skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like it worked for the [USA and Europe][1]:

> Prior to 1950, malaria was common in the southern US, infecting 15,000 people a year and killing about the same number as scarlet fever.

> Beginning in 1947, 4.6 million houses were sprayed in the United States, completely eradicating malaria from the country. Similar sprayings eradicated malaria from Europe.

> The Center for Disease Control (CDC) began as an organization to eradicate malaria. When malaria was gone, it sought other ways to benefit America. That’s why it’s located in Atlanta, GA, in the southern US.

[1]: http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309&Itemid=263
"a classic denialist tactic...an intellectually dishonest gambit"

This quote was used to describe the flagged comment, in which the person said that the article was misleading because if sea ice were really decreasing then sea levels would be rising. That seems completely accurate and justified to me.
So one of the first recommendations on that site is for the Clack family. The first link to clacklisp.org has now started pointing to the github project. For a long while before that it was just dead.

Clack, whilst being a great concept suffers from a lack of documentation. What documentation is there is confusing. It seems Clack has in the past couple of years been split out into a separate project - Lack. There's no documentation around as to why this has been done. I can't find details on how to write middleware for it. I need to look through the source.

I'm trying to get Ningle working. The Redis session middleware seems broken. It doesn't seem thread safe at all. I seem to have other problems with by body parameters being mutated as it passes through the middleware.

I have gotten very close to just dropping Clack and moving onto raw Huchentoot or Allegro serve, but it saddens me that a project with such promise shouldn't get the love it deserves so I will probably persist and hopefully help to improve the project.

Don't get me wrong, I love Common Lisp as a language and use it daily. But problems like this are just standard.
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In some areas you absolutely want a strict standard, to your point on dentists. PhD is an interesting requirement, however, due to the variance in skillset, experience, and training an individual going through the educational process receives compared to vocational programs. The degree can substitute for a license, but it's going to be very noisy. Requiring it leads to less absolute diversity in a hiring pool (as opposed to categorical diversity) which may or may not be the goal of the institution. But once you've found a good hire, who can perform the function of the job to the client's satisfaction, the vocational or educational background is more or less unnecessary. To refer to your dentist example: it may take me a lot of encouragement to trust my Uncle Joe with no dental degree to work on my teeth, but once he's proven himself the need for institutional acknowledgement of his ability is trumped by his performance.

Another tangent point to consider: dentists and other vocationalists have existed long before a licensing board did, and someone, somewhere, got the first History PhD.
I know some folks who prefer Walmart because of the price of entry ( Amazon Prime yearly fee ) is a big turn off for them. I suspect there will always be an extremely price sensitive crowd that will prefer Walmart if they can save even a few dollars and take the risk on easy customer service / returns.
> "maybe a pile of random things from a junkyard"

I definitely thought one exhibit at a modern art museum was junk from a remodel or something, because it was a pile of drywall, plastic sheeting, and other types of normal construction junk.
How would you make a grocery food brands better using tech?
I am working on a food brand and solving problems using technology when possible (and when it makes sense keeping speed in mind).
Would love to get your thoughts on where you think tech could be most useful.

Some areas I am 'automating' -
PRODUCT FEEDBACK
- Customer feedback on early product prototypes. I ask people to enter their feedback on a web page and only ask 1 question / customer (for a total 10 unique questions asked over 100 people before I iterate on the product)
- For when I start demoing in-stores, I'll extend similar tech to the store

INVENTORY
- Tracking how much inventory we expect every store to have and showing it on our website so customers know where to find us.
- At a later point, scrape services like instacart to ensure they are showing my product as available in stores that its actually carried in.

SALES
- App for our delivery drivers to list how many units were available when they went into the store (and how many they added). Knowing this at a store level helps understand velocity at a given store.
- Using this data and combining it with facts like store size, neighborhood demographics etc will help decide which areas to grow in first.
- Inventory tracking & sales data will help turn the business into more of a just in time production model making it a more lean business

OPERATIONS
- Integrating with on-demand services to pick up and deliver our food when required (so we are only paying for the time

If you are working on something similar/interested in shooting ideas - would love to chat more!!
Typically yes. You should be able to run the test suite through ASDF. For example

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :trivia)
... loads ...
CL-USER> (asdf:test-system :trivia)
... test output ...

