skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How? By strictly constricting supply so drivers only serve the rich, dense areas? /s
Personally I found that using redux for everything ends up spreading a ton of boilerplate everywhere. Action creators, reducer, the dumb component itself, the HOC.

All that adds up and is a lot of work for a simple component.

We ended up going with a hybrid setup. Our components are all dumb, and our "pages" are the only connected components. We also started using ducks[1] instead of spreading the reducer/actions everywhere whenever it makes sense.

[1] https://github.com/erikras/ducks-modular-redux
Hmm, from my years in New Zealand, I can't say service was any less good than it is in the U.S.. There were more "pay at the counter and take a number to your table" establishments, but usually that was for classes of restaurant where that model totally made sense (e.g. pubs).
This is a ridiculous stance to take. So because one drug/company decided to raise prices 1500% we need to take immediate and specific action.

But those companies who operate at 600% markup in the same industry are perfectly fine.

I can guarantee you the latter are where the actual problem lies - since it's systemic. The outliers that get press are good - but only if people solve the problem vs. kneejerk reactions like specific legislation for a single drug.

My point is that every drug company is doing this. And not a little bit. We shouldn't set some ridiculous threshold before we take action (as long as we're stolen from, it's ok if it's only a small amount right?) - we should fix the problem where it begins. This means adding competition to the market, in which case the usual race to the bottom should occur. You are basically advocating for a tiny measure that "fixes" a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of wasteful drug spending - and simply focusing on manufactured outrage. This is how the industry continues to win.
Programme to prevent teen pregnancy had a reverse effect, study shows
GCHQ Details Cases of When It Would Use Bulk Hacking
Ha ha, I have experienced this first hand, a small project I worked on netted my then-employer roughly $2m/year in additional revenue.

That money covered the bonuses of just 2 executives, I think I might have got a 2 or 3% raise myself that year...
Who the hell is watching our backs in America? Is it the FDA, the FTC, Congress (likely too busy defunding AMA to care), the DoJ? No idea.

The problem is, we have no price controls on medicines or medical procedures in the US. Prices are set by the makers of drugs or devices. We are the only 1st world country on the planet without price controls. Everything terrible stems from this and that there is no real competitions between medical providers (because prices are not published).
I imagine I'll be thoroughly downvoted, but I like the unelected House of Lords. There's a heck of a lot wrong with it - not least the ease of pushing ex party members up there in vast numbers, but all alternatives thus far proposed are far worse.

All proposed alternatives will give us more elected politicians adhering to party lines. None of the alternatives will give us better government.

Lords are pretty good at being difficult in the face of bad legislation - yet every time a notable instance takes place there are more calls to abolish the place. Their party allegiance mellows as they age - so you get Tory peers ridiculing some aspect of the current Tory government. Last there are enough independents (usually with long non-political careers) to bring domain knowledge and independent thought to the place.

Most instances of Lords reform have been as a result of them doing their job well, inconveniencing or embarrassing the elected government of the day.

It's not democratic, but it works.
Let's just say that an app with a GPS unit sweeps a profound number of communication issues into the trash. :-)

And it gets much better when you can see an ETA and an approximate location of the incoming cab.
"A shortcut is not shortcut, unless you know the way." - nxzero

Finding shortcuts does not require hard work, but a willingness to be different and take risks others will not.
The Traitorous Eight. The PayPal Mafia. Any other cohorts famous in Silicon Valley for producing disproportionate excellence?
Anyone who did an economics 101 class could predict that forcing such diverse economies with populations reluctant to move to richer parts of the union into a single currency would result in net wealth reduction. [1]

Even the bureaucrats in Brussels knew about this. It was still pushed through because they wanted to accelerate the political union via the currency union, ignoring the financial costs. What they did not expect was the US subprime crisis to hit europe that hard and that early.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area
Yeah, I think it was out of the service area or somesuch. I don't recall the specific issue there, but I DID try that.
Isn't the problem that that CUDA for FreeBSD does not exist in the first place?
Redux isn't conceptually complex, but I found it hard to get started with. The trouble I had wasn't the ideas, which are very clear, but in trying to predict which parts (composing reducers, passing state to components) would be animated by Javascript magic, and which were plain-ol-Javascript.

I found myself straining a little to memorize code snippets to get things started.

Once up and running, it's a breeze, though of course I agree with the common sentiment that it's too easy to overuse, and native React state too easy to underuse.
Any time you're performing an operation on a scroll event, that is a risk. But this uses a single "scroll" event listener throttled to fire a maximum of every 100ms.

https://github.com/camwiegert/in-view/blob/master/src/in-vie...
A doctor impacts one person at a time, a software developer can impact millions. Now, people are bad when dealing with large numbers, but regularly adding removing stress from millions of people will shorten / lengthen people's lives.

