skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly because quite a few police departments throughout the country like to model themselves after the military, particularly with the equipment they use.

"This is especially true in cases where, much to the chagrin of civil liberty advocates, police departments have employed their newly acquired military weaponry not only to combat terrorism but also for everyday patrolling. Before 9/11, the usual heavy weaponry available to a small-town police officer consisted of a standard pump-action shot gun, perhaps a high power rifle, and possibly a surplus M-16, which would usually have been kept in the trunk of the supervising officer's vehicle. Now, police officers routinely walk the beat armed with assault rifles and garbed in black full-battle uniforms. When one of us, Arthur Rizer, returned from active duty in Iraq, he saw a police officer at the Minneapolis airport armed with a M4 carbine assault rifle — the very same rifle Arthur carried during his combat tour in Fallujah.

To assist them in deploying this new weaponry, police departments have also sought and received extensive military training and tactical instruction. Originally, only the largest of America's big-city police departments maintained S.W.A.T. teams, and they were called upon only when no other peaceful option was available and a truly military-level response was necessary. Today, virtually every police department in the nation has one or more S.W.A.T. teams, the members of whom are often trained by and with United States special operations commandos. Furthermore, with the safety of their officers in mind, these departments now habitually deploy their S.W.A.T. teams for minor operations such as serving warrants. In short, "special" has quietly become "routine.""

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/how-the...
Grades are relative to other people in your school and program; it's why you mention the institution on the resume. And IME you don't often communicate your grade but your class rank, most notably if you're at the very top (valedictorian, etc); even with grade inflation schools still must be able to differentiate the very top students from everybody else so they can actually provide these honors. You can't graduate an entire class of "top" students, no matter how earnestly they studied.

With few exceptions there is no mastering the material, or at least there shouldn't be. Not in college. There's always more complex material you can use to differentiate students. When you grade on a curve the test should be difficult enough that even the best students will typically get at least one question wrong, with most students falling along a nice bell distribution. (I say most because it's probably better to err on the side of a handful of students clustering at the top rather than at the bottom, especially if the bottom means flunking out.)

This can be more difficult for smaller, seminar style classes. One solution is giving the professor leeway to shift up and tighten the curve so he's not forced to give Fs or Ds. These classes are usually in the latter years of a program, particularly in undergraduate, where it's less important to winnow students out and ensure challenging curriculums.

That latter point is important. If you don't enforce some sort of statistical distribution how can you gauge the quality of your curriculum? If everybody is getting As is that because all your students are smart and disciplined, or because the material is too simple? If you require a bell distribution, then the curriculum will by necessity be a good fit for your cohort of students. In this way a university can maintain a quality curriculum without having to resort to external metrics or comparisons with other schools.
We're adressing the lack of static typing with the Gradualizer project. It's not ready for prime time yet but I find it very promising.

https://github.com/josefs/Gradualizer
It's very easy to be always right if you say a thing and the opposite. Kasparov said after the 12th game: "I reconsider my evaluation of him[Carlsen] being the favorite in rapids. Tiebreaks require tremendous nerves and he seems to be losing his."

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1067125702712004609
As an alternative to both, I'm a very happy user of HatchBox [0] (even happier having been grandfathered into a much cheaper plan).

It's really simple with a growing featureset.

[0] https://www.hatchbox.io/
If it was in the Pacific I'd say it's Cthulhu rising.
Our evals led to the dismissal of a professor. She was absolutely gorgeous, and a delight to talk to. And couldn't convey account proceedures worth a damn. That is what the students cared about in our case.
Please note that cheatfate is one of the most prolific Nim contributors and is also working in Nim as a full-time job at Status[1]. He is also the main author of an asyncdispatch hardfork[2]. I.e. any issue you might have with the lib can be raised and addressed fast.

Disclaimer: he is also my colleague.

