skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat. As someone who doesn't look at too many movies, it could be cool to run it automatically weekly and grab the most popular movies of a specified quality.

I mean for inspiration of what was released so I can go buy it on [some store].
Why? Uber's technology is literally stolen from Google. What would Google gain by buying them?
I'm a legal immigrant here in US. I have a green card, and patiently waiting for when I can finally apply for citizenship.

After the mess that they have made with the first EO, when people with green cards were turned at the border, my main takeaway is that I'm not going to come anywhere near the border until I get that citizenship.

Yes, I am anti-Trump. Even if there were no other reasons, the EO alone would be quite sufficient to make me so, out of pure self-preservation.

I've also increased my monthly ACLU donation 5x. Not the least because I can never know if I wouldn't end up the beneficiary of their services some day under this administration.
ANS : American Nuclear Society

SNF : Spent Nuclear Fuel
The out variables example for C# 7 is misleading. You don't need the

int quantity;

declaration. Leaving it in there defeats the purpose of the example which is meant to show that the declaration is not necessary :-)
This is so true. I love technology, but once I leave work I want to learn more about woodworking, baking, languages, history, gardening, euro board games, hiking/camping, fitness, landscaping, etc. etc. There are so many worthwhile things to learn and do outside of programming that if I don't learn it on the job I'm probably not going to find time for it outside the job.
Context: working at a company heavily relying on AWS. Made a request for such credits yesterday.

It reflects their SLA policies and docs, no surprise here. My AWS sales contact confirmed there's no problem with such demands (and basically they won't waste your time asking for failing X-Request-Id's or deny there was a problem).

What will be more interesting is how they'll deal with credit demands on all the S3-dependent services that were down at the same time. My company AWS bill is only 20% of S3@us-east-1, so we were completely down for 4+ hours and can only claim for 2% of our previous bill (woohoo).

But if we add Cloudfront, part of EC2, SWF, etc. it can become a different story.
They also do run heater wires along the pipes. Same with liquid metal cooled reactors.
Interviews Should Be Based on Job Needs
Not trying to argue here, just learn more.

This Yablo's paradox seem self referential to me. The statements are making claims about a series of statements of which they themselves are part of. I see the statements only making claims about subsequent statements... but still.

How about, rather that banning "self references", you have a more carefull phrasing requiring all structures to be fully and independently defined before you start asking questions (or making claims) about them? (No side effects from the question please).
Does this avoid all Goedelish paradoxes?
Artistic neural style applied on beauty and the beast trailer
It's weird being the guy who has lobbied for discretion and waiting for the other side in these cases on Hacker News before, and then being told I don't understand the words I am typing. The evidence basically indicts him, outright. Full stop. I'm sorry, and I know it offends you, but I'm acknowledging that fact. He is pretty much red-handed, and the evidence basically amounts to "we found the defendant standing over the corpse while holding a bloody knife."

Maybe he has an explanation that we will find out (maybe he was performing surgery to save him!), but right now, the evidence doesn't look good. This isn't complicated whether English is my primary, secondary, tertiary, or quarternary language. I also have performed forensics investigations not unlike the deposition I've read, and at no point did I say "gosh, that's thin." That's my point. He was remarkably dumb in the alleged narrative, if it's all true. Given my experience with Google's investigative abilities, I don't doubt any of the evidence submitted.

I disagree with you, you are wrong, and I understand every inch of the words I am typing. It's perfectly reasonable to acknowledge that Google and Waymo have done their due diligence bringing a coherent and well-defended complaint here. Please do me a favor and don't assume that because I'm on the other side I'm deficient or inferior to you in some way. It's how I know there is literally zero fruit down the path of engaging you.
By all means, if one toolkit is more powerful and more productive, then us it. But good design is much about working with constraints.
Immigrant is possibly the wrong word, but wouldn't he technically have been a British citizen prior to the founding of the USA?
Thanks for showing me this!

I either missed it or it didn't exist last time I looked in to ETH. (About a year ago, pre-DAO.)

Either way, this is a major component of what I'd like to see in smart contracts! (The other two major pieces being a verified VM that supports that spec, and a developer library of "standard" contract pieces -- I don't recall being impressed by directly coding for the EVM, and easy-to-use contracts require a library of "standard legalese".)

Glad to see ETH is putting in the effort.
Baidu Launches SwiftScribe
[UPDATE] the Viral Fever CEO Arunabh Kumar Accused of “abuse and Molestation”
> Saying "we don't know for sure" is dissembling nonsense that can be stated of any claim. It's a transparent device for sowing disinformation without challenge.

