jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So the slides say...

> Concurrency safety isn’t an accident. So far,only Rust has a good story on concurrency thanks to its type system.

Is that really true? I've really enjoyed concurrency in D.

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/advent-of-d/#day18

How much better can it be? And yes, D's concurrency is also based around types.
> I don't really see how new languages that are not compatible can be competitive.

What exactly would you like Julia to be compatible with?

Python? https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

JS? https://github.com/SimonDanisch/JSCall.jl

C++? https://github.com/JuliaInterop/Cxx.jl

Java? https://github.com/JuliaInterop/JavaCall.jl

R? https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl

Not all of these are fully polished, but they're all being worked on (plus there are a bunch of others that aren't being actively worked on that I haven't put here).
There's some debate about it, apparently, but I recently saw articles mentioning that Zynga was valued at $6 bn, while EA's market cap is $5 bn (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ERTS&ql=0).
Charles Stross has a written an interesting piece about this in his blog:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e...
Th JPG analogy does hold water - for a perfect ebook reproduction of the text, use a TIFF or bitmap or similar.

However, often an ebook is a lossy reproduction - look at the reviews for Surface Detail on Amazon. The quality of the text is below that of the published books (there are sections missing, large gaps in the text, inappropriate hyphenation and missing chapter breaks), and the ebook is more expensive than the hardcover!

It seems like the publishers are acting against their own best interests in the matter of ebooks, just like the music publishers acted against their own interests with music downloads. I agree with posters who claim that the books will be published eventually at market price; our problem is that the market is very slow to stabilise and we must suffer from inefficiencies in the market while it stabilises. The publishers seem to be the major reason for the slowness of the market and that's why people have a gripe with them.
"Why come you don't have a tattoo?" -2006

Damn those anti-chippers!
The last time I bought brazil nuts I was eating them by the handful. I had no idea about any of this. I just like brazil nuts. I guess I made it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Selenium is already in many multi-vitamins.

It's also naturally in most fish. Can of tuna has more than the RDA.

The reason why mercury in fish is mostly a non-issue is because selenium protects from mercury.

This study is not actually "new", it's a known property one of many.

Beware academics with "specialties", their one magic supplement becomes a cure-all for many things which never seems to pan out in the realworld.
Perhaps consider that the consideration is not "be a bit of an asshole or not" but "be considerate to every person less one or just the one"?
If they’re not true, they’re not facts right?

Are you asking how much horseshit can be contained on the Internet? Son, look skyward.. see the stars? That’s how much and more.
I just want to second this with my own experience just now:

I looked at the title while still waking up.

At first I thought of the low + (high - low) / 2 method. I then figured maybe it was better to simply predivide both numbers before adding and just correcting for the lowest bit (how was that ever patented?!).

However, I didn't like having to perform two divisions so I thought there was probably something clever one could do with bit operations to avoid it. But, still being tired, I decided I didn't want to actually spend time thinking on the problem and I'd already spent a minute on it.
Sure, but they didn't interfere in the election of the President. Open your eyes.
Murder rate is a per capita statistic. Larger populations have more of all types of crime, almost by definition.
Have you found anything credible? All I can find with random clicks are lots of very long youtube videos that don't ever seem to get to the point and links to voting laws in particular states without any context.

It gives the impression of there being plenty of evidence, but non of the items I looked at actually upheld what they claim.
It's true. "terrorism" is a bad word and we should not use it. The definition prohibits an objective meaning.

And I would rather see this police response for BLM, than that response for these people.
In what sense do you think each user "owns" their tweets?

In most cases it's not at all, here's a good page on the topic: http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com
Really one needs two bidders - and the winner would bid $1 more than the looser. Of course, for the VCs funding it are either aiming for a big buyout or prepared for the long slog to earn the revenues to pay back their investment. Google doesn't need to be in any hurry, IMHO.
Well, it isn't. It's just a big mess barfed up onto html. Some links are to elsewhere on the same site. Intermixed with those are links to some other site.

I'm not saying there isn't useful information there, or that her book sucks. I'm just saying her website is a poorly organized mess that makes it less useful unless you know exactly what you're looking for. For a USB newbie it'd just be a maze of links, all alike.
Good suggestion. I am also thinking about a "View Original Article Mode", so you can explore the full articles on demand, and not restricted to 3 degrees.
I just bought it and found it wonderful.

Great design... actually amazing...

What is that font?
Wow, this brings back memories.
Antimatter has opposite charge, not opposite mass. It has the exact same magnitude and sign of gravitational interaction as normal matter. It's never been directly observed, but I'm not aware of any models that predict otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_an...

