skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found these whining hypocritical and snobbish. I can't afford a house in Palo Alto even if I work there. I don't complain about it just like I don't complain about not being able to purchase a luxury car. I don't expect the people who CAN afford these things to just lower the price and give them to me.

Many cities near Palo Alto have houses at a reasonable price, East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park, Mountain View, Redwood City, just to name a few. Why doesn't the author want to raise her kids there? BECAUSE SHE DOESN"T WANT HER KIDS TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH THE AVERAGE JOE! She wants her kids to go to a school where Joe Millionaires send their kids, while only paying the price of an average Joe. How could that be possible?

Her mentality is the same as that of the people she's accusing of not making a change. She just makes less money and she's loud.
I think on 2 and 3 you're mistaken: it is often much harder today for law enforcement or intelligence parts of the government to get data from other parts of the government, who can ignore them or tie them up in bureaucracy, than from companies.

On the first point—yes, I think you're quite right. But maybe FTTH is enough for many years to come?
Where many = IE, and other languages = VBScript (if that's even supported anymore)?

Because that's the only actual and in use browser I can think of that supports a language other than JS natively.
You can't throw people through walls in the US (except for in the movies). Even non-bearing walls are pretty strong and have lots of wood studs in them [0].
http://diy.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/diy/fullset/2011/8/...
First of all, if it's the name of a an encoding there's no "copyright issue".

Second, nobody (except the Japanese) really gives a duck about Shift JIS (and not many people care about Shift JS either) to warrant anything on either side.
I think it's because most hiragana/katakana is in the form "consonant-vowel" meaning that almost all words are made up of collections of 2 letter sounds/syllables. This gives words a certain cadence which is easily repeated. When you convert that to romaji you begin to parse the words as though they were english and the discrete "consonant-vowel" sounds get broken down and become harder to see/read.

Really though, you can learn hiragana in a single sitting using mnemonic trickery and you can commit it to memory using a spaced repetition or flashcard system in a few days. Not learning hiragana and katakana seems much more of a hindrance than "wasting time" by learning it.
While, I'm incredibly grateful for the music education I've received [and still play at the age where many fellow amateurs increasingly don't [though time well tell whether I keep this up as I intend to]], the idea that the vast majority of artists primarily teach the next generation does carry the whiff of a Ponzi scheme.
Singer, to defend (late-term) abortion, argues that infants aren't "people", as personhood is a function of quality of life. A baby or toddler, for example has very little quality of life compared to a full-grown adult [1][2].

This is a pretty unintuitive position (and imo wrong), but at least the man takes it to its logical conclusion, so, you know.. respect.

[1] http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1993----.htm

[2] https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/just-being-human-doesnt...
> If behavior of compiled program matches the original one, that is.

Unfortunately, that does make it difficult when your target is JavaScript. Every mature transpiler I've used has had some semantic gotchas that aren't present in the "proper" compiler.
Because if you don't give credit to the other people in the field, you are less likely to get through peer review, and people will constantly suggest that you read their work -- even though you already have. You prove that you are one of the group by namedropping, citing lots of other papers, and using the same jargon everyone else does.
Your note has it right. These are all piles of pine sticks and drywall. (I've lived in several of them.) They aren't designed, built, or purchased for posterity.
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I think a stylized "dark-theme" of excerpts that are interesting to read (I.e. the code is intricate and self-contained) could find traction.
By that definition every compiler that generates assembly language is a transpiler, rendering the term meaningless.

Perhaps you don't think you could "just as well" program in assembly language, but there are many many people who do, perhaps not in your own problem domain.
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The teachers, police and fire fighters all moved out a long time ago.
That article is kind of shitty too.

Higher compression ratio = better combustion = more power with less fuel, regardless of turbo.

Higher compression will always mean better fuel efficiency. My moms Mazda CX-5 runs a 13.5 compression ratio and gets 27mpg. The power/efficiency trade off appears when you're talking about turbocharged engines.

Turbos compress air into the combustion chamber, so when you compress compressed air, you get exponentially compressed air. If you don't adjust the compression ratio for the turbo, you're going to get knock. An engine with a 13.5 compression ratio can run perfectly fine on regular gas, but an engine that runs the same ratio and 20 psi of boost with melt itself even on premium gas.

This is a problem for any kind of work vehicle. They almost always have turbos to give them the power to haul their loads with reasonable ease. But this forces the engineers to design the engine with a lower compression ratio, which means at light engine loads, when the turbo isn't doing anything, the engine isn't fulfilling its full potential. It's still compressing air at a low ratio, even though it's not taking in already compressed air. This is where Nissans innovation comes in. The compression ratio will change according to the degree with which the turbo is compressing air. Allowing the engine to run at peak efficiency through the entire range of engine load.
> borrowed especially in British English as Great Britain was occupied by Latin speakers for nearly 400 years -- 43 CE through 410 CE.

