skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's because back then programming was largely secretarial and clerical and involved many manual tasks repeated over and over to set up the programs. It was very different from what is done today.
But are they still taking money from vendors over possibly bogus patent claims?
Good point - just because people aren't talking about it doesn't mean it's not happening
Who Needs an Architect – Martin Fowler (2003) [pdf]
Yeah, I always understand "how" from books like this, but not "why". Why is javascript like that?

More to the point, what is the reason for prototype-based inheritance, what is its benefit, what more can you do with it than with C++/java, where does it make life easier.
Intel offers a 2-month paid sabbatical every 7 years of service, or a 1-month paid sabbatical every 4 years of service. There are many other companies which have sabbaticals. [0] [1]

[0] http://yoursabbatical.com/learn/workplaces-for-sabbaticals/

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/12/pf/companies-that-pay-you-to...
Don't use SHA1..
If you enjoy occasionally bullying idiots who drive with their phones, do it. The police won't care, and there would not be enough evidence to prosecute you anyway if you obscure your face with.

The person in the car won't understand why you've done it, and will get all uppity and defensive, but will probably be jarred enough by the assault on his or her personal space to make stupid mistakes throughout the day.
Given the assumption that there are large numbers of intelligent species out there (the universe is vast), unless the Great Filter guarantees that 100% (not 99%, or 99.9%, but 100%) of intelligent species will self-destruct, then these two theories are not mutually exclusive.

Due to the size of the universe (100 billion stars in this galaxy alone), remote possibility has to be treated as absolute certainty, this is why dark forest is such a sound theory.
Thanks! I'm using OmniGraffle for the diagrams.
I'd love to hear more about what you're doing. I'm looking a bit into this space and could share some of what I've seen in the market - my email is in my profile.
do you hire international interns for the summer?
How do you not understand this, the entire point of DoNotPay is to fight unfair tickets. If the tickets were valid, he wouldn't be able to fight them. It is designed to help PEOPLE rather than the government.

And top of that, helping refugees is even more of a positive thing. I sense some jealousy...
Taken from link you posted:

"Undoubtedly, a well-sited and well-built wind turbine would generate as much energy as it embodies in less than a year."

Sounds like good payout time - wind turbines life span is typically 10+ years.
Really just more layers of walled gardens imho.
I've thought about this in the past, and I would do something where features are delayed 6 months to a year to the community version.
CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked
Cringy nonsense.
> therefore parse-able as a regular language.

You mean "context-free" not "regular" here, but either way, I believe that C is actually context-sensitive:

(a)(b);

Is this:

1. Evaluating "b" and casting it to type "a"?

2. Evaluating the parenthesized expression "a" which yields a function, and then calling it, passing in "b"?

The only way to distinguish the two is by knowing whether "a" is a type or not.

You could argue that as long as the parser produces a suitably vague AST, it doesn't need to know the distinction and can pass it on to later phases. I think that might work because I don't know of cases where the syntax actually diverges based on the type of a symbol.

But in practice, I think most parsers want to produce a more precise AST that distinguishes cast expressions from function calls.
In Puerto Rico only?
Attacking the argument on the basis of skin colour, or any other irrellevant basis: gender, religion, sexuality, are classic ad homs.

And, if I do happen to be crazy and that's a legitimate basis for my not being able to assess another's insanity, that's a valid impeachment of my credibility.

If I'm not crazy, it's an untruthful assertion on your part.
> If you took a lane away on every freeway the mayhem you'd create would be indescribably.

Really? Because all those lanes that have been added over the years don't appear to have made a big difference.

Also, the lane would be replaced with something amazing angelinos have never seen before -- a transport mode way faster than any other. With all the people choosing to use that bus, there'll be less car traffic. Saving half an hour has a way of turning excuses like "the bus is crowded" into jelly.

(Also, if it turns out you're right, lane rules and hours can be adjusted immediately with just a little paint or a sign. This is not risky.)

> Besides, buses will guarantee that it will take three hours to move a handful of miles because they would have to get on and off the freeways at regular intervals and brave street level congestion while then making stops

Um, don't use the freeway then, except where it's genuinely more direct. Then you don't have to take lanes away anyway.

> at non-existing parking lots (they don't exist now) to pick-up and drop off people.

Are you kidding? There's so much space in wasted parking lots for individual businesses, or even street space on these huge wide roads, any of which could be reclaimed.

> You must not live in Los Angeles.

Correct! If I did, I'd be afflicted by the same sad disease as you, lack of imagination.

Fact is, we make it work here in metro NYC, which is as big and sprawled out as LA -- probably more actually. If we can do it, so can you. (Note that by metro NYC I don't mean manhattan and the like, I mean to emphasize the outer parts, the 4 boroughs and 3 detached counties (Westchester, Bergen, Hudson) surrounding manhattan.

