skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JavaScript,where even the "newest version" is already outdated
Adding to DuskStar's reply: There will likely not be any development or indication, short of the first functional AGI, that will make experts agree that AGI is right around the corner, and that now an appropriate time to devote a lot of resources to figuring out how to _safely_ create superhuman AGI.
Stories about men who've been the victim of sexual assault are often buried and silenced. Please don't try to do that.

It's likely this must be "an unverified medium post" because the media and the authorities often ignore these stories.
Cool, you can add link then.
At the end of the day, individual citizens decided to show up at the polls and vote for candidates. The premise of this article seems to imply that sometimes when that happens, it's not fair. In particular, citizens are too ignorant or easily manipulated to be trusted to choose their own leaders.

A core tenet of democracy is that the voters are capable of governing themselves. Or at least the popular vote is better than other alternatives.

> The informational underpinnings of democracy have eroded, and no one has explained precisely how.

I'd argue that the desire to make sure that the education and motivation of the populace is properly supervised is more dangerous to democracy than a giant pile of pizzagate spam.
Hiring people becomes a no-lose gamble: if they're good, great; if less good, solves a problem at year-end.
I'd love it if someone made a Visual Studio Solution that correctly built as many of these as possible.
Right. While this is an open process, and browser vendors are well aware of these when the spec is announced, the only way to enforce this in a meaningful way would be for all the vendors to coordinate... which I don't exactly see happening. There's no reason for vendors to delay a feature just because their competitors aren't ready yet.

As for availability of these two features: stable Chrome supported Array.prototype.includes in Dec 2015 and in Jul 2016; stable Firefox supported these in Dec 2015 and Mar 2017, respectively. I guess you could say that these features were widely available in 2016, _just if you use Chrome_, but that's not a satisfying answer.

MDN pages:

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Dates for corresponding browser versions drawn from the wikipedia pages:

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history
You can learn about a person's
internal representation by asking Clean Questions and listening to the metaphors that they share; in order to avoid transferring and inferring your own biased internal representation (MAPS: metaphors, assumptions, paradigms or sensations).

It's worth reading this whole article (and e.g. "Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Language
I've seen similar statements before, and it is a major point in Lockhart's Lament. I wonder if only people who are both good mathematicians and good teachers can pull off teaching mathematics as a language.
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Ugh, I hate SAS. So much of your time spent on SAS is spent on exactly that: the idiosyncracies of SAS (why is input labeled "cards", professor? Oh, because folks have been working on SAS in one way or another since data was still using punch cards...).

R does take more work, but at least it's with generalizable skills. I detest spending my time learning something that can only be used in its narrow niche.
Could be used to generate automated code coverage in headless mode?
I agree that overly stable countries tend to stagnate when that stifles innovation; I certainly didn't intend to claim that stability was universally good. After all, progress is impossible without the instability it brings.

However, I find it interesting that you mention the examples of PRC vs. ROC and North vs. South Korea as autocracy vs. democracy. In fact, after World War II, all four of them were military dictatorships/one-party states, none of them particularly inclined towards democracy. The only difference was their alliance to either the USSR (PRC and NK) or the US (ROC and SK). This helped ROC and SK to develop their economies (still under autocratic rule) and likely contributed to their eventual transition to democracy (while keeping their economic growth).

That would seem to indicate that economic development leads to democracy, and not the other way around. I tried to make this point in my previous comments, but you did not address it. I'd like to know what you think about that.
>heroin

>non-addictive

I'm confused.
There is also the "lupo italiano" (italian wolf)

http://canelupoitaliano.it/
Thank you very much for all that information - much appreciated!

The Portable C Compiler was written using Yacc. [1]

>I think if you're writing say your first compiler you should try to use lex and yacc.

I've actually started with something higher level still: BNFC [2], which has taken me quite a long way quite quickly. It generates lexer, parser, operator precedence and AST along the lines of the Appel books for a variety of backends: C, Java, OCAML, Haskell etc.

But now I'm running into bugs and limitations in BNFC. I may fix some of those if I can, but at some point I will probably dump BNFC and then hand-edit the generated Flex/Bison.

Maybe that's what people do eventually - start with a high-level tool and then move lower?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler

[2] https://github.com/BNFC/bnfc
That happens 24 hours a day and has been happening for 10 years on this site. Why does this story seem so absurd and unjustified to you? Why does this topic bring out such crazy reactions to it? It's weird to see in action.
>They have in the last bit here (don't quote me on an exact time frame) stopped caring about Linux/osx support and frequently offered things that are only playable through steam.

