skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't like static imports for stuff like that. You always have to do a double take to recognize where the method comes from.
> "The project is aimed at examining what kind of boats Japanese ancestors used when they crossed the sea to travel from Taiwan"

While the topic is interesting, the wording of the article is problematic: given that formal annexion of the Ryūkyū date from 1879 and that the local people go through a process of Japanization[1] since this date, speaking of ancestors of Japanese people is more of a political statement than a scientific one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanization
From the first paragraph on wikipedia: "Its aims are to facilitate code safety, security, portability and reliability in the context of embedded systems, specifically those systems programmed in ISO C / C90 / C99."

Java has better much better code safety than C (no pointers, gc, etc.) is portable via a VM, and is not used in embedded systems. It's also not specifically ISO C. MISRA was built do address certain issues with a certain language, in a certain environment. You shouldn't apply everything it recommends blindly to another language just because they both have conditions and return statements.

If you can explain to me why java benefits from having a single return statement, I would consider it. Otherwise, I refuse to blindly follow guidelines that were designed for different problems.
Why does it matter whether Snap will play the MAU game? That's what analysts will be measuring them on, whether they choose to acknowledge that or not.
I don't know why, but I seem to be the only person who actually likes the Verdana font face.
Anyone with any nous could see what was going on. If economists helping run the economy can't spot it, what use are they?
Getting 5-10% extra is a win in my books. You did the right thing at the time, don't sweat it.
I didn't say I predicted _when_ it would happen, simply that it was obvious to a casual observer that there was a credit bubble that would inevitably burst when money couldn't be paid back.
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Yeah, that's what I grew up with.

Where is it otherwise? Is bracket={} a USism? I've never been sufficiently aware to isolate the demographic.
The problem with Hyperloop isn't going to be technology - I'm sure smart people will make this thing work, if they want to - it's going to be the same problem that any new transit system encounters: land, and building on it.

How do you get [any rail-ish system] from point A to point B? You build the infrastructure from those two places. Uh-oh. Where? Want to arrive in the centre of point A? Whose land do you build over? How much does it cost to acquire or license? What regulations exist? What do the locals think, do they want a Hyperloop running past their window? What are the local unions like and how much will it cost to get the thing built?

Ultra-fast rail lines already exist. This isn't the reason there isn't one from downtown LA to SF (or Melbourne to Sydney or or London to Paris^ or New York to Boston).

^Interesting because the Eurorail was largely built on existing, upgraded track.
It does kind of make you wonder how frequent tactics like "strawman defendant" or "made up hacking claims to get discovery" are used by other firms - because it sure seems like these guys got caught because they kept up these sorts of tactics relentlessly.
Show HN: Real-time performance monitoring for ephemeral nodes, with netdata
This is so easy, I wonder how it made all the way up to the front page.

I write these kind of mini-scripts all the time
Someone else in this thread did it at MIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13809108
That link at the bottom of the email states that they unsubscribe you from the mailing list.

Odd how I always seem to get more spam, but from different companies, after I click one. Almost as though all I've done is confirm that the email address actually exists, and is therefore more valuable to sell on to others.
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Personally I've never had this problem. The context was always sufficient, and a simple IDE shortcut can offer me any additional information. I would argue a double take is worth reducing the number of dots I have to follow when reading the code. Also, in the case of `Wearable.MessageApi.sendMessage`, you can statically import `MessageApi.sendMessage` which gives a little more context.
"It's ridiculously difficult to share a single file online without a bunch of hassle.
Most sites either riddle their pages with ads so you have to guess where the correct download button is and usually restrict useful features to their premium users.

All those useful features have been added to NoFile and made available for anyone who wants to use it - all free from ads, registrations, payments and it respects your privacy.
Here are some of the current features (more to come):

* Simple upload process compatible with nearly all devices - accepts files as large as 10 GB to be uploaded

* Upload & download files without Javascript enabled (nearly all features are still available, although the site runs smoother with Javascript enabled)

* Password protect files (hashed with SHA256)

* Ability to encrypt files with AES-128 on the client-side before uploading to the server for secure storage (BETA)

* Easily view the metadata of a file (file type, dimensions, upload date, size, etc.) on its download page (URL to a live demo below)

* Preview files (PDF viewer, video/image/audio previews) before downloading (see demo URL below)

* All transfers are made securely over HTTPS to prevent malicious users from viewing what you're downloading/uploading (forced SSL)

* Securely view your upload history without having to create an account (history is stored in your browser's local storage)

* Save files directly to Dropbox (Dropbox scripts are only loaded when button is pressed to protect your privacy)

* No tracking codes and no third-party CDNs are used for external scripts, CSS or fonts in order to protect your privacy

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Here are a few demos

- Download pages

https://nofile.io/f/BJ6MyXboYLj (an image with its preview enabled)

https://nofile.io/f/UH58eLI68Cl (an image with its preview disabled by the uploader)

https://nofile.io/f/Yl4NcFvsliN (an image with password protection - password is 12345)

https://nofile.io/f/OoG2wQwS33R#c725690e45b3a393 (an image encrypted with AES-128, secret key is stored securely after the '#' and not transmitted over the HTTP protocol)

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Did they ever have good support?

