skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty excited about the new "uninitialized" state. Back in my PHP days I also had the phase of writing my own framework and ORM, and it annoyed me that I couldn't distinguish between "not loaded" and database null. This seems like it would make the "not loaded" state possible!
Type inference does not compromise on static typing. It simply makes it less verbose. IMHO type inference has removed a lot of the arguments against statically compiled languages. Which is why things like Typescript are becoming popular. Even Python has type annotations now.
Depends on what you skip.

If it's already obvious that someone can code, then parts like leetcode look like either dimwitted corporate inflexibility, or a transparent hazing power play.

It seems like the majority of people in supposedly innovative dotcoms have oddly lumbering-big-corporate-drone ideas about this right now.

Someone thinks they shouldn't have do to a distracting battery of whiteboard leetcode hazing, when obviously they can code, and they're happy to have real technical discussions-- and we're turned off by their prima donna arrogance. Their failure to comply with every unreasonable or abusive corporate demand is a showstopper. (That sounds like the kind of person who might object if they find out our entire business model is secretly spying on people and controlling them!)

If the applicant further suggested that they also would like some basis for evaluating their prospective team members (just normally; not whiteboard hazing them), we'd totally flip out, and for years later would be mocking the arrogance of that one uppity jerk, who don't appreciate how our revered VC fore-funders commanded us, over 10 years ago, how software development culture works.
RChilli's Views on HR Technology: July'19
this. From an outside point of view, I think you could solve most of the problems of the USA if you just stopped allowing corporations to influence politicians so much.
Watching Slack vs. Discord battle for the next few minutes
Business produces goods and services.

Finance is an online multiplayer game.

They are two weakly-connected systems.
The Plans for America 2.0 and the Global Republic
Global Republic plans to counter the evil Soros New Order plans:
First. Finish the wall and seal the border. Then send the Canadian and American military South of the border all the way down to Panama to prepare them for proper interface with the North.
Second. Have a Convention of States and dissolve the United States of America. Steps two and three are accomplished simultaneously.
Third. Re-Form the new United States to include all previous territories and will span from Panama to Alaska including Japan creating America 2.0.
This will be the first formed nation of the new order that will be based upon the pre-progressive era (pre-1913) U.S. Constitution and governmental structure. It will serve as the template for the rest to follow. If we do not take Central America now, Russia and China will.
Canada is a land mass led by a leftist clown and they have no real military. They should simply be taken at this point. They will be glad to merge with us if the plans here prescribed are carried out.
The Great and Little Satan must be destroyed in the eyes of Muslims. America must transform and revert to our original pre-1913 constitution, Israel must become secular and join the EU which must also adopt our original constitution. This will allow for Islam to reform and Jerusalem must become the capital of the New Order or what will become known as the Global Republic. If we don't protect and expand what our Founders created it will shrink and die.
Dennis R. Torii, Jr.
St. Cloud, FL
drtorii@yahoo.com
347-512-5511
Using a CORDIC algorithm would mean having many iterations to compute trigonometric functions for each drawn point (well, for each 8 points considering the symmetries). A variant of the Bresenham line algorithm for circles lets you draw a circle using only a few operations per 8 points (and the operations are also limited to add and shift):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm
My SO is currently in hospice after 6 brain surgeries for brain cancer (4 over last year with her state gradually deteriorating). For the last year she was severly disabled and had to be help with sitting down, standing up, lying down and adjusting pillows and blankets as she had very limited use of her hands and general body coordination. She had to be kept safe while walking. It wasn't as good life as she had before but it was life. She was spending time with family, watching ton of netflix and movies, enjoying meals, especially when on steroids. She even managed, with a bit of help, to throw a party for my 40th birthday in march this year, that was cool enough to stave off my usual birthday downward mood swing.

Now she's lying in hospice bed with only minor control of her eyes and even less of her mouth. Barely concious. At most minimally responsive. Feeding tube, oxygen, urinary catheterer, central venous catheter. She's kept alive and somewhat sedated.

First reccurence she had after 5 years after initial treatment and diagnosis. Last recurrence happend in two months. It's already a month past last operation.

I'm a bit torn because I'm firm realist and I believe no matter how bad life is, it is the only thing that has a value for you because it's the only thing you have. When your life ends, there's nothing else, no new game, not even admiring your high score. Your life has an ultimate value to you and you have to try to make the best of it even if it consists of sleeping on morphine all the time till your body just falls apart.

On the other hand... she wished to die on an operating table under general anesthesia. Unfortunately she had too good surgeon for that to happen. If she were to spend 5 years like that I think she'd wish for her cancer to grow faster.
> What does a Cortex have to do with the Arduino?

