skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We removed the repl from the tree, as it never really worked, and was a maintenance nightmare. This one is the only one I know of today. Some people ask about one, but nobody has done the work to get a good one together yet. It’s tough!

This is a bummer. I remember when I first tried out rust the repl was still a thing. As someone who writes mostly Haskell and Python, interactivity with a language is a huge plus. I hope that eventually another repl comes around.
Why use js in the backend if you don't have to? It's hard to read, maintain, and debug.
"Within 4 months, a small talented group can build a decent self-driving system from scratch."

What makes you think that? It's a lot more work than that. For starters, self-driving cars still aren't a commercial reality despite decades of research and many many millions of dollars in funding. I've never heard of a team build anything other than a super limited prototype in that time frame - nothing anyone would reasonably call a self-driving car.
Culturally, many contemporary societies in Southern Europe -- including places like Italy's boot, Spain, and Greece -- place a strong emphasis on family and don't subscribe as much to the brand of fiercely self-reliant individualism manifested in America that evolved from the 'protestant work ethic'.
The compatibility issue isn't to blame on web developers increasingly testing only on or making their apps exclusive Chrome?
What is large scale? Does it just mean lines of code? I'm in charge of a Python app that has about 75,000 lines (not including comments, blank lines, imports, generated code or tests), and been doing it for 4 years.

Would I recommend python for something the size I do now? No. I would recommend any other language that has strongly enforces types and compile time checks (like Java). They add an extra layer of safety on unit tests. I have dreams of rewrites that are in C# or Java.

Just today I fixed 2 bugs because of unexpected types being used.
I'm a designer but work for a data science company (LMI specifically). All of our data work is done in D, which I never even knew existed until I started working here.

I can't speak to anything regarding ML, but for whatever it's worth in our segment of the market we have seen a lot of competition emerge in a big way the last few years. Former academic-type firms who specialized in bespoke economy analysis reports are starting to build software around all of the data that is out there since it's never been easier to collect and normalize it. I think it's a stretch to say the market is approaching saturation for us, though.
Why I only work remotely
I've lived at home and I've lived on my own and I'd rather live at home even if the cost was the same. Going home to an empty apartment or roommates that don't care about you is lonely af.
Yes. But oddly enough Bootstrap seems to have held up well none the less. Perhaps not ideal but if you did an average site in BS3 today you wouldn't be a complete fool.

Again, not ideal. But doable and certainly not fatal.
So let me get this straight:

1. It's a given that somehow, somewhere, a nuke is going to get away from humanity. I'm honestly optimistic that it'll just be a reactor problem, and that we -- humanity -- learn every time one happens. (Because engineers are a careful lot.) Then the environmental damage will be less than Fukushima.

2. Solar + A Storage Miracle (that much storage would be a certifiable wonder of the world) is competitive to nuclear on the following axes: risk, cost, and ability to regulate to match demand.

Because I don't think that's true. Happy to be proven wrong, but the problem appears to be political, only. Once a small reactor, or a country hungry enough (China) succeeds with nuclear, US politics will catch up. They always do.

tl;dr: I'm long on nuclear.
It all seemed like really bad publicity though. Everything I saw described Uber as reckless and having subpar technology.
I think part of it is the supposed belief statistics of certain regions. Like, 93% of some region may believe homosexuals should be executed and 70% that women should not be allowed to leave the house without a man, etc. (I'm making those numbers up, but I don't think they're far off from real areas of the world.) This really conflicts with the social norms in other countries.

Some interesting statistics can be found here, though the video is pretty one-sided: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvnFDDQHk (From a real Muslim woman, not just a concern troll.)

Of course this doesn't mean immigrants should not be accepted with humanitarian rights and love like anyone else.
Europe and Russia have low birth rates. Population decline is not generally prevented by reproduction instincts.
That would be extremely difficult to do—you could for non-registered editors, as their IPs are recorded, but registered users' IPs are not publicly logged.

For more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
"Where as today the global economy is stagnating."

The global economy is in good shape.

Western economies are stagnating - but there are 5 billion people who were not even on the economic radar just 50 years ago. They were earning basically 'nothing'.

But now they are earning 'something' and it's growing fast.

There are more than 40 countries with growth over 5% GDP growth in 2015. [1]

There are 5 billion people who need: electricity, clothes, cars, tv, entertainment, sports, medicine etc. etc..

So, no. As prices fall, and globalization expands - all those products and services become accessible to these countries.

And what happens when they get reliable electricity? Governance? Consistent internet access? Their productivity goes up and they can afford to buy more.

Viewed from a 'modern world perspective' - I would be concerned, we are going to have to 'find new jobs' for a lot of people - but from a global perspective, the picture is mostly positive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...
By the time the young adults of today are too old to work, they will have long since inherited their parent's house.
I would bet in 25 years when 10,000 baby boomers are dying every day, housing prices will be in free fall. So many of today's young adults will pay little, if anything, for the house they retire in.
Cutting a check sounds a lot less problematic than warlordism/etc
The advantages of advancing technology and building smaller safer reactors would go a long way to avoiding such disasters. Because things can go wrong is not a reason to stop research into making them better and safer. The real way to keep ahead of this is not to extend the life span of existing reactors but to build aggressively in order to take older ones offline as newer smaller safer reactors are ready.

And keep doing that.
Why Aren't There More Women in Tech? A Tour of Silicon Valley's Leaky Pipeline
Not when engineered properly.

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...

EDIT:

Wide swaths of land aren't off limits to humans for decades when a lithium ion substation burns down.
The Fellowship: Literary Lives of the Inklings (Tolkien,Lewis,Barfield,Williams)
Wham Bang, Teatime
What happened to pebble bed reactors?
"We've got these things you know, batteries."

Batteries are expensive, low-capacity, and absolutely horrendous from an environmental perspective.

"Nuclear lost. Its never coming back."

There are currently 55 new power reactors under construction and scheduled to be in operation by 2020.
China alone has 20 in active construction, with many more planned.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and...
Did you know that your use of that term uniquely fingerprints you? (Google it)
No, nuclear would provide all the base load and it can we ramped up and down some too. Solar is far more limited.
"Nice to read this among all the xenophobic nonsense.

A lot of people have this notion that welcoming (muslim) immigrants is like asking for terrorism, that they take away jobs, that they don't integrate well into society and they are out to convert everyone to Islam or something like that."

I don't care for parts of that comment. There are a lot of people in Canada that need help, and the notion that many people hold that you should help your countrymen before others, while somewhat heartless, absolutely is not "crazy" or necessarily xenophobic.

> the vast majority of internet users get their news from social media platforms, where emotional appeal of a story trumps facts, which is something fake news writers have exploited to great success

Indeed.

By the way, I thought this was a great, heartwarming, inspirational story and would like to see more like it, but saying anyone who disagrees with this approach is necessarily a racist or xenophobe, is incorrect.
React or Vue: Which JavaScript UI Library Should You Be Using?
Garbage from the New York Times, as usual.
Googled Poison Ivy - seems I'm in a different search bubble.
I am intrigued by the mention of MySpace as a gateway to front-end coding. It makes perfect sense! I started on Geocities myself.
Are those open source projects part of a money making operation? Do they have the same kinds of deadlines with consequences of bankruptcy? Or is work voluntary and interest-driven?

Making software that should integrate with a business (either as a product or internal tool) has different communication requirements. Also, developers tend to understand each other better than non developers understand them.
Netstrings (1997)
A majority of the US population feels that following the law is its own reward, regardless of what the law is. In my experience as a foreigner, this attitude is much more prevalent in the US than elsewhere (except maybe for northern Europe). But there is also a significant fraction that would support and even root for those who are intentionally breaking a law that is unnecessary or unjust. This is the sentiment that Uber is trying to appeal to.

In the case of the California DMV, the argument I would make in favor of Uber is that licensing for autonomous-vehicle testing by the DMV is unnecessary red tape. If an autonomous-vehicle company is being reckless and is endangering people, there are already plenty of laws on the books to stop and punish such a company.
Possible Solutions to Fix Your Nook Wi-Fi Dropping Connection Is on Your Way
They're supposed to have active physical control and monitoring. That's the difference, Tesla is not a fully self-driving car.
This looks exciting, and is a realization of my number-one favorite use-case for a VR headset.
Shutting down nuclear reactors as they age out and replacing them with renewables (even expensive renewables) is fine, but shutting down perfectly functioning nuclear reactors with years or decades of lifespan left to build new coal seems indefensible to me.
> Erlang has this sort of huge cognitive overload with it's syntax, making it take longer to learn, for no obvious benefits.

That's just weird. How much of an effort did you even put into it? Erlang may have ugly syntax but it's the simplest syntax of all popular languages and the cognitive load while writing is pretty much the lowest I've come across. The language itself is tiny. Or did yo mean you weren't used to a functional language and that was the cognitive overload?
yeah I've heard all the problems you mentioned but mine somehow came through without any of that stuff.

I used to get this thing where the screen would turn off because apparently the thunderbolt 3 circuits are interfering/being interefered by the wifi. But even this has stopped, maybe through a bios update?

Despite the sort of scary quality stories, when you get a good one, it's really great. The touch screen I was surprised actually comes into play, especially for demoing apps, or in tight quarters like a coach plane seat, where you can't even get to the touchpad.
Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user
How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It to Its Limits
Are they wrong?
Mainland China has 35 nuclear power reactors in operation, 20 under construction, and more about to start construction. Additional reactors are planned, including some of the world's most advanced, to give a doubling of nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020-21, then up to 150 GWe by 2030, and much more by 2050.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...

China’s policy is to ‘go global’ with exporting nuclear technology including heavy components in the supply chain. - implying there will be a world market, and some 'patsy's' are going to be willing to buy.
These audio pages comprise a 3-part radio interview of authors Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski spanning a little over two hours. They talk about the background of these famous authors who formed their own literary/review circle that met once or twice a week:

J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)

C.S. Lewis (the Narnia series, the space trilogy beginning with Out of the Silent Planet, and numerous Christian writings),

Owen Barfield,

and Charles Williams.

Parts 2 and 3 can be found under "Top Posts" to the right of the page, or direct links can be copied from here:

https://audioboom.com/posts/4425071-the-fellowship-the-liter...

https://audioboom.com/posts/4429994-the-fellowship-the-liter...
>the notion that many people hold that you should help your countrymen before others, while somewhat heartless, absolutely is not "crazy" or necessarily xenophobic.

No, it's not crazy or xenophobic. But it's interesting, because from a philosophical standpoint: what difference does it make? Why should you really help someone who lives down the street from you over someone 10 miles away? Why someone 30 miles away over someone 300 miles away? Because circumstance led you to randomly live near them?

Of course, the real answer is that it's hard to take in more people without externalities (like more splitting of funding, etc.). But the notion of helping your countrymen before non-countrymen on principle seems foolish and insular to me. People have feelings and desires whether they're born in the US or Canada or Iraq.
I read "typical worst-case pause time" in go and don't know whether to laugh or cry.

We are seeing massively longer pauses in production and the suggestion is to go to 1.8, which is not ready.

Reminds me of ruby - religious people practicing on production to get the nirvana.

Yes, it's getting better, or at least less bad, but yeesh. We'll just waste resources architecting around long pauses, and rewrite critical stuff in C, for a few more years...
I live in Canada, stories like this one make me happy, but there is a huge difference in how the Canadian Government handled this crisis and how Germany did. I have met a couple of Syrian refugees living in Canada and they were indeed from Syria and their lives were indeed in danger before fleeing their home countries, that is why the results are positive. But in Germany the situation is a complete mess, thousands of economic migrants making it harder for real refugees, many which are a security threat. I have seen both sides of the coin and I don't think someone has to be a xenophobe to be against taking refugees and someone doesn't have to be naive to stand outside holding "refugees welcome" signs
What do you mean by "Planet Japan"?
> The downside of solar is approximately 0 compared to the downside of a reactor accident.

The downside of solar is that it provides no electricity at night. We should be building enough nuclear to provide the nighttime load and enough solar to make up the difference between that and the daytime load.

> The political capital lost in a reactor accident isn't worth it.

The only use for political capital in favor of nuclear reactors is to have more nuclear reactors. It seems like you're arguing we shouldn't have more reactors because a reactor accident could make it politically more difficult to have more reactors.
Apparently the SSL certificate for that site expired a few days ago and nobody renewed it.

Certificate expiration seems like one of the most ridiculous aspects of TLS. Its only use case (apart from generating more money for CAs) seems like "we somehow can't revoke the certificate, but if we wait it'll expire".
Nuclear waste recycling is heavily restricted in the US. It only makes sense to subsidize storage if recycling is restricted.
Massive infrastructure costs, the need for political coordination, and transmission losses [1] make this scenario unlikely.

[1] http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-...
I'm not a maintainer, but if it's a showstopper, then it seems like you should just get a developer to write a patch no? You could probably ask the maintainer whether they can help do this, but if not, just ask for (potentially paid) assistance so that they can help your developer get up to speed on how to fix it.

In the worst case you would just have a separate fork until the patch is accepted upstream, assuming that happens at some point.
Quality contribution to the discussion right here.

Do you mind elaborating what do you think is the problem with the article ?
> Batteries are expensive, low-capacity, and absolutely horrendous from an environmental perspective.

Compared to nuclear? That very few nations recycle or reprocesses? And where all the waste ends up in cooling pools forever? Don't be disingenuous.

> There are currently 55 new power reactors under construction and scheduled to be in operation by 2020. China alone has 20 in active construction, with many more planned.

I wish those generators luck. Even if wind and solar doesn't have the capacity factor, it being under 1 cent/kwh when generating will drive nuclear right of business (which is why Exelon is closing two generators this year in Illinois; the wind, its too damn cheap!)

EDIT:

> No country keeps waste "in cooling pools forever".

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/plan-storing-us-nuclear-waste-...

