skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't downvote you, but you had me at "shared consciousness". Since no neuroscientist or philosopher can definitly tell what consciousness is or how it constitutes, speculations about a "shared consciousness" is idle at best, more probably than not its just plain wrong. Since I don't want to spend time with idle speculation about concepts that are not explained by physical reality[0], I categorized this posting as: "esoteric" and went on. I can only tell you about my reasons not to take this posting serious, but I think others might have similiar reasons.

[0]: A "shared consciousness" must communicate in some way; no signals (in the form of either electromagnetic, gravitic, strong or weak nuclear force) have been detected that could accomplish this.
I think you'll find the performance per gzipped line of code is a decently robust metric for a performance/productivity tradeoff, although it may have a wide variance.

Performance optimizations tend to involve a lot of specialization, which means more code, which makes this ratio worse. The gzipped size is a proxy for the minimum description length/Kolmogorov complexity, which measures language expressiveness.
Ouch. Doing cyber related software for years, can't really avoid the word. Though I don't think it's different from safety, reliability in the sense of good engineering goals. I wasn't expect being judged for using a word. Sadly, many engineers are quite biased, so don't beat yourself up.
> This is probably necessary because Go's RE2 lacks some features

No, it's because PCRE is faster than Go's standard library regex engine on this particular benchmark. There is another entry for Go (called just `Go` I believe) that uses Go's "regexp" package.

The regexredux benchmark itself does not require any "fancy" features. It can be satisfied by pure regular expressions.
binary-trees

source secs
Go 28.80
Lisp 8.49

You know what I would choose if I needed a garbage collected language.

Btw,the lisp version uses no fancy tree allocator, just plain standard lisp lists.
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GDPR and personal data chat – eps.19 of the machine ethics podcast
oh cool, thanks! for anybody who cba to take a proper look but is idly curious, a quick browse of the stuff they pulled turned up...

* a couple of duped windows installers for... something... i'm not brave enough to run.

* something linked to a betting site

* an IP anonymiser

* an encoded block of JSON that is named enc_sources.json

* an issue raised with GreatWall (who apparently monitor and challenge Chinese internet censorship)

* a free web proxy

* and weirdly, a single commit to objidlib "A library for working with NTFS Object Idenitifers".
> Even though Rust apparently "won" here(does anybody really win in such comparisons?) I don't care that much about it, because I don't consider this the main appeal of the language.

Completely agree. For me, my primary consideration is developer sanity. A subtle compromise between speed, ease, and clarity. I don't program in Node or Python anymore because while it has ease, clarity is completely missing. I used Rust for 6 months or so and while it has speed and clarity, the ease was just not there for me. Go hits a nice sweet spot for me.

I think if Rust managed to improve ergonomics more and more it would really nail the sweet spot. But, there's still work to do.
Google Chrome team rolls back the update that muted many web games
My SP4 is still working okay but my wife's SP3 had the keyboard stop working for no apparent reason. It's actually the device itself since my keyboard won't work on hers either.
Arguing about it's merits doesn't miss the point at all because it isn't limited to the browser. Even other dynamic languages generally have a better design and are much easier to debug in production in my experience.

Also, people making legitimate criticisms about a technology (in this case to try and cut through the hype train a bit) are not 'trolls'.
I haven't heard anybody claim that go-llvm is much faster systematically. I'm assuming that I would have by now. Similarly, the gogcc implementation doesn't seem to have any speed advantages, because again, I assume I would have heard of them by now.

The Rust team has some really interesting blog posts about how you can't just wave LLVM at a program and expect the optimizer to work magic, but that you need to process the code for LLVM first, such as this one: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html Bear in mind that not only is the little paragraph about LLVM optimization relevant to my point here, the entire blog post is ultimately about the things the Rust compiler can do that the LLVM optimizer could not; if LLVM just optimized the code magically perfectly, MIR either never would have happened, or would have happened later because the pressures to create it would be less if LLVM was already as optimal as possible.
There is a super accurate statement in that article:

We made a game that nobody wanted to buy

Everything else is trying to convince the reader that the above wasn't a failure on their part. There is an ever growing saturation of games (and music and books and indeed all consumable entertainment) - and success is down to a combination of making something that people want to play and making sure that those people know about it. One of the two things alone is insufficient tbh.
How to become an 'elastic thinker' and problem solver
That first link is pretty damning. You're right, the older images are almost all of hard news.

