skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right about the value of a support system. But different people need it to varying degrees.

I think the bigger point is that when widely-respected entrepreneurs like PG automatically rule out those people who "successfully start a business by themselves every day," it can intensify the psychological blocks that prevent many aspiring entrepreneurs from starting in the first place. That means a net loss for everyone.

I've read a lot around this debate, especially on HN. And as someone a month in to their first solo venture, this idea of needing someone to keep you moving and cheer you up has been poisonous to me. I had my first moment the other night, laying in bed, when I realized I hadn't written a whole lot of code that day. I started feeling bad. "Maybe I'm not cut out for this," I thought. Or "this isn't for someone like me."

Luckily, I woke up in the morning and realized I know better. I love what I'm building without anyone telling me to love it. I code without someone telling me to code in the first place. This isn't everyone. But as mentioned in the article, the open source community is just one group of people that can build things without being externally "disciplined."
Yes I can understand this. We had a similar issue here in Australia where we let people build in the middle of the forest (tree changers they are called). The stupidity of allowing this building was found out in the last big bush fire where 173 people died.
Your friend just got lucky. I bought in May of 2007 and ended up $50k underwater with a 6.5%/8.25% mortgage.
Weebly has a free plan but you can't actually use your own domain with it[0] and your site is weebly branded. It's $8/month to remove the branding and add your domain.

[0] http://www.weebly.com/#plans/compare
Go's len() sounds nicer to me.
This is what's broken about people's ability to assess risk and address crime:

" the problem still costs some 10,000 Americans their lives each year."

Imagine if terrorist bombings were killing the same number of people each year. Maybe a plane load every month or two. Would we ask the psychologists what might be a more effective way of deterring people from bombing things? Banning them from flying after they were caught carrying explosives through the airport doesn't seem to be working well enough.
You're missing at least (a) structure padding/alignment; (b) debug info; (c) name mangling. LLVM abstracts over some of the differences but definitely not all.

In any case, just having a Rust compiler isn't very useful; you need a standard library (or at least libcore) to do anything interesting with the language, and that's where most of the porting effort comes in.
If Steve Jobs’s death didn’t ruin Apple, the iCar surely will
C# is even more annoying because there is .Length .Count .Count() and .LongCount() and different types implement different ones.
Java Annotated Monthly – August 2015
A few features from Go that can make things better and help preventing certain class of bugs:

* no parentheses for if/switch/for, and mandatory {}, no semicolons

* fallthrough in switch

Also some sweet features like

* replace while with a generalized for

* struct methods

* multiple return values (this might be a stretch)

* if with variable definition (if x := y; x<z { ... } )

* not sure if it already has but type inference
My bike stays up while moving forward even if I'm not pedaling. Forward momentum works wonders. Once it's slow enough to fall over, it's too slow to kill or even really injure you. I know you're arguing against the "losing power would kill you", but I would go farther and say that "it very well might" is only really applicable if you stall in the middle of a highway and get hit by another car, in which case even a Volvo would struggle to keep you safe.
There's a huge spectrum of options between go-huge-or-die-trying mega VC rounds and a lifestyle business that supports maybe one person.
That was my thought as well. Just to drive the point home:

> costs some 10,000 Americans their lives each year

with

> Maybe a plane load every month or two.

Would have to be 100 planes/year (at ~100 people/plan)! Imagine if you had 8 plane crashes/month due to drunk pilots!
Sorry I could not add to the discussion; I'm more back-end, and not familiar with the problem space. I can delete my comment on your thread if you'd like, but I wanted to put on the effort to check out your demo.
The article makes it sound like the usual tendency of Wikipedia to revert new contributions was avoided but tellingly they point out not all of the changes "stuck".

The fact that a coordinated gathering of actual physicists working together on these pages had anything reverted is a telling example of the poison that will eventually kill Wikipedia.

Without a coordinated list to see just which edits failed to stick I'm not able to completely back my assertion. However I doubt that these people, working in groups where they have many eyes proofreading and spellchecking at once, were submitting the kind of changes with typos or other mistakes that would be understandably rejected by Wikipedia.
Probably stating the obvious here, but the reason they stopped the practice was because people did such studies.

If bloodletting worked on any common injuries or illnesses, we'd still be using it for those cases. Even then, we'd probably have tried to find medication that produced the same benefit to try to avoid the infection risks.
Yeah that should work!
I think that the issue is that I only wanted to critique the following line of argument:

CA farmers are increasing nut trees acreage because nut trees require a lot of water, and thus nut prices are going up in the current drought, and thus the farmers are rushing to increase the production of such profitable product. (Heard on NPR)

Taken by itself, this contradicts neoclassical economics, no matter how charitably you read it. If it were implied there were more complex mechanisms whereby acreage increased even while total production decreased (as neoclassical economics implies it must), then the statement could not use the words "because" and "thus" in the way it did.

