skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original code seems like really bad way to check validity of parameters. Is this type of programming common in some languages? I have never seen similar code in Java.
One major difference is that the printed book has hyphenation.
Solar Farm Rejected Amid Fears It Will 'Suck Up the Sun's Energy'
> As for the Ewoks -- it seems pretty clear that the Ewoks were already engaged in combat with the Empire before the Rebels arrived -- Warrick kills a stormtrooper when rescuing Leia, and Han and Luke are caught in a trap that seems like it would've been set for imperial forces. (I think one could argue that the Ewoks before the arrival of the Rebellion were operating an insurgency against the Imperial forces.)

Now that I think about it, judging from what the Ewoks do when they catch Our Heroes, they may have been hunting stormtroopers for food. There's a creepy angle on the whole thing that I'd never considered.
Well, maybe the Spotify API could allow access to what you want. Though you don't get access to play count / history data, you could indirectly get it by scrobbling to last.fm.
NBC is not bidding $1 billion out of the goodness of their hearts. They are submitting a bid that is greater then other bids. If ESPN and Fox Sports (FSN) have less money for bids due to cable cutters, NBC (and CBS) can lower future bid amounts.
iTunes Latest Version for Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10
How does this compare w.r.t Gerrit?

I see that an advantage is that it doesn't require server-side setup. But wouldn't one require some sort of central repo to coordinate code reviews and CI tests?
> But if you personally prefer to stare at dongs all day, you'll still have the internet and politics.

It's easy not to stare, you literally control your eyes. You can direct them upward. As a male (assuming heterosexual) do you find it impossible to not stare at women's cleavage? If you can look away from that, and you're attracted to it, then why would looking away from other men's genitals be difficult when you're not attracted to them?
In my experience they do pay attention. Mine responded and even helped.
I don't know about your auto insurance company, but mine has "preferred shops" and I presume the reason they are preferred is because they have negotiated some form of discount.
> Generally speaking I hate dumb stuff.

When people say that, I think what it usually means is "I place the label 'dumb' on anything that differs from my personal preferences".
'“In fact, we just hired a young woman from Stanford who’s every bit as good as her peers,” Sequoia Capital investor Mike Moritz said in an interview with Bloomberg, titled Sequoia’s Moritz: Looking for Women to Be Partners. “And if there are more like her, we’ll hire them. What we’re not prepared to do, is to lower our standards.”'

Pro tip: don't brag about how great you are at diversity by starting from the assumption that women are inferior.
Does your Google clone also include the search infrastructure behind it (in the same way as this project includes a streaming server)? Because then yeah, it is a Google clone. And just like this Spotify clone, the data stored in that infrastructure would be your own, not Google's.
Re: 1. -- I find the recommendation engine ABHORRENT.

Disclaimer -- I have only recently started to use Spotify on a daily basis. And typically I am playing an already known-good-to-me Artist channel, and I am admittedly a newbie to using spotify in general.

With that said though, there was some feature, I believe it was called "discover music while you listen" or some such thing that would play some other artists amongst that which I chose to shuffle/play.

The genres werent even in the same galaxy!

I listen to EDM and industrial almost exclusively. It was interjecting Taylor swift, some country-sounding stuff and some other stuff that I couldnt identify but was the complete opposite of the spectrum from what I was into...

Further, finding a particular song that has the same word in the title as some song that is being heavily pushed seems impossible.

There is some band called TOVE LO -- and any time I search for a song actually titled "habits" not by them - the only thing it shows me is this TOVE LO page...

so, yeah - my experience with their recommendations has been worse than sub par.
Show HN: Anonymous journaling app that shows you similar thoughts
Million-dollar aircraft tend to have people on them, while $30 drones don't. I think that's what he was getting at.
There is no either-or. There are no sides, only players. I doubt you predicted ISIS in 2011, and neither did the State Department. They saw an opportunity to knock out an old adversary with a lot of oil money that they couldn't trust and it didn't quite work out the way they hoped. Who's to say that if he stayed in power he wouldn't swing back towards terrorism if it proved advantageous? An autocrat will do what they must to stay in power, and if it meant placating the terrorist groups, he may have very well done that. It doesn't make him any more or less evil than any killer of innocents.
May of these issues are still relevant to embedded systems with limited resources.
"Why Gaddafi in 2011 then?"

I would like to know too. All those movements in the area are far to be clear now to us, humble people without access to Top Secret documents.

I suppose we will know in 15 or 20 years. One thing is for sure, it was not motivated by a interest in the welfare of the Libyan people (or people in general).
As long as you don't write low level algorithms, you will most likely not be affected as an engeneer. Imagine you call list.sort() now and in the future.
Please look at this PR https://github.com/AntoineAugusti/feature-flags/pull/4
I think the point is that Leopold of Belgium, who ordered the atrocities, and the civil service that condoned or encouraged it was highly educated. The world's pioneer in universal education voted for Nazis as the largest party in the Reichstag and implemented the Holocaust. One of the most despicable people behind atrocities carried out by that regime held multiple doctorates. Many peasant societies have been relatively peaceful.

