skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word ethics has a lot of baggage. It seems to very often suggest some abstract concept of goodness and righteousness. It often appears to lead people astray.

I am just trying to make the distinction that I am talking about something more like "the physics of social phenomena." Just because you can't see gravity doesn't mean it can't drag you down. Just because social stuff often seems invisible doesn't mean there isn't something real and substantial behind it (that can be studied, though it is a challenging space).

And it's fine if you want to think of it in terms of ethics. I am just saying that, in my experience, when people start talking about ethics, they often get derailed from practical considerations. That idea often leads to people doing things backwards and having it backfire.

And maybe that won't be the case for you. But, it is a word I tend to be leery of.

Best of luck.
Why are students willing to pay so much to for-profit coding boot camps? In many areas you can learn the same skills from community colleges and university extensions for far lower tuition. For example in the Bay Area the UCSC Extension has a good reputation and offers several certificate programs in software development.

https://www.ucsc-extension.edu/certificate-program/software-...
Yeah, I don't have the sense from reading this that I have any idea why I'd prefer Pascal over, say, Java, or C#, unless I liked begin and end blocks more than braces and felt really strongly about it.
Hey Andy,

I'm getting a 403 on your docs page: http://ziglang.org/documentation/
During or just before WW2, Roy Liming developed analytic techniques for calculating a similar class of blend or fillet. They were taken up in aircraft design, a field that I can't imagine ever using implicit surfaces! I think it was Edgar Schmued's design for the P-51 Mustang that famously used Liming's work.

Liming wrote a book, but it's rare. Some technical discussion towards the end of this page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/BOWY...
There is no need for me to apologize or to shut up. But I do think you have gotten a bit too riled up over an internet discussion.
I believe in this auth situation, the password is not sent in to the server in cleartext, but rather the server sends a challenge to the client, the client performs the challenge using the password as a parameter, sends the result to the server, then the server checks the result is valid for the expected password. The password itself cannot be determined from the challenge result.

So, even by impersonating an AP you don't get the user's password.
Startup Engineering Notes
Loaded just fine with NoScript here.
"Bombardier Inc. announced Monday it has sold a majority stake in its CSeries passenger jet business to European aerospace giant Airbus for no cost." ... Does "for no cost" mean for 0$? I guess this means the Quebec Government was diluted, thus is the crisis really avoided?
>So someone made a guess, it was wrong, that happens.

Not quite. What happens is that people pose hypotheses, based on available evididence, that are later strengthened or weakened by new evidence. What happened here was that the authour had the same evidence that we have, they just took the liberty to add data that wasn’t actually there, and drew conclusions based on that.
Absolute beginners don’t deploy though, they write lessons down and then hit run. “Scripting” langs work great for this.
According to the article, Airbus bought the stake "at no cost". Unless I'm misunderstanding something, shouldn't this be a loss for Quebec?

I guess the Airbus/Boeing duopoly is here to stay. Bombardier looked like a promising future competitor... They still have their rail business, so all is not lost.
> Somewhat surprisingly, I think Perl's syntax is one of the reasons that Python became popular. Perl can do pretty much everything Python can, and it came significantly earlier. Yet people gravitated toward Python.

Surely the ugliness of OO Perl and having to deal with references/dereferences/data structure flattening by default is the biggest reason. Otherwise, why would Ruby have become popular around the same time despite not necessarily being very readable?

e: Also the Perl 6 debacle like the other guy said.
Agreed - assuming they had enough of a moral compass to apply that mind and work ethic to something good on the outside. His fraudulent activities would probably have been much easier to perform outside of prison.
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Dada Mail [0] can do that (unless I'm mistaken on what you're trying to do), as its email templating language is just HTML::Template::Expr, so you can have if statements, ala:

<!-- tmpl_if subscriber.state eq 'CO' -->

Here's what's happening in Colorado!

<!-- /tmpl_if -->

It's been a feature for at least a decade, I believe. Sending via Amazon SES is also supported.

[0] http://dadamailproject.com
Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)
The link was outdated in the README. Fixed. http://ziglang.org/documentation/master/
Very nice Jason.

I know I'm always bugging you about Fieldbook APIs (this is Nate K again), but is there an api for creation here?

I have a super-duper-cool use case in mind but it involves POSTing an in-memory CSV rather than manually clicking (but I don't want to clutter my fieldbook namespace).
Similarly: "Stop auto-inheriting new folders when using selective sync"[1]

Another many-page thread from 2014.

It's a big problem everywhere, but especially in business settings where there's often tons of data and anyone adding a new folder to Dropbox ends up syncing that new folder to everyone, whether they want anything to do with it or not.