But unfortunately not all libraries set up their test-ops properly. You can usually find a readme at ~/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/... which might have instructions for running tests.
Both. If you are incredibly libertarian you view all business as contracts between consenting adults that the government should only be involved in if one side welshes on the deal
that's awesome, I have considered doing the same thing
I seriously doubt Netflix wouldn't find some way to rapidly move to some alternative if AWS were to disappear. But by all means correct me if I'm wrong!
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Hi @mindhash - excellent point. I completely agree that supply is key. However that is the side I am much confident about. I have been fortunate to work for some of the best silicon valley companies so have built a network of talented professionals overtime. Some of them would definitely not do it for $50 but a lot more may be willing to spend their free time doing this. Also the way I am thinking of implementing it (if I ever do depending on the demand), is very non-intrusive. In my mind, the mock interviews do not need to be face to face all the time, they can be done in an asynchronous way (I can share details if you'd like). I created a landing page to gather the interest but not sure where to share the link so I can get people to give me feedback.

I know tripple byte and you are right, they depend on their YC network. I am also dependent on my personal network hoping if there is enough demand I can convince my talented friends to do it :-)) Thanks a lot for your feedback
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Closing sentence:

>For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.

Reminds me of the Oppenheimer quote:

>It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so
Nope. Useful for the genes, period.
> position:fixed (auto-replace to position:static)

I've gotten pretty good results from a bookmarklet that converts `position: fixed` elements to `display: none`.
I don't see a contradiction between "fittest" and "friendliest", at least in certain contexts.
It's the header and it's super frustrating when that happens.
This is research that directly pertains to the fusion in the sun.
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> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

The comment to which you're referring could be shortened to "sea levels are rising".
I call it the nav teabag.
As someone that develops Windows desktop software, I can understand why application support is so terrible. It's not easy, especially when you have a multi-monitor system where one screen is 4k and another is a 1080. Dealing with dynamic DPI changes as the application is dragged from one monitor to the other is something I still haven't fixed.
Firstly, if you're desperate for a job, ignore the advice below. If you're not desperate, and can afford to walk away and move on to the next interview, following the advice below will ensure you're not taken advantage of during the interview and recruiting process.

Two golden, inviolable, rules:

1. Never lie.

2. Never be the first to name a number.

For the "What is you current salary?" question, you can answer with any of the below responses. They get increasing stern, so gauge which one to use based upon your impression of how aggressive the employer is.

- "My current employer does not allow me to discuss the terms of my employment"

- "This position is not exactly the same as my current job, so let’s discuss what my responsibilities would be here and then determine a fair salary for this job."

- "I’m happy to help you evaluate what I’d be worth to your business based upon my skills, experience and the value that I can add to your organisation, but my current salary is personal and confidential, just as the salaries of your own employees are."

For the "What salary are you seeking?" question, use the Noel Smith-Wenkle method (http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html). In a nutshell, you move through the following answers for each time they repeat the question or try to pin you down to a specific figure.

1st answer: "I am much more interested in doing (type of work) here at (name of company) than I am in the size of the initial offer."

2nd answer: "I will consider any reasonable offer."

3rd (and subsequent) answers: "You are in a much better position to know how much I'm worth to you than I am."
My personnal experience mirrors your for the first three points but I wouldn't miss amazon because I only ordered twice from them. Which goes to show that any of these points could be irreplaceable - or not - for anybody.

I agree with you final stance though, that Amazon is highly likely to be still around in 100 years unless they are back to square one with everyone else if an energy crisis (oil, transport, etc.) crushes us all.
Having not went through YC (yet!) I'm curious as to how much the Startup School MOOC will mirror the core process?

I imagine YC is more like going from 0.5 to 1--focusing on one or two things such as product or marketing--rather than the 0 to 1 where everything is covered like was done in Sam's How to Start a Startup course at Stanford?
The idea behind crystal is not to make a faster ruby, but to make a rethought ruby for the modern age: compiled, statically typed and removed of warts.

Crystal should feel familiar to ruby developers in it's syntax and stdlib, but we have absolutely no problems with throwing away ruby's ideas when they are deemed substandard.

Crystal doesn't aim to draw in as many ruby developers as possible, it aims to create the best programming language possible. It just happens to have ruby as a conceptual starting point.
*Alternative
What about memory usage?
Cut the sides, peel off the tape? Or maybe he used a box cutter with a long blade? Either way, it's not his fault
I believe they meant carved, as in into stone. "Roman block lettering avoids curves because it was often carved."
"Taxies are paying a fortune for these permissions."

The congestion charge would cost a regular driver ~4000GBP per year, and she can't drive in a bus lane. How much do London taxis pay in fees per year? About 200GBP, right?

