skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try these languages in order of ascending difficulty: C, assembly, Delphi, Ada, C++

After that, you'll understand that Java is on the spectrum of "easy" programming languages.

The IDEs are very helpful by the way. You only need one SDK, which is a single download.
https://github.com/reactjs/redux
>Total chaos. 15 years planning. More than ten years of construction. Maybe open 2018. Maybe. 7 years late. 7 billion Euro and rising.

A public infrastructure project going late (even decades late) or not happing at all due to bad planning and over-budget is an everyday occurence in almost every country, from the US to China, and from Spain to Brazil.

To give that one as an example of "total chaos" really makes the parent's point about Germany being particularly orderly.
I think these sort of anecdotes about genius mathematicians are rather disheartening. For many students, math is a struggle, even with the advantages of a good education. Hearing about how such-and-such a person derived the whole of number theory from an old Sesame Street book they found in the trash just makes me feel dumb in comparison.

If anything, the examples given suggest that mathematical geniuses will find a way to contribute whatever the obstacles in their way. But what about the majority of students who are turned off the subject because they don't have the same drive and natural ability? What's fragile isn't the abilities of savants, but the belief of the average person that math is something they can do, rather than the preserve of the super-intelligent.
They did in the beginning, not so much now I guess. The worst thing was when the removed all the actual writers from films and replaced them with the official writers, due to a deal with the WGA or similar.
Thank you for your humane and reassuring response to an insipid and puerile article.
The statement as quoted does not make the argument you claim it does. Perhaps the person who were speaking with elaborated in order to make that point though.

Coming from a Christian perspective however, I would agree in general people have evidence to believe in God. I don't intend the quote from the Bible below to serve as an sort of evidence. This would not be a logical line of reasoning for someone who does not believe in the truth of the Bible. However, it may serve to further clarify my position.

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." -- Romans 1:20
Cuban charter flights to Canada used to dog-leg around the eastern region, nearly doubling their duration.

You can also see why the Polar 'over the top' routes became so popular when the USSR dissolved.
>I am still somehow annoyed by this because I prefer to sit alone in my thoughts and enjoy the ride than having small talks with the driver.

You can sit in the back just as well, there's no rule you need to sit on the front. Most sit in the back.
Yes, one should help the targets of bullies to be resilient. In addition to that, one should make it clear that bullying is unacceptable.

And, perhaps, depending on the forum and the degree of confidence that you have the whole story, one should take action against the bullies.
On the bright side, your potatoes would be less boring, because of more diversity on your plate. Now variety might not be enough though: many humans, but we still had plaques.
"National Asphalt Pavement Association", it's like America has a lobby for everything.
>And no, no cab driver in the US would pull a gun on you for trying to sit in the front seat.

Try doing that in certain neighborhoods and not looking very white and trustworthy. If the driver even stops for you, that is.
Most of this article seems to be complaints about using Javascript, a dynamically-typed and interpreted language, vs using a statically typed compiled language like Scala. The author also seems to dislike the idea of client-side logic and data fetching, as opposed to server-driven.

A number of the comments about React are very overstated or overblown. For example:

> Since the two versions of virtual DOMs are mutually independent, the React framework has no idea about what is going on in data sources, randomly guessing processing operations depending on just these two DOMs. This kind of algorithm is extremely slow and inaccurate.

In reality, unless the component tree is dramatically changed (such as changing to an entirely different screen), the new VDOM contents are likely to be almost identical to the previous contents. React makes a number of educated assumptions about the structure of a VDOM tree to efficiently diff the changes. That does take processing time, but saying it is "slow and inaccurate" is just silly.

Ultimately, this article seems to be mostly about bashing React and trying to sell the author's Scala HTML bindings library instead.
If you bring up opportunity cost, I think it's also worth mentioning Pascal's wager[0]. I don't believe in this argument, but it's an interesting point to consider.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
>Then you have to ask these people to let you pass.

Which is not obvious. And is not the case in most other places in the world I've known.
Big thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450244
It is impossible to know if your decade of trials and 100 million is too much or too little without also analysing the amount saved not approving rejected or harmful drugs.
It was sarcasm. I think the open office creating a need for headphone culture when people are being paid to do deep thinking is stupid.
Uber pays a Bounty if you find a bug in their app
Open offices don't look modern. The steno pool from a '50s enterprise was open office.

Open office allows companies to save dozens of dollars per employee in rent per month, which is visible and measurable.
Creativity and productivity, on the other hand, is not.
>Why didn't you just pass the checkout line?

Because those lines are obviously filled with people with stuff on their hands or carts, blocking easy access?

