skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true. Not to mention all the other examples in books like Nickel and Dimed. It's hard and shitty to be poor, and people exploit you.

But you don't end up in endless poverty by making the right decisions. The United States can be a pretty brutal place, but comparing to human history it's actually incredibly forgiving and full of opportunity.
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My guess would be that it's some aspect of measuring the text that is causing the crash: when you click in an editable text box, there is code to track down where the cursor should be placed. This is done by measuring various sub-strings of the whole line.

If measuring the sub-strings gives surprising results (sub-strings being visibly longer for example), this could cause the algorithm to fail in any number of interesting ways: for example if a binary search is used to locate the cursor position, it could break the invariants of the binary search.
No there is not. I have kind of the feeling that Anki users are tough to convince to switch to an online platform (judging by comments I've received so far). It's tough since you'd have to find a corresponding flash card for each flash card in Anki. But if there was enough interest I'd probably see what I can do. Maybe just provide a JS API so users can write an import script? Just a thought, not a promise.
Yeah. I get pretty vocal in threads about poverty, and I'm a big fan of effective social programs intended to reduce poverty, but I have to agree with you (on the basis of personal experience) to some extent.

It's a bit more complicated than just "poor people make bad decisions"; there are confounding factors in mental health (https://www.nature.com/news/poverty-linked-to-epigenetic-cha...), relative education, and human psychology (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...).

However, there's an entire class of politics around the notion that people are wealthy or poor only on the basis of their qualities as a person (and therefore social programs should be eliminated and people left to fend for themselves), and so people who are trying to experiment with effective social programs for the poor are quick to counter any arguments that imply that individual decision-making is a factor. (Myself included.)
Obviously textbook problems are not of a world shaking scale. But, this is so obviously a case of market gone badly. Reshuffling chapters in in order to make books unusable is not an economically useful (in the abstract sense) activity. Price systems are known to do weird things when the person doing the buying is prescribed a shopping list by another person, whether in a bookstore, pharmacy or prison.

Where the hell are all the universities' economists?!

If a university's compost was horribly buggy in some way, there would be overqualified ganderers all over it, out of curiosity if nothing else. The bookstore problem is even an interesting one, and a useful one to solve.

It may be more insidious than it seems too. Universities are (I assume) going to be changing the way they teach in the coming years of decades. The way schools use technology to teach is important, and doing a decent job at this is important. One approach to figuring it out (that I hear is well underway) is letting individual lecturers use stuff from the open market. Ie, prescribing to students. Ie, the same problem.

I actually think it's not a bad idea letting students buys stuff a la carte^, even bid for lab tutor time or pay for weekly exams. Universities do too much prescribing anyway, but at least if they prescribe they should pay. I think if economists need to prove their salt. Fix this and then we'll have a little more confidence in your idea about global insurance reform or whatnot.

^Obviously not in a way that just means students pay more or leverage wealth competitively.
This isn't really an issue that goes beyond your first 1 hour on your new Windows 10 computer. You delete them, and then they are gone forever. They do not re-install themselves, they only come with a new user account.

They were annoying to me, only when I had installed the Windows 10 for the very first time, 2 years ago. I had several Windows 10 re-installations since then, and it really isn't worth nagging about them for the 30-45 seconds they steal from you as you remove them.

Besides, my housemate actually liked and kept some of them on his account. It probably really just does increase the overall customer experience.
BMW, honestly

To elaborate, they understand actually having physical buttons you can macro to functions, and doing things like starting your first new playlist with a pre-mapped button. It's better in that tactile sense than carplay or anything because you don't have to futz with a screen once it's set up, and has a good interface for the steering wheel controls
Then donate however many thousands of dollars you were going to spend on Autodesk/etc licenses to Blender, Krita, Gimp, etc. Blender and Krita are competitive with their commercial counterparts and Gimp is getting there.
I don't think this is a failure of regulation (or the lack thereof), but a QA/testing failure.
Why would it? The study said that they found no significant effect, not that the return was poor relative to costs. It's possible that shifting the saved administrative costs into more aid would appreciably change the outcome, but it seems more likely that it's a structural problem with the program: ie, that CCTs are optimizing the wrong input.
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You're probably right. I'm just throwing out a hypothesis.
Dude this discussion is an even worse waste of my time than that awful movie was. I gave you the obvious reasons why it gets roasted so badly by anyone who knows anything about movies, if you don't want to hear them or don't agree that's fine. You don't have to have to, but your claim that the panning is unjustified is just wrong.

I am done with this conversation now.
I installed Nim programming to Windows 10. Windows Defender deleted it immediately.
https://blog.wekan.team/2018/02/time-well-spent/index.html

Quote from Windows Weekly 557 https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/557?autostart=...
"Future of Windows apps is to have Visual Studio on Mac and
deploy software to Linux Docker containers."

