skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This statement implies a lack of understanding of what a 'non profit' is, because there is no indication of profit here.

(1) you keep explicitly demonstrating (not merely implying) complete ignorance of what a nonprofit is, because you keep saying that making profits is relevant to that status (it's not, returning them to investors is.)

(2) moreover, you keep demonstrating failure at reading comprehension at the same time, by stubbornly (now even after the error was pointed out) confusing a statement about Whittaker personally profiting with a statement about the nonprofit from which he was profiting doing so.

> He was employed there since 2014 - you're implication would be that somehow, years before Trump was elected, years before his nomination, that someone could have bribed him

No, my explicit claim was that your continuing to point to the fact that he was employed there before anyone could have predicted he would become AG would only be relevant if someone had made the outlandish claim you suggest, but that you are beating a strawman because literally no one anywhere has made that claim.
I'd say AVX512 is maybe not so great, because it can cook your CPU to the point where it slows down the clock. AVX2 probably required. But above all test. Have a bunch of compilers, read about all the options, see what is fastest.

FPGA feed handlers are common, but now that can also be rented.

Whether you're using GPUs depends on what you're up to. A lot of the strategy testing requires a bunch of computing power but not speed. You then take your conclusions and implement something fast that doesn't necessarily use the GPU.

Realtime, but soft real time. It's not like a vehicle ABS system where you have to brake within x milliseconds or someone gets killed. I've seen places where they see the degradation over time and eventually decide it's time for the newest hardware, again.
Eh, more Kubernetes hype, because there isn't enough of it already. I'm not doing that.

To state that the OS, the very piece which is responsible for providing data integrity and which makes the hardware actually do useful things doesn't matter is ignorant at best. On top of that, hardware constantly changes and without OS drivers to support those new capabilities any infrastructure software which relies on the OS will be useless. The article is just naive while trying to sound sagely and go with the latest fad at the same time.
The stronger GDPR is interpreted by the courts, the stronger Google & Facebook's oligopoly is. To compete as an ad network you will first need to have consented first-party data at scale - in other words, a (or network of) website/application that a majority of European's visit daily.
Recently implemented A* Path finding algo using Go as a way to learn Go. Couldn't help myself and went ahead and added a UI layer on top of it using a 2d game library called Ebiten.

Very fun little project! Got a hairy bug, which took me about 1-2 hours to figure out, which involved not realising that when I created a struct and added it to a slice, it was not the same struct as I had just created, in terms of memory address!

So in pseudo code:

myThing := struct{attributes...}
mySlice[0] := myThing
sameThing := mySlice[0]
&sameThing == &myThing
False

Definitely know Go a lot better now. Looking forward to doing some others on this list.
In my undergrad, SML was the language used to teach functional programming concepts.
There is a very large margin between time I spend considering the solution to a problem and the time I then spend writing it, so my main consideration with an editor is ergonomics. For example, if I can do a change without moving my hands off the home row in 20 seconds, that's better than a 5 second change that involves alternating between the keyboard and the mouse.
That would bother me too. For me, just convincing people to buy stuff they don’t really need makes me feel guilty. I often wish I could work in an industry that helps the planet or even stay in e-commerce as long as it sells products aimed at improving environment, I just don’t know how to switch over or where.
The title of the essay is literally Superintelligence The Idea That Eats Smart People

I don’t think it’s ad hominem to point that out.

What would be a minimum demonstrated capability of an AI that starts to worry you?

I think the “AI” part of this is a distraction. I worry about systems that use weapons without human intervention for example. That concern applies no matter what your definition of AI is.
> No one is saying watch all the years videos. I see whatever I am working on and intrested.

Yes, but if I'm working on image processing, videos related to that go back many years, and things covered in earlier videos are often not covered in later ones.

Other that than, let's agree to disagree. Maybe you're right, maybe not, we'll see :)
The Solution to the Employee vs. Contractor Problem of the Gig Economy: Simplify
Speedment uses in-JVM-memory technology so, once the tables are moved into the JVM, streams are served using content and indexes directly from off-heap RAM.
Let me clarify that, with "standard" I didn't mean exclusive, just that running a Java IDE ain't exactly exotic or weird. IntelliJ and its variants alone are a good share of the market.
The terrorists won that day, not because of the physical destruction, but because of the literal description of their profession. Terror was instilled, and the public psyche still hasn't been treated properly, it's like the nation as a whole has PTSD.
Good. I always saw the intention of the GDPR as legislation to fundamentally change the way personal data is processed, to prevent the freely spreading of it, with blatant disregard to the consequences, by basically any company that handles personal data. Instead most companies have just opted for clickwrap consent, and continued as they always have.

