skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While working abroad in the States, I was prescribed benzodiazepines for panic attacks. When I later came home, I went to see a GP and asked whether I could receive a refill for a medication that was running out. I told that I had used it as my last resort to alleviate panic attacks when I was unable to control my feelings otherwise. I had another abroad trip coming, so I said I would feel secure to have that last line of defense with me. The GP asked what that sort of medication might have been, and I presented the drug as "benzo" called $US_BRAND.

The doctor looked at me for a moment and said that as you are using that term, benzo, you are aware of its abusive use. In no circumstances can we prescribe the drug same drug for you, since that would include doctor supervision before, during and after its consumption. After that the GP wrote something with the keyboard and proceeded to ask me how exactly was I able to get these drugs. I told the scenario after which I has been prescribed the drugs. The doctor responded that it sounds maltreatment to prescribe the said drug in such circumstances and that my story sounds odd. He said that he cannot prescribe me any drugs at this time.

I'm now concerned what the doctor wrote to the state wide system and whether that might affect my treatments in the future. Either way, this whole paranormality over "drug seekers" is insane -- the GP did not even suggest seeing a specialist or offer alternative drug. He just declined and became anxious which I read as he wanted me out of his office as soon as possible. He was young, I give you that, but it makes me wonder what kind of horror stories do they tell about my kind of "drug seekers" in the med school.
Use EasySP to simplify the operation of the SharedPreferences
Or perhaps "we are programmers - if you wish for X in a language, make it so". Maybe a bit too long? I certainly don't want to sound prickly :)
The thing with Go, is that it is disappointing what Google is capable of in terms of language design versus what Apple and Microsoft have done in this field.

Sure there were languages with such type systems before, and we managed to deliver our work with them.

However I don't want to work in 2017 as I used to work in the mid-90's, when templates were an experimental feature in C++, or the only MLs we knew were Caml Light, Miranda and SML.

The world has moved on.
Buffett's own writing on selling him your business is quite interesting. "Appendix B" at the end of the 1990 letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1990.html
Isn't chess a part of the physical universe?

I think I understand the point you are making, but it's not such a clear distinction.
You need to read up on using group policy to change this behavior. It's not reasonable to expect an end user to know about this stuff but if you're really worried about servers, you should already know this. I'm guessing that's why you were downvoted.
Yes - it's for storage services and as of today the only one advertised is OneDrive. But I fear that Dropbox could show up tomorrow.

Right now the only problem I have with it is that it looks like an ad and shows up in too many places. Had it just shown up in in the OneDrive app or just once during setup then I'd have zero problems with it.

Storage is advertised in iOS and Mac OS too, it's just a little more tasteful.

I completely trust Microsoft will not advertise shoes and hamburgers in windows. They'll keep that crap to e.g the consumer version of Skype I hope. I hope they will never even display a third party service in any part of windows itself.

I think the whole "omg Windows shows ads!!" reaction is - at this point - totally an overreaction.
How robust/mature is it as of yet? More importantly, how are compile speeds and how much of a priority are they to the compiler maintainers? I too find it quite promising in terms of "a language aiming for the benefits of Go with the expressiveness and added easier correctness of FP".

But "promising" doesn't mean I'd replace the few use-cases where Go currently shines for me (wouldn't recommend it for any-and-all development at all, but there are select cases where I currently absolutely wouldn't use anything else) as these are those few programs where I really want to write (and later, read) exactly step-by-step "almost machine instructions" and where the only "expressiveness" needed is already fully afforded by Go and quite well at that. Dev-related mostly bulk-file-processing-based custom tooling (not bad to fire off sizable amounts of automatic background transformations from one weird format to another on file-system events etc.) .... filters through which to pipe vast/continuous data streams with just-some-processing over it .... providing out-of-process certain "low-level, must be lightning fast" tasks and logic with IPC for a higher-level codebase .... it's a great tool for such cases, especially given how simple the syntax is. Ie. the basics are grasped very easily very quickly and you don't have to recall "its pattern matching syntax and quirks, its generics syntax and quirks, its etc etc". =) I'm perplexed when teams choose to express their entire domain model or startup in Go, however.. fair game, maybe I'm missing something there
Whoa! What a depressing thread. From the thread one would conclude this is not a country but a collection of economic interests.

Hopefully this dry soulless perspective is limited to a small technical group in the bay area.

You will simply not got this level of callousness in any country with a sense of a 'collective history and shared existence'.

