skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't have kids.. but I got paid $1 a week for doing chores, and eventually it was raised over the years, $2.. until $5. Mom helped me get a job around 14-15 years old and my money started being my own.

I think it definitely teaches lessons. I had to save up to get a $5 ninja turtle. That was like 5 weeks worth of work for a while! Chores included: dishes, laundry, vacuuming, dusting. I think I split them with my sister. My mom would even make me cook for myself, teaching me hot to boil pasta, cook an egg, cook steak, etc.

I can only say that it gave me all the life skills I needed to survive. Thanks mom! Thanks dad! Appreciate it! As for the value of money? Which $5 ninja turtle should I save up for? Which one was worth it the most? Which one would be able to keep me happy until I could afford the next best ninja turtle?

This logic has stuck with me and I've managed to mostly stay out of debt.. at least credit card debt for my entire life. Student loans.. paid those off. I currently just have a mortgage and a personal loan that I took out to help my girlfriend is the only major debt I have at the moment.
Academics don't write publications in sloppy-journalist-proof ways, though. And that's fine, they have more important audiences they are writing for.
Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both).

Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly code examples for the Z-80 Spectrum; I wish I had this magazine back in the day...

A thing I noticed: so many practical examples and code excerpts; I also spotted some math, sporting a Riemann integral no less :) - today's magazines are kindergarten-level by comparison. Of course, today's magazines are not aimed to the technical hobbyist anymore, so it's understandable... Btw: who are today's magazines targeting? Second question: what magazines?!
I don't see how that's a particularly useful view of what the statistics reflect, especially since I clarified in the same post you quoted that I was speaking with regard to nazism in the modern context.

Further, it wasn't simply nazis in the abstract that killed those few million people, it was nazi controlled Germany. It seems dishonest to ignore that aspect of the history because you gloss over all of the political maneuvering allowed the nazi party to become the force that it was such as the Reichstag Fire Decree. On top of this you ignore the history of antisemitic racism in early 20th century Europe that allowed the nazi party to gain enough popularity to attain traction as a political party.

Your point that anyone supporting the spread of nazism is supporting the actions of the nazi party that existed in Hitler's Germany is valid. However, in America this sort of speech is not as distinctly illegal as it is in much of (all of?) Europe and so from an American perspective a discussion needs to take place about how to approach the topic because for us blanketly outlawing nazi groups because of their beliefs would erode some part of the general freedom of speech that we operate with. Whether that erosion represents the loss of anything of value is debatable, but it would none the less represent a decrease in our overall speech protections. This is where my point about evaluating and qualifying the reach and influence that groups like this actually have becomes relevant, because a rational discussion would be dependent on this sort of information.
What you're saying is true - freedom of speech is not absolute, and there are well recognized, narrow exceptions to the First Amendment.

That said, Schenck is an awful example of them, considering:

- it does not advance your argument at all - Schenck was an anti-war protester who was trying to distribute flyers. Where's the "impinging on safety or rights of another citizen" there?

- it has been rejected and abandoned as a doctrine, most notably via Brandenburg vs Ohio.

(See https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...)
Cyanogenmod used to offer this option on their ROMs. I haven't checked LineageOS to see if a similar option is offered.
Qualcomm's new camera ISP include depth-sensing, biometric and extended reality
>I imagine it will likely be shelved soon either by lawsuit or just by Google's closing it down

AMP isn't going anywhere so don't get your hopes up. But, by all means I encourage you to initiate a lawsuit if only to see you fleeced by a lawyer for your litigious attitude.

Also, the article you linked to is so full of inaccuracies that it's impossible to take it seriously.
Thanks, I didn't realize that. So it's greed from all sides not just the toolmakers reluctant to make their saws safer. Damn one-sided reporting.
On that point:

> The Blogger tab I have open to write this post is currently using over 500MB of RAM in Chrome.

If that is so, why post it and have it use a similar amount of RAM on others machines? If they know sooo much about software, why even use Blogger, a site that's heyday was 15 years ago?
Any reasons to not go with https://www.fastmail.com/ ?
This is so, damn, fantastic.

I wish I could say I'm nostalgic for it, but it predates my existence. What's it called when you yearn for the style and typography shortly before you were born?
If you operate on public infrastructure, like being granted public right of ways to lay fiber, I think you lose the right to discriminate. This feels good because Nazis are assholes but it sets a very dangerous precedent. This is why the ACLU has a long history of defending Nazis and their ilk. Because one day it will be you on the other side. We should all discriminate against Nazis by denouncing them, ignoring them, etc. Public infrastructure should not.
Exactly. If you hire 4 it is likely that 1 will be very good and 2 average and 1 bad. If you hire 1 you probably hired the one who knows how sell himself/herself.
Chrome regularly uses about 10% of my RAM, but honestly Atom was the biggest offender, which is why I switched to Visual Studio. Also, games can be a huge CPU and RAM eater but it is almost always completely necessary.
https://web.archive.org/web/19961220034419/http://www.ncsa.u...
Everybody here says that "software bloats" but nobody says how it bloats.
Why does chrome take 500mb to render a page? Where does that memory go.
> Tolerating misbehavior out of fear of losing an employee.

