skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that hard to imagine: map a `get` over a series of keys inside a transaction, return that lazy sequence, and use the results to do another series of operations within a different transaction.

Libraries typically can't guarantee eager evaluation, since that's a property of the top-level execution. That's why libraries shouldn't use `binding`.
You may hate Trump. But do you want Facebook to rig the election against him?
>Click rates tend to be in the 15% to 25% range. Yes, this is not a typo! These are the most effective e-mails you can send.

That is lower than I would expect for a campaign giving away $5 with a click.
Let the record state that my bile is exclusively for the new MacBooks and that the Mac Pro is a beautiful and delightful computer.
Ask HN: Are you finding it hard to talk on the internet nowadays?
These days I find it difficult to express myself on the internet. It could be posting this from a non-TOR source under my own accounts. It could also be just chatting with my friends about my views on various subjects. I remember it not being like this when I was younger.

I used to be able to post to forums and chat on IRC about anything without fear. These days, on the other hand, I constantly re-examine what I am about to say and what kind of consequence it might have. This results in abandoning speech before I send them to the internet. Further, I also feel that this situation is hopeless and there is essentially no hope to restore the internet (possibly society at large) to the days where I feel more free.

Is this something that you find to be true as well? What is causing this? What can we do about this? Is there even anything we can do to get the internet of my memories (possibly your memories as well) back?

My current feeling/hypothesis towards why the change are (note these are all subjective):

For public discussions such as hacker news and forums:

1. I feel that I may be under more scrutiny for things I post in the future.
2. Voting for posts (reddit, HN) feels more of a popularity contest and I feel communities are designed to be echo chambers.
3. I fear speaking on IMs these days. A lot of it is due to the surveillance that we are all subjected to. Before I type anything, I can feel their presence upon me, almost. Unnecessary paranoia, perhaps. However, it is nonetheless real to me and scary. Not a single friend/contact of mine has so far been willing to switch to something like Signal, OTR, where I feel secure.

Ask HN:

In addition to the questions I raised in the beginning: am I overeacting and just having tinfoil on my head? Am I being unreasonable with my expectations? Is it just my memories that are tricking me into thinking the pas was better than it is now?
Check out https://www.track.tax

It works exactly as you described- money goes into your account first, then taxes are calculated and moved to your tax savings account. You can get paid via check, zero friction.
On Being A Senior Engineer (2012)
Two parties to an email conversation. If one person is using "Amy" and adds her to the conversation, the other person may not fully understand the implications. Especially since their marketing tries hard to blur the lines.
I'm trying to understand ego. I think, as part of it, "ikawe" would not mention an app that "ikawe" wrote that uses push notifications to send advertising. Ego classifies things as "bad" or "good", and notices "bad" in others and "good" in self.
From a user's perspective, it sounds like no:

"many of the more advanced games written in ML [machine language] do not yet play well due to unimplemented hardware features, writing an emulator is a tough task and after all my goal wasn't to write a full perfect emulator but to learn in the process of making a simple one"

The parent is getting downvotes, but I think it's a reasonable question: is this a program I should appreciate as an amibitious project and potential learning tool, or one I would actually want to use on a regular basis?
The end of Moore's Law has broad industry-wide implications. Imagine if Moore's Law had ended in the year 2000 - no smartphones...

A lot of future technologies that rely on exponential increases in silicon capability will not be possible. It's almost impossible to replicate an exponential.

The rate of progress will slow and look more like more mature industries such as aerospace.
Can you define a market that Apple has a monopoly in that a regulator should investigate? You've identified current iOS users, but surely that's circular? I don't doubt that iOS market share is super high in some segments, but do any of them constitute a regulated market?

