skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal experience studying undergraduate CS, apart from the dedicated maths modules, we did use mathematical notation for lambda expressions, regular expressions, finite automata, Turing machines and the like. We didn't cover calculus or probability though (I think you were expected to learn that in secondary school). I vaguely recall that we touched on matrices and eigenvalues/vectors. But essentially, we were only taught the maths that we needed to know for CS. And of course there were units that didn't use much maths at all, such as systems development and human-computer interaction.
In my experience, every large organization is terribly managed and inefficient. The government not noticeably different.

I guess I'm saying I don't mind paying taxes.

I consider the tax rate when choosing how much to charge my customers. I'm sure you do the same when choosing a job. If you paid less in tax, you'd earn less money. Obviously not at a 1:1 ratio, but it's something to keep in mind.
It would be interesting if the results could be controlled for time. Age of the language, year to year switch rates, etc.
but most of that code isn't iterating. the only parts in that function i see that are iterating ([0] and the similar loop below it) seems straightforward enough to me.

i don't see how they would help here unless i don't know what you mean by iterators (assuming c++-style iterators or similar).

[0]: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/cf297f2ccc...
I didn't - I just dropped the time factor out (since they both run their workloads for similar lengths of time).
This is so cool! Never knew about this being a resident of Bangalore; I'm so happy you got into YC! Congrats on the launch :)
Would love to connect!
And you haven't reported it and gotten a refund?
Not at the same time. I think the queen's got a few more years in her yet - her mother lived to 101 and I can see her doing the same.
9 Benefits of Migrating Your Business to the Cloud
At my nearest Walmart, the 12-items-or-less "fast" lane is also the exclusive tobacco products lane which totally defeats the purpose. Buying cigarettes is also a recursive game of 20 Questions about brand, size, filter, we-don't-have-that-do-you-want-this-instead? Okay, brand, size, filter...

(And I see you'll be paying in pennies.)

</rant>
Any self respecting university that teaches a formal computer science degree would teach this level of mathematics. Mine went beyond and happily forced students to learn introductory quantum mechanics as well, which annoyed the CS students to no end.
I'd love to know where you went to school and earned an ABET accredited CS degree (assuming US) and didn't take calculus, linear algebra, or have any coursework in probability and statistics.
Balanced out by the fact that the 30% (or whatever the number) who don't tip would now be paying a fairer share, instead of being effectively subsidized by other fares.
many countries do not have populations especially proficient in English.
Quantum Key Distribution: A Conceptual Primer for Online Privacy Enthusiasts
yep. ff/lnx here, all good.
I very much doubt that. Buffer overflows simply wouldn't happen in most languages, and those are the majority of the vulnerabilities we see.
For me, the ethical considerations alone make it harder. It is hard work for me to do things I consider unethical on a regular basis and I'd much rather not have the cognitive load of blocking out information on a daily basis.

My personal experience was that going vegan was much easier than not, as soon as I became aware of what was going on (at around age 18). Once I realized that animals have relationships and emotional lives, it became clear to me that they weren't "food" for me.. in the same sense humans aren't food for me.

Additionally, in terms agriculture, it seems like it requires more work and inputs to create meat, so that is harder as well.

I've been vegan for over a decade and it honestly feels like it's only made my life better.
With tax breaks, subsidies, and grants, they get to throw your money down the crapper as well.
Bypassing the patch to continue spoofing the address bar and the Malware Warning
> You do not buy a perpetual support license with those OSes.

Well, when it come to Windows 10, I would say that yes, we are effectively paying for a perpetual support license. If Microsoft is comfortable throwing ads at me as a part of normal OS operation (and they are, and keep putting them in new locations I have to disable individually), I'm comfortable saying that I'm paying them perpetually.
Well here in metro Atlanta, if you can call being thirty miles or more out still being in metro we have fiber from AT&T. I live in hickville as some would call it, yet the county which is not of the bigger counties in this area has a lot of fiber.

The costs must be horrible, when going through the subdivisions near me they had people digging up lawns, guiding pipe under roads/drives, the whole nine yards. Props to them for not destroying my lawn as they only dug to get the pipe pushing contraption in and went as far as they could.

Now from I could tell AT&T moved because they did not want to have to ride another companies fiber. So unless fiber goes utility like electricity, water, and gas, its going to be who can invest first which isn't conducive to getting fiber deployed because they will certainly only go where density is high
And the "charity" government gives out also crowds out private charity.
Writing Rust off as flashy is demeaning to the excellent work that has been going on in the Rust ecosystem to specifically address the area you mention with a safe language alternative.
Worf is weak, to kill him would be without honor. Spare Worf hypothesis.
There's a ton of missing stuff for even the simplest of applications really, even basic paging controls. Eg. you can present <title>...</title>, <link rel=next ...> and <link rel=previous ...> to search engines, but you typically can't pull these values into your content for display. Technically you can overwrite user agent styles on head elements ([1]; just checked this still works), but it isn't rendered as link/has no link action on Chrome, and isn't rendered at all on IE 10 and lower.

