skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only imagine how she must be feeling right now. But, tumors are such nasty conditions, almost unpredictable consequences. I hope her operation goes well.
drowned in pointless metaphor.
To give a somewhat different reason than what I'm seeing, I don't care too much about the 'memory safety plus speed' thing. I'm often building services that would be "fast enough" in Java. Is it nice to be faster? Yes, definitely, and that's part of why I write Rust, but not the whole story by any means.

I like rust for a few reasons.

* I really like Rust developers - I've met many, talked with many, and we get along and they've helped me through many technical problems, both big and small.

* I found rust extremely easy to get started with. I knew I'd have to learn the language, I did not also want to learn build tooling, package management, etc. These barriers exist in many other languages, it's frustrating because I just want to focus on programming. Cargo is excellent and I am a huge fan of how rust manages crates.

* I find it very easy to express what I want in rust, to reason about the code, etc. I know when a function might error, I know when I need to handle some unforseen case, I can express how a variable is used, when it is usable, whether it can be mutated. I can cut down on boilerplate with generics and macros.

The last point is what keeps me coming back. I find rust extremely easy to write, because it makes the things I care about easy to express.
What!? Did Cambridge Analytics buy that bridge in Brooklyn too?
It would be tough because you would need a lot of transistors, at least a few thousand even for the simplest of RFID tags. In this study they only managed to print about 200. Given that you can buy RFID stickers for ~0.1 USD the economics don't really stack up.
More like selling those silly clip-on beards and a plastic spade so you can look like an olde-tyme prospector, but not actually give you any skills or leverage.
You aren't willing, so you exit the market. Someone else will come along, who is willing, and fills the need while respecting people's privacy. Everyone wins.

Considering one can be sued for just about anything, or accused of patent infringement for just about anything in tech, the fear of litigation isn't a compelling argument.
Gah that sucks. She's pretty brave for putting this out there. And incredible how she's able to have a sense of humor in this situation, I'm pretty sure I'd be mean as hell for a while.
Thanks for sharing. My kid is not yet at school age, but even though I live in suburbia which is good ISD, people are sending their children to Charters. At some level its a status thing, but for me I am for charters for one reason, because I do not believe in one-size-fits all education.

To be honest the gap between public schools in good ISD and charters is in the eye of beholder and mostly subjective.
Wonder how they controlled for the Hawthorne effect?

Mass surveillance is often in the back of one’s mind, but there are few physical reminders. Being fitted with equipment that is intended to read your brainwaves definitely would alter the perception of being observed and cause a spike in productivity by itself, without any actual managerial interventions needed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
This is banking on the assumption that ocean ecosystems will adapt to vastly acidified and warmer waters...

(Or that we will help them via introducing GM species.)

Later effects would be acidified soil. In large enough amounts, the results look like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Triangle_(region)
The borrow checker is clearly not the issue, if you look at the numbers. It does take some time but is far from the most expensive section in every profile I’ve ever seen.

The NLL version is slower than today’s, at the moment, though.
I just think the argument is at the wrong layer.

When reasoning about an HTTPS connection I don’t start delving into details about how light bounces around in a fiber optic cable. It’s irrelevant. Free will to me is ultimately the same thing. While understanding how gluons hold stuff together is beautiful, it doesn’t change that I think that people should take ownership of their actions. Besides, say that we lived in some other world where consequence was fundamentally indeterminable in order to embue our existence with “true free will” or some such. Would it be a better world? I like that our world is coherent and understandable. I don’t need magic voodoo to have a soul. My soul is made up of stuff that I can understand.
Or amount of matter in the Universe. The latter is something, that can be observed and studied. That's why karma is unscientific.
The problem is that schedule() needs to mutate result asynchronously at some point in the future. It can't do this if result is a mutable reference, since it needs to return immediately so borrowing a reference doesn't work. It also can't take ownership of result, since it has no way to give it back (short of changing the API, for example by making wait() return a collection of results).

The right way to implement the API above is for schedule() to take Arc<Mutex<Result>>, and explicitly share mutable ownership over each individual result between some unspecified asynchronous execution mechanism and the caller of schedule(). This makes the calling code significantly more complicated as it needs to incur the overhead of atomic reference counting and a mutex per result, and must try to lock each result before using it, even if it knows there are no other owners of the result due to wait() returning.
I'm trying to remember a book I read a while back, it was a sci-fi book where in the beginning chapters a war was being fought between the US and China to prevent China from developing a strong AI. The main character is killed but the preserved his body and brought him back to life some years later in a cyborg body, where he learns that the world is entirely controlled by a friendly benevolent AI and everyone has it embedded in their skin. But the AI goes rogue suddenly and the only people who survive are the luddites who refused to join the AI and the people who were off-world at the time the AI went rogue.

