skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a fair complaint, it is fairly dense and as something that's supposed to encourage adoption you might want to have a quick high-level summary.

On a slightly different note(and no idea if this goes against HN guidelines) but you've got a fairly argumentative tone. If you're really interested in seeing the language flourish I'd try not being as combative.

Community is just as important as how well a language is designed and based on the tone of a lot of the sub-threads here I'm not really inclined to look into Ceylon any further.
Just monomorphize the code. It really isn't a problem for compilation performance. (I predict 10%-20% overhead based on measurements in other languages, though note that I think the entire concept of measuring the compilation speed overhead of generics is pretty much hopelessly flawed to begin with.)
> Some features only exposed as GPL-only as their usage clearly prove that driver is derivative work of kernel.

The marking or not marking of things as GPL-only has no affect on whether or not using those things makes the using thing a derivative work. Whether or not X is a derivate work of Y is determined by how much of Y's copyrighted expression is incorporated into X.
You may not think this was linkbait, but I guarantee you that if this article were on HN's front page with that title, the thread would become about the title. All you need to do is look at the comments that were posted before we changed it.

Your objection is really to HN's title policy. In my view that policy is a critical aspect of this site—indeed the longer I work on HN the more critical it seems. So I have to disappoint you here; it's not going to change. Huge numbers of HN readers would be up in arms if it did, even though no reader agrees with every particular edit moderators do.
Sure, there's lots of trade-offs - you can't build anything significant without trade-offs. Also, you can still say performance is a value and trade it away for other things, eg GC. It's a bit silly to say that if something isn't as fast as C++/C right away then it doesn't take performance seriously. I don't think anyone's being dishonest in making such trade-offs - if you have multiple competing values then you need them.

The big difference with stuff like GC and re-writing stuff in go slowing the compiler time is that they are not inherent to the language. That stuff can and will improve. With generics if done incorrectly, it's more or less permanent. So I appreciate the conservatism there, and don't think it's fair (or accurate) to say that it's dishonest.
Evolution of Open Source at Netflix
> it’s not foreach from C++.

Ah the penny drops. We have a whiny C++ programmer on our hands.
Sanders will propose nixing marijuana from federal list of dangerous drugs
Superb example of inter-agency knowledge sharing and co-operation. So hopefully Iranian intelligence officers can work out how to have multiple handlers and multiple income streams and - cha-Ching!

/ bad mood /
>> there's no network effect or immediacy required

If there's enough "shared trips"[1] , there's a network effect.And actually the lack of immediacy makes more shared trips combinations possible.That's on the customers side.

And on the drivers side - more drivers you'll get, more competition, but also more trucks that are spread through space and time - which would help in finding an optimal driver - with the shortest distance to the next job , and with the end point of that job closer to "home".

> It's not a simple push-button order

Why ?

[1]Or even close to share trips - drive from A to B , and from somewhere near-B to C .Also shared trips could be less-than-truckload and that's probably why they aim at small/medium business first.
You can say that again...
Weather is a chaotic system, due to it being chaotic and the lorenz attractor maximum three days of weather can be forecasted.

"While we can typically predict general weather patterns up to 3 days ahead, predictability for detailed local weather such as rainfall or fog formation is much less."

see more here
http://research.metoffice.gov.uk/research/nwp/ensemble/conce...
> Amazon don't distribute any of their Xen-derived code,
> so they don't have to give the source out either.
>
> This is something that the GPL version 3 tried to fix.

This is something the AGPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) tried to fix.
In this context, the narrative was around hiring a single individual, not moving a thousand-person division of engineers onto the project. In a large-scale system, you also have to deal with the entailments of all those thousand people: the managerial overhead, the administrative overhead, the offices, etc. "Resources" becomes more appropriate, because it is more than individuals.
The most confrontational thing I see are published comments on published papers. My PhD adviser published a paper, then a guy commented on it, then he wrote a reply to the comment, then the guy wrote a reply to the reply to the comment! The final reply ended up with some pretty crazy stuff in it. Here is my favorite quotes from his reply:

Or is it the other question, that it is “forbidden” to modify the holy NEB method of Prof. Dr. [Prof. Name]?

We propose to read the old Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Yes. He quoted Hamlet!
Let's be honest. Are Bryana's employers trying to make the workplace more diverse? It doesn't seem so given that they have a 20:1 male:female ratio.

It seems much more likely that they have chosen Bryana to represent them at conferences so that they can APPEAR to be more diverse. She's a token female in a majority-male environment. If they cared about equality, they would participate in programs targeting younger girls to get them more interested in STEM jobs.

