skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the C++ standard needs to deprecate things a lot faster than the currently do.

This, a thousand times. It's all very well for gumby to say that C++ is a big toolbox, but a good toolbox doesn't have all the mismatched tools from ten previous toolboxes all thrown together. Longcommonname can say that using modern C++ features help prevent errors, but that statement becomes a bit problematic when the most modern C++ style becomes deprecated C++ every few years. As the OP aptly illustrates, there are just too many ways to do even fairly simple things. All were idiomatic "best practices" for their time. It's not a problem if there are many ways to do things if they're all comprehensible to someone who knows the universal core of the language (as is often the case e.g. in C or Python). It's a problem when understanding each of them requires a whole separate excursion through some separate specialized and time-bound part of the standard, yet they all exist together in any large codebase that has had to build on those shifting sands. That's not good for maintainability. Future programmers will misunderstand the intent of code using each transient style, and either break it when they change it in place or miss some important detail when they try to replace it.

Different versions of C++ should remain separate to a much larger degree than is currently the case. Trying to combine several distinct language-as-written into a single super language-as-compiled (a mistake also made by Scala) never seems to work out very well.
”They could only potentially contribute bug fixes, and licensing their commits back to you sounds a bit like it would need another license from their code.”

They could also port it to Android and release it there for free, or even sell it there (while offering all buyers the source code, to comply with the GPL)
A multicore CPU is comprised of several cores. I don't think fully utilizing all cores means "800% CPU utilization"
This echoes my thoughts as well. Consider the following: If a democratically elected government which is beholden to the wills of the people by (generally) fair elections cannot be trusted to wield the powers of censorship responsibly, then why on Earth should we trust tech companies beholden to no one but their shareholders to wield that power responsibly?
I get that, knowing basic Chinese myself. But e.g. "incel" the word itself has no reference to gender, but it's certainly a gendered identity.
I thought this was a super interesting read. Despite the year, so many of the problems are the exact same. This project was massively late. Development went on for five years and they always thought they were a year or less away from shipping. My favorite section is on Schedule Analysis. Particularly this quote:

"A schedule should be considered a tool to predict a ship date, it should not be considered a contract by development."
By saying that they, and I quote Mr. Benjamin here:

> "White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another, and you guys can’t even act like white people, it’s really amazing to me."

That sure sounds like someone who espouses a racial ideology to me, even if he hates other people who put on the nazi emblem.
Well, I was thinking it may be easier to establish and verify chain of ownership and attribution via blockchain vs just public key.
They said it wasn't an example of it, but then presented a historical account which only seemingly reinforces the original claim they were claiming it was not.
>Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.

That seems entirely too tyrannical, imperialistic, and egotistical to be practical.

Where does having freedom, humility, and an open mind fit into that maxim? I.e. being willing to accept that all humans (including ourselves) can be misguided, or that someone else could know what is better for them than me?
>> Since the scientist can't know the provenance of all funds, maybe he's still helping the Army after all.

But that's entirely speculative and it's not really something you can know, or control. What you can know, what you can control, is whether you follow your principles or not. So it's really of no consequence what the government "might" do, or what they "can" do, etc. What is important is what you do.
Intellij for... well almost everything code related.

VS Code with a bunch of plugins and the excellent Journal plugin.

Fedora for the OS, Debian on servers.

Linux command line extensively.

Languages - PHP, Java, C#, Python, JS, TypeScript and some others, some node stuff, webpack.

Other dev tools, Vagrant, Ansible

For long form writing the (genuinely brilliant) https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ (though you'll immediately want to change the default style/theme).

Servers are either in-house running Debian or on linode running Debian or Ubuntu LTS.

Desktop is Fedora/cinnamon.

Desktop at work 1700X/32GB DDR4, 2x2560x1440 dells, Desktop at home 2700X/64GB DDR4/RTX2080 with a 4K 27" UG69.

Thinkpad is a T470P (i7700-HQ, 32GB RAM, 2560x1440, nvme option).

