skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much like this model, but I wonder how necessary it is when we have IcedCoffeescript [1], ES6 generators + co [2], and ES7 async/await [3] as viable ways of managing async control flow within mostly synchronous-looking code, all as dialects of languages that have strong adoption.

I actually think generators + co is a really strong model. Async/await gives you a slight bit of sugar, but I've realized that if you stick with generators, you can wrap your generators to allow you to `yield` more than just promises, effectively giving you something like (untyped) scoped continuations [4].

[1] https://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/

[2] https://github.com/tj/co

[3] http://masnun.com/2015/11/11/using-es7-asyncawait-today-with...

[4] http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/08/07/scoped-continuati...
FUD. Elevated energy costs are a tax on everything.

Next time you're at the mall, consider that for every 100 cars you see, those drivers have an additional $100,000-150,000 to spend vs. peak has pricing.
This. My dad taught me to some of the constellations when I was a wee lad and I tried to practice as much as I could after that, mostly because reading Jules Verne's books does that to a kid.

Turned out it was pretty hard. I only got a chance to get some decent practice during the summer, which I often spent at my grandmother's house in the countryside. Today, there's a fair deal of light pollution even there and even well-known constellations are getting hard to identify. In my home city, at bloody 4 AM in the morning, on a very clear winter's night, I could maybe see 30-40 stars from my parents' balcony, if I squinted a little.
Executives blame Samsung's failing on poor Software
It's amazing what you can do when you threaten to pack the court. When the Supreme Court blocked a lot of New Deal and state-level regulations as unconstitutional, FDR threatened to appoint enough new justices to get the decisions he wanted (there is no limit to the number of justices in the Constitution). That was the end of the Lochner era of American jurisprudence and was a tragedy for freedom. We're still suffering the consequences today.
Nice work! What are you modeling in? Any in-flight beta units of with video? Once you're considering a couple of beta units you might consider RTV molding.
As a side note, the good doctor predicted the ascent of the surveillance state:

"On a mountain halfway between Reno and Rome
We have a machine in a plexiglass dome
Which listens and looks into everyone’s home
And whenever it sees a new sleeper go flop,
It jiggles and lets a new Biggle-Ball drop.
Our chap count these balls as they plup in a cup.
And that’s how we know who is down and who’s up"
Google's results for "how many companies are there in the US" bring up a bunch of credible-looking hits putting the number in the multiples of millions.

Put another way, 2.4 million + 900,000 is a bit over one percent of the US population. I've heard the phrase "one percent" before...
Seems pretty immature. No interpolation (in either module), but I hadn't seen the SLang. That's a wonderful example of creating a DSL! But, probably not gonna be using it in production today.
There's also http://www.ohwr.org/projects/f-watch/wiki, a smart watch made by a team at CERN for a retiring researcher. It's powered by a very low-power EFM32/ARM microcontroller, uses a metallic e-ink display, the board is designed with KiKad, and has all the resources they used on the website.
Someone else can probably explain it more precisely, but the tunnel in question is needed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, a multi-deck elevated highway that took some damage in an earthquake over a decade ago. Some authorities have expressed concern that another earthquake of equal or greater magnitude might cause the viaduct to fail like the 1989 Embarcadero collapse in San Francisco, with the potential for significant loss of life.

So the decision was made to tear down the viaduct and replace it. Why not reinforce it or even rebuild it in place with modern construction standards? Because the viaduct has another drawback besides its seismic vulnerabilities: it's big and ugly. Its removal would enhance property values along the Seattle waterfront tremendously. Reportedly, the developers who own the affected property are major contributors to the Seattle politicians who have the authority to make the final decision, so fixing the current viaduct was ruled out from the start. It was only a question of which less-effective solution would be adopted.

With a rebuild off the table, the remaining options included surface-only streets, with fewer lanes and more traffic lights; a cut-and-cover tunnel, which would completely disrupt traffic in the area during construction; and the solution that was eventually chosen, a deep tunnel through unstable and poorly-characterized soils that would have to be bored underneath major downtown buildings and thoroughfares. The tunnel would have about half of the viaduct's lane capacity, no room for future expansion, and no downtown exits at all, but it wouldn't threaten the all-important view of Puget Sound, and parts of the old viaduct route could remain in use during construction.

