skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slow parsing speed is due to several things:

- encoding issues;

- ambiguous stuff (for instance, `/` can be the start of a comment, the start of a regexp or a division, `()` or `{}` can have several meanings, etc.);

- odd behavior (variables can be used before they are declared, double-declaring variables is sometimes valid but not always, etc.);

- plenty of information that is necessary for execution is only available after you need it (sometimes much later, e.g. determining free variables, determining whether `eval` can affect local variables, etc).

Also, this syntax makes it impossible to perform concurrent parsing (at least not without extremely costly non-concurrent pre-parsing) and makes it basically impossible to perform lazy parsing (at least not without this same extremely costly pre-parsing).

If I understand correctly, your suggestion would have been to:

1. provide a "better" developer-facing text syntax;

2. if necessary, move to binary parsing.

Your suggestion makes sense but I believe that it underestimates seriously the ability to:

a. come up with an alternative, easier to parse, text syntax;

b. make sure that your text syntax has the same semantics as the original syntax;

c. get everybody to agree on that text syntax;

d. maintain this text syntax through successive versions of JavaScript, without losing its desirable properties;

e. have every browser maintain two text parsers.

Also, note that b. most likely means standardizing upon an AST, which is roughly half of the difficulty of the current proposal.

Finally, unless I am missing something, your suggestion does not improve concurrent or lazy parsing. One of the core benchmarks behind the current proposal is that lazy parsing can be made extremely faster than non-lazy parsing, as soon as you the expensive pre-parsing phase has been abolished.

Does this answer your questions?
And then muddying the waters is the argument that larger blocks are going to centralize it because poorer people won't be able to run a full node in their homes. (Versus paying $10 for a VPS to do so.) Conveniently ignoring that no one wants to run a full node for a settlement layer between big financial companies.

But further screwing it up is ASICBoost, which isn't compatible with other proposals like Segwit. That allows the small block folks to accuse the miners of opposing changes only for financial gain.

Sure, something needs to give. A transaction is about 225 bytes for the common case. So doing even 1000/sec means around 1.8Mbps (plus overhead) just to get the flow of transactions.
Ah yes. Typo fixed. Thanks!
I've had the occasional Lyft driver who could have made better choices. However, the one thing I've only had with taxis is a driver who is actively malicious and makes one turns clearly on purpose to drive up the bill. Lyft cars also have been consistently much cleaner. The skankyness of some taxis I've been in is just without competition.
> While noisy, this process generally means that really outrageous methodological errors or theoretical claims get weeded out.

There is a fair amount of evidence that this isn't true. In general, most statistics in scientific research aren't done by statisticians, and there are whole classes of methodological errors that are regularly not caught because the "peers" have the same lack of statistical education as the people whose papers they are reviewing.
I was more referring to browser extensions punching out of the browser sandbox. I'm not a browser extensions developer, but can extensions read/write to your file system for instance, given enough permissions? If I was the hacker, what would be the maximum damage I could do with this particular extension? I guess I'm just a bit worried that's all :-)
Just wanted to be another HN-er voicing my support for what you're doing :)

Good luck and i hope you're successful!
That depends - cron time steps always restart from 0 in the hour, so what you say is valid, but the most obvious way of implementing what I think is being suggested doesn't have exactly that problem.
Very nice, they actually sponsor some really big things like EFF, Gnome. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/companies-we-spo... . Thank you privateinternetaccess!
YouTube was also _significantly_ smaller when Google purchased it. Perhaps they weren't able to create a properly competing platform, but they've certainly been wildly successful in growing it.
Isn't yet another case that startup is trying to fix systematic screwup of law in the USA?

In USA once you got criminal record, by default it stays for rest of life with you. Implications of that may be even more severe than actual punishment.

On the other hand in most of the European countries criminal records are limited and after X years they disappear and you can't legally discriminate based on that.

Some ppl will do something stupid at some point in their life and get a criminal record. Not giving them another chance is a major problem and actually can cause a lot of damage for everyone.
Thank you for sharing this info.
Fidor Bank leak
Looks like Fidor banks web portal had a bug that leaked random customer data.
https://www.fidor.de
Curious why you submit this (not in any way controversial?) quote?
You should Google and read up on 'Wwft' (Dutch law). You wouldn't want to go from VAT troubles to terrorism financing or money laundering troubles with that same tax office.

No intention of stirring up troubles in this thread and congrats on having your problem solved!, but large gifts of unknown / foreign origin can get a lot of attention. Especially if it goes across many countries. So it seems wise to have the sponsor checked out. Your bank and accountant will probably ask the same question at a certain point in time.
... but dig a bit deeper and it seems like an outright fraud, and the ability to hype is not surprising considering the backroom players..
"Lackman was "not permitted to refuse to answer questions" and his lawyer wasn't permitted to counsel him in his answers.

