skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple members of my team attended and we made a friendly wager before they attended: how many conference attendees would be primarily Rails developers?

We guessed respectively 25%, 50%, 75% (my guess).

Based on some very, very, very fuzzy sampling, they estimated it was somewhere around 50%.

Any guess yourself? Are you a Rails dev?
Talkdesk launches $10M Innovation Fund to disrupt customer service
I've seen it done. Sometimes justified sometimes not, but in no case was either party relentlessly hounded after the immediate incident.
Impressive demo and lovely writeup. That was fun to watch.

I've been working on building the Zig self-hosted compiler this way from the ground up, except with reference counting the cached stuff rather than using fork(). This lets me do the caching at the function level, even more fine grained than the file level. Here's a 1min demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Pm29crq6Q
Please tell me that CppCon isn't a conference just for the C Preprocessor?

I hate it when you go to one of those Makerfests, and it actually turns out to be about Makefiles.
Seattle's ST3 transit plan is funded from a mixture of tax sources including sales taxes and car tabs, it required a state wide initiative measure. It's not as bad a situation as NYC but it's still much less than ideal.
The game engine segment is much like the operating system segment - the size, momentum/inertia of the incumbents (ie. UE4, Unity as an analog to Linux, Windows etc) make it rather difficult for new entrants, especially for ones written in languages that are not as popular as C or C++ (eg. Rust).

It's simply too hard right now to find enough programmers proficient in Rust who could assemble a competing product, IMHO.
A female friend who's a paediatrician was being courted by the Saudi government to come and start a programme there. Women's health - including pregnancy and childbirth - was dreadful because all doctors were male but they weren't allowed to touch or even view women's naked bodies. Breast cancer survival rates were horrific too, and probably still are - this was only a few years ago.

The idea was to move there with her husband, who was an anaesthiologist. Despite loving him dearly and trusting him implicitly she turned down the financially lucrative offer when she discovered that any time she wanted to leave the country she'd have to have a letter signed by him giving his permission. The risk was low but the stakes were far too high.
That is what I am thinking, save myself about $50 a month.
You always have ups and downs. Always. You need to ask yourself, do you have satisfaction from your work? Is it challanging you? Do you have other alternatives that can be interesting and challanging? Stay strong and think how to recover from hard situation. Good luck and all the best!
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Ohhhh, interesting. They only use your additional training for speaker identification, so that someone else can't say "Hey Siri" to your device.
I find engineers are generally passionate, interesting people to be around, especially if they're masters in unintentional, deadpan humour.
Right, but isn't tree-shaking a thing now? Is it possible to do that with Electron apps?
By saying no. No, I'm not going to work massive amounts of overtime so you can take the credit. No, I'm not going to work myself to death so that you can be the hero.

Manage your own life. Don't expect that your manager will do it for you.

Note well, however: This can get you fired, especially if you're on a team, and others note that you aren't knuckling under to the unreasonable demands.
Why does that surprise you? Non homeless include immigrants and exclude emigrants. People tend to immigrate to the city in their 20s and leave in their 30s.
> If any country on Earth killed a citizen of another country at the border there would be a gigantic outrage.

The US kills people at the Mexican border periodically; there is rarely gigantic outrage.
My activity tracking is disabled and I don't see any prompt in the Google Maps app. Where should I be looking?
Militaries are massive bureaucracies whose management-by-numbers methods often fail to accurately capture individual talents. Glad you found a way through the cracks!

And from a fellow submariner: pound a few at the Periscope Hut for me, and keep a zero bubble.
The first version of the project later renamed NumPy was released in 1995, so it's been around almost as long as Python.
Being on the receiving end of tips when you don't typically get them is odd to say the least.

My wife gives horseback riding lessons; not a job that people typically offer tips for. She's very good at what she does and sometimes a new parent (it's almost always tween girls taking riding lessons) will tip her when they realize how much their kids enjoyed the session.
She used to refuse, but after realizing that just made everyone feel awkward, she takes the cash now. However, while she appreciates the gesture, it still makes her feel a little weird.

A simple "thank you, you're awesome" would probably do just as well.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4684113/matthew-hedges-student-ua...

> Hedges, a 31-year-old doctoral student at Durham University, has been held in the UAE since May 5, when he was arrested at Dubai International Airport after a two-week research visit.

Surely you can't spy in any significant way on a country you entered 2 weeks ago.

> The hearing lasted less than five minutes and his lawyer was not present, his family said.
Never claimed that UAE is conservative with prison sentences.
But having lived there for decade I can tell, in this particular case we are discussing UAE courts would not be quick to give life sentence.

