skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle.

You don't need to create a new character set to do that.

People fight daily against salmonella and we don't have salmonella emoji.

Also, if you're fighting for identity you're part of the problem -- you should be fighting for ambiguity.

You see, equal rights goes both ways.

If you demand special rights because you're different, that's not equal.

You want equal rights? You got it. Let's have a straight pride parade tomorrow.

Then we'll have a men's rights rally.
They might be talking about an interpretation of gradient descent that this article provides:
http://blog.mrtz.org/2013/09/07/the-zen-of-gradient-descent....
Obviously it's timed when actual content is on the screen.
Should have kept it and introduced a "never publicly shared a dick pic" filter. I'd much rather services allowed people to do annoying/stupid stuff but then use the data to generate better filtering. There's a limit, however, and enabling photographic sexual assault probably crosses it.

Finally a real life application of the Hot Dog, Not a Hot Dog app from Silicon Valley.
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I don't have difficulty telling Indians (or Chinese etc. for that matter) apart -- I'm also not American myself, and have worked in Asian countries.

They just look very similar to me -- and apparently to Face ID too, and after all, they are siblings.
The go vendoring stuff and GOPATH sounds like a complete nightmare to me. Also the fact that imports are full git URLS sounds totally crazy. Is `dep` fixing all that stuff? Last time I checked out go a few years ago, I didn't continue because I found the story of actually installing dependencies and keeping track of versions very confusing. You couldn't even `go get` a specific git tag or something.

I'm happy that there seems to be some movement. But now we have godep, govendor, glide, dep. and every project uses one or the other. Are they all compatible? Or is it a minefield?
A couple of dead comments suggest conjoined twins cannot have a sex life.

My wife and I were discussing that aspect just this morning as we discuss the young ladies in this article, what with Chang and Eng not letting it slow them down much. Given the age of the girls I find it a bit creepy to contemplate, but I’m curious what other pieces of anatomy are wired to both brains.

Hopefully they work it out, and I suspect they will. I’m confident that the lives of Chang and Eng were not roses and unicorns, but if a couple of Asian guys can make a life for themselves in North Carolina in the 1800s, and conjoined twins to boot, I thinks these girls have a good shot.

As a side note, “Siamese Twins” might be out of favor, but the term originates with Chang and Eng, who were from Thailand, formerly known as Siam.
Please change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ASFxKS9sg&list=PLbg3ZX2pWl...

Idea was to post the entire playlist...
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So please be clear it still is upcoming, and not 'had been upcoming when the bug was publicised'; so a simple big in a calculator app takes them exactly 2 releases to fix.
I just realized that was written in 1997.

It's interesting to wonder if, 20 years later, the author would change some of what he originally wrote.
It doesn't actually matter if it's a bug or a feature. If you share your passcode with someone, they might as well get in with their face. It's not a security risk.
What he said.

Also, what about people whose skin is a shade in between those provided by the skin color emoji?

I mean, if you're not representing those people you're being racist, right?
Taking junior devs who would take a pay cut to join your company?
If anyone over at DO is reading this, we've got some technical and conceptual overlap at Reddit. Would love to compare notes.
Twitter’s list of 2,752 Russian trolls
>The cinema gets its audience by posting events on Facebook, and that's advertising, right?

No, that's just posting their events on their own channel that people have to subscribe to to see.

But even if we classify that as advertising we can still allow that -- we're inventive, as humans -- without still not allowing for 90% of what today is used for advertising.
Kremlin Cash Behind Yuri Milner’s Twitter and Facebook Investments
Two projects is a lot. The only reason I attempt two is that I like some variety. I'm not sure why you think people are doing more with less time...they're probably not.
Because Apple's machine learning applied to photos isn't as good as Google's machine learning applied to photos? Is that a difference in technology, or a difference in marketing?

I expected better from... well, anyone. Maybe not Fortune.
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I'm more concerned about the fact that it seems you have to do a pointless finger swipe to get away from the lock screen even though the phone is actually unlocked. I'd be furious.
Who knows what it really 'means'. (And meaning, at least as represented by posters here, seems to vary a fair bit based on oxen ownership.)

It seems to indicate that both concepts are more fluid than feels comfortable. To some extent, it feels related to bandwidth/latency/maybe the direct linkage and chemical interaction between brains - as that increases, the boundaries become blurrier.

Peter Watts had great fun with this idea in Echopraxia (http://www.rifters.com/ ).
> I'd say that should be enough to establish nefarious sexual intent.

What is "nefarious sexual intent"? Turning on a buttplug or vibrator unexpectedly?

