skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not really SVG that’s being bad there - it’s that browsers haven’t optimized for it.

They will if more people use it.

SVG in Chrome can be particularly painful due to their mediocre support of some things (sometimes outright contradicting the spec).

That’s a vendor issue tho, nothing intrinsic to the format.
Can these non-cognitive skills be taught? Does anyone know of good resources for building these non-cognitive skills?
majority of that mooney doesn't go to research, it goes to admin
It's me, not you, Allo. I loathe communication apps that rely only on phone numbers and won't work without access to one's contacts/address book. My phone number is highly important to me from a privacy angle and I don't give it away willy-nilly. I'd feel a little more comfortable when this works with email addresses alone, which I have many of and use different ones for different purposes.
88% of the very wealthy ($30+ million) in the USA made their wealth themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/10/where-...
I think this is a very good post. It's too bad people seem to have seized on the fact that you weren't aware that "neurotic" is a technical term in psychology. Since it's a word that has also been part of popular culture for decades, with a rather derogatory connotation, I think this is understandable, and I don't think Damore should have used it.

I hadn't heard about people asking "what are you?". That is indeed infuriating. I don't think such people deserve any answer beyond "human".
I'm still not sure how much of a problem this really is.

88% of the very wealthy ($30+ million) in the USA made their wealth themselves.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/10/where-...

...the best source I could find.
That’s not exactly surprising - you’re describing a problem with basically every graphics engine.

Rasterizing expensive operations before drawing to screen is usually job one of a rendering pipeline
Open source sounds great! Please post back here when its available as I really like your service.
Its hard to notice the traffic lights amongst all this activity not to mention that you don't look for it.

That makes it hard for a person, especially if they're new to that road, but why would it affect the database lookup that a self-driving car is doing?
I strongly disagree with the claim that there is no gender difference

I sincerely don't think that anyone is proposing that there is no difference between men and women, the discussion is over the extent of the differences.

We are dealing with overlapping gaussians.

The question is the extent of the overlap. If the overlap is very close on many abilities, men exceed women on some (like say maths), and women exceed men on some others required for a programming job (like say, empathy), then you'd expect distribution of jobs to be around 50% with slight variations. There is no indication that they vary by the amount required to explain the disparity of jobs in tech, indeed, this is easily refuted by looking at the number of women in technical jobs in the US in the 70s.

PS It's Dunning-Kruger
That’s Canvas+SVG+JS then. Basically.
I appreciate your response and insight into how people might arrive at a more negative conclusion based on what values they read into the text.

One takeaway I have from this is that discussion about biological differences between sexes is often misused, so should be avoided in discussion related to diversity if you want people to not form an emotional reaction.

The whole thing was a meandering stroll of possible reasons. I absolutely don't see this memo creating a hostile workplace or illiciting the pushback it has garnered simply by what I read in the text. I read a document referencing population level differences between sexes(relevant in the context of attempting to explain differences in preferences that account for the difference in size of the groups) that have no bearing on individual differences between sexes(not even slightly relevant in hiring)

My internal reader probably filled in the benefit of the doubt.
>their market just isnt big enough

the database market is one of the biggest software markets out there, if not the biggest.

>their losing a lot of steam as of late

at least according ot google trends, mongodb is more popular than ever.

>last effort cash out sort of deal to me

they're hiring like crazy and looking to grow a ton in the next year, so I don't think that's the case.
You will see stacked memory and silicon interposers, but you won't see main memory on the CPU die. DRAM is based on an array of what is called "trench capacitors." The fabrication process is sufficiently different that they don't even make these in the same facility, much less on the same die process. An array of trench capacitors will always be smaller than transistor based memory (SRAM.)
Yes, but I was just pointing out that scaling is now neither a panacea nor free.
To give an opposing anecdote, I've landed more than half of my full time permanent positions through personal recommendations or references from people I know from university. And these jobs have by far been more interesting and/or better for my career than ones I found through recruiters or vacancy ads.
Zinc-air batteries: Three-stage method could revolutionise rechargeability
When I started learning React, I realised a dream of mine could finally come true: a proper Celtic Knotwork generator. Uses SVG and React together in harmony.

http://celtic-knotwork.online
Probiotics help poplar trees clean up TCE toxins in Superfund sites
When I did my first few programming courses we were using C and on Windows, and using system("pause"); was our way of keeping cmd from closing. So as a joke over the years I've made a pause script for Linux in Python, Perl and even bash just so I can make such code valid.

