skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Businesses can react quicker because internally they run like dictatorships. That's why I am always wary of people wanting to run government like a business.
Who's building Linux in 2017? The Linux Foundation released its latest report
what constitutes a scripting language?

It's indeed a bit fuzzy, but program execution without separate compilation (which is not a feature of a language per se) is something I'd look for.

As far as intrinsic language features go, a lack of boilerplate in the sense of

print("hello")

vs

class Hello {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("hello");
}
}

is a good indicator, as is dynamic typing.
I'm not an expert, but isn't the causality reversed? Neural Nets were developed based on research of the physical structures in the brain, right? If that's the case, it makes sense to make analogies between the two systems.
I don't think price has much to do with it. Even if they were free I can't see them taking off.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments.

Edit: the parent comment was originally just its first sentence. Kinda not nice to do that without saying so.
That is a fantastic quote from a truly great American thinker.
You could add to it the quote from Ron Suskind's article from an unnamed Bush administration official:

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'" [1]

This is a very 'postmodern' statement, but coming from the Right and from a government official able to wield the power of the State rather than a poor undergraduate or marginalized assistant professor of humanities.

Arguably postmodernist thought has been so effective in describing contemporary social reality that it has been fully absorbed by the cultural/political Right. Claims of "fake news" alt-right social media memes, totalizing institutional critique -- these all are 'weaponized' forms and tactics from the postmodern Left, but now as mainstream tool of right-wing political action.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...
> I think buying the iPhone X as soon as it is released is a huge gamble

Why? If you don't like it, you have 14 days to return it.
Were they given the statement or is Bloomberg quoting what was given to other publications? In either case, if they got Bloomberg to slag themselves I tip my hat to Apple PR.
the top two comments use that term, odd.
> "Post-modern beliefs" are mostly pretty straight forward criticism that shouldn't be controversial to a thoughtful person.

Things like "race and gender are mere cultural constructs", as examples?
I second M44.
Thanks for the tip! What OS and chrome version are you using?
Ah yes, you're correct.
This article makes its case very poorly and misrepresents a few things. It's not at all clear who the "postmodernists" are; it appears to be any professor not in a STEM field. It goes through a bunch of unconnected anecdotes that, yes, illustrate a pattern and then says "this is bad, and it's due to postmodernism".

In the parts where it attempts to make an argument, it misrepresents:

>> This is a shift in Marxist theory from class conflict to identity politics conflict; instead of judging people by the content of their character, they are now to be judged by the color of their skin (or their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, et cetera).

I hear this talking point a lot, but that argument is a straw-man. The argument is not that people should be "judged by the color of their skin". The point is that they already are, frequently in subtle ways. You therefore have to address these things explicitly if you're to have any hope of counteracting them. If you don't, you're perpetuating the status quo without addressing how we got to it or what its problems might be.[1]

>> Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy, and that nearly everyone in America is racist and bigoted

Are they actually being taught that "there is no truth"? I suspect that it's more like "The way we frame and talk about 'truth' is itself the result of political and social forces, and that framework of conservation is worth examining critically." I haven't read enough postmodernist philosophy to be sure. Neither, I suspect, has the author of the OP.

As for the "everyone is racist" thing, this is, again, frequently misrepresented. It conjures up images of professors telling their students that everybody is throwing around racial slurs behind their backs. The actual point is that our society suffers from systemic racism, and everybody living in it plays a part, and it's important to be conscious of that part.

Listen, maybe you disagree with all of this. You're allowed. But if you want to argue, you should argue against the strongest points being made, rather than the points drawn from articles written by people whose goal is to point and laugh. Recognize that, if you've never opened up a book on gender theory or literary criticism, then you are maybe not qualified to reject the entire fields out of hand.

[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36FbHXsEuzM), a clip from the noted philosophical work Adventure Time.
They are not as separate. A deferred shading pipeline would make little sense if it was operating purely in LDR. Tonemapping in foward shading can be done but makes a lot more sense to do as a post step. If you ask a photographer about tone mapping he/she would tell you about a very different concept (but is more likely to turn away in disgust)... and that could not be done by color-mapping 1 fragment at a time.
Old phones get new life in high-powered computer servers
Given the icon I expected it to do something with color. I don't know what given the context but the only time I have ever seen that icon is for color picking and usually not in a way that modifies my clipboard.
Meet Personas, the Next Generation of the Segment Platform
I wonder which version of PHP you were using?
I dont know why - but I was under some weird impression that mass is less affected in space due to lack of drag.... Stupid thing to think.