What is this 'fortune' you talk about? I spent a few minutes searching online, and can't find any evidence of fees, other than an annual inspection and licence, which are low 3-digit numbers.
Your statement may be true but doesn't refute the post you were replying to. Rather it is orthogonal.

In addition, if the "taint" is incorrect then DDT could be a wonder.

(Actually I am not DDT fan, but I do know how to make an argument)
Can't help but think about what is censorship. What role does intent place? If you're trying to inform? Entertain? Sell?

Write an ad blocker you're celebrated, write an add-on that's hides divs that mention <insert political movement here>, you're a villain.
<_< >_>

No.

Go was a good choice. The project benefited from it, both from a hiring perspective and from a technical perspective. If I were in charge, I would make the exact same choice again.

Juju lives exactly in Go's sweet spot. A networked server worked on by more people than you can fit around your dining room table. Not every project would benefit from Go, but this one certainly did, IMO.
I use inbox only in mobile. Regarding reminders, technically I'm not snoozing that email. I would like that email to show up with the reminder time.

Still, it is tricky for such an app to get stickiness from all kind of users.
Thank you, I didn't know the property name and it wasn't obvious (to me). :)
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Do you keep to a theme for each batch bc I thought I saw something about AI-driven corps this summer?
It's interesting that you use the term "fair warning," which may dissuade someone from reading the article and coming to their own conclusions. As someone who values hearing the perspectives of all sides, I find it useful to hear pro-market arguments in something like health care. It helps me challenge my assumptions, especially since health care does seem to be increasingly costly and complex...as the amount of government oversight increases every year.
What would you do if you didn't want to pay for it?
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So, the Wikipedia article on DDT has like 6 different citations/links on DDT and egg shell thinning in birds of prey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethan...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/232

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003....

Many are behind a paywall but here are some with abstracts we can read:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742841397...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23273747.2016.11...

Also, there may well be a valid debate about when or when not to use DDT, but the link you cite does not inspire confidence.
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From Develeoper to Refugee
To be fair

> Along comes Go

Really means

> Along comes Google

It's nothing against Go, but we have to be realistic that having Google's weight behind it significantly increases its marketing while also making business owners a little more comfortable (aka - a modern nobody ever got fired for buying IBM).

There are a lot of frontend frameworks out there but React and Angular dominate largely because of Facebook and Google's influence.

That said, every language has tradeoffs. All you have to be able to do in order to have a rational conversation is to acknowledge those tradeoffs. Go has some tradeoffs but there's a general feeling that the resulting balance is worth it.
A laptop is probably not the best idea for deep learning, but you can certainly use one as a terminal to connect to a much more powerful gpu-optimized server. I'm curious to hear what others are using for their deep learning setup.
"On average, members of these direct primary care clinics pay as little as $60 per month, with couples paying about $150."

Sounds great. Does that include cardiac or oncology specialists? What do you do after your primary care clinician sees you, and says "I can't help you, but I know somebody who can"?
Silicon Valley tech workers consider starting their first union to defeat Trump
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Even warfare is a highly collaborative activity. Everything about preparing and engaging in the most violent activity known to nature is governed by cooperation. Training, logistics, tactics, strategy, all of these things are greatly aided by working together.

In the wild, the only creatures that can hunt alone are apex predators, of which there are only a handful in any given ecosystem. Every single other species has to band together to eat and protect themselves.

That we ever thought anything different is just silly.
How big are these programs? Isn't it better to just commit them on GitHub and have volunteers rewrite them nicely in something modern?
How does this work when a patient needs surgery? They pay out of pocket? Or do they have insurance for that, alongside their primary care fees?
I don't interpret "fair warning" as meaning "this person is a wrongthinker, stay away!" I interpret it as "you may find this article interesting, but be aware that its source is outside the mainstream and maybe even outside the Overton window."
Amazon has one of the most phenomenally dangerous vulnerabilities of any company I've ever seen. All it takes is a mildly critical look at how they fund their growth. Amazon requires massive amounts of employees in order to grow. They throw increasingly-more-expensive new employees at increasingly-less-viable new businesses. These businesses are always massively cash-flow negative, and with the right amount of luck some of them might one day turn a profit. They fund this growth in three ways: 1) Issuing new shares of stock, 2) Paying employees with stock, and 3) Funneling cash flow from mature businesses back into the business.

Because of accounting difficulties and not-so-explicit public reporting requirements, Amazon gets away with hiding how much they use #1 and #2, and can make people believe that #3 is the dominant source of funding. But the fact that they don't tell us how much #3 contributes is indicative of the fact that it doesn't; if you can't prove positive information, you hide negative information.