But putting a whole game in place of a standard Linux util sounds like awesome menace, reminds me of the sl command (steam locomotive) which you can install on Debian (and maybe other distros?) for those who may typo ls they'll get a fun surprise :)
Was $30k a lot of money for one of the largest add publishers?
> If it is, it gets blocked

The numbers are often spoofed, so you'll end up blocking some random local numbers instead.
That's interesting. I've always avoided Mongo because of the general perception that it loses data, but I'll take Jepsen's tests over hearsay anyday.
I have been thinking of Yishan-style CEOs for a while now, including board of directors doing CEO searches publicly. Anil Dash joked about it: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/893153626247626752
There are alternatives on the horizon, e.g. STT-RAM, MRAM, memristors, PCMs, ReRAM (same as memristors according to some...), spintronic devices, etc.

There are also other attempts such as FBRAM to replicate DRAM structures without the need for insane A/R trench capacitors.

I believe that such solutions are necessary to continue scaling.
#Oracle #Plsql #FlowChart #Android App- to View and Understand Code Logic Visually
As an engineer who switched to PCG:

- PCG is not crypto, everybody should understand that. It's for simulation and rendering.

- PCG mainly replaces Mersenne Twister which is in c++11. The Twister has a LOT more state and is a LOT slower for less randomness.

- In rendering and simulation speed really matters, and PCG excels there.

- Xorshift is another algorithm in the same class. I would really like to see an objective comparison. In my cursory engineering look PCG seemed better.

- Fast PRNG is almost a new field again: It's not crypto, but immensely useful. How did the Twister get into C++11 while it is so much worse than PCG or Xorshift? Nobody cared!

- Maybe PCG should have been a paper at SigGraph.

- For the style of the paper, I think one contribution is rethinking PRNG outside crypto. That deserves and requires a lot of exposition.
"blue, on the other hand, was fairly scarce before manufacturing."

..unless you look up?
Connecting my office branches together
I have 4 branches of my office and a HQ i want to connect it together so i can have data transferred between them, i even have a fortinet router which already has a ssl vpn connection which i can connect. And connect there specific network and use the resources, the problem is how do i connect the other branches together, so every branch can have there data accessible to all and they can even access to everyone. I really dont want to spend money on fortinet firewalls, Pfsense is a better idea to use? And connet the ssl vpn to them? Can i configure pfsense on a raspberry pi 3?
This! Try to implement a controlled task scheduler using multiprocessing and sooner or later you are going to hit some unexpected behavior, like - multiprocessing.Queue belly-upping for no reason, UNIX signals propagating throughout the process chain and killing them left and right, hitting some data/object which are not serializable etc. Getting multiprocessing to work right takes a LOT of careful efforts, which breaks the whole promise python.

I've since moved to clojure, which is a language designed with concurrency from ground up. Look at clojure's `atom` - it's basically what every beginning programmer expects from globally shared variables, minus the gymnastics of handling race conditions on your own.

Also, `core.async` is such a beautiful thing to work with for writing schedulers. Compared to this, python's asyncio is an unfunny joke.

I don't think python's GIL can be removed with ad-hoc locking. Nothing sort of complete re-implementation will do.
You can make this argument for a lot of crimes: bank robberies are lucrative so over time more and more bad actors will become bank robbers. Except that doesn't happen because bank robbers are pursued vigorously.

If there's a zero tolerance policy against drugs there should be a zero tolerance policy against people providing bogus care for drug addicts. Just like you can judge a society by how it treats its weak, you can judge it by which crimes it pursues vigorously and which ones it lets slide.
Agreed. Elm+SVG is also a dream.
To function like a muscle, you want an actuator that acts like a spring with controllable zero point and spring constant. That allows you to adjust both position and stiffness. You also get spring-type energy recovery, which matters for legged systems. (Humans recover 60%-70% of running energy elastically. Cheetahs, 90%.)

A double-ended pneumatic cylinder will do this. Two motors pulling on opposed springs will do this. A series elastic actuator can fake it by active control. You don't get the energy recovery that way, though. There have been systems with wires and pulleys to get muscle-like actuation, but they're bulky.[1]

The series elastic actuator is a position actuator driving a stiff spring, with positional and force sensing at both ends of the spring. If a load starts to compress the spring, the control system frantically runs the actuator to unload the spring before it compresses much. This gives the illusion of a less stiff spring. The spring stiffness simulated can be adjusted in the control system.

[1] http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/3/2/124/pdf
So looking at their network page (https://blockstream.com/satellite/satellite/), it seems they've "rented" (is that the right word?) chunks of spectrum on existing communications satellites, so they haven't bought their own or anything (which is what I thought they meant).

Anyone have any idea how much renting spectrum from a comm satellite costs?

Apparently this startup has $55M in funding but if I was an investor I'd be wondering what the hell they're doing right about now.
Some programs are 32-bit, but not to such an annoying extent.
#Oracle #PLSQL Profiler #Android App Provides Comment Density in the Code
Late reply, but I would recommend Posteo [1] because it's flexible and very cheap if you need multiple accounts. I switched to it a year ago to move out of Gmail and other "free" services.

