skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here You go :-)
http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=MergesortBenchmark
No, it means that if sex were their free choice, they would not need to be paid for sex (they could have it as much or as little as they like).

Instead of trying to wordplay this in HN comments, why don't you take a look at https://www.demandabolition.org/resources/evidence-against-l... -- they've done a far better job than I ever could on lining up the different arguments -- and there are many! -- against blithely skipping into legalized or even decriminalized prostitution. If none stick, then certainly nothing I say in this discussion will have any effect.
Thanks for clearing that up! :)
The laser is very weak, it can't even blast through the exoskeleton, it just destroys their wings. (it is a cheap laser like those used in blu-rays...and it needs to use a minimum of energy)

Also, its sensors are smart...it can tell the difference between male and female mosquitos by beats per second of their wings. So that shouldn't be a problem.
I'd say data visualisation, the kind of stuff that for example Mike Brondbjerg or Jared Tarbell do:

https://www.behance.net/mikebrondbjerg

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
And regarding hardware benchmarks this is fun too, seeing on how many platforms this scripting language is running.

(Source: http://www.newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=...)

0.33 ; 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 iMac, 64 bit newLISP 10.3.2 - cormullion\n
0.45 ; 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro, 64 bit newLISP - itistoday\n
0.5 ; 2.2Ghz AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor 64-bit on Linux IPv4 - pjot\n
0.55 ; Windows XP at AMD Phenom II X2 545, 3 GHz - Cyril \n
0.6 ; 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - joe \n
0.63 ; FreeBSD at NFSHOST poss. 2.8 GHZ CPU - lutz\n
0.7 ; FreeBSD at NFSHOST probably the same on a bad day - cormullion
0.71 ; Mac OS X 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 64-bit version of newLISP - cormullion
0.75 ; MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running 32-bit newLISP - hilti
0.8 ; AMD 64 3200+ - newdep
0.89 ; zLinux (for the IBM mainframe) - jopython
0.9 ; Mac OS X 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 32-bit newLISP- cormullion
1.00 ; Mac OS X 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Lutz
1.1 ; Windows Vista 64 at Intel Pentium D 940, 3.2 Ghz. - kazimir
1.36 ; Pentium 4, 2Ghz running Ubuntu 9.04 - robert gorenc
2.24 ; Sun Sparc 1350MHZ processor - jopython
3.25 ; Windows XP at Intel Pentium III, 800 MHz - Cyril
3.40 ; Nokia N900 at 950 MHz - hilti's "numbercruncher"
5.15 ; Nokia N900 at 700 MHz
5.37 ; Raspberry Pi 900 mHz (overclocked with the raspi-config tool) - Hilti
5.44 ; Mac OS X 1GHz PowerPC G4 (eMac) - cormullion
6.72 ; Raspberry Pi 700 mHz 256 MB RAM - Hilti
9.52 ; Sun Sparc Ultra-2 - lutz
13.7 ; Nokia N810 armv61 - newdep
30.64 ; Pentium 90, running DamnSmallLinux - robert gorenc
50.0 ; Intel Pentium 120 - P54CQS - 120MHz - xytroxon
True, the classic shell tools like the pipe can do a lot of this. But there are important differences. Firstly, to use the pipe you need to know in advance which output you want to keep/capture when you run the command. (e.g. by redirecting into a tmp file or using a pipe directly.) In this terminal you can decide afterwards if you want to do something else with previous output.

Another difference is that this works across tabs, sessions and machines, but the classic pipe doesn't.

It makes your interactive shell a lot more interactive. Classic pipes etc still work as expected too, so you are feel to mix and match.
Generally distributors (including the final shop) take upwards of 80% the final price. Unfortunately I don't have time to get you a better link but just to give you an idea: http://westernfarmpress.com/management/food-dollar-going-whe...

I think they are taking the worst case there, and the amount going to distributors is highly variable depending on the the food itself. If you google around, you should be able to find graphs of various products (probably including tomatoes).
Because they struck a deal with governments in the us to stop making money from sex ads....

The short term memory is strong in this thread
What exactly do you mean by aggregations here?

If you want a good timestamp you probably want a timespec, and that won't fit in 64 bits anyway.

I don't see why it's easy to make 128+ bit types be composite, but you can't have 64 bit types be composite.

Your database driver can take care of how the bits are packed on the wire. It really shouldn't be a big concern.
This is how the free market punishes wrongdoings.
Ugh... isn't that what one is supposed to do before making such a claim?
"The $200 million infrastructure makes the seawater greenhouse more expensive to set up than traditional greenhouses, but the cost will pay off long-term"

It's really nice experiment, but I don't see how that's gonna pay off. You need to sell a hell lots of tomatoes to earn $200 million back.
This is just like the anti-car people. "People ought to be restricted to slow and unpleasant methods of transportation because they should not want to leave their immediate vicinities."