Here are some of the stories I see on BBC News currently:

- N Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit

- Italy's populists plan to defy EU rules

- Body clock linked to mood disorders

- Controversial Russia-Crimea bridge opens

- Row over World Cup flirting manual

- New Girl bids bittersweet farewell

- Bank chief sorry for menopausal gaffe

- Anne Frank's dirty jokes uncovered

- Meghan's dad may miss wedding over surgery

- Celebrating mixed race identity

- Why is Spanish ham so expensive?

- Ghana shoe seller takes on ex-dictator

I'd say that the vast majority of these are lightweight human interest stories, several of them are just ID politics masquerading as news and some are both. Why is stuff about TV show New Girl on the BBC News front page?

The story about the "menopausal" gaffe turns out to be that a Bank of England governor described some economies as "menopausal, past their peak, and no longer so potent". This apparently is a gaffe worthy of being in the business news section. It's not clear to me why it's even a gaffe to begin with. Do feminists now argue the menopause isn't a biological event at all? Apparently they do, according to some random economics professor at some random university (the BBC loves quoting academics) - "It conveys a rather derogatory view of women. I've never thought of the menopause as not productive".

It's really pretty trashy. Very different to how it once was.
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For Armageddon and Deep Impact, I heard that it can be explained by scripts circulating around Hollywood before being put in production by a studio, so one idea can easily be copied
The BBC was forced to scale back its website(s) because of complaints by the private sector that it was unfair competition. For example,

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2013/news/bbc-is-unfair-c...

They argued that the BBC was using its guaranteed income from the licence fee (originally for just TV and Radio) to crowd out the competition in the UK, by being too good...
The Euro NCAP ratings gave the Model-S approximately the same rating as the Maserati Quattroporte which is similar in size and shape.
And when the solution to the next unfavorable situation he faces involves railroading you? Liars lie and cheaters cheat. You might be fine if you're never their target, but you never know when you will be.
I've heard the movie plot twins phenomenon is because multiple studios will want a script and start assembling a team around it but one will outbid the other for the rights to the script. The losing studio will then pay a ghostwriter to create a similar script so they can continue with their plans.

Another theory is a lower budget production produces a similar movie to kind of 'draft' the marketing success of the main movie. These are called mockbusters
What happens when you don't avoid clouds of volcanic ash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM_Flight_867
Maybe [1]. I wouldn't count on being protected while outside the EU.

Art. 3 GDPR Territorial scope

Article 3(1) This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

Article 3(2)(a) - the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or
Article 3(2)(b) - the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

Article 3(3) This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
In fact, the LTR systems are the original mirroring; Greek script was a mirroring of the RTL Phoenician/Canaanite abjad.
I just finished watching both his calculus series and linear algebra. I have to say 3blue1brown has made a mathematical masterpiece of a youtube series

Neither of those subjects really clicked with me until I could visualize it in a 2D / 3D representation
I'm always a fan of free educational tools, especially ones that cross traditional borders.
Releasing the data to corporations creates a different Big Brother.
And for those who (like me) don't know what this is, lemme google that for ya. From the short Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis):

"Library Genesis or LibGen is a search engine for articles and books on various topics, which allows free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. Among others it carries PDF's of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal."

[...] and

"As of November 2017, the Library Genesis database contains more than 2.1 million books."
No, it's not just you. I can hear the SSDs in two of my laptops.
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There's no right answer. Having a nice steady pay check isn't horrible. If you have job offers probably a good idea to take the job get some experience. If you like to ski try to stay close to a place to ski(even if it's for less money). There are collaborative parts to being a developer. Look into becoming a project manager or business analyst. get a certification as a scrum master.

maybe look at getting a trade job as an electrician. More hands on. Or apply to power companies. maybe if you like traveling find a company that will force, make you, I mean, let you travel...your still young. Nothings set in stone. Maybe take some time to decompress. you can do what ever you want.
But if that's judged by the companies you've worked for, how do you get in if you didn't study at the right university or come from the right background?
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Is there such a thing as odor in an objective sense? Olfaction is just the detection of chemical volatiles in the air/water going through an animal’s nose/gills. We “notice” smells that we’ve evolved chemosensors for; everything else just goes on through.

So, if you want to replicate smell, are you talking about replicating the particular suite of chemosensors all humans have in common? Some particular human? All animals? Or, are you not so much talking about odor (the thing that anythinghas evolved to detect) as chemical volatiles generally?

