skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in my B-list, no. Clojure and Scala are still going to get the "Never heard of it" from a lot of developers, and right now the developer who has heard of Elixir would be the exception, let alone being able to say "I wrote that in Elixir" to your boss with no eyebrow raises. YMMV depending on your boss, of course, but I think that's a fair characterization of the "average boss". I don't even put Go in list with Google's corporate support, since it still certainly produces eyebrow raises.

The B list mostly consists of the 1990s-style dynamic scripting languages right now; Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. There's a lot of up-and-coming alternatives but nothing leaps to mind that won't likely need to be defended.

There is, of course, no concrete definition of the B-list, so you are free to have your own; rather than arguing with me too much about what language falls where, if you want to propose a different definition for conversation, please do. It's a fun discussion, if ultimately pointless. I'd put what you mentioned in a separate C list, "the set of languages that are known about on HN and have been used for real projects but still generally need defending if you want to choose them". It's a much longer list. All the fun languages are on it. Erlang's still a C-list in my book, so first Elixir will have to pass Erlang before I'd even consider it in the B list.
There are a lot of forwarding services here that let you buy stuff online, have it sent to a US address and then they send it to you in Venezuela. I actually do some occasional work for one such company.

Also, since so many venezuelans are leaving the country, lots of people living in Panama and the US are sending stuff to their friends and family in the country using these companies. The shipping and taxes are expensive sometimes but it's an alternative at least.
Exactly -- French people are the "indigenous people" of France. The "indigenous people" where I'm from are the Tohono O'odham. I've never met a Tohono O'odham person, so it's safe to say their impact on culture is minor.

Thus, it's wrong to separate the US into "indigenous" and "foreign" in a way that makes sense in France (where French==indigenous). It's especially wrong to do so and then magically declare that Anglo-Saxons are the "indigenous" group that everyone else should try to be like.
:)

My 'editability' timed out on my initial comment before I had a chance to fix that, Antti.

That said, there's a footnote about rumprun, and if Justin Cormack of Unikernel is https://twitter.com/justincormack, its all so close to Antti (Justin and Antti are both of NetBSD). For -me- Antti has been such a big part of my unikernel experience, I figured there'd be more involvement in this project or at least more recognition of his work.
No He's the young inexperienced hero starting out just like Luke was.
We also have limits on cigarettes emissions, you know?
Some tobacco smells or tastes really good when smoked.
If management ever even hints to an employee that the Equity has >$0 estimated value, which could influence the employee's notion of an appropriate wage, then this is a scam, even more so than it is with the finally-business-savvy tech employees
I find it so bizarre that you think NPR is the polar opposite of Fox. Fox is a right wing propaganda org. I don't feel like that is even remotely true of NPR.
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You're burnt out. I'm in a similar situation so I decided to leave my job without any backup plan but my savings. I do have personal projects, things that I've always wanted to work on (lack of time and energy). I also plan to visit the people I appreciate in life for the next month or so.

I was working in the hottest company in the game. Landed an onsite to the 2nd hottest company in the game :-) when I was quitting. They contacted me in the first place and decided to bring me onsite without doing any phone screen. I cancelled everything last minute and didn't even show up. I was simply burnt out.

I'd say, the rule is much simpler than you think: life is short and you're unhappy. Your job is not to work for anyone. You're job in life is to make yourself happy no matter what it takes. Quitting could be the best think you could do right now. Don't be afraid. We're coders and everyone is looking for coders... do what you like!
Unfortunately more of them come true every month...

On the bright side, at least cryptographers excel at predicting threat models.
Url changed from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-overvie..., which seems to be the main announcement.
> In particular, I'd expect there will be another one-time-only-we-really-mean-it-this-time repatriation holiday in 2017 or 18.

Nobody even really takes advantage of those because it isn't about repatriation. It's about the interest.

If you have a pile of cash (really investment securities) held by MegaCorp in some low tax jurisdiction, it pays the low tax rate on the interest the money generates. If you repatriate the money and then invest it in the same things MegaCorp was, now the taxes you owe on the future interest are in the high tax jurisdiction. Nobody is interested in doing that even if you could repatriate the money tax-free.

The only reason to repatriate the money is if you want to spend it, which large investors don't do with most of their money (because they make far more than they spend), and which anybody can do at any time by selling shares, which has preferable tax treatment to dividends anyway but has the unfortunate side effect of leaving the entire pile of cash (and all subsequent interest) inside the original corporation forever.

