skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can, at least control, and get a what they call Clean Coal Power Station. Which basically store all the toxic and unwanted substance somewhere else instead of releasing into the atmosphere.

But yes, we do need some new way to generate electricity, that could be Solar Panel getting to 40% efficiency or Nuclear Fission. Personally i would like some more Nuclear Fusion advance, but i guess we are at least another 50 years from it.
Does it really matter what the generated code looks like?

We use Typescript and I don't care what the final Javascript looks like. I don't plan to ever touch that code manually.
Patents are mostly bad and the bar for invalidating even horribly ridiculously bad ones is so high that if a patent was struck down in court it was probably on the wrong side of ridiculous and thus its demise is indeed a good thing.
How to Launch a Successful Minimum Viable Product
Actually SSD themselves implement COW filesystem since NAND cannot be written without erase step.
"The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance."

Fortunately people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Steve Jobs never felt this way.
To be considered as unemployed, one needs to be actively looking for a job [0].

Also, don't forget about students and retired individuals. They are part of the labor force, but not part of the unemployed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_Sta...
You can read Sokal's various commentaries on this topic. His point was that many philosophers tried to make grandiose statements about science and mathematics that did not make sense at all. The philosophers were making statements based on their imagination of what certain terms meant, and not on the actual meaning of those terms.

See the links here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10715872
Article with context:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/whats-really-goin...

Original discussion, 70+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11110473
Good examples of why it's not ready for significant use in production. They should have network sharding in sometime this year or next which will effectively leave contracts running on only as many nodes as they pay for. Tackling blockchain size issues will probably need some separate cleverness with distributed storage, though there are good precedents for implementing that.
I think we've moved on. LG's "tap out a pattern to switch on and unlock" is fantastic.
I find myself wondering if it relies on the "for printing" reformating of various sites. This because i was browsing one site i could have sworn had the icon earlier using desktop Firefox, but it didn't show up. That is until i enable the JS of s third party printing framework in Noscript. After that it showed up.
I'd like to see the Sherman Act used against Comcast / Verizon / ATT. It's like the executive branch has forgotten that law even exists.
> Comprehensibility is so much more than syntax

Absolutely. It's a tender flower.

> No. It's just different way of getting to the same effect. I don't see why would one be worse than the other (splitting things using infix operators vs. splitting things using horizontal and vertical whitespace).

It's very important since size matters. Efficiency of encoding and cost of decoding (~ perception) matters. But if you don't think it makes a difference -- fine, you are free to read braille instead of plain text even if you have perfect eyesight. You can also add three layers of parens around each expression if you think that's more regular.

> Do you think that we're genetically programmed for reading infix syntax?

No. There's this fact that all combinations of basic grammar are represented in natural languages: SVO, SOV, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS. And then there are some programming languages which don't differentiate between subjects and objects, but go for (OVO), VO, VOO, VOOO... (or concatenative style OV, OOV, OOOV...). Which is great since the goal of formalism is to be "objective". (Note that Object-oriented programming is actually subject-oriented programming from this standpoint. It's not "objective")

Instead I say that it is more efficient if syntax is optimized for the common cases. Shorter is better, if the decoding won't produce more cache misses. Infix and symbols don't produce cache misses for the vast majority of humans, in the case of arithmetic (read: mostly sequential, barely tree-shaped) expressions.

Sexps are inherently unoptimized for the common cases. They are "optimized for abstraction": for regularity. It is an explicit design goal to not differentiate things which are different "only" on a very concrete level. Instead of content, form is accentuated. This is not suitable for the > 95% of real life software that is just super-concrete and where abstraction has no benefits.

I'm sure I have now given 5 to 10 quite plausible examples which support the standpoint that symbols-and-infix arithmetics is good for humans, based on how their mind works. You haven't provided any counter-arguments but just shrunk off everything. But thanks anyway for that. I think I'm satisfied now with the examples that came out.

> are you sure you're as skilled with sexps [..] as with infix?

No. Never will be.

Are you? Show me a Lisp program with more than casual usage of arithmetics and tell my why you consider it readable. By the way, the first google hit I just got for "lisp arithmetic readability" is http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/
"Love" the latest fad there, where JS is used to turn a site into a flip book as you scroll down. This by having new "content" come up and cover the old stuff as if you were flipping pages.
I've been flirting with no script on my desktop computer. I'm actually pleasantly surprised by how much actually work. Give it a shot if you use Mozilla Firefox.
Physician heal thyself. It would be optimal if this could be made more clearly gpl compatible as the current owner has a compelling interest in Linux as they now offer their own distro. That said nobody is whining just wishing.
Yes. Please stop trolling HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185269

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11083482
As far as the S/W engineering take away -- simply put, an interface allows two disparate pieces of code to work together. One compiled piece of code, for example, can interact with another piece of code, which could be written and compiled years after the initial.
I apologize for the rant. It was misplaced here. If you feel like it needs to be deleted, I'm okay with that.
Definitely Denmark stands out compared to their Scandinavian measures.