Even then, we need to manufacture something much like chemosensors to detect any particular chemical volatile—we have to be explicit about what we’re looking for, and won’t see anything we don’t know to look for. (You can use a mass spectrometer, but you’re not getting molecules from that, just atomic isotopes; and you’re not getting just volatiles, but the whole fluid containing the volatiles.)
Isn't that an observatory like I always know them, e.g. with a roof that can close? That.
Thanks, I literally just came here to ask for book recommendations on this topic.

Are there any other suggestions?
Ehhhh...it works okay but the same fundamental serialization problem exists. The fact that dict can be roughly equivalent to JSON helps, but as soon as you start including more complex types you're going to have to use something to handle serialization/deserialization. Which really isn't that complex with Java if you're using a few convenience libraries: gson, orika/mapstruct, lombok all make it a lot less painful to write this kind of boilerplate serialization code.
doubleyourfreelancing.com is a great resource
I used one of the first generation dev boards, it had external DRAM and ROM.
Show HN: Nuage – Org Mode companion app for browsers
The principles of security have not changed in thousands of years(Least Privilege, fix vulnerabilities/gaps, understand methods of attack...) as those principles apply to the world of IT they have not changed since IT happened. Specific events and vulnerabilities may have come and gone but the principles of design, and all such like things, have not changed at all. What has changed about trying to maintain Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Accountability, etc.?
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The clever part is that the government in turn is allowed to purchase data from the other companies.
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Senate votes today on rollback of net neutrality rollback
You can publish NWJS/Electron apps for steam.
You can plug a Phaser game into an NWJS/Electron app.

So yes.
Heh. Back in the 90’s in college I would keep my phone on top of the monitor I was sitting at exactly so I would see the monitor juke just before the phone connected.

People always asked how I managed to answer the phone so fast. Electromagnetic Supplementary Perception, of course.
If you only have hammer everything looks like nail. You will enjoy other languages much more.
Sure. The Greenworks library lets any JavaScript game integrate with Steamworks in NW.js or Electron: https://github.com/greenheartgames/greenworks
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> I also find that python has reserved a whole bunch of keywords that I can't use as function names, making APIs hard to create with appropriate names.

Python is one of the imperative languages with fewer number keywords in existence. Compare for example the number of keywords in Python[1] with Javascript[2].

Maybe you're confusing the built-in functions in Python language, like len() or str(), however since they're functions you can reassign them (not a good idea, however in a limited scope it works).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics#Ke...
[2]: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_reserved.asp

> It has so little syntax you can't tell the difference between various things. A variable declaration, a reassignment, a keyword, a whatever else, they don't have any visual distinction from each other.

The fact that you don't know the difference between keywords and built-in functions makes your argument weak. But I will bite, if you're having difficult to make the distinction between a keyword and a variable you probably have a very bad editor. Syntax highlighting helps a lot here (like in almost every other language).

> You also have to pollute your code with self everywhere.

I really like the fact that self is explicit in Python. It makes OO patterns more explicit (there is no magic variable like self or this, just a parameter that is passed as the first argument in any Class method) and it helps making a distinction between attributes and local variables. Really, I would go even further and make super() a method from Object, so instead of calling a magic method super() I would call:

class Test:
def __init__(self):
self.super().__init__(self)

Ugly? Maybe, however it is so much easier to understand what is happening.

> has no where near the number of libraries on github as javascript

Most JavaScript libraries in GitHub are pure toys/garbage, though. Python has a number of useful libraries and if you don't concur with me, please give examples of areas where Python is lacking a good library (I can easily give an example for JavaScript: ML and scientifc computing).
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Principal engineers write more docs than code. It’s a good gig depending on what you want to spend time on.
Former JPMorgan Employees Launch Startup Clovyr
Neat. I have an friend-of-a-friend who is trying to find a dog-friendly flat in southish London and I've been trying to find a way that they could do this.
During the Queensland floods in Australia a suite of insurance companies didn't pay out thousands of their customers because they deemed the flood to have been an 'inland tsunami' and not to be confused with a 'flood'. Which no joke, was in the fine print as an exception.

This is a 'flood' that caused billions worth of damage that displaced millions out of homes and covered an area that would have covered the majority of Europe under metres of 'flood' waters.

It went to court and State and Federal Governments got involved to settle the case. Not sure what happened to it.

Nothing further to add here beside to point out. Insurance companies can be fucking awfully deceptive.
> There's no myth that we won it alone.

Yes, there is.

> Elementary school texts on the subject lay it out fairly clearly that we did it with the French.

Textbooks are a mixed bag, but most I've seen at K-12 levels do mention that the French eventually were involved in some way, but very few give a real idea of the nature, extent (material or temporal), and criticality of French aid. E.g., approximately zero note that France started covertly arming and funding independence-minded Americans before the Declaration of Independence.

