skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it’s more RTFM before you drive the car. A powerful skill many have forgotten which is supplanted by autonomous tools to make tripping over claymores easier.
Implementing Push-Pull Efficiently in GraphBLAS
>> grant them to people being paid the highest wages first

I'm against that because it would give FAANG a massive advantage, since they can afford to pay really high salaries compared to, say, a startup.
I think an XMPP based service gets pretty close. At least I consider those the closest thing we have today, to an ideal messaging service.

Making encryption easier to use, or even the default, is probably the biggest hole I see with (most?) existing XMPP services.
I like looking at much better code bases than my own when I am considering making something. It's weird, but it really motivates me.

Here are a handful of ones that I really like (all related to gaming):

DOOM:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php - A great overview of it, mentioning the third game and its variants. Their whole github is pretty great.
Just worth noting that many people consider Carmack's code to be some of the best in the industry. Really worth a read.

https://github.com/fabiensanglard/Doom3-for-MacOSX-

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3

Monogame:

The Open Source implementation of Microsoft's XNA game dev framework. Really well loved C# code. And they keep it very clean.

https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame

Battle for Wesnoth:

Famous and well loved open source 4x game

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth

Rogue-Likes:

There are a bunch of rogue-likes that are open source. It's
a lovely look at the evolution of the genre and old school limitations. The genre as a whole is very open source friendly.

http://rephial.org/ - Angband

https://github.com/crawl/crawl - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Lastly, here is a list of open source games. I would argue a huge chunk are not that nice. But there are gems in here.
https://github.com/leereilly/games
"Join a Spatial meeting from HoloLens, MagicLeap, VR, PC or Phone"
> The fact that the concerns of rural communities are summarily dismissed when making policy was one of the big contributing factors to the election victories of both Brexit and Trump

Do you think that an influx of underpaid skilled labor is going to ease the tensions that created Brexit and Trump?

Your assertion here appears to be that Trump voters were pissed off that more immigrants weren't making it to their hometowns. I find that assertion... highly implausible.

> Policy that lets the economic advantage of urban areas snowball more is something that should be given more thought than "it wouldn't matter anyways, those places suck."... Those places do suck, but we should treat that as a problem to be addressed rather than avoided.

Oy.

1. IMO they don't suck. They have many advantages. But they aren't particularly good locations for doing highly skilled labor.

2. There are a lot of policy levers that can be used to help rural areas. Trying to turn them into immigration-fueled discount tech/med hubs is doomed to fail and is therefore definitely not the right lever.

3. It's also worth noting that even rural economic development tends to be geographically concentrated. Just as wealth concentrates in cities with 10M people compared to cities with 100,000 people, wealth also concentrates in cities with 100,000 people compared to cities with 1,000 people. And BTW, those 100,000 person towns where skilled labor would invariably concentrate are in many cases already doing quite well.

Even rural development -- and ESPECIALLY rural development based on skilled labor immigration -- isn't going to help the rural places that have been hardest hit in the past two decades, which tend to be in the 1,000 to 10,000 range.

The argument isn't that policy should benefit urban America. The argument is that trying to bootstrap tiny local economies with skilled labor immigration is doomed to fail.
History's Best Strategies for Avoiding Being Buried Alive
We've been working on this for some time. We announced earlier in the year that we want to offer this type of a managed service and we will start with one engine for now. Disclosure: I lead Products at DigitalOcean.
Dont forget to delete G+ from your site
That's a bad reason. Even if the source isn't at the same, high standard, you should still cite it to:

a) Tell others were to go if they want more context.

b) Give credit for where you got the idea or for doing the legwork of putting it together.

c) Allow auditing of the ultimate origin of a claim and e.g. identify whether one data point is getting repeated like it's two data points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
Also, building a company is not all or nothing. You could even shoot smaller and likely get to $1M in revenue for a $5M or so company. The odds are much better.
They (claim) they don't sell the names of their Thermostat users either, it's all anonymized data. Where's the irony?

> It has promoted the usefulness of its “illness data,” which it says is aggregated and contains no identifying personal information before being passed along to other companies.
Can you please elaborate a bit on the textmate approach? I don't fully grasp it from this description yet... while it totally sounds interesting...
> I don't think your average centrist knows what that it

I think you're illustrating exactly the point that was aimed for – everyone defines these vague concepts relative to their own perception. Even what is "center" is probably bound to vary wildly depending on ones own perspective.
Can you explain it more? Why you think that running your own DB instance is such overhead?
Are you ever tried running your own, with mysql/mariadb for example?
If you are born in India
H1b = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude

You pay all the taxes with no hope of ever getting any of the benefits, your employee pretty much owns you, if get disabled or sick you need to go back to your country. Does not matter what position and what company you worked for, it does not matter how much taxes you have paid.