But looking here (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_refugee...) they still have 4x refugees per capita compared to the US, 2x more than Australia, and still have more refugees per capita than Germany. And they're well above most EU countries. And I can almost guarantee they're more generous to refugees than the US.

Seems funny for a US paper to be calling Denmark "harsh".
Its not that our politicians have forgotten. Its that applying certain laws would conflict with getting filthy lucre.

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYea...
Capitalism's default answer is retraining...
Were you using Ethereum Alarm Clock? If you were then I'd be curious to hear about issues with it and if not then taking a second shot at your PoC could be worthwhile.
Rwanda is a lovely example: an "ethnic conflict" created by Belgian colonialism.
It is comparable in that they are both filesystems... Supposedly the situation has been improving but at least as of months ago compared to zfs performance was horrible, features were lacking, and likelihood of data loss was a lot higher.
I guess this is notable because Kryder's Law ended in 2011: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/10/kryders_law_of_ever_...
My understanding is that telephone, cable, and power providers share the poles. Don't the power companies usually own the poles? So if they added internet providers to the list of companies authorized to share the poles, AT&T wouldn't have grounds for complaint. Since internet providers (such as AT&T) already share the poles, this seems like a reasonable move.

In my neighborhood we had 2 competing cable providers for about a decade, and they managed to share the poles (along with the phone company and the power company) without any problems (or at least, any problems that made the news).
So, I have a long response to each question, but all you really need is this. The groups you singled out as doing well are Indians and Chinese. The two most populous ethnic groups in the world are Chinese and Indians. Do you think that's a coincidence, or do you think maybe we're in a nation that's skimming from the top of two very very large populations?

Now the specifics:

> STEM tests at the border?

You don't need STEM tests to cause this filtering effect, you just need to make immigration contingent on an employer or university wanting you to be in this country. That's what H1-B and student visas do.

> why would not the same effect play out with hispanics?

1. The H1-B and student visa program isn't what brought them into the country.
2. There are fewer of them in the world.

> why do 2nd and 3rd generation asians so utterly dominate STEM subjects at elite US universities that there are de-facto quotas to limit asians?

STEM proficiency is inherited, and the 2nd and 3rd generation Asians are the children of 1st and 2nd generation Asians.

> But most of all, how did those Indians and Chinese acquire those superior STEM skills without access to the educational resources that are given to all US citizens?

Most US citizens do not get a good STEM education. Most Indians and Chinese also do not get a good STEM education, but we don't see the ones who don't.
Wow, looks really interesting!

With Flux/Redux I have control over when and how data is updated, but that is not the case here. What are the performance characteristics? Is there a limit to the number of observables before performance suffers?

There is also the question of routing and history. What is the best way to use observables in a single-page app along with routing and history (i.e working back button)?
Opinion: If interfaces is the most important software engineering concept, then the most important interface is the one used to control I/O. Different approaches. Fun to think about.
TFA isn't clear about this, but I suspect that all of the poles in question are actually owned by LG&E who operate the electrical lines that hang from them. So "...its utility poles" in the title should actually be "...the same utility poles it uses". There probably is some dumb FCC rule that supports ATT's position here, because after all those rules are written by ATT. One hopes that courts would decide FCC don't govern how LG&E's poles are used. If any agency would, surely it would be DoE?
You and all the other freebie guys are welcome to create content without all the extra scripts then. Pretty simple no? It would appear though, seeing as this is considered a pretty big problem, that the vast majority of people do want to be compensated.
How dare you be a sovereign nation with a border!
In reality none is preventing competition it's just none is really competing.
There's no JVM overhead like for Spark computation. The dask array methods use the numpy C-API, which are implemented in C and run on the physical machine.
"And if there are indeed windfall profits to be made what is preventing smart-ass entrepreneurs from jumping in and making those profits?"

Incredibly high barriers to entry and very large established players who have already cornered the market? Following your logic, oil companies must not be very profitable since there aren't very many entrepreneurs buying their own offshore drilling platforms.

"They aren't profitable the way people make them out to be."

Who are these people? What is this way?

