skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kotlin and Swift are in a different family of languages from Ruby and Python. The whole family that Kotlin and Swift are in — static languages — offers much better performance and error detection than the family Ruby and Python are in.

Compared to Ruby and Python they doubtless seem a little verbose. Type system features like genetics, which help to make Kotlin and Swift “expressive” in their family of languages, seem pointless from the standpoint of Ruby and Python.

So there are two aspects to this:

* What makes Swift or Kotlin compelling relative to other languages in that family?
* Why use that family instead of languages outside it like Ruby and Python?

People have been promoting dynamic languages as an alternative to static languages for many decades but it doesn’t seem like performance has ever truly caught up enough.
> Too bad none of these languages will ever take off.

I'm sure they will at least inspire some good features in others.
This is so great. After 5 years of SRE career, I love Bash so much. Bash to me is about glue tools together to do something. I think JSON is what make me struggle with Bash the most. JQ solves it to some certain extent but still a PITA.

CI, HealthCheck, Utility scripts(especially about extract data from log) are all valid use case for this.
So this was the inspiration for the Singing Towers of Darillium[0][1]?

[0]: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Singing_Towers
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqE2onQUSk
While I agree with most of what you said, I called out the racial persecution because that's the part that got so much worse over the past couple years. The government isn't separating white children from their guardians or turning a blind eye towards police violence against white people.

The unstated part of my post was Trump and the point was that we can get back to worrying about issues like copyright once we've figured out how to get rid of him. But as long as he's president, he's going to continually make things worse on so many fronts that trying to work on less pressing issues like copyright reform is like a doctor telling a fat man with a gunshot wound to exercise more because he's at risk of heart disease. You have to treat the immediately-life-threatening issue first.

None of this is to say that systemic economic unfairness isn't an issue that needs addressing, just that there's no way to treat that disease until we've dealt with the gunshot we received in the 2016 election.
I know techies like to think that Elon is somehow getting out of this, but legally, if the funding was not secured in full at the time of the tweet, he's fucked under US and EU securities law.

And no one in their right mind tries to fish for a lawsuit. They are expensive, time consuming, and distracting.
Would you mind sharing what you have in mind please? I'm genuinely interested in how that would work.
> "I like to see a new law that regulates platforms with major influence."

Giving the government the power to regulate speech on privately owned media is very dangerous, and is precisely what the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press were designed to prevent.

If the government can regulate who YouTube or Facebook or Twitter must allow to post on their sites, what's to stop them from telling the New York Times what they have to print on their front page? (The Times also fits your description of a platform with major influence. Should they be required to publish an article that I wrote? Or that the President wrote?)

I'm much more scared of the government exercising control over speech than corporations, since the government has much more power (they can put people in prison, etc.).
A toxic culture can be established independent of whether or not we have a story about it, even if Rachel was never hired this would still be about as toxic as it gets.

The tools are common sense and a sense of decency, and if those are in short supply inside the company then you could always ask your friendly neighborhood HR consultant how they feel about your place of work and its practices.
In San Francisco we have a decent system in place, paper ballot with a scanner that immediately tallies the vote and secured the ballot in a tamper-evident box.

I’m not advocating for anything more than that.
yeah, you have to be careful with the studies that equate stuff in cell culture with stuff in real organisms.

we have metrics for "chemical X probabalistically causes cancer Y in tissue Z".

you can play games with the ROA and the probability. but the type of chemical (detergent, etc) is a non sequitor. if you expose cells to a detergent in high enough concentration, they'll lyse.

lysed cells are an ENTIRELY distinct "type" of cell death than the kind of cell death signature that you would see if the cell were cancerous. the author of that study didn't do any flow cytometry on his 293 T samples by the looks of it, but if he had, the differences would be enlightening. compare someone who has died in a plane crash to someone who died of ebola. you'd know that one was not the other very easily even if you couldn't attribute a cause.

anyhow, i looked at that paper you linked. the other big problem with the monsanto chemical -- which was not even mentioned in the lawsuit (!) was that it is an endocrine disruptor even in situations where it is not toxic. in other words, it's terrible for you and will distort your body's hormone chemistry in ways we probably don't even understand yet. that's just as big of a story as the chemical being legally confirmed as carcinogenic.
The "middlebox problem" being discussed isn't the ability to install CAs on clients - the problem is that middleboxes don't implement the spec properly and prevent upgrading the protocol in the obvious way.