For personal use it sucks when you only want to sync a few folders to e.g. a PC with a small hard drive, or if you've got a data cap.

The new "online only" option is nice but "don't auto-sync new folders" is a seemingly simple option that's been missing for years. OneDrive has it.[1]

[1] https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Stop-auto-inheriting...

[2] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Choose-which-OneDri...
"If you're choosing folders on two computers and you create a new folder on computer A that you want to sync to computer B, you'll need to go to computer B and select the new folder there."
IDK what your stance is on piracy but you can try out Enterprise LTSC. It only gets security updates.

I just want a fast, stable, and lightweight OS. Not really interested in design overhaul or features I'll never use.
According to the standard "north up" convention.
This whole process is dumb and — in this specific case — probably just cost industry tens of millions of dollars. It should stop.

Bingo.

A pay-for-play standards development organization should charge to _participate_ in the standards-setting activity, and NOT charge the public for access to the standards.

The ITU-T seems to have learned this, at least as to some things (e.g., the ASN.1 family of standards, such as x.680 and x.690). The IEEE should do the same.

Better yet, they should look at the IETF model, which has been working for _decades_. In the IETF model there is no charge at all, except for attending physical meetings. Mailing list participation is free. RFC publication is free. The IETF is financed via meeting fees and donations. Vendors have an interest in the IETF staying afloat, so they see to it -- their interest is, of course, the IETF's overall low cost to them (by comparison to OASIS, IEEE, ANSI/ISO, or the ITU-T), and the amount of review their specifications get.

Maybe 802.x dev should move to the IETF lock stock and barrel, you might say, but there is a problem: the IETF doesn't have a lot of expertise with physical layer protocol specifications. _Most_ IETF participants are at layer 2 and up. Of course, this can be fixed by... just moving all the 802.x work (and the people working on it) to the IETF.

EDIT: Mind you, getting the work done at the IETF would not be a guarantee of no such bugs. It would address the procedural and public access problems TFA talks about. But that alone is a huge improvement over using the IEEE for highly consequential specifications that greatly affect the public.
For more information, please see here: https://cryptome.org/2016/06/linknyc-spy-kiosks-installation...
My following comment got rejected :D

"Taking the risk of sounding like a crackpot I will share some of my own thoughts on the subject - put together from bits and pieces I have stumbled upon.

It can hardly be argued that some knowledge is attempted hidden - mostly for the sake of power. And in my humble opinion, the mysteries of bodies in rotation is exactly one of those subjects.

This article is based on academic science and appropriately so, but when it comes to rotating bodies I don't think you will find the answer there - at least not in the post-Einstein era. You should at least go back to James Clerk Maxwell and his original 20 equations to get a hint of what's really going on. If Einstein himself was aware of the shortcoming of his theory or even put them there on purpose, is up for debate - leaving it to the reader to discover what's missing from the theory of relativity.

If one bothers to seek alternative sources of knowledge about rotating bodies, you will not be alone. And if you stick to it, you will find very interesting things indeed. Not only about rotating bodies themselves, but as to why some has determined it so important to keep the facts hidden.

Some events suggest that, at least in western science, the connection between rotating bodies and gravity was stumbled upon in the early post-war missile program when Wernher von Braun tried to put a rotating body on top of a rocket - believing that it would stabilize it.

There are of course scientists doing research into these things outside the constraint of normal academica and from time to time their findings find their way into the public domain. One example is experiments done by Dr. Bruce DePalma, which some are as simple as they are easy to duplicate.

For those of you curious enough to adventure into this field of alternative science, I wish you luck."
this is so well done! I'm going to have to try out real metaballs now.
I have the original Surface Book. I like it. I used to use Macs.

Microsoft won't pay astroturfers to lurk in hacker news. Too bad.
yes, i've looked at all of those too. hubspot can do it, but it's overkill for my use case (i am helping a client implement hubspot). marketo is ungodly expensive. mautic requires setting up another server and maintaining it, in php no less.
https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-A...
Leaked ICE Guide; an Unprecedented View of Asset Forfeiture Tactics
Flickr negotiated a separate HQ as part of its acquisition, which helped them stay independent for a little while. Delicious had no chance under 39 layers of Sunnyvale management.
Why Tsuru PaaS
OT, but I had no idea tuna were that big.
It's worth noting the Dell Precision 5520, which uses the same chassis as the XPS 15. It comes in a few different configurations that aren't available in the XPS. Mine is the last-gen 5510 (same chassis but with an i7-6820HQ), and I was able to get a 1080p screen (for battery life and to avoid scaling issues) and 32gb of RAM only in the Precision, not the XPS.
I learned pointers in my first semester of CS with ^Pascal, and glad I did because the syntax was more readable.
I bought nvidia rather than FAANG stocks. I did pretty well ($30 -> $190)
It seems like Airbus paid nothing for this (maybe taking on some of the manufacturing expenses?).

