skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a terrible idea. I'm surprised I need to spell out that the benefit of learning a language is that you can actually use it, and the effort-reward ratio is far better if you can reuse it widely. Plus a language is far more than its syntax and compiler - its the ecosystem that makes a language productive. The last thing we need is for an explosion of half-implemented, poorly supported toy languages for individual programs.
From what I could see V does not have templates, so that means you instantiate the templates as part of the conversion to V?

How does the resulting V code look like for non-trivial templated code, say something you'd find in one of the more complex Boost libraries?
That’s not the DMV selling anything, it’s the clerk of court...everyday they publish a list of new cases (public record) and your ticket is attached to the case and the ticket contains all relevant data (name, address, license #, dob, charge, etc...) and an added bonus the court will also link your dmv driving record to the ticket case so the “scrapers” get your dmv record anyway (for free). They do the same for foreclosure cases.
A corporation filing a statement of claim in a civil lawsuit is not a criminal prosecution.
It's purely circumstantial :).
In the two companies I've worked for, I was/am one of the main people that try to update documentation. I should ask if my previous company still uses the wiki that I kind of revived (it was full of useful info, but most people preferred to bother others, and if they searched the wiki before, they would not update the wiki with the newly learned info). By making it a useful resource, I felt like more people would start to use it, but my six months of employment were probably too short to really make that a reality.

I'm working in an even smaller company now - previously it was about 40 employees, now it's a handful. There are docs for the important things so there is no single point of failure, but very few day to day things are written down (like whom to report to that you're ill). As we grow, it's slowly becoming worth it to document that (single source of info instead of either having to bother the big boss or having different sources) and I'm looking at options to organise it. Organising it topic-based (graph(-like)) is an interesting alternative to the standard info dump with a search feature (wiki).

Trying out Nuclino just now and putting some items into it, I additionally noticed that having a separate system from your actual knowledge database can also be useful: info pages are on the wiki, custom tools are in different git repositories, project info might be in some task manager... If you have a separate system (such as a graph) that just points you to the right URL (wiki/task manager) or folder within a git repository, the system can outlast any of the individual products being used. Then again, having a layer of indirection makes it more time-consuming to use when you know that your info page is going to be in the wiki. I guess it will have to be very quick to call up and integrated nicely to make it worth it for others to use.
I agree, I personally don't think it's a valid myth. As you said, the customer overall knows what he wants, and he doesn't want technical (or ideological, in the case of Free Software) purity.

I was just pointing out that because techies consider something superior (ergo the myth), it doesn't necessarily "win". Plus in this case I think it's really, really hard to argue that GCP is superior to AWS.
Finding out what went wrong, but without throwing people under a bus, is important. I thought HN might be interested in this bit of work from England about "just Culture" within healthcare. Here we're not talking about a data centre outage for a few hours. We're talking about when people die, or when people are caused severe life-limiting harm.

Creating a just culture enables staff to explore what went wrong, and to learn from that, and to prevent it happening again. It means that staff that did not intend to cause harm and were not grossly negligent will avoid disciplinary action, but it allows room for that, or for criminal action, if staff set out to cause harm.

NHS Improvement is one of the "arms length bodies" of the English NHS. They don't provide any health services themselves, but they regulate and support organisations that do. They used to be called Monitor. They regulate the corporate structure, the finances, the appointments of very senior leaders, and some of the safety of English NHS trusts.
It's actually a normal and proper way to improve usability if done right, i.e. in a study where you set tasks to users and watch what they're doing and where they have problems. Jakob Nielsen does this for decades.

Not sure if looking at users' screenshots is anywhere near as useful.
They named Youtube, Snapchat and Twitter as their competition
Unless `a` is a linear value, somebody might have a reference to it, so you can't just sort it in place under the cover. The entire thing is useless if you looks like you don't have side-effects but the compiler visibly breaks this.

And you probably want to pick one of sorting in-place and out-of-place.
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Actually guerilla.........................click@gmail.com would work too, since it fully ignores dots. So the options are just as (not) limited as anything a + can add.
Thanks! Mattermost is an excellent product already so good luck.
Facebook has already been fined by the European commission in 2017 to the tune of 110M Euros over this. It is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions Facebook paid for WhatsApp though - so small one suspect Facebook might have already factored it into the cost of the acquisition.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...
Care to provide some details? because FB considers YouTube, Twitter, and the likes as that competition but you may know more.
I've worked at AWS and Google. CRUX and Critique have similar functionalities. In general there's mostly a 1:1 mapping of equivalent internal tools between the two companies, albeit each with their own flavor.

