skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only more intuitive to see the shape of the serial execution. That same property makes it more difficult to prove qualities about the code (say, correctness) because you need to keep track of state in your head as you trace through the program, rather than encoding it structurally as you would with a recursive solution.

So, intuitive is not so valuable unless you get correctness out of it.
It's kind of amazing how many ideas are framed in terms of a "problem" as though it is divorced from people. A good place to start for building anything that people will want to pay for is Cindy Alvarez's book "Lean Customer Development".
Massive Consensus Conference Succumbs to Blockchain 'Echo Chamber'
The amount of street lighting is a complex function (varying a great deal in space and time) of local budgets, changes to CFL/ led/ other technologies, and political desires on the one hand for the perception of fighting crime, and on the one hand much more rarely for less light pollution. I do not see that they controlled for any of this (and can't imagine how they could have). Possibly some of the cited papers that I did not look at might have tried to address this.
Maybe those had interdependencies that would have caused a total failure if the previous phase failed?
In a strange event of serendipity, my frustration with the reddit redesign boiled over today and I paid a visit - as I do once every few months - to /r/RedditAlternatives. Not two hours previously, this site had been posted - and from my initial skim-reading of its ethos page onwards I have been blown away by how well engineered it is. I've spent three years building up a mental model of the perfect community site, and it's just turned up out of the blue as tildes.net.
Given that, is the caption "Emulating Alias Marketing Menus" a Freudian slip?
I did have to do one algorithm type interview in 1999, but the company was actually writing cross platform (Windows console, Unix, and MVS) C code where we had to implement everything from scratch, so it made sense. But unless you're Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. where you have to solve problems at a scale that no one has had to solve before, most of the algorithm style questions are meaningless in your day to day work.
I know you are frustrated. But your tone and rebuttals sounded repetitive to me as well. Learn to be self critical too. You were overwhelmingly shot down in your comments yesterday and there is a reason for it.
That's their (Apple's) prerogative yes, but typically when a workforce unionize, everyone unionizes. So the threat of lawsuits is more Apple's concern than developers'. Of course if it gets to that point, then arguably the app store itself is going to be in trouble and everyone could find themselves out of a job, which has certainly happened in the past.

I'd also like to point out that there's some antitrust stuff at work here too, because the app store probably shouldn't be coupled to a specific company/device in the first place. The idea that every app developer everywhere is beholden to Apple, Microsoft (and now Google and Amazon) is just as much of a problem today as 30 years ago. 30% (this might be 15% now?) or more is being skimmed off everyone's profit margin, which is stifling innovation across the board. I think that's what we're really talking about here, and why it's threatening to the status quo.

I'm not saying any of this is good or bad, just that, there are many ways to structure the economy of the future and we're in one that favors multinational corporations with a trillion dollars of combined wealth. Meanwhile individual workers have almost no solidarity, which leaves them with little or no recourse for handling grievances. I'm just surprised that with the unprecedented concentration of intelligence on forums like these that any thought of organizing seems completely out of the question. That's quite a code smell and a rather large untapped market when you stop and think about it.
> Senary may be considered interesting in the study of prime numbers, since all primes other than 2 and 3, when expressed in senary, have 1 or 5 as the final digit.

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

I expressed it poorly, but not as you state, incorrectly.
Once you get the JeVois[1] it would be interesting to run the "Background subtraction to detect moving objects"[2] model and see how that compares.

1. https://www.jevoisinc.com/products/jevois-a33-smart-machine-...

2. http://jevois.org/moddoc/DemoBackgroundSubtract/modinfo.html
How North Korean hackers became the world’s greatest bank robbers
> There's nothing bad about no-response - People are much more likely to respond on the web and email when you're wrong. ;)

There certainly could be something bad about no-response. As someone in academia who gets uninformed musings or crackpot theories from laypeople in his mailbox from time to time, no-response basically means “I know you are wrong, seriously wrong (and, in many crackpot cases, probably mentally ill), but I am not going to just waste my time trying to tell you that.”
O'Reilly?
Disabling Callkit for China Apps
No, this is only not targeting people accessing internet using EU IP addresses, it doesn't exclude EU residents.
I'd argue though that given the current buggy state of macOs and ios, the awful keyboards on the recent mbps, the late release of a decent mac pro that Tim Cook is not demanding enough or doesn't actually get people to produce good work...
I feel like I already know you by reading your thoughts. Good to know at least few people think that.

Today even pre-ipo companies have MBA's and execs. I think it has to be even smaller company < 100 people may be.
Under what circumstances is it acceptable for a company to provide services or software to a military?
I think you've hit the nail on the head regarding the bias of this particular forum. As a group, it seems obvious that HN would be less risk-sensitive than the average.