Greencard backlogs for H1b is also enabling Indian run sweat shop consultancies(crooks) that cram 20-30 immigrant fresh grads in a New Jersey home and apply for all and every IT every job out there. They blatantly make their indentured servants lie in the resume, they basically own them by controlling their h1b visas.

This is driving down wages for everyone. Indentured servants don't ask for a raise

Americas need for immigrants isn't going away nor is it's abuse of Immigrants
> as are her parents

Uh, 'chain migration'?
If anyone from DO is around - Will libprotobuf-c be available on managed postgres? I ask because for the longest time AWS RDS didn't support cutting Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS.
Location services are client side. You turn it off if you don't trust client side apps to have access to your location.
So now they have managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage.

Assuming managed K8S is next, or maybe more "AZ/Region" h/a features. Great to have a new player coming into this space. Especially one with reasonable egress charges.
I was only technical adviser for a while, but I know they did offsite backups but its hard to have these up to a minute. So they tried to recover the latest version of their DB so that truly no records are missing.

Edit: my original post got downvoted severely in few minutes from posting. Hello DigitalOcean staff and/or owners!
yes, it's next on our roadmap of engines. I work at DO FYI.
I had a similar confusion when skimming the paper. The algorithm only depends on the relative ordering of node "ranks", rather than their absolute values. If you were to treat the distributions as continuous (ignoring ties) then it would make absolutely no difference what distribution you used. (Any two continuous distributions are related by a monotonic transformation, which preserves the ordering relationships between different points of the distribution.)

(A more concrete way of looking at it: a simple way of sampling from a geometric distribution is to choose a uniform random integer and count the number of leading 1 bits. The authors suggest concatenating a few random bits to the end for tie-breaking, so that the rank is a pair of a geometric random variable and a uniform random variable, sorted lexicographically. But such a pair is equivalent to just choosing a uniform random integer, and sorting by that!)

Upon a closer reading, it makes a bit more sense. In section 4, the authors point out that by choosing ranks from a geometric distribution, they only need to store O(log log n) bits per node, instead of O(log n). The geometric distribution of ranks, and the handling of ties, allow them to prove the same time complexity bounds as a normal treap while using slightly less space.

However, I don't see this as a major advantage because either way, it still takes O(log n) bits to store each node's child pointers.
Yes. Illegal redistribution violates the owner's copyright (in its absolute literal sense). While there may be no actual damages, a country might allow for statutory damages to be sought after. For example, the US allows for such statutory damages:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
Social engineering at its best.
Yeah, had a similar experience with Turbo Pascal: it was a really cool to mix Pascal and assembler methods in the same file. Tools (debugger) were kind of broken though. In my thesis I propose to model the different languages as first-class elements that can be imported like a library and that do not only affect the compiler but also all other developer tools like syntax highlighting, formatters, auto-completion, debuggers, data viewers, etc.
Immigration is a complex topic.

Putting all other issues aside positive and negative, if you turned off the foreign immigration tap, the people in power (corporations) would be screaming at Washington to fix American education system so they could actually find qualified candidates. In that would be a lot of value.
How do you combine the separately compiled libraries into a single deliverable library/executable?

Because that is what the original article is aiming for.
You just invented the European Union :)
Right, so I guess my question is: The remote users don't have the benefit of being in the same room as the rest of the group. The AR people/objects wouldn't likely "fit" into their physical world. Like in the initial demo video (2 guys sitting, 1 woman standing near Kanban board) -- What does she see from her perspective?

It feels to me like the "host" participants can use AR but anyone remote would need to be using VR as the physical environment mapping wouldn't make any sense for them.
WordPress 5.0 changes everything, both for users and developers
Aggregating talent has the effect of creating things that couldn't exist on their own. You don't know where your next co-founder is going to be from. You know you're going to be competing worldwide with other founders anyway so you want the best co-founder you can find next to you. He may be abroad. You want him here so you can meet him.
I would just do the Enter thing (I can't think of a reason to prefer Ctrl-Enter), and forget about the other mode. If you really want to do that other mode with a super-restricted environment, just have the code prepared to be denied permission (to setup that environment) and not assume that it has been granted. There will be users that won't feel comfortable adding those permissions/capabilities to "up".
Do you have any tips on how to build one and start one up?

Edit: just found this https://littlefreelibrary.org/build/
Only after an influx of economic migrants. Without that influx of migrants, I don't think most of the pro brexit people would have been concerned about the free movement of people within Europe.
I get pinged through a discord webhook when my site crashes (restarts).
New device enables semiconductor manufacturers to determine vacuum level
According to the study[1] the small tribe of devoted conservatives is 6% of the population and the progressive activists are 8% of the population.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...
Are first class continuations a language-design dead end?
Would be awesome if DO also included support for MemSQL.

