skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To choose another characteristic - someone who went to an inner city school in a deprived neighbourhood getting a B+ vs someone who went to a private school getting an A-. The former far outperformed their relative expectation, and being within the same ballpark as the latter, would arguably make a better hire.

But that is not what you are doing. If it was simply that I am sure people would be more on board. But what you are doing is looking at their skin color and gender. Completely different. Seeing how we are talking about race and gender I can only assume you are suggesting that if somebody of a given race enters the room they must have come from the inner city -- sounds raciest to me.

That being said, I am 100% helping the poor find their way. And guess what? With the exception of gender it still hits most of the race targets that have affirmative action today.

The support for the disadvantaged, and truly underrepresented -- the poor people -- of America is what we should e focusing on. Unilaterally poor people have less access to good education, tools and supplies to learn anything. And the problem self balances! Whoever is poor gets a equally opportunity for help, and when they are not poor they don't get help!

And as I have said many times today, and all the time. You fix these problems at the start of somebodies life, not at the middle. You have to go to poor areas (yes, that means monitory races in a lot of cases) and make sure single parents have extra support and access to computers and tutoring. You need to pour the money in to low income areas and pay teachers a competitive rate to get THE BEST teachers in to those schools. Further more you need classes that teach far beyond the basics. You need basic finances, subsidized savings accounts to teach personal finance. Lessons on delayed gratification.

Nobody likes being left out because of their race or sex. You can't change it, and you are stuck with it. That was the entire point of civil rights movement. The second you start inspecting race or gender for programs you are taking steps backwards. You are causing segregation and passably resent by those who were passed over for not having the right bits, or color. And judging by some of the sentiment of some groups today, resentment and hate is exactly what you are left with when you base decisions on race and sex. I don't expect the rich to get mad because some poor kid got a job, made a company and is now rich. I mean I guess it could be happen, but that would be silly.
That seems like a good and natural thing to me.
> We have incurred losses in all years since our incorporation. We incurred a net loss of $52.7 million in fiscal 2018, $52.0 million in fiscal 2017 and $18.6 million in the three months ended July 31, 2018. As a result, we had an accumulated deficit of $233.4 million as of July 31, 2018.

Woah.
Obviously, a Republican News Network gives a "fair and balanced" version of the news, while a CNN is just the opposite.
I'm pretty sure wood is terrible for this purpose. Note how in hospitals wood is nonexistent.
It works in chrome because they bought the source for the foxit pdf toolkit which does support it.

but out of all of the weird stuff in the pdf spec (which is terrible) javascript has got to be the worst.
That would've been a good starting point for them for sure. A cost benefit analysis would probably be too much to ask for, but would at least make it less of an opinion-type piece.

I actually had the thought that streets should not be for people - put people up on skywalks (indoors or outdoors), and reduce the amount of people on the ground. Could also make for a much nicer experience for the people as well. Doesn't seem like it would cost a ton to just do that.
I just finished reading The Difference Engine yesterday, an entire book about this project, by the project lead!

https://www.amazon.com/Difference-Engine-Charles-Babbage-Com...

(unfortunately overshadowed in Google Search results by a William Gibson book of the same name)

It gives a lot of color on Babbage, but yes the conclusion was that Babbage design basically worked, and could have been built. There were errors in his drawings that they had to correct, but nothing fundamental.

The group at the Science Museum spent over 6 years doing this! This is the group that holds most of his papers, drafts, and unfinished machines.

Although there are a couple things I want to follow up on. They weren't that specific about what computation they did. And does it still work today? It was extraordinarily finicky. It produced a lot of bit errors, as did mechanical computing devices that came later, which sort of defeated the purpose (it was supposed to calculate tables of logarithms and such with higher accuracy than humans.)
Shipping is a feature. Your product must have it.

I think I’m going to frame that and put it on the wall. Did you come up with that or did you hear it somewhere?
I think both of your are correct, but to add another problem, its that there is sort of the understanding that a family member isn't going to try and get your house/car/whatever taken away to pay off the debt. So, family loans are often viewed more as gifts. I'm not going to give a family member 1/2 my life savings as a gift until it becomes an inheritance, unless I really believe in the business and am getting some kind of equity stake/collateral in return i'm not going to be making a "loan".

Plus, its one thing to "invest" in someone buying an asset, like a house/motel/gas station/CNC mill/whatever, vs loaning someone money to start a graphics art business where the money is going to basically pay "salary" and once its spent there isn't anything left to sell when the business fails.