Disclaimer: I work for Alphabet.
Remote working + disconnected Skype/whatever?

Lock yourself up in a faraway conference room?
Microsoft aggressively deployed it in the 1990s with the US Government. It didn't work at all ultimately. Nobody outside of Microsoft's management bought into the premise (they either didn't actually buy into it either, or they were wildly delusional, hard to tell which it really was). Once the DOJ took the Microsoft case seriously, they cut through Microsoft's fluff like a buzzsaw.

It doesn't work very well at all with a determined government, which will zero in on specific market abuses (rather than getting caught up in bullshit PR fluff). Primarily it's one part PR play with the public brand & image, and one part time delay. Facebook would love nothing more than to have an opportunity to burn years of time by being given a chance to argue round and round about all the competition they face.

Microsoft laughably couldn't stop repeating how they were fighting for their right to innovate (which eg had next to nothing to do with their serious OEM abuses). Every other word out of Gates and Ballmer's mouths for years was a variation of innovation. They beat that drum to death, it made no difference. They tried playing the widen the competition pool card over and over again, that also made zero difference.

No serious regulator will ever believe the competition everywhere premise. I generally don't believe it's aimed at actually convincing a serious regulator, either. The sharks that work for giants like Facebook know it's not an actual strong legal argument, which is why I believe it's one part stall tactic and one part public image support. There's a small chance it could cause some skepticism among less determined regulators as a fluke benefit.
I was once forced to integrate once such product in our app. We did mask what we thought was the sensitive information. Within days of release, the app was removed from the play-store for privacy violation. Had to remove the SDK to get back in business. So Google does use tools to detect such stuff and this was early 2017.
>if you're running your own servers.

This is enough of a threshold probably.
How do you even get the number? It doesn't list the total on my page and I couldn't even get to the end of the list after clicking "See More" for 10 minutes...
Mercurial seems to be a "nicer" version of git, which doesn't seem to be enough of a difference to avoid the git bandwagon.

Projects like pijul interest me, since they work in a fundamentally different way. Pijul is a "nicer" version of darcs. Git killed darcs not by being nicer but by being faster, and pijul is also faster than darcs, so maybe there's hope ;)

(Of course, most of git's momentum came from huge projects using it, like Linux and Xorg; yet being huge is precisely what forced those projects to favour speed at the cost of "niceness". If a "nice" system existed that was fast enough to handle Linux, Torvalds would probably never have written git).
Wipe/flash and start over. See if it happens again.
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They can do business anywhere, just not while lying about what they are doing.
A bit weird to call it a startup but a clever idea!

Maybe Mailinator could implement this autoclicking.
This is my reason for preferring NOSQL where possible.
There is absolutely way to prevent this. We could enact laws to clarify that tips are between the customer and the employee and have no effect on the company's legal obligation to pay minimum wage. That is how the law actually is written in a number of states.
Perhaps everyone who is affected could pool their transaction information and figure out the addresses of the cold wallets.
I don't think copy-on-write will prevent a copy here, since the copy is being written to inside of sorted. I don't think the compiler is smart enough to elide the copy, either.
How about the Oakland Athletics, the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, or the Golden State Warriors? All of these teams bucked a very strong counter-current by applying data-driven management practices. Go back even further to General Electric under neutron Jack Welsh, who advocated six sigma practices with great success. More controversially, look at the practices of the financial industry. Decisions grounded by sound quantitative risk management practices helped to contribute to survival while others who didn't exercise such practice collapsed.

How about the organizations that failed to manage using data driven decisions and took huge risks: Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual, AIG,....?

Trusting the algorithm gets flak but it sure has plenty of anecdotal evidence to support why it is superior to gut instinct and wisdom in many circumstances.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned hte rise of flickering LEDs on cars - though I think in this case it's caused by PWM dimming.

I mean, it looks absolutely fine as long as the light source and viewer are both static - just a shame vehicles tend to be moving :(
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Red is still at alpha stage of development. I suspect once it reaches beta level then it main garner more appreciation.
> For some reason all new languages like Go, Rust, Nim, Swift use a lot of mutable args in their stdlibs.