I know MemSQL back in 2017 announced managed services, but I'm pretty sure they closed it. Although I can't find a link.
Death of a Bookman
Google mandates two years of security updates for phones in new Android contract
It'll be interesting to see how this feels for collaboration compared to current video chat. It clearly has the advantage of allowing people to 'interact' with things in the space, but you lose the feedback aspect of people's facial expressions.

With video, especially in a group, you can see if people are following what you say, nodding or shaking heads, have confused looks, or are not engaged (or falling asleep). Compared to voice-only discussions, for example, sometimes people won't ask the question if they're confused, presumably thinking they're the only one and don't want to waste others time and/or embarrass themselves.

Maybe facial expressions can be emulated -- but there's a very big uncanny valley to get over to make that usable.
No worries, even PhDs don't understand why things work, only how ;-)

You simply need to practice on challenging problems, sometimes ripping off code that is state-of-art, analyzing it, understanding why certain things are done the way they are done, and in a few months you could be able to do your own state-of-art custom models with your own loss functions with distributed training using your own callbacks and getting $500k salary in some valley company.
Interviewing Developers; What is the right process?
Original title: "Google mandates two years of security updates for popular phones in new Android contract" (8 characters over).
Thanks for the ideas, and for the good words! :) Do you know of any nice screencast/video where some similar functionality of helm would be shown? Does it also work for shell commands in some way? I'm not an emacs user...
There's no point trying to argue if everything is just getting labeled, instead of the underlying facts and ideas getting discussed.
> I'm quite careful writing command lines

A safety measure I picked up from a sysadmin while watching over their shoulder: start writing nifty command lines by prefixing them with # first, to prevent havoc when fat fingering the [enter].
Nowadays there's 3 competitive Tetris scene:

* NES Tetris: the subject of OP post.

* Standard Modern (or "SRS") Tetris. The game mechanics gives a lots of option to the player: pieces can slide after falling to the ground or when rotating against a wall, the RNG is optmized to give a uniform distribution of piece, etc. Since the speed of the game comes from the player himself, most people either play in a 1vs1 format [1] or in a solo 40 lines sprint [2]. It can get very fast [3] (an actual TAS looks like this [4].

* Arika Tetris (Tetris the Grand Master). A Japananese, arcade-only variant of Tetris. Here the game mechanics offer a lot of the same options (in spirit) as the Standard Modern Tetris, but the mechanics is tweaked for solo play. Not only it enables a high speed play, but forces you to keep up (otherwise it's game over). We got some good exposure some years ago thanks to the performance of Kevin et al. during the Awesome Game Done Quick Marathon a few years ago [5]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhnFztv79N8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llMQxWfI-Mg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyVh40sOav0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqr69JJFa88

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU
Lots of green tea, 1,5 - 2 litres per day. Not sure if thats healthy or not.
Wasp-inspired robots can lift 40 times their own weight–and work open doors
Hot damn, this is a bad precedent. A legal chilling effect on improving the performance of software (because god forbid it gets slower in the future). I'd be interested to see how they established that the slowdown was "intentional" and not simply negligent or uncaring.
EB-5 has nothing to do with founding and working at a different business. USCIS allows applicants to invest into EB-5 Regional Centers, which are essentially funds that would not require you to work there or start any new business. If an investment is made into a TEA, the capital requirements drop to $500, 000. Its effectively a for sale green card. If you are a sufficiently important executive, $500, 000 is chump change to ensure you can stay in the United States indefinitely.

I'm not sure why you are turning to hostilities. Please review the legislation.
> I think people have been conditioned to see "political correctness" as something bad, and have different views of what it means.

> I think this is a result of an intense propaganda campaign on the right that has distorted the meaning of political correctness.

I haven't looked up the etymology, but I've always assumed the term has been pejorative/satirical/tongue-in-cheek since its inception. Think about it -- it implies there's a different form of "correctness" that isn't actually "correct", but merely "politically correct" -- i.e. correct only in the context of overly carefully worded political pandering. I can't imagine somebody unironically choosing to describe their own speech as "politically correct".
I'm not sure I agree that it IS hypocrisy: if you want to operate in a place for business, and you have no choice (i.e. my point about Apple's Board + Shareholders,) you can rail against the policies in public as much as possible and hope that the law favors your principles.

That's what Tim Cook is doing here: hoping the US doesn't go in the direction of an authoritarian government, and lobbying as much as he can to prevent that. Imagine if the US adopted a similar law or set of policies that required "backdoors," or data pooling (a la social credit system) - what are his choices?

