skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know several people who fit that criterion. I didn't say it wasn't rude, crass, impolite, or ignorant. I said that I don't think it counts as a hate crime, and that it doesn't fit the criterion for "menacing" society. How many people do you think fear for their personal safety because of that pug?

For what it's worth, I grew up in a town that was roughly half jewish, reflected in my circle of friends. When I was younger, extremely crass jokes that made light of historical tragedies were made at everyones expense, including ones that historically affected my family. It was clear that the intent of these was not to instill terror or provoke hatred. It was more of a pissing contest, to see who could say the most absurdly offensive thing.

Were these the types of situations where we should have had more sensitivity to the real weight of these tragedies? Sure.

Were these hate crimes? Absolutely not. When someone commits a hate crime against you, you probably wouldn't regularly invite them over to your house for the next several years...
That's what they call a first-world problem... Enjoy it while it lasts.
How the heck did you come up with Ive as being #3?

Did Ive make the brilliant decision for the 4-square powerMac/iMac product strategy abandoning the dozens of previous models?

I'm guessing no.
Not from a regulator, but: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...
I don't know you, but based purely on what you wrote here, it sounds like you could knock out half of your troubles by simply not being an engineer working a 9-5. :-)

There are infinite possibilities for life. Would you choose to sit at a desk all day, if you had to do it all again? Or is that just what you happened to get from picking the default option, every step of the way?

As to the unanswerable questions, we've invented philosophy and art and religion and meditation and others to help tackle those. Don't expect to find answers in engineering or science. They're great but that's not what they're for.

I've found my answers to these questions, but if they were the sort of questions which could be answered in a few words, we'd just have a "MEANING OF EXISTENCE" pamphlet to give to everyone in first grade. We can't even write a single document on how to write good software, and that is much more concrete and focused.

I'm in the middle of making a big career change myself. There's no secret trick to finding what you're meant to do. You just have to keep trying new things until you find it. Go for it.
I don't buy that that allows you to send random requests to parties that you have no way of knowing the requester has a relationship with. That is an unreasonable burden to place on the recipient of such a request. Essentially you will be sending them on a wild goose chase which is against the intent of the law, which is to give people control over their data, not for people to harass random companies, even more so to do this in an automated way.

You can of course go and approach this from a legalistic point of view but that's usually not how things work in the EU, if you are going to split legal hairs to see how you might be able to get away with something then you will be in for a surprise.

But don't take my word for it, feel free to build and launch the service and we'll see if it flies. For $40 I'll pass :)
Here is a more detailed analysis, which shows all contributors:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

These are contributions by Linus:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

and as you can see, his contributions, really tapered off after 2010, while contributions from Hamano remained steady from 2008 to present date, as shown below:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit....
People like to get carried away with epigenetics. It's not a revolution in our understanding of evolution. At least not at this point. The Darwinian model still explains basically everything you need to know about evolution. Epigenetics (by which I mean environmental changes to germ line DNA) is what software engineers would call an edge case.
It works for a lot of people, I'm just looking for something else, exercise-based computer-checked proofs to teach mathematics, something like that. Want it bad.
It's quite difficult to change one's mindset but what you can do is build trust and reputation to eventually be able to influence the leadership team.

Let them see the benefits of maintaining the startup culture. Seek to understand their concerns and address them and find a happy medium.
Reading this story sent shivers down my spine. I'm very glad my stuff can't go this wrong this fast with that many consequences and then have to work that hard to clean it back up.

However, I'm guessing the reason they didn't upload said mission code earlier (or before launch) is because it wasn't done yet, and that's mainly because they didn't know what needed to be coded up yet or it's so incredibly unique to their mission its never been written before especially within their constraints.

So they launch, and figure out some of the requirements and code up the solution while its in flight. If they did it all beforehand, the mission would've been 10 years longer assuming that it did in fact take 10 years to figure out and code the solution. Furthermore I'm guessing of the requirements may not have been clear until they were in flight (or past Jupiter or whatever) and then they had to write the solution and software development is unpredictable so... At any rate, hats off to them for such an incredible job.
How to Measure Anything
That sounds like a much better idea.

> I vaguely recall something about how the US has specific laws allowing certain requests to be ignored (or maybe even criminalising the sending of) generated or form-letters, due apparently to this sort of abuse.

Exactly, and it is abuse. There are so called 'mass letter writers' here in NL that keep on sending FOI requests and other letters to local government effectively DDOSing the services and they too can be - and have been - slapped down.
It's throwing away your vote until it isn't. As recent as 1992 a third candidate got above 18%, and led in the polls just a few months before the election.

