skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It says I’m personally liable if anything goes wrong!”

That is exactly why you incorporate. And there are folks who will come after you personally if you don't pay them what you owe them. They're called the government. Dad's bad advice won't get you out of that one.

You think he'd spent enough on lawyers that he'd have gotten that advice at some point.
Actually, this was a self-built telescope. It was a 3.5" apochromatic 900mm focal length lens adapted to a T-mount.

If you remove the camera, and point the scope at the sun, there's a good sensor-sized beam of intense sunlight at focus.
No the word I was going for was specifically "ninja". It's just a slang term that some people in the real estate industry used kind of as a joke during the last bubble.
the $400k is in 1954 dollars, today's figure would be around 4mil a year
llpp, depending on your definition of "fully formed".

And there is/was a tiling window manager, but everyone I know who used it at some point migrated away because the configuration was Haskell as well.
I suspect we'll end up in some weird freemium model offering with Microsoft. For the right price, everything can be shut off, but Windows 10 Enterprise is all said and done over $500 a seat.
This comment is brilliantly concise, in my opinion.
What's the alternative? A vaguely exotic-sounding name that doesn't mean anything to anyone, like Haskell?

Names should be descriptive.
"The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery." -- Marx
But are those pieces selected at random or not? Probability of getting even 10 z shapes in row is comparable to probability of winning a lottery (2.01599×10^-8, if I got Wolphram Alpha query right)
>> ProPublica labelled the algorithm as biased based primarily on the fact that it (correctly) labelled blacks as more likely than whites to re-offend (without using race as part of the predictor), and that blacks and whites have different false positive rates.
>> In the conception of these authors, “bias” refers to an algorithm providing correct predictions that simply fail to reflect the reality the authors wish existed.

The gist of the article is that statistical bias is not the bias that journalists are interested in. The article doesn't discuss how these biases are related or relevant to each other, but rather assumes that statistical bias is the only one that should matter. I think the article is missing a discussion of the gaps between what are the measured inputs into your statistical model, and what can be acted upon from a policy perspective.

As a thought experiment, suppose the only two inputs that determine a person's recidivism rate is their past criminal history and whether they had lead poisoning as a child, but that of these two we can only measure past criminal history as an input into our algorithm. If race is strongly associated with childhood lead poisoning (such as in real life [1]), then our algorithm might get higher classification accuracy by including race [2] as an input in its training data. This might have less statistical bias, but would bias against individuals of a race who are in truth not at higher risk of recidivism.

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alixwinter/files/sampson_w...

[2] The actual COMPAS algorithm doesn't use race as an explicit input, but that doesn't really change the issue.
We talk all your things. You get to keep 10%. You should be glad we didn't kill your wife too.
Great response. And people do tell it, there are a ton of "why my startup failed" articles on HN all the time.
I'm running Node 5.5, it doesn't work because of syntax quibbles. You should add the engine requirements to your package.json file so npm would alert the user beforehand.
We'd beeen using AMP at the publication I work for since late Oct 2016. I finally got around to comparing AMP vs non-AMP performance in Jun 2017 and in _every_ case I could find in Search Console, our site version was outperforming the AMP counterpart on mobile, most notably in search position and conversions. AMP was causing problems in other ways (tons of external calls, which were stressing our servers), so it was a good excuse to ditch it. Eager to see what the results are after 90 days of AMP-less traffic, but so far it's a relief not having to worry about it. It's important too recognize how much extra work things like AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, whatever Amazon dreams up next, etc. etc., dump on your development team -- the maintenance alone can swallow up countless hours.
Indeed. If only they hadn't given their janitors paid vacation, they'd be in Apple's position right now!
That's like if you had two cars and the government took one of them. "What do you need two cars for?"
As they should be, if they want to continue to exist.
On the contrary, for positions that require getting your hands dirty with implementation, I find it very valuable to be able to look at a code example with the applicant. How do they approach making sense of legacy code. Do they spot code smells? How familiar are they with the technology at hand? Are they comfortable with asking questions when things are not clear? None of this must involve solving algorithmic puzzles under pressure ... but having a conversation around code can be of value.
There is a program in the unix standard tools (I don't know how these things are called) named 'watch'.
The 2017 Big Data Landscape
I don't know if it would've been any different for Solaris, but I can imagine Google would've been a whole lot better off owning Java. They probably would've been far better stewards too.

Even if they win Oracle v Google, it's been a huge distraction, a huge cost in lawyers (who knows how much they'll recoup), a big unknown and the search for an alternative has to be costly and time-consuming.

$8.3 billion almost seems like a bargain in hindsight.
You should not feel worse than you are actually feeling, there should be no mandatory feelings. Bad feelings over your extended effort sounds to me like wanting additional unfair punishment. In any case, lazy people feel guilt which you have no reason to feel.

