skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was always taught to never view an eclipse directly with any kind of filter/glasses.

Use a simple lens, or even a pinhole, to project the image onto another surface and view it that way.
It does, but it has a lot of the same problems as MS Office, some worse. The scripting/macro system is arcane, proprietary, and only works in the cloud. The files aren't in an easily parseable format. You can export them to OOXML/ODF, but then you're stuck with parsing some ridiculously complex markup. As far as I know the version history is not exportable either.
I think you're ignoring the fact that the person who is doing the gossiping can also be the subject of gossip. If you gain a reputation for spreading untrue negative assessments about others, then you could end up being the subject of ostracism as that behavior also can lead to results that are harmful for the group.

Which, of course, can lead to even more complex "gaming" of the system, but only to the point where the amount of effort you put in outweighs the minimum acceptable level of effort you could otherwise put into the work itself.
I'm a little confused as it looks like an image in the article labels a string literal as being a comment. Am I misunderstanding something?
It’s not just Google – many major tech companies are struggling with diversity
My arguments was actually just that it had nothing to do with OO at all :)

Caching becomes a lot easier though in a pure functional programming lang though, and in a lazy one happens automatically for a lot of things.
AI website builder the Grid, is near industry-low in customer satisfaction
I use ikiwiki (https://ikiwiki.info/) for my blog (http://per.bothner.com/blog).
> China can't have the same Industrial Revolution the West enjoyed. It has to figure out how to leapfrog past it simply because oil just isn't what it was in the 1900s. Africa is going to have to leapfrog past what China does.

Besides accessible space travel, one of the things I most regret not being immortal for is that I don't expect to live to see how/if any nation on the African continent pulls that off.
It's long been rumored that there are tunnels cross crossing the us, connecting deep underground military bases.

We know for a fact there are numerous tunnels in DC, some that go to places to support / maintain continuity of government in the event of nuclear war.

I think it's erroneous to think that they are no longer in use, but nobody really knows their true extent.

The point was simply that if the amount of tunnels needed for this type of transport were dug, through the US, they would reveal, somehow, if such tunnels did really exist.
EBay’s Founder Has a New Idea: Build a Dairy in Hawaii
I am a 70 year old retiree and have 37 years of C programming

That's awesome. Thank you for joining the community here. I have a lot of respect for our elders. New technology gets written about using old technology.
Sorry I wasn't more erudite.
Kalanick Loyalists Move to Force Benchmark Off Uber’s Board
I used to make the effort to go to work after a long night out. Now I just call in sick and sleep. Work will be there the next day.
There's a fairly well-known study (I could find a ref if wasn't too lazy) showing that people in retirement homes who were made responsible for the care of a potted plant, lived longer on average than a control group who were given a potted plant but told the staff would take care of it. Just having a responsibility keeps people alive.
It depends on what your UI is. If your page displays information that can be loaded with a few concurrent calls to a single RESTful endpoint each, then by all means stick with that.

On the other hand, if your page loads information from ten different endpoints across three different services, and some calls depend on the results of previous calls, then you have four options: take a massive performance hit, go back to rendering everything on the server, create an endpoint for each page, or implement some way of querying embedded resources.

GraphQL acting as an intermediary for multiple REST apis is one way of doing the latter.
The mathematicians reading your tweets to learn about our collective well-being
Hm, well I've been going to the same supermarket for 10 years, without saying much more than "pretty good... thanks."

Recently I started adding "how are you?" which made things a bit more interesting. But I'm pretty good at improvising jokes and scientific observations, so that helps keep some words flowing. If you want to have a longer conversation, then finding places to insert questions can be useful.
> about barely breaking changes in Open Source software.

I get the sentiment, but I'm immediately recalling times users have been spurned by projects that just didn't listen. In that light, this feels like a subjective statement.