Note that they don't say THE Arduino but AN Arduino. What you're thinking about is probably the Arduino Uno which is the original model.

These days Arduino is a platform made up by a common software (IDE, libraries etc) and a family of products that employ different microcontrollers (Different AtMegas but also Cortex processors), different form size (from the original "big" size to the small Arduino Nano) different amount of memories and different extras.

For example Arduino MKR1000 is AN Arduino employing a 32bit SAMD21 Cortex-M0+
It really depends on the medium. Writers can continually improve and refine their skillset throughout their lives and that seems to be the case throughout history. Whereas musicians seem to either lose inspiration or interest as they get older, maybe it's just a medium that benefits a lot from the enthusiasm and discovery of youth.

That being said, I do suspect there will be a much greater number of people emerging at older ages over the next few decades as more people opt to not go down the typical path of obligations and more flexible work situations allow for more time to focus on passions (for those who can afford to not be working all the time)
Yup, that thing completely killed scrolling perf in Android Firefox.
All the gains are in multicore performance. There just isn't anything that needs that much performance, really. The biggest performance problem your every day users might encounter is a memory leak causing the computer to swap.

Other than for real time video encoding and C++ compilation our CPUs are definitively fast enough.
Cut down your work week if you can afford it. If you can't afford it, change your spending and saving habits so you can afford it in the future. With the spare time you can focus on interesting pet projects or an interesting side hustle.
So there are no limits on a spherical world? you need to read things like this: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist... or William Catton's overshoot.
With so much excitement around ML these days, it is fun to see someone excited about a more established field like controls.

It can definitely be applied to just about everything... and I have long argued explains the financials crisis the most succinctly.

- People sold debt (sometimes many times) and were paid a commission regardless of whether the debt was repaid. This was an ‘open loop’ system and fundamentally unstable.
Thank you. Something to think about.
I switched to Firefox at home about two months ago due googles plans to restrict ad blockers. It's mostly okay but there are some things that bother me. Like some pages will never get auto completed. I can visit those pages as often as I want, I always have to type in the full URL each and every time. This kind of sucks because auto completion is often far faster than looking for the respective bookmark within a hundred others. It also frequently crashes not just the tab, but the whole browser during WebVR development and debugging.
Agreed, better types for PHP on the backend and TypeScript on the front makes life much more pleasant.
U.S.-China Trade War May Finally Be Coming for Apple
> a lack of liquidity increases trading costs

Sure but, does a couple of milliseconds to or from affect that?
This is just bizarre. A collection of contemporary nobodies and actually famous authors who happen to be over 35. We're not talking mathematicians here or sprinters; these are (mostly) novelists. Of course there are a lot of them over 35.
Tesla Sued by Family of Florida Man Killed in Autopilot Crash
Apple was one the companies that created ARM as well.

”The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology.”
Lack of technology isn't the issue, it's human nature that's the problem.

For one thing, we measure ourselves not in absolute but relative terms. This leads us into a never-ending signalling arms race.

The old caricature of the rich tycoon putting his feet up on the desk could not be more false. Look at the most visibly successful people in society (Bezos, Musk, even Zuck) and they all work extremely hard. Why is that? They have more money than anyone could spend in a lifetime. What they can't buy is satisfaction. Therefore they must continue to work hard and continue winning.

When you look at these most extreme, but not at all alien examples of humanity, you see that Fuller's claim is absurd. Anyone who had the capability to earn enough to retire on working just a few hours a day for just a few years would never be satisfied with that.

The harsh truth of it is that the richer and more technologically capable we become, the more resources we consume without any real net benefit in wellbeing or life satisfaction.
Also, you've not ghost banned me have you?
I Built a Steem Apps Blockchain Explorer. Need Your Feedback
Just recently built a new website which is a visual representation of Steem Blockchain transactions divided by its applications. The main goal is to make it look elegant and simple enough for average users to use it.

I assume most of you haven't heard about Steem blockchain due to the lack of its availability in the press and major media. But in short, Steem is a social blockchain that grows communities and incentives users to provide a high level of value, including content, software and marketing initiatives.

Currently an explorer supports Steemit, Steemmonsters, Steem-engine, Nextcolony transactions. The rest of the apps will be added over time. You can search using block_id by eventually I'll add a search by transaction_if, as well as a user account.

All of the data loads only when you make a change to the block id which means it doesn’t make an extra api call when you switch from one app to another. This is very handy and prevents from redundant operations that can be done of a client side.