The more rulings we have like this, the better. Yes it may cause some business models to disappear, but I feel it's worth it to take back control of our privacy.
The evidence that there is something happening in the skies is pretty strong, but the evidence that it's extraterrestrial visitors is weak.
If I had extra money left I would buy some other bitcoins. That's not the case unfortunately...
The only time I've really seen this has been in October, when DO and GH ran their "Hacktoberfest" promotion. Open 5 PRs during October to get a free T-shirt, and some people really just pick random repositories and send random tiny changes. I really liked Hacktoberfest in the past, but this year these people really soured it to me.

E.g. look at 22-52 days old denied PRs on the HTML spec: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed

That's an entirely different thing to "serious" small fixes that actually clean up small problems in docs and such.
This should not only apply to gender but also to race and ethnicity. I’ve seen too much white, male dominated positions of responsibility beyond an individual contributor. This requires managers to be the ones that promote from within and recognize good skills among any kind of person on their team while keeping in mind their backgrounds and how that may affect their perception.
The article doesn't seem to say much beyond the heading.

How do you reconcile being anti positive discrimination, wanting more women in various fields, not having a goal as to what number is enough and not understanding when any of the various sides involved will be happy with the result.

Will the author be happy if women are only promoted because of their talents but an imbalance is achieved as a result?
It would be interesting to do a benchmark between Speedment and in-memory SQLite. I will put that on my list. Thanks for the tip.
I don’t understand what you are saying.

I’m saying that I don’t think human intelligence is doing anything more than pattern matching, logical inference and post-hoc justification.

Give me an example of something that falls outside that. There is no magic.
Politicians getting rich isn't the main problem I have with bribes, so I don't really see why this is a meaningful difference.
Can you explain? Why/how does mgmt create most value for shareholders?

I understand how they create most value for themselves, they earn more than the other employees and are more likely to own stock options.
And nothing of value would be lost.
There has been a staggering amount of research over the decades on this topic. And there are countless real world examples in particular within business and politics which support the conclusions of the research. Simply that quotas work and encouragement doesn't.

So thank you anonymous guy for trying to prove the opposite with no facts or evidence. And maybe in a century or so when we have eradicated systemic sexism and racism it might be a more interesting conversation to have. But for now I prefer to stick to the facts and methods that are proven to work.
We can certainly argue if the "link tax" is a good idea.

Google, however, playing the hurt and wounded entity because they're no more able to leech "free" content to make a killing is, well, not very plausible.

Don't want to provide EU users with Google News?

Well, good bye and good riddance.
Is this related to the news shown on the start screen of the android chrome? If so I will miss it - not at all. I think I can count the times I saw something interesting in that list on one hand and I never found an option to get rid of it.
When GDPR popups started appearing, I modified my Kill Sticky bookmark-script to also re-enable scrolling. Works most of the time for any kind of popup.

Here's the script: https://pastebin.com/NfCyDLw8
Internal Facebook memo sees outgoing VP of comms take blame for hiring Definers
Wow, long time not seen Tcl/Tk. I came in touch with it and I can't find anything nice to say about Tcl. So a round of applause to you for building an editor with it.
This doesn't look like a spigot algorithm. It has a link in the comments[1], it calculates the digits of PI from the beginning. The code you linked seems to implement the exact same algorithm.

I don't fully comprehend the code still, but the SCALE parameter suggest that it handles the elements of the array as a fixed point representation of real numbers. I wonder if it's correct for large number of digits.

[1] http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Calculate_digits_of_pi#C
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> They serve a sole real purpose, open door to proprietary software on GNU/Linux destroying it's community model.

I agree. Especially Flatpak and AppImage facilitate this goal.

I do run some software that communicates with the internet in a bubblewrap sandbox, like Chromium and Transmission, but other than that I shouldn't have to run every piece of software in a container to be safe.
Do you have any data to back up your assertion? Not being facetious here, really would like to understand these downsides.

To be honest I think it unfair to ignore the fact that you can build your own containers to leverage dependency isolation, or to deploy through an orchestration engine ie. Kubernetes.
Google and Facebook relies on other collecting consent on their behalf, lots of Google business takes place on other sites than their own, this is trouble for them too.
I already commented here but I have an even worse confession - I’ve operated an affiliate payday loan website. For me it was a good paying gig at $100 per application. I have no doubt I ruined lives as I was well aware of the types of people who operate those types of businesses. At the time I didn’t really have an alternative and I was much younger. The old me looks back at that time with great shame, something I’d never mention to anyone and I wish I could take it back.
They do have different tracks, and you can skip to the next one.
True, but the problem is that my language (Italian) only uses "es." for "e.g." and doesn't have an equivalent acronym for "i.e." (we usually use other complete words that roughly translate to "therefore"), so it's easy for me to mix them up since I can't easily map them.
11 Reasons We Love Design Sprints
Seek out the negative aspects of a given thing as a profession, as well as the positive ones.

