skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't think that's a problem, then I don't know what to tell you except: You're wrong.

It's a problem she doesn't know about the 276 tab, but is it a problem that a new tab is opened when you look up "her" instead of replacing the tab where you looked up "him"? No, I don't think it is a problem.

Am I correct in saying that what you have a problem with isn't that it opens a new tab if you open a new page, but that it doesn't in "default mode" show how many tabs you have open, because that is a different problem entirely, which I can agree with. iOS do have problems, indeed, but shy of a few options like customisations of controlcenter which lands in iOS 11, I don't think that is one of them in general. Personally, though, there are some options I'd like to see, but they wouldn't make the overall OS better, it would just make it better for me specifically.

> Anyway, maybe you don't talk to your grandparents as much as I talk to mine, but mine constantly have problems with hidden functionality and lack of options in iOS. Don't even get them started about printing from iOS.

I do all the time, but the problems they have isn't with iOS but with third-party functionality, such as with a printer that says it supports AirPrint but it doesn't work anyways and other printers work fine, or when they create a group message that includes people that don't use iMessage, it ends up in separate message-items, but I don't blame that on iOS because they can't do anything about those things.

> hidden functionality and lack of options in iOS

I've never had any "casual" iOS user say that to me, except for cases where people use Google Chrome on Windows and ask when first getting an iOS device if they can use Chrome there too, but that is hardly a problem.
And public libraries are used to access it, so you could say the suggestion makes even more sense considering that.
My sympathies for your condition, but I regret to inform you that the rest of the world does not revolve around you and your symptoms. Speech is not violence harming you, however much you might want to claim it as such.
I've used yacc/lex and bison/flex but ANTLR4 is the bees knees. It is a considerable improvement on previous ANTLRs. Separating out grammars (ANTLR grammar file) from actions (Java files) makes everything better.
You use quotes to show that I said something but I did no such thing.

> Maybe the poster just has ignorant friends/family and really doesn't know any better.

That's quite possibly true. But regardless, at least they don't stoop to putting words in my mouth that I never used in that particular order and with that particular goal.

> Maybe they have opinions right now that they're going to be really embarrassed about in 10-20 years.

Let's hope not, it would be painful for all involved.

> But if you immediately group them together with people like Hitler

Well, when Neo Nazis walk the land waving flags and re-living the past as much as they can invoking Hitler is fair game.

Mind you: The pre World War II Nazis of old (and their sympathizers) to some extent could be forgiven because they could claim they had no idea what it all would lead to.

But the present day Nazis and their sympathizers have no such excuse.

> So I have to wonder what is even the utility of such posts except to signal to others which camp you're in.

To try to convince someone to see things in a slightly different light. And if you had been reading this thread with a bit more attention you could see some of that at work. It's not going to be a large change but speaking out about this stuff is the least that we can do.
Simply put: it was not worth it. I tried it when it first came out. I liked the concept, but they do everything to hide every single problem with it. Some of which has already been said in this thread, but the biggest reason I canceled as soon as I could was: I could not share the service with my wife. She had to have her own separate service. Hell, I couldn't use it with myself if I happened to not have the device that was registered with me at the time.

I understand the need to try to get more business, but at the same time, if I'm not using the Movie Pass for that day, why can't my wife use it? Movie Pass locks to a single device (unless they finally did away with that). Also, why can't we use it to see the same movie multiple times if we choose to? I mean I'm paying $10 (or $30 back then) a month for seeing a single movie per day. Are there 30 different movies in the theater in a given month?

While conceptually cool, this was put together in the most completely horrible way for the modern consumer. They will never win back my business unless they take away these ridiculous restrictions.
Not all information on the Internet is created equal and not all information needs to be available in perpetuity.

"Free $tuff From the Internet" from 23 years ago is closer to a restaurant guide than a book containing literary or academic references. I'd imagine most of the references in an 1850s coupon book or almanac would also be long dead.
It must be something with a US data center then, as every search returns no results fairly quickly.
> If you're concerned about military spending, your best course of action is voting against politicians that want to increase defense spending.

I'm only one person, and my one vote carries little weight.

> Lower taxes on the wealthy doesn't keep the government from spending on defense, it just runs up a deficit that is then used as an excuse to cut non-defense spending (research, infrastructure, food for the impoverished, etc.).

I'm not against higher taxes, but I'm also not against the wealthy avoiding taxes in the case of Gates and Buffett (and for other reasons, Elon Musk, using his wealth to drive progress forward) when their wealth are going to social causes. If you can't adjust how the federal gov budgets, starve the beast until competent representatives are in office while doing good for those in need.
Or, as pointed out in an article cited, a person is sufficiently, if not exceptionally, proficient but is simply ill-suited:

"I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.

