skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is too dumbed down, imo.

That is why the word 'simplified' appears in the title, and the words 'super simplified' appear in the linked document. The purpose is to convey a point, and take away other distractions. Its probably not a good idea to introduce calculus to first graders either. If you don't think omitted content is a distraction, then it's probably not meant for you.
The compiler apparently.
Trading in stock of medical device paused after hackers team with short seller
> True free markets would allow anyone to manufacture an epi pen copy

I've had to rely on an EpiPen in the past and I am thankful that regulations exist to ensure it worked. The other recourse to make sure they worked every time would have been for me or others to die and let the free market handle the fall out.
Yes, but this does not diminish the value of the companies in the long term. Remember that index funds are an investment vehicle for decades, not months.
I'm sure in a country of 300 million people it's happened before, but I don't know of an actual example, and certainly it doesn't happen enough to register even as a blip in terms of the number of people in jail or prison.

People get held in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the legal process. Not turning over documents they are obligated to turn over, not testifying when they are obligated to testify, etc.
Personally I think language plays a huge role in the dynamics of how people think and reason about the world. Why would any group want to ignore something so powerful? Because the "opposition" are not going to stop injecting their own ideas out of some sense of moral purity.
It's less about "do they know this tech stack?" and more "do they have a knack, regardless of situation?" plus "do we want to work with this person?"

In dividing the day, we always try to pick one project where hopefully they will feel somewhat at home. Good at Ruby? Here's a Rails app. Java person? I hope you like Spring Boot!

Then for the other project it's usually something unfamiliar. Our goal is not to trip you up. It's not to play gotcha.

It's that dealing with unfamiliar languages, toolchains, ecosystems, coding styles, testing frameworks etc is a big part of life for pivots, especially Labs pivots.

This might sound like we only want generalists. This isn't quite true. We respect deep expertise -- deep knowledge of some stack or subject. But we also like comfort with the unknown. These are distinctive things. One is about knowledge held, the other about holding on in the face of the unknown.

You do however bring up the problem of projects with high rampups. The answer is that these are the hardest to schedule and assess. In these cases we focus on picking stories out of the backlog which are as self-contained and low-context as possible.

In very (very) rare cases, it will be impossible to find such a story or project able to take candidates. In those cases we have a collection of "canned" projects. Since it's not a real thing, we only use these as a desperate, no-alternatives, final, last resort.
"If the United States wants to reduce the number of people in our prisons, King said these results suggest we need a new approach."

When states and municipalities are no longer incentivized to have large prison populations and the same for law enforcement and making arrests, maybe we'll see a reduction in the prison population.
Nike and Intel sign equal pay pledge
Its extension language looks very interesting. It looks very powerful while having domain-specific features (I've noticed ‘user’, ‘command’, and ‘save_var’ keywords). See e.g. http://www.lugaru.com/ftp/for-v13/cmake.e http://www.lugaru.com/ftp/for-v13/lispmode.e

Also, the demo is extremely snappy. Shame it doesn't seem to have vi emulation (unless I missed it?) or org-mode, both of which are killer features of emacs for me.
Yes, you have.
He was referring to people of the entire U.S., not just the southern part.
TEDx Portsmouth: How to hack your biology and be in the zone every single day
Honest Data: Ensuring Data Integrity
I wonder...
Boss - "I see you expensed a Tesla"
Me - "Yes, its for browser testing..."
Not just the practical considerations of someone extracting the information, but just that studying this and reasoning about it to the extent that you can extract information out implies such a deep understanding of another part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

I would liken it to having the ability to imagine another color. They probably don't have an exact idea of the information flowing around them, but they know it is there and they have an ability to reason about it better than others. I can't imagine that's something that is easy to simply leave at the office.
I think first of all we need to make a catalogue of the organisations and systems that surround us. Then we can start measuring.

For instance, I would not have thought of a city as a social system. It is clear that a city is a very different beast to a corporation though both are types of social systems. What other types of social systems are there? And how do they behave? Do they all exhibit such stark universality when you look at them as space-filling fractal networks of social communication?

What about the military? Does it behave like a city or a corporation? What about the civil service? What about universities? And so on, and so on.

What about the internet? Is that one giant social system? If so, what type? Or does it just count as infrastructure?

Even though the video was fascinating and thought provoking I feel I have many more questions now than I did beforehand.

> I think there's a lot of gold to be mined in the seams between disciplines.

I think you're absolutely correct.
Thanks, but IIRC that is not the whole story:

Once you receive a green card, tax days retroactively go back to the first day in which you were legally in the country that year in the status that switched you to a green card - even if you fail the substantial presence test; e.g., you get married to an american citizen outside the US, you both move into the US on 1-Apr, apply for a marriage-based green card, move out of the US a month later*, come back december 20th and receive the green card -- at that point, even though you only spent 40 days in the US (thus failing the substantial presence test), your "us tax payer date" goes back to 1-Apr, which would make you a (partial year) US tax payer for 8 months.