Maybe you're thinking of exotic matter? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter
You've already surpassed Adrian Wojnarowski, but computers have a long way to go to replace even average humans:

http://www.truthaboutit.net/2010/11/wizards-claw-raptors-109...

That's a bit of a joke, but the real value automation will provide is not the translation of statistics into narrative, it is providing the right statistics. I can honestly say that your generated stories are better than most AP articles in that regard.

Have you looked at computing any advanced basketball statistics? Highlighting those and turning them into narrative could go a long way toward raising awareness about them in the general (sports) public.
I'm very interested in this topic. I'm curious to know if this line in the SO terms of service document

You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

is enough to relicense user submissions?
We don't have the proper tools to maintain and repair our bodies like we can with our houses and cars, at least not completely. What we got is medicine too imprecise to repair many parts of the human body.
Why should he wait until something becomes impossible, rather than less than ideal? Sometimes you just need to see the writing on the wall.

He writes "As noted, I've been happy in the relatively free Mac world. But given the slowing pace of Mac OS development, there's reason to believe Apple is mostly milking Mac OS users. Will it phase out serious PC development? Or will it eventually move its command-and-control methods up the value chain to the Mac? Apple says it's committed to the Mac's future. I'm not so sure, especially after Jobs, speaking at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference earlier this month, made it clear that he believes the iPhone/iPad ecosystem is the real future of personal computing, with PCs becoming a much smaller player."
There are certain people that I will not appeal to, and I want to make sure that is easily visible to everyone. One of the largest problems I have seen in the industry is inaccurate selling and deceiving customers. I don't want to attract large websites I am actively aiming at small, low traffic, low impact websites. Those are the easiest customers to support and the easiest to please.
You could make a web game that guarantees someone to be millionaire in 3 years. You have to make the game in such a way that you will be the one to get the price. That is you must be able to plan de game and how to take control of it.

Some hidden seed can be the initial advantage to win.
One of the things I love most about AirBnB is that a lot of the people advertising their space on the site are open for negotiation. So let's say Derek looks at this particular place's calendar and sees that in the recent past and in the near future, it has typically been booked for 20 of the 30 days of any given month. Well, 2/3 of $4332 is a great jump-off point for negotiation. I have had particular success booking last minute travel at greatly discounted prices on AirBnB. Negotiate everything!
It's really not even close to being verbose enough. A good API doesn't just give you the name of the endpoint and what it's expecting - it should explain what the endpoint is for. Your documentation assumes the user already knows what they're going to implement in terms of your API (eg they know that they'll need to create a 'service' that other clients will 'listen' on, and so on.

Also, what's especially unhelpful in your documentation is the fact your example code returns errors. In the /listen POST documentation clicking the Send button displays

{
"error": {
"id": 4,
"message": "Already listening to that service"
}
}

I assume that means it's already connected, but should that be the case in an example of creating a connection?

EDIT: My post would be more useful with an example of how verbose I think you should be. Firebase gets it right - https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/quickstart.html - and their brilliant interactive tutorial that really drives home how easy it is to use - https://www.firebase.com/tutorial/#gettingstarted
I would add a few paragraphs introducing it and giving some common examples/use cases.

I like your "try-this-request", however IMHO it is missing a "request is in progress..." kind of indicator - clear the output space and add a spinner? I had to look in the developer tools to ensure that it works.

Finally, not all things work: 'Websockets/Run Example' doesn't do anything. In the background there is a 500: 'WebSocket connection to 'wss://api.pushjet.io/socket' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 500'. In your defense, you do mention that "Websockets are really iffy at the the moment and are currently in the process of being redone". But still, better capture that error and show it somehow.

All in all, ahead of the curve ;) Some UI lovin' would put you at the head of it.
This probably partially explains the inconsistent reports on this thread ("it's blocked here" / "it's not blocked here")
The standard way is to check for your face every second using a webcam. If you go out of view, lock the machine.
If possible, I would like to have 4jn.net (sent you an email)
I think you are really just picking an easy target with JavaScript. I hope that kind of analysis doesn't hold for other languages.

I am in complete agreement that the code re-use needs to be efficient, and that sometimes I spend more time looking for re-usable code then it would take to implement it myself. I was using Rails as an example. Sure, I have my problems with the libraries I use, but overall they help me get 10x the work done that I would if I didn't have them at my disposal.