There's a grain of truth in both cases - there's no energy efficiency like not needing to move around at all, and there's no memory/CPU/cost efficiency like not having sophisticated functionality in the first place.

But once you are used to the functionality that comes from heavyweight tools, "do without - it's better for you" is frustrating at best and more likely engenders hostility for the person saying it.
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110,000 characters is not every symbol in the Unicode standard, though. According to wikipedia Unicode 9.0 contains around 128,000.
> They say plants are grown in coconut husks instead of soil. Does the coconut husk act merely as a plant holder, or is it the one that provides the nutrients that the plant would otherwise obtain from soil (with/without fertilizer)?

The coconut husk is just an inert medium which has good water retention rate. The nutrients are supplied via water by irrigating the plants frequently or submerging the roots. The whole method of growing plants like this is known as hydroponics[0].

[0] If you are interested in hydroponics, this guy has a lot of amazing videos that explain various aspects of it - https://www.youtube.com/user/Just4Growers .
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I call BS. The progress that was made in the late eighties/early nineties was much more astounding. Going from character screens to fully event driven, windowed graphics mode was a much greater and more impressive change in a shorter time-frame.

the that time you had to learn a lot of new stuff in a short time too.
Just reading this brought back memories of working at LinkedIn, and why I'll never again work for a company who has institutional performance review processes. That pretty much excludes all big tech companies and I'm perfectly fine with that. The cookie-cutter performance review process is impersonal and has absolutely nothing to do with helping people do their best work.

In my case, I had a manager who simply didn't like me because I'm gay and used the performance review process, and eventually put me on an action plan and forced me to quit.

Most of the big tech companies will put you on something called a PIP, which is a "Performance Improvement Plan". It basically means they are preparing to fire you, but they give you an option: quit now, and you can have some severance, or you could try and stay and complete the PIP, but still run the risk of being fired for any reason, and in that case, you get no severance. It's exactly what happened to me, and I decided it wasn't worth the stress to try and stay and fight it so I just quit.

It was the most demoralizing experience ever, and really showed me that these processes are in place so managers can just get rid of people they don't want or like.
Those are US prices. Australian prices are much higher. And as you cannot store fresh tomatoes, importing them is costly so that prices vary a lot.
As said in another comment, they'll sell them at CostCo for A$7 per kilo, which seems to be a competitive price in Australia.
Your comments here are based on emotion, others are approaching this analytically.

This stuff happens; just like murder, rape, arson, etc.

It's irrational to get upset about someone using a common idiom to convey that this isn't a typical instance of child prostitution.
I'm deeply offended by this and personally I will cease to use Yahoo Mail. I urge any self-respecting males to stop using any of Yahoo services as a form of protest for this despicable act of discrimination. And I'm serious; too much is too much.
Quotas aren't necessarily the best ideas, but if 90% of your applicants are men, and men and women have the same pass rates, what you have to work on is resume sourcing. This is especially true in companies that mostly hire referrals: You are mostly hiring people that are like the people you have, so you'll lose diversity on average.

You also have to look at differences in the middle of the pipeline. Imagine you only give a phone screen to 5% of female applicants, but 10% of male applicants. You have to think very hard about why that happens. Maybe your ways of rating resumes have a built in bias.

For instance, imagine that I only interviewed new grads that had at least two internships in large tech companies. A rubric like that looks neutral, but you'll discover that the demographics of CS graduates vs those that have those two internships are very different (far fewer women, and a lot more people that will identify themselves as asian).
The problem is how to accurately classify mosquitoes, leaving out other insects that are required for the ecosystem to work.
I've never built a web application of any description. As a user, what are the improvements that I should be looking for that have been introduced over the past 10 years? It was longer ago than that that AJAX started getting big, and as far as I can tell, that was really the last key innovation for most apps: Being able to asynchronously load data and modify the DOM when it becomes available. I'm aware of other things like video tags, webgl, canvas, and such that allow us to replace Flash for a security win, but that seems replacing a past technology just to get feature parity with what we had a decade ago.

Everything else seems like stuff that makes things better for the developers but not much visible benefit to the user. I can understand where a comment about the web not being much better would come from, on the scale of a decade.

Go back 20 years, and you're talking about a completely different world; frames, forms, webrings, and "Best viewed with IE 4.0". But if '96 to '06 was a series of monumental leaps, '06 to '16 looks like some tentative hops.
Instead of buying AOL and Yahoo, Verizon should have invested in network upgrades.
Yes, that helps.

It might be easier to work around broken SRAM bits than just skipping a whole core.

That way you could always have same pipeline layout and not need to compute it dynamically.
The problem I see is that, while this can be used for good, it can also be weaponized.

