skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, "compile target" is a very nice way to put it. The key idea is that you only really analyze all the text when there's a problem, which tends to be the job of experts, and that's not often. The wet code that "runs" in a court needs to be part of the doc, but it doesn't mean we need to look at it all the time. :)

Re guarantees, these docs are provided on an informational basis (read: not legal advice). We connect people with lawyers who understand the system and we have some good tech that speeds up their work re the legal sign off they provide. More to come on this.
Venezuela: A Collapsing Economy’s Tryst with Crypto
The subsidies kept getting bigger and bigger. So it became much more profitable to smuggle these products out of the country. That’s one of the reasons it created so much scarcity. So the actual policy of supporting and redistributing wealth is actually working against many of the people it is supposed to benefit.
What is big data? And how do we democratize it?
Google Removed “Don't Be Evil” from Code of Conduct
Uh-oh this is going to hurt a lot of people.
Even if the article did not state anything about the actual effects of these differences.
Just mentioning or hinting at this nowadays will result in a lot of automatic flack and backlash.
Notice how the incoming comments will be about the title and not the contents and the subsequent derived meaning of this.
They will probably have to change the title to not offend anyone.
Sadly this is our current state of approach on science.
I think you found the root cause of your issue. We are social creatures. Without deep meaningful connections with our fellow humans, mental health will take a turn for the worse.

90% or more of the work out there to do is pretty damn hollow if you really stop and think about it. The chances of you supplanting such a deep rooted need w/ some "change the world" type work is slim to none.

Focus inward!
"didn't enjoy the experience"

This is newspeak. I am going to go up to someone in the street, put my hand in their pocket and when they don't enjoy the experience, I'll act all apologetic and surprised, kind of sad that they didn't enjoy the experience, but of course respecting their wishes and I would totally not try something similar in the future (except maybe their other pocket?) because I'm not at all a bad citizen just looking out for the shareholders ok?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as fine as vis is it will not feature stand alone strex-awk.
For coding, it’s usually classic music (no lyrics) but while researching, I’ll put on techno. No matter the genre though, I will use MusicChoice which is the streaming service that comes with my cable tv subscription.
Archived Page with "Don't Be Evil": https://web.archive.org/web/20180421105327/https://abc.xyz/i...
Ok, I don't think anyone in your potential clientele will know or care what JQuery is.
He wasn’t. From TFA, his employer, MkIII construction, was fined, as he wasn’t trained or qualified to work on energised kit either.

I’ll be honest, I’m struggling to see how this is tesla’s fault.

If I hire an electrician to do wiring at home, and they send along some guy who isn’t trained, and he then electrifies himself through negligence - should I be sued by him? What could I have done differently?
Everyone should be using MooTools now. The ECMAScript committee has basically made it an unofficial extension of the language by vowing never to break that library. Guaranteeing its stability for years to come.
How banks and law firms make millions from hospital debt
Read the full blog here: https://blog.coinswitch.co/venezuela-a-collapsing-economys-t...
I wish they would've gone with Array.flatten() instead of Array.prototype.flat. We have `Array.from` and `Array.of` in the language already why not continue that trend? Am I missing some reason why that couldn't have happened? Also strange to see that infinite flattening is not the default behavior.
Maybe VW was just the best match.

VW have significant experience of producing cars for other manufacturers, and put a lot of effort into developing reusable "platforms". They are super popular in Europe- hitting the exact sweet spot between practicality and desirability (Top Gear described the Golf as "the car that everybody buys with their own money"). The forthcoming ID range is perhaps the strongest lineup of EVs in any manufacturer's pipeline. They need more traction in the US, and it therefore makes sense to partner with the arguably coolest US corporation.
Because human attention is scarce, it's infeasible for them to care until there is a real risk of such behavior becoming a problem.

