skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One anecdotal story I have. I was riding home on the bus in Wilmington. A guy interrupts me asking for some cash. I get to talking asking what it's for and such. Found out he had just gotten out of jail for a possession charge.

The guy was living with his Sister and looking for a job. But due to the charge no one would hire him. I remember him being shook up over being denied a janitor job at Bob Evans. I took him for a drink, and asked him what he was going to do next. He said he had to sell one way or the other. No place would hire him, he was volunteering on the side. He needed money, and selling provided that. Although he didn't want too anymore. His end goal was to get incarcerated again. As he said three square meals and a roof.

I also had a misdemeanor for a DUI. I was turned down from a number of jobs simply due to this. I had done my time, paid everything, and volunteered after wards. Despite this because I had a DUI I was a liable employee.

There seems to be a demonization almost of a lot of things. We're often afraid to give hand outs, or offer a helping hand. Survival of the fittest to an almost extreme. Rehabilitation would be great. But I know many people who don't even believe in giving second chances. One and done sort of thing.

Do we not provide rehabilitation because we don't want to, funds, whatever. Or because we don't think they can be rehabilitated?
The population of these countries are comparable to a Metropolitan area in the U.S.
My perspective on a brief trial of BigQuery and RedShift:

1) RedShift is PostgreSQL 8 with some additional features, and while can significantly improve some query runtimes, comes with usual DBA burdens as an on-premise database.

2) BiqQuery is a true cloud implementation. Its SQL syntax is evolving and may not have some features older platforms do, but the concepts of the physical implementation is completely removed from the user's concern.

Were I going to start a new project without existing dependence on AWS, BigQuery would have an advantage.
DBeaver – Open Source SQL Management Tool/Editor That Supports All Major DBMS
Google ignites Python library for command lines
The look seems to come from Heavy Metal, the 1981 movie.
Pretty much one of the best resources for maintaining a Mazda rotary... www.aaroncake.net

The RX-5 Cosmo restoration video series on his youtube channel is very worth watching if you're even remotely interested in working on cars.
Whooping cranes taught to migrate over a 15 year period by using ultralight airplanes to lead them:

http://operationmigration.org/

More recently they've stopped because it's unclear if it's working.
I started coding as a teenager, ended up with a Masters in CS. Had a great career as a software engineer mostly in start-ups and companies with a start-up-like culture, until I was 28, when we moved for my husband's job. Where we live now, almost all the jobs are in banking. I became pregnant with my first child a few months after the move, and now I am a housewife, homeschooling my Kindergartener, and expecting our fourth child. I do miss coding, and I have lots of ideas for open source educational software projects, but no time/energy to pursue it currently. I hope when my children are a bit older to get back into tech, mostly via open source projects and hackathons, since I hope we will be homeschooling long term. I miss being a software engineer, but my financial software stint taught me that corporate culture is hugely important to whether I enjoy my job and can do it well. I love being home with my children and teaching them, going to the park with them on a nice Tuesday at 10am has yet to lose its novelty and pleasure.

I still read HN because I am still deeply interested in coding & tech culture. It's been a strong interest for over 20 years, I don't think it will go away.
ANTLR has hooks you can use to help the error message.

Though it uses Java. What is a "default platform"?
> A fast copying collector would require write barriers: using atomics everytime a pointer is written.

This is not how garbage collectors work. At all.
> Craps is also a very low (<1%) house edge, and it's a more social and exciting game compared to blackjack (to me at least)

This is an even better example. I didn't cite it because I couldn't remember the edge on good play, but it's a solidly social experience which can be had for a very reasonable price.
Throughput is just as important as latency in most scenarios, development included. There's nothing about development that makes latency more desirable than throughput

Having sluggish, unresponsive, wonky tools, and a sluggish, unresponsive, wonky prototype just sucks. All of those little uncomfortable pauses wear you down and nickel-and-dime you to death.

I would think the opposite would be true, as running batch testing jobs usually demands good throughput.

Running batch testing is exactly the kind of scenario where profiling and optimization can score big wins -- and most often, those wins also apply to the production version. IMO, making your development environment uncomfortable for edit/test/debug just so you can have faster batch testing is a misguided reversal of priorities! Not having the latter provides you with less timely information, but is easily fixed. Not having the former is constantly fatiguing!
Gameboy Emulator for the Apple Watch
I would like to point out that chiropractic medicine is not necessarily quackery. There are certainly some elements that may not always work, but there are also many things that do.

The classes in the schools are certainly not a joke - they take real anatomy and real body mechanics, real radiology and real biochemistry - and the requirements for graduation are not trivial.