You and others have implied that I was wrong because the conclusion that nut tree acreage increased is still possible, but I never said it wasn't. I think it's perfectly fine, and important, to critique an argument as opposed to a conclusion. If I let this slide, then should I also nod and smile when someone argues that people should buy local since it makes everyone richer?
Probabilistic Models of Cognition was mentioned in the article.
This may be specific to me (though I'm using the latest chrome, latest mac os, so I doubt it), but the "share on facebook" link didn't work at all for me, and the facebook "like" link took me to a page to share the post on my timeline, not just "like" it. Didn't see any easy route to report such things, so here it is!
From the discussion linked[1] in another reply at your level, I believe the proposed automatic type conversions are only for when there's no data loss, and there needs to be explicit conversions whenever loss of information is possible. That is, it's implicit for i32 -> u32, or i32 -> i64, but not for something like i32 -> i8 (such as the int to char conversion you mentioned), which would need to be explicitly converted.

1: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/implicit-widening-polymorp...
I'm not being intellectually dishonest nor am I being pedantic. That's kind of offensive. Nowhere in my post did I suggest that behavior analysis was THE ONLY way to conceptualize "the mind" or whatever we are talking about at this point. Yet, that's what you're accusing me of saying. It's ridiculous because all of our words are above. I don't want to argue with you, but you're wrong.

Nonetheless, you are arguing with me. You responded to my comment. I would rather you not tell me what I think or what what I said, when the facts don't show it.
Origins of the rvalue, lvalue and xvalue terminology in the C++11 standard [pdf]
Excuse my math problem :P It seems to me that these factors can make people much more concerned about a danger:

A) Few but large scale killings - eg 100 planes of 100 people each seems worse than 10,000 cars of 1 person each.

B) A single identifiable group of outsiders that can be blamed. Most people drink so drinkers aren't outsiders.

But this last factor surprisingly doesn't seem to be a worry, as evidenced by people's willingness to drive, despite the fact that it sounds like it should induce terror:

C) Random sudden death without warning.
STEM OPT Extention deemed invalid – International students on f1 to affected
There are two different issues: whether Prohibition's benefits outweighed it's costs, and whether regulation of alcohol use is fundamentally illegitimate. When people invoke the "victimless crime" trope, they are talking about the latter. But if keeping certain people from drinking reduces domestic violence measurably, clearly the activity does create risk for the public. That makes it fundamentally legitimate to regulate that activity, and the question then shifts to the efficacy of any particular sort of regulation.

Put another way: why are we seemingly okay with banning alcohol use for people who have had a DUI but we wouldn't be okay with banning masturbation or gay sex even for convicted felons? Because the latter are truly victimless activities. Substance use is, in contrast, an activity that creates risk to the public but is hard to regulate without major side effects. So targeted bans in substance abuse could be effective while overcoming th enforcement side effects of a gener ban, and would be legitimate because substance use isn't a "victimless crime."
F1 STEM OPT 17 month extension invalidated by Court [pdf]
The GOP is right to be concerned about Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, there has absolutely been an appalling breakdown in the international community's willingness to care about proliferation. But they are utterly, utterly wrong in how they've handled that problem. They've acted like children, and if anything made the situation worse.
That blur step is the clever part.
Why not numberOfEnemiesOnSamePlatform()?
Seriously. Good software developers have other employment options that don't involve being treated like a criminal and having someone watch you urinate.
And this is the trap with sexist thoughts, like feminism and SJWs.

Either pat them on their heads and go "Good try", or pretend that the females you hired are "equal" (animal farm) and put them in dumb roles.
The embedded videos show some good mimicry but not much understanding.

Handler: How about coughing?
Ape: Sneezes.
Handler: That was good!

Handler: Koko, can you sneeze?
Ape: Blows Nose.
Handler: ...

Not impressed.

Just because something (ape breath control) looks like something else (speech prerequisites), doesn't mean theyre the same thing...
I respectfully disagree. Being introverted != no need to share their experiences. Every human craves to share their experience with someone and be validated (see social media). Some do it more than others and through other means.

Also, at some point that lone wolf programmer is going to need to stop building and start selling. Overcoming 100 compiler errors is much easier and faster than getting 100 nos and 1 yes. Try going through a brutal sales cycle like that and tell me whether that introvert would last without someone to ride the roller coaster with.
That doesn't exactly help me as a user, and possibly makes things worse as some things respect locale and some don't.
Except the experiment in this article disproves that possible direction of causation. If violent people were more likely to drink more, then violence wouldn't have gone down, as it did, when the courts forcibly kept them from drinking.
Why not boycott the US entirely, then? The American public is also part of the government to the extent that they vote and participate in public debate. And I'm sure most government agencies knew just as much as the rest of the country about what the NSA was up to before Snowden.
Friday Evening Reading: Peepless in Seattle
No way. Late-model Toyotas and Hondas get stolen a ton. Spare parts are still useful for tuners and sport compact car ricers.

