skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While what you say is true, I would draw a different conclusion. It seems more likely that the students would prefer working in a field closer to what they studied, but the lack of positions means they had to look elsewhere. Finance knows they can find people with highly transferable skills in sci/engineering at competitive schools, so the brain drain is really the fault of the job market in the sciences and engineering.

Of course you can still look at it as finance not investing in long-term R&D such as in science and engineering directly causing this brain-exodus (as opposed to brain drain), so it's still finance's fault!
the advice is look for X who can do Y, but provides little means of identifying if any given X can do Y

the story is better in this case because i can draw my own maxims from it which directly apply to my business.

the downside is the story doesn't fit in a tweet.
Have you asked them to remove you from the materials?
There is a qualitative difference between a natural experience and a man-made experience. It's not about the age, although natural landscapes are obviously old. It's about experiencing the forces that shaped the landscape, in their original form.

Natural landscapes are valuable because they don't care about people; they make people small again. You can't adapt that to human convenience, and protect it, at the same time.
They wouldn't have to put so much work into fixing their UI if they had just left their API open. Now that it's gone Netflix has become much less navigable and while the words in this post sound nice to my ears, when I'm sitting on the couch I mostly just get pissed off at the experience.
They should do it.

Almost every extinction I've read about was caused at the end by an infection of some kind (fungus, parasite, virus, etc). Sure there might have been other factors that weakened the animal or plant, but the nail in the coffin seemed to always be an infection.

Hunting and other animal predators can massively reduce the numbers, but extinct to zero almost always seemed to me to be an infection at end. Without that they seem to hold on at low numbers, but not gone.
Also something that competent mathematicians interested in education have been discussing for many years. It's interesting how we choose to call anecdotes "writing on the wall" when it turns out to be correct and "unsubstantiated by data" in other scenarios.
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> Most of them involved abusing the "∗" and "&" symbols, which put you in a territory in which you seem to be dealing with pointer arithmetic again like in low-level C, something which I thought Rust was trying to escape from.

First off, Rust doesn't have pointer arithmetic.

Moreover, though, Rust is not trying to "escape from" pointers in C and C++; it's a manually memory-managed language, not a garbage-collected one. For Rust's domain (systems programming without automated memory management), learning about pointers is a necessity. What Rust saves you from is making dangerous mistakes with memory management.

> One thing I really liked about D is the string mixins, which could allow for what has become common these days in F#: type generation at compile time (which at the end of the day allow you to, for example, parse XML or JSON with static APIs, hence allowing intellisense/codeCompletion/youNameIt).

Rust has macros and compiler plugins, which allow you to do the same thing.
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I am amazed at the dollar amounts the give. I never expected it to so much to market such a service. The technology side I could see, expanding their reach and such.
Can't upvote this enough. If there's anyone here on the W3C, consider this an upvote for bringing back WebSQL.

IndexedDB reminds me a lot of the Drag and Drop stuff the W3C settled on: several different kinds of awful.
Rust follows SemVer, so since we're still pre 1.0, everything has changed. Once 1.0 final lands, we will be backwards compatible until a theoretical 2.0. Every six weeks will be a 1.x release, and they're intended to be a drop-in upgrade.
I'd be interested in philosophical tomes being analyzed. They seem to contain an oversized amount of low frequency words.
Probably the biggest thing that ticks me off is hiring managers who don't even know what they are looking for and as a result 'shop' thru candidates essentially wasting your time. I've seen this before when I was rejected for a position, and it got filled only to be reposted after 3 months. Go figure!
This is from a weekly public meeting we have every week 12:30 pm pacific every Friday at Mozilla. All are welcome to attend.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/ShowAndTells

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/ShowAndTells/Recordings
But understanding what an average represents is obviously important.
But not allowing someone to go out, with proper attire, is still weird.

(Over here, the rule's that it's mandatory to go out for breaks, except if temperature is below -15C (+5F). Everyone has proper attire.)
Hehe, "she". Great. I think the project would be better off with less bad jokes in the README.
This is definitely a problem in comparing current productions (movie, music, book, whatever) to older productions. A lot of modern science fiction is crap, IMO. But so was a lot of the stuff in the 1950s or any other decade. But if you go back to read 1950s scifi you find a great collection of books and stories because they're the ones that survived.

The challenge, then, when considering movies is to see who seems to be doing it well in the modern CGI-era. IMHO, Neill Blomkamp seems to be doing a good job in his movies. At least in the context of visual production. And then we can also find examples of bad or excessive CGI (Michael Bay, Peter Jackson in the Hobbit trilogy). It's probable that there are a large number of modern (say 2000 forward) movies with effective use of CGI that'll age very well, but we have to sift through the crap first.

It's also likely that there are a lot of narratively good movies that are going to age poorly because of poor CGI.