Can you explain how Latin loanwords were loaned into English during this period? In your explanation, please make use of the facts that (1) there were no English speakers in Great Britain before 410 CE, and moreover (2) there was, by definition, no such language as English until Anglo-Saxon migrations into Great Britain (around 450 CE) established a distinct West Germanic linguistic community on the island.
I've seen many glowing references to Feynman's Lectures on Physics, but this is the first time I've seen them called a failure. Could you share a bit more about why they're considered a failure?
This is Linux-based, because I don't have FreeBSD experience, but is related in security posture. I have a more controversial opinion: If you're going to use `sudo`, you shouldn't use passwords.

Your login passwords should only be given to the login prompt, which you hopefully have some reasonable faith in its integrity (if not; game over already).

If you're typing your password into terminals after login, that's a great place to steal your password.
I would much prefer to use pam_krb5 to "kinit on login", and then by sudo to authenticate your session.

Then you shouldn't ever be tempted to type your password into potentially untrusted programs.

Of course, if you're sure you have no malware on your computer, then there's also no need for a sudo password -- nobody but yourself could be running commands!
I think it was a language they developed to be used with IUP. Original research paper:
http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/download/spe95.pdf
Under "Resources->LED" on the site there is some more information:
http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/led.html
You have an interesting perspective.

I'm reminded that in a lot of places outside of the US, flaunting your wealth is considered a big faux pas.

> and was a physical manifestation of their hard work.

Not being a home owner, or a car owner, or a gold watch owner, or fine clothing owner myself, does it seem necessary to have a physical manifestation of one's wealth to flaunt? Does it really speak positively about a person?
Meanwhile, stateside, I have ONE internet service provider available in my building (Comcast). After talking with mgmt about allowing other ISPs, I was told that Comcast actually wired the building, so there will not be any other options. To no one's surprise, I'm being gouged for barely 5 Mbps down.
Why would you do it in the first place? By definition your EV is $30 higher by just not doing anything.
Census fail – poor planning, poor risk management and irresponsibilit
also "prototypal"
I know, I'm saying that one company'd ad spend negates their competitor's, and vice versa, so the more everyone spends, the more everyone loses. That is non-zero-sum, in the negative direction.
X86 to Microcode "Transpiler"

Microcode to Electron "Transpiler"
Sunlight is still 2 orders of magnitude more important to the global economy. 7.68 billion acres * 100w/m on average is a mind boggling amount of energy. Plants are around 10% efficient at collecting sunlight so we they get 10W * 4046 m / acre * 7.68 billion acted under cultivation = ~310 trillion watts or 2.7 million terrawatt hours per year. Oil is ~1% of that or 20 thousand terrawatt hours per year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/me...
It's troubling that his input is still considered sufficient to render a judgement. That one person was of poor moral character and has been appropriately expelled from his profession by his more reputable peers is just, proper, and generally how things are supposed to work. (My use of "supposed to work" no way implies belief in a world where "supposed to work" is equals "is how it actually works")
> Make sure to wait two years

Haha, this reminded me of a friend who did a summer engineering internship with a U.S. automaker. He came back and related one of the most important things he learned: "never, ever buy a first-run car." I remember hearing him tell about tolerances still being adjusted after all these cars had shipped, cringing to think of all the problems that could cause.
Umm, no? American ISPs/cable companies are notorious for form get regional monopolies. In most places in the US, people really have only one option for ISP.

You might think the situation is different in cities, but that is the case only on the surface. The fact is that in dense urban settings, many apartment buildings form exclusive partnerships with cable providers such that residents must sign up with that provider of they want cable/internet.
How to Stay Motivated as an Entrepreneur
From what I've seen in Vancouver, quality and design are separate. You can hire a first-class designer, then hire a third-rate builder to construct the building, and vice versa. These events happen every day. It all depends on how much the developer wants to spend.

As an aside (Flame suit on: I am Chinese), most extreme high-end houses ($3 mill and up) here are bought by wealthy Chinese immigrants/investors. This leads to 2 situations-

If the house is built by a developer, then the quality tends to be low. Even the worst Vancouver builder's craftsmanship is better than what you would normally get in China. This means that the developers have no incentive to pay extra as the buyer would be impressed regardless. So McMansion with low quality.