I guess that this is why the slingshot method is so important.
Other filesystems will lose your data or write corrupted data
This has become one of my pet peeves over time. After the recent round of ML/DL/AI hype train it appears that a number of people have adopted this belief that these technologies are pixie dust you can sprinkle over any arbitrary problem and knowledge will be automatically synthesised out of nothing.

Almost like an excuse to avoid having to think about a problem. "But what about ..?" "A DEEP LEARNING AI NEURAL NETWORK WOULD TOTALLY SOLVE IT RIGHT?!"
For the record - I used to work at YCharts.

One of our loved features was the Screener - we modeled to make it as easy-to-use with setting your own custom metrics and really good timeseries information.

It's cheaper than FactSet and Bloomberg, and you can try a free trial from the site pretty easily.
This is quite sad, seeing so many amazing hacked together project that uses the Kinect. I bought a fairly new one at thrift shop for only $15 dollar (!!) a few weeks back.
Excite bots and trackmania are great racing games. Also the wii fitness and related sport games.

Original broke but I got a red one to replace it.
There is also available the source code[1] of the original awk, "The One True Awk" as Brian Kernighan refers to it at his Princeton webpage.

[1]http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/
Unfortunately, this may not make the headlines nearly as much as the healthcare did.
Yes, I should have summarized, but it's not my blog, just one I read. So I was just being lazy, posting as I went out through door to work, not trying to get clicks on my site or something.
Black Mirror should be forbidden, too often people use it as a howto instead of a warning.
Something that has helped those games, and not the Xbox One, is that the exclusivity is just regarding other consoles: All of their big "exclusives" are released on PC too, which allowed people like me to skip buying the console altogether.

This is not necessarily great for Microsoft though, as licenses for third party games bring money, and people like me end up using their online store only when there's no other choice.
It's a real problem. People getting giant boxes, rooms not being big enough. Delivery is very different than it used to be.
Paper: http://catalystjournal.org/ojs/index.php/catalyst/article/vi...

Abstract:

In this paper, I argue that those of us who have left the Sciences proper and moved to feminist studies spaces have continued to do science through our teaching. In a moment when the impulse to do real science is palpitating in our feminist hearts, I suggest that we critically examine the political stakes of our affective attachments and detachments from s/Science(s). I consider what it means to be attached to a Science that earned its epistemic authority through its co-constitution with colonization and slavery. I argue that passion for science may act to strengthen the relationship between Science and Truth and conversely, willful refusal and failure may be used to break the bond. I offer critical science literacy as a practice that can directly challenge the epistemic authority of Science and be read as "doing science" or more broadly as "rewriting knowledge."

Honestly, sounds nothing like the original link which is a poorly written polemic that is obviously done in bad faith (at least to me). I think the abstract is interesting enough that I'll read the paper myself and come to my own conclusions once I have spare time.
you are right, they won't do anything once they are elected..

Try making it clear to candidates that you would not support such behaviour in an elected official, and that if their interests are aligned with such causes you will not vote for them.
I assume that if you're freelance you're at more risk of finding yourself on the receiving end of a CFAA violation. What I wonder is that if security researchers who work for domestic companies face the same degree of scrutiny that these freelance researchers do.

I guess that if you work for a company you're probably not looking at anyone's website that's not explicitly paying you/your company and under some contract.
> Benchmarks are about finding representative results across a variety of tasks.

> And you can construct cases where the JVM is infinitely faster than C/C++/Rust, because the JIT optimizes through a virtual call and detects dead code.

How would that be a "representative result across a variety of tasks" according to your own definition of a benchmark? What do you mean by "across a variety of tasks"? That sounds like taking the average of some metric for different benchmarks, I'm not sure that is a good idea. I think it makes more sense to benchmark your specific use case, which is what I meant by "it depends".

> If you think there are good benchmarks that show these languages are 10x slower in realistic cases, then you should share them, rather than just asserting that they're out there.

I never said anything about "realistic" and "good", but they are really not unthinkably hard to find: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/binarytrees.htm...
As I recall, the punchline to Ben's pursuit of 13 virtues was "Adhering to all these virtues makes one too perfect to be humble"

The list is self-conflicting.

Franklin's conclusion basically was "everything in moderation".
Sounds interesting, but your website is down.
Ok, moving to Twin Peaks now.
I have rejected my lawyer’s advice to not make a statement

Oh this always works out well.
But it's also a worthwhile exercise. Should we just always take them at their word? History has proven we shouldn't.
How sans-serif fonts took over the world
Show me the mathematical theory of truth.
The comment lists several ideas, but doesn't really what the problems are. It just presumes that the problems are self-evident.

