skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why using `h('string representing DOM')` is preferred over using React.DOM.

Strings are awful. Editors/IDEs can't do much with strings without extensive tooling.
This is so ridiculous:

.NET / C#

Node.JS

Java

PHP

Ruby

Python

C++

Objective C

Android

Windows Desktop (WCF, MVVM)

BS in Computer Science

What exactly are they doing with all these languages? :)
Premise sounds exactly like Myst.
In this case it is easy to see that p is no longer valid but what about other pointers that points to the same location but not trivially visible for compilers? It won't be possible without run time checks or memory system like the one in rust.
The trading tax has been hanging over the heads of traders for a long time now. I almost wish they would just create a proper experiment to test it and then repeal it after it inevitably fails (see Sweden for a prime example).

The SEC seems to enjoy "experiments" - the large tick pilot (testing variations on requiring some small cap stocks to trade in increments larger than a penny) is an example of a massive upcoming one. While the large tick pilot suffers from many things - a huge cost to brokers for a dubiously structured experiment - at least it shows a willingness for the SEC to attempt structured experiments. This should be no different.

P.S. For those interested in Sweden - a report considering a transaction tax in Canada that discusses it: http://www.publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection-R/LoPBd...
I've been wanting to play this ever since Casey Muratori wrote about the process of generating grass for the terrain in an eye-pleasing distribution:

http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0015.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692332)
While I do not particularly often take part in meetings, I know of some colleagues who often go and have programming to do. I really can see the stress in their eyes, when the meetings for the day are over shortly after lunch time and they have a lot (a lot) of coding still to do.

Also there are two kinds of incompetent people: those knowing (or somehow "sensing") they have "to learn a lot" and those thinking they are king (don't even know about basic CS stuff).
i never quite understood, why they dropped it. The financial industry claims they produce products, so when buying selling them sales tax applies. For me as private investor (in germany) the tax added up to something like 2DM per year.
Some one liners that were helpful when I was working in hosting
A Quicker Study on Tokenising
This claims that the percentage of turnover paid on litigation costs for UK companies is actually higher than it is for US ones:

http://www.lawdepartmentmanagementblog.com/law_department_ma...

NB My wife is a specialist commercial litigation lawyer in the UK and I had discussed this issue with her after seeing it mentioned on HN and she pointed out a lot of issues with "loser pays".
Just to be clear: what we are looking at is a concerted and coordinated criminal conspiracy to cover up a range of activities including murder.
>Seems to me that as an "average" investor I'm going to get taxed 3 times now. The underlying index trades, my own entry and exit from the index and on the gains from the trade (hopefully).

I don't have a view on whether this is good or bad, but this is exactly what happens in one of the markets with a relatively high transaction tax.
It's quite unlike Myst actually, lacking anything resembling a story, and the interaction with environment is minimal.
Instead of Shark Tank, spend energy fixing what makes your product unappealing
I want to chime in that mz is making a great point which never would have occurred to me.

UBI could serve to further entrench an existing exploitative pattern, which currently exists because some things are "paid" work and other things are not.

Fascinating.
As I argued elsewhere here, I believe a stronger incentive would be to come after pay and pensions for police units whose officers have cost the municipality millions in lawsuits. Instead of friends and coworkers trying to protect each other for abuses of power, they will instead take on the role of protecting their families' livelihood. You would be less likely to abuse your authority if your entire department and their retired friends are more incentivized to distance themselves from you than to cover you up.
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This talk was amazing, I was overwhelmed by the amount of work going into C++. The problem is that it is already an abysmally complex language (to me) and it doesn't look like anything is getting simpler. It's as if you had to be there from the start to have a full image of how the language grew and truly understand the interplay between all the "features", otherwise it's too late to become an expert, and in some cases even too late to become comfortable writing good maintainable code in C++.

Unfortunately nothing comes close to its level of "practical usefulness" in all dimensions (expressiveness, reasonable speed, ecosystem, etc...). I personally just stick to C because things are simple to understand and I just live with its shortcomings.
> Not sure how I'm missing the point.

Here:

> A job doesn't necessarily contribute to your self-worth. Meaningful work, does.

No, having a job like the vast majority of others around you (or the supposed ideal) contribute actively to your self-worth way more than have a meaningful hobby or unpaid meaningful work on the side. It has to do with the humane need of feeling integrated in the group.

You really have to work hard on yourself to keep your self worth for ten years by not « working » and having only a meaningful job/work/hobby.

It's not the job or the hobby or the meaningfulness that matters to your self worth. It's the sense of belonging to the group.