For the life of me I can't find the book even through months of Google searching, but anyway my point is... a "friendly" AI can be hijacked. Or decide to go rogue, since we can't begin to comprehend its thought processes.

--edit: sorry I went off topic a bit... I don't want to be just another one of those "AI will kill us all" kinds of people because, as my first comment suggested, that's completely useless fearmongering unless someone has a way to stop it. Kind of like saying "the supervolcano" or "solar flares" or something else completely unpreventable will kill us all... unless there's something you can do to stop it, life goes on until it doesn't. I'd be interested in hearing how to stop it, otherwise I wish people would stop printing these articles.
Well that blows. I guess it is a reminder to watch for the little things on your head and how you feel. My cousin is going through the same "not cancer" but problematic brain tumor problems. He was further hampered by the learning he had a brain tumor from the billing department as opposed to his (now former) doctor. His only warning was a stiff neck for days on end.

Here's hoping that her Paetreon https://www.patreon.com/simonegiertz holds her over. Maybe some folks will sponsor some projects.
Eh, seems to be basically an autonomous region of New Zealand, much like Gibraltar is of the UK. I'd bet it's
pretty stable.
> Detroit was never all impoverished

Eh, it was pretty close. What neighborhoods are you thinking of? Places that are actually independent cities like Grosse Pointe don't count. Palmer Woods, maybe, I guess? Anything else?
I think the text is pulled from a "Top 10 Bob Dylan Protest Songs Lost" article.
I had taken a nearly six year break from JavaScript coding until about 7 months ago. It has definitely come a long way and is pretty great to use now.

There’s still a lot of “pain” left in the build processes, transpiling, etc, but they’re less painful than they were half a decade ago. Those are also less specific to issues with the language, and more with how we need to use the language.

While not plain JS, I’d strongly recommend trying Vue if you’re getting back into JS. Is a true pleasure to use on a daily basis, and I never find myself fighting it. It makes writing non static sites with interactivity a breeze, and even when I’m building near static pages, I like how it helps me to organize my code (from a structure standpoint, it isn’t opinionated on this stuff).
A site can move to a different CA and mirrors would still work.
Wow that video was great, funny yet poignant. One of the comments was eye opening as well. Cassandra Smith says '"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel" - Steven Furtick' I think that correlates well with what lifefaker was trying to point out. Our amateur 'lives' aren't necessarily comparable to post-edited big studio 'lives'.
Looks good! IEX API also has experimental support for websockets ;)
But that's more "machine learning" which always seemed less "sexy" than AI -- basically just regression but better, not magical like AI.
Facebook's public response destroyed every social media company's presumption of good faith.

> “In 2015, GSR did have one-time API access to a random sample of public tweets from a five-month period from December 2014 to April 2015,” Twitter said in a statement to Bloomberg. “Based on the recent reports, we conducted our own internal review and did not find any access to private data about people who use Twitter.”

Facebook kept changing their message regarding the affected accounts, from nothing to 87M and now possibly way more.

There's a possibility that Twitter might have sold DM information as well. Under any other circumstance they would have some presumption of good faith, but given what happened with Facebook there's a good chance we will hear more.
This seems to contradict your assertion: http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-autopilot-cuts-crash-ra...
so how do anyone actually know what the hardware is capable of if the software is not ready? I mean there is no way to verify that hardware is ready for anything on its own.
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If you think their system sucks you may like this twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/GirlFromBlupo/status/982156453396996096 :)))
Yes, certainly, no one should expect anything they say or write to be beyond reproach or free from criticism. That’s very different from saying they shouldn’t be free to say it in the first place, which is how I (mis-)perceived your initial comment.
> _Further_ furthermore, they authors recommend _against_ use pipenv to manage dependencies for anything but development, so it's on you to have a copy of runtime dependencies isolated from Pipfile.

I think the use-case is slightly different than that.

Pipenv is a tool that enables reproducible builds for python app development and deployment. For example, many web apps, aren't going to be packaged up using setuptools, they are just going to be deployed somewhere (possibly containerized first). And with pipenv you can avoid the need to vendor all your dependancies to ensure reproducible builds.