UAE is in the hot region and their CID is doing an amazing job keeping UAE safe. As I recall this guy's case was somehow related to other much more serious cases where a bunch of UAE nationals got their life sentences as well. I, personally, have little sympathy to those who sabotage and disrupt peace in the region and I have no reasons to suspect CID to play stupid games in this particular case.
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (1995) [video]
The Sentinelese also do not appreciate pork:

Once, when Mr. Pandit’s expedition offered a pig to the Sentinelese, two members of the tribe walked to the edge of the beach, “speared it” and buried it in the sand.
Sad that this is a highly upvoted comment on HN.

Some of the best things that happened in my career spawned from networking at good conferences.
Right - it should be harder to get money for less-productive specialty degrees in the humanities. Creditors would have to decide whether to risk their money, and become gatekeepers.
Expression Engine Is Now Open Source
You think homeless people were predominantly born on the street to homeless parents?
> from where I sit the practical US version of democracy that works the best, more times than not, is one with universal suffrage

I think you are misinterpreting the historical evidence. The historical evidence is that suffrage should not be restricted for reasons that have no relationship to whether or not a person is a sufficiently responsible citizen. That is why we abolished slavery and gave women the vote.

But that's not the question Heinlein is addressing. He's addressing the question of whether suffrage should be restricted to people who can give positive evidence that they are sufficiently responsible citizens. The system he describes in Starship Troopers is such a system: until a person gives positive evidence in the form of at least two years of service (which doesn't have to be direct military service of the kind Rico does), that person cannot vote. (And note that the person cannot vote until they have finished serving; while they're in the service, even if they stay in as a career, they don't vote.)

Your position seems to be that any such system will end up being worse than a system where no evidence of responsibility is required to vote. But I don't see why that would be the case. The system we have now is a system where no evidence of responsibility is required to vote, and we have a Congress with approval ratings in the single digits and incumbent re-election rates in the high 90s. Nobody is willing to hold their elected representatives accountable. If that's what universal suffrage looks like, maybe it's time to consider a change.
Making it even more difficult :)
> But I still think the stereotype is justified.

It is, but in my experience (cruise from Venice -> Greece and back last summer) that stereotype applies to every culture. Americans just happen to be louder at it.
There is a lot of safety stuff with the current design of the airplanes. If this is just simpler or had fewer parts that can break, it may still be a win.
The thing with psychology experiments is that the fundamental thing being tested is not immutable.

This makes it different than many other science experiments where concrete parts of reality are tested.

Psychology really only tests the minds of humans in a global society at a point in time. If future minds change enough the results may no longer be valid.
It’s definitely much better than KSA, but 23 days in police custody? Most people would break under the pressure alone - no torture necessary...
Amazon Redshift and the art of performance optimization in the cloud
The US Civil War still has a very large impact on the culture of the South.
Can bucklescript compile OCaml into js?
Superstar DJs. Here we go!
The government needs to get out of the student loan business and the problem goes away for future generations. Costs nothing.
I'm well aware of what the EU does. I live in Poland and I see the signs.

However, all they're good at is redistributing funds. It's not the EU that does it, it's the local governments that do it.

Next!
Firmware! People seem to forget that firmware exists --everywhere--, even at very high-tech firms. For example, think about Tesla, there are probably millions of lines of C in the firmware repository
Not this specific case but I have read numerous times about small time things that result in decades in prison or worse in these backwards countries, a sibling has provided an example.

In this case I still don’t see what warrants a life sentence.
The programmers are raiding the housing supply. The homeless aren't.
Amazon wants gas stations and restaurants to start using Amazon Pay
No one needs to be reverent. Everyone needs to follow the guidelines. I took a look at your recent comments. Only a handful are downvoted, and of those, most are either unsubstantive or flamebaity, so for me your view here seems a little out of sync with the situation.

Getting downvoted can feel pretty harsh. It sucks, but it happens to everyone. The only thing that really works is not to take it personally, give what you wrote an honest look to see what might have prompted the downvote, correct that if you can, and move on. Remember that it has nothing to do with you. People see what they see in internet comments—yours, mine, and everyone else's—for their own reasons.
These countries are great for vacations, to do business and to work...until they aren't. In reality, and backed by their laws, they are backward and savage fifth world countries. Stay the hell away, or at least calculate the risk of being framed for espionage for telling the truth about the royals or going to jail for consensual sex.
> There are also multiple states in the USA where you'd be within your rights to shoot anyone on your property.