Now here is the vulnerability: A moderate negative impact to their stock price sets off a chain of events that could destroy the company. The most critical employees holding the ship together are paid mostly via stock...with 2 year vesting times. As long as the stock prices keep growing, they overdeliver on compensation. But if stock prices fall, everybody gets a paycut. If the stock were to drop 50%, these employees would get a 25% pay cut. And they'll jump ship in massive numbers, as you would expect any time a company cuts pay by 25%.

Without a cash reserve, all the potential remedies make the problem worse. Amazon could respond by offering more stock to employees. This lowers the stock price through dilution, and people rarely consider stock offers with falling prices to be an incentive. They could respond by selling more stock and making up for the pay in cash, but they would kill their stock price if they needed to sell enough to offset a 25% cut in pay. They could kill off unviable businesses that suck the most cash, but their stock price hinges on the existence of those unviable businesses to make investors believe there is growth potential. They could try to spin off businesses, but the high growth businesses prop their stock price up and the low growth businesses are worth less to the market than the value amazon receives from their cash flow. Everything they could possibly do will reinforce the drop of the stock price and flight of talent.

In other words, Amazon can't just reset expectations and lay a few people off. They're sitting on a classic example of a runaway positive feedback loop[0]. Amazon knows it relies on stock speculation of growth potential to not die, that's the reason why you're reading this PR fluff right now. Amazon is the death star; the visible parts make it look like a tool for universal domination, but it's just a small torpedo blast away from nonexistence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback
Until the last year Apple didn't make any devices that could actually reasonably drive a 5k monitor (save the iMac of course), and that's ignoring the connectivity problem.
I don't think those have much in common. You know the bouncer just wants to see your ID and won't bother you after that. They're not trying to push you into signing up for an annoying newsletter you don't care about or to buy something you don't want.

Also, in many states, just looking like or actually being over 21 isn't good enough. The liquor license people require that every person in the bar or drinking be able to prove with a valid ID that they're over 21, no matter how old they look or actually are. They're not checking that you're over 21; they're checking that you have a valid ID on you that proves you're over 21, because they get in trouble if you don't.
How the Government Ruined U.S. Healthcare – And What We Can Actually Do About It
I think you are missing the point. Of course you can't assume what a function will do with certainty.
I read that as simply a warning about potential bias. If anything, I find that being on the lookout for potential bias actually helps be come to my own conclusions.
Hearing the perspectives of all sides is only useful when they're honest. Any article which talks about Nixon's effects on healthcare and laws passed in 1972 and 1974 but skips right over the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 is not being honest.
Cracked LG G4 phone screen?
That is a solid strategy, and one I endorse, but it is one that is criticized by this article and others like it which would consider you an 'old tyme' jS developer. :-(
The Mises Institute eschews the term "think tank" and does not lobby for any government policy. Its founders purposefully put its headquarters far away from Washington DC because they did not want to be viewed as a lobbying organization or a "think tank". They view their mission as an educational organization, and offer tons of ebooks, audio and video lectures free of cost on their website. Whether you agree or disagree with some of the positions espoused, that's another issue.

In summary, rather than going for the ad hominem, debate the actual arguments made in the article.
Web server output is roughly 2x as per its home page: https://crystal-lang.org/?utm=source-temp

This A* example is contrived.
The CLR has some APIs to help with that, but they aren't at the same level as what JVM JIT compilers are capable of.

Additionally there is PGO support between runs and explicit SIMD support.

IBM J9 also does support caching JIT code thought.
If one has submitted early (by clicking on the button by accident), could it be that enough reviewers already looked over the application and evaluated it already before the official deadline?
I agree, I wish + wasn't string concatenation either.
This is a really great little video (with references!). The article seems to acknowledge this evolutionary path when it says

"Billions of years ago, another ancient cyanobacteria was engulfed and “domesticated” by an ancestor of plants. It shed most of the genes it needed for an independent existence and became what we now know as the chloroplast. In return for a safe environment, these chloroplasts performed photosynthesis for their hosts, fueling a new form of life that eventually spread over much of the Earth."

This seems to be talking about the same hypothesis, but I'm not enough of a biologist to be sure.
In mobile, hit the hamburger menu in the upper left. Snoozed is the second item from the top, right below Inbox. But yes, it's a little surprising that you can't put a date on something without hiding it from the Inbox, now that I've tried it. I think it's the right choice, but I see what you're saying.