skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Racket is underrated. (Dunno about "most underrated".)

It's a batteries-included Scheme/Lisp dialect with the best documentation I've ever seen, a state-of-the-art macro system, and a very friendly community. It has performance better than your typical dynamic language (Python, Ruby) though not as good as the highly optimized ones (Javascript V8, LuaJIT).
It depends on your definition of a social network.

Telegram is a messaging app with group chat you can join and others where you're invited to. And bots of varying utility.
C.

Often people don’t learn anything about a language’s internals, or a computer’s internals, when they learn a “nice” language with garbage collection and dynamic typing and massages. IMO for long-term software engineering that stuff is important to know.

Many see C as this old, outdated, uncool language, and never even realise that so many other languages are written in it.

But really, when it comes to perf and correctness, it’s still king:

- Often you can try to optimize a simple python program to make it run faster... or you can rewrite it in C and get a 1000x boost for free

- It has compilers that have proofs of correctness

- There are many tools that can prove a C program’s correctness

- It’s still the best way (IMO) to learn how the computer works while learning the language

- It doesn’t have OOP (which makes me sad), but you can get there by writing C++ as “C with classes”

- It probably has the most job security guarantees of any language: it will be a looooong time before C goes away

- It’s so standard and supported, programs from 40 years ago still run today; I don’t know if you can say that about any other language (except like, COBOL)
The 100 Tv Series :Mark of the Beast agenda hidden in plain sight
Nobody loves Perl, but it holds the world together.

Perl is happily unoptimized for anything, and is usable for nearly everything. It's easy to write and easy to make it hard to read.

You can write Lisp in Perl, and some people insist on it.

The CPAN repository has a module for nearly everything, and an amazingly high percentage are well documented.

There are some weirdos who love Perl.
You forgot the star reference. :)
You'd think that if they really did link 1:1 to the dollar, they'd encode some kind of proof in the tokens themselves - like idk, the registration number of banknotes, or a transaction number in a publicly viewable bank account (supported by a real, trusted bank). You need some way to verify the claim that "1 tether == 1 real USD" instead of just trust.
Along similar lines (and slightly earlier) is the actual greatest businesswoman you've never heard of, Madam CJ Walker, who pioneered the hair products industry.
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Gitcoin pushes open source forward. Gitcoin is a toolbox of Ethereum-based smart-contracts that help open source repo maintainers fund, incentivize, and manage work in Open Source Software.
I don't think the accusation is particularly that the market manipulation was intentional but that it was nonetheless an effect of the money printing.
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StarLeaf is building video conferencing and calling that actually works. We are vertically integrated with everything from the core cloud service to meeting room systems, mobile apps and desktop clients.

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This is a contract position good for at least 5 months, but most likely a year or longer. You’ll be working 40 hours a week for Victorias Secret doing Go microservices. You should be willing to be onsite for the first two weeks (expenses paid), after that this is a fully remote contract. Remote work experience is a plus. You need to be self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.

Email dan@closetothemetal.com with an answer to: what is the purpose of this line of code? var _ io.Writer = (*myStreamStruct)(nil)

Include your resume and your github if possible.
Coincidentally I'm sure, Saudi Arabia has recently awarded the first contract for their $500b city Neom:
https://www.argaam.com/en/article/articledetail/id/527290
Thanks so much for MXE, it made cross-platform application development much less painful for me.
I wonder if by native app they mean an actual native app instead of a fake native app (Electron I'm looking at you)
I happily pay for games and apps, including upgrades if they are valuable to me.

I refuse to pay monthly for stuff that shouldn't need backend services.
And yet they were able to print like 800 million USDT a month after being subpoenaed by the US government.

Strange, no?
where can I find weird telegram?
This is a big plus for me. A vetted walled garden where I can give things a try without much fear of nasties is a big plus.
This is a great, really comprehensive walk-through!

For folks that want to work with a bit more than books, there are a bunch of examples on Elastic's Github profile - I've found this useful for testing queries that pull back visualizations, etc:
https://github.com/elastic/examples/

If you want to test query results without building a whole front-end / API, you can also use Sense / Kibana to query directly via the query language or, enable CORS and use something like POSTman.

If you don't want to use node I'd also recommend taking a look at their python client.
It's insane how making a profit seems to considered "uncool" in the business world. Basecamp and particularly Jason Fried's writings (I realize this is particular article is by DHH) are super inspirational. I wish that building a solid, profitable business as opposed to being so focused on growth and finding more investors was more of the norm.

I want to work at Basecamp even more now, haha.
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We were founded in San Diego in 1986 by three engineers who sought to build the company they wanted to work for, and that emphasis on our employees continues to this day. It sounds a little silly, but we still retain a lot of the beach town influence from that founding, this many years on. I’ve been with the company for over seven years now (almost a decade if you count internships!), through a number of different projects and teams, and still love working here.

