skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For something to be a logical extension, it has to derive from the other. That would mean that the community of Portland would need to benefit from AirBnB rentals as well as the renter and rentee, which seems difficult to prove given the recorded effect of AirBnB in other areas.

The same with Uber - for the "sharing economy" to be a logical extension of communitarianism, the greater population of Portland needs to derive some utility from people providing and using Uber service.
Well, it's fun to be cynical and everything, but the FDA, EPA, and so on came into existence over the objections of the industries they regulate.
You have to extend trust out at some point. Your only other alternative is to manually type the machine code required for a C compiler and start from that.

Additionally, it's fairly ironic this is about a browser. If you don't trust packages maintainers, yet you want to use a browser, which the whole point of is to download and interpret text, code and binaries which you have little in the way of actually controlling after pointing it at a site, then I think you've made some interesting security trade-offs in your mind.
https://xkcd.com/164/
I think when I've heard people saying Java sucks, they mean its type system allows defects that the type system of F# or Scala can prevent. Those reasons given for Java being better than Python or Ruby are also why F# is better than Java.
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Hah, this is awesome to hear. Are you using it with ldap/kerberos auth?
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This is a great simple UX to have the conversation.
Neat but, these accounts are already blocked by the user verification service I use for my SaaS offering. Another service I have to explicitly whitelist :(
Would it kill you to put some sort of description in the title?
So "war on drugs" is still accurate, since it employs more armed soldiers than world war 2?
It's also amazing how many (presumably unpaid) cheerleaders they have to flood the comments of every discussion about them.
Dumb and gets things done
And their success is, by and large, a testament to how poorly the previous power (the taxi guilds) served the people.
Belief?! If that's true, the past 15 years of my life have been a lie! I honestly remembered regret as the correct answer.
Well, that one should be renamed more accurately to "war on poor people."
So, while interesting work, and certainly an accomplishment i have a couple problems with this (and i know it's alpha and not supposed to be used in production, blah blah blah).

First and foremost, the language reference is not a language reference:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/

It tries to define operations by saying "it's analogous to C". But that's not an actual thing. Either it's C or it's not C.
If it's C, what language level is it?

Does it actually have the same semantics as C?
(The answer, from what I can tell, is no, it has the semantics of GIMPLE, which is to say, 'random stuff unless you set flags on DECL's, etc')

I could go on, but i would have much rather seen someone sit down, think about what the JIT semantics were supposed to be, and build that, rather than take GCC, and build a JIT out of whatever pieces happened to be laying around :)

For those who think is a lot of work, this is generally the right way around to do it. You build the IR, then the compiler (or start building the IR, then the compiler, and refine the IR as you discover you f'd it up).

2. It has no real optimization pipeline management. About all you can manage is the GCC options (both internal and external).

This is pretty bad. Again, normally you would start with a simple pass manager, etc.

3. From what i can tell, it only targets whatever arch you have compiled GCC for in this case, which is usually "1".

To be frank (with no disrespect to it's author meant!), compared to something like LLVM's JIT, this is at least 4-5 years of serious engineering work behind (this includes all the work to do things like "define the semantics of the IR", etc).

Again, to be frank, considering the alternatives, i have trouble seeing why anyone would want to use this unless they were a serious free software advocate.

It reminds me of the old joke about cygwin - the power of windows, the interface of unix.
Not the most credible looking site, but the graphic seems well cited: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/04/global-warming-slowdown-...
Yes, understandably, these are things that prevent agreement. But my question was more along the lines of: what can make someone agree with me despite those factors?
I had a comment ready to add but you nailed it. The only thing I'd add w/r/t packaged food, people are right to develop their own priorities in life - but if you buy into this system, clearly your own health and the health of the environment are not a priority for you.

Food and nutrition should not be an industry. What I mean by that is there needs to be more concerns besides production efficiency and profit.
The main problem for me is that it's 2.4GHz only. As lots of people live in the inner cities in Europe, where lots of flats are in close proximity, that spectrum is extremely crowded even in residential areas. I guess that's much less of an issue in the suburbs though.

For me, the 2.4 GHz spectrum is only usable during "off-peak" hours, or extremely close to the router (the Chromecast is <1m from the router, so it's fine). But since I use 5 GHz for everything else, I muddle through with surprisingly few issues :)
Sure, DHCP/NAT is used by each container, to get out. But how does it route to another container on some other host elsewhere in your cloud? That's what the Fan addresses.
Let's Chat is actually three years old :P
It must be too early for me. I can not find the franssen citation. Title?
>So they shouldn't hire under capitalist principles? Also note that this is beneficial for the smart people of the world, because it forces other companies to pay more as well.

