skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me a native application just feels more... native. If everything is in the browser then the OS just becomes a secondary thing.
Chip (ASIC, SoC, FPGA) designers kind of all hate verilog and VHDL, but the alternatives, sadly, aren't gaining much traction yet.
As you recognize the simplistic nature of labels, you should not be surprised when a group goes against type.

I think the key to understanding the so-called neo-consrvatism is that it is not 'for' anything; rather, it is against a long list of things, and virulently so. They are conservative in that conservatives have generally defined themselves by opposition to whatever has been changing in the societies of their generation.

Its other feature is the belief that its ends justifies the means, including the incitement of irrational anger and even hatred, which they regard as a virtue. This trait is latent at all political extremes, but only gains traction when a significant number of the generally more moderate or uninterested members of the populace believe they are being cheated out of something they are entitled to.
You're assuming only professors can teach AI skills. These companies have managed to train their own workforces in many new technologies and paradigms they themselves invented, most notably, Google practically invented "Big Data" science all by itself (MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, etc). It's perfectly possible to learn new skills outside of academia.
im running 4 of 8gb 3000mHz Corsair at 15 latency and super happy with my Ryzen 1700
Well, that sounds like a long term value proposal...
> I would say the downvotes are more due to the fact you're commenting on an article that says a certain section of what we are still calling "The Right" has incorrectly demonized Musk in this case and you decided to piggyback on the criticism of him.

Okay. But why is arstechnica even defending musk. Is arstechnica musk's PR firm? Isn't that strange in and of itself? Lots of bad things get said about everyone and yet arstechnica decided to jump in on musk's defense.

That seems pretty odd to me.

> you decided to piggyback on the criticism of him.

I've criticized musk. And I've also praised him too. But the problem is that I get attacked for criticizing musk.

I just find it odd how any criticism of musk gets a swarmed response. That isn't an ad hominem. That's just wondering how strange things are.

I would be interested if arstechnica or their employees have any direct or indirect financial stake in musk's enterprises. I also would be interested if breitbart/et al have any financial stake in having musk's companies fail ( ie short positions or interests in musk's competitors ).
>Someone sounds pretty entitled.

Maybe the guy who wants me to volunteer 2 hours of my time before deigning to have a conversation with me?

>You know how burdensome it'd be to verify that your repos were fully yours

I've never interviewed anybody who lied about the provenance of their repos. I'm pretty sure if I did, it would come out in a 5 minute conversation during the interview.

If one or two gifted liars slipped through the hiring funnel into the interview stage before being found out I wouldn't view it as a tragedy.

>This notion that 2 hours is a lot of time, well plenty of engineers would rather have that than waste a few months memorizing algorithms they'll rarely use.

2 hours is fine for an interview, but it's way too long to spend on a speculative application for one company.
You should also check out http://purrr.tidyverse.org and http://github.com/r-lib - we're working towards providing tools that make general purpose programming more pleasant. (Not because R should ever be your primary general purpose language, but many data analyses often involve some general purpose components)
> A digital currency that replaces fiat currencies as a medium exchange cannot have a fixed supply. In fact, central banks, like the Federal Reserve, might even create their own cryptocurrencies but ones that are designed to optimize economic growth. It will probably need to have constant money supply growth and preferably money supply growth that matches economic needs and not some algorithm’s hard, mathematical constraint.

Finally someone acknowledges this reality. I've brought this up multiple times in Bitcoin discussions and never heard one good argument to backup the claims that Bitcoin can became a mainstream p2p fiat replacement for the masses all while having a 21 million coin limit.
Notably the stock has done this repeatedly after ER. Every time taking anywhere between a few days to a few weeks to start recovering.

Their product line up is very exciting and only going to get better. Mobile, Server, Workstation, and even still Consumer level CPU/GPU products are all very competitive and priced to sell. The only segment that sells quickly after something comes to market is really enthusiast consumer facing products. It takes time for a product line to build confidence and make a name for itself. Especially after nearly a decade of being the other guys with the mediocre at best option. The last AMD system I owned as a Phenom II X6 and it was really quite nice. I actually owned an Athlon MP (hacked XP chips) all throughout school a decade ago. Jim Keller is a brilliant CPU designer, and he designed Zen.

Granted the last time AMD took a significant market share Intel made many missteps. I don't know if Intel will have another Itanium like failure here.
>Approaching the problem from the FinServ lens, rather than FinTech, can radically alter your view ;)

What do you mean?
In this case it's not classism, though. The person calling for it is a computer science professor. Her motivation appears to be preventing people leaving her own domain and management hierarchy, rather than engaging in some battle of the backgrounds.
what's the tradeoff of clojurescript over native clojure? wouldn't the java clojure runtime be much faster?
As long as debugging isn't fundamentally incompatible with a unikernel approach, it's just a matter of maturity. And it's pretty silly to criticize a new, prospective technology for immaturity.
No, from a security stand point I can feel pretty confidant that Apple is better so long as iOS 0days are still selling for 10x that of their counterparts.
Not only Univiseristies, but startups are at risk. If I develop AI talent and then Google steals them away with a $500k signing bonus what will this do to the startup ecosystem?
Is there an easy way I can add my font? It doesn't seem to know about it.