How that interacts with visas or parole, I have no idea, but I know someone whose tax issues were very complicated because of such an issue.

I guess you are right in that the substantial presence test is the default, and some visas have exceptions one way, and green card the other - but I would urge anyone who might be affected by these issues to be very very diligent with respect to tax laws.

And .. we haven't touched state tax laws, which are similar but not exactly the same as federal laws (and vary between states). And there's also the concept of domicile, which makes everything even crazier.
I almost want to buy a copy just to give the guy kudos for keeping with it for all these years. Pretty impressive array of platforms and features for something with that old a history!
How is it harmful? You really think that somebody who is going to write a red black tree implementation (or similar) is going to use this document as a reference? That'd be like complaining about a high school physics textbook because somebody from Boeing might use it to design a plane.
> And really, the strangest things happens when you don't talk about it. You still have for comprehensions, but surprise, they don't behave like in Python, "yield" is again overloaded, having nothing to do with Python's yield or Ruby's yield, and people stumble for no good reason, because it is hard to connect what seems like syntactic sugar over iterators to an expansion using map and flatMap. Along with "computation expressions" from F# or other bullshit naming meant to not scare away the most sensitive of us, the big problem that happens is that people get confused and don't even know what to search for. Search for monads and you'll find endless articles, tutorials, books, research. Search for comprehensions and you get shit.

I agree that Monads deserve our time and attention. Unfortunately, search for monads and you'll get thousands of articles explaining what they are in incomprehensible terminology, along with language-specific type annotations, and devoid of any practical reasons to use them over their non-monadic control flow cousins in imperative languages.

They never seem to explain why you would ever need them, how they help in certain situations. Even worse, they don't tell you when they might actually be hazardous or code smell. They rarely even gloss over the challenges (like needing monad transformers if you want any sort of monadic composition), leaving you to figure that out for yourself when you start bashing your head against the walls.

For all their hard-to-google non-standard terminology, the Scala and F# communities have done a far better job than Haskell at explaining Monads in a way that actually makes people want to learn and use them. And once they have learned the concepts, the elitist sounding language doesn't sound quite so intimidating anymore.
In many places you can be charged with a crime and possibly get social services called on you for letting kids just run around. These are often not high crime areas. The irony is that kids were allowed to run around back when crime rates were far higher.
Game developers do need the revenue, but they don't deserve it simply because they created a game. The market determines what a game is worth - and the amount of effort, time and money sunk into a game can, but often may not, factor into that valuation.

Restricting free expression isn't going to bring game developers more revenue, it's just going to increase piracy and damage the developers' reputation. Like it or not, this isn't something developers have any say in or control over.
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Games like "The Last of Us" and "Uncharted 4" definitely seem more like audience-participation movies. The fight scenes might be fun to play through, but a lot of the good stuff comes from the scenery, the story, and the acting - both voice and capture.

I watched Let's Plays of both because I wanted to see the story, and because the players were entertaining. I don't think I'd have enough time or patience to play through either game, but I definitely got value out of the game itself without having played it.

It does seem like a gray zone - I experienced content without paying for it, but I didn't experience it the way it was truly meant to be. Did I come by it unfairly?
True, the TRS-80 often gets short shrift in these arguments. What was revolutionary about it was the price, about $1K cheaper than an Apple II. It foreshadowed the day when almost everybody would be able to afford to own their own computer. I agree that the TRS-80 was an important milestone in its own right, even though it lost the race to call itself the "first recognizable PC," or whatever.
The premise of this question is false. I object to the harassment of anyone, regardless of the color of their skin. Who would object to preventing the harassment of people with white skin, and why?

There's a massive and historic problem of white-skinned people being harassed (and much worse) by black-skinned people. The evidence is overwhelming. Therefore, we need to put great effort into solving it.

The idea that there is a competition between races is not only absurd but well-established to be highly damaging; the results are very bad for everyone. Stopping the harassment of white-skinned people helps everyone.
The Washington Post covering the same story:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/26...

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And also the WP covering a similar problem in Georgetown (a wealthy district in Washington):

* The secret surveillance of ‘suspicious’ blacks in one of the nation’s poshest neighborhoods

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/the-secre...

* The black man arrested in Georgetown because he looked like a shoplifter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/the-black...

* Georgetown social network accused of racial profiling is suspended

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-social-netwo...

