skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is abosolutely being more explicit. It's being more explicit that (expt b 5) is a unit that forms a single argument in the + form.

This is implicit in

a + b ** 5

according to a precedence rule between the and + operator, which is hidden in the parser's implementation and in documentation thereof.

Well, the white-spacing

a + b**5

suggests it. But the suggestions produced by insignificant whitespace can be mere wishful thinking:

int* x, y; // two C pointers? not!

Speaking of whitespace, also have the advantage of there being multiple ways to split the expression into multiple lines, all conforming to a very clear, simple formatting rule:

(+ a
(* 4 (- x y))
(expt b 5))

(+ a
(* 4
(- x y))
(expt b 5))

Fully expanded, every term on separate line:

(+ a
(* 4
(- x
y))
(expt b
5))

In this manner, we can write complex expressions that would be quite unreadable in infix, requiring break-up into intermediate temporaries.

We almost have a circuit diagram now with "gates" for the operations: a three input + gate, etc:

____
/ |- a
| | ____
--| + |-----/ |- 4
| | | * | ____
\____|- | |-----/ |- x
` \____| | - |
| \____|- y
| _____
`--/ |- b
| expt|
\_____|- 5
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In the future, will farming be fully automated?
I meant a figurative bill, as in the socio-economic repercussions of globalizing manufacturing and low-skill service jobs. Why do you think low-income states need so much help? Because any industry they had closed down years ago.
Listing a couple of examples from my life:

* A group of my friends who play badminton together organize weekly events only through Facebook. They use "Going/Not going" as a way of knowing how many people are coming.

* One of my friends organizes film nights occasionally. Again, he does it through Facebook. He sets the date differently each time, so that all people can attend at least sometime. There is no info about this outside Facebook and we do not meet in real life otherwise (he is not my coworker and he lives in a different part of town).

Is what you are suggesting really "cut from your life a portion of your friends that synchronize only through Facebook"? Surely it will not lead to a complete isolation for me, but being an introverted person, it will reduce my social life by a significant margin.
I was pre-internet

I was pre-web.

Nowadays, well millennials just don't seem to have the same feeling. I figure they are in their bubbles happy to have whatever sandbox they are in keep the status quo and everything else

Also, they think it's right and good that they bully, shout-down, and ban whatever they don't like. After all, it's the way of the online forums, and all that stuff is progressive and advanced, right?
First off, congrats on taking the initiative. It's one thing to complain about how much a situation sucks, and another entirely to take it upon yourself to actually do something about it.

You're partially right. The biggest issue medium to long-term would be getting a bank to back you. That doesn't have to be a show stopper from day 1 though (assuming you're willing to assume some personal liability, as you will be in violation of the ToS of any service provider you use).

It all comes down to your risk appetite. Essentially, you could run your own API that would wrap Stripe/Braintree's API and kickstart your business that way. This would require a US entity, but with Stripe's Atlas this is a non-issue.

This is fine if you're processing $10k or even $100k/mo. It gets icky when you try to get past that. As volume grows, there's increasing pressure to make sure that your setup is air-tight, something you can only get by setting up locally (Visa/Mastercard regulations prohibit cross-border processing so it's the only 100% legit way forward).

Herein lies the challenge. Banks in the Middle East (which I presume is where you are targeting) vary greatly in terms of what volume actually deserves their attention. For some that's $10M/mo. For others it might be less. Once you've got $100k, and have a strong upward trend, you can start having these discussions.

In short, you want to start it like you would any other business: by focus on making something people want. The bank issues can be delayed until after you've got a decent customer base. Historically, there's a 95% chance that your company would not survive (startup stats still apply). If you get past that, hit me up and I can provide more specific advice.
That's just not true, many flip-phones ran S60, which had most of the features of a current smartphone: camera, music player, web access (full, not WAP) over 3G and WiFi, running downloadable apps, GPS, etc.

I was running a podcast downloading app and writing Python scripts on my E65 before the iPhone even had the Store.
What are the chances Donald Trump is assassinated?
Clickbait.

Note the word "Gasoline" not fossil fuels burnt inside cars. The age of electrics is not here, nor does this article predict it anytime soon. Gas stations beside the road aren't going anywhere, at least not worldwide.

>> While the agency anticipates a gasoline peak, it still forecasts overall oil demand growing for several decades because of higher consumption of diesel, fuel oil and jet fuel by the shipping, trucking, aviation and petrochemical industries.
Just wondering. What advantages does it have over vim? I tried sublime and at least for JavaScript and Go, the plugins weren't better than what I was already using in Vim. And what about the ability to use it in an SSH session?
Spez edits comments directed at him in a toxic community that has been pretty much the root of the alt-right echo chamber for the last year.

I'm just sad he didn't delete the entire sub.

