skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some ways in which Rust can be simpler; see my above comments about learn ability. But a lot of the complexity is inherent in the choices we've made for the constraints of the language. For example, including a GC would make things much simpler in some ways! But it would also make it not appropriate for many of the use cases that are crucial to Rust's existence.
We cannot launch our project too soon [details in profile]. We will do what we can to prevent trafficking: asking for ID and verifying they have an escorting presence is a good start. Analytics to look at payment flow and see if one entity is controlling multiple escorts is another.
@dang the title is cut off. Could you fix that?

Article title:

"Warren Buffett recommends investing in index funds — but many of his employees don’t have that option"
Why do "software workers/codewriters" need a union? It's an employee's market.
Spotify method is fine for their service. However I have understood that total ad revenue per user is roughly somewhere around 5-20$/month(?). This is for all the ad services total you use. So problem here is that currently many paid plans cost 5-10$/month/service (at very least). I think Spotify is worth what they ask and their ad plan is very under priced. However if every service ask 20-100x for paid plans VS ad plans idea about paying everything is not very attractive anymore and this won't work.

Also just like movies and games: if it's easier to pirate content than use it legally you are already lost. I may not to want to pay for every single services by credit card but I should be able to handle this ad-network scale easily.

Edit: Removed "I think" prefix from the comment since I THINK I repeat myself.
I am no fan of Bolton or war, but this is an extraordinarily uncharitable reading.

The article in question is pushing for a "military transformation" in which the DoD moves "more aggressively to experiment with new technologies and operational concepts." It discusses challenges to this process--for example, the Pentagon has limited funding, and the US can't declare a "strategic pause" to experiment while our allies and enemies hold still--and notes that:

> the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.

This seems to me very far from saying that America "needs" to be attacked. They're just noting that the speed of military innovation tends to increase very dramatically after an event like Pearl Harbor.
It's a research language:

https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~cforall/people

You can check the various Master Theses at the bottom of the page.
I guess it's understood that we're discussing high frequency electromagnetic waves, as opposed to static electric fields.
GNU Hurd
I worked at a place that had recently switched over to microservices in the Cloud from a monolith on premises. Rumors were we were spending a lot of money on our cloud providers. I heard other rumors that pricing got less competitive after awhile because the size of our bills implied that we were locked in. I'd guess that you could get more competitive pricing if you were able to easily switch between cloud providers.
> I don't get this "undefined behavior" cliche.

The problem is that you can do everything in portable C that you can do with undefined behavior in C, and often in a more straightforward fashion.[1] The compiler won't tell you that you are doing it wrong; there are many examples, tutorials, and books that encourage you to do the wrong thing. The undefined behavior will work until you switch to a different system. Why allow the wrong thing to continue to happen?

[1] A very good example of this is endianness:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189110

https://commandcenter.blogspot.se/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy...
Blockchain for source control?
That requires you to actually know the number they'll be calling from though.
If I am in my country, I am only bound by the laws in my country. Sure I can piss off another country (violate their blasphemy laws for example) and then I better remember to not go there.
My mum would try to stop me playing this because it was too violent. The prisoners getting whipped in the dungeon really apalled her. Violence has come a long way since then.
It's a form of gaslighting. They are manipulating each of your realities in unethical ways.
https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk
To be fair, there are a lot of Americans who would prefer the Swedish approach, but are stuck. When I last checked Sweden was not as easy to get a visa for as some other countries.

Sounds lovely, though.
> The fact is, whatever Trump's feelings, as President he had every right to fire Comey

No, he had the legal power to fire Comey. This is not in dispute (if it were, there would be a question of the validity of the firing, and whether Comey was, in fact, still lawfully the Director of the FBI.) It is also not a question of rights, but of powers vested in particular government officials under the law.

What is in question is whether that firing was an abuse of power (a misfeasance or malfeasance in office), as well as the overlapping question of whether Trump or others had previously committed other crimes (which the firing may have been intended to protect; note that had Trump wished to retroactively license such crimes, the power of the pardon would also be within his legal power, but that would still raise questions of abuse of power, and would be somewhat more overt in its purpose.)
Constructs like closures come at a cost. Function call abstraction and locality means hardware cannot easily prefetch, instruction cache misses, data cache misses, memory copying, basically, a lot of the slowness you see in dynamic languages. The point of C is to map as close to hardware as possible, so unless these constructs are free, better off without them and sticking to what CPUs can actually run at full speed.
So specialization is a precondition for non-cogs?
I would hope not. AFAICT Zello is breaking no laws in their home country, and is not breaking Amazon's TOS. Although it wouldn't be the first time I've been disappointed to see a US company bend their rules to accommodate unrealistic requests from dictatorships.
Me too. Car warranty calls, "Free Vacation/Hotel Scams", and a bunch of calls in Spanish.
To me, the interesting thing about the recent facebook 'scandals' is how effective artificial outrage is. Everybody always knew facebook's business model was selling user information. Getting upset about them selling too much user information is absurd.