The only way to get around this is to stop taxing investment income. Which is of course completely unfair to everyone else unless you also stop taxing earned income and tax consumption instead. The objection then being that taxing consumption instead of income is advantageous to rich investors who spend a smaller percentage of their income than other people, except that that is the status quo.
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Some interesting points made on this thread comparing ClojureScript vs. Elm: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/3zkkrw/clojurescript_o...
Since addictions can be broken, why not?
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Pardon me. I'm going to be just a little more dogmatically right-wing economics than I usually care to be in these pages, but:

> In order to get shiny new trains and big public infrastructure projects like this, you need to pay a lot of tax

That's ideological bullshit that is directly at odds with reality. There's another perfectly good and effective way to get shiny new trains and infrastructure projects, and America is doing it with their freight railroads. It's called private investment, we've been doing a lot of it, very successfully, and railroads have been thriving. (The Economist, in a 2010 article which is linked nearby in this thread, opined that "America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best" and that "They are universally recognised in the industry as the best in the world.")

What America's railroads don't have is effective private passenger rail. Private investment won't deliver it because it doesn't make economic sense right now. Some of that is for geographical reasons (population density), some of that is regulatory risk (echoes of the regulatory hangover which helped drive the final nail in the coffin when railroads were already facing difficult competition from the growth of air travel and cars, including implicit highway subsidies) and fear of competing with quasi-governmental subsidized entities like Amtrak, some of that is actual market failure and what the economists call path dependency. Government investment in passenger rail in this nation (including high-speed rail) is something that could be meaningfully countenanced in this nation, though, obviously... if people thought they could trust the government to do make it worthwhile. (We'll see how efforts like the California high-speed-rail project will serve to convince people - boondoggle or good idea?)
First children receive diagnoses through 100,000 Genomes Project
it's pretty obvious

this is what I don't get: author says most should avoid dairy, you (and others) say it's easy to recognize problems with eating it. Yet the vast majority of all people I know have no problems with dairy whatsoever. So is the author wrong, does he mean something else, do I live with people who can't recognize problems originating from dairy use or do I live with a special subgroup of people who all happen to have no problem with dairy?
It has to do with the concept of "structural" racism, as opposed to plain bigotry, which can be done by anyone. Structural racist aspects are related to society/institutions, which is shaped by the majority.

While I understand the critique, I disagree with the academic terminology, and think insisting on it leads to misinformed intepretations of others' arguments, like saying "black people by definition can't be racist".
Nim uses your C compiler to produce the final binary, so it can produce statically linked standalone programs everywhere a C compiler can (which is pretty much everywhere).
The top 3 winners of Infoworld's Technology of the Year awards are Go projects
I've always appreciated Michael Pollan's essay (and books) on this subject. His advice can be summed up as "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." [1] In his books he argues strongly against the nutritionist strategy of trying to separate out the healthy components of foods from the foods themselves. For example, I know many nutritionists who take vitamins, but Pollan points out when you take the Vitamin C without the orange we normally get it from, you loose all that dietary fiber. This is what he means by "eat food."

Along these lines, while I have many quibbles with the paleo diet's recommendations, my biggest complain is calling it "paleo." The paleolithic era of human history lasted from 2.5 million years ago to 10,0000 years ago [2], when agriculture took over and we adapted to an entirely new diet. Almost nothing we eat today existed 3,000-10,000 years ago: corn was just grass, tomatoes were berries, lettuce was weeds, and all animal-food sources were free-range, tough to chew, and gamey in flavor. One of the starkest examples of this for me is the peach, which was mostly just a pit with no meat until generations of farmers spent 6,000 years turning it into the meaty succulent fruit we know today [3]. Our paleolithic ancestors spent all day nibbling on seeds, berries, various leaves, and insects trying to just stay alive; our agrarian ancestors transformed the Earth into the relative paradise of bountiful fruits, vegetables, and livestock that theologians would later attribute to gods.

This said, I appreciate that this author is speaking out against the high-carb, high-sugar foodstuffs corporations are pouring into us by adding sugar and salt to EVERYTHING. The key quote in this essay is, "Recent data on these issues make me more comfortable today saying what not to eat." I think we all need to start pushing back as consumers against the sugar, salt, and simple carbohydrates the food manufacturers engineer into everything we eat to addict our brains and keep us coming back for more.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic

[3] https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/artifici...
Isn't a major limitation of "Car as a Service" the fact that millions of people commute at approximately the same time? Services like this seem like they would be fantastic if you live somewhere with good public transport/bike/pedestrian accessibility to get around during peak times and just need a car occasionally but do not seem viable in a suburban environment (where tens of millions of us still live). Hopefully innovation like this will result in better public and alternative forms of transportation that allow the car as a service to work in suburban environments.
Just in case people haven't figured it out yet - ACM issues free wildcard certs :)!

http://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-certifi...
Is labor law all that clear on it? I'm in Canada, so maybe there are differences, but under our law a case like Uber's seems like a grey area. The vehicles aren't standardized. Drivers aren't required to drive at any given times, or at all, I believe.

