skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pretty common for languages to start out with a relatively unoptimized CSV parser (if they have one at all) and then get a faster one contributed by the community once there's enough interest. Ruby had that happen with FasterCSV.

The Java comparison here seems inapt, because it doesn't do as much as the other two. It's just a naive "split on commas" implementation that wouldn't handle quoted cells. Really, if Go's CSV reader is only 200% slower than that and 50% slower than Python's optimized C implementation, that's pretty good already.
For that poor guy living in isolated tribal land in India, the cheapest, easiest, and most direct path to electricity - by far - is solar panels.

Burning coal also contributes heavily to air pollution, which is already terrible in Indian cities.
And air pollution isn't just a minor unpleasantness - it has a real impact on life expectancy.

Europe, America, and China are taking real steps to limit their greenhouse emissions.
It's working, albeit very slowly.
If India and the rest of the developing world don't follow suit, it's going to be a sad story.
HPE Big Data Conference 2016 Videos
So the problem was that those people couldn't get inside the ER by themselves and the nurses and doctors refused to move them?

I ask because I once walked my relative into an ER and they were attended to, no problem.
US$.

Some countries (Iran) want to change to euros. [1]

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/currency-war-escalation-iran-wa...
Despite Musk's positioning on the topic it really feels like a bailout of his other investments. Does anyone have information regarding the time of the shareholder vote on the merger? Given that Musk and co. will abstain, there might be a reasonable chance that it will not go through.
The connection is that these girls and your friend were both denied citizenship over some petty bullshit that doesn't matter, motivated by xenophobia.
HN is to Reddit as Time magazine is to People. They're the same format (and often the same links), but the comments here are generally more knowledgeable and reasoned, free from memes and sophomoric tit-for-tat arguments.

The comments are the content.
The article only addressed the "operational" aspect of math, there is also a "communicational" aspect of math that enables people to express, share and understand complex problems and solutions.

Mathematical communication skills will become more important in the information age with huge amount of quantitative data.
Besides the point that the Java example is not a good one; The JVM is actually a pretty mean piece of software with a lot of optimisation. So while Go could in theory produce faster code then Java I doubt the Go compiler is clever enough to produce faster code then the JVM in a lot scenarios (at the moment).
I've read a story similar to yours on HN where someone explained that they made passive income off a data recovery tool. They also said that it wouldn't work on SSDs, so it was becoming less relevant with time.

Do the forensic techniques you implemented work on SSDs? Also, were you the person who posted that earlier?
Same reason why AirBnB is successful even though there's Craigslist.
There's a difference between a biological cascade leading to the production of distributed signaling molecules, and "feeling" things, as a few comments seem to be missing. A human being with a practically destroyed brain can still moan and move. There needs to be a feedback mechanism to "feel", and a processing center to have some awareness of that "feeling".

There's a long way from complex animal life that we consider to be simple only by comparison with ourselves, and a stand of Eucalyptus.
The biggest problem for Tesla is battery cost. They have to increase the production to drive down the price, so they want to leverage SolarCity to sell more Powerwalls. Tesla can use solar panels for supercharger stations where grid electricity is not available. You can create a new product or solution etc. etc. There is quite a lot of synergy.
The big break has also an important psychological effect that acts basically like compound interest.
I thought it is rather part of the solution/answer to the issue. It is expected to be slower, so it's not necessarily broken. Kind of it's a feature, not a bug.
Fuschia, IIRC, is an RTOS, which I'm not sure makes much sense for a general-purpose multi-tasking mobile OS.
JerryScript: JavaScript Engine for the Internet of Things
This seems like an argument for the destruction of anonymity for anyone who isn't a net-wide lurker, or at least, it's indistinguishable from one. I understand the author's concern, but I don't respect the conclusions.
I don't see how exactly is that solvable, sure it would help but by how much? 3g/4g/5g is pretty nonsense, you can have 3.5g HSDPA/HSUPA providing considerably higher speeds than 4g it's all circumstantial.

Covering a large metropolitan area is hard, tons of people, tons of high buildings and abstraction that make LOS pain in the ass, tons of shadows and reflections due to glass/steel construction and almost impossible to do large infrastructure project because opening a main road in a central city is a huge PITA, add to that all the people that do not want transmitters on their property, in LOS of them, near the school, near the hospital, near the playground and you get a pretty shitty situation.

