skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech is a bit of an exceptional situation since it’s extremely dynamic and growing, plus there are a lot of youngish people in the upper echelons. I’m thinking more of older, more established industries, which are what the vast majority of people work in.

That’s not what I meant regarding the age. I mean that the same labels are often applied to different age groups; there are multiple definitions. And also, the labels convey a kind of cultural significance that I think distracts from the more important differences. It’s easy to say that “Millenials deserve everything they get because they’re lazy and entitled”, not so easy to say “Young people deserve everything they get because they’re lazy and entitled.”
Nathan Myhrvold

Edit: And many others too
What's the pay like? Is it 70% of your full-time wage?
NASA's next-gen exoplanet hunter gets to work
The EU has patents.

In the US, design patents also can't cover functional elements.
Actors and Objects: It's About Messaging
Yeah it seems like people don't understand this. We've had an era of JavaScript dominating web standards. I also don't think people realize this is only the start of wasm...
I agree I've never seen my dog do any research
In addition to what nerdponx said about recipe style articles being poor, there are some moderate issues with this article:

1. it doesn't clearly say that git checkout with a path is irreversible.

2. it says that git reset --hard is irreversible, which is not correct. (see 3.)

3. it doesn't mention one of the most powerful git features for fixing mistakes, the reflog.

4. git remove is not a git command.

5. gitingore is not a git file.

6. git-amend is not a git command.

7. It doesn't adequately explain why force-pushing causes problems.

It looks like clicking through to the gists was such a pain that even the author didn't proofread them.
New research on effective climate charities
Not really, if you are making a SoC or IoT and you need some core there are RISC-V core that are competitive to many ARM cores. Look at the product lines of Andes, SiFive, Greenwave and others.
More information on this option, as well as caveats:
https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/04/force-with-leas...
That, and OSM helps you find things other than retail outlets.
I’m surprised more people are not in the affirmative on this.

If I saw a chocolate product that had the same shape, I would immediately recognize it as Kit Kat. It is distinctive, worth protecting, and I don’t think Nestle is being overly greedy here.
I hope you get your back button back.
Well, Gillespie has been working on this for 30+ years. He clearly has an agenda, but "PR campaign" seems harsh. I mean, what's he selling? Movie rights?
It bears noting that at some point, you will likely need to #ifdef. There's no way around it for non-trivial code. Simple example: Getting the size of a file if said file is greater than the maximum size of long, meaning you can't fseek to the end and use ftell(); you'll need platform-specific APIs like stat(2) or GetFileSizeEx().

You can also do the platform checks in the build system instead and have multiple per-platform C files implement APIs for portability shims -- but given that the platform check is likely unportable (at least in make as specified by POSIX), you're just making different portability assumptions.
Looks nice, every easy to remember username is still available too.
You guys should check out - lazyeight.design , we're essentially trying to build the world's first creative agency on the cloud and using a ton of data for project estimates and to calculate our monthly hourly pricing (which changes monthly).
One could ask is the attempt to save lost games, or lost innocence?
> That is ridiculous. Modern companies have no problem Hoovering up and analyzing vast amounts of intelligence on consumers ...

Meanwhile the EU imposed a 3 billion dollar fine on Google for, and this is sadly not a joke, depreffing incredibly annoying shopping comparison sites, specifically this one [1][2] and a few others. Go on, visit it. And then tell me how much the quality of the internet is lowered by making that site harder to find.

(the real reason: the Kelkoo CEO, and I'm not even joking, convinced a secretary of the EU competition commisioner (the previous one) that they were a viable EU-based competitor to Google. Yes, really, that's the level of intelligence the EU commission had, they believed that Kelkoo would be doing internet search engines better than Google)

What exactly makes you think that when we're talking lesser amounts they'd be more careful ? Doesn't it make more sense that when they want something, like say, imposing sanctions or find someone that may have spied on them, they don't just go "all info on these users or it's a $100 million fine" ?

Because reality is more like "Block this list of users because the police chief's wife's tennis partners' ball producer's 2-year old niece says they stole a teddy from her dog or it's a $1 billion fine. Oh never mind she found it. Did you block em yet ? BLOCK EM !"

[1] http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/

[2] https://www.politico.eu/pro/politico-pro-morning-tech-google... (non-paywalled mirror @ http://blog.digitalmedialicensing.org/?p=3823 )
10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English)
Host at home, relay via an IP address owned by a hosting provider. Pragmatism meets idealism.

Of course, I don't do this because I don't want to rely on my consumer internet connection or domestic electricity provider, and my flat is too small for a rack anyway. Also the noise, electricity bills and waste heat play a part.

