skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has nothing to do with size. When the system worked the federal government was really only concerned with national level things - war and trade, mostly. Over the years more and more power got transferred to the national level, and now we're at the point that states are pretty much satrapies of the federal government. Now the system doesn't work, because the Alabama voters have a big impact on California and vice versa.
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It claims to be both a democracy and a republic and is generally accepted as both.
For no practical reason — actually, for the same reason I rewrote in from the original Python version: I just fell in love with the language (first Racket, then Go).

Also, rewriting it in Go helped me understand that my brain is wired for imperative languages, not functional: writing algorithms felt so much easier and more natural in Go. Nevertheless, learning Racket was fun!
How about the government stops printing money instead? It would have a similar effect on buying power as your suggestion.
Not to mention that even AngularJS 1.x still bundles jqLite and switches to full jQuery if you include it first.
jQuery was built in a time when doing a simple ajax request required 2-3 code paths just for cross-browser compatability, and some of those code paths fairly verbose. Today most basic tasks are short and easy with just standard APIs that every browser understands out of the box. The need for jQuery has certainly diminished (usage not so much).
> They're rejecting your reports because the issues are often fixed in newer versions

Sure, newer versions fix bugs from older versions. But they don't delete/archive the old reports after a new release, so the reports that are there are already a mix of supported and unsupported versions anyway.

So, I don't see the harm in accepting new reports against older versions, particularly when old versions are still found several major distros (particularly the LTS versions of those distros)
Nah, I would love people to use Python -- just to help improve it as well (either through libraries, alternative languages or submitting changes through official channels.)

Saying I am "self aggrandising" is disingenuous and misleading at best.
Java is Unsound: The Industry Perspective
Except that's kinda the point, right? Not that there is a cure, but that seeing someone and having support is... helpful. He didn't argue that she cured his headaches...
MMJ has been available in CA for 15+ years (don't know the exact date, but it's been a while).
> Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn't realise this at first, but now I can't help but notice that every article they have on my country is just how we're all going to hell in a handbasket.

Ellen Barry has been the South Asia Bureau Chief since 2013, and for some reason, she really has a personal vendetta against India. Some of her stories seem somewhat reasonable if you read them by themselves, but if you look at her articles on India all together, it's clear what her bias is.

And some of them are just utterly absurd even by themselves. It's pretty disgusting.
I believe the Republican skepticism of climate change is not born from disagreement but from the monetary influence of businesses who would be adversely affected from regulation and change.

Sleeping while out beds are burning indeed.
More generally, do journalists without scientific
training need to consult with anyone before declaring
who we should be praising for health improvements?

>Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally.[2]

>He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the books Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Gawande
Professor Who Wrote of Korean ‘Comfort Women’ Wins Defamation Case
I was pointing out that China and North Korea are monopolistic. Of course they don't allow more than one party with the system they set up.

Look at USA, it's duopolistic due to the system set up. There's only republicans and democrats.

What's funny is that China (Don't know about NK) brags that anyone can run for government but people only vote for one party. Just like USA brags that anyone can run for government but it ends up becoming republican/democrat.

Do you see the monopolistic/duopolistic point I was making?
Brick-laying (even with general purpose arms) robots are already in production use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Pj2GI6-xc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpD5H1EH0go

Combining it with more comprehensive vision so it can figure out where to build the wall might be novel though.
"None of the popular patterns promote the tight coupling between view and code."

Not sure how relevant this is either. React barely differentiates between view and code, opting to put everything in one place.
Can you recommend some hemingway books?
But they were correct that the comet was a planet. It wasnt a star, not fixed to the celestial sphere with the other stars. So it was a wanderer and therefor a "planet". By thier definitions they were correct.

The fact that some later upstart scientists looking for a headline decided to change the planet definition doesnt mean that previous scientists had made mistakes.
>The electoral college is antiquated and premised on an idea that didn't pan out.

It absolutely panned out. Smaller states joined a union they would not otherwise have joined. To change the system requires 3/4ths of the states to sign on, too, so it's not going to change.
We just made a form for people who couldn't access it but would like to try it out. We'll just add you to our beta if you fill it out.

https://goo.gl/forms/WQ2VOJwRsn9yWTfC3
The GraphQL ecosystem has grown amazingly quickly over the last year. It's definitely not a single-vendor technology at this point. Check out this list of GraphQL libraries, tools, and implementations:
https://github.com/chentsulin/awesome-graphql

The majority of people who are using GraphQL are using an implementation from someone other than Facebook (on either the client or the server, or in many cases both).

