skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whoever the members of our profession are who are building those systems are doing a crap job.

They're doing an excellent job, probably producing a level of functionality comparable to Amazon web developers or Oracle database writers. They're doing an excellent job at navigating the unholy mess of archaic regulations, mismatching institutional requirements, and hostile corporate interests, without getting sued or convicted. User experience, or even user usability, is a secondary concern, since being difficult to use (even if this leads to multiple deaths per day) is in no way illegal.

Medical informatics is definitely a field where smart and motivated people can make a huge difference to the world, and perhaps even get filthy rich while doing it. But it will take much more than a hotshot UX designer to work out.
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He/she didn't deem them hypothetical. They are hypothetical until a legitimate user that doesn't use bots makes the claim that they were banned for this. According to updates made to this, the username wasn't even the source of the ban so these "innocents" are definitely hypothetical.
A leaking embargo? I'm shocked!
> Maybe the lifestyle is different as a VC, but as an engineer, this seems so disjointed from reality that it's almost farcical. I can barely get some of my coworkers to stop talking about code for more than a breath

I think you and most of us on here fall within "the vast majority" referenced in the article:

"Still, the vast majority of people in Silicon Valley have no idea these kinds of sex parties are happening at all"
Currently I'm doing C++ with Qt, sometimes C# (game dev under Windows), but was at Google just few months ago doing Java.

While Qt is great, we've been running into logistic problems - like we have plenty of tools that use it, and we are forced to place all the binaries into one folder ("bin"), and the Qt dlls there for legal reasons, license, but buying the license for static linking won't be a problem for us reallly. The real problem is that once we link our binaries statically, then our plugins that also use Qt won't work with them, unless we do some magic, and forward all QtXxx.dll end points to be from the main executable, or use more abstract interfaces - e.g. our plugins should not use Qt directly.
>It's a feature, not a nefarious backdoor that the NSA made Intel include under the cover of darkness.

Let's be clear: It's both.
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Is there any kind of cross platform development kit where for project set up it's not either magic or pain or both?
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At the individual level, I've always thought discussing person responsibility for getting pregnant or attempting to cast blame for doing so is pointless. The kids are there whether we like it or not so what are we going to do now, as a society?

At the societal level, attempting to hold people to a lofty standard of moral purity doesn't seem to be particularly effective considering even clergy have trouble remaining celibate.
> Economic utility is subjective; while it includes health effects, to be sure, it also includes things like the taste and other enjoyment factors. It absolutely is not the case that, were food a perfect example of rational choice, we would only be buying options that cost-effectively optimized healthiness.

Sure, I agree completely, but at least nominally the argument that healthcare is unique because its a necessity and it has irrational behaving actors is not qualitatively different than the food market.

> “Healthcare” is a broad class of different products and services, many of which are far less frequently purchased than autos (if you buy open heart surgery more often than you buy a car, you are way out in a tail of frequency-of-purchase distribution of at least one of those items.)

Thats as practical a segregation as saying that the people that buy the same model of a car the same year and with the same gas price tends to be 1 at most, hence almost no car purchases are ever repeated!

> OTOH, cars are also a market in which purchasers take a number of steps to counteract the low frequency. No one is test driving a variety of different surgerical interventions before choosing one.

Not really qualitative differences, just quantitative. Many car purchases are done without test drives (argentina doesnt do test drives often for example).

But again, even if you find some truly unique property of healthcare, which in this debate i don't recognize yet, i dont know how it will show that it should be private but public.
I sort of want to start but don't want to deal with the explaining. My buddy started with the nice leather briefcase and he got relentlessly roasted in college.
> This article makes me wonder, what, exactly, is wrong and what is supposed to be done about this.

