skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about the seat, it's about whether or not a driver needs to be in that seat. Lower levels of autonomy need a driver to be able to step in. That is self-driving, but not driverless.
That. And not to forget that many of the countries that are left over are the failed attempt to have different ethnic/cultural groups exist under one umbrella (USSR, Czechoslovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia)...not unlike the pressure in places like Iraq, Syria, etc that we see today.
Hi Chris, I wanted to applaud your efforts here. The attitude of "those who can't do, teach" misses how we truly internalize and make use of ideas.

Luminaries in a field (Einstein, Feynman, Tao) have "post-rigorous" understanding (https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...). Pure research without sufficient explanation doesn't help others build this level of depth and leaves the findings as a black box.
Ask HN: How would you modify the corporate hierarchy?
Thoughts on how a modern company should be organized to succeed in all areas (economic and social)?
"Rich people don't give money away no-strings-attached, they channel it for their purposes"

This is really just a troll comment where you put everyone in a group group under one umbrella. Now others will need to waste their timé feeding the troll.

This really is not a constructive or educational way for people to spend their afternoon.
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Yes. There are a variety of business models in free software, just like there are a variety of business models in producing copyright content.

So, now that we know that, why are you calling basically everyone on the planet a freeloader? e.g. why am I freeloading if I read articles in the 'free' newspaper (advertising supported, of course.)
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Fair point, though it's not that unreasonable to think bring a billionaire will greatly increase your chance of survival.
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Were they measuring outdoor cycling or indoor (exercise bike)?

I think there's a huge qualitative difference between the two - breathing the outside air (and absorbing the sun if I'm lucky) probably do much more to improve my health and outlook than the simple calories burned.
writing parsers is the least interesting part of an interpreter/compiler, and your grammar should be boring if you want your syntax to be easy to understand by humans.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, most grammars for programming languages that are supposed to be easy on humans end up being harder to parse. (See below) One notable exception is, of course, Smalltalk.

One criticism I have of this article, is that it is written in a way that obscures the fact a top-down parser is an LL(k) parser. I'd posit that sticking to an LL(1) grammar is a great way to wind up with a simpler syntax that lacks sticky syntactic sugar that will be hard to optimize and build software tool for later on. (AT least for your personal learning hobby project. But in that case, at least use a separate Lexer!)

You can't introduce bullshit ambiguous extensions to your grammar

Ruby: http://po-ru.com/diary/ruby-parsing-ambiguities/
A question out of pure ignorance: the parent comment was speaking on David Rockefeller, did he (David Rockefeller) treat philanthropy in the same way (not just superficially) as his grandfather?
OpenShift + Spress https://www.openshift.com/ It uses Github workflow
You might be interested in this very well written blog post: http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
People learn better when they are allowed to fail – coding experiment
>That's what it is and frankly, that's what's required too. We have too many people to be able sustain them all with cutesy farm to table ensembles and home grown vegetables.

Citation needed. It's not like we'd have some food crisis if we didn't have a "food industry", by which people usually mean the actively harmful and inducing food staff that's mass manufactured, you know the 20,000 mass market varieties of sodas, chips, snacks, burgers and such.

If you just mean "agriculture at scale", we had that since ancient Babylon.

In fact, outside of floods and famines that are orthogonal to what we're talking about, many countries do just fine feeding their populations with 1/10 or 1/20 of such an industry as it exists in the US.
I have in my pants a generator, which creates human-equivalent intelligences. When we are able to artificially reproduce the output of that generator (simple one-cell being) and its female counterpart, we will have a totally artificial being, with totally artificial thoughts. Because nothing of it is of human origin, we can freely kill stupid and ugly ones and allow speedy development which soon surpass humans at all levels.
I honestly never had a problem with the UI of

1) Dial a 10 digit number

2) Someone says "Hello, XYZ car service"

3) You say "I need a car at the corner of Sample street and 123rd road"

4) They say "5 minutes" and hang up

It takes the same or less time as using an app like Uber with fewer things that can go wrong.
What if your company decided to sacrifice features for maintainability and kept the electronics in the product to a minimum? There might be a strong market for something that does only 1-2 things but can be maintained indefinitely with simple materials and tools.
Yeah, that's why no-one uses Maya to edit 3d scenes. It lacks the finesse of text, like povray ;-)
> and it was FreeBSD who I believe had the first container system (jail).

This is an interesting tidbit that I had not considered before!