If the house is built by wealthy immigrants, however, then the quality tend to be very high. When money is no objection, it's amazing how much quality you can get... So McMansion with high quality.

More aside:
This particular style of house is all the rage in Vancouver suburbia in the last 5 years.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/drastic-pruning-of-200-year-old...

Imagine seeing 20 of these new houses in 1 suburbia street :( It's quite dispiriting.
Christ. Multiple reports, none have been closed, no link to changesets.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200846.

Userspace should never be able to crash the kernel!
Next Big Thing: Knowledge. As a product, not as a loss leader for ads.
As a counterpoint: I'm not a native English speaker, I do understand "yr" just fine, but it takes me a split second longer to read that abbreviation.

Because p.a. is also part of my language.
Ask HN: Which professions are impossible to get because the oldies never retire?
I appreciate very much your perspective and it’s made me think. You obviously view things outside the box. Though I still believe a draft isn’t inherently anti-democratic. If the majority votes for a war, and the majority votes for conscription, then that seems to me to agree with democracy. But I do agree that a draft is anti-individual-freedom. And I agree that democracy isn’t inherently good. The majority can vote in a manner that oppresses the minority. It’s definitely occurred in our past. A democracy combined with individual rights is the key in my opinion. I just don’t think the ability to avoid service should be one of those protected rights. But since I do believe in democracy, only a majority can vote to make that so, thus my outspoken attitude toward private contractors and the all volunteer force.
Richard Feynman on How Computers Work
I meant generally they are generally not useful. Sometimes they are. It depends on the purpose and what you want to build and who it's for.

Given that you're building a descriptive model it would depend if you're working with facts or with probabilities. If it's facts then Ontologies should work fine, for probabilities I'd recommend Bayesian techniques.

The input for these are usually small. From the sounds of it you're generating the input yourself so you should be safe.
Although this is yet another study about how human beings differ from some "rational" ideal, it doesn't conclude that we are irrational. Rather it seems to give us pause for thought about utilitarianism.

I think people are mostly right to have counter-utilitarian intuitions. Utilitarinism automatically places the the reasoner in the position of an omniscient fairy-empress how knows what is good for everyobody and can act on it.

But nobody is really in that situation. We are interacting parts in a enourmous system. We affect other people, and we adapt to the effects that others have on us.

All this works better if we obey certain rough and ready rules of right and wrong and respect each other rather vaguely defined rights. Evolution has given us a moral sense that encourages just that. It isn't perfect, but it works a lot better than pretending to be a fairy-empress.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'll often enable watching on random github projects I think might be interesting, or libraries as such... most of the time I mark all notices read and move on, but there are days I'll look through and review PRs... there's been once or twice I've seen some odd-looking commits.

One was the author pointing to their own npm cache server instead of npm proper (made it in from testing to a master commit), a few others just "interesting"... I feel a bit of a responsibility to help the larger OSS community, with whom I use so much, and am able to give comparatively little as much as I am able.
This has a very similar name to the Japanese text encoding, Shift_JIS. I doubt people will be confused since these are two different domains, but they sound very similar to pronounce.
Neither Hilliary nor Trump will stop feeding this monster.
As much as I appreciate all these articles expounding the plethora of issues stemming from housing in the Bay Area, I can't help but feel thoroughly discouraged.

It seems that despite an abundance of chatter, we'll never see any change. If things were going to be fundamentally different, any time soon, we'd see indications of that. Instead it's just articles. Articles, on articles, on articles.
written in Java? not effected by heap-growth and GC latency?
Thanks. Great read. Among other things this particularly resonated:
You are easily annoyed by imprecision in talking about the quantitative or logical. This is mostly because you are trained to quickly think about counterexamples that make an imprecise claim seem obviously false.
On the other hand, you are very comfortable with intentional imprecision or "hand-waving" in areas you know, because you know how to fill in the details.
People like garages, but at least with the parcels of land discussed in TFA, it ought to be possible not to make the garage the focus of the house. That is probably my biggest complaint about contemporary residential architecture.
1 quart plus 3 tablespoons and 1 and fifty seven sixty fourths teaspoons
Chrome supports ActionScript natively, as well as C++
Many great answers here, but something that hasn't been mentioned yet is jazz as a method.

This isn't new. There's the oft-maligned Latin Jazz---one reason a lot of synthetic music that happened in Cuba, Brazil, and other such plays was more similar inputs---similar outputs development in parallel. Once you get recorded music + radio, and tourism in Cuba, there's more actual cross-pollination, but there's plenty of stuff before that.