An article about cultural practices outside of the social norms doesn't have to imply that there is either something wrong or something that needs to be done about it. Different readers will think different aspects of it are wrong and have their own opinions about how, if at all, to respond to the things they see as wrong.
Where is Private Internet Access getting all this money from? They're taking over projects in the FOSS community left and right. It honestly makes me even more suspicious that they're a front/honeypot for someone who wants to keep tabs on 'hacker' types.
No one seems to be talking about how venture investors have transformed into cryptocurrency hedge funds over the past year.

The conversations you see from VCs has similarly changed - instead of talking about teams building enterprise value, you hear something that sounds more like speculative bubble FOMO language.

Maybe i'm wrong, feels ominous.
If the VM is shipped as native code and the app is bundled with it as "code" that runs on the VM, is that fundamentally different from shipping an app written in compiled-to-machine code that bundles some data (JSON, XML, a SQLite database, etc.)? It definitely "feels" different, but I'm not convinced that the former is not "native" just because more of the logic is in the data rather than the machine code.
How do homeless fare is socialist nations?

Hint: You might want to start looking in the mass graves.

(See also: The Scandinavian countries repeatedly having press conferences to say no, we are not socialist.)
But on Windows you must "extract" and copy the DLL file somewhere (ok, possibly you might be able to do in-memory load, but that is very non-standard and might trigger antiviruses).

I think the same is with the Python packagers, or C# shadow copy.
But would you really setup a CI process to automatically build that app? (and one that'll probably cost you at least a 100$ a month)
I doubt that traffic data was their main issue ... but anyway ... yes, traffic data is a difficult topic. And yes, the state of open traffic data is bad:

https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection

But no, although Google and Apple (and also Mapbox!) do not give a away their traffic data, there are still three sources for world wide traffic data:

TomTom, HERE and inrix. All acquire their data via external software companies or automotive companies (or whatever) including their measurement units into their products.

Mapzen was starting their open traffic data project and so we at Graphhopper were hoping they would solve this issue in the next years, but now, obviously they won't:

https://twitter.com/mapzen/status/940710887068860417

https://github.com/opentraffic/otv2-platform
In other words, there will have to be a bigger, more painful incident before anything gets done. In part, because a large committee composed mostly of lawyers is not probably the right group to even determine what needs to be done, in this particular case.
AI will far more likely power a new war on the poor than power a war to fight poverty. Through new ways to discriminate in lending/housing (1), and new ways to discriminate in hiring (2), new ways to discriminate in policing (3.) AI will be no boon to the poor. It will be a new tool for the wealthy to use math as smoke screen for practices they have used for centuries to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.

1)https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4x44dp/ai-could-r... & https://www.americanbanker.com/news/is-artificial-intelligen...
2)http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2112786/u...
3) https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
OpenBSD randomizes everything they possibly can. This is a Good Thing and so cheap..
"Vast majority of homeless are men, women most affected, news at 9."
I think it's probably has something to do with the fact that females have all the biological equipment necessary for child-rearing and males have all the biological equipment necessary to hit it and quit it. Furthermore, only the female can be absolutely certain (without some investigation) that her child is actually her child. The male usually has to accept some deception risk.

The instinct for pair-bonding--and, in humans, the cultural institution of marriage--evolved as behavioral adaptations to the unfairnesses inherent in having two sexes.

It would appear that equal outcomes demand equal commitment. As the biological commitment is a few kcal and a few minutes for one, versus years of time and many more kcal for the other, that leaves an awful lot of effort to make those scales balance.

Simple analysis suggests that females should cartelize and police each other's behavior with respect to males, embargoing reproduction from any male deemed too selfish in regard to child-rearing responsibilities. But cartels are tough to keep together, and males can counter with misogynistic and patriarchal strategies of their own.

The biological discrepancy will therefore likely never be resolved to anything even close to fairness.

It's never going to be free, either. There is always an opportunity cost. Providing resources to an existing child precludes using them yourself or applying them to a theoretical future child.
Doesn't this bundle the VM/GC/etc. besides the bytecode?
It's another reason to not do business with smaller companies. Especially if their idea is good, you can only wonder, when will they be bought out and my workflow will be (temporarily) disrupted?

