skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anecdotally, I think you're generally right that Europe isn't as heavily into plastic […]

Depends on your definition of plastic. Debit cards are common here. Europeans tend not to use credit cards as much as Americans though; they are mostly used just for travelling or (international) internet purchases.
There is a game about making an automaton that translates things to Brainfk though https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/optimization/code-of-t....
LendUp (YC W12) announces it has loaned over $1B
There's an easy solution for that, although it requires a richer pipe API.

Let each pipe actor, including the terminal/shell, decide what to do. Between each stream, they can rely on a MIME type and additional metadata to make decisions. For example, if you do:

generate_data | parse_csv | sort

Here, generate_data produces text/csv, parse_csv consumes it and emits application/json or whatever, and sort consumes it. The hypothetical "sort" command wouldn't know what to do with text/csv, so it could default to line-based text.

"sort" then emits JSON again, and rather than displaying unfriendly JSON, the terminal/shell combo would see that the final output stream is JSON and invoke a pre-defined presentation handler. For example, there could be a global handler installed that rendered JSON as a table.

Or you could insert a different formatter yourself:

generate_data | parse_csv | sort | fancy_table_formatter

Since fancy_table_formatter emits text (probably some specific terminal MIME type so we can signal that it can include things like ANSI escape codes), the shell doesn't need to do anything except display it.
When organizational rules exist, people will game them: The Apache Foundation
I generally tend to think AR und VR are heavily overhyped and I don't believe they will become the next big thing. But I surely hope that we will be able to use VR to better convey the dimensions of things, their size, depth, steepness, and height, things that are almost impossible to convey on normal screens.
I know only a handful of people who did exactly what they wanted in terms of career choices. It's no statistical sample, but they all managed to make a living at it (except one, who is too young). More importantly, they are HAPPY.

On the other hand, I am surrounded by people who did NOT follow their hearts, and all they do is bitch and moan all day about how they hate their jobs, their lives and how everything sucks. They have nothing positive to say about anything.

If someone were to ask me, I would say ignore the noise, do what you want and work REALLY hard. I did not do so in my teens and early 20s because I did not have the clarity and confidence to just go for what I wanted to do (military aviation). I went into engineering and you can bet your ass I feel empty many many times, wondering what if.
http://7daystartup.com/
> But at this point, I assert that we need to deprive the system of labor, especially from good people

You are delusional. You want to reform the prison system by only hiring bad people to run it?
Macs at home get incremental back-ups to:

a. ARQ->Dropbox

b. an old Time Machine

Also,

a. iPhoto, desktop, docs -> iCloud

b. most non-sensitive documents stored on Dropbox
Chip transactions aren't processed in most gas terminals. It's not mandatory for gas terminals until 2020.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/emv-credit-card...
You usually get that through either reflection or an "eval" command.
What's ridiculously annoying is how good the Finder was under classic Mac OS compared to what exists now. The new Finder is a bad translation of some of the classic functionality overtop of the NeXT workspace manager. And it's a bad fusion of the two, in my opinion.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...

(which is a nice narrative account linking off to further sources)
Nothing grew me the most than (sadly) moving from company to company. I grew so much by seeing how different companies and teams did something, taking the good, internalizing the bad, and then repeating at other companies.

I highly recommend consulting early on in your career to do that. It can be stressful but once you're used to it you will lose the fear of the unknown eventually.
I really don't think build time is very important. With a separate CI server it doesn't much matter if takes an hour or <10 minutes for a build to complete, the gain for me is that it's no longer "your" time. It's some other server that's doing the work with a saved state (master).

I'll typically just merge into master on GH, let the CI server take it from there and not bother checking the site manually when the build is complete, it's not necessary. Our QA and CI process handles that.

I consider it a major advantage (benefits far outweigh risk) that I can typically merge my ticket into master, close my laptop and head home.
To reduce the boredom induced by not being able to have a conversation, no doubt
Reducing Slack's memory footprint
People who can hardly-afford-their-(new)-home will also move to expensive areas to avoid being around the "typical" poor people: alcoholics, drug-addicts, dropouts, street gangs, etc.

My mother raised me as a single mom. Her two options were "live reasonably in a poor, drug-riddled, crime-filled area" or "live poorly in a more affluent area with far less drug/crime issues". As a kid I understood that we were too poor to be living where we were living but was still too young to understand why we had moved "if we couldn't afford it". It wasn't until I was old enough to know I'd never raise my kids in my hometown either, even if it meant struggling to live somewhere I couldn't quite afford.