Although, the one common thing I've seen a couple times, is an uncle/whatever paying for a college or a trade (like nursing) school under the "teach a man to fish" theory.
Ugh, I hated that book. It never went into any detail in its “solutions” and the whole thing seemed like a bag of tricks for solving whatever example they were currently showing. Plus I had to deal with the monstrosity that is WileyPLUS.
Sounds like two, not 50+ unless you live across multiple EU states...
I would love a button to disable shares from people I'm not friends with (sorry mom, but I can't really do anything about a missing person or pet 2000 miles away), all posted links without any accompanying text, and disabling "X liked/commented on" from triggering an old story to pop back into my feed. That would pretty much make the feed not just immensely more usable, but possibly even a valuable tool.
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Haxe is an independent programming language that can be compiled to other languages. Progsbase is very different: It is a language in other languages.
It was likely possible with a lot of effort and extensive hand-fitting, just not economically at scale.
Questions : What programming language tech stack do you use ? Is it a better gig than previous one ? Can you hear people farting and shitting in the bathroom ? How do you decompress after work and are you currently searching for another job?
> An RNN is a neural network with an active data memory, known as the LSTM, that can be applied to a sequence of data to help guess what comes next.

Uh no. LSTMs are a specific formulation of a wider class of recurrent network topologies.
> It very rarely feels like a recommendation to improve the experience and a call to action

If your friends are putting it that way, then get new ... oh, wait. KIDDING!

But seriously, I'm sorry to hear that. IMO the "unfollow" button needs to be more prominent, and its significance more clearly explained e.g. by a rollover tip. I find it incredibly valuable. Groups are handy too. I have one that's basically everyone but my religious family members, for when I swear or get political myself, and I use it quite a bit.

I'd also like an "equalizer" to turn certain topics up or down, but that's a lot harder.
There are key differences between MongoDB and Elastic.

MongoDB (the company), has been very strategic about defending themselves from Amazon. Likely due to the AGPL licensing on MongoDB (the database), Amazon doesn't offer a hosted MongoDB - you have to buy MongoDB Atlas which runs on multiple cloud providers, including AWS, GCP and Azure. Coincidentally, Atlas subscriptions are the fastest growing part of MongoDB Inc's revenue, which is why investors are bullish on the company.

Elastic (Apache licensed) has actually had their lunch eaten by Amazon to a much larger degree. Many businesses are purchasing hosted ES instances directly from Amazon via Amazon Elasticsearch service. The problem is bad enough that Elastic Inc had to write a marketing blog post about it [0].

Say what you will about MongoDB (the database), but MongoDB Inc. is the most successful open source software-based company since Red Hat. You can see it in the outperformance of $MDB compared to similarly timed open-source IPOs such as Hortonworks ($HDP) and Cloudera ($CLDR).

[0] - https://www.elastic.co/blog/hosted-elasticsearch-services-ro...
There's no such implication. It's just one connection to those friends, and that's clear from context.
Vista felt incredibly half-baked, and no one I know kept it once Windows 7 became an option.
The general public will use the popular centralized services that is using their data to get rich.

There is still room for technical alternatives for users who want something different, even if that is only 0.1%.

Even with Slack being very popular, irc is not going away, because it still is better than Slack in areas that are valuable to people. No lock-in, open source protocols, and also the fact that it's still good after all these years.
I disagree. The desire for aviation came in thanks in part to the war, and was there with or without jets in amongst post-war growth.

Jets certainly helped the growth in size, and grew the market faster than it could have without. The market was already there and growing. Prop aircraft would have grown too had there been no jet engines, though I doubt we'd have got to 300+ capacity - but who knows?

On seating. The DH Comet had a smaller passenger capacity than the Super Constellation, which was upto 110 depending on seating configuration, though usually a bit less. The 707 had 140 when first introduced. For the 1.5% - 2%ers then?

A turboprop constellation variant was prototyped but never produced commercially. The were none in service. I think the US Navy might have ended up with a couple for trials too.
I really like NYC Open Data: https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/
Honestly I think that more doable than 30% of movies and tv-shows.
I mean this is pretty much business risk analysis. Other things that would shut down most streamers:

- Their ISP simply refusing to do business with them.

- Twitch banning them.

- YouTube banning them.

- PayPal banning them.

- Their ISP changing their terms of service to classify professional streaming as business activity and not allowed on their network without a business plan.

- Their city deciding that since your building is zoned for residential only that they have to stream somewhere else.

- The publishers of the games they play submitting DMCA takedowns on their content.