Additionally, although scientific method has been successful in medicine, a lot is still not well understood from the bottom up. That's why some alternative medicine solutions sometimes work as well and even better than modern medicine. It was arrived at through centuries of trial and error.
Every 28 minutes! I can't begin even imagine the kinetic energy of that orbit. It's just stupefying. Not to mention the centripetal force maintaining the white dwarf in that orbit. Every time I think outer space is done blowing my mind, I read another story like this.
This should have been the OP link. So much easier to read.
RIP, Condolences to his Family and Friends
I struggle with this a lot and here is a truth: nobody cares.

Your blog is not a destination, each post is its own page. Those that are good are going to float and give you recognition and get a lot of traffic and build your brand and your audience.

The others nobody will see and they affect nothing.

The more you publish the more hits you'll have the better you'll get. Here is a fable:

The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an "A".
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
I’m a Scrumbut and I’m Proud (2012)
(1) Not all Muslims believe that everyone needs to follow Sharia. I imagine you know this.

(2) Christianity is dogmatic too in the sense that it doesn't accept other religions. If you're not Christian, you're not saved.

> Thus, "learning to live together on the same planet" is a fool's errand if not everyone can agree that that is an allowable first principle. Islam clearly does not allow it as a first principle.

I'm sure you don't mean this as literally as you write it. Obviously we've already advanced to learn to live together quite well over thousands of years. How we continue to do that is perhaps where we disagree slightly, but I think you would agree that, while there are still tigers in the forest, they need not all be killed simply since one will kill you if he sees you.

Please stop acting like all Muslims are a threat. It's simply not true, and you only help ISIS' recruiting when you make Muslims feel unwelcome. America isn't going to deport all Muslims and you're going to have to learn to interact with them whether you like it or not.
I had my sash windows refurbished a few years back, adding double glazing and draft proofing. They said the frames were the original wood from around 150 years ago, although they said the glass was from the post-war period (in common with most windows in London, given most were shattered at some point during the war). There's no way uPVC frames will last anything remotely approaching that amount of time.
Even when you are selling SaaS (so it's a "service")?

I think you can have problems with payment processing companies as they might not want to make business with a private person.
>In 2008 Rockefeller gave $100 million to his alma mater, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I have to agree with Malcom Gladwell on this... Of all the ways to donate $100M, OF ALL THE WAYS
> But would anyone want to be using it in 50 years?

I would happily use a washing machine, dishwasher or fridge that is 50 years old. The only tech advances related to those gadgets that would concern me are CFCs in the refrigerant.
Unexpected, star-spangled find may lead to advanced electronics
I'll see you in there! Reminds me of tt.fm but a bit less overwhelming without the avatars...
A future where resonance charging equipment is safe, functionally practical and ubiquitous is sort of a breakthrough scenario in and of itself, but even then, you're still talking about a technology that is somewhat out of reach. Even if we can squeeze the necessary GPU power into the form factor of "a normal pair of sunglasses", consider the additional heat dissipation requirements of a device as thin as normal glasses that is also in a state of perpetual charge, especially when we take into account the human face's particular sensitivity to heat.

Maybe very thick oversized (by today's standards) frames will come into style and something like that will be on the border of possibility, but it seems like a real stretch within the next 10 years.
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests Now on YouTube
Relatively high amounts of free time plus cultural (class) expectations of what you'll do with it, minus the incredible on-demand availability of low-culture entertainment we have today. Given those circumstances and a half-decent mind and you're almost guaranteed to be amazingly (in modern estimation) accomplished at one or more of: (playing) music, board/card games, science, mathematics, languages, visual arts, and literature/letters.

Imagine a world with no recorded anything except what's written on paper. Music? Someone near you has to be playing/singing it, or you won't get to hear it, which means a much higher demand for people who can play music somewhat well and more participation in music-making on average. Movies? TV? Ha. You mean theater or home recitation of verse or drama.

Just try to go a year without recorded audio-visual entertainment, video games, or instant on-demand up-to-the-minute news, even without the benefit of a large passive income and with having to work for a living (unlike many of the notable 19th century intellectuals). I bet your activities in that time will look a hell of a lot more "cultured" and self-improving than usual. You might take up or get better with an instrument, build more things, see more live performances, brush up on your math skills, read more, get really good at cooking, draw (more), spend more time outdoors, play more sports and be more physically active in general, et c. If you live with others doing the same thing, after a month of evenings together reading e.g. Wordsworth or Homer or Milton aloud might start to seem like a really great idea. Broaden the circle of people doing this and maybe putting on a little small-cast performance of some Shakespeare begins to appeal. And so on.