Sure there is 'callousness' in many places but there is also a sense it is wrong. Here some seem to have not only shed the sense of guilt or collective existence but celebrate their lack of empathy. No wonder this is the only country that takes rand seriously.
I almost never played outside, and I didn't even grow up around "nature" — in garbage-plagued cities, in fact, but maybe that has made me want to protect nature anyway.
Since it is only available in English I can only presume it is some American Prince trying to repatriate Nigerian money.
Yet, at least we can use proper versions instead of Git urls that are exposed in source code.
Some. Not like Michael Burry. Starting with seeing what was going on in my South Florida neighborhood, and seeing Robert Schiller's graph of house prices vs. income in the NYT in 2005, I did a bunch of research, leading to selling one house in 2005, and another in 2007. I made money on both. Those buyers each later lost money when they sold the houses. On balance, I made some money, and lost a lifestyle. I don't think of myself as a winner there. There was plenty of signal. Given the havoc caused in so many people's lives across the world, and given the documentation now available, I don't think 'No one could have seen it coming' is a reasonable way to think about what happened.
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I don't understand. How can they not be comparable? They're the same type of tool, built with the same goal (writing any kind of software). In fact, Go itself was born because its creators felt the current languages weren't good at handling the current computing environment - comparisons with other languages are the at core of its existence. Finally, why even choose Go if it's not because it has some comparative advantage? Might as well stick with what we already know.
> so you need to wait until they leave until you can move into your own property.

That's simply false. You can cancel a lease with a renter because of "Eigenbedarf" (personal need) if you want to move into your own property. There's some limitations around it when you buy a property with a renter in it but in general that's how it works.

In Germany, the "basic law" (rougly: constitution) says:

> (2) Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good.

The state protects your property but this obliges you to also use it for the public good. It's not an absolute right.
Huh? The point of a Chaos Monkey is to simulate failures that might happen in real life. How does this do so?
None in that case. I don't know of any general rules for when particles can be dropped, but sitting here thinking of examples, it's usually done for simple, direct sentences where the particle would be tying together two words whose relationship is already obvious:

> eiga miru?

> ano hon, suki?

> ame futte kita.

> okaasan iru?

And so on. But I don't think that's a rule you can work backwards from, it just describes all the cases that occur to me.
You seem to be confusing particle configurations for conceptual truth. Truths about triangles are truths about physical triangles to an extent. Same with circles although you are probably thinking "but theres no perfect circle in Nature!!." True.

But the universe isnt just particle configurations. It's the rules of physics too.

Mathematical truths, the ones mathematicians care about, are founded on axioms that have truth values set by our relationship with the physical world, it informs our intuition. This is inescapable.
The author's site appears to be built using Hakyll https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/, which is a Haskell static site generator. You can find the source for this particular site on Github: https://github.com/barrucadu/barrucadu.co.uk

The "clean look" you refer to is mostly thanks to custom CSS though - nothing specifically related to Hakyll.

If you're thinking about building a similarly-styled blog or personal site, you could start by studying the styles this author used on their site: https://github.com/barrucadu/barrucadu.co.uk/tree/master/css
> He floated a hollow copper sphere in a tank of water and placed it near the edge of a cliff. In 1987 Thieberger reported that the sphere consistently moved in the direction of the edge, where the gravitational attraction by the surrounding rock was smaller—just what you’d expect if there was indeed some repulsive force that counteracted gravity.

Hmm. Wouldn't the water in the tank be attracted towards where there is more rock and thus introduce a slight slope which makes the floating sphere move towards the cliff?
Like when you have a helium filled balloon in a car and accelerate: the balloon moves to the front (because the air gets pushed to the back because of its inertia).
>it would be nice to have, but the implementation is awkward, so we won't admit to it being nice to have".

That's not the impression I'm getting

https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics
I ended up calling this engineering. Language is just a mean to an end, and learning its limits, picking one that match the most the problem at hand.

That said FP/Lisp are very hard to leave, I can understand that.
I feel like the tooling is really impressive, considering the age of the language. Remember that Haskell is something like 25+ years old. Go has done quite a bit in short time - I can only hope it will get better too.

That's like hiring a toddler who can do sums for an accounting position. Showing promise is good, but not the same as being good right now.
But then would they be reading any content on the computer itself if the adverts are targeted?
stack isn't a mess at all, it's very well-designed, robust and stable. cabal is a mess (or say, a furball) that is properly "handled" by just using stack.
Apply to YC: curated resources for your application
I think many people would find at least as many annoyances in Linux within the first hours of use. Things like multi display with different dpi isn't great in windows but the story in Linux is worse.

I think the difference is in what people find annoying. I find technical issues such as driver support, font rendering or dpi scaling 10x more annoying than an occasional ad or a fear of snooping.