And because in 99% of the world the purpose of such lines are just to pay, and you can just walk out as you came in if you didn't buy anything...
Try going back seventy years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
United States. I need to look again but I don't think there's the option to permanently delete. Just some kind of generic notice like "your data will eventually be permanently deleted"... eventually, like the heat death of the universe.
At the very least, the DHS shouldn't have free reign over flights that don't actually go into, from or even over the US.
This! The negativity regarding Unity is hurting Linux. So many people I know who tried a switch in the last couple of years were put off Linux because their Linux-friends pushed them to Mate or Xfce, running on Arch, or something similar. Those friends heavily warned against Unity and Ubuntu as if they were the devil. Showing those who were interested in a switch what a modern Linux desktop looks and feels like was a revelation to them.
Ironic really considering you are actually the only one who is actually able to give your work full attention as they are constantly being distracted by each other. The perception of work != actual work.
i.e., distributed systems.
A lego sorting machine by shape and color would be so great
Research shows that listening to music engages the creativity part of the brain so it's not used for the work you do at the same time. Headphones are NOT an adequate substitute for a writer office for a creative knowledge worker.
I used https://www.vcorpservices.com/ to form an S Corp and found them to be very good.
Now that green skittles have changed from "lime" to "apple" (my lawsuit regarding calling the flavor assortment "original" will be filed any day now), I need a machine like this to sort the green ones into the trash where they belong.
A couple years ago I read a book by a medical researcher who basically advocated the same thing. The key though is effective tracking of patient results after approval.
Though 4chan does have moderators.
WindowBlinds is a very old program - consider it started on OS/2. It used to be very popular back in 90s and 2000s, but its popularity have dropped the last few years. Still, if you find any alternative Windows theme on places like DeviantArt chances are it is made for WindowBlinds. It isn't wildly popular, but it isn't unknown either.
...he posted, on an online comment system.

edit: before the parent comment was edited, the most charitable reading of the comment was that internet commenting systems have a net negative effect on humanity
I had the same problem and just did the paperwork myself.

I am in California so this information will only apply to people there. Obligatory, I am not a lawyer.

Pre steps:

- pick a name that is available: https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

- Register the domain name you are going to use

- Get a mailbox (like one at the UPS store, NOT a PO Box!) to use as your business address so you will not have to use your home address if it bothers you.

Now, for the real stuff -

1) Get a registered agent (even if you want to do it yourself, I recommend getting one anyway). I used freeregisteredagent.com for 1 year free. Required before you file the next step.

2) File an LLC-1 (http://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/llc/forms/llc-1.pdf) articles of organization. It requires a $70 filing fee, send off the form and $70 money order.

3) Grab an EIN from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

4) Wait for the Secretary of State of send a copy of the file articles of organization (form LLC-1). Now, file a Statement of Information, form LLC-12: http://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/llc/forms/llc-12.pdf This is due within 90 days of the file date (on the filed LLC-1 form) All the information here will become public information. Send that in to the SoS with a $20 money-order and wait.

5) Use your filed articles of organization, the EIN you got in step 3, and a state issued personal ID to get a bank account. US Bank and CapitalOne Spark have free checking accounts for business, you can also try a credit union as local ones have them for free.

6) Look for any local licenses you need, some cities require business licenses, some require a "Business Operation Tax" (BOT) certificate - check your city or county website(s). CalGold is useful: http://www.calgold.ca.gov/

7) Conduct business, keep records, etc

Recurring items:

- An $800 minimum tax is due every year to the state of California.

- You must file a new LLC-12 (if the information has changed) or an LLC-12NC (if nothing about your LLC has changed) biannually (every two years).

See all forms here: http://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/fo...
Diplomacy is mentioned by an audience member briefly during the Q/A session at the end of the video, near the ~49 minutes mark.
There are some sections of Autobahn built with concrete slabs and they are terrible, even if it were for the noise alone [1]. But they are also problematic when it gets hot -- warped slabs and slabs being lifted into the air by pressure (since the slabs expand) happen regularly. And they are also problematic when it's wet. In other words, they're always problematic.

Concrete Autobahn is mostly replaced with proper asphalt Autobahn when a section is renewed.

[1] Since it's Autobahn many people don't drive a cosy 140 km/h (85 mph) but rather 160-250 km/h (100-160 mph) [and when the road is free 300 km/h, 190 mph, are observed regularly] so I assume the noise is worse on the Autobahn than on concrete highway.
Well Apple stopped supporting 10.8, so why should Go continue to support it?

