skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything centralized on en.wikipedia these days is likely to exceed Dunbar's-Number-Of-Participants. That makes such things quite exciting and entertaining, but perhaps not always as useful ;-)

(Ironically: in small wikis you actually need to have centralised places like this, else no community can form. :-/ )
I was going to buy the book but after reading your comment, I wont.
Just Fisher Men: The Book of Revelation
Clojure does have a number of sigils and special syntax, but they all seem to have s-expression alternatives. e.g. a dict can be created with {:a 1, :b 2} or (hash-map :a 1, :b 2); dereferencing an atom can be done with @a or (deref a) and so on.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/30/ios-11-2-beta-fixes-cal...

http://nuclearrambo.com/wordpress/google-calculator-bug-3999...

Things break.
Except the merchant loses the chargeback disputes the majority of the time. Chargeback is great if you are a consumer and a nightmare if you're a business.
Thanks! Time to poke the bees!

What is crazy is that we sent people to Google about moving stuff to their cloud offering, and when I asked about the Power9 thing nobody knew anything!
Sorry for not answering your question, but how do you get a job like that?

I miss that stuff so much. Did it from my late teens (yep, professionally) to mid twenties, then moved to America and all my jobs here have been services related in .NET or Java.
Its because google has 'don't be evil' as its unofficial motto. Googlers joined google because they agreed with their ethics. People at apple knew what thy were getting into and consumers knew and expected it to remain the same. Change causes chaos in humanity.
(related - and I enjoyed the vibe he put into it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88 - Vsauce's "How to Count Past Infinity"
The answer is the 4th link in the article
The last three jobs I had at smaller companies definitely had someone at least look at my Github portfolio which is quite extensive. I know because the person who looked told me once they were my coworker.

They said it was immediately obvious I knew what I was doing. Nice to have that edge over people who have nothing to show.
This is a regulation though. They're telling private pole owners what they have to do.
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Node.js, Mongo, JWT, Headless CMS API (Open Source)
I wouldn't say they don't want to modernise it. They have a theming engine that can use some other frameworks' GUIs to provide theming (like GTK+, Windows, and probably Cocoa) — but most distributions only have a hideously ancient version of GNUstep that lacks the theme engine.

I'm with you on the general idea that the GNUstep developers don't seem to be in a rush to take GNUstep out of the shadows and let it be a glory on Linux. More aggressively imitating Cocoa, adopting Swift and filling in some of its holes on Linux, and abandoning the wholly useless enterprise of source-level compatibility with the OPENSTEP APIs of the 1990s… these would be good.

And distros not having the old versions, too!
I think it is fair to think you will be measured with the same general yardsticks that your peers are measured by. So, if you are in a standup where others are giving daily task reports, it is natural to expect you should. And that if you are not, it is natural to feel something is amiss.
The technical infrastructure to run a fork isn't that horrendous. The real challenge is to build a community that actually wants to work on it. For Wikipedia forks, you face a big uphill fight against the network effect.

Smaller wikis sometimes have been successfully forked though. And true: Spanish Wikipedia DID pull it off, I guess due to being early. :-)
Some good architecture related quotes here. Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Or you could raise them as ultrafinitists [1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism
...The pattern proposed to replace the numerical avenues in the Richmond and Sunset was simple. The streets would run Arguello, Borca, Coronado, De Soto... to Zamorano for 26th Avenue. Some of the proposed names had historical significance; others were Spanish names that fit the pattern. After the 26th letter, the pattern would be Spanish saints, so that 27th Avenue would be San Antonio and 47th Avenue would be Santa Ynez. Unable to find a saint's name for K, Q, W or Z the Commission had two streets left over and recommended Alcatraz and La Playa to end the sequence.

After the proposal had its first reading before the Board of Supervisors on November 8, 1909, the western neighborhoods had an immediate hostile reaction. The more populated Richmond District took the lead and fiery orators were chosen to speak out at the Board meeting a week later. When the Board met on November 15, the speakers from the two western neighborhoods decried the idea of changing streets to these "unpronounceable" Spanish names. Orators got up and berated the Board for "selling out" to the Spanish we had so nobly defeated only a few years previously in the Philippines. The over-riding sentiment was that the accepting of these names would be a humiliation and henceforth the Richmond and Sunset would be mocked as "Spanish Town". Despite the vigorous oratory, the Board of Supervisors voted 12 to 5 to accept the recommended changes.

Outraged, the residents of the western avenues got organized to fight this imposition of Spanish names on their streets....