Sure, I don't think the present European powers would take quite the same approach to Belgium, but that has more to do with the nature of politics rather than the availability of education.
I signed up for a NYTimes digital subscription. They made me an offer for 6 USD per month, for 2 years, opt-out at any time... so I bit the bullet. I try to improve my English, so I try to read non-tech related curated content as much as possible.

The amount of articles is astonishing and I have to say that the quality is top-notch.
Have we lost the ancient art of ignoring? And do we have only stare or hide as responses to nudity in people we have no obligation to interact with?
That was in response to "I personally prefer to see/show from time to time"
Dear Black People, you suck at Diversity.
Dear Asian People, you suck at Diversity.

Yes this is really getting us somewhere. Thing is, no one has ever really proved that physical diversity (aka genetic racial diversity) is any kind of benefit to the success of a group in business. Somebody stating it doesn't make it true. Think about it. A room full of north American whites will represent a HUGE diversity of thought, interests, backgrounds, knowledge, politics, temperment and genetic history. You walk in there and say, "you really need a black person in here" It just sounds juvenile, envious and the only racist in the room is the one who claims that there's too much white.

Knowing this, we know the author of the TC article is the racist and that can easily be uncovered, if not blatantly obvious.

You want problems solved and amazing things created within a small or large group, toss out expectations that melanin and skull shape or the bridge of the nose will matter.

If anyone wants to argue physical characteristics, there's really no race with more diverse feature and backgrounds than Caucasian. All the hair colors, skin pigment ranges, eye color. Caucasian's are the most diverse race on the planet.
...huuuuuuuuuuuuh.
A Chinese company is why I'm kelukelu.me instead of kelu.me :(
I've done this package to get better at writing Go, therefore I did not implement everything yet. I just implemented it here: https://github.com/AntoineAugusti/feature-flags/pull/6
Toyota's sold in America are largely American. Currently the Toyota Camry is the 'Most American Car'.

Though, the prius is made in Japan currently with plans to move production to the US.
a privileged black gay female living an a upper class American city... negatively generalizing about an entire race of people.

These people have become a parody of themselves.
What are some of the most surprising complexities?
Also, songs in an individual artists library can vary WILDLY.

There are some artists from whom I truly only like one single song from their entire catalogue.

Others, I like every single song, but that is super rare.

And I dont have the time interest or energy to actually attempt to tag or classify music and songs that I do like -- so I just pretty much am stuck listening to the same thing or actually getting individual recommendations from real people.
Facebook's mental health problem
“Programming in D” ebook is at major retailers
China's Baidu says to develop self-driving buses within three years
Singapore has a famously heterogeneous population. Historically, it has had a population of ethnic Chinese, ethnic Malays, ethnic Indians, and ethnic Europeans. Furthermore, there have been tensions between the various ethnic communities since Chinese, Indians, and Europeans began displacing the native Malays. There were terrible race riots in the 60s in Singapore. Singapore is blessed by geography, but it is not blessed by ethnic homogeneity.
> Syntax is not an obstacle for a proper macro system, as demonstrated by Template Haskell, Nemerle, Katahdin, PFront and the other meta-languages not based on S-expressions.

Also see Honu[1], which effectively brings Racket's syntax-case into a curly-brace language.

[1] https://www.cs.utah.edu/~rafkind/papers/honu-2012.pdf
They'll all break eventually ;-) — We know that, that's why encryption progresses. The question is only: How fast do we have to progress in the future?
It's more Twitter than Facebook for me, but same problem.
That's the big problem with the modern workplace, right? It's impossible to be an expert in everything, and so you need to quickly judge who the experts are and defer to them. And it's made doubly difficult because competence and confidence are often inversely proportional: once you've put in all the detailed study necessary to actually become an expert, you understand just how much you don't understand.

Anyway, I'm actually with the article on this one: it's on Linda to learn to speak up and become more confident. Why? Because of game theory. The situation where everyone projects a realistic assessment of their own confidence is not an evolutionarily-stable strategy. It is trivial to "defect" and project high confidence in an area of low competence, the cost (to the individual) of doing this is low, and the chance of detection is also low in most situations. That means that any large population will tend toward being filled with blowhards; statistically, somebody is gonna do it, and then once they do it everyone else has to become a blowhard to keep up. And so analyzing this rationally, your only choice is to become a blowhard yourself, ideally while also keeping factual discipline so your ideas are themselves usually right.

Interestingly, I've seen some very good managers make their careers off of "confidence arbitrage". Basically, they learn to recognize and surround themselves with people who have low confidence but high competence. They then take the opinions of these individual contributors (which are often right, but often stated equivocally) and then repeat them to upper management with zero doubt, basically providing a confidence boost to other peoples' opinions. This helps viewpoints that are right but imperfectly stated get heard, and it makes the manager seem like a genius. Win-win for everyone.
what do you mean "these people"?
I could write a book to adequately respond to your question. In the interests of HN I will try to be brief.

Gaddafi was a historic enemy of the West in a turbulent region. His course of action was unpredictable and had a history of sponsoring terrorism. There is no way to debate a counter factual, such as whether this historic enemy would resume terrorist activities.

In my mind, the mistake was not to use force, but to leave a power vacuum. The Kennedy CIA would be ashamed.
By the time we get to 100TB iPods, we'll probably have a million-odd TB of musicians to listen to... :-)
ok, lets take a look at https://www.ampproject.org/ which is a valid amp document.

page speed insights
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ampproject.org%2F
mobile 68/100
desktop 59/100

webpagetest.org
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/151214_DW_X81/
first byte: 0.225s
start render: 0.816s
speed index: 3396

compare it to one of my sites where we did some speed optimization (wordpress based / responsive design)

page speed insights
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veganblatt.com%2Fnatuerliche-antibiotika
mobile 71/100 (mostly thx to jquery)
desktop 90/100

page speed insights
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/151214_4T_X91/
first byte:0.145s
start render: 0.712s
speed index: 797

Amp is not per-se fast(er). But for this, they crippled HTML5, basically want us to forgo responsive design (responsive is not (only) about mobile), oh, and buy into another google dependency.

and why? just because publishers are too lazy to make sites fast, and too dependent on third party crap (ads & an unbelievable amount of other crap).

As a publisher and user, I hope Amp succeeds in disrupting the way publishers publish mobile.

As a developer: OMFG, they throw the baby out with the bathwater. (they = Google, baby = html5, bathwater = internet)
No, it's for consumer subscriptions only, and commercial use is prohibited. On the same ISP, commercial users have to pay depending on IP address block size and justify how they will use the addresses etc.
If this lets you cache music locally, it will replace iTunes for me.
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The large font size might also relate to the unavailability of cheap mass-produced reading glasses, perhaps it was aimed at an educated older readership.
> I wonder how many of you experienced bullying in gym class over your body's appearance.

I did.

> The privacy of one's naked body is pretty important thing to a lot of people, but particularly to young teenagers

This isn't about school gyms, and the youngest group this article discusses is millenials, who are almost entirely adults (though the label includes some late teens, as well.)
Wow, had this set up and working in minutes on my local machine.

Needs some polish in a few spots but great work. Thanks.
Some smartphone reader apps (e.g. Marvin, for iOS) provide automatic soft hyphenation, which neatly solves that problem without requiring any effort on the part of the publisher.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Tracking HTTP/2 Adoption
Digital Domain Bets $39M on Emmy Award Winning VR Content Company
Take UN statistics for a country like Ethiopia with a huge grain of salt. It is mostly just guesswork and later revisions tend to be extreme.

It is not quite the UN's fault - I'm sure their raw data comes with caveats. It is hard for anybody to get accurate data for a country with Ethiopian-style government, administration, and infrastructure.
Generally you don't want to use latency based load balancing for short lived http/s connections when you have more than once load balancer. I had found a paper on this once with the math but I can't find it again -- the gist of the paper was that you need longer lived connections otherwise your load balancers can never achieve convergence, so you just end up with a see-saw effect.

This seems like a pretty good solution, but I'm unclear as to why it is better than JSQ with a circuit breaker (or is that basically what it is?). Maybe the second post with the algorithm will make it clearer.
Anyone tried using it? How do I use it to generate executable (as per the code it should fork the 'as')?

Getting following error:
[ERROR] main.c:144: (null): One of -a, -c, -E or -S must be specified

-c, -E and -S are working fine. Couldn't figure out from code what -a does.
diversity activists / SJWs. Losers with gender studies degrees that for some reason continually are given a platform (by white people) to spout their vitriol towards white people.
> I'd say #2 and #3 on that list are the defining aspects of Spotify for the general user

I agree. I think most users find it very difficult to differentiate between features, so Spotify is 1, 2 and 3 all together. This is a sad state of affairs, because it means users are far less able to choose a product or service that solves the problems they actually have.
How is Slack different from IRC or using netcat on a LAN?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10726624 (25 points, 1 day ago, 12 comments) The HN comments are very interesting, I advise to read all of them.
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Jet engine manufacturers run tests, one of which is throwing a chicken at high velocity into the engine. You can find videos[1][2] on YouTube; "bird ingestion test" is what these are called, it seems. (Also, my understanding is that they test with whole chickens, which I hope you're not very likely to run into with an aircraft.)

I'm not an expert here, so I'm not sure how bad these really are in practice. Judging from the videos, a chicken looks like anything from not-a-problem (video 1) to something that's not going to crash the plane, but still would appear to be of concern, and perhaps a "okay, time to land then." (video 2).

See also the hilariously named Wikipedia aritle, "Chicken gun"[3].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfXX7qppbc

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTb0QRIt0c

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
Were the Serbs in Bosnia (ex-communist Yugoslavia) an uneducated population when Biljana Plavsic would spew theories about defective Muslim genes? Were the Germans in 1939 an uneducated population?
Seems a fairly pointless tech to risk upsetting regulators over. What's the deal? "Use our <silly tech> or lose your ranking!"
I think the 'fortunately' was in reference to OP saying she was pre-transition, which I imagine might make a men's locker room experience anxious and painful, and I thank OP for bringing up that perspective because I hadn't considered it while thinking about my own locker room experiences.

I agree with you that showering after wrestling practice forced me to come to terms with nudity, and I'm grateful for the confidence boost that comes from seeing that most men look the same under their clothes. (But I don't think "size anxiety", if you will, is limited to special snowflake Millennials who haven't been naked in front of others... it seems like many men of all ages worry about it and feed into a thriving industry of enlargement scams -- at least judging by the contents of my spam folder!)
Compared to paying for a lot of useless waste of space ignoring a glimpse of a dick is not a big deal.
If you read further in the thread, you'll see that Rose created a false impression with [2].
I don't see why. Sure, the CI server would have to be involved in some way to run the tests, but a central server for "coordinating" code review is unnecessary, IMO. Now, as github (and others) have shown, a central place for code review is nice, but as long as the developers had tools that allowed them to work with the code reviews inside their repos, I don't see why a centralized service is necessary.
>> Plenty of meaningful results have been derived from effective QFT (Hawking radiation for instance).

> You mean unobservable (yet?) predictions?

Unruh effect is observed in accelerators (it warms up the particles in the acceleration rings). Admittedly it has to do more with the principle of equivalence than directly with gravity, but it would be hard to find a physicist that has an issue with this.

>> The model does break at a certain scale, but that is true for models without gravity too.

> That's kind of deal breaker when it comes to gravity.

What do you mean? All our models break at certain energy scales and of course it is a deal breaker for all of them, no matter if we are talking about the Standart Model or an Effective QFT with gravity. Yes, we do not know what happens when curvatures reach the plank scale, but there are plenty of other things that we do not know even if we do not include gravity.
In general, Medicare and Medicaid reimburse the least - the amount that they reimburse is actually less than COGS (not on all individual services, but in the aggregate, it amounts to 7% less)[2]. As a result, providers have to overcharge private insurers and uninsured patients in order to cover their own costs.

I don't understand how doctors paying less to medicare/medicaid causes them to have to overcharge other customers. If they are not making money on Medicare or Medicaid patients it's my understanding they aren't forced to see them.
Regulators Say Drone Operators Are Pilots
Again, that's irrelevant. Privacy is the exercise of the right to one's personal agency. Everybody has the right to choose to whom they will expose their naked self, and that's simply all there is to it. It's not about shame, ignoring, staring, self-consciousness, sexuality, or whatever other issues you're trying to conflate it with. It's simply a person's choice, which has entirely no negative effects on anyone else.

You've no right to demand to see anyone naked at any time, and I certainly hope you don't believe you would have that right. Why does putting a bunch of people of the same gender in a room and putting a sign on the door change that at all?
> Can we get over the generations concept soon?

No, because while only loose groupings, it nevertheless captures real and meaningful things.

> Younger people are less mature... because they are younger.

This isn't about more or less maturity, so much as a cultural shift in expectations with succeeding generations. The generation that didn't (for a variety of reasons) shower together in high school the way previous generations did, perhaps unsurprisingly (when viewed in that context), is more resistant to doing so as adults.

> I never really understood why it bothers people so much that things progress.

Cultural expectations bother people with different preference than what is dominant; so, unsurprisingly, generational shifts in cultural expectations bother people whose preferences align with the previously dominant expectations.
I just meant it's yet another model where people set prices high because they want room to negotiate down. If a test was priced at $500, and insurance was willing to pay $800 for it, they've left money on the table. Far better to price it at $1500, and let insurers reimburse for $800.
Ok, how about this for a startup. We buy a cruise ship, hire a load of doctors, plant it in international waters and boat people out for service. Might be some problems for doing certain procedures because of the boat moving but it might work in some cases haha.
Not the only one sucking at it, considered the title...
RSA 1024 bit keys are endangered. AES nope.
Don't give them any ideas!
iBooks, as well.
Sweaterify
Groove Basin (http://groovebasin.com/) has a feature like that. I haven't tested multiroom in the same place, but have used it to stream at home from the office server for example.