skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, the problem with Nim (as well as D) is the lack of big player support jump starting public opinion.

Languages are inherently vendor-locked* (There isn't any way to foolproofly translate code from language A to language B), so I won't write code in a language which may disappear tomorrow or drop support for my system.

* It's true that there's no real vendor lock-in by OS code, but unless there's a large community around the language which can pick up where the inventor dropped off (like C), you're on your own, and unlike small projects, languages have huge codebases which also require specialized knowledge to maintain.
> you could not use bizdev capabilities in DRM to be able to push your browser

How is another browser different from a "secondary app"? It's the same thing.
I didn't downvote you because you replied to me, and apparently I can't.

In my opinion, you didn't add much to the conversation and then with that last crack you did a snarky mic drop where you totally blew it.

I like to ask questions, perhaps with a careful dash of snark if I think I can flash out with some wit, and keep the conversation going.

For example, I might reply to you,

> Which is why human engage in mate selection and are great at multiplying.

Are we really selecting mates based on any useful criteria? It seems random to me, rarely based chiefly on reproductive fitness.

... and then someone smart chimes in with a technocratic article on how we DO (for the most part) select based on X number of traits that increase the survivability of our offspring - and we roll on for a bit more and I learn new things.
Shorthand is one of those magical things that seems nice to know but looks like learning a different language.
Ways to protect yourself from being credit card scammed
Yes. But everything is tradeoffs. Some people are apparently ok with less battery life instead of Google Play Services. Its been a very big critique of Signal for I long time.

Personally, I think it is a pretty poor critique but this allows people to make that choice for themselves, which for some people is important.
To see if a word is pronounceable. I'm connecting it to another app for word filtering
I find it weird that the case is called a "bug" multiple times. Sure, if its o(n^2), that's a problem, but if the code works correctly at the end, it's not a bug.
We know very little about the bacteria in our gut. Take it from someone who had to get surgery because of ulcerative colitis. Things might fuck up in your intestinal system and doctors who have been in the field for 20 years can only shrug. There's no book on that, I'd not suggest trying to fuck with your intestinal system (antibiotics + probiotics) like there's some science behind it. There isn't.
I think you're jumping to the conclusion that that's the point. Certainly many see removing the power possessions have over us as a positive, but art around this subject could be exploring it from different angles, and I don't see that stated anywhere in this installation. It could well be a celebration of consumerism[1], or just an exploration of obsession over possession.

[1] Worth noting, the installation is sponsored by shopify
I think that perhaps the most interesting part of this article is that it comes from a blog called 'accidentallyquadratic' with more than one entry.
Fermented vegetables and fermented fish no problem, raw fermented pork? Sounds horrific till you remember it's the same thing as salami, delicious.
Some of our customers use a "document control system" called Asite[1]. This is, without a doubt, the worst piece of software I have ever had to use.

[1]: http://www.asite.com/
PanelKit – a UI framework that enables panels on iOS
Mike Monteiro’s Fuck You, Pay Me is a good watch on this topic.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1
Startup idea matrix
No, not being weird at all! :)

This video does a good job showing the differences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM68SNtODqs

If you do decide to get a pair, note that they need some time to break in; mine were uncomfortable at first!
>Another interesting tidbit noted by many anthropologists is that boasting is strictly forbidden.

Are you saying that this applies to every tribe in the world? Because if so, I don't buy it. It's too far fetched that every tribe in the world except everyone who advanced past the hunter gatherer stage would share this cultural trait. Aside from it being unreasonable that all tribes would share this trait, it would also seem to imply that modest people cannot advance to the modern age, which is also difficult to swallow.
Same story with no paywall: https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/for-generation-z-live-c...
I use Linux and I always have problems with this. Which stack (eg. distro, desktop environment) are you using?

I finally gave up and made shell scripts using ARandR and bound them as keyboard shortcuts.
"Hacker News" is a bit of a misnomer. Submissions need neither be for hackers (in the strict, "person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data" sense) or even current. From the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Edit to add:

HN also strongly values civil, constructive discourse. Given some of your other comments, I suspect what you're interpreting as censorship is the community reacting to the tone and language of your comments. Also, while there has been plenty of politics on HN recently (for a variety of reasons), HN isn't primarily for ideological discourse: HN members are likely reacting to that, as well.

I get the impression that this isn't your first account on HN. If that's the case, I hope you can find HN to be productive for you as part of the community with this new account.
The head of HR wasn't reported, that's what I believe it happen. That's why now it is on duty. I think this has happen in middleground, not the highest spheres. Well, the CTO is involved, and as manager, he had to work on that matter from day 1. The CTO will not be kicked, of course, but it tells you how much the company will do with this.
Gold is heavy, corrosion-resistant, shiny, pliant, and scarce. For those reasons, it makes a good coin. But you can't eat or drink a coin. Its value is still based on being able to exchange it for a coconut.

