skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to use an analogy:

"Yeah, we broke into your house and rummaged through your stuff, but it's okay, we were only there to count how many spoons you had.

Yes, I know, we could've asked you before we broke into your house, but we tried that before, and for some reasons we had no takers. And it was really important to our researchers that we get a good idea about the number of spoons!"
Assuming your job isn't outsourced.
Bytecode is much closer to source code than machine code (there's a cool discussion about this in https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-...)

and source code is generally smaller than machine code.
Truetype hinting serves to distort the curves beneficially (by being aware of the pixel grid) in order to produce more readable output at low resolutions. SVG graphics do not automagically scale down and stay readable.

The classic easiest to explain in words case is taking a capital letter O and turning it into more of an "elongated stop sign" shape at around 6 pixels of width. There is a tradeoff between remaining faithful to the original shape and creating high-contrast, readable shapes at low resolution. There is nothing impossible about scaling down the vector outlines of a TrueType font in a mathematically perfect way. You still need the hints to make the result more readable.

(I worked on the hinting software for 13 of Apple's System 7 font faces and about 3/4 of Windows 3.1 launch fonts.)
They also enforce that sway with a massive internet PR arm as well, which does a good job burying stories like this. Personally, what I find more interesting than the particulars of this story itself, is the web of connections they use to accomplish these types of goals. For example, I really like the show "Uncommon Knowledge" from the Hoover Institute, but I have noticed a trend of their fellows being used like Mr. Miller allowed himself to be. If I remember correctly one of my favorite conspiracy theorist authors was a Hoover fellow, Antony Sutton, who was forced out after writing "National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union" which really ruffled some feathers, and it makes one think about how much think tanks are being used to promote agendas vs actually providing unbiased policy analysis.

On a related note, while I was a sysadmin in genetics, I came to understand just how weak and unreliable the scientific publishing community is. Peer-review != good science, but that's how the journals present themselves. Quite often I stumbled on obviously bad science, mostly by academics/scientists trying to pad their resumes. Usually with comments along the lines of "I've been published 1k+ times!". As if that had any bearing on the quality of their work. I think, in this case, instead of jumping on the anti-monsanto bandwagon (which having worked in the industry I'm still ready to do!), in this case the real solution is to fix scientific publishing, because things like this are happening in every single industry, not just bigag.

For example, I think a potential solution, besides making the journals completely free and open, would be to finance centers that test reproducibility, randomly or targeting specific examples such as the paper referenced.
> size_t is guaranteed to be large enough for the target architecture

I'm not sure if you've misunderstood this (some of the other comments mentioning type certainly have) but size_t being large enough for the purpose of indexing an array is absolutely not the issue. The issue, illustrated by the glibc code pishpash shared, is that a size_t (or any other integer type) is not necessarily large enough to hold the sum of two other variables of the same type without overflowing.
Yes that is it. And it's really a variation on radix sort as well. They're all in the same general family.

I can't believe I got down voted for this thread. What does it take?

I guess I should just post it.
Google Cloud Platform in Frankfurt (europe-west3) is live
Wasn't there a story some time ago about the WSJ having run a hit piece at Apple's/SJ's behest, but using a different reporter's byline so as not to besmirch the Walt Mossberg brand? Apologies if I am misremembering...
this is really bad for npm.

I think they hold some responsibility in allowing an obviously malicious package to impersonate popular packages.

I would like to see an official response with action plan. I recall this attack vector being discussed in the aftermath of left-pad.

an unfortunate irony is that the current post on the npm blog is "Securing the npm registry" from 12hrs ago.
Wasn't one of the problems at Uber that HR was complicit in the toxic culture and would falsely (and I can only presume illegally) tell victims that it was the first complaint against someone they knew to be a repeat/serial harrasser? How does the chief HR officer not get fired after that?
Sniff your Game Boy's LCD using a logic analyzer
The housing crisis in London is far worse. Salaries are (vastly, in many cases) lower and rents (pre brexit GBP/USD crash, at least) are very similar in nominal terms. You do have washers in nearly every flat, though.
Honestly this seems like an off shoot thread to try to submarine and try and give legitimacy to the fork while taking swipes at those that opposed it.

I didn't know much about the fork up until a few days ago, but I did know to make sure I unloaded everything off of Coinbase if I wanted to benefit and double my tiny little bit of BTC since there had been a notice for weeks now about how they won't support it and a cursory Google search showed what you needed to benefit.
The demon inside bytestring (Haskell)
Seems like it's still an open ticket:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2753
The Future Will Not Need IT Network Engineers
For a business, saving $100 on a tablet is probably not a big consideration.

On the other hand, iOS's security, encryption, stability and regular software updates are probably a consideration. Add in the fact that you can quickly get an iPad serviced or replaced at an Apple store (and you can get a small business account with Apple), and you can see why someone would want to get an iPad over an Android tablet.