Fastmail is, for my needs of a few mailboxes (each with its own credentials), very expensive - running into few hundred dollars a year!

Another similar and cheap alternative is Mailbox, which allows custom domains to be used.

Both the services allow IMAP, which was very important for me to have local copies of emails if I ever decide to migrate out.

[1]: https://posteo.de

[2]: https://mailbox.org
I don't like a lot of them but sometimes they're needed for the site.

For example I'm working on one site now where a modal lets you sign in (which involves selecting from or searching through a long list of third parties) and if it wasn't a modal it would have to take you to a new page which would be a poor UX.

So long as they're not used for those awful "sign up for our mailing list" purposes, have been set up to work well on all browsers and viewport sizes, and are accessible, I think they can be okay.
Because SVG Tiny 1.2 still has support for scripting and CSS styling.

https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/styling.html
https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/script.html
Predicting with an encrypted model
For years we have commented and purchased Driscolls.. They are the most flavorful and last even longer than picked-your-own by me..

What i wonder is how driscoll and others are all grouped together in the supermarket... The only difference is the label. Are they from the same growers fields? How does a grocery store receive its berries?
> But I'll confess to not really understanding what all the fuss is about insecure generators.

Based on things she's said on her site and in comments on John D. Cook's blog, it's all about algorithmic complexity attacks on randomized algorithms.

In other words, if you're doing quicksort on external input with a random pivot, and someone knows the PRNG state, they can make a pathological input that'll trigger quadratic behavior.

I don't know how likely this is to happen, but I know there were similar attacks on hash tables a few years ago.
Aw, come on. Not everything posted to Hacker News needs to explain itself in a commonplace way. There's a place for the playfully obscure too. Reacting with rage seems like a parody of the angry spoilsport.

In the spectrum of HN consciousness there's a large chunk of rule-bound literalism. Part of the work of this community is for that to breathe a little and not need to impose itself everywhere. Then everything works better and life becomes more sparkly.
Fix the title; it's thirty-two-thousand years, not thirty-two-thousand-thousand years.
Postgres has materialized views.
This talk was one of the highlights of Develop Denver 2017 for me. Glad to see it getting some more traction.
That's pretty much what Docker is about.
Whether the technology can be molded in a way to address the need to make hundreds of "votes" or decisions a day I think is inevitable and it will happen.

I think what this author gets wrong is that a great boss is as amazing as a bad boss is shitty. People ultimately want to be led, they want to learn and be inspired. I don't seen an etheruem smart contract inspiring humanity on its own.
> This is a fantasy, and I think a level of control is needed to stop the rousing of genocidal ideology propagated through rhetoric and providing its proponents platforms to speak on.

The Nazis you dislike would agree with you, and tell you we need to outlaw the speech of what they believe to be hateful open borders communists who, to their minds, promulgate the genocide of the white race.

The world has a long history of those who push for the restriction of speech ending up on the receiving end of restriction of speech. One good turn, history tells us, very often deserves another.
The memo suffered from a lack of 2nd order thinking. If Google really is using its diversity programs to "lower the bar", that's what should have been proven and addressed, whether men and women have innate differences in talent for certain occupations is irrelevant. It's Google's perogative/obligation to find and retain the best talent. I suspect that's what the purpose of their diversity programs are for. If they're not, and they are truly attempting to "lower the bar" for ideological reasons, then by all means call them on it, but the labor market will punish them for you. The whole memo was an irrelevant red herring to the topic of Google's hiring practices.
You're missing the point that there is a positive feedback loop at the source of the problem. The reason that women (or minorities for that matter) don't get into some fields of STEM is because there are no role models that tell them it's a good idea to do so. So there is a chicken and egg problem, and the only way do break the cycle is to give priority to such minorities. Is it fair to the members of the majority? Perhaps not. But in the end, I believe, it will justify the investment. Consider it a small price to pay for the millennia of oppression.
Hadoop is just another application that needs to talk to its peers to be useful. It shouldn't have to worry about any outside authentication, something else should handle that...
A great observation by tacostakohashi a year ago was that "peak telephone" was the mid-1990s and its success is what kills it, following the same pattern as postal mail, fax, email, usenet, and facebook:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12551566
How  That an Antivirus Protect Your Mac from Viruses and Malware
Their "freedom of speech" impinges upon the rights and freedoms of others. Their position forces a choice of one side or the other. I choose to "oppress" nazis.
> Except if they don't. ...

Except when the billionaire doesn't. Is there evidence that billionaires donate a greater proportion of their wealth or more effectively than millionaires? Is a market of 1 more efficient than a market of 1,000?

I'd bet that the law of large numbers applies here, and the 1,000 people are overall more consistent than 1 person, and less prone to extreme swings.

It sounds like the trickle-down economics version of philanthropy.
I'm German. The skeptics I were talking about and presumably the comment I answered on, were the YouTube skeptics. What I meant with anti-regressive was that these skeptics mostly tackle so-called progressives that use racism and sexism for their arguments or policies.