Some things are best done centrally. I am happy with servers in the cloud, I really don't miss having to travel half way across the country to replace a hard drive...
I think you missed my point, which is readily understood by a quick scan of this website:

https://www.eff.org/issues/stupid-patent-month
Rails gets lots of corporate sponsorship, not nearly as much as React, but it's there. So do all the big, useful open-source libraries. Some companies are even willing to pay you a full-time salary to work 20% of your time on their business interests and allowing you to spend your other 80% of your time on framework dev. Open source and the tech world would really, really suck without the generosity of business.
I have a few I can personally recommend:

- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman (also How to Cook Everything Vegetarian)

- Ratio by Michael Ruhlman

- The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
We pile code on top of code, layers and layers, problems accumulate and multiply over time. Almost exponential LOC growth of an OS (just the linux kernel) up to 18 million lines in 2015. How many LOC does it take to read a text file from a website? Not less than 56 million.

Example: Chrome -> Linux -> openWRT -> router -> FreeBSD -> Apache -> PHP -> Wordpress -> MySQL

The 30-million-line problem:

Even with new web technology "hotness" we're stuck with an OS on either side. Stuck with a bloated mass underneath anything we do. Rewriting is not really an option.
Why unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook
Quick experiment: In a new Firefox profile, I opened a couple of websites [1]. Then I went offline and tried to load them again. Every time I just got the default "server not found" page of Firefox.

"Offline" is no more solved "not hijacking scrolling", "linkable URLs" and "not re-inventing <a href> badly".

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/, https://www.google.com/, https://en.wikipedia.org, https://www.reddit.com/, https://www.nytimes.com
> one that has left scars across the world that are still causing conflict today.

How about stopping the British blame game and just accept the fact that humans like to group themselves in a tribe and fight other tribes.
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A little odd that easy names are still available ?

> We launched in 1999 and we are in for the long run.
Most people who tend to vote liberal are concentrated in select areas, where its a liberal landslide every time.

Now you factor in hackers, politicians getting bought, and it seems very pointless if you live in major city.
Ha, I can see the headlines now...

"EU to make English official language, Brexit called off"

Language preservation is alive and well here too, parts of Wales are very keen on preserving the language, which interestingly is similar to the Breton language. Whilst living in Wales I once knew a French guy from Breton, he was able to pick up Welsh fairly quickly.
I posted this, but I really don't know anything about it, I'm just a reader. Anyway, it sounded very interesting, so I wanted to see if knowledgeable people here could discuss it further.

It's on the front page (yay!), but no comments so far. I wonder, are you reading it and pondering the implications or have you dismissed it after reading? (cynically, I guess there would be a lot of comments if that was the case.)

Is this exciting for you? Trivial?
Neural Networks: An introduction (6min video)
If someone wants to fix Wikipedia's article on Henry Spencer, a full citation just waiting for {{cite conference}} is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610233 .
All info, it seems, is up for grabs. Pay a company, they might sell you later with apparently no repercussions.
dupe?

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609906
Out of all these, I wish I could use git bisect the most. Working on large codebases with large teams, the command itself is a godsend.

Unfortunately a PC with Symantec Endpoint Protection makes the filesystem dog slow to the point that the one time I needed it and it should've taken about 13 steps to find where the bug was introduced, it was faster to redo the feature without accessing the previous code
Have a look at 'On Food and Cooking', Harold McGee. It isn't a cookbook, but McGee talks extensively about ingredients, process, and their interactions.
I studied Spanish and English literature and linguistics undergrad in W.Europe. I made the conscience choice to move into STEM during my postgrads. Now I am pursuing a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning. The tuition fee was about 900USD avg. per year so there was no financial pressure on me to change academic careers: the choice was ideologically driven.

Allow me share you my experience at the humanities faculty:

I had always enjoyed the arts and literature but from year two I noticed ideological and methodologically harmful trends in the humanities: the staunch rejection of empiricism, the politicization of academia and near universal adoption of radical left-wing ideology. Researchers more often see themselves as activists at the cost of scientific methodology. Theories were completely divorced from social or natural reality. Established professors did not know how to do basic statistical tests, and have no problem getting published anyway.
Thats forced integration, but logging into windows does not imply you store data on windows services. The only thing that I can see resulting in data storage is onedrive because its forced down.
So why do i have to open 10 more tabs to see the actual commands? Or am I supposed to blindly run them without knowing what they are?
It's as if I had written "I think automotive regulation is necessary; I'd be worried about car companies producing cars without safety features", and in response you're replying with "companies can make cars with a variety of safety features. They can include seat belts and airbags, even."
I'm seeing only github gist URLs instead of code snippets. What became of progressive enhancement?
It's not just orthography. English has been influenced by Romance languages and gained a tendency to write "of"s instead of compounds. This reverses the word order (order of words) and adds extra words in between.

There is some bit of composability that German has over English though. It's just easier to pick apart words that have been concatenated. Maybe it's because often the first word is in genitive (roughly means possessive) form?

