skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to mailgun after the mandrill "incident" and I have been very happy since. I hope the service will stay stable!
hopefully, Neil DeGrasse Tyson translates for the public
I had a Facebook account before Bush won his second election, in 2004.
> Third, RAII is in practice little more powerful than lexical scoping.

I'm beginning to think that we're all going about things wrong :) . We like and rely on things like RAII, macros, etc. But these are nothing more than specific compiler features.

If we were to take control of generating our own code, we could have RAII, macros, and whatever else we dreamed up, easily. And the generated code could be in some readable, debuggable language, so much more visible and obvious than the results of a macro expansion.

For so long we've relied on an amazing black box called a "compiler", when perhaps we should take on the responsibility ("power") of implementing a compiler ourselves. (We could still, of course, generate some intermediate mainstream language, and then those amazing black boxes could take that as input and apply all their optimizations.

Seems to yield clearer code, less magic, more power, and more portability.
It might seem reactionary, but shouldn't streaming services (Twitch) have rules or guidelines against these kind of endurance streams?
Final interview - this one with the CEO, Mr. Big runs a $4B company.

I know you've met with the senior leadership team. What questions do you have for me?

It's a brilliant question, both disarming and straight to the point. He's looking for how I think. Can this guy solve my problems?
I'm a big fan of Mailgun, but haven't actually sent enough mails in a month yet for them to actually charge me. I wonder what % of their users are the same?
> Everything from citizens having more vested interest (skin in the game) in the future of their lands than noncitizens

An illegal immigrant from a poor country sells everything, and by a stroke of luck is successful in coming to the US. Then they spend some time there (say 15 years).

Surely they have more to lose than a legal qualified immigrant (now a citizen) that spent some 8 years jumping through the hoops? The qualified immigrant could just pick a country at random and have reasonable chance of starting over, while the minimum wage illegal can't do the same (and so has to hope the country doesn't crap itself).

>protection of shared cultural heritage

How much cultural heritage does a white protestant factory worker share with an illegal Chinese immigrant?

Is it more or less than they share with legal Chinese programmer who had recently been granted a citizenship?
The problem with Turing complete implementations is that it is impossible to decide what the code is going to do without running it.
That service is Instacart's product though.
There is actually a little blurb in the linked NYT article on this topic:

Take “learning by doing,” a notion that Professor Arrow examined in the early 1960s. The basic idea is straightforward: The more that a company produces, the smarter it gets. Decades later, economists incorporated this idea into sophisticated theories of “endogenous growth,” which have a country’s rate of economic growth depending on internal policies that promote innovation and education — the very forces that Professor Arrow’s writings anticipated."

edit: I always forget which markdown pieces HN uses/doesn't use. Italicized rather than failed attempt at blockquote
“What's the Typeof Null?”, and Other Confusing JavaScript Types
> So presumably the purpose of this experiment was to quantify just how bad algorithms can be at inferring meaning?

That's a bit harsh, but I agree.

Words & music are both key to understanding a song's "mood". Only looking at words can completely strip the irony/sarcasm off a song (as can only paying attention to the arrangements and melody/harmony.)

How would such analysis even work on artists like Dylan?
It could be because she's been outspoken about the issues surrounding women in tech https://twitter.com/jessfraz . She's dealt with workplace inequality as has been described as going on at Uber https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/uber-sexual-hara... . That isn't to say her portfolio isn't impressive enough on its own.
You don't need any tech to solve this problem. Simply buy two drones.

I'd estimate one falcon costing easily $100K annually, compared to a $300 consumer drone.

The entire concept is incredibly expensive, doesn't scale and comes with no guarantees, but is certainly loved by the media.

Radio signal hijacking and GPS jamming would solve virtually all non-military drone events. But companies pursuing this rarely get a single mention in the news for the actual advances being made in counter drone technology.
He likes to exaggerate http://www.thebesttechpodcastintheworld.com/
The favicon is an avocado. snert. Yeah I get that exact same vibe too.
This is not how things are going to become for developers - http://www.topbagswatches.com/patek-philippe.html
> Smart people will take advantage of this — they’ll contribute patches, issues, and comments upstream to the languages and frameworks that they use on the daily in their job — TypeScript, .NET, Redux.

Yeah except for the tiny niggle that an overwhelming majority of contracts stipulate that you can't actually contribute to OSS either on or off the job due to the fact that every single thing you think of while employed (and sometimes for a period after your employment ends) belongs fully to your employer.
Can you please share how you set up Isso with Hugo? Thanks.
If you're interested, I'd be glad to ship you tins of Tim Hortons' coffee. I don't think I could ship donuts, but I could fill your coffee pots...my email is in my profile!!
Yes--they are cheap labor.

