skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But does "withstand" mean "continue to function at 100%" or "probably not kill anyone nearby"?
algorithmic optimization of that same mass-media race-to-the-bottom in quality and diversity in search of a broadly palatable and compulsively consumable product.

How's this for a solution? We just return this stuff to the web. How about a service that lets you host and create embeddable video links for a small fee? There would be an API that lets people automatically tip creators per view. Discovery would be through search and through blogs.

At the very least, this would solve most of the censorship issues.
Local encrypted backups via itunes are an option too, if you are traveling with a laptop.
Localizing Slack
What kind of terminal are people using that develop on ChromeOS? I used a Samsung XE303C for a while and I was happy with my options in Crouton, but I could not get used to using a terminal in a Chrome tab.

I understand there is a way to disable the behavior that "ctrl+w immediately closes the tab and terminates the shell" since I hit that key combo enough times to turn me off of doing important work in a Chrome tab altogether, that might help, but I wonder if anyone has come up with a really nice solution that they'd be willing to share here.
Everything seems to be running normally again, at least for me.
Doesn't necessarily work. In my late teens I got confused about what my SSN actually was, and entered it wrong when opening a bank account / credit card. Worked fine.

I realized my mistake a few years later and went through quite the endeavor to fix it.
There's nothing wrong with being rich, or buying $6 bread. I think most of the hate is towards people who feel guilty about being rich. It's hard to empathise with people in situations that have simple solutions.
Most days I worry I'm an imposter, but when I hear that there are groups of people running databases with no idea that indexes are a thing, I think maybe I should ask for a raise.
See also Morte: an intermediate language for super-optimizing functional programs

"Now suppose there were a hypothetical language with a stronger guarantee: if two programs are equal then they generate identical executables. Such a language would be immune to abstraction: no matter how many layers of indirection you might add the binary size and runtime performance would be unaffected. Here I will introduce such an intermediate language named Morte that obeys this stronger guarantee."

http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-lang...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization
"Tax avoidance isn't helping large US based tech companies aquire more users or gain more control of the Internet"

No, it really does help large entities wield their power even more.

The billions of dollars that the big cos have stockpiled ensures they can suck up the talent, attack new markets and keep competitors at bay.

It's not the biggest thing, but it's a thing.
If someone actually paid that small of a fee in BTC for several million USD, they would risk far more of their transaction being lost due to volatility during the multi-hour long transaction.

Anyone holding that much BTC, and facilitating that type of transaction will likely be subject to some form of regulatory scrutiny, sooner or later.
The problem with the rich is how much wealth they extract, not how much their couch cost.
Robotic Farmers Can Literally Reap What They Sow
Chess.app is open source! https://opensource.apple.com/source/Chess/Chess-318/
Same thing here. I worked with PHP and Java apps and it was just pain having to deal with the awkwardness of PHP's designs and Java's boilerplate. I actually went into sysadmin roles because of that. Python gave me hope that there's fun development roles to be had.

Nowadays the panorama for good languages, thankfully, is much better. PHP is no longer that much of a dumpster fire with modern frameworks, and Java has decided to adopt better defaults and drop the XML madness. Not to mention all the good languages that have come up (Elixir, Clojure, Rust, etc).
> bad acting countries

In what way is Ireland a bad actor? Locally operated businesses get a good deal too. What about Poland? Those shipyards aren't moving to your tax hell any time soon, but that doesn't make Poland a "bad actor".

It may surprise you, but no country has the obligation to exploit and screw over businesses as much as yours would like to.
You either want exhaustive checking or "just [want] to see if the thing they’re looking at holds an int or a string". OPs comment was about the latter and holds_alternative and get accomplishes that.

FWIW, std::get is type-safe in that you cannot specify a type outside of the variant types. It's safe at runtime in that it will throw std::bad_variant_access if the active object doesn't match the type.

And because of this, you think we may as well use enum+union? Even if you only plan on manually type switching on a variant, std::variant saves you from a lot of boilerplate.
>To paint a less rosy picture...

I think different companies, although they may be monopolies in their own right, spread out over multiple countries is still preferable to a global monopoly. Not just because of data collection, also regarding keeping tech know-how locally for example.
Before the popularity of SSD in the average computer, and the theoretically low downtimes for AWS, telling someone to just restart their computer a few times until the website shows up might actually have "fixed" it.
I think he means those intro to ruby tutorials where they make ruby (and programming in general) sound all magical, where it's so easy to program and programming is just unicorns and kittens or whatever. It becomes tiring and dumb after a while.
The Controversy Behind Chicago's Diploma Mandate
If you feel so guilty about how little your nanny makes, so much so that you're pulling tags off everything you buy, maybe it's not a bad idea to pay your nanny a little above the going rate. Partially for your own sake as well as hers.

