skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like always, simple stuff will be simple (http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/wireless-connections...)

That is not actually simple because the data is flowing across two completely different message passing paradigms. Many users of Max/MSP and Pd don't understand the rules for such dataflow, even though it is deterministic and laid out in the manual IIRC.

The "silver bullet" in Max/MSP would be to only use the DSP message passing paradigm. There, all objects are guaranteed to receive their input before they compute their output.

However, that would make a special case out of GUI building/looping/branching. For a visual language designed to accommodate non-programmers, the ease of handling larger amounts of complexity with impunity would not be worth the cost of a learning curve that excludes 99% of the userbase.

Instead, Pd and Max/MSP has the objects with thin line connections. They are essentially little Rube Goldberg machines that end up being about as readable. But they can be used to do branching/looping/recursion/GUI building. So users typically end up writing as little DSP as they can get away with then uses thin line spaghetti to fill in the rest. That turns out to be much cheaper than paying a professional programmer to re-implement their prototype at scale.

But that's a design decision in the language, not some natural law that visual programming languages are doomed to generate spaghetti.

Edit: clarification
You can either have low fees and near-universal acceptance, or high fees and not-so-universal acceptance plus "consumer benefits". To me it seems fairly clear which one is preferable.
How Are Walmart and Google Advancing AR Shopping?
Is this satire? It can’t be real.
A New Breed of Servers for Digital Transformation
I occasionally have to rm my docker instance and recreate it.

I'm not sure what it's doing, but at least it's an easy fix.
I think wirth did however like to distinguish between procedures and functions. Not functional in todays meaning of the word, but similar in spirit.
Thanks for your comment, really helpful. It's funny when you talk to an average person (who doesn't have homeschooling experience) they will point out the socialization as their main concern. But of course, it's not.
Max Schrems: The privacy bubble needs to start 'getting shit done'
The official torrent links are also distributed over insecure HTTP and are also trivially easy to MitM attack.
Coral Project Is Moving to Vox Media
> There’s no point pandering to dinosaurs.

Err, yes there is, if they are willing to pay you money to simplify something they don't understand.

I agree that if you're not technical you're a dinosaur, but it turns out a good number of dinosaurs are still out there and they have money to spend. So why not cater to them while they're around?
Phytoplankton, more accurately.
They however provide a unique service and never failed to protect my data.

The only reason to use Facebook instead of anything else is the amount of people on there, it's not unique and also by far not better than other similar products.

It's hard to say the same about Googles services.
When ICQ, AIM, MySpace etc were popular, the babyboomer generation was not really widely adapted to computers like they are today. I don't think Facebook has been the reason they eventually did, either -- my grandmother, for example, doesn't have Facebook, but e-mails and texts.
> removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service

Is there any proof of this? Source?
'Oumuamua, SETI and the Media
It would be a really impressive turn around on the fix from Debian, though ;-).
They want to offer anonymous communication but still demand to know my employer and personal identity. How about no?
Hey one of the authors here! Crazy that someone else posted this, I'm happy to answer any questions.

I also just gave a talk about this at POPL2019 in Lisbon. Slides are here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yuC_LvNuFbnhO3aASTQ8...
This makes me curious of where the cost/benefit point is between these brands of drives. Do they buy enough that the reduced cost for higher failure rate outweighs the expense of buying more expensive drives?
GNU awk co-processes are another way to do this.
It would hurt a lot of people if they end up paying more taxes than they owe because they don't realize they can pay less by filing their own return. It can be scary receiving a "bill" from the government, and many people might not try to contest the IRS's calculation.

For automated tax filing to be workable, it has to at least be accurate for nearly everyone. If it overstates taxes for most people, I think that's a big problem. In the U.S., I don't think you can achieve that level of accuracy without either changing the tax code, or having the federal government track a lot more information about people than it currently does. I owe the IRS money every year because my wife and I are subject to the marriage penalty. You can't calculate our correct taxes without knowing we are married to each other. And the IRS doesn't know that unless I put it on my returns.

Note that many countries track their citizens much more closely than does the U.S. For example, in Germany, you have to register with a Registration Office within one week whenever you move between cities.
- The science behind muscle growth has evolved
- His PhD bone density research being a big contribution
- Insight: 1) 4.2 x body weight is required to trigger new bone growth
- Insight: 2) people are 7 x stronger at their max compared to weakest range.
- TL;DR he's developed a safer, faster way to grow muscle, trigger a massive HGH hormonal response and reduced training time.
U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect ‘Agile BS’
At a global scale, ownership of assets isn't really savings.

Imagine an island society, with a bunch of 40 year old workers. You own the company that gets all the profit from their labour. So, you have a real resource, which you could trade with other places.