In other words, it was one of those politically-expedient solutions where lots of other peoples' money would be spent in the process of making very few people happy. Schadenfreude was the best-case outcome, since complaining about traffic is as popular around here as football in Texas or religion in Oklahoma. But we're now looking at one of the worst cases: the engineering behind the tunnel (and/or the $90 million custom machine that drills it) is proving to be inadequate to the job, so essentially no progress toward replacing the viaduct is being made at all. Drivers are fuming, lawyers are salivating, mild-mannered newspaper columnists are discovering their inner muckrakers... and seismologists are frowning and muttering ominously.
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Except the whole reason for building roads is to get people and goods where they need to go... and many of them need to go downtown.
"""In a normal competitive market, prices will be set by the cost of producing an extra barrel from the cheapest oilfields with spare capacity."""

This seems wrong as the marginal price is determined by the utility of an extra barrel of oil for the consumer not by production cost. Sounds like a fall back to the labor theory of value (aka classical economics and/or Marxism) to me.
Drones are autonomous. Trucks require drivers. So the competition is between how quickly trucks get automated vs the total system capacity of drones for delivering stuff.
The pinyin given by op has a one to one mapping to the pronunciation, and it seems a bit inconsistent that they fully Romanized their names while leaving Ngô Bảo Châu in the Vietnamese alphabet. But even if they did (and I believe this was what op was getting at) afaik there wouldn't be a one to one correspondence between surname pinyin and character. Incidentally, my sense is that their is broad awareness of these problems, at least in academic circles, which have a kind of "your name is your brand" attitude, and its common to see both short and full names in publications.
Fatalists do the least. When you throw your hands up in resignation you're simply ceding the game to the ones you claim to hate. Life's hard, tough shit. Plenty of societies have been moved from within through citizen's actions. To imply that suddenly now it's harder than ever is narcissistic whining. There are a thousand people grinding right now to move the needle to green, and I bet not a single one of them asked for permission from "people in power".
The best part is that you can read others' predictions and they're not necessarily what you want to happen. In that case you can be surprised and actually think about the "can it happen" part.
Ask HN: Your Experience Using Soylent as a Food Replacement?
Hi,

The Soylent website estimates that the average person would consume 4x 500cal/day for a total of 2k cal daily. This would equate to 5 400cal bottles/day, or 155 bottles/month. With subscription pricing this would cost upwards of $350/month.

I don't know if I would want to completely replace normal food with Soylent, and at this price I wouldn't be able to afford to even if I wanted to.

What has your experience been regarding a balance of Soylent and normal food. What kind of foods do you cut out of your diet, & what do you keep? How does an affordable food replacement plan look, practically speaking?

I typically spend $200-$250 on normal food in a month, & originally wanted to switch to Soylent to save some money, but it appears this goal isn't realistic.
Downtown Seattle features an elevated section of highway, known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct. It dates back to the 1950s, and was heavily damaged during the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. There's no question that it's seismically unsound, and our state DoT put out this simulation a few years back to demonstrate what the next big quake is likely to do to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hos_uIKwC-c

So, a few options were proposed to replace it:

1. Surface highway

2. Cut and cover tunnel

3. Deep bore tunnel

A surface highway is, by far, the simplest option to implement: you knock down the viaduct, and repave the area underneath it (there's already a road under the viaduct—it just needs expansion).

The viaduct is a death trap, and it will kill some or all of the people on it when it comes down. There is absolutely no question about that in my mind whatsoever. For that reason, I absolutely refuse to set foot on it. There's going to be political hell to pay when it collapses and Seattleites are re-reminded that there was no reason why anyone had to die on a highway everyone knew was unsafe.
The 1989 Loma Prieta quake flattened a similar structure and dozens died horrific deaths. Seattle was content to stare at theirs for nearly 20 years, even after a 2001 earthquake damaged it and the adjoining retaining sea wall.

There was no perfect solution and that got in the way of the good. Most people had the luxury of avoiding using it. I'd summarize the overarching opinion as "suburbanites who thought it would get fixed cheaper and faster once it finally collapsed."
True, but once cleaner cars are even remotely close
In cost they will no longer be subsidized, instead the dirty ones will be taxed or banned.

The yearly road tax for a "dirty" car where I live is about $1000. If that was 2k or 3k they would be off the roads within the year...
How did Elon Musk work for 100 hours a week for more than 15 years?
>Do you understand why the government prints money during a recession?

Yes I do! Do you? The term is called quantitative easing and it is a mechanism of last resort! Amazing! And totally irrelevant to the debate! Speaking of irrelevancy, do you know what the government usually does during a recession before they resort to actually printing money? If you do you win!

>So you're really just making the spurious claim that copying is stealing, using a detour through currency forgery to disguise the nature of your claim.

