skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably to please stock owners - it is better to show 200 million active users, rather than 50 million active users from prime locations.
I imagine Bing must have been crazy money wasting machine for MS so probably they do everything in their power to show MS management how "futuristic" is to look at them like on investment rather than liability.
Google, a ‘school official?’ A regulatory quirk can leave parents in the dark
Nah best way to avoid downvotes is (1) be civil, and (2) be rational
Um, am I the only one here confused at why this guy is arguing with PG? From what I can tell they are in full agreement.

Ron here is saying we shouldn't kill startups (what PG calls "creating wealth"), we should instead fight against practices that actually take money from the poor and give to the rich (what PG calls "zero-sum games"). After reading PG's article, I got the impression that he wants the exact same thing as Ron does. What's there to argue?

PG even has a paragraph in his essay that is almost equivalent to the title of the article:

> There are lots of things wrong with the US that have economic inequality as a symptom. We should fix those things. In the process we may decrease economic inequality. But we can't start from the symptom and hope to fix the underlying causes.
Probably 80%+ of my ancestry has been here in America hundreds of years, mostly since the Revolutionary War. I feel like the term 'native' ought to apply to me.

But the same time, I recognize that there are other peoples for whom 100% of their ancestry has been here since the last ice age. I wish we had a term that recognized that they were more native than I am.
SEEKING WORK - Remote from USA

Will integrate my (Apache v2.0 licensed) programmable web browser into your crawlers, scrapers, test frameworks, etc: https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
Very nicely put and I agree. What I was expecting to see in the list of numpy problems mentioned in the article wasn't there. The major problem that makes Numpy performance lag behind C++ or Fortran is the extra level of indirection that is needed for accessing an element (via stride ptr), and the need for extra copies that is forced on you by vectorization. Numexpr can help for certain cases of the latter, but its still quite limited in the type of expressions that numexpr can handle. It is my belief that with some local static analysis both can be mitigated somewhat.

It would be really interesting to see whether D's nd object tackles these issues. The copy of arrays across function boundaries, as you correctly pointed out, is mostly a red herring.
Grouping alcohol, caffeine, and sugar together makes no sense. Alcohol is estrogenic and inflammatory and dramatically depletes B vitamins and vitamin A. Sugar is simply a clean source of calories; perfectly harmless and often beneficial. Caffeine is quite simply good for you. All the epidemiological studies bear out the idea that it's protective against stress and disease. It improves performance. There's zero reason to limit caffeine consumption.
Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols (1994) [pdf]
Why I Don’t Celebrate Income Inequality
Another F for Alphabet: U.S. Marines reject Google's other android as too loud
Have you upgraded to the new Minecraft launcher? It bundles its own JRE, and I'm pretty sure it's Java 7.
Batch files which go though all the tools and find the smallest sizes for various images and .gz files

http://css-ig.net/tools/

Personally I've found this tool is faster and does a better job than most others and it's free:

http://psydk.org/pngoptimizer
His distinction between "wealth generating" and "rent seeking" behavior isn't obvious to me. Is investing in a start-up (so that you hopefully get a cut of the wealth generated by thousands of people and machines) a form of rent seeking?
Does anyone know if there was some relationship between Jetbrains & Netbeans? Netbeans started as Xelfi in Prague mid 90s. Jetbrains is also based in Prague.

A friend of mine started Xelfi -- I'm trying to figure out how awesome my friend is.
Hmm, how does that work? Does Eclipse now have meaningful Gradle or Maven integration for Android so you can finally use AAR libraries?
Just anecdotal obviously, but most of the people I know just use the community edition. That's free, so the money argument doesn't seem to make sense there.

Now yes, lots of people do pay for the ultimate edition, but I'm sure if people thought the free alternate was better, they'd use that over paying for something.
The effect of markets on discrimination is nuanced
>Companies like Apple do not happen in a pure deregulated neoliberal market paradise because markets don't have the kind of strategic intelligence that can fund projects like Whirlwind, TX-0, and the original Arpanet - all of which are essential steps on the road to making an Apple or a Google.