EDIT: Don't let me comment sleep deprived. I've cleaned up the language in the second paragraph.
Although I use Netflix all the time, it's in spite of their app. Outside of the "my list" I've curated myself, 98% of the things the Netflix app shows me, I'm not really interested in. I feel like that ratio could easily be made better if they allowed me to mark things I'm not interested in and never show me those things again + apply machine learning to display a better personalized catalog.

Whenever I use Netflix I always feel like there is a lot of content locked away and I have to dig past the same stuff it always shows to find stuff I'm interested in.
No doubt, but how they were able to see the opportunity for an operating system stemmed from their work with the altair. They found these opportunities because they loved computers. They didn't say, "this looks like a promising space", and then proceeded to learn about programming. They were already at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry.
> A nice language that behaves well as a transpilation target

Could you rank your preferences?
The Lenovo one is a continuation of the IBM one. You get to tick what you want, they show what the existing installed version is, as well as changelogs. There has never been any misrepresentation. I believe corporate types use the system updater too, and pissing them off by installing garbage would quickly annoy valuable customers.

It does not let you install or update the crapware that comes with systems. It is actually quite difficult to get that stuff other than saving it when you get a new system. BTW IBM/Lenovo have historically had way less crapware than other vendors. I think Lenovo got complacent in this case, hearing "you guys do less crapware than the others" and confusing it with "you are doing a perfect job". Less worse is not the same as doing good.

Someone's useful add-on is someone else's garbage. They have some software called Access Connections which provides more gui and control over networking, such as which access points to connect to based on location profiles and who knows what else. I don't want that since I mostly use Linux, and Windows does a good enough job when I am using it. The system updater has never installed it, nor tricked me in any way.
At one point I got really into the idea of ASTs for languages. I've used pygments, the python syntax highlighter, with the intention of parsing the meaning of code.

These syntax highlighters are great but I think that underlie the lack of a defined and accessible AST parse definition for most languages. Highlight.js and others kind of just rely regexes-- https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js/blob/master/src/la...

It'd be great if we could parse through programming languages to get their meaning. I want to get tuples back!

```
a = 23
```
would give

(variable(name=a), assignedTo, number(23))

This does exist for some languages, but mostly compiled ones. But it would make the syntax highlighting even more robust! Antlr is the best one around at the moment. http://www.antlr.org/
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Done: https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/pull/28

And you're very welcome. I couldn't do it without Mozilla paying my bills, though I hope to strike out on my own later in the year.
I'd actually disagree with this. A lot of what is remembered about the first SW trilogy is sanitized a lot by the many re-releases Lucas has made over the years.

Off the top of my head, for example, in the original original trilogy, R2D2's color panels switched from blue to black on the shots where he was seen in space so as to not conflict with the chromakey color used to shoot the space background. I'd argue something like that is much worse than bad CGI: even though the shots looked plausible visually, it actually made me wonder if R2D2 was still on the ground and we were looking at a different R2 unit (or, in other words, actually injected some uncertainty into the story the filmmaker was attempting to tell).
I can say that our local elementary school is pretty white, but not necessarily well off.

Homeschoolers in my area, if they are religious, are pagans. I know some homeschoolers who live in another state who are seriously Christian (i.e. dad is a prof at a religious school) but not at all right wing.
> I left a completely benign post that didn't go with the pro-Microsoft/anti-Google narrative -- saw -11 within less than 60 seconds.

"Benign?" You accused a dude of being a lying Microsoft shill because he said that a recent Android version ran slowly on his device.
Everyone on HN has read Zero to One :D
Why ruin the computer lab environment that a lot of the students clearly do well with and enjoy? At my sons school they have a reasonable balance where the computer rooms are a bit "free-for-all" and the library is a quiet zone. Both have plenty of computers.

And on the hygiene topic you sound a bit clueless. Parents, for the most part, aren't sending their boys to school smelly and grubby. They get that way while at school.
> So, to answer your question, I want to move off OSX for the typical philosophical reasons, but I'm not willing to do it at the expense of basic ergonomics and fit and finish.

It's good that we have diversity; I wouldn't move to OS X at the expense of basic ergonomics either (even though I do admire the finish :-).

I'm a bit curious about the frustration with X11. Sure, it's a cludge and has issues and so on -- but does it matter so much that people can't wait for the alternative? I really only see two cases were it matters: If you're writing an X11 server, or if you're writing an X11 screensaver. As we have both of those, and they work fine -- I don't really feel the pain.

I'll admit that I don't do a lot of programming for X11, but both qt and gtk seem fairly pleasant to work with as far as I can tell. It might be papering over cracks -- but those cracks have already been papered over?

Did you consider running chrome OS (maybe with a full GNU/Linux chroot)?
>First off, Rust doesn't have pointer arithmetic.