Through, putting enough time away for sleep or needed rest/socialization is not being lazy. People are more effective when they sleep enough, meetings are shorter when people coming in don't feel lonely and so on and so forth. I mean, being lazy is bad, but spending some time watching a show, reading book or keeping friends does not make you lazy.

And I mean, I am pretty sure you learned something from the experience. If you try another project/business, your chances of success go up due to what you learned. If you would watched tv whole time, you would learned precisely zero.
You still need local collection hubs and network infrastructure to get the data out. The cost of the sensor isn't the issue.
Yay! Then the companies (i.e. the executives) are fine and everyone else can just rot without a job.
> Unfortunately this caused some negative feelings from friends who I had unfriended

Says volumes about how social media manipulates people with things that don't matter one whit IRL.
There's a bookmarklet around Google that removes fixes headers.
No, it would be like I had three big houses, two boats, and 10 cars. What do I need half of this for?
Mimnimum wages, mandatory health insurance / vacation, ...

All the things every country in the world does except one.
My android has started to get extremely slow recently, but I realised, somewhat unexpectedly, the culprit was Google'so "GBoard" keyboard app. Switching keyboards brought it back to life.

Other than that, I've had it over 4 years and had no performance issues. The battery lasts 2 days or more.

I think quality control of app performance must be a big factor. And not just 3rd-party ones. Google are really not good at software performance where obsolescence is a concern - things can only be expected to be usable on new setups.
First of all, hundreds of millions of people use it IN Asia too.

Second, even if they didn't, with 1.3B users it's as large or larger than any other competitor app globally.

Third, they got 16B for it, while spending like $10 million to make it.

So I don't get where the sneer comes from.

Even if the statement wasn't false, it's not as if use in Asia is the be all end all of success?
That’s why you set up business entities and never buy or do anything as a sole proprietor.
This is why it's so upsetting that companies in Silicon Valley (Google, Facebook, Apple, all of them) hire cooks/janitors/bus drivers/etc from 3rd party companies and offer them none of the benefits their full employees get. Just doing that would be a huge pipeline, and would play no small part in addressing the diversity problem they all claim to be preoccupied with (but don't do much about).
More like if you had 40 cars and the government said they were going to charge you 90% tax for your 41st.

In other words, nothing like that.
I wonder if the poor guy from Sun with the Worst Job in the World was hired by Oracle and still has his terrible job?

http://eng.umd.edu/~blj/funny/worst-job.html
Not many people are qualified to teach programming in any way and also willing to work for abysmal school teacher salaries.
Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing
> Especially for research-heavy positions

Sure.

But if you're hiring general purpose noon-senior software engineers, live coding exercises separate the wheat and the chafe very quickly.

Lots of people lie on resumes and are smooth talkers, but lack basic skills for their job. A coding exercise is a really fast way to find these. Then you can move on to more interesting things.
I have this feeling you're used to an open ecosystem (like web design) where everyone shares code and designs somewhat freely.

In my line of work, that's the complete opposite of what goes on. Ecosystems are closed for a number of reasons including patents, warranty, and liability.

Unless you work directly with the equipment maker and their circle of suppliers and customers, getting full approval along the way from every party (including the end customer who has no idea what's inside that black box), you're pretty much going to be on the outside.
To buy(/invest in) stuff? Not your or mine business anyway.
I have an iTunes receipt from 2013 for 69p paid for a year's worth of Whatsapp service. Their message then was "we charge because we don't want to show you ads".

IIRC they were always free in emerging markets like India though.
This is the correct answer, I don't know why you're being downvoted. This would cause people to either (a) leave the country or (b) work until they made their 395k and then stop working for the year.

It's actually quite terrifying that people would advocate for taking up to 90% of someone's income. We need to work on solving inequality but this simply isn't the answer.

Edit: It's also important to remember that taking more money away from the rich, and feeding it into an already broken and inefficient system (our government) does not equate to lifting people out of poverty.
How to Switch to the Mac
To invest in 2 hippies starting a personal computer company in 1976. To invest in 2 guys in starting a search engine in 1996. To invest in a kid in Harvard making a social network in 2004....
Not at all. The value is being captured by the contractor and middlemen.

Generally speaking, outsourced staff make around 15-20% of the billing rate.
The regulations already exist. Companies aren't allowed to classify contractors if they do work similar to a fulltime employee or what would be considered full-time work. Like work long term at the company site. The outsourcing happens by finding and taking advantage of loopholes with contracts, firing contractors after 18 months and betting the costs to settle a lawsuit is cheaper than paying benefits to 10s of thousands.
Well, I'd start with checking whether the person has a history of suing or being sued (e.g. by stiffed subcontractors). Also whether they take apparent pride in that history.