At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me." - https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/as-a-woma...

This is often how I've personally felt.
My experience is probably not typical, but I had an EE degree and more of a self taught programming background. When I graduated in 2009 the job market was pretty bad but took a job doing support for a telecom company. Within a few months I found a lot of what they were doing could be automated so I started writing scripts. Very quickly this became my full time job. I later leveraged that to get a more "normal" software dev position at another company, although sometimes I miss that job because I don't think I have ever written software since then that felt as directly impactful (saving many hours and $) lol. Also, COBOL is a very unusual language to be perusing in this day in age, but you might find something in sustaining type roles at big corps and government. I would think they would actually be quite eager to find new hires that were actually interested in maintaining old COBOL but I don't know.
Are you sure it takes an hour for the stone to reach temperature? You need the entire thing to be as hot as the oven can make it, but does that really take that long? Heating it any longer doesn't make a difference other than increase your electricity bill.
Health in a postindustrial age: The mystery of our creaky, painful knees
A "throwaway" account means that he/she created a temporary hacker news username for this one-time post for anonymity. "Throwaway" does not refer to the degree or program.
It's a different form of control, not ownership. Bill Gates can never regain personal ownership of that wealth.

If Gates was interested in personally owning all of that wealth, the only logical approach would have been to never give it away in the first place.

The point of the foundation is that it's the ideal vehicle to give the wealth away to causes that Bill and Melinda decide they want to have an impact on. It's ideal because in exchange for giving the wealth away, the taxes are avoided. It's that simple. The people that routinely claim in threads like this, that it's just a scheme for dodging taxes, those people apparently do not understand much about foundation regulations or taxes.
You mean the issues Damore made up, as opposed to arguing in good faith from the sources he provided, and not taking artistic liberty in his conclusions?

The researcher Damore cites:

> It is unclear to me that this sex difference would play a role in success within the Google workplace (in particular, not being able to handle stresses of leadership in the workplace. That’s a huge stretch to me),” writes Schmitt.

And Eichs belief that gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry, meaning they should have less rights than straight people?

It is neither a left problem, extremism problem, or even a problem.

If you discriminate, you should get fired. The fact that this can even be claimed as a political/partisan issue is frightening. And if it somehow is partisan, the left isn't the issue.
Are you sure you aren't thinking of post plague Europe? I just double checked wikipedia and it basically says between 13-20 million people in France depending on what you consider to be "France" (modern borders are closer to 20 million).
What I would be afraid of, here, is that if there are signs that big data can uncover that peel out some catastrophic disease from your workout data that would mean your insurance company knows you're very ill long before you do... It would extremely tempting not to do something about that knowledge that helps the company even if it hurts a soon-to-be-dead-anyway person.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted--I mean, it seems like a relevant comment to me. People who skim credit cards at gas stations obviously try to use them quickly for some easy gain before going out and buying a $5000 tv. Moviepass is clearly popular in certain circles.
In which the social media offense economy has both supply and demand
4% of the world’s population lives in the United States. How about something a little more far reaching?

[Update]

The author is not talking about a global project.

“Hidden in plain sight, the local libraries of America are patiently waiting for your attention”
Do you just buy pre made boxes? Im curious because I have never put boxes in service I did not spec and put together myself. For exactly this reason. You want to make sure the HW is supported by your OS. I didn't think anyone just grabbed a box and tried to install multiple OS'es on it to see which worked. That seems genuinely like a poor idea and way to do things.
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> For example, you can widen the diversity of your applicant pool by reaching out to the groups you want to increase. If a company makes sure to have a booth at the major Society of Women Engineers job fairs, is that discrimination? Men are only being hurt in that there are more people applying for the same positions.

That's how Caltech got from about 15% female undergraduates when I was there (early '80s) to 44% female nowadays.

They treated qualified high school girls the way schools with big highly rated athletics programs treat star high school athletes. They would identify prospects, and then put a lot of effort into convincing them they wanted to come to Caltech.

For boys you only got more than lukewarm recruitment attention if you looked like you might be the next Arthur Rubin or Peter Shor.

