skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This question has been presented to me on this research, and this presentation I am giving in the video above is actually a demonstration implicitly addressing just such an issue. If you watch the video you'll see some examples of how the "one lining" features of the language assist me in exploring and discovery. I also go over how I leverage the use of the concise nature of the notation to ensure that my entire compiler is visible on the whole screen at once.

You can ask yourself, after seeing how I put this compiler together and how it is architected, whether the features that I consider important here and how they help me work with the code, could be achieved using a different syntax. In fact, the code for the core compiler is only about 90 lines long, so you could just take that code and invent any syntax you want and then try it out and see for yourself whether you can improve the syntax in some practical way that preserves the important elements of the design and makes it easier for people to read/learn/absorb.

As a simple first step, take the code that I demo (the 90 line compiler) in the video, and replace each symbol with its name and spaces on the left and right of the name. Then look at the code again and ask yourself if it's any easier to read. My experience is that it will be fundamentally harder to read. Not just harder, but that it will get progressively harder to read the more familiar you are with the language, relative to the other notation. It's not just harder at a constant, but that the more you work with the language, the more difficult it becomes to work with these "less obtuse" syntaxes in these situations.
Tracking Protection in Firefox
Out of curiousity, does Auckland also have 18 year old kids driving $100k++ sports cars with N (new driver) stickers as we do here in Vancouver?
Given enough googly eyes, all bugs are hilarious.
Not just China. Walking around the wealthiest areas of London I sometimes get a sickening feeling when I think about their occupants. The most beautiful houses and essentially palaces are largely owned by people who have raped their countries. Russians, Saudis, Qataris, Chinese oligarchs and politicians who are very successful thieves.

These are mostly empty apart from a couple of months when the princes of the middle east come to escape the heat. I find it very sad to see things of such beauty being occupied by people who have stolen a countries wealth away from their poorest.
Why not spin up a new one and recreate your configuration? Only weak point is if they don't let you move the IP
Ask HN: What can prevent a product to become a commodity?
Network effects is a well-known effect that can prevent a product to become a commodity.

Are there other similar effects? Is there any systematic way to think about them? Any well-known theory or resource (books/blogs)?

I'd say it would be useful to have basic knowledge about this topic, for both investing or discarding business ideas. In my case it's just for the sake of curiosity.
Or if they're not a Cloudflare customer.
Ok, but what about having a S.H.I.E.L.D. for earth? Wouldn't that work?
It probably wasn't something I'd ever consciously thought about, but I just realized that RE20s grills aren't supposed to have a dent in them. Mine is somewhat lived-in, as I'm sure a great many of them are.

For me it's one of the all-time great moving coil mics, along with the Sennheiser MD-441 (about which I think I already knew that the grill wasn't supposed to be dented.)
Show HN: A search engine for relevant XKCDs written in Go
Is dragging a photo to the Desktop and then into the app really a huge deal? Just curious, because that works fine for me.
https://livestream.com/viewnow/vision2050/videos/150701155

There's also this very short pdf release which has no interesting detail. http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/V2050/pdf/8250.pdf
The scary thing about the xenophobic solution to the Fermi paradox is that there might be lots of nice civiliations around that do want to cooperate - but it could potentially only take a few very aggressive, advanced xenophobic bullies lobbing large objects at anyone they spot before the threshold for everyone else to stay in their metaphorical foxholes hiding until/unless they have very good reason to assume they have established a clear advantage.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795528 and marked it off-topic.
Just migrated from the old $5 plan to the new $2.50 plan which even has more SSD space. Unfortunately, that involved copying a snapshot to a new instance, because they don't support "downgrading", though in this particular case there was no technical reason to not support it directly.
I'm not familiar with it. How many startups that you know actually use it? Was it released only recently?

Also, do you know of startups that use chrome books or toshiba zero client?

Also keep in mind that laptops are used by data scientists and management
As an employer, W2 forms aren't terrible hard to fill out and I don't know why everyone seems so scared of them.

People have had this viewpoint that filing taxes is 'hard', but recent improvements have made it 100% electronic and really cut down on the effort needed to compile it legally.

And then of course, no one would pay a babysitter a W2. You'd count them as a 1099, but not need to file till they made more than 10,000 a year.

What's more interesting is having an actual employee though who can do nannying, picking up dry cleaning, and all of the other personal chores you just put off or have apps do. They're your personal assistant, and honestly if filing taxes is a hassle for you, you can have them fill out the forms because what else are assistants for?
I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome.