For less used software this might not seem like a big deal, but targeted software can have a larger indicidual impact even if it's only making 50+ people redundant.
Isn't that what Eurosceptics have been saying though? They don't want a political union? I've only seen a few videos but I'm pretty sure Farage has been saying something like that. That things cannot work without going all the way, and they don't want to go all the way. "Undermined" seems like the wrong word for opposing.
SIMT: parallelism in NVIDIA GPUs (2011)
That's what they try to do but my understanding is that Uber and Lyft actually do a better job of it?
Yes. But of course, I'd rather not use a virtualization layer on OSX. It simply doesn't work well.

Ultimately, "Verified developers" is a good idea for corporate machines. It doesn't stop attacks, but it raises the cost of attacks. That's really what security is about these days.
Arch has been consistently more breaky for me than Ubuntu. It is fashionable to bash Ubuntu but I have found it quite polished as long as you don't try to color outside the lines.

I have used FreeBSD on the desktop since 1996. I am not a system guru. I have never used an install guide. I only ever used the guided installer and just let it run. It has always just worked. But there is also nothing to be gained by using FreeBSD...because coloring inside the lines on FreeBSD means using their polished tools to manage your system. I never ended up exploring my system much because I never had to...sysinstall did it for me.

Indeed in the late 90s when Linux distros were immature, I recommended FreeBSD to people who wanted a "just works" approach that let them continue to be as systems-stupid as me.

I see Ubuntu as the best current manifestation of what FreeBSD always was for me...the quickest, friendliest path to get a unix-like OS on your computer with lots of good defaults and hand-holding.
Getting RSS feeds for news websites that don’t provide them
You are correct, and I was right to doubt my memory. Though my point about misalignment stands.
I agree with your complaint about the headline and was trying to add some context.
Yes, I've heard that things are much better now. I switched my desktops, not servers, to Linux years ago.
Yes, that's way you should, as I suggested, only call functions explicitly documented as asyc-signal-safe.
I resigned from the company I started with two other co-founders. Building a new firm now as a single founder. I expect many things will be harder though few will be insurmountable if at any at all.

Building my first company, to the second largest deep learning firm in Tokyo was exciting. But if I had to break down my time so much was wasted driving consensus where none was really required.

I know most investors hate a single founder. Traction though solves all problems.
The World Trade Organization has a provision known as "Compulsory Licensing" which can be used in extraordinary situations such as this. Compulsory licensing is when a government allows someone else to produce the patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner.

A few years ago, India's government authorized a drug manufacturer to make and sell a generic copy of a patented Bayer cancer drug because the price charged by Bayer was unaffordable to most of the nation. The US pharmaceutical industry has been up in arms about this, and has been exerting pressure on India to stop this practice. But abuses of the system by Mylan (with EpiPen), Turing (with Daraprim) and others would seem to justify the Indian practice.

In fact the US would do well to copy India's model. Citizens should be able to sue corporations for egregious abuses of the patent system, and courts should be able to provide relief in such cases by granting a compulsory license of a drug patent to a generic maker.

Read about compulsory licensing here:
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/public_health_f...

Read about India granting compulsory license to Bayer cancer drug here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/business/global/india-over...
It's Not About You
Actually, cubicles are a good thing.
And super old , welcome to the internet.
I don't know what you call a "very large" app, but I have a fairly complex app relying solely on Knockout with hundreds of observables/computeds being triggered in real-time to update the state of the UI as users drag and drop visual elements and it works like a charm. The UI is never out of sync with the model. I'm using Knockout 3.0, maybe things improved since you wrote your app?
Isn't the answer an index of hedge funds?
(1) Britain's Prime Minister is the elected MP for the Maidenhead constituency in Berkshire.
(2) The Queen is the Head of State but does not control our Democracy - she doesn't even have a vote.
(3) The House of Lords is actually a revising Chamber, but in this last case I am largely in agreement with you with regards to its democratic credentials.

The EU on the other hand has a so-called "Parliament" which cannot propose legislation, cannot amend legislation and cannot repeal legislation. It has neither "Government" nor "Opposition", being essentially a rubber-stamping body for the unelected EU Commission.

You seem to prefer this to the idea of allowing people a democratic choice simply because a minority of those people are voting for parties of whom you do not approve.

However what happens when that unelected group (which is lacking in democratic restraints) starts to act in ways even more harmful than its current actions?

You might not like Democracy, but at least it allows the possibility of correcting its mistakes.
Salaried means an employee is paid a fixed amount per calendar time (per week, month, or year). The word "salaried" doesn't specify the amount, just the structure of pay.