One of their key selling points to me over Fitbit is that they support HealthKit on iOS.

However, there was a critical bug that prevented the HK integration from working properly.

As someone who knows HealthKit pretty well, I went in circles for weeks trying to get them to fix it - every response would reset the thread back to the agent walking me through basic steps, no hint of reading the ticket history.

Super frustrating, so I just stopped using it at that point.
I guess I fit this profile, only I have guilt about it. So if I do like it I will come back. I guess really it only helps get me back if it something I would do frequently enough to use the service. For example a deal to go to a hotel or massage I will probably only use once and not return, a deal for a restaurant I end up liking will get me back.
No you didn't per se, just thought these were features that can only help adoption / momentum of a scripting language, not that these are where this has all others "beat" =)
this is hilarious :) thanks.
Yes, most of Wirths language revisions removes more features than they add.

I agree the extensions seem hefty to some extent, but most of them look like they should change the grammar very little. I wish he'd publish a BNF for the full thing and a diff against the original Oberon 07 BNF, to make it easier to see the full impact, though. I see he's given grammar fragments a couple of places.

In terms of semantics they do clearly deviate quite a bit from the overall philosophy of Oberon (e.g. making MAP a built in type despite the big variety of design tradeoffs people might want), but it still seems quite restrained compared to most modern languages.
The building permit/ titles to land limit really only applies in countries with proper property rights. In a lot of emerging countries, this tech should have a bright future.
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback! HN is actually my most frequented site, I just don't talk much!

I did see that post at the time but will read it again. Index limitation is basically just lack of servers, funds, etc.

Currently we're doing a full index search for every query and so know the exact amount of hits within our index. This might change in the future though and become "about".

No databases except for what I've written myself. It started as a hobby so everything was from scratch from the beginning and just continued that way.

Yes thanks that's a very good idea. I'll try and put something together.

Marc
What are the tax implications of NSOs?
ISOs are a pretty huge gamble, basically a lotto ticket, if you leave before a liquidity event occurs or is known to be on the near horizon.
started with 'Nihilism' and thought 'what da hell?!!'
I just started playing around with IPC ideas with processes tellin each other which flags they would like: https://github.com/mrquincle/bipipes

I think socket pairs would be great for it.

Nothing implemented yet!
Au contraire. It's quite useful and you can handle more complex things.

"Practical Segment Intersection with Finite Precision Output"
http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/93_2-27.pdf

The problem is that once you start dealing with the actual coordinates of intersections, you have to start picking what properties you wish to keep and which you wish to abandon. Things like parallelism, inside vs outside, winding, handedness, etc. often get very murky once you start dealing with finite precision.
The post human world
​DNA data storage landmark: Now it’s 215 petabytes per gram
iOS 10 Rich Notifications Tutorial
If you read this thread again, you'll see that someone recommended early returns to reduce nesting. I replied that some people are not allowed to do that (eg because they have to follow MISRA). There is no need to quote Wikipedia. None of the points raised in this thread pertains only to one programming language. I'm sure you'll find at least one style guide forbidding multiple returns for every language that has return statements.
Strom does not mean Energy. It means stream, as in a stream of water, which could be a river, or as in a stream of electrons, which would be electricity. Strom most often refers to Elektronenstrom.
Has the Hyperloop made any significant progress recently? This article was pretty thin on the ground when it comes to substantiative info.

Have any of the fatal flaws been fixed (sub-1000 person per hour transport volume, rail can move 20k an hour, 1 lane road moves 2k per hour), or has Elon revised his inaccurate estimate, where he estimated SF to LA rail without actually crossing the bay into SF (or acquiring the right of way), or going into LA?

I recently drove through both cities, and where Elon proposed to end the alignment would make it absolutely useless for most potential users at peak hours, as its a 2+hr drive across LA and out of it to get there. Combined with where it terminates near SF, you could spend a few hours just commuting to & from it.

Ultimately, there isn't any way to get around the topography of either city whereby you can avoid the issues California's High Speed Rail has run into. Your gonna end up with lots of landowners, large and small, pissed off that your taking their parking space (which is on railroad property, and they've been using for a few years illicitly), changing the neighborhood, or doing anything at all. This is a costly process, but you either build it now and get the right of way, or you leave it to happen 40 years from now at a much higher cost.
Telefonica (10th telco globally) is firing people in the wholesale/global solutions areas. Not just in Spain, also in the US, Brazil, Argentina, etc...
That means CI runs unit tests etc. via

valgrind --quiet --leak-check=full --error-exitcode=1 *binary*
It can't even move 1000 people an hour, a road moves 2k an hour, a set of metal sticks we call rail moves 20k an hour. That is why rail is so popular across Asia & Europe, if your moving large volumes of people it is very, very efficient.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1318809
>Trying to focus on anything else (e.g. sustainability or long term plans)

This is such a tired meme. Public companies do all kinds of long term planning.