However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the memory for the same price. I hope DO follow and increase the memory on their nodes.
which it does on a regular basis during natural field reversals. The geologists imply its a very sharp transition like a century or less from normal field, no field, reversed field. If you donate to the UN fund that pays for the solar shield, you get shielded when the time comes. If not, well... life does survive reversals, but its likely not fun.
Enjoy your cloud botnet OS that spies on you and you will never own, only rent. Thanks for signaling to all companies that being spied on such as in Windows 10 is perfectly acceptable, even welcome!

I'm sure Microsoft is pleased to know they have yet another sucker, happily giving away all their private information for free and Microsoft can continue to rely on the gullibility of the average person well into the future.
I didn't ignore the plus sign, that's why I called it misleading and not outright fraud. There's an expectation that when a number is quoted, that the value is somewhere in its ballpark, otherwise it'd be completely meaningless: they say "it may be 15%+", which if you read it as a pure logical statement, it can literally be any amount. It's only meaningful because of that common expectation, which they are exploiting.

Fair enough regarding the 42% vs 63%, though.
Or that they limit what you can use in your passwords (no accents for example).
Networking. I simply asked around with my friends, and someone was found who needed steady work.
> Single data point as an example: Last month a friend, who between he and his partner make approx. $200k (before tax) combined household income, bought a semi-detached property on the east end (west of the DVP, south of Dundas). "$200k you say, that is a lot!", right, it isn't insignificant, but it's also just two skilled people who make $100k in a major city. There are a significant volume of $100k jobs out there (so if they lose them, I suspect they will find another fairly soon). It's just not as impossible to do as people say, but most of us are not willing to pack a lunch every day, stop drinking lattes make it possible.

That single data point is in the top 3% of Canadian incomes.
I thought several minutes about answering you, but here we go...

I have several DO droplets running, one is running for 4 years now, zero downtime. I heared about some problems but that were no massive outages, but rather single host systems failing, which is no problem, since you should built your application that way that one VM failing is no problem. It happens everywhere, on Bare Metal, on AWS, on Google Cloud, etc.

Linode cut their pricing (or rather improved their plans) and started offering a $5 plan, I don't see how they are too pricey compared to the competition.

You pay a massive amount of money on AWS to be protected against DDoS, otherwise they will just bill you the bandwidth costs (that are very very high compared to those companies compared in the blog post).
I need something better than anecdotal evidence for your claim that tenancy rights are the primary problem

Protecting predatory tenants is a problem but the big one in almost all Western cities is zoning: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/r....

Contrast this NIMBY approach with, for example, Japan's system: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c....
You are right-- you can argue about which way to go, but it is undeniable that the gap has narrowed. Depending on the way VR/AR develops in the near future, that will likely be another battle-line over which they will compete, and it is clear that at least at the outset Microsoft hold a massive advantage.
Really, it doesn't make sense to you that enter would correspond to the most common, least destructive action?

Alt-F4 makes little sense, true, but in almost all windows apps control-q or control-w does exactly the same thing as on osx.

Also, having sane defaults for keys people are likely to press is much more important than /not/ having obscure keyboard shortcuts that users never have to know even exist.
Why Cmd+Q and not Cmd+Esc then? It is frustrating to press Cmd+Q by accident when you intend to press Cmd+W, at least there is a physical separation between F4 and F5, so you can't get it wrong.
Israel has enough problems already without the refugees.

The US and Saudi Arabia who created this mess in the first place are accepting none so far. Anti muslim sentiment is growing across Europe exactly because Merkel invited these refugees over without asking anyone and then imposed refugee quotas on other EU countries. Now we have nutcackes like Marine LePen and Geert Wilders gaining in popularity and threatening with Fr/Nl exits that would most likely break the EU apart.
I'm pretty sure the data supports what I said, even if I missed some of the nuance. Black women are more penalised than black men.
So then I just setup shell corporations to sell the property back and forth between every couple of years to reset the tax.

The original idea was the correct one - just make them high by default. Exponentially raising would cause countless headaches and loopholes.
The Apple II was really mostly a US thing. It was more of the higher end of the home computer market. Having a Spectrum makes me think you are from the UK. The BBC micro was basically the Apple ][ equivalent there. I'm from the US and actually had a Franklin Ace 1000 (a cheap Apple II clone that was sued out of existence by Apple) growing up
Emmett Rensin is the author of that piece, and he's an incredibly talented commentator and rising star. Now that he's building some credibility, he can be a bit pickier about where he publishes.

