skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do remember that this guy wrote:

"I’ve more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though I’d take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay. As soon as I was stable and didn’t need Ruby on Rails to survive I told myself I’d revamp my blog and expose these fucks."

and:

"After Mongrel I couldn’t get a gang of monkeys to rape me, so forget any jobs. Sure people would contact me for their tiny little start-ups, but I’d eventually catch on that they just want to use me to implement their ideas. Their ideas were horrendously lame. I swear if someone says they’re starting a social network I’m gonna beat them with the heel of my shoe."

So that is very much his style of writing.
I thought it was an ancient quandry, but it appears the quintessential description was only penned in 1954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Phone recycling taken to a whole new level
Lockheed Martin Wants to Send Humans to Mars in 12 Years
It's pretty hard to reach a conclusion on this issue without spending some (more than I'm willing to) time looking at the code. I'm not sure I like the claiming of copyright on other implementations. I guess this is because they use a dual-licensing business model? Which would be understandable, but they should probably communicate that clearer.
Since you have 4 conductors to work with, you could run 12V for low-amperage applications and 48V for high-amperage stuff that justifies the switchgear.
Anguish: Invisible Programming Language and Invisible Data Theft
I always thought being a natural born citizen with no criminal record, with all the rights and privileges afforded therefore, would count as a "Pre-Check."

Silly Me.
> sunk cost and shouldn't even matter

Shouldn't but does. It has it's own fallacy section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_t...

Also, not falling for the fallacy means admitting defeat. And the higher up one is in an organization, the worse admitting defeat is for your career. Having a product dead-ended by keeping on working on it forever is much better for manager/government official careers. So sadly, the fact that other people (above you) fall for the fallacy makes falling for it yourself rational in a lot of cases. Instead just systematically lower the priority, but never to zero.

In anything but a startup, I would treat any sunk cost above a minimal level as a firm commitment to continue at any cost. I would never have done so 5 years ago, but ...
Not having Managed Postgres and Managed Redis are 2 main showstoppers for me.
NXP's BlueBox Computer Has Head Start in Self-Driving Car Race
Cheap Car Rentals Melbourne – Car Hire Melbourne
Thanks for checking it out acomjean -- I'll have to check why it got stuck for you. Might be a long shot, but did you take a screenshot? xd

No Flash or Java required to play on FunNode :)
This can however take a decades or a few hundres years if not more. Around here they have found logs thousand of years old in the swamps.
I'm suggesting that there probably is a product called "30 day old corn whiskey" and that it probably isn't very good.
It also specifies all date elements for patient-specific events (including treatment) more specific than the year must be removed for deidentification generally.
Thanks for the clarification.

I was hoping to use Firebase on a React Native app but I do need persistence. Do you have or plan to make some wrapper of the native iOS/Android SDKs for React Native?
I don't believe he was on the board of directors if that's what you mean.

edit: incorrect statement about C-level positions.
And yet seems to have violated them (I've cited the specific section of regs elsewhere in the thread). But deidentification is one of those things people who don't freak with it often, even trained in the rules, always seem to think is easier than it is.
Lots more will be written until there is a viable replacement for C in embedded systems.
Handful is a bit extreme ;)
But seriously, it is easy to troubleshoot due to the interative nature of development in the REPL, the similiarity with mathematical formula and their layout. A PhD student wrote his thesis in 2008 about parallelization, FPGAs, ASICS and arrays, and was fully intending to write it in J, but his advisor suggested something more known, so he wrote it in Haskell. I'll put in the reference when I find it.

There is a table in the paper that shows the math formula, the Haskell and then J. Pretty interesting comparison.

To me, if you are not using a prover, then it is mainly going over 10K LOC 1 to 3 times vs. 100 LOC 10 times, 30K LOC reviewed vs. 1K LOC reviewed for errors and correctness.
And here we need to be careful: around here there is a major problem with trees filling up what was once farmland.

No problem you may say but it means less local produce and more import, both import of meat as well as animal food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
> Do the people that withdraw generally demonstrate bien dans ma peau and joie de vivre?

Generally, no.

But if someone withdrew to a monastery to seek enlightenment then this question lacks significance. Withdrawal can be a tool that allows us to control envy, desire, distraction and other aspects of human existence which can be destructive or a mental nuisance.

How would you posit your question to an existential nihilist? To them it would have no meaning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727866
Nah. Alluding to the usage of the word in my youth. But go ahead, defer to authority and call names! This is the internet after all.
Trees contain carbon. Burn trees, and they release carbon. New trees end up growing in the ash after it falls and re-capturing carbon. It's a natural, cyclic process.

