skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously, I moved from a G-Suite org, where I was actually a G-Suite admin, to an Outlook based MSFT shop and the difference is staggering. Skype for Business alone is horrendous, but combine that with Outlook and internal communication becomes a nightmare.
Gee..that publication seems to be all right-wing conspiracies and "Trump's Critics Are Idiots" editorials. Such as this story. The thrust of it is, not that there has apparently been cooling, but conspiracy theories about why that isn't news - because of them evil stupid liberals/Democrats/socialists/etc.
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You mean notebook-style programming environments like Jupyter? They have kernels for a lot of languages.
I think Emacs' org-mode can execute code embedded within the document as well. The concept you're thinking of is called Literate Programming.
I don't get why you'd use this over something like Python Social Auth which is debuggable, runs on any platform and lets you tweak it much much further :G
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The funny thing is that Amazon does the opposite for its sellers. The will offer different terms for different areas, the just order from the area with the terms that are most in their favor.
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My Canon 50E (Elan II in the US, I think), dating from 1996 or thereabouts, remains my all-time favourite camera and despite being 35mm film-based I still use it regularly. It’s the camera I really learned to compose a shot on and concentrated on B&W film I could develop and print myself. It’s sad to see the his epoch come to a close.
>Do you want to talk about US actions?

The US generally isn't a topic open for criticism on HN. Which is fine, since it's a US site run by a US company, and never claims to be a bastion of free thought and critical thinking.
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This is not entirely true. I mean, sure, they could not work for _Google_, but almost the entire field of eCommerce involves either contributing to surveillance, or benefitting from it as much as you can. You basically get a choice over the brand of the bad.

Of course, there are other jobs, but much of it either comes with its own significant ethical hurdles - like fintech, for example, or any form of marketing and much of banking - or is much less accessible (good luck switching fields from eCommerce to embedded programming for power plant equipment or something).

Pretty much only solution I can come up with is seizing the means of production, but that might be an unpopular proposition on this particular website.
Its not that you "can't order from amazon".

Its that there's a geo-blocked/redirected domain which australians will be shown which adjusts prices and collect sales tax.

As an Australian, being geoblocked and having prices dynamically changed/adjusted based upon my IP address is extremely old-hat since half the internet already does it...GST or not...

Edit: although, as an australian, there ARE a whole host of services/content we're not supposed to be able to see because we're australian due to blocking in our country. Its why so many of us use VPN's and dropship services and the like...
If this article is a little over my head, what can I read that will help me understand?
Thought it was pretty common knowledge that people don't read anything contractual.

Anecdotally i have never personally witnessed any other than the most academically inclined legal nerds be interested in any terms of service or legal docs. Family, university peers, user analysis from my own services - all i have ever seen is frantic clicking until people get to where they want.

Just googled and it seems i am on point:

http://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-study-91-percent-agr...

91 percent!

Also my point is not that the GDPR is stupid. I think most of the new protections are fair. I am just pointing out that the "one button click to consent" is completely meaningless because people have no idea what they are doing, are tired, are stressed out, or just don't care (most people).
Woah: its < 80 USD at Digikey quantities. Nice to see tech like this that us mere mortals can actually buy.
Yes :(.

$59.50 (£44.75) for Levi.com Jeans in US £85.50 from the "Levi.com UK" branded store.

In the early days, when we had double the exchange on the dollar, I used to buy everything from the US, and the shipping prices were pennies. It used to be exciting to have different markets to browse.
I had to register to comment about TI "quality" and friendliness ;-).

Their SoCs are ridden with HW bugs and TI will not put every HW bug to errata - e.g. their infrastructure pktdma will hang if you will use chained descriptors but you will not find it in silicon errata. TI response was - "just don't use it" and refused to verify it on their side.

The ISA of c66x DSP is just stupid - you have quad SP multiply but only double SP addition - forming registers back and forth in quads will result in MV instructions often (because compiler is not so smart).
There are no real vector registers, "vector" instructions take 4 or 2 32bit registers.

Want to compute power of individual complex int16 in a vector ? You are out of luck - DDOTP4H will add everything together.

There is even no way to utilize their multipliers fully since load&store is 2x64 bit, while multiplier can perform 8 SP multiplies per cycle.