I'm not a big fan of transparent proxies, but in the case of employers there's at least a reasonable argument that the "computers are not the user's, they are the company's". There is NO good argument for middleboxes that don't implement the specification correctly and thus make it very hard to upgrade protocols.
Why would it have to be secured in full? He wrote “funding secured” that just implies a non-zero level of funding.
Arguably the main problem here is that he got defensive/hostile rather than refining or articulating his argument. Instead of saying "no, I'm not stupid", he maybe could have said "no, it would taste terrible and I'd probably throw up and and it may make me feel sick for a while, but the studies show that it wouldn't cause lasting damage to my body". (At least, I think that's his claim.) But then, he probably could have been more honest/clear in his original phrasing "you can drink a whole quart and it won't hurt you".
The headlined page tells you that you do have access to the books. The second edition was published only 3 years ago, and is still in print from what I can tell.

It's not really the 2nd edition, given that there was a LinkSys edition with revisions from the first edition published in 2011.
Inlining and microbenchmarking
This sounds almost exactly like the feature set of most common microcontroller RTOSes. At least FreeRTOS and ThreadX have practically identical features except for the shell. Processes and process memory isolation are not supported on most controllers, so all you get is a single image containing both the operating system and the application. Fun fact: you even get to write the main function yourself and need to call the function that will start the OS explicitly from there.

A Microcontroller with real process isolation would be really nice, though. It could be used to safely contain whole classes of nasty bugs in the application software.
It could be summarized thusly in 2 sentences.

The text configuration is so easy anyone could do it once in 2 minutes and not worry about it for the next 10 years. It actually has a gui in fact multiple guis for this particular app based on platform.

If I mangled it and removed punctuation it might fit in a tweet but this wouldn't be as illuminating as actually showing how simple the configuration format is or linking to an actual frontend so you could see how it looks.

We write posts longer than tweets because we care about care about communicating ideas of value.
Blame? What is that? Are you making a moral argument? I'm talking about cause and effect, and I mentioned one cause that exists in Brazil but not in e.g. France.
Whoah, sorry, don't get me wrong: TLS 1.3 and the eradication of RSA is an unalloyed good thing, and broken middleboxes are bad.
You could do that and also use a real hash for longer inputs.

Literally truncating the input wouldn’t be great in the likely case that your hash table is using only 10 bits (say) of the hash value, but I bet there are similar approaches that would work.
That's sophistry. You can take that line of argument to absolve anyone or anything from responsibility.

For example, none of the cells in my body are the same as ten years ago, ergo this is not the same body as a decade ago. Or, there is no continuity between my thoughts then and now, therefore mentally I am not the same entity. Or, all of the individuals composing a company when it committed an environmental crime are now retired, therefore it is no longer the same company.

Seriously? What about the continuity of corporate culture and management processes?
I only claimed “safety critical areas”... the other millions of lines and OS interop for UI, etc., will most likely not change for a long time.
A lot of the performance gains you get from GCP come from taking shortcuts over private fibre.

Traffic inbound to a GCP-hosted system first goes to a local point-of-presence, then makes relatively few hops to reach its destination via Google's private fibre network.

You can get a discount if you let packets make their own way to the destination over the public internet, but in practice that will make sense for cost-sensitive bulk operations, rather than interactive usage.
I think the best answer is "the one you're interested in" or maybe if you have a goal then use that?

Learning something completely is never simple, everything leads to the same thing.
post hoc ergo propter hoc

Background frequency of cancer? Background frequency of owning the most popular weed killer? Expected number of co-incidence?
Single-family homes, even new construction, do not need to be ADA compliant.

http://nahbnow.com/2015/02/ada-and-fha-what-builders-need-to...

I'd suggest breaking a leg sometime and see what you think after you've been on crutches for a few months.

Yes, every now and then there are results that seem out of line but, if compliance were something it was easy to avoid, every business would be a special snowflake that had some unique excuse for not complying.
I don't know, I guess I could tautologically define it as a map that shows how far you can get from every point in a given timeframe.

Sort of a "heatmap" of distance.

That way you could discover the most "well-connected" locations within a city, and even potentially use that data for urban planning.
Your comment was not removed. Your comment was flagged because other posters didn't think your post was productive or beneficial to the community.

Similarly, I am flagging this post complaining about it.
That's not at all how it works.

Musk is the CEO of Tesla and made a public statement. Under US and EU securities laws, if he lied in the tweet, he's liable for the losses of anyone who traded (or didn't trade) based on the tweet, whether or not they were a short seller.

Shorts don't speak for the company. While releasing false information for the purposes of manipulating stock prices is illegal, none of the Tesla shorts have been proven to have done so.
AI for cybersecurity is a hot new thing–and a dangerous gamble
U.S. wage growth is getting wiped out by inflation
The vast majority of modern computing devices run with similar minimalist operating systems.
Only if one doesn't look into the right place.