We weren't affluent by any means, but we we had just enough money to not be living down the street from a meth addict and being next-door-neighbors with the neighborhood slinger.
A Guide to JavaScript Fantasy Land's Daggy Library
You mean you don't have a queen-sized chaise lounge in your 20-ft-ceilinged warehouse-style living room? And is that a stuffed leopard? (Angelika Blechschmidt)
'Project Loon' internet balloon lands in the Amazon forest
Generally speaking, those who commit violent felonies are relatively likely to serve sentences like that. So rapists, murders and that sort of thing.

Part of the rationale is that it keeps people who willingly do such things away from society. So it's not simply punitive (and there's very little in the way of rehabilitation), it's more a matter of keeping them away from new victims. A point frequently lost in these conversations.
CTRL-F: embrace

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I disappoint! Why you no understand, this is the same ol' Microsoft?

(really I pressed Cmd-F)
The "secretly" part refers to part of the story where we had 1 hour to build up quick prototype to pitch to our boss. The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's not that we built this thing in secret for months and then just deployed it. That's also not what the article says :)

We had been planning on replacing Scheduler for a while now, and had already written down some mumblings about what the new design should look like. We were also already discussing whether we would switch away from python back then.

I think the exact opposite of what you are saying is true. We got the freedom to experiment with something new, and to actually make things better along the way.
I think it's great to think about weaknesses and corner cases, but you're being too generous/imaginative here.

A pithier version would be: it's infeasible to censor transactions and if a nation state spent enough to try it, it would indeed be noticed and the community would fork.
Its probably both the fees and the taxes. They want to be able to choose what business activity to report.
I just realised my invalid belief was caused by experiencing dumb editors in the past, which wouldn't recognise aligning and would turn your example into:

\t\tsome_func(arg1,
\t\t\t arg2,
\t\t\t argN)

I.e. they would replace all sequences of tab-width spaces with a tab character.
Sexism at Uber from Female Management
VR Scientific Festival – May 12-14
Quoting from GP of your original reply:

> If you want to recognize all Coke cans in all fridges, for your real-world, consumer-ready Coke-fetching robot product?

If you're stuck with a mono dataset, post collection, then sure use NN and call it a day. But even if you have video you can do 3D reconstruction just from baseline movement. You won't know scale, so you can't differentiate between big coke cans and little coke cans, but at least you can rule out pictures of coke cans.
If you would have wanted a comparable Lisp experience on a SUN workstation (large bitmap screen, large disk, software, ...) the actual price difference wasn't that much. But there were a lot of underpowered and slow SUNS, which were cheaper. But then you would better not use Allegro CL, Lucid CL or LispWorks on those. 16 or even 24 MB RAM were simply not enough and GC was fighting with the virtual memory pager...

The big cost driver at that time was memory and peripherals like disks.

The lab I worked for had slow SUN SPARCs. The idea was that you would net boot them and they would get their software from a main server. Relatively cheap. But it turned out a bit slow and clunky. People then often used their office Macs for software development, with Macintosh Common Lisp.
No, I wasn't referring to that. I was referring to numerous comments on the original post of Susan Flower's blog on HN
I think it has to do with the clientèle. At restaurants, you want to be around the buzz of conversation but not be unable to hear the people you're with, so restaurants where both are possible are better places. There's a sort of privacy within the crowd. Whereas at a dead quiet restaurant it's impossible to have a conversation of any depth because anyone at a neighboring table can hear it.

At a club most people are there to drink a little and dance, and it's much easier to dance when the music and the bass are loud enough to make you forget yourself. If GP is looking for conversation over drinks, maybe go to a pub or something instead.
The structure sensor is okay but it still has far too much latency to be acceptable. So far the only convincing inside out tracking I've seen has been the Hololens and even that isn't quite perfect.
> No messing around with virtualenvs and requirement files. Everybody builds with the same dependency versions. No more “works on my machine” and “did you install the latest requirements?”.