I think Buddybuild was the only service with a free tier. For folks that aggressive bootstrappers (like myself), it's just another nuisance. And even for people who were paying -- they are still as equally as disrupted.
This is a great example of why Atlasssian is a compelling option - what's 'Best' in each category? Getting a single (supported) license that you know will work is much simpler for all.
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I think the thing that rubs me the wrong way is the article still feels like it's implying that it is common at the uppermost levels, but I suspect it's a very very small fraction of that very very small pie.

Then again, I don't know what I don't know.
The "swarm of submarine drones" being "eight autonomous submarines called HUGINs, each six metres long, weighing 1,800kg, and containing a titanium sphere to protect the sensitive electronics therein from the pressure of the ocean’s depths."
As a non vegetarian that tries to consume as much ethically produced food as possible, I completely agree.

Same taste and no ethical issue ? I am ready to pay a big premium for that.
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You can't unlock all triple cores to quad cores though. It's called binning and all chip manufacturs do it.

The chipset unlock thing is different as there's no technical reason to lock it in the first place.
Plus, you can strip down the Java bytecode even further using ProGuard, but convincing it to not delete code that's actually used is an error-prone dark art.
This is an often cited fact (entirely correct). But I’m surprised that people seem to get upset by it.

A prize is just a prize. It’s fairly clearly stated on the website and Wikipedia.

Everyone who gets it knows that it wasn’t setup by Mr. Nobel, but it’s still well renowned and thus desired among academics.
My only experience with Java was through BAZEL, outside of it I'm mostly Visual Studio guy with some Makefile knowledge.

With BAZEL things were working pretty smoothly, but I've never used maven, gradle, ant, etc. Really weird, because If I post that I have 3 years experience with Java and not knowing any of these tools...

What I'm trying to say is that with BAZEL this might be easier for cross platform development (not sure though)...
It is interesting, but I wonder if it's not 10 years too late. Sometimes I feel Sun's dogmatism stopped them from taking over HTML5's role.
Climate change will make it feel even worse than it is
They are so terrified of leaving a suspected pedo in a house with children... that they guarantee the safety of pedophiles and continued access to children in their care for weeks or months as they chase phantoms by not being careful. They protect the pedophile, and their mistakes endanger children while destroying innocent lives. There is a reason that child advocacy organizations actively oppose these sorts of raids where police go after downloaders and such. It does nothing to protect children, and is so alluring and easy for police officers that they neglect any actual useful efforts completely in favor of it.

You can either go online and claim to be a turbosexual 15 year old whose parents are out of town and bust anyone who shows interest and net 5 busts in an evening.... or you can investigate the most profoundly disturbing case of your career of parents abusing their own children for months and then get 1 bust. The police make the easy choice, and the kid getting abused by their parents (the absolute most common case by a country mile) gets no help. Child advocacy groups do not waver in their mantra: Education and empowerment. They are the only things that actually STOP child abuse. But they're not as flashy and quick and easy, and society generally doesn't want to educate or empower kids, so everyone just does what makes them feel good without thinking too much about whether it actually helps real children.
Ah yes. The final layer of protection, a jury of my "peers", none of which work in the same industry or understand the most basic principles of what I do (as a programmer).
Yes, I can relate to that. Jira is extremely slow and counter intuitive to use. So much that I believe it will create friction within an organization, because people will try to avoid using it. Weird filtering system, weird keyboard shortcuts, long loading times for everything. I really don't understand why performance is not the top priority @Atlassian. A very bad example of workmanship and I don't care how well it integrates with XYZ.
It doesn't make sense to talk of an attack surface without talking about the kind of attack.

Unless you are a high value target, there is a pretty good chance no one is sitting specifically bruteforcing your passwords.

Your biggest source of attack is then a password dump, where you are one of the many millions compromised and now your other accounts (if you reused the same password) are now vulnerable to automated attacks. Even in this case, no one is going to sit around trying to figure out your password algorithm.