With that said, I completely agree with that:

> if we're going to introduce a concept like basic income then we need to start being really clear about the difference between effort in exchange of money, and effort which contributes to your satisfaction.

Benevolent activities are going to be cast under a different light.
Braid is a masterpiece, just go get it now and play it WITHOUT WALKTHROUGHS (they'll just spoil the game for you).

I'm not sure the Witness can live up to Braid, but we'll see.
Because barriers to trade have worked so great in the past...

This is just another fluff piece without too many rational arguments, based on a completely irrational fear of HFT. Arguably, HFT and hedge fund have made the markets much more micro-efficient in the past decades (as wittnessed by the difficulty of finding new arbitrage opportunities); we have to thank the central banks and big institutional investors for macro-inefficiency.

> one that applies a tiny tax rate to an array of transactions and is split between buyers and sellers

I think the current situation, where exchanges basically "tax" those who take liquidity and reward those who provide it (i.e. the fee of a market order is split between the exchange and the person who entered the limit order) is much better at providing stability to the market.

> which generate windfall profits on small and fleeting differences in prices at the expense of ordinary investors and market stability

Well, the idea behind is that prices (e.g. same stock on different markets) should converge. If you don't want that, by all means, tax the market.

> The burden of this tax would be concentrated at the top, because that’s where the ownership of financial assets is concentrated

Nope, it doesn't matter where ownership is concentrated. What matters is where trading is concentrated. E.g. HFT or every time you get paid and invest a portion in your income in a stock index-backed pension scheme.
In high level parallel programming, say for SIMD or GPU (which really is just a fancy name for a wide SIMD engine with a ton of hardware threads to hide memory latency and a 2D-oriented gather/scatter memory controller), I wish there was a way to still expose the situation when your data is in reality shared by multiple "cores", when they're actually just different lanes in a same SIMD/WARP/whatever unit. Right now you just pretend they're separate, even when they can't even branch individually.

Example: Think about image processing algorithm, say 3x3 kernel. If you have 16-wide SIMD, using 3 registers, you only need special handling for the first and last pixels, only they cross the processing boundary. 14 pixels in the middle already have all of the data. If you can plan your memory accesses, you can do even better by shifting a pixel in from each new 16 pixel fetch.

Through abstraction you need to gather the 9 (3x3 kernel) center+neighboring values and run clamping for each neighbor access, even if you're not at the boundary of the image data. Even when a good SIMD/GPU compiler notices the data is already loaded, you still end up with needless saturation arithmetic (clamp) and most likely extra memory loads, potentially many times as many.

Sure, swizzling for locality of reference and a good cache controller help, but extra ALU work and memory accesses still mean sub-optimal performance.

This is where I've gotten good gains (up to 2-5x) when manually writing SIMD asm or intrinsics.

That's a lot of performance to leave on the table, given that CPU and GPU performance hasn't improved much in last 3 years.

This year we will get HBM1/2 [1] + more ALUs to use up that bandwidth for GPUs.

Next year AVX-512 for x86 CPUs. I guess HBM comes to also CPUs in a few years.

My guess is after that next significant improvements come maybe 2020-2025, if the current performance improvement trend holds.

Next step is probably CPUs absorbing GPU duties. So far memory bandwidth has been an issue, but now you can stick HBM chips just as well in a CPU package as in a GPU package. Just need some lower clocked ultra-wide cores.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
Well, that certainly simplifies the "do I buy it" problem. No tux, no bux.
Never too busy to correct grammar.

http://i.imgur.com/iUbz1Lh.png
How long before people start defending them, "It's just a few bad apples"? And I won't hold my breath waiting for them to remember the full phase is "a few bad apples spoils the barrel."
Thank you. Ctrl+W
This is what happens when Republicans control a city.
Has this been proposed at all?
Is there anything weird about american policing/law that would mean a national, federal agency wouldn't be able to take on this role?
If the goal would be to slow down the market, you could simply... slow down the market. Genious, I know!

For example, a mandatory delay for all orders. Or auctions every 1/2/5 minutes.
> If the goal is to slow down the market, a transactional tax is needed

The idea that a transaction tax will in anyway slow down the market is dubious to me, that said, if our goal is to limit the number of transactions, why don't we just pass a law that does that?

Even if we did that, it still doesn't follow that it won't impact people who are invested in index funds...
It's a moderate victory, potentially for potential victims of patent trolling. I have no criticism for Newegg. They're acting well, and others might benefit from that too.