This in no way justifies malicious actions by ISPs but the argument "you can't throttle people's internet, their livelihoods might depend on it" would in practice be met by "well those people shouldn't try to run a business on a consumer internet plan without accepting the risks."
You didn't answer why we allow alcohol consumption.
Haha same! Any melody at all totally refocuses me into the song, how the fingering and chords would be played on a guitar , what riffs they are reusing and Which audio effect pedals are being used for the music (mostly rock / indie / pop )
The article is functionally a wordier version of "watch the video" anyway.
To what degree is the regulation about restricting individual's choice vs. forcing corporate compliance? If a European user chooses to access Netflix through a VPN, are they in violation of the regulation, or is the VPN provider, or is Netflix, for not doing sufficient checking?

Frankly, it's amazing that so many regional policies, both regulatory (like GDPR) and policy (region encoding) have survived in the modern internet. Maybe in an IPv6 world we can move towards IP addresses not containing any significant geo-IP information, making such attempts moot. Probably not, but it's a nice dream.
The State of Early-Stage VC Funding in 2018
If you have some mathematical maturity (you can read notation, work to understand each equation, have the patience to pretty much understand each equation and each page, because later ideas are built on understanding the previous ideas first), you can self-study a lot of mathematics. But almost everyone (mathematicians, physicists, engineers) who has that maturity, has probably taken a first course in differential equations during their undergrad studies.

So the number of people who have developed some mathematical maturity without ever taking a diff.eq. course is probably small. So we don't know much about these people and how the topic of differential equations appears to them.

But yes, it would be interesting to hear about experiences from someone with e.g. a strong background in theoretical computer science, probably including calculus but not including diff.eqs., who has self-studied a book on differential equations.
current business model - $50M (pretty lean by today standards) VC investment with ratchet (it is the key element here) to $150M, do something SaaS-y and hire 50-100 people, in a 1-2 years if it isn't becoming a unicorn then sell it at least for $150M+ (a crowd of 50-100 engineers plus whatever they spent these 1-2 years on) to one of a BigCo with FOMO syndrome wrt. latest tech trend. Tripling money in 1-2 years is not a failure, it is more like SV equivalent of break-even, and it keeps you in the game of unicorn hunting.
Indeed! Here's two other ones that proved useful and interesting to me:

ARM7/9 types (Cortex like STM32, several NXP LPC, ...): Riscy Pygness - http://pygmy.utoh.org/riscy/

Microchip PIC18/24/30/33 and Atmel Atmega: FlashForth - http://www.flashforth.com/

Enjoy!
> Exactly. There is no point to compete with Google for "browser for Uncle Joe"

Yes there is.

For Firefox to be useful, websites need to work in it. That means web developers need to test in it. And that means that the demographics that they target need to have enough Firefox users to justify testing it. That means there needs to be a sizable portion of Firefox users in every major demographic.

Otherwise it'll be right back to where we were with IE6, except unlike back then, Google Chrome isn't abandonware that just happens to ship with Windows.
Wearing earphones for long periods also increase bacteria breeding ground potential in hot crevices of ear . Yum
Yeah, if they had added an attribute for formats available for each data set, and then added a filter by type to the search (e.g. "type:csv") or similar, it would be great.

Sometimes you really want a specific format for a dataset.
Companies will seek more automation and less human workers if the cost of compliance and employing humans reduces profit.

Take Amazon for example, if a living wage bill is passed, what is to say that they do not move towards a 100% robotic workforce in their warehouses in a few years?
This article (and a number around it) miss the underlying point of SSA entirely.

SSA exists (or at least, was done) because of bitvector dataflow time bounds. All the other interesting reasoning about blah blah blah is mostly just people making up reasons they think people did stuff. It also promotes an NIH view of the world that didn't exist.

(CPS wasn't even introduced until 1976, and i'm not aware of anybody proving any of the nice properties of SSA about it until after SSA existed. If someone has a reference otherwise, i'd love to see it)

I can state this with such flat assertion because Zadeck was my officemate at IBM for a few years, so he told me why it did it. He hated staring at bitvectors because he is dyslexic. Motivation is funny sometimes.

For a large class of problems, bitvector dataflow can be done in O(N) bitvector operations. However, each operation/iteration requires N time to perform the bitvector union/intersection/whatever.
Hence the total time bound was N^2 overall.

It was proven in the early to mid seventies this was the best you can do by Tarjan, when he wasn't busy efficiently solving every other graph problem known to CS at the time:
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/76/547/CS-TR-76...

That was thought to be the end of it.
There were elimination dataflow approaches still left open, but these are complicated.
(Wegman was, among other things, an expert in elimination based dataflow methods)

There were approaches to incremental dataflow, and complex ways to try to work around this for specific problems.

Zadeck's thesis was on ways to start to approach breaking these barriers with techniques different than used before.
You can see most of SSA in it:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/15877

In fact, when he initially suggested it, he was told it was "impossible and i can prove it", but he explained, correctly, that Tarjan/et al proved a very specific thing, and he was using a way not encumbered by those proofs.