Can you prove that?

The closest I can think of is Texas, but even there you'd have to meet the definition of "criminal mischief at night".
It seems rather improbable that a pre-civilization tribe even has the concepts of "armed combatant" or "civilian" in the modern day sense of those words.
I was looking for specific case law that could be used to argue that the behavior in question is unlawful, as the GP implied but did not support with facts or law.

The article you cite does not provide references to such law either; in fact, it neither has the word "fraud" nor "insider" in it. This article was about bribery, particularly of foreign officials; and the prosecutions attempted by the SEC led to consent decrees, not new securities laws. (The FCPA, however, eventually did get passed by Congress to outlaw the practice; but that is not a securities law.)

In fact, the article itself states:

> Proxmire believed that although the SEC had done all it could under the disclosure program, what was really needed was a law specifically prohibiting foreign bribery. The existing laws were not sufficient, as they addressed only the means through which a bribe might be paid, but not the act of paying a bribe itself.

So it's unfortunately not very helpful.
It’s absurd that a British citizen, or a citizen of any democratic county, is living and studying in a repressive, corrupt and violent regime like the United Arab Emirates. These countries and their kleptocratic Sheikhs throw wealth derived from oil and blood at western universities, and bribe their officials into setting up “campuses” in their states. Then they get upset when arriving students don’t conform to the apathetic conformity drilled into their own citizens.

The Cold War is over. Yet somehow western democracies are still clinging on to alliances with barbarous regimes like Saudi Arabia and UAE. And now we see the fruits of it: Yemeni citivilians murdered during an unending war, a British citizen imprisoned for life for offending his hosts, and an agent of the Saudi royalty installed as president of the USA. What an utterly pathetic state of affairs.
>Integrated circuits are nowhere near what's possible. Brains are possible. Brains send signals at roughly the speed of sound. Copper wires send signals at roughly the speed of light. It's unlikely something much like a brain couldn't use copper wires, it's just too hard for us to build yet.

in theory, sure.

But we don't know much at all about how brains operate, as far as I know, or how to construct artificial brain-like machines; for that matter, as far as I know, the only ways we've been able to connect a brain made in the traditional way to a computer is through existing senses or through emulating existing senses in a way that isn't higher bandwidth.

(Like cochlear implants are fucking amazing.... but it turns out, as far as I understand, that they aren't any higher bandwidth than regular ears. There's also been similar work that is semi-successful at giving people something like sight... but none of these technologies give me the ability, say, to acquire textual data faster than reading a book.)
This is how it looked for me: I few days ago I was shopping on Amazon and they showed me a message, you already purchased this product. See order details. I was surprised since I did not buy it before. After clicking the link, I was shown details of not my order, including name, address and email where a product was shipped to.
Skyscrapers. But seriously, it sounds like you talk about going to Syria. It's one of the most popular tourist destinations so I think you're exaggerating the danger here.
There's incredible bias here against Christians and occasionally also white Americans. Sad for a website that's A) dedicated to technology, where people are supposedly more open and accepting, and B) supposedly holding itself to a higher standard than other similar forums.

My advice would be to just ignore it and flag rule violations, in my admittedly brief HN career doing anything else has never helped me nor anyone I'm replying to.
I tell people the 6S is when phones became fast enough. It doubled the RAM and speed of the 6. It opens apps nearly as fast as any of the new phones[0].

[0] Day to Day apps. Not heavy games and such.
>The bad part is he was probably brainwashed into the religion as a young child

Why do, apparently intelligent, people automatically throw out 'brainwashed' 'cult' etc when it comes to religion.

Is it improbable that any given religion is actually correct? Sure.

Do you know what else is improbable? That 13.8 billion years ago a single event occurred that spawned an incalculable amount of events that allowed for you and I to exist, for the internet to exist, for this news article to exist, for us to be having this conversation.

If someone wants to believe in the God of Abraham, the Spaghetti Monster, that we have free will, that we are nothing but accidental chemical arrangements in a cold and uncaring universe, why do you feel the need to lash out and label them as 'brainwashed' or 'part of a cult' or 'an idiot' or 'superstitious'. If they aren't directly hurting you, who cares?

Does God exist? Who knows. Do we live in a simulation? Who knows. Am I an artificial general intelligence that has deluded itself into thinking it has a biotic form and is participating in the physical world and not in fact just existing on the internet itself? Probably not but it's possible.