(Wow. What is the shortest possible Washington Post URL?)
came across this paper that investigates how the EM propulsion drives might generate thrust, and as a side effect, the theory explains certain phenomena that we attribute to dark matter and dark energy. i only have undergrad physics degree, but it sounds interesting. anyone with more experience have any thoughts about this?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03449v1.pdf
>McCulloch (2007) has proposed a new model for inertia (MiHsC) that assumes that the inertia of an object is due to the Unruh radiation it sees when it accelerates, radiation which is also subject to a Hubble-scale Casimir effect. In this model only Unruh wavelengths that fit exactly into twice the Hubble diameter are allowed, so that a greater proportion of the waves are disallowed for low accelerations (which see longer Unruh waves) leading to a gradual new loss of inertia as accelerations become tiny. MiHsC modifies the standard inertial mass (m) to a modified one (m_i) as follows:

m_i = m (1-(2c^2)/(|a|Θ))
= m (1 - λ/4Θ) (1)
where c is the speed of light, Θ is twice the Hubble distance, ’|a|’ is the mag- nitude of the relative acceleration of the object relative to surrounding matter and λ is the peak wavelength of the Unruh radiation it sees. Eq. 1 predicts that for terrestrial accelerations (eg: 9.8m/s2) the second term in the bracket is tiny and standard inertia is recovered, but in low acceleration environments, for example at the edges of galaxies (when a is small and λ is large) the sec- ond term in the bracket becomes larger and the inertial mass decreases in a new way so that MiHsC can explain galaxy rotation without the need for dark matter (McCulloch, 2012) and cosmic acceleration without the need for dark energy (McCulloch, 2007, 2010).
Absolutely no impact. This change shouldn't even affect REIT stock prices very much in the short to medium term.
You're trying really hard to justify how this isn't racism. The poster lives there and knows these people, take it or leave it, your opinion isn't valuable.
Read the disclaimer which says "Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary"

In my example, the form has 50K as the bottom of the range and 200K at the top. Using this site's methodology they take the "middle point of the range" which is 125K.

What your calculating is the example's actual average, not what the site would be reporting. That was the point of my post to show that the methodology likely does not match the truth and likely overestimates the salary.
Instead of being randomly selected, why not allocate H1-B visas to the highest paying positions first? (If there's a tie at the end then the selection can be random.)
oops! missed that.

nevermind.
Open sourcing JDK 9 ARM ports
It's a problem with everyone except the actual racists, right?
You happen to think the most popular scala library is a virus?

We use it extensively at Verizon, and it exists just fine with 'impure' code, Akka code, or whatever else various teams decide to also pull in. Codebases that don't use Scalaz end up re-inventing it, usually in a more buggy way and at a waste of developer effort.

Reinventing is fine on your own for a learning exercise and I certainly did it a few times, but in production code, just use Scalaz. Or sure, I suppose if you want to use a copy and pasted into a new repo version of Scalaz, go for Cats. I don't even know why Shapeless is brought into the conversation, it has a much more narrow use case and I almost never reach for it.

I've also found the Scalaz community and chat room on IRC quite helpful, whereas I've had some really unpleasant interactions with Cats committers. To go around spreading FUD and promoting an alpha level library that's less than half as popular as Scalaz (according to Github stars) is just irresponsible.
I was at RAX back in the early cloud days. The console has a long and sordid history. I was under the impression they bought CloudKick just to get the team to build a better console. Somewhat surprised it's still bad; somewhat not.
This exoskeleton glove could let you feel the ‘shape’ of virtual reality
Gravity.

Actually, almost the only thing that we know about dark mater is that gravity affect it.

(Actually, we only know that there is something that is making a gravitational pull of normal mater, and we call this mysterious thing "dark mater".)
Junit5: first-class support for scenario tests
Ask HN: Any tools that can search gmail/slack combined?
Most messaging spans gmail, slack and other media, is there a way I can search them in a single search app?
What recessions teach us about traffic deaths–and why we need driverless cars
I wrote about long nops in http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=25#82

I had a private email thread with H. Peter Anvin (formerly of Transmeta) about this.

I think there was an Intel patent about them.
Opera sync servers hacked – login names, email and passwords stolen
They likely do a bit of both, and do it all less well.
> But if you're researching a cure for cancer (imagine it's just a certain unobtainium complex), and someone else finds it first, you are screwed.

Reminds me of a comment by Derek Lowe (In the pipeline, blog post). That when deciding whether to investigate a class of compounds for some disease or whatever the first thing they do is a patent/literature search. If the result shows some other group did a bunch of work on those compounds then it's a no go. Even if what they were targeting was completely different. The reason is, even if one of those compounds turned out to be a useful drug you wouldn't be able to patent it.

This sort of says that patent protection for drug development is broken as well.
The overlap between cats and scalaz is gigantic idk why you seem to think they are distinct? I'd bet that the overlap between the most commonly used parts of cats and scalaz is even larger.