"Spanish Town"

http://www.outsidelands.org/street-names.php
And that's the regulation that makes last mile impossible.
It is really hard for large companies to innovate. Especially with so little competition (I like to think that android and apple users are different demographics). It is the same case with Intel. Sometimes I'm mad at them as they are wasting valuable human time because of slower processors.
Yeah, by "everyone" I meant the significant majority -- just semantics.

It's a very difficult problem. Most people agree that CP is horrible and should be removed.

However, what happens when the media turns a very large majority against a certain ideal / content that should still be available, even if people disagree? Who decides what, and how do you enforce it? How is the arbiter of visible content?

Until this problem is solved, or somehow sidestepped, I don't believe a decentralized web/social system is possible.

I really want to be wrong about this! If anyone reading this has an idea of a solution, please message me!
A manager usually has several distinct projects in the air, with ICs working on them in groups of 1-3. Someone's work isn't relevant to you just because you report to the same manager. The "team" for standup, sprint planing, etc. is really several teams, each tuning out while the others speak. And because small groups can communicate fine informally, the relevant-seeming part of the team-level ritual is always a rehash of what the project staff already know.
My approach is to slap together a bunch of stuff to get a better feel for what's really needed. Once things solidify you can often see that you only need a few things which you then can either custom develop or with less components.

Starting out from scratch without exactly knowing what's needed seems extremely slow, inflexible and prone to wrong decisions.
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I messaged them one day asking about their price, and they put me on a "student plan". Not sure how it works outside of that, sorry.

They have fantastic customer support -- try emailing them?
"I was told this will create a maintenance headache"

That's such a weird attitude I see often. If you had put your stuff on Github under a different name and then downloaded it everybody would have been fine with it.
I agree with you. But I think the problem is that most people don't approach a problem like you explained in your first sentence. It's more, "I'll be googling and reading Stack Overflow for the answer and guessing until I find it". I think it's partially due to a lack of rigor that has crept into coding.
And search engines and social media and streaming services...
> What do you imagine people with a "nice looking house with their nice looking family" do on the weekends?

In an era of both decreased economic mobility (education and housing cost increases, lower high-income tax rates, lower effective taxes on generational wealth transfer) and increased commercial interest in and monetization of attention (adtech, gaming, peak content)...

Probably teaching their children how to be titans of industry and avoiding screens? (Or at least middle management)
That's a case of traffic originating in an unsafe country. Circumventing local laws is a completely different issue. This is about transiting "unsafe" countries while routing to/from a (reasonably?) "safe" country. (Are you really certain Brazil isn't logging local traffic? I wouldn't be.)

Anyway, TLS does leak a lot of metadata, which perhaps you'd rather publish a bit less widely. It's an improvement in casual security, which is nice, but not gonna save your bacon on anything specific.
Rust's Traits are basically prolog. http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2017/01/26/lowe...
Haskell is pretty common for this. See purescript, elm, agda, idris. There are more here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Applications_and_libraries/Compiler...
Kalholmann didn't open the arbcom case, and they didn't provide the bulk of useful evidence. I'd say they were neither whistleblowing nor witchhunting; just producing more heat than light (sadly).
If we're defining "engineering excellence" as the craziest, most amazing thing you can possibly build, then the SR-71 absolutely qualifies. So do top fuel dragsters (though obviously the SR-71 was way more difficult to achieve).

What I meant by "not engineering excellence" was in relation to the original post, comparing how to manage production servers with the SR-71. Nobody should regularly operate their servers like an SR-71 or top fuel dragster. It's great to fly really really fast, but most people should probably not be doing that, because it requires making exceptions like leaking fuel. You actually want to run your server like a big slow complicated comfortable redundant jumbo jet on autopilot.

Hopefully you get my meaning. I apologize if I made their accomplishments seem minor. I meant no insult against the Skunkworks engineers or the SR-71, and your response was not harsh at all.
Was the analysis performed at the Department of Redundancy dept?
I encountered a gentleman on G+ who argued most stridently that "the British Isles" was an absolutely unacceptible term for the large archipelago lying to the northeast of mainland Europe.

He is, it happens, Irish.

(His view is also poorly supported, and worse argued.)
Fix merged
https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/pull/16

https://sbussard.github.io/canvas-sketch/
Been advocating this for months at my company with no success. Our standup is of the worst kind: conference call.
I built https://www.eatclock.com after I started reading this: I really liked the idea of an "its-now-time-to-eat" indicator. I tried to keep it super simple (one of 3 meal sizes, and no history editing) and there is quite some ways to go to get to full eat watch status from where I am, but it has been immediately useful to me just to have a weekly "you ate 49 times last week" email. After the third week where I ate 49 times I started paying a bit more attention (down to 42 now).
Given the number of topics that are flagged from the HN home page because they involve politics it's difficult to disagree...
For a big company it can make sense to take on a big fixed cost (custom software) to reduce a variable cost (cpu/storage/bandwidth consumption). A small company may not have the economy of scale to justify it.
I agree with the points being made here but there's also that issue that your custom creation is the next employee's 3rd party solution.
"If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'" ~~ Henry Ford

OK, that's likely apocryphal, but the overall point is kinda valid. People don't always know what they want - because they don't always know what is possible.