See: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/airbus-teams-up-with-bombard...

It certainly isn't a payday for the Quebec government, but I suppose that 19% of something is better than 49% of nothing. One can _still_ criticize the irresponsible handling of taxpayer money AND now (if the manufacturing part is true) the benefits of the original buy-in will not go to Canadian factory workers.
>the move was criticized as a big gamble and an irresponsible handling of taxpayer's funds

given the US [unsurprisingly] imposed 300% duty as a counter measure to the perceived government subsidies, i think the more smart thing would be to buy from Bombardier some military hardware (doesn't matter that it doesn't produce it - it could have bought some very small military contractor) at high-high prices like everybody else does - US/Boeing, EU/Airbus, etc..
This is a clever resolution to a dispute that was going to hurt everyone involved. There was quite a scary trade war brewing.
If you need to, here is how you cancel your dropbox account... they don't make it easy to find. www.dropbox.com/downgrade
Thank you for the answer!

I understand that separation of the grammar and semantics has its benefits. You can use the same grammar description with different semantic rules sets etc. It's, indeed, a clean and interesting approach.

But, as I understand, Ohm still has no support for context-sensitive grammars, which is more important to have in many cases, than proper left recursion handling.

And oMeta had another nice feature: meta-rules (higher-order rules) which is absent in Ohm, if I understand correctly.

Ohm tries to be very user-friendly, but at the price of droping the functionality. So in this case Ohm is not a modern replacement for oMeta (which had the AST transforming features -- very important for making compilers!).

I'm not trying to be negative and I really wish a big success to your team!
Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.
This is the issue I have with all the bitcoin 'counter arguments'. They all revolve around tulip mania/fad status, yet a good number of the detractors admit to and acknowledge that the gold standard is no different.

If nothing else, Bitcoin is a media war. All the hype/nay-saying is revolving around non-stories and buzzwords.

Just because Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies are a fad doesn't make them automatic failures. They are most certainly a fad, the question is if this fad will remain or wash away.
Switching to a fair districting algorithm will never benefit the party in power, since by definition the existing law put them there. The only change they're going to want to make is in the direction of further bias.
The Inbox webapp always worked incredibly slowly for me on Firefox but fast on Chrome. Now I only use the Android app (and only when I need to use the snooze or Trips features) for everything else I use Gmail webapp on Firefox
I am undoing literally all of your work right now. I curse you daily!
Yes, and we can see the Oligarchical squatters who acquired large stakes in Bitcoin.

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard
Mbparsa, please email me. I would love to chat with you about our project. Support -at- dnslearning org. We are working to help parents restore balance between play time and learning time. There are lots of great education sites, we work to drive traffic to those education sites. None of our children are going to discover the cure to cancer watching Minecraft videos for 1,000s of hours.
that seems like the simple personalization case, not the personalized newsletter use case i'm after, but i'll take a look-see. thanks!
I like this idea. Sending you an email with some questions shortly.
This is not new.

We have been using machines, build by other machines, to make new machines for the last 200 years.
The Port Lands have already been extensively studied and a lot of planning has gone into it. There is a pretty extensive report that is a pretty fun read/scan. This would be the plan that Google would have to integrate into.

http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/nbe/wcm/connect/waterfront/97... (pdf)
Investing is not the right word - gambling isn't either, but it is closer :).
I am obviously biased, thanks for mentioning it :)
Crap. I got LineageOS confused with PostmarketOS. I stand corrected.
That's an interesting way to look at it.

Apply your comment to Harvey Weinstein and see if you can give him a pass on an "incredible waste of talent and ability"
"At last - the end of programming!" - 'The Last One'[1], from 1981, a BASIC code generator.

[1] https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic...
Check out mailforgood: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/mail-for-good
Delicious was written in Perl (Mason) and ported to PHP at Yahoo. The language change had nothing to do with the horrible management and lack of product vision at Yahoo, though.
From the associated article for that video:

> SPH ... with 500 000 particles ... about 2.5 fps on my GTX 1070

Still slower than what CNCD & Fairlight demonstrated in 2011 with "Numb Res", at 120fps (stereo 3D) on a geforce 280:

> The demo features up to 500,000 particles running under 3D SPH in realtime on the GPU, with surface tension and viscosity terms; this is in combination with collisions, meshing, high end effects like MLAA and depth of field, and plenty of lighting effects

https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/numb-res/
I clearly misjudged the time of Pascal's popularity and have never heard of RHEL but thanks for the response!