It is obviously optimized for mobile users, as this is where most of our attention remains at the moment. Let me know your original thoughts and how the website can be improved.

You can check the actual website right here - http://steemappsdb.com
I've been looking at making an internal wiki for my company and I think soon I'm going to try out getoutline.com, selfhosted
Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
You can browse to https://passwords.google.com from Firefox if you want to look up one of your Chrome saved passwords (provided they're synced with your Google account of course). Not quite as convenient as a bulk import I admit but it's how I slowly migrated my passwords across as and when I needed them.
The Green Horse Trilogy, by Dennis R. Torii, Jr
Dear Sirs,
I am humbly requesting you review the book trilogy I have self-published and I am confident you will find it worth your while. The Green Horse Trilogy is a children’s story suitable for all ages with enormous appeal and potential. The story begins with the first book “The Green Horse” that transports you to a magical land where there exists magical horses of different colors and powers that a young man uses to save the life of a princess cursed by an evil sorceress. In the second book “The Fire Horse”, the battle against the sorceress creates a portal to our world. And in the third book “The Four Horses of Ishtar”, King Nicholas with his knights and four of the horses leave that world with the help of a unicorn and come to this world and become the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, but not to end the world…to save it.
Available online through Archway Publishing for original version of "The Green Horse" and Ideopage Press Solutions for updated version of "The Green Horse" and the rest of the trilogy. The books are selling with almost no promotion. Because the third book of the trilogy relates to present day events, President Trump is in it and this will logically attract attention to the trilogy. Most will discover that the books are balanced politically and religiously because they are not religious or political but simply contain elements in them that are common in everyday life. I think the trilogy compares to the Narnia Chronicles in that sense.
Dennis R. Torii, Jr.
St. Cloud, FL
drtorii@yahoo.com
347-512-5511
How did you accomplish the tabs on the left?
Surely the tradeoff here is that, provided a company treats you okay, you're more likely to stick around than that colleague (if he's that driven then he's surely constantly looking for new opportunities?) and an employee with a few years knowledge of the codebase is generally worth a lot more than a super skilled newbie.

Depends on the area though, I guess. Video game companies seem to have a preference for working people into the ground.
Two percent of world’s North Atlantic right whales have died in last two months
Firefox developer tools are awesome and they get better with every release! Lots of cool stuff recently added for debugging CSS related issues.

JS sluggishness might be because of a recent Firefox Pioneer study. I've experienced it for the past week and in the end I uninstalled Firefox Pioneeer completely because of it.

imho, file downloads are actually great. When you have active or recent downloads - you'll get a nice litle icon on the right from the URL bar. For active downloads it'll show the total progress for all downloads. Once clicked, it will open a small menu with your downloads. When you don't have any recent/active downloads it just gets out of our way. Much better than that ugly bar at the bottom of the window.
They could just look at the Chromium source code to see how the passwords are encrypted. Perhaps it's just not high on the priority list.
Orders are filled in the order that they arrive to the exchange (if there's more than one order at the same price). A global mis-pricing would still be subject to a race to exploit it - whoever submits first gets the fill, even if it happens in the future (in the next tick).

What you're proposing is turning continuous trading into a fast series of auctions, like what happens for every ticker on every exchange at the opening. This would have the disadvantage of no clear bid/ask - how can you be sure that the parties do not withdraw their offers before the next tick? And surely you must allow for offer withdrawals.
GP was saying that you can avoid talking to the useless HR drones and get in touch with someone more technical at the company, and have them recommend you for a position, based on your contributions.
I think the question is at what point does liquidity have diminishing returns?

If a security could only be traded once per 10 years then it's obvious that its lack of liquidity would make it less valuable. Holding it would tie up your capital quite significantly.

However, if you had a turn-based market where every trade got cleared at the top of the minute it's not clear to me at all whether that would effectively be less liquid than what we have now.

It seems to me that a model where traders all compete for how many nanoseconds away their HFT servers are from the action doesn't really benefit the market as a whole. If anything it just makes things like flash crashes more likely.
We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’
We had that at my uni as well, a mandatory module in the second year. From what I remember of it, the end-of-module test at the end was a quiz that you could "common-sense" your way through.

While humans need to pay for shelter and food, ethics will always take a back seat. I've got no qualms with CSR being a legal procedure, but then it's the ironic problem of defining "ethical behaviour" without impeding civil liberties.
For me is the fact that PHP is starting to get more useful than Python. That coupled with the fact that it's faster (which doesn't take much, granted) is going to make me think some things over.
Here's a perfect example of the python community

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54831915/python-3-5-2-in...