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
One thing that would be killer in a cljs shell is some sort of paredit capability. I've been writing clojure long enough with good tools that when I have to use it in an environment without paredit it slows me down a ton.

This looks great, though, and I can't wait to try it out.
Bitcoin is valued at $110b with 16.66m mined out of 21m. So ~80% mined [1]

1 - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
You can use node libraries by requiring them with (js/require). ClojureScript libraries are in theory possible too, but I need to figure out how to specify classpath options for them.

Check out the example: https://github.com/dundalek/closh/blob/master/doc/guide.md#c...
Is there a reason why you were scanning salmon? Are they useful as phantoms for other sequences?
With regard to Peter Thiel, I am not sure being thrown overboard is the right metaphor. He has chosen to ride the tiger, and may have trouble getting off, if he wants to.
Why apps will never save the world
and the DC-3 and Boeing 247 and 307 before the Comet.

I don't know why you're arguing we had jet airliners before propliners. In general, props greatly predate jetliners for civil aviation.
"In the years immediately after the council, nuns discarded their habits, priests discovered women (more than 100,000 left the priesthood to marry)"

This position on marriage for priests is intriguing. Even Peter was married - see Matthew 8:14 (why would Peter have a mother-in-law if he wasn't married...?). And why does Paul warn about people who will say that you cannot marry? (1 Timothy 4:3) ???

"in this struggle it has been forced into the defence of an untenable absolutist position, whereby ..... all sex outside one lifelong marriage" is banned. "As Francis recognises, that’s not how people actually behave."

This is not true. Just because many people do not stick to their beliefs does not make the beliefs invalid, nor does it mean you should adopt the common mis-practice.

Like the Oxford versus Collins dictionary - Oxford tells you what the word means and how it should be used; Collins tells you how people typically use it (which might be an abuse of the word or incorrect usage). I'd rather go with Oxford.

Who of us likes ignoring our programming language specs and then argue that the compiler is wrong?

BTW I am not Catholic.
It's a huge task, sure, but someone needs to take on huge tasks from time to time (and Go does not currently have any good UI toolkit story). :-)
> We achieve lightweight VMs by using unikernels for specialized applications

Unikernels appear to be part of the solution...
We're going in circles.
Relevant mailing list discussion: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...
Because everyone and everything is doomed on a long enough time scale.

If the USD falls so does every other currency. You wouldn't see the kind of money people want in currencies moving into less fungible goods that would hold value over a recession.

I think the more general idea should be - no king rules forever, but the eventual fall of US dominance in the world economy will bring most of that economy down with it.
There are already many different libraries or approaches to concurrency and parallelism on JVM.

- http://www.baeldung.com/java-completablefuture Promises

- http://vertx.io/ Event Loop

- https://akka.io/ and http://www.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/ Actors

- https://projectreactor.io/ and https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava Reactive, event-based

- https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines.html Kotlin coroutines. Something like Project Loom from what I gathered from the article. Can be easily used as lightweight threads, async/await, actors, etc.

- Clojure with its own mix https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/clojure-concurrency-the-ul...
> I do feel we should demand better long term governance from politicians

Do let us also know what we should demand from you.
Maybe the new models aren't equipped with AMD chips ? Also AMD had to cut profits on the previous console CPUs IIRC. So that's not a "value" for the stock market.
I've used, with plenty of success (ending around 5 years ago), both welocalize.com and lionbridge. We sent them .JS files, XML files, PDFs, and Word Documents.

Some things to look for:
Across multiple transactions with these [edit: localization] companies, they end up building a database of phrases, of which some companies might try to claim ownership over. Watch out for that when negotiating.

You're also most likely going to pay per word, so if you can figure out a good way to not send them sentences you've already had translated you can save some money.

Its also good to spot check some of the translations. These companies will basically post out the requirements and get freelance translators to do the job (in other words, they're managing all the UpWork work for you so you don't have to). We once caught a translator (NOT of the above-mentioned companies) located somewhere in Europe inserting some choice political statements about a specific biotech/GMO company we had as a client.

(editted for clarity - below the first Paragraph is general knowledge of the industry, not specific to the two aforementioned vendors)
I worked as a (very) part-time translator (Japanese to English) for a company called Gengo. It's a "shared economy" structure, with any army of freelancers doing the work. Good at smaller, quick translations. To be clear, I have no experience buying their service, and I haven't done any work with them for several years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gengo
While the article provides a lot of good info, it is a very difficult read due to the structuring.

