skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great explanation. T-Mobile wins provided they can keep this up. At some point, for the most popular content, they're going to need to address network congestion and service impacts. Even if people opt-out, network congestion from the more popular zero-rated services will affect everybody. Who knows - maybe that's their end goal so they can then "legally" manage their network as they see fit? I'll remove my tinfoil hat now.
This is a wonderful post. For anyone who'd like to see a nice intro to decision trees insofar as how they apply to machine learning, this is a nice post as well: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
Did you run your name by /anyone/ whatsoever before posting this? I can't imagine that if you'd say, asked three people, one of them wouldn't have laughed at the very suggestion. IED indeed. This is the sort of silly mistake one can only make if one is acting in isolation: to me it's super important in life to be checking in with people constantly when making decisions like this. Typically a couple of people will do it: after that, for me in my circle anyway, the returns diminish. What a waste of people's time and energy on this forum, just because you didn't bother checking with people (I'm assuming). It's kinda selfish of you, in that sense. Well, good luck renaming it, and good luck figuring out where you went wrong.
C is about as "clear" as one can get, other than assembly.

Most other languages hide away implementation details that are critical to writing an operating system--how would you handle, say, interrupts?
Is there anything in there to support your assertion that it would be against the law?

I'm interested less in getting a pile of links but more hearing why you think it would be against the law.
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--Says puppet account, with lifetime negative karma
Good question about toll-free numbers. I think the difference is that a business pays their phone provider to do toll free service. It's closer to buying a better line to the internet than it is negotiating with individual consumer ISPs for preferred service. Competition rather than the ISP taking advantage of being the only path.
If my school had decided to teach operating systems using some non-C language because it's "more clear," I can only imagine that my development as a programmer would have been delayed by years.

Sometimes education is about pure theory, and sometimes it's about how people do things out in the world. I think this is a case where the second approach is much more valuable.
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Interesting. What I've heard about Google Go is that the design choices make it very difficult to implement a repl in. So I would expect any other language that compiles to it to be subject to the same limitation, making it a rather poor fit for a Lisp... but maybe I'm missing something?
Is posting support for Paris on Facebook narcissistic, or heartfelt?
I don't see how they were going to get underground roadways to work two levels deep with the Florida water table and rainfall being what it is. Even if they could keep the water out the tunnels would be perpetually dank and unpleasant.
Mead almost certainly didn't say that one:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead#Disputed

(In quotology, "disputed" means "almost certainly didn't say".)

It's mind-blowing how few famous quotes were actually said by the people they're attributed to. Churchill, for example, veering wildly off topic, never said the thing about ending sentences with a preposition, never said the thing about having no heart/brain if you don't/do believe in socialism, and (prepare to gasp with dismay) never said the thing about drinking the coffee if Lady Astor put poison in it. And Lincoln never said the thing about fooling all of the people some of the time. Yeah, the rabbit hole goes that deep.
So the author is at a loss for the real solution, because he didn't come up with any in the entire article. Except for not retaliating, which I don't think is a solution.
You only explain the benefits from the workers point of view. What about the customer? Why should someone opt to buy work from remote employees instead of having them on-site?
Yes, but this person is standing in a PHYSICAL Amazon bookstore, with the book in their hands, and buying it online for $11 more...
From your team's perspective:

It's so team members can get in touch if they need to. It's also about signaling when team members can't get in touch. Both are important since they are implicit to an office but something you need to be careful to correctly define/signal when you are working remotely. Note that it doesn't have to be 9-5 office time, just needs to be hours people expect to be able(and not able) to get in touch: 12-8 your local time? Go for it! Whatever works so you can maximize you and your team's work/life balance :)

From a personal sanity perspective it's as firebones says in reply.

FWIW, I -- and most engineers -- fall victim to the the personal sanity perspective rather more frequently.
> 3. Great dependency (package) management

Eh... Then why are people experimenting with vendoring?

> If you check other languages against the list they lack at least one of the above. If you feel any other language is better suited please tell.

Ocaml checks all of them. So does Haskell (with stack package manager), with only the low memory requirement being challengeable since many aren't used to optimizing lazy evaluation.
I still have no idea what you are trying, and failing, to say.

But I will reply to this line:

> Considering how long, say, Iran has been working on concentrating uranium, just how the heck did the first country in the Mideast get the critical materials?

I'm sure you've noticed that technologically Israel is light years ahead of Iran, and on-par or even ahead of the US. They most certainly could have purified the materials themself.
I just don't understand why the responses to this post are all defending working remotely. Working remotely can be hard and still be the right thing for you. Getting defensive and downplaying all the problems with working remotely just means that we can't have a real discussion about how to solve those problems.