In the 70's, how did America function without the cheap labor?

It used to be when a guy needed a job, their was always a low skills job for the taking, or they could go into business for themselfs. You could start up start up a landscaping businesses. Those jobs are just gone.

A lot could go into construction, and make a decent living. Those construction jobs, including slightly technical jobs, like Telecommunication Workers, mostly pay minimum wage.

Bradley Electric gets people to commute to San Francisco, work eight hour days, use their own tools, all for minimum wage. (My dad did his apprentabntenship with the owner, if still alive. The owner was taught, and paid very well by local 6. He then decided to open a non-Union shop, and pay minimum wage. He, and his family lived like a king.

What I am saying is there used to be a plethora of chit jobs, jobs that people could pick and choose from. Jobs perfect for teens, low skilled, guys whom had nervous breakdowns, and the like. And people--who just wanted a simple mindless job. Some Americans didn't want the high pressure career, they just wanted a job.

When you have people whom come to this country and don't care about wages, or working conditions; you get this economy.

You get employers who don't give raises. You get employers who go onto business knowing they will always have a cheap pool of labor that won't ask for much.

My sister started her shoe business on paying less than minimum wage. She's a muli-millionaire now, but only started to pay her employees minimum wage a few years ago. The Latinos are all living together, and pool their income. My sister lives like Ivanka Trump.

I get hammered for this post, but employers have taken advantage of this cheap labor. My rich neighbors have taken advantage of this cheap labor.

How will we ever see wage growth if there's always someone their to do the job cheaper? I don't by that jobs will go unfilled if some of the illegial cheap labor goes home.

Employers might need make their jobs a bit more enticing, or lower that profit margin a bit?
Ok so me-too apps like yet another photo sharing app is not cool, but me-too incremental biomedical research is cool.

Good to know we are all about innovation here.
French Guiana is the departement (and region) of France that is on the South American continent. It is as much a part of France as e.g. Alaska is of the USA.
Hi, I'm one of the authors. In broad lines, we pretrained one model (the "Reader") to learn to read text and output vocoder variables, and another model (SampleRNN) to go from these vocoder variables to an audio waveform. Then, we finetuned both models together to be able to go from text to speech, end-to-end. The "end product" is a text-to-speech system, but without the need of having to extract tons of hand-engineered features from the text to be able to generate speech. We also expect that with more training this will be able to overcome the usual vocoder speech "unnaturalness" issues.
Whether they should or should not be used by libraries is a completely different kettle of turtle wax, I did say 'application code' above.
I don't think he's a traditional American libertarian. If you read his book Zero To One, he states that he thinks a fundamental truth that most people don't realize is that improving technology is more important than globalization for the human race, which is fine, but that leads him to the conclusion that things like welfare and tax increases are an abomination holding back progress, which makes him against both. I don't think he has a problem with government spending as long as it's towards corporations instead of people.
$5 on a $100 bill? In the US? That's awful.
If you need openVPN don't run Mikrotik. I love routerOS but openVPN over TCP is no good.
What do you use for colors/theme in emacs in WSL? I ran emacs with the default settings the other day and there was a lot of unreadable blue on black.

Once the latest build filters out to Windows Update, I will probably only invoke the Windows build of emacsclientw, but it would be nice to have something habitable in WSL on occasion.
I'm a happy customer and I'm really glad to hear this.
For the moment at least, it's much more comfortable for us to keep our databases outside of kubernetes, so we use saltstack(masterless), packer, and terraform to manage them. We also use terraform to manage all of our DNS, which is split between Route53 and the GCP DNS service.
Thanks Ivan. We will be in touch for sure. Let me know if you ever come to Berlin :-)
I did the exact thing....
Is he awful because you don't agree with him? Or because he actually did something awful? I have a feeling it's the first one.
This blog post mentions also the "Key Transparency" project ( https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-tra... ). It looks like Keybase (as an identity registry) to me. Is this actually so or have I misunderstood its purpose?
Yea, I think people who think they can tell how effective a developer is before working with them for a month or two are mostly deluding themselves.
Right. Or you can phrase this as: using async ... await can't make you wait faster. Waiting will take just as long, but it will be more efficient. The thread is freed up to do other things during the wait, increasing the possible throughput.
It's 0.0321428571428... - 3.2% indeed.
Looking at this article, and the one about the supposed use of falcons as anti-drone measures, makes me think about the whole "fake news" thing.