I invite you to come tour outer NYC, and see what you think
do you hire international interns for summer 2017?
Recent development: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-institute-suc...
But the bottom line is this...

For a long time to come—until all energies used to produce wind turbines and photovoltaic cells come from renewable energy sources—modern civilization will remain fundamentally dependent on fossil fuels.

edit: I am not against wind or solar, but they in their current form need lot more oil and that will continue for a long time, probably our life times.

edit2: The previous poster partially quoted a sentence, others would be well served if they read the full sentence.
Hey by the way, you know Andrew Carnegie? Your Hall, and Universities, and public libraries? He was a very rich man back in the day, Rockerfeller would send him cardboard vests as an insult to his meagre past as a gift, and Andrew would send back bottles of whiskey to equal the insult (he was T-Total). He purchased "The Glen", an area of Land to be used by the public and gifted to his home town.

As a child, my friend and I used to hang around there all the time, we followed "The Burn" which is just a small stream really which is many hundreds of miles long. However we followed it for a long long time, and in the way of the stream, there is a cave, you need to go underground to get to it, and when you get there you need to enter a small collapsed column of stone, and then go back up.

In there is a cave and if you crawl through, you end up going back down again to end up in a cave which is very much like this image. At the front of the cave is a stone Altar and what appears to be a V shape carving that would hold a small book. There are carvings in the walls to hold what I guess are candles.

Anyway, it is our secret, and to this day, based on our observations over time, our intended collapse of the entrance remains in place, and even the outer rocks have caved in beside it.

I know that what my friend I found is of huge historic significance to the local area, almost certainly related to the St Margaret era and yet, knowing something is there like that, and knowing no one else knows is amazing.

I personally keep a 4x doze of Heroin accessible should life ever be grim, or should I ever be a burden, and that is where I plan to go to take the last train west. By the time someone else finds this, the skeleton will baffle them. (I might collapse hugging the altar just to fuck with them a while, o appear on a "Creepy" subreddit well into the future)
This blog has many great posts on the topic of suburban development, decline and dynamics. For example:

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/08/31/a-thousand-hidden-subs...

and the follow-up: https://granolashotgun.com/2016/09/01/them-thats-got-shall-h...

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/10/13/the-talisman-of-colera...

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/07/23/the-great-hollowing-ou...

https://granolashotgun.com/2016/10/13/our-state-religion/

https://granolashotgun.com/2017/01/09/gazeboland/
Wow! Almost 2 hours a week! What do you do with the extra time?
You can use Go with Heroku, with a buildpack [1]. There's a free plan, but it doesn't include SSL.

[1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-go
They're hardly outsiders once they've become the leader of the country.

Trump is in a similar position now: he was an outsider during the campaign, but now that he's won, he's the consummate insider. The same phenomena applies to successful Silicon Valley startups: Google, Facebook, and Uber were all scrappy little startups until they became huge, at which point they became giant multinationals which need to be feared and resisted.

This I think illustrates the paradox in Sam's quote: in my read, Altman is referring to candidate Trump, while your outrage is devoted towards President Trump. As Obama said in one of his farewell addresses, "campaigning is very different from governing". Tactics that can be very effective (even necessary) on the campaign trail can become dangerous threats to democracy within the government.
Ask HN: Do you host or attend Meetups?
Hey,

I'm a fan of meetups, I've attended a few and have met great people and learned a lot - I see the value.

I'm building an app that allows event organizers to monetize the events and sell tickets to their audience using our platform, so you can still host the occasional free meetup on meetup.com, but can also use our service to post a paid event and share the link with your audience. All you do is hook-up your bank account and the ticket sales are directly deposited into your bank account within 3-5 days. We simply take a small 7% transaction fee per ticket sold.

We're in development but I'm looking for feedback, to see if any of you would use something like this.

Thanks
Anthony
> BTW, calling the Trump administration "crazy" is kind of a lazy ad hominem, don't you think?

It's not ad hominem, but it may be missing that much of the apparent craziness of the Administration is deliberate propaganda strategy (even if that strategy has been chosen as a key one for the Trump camp because Trump himself is actually crazy, and so there is an incentive to find an approach that works with that fact rather than foundering on it.)
If you actually read the trilogy I mentioned, by "elimination" the author doesn't mean an invasion. The advanced races literally manipulates laws of physics to its extreme to remotely wipe out star systems without ever exposing themselves.

The methods range from rudimentary ones like turning the star of a system nova to god like ones like dropping the dimension level of a region of space from 3D to 2D.