Now of course this island has no children. How do you feel about your investment once the workers reach age 80. It wouldn't produce very much. In fact you'd need to put resources in just to keep your island ex-employees alive.

But that's an extreme example. Let's suppose that 20% of the population is only 20 instead of 40. When the current 40 year olds hit 65 and retire, the younger generation will be 35 and can support them. What happens to your profits?

They will probably still either collapse or near collapse. You had 100% of people in the labour force, now you have 20%. This poor 20% not only has to support themselves, they must support the 80% idle old. And that's before any surplus is generated for your profit as owner.

So, your savings in the form of ownership of the island weren't very useful. It just dies out.

Could you saved otherwise? Not really. To a limited extent you could store the outputs of the island. We do this currently with grain reserves, oil stockpiles, etc.

But most of the stuff we consume are produced in the same year. You can't save real goods, only ownership of entities.

So if the entities all have a shrinking labour force, they aren't worth as much. The old people in the us won't have meaningful assets with which to pay for their care.

(The one exception is a small old country that owns rights to part of the output of other countries which are younger. There's also an exception for automation, if the companies owned by the old are massively more productive per worker by the time the demographic bulge retires)

You're making the mistake of those who think that money itself as wealth, as opposed to a medium to exchange for wealth. Money is mostly fungible, but in edge cases it just can't buy certain things.
Would be really interesting to see this done on a map of Europe. You'd think there's a lot more public transit used.

As a visitor to the US, the main thing that strikes me is always the vast amount of car related space there. Wider roads, massive car parks. Places with no sidewalk!

And I'm also surprised at the two places I thought would have more public transport usage. Really, only 30% of NYC? I guess it's sparse outside Manhattan? SF I kinda understand because what I saw of the underground looked way too small for a city of several million.
Where I work at the moment doesn't have a single Ruby application, and it's "corporate enough" that introduce one would be pretty hard-ish.

I can give it a shot with personal projects, but still I don't think it'd be enough experience.
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This was the policy I implemented with my team and everyone thought it was pretty reasonable. It's basically pick your schedule, but stick to it. Otherwise scheduling meetings becomes unmanageable. That being said, I was also very clear about the policy during the interview process.
Hrmm, many people in other areas only spend money on credit cards they actually have too. I was also curious about the dispute resolution feature of the card itself. It is my primary reason for a CC (rewards are just a perk) so I don't have to rely on government institutions with limited incentive to go to bat for me when the card acceptor did me wrong.
It’s not the same, Comcast and other ISPs don’t tamper with HTTPS, and if they break the HTTPS connection then it’s a clearer problem for the ISP to troubleshoot than corruption.

Sorry I don’t understand what double wrapping has to do with it, or why you’d ever do that.
That is a clean CR in my opinion. No DACA and no new border wall. $1.6 billion for existing fencing and planning is status quo, not what Trump wanted, and certainly not worth any kind of quid pro quo amnesty.

I don’t think either side is a particularly good faith negotiator, but it’s totally beside the original point I made which you refuse to debate while continuously smoke screening with side shows.

You refuse to admit that the way the Senate has done legislative business for its entire history is at odds with your “despite a Republican majority” rhetoric. A Replublican majority is not sufficient to stop a Democratic philibuster in the Senate. That’s how the Senate works. If one party with at least 40 seats decides to filibuster, then they are responsible for the bill not passing. That is exactly how it has always worked in the Senate and any good faith debater would accept that the party filibustering is the party responsible for stopping the bill from going to the President’s desk, in that case, causing a shutdown.

I mean, if you blame Republicans for the Jan 2018 shutdown where Senate democrats were damanding a permanent DACA fix, and then relented, you know even the NYT disagrees with you [1];

Congress brought an end to a three-day government shutdown on Monday as Senate Democrats buckled under pressure to adopt a short-term spending bill to fund government operations without first addressing the fate of young undocumented immigrants.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/politics/congress-vote...
> I'd prefer a service with a few really good shows. Something a la carte.

Unfortunately a lot of these are attempted ( FilmStruck, Mubi, etc. ) and all fold. People aren't actually interested in high enough numbers.
Susceptibility to addiction is highly heritable (around 50% of variation is due to genetic factors according to this[0]).

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506170/
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> When a drive fails, it's effectively a brick with no terabytes.

Interesting factoid: that isn't always true. What you describe is actually the CLEANEST type of failure, the drive suddenly becomes a brick. We replace the drive and rebuild it from parity.

A way more interesting failure is when disk blocks start going bad at an unacceptable rate. Backblaze splits your data across 20 different hard drives in 20 different machines in our datacenter. The sub-parts we call "shards", a shard sits on one disk. Each shard has a SHA-1 checksum, so we know if each shard has been corrupted. If an individual shard is missing or corrupted, we know it needs to be rebuilt from parity.

