skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people?

That's asinine. As if the choices are panicked fear or death. Do you think those public health agencies would be somehow less effective in the absence of fear-mongering?

My comment is not a question of there being public health threats. It's about the media coverage and the incessant need to sell fear in these times.
I don't take notes anymore, because I no longer have any need to. In rare occasion I do, usually on longer meetings with colleagues, we have an etherpad/google doc and edit collaboratively.

And even in college I usually didn't take notes at all. I learned by borrowing notes from several people, and then meticulously created a cheat-sheet.
Isn't a 3mb index.js a little bit too much? Time to dive into minifying and gzipping :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
I don't know if I would want my life to depend on children and teenagers making good choices.
Have there been many great, mentally ill Go players?
To be contrarian...

"hosting and selling high quality video series"

As a creator coming from a business perspective I see these platforms as mostly a liability to be avoided.

I write videos and have decided to create my own subscription site that is coupled with other services/features. I look at Youtube as nothing more than a free promotional tool to release sample content. Why include a middle man when it is unnecessary ?
“Dear Zuck.” Fuck!
Americans believe they control their financial destinies-research says otherwise
Although the particular modifications were not used, the Shuttle (as a launch system) certainly was used by the military or at least the NRO. Several missions were classified, most were presumably spy satellite launch and maintenance.

It caused a lot of communication problems because everything was coded, astronauts forgot what code words meant and the whole thing was a bit of a joke.

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/secret-space-shuttles-35318...
Two way binding is back in, and almost all perf benchmarks out there of Angular 2 is much faster than React. It also avoids some of the internal flaws present in current React with the coupling of the DOM layer in the library.

The two way binding works by automatically updating, but also allowing you to hook into the outputs through a template convention (if bound via [(foo)], one can define a fooChange handler to hook into updates).
We're probably due for a good culling. There'll be eight billion of us before long.

Time to go play Plague, Inc, again...
Paintjs – Lightweight Alternative to JQuery
He was still on email. He just delegated the work to someone else. Sounds like a good arrangement for someone with his level of contribution. I'd rather he didn't spend his limited time reading his junk mail either.
Titles containing considered harmful considered harmful
The world is rarely so conveniently simple as to present exactly two choices. I doubt this is an exception.
It's a TSA-approved lock for encryption instead of luggage.

And just like with TSA locks, there will be leaks and compromised systems that only hurt the general public.
Saturn spacecraft not affected by hypothetical Planet 9
DDT is still used in the third world, and mosquitoes are evolving resistance to it. So choosing DDT will eventually end with extinct ospreys, and DDT-resistant mosquitoes.
Ya, I agree. To me the right thing to do looks like this: Efficiency at some (possibly significant) cost to workers, and then use some of the fruits of that efficiency to subsidize the migration of those people to new jobs, or just subsidize their lives.

I suppose the way I see it efficiency is an absolute goal - the debate should be about what we do with the product of that efficiency.
The problem with this nice theory is you'll be getting it whether you want it or not. As revenue comes in from the sureillance society, manufacturers will (and alrewady are) crammin the functionality into devices. You, as a customer will have no choice: sooner or later you'll need a new fridge, and a spy fridge will be your only option.
Back in the day, not everything needed jquery and bootstrap deps to be considered "modern" ;)

Jokes aside, russian space program had some AMAZING developers working in some very low-level languages with unbelievable efficiency. I had the pleasure of working with some of them many years later on enterprise software at large banks.

NASA has written some amazing software as well. Start here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063192
I'm a bit confused when you say "these politicians allowed almost every white person to own a brand new house and brand new car". What business is it of politicians to prohibit people from owning a new home or car? What right does anyone have to tell me what neighborhood I can live in? If you want to blame someone for sprawl, blame the politicians that subsidize the infrastructure that make it possible.
With due respect to your Dad, the implication that poor people are simply lazy is highly speculative and doesn't seem to match the data, including lack of resources and opportunity around them.
The government needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just build more A-10's. Infantry guys across the board swear by them - they are one of the most popular pieces of air support in existence for a reason.

The A-10's are a a heavy chain gun with a plane built around it. They are armored up and can take serious flak while still completing the mission. Its amazing what the A-10's can go through and come out safely on the other end.

They are a known cost (not a budgetary blackhole/f-35). We have plenty of pilots to fly them and techs to repair them. Fact is, the F35 was/is not designed for the close air support (CAS) mission.
Not all innovation comes from startups. There are probably lots of people who would be interested in working on a free, open source AI system if someone were to organize such a project. It would be interesting to see who the "Linus Torvalds of AI" will turn out to be.
I think you were misinformed about the purpose of Make. It should not be used as a programming language. You can write a short makefile by hand, reasonably, which compiles a few source files, but anything larger should probably be automatically generated by CMake or your own scripts or whatever.