"Any time I would question the process, they would threaten me with contempt of court proceedings," says Lackman."

I asked in the other thread, but it got buried - can someone versed with Canadian law comment on if this is how it's supposed to work? Were these just empty threats, or can you really be charged with contempt of court if you don't answer, and if you don't have the right to counsel on those questions?
just watched a demo about http://codesolvent.com/ on monday, seems like they are providing a solution for configuration management that is oriented towards cloud orchestration.

i'm sure there are others, but this was fresh in my mind
Will upload a video and images if requested.
Biological Teleporter Could Seed Life Through Galaxy
Ask HN: Recommendation for remote conferencing equipments
Hi all,

I am looking for remote video conferencing solution for the team. We need a separate standalone physical device that can be plugged into a monitor so we can call in anytime we want. Any recommendations?
The Economist has done this a few times in recent years:

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21601884-payback-tim...
http://www.economist.com/whichmba/think-twice
I commented this somewhere else, but I figured I would drop this link here for you too, https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/. You can get a pretty decent tax break if you hire a felon.
I wonder what, if any, ways are there to counter this kind of behaviour?
Sure they are. However, all dns servers are going to have this issue. Even most selfhosted ones, like a self hosted pihole use Google DNS as its backend.

The data is far less valuable than your original claim of "Why would someone route their traffic through your servers" which sounds like a VPN/Proxy.
> I was just wondering if there is any other alternative that I can explore here.

Investigate task spooler:
http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/

This will let you queue up the tasks, and each will run as soon as the last has finished, but you won't get a "thundering herd" where they all are trying to run at once.
In the end, property laws are the only really important laws for capitalist so be ready for them to lobby for more laws and enforcement in that direction.
For a warranty return, once I had to send a picture of the cut power cable.

Basically, evidence it was destroyed was sufficient.
I'm curious about this as well because the two listings I clicked on had requirements like "must be able to pass a criminal background check" and "must have stable work history" as their first hiring criteria.
I did, and now this is permanently burned into my brain:

"Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am, how do you do?"
Last year I made a little over $500k GROSS selling games on Amazon. This policy change is going to be a nightmare because fraud and bootlegging are rampant on their platform.

Small businesses and large ones too are being forced to become sharecroppers for Amazon if they want to stay in business.
Aside from any legal/HR consideration, we feel that everyone deserves a second chance, so we don't discriminate based upon the nature of the crime (but believe me, this is not an easy issue to reconcile). Ultimately, it'll be between the applicant and employer to resolve this. As it relates to liability to the business, there's a federal bonding program that has existed for decades, indemnifying employers from making at-risk hires. Interestingly, over this period of time, only just a few claims have every been made. The facts are that folks with jobs almost never recidivate. In fact, studies are now showing that these folks, for certain jobs, actually may be better employees. Hiring them is very good business.
There may be several factors going into this; for example, in the Bay Area, positions in the city of SF are prohibited from considering conviction history that is not "directly related" to the job. It also suggests specific language for including this information on job postings and corporate websites.

I would love to hear from company founders about what factors they use to discover this information in their external job listings that are not on jurisdictions like this.

Source: http://www.millerlawgroup.com/publications/alerts/San-Franci...
Also, given employee churn and training costs are a thing - if ex-con workers are more likely to stay because it's harder for them to get a job elsewhere, you're more likely to keep the better ones.

Whether/how the math works there I dunno, it just occurred to me as another possible factor.
I bet it comes down to not wanting to go through the same thing for every fork that gains a little bit of momentum.

If their accounting is competent they can anyway trivially award the correct amount of BCH at any later date (because they'd be able to determine exactly how many BTC each customer had at any given moment).

That's not nice for customers that want to trade now, but people are hardly forever screwed if BCH becomes the new thing.
Possibly interesting trivia: There was an '80s British TV series called Inside Out, about people doing what you're doing.
A "civil search warrant"? Fortunately, we have no such thing in the U.S. And since it appears he wasn't allowed to leave, it was effectively a "civil arrest warrant" as well.
Will it be possible to limit job postings to groups of offenders? Eg only non-violent offenders, only people who have been out for at least x years with no new crimes, etc?
Nice. I've been using Jefit for Android but your UI looks better.

For Garmin devices the Gym Genius app appears to have similar functionality but I haven't actually tried it yet.
https://www.geniuswrist.com/GymGenius/About
Wayfair has done this. Sent them pictures of a (fairly pricey) door handle/deadbolt set that had scratches on it. They said to just keep it and do whatever with it, they'll mail out another one. Super convenient, and now the door from my garage has a nice handleset with just a few small scratches.
> 1 in 3 adults—with criminal records

I must admit I haven't ever thought about these numbers but it strikes me as insanely high. How can this be explained? Is it a feature of just America or is it reproducible in other countries as well?
Heavy discounts help a lot in achieving this worthy goal!
Great business concept and social good all in one.