Yes, basically I'm asking for non-capitalism (sorry, I'm a relentless anti-capitalist). It's too much for a HN thread. But I'm sick of this world - Google is a company BUILT on free software. They only exist because of public largesse. Without Linus Torvalds and Stallman (and a million others), Google would not exist, period. Without the Internet, Google would not exist.

This sort of thing is rampant - github has a billion-dollar valuation based on the fact that Linus Torvalds wrote and open-sourced git, and pretty much for no other reason.

I want a word that acknowledges that we exist together, dammit, that the wealth we've made - all of it - is produced in common, and that we don't use every single scrap of advantage we get to arrogate more power to ourselves.

Google is a company that is built on taking a public good, perhaps the greatest public good we have ever made, and turning it into an engine for generating wealth and power for a few individuals.

It's the 21st century, dammit. Let's do better. We have the fucking model for how to do this. Let's build on it. Let's share what we produce instead of taking the collective bounty and using it for our own personal gain.
This reminds me of Dick Cheney's stance on homosexuality.

People will deny for myriad reasons, and are able to disassociate harm caused when that harm is borne by others. But the second it effects them? The tune changes quickly.

We have deniers in our families. The reasons seem to be "I want to be salty" more than anything real.

Edit: that said, I imagine most people behind Fox News and other right-wing news sources don't actually believe the vitriol they spit on anyone who says climate change is man-made... But it's bad for business, so whip up a bunch of people into a fury and make science a political issue, because $.

Edit 2: Wow. The down-votes came fast. Is it because I said Fox News was using people?
Well correlation is not causation.

is it y=f(x) or y=x(f)? aka is is warmer because of the higher greenhouse gases or is there more greenhouse gases because of the warmer climate (that could have been caused by things like leaving an ice age and approaching a warm period in Earth's life)

Just to clarify, i support green technology and I think this is definitely the way to go but I don't like the unjustified crusade using proofs that can be ripped apart in minutes.
The fact that you have to have a disclaimer up front makes me sad.
The government should be a VC when it is in the public interest, i.e. the private VCs are skittish about a filed. DARAP gave us the Internet and driverless cars, for example. Like private VCs, they've had dramtic failures too like A123 Battery.
Are we discussing AI or the supposed lack of music taste in general public? Again, saying "people are stupid" does not demonstrate a particular AI is smart of interesting. And anyway, people are smarter than they often get credit for.

> the music would actually give them the same satisfaction they receive from manmade music

You believe this because...? None of the generated tracks I've heard so far is anywhere near the kind of music people would listen to for the sake of the music itself.

Some people do listen to music to drawn out distracting conversations around them. Perfectly sensible thing to do. However, in those cases music can be replaced with white noise of nature's sounds. This does not demonstrate that music is equivalent to noise.

...

The problem with such AI demos is that they lack a particular purpose (i.e. success criteria), use existing material for training and do not go a step beyond that material. You can take a track and slow it down by a random fraction to get a different pitch and tempo. Viola. "New music." Procedurally generated. But that does not mean you've composed something. You've used a randomized algorithm hand-crated to produce a particular effect. It has no generative power.
We have multiple women in our expert network. I should have highlighted them... doh. We'd love more! https://jobstart.co/experts

This was a pivot -- we started off as a mentorship platform, so we're not actively using all of our expert pool at this time. After realizing the nuances of mentorship were making us solve the mentorship problem instead of the job placement problem, we moved onwards. Fun fact: we didn't have any female experts until we had about 30 male experts. But that changed quickly! The first one liked helping out so much she personally invited all of her friends, and all the sudden we were nearly 50/50 for short while. :D

We have contracts with mostly Silicon Valley startups, but there are a couple in there from NYC and even Georgia. The fact that we don't force our candidates down our own funnel though, and will help them attain a job anywhere, is our real uniqueness.
No, I left because he had poor interpersonal skills. I'm a senior developer now in a position similar to his and I would never behave in the manner he did.

I enjoy mentoring junior devs and I can't recall this ever being at odds with getting shit done correctly in the end.
Also, your recruiter should be telling you what to wear to the interview regardless. If not, then you should ask what is to be expected.

You've got a good point about dressing down though. It's easier to walk into an interview in a suit and have people laugh it off and say, "Oh man, we don't dress that nice unless someone important is here!" instead of going in with jeans and an untucked shirt and have people dressed in business casual give you a strange look like, "Hmmmm, interesting wardrobe choice." and instantly you've lost points with them before they even ask a single question.
Why the BBC was so keen to use DRM-ed video (and audio) escaped me. Slap a copyright notice on it and be done with it.
It would be helpful to know more specifically what the final green line is actually representing; 'shows the influence of greenhouse gases' is a pretty major divergence from the specific quantitative measurements used in every other line.
What alternative would you suggest?

