skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read 'standard' as implying a quality bar, beyond which there's space for flexibility.

Suppose we're giving out 100 promotions, and have 1000 promo nominations. You review the 1000 noms and find that there are 500 that pass the quality bar because your company is full of awesome people. So now you have to choose which 100 of the 500 to actually promote. You can do this in a number of ways, ranging from uniformly at random to doing a total stack rank and selecting the top 100. Or you can choose to try to correct systemic under-representation in management, which helps the company on a number of axes (including better recruitment of smart people from under-represented groups, providing a statistical bulwark against lawsuits, etc...).

(edit: It's worth keeping in mind that trying to do a full stack rank of your 1000 applications is going to be noisy as hell and an incredible amount of work, as there will be multiple (individually noisy) promo committees working on sub-sets of nominations. So it pays off to have a clear set of standards for promotion to a given level, even if you don't automatically promote everyone who meets that standard.)
It's nice to have people able to work on both backend and front-end. I think that's really the reason Node exists. Being able to fix anything within the stack makes you more agile than waiting for X team to do it for you. So it saves you time and possibly money as well(i.e expertise is easier to build). Now Node comes with all the JS issues so that's the tradeoff.
If you go down the list https://www.top500.org/list/2017/11/?page=2, after about 100th place, many are listed as "web service providers" or "service providers" or "internet companies".
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Does the same in .NET

https://dotnetfiddle.net/0vkSCV

Used .NET for 15 years and never knew this...
> There is evidence that psychoactive compounds have been used since at least 3000BCE in Mesoamerica. Looking into it it seems lead was first mined around the same time in Greece but the lead sweetener idea wasn't popular until the roman empire.

Well, the Wikipedia page says that lead was being used as a sweetener as late as the 1850s, and this page suggests that we have records of the practice going back to at least 160BCE, so "thousands of years" doesn't seem inaccurate?

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/win...

> Do you have any other examples on the thousands of years timescale?

Off the top of my head, tobacco? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco#Traditional_use

Opium? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Ancient_use_.28pre-500_C...

Bloodletting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting#In_the_ancient_wo...

I dunno, I'm not an anthropologist, but I'm not trying too hard...
Honest question, will any of this matter once we've gone full WASM? Will DWARF be a good option then?

As I understand in the not too distant future, everyone that absolutely despises Javascript and the whole ecosystem it re-invented will be able to merrily go about their way using the old familiar tools and languages from yore when they can compile to wasm.
Ah! Excellent point!
Your argument only makes sense if you view politics as optional entertainment and identity-decoration.

While this is increasingly the character of American politics, this is not what politics is about. Politics is ultimately a contest over resources (financial, social, etc). Whether or not you get them determines whether you’ll have a short life of misery or a long life of luxury.

Politics is the contest over who gets them, framed as who deserves them. If you have no interest in this contest, then either you have the luxury of little incentive to change it, or you genuinely believe that the current system is fair and equitable.

I’m yet to meet another human (of any political leaning) in the latter category. It is difficult to reconcile saying that you care about other humans, but you don’t care about politics. The same cannot be said of the Super Bowl.
Yes but that's strange. Java is such a staticaly typed language you would not expect it to do that if you are like me and don't know it very well.

While Python is very dynamic, but:

>>> print(1 + 2 + "=" + 1 + 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'
The mathematics of statistical hypothesis testing is almost always defined in terms of a ‘null’ and an‘alternative’ hypothesis, where the ‘null’ necessarily includes the equivalent of ‘no correlations/differences exist’ and the alternative hypothesis does not.

This usually means that the alternative hypothesis is the ‘interesting’ one, which is probably what the researcher would like to occur. Which maybe isn’t entirely intuitive.

But I f you don’t follow those restrictions, the math is meaningless.

If you swap the terms in the math, you’ll confuse anyone who knows the stats, while not really benefitting anyone.

And if you’re not using the math, why refer to a ‘null’ and ‘alternative’ hypothesis at all?
I think that the aluminium body, crisp display, and the blessed silence win it for the Mac, otherwise I would have said ThinkPad T420 as well. I don't even remember that the MacBook that I am typing this from has a fan unless I really brutalize it with a software compile. The classic ThinkPads were definitely something special, though: this MacBook has a good keyboard, but it's no ThinkPad keyboard, and I absolutely loved that retro style case design.
Antidiscrimination, mobbing, harassment classes for adults are fine but I guess it goes back to families, kindergarten and primary school. Such behavior must be excluded not only from the literate mind but from the subconscious social behavior too.