Can't think of anything else.
Agree. The "bad code" example looks beautiful to me, albeit unusual for someone who is accustomed mostly to the imperative style; I have no doubt that it would only take a small amount of (self-)training to absorb such style to the extent that it becomes easy to read.
Schizoid Fantasy: Refuge or Transitional Location?
I’ve read somewhere that there already are publishers machine generating genre fiction (crime stories), that are only manually polished by humans after the generation. However, a distance between a shitty genre novel and Dostojewski is not to be underestimated - msybr the only thing that connects them is that they both are texts with plot and characters.
No, we don't need to make a government service that doesn't discriminate. We just need to designate things like payment processors and hosting providers as utilities. Your electric company, plumbing company, or mail carrier can't just choose not to do business with someone because they dislike their political views.
What I am saying is, that it one "desperate" miner attacks, then 5 other miners, who don't want to lose their investment, will defend.

The network is not static. It doesn't matter if one miner wants to make a quick buck, because the defenders have more to lose, and would spin up defending POW if needed.
How is your handstand now? Doing a decent handstand was one of my goals for this year that I didn't quite make, but I'm getting there. They're harder than I ever imagined!

Otherwise looks like an excellent set of goals :-)
An old man once said, "write the thesis you wish to see in the world."
ITS NOT A CONSPIRACY

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/professor...

DOJ is investigating. If you ran an ICO, and you still haven't lawyered up, you are at risk.
because npm's is implicitly in the build pipeline. You won't run 'npm install' on production! you run that on development/certification and then push the validated image to production.

With deno, there is no distinction anymore, kinda of. You still can send to production images that have the deno cache. Only thing that changes is the default. Previously you would have to explicitly run 'npm install' on the production host, failing that the code fails. With deno you still can choose to push to production an image without the caches (same as 'npm install' in prod), but now the default is that untested code in QA will auto install without hash check!

in summary: absolutely no practical change (i.e. no new feature impossible before) other than production defaulting to installing remote dependencies of proven-not-tested functions.
I think Phil Rogaway at UC Davis has a similar page.
> the peak of the Boomer years will soon start entering retirement soon (~2020)

Boomers were born 1945-1960, meaning in 2020 they'll be 60-75. They started retiring long ago.
I remember reading a book on Steinmetz when I was in high school. I was really awed by this guy and the stuff he did. Before Nicola Tesla was one of my idols, Charles Steinmetz was the major figure in engineering who I was enamored with.

As I recall from the book, he went on a trip once, and forgot to take his log tables (this was back when lots of math was done using printed tables of logarithms). He sent a request to have his secretary have his printed log tables delivered to him, but by the time they arrived, he'd worked them all out and recreated the tables himself from scratch.

Edit: I think this is the book in question, if anybody is looking for more on Steinmetz. There's also a much more recent biography of Steinmetz that I haven't gotten around to reading yet. So there are at least two books on him available.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Tamed-Lightning-Steinmetz/dp/...
And indeed a privatized USPS could potentially be considered a common carrier and regulated as such, although note that currently neither UPS or FedEx is.

But that has no bearing on financial services (like square or visa, which are all contract carriers) or hosting companies (also contract carriers), or other things like that. ISPs are the one exception which might fit the bill of a common carrier.
Isn't most of the scheme the classic pump and dump?
Initial Findings: 2018 Nationwide Tests of Wireless Emergency Alert/Alert System [pdf]
>I'd argue that such projects still count as open source, because the source itself is open, even if you can't use the name or non-code assets.

They're open source because of the specific licenses they use, not because "you can read the source code". And the NES SimCity code definitely isn't licensed under anything resembling an "open source" license, even in the most vague least technical sense of the term, "you can read it". It was never sold as a product or meant to be distributed.

My question was whether "The SimCity Open Source Project" is an actual "thing" with a specific open source compatible license, or if it was just vague hand waving like "the source is open because somebody disassembled and commented it" that the article author meant as a metaphor.
There is literally no barrier preventing a company from creating its own platform from scratch. If you want to enable an infrastructure that supports no holds barred speech online you can start today, you may not be able to Stripe or Cloudfare, but the internet at it's core is still open.
> It's not insulting.

It is unfortunate that you do not consider such blatant, ham-fisted patriarchy as insulting.
Where the machine transcript says "exactly how you describe black people acting is the impression I get dealing with y'all", the last word should be "the alt-right". That is one piece of context: the people he's arguing against are (known for being) racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-homosexual.

