skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those prone to confirmation bias, commentary and interpretation of data can be counterproductive. The fact that Ballmer is purposefully not setting an agenda makes this more powerful. Otherwise people tend to accumulate their own set of convenient facts.
That's a very agressive pop-up!
Kansas City isn't even mentioned in the article...
Most people who don't vote do so out of laziness, by spoiling your ballet paper you can refute that.
How to Create a Swarm (P2P) CDN for Free with WebTorrent
Facebook also use OCaml for messenger.
Drone company collects $38M, makes zero deliveries
seems like something that optimizer would get rid of.
(uninterruptible moves, for instance)

I bet this was done to decrease the complexity of the script flow. Otherwise, you'd have to provide for the interruption cases.
Perhaps someone had noted intrusions using these methods and reported it to microsoft, but don't want to publically report that they had a security incident.
Trump to sign executive order targeting H1-B visas
Gee, there is almost certainly nothing the author could do about this tragic waste of his time except volunteer to give a talk and

* Provide a proper description to the organizers
* Ask the organizers that they skip pizza that night or handle the logistics himself
* Prepare properly for the presentation
* Be considerate of your audience when presenting
* Ask that the organizers tone down the commercials
* oh, well, I guess you're hopeless on this one

Seriously, meetup groups tend to be community oriented and driven and members almost always have a voice.

Or just don't go, that's really fine, they are definitely not the most time efficient way to learn to program.
I should have perhaps included the article which tried _enabling and using_ ECC on a Ryzen CPU+MB. [1]

Page 5 is perhaps the most important one, where it observes that neither Windows nor Linux appear to react by halting to a UE, and Windows can't quite figure out that ECC is enabled on the platform and parse the notifications it gets as such.

So, sure, I should concede that it is "enabled" on all parts, I was wrong. But that doesn't mean it should be trusted on any of them.

[1] - http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...
I disagree, I found this submission to be entertaining and informative.
Ballmer is unveiling a site aimed at giving US citizens a look at gov budgets
Magazin Laptop Online
Please stop violating the guidelines by sparking sub-flamewars. We've asked you already to stop, and we ban accounts that won't.
did you read the article? journalist aren't making money because they cant run ads.that means professional journalist won't be able to survive anymore.
She wasn't pro-brexit, it's difficult to say what her motives are. It does seem the enormity of brexit is becoming more apparent as time goes on, perhaps she would like a tight result to keep a lid on the right of her party.
Given that I'm just now writing a professional development series for using R in the classroom, these data sources would be really useful. Having a broad source of things we could analyze would be rad.
Moby Project: a container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
excellent link, I think it offers a great deal of transparency into USGOV and it's spending in a way that's never been done before.
As an outsider, I think the best case scenario for Uber is that these people are leaving because they realized this isn't the sure fire rocket ship ride to worldwide dominance it looked to be 2 years ago (most of the departures are relatively new hires) and they want to bail as times get tough.

The worst case scenario is that the underlying financials are awful, the Alphabet suit is a legitimate existential threat, and these people want to jump off a sinking ship.
I never used Rust in commercial projects. But to my knowledge, data structures in Rust are not exceptionally good at composing, because the language lacks raw pointers.

In C++ I can add hashmap-based index to existing collection of values without duplicating the values, because I can only keep pointers in the map. I can add linked list-based LRU tracking to existing collection of values. I can use pointers to implement graph-based structures. While there’re workarounds in Rust, such as reference counted pointers, raw pointers in C and C++ are just faster.
wow, only twitter is still relevant from that list
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People have external incentive to use Facebook and Google. Facebook: keep up with friends and family. Google: find stuff online.

Twitter's only incentive is its use as a broadcast platform for people who are, in general, otherwise famous. People hop on to interact with and read content from them. If large numbers of this group decided that Twitter represented competition and not an asset, they'd dump it and the attraction would go away.

For years the only place I heard of Twitter was television channels desperately begging people to get online and tweet them. It has finally penetrated to the point where most fairly tech-savvy people have started an account and issued 3-4 tweets, but that took years of constant pushing by mainstream outlets.
This will be used for unblockable ads and obfuscated content(i.e. forcing a specific style and layout), along with WebAssembly and DRM built into the next browsers spec, this looks like the end of "free" web.
Essentially this decouples the browser from DOM control and the ability to inspect and alter content, which is now dependent on some minified JS and ajax data.
> If labour wants to become more competitive they should stop nominating far-left leaders.

