skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what's funny about DNA. It seems like the most private and personal thing there is, but you got all of it from other people. As you said, your Mom can test and share her DNA without your permission, even though you share half of it. The same is true for the thousands of other relatives you have out there who all share parts of your DNA. So your particular genome is highly personal, but it's made up of shared data that you don't have any hope of being able to keep private.
> if you need hard logic, you can use reactive for that

What do you mean by that? Any logic still has to execute in the same 16ms budget. In any case, it's pointless to discuss in a vacuum, I suggest you implement something like the JS Framework Benchmark [1] or DBMonster to see where it stands in fact, and then optimize from there.

[1] https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
> It was only in 2009 that Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, made it possible for developers to use the language to write back-end code

Server-side JavaScript was a thing long before that. In fact, Netscape used it as early as 1994 [1], predating Java as a backend language. And CommonJS (on what nodejs' modules and many APIs are based) was a community effort towards a common API by 2000s SSJS implementations (helma, v8cgi/teajs, and others).

Apart from that, a nice read for those who need a WebWorker-like API for CPU-bound nodejs tasks.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting

[2]: http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/CommonJS
I personally mainly use Replete for quick checks of things when AFK (seeing what a particular form might evaluate to, checking a docstring, etc.) In, short I've never really used Replete for any heavy development.

When Lisping existed (it is evidently no longer available), I was never really motivated to use it to develop code with Replete.
The standard employment contract in us tech is basically: if you do it on company time, or use company property, equipment, or anything paid for by the company it belongs to them - you would almost certainly be in breach of contract if you refused to disclose.

Now even if you didn’t use any company resources, most contracts provide at the very least the right for your company to use any IP you develop, even in your off time, even without any of their resources. Your contract in all likelihood would give them actual ownership of the IP.

You could choose not to tell them about this IP, and I believe you would be fine, as long as you never used or published it - even after termination of employment - because not being required to disclose the IP does not change ownership - it belongs to the company, even if the company does not know about it.

Source: going over job offers+contracts with a lawyer
Yea, you can get a VPS for less than $5 a month, if you shop around. I was just pulling a number out of my hat; I don't have a price list immediately to hand. My point is only that it's cheap.

I don't know anything about DigitalOcean Spaces, but if you need more space apparently it's the way to go. 25 GB is room for a lot of images though.
Ask HN: Programmer Focused Programming Language?
Is there a programming language designed explicitly with some of these in mind:

Troubleshooting and debugging as first class citizens

Testing baked into the language

Refactoring and legacy code friendly

Designed for tooling, IDE integration, code generation, analyzers etc.

I find most of the discussion around PLs focus more on the technical and theoretical side of things, and less on the hands on and practical.
I'm working on this and I hope it'll be ready within a week or so. I thought it's a 10 minutes job as someone else here said, but I must be much slower than that and I'm still trying to get my head around it. The Extension Compatibility Test for Firefox page seems to freeze when I test my .crx file.
Drop me an email on the Contact page (https://mycognitivebias.com/get-in-touch/) and I'll let you know when it's ready.
Thanks
Trump Has Slapped His Brand on Images of the White House to Sell at Trump Store
Just nod if it rhymes with boracle
Woah, I had similar thoughts while reading this. But I believe this reduces the hard bound line that people believe exists between extroverts and introverts. May be some people are naturally hard wired but what if it is just a state of mind used to justify understanding why they lack communication with either human or machine. What if we actively tried debugging running humans?
I just use a tiny PHP script [1] I made to upload and host my own files on a shared hosting server. It's not, perfect, and I need to update it a bit, but it works well enough.

[1]: https://github.com/rahuldottech/psst
Interesting, I'll start with "Invisible Cities". Thanks!
The ways in which people who had asperger were uncomfortable really had nothing to do with things one gets fired for through HR.

They were treated unfairly due to not kissing right asses etc on occasion. But there we are talking about subtle issues, not the firing offences which tends to be easy to be on safe side of.
Eom was ported to Python 3, eh?

Anyone have pointers on how to get started developing on/for mate? Found some books on gnome 2 from the turn of the century.
Hey,
That's intentional. My wife and I worked on this together over a couple of weekends hence the use of I/we. We built this so that we can work on a little project together and not for recognition. We're pretty private and we'd be quite happy if no one knew our names but I'm sure that with a few google searches, you'd be able to find out who we are.
Since we don't collect any data apart from page views/loads, we think that's fair but I'd love to hear your thoughts if you disagree.
Thanks
I imagine that someone looked at the program and saw it as largely a waste of money -- that it's unlikely that the patents being churned out at 2-3 a week, as IP were not worth the money they were paying for them, and a side-door bonus for engineering staff, they were not the most efficient means to talent retention & compensation.