I can tell you I'm racking my brain right now trying to invoke custom sphinx-doc builders programatically. And I get absolutely zero consideration in the issue tracker. Why? Because 99% of the cases of sphinx are invocation through ReadTheDocs and the project's Makefile. They don't care whether their internals are intuitive or not.

To most, it looks incredibly trivial. But I have a legitimate case to use sphinx this way, and they flip when I suggest adding an argument to insert a custom Builder. No, I have to create a side effect by inserting an extension, which registers the builder as a string, and then figure out why I'm not printing even basic debug statements.

I seriously only have the intention of making life easier for others. The internals of docutils and sphinx are no simple feat to understand.

Eh, other than my own personal problems, which I at least made patches for, there's gnome's spatial fiasco (https://www.osnews.com/story/7344). So, every time I did a gnome install I'd go into preferences to 'fix' it. Untold others did too.

I have sympathy toward open source projects not being able to change internals due to fear of introducing regressions and keeping code maintainable and (to a point) pragmatic. My point is, while there is people who pick small gripes over edge cases, there are simple little things that can cause headaches to users.
The point I inferred from the comment was that "it is OK for the article to state that biological differences in men and women lead to certain pre-dispositions in how friendships are formed, but it was not OK to suggest that biological differences might influence suitability/pre-disposition for certain kinds of work." I'm not backing that claim or taking a stance on it, but that is what I understood the source of the irony to be.
Beware of the shiny new idea syndrome. I don't doubt your sincerity, but positive effects of our actions are best measured in decades of commitment. Being all-in on renewables, then losing interest in favour of something better does not bode well imho.
Please also remove the unsourced (and untrue) claim about the present, too!

I wrote a thesis ten years ago which examined the engineering and economics of a more simple kite/glider pair system. Aerodynamically, it can be stable and self-correcting, which I modelled and prototyped, but this may not be an optimal design and launching is hard due to lower (and different direction) ground wind and boundary layer issues.

The drone-like addition adds control complexity, but appears to ease take-off and can probably reduce strain in flight and improve efficiency, despite the aerodynamic cost.

Tower wind turbines have enormous costs and engineering trade-offs: the generator is in the nacelle up high, adding structural cost to the tower, which, at 150m+ nowadays, is a big deal; not to mention the rotors which span the area of a sports stadium. This doesn't scale, whereas kites do, because the tower/blade height/length cost is gone, the generator sits on the ground, and can be bigger (easy access, cheaper, heavier magnets, among other benefits).

Maintenance (and finance of turbine project bearing this in mind) is huge. Servicing an offshore turbine is weather limited and expensive even if you can get there. For kites, just reel them in by pulling more power off the generator to wind in the kites. If they are offshore, then sail the boat (?autonomously) back to a harbor. The list goes on and on, and amazing possibilities open up with a moment's thought.

Agreed with responder that it is early days for the technology, but I expect strong progress through up learning curve from this early stage. Good luck Makani!
I bought some for $2 in a Fred Meyer (Kroger grocery store) that are certified safe. Those kinds of stores may not stock them further from the eclipse path, though.
Uncharted 4 had a little nod to MI
What a cruel twist of irony that here in Seattle, probably the major city that hates Trump more than any other, is closest to NK's nukes and will probably be first to go when his deranged ranting sets off Kim once and for all. Don't let him use us martyrs for his cause.
Just posted a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006082
The "useless" instructions aren't for potential stack allocation, they're there so backtraces work. If you don't care about that then you can add -fomit-frame-pointer and they disappear.

Compilers don't default to this because having backtraces on crashes and profiling are more useful than the like 1% speed gain from another available register on x86-64.
Could you expand a bit on the differences between CHAMPs and HAMTs? Most of the info I see about CHAMPs makes them seem very similar, but with a slightly different node structure.
A Mixed Hero: A Libertarian Reassessment of Elon Musk
Well, man, I don't pretend to have the right to judge people on their beliefs. I believe that people hold the beliefs they do, whatever they are, for good reason to themselves, and I support their right to have those beliefs whether or not I myself share them.

