skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple already kind of does - their new "Mothership" in Cupertino is grand in scale and has a huge curtain wall that goes all the way around the building.

I don't know if it's intentional, but in my mind Apple is also "that organization with the eerily clean white interior" in real life. They are also unsurprisingly very secretive in their organization; I've heard their engineers have little idea what other other teams are doing, but it's a rumour http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsceticAesthetic
Please keep political rants off HN, and especially religious flamewars. This is the kind of thing we don't want here. It's pure poison for thoughtful and substantive discussion, which is what we do want.

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My wife is Chinese and has intentionally bought replicas (knowingly ahead of time and even choosing the quality level) online before for shoes and jackets. If she sees a nice Chloe jacket for thousands and wants something that looks like it, she knows she can go buy a replica and wear something that looks just like it.

There's some clueless people on the internet who get knowingly defrauded, but a lot of this is just preventing the sale even from two parties who know all the details. E.g. like preventing someone from selling DVD movies copied to obvious blanks.
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>So, what's wrong with this then now?

If you think that having wealth should be rewarded more than creating wealth then nothing I guess.

Geometrically increasing wealth is caused by the "compound interest effect" where wealth begets wealth.

In other words, it's a signal that creating wealth is steadily diminishing in importance while owning it is increasing in importance.
It reminds of "managing the numbers". Not to say Dalio himself doesn't know what he's doing. But translating that to software, yeah...good luck.

It's challenging enough to translate simple trading systems into machine code, and have it reproduce human results. At least that's my experience.

To distill your knowledge and wisdom down to a set of algorithms, the complex interactions, discretion on when to use and ignore certain ones, being able to learn from results by adding in new "rules" and discarding old ones that no longer work such that you've identified the correct parameters/situations applicable?

Best of luck with that one. Not a place I'd ever want to work.
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Ah. That makes a lot of sense.
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That's interesting! I guess, neovim's behavior is just a convenience wrapper around this, then.
Was he wearing blue and gold? I seem to remember Sinbad in a genie suit too but nothing like what Shaq's costume looks like in Kazaam. I'm totally in the camp of memory is faulty but it's just fascinating to me that so many people misremember the same things. I vote that it's the government testing time travel technology.
The TechEmpower benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt because, in the specific case of Python, and last year at least, they didn't seem to take into account real-life deployments (i.e., they're benchmarking raw scripts instead of a WSGI app running inside gunicorn or uwsgi, either of which has its own threading model and performance improvements).

However, Go and Java will handily beat Python any day, even with uvloop -- all you need to do is try to do a little more processing inside your HTTP handler, aaaaannnnddd thiiiingggsss willl sloooowww dooooowwwwnnnn....
As a senior practitioner in the field, I feel a few years removed from my initial learning chunk. I really like this list as a throw back to see how the I would have done it today.
Same here. I know they have DRM but it says it plays on "all devices". It actually includes an impressive number of mp3 players, but a notable omission turned out to be Linux.

Then I discovered ffmpeg can decode the files and turned back to my girlfriend who has wanted to share an audible account for a while now.

... which is when I discovered there isn't just Audible, there's Audible US ($15=14eur), Audible UK (8 pounds=9.50eur), Audible DE (10 euros) and others, all of which have different offerings of course. The German one has English stuff, but less. The English ones obviously have hardly any German audio books. My girlfriend is German but we speak English to each other and most stuff we'd read is originally American. Which do we get now, US, UK or DE?

Can't we "just have audio books"? And as m4b/mp3 please, we both want to load it into Smart Audio Book Player which has some features on Android that Audible's player doesn't. Wasn't the whole point of getting Audible to get access to audio books without having to buy and rip each individually?

What a mess.

Oh and for those who are considering Audible without planning on converting them into mp3s, note that the Android app wants to:

- read accounts from the device

- read your contacts

- record audio

- see your phone number

- view WiFi connections

- view network connections

- prevent the device from sleeping (=battery killer and unnecessary for uninterrupted playback with screen off)

... I just want to listen to audio books.
Why not just make the education less insanely expensive? STEM fields pay more but we need other jobs filled that are not STEM which is something we forget very regularly. We cannot just expect to have a permanent underclass of essential workers that we then turn around and deride for making shitty choices at every opportunity and basically hold in perpetual servitude.
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If you ever have any problems viewing an article, click on 'web' up at the top and then open the link from google.

If you still have problems, try using an incognito window.
Met some founders from Gaza earlier this year in SF. Super inspiring work they're doing.
I tend to agree that GitHub stars are a very dangerous metric to go off of. I tend to star repos that I think look "cool", often without trying to use them or even looking at the code at all. I've never considered it a damaging act, but I also didn't realize that some folks are encouraging others to make hiring decisions based off of GitHub stars.
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Does anybody know the font used in the screenshot [1]? It looks like a pretty typical monospace coding font but has fantastic pseudo-cursive italics. I can't figure out what it is, but I want it!

https://twitter.com/mxstbr/status/786478628829814784/photo/1
It can't even be fixed then because TLS certs aren't possible for LAN connections (or at least not validate-able, which means the same thing).
For simple API things it definitely is significantly faster than anything else python has to offer. I am not sure where the author got the node comparison from, but all the python benchmarks are provided https://github.com/channelcat/sanic with the code used to run them. These are also single process benchmarks on a AWS medium (not sure what type). And I believe (best I can tell) those techempower benchmarks are run on a 40 core bare metal machine.
> Surely it would still mirror use if the operators were applied to the type, rather than the identifier?

The "type" is actually a list of storage class specifiers (static, extern, auto, register, typedef, _Thread_local), type qualifiers (const, volatile, restrict) and type specifiers (int, char, float, double, signed, unsigned, long, short, void). Imagine the soup of keywords that would have to be at the deepest level of the expression:

static const volatile unsigned char *arr[X];
// vs
*static const volatile unsigned char[X] arr;
Just to be sure, I just checked with my bank. They actually do NOT take "magic startup pixie dust" in lieu of mortgage payments. Same with the grocery store. So yea, that's kind of out. Bummer!
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Perhaps there is more context, but from a narrow read: the linked email states a need, contains a patch that solves the problem, and offers to solve it another way if needed... that seems pretty mature?

The text literally says:

> I am not sure if this is the best way to remove the quirks from the build. Let me know if you prefer a different way of solving this.
Free Code Camp is a massive outlier. It received most stars of any repo at 177,914 stars in 2016, and the second most (the google-interview-university which has appeared a few times on HN) has only received a fraction of that at 28,727 stars in 2016, which likely did not use as much growth hacking.

Full list of the Top 1000 Repos, freshly queried from BigQuery: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bGpZq6ixlhrmQnzEUqb...
Am I imagining things, or is "botkit" also a typical term for a build-your-own-malware kit? Seriously confused by the headline at first.
Not to mention the fact that there is incentive for the people you are trying to use to try to mess you up. There are so many little mistakes you could make that would result in significant errors when added up that it would make the end result worthless. And it's in their interest to do that... the employees.
> > prefer a software, where you do things intuitively without needing to first learn a shortcut for everything.

> Like what?

Like mouse-select, copy, paste. Once learned (however that happened, however long ago), it works across virtually all OS/gui combos (except gvim without knowing vim :), and you can immediately get something done. If you're dropped down into an environment, and have to get something done, using your slow but working general methods is pretty attractive, compared to having to learn a whole new way of merely copy/pasting before you've done a single thing.

Having used vi, and later vim, since the mid eighties, it can be painful for me to sit with someone as they mouse around cutting, copying and pasting. Watching someone reversing the order of two lines, or two characters, with a mouse is really frustrating. But they're getting something done, focusing on the task instead of the how, and beyond an offer to help them with vim if they like (they usually don't), I just sit there and accept.

I like my mouse, I'm just glad it's not all I have. But keep in mind, it's really frustrating for someone to have to listen to someone else telling them "you can do this a better way!". It's just meta distraction.
Here's the passage in the book where the "Devil's Tree" is encountered:

https://books.google.com/books?id=KPKMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA...
What are some of the bookmarklets and sites you are testing? I'm not able to reproduce the failure with the "WhatFont" bookmarklet in Firefox 50-53.
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I personally am going to plan on never being in a situation where I have to eat random wild plants to survive.
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"It is interesting how you say that nuclear might be cheaper and at the same time accept an incident like fukushima every 30 years like you pay 1000 peanuts and that it alright again. Maybe you will allow a nuclear plant in your backyard but most people already have a problem with wind power. This has nothing to do with fear about the technology itself but about the decrease in property value in vicinity of the plant. So, may be your intention is good but not realistic as the Hinkley Point C plant for 30+ billion pound in england shows."

Nuclear done right will be a great solution going forward. We need a SpaceX of nuclear to out-compete the dinosaur companies like GE. Thorcon Power (thorconpower.com) is one good candidate.

With molten salt technology, there is zero chance of a meltdown or explosive distribution of material. Thorcon's plan is to site the reactors 30 m underground.

"So if I have two solutions that are equally expensive but one leaves me with radioactive waste, why would you chose that one? And while I agree that we need some back up plan to stabilize the net load, that also wont be nuclear power as those plants are not fast in start up managment either."

Thorcon's estimate is that power cost $.02-$.05 per KWH. The ramp up or down for a nuclear plant is a non-issue because fuel costs are negligible.
Hey all - My name is Mohammad Halimy I have a startup that is incubated in Gaza Sky Geeks and they really helped us take our business to the next level. They are great ! help them and hit donate
I think he's talking primarily about ebay
I'm the author of this piece, happy to answer questions.

I grew up with stories of the Challenger after my father - a statistician - and 2 of his co-authors were selected by National Academy of Sciences to study if the danger could have been predicted beforehand. They showed that the likelihood of failure was 13% at the launch temperature, but would have been negligible if NASA had waited just a few hours. (His co-author, Ed Fowlkes, was dying of AIDS at the time - and considered this paper one of his life's great achievements)

Bad statistical inferences were a huge part of the launch story, and you can see more in Richard Feynman's critiques:

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

Secondly, the effect I highlight (a biased data sample) is a key issue with news/social media - and can lead us to heavily flawed inferences if we don't correct for it.

I'll dig deep into this in future posts with a substantial amount of data and visualizations.
Hah. That's why I pointed out that you weren't one of those who complained about the payout. I just found it odd that someone would say they didn't want that to be discussed. I think it's an important part of the discussion. I definitely agree -- easy legal money is always preferable to sketchy darknet money.
Well yeah, the stuff is probably being sent over on a container ship. Have you ever tried shipping something by airmail from a faraway country to the US? It would cost way more than the value of the actual product.
The rules are for plants :)
Gomix (https://gomix.com) is my current favorite. It might not have as many bells and whistles as the others you listed, but it "just works" more of the time than any other platform I've tried.
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+1

Design is not actualization.

So the salient question becomes:

How robust are modern reactor designs to manufacturing/construction/installation/etc. errors?
It's Operator Mono [1][2]. It was asked and answered further down the thread.

[1] http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator [2] http://www.typography.com/fonts/operator/styles/
I want to think it is Consolas. But the author says it is "Operator Mono". The editor is Atom. Fonts can look different on Mac vs. Windows, I think.
Am I the only one to not understand the question?
Thanks for your comment.
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What exactly is the server approach?
Out of curiosity, how do you think the SIS building in London fits in architecturally?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIS_Building
Yes, PopcornTime gave me the starting point to the idea. I still don't get why they choose to use a centralized API instead of a dynamic (as in, mutable and identified by public key and not content) P2P JSON file, I should probably open an issue.

I don't think I've sufficiently fleshed it out yet, but I'll let you know when I have something coherent.
Of course if politics hadn't caused parts of the shuttle to be built far away from the launch pad, they wouldn't have needed O-rings in the first place
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There was an article the other day on HN about Golang compiler and work on its GC. (Garbage Collection)

As the article goes on, it becomes clear that a modern GC managed system is no simple thing. As you start to add all the choices and tuning you end up re-inventing the JVM runtime.

Any program of sufficient complexity eventually ends up having GC.

Java may be too resource hungry for trivial programs. For large programs Java is an industrial strength runtime platform. Or I should say the JVM is. You don't have to use the Java language. You can use a number of languages that compile to JVM bytecode.
I'm a big fan of Cloud9. Since you can use Cloud9 on your own hardware pretty easily you're not forced to treat it as a part-time-IDE-for-X you can just use it for everything (it supports dozens of languages) and being online or locally hosted becomes just an irrelevant detail. I've used it for web and android projects.