Yes, it's a fantastic series of reading :)
HN has actually improved dramatically in recent years. There used to be no one like you speaking up in support. And, yet, it took me a long time to see the sexism here because it was already so much more civil than other places I had known.

(In case you are unaware, I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member here. I strongly suspect I really am because I have been saying that for a couple of years or so and no one has shot me down yet with "Nope!!! THIS member is openly female AND on the leaderboard, you dumbass!!!!!")
Any piano can produce the main frequency of the bass notes. Apart from length, the tension and density of the string play a role in the main frequency as well.

The problem with shorter strings is rather simple. Shorter strings are stiffer than their longer equivalents. These strings produce sharp overtones, since there is less length of the string to vibrate on higher frequencies. Perfect overtones need perfect flexibility to be an exact multiple of the main frequency, which is physically impossible.
Not true. US citizens may criticize the US government, but it is illegal for work visa holders (such as H1B holders) to protest or criticize the US government.

That is absolutely 100% false. There is no law or regulation that prohibits anyone, including work visa holders, from criticizing the government. I'm floored someone would even think that.

I'm honestly curious what led you to believe that?
My purpose was to talk about biases of media outlets in general rather than discuss the biases of one particular media outlet (Wikileaks).

Wikileaks has important biases. So does CNN. Wikileaks does important reporting. So does CNN.

Of course these are just two outlets. I don't mean to focus just on the two.

(Of the two I think Wikileaks would be the most missed, were it to disappear.)

My point is that it is incredibly important to discuss and take into account the biases of the outlets information is being published by. This is how I intended to discuss the bias of CNN and if you look you will see I brought this up under the context of the parent comments of my own. Namely, it is not quid pro quo.
So I'm barred from having an opinion because I'm not a woman? Perhaps rather than my "experience" I should have said "real life observations." Regardless, so be it, but don't expect my support if you ever end up wanting it.
The CIA may just not need that much for 80% of their targets. We aren't talking about top-level security experts. The CIA might use these tools on very low-tech focused threats. The mere fact that they focus on Samsung smart tvs tell us something about their targets. What person serious about security would have a TV that even had a chance of recording their conversations if it was hacked?

For the other 20% of targets who are serious about security (High-level government actors in countries that can invest a lot of money into serious computer security.) The CIA probably has a bunch of high-level tools that were not leaked.
I'm with you there man (or lady)...the pace of "new and shiny" is exhausting.

One of the things I like about our environment is that we're always disrupting ourselves (maybe a little too much). So while it's true that there are many heavy weight DI tools (Castle.Windsor for ex), there are also lighter-weight ones (Ninject and co). At the end of the day, we each pick our heavy we want our tools to be (we can always implement IOC without a DI tool if you want to keep things bare boned).

> Basically, life is easy to argue at the strawman level. Breaks down quickly when there are "boots on the ground." (Or whatever other saying works.)

It's an interesting discussion for sure. And some of it is philosophical. When the "rubber hits the road" (or whatever saying works) and i'm stuck in the office at 2am trying refactor a ball of mud, I wish those who came before me had thought of this stuff.

Engineering. Not Programming.
I studied economics in college, and worked with a professor who was researching the "pay gap".

We found that adjusting for a number of factors (profession, experience, education, etc.) the pay gap actually closes significantly.

That isn't to say some companies don't have pay gap, but it is largely overblown and often dissimilar pay is a result of other factors.

tl;dr 70 cents on the dollar is not a real thing when you use your data correctly (at least in USA).
IDEs turn textual languages into quasi graphical languages. E.g. a porthole showing a symbol's references across the project, where you can seamlessly edit the code in some distant file somewhere. Or when a bulky Java object is collapsed down to look like a lambda. Autocomplete, too, is getting graphical with icons and tabs.

Unfortunately they're still constrained by the language itself being designed around text. A lot more could be done with a language+IDE developed in tandem, with the IDE's needs always taking precedence in decisions.
I hare to say it, but most pensions are headed this way due to mismanagement, and lack of revisitation of rates vs payouts over time. Most companies have already eliminated theirs in good faith, or desparation.
Relevant Mitchell and Webb Look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
Cheaper solution would be to try the open source Pd (PureData) in combination with the free "Programming Electronic Music in Pd" book [1].

[1] http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/index.html
Man, this article really shows why imperative programming is so much harder to reason about than functional programming.

Difference between "variables" in math vs. functional programming? None. The value of a variable can't change.

Difference between "function" in math vs. functional programming? None. It's just a map from one set to another.
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be pirate and/or ninja related[1], so you're missing a great opportunity to name it pirate-plancks.

1: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pirate%20ninj...
Do you still have to actively manage your calorie intake?
People who forward the feminist narrative always insist that they are interested in having a "conversation", but this is a lie, as evidenced by this statement.