"But radioactive waste doesn’t disappear if you ignore it. The US has 75,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste—spent reactor fuel and the byproducts of processing it—that now sit in pools or dry casks at nuclear power plants, facilities never intended for long-term storage. The risk of leaks is high. Because the stuff stays radioactive for millennia, the safest course of action is supposed to be entomb ingit in rock like at Yucca Mountain, where it can remain inaccessible to future humans."

"Now, Yucca Mountain plans have dragged on so long that all the high-level radioactive waste in the country exceeds its storage capacity. The Department of Energy hasn’t even built the repository yet, and the country already needs a second."

"Nobody wants radioactive waste to be their problem, and it ends up being, well, everyone’s problem. The federal government has paid $4.5 billion to keep high-level waste at nuclear power plants, and it’s on track to spend another $22.6 billion. At the same time, the plans for Yucca Mountain are all drawn up and and even its initial tunnels have been drilled. “The technical solutions are ready to be implemented when the political will reasserts itself,” says Lanthrum."

Sure sure, let's keep building nuclear reactors instead of renewables and batteries /s
Isn't that the same argument uber is doing?
I've played around with a couple of ways to get into AWS machines, Zerotier seems the easiest hands down
I knew a cat that figured out how to operate a light switch so that they could stare at moths through the glass door that would show up with the balcony light on.
Is there some reason you'd rather write

> I'm an undergrad at a big university known for CS in Canada

than the actual name of the university?

> I'm an undergrad at ${name of university}
Steps to Train a Chatbot and Its Machine Learning Models to Maximize Performance
Unless there are dramatic changes to the EPA, there will never be another coal plant built in the US after the Kemper Plant is turned on in Mississippi next year.

Kemper was supposed to be an example of a modern 'clean coal' plant but is estimated to cost $4 billion over it's original $2.5 billion budget. It's going to cost over $11,000 per KW in CapEx, nearly twice what a nuclear plant costs on a per-KW basis and probably 8x - 10x what solar PV costs.

In addition to the insane amount of CapEx, Mississippi politicians have decided to further subsidize the plant by paying $35/ton for the CO2 that the plant captures instead of the contracted $10/ton that was initially promised.

This will be some of the most expensive, dirty power that's ever been produced.
Ok u win at hacker news I guess gotta be someone
This Tool Maps the Spread of Fake News Online
Each new home owner could demolish an adjacent home and turn it into a vegetable garden. Not so familiar with the Middle East but I know that migrants from Europe and Asia are often very keen home gardeners.
Sorry, I'm confused; what exactly does this service provide? (serious)
Not the state as a generic entity, Republicans specifically, neocons with a very specific ideological privatization agenda practicing good old disaster capitalism by wrecking the state budget then claiming the need to privatize and cut budgets. It's important to point out what actually happened (is happening, will continue to happen), and not gloss over it by pretending it's a generic government problem.
Understanding AngularJS Watchers
The period you describe was marked by revolutions, civil wars and world wars not stabilized until after WWII.

Things did indeed come out well eventually but that better world most definitely did not emerge serenely and rationally. It took the utter annihilation of the pre-WWI world order through decades of enormous violence. Indeed, the egalitarian socialist plan and the response of populist fascist to crush it emerged exactly because of industrialization.

There can be no doubt that displaced workers are not going to smoothly transfer to become professional athletes: a 50 year old unemployed coal miner with no social safety net is not going to peaceable become a wedding planer in a big city even if he could.

Until then, there will be increasing political disruption and radicalization as the advantaged group holds the disadvantaged down believing it's their own fault for not changing careers. And just like last time, the fighting will continue until adequate social safety nets are in place.

It would be better to honestly face the events of the past and not try to convince ourselves that an idealized smooth economic shift is how it's going to work out. But unfortunately we are just at the beginning of this and likely most people in the advantaged group will ideological despise the level of social security that will solve the problem. Indeed, in many quarters, there is a fetishization of and desire to return to that pre-WWI unconstrained economy that caused the nightmares in the 20th century. So, polarization, demagoguery, extremism and eventually violence loom for now I fear.
I said the desire was independent, not non-existent. Did anybody here even read what I wrote?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13230508
Senator Ben Sasse has spoken about automation frequently.

https://twitter.com/SenSasse/status/806889568276336641
I'm not missing the connection, I am saying explicitly that is is unimportant. The only reason it wouldn't be is a lack of suitable birth control access.
Keep this up as long as you can if it does not affect your social life (girlfriend/boyfriend). There is nothing like money in the bank.
In this case I'd hope everyone would agree that having "2016 in South Korean music" effectively being an exhaustive list (of pop releases, anyway) is not a positive thing, at least without significant changes to structure and formatting.
I'm late to the party on this discussion, but did want to say this brings to mind the similar troubles popular authors can have with their readers.

... and which prompted this wonderful essay/rant from Neil Gaiman "Entitlement issues" (aka "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch")

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...