It would appear you are correct, but I would mention that the appearance of "jail" in FreeBSD 4.0 is very close to the appearance of OpenVZ (at least from the cursory look up I did).
Ask HN: How much should i charge an hour, for private web development lessons
I'm a web developer, and been one for over 10 years, and recently i started writing about development, and i started getting a lot of requests to teach one on one lessons. I don't know much about this nor how much to charge per lesson, so i'm a bit lost. In my consulting and freelancing practice, i charge from $100-$300 an hour. So should i charge the same for the lessons?
Please ignore the footer bug, but something like this? http://www.averageweather.io/monthly/boston/ma/10/
Not sure how general this is, but in Poland if you have SaaS you need to have a company (because it's a "service"). But when you are selling just source code to someone else, it can be counted as personal income (no company needed).
I don't see it written explicitly; can anyone confirm that this journal is fully open-access?
Good recruiters are a rare breed, but they do exist. You always have to remember that recruiters are middlemen and their ultimate goal is to get paid to place. Somethings I generally look out for are who are this recruiters clients and how senior they are. The recruiting industry has very high turnover and most people don't last very long. If you're dealing with a recruiter who's been doing it for years, chances are they are doing something right. Finally, see if the recruiter is focused on the industry or even better a niche (selling specific set of skills) or just recruiting generally.
The primary goal of Islam, according to its doctrine, is to bring the law of Allah (known as Sharia) to all people on earth. Sharia is the right way to live, and all people should be subject to it.

Please explain how you plan to "live together" when there are people who are actively pursuing an ideology that in no way, shape or form can be altered because it is the actual, literal, word of God himself and it must be implemented. It's not even up for debate, because it does not follow reason. It is a dogmatic prime directive to be carried out.

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 mean this isn't like some kind of subculture and you have people minding their own business and saying "that's cool bro I'm just gonna practice my religion here in peace and we can mutually coexist". That is not the will of Allah.
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>you're a freeloader

In this case, I can't see the problem with being a freeloader. Information is a non-scarce resource, and the arguments against freeloading don't apply to sharing information, other than the continuance/incentive aspect. This aspect is present in capitalism, though not necessarily in other economic systems. I personally do not care if future material is no longer produced. I'll find something else to do. What other people do is not my business.

Also, most businesses rely on employing people for wages, which I believe is exploitation, so in the case of information I don't really have a problem with these capitalists failing.

>someone has to be paying for these works or they wouldn't get created in the first place.

And if someone wants to pay, they surely can. I won't though.
Study shows that only 26% of Linux devs made relevant contributions to 1+ files
Continuous deployment for Node.js on DigitalOcean
Well that was the Westphalian agreement. We're sovereign states and can operate as we see fit. If international policy has some impact on our domestic policy -- so be it. Much the same as we have free will and are also impacted by our environment.

There are people in places who are happy with the way things are, and people in other places who wouldn't like it that way.
Indeed, learning new little tricks like this is one of the great things about HN! Many times, I get more "value" from the comments than I do the submissions.
Any diesel engine that has SCR and isn't miserly on the urea should be good to go. It's the ones that cheap out and rely excessively on EGR that you should watch out for.
I would argue that the dissemination of complex information to the masses is of the utmost importance. How can humans make decisions if they don't understand what they are deciding about.

His contribution is extremely important in advancing these fields. We need people to do this outside of academia if the populous is going to be truly informed about such important matters.

Bill Nye and Neil Tyson may be cheesy, but its hard to argue that they aren't important in getting millions of kids into science at a young age, and helping people of all ages understand the science around them.
Yes. Everything is published under Creative Commons Attribution.

(One of the members of our steering committee, Michael Nielsen, has a significant history advocating for open science. I think there's about a snowball's chance in hell he'd be involved if we weren't. :P )
In the Netherlands, there is a threshold, and you do not have to incorporate if you stay under that, and you'll still have to report it. But this obviously depends on the country you're in.

Paypal could be a good way to take money from people privately, and it's probably entirely legal, up to a certain point.
It would be great if ncurses supported more colors, but doesn't exist any other library except ncurses that one could use for cli programs?
The Medical Guild didn't have much to offer in the early part of the 20th century. The Osteopaths [possibly] had much better results at their hospitals during the Great Flu of 1918, for example.

Science started to make some progress figuring things out, but then the snake oil salesmen regrouped and used the cloak of 'science' to sell their 'prescriptions'. For example, Statin drugs might prevent a few heart attacks, but just cause side effects for 90+% of the patients who take them.

Pfizer, et al, are trying to restore estrogen/Premarin (a prescription derived from PREgnant MARes' urIN [1]) to its former glory, even though estrogen treatment was always known by actual scientists to be harmful [2].