I mean, these features are as basic and RESTful as it gets.

[1]: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-hidden-elements
It is a Lisp thing. If you have an editor like emacs with Scheme support, it is possible to format in a way that makes it quite easy to read: in fact, the formatting reveals the AST.

A good explanation is in Chapter 1 of "SICP":

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.htm...
WordStar: A writer’s word processor
Oh don't worry I have a whole section linked in the header that lists out our advertising policy so readers can see the same terms I offer to sponsors. It even details my "anti-clickbait" policy where my headlines are guaranteed to be descriptive. I also do a lot that I don't get paid for and is not marked as sponsored content. Again on those I don't go negative, whether I'm being paid or not, whether I've been asked to write something or not. There's just enough negativity in the media that I don't want to contribute to that: what I'm selling is the way I want my city to make people feel. You should be happy to live here, let me show you how that's done. I'd link you to it so you could see all the details but it's personally identifying right down to my first name and the street I live on in my city, so I'm not comfortable linking my HN name with that.

It's funny to me that whenever I mention this side project on HN it always gets a lot of interest from people wondering if I'm being honest to my readers and giving advice of how I can be more honest. Guess it goes to show that there isn't a lot of honesty left in this world.
In problem 2, the Euler Lagrange equation imply that we are looking for the function y(x) such as the surface is minimal, so the solution is a cylinder, ie y(x)=constant=c=2.
Sandy Rios, of American Family Radio, has indeed argued in the past that the Interstate Highway System was and is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

So no, it's not a straw man. Some conservatives really do believe this.
Prettyping
Why are you inferring meaning when the article's author used two paragraphs and numerous examples to illustrate his point unambiguously?

The article is clearly heavy on the absolutes (eg: "Under no circumstances should you ever use"), and the grandparent comment critized this, and provided a good counterexample.

But you, ironically, chose to assume what the author meant by "do not assume".
Interest on the national debt is a small portion of the US budget:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

Even if you just look at discretionary spending, debt payments are not a large portion of spending.

New borrowing is also larger than the interest payments.
The worst thing about sticky headers is that they dominate the page when you zoom, making the site completely unusable.
My local taxes (county) do this. Whenever you pay property (house, car) taxes, it tells you $x goes to the county schools, $y to roads, and so on. (Usually including something like $0.67 to the county library!) It's really nice...sure, paying tax on my car every year isn't great, but I'm happy to give $150 (or whatever it is) to the public schools.
Ultra-rich protect wealth with spread of 'family offices'
10000 vocal webdevs make a blogpost about moving from Node/Python/Ruby to Go because their app is slow as shit and the JVM isn't trendy enough for them. Also I wonder if I'm reading this correctly but are there actually people moving from Cassandra/DynamoDB to Mongo??
For others looking for what Guile is:
"Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language."
Wait.. what?

"The meat industry is completely disgusting, and raising animals for slaughter is morally bad."

but yet >

"I just had a fantastic dinner with a perfectly fried beef tenderloin steak."
Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films
TIL you have to tip Uber drivers. Oh well. Luckily I only used it like 3 times and not planning to use it anymore.
How do you ascertain someone is informed and rational? Where's the line between unapproved treatment and snake oil? I get your point, but the specifics are way more nuanced and difficult to get right than you make them out to be, even without getting into the ethical considerations of unproven medicine that extend beyond the individuals.
Offtopic, but how come, when I see this website is on windows.com, that I expect it to load slowly?
There is quite a lot of GNU code written in C.

However, since gnu is a political umbrella project which does not necessarily value code quality, we see a lot of unnecessary complexity arising from the focus on creating working "free" software and not minding the quality much.

Anyone who ever touched GNU autotools will confirm that the bloat issue is real. No need to be a diehard C head.
Because Elon tends to mix the interests of his companies. I believe one of them purchased bonds of the other a while ago or something like that. They have financial ties of some sort but I don't recall what kind or which is more vulnerable.
What do you mean that it's "much easier to just pay people a decent wage"? Do you mean that it's much easier to convince companies to pay their employees more than they have to, or that it's much easier to pass higher minimum wage laws?

Neither of these seem easier than "convince the public to toss in a few extra dollars when they use a lowly paid service".

I see "make sure that all working people are paid fairly" as a very difficult problem, and tipping as a moderately effective hack that's easier to implement than the cleaner fix of higher minimum wage of basic income.
As we all know, Windows is totally secure, GUIs are awesome and the Burroughs architecture is unique.
Now, a Delhi cab union wants to launch their own app sans Ola and Uber
She makes excellent points in the text, but then uses less-than-optimal colours to back up her points. There is also much, much more to colour theory than what is outlined in this nice example.

