skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. With GDrive you can share a folder with a group of collaborators and anyone can modify or add to the files therein.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the news atomic power units made from nuclear waste that have 1 billion times the Wh of an AA battery.

Never say never!
> It's much easier, logistically, to give a statin to a group of obese people, than it is to help each individual increase their self-esteem, start taking care of themselves, and teaching them the mindset skills they need to to make sustained changes.

Your advice to people sounds like "just stop being fat", but what specifically should they do to take care of themselves and what are those changes? The people prescribing the drugs might not know or might've told them something that doesn't work and lost credibility.
> how most of them are Apples.

No, most of them are fitbit's but they don't fit with his narrative so they don't count.
3. Software Architects don't get to spend all day every day building sandcastles of the mind; sometimes they have to get down in the trenches and write some low-level code. If they won't do it during an interview, they probably won't do it on the job either.
I mean, Europe has been having issues with migrants. It's not unreasonable to avoid a known issue. America has been running quota and limits anyway.
There is no known intervention that can raise IQ.
It seems like now binomial, people are making <$20/hr or >$60/hr. The middle has been sucked out.
> It was bad enough [...] when SourceForge had their "great purge" of inactive projects.

What purge? I'm personally aware of some projects which are still on SourceForge which haven't been touched in >10 years. If there was a purge, it must have been limited to projects with no activity whatsoever.
Bingo. Let "DailyKos" deal with "Social Justice". Let GitHub deal with source code management.
It happens sometimes. Usually it's because of one of two situations:

1) The company was on the fence about wanting you anyway, and negotiating takes you from the "maybe kinda sorta want to work with" to the "don't want to work with" pile.

2) The company is looking for people who don't question authority and don't stick up for their own interests.

Both of these are red flags. It's not really a matter of ethics - they're completely within their rights to withdraw an offer for any reason - but it's a matter of "Would you really want to work there anyway?" For both corporations and individuals, it usually leads to a smoother life if you only surround yourself with people who really value you.
> There's no way you learn the One Practical Language That Matters and can be limited to it.

Most mainstream languages have very similar semantics overall, differing wildly from FP-like approaches. So learning a mainstream-ish (imperative-ish, OO-ish) language will enable mastering other mainstream languages with greater ease.

If my first language is Lisp-1944, I'll likely have a hard time learning C or Java. If, on the other hand, my first language was C, I'll likely have much more and quicker success with Java, Python, C#...
Right, that's a really nice anecdote.

If you want to say stuff like Wherever there is a 'new' Somalian community, the crime (drugs and related) offenses are off the charts with over-representation. In Toronto - a big slice of the 'violent murder' pie is committed by Somalis - and they are near 0% of the actual population. in association with building a database of undesirables, maybe don't be stunned when people ask you to back up your anecdote with some data.

That it might be illegal to gather such data in Canada doesn't change the nature of your anecdote though.
For normal fitness people, I would think an iPhone would be more than enough for your needs. Get an iPhone strap or carry it on your hand. There's really no need to have a watch.

On the other hand, if you are planning for something serious, like running a half-marathon in spring, or doing interval training, then you begin to need heart rate monitoring. Many then discovers that the Apple Watch HRM is cr*p (mine read 215bpm which is at least 25bpm more than my biological max) and you can't really use Apple Watches for fitness. Apple would need to invest massively in heart rate monitoring technology (+battery) to get any interest from fitness crowds.

One are that makes sense for Apple Watch is simple activity tracking. How many steps, how many floors climbed. Where you have been. How much sleep you had etc. Those are important metrics for your health and worth the price. But at the same time, you can get a Fitbit or a Vivoactive for $150 less
Are there any plans to bring predictable pricing (i.e. reserved slots) to the sub $40k/mo user?

I'm trying to bootstrap an idea for a startup dealing with a massive dataset, but the fear of future costs is a major blocker of building around BQ.

The pricing model for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is amazing. You buy a fixed number of slots and can find your own sweet spot of response time/cost, but still has a $1k/mo barrier to entry.
>In early May, speaking before a cheering West Virginia crowd filled with miners wearing hard hats or holding “Trump Digs Coal” signs, the then-Republican nominee pledged: “Get ready because you’re going to be working your asses off.”

Guess not.
> The technique, which requires genetic engineering, cannot be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues by other means.

Still a ways off for human use but definitely interesting research.
Yes, Brasil is very far from Aztecs and Mayans, and very isolated too with the Andes and Amazon.

And there is no evidence that indigineous people around here were só technologic advanced as them.
Thank god, this can't come soon enough.
No shit, sherlock.
Germany: 200MBit for 24 euros/month
> Too obscure?? it is literally the first thing one learn in C++!