The problem isn't that humans release carbon or other pollutants (burning trees, coal, oil, etc), it's the scale we do it at, and that we don't automatically re-capture it without doing extra work like planting more trees.
You're right, though I had assumed he was pinging whatever server speedtest had selected, which may be erronous.

Really, my point was that congestion is often localized in a network. The fact that it isn't present in a path doesn't mean it's an ISP gaming speed tests - though perhaps they'd be more keen on peering directly and avoiding congested transit if it makes them look better, and I would absolutely believe that would happen.
Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds'
Buying whiskey in Canada is often a exercise in frustration, with the provincial monopolies cranking the prices into the stratosphere. But we do have a fair number of good ryes that have popped up of late. Even the big brands like Canadian Club have started to offer up more real rye options (not all Canadian whiskies are made from rye, contrary to what some may think).
Thanks.

Error messages are concise, but to the point, and the code is short enough that no scrolling is usually needed. One page view!
Just start college early. Then you can work with profs all you want.
I don't even see how it's possible to produce good software that way. We don't know what we really want until we iterate over the design a few times. At least, that's the way it is with me. My first drafts have never been anything close to my ultimate designs.

After you've been burned a few times, you start to get a feel for building interfaces that can be maintained while the entire design behind them is switched out. If you do need to change the entire interface, sometimes you end up supporting old interfaces with a shim layer that translates them into calls to the new interfaces.

For example, the a.out binary format supported by the original versions of Linux has long since been superseded by the ELF format, because the deficiencies in the old format became too much to bear - but that doesn't stop the latest kernels from being able to support that old format still.
Doesn't that exactly describe a carbon-neutral lifecycle?
My 2012 Moto X has a trained keyword (and in fact a dedicated low-power specialized processor to listen for it - one of the things I like about that phone). No "OK Google" for me; it's "Listen please", in Russian. Never tripped by mistake.
Kiwi accused of trying to buy restricted US airline parts to sell to Chinese
What advantages would Docker give you over jails themselves?
The fact that such a small dose of a toxic chemical could cause parkinsons in such an indirect way, to me, means that the cause of perkinsons is probably some environmental toxin that is interacting in some complex and novel way.

i.e. as opposed to some genetic problem.
I would have said the opposite - that the healthcare industry is known for its lack of transparency, with big pharma being notorious for their obfuscation.
Whiskey fresh out of the still ("white dog") is pretty rough. Whiskey with 30 days of attentive oaking isn't awful (I'll happily get fucked up on it), 90 days will be pretty decent.
That's true, but since then, Microsoft has already written off more than the original purchase price of Nokia: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8910999/microsoft-job-cuts-...
EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo
If you don't mind -- which univ and which prof?
Sure it is. Do you remember post 9/11. Nobody traveled by air. The Airlines were all talking about having to declare bankruptcy. Then the government stepped in. If nothing else, the government helped subsidize and protect the airline industry (in the case of the TSA, in only a "relatively" small way) by paying for jobs that airports and airlines used to pay for. So the government paid for security so that the airlines and airports didn't have too. The liability argument is a farce that was taken care of almost immediately afterwards, and regardless, it's still a jobs program. If you kill two birds with one stone, all the better. So if the TSA is not a jobs program, I don't know what is.
That drop is what I was describing in my other comment. Happens generally between 1am-3am.

When I've called about it they say they can't send a tech out at night to test, so nothing has ever officially be done about it.

Sounds like more of a systematic issue though if you're seeing the same thing in SF (I'm in San Jose). But like I said, it's probably been a couple months at least since the last time I had that issue, or noticed it.
Stasi used people to bug on people as early as in high school - it was at least in my opinion much more nefarious than passive mass surveillance - at least it's different. I'm from the former GDR and they wreaked havoc over countless families over seemingly bullshit things. So it's difficult to compare IMHO.

But I guess it's not an impossible technical problem to train some machine learning algorithm to classify the voices and the conversation in the room and detect typical behavior patterns of a crime and be it smoking weed with friends.
Chief Scientist or, somewhat more commonly, Chief Science Officer is a typical C-level position in biotech -- and possibly other non-software tech -- firms (roughly equivalent to a CTO in software firm.)
I imagine in Laphroaig case, if you already have a pipeline going strong you care less about accelerating.
If you are at all interested in the origin of life and the role of energy therein, I cannot recommend any single source of knowledge more than the following paper as it has literally changed my life: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplx.20191/abstra...

It is written by two of the most intelligent people I think I've ever come across, Eric Smith, who is an external professor at the Sante Fe Institute, and Harold Morowitz, who founded the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason. Both men work in very disparate fields. Morowitz was a specialist of biology, origin of life scenarios, and biochemistry while Smith is a (brilliant) physicist and chemist. However, together they have assembled an encompassing theoretical structure that I am confident will lead science for several decades, once it is gradually integrated into other fields of research - e.g., Jeremy England at MIT has looked at some of the same thermodynamic phenomena using statistical physics (great article on his work - https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...)