And as others pointed out HSL/RGB are not the best (or easiest) to do heavy colour-theory based deesigns. If you're serious about colour theory in design, use CIE Lab* or Munsell
There are 15-year old bugs in Firefox on scrollbar designs that are fixed under Chrome/Webkit.

Often times custom scrolling is used to fix that.
NULL is just macro for Cheerios...
Thank you for writing this book. I bought it a few weeks ago and it has been so helpful!
> There's plenty of detail and pretty much no fluff. More of the same please Microsoft.

It's par for the course with MS tech docs IMHO, well at least the bulk of their dev documentation. I even marvelled at the MSDN docs for the same reasons some 15 years ago as a freshman. I was relieved to see the same spirit in the "extensibility" articles at http://code.visualstudio.com/docs/ (compared to the huge furball of distributed-across-blogs-and-forums, incomplete, or dated equivalent for say Sublime..).

Now. OS-wise and userland-wise I'm certainly no MS fan (and tend to stay as clear as is feasible), but as far as the entire developer ecosystem goes (except maybe SharePoint-related, that was quite the mess a few years back, dunno about today tho), it has been for ages and continues to be: near-on utopia!
I don't know why you're using quote, there are legitimately dangerous neighborhoods that someone may not want to drive to at 2:30 AM. Granted, if that's the case, then they shouldn't be Ubering at 2:30 AM, but it's still a legitimate concern.
no they make 1-5% of every swipe
>I'd rather give it a charity since then I'd know a majority of it had an impact.

A few years ago, I wish I still had the link, I read an article detailing exactly that topic and the gist of it pretty much boiled down to: What the US lacks in "welfare state" it makes up trough donations to charities by private citizens, one of the major differences between Europe and the US.

As nice as that might sound, it's also an incentive for the government to keep on cutting spending on social welfare as it assumes the private donations to charities are gonna make up for the difference.
Phytic acid is in those foods, not milk.
> It's also a solid excuse to buy a blendtec 800 with sound enclosure for the office -- way quieter than any shredder. And good for making drinks.

Didn't you recommend against drinking electronics dust right at the start of the comment?
I think it betrays a pretty limited understanding of design, to declare a design task impossible because color-coordination can't be scoped in. Prioritizing aesthetics over function usually defeats both.
Also JIT isn't necessary. You could have platform specific compilations. The important part is to have the same code base.
What if we called it "pay what you can".

With 100% of the amount over the minimum ("the bill") going to the staff, not the ownership.

There's sharp disagreement among the patrons on whether to keep servers in rags or riches. Some of this comes down whether the particular customer sees the restaurant as 'good for a plate food' versus 'a part of the neightborhhod'. We allow people the option of choosing which they see it as.
Tell me more about how great these kind of companies are, where they can terminate aspects (or all) of a service you have come to rely on. These kind of shenanigans are exactly why I don't trust Google with anything other than core services, and why I do my best to not rely on anything "cloud" (as in, consumer-facing stuff)Too much control in the hands of those who are not accountable to anyone, especially not to me.

I have been told many times (here, as well as elsewhere) how I don't "understand" cloud and related drivel. I understand cloud very well. That's why I don't depend on it.
That plus the insane practice of not including tax on displayed prices in stores. What the actual fuck.
It uses separate native threads with shared state for futures, though there are limitations on supported operations without defeating parallelism; it also offers message passing parrallelism with places, which I think are implemented as native processes.but may be threads (it's conceptually shared-nothing processes, but so are Erlang "processes" which are multiplexed onto native threads.)

But, in any case, Racket can use multiple cores, though the APIs for doing so are different than conventional threading APIs.
Leveraging the Console API in React Apps
Butterick cares deeply about typography and Amazon doesn't so I can see why he doesn't make a Kindle version. I too buy mostly Kindle books because it's easy to remove the DRM. It's been a while since I looked, but that was more difficult on Apple and Google ebooks.
You only have to write each set of seven characters once; yes, typing will require a bit more effort. However, we shouldn't optimize code for the ease of writing, we should be optimizing for the ease of reading. Write once, read many.

`struct foo` is a bit more instructive when understanding code than `foo`; at worst, they read the same to someone familiar to the codebase, at best they prevent the need to flip back and forth to the type definitions.
At least from my perspective, this wasn't a matter of remarkable vs unremarkable, it was about the expectation the title set.