Make the profession desirably by decreasing the bad and increasing the good; for everyone, fairly.
Sync for YNAB – Connecting YNAB to UK Banks
Plenty of research is happening, which is why SML has a wide variety of variant interpreters and compilers, all adhering (mostly) to the standard core. ConcurrentML is an interesting paradigm, and MLTon made some good strides into full-program optimization.

But most of that is academic, and OCaml really stole most of the thunder (by being small and fast, despite having more syntactic warts -- and no, making things look like JS ain't a solution to that).
"Works" according to what definition of working? Works to create a gender balance that you assume a priori is "correct" with any deviation being down to evil discrimination? Or do you have some more interesting definition?
The finance industry has _always_ been powerful.

Thats why the city of london is older than England it's self. because it provided finance for various powerful people to do "powerful people" things

Venice for example was ruled by a mercantile banking dynasty.
Let's start with men..
Perhaps ironically, I can't access this article because I'm unwilling to just click "OK" and allow TechCrunch to pass my data to all and sundry, and their 'controls' links lead to a warren of pages at their parent company's site, and eventually to some sort of login page, with no controls in sight.

In apparent contravention of the GDPR, various parts of the page say that I must agree to their use of my data for third party advertising or I cannot access the site.
Astronomical epochs are pretty long. While it's unlikely that extraterrestrial life has arisen billions of years before life on Earth, civilizations that are thousands or millions of years older than us should be as common as intelligent life in general. For example intelligent reptiles are not unthinkable, and their order had a hefty head start on mammals.
they have an iphone app with offline mode
I know exactly what a 'non-profit' is - your statement about 'making profits' clearly indicates you're something amiss with it - and there clearly is not.

It was a non-profit. He got paid. That's it. There's nothing to bring up. So why would you otherwise?

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" but that you are beating a strawman because literally no one anywhere has made that claim."

Really?

"This is intellectually lazy its a clear case of corruption" ... is what someone wrote just above - and is the general implication of those commenting here.

The entire thread is devoted to insinuating that this guy has some kind of major conflict of interest due to his shady involvement with this non-profit.

So, no, it's not a 'straw man' - I'm responding directly to the assertion.

There is nothing here.

A curious but otherwise normal non-profit, in operation long before anything relevant.

There's probably no fire, there's not even any smoke.
It reads from memory, not the database. It is true that querying a database vs. using in-JVM-memory snapshots are not the same. They both have different properties. The case at hand was to analyze immutable data where working with snapshots makes sense. If, on the other hand, the case was to work with data in a highly transactional application, then snapshots make little or no sense.
We require all teams to use semver and usually define the Conjure API in the same repo as the server that implements it (so they are versioned together). Most of the time teams want to preserve wire-format back compat (i.e. only add optional fields to requests and don’t remove things from responses). Devs are pretty good at this, but we actually run a conjure-backcompat checker as part of CI to catch any unintended breaks they might have missed.

When it comes to intentional breaks, teams save up a bunch of carefully documented changes and then tag the next semver major version (i.e. 2.0.0). This is safe to do because all microservices and frontends we build actually contain embedded minimum and maximum version constraints on the backend services they require. Our deployment infrastructure knows about all these constraints and can then ensure that new major releases will only be rolled out in production when all their callers have explicitly declared support.
Top Reasons Why You Should Switch to Lightning from Classic
Welcome to the nightmare: https://ganbreeder.app/i?k=76426b559a8d941758940cad
> you can normally give some idea, or break the task down into stages

That requires the skill to actually do that.

If you don't have the skill to do a thing, then claiming you've done it isn't professional. In thinking about this, it suddenly occurs to me that in other domains, the professional thing to do would be to call in someone who does. A medical doctor doesn't know how to properly operate imaging equipment and so she calls in a radiologist. A general contractor isn't really skilled at building a septic system and so sub-contracts to someone who does know how to do that.

> mostly comes down to is experience.

I think the answer to "What should I do when asked for an estimate when I don't know how to make one?" might actually be to call in the help of a more senior engineer to talk through the project with you and guide you to producing the estimate. This still requires you to have the backbone to say "I don't know." and "I need help." Then, you can gain the experience of producing a reliable estimate and seeing what questions need to be asked when doing so.
As a fellow European I think that Google shutting down it's news service for EU is a good thing, but for entirely different reason that yours.

Many of these news services do not have the audience, they are getting it from Google. It is nonsensical, that you would bring the eyeballs, and have to pay for the privilege. Google should them deny any promotion or traffic, let them stand on their own feet.
That doesn't seem to be the case here. In fact, Google asking other's to collect consent, and then performing auditing, may well not be considered compliant after this ruling.'