No I'm not! No disguises. I am illustrating an isomorphism. Copying is stealing and the concept is EXACTLY the same as printing money.
Usually "laser launch" means using a ground-based laser to heat propellant on the rocket. These seem entirely different from photonic rockets to me, but the wiki article on laser propulsion lists them as two examples. Confusion has ensued. :)
Actually prohibition was quite effective, it reduced alcohol usage by 30-50% , according to an history professor[1]:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibiti...
I work in the drilling data industry and have access to data as well as anecdotal observations. But there are lots of published articles e.g. [1], [2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/business/energy-environmen...

[2] http://www.worldoil.com/news/2015/8/12/oil-at-30-is-no-probl...
Yep, you can also change add css directly rather than going through javascript. I just prefer for it to be saved across sessions.
Indeed that is the expectation, but to be more specific however they won't keep over producing forever. Oil prices won't be low forever and western oil interests should be claiming rights on new wells that will produce for a long time to come.

Also I am curious, do you have evidence that suggests consumption is shifting away from oil to renewables?
> but that's an even more niche market.

Tell that to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace and others. HPC powers a large swath of the internet these days.
This is an opinion piece with 0 citations. Point us to something better than useless drivel.

These links paint a different picture and make the situation appear less than clearcut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
Note how secretive Google and Apple have become.

If they're secretive despite having patents (and not having this law), how is that an argument against weakening them?
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I imagine sitting down might choke off air flow to some of the fans. They could widen it.
wajig(1) is your unifying interface friend in this space.
Package repositories are useful to download the libraries; not so much if you're looking for discussions regarding them.
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I profoundly disagree with that. Comments always end up not following the actual implementation. In this example, "self documenting" the code would be to name the function "unbufferedRead" or something similar that shows that not having a buffer is part of the contract. You make it buffered, you're breaking the contract.
Anything else is merely applying temporary (because they'll rot), hidden (because if someone is reading code that calls myVeryWellDocumentedFunction, they won't see the documentation, especially if the function is just incompletely named) and inaccurate (because the only accurate thing is the code) band aids.
There's a reason it's said that naming stuff is one of the hardest things in programming.
1/8 is absolutely not safe to use. There are many real IP addresses assigned in that range; for instance, 1.5/16 is assigned to a Japanese ISP.
Im sure you could save 50% of your after tax income, but I'm incredibly skeptical that you could do so while maintaining the same standard of living as the average plumber.

Regarding programmers doing remote work they are the exception, and probably account for 1-5% of all developers I would guess. Regardless, they are definitely not representative of the average developer - which is what we were discussing.
Considering that it's quite inefficient and written in Java, it might very well be. Especially graphics wise, it's nothing that mid to late nineties GPUs couldn't handle.
High earning parents are able to pay for prep schools, tutoring, materials. Those children get into elite schools. Those graduates of elites schools go on to elite, well-paid jobs.

"On graduation, many members of America’s future elite will head for the law firms, banks and consultancies where starting salaries are highest."

Here are some more explicit articles on the phenomenon:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-peo...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11763836/Wealthy-pare...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/upshot/rich-children-and-p...

If you'd like to read a study on it ("Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth"), you can do so here:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp9227.pdf

Here's another from Pew:

http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/assets/2015/07/fsm-irs-repo...

If you want more information, google "social mobility united states", "intergenerational mobility united states", and read "Twilight of the Elites" and "The Son also Rises."
Yeah of course, just look at the rise of solar e.g. in Germany. Thanks to Chinese price dumping, solar cells are cheap as f..k now. Already, gas plants are shut down in Germany and only kept alive as "backup plants" (of course by the consumer who pays extra fees)
I probably shouldn't bother replying to this. But I am curious about what leads a person to paint with such broad strokes.

I've intentionally chosen a job that is mostly Python. Because while I am aware that it has some flaws or trade offs or whatever you want to call them, it's a language that -- first and foremost -- allows me to write programs that work.

The fact that I find the language aesthetically pleasing is a bonus. When I run into situations where Python isn't good enough, then I drop down into C and do things there.

I'm new enough at being a developer that I'm willing to understand that there are things I may be missing out on coming from a self-taught background that started with SQL and then moved to C# and eventually Python, and then sometimes C when needed.

I'm also open to the idea that a person's language of choice indicates something about their personality characteristics in the same way that you can guess a little about a person based on which instrument they play in an orchestra or a band.

But is there really anything you can say about what I'm reading in your comment as 'rigor' based on that?
No. Inline assembly is a static construct targeting the same compute unit as the C code during compile-time.

What is needed is "runtime inline assembly" which assembles inline assembly for a different target architecture at runtime.