In education the last I heard was Chromebooks are at over 50% of devices in US schools, and that's against Windows and iOS. I'm sceptical Apple have a monopoly in education except "tablets in schools" which again doesn't seem like a whole market.
Top tips for energy management
Just to clarify, the 15% to 25% range applies to almost any one-click survey we run. Not just ones that have an incentive.
For the sake of intellectual honesty it would seem important to note the service models are not quite the same, right?
Save 50% of everything you earn as a 1099er. How hard is that?
- I don't trust their privacy settings.

- Most of my feed is links to stuff elsewhere on the Internet.

- If I post, I have no idea whether their algorithm will actually show it to my friends.

- I get the feeling their algorithm prioritizes posts with images or video over pure text.

- Hard to post to subsets of friends. I know you can manage lists, but the UI is clunky. (And I don't trust their privacy settings.)
I'm pretty certain that scientists are able to reconstruct temperatures going back thousands of years from various sources, with other information such as atmospheric carbon volumes. Here's one source: https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an...
I'd still like to know whose idea it was to try and compete in the Internet of Things market by pitting a buggy warmed-over 486 (the Quark) against ARM's best, most modern chip designs. Sure, Intel got a bunch of headlines in the tech press about their new IoT solution, but the technical details just didn't add up. The performance and power figures were dire, it couldn't run existing x86 code, it looked like a bear to integrate into anything, it just made no sense.
Your phone number is all a hacker needs to read texts, listen calls, track you
>>In the study by London ad-tech company Oriel...

That'll be unbiased then!

Annoying, flashing, intrusive advertising broke the internet —not ad blockers.
Thanks. Given the state of the world we felt that not answering why would just get a pile of "Neat|WTF|Huh - why did you do this?"
It could be used as an NSFW content identifier, it also could be used as a fine-grained porn video classifier. At least that's what I want to use it for.
Install `gitlab-ci-multi-runner` on your existing droplet and enjoy (relatively) free CI with high priority. GitLab already made it incredibly simple to setup.
I started investing my retirement money recently. Thats about a good of a signal as any that its going to plummet.
That was for science!
As someone who is still on 4GB. No, 8GB is not a bare minimum. Bare minimum for a pleasant day-to-day browsing, movie watching, coding and office style work is an SSD.
Ah. Well, YouTube has a paid service and I guess they're fighting the codec monopoly.
Tcl had them already, we're just using upvar under the covers. upvar uses the variable in the stack frame you specify. Which is clever and all but sort of a pain to use so we just did the &this_is_sort_of_a_pointer thing but it's a compiler managed upvar under the covers.
Yup. The thing to do was to have an autoexec.bat that had

win.com
mode co80

that way "shut down" windows would put you back at the dos prompt (if not you could just type "mode co80" and start using dos)
People recommending VOO as a nice ETF, what about QQQ (mirrors Nasdaq).
C++ in Competitive Programming: warmup
I wonder how CEOs feel about their bottom line when they're off by such a big percentage in the workforce they need.

Couldn't they have predicted this sooner?
I'm building a CMS in the same vein as the others (WordPress, etc.) and made static page caching a first-class feature that bypasses the autoloader completely.

https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/e24ea5a4605336b171...

This is something that really ought to be baked-in in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
I'm thinking its not so much a post-PC era as a customizable SOC era, and Intel does not want that at all.
So the inspectors can only look at the packaging, not touch them?
In the early days of SSDs, power draw of an SSD was usually around the same as for a spinning platter. Has this changed?
Can you drop the scrolljacking on your site? I spun my mousewheel and I went halfway down the page. Usually I instantly jump ship in these cases (even when the header is a Playboy centrefold. Priorities, priorities...)
Douglas Crockford – JavaScript: The Good Parts (2009)
The solution is so blindingly obvious: You are creating AI not to replace humans, but to assist humans. If your humans can manage 50 emails per hour, you judge the quality of improvements to the AI on how any more emails per hour they can handle. This is from improving the tools humans use to completely eliminating the human from the equation in certain cases. Then your customers need to rate the quality of the service to see if automatically handled emails had the side-effect of reducing quality, which then needs to be weighed against the cost savings.
Servo might change this in the distant future :)
"Idiots"?
Self segmentation is a big deal right now
I got the mail in early april, and it, in fact, even violates German law (promotional coupons and promotional credit, if not otherwise specified, is valid for 3 years, and can not be revoked via ToS changes).