[1]: https://github.com/status-im?utf8=&q=&type=&language=nim

[2]: https://github.com/status-im/nim-asyncdispatch2
It's making a real comeback as the online options and apps have gotten better. Check out LiChess or chess.com. You can find a live match in seconds for shorter time controls or play 1 day per move if you don't want blitz. It makes it easy to play a quick game while waiting for a bus, or similar.
For me the biggest PHP sadness is always type coercion. ‘1’ and 1 are different things. And coercion into an array when you suddenly use [] is just insane.
Because it doesn't have types? Have you used flow?
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What's your house budget? For a place with a man cave you'd probably need 250k here in southern Japan. While not really remote, it's far from the busy likes of Tokyo. All of my work is with companies around the globe in all sorts of time zones. I'd say it's boring for a single person out here, you'd definitely only put up with it if you had a family. Securing a visa would be another challenge unless you married a Japanese citizen, which you wouldn't want to do after coming here as divorce rates are high for mixed couples. Culture can be very frustrating too after a while.
Frankly, I don't want the interviewer's feedback. There's a lot of superstition in hiring people because of how much luck is involved, meaning that there's a good chance that the reason they decided not to hire you is completely meaningless.
Actually you can even compile it to Objective-C as well for iOS.
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Pretty far from my area of expertise. BTW. I have 0 expectation that someone has to solve my problem but when looking at a lang to me the minimum req. are good PG support and decent http lib which is obviously not the requirements people actively working on Nim have.
I feel articles like this frequently don't mention that the reason why so many companies make this kind of mistake is because there is still no safe way to have a HTTPS website directly communicate with a local device. The best thing you can do is to generate a new root CA cert on every install with a randomized private key - however, even then, you will have to solve shipping this generated cert to the device you want to talk with...
Did your reviews not ask for justification of the ratings?
Sounds like the way some multiple-storyline games do it. It's all the same meta-story but it's different depending on how you play it.

Guild Wars 2 does something similar but it's all one overarching story and depending on what choices you made at the start, you get different parts and with a different spin. Play through the main story multiple times on different characters and you start seeing "oh this guy is mad about X which is a consequence of Y that my other character Z did". It really ties the world together.
>This is an analysis of sloppy design at the core of PHP.

I understand this, but the source or reason for the "bad list" doesn't change the fact that every language has something off. (just a matter of degrees)

Also, php did something so right that even despite all the ugliness and problems it's used a lot.

I think php should suck it up and make a branch to fix all of these things and let people slowly change their apps over. I have gone through a lot of rework over the years, what's one more change for better future?
I noticed in the article:

"Mayotte is on the move. Since mid-July, GPS stations on the island have tracked it sliding more than 2.4 inches to the east and 1.2 inches to the south."

If this isn't a mistake, it's also very interesting. 2.7 inches in four months is very fast. That's 20 cm/year. The fastest techtonic plates move about 10 cm/year. Also this island does not appear to be near a plate boundary, so what could make it move? The article didn't say what it was moving relative to.
Where did China get the ability to do all those things?
This has nothing to do with the article. This has to do with sources the poster chose as evidence to support a position. It is definitely relevant to question whether a poster has read and understood their own citations, particularly when those citations are not very good or contradict the poster.
Good to know this prob a workable option for non-critical path tools then.
This perfectly demonstrates the risk of giving arbitrary third party vendors "root" on your devices.
TVTropes is the embodiment of this, if you consider it a story about human entertainment culture.
As a Polish person both your and GP's user names caught me off guard somewhat.
for future reference, prepend is the word you wanted.

"If you prepend www. or https://www. it works."
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It sure does. Which is odd that this alone is a reason I'd use a poorly structured/designed language than a well laid out one. Maybe a similar reason why php also is used over other options? (from a slightly different angle)
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There's a good, though not well-known author Espen J. Aarseth. he analyses non-ergodic literature within the scope of computer technology, and how the latter enables the creation of texts that are not linear. An easy example would be an old-school RPG game where you can replay the game and choose different paths, which builds up to a different narrative. There's no one story and you can't define an author, because the ending depends upon the user's choices, so the "reader" participates in the "writing" process. Here's his one article that can be found online

http://art-tech.arts.ufl.edu/~jack/courses/f06-dig4581/paper...
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I guess the user is the test.
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There is a lot of care in Elixir Logger (https://hexdocs.pm/logger/Logger.html) with regard to this.

For instance, "arguments given to info/2 will only be evaluated if a message is logged".

You can also trim out (at compile time, like you did with the build step) all the logging commands below the selected level, with the ":compile_time_purge_matching" option.
Isn’t it up to the universities to provide a majority their value in the form of education rather than in the form of a credential?

Not only do such institutions seemed to be concerned about cancerously growing credentialism, they’ve embraced it as a money money making scheme. See e.g. the explosion of terminal masters programs.

You reap what you sow.
Government can derail things as much as they can fix things. That's why we should have better anti monopoly laws to keep the market free, as in equal chances given equal efforts & quality.
> As for, "the community is better than the manufacturer" try having an outage over the holidays, and see how your community reacts to, "help me or my business fails".

