skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you're describing is a case where you can't understand what those helpers do, and therefore can't understand what the function that calls them does. I maintain that if each individual function makes sense then the whole will too.
If Google gets behind the semantic web with seriousness, it just might happen.
Stephenson tends to rush his endings - Cryptonomicon basically wrapped up in about 30 pages. But what got me was the abrupt change in view on that last third of Seveneves. I needed more transition time, as he's introducing a whole new society.
I'd heard about this sort of thing from listening to "Porgy and Bess", but I didn't know it still went on over there :(

Getting a municipal burial if necessary is one of the perks of living with a social safety net that I guess I didn't appreciate.
Except, Flash Player is proprietary software; and JavaScript is a standardized programming language, with multiple implementations.

But I get your sentiment;

Welcome to the Atwood law.
It's becoming increasingly taboo to suggest that depression and other mental disorders are not diseases per se but may arise purely from the use of the mind. This in turns depends to some extent on a person's ideas and not solely (or even at all) on the presence of pathogens, tissue injuries, faulty genes, etc (though there may be medical consequences).

There could be important social reasons for this taboo. Perhaps it helps people suffering from disorders to get more practical help and sympathy (instead of righteous indignation, unemployment and ostracism).

However, without intellectual honesty there's less hope in the long term of finding solutions to these problems.
just another rant from someone thats a little fed up with working in x language
Precisely. Also the instruction sets have been designed for compilers vs minimizing gate counts. Making it easier for compilers to schedule optimally - alot less weird and bizzare shit they have to deal with.
We will be having this argument twenty years from now. The sad truth is that in America people don't want to live around those who are different from themselves. No matter how hard we try to integrate society, it will naturally desegregate itself, for a variety of reasons.
Your picture might already be on the internet. Your friends may have uploaded a picture from a party or school reunion on Facebook. And since Facebook nagged them and they thought it'd be cool to tag you on the picture even though you don't have a Facebook account.
ccrush, this is a good comment, but I found it really hard hard to read due to the lack of paragraph breaks.

You can add breaks when commenting here by leaving a blank line (double enter) between paras.

Apologies if you knew this already.

Losing my Steam account due to a chargeback is something that never occurred to me. It's a chilling thought!
Such rant appears once every few months on HN, this one is one of the least convincing. Many problems he mentioned are not "Modern C++" problems, but problems with C++ from beginning, some of them already have reasonable solutions, for example ccache + distcc for speeding up compilation.

The real problem with C++ is the standard committee, the design by committee approach for such a complex language is failing. If C++ is taken over by a company, it will be a much better language.
> Asking people to whore themselves on social media is becoming a new startup marketing strategy.

New?
John Hempton doesn't give a reason why he feels "service quality is going down". I assume due to lack of drivers?

As to the twitter link he pointed to - am surprised, given the obvious PR and political blowback this would expose them to, why they are going down this path? Is it related to above - i.e they are having trouble attracting drivers?
I actually meant MTA workers in midwest subways (of which there should be none), but your reversal makes sense given how my snark could parse. Basically, I was just disappointed that the article clickbaited me into reading about costs that really are local and specialized. Felt like "America's costs are out of control! Let's look at a an unusual and globally unique city to show how!"
The guy has pretty awesome sense of humor!
Might be.

ESPOL, NEWP and Algol-68RS are some examples of Algol based systems programming languages where the hardware was fully exposed as intrisincs and no Assembly was required.
€2 billion in Horizon 2020 funding will be allocated to the European Cloud Initiative[1].

Quantum manifesto lists many items that might be funded under the Cloud Initiative [2],

- Core technology of quantum repeaters

- Secure point-to-point quantum links

- Quantum networks between distant cities

- Quantum credit cards

- Quantum repeaters with cryptography and eavesdropping detection

- Secure Europe-wide internet merging quantum and classical communication

- Universal quantum computers will be available with computational power at a level of
performance that will exceed even the most powerful classical computers of the future.
They will be reprogrammable machines used to solve demanding computational
problems, such as optimisation tasks, database searches, machine learning and image
recognition. They will contribute to Europe’s smart industry, helping to make European
manufacturing industries more efficient.

