk away. I went off track at Willow Springs raceway doing 120 mph, no big deal.
I have paid people to do it for me. Things like a camera, marker for Google Maps, YouTube integration into an app. Sometimes I just want someone to Google and test solutions for me, especially where it's poorly documented.

But this was great when I had less experience. As someone more senior, I can code faster than I can outsource, and reading code is harder than writing. The tech and docs have improved a lot since then. And I've had a lot of bad experiences recently which made me stop.

I would also strongly oppose "first to produce an answer". Good answers take time and rewarding speed will encourage sloppy, buggy answers, some of which ignore the requirements. It also discourages detail oriented people from starting in the first place.
A hybrid direct-represenative sort of organization could be formed using votebots to make decisions for people who don't have time to participate, but who could review the decisions later and change represenative bots if they don't like it based on their historical performance.
The Downtown Raleigh area picked up a lot after the market recovered. There's been a lot of regentrification and companies started moving into town instead of to RTP. There's Citrix, RedHat, a handful of co-working spaces, and many new stores/restaurants/breweries that have moved into Downtown Raleigh in the past 5 years. Downtown Durham has undergone similar changes.
You are quite right that the space launch industry and the technology it uses wouldn't exist without government research and funding. That's perfectly true.

But it's also true that without Musk there would currently be no prospect of significant rocket component reuse for another generation. Rocket launch costs would be double or triple what they currently are. It also seems very likely now that within my lifetime we will see launch costs to orbit close to 100th what they were just a few years ago. Some of us think that's a good thing.

A graph of the improvement in rocket technology from 1945 to now would look like a hockey stick early on, levelling off more or less flat for the last 40 years. Musk has bent that curve back up into a hockey stick shape again.
FWIW, I don't have any of those issues in the Linux client. As of right now (in 4 orgs), it's using <10% memory as well, which is a common complaint on other platforms. At least on this platform, I am pleasantly surprised at the quality compared to native apps. I hope it improves on other platforms if there are issues there.
This is a nonsensical comparison. It lumps together three different kinds of ICs: DRAM, NAND flash, and CPUs. Samsung is in no danger of beating Intel in the CPU market any time soon, and Intel long since yielded the DRAM and NAND flash markets. The semiconductor is brutally cyclical. Right now memory is up. Samsung and Intel are both well aware that the wheel will continue to turn, and that the reward for complacency is annihilation. That's why they're both ruthlessly unsentimental about exiting markets in which they can't profit.
I've been looking at buying an electric car recently and was surprised that the list of electic SUVs is really small. There's basically the Model X and not all that much more. The Rav4 got discontinued.

It seems to me that this is a huge market opportunity. The technology is right on the cusp of being very practical in terms of range. Soccer moms who commute to the grocery store and occasionally go on a trip to the mountains want a car with room and 4WD. If such a car existed, they would be shouting "take my money!" Not quite sure why the car manufacturers aren't building these things.
I launched deckofcardsapi.com and it has about 16,000 decks created per day. I don't make any money, but it's fun that it gets a lot of traffic.
wow nice approach, any plan to support Japanese?
> Marxists rather than Marx

While you may think it's worthwhile to compartmentalize an idea and it's followers actions and interpretations, not many people on either side of the aisle would agree with you. "Punch a Nazi".

> Anyway, let's be real: this isn't a "basic primer" and it doesn't contain the argument you thought it did after you googled "Marxism critique".

I've taken classes with the guy, but from comment one it's been obvious you're more interested in low level attempts at being a condescending prick than having a conversation. I didn't share my actual thoughts with you or this community because it's a waste of my time, I'll just end up talking to dumbfucks like you regardless. Enjoy being a Marxist in the most aggressively capitalist industry in the world.
I don't have any confirmations that these small decisions actually matter much.

You can have salami makers lobby for 6,5% import tax then salami sellers lobby for 4% import tax for years before the same parliament, this consuming resources of society but bringing zero value to society at large.

On other hand, we can still leave such decisions to relevant professionals and pass laws to gauge their work.
Well more in regards to racism. General racism hurts the people of the race that is discriminated against.
As an agent---Why would I tell my strategy without being able to establish a human face to face relationship and follow up?

Sending a "personal message via online" doesn't cut it buddy.

BUT if I'm being paid $xxx per proposal, maybe...
You are mistaken. The tricks they used to get OOXML standardized[1] leave no room for doubt that they have been intentionally making interoperability harder.

[1]: Wikipedia has an article about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open....
I worked for SpaceX but now I work for Bezos. I definitely think BO is years away... but not a decade. I don't think they'll compete for the same payloads at first but eventually they will. Bezos has significantly more money to dump into this problem than Elon.

There are plenty of other reasons, beyond the money, I don't think it will be that long before BO really starts to compete.
The BBC documentary programme Panorama is clearly unambiguously saying that SSRIs cause violence.

They've been widely criticised for that, because it's fucking idiotic.
> I don't think we as a society or even humanity ever shared a vision.

.... seriously? The American Dream.
I like Strom Carlson's talk talk at LayerOne back in '08 (pre-social media, pre-Meetup, pre-widespread lightning talks):

"In this presentation, Strom will guide you through researching, preparing, and giving a technical talk to a diverse audience. He'll help you avoid common mistakes, and point out some not-so-obvious mistakes that even the best tech presenters tend to make. If you've never given a tech talk before, this presentation will make it much easier for you to get started; if you're an experienced tech presenter, this talk will make you even better."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wb2b69JNU8
There are a handful of co-working spaces that house startups around American Tobacco Campus in Durham and Downtown Raleigh. There's not much VC in the Raleigh/Durham area though so most are bootstrapped by founders.
I agree. Problem is, 100k dead in a week looks a lot worse on TV than 10M dead over five years.
Are apps targeting ads based on your conversations?
We don't need Joe voting on every single issue.