The issue isn't in staffing, it's in education. If you want to change the culture of the STEM world, look to the schools, not to the tech conferences...
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PublicVotes – Ethereum-Based Voting Application
Probably the root of the issue is that it's slightly more complicated than syntactic sugar:

"Unlike regular variable declarations, a short variable declaration may redeclare variables provided they were originally declared earlier in the same block (or the parameter lists if the block is the function body) with the same type, and at least one of the non-blank variables is new. As a consequence, redeclaration can only appear in a multi-variable short declaration. Redeclaration does not introduce a new variable; it just assigns a new value to the original."

I.e. the mix of declaration with re-declaration. I agree it doesn't seem like much but it ends up causing needless confusion. If there was a more explict way of doing this, e.g.:

x, var y = 1, 2 // y explicitly declared

maybe that would be better. not sure.
Regular certs are Domain Validated, meaning the CA only verified that you do, in fact, own the domain in question.

EV (Extended Validation) certificates actually require the CA to verify that you are who you claim to be. This is mostly used by banks and payment processors, as it costs more money. Most browsers will identify an EV cert by turning the URL bar green, and/or displaying the name of whoever owns the cert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-validated_certificate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate
Why Germany? The Gotthard Basis Tunnel is in Switzerland and worker pay in Switzerland is considerably higher in Switzerland than in Germany and also probably the US
I guess there is a fundamental dichotomy here between presenting a "method" : "you can do X and Y to measure the value of Z" and presenting a "final result" : "the value of Z for system W is N". In the former case, people will absolutely replicate you, and if your method is bogus you'll be called out on it.
If you have a music budget of $120, and actually want to support the musicians you listen to, pay them directly. You can increase your music library by a dozen albums a year at that rate, and own them forever.
For what it is worth, my retired grandfather did exactly that job for many years. Swapping cars between dealerships all over Minnesota.
Turns out, it's just like being an engineer for everyone else.
This sums up my opinion on this pretty well.

On 1 I'll just say it'd be nice if append (and other varargs functions) could take multiple of individually listed and slice-expanded args at the same time. As in: `append(a[:2], 3, a[2:]...)`. I already expect append to be O(n), and this would be some very nice sugar.
Another metaphor for the fear of retribution:

Everything on that article is hyperlinked properly except for the tweet from Snowden. Although I do give WP some credit for their original stories on surveillance by NSA/other agencies.
Chrome doesn't have the ability to edit cookies built-in, either, does it? All I can find is viewing and deleting.
An aerostat is literally two things, a balloon and a rope. If they can't keep a rope tied, they should use two ropes.
Considering that 'truth' is really our best recollection of past events, why do you say that truth is internally consistent? I mean, maybe it is, but it's not a given.
As someone who was directly involved with hiring & managing Bryana let me set one aspect of this conversation to rest: Bryana's performance _across the board_ was top-notch, without qualification.

She commanded, and continues to command, respect from her peers for both her technical contributions on a very challenging tech stack, and product savvy in an extremely complex business domain. I was on her interview and there was no question of moving bars. It didn't even come up, because she was so very well-prepared. We just evaluated the performance and hired the best dev for the position, end of conversation.

On the job she spoke with authority and confidence in standups and earned every single bit of responsibility she ever got. Mention her to anyone who's worked with Bryana and you'll get the "eye roll of respect." She's so talented there was a minor running joke with a couple of us that we should keep a countdown clock of "minutes till I work for Bryana."

I only wish that early in my career I could have been half as well-rounded and with a fraction of the aptitude, product savvy and technical depth Bryana has.
I go to bed between 2:00 and 4:00 and get up between 11:00 and 14:00

It's pretty good this way, because parties at the weekend don't destroy my rhythm anymore.
Check http://convox.com if you haven't.

Discussion from HN: http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tools/395
High barriers to entry would have to be a factor in business Darwinism, wouldn't they?
This does not seem to be true for me in iOS 9.1: try this...

http://johnpolacek.github.io/superscrollorama/

The article does mention scrollerama so no idea what is going on.
Stock photos of women of color in tech
Interesting. In C++, a variable can have global scope, file scope, class/object scope, or local scope. A function can have global scope, file scope, or class/object scope. This lets you create a function that has local scope.
I have a knockoff (or a 'copy', as some like to say) Yue Minjun piece from one of these places. Aside from a couple minor flaws, it's actually fairly high quality. Having it framed was about 13x more expensive than the painting itself.
Googles New UPD Protocol: QUIC
Cool package, but it looks like it doesnt exist for TextMate
and the default dumps are simple sql files, which you can actually pipe to another server.

pg_dump -C mydb | psql -h ${some_other_server} mydb
So go to see that artist performing live where they get a far more substantial chunk of money. Buy some merchandise direct from the band.