So the real question requires digging deeper... it's not enough to know "I want a faster horse", you need to know that they really mean "I want to get there faster, and be able to travel much further without having to stop and feed/rest the horse, and I want to travel inside a heated/cooled conveyance, and I want music while I'm in transit" and so on.

Now you might argue "Well, the customer could have said all of that" and in a pedantic sense you'd be right. But the typical customer wouldn't have had the imagination to even think that stuff because it would have seemed like science fiction at the time.

I think that's the real key to entrepreneurship: combining deeper insights about what people really want/need (based on their words and/or observed actions) with a deep understanding of what's possible at the bleeding edge of technology, and using that combination to build something awesome.

Of course that's easier said than done. I mean, I have no idea how to do it myself. But one can keep trying...
the fix: https://github.com/sbussard/canvas-sketch/pull/16
If you don't like PIN numbers how do you get cash out of the automated ATM machines?
RenderMan: An Advanced Path Tracing Architecture for Movie Rendering [pdf]
I wish everything was so simple.

At a past job a very technically strong coworker spent months on a problem and eventually threw the towel and handed it to me. It took me another couple months to find a reasonable solution to it.

Some problems are _really_ hard and no amount of help will get a dev to solve it faster.
From Megatechnic Bribe to Megatechnic Blackmail: Mumford’s ‘Megamachine’
That sounds like hell. The sense of ownership, achievement, and subject matter expertise when driving projects from ideation to completion is everything I like about my job. Working on scattershot, atomized tickets from an assembly line would be awful.
Async is terrible as a primitive, but as sugar on top of real concurrency, it's not terrible. I use Task.Supervised.async() all the time in elixir, with confidence that I have access to all the parts that I might need for diaster recovery if I should need it later.
This is a great objection. I nevertheless fail to see why making it a TLD would help any.

A particular TLD (.bit) would clash with ICANN the same, unless someone would keep shelling $185k/y for keeping it up. This does not look very realistic. Registering a TLD is the only official way to interact with ICANN in this area, and I don't see ICANN making any concessions to an outright competitor. Even if registered, such a domain would make little sense: now every Handshake user would depend on ICANN again, hoping it will not hand the TLD to some other registrar (e.g. due to a failure to pay the yearly $185k). This sort of defeats one of the purposes of the project.

Not having a single traditional TLD at the end does have upsides. Any name with a long TLD immediately stands out as a Handshake name. Any reasonable person would register a domain very unlikely to clash with ICANN's TLDs. The lack of need to belong to a handful of TLDs allows to e.g. use dashes instead of dots, lowering the chance of a conflict: not joe.crypto.exchange but joe-crypto-exchange. (Of course people who want to squat short common words likely to be made TLDs by ICANN may do it at their own peril.)

Explicitly being at odds with ICANN forces the project to handle this outright, add a conflict-resolution policy applied at the client side: on a conflict, prefer which source at which domain? How to indicate a conflict anyway? There are no one-size-fits-all solutions here, but reasonable solutions should exist.

In general, I think the technical merits outweigh the risk of name clashes significantly for almost any reasonable user. (Unreasonable users will always exist; they should not be paid too much attention.)
Indeed. Our intellectual history definitely dodged a bullet there.
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Market cap is a great representation of what a company is worth. As you pointed out, market cap is share price x outstanding shares. For the case of Apple, it's $1 trillion, which is minimum amount you'd need to pay to buy out Apple. Issuing more stocks or initiating buy back will change stock price, but it won't impact the total market cap. Stock price already reflects fair value of the company's earnings performance and potential.
My comment, and I believe the one I replied to, is directed at the first paragraph in this piece, which is about the idea of teaching as 'a process of lying' and one which the author agrees with 'in principle'.

I also do not like his suggested definition. It comes across as smartarse-ish and I think most children would feel the same way.
Just give them two mirrors and then play.
Thanks!

"Now also available as a generic anything-you-want-it-to-be top-level domain" -- from the .tel site
If that's actually the reasoning they're using, I strongly agree with you. But my understanding was that they, like most universities, are optimizing for ethnic diversity.
Most aren't as good/perceptive as they claim. Also, it became clear many years ago that founders usually need everything spelt out for them. Any product that "hits" usually does so due to luck rather than skill. Also, "me too" is consistently louder than vision.