Thus, I support the whack-job "SJWs" (or pick your preferred term: communists, radical leftists, anarchists, democrats, socialists, Marxists, etc.) as equally as I do the mouth-breathing white nationalists/supremacists/whatever.

Mobs, however, whatever their "orientation", are uncivil and uncivilized and deserving of immediate termination.

Anyway, thanks for the link. Wonderful words can be found there:

"Unity C'ville is committed to an open, inclusive and hate-free Charlottesville and Central Virginia...We envision a city that respects the dignity and worth of every human being...We organize events that celebrate our diversity, foster cultural understanding and create spaces for our families and our community to come together as one."

It's strange, isn't it, how that somehow involves bandana face masks and baseball bats?
I'm still there :-( I was amazed and I could hardly wait to integrate this incredible service into my apps I was writing at the time. Then I took a look into the services and realized that they were too primitive to build any type of AI. How did watson win Jeopardy? The world may never know....<cough>fraud</cough>
Clojure devs: 3.5 is the figure you are looking for, and it does look very good, at first glance.
Right, I didn't write clearly. After a couple months of pushing to a 1.0, I'd expect maybe a few thousand users (this seems reasonable to me because it's the number of github stars). That's enough though that I'd need to start worrying about the product rather than just the technology, but that could all be done part-time.

My estimate of a million users is what might happen after another year or two of building out the whole vision, and with organic growth from numerous sub-communities (for example, I'd expect Rust users to be quicker to adopt it because it's in Rust). At that point, it's clear that the project would need at least a full time person to be its maintainer. And I don't see how to sustain that.

Thanks for emphasizing the focus on marketing; it is indeed a knob I can turn.
Apparently the source got hugged to death.
I don't have a definition of racism, so I can hardly update it, can I?
To elaborate, MI 1 and 2 can very much be seen as the glorified daydream of a child imagining himself to be a pirate. (There are certainly some books that play with this sort of thing, but I'm not remembering them at the moment. Pan's Labyrinth and Sucker Punch are movies in this vein.) Hence the zaniness of the world, and Guybrush having little personality of his own beyond a naive aspiration and a certain wit--he's a sort of surrogate for the player. The ending of MI2 suggests this is very much the case, but leaves it ambiguous. An MI3 by Gilbert would undoubtedly have continued along these lines.

CMI pretty much eschews the MI-as-daydream idea altogether in favor of MI as a sort of off-Disney world/production, meant to be taken at face value, with Guybrush becoming more of a character in his own right rather than a player surrogate.
I'm not sure that helps much. You have the audit trail, find an issue. You inform China, and...nothing happens. Factory changes its name for the next shipment.
$10,000 - $12,000 per week is normal for an application security assessment. Go ahead and double that for a specialization like protocol cryptanalysis.

Ballpark $40,000; maybe more because there were three consultants, not two. I wouldn't be surprised at the price until it hit $60,000; I'd be outright shocked at $100,000.

If you have two or three consultants working on this full time, you're charging $7000 - $10,000 per consultant-week of time. Those numbers would only be shocking to someone who has never been a consultant or who has never engaged in an assessment; the margin is lower than it looks when you account for the peripheral staff aside from the consultants working on the engagement.

Consulting for a variety of software specializations very easily hits five figures per week.
A Radical 18th-Century Quaker
Facebook knew about Snap's struggles months before the public
I would summarize the memo in one (long) line as:

"Non-discriminatory [against men] ways to increase women's representation in tech include making engineering people-oriented (rather than systems-oriented), disincentivizing competition, endorsing part-time work, and making it socially acceptable for men to leave tech and leadership for traditionally feminine roles, but a meaningful application of these strategies would prevent driven employees (mostly men) from working extra hours or taking extra stress, which would have disastrous consequences for Google's success."
Thanks for emphasizing the focus on marketing; it is indeed a knob I can turn.