Here's something which I found strange:
"In fact, on two separate occasions, police shot at trucks misidentified as belonging to Dorner, injuring three civilians. “We said [to Palantir], ‘We need an application that can span multiple units within an agency…multiple agencies within a county... and multiple counties within a state,’” says Jackson. “[They developed an application] based on lessons learned from Dorner.” That application, called ClueMan, short for Clue Manager, has just gone live at JRIC."

Makes me wonder - Is software some day going to replace good police work?
I don't deny that CBS is high on the pantheon of scum.

But "angry" over a couple of photos shared, when they took them down and when their explanation seems quite plausible and in fact likely? I think there are more important things to be angry about.
Back when we were college students, he wasn't rich. Yet he got through med school (med school!). He asked friends like me to check things, when they mattered.

You keep looking for excuses, not solutions. He knew, and knows, he has a problem with spelling. So he does everything he can to get the help he needs to keep his spelling from limiting his career. He did it when he was a poor college student. Now, he can get secretaries to check, because he has a successful career built around his strengths, rather than letting his limitations define him.
https://crowdin.com/ + local agents.
Companies have always done research. Most of computing was developed in the private sector, not by universities. Xerox PARC, IBM etc.

There's no reason education has to be provided entirely by the state. In voucher schemes the state takes a slice of people's taxes and gives it back to them in the form of use-limited credits that can only be spent on e.g. education. Mandatory insurance schemes are similar in concept. You can have entirely private provision in such a scheme.

Price controls result in shortages rather than everyone benefiting equally - this always happens, and in this case the price controls on academic pay are resulting in a shortage of academics.
This is an excellent introduction not only to work being done on the JVM, but on some of the implementation challenges of userspace concurrency/greenthreads and M:N scheduling in general.

The detail, nuance, and humility present in this article give me some hope that pathological misbehavior of other M:N scheduling models (see Bryan Cantrill's rant/paper about this for more info) may be avoided if something like that comes to the JVM. However, the sheer complexity of the existing JVM code, as the authors point out, may present an obstacle to that quality. Figuring out yield points for coroutines across a large java codebase seems like it would be . . . painful, to say the least.
AdMob: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admob/admob-firebase

Also Firebase has a free tier but it does cost money https://firebase.google.com/pricing/
Given the direction things are going with electric cars, will there be enough to satisfy the battery demands on a global scale?
Acid reflux drug linked to more than doubled risk of stomach cancer
Why is North Korea a threat to humanity?
It's still semi-custom AMD silicon (but new and improved!). I don't think they could actually switch GPU architecture within the console lifecycle without breaking things, and there's also nobody to go to anyway (who else makes semi-custom high-performance x64 SoCs, let alone with decent graphics?).
Better framed as, hungry devs who want to start working so they can eat.
> edit: oh well, downvotes from fanboys who will be offended at anything but "AMD IS AMAZEBALLS"

You got downvotes for being wrong.

> But their pricing is on par with intel's offerings, so why should I buy the AMD product

This generation AMD is killing the price/performance ratio. Starting off a long winded argument with a factual inaccuracy isn't the best way to get the audience on your side.

> None of offerings, per core, really beat my 2011 2500k i5

Funny, I replaced my 2011 2500k i5 with an R5 1600x and the performance difference is incredible (having 3200Mhz DDR4 helps as well).

You are guilty of the same bias that you're accusing the downvoters of.
My personal theory for a while has been that the world actually did end in 2000. We are living in a parody alternate dimension where the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks. This timeline is like a show that's been renewed for one season too many.
Think they should probably drill into dozens of small volcanoes first to prove that doing so can't set them off?
Working Through the IBM Cloud Private Demo
Selling to police departments can be quite lucrative. I know someone who sells "forensics" software. I won't say what it does but it's both basic and snake-oil-y at the same time. They are raking in big bucks. It's also not a market many in the startup world thinks about usually.

> California’s cops have become accustomed to the adrenaline rush of data and analysis that Palantir provides, and the more departments that join, the more addictive its products.

It's just a matter of making the software seem and look like like magic. Police departments traditionally are not very tech savvy, so they will readily throw money at stuff they don't understand. Well, not unlike enterprises but it's just more pronounced it seems.
anandtech.com may be worth a look.
That's why job descriptions should not be authored by hiring managers alone. Most of the time, it's not the employer, it's the hiring manager who has unreal expectations. This is driven in my opinion by multiple factors including but not limited to:

Unreasonable expectations created by hyperspecialization and role blending as part of corporate restructuring, or as pushed by the investors/stakeholders that follows economic recessions.