People would suddenly start to care if the entity enjoys a large enough market share to make them a monopoly.
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No but you can have your life ruined for wearing a chinese-style dress. Or atleast get bullied by couple thousand faceless people on the internet.
Awesome write-up! Curious on the decision to choose MySQL since it's a write-heavy load with minimal querying. Would something like Redis be better suited? I'm not super familiar with Redis so just curious about what other DBs were considered.
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To Quote the link you just posted, "Secondly, it's usually quite hard to control for all possible variables that may reflect a Google search; for instance in concluding that racism contributes the most to a particular political behavior, it's very hard to tease out all other factors that also may do so, especially when you are talking about a heterogeneous collection of human beings. How can you know that you have corrected for every possible factor? Thirdly and finally, the "science" part of "data science" still lacks rigor in my opinion. For instance, a lot of the conclusions the book talks about are based on single studies which don't seem to be repeated. In some cases the sample sizes are large, but in other cases they are small. Plus, people's opinions can change over time, so it's important to pick the right time window in which to do the study. All this points to great responsibility on the part of data scientists to make sure that their results are rigorous and not too simplistic, before they are taken up by both politicians and the general public as blunt instruments to change social policies. This responsibility increases especially as these approaches become more widespread and cheaper to use, especially in the hands of non-specialists. When you are in possession of a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail." - Thank you for making my point for me.
Ask HN: GDPR Data Deletion Template
With GDPR getting into effect tomorrow I would like to start asking all these companies who kindly sent me an email on the last couple of weeks to delete all my data. Have you guys come across any template I can use that includes all the legal slang to make it work? Or just a "please delete my data" will do the trick?
IIRC Nokia had one.
Maybe another alternative could be a game in which developers are given more time and resources to develop and test instead of shortstaffing, overworking, and rushing to market? More of a waterfall than an agile approach perhaps
Your Facebook data, annually, is worth about $12. Your Google data is probably not worth much more.

Most Google employees, if asked a few years ago, would've told you they were confident Google would never participate in something as unethical as the American drone program. They were wrong.

Corporations do not have a moral code, they operate on profits. They are effectively psychopaths, and any time you associate a corporation with human traits like ethics or morals, you have misjudged it.

And bear in mind: Corporations are not a singular person. You could believe the guy responsible for packing the Google Toolbar in every other installer you downloaded off the Internet will never betray you, but eventually Sundar Pichai will be replaced by someone else, and corporate focus can, and will, change.
Perspectives of Using Oscillators for Computing and Signal Processing
Funny fact - if you ignore all the email, the services should care that they delete all private data. Or you can reply to all these emails with the request: Please send me an export of all personal data you stored in the last years.
Recent Advances in DRAM and Flash Memory Architectures
Imposter syndrome lets toxic work culture off the hook
Also interesting: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google+evil
I agree that this is not an exceptionally insightful blogpost.

With that in mind, wrapping this in <rant> tags is a lot like being the person who says "I apologize in advance if I act like an ass today but..." It doesn't matter how that person prefaces it, they're still an ass. Extending empathy and understanding to your need to rant requires of us the same level of effort as the inverse: you extending some understanding to a group of people steeped in a culture of entrepreneurship-as-the-everyday, and understanding why that might not mean "self-aggrandizement" but instead mean "the way people I know talk" in a very benign, even banal, way.

>almost every programmer I know must be an entrepreneur. When did the bar get so low?

Probably before you were born. See the old quote about Americans being a country where everyone walks around thinking of themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". The word choice has changed, but the sentiment is nothing new.

Past that, you made me think critically for a while about the question "What if the people, who require temporary ego inflation to consider taking action, stop giving themselves that luxury?" and after some contemplation, I hope they don't stop. I hope they keep on keeping on. I also hope (as you do) that they will be a bit less insufferable in how they describe it afterward. But I don't want them to stop trying.

Besides, Side Projects are Never Successful anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3oW550adA&t=3m39s
How Outsourcing Mortgage Data Entry Services Will Help Legal Firms
Outsourcing Mortgage Data Entry Services Will Help Legal Firms to Stay Ahead in the Competition. Outsource data entry services to India. For more info - https://www.sastabpo.com/outsource-to-india/outsourcing-mortgage-data-entry-services-will-help-legal-firms-stay-ahead-competition/
The recent onslaught has to do with every organization trying to address GDPR prior to Friday.
May be I should have properly name it CAT6A Or CAT8 even. I am talking about FTTB, and not FTTC. Of coz it depend where you live, FTTC makes more sense in most cases in UK, FTTB makes more sense for places like London City.
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Any way to bypass the paywall? Or a substitute link?
So far two comments like yours, getting meta-offended by theoretical complaints.

People getting upset from the actual result: Zero.

Sadly this is our current state of approach on science.
> pretty darn good

Compared to what? A cat? Siri is worst-of-class technology in terms of voice-based assistant.

I carry both Apple's latest phone and Google's latest phone, and it would never occur to me to use Siri for a voice task other than "set timer" (so it buzzes on my watch too).

It's true that Apple is the only company playing this game that I might trust with an in-home always-connected assistant appliance like HomePod/Alexa/Google-whatever, but since Siri utterly sucks, I do not.
Tinder Wants to Match You with People Who Go to the Same Places
> Because C++ and Python aren't safe enough

I wonder what langauages are used in aircraft jets, military, space industry, pace makers ... etc
> Even if the article did not state anything about the actual effects of these differences.

You could have stopped typing there.
In practice, Airbnb has failed at its aim of providing airbed style accommodations for conference goers.
Should Psychiatry Test for Lead More?
Yep. In that case Tesla shouldn’t even be mentioned in this. It just makes a good headline.