ARM6 support is a lot of work, actually, as IIUC a lot of stuff that the chip doesn't support needs to be done in software, and we don't have a reliable platform for testing against ARM6.
This isn't space unilaterally claimed by the US. It is delegated by the ICAO, as one of the articles using that image mentions [1]. If the US has the infrastructure to control that airspace, and typically charges less than nearby countries such as Canada, then I see no objection to US control.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air#First_free...
The end of the level playing field
Application-wide search with Elixir/Ecto and Postgres
I had no idea what you were trying to do in the first paragraph whereas without knowing much ruby I can easily read the intent of the second.
I think there's somewhat of a gap between "junior" and "junior/intermediate", but given my understanding of university / bootcamp curricula, it's probably both the case that it's unrealistic to expect junior devs to have meaningful testing experience and that it's essential to make sure that potential hires have some awareness / positive attitude toward testing as part of software development.
Can you suggest another presentation tool that makes it as easy to author and maintain slides? Nothing like this existed when Rob and I wrote present.
It can take $100 million and a decade of clinical trials to:

* Prove that it's safe, some drugs can actually kill you. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/15/french-drug-tr...

* Prove that it's better than the current drugs/treatment. Moreover, prove that it's actually better than nothing or a minimal health care. I remember a few articles that about how powerful are placebos, that is actual a misleading title about how week are some drugs.
>then I see no objection to US control.

The fact that it seems to give the US free rein to kidnap any passengers entering that area doesn't strike you as problematic?
it's italian for "trip" (or school trip, or field trip), the mother company here is Piaggio which is an italian manufacturer.
Bay Area Conservatives “Live a Secret Life,” “In Fear for Their Safety”
An interesting comment from Reddit user /u/Viperdriver69:

I had a similar situation happen in Surprise, AZ a couple years ago. I was turning base to ILS final at Luke AFB after a night sortie in an F-16, when my canopy turned in to a green orb. I immediately called approach and asked if I could terminate the approach, and have a block of altitude from 6-8k 5 miles North of the field. As they were coordinating it, i unstowed the targeting pod, turned on my IR pointer, and slaved the beam right back at the source. I found a group of people in a backyard around a pool. It crossed my mind to switch to laser and give them a little taste of combat mode but didn't want to blind 6 yo timmy's bday party, so instead I grabbed the coordinates, passed them to approach, set back up on final and landed. After debrief I called approach who gave me the number to maricopa county sheriff who confirmed they had a suspect in custody! Such satisfaction...
> HTML is a string of characters (syntax). The DOM is a data structure (semantics). [...] S-expressions are a data structure, different from the DOM, but S-expression syntax is a syntax.

I believe this is where the confusion is coming from. When you parse HTML syntax, you get a data structure; this is the same as when you read sexpr syntax, you also get a data structure. Both these data structures are different from the DOM tree.

Try this example:

<pre>
<span>one
</span>
<br>
<span>two</span>
<br />
</pre>

Can CL-WHO generate HTML that matches that? (i.e. feed both into a tool like BeautifulSoup and produce the same data structure?)

Outside of CL-WHO and Hiccup-type libraries, you can of course use S-exprs to represent the same data structure. Here's a hypothetical S-expr syntax that might produce the same data structure:

((pre)
"\n " (span) "one\n " (/span)
"\n " (br)
"\n " (span) "two" (/span)
"\n " (br/) "\n"
(/pre))

Which is what I believe JimDabell meant by:

> you can't represent all valid HTML documents as S-expressions, at least not in the convenient way people assume
I like to watch presentations of technical talks while I'm doing cooking/housework. Do you have any link, perhaps on youtube, that gives me an intro?
The convergence of 3 big ideas in graph computing:

1. D4M: Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model

http://www.mit.edu/~kepner/D4M/ GraphBLAS: http://graphblas.org

Achieving 100M database inserts per second using Apache Accumulo and D4M https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465141

MIT D4M: Signal Processing on Databases [video] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62DPmPLrVyY...

2. Topological / Metric Space Model

Fast and Scalable Analysis of Massive Social Graphs
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/temp/rigel.pdf

Quantum Processes in Graph Computing - Marko Rodriguez [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRoAInXxgtc

3. Propagator Model

Revised Report on the Propagator Model https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/propagators/

Constraints and Hallucinations: Filling in the Details - Gerry Sussman [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxknB4SgvM

We Really Don't Know How to Compute - Gerry Sussman [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

Propagators - Edward Kmett - Boston Haskell [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyPzPeOPgUE
Because you manage to make do, everyone else must be whiners or special snowflakes? I've been in many office setups and am objectively more productive and have better succeeding teams. Thankfully I have plenty of options now and don't have to put up with "making do".
>Your ethnicity isn't being discrimated against, just your country's economics circumstances.