It's not clear to me what distinguishes Uber drivers from, say, Airbnb hosts, who are clearly not employees.

(There are factors that point towards Uber workers being employees, but no single factor is determinative.)

The Homejob article actually focusses on the leakage aspects. I think their business model was doomed regardless of how they classified their employees.
"allow you to drop down to make lower level tweaks as you would on 'bare metal' NPM"

Meteor is entirely open-source and I've had no trouble diving into the lower levels to accomplish what I need to accomplish. Everything is split into reasonable packages and is relatively easy to traverse.

If anything, the Meteor team hasn't done a good enough job showing their true value (realtime via oplog->client updates, etc). Most of the current controversy stems from front-end developers jumping on the React bandwagon, splitting up the community as it stands. Not a big deal IMO.
> I seriously doubt your average person is utilizing checksums.

Sure, if you're utilizing checksums the way they should be then go ahead. But honestly, even I don't care that much - my ad-heuristic was sufficient so far :). I should probably start using them. I guess it's like with all things crypto - the UX sucks so bad that most people don't bother.
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None of those races count as minorities in these types of arguments. Only blacks, latinos, and LGBT do.
how do you separate harmful things from those that are just unhealthy then?

If addiction is your criterion, just pick one of the things you classify as "just unhealthy", and type "X addiction" into google :)
The DV certs are free (including wildcard certs)!
Okay, so we've got the unrelated vegan comment, there's already an unrelated CrossFit comment, all we need is someone to mention they're an atheist and we've got the trifecta.

It's almost as if nutrition is incredibly complex and different things work for different people.
https://github.com/mystor/slag

(To expand on the README, this project was mostly made as part of as silly bet, you shouldn't actually use it)
What makes you think it isn't.

Well, not "color" in the electromagnetic radiation sense, but "cultural group". Turns out, the latter is strongly correlated with the former.
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Iterable raises $8M to help marketers bridge the personalization gap
Pretty much. That's why many of us are diligent about keeping this place free of the general bullshit of the general population.

The bar is high here and we like it that way.
Look at normal qq-plot to measure normality
The ambiguity of "now + 1y" caused an outage for Azure:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...
Does the below excerpt alleviate the belief that GMO foods are harmful?

In 1985 scientists believed that few genetic changes had occurred since we were all
hunting and gathering, say 10,000 years ago. Now we know that lots of genes
have changed. One fascinating new finding is that within the last few thousand
years Eskimos evolved genes for enzymes to process the fatty acids in Arctic
fish.
Americans do pay a lot of taxes...comparable with a lot of European countries (outside of France and Scandinavia). You can't just compare a top marginal tax rate and conclude that one country taxes more than the other...it is the combination of all taxes that determines government revenues.

Our taxes are poorly structured, and the spending of the revenue is poorly prioritized and poorly accounted for. That is the real problem.
Brazilians generally believe that the disease was first introduced to the country last year, which contradicts the hypothesis that acquired immunity used to be common. (I was in Brazil three weeks ago and talked to several people about zika.) Here is an item from European health authorities that agrees that the disease is new to Brazil.

http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/rapid-ris...

Edit: the linked BBC article also states that it was first reported in Brazil in May 2015 (at least in recent years).
You're thinking of it much more high-poweredly than I (praise, not criticism!). I meant something simple, like (by analogy with La Disparition) trying to write code without using the letter 'e'.

In that vein, perhaps one can view code golf as a sort of programming analogue of Oulipo—or maybe even functional programming (try to write code without using mutation!).
Problem is that you are subsidizing the bad employers which is where we are in the UK.

I pay taxes to subsidize the training of NHS Doctors and Nurses not flipping Baristas and other Mc Jobs.
I meant the cross signing. That is the big deal here. And I somehow have this nagging feeling that they were strong armed into the 3 month renewal policy. No other reason to not have yearly renewals.

Even if they do get into Browser roots now, there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices out there that will not accept Letsencrypt without a cross sign. Lets face it Letsencrypt is dead in the water without Identrust (or someone similar).

Its not a bug, it's a feature.
I can put some bounds on them, which is all I tried to do. It is certainly not reasonable to act as if the idea there is a ninth undetected planet is some sort of one-in-a-trillion possibility.