[1]: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-1409_en.htm

[2]: http://qurope.eu/system/files/u567/Quantum%20Manifesto.pdf
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I meant programming Languages. Duh!!
> Instead, educate the electorate, the first step of which is reversing Citizens United.

Citizens United is easily the most misunderstood SCOTUS case in history at this point.

Citizens United has pretty much nothing to do with educating the electorate. It is about the right of ad-hoc groups of individuals to exercise the same rights of speech that individuals and media corporations already have. Ironically, it has nothing to do with making it easier for the wealthy to influence politics, and actually makes it possible for the middle class to have influence that they would otherwise never have.

Before 2009, there was nothing stopping Michael Moore from self-funding a documentary about Bush's war crimes on advance of the election. Citizens United affirms that a group of people who, unlike Moore, aren't wealthy enough to produce an entire film individually could still pool their money together and produce that movie together. They could launch, say, an IndieGoGo campaign to produce their own version of Last Week Tonight, focused exclusively on the election.

This is almost entirely orthogonal to education of the electorate, though to be honest, it's easier to make the argument that Citizens United makes it easier to educate the electorate than the other way around.
>"The Dwarves" and "Dwarves" (don't judge me man)

Hey I enjoyed these guys, never heard them before; thanks.
It's posts like this that make me think something that resembles IPFS just has to work out, in spite of all the big problems that are yet to be solved.

Because I see this, and I think, "Wow, that's cool. I want to listen to some of these." And it just makes so much sense that my computer should be able to compute a hash of that archive and seed it for others, at least as long as it's on my machine.

It makes me think about how recently, we've collectively embraced an abstraction of what it means to share content online, because of the way that social media works. There's the actual transfer of bits, and then the newly-formed social-media advertisement that says, "I endorse this content."

Isn't it a little fucked up that most (all?) of our social networks don't allow for you to share content to other people without implicitly making a statement about it?

Is anyone aware of someone attempting to create social browser history? I already share it with Google. It might be fun to share it with friends, too.

eg: See that a coworker and I both have visited that stackoverflow post a dozen times, or see that my highschool teacher also read that article, or see that my friend listened to the new Radiohead album.

The problem with Facebook, and even with Twitter, is that every single post becomes a statement. I think this is why snapchat is filling a niche -- maybe it's actually not interesting because of impermanence, but maybe it's about the expected notability of each post. On Twitter or Facebook, your posts end up in the feed of someone else, so there's a pressure to not shitpost.

Snapchat doesn't really have that. You can post dumb shit to your story all night, and people just will get tired of looking at it and go to someone else. No harm done.

I wonder if social browser history could work for the same reason. Unfortunately, I think it'd be a hard sell. People see their browser history as private, in spite of the fact that their browser is full of third-party tracking cookies. You'd never get people to download an addon.
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A friend in her late 50s is still (rightfully, in my view) resentful of her hometown school board's decision to have one mammoth high school where two or three might have been justified. The school board apparently wanted to have a student body large enough to field a very good football team, you see. That worked, but the education not so well.
Is it sexist, ageist or both to claim that x are prettiest at age 22?
> FYI the author keeps talking about high frequency trading as an example of why modern c++ is a bad choice. Well, I worked at a HFT firm for a long time until last year, the firm places millions of trades per day and is among the most successful in the markets it trades. And what did we use? Only modern features. Lambdas, auto, unique_ptr, range-fors, even std::async -- everywhere in our code. This author is either naive or political.

Just an anecdote, but I also work at a successful HFT as well modern C++ is almost everywhere, without any performance hits and much cleaner code. Often it's easier to write fast code with it.
When sharing google documents, use the publish feature. It allows more concurrent views and is faster for all (both the end user and Google, which can get very slow at serving highly accessed documents in the editor)
Very true. The piecing together of various open source libraries and templates is part of niche being filled by lower-cost freelancers that satisfies the needs of most low- to mid-tier projects that were previously contracted out to agencies.
The clay animal crushings are especially hilarious, the million-subscribers video is 14 minutes of clay animals getting crushed.
really? I write javascript(typescript) for living.
Holy cow! So the dust in my living room may come from space. Wow, you have changed my sweeping experience forever!!!
Good polysemous use of the word 'mutations.'
That's a really hard battle to fight, even for those of us who understand the full implications. The entire population is not going to drop facebook overnight, it does deliver some sort of value to them despite it's heavy privacy price.