I also think only supporting larger movements is the wrong way to go about things. The more local the problem, the more impact you can have on it. Support Medicare for All? That's certainly good to do if you feel that's right, but that's going to be a long, drawn-out battle. Paying your nanny a little bit more? That's very easy to do and can immediately improve someone's life.
It's really not that simple. The plans that people are likely to come up with and the amount of motivation they'll feel to follow through with them have a lot to do with their personal background. There are a lot of reasons that it might be easy for you to imagine starting a business and making a success out of it. But you shouldn't be confident that those same reasons will come into play in the life of this nanny.
The Useful Materials to Learn ChatBot Development on Various Messaging Platforms
It's not cheap compared to other software, and not cheap compared to most text editors and even most IDEs.

I didn't say it's not worth it, I said it's not cheap. It's not.
She's presumably paying the nanny some kind of market rate. If instead she were to bump the pay up well above market rate, she would either attract significant competition over that particular nanny job (presumably not the goal), or be effectively giving a large cash handout to someone basically on the basis of happening to be around at the time. It doesn't seem obvious that this is a useful or desirable course of action, either on the basis of addressing inequality in the economic system or optimizing your interpersonal relationships.

(Also, I feel like I may have some kind of disconnect here, because I'm not anywhere near those income levels, but $6 bread doesn't scan as horribly unreasonable to me.)
At the point where that was done, there was no formalized convention on it. Arch maintainers decided that it's preferable to default to the latest and greatest (which seems to be the general policy, and it meshes well with a bleeding-edge rolling release IMO). It was a mistake for Python specifically because of idiosyncrasies of Python 2 vs 3 story, and they have since corrected that mistake.
The idea that everyone who is a reviewer will have exactly the same appraisal of what's obscene, extremist, hateful, or even pornography, is ludicrous. No one even agrees on what art is.
Chris Bangle confirms car design for non-car company
This is not true. Purges on akamai take less than ten minutes for entire cp codes or specific objects.
Deploying new cache rules is less than an hour in many cases
You can't really do that with the face id either, unless you loom over your desk in an awkward way.
«.01RPS»

Off by 6 orders of magnitude: actually 10,000 rps sustained for a few hours (2,500 page hit/sec × 4 req per page). These are my—admitedly very rare—peaks when the blog gets slashdotted.
For me it's the fact that no English words end in "ok".
Yup. The highest voted comment is even nearly verbatim.

What I will say is that it has become trivially easy to increase my wealth since selling my company. I've been retired for ten years and make more than I ever did, largely by doing nothing. I don't even manage most of my own finances.

It's kind of rigged. On a whim, I bought $20k worth of Tesla at $24 - because I could afford to risk the money. It was an impulse buy with my only research being reading a bunch of forum posts.

Most people can't risk that, even if they could technically spend that. The list goes on.

It's not 'fair' and very different than what I was used to.
Because the spec says font-loads from stylesheets must always be anonymous CORS. Thus the preload needs to match that.

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts/#font-fetching-requiremen...
No it doesn't really help. The money is mostly stockpiled offshore specifically to avoid taxation. They aren't using it to hire more employees or launch new products. The only thing it might help with is to prevent hostile acquisitions.
Add in ducks and geese and a whole slew of other animals and I end up wondering if I'm programming in a zoo with ruby lol.
They are different cultures.

Munich/Bayern - old school, conservative, traditional.

Berlin - multicultural, hipster.

Kind of like SF vs. Dallas.

That said, they are both very German and it's a little bit of a stretch to say they are different markets.

But Germany and Spain are night and day different and building for EU-wide is very hard.

Not only are there different markets, but Europeans have strong cultures, which include behaviours - they don't jump a 'the new thing' because it's cool.

America is a land of fads and trends, people like new activities, new dynamics - also, people are always in search of identity, and 'brand power' is powerful in the US across the board, just as some American brands have considerable cultural power in China.

There are basically no places in Europe with a critical mass of early adopters for anything in tech, so it's tough. Some spots, yes, and numbers overall, yes. But no hot-zones.
> Google is sitting on many billions of dollars it just doesn't want to spend (like $100B or so, I believe?). The money to pay for people is there.

So now you are saying that the only companies that should host video are those that can afford to lose billions by manually checking every upload?

Would this rule have applied to youtube before they became part of Google and had a few billion spare in the bank?

OTOH the regulations around video hosting probably already make it almost impossible for a serious competitor to emerge
. . . and inherited wealth of several million dollars.

I think you missed this part.
What's on your cellphone today; who knows what it will be tomorrow.

I'd personally much rather the State fundamentally respected a right to private and family life, much like article 8 of the ECHR, but fat chance of seeing that in the USA any time soon.
Bitcoin is essentially a database / blockchain service.