So when a drive is HALF-FAILED, we even have a procedure to pull the drive out, and then opportunistically copy whatever files we can recover onto a new drive, then put the new drive back into production. Any files we recover where they are in the correct filesystem location and their SHA1 says they have not been corrupted speeds up the rebuild.

The reason the speed of rebuild is important is the whole concept of 11 or 12 "nines" of durability. We can't have more than 3 drives fail in any one group of 20 drives, and the faster the rebuild time, the less likely for 4 simultaneous failures. It plugs into the formulas in this blog post we did about durability: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-durability/
Welcome to reality. Human nature and behavior doesn't magically change just because there's a webapp. Trust is incredibly hard to create, perhaps harder than ever before.
Having FORMER employees do some authentic reviews for companies they've last left is also quite difficult - in the sense that this person may fear the repercussions should they write something about the company that places the organization in a bad light.

One way I can think of is a service, where companies sign up, and let potential employees be able to speak in an anonymous manner with real (albeit anonymized) employees so that real feedback on actual working conditions are provided. The key here though is that all current employees should feel safe that they are speaking about what's the real conditions of work at the workplace, as well as providing enough credibility to the applicant that they are actually speaking to someone working there.

Of course having companies sign up for this will be inherently difficult, as each company always wants to maintain their shining standards in any form, and does not want for only a group of certain individuals to tarnish their good(?) reputation.
Although Marxism is related to the theory of science (though not so much G.A. Cohen, who I'm not very sure why he's so "contemporary", he's not) it is positioned strangely, especially on the exact opposite side of the diagram where it seems it belongs, with continental philosophy. Also odd to see Habermas in theory of democracy so far away... and complete lack of mention of heavily cited figures in critical philosophy (Adorno, Marcuse...)
Washington Post Tries to Take Down Parody Site Announcing Trump's Resignation
Dyson, a big Brexit supporter, plans also to build an electric car, in Singapore:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/23/dyson-to-...

By the way, Singapore has an EU free trade agreement.

I respect engineering and entrepreneurship. But he sounds like a hypocrite. I don't consider buying any of his products.
I moved from the long island suburbs to New York City, and it's very interesting taking the subway to work instead of driving. It really feels like the subway people and the drivers are living in two separate countries. It's a totally different way of living, and I really enjoy it.
AIUI the two largely act as a fallback and the relevant interbank network (e.g. Girocard) is used directly if possible.
adding to that, i believe:

fb is one of the first social implementation of b.j. fogg's behavior model + and engineered addiction, and the subsequent commoditization of likes and shares
Haven't read this one yet, but Seagates from what I saw in these tended to be okay. It was Western Digital that had, surprisingly, the most issue (which is unfortunate, considering I finally figured out the cheaper method using Best Buy for WD Red disks).

Granted, I'm not a hardware guy so my takeaway could've been wrong, but that's what it looked like to me when reading them.
I am not all that impressed with Dyson vacuum cleaners vs say Meile. A bit too much form, a bit to little function.

Dyson himself is not one of my favourite people. This move seems very hypocritical.
It sounds a lot like you are trying to tell a programmer to stop programming using the keyboard and program using the mouse instead. I think I understand why you are doing that, but I don't see how you can expect to be successful this way.

For 99% of programmers out there, programming IS typing on a keyboard. Clicking around with a mouse is only something that non-expert users (or children, e.g. Scratch users) do, because it is approximately 10x slower to get anything done by laboriously pointing and clicking than by typing. For example, finding the largest file in my home directory through the GUI takes 5 careful targeting operations and 5 clicks, a click-and-drag, and then some scrolling, and then I have to do more dragging to move the window around so I can see what's under it. Using a keyboard I type "ll -S" and I'm done in half a second (and immediately able to issue the next command). You simply can't compete with that.

Even though it isn't the same way you are used to operating, I think it will be necessary to take into account the needs of that audience if you want to bring them on board.

As a thought experiment, what would it take to make the environment comfortably usable with only a keyboard, including discoverability of all the necessary keyboard controls? You could treat it as an accessibility issue; what if the user is unable to use a mouse?
Perhaps your example was contrived, but why would you pipe into gzip instead of using transparent ssh compression?
Yeah, but you have to decide that you're going to pop that first pill, snort that first line, inject that first syringe, etc.
Corporatized public institutions are clearly a fascist move. Same goes for the public private partnerships in common wealth countries.
Would you pay for that search engine?
But now (i.e., the short term) is when we're all living. I don't pay my rent based on the long term benefits of the elimination of my job.

By using "them" to generically refer to all workers, past present and future, it sounds like you're saying "Today's workers are screwed, but the next generation of non-rich people will be fine".