(And for what it's worth, I did see a "Why not RDF" slide in one of Lee Byron's decks, and those of us at Meteor who are working on GraphQL are definitely aware of the RDF/SparQL roots. I think what's driving GraphQL's growth is, first, it addresses a very timely problem - fetching all of the data for a screen in a mobile app in a single round trip without coupling your backend to your UI - and second, the focus on tooling and developer experience which has been a weakness for SparQL.)
Thanks. Certainly good to know, but I am happy to stand by my criticism, both specific and general.
That's a new house. The weird thing is how often old houses don't sell for much more than an empty lot in single-family home neighborhoods. Although I'm not familiar with Seattle. I've lived in various parts of Florida, Denver (long ago), Michigan, Texas, etc. Mostly Sunbelt.
"Climate change denial" is not a coherent platform. There may be some who hold logically consistent views (whether they are real or not), but they are not necessarily consistent with each other, and in any case the majority of people don't care.

As long as one can say that mankind should not take any action to avert climate change, most "climate deniers" are happy, and whether the myriad of supporting arguments contradict each other is not their concern.

For example, what's Trump's opinion on whether the Earth is warming or not? Does he even care?
Isn't that precisely the way cities are built in Europe? If so, housing isn't necessarily cheap/affordable there, either.
Why does this article read like a bad attempt at SEO?
Yeah that sucks. If you'd still like to try it out you can sign up here (https://goo.gl/forms/WQ2VOJwRsn9yWTfC3) to get a beta invite.
All the scientists of the world organized the production of the reports together since 1990, supported by almost all governments of the world, including those who would otherwise benefit from bigger fossil fuel use. The conclusion is: human-made climate change, and if nothing is done, the effects are dire.

Note: there was no scientific valid input that would disprove the human-caused climate change, and believe me, different countries would push hard had they been.

The first report was produced 1990, the fifth, updated 2014, here it is the full "synthesis" part of the report, PDF, 14 MB:

http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FINAL_f...

A little longer explanation then mine in Wikipedia:

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

Additionally, it is proved, by looking at the yearly reports, year after year, that Exxon finances the "deniers." Just to give you the idea how you can possibly doubt: when there's a TV show to be made, there's one real scientist, to represent all the scientists of the world, and on another side a paid pre-selected person to pose as the "alternative view."

So the public sees "oh, it's 50:50." It's not, it's rather more like 99.9:0.1. You can always find some extremists, even among the scientists. But even those found "denying" are typically from some other branch of science, effectively out of their range of expertise.

The another reason for what appears to be 50:50 is that the politicians of a whole big US party, almost without the exception, identify themselves with the financiers and "dance the denial."

The big interested financiers can't disprove it, but they can produce enough confusion to prevent some political decisions to occur, and that is good enough for them. Relatively little money (for them) gives them a lot. That the whole planet is affected, they don't care.

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Edit: answer to your "ocean temperatures":

Now, it's really measured. For the past, a lot of work:

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/proxies/paleocli...
American here, and I completely agree. I would love for my state to legalize marijuana and not be beholden to the whims of the current president (since it's still illegal at the federal level). Another thing I'd like to try would be a basic income guarantee with corresponding removal of minimum wage (but again, there's a federal minimum wage).

> Similarly, if Trump appoints a conservative who wants Roe v Wade overturned, states that want to maintain abortion could do so, right?

Yeah, but a lot of people aren't content with that. Some people want to force it to be legal everywhere, even in states that wouldn't otherwise want it.
Make whiteboard video manually without expensive software
Elon Musk is serious about tunnels
Dropcam Founder and Nest Executive Greg Duffy Is Heading to Apple
The most novel part of that article for me was all the way at the end:

> But what about the existing starter homes built after WWII, aren't they still affordable?

> Well, no. The big problem of a starter home is that it's only cheap when it is first built, because it is barebone. Once the owners start making the house theirs to accommodate the growing needs of the family, the house gets bigger and more luxurious. Every addition to the house results in higher market value because of increased desirability. So once the original owners are ready to move out, the house is no longer a starter home, but a big, well-furnished home from which the owner will expect to recover the costs of remodeling.

> That is the issue of the "starter home" or "grow home" idea. That home is only affordable once, for its first owners. So for every generation to get its "starter home", every generation has to build entirely new neighborhoods in greenfield areas, where land is cheap. When a metropolitan area matures, this ideal no longer works, the greenfield areas are just too far and are disconnected from the city. So, what can be done?