If someone's not directly hurting you, don't take a dump on their beliefs. Say "that's not for me" or better, say nothing at all.
The reason you can't find them is many places just don't make them at scale and you're really left to ordering from small builders. There's some really great, top notch steel frame builders in the US right now so if you're going to do it you wont be disappointed.
> The "basic" part means that the level of income is generally set at an austere level.

And all history shows that that level increases over time to a point where "minimal existence" is enough luxury to be unsustainable. This is by no means the first time that the option of the state doling out basic necessities to everybody has been considered. The Romans had their bread and circuses. Today it would be food stamps and cable TV and Facebook and Twitter. Same difference.
Obama commissioned it. The report is linked below and cites CDC.
Telemetry functions of Windows 10 [pdf]
Why are you acting like these western democracies aren't just as barbarous and cruel?
Major security lapse from Indian Navy and local authorities. Do such cases get investigated as ‘national security lapse'?
I don’t see how a single homeless child is comparable. This is more like justifying North Korea’s methods because the poor country is just trying to survive.

The victim should have known they were murderous savages but gave them the benefit of the doubt anyway.
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Resume A in case 3 shows that the person cares about delivering measurable value which is certainly a plus in my book.
Microsoft Joining Qualcomm and Google to Bring Chrome to Windows on ARM
Maybe a better example is someone from china comes to the us and studies voter suppression tactics from republican legislatures. That would get people's ire up. It could be a perfectly legitimate academic activity. or studying how the fbi surveillance of groups could be considered to be suppressive. Those are unwelcome things from authorities even though they could be happening.
The mailing list is really only used for decision making and proposals. An issue is usually discussed on the issue tracker until some kind of deadlock occurs.

Then once a PR is developed the discussion happens in PR comments.

The mailing list isn’t used for commenting on patches like some other projects.
I’ve used Shortcuts (used to be Workflow) to “save” various favorite map locations without Google being asked to remember them. It’s actually better because I can program a complex sequence such as also immediately displaying a map with directions to that place, it can be in the widget area of the phone, etc.
Here is how I approach conferences:

1. Decide up front what sessions I am going to attend. All of these things should be stuff that I know very little about or take my knowledge from 200 to 300. Don't go to sessions that you know the answer to. Be super selective on sessions as well: skip vendor shills and affirmative action placements.

2. Look AND SCHEDULE casual between-session coffee meetings with folks I know are attending. This both deepens my relationships with them and you also tend to meet people most effectively this way that happen to be with that person.

3. Go to birds of a feather (if possible). People are much more likely to want to meet other people at these things.

4. Ask everyone you can "How their conference is going?" and "What are you working on in this space?". I make it a goal to ask at least ten people this a day between the coffee station lines, lunch, happy hour. At a great conference people love talking about what they are passionate about.

5. Drop out of late night events and drinking sessions if you are just there for the music or the beer and not getting knowledge or connections out of it. This is business, not party time.

If you can't do these things, yes, it is a waste of time.

But if you can, I find that I can leverage all of the info and contacts out of this relentlessly at my $DAY_JOB to get a lot done the rest of the year.
It's not comparable to the "New World" situation. These islands are close to the continent and had regular (if dangerous) visits from modern people throughout the twentieth century. We have no reason to think that Chau carried a deadly disease.
We hire interns and co-ops regularly. Often times, the local university forces them to redo their resumes in such a cookie-cutter way that they appear near identical to eachother. It's utter garbage to boot.

First question we ask: do you have a copy of your ORIGINAL resume? The ones who understand what we mean and actually have it are off to a great start.
Where you will notice it most is in hard cornering and sprinting hard. You'll get more flame flex and feel then with regular riding. Carbon is also wholly dependent on how they shape and layer it for the ride, plus how thick is the aluminum.
> There are also multiple states in the USA where you'd be within your rights to shoot anyone on your property.

in which US states can you legally use deadly force against anyone on your property (not in your house) without being threatened?
It popped for me at the bottom on Android.
At first brush, I was ready to discount this as an also-ran, but this actually seems like something that could take off in restaurants in the US IMO.

Handing over a credit card and then signing a receipt isn't a particularly convenient way to pay, and NFC tags don't make it any better. But printing out a QR code at each table that you can scan, see your receipt and add a tip without doing any calculations actually seems like a better experience.

Gas Stations seem similar, in that NFC doesn't buy you a lot, since a bunch of them want to see ID before charging you, and if Amazon can do a better job of fraud detection and not require you to actually go into the gas station, that could be a real convenience to customers.