Further, the "kikes are ruining everything" part seems to be a paraphrasing of the alt-right: "Go and bother, like, mic.com's comment section or something. You know, they are actually getting millions of views? The thing is, they just ignore you, which is why you don't, because you're just attention-seeking. It's not about, like, actually doing any good, it's about getting attention. And I see, like, 'kikes are ruining everything'. [laughs] Good—good—good job. Should tackle field [I can't understand this sentence]. You're making your movement look like you're not full of Nazis! Great! Bravo!"

Later: "It's just like how Mike Enoch was treated, when people found out his wife was Jewish. It's just like, he had to go dark, he had to go off the internet, because of the way these people treat him. It's like, holy shit, that's one of your own? Oh, he's married to a Jew, well, I guess, that's a bit of bad luck to be married before he was an alt-righter. Yes, he did, well, there we go. Kind of like 'Millenial was sucking a dick'. You know, it's like, it's crazy. You guys have no decorum. There's no level too low to go to."

It seems clear that at least the "anti-Semitic" aspect of his comments is, in fact, deniable.
Awesome, how has the experience been on the project? I'd love to get involved as well, are there any contribution guidelines or starting points?
Unit tests for code coverage or application functionality?

They are different. TDD, is a waste. As you don’t factor in protyping, you start by writing test. Tests should be always step 3. The saftey check and improve is what unit tests are for. I would even argue that unit tests should be written by someone else, later on as a way to share knowledge and checks and balances.

Ask yourself the question are we writing a testing application or a user application. When you focus on the mythical unit test perfection, you are in fact writing code to pass tests the same author devised. So the premise is flawed.
I wonder if writing like this, where you don't really get to what the article is about until you're well into it, are because of advertising. I imagine people are more likely to spend more time on the page if they can't it all out of the intro.
From the description I'm sure that is the correct painting. The title in the original language is "De Gierigaard en de Dood". A simple modern translation would be "The Greedy Man and Death", there is no reason to translate it as "merchant".
Apparently there is a book devoted to the subject of accountants in the arts from 1400 to 1900: "Art & Accounting" by Basil S. Yamey.

Edit:
This article contains a list of such paintings, and there is a link to the PDF which contains images.
https://www.accountant.nl/magazines/accountant-2016-q2/boekh...
> once someone has 50% of the planet as a customer base, as facebook does, they're not a private company any more, they're a public utility

Thanks, that's a really interesting take on the problem, and I tend to agree. It seems that once something becomes infrastructure (however that would be defined...either by your 50% rule or something more nuanced) it becomes heavily regulated, or at least governed by the principals of net neutrality.
This annoyance is three-fold when a call from your iPhone also takes over your iPad screen and rings on your MacBook.
What older situations are you talking about?
If you make the processor 10x faster, then you can effectively do 10 things at once without having multiple cores.
Please remember the www is international, "the post office" is highly ambiguous.

Also, just because something could be private doesn't mean it should be run for privatised gain. I'm pretty sure the UK post office was recently privatised.
Until/unless a large player takes this sort of approach, like, say, Bitmain, who have just hit massive financial difficulties.

It absolutely can be in the rational self interest of such players. Relying on other dormant capacity to come up in defence seems fanciful at best.
Google Books has a scanned 1914 edition of this available for download:

https://ia902307.us.archive.org/26/items/elementarylectu00st...

Steinmetz was also the originator of the Phasor Transform used in steady state RLC circuit calculations.

And BTW that's phasor as in Argand plane not phaser as in Star Trek. :)
It's a bit like nuclear fusion power.

Working prototypes have been demonstrated decades ago. Something that would be viable economically is a whole different kettle of fish. With fusion power, it's not reached yet. With electric cars, it's only starting to emerge on mass markets.
Historically, it’s been the task of intellectuals to try to take complex issues and make them understandable by non-experts. That’s how theory gets connected to practice in democractic societies.
You're uninformed.

The commenters said that "White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another". From what I can gather, he's not making that statement; he's throwing their own crap back at them. In other words "you people say that white people are better behaved than black people, but look at how you're acting at this very moment."
Gay people weren't given the federal right to marry until three years ago. Trans people still don't have equal protection under the law. And none of the rights that do exist are enshrined in the Constitution at all.
In my experience as a quant dev for various traders , neural networks are almost never used for trading, or if they are they're very limited in their application.