In your example, "Weinachtsbaum", we have "Weinnacht" (itself a compound wine-night) meaning Christmas, and we have "Baum", tree. But the word gets and extra "s" in the middle which is serving roughly the same purpose as "'s" in English.

Winenight'stree. Tree of night of wine. I prefer the Germanic construction.
I really hate this. It's super scammy. Although namecheap does show a little message letting you know it costs more to renew.
Counterpoint: I was just traveling and stuck on 2G data for a few days. The only things on the web that were usable were HN, Tildes.net, and AMP pages. I have spoken ill of AMP in the past, but no more. Google is actually doing something about site bloat.
Tech companies can now bid on the Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract
You mean Symantec?
I'm from Colorado and never heard of Haswell. I'm pretty well acquainted with mountain towns, but Haswell is a tiny town in eastern Colorado. Intel chose it because of the easy to pronounce name.

https://www.denverpost.com/2013/06/01/intels-newest-processo...
3 years of Computer Science in 8 minutes
Practices that work during a growth phase rarely work effectively when an organization (business, country, etc) has reached the latter states of its lifecycle.

One example is unions: they organized and protected workers in a period when companies were maturing.

The growth phase is over. Now that such protections have been augmented by retirement funds and pensions, businesses have little room to maneuver when an economic downturn hits. Unions prevent those businesses from being able to maintain competitive pricing in global markets due to labor costs, so those obligations eventually put the company out of business or force it to move operations - normally out of sheer survival since other companies in the space will be doing the same.

The end result is that, in a mature market, unions can strangle a business until both that business and the retirements of employees are lost.

Many other points exist that may seem counterintuitive without understanding the perspective of both the employer and employee as well as international capital flows and cycles.
There's just no safe way to do what Java applets enabled (arbitrary code execution), because of the massive attack surface. It's one reason why NPAPI is dead.
Or they're being told that all news is fake news in order to convince them to switch to the official state apparatus for information disbursement.
Yeah, whatever, hope they cure cancer with my saliva sample. More power to em. I signed the ToS.
It's scary how targeted google ads are now a days. I was talking about buying a bed to my mother and noticed ads for mattresses started popping up in my ad sidebars. I miss being anonymous.
I have a .red domain and haven't hit any issues so far.
It probably still works with the Firefox fork Pale Moon.
> You can also do the platform checks in the build system instead and have multiple per-platform C files implement APIs for portability shims -- but given that the platform check is likely unportable (at least in make as specified by POSIX), you're just making different portability assumptions.

And yet, it seems that's what the authors of the article did:

The best method of managing system-specific
variants is to follow those same basic principles:
define a portable interface to suitably-chosen primitives, and then implement different variants of the primitives for different systems. The well-defined interface is the important part: the bulk of the
software, including most of the complexity, can be
written as a single version using that interface, and
can be read and understood in portable terms.
In the article, there was a graph that indicated that degrees Interdisciplinary studies were actually increasing.

TBH, I think you've identified the real problem here: Having a degree in the Humanities no longer means a well-rounded educated individual. It simply means a person who can't do math.
I suspect this is a promoted post in the sense that someone with an agenda is gaming the system. The same article right now is on Reddit as a promoted post.
Not only that, but when you sign up you're asked to opt in to allowing your data to be used for research.
The simple way out of the pension trap is to fund them with real actual money instead of promises to pay.
Benchmark of Thermal Paste Application and Quantity
It's about saving cultural goods. The worst thing about the modern age is how transient and impermanent data is. In 100 years, the past 30 years will be effectively a big black hole for anybody interested in studying our culture and civilization.
I didn’t see anyone comment on this so I’ll add my 2 cents:
I think that people think that if they complain that the noise is excessive that the venue will respond. I haven’t found it to be true. The blasting volume of the advertisements at the movie theater, the noisey restaurant, the freezing temperature, etc. they are probably that way for a reason i.e. it’s not an oversight they will correct now that you’ve brought it to their attention.

I’ve gone to restaurants and after being seated found the conditions unpleasant enough that we get up, apologize (“it’s too cold/loud/etc”) and leave.
The code is here: https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu
Oh! Very cool! I'll keep that in mind next time I'm down south!

It was in Florida where I ran into the problem... Definitely no sign where I was :)
I'm looking for a search-engine that can explain notation that I encounter e.g. in scientific papers.
I'm from Italy, from Rome, now living in Milan.

Romans are generally louder then people from Milan, but often foreigners are louder than us, especially South Americans and Americans (from USA).

On the contrary, Chinese and northern African are quiter.

French sound nicher to many, so they usually don't notice their loudness, but in my experience they usually make more noise than Italians, are more rude with the waiters and complain a lot.