The girls that did apply were judged using the same standards that were used for the boys, so they didn't have any advantage or disadvantage in actually getting admitted (except possibly in the case of ties...not sure how they handled those).
Buy low, sell high
That's probably not the answer you want, but do not hesitate to apply to jobs that ask for 0-5 years of experience, it's very often a nice to have and not a requirement. Worst case scenario is, they don't contact you (which will not happen either if you don't contact them ;) )

Your choice of COBOL is both strange (it's an old language that's not used for any new stuff) and potentially playing against you. Company looking for COBOL devs are often banks or big companies having huge critical systems that they're afraid to update to a more recent language. Thus, they may be looking for someone with some experience, considering how critical those softwares are. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't apply, I may totally be wrong or you may find something anyway!
They don't possess undergraduate (bachelor's) degrees in Computer Science.
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This is an interesting article, but it's more about the changing landscape of academic publishing than it is about random number generators.

[EDIT] The actual paper is here: http://www.pcg-random.org/pdf/hmc-cs-2014-0905.pdf
"Literally soaring into space"
> “Overall, this is a great redesign with new features that make it very easy to implement and use for businesses of all sizes, and managers of all levels of technical expertise. Uber’s clearly looking at business as a prime market for future growth, and this looks like a no-brainer for expense departments looking to ease the workload.“

This article isn’t labeled as opinion but seems quite biased. Maybe an example of the submarine.
avc's and james altucher's are always solid
Ev Williams helped create the open web, now he’s betting against it (2016)
I am open to any language I have a base in, but to explain my COBOL desires... I took two semesters of it in grad school. I just really enjoyed the language. It made a lot of sense to me, was straightforward in its output, and was structured in a manner that I found worked with my thought process. There are jobs in my area for COBOL, but even the entry level ones seem like they want 5 years of experience every z/OS feature.
Hey everyone, thank you for these replies! All of them were helpful. I came up with these takeaways:

- Frame your services as creating solutions to business problems, rather than trying to sell developer skills. This explains the value in terms that a client understands, and more simply, it lets non-technical clients know what you do in a way that “AWS, Go, JavaScript, PostgreSQL” can’t.

- Focus on getting clients. This is a bigger barrier to entry than how good you are at creating software. Don’t expect to do well just because you are good at making things.

- You’re probably qualified to do this if you've been a developer for a few years.

With this information, I'm going to follow the plan I already had, but with more confidence and focus since I feel more like I'm on the right track. I'm going to launch a few nice side projects with moderate levels of complexity to solidify my skills and figure out how long things take (important for estimates), and then I'll try getting clients using those projects to showcase what I'm capable of doing.

Thanks again everyone!
I was in an informal study group for Knowledge Based AI and one of the brightest students was a journalist. She had no undergrad CS background. She obviously had a hard time on the programming assignments but she started early, asked TA's for help, developed a clear plan. Her agents performed very well. Another student I know is a medical doctor at Kaiser.
> ...a modicum of research and critical thinking.

You're assuming that each piece of text has only a single possible interpretation when "research and critical thinking" are applied to its interpretation.

This is so far from the truth I'm not really sure what to say.

For the current topic, see e.g., https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio... You'd be hard pressed -- or perhaps simply obstinate -- to claim this piece is devoid of "research" or "critical thinking".

Beyond the current topic, your opinion becomes so obviously false I really don't know what to even say. As a base-line example, let's take any pair of 5-4 SCOTUS opinions on a constitutional matter. I suppose it's possible that half of the supreme court justices (and often slightly different halves) are routinely incapable of critical thinking of research to the text of laws and of the consitution. But that seems like an exceptionally arrogant explanation.

Believing "only my reading of the text is possible if you're remotely capable of research and critical thinking" is, for an author, an extraordinarily enormous mistake.
"Many folds" is very unlikely unless you're already grossly underpaid. A small percentage? Maybe. Enough to justify the cost of attendance? Again, maybe if you're going the OMSCS route and you're only out $7k. If you drop $30k on a master's you'll be lucky you make that up even before considering inflation, opportunity cost, etc.

I have a BA in Political Science and about a decade as a software developer. The next step in my career would be better served by an MBA than an MSCS. I'm not even sure I could break even if I did GT's OMSCS out of pocket as I'm about as high up as I can get and still use data structure and algorithm knowledge on a daily (let's be honest - weekly at best) basis.
Heh, I also made a chrome extension for the same thing and with the same name! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/break-timer/hklkdb...
"Technology provider to use satellites to increase access"
Rare Uber related news that sounds good for the company. If this sees a good rate of adoption, and the idea does sound reasonable to me so it may, it would create a much more stable model for reliable revenue that being business to business can provide.
As someone who's seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show in a movie theater many times (with audience participation, of course), that sounds like a lot of fun
That would be a weird autocorrect, since clang is an actual word.
What's the project for simulating a reptile brain? I know we've not fully nailed the ~1000 cells required for simulating a whole worm, though we're getting there: http://www.openworm.org/
The points against sub-interpreters or multi-interpreters is a false dichotomy. There are plenty of scenarios where having multiple interpreters in the same address space would be valuable. Queues could be effectively to communicate between interpreters, no sharing needed. Where sharing is required, those structures can be on their own non-VM heap with the required locks.
There's a huge re-forestation effort in the US that's been going on for a few decades now (not directly aimed at "global warming") without any sign of slowing down. My understanding is there hasn't been a net-negative year in terms of the forest coverage in the US in about 25 years despite some massive forest fires etc.
> every "junior" job there wants 5+ years of experience.