While I can agree that private entities/markets lacked the capability to fund transformative projects during most of the 20th century, I'm hard-pressed to reasonably apply that to the modern context.

It seems that the most forward thinking, transformative ideas are indeed coming from the private sector markets (e.g. SpaceX), and with the enhanced abilities that our technological age affords to solo individuals, it seems that even small teams may be able to create the next transformative, paradigm-shifting project.
I don't think it's just an issue of no trucks on the fast lane.

If you drive on 3 or 4 lane roads, such as the M25, there is a visible disturbance to traffic flow even when a truck enters lane 2 on a 4 lane road. This has the effect of pushing all people that drive between 60 and 70mph out of lane 2 and into lane 3, where the average speed is between 70 and 80mph. This, in turn, pushes slower moving traffic into Lane 4 (inside lane) where its not uncommon to see people driving between 80 and 90mph. The overall net result is an awful amount of breaking, lane changing and short spacing between cars.
Just like there were studies in the 70s which vilified saturated fats like butter and animal fat which have since been refuted? You can find a study claiming positive (and negative) health effects for near every substance. Ultimately caffeine is a neurotoxin produced by the coffee bean to repel insects.

I think saying there is zero reason to limit caffeine consumption is a bit of a stretch since we're talking about a drug which causes dependence, reduces motor control and increases anxiety.

I say this as a huge coffee fan. Grind my own single origin beans, brew them in my Hario pour over or Aeropress etc.

But I'm not going to pretend it's this wonderful health drink when it clearly has negative side effects.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
I think the title should be "what I learned no longer participating in nightlife."

I can't think of anyone who participates in nightlife successfully who doesn't at least get a little buzzed when out. If you want to skip nightlife altogether, which is what OP seems to be advocating (going to sleep early, saving money), then of course, it's an easy choice not to drink.

If OP wanted to write about how to fully participate in nightlife (2am outings, etc.) without drinking at all, that would be more radical, and a pretty interesting read at that.
Really?

Because your card gets cancelled and you have to wait for a new one to come in the mail

Oh but you're not home and are travelling instead. Good luck paying for your hotel then
Usually love PG's essays but this one is pretty shallow in how it tackles the subject. Smart as he is I'm sure PG understands what people are talking about- the problem is the 90% that don't work in overhyped and overvalued software startups, but the regular worker- the factory worker at Tesla, the checkout clerk at Walmart, the teacher in the Public School. Unfortunately for them, no one told them software would be it 20 years ago. They can't just go start making chairs or open a private school. Its not that they are lazy or stupid. They just got unlucky because they thought they would get by doing these jobs- based on what they knew- and then the world changed. Is it any surprise they are pissed? and to add insult to injury- they see the rich bend systems unfairly to their favor to enrich themselves even more.
Your comments nicely prove the GP's point.
I think the idea of just immersing oneself in a language is incredibly natural and intuitive, and sounds like the least stress-inducing of all the possible methods one could use.

And I've heard that it works: plunge yourself into a language, and eventually it starts to "click". You start to think the way the language works, and it just takes off. But reading this description, I have a bit of decent insight into the process, and I sorta get how it's possible.

I agree that subtitles are basically chaos and noise; if you're trying to learn another language, it'll throw you right off. See my other answer to 'mkaziz' one level up.

The context thing is very interesting. On the one hand, it can seem incredibly intuitive to want a perfectly flat, scopeless index into memory and facts, but it's functionally impossible (with computers right now too - web and other large index searches go through MapReduce and similar. When we can directly search all of RAM in realtime life will be very different!). But, context is vital to mental organization, and I've observed this to amusing effect when I have, on many, many occasions realized I've used the same terms or acronyms in different contexts in technology and not realized the connection :P

I don't read magazines, so scene websites like Reddit-in-whatever-language will have to fill in there. But the Web moves quite a bit faster than print (hours as opposed to many days, in some cases) which might help a slow beginner keep up with trends, but I can imagine it becoming an overload quickly, especially with places that talk entirely using slang and/or memes.