Why don't you take a break from patting yourself on the back and explain to us simpletons the inherent value of a currency?
I inherited my dad's book collection. The more interesting ones (to me) are the ones where he wrote notes in the margins, often amplifying or disagreeing with the author.
Money still buys you a lot of upgrades to your $70 internet. Ad campaigns, talented copy writers, data scientist, psychologists, computing resources for data analysis, large training datasets, cross-channel promotion (e.g. internet + billboards), astroturfers, community management, marketing, focus groups.

The amateur hour will come to an end. Especially now that the presidential election campaign has shown us how it's done.
I don't think that's true at all. University cafeteria's are very expensive in my experience (at least in the U.S.).
It's probably a pretty good strategy to use if you have nothing else to go on.
Seems mostly like The Matthew Effect[1], with a touch of Stigler's law of eponymy[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Sociology_of_sc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy
That's the link in the article.
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Maybe the cheap ones have improved since I last used one. I owned about three cheap ones over a span of about eight years before getting the Zojirushi. Two failed, and one I gave away when I got the Zojirushi. In my experience, the quality was just very different.

I used to steam and cook rice on the same pot, but didn't really like the flavors dripping down (broccoli juice is kinda bitter and weird in rice or pasta) so I stopped doing it. But I guess it's a good feature if you like that sort of thing, and it's true the Zojirushi doesn't work for that. It just makes rice and grains (oats, porridge, etc.) really well, consistently.
For some reason, I thought this is about the update step in games that happens once per 'tick', that is, the physics engine loop. It's about lossless compression and downloading update packages though. That's also fine with me.
>Pursuant to the topic, though, leadership pays more and therefore is populated by sexist men hiring each other.

Is there any evidence this is true?
I happen to have written the DLL this app uses, and boy collecting that information can be time consuming. It's mind-boggling how Microsoft still can't come up simple APIs for their new features.

Most annoying part for me with Windows 10's virtual desktops is simple thing: flashing task bar buttons appear on all desktops! It drove me nuts, every time I was focusing on some other desktop, some annoying program flashed it's button and it appeared on the desktop I was using.

I happen to have written a in-memory patch for explorer.exe to disable flashing task bar buttons all together. AHK script also: https://github.com/Ciantic/DisableFlashingTaskbarButtons
I don't understand. By your argument, and some of the replies, because "you're not guaranteed a goroutine will run at any particular time", the compiler is free to elide any suffix of a goroutine's code, even if that code has visible side effects.

I think there is something more specific to atomic going on here, where the same kinds of optimizations are already forbidden for other kinds of visible side effects like printing.
I did, in fact, also recently buy a Guardian subscription. :)
I guess it depends on what you think center is. I think the general culture, including mainstream media, is currently swung right of center.

For example, the Affordable Care Act was essentially a copy of a plan originally put forth by Republicans, but now conservatives oppose it as some type of radical leftist socialism. The EPA was created by a Republican administration. Reagan granted amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants. The Republican party has moved to the right and dragged the culture with it.

I know it's easier to solicit donations and energize the base by pretending you're in some counter-culture fight against those powerful elites, but that is not the truth I see.
Yes it is? Asymptotic complexity is a well defined property of an algorithm. It is an output, and it doesn't match the expected output.
Maybe you can clear up some confusion I have about SAP. All I know is that it is generally customized to the business. How extensive is that customization? Slapping on business logos? Checking boxes to match the logic to current business procedures? Writing custom code?

Edit: Geeze, it has its own wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_implementation
Your question is a red herring. Of course the owners of news organizations have biases, as do the reporters, editors, readers, and everyone else in society. Sometimes the bias is political. Sometimes it is sensationalism. Sometimes the writer doesn't like the color blue.

Every reputable news organization follows the journalistic code of ethics that puts institutional barriers in the way to counteract bias. Reputable outlets require multiple sources to corroborate stories before they go to print. They require printed or verbal disclaimers on any story that could pose a conflict of interest for the outlet or author. They require prompt retractions to be printed if an initial story is found to be factually inaccurate in any way.

It's not a perfect system. No system is. Bad articles can still slip through. Some organizations can adhere to it more than others. But it is way better than anything else humans have come up with to keep the news honest. Most journalists take their roles as arbiters of information very seriously and try to keep their biases out of it, even if they are not always completely successful. That is all anyone could reasonably ask.