The Humble Indie Bundles still focus on things supporting Linux, every game in the one earlier this year was available there. At some point they decided that was only a focus for the "Indie" bundles though.
KDE Frameworks 5.39 released
I interpreted the post as meaning when a company is given millions of dollars in tax breaks, i.e., build your new factory here and your income tax is abated for X years, then they should be on the hook for when they let go of employees.

In theory I agree and the company should be on the hook to provide training or assistance.
It must be said that corruption of the sort alleged at Airbus has become rather rare.

The US' Foreign Corrupt Practices Act[0] has, for example, done wonders. The US had decided that it wouldn't allow its domestic companies to bribe foreign officials. And because they were (legitimately) afraid of losing business to countries with lax standards, they expanded its power to foreign companies.

Until the late 90s, for example, most European countries allowed the tax deduction of foreign bribes. Yeah, it wasn't just legal, but tax-supported. That changed dramatically with the FCPA, and actions such as Airbus' are now the exception rather than the norm.

It's similar in politics, where I think people vastly overestimate the number of money-filled suitcases changing hands.

The problem today is a different form of political corruption, namely that which has been legalised by Citizens United.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
> but found the type-system bashing pretty off-putting.

Why do you think it is type system bashing?

He is justifying why he didn't add types to Clojure. In his experience they add more complexity than they are worth.

The reason he talks about it at all is there are a lot of static typing enthusiasts who talk about static typing being a game changer.

In my experience static typing is a +-2-3% productivity influencer. You get a bit better IDE experience and refactoring is easier. On the other hand I've also found I need to refactor my C# code far more often than my Clojure code.
I have to conduct these interviews and it kills me inside every time.

I hated it as a candidate, but a year or two ago when I interviewed the questions were a bit easier and expectations were slightly lower.

Now with the rise of Top Coder, Leetcode, etc. many candidates have practiced problems to death and can recite almost entirely from memory complex problems.

The bar is raising all the time as a result. It's not enough to convey the idea on a whiteboard with reasonable code, maybe a semicolon missing.

Now we're more or less expecting 100% compilable code, passing suites of test cases, and sometimes even multiple problems solved in 45 minutes.

It's tailor made for coding competition contestants and crammers. And then they get on interview loops and hiring committees

I'm dreading my next job search.
I've worked for companies where it was easy to fire people. There was no shortage of borderline useless people and getting fired was usually more about getting on management's nerves rather than performance.

People living in fear of their jobs created the most toxic environments.
Google doesn't do this.
You're right, I feel like a lot of stuff on this list will just cause overthinking. Just be yourself, don't be weird.
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> not counting the weekly bundles

I think this was where it went downhill for me. That’s 107 bundles, plus 200 odd weekly bundles. They’re not special any more, and especially now that the bundles aren’t pay what you want, they’re pay above the average, which is higher because they hide some items behind a minimum price. It’s lost it’s allure to me, and most of my friends too.
What was the deal with the Dacia Duster? I found this article difficult to follow.
I always wondered why laws are needed to require benefits. Seems like working for someone is a consensual choice that ought be regulated by the free market itself. Other than physical safety regulations, seems like the rest of it is government overreach. It’s also weird to me that a “contract” covers “workers” rather than a contact negotiated by each worker. Seems rather Marxist to me to consider workers as interchangeable cogs in the production machine. Some guy might not care about 30 days vacation but might prefer more money, as an example.
If I didn't trust Woz, I'd say it reminds me too much of when Trump U happened.
I believe it was Feynman who introduced the analogy:

desktop : filing cabinet :: RAM : hard drive

Here's a video: "Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture" (1985)
https://youtu.be/EKWGGDXe5MA

Somewhere in my comments here, I talk about topologically sorting CS concepts; in what little time I spent, I think I suggested "Constructor Theory" (Deutsch 201?) as a first physical principle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory
I'd like to know beforehand when people call me if video is expected or not. A friend of mine ended up answering with video, but the interviewer only used voice. Then felt it was too late to turn the webcam of, and ended up in a weird one-way session making the experience even more stressful.
A bit off-topic: is only my experience or usually full stack developers are paid less than a frontend/backend engineer ? seems like full stack developers are seen as generalist and so paid less.
Kudos to the author for reporting the incident and going to the police. That there turned out to be video of the whole incident was very fortuitous and it sounds like the police have a copy now.

The instructor was fired. Presumably the ex-instructor is being charged with a crime? That part is missing from the story.