The bit where you mention how your brother "forced himself to do it" and succeeded is strongly reminiscent of neuroplasticity literature, which describes a sort of anti-plateau point where for a short period no progress appears to be made in spite of continued concerted effort, and then suddenly (eventually) results begin to snowball. A most curious phenomenon that makes me think of
I watch nature programs narrated by David Attenborough when I need to get to sleep.
There is something strangely calming about observing nature.
4-6 hour window is preferred. See:

http://www.pnas.org/lens/pnas/111/47/16647
>Now, as soon as Minecraft gets off Java 6, I can rid my system of that infernal scourge.

Minecraft's Windows launcher has actually included Java 8[1] for some time. Even if using your own install though, it should work just fine (or even better).

[1] https://twitter.com/MojangSupport/status/562199004516466689
Attention and Memory in Deep Learning and NLP
Banks, credit card companies: Give me an API for accessing my own data. Give me an opportunity to set a callback address that gets pinged whenever my card is used somewhere. Even better: make it possible for this callback to decline transactions (obviously this comes with certain problems).

This would open up innovation and I'm sure this would lead to interesting solutions for combatting the fraud.
Nice Try Grey - we know you love coffee ! [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
Excess of anything is bad. Hell, even drinking too much water can kill you.
Gary Powers: The U2 spy pilot the US did not love
Not very in line with the Hacker News Guidelines - "Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

Plus I don't think your judgments on PG are true.
I'm guessing they would enforce some sort of standard valuation for things like that. Or only when it is possible. So a fledgling business, or shares that aren't publicly tradeable.

Any who, the point is. They will find a way that they will claim is "fair" and consistent but probably has loop holes, and figure out a way to tax capital.
Same thing with Löve 2D, or is it Love 2D?

The problem here is that the naming isn't consistent. Sometimes it's Love and sometime Löve. I never know what to call it, but I think the whole idea of naming a software package with diacritics is just asking for trouble. If they would have transcribed it to Loeve it would at least be obvious what's going on.

This is perhaps exacerbated by my native tongue treating ö not as an o with umlaut, but as a completely different character distinct from o and at another place in the alphabet. To me it's like naming a package Blam but half the time referring to it as Blym instead.
Yes MVB has lots of international students (as social secretary of BEEES I do talk to them regularly! ;) ), but the ones who actually have all the technical language (good enough to translate the docs accurately) are (at a guess) busy third or fourth years. None the less, I'll ask around when I'm back in Bristol (and post exam season).

It was just after first year so sadly not. Most of my friends moved out of Bristol for the summer.
Missing info #1 pain-point for workers
How US presidents stay productive
Agreed re: guidelines. Edited to keep it about the argument.
Melatonin is great but it shouldn't be used long term (more than a couple months). I tried it longer than that and it wasn't good, weird constitutional symptoms.. Also says so on the packaging.
What could possibly go wrong!
This. Meditation has improved my life in so many ways.
Do you know why they didn't fix it?
So, given the incredibly low rate of Python 3 adoption, how well did that "forced" change work out for them? Python 3 deserves its fate, and apologists like you aren't going to change that.
The article is a rather gross misinterpretation of the actual study, and the title is outright false.

The difference was narrow, separating the groups only by whether they ate lunch before or after 3PM. (i.e. only a minute or two could separate an "early" from a "late" eater).

"no differences were found in weight loss dependent on the timing of breakfast or dinner"

Worst of all, the "late" group had already been determined to be more insulin resistant (higher HOMA), which pretty much skews any such conclusions in the first place.