I'm not even convinced you're correct anyhow; since I tend to accept the interpretation of probability as a statement of our knowledge of the world as good enough most of the time, we can establish a reasonable probability statement that expresses that uncertainty. We don't know everything about the universe or even our solar system but there is something about this topic that makes people start grossly overstating our ignorance.
This is a discredited line of thinking among professional/academic linguists.

In the modern understanding, languages become able to express ideas when their speech communities need to express those ideas.
well it's a good thing plants aren't sentient then.
This is the same problem of circular dependency then. Does the random token stay alive for longer than 90 days? Then this might still work.
It definitely did not make hiring harder. In fact, it was probably easier, because at the time, Clojure was more unique. The people interested in working in rare languages tend to be above average.

Also, I would avoid optimizing TTFBugFix the wrong way. You want the system to be easy to fix because it's well designed & documented, not because it's written in a language you already know.
Why are some people so much luckier than others?
> We are also on the verge of being able to monitor everyone's every movement. Why not tax those who don't exercise enough?

second-hand smoke also affects people around the smokers
Gates seems to have bought into the propaganda FUD that renewable energy isn't today cheaper than fossil fuels. But it is, so why not invest in it. Yes, some money should go on longshot and forward looking R&D, but there's absolutely no need for Bill Gates to be talking down the existing solutions that are clearly better than coal in order to promote his own speculative investments.

Luckily, the free market, despite the excessive subsidies that are granted to coal and other fossil fuels, has caught on to the trend and more and more money is pouring in. 97% of economists that publish in this field agree that doing nothing will cost us more than action right now. But still the "common sense" hasn't caught up with reality and relentless propaganda has convinced large numbers of people that solar, wind, efficiency and demand manangement are the domain of idealistic tree huggers and/or parasitic boondoggles rather than a pragmatic and cost effective solution.
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Also some features of regression and hypothesis testing are actually fairly robust to non-normality, particularly with large sample sizes.
You say that as if the consequence is that we should not invest into alternative energy production.

Prokon used unregulated financial instruments to take investments, and they obscured their financial situation by spreading their balance sheet over dozens of companies. It took the bankruptcy administrators a year to even figure out what the financial situation really was.

I think what we should take from that is that oversight over companies that take financial investments, especially from consumers, should be tighter. That really has nothing to do with alternative energy.
Stems from the USPS/China Post ePacket agreement: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y15/m10/i09/s02

It's actually cheaper in many cases to ship from China-->US than US-->US

Newgistics handles AliExpress's inbound here in the USA. AliExpress-->China Post-->Newgistics-->USPS: https://newgistics.com/news-archive/aliexpress-selects-newgi...

Source for the above: Matthew Hertz from Shyp
I'll definitely look in to that, thanks!
It's a moot point now, because the announcement post (which we changed the URL to) has a different title. But the answer to your question is that we don't always have a magic title accuracy detector—though HN readers come close.
"Spend" as a noun is my second least favorite corporatist word next to "ask" as a noun. I automatically assume (unfairly) that the speaker is over educated in some useless way and compensates to appear smarter.
Nope, the memory is soldered onto the board.
and do cross-fit!
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> Rates for getting cars through these programs will cost as low as $6/hour, Ammann said.

What a giant rip-off. I can rent a car for $16.24 per day, right now. Maven is 8 times more expensive.
Who cares if the investment doesn't maximize potential profit? If someone invests $50 and gets $100 in return, that's great. If someone else invests $50 and gets $99.42 in return, that's great too, and who cares if someone made more 'profit' from buying and holding an imaginary financial instrument? The point is: buy "lower", sell "higher" is close enough to buy at the lowest point and sell at the highest point. But other factors come into play on why someone would sell at any time. Theoretically, ceteris paribus mutatis mutandis, if you invest in some company that happens to survive a thousand years into the future and has an annual average ROR of 7%, you should never sell it, even after your death if you want to maximize profit...buy low-ish, sell high-ish as convenient and with common sense. Theoretical perfectly maximized trades should not be the concern of the investor. Count dollars instead of pennies.

The problem you refer to is formally known as "Risk" aka Risk Capital.
Definitely try to figure out where your supplement comes from.. Ideally, after seeing this [1] and other negative reports on quality of some supplements, you'd almost have to put it through a spectrum analyzer to make sure

[1] www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/
NPR doesn't hit you over the head. They are more polished and subtle. Refined. Their audience tends to be more refined at one end.

And, to be clear, you're claiming I'm equating them, I'm not. I said they use similar tactics, which they do.
Keep up the good fight, keep at it and you can do it
Startups need to start valuing themselves on impact not valuation
Nasty one-on-one spats are off topic here.