skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to argue with someone who sees these 2 examples are the SAME thing, if you really see the 2nd example is equivalent in _SAFETY_ and readability as the first one, you probably haven't written much code or used many languages

In every other language, people keep arguing about advanced features, moving forward and such, only in Go people defend the undefendable and reject any kind of the simplest obvious improvements, I say so and I am sad because I use Golang very heavily, it's sad to see a modern language so popular and its core designers are still stubborn about doing anything in the right direction even if it is as simple as adding enums
Notes on Computational Group Theory (2010) [pdf]
If you can’t answer these questions without outside counsel, please avoid the scheme being peddled to you.
That was exactly my reaction. I was hoping that they would be providing time or compensation to employees working on open-source. Adding CoCs is much less impressive, though the legal support is potentially valuable.
Protectionism and controlled liberal policies brought China and the rest of the Asian Tigers to prosperity. Forced neoliberal policies is a curse on nascent economies.
It's effectively the same as Blink which is used by Chrome, soon to be edge and any other popular browser.

Google certainly thinks so when they check the Firefox user agent on Android and give them a some cut down mobile version.
The world already is:

Global market share held by leading desktop internet browsers

Chrome Safari

May '18 66.93% 5.48%

Apr '18 66.17% 5.48%

Mar '18 66.93% 5.37%

Feb '18 67.49% 5.42%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/544400/market-share-of-i...
I used to work in ETL sometime back on a popular tool daily.

It used to take a LOT of time for doing code reviews.

30min per object. Decent project has 300 such objects.

Turns out the tool can export in XML so I wrote a Python script to do the review.

What happened?

I could review basic manual things like coding standards in 15milli seconds irrespective of the object number.

That's automation. It is usable in other projects , and nobody other than my team used it ever for review. Why? Because it requires efforts to understand & a basic understanding of XML &Python and they don't have it because it's not their field. I am a nerd so I kept exploring.

So the script is now ancient history.

And coming to my point. These people say automation is demise of everything. AI is taking over all jobs. Won't happen for a long time.

For starters, scientists in the cold war had said "We will have live voice translate from Russian to English in 5yrs"

Cold war has ended for how many years now? And in 2010s MS finally was able to bring this tech. Imagine the time gap.

secondly, if such an 'automation' thing is sold by a company, then who will create & sell it? And will that firm have 1000000000 of such small scripts for automation? Highly unlikely. Whatever automation I did in past five years was something that relieved my work load.

It is highly unlikely that such automation packages will be bought by companies and the much harder thing is for automation companies to sell such tools.

Companies like mine have spent millions to buy that tool, will they really spend more money on buying a bunch of automation tools?

Note that the core aspect of the tool's usage can't be automated . You still need a living thinking human being to use it, and make objects using the non existing requirement documents. Scripts need 100% perfect everything which is not possible in real life
The Problem with Hill Charts
The module cache in Go 1.11 can sometimes cause various errors, primarily if there were previously network issues or multiple go commands executing in parallel, where the workaround would then be to delete GOPATH/pkg (or run 'go clean -modcache'). I would guess your coworkers were seeing some variation of that.

If so, that is addressed for Go 1.12:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26794
I feel like the only reason anyone is making this “but they are sovereign” argument is because the discrimination is in this instance against women and not against people who wish to use a compiler or run a specific OS kernel.

I wish people could see injustice as unjust even if they are not in the targeted group.
Hopping freight trains across Canada [video]
What's Haiku's offering? It's BeOS resurrected. It's in C++. (Which - IMHO - has too much baggage, and still lacking sane module support.) In development since 2009 and still lacking SMP, hm.
Blink is a WebKit fork and is used by everyone, from Chrome to Opera, and soon, Edge. Apple and Google have gone their separate ways, and will make decisions separately, so WebKit isn't really contributing to the Blink monopoly.
Put some in Premium Bonds [1]. No interest, but you get capital preservation and a shot at the monthly GBP1M prize. Likely you'll pick up a few GBP25 prizes over a year, so it will be as good as a cash deposit, given the crappy savings rates on offer from the major banks. I did this 10 years ago when I temporarily had a lot of cash after a house sale.