Sure there are things that some better regulation or incentives might solve but in the grand scheme of things not everything is scalable when you take it from a city of 500,000 to a city of 12M.
News today.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/09/nintendos-dmca-backed-...
(responding to the school of thought you are referencing) "might makes right" school of political realism never made sense for me in a domestic context.

the relationship of the state to the citizen at the citizen's birth is completely one directional: the state provides infrastructure, security, and economic activity while expecting nothing in return until much later in a person's life-- and if the person doesn't ever proffer anything in return to the state, that doesn't guarantee violence against the individual, nor exclusion from services.

if the platonic form of a state were that it has to be a mafia of sorts reliant on the threat of physical force, it'd quickly go extinct for lack of younger replacements. can't have the young replacing the old if they never make it to middle age due to a lack of investment and all.

that being said, the current governments of the west do have plenty of similarities with the various mafias... but in my opinion the issue of runaway government is a failure mode resulting from particular circumstances rather than a problem of government in the abstract.
That's not really so odd, it's the same in Finland, if you compare it to one U.S. state (the closest comparison is perhaps Wisconsin). Cities are fairly dense, they have suburban belts, and there is countryside with sparse population.

But there's at least HSDPA just about everywhere in Finland.
Subreddits that are interesting in some way have a tendency of growing and thereby losing quality. I suppose that the fact that HN is a different site with barriers to access (slight) would limit new users to those who are really interested in the community. Add to that the strict moderation of topics (mainly by user voting) and you get a 'subreddit' that loses quality slower.
No, it is not about us not being able to use he veil effectively; we have different innate preferences and understandings without regard to our present circumstances.
That is what Estonia does. Corporate income tax is 0%. They tax companies, on a flat rate, on the dividends paid out. This encourages reinvestment and growth.
> I have zero moral issue asserting my dominance as the apex predator of this ball of mud to consume any and all prey that my heart desires.

Delightfully put!
Well, it was news to me. Maybe because I only use Python casually.
What is your source on the shell company involvement? Couldn't find anything on that.
initially with SLAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
Can't they charge for things like verified accounts, too big photos, etc.; organise paid talks/forums of very high-profile users and sell gear and pro-grade client software? I don't use Twitter but I guess many organisations, companies and celebs alike wouldn't care to pay for these. They could also start a cheap <handle>@twitter.io mail service.
I'm in the same mindset right now. Really like aspects of Clojurescript and its elegant syntax, but it's complicated machinery (JVM, Google Closure) make me wary. I'm sure they're well done, but because I'm mainly interested in the JS target, I'm open to something like Bucklescript, along with Elm, Purescript.
Well, as far as "harmful" goes, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome, for a start.
Another thing to consider is how much you general abstract thinking and intelligence is expanded by learning math - Qualities that are valued.
I come to Hacker News for the comments. Reddit comments sections usually are filled with jokes and chit-chat rather than further information on the subject. In addition, Hacker News has a better moderating system I feel, in that dang and possibly others are always reading comments and detatching off-topic threads and banning disruptive users.

That doesn't mean Hacker News is perfect, but it's the best I've found so far.
If I have ten minutes in an Uber or something to waste time, I almost always default to Reddit. I can give quick skims to an article and save it if it is something I would like to come back to later. But it's generally a low-attention, something-to-do-to-pass-the-time community for me.
I hardly ever come to HN unless I know I am willing to work my mind a little bit. I have faith the posts and comments that I see will be generally well written, but I also acknowledge that if I want to get anything out of it, I can't breeze through it as easily as I can Reddit.

Note: I am not an active contributor to either community - just someone who reads the articles and comments and votes up the things I like.
This is would be a fun startup. Build standard teleconferencing bots with some specialized appendages and then act as a clearing house and broker for talent to use the bots in a business / retail setting.
This is my off the cuff opinion, I won't really try to substantiate it or anything.

Hacker News has a moderation policy and mod team that gives the discussion some very desirable characteristics:

- a sort of professional level of conversation is maintained. Roughly equivalent to a casual conversation with a co-worker, over lunch, is sort of the overall tone.

- general rejection of memes and shitposting as being against the purpose of the site -- the point is real discussion an exchange of information, not low effort karma generation

- Paul Graham's essay about different levels of disagreement: generally people attempt to discuss the core ideas of the posts and not just hammer away to trivilaties

Most of the programming related subreddits don't have anything like the overall tone, cohesiveness, or moderator activity/discipline of Hacker News. There are some subreddits that I would say are as good as Hacker News for discussions about their chosen topic, for example, http://reddit.com/r/spacex . But the overall programming subreddits are not equal to this.
I can't believe that it's a stupid choice, which makes me think that it's a desperate one.
I've been to the states 3 times in the past 2.5 years and even in pretty remote rural areas I didn't had issues with LTE coverage.