That sentence is the important clue you need. If you are still a junior programmer after 5+ years experience, there is probably something wrong. You should mostly ignore the job requirements in terms of the years of experience they want.

There are even plenty of inside jokes around this. Jobs asking for 10 years javascript experience a couple of years after javascript was released!

Either they are looking for a senior programmer and are hoping to pay junior programmer rates (possible) or they are just putting their list of ideal requirements (more likely).

Sometimes the requirements aren't even written by IT staff, HR writes the requirements, and HR doesn't have a clue about IT.

Unfortunately, this means that it's very difficult to filter for "true" entry level jobs.

Applying to jobs is mostly a numbers game. Unless the job makes it clear that you need to be a senior developer, or a team lead, then just apply. Before traveling to an interview, see if you can set up an initial phone interview. If the interviewer doesn't do a great job of screening you, ask questions yourself to try to understand your responsibilities better. Will you be working under a senior programmer? That's a good sign that they aren't looking for someone who can work 100% independently and that they are willing to mentor you.
It's incredibly rare that the problem you are trying to solve requires that you alloc an array and modify values in place, instead of something else that gives you the same result. Haskell is normally not suited for those cases anyway, because of stop-the-world garbage collection and hard to predict performance.

But, if you want to do that anyway, there's IOArray. You will just have to program everything on IO, and will get an executable that inherits the ordering of your code like any imperative language. Yet, way more often than not, people that think they have that problem just want to write C/Java/watever code in Haskell and have no good reason for dictating every detail of the machine behavior.
Feds demand 1.3M IP addresses of those who visited Trump protest site
And? I'm looking for the ones that aren't dead or sold but make a profit, that list doesn't shows that
Thanks. That make sense. Never know stackoverflow had this. Thanks for the pointer.
A design I like combines a combinator library with an optional facade that gives you a convenient grammar syntax a la a parser generator -- for example, Lua's LPEG works this way. LPEG is a little awkward imo in how it integrates semantic actions, and I tried to do better in my own library (which unfortunately isn't really ready to share and it's been on the back burner).
A lot of military programs are written in COBOL and actively maintained to this day. The salary of these positions is significantly higher. Its a niche job.
That's incorrect. Nonprofits can't have owners.

https://cullinanelaw.com/nonprofit-law-basics-who-owns-a-non...

https://www.501c3.org/who-really-owns-a-nonprofit/
Well a lot remain active so I guess is not all bad news
Better links are the Blockstream press release: https://blockstream.com/2017/08/15/announcing-blockstream-sa...

And the website: https://blockstream.com/satellite/
OK. But just don't go there, please, for whatever reason.

I honestly hope these issues won't evolve into a society that takes children from their parents under assumption that they are bad parents because their children are showing some "wrong" bias. And sadly, I don't see it as a complete impossibility.
I want to give a shout out to a charity called "Room to read". There is a book about the founder's story .. he was one of us (a tech leader at Microsoft). His book and story touched me deeply.
The libraries in my city offer legal advice, business advice and much more beyond storing books. Heck, the majority of books are put in storage in order to free up physical space for doing homework, computers, study rooms, etc.
No idea of the species, but fullgrown they might be 10-50 tons. Maybe 20% of the tree is carbon by weight, so 2-10 tons per tree. So, maybe 2-10bn tons of carbon when they are grown?

The good news is that's a lot. The bad news is the yearly carbon production of just the American car fleet is only an order of magnitude or two lower.
> Gates remains the richest person on earth after the donation with a fortune the Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $86 billion as of 10:40 a.m. Tuesday in New York. His donation once again puts Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos close to the top spot, with a net worth of $84.5 billion.

Keeping a bit of wiggle room.
Discord cracks down on hate groups, shuts down alt-right server
I was wondering if someone would put big money into fusion if we could make it happen sooner. My understanding is that the physics are reasonably well understood and now it's mainly a difficult engineering problem. I wonder if ITER could happen sooner with enough money.