[1] https://www.nsandi.com/premium-bonds
Out of interest, what kind of income/credit history do you need for a(t least a) £30k credit limit?
It might even be best as a vet or metachecking feature.

Go’s compiler toolchain does not “warn” users by design: only hard errors.
Most normal businesses don't provide free access without payment. Until recently, the only ones that did were newspapers. They were financed through ads and to a minor portion subscriptions. If you remove ads, you remove free internet. That's how it works. Unless you propose taxing everybody.
They used to do low level flying training in my parts. On at least on occasion I was walking in the hills and got to look down on a stream of jet planes tearing through the valley below, which was quite something to behold (especially as a youngster). Seems like they publish the timetables now[0], so it may be possible to plan a walk to co-incide.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/operational-low-f...
We definitely weren't deliberately executing commands in parallel and I think it's pretty rare that we have network issues.
maybe one day they will take out so many co2 from the atmosphere so the atmosphere becomes toxic. we must stop this madness and use more disel!
Hey all. This post looks at standardizing a time-series for machine learning. The idea is that when you have a running sensor, you have to batch standardize your data to remove any variations in the collection process. A vectorized algorithm for efficiently performing this standardization is presented.

I'm afraid the post got a bit too "math-heavy", but I'll be around the comments to answer any questions.
The article uses the word “capitalism” too many times without explaining what it is. This is an article about corporatism and not an article about capitalism, sorry.
The blog post was published on 2018-08-18. Perhaps Debian stable was shipping some other version back then?
for those who don't speak google, they approximately said 'buy a new phone'
Faculty Offices Are Man-Caves. Should They Be Redesigned?
Do any of these have public PoCs?
> Maybe there's a good reason that women in Saudi Arabia have legal guardians?

I urge you to rethink your comment.
> But I did try to pay with a card in the Netherlands at the biggest local supermarket: - Visa not accepted - Mastercard not accepted - Amex not accepted

I don't know where you went to, but I've never seen a store that accepts cashless payments and doesn't accept Visa.

They might not accepts cards for low amount purchases, due to the fees, but that's another thing.
For web-scraping you could (for now) probably also use PowerShell with Invoke-WebRequest which runs the response through MSHTML, giving you fairly convenient access to various parts of the page as well as the complete DOM.
There was a Mr. Robot easter egg that lots of people were angry about.[0] I didn't notice it either, though.

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-investigates-mr-robot-fire...
A useful thought experiment:

How much more tokens/equity/RSU's would you buy if you were paid in all cash? If you could buy them at a discount, how much would you buy?

If you wouldn't buy thousands of dollars of this token if you were compensated completely in cash, you probably shouldn't take the tokens.
(Reflecting On) the Soul of a New Machine
Worked construction when I was younger. If you're in the electrical Union, you'll easily make 60k per year (even in southern States where average family incomes are often under 40k). After a few years, making over 100k is very possible. In addition, the benefits and retirement are very good.

But you'll be putting in 50-60 hour weeks in the cold and heat. On the bright side, the work isn't as physically demanding as some other jobs.