I think the future of programming languages is: those that enable the easiest code re-use will gain a huge advantage. There will be cross-language tools like github that all languages can use, but if I were to design a language that 1 principle would always be favored.
I am aware of distutils2 - the consensus in the scipy community is that it won't improve the situation at best, and will most likely make it even worse.
Just had a little discussion at #documentcloud regarding UI components (in terms of ui-widgets) that can be implemented using Backbone.View in very efficient ways. Here's just an example of a MultiString editor, that we're using for our document authoring engine. https://github.com/michael/substance/blob/master/src/backend...

You can try out the editor at http://substance.quasipartikel.at:3003/# by clicking on the document's title (at the sheet) to activate the doc annotation pane.

I used to use the jQueryUI widget factory for that task, but Backbone.View feels way more natural. Esp. declarative events and the fact, that Backbone encourages you keep an internal state, and re-render on demand instead of tying data to the DOM.

Regarding UI components in general... imo, it would be better to have a number of widgets (each one targeting a specific use-case) instead of having one widget that takes 100 options handling a number of use-cases. This option-madness is what drives me crazy sometimes...

Same is true for visualizations. developers should keep the codebase small, reusable and should not try to solve 100 use-cases at once — at least this was my conclusion.

As we agreed in the channel, it makes sense to break UIs up in to small functional pieces, each being a view in their own right.

Thoughts?

-- Michael
Note that this feature doesn't necessary require work by the core devs. It is completely feasible (at least in theory) to write a library that can output static exectuables.
If they do so, is there any risk of spiders/obsessive collectors downloading everything? It’s been a while since I ran downloads directly off my website, so I’m genuinely not sure if there are enough of either to significantly alter bandwidth requirements.
A good case in point is small biotech companies focused on research.

Technically traded on the capital markets as common stocks (and if there are enough adults in the room - without debt), but in reality the securities of such companies behave exactly like very convex options - whatever drugs the company is currently working on will either work or not. If it clicks, great, you get FDA approval and the stock is suddenly worth 5x or maybe even 50x more on the basis of patent royalties or outright drug sales. If not, the failed research operation is either recapitalized by patient investors or decomposed by liquidators, while the "real world resources" (researchers and equipment) find a new thing to do.
This is the most free-market approach to resolving police brutality that I've seen so far. With no ideal solutions sometimes the pragmatic ones are the best.
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I'd say the difference in valuation between Snowflake and Databricks clearly shows the latter is not "winning".
The College Board (maker of the SAT) is also a non-profit
unfortunately, if you make modifications and you want them to be "upstreamed" (using libre/open project terminology as an alonogy) you cannot do that without participating in the RISC-V Foundation. you can implement APPROVED (Authorized) parts of the RISC-V specification. you cannot arbitrarily go changing it and still call it "RISC-V", that's a Trademark violation.
Doing analysis by default also seems expensive i.e. static types can actually be quite cheap by having the confidence to say "No, this is your fault" to the programmer
If you like spending time and effort preparing healthy meals for yourself, more power to you. The MealSquares target user is a busy startup founder whose diet is currently made up of microwavable meals or something like that. You tell someone like this to eat healthier and they say "yeah, I really should", but it's hard to fit in the time for cooking, nutrition research, and meal planning in between all of the other important stuff they're doing. Personally, I like the fact that people are doing important stuff, and I'm hoping that MealSquares will allow people to spend their time doing lots of important stuff and eat healthy while they're at it.
I think the point was that homosexuality has been taboo for a lot longer than the CIA has been around. So while they obviously have found it useful there's no reason to think they needed to work to keep it taboo for so long.
"and when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time, you got more than that value, because I was working, firing on all cylinders."

No, I don't. I might. But what you value your time at is different from the value I can derive from using your time.
Yes, I meant to say 1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year in ways that could be prevented by insurance coverage. Here's an article that references a few of the reports:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/us-usa-healthcare-...
It's more akin to the "job offers" that a woman might get when walking down the wrong sort of street.

The basal level of respect for me as a professional with skills and preferences distinct from those of my peers is typically not present from the recruiter shotgunning spam all over the network.
Agreed, it reads like the same faddish, pseudo-science the author purports to debunk. "I tried all the diet books, and none of them worked, but finally here's one that does, because SCIENCE!"

It's the same old shopping channel and sideshow sales pitch people have peddling for hundreds of years, except it tries to play on a mark's trust for scientific authority instead of religious belief or new age mysticism, the same way some magicians pass off classic tricks as clever mentalism by exploiting people's belief in the power of modern psychology.

And the actual obesity cure it outlines is the same as every other mainstream diet: Reorient your whole life around planning, purchasing, preparing, eating and recording a weighed, calorie counted, macro-nutrient balanced diet, and try to get some more exercise as well.