While mountains of data may exist, most don't seek it out, and even if they did, wouldn't know how to process/interpret what's shown.

That is, it's all wide open if you know where to look. While some major offerings are satisfactory enough to make it harder to break in, many aren't that great or there's room for competing products.
To the contrary, there is broad consensus and what people are all arguing about is actually the mushy middle. The Republicans won on this one--the 1996 telecom act broadly deregulated the telecom industry. Most of Europe followed suit and deregulated their telecom markets similar to how we did it in the 1996 act.

What republicans are worried about is attempts to undo the 1996 reforms. There are people who think that rate regulation, municipal utility boards deciding where infrastructure should be built, etc., are actually good ideas. Probably not a majority of people even in the democrat camp, but there are enough people who don't remember why the 1996 act was a good idea that it makes republicans nervous.
Career-wise I'm a mostly backend software engineer whose done some data science-y stuff. Just think its fun to build sites like this, and I do a lot of speaking/blogging now, so its good for that!
We did not add Fasttext to our benchmarks because of a minor technical issue but we will work on it. Further, to conduct a fair comparison with ELMo, I think it is needed to use extrinsic tasks such as question answering and textual entailment.
Haha I remember that episode.
'I own that one... And that one... I own that one... Wait no, I don't.....'
If it were a private company where he couldn’t sell his stock, would you still call it hoarding?
You think, that is the only other thing they could be doing?
Rails. Laravel. Express.js. Whatever. If you use that many DTOs for a real-world CRUD, you are killing your company.
Making a computer Turing complete
Ask HN: Is this microservices madness?
A bit of background: I work in a small finance company in Tokyo with ~20 people in IT. The structure of this department is everyone responds straight to the CTO so it's somewhat chaotic.

I am the front-end person in a team doing a single product. Besides me, there's only the back-end guy (our direct boss is the CTO). As per our CTO instructions, the back-end is structured with microservices in go. So 1 developer is designing, launching and maintaining something like 8-10 microservices. Things also change quite frequently from our CTO random recommendations.

I feel this is madness, and our main back-end guy works very long hours and is visibly burned. I am worried both for him and for the quality (or even launch) of the product. There's no single process or workflow that works smoothly.

How common/rare is this about microservices? What would you recommend me doing (besides jumping ship)?
This is beautiful, and a wonderful project to develop along with some friends. JPL nailed it.
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Maybe for smaller companies, but msft, Amazon, tableau in Canada all pay more than that.
It's pretty clear that porn is the most disrespected genre.

I mean, it's not even respectable enough to be considered in the discussion of the most disrespected genre of film.
Or maybe the EU (which you are comparing to) is shifted vastly to the left?

How do you know which it is?

But it's irrelevant, for the electorate in question, Democrats are most definitely not center.
Looking at all of these portfolios only serves to remind me that although I work in tech, I have very little in common with frontend devs in terms of what I think is good or interesting. Most of what has been posted as examples of 'these are great personal sites!' I find actively annoying.

I am not a stick in the mud. :) I just work in a different part of the field, and finding work has never been an issue. So do many others, and they're fine, too. I wouldn't worry about it.
postgrest is perfect for control panels. I wonder if there's anything faster.
> Heck, even the concept of "never ending" seems simpler to me.

This is actually the definition that the Simple English wikipedia article [1] gives. The very first sentence in that article:

> Infinity is about things which never end.

[1] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
> Most of Europe followed suit and deregulated their telecom markets similar to how we did it in the 1996 act.

But one big problem with "attempts to undo the 1996 reforms" is that Europe kept (and expanded) linesharing and unbundled network element rules; the United States threw out most mandatory UNE rules and never expanded them to include companies operating networks over coax or new-build fiber optic networks.

So now we have this farce where, in some areas, people served by DSL have the choice of several (slow) ISPs because the copper is still technically, kinda unbundled. But if you can't get DSL or can't get a sufficiently fast speed, your sole choice is likely your monopoly cable provider.
I thought this was going to be click bait, but it's actually a very well written article.

Are there any other examples of visionary CEOs passing on the torch to execution CEOs? Would be interesting to see if something like this lead to the downfall of companies like Kodak.
what i was getting at that the term "emulation" is rarely used, at least from my experience, in this context except in cases where something is truly faking it like game emulation, OS emulation, hardware emulation, etc. i personally feel like musk is using this term as a marketing and hype technique, that all of the sudden CPUs and GPUs are "faking it" for these applications.
Regarding word embedding algorithm, I am interested in supporting other models that uses subword information (e.g., Fasttext). Further, there have been proposed various recent models to learn entity representations from KB, and I plan to work on them.