skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with that. I simplified a bit, I think the most recent purchase was around 2007 for ~300 and would be wary of piling in today in London. If the area you are in is reasonably priced and going up though the strategy will still quite likely work.
The State of .Net Core Testing Today
A little more interesting javascript code, in place of the above:

(alert
(list (ps:lisp *foreground*)
(ps:lisp *background*)))
Very true. Customer data is big business, yet year after year it fails to deliver.

Another classic is the repeated ads for the dish washer I just bought, for months at a time. There are glimpses of potential with targeted search results. It can be practical, for example when I search for open source software named after a common word. So the technology is there, but isn't remotely used to its potential.

My only guess is that there is only so many advertisements available in the pipeline at any given moment. It's the 90/10 rule all over again.
From my experience building and deploying production systems with mongodb the primary benefit is not needing a migration or ORM framework.

- Deployments get much simpler when migrations for additive changes are unnecessary. Hundreds of deployments a week!

- JSON queries easy to pass around and decorate in application code. Hydration from a dictionary is straightforward. Combined, an ORM isn't really necessary.
> There is no EU constitution, by the way. It was rejected by referendum in several member states and the project died.

It's true the EU constitution was rejected, but the project didn't die: it was replaced by the treaty of Lisbon which contained most of the changes which were in the proposal for the EU constitution. See for instance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...

The fact that those changes were brought back in via the back door created even more distrust in the political leaders and the EU than before, in particular in those countries where the EU constitution was rejected in referendums.
I'm not sure of Gary Johnson's position on this, but I know Jill Stein agrees that Saudi Arabia should not be US' partner anymore, and that US should stop arming Saudi Arabia.

Even Bernie Sanders wanted US to remain a partner of Saudi Arabia to "get rid of ISIS", but I don't think he ever thought it through too much.
Japan’s Softbank to buy UK semiconductor giant ARM for $32B
Because MS loves and embraces linux.
Wow. yeah the printers.. I remember buying a Kodak printer that I had changed/replaced at least 3-4 times then I gave up. I liked my Kodak digital camera though - probably one of the last before they went out of business.
The White House Is Pushing Precision Medicine, but It Won’t Happen for Years
Virtual Reality Could Be the Next Painkiller
There's something unseemly about ripping on other people.

I know it's bill gates, but Hertzfeld comes across as the kind of guy who enjoys making people feel small.
A most excellent documentary, well worth a viewing.
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Same here. It's basically splitting up internet usage between a 'sync browser' and an 'incognito browser'.
I don't remember hearing that James Cameron had any stowaway rats on the Deepsea Challenger, so the bottom of the Marianas Trench is at least one other place humans have been exclusively.
Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension
The referendum was announced in early Feb 2016 and markets started to move then, http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=JPY&to=GBP&view=1M. See that step that looks like the half-profile of Table Mountain, that's referendum day.
There is one mainstream candidate who is against an alliance with Saudi Arabia, and his name is Donald Trump.

(But but but he's a racist!!!!)
Building for Scale: Updates to Google Maps APIs Standard Plan
Note that those looking for a WordStar/TurboC-like experience these days can find solace in JOE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor
Thank you for reminding me, McCarthy also invented COND which eventually led to the great modern pattern matching forms.

An ironic side-story of this that may or may not be of interest:

Because QUOTE was mis-defined, McCarthy had to hack his definition of APPLY/EVAL to get it to work. One consequence of this hacking was that the S-expression LISP "defined" by his version of APPLY/EVAL was a higher-order language while the M-expression LISP that he was attempting to model was strictly first-order. So in his S-expression LISP he could write the MAP function (called "mapcar" back in the day) but the syntax of M-expressions leaves no way to express MAP.

I find it so ironic that it took this little representation error to lead to LISP having the essential property of lambda calculus. (Guy Steele fixed most of the trouble with the grammar and introduced proper lexical scoping in Scheme but he didn't catch the quote bug.) It's also fair to say that M-expression LISP wouldn't have changed the world as S-expression LISP did.

I don't know if Paul Graham reads HN but Paul once wrote a book on macros in LISP. As far as I know, he doesn't know this story about QUOTE. It doesn't seem to have slowed him down.
That clip was hilarious.
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Some of the Saudi royal family ( /= Saudi Arabia) appear to have sponsored 9/11, at least indirectly. On the official level, they stopped giving the US intelligence on Bin Laden in the mid 90's, since they knew that if caught, he would spill the beans on a lot of Saudi dark deeds, past and present.
Ok this was a complete waste of money. I assumed you are going to advertise it a bit more after this post, and make it look beautiful. But nothing changed and, even thought beeing first, i only have one click from your site. And judging by the country this could have been me.

Way more efficient to just donate to the organisation directly. Not waste 40% for basically nothing and get a permanent mention not only temporary.