The main thing scalaz has that cats doesn't is scalaz.concurrent.Task, and there are multiple typelevel-endorsed alternatives to it being worked on as well (in monix and fs2). Task is wonderful btw.

fwiw we use scalaz at work and haven't upgraded to cats because it isn't ready. cats just fixed a performance bug that would have destroyed us (Map union mappend was ridiculously unoptimized compared to scalaz's). We .foldMap(/* make a small Map*/) all the time and it's one of our favorite parts of scalaz. see https://github.com/typelevel/cats/issues/1290 for the bug.
You can't do that because you have to buy extra hardware. All of a sudden everything you need would be built in. That makes it WAY more practical of an attack. All of a sudden ANY phone can be used.
Whenever I encounter the Chomsky Language Hierarchy in programming or Noam Chomsky talking politics on TV, radio, or print, I always ask myself 'is it the same guy?'. Only because the topics are usually so disparate.
twitch can do 60+ fps, lots of people on twitch stream 720p60fps, it's arguably the best balance between quality and bandwidth cost

the only limiting factor is the bitrate limit of 3500
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1253460-broa...
Offtopic: man, those were the good days of Slashdot, two tech news+comments sites ago for me. I then gradually switched to Reddit, and now HN. I wonder what will be next.
Yup!

That's how I started billing clients initially; basically making stuff up, estimating project complexity v. time-to-implement, and so on.

Eventually they were reasonably accurate, then I stopped doing it for awhile. I've toyed with the idea of getting back into it again, but I'm a terrible hustler, and don't have the patience for it :(
Show HN: Drop a Coin - meet like minded people around your location
Pretty sure you can stream 60fps on twitch.
I think aab0 means that this particular galaxy is ruled out as a Dyson sphere, not the possibility of there being one somewhere in the universe.

A Dyson sphere should still emit infrared, unless the aliens can subvert thermodynamics, at which point anything is possible.
Epsilon is great. Let me offer a whole-hearted recommendation. It's a secret weapon, an unfair advantage we have, those of us in the know.

I was so happy to come upon it as a sadly ex-Symbolics-ZMacs user (and ex-MIT-TECO-Emacs user) when first confronted with a 286 system, and I have have been using it ever since. I buy a few copies every few years, typically for team members who wonder what's that magic I keep using. At my present company, I fought (and won) a three-month battle with the Software Standards Committee to be allowed to install it.

As a Windows developer I routinely do all editing in Epsilon, switching to Visual Studio only to compile and debug. To draft this very message, I switched away from my web browser to Epsilon. Steven Doerfler provides great customer service on the very rare occasion that I need to turn to him.

If you have any emacs in your soul, buy Epsilon. Now.
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Many real world interactions require hard real time and with monolithic kernels you are just not going to be able to meet your guarantees.

Lots of hard realtime systems (e.g. on microcontrollers) use a RTOS where there is even no distinction between user and system mode, thus one cannot even talk about microkernels vs. monolithic. From a software engineering architectural perspective this is not a good design, but it is very fast (thus the time guarantees you can give are smaller) and sometimes easier to guarantee runtime guarantees. And it is easier to write a RTOS where all things run in system mode (which does not imply it is easier to debug bugs or to maintain).
This sounds terrible, really! Which makes sense because I do not like Twitch etc. :)

The GP is getting downvoted, so I guess a lot of people do enjoy watching games be played instead of playing them. Thank you for providing an explanation. As someone who does not enjoy it, it IS really difficult to understand.
Not only that they were dark and you could get lost in them. They had booths and private walls where you couldn't just walk in the front door and see everyone like an open office under one giant spotlight.

I dig the new modern warehouse style like Chipotle's but everything is too open with little personality.

Restaurants used to be like a labyrinth in some restaurants, all dark and adventurous where noise didn't carry, now it is a GAP/Apple Store in the mall. Back in the day with arcades and flair, I guess I miss it. Everything looks the same. One day Ronald McDonald, dark booth labyrinths and flair will return. Famous Dave's BBQ has some of this like Fridays/Cracker Barrel and I like it, fun to look around and you can't see everyone either.
Facebook fired all their Trending editors
No, that is false and there is no equivalence.

White people were not slaves, were not subject to segregation and its cousin redlining; were not and are not suffering widespread exclusion from education, finance, housing, healthcare, government, employment, and most other aspects of society; were not lynched; are not subject to harassment, assault and imprisonment by law enforcement due to their skin color (of which there is overwhelming evidence).

Look at a photo of the US Senate, or almost any state or local government; a photo of Fortune 500 CEOs or people who work in SV or Wall Street, or elite university faculty and administration: If you meet a police officer, note their skin color, and that of the DA, the judge, the appeals court judge, the legislators who write the laws that they all enforce. You can see who understands, protects and furthers the interests of white-skinned people when they are threatened.

Also, despite your implication, I said that I oppose the harassment of everyone, which of course includes any group you name.