skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having used LLVM for precisely that for both Open Shading Language (OSL) and my startup’s runtime, LLVM’s JIT was pretty good. It’s certainly not optimized for “just throw everything at it function at a time and pray” like a more custom-built JIT (like in HHVM) or even nanojit. But it’s backend output is beyond compare, and you instantly get cross-platform compatibility. As a runtime implementer, it (was) phenomenal.

After LLVM 3.4 or so with the forcible move to “MCJIT” (now ORCJIT maybe?) it suddenly got even more painful though. While the Module system in LLVM was always abused by the JIT, it was a sad day for many of us who instead pinned to 3.4 for a while. I haven’t followed up in a while to see how the newer JITs have progressed, but I believe the last-layer JIT for Safari uses LLVM as well.

tl;dr: for the right time versus execution speed trade-off, LLVM is still awesome.
I would have a private Git repo on VSTS (free), put a link to the app on my resume and let them know that I would be more than willing to go through both my code and my project plan.

It doesn't have to pay all of your bills but if at least made some beer money, it's better than nothing. Part of being a developer should be learning how to monetize.
IIRC there's some kind of Evangelical prophecy about the ability to grow food in the desert being a sign of the apocalypse. This should go well with Trump's stance on Israel and unpredictability regarding nuclear strategy. ಠ_ಠ
Faux News spins strawman headlines to mislead their audience to conform to a climate denial agenda. Film @ 11.

In order to “solve” climate change, there’s unlikely to ever be a single panacea, but many holistic, overlapping solutions to arrive at a better than an ice age or desert planet WCS.

For one, Paul Beckwith mentioned about the locked-in climate change that’s already in motion due to the energy already absorbed by oceans. In order to stop it from becoming worse or to eventually roll it back, massive projects like geoengineering will be needed to reflect energy back into space that would bring the energy account back to a livable level. This would also stabilize the northern polar vortex, because without extensive sea ice, it will wander around and cause even more changes in daily weather and seasonal patterns.
... or the jury.
I agree with you, is this the type of work a data engineer does? I actually kinda like that.
+1 fantastic, github-backed resource
Not just books, other all products as well, video/music recommendations on youtube, netflix, prime video, spotify..
Not sure if it is really 'AI' though..
A copy of your device key is also stored with server side encryption if iCloud backup is enabled.
I wasn't making any claims about weighting by circulation, only refuting the point that the media is very pro Brexit. In reality it's split about 50/50.

But again, trying to go from "what the media supports" to "what people voted for" is a correlation/causation fallacy. There are plenty of anti-Brexit papers to read. If people largely choose not to, that probably implies they don't think those papers are very good.
> On the other hand, you, coming from macOS angle, didn't have a prior experience of working with many package managers -- or at least that's my guess.

There were package managers before Homebrew, such as MacPorts and Fink–which went as far to use APT.
"Empowerment" has never paid a bill.
Oh totally. I cannot imagine raising kids in the bay area with the insane housing which gets you a tiny house, mediocre schools, and insane commutes. Add on the additional costs of kids and I do not plan to move/live there when I start having kids. Hence, why I hoping I can get into one of the satellite office once I get married.
There is no guarantee of market efficiency for single sellers, and while you aren't being explicit about it, I suspect that your belief that people are rational about selling their vehicles rests on a view that this markets efficiently determine price.

Forgive me for inferring too much from your statement if I am, but this is exactly the kind of situation in which the zero arbitrage principle doesn't apply. if I make a bunch of offers to buy a car for less than it's worth, then all I need to do is find one person who is selling that car and not shopping around. There's no reason to expect any market forces to govern that transaction at all.

There is no reason to believe that selling your car for whatever the first person you find offers is likely to give you a fair price.
> When my friends said I was a “genius,” I would sort-of-joke that I didn’t know anything but could score 75% on any test with a Scantron.

This was a common sentiment among me and my friends in highschool. Much of the time, one or two of the answers to any given multiple-choice question were obviously wrong, and quite often another could be eliminated just because we knew the teacher or their previous tests well enough.
Interesting. In the past, I've read researchers commenting that "neural networks" was mostly unfortunate terminology because it implied the similarities between the physical patterns of the brain and connections between nodes in a neural network were a surface similarity that probably didn't offer insights into how the brain really worked.

But you're saying that there may be more similarity than we thought. I remember way back when there was some evidence of things like horizontal- and vertical-feature detection. It sounds as if there is still some evidence of this but perhaps more plastic than was once imagined.
Won't water evaporate and salt deposit, like in a salt pond?
SIT's issue tracking module stores merge requests (aka patches) in SIT itself, therefore, they can all be stored in a git repo. Case in point: https://github.com/sit-fyi/sit/commit/e9f96b84edc560bb1b0c0f...