And what's more, it's creating a false dichotomy: there's no universal right answer to whether remote or in-person is better. Remote work is the best way for some teams. But it's certainly not the best way for any team I've been on, mostly because I'm far too extroverted to work on such a team.
Is slow release melatonin available in pharmacies OTC? I haven't heard of it. (I'm in Canada)
The traditional socializing gets in the way. Making protocol working groups and manually implementing them. Or meeting at conferences to decide things.

The modern approach to contrast is a semantically versioned registry like npm. The next step is to do something similar with web assembly that can handle many programming languages.
The nigger brain thinks that lottery ping pong balls are artificial intelligence.

NO, silly nigger, the ping pong balls are random. It's not artificial intelligence.

NIST random number beacon is certified random numbers. They have ping pong balls.
In my experience, yes.
I think you might have hit it with the "intellectual" aspect. Which is curious, in some respects because booksellers are mere merchants rather than producers (artists) one might stretch it and say they are curators (but any merchant is a curator).

With regard to knives, there are some people who do sit down and discuss process and knifemaker and tradition, history of a particular blade, provenance, etc. So it does happen. Chefs tend to have favorites. Swordspeople tend to have favorites.

But I have to admit, I think your point about perceived "intellectualism" might have merit (and explains the book part, but not the bookstore part but perhaps it's social aspect of the bookstore as you imply.
Awesome article, brought back memories but I'll admit I haven't travelled Vietnam anywhere up north or by any similar mean, just train and buses. I should try the ride by motorcycle sometime.
That's an inaccurate interpretation of the guidelines, which make no attempt to exhaustively define civility. Exhaustive definitions are the worst thing to try to come up with, because then people will claim that if something isn't listed it must be fine.

Your statement "Zuckerberg is a very bad man" is both unsubstantive (because it's cartoonishly simplistic) and uncivil (because it's an absolute denunciation). It contains no information besides that you don't like Zuckerberg—which is very little information—and squanders it with vehemence.

The rules of civility don't suspend themselves when you're talking to or about someone whom you suspect of being bad. On the contrary, it's precisely for such situations that the rules exist. If you like someone and think they're good, you'll be nice naturally. It's when you dislike someone and think they're bad that you need the discipline to conduct yourself civilly, because like everyone else you owe that to the civic order.

Civility exists to prevent things like people jumping up with a knife at a medieval feast table. On HN the guidelines exist to prevent the internet forum equivalents.
Aren't they "lock-free" though?
So this person went to the actual bookstore Amazon is trying out, bought someone from the website of another retailer, and then went to that retailer's actual store to pick it up. Way to stick it to the man!

Unless of course "the man" is the oil company who actually ended up profiting from that extra trip you made (unless of course that person took public transit or a bike or walked or something...) and your time you wasted...
Practice makes perfect. Find opportunities to engage with native English speakers and spend as much time conversing with them as you can. You might try reading English literature out loud as well. Maybe repeat lines from English language television shows and movies, etc. If you don't want to waste time on "mindless" entertainment, do the same thing with TED talks or talks from Strange Loop, or whatever you can find that is educational and informative in its own right.

Download a shitload of English language podcasts and listen to them when you have idle time. There are all sorts of podcasts to pick from, but here's one I like: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

I'm not sure how (easy|hard|possible) it is to lose an accent at 29, but I would guess you can radically improve your vocabulary and use of idiomatic English through practice and exposure.
You will find a lot of people, especially here, in support of the future of self-driving cars.
You can come to all kinds of satisfying conclusions, when you ignore the fact that a lot of the productivity gains of the developed world comes of the backs of dirt cheap labor in the under developed world.

It's a safe bet that, for the most part, the human in the loop computing is going to be built on the cheapest humans available.
What's amusing is that Bayesian reasoning is what human beings do all the time. Most of the -isms that people can do (racism, sexism, ageism, etc) have to do with taking the prior (what already I know about other similar people) and applying that knowledge to the new person. It's "too hard to understand" and yet all kinds of people are doing it every day.
Craig here. Thanks for reading!

Yup, I was alone.

I think a cyclocross bike with slick tires would be the best choice, assuming you want to do 100+ mile days. The 28mm tires were fine–the issue was fork clearance when they started to pick up dirt on the wet sections. If you wanted to ride on the dirt (mud) roads here you'd want at least 35mm.
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Allergic? I'm curious as well, but that's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. :S
I think an OS class isn't meant to prepare you for working on the operating system. The vast majority of people that take an OS class aren't going to work on OSs, but they should appreciate how everything works. Using a language optimized for communicating "how everything works" clearly should be a priority!
"That Islam allows a way for them to recruit does not mean they are Islamic only opportunistic."