I just don't normally have much dealing with the judicial process. When I look in and hear about something out of general interest like this topic/article I get disgusted and worried. The judiciary is important and it's very bad, offensively so.
So I finally found an NTP server where I can set the update interval to a few seconds.
Oracle Will Kill Java Browser Plugin with JDK 9 in 2017
It says EST there. It's wrong. Looks like it's reporting times in UTC but marking them EST (for me at least).
This is a stupid way to get a progressive tax system. If you want a progressive tax system just do it and don't mess around with complicated schemes to avoid the political consequences of it. Tax the wealthy at 60-70% and everyone else at 30-40% and provide decent social services and be done with it.
So why did you post on hackernews in a way that would guarantee a flamewar and not just open an issue like a civilized person?

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.
There has been a significant rise in advertising around the DC metro area for online schools. Usually the premise is the same: "get a degree|certification quickly in cyber-<insert field>|management". Degrees (not just PhDs), certifications, etc all equate to higher billable rates for the contractor. The contractor world is probably single-handedly keeping the certification industry afloat.
>The bulk of the game feels like taking an IQ test.

This is from a negative (but helpful) review of this game and it echoes exactly how I felt about playing Braid. His games feel like they're constructed so everyone will admire the genius of the creator for thinking up these kinds of interesting puzzles. And if the player ends up enjoying the game while they're admiring its creator, well that's an added benefit I guess.
>> When you arrive at 1pm because you have no memory of waking up and turning off all three of the alarms you'd set

There are some apps that might help you in this regard that require increasingly complex tasks to disable an alarm. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kog.alarmc...)

It also has an option to resound the alarm 5min after being disabled.

I have used it and it was effective for me even on 'easy' difficulty challenges, though I don't have a condition like yours, just sort of heavy sleeper. If you haven't, you should definately give it a try.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_%28inform...
Or DaisyDisk, I love DaisyDisk.
To boost commercial activity, NASA may add private airlock to ISS
That's phenomenal.

As a point of contrast, the New Zealand police own 1 helicopter, and contract out flying light aircraft to commercial operators.

Upon saying that, they often call upon the air force for logistical support (in particular for helicopter operations, usually for drug operations, such as airlifting cannabis for destruction, not for raids).
Slightly off-topic, but I have seem some great responses here I would like to add a somehow controversial comment.

I have a 10 year old kid diagnosed with severe ADHD-Inattentive type. He is on meds and behavioral therapy, and I must agree with most of the posts that meds is a must for these kids.

My very personal an unscientific explanation is that ADHD is not a disease in the traditional sense; instead, it is just a brain that does not fit in our current lifestyle. Would my kid have any problem living in a simpler society (hunter-gatherer group) ? Definitively not.

From time to time I tell my wife - and she gets very angry - that our kid has a MS-DOS brain, while we are all running Windows 10. The analogy is no exact, but it is just to emphasize that my kid belongs to another time. I only wish he can find his place in this world.
Part of what stops police from routinely infringing civil rights in the pursuit of justice is the legal doctrine that evidence obtained illegally is inadmissible, as is all evidence gained from further (lawful) investigation based on that evidence [1]. what is needed is a law that operates in a similar way, that states that in any lawsuit or complaint against the police, there is a presumption of guilt on the part of the police officer in the event of 'malfunction' of monitoring devices. The only way to make the police comply is to make it in their self-interest (or at least in the interests of the city that would regularly have to pay out presumptive damages) to make sure they are working.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

Edit: typo
As usual, the press releases and the stories based on those somewhat overstate how far the new study finding takes us on the way to an effective treatment. One of my mentors is a very eminent psychologist (Irving Gottesman) who has spent much of his lifetime (he is old enough to be my father, and I am middle-aged) studying schizophrenia from the genetic point of view.[1] His early paper with an older collaborator

Gottesman, I. I., and J. Shields. "Schizophrenia: geneticism and environmentalism." Human heredity 21.6 (1971): 517-522.

was controversial when it was published, because as Freudianism waned, there was still the supposition among most psychologists then living that parenting was the single biggest influence on the development of mental illness.

When a behavioral trait runs in families, the working assumption is that it is passed from parent to child, but the tricky issue to figure out is whether it is passed mostly by parenting practices (culturally) or by descent (genetically). Gottesman used to be almost alone among psychologists in proposing that the greater influence on development of schizophrenia is genetic, and it took many studies of twins and other close relatives and other study methodologies gradually to make genetic studies of schizophrenia the mainstream approach to research.