Zika for example, has existed for thousands of years if not millions of years. How come just in 2015 there's this massive unprecedented outbreak? Just when Oxitec starts releasing their "good mosquitoes"?

What specifically changed and caused this outbreak?
It's not meaningless. If I give something away under certain conditions, I'm not forcing anybody to adhere to those conditions.

Instead, if they choose to adopt those conditions, they get free stuff from me (and a lot of other people.) In other words, it's an incentive program, not a requirement such as a law or regulation.
Why do they use concentrated solar power? Isn't that much more expensive and risky at current prices?
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I think Matt Levine's take on this is right on:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/wells-far.... Senior management wanted employees to do REAL cross-selling to make money, but the metrics were set so high that employees turned to fake accounts to meet the standard. The fake accounts did not benefit the bank in any substantial way:

So that's about 2.1 million fake deposit and credit-card accounts, of which about 100,000 -- fewer than 5 percent -- brought in any fee income to Wells Fargo. The total fee income was $2.4 million, or about $1.14 per fake account. And that overstates the profitability: Wells Fargo also enrolled people for debit cards and online banking, but the CFPB doesn't bother to count those incidents, or suggest that any of them led to any fees. Which makes sense: You'd expect online banking and debit cards to be free, if you never use them or even know about them. Meanwhile, all this dumb stuff seems to have occupied huge amounts of employee time that could have been spent on more productive activities. If you divide the $2.4 million among the 5,300 employees fired for setting up fake accounts, you get about $450 per employee. Presumably it cost Wells Fargo way more than that just to replace them.

It seems senior management set up a stupid employee incentive program, but were not intentionally involved in the fraud.
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If selling fruit was the shopkeeper's free choice, they would not need to be paid for fruit.

This sentence has structurally the same form. If you think it's ridiculous, it can only be because you think there is something special about sex - i.e. it is sacred in some way. And thus your position actually doesn't relate to free will.

I think you're very confused. Your statements aren't logically consistent and I have to make guesses and leaps of dodgy inference to make any sense of them at all.

I believe you have a prior position on the morality of prostitution and are using arguments you don't understand to defend the position. I think a different tack would be wiser.
Let's apply the Ferrengi Rules of Acquisition or Sun Tzu's Art of War to software licenses!

The Four Freedoms are just someone's opinion, not some tangible fact.
Holmes is a bad CEO? She built a 9 billion dollar company using only smoke and mirrors. That just doesn't happen everyday. Imagine how successful Theranos would be if they actually had a product.
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Good points.

ML originally had Lisp-like macros, not sure about hygiene. Note also that one doesn't always want hygiene in meta-programming, although it is nice to have the option of hygienic macro expansion.

I explicitly restricted the comparison to languages for sequential computing. There has been a lot of novely in concurrent programming.

Arrays and hash tables are data-structures that you can implement as libraries in ML, so I'd say that's not a language issue. Progress in data structures and algorithms has been considerable.
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Hardly a day goes by without someone complaining what an asshole Travis Kalanick is. Please don't forget basic facts while pursuing your SJW agenda.
Maybe they used AI to style the fonts? Train a neural network on a particular style (thickness, density, curvature) and then write out heuristics to generate new fonts based on other fonts, that get classified by a neural net. Let the bots do all the work. Might be an interesting article if the actually did that.
It's also on a major trunk which helps considerably with connectivity, and ping times from there to the east coast of the US are comparable to Chicago.

That cheap power is another reason why Québec is a big manufacturer of aluminum which is an extremely energy intensive process.
Unless a Mars colony is completely self-sustaining it'll be just as wrecked as anything on this planet without the support of Earth. Considering the lack of raw materials available there, that'd be effectively impossible.
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Wells Fargo execs have better lawyers, and they went to the same schools as prosecutors, they dress alike, and there is no significant revolving door arrangement between prosecutors and online prostitution enterprises.
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I second this. Work trips are very different from personal travel, and much less fun than people assume. A well paying job with generous vacation time (real vacation, not "available via email" vacations) is better, in my opinion.
They are staffed 24x7 and have numerous shifts, so keeping three people in a building on that schedule means a staff of at least 12-18.
So if I coerce someone into cleaning my house without their consent that isn't shameful? Seems coercing someone to do anything without their consent is shameful.

If someone only consents to cleaning a house if they're paid enough money to do it that isn't "without their consent" by any definition of the word I'm aware of. It's unclear to me why sex workers should be specially called out and stigmatized.
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Their ordering system isn't the biggest hassle. It's their billing system that's absurd.
There was a nice article in The Economist [1] a few months ago on just about this issue - how it relates to global warming, forest densification, mismanagement, etc.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21701751-stricken-tre...
I know "negative" comments are discouraged for Show HN, but seriously who is using this type of thing? I'm really not sure I understand the point of things like this, besides "make every possible library/unix tool a service". What's next, "sprintf as a service"? Maybe just "println as a service". You make a request, and it returns the same string with "\n" appended.