[EDIT] I should add no cars, no airplanes, trains common only from the mid-19th century. Way more walking and horse-riding or carriage use (for the rich) and a far smaller area in which one existed on a typical day, even for the wealthy (relative to modern wealthy people, at any rate).
What could be done in order to help the BSDs to become mainstream or more visible as server-side alternative to Linux? I've operated a small FBSD mail server until 2004 (FBSD 4, vinum RAID, sendmail, cyrus IMAP) and was extremely pleased with the performance, robustness and overall coherency of it (though I wouldn't use that stack today).

While Linux certainly works well, I'm instinctively against monocultures of any kind or form. With Linux-only containers (Docker and co.) there's now the danger that we're loosing the BSDs terminally as a replacement for Linux. But is the isolation (or lack thereof) and interfacing to the host system provided by Docker/runC/whatever really worth it (compared to portable POSIX-based primitives eg. chroot jails, or modern capabilities-based generalizations of it such as FBSD's capsicum)?

It's also odd that a GPL-licensed OS, of all things, is making it to the top in containerland. But then the nominal "default" host OS for Docker (Alpine Linux) uses musl (MIT-licenses libc) rather than glibc. I'm not complaining, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it legally, but the commercial Docker image ecosystem, to me, has the smell of a GPL-circumvention device of sorts in that many images routinely install the Debian/GNU userland tools on first load.
John D. Rockefeller's father was literally a snake oil salesman [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr.
I think the implication is that if consumers are well informed they will lookout for their own needs and try to buy goods of sufficient quality.

If enough consumers do this the market for junk should fail.
In some markets it has and in others it hasn't, apparently in appliances junk prevails.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778543
Maybe some additional added detail in this qz.com article, idk.
> Having sluggish, unresponsive, wonky tools, and a sluggish, unresponsive, wonky prototype just sucks. All of those little uncomfortable pauses wear you down and nickel-and-dime you to death.

I agree. That's why you don't usually want extreme low-latency collectors that make your program slow by sacrificing throughput over latency.

> Running batch testing is exactly the kind of scenario where profiling and optimization can score big wins -- and most often, those wins also apply to the production version.

And that's why you should have a GC that balances throughput and latency.
Thanks for passing this along. It's very interesting. I just gave it a go with a hefty SQL import to test its power. My database connection string to Amazon RDS, which works locally on my computer, failed. Any idea why?
It's incredible he was able to accomplish an eighty minute movie himeslf. The art in the trailer for Nova Seed (not necessarily the fight scene embedded in the OP article) reminds me of Sally Cruikshank animated shorts. [1]

[1] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Z6SOlWbds
I see a number of these articles from time to time about the health effects of (warm|cold) water treatment.

Seems to me not to be a replacement for exercise, a healthy diet, and good sleep. Maybe as a supplement. Or maybe for someone who is injured or old or has limited opportunity.

Unfortunately good scientific work along these lines very often lead to headlines that lead people to think: wow this is like a shake-weight but there's a science paper proving it.

There's no replacement for hard work.
Ag-Grid and webpack announce partnership
So this is why Dyson no longer sells vacuums and Apple No longer sells phones. Sorry for the sarcasm

Premium products can command premium prices. They just don't move the same volume.
Certainly I see differences in people's culture. I don't damn them for it.
I'm ignorant about David Rockefeller as well. And it may be right to criticize David. But the parent comment was actually talking about events related to John D. Rockefeller's philanthropy, not David's. John D. Rockefeller did not pass on his wealth to his Son, let alone his grandson until after the events mentioned.

edit: for example: David was not even born when the Flexner report was released.
I guarantee that if the claims have validity Waymo and Uber will settle and a licensing deal will be agreed upon.
One nice thing about using recursive descent, is that your parser "is just a normal program." It's also a potential problem, but every substantive project needs coding standards anyhow.
I'm arguing that the fundamental difference between gambling and insurance is the presence of a large loss that's necessarily linked to the large gain.

By only looking at the net benefit, you're arbitrarily ignoring that. Of course if you ignore the thing that makes them different, they look the same.
> there's already other companies doing that work

In your opinion, is work not worth doing if those mammoth companies are pursuing it?

Also, you say it is a risky endeavor. Would you argue that the driverless vehicle is not an inevitability? I would certainly argue that betting on Uber to come out on top is risky, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made.
Yeah, based upon the 1000 cycle count, Teslas will start to depreciate pretty badly at somewhere between 215,000 and 350,000 miles.

Is that bad?
I read this in http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/the_real_problem_with_g... better ask the author of the article if you have a way for a better D GC.

> To make fast GC it needs to be generational, but generational GC means write barriers: you can't just freely mutate memory, every pointer mutation must be accompanied by additional bookkeeping.