Eric Smith actually did a video describing this work while at Sante Fe that is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMqwgkXguw

This is the first paragraph of the paper mentioned above:

Life is universally understood to require a source of free energy and mechanisms with which to harness it. Re- markably, the converse may also be true: the continuous generation of sources of free energy by abiotic processes may have forced life into existence as a means to alleviate the buildup of free energy stresses. This assertion – for which there is precedent in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and growing empirical evidence from chemistry – would imply that life had to emerge on the earth, that at least the early steps would occur in the same way on any similar planet, and that we should be able to predict many of these steps from first principles of chemistry and physics together with an accurate understanding of geochemical conditions on the early earth. A deterministic emergence of life would reflect an essential continuity between physics, chemistry, and biology. It would show that a part of the order we recognize as living is thermodynamic order inherent in the geosphere, and that some aspects of Darwinian selection are expressions of the likely simpler statistical mechanics of physical and chemical self-organization.
Can we also acknowledge that the average SV developer is probably in the upper quartile of wages in the US (if going by the median, not average)
"What do you propose a well-educated rider should do, when all the bike lanes are in the door zone and bikes are legally required to stay in the bike lane?"

Well that's the usual poor planning I see in America. Sharrows or "share the road" signs are much better than many of the dedicated bike lanes I've seen here.

First, find another route, if possible. Second, start going to your city's public meetings and/or complain to the city about the clear danger that poorly planned bike lanes inflicts upon the public. Learn the law specific to bicycles for your area and get involved with a bike advocacy group if you really care.

As far as helmets go, I like to keep my brains intact, so I wear one, and have the abrasions on an old helmet to prove it. Front tire blowout and dumping at 45 KPH downhill on a recumbent was an experience that could have been worse sans helmet. That said, a pound of plastic and foam can only do so much for you. Good luck!
Hah, it's a Guardian article trying to look unbiased by concern trolling us all about the same old shit.

Does anyone even take Guardian seriously except liberal left socialists living in a dream world?
Agreed. This is why origin of life scenarios are so fascinating!
I'm on a basic 1 GBps home connection here in Japan. Costs $35/mo. My ISP is kinda crappy so I usually only get around 300-500 MBit - I've been looking into changing ISPs (the fibre network has open competition)
No antibiotics without a test, says report on rising antimicrobial resistance
TL; DR Security theatre makes American airports less efficient, the U.S. government look incompetent and wastes travelers' time.

> "Patrick Smith of Ask the Pilot blog, says...: 'Our security protocols are needlessly tedious, and the connection process for passengers arriving from overseas is horrendously time-consuming. All passengers arriving from other countries are required to clear immigration, re-check their bags, and undergo the Transport Security Administration rigmarole, even if they're merely in transit to a third country.'

Sixty-seven percent of people who fly out of America arrive at a better airport, the Economist estimated last year, after delving into data on more than a million flights."
The left never think they are biased.

If you are unable to see through the looking glass, then why would you ever come to the conclusion that you're biased?
I have "Offline speech recognition" with Google Voice Typing that seems to work perfectly well in airplane mode. The downloaded language pack (English) is 39 MB.

Is there something I'm missing?
Oh Zed. Really?

There is nothing wrong with carefully crafted C code for applications were it is the best suited tool. Sure, there are sharp edges. True you can write crappy, security nightmare code.

You do make some good points. I agree Go is fantastic. Rust is coming along as well. However, C still runs the world. That's not changing anytime soon. Not with the explosion of IoT and GPU type devices. And, hello Linux kernel and all the glorious command line tools on nix.

Try using Go or Rust (love both, x2 for Go) to allocate say a hundred GB of memory for some huge/fast in-memory data processing. Let me know how far you get.

Your rant is as polarizing as those who are blind to C's flaws (yes, there are a few). Stop saying "don't write C", that's just childish. Rather, what about "let's write better, less security flaw prone C."

As an engineer, one ought to choose wisely when choosing tools. This means pros and cons and balanced unemotional decision making. Not a holy war against a given tool.

And I am a professional programmer.

Let's do C where C makes sense.

(Edit: fixed typos)
They have taken in over $400,000,000 in investment, I'm sure there are more than a few bucks laying around.
The point isn't that we're "statesmen". It's just that we check as much incivility as we can at the door.
Amazon Plans More Stores, Bulked-Up Prime Services
I listen to the Talking Machines as well. Great podcast. Another question would be are the gains worth the cost of an ML-specific ASIC. GPUs have the entire, massive gaming industry driving the cost down. I suppose that as adoption of gradient-descent-based neural networks increases, it may be worth the cost in a similar way that GPUs are worth the cost. Then again, I have never implemented SGD on a GPU so I'm not aware if there are any bottlenecks that could be solved with an ML-specific ASIC. Can anyone else shed some light on this?
Ask HN: How are you feeling about your future as a “senior” developer?
Nervous?