It should have avoided the "*" and "&" symbols then, IMNSHO.

C# does this partially by using the "ref" keyword.
Racial mixture has Quebec being nearly 90% Caucasian.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong to do or not what you want. I'm saying that questioning such thing is okay.
There's no physics or natural law that dictates it has to be this way. This is the life we have built. Nothing to do with my personal experience running a household, work or ability to operate as an adult.
But questioning stuff is just part of critical thinking.
This is incredibly useful
They have nailed the experience when it comes to UI not still have a ways to go in terms of discovery. Netflix makes it easy to continue where I've left off, play something I've saved, and fully takes advantage of every piece of context that I have actively provided. However if over time I have gotten lazy or no longer give Netflix this valuable information, then what I am presented with gets stale and my routine of going to Netflix becomes compromised.
>> The web isn't close to competing with higher-end native apps.

I made the switch from web development to native app development after leaning this fact at the HTML 5 conference a couple years ago. Every framework, rendering engine, etc., touted its strength in terms of a percentage of native app performance: this renders 80% as fast as native code, that responds 90% as fast, etc., etc. At the end all I could think was why are we wasting our time with mobile web?"
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Here's a hosted version of the HighlightJS developer tool: http://highlightjs-developer.appspot.com/

Planning to open source an http API (similar to http://markup.su/highlighter).
$800M just ain't what it used to be.

And persuading potential customers who are not naturally inclined toward your service is much harder & more costly than attracting those seeking what you provide.
What about monochrome, single word-orientation word clouds? Font size is one axis, and I guess the only remaining noise is word placement.
I hate it when people complain about bright kids going into finance instead of STEM. My brother went to an Ivy and majored in physics. He asked me sometime junior year what he should do with his life. He'd already worked in research labs on nanotech, and was seriously considering getting a PhD. I told him to apply for finance and consulting jobs instead. He's glad he went into finance. He gets a ton of responsibility and respect at work, instead of getting dumped on by the hierarchy of a research lab or academic department. And he makes more two years out than PhDs at the peak of their career.

Our society rewards those who own or help manage capital, and reserves the best healthcare, education, and housing for those with the most money. At the same time, our industries are structured so that scientists and engineers give up control of the technologies that create the capital in the first place. Entrepreneurship as practiced in Silicon Valley offers a little bit of reprieve from this, but just a little, and who knows how long it will last. In light of all this, I view telling kids to go into science or engineering similarly to telling kids to go pursue theater or art. If it's your burning passion, go ahead, but I don't consider it the most rational choice.
Uber Takes a Deep Data Dive on Its Drivers
So why do we need the gondola at all? If people just want to hit 29,035 feet above sea level, they can take a plane anywhere in the world.

What makes the top of Everest interesting to visit is that to do it, a person has to overcome very difficult natural challenges. So a gondola to the top would destroy the very value it was supposed to provide.
Thank you, didn't catch that in the other comments.
How is french easier to rhyme than english? Do you have empirical evidence?

Since I'm a french canadian who is lucky enough to speak the two languages, I find it difficult to believe.

Remember that rap (rhyme and poetry) was popularized by poor english speaking people.
I really don't think you need to worry about breaking changes post-1.0. The current concern (or battle) is people who have gripes with the language as it currently is lamenting that they appear to have already run out of time to get changes made.
It really depends.

Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts were both stop-motion animations for much of their effects. The artifice is obvious but ages well.

Forbidden Planet uses a mix of practical effects, mattes, and hand-drawn animations (the monsters of the Id). Again, fairly obvious, but all told, ages fairly well.

And 2001: A Space Odyssey, only ten years later, has effects many of which could be contemporary. Shots of Discovery in particular are near perfect, and I found the effects in the 1984 sequel, 2010 to be worse in regards -- the sagging of a supposedly zero-G bridge was one that still registers with me.

But there are also lots of bad examples. Many of the James Bond franchise sequences involving flight or spaceflight are pretty obviously cheesy. The effects from Superman are hit-or-miss. Rear and front-projection effects, especially in automobile scenes, where auto occupants clearly aren't in the same physics as the vehicle, are quite distracting to me (and date to the 1930s).

The thing about practicals -- model effects especially -- is that you've got a real physical object at play, and that's going to have depth and other elements which are still hard to capture in CGI. Though blends of CGI with live-action (the epiphany for me was True Lies which pioneered much of this) can be highly convincing. The key is subtlety.
I don't see any information on Twilio's net expenditures. Am I missing something?

What is the significance in taking in $100M in revenue if you had to spend > $100M to get it?

Cough BOX Cough

Also, how many customers do they have who pay them more than 100-250K/year? Where are these "big deals" coming from? In my experience, Twilio was quite expensive (i.e. not cost-effective) compared to other Telephony service providers.