And that is really puzzling me. Why do tutorials (from 20 years ago) starts with "cout << hello world;" ???

> Exceptions have been quite well supported by all major compilers on all major platforms for a very long time.

Try throwing exceptions in the kernel or in a driver, see how well it goes, or try in an embedded device. (That is, when it can be done in C++, and not C only).
It is interesting how in some rural areas, the update to infrastructure is happening via co-ops or small local firms. Volcano, CA and surrounding has it's own small telecom. Plumas County has a coop that is both installing fiber as well as buying up old cable resources to deliver broadband that way. Rock Island Internet in the San Juan Islands (WA state) is installing Fiber on Lopez Island. Cruzio in Santa Cruz, CA is doing both point to point wifi and working with the city on installing Fiber. This is just a few examples that I happen to personally know about.
à la carte in what sense?

I feel like data and behaviour is very much tied together in a rust struct. With the right visibility modifiers it can be completely opaque - it's literally a black box you are sending messages to. The methods are attached to the object in my mind.

But I am by no means a rust expert. I'm curious is to why you think the data and behaviour are not tied together.
They made an offer, your friend rejected it and gave another, they rejected that.

That's how negotiations work guy.
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Perhaps the elephant in the story is that with 35 million smartwatches sold, ever, compared to 1.4 billion smartphones sold globally this year, smartwatches simply don't matter.
Yes, it is a big difference, depending on what you're trying to teach. If you want to teach a conventional CS curriculum recognizable from the 80s, Python is great (though some people really prefer teaching with static types, which Python does not have and which are absurdly hard to add now). Here are several other differences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13189513
Pricing as a result of market conditions does not make the pricing arbitrary. The price could be affected by lack of competition, but it could also be because of a number of other economic reasons. Limited competition itself could result from any number of economic reasons (expensive build out costs, restrictive regulatory regimes, etc).

Understanding the various factors involved in building infrastructure, and how they differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, is huge because it plays a huge role in how companies invest, build out, and price. Comparing two different cities' prices, without any more information, is completely useless.
I noted the in first example in the linked into - Python:

def square(n):
return n * n

Pyret:

fun square(n :: Number) -> Number:
n * n
end

there's extra stuff. It also kind of loses the elegance of Python reading close to normal language - if you don't know programing but can do math you'd figure the first was define a function that gives a square but be confused what (n :: Number) -> Number: was about.
They probably charge the restaurant a fee, as Seamless does.
This reads like someone who's fallen in love with his Apple Watch but actually never used a Garmin or a Fitbit and doesn't really get why someone would spend $200 or $400 on a Garmin.

It's like someone who used a DSLR camera all his life and then tries to write why GoPro don't make any sense, without every trying one.

The writing and the graphs are nice though. Now go out of your ivory tower
I'm not sure how to map this response to my question. It sounds like you're saying, "so few people will sign this that it will be easy for any tech company to make up the loss". How many would have to sign for it to be different?
It's not random. It's based on what they can get for it given the likelihood of you and your neighbors going elsewhere. I figure this is pretty rational given the circumstances.
Back then, 1 income could raise a family. The participation was not needed.
There is new technology like g.fast for 100+mbit speeds over a copper pair. Yes it is not as fast as either fiber or co-ax, and it is short sighted, but 100mbit is a huge improvement over legacy DSL speeds.
You do make a good point that while you can live on $12/hr, it's not a wage at which you can save much money.
My son is a lefty and while learning to write he would write several words mirrored and mix them with normal writing. When asked he really couldn't see the difference. It all looked fine to him.
I've started seeing this in the bay area. There are definitely places in SF which are lunch-catering only (via ZeroCater/Zesty) with no retail presence. Also there's a pizza delivery company in the East Bay (pizzamatador.com) which has no phone number, no store front (shopify website only) and will deliver you a par-baked pizza in <20mins. SpoonRocket (R.I.P.) was also delivery via app and their kitchens were in West Berkeley instead of a more expensive location that allowed foot traffic.

I expect you'll see more non-traditional kitchen locations and alternative delivery transport methods (e.g. scooters or Postmates bike couriers) to combat the high rents, congestion and parking issues common to most dense cities.
Nope, but I didn't make that assertion, so you appear to be strawmanning.
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Says you, and many disagree, including Racket's commercial users. But of course it's pointless arguing with a CL fanatic (I learned that two decades ago on c.l.s, and looks like nothing has changed), so please do go ahead and have the last word.
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Unfortunately, cause this is the internet, I cant tell if your joking. If not, source?
The same is happening even in relatively highly populated areas in The Netherlands. The telco's can't be motivated to invest in fiber optics, probably because they can charge more for 4 and 5G networks, with datacaps.
It comes down to how you generate the electricity to run your hardware. Manufacturing processes take a lot of juice and materials.
You can use bangs: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/search_syntax.html. Instead of redirecting you, it changes the engines that are used for the search, so you still get anonymity. Also, you can use smart bookmarks[1][2] to get essentially the same functionality as bangs, but done directly by your web browser when you type keywords in the address bar, which skips a unneeded request to the search engine.

[1]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Bookmarks
This is a great comparison, written I believe by one of the Nix devs.

As far as Gobo is concerned, the outdated parts is that the /System/Links/{Executables,Libraries,...} has been replaced by /System/Index/{bin,lib,...} which makes it easier to build packages (less compatibility issues to deal with, since /usr is a symlink to /System/Index). So it's easier for a user to compile their own stuff and get it working.

And of course, the comment at the end about the project inactivity no longer applies: Gobo is alive and well. :)
I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact.

Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.
Again, it might be concepts developed in OOP languages, but I'm still not using objects. I never said I'm not using OOP, which is a stronger claim. I said I'm not using objects.
This is fantastic, but if you want to go the other way and chase hardware accuracy, the oldschool pc font pack at int10h.org is very cool: int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
Programmers use a variety of editors these days. They often don't want to be locked down to one single IDE. So "let the IDE do it" is not a universally satisfying answer either.
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It's easy to share a folder in Google Drive.
That's some atrocious type setting.
Thank you for providing substantive information about the internal workings at GitHub.
Currently the extension supports login pages for: Facebook, Google, Chase Credit Cards, Linkedin
This is the most accessible introduction to Neural Networks I've found. The interactive bits really help as does the concrete example.
The AP is multinational by design and revenue, Snopes is multinational through revenue, the other three are US centric, all five are US based.

I presume this is a bone thrown to those upset and there is no real intention to solve the fake news issue - if there was there would be real international involvement and incentivisation.
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Well, it wasn't a problem for the GrubHub drivers, so one can assume that at least some of the Amazon ones won't have an issue either.
A significant chunk of all future IT workers, and as olalonde points out[1] some won't because they don't believe its wrong.

How about you answer the question I asked before yours. "I can point to a long history of groups entering politics affecting change, can you do the same with a pledge to quit?"

I find the whole premise of the pledge to be a non-starter in the US. This is why congresspeople fear the NRA but not the EFF.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188039
While this is important, in many fields their are cliques of related researchers (1) on the grants committees and (2) on the journal committees. These people know who works on which problems, so blind review is a farce.

Also, the concept of IF being a proxy for rigorous review and work quality is weak at best. Just read a few pages of
http://retractionwatch.com/
I don't know if understanding LISP is really elitism. I don't think it requires some great intellect to get it. I think the key reason people have the attitude against the syntax is because they learned languages that looked a certain way, and to them - that's programming damn it.

I mean LISP syntax is objectively much more simple. I think if you were to sit programming novices - with no pre-conceived notions - infront of an s-expression language and an ALGOL looking one, you wouldn't find much difference on which is easier to learn.

I genuinely think people have difficulty letting go of stuff when they learn LISP. When I first started I thought all the parens were silly as well, and I thought stuff like sweet-expressions [1] were clearly the way forward and it was only those stuffy old elitist scheme programmers who couldn't see it. But over time I saw that the simplicity and regularity of s-expressions made it worth it.

Clojures awkward smashing together of javascriptish syntax into LISP reminds me of nothing so much as training wheels on a bicycle. Sure I suppose you can call those of us who ride a bicycle with two simple wheels "elitsts" and accuse of rejecting "convenience", but to be honest when I see people defending ugly literals and complicating the syntax of a LISP language, I can't help but suggesting that they learn to ride a damn bike.

[1] http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html
Because you can have free functions that take plain data. So you can have methods or you can have free functions. This is why it's à la carte - you can choose if you use methods or free functions. You can choose if your data has behavior or not.
How long before trucking jobs are all automated?
From the infrastructure-investment perspective, only changing the medium is a big-ticket item (digging up cables, installing new ones, etc.). Swapping out newer transceivers on the ends is a tiny investment.
I don't understand what the US has to do with this pledge. The people signing it don't need legal defense against their employers. Leaving their jobs is the point.
Amazon is well versed in surviving on negative margins.
Smartwatches are today where iPhone was in 2008-9 timeframe.
If and when technology in smartwatches get to a price-point where value/price ratio becomes hard to ignore for the global middle classes (like smartphones hit in about 2009-2010 timeframe), Android watches will flood the market and take it over. If that time ever comes.