I love the fact that Silicon Valley thinks there's nothing better for the company than a young, maverick CEO, and that an experienced board and accountability are useless.
It looks like the 'Forum URL' and 'HTML URL' fields on the upload completed page are mixed up
I happen to know that they do not. In Prague we have special libraries for the blind. And there are unfortunately very few books available. Braille is supper inefficient, it is like 40 characters per line, 20-25 lines per page [1]. The pages are significantly larger than US letter. In order to print a book, say, a Harry Potter book, takes a number of volumes http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-72107-boston-ma-kristen-tur...

[1] http://www.brl.org/intro/session10/format.html
or, you know, just get rid of the idea of a separate capital gains rate.
I'd hardly consider an ownership stake in your company to be "free", with or without voting rights.
> The opioid epidemic has its roots in the explosive growth of prescription painkillers. Between 1991 and 2011, the number of opioid prescriptions (selling under brand names like Vicodin, Oxycontin, and Percocet) supplied by American retail pharmacies increased from 76m to 219m. As the number of pain pills being doled out by doctors increased, so did their potency. In 2002 one in six users took a pill more powerful than morphine. By 2012 it was one in three.

I find this absolutely outrageous. I'm not American, but I stumble upon articles mentioning this, and I do watch enough American TV series and movies to have an idea of how acute the problem is (it's crazy how often in TV series doctors seem to give pain killers like it's candy).

I have the impression that in Europe, painkillers are much less used but I would not be surprised if the American trend were to contaminate medical practice here.

Pain is a minor consequence of disease or trauma. Pain won't kill you, so why would you risk become addicted to very dangerous drugs just to relieve it?
The first volume weighs nearly 7.7 pounds and costs $70 http://www.braillebookstore.com/Harry-Potter-and-the-Sorcere... and that is contracted Braille (which many blind people don't even know how to read, and which is ambiguous (many letters are left out), people understand it, but only because the human brain is cleaver). The uncontracted version weighs 9.2 pounds and costs $92.
Came for the inevitable "it's the Wests fault", was not disappointed.
The alternative is co-opting an existing language, which is what Ansible and Saltstack do with YAML. I find that to be much worse, since a lot more is valid as just YAML than ansible/salt files.
Connecting people through messaging
$ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/time
usr/bin/time is owned by extra/time 1.7-8

If that command doesn't work for you, try adding "-y". `man pacman` for details.
Eurorail was able to straighten their rail alignments in Europe as it was built, and had a legacy of having straighter alignments than we have here in the US, as its a denser continent with more political capital to spend to eminent domain buildings over a longer period of time to get that trackage dead straight.

Rail management in Europe is also not the greatest, they tried to separate rolling stock (the cars you ride on) from the company that owns the rails, while forcing them to sublease track rights, which has created a mess as of late.

Due to topographical issues, short of another FDR style project we will not see something similar in the US in our lifetime.
> Presumably the police _can_ prove it, but the court simply refuses to even _see_ the evidence.

Then you are required to assume that the police CANNOT prove it.

I have several system administrator friends who have actually dealt with CP on their systems. Every single time it was discovered to have been planted by the FBI attempting to fish for pervs.

So, yeah, I'm gonna give the accused a whopping benefit of the doubt. CP is such a hot button issue and so amazingly rare that I always assume that the government or its agents are up to something nefarious first and that someone is a despicable human being second.

Perhaps my Bayesian prior is wrong, but I kinda doubt it.
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Is this behaviour documented anywhere? The closest I can find is https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Aliase... which remarks,

> The first word of each simple command, if unquoted, is checked to see if it has an alias.

I observe that t\ime works just as well as \time.
languages suffer from the same network effect as social networks. You could argue that Ada is a better programming language or that Ithkuil is a better spoken language but unless other people are also using them, you'll struggle to get help or hire people (or get contributors).
+1 for "In Praise of Idleness", some of the essays from the 20s and 30s that are still contemporary (including one of my favourites Russell's essays: The Ancestry of Fascism) and, of course, the self-titled one is a discussion we see a lot now with all the automation lurking on the horizon.

"Neuromancer" I wouldn't say that would be in my list of "fundamentally" changed the way I think, it's a good story with a cool narrative style but in the sci-fi genre I'd put "Childhood's End" way before "Neuromancer" in changing the way I think.
> -Wall over that codebase produces huge amounts of noise rendering it practically useless

As a c++ developer I would nope the hell out of there or spend a month fixing the warnings - depending on pay. No way would I work with something in that state long term.