Agreement with my position proves my position.
Disagreement with my position proves my position.

You're not interested in speaking with people who disagree with you. A dialogue you want not. You wish to have a monologue, where you are the teacher and anyone who doesn't think like you is the pupil, who knows his place, sits down, shuts up, and listens.

You are a bigot in the purest definition of the word.
Kelvin, FTW
There's a scilexer.dll in atmel studio which is based on visual studio. does anyone know if it is the same?
> They're hardly outsiders once they've become the leader of the country.

A formal position of authority doesn't stop you from being an outsider in an institution; that's one of the reasons that purges happen: to recast institutions in which the leader is an outsider into ones in which he is not.
> By the time someone else finds this, the skeleton will baffle them.

If you ever feel the need to do that make sure you take a couple of dozen devices with you ranging from say the 1940's up to current tech.

You'll give some future historian conniptions.
You're right. It means: "Rather than [criticizing] a person’s premises or reasoning, one asserts something about the person’s character, ... mental health, likes or dislikes."

I'm just surprised the first rhetorical tools you decided to use are emotional appeals and being dismissive of anyone who appears like they're remotely not toeing the party line.
You'd rather I used MD5? Because those two are the only ones the NPP download manifest page provides.
Pretty sure this article[0] went round here last week.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/patagonias-phil...
Yep, the company that only exists by brazenly disregarding the law has no problem with treating employees like shit.

Big surprise :S
I wonder if we could do artificial selection, breeding a couple generations in progressively lower atmosphere, and only keeping those that don't go haywire
> abstraction, modularity and composition, maintainability, and it even supports complex ideas such as concurrency and meta-programming

Not at all. A while back, I had a kidney problem that somehow managed to first manifest itself as incessant headaches. So much for modularity.
It definitely exists. Consider the pay disparity between men who negotiate well versus those who don't. Now look at HR studies that show women rarely negotiate (no links to studies from me right now but I have heard this anecdotally from hiring managers and I have read this before in business mags). Do you see how a problem can evolve?

Do you know whether your equally skilled female colleagues are making less money than you? Have you asked?

There is systemic pay discrimination in development jobs here in Australia so I can only assume it is similar in the US.
Until this is treated like the public epidemic it is, and promote education, this will only get worse.

Calories in - calories out = fat accumulation. It is literally that simple.
By that logic, women can never know if there is sexism because they don't have all that mythical privilege to compare it to. I'd love to see one time ... one time.. there be a focus on the disparity between men and women in waste services, janitorial services, etc. We accept they don't prefer those jobs but suddenly in tech (since it became sexy) its now a problem?
If this were Reddit we could keep this going until we had a meme about Matt Damon running in the background of movies, and a whole corpus of images where he's been photoshopped to be doing just that.

Now I'm kind of regretting this conversation isn't on Reddit.
Many commonly-used data structures (e.g. trees) are nearly impossible to manage without recursion.
I said later in the article I thought Trump was a bad outcome of the effects of technology.

I think that our side should be ashamed we got beat with out own playbook and not let it happen again.

I also think if we don't realize what happened, we will not win future elections. So I hope we learn this very painful lesson soon.

I could just refuse to comment for these articles, but I'm more interested in us winning elections in the future than not facing criticism. It's important to me to engage and point out what I think is important.
If you really want to get fancy you could use Selenium to get screenshots and compare them to check that the remynified CSS produces the same layout as the original CSS.

http://www.seleniumhq.org/
Are they actually making money, or are they going to be another fantastic short-sell opportunity, a la Snapchat?
This is partially mitigated by double use of the island's connectors as interconnects. If energy production on the island dropped to zero, the entire cable capacity would be able to move power between connected nations. The 'flat' United Kingdom has 2.8GW of existing pumped storage capacity. (http://www.british-hydro.org/hydro_in_the_uk)

If this was the only power generation in the area it would be an issue, but even such a large power plant as what they propose would be a highly effective addition to the grid of the north sea area.
The free plan also "sleeps" after inactivity, right? I assume that means a really long page load for the visitor that follows the inactivity? And, you're still left implementing caching, redirects, etc, in a language (Go or Ruby) vs configuration directives.

Just seems a poor option compared to other choices, at least for static content.
True but the fanaticism can wear out quickly. As a car company I think they're in for a tougher challenge than they've already had and done well with. They could end up being the Razr phone of cars. Cool. Everyone wants one. First with the style and some unique UX and hype. Then it wears off and competitors play catch up. They're more interesting as an energy/tech company for sure. Their strategy of going high end and cool and then moving to more mass market / Prius territory could pay off. But that's an even tougher space to compete in. Like the SaaS space - expectations seem to increase with a lower price point.