skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd echo a lot of the other things people said here: simplify your product.

Even if you are selling a complex product. There are probably certain components/services that are simple. Try to isolate those simple components and just sell those. Talk to your customers, they are probably buying for just 1 reason not all the features that you offer. Make all the other parts add-on features.

I recently read about the XYZ statement that I think would be helpful in your case. https://medium.com/pitch-like-a-pro/creating-a-pitch-deck-si...
Assuming one believes that only those professionally engaged in a given pursuit should be allowed into that pursuit at all, I suppose one can be OK with it. (Although that model still leaves citizen-units unable to review work contractors do for them - how are they supposed to know if work was done to code if they can't read the code?)

If, however, you believe it is acceptable for home owners to repair their own homes or understand the laws that govern the buildings in which they live or lease to others, then you start leaning towards the notion that those governed by laws should be allowed to read them without private actors extracting a rent.

There is a big difference between transparency of operations (the right to know what your government is up to) and transparency of law. Both are important, but confusing the two doesn't do anyone any good.

I do think a "minimum viable democracy" needs the laws to be publicly reviewable without precondition. There can't be equal protection before the law when the law is only accessible for payment. That only a subset of humans are involved in the trades doesn't change the fact that the laws effect me, even if I'm not building my own house.
I always thought the quickest way was to create a linkedin account.
Thanks for this cool writeup. My undergrad probability professor had us prove the CLT using cumulants, but I never kept the notes and had trouble finding the same proof later in life. Do you know of any reference that goes in depth about cumulants/FT/CLT?
Me, I just wrote my own editor that works exactly the way that I want it to work.

Every Jedi needs to build their own light saber, and come on, it's just 6KLOC or so.
Except in America, where the t-shirt would definitely be censored.
The sugar industry was also the main driver of the African slave trade. When you have strong selection bias against morally principled people joining an industry (as there must have been in, say, 1850) it's hard for an industry to ever recover a moral compass.
I'm using pressure water (with a pinch of moutwash) - really brings out the white out of teeth. also no matter how much I brush and floss, there's always stuff coming out of gums while watering. I don't do it often as it's quite intensive, but hey, it helped me a lot.
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It's frustrating but unfortunately all-too-common to see the number of posts in this thread subtly (or not-so-subtly) questioning the "seriousness" of the speaker. In my opinion, this talk is doing one of the most important things for Rust in particular and our industry in general: demonstrating that badass technology is not exclusively reserved for the Very Serious People of the world, but that enabling technologies and communities with the right attitude, like Rust, can unlock people's potential and give them opportunities that were otherwise unattainable for them.

Nothing makes me more excited about Rust than its enabling potential, and this talk hits on all the most important themes. (In my own small way, I'm trying to help push on this Rust theme by helping the Rust subcommunity of language bridges, to create better on-ramps for programmers in other ecosystems to make use of Rust.)

I think it behooves all of us, particularly those of us who haven't had to deal with being a member of a class of people whose credentials are constantly questioned, to ask ourselves what unconscious biases may be causing us to doubt the validity of a presentation based on signifiers like "too many doodles" or "I happen not to have known <some specific fact>," instead of addressing the actual content.

But again, I just want to say that I am over the moon that this was the closing talk at RustConf. Rust could have no higher calling than to be an instrument of opportunity for new systems programmers.
> Tobacco is an addictive insecticide that won't even get you high.

Nicotine is an addictive substance which suppresses appetite and increases focus; as found in tobacco leaves, it has a pleasant smell and taste.
> the memory is impossible to manage.

Nonsense. There are plenty of strategies for managing memory efficiently in JavaScript. Yes you can't do a C++ level of allocation, decallocation, etc but you most certainly can manage the amount of memory your code uses.
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The original is more readable: http://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/a-review-of-immutability-in-...
I don't care about typos. I do care about discovering that I'm reading political analysis from someone who thinks the pre-big-sort Democratic party is the same one that nominated Clinton and Obama.
Python on iOS?
Use unreal or unity and save yourself the trouble.
These problems aren't that big of a deal.

There are lots of places where it doesn't rain very much.

They could also be running only when the weather forecast says that it will definitely not rain.

If there are problem locations where it is difficult to drive, simply don't run them in those locations!

Also, they could have self driving being opt in for a discount. If there are problems, well you signed HP for it. Don't want to deal with them, then don't take the 90 percent discount!
It is probably something similar to a negative binomial distribution. (Polya distribution)

You play until your VC decides not to fund you or you actually win. This can be done over either money or time.