Something about how this is the quality of material we choose to promote among ourselves, the need for a critical eye when analyzing news, and how spreading fake stuff must be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Not the most joyful thoughts to start a morning!
Do any of these changes make the language objectively better? All I see are nice-to-haves that aren't really required.
Maintaining Accessibility in a Responsive World
It's odd to have a whole section on coherency and never mention the built-in `volatile` keyword who's entire purpose is to indicate that a variable requires fresh reads..
By the same logic you may try to destroy some capital (machines in factories, etc.). That would also place increased demand on labor.

The point is that reduction of capital or labor (in this case) does not cause increase in prosperity overall.

It does not add anything to the economy, it just takes away.

Even in recession, if you're getting poorer, it does not make sense to create pressures for general price increases by taking away stuff or people from the economy. It just makes your slide into poverty faster.
The difference is very very simple: the government has the legitimized use of force. Private corporations don't. A private corporation can't force me to do anything. Only the government can. If a private corporation came to try arrest me for not paying a bill that I contest, I can kill them for breaking into my property. I can't kill a government official over the same - with the government I have no natural recourse, only legal.

I'll also point out that your comments about libertarianism seem to be misguided. Libertarians are the first to defend constitutional rights, because those rights include core, fundamental libertarian tenets, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

I don't consider myself a libertarian, but I don't like seeing them mischaracterized.
No, it doesn't mean you suck. But it does mean that those with full GitHub profiles usually spend every waking our programming. If they have e that much passion and programming hours under their belt, and you can see their code examples, the chances of hiring a false positive is a lot lower. It's all about mitigating risk. No one is saying you are worse, but hiring you is more of a risk than hiring someone such as I just mentioned above. It's harder to really know how good/passionate you are.
Yeah, this is one thing I will never understand when apps do this. Especially ones that FORCE a min % of tip when you make the order (most GrubHub/Seamless restaurants). Just call it a fee if you're going to force me to do it before I can even evaluate the service and tip accordingly, let alone if there is a min tip %. It's incredibly frustrating, and ironically makes me tip less than if I would if I could just tip after the fact. I don't want to risk an up-front tip, so I tend to stay on the lower end, but since the service of these places is usually pretty good, if I got to tip after, I would actually be tipping more. But they screw up just enough times that makes me not want to take that gamble.

With Instacart specifically, this creates a confusing dilemma by giving me the option to tip before any service is done. Mainly because Instacart DOES allow me to modify the tip after the order is complete, which is good, but here is the dilemma...

A) Do I not tip when placing the order (with intention of tipping when the order is complete and I can evaluate the service to give a fair tip), but also risk that the shopper knows I didn't tip when I placed the order thus thinks I won't tip at all making them not care as much and do a poor job because they think I'm cheap.

B) Do I tip ahead of time when placing the order and risk that they think just because they already got the tip there isn't much I can do, so they could care less either way, and then I'm stuck paying a tip for service that wasn't up to par.

Either way it's a lose-lose and a terrible experience. And I'm PRETTY sure the shopper doesn't seem the tip when they get the order so maybe that makes both A & B irrelevant, but it's not like the UX of the app tells me that so I'm stuck in this awkward dilemma during checkout making me hesitate my conversion. It's a terrible and very confusing flow/checkout/experience every time I use Instacart.
I think you may have skimmed the article a bit too quick:

>London is novel among recent Olympic hosts in that its plan for the Olympics was focused primarily on what would happen after the games.
Except Milo is a professional troll interested in self-promotion, not knowledge and truth.

Most importantly though you are taking a simplistic all or nothing approach where any (perceived) transgression disqualifies the entire history of knowledge seeking and sharing of ideas.
It's sad that people generalize about people that vote Republican. Most republicans (or people that vote republican) I have met, including myself, have been supportive of the LGBT community. Not ALL Republicans are against LGBT, just like not all liberals want free government handouts. These generalizations about the "other side" are counter-productive.

Also, I'm not saying you came across as generalizing, I know you were making a joke, but a lot of people actually do think this way.
D is like native Python
The “416d65726963612043616e20436f6465 Act of 2015”
T Bone Burnett leads music industry’s comments to US safe harbour review
Pinning is based on the key fingerprint, though, so reissued certs shouldn't matter as long as the private key used for the CSR is the same. I use HPKP with Let's Encrypt certs and haven't had any issues.
Related: For hackers, a well know example of community using a method other than the simple majority rule is Debian. They use the Condorcet method [1] for the election of their project leader [2]. It's a ranking method «that elects the candidate that would win by majority rule, in all pairings, against the other candidates».