(The later parts of this story reduce to "two groups of IBM researchers discovered the problems they were trying to solve were the same even though they appear different". I'll skip this)

In practice, SSA was the first real approach that made it easy and trivial to break bitvector bound for large classes of dataflow problems (constant propagation, etc).

That is why it is used in compilers.

As mentioned, despite this article (and a few others) claiming CPS did it first, i'm not aware of anyone in CPS land claiming or proving anything related to this until well after SSA became popular.
A nice thing with using a compiled language (like Julia) is that you typically do not need to worry about these type of things.
Using the identical code in the blog post in Julia (with some trivial syntactic modifications, https://pastebin.com/RGYunpF4) we not only get a ~500x speedup but the speed difference is pretty much negligible between all the different implementations:

factor_fermat0: 1.599 ms
factor_fermat1: 1.488 ms
factor_fermat2: 1.387 ms
factor_fermat3: 1.421 ms
factor_fermat4: 1.422 ms

Of course, you should still measure when you optimize, but dealing with issues such as whether a=a+1 or a+=1 is faster seems annoying. At that point, you are benchmarking the language and not your own code.
I'm struggling to think of a good source right now, sorry. But a link I've posted before looking the other way, at how the other half of the Roman empire turned out:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/cousin-marr...
also more recent discussion
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/ma...
It's sort of common knowledge in India that Gujaratis, Sindhis, Punjabis and Malayalis (Keralites) are generally pretty enterprising and are often businessmen, both within India and abroad. There can be other such Indian communities too, of course. These are just the ones I have heard of (from childhood) as tending to be more so.

For example, the Patels in the US are the topic of this thread; then there are lots of Punjabis (which includes Sikhs) in Canada; Sindhis, I've heard, are many in Hong Kong; and many Keralites in the Gulf. Again, I don't mean to rule out other places where these or other Indians could have gone, these are just the ones I am more familiar with, and may have relatively high concentrations. Be interesting to know if there are other places where particular groups have gone and done well.

Of course, lots of Indians went to Fiji and Malaysia too, I've read, although those may have mostly gone as plantation labor initially (and some to Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, etc.), during British colonial times. Don't know how those are doing now.

On a side note, when I visited Kuala Lumpur once, I tried out some Malaysian (South) Indian food; it was both similar and in some ways different to South Indian food in India. I guess it is both because they use some different local Malaysian ingredients, and because of the long time of separation from India must have made their cuisine evolved to be somewhat different. It was interesting stuff, though.
It's been obvious to me for quite a while that EV etc only really tells you "this person paid $$$ to get a cert" rather than anything about the site being trustworthy or being who it says it is. I wouldn't bat an eye if 10 years from now major browsers distrusted everything but letsencrypt. Once the letsencrypt project comes out with a comparable solution for code signing, there is really no more reason for paid cert companies to exist. They don't check shit and it's super easy to get fraudulent certs so the value of what they provide is $0.
Thank you soooo so much for sharing. This is exactly what I was looking for!!! Is there a mobile equivalent of Lynx??
Attorney general announces review of social media platforms
I've been banned from reporting ads more times than I can count. every third post is an ad or some low quality suggested post. Ive definitely lowered my Facebook usage. For all the data they collect they do a terrible job at utilizing it.
How Jerry Brown Can Seal His Legacy as a Climate Champion
Sovereignty? By allowing the US to be the major cultural influence? Really?
When I was a kid I made contraptions similar to this using hotwheels tracks with differently sized holes cut into them and slips of paper. Wasn't turing complete, but could do some things. I would have had a blast with this thing. I might buy one now so I can gift it to my nephew when he's a little older.
It is an option and some have tried that but eventually switched to a similar model as the one described in the article because inline styles were underperforming when compared to class names (I imagine that React could be also part of the problem). See https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/pull/283#issueco... for example.

Another cons of using inline styles is that you cannot use pseudo classes (eg :hover) and media queries.
Sugar is a drug, and you can suffer from withdrawal symptoms.

It's not like Trainspotting withdrawal, of course, but when you're drying out from a sucrose binge, "just getting a little taste of that sweet stuff" does tend to intrude upon one's thoughts annoyingly often.
Admittedly, I'm in something of a hybrid situation at the moment, and I have the benefit of being a chemist, not a programmer. My lab has a few desks in it, and technically it's "open", but since we're constantly moving in and out of the office and I can always go for a walk outside to think during the day, it works for me. Look for compromises and suss out the absolute most important point. For me, that's not having people moving around behind me. I have a large set of shelves behind me, and you can only enter my desk area from ahead-left of me.
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[5] https://qri.io (we're tackling the dataset versioning problem head on.