For the sake of the topic however, I'd say that in this case the greatest risk is in not pushing to become compliant for the sake of future-proofing against legislation of this type. The mood of consumers and legislators worldwide is becoming increasingly pro-privacy and security.

Essentially, many businesses not looking to adopt GDPR compliant are winning the economic mini-game while getting beaten in the metagame.
Do you think it's somehow not "universally toxic" to be inculcated into the notion that the only legitimate (as in socially sanctioned) forms of emotional expression available to you are lust and rage?

And then to be told those are "bad" too?

That's absolutely universally toxic to men's mental health, unless you can suggest to me a circumstance in which that's healthy, correct, and appropriate?

Regardless, that's a straw-man notion of the term. Healthy aspects of a thing, over-valued or under-corrected, can become unhealthy, too.

For example, "Boys will be boys." There's a legitimate idea behind that phrase: we want to encourage boys to be risk-taking and adventurous. It's also used to excuse a lot of shitty behavior, which teaches boys that (their) shitty behavior is tolerated.

Please tell me how that's not inherently toxic.

EDIT: And maybe you're just talking to the wrong people; the folks I talk about these things with absolutely talk about toxic femininity.
The title of this post is a bit misleading (and a bit click-bait-y) — this is one person's response to a quora question, and it seems like the point of his answer was more "the Stuxnet worm is a seriously complex piece of history if you don't know about it" and less "this is the definitive most sophisticated piece of software ever." I feel like we can agree that the definition of sophisticated[0] is fairly hard to quantify and rank software objectively against.

[0]: "(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity", according to google: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+sophisticated
> Yes, and if you read the article you'll notice the significant difference.

Yes, but neither the headline, nor the text of the article, nor any of the commentary here so far mentions the significant difference in the excerpts shown, which is only tangentially connected to removing gratuitous repetition of the phrase “don't be evil.”

The signficant change is removing the value statement connected to the old motto in the first paragraph of the excerpt from the older Code of Conduct: “Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.”

(Now, it's possible that those value statements were redundant with other parts of the CoC or that the revision moved them to someplace other than the place preceding the rest of the excerpt and that they retain equal prominence in the new CoC, in which case the selection of the excerpt boundaries would be another misleading aspect of the article. And you can even make the case that they were largely redundant with the last sentence of the second paragraph of then old—first of the new—excerpt, so that, while it's more significant than dropping a few repetitions of “don’t be evil”, it's not all that significant.)
Kennethreitz: A Letter to /r/python
Are you me? Same story, except that it's my users uploading questionable (not explicit) images, and I quickly restricted where the ad would show. Then suddenly I am committing fraud and bye bye account.

Up to this day, I pretty much avoid all Google services except a forwarding Gmail account, Youtube, and some searches. I also continuously recommended anyone who asked my advice to avoid Google (even more than Facebook.) I've been doing this for the last 10 years already.

Good riddance Google. Your Ad-Sense support was quite frankly, customer unsupport.
When ever I read stories about adsense providers behaving like this, or even "banks" like paypal just closing accounts without any legal security whatsoever, or Websites themself selling user data and serving malware, I always think of situation Warez sites and their users were in a decade ago.

Sure, If you visited specific Warez sites, you could assume that the Ads served will likely infect your machine. And sure, the guys running the websites might not be able to cash out the ad revenue.

But the realization, that a lot of legit businesses today are in the same situation as sites who were run from shady servers in "digital no mans land" by guys concerned that some kind of law enforcement might ask who owns the site is either funny or deeply disturbing.
The headline is of course wrong, they didn't remove it fully, they removed it from one paragraph.

More interestingly, they removed another sentence from that paragraph:

"[...] providing our users unbiased access to information."

In other words, Google wants to crack down on wrongthink without violating their own code of conduct.
I would argue there are several sections in the GDPR that appear to allow for a 3rd party to request data on behalf of the data subject. For example:

A20(2): In exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to paragraph 1, the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible.

A12(3): ... Where the data subject makes the request by electronic form means, the information shall be provided by electronic means where possible, unless otherwise requested by the data subject.

Even in the case it didn't work out to directly query, as another has suggested, just making it easy to fill out as many forms as possible in an automated fashion has value. Use their email to send from.

Also, how does the data subject or gdpr.me know that your company hasn't hoovered up some PII of the data subject?

I've read it several times and unless more clarity comes down on questions like this I'm quite afraid of abuse. I've read 8% of UK citizens intend to (ab)use GDPR for spiteful reasons.