Either way, voting for reformist candidates (for either way you support) in senate, house and local elections goes a long way.
Imagine if it had said "Don't be immoral." Think of the discussion there, whose morals? Googles? The employees? The country where the employee lives?

In my mind, it is largely aspirational because it takes a back seat to 'make Google money.' Or perhaps making money is by definition not evil, so if you're making money by what you are doing it is transitively not evil.

When I worked at Google, management explained it to be "Would you be embarrassed to be a Googler if what you were doing showed up on an article on the New York Times? If so then chances are its evil, don't do that." But then came Project Maven, a sort of real world test, and well that is still going on now isn't it?
Git was a 10-day urgent project. Given the timeframe, it's done remarkably well.
I think this post [0] points out how Haskell can implement this sort of thing, using DataKinds, and GeneralizedNewTypeDeriving with StandaloneDeriving.

[0] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/06/12/four-months-wi...
> Also I guess about 70% of (pre-qualified) candidates would outright fail the question

This is probably right. Companies still use these questions, though, because they do a good job failing candidates who are not technical enough for the role.

What you're essentially doing is filtering out bad candidates and selecting from good ones based on luck.
Here is a guide written by Redhat Consulting for installing a OpenShift cluster in a disconnected environment.

http://v1.uncontained.io/playbooks/installation/#design-for-...

This could be used to deploy OpenShift Origin, the upstream of the enterprise version
Es6 – Yielding your intentions
> Then why does NASA consider it unsafe for mission critical code?

They also proscribe unbounded iterations (point 2). In any case, NASA’s guidelines for mission-critical code are not necessarily good guidelines for general software engineering, given the constraints involved.

It’s also worth noting that recursive solutions are probably more amenable to static analysis and automated theorem proving.

> How about unknown potential stack size?

If stack size is a problem, try an iterative solution.

> How about factoring a large number with recursion?

Go with iteration.

You keep editing your answer to add more cases where iteration is the way to go. I’m not disputing there are use cases where iteration is appropriate.
Oh wow, who remembers when everybody was carrying Palm Pilots around, beaming their contacts to each other over IR! It was such a "thing" back in its day.

David Levitt and I developed a Palm app called "ConnectedTV": a universal remote control integrated with a personalized TV guide.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*wJL5642D03MaoyBlni...

Stroke replaces Poke: ConnectedTV was designed so you can use it with one hand, without a stylus, with your thumb or finger. That's because you always lose your stylus in the dark living room couch cushions. And also because when you're watching TV in the dark, you usually need your other hand for something else like holding a beer or eating popcorn or whatever (perhaps holding another Palm running PalmJoint).

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*C8_ZNQRAaTUuwYssmN...

It had "Touch Tuning" to change the TV channel by touching the name of a TV program, and "finger pies" for stroking out up to four different commands plus tapping on any button or TV program.

"Touch Tuning" with ConnectedTV is like speed dialing with the remote: you could forget all those channel numbers, instead you just touch the name of the show you want to watch, and ConnectedTV sent the numbers to change the channel.

ConnectedTV also featured "Finger Pies" which enable you to quickly and reliably select several different commands from one button by stroking in different directions.

You can stroke the buttons with your finger, to invoke different commands in different mnemonic directions.

For example: stroke left and right to page to the previous and next program; stroke up to change the channel to the current program ("send to TV"); stroke down to read more about the current program ("show me more"); stroke the ratings button up ("thumbs up") to add a program to your favorites list; stroke it down ("thumbs down") to add it to your bad programs filter.

ConnectedTV was indispensable if you had hundreds of digital cable or satellite channels, because you can filter out the channels and shows you don't like, and mark your favorites so they're easy to find whenever they're on.

https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,770400,00.asp

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=106220169912
Errr...I typoed my previous message and accidentally flipped them.

The previous commenter said the fine was a 20m "minimum" fine. The GDPR text says it's "up to" 20m. I meant to say that that means it's a maximum.
> Looks like after trying to follow "guidelines" from Orwell's "1984", we are just trying Huxley's "Brave New World".

This guy gets it. I absolutely agree that China needs the searing scrutiny of the world for the sake of its people and the world but China is also still in absolute infantile stages of propaganda sophistication. Straight up censorships and news suppressions are things the West did in WWI. Astroturfing is a step up but operating under the premise of a palatable freedom of information and political choice while being inundated with what to think without ever receiving 'literal fake news' is light-years ahead of China.
I get your point but in your example the scam would be:

'It's like a manager telling the owner only $150 was taken from the til but $100 was and he pockets the $50. Not that I'm saying google is like that but you have no way of auditing this figure.'