I'm beginning to believe that the answer is to simply devalue all that information. We can do it in some contexts on the technical side, for example, rotating passwords devalues stolen credentials, virtual credit cards, random MAC for wireless scanning, etc.

So how far can we push this? If you got into my email, but 90% of the messages there were generated by AI and 10% are legit, can you accurately profile me?

To get a little more on topic, how close do you think we are to 3D printers that can print a mask of your face? Once that happens, will the value of these "face recognisers" drop off a bit?
Well … I didn't single it out even though it is on the border of being statistically significant but then again I did not mention any Semitic language. I didn't technically leave it out; it's lumped together in the "rest of the the world" bucket. Going by the link you gave me there are ~150 words of Arabic origin in English excluding domain specific jargon, far less than 1% of the language. But I take your point -- probably coming after the languages I mentioned and taking into account the order I mentioned them in Arabic would come next.
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I like to imagine zachtronics has been doing this for years.
I find it strange to be hearing murmurs of Nokia has some new thing going on all the while they are being sold off. I hope the employees don't find out they've been sold out on twitter.
Well... not to be a C++ apologist, but bear in mind that these comments were made by Linus back in 2007 and 2004. His views may not have changed, but C++ has certainly changed since then.
I just recently started using Audacity. So thanks!
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It seems plausible. I've never come across an article about non-Western typography (quite possibly because I can't read anything other than English).
Is it just a nice UI around https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir ?
That's southern for "WTH!?" for you northerners.
You can't take it with you, folks, and that includes your body. I don't get the rituals around what happens to bodies after consciousness leaves them. Let the dust return to dust. So what if it happens together with a bunch of other dust? My dust won't know the difference at that point.

The important thing for me is to leave a legacy besides what happens to my body. A work of art or technology, or memories passed down through offspring. Maybe a nice little obituary.

The stories in the article are great, I just don't get the attitude that asks, "how dare these people be buried this way?" I think it has everything to do with the irrational fear of death, maybe one of the only things we won't be able to rationally, personally comprehend.
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I wrote the code for http://lab.mrl.ucsb.edu/ circa 2011-2012 during for a work-study job. It's used for scheduling facility equipment. The original site was written in PHP4, and I scrapped it using PHP5, MySQL and jQuery. I had 0 experience at the time, AFAIK the code lives on unchanged.

Earlier than that, I wrote an Access database to manage claims for a small insurance company circa 2009. Except I wrote it in Access 98 and the last time I saw it the file was corrupted. I offered to help fix it but I was kicked out of the building for flirting with the claims department manager (actually a close friend of mine). This one may actually no longer be in use because I never split the UI and DB and it's not supposed to handle multiple users at the same time if you don't, IIRC.
Slashdot always fascinated me when it came to this topic - the conversations always devolved into paper storage or gold-platinum-lithium eternodisks. As if there was nothing between the two.
Annoyingly worded, but probably means "attained the drive for pursuing the idea" instead.

If it was a more common realisation that it is not the idea but the drive that is rare then we would have a lot fewer hot air inventors.
The one I use is HighCharts [1]

Very clean and very good.

[1] - http://www.highcharts.com/
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The combined school would have 917 students, which would still be considered a small high school by most people's standards.
I can't decide if you are serious or tongue-in-cheek... I'm worried.
>I find it plausible that a much, much larger corpus of text written in present-day-English will survive the next 10000 years than that which has survived the past 2000

Tell me why you believe this, please.
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Among popular startups? The waiting list approach? New, at least for me.
Werc is in active development. When we find a problem, we fix it. Fortunately, werc doesn't have problems to fix very often.
I haven't stayed at a job for longer than 3 years, and all of them have been internal projects with no external visibility, so I can't really know for sure. I do have a 21-line python script that I still use which I initially committed to github in 2008, so that's certainly a contender (first internship started in fall 2004).

The script is an expansion on the web server one-liner: https://github.com/imnotpete/odds-and-ends/blob/master/pytho...

edit: the one liner: http://www.garyrobinson.net/2004/03/one_line_python.html

And of course, reading that, I see my script is hugely overkill since all it does is alter the default port and allow you to pass one in -- something the one-liner can apparently do. Oh well.
Reading about Clearview and traffic signs reminds me of the efforts of designers Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir. They standardised fonts and sign designs for the UK in the late 50s just as the rollout of motorways was being planned.

