skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some people here are sensitive to bad words and their favorite language being called out. Another possibility about why you're being downvoted is maybe your comments aren't as funny as you think?
This argument is a red herring. We know the current casualty rate and have accepted it. Nobody gets into a car with the illusion that it's 100% safe.
Does 1 ZEC worth >1000$[1] in reality?

[1] - https://forum.z.cash/t/1-zec-1130-00-usd/4177
What about the risk of relying on a 3rd party platform? How to de-risk that?
>> That said how they decided not to offer a 32GB ram offering on a MacBook Pro in 2016 is beyond me.

I'm the first to join you in this critique (I jumped off the Mac bandwagon a year or so ago), but in fairness, macOS does do memory compression where I don't think the other major OSes do. 16GB goes a little further (in theory) on macOS than it does on Windows.
He gets two weeks to provide an enormous amount of detailed information about the product, I assume under threat of legal consequences if any of it contains an error, interspersed with lots of reminders that they can and will close down his business if they feel like it.

He has announced the release of the product, was taking orders for it and said it was going to be shipping by the end of the year [1]

The timeframe here is driven by Hotz who apparently has not had any communication with the relevant regulatory agencies.
Any attorney he hires would tell him "Okay lets push back the release to mid next year while we work with the NHTSA on resolving their concerns" and the NHTSA would probably be perfectly fine with working with him.

"Move fast and break shit" doesn't count when you're putting lives at risk.

lots of reminders that they can and will close down his business if they feel like it - yes and they should.

[1] https://electrek.co/2016/09/14/comma-ai-claims-to-have-packa...
are we sure we want to leave this here?
The Swiss railways is kind of used to non-fiat money already - they already (co-)print and maintain their own alternative: the reka cheques http://www.reka.ch/en/rekamoney/privatepersons/reka-checks/S...

There machines all already accept Swiss cash, euros, reka, and all modern electronic payment forms. Adding bitcoin exchange possibilities doesn't seem like such a stretch (it's a software-only change).
This honest report is a good example of transparency.
And absolutely nothing will come of it just like the first time around.
And stocks tank because of the news . http://m.benzinga.com/article/8618898
Your developers. Stop moaning about lack of this or that key and just remap the existing keys.
I think many in HN make the mistake of mixing UNIX and developers on the same sentence.

I happened to use LC III Macs and was a developer back then.

A few years ago I did some work related to acquiring new customers, which required creating an iOS application.

None of those experiences had anything to do with UNIX, yet I am a developer.

Personally, the only reason I am not found of the new Macbook Pro is the price, as I rather have something like the W510's successor.
Heh, as another commenter said below, "i see the first problem is that you're generating HTML". The nice thing is, that is in no way intrinsic to Eve. The @browser DB is a regular DB like any other that we happen to sync to the client, and the client has a bit of code (which users will be able to extend in the future with other functionality) that takes HTML-shaped records and turns them into actual DOM on the screen.

Since we are targeting programmers first right now, it seemed better to focus on other aspects of the editing experience than to try and re-invent document markup to start with. That said, we're not opposed to exploring that possibility down the road. If you have any thoughts on the subject I'd love to strike up a conversation on the mailing list [1].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eve-talk
Supposedly, Assange has said the next leak will lead to her arrest.
I don't know that I really agree with this criticism. I don't think having the additional context gives you two authorities which you are helpless to reason about. The code will tell you what is happening regardless of what is intended, the comments will tell you what was intended regardless of what is happening. More often than not, having both of these pieces can tell you where inconsistencies in the larger picture have arisen and you can use your own judgement to figure out what it all means and what you might do next. Maybe I'm biased because I'm pretty proficient in the business domains I specialize in, so I can understand, conceptually, what the application is suppose to support and consider the validity of the programmer's intent as well as the code's function.

But I'm not sure why it would be considered beneficial to withhold knowledge of intent in favor of purely what's happening; except maybe to junior/support staff that aren't likely to understand the motivation behind a developer's intent. Perhaps, because of the concern that code gets maintained and related commentary doesn't?
There's a longstanding principle in U.S. Constitutional Law called the nondelegation doctrine[1]. Congress has broad authority to grant administrative and rulemaking authority to executive branch agencies, but it can't just give them blank-check power as a mini-legislature. Instead, it has to provide an "inteligible principle" to guide agency rulemaking.

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Hampton,_Jr.,_%26_Co._v....
That's a very rude thing to say publicly.
I'd rather we kept politics out of HN insofar as they aren't pertaining directly to startups and/or tech.
I wonder what new information came across the FBI's desk.

It seemed like a "decided not to pursue" case, as opposed to a "not guilty" case before.