But, in googles case it's more like: We charge you 1,000$ they say 100$ was fraud and refund you 100$ meanwhile 200$ was and they keep the 30% of 100$ distributing 70$ back for fraudulent clicks they don't really investigate.
Ok but we have to trust this person that they don't store IP information. There is no way of knowing for sure. And there is no obvious way to detect a lie on this.
PCB autoleveling support for Carvey CNC mill
A interesting one Ive come across recently are technical founders that run a solutions company where a retired exec of a large company in a particular industry is an advisor/investor and assisting with leads.

Screams of corruption but in practice not really so. The exec knows there industry well, finds out where they struggle to find solutions, passes info down to the company. The company then creates specialised software to deal with it and joins a tender. As they have a trusted person on board it assists in getting in the door. Also the competition will usually not be very technically advanced.

Revenue streams are variable from rev-share to cost + maintenance. In a lot of cases the same solutions can be sold to others within the same vertical or outside it. Anecdotal but founders Ive met in this area seem far more successful than those on a more traditional VC / bootstrapping tract. Perhaps because a lot of the hard part of enterprise sales is solved by the advisor.

This may be an asia-specific style of business, not sure.
> Which other violation could cost me a 20 million dollar fine ?

Tax code violations, for sure. Environmental regulations may also carry huge maximal fines. Some misdeeds can even lead to criminal prosecution and land you in jail (but generally, they won't, except for the worst of transgressions).

Note that the GDPR requires fines to be proportional to the offence. If you really worry about some regulator fining you for 20M euros just because they're having a bad day, you do have legal recourse available.
> I said that I don't think it counts as a hate crime

That's curious given your background. I know a couple of people that still have the tattoos on their arms and one guy who literally has no family at all and it pains me to see that people think that this is just a matter of bad taste. "Gas the Jews" is not a joke, my sense of humor is pretty broad but it does not stretch that far.
Then when Amazon creates a new distribution mechanism using AI they'll be surprised.

I like the dream of decentralized delivery agents where no central authority can take a cut or intercede.

Edit: What the hell, it turns out amazon deliveries are government subsidized to the tune of ~$1.5/each.
For almost any attribute, if you have nobody at all in your community like that, it would probably be worthwhile to expand your community to include such people.

It's all too easy for "engineers and science minded folks" to become a rather insular community, if you're not careful.
The HN bookmarklet (in the footer) does that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
On the other hand, if you really want to level the playing field, pursuing this research is the only way to get there. There are innate differences in people. Some people are better adapted to the modern world. We should figure out how to get those adaptations into the rest of the species.
It pretty much does. Sites are not automatically subject to the GDPR, even if they happen to be accessible, there must be some evidence that they intend to be used by users in the EU. Blocking it seems pretty good evidence that they don't.

See https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/
Steve was an asshole, but an amazingly smart, perceptive and brilliant one. He listened, realized that there needed to be a change and told the team to take care of it. It is clear that it could have been handled nicer but, it was Steve. You got the whole package good or bad. For the most part he got it right, delivery not withstanding. I was privileged to have known him, even if he was an ass.
Transient Sculptures
Link to repo: https://github.com/mimecorg/vuido

I’m glad this exists, I didn’t want to setup a whole React thing.
These visualization techniques have something going for them. I mean, it's amazing work and with new visualizations, people will make new conclusions based thereon much more easily. Analytic continuation ad nauseum. :)
> The old bury the lede technique

The CoC is not a news article, and the dynamics are different there. And burying the lede is when you mislead by putting a key point that shifts, rather than summarizes, the understanding conveyed by rest of the article late in a news article.
That's a restriction on the environment which has absolutely nothing to do with how readable a certain piece of code is. In fact it argues the opposite: we force you to use a less readable version of your code because the elegant one may be easier to read but it may have negative consequences due to implementation details.

That's a really good trade-off for them but it does not necessarily help readability.
Oh awesome, thanks! Do you recommend any studies on the UV light exposure?
Browsers are already very optimized for JS. Wasm is not currently a good target for managed languages (you would need to implement your own GC on top of wasm memory), and AOT compilation in general is not good for languages as dynamic as JS.
Whois privacy shambles becomes last-minute mad data scramble
> Payments to each of the Class Representatives, not to exceed $5,000 each, as
compensation for their active participation in the case on behalf of the Settlement
Class;

$11M payout for possibly thousands of publishers is pennies.
Hey, Don, what do you think we should be doing with multitouch? I'm guessing you have some better ideas than "scroll a linear menu and tap to pick from it" or "emulate a mouse, then add some undiscoverable chording gestures," and I have some ideas I'd be happy to tell you about for hours, but I'd love to hear what you've been thinking.
The vast majority of scholarship is unlikely to be in any assigned reading list and the journal will probably be there sitting on the shelf when you want to have a look at it. In cases where there is suddenly high demand for it, then it makes sense to make copies of the article for everyone (or let them download a PDF), but I am happy that I don’t have to print myself everything I want to read.
You seem the opposite of "chill".
I use Google services for all my domain-connected stuff via Gsuite; that includes Hangouts, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Contacts. On a whim I decided to transfer in the domain. I also use Google Domains, now, to register domains for no specific reason.