Lol. They are by definition Islamic. You can't just change the meaning of words like "Islamic" because it suits your point of view. Da'esh is as Islamic as any other Islamic group.
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Podunk? Perhaps, but it was already well positioned for growth. I-4 (runs NE/SW through the state) was yanked over specifically to run through town, and we had that lovely SAC base with the 12,000 foot twin runways that was recently made into a civilian airport. UCF had just been chartered, which has become the second largest university in the country.

Disney's a big deal if course - our biggest employer after all - but it's not the whole story here.
The Chinese room is a deeply confused thought experiment. It starts from the (unstated) assumption that humans are magic, and all it asserts is that computers can't be magic.

The argument even says that it might be possible to create AIs that are just as intelligent as humans, and which behave exactly the same as humans. All it suggests is that such AIs won't be magic. Unlike humans, which it assumes are magic.

That anyone ever took this argument seriously is amazing and sad.
>I mostly meant why do you think Tmobile's business plan should be controlled by the FCC but Google should do what it wants.

The FCC controls TMobile's business plans in the way the FBI controls organized crime. If the principles of the Internet are to be maintained, traffic prioritization as a monetization scheme needs to be carefully monitored and most likely snuffed out.
But salesmen are not the owner of the stuff they are selling. You should own the stuff (patent etc) and should be able to sell it to people.
Not quite true. As long as the frequency of the dynamic load isn't too slow relative to the natural period of the wing, then not all of that force has to be resisted by the wing connection. That's why wings are flexible, why we put shock absorbers in cars, and why flexible buildings can be designed for lower seismic loads.
There are many reasons using sexp's can be better than just writing Go including but not limited to:

- structured editing of source code
- macros (dry, dsl's, etc)
- if your Go code uses interface{} everywhere you'll probably have more of an advantage using dynamic typing anyway.
What? No co-occurrence between Fantine and Cosette?
My point was that if I fry or BBQ something and then later reheat it in the microwave, the damage was already done, so the fact that the microwave is safe does me no good. I agree that the microwave is a cleaner way to cook vegetables, for example.
Scientists with reasons to be cheerful
Great story. It reminds me a special episode of Top Gear [1] when they went to Vietnam and travelled across whole Vietnam by bikes they had to purchase there with the money "producers gave them".

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Vietnam_Special
Have you ever talked to one of the many people who write Lisp,scheme, or Clojure for real world applications and even get paid for it.

There are many advantages to writing real world applications in a lisp.
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http://www.shenlanguage.org/
The 5mg slow-release tablets are available through pharmacies, whether they're OTC depends on the country/state you're in. Best bet: buy online. It was the only way I could experiment with oxytocin (the hormone released after orgasm/pair-bonding etc, not to be confused with oxycontin).
And what exactly is wrong with people getting lots of practice writing and lots of practice coding? You don't need to read what they've written.
A very cool paper! But it has in fact been superseded by subsequent research: the actual number of tie-knots is much larger—at least in the tens of thousands. The insights that led to that research on top of the Fink and Mao paper are described in this essay that then uses those ideas to illustrate the idea of language-oriented computer security: https://medium.com/message/necktie-knots-formal-languages-an...

The paper itself is titled, appropriately, More ties than we thought: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-2/
So, STEAM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics? One of these is not like the others.
Damn, well sorry. That was the best I could come up with on that one.
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Awesome trip. Though even many Vietnamese don't want to travel HCM highway. You make it looks fantastic, now I need to go there too.
Yes, and that language is C. C is a very simple language, and it's very clear. If you're writing anything that interfaces directly with the OS, you'll need to know C.
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I went through my school's version of this class on xv6, and wow, what a trip. After thinking hard and working hard on things I never had a solid grasp on - filesystems, virtual memory, interrupts, multitasking - I now appreciate and understand things going on after a call to fork() or exec().

For my final project I implemented a simple threading library based on the interface that pthread() uses. It's amazing how beautifully simple kernels can be.
Source available on GitHub: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public

Unless I'm missing something, the entire codebase is just 102 files (including README and such), no subdirectories, and 12,000 lines.

What a fantastic tool.
It is in the US. In my brief research I haven't found much in the way of negative effects. So, I would expect it to be pretty common. My only notes are that for sleeping, the dissolve under the tounge tablets work better than regular swallow pills. And, you don't need more than 1-2mg. I see 5mg doses sometimes. Don't know who needs those.