The alternative is "hourly" where the employee is paid per hour worked or "piecework" where the person (typically not an employee) is paid per unit of work (bushel picked, unit assembled, etc)

From the original quote: "These 30-hour employees will be salaried and receive the same benefits" means:

"These employees will be salaried [not hourly]." and

"These employees will receive the same [non-cash] benefits."

Nowhere does it say nor imply "These employees will receive the same salary."
As I pointed out above, I don't think 3 year prison sentences are an answer.

Just saying that the proposed solution of a fine/30 days sentence will likely not decrease the rate of bike theft.
still testing out mattermost, but ios app seems great so far. very similar experience between web/desktop/ios apps.
If you twiddle the generic/brand menu (just to the right of the blue "Prescription settings") at my above link, you'll see that their price is already ~$475.

So my above point is more that the generics provide a lot of information about what it costs to have a product on the market (which the comment I replied to was speculating about). When companies price higher than that, they are presumably doing it in a way that tends to maximize profits and are responsible for the choices they make to do that.
If you liked this essay (which I did), you are probably going to be interested in Audrey Watters's Hack Education blog. [0]

In particular there is a big difference between the kinds of Papert-inspired computatiinal environments that provide microworlds for learning and a lot of what is being produced today (which Watters rightly calls out as a rediscovery of Skinner behaviorism and teaching machines). She has a lot of content and a couple of essay collections.

0: http://hackeducation.com/
vmprof could use a good logo

vmprof is a platform to understand and resolve performance bottlenecks in your code. It includes a lightweight profiler for CPython 2.7, CPython 3 and PyPy and an assembler log visualizer for PyPy.

recent updates
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-tooling-upgrade-j...

docs
https://vmprof.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

github
https://github.com/vmprof
At risk of sounding like a passive-aggressive dickhead, is that what you think mathematics is?

Of course you don't think that, it was just me being a passive-aggressive dickhead, but putting aside me deserving a punch in the face, mathematics is about patterns and flow and repetition and singularities and mappings and transforms and logic and states and abstraction. Every program written is an expression of mathematical thought.

Kludging around with numbers is to mathematics what paint-by-numbers is to art.
I use the Mattermost iOS app daily, and it works well on a good connection.

The iOS app is a feature rich experience similar to web and desktop apps, so when I travel and am on a slow connection it doesn't perform as well.

Here are our current mobile performance benchmarks so you can decide for yourself: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-perf...

There's work underway to get the mobile apps working better on slow connections.
It's not surprising that TF is the slowest in many cases. It has been widely, sometimes harshly, criticized in the past for that reason. On the other hand, despite its speed TF appears to be the only tool that doesn't have to sit out any of the tests due to incompatibilities or lack of features.

Other tools like MXNet deserve a shoutout as well, and it would be interesting to see how a wider group compares. MXNet also integrates seamlessly into R, something of a rarity in deep learning tools (excepting the also excellent h2o package).
> mean it really depends... like in Morocco this never happens, unless you look foreign.

Ah, so, Uber will have a permanent presence to serve tourists. I see how this is. :-)
The fact that it's delivering 140 lines in 5.5kb. That's a lot of bloat! There are ways to write code in ES6 without that (see sibling responses).
Note that he's still scheduled to get the award. It was rescheduled due to flooding.
You can't comment like this here. If you do it again, we will ban you again.
And if you scroll up, you'll see that this wasn't me.

I don't have issues with Haskell-inspired constructs, I have issues with Haskell-inspired behavior.
Previously on Battlehacker Newslactica: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021259
I strongly doubt that a 'systemd like' in FreeBSD would have quite the same issues. I still wouldn't see the point of fancier startup/shutdown dependencies or process supervision because I run FreeBSD on hardware that doesn't change while running with daemons that don't crash; but I imagine it wouldn't include: a DNS resolver, but broken; an ntp client, but broken; a login daemon, but broken; etc. I also would expect the rc.d scripts to be kept, because the service scripts are simple (rc.subr is a bit complex).
How sad that you have to be a libertarian to oppose throwing nonviolent people in prison. This should just be common sense, not libertarianism.
If all you're writing are CRUD apps then maybe you won't need it, but try doing graphics programming without mathematics. Which will be most interesting for children?

I learned basic trigonometry early (with a textbook and some advice from a school mathematics teacher) for the purpose of rotating vector graphics in BASIC to make a Spacewar clone. I expect there are many people who learned about complex numbers because they wanted to draw fractals. And linear algebra can sound boring until you realize how useful transformation matrices are in graphics programming. Programming is a great motivation for learning mathematics because it's so much more fun when you have mathematics skills.
You would think it would be cheaper to pay more or give better benefits.
Yes and no.

This is not scientifically sound without the full data, you are right. But I don't think that is the point. If you had all the data and parsed it.. and it told you that as a solo founder you had a 21% chance to exit, and as a group founder you had a 23% chance to exit.. so should you do a group founding as your next project despite not knowing anyone to found with?