But I do not wish to sue, as it would just cause me a lot of trouble, and I’d rather spend the money on a hoster I can actually trust. Instead of a hoster violating laws and frauding customers out of their legal credit.
I'm assuming you're trying to convince the rest of the thread, and not me. I think what Cisco did here was repellant and that they richly deserve to lose the civil suit against them, but I also thinking trying to twist criminal law to specifically target the villain of the moment is a terrible idea that will backfire, badly.
When did you start investing? Because by saying "never researched a stock" sounds like you have been lucky in a bull market rather than investing for decades across multiple bull/bear cycles.
I think this system is much easier to understand from the beginning. I required essentially no explanations: interpreting probabilities as some number between 0 and 1 seems more intuitive than betting odds and lines, which I still don't quite grasp.
Compojure is pretty standard for routing on top of the simple Ring abstraction.

I start projects with the template:

lein new compojure my-app

Ring quickstart: https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring/wiki

Ring API docs: http://ring-clojure.github.io/ring/
Sure, the valuation isn't concrete. It's also in a different league from the other startups in the article which are shutting down.

I think the person I originally replied to was trying to make an ironic point but to me it fell really flat.
Testing Improvements in Spring Boot 1.4M2
Whereas "the sun and the planets all orbit the earth" has astonishingly little predictive power.

Not a geocentrist myself, but it did have good predictive power.

"To summarize, Ptolemy devised a system that was compatible with Aristotelian philosophy and managed to track actual observations and predict future movement mostly to within the limits of the next 1000 years of observations. The observed motions and his mechanisms for explaining them include:"[0]

Obviously not as good as current models, but it's a bit of historical rewriting to say that geocentrism wasn't a good model for the time, which is one part of why there was push back for heliocentrism. With the tools of the time, the heliocentric model had similar predictive power. Geocentrism at the time wasn't just about god, it actually had predictive power.

"He also argued that his system was more elegant than the traditional geocentric system. However, the predictive power of his model was not substantially better than its competition."[1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model

[1] - http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/tharriso/ast105/Ast105week04.html
Is this true? Wouldn't encrypted Internet calls be protected on the mobile network?

So any choices that a congressman could’ve made, choosing a phone, choosing a pin number, installing or not installing certain apps, have no influence over what we are showing because this is targeting the mobile network
This. My appreciation for classical music hockey sticked after things like Spotify became available. As a result I am now spending several hundreds of dollars to see artists perform live. Hopefully this helps also ensure a greater share of my money goes directly to the artists themselves.

Before widespread music streaming, my interest in the space was barely growing and rarely ever more than a passing interest. This is largely due to the fact that discovery was inconvenient - as a comparatively niche (and vast) musical genre, it was harder to download. Buying the music was out of the question, it is prohibitively expensive to develop an appreciation for the genre - if one album costs $15, then just all of Beethoven's Symphonies alone would be $135 and only for one interpretation of each.

My total lifetime expenditure towards Classical Music is probably approaching $1000, and the rate of spending is only accelerating. I can't help but think that if it weren't for things like Spotify and YouTube making it more accessible, I would not be spending even 1% of this on it.

I wish more people could see the bigger picture when it comes to things like this...
You forgot to mention the boobs. Everyone likes those, even if it's just pixely thumbnails.
What the US does is not even remotely similar to what the GFW does.

And, by the way, the idea that you can trivially evade the GFW using a VPN? That's an extremely dangerous assumption.
This sounds intriguing, care to share any insights? Is this for Amazon?
The cores are basically the same within the generations.

A five-year-old Pentium G620 is only ~25% slower than the Skylake Pentium G4520. Both are dual-core CPUs that are cheaper than $100 aimed at the budget audience.