I dislike the proprietary ones, I don't think proprietary developer tools should be supported anymore tbh, but they force you to use them only-for-x and that means you're looking at alternatives every other time too!
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In a nutshell, the js community is doing a great job of moving the language forward, and there is a great deal of cost to be borne by using the oldest version of the language that all browsers support. Browser vendors (in general) are the laggards, but there is an easy enough way to work around them.

ES6 also nudges the code toward a bit more uniformity that can lead to better medium term maintainability.
'char ٭arr[X]' over '٭char[X] arr'

What is this dirt after char and before char? This wouldn't even compile.
This is absolutely correct, there is a huge market for email lists, and even more so for highly targeted ones.
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> It is not as if anyone takes the Google happy colors and 'don't be evil' motto as actually indicative of ethical behavior

I ordered a Google Home for my dad for Christmas. It's ridiculous the only color available is white. I'm sure they are trying to avoid the 1984/2001 aesthetic by making it look as cuddly as possible, but they are just trading that for a Brave New World/I, Robot aesthetic. On top of that, it really does look like an air freshener.

I was up in the air between a Google Home and an Echo Dot for him, and the color alone would have been enough to sway me to the Dot, but I ordered just a few minutes too late for it to arrive by Christmas. I mean, that white is going to look absolutely awful in such a short time because they put capacitive controls under it. Have you ever seen the palm rests of the White Macbooks? They look like pit stains on the favorite undershirt of a very sweaty man.

I wish Google would stop copying the "look at me" aesthetic of Apple. I like where Amazon was going with the Dot. It looks nice enough that nobody is going to complain if they see it, but it blends in well enough that you probably won't see it unless you look for it. Google products aren't the cheapest things, but they don't "waste" enough money on design elements for them to actually stand up as aesthetic objects like Apple products do.
> I do not own the content on Netflix I did not buy it, I am renting a access licenses to a library of content for a monthly fee.

You don't own the content when you buy a disc either. You own a copy.

Suppose you go out and buy a CD or DVD, make some fair use copies for whatever legitimate purposes you imagine, then when you're done you destroy the copies and sell the original disc on eBay.

Please explain why this is morally different than subscribing to Netflix and making fair use copies of the stream under the same circumstances.
I hate those things! I've never been able to get the desired effect, except almost by accident, just like everything else in life that looks like those things. Total mystery.
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Thank you, that's a good piece of advice that I remember hearing as well.
I reported this to a contact at Instagram and they said they are aware of the issue. They don’t have an ETA for the fix yet, but they are looking into it. It's just odd that it seems so random with all of our customers.
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Incidentally, "Shazam" is associated with the comic book character Captain Marvel; I'm not sure whether the comics introduced the name or merely popularized it, but in Google Ngrams it's virtually nonexistent before taking off in the 1960s (Captain Marvel first appearing in 1940).
Java (or the JVM) is the Cobol of the 21st century. There is such a large amount of software written for it, representing such a large economic investment, that it won't be replaced anytime soon. That is the reason Cobol is _still_ around. It's why Java will be around for a long time.
The more she gets involved in library community event planning and digital work, the better, I think. I have a librarian friend who has been running a 20s and 30s social events group (they do book discussions, game nights, movie nights, adult coloring nights, mug painting, etc) through her library and has been slowly taking up more and more of the libraries resources and become more prominent in the library as the program has been expanded.
Straightforward BigQuery:

SELECT repo.id, repo.name, COUNT(*) as num_stars
FROM TABLE_DATE_RANGE([githubarchive:day.], TIMESTAMP('2016-01-01'), TIMESTAMP('2016-12-31'))
WHERE type = "WatchEvent"
GROUP BY repo.id, repo.name
ORDER BY num_stars DESC
LIMIT 1000
The New Economy: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms...

Think of the additional economic boost from treating these people in hospitals, or even better, prisons! Countless "jobs" will be created!
To be fair, a huge part of the functionality in nixpkgs and NixOS is provided by a ton of bash code, both standalone files and big strings in .nix files.

Replacing that with Scheme sounds like a long-term win to me; although in the short term I imagine it makes packaging the contents of a bash-dominated world more frustrating.
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This very much depends on the target audience.

If 90% of your online purchases are made from desktop browsers, maybe you have nothing to care about. If 90% is mobile, it may be worth paying attention to this approach. Currently, AFAIK, mobile buyers are 30-40% of typical e-commerce audience.
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