Hiring adults and trusting them to get their work done.
Why use cat if you have a magnetized needle and a steady hand?
Seconded, what you sacrifice in scalability, you gain in platform independence, 100% uptime, and low hardware failure rates.
You can use absolutely any /8 that you want. I used 250.0.0.0/8 in my examples, but the FanNetworking wiki page uses 10.0.0.0/8. You can use any one you want. Have at it ;-)
Is XMPP a standard? I know that everyone just ignores it.
> 2. The people you invite you are stuck with forever

What happens when people stop using the site? You're stuck without content... and then you leave the site?
It drives me nuts to see the manic crowds come to the defense of Goliath. Sure, taxi's suck ass in many cities and I really like the accountable based system of Uber and their high standards, but that is no justification for essentially handing over a whole market segment to a single monopolist.

What an age we are living through, where all the valued and ideals of competition aren't even given lip service anymore and all of society goes all in on monopolies. Because what can go wrong when monopolies reach the phase where they turn all those lobbyists from market capture goals to regulatory capture goals to lock out any competition in an inherently low barrier to entry industry? Nothing can go wrong, right?
Looks like someone has lost all hope for humanity and at that we should just accept our "inevitable" self-destruction.

Even if the dream of colonizing mars is farfetched beyond fixing all of the problems we currently have on earth, it doesn't mean its not worth striving for. Goals like this drive people to do their best work and come up with creative solutions to problems that would otherwise never have been thought of. This is the exact kind of drive we need if we are to even have the chance at becoming interplanetary. Maybe we end up just getting to Mars and setting up an "antarctic" like lab that is occupied by teams for months at a time? That's fine. The innovation that got us even there would have been amazing. Maybe the goal then shifts to self-sustaining interplanetary spacecraft. Humanity isn't done yet, and not shooting for the far reaches of the galaxy is a waste of time that we cannot spare.

Musk Co. isn't just focused on that interplanetary goal. There's a lot that is also being done to make this planet better and prolong its life. These are honorable and not nearly as farfetched goals. Musk's drive to solve these problems is a real inspiration to many and may be our only chance in hell to pass through the Great Filters.
This advice states:

For example, consider the file format you use when you respond. Here’s a couple of examples of response formats I’ve dealt with and what it makes me think of you.
[screenshot] This first example is a docx file. It means you’re likely using Windows

But the [screenshot] is from OSX. Is asking someone for prepared source code a good idea? I don't know, and have never asked. Sure I've looked at source online that's been referenced, but asking for a bunch of code... desperate copy paste from an existing non open sourced project seems a likely response, and not a good one.

> If definitely means you didn’t go out of your way to make it easy for me to read your code because there’s no syntax highlighting and the font is horrible.

'If' is a typo If -> It). I only get pedantic when pedantic is necessary. A blog post getting pedantic while not eating your own dog food isn't great.

Cover letter:

Seemed short and flippant. Perhaps this in is vogue where you are. I know a lot of Irish developers that would tailor something a lot more detailed and specific by default.

Agree with the author's points saying "I don't know" and general CV tips.

一半 [e-ban]. Half full advice, or half empty; basics with no real insight.
It's easy to cut prices if you just exempt yourself from the labor laws everyone else has to follow.
Don't worry, my new Flux implementation will take your mind off of that!
Spencer is pretty out there. He's gone on record to say that warming proponents are advancing an argument that will lead to more deaths than the NSDAP's policies did, and is a signatory to the Evangelical Declaration on Climate Change, which suggests that this is largely a matter of faith for him...
Why does every article about Portland make it into some magical incredibly different place. Does water not run downhill in Portland, OR?

I spend a fair amount of time in Portland and it's incredibly similar to most American cities. All this exceptionalist serves only to stroke egos and generate clicks.
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I think you are looking for something like CVars, or equivalent. The doom source has an implementation, there is also one as part of the library below which I highly recommend.
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gsibley/GLConsole/index.php?n=Ma...
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License holders are generally to blame for forcing DRM onto consumers, not the streaming provider (based on experience working for Lovefilm.)
Java sucks.