Restricting people, no matter their ethnicities, based on their country's circumstances is generally frowned upon. Especially when it only affects citizens of a few countries. "Well, this law only applies to <action> Too bad only people from these countries perform these <actions>"

Besides, your claim that the money is being laundered is highly speculative and unproven. That's the definition of painting with a wide brush - because most money is suspect, you cut off access to all of it?
A number of countries rely on FDA approval rather than performing their own testing and approval process.

These countries typically do have significantly cheaper drug costs.

You seem to be implying that drug companies regularly release their products in other markets a decade earlier than US. There definitely are some examples of this, but it is not the norm.
Could you elaborate? After running for days / weeks/ months the output is a net that can do inference in seconds, or with some now-common techniques milliseconds with only small reductions in accuracy. These nets can then be deployed to phones to solve a rapidly increasing number of identification tasks, everything from plants to cancer.

The time from theoretical paper to widely deployed app is smaller in DL than in any other field I have experience with.
20 years ago I did some software to analyze satellite images of the Amazon to monitor deforestation. We got a result that matched the quality of human experts. The problem has always been political and economical, not technological.
the text says that in environments it knows it can travel by itself, and handle obstaclers and stuff.

AIU the operational concept should be: show the thing one route once and it will be able to retrace it.
NFL ratings were down all season
The paradox powering Earth’s magnetic field
I would guess fashion-interest is a better selector for positive interaction than female. Try an all-female board about veganism and watch them eat each other alive in a race to the righteousness bottom.
To be fair, you can do that right now with unsafe.Pointer, but of course it's better to have a compile time checked version of it.
Programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding (2014)
A number of statistical and machine learning techniques have "gone mainstream" in astronomical research right now, so it has made a very exciting time. There is even a good textbook out now on the subject, Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data by Ivezic that we used for a graduate seminar series. This mostly focuses on Bayesian inference and simple techniques like clustering algorithms, support vector machines, etc. and not super fancy "deep convolutional neural networks" like I see on HN most days :)

A funny anecdote makes me wonder actually if there have been barriers to uptake in astronomy. You would think huge datasets and low manpower would be the perfect recipe for machine learning! Well, historically cheap labor could solve this by throwing undergrads at this. I actually even categorized ~10,000 maps of interstellar clouds by eye for one project (it took about a week if you don't count the time to write the GUI). The anecdote though was that one of the other grad students in the department was telling me how he was working on applying machine learning techniques to classifying galaxy morphological types. They had somewhere around 100,000 galaxies to type from their survey. But, they first applied to the citizen science organization Galaxy Zoo, and were featured as a project. They submitted classification instructions and the data, and it was completed in... less than 24 hours. He told me afterwards that, with how easy and fast it was, why bother spending weeks writing and tuning some neural network yourself?

This made my wonder whether if Galaxy Zoo and other citizen science projects are such good resources, would it stymie the need for incorporating machine learning techniques into most projects? There are huge projects like the SKA (mentioned in the article) and LSST that will give torrents of data. Those might be too large for citizen science, and there are advantages to objective statistical methods to begin with.
Desktop dies on weekends
You still have not given reasons why you think that people who aren't Canadian citizens should be allowed to buy Canadian property, or that the fact that you're a "local" by some definition of the word gives you some sort of special insight or moral authority on the matter.
Brilliant. Never owned an Amiga back in the day (constantly jealous of the superior graphics/sound) so I'm not familiar with the architecture, but it's impressive what you can do with even a low tier FPGA
You’re missing the point. Nearly all the corn grown and sold in the USA is a few varieties, and one goal of industrial agriculture is perfect uniformity of output. If you go look at Mexican peasant farms from 50+ years ago (and going back millennia), you’ll see corn of every conceivable size and color, differing broadly from region to region, and locally matched to each particular micro-climate. Same story for all crops grown traditionally in their regions of origin, which usually have thousands of varieties with diverse traits.

Whether they are planted continuously, or rotated with other crops, etc., doesn’t change the fundamental lack of genetic diversity in our modern industrial agriculture system.
Aw, that's a bit harsh. It's true that all the Kafkas are welcome here in their own right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven's_Progressive_Matrices
At a previous job my manager complained incessantly about my arrival and leave times but could not find an instance where I wasn't responsive, available, and getting done everything that needed to be.

The reason I wasn't more responsive to his complaints was that I'd watch him spend his entire day at his computer either browsing facebook or reading sports blogs.

It feels so backwards.