While this is nice, of course, I'm not sure that is outcome is unique to Haskell/Stack. It seems like you could accomplish a similar level of reproducibility by building a Docker image or bundling dependencies in some other way.
Sure, but all else being equal, a statically typed language will always be faster than a dynamically typed one, because you can do way more optimization at compile-time rather than run-time. So you're right in that JS is pretty darn fast, but it probably wouldn't take that much effort to surpass JS performance with a custom TypeScript -> WASM compiler.
There is a price list for Lisp machines in this archived Symbolics presentation made in 1986, page 14: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/h...
Yeah, South Korea is doing REALLY well right now. Speaking as someone who has South Korean roots. @@

Yes, they are starting from huge self-inflicted wounds, which you accurately quantify. My own personal view is that China is not fixable. I don't think it has a bright future. It's Japan with less education, less innovation, and a bigger biological time bomb. That doesn't change the fact that I respect the heck out of its modern day government post-Deng Xiaoping. They were dealt a horrible hand, and they are staying in the game longer than I thought possible.
Razer targets perfect Linux support
That was my thought exactly, but I was less eager to share. Gold is often found in association with serpentine (I would bet that has something to do with it being California's state rock) and I saw a lot of serpentine in that gouge caused by the side offshoot. Oroville is not too far from Sutter Mill, where gold was first discovered in California. The Feather River is one of the main river systems in what is known as the 'Mother Lode' area of California (yes, that is where that phrase comes from).
> Actually Java has always been a fairly dynamic language. If it wasn't you wouldn't have all the XML and annotation stuff but code generation like you do in C/C++ and to some extent Go.

That's a point I never really understood. Code generation has it's downsides, but it seems vastly preferrable to the current mess of reflection: There seemed to have been a trend to move a lot of stuff that should logically occur at compile time to run time - therefore both adding a performance penalty and making debugging a royal pain - for what benefit?

There are some recent projects (e.g. Immutables and Dagger2) which seem to favour code generation over reflection again and I really hope this trend picks up steam.

> You have to remember one of the reasons why there was a shit load of declarative configuration in old Java for enterprise is because software was on premise software.

Which sounds reasonable - until you see real-world use where all components of an application are wired together with XML - even though for most of it, there is only a single setting that wouldn't break the application.
blocked at my workplace because of an old ssl cert i think.
There's basically no chance of the main dam failing. A failure of the emergency spillway is basically the worst case scenario. For the main dam to fail, water would have to get over the top, and the emergency spillway ensures that the lake stays below that level.

A failure of the emergency spillway would still be quite destructive, of course.
Yeah, you need to configure it to tell it what configuration of cache you want to simulate (there's an example of doing this for the Jaguar cache in slides 84/85). Valgrind's cachegrind tool also lets you tweak the cache config it simulates.

Some bugs are going to cause problems regardless of the cache config (like the "access a cold page unnecessarily every iteration of the loop" examples); some might be more sensitive to exact cache configuration.
The slides specifically talk about AMD jaguar - the architecture for Xbox one and PS4.
And yet I'm living in a village outside Leicester in the UK and I've paid <£0.50 on a card/using Android Pay on multiple occasions.
Not the OP but one wonders how much they've made verses how big of a fine they'll have paid and who'll have went to prison when all said and done.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-mon...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/21/hsbc-profits-...

http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN1685ON
maker/cofounder/cto here.

Eager to get some community feedback on this app launch. I'll spare this audience the marketing speak and go right into what is different:

- OpenGL instead of UIKit. The message stream and individual messages are all 3D meshes with shader materials on them. Making them easy to animate/interact with each other in novel ways.

- Handwriting instead of Helvetica. We're using a patented system from our other product (handwriting.io) to generate 3D meshes of handwriting. This adds a surprising amount of personality to a chat session.

- Effect system marketplace. Because the effects (on text and replies) are JS+WebGL they can be deployed without shipping app updates. Hopefully with a decent SDK visual devs would enjoy making chat effects on this platform.

Thank you for checking it out!
A cashless society would be an attempt to create a society that lacks basic economic freedom, but it would also fail. People will simply return to barter, and the use of whatever precious metals/stones/etc are hot that year.
Very sad to hear that :(. Is there any way one could help make it happen sooner?
Or, places that sell more alcoholic drinks tend to get louder?
> after that point nothing you do can take it away from you

Eternal security is a Calvinist view that is far from universally held.
Awesome, thanks for taking the time to answer.
Berliner here.... the sad truth is that most living rooms are dominated by Ikea furniture and are nowhere near like the stylish and classical ensembles presented in the article.
Unquestionably it was working with other talented people. All else pales into insignificance by comparison.
Just saw a youtube channel, which present the slides from this course as they available. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMq6IdbXar_KtYixMS_wHcQ . HTH
Agreed, and this is why our politics (worldwide, everywhere, not just in China) are fundamentally flawed -- because it inevitably leads to corruption. It's just human nature.

We must collectively all admit this and devise a system where people in power have no chance at all to become corrupt because they won't be having tight grip on anything. Maybe a long-term strategy which is continually worked on by people who stay in power no longer than a year? Don't know, people much better informed than me have tried and failed in this regard, many times.