What is Slashdot's strength from your POV?
I'm guessing they consider that overlaps with Google assistant, so they've chosen to let GA take care of it.
Despite that article being a venerated classic I felt kind of put off when I first read it because the part about arrays and strings having sizes seems... well, I guess it's aged poorly.
Not sure why I got downvoted. I was the first comment and just trying to clarify which site the submitter was talking about (since he said "delicious.com").
I feel like I've read a lot of anecdotal stories of successful Bitcoin "investors" here on HN. So they're still here!
What’s even more worse is people being defrauded of time and money by what amounts to at best an accidental scam. The stakes are high enough that there is arguably an appropriate level of rigor in certification
A Book That Even Donald Trump Can Read
Agreed that Python still isn't as good at Perl at command-line scripting (which isn't a denigration; Python is good at it, but Perl was born for it). Also agreed that Python's current trajectory is buoyed by data science (compare Ruby, whose ascent via the web went hand-in-hand with Python, but which never took off for other domains and faded as new languages entered the web space). But that's a separate phenomenon, and probably has even less to do with comparisons between Python's and Perl's syntax (for years the data science crowd has been demanding more syntax from Python, e.g. a dedicated operator for matrix multiplication).
Everything in openshift is open source at https://github.com/openshift/origin. The commercial version is long term support, security response and errata, and the stability around that. There's nothing that is withheld from the open source project. It is not open core.

Edit: I forgot, the logo is not open source. So the logo is withheld :)
I want an appointment that recurs on the 5th Saturday of every month. If anyone knows how to do that in google calendar let me know!
Same as the reason for the failure of Upcoming (v1) and underperformance of Flickr: Yahoo & its frothy brew of money plus strategic blindness.

You might also throw the fate of ~pg's Viaweb, once it became Yahoo Stores, into that same class of fumbled opportunities. And so you can read Graham on Yahoo & get a good idea of the issues:

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
I've lived in Toronto for a while and Queen's Quay is lined with expensive condos and corporate skyscrapers. I don't really understand what you mean by scummy.

Do you mean the port lands? There's nothing wrong with that area. It was built for industrial shipping. The only eyesore in that area (Rebel) opened up no more than 3 years ago. If you mean Lakeshore, those tent cities under the Gardiner are recently established as well.

Take a water taxi over to Hanlan's before Winter rolls around. It'll change your perspective. We have a beautiful city.
So what you're saying is, after years of providing a strong financial incentive to get all your care via emergency departments, people are surprised to what extent the population actually takes this incentive ...

Perhaps we ought to reverse the incentive.

Well ... yeah.
Also seems like a useful captive waypoint to monitor MAC addresses & movement across a city.
Hello! Can I buy you a coffee in SF? I suppose we're building a competitor to you, but generally think there's room enough for lots of solutions to this space.
> Most cities play up their coast line

In the broader sense, sure. At the micro level, no. i.e. see Chicago and Uptown.
The bottom gets squeezed more.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Obama never uttered the words "Bitcoin" or "blockchain" during his term in office. Let's see if Trump does.
I feel like this article is 30 steps backward instead of a few steps forward.
> It seems like Airbus paid nothing for this (maybe taking on some of the manufacturing expenses?).

The company they now own 50.01% pays the manufacturing and sales costs, so they're taking on that.
>>So you equate "world-class" with "enterprise"

Well as part of my current world, sure I do. I have to satisfy the needs of not just dev, but operations, compliance, security, business, the people overseas that i've never met, etc. What I'd really like to see are startups that bootstrap this stuff to think that way prior to growing.

My original point was that this was cool for the dev crowd and perfect for the blog use case, but "world"-class seems hyperbolic. But if you are working for other people: people walking around who have strung together various automation stacks are a dime a dozen -- I've literally seen 4 different takes this month. Execution matters, and execution for your audience matters more.

>> Tools that scale down can also be world-class

We are of the same opinion. I love me some elegant free solutions, and I need to because then I can judge what I'm buying when I need to buy something.

>>Once you get big and purchasing decisions are made far from the front lines I'd argue it gets harder to really have the best tech.

I guess I see where you could be coming from, but it doesn't HAVE TO be that way does it? Isn't the whole point of work to empower yourself to affect the company decision-making. Failing at doing so is sort of, without offending you, you not doing your job. At least that's how I look at it.

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It’s hard to tell the difference between your narrative and the narrative that you can only be hired at failing companies because they can’t afford someone who will stick around.