And this is how it looks in SIT: https://imgur.com/a/UCFmbsZ
And this overprotection of children is now beginning to stretch into their college years too: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/nature-student...
> They could be on topic in lots of places, assuming they relate to some interesting point under discussion

Perhaps I didn't ask the question clearly enough. Let me rephrase: Where would I go, as an HN user, to discuss a particular job posting, where it is either the posting itself or the job application process directly related to the posting that is the interesting point under discussion?

> So instead of asking 'what are the axioms to be universally applied on this site', you need to ask 'what in this context will make the site better or worse in the long run'.

I'm not actually asking the former. I'm well aware that everything is guidelines and grey areas.

What I'm asking is, what's so special about the job posting thread that it requires much stricter rules (yet without technical enforcement)? What is the mechanism of the benefit to the site in the long run?

> But we have no such way, and the damage caused by false or misleading replies is the bigger risk.

I keep seeing this justification, but I honestly wonder where it comes from. Specifically, what is the damage to HN itself?

Also, why is this justification not equally applied to false or misleading job postings and only to the replies?

As my sibling-comment pointed out, this is potentially true of any comment anywhere. Again, what's so special about this thread?

> Allowing Who Is Hiring threads to turn into a combination job-board-plus-Glassdoor-style pelting range would not benefit the community in the long run.

I think it's unfair, possibly even insulting, to the HN community to say that permitting any level of complaint is the same as allowing a "pelting range". It's a false dichotomy or a slippery slope argument, at best.

Nobody is advocating for a free-for-all.
That's nice for those who haven't stumbled upon it yet!
Please don't; the cost of the genre dwarfs the benefit of the factoid.
> But if we take an honest look at the tremendous amount of unnecessary cruelty endemic to the dairy industry, I think barbaric is one of the kinder words that springs to mind.

As someone that grew up on a dairy ranch/farm, barbaric isn't something that springs to mind.
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> afaik, conf-d is not in erlang though

Most of the actual Configuration Database (CDB) is written in Erlang. Which also explains the statement made Cisco during the conference.

> what conf-d/tail-f brings to the table is the distributed nature of 2-phase commit to device configuration, as well representation of operational and runtime states of these devices. which has some appeal to it.

Another thing that has quite some appeal, I think, is that by using a single YANG data model the daemon actually can synthesize the structures of the CLI, Web UI and NETCONF northbound API's.

Again, biased because of Cisco employment.
An amount of people regularly die during sleep because of CO poisoning (for example because they used a broken stove for heating the room). Wouldn't a similar approach work for a death penalty? It seems so simple that probably I am missing something
DARPA is a common and overused response here, but nowdays we hear more about killer drones and face recognition... but yeah, I guess the military will always create inventions that are useful for civil purposes, but I still consider that focused research.

Universities depend on governmental funding to a certain extent, but they have their own freedom - though I still can't see how the next Facebook or next Google or the next super intelligent state firewall will emerge from a research project.
No. Very much no. All companies used to be small, which is a different thing to being a startup.

See here, where the difference between Ben and Jerry’s and Amazon (when both were small companies) is explained.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...
I read from benchmarks Iris was the fastest web framework ever. How does Gin compare to it?

Another big win is the bootsnap gem, which is a cache of previous VM runs that loads faster than parsing all invariant pieces of code again.

https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap
Something I learned from reading enough HN, is that "startup" specifically refers to companies that are started for the purpose of ultimately being sold. This is as opposed to a so called "lifestyle business," which you expect to operate and produce an income to support yourself and your family.

Of course these businesses can look similar from a distance, one can turn into the other, and it's possible to bet wrong on which category your business should align itself with.
I’m wondering if Swift Playgrounds (both the app and the Xcode pane) and the purchase of Workflow could be leading to an updated automation strategy. If they want students to learn Swift on an iPad, they must think it isn’t too complex for other stuff.

AppleScript has always been powerful at the great expense of being a pain to implement. And it has a sort of Visual BASIC kind of dependency among longtime Apple customers (probably why it never dies entirely).