But even if the textbooks told the whole story, that wouldn't disprove the existence of a popular myth, it would just make it's persistence more remarkable.
> I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...

He should have offered a cash bribe. That would surely have worked.
I've noticed that on our electric bills, the utility separates the energy charge and the delivery charge--and the delivery charge is often more than the actual cost of the electricity.
And if you live in a glass house, you shouldn't throw stones.
Ya know, that conversation already happened, and the "powers that be" chose public safety over personal privacy. I work in facial recognition. You're gonna see it blanket this civilization, completely. We are selling systems to every school district, shopping center, sports stadium, and municipal district nationwide. In the 2nd world it is even more active. The time to debate FR is past.
Well, such a release should of course be limited, regulated and with oversight. But I'd argue that at least police should have some possibility to get at customer data, even without opt-in.

Release of privacy-sensitive data to other companies should strictly be by clear customer opt-in, with clear limits on its use. And even some of that should be forbidden for semi-monopolies such as telecom providers.
It is; here's a very brief "how to".

http://www.andy-howard.com/phaser-to-steam/
> This isn't a new thing and has precisely nothing to do with net neutrality

Wouldn't a net neutrality proponent say that blocking traffic to/from an IP is non-neutral regardless of reason?
I disagree that the comparison as presented on this page is useful for you. If there were any context or discussion of the results and what they mean in terms of differences between the languages, then maybe it could be. But raw benchmarks collected with no indication of why or how is not. In the regex test, for example, all the patterns are very similar to each other and don’t really cover the breadth of what a regex engine can do (specific patterns may influence the results greatly—there are some very simple patterns that send the default Java regex engine into O(n^n) fits). And regex in particular is a very well understood problem space. So something very interesting is going on there for the golang result to be so far off. What is happening? Well, we’ll never know from this page. Oh well?
The nice thing about HTML5 games based on NW.js is that in most (all?) cases you can start the game in developer mode and tinker around with chrome's developer tools.
Show HN: Whurthay, Track where your website traffic is from
I hate Hugo
They did then go on to get nearly 2000 "very positive" reviews, which is indicative of many more sales. I think they did well in a sale later down the line.
As blocking fraudulent claims could remove a reason for my premiums to he higher, I can't say I'm against that.

With the caveat, for course, that people are not always where their phone is so this taken on its own would be circumstantial evidence: one would hope decisions are not made directly based on this information.
2 card on 1 account, 1 on another (where account is different web login). I'll revisit it and see if I'm unwittingly lying or if i can point you in the right direction.
Oh man, this gives me fuzzy feelings. I remember developing my first applications in VB 4 back in 97 or so, I had so much fun. I remember when IE 4 came along, with its flat icons and Active Desktop and things. My 100 MHz Pentium couldn't even run it well, what with the 16 MB of RAM.
I just discovered this treasure trove from the UK house of commons in 2006

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo06...

"To extend that to adults, The Guardian journalist Ben Goldacre showed recently that someone needs possession of another person's mobile phone for only a couple of minutes to appear to give the consent required under mobile phone companies' current procedures. The person he was tracking never got any of the warning messages that were meant to have been sent to her. Even more scarily, a hacker's website has recently published information telling how to spoof consent without even having to have temporary possession of the target's phone; all that is needed is the number. If someone has a person's number, he can track them. It is not a problem. I know where the website is, but I am not going to tell Members. It is possible to track people just through their phone numbers."
what? so it's not just me?

i assumed that it stopped working after i went ballistic in the privacy and telemetry sections of the control panel.
Specifically ice hockey, I assume?

Field hockey ( just called hockey in Europe ) doesn't involve bodily contact.
What are your personal goals Andrew?
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There is this old theory about that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism
The Marxist as well as the libertarian theories about it probably contain a few valuable insights and a few terrible ideas for fixing the situation, as usual for radical political theories.
APL and co kind of undermine that metric, wouldn't you say?
High DPI displays require pretty enormous icons to look good. And you can of course also cache the results of rendering a vector image at exactly the size you need.
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Yes? Government Big Brother can put me in jail just because a cell phone record said I was near a crime while being committed. Corporate Big Brother can only make money from me.
It’s a bit ironic that America both reveres that quote and has the largest prison population in the world.
An explicit recursive-descent parser for a simple grammar is smaller, less complex, and easier to maintain than e.g. flex+bison. Lack of dependencies is a bonus.
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