skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone have a sense of what the primary failure is here? Is there some Kalman filter that gets out of whack when an error term can't be calculated, or what?
Billionaires do pay well north of $250k to have actors just show up at their party and do a speech though. And Clinton or Trump are probably better, more audience-relevant speakers for certain audiences.

It's not like organizations with $225k to book a Hillary Clinton speaking engagement struggle for access to the government or like they don't have the willingness and ability to funnel money to her or her campaign in ways which don't involve paying market rate for a speaking engagement.
The only problem, in my opinion, is the lack of explicit types. From what I can see, the compiler provides some safety that doesn't exist in typical scripting languages. But I think we're pretty much at a point where so many of the commonly used scripting language idioms can be effectively described in a type system. TypeScript proves this. But it also proves that's it's still pretty difficult to add types to a programming language ecosystem after the fact, so it feels like that ship has likely sailed for Elixir.
>> Don't write it unless you intend to own it.
> The flip side of that is that if you do want to own it, writing it in-house may well be a better option.

An unspecified question is "What is the cost of ownership?" (which you alluded to in discussing the size of the project.) I've written plenty of code that could have been replaced by a library. I've put out OSS projects that I actively discourage people from using because the function of the library was so straightforward that its just not worth the dependency (even if its my own, completely flawless code ;) ) Moreover, in most of these cases the code churn even over several years is almost zero. That's a metric that should be looked at a lot more often when evaluating dependencies.

To your point, the cost of ownership is completely negligible in most cases, and all developers are doing by including a new dependency is saving a small amount of time up front with a heavy backside cost.
Simple.. throwing a switch, the single bystander has a chance to avoid the trolley,

Pushing someone to their death is murder. Just yell at the other five to move.

Dumb question. Morality doesn't change, only your perception.
She's also going to be selling copies for the next 10 years.
Most of us even joined one by a for-profit. The problem is how to get my friends to move with me anywhere. Locked-in, network-effect, hen and egg problems
It is not new in HTML 5. You could omit a lot and have perfectly valid HTML 4.01 Strict too.
Introducing the easiest way to manage HTML forms
How is a build step that turns your HTML into a smaller amount of HTML with the exact same behavior (by removing optional tags) different from a "minification" step that turns your HTML or JS into a smaller amount of HTML/JS with the exact same behavior?

This is minification, isn't it?
Oh boy correlations, the lifeblood of the conspiracy theoriest
The TTY is opened after you log in. When you are entering password, the characters are collected by the client and are sent after you press enter.
The styleguide mentions "scannability purposes". It doesn't say whether it's machines or humans doing the scanning, but I can definitely see the benefit to the latter.

Code is read many more times than it's written. Removing unnecessary noise makes it easier to read.
Ultrasound haptic porn site in 3..2..1..
I'm not familiar with the details of Norway, but the Nordic countries have so called "everyman's rights" which among other things say that owners of forests can't restrict people from roaming in their (uncultivated) land. Building a fence around your forest would most likely not be allowed.
The purpose of the trolley problem is precisely to explore the limits of a set of rules (in this case, the "rule" that fewer people dying is better than more, vs the "rule" that you shouldn't actively harm a given person).

It's legitimate to argue in response that those limits won't ever be tested in the real world, and if the problem-poser thinks otherwise then it's their responsibility to come up with a question that can't be gamed.

By contrast, once one picks a set of "rigid rules" as you advocate, then the answer is predetermined and not interesting.
There are no private forests in Norway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Norway
“Crimson Flow”
> But who then should curate the curators :)

If I wanted to push my argument further, I'd say the ultimate answer is the same: people who know what they are talking about.

You're right that there is no real objective measure of the quality of art. Which leaves a choice: throw up your hands and say everything and nothing is of value, or do what sounds terrible to most people: trust that a cultural elite is capable of making sound choices about what is valuable and what isn't by virtue of their understanding of the tradition and community standards.

If there is no external and universal value, there can still be an internal value that grows from a culture, education, strong institutions, a living and evolving tradition[0], careful thought, and understanding — the people who have that are a cultural elite.

It's an elitist, subjective, and probably conservative approach riddled with biases and problems, but it's better than the two alternatives: the market decides, or (which appears to be the case in the article) some market researchers decide.

[0]: By tradition I mean: "an argument extended through time in which certain fundamental agreements are defined and redefined in terms of both internal and external debates."

It's Alasdair MacIntyre's definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_MacIntyre
Autobiographies – those which figure highest in my estimation
Chances are she has an app on her phone, pulling data for malicious reason, or simply ads. I have seen cases where the ad was incorrectly implemented and went into some form of loop, pulling 10gb in short amount of time
How do you know the asker's intent?
A bit out of the scope, since it is an embedded database designed to run on mobile devices, but Realm[1] is a NoSQL database (in this case Object Database) with full ACID transactions, and is running on millions of devices.