They came up with two fonts expressly for ease of readability that stand the test of time remarkably well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_%28typeface%29 and Motorway (font).

They also standardised many of the pictograms for use on warnings, colour schemes and iconography. They also did the rail and airport alphabets.

http://designmuseum.org/designers/jock-kinneir-and-margaret-...
lmm's statement was clearly intended to be taken in the context of the statement he was replying to. While your points are valid in general, the fact that the functions will generally be composed into a single translation unit is not an argument against the benefits of making them small.
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It is distinctly russian because it works on the social network that is only popular in Russia, VK.
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Sorry to sound so negative, but it seems something halfway between an April Fool and some Kickstarter "scam" (possibly in good conscience, but still).

Both voice recognition and translation are HARD problems, for which even companies with tons of resources and talent like Apple and Google were able to provide only sketchy and partial solutions.

No to mention issues like battery life, connectivity (hard to believe this device would be able to work without a permanent connection to cloud servers doing the heavy lifting, like Siri does) etc...

The FAQ is simply "too good to be true".

http://www.waverlylabs.com/2016/05/faqs-about-early-bird-and...
I just don't see this working very well. The current language translation tools just are not good enough to support a proper conversation. Translating languages via technology is a hard problem and it's far from solved. Coupled with this fundamental problem is identifying speech accurately; something Siri fails to do regularly with my voice. If this thing gets built I am guessing it will be a novelty product.
Nice way to pick on a small southern town. How about Chicago which has dozens and dozens of all-black public schools, in one of the most racially segregated cities in America. Or Detroit. Or pick any other failed liberal-dominated big city.
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Yeah, all those billions of lines of code of old C++ just rewrote themselves, so we don't have to worry about them.
There are 917 students in the two high schools. So either the residents of Cleveland are remarkably fecund, or else they're pulling in a large number of rural students from outside town.
For interviews just go with what is most comfortable to you. Honestly, do you really want to be coding during an interview and have to worry about when you call `malloc`, when to release memory, how many `*` to put in front of your pointer?

I'm not criticizing C++, but for an interview you should go with the simplest language that makes you happy.
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So inform other people not to trust Yelp because the ratings are bought, provide alternatives (I usually use a mix of Foursquare / Trip Advisor / Google Reviews) and tell them to tell their friends not to use Yelp because they are fraudulent.

Most techies with any news awareness know not to trust Yelp, that right there is proof it works. It is just the onus of the informed to educate those not.
This isn't necessarily possible for any two random languages. Not every language has a SubjectVerbObject order like English, and even if it does, each language has its own quirks with how the words are ordered. For example in spanish "un pez grande" = "a big fish", but if you translate in real time it comes out as "a fish big". Of course, an interpreter can reword it as "a fish, which is big, ..." but this is not always possible.
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The question is whether the 1 Bn. € allocated to quantum computing would have been spent on other cloud technologies instead, which in my understanding is not the case.

As far as my understanding goes the flagship money was distributed via an open propsal-based process, so I really don't see how this money was "stolen" from other initiatives, as the goal of this kind of funding is to let researchers compete for it by making convincing proposals.
That NetZero banner ad takes me back... Ahh, nostalgia.
I'm as big a fan of the EU as there is, but even I wouldn't use the Human Brain Project as a /positive/ example.
It's always good to hear about a successful organ transplant.
FindFace is already used in Russia to find, identify and attack gays, sex workers and porn actresses.

One of the incidents
https://globalvoices.org/2016/04/22/facial-recognition-servi...
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HFT = Insider trading + Algorithm trading
Ask HN: Y Combinators SAFE Primer in German(y)?
Hi,

does anyone of you have experience with YCombinators SAFE primer in Germany? If so, is there a translated and public available version online? Can't find anything like that online.

An alternative would be 500 Startups KISS documents.

Best
Phil
For me it was like having an insight into the subtext of the series. Quite a lot of Persian (PadehShah for king) , Arabic (Karama for blessings) , and Islamic (Mahdi for The Guided One), for example.
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