I’m perpetually surprised at how crap even supposedly trained electricians are. At best they don’t understand the consequences of not doing something properly. Even domestic electricians I’ve hired, because I’m not allowed to certify the work myself here in the UK, I’ve had to correct their work when they have gone.
The effect size is quite large. From the paper,

The differences were substantial: in some cases, such as total brain volume, more than a standard deviation. The effect size of d = −1.41 for total brain volume (Table 1) translates to 92.1% of males being above the female mean, and an 84.1% chance that a randomly-chosen male will have a larger total brain volume than a randomly-chosen female.
I'm not sure how it works in the USA, but I'm fairly sure that the way it works where I'm from is that the Tesla should be at fault too, because it happened on their worksite.
To be fair, it’s the basis of a good list of companies that you will contact post-25th to get them to delete all data they hold on you.
I'm very partial to Quod Libet. It is utterly flexible and has probably the most powerful tagging engine of any media player. Customizing it just right takes a little bit of work and is a little bit arcane, but once it's there, navigating a huge library of music is completely fluid and intuitive.

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/
Towards the end of the Introduction, they have a paragraph where they discuss how the study intends to test the "greater male variability hypothesis", something I had not heard of before.

They reference other studies which have show greater variability among males in: cognitive ability, academic achievement test results, personality, athletic performance, birth weight, and adult weight.
You need Router for Wireless access, it cuts the Modem, ONT equipment. Or if you have just one computer you can directly plug your Ethernet cable to the Wall Socket. I used to live in a building where every flat had Ethernet cable were pre-wired.

If you are in a new building, without furniture and mess, fibre of course make sense. If you live in a Small Apartment, old making installation difficult, Fibre isn't so great. My guess is that the problem may be specific to cities.
Doing nothing is exactly how a lot of that knowledge was discovered. Just look up biographies of famous scientists, they usually have lots and lots of leisure time, walks around the country side doing nothing and other such ''wastes'' of time.
I don't think that they are bad, just that their focus is more on the product holistically than as a standout feature. i.e. machine learning is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Whereas Google, Amazon etc sells products and services like GCP, AWS Recognition etc. Naturally they would like to market themselves as being the experts, and have the credentialed professionals to do so.
Which are not going to know either, because it is all free to interpretation. It is not uncommon that even when government offers paid interpretation, so that company can back what they do by it, to withdraw it couple years later and fine the company (Because civil servant giving out the interpretation was wrong or for other reasons).
Quite sad, indeed, when people are offended by untrue things being presented as true! How will we ever get science done in such an environment of easily offended people?
TFA measures a lot more than mere total brain volume.
WinAmp can hide in the tray too, and uses 3 (!!) orders of magnitude less RAM than this. I know it is not new and shiny, but it still works well.
> Kotlin has a bunch of syntaxes that could be reused for this - .?, async/await

Kotlin seems to have reused the hell out of the poor :
Is that by law? To have a Standard Fibre Socket? God I wish every government would implement just that.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570035

I produce books for SE, happy to answer questions.
It could also just be liability concerns -- I know I personally considered turning off a (free & gdpr-compliant) side project I maintain out of concern around what might happen to my bank account were a security incident were to occur affecting EU citizens.
I think they should just remove the link, everyone knows you can't discuss these things in this community.
This is not true - their original (and current) purpose is to calibrate the distance travelled by looking at the marks the tracks make - you can look at the distance between marks and use the circumference of the wheel to determine the distance travelled.

The actual pattern meaning was snuck in by the engineers and the director was only told about it after he had approved the design.
Or just use python and iterate your file using csv lib to cater for strange cases while doing your computations along.
"Today in an emergency bill, Congress made it an act of treason to move funds from bitcoin address 1BLABLABLAh555"
I like having a solid tagging scheme. I don't go deep into subgenres, re-release dates and all that jazz. But having an easy filter mechanism to select music that can have multiple tags for a particular category is very handy. That doesn't work so well with folders, unless you go mad with symlinks everywhere.
Your Google bias is showing. How have the other companies "failed"? Apple hasn't even started and it has "failed"?
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Yeah, or R. When I need to do stuff bigger than RAM on a laptop I just reach for sqlite (assuming it can even fit on disk).
The entire article is about why that couldn't happen.
Yes, it's a superficially inflammatory title.