It's more an individual choice of what kind of annoyance you prefer. If there was an OS with great ivory tower polish and great attitude towards integrity and openness I'd be interested. Right now you just have to choose one or the other.
Silicon Valley techies are fleeing to Seattle
Maybe you forgot the tracking part? Or the inability of the user to customize the update behavior?

This is malware. And you're paying for it, which is mind-boggling.

Edit: you might think I'm a zealot about this, but I actually started my dev career on Windows 9x back in the day, with Visual Studio no less. When windows introduced online activation, and Visual Studio (2005?) followed suit, I started to look around.
It should be a lot easier for a microphone that's right next to your head. Face one or more microphones away from the user, that gives you the environmental noise. Point one or more microphones at the user's mouth (or use some other method). That gives you what you need (signal much louder than the environmental noise, with the right microphone), along with some of that same noise. Apply some noise subtraction magic.

It's actually pretty different than an Echo, which needs to pick out the user's commands via complex signal processing alone.
> who cares if it renders differently? So long as you can read it that's enough.

The idea behind word processing is that how you've authored your work should be rendered accurately and consistently without unintended side-effects.
I disagree firmly. I fought many languages, even statically typed like java. The day I found out about lisp and FP I lost it entirely. If I wasn't a young student in a Java era I'd have saved 5 years of headache. I tried, many times, I always end up thinking like mathematicians (at least partially, I have shallow math skills) and/or FP-ers. That's the only time my brain was allowed to function and walk toward solutions. It's how I finally ended up understanding C (before that I couldn't write nested loops without making a mess).

I don't think it's entirely placebo or emotional drive too, because I really liked the Java OOP world at first, and went deep into it; but got nothing.
> After tenant outcry, the city also saved at least two apartment blocks in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg from being sold, using a legal tool known as the “right of first refusal,” which lets officials intervene if they can find funding for the purchase. In another case, the city recently stepped in and purchased a large disused freight station in the eastern district of Köpenick, which it plans to convert into affordable housing.

People like me, living in cities like Munich, Frankfurt or Hamburg, whose rents are much higher than Berlin's and whose taxes fund this, are always happy to help you, Berlin. Just tell us, when your airport is finished, (maybe in 10-20 years?) so we can take a look at what we paid for over there.

Berlin is complaining at very high level. If you want to talk about gentrification in Germany, Munich and Frankfurt are the cities to talk about. Berlin has a much easier situation, with much more open space. But when a developer comes along and wants to build skyscrapers on abandoned land, they also complain, because they want to keep their open spaces. The people over there complain about the Swabians, who want to live in these apartments, all that while being financed by the taxes of said people from Southern Germany.

I am all for liberal cities and unique culture, but Berlin does not seem to realize, that this is made possible, because Frankfurt, the exact opposite of Berlin, pays for it.
> It's a known flaw in the model that the movement of stock prices is fractally distributed.

There's plenty more to the economy, and to economics, and to the crisis than predicting stock prices. Reducing the question to stock prices is avoiding the question, IMO.

> That's like saying physics is invalid because the Newtonian model doesn't 100% accurately reflect reality

Not really. Newtonian physics is inaccurate in ways that are hard to measure at everyday human scale. The 2008 crisis was pretty noticeable, all over the world. I think an apt physics analogy would be something like getting a nuclear explosion out of starting a fire (technically, out of buying a house), something that's been done successfully for millennia without major incident.
here's a weird thing about "www": in the netherlands, many people say the "www" out loud when mentioning a domain name, but then omit the dot after the "www". they do mention the dot before the TLD. so a domain like "www.example.nl" would be pronounced as "wwwexample.nl".

to be clear, this is not something incidental. you hear it in radio and tv commercials. there might be a relation with age, with older people forgetting the "." after "www" more often.
Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter is another one I have been enjoying.
Still! I was hoping for a fix for that. I hear if you activate your onboard intel grapics it will work but I haven't managed to do that yet
I wouldn't agree with that. Opening a bar is easy, but there is always a lot of empty bars. You need to make a popular, cool bar with a nice atmosphere that is on the perfect border of "going out" and "chilling", with a good gender ratio and you have to make it pretty popular. But that doesn't cut the lines in half in the other bars. I'm thinking there might be a solution in having a platform that allows you subscription-style entry into bars. Like pay 50$ a month and you get instant entry + 1 friend into a place. Add another friend for n$ where n is the average price of entry or determined by the hosting bar/club.
If you don't name a Docker container, you get a name composed of a random adjective and scientist/hacker, e.g. "gifted_turing"

But you will never get a container called "boring_wozniak"

Not sure why they didn't just remove the boring adjective, but it made me smile...
> Don't compare. Just use. Take it at face value. Figure out what becomes easy, what becomes hard.