If you comment, let us know your age if you're comfortable doing so, your core technology focus and how you feel about your propects for employment into your 40's, 50's and 60's.

Are you planning to stay in this career or do you feel you have to find something else?
Since nobody has pointed this out, although he may be able to tell people "I was working on that thing", he likely can't say much more. Many large companies don't allow employees to disclose details that haven't been released publicly.
Oh cool. Is that why reports on Muslisms Raping in Europe were so freely published, and not deleted heavily from default subreddits? /sarcasm
Any idea how to do this in mobile ?
Unbelievable the amount of bullshit happening here and I don't understand how so few people seem to know about it or care. Urban water use is such a tremendously small percentage of total water use, and they try to fix the problem by telling people to take shorter showers and flush the toilet less.
Chinese Midea makes $5B bid for KUKA
I'd argue the 2nd part has more to do with passengers simply paying attention. The underwear bomber and shoe bomber were both caught by fellow passengers (iirc), not by the TSA or the CIA/NSA/FBI/Military.
I can't really speak for Zed's expertise and/or value to the programming community. From what I gather, a few of his projects are widely used (Mongrel comes to mind), and he seems to know his stuff pretty well. I also identify strongly with his Programming Motherfucker[0] rant.

But man, the guy is insecure to the point of requiring therapy or something. He seems obsessed with his image and status, and the slightest criticism will cause him to lash out in an immature and ridiculous manner. Past rants have him making lewd comments about penis-sizes and challenging others to a physical fight[1].

It's a shame, because if he just relaxed a bit and took criticism gracefully, he'd probably find himself to be a bit more valuable to the community and employers, and would actually be a pretty decent dude. Instead, his writing seems to reek of a constant need to validate and defend himself.

This is probably an unfair comparison, but I can't help but think of Terry Davis: a brilliant programmer hindered by mental issues. Schizophrenia is obviously not the same as insecurity, but I think the situation here is somewhat similar.

[0] http://programming-motherfucker.com/

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto
i was being sarcastic. either way, given the threads discourse, moonshots seem to be a super unpopular idea except when google does it...
The broader conversation is very interesting on a number of levels, but I have a specific question for this audience... do you actually pay attention to the trending topics on Facebook? They're not prominently displayed and if FB really wanted to influence the conversation on X, they could be doing so much more IMO. I feel like they're still trying to test their way into this experience.
> to replace the wood you burn

trees have a lifecycle, and for the time the tree was a live, it was sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. firewood needn't come from a living tree. and cutting some down can leave room and nutrients for others to grow.
Disagree. Elon Musk had no domain experience in payments, cars and rockets. Fresh eyes can be invaluable. And it's not that hard to avoid "pulling a Theranos". Theranos should not be an excuse to discount lack of domain experience.
"Allo is a smart messaging app that makes your conversations easier and more expressive"

For a moments I though they found the cure for socially awkward people like myself :)
What percentage? Under 1%?

Of that, the lawn gets a lot more than showers, or more ridiculously, a glass of water.
EgyptAir says flight from Paris to Cairo missing
Oracle economist: Android stole Java’s “window of opportunity”
> nor do I understand why he's angered that individuals know about undefined behavior in C

If you read the first part of that same sentence, it should give you a clue.
I went to the Internet Archive just to see what all the fuss was about. Hate to say it, but I agree with the detractors. He seems to be completely missing the concept of preconditions. If the preconditions are met, the code is good; if the preconditions aren't met, undefined behavior occurs. Most people programming C or C++ for more than 10 minutes learn to pay attention to these things. The chapter would have been much better if it would have stuck to the importance of validating preconditions, rather than simply pretending they don't exist.

Good riddance.
Everyone should get Global Entry. It makes the process of getting through immigration relatively painless. Additionally, Global Entry allows you to use the TSA Precheck lines, which are orders of magnitude shorter than the regular security lines. Global Entry also recently implemented the ability to apply for an APEC card, which lets you go through the diplomatic passport line at most Asian airports.

There's certainly an ethical debate about paying the government for better service but from a pragmatic standpoint, I can't recommend it enough.
Yes, per planet.
Does anybody have any information on completing a computer science undergraduate degree in this manner? I'd like to do it but I don't know of any resources that rank the online programs of various schools. Is your physical presence required at some point?
> San Francisco International Airport was been named the best airport in North America for customer service by Skytrax

I'd buy that. Well, except for the fact that some light rain will cause 4 delays on all flight. But apart from that, it's a pretty good airport.