[1] http://realm.io
Sounds . . . pungent.

I used to take the Amtrak every day from Union Station in DC to Penn Station in Baltimore. Friday evening trains were always full of people who brought dinner onboard. The food smells were awful--there is a reason Amtrak's Cafe Car only sells bland food. Being in a train without air conditioning and the smell of curry permeating the air sounds like my own personal hell.
This was legal for ages. Why do people think this is HTML5 feature?
This http://rimantas.com/bits/minimal_html.html dates back to 2005, but of course it was possible well before that.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I never see atomic libraries that are called like this:

bank_account2.deposit(amount)
bank_account1.deposit(amount)

Isn't this kind of thing always called in some atomic batch operation?

transact.batch([
account[a] = -8,
account[b] = 8
]).submit()
Functional programming in PHP
GitHub vs. Bitbucket vs. Gitlab vs. Coding
Sure its easy to argue if you're not one to need evidence to form opinions, but mere possibilities.
Hey, I resemble that comment!

As someone with extensive experience in both Scala and Mongo, I agree. Mongo is nice for experiments that might go nowhere, but when you give it a real production workload, it falls apart fast.
Considering that the only app I use on my mac from the AppStore is xCode, I'd say it would respond very negatively.
This is and pretty much always was a part of HTML standards.
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78 wolves in Norway and 340 in Sweden? If you as a farmer can't handle one wolf per 28 thousand humans, I feel bad for you, but the lives of those wolves are more important than a slight increase in farming profits. This is not wolf life vs. human life.
Updated to clarify my comment as a reference to browser performance not file size.
What they recommend conforms to standards and should parse identically in all HTML5 parsers.
[()] indicates two-way binding. If you curious you can read more in docs [1], while ngFor is just an attribute directive which changes DOM [2]

[1] - https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/template-syntax.html...
[2] - https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/attribute-directives...
> When considering any startup, you should always ask to meet the founders, investors and any relevant people (employee, external partners, vendors, etc) you would be working with...

Unless you will be working with the founders and investors, you won't and shouldn't meet with them. Find out what working there is like for your potential peers, and whether you'd like working with them. Maybe your job would be working with one of the founders (technical architect say) or maybe the company is still so small that the founding team all fits around a table. In THAT case it makes sense to talk to the founders, because you'll be working with them.
One thing I don't quite understand is omitting protocol. If you don't know the protocol, fine it makes sense to omit it. However if you know a resource can always be loaded via HTTPS (eg from CDN), isn't it safer to force HTTPS?
I never said that?

Don't hijack my argument into something else.

I said it wasn't the government's responsibility to flouridate my drinking water. That isn't what I pay taxes for.
The color scientists who first told me about the McCollough effect adamantly refused to ever try it, saying it could damage your vision forever.

So I was scared to try it, but eventually I did and for me the effect went away after a couple minutes. Maybe I'm lucky, but the warnings & the legend of the effect lasting months make such a good story, I have to wonder if it's a little overstated.

But -- what if the effect is just as easy to unlearn somehow, as it is to learn? It's existence may have a lot to do with gratings being pretty uncommon in nature, leaving a weak spot in the system that is easily trainable and slow to re-adapt just because we don't stare at gratings very often.
You could bring a gas mask. That way other people could enjoy their food without you having to be bothered.
If you count a coffee spill as a "horror story" then you're doing pretty well so far on guests.

I'm just a guest, not a host. No horror stories on my side. All the hosts have been awesome.
It appears in the local press that sheep farmers are mainly the ones pushing for this.
Maybe with plethora of online info, we could implement reasonable fraud detection?

- Detect copy-pasta code
- too inconsistent language style (either code or English)
- prepare interviews questions about github profile (e.g. What made you choose library X for project Y)
How to Use Machine Learning to Further Retail Analytic Capacity
Bring Joy to Your Desktop Backgrounds with Workflow Automation
It seems to overwhelmingly be the case that people make accommodations because it's law.

It's not a bad thing and accomplishes much of what you speak of, but the ADA is pretty clearly the mechanism behind it, not people seeking good feels.
Use Optimize Storage in iOS 10 to Automatically Clear Unplayed Music
wtf is it?
Nice, I wish I could go!

My username is inspired by my favorite rogue-like growing up, JauntTrooper:Mission Thunderbolt. It was released in 1992.

Here it is, if folks are interested in playing it: http://www.old-games.com/download/3974/jaunttrooper-mission-...
Terror Attacks on the Islamic Calendar
The count is indeed a very disputed number precisely because wolves roam across the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Those who suffer damages from wolves often claim that the number of wolves is actually much larger. Conservationists offer smallest numbers.

I don't know if Norway is so huge. Land area is about 300 000 km, for Americans: about three-quarters of Montana.
It's a screenscraping protection, too.