Frankly, the fact that AMD Vishera FX-6300 still easily beats out the Pentium G4520 in multithreaded benchmarks... this demonstrates the absolute lack of Desktop CPU improvements. I'd only recommend the G4520 to someone who is really sure that they care about single-threaded performance (ie: Gamers). Most people will appreciate the lower total-cost-of-ownership that FX-6300 offers at that price point.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

* AMD FX-6300 Passmark: 6,342

* Modern Skylake Pentium G4520 Passmark: 4,261.

The G4520 is a $80 chip, Released October 2015. FX-6300 was AMD's 2012 entry: a FOUR year old chip, now selling for $80 to $90 at Microcenter.

Microcenter has some $0 Motherboards if you buy an FX-6300 from them. That's the kind of benefit you get from buying "old". And since CPUs aren't really much faster, why the hell should you buy cutting edge?

--------

Hell, why are you spending $80 on a new G4520? Facebook just decommissioned their servers. You can get a Dual socket ready Sandy Bridge 8-core 16-thread E5-2670 on Ebay for $80. Amazon for $70

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B007H29FRS/ref=dp_olp...

Go get yourself a dual-socket 16-core 32-threads E5-2670 Sandy Bridge Workstation, just $80 per CPU.

Intel can't even compete against their own ghost from 5 years ago. Is it a wonder that sales are low?
Bringing Pyside back to Qt Project
Almost none, the only time I use my mobile in lieu of a desktop is when my desktop is unavailable or my home Internet connection is down.

I don't count time I spend out and about on my mobile, since that isn't time I was going to spend on my desktop anyway. (And I don't think having the option of going outside with a mobile has changed how often I do so.)
There's also [Bottleneck](https://github.com/SGrondin/bottleneck) for more fine grained concurrency.
Not so much licensing fees as bandwidth - VP9 as a new generation codec (H.265 being a rough equivalent) uses less of Googles bandwidth which probably saves Google a lot of money for a "minor" cost of users power draw :)
They also have users, a brand, and revenue. They're probably spending all that money on marketing. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert but that's part of building a company. Gotta spend money to make money.
That's weather not climate. Be careful of making statements like that, because next year it might not be as cooler, and you'll have seemingly fueling the misguided arguments of the deniers. It's not just you though. Even the damn media gets this wrong, and it's extremely annoying.
> Report them?

Why? It's a clear win for everyone but Apple to mention cross-platform capabilities when you have them. The iOS store is full of apps that refuse to acknowledge the existence of any non-apple products you might use or want to sync/integrate with.

If anything, you should push back against Apple directly. Good luck....

Edit: disregard, I cannot read.
Just wait till sub tropical forests grow again in the Arctic Circle...
A history of Windows
Please add 'capitalists' to that list of meddlers, to be fair. ;-)
Itamae – The Lightweight Configuration Management Tool Inspired by Chef
We have 20Gbit of Direct Connect with public peering on. This causes upload for us to be 40% slower in primary region and 2-5% slower in the other regions in the US. We only get any benefit going to APAC, granted we aren't your "typical" or "ideal" user for this
The actual information from markets is in estimated future prices, not the current bid/ask spread.

The true value is determined by what happens next, for short to medium values of "next."

Current fundamentals simply don't support a future of continuing growth.

A correction is certain. The only questions are when, how fast, and how much.
Nokia got caught using professional camera gear to show off their amazing smartphone camera.

Faking this kind of stuff is not unheard of.
It's somewhere between the two. Consider this program (in C-ish pseudocode):

main() {
foo();
}

foo() {
if (false) {
int i = "not an int";
}
}

bar() {
int j = "not an int";
}

A statically typed language would report two type errors. A dynamically checked language would report none. Hummingbird would report one.

It gives a some of the benefits of static typing: it reports errors in code paths not hit through imperative branching. But it doesn't give all of it since it doesn't report errors in uncalled functions.