What concrete assertion are you refuting? How do you explain the P/E ratios of the biggest medical device companies?

If the cost of regulation is such a drag on profits and innovation, why are medical supply companies that primarily serve the US market so much more profitable in the long term than their counterparts in other countries?

Are you alleging that there's a bubble, or that they're cooking their books, or that they're not one of the most consistently profitable industries?
Like there is no need to market its product then?
"To attempt to speak ill of a field you know little about and yet still find to be trivial or unrigorous is puzzilingly tactless and embarrassingly presumptuous."

This is one of the most common academic tactics: to claim that those who are outside the field are ignorant of it and therefore cannot pass judgment. As someone who claims to be a scientist, you should know that this is an appeal to authority and that a scientist would welcome criticism from anyone regardless of training or background provided their argument was well-argued and supported by evidence.
No, the FreeBSD foundation is showing that different entities, with different licenses, can cooperate. As the SFLC mentioned in their original posting, combining ZFS in the kernel feels little more than damnum absque injuria. In order for any judgement to be laid, there has to be shown some sort of injured party. Who is injured exactly by integrating a kernel module with primarily CDDL code with the Linux kernel, which itself already includes many binary only files where the licensing is questionable?
We're only one transpiler away from that.
I'm not a troll, I believe this. I'm actually baffled that people can't see how obvious it is. I'm highly credentialed/successful in the tech industry. In the case that I have no intelligence what so ever, explain this comment you have linked. To me, he's pointing out some obscure fact, that not all Africans look the same. Fine, but 95%+ do, can we argue about the general concept? Or do I have to be confined to spelling and grammar mistake arguments? Along with nitpicking? Personal insults?
I agree, it could be a little more explained. Thanks for the input!

I'm not sure if rails does this out of the box, but the thinking is to integrate it into a deployment system for sites built without frameworks like Rails (static marketing sites, for example). A general purpose URL transformer would be interesting. Do you have any use cases outside of prepending you can see it being useful for?
So wait, how does a point dot with itself? I get it for two points, but how can a public point dot with itself to form a line? That doesn't make sense to me.
Looks like a major problem is he's decided to just "be rich" now. He really needs a purpose. He needs to decide what it is he gives a damn about and work on that. Goes for anyone. Not just rich people. If I were him I'd start an investment fund for worker cooperatives. I think it could improve a lot of lives.
> Making braces optional in single-statement if/else/while/for clauses is one of the biggest anti-features in C.

What's frustrating is that K&R still has a lot of example code like that as well. It would be wonderful to see a 3rd edition even if it do nothing but change its code to use braces.
You can definitely enforce non-zero sum contracts, the problem being whether they are actually useful. If you're handing out loans, nothing stops the borrower from vanishing and creating a new identity or otherwise resetting their 'credit score'. It seems like a solvable problem though, you could then depend on some identity or credit oracle, and that could be built on trust (eg. in a government or facebook id), or some meaningful reputation scheme.

I guess the trick here is whether you consider "losing credit score if you don't re-pay" enforcing the contract or not. Doing anything stricter, like programmatically garnishing wages or handling bankruptcy, seems like it would require a hard 1:1 mapping between a person and their ethereum presence, which is much more than trusting an oracle to provide a unique ID or reputation based credit score.
Isn't that partially due to where the transcontinental railroad was laid? (Cue "Canadian Railroad Trilogy")
Isn't sacrificing their own happiness a little bit like happiness by proxy then? Maybe that's too broad an interpretation. It leads to the (old) question of whether there is true selflessness.
We need to remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews
Sailors Unexpectedly Photograph a Volcano and the Birth of a New Island
Relatively inaccessible means of exchange are a persistent weakness of non-domestic currencies.

Hope your experimenting goes well!
Offtopic, the next post on the blog is about FreeBSD and RISC-V, what i find interesting is they are both from UC Berkeley.
I haven't seen anyone say that. Why can you do those things with a blockchain but not non-blockchain, settled ledgers? Seems like it boils down to rules and who is enforcing them rather than the tech.
But would you be actually responsible for it if someone changes your contract without your knowledge? Even if you are the one serving it?

So, if I went to a car dealership with my own modified contract in hand, and surreptitiously changed it for the one being put forth by the dealer and got him to sign it, would he be bound by that contract? (independent of whether or not I am committing a crime in that scenario)

Re: The code can be replaced. Sure, I am not worried about losing code at rest, for anything non-trivial you should have plenty of copies of a git repository anyways. But if modified code gets deployed, then suddenly you can take actions that might cost human lives or leak sensitive data and that genie can't be put back in the bottle, at any cost.
Publications just need to continue to follow these stories, and print relevant details. The rest will take care of itself.