Moreover memory access to L2 is so slow that you will wait in memory stalls (there is no HW prefetch from L2 to L1D cache) and L1 SRAM is way to small to do anything serious (32 kB).

After trying other DSPs, like CevaXC or VSPA, TI looks like poor joke. Their C7000 that supposed to address some of those problems is long overdue and will be well underpowered comparing to recent Ceva DSPs or NXP VSPA.
> The worst I’ve heard about it is that it makes some people feel a little icky.

Yeah sure, all that privacy, who needs it anyway?

/s
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Wealth is highly predictive of educational attainment but I think there is more going on than just how much they can pay the teachers.
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It is weird that reason for rejecting an update can not be found anywhere. Apple always provide clear reason why they rejected an update.
Pony's model is different than Erlang's, so trying to think of it in terms of Erlang's model ("entering receive loop") may not be helpful when trying to understand it.

The Pony runtime takes care of scheduling an actor to run when there is a message for that actor. The actor runs through the behavior and then waits to be scheduled again by the runtime when another message is available. If you want to filter messages you need to arrange a way to do that in your code. There's no way to inspect the message queue.
Paper:

https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/bolton-blue-note-IEEESSP-...

Related:
An engineer demonstrated how yelling at HDD arrays can lead to perceptible drops in I/O throughput

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
I think it's entirely plausible that the median woman in a coding job is better than the median man in a coding job because of this effect.

That's why vague claims (like in the google debacle) that women are biologically less suited to coding than men might not be relevant to your organisation even if we were to believe it true in general.

A similar effect may explain some of this: https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-comprehensive-case-for-investing...
The users of Coq and Isabelle are generally people with mathematics degrees who check their work. Not your average programmer.
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A lot of people were taking the Daily Stormer's side on that that issue. Heck, I grew up idolazing the ACLU because they would defend Nazis.
Morals never serve individually. They serve to facilitate a social environment that favors a group to effectively work as a team. The reality of this is sure to be rife with contradictions, especially at individual scale, but somehow they effort is not contradictory if we consider the madness of a society erased of it’s morals. The challenge of this contradiction can be overcome through conviction and forgiveness alone. It’s essentially the scientific argument for religion. I would like to think nobody would say this is easy, but many people do say it’s easy. It’s not. It’s nearly impossible, but humans have done it time and time again.
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I love the kudos with respect to releasing.

It really is a milestone many don't reach.
Its called literate programming; for example https://wiki.haskell.org/Literate_programming
Are you seriously doubting they still don't have that type of access?
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I used lighttpd before OpenBSD's httpd, and while it is close, it still has far more features and configuration knobs. It's not just about whether things work by default (Apache usually does as well), but whether I fully understand what my configuration actually means, and what the server ends up doing.
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> It’s easier for a large, rich company to do almost anything, including respecting our privacy as enforced by regulation or law.

And also including doing creepy things with our private data that stay just on the right side of the law.
Hmm, let's also allow you to edit text in those windows. And it should be extensible, of course. With a dialect of LISP!

We could call it "emacs".
> Indie full-stack developers can no longer keep up with frontend development, and I think that's a great loss.

Who exactly? Did you ever hear a front-end developer say that or are you building a strawman?

There's nothing stopping anyone from building a simple jQuery powered website. There's nothing stopping anyone from building an app with Angular 1 either. Hell, you can even download .zip files on GitHub, unarchive them in a folder and start using them in your projects. Complex build system are only a way to streamline development when you get to a certain level of projects output.
Targeted advertising provides a financial incentive to create a total surveillance structure. It pays off to know every little detail about people's psychology and their habits. So companies have a motivation to create systems that future dictatorships will happily be using.

Without targeted advertising there is much less financial incentive to collect data so the surveillance state won't get help from corporations.
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Considering the free medical and dental care, one might argue that that position isn't really in conflict with the success of this school
Once female stem cells can be made into spermatozoa cells - research that is now underway - men will be physically unnecessary for reproduction as women could in theory use technology to fertilize each other's egg cells. This would not have the cellular problems associated with cloning, as it would be sexual reproduction at the cellular level. All of the offspring would be female, no Y chromosomes needed.
Such things existed in the pre-GUI-everywhere days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview is probably the most well known example.