I don't think it works like that. Some people naturally do better solo. Some people already have a group on a hot idea. I think you should go with what is working. What the point of this story is, in my mind, is to say "look - a lot of articles say solo founders are bad. Here is some data that it isn't that bad, and perhaps solo founding is a valid way to run a business"
I remember reading an interview with Romano Prodi, former president of the European Commission, saying that it was well known from the beginning that the currency union alone could not work. The idea was that it would have eventually caused the political union to happen.
>> Why isn't there a Linux distro like this?

Debian stable is that distro in my case.

I agree that you shouldn't have to put up with an annoying bug or missing functionality until the next stable release; that's what the backports[1] system is meant to address. And when you cannot find what you're looking for in the backports repository, making your own is relatively simple[2].

The way I see it, the FreeBSD ethos is perfectly applicable in Linux land. It just requires a little bit of extra discipline on our part.

[1] https://backports.debian.org

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
Well, everyone has different "productivity" needs. I'm productive when everything is customized for, uh, productivity. When my config files aren't overwritten by package managers and the settings aren't replaced at runtime by some-settings-daemon that I never wanted.

You must be that mythical Hacker News commenter who's proud of using default settings everywhere and not customizing anything :D

Anyway, setting up any BSD, or Arch, or even Gentoo doesn't really take "way too much time", come on.
Ask HN: Who's Coming to YC Startup School?
Invitations now seem to have gone out.

Who else is coming? Care to share what you're working on, and what you're hoping to get out of the conference?
Using unfit programs is a hard problem. Remember this thread?

- Ask HN: Suggestions for spacewalk procedure writing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585535

(It is asking for alternatives to Word for EVA planning)
> the Eurosceptics have undermined at every opportunity

The Eurosceptics don't want a political union for good reasons. It would devolve into a soviet style dictatorship. People that different just can't live under the same government. Europe is not USA. The Eurosceptics are the ones that are grounded in reality here, the other camp is trying to push an utopia that already had horrible consequences.
Love the look. And female protagonist is a huge plus - I've two daughters and it amazes me just how much they really want female characters. As a boy I didn't care but perhaps I was unusual.

My first question is how will this teach the use of variables and conditional logic? My daughter has been playing around with programming using Scratch and things like that. But she is stuck with just linear "programs", basically just creating animated stories.

There's other games that seem to have the same mechanics as yours: get the robot from A to B by entering sequential instructions. How do you differentiate? (I mean this as a positive question not a bad criticism.)

I've tried sitting down with her and doing some basics of functions, but it doesn't seem to go over well (she's 10). She _did_ love DragonBox, the algebra-instruction game. Even at 6 she was able to "solve for x" for simple equations. So I think it's possible to sneak stuff in, somehow.
It depends on whether you choose to take a short or long term view.

Part of the purpose of the EU and its instruments, such as the euro, is normalisation of European economies into a single framework, with the ultimate goal of parity, which would not only bring about a more efficient and frictionless market (I.e. Simple cross-border trade for services and products), but also ultimately elevate the standard of living for all citizens.

This is why some states which are less developed are currently net beneficiaries of European funds, and others are net donors. Currently. Wealthier nations beget wealth in their neighbours.

To look at monetary policy in a vacuum is a mistake, as it ignores the substantial eu development funds which Italy and Spain are beneficiaries of.

If you look at things in the short term, then poor Britain is being ripped off, the Spaniards are starving, the Greeks are broke - but if you take a longer term view, you'll take into consideration that all normalisation processes inevitably have over and undershoots, which can result in an imperfect present - but only define the future if you choose to let them do so.
React and Knockout are different because of how they render to the DOM, not because of computeds and observable concepts. KO is glitchy in big apps because it's working with and modifying the actual browser elements. And React is a view renderer without strict requirements on how the data is modeled. It seems like a great fit for benefits from both.
You have this backwards, the incumbent taxi companies are the ones with the unfair advantage enshrined in law (medallions purchased 20 years ago for 1/10 of the price).
Same thing hapened in Economics involving a major figure in Economics.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinha...
Can iphone connect to multiple Bluetooth speakers at the same time?
With the P100D, has Tesla finally banished range anxiety?
> Slack has been... very slow to fix bugs / add new features. They're starting to feel like Microsoft... like they don't move fast, aren't trying to improve anything, and don't care about customer feedback.

we're looking for a self-hosted alternative. tried hipchat, and it was worse than slack in the areas you mentioned. mattermost has been a ray of sunshine, so far, relatively speaking. still testing it out, but they are super responsive to their users and community, between github, their forum, their pre-release server (https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core
), etc... they also seem to be aggressively adding new features and fixing bugs.

I realize I probably sound like a shill, but it just has been that much of a positive experience so far.