There is no Windows servers anymore at top 500 supercomputers. It's all Linux.
Giving a feedback or testing an app with a newer version is easy
>I used to work in another financial-related company and "IT is a cost not a revenue center" was thrown around as often as possible

This has literally always been the case with IT; they were always seen as cost-centers, not profit.... which is largely due to IT departments historically falling under the CFO....

CEO: "Keep these motherfuckers from spending money"

IT: if "You want this [project] to meet your requirements of [XYZ]?, then == $2000000

CFO: "Fuck you, lets do it for half that and drop security and accessibility as a result"
Has anyone yet traced this to a specific syscall? Seems like the perfect opportunity for whipping up a fuzzer to spit arbitrary unicode into the system and see what else crashes.
This may be able to point you in the right direction: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-br...
You and I are not going to have a conversation about this on Brietbart or Fox News. There's really not a healthy place to have this conversation anywhere. That's what I meant.

> I'll pass on whatever amounts to the conservative version of free speech and dialogue...

Conservatives love Lincoln-Douglas, Adams-Jefferson, the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, etc. Asking people to reach for (philosophically) liberal ideals from the enlightenment about civic mindedness and rational debate are a conservative version of free speech and dialogue.

> It also shows a lot about conservatives...

"GOP voter" and "conservative" aren't synonymous. Conservatives generally dislike pettiness, identity politics, and strong-man tactics and those qualities defined Trump's candidacy more than any given policy issue.

Actual conservatives mostly split their vote between Rubio and Cruz at the end, though, it might have been too late. Trump doesn't have to be the "best" option to get a plurality and win out based on first-past-the-post rules.
Many people use monitors with 144hz refresh rates. And increased FPS means you can turn graphics up, or enable more sophisticated anti-aliasing solutions, without impacting absolute performance.
Thank you for posting. More please!

This is an interesting overview paper of a subfield that I haven't heard much about. 139 references, so it looks like a good springboard to specific topics.
Rendering Indic scripts with AAT fonts involves a series of finite state machines that are stored in the individual font. So don't forget to multiply by the number of different fonts that each need to be tested.
What hypervisor are you using to do this?
Shouldn't it be possible to add a better HTML parser as extension to PHP? They can be written in C so it can be as fast as possible.
Sometimes in the early stage of their careers people make mistakes (including myself) to move from tech company to a bank. Never doing this mistake again. I've never seen so much legacy code, poor engineering decision and code standards in my career so far. Of course this could be limited experience to my department, but given the comments here it feels like this is a standard situation across the "tech" in the financial world.
Isn't every company becoming a tech company?
Nanowatts are -60 dBm or what you would expect to receive on your cellphone when you have decent but not great signal. Many radios operate down to the -110 dBm/MHz PSD or lower ranges for high performance stuff. So you could use hits those power levels with energy harvesting on radio waves but only if you were in the right location, on the right band, and it would possibly cause problems for the systems that are trying to use those signals for their intended purposes.
Marty Chavez was, but got promoted:

> Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Chavez was Chief Information Officer, responsible for the Technology Division

Profile on him from a few years back: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/business/dealbook/goldman...
Not routinely, it was done once as part of the plan to support SSL for all websites, and when we hit some limits with letsencrypt, we shelved the plan for a bit. There are currently 4 unsolved issues, which the team are looking in to.

We still need to find a way to provide automatic SSL for customer domains though - because we allow our customers to create arbitrary websites inside either their domains or their personal subdomain on our domains (username.fastmail.com).

The alternative of NOT doing something with SSL certificates is having insecure websites for customers by default, which will be more and more punished (and rightfully so) by browser interfaces. Setting up SSL for the domains which are hosted with us is the right thing to do.
In the third world, to self-starting entrepreneurs who already did the footwork of figuring out how the capital could quickly pay itself back, not the small-unit-buying clients in the American communities that the parent was diagnosing.

(I was originally going to give a caveat about Kiva, etc.)
Do you know how was this bug found?

Are there just enough people using iOS that these sorts of bugs can be found by mistake, or is someone fuzzing CoreText? Perhaps that can be applied to provide some kind of test coverage? Even if it’s not complete?
Netflix has an unusual hr history, worth looking up if you're interested in that sort of thing.
Thanks! I love tooltips so that's why they're everywhere :) I'll have to think about if I want to remove them from the menu or make them slower.