What if said employee pulls in 10x, 100x more revenue/value than average worker for the company? Would you fire him because the rule book say so? That said I trust in effective communication as soon as possible to manage difficult situations or misbehaviour. Often the reasons can be deeply personal or family related and people are preoccupied with stuff outside work. We are human and human relations are variable, not absolute.
The bar in UX goes higher with every new competitor, and with that the amount of code under the hood.
This article is frustrating because it shows how misunderstood computing and math is. She feels that coding is a fringe skill that you don't need in life. she completely misses the point of teaching troubleshooting skills.

It also interesting that she equates computers with cars and toliets, ie trade work that you should take for granted. I don't know if that is classest or simply her personal distaste for machinery. This dim view of coding is what holds people back from entering the IT industry. I've had this view thrown at me before, but I never know how to respond.

How do you convince someone outside of IT, without any STEM background, that IT is as important as knowing how to use a toilet plunger?
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50144/is-there-a...
To be fair if being the single worst nazi site on the internet is the thing that gets him so angry he removes a site, thats an exceptionally high bar.
Can you negotiate that your salary be denominated in BTC though? So that even if the value of BTC goes up you get the same BTC in the account every month?
A lot of folks are using Helm, but I find it very opaque to debug when templates go wrong (and I feel quite strongly that we shouldn't be writing untyped templates for our models). Also I found writing reusable spec components to be very difficult, e.g. a reverse proxy that I add to a number of pods.

I use pykube (also worth looking at the incubator project client-python) to write deploy scripts in Python; client-python is particularly nice as it uses OpenAPI specs to give you type hinting on the API objects/fields that you're writing. Much more civilized than typing bare yaml into a text editor.

If Python isn't your thing you can generate your own client from the OpenAPI specs, though I've found the client generation process to be a bit buggy.
Somebody started these companies. They are free to setup their own Nazi friendly servers and compete head to head.
After macOS deprecated pptp I stumbled upon the flow vpn client[0]. Replace the hostname, enter your credentials and it just works!

[0]: https://www.flowvpn.com/download-mac/
Wary.
This is simply untrue. There _are_ people who want to be software engineers -- I'm one of them! The field is still young, but there are those of us who strive to apply the rigour seen in other engineering disciplines to the work in which we engage today. We seek to balance competing demands of quality, features, and schedule.

Though I get to produce programs when it makes sense, I spend a lot more time writing prose and communicating with others inside and outside the immediate engineering team in which I work. I also spend a lot of time chasing down problems in existing software; each new failure provides an opportunity to improve our overall practice. Mistakes can and will always happen; negligence must not.

To suggest that there isn't, or cannot be software engineering is maddeningly self-defeating.
Here's a really good explanation of RingCT: https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/83/how-does-moner...
You should fear this. And you should acknowledge that owners always have this power and the precedence here isn't going to be what enables them to wield it.
Don't know if you know who weev is, but the New York Times had an longer feature on trolling years ago and he was one of the folks profiled:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html
Everytime I see something like this rolling out of Google, all I can think is "if only this was a real project, and not yet-another-Google-shop-project". And no, that's not fair towards the people who make it, but then the entire thing is clearly marked as copyright Google, not copyright the people who deserve the credit, so Google doesn't even want me to think of this as something cool made by cool people, but another library pumped out by Google for the betterment of a market position.
Yeah there are a lot of sandboxes that generate gameplay, but few generate an actual plot. Rimworld seems to be the closest thing to that but I think they focus too much on trying to build drama.

When I see the same thing, I think a lot of better stories can emerge - a lifetime bond between comrades, a romance between a prisoner and the nurse who comes to heal him, rivalries between factions, a 500 year old cyborg who questions her humanity. So many stories can emerge.
Of course Lisp has syntax! Do you write a list as [1, 2, 3] or as (1 2 3)? Only the SYNTAX of the language can tell you.

I think we all know what you meant and that the way you said is a common way to say it, but being common doesn't make it correct. I wish people would rephrase that as "Lisp has a simple, fairly uniform syntax" or something like that. At any rate that's not the important point! What matters is the other thing you said: that programs in Lisp are represented in terms of the convenient, built-in data structures, the famous 'homoiconicity'.
No questions, algo trading is not something I want to get into. But it was interesting to read about your approach
That's not the problem. The problem is that for many, the years and years of calling your run-of-the-mill Republicans and whatnot "nazis" has diluted the term, just like GP mentioned.