This only works on startups as a group, for any specific one you would use a more complex method as trials are not independent. Discrete please - type distribution, derived by a Markov chain.
>We will have an IPO next week

Not if Joberate acquires you first.
Not sure how it is better for the article to never include the actual, factual, payment amount. If you have an agenda to minimize the number you only print the original, if you have an agenda to maximize, you only print the inflation adjusted.

It would be better for the article to include both. Because what happens is people start throwing around the 50k number without the "inflation adjusted" like in the parent comment.
Why not

POST /documents/12345/print-jobs

And you say there's not corresponding GET request, but maybe there should be? Perhaps you'd want to list print jobs, get the status of a particular job, and maybe cancel it?
Besides the great documentation, watching "Spacemacs ABC" helped a lot: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJ2YN5y27KLhd3yNs2dR...
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12470703
Didn't those Soviet soldiers have a greater incidence of cancer later in life?
I think the spirit of the argument is that if you have requirements for heavy computation such that you need multithreading + low level memory management, then you probably shouldn't use this. Use the right tool for the job. This is just one of them.

Plus there are alternatives to threads. Look at the state of Atom or VSCode. Much progress has been made in terms of perf and these are not trivial applications.
I mostly agree with you. There are edge cases with microwave towers that can lead to vision loss as your eyes heat up, but don't dump heat very well. Further, modern cellphones don't operate in the same bands as old radio-waves.

However, this stuff is very likely to be safe at cellphone usage levels.
From the pseudo code, what is disadvantage that making get_current_cpu_cache_line_size() always get called?
Testing is trivial, when it's just putting data-collection and simulation software in a car that is still driven by a person.
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I have also been a Vim user for a decent while now. I try to minimize the number of plug-ins that I use, lest I get into the plugin circus.

To migrate to Spacemacs, I just replicated my workflow. Earlier I would use `find . ...` extensively for complex grep. I figured the equivalent in Spacemacs. For file navigation I used the NerdTree. I again looked up the key bindings for file navigation. So on, so forth. I now have a pretty decent spacemacs setup.

I would think, this can also classify as a third method, without having to become proficient in Emacs.
- "test".match(/st$/)
You're being incredibly generous assuming that it is possible to make space tourism affordable for enough people to become a viable product.
PowerShell was recently open-sourced and compiles on Linux.
There's also Qt but they have been moving in the web direction too.
You can include your membership in various technical communities in your CV/resume. People list ACM/IEEE memberships, participation in mentorship programs, etc. No reason not to include online communities (short a desire for privacy, once you give out your handle it's one google search away to everything else you have online).
I'll just say that getting a MS will not change your situation at all. MS is just a couple of years of working experience, and a stamp of validation if you get it from one of the top 5 institutions. Talk to product managers and see if their daily tasks are any more interesting than your daily tasks.

I'd say what you are going through is pretty similar to a lot of software engineers. It also contributes to why a lot of engineers end up starting companies.
"wear" is the word that's doing things wrong here.

Would "geary" and "gary" avoid the same mistake?

> seriously how can you expect

I can also question how you would expect two words that differ by their vowel to sound the same.
PowerShell was both opensourced [1] and released for Linux [2].

[1] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
[2] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/#get-powershell
Satellite/Areal imagery is not the most accurate thing. It might be skewed, misaligned or stitched incorrectly.

In OpenStreetMap areal imagery is a great help, but not the single source of truth. For mappers those images are a good starting point, but there are always other objects near it that can be used as a reference, so that new objects are placed relatively to it.

One single GPS trace is not very meaningful, but if you take several of them into account - optimally from different users with different devices - outliers become more visible and a smoothened path can be derived from it.

OpenStreetMap has a theoretical resolution of a centimeter, but in reality such a precision is not necessary as the devices that are used for consuming maps have a limited accuracy. So if the path is -/+ 5 m, that's fine for us.
It would be interesting to see the evolution of memory usage for the popular platform du jour from the earliest decades until today. My uneducated guess says it will be an exponential.
Horrible idea.

The last thing I want is a bunch of SV SJW's having an official capacity to manipulate people.
I recommend this article from NN Taleb: "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority"

http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
Well I have yet to see Python make a decent cross platform application on all of those platforms especially iOS and Android.

I love Python but people over state its benefits and effectiveness.
I also wouldn't call the most beautiful, although beautiful it is.
Prime time television isn't, though. You may only get only two "shits" a season, but never a nipple. Beheadings, rapes and disembowelings are common, though.
I got my mom a nice Lexmark MFP, so she could print and scan and copy and fax (she still faxes, yes).