Also, why do you think it counts as sexual contact? If somebody just uses the access to flash the lights on it in a silly way, is that nefarious sexual intent?
Well, I suppose the fault is shared, but it was told to me confidently enough by somebody I would generally trust in these matters. I'm not throwing any particular person under the bus here, so I think I can be as emphatic as I'd like.
Honestly, nothing new. Does anyone still care? Action is being taken on an international level to combat avoidance, but it takes time. These types of offshore vehicles offer privacy and serve various specific purposes (e.g. tax transparent international investing). Yes, they can be used for illegal purposes (sometimes), but frankly that seems like the minority to me.

What worries me a bit though, is the fact that heaps of confidential information is just thrown online, without significant filtering. Even completely legal situations are published, but since the average joe has no understanding of tax law, he'll assume these people are doing illegal things. Attorney-Client privilege?
Come on. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
It's funny how the people of Russia and the US are framed as being such great enemies when in reality many of the rulers of both countries have more common interests with each other than they do with the citizens of their own nations.
If you haven't read Bill Browder's Red Notice, read it now. Wow. Wow. Just wow. YCombinator is in the Kremlin's pocket. Wow. I fully expect this to be downvoted to oblivion. But wow.

In essence, Putin used Browder's investigations of Gazprom and other oligarch-controlled Russian businesses (huge national orgs that were privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union) to jail the richest man in Russia, effectively making all the oligarchs his bitches.

Milner is investing oligarch money. These people will kill you (see: Sergei Magnitsky). How bad do you want Milner' money now?

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/...
>> fuck webpack

>> sorry to hear you feel this way! [..]

>> [..]

When I first read the quote, I thought "that's nice of webpack". Then I saw this:

> The greatest power you have for haters or trolls is love.

I would not call someone saying "fuck webpack" a hater or a troll, I would call them a frustrated user. OTOH, you can turn a frustrated user into a hater or a troll by dismissing their concerns or by trying to shift the blame onto them by calling them rude.

Venting your frustration is an absolutely understandable behaviour when faced with unintuitive software, especially for users who don't understand what they're using (including software developers!) - they're in a position of lesser power, feel helpless, and need an outlet to express this. No developer should be taking these expressions as a personal attack, nor belittling it as rude or trolling.

Because of this, I saw the original quoted interaction in a new light - upon a second look, it is a bit unsubstantial, bordering on virtue-signalling. A proper quote that actually indicates caring about your users, would include responding to a specific problem from a very frustrated user, by actually fixing the issue. Not just saying nice words.
I actually don't see why graphical emoji need to exist.

Isn't :-) sufficient and more efficient in terms of data transfer?
Hard to pinpoint. In terms of entertainment books, it'll probably come down to a tie between Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See and Walter Moers' The City of Dreaming Books, or maybe something by Terry Pratchett (although I couldn't single out a book there, either).

The reason for those is just that I can't imagine ever being bored reading them.

Maybe also Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) for being a really creative concept (the way the story is told) and for being a wonderful example on how interesting modest sci-fi can be without resorting to "LAZERZ!!!".

Edit: Another contestant: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists. Grim yet humorful. I generally really like Dürrenmatt's dark endings.

Edit 2: And another one: Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann, specifically for how well he got me to understand Gauss' weird reactions and motives without going into his work at all. Before I've read it, I would have sworn that a book that tries to present one of the greatest mathematicians would need loads of math in it.
Apple currently offers syncing of data across 7 rectangular prism shapes: 5S, 7, 7+, X, iPad mini, iPad, iPad 12”, Apple TV. The article is wrong because it doesn’t take into account that ultimately the phone is just a specific rectangle size that’s popular, but otherwise is no different from a tablet. I love the idea of taking photos with a tablet, but only using technology that lets me pick high-quality stills from a video filmed with it. Capture now with whatever rectangle I like, get back to enjoying life, review later on another rectangle and sample the best memories into stills.

Apple builds and sells millions of glass rectangles in every possible size a single human being could use, and their rectangles maintain resale and hand-me-down value for five years or more. It might slow down, but in general most of them simply never fail. Someday we’ll have glass rectangles with both 3D face cameras and no notch, but until then, it’s more than sufficient to design trademark.

Apple’s prominence in manufacturing and in cloud platform does not somehow diminish when their shape and form (glass rectangle) are commoditized by all. Saying they’re doomed, rather than addressing the possibilities of a generic glass rectangle market, seems shortsighted and certainly isn’t newsworthy.
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And it's made thinly veiled racist agenda mass acceptable as seen in this year's CSU (and to some extent CDU) communications. I'm scared a little, to be honest, though I continue to trust the checks and balances of the system supported by the rational minds of the greater population.
Why not find a remote job?
3D Face Reconstruction with Neural Networks Applied to Art
What's the point? The majority of your posts are anti-Apple, so it seems like you've already made up your mind. If you insist though, I'm more than willing to add.