I've pitched the idea to a bunch of friends who seem to have an aptitude. They'd all rather with as delivery boys, waiters, or whatever low end job. They don't want a "dirty job". They want to hold out for an easy money desk job. Screw working in the cold, I'll just stick with my $7.25/he job.
> as economies become more free, they become more prosperous

This is a bald faced lie. Enacting protectionist policies for you own country, and kicking away the ladder from those poorer than you is the historically proven way to prosperity. Compare Argentina and South Korea.
Even if it was listed, the most likely outcome would be for the token to lose value. Offering unlisted tokens as some sort of payment just feels wrong to me.
Properly displaying screen saver photos is the absolute least of the bugs affecting Chromecast. Ever try casting a 'watch later' queue of long-form YouTube videos from an iPhone? It loses audio sync constantly, drops frames excessively, loses connection to the chromecast device periodically, plays videos out of order; it's a complete disaster. I don't see how it ever left QA and went to market tbh. Google support exhausted all possibilities with me and left me with a "Sorry, nothing else we can do. #YOLO". They know it's busted, they don't care.
Me and my friend developed the a call center on the cloud software (contactcentral.io) .We feel product is on par with other competitors in the same space but we failed in marketing. We both came from engineering background bootstrapped ourselves, couldn't find better marketing strategy to position it properly by generating actual leads.Either we should have cash to spend on marketing or good minds working on marketing.
Coastal redwood lives for a looong time, up to 3000 years. All that carbon is eventually going to go back to the atmosphere one way or another, but the time scale looks long enough to keep some carbon safely sequestered until after we've figured out how to live in harmony with our planet -- assuming we don't manage to kill all the trees in the meantime.
Depends on the energy economics.

If it gets to (for example) a point where capturing carbon uses less energy than burning the same amount of carbon fuel releases... it's at least theoretically useful. At that point it's about costs.

Otherwise... Say we get to 0 emissions by 2035. There will be (is) already a troublesome amount of carbon in the atmosphere. We might have to do some carbon capture even if we're not releasing new carbon.
Make It Rain with Mikrotik: Not a Coinhive Writeup
You wont do much business if you lock out all the hypocrites.
I'm generally a big supporter of the BBC but I really noticed how biased they were in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum - they really are quite conservative (note the small c) about some areas and that came across very strongly in a lot of reporting.
I don't understand the point of this article. Computers are genderless (or sexless, as the author prefers). Whether you believe (or don't believe) trans peoples' assertions that they are trans, their impact on you, or anyone else, is nil. I am sorry the author feels it is so hard to show decency to those living different experiences that he can no longer "be accepted in polite company". I am not sure why the very easy task of not insulting and abusing others is "Orwellian" (as for the alleged rebranding of sex/gender: who cares?). I am also sorry there is nothing else he has to do in his own life, despite his claim otherwise (if true, why write this?).
Unix domain sockets in Go
Mapping Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City
Show HN: Beginning knowledge for leading and managing engineers
No, we should have started going carbon neutral in the 1980's when the science case for precautionary was solid.

It is only given that carbon industry got us to ignore the dangers for more than thirty years that we now are so desperate to keep inside the carbon budget that even very inefficient solutions like carbon capture are seriously being considered.
still runs like it was deployed on an AWS nano instance when events are happening though
I disagree with the view that programming languages need to keep adding features to be successful. C has made only minor changes in the last few decades and seems to be going strong. I like that Go has taken a similar approach, prioritizing minimalism. This approach has led to a very different language with different set of trade-offs, even if they haven't pleased everyone. The alternative, taking the same approach as every other language, could lead to a monoculture.

But I'm sure someone on the Go team will see your witty comment and rethink their approach entirely.
Something like fear of living in poverty when you get too old to work as a programmer?
Ask HN: Types of Software Licenses
A while back, about a month or so ago I saw somebody posted a link of a project they were working on that had a list of licensing software. However, I can't seem to find this in my browser history. Would anybody happen to know what I'm referring to and have a link handy? I'm looking for this link in specific because it was a very comprehensive list. I believe the list contained about 50 licenses.