There are no features or perks that I know of that compelled me to choose one registrar over the other. It was just a random act.
It looks like an underpowered copy of the HP Prime.

Why should I own one, because it is open source?
This is what I tell people all the time. That one word sums up nearly every dysfunctional interviewing and filtering process.

Hazing.

It's just monkeys making sure they only hire other similar-looking and similarly-acting monkeys.
What ad-blocking I do is limited to very specific domains; reddit is not among them. (I manage my own blacklists; I do not use the built-ins.)

Further, I see this behavior in Incognito, and my understanding is that extensions are not active in Incognito.
To be fair it's a pretty good article despite the title.
As a caver, they're not as quiet as you think. Most caves are filled with the sounds of dripping water, running water, and blowing wind. While you might not be immediately next to one of those sources, they echo quiet a bit.

Granted it's still quieter than most environments, but feels less so than things like a heavy snowfall.
Ha, even as a 10 year old kid in '96 I found the Mac's decision to have a 1 button mouse to be painful (coming from windows). I remember not having much of a concept of how companies were ran but instinctively felt there had to be someone stubborn somewhere.
A blog that turns academic journal papers into Matlab code
Ironic reply.

Sincere apologies if you can't derive any information from my comment, but that doesn't mean there isn't any there.
> The issue was using innerHTML (or rather $.html()) with strings concatenated together from user input. Something you should never do. Could as well just call eval() directly on it, or pass the input to gcc, compile it and run the resulting binary.

Yes, but most engineers would look at that last element and say "what on earth is going on here", where $.html() being dangerous is something that engineers who don't usually work on web might not know about. You're right about blaming the DOM spec, but there's no actual reason for signal desktop to interact with that poorly designed spec except that they chose electron as a framework.
And that’s how you get lawsuits.
> Most people perceive complexity as things they don't understand.

I don't think this is true. For example, as a math teacher, I couldn't do a very good job predicting how easy or difficult students would find particular problems. But I could easily predict which problems would be easier and which would be more difficult. I could do that even though I personally understood all the problems.
I guess I'll just point out the distinction.. there's an obvious gap between writing code and writing pseduo code / logic structures.

And there's nothing wrong with whiteboarding pseudo-code.
Depends what you mean - safer in the weather and lighting conditions they're allowed to drive in might be true now for some firms (not Uber.)

As for how much safer than humans AI can be, here's an estimate of 1,000 times safer. They don't give a date, but are describing a system they think is practical.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3726229...
Check out the Firebee. An Atari ST semi-compatible machine built around the Coldfire:

http://firebee.org/
Class actions provide an opt out for class members which allows them to retain their own right to sue for that reason. Of course, if you lost money and weren't willing to take the cost/risk of a direct action suit to try to recover it before, I don't know why you'd spit in the face of someone successfully for securing you a mechanism for some.(if small) recovery now for basically zero cost now.
which forums? I know how to speak human
Some passages are suggesting otherwise:

"In this object-graph memory model, if you have several entities of the same type, each one will be identified by a pointer, and finding a particular attribute of an entity involves navigating the object graph starting from that pointer."

I consider even the Cobol case as a kind of data structure, although a very limited and inflexible one:

"For example, an account object might have an account-holder field from bytes 10 to 35, which might contain a middle-name field from bytes 18 to 26."

Sayeth Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure:

"In computer science, a data structure is a particular way of organizing and storing data in a computer so that it can be accessed and modified efficiently"

Anyways, I kinda agree with you as well. Usually when talking about data structures it's related to some particular algorithm, say a red-black tree.
Another risky way to setup an extra income source is to invest capital setting up blockchain services that give rewards.
Modern photos
Hm – Consider this piece (you may or may not appreciate the political perspective): https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil...

In brief, it concludes that the US alone (there have been lots of conflicts without any manifest involvement of the US) has been involved since WWII in conflicts causing "the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people".

[Edit] You may also consider the ongoing war in Syria, which is not only exceeding WII in duration already, but also overshadows the total death count of the US in the WWII Pacific "theatre" (161,000 dead, including 111,914 in battle and 49,000 non-battle) by 500,000+ dead (last consensual figure was 470,000, issued by the Syrian Center for Policy Research in 2016).