Also you are samefagging in this thread. I should have noticed this is scam.

Edit:// I complained to PayPal that they should take a closer look at you. Unsure if this is even legal, i would also appreciate if you could refund my $7 and remove me from the list.
Thanks for that very promising tutorial, I am looking forward to read/work through it on my next day off!
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You can checkpoint at a lower level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing or using a virtual machine.

But in practice it's not that useful to checkpoint a running program because of external state. You can't checkpoint sockets when they are connected to some other machine.
Yes, "What to do" is mocking. It serves no other purpose in the paragraph; the author certainly isn't wondering what to do. It is a phrase often used to mock people who are having a (supposed) crisis of beliefs.

I have zero feelings about Windows telemetry, having not heard of it before this tweet.
> I say if that's the only way the Saud family can hold onto power then it's not worth supporting them.

Who do you think will be in power if the Saudis aren't?
s/a racist/completely unfit for running even a small town, let alone a large country/
I was always shocked by the 'good' mpg US hybrids get, compared to Uk/Euro diesels - (though some of the difference is down to different sizes in gallons between us, but still. My 12 year old volvo v70 (not a small car) got 53mpg easily
That is some Kenn Viselman grade scumbaggery.
The problem with OTR is the lack of support for group chats. There have been multiple proposals (mpOTR, SCIMP, OMEMO, etc.) but nothing's caught on yet.
I can't find any information about this anywhere. Has there been any release, any reasoning? I love this app
The WordStar mailing list at YahooGroups is still (occasionally) active, but shrinking, as many members are getting rather elderly...

A recurrent topic is how to keep the software working on the latest versions of Windows. Science fiction author Robert Sawyer recently posted definitive instructions: http://sfwriter.com/ws-vdos.htm
Increasing Healthcare Security with Blockchain Technology
Leaving it here for context:

"In Oct. of 1978, a month after introduction, Barnaby began coding Wordstar with new features. According to Rubenstein, who carefully tracked Barnaby’s work, it took four months to code Wordstar. This was done in assembler from scratch. Only 10-percent of Wordmaster code was used. That was the text buffering algorithms. In four months Barnaby wrote 137,000 lines of bullet-proof assembly language code. Rubenstein later checked with some friends from IBM who calculated Barnaby’s output as 42-man years."
Big Problems Facing Science
shufflepuck cafe was uniquely wonderful, even in monochrome! :)
> Who do you think will be in power if the Saudis aren't

The Hashemites
>all UK ballot papers are linked to their voter

No they're not. The ballot papers themselves are indistinguishable, and they are rejected during counting if people include any identifying marks.
Wow its really working.
I am using 3g network.
zoro.im app works great.
Emacs is pretty easy to explore and extend.
Updates and Looking Ahead: Serving Financial Services to Future Generations
Dark Castle was pretty impressive in 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjtjVS7VFFY
DxTooltip not working in IE, working in Chrome
How One of the Largest Blog in the Southern California Grows on Pinterest?
I found this concerning as well.
How is forcing the guy to sign away his voting rights while he was in the hospital legal? I am definitely not a lawyer, but I thought contracts signed under duress aren't enforceable. Could a good lawyer have gotten that contract nullified?
Render React with Phoenix (the Elixir web framework)
Opera Software fails to woo Chinese suitor as £820M buyout bid collapses
Ask HN: What offline tool do you use for design diagrams
Often, I have found a need to draw something to explain what I have in my mind as a high level design for a particular software. I don't really mean in the UML diagram kind of sense, but just boxes, connections between them etc..., some simple ones but at the same time crisp and clean looking ones, which I can present either as images or in slides.

The best thing so far for me has been drawing something on a paper and then taking a picture of it and sharing. It has worked most of the times, but at times trying to put together something that fits within a paper's size and then making any notes in there clearly visible in the image has been difficult.

I have tried a few online tools too. Tools that require you to create the diagram online or tools that require you to have a specific browser plugin for them to work.

Does anyone here use any offline tool which is just a native application and is easy to use for such free from diagrams? I'm on Linux and have tried gimp but I haven't felt productive with it for such uses.
Most everyone I know was switching from WordStar to WordPerfect at the time. Microsoft Word came much later for me.
The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra (1972 ACM Turing Award Lecture) [pdf]
Never-Trump Confidential
I stand corrected. My memory failed me trying to compose a reply on my phone.
I didn't argue that it's "tremendously different". I agreed that typical Western art music generally has pretty simple rhythms, and that other musical cultures often have much more complex ones. I said explicitly that time signatures in Bach are all 2s and 3s.

But what you actually said was, in so many words, "every Bach piece, and every similar piece from other composers, is written in 3/4 or 4/4 time". And that simply isn't true.
Haven't ever seen an exit poll round here. No one was trying to gage who voted for what near any of these polling stations.