And for those people there are companies like Canonical, who derive their product from Debian. There is also Redhat, SUSE, etc. Lots of commercial options grow up around these vibrant communities to fill the gaps that they sometimes leave. This is an unmitigatedly good thing.
i haven't played this yet, but i think the game is about surfing an older styled version of the net. seems vaguely relative: https://aetherinteractive.itch.io/subserial-network
The point is that far fewer professors are tenure track to begin with, compared to past decades.
> but open source certainly helps balancing out the odds for different competitors.

Assuming all competitors have the same engineers who are competent in the various technologies involved in debugging this (at a glance: filesystem operations, strace, wireshark, linux kernel compilation and modules, Google Cloud Platform...), know how to contact and approach the open-source maintainers.

... and most importantly: have the time to dedicate to such a debugging task.
> > Further, if your process is treating '..' as a subdirectory, you're doing it wrong.

> That's the point they make. And in Unix, it's really easy to do it the "wrong" way (like, "type 3 characters" easy), so lots of people do.

The OP is writing about iterating subdirectories and accidentally treating ".." as such, if you use certain low level functions - which is kind of bad practice in most cases anyway.

> That's the point they make. And in Unix, it's really easy to do it the "wrong" way (like, "type 3 characters" easy), so lots of people do.

Yeah, pointing to a wrong directory can lead to unexpected results. On the other hand, if this becomes a security issue, then maybe the process should have properly restricted rights as pointed out elsewhere already.

Talking about "..", one could BTW extend the discussion to mixing Filename characters with path separator characters in the same string. ;)
> Those people have been through some terrible shit for a long time now.

Yup. And having been there and having spoken to locals and people from the UN, MSF, etc. I don't feel like it's going to change soon. A lot of the economy is driven by NGO's and that money all ends up in the pockets of the rich home, hotel and restaurant owners. Meanwhile the poor sell each other mangos and meat in the streets. It's like there are two completely separate economies. And whenever a politician wants to make a change, tribalism seems to end up ruining it because (often realistic) fear of preferential treatment of some groups.
I am starting neither. But if I followed the normal pattern i would start a male or a white group. All other groups we have are either gender or ethnicity based.
Nice site, you might want to quickly fix some typos and spaces b/w punctuations (periods and commas) in your text!
It’s basically a large lot where all the major home builders set up their model homes and have detailed sales walkthroughs. Home builders in Japan are at an industrial scale with lots of economies of scale and modular parts, yet a surprising amount of customization is possible. Companies like Toyota and Mitsubishi have home divisions.
ebay.co.jp does according to the article

The article isn't long, I'd read it before at least thinking about making a low quality comment
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I have done Advent of Code in C++ and Rust (2 years), it has been fun every time. This year I will change tack and use Factor, which I have admired for a long time but never used much in anger.
I found the same thing. There are oddities in the non-async library too -- for example, rows are returned as a tuple without any column metadata, so you can't do a "select *" because you don't know the column order. I think all types get stringified too, which is weird.

The core language is interesting, but like the standard library has an odd edge here and there.
Yeeeep.
I dunno how to do it :|. Anybody?
I think it is more like recognizing that all the qualities women say they demand in a man are indicative of their unrealistic expectations so they're a waste of your time.
Any reason you couldn't use the http-01 challenge? I think there are thousands of people who are using LetsEncrypt and have automated it successfully. So whatever you just said,

> all the LetsEncrypt certs I manage for clients

... if this contains some technical reason why it won't work, I think that's the problem.

But I'd be more inclined to believe you if you just told me that, your clients periodically need your assistance for other things, but they weren't going to call because as every good salesperson knows, "if you don't call, they don't come"... and since they trust you already, this is a reliable door-opener that gets you back into their offices, where you get to bill for something, even if this time they didn't need anything else... it gets you valuable face time and a pretty reliable, even if only nominal, payday.

If that's not it, then tell me that's not it, but... I think that's what you're doing. (And there's nothing wrong with that.)
How would the carrier know if you use your cellphone for tethering, and separately bill that traffic?
Great war story. Agree with need for access to source.

--

During the early Java WORA culture wars, Bill Joy's wisdom about NFS has always stuck with me:

Interoperability is hard.