However, what it gives you in return is the ability to handle functions that don't even exist at program startup and are instead defined at runtime later in the program's execution through metaprogramming.
But you can beat the market by doing a few things:

1. Invest, don't trade.

That means buying companies in large quantities when they're at a bargain, and holding for a long time (think years or even decades). This will keep your costs and commissions down.

2. Look where others won't.

As Ben Graham and Seth Klarman have pointed out in their books, you want to look for companies that no one else is looking at for a variety of reasons:

* They've hit rock bottom in the last 1/3/5 years. If people are selling, you should look at buying.

* They're special situations. Is the stock going through the process of bankruptcy, merger/acquisition, spin-off? This is the basis for books like Margin of Safety and You Can Be a Stock Market Genius.

* They're complicated. Distressed debt, credit-default swaps, and other alternative investments to access by the public can be profitable if one is willing to put in the time (years) and dedication to analysis, but I generally wouldn't recommend it

* They don't fit the fund's portfolio / low institutional ownership. Active funds may employ thousands of people to work full-time on investments that suit their fund. This generally means large cap companies because the funds have to utilize so much capital that they can't waste it on institutional ownership of small and micro cap companies. Everyone and their mom has done research analysis on Google, few spend their time on Sanderson Farms, which only broke into mid-cap territory for the first time in over a year, and has since risen by over 10% after being massively undervalued.

If you are in a diversified basket of 15-30 value-oriented stocks with at least some focus on quality, you can stand to beat the market over the very long term.
I bet VR will lead to more PC sales in the coming years.
Artificial Intelligence for Everyday Use: Coming Soon
Interesting. I've never needed anything other than the occasional atom.
Reminds me of http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/shu..., and the time I patched the Mac OS System Error Handler.

The patch I made tried to speak the text of the error message. It turned out that worked fine, if you opened a SpeechChannel before the crash (we had one open, anyways, and patched a zillion calls, so it worked first time round) and you were lucky (the System Error Handler was the part of the OS that was designed to show system errors, making as few assumptions as possible on what part of the OS was still functional; without memory protection, a crash could, for instance, mean that the memory manager data structures got corrupted, or that font data got overwritten, so there was no way to guarantee that the MacinTalk voice data wasn't corrupted)

The day our beta tester excitedly reported that the test Mac SE (one of the few Macs at the time that couldn't switch itself off in software) spoke the text of that alert when you selected "Shut Down" in the Finder, I learnt that that alert was a system error alert.

(http://www.guidebookgallery.org/index is a nice site for the nostalgic, by the way)
You're totally right. But then why is the US prosecuting this kind of thing? Would be like Saudi Arabia going after people for women's rights.
I'm happy to hear Buffet's thoughts on financial matters, but I'll still place more weight on the emergent consensus of a market.

I understand his point, but in a sense gold's utility is it's non-utility. Or another sense is that most people have the same understanding of it, dollars and bitcoins have no inherent utility other than people have a shared understanding of what they are, and what they are for.

Also understand that he is speaking as someone looking to allocate capital to receieve a return on that capital. There are other entities that would prefer something like gold, nation-states for example.

So Buffett is just saying if you want to see your purchasing power appreciate, don't hold your money in currencies, but invest it in value producing companies.

Salt

Yes, as your link describes, salt use to be far more scarce and therefore commanded a far higher trade value.

So it was actually that salt was far more expensive, rather than gold was cheaper.

In fact the word salary comes from a latin word pertaining to salt.

http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=sa...
A good friend was laid off from Intel during their last round of layoffs. Without going to into details that would identify my friend, he was laid off after losing a game of internal politics. His division's vice president even apologized to him for his layoff.

My friend's story gave me the impression of Intel being a highly dysfunctional company. My friend was sad to leave Intel, but I think it was good for him in the long run.

For those about to be laid off from Intel, I hope it also works out for you.