Get an old American junker.
Ask HN: Reasonable places to live near Mountain View
I'm moving back to the Bay area after a few years. Don't work for Google but an employer close by. My original idea was to forego a car and bike .. but when I look at the rents of close by apartments, it seems insane. Is taking the VTA daily reasonable? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Oh, to be clear I meant a solo bootstrapped business. I think that's what the original article was talking about.

Certainly a bootstrapped business with employees can grow quite large.

(You can go higher solo too of course, it's just not common)
I went to school with Aaron. Zot zot is all I'll say.
Thanks! Fun was the main motivation for this project.

Parsing strings into expressions is something that math.js offers currently with math.parse and expression trees[0]; I was discussing it with the author the other day[1].

[0] http://mathjs.org/docs/expressions/expression_trees.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042470
One of the fundamental tenants of science is to strive to constantly prove itself wrong. It's fundamental.

Of course we'll make mistakes along the way. That's how you learn. Some will in fact be disastrous. Such is the cost of scientific progression. Best we can do is hope to mitigate the negative affects as much as possible.

As a counter example, despite all the negative things we read about, life expectancy and quality of life continues to go up. The system appears to be working.
I only made a clarification, not a stance on the matter.
I remember some comments here on HN a few months back (maybe longer) about how there isn't really an "ARM" to target, as since there's such diversity in what an ARM chip can provide that it's hard to make assumptions about what you can rely on from just "ARM". I believe it was in response to what is available to help with booting the system, but I imagine it extends into what exactly your runtime can rely on.
That's a very clever idea. Thanks.
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The usual problem with this kind of thing is actually events. The modifications may, or may not, add elements that need listeners attached to them. It looks like as this is now, after any update you'd have to query all such elements and see if they need a listener attached.

React has its own "Event System" to try to deal with that issue.
Holographic Data Storage
This is awesome. One of the reasons I shifted away from Pandas is it's difficulty in dealing with out of core data. Can't wait to try this out.
Realistically interdiction of yeasts producing controlled substances would be a losing game. People regularly smuggle much more obvious contraband whereas a decent amount of starter culture could be easily concealed in the average travelers personal effects and would not be detectable without dna testing that would take more than 24 hours to carry out.

If the DEA were concerned about it's ostensible mission this would be the point where they give up and start looking at Portuguese style decriminalization. As it is, expect them to start busting homebrewers and yoghurt makers and expanding their civil forfeiture efforts into creative new forms of thievery.
Ask HN: Messaging app for app to phone number based texts – any recommendations?
Hi

I am looking at building out an app which would allow for secure SMS communication. The idea is to be able to set policies for SMSes which are outbound and guard against potential FCC fines. The challenge is that one side of the communication is over an app and the other side is via generic texting. This is different from WhatsApp and FB Messenger where both parties communicating have the app installed. The main challenge here is to port an existing number to an app. So, if I text a number (XXX-XXX-XXXX), it is routed to the app so the policies can be applied. With Twilio, the app has to be assigned a new virtual number. Is there any service out there that can do this phone # mapping to an existing number? Also, what sort of infrastructure works for implementing use cases where you have generic texting on one side and app based texting on another? Any opinions/experience will be really helpful
At one point I did have an interactive example on the project page where you could manipulate an expression with a calculator-looking number pad, but after I ran it by a few friends they seemed mostly confused by its functionality so I removed it.

I definitely want to expand the library's functionality; this project has been my go-to for when I'm burnt out on other projects so I don't plan on putting it down anytime soon. Some basic calculus seems like a natural next step, though that might betray the name algebra.js. :)
I'm not going to look it up now, but there was a post on lesswrong.com summarizing health things-to-do that had evidence behind them. IIRC it recommended for men (but not women) to donate blood every year or two.
Anyone can argue anything.

The actual q is, how isn't this torture?

And the answer is, of course it is.
Most of my research has been for dealing with kids that have trauma backgrounds, and there are different things you do there.

I will say that I've found the Love & Logic series less terrible than most of the mainstream stuff, and you'll likely be able to find a local class, which (assuming you're not a single parent) can be huge on getting you on the same page with your significant-other. That made a big difference for me, as my wife and I were raised very differently.

A few snippets of advice:

* Operant Conditioning[2] works both ways: your child's behavior will affect you, and you will subconsciously avoid things that are distressing to you. Not taking this into account can cause a lot of problems.

* One thing at a time. e.g. don't potty train and teach table manners at the same time. Partly because it's harder on the kids, but mainly to prevent burnout for the parents.