It seems the better solution might have been to tighten up the review process -- keep the money the same but accept fewer. If the individual contributor in question was really as good as reported, he would have been untouched.
This obituary turns an anonymous "Muslim victim" into the portrait of an admirable, wholesome human being, whom I can eerily relate to, despite being an atheist who is weary of Islam.

I applaud that The Economist wrote this weekly obituary. It puts a crack into the us-vs them narrative that the perpetrator undoubtedly wanted to exploit by murdering Muslim worshipers.
Folks may also be interested in a thorough analysis of porting a big Python app (0install) to OCaml, after considering various alternatives like Rust and Haskell: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-ret...
What 'terrible' things have happened with Trump? Im in the us and it's business as usual.
At least we don't get exactly half from anyone, so we're still somewhat unpredictable.

Not that that'll prevent identification.
> Pilots will get more training on handling the aircraft with that system inoperative

Sounds like the expense they were trying to avoid if the plane were reclassified. Is the plane now going to fall under a reclassification?
I don't think it's mentioned anywhere that they are software patents. Might be a hardware engineer.
Hm, neither the article, nor anyone yet in the comments, has mentioned crowdfunding, a.k.a. Kickstarter et al...

This article is old, but shows CF passing angel four+ years ago:

https://medium.com/startup-grind/trends-show-crowdfunding-to...
...and also

echo 'this is a test\n'

doesn't produce an additional new line because -e wasn't specified.
> IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas.

neural implants cant come too early.

>I've tried offering a one-off bonus for him to just anonymously leave a thumb drive with the data on my desk after hours, but he just claims he "doesn't know what I'm talking about".

the engineer is smart while the manager doesn't seem so if he really thought that the engineer would walk into that trap.

> and even an offer of $25,000.00 for the IP didn't work, which would have been according to the "old rules". I think he's worried that by agreeing to such a deal, he's opening himself up to legal liability (it would involve indirectly admitting he was being dicey/dishonest about "not knowing what I'm talking about")

Definitely a Fisher/Spassky level of managerial thinking. Only at this game the rooks aren't sacrificed, they are shafted.
I DD a car with a backup camera. It is the nav and entertainment stuff that I find distracting.
Vim is how much you want to get out of it. I looked at Vim, thought about its value proposition, and decided only to learn the most basic commands from a cheat sheet. That makes it more productive than Nano already.

I know other people who aren't Vim fanatics at all but have occasional work in the terminal, and they too also just learned the most basic Vim commands and have the most basic Vim configurations, if at all.
submitted vs. accepted is a long and twisty path ... if were are talking 2 years here most or all of them will not have been reviewed yet.
I notice this was written in 2016, but I wonder if the author's opinion has changed since dataclasses have been implemented in Python.
> How many people need to voluntarily submit to genetic databases before cold cases can be connected easily across the population?

We’re already there. These cases a getting cracked because the suspect pool is often narrow enough just using GEDmatch, that’s practical to follow them all around to get discarded DNA.
That's not what I was referring to. The article quotes journalists who thought about speaking up about something, but decided not to because it might help Trump. It sounds like they had a sense of ethics, but compromised that ethics because of politics. Or the journalists who spent weeks in Prague and failed to find any evidence there, and then failed to report on that failure. There's no evidence that this person ever had any ethical standards because they then joked about it while trying to sell their book. Perhaps this is less likely to be regarded as an ethical failure by journalists; even scientists are only recently pushing for pre-registration of medical trials in order to prevent unfavorable studies from being swept under the rug.
The article is about a person who forged papers starting in WW2 and up to the 70s to get people out of dire situations. It ends in "“I did all I could when I could. Now, I can’t do anything,” he said. Surely, though, the rest of us can."

Not so easy anymore, with all the biometrics and cryptographically secure data on a microchip embedded in today's passports.
"Oh No! This innovation program is bringing too many good results! Better dial it down a little..."
Hey,
Yes, that's the list we used and most definitions are from wikipedia. Some wikipedia entrances weren't too clear so she looked for other reputable sources instead.
Granted, this isn't ground breaking research, but rather curation. I'd say her effort still counts. Also, we are very open about not being experts, but just very interested in the subject. I think it would be unfair if we'd start to push uninformed opinions.
I'd love to hear your thoughts if you disagree.
Hmm, you may have an outdated view of KhanAcademy. Sure, there's videos to supplement, but there's also plenty of exercises and interactive content.
For similar reasons I’m against the centralization of Government data into one big database (so to speak) where they’ll be able to find almost anything about you in just a couple of clicks.
Why do journalists continue to compare American cities to Copenhagen or Amsterdam when it comes to bicycle infrastructure and safety? I argue it is primarily the climate followed by size.