This is essentially what shader programs are and you don't need special syntax to support it. Just store your shader program in a char* and bundle an assembler/compiler with your host program.
You can always convert an Otto-engine car to gas fuel, and by 2050 we will be able to mass-synthesize gas from hydrogen - actually we are able to do so right now, we just don't have large scale plants for that.
So include it in a new top-level comment and everyone wins.
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>This article shows zero understanding of the relationships one has with their spouse and children. Those grow and build over time, and are the people you really will spend your time with in your elder years.

Zero understanding? What's there to understand? The article isn't set to examine the quality of human relationships, or their intricasies, just their quantity over time.

It's also obvious, at least for spousal relationships, that those wont slow down over time, you'll continue to see your spouse everyday -- so it's clearly a relation outside of the scope of the article, which is relations were "time together" diminishes with age.

As for the children, while you'll continue seeing them everyday for a couple of decades after having them, after they're around 18 you'll have seen the most of them you'll ever will, even if you're only 40 and have 40+ years ahead of you. And that's for the same reasons mentioned in the article. Especially if they move to another town/state, but even if not.
The same could be said for Python/Ruby programmers.

Pragmatism and nice code are not at odds with each other. Quite the opposite, they are often in agreement with each other.
As best I can tell, the YubiHSM is basically only useful with their Yubico Validation Server for their proprietary 2FA solution.
Yes, there's the Bvlgari crowd. But they're not the primary customers for smartphones, even Apple's products.
Do English-language publications change the way authors write their names?

I wonder if this is somehow related to Bibliography and Bibliographical software, indexes and references. If you have started your career with certain name in BibTeX without accent marks, changing it later may screw up references.
I wasn't aware the point of our discourse was for me to sell your business additional CDN services ;)

In all seriousness though, it might help to look beyond the very specific set up of your present company when asking about why other people opt for other CDN services. But for what it's worth, I've not experiences the same degree of latency issues with either Cloudflare nor Akamai that you've described. And I have done extensive load tests.
I'm with you on that. I made this so you only have to set up your drivers once on a single machine, then you can print from anything that can send an email (including your phone).
This is part of Python culture.

That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"
I was arguing that on an individual level English people don't rank higher when it comes to entrepreneurship. I was not arguing that the British Empire wasn't commercially successful or that it didn't manage to accumulate wealth from their colonies if that what you were alluding to in your reply.

English people didn't make it commercially « on their own » but with the help of their state or empire globally and this is a historical fact and thus the comparison to the Chinese, Levantines or Jews who mostly acted on personal initiatives is not apt one.
I have used Windows for the editing of web content since about 2000 or so. Before then all of my web work was in Unix, both sides, but Windows 2000 was the first version of Windows that was really any good.

Usually I use a Linux web server, but I have worked at places that use IIS and it is really not all bad. Microsoft had some very good ideas in ASP.NET that were compromised by a few mistakes, and if they had fixed the mistakes instead of creating a new MVC framework every year since then, it would be sweet.

Today I mostly code in Java or other JVM language, and can run a good test environment, if not everything on Windows but I deploy to Ubuntu Linux in the cloud.
Definitely still not one-to-one, as you pointed out. A pinyin string with tone will map to lots of characters.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ch%C4%81o#Mandarin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zh%C4%81o#Mandarin

The places that I've seen names printed in native scripts are Donald Knuth's books (look at the TAOCP bibliography, with native script names all over the place), and, very recently, the Rakudo Perl 6 release notes.

https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/

I thought Knuth regarded it more as a matter of respect than of academic career benefit or scholarliness, but it has all of those virtues, although at least the Cyrillic and Hebrew ones have fairly low transliteration ambiguity.
WSJ is sold and read worldwide tho.

On that note, I used to get it for free (as did everyone else) as a student at my European university.
Again, this is missing the point of the article completely. Even if you do see your spouse everyday, that doesn't change the fact that you'll have seen the most of your friends, parents etc by the time you're 30 or so, unless you happen to live right next to each other...
RPG is an accomplished poet himself, one of the few computer scientists with an MFA. He presented some of these poems at a poetry workshop, and they were retrieved well enough.
Only a bit IMHO. You copy the design of GitHub and place your own content inbetween. IMHO it should be visually separate, but thats my thinking ;)
That's why the US should have a Constitutional Court (even if it's "one-sided") the same way it allowed itself to have a one-sided secret spy Court. At least most of the unconstitutional bills would be filtered out then, before they ever become laws. Merely hoping to ban an unconstitutional law at the Supreme Court two decades after it passed doesn't sound very democratic or "justice-like" to me, but it seems to be the system Americans have allowed to exist.
That's actually a pretty shitty result given that the target was 100%, and the side effects were extreme: people dying from dodgy moonshine, birth of the Mafia as we know it, etc.