As to being punished for speaking up -- the gym terminated the authors membershhip because it seems to me that the author has an open/shut civil lawsuit against the gym, and they are expecting to get sued? I assume it's easy to find lawyers who would take this on contingency and probably reach a quick settlement.
Haha, well, that's true, but I mostly meant that it looks like they might be being disingenuous about the real reasons for the firing so that they can sidestep the law about notification before a layoff. Especially when you consider that during any layoff they're probably dumping lower performers anyway.
One of the reasons that Sprint is undercapitalized is that for the last six years, "everyone" has assumed that they will merge or otherwise be acquired. Putting more money in is only interesting to keep Sprint going until that happens.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Because asymmetrical bargaining power, guy.
Why the assholes are winning: money trumps all
This is a really good point. I'm guilty of seeing a repo that hasn't had a new commit in 18 months and choosing not to use that code because it's 'not supported any more'. Maybe maintainers could help by making it clear that their code is still supported but just doesn't need any changes in the Readme or something.
Yep. :-) of course, I double posted which you can see with the correct link, then couldn’t edit the post thanks to turning on the “anti distraction” features in HN. ;)
Musk seems to think that somebody like Chris Lattner is not good enough for Tesla, so his definition of a 'low performer' definitely seems a bit off. I just hope that the applies the same evaluative metrics to himself.
The gaming industry is replete with examples of original creative studios with blockbuster IPs being bought up by the likes of EA and Ubisoft and being shutdown a year later. Or worse they buy a studio and milk its franchise dry without taking any of the same risks and innovations that made the original franchise a success in the first place. In many cases the original staff of the studio are laid off or are merged in to the larger sweatshops which the gaming industry is notorious for. In fact here's a list of studios axed by EA.
https://kotaku.com/an-updated-list-of-studios-ea-has-bought-...

So if you were wondering why you dont see a new Command and Conqueror or Wing commander game, now you know why.
The ES committee has decided to do yearly releases instead of feature-based releases. No more waiting for things to get finished; if it's not ready, it gets postponed to the next version of the standard.

Hence the official terminology is ES2015, ES2016 etc. "ES6" stayed there in dev parlance because it was the initial name while the work was in progress.
I will welcome ".include(a)" into my code in place of the awkward ".indexOf(a)!== -1".
Better late than never, I guess.
I currently bank with Fidelity. You can get a Symantec-compatible 2FA token set up with them (I use the android app).

They have a wide range of demand deposit as well as investment products you can sign up for completely online (assuming you pass your KBA quiz). Accounts are fairly well integrated into their online banking UI, and if your company 401k is also serviced by Fidelity, you can add it along with your other fidelity accounts (this is why I had originally moved to this platform).

Unfortunately, I do not believe they support "read-only" credentials at this time. My experience in this industry tells me this will not be coming to a "mainstream" banking platform any time soon with all of the regulatory chaos that is being anticipated right now. Smaller banking platforms like Ally are more likely to pick up features you are looking for.
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>Ellen Pao

It left in my memory as a woman without [edit:]specific sense of humor who was not welcome to “the club”, pretending it is because of her sex. She made millions of dollars on the way with no hard work, and to regular citizen like me it seems like strangest complaint. I’m male and I’m not in my company’s men’s club too — people are different to the extent they may positively tolerate each other, but not make friends. That’s my subjective view. I may have mistaken it with another case, sorry then.

This case is direct sexual assault and Uber-y company is covering the evidence, and the latter is the question in focus. How is it related to?
I want to apologize for blaming Apple's new Files app as the reason I couldn't move a finished file on my iPad this morning. :)
Why do you think the parent comment is trying to silence anyone? To me it just seems like they’re providing evidence of a hypocritical attitude here.
Whereas cats are just different sized versions of their wild varieties.
Their small size making it "cute" when they attack you from around a corner.
For how long will Americans blame FB for the rise of Trump? One he is democratically elected and two Americans have voted for him. Now dont argue about vote share, it does not matter as far as the way American electoral system works, its like talking about possession share in soccer when the winner is decided based on goals scored. The whole thing about Russia, the fact is the ground conditions & discontent amongst large population of Americans existed, it may have been fanned by Russia but it could have been simply done by any political party using ads, there is nothing ground breaking about it except the use of Russian money perhaps, most of it is marketing. Instead of acknowledging & working towards a more united society, (the U in USA), most media is just fanning further divisions by trying to sensationalize & scandalize every single thing. If so many of your fellow countrymen feel disenchanted enough to vote for a reality tv star, then the society needs deeper introspection. Coming to interference in election, America has done this & destroyed many countries, there is nothing scandalous if it is happening to USA. This is just another tactic employed by countries to get some benefits for themselves. IT might be morally incorrect, but just because it has probably happened to US does not make it something to scream about especially when US has done this probably the most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
The result was failure. Now we are approaching two failures with other people's money. He has these lofty ideas and unrealistic promises none of which he can deliver on. It's almost like he's an underperforming employee.
I think the comment is trying to silence the story because of the criticisms of the story, like "unverified" and the attempt to minimize the "punishment referred to in the headline".
You're getting to the old split between "developmental" and "representative" democracy. American democracy has usually been the latter (Madison's Federalist Papers) with stretches of the former (Jackson, later populism). The dynamics aren't really new, it's that introduction of unrestrained information which is unprecedented and destabilizing.
The context is horrible (
4chan and 8chan, with a thread watcher
any regular booru
hentai foundry
pixiv
tumblr
deviant art
newgrounds
generic direct-image-linked gallery pages
), but the idea seems great.