In Denmark the climate is mild, with few hot summer days and even fewer snow days that would make bicycling impossible. Comparing Boston average temperatures to Copenhagen, Jan-Feb on average are 4 degrees C lower and July-Aug are 7 degrees C hotter [1][2] in Boston. Then there are lists of America's worst bicycling cities ranking Dallas, TX at the top, where average July-Aug highs are 15 degrees higher than in Copenhagen [3]. Climate wise the cities are very different.

If you can't bike to work everyday because of the weather then infrastructure of bikes cannot replace car infrastructure. In Denmark bicycle infrastructure can replace car infrastructure because the climate makes it possible to bike work every month of the year. In even mild climate cities like Boston it becomes much harder to be dependent on bicycles with hotter summers and colder winters.

That's looking at the climate. Next, the Boston Urban area is 4.600 sq km with 4 million people, whereas Copenhagen is only 606 sq km with 1.6 million people [Wikipedia]. Some back of the napkin calculations would make average travel distances 3 times greater in Boston.

Because of the differences in climate, size and population between Copenhagen and Boston, I do not consider bicycles a viable solution for Boston's transport challenges and I extend this line of thinking to most American Metropolitan centers.

[1] https://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=90527&cit...

[2] https://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=8160&city...

[3] https://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=95227&cit...
For the idea to work for cooling, he would need to expand the air in a different location than it was compressed in. (I wonder if standing waves exhibit this effect?) IF it works out that this is possible, I imagine it would be like standing in front of a CO2 fire extinguisher (gets cold as pressure is released).
Getting legalistic about this would only lead to an even worse outcome than reducing compensation. Getting legalistic is from the beatings will continue until morale improves management school. Instead, management needs to understand that the engineer has a point.
The company shouldn't encourage filing software patents.
Unfortunately, DNA testing nowadays operates on much smaller samples, which are exponentially more difficult to analyze correctly, and there is no oversight. Even worse, simply concluding that the suspect's DNA cannot be ruled out (the result was inconclusive), is often enough for a conviction [1].

This is very cool technology, but the injustice that will result from its use by law enforcement will be terrible indeed...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...
The feature is there so pilots don't have to be retrained on the different handling of the plane. It was entirely cost avoidance on Boeings part. To say that they could just turn it off is also an admission that the plane is not the same and pilots would need to be retrained. Boeing can't have it both ways.
> How bad is the handling with that system inoperative? The need for this came from adding bigger engines to a small airframe, which required putting them too far forward so they'd clear the ground.

My limited, layman understanding from the assorted coverage and posts by people who seem to understand this thing is that almost all the time the bigger, more forward engines do not cause a problem and MCAS doesn't have to do anything. It is just that on those very rare occasions when you get into a situation where it does make difference, MCAS helps you recover safely.

So, if the system can detect a problem with the AoA data and lock out MCAS, and tell the pilots that MCAS is disabled (and the pilots understand that this means some protection is gone), they should be able to finish the flight safely with at most a need to avoid pushing any limits that might get it into a situation where they do need MCAS.

Only those very very rare situations where the plane both gets into a situation where it needs MCAS and it simultaneously has an AoA sensor problem would be a problem.

I think this is why they can get away without triple redundancy and majority voting on the AoA sensors for MCAS. Losing MCAS is not an "Oh my god we are going to die!" situation. It's a "fly more conservatively for the rest of the flight" situation.
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Elgato video capture captures 640*480 and is $90. I have it, use it, and it produces very satisfactory results.
Would a $0.01 bonus be sufficient to beef up employer's right to the IP?
Yeah, there's definitely less 'leeway'/sympathy given to those whose disabilities are invisible/mostly invisible.

Honestly, I'd say it's probably an uncanny valley effect of sorts (as depressing as that sounds) where those who look 'normal' but don't act it put people on edge and arouse suspicion.
That's a different problem. They are a bigger percentage of Air Canada's fleet. Also Air Canada's fleet is widely varied. With other aircraft that are notably larger or smaller. And crews can only work aircraft they are qualified on. This wiped out basically a whole subset of their operation.

Southwest can more easily substitute any of their other aircraft, lease more non-max models, defer non-essential maintenance activities, and use any other crew to fill the holes. They fly all 737s.
ICE detaining families, splitting kids from their parents (apparently with no idea who belongs to whom), with work done by minimum wage paid security folks - some of whom appear to see unfettered access to these kids as a bonus and molest them?
GPUs were very much VLIW machines for a while there. The other DSPs that they're hinting at are commonly VLIW machines too.
How do you define “after hours”? I’ve never worked at a job that had defined “work hours”.
You could also say that Max flights now require 3 pilots to safely manage.
There was also Aptana Jaxer around 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptana#Aptana_Jaxer
http://www.jaxer.org/
Thanks. That's a good point. I'll have to add something
This is intended to be the second in a series of posts about possible applications of NLP for the purpose aiding writing and other creative activities.