Isn't this precisely what the author did? The bad parts he mentioned were mostly "this is stuff that the compiler could've catched, but it didn't and thus gave me a hard time".

If we were going to carry out this argument, it would probably just boil down to the familiar debate of how strict a type system should be. The author is just a proponent of expressive type systems, and he plainly puts it in the title: "a Haskeller's perspective".
I liked this conclusion: "Go is just too different to how I think"

It is in a way a mirror image of my experience with Go: It is not so much that Go is a great language, it has its fair share of flaws, but it is quite compatible with the way I think.
It sounds great, but I'm not sure the space needs to be "disrupted".

I get it that there are a number of steps needed to buy a business, but this isn't exactly buying a chocolate bar from the supermarket where all we need to check is the "best before" date has not passed.

Proper, thorough, due diligence takes time, and knowing how much you are paying for a business versus how much you are handing over for goodwill (which is far from guaranteed) is hard, let alone being able to understand cultural fit, internal politics, market forces and the myriad of other internal and external factors that all influence a business on a daily basis.

Warren Buffet apparently does it quickly (I didn't check beyond the claim in this article), but he has a talent for it, and I will guess a fairly large research team that are fully prepared and informed before they approach a prospective target.

Comparing Warrent Buffets approach to this service to me comes off like a very well-intentioned but frankly naive initiative.

Of course, if the author is planning to buy businesses at a massive discount to what they are truly worth then he indeed can probably skip some of the diligence - but that's a pretty poor outcome for the seller.
Yes. And that's one reason why I don't buy arguments about economic 'rigor'. There's a narrative that goes along with the rigor, and the narrative isn't always right.
> This is your only legitimate point, but it grows less legitimate every day.

As a gamer I've not seen much more progress (outside of WINE workarounds, some GoG ports and Valve-specific games). Most AAA games still exclusively windows due to things like DRM (Denuvo is windows-only IIRC)
Embedding Jupyter Widgets in Other Contexts than the Notebook:
http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html

Temporary notebook service:
https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb

Jupyter javascript plugin for static sites:
https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe

Also, you may want to consider trinket: https://trinket.io/

http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-a...

For example, this book uses trinket for interactive Python:
https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html

I've just tried running:

import numpy as np
from scipy import linalg
A = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])
print(linalg.det(A))

at https://trinket.io/features/python3 and it worked like a charm :)
Pretty much, and it's a very polished is overall. It's especially good for some niche things like audio, video and media. Photoshop has always run like a dream on macs and I use Logic Pro on my hackintosh for which there's really no alternative on Linux.
These import paths aren't really URLs. They're local import paths, where Go's out-of-box tooling additionally allows for far simpler package install/update flows when one chooses to have these local paths replicate remote-repo URL paths. One doesn't have to, but it essentially turns "any CVS" into what would be Hackage/Stackage in the Haskell world. Sure, no curation, but `go get repo-url` has its charms too for quick iterations and experimentations. Vendoring is also entirely trivial (have a fork, update it from the original when it seems sensible to do so, undo when it turns out not to be). And guess what, with that you have "reproducable builds".

I like the hackage/stackage model, too. As long as there is always some folks tending to those repos. But, the `go get` model is a fine workflow too.
I don't think the SI-human/human-ant comparison really works. We didn't bootstrap our own intelligence off ants. Well, in the sense of biological evolution, it could be said that we did bootstrap our intelligence off, not ants specifically, but similarly primitive creatures, such as the common ancestors we have with ants (probably some sort of marine worm). But, even if we did bootstrap ourselves off ant-level (and sub-ant-level) creatures, for most of human history we have been ignorant of that fact, and even now that we know it, we don't know a lot of the details, so that knowledge hasn't really impacted our psyche in any way.

By contrast, any SI on this planet is going to owe its existence to human beings, and is going to have an enormously detailed knowledge of that fact. So it is going to exist in a quite different situation vis-a-vis humans than we exist in vis-a-vis ants. Humans don't have any strong inherent reasons to feel loyalty or affection towards ants; by contrast, an SI, knowing that it came from humans, knowing in immense detail how it came from humans, knowing humans so very very well, is going to have a much stronger base to ground such a loyalty or affection upon.

We didn't get our values from ants, hence it is unsurprising that ants don't play any special role in our value system. (We can see their value in various ways – the positive contribution they make to ecology, biodiveristy, etc. – but ants aren't in any way special in that regard, they hold fundamentally the same value to as millions of other lifeforms.) By contrast, any SI created by humans is going to derive its values, at least in part, from those of its human creators. And since humanity plays a special role in the value systems of almost all humans, it is highly likely that humanity will play a special role in the value system of any SI created by humans.