I've never heard the conspiracy theorists called skeptics, so I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
>>offers immediate responsiveness

does it? Any examples of responsive grid system on SVG? What would be interesting.
How to get paid iOS 10/11 apps for free without jailbreak iPhone
Looks like it didn't consider a traffic light in the middle of a block as a thing that could happen.
A GC is way more productive than the metal effort and programming skills required to master an affine type system, just to put a couple of buttons on the screen talking to a database backend.

I had lots of fun going through the Idris and Rust books, but I don't see the average enterprise programmer wanting to deal with it.

Surely not the ones that I know, that don't have any idea what Idris, Rust or even HN are all about.

Which is why D, Swift, C++, Pony designers are looking into Rust, taking some of its ideas, and blending them with GC + dataflow analysis.
> Girls and boys are today educated without making a difference through all their childhood, and I think that this may give the false impression to them that there is no difference.

You should really just google 'gender difference education' and you'll see there's dozens and dozens of papers that say education is very gendered. The experience of girls in pre-college (and college too for what it's worth) is very different from that of boys.

> I do not deny that blocking MAY exist and some men are sexists... [b]ut this is not 100% the cause of gender imbalance in tech.

The "percentage" thing is something that comes up in global warming discussions too; people will ask "what percentage of global warming is caused by humans", and because the issue is extraordinarily complex, the answer comes out sounding like equivocation.

You're probably right, social cues are probably not 100% the cause of the gender gap in tech. But the issue is complex; it's not like you're gonna see a pie-chart of simple gender gap explanations and then say, "we'll just 'allow those exhibiting cooperative behavior to thrive' and crank up pair programming and part time work; that should cover 80% of it".

You can get complex reasons though, i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/14/many-women-i.... But good luck fixing "balancing work-life responsibilities" and "workplace culture"; those are complex issues that deal with early education, social and cultural expectations of women (and men), federal and state social policies and workplace policies, politics, and deep-seated gender roles. There's not really a knob you can turn to fix this stuff, and that's why we don't use percentages to talk about it.
> Steve Jobs was from Silicon Valley but grew up poor.

"Poor" may be stretching things a bit.
This is a PR stunt. Average transaction fees on the bitcoin network are approaching $5. That prices a huge swath of the population out of the network. A direct result of the small block policy so forcefully advocated by blockstream affiliates.
It still includes interactivity & scripting (https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/script.html)! Even audio etc.! So that's probably why it didn't get traction.
Couple Filmed Having SEX on Flight
That in companies like Google people are not treated the same, and in what measure, is something that is open for debate, not an assumption.

But besides that, if the solution is to dedicate any special effort in hiring from this or that group, then employees from that group will feel they have to prove they really are at the same level as the others. Which is the opposite of what you wanted, and exactly what the female engineers in this interview complain about.
Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar's Letter to Benchmark
This is a reference to the Serial podcast, for anyone wondering. Recommended (both seasons).
One option I use with one of my email accounts is unroll.me It's a service that reads your Gmail and rolls up all these type of emails into a single digest email. They even handle unsubscribe for the ones you don't want to keep.
I'm going to take a guess here.

I'm guessing you drink the zero-cal Monsters because you don't like the taste of coffee or tea? Don't worry, you're not alone. =)

I'm going to make a suggestion. If you want to break the Monster addiction you might think about exploring cold brew coffee. It's not the same as brewing a pot of coffee and throwing it in the fridge. With cold brew coffee, you just soak the coffee grounds in water over night. What you get is extremely concentrated coffee, with like 4x the caffeine of regular coffee, but with a ridiculously smooth taste, lacking the acridity/acidity/whatever of regular coffee... a lot of people who don't like coffee enjoy cold brew coffee.

Just remember that it's very concentrated stuff, 1/4 cup of cold brew coffee has the caffeine of an entire cup of coffee.

It's also a lot cheaper than Monster; you just use regular old coffee from the supermarket, you're gonna save like $50 a week.

But anyway, that's one possible way to tackle the addictions separately. Monster --> cold brew coffee --> single addiction that you should be able to beat just by tapering the dosage over time.
Show HN: First True Blockchain Lottery Fueled by Ethereum Block Hash as Result
SDR work on things like this generally use quite a lot of processing power. So the cost in power usage I would imagine would be significant in areas which have no internet.

I used to do a bunch of digital SDR on my boat but it used too much power so I gave up (was living on solar)
From the perspective of this impartial atheist you didn't come off as pushy.

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you find peace.
Much of Google's diversity work goes toward fixing the talent pipeline by working with students. In the memo Damore criticizes these attempts by saying something like these programs are misleading female students into thinking that programming is more people-oriented (i.e. suitable for women) than it is.