I guess that in the context of D generations are not possible or practical. If you have any idea why it should be possible, you may write a DIP.
Seems to be here: http://distill.pub/journal/

Passages like:

"Distill articles must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution license."

With a little more flexibility to keep things private before publishing: "You can keep it private during the review process if you would like"
it's called cosmetic surgery
> i don't think inequality can be solved by globalization.

No, it's the other way'round.

On the way to globalization, we need to make sure inequality stays within reasonable levels, otherwise the whole thing will fail.
I don't think I understand your point at all. How do you preserve modern European welfare states in the face of globalization?
How is pressing a button on my phone to signify I would like a ride different than holding up my hand and whistling?
Inexpensive indeed. When I was in high school I made my own lock picking set. For the tension wrench I used a nail I bent into shape and hammered the end flat until it would fit most locks. I then made a set of picks in different shapes from thick paper clips that I then hammered flat so they would hold their shape.

I used to practice on my dad's file cabinet and the crappy lock they made us use for our lockers in gym class. They were so incredibly easy to pick, I wonder if it had anything to do with stuff going missing even from locked lockers?
While we're on the topic of locks, can anyone recommend a good gym locker lock that isn't easily broken/hacked?

I've had MasterLock key locks, brass, steel plate, and combination locks and mini-key locks. All have been broken into and money & goods stolen. No cutters were used, they simply forced the locks.

I now carry everything with me currently and don't use a locker, which is a PITA.
Learning Japanese, it's been hard to realize that the most important part of a sentence is always at the end.
You bring up some good points. But I think it's important to not forget that Uber has been around 2009, and wasn't spending their entire time trying to achieve driverless vehicles.

Don't doubt for a second that there is a ton of engineering that went on in Uber's app that allows it to handle scale. For example, I was in Austin a few weeks ago and used RideAustin. Same experience as Uber. Then I read on the news that the weekend of SXSW, the entire app was basically crushed from the volume of ride requests and couldn't service anybody.

And besides, who wouldn't use Uber if it cost the same amount as a taxi? For me, the advantages of Uber has always been the quality of service. The drivers are nicer, the cars or cleaner, the drivers don't demand tips nor insist at the last minute that their credit card machine doesn't work at the last minute.

And most importantly of all, I would argue that Uber's inherent long-term advantage is their brand. Anywhere in the world that has Uber, I get the same service. I can go to Honolulu and Uber works the same. I just open the app, punch my destination in, look for my driver and go. Same if I was in Mexico City. Same if I was in Delhi.

However, the same is not true for taxis. In certain places (notably South East Asia as a tourist), you agree on a certain fixed fare before getting into the taxi. In the United States they expect tipping, whereas other countries may not. They might insist their credit card machines aren't working in Toronto. There's no accountability of the driver, no GPS trip details in the app...the list goes on.

I think that kind of brand and user experience is highly valuable.
Carlyle is Carlyle. What idiots make of a great writer doesn't matter.
Well, there's always the "Ometa" approach/extension to PEGs - the author works(?) at now y-combinator sponsored research into language design (not sure if he's active on hn though):

http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Sample_Project

Note, you need to select all before trying "do it"/"print it". See eg: the js compiler (top right, second drop down).

I dare you to not find it so easy and fun that you don't try to implement a small DSL ;)
People seem to be interpreting the phrase "prepared to die" very strangely. To me, that doesn't indicate a preference for dying over living.
There's also one significant downside: hot bath lower testosterone levels in men, hurting fertility, so please don't do it if you are trying to make your partner pregnant.
Build a Python App with CockroachDB
You can always use less of the GC, but there are no way not to use pointers.
For example, I sell products in D which disable the GC completely, I certainly don't want write barriers.
True, but if you're going to SaaS, why would you not incorporate?

Of course there are downsides, you will look a lot less professional without a KvK or Chambers of Commerce number.

But if you want to look professional, you need to incorporate
They got a little public slap on the wrist, they recovered just fine after Google removed the manual action.

https://www.semrush.com/info/genius.com+(by+organic)
Apparently, this is referring to this comment in the OP:

> Awesome. Srsly. And if any of the people who worked to bring the joy of ZFS to Linux read this – dude, I owe you a beer.

Nothing wrong with that comment I can see. By taking offense, you are doing your own cause a disservice, you person of unknown gender.
Is Waymo required to make a licensing deal?

What would it be worth in $ at this point? Does Uber have deep pockets for _that_ much money at this point?
Thank you! This is exactly what I've been looking for.
Yes. Because we could teach them this skill
Poppycock. Anyone who understands software knows AlphaGo used AI tech and that the title is referring to general AI. Anyone who doesn't will have their understanding clarified in the first paragraph.