Note 8 still doesn't have the latest Android OS[0]

Note 8 can be fooled with a photo[1]

Note 8 is powered by an operating system designed by an advertising company[2]

Note 8 CPU is 1/2 the speed of Apple's A11 Fusion[3][4]

The previous generation Note literally exploded. May take more than just 1 year to regain trust[5]

Samsung Pay prone to card skimming [6]

[0] http://bgr.com/2017/10/25/galaxy-s8-oreo-update-release-date...

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8-facial-...

[2] https://www.samsung.com/us/galaxy/note8/switch-within-androi...

[3] https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks

[4] https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

[5] http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-issues-galaxy-note-7-...

[6] https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/9/12410716/samsung-mobile-pa...
If you are writing normal code then yes. But there are always exceptions.

One is trying to learn how your current target architecture actually works. This is not production code. It's a "where in memory did the compiler decide to put that" question. You may get the results you expect or you may get someting totally bizzare. But since the purpose is discovering how the compiler works there is no wrong result.

Another is if you are writing your own memory manager. Here there are a lot of pointer comparisons to not the same allocated objects. But a memory manager is very OS and architecture specific so you will probably have to rewrite it when porting the code.

Having said all that, I wouldn't subtract the two void pointers like the example did. I would have converted them both to integers first and then subtract. Again, since this is for debugging and/or learning purposes then it's OK to bend the language rules a bit.
Flow works when it is possible to keep everything in one's head and when prioritization is clear.

As I've gotten older and taken on more and more-complex work, planning has taken increasing importance.
What if you want to check the time or notifications?
>I keep coming across this idea and as much as I dislike advertising, I have trouble seeing how making it illegal would reduce consumption.

There are some books about how the advent of modern mass advertising (and a lot of pushing) made people turn to consumption. I've also remember reading some accounts about how tv strikes (that thus prevent ads being air) resulted in reduced consumption but don't have a reference.

I think it's the same idea behind banning cigarette ads to reduce smoking, and similar to banning very thin models to reduce anorexia etc.

Even if it doesn't work that way, banning advertising could be its own reward!
A "one price for all" paywall is a great idea!

Functionally it's like Netflix for news. And just like with Netflix, some companies will think they're too good to be lumped in with the rest, so we get CBS All Access and (next year) Disney streaming, and so on, but all the non-NYTimes, non-WSJ papers for one price might be nice.

Except, well, I think a lot of that content is either hyper-local or general wire service fluff, or rewritten press release fluff. If you don't count the prime sources that wouldn't participate in such a scheme anyway, I'm not sure what's left is actually worth much.

I'd love to be wrong.
In defense of the person you're replying to, a lot of large corporations have "employee improvement plans" that are designed specifically to create documentation that can justify a firing, especially when that firing is for some other reason (e.g. "not getting along"). The improvement plans have nothing to do with getting the employee back on track, but rather to either 1) show that the employee is unable to keep up with artificially high work demands, or 2) get the employee frustrated enough to quit.

That means that when a person is fired, the stated reason for that firing is not always the same as the real reason.
You aren’t paying sales tax on your full salary unless taking on tremendous debt.
The Design and Evolution of Event-Driven Distributed Databases [video]
In my Caribbean common wealth it is still celebrated in a small village. It has gotten massive compared to years of yore. I don't think many of the people even know why it is celebrated.
This is surprising. It seems like Go gets pretty high praise from all over for its threading model, and it seems like there are relatively few high-performance servers that are built with 1:1. Am I wrong about that? If not, what explains this?
Yeah, I have a similar feeling.

At this point I have a repo that I keep somewhat up to date and then fork the repo for any new projects.

Every time I start a new express app I feel like I'm working at the 'wrong level of abstraction' to put it in Dan Abramov's words about the React ecosystem. I end up writing the same boilerplate over and over.

The only solution I have is a bare bones repo that I keep up to date myself. Not a great solution, but it's a solution.
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Welcome to the Soros funded news cycle. Use whatever means necessary to destroy your political opponents.

Besides the points you raise, how do we know the info being made available hasn't been filtered to avoid friendly fire?

There isn't a nickel's worth of difference between most of the elites, but Soros funding of these sorts of things is usually self serving.
Why is this flagged??
Why would you choose CA? Taxes alone will kill a large portion of your income no matter where you live. NY is the same way.
That sounds like a ftp-like measurement of throughput, and yeah, what you said will work for that just fine.

Netflix connections are typically about 1mbit/sec each (older apps open up ~4 connections per video for reasons that are no longer valid but the apps aren't all updated).