As far as the method goes, obviously improvisation is a big part, but the big picture is Jazz is a social and live music. If Classical is a play, Jazz is a conversation at a Cafe. Sure people listen to recordings, but also classic trane records and others are a lot more sliced and diced than one might think. There's big band too, but what goes on at most schools is a bit suspect without the collectively authored head arrangements. Musically, we have the tradition of a preset harmony and, to a lesser extent form, is the "seed" for everything else, African rhythm, European harmony, and a bunch of unconscious idioms that would be hard to right down without lots of luck and pondering. [There's my cop-out. :)]

As a younger student, I and many others gravitated towards funk, because it's clear (though nobody said so explicitly) that that is the foundation for everything that's popular today (more than rock I'll jeer now that top 40 ate everything :P). The narrative of funk, if you will, is soul musicians' session players striking out of do their own more instrumental/dance focused thing. And those session musicians all had jazz backgrounds. So there's the historical connection, and musically it's largely a similar method, though more emphasis on premeditated groove and rhythm section in general.
So, the argument is based on her insisting that she had to buy a house in Palo Alto. But renting a place large enough would have been much cheaper than that $150,000: $5k/month gets you a nice 4 bedroom.

I don't think her math adds up. She's just insisting that she has to buy, and it has to be in Palo Alto. Neither of those are truly requirements for her, so the $150K quote is specious.

EDIT: I acknowledge $5k is not realistic in PA. 6k is, however.
Microsoft did try that one. It's a little hard to say how much they ended up paying for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
Did you mean Dirac delta instead of Kronecker delta?
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Some people treat C as portable assembly.

Does that make gcc a transpiler for converting portable assembly to platform-specific assembly due to their similar semantics?
While it is fine to call out the City Council, I am surprised there wasn't an acknowledgment that the City Council is a reflection of the will of the people in the City. If it were really an issue to the community they would elect new Council persons.

Since the majority of the stakeholders on this issue likely can't vote to change the Council because they don't live in the City, I would recommend a boycott. One thing the transit workers could do is organize to the extent they don't buy anything within the city limits. No gas, no food/lunch, no shopping, no entertainment, etc... Once you get local business behind a political issue the rest typically fall in line or they may find themselves ostracized within their own community.
This is really cool. I've wondered occasionally whether something like this might be possible, but this looks like a really spiffy implementation. I wonder how hard it would be to add Mach-O support to it...
The simple answer is that the kernel runs on all cores. But the answer is really that it depends which part of the kernel you are talking about.

Whenever user mode does a trap to supervisor mode it is running the top half of the kernel. An interrupt (device or timer) causes the core to run the bottom half of the kernel. Many systems used to only send these to cpu0, and it is typical that lots of network I/O would occur on cpu0.

In the PIII era, with a wide bus shared by all cores, most kernel data structures were not multithreaded, i.e. single run queue, great big kernel locks. There are now many per-core data structures, which can be in local memory. See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/kernel/kernel.html and for a recent discussion of scheduling: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf
This is the real answer.

The problem is that the large global companies like Facebook and Google are extracting an unnatural amount of money and that's flowing into the Bay Area, and translating into high-paying engineer jobs. The problem is all of the great jobs are landing in the Bay Area, and in the age of the Internet that just doesn't make any sense anymore.

These large global companies need to spread that around the US and move jobs around to other areas, so that young people can get exciting jobs in lower cost areas. This will take off the burden off the Bay Area, and ease the pressure of housing prices.
The downside would be that if your city did the wiring, you'd be paying for it through higher property taxes.

A counterargument might be that both the city and Comcast could both raise money through munipical or corporate bonds from investors, so local citizens might not need to pay any extra taxes as long as the city breaks even charging for its wiring.
> Things like morals are real in the sense that people agree on them.

That is sufficient for a cultural relativist. But not for the bulk of moral realists, who want to say that it is possible for whole cultures, or even the human race as a whole to be just wrong about some moral proposition.

It's not even a hypthetical excercise. For example: to the moral realist, branding slavery as being unacceptable was not just a matter of switching from one social convention to another. It was about switching from being wrong (both factually and morally) to being right.
If you can figure that out during an interview, you're solid on the question. That's the gist of it, and knowing that you can use `let` to make it work is good too.
I hope otherwise too, but believe you may be right. A similar theme was purported in a book I read awhile back: Empire of Debt.[1] I try to be optimistic that the future will be better. Many things are better. But there is a self-righteous, self-centered aspect to modern western society that seems to be indicative of a decline in public virtue, where words matter more than actions, and where the elite believe it is there right to lead and service and sacrifice is for poor people without other options. For my daughter and others, I hope the Pax Americana lasts a long time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Debt
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