The only times I had no cellphone coverage at all is when I went hiking and it didn't drop from LTE to 2g it just dropped completely above a certain elevation.
Probably just to determine if it was still US Government property.

After Apollo 11, President Nixon presented moon rock samples as gifts to various countries and states. Over 180 of them are now missing, and the FBI investigates people who are allegedly selling them (hint: they're usually fakes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_moon_rocks
Not at all. Hence my feeling the West should be assisting in making this happen - it's as much in our interests too after all.
I would guess that the old-school lead type probably also had some bearing on that. Modern press plates are usually aluminum (or sometimes even polymers).
We're in a political era where people get excited about dismantling any institution. You can have the chair of a science committee bring a snowball in for show and tell, and it's considered a hilarious rebuke to scientists who are trying to explain climate models.

There is way to much partisan political medalling with the Fed. [1] If you're an economist at the Fed you can hardly ever be on the record about anything, or even donate time to nonprofits. Why? There is too much danger that someone will willfully misinterpret a complex statement, and use it to undermine everything the Fed does to keep the economy stable.

It would be great if most of the electorate had taken classes through intermediate macroeconomics. Then they might understand that an economics book they picked up in the nonfiction section of their bookstore almost always has an agenda outside of the mainstream, which doesn't mean that it is wrong necessarily, but that if it gets anything right it is likely a refinement of the past couple hundred years of scholarship or discussing a model that operates in an economy with different preconditions.

Calls to audit the Fed are about sincere an effort to improve its function, as Congress's use of its subpoena powers are about fing the truth rather than an opportunity to grandstand.

[1] As well as the Treasury too, but that's a whole different issue.
I liked twitter, but some products have a "time" and their time passes.
Space X has purchased $225 million in Solar City bonds. Elon Musk has a 21% stake in Solar City (he is also buying $65 million in Solar City bonds, half of their most recent offering).
They are indeed, just as you try to attribute the rise in the GDP to the party that a few years later broke the country without changing its policies.
But Java conceptually has a lot of drawbacks that require the JVM to have screaming performance to compensate for. Almost everything being a "headered" object being probably the worst offender. Even a slightly worse Go compiler is probably well compensated-for by denser data structure layout in the operating memory.
Hacker News has better moderation and content grooming than the big subreddits (r/programming and the like). The smaller topic-specific subreddits tend to be better, but you'd have to subscribe to a lot of them to match the variety of subjects that are covered on HN, and there's frequently more depth than I want on a regular basis. I like to see discussion of interesting new Rust features, for instance, but I don't necessarily want to read about it every day.

In short: HN is a more controlled, limited experience, which is preferable for me because I neither need nor want to spend the time necessary to craft my own out of the raw materials of Reddit.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
Reddit is like a huge shopping mall, lots of shops for all kinds of interests in one place. In such a mall, it doesn't matter if you only ever shop at that one store you like, you will always encounter the quirks of other shoppers at the same mall.

HN is like an upscale department store hidden in a well manicured industrial park. Most visitors, I imagine, are there to enhance their self actualization, not just follow the latest fads in fashion and things to do on a Saturday.

When I first stumbled across HN years ago I was intrigued how vibrant this little-known community was. I noticed that the quality of posts here was much higher than any other tech forum I had seen. People were much more serious when it suited the topic and humor had real effort behind it when humor was called for.

And when I first noticed a silly Reddit-style meme, the Meme Active Defense (MAD) system kicked in and the poster got down-voted to oblivion, told to return to Reddit and that was that.
According to the website, "at least 10% of the total of the original loan amount plus loan fee is due every 90 days, up to 540 days, or until the loan is paid in full, whichever first occurs."
"It's best to think of Linux as a professional utility." I guess it fits into that box. I use OSX as my desktop at home, but I would 100% go with some Linux before going back to Windows at home. I switched to a Windows job after using Linux for 10years--I really miss using Linux. At first I thought it was a familiarity thing and dove all into powershell and the like, but I the solutions for Windows seems awkward, slow, and clunky.