Instead of labelling all news media as generically biased and therefore not to be trusted, try to understand that all information will have a bias and learn to identify specific incidents of it. Then learn to work around it by reading other sources with different biases, thereby getting the whole picture of a story. It is the news media's job to TRY to be as unbiased as possible. It is the news reader's job to TRY and be as informed as possible by reading varied news from different sources. Neither side will be perfect, as both are full of imperfect human elements, but overall it leads to a reasonably informed and educated populace, which of course is the goal of journalism.

And if you do not agree with what I have said here, I have a follow up question for you... if the current news organizations are so terrible and inherently biased, what alternative would you propose? What is your idea of a perfect, unbiased media landscape? And would your alternative truly lead to a less biased media or just a media with biases you happen to agree with?
I've been tossing around a design for a "dumbphone" that only has "extensions" rather than apps. You can define feeds of information for it, such as bus schedules, email, and tweets, but that's it. If I can get my soldering up to snuff I may just try to build it.
I've always found Google Play Services was the #1 battery drain on my S7, 15-20% each day even on a brand new/stock build.
I've been pushing for it, but have been meeting resistance. IMHO it seems like a really nice option.
Ginni Rometty keynote on Cognitive systems and the future of healthcare
If it's n^2 it may never return in your lifetime. Does the code work? Nobody knows. It this situation you may consider it a bug.
It's worth noting that the "," in this is the decimal "point", not a thousands separator.
> Being a male, I'm troubled by the fitness of the Y-chromosome over the generations. It seems to me that it can only accumulate errors and mutations.

One possible safety hatch that comes to mind is that it's possible for XX males to exist. There's only one gene on the Y chromosome which has anything to do with male development, the SRY gene, which causes the proto-gonads to develop into testes (all male development following that is the result of the testes producing androgens). During meiosis, it's possible for the SRY gene to break off of the Y chromosome on one sperm and make its way into the X chromosome on the other sperm. When this happens, it's called de la Chapelle syndrome [0].

So if the Y chromosome eventually becomes unusable, we might end up in a future where males are created by inducing de la Chapelle syndrome in vitro by splicing an SRY gene into the zygote.

The only problem is that males with de la Chapelle syndrome are sterile, but I'm sure that if we get to the level of technology where this kind of gene splicing is commonplace, we can come up with some kind of hack to get around it. It's been speculated for a while that eventually we'll develop the technology to make one egg fertilize another in vitro, resulting in a healthy XX zygote, so that's one way (though the eggs wouldn't come from people with de la Chapelle's... which means we wouldn't need to induce it in the first place... so female-only world it is).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome
Sure it will. But there isn't so much they can do about it. Google could.

Still, people asked for an option to use Signal without Play Services, and here it is. Even if it will drain their battery a lot faster. Moxie actually said this beforehand:

> I expect it to have high battery consumption and an unreliable user experience

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12883410
That would depend entirely on who's fiber is installed in your building and where you're located. If it's Fios or Comcast in a major metro market, you could probably get a residential or business line for as low as a few hundred. If it's a major transit provider like Zayo or Level 3 or if you're not in a major market; expect to pay a few thousand dollars.
You, Wu-Tang Clan, and SXSW
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It seems to me that the hardest part about fasting is tolerating the cravings for food.

Do people who fast resort to cheating the hunger urge (prescription pills, foods with no nutritional content, etc)? I know there is a well known and highly-available recreational drug that works extremely well for suppressing the urge to eat.
Boeing has their own font for use in mechanical drafting (probably long gone now due to CAD software). The point was to avoid misunderstandings, and to make it legible even after being badly microfilmed. They were very particular that it be done correctly, too.

I wasn't aware of a course in it, one was just shown an example and told to do it that way.
Hi fellow NY SaaS developer :) I ran a similar report for our year end books, and it's amazing the amount of SaaS it takes to run a SaaS. Or put another way, the incredible ecosystem now available that allows you to focus on your core business.

I don't see any third party Stripe dunning service, did you build something similar yourself? Otherwise it might be worth looking into, it's one of those things that pays itself back in no time.
That's a fair read of the piece, I think I'm trying to subconsciously shoehorn my dislike of minimalism into my interpretation.
Very little in this world is based on absolutes. It's all about the relative costs of one thing vs another.
One thing that always annoys me about the Uber UI is that the oversized cars appear to be moving horribly slowly when they are sometimes actually moving pretty fast. Every time I am waiting for an Uber I find myself wanting to scream at the driver to step on the gas and go at least more than 5 mph which is what it looks like on the UI. The scaling makes it hard to tell the actual speed of the cars and the reasons when they slow down when they actually do slow down. I don't have a good solution to this though. Maybe:

- a car-game-like 3D interface where you can see the view from the driver's seat, moving at the actual sensed speed of the car, with fake (or Street View) scenery whizzing by, so while you are waiting you can see that the driver is actually moving at close to the speed limit.