I happened to be plugging him just yesterday on a discussion about the Obama administration on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13791139

If you want pieces like that "Liberal Smugness" one, I strongly recommend Current Affairs magazine, and Jacobin (but Jacobin is more hit or miss). Current Affairs is pointedly against Vox.com, and has a piece explaining their opposition to it here:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/explaining-it-all
It was arguably a tasteless bit of trolling, but you made the thread even worse with a personal swipe. Please don't do that on HN.
According to their site you need to either link a credit card or add 5$ credit via paypal in order to use bitcoin

"Account must be funded by credit card or PayPal before making a Bitcoin deposit."
Why Companies Like Lyft, Uber, Postmates, Instacart etc Will Never Be Profitable
Ever use ranger?

Of course, not exactly comparable, but it's pretty amazing.
You're lucky with only 2560x1440, try a 5k screen on Windows 10, most (all?) modern apps work fine with Win 10 DPI scaling, but allot of the older, or less supported things like headphone software (looking at you Logitech) have 0 DPI support and are TINY or are scaled up, but pixelated (Looking at you Steam! Steam has updates like every 2nd day, but have yet to update the UI for proper DPI scaling)

Logitech headphone software on 5k screen vs Chrome -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4joq2oW_zHBLXJLa2d1MEhlbTJ...

Sorry, rant over, had to get it out.

But I do use both Mac and Windows regularly and they both have their quirks, but personally I find Mac to be more polished, but Windows is catching up and Apple has been slacking recently.
Fear of vulnerability, my term for perfectionism. While external things like marketing and invoicing can be a challenge, the biggest challenge is, and always will be, your view of yourself and the world. This is were success and failure ultimately come from.
Anti-Immigration Site Posts Video of Indian Families at Park
Great point, but this sounds like a topic for another blog post. I'm so glad that FIDO U2F is starting to catch on. I keep a drawer full of keys at work and hand them out to all our office visitors. The next generation of Bluetooth, NFC, and software tokens are exciting and a bright spot for the security industry.
> In the real world, spacetime is curved

Why is curved spacetime (in the sense of an infinitely differentiable pseudo-Riemannian manifold with a Lorentzian metric) not a human invention while Euclidean geometry (a limiting case of such a manifold) is?

> The universe does not seem to be built of numbers with infinite precision

What's your definition of spacetime? It's not that of General Relativity, if you deny infinitesimals.

I think you're stuck either with accepting curvature and infinitesimals and the involvement in pi in the relationships between a set of points at a small fixed spacelike distance from an origin, or you're stuck with denying curvature as anything other than a coarse approximation of some manifold with a non-Lorentzian taxicab-like metric.

Minimum lengths (abolishing infinitesimals) have been proposed theoretically, and we can readily parameterize with a minimum length equations like the Dirac equation or the Klein-Gordon equation or like the Lagrangian of the Standard Model, and in doing so we see pretty plainly that the Lorentz transformations of Special Relativity must be modified. One concrete modification is the theory of Doubly Special Relativity whose length cutoff is the Planck length. It predicts an energy-dependent speed of light, and that is contradicted by evidence (gamma rays do not win races with infrared rays in near vacuum). Other similar deformations of Special Relativity have been advanced, and they also conflict with experiment and observation, unless the minimum length goes to zero, or other physical quantities are (counter-)parameterized pushing the observation-and-experiment conflict elsewhere. (One programme for this sort of research is the Standard Model Extension).

> The universe could carry on just fine without any life anywhere having the concept of "two"

The universe could carry on just fine without any life period. Indeed, it almost certainly did in our distant past. However, there is pretty conclusive evidence that there were quadratic relations among various physical quantities in the earlier universe, notably the inverse square laws for electrostatics and gravitation. It seems extreme to blame that on humans...
Thanks, will look into it :)
Here in the UK, I think schools in the 70s often had the Research Machines 380Z (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/13/archaeologic_the_re...) which was a marvellously chunky Z80-powered machine running CP/M.

I used those at school and liked them a lot but, I guess like the Apple II, nobody would have bought one for their home because they were expensive and sold mostly through education channels.

In the 80s they generally switched to BBC Micros, which were affordable enough that some better-off families had their own.

So I can see it being a regional thing that I never used an Apple II -- they didn't appear in schools in the UK -- but I wonder about other countries besides the US. Was the Apple all that widespread anywhere else?
> Did you ever hear of a man losing his job, or getting ill, then shortly after his wife leaving? It's quite common.

Okay well how exactly "common" is it?

> but there's a truth behind women preferring men with money, power or strength, or a combination of all.

And men prefer attractive women...so what?

The majority of these men are uneducated and unemployed. The article states many are HIGH SCHOOL drop outs.