For some context, I think the discussion this was posted in had to do with business contracts and how basic contracts could be automatically generated through an if-then list to cater to content the user. Someone then posted this link for some type of comparison, I think saying that the same should apply to licenses where the user is given a questionnaire and provided the license type that applies to their software.
Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack
> a one way colonization mission to Mars isn't insane

Actually, it pretty much is. There are vast tracts of uninhabited land on earth, notably in the American West. Colonizing those would be vastly easier than colonizing Mars, and yet we don't do it because even that is borderline insane (at the very least, economically irrational). No rational person should take Mars colonization seriously until, at the very minimum, someone puts a colony in the middle of the Nevada desert that manages to sustain itself for a few years with no outside help. No one is doing that because it's both unsexy and stupid. But being sexy doesn't make colonizing Mars any less stupid.
I think what's ironic is everyone claiming Microsoft was going to ruin the web back in the day and ended up supporting the very parties that actually did end up ruining the web.
Leon – Your Open-Source Personal Assistant
On the built-in instability of cryptocurrencies
Are they giving tokens _instead_ of equity? Insist in getting equity, that's a third of the point of joining a startup. Sure, add crypto-tokens to the mix. But tokens instead of equity… pardon?
I'm not surprised, but in this instance it sounds like they aren't directly supporting it. In the case of China, Google has taken steps directly to support China in controlling it's people(Dragonfly). I think if this does become big news I can see both companies removing the app from the app store, but at this point Google is not trying to do good in the world. It's all about the money.

I also don't think the media/journalists care about Saudi Arabia aside from the recent killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
I wonder if they do strictly mean iPhone or if that also includes iPad sales. I know I've spent more than $79 on iPad software which some I can also use on iPhone.
Instead of an ad hominem, please clearly explain the main way that the example Go code is less safe than the C example code.
This kid is going to Billy McFarland some people.
Show HN: Playstore ready PWA app in one click - PWA2APK
Last week we saw a post on HN, mentioning Google Playstore now accepts PWA apps. We thought this could be automated, so non-devs can easily create and upload APK’s of their PWAs. Hence we decided to make a simple tool to ease up the process.

Thus PWA2APK

https://appmaker.xyz/pwa-to-apk/

was born.

It converts Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Playstore ready APKs. This was build on top of TWA (Trusted Web Activities), which is available in Chrome version 72 and above.

A few days before we shared it on Twitter and got tons of feedback. Many even used PWA2APK to upload their PWA’s to Playstore.

After getting feedback, we included source code and certificate, than just the APK file. And finally launching here to get feedback and suggestions for the tool, that we build over the weekend.
There was a recent report on a long-term study of people’s attitudes regarding certain civilisational values, such as equality and acceptance of homosexuality.

The takeaway was that the Middle East today is about where the west was in the 60s.

That would seem to go quite well with OPs point that they are about “one lifetime” behind the west, specifically on the social/cultural values you mention.
Can you elaborate on this? Alexa has no TTS?
> […] the deeper currents that the book captures: it is not merely about the specific people or the machine they built, but about why we build things — especially things that so ardently resist being built. Kidder doesn’t offer a pat answer, though the engineers in the book repeatedly emphasize that their motivations are not so simple as ego or money. In my experience, engineers take on problems for lots of reasons: the opportunity to advance the state of the art; the potential to innovate; the promise of making a difference in everyday lives; the opportunity to learn about new technologies.
Many people advise that shares or options in a startup should be valued at rounded down to zero.

While I don’t agree with them necessarily, I’d certainly value crypto-tokens at zero. Or maybe a nickel...
A fantastic overview of poverty across the history of humanity comes in a short book: The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality Paperback by economist Branko Milanovic, in which he compares wealth and poverty across millennia.

And for a serious philosophical treatment about poverty, informed by numerous statistics comes in a long treatise World Poverty and Human Rights by philosopher Thomas W. Pogge who among other things points out the fudging of numbers by the international community. For example creating seeming amelioration of extreme world poverty by redefining malnutrition (how long it needs to persist for it to count), caloric deficit (for sedentary lifestyle rather than a hardworking farmer), redefining success (proportion of humanity rather than absolute numbers), etc. Link to relevant time in a talk by Dr. Pogge about this subject: https://youtu.be/Dsl9cyaIn-g?t=382
I can’t wrap my head around the idea that people don’t think it’s “obvious” that the ROC and the PRC are different countries. Neither side has exercised control over the others territory in almost 70 years. In fact the PRC has _never_ controlled Taiwan and the other territories under control of the ROC.