/r/golang can do what they like, but this is no reason.
Just wondering. What advantages does it have over vim? I tried sublime and at least for JavaScript and Go, the plugins weren't better than what I was already using in Vim. And then like you said the ability to use it in an SSH session.
Paid. Used for a few years but now leaning towards Code. Feel it was definitely worth it.
So why not try and fix the mismatch between the paycheck and the value produced by the worker rather than just abandoning the idea of producing any value at all? Even if someone is paid 10% of what they produce, I'd rather have them doing that for 40 hours a week than doing nothing and collecting a welfare check.
Using someone else's computer (internet cafe) with a different set of usernames/identities while not having your smartphone with you.

Using a laptop running a live Linux CD using public WI FI while leaving your smart phone at home. Using fake log ins online.
The IEA has an absolutely abysmal prediction record when it comes to trying to account for technological disruption and innovation: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/12/9510879/iea-underestimate-rene...
Inside a Fake News Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’
>Almost each and every change was designed to make the election of the President a more democratic process. To simply say that we are a republic and not a democracy misses the point, is untrue, ignores history, and is frankly, a lame excuse as to why we don't have a more democratic system for electing our president.

It does not miss the point, this was the intention despite what may have changed later. Certainly it might be better stated that we were intended to be a republic, but that has been weakened over time. The founders also stated that government would always move towards greater concentrations of power and that the constitution was only a parchment barrier. Assuming that later revisions are improvements would be a logical fallacy without understanding original intent.
Pragmatically it might be the best way forward, but in principle it goes against free market resource optimizations

This is a pretty good argument the absolute value of principle, tbh

For what it's worth, I tend to see principles like map; useful - even indispensable - in many situations, that are nevertheless abstractions and therefor imperfect guides to actual reality. Use maps, yes, but avoid mistaking them - or any system of symbols - for the things they represent (i.e., the map is not the territory).

Indeed, principle is a form of proxy wisdom for the young and inexperienced. It's better than nothing, but probably not enough to save you from at least a few episodes of hard reckoning. Assuming these don't get you killed, the places where principle doesn't serve are the ones where mature judgement develops.

Granted, there's a point where this doesn't serve either, but that's okay too since mortality always wins in the end.
Self driving cars will just increase the amount of cars existing.

People won't suddenly shift their work schedule around, so they'll all need to use cars at the same time, still.

But they'd also use the cars for additional courier services.
Reminds me of Cap'n Proto:

https://capnproto.org
Widely known by who? Source that statement.
Guided tour of UK skies
Right, because they aren't currently commodity items. Wouldn't take much, for example, though, to get haproxy to a state where it starts eating F5 lab's lunch. A nicer ui, etc.

It took Linux and commodity servers a while to kill the $100k+/each proprietary unix server market.
Show HN: My first app using React/TypeScript/Heroku (Christmas Wishlist)
Suggestions for improvements very welcome!
Mostly agreed, but Id argue the problen is much much bigger. when they said ww3 would be fought over idealogy, i dont think anyone considered it wouldn't be nation states fighting, but corporate vs public interests.
As soon as I decided that I would use Sublime Text, I happily paid for a license.

It's a great piece of software, and an investment in my productivity.

Well worth the price.
The rich are even more capable of evading inflation than they are evading taxes. I'm sure Warren Buffet has proportionally less of his money in cash than I do.
I know people are talking again about a distributed (blockchain-based?) forum preventing problems like this, and once that happens it will make "message forgery" like this a lot harder. But a "low-tech" solution in the mean time would be for users to post a public-key under their username/account. Then when they publish a message, they include a private-key encrypted SHA256 hash of the contents of their post and append that to their message (in effect, signing it). Other users' client-side tools (say browser plugins) could pick up the hash, verify the message and indicate the message is authentic. Forging the public key or an already posted message would raise an alert for automated tools, other users and/or the poster. Would reduce the need to log all message contents, just the keys. Of course, does not prevent message deletions but that is under moderation scope anyway. Just a sketch.
could there possibly be an enormous sinkhole beneath or nearby the pilons?
Aside from the valid point and the little drama involved, the more important point is that reddit just lost its safe harbor protection over that issue, which means it will be either closed down soon (too expensive and risky) or heavily censored with only a few subreddits, which means golang sooner or later might need to find another place. So better look now.

https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/801627024431271936
But you miss so much of the sensory stuff - and beauty - if you don't go out at night! To be fair, a few times a year I catch things like Northern lights: Downtown is just charming with the christmas lights up on the trees with snow on the ground. In autumn the air smells like leaves, and the snow leaves a crisp smell to the air and an oddly echoing silence. Sometimes it downright sparkles from the reflection of the streetlights. Ice isn't so wonderful to walk in unless you've good footwear or some sort of cleats to put on your shoes, but it does give a neat shiny coating to everything, which is especially beautiful during sunrise and sunset - and sometimes under the house lights the trees just glisten with ice.