Maybe it was the "into the woods", maybe it was the "alone" part, but I just wasn't expecting a story of some person stealing from others and getting caught after 27 years.
No I usually kick the curb really hard and then get mad at myself for nearly breaking a toe. Rinse and repeat. I should though.
How is that an "advantage"? It's basically leaving those behind that would need help the most, while it might be an advantage from an "efficiency point of view", it's not really an advantage in the bigger context of how to have a healthy and able population.
I believe I could have done all of these questions 12-16 years ago. Shockingly I can't do any of them anymore without refreshing myself for what they are even asking in some cases.
I don't think Butterick will release a Kindle version either.
My understanding is that the economics of power generation are deprecating coal: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/12/despite-trumps-promise-e...

So it would be better to have electric vehicles than ICE in its current form, but more power grid usage will likely accelerate other technologies rather than make coal profitable again.
This is why if you have a car salesman you like it's important to give them a perfect rating, including the areas where they're not even mentioned, as the entire survey reflects solely on them. If the question asked how your experience with the Finance Manager was, and you give it a 9/10, it could cost your salesman thousands in bonuses, and have no negative impact on the FM at all.
Arrow buttons.

I pretty much only use arrow buttons to scroll screens of text into my eyeline.

I get really annoyed when arrow buttons are overloaded to tab between screen elements instead of scrolling (my online banking site, I'm looking at you!)
Some Functional Programmings concepts
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are quite amazing. Whether they are the "end game" for their technologies has yet to be seen. But we are only beginning to see the applications of this technology. Bitcoin was more or less the first to practically solve the double spend problem, but depends on independent mining to make that work.

I suppose if a blockchain were secured - that is the nodes were all trusted and there was no way for a third party to interject into the blockchain - it could be very useful for solving conflict of interest problems. I believe it is being used for situations similar to "letters of credit" already, and that's a good application scenario.

I haven't been involved with any non-bitcoin blockchain implementations, so I'm not familiar with the specific issues companies face. But I know both Microsoft and IBM have blockchains-as-a-service and I imagine somebody is working on it. I'd love to hear of their experience.
You mean "Tesla is done" as in their mission objective has been reached, EV are the future?

Whether or not Tesla survives is getting less and less important every day (unless you are a shareholder).
I am using windows 10 from the release date and I had a lot of problems in beginning but seems that all of them disappeared with updates, I don't have them anymore.
Am I reading this incorrectly, or there is more movement from Swift to Objective-C than the other way around? Do I sense a methodological error?
Another good idea if somebody make a Good self paced book for Machine Learning. There are millions of tutorials available online but its the similar situation as Ruby on Rails. All somebody need is to just aggregate all this info in a single book and with Machine Learning hotness these days you will probably end up selling few of them. Just an idea
That is the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time, more power to you if you like the appearance, but I can't seem them bringing in sales for that thing for the design.
Reflecting on Single-Page Applications
Calling them British Expats does not help. They're migrants (weather migrants I like to call them when someone mentions "economic migrants") and live in a mental -and often physical- ghetto.

The problem is that a big majority of them does not speak the language and, in case of creation of a points visa like some Brexiteers want for migrants coming to the UK, they will fail due to their lack of integration.
GFE is garbage. I have a GTX10x0 (I forget exactly which one but one of the faster ones) and it insists that the 'optimum' settings for games are wayyyyyyy lower than what I use.

Like medium settings or something. I switch it to ultra and 4k and they work AOK.
A more reliable and helpful approach is to make sure that colors meant to convey information are augmented by some other indicator (symbols/shapes, text labels, line styles, etc.) whenever possible. In addition to avoiding colorblindness issues, this makes the difference easier to recognize in general. It also helps accommodate non-ideal viewing conditions such as a washed-out display, coordinating between displays that are calibrated differently, monochrome print/e-ink, and so on.
But wisdom usually comes from experience.
you STILL dont get it!
Which is entirely fair.
I don't think I've ever received a K1 before April 15th, including from the venture funds I invest in.
> ... my thoughts and language is some sort of strange danish/british amalgamation, and I feel like a foreigner ...

Perhaps the term "a broader perspective" is how to describe it?
shift+spacebar, you just changed my way scrolling on Mac keyboard
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829793
Lots of people will be sad, but not because they're royalists or monarchists, just because the Queen has such a long and essentially spotless history. In a world where celebrities and politicians are all pretty much expected to have a lifetime of scandal and dishonour, she stands nearly alone in having managed to avoid controversy and dishonour for, well, at least as long as I've been alive. Very few people manage that, and in this, she represents a sort of British ideal.

However, once the Queen is gone, the issue of whether to keep the Royal family will I'm sure become the next referendum issue (unless there's another scottish indyref first).
Governments can't do that.

Governments do that all the time. Look at the shitty schools we in USA force poor black kids to attend. It's easy to be confused by all the demonization and expectation-lowering we get from the media, if one pays attention to that shit. The end result is the same: if we changed public education at all, we might possibly inconvenience some suburbanites, therefore it's most efficient to just screw minorities and the poor as we have for decades.