The MaxMind GeoLite database will give you quite a lot more information than this does, with a single call to the library, and can be delivered as part of your main page response if necessary.

The MaxMind GeoLite database also isn't reliant on CloudFlare to work.
You can use http challenges with kcm as well. Which is what ensures you don't need to inject dns credentials.
> I explicitly restricted the comparison to languages for sequential computing. There has been a lot of novely in concurrent programming.

Oops, yes, my bad!

> Arrays and hash tables are data-structures that you can implement as libraries in ML, so I'd say that's not a language issue.

Yes, but the point is that nowadays we have languages in which it's “convenient” to design entire large applications around nothing but arrays and data structures. Also, that one was snark.

> Progress in data structures and algorithms has been considerable.

In CS, yes. In everyday programming, regress in data structures and algorithms has also been considerable.
The OVH costs are often not a huge premium over self-leased equipment, especially when you factor in power, co-location fees, and other overhead.

There's a sweet spot between 1 server and some number, say into the hundreds, where OVH is still cost effective. Beyond that you'll absolutely want to roll with your own gear because you can negotiate for a whole cage instead of partial racks.
> Why can't I get my computer to perform 1600 times as much concurrent work as back then?

Is that a real question?

> But the amount of work computers do for us hasn't grown proportionally to the amount of computing power.

I don't know about you, but my laptop is much faster than previous machines. Software which used to compile with the Lisp compiler in half an hour, now compiles in a few seconds.
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What's the alternative? I assume that you expect companies to promote/fire based on performance. How can you do that without a performance review process?

My experience has been that the biggest factor is your direct manager. If your manager hates you, then you have a serious problem, because no matter what kind of process (or lack of process) your company has, they can get you fired. On the other hand, a good manager can help you do your best despite any existing "cookie-cutter" process.
How's that going to boost the stock price? If you know the answer maybe you should be working for Verizon.
That's not really about the review process, but about making one of the biggest mistakes you can make: After you know your manager doesn't like you, you didn't do everything in your power to either switch teams or change companies.

Nothing good will come out of working for a manager that doesn't like you. You'll get worse reviews than you deserve and worse raises. You'll get less exposure to other parts of the company: Every second you spend in that situation is a second wasted.

That said, I am absolutely not putting the blame on you here. A manager that doesn't like one of their reports should either get over it or do their best to ship them to a place where they'll be better appreciated. The tech industry is full of terrible managers though, and you are probably not going to make yours better.

So the real rule when looking for new jobs is to avoid places where they hire first and do allocations later, as your picture of what the company is at interview time might be completely different than what you'll find on day one.
I would correct to 'any reasonable definition of being a professional software developer'. There are tons of programming tasks that require coding literacy but do not require even knowing what a linked list is (e.g. simulations written by really smart people pursuing a Physics Ph.D., perl scripts done by wise UNIX-beard sysadmins, etc). That said, I agree this is a reasonable sanity-check test for someone who is asking about a developer job at a software company, and I also agree that it is easy to make mistakes in commenting an off-the-cuff answer to it on an online forum that one wouldn't make in a real interview.

I mean, I've gotten 3rd grade arithmetic wrong in my own HN comments before! ;)
Ah, ok, well I don't have any experience with the accumulated costs at this level of deployment.
From OP:

> Sunshine and seawater. That’s all a new, futuristic-looking greenhouse needs to produce 17,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year in the South Australian desert

> The $200 million infrastructure makes the seawater greenhouse more expensive to set up than traditional greenhouses, but the cost will pay off long-term, says Saumweber. Conventional greenhouses are more expensive to run on an annual basis because of the cost of fossil fuels, he says

From the #1 google result for "cost of a ton of tomatoes" http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=15889:

> Processors agreed to pay growers $83 per ton in 2014, up from $70 per ton last year.

So assuming 100% profit margins (ie the tomatoes grow themselves, no human labor needs to be paid, nothing needs repairing or replacing, tomatoes deliver themselves to processing plants, etc, etc), the 17,000 tonnes produced would yield ~$1.4M annually. That's an awful (0.7%) annual return on $200M. Much less than you could get by investing the $200M in an index fund.

Which is to say there's a 0% chance it will "pay off in the long-term".
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For most people's uses, the AS Number & info for an IP is sufficient.

I suspect perhaps s/he's using an older/outdated GeoIP database/service as the AS Number returned for my IP is wrong.

The LAN address lookup (which doesn't work on Safari) is utilising a security hole in WebRTC.
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