Not only is it expensive to buy a home, you can't even buy one cheap that somebody else got for cheap because they've (likely) made it more valuable by making it more liveable for themselves!
> And to be fair, almost everything the NYT says about the US is negative, too.

Not the same way that the NYT portrays India. They repeatedly reuse racist stereotypes in their coverage - even in their headlines. I've never seen anything quite so appalling in their coverage on the US. It's a whole new level. It's gotten a lot worse since 2013/2014, which is when Barry and Baquet took over.

And sometimes they can't even be bothered to do the most basic fact-checking or even issue corrections to online articles about India, the way they almost always do for US coverage or coverage of other regions. It's really awful.
And it takes a lot more resources than a device that doesn't have the overhead of Java....
In my opinion, the AMA and the FDA are the main blockers of machines replacing doctors (outside of surgery). Nurses can do, and to a large extent already are doing the majority of the data collection. Beyond that, the doctor's main differentiable skill is pattern-matching and decision making based on experience. Machines with mountains of data generally perform this function much better than humans.

That said, I do agree that we likely won't see the full potential of replacing doctors with machines in the near term simply due to the political and regulatory hurdles, as well as the need to overcome the fear of the public and address the very real and significant privacy issues.

As to anesthesiology, I've actually done some work for a startup in that space working on a system that could very easily move anesthesiologists to a more supervisory role where they would watch (say) 50 surgeries at once (surgeries being handled by software tied into all monitors, as well as EMR systems for history and physical data, and able to dispense chemicals as needed) and step in if and when there was a problem. Technically, there is not much really stopping it, but politics and regulations present significant impediments (and probably rightly so, for now).
Facebook Stories is being testing to compete with Snapchat
Where states are leaving or threatening to leave, and where the bureaucracies seem completely unconnected with the voters? I think not.
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I currently work under an MBA manager. It is very frustrating. Deadlines are unrealistic, micromanagement is the norm, and if things don't go according to their deadlines they threaten.
Alan Kay once said (at an Erlang conference):

"By the time the software engineering of a language gets in good shape, the language has become obsolete in terms of 'needed expressiveness'. [Therefore] in a 'Real' computer science, the best languages should serve as the 'assembly code' for the next generation of expression!" [1]

He then proposed the hypothetical question: "What should Erlang be an assembly code for?" [2]

I'm not sure if he knew about Elixir..

[1] https://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY?t=30m39s
[2] https://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY?t=36m49s
So You Want to Build a Slack Bot?
> React Native gives you many of those benefits, but since it compiles to actual native code you can't reuse your code for a browser app.

It is entirely possible to reuse your React Native code on the web, especially thanks to projects like react-native-web[1].

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
1kb RAM and 25k of flash is impressively low for Javascript engines for embedded system. I know it is still heavy for MCUs. Other JS engine implementations like Ducktape [1] and Jerryscript [2] takes more than 10kb of RAM and 150 of FLASH. Javascript is simply much heavier you might think. But I personally don't see any benefits neither.

[1] http://duktape.org/

[2] http://jerryscript.net/
And the US has primaries. Last year there were 17 Republicans all trying to win their party's nomination in a series of open votes; out of those, the eventual winner, Donald Trump, was perhaps the candidate least liked by the party establishment.

If anything, the problem was too many candidates, combined with a first-past-the-post system. The majority of primary voters disliked Trump, but were split between several preferred candidates (who I group because they were far more similar to each other than to Trump). Trump got a certain segment of the vote all to himself.
Be careful; it currently relies on the Objecive-C runtime which is not present on non-Apple platforms.

As the PR says, it also doesn't handle turning throwing functions into errors, nor does it check for collisions.

Another thing you can do is declare a function pointer type in C and assign to it from Swift by calling a C setter function (more or less a small trampoline).
What proposal are you referring to? I'm not advocating for treating gifted students as teaching aids. I am advocating for an educational environment that serves the interests of all students.
Ask HN: How many points you have
I have been contributing to HN from last 2 years or so and have just 268 karma points. How many you have and what you do?
In Googology, these kinds of operations are viewed almost the same as multiplying by a large constant. The result of everything you just did would be considered still in the neighborhood of Rayo's number, even if you did it rn^^^rn times. These people have a whole other notion of what "order of magnitude" means.
>The performance overhead of the script-heavy init system that preceded it is in fact one of the core design points of systemd.