But seriously, every language has its pros and cons. Java is a powerful, fast language, but verbose and often wielded like a hammer IMHO.
He is making great progress with tax payer's money.
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I am wondering the same thing. In fact, I often see a seizure warning with binaural apps. How easy would it be to induce seizures, and are seizures caused by binaural sounds documented?
Being that you are based in SF, do you think that you are equipped to provide services to job seekers in other cities (i.e. Austin, NYC, Boston, Raleigh, or Seattle)?
i3 Window Manager. I wish Apple would design a WM inspired by i3 but with the amount of polish they usually apply.
What's most pathetic is that the peasants take up arms for Uber to crush any resistance. It drives me nuts. Sure, you love Uber, I love the service they provide too, but there are always consequences when you get in bed with the devil.
Where is your source for the latter half of your claim? I go to a plethora of local and small-medium sized concerts and I often get a chance to talk with the performers, they love sharing their art to a hungry crowd.
About Simmons specifically, he's actually published some research with a ton of applications in recent physics developments, which I think came out of his Chern-Simmons form. He had a good run in science before he switched. And he's been doing good mathematics lately it seems.

What I am talking about is mostly compassion with both fellow scientists and humanity -- thinking basic science is really important for society as a whole and enjoyable, and it should be a good career path because of that. If you consider only feeling passionate about, you could say "It's really sad people who are really passionate about Frisbee aren't paid to do so." (nothing against Frisbee of course, but you sure could do it only as a hobby! ).

Besides, Simmons has been doing what he likes and what he feels important, I think it's pretty cool. It sure doesn't hurt he's made an awful lot of money too.
Does it support all of GCC's targets? That'd be another reason to use it.
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So, here was something that bothered me this year. This peer-reviewed article was published:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/06/05/science.a...

Which claims that the 'global warming' hiatus doesn't exist and is a surface measurement artefact. Adjusting a subset of the surface measurement data removes 'this artefact' and shows that global warming has still been on the rise. Sorry, it's paywalled, if you want a review of it perhaps try:

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/04/411998275/scientists-cast-doub...

But when I heard this NPR article, I thought to myself, "Hold on. Aren't there non-surface measurements that have agreed with the existence of the last 10 year 'global warming hiatus'?" Indeed, the various satellite measurements (which do not suffer from as many methodological concerns) agree that the last 10 years have been relatively stagnant in terms of global warming.

Adjusting data in this fashion is extremely dangerous, and climate scientists are certainly not immune from the "tendency to weight the believability of the evidence".
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It can't.

The process is sufficiently slow that an individual, especially an older individual of the sort who make up legislatures and other influential institutions, can reasonably expect to die before it does him significant personal harm. Therefore it is fairly easy for such an individual, if given the proper incentives, to dismiss or deny it. As long as there are fossil fuels in the ground that can be extracted profitably, the proper incentives exist. Whether the dismissal represents a genuine belief or simple rapaciousness is irrelevant (and it's doubtful even the deniers themselves know which).

It is quite likely that this phenomenon will continue even when the baseline conditions (those that existed during someone's youth) have degenerated dramatically relative to modern-historical norms. It's the incremental harm over the remainder of an individual's lifetime that matters, against the profits he stands to make from maintenance of the status quo. As long as that's a net win, you will have deniers (the alternative explanations or reasons offered for doing nothing may change, of course, but those aren't important anyway). They'll go away only when the rate of warming is so rapid as to make denial both utterly laughable and obviously unprofitable, at which point human extinction will probably be no more than a few centuries away.
Yes, but my question was, how do we get people to change their beliefs? As you stated, evidence is clearly not the answer.
I have come across GLConsole http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gsibley/GLConsole/ and CVars https://github.com/arpg/CVars and http://anttweakbar.sourceforge.net/doc/ which are definitely along the lines of what I was after. I just seem to specifically remember something that displayed the information via a webserver, at the time I remember thinking I'll come back to integrate it at a later date, but now can't find the original source!
The worst part is, since I care enough about cookies and privacy that I set up my browsers to delete cookies on exit (minus a small whitelist for sites I prefer to stay logged on to), the sites displaying these notices can't even remember that I already dismissed the notice.

(assuming I'd only see the notice once if I'd keep my cookies, not actually sure if that would be the case, nor do I care to find out ...)
If you are seriously interested in learning the answers to your questions, I strongly recommend spending an hour reading the IPCC's 'Summaries for Policymakers'. Read the Synthesis Report, which covers everything, or one of the three working group reports for more detail ("Physical Science Basis", "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", and "Mitigation of Climate Change").

http://www.ipcc.ch/

The IPCC meticulously prepares these reports -- and I mean hundreds of scientists preparing reports reviewed by thousands worldwide, with extreme attention paid to wording about probabilities -- and then writes summary reports for non-scientific policymakers. If politicians have the ability and attention span to understand them, you can too. :)

The hour spent reading will save you a hundred hours reading the nonsense that is 99% of what is written elsewhere. Also much of what you say is addressed.