Walking is my main form of transportation, so I do a great deal of it, and appreciate it so long as it isn't too cold. Granted, I used to view it the same way until I moved here.
I have. I even spent a fare amount of time contributing to the clang-format plugin for Sublime, but I stopped using it in favor of vim. Mostly due to the laziness of not wanting to port fzf and YCM... also the the fact the majority of the community moved away to Visual Studio Code/Atom.

I don't regret any of the money I spent since it used to be my favorite code editor before I forced myself to learn vim, which definitely isn't for everyone.
finally someone with a semi-large following is taking a stand against big social.
Because if you continue printing money the inflation doesn't stop growing at some point. This is Econ 101.
Energy generation is not a problem, there is nuclear, sun, wind. Energy storage is. Currently, hydrogen should be a better option for energy storage as it is cheaper than the expensive and explosive lithium-ion batteries. Never mind that lithium-ion loses its capacity on every cycle and requires rare minerals.
Shameless plug, inspired by pledge(2), if you're a Linux rather than BSD person: how to use elementary virus writing techniques to sandbox programs under Linux using seccomp-bpf: https://tia.mat.br/posts/2016/11/08/infect_to_protect.html
The pseudocode is intriguing. I personally have been stumped 2 or 3 times by static code analysis, disagreeing firmly with the machine for few minutes before realizing my mistake, but it is of course possible that there have been bugs in the analysis system of R#, which might explain what you saw.

Adjusting the rules and settings of R# is a daunting task, I agree. However, usually if I have special requirements for a project, I just set Inspection Severity to none for the language features I don't want to use, and that solves the issue for that project.
I've paid for it. On the principle that if I were to put out a good product in the world, I'd like other people to pay for it too.

That being said, I still use it for a quick syntax aware editor, as a glorified buffer/clipboard or to open big files.
No proxying with Telus Vancouver with pfSense running unbound.
In US, many houses have 240v outlets in addition to 110v, for high-energy devices like stoves and dryers and large washing machines.

http://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/30926/what-types-of-e...
Doesn't that depend on what's being sent? Either it's personally identifiable (or at least de-anonalysable) or it's not. Within reason some things are not of any real interest to anyone.

What is the threat model here?
Divide the $70 by the number of hours that you use it, and then think about the value it provides you.

How much per hour?

Still "pretty steep"?

Next question - are you writing software that you hope someone will pay for?
> economics is not a physical science where you can run A/B tests on an economy and find results

The is broadly true of Macro Economics. This might even be impossible as a science, since the object of study (world economy and markets) is aware of its findings, and adapts around them.

Micro Economics, or "Price Theory" as it maybe should be called, is OTOH a very powerful science that gives deep and counter intuitive insights into how the world works.

It is also largely ignore by decision makers :)
No written source to provide, but I know of a 2 person shop that provides merchant services (ISO) processing ~$400MM/month. Not $1B, but is certainly possible I suppose.
Honestly, your going on about it is worse. Sometimes a negative comment just comes out badly. It happens. And even then, taken in good faith, at least it's somewhat constructive. This whole sub-thread of you arguing against people doing exactly that, is off-topic good for nothing ballast. That is a tiring and persistent HN-trope I can really do without.
Paid, the software is worth it to me and I feel better having chipped in to keep the devs happy. Wish more free projects had a buy me button.
Slavery is a great example to work with. It has been made so costly to own slaves that no one in the western world can or wants to do it. In most areas just the social of ramifications of attempting to acquire slaves will cause all your customers to leave and employers to fire you. Then if you somehow do get a few slaves law enforcement or military agencies will try to stop you. Since they generally enforce their monopoly on violence they will probably succeed at stopping you.

Only in the places most removed from these incentives do we see slavery. Look at North Korea, much of the population can be seen as slaves (The subsistence farmers for example). The costs of keeping the slaves can be thought of as the cost of running their propaganda machine, arming their military, controlling the border and the loss in relations with the rest of the world. As long the leaders fail to gain a sense of compassion then the only thing that matters to them is their slaves make more than they cost.
> The four core changes he identifies in his book, the “four primary sources underlying change over the last millennium,” are a) the weather in terms of how it affected food supply, the need for security, the fear of sickness, and the “desire for personal enrichment."

I read a book this summer called "The Bourgeois", written by an early 20th century German sociologist called Sombart, where, among other things, he explains how one of the decisive factors behind people starting to accumulate wealth during the Italian Renaissance (when modern capitalism was actually born) was the simple fact that the head of (business) families from that time started to track down their money inputs and outputs, always trying to make sure that the inputs would be bigger than the outputs.