Despite having access to source code, a stable spec, working reference implementations, testing suites, and aggressive evangelism, getting everyone's NFS implementations to interoperate was a major challenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System

--

I continue to think the authoritative history of NFS would become a seminal text book. A useful guide for the younguns about to embark on grand new world changing adventures. Many, many other protocols (DNS, TCP, HL7, CORBA...) have faced the same challenges. But my hunch is NFS is a superset, hitting every pain point.
The one difference is that Microsoft has always been transparent and open in their support for the US military. They even advertise it: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/gove...

On the other hand, Google has been on the record saying they won't develop military AI, that an autonomous weapons race is dangerous and unwanted, and that they want to organize the world's information to keep it accessible to anyone.

Microsoft employees knew what they signed up for and have moral authority to make that decision. Google employees thought they signed up to "do no evil" and their efforts were used by a secret project that violates all but one of their safe AI guidelines (the one about delivering technical excellence).

I myself am a bit more agnostic/apathetic about creating technology that could be used for bad: I just want to create and focus on the best possible (gun turret, data mining, missile tech), that will deliver on its promise of what it said out to do with utmost accuracy and robustness. That's why I find it really important to work for companies and governments that I can trust to not abuse my technology once it is out of my hands, and are transparent about its usage. But I don't find any damage to my soul if the decision makers make an evil usage decision: That is fully on them. I am not going to handicap or refuse to work on something interesting, because their morals are out of whack.
I switched to a cherry trail Windows tablet with 4 gig of RAM and a 1200p IPS display, I got it on sale for £75 so it was an absolute steal. I got Fedora running on it quite nicely but nothing on Linux is remotely comfortable on a touch screen so I had to go back to Windows 10.
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Here is an example of such for neural network training[1]:

- Nim JS for browser display

- Nim C as a backend

[1]: https://github.com/Vindaar/NeuralNetworkLiveDemo
So they respond by reporting you to the CIA/FBI

They show up and take all your electronics to investigate an extortion claim

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? You might win in the end. You might get jail time. You might have a pretty rough 6 months and get nothing.

Being internet tough and going to court tend to be very different things.
I liken this event to the Enlightenment, when societies began to view religion as something which could be separated from science, scholarship and law, as the concept of "secularity" emerged. Religion still exists in some capacity, obviously the US is very much a "christian nation," but generally people are moving away from an explicitly orthodox, rigidly dogmatic, supernaturalist interpretation of religion.

A literate society no longer needs someone standing at a pulpit telling them what the Bible says, nor should an educated society believe that humans were literally molded out of clay in the Garden of Eden. As societies change, religion must also change because religion is an expression of society.
Sure, it’s a matter of degree. PHP has many worse degrees than the things ‘wrong’ with Python or Ruby. Nobody said a language has to be perfect, just better. Of course other languages have flaws, but Python and Ruby have fewer and less serious flaws.

It’s like if I said hey, we should live somewhere besides Moldova. And you said but don’t Germany and France have flaws too?

As far as what they should do, yes, they should fix all of these problems. The thing is many would break huge amounts of old code and cause problems for people and harm upgrade adoption. Also, PHP developers, as seen, actually insist on things like ‘=> is better than : because it’s the PHP Way’. I’m not going to waste time trying to persuade the heathens behind PHP to turn it into a normal language. Why would I? My opinion is that PHP is a fundamentally braindead language. It’s like someone tried to make a quick and dirty scripting language with C syntax and then changed it over into a crappy version of Java with the help of a bunch of incompetent college students over 10 years for an audience of amateur programmers, which actually is exactly what happened. I have no desire to use it for anything, ever.
Deutschebank has a sordid and questionable history with Donald Trump among others, so the sentiment is shared outside your bubble as well.
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I feel older. I sent dead trees. Only dead trees.

And that was just 23.5 years ago. :-)
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There are many ways in which the big get bigger, until they become oligopolies. Some are fair (network effect, economies of scale). Others are not (predatory pricing, regulatory capture). Regulation alone can slow this process and mitigate its worst effects, but it can't stop the process entirely because there are just so many mechanisms involved. If you're OK with the idea of companies large enough to rival or even exceed the power of governments (as with the East India Company mentioned in the article) then that's the end of the story and I'm not here to argue that point. If not, then sooner or later you'll have to come to grips with the idea of a tax on size itself. Few people start out liking it (I didn't), but it's really the only alternative to the imposition of a corporate state.
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Can someone sell me Nim in few sentences if I am a D user?