I really like their solid platform, and at the same time I'm a little surprised by the IPO move right now. Have they already burned through the $70M in funding they took in 18 months ago?
Though it broke behavior, technically the previous behavior was a bug... the minor bump reflects that bugfix (that changes behavior).
My family uses netflix. I don't. Every time I want to watch something I cannot find it. 10,000 titles is nothing in a world where The Simpsons has several hundred. Netflix needs more and deeper content.

I won't admit to ever downloading something without full written permission of the copyright holder, carved in stone and witnessed by three saints, but last night I did watch "Black Books" after not finding it on Netflix or any other service.

(If you are a fan of 'Father Ted' or 'The IT Crowd', Black Books was done by the same people and contains many of the same jokes.)
"long-term-view.cfm"!? Cold Fusion? That's still a thing?!
Figure out a way to get users at scale (i.e. bite the bullet and learn how sales and marketing work).

Any pointers for reading material on this?
The banks and mortgage brokers making all those "liars loans" knew that the loans weren't going to be repaid, but they didn't give an effing eff. They knew that they would be able to sell the mortgages in RMBSs and pay their loan officers and executives handsome bonuses for all those massive phony profits. They would blacklist appraiser who wouldn't give them appraisals to fit the loan they wanted to make.
> It should have avoided the "∗" and "&" symbols then, IMNSHO.

Those operators aren't for pointer arithmetic…

> C# does this partially by using the "ref" keyword.

But C#'s reference parameters have no corresponding dereference operator, because they aren't first class and are limited to function parameters. As a result, most programs cannot be written without using the garbage collector in C#. In Rust, however, references can appear as first-class values, which makes them much more flexible—enough to supplant a garbage collector when combined with smart pointers—but requires that you annotate where they are created. `&` and `*` are well-known operators for this.
Ubuquitous recording and acoustic instruments can give rise to phenomenal results though.

Overproduced synthed and autotuned pop. Not so much.
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Or maybe:

"Do the English Use More Words Than the French? I don't know, and what I did to test it doesn't tell me anything concrete"
Perhaps the point really isn't about having an effective cure for all cancer patients, but just this one.

One of these days, we can detect the cancer cell, and the specific mutation for that person. The detection would take a day or less, and then prime your immune system to recognize and attack it.

So therapies and cures and not like a flu shot, like a jigsaw puzzle, where the last piece for the cure is different for every person (or a few people).
Pretty important in late 70s early 80s UK for fanzines as well. Not to mention cut-up poster art (screen printing got you big posters but was smelly, slow, expensive and you needed access to the press). Does anyone else remember 'justifying' columns of text with squared paper and then typing it out?
Of course, YMMV

http://uu.zoy.fr/p/T4RwhQ#x=2zHnAK7/HQAxDmEA
I think you are confusing pointers with pointer arithmetic. There is no reason you must have one to have the other.
Microsoft Launches Azure HDInsight on Linux
So, what is happening faster:

1) Deployment of AFFORDABLE highspeed broadband

or

2) Decreasing local storage costs

Why do I need to stream something if I can store 6TB of data locally for less than $150 (and decreasing daily).

How much storage space will $200 buy you in 10 years? And how many decades of video and audio could one store on such a device?
One of the things they bring up, which is that apps are replacing channels, annoys me. I'd rather do a global search and then present me with delivery media (channels/apps/whatever) instead of having to pick the app and then do individual searches. It's a pain point.

Also, if they want to capture the hotel market, I mean people on the road staying in temp accommodation, they'll have to deliver blue content (or yellow as they say in Asia). People on the road want pornographic content, more so than at home. Their current most likely option is to get it at high markup via hotel operator delivery systems.
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You are correct, it was worded poorly. There is no overseeing entity controlling allocation of resources.

All I was trying to say is that just because there are people who choose not to work on the high risk/high reward items does not mean they are not valuable. Balance is important.
The netflix app is great - on a tablet.
Unfortunately their PS3/4 apps kind of suck, because they took their design cues from tablet. It became much less usable after they did away with simple browsing and lists, and only various 'popular genre X' top-few selections are shown by default.

If you know what you're looking for, it's easy to search (though chances are you won't find it these days...). If you want to explore and discover, it's much harder.

I also wish they'd implement rentals. When we decide to watch a specific movie, these days we will as often as not skip Netflix entirely and go directly to Amazon Prime- because they, typically, will have it available as a rental if not for free.

(Also, firefox says "movie" isn't a word... how odd...)
Here I thought everyone learned this when they started colorizing their bash prompt and suddenly their terminal session would wrap the line before the cursor got to the right side of the screen :-)

The article fails to discuss non-monospaced fonts, which make this problem even more pronounced. For a long time Word would screw up a ligature if it also included a color change. The only hope is length(source_data, rendering_environment) as a function.