1) Not operate in the US? Not realistic

2) Ignore them and pay hefty fines up the whazoo? Maybe for a short period of time until Shareholders revolt or the Feds push to start pulling some folks in court.
A taxonomy of cyber-harms: Defining the impacts of cyber-attacks
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Was about to post this. In addition dead-code elimination is (still) disabled in V8 as far as I know and it's not that big of a deal anymore.

TurboFan IR (and Turbofan in general) is way simpler and more readable than Crankshaft. Figuring out what's optimized and how is easy with the CodeStubAssembler. I remember nights of head-scratching with CrankShaft :D
The study itself describes "devoted conservatives" as 6% of the population compared to 8% for "progressive activists".

That said, the actual amount of racially homogeneity described in the study is:

Progressive Activists:
- Eleven percent more likely to be white - 80% V. 69%
– Seven percent more likely to be between ages 18 and 29 - 28% V. 21%
– Twice as likely to have completed college - 59% V. 29%

Devoted Conservatives:
- Nineteen percent more likely to be white - 88% V. 69%
– Fourteen percent more likely to be older than 65 - 34% V. 20% - and much less likely to be born
between 1985 and 2000 - 11% V. 27%
– More likely to come from the South - 45% V. 38%

Link to study in question: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...
>> a) These areas are restricted airspace, and most of the aerial imagery Google et al buy is taken from airplanes.

Just replying to point out that this is true. I worked 3 summers for "Aerometric", a company that does exactly this. We flew flight lines from 10-20 thousand feet with a huge camera rig. Those photos were transmitted back to corporate, where they are stitched back together to form large high-resolution aerial maps. Our customers were usually timber companies, gas/oil companies, and occasionally FEMA.

Until that job, I naively assumed everything was a satellite image with some Bond-like zoom capabilities.
Out for curiosity but asking honestly: what made you chose DO from all providers out there? It sounds like you have a serious setup that most likely is production and probably makes money. You do know that DO does not provide over the phone help, right? So if your server goes down you open the ticket and you wait... Yes they do offer SLA because I was in heavy email chain back and forth when moving one of my clients from Rackspace and they were sold on DO being the right choice, but again I was explained no phone support - only that your emails to customer support are prioritized.
Yea. I'd add another to the pile: Netbooks. Apple never went that path, even though there was pressure to do so when netbooks got popular in the mid-00s.

I'm not entirely sure home speakers like Echos and Google Homes are equivalent to Netbooks, but they feel like Netbooks: quite popular cheap devices whose actual use and enjoyment by consumers remains a bit of a mystery (and likely low).
Demsetz' Theory as a framework for the economics of open source was first used in 'Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm' by Yochai Benkler.
Seems like if there were really some mustache-twirling villainy going on here, there would be hi-res imagery that was completely inaccurate/faked.
I love that people are investing time and money to make this happen. From my point of view, remote collaboration might make more sense in VR than in AR, though. AR tech is much harder than VR, and with today's AR headsets this kind of thing is not really usable. However with today's VR tech, it's fun!

What is the rationale to make this happen in AR here? Is the physical location important for remote collaboration?
Yes it is. It's a tip of the hat to Terry Nation :)

I'm Australian and loved Blake's 7 as a kid.

The initial news sources are fairly US-centric (English speaking highest follows by category with a pretty noisy mix across a wide spectrum). That's because they are intended to be used for testing the algorithms as a start against a very noisy feed with a lot of objectionable content as well as good content. But the idea is that you will add your own social feeds and accounts (and news sources) and it will then skew to similar sources.
I seem to recall in the early days of Google Earth this was common. Famously IIRC the Naval Observatory in DC was a very obvious blurred out circle. (I believe the VP lives there?)

But in more recent times it’s become harder to find these.

Personally I don’t see why it would be that surprising in the early days that military would ask for sensitive sites to be removed. It’s not to defend against Russian or Chinese threats. But states or groups that do not have their own satellite imaging. As satellite imaginng has become so common and accessible they seem to have re-evaluated the risk.
OMeta is great to develop programming languages and I took some inspiration from it. At the time though, it did not allow dynamic language composition and did not have integration with developer tools. Though, I believe that some of these things could well be built on top of OMeta.
> but it's hard to imagine a justification for this.

There are dubious chargers out there that are outright unsafe. It is in no way hard to imagine the argument that don't want to pull 10W through some no-name made-in-China piece of crap you got from Amazon that will burn your house down, because it wasn't even tested at 5W.
Yup. Societal norms aren't built around the lowest common denominator, they're build around whatever get the loudest complainers to STFU. Sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes that's a bad thing. When it comes to being offended on behalf of other people I think it's almost always in the "bad thing" category.
why not use a phone, or watch or a ring or other removable device for the same purpose

body inserted devices are intrusive
Especially in eastern Europe, for example in Romania you could live like a king on $30k per annum