Clearly what's happening here is facebook is being targeted by traditional media.

I don't like facebook, and I don't use it - but honestly, when there's such a perfect storm of 'breaking' non-events, it's probably bullshit.
Consider some of the negative affects of unions when working alongside low and high performers in technology:

- Protection for under performers alongside high performers. Difficult or darn near impossible to terminate employment. Ability to enforce performance evaluation and plans could be killed by the union. Common in teacher unions.

- Without being able to measure performance, pay may be solely based on tenure, not skill.
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> To wit, your employer, not you, chooses your 401(k) investment options and your choices may be less than optimal either because your employer doesn't know any better or because your employer's interests are different from yours.

This, for me, is the biggest issue with 401Ks - the lack of fund choices because the contributors are, in effect, a captive market. You have to change your job to change your 401K options.

This is just one aspect of a ridiculously complicated retirement saving system with separate rules for IRAs, Roth IRAs, Roth 401Ks (no idea what those are), self-employed 401Ks and who knows what else. Is it not possible the sheer complexity is a factor in turning people off retirement planning early in their career?

It also sets up a two-tier retirement and taxation system. Those lucky enough to work at employers that offer 401K plans are able to deduct $18k (and rising) from their taxes but everyone else can only deduct $5.5k (hasn't risen in the past 6 years) and a lucky few can contribute to both 401Ks and IRAs (but maybe not take deductions for both).

Don't even get me started on the backdoor IRA, 72t and all the other ludicrous shenanigans you have to go through if, by chance, you're a diligent saver who wants to stop working and access your retirement funds before turning 59.5.

Compare that to the Canadian RRSP system, where you can contribute 18% of your previous year's earnings tax-free up to a limit. And (I think) you can manage your own funds the way you want, take them to a different financial institution if you're not happy, etc.
My mental model of a dedicated journalist is willing to break laws in pursuit of a story, and also willing to face charges for doing it. In other words, I don't see the problem here. The article states this particular reported 'didn't see himself as breaking the law'. I think he's just mistaken about that part.
It may be possible to get users to use it by doing what WhatsApp did: make a very long free period, then charge them a low yearly rate.

I agree for the most part though. Some uses just flat out refuse to pay money for apps, even $1.
Of course, most of them die.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37775622

Though if we weren't so damn focused on having so much crap maybe a few of those animals would still be around.
That's too long for the 80-character limit. Perhaps the following would work:

"Buffett recommends index funds — many of his employees don’t have that option"
Stickeroid Ai 1.0 is out
No worries <3

There's a lot of stuff coming down the pipeline that I think would help you a lot.

> there's a distinct lack of pragmatism around getting core features like concurrency nailed down and shipped.

For one example; we're working really hard right now on getting async/await shipped, and dealing with ergonomics problems around it. The recent changes are to make it simpler, not make it harder. For example, you should need to think a lot less about future composition, since you'll be able to borrow across futures, as just one example.

There might be a disconnect between what we're working on and what we're perceived to be working on. Messaging is hard!

You're 100% right that criticism is the only way to evolve, and so I appreciate calling out things that aren't great. Details help, but as you said, this blog post wasn't intended for this audience, which is a problem I feel quite deeply, personally. So I get it :)
How useful is a physical search warrant when much information is stored in the cloud? Wouldn’t it be more useful to procure one for the cloud providers the company uses?
Let’s stop pretending that we, as a society, care about fairness here. Rich people always get away with more shit. Let’s just enjoy one rich asshole getting part of what he deserved instead of lamenting about how a second rich asshole didn’t. And yes, I said to enjoy it because don’t pretend these stories means anything more to you than the entertainment value. Either you ignore them or you acknowledge it is tabloid drama that you enjoy (I am in the latter group). Dude was a rich asshole who took internet trolling from a middle school hobby to a lifestyle. The deck was stacked in his favor and he still blew it. That’s what we care about and why we like this story.
Cool! Let's channel the energy they were trying to stir up into a conceptual war where the disagreement at the center is with money and violence.

Let's agree to love each other over choosing strategies involving money and/or violence. If we're optimally collaborating, we're sharing everything as needed. This means money can be used as a signal of how effective we're being. The more money we directly touch/have/use to meet our needs, the less effective we're being.

If I'm able to ask a global community for everything I need I'm unable to satisfy on my own, eventually someone will realize we can make this the default in society if we simply choose to pursue it.
U.S companies have option to either do legally binding self-certifications or outside compliance reviews.