Resembles what git-annex tagging can do.
Maybe he's retiring. I don't know, it's a contrived scenario. Replace "farm" with "frobnication lab". Reduce the margin until you feel comfortable.
"i like julia too"
Fall samples: FALL SAMPLES
I always find it sad when an explanation of the reasoning behind some immoral behavior is treated like a justification or defense. I find it sad because it discourages understanding opinions you disagree with, and because I think that understanding is important. If Equinox acted that way simply because they are an evil corporation, nothing could be done about it; but if they followed an economic incentive, then changing the incentive structure can prevent that kind of behavior in the future.
Yup, I'm one of them.

Let me set the record straight, though. I'm not claiming to not have an inner life; I'm claiming to not have an inner voice, except if I'm reading "out loud" internally or whatnot. (Which is useful when writing, but not necessary.)

I just use other modalities.

To the best of my knowledge there's only one guy, a philosopher, who's claimed to have no inner life at all--and I don't think I believe him.
An unannounced layoff, though?

> Workers spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals from the company. Employees said the firings have lowered morale through many departments.
In China, the war on coal just got serious
Ah, yes. The "throw out snarky comments and hope nobody notices I don't have a real argument" tactic.
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The OP may be talking about the bundles that have "pay what you want, get 3 titles, pay more than the average, get 3 more etc".

Which is not exactly pay what you want. Especially since "pay more than the average" will actually bring the average up across the life of the bundle.

I used to pay significantly more than the average for a bundle when they were new and truly pay what you want. Now I happily get the lower tier of games for $1. If I bother.
As someone with performance anxiety take-home programming "challenges" have been my bread and butter.

I have no problem working 2-3 hours on an assignment to demonstrate my knowledge. Those at least seem more realistic than some of the interview questions about the most nuanced aspects of programming.
The owner of a Romanian company has recently bought a car by taking a loan, while his company received millions from EADS. They seem to suggest that the company was used to channel money for bribes, in exchange for a modest dividend for the owner.
Everything sounds great about Julia but it's lacking sufficient critical mass to develop useful packages to make scientists and data analysts effective.

At the moment the bottleneck in our scientific computing and data analysis workflow is not waiting for code to run but rather quickly inplementing, evaluating, and iterating different models on datasets.
I was raised along Jackelyne, a belgian shepherd that believed she was my bodyguard. We have plenty of stories of people running, climbing to trees...
A better analogy than an iPhone, is the Manhattan Project. A phenomenon is discovered and then published: uranium can be split by neutrons, which liberates a relatively huge amount of energy. Some scientists hypothesize that a chain-reaction that produces neutrons to sustain itself can be produced with uranium, but see no practical path to accomplish this phenomenon.

A couple of isolated groups of scientists then discover that certain nuclear reactions with uranium _do_ produce neutrons as a by-product, but in a way that is intractable to use for a chain reaction (too much mass required). Further research shows that the idea of a runaway chain-reaction becomes more plausible, and further discoveries supporting this are now considered dangerous and are no longer openly published.

Shortly thereafter, one group acquires unlimited funds and is able to discover exactly what is required to create an uncontrolled chain reaction. Over the next couple of years, it spends thousands of man-years to perform the vast engineering effort requried to actually accomplish this.

Almost everybody not directly involved with this research and development effort, are taken completely by surprise when the new phenomenon is publicly and dramatically demonstrated.
A friend of mine went into a barn to pick up a streetcat that had lodged there to bring it into the house for the Canadian winter (-40 C forecast that night).

There was nothing 'cute' about what he looked like when he got back, it looked like he had been turned into hamburger, nearly lost an eye. Do not underestimate cats in attack mode.
Ah wow, I just want to let you know Pharaoh is easily one of my favorite games of all time, it's a genre of games I love and a period of history i'm fascinated by, thank you for making it. I'd also sunk hundreds of hours in to it in my youth, would love to play it again!
Disruptive maybe, but negative?

Some people became negative because they saw problems they can't resolve by themselves. Maybe don't fire this kind of people?

But, well, it seems some companies just don't care.
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