Otherwise w- n- and other words will continue be part of entertaining back stage talk consumed with beer, sports, other unhealthy but fun things together with close friends and colleagues.
Yes obviously--the question is what will management do about it.
There's plenty of behavior from Google that smacks of anti-trust. From not showing competitors products in search results (protonmail was the most prominent recent case) to locking out customers heavily reliant on Google, they've gotten rather "evil"

Having said that, I have zero confidence in politicians to make this right. If Google is evil, politicians are the spawns of Satan. Republicans probably have a bone to pick with Google given how left leaning googlers are. So this immediately transforms a anti trust issue into Democrats vs Republicans
Has this guy ever done anything else but be vague?
Well it's fair to do so. Correlation is not causation, but that's a starting point at least. And to find an answer, you need to start somewhere.
JavaScript doesn't use DWARF. DevTools and production server systems do. If you think DWARF is better, write up a patch to Babel or Closure Compiler, and a devtools extension. I think you'll problem find that DWARF doesn't really match the source-to-source profile case well, and in the end, you'll add so many extensions that what you end up with isn't DWARF at all.

SourceMaps can be used to global names, but not locals. However, Closure Compiler has the ability to generate more elaborate maps that do allow reverse mapping. This is how Google services deobfuscate logs and stack traces sent back by heavily optimized clients.
I can't help to think that Gitlab is more and more eating Github's lunch. I wonder why we see so little from Github to get out of that situation.
Rendering SVG is considerably slower than PNG. If you know the target's display DPI, generating PNGs from the source SVG ahead of time is usually the better choice.
> As as Tesla goes they are still a very small company compared to their competition so I don't think there is any need to think about their market power and suppression of competition.

It all depends how you slice and dice, which is the flexibility and the unjust part of anticompetitive lawsuits.

Did MS have a "monopoly" on browsers just by bundling IE with Windows? How much effort would it take for consumers to install Mozilla or Opera or AOL?

Does Apple have a monopoly on "apps"? You can always buy an Android to avoid an iPhone, a Surface to avoid an iPad, a Zune to avoid an iPod (oh, wait...). You can argue that Apple has a monopoly on the Apple iTunes/App stores, but is it an honest argument if you look at the wider industry?

I would argue that size still doesn't mean anything. Apple is huge but they got there because consumers willingly bought their products. There was no geographical monopoly (as utilities have), no IP monopoly (iPod competed with Zune, MBP with a lot of WinTel laptops, iPad with Surface, iPhone with any number of feature Phones, BlackBerries, and later Android), and they didn't pay legislators to build walls that benefitted Apple.

Does Google deserve to be sued for anticompetitive behavior? Perhaps. Does Google deserve to be sued just because it's large? No.
A fixed but fast declining battery is what I mostly remember from the hardware side, and how fucking hot it got under normal load. The dated gui and always broking developer workflows from the software side.

It wasn't a bad Laptop but I would place pretty much any Thinkpad Tsomething above it in usefullness every day.

Edit:// forgot the horribly glossy screen. I really like sun, not like hiding from it to see my work.
Unlimited exponential growth is a horrible way to model anything. The real world has all kinds of limits, nothing can grow for ever. First those limits are going to be soft economic limits, slowing the rate of growth. Eventually they become hard physical ones, making growth literally impossible. It won't be exponential growth, it'll be logistic.

So the seemingly innocent "let's assume that this mathematical thesis is correct" is a pretty high bar. Unlimited growth is an exceptional claim, it needs exceptional evidence.
In my high school/gymnasium students needed to bring a signed excuse from parents if they missed a class -- even if they were already 18! -- and too many absences would automatically disqualify the course even if you had a good reason, such as being sick. No overseer really needed for persuading students to attend class.
That's a hypothetical in a world that doesn't (yet) exist. Let's leave the lawsuits for when actual harm has happened, not potential harm.
(I should add that, while I work at Mozilla this is my personal view, not Mozilla's official view, yada, yada)
Yes, I include source maps in production. It only gets loaded when someone opens dev tools, and it provides better error stacks which makes debugging easier.

You're correct that it's security through obscurity. IMO, it's an irrational fear.
Awesome! Are you aware of ports to any other language?
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dynamic vs. static typing is independent of strong vs. weak typing. strong typing is basically allowing fewer implicit converstations, weak more. static means type checking happens before runtime, dynamic means the opposite.
So legal system and monetary system are a package deal now? We can't sue a criminal unless we cease the search for alternatives to currency debasement, bailouts and finance cartels?
> So I'm a little curious why an article on monitoring compliance digitally only talks to patients who are very very unlikely to be noncompliant.