Yes, enter should submit the form. I think I had `onSumit` defined at some point but it gave me issues so I reverted it. I'll look into it again and make sure it works. And yes, please feel free to contact me!
Show HN: Quantified Map – Aggregate your activity, travel and workout on iOS
Presumably a VP of engineering
If you'd know how to build a site builder using Golang or Elixir, you'd probably know how to make an installer as well.
I work with fairly large JavaScript codebases, and the issues mentioned in the post has never been an issue for me. The switch from callbacks to Promises, and later to async-await has made a massive improvement to the ease of writing, reading and maintaining the code. Lazy and cancellable tasks are edge-cases that don't need support in Promises directly. I haven't needed either of those in more than a couple of places in the code, versus thousands of places where Promises are used as is.

I can see the automatic unwrapping of Promises to be an issue in some libraries that want to make specific guarantees, but in most of my code this has behaviour has simplified things.

I definitely prefer having Promises and async-await right now over another theoretically sound (but probably more verbose) system available in a couple of years.
Amazing. I knew they could change colour, but to think that they can even adjust the texture of of their skin to match surrounding coral... consider me mind-blown.
I'd say anything that faces a user in a digital experience that utilizes cheap psychological or behavioral manipulation/UI obsfucation to benefit from their interaction in achieving a desired business metric/outcome in which a user may not have otherwise consented to/authorized said interaction had the user interface been written clearly in plain language (no jargon) and accessibly designed for the common lay person (user testing).

In design, everything is intentional and I fail to believe these cheap UI tricks were anything other than intended as designed by whoever designed it. Any seasoned UX designer worth their title knows if what they are designing removes their agency in deciding on how to act or if it feels icky or wrong in a manipulative sense.
> I see people using benefits cards to buy groceries that I would never buy because they are so expensive or unnecessary.

I hear people make claims like this frequently and I always wonder if it could possibly be true. I can't remember the last time I paid any attention whatsoever to what other people were buying in the grocery store, much less their mode of payment. This sounds more like the repetition of a certain strain of conservative mythology (with a strong family resemblance to the infamously fictional "welfare queen") than actual anecdote.

And if it is true: 1) Maybe consider giving your fellow shoppers a little privacy. And 2) I wonder: exactly what groceries are we talking about here that you can be so sure another person, whose life and preferences you know nothing about, is making not just a mistake, but being "economically offensive" by buying them? Voss bottled water is about the only thing I can think of that might fit the bill here.
Even with fibre, it wouldn't take many users on the theoretical capacity of 5g to saturate the uplink.
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In small companies if you run out of capital you go out of business and all your employees are out of a job. What about the humanity of those people who would lose their job? We're not talking public companies where executives make bonuses... we're talking companies where the bank account can barely pay salary for the next month never-mind pay a bonus.
But their core business is selling advertising.
30? More like 5. Still a good point.
You don't see a difference between a moderator and a reporter in terms of content creation?
They don't want to be just a PC platform anymore. They're looking at Apple's high-end lifestyle brand and trying to get in on some of that. I wish they'd be happy with the organic brand they're building around XBox and Minecraft and all that, but kids and education just don't have the same money or cachet as the upper middle class and up consumer.

And I'm no fanboy but boy am I a fan of .NET. So far it seems like that part of MS is well defended from this grossness, I only hope that holds up.

Excuse the rant.
true, but characters could be mapped to equivalence categories according to logic in the code
I find it easier to setup than MySQL, but with package managers today, both are a breeze. Can you explain why it is "mysteriously difficult"?
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Except on two separate machines, a Windows update reinstalled them for me. MS did said it was a bug but it happened a few times after that for me.
Model checkers are amazing tools. I've been using one for C development for the past two years, and with the model checker, I feel more confident about code I write in C than I do about code in many other languages.

That being said, model checkers find counter-examples. This is not the same as a formal proof. Just because a counter-example cannot be found does not mean that a given property has been proven. It is _extremely_ important to understand that point. Model checking, combined with unit testing, is a formidable tool that should be used whenever possible. But, don't assume that model checking is the same as a proof. The subtle difference does matter, and it can bite you.

It is possible to write formal proofs about software, using Calculus of Constructions, Separation Logic, Hoare Logic, etc. However, this is much harder than using a model checker. For 95% of applications, a model checker is good enough.
As a professional who gets work done with Linux, I disagree. Lots of desktop environments (KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon) offer a UI is just as polished as mac or windows.

Lack of suitable software can be a dealbreaker for some professions. There aren't many professional video editing suites, for example. But in companies I've worked at, most workers only need a browser and an office suite to do their jobs. Linux would work for them.

I think the real obstacle is training. You have a workforce that's already used to the way windows works. It's easier to hire IT people with windows experience than it is with Linux. Users know how to do their tasks in Microsoft office, and even though Libre office is similar, they might have to learn a few new things.
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> As others have said, the amount of assistance seems shockingly low for 1) the outcomes they seem to be looking for and 2) the massive dysfunction of American society.