It is that at times. At other times, it is simply something people say when they suspect something but do not know it for sure.
You're right in sentiment. But by my figuring (which is energy per mass of fuel consumed), nuclear reactions release 2 million times more energy that chemical reactions. [1]

If you got 100% of your energy as an average American (transportation, electricity, heat, etc.) for your entire life, you'd consume 1.5 soda cans of nuclear fuel. The tiny footprint associated with this incredible resource is why nuclear matters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
The AWK Programming Language by the creators of the language is a great book to work through and includes a section on building a simple relational database system in AWK.

This book is a great introduction to databases: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
You have to pass the coursework to get the degree
"Let's fund the NHS instead" doesn't mean spending the entire amount. I don't think anyone seriously expected all the money to be used to fund the NHS.

Sure, the message written on the bus could have gone into more detail, but it would be a bit ridiculous to put small print on the side of a bus. The point is to have a short, snappy message that quickly gets a point across and can be read from a distance. Further details were available from the website, on leaflets, etc..
> Wow, you guys have a tight curve you're staying ahead of :-)

In case you're implying this was a "beat them to market" situation, it wasn't. Both navigation projects have been on React Native's public roadmap for several months: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/wiki/Roadmap/_compa...

Improved navigation has been one of the RN community's highest-voted feature requests:
https://react-native.canny.io/feature-requests/p/better-navi...
I don't understand how people spend so much on cars when their net worth is under $5 million.

Do people not remember the economy can go in the toilet really fast? Why aren't people constantly scared and thus saving as much as possible and acquiring good assets? Even if the economy stays strong, your own career or profession can go bad or get disrupted real fast.
> Family-based migration doesn't exist in other countries

Family-based migration absolutely does exist in other countries, including those you have specifically named. It may not be as extensive as in US, but that's a different matter.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Brin

And yes, having an eligible family member does effectively "guarantee you a spot as an immigrant yourself". Point-based system is for skilled immigration.
High taxes, high cost of living. I don't think this is the right call.
Electrofishing for Whales
This name drives me a little nuts, too. The modules are named `lib`. Good luck grepping that!
You clearly seem to misunderstand or be unable to separate Trumpism from conservatism. There are a lot of registered Republicans who are believers in a conservative political ideology. Trumpism is NOT a conservative ideology. Trump is not a conservative, he's a populist authoritarian. It's a seriously unfortunate circumstance for a lot of Republicans that Trump ended up being their party's candidate.

Calling /all/ of these people racists is extremely divisive and also blatantly untrue. Doing so does not win you elections and it doesn't move the politics of the US forward. All it does is make you look unreasonable to anyone intelligent and maybe win you virtue signalling points with Facebook-focused liberals. It also demeans the term "racism". Can we focus on the ACTUAL racism that's occurring within our current administration without painting large swaths of the voting population with an unfair brush?

Also, can you please take the time to breath deeply and realize that Donald Trump is not the only politician who was voted into office on behalf of the Republican Party?
My point was that downloads are 10x overpriced even if you plan to watch them 5 times. If you watch it less, then they're just more overpriced.

The numbers I found (Netflix earnings report from Q3 and Q4 of 2016) seemed to indicate, if I'm reading it right, that they actually lose money internationally and are only profitable in the US. So I think they're in a very fragile position with regards to US policy changes.
First of all - I enjoy using React in browser and consider it the best browser UI tech out there. At the same time I've been working with desktop and mobile apps for past 12 years and there are things that makes me very suspicious about React Native.

1. Native apps does not have anything like browser DOM. Most of complex controls recycle views based on internal control logic. I don't see how Virtual DOM idea can be mixed with that. To make UITableView Virtual DOM aware you will have to rewrite it from scratch.
Quote from here - https://medium.com/@talkol/recycling-rows-for-high-performan...
>Recycling previously allocated rows that went off-screen is a very popular optimization technique for list views implemented natively in iOS and Android. The default ListView implementation of React Native avoids this specific optimization in favor of other cool benefits

2. Running event handlers in a separate thread is very bad idea. Appcelerator Titanium does same thing and it gave me all sorts of trouble in the past. For example - you scroll UIScrollView and it generates scroll events. These events asynchronously delivered to JS thread. JS thread change view position. UIScrollView expect these changes during scroll event not after and does not optimise for that. As a result you get gazillions layout/scroll events which kills layout performance. You also get tons of locking/unlocking as a bonus.
In Titanium delay between UI event sending event and JS thread receiving it was visible with naked eye. It was virtually impossible to create responsive UI due to these delays. React Native seems much better in this area but I suspect that complex cases like I described above will break.

3. People have been trying to build cross platform UI for decades. There are dozens of desktop technologies in this space. None of them got even close to the point of replacing native UI. Maybe React Native will be but statistics is not on their side.
Technologies which draw controls themselves does better than others which provide cross platform wrappers to native controls.
Java Swing, WPF, maybe QT - see some use, mostly in enterprise.
Java SWT, wxWidgets (I can add AWT here) - only SWT is being used in Eclipse, others are pretty much dead.