Mikroelektronika has Basic and Pascal compilers, in addition to C, for all those slow CPUs that are market relevant.

https://www.mikroe.com/compilers

And they aren't the only ones still alive.
One very small irony is the Linux Foundation (my employer) is based in LDAC, and shares facilities with ILM/Lucas. It's been fun watching the run up to this new foundation becoming public. Had to pick a new acronym due too namespace collision ;)
I'm pretty sure the parent only meant that the "Malfunction 54" error should not have been ignored, not that the operator should have somehow avoided the race condition in the first place.
No, it implies that all the necessary funding was secured because he didn't qualify his statement. Not announcing that they did not have full funding would have been a material omission under securities laws and would have been just as actionable legally speaking.
Boolean logic. It’s applicable to every day programming and foundational to software in general.
Should we expect movies released with open source av codecs anytime soon?
Mystery is a detective murder story where the perp is known from the start but only revealed at the last page.

This is at best a non-mystery.
Long time ago, people also built houses based on piling stuff on top of each other, nowadays an architect has to certify the construction plan.
GKE is free. You could run a micro vm for 5$ with kubernetes orchestring it.
It's hard to tell until it's decided in a court. Until then it's everyone's best guess. Googles compliance officers might find it not worth the risk.

There might also be other reasons one would prefer to follow the spirit of the law and help put pressure on two dictatorships where at least one of them seeds instability in many countries.
Did you look at MINIX?
Ever been to a country without a permitting system?
Utter bullshit. Who even wrote this? This seems horribly naively written from people who can't think beyond simple concepts. Voting machine company shills, perhaps?

This has next to nothing to do with attacks. This has everything to do with choosing who gets to choose the software. If the software and system design came from academia, it'd be vastly different than anything that comes from Diebold or any other evil company that's excellent at selling crap to the government but willfully and intentionally ignorant of actual security.

As Douglas Adams wrote, "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." Likewise, any voting software which can be sold to politicians should on no account be allowed anywhere near the voting process.
> How does anyone maintain a relationship when you're in the same room as other people?

You take it outside? Why do you have to maintain your relationship out of your room?
Love it. Reminds me of building sites with iWeb and RapidWeaver back in the early 2000s. They were a great way to get started building sites without having to muck about with databases and whatnot.

It sees to me though I’m happy to be proven wrong, there’s a real gap in the market for a powerful but not too technical website-building framework.

For me, Drupal 7 hit the sweet-spot between power and ease of development. I built some advanced sites without being a coder. However with D8 they went for the enterprise and it’s almost impossible to get the thing set up without being a serious developer.

Wordpress is hack-prone unless you know what you’re doing and anything beyond its basic blog features requires development or annual plugin subscriptions.

I love static site generators, but they do take a developer to set up and the -technical user experience is still a bodge, despite the best efforts of NetlifyCMS, Forestry, Cloudcannon etc.

CraftCMS looks nice, but features like user roles or ecommerce requires the pricey paid version.

Is there anything I’ve missed? What would you recommend?

Nice though platforms like Squarespace are, it’d be sad if the simple-but-powerful open source/self-hosted space was completely conceded to paid services.
"Middlebox" is the IETF term for "proxy".
Transferring prop13 taxes when moving if someone is older than 55yo is very limited - should be within the same county and number of counties allowing it is 10 or 8 or something like that in CA. I may not remember exact details on that.

Prop13 was expanded to allow transfer taxes between parents & children and grandparents & grandchildren.

Also, commercial property is covered by prop13 too.

Also, prop 13 is not limited to the primary residences.

Also in many places schools are funded from property taxes, so all those complaints about horribly underfunded non-performing Californian schools have big "FU, got mine" from homeowners behind them.
May I ask how you pay your rent and buy food?
If it makes you feel any better, there was no particular shortage of idiots there either, just like any other place.
Looking at the founding members, I am surprised there are no GPU vendors; which Hollywood must make an extensive use of.
Advocates say paper ballots are safest
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, but thanks for the clarification. Looks like I misremembered. Apparently it also has +0 and -0...
My pizza place has software that keeps my credit card number for delivery for my address plus calling phone number. They'll ask "do you want to pay with Visa ending in 1234?"
Oh no doubt! But I'd rather be a well paid and connected idiot than a poorly paid smart person.
Your post makes it sounds like it is US Gov that is behaving like Google (i.e. running blacklists) not AWS?
Glad to see this. Used AMD back about 10 years ago, but last two builds I've done were intel given they couldn't keep up with performance or price of intel. I have stuck with ATI/AMD cards though since they have seemed to stay competitive with nvidia and timing wise they seems to be the best bang for the buck.
Twitter won't act against Alex Jones after agreeing tweets violated rules
Average salary is lower than the US so a 2M€ fundraising in EU allow more than a in the US.

It’s not really about attracting talent, that’s really not an issue. Cost of life is lower but also salary includes social security and all.
Also why SIMD fairly universally uses -1 for true.