My models are very entry-level right now, except for this excursion to the land of basic usage of a more advanced tool such as GPT-2; but hopefully I'll be able to produce more interesting stuff as I learn more about ML.
I wish there was one too, but programmer-oriented types are not the same thing as machine-oriented types. Compiling to fast code requires the latter one: types like u32, not Dict[String, int]. Current Python typing efforts tend to focus on programmer-oriented types.
How do they define “after hours” ?
Not sure if trolling, but look up family separation, Vietnamese deportation, the sales of national park lands, incitement to violence against journalists, the rise in hate crimes, etc
I wonder how his documents would compare to listings on Oasis and Alphabay these days.
Without getting political (expecting downvotes), what comparable "terrible things" have happened under Trump that are at all similar to Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...
KVCV, to be pedantic. Flightplans are filed with ICAO codes.

Without any passengers or baggage the IATA code VCV would not have been used at any point of their flights.
I didn't mean to imply that all descendants would be gay, only that all would carry the gene and pass it to their descendants in turn. Most would still breed.

And in your original example, the straight organisms still die in the end. So over the lifetime of multiple colonies, the ones that survive would carry more "cooperative" genes, no? I mean, isn't this basically how biological altruism develops in general?
The whole point of MCAS was to avoid pilot retraining on the different handling characteristics. To say that you can just not have that system is also to say the pilots need to be retrained for the Max planes. Something that Boeing felt necessary to avoid and thus implementing this MCAS. Now that 2 planes have crashed you can't just say "Oh Okay just turn MCAS off duhhhhhhhhh".
No, what required is a properly trained pilot.
One of the many benefits of being in California is that work that you do in your own free time with your own resources legally belongs to you. I’m not sure what would happen in the state this engineer is in on the other hand. Of course, they can’t force him to complete and deliver work he did in his own free time but I’m not sure whether he would be able to reuse it or file a patent himself.
Had They Bet on Nuclear, Germany and CA Would Already Have 100% Clean Power
I think the point isn't "now it's time for someone to forge papers" but "there are plenty of ways to help and other people with more energy can take them up"

From raising awareness, convincing governments, running for office, donating money and/or labor...just volunteering on a crisis line is a huge help.
If a user tests Chrome and Firefox and only Firefox has bad performance/battery life, they'll blame Firefox.

Mozilla is aware - there are a few bugzilla reports open about this - but like most Firefox bugs it takes months or years to be fixed. Last year (nov/dec?) they fixed something that improved battery life, but it's still worse than Chrome for me.
I don't know if any of that is true. The annotations actually help me to understand the code. I actually find it easy to rewrite and iterate with type annotations which are like machine checked comments. I think the purpose of the tool is to make it harder to write "bad" code, unless you mean "bad" in the aesthetic sense then I can't see how that is true either. In general I find it easier to write code since its easier to keep track of what the data looks like.

What do you mean by interfaces?

But then this is an argument that I don't have much time for and too much time has been spent on it already. Lets just say that if there are many major companies that felt the need to invest in a type system for a popular languages that don't have one, then there might be something too it.
I concur. While I appreciate that math education at the elementary and high school level is easier to author and has more data points, where I think this approach would really shine is at the college level.

The main problem in math is that the higher level you reach, the fewer experts who exist or are willing to sit down 1:1 and tutor students.

I think an automated teaching system for analysis, writing proofs, number theory, etc is the next step in democratizing mathematics and science and bringing what is now college-level education down to high school.

IMO most college level math isn't difficult, but not missing a step in your understanding along the way to that level and the 'math anxiety' that's introduced along the way is the real hurdle to teaching. It creates a situation where autodidacts are most rewarded, so why don't we use technology to enable more people to become autodidacts?
You don't actually need 3m x 3m for many experiences/games. I work in much less space and only bother clearing space when I need it.
http://thisquestiondoesnotexist.com
> The company has recently decided to dial back the benefits for this program, to a simple $100

YOUR COMPANY IS CLEARLY IN THE WRONG.

TRY NOT FUCKING OVER EMPLOYEES.
ICE detaining families, splitting kids from their parents

Both were widespread under Obama.
You Can Play with Escape Velocity–Without Leaving the Planet
Surely forgery is not the only thing any of us can do about getting people out of dire situations (or preventing the dire situations from existing in the first place)?
These are essentially seperable features - and given that QUIC is at a later stage than ESNI there is not a compelling reason to create a blocker to getting an open QUIC standardized.

QUIC uses the TLS 1.3 client hello (and its extension mechanism) for the handshake, so evolutions to TLS 1.3 like ESNI will be automatically valid in QUIC too as they come down the pike.