Abstractions are perfectly possible, you just do it in your own script (Python or whatever) and this way you don't have to learn a new language. Ninja is a better alternative to Make, and it is even less expressive (which is one of the reasons why it is better, IMO).

Or in other words, we build abstractions in Make by composing it with other tools, rather than creating a huge monolithic Makefile syntax which can do anything you want.
Bit more details on authors website: http://lazerwalker.com/hellooperator and in Gamasutra interview: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/266470/AltCtrlGDC_Showcas...
And they both look like iMessage.
It's like taking The Lord's name in vain.

Used frivolously, it feels like blasphemy.
Many of these people are intelligent and in college. Others have options but think riches are better. Soms have no options as you said.

Common denominator is they love their art, do it constantly, had a dream of being paid for it, and sonething reinforces that.
Likewise. I can't read my own handwriting but the process helped a lot.
How to Count Past Infinity [video]
Comments containing "considered harmful considered harmful" considered besides the point.
Exactly. If we go from the assumption that the whole point of lectures and courses is to acquire knowledge, doesn't it make sense to make sure knowledge is indeed acquired.

There's that saying that amateurs practice until they get it right and pros practice until they can't get it wrong.

A perfect score in the current configuration tells you that the students didn't just persist through the course, they went back and filled the gaps and made sure they get it right even if they got it wrong at first.
I assume they are playing off the 1997 article "recursive make considered harmful"
As the other commenter did I might quibble with your description of them as a monopsony, but I think the spirit of your criticism is valid.

And I agree, I think we should think very carefully about how these companies are taxed and regulated, because ultimately it does make sense for them to consolidate to a single provider. Especially so once they start using self-driving cars and stop employing drivers at all.

I think what we need to think very carefully about is how we distribute and deal with the gains of this massive step-change in efficiency we are about to experience / are experiencing. What we must not do though is allow fears about those gains to prevent us from attaining them.

In other words, if you're worried about the plight of laborers or drivers, tax Uber and just give them the money. Don't enact protectionist policies for the taxi industry.
The only reason you'd ever lash out at a competitor for copying you is because you have an inferior product overall. If you were winning, you wouldn't care. Build something better. Getting angry about this doesn't help you.
1 billion dollar valuation in 3..2..
Very good points.
That could be part of the reinforcement. Plus, the celebrity status is fun and makes you matter to many people. Whereas sweating it out in a factory or cubicle for a souless corporation to make others rich doesnt have same appeal.
It's not just written in Haskell, it is Haskell. Your "Shakefile" is a Haskell source file. You understand the syntax if you understand Haskell syntax, and vice versa.

And no, you don't have to write Unicode arrows. You write those things as ->. For some reason academic Haskell papers use Unicode symbols where real Haskell uses ASCII.
Maybe the fear mongering for specific incoming threats in main stream media is a required part of fund raising. Then I could raise 2 critics:

1. The media-incited fear must be equally allocated to old, common as well as new threats

2. The tabloid type of fear mongering isn't needed.

Actually the NYT article is quite serious and informative, the headline which is similar to "winter coming" asks for preparations.
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A large number of those missions were flow for the DoD, repairing/refuling satellites and potentially also capturing enemy satellites.
I think there is a sense of truth in what you are saying, but I think that is not completely black and white.

For example honest product advertisements can be described as non-predatory.

I also think that magazine ads are an order of less predatory compared to the TV ads because you are not forced to perceive them.

Google ads many years ago without all reaching Google Analyse and other Google whole web tracking projects were at least two orders less predatory than Google ads today.
Let Them Eat Cash (2014)
Everybody wants to be Dijkstra.
A/B testing has become somewhat of a cargo cult, with tools like optimizely making it insanely easy to run tests. IMO, simple copy tweaks or button color changes are usually waste of time tests.

I'm a big fan of running A-B tests on major product changes - which is basically just standard business benchmarking. Measuring the impact and understanding the results of a change are important whether you run a web app or a flower shop.

PPC is the one place for me where smaller AB tests are absolutely essential. In most other scenarios there are too many confounding variables to really understand much from small tweaks in a product.
Financial resources are necessary but not at all sufficient to success. Money does not replace parenting, which I think is probably most important. Also, money doesn't change people's natural talents, problems, personalities, etc. We're talking about human beings.