It sounds quite trivial when you call simple additions and subtractions as the cause of one of the most interesting things to happen to us as a species in the last 1,000 years (the accumulation of wealth, that is), but I for myself think that it makes a lot of sense.
Slim to none ... something happens to Trump and you get Pence. I think that Democrats would even vote against Trump's impeachment. Call it the pence insurance.
What Should Mathematicians Do Now?
Nothing new. Some Canadians have been doing this for over a decade.

http://www.ducketttruffieres.com/

http://terranossa.ca/perigord-black-truffle/

"The Perigord Black Truffle was originally produced in France and Italy in truffle and oak orchards on calcareous soil. Techniques for successful Perigord Black Truffle production have been developed, tested and shown to be successful in New Zealand, Australia and parts of the US. There are now a small number of farmers attempting to do the same in BC, mainly on Vancouver Island, the lower mainland and the Okanogan."
The good scenario against “robo-Capitalism”
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/04/the-good-scenario...
Moyta: Where did you get that $1B per month figure? That seems very very high.

Cheers to the CEO of Shopify answering a question on Hacker News and on Black Friday - that is awesome!
I don't personally and I don't believe there is any mistake in the technically minded crowd.

But that's the reality of the world outside and that world is way bigger than ours. Ignoring it will not make it go away.
No; they're a set of ideas and connotations existing in a historical and cultural context. What distinguishes words from mere sequences of letters is meaning.
The problem with the $70 price tag, is it's expensive enough to make me think twice before buying.

I know Sublime has an "unlimited trial", but that can end arbitrarily, and I'd rather not learn a system that might get yanked out from under me at any time.

In a world filled with good text editors, I find $70 too steep. If it were in the $20-$40 range, it would be easier to justify the expense to myself, as well as be more of an "impulse buy".

Some may call me "cheap" - especially for not wanting to pay for a tool I'll use daily. I just find it hard to swallow the price tag, when alternatives exist.

For now, I'm sticking with Atom.
Rule #1 : Anything that can be economically automated will be.

Corollary: Anything that is automated is not economically sensible for a human to do.

- Freelancing and consulting gigs have huge overhead.

- Uber drivers (for now) own the car but don't make most of the money. And they will be made redundant by self driving cars.

- Medical services have the most overhead and require years of expensive training.

- Making artisanal furniture might feed one or two person per town, but that's no way to feed a family.

- Farming is also getting automated in vertical greenhouses.

If you have health problem, or cannot make something with your hands or your brain _that people are willing to exchange enough money for_, should you be left out to die?
It's not Facebook that's a danger to the web, or the world. In fact, as your recent election results suggest, it's the USA. Americans are so childish, naive and misinformed, you're risking EVERTBODY. The truth is that while ISIS can reach only so many people with their propaganda and terror, but it's just a miniature of the USA. With their use of propaganda to justify violence (for you it's Hollywood) fanatical merciless ideology (for you it's capitalism), religious hipocracy (evangelism), megalomanic sense of "greatness" (make America ...), contempt to women (reproductive rights), slavery (mass incarceration) ... to mention but few parallels. We are afraid of America. Facebook and Drumpf are just the symptoms.
Rather, I'd say that might makes. It doesn't make right, it just makes. Might makes right is just another version of a naturalistic fallacy, if i understand correctly. Therefore, people can still be held accountable for these things. Getting away with it doesn't make it right.
> they don't need an expensive battery swap every 5 years.

You need to stop thinking about electric vehicle batteries like those in your phone or laptop.

EV batteries have a lot more (and better) management, keep things within (or closer to) optimal temperature and state of charge which all have major impacts on battery life.

Tesla has a battery pack with over 500,000 miles of simulated usage that's still got more than 80% of it's capacity. Surveys of Model S owners has shown that degredation is not an issue. [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2016/06/06/tesla-model-s-battery-pack-da...
I love you. :)

Seriously, though, your econ mind is on the same track as mine. "Economics" is a pretty broad brush, and it's difficult engaging in meaningful discussion.

You make a great point: The "economic system" is conscious and reacts/adapts to internal and external changes, which changes the rules, and the meta rules, and the meta meta meta....
Printing money out of thin air also robs the productive part of the society out of their assets. A higher inflation without an actual increase in productivity (and thus investment returns) will reduce the value of everyone's assets. This sort of "Robin Hood" schemes have been executed by some populist governments, but I don't know of any which worked out well.

The only fundamental difference is taxing income to pay for welfare vs. taxing wealth.
Smartphones still don't run as long as 2006 dumb phones. People just noticed that was a rarely used feature.
If I do shit work, I want people to talk me down for it. And I don't think I'm alone in that, either.
Just as you don't like being talked down to, I don't like it when people don't put me in my place for the sake of my feelings.
We've rolled out an initial version of the "expire now" functionality. Click the [X] in the top right of any free server's box in the dashboard and you'll be taken to a confirmation page letting you expire the server's remaining time immediately