With the unemployed persons per job opening at such a low present level (~11-12 year low), I bet you see a lot of employer interest.
This is how the civil courts system works in Canada? Agents of a corporation are permitted by law to search a private citizen's home, seize property, detain him against his will, and deny him access to his lawyer for 16 hours?

Even if they overstepped their authority in this particular case, that there is any case where some version of this is legal is absolutely unconscionable.
"...civil search warrant..."

That phrase sends chills up my spine. Does it mean a civilian organization can obtain a search warrant in Canada?
yeah I am ultimately trying to avoid collision and because other route for code refactor is not an option
One of the first things I came across was "Police Officer" in Tallahassee, FL. It's an external link. Part of the description even says:

"Have no convictions for any felony, perjury, false statement, or domestic violence. No DUI convictions past ten years. Other arrest histories are reviewed on a case-by-case basis."

I love the idea, but it needs a bit more work.
The handful of smaller exchanges that support Bitcoin Cash gave everyone who had Bitcoins on their exchanges at the time of the fork an equal balance in Bitcoin Cash, and it's that relatively small amount of on-exchange BCH that people have been trading. (I think one exchange allowed trading before the fork even happened, and just required people to have both BCH and BTC in order to make withdrawals before the fork.) Actual on-chain Bitcoin Cash cannot be sold right now as it can't be deposited in any of the exchanges, and buying it is iffy too due to some of them not allowing withdrawals either. The price of Bittrex BCH has also generally been about 40-50% higher than BCH on the other exchanges for some reason.
Thanks for this question. We are not yet working in Minnesota (we're currently focused on CA and NY Metropolitan area), so search results outside those parameters are not good. We're working on it.
What company was this? I have literally never heard of a spin off that did not result in a stockholder getting ownership of the parent and spin off, or the stockholder retaining ownership of one company and being paid out for the value of their ownership in the other company.

Was this a publicly traded company?
If you want something simpler that works with GPUs it needs to be exclusively built out of triangles and/or code that can operate on a single pixel independently of its neighbors.

Resolution independent formats are inherently anti-triangle and by the time you've hit triangles you already have a target resolution in mind.

Or put another way, GPUs really don't like vector graphics in general. That's not what they're built for or good at.
I'm curious, it looks like the screenshot shows the author is using a Mac. But Mac OS hasn't shipped with Java in several years. So why Java? Is it simply familiarity, or are there other reasons?
Software developer and free speech activist Bassel Khartabil executed in Syria
Well, according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Piller_order#Canada

an Anton Piller Order has a whole lot of "guarantees" for the "defendant".

In this specific case it seems like the behaviour of the "Independent Supervising Solicitor" was far different from the one the Law assigns him/her.

See also:

http://www.mnp.ca/en/posts/civil-search-warrants-in-canada-g...

It seems to me like any and all forms of "interrogation" of the defendant, let alone not allowing him to counsel are totally arbitrary and out of scope/boundaries of such order.
eBay is already tremendously hostile to sellers before the fees. Can't leave feedback for buyers, a refund policy via PayPal that seems tailor made to allow scam buyers to get free stuff, and so forth.

Basically it seems like the only thing a buyer can be sanctioned for is simple non-payment.
At this point, probably only the moderators can edit the title. They can be reached using the |contact| link at the bottom of the page.
Interrogations/Depositions of civil lawsuits are always recorded by a stenographer and become public record as far as I know.
If the defendant is known to possess incriminating evidence then you already have all the proof you need. The law is an oxymoron and dangerous.
Interesting - I certainly would have raised that to support!
But generally there's only one per-OS, so it's not that bad. C++ ABIs are per-compiler, or worse, per-{compiler, version}, with few exceptions (Windows).
>How do you ensure they get a fair offer, and not, like migrant labor, receive a below market offer?

This will be legal employment, so hopefully the abuses resulting from migrant employment won't happen, but the salary they are getting will be below the "normal" market price, at least for a long time - and this is a good thing, since they would otherwise not be hired at all.
And where do we stop? Calling something "stupid" is hurtful to stupid people who are usually not at fault for their lack of ability. Calling something "dumb" is hurtful to mute people. There is no end to this PC treadmill, so I will continue to say "retarded" until the Speech Police kick in my door.
I ran a search and a few banking jobs came up, one of which mentioned going through a fingerprint background check. I find it hard to believe the US Bank in SF would take me seriously for a teller opening if I had any sort of hangups in my background.

I guess this is more of a feature request but... It would be great if you could filter out job postings that were likely just scraped or aggregated from other places!