> "systemic white supremacy” and “cisheteropatriarchy”

For example, the idea that there is systemic white supremacy in the U.S. is hard to challenge - the evidence is overwhelming - nor is the proposition that many white people are unaware of it (the 'privilege').

Cisheteropatriarchy means, based just on reading the word here, merely the obvious fact that politics is dominated by heterosexuals whose gender identities are 'near' the stereotypes (i.e., they are not transexual, etc.). It's hard to name anyone in power who doesn't fit that description.

I'd love it if we could talk about the ideas, and had some curiosity about them, rather than just dismissing it all as a "cult".

> safe spaces

That doesn't sound objectionable on its face, and in a society with a lot of racism and sexism, it might be a good idea. I've talked to black people who say they very often feel vulnerable - they never know what someone might do, and if something happens the black person often will get the blame (and be fired, arrested, kicked out of the restaurant, etc.). The Weinstein Company could have used some safe spaces. What harm is it doing?
> Calculating the size of a static array.

#include <type_traits>
int myarray[] = { 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
int x = std::extent<decltype(foo)>::value; // returns 6

> Converting a string to an enum

Generally a bad idea, as it couples a protocol (whatever is feeding you the strings) to symbols in your language. Often, one of those has constraints that the other cannot meet.

> Binary file includes

objcopy -I binary -O elf64-x86-64 -B i386:x86-64:intel in.bin out.o

Not the prettiest, but, why should a language do the linker's job?

> FourCC codes

How often does this come up, that you can't write a 10-line class to do what you want? Not to mention the obvious issue of endianness in the example given. Last time I had to do this I was writing a PNG parser, which was not something I should have been doing.

> Types as first-class primitives

I've been coding for 25 years and never needed nor wanted this. I know not everyone agrees, but personally I find reliance on RTTI to be a code smell. (Granted, pre-C++17 it's kind of forced due to lack of a proper variant type.)

(I realize the above is opinionated, but… so is the OP! :)
i was responding to the parent who said " I can only conclude" so i thought that providing an alternative conclusion would add to the discussion.

i don't think this is lazy conspiracy... many amazon pages in the U.S. heavily promote their home services offerings so it is clearly an important initiative for them. furthermore, "amazon key" does solve a really big problem with home services: service pros typically work during the business day, but some (perhams most) of the best customers are at work during that time.
There are lots of university projects developing with this device. This is very sad decision for them. I hope it will back soon.
What's the motivation for this language? It seems like Javascript with destructuring assignment, named function parameters, and a few miner quirks (like sentinal)
I built the code picker. It's sidebar on the right side that lets you switch colors, copy elements and inspect their code.

In retrospect I could have worded the title better.
You can make all of the correlations to historical trendlines you like but this is a new phenomenon with plenty of benefits to both the customer and workers compared to previous systems, which is why it exists, almost entirely as a result of technology. It's been disruptive and sudden largely due to a complete lack of innovation within existing systems, a possibly inherently feature of previous models. Not driven by some malicious intent of some nerds in California, as the common narratives like to push. That doesn't mean it's not flawed either, all new systems have growing pains.

But more importantly, ignoring how it fits into academic economic history, it's not going away any time soon and we're not going back to an economy where big companies + union model makes sense again merely because our legal/regulatory system was previously designed for that.

They say the political right is the one obsessed with pining for the old days in the US but I see it just as much nostalgia coming from the left. And it does little to help people solve the problems they have today and, likely more so, in the future.
What a difference a decade or two makes, isn't it? I started my undergrad in the late nineties at a state university known primarily for liberal arts. The expectation as a liberal / progressive student was that you wrestled with hard, distasteful, nuanced topics.

Now, if you teach undergraduate students, you need to weigh whether or not it's worth fending off complaints for not issuing trigger warnings. I have friends who used to teach undergraduate classes, who now avoid doing so because of the aggressive fragility manifested by (some) students.

As an avowed progressive, I find this trend really distasteful.
Or flip it.
A new tool for editing DNA, one base at a time
I feel pretty passionately about protecting national land. Are there any recommendations on how to best support it? I don't live near any federal lands and I'm generally don't trust lobbyist groups. Should I be donating to the Sierra Club? Or are there other alternatives?
Services like Patreon function as something of a proxy that obscures the nature of your business from the credit card processors, who otherwise won't let you conduct adult-related transactions through their platforms.
So you don't create variables when you typo a variable name. Declarations are an error catching mechanism
It really doesn't if you have any interest in a good process. They seem to engage in a lot of back patting about how great their process is.
Ars Technica articles get two headlines. After A/B testing for a bit it settles on the more popular one. It's possible that was the other title that showed up on this article.
>Jeff Hawkins gets shit on a lot in ML because his theories haven’t produced models with results as good as the mainstream approach, but I’m glad they keep working at it and keep coming up with interesting ideas.