I think it all depends on the setup, Italian restaurant are usually family businesses, cheap enough that you could eat there everyday, where tables are mostly very close to one another, if you are too loud people at other tables can easily be annoyed by the noise, while French restaurant have more space between tables and they feel free to turn the volume up a bit and it becomes an habit.

I am personally a very private person and I don't like being loud cause I don't want other people's to listen to what I'm saying, which is very easy if the other table is literally 50 cm away, and have developed an habit of being extremely quite, such as I have a very hard time having a normal conversation when I'm abroad and everyone scream (for my standards)

It is true tough that we are famous for "making a scene" it's not uncommon to go to the restaurant and find a couple fighting loudly

I put Italians in the middle of the bar, on average.
Maybe, but even if it stays AMP can the domain atleast be directly attributed.
I am doing a PhD in natural language processing coming from an undergrad study Literature and Linguistics, and I can relate. I gave up on the humanities very early on because of the blind activism in research and the classroom at the cost of methodology. I moved into NLP and ML research.

One literary history professor put it blatantly and honestly when talking about teaching in the humanities: "Academia for us is a way to instill our ideology in the elite of society."
More propaganda than science. I too hope the appreciation of empiricism gets better with the (re-)introduction of data-driven and computational methods.
About time. 23 sits on a potential treasure of data from genotyping and surveys which is currently being used to tell you trivialities such as your "ancestry and neanthertal composition" (at least in europe). OTOH the data might prove to be a disappointment but at least it's worth giving a try. This is what i hoped for when i signed up, and i m surprised it took a decade+ to happen.
I can also vouch for Ratio, and in general any book by Ruhlman I've read has been excellent (give Egg a go)
> It shows maintainers which are the real issues affecting people

I disagree. Sure, it's a signal, but it's quite distorted.

Suppose you have an issue that affects a lot of people, but has a simple workaround. You may not see this issue since no one bothers to file a bug. If in doubt, I'd prefer to fix a papercut that affects 50% of my users vs. a catastrophic show-stopper bug that affects 0.01% of them.
Untrue. RFC 1738 was in fact quite explicit on this subject. It was almost universally disregarded.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html
I started entering a number and it automatically ran a search before it was completed (mobile chrome). Then I put in a chemical that it didn't find...now I'm outta tries.
> you could blame the black market, but the simpler solution would be to fix the original problem which caused the black market to exist

Tell that to 100 years of American drug policies.
I use a hosted email provider, but I didn't sign my life over. I registered a domain and have control of the dns, so they are just a provider, not a master. I could move in a couple hours and retain my email address.
Equally, my personal utility gained from new innovations in the pharmaceutical space is much higher than the entertainment space. As long as the pharmaceutical industry doesn't go the way of the post-piracy entertainment industry, this is great. I don't think anyone is arguing that big pharma is perfect, but I do enjoy the fact that a lot of money goes into finding new drugs.
On the other hand time required to read and _understand_ the source can be often very compareable to writing specific solution to your problem. Which all comes down to one biggest bottle neck of our industry: sharing understanding of solutions.
Many of my friends and I do indeed hate loud restaurants. So we sometimes wear discreet ear plugs, and pretend that we're hard of hearing. Actually, some of us are, and they just turn off their hearing aids.
Oh god, I missed this one:

git checkout with a path is irreversible

Not only is it a reversible, but it is destructive. It will overwrite untracked changes and even untracked files, without so much as a warning. I personally consider this a critical bug in Git, but apparently the mailing list denizens do not agree with me.
Where does 99% come from? Who agreed that, why? I think the Amazon folks are shooting from the hip...
Google cloud-build vs. travis ci/codeship
Why aren't code snippets part of the article? Why are they hosted somewhere else? Especially when they are 2-3 line snippets.
That's the beauty of obtaining consent. If you want to consent to it, you can consent. If you don't want to consent to it, can withhold consent.
Well, this is $12 of work here (see original articles) and one of the attractions of the service is that it is being bought and used at these levels of cost. At scores or $100's architect led support is not possible.
> The article indeed argues that any positive match should be vetted by a human.

I have said before and I will say again: after the disaster that was the Amazon Fire Phone I have zero trust in any Amazon.com employee to pick up that any time phone to sound the alarm or if they do, I don't expect Amazon to "do the right thing". The reason I mention this is because I don't think this PhD fellow speaks for the the sales "engineers" at Amazon.com. The sales people will say what they have to say to make a sale.

Lets face it: we programmers just work at a company, the business actually runs the show. I have zero confidence that the customer will understand that "any positive match should be vetted by a human". What does vetting mean anyway?

No police has ever stopped me for matching the profile of a suspect, ever. However, I know people who say it happens (or at least used to happen) to them at least twice a year.

Is a blanket ban on law enforcement from using facial recognition possible? Or at least restrict it to federal agencies (a ban on all law enforcement that is not a federal agency)?
NPR?
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