EDIT:

Ok - I believe this absolutely supports my point, straight from the horse's mouth... This is from WP29-2017-4-data-portability-guidance:

"Data subjects should be enabled to make use of a personal data store, personal information management system (PIMS) or other kinds of trusted third-parties, to hold and store the personal data and grant permission to data controllers to access and process the personal data as required."

This is immediately after saying businesses should create API's to allow data portability and GDPR requests.
Sweet. Can we get one for all the Amazon Affiliate accounts as well?
The touch keyboard in Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 versions 1507/1511/1607/1703 had radial menus for selecting alternate and secondary characters, they were pretty nice and quick and became even quicker when I ended up memorizing a lot of the gestures. Sadly they're gone since Windows 10 version 1709, replaced with something much slower.
Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook
So? You’re a fraud enjoy your money it means nothing.
I've been thinking about this market lately, have you done something similar?
That would be my preference too. It feels like there are so many possibilities for performance gains and better tooling stuck behind WASM's lack of DOM integration and other native browser libs.
Or just call it caching the intermediate solutions.
> It's literally the point of the organization that did the survey

What is “the point” of the organization that did the survey?

> these economists are members of this organization.

In the sense that they are surveyed by this organization? Do you mean that anyone who is surveyed by organization X belongs to X?

> You’re the one being intentionally vague with "what you think a policy 'is about' and its actual consequences are very different things."

I wasn’t being vague, much less intentionally. I was merely pointing out that what you (or I) think a policy “is about” is very different from its real-world consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

> I'm trying to get you to be specific concerning the technical details of your argument

What “argument” of mine are you referring to? And why do you hold me to such high standards of “technical details”, which you don’t seem to apply to yourself? That’s just plain hypocrisy.

> but you seem to be fighting that pretty hard.

I honestly have no idea where you’re trying to go with this.
I've had people bleed on my on the SF MUNI, it's thoroughly disgusting and scary.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this article talking about data layout in memory, and not memory models at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_model_(programming)

Regardless, interesting to read about "old" languages, such as Cobol. The way data was laid out in Cobol programs made sense with old computing resource limitations.
> I expressed it poorly, but not as you state, incorrectly.

No, really, it is completely incorrect to use “multiple of X in base Y” to mean “have X as the final digit in base Y” (which is equivalent to “is congruent to X modulo Y.”)

13 is not, in base 10 (or anywhere else), a multiple of 3.[0]

That's just not what “multiple” means.

[0] Well, the number denoted by the digits “13” in any base that is itself a multiple of 3—other than base 3 itself where “13” is not a valid number—is a multiple of 3, obviously, but we're talking about the number represented by “13” in base 10.
"Really nice person who wants you to succeed."
Why a fraud?
That was your own self imposed guilt because she was female and old. Someone of your own age and sex probably would not have the same effect.
2.b Be independent contractor. Carefully work on side-biz on your own time. Have good documentation and git-log in case someone at the client ends up caring when you worked on it (zero risk if it's not core biz for them and they aren't assholes). Don't tell anyone what you're working. Don't use proprietary data in your product. Profit
Don't see whats fraudulent about building something people want, use and presumably get value from.
How do we know it's you and not the T-Mobile employee?
Google is far from the best search engine so you would be completely wrong. You're awful at search in Chinese and Russian. A complete joke even.
Everyone keeps saying this, but it doesn't make sense to compile JavaScript to WebAssembly. Even if WASM had enough built-in APIs to allow you to implement JS without also implementing its runtime, you would lose all of the JIT performance optimizations. There is literally no benefit, aside from being able to implement non-backwards-compatible features (which doesn't feel like a strong reason to me, given the cost).
Suspect in shooting that killed 10 at Texas' Santa Fe High School denied bail
Er, John Carmack?
>The thing is I get sick of the moralizing that underlies all these threads, as if our media doesn't do the exact same thing. re: manufacturing consent.

But this is exactly the whataboutism I'm talking about.

The point of the article is that our media doesn't do the exact same thing. When Chomsky and Herman talked about "manufacturing consent", they didn't mean that there is literally a cabal of media companies and the government guiding the American media. However in China there is, in fact, a documented, government-sponsored program to manipulate Chinese media.

If you want to discuss the problem of manufactured consent in the US or the West, start a thread about that, but don't clutter this discussion with irrelevant derails seemingly designed to muddy the waters and deflect from the point of the discussion.
There's a footnote for the first sentence of TFA that addresses this.
Yes, I'm sure, and it's not just my opinion, but consensus.