Most people, particular in those groups most risk of obesity - those poor in time and money - will never be able to adopt such a strategy. Consider a single parent trying to raise three or four kids, while working a couple of jobs, and travelling everywhere via long public transport journeys. There's no way that they're going to be do all this.

Processed food is successful because it:
- is cheap
- tastes good
- is easy to acquire
- is easy to prepare

Any solution to widespread obesity needs to provide a source of healthy food that at the very least matches processed food in these regards.
I'm not so sure about that. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have all implemented pretty similar typed supersets of JavaScript (TypeScript, AtScript and Flow). At least in Google's case, they are intentionally keeping AtScript similar to TypeScript in the hopes of influencing ES7. I expect that Microsoft and Facebook have similar ambitions.
Where are you seeing any discrepancies from camelCase? The only thing I see is that types and constructors (i.e. Functor/Applicative/F) start with capital letters.

Also, to be frank, many languages give a false sense of knowledge portability. "As a long time programmer" may not carry you so far into Haskell (or Prolog, or Forth) unless you've seen something else in their paradigms.
Looks like the main author of this is T.V. Raman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman

Pretty awesome dude.
User bcwood posted this in a neutral, matter of fact, way. Then I wonder why almost all the subsequent comments are so argumentative and biased. Chill, guys. Is being polite and cool not the thing to be on Internet?
Also pleasantly surprised here. I had no idea what happened to him. Amazing to be reminded that celebrities are also real people who are capable of pulling through their own problems.
The Kerry is a must have for me; it got me through my maths degree.
The simplicity of being able to close the cap and toss it in a jacket or jean pocket without worrying about pencil marks meant I always had a pencil on me and could write down things as soon as they clicked in my head.
What does all this secrecy buy them? Nothing.
> Here's how the fed caught them:

> "The DOJ said it was able to seize the funds after an FBI search warrant of one of Lichtenstein's cloud storage accounts found a file containing cryptocurrency addresses and their corresponding private key that granted access to funds stored within."

That makes sense, and of course storing them in cloud storage was a bad idea. However they could have only obtained the warrant /after/ they pretty much knew Lichtenstein was the culprit.

How did they determine Lichtenstein was the person who had the bitcoins?
> When you try to coerce a group, you have no knowledge of the actual impact your rule actually has on anyone. And because you're not in the loop, it takes a great deal longer to change your rules.

> This ends up hurting more people than you help.

These 2 assertions seem to be at odds. If you can't see the impact of coercing a group to help, how did you make the determination that it hurts more people than it helps?

If your objection is moral, then the coercion is the issue and it doesn't matter if society benefits (by whatever metric one uses, e.g. "wellbeing"). If it _can_ be demonstrated that compelling Uber drivers to pick up passengers with disabilities benefits those passengers more than it hurts the drivers, would that change your mind? Or do you believe there's no possible way for compelling those drivers to be more beneficial than detrimental at a societal level?
True. You can skip the line here actually by paying for your doctor visit, but that also means you have to pay out of pocket for any further actions based on your diagnosis.
His supporters are already on fire.

This is reducing repeat ignition and stilling winds fanning flames.

See Chamberlain on the effectiveness of appeasement.
I agree, but I feel sad when such an article comes out from a reputed institution like Harvard.

Probably the writing domain is broken . There is no accountability or "skin in the game" and they don't put money where their mouth is.
I couldn't read this article, but another spelled it out:

"Industry officials say semiconductor companies diverted production to consumer electronics during the worst of the COVID-19 slowdown in auto sales last spring. Global automakers were forced to close plants to prevent the spread of the virus. When automakers recovered, there weren't enough chips."

So it should be temporary.
There are lots of non-reliable narrators on FB and Twitter (I ironically liked a witch's Suggested Page on FB just two days ago), that's no valid reason to ban them.
What good does Twitter do for society? Is it pure entertainment? That's all news is for most people. There is little to no actionable intelligence in nearly all stories we read. I don't think we would let evil inc in the stock market. Isn't there rules about businesses whose main selling point is access to foreign demoralization forces? People's brains are scrambled. Every time I leave twitter I feel stupider for reading it.
The democrats, at least since the 70's have always represented urban populations and the "new money" AKA wall St and now IT, while the republicans pandered to the "old money" (oil,...) and more rural, or traditional areas.

Both parties work for different kind of billionaires. For instance, most of the problems that led to the 2008 housing crisis were the direct consequence of Bill Clinton's policies when it comes to deregulating Wall St, so it was a bit funny to hear all these democrats trying to look tough on bankers when they were directly responsible for the situation as legislators. But that's the game, that's politics.
I find that the watts are not the same on the Peloton vs Kickr. Watts seem to read lower on the Peloton. What is your take?