Both Rust and Swift require specifically opting into parameter mutation (respectively `&mut`[0] and `inout`) and the caller needs to be aware (by specifically passing in a mutable reference or a reference, respectively), only the receiver is "implicitly" mutable, and even then it needs to be mutably bound (`let mut` and `var` respectively).

Inner mutability notwithstanding, neither will allow mutating a parameter without the caller being specifically aware of that possibility.

The ability to mutate parameter is useful if not outright essential, especially lower down the stack where you really want to know what actually happens. Haskell can get away with complete userland immutability implicitly optimised to mutations (where that's not observable), Rust not so much.

[0] or `mut` in pass-by-value but the caller doesn't care about that: either it doesn't have access to the value anymore, or it has its own copy
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, Show HN is for “something you've made that other people can play with.” As it says: “If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.”

Feel free to submit again when someone can sign up and immediately use your thing.
It's those "rising power's" fault for putting workers in a position where they think they gain more freedom with a 3rd party bureaucracy than without.
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I didnt experience any hijacking, even with disabled ublock
The nice thing about email is that you're free to render and interact with it in any way you like. Yes, you could use mutt; or you could use Webmail if you prefer; or you could run them through some automation scripts; or through some custom CLI/GUI/mobile app/Web service/etc.
You in the the EU? Sue em.
One could easily host their own VPN and trust only themselves.

You could further connect to a vpn service if you wanted anonymity, although that would of course require trusting them.
There is a youtube channel that does detailed led bulb teardowns, for those who would like more of this sort of info.
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I would prefer that arrangement as well, and I don't know if the reason for not doing it is technical, or because of contracts with the big labels.

It may be a deal with the devil to let Spotify continue to exist, as the labels could easily crush them.

And you can already support your favorite artists directly, by going to their shows, buying their merch and buying their music on Bandcamp. Some artists even use Patreon now, which is a sort of interesting return to the days of artists working for wealthy patrons.
How do you get invited in these kind of events/networks?

Given that they market themselves as "exclusive" I suppose I won't find them in meetup.com but still you need to get started somewhere...
PHP is relatively infamous for being badly designed and hard to maintain (something I did professionally for years, so I'm speaking from experience).

Erlang is still a niche.

Both are examples of confirmation bias. There is a massive graveyard of one-man languages that no one used and then died.
Americans are smarter - they provide this bait-facade of "usefulness", Germans are more direct and down-to-the-business e.g. there are billboards on the streets of German cities with "privacy campaigns" actively agitating against Facebook, country-wide hysteria against social networks (or even internet in general). Someone certainly pays for it - articles, billboards, etc are not a volunteer work.
Well, that statement is essentially a strawman. Even IF Facebook does face competition - it doesn't mean they should be allowed to violate privacy.
Hence why making a new application-specific, general purpose language is probably not the greatest idea vs building a DSL within one of the languages you mentionned.
The only thing I would add is that it serves as a convenient figleaf for regulators and policy advocates who are politically or ideologically friendly to monopolists, of whom there are no shortage in the US at least
List of open source startups that have succeed?
I'm the founder of ModelChimp(https://modelchimp.com). An experiment tracking tool for Deep Learning(You can think of us as GIT for Deep Learning). We started as a closed sourced and then moved on to an open source model.

We have competitors, they are bigger, got huge investment rounds. To outrun them, we are using open source as one of our key differentiators.

I will be happy to see companies that started as closed source, then went open source, and succeeded.

Examples would help?
This is not a wild west issue, though. This is simply an obvious result from the rules for this ccTLD.

And it is still possible to keep those .eu domains: simply make sure you're an EU citizen or transfer the name to an EU entity. I wonder if Estonia's e-residency might help here.
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Source? This seems like a pretty clear-cut lawsuit waiting to happen. I'm aware that not everyone can afford to take on legal action, but I'm skeptical that it's widespread.
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Much of experimental design in psychology is an effort to attenuate the effect of individual differences so that you can find the common (and probably core) cognitive processes. Sometimes the risk to external validity is worth it in order to reduce the complexity of data and models from confounding variables. So we work with a system where most science is conducted with a relatively homogeneous sample of college undergraduates who are convenient to obtain, while well replicated or foundational findings are later tested across cultures to determine degree of generalization. It seems an ok compromise to me.
+1 for well-defined concurrency.