That said, there are known cases of identical (monozygotic) twins who are discordant for schizophrenia,[2] so everyone who is active in research on schizophrenia agrees that environmental influences after birth of some kind matter in the development of schizophrenia in an individual patient. Moreover, "the risk to schizophrenia is influenced by quite a large number of common variants, each with a very small effect on risk. How large is not yet clear, but Purcell's analyses suggest that hundreds and more likely thousands of individual genes contribute to the liability to schizophrenia."[3]

The current study, covered in many different popular press reports, indicates a likely gene locus for influence on one clinical finding found in many but not all cases of schizophrenia. Discordant identical twins make very clear that something else matters for the development of schizophrenia. To date, we are a long way from taking the recent genome analysis finding to a stage of testing out any kind of intervention in human patients. First we will have to be sure that the finding replicates in another human patient data set, and then characterize how often that finding occurs in schizophrenic patients, and how often it is missing in healthy controls. There will have to be careful work to find out if any treatment based on the new finding is both safe and effective. But it's a start, and finding out things like this is the research to support basic science research.

[1] http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=gotte003

https://news.virginia.edu/content/irving-gottesman-retired-p...

[2] http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/textonlyarchive/March_1994/9...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzDPlktZrGI

[3] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-genes-influence-...
Wikimedia’s newest board appointment steps down amid editor hostility
There are thousands and thousands of cops and you want to hold up one example as being representative?

And before you scour the web looking for a second example, remember that there are thousands and thousands of police activities every day.
Game companies.
The US Department of Justice can investigate local police departments.

They have investigated several of the local departments that have been in the US national news in recent years, with some actual improvements coming out of the investigations.
Indo-European, African and American civilizations all experienced collapses, sure. But to argue it is inevitable requires explaining the lack of Chinese collapses. They experienced turmoil, being conquered, et cetera but in my limited understanding of their history, there were no outright collapses.
At this point I'm not sure if it's even the perception of those around you and not what those around you think the perceptions of those around them might be.
“Bit Rot Thursday” – how to deal with old code you left in your wake
To make a stab at a modern day equivalent: James Dyson, Cormac McCarthy, Jeff Bezos, and Obama go on a 2 week cross country road trip, taking just local highways.
English rule = loser pays winner's legal costs. If patent trolls had to pay the legal fees of the other side, if/when the other side won, then the patent trolls would be unprofitable.
This can't be upvoted enough. You're right. The police are protected by their dependent partners, the prosecutors. Anyone who does this should at the very least be prosecuted for one of the following:

1. Interfering with a police officer
2. Obstruction of justice
3. Destruction of property

Ask yourself why they aren't? Is it the police union? Is it a true explicit conspiracy?

What world we we live in that people get 3 days suspension for breaking a recording device their management put in?

Can you do this to the cameras at your work location?
This ain't wikipedia.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222079910_'Unemploy...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=self+worth+and+unemployement
Keeping a journal or diary. It's great for mental health and creativity. Not to mention the many benefits of more focused journals (food, shop journals, etc...)
Ohio town may be the next Flint with its water crisis
No. One of the problems of XML is that it's binary-intolerant, which means everything that isn't pure text is a second-class citizen. That means pictures, sounds, documents, compressed stuff and most importantly, any encryption. We've all agreed that encryption is now considered to be mandatory and must be included in a protocol right from the start, so any serialization that doesn't allow easy binary usage can't be used.
I had a quick look at the trailer and it looked to me like it could have been built with Unity or Unreal Engine... wondering why own engine, given the effort to then port the game to other platforms?
It's not hard to see who benefits from these taxes. You avoid the tax by trading a swap/CFD/forward (outside the U.S., if necessary). This means that your market maker is a bank instead of an HFT firm. More of the order flow becomes internalized so there's less incentive to post competitive quotes on public exchanges. I think it's very telling that many of the articles talk about the evils of HFT without addressing internalization.

It's true that this type of tax can easily be avoided, but the real problem is that it incentivizes trading to move from public exchanges to banks' walled gardens.
Where was the FBI during the armed standoff in Oregon? Out of sight
Yes. It surprises me that people are so quick to so readily assume a biologically deterministic cause when these types of findings are presented. People seem too eager to discount environmental factors - even when it should be obvious to all that our biology is intimately related to our environment and circumstances.

For a good summary of the contemporary positions of the biological and environmental camps when it comes to the causes of schizophrenia I can't recommend this lecture highly enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVY2Vptfwg&feature=youtu.be

Long story short; both camps have valuable insights and a lot to learn from each other.
Though I agree that this behavior is reprehensible and probably criminal, the comments here seem to miss at least some of the human dynamic here.

I can't hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their entire working life was recorded, and likely subject to public disclosure. Saying that this is what cops signed up for is not a compelling counter argument either, as this is new and most of the cops in question didn't sign up to work in an environment like that at all.

It seems odd to be even somewhat defending Chicago cops but someone should point out that there are two sides to this.