Why would anyone want to use Bitcoin versus any of the newer, faster, more feature advanced alternative crypto coins like Monereo, Litecoin, Ethereum?
I have that habit as well. I'm not sure if this level of control is possible with video.js, but I'll take a look. Disabling click-to-time until the play button has been clicked might also be an option. Thanks for listening/reading
For those getting 500 errors, the issue should now be fixed!
We just switched to US West Oregon and I'm not looking back.
This a bizarre view of virtue. Instead of displaying and modeling virtuous behavior yourself, it's sufficient to tell other people that they should be more virtuous.
> I mean right now you hear about high demand for tech people, but wages don't reflect that.

By what metric? Software developers can make $250k+ in SV.

I have a hard time imagining pay doubling broadly. Only a small cohort of employers could sustain paying engineers $500k+, though I suppose it is possible.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15251469.
Fast JSON parser in Rust that uses SIMD and avoids tokenisation
http://www.puredarwin.org/
Kaspersky Lab co-founder invited to testify to Congress later this month
How many POPs are you using? I can assure you, I am not wrong here and have internal knowledge of why if you are truly using all POPs it takes so long.
This is the same problem for unit tests even with 100% code coverage.
I don't think it's non-sequitur, I think it's dramatization for the sake of making using an underpowered laptop, which after jumping through hoops and funding a corporation that's the anti-thesis of what Stallman would want to support is now running free software, seem a lot more romantic than it is.

I'm actually fine with someone doing that but I especially don't get then implying everyone who needs more computing power than that is a "boiling frog" because their vastly more powerful machines aren't open. Buying products from heartless multinationals licensing from Google (which is literally as "the man" as you get) then jailbreaki... sorry, rebuilding... them is not some great stand against "the man" "boiling the clueless masses in closed software"
Kind of like (RED).
Does that work for X being the real numbers?
Yes, it does help.

A) They have massive operations internationally and hire a lot.

B) Did you witness Microsofts dismantling of Nokia? That was a takedown of an entire ecosystem and huge gift to Apple and Google/Android as well. Paid for by cheap taxes overseas.
From my outsider perspective, equivalent Ruby tools advertise themselves a the Most Awesome Thing Ever(TM), with well-designed pages, funny characters and exceedingly strong developer personalities.

In comparison, big Python projects have a lower profile, a more serious, adult tone, and generally don't brag too much about their capabilities.

In practice I've seen that the Python community's greater skepticism towards new packages means that libraries have evolved more slowly but with more certainty, whereas Ruby libs have been swapped out as fashions come an go. Witness the fact that Rails decided to package Coffeescript at its core, whereas Django has no strong opinions on frontend matters. Also look at Django's mature deprecation policy compared to pretty much everything else.
very good counterexample, thank you!
> Customs can do that anyway if you have a password.

Allow me to repeat myself,

If you can't lock yourself out, it's not secure.

For example, some banks have time locks. Nobody gets into the vault, unless it is in a certain window of time.
There is a startup here in Austin that does seem to want to be the Uber of lawyers : csdisco
>Considering there is already a shortage of software engineers, constricting it further is unlikely to be net positive.

Since there is a short supply of software engineers, why do you think wages haven't risen?

>every "open salary" calculator I've seen proposes a salary about half of what I make. Formulaic salaries help low performers and hurt high performers.

I suspect that's because businesses manipulate that so they can hire offshore workers cheaper. H1B mandates that they pay at least industry wages (or something like that). If the business declares the industry wages artificially low, they can hire cheap tech workers. Unions would prevent that.

>At no point in the process do I think having someone else do negotiation for me would have increased my pay.

Maybe, maybe not. It sure works well for NFL players. I seriously doubt you are getting a tenth of what you make for the company. There's only so far you can go by yourself.

>I don't need a union to do that. I certainly don't need a union with collective bargaining to do that.

You can ask until your are blue in the face, but you will probably be ignored at most places. Also, you wouldn't have to fight for 6 months to get a decent monitor, it will just be there.

>but I would not expect a union to increase my pay—and would vote against any one which promised that.

That's not very good business sense. You should at least ask them to prove it before you flatly deny it.

Let me ask you this, say you owned your own company and you partnered with another company on a joint venture. Do you think it would be a good negotiation if your company only got 1/100th of the profits of the joint venture? That's probably what you are getting now. Sounds like you've sold yourself short and you either don't realize it, or you want to believe you are a good negotiator. You may be a good negotiator as an individual, but you just don't have the power of a group. Why do you think political parties exist? Group power always trumps individual power.
This is a great line:

> On the other hand, if I'm at a lower level and in fact I'm at a really higher level, it takes time, but it'll eventually rectify itself.