If they don't do that, they have no authority to collect data from EU Citizens (no user accounts or customers from EU).
Not so much, but I wish my iPhone had two charging ports so that I’d never have to use a cumbersome splitter dongle to both charge and use accessories at the same time.

I can’t deal with wireless stuff.
You would be right if OS kernels were not written in C.

Linux is pretty much deployed on a lot of hardware, it is still maintained, and it uses C.

Granted it is not the best language, but it's simple enough to do kernel development.

The same goes for cobol, it's the best paying language out there.
Seems to be really successful, though, no?

I'm not defending them, but I know I'd love for my shop -- we do the same things as them -- to grow in this way.
* unless you have a chronic iron deficiency
Penetration Test = Vulnerability Scan
If you liked that there is another one about garbage pickers in Cairo called Garbage Dreams.
Well of course not. If I remember correctly, his advice of indexing was what he would say to his wife if he died and she needed to take over the family assets. His advice is for the 99% of individuals who don't really understand/care about researching the stock market. The other 1% are working at firms like Berkshire Hathaway.
It's a protocol, not a project, but it's one beloved to FOSS: RSS
Yeah so to my orginal point - I want a BMW, but I also want a fully electric vehicle. The later is more important to me.
It doesn't have to be the same type, there just has to be a suitable implementation of the 'From' trait to perform the conversion if the types don't match.
https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin

last commit 2 months ago
Pro tip: when the app asks for permission for full access to your phone, it will get all your data. So, don’t install it, simple.
? calls a conversion function. It only won't work if the error you're trying to return won't convert to the error that's in the type signature. Even then, you have options, like .map_err.
Don't they have a .fig format that you can export/import, share? Plus they have the standalone "native" app, so I don't really get you here. Have you tried parsing a PSD file? Have you seen the PSD spec? It's pure nightmare afaik... Are you storing psd resources in git? Probably not. Then perforce? God, have you tried using perforce from the command line? What else do we have for big binary files and versioning? Not svn, not cvs, not mercurial, dunno...

But anyway... we're working with a fairly big (100+ppl) creative agency and they transitioned to figma - it's a joy to work with, I can finally use linux, no need to fool around with windows or a dumb os, the app is fast, exporting is great, collaborative features are cool... I'm pretty sensitive when it comes to apis and data portability, but heck, this tool is a godsend for us.
This is totally not surprising. Everything we know about Uber leads me to believe that they would try to shortcut this projects development. Shame on Arizona officials for being so lax with such a sensitive policy.
It looks like most people here are so eager to jump on the "this feature is good, this sucks, overal I'm not impressed"-bandwagon (with the typically unwarranted strong opinions that programmers always have when it comes to this) that they didn't bother to explore the rest of the website in more detail. Go to "people" page and you see that it's a language implemented by professors, PhDs and master students from the Programming Language group at Waterloo[0][1]. Scroll down and you'll see that a number of these features came from the master thesis of a student:

Alumni
Ph.D.

Glen Ditchfield, 1992
Thesis title: Contextual Polymorphism

Masters

Thierry Delisle, 2018.
Thesis title: Concurrency in C∀.
Rob Schluntz, 2017.
Thesis title: Resource Management and Tuples in C∀.
Rodolfo Gabriel Esteves, 2004.
Thesis title: Cforall, a Study in Evolutionary Design in Programming Languages.
Richard Bilson, 2003
Thesis title: Implementing Overloading and Polymorphism in Cforall
David W. Till, 1989
Thesis title: Tuples In Imperative Programming Languages.

USRA

Andrew Beach, Spring 2017.
Line numbering, Exception handling, Virtuals

So basically, it's a research language, more-or-less developed one student at a time.

[0] https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~cforall/people

[1] https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/
This is a big part of 1984, if I recall correctly. The various nations fight each other not because they are really any different, but because war requires so much production and rebuilding, and that was essential for supporting their planned economy.
Introducing Service Discovery for Amazon ECS
You're mostly right, I think, but I never actually heard Clinton articulate a theory of why someone would vote for her. Everyone had their own personal reason to vote for (or against) her, which one supposes is emblematic of our long-tail data-driven time, but did she ever come out and say e.g. "this is my vision of an idealist, emancipated America"?

I agree with you that such a vision is kind of a hard sell when compared with "Build the Wall!", "Lock her Up", and "Jobs!". Only the last of those base slogans ever appealed to me (not enough to make me vote for the cretin!), so I'm not disappointed that it's the only one that has happened so far.
Yes, they would also go through my recycling bin. That part may be a net negative, because I assume they take the most valuable stuff and leave the rest for the city, which has to cover the costs of picking up and processing most of the recycling.
The Axiom computer algebra system. Not sure what the status of the project is, but the last release notes are from 2014. They had big ambitions, including a completely literate codebase and provably correct implementations of all of their core algorithms.

http://www.axiom-developer.org/
And how will your costs increase when you have to provide data to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of letters like the one the OP posted, each one asking for different things?