Further, ask people he's been in business with in the past not about him but about whether they'd do business with him in the future.
The minor discussion on the C version's memory leaks reminded me of a neat trick. If you're developing a short lived application, like pkg-config, you can opt to never deallocate. i.e. leak everything. In lightweight, short lived applications there's usually not a lot of incentive to deallocate; your application will never use much memory anyway and the deallocations waste time.

You can think of it like treating C as a garbage collected language, except the garbage collection cycle occurs only once at the end of the program :P

It really can be an effective trick. Deallocation isn't free, and under certain loads can be quite expensive.

The 1000+ leaks in the C version might actually be what's giving it the slight run-time advantage.
The Hotel Hacker
> The fact that you're telling me to move to Venezuela (capitalist economy) or North Korea (a country that doesn't even call itself Communist or even Socialist any more)

sure, keep telling yourself that

> Yes. What about it?

Thank you for admitting that communism does require force confiscation of property.

You need to understand that I wasn't arguing to convince you, I'm making statements to point out for anyone reading that when you say "liberation" you actually mean state police going door by door and confiscating any valuables you have. Maybe lynching some property owners along the way.

>People's economic freedom is not removed, rather, it is provided in the first place - higher stage Communism is the refined ideal of the free association of people as producers and labourers in the economic sphere.

Communism is supposed to be ownership of the means of production by the people. Can you sell what you supposedly own under communism? No, you cannot.

This means that

A. You don't actually own it the state does. (The state in this case can be whatever organizational body is being used to manage the means of production).

B. You do not have any economic freedom under communism because you cannot sell what you supposedly own. Even under communism you do not have the option to sell your own labor freely. What occurs is that you are assigned work that the government believes is needed.
Wells Fargo claims it isn't the leadership - it is just a few thousand bad apple low-level employees and they have been fired.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/investing/wells-fargo-create...
> Solaris was competing against free

Is that true? Don't companies interested in Solaris pay for their OS? Weren't they competing against companies like Red Hat?
I usedit tactically for folks heavily implicated in pro-fascist movements lime Gorka and Bannon.

But after Trump has repeatedly equovacated for and defended the honor literal, flag carrying neo-nazis, I feel comfortable directly addressing the executive's actions with these words. I think he's shown he's genuinely racist, and wants to help execute a racist agenda.

But my original post was referring to political "equal funding" laws that give money to any group that can get signatures on a page to run for office. You're just defensive about the executives politics, so you felt this was an attack.
The first doesn't mean the same as the second, though. O.o
Euhaplorchis californiensis
Xmonad!

Still use it with gnome and it's the only reason I can half read Haskell!
Most animals reach satiety relatively quickly when it comes to food and don't overeat. With drugs satiety is hard to control or achieve. The article mentions the zebra fish exhibited drug seeking behavior. The researchers almost certainly know about addiction and understand addicting behaviors. I think one should assume the researchers are aware that drug addicting behavior would be different than pure classical conditioning.

If you or I, laymen on a topic, can think of a possible flaw after a moments thought then we should assume the experts have likewise thought of this possibility and have accounted for it in their study. The writer of the article may not have accounted for it in their explanation though.
If the tip of the iceberg is automatic watering of gardens, the iceberg is nuclear power plants designed to run on PDP-11s.
Indeed. The individual actors within WF responsible made out 7 figures ahead (Tolstedt) or 8 figures ahead (Stumpf). There are not adequate disincentives for either the corporation or those within it to discourage such behavior.
In summary, there are questions about one particular study out of Portland, with some plausible explanations for why the results/interpretation of this study were incorrect. This is not a concern about the utility / potential / feasibility of CRISPR itself but rather a critique of data interpretation and techniques by a specific study in human gametes.

The buried lead for me in this story is the use of pre-publishing services that are allowing this open review of biological papers without the delays traditionally associated with publishing. My understanding is that other fields like mathematics and CS have been doing this for a while, but to my knowledge, this is a fairly new phenomenon in medical biosci. (It's been a while since I've been through the publishing process).
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...

Mooo...
Call of duty gameplay free for all (3rd place for the first time) multiplayer
I actually agree with this.

It's more a matter of personal preference for me, I just prefer to have all the cash liquid instead of obligated somewhere. I usually just stuff it all in the FDIC insured bank account until I decide to invest it somewhere or spend it.

But it does make it much easier to go "you know what, I'm going to go to France next month." and then do it.