Documents malformed this way cannot be parsed e.g. with PHP's DOM functions without significant headache.
To each their own I suppose. I love the smell of curry permeating the air. Now BO on the other hand....

Anyway, good read.
Schizophrenia doesn't work that way. Prosecution of manslaughter doesn't work that way, often. People getting tied to train tracks doesn't work that way and also victim blaming much? Psychological damage may not work that way.

Arrogance in trusting your senses is a lazy critique...after all, if you were doing your best to act morally in the reality you were perceiving, were you not acting morally? You have to accept your perceptions of reality at some point.

There are a lot of critiques of the Trolley problem that like yours miss the meat of the issue, or fail to recognize that each objection raised in turn is a useful discussion in its own right...the motivation of which is what makes the trolley problem so good!
Go is mainstream? In what universe? These are mainstream languages today: C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and C#. The vast majority of all applications written today are written using one of those languages. Go barely registers inside the Bay Area bubble, and far less outside of it. If a "Python paradox" even is a thing, Go would certainly be a candidate. I think the "Python paradox" is a silly concept, though.
<head> does matter and you have to write your HTML as if it were there, so you can't place <title> after anything that would belong in the <body>.

Think of <HTML>, <head> and <body> as implied rather than missing.
Totally agree with the landscape (SF) and the bookstores (Cambridge).

I love hobyy/game stores as well (we have one in Waltham as well as many in Cambridge).

I hope they do this as on the east coast some time. I'm a long time ADOM and Crawl player. I really only play rogue like computer games. I would post links to my crawl profile but it is rather embarrassing how much time I have spent playing crawl. I'm sad to miss this event.
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The biggest concern is not even that the lectures get taken down. It's that other universities see this and don't put their content up in the future. Many organizations are extremely risk averse when it comes to lawsuits, and our crazy legal system has trained them to be that way.
I've been omitting optional tags for a while.

One thing I've noticed is that bing webmaster tools will report "The title is missing in the head section of the page" when there is a title, but no <head>. Maybe bing can't properly crawl pages without a <head>. Another service I've used had the same problem, but can't remember which.

So it might be worth being careful with omitting <head> - and maybe other tags, I'm reconsidering whether it's a good idea.
Ask HN: Any one ever training a NN on a kinect data to guess depth?
I always like ratings like this that put Singapore near the top of the list. It feels like the raters have never been there. It's a very controlling society (not authoritarian at all, but very controlling).

Personally I wouldn't want to live there any more but I think the government generally has the support of a large majority of the population and it's definitely raised the standard of living dramatically and sustainably.

It's easy to look at its free port tax regime and say "liberal!" But it's economically very illiberal.
Ask HN: What is your favourite Roald Dhall book?
In celebration of Roald Dahl's birth - born in Cardiff ( Wales, UK ) 100 years ago this month.

What is your favourite Roald Dhall book ?
It's classified, but they may have been testing GPS jamming equipment or other rf tech that has that as a side effect.
> If you think the difference between F# and C# is just syntax then you have little understanding of either language.

Little understanding of F# maybe. C# - not after a decade using it! Both languages target the .Net VM - what you can do with one you can achieve, perhaps more clumsily, in the other. My point still stands: the difference between the two ultimately comes down to syntax. And its not like C# is not getting functional (LINQ)

> That mix of technologies suggests that you have a legacy problem

Wrong assumption. Don't assume that everyone write web apps.

We're in network security and need C for high performance DNS server code. PHP is to serve our admin dashboard (not Wordpress!). PHP is fast, and works, and there are programmers for it.

The transition Python to Go is an example of business considerations taking precedence over "fashion". Python was great in the early days when shipping and iterating fast mattered and we had a small customer base. But we always knew we'd outgrow it - Go is a great language: fast, concurrent, parallel and more disciplined. We need all these now that we have large customers and a growing customer base. Business needs drove the move; I am very pragmatic about these things. C++ programmers "get" Go, the transition is fast.

Ironically, I find your comment makes assumptions that are "fashion conscious" - PHP is not some legacy language whose only reason to live is Wordpress. C/C++ is a great language(s) and perfect for certain tasks, but Go is increasingly encroaching on its turf. In future we may rewrite some of the C code in Go - the lack of control over GC/GC pauses/freeing memory is the main obstacle to using Go for certain performance critical tasks.
What are the new options that help improve indexing rate?
If hiring a JavaScript programmer, if he or she had not at least learned the basics of Dart and TypeScript and done a weekend project in it, I would consider them incurious. Considering that all the best developers are very curious people, this would be an effective filter. For c++ programmers, if they hadn't done something in D it would be a red flag.
So you used Kafka for something that should have been handled by a MQTT or ZeroMQ in the first place ?
No doubt we all, including central banks, would be happier if rates were at 5% instead of 0%, but then we'd have much worse mass unemployment as an aftereffect of the financial crisis.