Autoimmunity was doubling every couple decades, but won't again 'cause more than half the population now has eczema. Diabetes had been doubling, too. Diabetes as a rare disease existed anciently (as did asthma, more commonly) but exploded in the nineteenth century, as did seasonal allergies, starting in the cities and only later smaller towns and rural areas, to the astonishment of doctors. It was unknown before, as was MS. (Temporary loss of sight can be caused by many things, including CCI or trauma.) Lupus goes back further. (One famous case "first case of MS" a few centuries earlier was thought to be MS, but is now thought to be lupus.)

I don't know of any ancient identification of seasonal allergies, and the Razi Wikipedia page doesn't give one that. It wasn't common before the nineteenth century, according to nineteenth-century doctors who watched it balloon during their lifetimes.

We also have (a diminishing number) of native populations to study and atopy is very rare, MS was unknown amongst them. Similarly diabetes. Etc.

My sources aren't general but journal articles, those notes aren't easily available to me. I read at least the abstracts of getting on to 500,000 journal articles over about ten years and retain notes on 100,000 articles (not all the original journal articles.)

One recent source re asthma:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26439263
Some interesting points in the article, but it misses the most important reason to read old philosophy. This is that, because unlike science, philosophers today are still arguing over many of the same basic points the earlier ones were.

In addition, there is the fact that Western Civilization, including modern democracy, science, technology, and economics, is greatly based on ideas from Greek philosophy, so in reading it you are understanding much about our modern world.
But new Mac mice have two buttons and a scroll wheel. Then have for at least a decade.
There's such a thing as contract-to-hire for this exact scenario.

Why did the industry seem to forget this?
Having x as a final digit does not make a number a multiple of x. For example, 13 is not a multiple of 3 in base 10.
A decade ago and friend and I visited Rachel, NV (home of the Little A'Le'Inn, closest civilian location to Area 51, etc). We arrived there around 11:30 am. It was dead quiet. No wind. No insects. Nothing. But not nothing, because my friend as annoyed by my shoes squeaking as I walked. Turned out his shoes started squeaking as well. It was a weird experience.
> Sensible. Cuts, however, against my mental caricature of an astroturfing shill.

Interesting. The confirmed astroturfer Monsanto[1] is a fairly active one, and though I can't prove some of the people I saw were Monsanto shills, I've never met a person in real life advocate on behalf of that company.

Anyways, their tactics were incredibly distraction-centric and ad-hominem. As soon as anybody brought up the scientific research on pesticides, they'd start comparing this position to anti-vaccine, even completely out-of-context.

It's not hard to debase a conversation so much it falls apart entirely online, which is why the technique seemed effective.

[1] https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGo...
You’re comparing apples and oranges. Do you more easily forget a password you use everyday or one you use once a year?
https://www.hulu.com/watch/1167116
Personally I don't think your example is even an issue, even in a much more restrictive time men openly had a much broader range of emotions than that. But regardless, if toxic masculinity had such a narrow scope then sure, there'd be no point in arguing about it at all. But it's not, it's a heavily politicized term which is often used to attack masculinity in general, or any aspect of it that happens to be convenient at the time. A lot of the value it might have had as a term has been taken away by how it's ultimately been used. It's largely boiled down to a sort of slur.

But in regards to your edit, yes it's very possible that we're just talking to very different groups of people. I have to admit that I typically interact with people who either have no interest in this at all or who are taking it too far and are overly zealous. And of course, I'm not going to get a great picture of things as a casual observer on the internet either since that tends to bring out the worst in people.
A tiny correction in the following:

if (position + adjustedSpeed in memo and
adjustedSpeed in memo[position + adjustedSpeed] and
adjustedSpeed in memo[position + adjustedSpeed]):

The middle line is not needed.
Just one correction, that's the classic pyramid structure, not a reverse pyramid.
Sorry to hear that, how did they know your phone number?
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Wacom’s drivers for their drawing tablets include the ability to make a custom radial menu pop up under your cursor. Now and then I think about trying them out, but the idea of organizing every menu item I’m likely to use in Illustrator into eight broad categories feels like more work than it’s worth, especially when I have a ton of custom keyboard shortcuts at hand.
Are the capital restrictions only enforced on citizens or are there trivial workarounds? ("education" or "travel" expenses)
Which makes radial menus a good customizable feature but not a great default feature unless you are in a context where you expect users to achieve mastery with your UI (such as in a video game).
> And I systematically see posts buried which otherwise would not have been.

I'm skeptical that mods are deliberating burying such posts. What can happen is

1 - it gets flagged then vouched, but still has a huge karma hit. This happened to all the Damore discussions.

2 - it has a much greater ratio of comments to upvotes. This is taken as a marker of bickering and leads to penalization