Nice work btw, a great start for a much needed service
dig deep.. see also the board and Ian Gibbons suicide..

The whole thing smacks of an outright fraud to skim funds from obamacare and elsewhere via pharmacy blood testing fees..
Well, they can go to jet.com instead. It's not like Amazon is without competition.
Agree, but he has a point. First application of the internet wasn't mass destruction.
No, when you hold "bitcoins" with Coinbase, Coinbase just marks that down in their MongoDB database. You don't have a Bitcoin wallet on Coinbase at all. Coinbase has various wallets that they'll use in order to honour their MongoDB records of who they owe what.
This corruption is directly supported by patronizing the content cartels, including their facelifts such as Netflix. These thugs can't be out of business soon enough.

Be a friend, pirate.
Why not do a chargeback on your creditcard (or raise a PayPal claim)? The law is very clear, if an item is faulty or not as described the seller is on the hook for all costs. This includes return shipping and/or sending you a replacement.

A lot of sellers will try to strong-arm you but if you just do the chargeback/claim they have no option but to eat the loss. Creditcard companies and PayPal thankfully nearly always back buyers, tilting the power balance back to the consumers' side :)
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]
Business wise: what make a company want to hire someone with a criminal record?
Good to know, thanks. I've looked at Couchbase before, but when I saw locations listed for each position and no "Remote work possible" in the job description, I assumed you weren't considering remote applicants.
Yeah, that's my source too, by way of Twitter. I would assume they're not just completely making it up, but who knows?
Malicious NPM packages found and removed
Image optimization recipes [spreadsheet]
You can just unscrew the back panel. I've looked for a replacement battery for my pebble but to no avail. It's actually a relatively serviceable device if you don't mind soldering. (Mines a gen1 pebble by the way)
> Citing Wikipedia also puts the reader in the uncomfortable position of either taking your word for something, or having to go through Wikipedia's sources themselves to verify something.

How does this differ from citing anything else?
From what I hear from Amazon sellers if a buyer contacts Amazon directly in this case Amazon will (usually?) refund the buyer no matter what the seller's return policy is.

Maybe the buyer has to have "Prime" though?
All we have to do is elect people who don't care about that crap.
This is from 2002, but it makes the point:

"... that almost a third of men [in Britain] have a criminal conviction by the age of 30, according to the Home Office. Research on men born in 1953 showed that about 30 per cent had clocked up a standard list offence - one that is dealt with by the courts but excludes minor motoring offences - by their thirtieth birthday. Research in Scotland points in the same direction, suggesting that about 25 per cent of men have a record by age 24."

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2002/apr/14/workandcareers...
Great question. First of all, while we believe that there's a morality issue here, along with good corporate citizenry, ultimately, we have to serve a viable HR value to corporate America. In fact, there are some 6 million jobs currently unfilled in this country--many of the sort our applicants would excel at. Not filling jobs costs businesses enormously. So we hope to bring that value. At the same time, progressive companies conscious of their corporate issue may feel (or may not) that making an affirmative statement like this hold inherent value, as well.
Thanks!! Yeah, I was pursuing such design that would allow to replace/customize most of the parts, including the internals. As a bonus, it makes it easier to continue working on the library as the codebase grows (now nearing 25K lines of code)
I can see how it might be cheaper than a ceramic tile, or slate roof, but the price seems much higher than a more typical asphalt shingle roof.
I'd say the wave of scammers operating on Amazon is worse for consumers.
Bless you, sir.
Counter intuitively, the narrower a site is the easier it is to get users. StackOverflow just focused on programmers and a lot of its early users came from the C# and .NET communities because those are the people who Spolsky and Atwood knew best.
please see response above
Huh, wonder if someone succeeded. In Seattle we have ADA compliant Uber as an option, and the price is set to zero.
Pretty sure it's uniquely a USA issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
dude wtf, you have a magic ball that can see the future actions of others? geez, your comment made me sick
How to Get a Remote Job, Even When Remote Isn’t Advertised
Giving children autonomy is quite easy actually - parent just has to be a little inventive. For example, my 2 year old loves helping me by taking walking around with the mop, placing thing (not toys) from one box to another, etc.

I wonder how good/bad those "toy porn" videos are. I don't know, hence I prefer to play it safe and follow AAP recommendations regarding screen time.
> You're ignoring everybody who's not a founder or investor. There are people with stakes in this process who aren't founders or investors who are important too you know.

You mean the employees? Sucks to be them.
Which skills make you most employable? A data-driven analysis
Agreed My daughter started behaving very aggressively. It turned out she was watching these adult enact of cartoon where characters will fight with each others.

I immediately switched her to kindle fire for kids and she improved a lot. I don't like Amazon per say but there is no competition to choose from.
And he can, honestly, say that he sucks at getting clients for his consulting, but that he is good at coding.