I think my main point is that it is a knob that can be turned in either direction. It seems to actually be easier to dial it down if the attention you are getting is somehow problematic.

Best.
Blockchain could help solve this problem.
Lol what a terrible response.
Say you want to add some feature critical to correctness. "Request can't be committed until resent to other quorum members." Something serious like that. You can't use 418 for that feature because some non-conforming servers are already returning it as a joke. You'd have to triage new RFCs until you get one that isn't important enough to work reliably, and sacrifice it to use up the tainted code.
The thoughts on commercialization are a hypothetical. As I said in my original comment, it's off the table (though I gave other reasons than being employed by Google). I'm just saying that if there were a revenue stream, then I'd be incentivized very differently (and more in line with what users need) than purely as a labor-of-love open source project.

And yes, if there were a good reason to, Google could bring considerable resources (including marketing) to bear.
So what's the answer here? Followers, likes, and comments were bought. Did the experiment end up making more money than they spent? Is it a problem if not?
I've gotten counterfeit body wash (Shiseido Super Mild) and counterfeit microSD cards off Amazon, and, ironically, the only things I buy off amazon.com now are books, because if they're counterfeit, it'll be obvious, and it certainly won't cause me any harm.

Everything else I'd rather buy from the manufacturer (and pay the full, unsubsidised shipping cost -- not Amazon Prime) or a reputable distributor (digi-key/mouser for electronics, CS Hyde for films/tapes, etc). The prospect of having my eyes fried because of counterfeit PPE is kinda horrifying.
Compile with -fno-frame-pointer and you won't see those code. It's for debugger.
If you don't trust Amazon's vendor commingling practices, be sure to test the film:

https://www.space.com/37698-solar-eclipse-glasses-safety-che...
My local Lowe's stocks them. I guess not many people know this because I wouldn't have guessed a "home improvement store" to sell eclipse glasses.
1. If you're using an Electron-based editor, I imagine you might not be entirely happy with performance. I can fix that. 2. Yes, have looked at Kakoune, and even have some plans to emulate its keybindings. It's an interesting project. 3. I'm not sure novelty is the main thing people need. I think we pretty well understand what people need, and there's something to be said for just doing a good job delivering it.
I've spent a lot of time in both Word and LaTeX writing papers and reports in grad school, and nowadays, strictly use LaTeX. I feel like the author missed some crucial elements as to why people use the latter. First, references, cross-references, and citations. These are all shockingly simple in LaTeX. \ref or \cite is all you have to think about to cite papers or reference figures, tables, etc. In Word, I have used Mendeley's citation system, and the built in cross reference system to the same task, but when it comes to the editing process between multiple people and having different files sent around, it invariably breaks, leading to hours of extra work either doing it manually (have fun updating figure numbers if you add another one, or citation superscript), or reinserting all the necessary cross references. With a LaTeX file, this is pretty hard to break.

Secondly, LaTeX handles figures 10000x better than Word, in that you just let it figure out placement inline. Captions are as simple as possible. Meanwhile, have you ever had that Word document with 10 figures in which you move one inline image, and every figure jumps to a different page, leading to spam clicking Ctrl+z? Or how about adding figure captions? Inline you have to use the caption tool, which isn't fantastic and often creates a text box that isn't strictly tied to the figure. The method I found best was just to have another document simply for figures and write the captions in regular text. This both looks bad, and during the editing process, requires you to switch between files to keep track of the figures that are being referenced in the text. Additionally, automatic figure numbering depends on where the figure anchor is, often leading to improper numbering. Again, referencing figures by number in Word is a nightmare that LaTeX handles amazingly.

Third, I agree, setting up LaTeX on a machine isn't fun, and I have always been bad at it. However, I don't do it anymore. ShareLaTeX has solved all of those problems for me. All packages are available, you don't have the funny "compile three times to get reference numbering correct", it's amazing at collaboration with both git-like diffs as well as Word-like track changes/commenting system, and has tons of templates so the pain of setting up your document's preamble is done for you.