The study is almost 3 years old and was subsequently "corrected" since the NPR story, which is likewise almost 3 years old:
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ijo2012...
It may. Java io stack is quite bad at certain tasks like crawling files and tracking changes.
No, hedonism is not true. It's a deceptive misconception of what values are a good guideline for a sustainable life. I was getting at the common notion that hedonists don't want to work, because it's no fun, which is obviously incompatible.

>any system that defines value in a way that doesn't allow for these people

wat

Hedonism defines pleasure as the primary and most intrinsic good so any system allowing it is just hedonism. WTF? How would any system acommodate competing theories? Fun thought experiment, sure.

>Economically

Usually it would go the other way, if coffee is worth something to me, I will be willing to pay that. You mess up simple logic, get your head straight.
> disgustingly bitter

I take mine black. I admit it is an acquired taste, but oh what a glorious taste it is! Maybe you just had some bad coffee.
> I would never understand why people would want to screw with it further by drinking or doing cannabis.

Because life is more than bottom line productivity.
>"Selling something that people want isn't equal to providing value."

This is the point I was addressing.

>"Let me be pessimistic: coffee doesn't provide a positive value, because it's a drug that get's people addicted however little and subliminal."

Oh, so now it's "positive value". This is something you are imposing on the person based on your own personal opinion about value and coffee.

>"Maybe that is a value to society in general, but it isn't to the individual."

No, it's a value to the individual that chose it. You, being external to the hypothetical individual we are discussing, don't get to make decisions for said individual.

>"That's just sad how much you are missing my point, all the while defending the coffee that your text kind of reads like you had too much before reading."

My comment had nothing to do with advocating coffee.
> If you are poor and low status why don't you do something about it

Because the deck is so fundamentally and incontrovertibly stacked against them that they can't? I'd say that this would be obvious except that that itself would be too obvious given your posting history here; I've seen a lot of shitty posts around here, but yours is in the top five of most overtly antisocial and unempathic, ever, full stop.
Many languages have associative arrays that can take any data type as index. A Ruby example, intentionally written to make it easy to read (and maintain):

array_of_characters = ["a", "b", "a", "c"]
count = {}
array_of_characters.each do |character|
if count.has_key?(character)
count[character] += 1
else
count[character] = 1
end
end
count
=> {"a"=>2, "b"=>1, "c"=>1}

The one on rosettacode is smarter but it takes some time to be understood.
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The good ol' days.... I still remember waiting for the latest version of copywrite or copyiipc which would crack the latest batch of games. It was an arms race but the game developers weren't winning it. I think at some point they resorted to using the documentation that came with the games, but we would all just get photocopies of the docs, so that didn't work either. It must have really sucked to be a game developer back in the 80s, probably 99% of the games were pirated.
A market's value of work is how important it is to people at the time. It's that simple. You are over-complicating it by pretending there is something different to determine importance.

Also, your suggestion of sane progressive taxation is a massive backpedal from the statement that I replied to, which implied that everyone should receive equal compensation. We already have progressive taxation in the US, so advocating for 'sane progressive taxation' is just a nebulous cop-out that doesn't provide anything concrete enough to be discussed or analyzed.
> “I can’t trust someone who doesn’t drink.”

The author says he doesn't understand this sentiment, but actually he almost managed to explain it in the preceding section:

> I’m in control of my actions basically all of the time.

Drinking helps to build trust precisely because everybody is less "in control", i.e. less able to put up and maintain a fake front.
Here are the new releases for Windows, Linux and OSX:

https://github.com/modula3/cm3/releases
2015 – Lessons Learned
Show HN: New MODULA-3 Releases for WinNT, Linux and OS X
I agree. IdeaVim is the best Vim emulator I've used as well. However, it is still just an emulator and it lacks some Vim features that I use all the time. IdeaVim is very good, but not as good as having NeoVim embedded would be, I think.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278
400+ comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806063
I would decide that NO corporate legal structures are making "legitimate" political speech. I am 100% comfortable with political discourse taking the form of (volunteer) blog posts, etc... rather than major motion pictures (even if "crowd" funded). Money is not speech. Speech is Speech!
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Trouble is that most user never complain, they just leave and never come back (unless you're a major news outlet).
Wikipedia: "In economics and in public-choice theory, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth."