Never thought it would be good for hangovers though. I hangover easily, so I've had lots of opportunities to research treatments. My current routine is pepto&antacid for nausea (because not much point in taking other stuff if it won't stay down). Then water, NSAIDs (hangovers have lots of cold-like effects) and salt for the bulk effects (bonus points for potassium). Then get up and get moving and breathing to help your liver oxidize. Then sugar (lost with the salts during urination), b-vitamins (will also be low) and grease (unclog your gall bladder).

I have melatonin lying around. I'll have to test adding it to the routine next time I have too much fun and forget to stay hydrated.
I imagine that's the point. They enhance each other: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054887. No doubt sciences foster artistic success too.

This is a close-to-home question over here. The fact that William Blake can spend time on the front page of HN alongside ZFS is in my view the best thing about it.
Practically speaking, modern science applies priors via funding decisions. Only variables that fall within the range what funders consider "worth testing" will be tested.
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How timely. Right now I'm sitting in a house on the beach in Tolú, Colombia. I work remote 32 hours/week for my employer in Denmark doing development, sysadmin and consulting.

I'm here with my wife and my two kids (4 and <1 years) and we've been on the road for almost a month.

So far it's been great. It took a few days to get started with remote work; tooling, getting the computer set up for low bandwidth work etc. I don't have fixed working hours, although I try to work a few hours in the morning and then 3-4 hours at night after the kids are sleeping. That might change soon, though, as I think we'll have to incorporate a proper siesta after lunch for my wife and the kids' sake; I'll probably use that to work. It's just too hot in the middle of the day here to do anything if you're not used to the heat (and even then -- the locals have siesta as well).

We're staying in this place for three more weeks (been here one week), and then we're off to another place. Currently it looks like we'll buy a used car to avoid some of the hassle of traveling with kids and to be able to see places off the beaten path. We're talking about heading North to Santa Marta, but nothing is planned yet.

I've been working from home in Denmark for some months before we left, so my family is somewhat used to me shutting them out when I'm working (or trying to). Re: work ethics: I guess it helps loving what you do -- although the beach is really inviting when it's pushing 35 degrees outside... Realizing that the reason why we're even here in the first place is due to the trust of my employer helps as well!
1. Listen (a lot) to speakers/recordings of whatever accent you like

2. Read (a lot) of anything you find interesting

3. English grammar = memorization. We inherit grammar points from Old German, Old French, and Latin. The result is that native speakers mix and match grammar rules and it sounds weird when using a certain rule in a place where it logically should be OK.

It sounds like most of these problems can be solved with bulk exposure to the language. I know, easier said than done.

Also for the grammar, it would be good to have structured learning rather than just listening/reading to random things. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/v... seems to be a decent resource, and British grammar is 99.99% same as American.
No mention of the IP value/licensing of these human signals, sometimes unwittingly donated?
I still need to determine whether it's worth reading. Private diaries/libraries are still useful, both for the writing and for the lack of publication.
I've heard a lot about this from people who do work at STEAM events. Arts are allegedly just as important as the rest of these, because creativity and artistic design are part of the manufacturing process.

I keep my mouth shut, because I don't want to hurt their feelings, because they do a lot of good work with helping kids into the STEM fields, and because they're genuinely nice people. (I can be kind of abrasive, and they're doing good work. So I hold off.)

But I fail to see how the color of the packaging affects how tough parts for the space shuttle are. Is it about promoting creativity and free-forming content into Engineering and Science, etc.? The webpage says a whole lot of nothing. I'd be willing to rethink my position if I understood the concept a little better (because I am clearly missing something).

Also: friend attends RISD right now. Will ask what he thinks of this.
> Social justice types ...

Who, specifically? Nobody said that. The person you are criticizing is your own fictional creation.
This is not good for STEM, and this is not good for women. If the attention and effort to encourage women, children, underrepresented minorities, etc. in STEM gets diverted into "STEAM," then there is a high likelihood that many groups will tout increased enrollment of women but funnel the women right into the A in STEAM. (Not necessarily on purpose, but for the same complicated reasons that women are underrepresented in STEM right now.) And then we're in the same place we started, but with less visibility into the problem.
During a hangover, oxytocin levels are low -contributing to the bad mood. As a topper to finish off the hangover routine I listed above, having a oxytocin hit (by whatever means you have handy) can help wrap up a hangover recovery.
If you're not a Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, or Jebusite, you should be safe.

That's not a snark, by the way. Contrary to popular myth, the Bible doesn't prescribe warfare on any extant nation, group of people, or region.
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On the plus side, I've trained with direct students of some of those amazing soldiers. I've heard a bunch of stories of epic bravery. There's an awesome heritage of stick and knife fighters that were just crazy brave.