Keep in mind that a $329 iPad is like an order of a magnitude cheaper than a traditional point of sale system. Being able to use a phone or a tablet (and some relatively cheap accessories) is a revolution over old-school point of sale systems.
Check your physical health.

An injury (and failed surgery) obstructed my breathing. Big impact on my ability to get into and maintain "flow".

Sleep apnea (not something I've been diagnosed with, although...) is often cited as a problem in this vein. Some people become so used to its chronic presence that they don't realize just how tired and impacted they are.
If you don't know the correct package name in the first place, nothing in package.json can be used to validate.
There is a third form you are missing -- buybacks.
There are efforts aimed at people whose parents didn't go to college and they don't have anything to do with race. But to answer your question, I think many of the groups that ostensibly were founded to fight racism are more aimed at getting better treatment for their particular race than actually doing away with racism overall. As long as we are trying to treat some people better because of their race, we are necessarily treating other people worse because of their race.

If people want to fight against racism we'd be better off with groups that are fighting against people being treated differently because of their race--regardless of what race they happen to be. Imagine an organization that is just as upset about Asians needing higher test scores to get into Ivy League schools as they are about a black person being treated worse by the police than someone with lighter skin in the same situation.
Tried an Impossible Burger for the first time the other day. In a burger with lots of condiments and toppings, it was OK, but not something I'd order again. When I took a bite of it by itself, it tasted like cat food.

Since there are so many positive reviews, I wonder if it just wasn't prepared correctly? The restaurant had only started serving it a few days earlier.
Which part of the statement implied "vilgilate justice." The part with the law enforcement or the "social reputation" part that is exactly the words game theory uses when discussing bad actor in a problem.

Just so I can modify my words to avoid future misunderstanding.
It looks like this is the GitHub for the project: https://github.com/oxalorg/stagit
Coal can't be shut down easily, it's incredibly expensive and inefficient to dial it up and down. Natgas is easier but still quite a slow process.

If you could turn gas and coal up and down in a few minutes, then perhaps you would have a point. But coal can take 6-24hrs and natgas 1-4hrs. It won't suddenly stop when you have a massive gust of wind.
I guarantee you there's a billion dollar opportunity today right in front of my face that I do not see, but will find out about 5 years from now. It's in front of your face, too, and about every other HN reader.

Never in history has there been more opportunity than there is right now in software. Software is a completely unregulated free market, the barriers to entry are essentially zero, the market for a product is global, training materials are zero, and marketing costs can be zero.

All you need is some get up and go.
Well to be fair to your take on things, you probably create out of your own pocket and with passion. Soundcloud chose to be a business when they took millions in investor funding on board.
Impressive splash page - but what makes this anything other than advertising? Is there something worth demonstrating on the technical side?
You don't have any voting rights when you buy GOOGL either, it's a complete fiction. The founders control 51% of the votes.

If anything, it's impressive that GOOGL trades at a premium at all.
We moved from PayPal to Stripe. Yes, integration was much easier, because of the simple and effective API and great documentation (good examples with your own data included - brilliant!).

But we switched because PayPal just did not work. A significant percentage of card transactions failed for absolutely no reason, despite "good" customers (school teachers from first world countries), no chargebacks and no fraud. Cards would routinely magically work the next day, and in the end we came to believe PayPal arbitrarily failed card transactions to force people to set up PayPal accounts.

Moving to Stripe resolved this overnight. We'll never go back.
I believe the website is an example of its output.
Bate-boca ocorre em primeira reunião com candidatos de oposição do Vasco
One of the central problems of trust is that simple solutions don't scale well. Back in the day, one acquired a .com address by sending someone an email, because everyone knew everyone.

cross-env has had 1.3 million downloads in the last month. How many of those "hey, I am evaluating your library" emails can Dodds field?

Most node projects have hundreds of dependencies, if you include transitive dependencies. How many of those can you test?

If simple solutions worked, they'd be used.
There's no gentle way to make the complaint about I'm about to: going to Mercola.com for good health science is roughly equivalent to referring to the Flat Earth Society for good GPS algorithms. Joe Mercola has developed a multimillion dollar business which is essentially built on telling his audience that everything in the world is poisonous unless he sells it to them. When I say he's one of the folks who believe that fluoridation is a nefarious government conspiracy, I am not kidding. He also believes coffee enemas will fight cancer. Again, I am not making this up.

There's conflicting evidence about soy's health benefits, which is a sentence that is, generally speaking, just as true after a "s/soy/any_damn_food" operation. Nitrites are highly toxic in quantity, but in small quantity, they've been used in food processing since the Middle Ages. It's what you cure meat with. Most of the nitrites in your diet, though, are naturally occurring.