But it's very clear that our current ruling systems don't work.
The Road Ahead (Destiny 2)
I've always understood it to be economics - people drink more in louder bars.

But it might be fashion, too. It's what people expect the bar they want to go to to be. And maybe certain people don't go to a bar to talk, anyway.
I knew that tissue damage from ice crystal formation is one of the main problems with cryopreservation, but I didn't realize that current vitrification techniques had largely solved that problem during the freezing process (implied by the article), and that the we "just" don't have a way of successfully unfreezing samples without causing ice crystal damage.

The research papers states the problem thus:

> "Unfortunately, advances in tissue and organ cooling for cryopreservation have not been matched by similar advances in rewarming. Two technological barriers have proven difficult to overcome.
>
> First, the critical warming rates to avoid devitrification, the process of crystallization during warming, are typically an order of magnitude higher than the corresponding critical cooling rates [interesting!]."
>...
> "Second, these rates need to be sufficiently uniform throughout the material to avoid large thermal gradients, which produce thermal stress that often drives fractures or cracks within the tissue if they exceed the strength of the material (the tensile strength of vitrified VS55 [the cryoprotective solution used in the study] is 3.2 MPa)."
>...
>
>"...although we can vitrify and occasionally rewarm roughly 15 g of rabbit kidneys (10), and we can physically vitrify and rewarm in 80-ml systems, we do not have the technology to reproducibly rewarm these systems at sufficiently quick and uniform rates to avoid failure by devitrification and/or cracking using convection alone."

So, true, we still can't thaw out any of those frozen heads at Alcor, but potentially they aren't totally wrecked and could be safely warmed someday in the future...
i'll, thanks. just one question: how stable/good is rkt for production?
it's a basic right to spend money without being tracked.

No it's not. I very much want there to be a way to spend money anonymously, but I can't frame that as a 'basic right'.
Worth pointing out that this can be fuzzy, I have a £1600 overdraft facility that I can use with my debit card (I don't use it though).
I find this an interesting diversion back down the path of cweb. Specifically to introduce some more notations for things such as Null, and the boolean operations.
Izi-locker a crypto-malware variation
> hypocrisy (why do we need to call it whataboutism?)

The terms mean different things. "Whataboutism" is the calling-out of hypocrisy, not hypocrisy itself.
That book is excellent, love the combination of research and anecdotes.
If you want something more down to earth, check out Freunde von Freunden [1]. They
started in Berlin and most of the people they interview live in Berlin.
They meet "friends of friends", interview them and take pictures of their homes.

[1] http://www.freundevonfreunden.com
I never said that they were bad coders, or that I wouldn't want to work with some Google employees. I said they are incapable of hiring many developers I do proactively want to work with, because of their hiring process. It's who they exclude that is the problem; not who they hire.

I am also specifically not passing some objective value judgments here. They may very well be hiring the best developers for what they are doing: they just aren't capable of hiring the type of developers I most enjoy working with. This is a subjective preference, not an objective one.

There are absolutely talented developers who don't value working with the kinds of developers I want to work with and they won't care that Google can't hire them. I have enjoyed working with Google developers in other contexts, but many of them wasted a bunch of time and energy jumping through Google hoops because they decided it was worth it. It is my opinion that they would be better developers if they had spent that time on something useful instead.

Google makes it easy for people I don't care about working with to get hired, and hard for people I proactively want to work with to get hired. Nothing about that is about my skill at all.
Thank you for the awesome summary. I still think super capacitors for batteries would be a better future. If we need it to last longer we can carry solid state battery power bank.

The issue is how long does it take to charge as opposed to how long for most instances if phones only took 20 seconds to charge but lasted hours, especially if it was wireless it would be more practical.

Advantages of Super Capacitors:

Long Life - Supercapacitors have many advantages. For instance, they maintain a long cycle lifetime—they can be cycled hundreds of thousands times with minimal change in performance. A supercapacitor’s lifetime spans 10 to 20 years, and the capacity might reduce from 100% to 80% after 10 or so years.

- Temperature performance is also strong, delivering energy in temperatures as low as –40°C.

http://electronicdesign.com/power/can-supercapacitors-surpas...

And then the TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE UCF story "You could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week," says UCF postdoctoral associate Nitin Choudhary.

> https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/22/super-capacitor-battery-...
I'm dumb and don't really understand why this is beneficial. I also don't have a lot of in-depth knowledge about CPUs, would someone mind explaining what the problem is and how AMD doing this solves it?