So to fill a 100Gbit pipe they have 100,000 connections running at the same time. Which makes filling that pipe super super impressive.
It's not an accident.
I don’t think that you understand how food stamps work.
The substantial conflict of the world isn't the clashing ideologies and geopolitical interests of major states, but the steady repression of the most marginalized by the most privileged and powerful.
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I love Light Table and used it all the time for teaching Clojure. Unfortunately the instarepl feature was moved into a separate plugin which increased the barrier to entry for new adopters: https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/2283

Happy to see any movement in this space because as far as I can tell, Clojure(Script)/DataScript/Datomic are the killer long-term web stack.
Sure, but owning a cello doesn't increase my real property taxes.
Do you identify as LGBT or non white? No dig against you personally, but if so you are most likely not in a good position to judge the state of racism/homophobia/etc.
Soros his communication and corporate structures were leaked as well. Not sure that was the intent, but he's had offshore vehicles since the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Group_of_Funds
Thankfully. Not to mention that they have a reason to be friendly since we have mutually assured destruction that would ensure the ruling classes will die if all out war ever breaks out.
It's the wrong angle. One should not look at corporations as the moral saviours. As Supreme Court Judge Learned Hand once said:

"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing 851*851 sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant."[1]

Rather, it is the governments of the world we should be going at if we want this behaviour to change. But then again, it is always easier to find a fat scapegoat with a shiny appearance.

[1]https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=628482160657957... (last paragraph)
The violence seems avoidable but is bad Internet? I've heard its not so great down there.
Here is one more success story nowadays about Vue.js and Evan You (creator)

- https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-in-2016-8df71d98bfb3#9a...

> Going Independent

> In early March I decided to work on Vue full-time independently and started a Patreon campaign, which has been (to my surprise) quite successful so far. It is my first time working independently without having to report to a manager, and it has been a very liberating experience.

They also use OpenCollective: https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-is-now-on-opencollectiv...
As an MIT grad, what I particularly found challenging was the fast pace of work and the tough scoring on exams - not so much the subject matter. I wasn't impressed with this aspect of the education because I like taking my time with subject matter until I really understand it but I didn't feel like there was time to do so while there.

That method seems to encourage superficial understanding unless you're willing to devote a large chunk of your time to working. And by that I mean nearly all day. There is a strong culture of pushing those boundaries. For me, MIT helped me realize the importance and value of life/work balance more than anything. I do my best work when self-directed and moving at my own pace - not cramming for exams. But I am just one data point. I'm sure it worked well for others.
i believe dep and glide allow you to pin to specific versions. i actually really like that imports are URLs, makes it really obvious where packages come from, and it's a better system imo than a centralized package manager like pypi / rubygem where names need to be unique.
Thanks for your thoughts ehllo. I don't happen to agree that this would be a better design. The tool is meant to be useful, not impressive.
My personal philosophy sees no difference between an "unusual" branching and what Rick ultimately is referring to.

I'm happy you noticed my reference there, and give you full liberty to feel any which way you may about it.
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Anything but pytest is good.

Pytest is full of magic and can be horrendous for a newcomer to your team. You can't work out what is happening just by reading the tests, you have to know how pytest works.

Also, when something breaks in pytest, all the magic means that it can be very hard to work out what is happening.
I knew I'd see a comment such like this when I clicked on the comments: "Nothing to see here, move along..."
That fat scape-goat basically has made a market of law- where the lowest bidder wins the company of the scape-goat. Companys are the new governments. Deal with it.
I don't think there really is an equivalent in California. I searched for a small town with affordable housing and some minimal level of infrastructure. I found what I needed in another state.

I work remotely, so my income is portable. I could potentially go anywhere in the US. I couldn't find anything in California that met my needs.
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A resignation, detentions and missiles: 24 hours that shook the Middle East
Outdating spam attacks and disregarding their info kills the immutability part of the system. There is currently no solution to this issue as if fee reduces spam becomes more prominent and bloats the blockchain. Their needs to be a balance.
If it was possible to re-license something in a way that removed restrictions from the original license, then no license would be worth anything. You could do a relicense end-run around any terms you wished.

(As another commenter said,) sublicensing does not permit you to grant any rights under the new license that you yourself have not been granted under the original.
"The map and the territory" by Michel Houellbecq. It's hauntingly beautiful depiction of life and loneliness of a man obsessive about his field of work - a visual art in his case, but I feel the book could just as well be about a working-from-home kernel hacker or SaaS bootstrapper.
Has this plane ever flown?
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If the "talk" isn't in natural language, then it's a refutation of Wittgenstein's private language argument.