Managing the data is easy, managing the compliance and reporting will be the hard and costly part.
Move fast, break things. Their overall culture doesn't seem well suited for potentially dangerous technology.
Not sure if you're serious, but they are still working on it some https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7yhdtr/official_1...
The thing is, their flavor of Agile development absolutely does work in practice, and it is hands down the most reliable way to build great software I have ever seen. However it only works if it is pretty much 100% adhered to, hence the stubbornness.
depends on what you mean by disaster, I think a lot of South Koreans are thankful that US participated in the Korea War
I think your initial comment, your reply - and now this all say the same thing.

You seem like a great person & I wish you well with your own projects.
I have been working in the tech industry for 5+ years now (not too long, I know). I have yet to see a company that commonly identifies low performers and successfully terminates their employment for performance reasons only.

In fact, the three times I have seen companies terminate employment after somebody was put on a PIP it was directly related to other mental health issues the employee was going through at the time. Anecdotal m, obviously, but this complaint about unions smells bogus to me, since a common complaint about the tech industry is about blood sucking low performers that stick around long past they’re due.

As for measuring performance I again fail to see any company that does an adequate job of this with heuristics that aren’t at least partially, and usually fully, based on tenure.

In short, what makes you think we’re good at these things now, such that unionizing would make them worse.
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Platforms like this also allow you to choose between using Amazon RDS or a homerolled Postgres DBaaS in the same way. You can make a strategic/tactical decision to implement certain parts of your infrastructure yourself vs outsource the capability entirely.

But again, this is really only useful if you’re big enough to have many application groups developing for a bunch of different business units. I have yet to see a good use case for PCF outside enterprise IT departments.
When I quit WoW years ago it was the same thing. "You're making the peon cry!"
Flutter Linux Desktop Embedder
Odd behaviour?

Just a few months ago Russians send a government airplane (like Secret Service government) to pick up a load of cocaine in Argentina.

A few years ago they've send an AA to Ukraine and downed MH-17.

They're definitely not superheroes.
As someone who was on the internet before Google, I want them to disappear.

People these days believe they are a force of good since they are driving innovation in technology. But they are so powerful now that other companies are just using their platforms and browsers. Almost all real popular innovation in tech comes from Google.

They have had ties with the American security agencies from the start and its out in the open if you just spend a couple of minutes googling it.

Still, when Google says they delete information, people trust them. It's really hard for me to understand why Google is trusted to this degree. Is it something in our brains, unable to process information when it conflicts with emotional beliefs?
Ok, I was working some time with Cloud Foundry as sysadmin/devops. It's big fucking enterprise piece of software which nobody know exactly how to install it and maintain. Their guide on site is obsolete, it's almost unrealistic to understand in nutshell how it works (compared with Kubernetes/Mesos-Marathon). Only info on Github pages were useful.

CF even can't even survive unplanned reboot of DC, after such incidents you literally will get parted cluster and no one know what to do.

Thank you Pivotal for such experience.
I don't think the decision could be made that quickly. IPOs are usually in work for months if not years.
I find it typical that Shkreli was convicted for ripping off rich people, while his ripping off poor people turned out to be totally legal. Fair? Not remotely.
World celebrates, snoops cry as TLS 1.3 internet crypto approved
Filmmaking, especially in Hollywood, has a long tradition of strong unions. As all your statements are invalid in terms of Hollywood, I don't see why they should be valid for the game industry.
> The other 1% are working at firms like Berkshire Hathaway.

Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate owning a wide variety of businesses. Not every employee working there is a finance whiz.
The really interesting detail here is that making them fish-shaped is a critical marketing strategy. They previously tried giving out iron discs or iron lotus flowers, which had poor adoption rates.
I don't get why there have to be 401k and the various IRAs. There should be one system for all. Especially 401k is the same stupidity that employer based health insurance is. Instead of the individual choosing the best option the employer, whose interest is certainly not the same as the employee's, makes the choices.
The+Pretender+Who+Cries+Wolf+and+the+Berniebrats+Who+Keep+the+Public+Address
Unions are reactionary organizations. They tend to create and enforce rules around how things work now. Unions don't like it if new technology lets two workers do the work of forty.
Ask HN: Facebook for Events only?
So I've managed to pair down my Facebook usage by:

a) Unfollowing all friends and deleting all likes (resulting in an empty feed)

b) Switching to messenger.com instead of using the FB homepage for Messenger

But unfortunately, my social circle still uses Facebook organizing events. I would love if there was a standalone site for FB events, but it looks like nothing like that exists.

(I know that Facebook Local app exists, but it generates a lot of noise for nearby events... I just want to see my personal event invites only).

Thoughts? Any solutions exist for a FB Event only app?