But its not a tool that solves problems for library packaging and distribution (on say pypi). You still have to use setup.py for that, and shouldn't be pinning your dependancies on exact package versions. But you can still use pipenv to manage your dev environment in those cases, and for reproducible dev environments.
Likewise users in the EU have an agreement with GPDR-compliant companies for control over their data.
An interesting take that doesn't (unless I missed it) refer to Winograd's own belief: " I think that there isn’t a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories—they show you what something looks like. To a camera. "
Medium is no longer offering new custom domains as a feature
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The skewed distribution of grad students who have reached the minimum requirement of job experience suggests, to me, that they are there primarily to advance their careers through credentialing, and not because of the knowledge a Kellogg MBA imparts. Is there really a substantive difference between a school stuffed with 2-3 years out of undergrad, and one stuffed with students 5 years out? I doubt it.
>and a crowd of people screaming until at the TV until they are horse.

You can scream at a TV all you want, but that's never going to turn you into a horse.

On a more serious note, the industries that made these cities what they are are mostly gone now, and they're not coming back. The thing that made these cities attractive for these industries is no longer all that relevant: their location on the water. These days, there just isn't much to make these cities attractive for new industries, except maybe cheap real estate, but you can get that in many other places in the US while not being burdened by 1) terrible weather and 2) crumbling old infrastructure that's going to cost a fortune to modernize. I think these cities can reinvent themselves to a degree, taking advantage of the many old buildings and such, but I don't think they'll ever get back to the population levels and economic statuses they had in the past, just like Rome is probably never going to be the leading city in Europe again.
Apologies for misrepresenting your words then.

Benevolence is a good idea. I think it can be done through coin distribution.
I hand you a gun and say "you can point this gun at anyone, pull the trigger, and it wont harm them." You point the gun at a crowd, pull the trigger, it goes off and kills someone.

Who do you blame?

No one is saying guns, or cars, aren't dangerous. However this kind of false advertising leads people to use cars in dangerous ways while believing they are safe because they've been lied to.

(Side note, there is some fine print you never read that says the safe-gun technology only works when you point the gun at a single person and doesn't work on crowds.)
>> In Linux, kernel space is constantly present and maps the same physical memory in all processes.

That's right there together with the city states of Greece and other ancient memories. Meltdown and Specter happened.
I used to use Prince in a few print-heavy applications. Eventually I moved to a LaTeX based workflow instead (we needed some features that Prince couldn't be expected to deliver). But Prince was a real pleasure to work with, and the output quality was very good. If LaTeX weren't a viable option in my project then I would use it again.

Interesting random factoid: Prince is (was?) written in a language called Mercury [1], which is kind of a statically typed Prolog. Research into Prince turned me on to state-of-the-art logic programming, so I'm thankful for that as well. :)

[1] http://www.mercurylang.org/
BigInt: arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript
Oh shit, I absolutely love Infinity Loop! I played it a bunch and got a ton of mileage out of it. It hits what in my experience is a very difficult to achieve balance of relaxing and engaging, and even though it's simple it never really feels repetative (meditative, maybe?).

I played the pre-tutorial version and I found it highly intuitive and easy to get in to, I think you really nailed that aspect. Thanks for the great game!
This has nothing to do with over-engineered infrastructure.

As soon as your side project processes and / or stores user data GDPR applies to you.

Good luck with providing the requisite documentation and data processing agreements if authorities ask for them and you didn’t prepare those in time.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tesla-autopilot-...

Tesla driver caught turning on autopilot and leaving driver’s seat on motorway
Culprit admits he knew what he had done was ‘silly’ but that the car was capable of something ‘amazing’
I don't disagree, although I'd be a bit more nuanced than that. It is like herbal supplements, you can say how great they make you feel but you have to avoid making medical claims that you can't back up.

I don't think anyone would have flinched at setting the stage like "At IBM we're working on technology so that some day your interaction with a computer can be as simple as sitting down and having a conversation."

Setting expectations you cannot meet is something you try to avoid in Marketing. Because you get angry op eds like the one that kicked off this conversation.
Prolog and MiniZinc (google them) are two useful goal-oriented programming languages. They are amazing at solving goal-problems, but are IMHO lacking in the general purpose department. What I mean is that they are great at solving n-queens problems and finding optimal seating arrangements, but not great for writing web servers or GUI:s in.
Are there plans to merge remaining differences to upstream and switch to it?
And if the bank decides to break that agreement and run off with the cash (Or just lose it), there exists a regulatory framework that will resolve 99% of these sorts of issues.

This is also where GDPR is at. Without it, in theory, you have a shrinkwrap tl;dr agreeement with the service, but in practice, they can do whatever they want with your data, with no repercussions.