Robert Whitaker has provided an indictment of conventional psychiatry's use of 'snake oil' [3], and a science writer recently voted to indict [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarin
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20110719210324/http://leda.law.ha...
[3] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/are-psychia...
[4] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/psychiatris...
Regarding the second point, this is room for improvement for reducing healthcare costs by increasing the supply of doctors.
The announcements and About page indicate an emphasis on visuals and presentation, which I apprI've. But when I think of "modern machine learning," I think of open-source and reproducibility (e.g. Jupyter notebooks).

Will the papers published on Distill maintain transparency of the statistical process?

I see in the submission notes that articles are required to be a public GitHub repo, which is a positive indicator. Although the actual code itself does not seem to be a requirement.
I finished this a few nights ago. What a book. It took about 4 times as long to read as Steve Jobs, but it was absolutely worth it. Someone like John D. Rockefeller really is one in a billion. Highly Recommended.
You might like Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I thought they kind of went downhill after the third book, but they're fun quick reads which feature both genetically-engineered dodo pets and woolly mammoths.

Also, while it may be very expensive to clone a mammoth or a dodo today, you gotta figure that it will also contribute to figuring out how to do this sort of thing more cheaply at scale, which we might need considering the ongoing mass extinction of the Anthropocene.
Are there common platforms where PDFs are inaccessible?
Ask HN: How do I legally build a remote dev team?
I'm a developer and I have a small American business. I see all of these posts about building remote teams distributed across the world and I think "yes, perfect!", but somehow I've been completely unable to find anyone covering the legality of doing this in detail. For example, I want to be on this list under "Worldwide":

https://github.com/jessicard/remote-jobs

Ideally I want someone that essentially works for us full-time and understands all of our core infra, can maintain it, etc. like an employee would. There seem to be tons of remote-only job postings in this vein.

But I don't understand how it's legal - aren't these people being treated as employees, which come with an impossible amount of risk / international law / messiness attached?

Is there perhaps a whitelisted set of countries that have extremely simple employee / contractor rules?

My worst nightmare is ending up in court for accidentally crossing some line that I didn't understand. I just want to hire someone and start building an awesome remote team!
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Only if your version of the 8cc binary doesn't have GCC in it's compiler heritage, which it probably does.

The blog actually goes into this a bit, stating that the byte-value of '\n' never occurs in the source-code of 8cc. Instead, that value comes from gcc. It is entirely possible that gcc has the same property, eventually the source could be a hand-written compiler.

Really, to get around trusting trust, you need a compiler who's entire lineage you know (up to the hand-written compiler) and trust.
>I know the author probably didn't mean anything by it, but I dislike the implication that only a dude could bring ZFS to Linux.

Thanks for signalling your virtue, dude.
You know I kind of lost 8 kgs (17 lb) in a span of 3 months and I didn't follow any diets or fitness plans. I did started exercising but nothing vigorous.

The only thing I started doing religiously was to install the MyFitnessPal app on my Android home screen and then track each and every food item I ate in it. I did for 90 days meticulously, not missing to log a single food item.

And like a freaking program my weight started dropping every alternate day. It was I could predict I'd lost another 0.1 every morning. I think the app keeps adjusting the calories you're allowed everyday but I kinda of kept a 200 calorie buffer every day just in case. If you're interested in details you can see my reply to @xupydb in this thread[1]. I just want to mention that I had maintained my previous weight for at least last 5 years and it didn't move one decimal point before and boom started checking calories and it started dropping everyday.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13708768
>I hope that you do not act on your ideas or you will almost certainly spend some time in prison.

I appreciate your concern, but I don't think an unjust law has weight; the only reason why I follow the ones that I do is so that I'm not put in prison. Not because I believe they are right. And the laws I break I do so when there is a smaller risk of being caught.

Being a citizen is by no means being a house guest, as I am forced to be a house guest of some state anyway. I regard the state is illegitimate.
If you want a higher-end appliance, European is often the way to go. Miele is a great example, but there are others.

Especially when it comes to laundry, the 'European' style is to use longer cycles that are gentler on clothes, quieter, and usually more efficient (whether on water or power use).
Oh, that explains the random Skype hacks, got it. Hate this company already.
> In the Netherlands, there is a threshold, and you do not have to incorporate

But you still have to register some form of sole-proprietorship company?
Yeah, I noticed that and that's part of the reason I asked. If one pointed out every typo in this document (as well as all other HN submissions), the signal-to-noise ratio of the comments section would be intolerable.
We're engineering new species, not resurrecting extinct ones. I remember either seeing a documentary or reading somewhere that cloning extinct species is pretty much impossible. Even the Woolly Mammoth "clone" would end up being a cross between an elephant and a mammoth. Similarly, a T-Rex "clone" would be engineered out of modern chicken DNA until it starts producing something that resembles the extinct dinosaur.
> A fast copying collector would require write barriers: using atomics everytime a pointer is written.