Does anyone have any insight into recent hacks that could link back to data in those emails?
It's the other way around - you need a proof that they perform comparable to an average driver during expected use, and they do not have absurdly stupid corner cases during actually expected use.
And by the time they get their act together, Clinton will be in the White House. I can't see the House taking up impeachment proceedings any time soon, regardless of the outcome of the FBI investigation.
"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails" - Sounds very happenstance. What are the odds something coincidental happened two weeks before the election?
yep, thats why I automatically liked it.
It's less about whether you want to hire that person. It's which of 100 people you want to hire. You need to have SOME filter prior to wasting 99 hours.
It's high-level language so it's closer to how people think than how machines operate.

EDIT: all program has to do is to
1) get data
2) transform data
3) output data

Anything that allows to express these 3 steps using less idioms is more "human" language IMO
I think you meant http://learnds.com/
> If you can't stop within your length of visibility, you're going too fast, end of discussion.

In the real world pileups typically happen when you suddenly go from full visibility to dense fog (or snow) with no warning.

So maybe instead of blaming people who could not do anything about it, see if there is a way to help them.
Two weeks is not reasonable for the demands made in the letter. That, plus a $21,000/day penalty, is a clear "fuck you".
I think before you jump on this guy for not having enough evidence to support his claims, I think it might make more sense to acknowledge that there are huge holes in our understanding of nutrition. In light of this, Soylent, as well intentioned as they may be, comes across like the folks who used to say that baby formula was all a child needs to be at its healthiest in the 1960s. You have to admit what science backs Soylent as healthy compared to food that is not processed as merely macrobiotic chemicals is notoriously lacking.
If 10,000 people were killed on the way to making driverless cars safe, and this wild west approach ended up getting them into mass market use a few years earlier, it would save the lives of thousands of people overall.

Is this a bad thing? Is it not justified by utilitarianism?
Of course it should be legal for Facebook to shut down. Under what possible sense of human rights would it not be? Let's say that every last employee wanted to quit. Your proposal would require that the government would send the police over to prevent them from leaving and keep them monitoring the servers, etc.
Completely agree. I'd love a laptop that performed as well as the 2012 MBP I lug around, with updated ports, less weight, and more RAM. I don't need a touchscreen function row. I don't want Windows, dropping Linux on an Asus or HP mid- or high-end laptop might suffice but there are enough stories about malfunctioning wifi or sound to ward me away from that.
What is your estimate of the required detail? Mine is 100,000 pages. Is your estimate, I don't know, only 100 pages or so? Look at their definition of the word "describe."

This letter is designed to kill the company. That is a result I support, but, the people saying "This letter is designed to kill the company" are entirely correct.
The real question is whether this is because of the KimDotCom tweet, or whether it's related to something in the Podesta emails or otherwise.
I like the look of this project, and it's in many ways inspiring, but here's my cynical take:

I think that Eve won't be conducive to creating applications beyond a few hundred lines of code -- after that, the "human-friendly" programming paradigm becomes an obstacle to production. Once people actually understand how the code works, the document style becomes superfluous.

I suspect that Eve will be a great learning tool and pique the interest of those who would otherwise never program, but Eve will be an introductory tool that users will inevitably graduate from to other languages that are perhaps more powerful, concise, and scale better.
Thanks for the reminder - I forgot to mention that very important fact!
This is very exciting. The growth from Eve 0 to Eve 0.2 is remarkable - it's clear you have not been afraid of starting over as you've made realizations.
Nah, Apple doesn't have to talk to their users. All the feedback they could possibly want is already out there in blog/podcast/twitter form. Their problem is that strategically they underestimate the importance of influencers and power users. Being the market leader makes a company think they just have to satisfy the masses, and they lose the train that in order to satisfy the masses they need to have the best apps, and to have the best apps they need to have developers, and to have developers they need to satisfy power user needs.

Apple is at a dangerous juncture right now. They're still holding on to people like me simply because of the shittiness of Windows and Linux overall experience, but once I actually make the jump and sort out the little annoyances and get my workflow set, I'll probably never come back to Mac/iOS. The ecosystem is sticky, but it won't attract new developers the way it's going.
Unless the Congress ends up largely being Republican, which it may.
If Uber wrote a new contract, with greater autonomy and less direction for its drivers, it's quite possible that it would be upheld as genuine self-employment; the ruling covers the workers' current arrangements. So that route is feasible if Uber is willing to cede its control. I think that somewhat unlikely.
> This could be a stepping stone to a fully redrawable keyboard. Not saying I want such a thing, but it's interesting.

Something to be approached with caution. There may be an appropriate programming metaphor for the opportunities and risk, somewhere between operator overloading and self-modifying code.
Every major player in the automotive industry is probably further along in development than this product is. They've probably been running cars on the road with similar capabilities for about a year or more now.
25% faster is still a joke. I want 100%!
> I'd like to politely clue you in that...