When I abandoned AppleScript and switched to Python bindings, one of my reasons was that I wanted a more standard language with access to useful libraries. Swift could be that now...
Pretty sure all new businesses are startups. Many just don’t work, part of entrepreneurship.
> repeated ugly personal attacks of me in specific

There aren't any repeated ugly personal attacks, there isn't a single personal attack as far as I can tell. Nor are my responses targeted at you, I have responded to a number of people in this thread. The closest thing I can see is where I picked up on your use of language likely to bias a reader's opinion, I never picked up or discussed any aspect of you or your person though, it was entirely on topic. If there is anything I am truly sorry, that really isn't me. My arguments were entirely in good faith.

Have a nice day yourself.
> Do you really want prison guards to get used to firing (to kill) on inmates?

If not, why do they have guns in the first place then? Besides, I imagine a firing squad situation is quite different from an escape attempt, violent riot, or whatever situation that might otherwise warrant the use of firearms.

> Besides, I imagine/hope that most of them wouldn't want to.

I imagine that as well. But, I don't think making it comfortable on the executioner should be particularly high on the list of priorities. If nobody wants to be the person who pulls the trigger, presses the button, or whatever, then maybe it suggests we shouldn't have capital punishment in the first place?

> Let's take inspiration from George R.R. Martin and have the judge who imposed the death penalty be on that squad.

Awesome, I fully support that.
No haggle, if genuine, means that there's less information asymmetry between buyer and seller.

A buyer can look at a variety of places and see real prices, and thus have a gauge of the market. If everything is a negotiation, you'd have to invest considerable time negotiating the 'true' values, or else estimating based on general market knowledge. In either case, the buyer has to work much harder to gather information about the market.

A reduction in information asymmetry should work strongly in the buyer's favor relative to the old system.
> It just strikes me as incredibly myopic to privilege your own experience in system administration as oh so much more enlightened than a person manage the overall problem of a package management tool that users are actually using with success.

Users use with success plenty of ill-suited tools for various purposes. It
doesn't make the tools any better, merely more widely used. There are many
examples of better products dying, while worse products take over the market.

My experience with system administration gives me better standing ground for
assessing technical aspects of package managers. These technical aspects have
little to do with success of any particular package manager, though, which
I find unfortunate.

> To me, this [MongoDB; Homebrew too?] is effective engineering.

Effective marketing. Engineering, not quite, especially with MongoDB's track
of losing real data because of operations tuned for benchmarks.

> I'm not saying that example maps perfectly to homebrew, but it is similar in spirit.

It is a similar case indeed. Especially in how marketing was much more
important for adoption than technical grounds.
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If you're open to contracting, you can get 100k euros per year even in Poland, and much more in Western Europe or UK. Of course, you have to be in demand.
That's true. But iCloud Messages does not inherently allow for escrowing of keys with Apple.
I also thought that Helium and Nitrogen are often used for painless suicide.
Same — the Isaacson book doesn’t provide any insight into the man. ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ does.
Good link, but that's not one of the original authors, assuming you meant of the Marshmallow study.

Edit: I enjoyed the post, but his point turns out to be a relatively narrow one:

The other headline from the replication is that the predictive ability of the marshmallow test disappears with controls. That is, if you account for the children’s socioeconomic status [etc...], the marshmallow test does not provide any further information about that future achievement. It’s no surprise that controls of this nature do this. It simply suggests that the controls are better predictors. The original claim was not that the marshmallow test was the best or only predictor.

Such a defense of the original claim makes sense in an academic context but doesn't touch on why the marshmallow study made it into pop culture in the first place. That was because of what it seemed to suggest about character and self-control. The new study puts quite a different spin on that, as Collins agrees:

What is called into question are the implications that have been drawn from the marshmallow test studies.

The fact that those implications weren't part of Shoda, Mischel, and Peake's original study is good to know, but not the most important thing for non-specialists.
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The PE ratio of the entire stock market has increased by a lot during that period: http://www.multpl.com/table

You could say that everyone has higher growth expectations, or perhaps capital is just cheaper?
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Yes it has. Its ridiculous to suggest that someone who has recently felt empowered will be unable to turn that energy into employment or income. Empowerement definitely pays bills, it does it all the time for people. Empowerement is often the first real tangible step someone has to getting an income.
>>all charges by public hospitals are exclusively set by the Price Bureau (Yes, there is Price Bureau!) and dental costs are just stupidly low.

But the standards that need to be met to be licensed as a dentist must be much lower for dentist pay to be that low without massive shortages of dentists.

Which goes back to my question on whether you think China's case is an argument for lowering of mandatory quality standards.
What are those?

I don't know D, and I had a quick Google, but couldn't find anything by exactly that name - apologies for the lazy question.
Ask HN: Help me find a plastics manufacturing video
Within the last year I distinctly remember coming across a plastics manufacturing video (or was it a lecture/documentary?) linked by a user on HN which discussed a variety of plastics manufacturing techniques (e.g. thermoplastic elastomer injection moulding, extrusion, others).