Wealth can help compensate: Maybe if you lack a lot of talent you can still get through college, and that will keep out of minimum wage jobs over the long term.
I am not claiming that Zika is or is not coming. I am suggesting that the headline is loaded and that if you live in one of those dark orange areas on the map with the legend "The Most Vulnerable" it's probably scaring the shit out of you in a way that's disproportionate to the current threat.

>Ebola didn't disappear on its own

But it would have equally disappeared without the minor panic incited by the media. You remember that part too, don't you?

>Your line of thinking is what makes measles come back

Oh, the drama. I don't think my weariness of the fear mongering is going to bring back the Black Death. No, my ,"line of thinking" says let public health officials do their jobs without this incessant advertising-selling drumbeat regarding our collective impending doom.

But it's OK. Give me your address and I will bring my 8 unvaccinated kids and their unvaccinated goldfish to your house to hang out for a bit. Apologies in advance for your exploding head.
TBH I don't think you can easily destroy things in Vim/Emacs though. As long as you don't for some reason run it as sudo the security mechanism is quite robust.
Politics is the mindkiller.

It opens with the assumption that everyone shares the author's policy prescriptions.

How can anyone write about politics and think that it's full of issues with only one obvious answer? Is it through screening all interactions to avoid anyone with different opinions?

And there's no reason to single Frank out on this. Why does almost everyone on both sides of the aisle write and talk about politics in exactly this way?
In which case why even use Make at all? CMake could generate anything.
Treating Soil a Little Differently Could Help It Store a Huge Amount of Carbon
> And if you really have to ask if such a clause applies to you, you haven't properly read your contract and/or you don't know your rights.

I’m not working at Google, but I’m a compsci student in Germany, and obviously interested in the situation in the job market.

> What does it tell us if people don't recognise that as satire? Is it so close to reality to think that Google could claim rights on our cookie recipes?

It’s certainly possible that some might expect that – from the standpoint of someone who only heard of German law, for example, a large part of US employment laws would sound just as crazy as being able to have the copyright of your employee’s cookie recipes.
Buran was a neat system. Although it looks like a copy of the US shuttle, it wasn't. Buran was a payload, with no engines.

Because Buran was designed after the Shuttle, the designers had the benefit of knowing US mistakes. Buran's thermal protection is better. The Space Shuttle tile system was a huge headache; not only did it cause one crash, even successful flights required excessive maintenance of the tiles. The US tile system could not handle rain; Buran could.

The US shuttle had autoland.[1] The astronauts didn't want to use it. Post-Columbia, the shuttles did get full unmanned landing capability, so that, in some emergencies, a shuttle could be returned from the ISS with nobody on board. This was never used.

[1] http://llis.nasa.gov/lesson/194
I'm wondering whether they built a simulation environment to test their software.
Great guide. All sorts of good ways to organize your modules and code - not just for files. Big improvements in readability in a lot of cases.
It's interesting that people are careful with stereotypes and analysis of poor kids, but have no problem using them for wealthy kids.

Kids born into wealth, at least moderate wealth, are much more likely to be successful than kids born into poverty, so it seems they figure out that struggle thing eventually.
If I had a dollar for every ticket this was done to on any project I've worked before...well I'd probably own a couple of sports teams by now.
How to mislead with bar graphs; the tutorial

https://denpa.moe/~indy/e75d18.png
All Raspberry Pi's have Mathematica licenses, so there's one cheap way in.
I mostly agree with you. Maybe our emphasis is different. I try to look at the issue from a practical standpoint. I can't change where I was born or how much money my parents had or even what I did 5 minutes ago. What I can do is take my present set of circumstances and do what I can do to make things better from this point on. If I lay in bed all day, things aren't going to improve but if I get on this computer and work until 9 o'clock tonight doing what it is that I do then I stand a pretty good chance of having a more prosperous future. Especially if I do that consistently. And it's hard work. I'd rather play video games but I don't. I work.

Regarding the people you grew up with, you say they work as hard as you do. Are you sure about that? And while they may be working hard, how smart are they working? For instance, some went to college, did they get a degree in something that is in high demand where the pay is good? And getting a college degree is only one piece of a good education. How much did they really learn, and consequently, how competitive are they in the job market? Even if they're all in high demand STEM fields, they still have to compete with the thousands of other job seekers after all.

Thinking through the alternatives and making smarter choices is hard work. And that is cumulative. It's kind of like compound interest too. You may not see a big difference from day to day or month to month but given some roll of the dice in circumstances, over the course of years and decades, working hard will almost always make a huge difference.
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Then why do you access their computers when they have explicitly said they don't want you to? Even further, you circumvent a system they have put in place to stop you from accessing their property.
I think this is a great effort. Are you at beginner level or advanced? My nephew is currently learning to code and the book he is using is very much university level content (read: utter garbage), it goes as far as distinguishing "inner loops". Any developer knows that there is nothing special about an inner loop (besides O(N^2)) - it's nothing more than logical progression. I'm looking for something worthwhile for him to learn from.