What reasoning would support the idea that the PRC represents a legitimate government and not the ROC?
Most blockchain startups fizzle. The likelihood of these tokens ever becoming valuable is very small. Moreover, even if they do amount to something, you'd need to examine how your compensation is worded - are you getting "X tokens" or "$X value of tokens"? If it's the former, why does "X" mean anything? The unit value of each token may mean that X is worth pennies. If it's "$X value of tokens", when/how is X calculated?

This is the equivalent of saying, "I have a great idea for a startup. I can't pay you or code, but if we make it big, you'll be rich!"
If you can answer "given this mass of data, does this patient likely have X?" for any X, then (a) is as easy as iterating through all possible values of X and returning those where the answer is "yes". Remembering that some rare disease exists may be hard for humans, but is the easiest part for a computer. So even though some specific trial might be on (b) where X = "asthma", everyone working on (b) is also implicitly working on (a).
> Depends on the energy economics.
If it gets to (for example) a point where capturing carbon uses less energy than burning the same amount of carbon fuel releases

Not allowed by thermodynamics. Otherwise you could create free energy by continuously burning and recapturing the same carbon.
Immediately recognized the venue from the photo, which triggered some sensorial cues in my body. Essential part of a good meeting in Geneva.
Infosys chairman called cattle-class at Heathrow (2017)
You'll have a really very bad time deciding what is cruft on those.
Then add a dollar to every microwave, washing machine, fridge, doorbell or other device with a hint of processing that uses a small embedded processor. Optimising transistor gate count for simplistic application is absolutely worth doing, even if you end up with an architecture that doesn't happen to be the same as expected by people who have only ever programmed for x86.
I live in NYC and dont use either. Juno FTW.
Hong Kong is not even a country, not to mention its very unusual circumstances and benefits for businesses that are located there.
Interesting my first experience of www was via the ITU gopher which had a link to I assume the line mode browser.

It was a curiosity at the time I was more exercised by the fact that the ITU had public access to the x.500 database I supported - god only knows what our internal security would have said.
There was effectively a uprising, a revolutionary coup and a dictatorship in Argentina during that time, causing enormous political turmoil.

And your blaming this in the 'World Bank' and 'Capitalists'?

No. Neoliberals had little to do with it.

My comment stands: Pinker is not a neoliberal, and he's not even supporting neoliberalism. Frankly neither is Bill Gates.

A 'neoliberal' would not support things like socialized medicine, or major investments in aid - which is exactly what Gates is trying to get the US to do.

Is Gates calling for lower taxes? Austerity? No?

Is Pinker calling for an end to socialized medicine? For 'Statoil' to be privatized? No.
> I am skeptical of tokens especially now that the crypto-bubble has burst. If the tokens are issued and eventually listed, what are the economics of how or why the price would actually rise?

On one hand, offering tokens is a great way to avoid the cost of trading stock on an exchange. OTOH startups are so very rarely publicly traded that it's moot. Also, the world of tokens is rife with scams and P&D nonsense. It would be very exceptional to find a token that's legitimate.

> what are the economics of how or why the price would actually rise?

If the company creates value (or even the perception of value), it may indeed rise. Of course, it's critical to determine the relationship between the Real Equity and these tokens. Right now the company has some amount of ownership represented by some kind of paper-trail "tokens." How will this be altered/diluted to issue the tokens? Will the tokens completely convert/supersede the existing equity representation?

It's probably moot, really, since so many tokens are scams.

> Does anyone know of any good resources on this kind of compensation?

You should consider this part of your compensation to be null -- like lottery tickets that are one-in-a-million shots.