And while no one claims MSG has massive health benefits, it's been extremely well established that it's harmless. It's just a salt. I'm sure Doc Mercola will tell me the decades of tests that show it's safe are simply a sign that every first world health agency is in the pocket of Big Umami, but y'know, color me skeptical.
As a citizen of a country that fought a war for independence against another much more powerful country, I believe that it is a mistake to set up a system for removing all violent rhetoric.

That said, I do actually think the terrorists have an inherently worse POV. That's one of the reasons I'm ok with them spouting it.

>Why should we tolerate groups who don't tolerate others? It breaks a fudamental social contract of free societies: If you want me to respect you, you must respect me.

That is not now and never has been a part of the fundamental social contract.
Parsley, full-time, onsite in Oakland or Santa Monica (see below for details) with a strong preference for Oakland.

Parsley is an intuitive, simple web app to handle the unintuitive, complex realities of restaurant back-of-house operations. We recently launched our product, are currently being used at a few culinary schools and restaurants in LA and the Bay, and have strong interest (including some angel funding) from several big players in the LA restaurant scene - both owners and chefs.

The product itself is a web app. The browser side uses all the tools that I believe the Cool Kids are into These Days (React, Redux, a slow transition to Flow type-checking, etc.), and the server side is built with Scala and Play.

The technical team is one co-founder and engineer (that's me) and one half-time (by her preference) freelance engineer, both based in Oakland. We're at a co-working space on top of 19th Street BART station. Spatially on top of, and 50 feet from an exit - SF-based programmers, that may be closer for you than some workplaces in the city.
My business-oriented co-founder (her technical experience is mostly in hardware) lives and works in Santa Monica. Every week either she's in Oakland or I'm in Santa Monica for two days, so an engineer in either location would have facetime with both of us; it's more important to work closely with me, so Oakland is preferable, but a programmer in Santa Monica would still feel partly on-site.

Check us out at parsleycooks.com! (We're transferring to a much better domain, worry you not.)

Ping me at asa@parsleycooks.com
(Right after he gives Hannity his other scoop: https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/866016183815942144)
> If you have no voting rights to change that, there isn't really any value inherent in the shares other than the trust you and everyone else places in the company.

No, dividends are only one way that value can be returned to investors. There are at least two more: buybacks and acquisitions.
Ben Bajarin, whose tweet is quoted in the article, put out another tweet saying he now believes Apple has sold 30 million watches.
As others have noted, finding the truth of a theorem is important and elegance has to be secondary in most people's book. Or at least, the truth of a proposition is never not going to be important.

But oppositely, I don't think anyone's demonstrated "proof mining" to be practical in any general sense. Huge proofs have been produced by brute-force, yes, BUT ONLY after the original theorem claim was altered in a clever and important fashion (for 4-color theorem, for Ramsey's theory and so-forth).
You could still typosquat as e.g. @guyy/cross-env.
Although the immediate reason BRK/B ended up in the S&P 500 was because they acquired BNI (Burlington Northern, a railroad company) for stock in 2010. But fair enough that it wasn't in there beforehand and is still around now. I don't remember why, probably some other S&P decision about the big-numbered, less liquid BRK/As.
Filter number feature is very good.
>I'd like to pose a serious question to you as well: how do you justify singling out meat eaters over any one of the categories I list above?

I commented on an article about the meat industry. I will happily single out those other groups in relevant articles.
A flying car.

All the existing and planned designs I've seen are a bit lame — I've got some much better ideas. Of course I have no aircraft or car design experience, so I'm probably talking out of my arse, but anyone want to fund me?
So in 7 years when a leaker finally leaks the documents that prove it ala Snowden, I wonder what thing we will be warning ya'll about that you will claim has "no evidence".

Look, as a fairly rational conspiracy theorist, I recognize the importance of evidence, but in cases like this, it's very unlikely unless a leak happens for you to ever get it, and hence instead of looking for deductive evidence you can never rely on getting, you have to use inductive logic instead, and the difference between the two logical methods (inductive/deductive) is an important distinction that isn't made enough.

Do we have hard evidence that KDC was spied on specifically? No. Do we have inductive reason to believe it's probable? Very much so.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d...
>Yes but the Greek Statues were painted. Pretty fascinating stuff

Homer is from the very beginning of what is commonly considered "Ancient Greece." Writing was being reintroduced into Greek society and he wrote down the oral tales that had been kicking around. This is what the sculptures around then looked like

https://web.archive.org/web/20050227170147/http://www.siu.ed...

Statues like the ones in article were 4-5 centuries away, after solid trade lines with Asia were reestablished providing indigo dye.
Why not start a web label on archive.org? Not like anyone is making money on soundcloud, there is no upsell to archive.org its a not for profit run by donation, a lot less likely to fall victim than a commercial service.
I believe some disadvantaged groups are defined the way you describe. But, consider that black people, for example, harassed or even shot and killed by police because of the color of their skin, regardless of their academic performance, income, etc.