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> unfortunately it lacks taste

Could you expand on that? I always thought the core nim language was fine. But, I've also come to the conclusion that the few libraries I've used that were written in nim are of poor quality. Is that a function of the language? The community? Or both? I have no idea.
Well, I'm all in favour of different cultures. I don't think that justifies illiberal or, for want of a better word, evil cultures.
> It's insane seeing videos of routine traffic stops in the US where both officers leap from their vehicle with guns drawn, ready to escalate the situation at the slightest provocation.

Routine traffic stops, or felony traffic stops? I've never heard of that happening for the former, although there may be a few examples out there, but it's far from the norm. But that is indeed normal for a felony traffic stop, like when pulling over a stolen car, or after chasing a suspect from the scene of a crime, or if the car waited a really long time to pull over, or if an outstanding warrant was found when they ran the plates.
Microsoft Releases Skype as a Snap for Linux
Thank you - I have never seen this.
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Today it takes apparel companies 10+ months to develop and produce a garment. CALA reduces that down to a few weeks, from design to garment in your hands.

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If this sounds exciting, email me at d@ca.la
I'll take a crack. Progress in ML applications to previously intractable problems has created an irrational optimism that AGI is on the near term horizon.

I'm not aware of any novel abstraction which led to a solution to these intractable problems. The problems became tractable because of silicon and incremental algorithm improvements.

This is another way of saying, yeah intractable problems are being made tractable, but these problems aren't stepping stones to AGI.
SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit clients anywhere in the UK.

DevOps / Python guy with over a decade's experience building, hosting and tuning applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

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+ Another AWS/k8s/Docker stack, this time with a persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Haven't got rich yet.

+ Chef-managed deployment of a large microservice stack across cloud and physical servers with varied configurations.

+ Support, enhancements and development for a number of Django projects.

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Chemists still use thin-layer chromatography, a technique 100 years old, day-in-and-out, in every lab in the world, even when HPLC and NMR exist. Why? It's cheap, fast, and works well enough.
Some Coffee Shops May Soon Post Cancer Warnings. Is There Good Science Here?
Introducing Reactjs-Popup  –  Modals, Tooltips, and Menus –  All in One
I'm excited to do some more Pascal in the near future. From what I know about it I can attest to some of your points (fast compilation and performance). However I do consider the syntax one of the main points why I stick with it. It is elegant and extremely efficient, if you know how to use it. It is indeed quite clunky to have to write so many begins and ends (after all, there is typically one of them each 3 lines or so).

And you shouldn't use unintelligible, clever tricks in C, at all. They are very easy to avoid (although I agree that even K&R had some of those in it).

Related:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Why_Pascal_is_Not_My_Favo...

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
I bet the IO throughput sucks. Is the ethernet bus still shared with the usb/sd card bus in the rpi3?
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That is only if you use C# with .Net framework over .Net core
I like fetch except its missing xhr basic stuff like cancel and abort, etc. I don't know who makes these standards.
The store is their way to control their ecosystem, has nothing to do with the OS. This effort is a power-play against decentralized apps that threaten the centralized platform model.
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- Company-supplied smartphone -- iOS, Android, Windows -- you choose

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- Salary is commensurate with potential and experience

Stack includes: C#, MySQL, Entity Framework, Polymer (Google’s library), TypeScript, PHP, git, Agile(Scrum)

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If you have any questions please email us at the provided email in the job description, thank you.
META

If you need something more advanced than ctrl-f, I made:

https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/

Click on "(syntax)" for inspiration.
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AWS Lambda offers customers the ability to run their code at scale without provisioning or managing servers. Customers upload code written in a variety of different languages and runtimes and Lambda manages scaling, security, and fault-tolerance. Behind the scenes, we build and operate the distributed, high-availability, high-throughput systems that bring Serverless to life. We invent novel solutions to hard problems, and collaborate closely with other AWS service teams bring bring new capabilities and ever-increasing scale to our customers.

We are looking for experienced developers to join the Lambda team in 2018 and lead the next phase of Serverless computing at AWS. The basic qualifications are a minimum of a B.S. in Computer Science or related field, and 3+ years of professional software development experience. Beyond that we’re looking for people who are intellectually curious, data-driven, and excited about cloud computing!