I've saved these reviews and will be contemplating them for his education - it would help to know how far along you were when approaching them.
Not at all. Standard living arrangement was e.g. some friends who rented a 3 bedroom, maybe 1000 sq ft house for $500/month (total, plus maybe $40/m for utilities). It was under a minute walk from two little markets with fresh produce, meat, cheese and beer. A few minutes walk to multiple bars, take-out food, larger markets and restaurants. Health care is also far cheaper / fewer barriers to access.

So suddenly someone making $8/hr, 30hr a week can live a quite good quality, car-free middle-class life. That is simply impossible basically anywhere in the United States.
I used to write my notes by hand, but eventually I switched to using my laptop. At the end of the semester, I often found my handwritten notes illegible.

While many other laptop students seem to simply try to type down everything the professor says, I still use the same method as when I wrote by hand: filter out what's non-important. When comparing notes, I've seen fellow students go as far as writing down jokes and anecdotes told by professors…
Efficient integer overflow should really be implemented in the processor. This problem exists and often leads to security holes. And developer in 99% cases is not prepared to deal with overflows, so it shouldn't happen unless developer explicitly used some overflowing operator.

Unfortunately almost all languages use overflow by default. I only know that C language has unspecified behavior for overflowing signed integers, so it's legal to crash here. That's a sad state of things.
The author works in public health. Public health policy doesn't happen in a vacuum. Implementing the plan in the article requires public funds, and so it's perfectly reasonable to inform the public.
4MB is rather a lot for embedded applications, especially if they are written in assembler. I can't imagine having to hand-check 4MB of assembler for flight certification.

Remember we had an entire game industry, graphical assets and all, distributed on 1.44MB floppy disks.
In math, I pretty much always need a reference. Professors don't seem to like explaining every property of things, particularly when it should have been explained previously. I used my phone continuously to look things up. That professor hated me.

My personal preference is working through proofs and problems on my own and being able to pause lectures. Sure it takes an extra 30 minutes, but it saves hours of time later when I don't understand what I'm doing.
I expected to be downvoted with that comment. It doesn't fit the usual narrative. But I have some karma to burn, and feel like burning it in a good cause :-)

The fact is, if you are able-bodied, you do have choices.

I won't repeat what I've posted elsewhere in this thread. I'll just add that in my life I've noticed a consistent pattern. People who take responsibility for their choices do much better than people who always blame others, fate, whatever.

And American today has more opportunities for more people than anywhere at anytime in history. There's a reason why America has so many illegal immigrants and so many more that want to come here.
Reading the article, I wonder if Shake could be used to generate Ninja files. It looks like it might be possible. The main "backend" improvements in Shake are things like concurrency reduction (pools in Ninja), hash-based rebuilding (available but undocumented in Ninja), and generated dependency rules. In such a setup, you'd use Shake for all your abstractions, and Ninja to execute the rules.
Blockchain-based microgrid gives power to consumers in New York
Free Software exists because employees of non-free software pay thevwages that free software can be written in the free time
Couldn't stop thinking how much I wanted to bitch slap these amphibians all throughout the read. So well written.
"Right now the Echo is only listening inside of homes, so logically you can figure there's not much risk of third-party harm here."

If I visit a friend who has an Echo in their home, I'm having my conversation listened to without my consent.
My Airbnb story: How to ignore your degree and not know any better
Space shuttle was actually used for a few military launches, and did deploy military (or NRO) payload(s). If you look at a list of STS missions, the military ones have 'undisclosed' missions.

The pentagon discontinued reliance on STS after the interruption caused by the Challenger explosion.
Obligatory shuttle reading: http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7973259
Datalog is a subset of prolog, which is not Turing complete. But, by giving up the ability to compute anything, you get a fully declarative language (the order of clauses doesn't matter) whose computations always terminate. In contrast, when programming in prolog you are often thinking about the operational aspects of the underlying engine in order to get more efficiency. You try to order clauses advantageously and introduce extra-logical commands like "cuts" to guide the engine, so prolog code often looks more declarative on the surface than it is in reality. As a result, I've heard Datalog referred to as "the good parts of Prolog," and I suppose that for problems it can handle I do like that Datalog has fewer pragmatic compromises to its purity.
Agreed with the statements about combining your run layers. The fewer layers you have the better.

Also, I would try to build this using Alpine or another smaller Linux distro.