There are plenty of studies and articles out there on the effects of systemic racism if you are interested.

I do agree that we can do better in acknowledging and enacting policy to recognize and minimize the difference between economic classes.
Who do you follow? The decentralized part is kind of confusing to me.
I click on ad once a week. Sometime Ad is a closest (less mouse to move) link to where i want to go anyway.
Just yesterday there was a thread about how the chrome plugin "user agent switcher" sends your entire browsing history externally. And it's still published.

The problem is not unique to the npm ecosystem, the main problem here is "web of trust" whether through GPG or even just things like 'download counts', etc.
It actually requires a lot less lands to make a plant-based burger than a beef-based one, as you're skipping a whole ladder in the chain.

I believe the ratio is between 6 and 8 times less land for beef, although you should definetly research this number if you're interested.

This makes plant-based burger and vegetarian/vegan foods a lot more eco-friendly and requires less land to produce, which is a problem most developped countries are facing
An expert in this field may have more informed views that I, but my understanding is the following:

1. Race is, for the most part, relatively easy to determine. Some of the other groups you mention are less easy to determine.

2. The laws came into being in a time that very (extremely?) qualified minorities were being passed over for basically racist reasons. Once an entitlement like this is given in the US (to anyone), it is typically difficult to take away. Fwiw, I personally don't believe that we are at a race-blind state such that taking away preferences should be eliminated, but I believe that these preferences will persist even after a point that we become "race blind" just due to the nature of the system. Any politician who votes to end affirmative action is essentially condemning themselves to the label of "racist" (rightly or wrongly). This will only potentially be resolved, imho, when being mixed is the norm "race", so racial identity will largely be an anachronistic concept. I'm not sure when we will see that state, if ever.

3. If something like low socioeconomic status (SES) is considered, then whites will again likely be over-represented. While some races might be disproportionally low SES, white people have a higher absolute number of low SES members. The difference is that an aspirational white person who wants to social climb has a much easier time of it than a person from other races.

4. Note that race is not the only factor in affirmative action. There is an implied consideration of being discrimated against, being low SES, etc. This is why Asians are typically not considered "oppressed minorities". Interestingly, race blind admissions tend to favor Asians more than whites by a lot. Check data on Berkeley and Stuyvesant for data on this topic.
I don't think learning React is analogous to learning to build client server apps any more than jQuery is. I personally have worked on many static React websites (which is a blast by the way).
I'm new to the JS ecosystem--who is Oscar and who is Kent?

Also who's hacktask?
I don't understand how this is fundamentally different from just doing it in regular javascript. You could write a javascript function that recurses forever on condition x:
just write a function that calls itself with the same parameters unless condition x is met. How is it fundamentally different if the type system does it?
Soundcloud is a very different platform to Spotify though. I wouldn't pay to subscribe to Soundcloud because not all of the artists I like would be on there.

Soundcloud was more of an independent artist platform, and I think Soundcloud might have been able to get artists to pay for some services like sponsored songs, pay to let users download their tracks, artist page perks.

But it's hard to know if that would have worked. Especially in retrospect.
Does maven really reliably validate packages these days?

I once did a mvn build on a southwest flight and got stuff like "Syntax error: <h1>Click here for free TV..." all over my console.

This was ~4 years ago. If I remember right, maven "supported" package validation, but it was certainly not the de facto standard.
The ACLU?
Apps need idempotent incremental recompilation that doesn't rewrite the whole executable or bundle. This may mean major changes to Apple LLVM, in terms of bitcode and binary object generation.

Furthermore, app developers need to:

- use thinning and slicing correctly

- remove extraneous files

- optimize assets: resolution, compression, minification
@danjoc: do you have a reference for this? I'm interested.

> I really like how the NPM simultaneously insults two legends in crypto and does _nothing_ to protect the node ecosystem, deferring to "better solutions" that don't exist and will never exist.
who gets paid to support that ecosystem, and who does the paying? as a simple example, I use the hapi.js server framework (because it is awesome). At one point, it was supported by Walmart Labs. It isn't anymore - it's mostly supported by the original author (Eran Hammer), who is getting paid less than $5k per month to develop / support it via patreon (and take a look at the bimodal distribution on his patreon page). And that's just for part of the overall ecosystem.

Part of the excitement of js dev is that there's always really useful libraries being created and distributed (ramda, rxjs, react to just name three things that start with R).

Not sure there is a good solution here - we want tons of value, but I suspect nobody's willing to actually pay for it. Libraries like cross-env, ramda, and so on all are excellent, useful, well-written, and the authors are responsive.