If you really do want to be polite, then it's better to avoid expressions like "clue you in."
Which is why I said "I'd like to see stats"...
You’ll need $250 in dongles to upgrade to the new MacBook Pro
Well, that's what happens when you're guilty of wrong-think, what did you expect?
And if technology reduces that casualty rate, why does the fact that it's new suddenly make it unacceptable?
Non-developer here. The new MacBook has both an escape key and function keys, as could clearly be seen in the demos and screenshots on Apple.com. So all your tools will still work.

Saying the new MacBook doesn't have an escape key is like saying the iPhone doesn't have an "L" key. It does when you need it to.
This is the punch line. Once you have a definition of OO, which fits all languages usually considered OO, the definition also fits Haskell. :)
Why does the document from the NHTSA look like a court order..formatted like something you would receive when getting sued, etc? Is this standard format to request that questions be answered?

It looks more intimidating and scary than a friendly "hey, we want info about your product".
>The Model S costs more with every new model/improvement

The model S is a luxury vehicle. That's how he had to start and that is what a luxury consumer expects. The people buying those want to spend more. That is an entirely different product.

>Sure you can put the Model 3 here and claim victory but this is like saying that because Apple released the iPhone 5C the iPhone 5S overall price was somehow cheaper.

Does the iPhone get cheaper each model that is released? Nope, more expensive. Does Apple try to reach out to the working class consumer? Nope. What's so innovative about that? Rose gold? Fuck outta here.
no sane programmer would

If this were only true.
>Isn't this just a puff piece for hacker-rank?

Bloomberg (the tech side of the company, not the journalism side that produced this article) uses HackerRank for developer hiring too.
Anyone know what happened to Sergey Aleynikov (Goldman Sachs)? That kind of story doesn't help my (already) poor perception of these financial companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

"Aleynikov was employed for two years, from May 2007 to June 2009, at Goldman at an ultimate salary of $400,000.[4][8] He left to join Teza Technologies, a competing high-frequency trading firm which offered to triple his pay"
Surely the weird thing about removing the escape key is that it is used to bring up the force quit menu (cmd-option-esc). Pretty ingrained in my mind at least, but to be fair not needed that often.
>" To my surprise the webcam turned on and started recording me (I was shirtless)"

Wow that is really invasive! There was no warning that you would be video recorded?

I am curios to what is the rationale behind needing to record potential candidates typing code on video?
Ask HN: Thinking of only using open-source in 2017. What would that mean to you?
Under the heading of "be the change you want to see in the world", I'm playing around with the idea of restricting myself to only using free and open-source software in 2017 and blogging about the experience (I know - it's already been done: http://yearofopensource.net/). As an audio/video engineer and more recently as a front-end developer, I've always been a three operating system guy (Linux for servers, Windows in the living room, and Macs for my daily driver/laptop) but recently have found myself using my Linux desktop more and the other platforms less and less.

From a practical perspective, going purely open-source would mean trading OSX for Linux, Sublime Text for Atom, Chrome for Firefox, Photoshop for Gimp, etc. All of that sounds totally doable, but the more I think about it, the trickier deciding what should count as "closed-source" gets. My iPhone is certainly closed-source, but I'm not sure it's even possible to run AOSP on any of the current batch of Android phones. Replacing my phone with a land line feels like taking too much of a step away from society. Facebook and Twitter are both closed-source platforms I could walk away from easily but again, deciding where to draw the line gets tricky. Avoiding Github and only sharing my code via a self-hosted Gitlab CE instance would seem like obeying the letter of the law but against the spirit of the experiment. Avoiding Google services would probably be the hardest but most interesting transition. (is there anyone offering a truly open-source email service? I know I could self-host, but I imagine I'd run into problems with messages being caught by spam filters.)

So I ask you all: what would going purely open-source mean to you? Where would you be willing to compromise and where would you draw the line? Do you think in 2017 it's even a reasonable thing to attempt?

Thanks! And I'm looking forward to reading your responses.
Reminded me of Wolfram's Mathematica.
http://store-xkcd-com.myshopify.com/products/sudo
I humbly disagree. My kid is going to get something totally straight forward imperative and easy to begin with, something in the realm of «one print "I am the best", two goto one». I strongly believe these are the basic building blocks which make everything else easy to understand, and they give you a good feeling about how the things work at the bare metal.
Because you might have African-American girlfriend?
Most new-ish Android phones (as counted by number of models) are likely already coming with USB-C. Both the Pixels, the Nexus 5X and 6P before them, the LG v20, the Moto Z, all come with USB-C. As far as I'm aware, only Samsung hasn't made the jump yet.
Having worked close to a few highly skilled C/C++ developers (the author of HAProxy, core Firefox developers, people who write highly sensitive crypto code, ...), it is amusing to see them constantly doubt their knowledge of the language they master so well.