* Focus primarily on having a positive relationship (versus a lot of training & discipline) with kids under about 2. It seems likely that Martha Sears[1] went overboard, but there is definitely some phenomena like "attachment." (Also, Attachment Parenting, Attachment therapy and Attachment-based therapy are all different things, and the terminology is not always agreed upon)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
Is not torture when the good guys do it!
Specially when there's a ticking bomb
Having cofounders or not is a matter of personal preference. Statistically teams in 2 or 3 do better than teams of 1.

Look at the most successful tech IPO's and funding rounds. Sure there's Amazon & Flexport etc. but those are exceptions.
Not to be a jerk but I'm going to sound like a jerk, but know it is from a position of love: linked lists and arrays are both fundamental data structures.

At the very least you now learned about them. I want you to read this: http://mikerowe.com/2015/08/otw-rejection/

And let me relate to you: I get turned down for jobs all the time. It is not because of capricious reasons that I wish were the case, but it's because of me not knowing something. Yes, it's maddening because they throw out good candidates along with the bad to minimize risk to them. The same facts happen to me and you, but try to have the perspective on them be as positive as you can.
Comparison of PySpark vs Dask:

http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/spark.html
Saudi Arabia used to have it's weekend on Thursday & Friday. Recently they've switched to Friday & Saturday.
It's useful to frame it that way -- the law is about doing two legal things, together.

Forcing violators to stop driving can seriously damage their lives (remove their ability to earn a living, see friends/loved ones, etc.), but hey, they're still allowed to get drunk!

It's seems in retrospect like needlessly cruel punishment, when "force violators to stop drinking" is the other option.
Neat.

I wonder if anyone collects a list of famous standards that have been superseded by compatible, better standards. Another example would be that many people know of ISO 639 language codes, but BCP 47 is a clearer, more relevant standard.
Nah, they just want to watch the world burn.
Well, one way to do it would be link to your open-sourced code on github (or wherever). Of course, that makes commercializing the product a bit tougher. One general approach is value-added or "freemium" services, though: the nice UI dashboard is not free.
The number seems very low, but I believe that estimate has been misinterpreted by english sources.

The figure comes from a Chinese Earthquake monitoring organisation, and it seems to say that the energy of the earthquake was equivalent to 21 tons of TNT.

The bulk of the energy in the explosion would've dissipated through the air, and wouldn't be involved in the earthquake at all.
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Lenovo does it again as LSE component removed after security fears
To immediately think to not do something is often a reflex based on memory, and not a rational decision. Training reflexes is all about applying how the brain works.

Taking a hint from dog training, if you punish a dog too late, they forget what they're being punished for. Also the severity also doesn't seem to matter. Bad is bad no matter how loud or how painful, so just keep it to a minimum and have it for convenience. Beyond that rewards work much better for training brains.
I agree. Take Wisconsin as an example. The culture here is heavily drinking based. If you haven't visited, you won't understand. Meeting friends/family/coworkers/strangers? At a bar/pub. 7 days a week. Completely normal. If you're socializing there's probably a beer in your hand. Even coffee shops have beer on tap and whiskey/scotch by the dram.

We have 3043 bars for a population of 5,664,893.
California has 3100 bars for a population of 36,969,200.

The states with the highest ratio are N Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska... Do you see the trend? We have a large % of the population without a lot of money.

Now, what do we lack? Reliable and cheap public transportation. I can drink piss beer all night on $20 but you want me to take a cab ride for $30 a few miles across town? No way. Not a chance people will voluntarily blow their drinking money on a taxi. At least Uber can be cheaper, but it's not prevalent or reliable.

Trolly/tram/train/buses to get quickly around town 24/7 for dirt cheap? You bet people would use them. But you've only solved the issue for a few major metropolitan areas; it's not feasible anywhere else. The rest of the state is rurual/farmland. After a long day of work on the farm you want nothing more than to throw back some cold ones and bullshit with neighbors at the bar. And then you'll drive home drunk, get up for chores, and start again. The cycle repeats.

I'm not condoning it. I've had many friends and family members have to deal with the consequences of their actions. But I can understand their plight. It's unfortunate.

Public shaming of drinking culture might be the only way to alter the behavior.
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So you admit he lied to Congress and the American public, but think it was justified? What do you think would have happened had Clapper told the truth?
I think all of this is explained by a linguistics 101 course (I have seen a few excerpts of one lecture).

A good reason to use symbols in communication is for reliability (which is needed in the DNA). With a discrete set of symbols you have most likely no degradation (instead some recovery occurs -- like when you interpret a poorly written letter), and with a small chance you understand a completely different symbol. This stops error propagation.

Moreover, symbols allow for easy combination, which expands indefinitely the vocabulary with a fixed cost.
The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent