skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go first, then learn the language. It will be much easier to learn a language when you are in a country that uses it. Tell all your Anglophile friends and colleagues to speak the local language to you as much as possible and attend evening classes for immigrants (many of whom won't speak English). It's much faster and easier than learning it on your own.

I say this from my experience learning Norwegian in Norway which was much less painful and more successful than learning French at school in England even though I had many more hours of formal French instruction.
Hate to say it, but 2016 may have been the time to buy. (Well, other than every year before it..) The Peninsula market has been slow. I know, because I'm hoping our house appreciates in value enough to insulate us from the eventual crash :D

http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2016/12/29/atherton-no-longe...
I have a question for you as well. One argument I've heard from climate-change skeptics is that the earth has gone through ice ages in the past without any intervention from humanity, so who's to say we're responsible for the changes we're seeing now? There are some obvious counterarguments, but I'm curious of your opinion and others here.
Replying to myself as a way to quickly locate this lib in context:

https://github.com/swaroopch/edn_format
Looks like someone wasn't around for the PowerPC clone idea of the 90s! :D
One, Oxytocin, is a hormone; Oxycontin is a frequently prescribed narcotic painkiller.

The effects of oxycodone include pain relief, euphoria, anxiolysis, feelings of relaxation, and respiratory depression plus numerous side-effects.

Oxytocin (Oxt) is a human peptide hormone plays a role in social bonding, sexual reproduction in both sexes, and during and after childbirth.
Still, at least these problems are being revealed to the public alongside their fixes. It would be far worse if criminal hackers or intelligence agencies secretly exploited these issues

This seems overly alarmist given it's an exploit that simply sends the phone into a crash loop. It's not as if they can launch nukes by whistling into the microphone.
The discovered vulnerability manifested itself in jinja2.

Edit: release notes
https://www.palletsprojects.com/blog/jinja-281-released/
This isn't a new Show HN since you've posted this before[1] with the domain postacard.io. What's changed since then?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427505
I don't disagree, but would add for anyone reading this who's drawn to ponder the question further that a city's artistic/intellectual energies cannot flourish without a cost of living affordable on "creative" salaries. Prague was the cool place for a while because of that.
> Neither does python.

I would argue that being able to access any global value is a sufficient enough concern.
Backpressure. (Includes modeling something as producer/consumer in order to reason about it)

It boils down to learning how to say no, but in practice it smoothes out demand spikes and makes life much more predictable.

It can be applied to personal fines (only consume "wants" as fast as you can produce "surplus"), consulting (only consume "new clients" as fast as you produce "working fine") to maintain a decent work life balance, as well as many other areas.
It is a good idea to choose the person carefully. Think of it like choosing a lawyer or a doctor.

The thing is, it doesn't have to be Obama. It could be almost any Democrat, like the Clintons, Biden, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi. They all agree on 99.9% of issues, because they have a common set of values.
> The country that had twelve rail accidents in 2016, the envy of the world?

http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/us-freight-railroads/ - "US Freight Railroads are the Envy of the World"

But if you don't trust the Americans let's ask the Brits.

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101 (The Economist) - "America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best" and "They are universally recognized in the industry as the best in the world."

It's a fact generally acknowledged. I'd find you more variety but it's harder to get detailed Asian and European perspectives in English, you know?

That said, I sure hope no one envies Silicon Valley. An individual facet of it like the jobs or the climate, maybe...
Any reputable media with 'Russia is always threatening with cutting the gas supply'? Especially Germany which has direct Nord Stream and upcoming Nord Stream2 ? It's other way around, Germany harass other countries,like Bulgaria and prevent them to build South Stream. Looks like you are victim of anti-Russia propaganda. Russia WANTS to expand it gas export.
No, at 60Hz, but we might differ in the definition of "fine" :-)

Moving windows around isn't smooth, resizing large windows is noticeably laggy, things like expose seem slow as well.
Oh. He perhaps he should clarify, as that's how I read it as well (I'm sympathetic to Patrick, so I wasn't reading that with a skeptical eye). He wrote something about taking equity out of AR to put into Starfighter, using credit card debt.
To be fair, it's far from unknown for the "marshalling a response" to include legal intimidation.

Not giving a presentation ahead of time could be viewed as reducing the chance of suppression.
2017 is a prime year
There's no point in living really far out in London. You get none Of The advantages and all the disadvantages, you may as well live in a smaller town when you can walk everywhere and the commute to London is about the same as living on the outer fringes.
Leapsecond and Google
Indeed I was but it ain't the 90's any more.

In the 90's there was not a huge revenue stream to be had from selling services such as music, games and apps.

It's a different world.
I feel like this is actually a disservice to intelligent women in tech.

Instead of basing it on talent, many of these companies just want a token woman to virtue signal to the rest of the valley that they are diverse.

Talent is all that really matters, regardless of your race or gender.

Update: Heh. It figures that fighting for equality would get a down vote.
There are two fixes, which must be done simultaneously: more housing and more transportation infrastructure.

Our modern economy wants to centralize in cities, and not doing so is leaving free lunch on the table. Also keep in mind that more people in cities = cheaper suburbs for those who prefer it.
Sane Lisp approach: provide easily analyzable target syntax.

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 163.
Use the :quit command or type Ctrl-D on empty line to exit.
1> (defvar foo 42)
foo
2> `@(list foo) ... @foo`
"42 ... 42"

What is that backticked literal? Let's quote it:

3> '`@(list foo) ... @foo`
`@(list foo) ... @foo`

Hmm, prints back in same form. Probably syntactic sugar for a list; what is in the car? cdr?

4> (car '`@(list foo) ... @foo`)
sys:quasi
5> (cdr '`@(list foo) ... @foo`)
((list foo) " ... " @foo)

What if we type in this syntax ourselves:

6> '(sys:quasi (list foo) " ... " (sys:var foo))
`@(list foo) ... @foo`

Prints as the notation!

To sandbox this, we just have to walk a list and enforce some rule. For instance, the rule might be that all elements after sys:quasi must be string object or else (sys:var sym) forms, where sym is a symbol on some allowed list. Thus (list foo) would be banned.

A custom interpreter which calculates the output string while enforcing the check is trivial to write as a one-liner.

Of course if your program just eval such an untrusted quasiliteral, it has access to the dynamic/global evironment:

`Mouhaha! @(file-get-string "/etc/passwd")`

Very convenient for some attacker. :)
> They chose not to release the ones from the party whose candidate said he cares less about NATO.

Did they actually say: "we have emails from both parties, however we will only release the democrat ones because we hate NATO"? or did someone just speculate that this is the case.

I don't know how much you know about hacking. It's next to impossible to track down a skilled hacker, if he didn't make a mistake, especially one that is supported by a country. It could have been a hacker from Saudi Arabia using a Russian proxy. It could have been a Ukrainian hacker doing it from a Russian coffee shop.

If US intelligence did in fact determine that it was a Russian hack without the hacker making a mistake, then I would be worried about how they did it instead.
WHY 2016 DID Not SUCK
(1) For the sake of extending the same analogy, the question is not whether people should have vacations and cars or not, it is about everybody asking for luxury vacations or cars.

(2) IMHO, housing may for sure move some people closer to their work but it also means more service workers and other jobs to move to the same spot; this sounds to me like a vicious circle. At the end isn't it this vicious circle that drives city growth? Even if the commute problem is solved, which I doubt looking all the cities I lived or know a little bit, how are we going to prevent the classic environmental challenges: clean water, or effects on natural habitat?
I stopped watching the news in the late 90's because of the sensationalization and shallow reporting. I haven't missed it, especially now with the media bias.

There are better ways of keeping up to date, especially with news feeds that you can get just the topics you want news on.

But people still think I'm nuts for not watching the news.
I respect how passionately you feel about this topic (and share some of the same feeling), but obviously "Your grandfather was a scum" (a) is completely off limits here, and (b) helps nothing and persuades nobody. Since you care deeply about your cause, you shouldn't undermine it by venting like that. In any case, please don't do so on HN.

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FYI, some of your comments are dead. (Not this one)
The debates on gravity didn't involve non-scientists most likely because the results of the debate wouldn't have public policy implications and so there was no incentive to choose a side besides personal ego.

I would assume that any scientific claim which results in a public policy change that creates losers and winners would create a very different kind of debate where scientists are subject to external influences and non-scientists feel the need weigh in in order to avoid being the loser.
The New York Times is stealing money from poor Mexicans because Carlos Slim is a minority shareholder (17%) ad Carlos Slim engages in shady business dealings?

That doesn't seem hypocritical to me. I don't think Arthur C. Brooks has any control over who buys equity in the NY Times.
Second this. Developer mode is not built for end users, it bypasses security checks. Plus nobody wants to see this every time they open chrome: https://i.stack.imgur.com/861MU.png
Amtrak then overpays for this use which amounts to a government
subsidy.

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060015115

Respectfully, you and I read different articles. Amtrak overpaid out of incompetence. Amtrak paying more due to incompetence isn't a government subsidy.

FTA: Amtrak wasn't formally reviewing invoices, some of the alleged over-payments lack supporting documentation, and in general, it sounds like there's STILL disagreement over contract language.

If anything, the taxpayers subsidized management negligence.
It might be better as a matter of policy for more people to live in cities. I get the arguments even if I might not personally care to follow that path. However, that doesn't make it better as a matter of policy to cram people into as few different cities as possible. There's plenty of housing to be had at reasonable prices in Detroit, for example.

In general, city living is not a luxury. Living in what are generally viewed as desirable neighborhoods of certain cities is.
>1. Earthquakes.

And yet Tokyo exists.
You speak as if "how the level design" comes after "what mechanic the game needs". I think it's simultaneous.

For example:
If I say "Oh, it would be really interesting if there's a Dungeon of Reflection in which the entire dungeon is symmetrical, and the monsters always copy the character's movement", then that would require some careful level design, which having worked out, could translate into a mechanic.

Operating in reverse is much more difficult and ends up stuffing mechanics into a sense of play. "It's easy in code to make the character teleport! Now.. what should we do with this?"
How can individual's rights and possessions be protected without coercion? These are fundamental to any society.

Empirically, when the state is dissolved, it is quickly replaced by equally coercive (or worse) warlords.
Yeah. The tax rate that is collected whenever you buy a property and 'reset' the prop 13 timer. %1 for the base rate, plus a bunch of other one off fixed charges that add up to the %0.2-%0.5 rate. People who have had prop 13 properties for decades have something like a %0.3 equivalent property tax rate.
Why does it need to run on multiple platforms?

I kinda of gave up on desktop email readers since all of the ones I knew started to suck. I use open source webmail now on my desktops, and K9Mail on Android. Those several round trips to the server aren't a problem, but those webmail servers really aren't as sleek as the desktop clients used to be - the filters don't work ass well, it's hard to integrate with spam filtering, there are many less options for converting text, autoanswering, ordering...

On where to go, well, I do have plans of writing a mail client. But right now I'm focusing on finishing my mail server.
Since it abstracts a programming language and allows for simplified syntax and inline explanations, more people can understand it. Why would you think that's not a goal?
Dietary cholesterol is now suspected to be essentially irrelevant to health. We know this because, among other things, some people eat diets with 10-100x as much cholesterol as some other people, and they don't immediately develop heart disease.

Blood cholesterol, on the other hand, seems to be essentially a thing the body does while storing excess quantities of fat. The obese will usually have high blood cholesterol, the non-obese will usually not have high blood cholesterol... whether they're on a zero-fat zero-cholesterol diet or not.

So basically, they're two different things: Long-term, blood cholesterol is mostly created endogenously independent of diet, and dietary cholesterol does not convert to blood cholesterol.
I'd like to see some proof of this. Because the court says it's not bullet proof. If you do something reckless (like dodging taxes on your LLC and naming your wife as the CEO), you'll be facing jail.

So an example of cases on how the LLC is useful in protecting you is needed.
Hmm. It's a little hard to imagine that per-student funding in high-density city schools outstrips that for truly wealthier and presumably sparser suburbs with any significant consistency. I'd want to see the actual numbers. For instance, where is this funding coming from for the cities? And, where is the suburban tax money going?

And, what's the history? Were these schools neglected for years, then the state recently started pouring in money?

I mean, maybe there are some exceptions (perhaps partially gentrified cities where some tax base is moving back into cities at inflated prices?), but these would generally be outliers. Since wealthier people have fled most major cities for the burbs, the tax base and educational investments have generally followed them. You see this over and over again in communities throughout the country.

For example:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools...
Well, there is a penny difference in the title. A holiday discount?
Cool video of self organization, which led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-gtr4pEBU
I think the answer is yes, but depends on your definition of affordability.

Median household income for city of LA is ~$60k. Without detailing the numbers, maybe if you're really liberal with mortgage qualification you get a $450k home at that income (house or condo). In a broad Redfin search of the Valley/LA Basin and a bit beyond to the east/south (this includes many cities outside of LA), you have:

Total homes for sale: 4,720
<$450k: 873 (18%)
In Safe Neighborhoods: 294 (6%) (I used my own definition of safe, but it's very liberal and includes many places where walking around after dark alone would not be advised, but it's an urban area after all so that's understandable)

Btw, and this is where people say you're not entitled to something, but if you are just talking about single family homes (LA is very single family home-focused) in a safe hood for <450k the number of availabilities drops to 51 homes (that's 1% of inventory).

Lots of other nuances here, but just a broad brushstroke look at the market.
>If everyone gets large, personal spaces you're back to suburbia and all it's disadvantages.

This is true on the x-y plane but not the z-axis. We can have substantially more sqft available per sqft desired in the same land footprint by building up, which is currently heavily regulated or outright illegal.
This is the same principle for not passing user input to the first argument of `printf(3)` in C. Coming from C, I would never allow the user control of the format string if I were writing code.
Unsolicited, probably unwanted critique: Assuming you want to affect a change in perspective among US citizens who don't already agree with your comment (which I really hope you do, needed now more than ever etc) maybe leave out the trite, cheeky "land of the free is actually X" slight in the first paragraph (however grating it is ) and consider changing the tone in the second ("the thing is..." never leads to someone changing their mind).