> The requirement based on the article 7 above-mentioned isn’t fulfilled with a contractual clause that guarantees validly collected initial consent. The company VECTAURY should be able to show, for all data that it is processing, the validity of the expressed consent.

Google hasn't first-party consented through each of the publishing contracts. They may be able to turn it around.

However, the industry would now favour someone who had no need to collect consent, if we're just talking about the base ability. The ad-world's dependency on personalised data is a problem, and may continue having issues with the GDPR.
I hate both Google and the media, so this is great news.
Get Off Your Phone for Android – End Procrastination, Lock Down Apps
And not only that, but this doesn't seem too far off. Programs like Estonia's e-Residency seem like a pretty significant step towards "orphaned" companies, with effective self ownership.

From there it doesn't seem a far cry for hyper-optimized insurance agencies to force companies to employ less and less humans, transferring more economic power to the algorithm.

Except that of course, that is a very far cry, and is where the book fell down imo. Still a great read.
I've been remote for a few years and it's been a very frustrating experience for me, one that had turned me off developing in the end. hearing from you how it can be done right is very enlightening and encouraging at the same time - i wish i had found such a carefully crafted work environment!
mind if i drop you a line in private?
No, it’s not related to that.
Well, the title itself is an ad hominem although most of the arguments therein are not, which implies the author thinks he needs to rely on other grounds to convince people.
The onus is on you to prove that quotas outperform skill-based hiring. Sorry, but d'uh.
Honoustly curious: What's wrong with Matlab? Never need it nowadays, but I always enjoyed working on Matlab projects in University.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hacker News would technically be affected by the same Link tax. It would probably not be enforced but still.

It's such a stupid idea and I really lose hope about the future of a free internet when I see stuff like this. Hopefully saner minds will prevail
Hacker News people tend to be pretty well-off and poorly understand the concept that most people don't have the bandwidth to get disrupted in that manner. Talk of life's joys and pursuing passions doesn't make sense in lives that are completely overwhelmed with the basic details of survival, whether it's keeping up with the dynamic schedule of several 'precariat' jobs or keeping a car on the road or a cell-phone plan alive without the income to properly support it (when the dynamic schedule requires that you're reachable on such a phone). That's just the example off the top of my head but there are many other situations that arise.

Having life joys that can be disrupted by this rage is a luxury, and not nearly common enough. I do feel that's a political truism, though: change only happens when problems are serious enough to upset the well-off who have disposable income and time, and who can afford (both materially and existentially) to maintain this sort of boiling rage and do something about it.
If by 'work' you mean that quotas lead to more women in the targeted roles then that's obvious...

But actually solving these issues (whether real or perceived) means not having quotas.
> There has been a staggering amount of research over the decades on this topic

I'm very much interested in reading about this. I'd be very thankful if you were to provide a few references :)
Consumer surplus is a modern definition. It follows from Smith, though somewhat indirectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Agreed, just looking at a single year at a single airport could be showing some kind of external factor, like weather, operating system updates just released, etc. Would need to repeat for multiple airports and years to get a robust conclusion.

Not that I think the conclusion is wrong - it just isn't robust.
A unanimously passed bill to address the potential for wildfires was vetoed by the governor in 2016.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/california-gov-browns-veto-wil...
Serves me right for stopping the reading on the first line :)
As someone living in Spain i have been without the Google News service for several years now and personally i don't mind at all. I just consume less news, and when there is something important its just one search away (or just going directly to one of the local papers website).
That's also a selling point, though, especially if you're a small company. Knowing that they weren't locked in to us, and therefore helpless if we closed or pivoted, helped sell our services many times.
I started a game clone challenges[1] list, but haven’t had much time to work on it.

Some more project related resources are awesome-for-beginners[2], The UChicago X-Projects[3], and Beginner Projects[4].

1. https://github.com/rby90/Game-Clone-Challenges

2. https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

3. http://chi.cs.uchicago.edu/index.html

4. https://github.com/jorgegonzalez/beginner-projects
I'm here to second LTK :-). It's a while since I last used it (2012, 2013, I think?) but it was, and I'm sure it still is, a very good library. It's easy to get started with, easy to work with, easy to debug.
Wow, what an incredibly entitled attitude. People like this are why we can't have nice things. For a creator, it's better to just not bother than to deal with jerks who accuse them as scam for giving something out, and the world is worse for it.
I see, that makes sense, thanks!
Ask HN: Are there any startups trying to solve the air pollution problems?
A lot more goes into flight pricing than the available space. They'll look at their data and sometimes hold out on high prices, hoping for someone to bite on 1 ticket they desperately need vs trying to sell 5 tickets at 25% of their current price.

Source: friend works in pricing for a major airline