So I'm really sceptical about React Native future as a replacement for native UI. It might be useful in niche areas but polished apps might be very problematic.

You might also find this interesting
- Bloomberg rewrite it consumer app with React Native
https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/bloomberg-used-react-na...
- Customers rate it one star - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bloomberg/id281941097?mt=8

Couple of years ago I've spent few months digging into Appcelerator Titainum which is also based on JS and in a few of ways similar to React Native. After fixing few bugs in Titanium code base and even making myself familiar with WebKit internals I can tell that Titanium is complete a garbage without any hope for improvement. Major reason for this - they decided to run JS on separate thread for performance reasons.
I second this. It is very easy to run custom software on Kobos (at least the Kobo Aura HD I have). Executables built with the cross-compile tool chain shipped with Debian work flawlessly on the device. The screen can be easily used with the provided /dev/fb0. The reader also acts as a virtual USB network device, so you don't have to rely on a clumsy WiFi connection. Another plus (at least for older models) is that the devices are quite easy to open and that the internal storage is just a normal removable micro SD card. So you can't really brick your device.

All in all it took me a few hours to write a simple application which renders the current time and date with a TTF font to the display.
"unwarranted scrutiny" is a funny term here.
When the area you were born or live in changes governments, does that make you an immigrant?
Well, the article specifically discusses Open Collective vs Patreon, referencing VueJS. What do you think of the differences mentioned there?
SICP is a great resource for learning functional programming paradigm, but is it a suitable resource for CS beginners?

There is only a few universities that still use SICP or its variants in CS introduction modules.

I think a book on imperative or OOP paradigm might be better and more relevant in today's context.
"Nobody actually programs in the IR of a compiler"

It's called LISP. It is a niche style, I'll give you. ;)
I used the github library here https://github.com/lengstrom/fast-style-transfer to create the video.
I somehow did not get what you intended to convey. Can you please elaborate? Would going back to Algos and OS etc. help me grow as a hard core programmer?
I didn't know that the queen has to sign bills though

Countries like Canada that have the Queen as head of state still need her royal assent for all bills. Typically the Governor General plays that role as the Queen's representative. However, you are correct that it's more of a formality than anything.
These Guys Built a 13-Foot-Tall Walking Robot in Their Garage
you tell me since I don't see how this proves/disproves the "bitcoin is centralized af" statement...
Circle Medical (YC S15) is hiring physicians to transform primary care
I don't know why you are being downvoted so badly, maybe you should elaborate on your point?

I can see how it might be annoying but it's also probably for the best to have these guys commenting on here.
Remind HN: 56 minutes to SpaceX launch
Who decides what goes in the index funds?
Four semesters of computer science in six hours
The Smallest Positive Integer Not Definable in Fewer Than Twelve Words
Eh. Neither Amazon nor "anyone" else invented the discounts for commitments model. We were very resistant for a long time (me especially), but customers simply demanded that we give them a discount if they'd promise to run 24x7 (and for databases that does make a lot of sense).
To be clear, I'm not personally opposed to open borders. I'm responding to this line "that effect is only negative from the specific perspective of low end salary holders." which as a statement is deeply lacking in empathy for the fact that MILLIONS of people in this country are "low end salary holders" who are negatively impacted by the labor competition that open borders brings.

This doesn't mean that open borders is a net negative policy, but it does have a tremendous negative impact on real people. That's something that needs to be considered seriously in the policy proposal and mitigated if possible. Hand-waving it away is basically the standard rhetoric of coastal city elites who don't give one iota of brain power for thinking about the "rubes in flyover states". Giving some effort to have empathy for every man, woman, and child in this country and how they're impacted by the policies we espouse, support, and advocate for is one way we can reduce the divisiveness of politics and heal our nation so we can move into a better future.
It depends what you mean by a Godelish paradox. Godel proved that there are statements which are true, but unprovable. To me, that's quite a paradox, and there's no escaping it.
Your induction is nonsense, as the OP is talking about being a 9-5'er. It's not all that hard to outwork a 9-5'er and most names that we have heard, from any field of endeavor at all (math, cs, science, engineering, creative fields), would have done so.

Also, some of those people who put in those extra two hours of work go on to get promoted faster and/or wind up getting their names on Big Important Things.

Either way is a perfectly fine choice, but there's no call to have a hissy fit at the idea that there are people who are just as smart as you (or smarter) who are out-working you, and possibly not even having a particularly bad time doing it. Way back in this thread, the original guy was talking about enjoying tinkering with computers...
Shoreham was a project with a lot of potential and a terrible outcome. Specifically, it was a nuclear plant on Long Island. It was a nuclear project that could actually pay for itself, even with the increased costs and safety concerns of the late 1980s.