You can't just tell people that a machine eliminated their job starting next month therefore they should be happy. It's going to get a lot rougher for a lot of people before UBI is implemented.
Automating repetition of code is a sign that your stack is poorly factored for your needs. Automating code repetition up front won't save you from maintenance repetition, and maintenance is about 2/3 of average product cost.

The most productive stacks I have worked with trimmed out stuff that wasn't needed for our particular organization.
Every organization has common patterns they are used to and like. But, off-the-shelf stacks have to cater to a wide variety of organizations and organization preferences. Get a tunable stack and trim trim trim, and refactor duplication. Learn from each generation of product releases and make your API's better for the next.

Make special behavior as-needed plug-ins, not part of the main stack. Don't be a feature horder in the main stack, but keep a library of handy add-ons that are known to fit your stack when needed.

As an example of flexible factoring, you shouldn't normally have to specify the title and max length of an input field more than once (D.R.Y. Principle). If you have to keep doing it twice, find out why and factor it out. However, keep in mind that sometimes you do need to override the default title for specific needs such that you shouldn't remove the potential for task-specific customization in your effort to refactor. Use shared defaults for a field, but don't force shared defaults.

You should spend most of your coding time plugging in parameters to well-tuned API's, not copy and pasting repetitious code. Most of your actual coding should be for behavior that is unique to a project. Think twice, type once, instead of the other way around.
If that's the true, we should make colleges more intellectually elitist and put most of the funding on places that provide that better worker's productivity, or simply cut funding if there is no better option.

We also should make it easier for those academics to bring those massive gains, because academia isn't organized for that.

I still think this is not the real goal, but maybe it was at some time. (Is there more than one goal? The system appears to not be optimized for any reasonable goal.)
"Also, resistance bands don't provide consistent resistance."

Right, and if that's how you train you're doing it wrong.

Consistent resistance is the worst idea based on the science.

You actually want a much higher weight in your strongest range and lower in the weakest. Much better gains and safer.
and reddit and youtube?

In all seriousness I downloaded a browser extension to lock me into my course work when I need it. It's pretty sad for me
I've updated the main page to include pricing. Thanks again.
Those forums were expensive. It wasn't until I had been contributing to them for years until I thought to ask just how much a vBulletin license cost. And phpBB was hard to administer, had security problems, which were exacerbated by the lack of experience of forum administrators. And you had to maintain hosting, which wasn't a trivial expense back in those days.
> And I'm also surprised at the two places I thought would have more public transport usage. Really, only 30% of NYC?

Taxis don't count as "public transport" here.
Merchants pass-through the fees to consumers. If they charge the same price to consumers using rewards cards and cash (common in the US), consumers using cash or debit cards subsidize credit cards.
HN mods, is there an issue with this link? Why it's not on the homepage yet? It happens with all my submissions.
Blind is rapidly becoming the new glassdoor.
I've been a little skeptical at how overwhelmingly positive some of the reviews on glassdoor seem. There's ones that turn the cons into positives and seem like they were written by fake accounts. All jobs have at least some bad things, to say that there are none seems a little strange to me.
I think the article's author is just suffering from imposter syndrome.
I'll never get tired of hearing "wage slavery", "exploitation", "surplus labor value" etc from idiots who are still clinging to the labor theory of value.
In some distant future, people writing code will be seen as dangerous. Few will know how. Some of them will be weaponized.

Agents will deliver on requests and factor problem sets and assist in solutions. We get augmented and assisted.

Computer code will be something basic, a useful, but guarded infrastructure.

Biological systems and tools will be like code is today, only humans will be assisted by these agents, large bodies of code from days of old. Mastery of biological code will prove an order or two more complex than any computer, Turing code will. Vast numbers of proteins, emergent properties, effects...

Emergent tools will be artifacts of our work today. We will not fully understand them, and they will be guarded much like some very specialized things are today. We know what they do, but why is an area of intense, and also closely guarded study.

Think current AI trained and performant, but not well understood. It will be like that.

People using rogue tools will be criminalized. Integration of code, these emergent agents and biotech will raise the stakes very considerably.

Bugs, virii will literally have death and major environmental consequences. Basics like networks are robust, ubiquitous and very well guarded due to their necessity. Few will hold keys. Rogue agents are hunted, employed or killed.

There is a fiction book I like which speaks to some of this.

The Bohr Maker

There are others. Anyone want to toss recommendations out there?
Sort of.

In Baidu's case, they're a locally grown replacement. Per the article, local credit systems didn't really take off; a researcher in the article states their belief it's due to different attitudes on debt in China.
Thanks for the wonderful and detailed responses. I really appreciate it.

One follow up - is it accurate to say that linearity and drift are always related then?
Especially since intellectual curiosity can be easily satisfied in other ways these days.