> until somebody gets to fix all warnings which are not bugs.

Code that is filled with ignored warnings generally gets worse, not better. Having little to no quality standards does that.
Well the end point issue is what most rail faces when used to move people. Even when you can have a destination point people want it may move with the times but you cannot just pick up the track.

With regards to between city travel just get to the airport. You are bound to have plenty of parking, local mass transit, taxi services, and if necessary all the security is in place.
related, redux:

http://toranbillups.com/blog/archive/2016/01/22/redux-for-th...
>Upon entry of judgment after his sentencing, John Steele will be a convicted felon with a federal fraud conviction. His career as a lawyer — or, more generally, as a gainfully employed person — is over.

While I share everyone's hatred of the tactics these people have employed over the years, I also hate that felons in the US are given such a hard time after they have served their sentences. People make mistakes and should be allowed to move on from them. A couple of years in federal prison shouldn't carry with it a lifetime of financial despair.
Wearing my most pessimistic hat, I wouldn't be too surprised if Uber have had enough negative press that they're in a position where they can't raise any further capital - you can't tell people there's massive growth still to be had if you're incapable of recruiting the developers you need to realise that potential. They have several billion dollars in the bank, but unless that's enough to get them to overall profitability (parts of Uber are already profitable but the company as a whole makes a loss) then they're effectively dead. That would be a quite a shock considering the incredible growth they've had.

The chilling effect that could have on investment in startups would be horrific for SV.
I constantly have the feeling that I'm wasting my life. Had the same feeling 15 years ago, but in the mean time a lot of things happened that to me are actually pretty interesting
The latest episode of Reply All (podcast) is about W3C and EME:
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/90-matt-lieber-goes-to-dinne...
Lots of big tech companies.

AT&T - 102 - San Ramon

Atmel Corporation - 45 - San Jose

Atmel Corporation - 14 - San Jose

Atmel Corporation - 9 - San Jose

Broadcom - 64 - San Diego

Broadcom and Avago - 771 - Irvine

Broadcom and Avago - 435 - Santa Clara

Broadcom and Avago - 48 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 899 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 42 - San Jose

Cisco Systems, Inc. - 25 - San Jose

DreamWorks Animation and - 226 - Glendale

DreamWorks Animation and - 170 - Glendale

Ericsson Inc. - 435 - San Jose

FireEye, Inc. - 80 - Milpitas

GoPro, Inc. - 138 - San Mateo

Google - 104 - Mountain View

Google Inc. - 94 - Mountain View

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 258 - Palo Alto

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 208 - Sunnyvale

Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 143 - Citrus Heights

Intel Corporation - 84 - Santa Clara

Intel Corporation - 54 - Santa Clara

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 139 - Santa Clara

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 20 - Aliso Viejo

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. - 12 - Folsom

Motorola Mobility LLC - 58 - Sunnyvale

Motorola Mobility LLC - 9 - Santa Clara

Oracle America, Inc. - 441 - Santa Clara

Ricoh Electronics, Inc. - 147 - Tustin

Seagate US LLC - 70

Sony Computer Entertainment America - 40 - San Diego

Symantec Corporation - 84 - Mountain View

Symantec Corporation - 77

Symantec Corporation - 23 - Mountain View

Symantec Corporation - 3 - Mountain View

Synaptics Incorporated - 77 - San Jose

Twitter, Inc. - 67 - San Francisco

Western Digital Technologies, Inc. - 59 - Milpitas

Xerox Business Services - 19 - Irvine

Xerox Business Services, LLC - 11 - Irvine

Also Verizon, VISA and others...
> many of our students come in with a weaker mathematical background than MIT students;

Maybe this would be a better first couple of weeks introduction:

http://bookboon.com/en/gentle-introduction-to-mathematics-fo...

More information about BookBoon:

http://bookboon.com/blog/en/bookboon-com/our-mission-and-concept/
http://bookboon.com/blog/en/bookboon-com/about-the-concept-and-books/

Note, I have no affiliation with BookBoon, I've just found their textbooks/books very useful.
Fibonacci and his Magic Numbers
You can also use the 'command' built-in to skip aliases and shell functions.

$ command time --version
GNU time 1.7
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US Suspends fast processing of H1 visas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744111
> That’s a lot simpler isn’t it?

WTF?? No it isn't. You have this magic initial value and have to figure out which code paths have mutated it and which haven't. Mutable variables make code far far more complex to read.

I'm all for single return but through the use of expressions, not variables; I would probably express the given function as:

expression() {
return
a ?
(b && c) ?
2
:
1
:
0
;
}

(Ideally I'd use a language that allowed a sensible conditional expression rather than one that relies on bizarre symbols, but we work with what's available)