Even when it comes to compromised accounts, not all of them are equal. For most people, their primary email, banking and social media accounts are paramount, because they are fundamentally linked to their identity (I would be horrified if my FB or GMail were to be compromised, but only mildly miffed if my etsy account where I have made one purchase were to be compromised).

All in all, it seems that the most important thing to do is to never reuse a password for ANY of your primary accounts (email, finance, social media, other forms of identity). Ideally for those, don't use an algorithm either. And set up 2FA for these.

And for other accounts, preferably never reuse passwords. Whether you use a password manager to manage them or an algorithm should not make too much of a material difference.
Bingo. It’s like the “nudging” trend that’s been floated around in political circles. While it offers measurable improvements from existing processes, it is in effect a tacit admission that our societies are structured poorly and we have neither the collective will nor the imagination to reinvent our ways of life.
At least they wouldn't have to "pretend [they] haven't seen each other naked."

After all, what well-adjusted adult would consider it a normal hum-drum part of life to interact with previous sexual partners in work situations? /s
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Practially speaking, this doesn't add anything you couldn't do by rotating the model on the ipad... other than transparency but an opaque reflective sheet would work just the same.
Is that $160k/yr Bay area dollars or normal living places dollars?

aka if it was normal dollars, it'd be close to $250k/yr Bay Area dollars
You've missed the point. Orgies are fine. Drugs are fine (or at the very least your choice). There is however a huge contrast between smoking a bit of pot and going to an explicitly organized orgy with an enforced ratio and being fed MDMA and expensive presents by a CEO who wants to fuck you and your best friend.
Only using the flawed measure of market cap, which decreases in accuracy with decreases in liquidity.

The problem with market cap is that it multiplies the last traded price with total supply, thereby assuming that there exists people willing to purchase all coins in existence at the same price (the mid price of the order book).

Thankfully, we don’t need to make this assumption, since the order books of most exchanges are public. But, as far as I’m aware, no websites compare coins by market depth, unfortunately.

It’s a bit like me selling a painting I’ve painted for $10,000, and then creating 100 of the same paintings and claiming I’m a millionaire. It doesn’t work like that for illiquid assets (I’d probably be lucky to find even a single new buyer at the same price).
A good friend's brother was badly hurt. Insurance is fighting paying for things. My friend has paid about $40k so far, and he was laid off two weeks ago. Even if you earn $150k in the valley (which btw is really only $95-ish k after taxes), that's a lot of money. The dirty secret to health care in the united states is the good providers can not serve you if you don't have the right insurance.

My partner worked in an industry that laid off 50% of their employees. It took her 8 years to get close to her old salary. No matter what anyone says, the reality is very few of us are truly prepared to have our jobs/industry vanish.

My brother who doesn't earn much money had significant health bills for one of his kids. I hadn't planned to spend that $10-$15k.

My idiot nephew road a dirt bike on a road (against all his parents' rules) when he was 15 and didn't have a license. He didn't look both ways, there was a truck coming, and he was hit by the truck. His parents had to buy the guy a new truck because my nephew wasn't licensed to drive, and pay the deductibles for several surgeries.
Do you really think size matters? Does JavaFX actually feel native on all the supported platforms? Qt and GTK usually don't.
Somehow, having a well-recorded connection between identity and phone line didn't lead to "fascism" in your past though.
I don't think they release any numbers, but they have to be one of the most popular VPN subscription services available.
You need to package up the JAR with the shared object / dll and install both on the local filesystem in order for the SO to be accessible from the classpath. For example you could apply a package manager (RPM) and include the JAR and .so at install for available use.
Yes indeed. He's a great guy.
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The police are -- more or less by definition -- interacting with people in an adversarial way. Add on top of that the fact that if the police are being called to intercede then the situation is one in which social mores have broken down.

If we put police in the circumstances you describe, the number of people randomly walking down the street who were shot by a police officer also randomly walking down the street was 0 last year.