C arguably picked the wrong semantics here. Hardware picks up the slack, however, with the setcc instructions on x86, csinc on AArch64, etc.
You don't have to look that far.
The ICE detaining children and violating them are already crimes against humanity. I bet there are IT people working for that agency.

They killed at least one child and are drugging them against their will, while they are forcibly taken from their parents and held in worse conditions than terrorists.
> You take it outside?

But take it outside... where? Where do you have to go when you share a bedroom with other people?

> Why do you have to maintain your relationship out of your room?

You don't. But you don't have a private bedroom either. So where does that leave?
If you are looking for light-weight (no Jquery) and flexible alternatives to Bootstrap, you might also like utility toolkit (combine classes for flexible design systems) like Tachyon (http://tachyons.io/) or TailwindCSS (https://tailwindcss.com/). These toolkits have sped up my webdev while make me feel like really controlling what I do (Bootstrap always felt like working against the system when customizing stuff)
If you check the "Who?" page, the author mentions writing an SQL tutorial software "GalaXQL" and an 8051 simulator at school. I went to the same school and remember that they were used as teaching aids in different courses.
Coming soon to the USA. Scroll down to the map labeled "OVH Public Cloud regions" on the link you provided.
Seems like now we could have CAD software perform static analysis on the design as well as physics simulation "unit tests" in order to augment testing
Might you elucidate why you think so?
>They've plateaud while sticking to their values.

They earned 6 billion more in Q2 2018 than they did in Q2 2017. Like I said, to suggest they've plateaued while sticking to their values is ridiculous.

Alphabet reported revenue of $26.24 billion after accounting for traffic-acquisition costs, up from $20.91 billion in the second quarter of 2017 and higher than the average analyst estimate of $25.58 billion.
GKE itself is free - you have to pay for each node you use though, and GKE requires some core services that take up most of the space on 1-2 standard nodes in your cluster.
+1 testimonial for bulma here. I use it for everything. I love how simple it is.
no problem. i saw on this account’s summary that you do pdf generation. there are two good books on ocaml, and the second, more ocaml, has a project on producing pdf files. so that seems like it may be of interest to you.

https://www.amazon.com/OCaml-Very-Beginning-John-Whitington/...

https://www.amazon.com/More-OCaml-Algorithms-Methods-Diversi...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu8EoSxDXHP5CIFvt9-ze...
Five Startups from Germany, Latvia, and Romania Chosen for 2018 CONTENTshift
> Why? / Who Cares?
> Because after poring through a CSV one time, you can now build a dictionary/cache of where each row lives for future O(1) access! You're now a stone's throw away from a CSV-driven database!

this is pretty awesome, although I'd really love to see a csv to columndb indexer.
Younger Adults Would Rather Get Their News in Text Than Video, Study Finds
Based on having attended a presentation on this at FMX this year, the main practical goal at the moment seems to be to help maintain low-level open source tools everyone relies on, like OpenEXR. It didn't sound like disrupting the software ecosystem by funding open-source alternatives to current "industry standard" tools was on the agenda, just making sure what is already in use continues to work.

Overall, I got the impression this was a serious undertaking with a pragmatic approach to solving problems for the VFX industry, so here's hoping it works out.
One can still dream: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Z...
Isn't net migration out of the Bay Area?

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/Bay-A...
I wonder if this is more of a Bethesda initiative or a law firm initiative. Is Bethesda aware that bad PR these days can cripple your launches? Are they really risking an increase in "revenge piracy" or loss of sales just for a marginal reduction in "losses" from these Amazon sellers?

People who buy used games don't want to pay the new price, and they won't. One way or another they'll get it for the discounted price. It's best if you don't alienate your customers for something that will bring no palpable benefit.
That video is terrible, read the article instead if possible.
"The Two Johns" is usually used for the band They Might Be Giants, who are John Linnell and John Flansburgh (plus a technically rotating backup band, but usually Danny Weiskopf, Dan Miller and Marty Beller).
Isn’t the entire production capacity pre-ordered at least a year out? I mean, how much more “demand” for a $45k car can there be?
I've spent the past two weeks trying to get Gitlab and Amazon EKS up and running and that blog post is pretty much spot on. I'm actually halfway through exploring some of the ingress options discussed in the post but I think I'm just going to try another provider now. Thanks for posting.
Glyphosate is about as toxic as salt, as measured by LD50.

Are you willing to drink an entire glass of soy sauce to prove its safety?
It's got about 20 houses on it, according to Google Maps. Compare that to McNeil Island about 3 miles northwest, which is about 4400 acres and only has an abandoned prison and a small facility for sexually violent predators.
They voluntarily withdrew from China to avoid censorship even though they are now backtracking that decision. Amazon was the one providing facial recognition to law enforcement. I don't see any of them as clear "good guys" or "bad guys".