What seems much more likely to me is that middle-class wrist space will be claimed more by fitness devices which encroach more and more on the smartwatch territory without all the frills. E.g. Something like Xiomi Miband 2 at ~$40 is hard to resist with a tiny LED display and 20 day (yes.. actual 20 days) battery life. What I want on my wrist is something tiny, cheap, waterproof and hardy I can wear and forget (for weeks on end) as opposed to something bulky, delicate, not quite waterproof (say, in the swimming pool) and requires nightly charging. Who needs that?
I know he is wrong as I have a proof by contradiction, 0-index felt natural to me. So I do not have to speak for anyone but myself to highlight the overreaching nature of the claim.
> Because a discount to them signifies a moral victory, or that they're not being taken advantage of, or they simply want to believe they're great negotiators or something like that. I don't get it, but I have seen it often enough for it not to be unusual.

Then why not raise your price to $99, and let them negotiate you down to... $35?
Have you had success overcoming that? I suspect a rational counter won't win over an irrational objection. But will an irrational plea (eg play to their ego) work?
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(Mostly notable for my purposes because it includes golang as a code generation target.)
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Even if you have separate accounts, you may have to be careful around backup e-mail addresses

> One user reported that an account that hadn’t been used to purchase a Pixel was suspended, apparently because it was listed as a back-up address for an account that had.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/google-su...
You're right, excepting WMD, it is not about the relatively small numbers who die in terrorist attacks.

The problem is that terrorism leads to sectarianism, and sectarianism leads to civil war. Northern Ireland is an excellent example of this paradigm and it has been replicated in Syria.

Many people believe the same threat exists in Europe esp. France.
This does not include storage costs to offset the cyclic nature of solar.
"Cooler" scale ground drones seem like the thing being done for pizza now. See starship.xyz and Domino's DRU for examples that are already entering service. Potentially very effective stuff that can beat the flying and car-sized stuff just by being simpler to engineer and faster to market, with minimal regulatory issue.
Given this:

> I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact.

...all I can say to this:

> Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.

...is quelle surprise.

Were you expecting some other outcome?
Some of these are good ideas (e.g., nice lexical scoping). Pyret has most of these. Pyret also lacks any complicated, advanced, amazing features, for probably the very same reason you made that suggestion.

Some of these lead to endless bikeshedding (e.g., curly syntax) without much of a way to resolve it. Pyret has one position on these, others may have others.

And some of these are just plain invalid in some contexts (e.g., implement it in C). Our target audience is browser-bound: many of the schools we work with cannot install software on their desktop (so no compiler, IDE, etc.). Implementing in C is therefore a non-starter.

Pyret is therefore built atop JavaScript, targeting JavaScript. However, Pyret is built entirely in Pyret, so if we were to build a different back-end codegen, it would be straightforward to port it.
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Nice to see C++ and Go in 4.6 mainline. I've been stuck on ANTLR 3 in order to use C++ and it's great to see the new target finally mainlined. Go is good and I'd like to see a Rust target sometime soon.
Lets hope so!
Right, absolutely. I am by no means claiming rust is an OO language, just that I would consider the structs + traits thing a way of making objects. I suppose I could have been more precise - it's not an object system by itself but it certainly can be very easily used as one. I think for a systems langauge they did a very fine job in designing that part of it.
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Until very recently, $100k was worth more like £60k.
I imagine it would fall under the same category as the police discovering a dead body in your home while performing a legal, unrelated search (you're going to jail).
> Is it just that autoglass installers aren't in sufficient demand for people to train to become autoglass installers?

The article said (in the very first line) "no experience necessary". They still can't get autoglass installers.
You have to understand all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible. So if aging can be reduced or cured we will be able to do it and probably relatively soon.

And this quest is as old as civilization, maybe even older:

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

"He ruled until his death in 210 BC after a futile search for an elixir of immortality"
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He had a hobby of cracking safes. Not as a thief I think.
Pyret is similar to the ML family in many ways.

Some would say Pyret's syntax is an improvement over that of OCaml. (Others might not.)

A critical difference is that Pyret does not force static typing. The type-checker is optional, so beginning students, in particular, do not need to deal with the overhead of type errors and the vagaries of type inference. But Pyret's design, and pedagogy, aim to push students towards an ML style of programming with ML-like types (e.g., the language does not have untagged unions).

In fact, type inference in Pyret is done not from the code but from the tests the programmer has written. This is a very different philosophy of not just inference but program development.