If you are not wanting a full windowing OS (just a windowing display) then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux may do the job for you in unix-a-like environments, with or without https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byobu_(software). In fact I sometimes have several log monitoring windows open in one tmux screen, essentially a dashboard like this and you describe. Done this way all that is running is console applications: almost any existing console application can work well and there is no need for extra development to interface a new windowing API.

You could use an existing CUI/TUI library to write such a condole-based windowing system, if tmux/similar don't quite do what you are looking for. For example https://github.com/chjj/blessed if node.js is your bag. Similar libraries exist for other languages too (go, .net, ...) - search for "Terminal UI <language>" or "Console UI <language>" and options should pop up.
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If your data contains pointers, then for it to be round-tripped through persistence correctly, i would imagine you'd need to map it at the same virtual memory address every time. Which isn't possible. Have i got that wrong?
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Some employers care about these. Some do not. Find yourself an employer whose culture in this issue fits what you think a bit better perhaps?
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There are many places one can be tolerant without having to contribute to the US government.
> Any conforming compiler is free to break code that relies on this.

Ah, but, for example, __attribute__((packed)) is undefined behavior; is the compiler free to break that?

This "free to break" is a juvenile fiction based on the idea that the only document that applies is ISO C; there is no other contract or promise between user and implementor.
or "dvtm"

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
yeah, and given that in most times such change is well known in advance, the software could help dealing with it in the least disruptive way!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173279
I'm impressed but not surprised he responded; that sort of clear, actionable feedback can be surprisingly difficult for a CEO to get, especially in retail.

Most retail CEOs don't reserve much time for popping into stores and talking to customers, and store and district managers tend to dislike it--feels like micromanaging.

But at the same time, store managers and district managers are often not eager to feed a list of their stores' shortcomings up the chain of command. IMO it's a rare retail manager who is willing to stand up and say, "my store is bad and here is what I need to make it good." Most focus on putting the best possible face on things, internally. It's so hard to make good numbers in retail and there is so much pressure to do so... relationships between the management layers can often feel more adversarial than collaborative.
Its interesting how one of the most frequent uses of the right to be forgotten is used by politicians cleaning up their search history.

Who would have thought that legislators had something to gain from a proposal they push?
The Economist says the opposite: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/01/25/...
It sounds like you just need to use a different methodology, not that methodology is unimportant for whatever ml 101 examples that became popular like MNIST, etc.
Someone made a screensaver of sorts using the logos: https://aresluna.org/1985-tech-logos/
Nice. Maybe it can replace my macOS dashboard if I keep one fullscreen space with iTerm open.
Did you actually read the argument though?
> Your operating system will see them as storage

Do you mean it will present them to userland as storage, rather than see them as storage?

Seeing them as storage implies to me that the DIMM emulates an AHCI, which i don't think is the case.
Richer or more connected parents maybe
And what the cost is. We can reduce traffic fatalities to zero by lowering speed limits to 25 and building cars like tanks, but we don't. Why not? It's not a reasonable expense to achieve the goal.

Everyone wants to do better. Just because people don't agree on means doesn't mean they are cold hearted bastards or something.
Really like it. My only criticisms are:

* I'd love to be able to write my own modules for it
* When a module's config is bad it just doesn't show -- no errors are produced (that I can find) so I don't know what in my config is bad.
Works on my desktop too. Oh it's you Hans :-) So.. what's going on there?
> The worst I’ve heard about it is that it makes some people feel a little icky.

The worst I've heard of was the abuse of millions of people's data by Cambridge Analytics to mess with an election, but maybe that's just a little icky too?
Oracle also uses it, and they changed the Java ONE conference to be Oracle Code ONE conference, including Go and Rust related talks.
You missed the next bit where those that remained had white phosphorus fired at them.
“We could not get effects on them with HE [high explosive]. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out.”

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/...
> I think of it like outlawing chemical pollution of rivers

Nobody disagrees with GDPR's intent. The qualm is with its administrative approach. If someone said "write a bailout for lawyers and lobbyists," it would look like GDPR.

Taking your analogy, a good law would assess a fine for dumping. A bad law would (a) require continuous certification that one is not dumping and (b) allow anyone to prompt an expensive inspection (done via writing letter responses to a regulator, not on-site inspection by an expert) by reporting you to one of twenty-eight national regulators, each of which have jurisdiction over you.