Noncompliance is a huge problem with schizophrenia. I'm not sure why you'd think otherwise. Something around 50% of medicated schizophrenics go off their meds. Google <schizophrenia noncompliance>.
That's ludicrous. Even the mom and pop hostel in Tokyo that charged me ~$20/night asked me which currency I would like to be charged in.
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I updated the container names, colors, and icons. Opened a few tabs here and there. Installed a user agent switching plugin. Restarted to enable said plugin. While the session was restored, including the containers, the non-default container names/meta info were not. Tabs in non-default containers showed up with no labels, and there was no apparent way to open up a new tab in one of the custom containers.

Also, changing a container's color does not change the color shown on existing tabs.
I agreed with the sentiment that sometimes unnecessary words are said and soon regretted, but I wish they mentioned that this cannot be the norm. You can’t say sorry once a day.
that's also strange to me.

you are seeing this error because python is strong typing language.

but this is weird that java is also strong typing language[0]

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
Promotion is a touchy thing. As a manager, promoting your top performers seems like a no brainer, but sometimes if an employee is above a certain quality bar that warrants a promotion (as you mentioned), even though there are others who probably deserve it more, you sometimes have to spread the love around. Knowing who to promote (and who not to promote, knowing they'll still stick around) is a skill.

So I don't think that the promotion was necessarily done just because those employees are from underrepresented groups and just to hit some company diversity/equality metric, but I wouldn't know for sure
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Regarding 'ugly': I guess that's just a matter of taste. It looks very good to me.

There are quite a lot of tilesets. If you only played to the AW content, you probably haven't seen most of them. Also, the latest big patch of the game adds persistent hand-crafted areas to explore - basically 'open world' (but not quite as big as that makes it sound). I haven't played that part myself yet.

AW went through lots of changes and while I personally always liked it it is quite a bit different for quite a while now (especially around input handling/degrees of freedom etc). You might not recognize it again.

Destiny2 on the other hand looks nice, but is already boring to me after about 10 hours. It feels like WoW as a shooter, "Run there, collect things, come back". Now - I see the irony: Warframe's similar. But it's free and provides so much more in my opinion. 3 classes (with each 3 subclasses) against a LOT of warframes with completely different play styles. All weapons so far feel meh, Warframe gives me things like Glaives, Bows, Nun-chucks and whatnot on top of all the guns you'd ever want. Heck, you can breed 'dogs' and 'cats' in Warframe.

Destiny2 so far is 'run there, shoot and get the same gun with slightly better stats' to me and I regret buying it.

YMMV
You're being downvoted because only I am allowed to say that word in full.
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One of these plusses is not like the other.
Oh but it's not an article about how shitty javascript is, so let's just ignore it.
Yes, pretty sure we could have got a half decent reusable citizen's voting app using the logistical costs of the survey.
I'm assuming most of the cost was advertising and marketing.
> some bizarre narrative that legalisation of gay marriage would somehow enable Arabic Muslims (who these groups seem to have a comically irrational fear of) to have legally recognised polygamous marriages in Australia.

I want to read the garbage rag which made this argument, it sounds bizarre. (protip: share by archive link to avoid sending ad revenue to outrageous spam sites.)
https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/the-truth-about...
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Yes because bitcoin is all about not having courts. /sarc
Don't know if that is the reason, but China can build super computers without US parts now.
>Why not make it explicit

Because we want programming languages to hide the hardware complexity behind elaborated semantics. Programming languages are for humans, not for machines.
Yeah screw people accessing public information...
Sounds like what I ended paying^H^H^H^H^H^H to buy http://www.wowhead.com/item=21025/recipe-dirges-kickin-chima...
I would imagine it'd be limited to companies large enough to have not only a dedicated HR staff or possibly even a particularly competent HR staff. There'd be countless companies in any country without any formalised course, let alone a specific one.
> It means what it means: doing what you're told to do.

It is literally medical jargon for "is the patient following the doctor's advice or not." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Adherence_(medicine) You said that's "horrifying". Are you honestly saying a doctor shouldn't care if a patient finishes a course of antibiotics, or keeps up with physical therapy that will allow them to walk without pain after an accident, or--in this case--sticks to the pills that stave off paranoid delusions and psychosis?

> For me, physicians are just service providers. Expert consultants. Contractors. It's my decision to take their advice, or not.

No one has said otherwise.
Explain to me how getting back some 5% of what you're owed, when they recovered 80% of it, is "socialized losses"?

Also explain to me how this is similar to 2008.
Once is an accident, twice is a pattern.
I'll be also trying this on xorg, see if that helps any.
The perl5 if statement is still broken after >30 years btw.
It still is a compiler error, but a subtle one in very rare occasions.
If it's a one time thing, then sure, accept the apology. But if that person is known to be a jerk often, and apologizes often albeit sincerely, I can't expect anyone to be that thick skinned, nor would I advocate for that
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> WPF otoh is inspired by corporate brain damage.

Not at all, WPF is like having a monoid in the category of endofunctors for UI programming.