The antiquated idea is that an artist should be getting money for doing absolutely nothing because they once recorded song months or years ago. If they want to be paid they are perfectly capable of going out and working for it.
It is suspicious circumstances to say the least.

Every image of these JLENS blimps show them anchored with a great many anchor ties, not just one (or a few). However, every report says it just "came loose" or "escaped it's tethering".

Conspiracy theory would probably speculate on some new tech being demoed or tested over Baltimore. These things are supposed to be for detecting missiles and high altitude planes, which would beg the question what one was doing blown up and ready to fly in Baltimore.
If you were a CEO brought in to fix a failing company, would your first instinct be to say "The employees must suck! We need to fire all the employees and replace them with higher-paid ones!"?

Or would you say "I bet these employees are poorly managed. I'm sure they can work more effectively if we change aspects of the process."

Here's an idea that doesn't cost any money: segregate students by ability so that kids can learn at their own pace.
My recollection from Freakonomics is they found that the children who lose the lottery still do as well as those who get in. The differentiating factor seems to be parents who care enough to enter the lottery in the first place.

Their research was based on magnet schools in Chicago in the nineties. I don't know how well that model correlates with Success Academy.
I've always thought that these addresses should have a different scheme, not a different TLD. For example, onion://aoeusnth instead of http://aoeusnth.onion

Is there any reason in particular why the TLD approach was settled upon instead of a scheme-based approach?
There is a surprising number of people who don't know how to unsubscribe. To them, the spam button is their first response.
> Right, and software development is the process of building the assembly line

It's more like the process for developing the prototype.
Also, there are a lot of species that went extinct because they encountered a predator they couldn't deal with - people. Is that a "natural process" just because it happened before recorded history?
> In the UK the price includes AppleCare (under EU law), which would cost an extra $249 in the US.

No, it does not include AppleCare. Apple must provide a limited 2 year warranty under EU law. But they still sell their 1-year and 3-year AppleCare plans.
Well, it looks like my only recourse is to mount an aggressive campaign to be the new HN moderator, take you down, restore the original titles, and eventually get run out due to various lurid scandals involving clickbots.

Thanks anyway for the reply :-)
Cue Weird Al Yankovich with the tune "Blimps just wanna have fun." :-)

I've wondered about the failure mode of aerostats like this one. I found the threat to power lines particularly interesting. If one floated across southern Nevada it could easily catch the lines from Hoover dam to LA. One wonders if the blimp should drop its tether if its GPS detects it has moved more than a mile off station. Or better yet fire up the helium compressor and bring itself down to earth. Both options seem like they could be supported by an modest on board battery (I presume these things are powered through their tether normally).
Yamaha is developing a robot capable of conducting high-powered motorcycles
I am English, not American, so I may be misunderstanding this - but I believe sales tax might prove an incentive for some states to oppose any changes to their existing laws on this.

As I understand it, local sales taxes are paid to the state where the sale is made. I assume every state has lots of car dealerships, but only a few states have car manufacturers. This would mean that if everyone started buying their cars online direct from the manufacturers then the taxes would go from being distributed around the country to being concentrated to a few states. Surely those states without manufacturers would lose a lot of sales tax if this happened, so would have a strong incentive to oppose such a change.
They lost mainly due to climate change. Ice ages, all that stuff.
> they explicitly include free AppleCare

They don't. You have to buy AppleCare if you want it: http://www.apple.com/uk/support/products/mac.html
Anyone who argues that Black History Month should be abolished is labeled as a sexist, even if they're black. You think this issue won't suffer the same problem?

The idea of using sexual discrimination to fight sexual discrimination is absurd. Women being treated differently than men is the root of the problem, not the solution.
Yes, a coercion would be unsound (at least, unless the coercion copied the backing store of the slice, which would be very unintuitive). It shouldn't coerce. I'm describing generic type parameter bounds, which are not the same thing.