Long Island is literally an island. Power generation costs are currently insane, and have always been insane, because it's expensive to move fuel onto the island. Nuclear really made sense, economically. (It's much cheaper to move fuel rods across the sound than to do the same with liquified gas.)

Because Long Island is also 100% completely impossible to evacuate in the event of a Fukushima-grade accident, NIMBYs killed the project. Unfortunately the project was killed after it was constructed. The entire construction cost is still being paid by electrical consumers today, decades later. It never served a single hour in revenue service.
This reminds me of the Berry Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
Sorry if that bothers you (those are often both me). I'm disturbingly addicted to HN, but more than anything I wish AWS would let their folks comment here more freely.
Consultants resell the products from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The client will know that the reseller is getting a cut. It's not a "kickback". I would doubt that these cloud vendors could even offer a "kickback" (but then again, I could be naive).

But I do get your point. There are several types of IT consultants:

1. Those that help choose a vendor. They should be independent.

2. Those that hold a vendor's feet to the fire. I would claim that a good reseller could still do that.

3. Those that are really just outsourced warm bodies of the vendor. Don't expect much if any independent thinking.
I'm just yet to hear any arguments that, when dug into, aren't.

Playing devil's advocate for a minute, here are just a few of the big claims often made before the referendum that would point in favour of leaving if you accept them:

- The EU economy is still fragile, particularly within the Eurozone. Another financial crisis is possible, or even likely, within the next few years, and the recovery could be even harder if it does happen.

- The EU takes billions of pounds in funding from the UK every year, and yet has a track record of not producing any properly audited accounts to show where the money actually goes.

- The power structures of the EU are cryptic and there are legitimate concerns about democratic deficit.

- The EU has a tendency to regulate excessively, perhaps with good intentions, but with poor execution. This is harmful, particularly to small businesses whose needs are frequently overlooked. The regulations apply to goods and services for domestic consumption or trade outside the EU as well as to trade within the EU, even though the latter represents only a relatively small part of our economy as a whole.

- Being a member of the EU limits our ability to make independent trade deals with the rest of the world. The EU's track record on making good trade deals with non-EU partners on our behalf is questionable. Our international trading was already shifting slowly but surely towards more trade with non-EU partners, and this is only likely to accelerate given global economic development patterns, even if the EU doesn't suffer another major financial problem.

- A vote to remain would de facto be a vote for ever closer union, increasing our exposure to all of the above and reducing the influence of our national government. In the strongest negotiating position a British leader would ever likely be in, Cameron still won only minor concessions, which may or may not have been binding. In any case, with 26/28 member states already in or expected to join the Eurozone, it is unrealistic to expect a "two-speed Europe" to remain a relevant concept, and arguments about keeping a seat at the table by remaining in are significantly weakened.

As I said, I'm just playing devil's advocate here and making the case for a single side of the debate, but I don't see anything particularly wrong, hateful, xenophobic or racist about any of those points, and none of them seems particularly esoteric or out of character with what many who came down on the Leave side were saying before the vote.
Purely alt-history, hypothetical, might-turn-it-into-a-novel idea here - but what would happen if the UK 'occupied' Scotland post succession Crimea-style?

I'd pay to see that movie!
Up to the age of thirty, I used to get on the bus, go to the terminal point, and come back. To clear my thoughts. I've tried this both in India and while I was a student in the US. Found it immensely beneficial. Unfortunately I live in a city which lacks public transport, so can't do it any longer.
I don't think that slots can be stateful between plays - there are extremely stringent regulations for slot machines and odds. For instance, if you advertise a 99.95% slot giveback, they will test that.

Also, for video poker and card games, the wins and losses are distributed as if it were a real deck of cards shuffled between hands. There are strict regulations there too, and payout percentages based on the rules of the game and the payout values for each type of poker hand.
How many hours over those 6 years?

I'd have no problem looping you but you probably wouldn't end up at the level you wanted based on your pm experience.

Also coding solo and coding on a team are different. We spend a lot of time trying college hires or the few so developers we hire to work on teams and think about how others will intact and maintain your code.

Feel free to email me. No idea what city you are in.
Can you please stop? Your plugging is honestly spamming. You're doing this on every post related to Azure and AWS. What would the comments section become if every engineer working on AWS, Azure and GCE starts plugging their own clouds?
I believe you when you say you've had a good experience with Ride Austin, but I think you've been lucky. I've never been able to successfully book a ride with either Ride Austin or Fasten :\
Thank you, you explained it better than I could put into words. It still baffles me that "wire services" is even a thing or considered acceptable. shrug
They probably set those the highest so passerbys see people win most and sit down. That is what I seem to have heard but a case could be made either way