So, now, when people try to get others to understand that the Nazis we now have are almost exactly the same we had in Germany way back then, people don't really make that connection (even if they say they do) on emotional level. Instead, they associate the self-professed Neo-Nazis with the "nazi Republicans" and the not-really-a-nazi-alt-righters that have been cried at in the 2000's.

Source: many acquaintances who are clearly very, very confused on the matter.
How do you know it's a choice? Do you know if people choose what ideologies to align with? Is it a choice to become an addict?

Moreover, a notable contingent of the supporters of the current ruling party believe "being gay" to be a choice - would you be comfortable with a law change?

I find this distinction to be wholly unconvincing. The reason to carve out exceptions for discrimination against gay people is because they've suffered as a minority - it's a practical matter, not a matter of principle. If you try to apply your "choice" principle, you quickly get into logical trouble - for example, does a child groomed by Nazi parents, who has always supported Nazism, have a "choice" to be a Nazi shithead? What if, a few years from now, we discover a chemical that changes your sexual preferences? Should gays stop being a protected class then? What about religion and political affiliation, also protected classes?
Both DigitalOcean and Cloudflare Ditch Daily Stormer for Hate Speech
Look at any analog - real estate property, an army of people, a kitchen. Anything left un-groomed during high use becomes unusable. Grooming software needs to be either someone's full-time job (real-life custodians), or a big constantly-enforced chunk of everyone's job (military grooming standards).

At a big company could argue requirements writers need to be technical, but once you've done a startup you'd know that you're in an army and not in a fixed building that needs architected once. The customer and your enemies are always on the move and you have to keep moving on new terrain as the money and your business keeps moving there. Build with code of conduct for your developers, and allow the code base to evolve with modules, or some other approach.
If you had a restaurant, and you don't feel comfortable having Nazis/neoNazis at your place of business, would you serve them or would you feel like it's your right to choose not to do business with them.
Viscocity

https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/
Even if it'll be a constructive proof, it doesn't mean you could actually write the C program. It'll be like, here are the steps to construct an algorithm for this NP complete problem and then the number of steps itself is bound by n^(absurdly large number) and then prove the complexity is bound by n^(another absurdly large number). It will have zero practical consequences.
A long expression containing multiple nested parentheses is no easier to think about in syntaxful languages. Re parens:

Lisp doesn't have more parentheses than other languages:

(if (validate foo)
(println foo "is the right answer"))

vs

if (foo.validate()) {
console.log(foo, "is the right answer");
}

Unless you consider curly braces special and virtuous, and "(" parens bad.
I love bloated software, I wish opening facebook would require 128GB RAM.

It makes hardware cheaper for everyone, even nerds who use terminal and lightweight WMs ;-)
The State of Cryptocurrency: Mid-2017 Edition
Can't you just use messenger.com? It is what I do
I feel like you can see the problem with this line of reasoning if you finish that list you started there.
Google isn't looking for the most intelligent and talented people and hiring them. There are lots of smart people who are not engineers and lack the skills Google needs. Google is looking for the the most talented people in the group of people who's interests make them useful to Google. It's an important distinction, and one that is at the heart of Damore's memo.
Paradox of Tolerance
What happened last time the Nazis were ignored?
Very cool. Thank you.
You can't just add arbitrary axioms. It's entirely possible to have a statement that's unprovable with any axioms mathematicians would consider reasonable.
That does seem like a better approach for helping people understand what their rights and obligations are. Whether that aligns with the interests of every system provider is another question.
> Political affiliation is a protected class

This is not true at the federal level, which is generally what people mean when they refer to "protected classes". However, there are some states that prohibit discrimination based on political affiliation, including California. [1]

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
As an aside, that space blockchain section is 0.30 bitcoin [0].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=price+of+gold+in+bitcoi...
When I come across magazines from the past such as this, I keep wondering why and when did we stop writing such beautifully crafted technical articles for the masses and instead turned to advertisement-like pieces on consumer electronics. Look how empowering those articles were by treating you as a creative being, and how passivizing the current articles are in encouraging perpetual consumption.
Is anybody else worried that this "Shut off from the world" approach might not solve the problem at its root?

I'd worry that it wouldn't resolve the underlying tension but would only up the anger and cause them to retaliate in the only form they can - violence.
Condemn the message, but protect the medium.
Why? Compilers have to read source files anyway. What's wrong with reading other stuff as well? For example, there are type providers for XAML, JSON, app.config, etc. Do they also seem wrong to you?
Let's say a ton of people lose a bunch of money on highly speculative businesses that raise money using ICOs. What is the right response to this? "Tough luck"? Regulation?