Guess it's more common in some areas than others.
It's the "quantum immigrant" problem - where simultaneously immigrants steal all jobs and at the same time sit at home and claim all the benefits.
Yes I too wish that there was a big British tech company I could work for in the UK (being British myself). Unfortunately I can't imagine ARM ever being competitive as an employer.

When I was applying for internships during my degree a couple of years ago I looked at US companies like Google and Oracle and ARM in the UK. I think ARM paid about a quarter of what Google and Oracle were offering. One quarter. And that's just cash before I included the housing, car costs and massive relocation grant that the US companies included and ARM didn't.

Today Glassdoor tells me that ARM pays interns about half, and graduates about 60%, of what Microsoft does, in the same city (Cambridge) a few miles apart.

But they have good people working for them so it must be enough I guess!
Check out Vivaldi. It uses Chromes blink engine and packs lots of nice features. My subjective impression is that it's also faster and consumes less memory.
A review of the web from 1995
Show HN: Compress videos by up to 60%
because it is very annoying to see everywhere on your computer ads for pillows for a month only because you've searched for pillows on google shopping. and i'm not talking only about browser, but every app that has ads, like skype.

I was going crazy. never search on google shopping again on chrome.
Do not set the created list as public, this generates notifications to every person in the list. Kinda fun to explain afterward :D
If you like Opera, go with Vivaldi. ;)
Embedded Programming for IoT
Some google shows its a rare belief but there are people out there who've convinced themselves its true and like to talk about it.

I think its brilliant for teaching. I suspect opinions about it will be similar to attitudes toward anthropomorphizing, does the value of the noble lie outweigh the ethical concerns of knowingly lying? A teacher could work around the ethical issue by babbling onward with a correction to make the teacher feel better at the cost of confusing the student "Yeah press and hold like it as to sense the warmth of your finger, it doesn't really work that way, but the point is you need to hold still for a second or two"

She could have made an interesting non-college admissions essay on that sub topic.
If I understood correctly, the article suggests that as a general principle you should replace your union types and case-by-case code with lambdas. I feel almost the opposite.

Article: "In functional programming, the use of lambdas allows us to propagate not merely a serialized version of our intentions, but our actual intentions!"

Counterpoint: The use of structured objects instead of black box lambdas allows us to do more than just evaluate them. For example, Redux gets a lot of power by separating JSON-like action objects from the reducer that carries out the action.

But let's take instead the article's example of case-insensitive string matching. One tricky case is that normalization can change the length of the string: we might want the german "ß" to match "SS". Sure, the lambda approach can handle that. But now suppose that we want a new function that gives the location of the first match. It should support the same case-sensitivity options (because why not?). But now there is no way to get the pre-normalization location, because we encoded our normalization as a black box function. Case-by-case code would have handled this easily.
Our societies will undergo a radical change
do you know the meaning of opt-in? because it is clearly opt-out.
same on FF 47 :(
We'll see. The UK doesn't have much power in the region compared to the US, Turkey, Iran, Israel et al so what Boris thinks probably won't affect things much. Still a US, Turkey, Assad Putin deal could probably bring some sort of peace and we could still bomb Assad if he tries to get nukes.
I don't know ... thinking selfishly, I'm employed and paid by a a corporation that uses advertises to increase revenues from their products/services. As are almost everyone else here. Even the "altruistic" non-profits and whatever are largely funded by the very same corporations. Will there ever be a time when economic activity is largely carried out by people and organizations that do not seek profit? If advertising increases said economic activity, isn't it a good?
I find it odd when it is the _acquiring_ company that you have never heard of.

Edit: Apparently big in Japan.
I think the "distribution" is concerned with long-term habitation, which the Deepsea Challenger in the Marianas Trench was not.
I find it hard to read mine
> He kept a miniature, stainless-steel working model of it in his office. “I could put vegetable oil through it and get a cup of the most beautiful biodiesel you ever saw,” Harvey Greenwood, Green Diesel’s former director for engineering, says of the model.

The most interesting part of this whole story, imho. Doesn't anyone else want their own desktop vegetable-oil to perfect diesel machine?
Yet perfectly competent at running a multi-billion dollar corporation... The cognitive dissonance is strong.
Or they have all that data and yet are still unable to do proper ad targetting
The Emergence of the Algorithm as a Service Model
> You can write very dense code in Lisp (and the author makes the point several times on how little lines of code you need for this vs. that). However, who's going to read that and understand it?

> Lisp is great if you want to write code. Reading it...