No, for two reasons:

1. Write barriers are not necessary if an object is in a nursery, which is true for most objects per the generational hypothesis. This is trivial to check based on the pointer value.

2. You can have thread local remembered sets.
I've been trying to read more primary source information, sort of as my own way of combatting "fake news" but before that term was coined. There's a learning curve to it, but I've found that reading S1 filings and Quarterly Earnings Reports can be more enlightening than reading a news article on any given company. Likewise, reading research papers on biology and deep learning is significantly more valuable than reading articles or educational content on those topics.

As you'd imagine though, it's really hard. Reading a two page research paper is a very different experience from reading a NYTimes or WSJ article. The information density is enormous, the vocabulary is very domain specific, and it can take days or weeks of re-reading and looking up terms to finally understand a paper.

I'm really excited about Distill, there's a lot of value in making research papers more accessible and interesting. I've noticed that the ML/AI field has been very pioneering about research publication process, some papers are now published with source code on GitHub and the authors answering questions on r/machinelearning. This seems like a really great next step, I hope other fields of science will break away from traditional journals and do the same.
Yeah, that's nice PR.

Currently there is a partnership between the major infrastructure providers and the Federal government to remove, discourage and defund content that has national security implications.

This theoretically includes news, such as the Snowden Documents, which Facebook did not allow people to share on their timelines during the height of the scandal.

What are the boundaries of censorship?

It should be noted that while "extremist content" provokes images of beheadings, the very vast majority of content put out by those suffering and fighting on terrorist/freedom-fighter side (insurgent side) in the middle east, for example, is positive and are messages about their condition, what life could be like without dictatorship or foreign intervention, or about piety, family or society.

This content is censored in addition to the more brutal but less frequent content equally. But it's more controversial to specify this. So broad strokes are used to identify "extremist content".

Similar programs are underway to control the spread of perspectives by people in Russia, China, even Turkey or Israel and others.

There has been no public debate and under the Trump Administration there isn't likely to be.
Nope, you take it as a private person, and when you submit your income taxes you state it as extra income.
There are people who say we need to vote on everything and the US is not a democracy because of it.
The “Terminator” of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week
I don't see the problem here. Even if our distinctions are somewhat arbitrary they do have meaning. E.g. there is a difference between frogs and cats. If we bring back a creature from the past, like the Mammoth, who cares if it's exactly the same?
Arthena wants to put a price on “priceless”
This app is dope. In it right now!
Ok, but I'm not a gambling addict, and most people who gamble don't become addicts.

I know people who are literally homeless because they'd rather spend their money following bands around. Some of those bands are too niche to be "socially valuable". Does that mean we need to equate music with heroin, too?

The existence of addicts, or the lack of a social movement or physical product, does not determine whether something is worthwhile. Applying your standard would cut out everything up to "going for a walk in the woods", unless by socially valuable you just mean "things I find aesthetic".
Count me amongst the unwilling! I can't wait for a magic bullet or pill that gives me the results I want without trying. I'm supposed to feel guilty about that admission, but I do not.
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I am building an engine that might be able to power it. E-mail me (see my profile) and I will be able to help get this off the ground.
On this subject, I can't recommend this piece strongly enough: The Narcissism of De-Extinction https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/deext...
> The case against write barriers is pretty simple: the slowness of the GC can be workarounded, while memory barriers cannot.

What workaround do you have in mind, and how does it not apply to write barriers?
Radley Balko's book "Rise of the Warrior Cop" goes into these issues in depth. He looks at the history of how the war on drugs, among other things, has contributed to the rise in military equipment and tactics being used at the local level.

There are a shocking number of no-knock raids which have resulted in death of not only officers and some offenders, but innocent people who's homes were raided based on wrong information and in some cases the police literally getting the address wrong.

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Then video games qualify.

This is an article which argues that something does not satisfy the criteria for art. So when he he invokes his ability to exclude mathematics from the definition without any justification, or at least without appealing to any reasoning whatsoever, and then using that conclusion to assert that games aren't art, all he is doing is demonstrating that his essay should have been much shorter. The same unqualified assertion that applies to mathematics would apply to videogames, and he needs go no further than the thesis.