Investors with large stakes in AT&T, and board members, need to take a look in the mirror and ask themselves whether the CEO's compensation is in line with his ability to ask his legal department to sue people / companies / governments, or is it in line with his ability to make at&t a great company that accomplishes amazing things for its customers.
Actually that's not true. Surprisingly all the new names in the industry still package up their scenes and sell them as DVDs. I was surprised myself, being an internet-only kind of character, but physical medium is not dead.
The fact that Alphabet is just above AT&T in that list is what gives me hope that this time it will be different. It's a nasty business, and I hate that Google has to participate in bribery in order to be allowed to innovate on behalf of consumers, but the alternative of having AT&T writing the laws is far more awful (and is why we're in the mess we're in when it comes to Internet service in the US).
Forced? Facebook still is creepy and so are web analytics. Why do you think so many people have resorted to ad blockers? I find it amusing that LinkedIn was picked as a platform to claim the non-creepiness of something.
"Unfortunately people believe too much that "we can maintain our lifestyle without breaking the emission limits that we set", and the truth has to be reminded: We can't."

Sure we can. It's called nuclear power. Too bad we're not allowed to use it.

"US people have a difficulty understanding this, "

Europeans have difficulty understanding the size of the United States. Oregon, a medium-sized state, is larger than the UK. Texas is larger than France. Alaska is larger than all of Western Europe.

Canadians use even more fossil fuels than Americans, and for the same reason. It's a really, really big country.

It has nothing to do with "cities". Our cities are reasonably high in density already, and the high density cities do have public transportation.

We just have a lot of people who don't live in cities, and we like it that way just fine.
I don't think so, because Bitcoin Script is not Turing complete.
Another case of the government intervention in the free market hurting the consumers, since large corporations will always be better than consumers at hijacking the legislative/legal system to their benefits.

If you have the only poles in town (because the local government said there is only enough space for one pole line) then you have effective monopoly over lined communication.

The solution to this of course is Georgian rent over space, in this case a rent over the only space in town that poles are allowed to be erected, which would be quite expensive, thus making their monopoly position untenable.
Oh, you mean the service they provide in being available to take money from people? That service? Hey, look, everybody! I offer that service, too!

Give me a break.
Using the tangent line at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplic...
It does once you hit a certain karma threshold (maybe 500?).

Steve is definitely faaaar above that threshold.
.. which Torwalds AFAIK opposes, so no Linux kernel on GPLv3.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11177398
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I think you might have misunderstood my comment; I was referring to the bullet point under "What didn't work":

> Reduction speed: The computation of normalized temperature, z, took a surprisingly long time. I’d like to look into what is holding up that computation.
It seems like a political problem, like most of Europe's problems. People just aren't choosing to work on obvious solutions to the problems, like a coordinated EU-wide refugee program. There is no question Denmark (and others) can afford the refugees, and the refugees certainly are not going to threaten the national security of any nation.

As in the US, the problem is politics. Climate change, health care, judges, and most of the rest of the issues have obvious solutions, it's just that some politicians currently refuse to participate on the grounds that other Americans also get a say in what happens (it is a democracy, after all). Unless they get their way 100%, undemocratically imposing their will on the rest of the country, no matter what their fellow citizens vote for, they won't act.
FWIW OmniWeb supports gopher:

http://i.imgur.com/KFEzrTP.png

https://www.omnigroup.com/more
I have made no such connection, and I am generally skeptical of any attempts to replicate the human brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10920890. I'm merely pointing out the possibility this isn't a huge problem to developing robust AI, because my educated guess is humans are similarly vulnerable.
This is pop-psychology garbage. Pat yourself on the back and feel good about agreeing with something obvious.

Drugs are bad, m'kay. Sleep deprivation is bad, m'kay?

This is linked to that. Broad sweeping statistics seem to indicate whatever. Someday science will know more, but gosh Mr. Science sure could know a lot more right now. So many millions of numbers, and then there's people who do such and such. We're only beginning to unravel the mysteries of faith.

Not much to say about why brain cells die. Not much to say about the specific mechanics of any direct outcome, or why the brain actually needs up to a third of it's time wound down to a state of minimal activity, or what really happens during that downtime.

But 99% of all boogey men are sleep deprived. Furthermore here is a glossary of mental illnesses from the hall of fame of DSM V diagnosis, that everyone's sure to recognize, and sleep deprivation can be tied to all of them with delicious weasle words. Yay!
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