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
[2] https://www.debian.org/vote/
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
Show HN: Reusable and composable UI styles for your iOS app
Out of pure curiosity, what does this mean in english?
Good thing that utilitarianism is a well known concept. If I weren't aware of that I'd be living in an absolutist nightmare of a world where everything was made necessary for use and abuse of non-human animals.

Do take in mind that animal testing is an old practice, and there's plenty of evidence that data collected on non-human animals is useless in most cases. So, modern medicine would do a lot to find new ways of testing and making in-vitro or some other models of human biological system.

Here's a nice popsci http://www.livescience.com/46147-animal-data-unreliable-for-... article of how bad of a classifier non-human animal testing really is.

I guess now you will point to my inability to use antivenom when miraculously a snake bites me under my office table.
I'd be interested to know how the financial benefit of hosting the Olympics (tourism, etc) would compare to upkeep of permanent facilities. In theory the crowds coming to town every 4 years would be a big economic boost, though perhaps not enough of one.
Multiple people can be bad for reasons entirely their own, "but shes doing it TOOOOOOO" is the reasoning and defense of a child.
Exactly.

Here's another simple way to think about it: Handling a request usually invokes a couple of layers of your code until you hit some IO - database, file system, network, etc. If that IO is done in a blocking fashion, this request is consuming server resources THE WHOLE TIME, even while it's doing nothing but waiting for a network response. On the other hand, if the IO is non-blocking (async), then this request consumes no resources while it's waiting.

So imagine you have a request that takes 2000ms to service, and 1700ms of that time is spent waiting on the database to fetch some data. Without async, that request will consume 2000ms of CPU time. With async, only 300ms of CPU time is used.
Wait what? Why are you sharing passwords?

That is poor password security right there, even before giving your master key to some rando.
I think you and parent are talking about separate things. They say, "housing assistance," and you say, "access to housing."

Housing assistance is a government service.
Access to housing would mean controlling the private housing market, I guess.

Those are very different ideas in terms of feasibility, morality, economics, etc.
The Origins of the White Collar Worker
The evolution of Kill Bill, an open-source subscription billing platform
Cultural norms in the US are different from those where you grew up. Service employees earn a much greater percentage of their income from tips here than they do there.
You seem to know XMonad well, so I'll ask a question. Does it support manual tiling and application tabs yet? I couldn't use it because it felt too basic to me last time I checked it.
As an American who has made three land crossings in to Canada, I can say that Canadian Border Agents treat Americans in the same way that American Border Agents treat Canadians.

My first crossing in to Canada was riding with my girlfriend and her parents, all Canadian citizens. It was maybe 10 PM, crossing from Maine to New Brunswick. The Canadian agent was very friendly to my three companions with Canadian passports, but immediately become agitated when she saw my US passport. It struck me as quite odd how rude she was to me given how she had no suspicion of the other three people in the car with me. I wasn't driving the car, I was in the back seat listening to music on an MP3 player.

I've decided it isn't so much that Canadians feel the need to be "up to US standards," as much as it is they feel the need to treat US citizens with the same contempt that the US treats Canadian citizens.
You don't need to make your source public.
Just check it in as private repository and your contribution graph is going to be filled.
Some recruiter can now see that you work a lot - probably also on weekends and so on.

A good looking github contribution graph looks kind of professional, also if you have starred some repositorys (which probably means you are active and love what you are doing)
True story, but recruiters don't know much and Github is one of the few sources of valuable information for them.

I always send a link to my github repos when I apply for a project, this removes most of the dumb "can you really code"-style questions.
Exactly. It really reminds me of the boy who cried wolf. Republicans made a point to question Obama's faith and whether he is a secret muslim or if he was born here. Meanwhile abhorrent policies are being enacted, but we did get the birth certificate. In the sense of using a distraction to further another agenda I feel like Obama and Trump are the best of the best.
>Likewise, there seems to suddenly be this notion that pretty much anybody who shows up whenever for whatever reason should just be allowed in to stay and work in America

Globalization promotes the free flow of capital, but not labour. This never seemed fair to me. It feels like a mechanism of exploitation.

Who _deserves_ to work in America more? Someone born into that country, or someone who left their whole life behind and made an long dangerous trip to get there?
I believe a lot of people could still benefit from reading about Broken Window fallacy, etc. It is still relevant 167 years later. Hint, it applies to labor too.

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Major Swedish ISP says it won’t web-block without a court order
This is the reason I pretty much stopped taking photos altogether. I realized I almost never go back and look at them.