- render a bunch of other random cars on the road, emulating the actual real-time density of traffic, so if the guy is chugging along slowly I as the user will blame the traffic, not the app or driver

- render rain and snow in the 3D view if that is what is slowing the driver, so I will curse at the weather for creating an unsafe situation and not the driver for going slow

- render ambulances and police cars in the 3D view if a traffic accident is reported, so i will understand that a human is hurt instead of cursing at the Uber app

- show the state of red lights in real time so that when a driver is stopped i know it is for a red light and not lazing around or lost directions. there are enough Uber cars driving around that based on aggregate GPS statistics they should be able to determine the cycle times and phases of every traffic light on major streets.
The fact that a box of 100 blue Bics is (presumably) much cheaper than the Pilot equivalent is an important part of the design for me.
Signal is mainstream enough to have been used by the Clinton campaign in 2016 for internal communication. That's pretty mainstream.
As I said, I've definitely seen some good journalists persisting to this day. Though it's hard to support and defend what Trump's followers refer to as the "mainstream media" when the outlets I've found producing that great work, like The Guardian or The Intercept, aren't really mainstream.
You are confusing rights management and licensing with its technical implementation.

DRM will never go away. Licensing and access is a core part of distribution and even more important now with digital everywhere.

It is far better to have a central standard and streamlined experience today rather than try to maintain a "clean API" which nobody cares about while continuing the terrible performance and security of external plugins.
Is there a reasonable alternative candidate for the "hard part" of fasting?
New Research Shows How 'Atmospheric Rivers' Wreak Havoc Around the Globe
Even the biggest asshole in the world deserves due process.

"He's a bad person and deserves something bad, even if this isn't why he deserves it" is a short-sighted policy that people would never be willing to apply to themselves.

"The ends justify the means" is a pathway to authoritarianism.
The biggest thing on this list is the entire google code base at 2 billion lines of code.

But in the footnote the human genome is 3,300 billion lines of code, amazing.
I see what you're saying and mostly agree, but...

This could totally come up if you have a non factorising multivariate posterior distribution, and you want some sound way to summarise it when you can't reason from the marginals alone.
100. I don't get it. It looks awful at 150.
Yes! And posts dealing with quadratic behavior in languages!
+1. Also, What's often ignored is that many people have inherent problems with hunger, for example due to an untreated adhd.
Fonts that confuse 0 and O, 1 and l, are particularly loathsome.
Using Yubikeys Everywhere
It can be 67 years at the whim of the DA. The maximum punishment is very real and they're just itching to use it.

If it was an unbiased roll of the dice that would be one thing, and the average and the distribution would be meaningful. But when it's arbitrary it doesn't matter what anyone else got, only what you'll get. And if you have any complaints about your treatment, etc, you're immediately in the full-penalty group.
A* is optimal in the sense that it is guaranteed to find the optimal solution (shortest path), there are no guarantees in terms of speed IIRC.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. It's really depends on context.

There are cases where accidental quadratic complexity would definitively be considered a bug. If a fleet of GitHub servers were burning cycles due to a quadratic reject!, I'm pretty sure the engineers would classify the misbehavior as such.
I can't agree with the conclusion. Sure complexity is complex, but the solution here would seem to be better performance analysis of the standard library rather than blindly avoiding risk. How do you know where to stop? All built in block-accepting methods for enumerator types would seem to be equally risky in this analysis.
Amazing that MI5's shills are still at it!

(/s)
I agree, in general, and generally am not a fan of how Democrats are conducting themselves -- they've failed to articulate their vision in a compelling manner, in the language a large portion of the voter-base speaks. (This is mostly what I work on changing in person. That, and they've adopted some bad policy positions.)

This thread is a little different than the general case though, because we're specifically talking about the appropriateness of various agencies talking about brewing scandals and/or internally resisting orders.

For that case, it's perfectly appropriate to point out that the person we're discussing is a nascent dictator and likely Russian collaborator, because it explains why I'm more aggressive on the issue than, say, with Bush.

I appreciate the link, will be doing some reading this afternoon. :)
>Hunter-gatherers generally didn't store meat.

The diversity of cured meats around the world makes this statement suspect. I don't see an agrarian society taking time to discover how to cure meat... why would they, grain stores easier.

Yet every culture has various kinds of preserved meat; Pemmican, European sausages, Kiviak, Hongeohoe, etc.