But many traders will claim their use because they are obtuse and impressive sounding.

One PM once described it as "machine learning in the streets, linear regression in the sheets".
American Express explicitly bans porn outright. It's not for some prudish reasons though, it's because porn has a very high fraud/chargeback rate.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html
I think ageism may be real in some areas of tech, including in some kinds of programming. I think web dev may be one of those areas, but I'm not in that area and I don't actually know.

Here's what it looks like from where I sit: Older people want to get paid more. If you want to get paid more, you have to be worth more. You don't become worth more by working longer hours - you can't compete with the young on that front. Instead, be worth more by creating fewer bugs, by not creating flawed designs, by knowing that something is a bad idea before it's implemented, and so on. Your experience has to show up in value for your employer, or it isn't worth more money.

So if your experience isn't worth more money, and you still want more money, you have trouble getting a job. It's not ageism, exactly (though ageism could result as hiring people internalize the situation).

I said "you have to be worth more money", but that isn't exactly right. You have to be worth more money, and be able to convince the hiring people that you are worth more money. If their default assumption is "older people aren't worth it", you've got an uphill struggle.

Web dev itself may be a problem. Is experience worth more than knowing the latest framework? Can you learn that framework faster than the younger people?

> Should I make efforts to make myself appear younger when interviewing?

No.
I wouldn't miss this feature, actually
eBooks are great but will never entirely kill off books. Personally I find an ebook to be useless for anything that does not contain entirely text, pictures or diagrams are messed up or just hard to appreciate properly. An iPad/tablet is required for anything with images eg. Technical books or graphic novels (usually as PDF). But none of them will offer the feel of a book. My kids could easily have an ebook but I think the value in learning to love an actual book far outweighs any benefit an eresrer would give them.
> No one wants to be a service or common carrier

Payment processing services such as PayPal and Visa absolutely should be common carriers, because of the great power they can have over people by denying them financial services. The SubscribeStar controversy being a good example.
Breathe.js: A library for writing nonblocking JavaScript on the main thread
The missing question here -- why did Patreon do it? Is it because they are afraid of legal risk of not being able to defend themselves against a lawsuit? Or they are afraid of loss of revenue/capitalization if an online activist group launches a shame/smear campaign? Or it simply because it rubbed the wrong way someone in the company management?

Why did they do it?
But that isn't the line, the line is don't be Sargon of Akkad.
The TV stats are determined by an independent body (Nielsen).
Facebook calculates it’s own stats and they obviously have a huge incentive to publish the most favourable usage statistics possible.
This is such a biased article. The most important fact is purposefully omitted. This article makes it seem like Sargon purposefully used those racist statements in a racist context. He was using it as an analogy and against the alt-right. Lying by omission makes this entire article completely bogus. I hate when the fringe media does this in literally every article and I really hate it when the best papers do it and the NYtimes is unfortunately the best paper we have in my opinion. I would pull my subscription over something like this 5 years ago but now days everyone does this.
I don’t think he was naive in saying what he said and neither do I think he was being charitable to blacks or to whites for that matter.

Maybe the simplest thing is to let profit motivated corporations do whatever it takes to increase their revenues, and leave the moralities out of the door. If they want to deny service to people because of their speech in the pursuit of growing their business, why not?
> Stop being arrogant and thinking that we "know better" than the people who actually live in the area.

I believe this is the problem - the locals that have ran their country into the ground have proven that they do not how to manage their own country. This is why the market, which expects to be paid back, will no longer fund their mismanagement.

You have an extremely warped view of foreign countries that are forced to take loans from the IMF - these countries have economies that are collapsing.
Hatreon solved the crowdfunding platform censorship problem until the fascists from VISA put it out of business.
Do you have ADHD? I do, and I can drink caffeine and go straight to bed, and it does help a little bit with focus (Adderall helps a lot more, of course).

Stimulants tend to calm the ADHD mind, and can stop racing thoughts that make it harder to sleep.
Boise State to offer less-technical cybersecurity certificate
Operation Northwoods...didn't happen.
uuuu appears to be Java-specific: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41177442/uuuu-versus-yyy...