To me the central concurrency scheme is one of the defining features of a modern language. Go and goroutines, ES/Node and event-driven paradigms, Java and threads... That does not mean a language can't handle many types of concurrency, but it's good to be opinionated on a preferred concurrency scheme from the get-go and have native methods for dealing with intercommunication (ie. Go's channels).
Too many anti-trust agencies seem to have a "Oh well, what's done is done, what can you do now?!" attitude towards violations.

If one of the primary conditions of the merger was that WhatsApp was not allowed to share user data with FB, and then FB goes ahead and does it anyway (even before ever prompting users to agree with this), then that should be all the reason the agencies need to order the split of WhatsApp from Facebook.

Because they don't take this seriously enough is exactly why Facebook is now attempting to further integrate Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, so that a few years down the road when the shit will really hit the fan, FB would be able to claim that the disintegration of the services is "impossible" at that point and/or get those platforms' users to raise hell against their politicians for attempting to do that.
I disagree. A cambrian explosion of 'toy' languages is exactly what we need so that the few that become popular reach the maturity you desire.

I have this itch that there is an explicit slot in our native language infrastructure for a scripting language that is a bit less clunky than Lua, not so huge as Python, and more ClojureScript like than the other embedded lispies out there, that is trivial to embed, has a fantastic interface to C++ and is utterly pragmatic yet elegant.

A small subset of Python would probably do...
Is that a problem? And does it have to be a company, or can it also be a foundation or something?
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You talk as if this was an example of a successful strategy of writing a general purpose language for one program.

However Jon Blow's successful games, Braid and the Witness, were not written with that new language.
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Ah, the famous "you can't criticize X because you're Y".

You should be careful with that, it rarely leads to healthy opinions.

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The title is not consistent with the article. The judge decided a Russian website could not be required to defend itself in a U.S. Federal court. Notable decision, but that alone doesn't mean the lawyers "botched" it. On the contrary, it sounds like the 3 law firms employed by the website operator did a remarkable job of persuading the judge.
"Let's not disturb the status quo and what's mainstream with our results, else we'll stop getting grants"
Can you quote any project were this strategy was commercially successful?
If you didn't see it happen on any other phone of the same brand what makes you think it's generalized to all the Honor 8X ? You might be the only one targeted.
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There's a third possibility: The advertiser guessed the email address.
Unless you are the competitors.
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That would certainly be a good way to do it (though I reckon the limit between a mere library and an internal DSL is a bit fuzzy). Do you however have any widespread powerful language in mind? I don't know of any. Even all of them combined probably still doesn't count as "widespread".

Also, once you understand the problem space well enough, a custom syntax can be a nice bonus.
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I dont get hooks. How is this simpler than something like this?

https://jsfiddle.net/xv7y9eoz/
I'm sure someone must pay. But I can make assumptions all by myself with little to no help. What I could really use are details, facts, evidence. So I'm forced to reiterate, care to provide some?

I don't mean evidence that people want more privacy and someone is paying/putting up billboards advocating this. Do you have some evidence (anything) that these yet unnamed companies are behind a strategy to stain FB's image (as if it were needed) in order to have the privacy violation market all to the themselves?

Can you at least name one of these companies? Or maybe a hint on why Facebook doesn't even acknowledge this enemy?
One should assume that nobody likes to be tracked and therefore this should be the default option. But yeah, opt-out of privacy tools is never fine for adtech companies.
Not under anti-trust law (German "Kartellrecht"), where market concentration and competition are primary factors.
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Actually, this was made with LaTeX. Sadly, LaTeX doesn't prohibit you from making ugly documents.
UNIX/C, for one :-)
nope, ms sim didnt use fpu, falcon 3 had a separate, optional "realistic" hi-fidelity flight model that used fpu, but it was pretty broken http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3803136/re-falc...
full decision and docket

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/virgini...

my biggest question from this case is if and how defendant is earning enough income from the websites to hire lawyers - i'm thinking it might have something to do with the .exe the sites push on users

edit: yep - that is what he's doing, multiple systems mark his download as adware/trojan downloader

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/94d20c4dbb3304ccfdcee04bdf...
From the perspective of the UK, "the continent" means quite explicitly "not the UK". Geographic reality not withstanding.

They feel rather strongly about this and other issues that might not seem entirely correct to people with a different perspective. I suppose that's what ultimately caused this situation in the first place.
Around six years ago I switched from the Microsoft platform/stack to a fully open source stack. I remember thinking about Github as something magical, I wanted to learn Git so that I could have a repo on Github, not the other way around. The funny/sad thing is that Microsoft now controls most of the stack I switched to ...