This video toured a number of manufacturing operations and had footage of making adult toys (e.g. various vibrators and the Tenga flip).

I'm going mad looking for it, would anyone have a link handy?
This is partially true, but I like many people would rather spend my time writing code and not tinkering to make my tools work better. The reason I use and iPhone and MacBook Pro is because I don’t have to tinker to make my battery last, etc.
I was a CarMax "IT associate" once upon a time.

First, CarMax itself is a great company and they do good work. I'd recommend them to anyone who is either not a good negotiator or who can't afford to invest in the typical car market activities.

As other commenters have mentioned, the two major variables that matter to CarMax are the age and number of miles. CarMax will buy literally any car. For almost any vehicle, CarMax will immediately put it in the auction lane whenever it has more than 100k miles or is over 10 years old. In fact, a lot of their employees ("associates") would make a game of finding an older car with low mileage that they could snap up with CarMax's associate discount.

As the article mentions, CarMax makes on average $2k gross profit per (retail) vehicle. CarMax wants to move inventory quickly, just like any normal retail operation (including its deceased parent company Circuit City). If a vehicle is priced too high, its price will be reduced until it can sell. Thus, CarMax attempts to minimize any unforeseen problems that may occur during the reconditioning process, as these can make the cost (to CarMax) balloon out of control. I honestly wish I could say more about the strategy and analysis that CarMax puts into this. It's truly remarkable to behold.

So, yes, you can sometimes get much more for a vehicle on the open market if (1) you've got a car that's outside the parameters of what CarMax puts on the front lot and (2) you're willing and able to negotiate for a private sale.
Fuck Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Vultures.
Yes! And if you're actually heeding this advice it means you're smarter than most. BUT this should not stop you either - just need to find a way to work around it. :)

Essentially you should calculate your opportunity cost. And then figure out a dollar number you are willing to lose. So lets say you save $10k per year. Also assume that you will reduce your lifestyle so as to spend only 2k/month (including medical insurance) on living expenses to start your company.

So for a year of unpaid work you will be down the hole of 24k + $10k + $6k (it will take 3 months to get a job after 1 year of being an entreprenur) + $10k in incidentals (server hosting costs to seeing the doc a few times). So thats a total of $50k. Now thats in fantasy land or Utah.

In NYC and SF you're looking at probably $120k or more per year if living in decent housing. The more you make the higher this number becomes, becuase of the opportunity costs.

So its should become very apparent to you that you need to raise money if you start a startup in SF or NYC. Else move somewhere else immediately.

It should also make apparent that you should work as much as possible in your free time before quitting.

After this you should put a number in your savings account after which you will quit entrepreneruship. So say on hitting $100k in your bank account (after starting with $200k) you'll quit.

People focus too much on just their monthly bill and I think thats the biggest mistake. The opprotunity cost is very very real. You don't get that time back.
So we're just pretending that Trump doesn't exist? There's a big difference between then and today.
I use LLVM as a JIT via Terra [1]. It performs about as well as you'd expect any other C compiler to perform. That is, if you do a bad job of code generation and pass it a multi-MB file in a single function, well then of course it's going to choke. But if you're optimizing tight loops and have reasonable code generation, it's very good and you can get performance comparable to a best-in-class C compiler without the overhead and headache associated with calling out to an external program.

The main place where LLVM bites you is compatibility. There simply is none. This is a constaint drain on your resources and a lot of projects can't afford to keep up. There is even a project on LLVM's own home page which is was on 3.4 for a long time and has just recently upgraded to 3.8 [2].

But if the alternative is shelling out to a C compiler? I'll take LLVM any day. The issue is not just the overhead of a call to an external program, it's all the extra complexity that comes along with that. It is very, very easy for this approach to break, especially when you consider the breadth of C compilers that exist, and all the possible ways they can be configured. In contrast, LLVM is "just" a library that you link to.

[1]: http://terralang.org/

[2]: http://klee.llvm.org/
This is a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Many forms of bad behavior or generally useless approaches can be justified by "oh well some other people did it successfully, why cant we?"
Maybe but sales is also a team effort. The best sales person will fail if he/she isn't backed by a big support system.
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Good. I hope high profile failures of patent troll funds convince others to not follow in their footsteps. It also ruined Nathan's reputation.
I've learned very little from my poor math teacher in Poland, and a lot from a private tutor my parents paid for. Taking private tutors for math was very common in my (supposedly above average) high school.
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