Just give Joe 100 voting credits at the start of cycle and let him spend in on whatever votes he likes - or not.

Separation of scope also helps - a.k.a. moving issues from statewide scope and to relevant provinces/communes.
There is a need for skype replacement, as Microsoft is actively killing it.

What people use skype for:

* chat (many alternatives)

* video calls (many alternatives)

* PSTN gateway (SIP is an alternative. It is handy sometimes, but loosing relevance as IP connectivity is becoming more global)

* conferencing (no good known alternative, which is as simple, ad-hoc)

* screen sharing (many alternatives, but it is ad-hoc, simple.)

* simple file sharing (many alternatives)

Now screen sharing and ad-hoc conferences are very powerful combo, and I'm looking for alternatives, as I'm afraid skype will be totally useless for me in a year or so, if the current trends hold on.
cited research aside this is asinine. let's pretend we could regress "did smile" on "genetics" and "culture" and inspected the coefficients of the covariates (i.e. investigate treatment effect). we would find that the effect of culture was much much much stronger than genetics.
It doesn't have a good accuracy. I have yet to see a real-life dataset where it's better than to just call LogisticRegressionCV from scikit-learn. For bigger datasets, you may use vowpal wabbit or Fasttext. It may be a little bit slower for the training (but not so much), and as fast as LR for the training. What is the purpose of using an algorithm when another one is just better?
Meetup organizers tend to always be on the lookout for new speakers. Start with a 5 minute lightning talk and then offer to be a regular speaker on smaller topics until you are ready to take on a 15/30/45 minute talk.

Some of the more common lightning talk topics I've seen is:

"5 random {{language}} tips"
"5 things you didn't know about {{language}}"

They force you to be on the lookout for oddities and to do your research.
It is a difference to reserve space in the instruction encodings vs. having an undocumented instruction.

For the former when trying to encode it an "undefined instruction" interrupt should occur.
Amazing, thanks! I tried various versions of single finger tapping but the result is usually both disastrous and expected, replacing the selection with a single letter.
First of all, regardless of all the claims made in the document, I find it awesome to see such a gigantic writeup that tries to be at least a bit internally consistent. It reminds me of Bit451 [1][2], although that one was simply insane.

So about Cicada: the document quickly notes that the 'human unique identifier' is at the core of the proposal. It is claimed that it "allows us to prevent Sybil attacks and ensure everyone has a voice in the system". It promises to do this with cryptography and 'biocryptics', a word which isn't really that widely used in the research community. It seems to mostly refer to anonymous biometrics authentication systems [3][4]. In that field I can find nothing about preventing Sybil attacks.

Additionally, preventing Sybil attacks in a decentralized system, by relying on a biometric measurement that is fully under the control of an attacker seems doomed to fail. No matter how much cryptography you throw at it.

There must either be some central party designating trust in a certain (anonymous) biometric, or there needs to be a web of trust that is sufficiently connected and resistant to manipulation. A combination, with good checks and balances and distribution of power, seems to be the way to go most of the time.

[1] http://bit451.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728231

[3] https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-1462...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_biometrics
> 1. It's harder to bribe all Joes.

It's easy to influence all Joes on the social media platforms virtually all of them use.

> 2. Direct democracy would not follow party lines, there is no need to.

Party line is less of a problem in countries with sensible representative democracies, i.e not FPTP.

> You can have gun rights and abortion rights. You can have social safety net programs and curb illegal immigration. You can be tough on crimes and treat drug addiction as mental issue. You can have higher taxes but lower regulations. You can have higher military spending but no wasteful spending. You can have higher marginal tax rate while having simple tax code.

I completely agree with you here, but like others you only talk about the big issues. Not the small day-to-day operation that must also be handled as well as all the small "boring" issues that face any real government.

> 3. Because any other forms of rulers get disconnected form people as soon as they start ruling.

Representatives are not rulers.

> 4. No "too-big-to-fail" ruler (dictator, king, plutocrat, oligarch, meritocratic, strongman). Entire country doesn't depend on single charismatic person.

I guarantee that if direct democracy was implemented you would have charismatic personalities telling people how to vote on day one. And they would be much better than influencers trying to use reason too.

> 5. It might have been difficult in the past, but in the internet age in USA, direct democracy has less things that would work against it. More information available, more means to communicate available, decent education available.

More information overload. More false information supporting your preexisting views.

> 6. Find best people for the job. Ideas can come from anywhere. Implementer can come from anywhere. You won't get "I implement my idea, not you". "You stole my idea". etc.

Just like today it would be the most charismatic that flow to the top. Perhaps it would be even worse since today only the representatives have to be charismatic. At least their aides and bureaucrats can be ugly and socially inept as long as they are good at what they do.
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Lessons Learned from Six Years of Agile Database Development – Simple Talk
Could someone please explain to me why you would use thermal paste over solder and vice versa?
Could anybody who upvoted this please explain why they think this is newsworthy?
ListenBrainz (OSS alternative to last.fm) enters Beta stage
That may be true, but his example is not evented programming. Unless the function he is calling is badly named, I am pretty sure the style he was thinking about was about blocking the thread until I/O completed.