The former imposes a fixed costs, regardless of compliance. That benefits incumbents. The latter promotes venue shopping, a further advantage to size and incumbency.
I guess it's sorta like how "architect" has become a verb.
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I think that indicates that the legal documents weren't written to be read, more than people are too lazy to read them. They were written for a lawyer and for use in court, and it's not realistic to bring in a lawyer for every EULA and contract we encounter.

And just as honestly, what are we going to do - say no? Saying no is more and more simply not allowed if you want to use a service. I've had job offers who would rather have me walk than change the terms of employment. There's not a website out there which allows you to use it if you do not consent to their EULA. Hell, I've encountered a EULA when starting my (purchased, not leased) car.

You can't even post on Hacker News without consenting to 39 pages worth of privacy policy and TOS.
I understood the point. I don't agree that rights are entirely arbitrary. The United States Declaration of Independence takes the view that government exists to protect the rights we naturally have.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men...

But I understand that "rights" such as copyright are somewhat arbitrarily bestowed.

My point was that a right to one's possessions is more obvious and definable than a right to one's data. My hands are mine. My toothbrush is mine because I made it with my hands or bought it with money I earned with my hands. Etc.

It's much more nebulous to say that I own information about myself. If you see me, is your knowledge of what I look like "mine"? What about if you write down what I look like? What if you take a picture? What if you write down a detailed account of all my movements and sell it? At some point it starts to seem wrong, but it's fuzzy.

You may say these are both arbitrary. I don't think all rights are arbitrary, and to the extent that things are fuzzy, I think rights to physical possessions are less so.

But again, I'm in favor of privacy regulation. It's just less obvious what it should protect and how.
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I think more people should understand what problem jQuery was meant to solve:

a) provide sane API for DOM manipulation
b) hide all the ugly bits and bugs of different browsers.
> but I have had trouble thinking up which modules would be useful and/or interesting

Anything interactive with a readable API: mail inboxes and IM services.

Calendar entries and other notifications published via online calendars.

Other online resources: RSS feeds, TV/film listings - modules to simply display static data and/or filter & highlight specific items of interest.

Anything normally monitored by tools such as cacti/collectd/similar: disk IO, connections, CPU use, memory, application status, ...

Remote versions of the above (either the core module supporting remote calls or a generic server that allows modules to be run and their results read remotely.

Though the key to writing software to scratch an itch is to make sure it supports the things that would be useful and/or interesting to you.
It's a huge difference in terms of the time invested to create something that performs well. Hand crafted feature engineering is better for some tasks but for quite a few of them automated methods perform very well indeed (at least, better than I expected).
There's a consistent strain of conflation of this issue in all the GDPR threads, along the lines of "well, if you can't comply with the GDPR, you must be a evil company selling my data to bad people for bad reasons!"

You don't have to be doing anything shady with data for the GDPR to be a threat to you and your business. You can be collecting a bare minimum of data that you only use with the purest of intentions and still be in violation of the law and subject to its penalties.

Just asking for an email that will literally be used for nothing but to send a registration confirmation - you know, to sign up users, the same way we've been doing forever - puts you in its compliance crosshairs. You're now legally liable for a whole raft of additional compliance measures that probably necessitate paying a lawyer a decent chunk of change to make sure you're above board with. Your "MVP" has now expanded from "here's a simple idea I cranked out this weekend" to "here's a simple idea and a legal contract and audit trails that prove consent and an obligation to exfil data from my database on demand in perpetuity and data portability endpoints and data exchange contracts with every API provider I use and my database has to be encrypted at rest and highly redundant and I have to set up regular vulnerability scans and if I want to back up my database to a non-EU datacenter I have to obtain consent from all my users first and a bunch of additional requirements that possibly make it illegal to not age out my Apache access logs and why am I doing this at all again?"

GDPR significantly increases the friction for moving new ideas from concept to product, even if there is absolutely zero nefarious happening in the product. If it only made life hard on the people engaged in shady practices, there'd be a lot less concern over it, but that's just not the case. It doesn't just punish the misuse of data, it punishes the lack of proactive compliance to a set of criteria which are frankly beyond many hobbyists.

Some see this as a good thing. But I think that it's also fair to guess that it's going to cause otherwise good and benign ideas, products, and even entire companies to die on the vine as a result.
…yes?