On the house front, I'm actually in the middle of a search for a new home so I can start enjoying those sweet tax breaks again and then get somebody to rent my first home so I'll basically get the new home for almost free.
I think what people (including Hassler) care about is not so much simulating neurons, but the energy efficiency. Once we figure out AGI algorithms, we will want to build them in hardware. This justifies the continuing research in subthreshold FETs, because they could allow very efficient computation (not necessarily biologically realistic).
Nitpicking, but:

"... cobalt (blue) and sulfur (yellow) atoms (left) and ethyl-4-(methylthio)phenyl phosphine atoms, ..."

I haven't heard of that last element!
I wouldn't mind that, but I have never encountered that. Cracking the coding interview-exercises only.
NASA says it's safe - for the brief period of totality.

During the short time when the moon completely obscures
the sun – known as the period of totality – it is safe
to look directly at the star

https://www.nasa.gov/content/eye-safety-during-a-total-solar...
If you design a system that makes it inevitable that people will misbehave, you own their misbehavior.
Lack of a medical safety net and sick days hits low income workers very hard. Every unpaid day sets them much further back.
As far as the system goes it looks nice enough. Seems like an adequate enough replacement for Reddit on a technical or interface level.

However, it's the content that matters a million times more. And to be honest...

I think you've fallen into the trap many Reddit alternatives have. Namely, your site seems heavily focused on politics to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. Every section there is related to the alt-right, Nazis, or US politics at the expense of more varied discussion topics.

As a result, people who don't care about politics won't join, since there's pretty much nothing for them there. Nor will those who tend towards the centre or right of the political spectrum, since it seems to be heavily tilted towards a left wing audience.

Focus a bit more on finding topics to discuss in a wider variety of areas, or attracting people who don't want to talk about Trump and America all the time.

That's my thoughts on the site anyway.
I'm going to be the first to point out the one major flaw in this comparison: "plain C using GLib" is not comparable to "C++ standard library only" --- what should be compared is "C++ standard library only" and "C standard library only". Reimplementing pkg-config in pure C without GLib would be necessary for that.

As for the "memory leaks" --- I haven't looked at the source, but something whose runtime is very short-lived, like pkg-config, may be very well justified in allocating and never freeing, letting the process exit itself be the "ultimate free". I've seen and done this many times myself.

I've seen projects that turned from simple and straightforward to buggy (and harder to debug), slow, and bloated because someone decided they wanted to "use C++" and would try to make use of as many "modern C++" features as they could.

Converting an existing C program into C++ can yield programs that are as fast, have fewer dependencies and consume less memory. The downsides include a slightly bigger executable and slower compilation times.

My experience has been the complete opposite.
In the US, K-12 jobs teaching are neither prestigious enough nor well-compensated enough to attract/retain people who know how to code, which is different that teaching to code but an educator must know high level concepts to teach effectively. Anyone proficient enough to teach code is either working or consulting in the private sector.

I do wish US K-12 teachers were better compensated.

EDIT: readability.
Thank you for calling it a strawman when the person I was arguing just admitted that communism does call for forced confiscation of property. You people are delusional.
My favorite example is one of the Poppleton books, where in one chapter the librarian is a chicken, and in the next, the pig is having chicken noodle soup.
I think those quotes are not to be interpreted literally. It's very likely that there's some humor in them that's being lost in this context. What does he even mean by bad or good? Does he really hate programming or maybe he hates academic programming?

Additionally, the project has really moved on. Admittedly, there are people who still code in php 5.5 and don't use a framework, or roll their own, but their experience does not reflect on how pleasant php can be. Coding in php without using the ecosystem is like walking across town instead of driving.
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I wish I could bet money on this not happening "by February". Dude is promising perf that's 25% higher than Titan X Pascal in a power envelope that's 1/50th of Titan X Pascal, and he's promising to do it with a few tens of millions of dollars and a handful of people.

Yeah, right. Like that's ever going to happen. Sounds like the usual grandiose claims to get clueless moneybags to pony up the cash for series B.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_...

>The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Income inequality has been increasing since the 1970s, so I submit the underlying cause cannot have been a policy change in 1986.
There's an argument that Solaris/Illumos have features for which the equivalent doesn't exist in Linux (native ZFS, dtrace, some zone/container features). But for most people those are outweighed by using an operating system that is actively being developed by a large community including many large companies.
It can be. It's not really point of strategy more than a personal preference. I just really really don't like servicing debt.

On the flip side I get more liquid cash and more "fuck this, I quit" job flexibility which is basically what I'm buying.
Asshole is a pretty subjective measurement. Warning signs are people who push you around, rush into getting a contract signed, ask too many questions for a really small contract, try to control details of how you'd do the work, etc. A lot of it you learn by experience.
Yes, but one people actually can use.
Hey, have you followed up with this story? Turns out could be true, is true.