A lot of people get wrapped up in a desired title and recognition, but the confidence Jeffrey had to know that his work would speak for itself is instructive. Additionally, it's not like it was instantaneous; it took 5 years to get that rectification.
My phone is on my desk next to my laptop in the same place where I've been texting my wife for the past five minutes. I have turned on the front facing camera.

My phone can see the very corner of my head and about half of my eyebrow. I do not want that to be enough to unlock my phone.
so families would be thrown out of their house when the primary caregiver dies?
It's a Bezos chart.
Believe it or not, marijuana has significant medical use, and a lot of its potential patients are mobility impaired.
"One interpretation is that you're responsible for someone else breaking the law. If it's a violation, then the border guard committed the violation."

The problem with that is that they aren't a covered entity and thus shouldn't have access to the data. Because they aren't a covered entity HIPAA rules do not apply to them.
I say it again and again: it's time to finally regulate the big social media/tech giants (Amazon, FB, Youtube, Twitter, but also big email providers like Gmail, AOL).

Account closures and content removals must have a way to appeal operator decisions in a court of law. My telco provider is legally barred from shutting down my account unless I'm 3 months behind in payments - so why isn't the same valid for the tech giants? In fact, the services of Facebook and Whatsapp are something I more depend on than having a landline, but I'm straight outta luck if either service decides to ban me.

And no, "choose another provider" is not a valid option, as there is no alternative because no service allows me to transfer my identity (e.g. email address) so old contacts can reach me, unlike with phone numbers.
The EU doesn't have any direct control over tax, but the treaties govern how law is applied by member states, including tax law. They do this in a multitude of ways, but in the specific case mentioned above you're looking for Article 107 of this treaty[0] which prohibits member states giving corporations individual tax deals that are not afforded to others operating in the same market. The follow-on report on Google, Facebook seems to indicate that they'ree looking at similar individual deals made there.

> But as it turns out, the EU's assurances on such things were useless and the Irish people were misled.

Leaving aside the absolute spurious nature of that BBC article (there is nothing to support the supposition that the No vote (nor the swing to Yes) had anything to do with taxation or - most ridiculous of all - abortion), even in an imaginary world where those issues were of import, I can't see where anyone was misled. Can you cite cases where the guarantees have been broken?

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/legal/pdf/c_32620121026en.pdf
I admit this rather pithy, but I'd kinda like the functional equivalent of both. I'd like high-end and open.

For now, I compromise.
Or think global, act local.
What's the matter with six dollar-bread?

That's about the price I pay for 400 g of traditionally baked high-quality bread. It comes directly from a bakery in a paper bag and has no price tag anyway. I buy such bread two or three times a week – it remains fine for about a week in a wooden bread box but fresh bread is always best …
or be effectively giving a large cash handout to someone basically on the basis of happening to be around at the time

Or be paying someone in exchange for value. Loyalty and discretion are valuable. Why shouldn't someone compensate someone for that?
Scammers keep trying to sell fake Equifax facts
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/81104943490146304
Go was invented in the 1970s and then placed on the self for 40 years
It really isn't. Competition globally is better for consumers. Imagine if you had to drive only US cars to keep automotive knowledge local.
I don't need Brownian motion to extrapolate the historical growth rate into the future. Is the Brownian motion part supposed to estimate the volatility of a random walk?
This is, of course, ridiculous.

If you have a $250,000 household income, you would need to pay your nanny half of that to have equal income, but why would you expect or want to have equal income in the first place? If you get a raise, do you pay your nanny more even though she's doing the same work?

If people give you money, you earned it. If you want somebody else to have your money, give it to them, they will have earned it. If you aren't willing to give somebody your money, then they have not earned it.
Product EQuivalent: https://www.magicleap.com/#/blog/why-creativity-matters
It's an advanced prototype of the finished product that has been presented to the investors for the first time this February as far as I know.
who still thinks Ruby is a good idea for this?
Geth 1.7 (Megara)
sorry, i thought i read you were using flat files for those.
Medium and it's not close.
The Art of Gerrymandering
Not if the language was (still) Turing-complete.

On the other hand, if the rules are restrictive enough to stop the language from being Turing-complete, you could make it work.

There's an interesting design problem there: how do you make a language that's powerful and expressive enough to be useful but simple and restricted enough to solve problems like this reliably?
> 5. I wonder which implementation of Lua they used.

There is a table with the versions they used¹, but they don't mention the implementation – in can be inferred for some: e.g. for Pascal they used the Free Pascal Compiler.

① - https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/se...
I find that the amount of bugs I tend to get when I copy-paste code far outweighs any potential aesthetic pleasure I get from seeing no begin-end block identifiers. Also, I don't want to let python have credit for not having those block identifiers because python has the colon begin identifier, which is completely redundant.
And if you would like to hear Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick do their stuff, here you go: https://youtu.be/OZL4rTEWU5c