I think people are misunderstanding what they're actually trying to test here. CCTs aren't simply assistance, or UBI by another name. The intent of the study was to test the effect on incentives. The FPL for a family of 4 is 24600, or 2500/mo. An extra 10+% in disposable income at that level of poverty isn't a transformative amount of aid, but it's plausibly significant enough to shift incentives (and perhaps ability to meet the bar), which is the point of the study. As it turns out, it _doesn't_ appear to do that, but that more likely indicates structural problems with the hypothesis than the fact that the study should've started with higher amounts of aid.
Right, but the purpose behind all of that was delivering entertainment. Hence, entertainment company.
This is the definition of Alt-Right. Alternative Right Wing.
My point is that the difference isn't going to be enough to be meaningful. If your GPU can drive 144 FPS on your Windows install it can probably drive 144 FPS on your Linux install with the same graphics settings.
Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
Congrats on shipping.

Total footnote, but having built a product on a .io domain, I wouldn't do it again.
Modular, fast, small: how we built a server-rendered IDE
The IT-Business Maturity model fits here. Considering IT a "cost center" that takes orders is a Level 1 organization. Level 2 is about optimizing IT processes and Level 3 is the partnership of IT and Business on strategic goals. If a financial firm is treating IT as a cost instead of partner, they have some maturing to do.

http://formicio.com/index.php/archives/765
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The thing I hate the most about windows 10 is lots of its default settings out of the box, whenever I have to set up a new PC for a family member. That, and windows 10 likes to automatically update itself whenever it wants.

Whenever I installed a new windows 7 PC, it was just plug and play really. When I have to install a new windows 10 PC, I have a significantly longer list of items that I do to it (delete cortana, enable search to only work locally, local user only (no xbox or microsoft login), remove forced updates, remove task panels, delete all PUPware that comes with it, etc), do a couple of registry edits, etc.

Lastly, privacy. No such thing as privacy in windows 10, the whole OS is basically spyware.

The only thing I like about windows 10 over its previous versions is the system refresh, but thats about it
I'd say Windows is like 4th or 5th on their list of priorities right now. It's all about Azure, nothing else matters.
Interesting; how come? We aren't necessarily tied to our domain name, just curious.
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So it is then obvious that they need to stress test their material against Draggins to see how they compare....
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If (good) tech companies use tech as a means to an end, and a bank wants to think of themselves as a tech company, that means that a bank thinking of themselves as a tech company doesn't necessary think of tech as an end in of itself.

Companies too invested in tech tend to spend themselves into bankruptcy. Companies not invested enough in tech tend to be overcome by companies with better tech more slowly.
There was a similar bug about a year ago as well. I'm surprised more fuzzing, static analysis, and general testing hasn't gone into this area since there have been issues found there already. Maybe they have done this extra work and just didn't catch this one. It's hard to know. Still feels like the way it fails is unacceptable.
More and more games are coming to Linux, for sure (I'm a huge fan of games on Linux!), but Linux still is missing the latest-and-greatest AAA titles... think the Call of Duty's, Battlefield's, Skyrim's, Fallout's, Wolfenstein's... and many many more.
Probably not - you'd be surprised how low the the title of "Vice President" is in finance companies.
JetBrains IntelliJ.

Over the years I’ve used Xcode, VisualStudio, Borland, Eclipse, JDeveloper, Netbeans, Notepad, Atom, Sublime etc to write code

I use IntelliJ/IDEA because it’s a tool that delights. Not many bits of software are such that I interrupt other colleagues to show them some neat feature or shortcut.
That would do it. Basically, for anyone with a largish holding, this is a way to manage operational risk. In my particular use case, wallets are numerous, but not constantly changing.
Evidence because I'm being downvoted.

>Employees, as well as many employers, commonly but mistakenly believe that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees "freedom of speech" at work. In fact, the First Amendment applies only to government action and neither limits the rights of private employers to regulate employees' communications nor provides any constitutional right for those workers to express thoughts or opinions at work. As a result, there is no constitutionally protected right of "free speech" in the offices and factories of private employers. Although employees may be entitled to express their views freely on their own time or on a soapbox in the park, they have no such wide-ranging constitutional rights at work. Absent rights provided by one of the limited exceptions discussed below, there are no legal protections for political activities in the workplace, so private employers generally may refuse to hire, adjust pay/benefits and even discharge "at will" employees because of their political views.2 In short, "political discrimination" often is not unlawful discrimination.

https://www.hklaw.com/publications/politics-in-the-workplace...