One tip I have is if someone you work with doesn't know LaTeX and can't be convinced to learn it, still write in LaTeX, compile to pdf, and use Acrobat to convert to Word. That works surprisingly well. The Lyx version conversion does not work nearly as well. I can't say I've tried pandoc though, I would like to try that next.
That's not at all a perfect analogy:

* You're not saying evangelical Christians make your preferred form of government impossible.

* You'd be arguing in pursuit of a narrow policy goal, unlike Thiel.

* People choose to be evangelical Christians; they're in part defined by their opposition to abortion. Women don't choose to be born women.

* When you say "evangelicals make reproductive rights more challenging", you're not directly alluding to a franchise those people won within living memory.
That's the good part about agile. The bad part is that the idea of a "story" goes a bit too far in trying to make specification creation accessible. Decomposing stories into smaller pieces is a solution that's palatable to many because it avoids the hard work: Gaining more domain knowledge, and developing critical thinking.
> Couldn't see light bulbs or anything else but the sun.

Are all the harmful wavelengths visible? What you don't see can hurt you (for instance, see the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_safety#Damage_mechanisms), and depending on the material it could filter some wavelengths but let other wavelengths pass. Testing just with visible light is not enough.
How do you think people go about getting a certification? Uncertified people have to be able to dive with an instructor or there would be a chicken and egg problem becoming certified.
I ordered the top-rated eclipse glasses on Amazon a few months ago and they were counterfeit.

If you put them on during daytime you can see indirect sunlight and even my kitchen light. They were shipped from China despite having "Made in the USA" markings and all the proper ISO certification fine print.

I haven't received any communication from Amazon, so people who haven't heard from them should not assume their glasses are safe (contrary to Amazon's statement). I contacted Amazon support and they were quick to initiate a refund. For some reason Amazon rejected my review warning that items from third party sellers may be counterfeit and explaining how to tell.

Here are a couple photos of the counterfeits: https://goo.gl/photos/1XRKw8KBgo3hjHx6A
Never buy any Apple product from Amazon. I've been burned several times. Didn't realize it until I had already bought several products.
I was similarly wondering what the killer application, platform, or tool will be.

This review calls out the ease of FFI and a reasonable set of concurrency primitives so, in conjunction with the grammars and the data-mangling heritage, I conjecture that Perl6 might be good for IoT programming or SCADA. Of course it's a long trek from "might be good for" to "look at this compelling thing we built with it".
Ha, sweet memories.

I am 40 now; back in 2004-2006, for two years I was one of the youngest professors in Italy, teaching "compilers and programming languages".

I still feel so fortunate to have had that experience.

To help my students save the relatively huge amount of money to buy the dragon book(s), I created a condensed version of the parts that were required for the course - and I didn't charge anything for it, unlike what usually happens pretty much everywhere in Italy. They were available in PDF and OpenOffice formats, on the website that I created for the course (yes, the CS department didn't really have a proper website to use as CMS - I kid you not).

You can find the material here, it's in Italian but it might be fun to take a quick look: http://www.lulu.com/shop/simone-brunozzi/dispense-lab-lingua...

Such good memories.
If it becomes okay to exclude people because of their beliefs, we may feel that sanity has prevailed and a sense of victory. However, the loss of freedom can become perverted in time and AirBnB just set a precedent for deciding which beliefs are not allowed.

When they come for you and your soon-to-be-declared radical beliefs, remember how proud you were today.
Methods to Backup and Restore WeChat History on Android
No One Expects the Google Inquisition, but It’s Coming
Callable vs. Runnable Interfaces in Java Explained
I love that game so much. So ahead of its time.

Be Vigilant!
90% of ones Apple bought. They probably have a good idea of which sellers are authorized to begin with and therefore didn't buy from those.