When I read that APL and Haskell came into my mind. Lisp and Scheme code are pretty well readable. The most readable languages are verbose, Ada and Pascal for instance.
Refining Concepts: Improving error messages
Rocket Internet Struggles to Prove Its Profits Can Take Off
I read that more as what he normally uses for tests and demos since it can be really easily generated using native SQL functions, and not necessarily his day job. Not that it matters much, I guess, and I agree it'd be neat to see that compared to Cassandra.
Personally I find it very odd. I've been a Linux-only user for the past 13 years, and Windows 10 was the first time I actually considered trying Windows as my main OS. I guess our metrics are different.
Greediness is not the same as simply regarding one's interest, though the line is subjective.
$7,000-a-Month ‘Shameless China’ Blogger Loses All with One Post
Remember how when Google and others launch ultra-vague privacy policies, people are quick to defend them and say "No, you don't understand - Google/Facebook/Microsoft would never do that worst case scenario you're thinking about right now. It's just phrased that way because lawyers wrote it!"

And 2-3 years later, that scenario turns out true, and they enable it silently, so not many people realize it. And they don't even have to change the privacy policy anymore, which would alert news sites, because they've already done that before.

The lawyers wrote the privacy policies that way because the companies intend to do other stuff with the data, or even that worst case scenario people think about, not just because "lawyers gonna lawyer". You don't think Google or Microsoft's general counsels know exactly what their CEOs/companies intends to do with that data 2-3 years down the road? Of course they do. They are usually part of all the long-term strategy planning.

So next time you see something like this, how about you stop giving these companies the "benefit of the doubt" (especially with their poor track record on this) and actually do assume the worst will happen, until they modify their privacy policies to specifically say what they're going to do or aren't going to do with your data.

And people still wonder why the EU could possibly want to investigate Google. Surely it's just American supremacy jealousy? I hope the EU brings everything it's got to Google, and brings the hammer down hard on them. The U.S. Justice Department seems to be completely unwilling to punish big corporations/elites anymore anyway (usually a big flashing sign for oligarchy).
/r/nosleep
Microsoft is still the king of the (enterprise) desktop. They've been more open on the server front, because they realised that they can't win that war.
Best PHP framework?
Even if you design a component to last for the life of the entire system, that doesn't mean there's no point checking it through that life. There will always be the pieces at the bottom end of the bell curve. You must catch them.

Look at the aviation industry for a good example. A pilot might check certain parts of the aircraft before starting it up each time. They'll likely check more things more closely for their first flight of the day. Then it'll get ever closer inspections every X days by maintenance personnel. These checks catch faults.
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Full stack web developer.
I usually do mostly every part of the web app except design. I usually work with: Scala; ; PostgreSQL; EC2; Git; Linux; IntelliJ.
Email: leenabora at gmail.com

Have worked with: Specs2; Selenium; Github; PostgreSQL; Squeryl; IDEA; Jetty; Java (10yrs); C; C++; .NET; PHP; Lisp; Prolog; Microchip assembly; Vaadin; JSP; Swing; Lift’s Mapper; Hibernate; H2; Netbeans; Eclipse; Ant; CVS; SVN; JUnit; Web Services; Tomcat
Also notable that manufacturing at scale (including Kodak) has the side effect of leaving behind environmentally problematic Superfund sites. There's no way you're ever going to be able to compete with someone willing and able to externalize more costs than you.
Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about lists is minor.

Also, if anyone from Twitter is reading: it would be nice if Twitter implemented a way to subscribe to someone's timeline instead of having to resort to this method.
This is fantastic news. FreeType rendering was already pretty good for common FOSS fonts in the recent versions unless the distribution crippled it, but a pet peeve of mine was that Microsoft fonts have never seemed quite right (as demonstrated by the OP in https://s31.postimg.org/t5trkfd2x/freetype_264_consolas_v35_...).

KUDOS to all contributors, especially for the last few release of FreeType which really rocked!
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What if we change the cost function to something that returns a number which has a direct correlation with the maximum number of attributes that matched? Would solving the problem be any easier or we would still leave the possibility of getting stuck in local optimums just like the one described in the post?
“The devil came to us” Russian officials criticized Pokemon Go. Five quotes
> It looks like they jumped on someone who submitted a pull request with a ridiculously harsh "code review", which inevitably provoked a defensive reaction.

It was not harsh. The submitter didn't stick to code guidelines and generally
had some issues in his code, which were pointed out. The reviewer's tone may
be a little dry, but all the comments were valid and had nothing personal in
them. If I was to receive them, I would feel embarrassed of what I did in the
code, not because reviewer made fun of my skills or something like that.

I should stress: this was Google Summer of Code work, so the submitter was
there clearly to learn something (presumably: from the reviewer). Instead, the
response was "oh no, more unnecessary work" and "this code is good".

> The funniest thing about this is that the (alleged) code review is so detailed that the time taken to write it could just as easily have been used to actually modify the damn code. This was purely a hazing ritual.

We could argue about that if it wasn't GSoC. Since it was GSoC, it was
supposed to be a learning experience for the submitter. It wasn't a typical,
random contribution.