The 0% bound you see today is the lesser of two evils.
These documents aren't malformed they're are perfectly valid HTML5. The problem here isn't the document it's that you don't have a HTML5 parser or that the parser is broken.
Why the iPhone 7 is much more popular than anyone expected
Regarding the "calculate a projectile trajectory in a vacuum" problem, it doesn't make sense to fire a projectile in vacuum.

- We're actually on earth, not on the moon. So there is air resistance.

- And there is wind, but we don't know what it is! The problem is really stochastic.

- Also curvature of the earth.

All your objections are, of course, true. Those are added complications. But then again, if you can't solve the problem of a particle in vacuum, you have no way to solve the much more complicated problems.

The deterministic trolley problem is the simplest possible example that gets to the heart of the problem. That's why we study it - it's easy but it embodies some of the difficulties of the full problem. Once we understand that we'll move on to stochastic version.
I'm really excited about the Web Audio API. I have always been fond of music but never really played an instrument. Recently I made a conscious decision to learn how to make music, including sound synthesis and music theory. The browser still remains my only instrument, but it is a pretty nice instrument. I admin that I wish I had a more rabid feedback and more fluid way of experimenting (something you get with physical instruments). But with the power of javascript and some HTML and CSS I can simply write my own instruments for the task at hand. So far learning music through the Web Audio API has been a pleasant experience.
That doesn't make any sense, App Store has no relation to what Apple distributes as part of macOS.

Apple takes issue with patents-related wording in GPL3 and doesn't want to be subject to GPL3 (while they're OK with GPL2). Hence not distributing GPL3-licensed software.
Apologies, you're right, I've never implemented bank accounting in the real world, I'm only talking about it in the sense of an account balance as a "toy problem", where its often used to discuss the virtues of weak consistency by being able to use overdraft charges.

Whether or not its actually implemented with something like CRDTs in the real world isn't really my point, my point is that its a cherry-picked example of a system that clearly does reorder operations and has weaker-than-usual concerns about witnessing inconsistency.
Jeff Bezos’ space company is a lot like Amazon was in 1994
If someone is interested in the original Facebook post (also viewable without an account):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103109918599991
Xray is currently being implemented in LLVM: it will allow exactly this. The code is instrumented at compile-time by leaving at the beginning of the function just the minimum amount of extra space (nop) so that at runtime a selected list of function can be instrumented arbitrarily. It means that even for a long-lived process, you can turn on/off various instrumentations while still having ~0 cost when instrumentation is off.
ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery) is a favorite of mine. I prefer the original CLI version to the Steam version (especially since the original is free).
Dwarf Fortress is also very satisfying though it does have a higher learning curve.
I always love getting a chance to promote these guys. http://www.getfove.com/

They get it. Eye tracking, foveated rendering, all that.
Why President Obama won’t, and shouldn’t, pardon Snowden
I do not have personal experience with O1 visa, so I'd suggest finding a lawyer or put up another AskHN for it. I'm sure several HN users have went through O1 process before.

That said, I can tell you what I know, but takes it with a lot of salt.

You don't need to be anywhere near Nobel winner level to get an O1 -- which is the impression one might get from reading on USCIS description of O1. However, you still need to be demonstrably good. Since the agency is unable to judge whether anyone of a profession is an expert or not - this is not a slight on them, it's just impossible for an outsider to judge competency of any practioner of any profession - they mostly defer to other external validation you've already got in your field: professional award, news about you or your work by mainstream newspaper (even non-US one, I think news in your own country counts), patents, your alma mater, other well known experts in your field etc. Basically it might be a bit of a popularity contest. To make it concrete, I know an acquaintance who got O1: went through MIT, has a couple of patents, working at a good company, couple of highschool awards, had some articles on him when he was a teenager. I don't know exactly the extent of who was writing recommendations and such for him.

I've also seen a HN user who said they was executive of a startup that exited at reasonable high returns, yet unable to secure O1 visa (some other HN users in that same thread indicates it might be a lawyer issue, I don't know).

Finally, can you make a couple of million bucks? That might be the easiest way to get to the US ...

Also as someone else have said in another thread, if you got an offer from the big company, they'd glad to relocate you to another country where they have an office. Everything I said just applied to the US and I think any other country would be much easier.
If you have an iPhone -- iTunes for music. Since I only use Linux at home now (yes, yes -- I should look at BSD variants, another discussion), I reluctantly got an Android this year. :-(
Or AMD
> I'm wondering if there's some performance gain by the browser not having to parse the implicit optional tags.

The motivation behind this style is not browser parsing perf - it's network perf. The smaller your HTTP response, the fewer packets (and round trips) required to transmit it.