After a while, the printer started complaining on the beautiful big touch screen display, and said "Service cartridges" or print head or something along those lines (my mom might have put in non-"genuine" replacement cartridges, I seem to recall, but not sure). Fair enough - we had gotten her a cheap laser for printing anyway by that time, as it's really cheaper and far less trouble.

However, this stupid Lexmark thingy would not allow you to acknowledge that warning and then start up, so mom could at least still scan and fax - no, it would just sit there and complain about the print head or ink or what have you and refuse to do anything!

Needless to say, we tossed it. Still need to get a scanner and fax now :-/
Windows might have its own baggage, but with Windows 8 they have brought the original design of .NET from the ashes and assuming the current path is to maintain, those of us that like Windows will have a nice OO ABI alongside safe languages compiling to native code.

All the mobile OS relevant APIs don't have anything to do with UNIX.

All the Objective-C, Swift, Java, JavaScript, C++ APIs available on those OSes don't depend on being implemented on top of an UNIX kernel.
Fasten your seat belt – turbulence is on the rise
The public's perception and 'common sense' understanding of technology is sadly very limited. So it wouldn't be difficult to 'toy' with it. But I don't think that's the point here.

As long as they are telling people they have to be alert while using autopilot I don't see a problem with it. The 'common sense' assumption then would be that autopilot = assisted driving rather being an autonomous self-driving car. Therefore Google et al shouldn't be using the term autopilot when they mean autonomous self-driving vehicle.

Eventually as this tech becomes wide-spread the distinction will become common knowledge to people.

This is mostly just semantics... context is everything. The important thing is preventing people from dying. Which means looking beyond marketing material to educate people.
It's a common business scenario: start out as a web app, then as business picks up let's start providing native apps.

Or the other way: start out with a native app on the platform we most care about + a web app for "access from anywhere".
I believe they did release the source code, not far from here: http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php?title=Installation_Guide (may be outdated, you may want to ask the FONC mailing list, may not work on your machine… it's a proof of concept anyway, not a hardened engineering artefact).

Their writing is here: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php

Their various reports are there (most recent first):

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010004_steps10.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2009016_steps09.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf
I know many languages but JS is what a lot of new companies need, therefore I have devoted myself to it. On my own time, I like to code in C, because it is a pleasure to use something so fast and close to the metal, and requires such a different style of programming (disciplined paranoia) and allows me maximum control over application resources.
And violent depictions are violent. I wouldn't recommend Kill Bill to a child because the gore isn't real.
How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants
Golang concepts from an OOP point of view
Thanks, we updated the link again.
The salient points of the article:

- People are stuffing websites into Electron and packaging it as a native application

- HTML/CSS/JS is considered 'hackable' because it's widely understood by today's semi-power-user audience

Although the article doesn't say it, this seems to imply that:

- Full-native development unique on each platform is considered too much effort, when you can get a cross-platform app with Electron

- Other platforms are not very 'hackable'; why is this?

Is this purely because JS has a higher mindshare and marketshare than [preferred platform language] on [preferred platform toolkit] on [preferred platform], or do HTML/CSS/JS applications actually tend to hit a sweet spot in terms of separation of presentation, view logic, business logic? Or is it about the view-understand-edit-deploy lifecycle being easier with HTML/JS apps?
Unfortunate that this comment is being downvoted to oblivion; it's a valid conjecture, and not one I've seen. Something similar that gets little or no attention is: humanities influence on species of the planet, from out right genocide and extinctions, to eugenics. There's an extreme formulation of environmentalism one could derive from David Brins Uplift stories; that the most moral thing we can do for the Potential sentient species on the planet that have not arisen yet (or maybe they have) is to get ourselves off of the planet entirely, and let nature takes its course.
Honest question – how do you build cross-platform application UI in python?
Truly beautiful semitic calligraphy can't be captured by a typeface; this is a different sort of aesthetic appeal.
Kubernetes not the hardest way: Kelsey Hightower's tutorial with Terraform+Ansible
How so? They've directly aligned themselves with China and Russia. If that's who they want to align themselves with, that's who they should ask for aid. Until those two stop supporting NKs actions, their actions aren't going to change. It's a lot easier for NK to make demands when they've got two 400lbs older brothers standing behind them at the negotiation table.
This has been one of my favorite things in Opera since they introduced it in the late 2000s. It seemed weird Chrome wasn't better at this. I'm going to have to give this Falcon a try because it looks just like what I would want!
Agree, I hate it when I come to the article for information and it starts with "On Monday, X woke up at 7am and had eggs for breakfast". I don't care what X had for breakfast, I came there to know about the lawsuit he's involved in, so give me the lawsuit and let him east the breakfast in privacy!