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Why should one be able to edit a message after it is sent in a text-chat app?
I've always liked the glass office thing. Seems a good balance between privacy and noise reduction but open so you can see each other and whats going on. Make make eye contact to communicate visually etc.
Startup Investor School: The Basics of Seed Investing
shrug VCs seem to prefer 1 hypergrowth startup and 20 failures in their portfolio to 17 solid, growing, profitable startups without hypergrowth and 4 failures.
The world economy was much larger than the market for US mortgage bonds, but when US mortgage bonds failed, the entire world economy tanked. It's not about relative sizes, it's about how intertwined the relationships are.
The LGPL requirement is relinkability, which implies either distributing object files for your application (rare, inconvenient), or, more commonly, linking the LGPL library as a shared object. But that shared object could be stripped down to contain only the symbols your app uses (and their transitive dependants) — just as long as someone can do the same and use their API-matched .so as a drop-in replacement.
You compare the store to another sore while op compared it to the internet.
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Braintree lets you move money from one place to another safely and securely. Every time you pay for an Uber ride, book a stay through Airbnb, or pay with PayPal when you check out online, you’re probably using our product. It sounds complex (and it is), but we make it so simple you can’t tell we’re there.

We solve world-scale problems and provide opportunities to match. We build diverse teams that recognize our strengths and allow us to work on our weaknesses. You bring skills and a relentless focus on the customer, and we’ll provide the support you need to do the best work of your life.

We’re looking for security engineers to help us secure the billions of transactions that make it through our gateway each year. At Braintree, security means you get to support every facet of the business and dive deep into the complex plumbing that is required to move money. This includes some interesting engineering challenges with hands on coding, code review, and architecture/design review.
There are a couple that are public (ie. conference talks and/or tweets) about their use I believe but likely aren’t references... only one I see on GCP’s website is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. That said, take a look at Google Summit Toronto’s schedule, or a glance on YouTube for google cloud banking for another.
An analog connector doesn't necessarily seem perfect since sound can degrade undetectably.

I think what would be perfect would be something carrying both power and a lossless digital signal.
> Java

> Object oriented code done right

Pick one.

But in all seriousness, Java is definitely underrated amongst many who are working with the trendier technologies. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done, and it's a solid platform with phenomenal tooling.

I don't think "Python, Ruby etc. don't have equivalent performance" is actually very important though. In practice, the availability of developers in a particular market, legacy code, and static typing & refactoring tools probably have much more to do with Java's success than performance.
From the article:

> Telegram has risen in popularity thanks to its focus on advanced security features and the ability to hold secret conversations with end-to-end encryption.

Isn't this wrong? I thought Telegram was famous for decrypting messages in transit.
why don't the other exchanges just drop their USDT pairs ?
This is not a matter of saying that a bad thing is good just because the counterpart is worse, I think that the dialog have to go a bit beyond that point. We lost control of the communication channels for the internet, it was meant to be free. This is the important topic.
Trump wants to cut clean energy research funding by 72 percent
My experience as well - a lot of my nuts and bolts OO work in static languages was making things conform to interfaces and existing class hierarchies. In dynamic languages there's less need for that and hierarchies are shallower and less entangled. None of that is surprising, of course.
.NET Core is still pretty immature though. The quantity of third party libraries that support it is tiny in comparison to what you get with Java.
Techstars’ Q1 2018 Accelerator Programs
Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India
Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads but it still shows them anyhow
It is curious when you phrase it this way. Sleep that is not aligned with the majority of the population associated with death rates not aligned with the majority. ;)

As the other poster said, this is not a surprise to the authors, so I don't need this as a criticism of it. Just like the amusing rephrasing.
"Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new Tether were created; almost always when the prices of other virtual currencies were heading down."

Doesn't this simply mean that when people were selling their virtual currencies, they chose to stall their money in Tether?
I don't think lack of providing a feature because its exists makes a language out of date.

I think OPs point was that the language has evolved more dramatically than other popularly adopted languages.
I think 90% is true, otherwise why won't they won't agree to get audited, also investors, can you call yourself an "investors" if you give $100 and they give you 100 of something promising you they will keep your $100, while not showing any proof of it.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Cambridge/Boston, MA | Frontend Software Engineer | ONSITE, VISA

We're a small team of software engineers, computational biologists, clinicians, and geneticists building cutting-edge tools and methods for interpreting massive genomic datasets (~500,000,000 genetic variants in ~200,000 human genomes/exomes).

This position involves developing a React component library for genomic data visualization. We are looking for friendly people with demonstrated experience in web tech, an eye for design, and genuine excitement to learn new things. Experience building performant React web applications preferred. In your email, please link to an online portfolio/github repo, and bonus points if you've built a nontrivial data visualization app. Our stack: React, Redux, D3, SVG, Python, GraphQL, nodejs, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Container Engine, Scala, Apache Spark.

In this role, you'll receive domain-specific training at a world-class research institute. Your work will be 100% open source and highly visible in the genetics/genomics community. Our tools are used by tens of thousands of researchers and physicians around the world who cure disease and make biological discoveries. Come help shape the future of human genetic data visualization and discovery!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC-dqmwxR3M

email: msolomon@broadinstitute.org