This paragraph from the discussion is interesting:

> An additional hypothesis—one that is not incompatible with the hypothesis that some of the sex differences seen here are a proximate cause of behavioral differences—is that brain structural differences might sometimes be the result of compensatory mechanisms for differences in sex-specific hormones, and might thus act to reduce behavioral sex differences that would otherwise have been present (De Vries 2004; McCarthy and Arnold 2011). This perspective may in part explain an apparent paradox in human sex difference research: that the (raw) effect sizes found for brain measures such as volume and surface area are so large, whereas most behavioral sex differences are so small (Hyde 2014). Our descriptive results do not directly speak to any causal mechanisms, but it should be borne in mind that they are compatible with these multiple interpretations.
Just adding a data point here:

I played video games (90s super nintendo) when I was a kid primarily for the music/artwork. Then the internet came along where I could enjoy the art without hitching my time to a game. With my time unencumbered, it wasn't hard to discover that reality is a better game with better music.
Research papers on RADNET and Anatomical labeling of brain CT scan anomalies
kdb+ is very cool. Just a single binary, less than 1 MB and yet an extremely fast and powerful tool for analytics. There's a very nice talk on CMU's series of database videos if you want to know more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGdfmxEP68
And it scores extremely well on the 1 billion taxi drives benchmarks (no cluster but some seriously big machine): http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-kdb.html
the first reaction people had was to literally complain about the title, questioning the whole conclusion. I don't think he was too far off the mark
Actually, the paper states:

> The differences were substantial: in some cases, such as total brain volume, more than a standard deviation. The effect size of d = −1.41 for total brain volume (Table 1) translates to 92.1% of males being above the female mean, and an 84.1% chance that a randomly-chosen male will have a larger total brain volume than a randomly-chosen female.
Scala has way to many features to be loved and most people that actually know Scala will tell you most users of Scala are not taking advantage of its features or abusing the ones they know.
Go on the other hand a very popular language ( yeah yeah ) probably due to its small feature set
This is underappreciated. Art and expression is a value in and of itself. I don't think it's a cop out to think this way. However, creating something is in fact complicated and retreating to "I'm just making art" is an easy justification to fool yourself into being ok with failing if what you're trying to do is build a profitable business.

But it remains: art and expression is valuable.

Yes I can probably make more money optimizing advertising attribution. But, honestly, I think there's some art in all of us. It's ok to explore it.
Boredom is a source of creativity, or so I remember after an article I read. In all honesty, I have experienced it and some of my most profound(?) ideas came while I was bored.
I agree about 'no lyrics', at least in my experience, being
the key to coding productively while listening to music.

What I'm wondering is, what is it about music WITH lyrics,
which interferes with coding? ... is it the language
processing side of the brain being overloaded or just
distracted from the task at hand ( which would be
translation...right? ) i.e. coding == actively translating
tasks and concepts into a machine's language.
I doubt populating the moon or mars would have reached that level. Consider Antarctica, it is vastly easier and cheaper to live there than even in near earth orbit, and it has huge untapped natural resources, yet the population of Antarctica is only just over 1,000 people.
I have 0, 3 and 5 year olds. The three year old can spend at least five minutes between each spoonful of breakfast, just staring into space. She insists on using a small spoon so these things combine to create epic breakfasts too...
That's a good point, I suppose it'd be better to frame it as what you can run on a $1k workstation vs. a $10k rackmount server, or something along those lines.

As a software engineer who builds their own desktops (and has for the last 10 years) but mostly works with AWS instances at $dayjob, are there any resources you'd recommend for learning about what's available in the land of that higher-end rackmount equipment? Short of going full homelab, tripling my power bill, and heating my apartment up to 30C, I mean...
This is almost exactly the same kind of headline as Apple being blamed for the Foxconn suicides or injuries. The sub-contracting relationship exists for a reason. The actual employer in question takes on liability for their employees, and saying that Tesla wanted work done quickly is zero excuse. Tesla wanted exactly what was in the contract, and Mark III was trying to give them what they charged for.

If I go to a restaurant that offers 30 minutes or free service, you cannot possibly drag me into it if the cooks cut safety corners because the restaurant is docking their pay for late service while overcrowding the tables.
Thats's why I've stopped using foobar2000 and changed to Musicbee instead. Not as flexibel, but much easier for me to get a good looking music player on Windows with all the functions I like.
"That is so sad and convicting. Great reminder for us all to put those phones down and engage with our kids more."

I imagine a mother posting that comment on her phone, with a couple young children looking at her sadly in the background. She feels good about the change she decided to make in her life, after checking facebook just one last time.
> The entire article is about why that couldn't happen.

No, it's about `Array.prototype.flatten`
From a brief glance, the protagonist here is white, male, a philosopher and a Michael. To attribute something you don't like about his statement to his age (as opposed to his race, gender, philosopheritude or Michaelness) is a statement about yourself (and possibly your idée fixe).
It has little to do with the piece or person you're commenting on.