(For what it's worth, I'm not sure I would bother solving this problem if I were suddenly put in charge of Go's design, given Go's extreme aversion to type system features. I'm just describing what the solution to this problem typically is.)
Here the faq: https://peering.google.com/about/quicfaq.html
By whom? There's nothing comparable present now where they used to dwell.
Did someone actually pay up ? I am curious to see if there's a market for something of this nature.
To me it looks like the author of the post on the Washington Post just doesn't know how to embed a tweet, or they're used to a system that will properly identify a link to a tweet and embed it automagically.
The way I see it, fear/paranoia of incompetence is common among a great many entry-level developers/engineers, the so-called "imposter syndrome". What I think Bryana did, talk to her manager to find the real reason behind a decision, is what I think anyone, male or female, who has any doubt about their job should do.

Nothing will dispel uncertainty better than getting the facts. The bar was not visibly lowered in Bryana's case. Her manager said the fact she is a woman never crossed his mind in giving her lead on a project. The good work she was putting in over her first year demonstrated to management she was ready to take lead on a project. If we're just honest with each other, we'll all be better off.
This Is What Humanity Might Look Like in 1,000 Years
The thing the customer initially bought new was a basket of several products: a vehicle and also a financing product. If a one-day-old vehicle cannot be bundled with the same financing product and must instead be bundled with a more expensive one, nobody would pay the same price for the vehicle so it must now be sold at a lower price, hence your "depreciation".
Much of the total environmental impact of a car is in the initial manufacturing. The idea would be to increase the average age the fleet. It is plausible that this might actually have more of an environmental impact than increasing mean fuel efficiency. However, I doubt subsidy would actually defer the age vehicles are scrapped unless it is structured to encourage certain types of repairs. Implicitly this already happens somewhat with registration and property taxes taking into account market price and in some states car age, so perhaps a cross state study could be done to assess impact across states empirically.
>I just don't see a clear defense for mass gun ownership without oversight though.

Well, there are several federal[0] and many state[1] gun regulations on the books, so I don't know where you get the idea that gun ownership has no oversight.

Further, in the Heller decision, Scalia writes:

>There seems to us no doubt, on the basis of both text and history, that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms....

>Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_...
Software is very hard to do well, and you're right that many in-sourced projects fail or suffer extensive problems. But when you outsource, you keep all the normal, natural problems of software development and add many more enormous burdens and difficulties on top of that. In my experience, the failure rate of outsourced projects is much higher than that of in-sourced projects. We can't gloss over the differences by just saying that they both experience failures.

I agree that capable engineers are very important, but I have seen more than one project with high-quality engineers fail. Of course, you very rarely get high-quality engineers with outsourcing.
Not to mention electric is not viable for long haul heavy trucking (for the foreseeable future).
It's not necessarily that companies are ridiculously lax; it's that lost / forgotten passwords happen at a rate millions of times hacking attempts. You can do things like require government id to recover a password which will probably go a long way towards insulating you against hacking attempts, but it will piss off millions of people who lost a password and want to be able to get a new one in 30 seconds or less.
I've been bitten by #5 quite bad. Ranged over N elements in my slice, took the addresses of the values, copied to new slice. Ended up with a slice with N identical values. !?!?!? Took me about 30 mins of staring, printfing and whatnot before I understood what was going on (the loop variable containing the copies is mutable so you end up with pointers to it throughout the whole new slice. And at the end the value of it is the last element in the range. So I saw N*the last element when printing the result).
What about used car dealerships?
It's trailing 6,700 feet of cable. That's some rope.
>those who can afford to move into the area where their kids get zoned to the good schools

And who care enough to move (showing a massive parental interest in their child's education).

This is why using test scores to compare schools, be it charter vs. public in the same district or public vs. public in another district, is inherently flawed.
uShip has been doing this for a while, curious as to what competitive advantages Convoy is going to bring to the space.
Move over standing desk: this one reclines
Duane Reade was bought by Walgreens several years ago
> And the perfect mascot.

Almost. It needs the eye of Sauron on it as well.
I worked on a project with go, and initially i liked it. Because the new way of thinking, and the fast compiler.
But both the error checking, missing of generics, and missing of real functional programming paradigmas, required me to write something very simple in a complex way.

I concluded that a simple webapp, is better written in python, and go was not the way togo for my project. In python you can quickly generate json from objects (yeah you can in go but only with ugly string comments). All in all, go has its place, but when you start a new startup, watch out with go initially.
Safety's overrated. Disrupt everything. We're building up a new world and if you can't get behind us than you're out of luck.

Eventually, we're all dead. What's wrong with speeding up the process.

#efficiency #leverage
Wait… Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?