So investing in a start-up is not rent seeking.
As teenagers we craved for acceptance, now acceptance has a hard number associated with it.
at $2/gallon theft should go down somewhat?

personally I use cash everywhere I can, it's not just tinfoil-hat thinking, it's far less hassle

for everywhere else, just use low-balance gift cards
Baidu's Baike is a truly gigantic wiki. Often whole articles from the Chinese version of Wikipedia show up there, but Baike is actually much larger.

I agree that blocking the international internet is harmful to innovation and the economy, but the question of how harmful is largely based on how large the market is. In China's case, Baidu isn't as extensive as Google, Youku doesn't have the Khan Academy or a lot of other things YouTube does, but they're still huge and it's not that bad.

China's internet isn't as rich as that of the entire world, but it's still large and vibrant. For the Russian internet it's a bit worse. If a country the size of Denmark decided to only their own versions of fb, youtube, wikipedia, etc, it would be a catastrophic loss.
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I looked at the linked document.

The figures are as follows (all in thousands):

14,157 units below the poverty line (12.7% of all units)

5,566 of those Owner occupied (39.3%)

3,191 of those owned "free and clear" (22%)

So his 45% claim isn't even true to start with. It falls to 22% when you consider full ownership.

Seeing yummyfajitas make factually incorrect claims is disappointing but not surprising.
I'm curious, what features?
That's a bit excessive, did you install all of the vs stuff (all languages & tools including c++, office dev tools, silverlight, light switch etc)?
If you just choose C# it's a bit better (though still big). And yes you still need Resharper, ironically made by JetBrains, for it to be on the level of IntelliJ.
Final Days of the Bitcoin Foundation?
Uber is not a ycombinator company. To me they add value through the app.
The Stanford Way
Herd Mentality
> If OP wanted to write about how to fully participate in nightlife (2am outings, etc.) without drinking at all

In my experience, nightlife is even more fun with certain powdery and pill-y substances than it is with alcohol. Annoyingly they also negate the alcohol (but not the alcohol hangover), so you might as well not drink when you're using those. Waste of money and the hangover is going to be bad enough anyway.

I wouldn't suggest that kind of night out more often than every few months though. Whereas you can safely have an alcohol night out several times a month.

That said, as my workouts became more strenuous, my drinking has declined and almost completely stopped. I still drink alcohol on some occasions, but it affects my performance too much to be done regularly. And I don't have time to deal with the hangovers of other drugs, throwing an entire day away for a few hours of fun is not worth it [anymore].

And never forget: "People say you don't need to drink to have fun ... well you don't need running shoes to run, but it fucken helps".
Leaving the buzzwordy hand waving in the last paragraph aside, spacex gets the majority of its revenue from the government.
> I can't think of anyone who participates in nightlife successfully

You should expand your thinking. No idea what you mean with 'successfully' but it's perfectly possible to have a great time without any drugs (though I have to admit one thing: the main downside for me is listening to people who did drink and because of that think they have great storeis to tell - drunk myself I would just nod in agreement and not care, when sober it's just super irritating and I'm embarrassed in their place). And since I've taken my fair share of all common legal and illegal drugs out there I think I know what I'm talking about.

> If OP wanted to write about how to fully participate in nightlife

You mean like a tutorial? Nothing radical about that, basically you just behave the same as you would when you're not drunk.

> nightlife (2am outings, etc.)

2am? That's when we just get started :]
You can iterate on the tuple and know it size, not on the struct (unless you use Boost.Fusion or something equivalent).
We're getting Cossacks 3 on Linux.
I would say the biggest benefit of D is static typing. In Julia you can run a simulation and discover only after half an hour that you misspelled a function
He sells a sheet of 4 for $5. I would buy those all day long ;-)