We're probably getting very different "value adds" from Windows vs Linux. I liked Visual Studios' debugger, but I mostly compile other's code (libraries) and write glue-code in things like Python or munge data via the command line. I abhor editors that take 5+ seconds to launch (vi generally loads in much less than 1 second) and using command line tools to compile means I can script and chain things together, or easily run them on a remote computer.

As for desktop use at home, I mostly use Internet, Word processor, spreadsheets, and tinker. OSX and google docs fits most of those use-cases.
People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
>avatar images

Wait what? Reddit doesn't have avatar images
Next in HN: "Amazing! Scientists cure cancer with natural juice!"
I've seen that theory, and it seems to be just that, rather than the consensus. Regardless environmental destruction and overpopulation are now global so either analogy still applies.

As for number of planets anything >1 is a problem, but it seems a reasonable means of helping the public visualise the issue, just as the media use busses or football fields for comparative measure.
Is there anything in this article that speaks to sensation? If there is, I didn't see it.
I don't know if the WSJ still counts as having a paywall with a workaround.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

> Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, the workarounds are a nuisance, but the loss of many substantive articles would be worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.

> Complaints about paywalls are off-topic here.
Very little functional cruft. No visual clutter so it's much easier to consume and less distracting. Mature discourse, which is particularly striking when people don't agree. Quite a wide range of articles in one quick-to-load/render page - a single HTTPS request. No third-party assets, tracking or adverts. It's like a paradise in a sea of effluent.
Owl statues. Decorative, or to scare away other birds and rodents.
The opportunities are transition points, not isolated events. Like moving from 100k/yr salary to 400k or whatever. OP is saying (in my understanding) that the bulk of your outcome will be determined by the magnitude of those transitions.
Pretty much. What the URV system did was get rid of the "inertial" inflation that was left over after they finally managed to get the government accounts in order.
Celsius, not Celsium.
Tesseract can give you nightmares, but unfortunately it's the only solid OCR library out there.
The author addresses exactly this point. (Whether or not you agree with the author is a separate issue, but your comment seems to indicate you didn't reach that part of the post.)
It also seems to support UTF8, which is perhaps common now. (CSV doesnt tell you what encoding it is, in the old days it was 95% ASCII).
If it were I'm the open it would be too obvious how much "management" and curation happens. From artificially boosting some articles to artificially nixing others, there isn't just 'an algorithm' there is a bunch of human intervention that also happens.

HN claims that it is the algorithm 'detecting' and flagging controversial threads but they've never posted their methodology there and it doesn't explain how some posts artificially leap up the rankings.

It is common knowledge that hn ask people to resubmit some stories, why is it those stories always hit the front-page the second time around?

Hn is a curated news source. It's better for being that way but it is presented as being driven by algorithm.

Sometimes it is better not to see the man behind the curtain.
Maybe that's because I'm not a native speaker of English, but I don't get why it is named so. Could you please explain?
There seems to be an element of paying attention only to the immediate product of a management style, and not the longer term implications of it. On the other hand, maybe they're thinking that if they get people young, hungry, and cheap enough, they can wring enough productivity and burn through them without any concern.
Not really an issue in Finland since the standard mobile phone plan comes with unlimited data.
They'd have to sell a heck of a lot of those to justify their valuation.
That is precisely what they did. 1 URV = 1 USD
> The conversion inefficiency is of the order of five times or higher - that is, to produce a unit quantity of meat, at least fives times that amount of plants have to be fed to the animals

This is the part I never understood about veganism, maybe you can help. As a global apex superpredator, wouldn't you rather reap the rewards of the rest of the ecosystem doing that work for you than doing it yourself?

Or do you think there's a way we can produce those 5x plants efficiently enough to feed you without going 2nd hand?

Or is the argument that with modern farming we're already producing those pkants anyway, and the meat step is unnecessary?

Is it more economical to deal with logistics of 5 units of plants or 1 unit of meat?

These are the questions that keep me up at night and I haven't found a satisfactory answer that wasn't mired with propaganda.
How is deep frying and heavy saucing an American thing? The only time I see fish prepared that way is at Chinese resteraunts. Do you mean as English/Scottish fish and chips?
HN has a targeted audience, infinitely more professional, capable of intellectual discussion, it is not filled with trolls and insults or other unrelated nonsensical banter, there is far less clickbait and trash online marketing spam, etc.

Reddit is basically generic internet comments but with a mob mentality, full of trolls and garbage links, the whole thing is reminiscent of a filthy public toilet that you wouldn't want to use. The early days weren't like that and maybe there are subreddits that are still not like that, but I find the whole experience distasteful.