Its concepts of UI Lego style building blocks, with templates, commands, mvvm, multi-binding, storyboards..., might be hard to grasp if one is happy with plain code-behind snippets, but once one gets it, it is quite powerful way to write large scale UIs.
Not necessarily. Could be a problem with passing 64-bit values to varadic functions generally. I could definitely imagine this happening on a 32-bit platform.
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Classify is a function in Mathematica which returns a ClassifierFunction.

Documentation for Classify: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Classify.html

As far as I could see they listed all the Wolfram Language code in the example to set it up.
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I see stuff like this mentioned all the time. But never saw anything that was more than speculation. Is there any truth to that I could read about?
I wonder what's going to happen to my CompuServe email address - I still use it!
My theory is that we have hybridized and bred strains of wheat in the West which have caused these problems.

An interesting study would be take some "old world" wheat (that has not been impacted by the industrial-scale farming practices of the West), and see if the gluten-sensitive people still have the same reaction to that.
Playing the devil's advocate: the top two most popular extensions (as listed on [1]) are Adblock Plus at ~14 million, and uBlock Origin at ~4.2 million users. That means Firegestures has about 2% of the top extension, and about 1.5% if you combine the two (assuming not many people use both ad blockers at the same time, especially since they use the same lists). That's just the people with those extensions. And it appears that that's active daily users (as opposed to people have downloaded it at some point in a Firefox that is no longer being used).

I do agree that Mozilla has handled the transition terribly; they should have made the API available first before removing everything. That way they would at least have the excuse of it being the add-on authors not cooperating. The way they've done it, before actually making the things possible, just makes it look like they're arrogant.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?sort=users&...
May I know why it's flagged? @Dan or some other person
Indeed, if you provide an API you'd better commit to it. The difference is that before WebExtensions, there was no API. Everybody was just hooking into the internals.

That's not "do not break userspace" – which makes sense – that's "do not change anything, ever" – which is project suicide.

Now, with WebExtensions, there is a difference between the API and the internals, so we can commit to something. And, while there is a cost to this change, that's definitely a much, much, much better base for developers on both side of the API.
It's evaluates left to right.

(1+2)=3 then concat with string = then concat with 1 and concat with 2.

The optimiser converts these concats to a StringBuilder.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.htm...

Second time I've seen something like this on HN.
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China's increase of 42 systems on Top500 is largely attributable to a single company. Chinese "internet company A" (as labelled by Top500 https://www.top500.org/site/50596) is presumably Alibaba, judging from its residence city of Hangzhou. It alone counts for 35 new machines on the list since June! (Click on the history tab to see the number for yourself.) I wonder if they are part of Alibaba's cloud services or for internal uses. Either way presumably Alibaba sees commercial value in owning them.
You can still buy those growboxes though.
Just-add-water mushrooms :)
The fact that your Republicans have bone to pick might turn out to be good for the whole world if they can stop Google.
Naturally fermented breads that stay away from commercial yeasts (ie oldfashioned sourdough bread), work out for many people who otherwise struggle with normal commercial bread.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/23/sourdou...

The longer fermentation lets bacteria break down some of the gluten, so it's all round easier on the gut.
I have a JS "port" (not a 1:1 reimpl): https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js
I have discovered two compiler bugs that got fixed after reporting them. In both cases it was relatively new implementation at the time (TI C55x in CCS and TI MSP430 in IAR). In both cases the compiler generated wrong assembly code. This almost never happens. Almost.
So this bunch of idiots can't access the legal system or expect justice, unless they fully accept the inevitability of currency debasement or the revolving-door system between banks and government?

That's exactly why I love bitcoin threads like this. Because of the sour grapes who stood by the sidelines over the past 8 years.

Btw, applying "plain" justice or bankruptcy to insolvent financial institutions was exactly what they didn't do in 2008. Listen to the recordings of Irish bankers how they would approach regulators. "If they say, if they saw the enormity of it up front, they might decide, they might decide they have a choice."

Instead of putting skin in the game of people like this, they socialized the losses, suspended mark-to-market and papered it over with ridiculous amounts of legislation that was written with the help of the same people who were bailed out. Almost nobody went to jail. That's probably why we have blockchain to begin with and why 10 years later we'll have to go through something similar or worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/24/anglo-irish...
I think we agree. My point is that putting people through a course like that is actually not much evidence that Tesla takes workplace discrimination seriously.
Sounds like different lawsuit. New Yorker is hard to read as it tends to meld narratives and topics, but the lawsuit there is no “yesterday’s lawsuit”. NYer article includes: “On September 20, 2016, Vandermeyden filed a lawsuit charging Tesla with sex discrimination, retaliation, and other workplace violations.”