A decade and a half ago, one of my professor once told me: "You don't learn to master Linux, you learn to accept that you can't master it." Same point, different context.
That's the price of progress and this dropping support of older technology sooner than everyone else has been part of Apple's MO forever. The day 3rd parties will stop making older parts/accessories is the day they're no longer viable to make. If Apple were to keep a USB A jack for legacy compatibility reasons, 3rd parties will certainly delay moving forward to the new USB-C standard.
Apple Sucks Now, Here’s a ThinkPad Buyer’s Guide
If it wasn't already clear, I don't really give much consideration to opinions of me formed via the internet.

I'm still not sure what you hope to actually accomplish, but I assume that like all trolls, you get a minor emotional boost from people taking you seriously, so you're welcome.
I'm doing that with my old android phones. I've got a home-automation server setup, and the phones are all able to control lights, speaker volume, etc.
would you mind elaborating on your concern?

e: another thread's in flight on the front page.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818459
How is this functionally different from everyone using "mixers" with Bitcoin?
Like nearly every other new human input hardware, this was poorly implemented by the PC-maker and had abysmal supporting software. The problem with the X1 gen2 is the execution, not the concept, and Apple damn well knows that.
>> On the other hand, I am really concerned that he and his team didn't appear to think about working with the government agencies beforehand to sort out any regulatory requirements in order to prevent this kind of situation. Shocked!

Well consider the attitude of SV hackers toward the established auto industry. They think we're a bunch of... I dunno... rust-belt, old-school, last century, bumblefucks who don't understand technology. Given that attitude it probably never occurred to him that there might be people or even regulators taking this stuff way more seriously than him.
She cannot be "convicted" of anything so long as she's in office. She would have to be impeached and removed from office (or resign) before she could actually stand trial for whatever crime may have been committed.
Why Apple’s MacBook Touch Bar was the right thing to do
I've given some thought to switch from being on the backend for SaaS companies to working at a hedge fund or bank. I'm just not sure it would be a good cultural fit and it might be hard to make the adjustment from the tech standpoint.
It sounds like the app running dictates what keys are shown, so as long as your terminal or MacVim or whatever provides an escape key, you should be fine. Although what happens to apps that don't yet actively support the touch bar is an interesting question.
Ha ha. You have be kidding.

It's widely known that Asian American and European American students outscore Latino and African American students. Nobody would contend that.

For you to indicate that there is a very specific issue i.e. 'poverty' that is the 'driving factor' is wildly speculative and outlandish - a fetish of your ideology - and and the 'impetus' is upon you to prove it one way or another.

My presumption of 'ethnicity' is much better because it would include 'average income' as a natural outcome of an ethnic groups situation regarding education, racism, poverty etc..
And FYI - 'average income' would be a function of ethnic attitudes overall.

Nobody would deny that 'income' has some effect on test scores - but my friend - you have to grasp the obvious reality that cultures who don't value 'education' will have significantly lower incomes, and more likely to be in poverty. 'Poverty' is the result of bad education, as much as the cause.

If you've travelled the world then you know how crazy different people are.

Many of those differences will yield different attitudes to school, to homework, to respect for authority, to criminality, to family etc.. All of those things will affect educational and life outcomes.

By the way - here is PISA scoring across national groups (breakdown for USA students):

http://web.archive.org/web/20111211103448im_/http://www.vdar...

Is it 'racist' to say that Sub Saharan Africa is a very, very different place than North Africa / Maghreb? They are like Venus and Mars they are so different. And it's not just 'income' or 'the weather'. They are entirely different cultures.

The world is very diverse. Different values = different behaviours = different outcomes.
Not that I have any opinion on whether you get a MBP or not, but have you tried the Dell XPS line: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-XP...

Obvious it doesn't run OSX. I run Linux on mine and it works great.
I think "looks excellent for children" is a sign that it might be excellent for experts. We want something that can represent a system in the clearest simplest way possible. So simple a child could see how it works and so simple that mistakes are obvious. The question becomes "Will Eve scale to systems that solve real-world problems and not just toy examples for kids?" Will an Eve solution for a real-world problem look simpler and easier to understand than it does now in the languages we're using today? One data point in its favor is how much they've accomplished in so few lines of code if the IDE, the compiler, and a relational database are implemented in 6500 lines of code.

Eve's language runtime includes a parser, a compiler, an incremental fixpointer, database indexes, and a full relational query engine with joins, negation, ordered choices, and aggregates. You might expect such a thing would amount to 10s or maybe 100s of thousands of lines of code, but our entire runtime is currently ~6500 lines of code. That's about 10% the size of React's source folder. :)
Are there any good firms in particular?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818459
> the teacher explained us that the system used for the Shoah minimized the number of bloodthirsty lunatics needed

I wonder about that. In Eastern Europe, they encouraged local angry mobs to kill their fellow Jewish citizens. In the concentration camps, it was an industrial process, requiring many employees to operate, guard, etc.