The expansionary period that follows provide people opportunity to leave, providing more liquidity in the labor market.

So talent leaves for greener pastures and now you have a hiring manager who's direct report has left them with a gaping hole and finance dictates that you have 1:1 for this spot.

So you type of the list of roles and responsibilities and send your requisition to HR to help find candidates. Meanwhile you assign out duties to remaining team members because work must get done.

The search lingers because the hiring manager looking for the proverbial purple squirrel, meanwhile the team seems to be handling the workload with no measurable impact on quality.

This then just repeats itself over and over, at companies large and small.

This is only one use case, there are many, but I think one that plays a big part in the problem of job search and matching talent with opportunity.
Steady-state performance tends to be better on the JVM but startup performance is always much better on top of JavaScript. That makes it an enticing trade off for shells which is a process that you start new ones of constantly and where the performance of the shell itself is often not very important. (Performance-critical or hard-to-duplicate code like, say, line editing code, can be done equally well on either platform via FFI.)
I believe the CFID in the URL is a user-specific token, and user-specific URLs shouldn't be fetched from all over the world, triggering the block.
>Bitcoin can became a mainstream p2p fiat replacement for the masses all while having a 21 million coin limit.

Does anyone outside of the most zealous ideologues really believe this?
> There is some basic fundamentals how programming language should work which R just disregards for the sake of being different.

So, you can complain that R feels different from languages you're used to, but it's incorrect to assert that R does things for "the sake of being different." R is simply influenced by a different lineage of languages than, e.g., Python.

> Okey indexes start at 1

Languages have had 1-based indexing since Fortran. If your languages is doing numerical computing, you're going to take a lot of cues from Fortran.

> Variables are initialized with "a <- 1" okey well for each to their own.

This is how APL does assignment. Like APL, R is an array-based language (all types are vectors/arrays; all functions operate over arrays).

> Return requires you to wrap values with "()" so "return x" doesn't work but "return(x)" does. Umm.

R is highly functional. Arithmetic, assignment, and indexing operators are all functions. There are very few "statements" in the language. It's actually highly consistent with that to have return be a function, not a statement. It's actually uncommon to use return in R, since every block automatically returns its last expression.

> You should never iterate over a dataframe except when you have to and then there's a plethora of different ways to do it. Some are better, some are worse. But isn't it nice that everyone can invent their own way of doing it? Right?

A data frame implements both list and matrix semantics. This makes sense since, like a list, it is an array of differently-type arrays. But like a matrix it has a notion of rows and columns. Over time, folks have tended to move away from using matrix semantics.

> Those are what I can come up with from the top of my head. But overall the feeling I get when I code R is that it's this mystic arcane magic that requires completely new way of thinking compared to other programming languages. And it's very frustrating.

I mean, this is a fair complaint, but it's not a problem with the language. You have to learn it. At its core, R is actually a fairly simple, elegant language that has a few key principles, and some interesting and powerful design features (like delayed argument evaluation).

In "Javascript: The Good Parts", Doug Crockford says this:

"JavaScript is most despised because it isn’t SOME OTHER LANGUAGE. If you are good in SOME OTHER LANGUAGE and you have to program in an environment that only supports JavaScript, then you are forced to use JavaScript, and that is annoying. Most people in that situation don’t
even bother to learn JavaScript first, and then they are surprised when JavaScript turns out to have significant differences from the SOME OTHER LANGUAGE they would rather be using, and that those differences matter."

Which reminds me of most people's attitude towards R.
Yeah, money velocity is important, aggregate demand is real, and currency hoarding is unavoidable with a deflationary currency. Why buy something when you can buy more somethings tomorrow?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11964/ryzen-mobile-is-launche...
Tailwind, a utility-first CSS framework
HTTP/1.1 402 F_YOU. PAY_ME
STMX: software transactional memory for Common Lisp
That blog post is pretty crappy.

See discussions here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953766
Interview with Steve Bongardt, Retired FBI Agent
This is odd. It indicates a badly written application with disregard for resources.

If efficient use of something like RAM is blatantly disregarded, what about more important things like performance-critical sections of code? Would you be happy that it is shoddily written?

The same approach on a mobile device would be widely condemned due to the hogging of RAM. I don't see why the same metrics cannot be applied to desktop software.

Is the solution for badly-written slow software "just get a faster CPU"?
I have to say I welcome the double opt-in. There have been too many purchases online where I was signed up for a newsletter I did not ask for.
Learn UX. It isn't some strange, mystical fantasy world. It has principles just like every other design discipline. Platform vendors usually supply design documents for how apps should look and feel.

Also, feel free to steal design ideas. If your projects ever get off the ground, part of the reason will be that they are familiar enough to customers to use without a headache.