And also because Numenta's work isn't good, empirically-checkable neuroscience either.
That's the creepiest part to me - it equates "being spoken to" with "speaking about".

The subpoena against the comment poster is questionable, but targeting people who were named in the Tweet is ridiculous. In particular, Dissent Doe never engaged with the thread in any way, but was only named in the exchange.

If you can spawn an invasive data request against someone just by including their handle in a tweet, that's a shocking overreach or a misunderstanding of the communication system.
Moreover, the builds are delivered over HTTP and the .whl are not signed ...
I'm starting to like the Elixir development methodology more than the language itself. The Elixir team is quick to adopt useful features from other ecosystems and make them first class. This specific formatter will help a lot of people that are learning and writing the language.

Similar to it is the proposed property testing and data generation library[1], which may or may not be part of the language someday but it is "officially" supported.

https://github.com/whatyouhide/stream_data
I think it depends on if you got tips when you worked your crappy jobs. If you got tips, then you give tips.

If you worked minimum wage jobs that didn't get tips, then you get resentful of the entire tipping culture and only tip when socially necessary.
Give each user a random salt. Hash each subsection of the password with their salt and store that. No need for plaintext.
Signing a diff by itself is useless, because there's no attestation to what exactly is being diffed.

Just because a signing a commit can be construed as the author attesting to the authenticity of every single bit in the a repo's entire commit history doesn't mean it should, doesn't mean it's what the signing party actually intended, and doesn't mean that such an inference even remotely sane. Such an expectation is utterly absurd on its face for any repo with more than a handful of commits and/or authors.

Further, git does not have a mechanism for signing either diffs or diffs plus the `tree` of the prior commit plus all of the other commit metadata. Even if it did, there's now the problem that by excluding the prior commit, you now have no way of ensuring that signed commits are properly ordered if they happen to share `tree`s (e.g., in the case of a revert). This is a patently terrible property from a cryptographic perspective.

Given the above, there is literally no native way in git to achieve the semantics of signing a singular diff. Combined with the complete absurdity of assuming a signed commit is attesting to tens of thousands of commits or more from dozens of authors or more preceding it, signing commits is the most natural way to express the useful semantic of "I made this change to this tree".

The semantics you suggest are totally unrealistic and virtually useless in practice, so what exactly is the point of your argument?
Is there a difference in this case between "laid off" and "fired"?
Why does it have the do-while(0)?
If you want to laugh at her argument, maybe link to her actual work[1], and recognize that the fact that the page you link doesn't is a clue that they're not interested in having people seriously engage with it, or even examine it at all.

"They do link to it," you say, "but it's behind a paywall!". Yes, the anthology they link is behind a paywall. But the actual article is freely available (and is also 4 years old). I uncovered this with about 2 minutes of googling.

Is this really the standard of discourse you want to uphold?

[1]http://ed-osprey.gsu.edu/ojs/index.php/JUME/article/view/223...
APFS and BtrFS at least won't.
You are OVERCONFIDENT
It's not difficult really (assuming one can/is willing to RTFM), just a little more involved and time-consuming to get set up. I've used ZFS on / on Ubuntu a handful of times and all of the machines I use on a daily basis (a high-end workstation and a pair of laptops, all running Arch Linux) all use ZFS exclusively.
I didn't realize Alexa is still considered as a good source of data.
It's a magnificent device for tinkerers. My workplace picked up a few Kinects when we needed a quick & cheap motion capture solution to animate a few characters in our Unity game. We were quite impressed by how well it did; it could even do facial capture! We still had to hand-tune some of the keyframes, but it saved us countless hours of animating.

After getting all of our motion capture done, we wanted to see what else we could do with it. I stumbled across a [1]repo from a few years ago that live-streams the depth data as a point cloud system in the browser. So we cleaned up the code, set up a kinect to point at our office entrance, and now have it live-streaming in the header of our [2]website! It's a bit too heavy on mobile, so we're currently working on a fallback.

[1] https://github.com/jawj/websocket-kinect

[2] https://l2d.co/
Preach! I am actually looking for one on eBay as we speak.