I'm a male. and I can tell you right now that I probably would not marry a female high school drop out.

The problem to me is not the women. it's that boys are being left behind in school and more work needs to be done to educate and re-purpose males from unskilled drones to skilled or white collar workers.
I had some exposure to APL program for statistics few years back, but never really dived in. Largest problem being that the tools I encountered then didn't yield themselves well to intermittent exploration (indeed, Dyalog APL had Linux version that required Wine, which was very buggy). If somebody would like to give pointers on how to start with APL in 2017? I mean things pertaining to developer experience: such as what APL implementation is easier to start with on MacOS/Linux, how to find libraries and frameworks, good example app on Github etc.

Though don't want to hijack this thread from questions specifically about the compiler + runtime. On the earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743) you mentioned two things I'd like to know more about:

- function trains: any examples? could one do those in Lisp such as Scheme?

- what is Modern dfns based APL? (something about better APL for functional programming)

Thank you for your comments so far. I tried to watch the live stream, but there was some audio skips now and then. Will have to try again on next long train ride.
This "why not join forces to have one good one" applies to all those "let fork it and do it better" projects....like systemd, KDE, Gnome etc (yes, they are not all forks, but you get the idea). This is one drawback of open source but also its strength....
MarkMc is talking about the modern era, but if you want to talk about the past - are you that ignorant that you're going to ignore what happened to the American Indians?
AirBnB makes it worse for the local population, that's what this 60% thing is about.

Sure it's great as a tourist but as an owner, when you could rent your place for X € a month, on AirBnB you could probably rent it for 70% of that for a week. Bottom line is you're not looking for people to rent it all year long, now you want to make a quick buck and rent it on AirBnB.

There's an article in the HuffPost:
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2016/03/30/airbnb-paris-locatio...

"In the 10 most touristy areas, 9 to 10 nights on AirBnB cover a whole month of 'regular' rent".

To get there, they analyzed 8000 places out of 35000 (studios and one bedroom).
Sideways can include guys "of my class, but has fallen on hard-times". If a guy has some skills and all he really needs is a good network to help him find a job, that's fine too.

There's a lot more sideways than there is 'down'. Technically its pretty hard to even get to know people of a lower class than you; rarely do you mingle.
FWIW, I have a 2016 13" nTB and have had a few trip over the power cord incidents. The USB-C cord snaps right out almost like magsafe for me... the laptop will get a nice tug and move an inch, but it comes out even on a slick countertop.
Don't worry I don't use "Enter opening something" as my only criteria to judge the discoverability and the ease of use of an interface -- and like you said Windows is full of arbitrary and/or curious keyboard choices -- but pretty much like all interfaces. (However, I still find enter => renaming really weird :p )

As for Cmd+Q and Cmd+W, those might be somewhat more intuitive, but only for some languages, and arguably only very vaguely intuitive for Cmd+W even for english speaking people.

But then again, I don't think there is a real notable difference in the end between most modern systems. It's more of a question of what we are used to.
Right - I meant that the big monitors are standard DPI, the laptop isn't.

On OS X, I've literally never thought about DPI.
SAME. No explanation; I did nothing to violate any policy, which involves clicking my own ads or suggesting to my users to do the same. A larger proportion of the revenue was the 100,000+ page views a day. They did nothing when this suspension was appealed besides the same old response, and ignored any appeal.
Ask and ye shall receive: https://relevant-xkcd.github.io/ (I'm not monetizing it though lol)
> it is because it does not depend on the real world

Nothing does not depend on the real world, to begin with. Especially, products of the mind conditioned by senses and a language.
There's no "unchecked support" for anything on HN, let alone "the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers". HN is divided the way society at large is. All sorts of comments appear here, and inevitably some are noxious. This is what happens with any large-enough sample of people, especially on the internet.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795530 and marked it off-topic.
Don't focus on the typo. Focus on the sentence, which contradicts itself halfway through. Apparently, the new Macbooks are interesting, except that they're not at all interesting.

> The new MacBook Pros, released in late 2016, where interesting, but something of a half-hearted shrug in the direction of users: they’re okay machines, but they sure aren’t interesting at all.
there are a few, but it usually turns out that the person had contacts at Google or were a high profile blogger or something.

ordinary folks? Forget it.
Photos should show up as an icon in the side-bar? Rather than navigating to the actual files I think you're meant to access them this way. It's a good idea and used to work better in my memory - these days it can be a bit finnicky to find the photo you want.
This is a great point. Python has been a solid data engineer/pipeline language for years now. It makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers (or people who wear both hats) to work in the same environment and codebase.