> I want to run this on a production Server with ubuntu 16.04. My Sysadmin tells me that I shall not use pip or github repository, because of ... something wrong with using anything but apt ... he says.

Sysadmin is right.

First response?

> sudo apt-get install python-pip

Now there are ways to convert modules to debs (or rpms on redhat style machines) so they can be managed cleanly across an estate, but that's not the python way.
was there any google entities linked to the HP cloud europe china hacker break ins?
‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary expects employees to work on vacation: ‘100%
Redux and TypeScript – Improving on Recommended Patterns
> "Because psychedelic is at least at present a useful form of social control"

Why significantly more so than alcohol?
> 3) Google's presence in China gives it government greater access to these tech's than it otherwise would have...plausible

Even if Google didn't have an office in China, Chinese researchers could just as well learn from NIPS proceedings, etc.
How to find surrogate mother in India?
The Polar Star, the only U.S. ship capable of bludgeoning through heavy ice
Also in Caesar's book about his campaigns in Gaul (oddly enough there is no account of a tribe with a magic potion):

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/romans/BelloGallico1.h...
I suspect he'd agree that this piece can be misinterpreted to give people the wrong idea about Scheme, despite the kind words he has for Scheme.

Scheme already has undeserved image problems, from various CS101 drive-by exposures that students get to it, never properly learning it.
Some of those are pretty ridiculous expectations of any content creator.

Scrub the audio? I don't think he's going to go in there and literally separate and remove the song's frequency from his voice which are interweaved together. Something like that takes a tremendous amount of knowledge and time and always comes out sounding bad because any time you remove shared frequencies it'll make your voice sound very choppy and robotic (I know because I've done things like this). His job would slowly become being an audio engineer instead of a traveler.

Overlaid a royalty free musical work to replace the copyrighted one? Not possible, his voice and background audio is on the same track. To do that would essentially mean muting the entire track. This is the easiest option and often what he does. He just cuts it or mutes it, both of which makes his video content worse.

Asked the market vendor to turn the radio off? He often does this in closed stores where he plans to spend a bit of time in, but it's unrealistic to expect anyone to do this in an open outdoor market with ~200 vendors spread around everywhere for 1,000 feet in every direction. You're asking to basically shut down the whole market and control every audio source while you walk around. Not happening for a regular person.

Waited until the radio played a work that was not copyrighted? Not possible due to the above reason but this is also a little more unreasonable because there's no reasonable chance a regular person will be able to determine which songs are copyright and which are not, especially not in another country where they don't even know what song is playing. Also by the time he researches the song (assuming he somehow figured out how to even determine if it's copyright or not), chances are a different song would be playing and now he's stuck in a research loop for the rest of his life, or ends up in an another infinite loop waiting for a copyright free song.
The morality of social media mobs
The cookie warnings are not about GDPR.
Narrative I/O | Scala Backend Engineer| New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE, REMOTE | http://narrative.io/

Narrative is building the first global data marketplace. It has often been said that data is the new currency. Unfortunately, maximizing the value of data is often easier said than done. On one side, transacting via individual point to point integrations carries a lot of overhead in both business development and technical integration efforts. On the other, going through big aggregators introduces opacity in the pricing and provenance of the data. At Narrative, we help our customers get value from their data by building a central auction platform to reduce the friction and tooling to increase the transparency in this process.

We are a small, early stage team looking for great developers who want to jump in and take major systems and user-facing features from design to launch. Here's where we are now:

- We are operating in Amazon Web Services. Our services are mainly deployed on EC2 provisioned with Terraform.

- We also heavily use other technology on AWS such as DynamoDB, S3, and RDS.

- Our backend includes a data ingestion web service with supporting Kinesis consumers, along with a growing array of Spark projects. It’s written mostly in Scala, with a smattering of Python for lambda functions.

- We sit somewhere in the middle of the “Scala as a worse Haskell” and “Scala as a better Java” spectrum. We love functional programming and we do make use of libraries like cats, but at the same time we heavily favor core language features and have no intention of rewriting everything using Free Monads.

- Our frontend is written in Typescript with Angular2 and a supporting API running on Node, and is deployed and monitored using much the same supporting tech as the backend.

- Other services we use include: GitHub, CircleCI, DataDog.

Apply by sending your resume to hiring@narrative.io.

We are hiring for the backend role and are building the team with a remote-first mindset.

- Scala Backend Engineer: http://transparency.narrative.io/join/backend.html

Some more useful links:

- Find out more about Company Culture: http://transparency.narrative.io/culture.