No this really isn't a primary design goal in systemd at all. In fact, Lennart Poettering even lists that misconception as myth number two on http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
Get One Thing Right
So you advocate mandatory public education? In fact mandatory boarding public education? -- I can think of no other way to avoid intellectual segregation as surely their are more 'gifted' children in Berkeley than Compton.

So much for the land of the free...

To the point: you are arguing that segregating students by capability increases income inequality - which is false to disingenuous over generations.
Hope I'm not spamming too much with this link, but we just threw together a google form for people who are outside of north america and would like try it out. We'll just invite you to be beta testers.

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A single payer system significantly throttles what physicians can charge. They are paid per visit, so you do get this kind of behavior.

If you look at the average earnings, Canadian physicians make ~320K gross salary [1], but they need to pay expenses out of that (reception staff, office, etc.). They do well, but they are not in strata of hedge fund managers.

We should probably just pay them a flat rate, but on the balance the Canadian system is much more cost effective than the US free market system.

[1] http://globalnews.ca/news/2898641/how-much-is-your-doctor-ma...
A single payer system significantly throttles what physicians can charge. They are paid per visit, so you do get this kind of behavior.

If you look at the average earnings, Canadian physicians make ~320K gross salary [1], but they need to pay expenses out of that (reception staff, office, etc.). They do well, but they are not in the strata of hedge fund managers.

We should probably just pay them a flat rate, but on the balance the Canadian system is much more cost effective than the US free market system.

[1] http://globalnews.ca/news/2898641/how-much-is-your-doctor-ma...
Not only GitHub but the specific user's account could be compromised through e.g. a weak or reused password.

In the general case, you should be fine. Even more so if the person whose GitHub account you are authorizing regularly checks their keys for suspicious activity.
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>You'd be surprised the amount of people who very seriously say "Global warming isn't real! There's snow outside!".

That's because, in a mistaken campaign to get people motivated, AGW activists say "See how hot it is today? Global warming is the reason!" Remember how the northern ice cap was supposed to be gone by 2013? Polar bears extinct?

If you don't want people on the other side to make arguments based on today's weather, you have to call out the people doing it on your side.
How do we distinguish between this and snake oil? Most people remain very grateful to their snake oil salesman.
I think the latter manager is a somewhat common example of a poor engineer who escapes engineering by moving to management, but then also makes a poor product/people manager to.
Not that you have to be good at one to be good at the other, but some people just aren't good at either.
Ok, but I wasn't referring to democracy as a general concept, because that's useless. Why not just say "people vote"?
If by 'Atom' you mean the editor, then pretty much yes. Electron [1] is a refactoring of Atom to an application framework. Microsoft's VScode [2] editor is an example of a commercial grade application built on the platform. I say 'pretty much yes' because Electron is designed to hit the sweet spot of desktop apps and not really be explicitly browser based...so your mileage or opinion may vary.

[1]: http://electron.atom.io/

[2]: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Meitu, the startup behind the selfie app that just blew up in the U.S
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As awful as this is, it seems completely legal since the executive agencies operate at the mercy of the President. The President has the authority to tell the EPA to stop researching climate science, or to even disband the EPA.

Have we never considered this scenario before? Has there ever been an attempt to establish independent agencies, not subject to the whims of the White House? (IIRC, maybe the CIA or the FBI are independent agencies?)
I believe that the standard libraries are considered idiomatic code examples.
Nothing cooler for mission critical than

$(window).on('scroll', function() {
if ($('.some-class-matching-one-element-in-a-tree-of-one-hundred-thousand').offset().top > $(window).scrollTop()) {
$('.some-class-matching-one-element-in-a-tree-of-one-hundred-thousand').on('click', function() {
if ($(this).closest('.some-other-random-class').hasClass('selected')) {
$(this).closest('.some-other-random-class').addClass('.blue-background');
$('.some-class-matching-one-element-in-a-tree-of-one-hundred-thousand').removeClass('selected');
}
}
}
});

Then when you have terrible mobile performance you just tell the stakeholders that if they want good performance they need to pay you more to then make a native app.

jQuery(which was really sizzle) was a plague because it allowed garbage developers to search the entire DOM over and over and over again(aka get shit done bro). This would clobber the performance in mobile devices because JavaScript is single threaded and lead to the idea that JavaScript itself was unsuited for mobile applications.

Sorry, its garbage for anything but spicing up a WordPress site.
Why is there any threat of these databases going away?
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Not a paper, but this NASA site is pretty good:

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

(Better hurry before it gets taken down…)

Or look at the IPCC's Synthesis Report:

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...
thanks, missed that part.