How is this any different than the wild west days of stock sales prior to the regulations that came about during the great depression in the US?
Exactly the same for Snapchat and Mobile Internet speeds, I love those people taking selfies constantly.
Years is a bad measure to use. The number of mathematicians has grown exponentially over the last 400 years. Both because of population growth and the Flynn effect, and because our society is a lot richer and we spend more on mathematical research.
And people said that gay people could make their own cake shops. Would you be fine with that?
Funny, I've had very good luck with chiropractors. And no, she actually has never told me to come back.
There is an inherent safety in having four average employee write something rather than using your unicorn. It's safe because three of them will still be around to manage it when one of them gets a new job, cancer or retires.

On top of that, your unicorns are only really worth their wages if they are solving problems no one else can or if they are mentoring others.
Stakes? Rough location?
> It's not purely intellectual pursuit.

I feel like you don't really understand theoretical mathematicians. Application is a side effect of the highest maths, not a goal of its practitioners.
> My mistake, I was under the impression Segwit2x was approved by Core.

Crap, I just found out about the fake "bcoreproject" twitter account, which of course, claims this as a pinned post. And then the fake "nullc_" twitter account (nullc is the common nick of Greg Maxwell, blockstream CTO and core supporter).

I feel saddened and a little dirty that this is A Thing :(
I think Alibaba has a nice priority list:

Customers, employees, shareholders.
One would think the literal swastikas would clear that up. These people aren't being terribly subliminal anymore.
Thanks for the clarification about the visibility map.

That being said, I don't understand why HOT would interfere with a hypothetical mechanism for marking index pages as all-visible. If a tuple gets a HOT update, I think the index values should remaing unchanged? And if they do, shouldn't their visibility on an all-visible index page remain unchanged as well?

Unrelated: Thank you so much for your work on "UPSERT" :)
The only reason to exclude currently-powerful people from basic protections (rather than making basic protections universal) is if you think that one day, those currently-powerful people will be vulnerable enough to need them. And further, that at that point, they don't deserve to be protected in the manner that currently vulnerable people deserve to be protected.

Remember the last time that popular sentiment regarded a group of rich, influential people as not needing those should-be-universal protections because of their privileged position? And then decided that this group was the cause of all their problems? Let's not let that happen again.
But for those classes it is a censorship with a relatively limited effect.

In this case we're talking about removing these opinions from the internet.

the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said: "Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet."

I don't see any practical difference between this and what China does on the internet. Only difference is I agree with the side that gets to censor here.
I log in whenever I need to use messenger, about once every three months. Was greeted with a notification telling me it had been 258 weeks since I last updated my profile. :)
They say that one of the things that determines future success is the ability to defer spending and not have to have something instantly. So this is a good way to see how your child would do. Can they save up for something bigger and better or do they blow it all straight away.
In 1979 I wasn't hellbanned
It may be helpful for people to understand some of the underlying legislation that lays out protected classes. Of course, there is state and local legislation that can further refine the protections at a state/local level in addition to the national legislation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Debating the liberal case against identity politics
I have three older MacBooks (all of them several years old) with the ports I need and use (HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB), and zero interest in ever "upgrading." I will just get them fixed as they break. To me Apple really messed up with both Touch Bar and USB-C only.
next app: get notification when the line is over
You mean when the redshirts rioted and killed 24 people which pushed the public towards the brownshirts and ultra-nationalism? Was that when we're imagining the Nazis were ignored?
And what does his background have to do with the logical statement that it's never too late to get into Bitcoin? When Bitcoin crosses $5000 are you still going to bring up his background?
Not just restaurants but to go to clubs also. You get payed more if you're hot than if you're not, i.e. if you're a woman.
Why are you being a Nazi sympathizer?

Edit: To your point, if I must: YES. Looking at someone, or a group of people and choosing hatred is 100.00000% a choice. Just like you choosing to defend Nazi shitheads was a choice.
Uber is letting some drivers pick and choose where they drive
Not to my recollection. They exited the Ad business because it was a financial failure. Do you really think Apple would have exited a business if they were on track to make Google like revenue from it? No way - the shareholders would have raided the building.
> To this day, I sometimes think I am still sleeping.

This is a well-known problem in the lucid dreaming community. There are some surprisingly easy ways to check. I find the simplest is to count my fingers out loud. If there are definitely five on each hand, then I'm awake. If there's any problem coming up with a count, then I'm asleep, no matter how much it seems like I'm awake.