It encompasses the archetypal Western European opinion on American "X" to the T, and is more easily dismissed as Internet comments often are. Reminiscent of Americans commenting on German matters in a stereotypical way, it sometimes just goes straight into the mind trash.

Very unsolicited I'm sorry, but since there are loads of American techies here and Germany has a good image among them, your perspective can have more power than you think and it really is needed these days.
>The New York Times is stealing money from poor Mexicans because Carlos Slim is a minority shareholder (17%) ad Carlos Slim engages in shady business dealings?

Yes if you can't keep the lights on without accepting money from shady sources then maybe they should get off their moral high horse?

>I don't think Arthur C. Brooks has any control over who buys equity in the NY Times.

Surely no one forced them to accept "loans" stolen from Mexicans [1]

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-times-warrants-ca...
Regular pseudocode, formal specs close to programming (eg VDM language), and graphical stuff like Statecharts worked well in industry for a long time. Including for high-assurance systems where ambiguities lead to catastrophic failure. Middle option was advantageous where it was precise enough for tools to catch errors or prove properties. Any of these worked well enough and didn't look as weird as OP to average programmer.
The most radical coup would be to offer a free handset (cost near $200 per user + ~$600 lost revenue opportunity * likelihood of future purchase + lost future handset revenue - potential future purchases from becoming a fanboy) to aggressively wipe out marketshare, though the final outcome may not be favourable for innovation. Considering Facebook paid $50 per snapchat user I wonder how the sums add up.
This is very true. The limit of learning in a classroom is the ability of the teacher. The limit of learning in a school is the leadership of the principal. Caliber and esteem of teachers is the one commonality across all high performing systems.

Programs like Teach For America help, but they are tiny compared to the overall size of teachers, and many leave frustrated after a few years.

This situation isn't that different from developing software. If you have great programmers, you can cut them loose with less supervision. If you toss a lot of untrained mediocre bodies at problems, you need to invest a lot more in micromanagement to make sure nothing goes wrong.
But Patrick previously wrote about how he loved Ogaki, and was in Japan because Ogaki was there.

So it might well have made a mistake inflating lifestyle while cutting consulting AND before any of the businesses were "done".

I have the good fortune of being in a low cost of living city that's also a real, wonderful city: Montreal. Excellent place to start and scale a solopreneur business.

Currently scaling up my business processes (accounting, support, etc.) which increases business costs. I'd be very wary of moving anywhere more expensive until I've increased revenue to match. (This shouldn't be a problem – outsourcing the backend processes will let me move on several revenue generating projects I've been deferring while dealing with a backlog of administrative stuff)
> France catching up to the US HAHAHAHAHAHA

Please don't.

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Or they could bomb and make the bottom drop out of the market. Let's not count our chickens.
s/ostridge/ostrich/

Apart from that, I can only agree. I started on the same path several years ago.
Interactive Map: The Flow of International Trade
We've banned this account for trolling.

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Yes, my Dell latitude experience was filled with coil whine - highly irritating!
> no non-scientist can evaluate the claims of [...]

To be more precise:

No non-expert in field X can evaluate claims with respect to field X.

The phenomenon you're talking about is with respect to lay people. But there is a parallel phenomenon that happens with intelligent people with expertise in unrelated fields. It's relatively easy to read a handful of papers in a field other than your own and convince yourself that you are qualified to pass judgement. But how can you be sure you'd see a problem in the methodology of a paper, even if it existed? And the larger problem: how do you know the set of papers you read is representative?

In the worst case, there could have been a shift in the field that no one bothered to document (perhaps because the shift was due to a lack of publishable results). This is my number one gripe reading old papers in computer science: sometimes an idea just disappears from the literature because frankly it didn't work, but you can't cite a paper that just says that outright, even though everyone (who works closely in the field) knows it to be true.

In my experience, both problems take time and experience to solve. Which means that if you don't have those, you're better off finding an expert you trust and asking them---in person---what papers are worth reading.
Lot's of people do that, at least in Berlin. There's about 30k Americans (or Americans+British - don't remember) there. Where I'm from we call that a small city.
Why are you giving the talk in public if you don't even want to communicate the findings to the people most affected by it?
I've invoiced 5-figures a day for short term gigs repeatedly. Many times to repeat customers.

This is actually a result of Patrick's "charge more" mantra. Confidence in the value provided and delivering on the value.
Ask HN: Technology in 2017
3D printing, AI, VR, Self driving cars, .... Which tech are rising next year
I don't understand why the company couldn't just attend the already-scheduled public presentation? Like the author, I would be suspicious of the company's motives for requesting the earlier, private presentation. Not much upside, plenty of downside.
I think the point is that Board membership is often very cliquey and political and rarely based on merit alone.