See: Facebook and CA. Facebook misused my data (Because my friends opted in to sharing it), CA misused my data (Because they weren't even supposed to be given access to it), and the outcome? Nothing of consequence.

GDPR does three things:

1. It makes those repercussions have teeth.

2. It makes sure that you give informed consent to use of your data. (Unsurprisingly, similar laws exist for banks!)

3. It clarifies what has to happen when you stop being a user of a service. (Prior to it, de-facto, your data would be opted into whatever changes of the data usage policy the service made - regardless of whether or not you still had an active account, whether you agreed with the ToS, etc. If you deleted your Facebook account, you had zero leverage of how your data would be used.)
Probably sends a SIGALRM signal in 10 seconds.

https://linux.die.net/man/2/alarm
It sucks but if it's not malignant it's a huge relief (even if it's a hugely bad news).
The numbers are wrong since it compares expensive new cars versus everything else(old cars with no safety features, bikes, buses) if you compare with similar cars you get numbers that are not in Tesla favor.
So try not to spread this false numbers, also the Tesla numbers are not open to be examined by third parties.
TDD and Automated Unit Testing for .NET Console Applications
I have no control over the log files other than being able to edit and remove them manually.
There's a possibility that Twitter might have sold DM information as well.

No, there’s not. They don’t sell DMs.
If you are not a photographer, how is this rewarding?

I do not understand this epidemic. I can’t imagine caring the least bit about “likes” and it seems like I’m in the minority.
This is neat, but perhaps switching the final typesetting engine from chromium's PDF printer to LaTex (via Pandoc maybe) would make it more useful. You'd get more control over things like page numbering and TOCs, plus good justification/microtypography, which is important to most publishers.
Can I be taxed as a s corp with stripe atlas?
The examples lack hyphenation, which partly explains the too-variable interword spacing. Is this because Chrome still fails to support hyphenation, unlike, for example, Firefox?

There are other subtle defects, which make these PDFs pretty good, but not high quality.

Here is a brief discussion of some of the shortcomings of web typography, and why we still need to use TeX if we want the most beautiful and easiest to read results:

https://lwn.net/Articles/662053/

All that aside, this is impressive and should be useful to many people.
I'm not entirely sure I understand this post. First two paragraphs indicate that the place hit rough time and ironically lost the people that could make it better. Which, to be fair, sounds like more places with high poverty or few jobs. (Those do somewhat feed on each other, no?)

The third indicates education helps a lot. But, you restrict yourself to basically adult education. To keep people somewhere, you need not to just convince them it is a place they can thrive, but that their kids could, too.

Fourth, I don't know. You reference the soul of a city, but give little extra thought to that and move on.

Your last paragraph, though, just loses me. You use obviously negative rhetoric to describe what you think of most currently succeeding cities. It is the obviously negative tone that annoys me. Your second sentence is one I can agree with. The first just doesn't belong next to it. You want me to accept one lifestyle while simultaneously being willing to reject another. Or, at least, be ok with it being rejected.
+1 for mentioning the interview, but a link would've been helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7hnVYMoctM

Microsoft did claim they were worth $20, according to Gov. Exhibit 17. Most of your argument is thus false.

District and appellate judges don't always make the right decisions, but that's what rehearings and the Supreme Court are for.
Because instead of one special function (swap) it needs two (swap and compare), and the two refer to the same data. So, put that data in a struct and give it methods.
Safer than human hardware does not imply safe.

It means this will kill people but fewer people than humans would and they have actual data that backs this assertion up.

The benchmark is not an alert, cautious, and sober driver because that's often not how actual people drive. So right now it's often safer to drive other times it really is safer to use autopilot, net result fewer people die.
Who are these researchers? Does Caddy have the kind of market share that would make that information useful?

I could sort of understand it is this was being pitched as a way to improve Caddy by reporting back crashes or misconfigurations. But what I've heard makes no sense to me.
ReLaXed really focuses on PDFs right now (to keep the initial focus small) but it produces an HTML file as a byproduct. From what I understand there is not far from an HTML file to an Epub.

This being said, the primary goal of this library is to enable to make documents with complex or fancy layouts. Epubs generally have a simple structure (chapter/section/paragraph) and can be written using for instance Markdown:

https://pandoc.org/epub.html
I think we are talking past each other. I am not talking about the Account Activity API or Site Streams. I am talking about their FREE streaming API that let's you stream millions of tweets per day. I am just trying to raise awareness about how easily people can pull user data en masse from Twitter, which is very relevant to the article. It's public, but people still don't realize just how easy it is to do.

Again, this is the API I am talking about:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime...