skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again though, how many sites do you use that have login forms that don't use SSL.

I don't know the actual numbers and it might be very high, but I suspect many people do not use any, which makes this point not very important (unlike the one about hidden services)
>that deranged person can just sit down in front of the car, bringing everything to a halt.

They can do that now unless you are suggesting running them over as a solution.
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In terms of ease of use, Parser Combinators beat most Parser Generators. (For absolute speed, Generators might still beat Combinators.)
I personally found that lane departure warning made me a much more precise driver. I like that a lot. It goes off in error sometimes too, but it's rare now that I've been trained to properly stay within the lines.
I'd say it's as reasonable as workers collectively refusing to work to intimidate their employer.
Didn't PHP also used to use the position of a fileseek as the instruction pointer?
Not long after (now) classic ASP was introduced with JScript as an option. I wrote a lot of it back then, and used JS about as much as VBScript, because I could reuse a lot of my libraries on both sides (validation in particular).
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You can always sit and wait after you get the check. This is inconvenience for some and zero value add for the rest.

If you were really concerned about not wasting people's time or talents, saving a busy professional 3 round trips would be helpful.

Or more realistically, it would result in fewer staff members for that restaurant.
It's not obvious to me why older cars are more likely to be in fatal accidents. Even though my '66 Mustang is wildly less safe in many ways, it also gets driven with much more care than what I see around me.
> it's always able to track the car in front of me perfectly

I've always wondered how this would really work. What happens when the car ahead changes lanes or exits the freeway? Have you run into any issues with weather (rain, snow) interfering with the sensor?
Sounds like the more generalized equivalent of the typical software fallacy that goes like, "There are umpty million iPhone users, if just 1% of them buys our app...."
You can jump out of your car and either rationally debate with them the merits of allowing access to the right-of-way, or jump directly to violent threats. The problem with autonomous cars as they are being rationalized to the public is that half the time the car will have no occupants at all. There will be nobody in the car to leap out and shake their fist.
This is awesome. Congrats on the launch!
Not now, no, but back in the 4.0 days (2005) GCC still used a yacc/bison parser for C; it had switched to a hand written parser for C++. The C++ yacc parser was still in use as of GCC 3.3 (2003).
I had developed a truly marvelous explanation of that paragraph but I couldn't fit it into the margin of this page.
Aren't they usually on bicycles when they do this now?

(I'm sorry, I could not resist. I tried.)
There are already personal cloud products like tonido is available on pi (http://www.tonido.com/tonido-for-raspberry-pi-2/)
They work rather very well.
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On the other hand, Facebook being built on PHP meant they eventually felt the need to dedicate significant engineering time into building their own PHP VM (HHVM) along with their own spin-off of the PHP language (Hack) to get it to work for them.
The take home here is actually that by modelling the physical process of writing you get a more accurate model. It requires fewer examples partly because of pre-training, and partly because of physics hard coded into the model structure. It's not just the atoms that you feed in, but the entire algorithm is designed around drawing glyphs.

It's not entirely clear how you'd apply these concepts to new problems. Certainly in many cases you could come up with more detailed models of the processes involved. But in others, like text understanding, it's not at all clear how you'd make models more sophisticated.
std::rand has global state. Specifying the algorithm doesn't fix that.

And this lets you (easily) generate more than just integers in the range [0, INT_MAX]. std::rand doesn't have that level of convenience.

There are all sorts of inconveniences with std::rand, and it looks like this solves the vast majority of them.
really nice, thanks!
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This story is about how useless LOC is as a metric.

But negative LOC alone is just as useless a metric as positive LOC. It's easy to come up with examples where deleting unused code is actually harmful:

- Just delete all comments

- Remove platform code you are not using now, but might in the future

- Remove reference code because you are only using platform code

- Remove test code that is just not called yet, but really should be

- Remove code from a copied library that is now harder to keep current

- etc..
I've heard many similar stories from people who have had medical procedures outside the US. Even in more developed nations, a foreigner paying out of pocket with zero insurance can be substantially cheaper than the same in the US. Meanwhile, the most common cause of bankruptcy here is getting sick. Something is very wrong about the medical system in the US.
Typically the car is not following the car in front, merely regulating speed to avoid ramming it. In my car, at least, if the car in front changes lanes or exits, then the cruise control system speeds back up to whatever speed I set it to.

This can make for some exciting speed differentials if, for example, everybody is moving 20MPH and they open up a big gap by changing lanes, and my set speed is 70MPH. But it doesn't accelerate aggressively, and this is a rare occasion anyhow.
It's very interesting to consider: What commonality, common interests, etc., in a group would be healthiest and best in some way for humans and maybe humanity?
Withdrawal and dependence varies massively from person to person as you say. I had been taking Tramadol (an opioid) at the maximum allowable daily dose for close to a year, and was told to stop by a new consultant. He told me it will be "hellish" and "worse than quitting heroin"; I stopped taking it immediately (without tapering), and the only effect was the return of the original pain.
>Suicide is the leading cause of death of mothers in the perinatal period

Do you have a source for that? Looks like homicide remains the leading cause of death of women during the perinatal period, and in general the greatest risk a pregnant woman faces is her partner.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22015873

http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20010320/number-1-cause-of-de...
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Why can't China make a good ballpoint pen?
I agree, but I'd expand on that and say that BPL and Probabilistic programming in general benefits hugely from the fact that it is interpretable and thus useful in ways that deep learning is not quite as useful. On top of that, the integration of causal concepts allows the program to generalize to completely novel situations in ways that it's unclear whether it nor other techniques can. For example, can we teach a neural net that if the sun didn't rise tomorrow people would still go to work at 9am? (As long as they weren't too freaked out of course :-) )
I would like to point out to those unfamiliar with Canberra, that if you live in one of the older suburbs with overhead powerlines (and not even on the radar for NBN), you can get Transact, which will supply dead stable 60 mbit VDSL2 fibre connection for ~AUD150/month on a business plan i.e. static IP.

Plus, the weather and traffic in Canberra is way better than Melbourne. (Longing for the weather to remain constant for more than 20 minutes...)
And if you pay enough in taxes you should get your own tomahawk cruise missile.
I feel that they have missed that train. [...] wishlist item is being able to pay at a restaurant with my phone [...]

I believe the latter part of what you said is why, contrary to the former part of your statement, their offering will never be irrelevant: They control a very large and, compared to the rest of the world, affluent part of the phone hardware and software market. The phone is the gateway...at least until simply using a thumbprint or iris scan on the vendor's own hardware becomes a thing. But that seems more creepy than using your own phone as a proxy/escrow service.
I want to live in a world where law enforcement isn't so pre-occupied dealing with traffic violations.
Yeah, and they could have switched to any language they wanted, but they stuck with PHP and created HHVM (they most likely run other languages as well).

They also felt the need to create other open source things you have had heard of, such as react.
So when my drone flies through a jet engine and causes $1m of damage, the FAA is going to look at the identification number on my done?

Impressive. Humpty Dumpty should've called these guys.
I imagine there would be tickets given out for asshole behaviour.
Huh. It seems like the justice system has been as corrupt as it is currently for a long time.
Negative LOC while retaining those things would be optimal, if you can manage to reduce the size of the overall codebase while fixing issues and/or adding features it's the best possible outcome.
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I was surprised when YC asked something similar in their application:

"If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written?"

My response ... "I personally believe that using "lines of code" is a crude metric as it favors the sloppy programmer who doesn't write compact code and discourages code reuse by utilizing libraries and frameworks."
There's probably a bathtub-shapes curve of driver care. I'm sure that drivers of classic American sports cars, at this distance from their dates of manufacture, are taking due caution. People with new cars all have ABS, stability control, and the other bells and whistles. But people who are driving the 1994 Dodge Colt were probably forced into it by financial circumstances. They don't have an investment to protect, they don't have any safety features, and they probably don't even have working shock absorbers or roadworthy tires.

I don't know if I am alone in this perception, but it has been built up over many years of being stuck in traffic on the Bay Bridge. What kinds of cars to you see on fire, on the shoulder, or being pushed off the bridge by those Caltrans wreckers? Old ones. Second-hand cop cars bought at auction. Old Japanese compact pickups with 2 tons of concrete in the beds. Cars that were going 75 MPH on emergency spare tires. Cars with no outside mirrors? WTF?

I ride the bus, so I'm biased. I think if your car breaks down or you get into an accident on the Bay Bridge you should pay a million-dollar fine and have your car and license seized permanently.
I lived in my Honda Civic in Palo Alto for a while. It was a little stressful, but my total burn was ~$300/month.

Shower: YMCA on Ross Road
Food: non-perishable stuff
Work: Hacker Dojo.

I slept in a Mormon church parking lot most nights
Yeah, I should try them. I remember a previous discussion about the old language SNOBOL having parser combinators as a built-in feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103460
I also dislike the FAB. I already wrote about it in a previous comment, here's my major problem:

It is still the last place I look on the screen to perform an action. I look at the top first, then I check the hamburger menu and only then I realize it was BENEATH MY THUMB all along. I hold the phone with my right hand and my thumb naturally covers the FAB area.
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If Nintendo had accepted it, and it was a massive hit like it was guaranteed to be (come on), we might have official versions of Pokemon and Smash Brothers on the PC now. When a butterfly flaps its wings in Tibet...
Sure, I don't doubt that. But it's not a fix to the core problem. More of a segmentation of the market. I doubt a lot of the working poor use Uber with any regularity either.
Isn't it the case that human one-shot classification tasks can rely on a pre-existing corpus of concepts that span a richer and broader area?

For example, someone who looks at a segway, won't just see the pixels of a two wheeled vehicle, and that it is axially unlike a bike, but they may have also read articles about it, and know that two wheeled vehicles without peddles or mechanisms for riders to stabilze them, imply the device has a self-stability function.

Thus, a human being could group a segway or unicycle segway type device, with BB-8 style self-balancing/gyro balls that people can ride as chairs. But to do so, they are relying on reasoning about how the device must work, not just image recognition.

I mean, I welcome all of these advances at getting better at recognition tasks, but I still feel like we're producing "Fast Brain" AI, not "Slow Brain" AI.
Nobody has mentioned in addition to drugs, talk therapy, food can be a lifesaver wrt depression. Specifically, I and a medical doctor had the same experience that taking fish oil, ie high quality omega 3 DHA/EPA was a lifesaver. Also getting off sugar+ is a huge change to the brain's chemical load.
I kind of agree! But think about performance. A fast pseudo random generator will/should create a random number in less cycles than one virtual function call has overhead. Also it's not hard to create your own virtual random class if you are willing to pay the price.
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> 1024 bit keys are endangered? Only in some broken encryption schemes.

He didn't compare anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10726624
I think you'd improve your response by answering:

1234 LOC, but I personally believe that....

IMO, the answer to a question like that begins with a number (if applicable) and contains commentary only after the number. (I agree with your commentary, just disagree with the value of not answering.)
I was going to Medellin for RubyConf Colombia and thought I'd get my dental stuff taken care of while I was down there.

To find the particular dentist, I reckoned that so long as the dentist spoke English and the office was well-equipped, I'd be fine, so I did a quick search on Google for Medellin dentists, picking the one that I found had the best copy on his website. Given that few in Colombia know a lot of English, it's a good bet that the dentist would be writing the copy himself.

If I got to the office and got spooked for whatever reason, I could always just line up another dentist or just forgo getting the work done. But Dr. Mejia was great.
> It was more complicated to fly an R/C helicopter.

God yes. This is so true. Learning to fly an R/C heli is such a huge time investment. Repairing your R/C heli when you jam parts of it into the ground wasn't cheap, either.
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> Not if many of them are afraid of being fired by speaking up. You know, the very people who need a union.

The point of a union is that if you fire some of them, you'd have to fire all of them.

> But without those laws, they have no power.

Collective bargaining still works just fine; that gives them more power than individual employees acting individually.
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Why would you make a change like that in November/December, assuming you're selling something which is popular with consumers (or with calendar-year focused businesses with budgets to spend)?
Wow. That's one of the most eye-opening articles I've read. I admit to having no idea how difficult it is, at least for some social media stars, to get by on e-fame.

The take-aways for me are:

1. If you become famous on social media, understand that it might not make you enough money to survive, paradoxically with more fame leading to possibly less income.

2. If you must make videos, vlogs, blogs, or whatever else online, do something that you want to do for its own sake. Make something that in itself is valuable. Don't make a song because you think it'll make you money or a branded informative video because you think it'll net you an audience and therefore income. Create something great for the sake of the greatness. That way, you can't really lose either way. Because, it seems, either way, you're going to lose.
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Why did you choose HTML5 API and a heavy HTTP(S) protocol instead of more lightweight MQTT or CoAP? How about security?
Similar when I got kidney stones here (Aus). Emergency dept, 3 night stay, drugs, multiple x-rays, CT scan, 3 followup CT scans over 3 months, etc. No bill in sight. I realise that I pay for it through my taxes, but I'm ok with knowing if something happens I don't have to cough up thousands of dollars.
Nowadays every doctor that is required by law(started in assam I think) to go to poor and rural areas and serve there for a minimum of one year. Things are getting way better than one thinks, there is a sense of socialistic way of doing things along with good old capitalism. Rural health missions are sponsored by the government and nurses and doctors are well paid(as per Indian standards).
No. You can recognize the importance of something and care about it a lot while thinking it's (eg) mediocre. Thinking a problem is important and having an extreme opinion of a solution are entirely different axes.
>One thing that I had not had time to do was to write a garbage collector.

Cheat: use Hans Bhoem's conservative collector for C/C++: http://www.hboehm.info/gc/
I guess pretty much anybody had defied the USSR at that point.

The coup attempt was an act of desperation.
Chris Fairman who wrote those papers, was a great teacher, but sadly he died this summer of a heart attack at 54. Thank you for reminding me to review some of his excellent work!
Why are you so butturt? :^)
I really love this story (no sarcasm intended at all). It's such a physicist's story. The recollections of Einstein amount to "he was a nice guy", but the bulk of the story is details about whatever problem she was working on at the time.
DHA and EPA are fantastic, but I don't think they should be used completely in lieu of eating fish. Two servings per week will do wonders for health.

Humans are fish eaters. Always have been. Why we don't eat it in America boggles my mind but it's a big problem that doesn't get enough mention.
Withdrawal symptoms with SSRIs/SNRIs (often called a "Discontinuation Syndrome" to avoid a semantic argument about what "withdrawal" means) are quite well documented. The symptoms are exacerbated by long term use and especially by sudden discontinuation. Medical professionals will invariably recommend a slow tapering of dosage before attempting to discontinue treatment.
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As relevant today as when it was written: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=...

People will blindly follow a tutorial online that tells them how to activate this option, and continue to contact Philips for support. I've worked on products that have these unsupported/advanced modes, and customer queries on them are constant and time-consuming, even to simply dismiss (and, of course, those customers then go on to leave bad reviews, et cetera).
Correct. P2P payments brought to you by profit-seeking, privacy-invading mega-companies are not relevant to most people.
An example file that you can share from iPhone to iPhone or iPhone to Mac is a photo.
I wonder what the various dreams even are for what to do about snow -- embedding something in the lane marker paint or who knows what.

I rather hope that individual vehicles for everyone just turns out no longer to make sense eventually and goes away.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731586
If those high targets are the only things remaining then I'd say the race is pretty close to finishing. I'd be more pessimistic if features on the todo list still included 'identifying stop signs', 'recognizing people', 'not killing people', and 'driving more smoothly than a teenager'.
That's my feeling as well. No one seems too concerned that diabetics depend on insulin shots.
Relevant section of the abstract:

> Adjusting for potential
confounders, use of antidepressants during the second and/or third trimester was associated
with the risk of ASD (31 exposed infants; adjusted hazard ratio, 1.87; 95% CI, 1.15-3.04). Use of
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during the second and/or third trimester was
significantly associated with an increased risk of ASD (22 exposed infants; adjusted hazard
ratio, 2.17; 95% CI, 1.20-3.93). The risk was persistent even after taking into account maternal
history of depression (29 exposed infants; adjusted hazard ratio, 1.75; 95% CI, 1.03-2.97).
Weird that they'd do this... They already kind of do with their My Book Cloud offerings and MyCloud Files[0].

[0] http://files.mycloud.com
To some extent this sounds similar to how people treat public transportation buses now. Drivers and pedestrians behave more recklessly, knowing that the bus operator will go through great lengths to avoid a collision.

But you raise the interesting point that it might perversely be safer to make automated cars less safe. Make them just dangerous enough that people won't be deliberately stupid around them.
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They added more than a single new function. Personally, I like what was added. For what it's worth, I generally don't need to consult the documentation for the new random facilities (for a definition of "new" that includes "four years old"), but I do need to consult the docs for the stuff in <chrono>.

> The specification, as far as I'm aware, gives no guarantees at all about the algorithm used.

You are right about that. And, in fact, the few guarantees the standard has are weak enough that Microsoft ships a standards compliant implementation that is famously limited.
There are lots of corner cases that people are unaware of, such that almost all reinventions of the C preprocessor are technically broken, but in ways that typically won't be noticed.

One of the primary authors of the standard posted a corner case where the standard was wrong, and one needed his posting to design one piece of the preprocessor correctly.

Generally when people say "why do you say XYZ is hard? I did it and it was easy!" -- they haven't put their creation into industrial use with millions of users, and hence are unaware of its flaws.

As you say, just doing the metaphorical 80% of most things is indeed easy, but not the remainder.