> The only question left is how do you fund standards development

I think there's an existing model of both government contracting private companies to do things and government allocating grants for private companies to do research, etc. - so either of those can be used for developing standards too, not? The government can also have a continuous financing of certain groups that are tasked with ongoing work on creating/updating standards.

Also, can be financed by involved industry - many industry players are as interested in having good standards as the government is, and are probably very interested in participating in developing those. Isn't that how IETF works?
Currently it hasn't.

Musk's rockets while landing, haven't been mass re-used yet. So SpaceX hasn't adjusted it's pricing.

Bezos's rockets while landing/re-launching aren't putting cargo in orbit. So they have no KG/$$ to obit prices.

Everyone else is just doing single use disposable still. Likely we could see prices start to fall within maybe 3-5 years once re-usability is proved out and pricing adjusted.
Doesn't anyone else find it a small irony that the website this post is hosted on is so clean, polished, and generally reflective of the very thing he's railing against?

Maybe this should be hosted on a more 'rude' website. Or maybe the way tech looks and feels is partly also dictated by ease of use and not just 'because big brother said so'.
I use a network simulation software inside of lubuntu inside of a VirtualBox inside my Mac. VirtualBox is a stream of headaches, and you suffer a big performance hit. What I wouldn't give for the software to serve an http/css/js interface so that I could run it with docker or natively instead.
As is common, Mr. Munroe put things into context. I sincerely hope this image is shared thoroughly. This "all in perspective" thing might help a lot more than out of context quotes, and to kill the FuD.

However, I might be overly optimistic in light of the human condition.
What cultures, outside Europe, think it's ok to display sexualized body parts?

Even in an advanced/industrialized nation like Japan, typical women don't even show cleavage, because it's considered indecent. Typical TV dramas hardly show kissing scenes.
I don't get it: heart disease causes people to slip on ice?
So EL does some research that UL/ASTM/etc. rely on to develop their standards, and therefore those standards should all be free? By that logic, Google's search algorithms should be made public because it almost certainly relies on some publicly-funded CS research.
I'm not sure why you're experiencing that, but Chrome's bar certainly does let you talk about titles. Just type "Hacker" or "news" and see.

At least, that's what it's supposed to do and is currently doing for me.

I just fired up Firefox, and neither actually seem to index into the content of the page, which is what's so cool about this modification.
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Recipes are not protected by copyright, so your example isn't very helpful.
Performance. get_current_cpu_cache_line_size would need to run some code to determine the cache line size, and that code takes longer to run than using a cached value.

Along similar lines, if you have an optimized routine using specific CPU instructions, you don't want to call CPUID (or equivalent) on every call to find out if you have those instructions; you want to call it once and cache the answer. If it can return different answers on different CPUs in the same system, you need to use a different mechanism instead, such as asking the OS for the least common denominator features of available CPUs, or notifying the OS that you need to run on one of the more capable CPUs that has the feature you need.
Ask HN: Is Java/.NET a better choice for inhouse GUI's instead of web stack?
Considering how hard it is to build complex web apps, is it better to use traditional desktop technologies for in house web apps? Say Java Web start, for example?
For some more concrete reading, try The High Frontier by Gerard O'Neill[1]. He makes the opposite case; arguing that orbital habitats could have a net positive economic return in fairly short order.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Human-Colonies-Apogee/d...
Linux has had PowerShell support for a few weeks now, and if you look in the lib.ps1, you'll see that ClipboardCopy function tries clip.exe (Windows), then pbcopy (MacOS), then finally xclip (Linux).

The module author used good form in dividing things up between the functions (cmdlets) that user should call from the PowerShell commandline and shouldn't change (1Poshword.psm1) and helper functions whose names are subject to change if he ever rewrites something (lib.ps1).
That's a question for the libgcc team.
I seriously doubt it to be slow enough to matter.
I sense a new application for Korean sausages!

https://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/south-korean-iphone-user...
No, a better solution is regulation. A personal solution that can be put into action immediately is switching to an open alternative.
My wife is having kidney issues which she believes is associated with her nearly daily intake of Advil, but I had no idea that fructose was also a major potential factor in kidney disease. She consumes about 24 oz of soda per day, which is about 60% fructose. So it looks like it was a double-whammy, Advil + fructose has destroyed her kidney function.