A party becomes more competitive by moving closer in policy to another party? I'm happy with a far-left leadership, and I'd take it any day over some party vaguely in favour of Keynesianism.
General elections are won in the centre ground, you might be in for some disappointment.
I don't know the parent's goals in trotting that out, but in general, I love how often this line is used as a defense of the "free market" in drugs.

Aside from the military[1], in what other categories of product do those waving that banner support mandatory payments to private entities supporting their preferred agenda[2]?

Never mind that the military is the best comparison to drugs in terms of regulation - the only products less "free-market" in the US than drugs are military weapons. In a way, there's a funny symmetry there.

[1] A huge amount of that money goes directly to private firms, just like pharma payments.

[2] Well, I guess one can opt out of medical care.
Aren't you the best placed to decide if your money is wasted or well spent?
Your employer could argue that you used company resources and company time (i.e. your coworkers' input during working hours) in building the side project and thus under your employment agreement, it belongs exclusively to your employer.

So probably not.
Yeah I think that's a very interesting aspect. If you want, I think this speaks to a more general point about AI that I have thought about sometimes. I suspect that we enjoy interacting with machines and using machines when we understand them, and that this understanding of how a machine operates, its capacity and its behaviour, is similar to the "theory of mind" idea that we employ a model of another person when interacting with them. That is why it is so frustrating to work with a machine that changes as you use it -- it's like trying to shoot a moving target.

I really suspect that ML will find its place in helping design machines that are then static, but ML that adapts as we use it will be frustrating to work with. At least until we develop, as a society, some kind of "theory of mind" of AI, where we learn how to expect a machine to adapt as we use it. But we are not there yet.

For now, machines are still better when they act like machines. That is why I think, for example, society adapting to the presence of things like ubiquity of self-driving cars is going to be a long and scary road.

As for video games, it seems like a computer-controlled character should be somewhat predictable, even if complicated. When the ML algorithms adapt, it should present a new character to fight, not adapt an existing one that the player has already "theorized" (i.e. figured out its pattern.)
I had no clue that there are schools—primary and secondary—that create programs, programs that mimic "real work". For example, the author mentions that the group "9s" take on adult responsibilities: managing inventory, tracking and ordering products, and keeping a record of sales and expenses.

My colleagues and I often discuss how we would've found it helpful if during our childhood we were taught pragmatic skills such as budgeting and resolving interpersonal conflicts—skills that we require on a day to day basis.
I'm currently in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for a longer period. I have moved here because LPdGC was dubbed as a digital nomad heaven, said to be the 'Chiang Mai of Europe' etc. It has an incredible amount of Co-working spaces relative to it's size etc. so one would think it's a perfect place for things you are describing above.

tl;dr: it's not.

Snippet from an email conversation with a local guy (author of GrapheneDB):

"Nomads apart, this is a small city, and while there are some active developer meetups, it's hard to get enough momentum, people willing to do talks, etc.
I did run a Rails/Ruby meetup years ago, but it ended up being mostly people from our team + some curious guys.
Eventually, I ended up not wanting to push it any further and focusing more on the business side of things."

So even though a lot of parameters are OK, the size of the city (400k in this case) seems to be enough to hamper things...
Last place in a race exists because of slowness. If only the slow people would run fast, everyone could get the gold medal together.
South Germany (9 hours ahead) - not yet so far... awaiting
I assume because the NSA told them when it was clear these were going to be leaked.
Advanced RequireJS bundling with Typescript
The specific event (i.e. having a barbecue) is a direct descendant from the Caribbean practice.
It actually goes over this in the article, along with a very brief description of how barbecues have been used a political events since the founding of the country.
I don't disagree that somebody who knows OOP but not FP needs a lot more information than I gave. Where we disagree is on the notion that I need to explain everything in detail when there are fountains of material out there. If anything, the purpose of my comments is to make you think, "Is it hyperbole, or is he on to something? Maybe I should look into this further."

I was an imperative programmer for a decade before I looked at functional languages, and it was because of glowing but unfamiliar praise that I looked deeply in the first place. Now I know that a lot of that praise was warranted. Everyone's different!

Also, as I noted in another comment, the "elementary school" comment was not meant to imply that it's simple--alas, one of my main gripes with OOP is that it isn't simple in the ways it needs to be--just that it's something you're almost certainly exposed to early on, so it quickly becomes what's familiar.
Climate change is impossible to dispute, unless you ignore the data. I doubt that ideological willful ignorance will ever go away.
Ask HN: What are some interesting extensions to NGINX?
Nginx has received some real cool tools recently with the inclusion of lua, what are some interesting tools that have been created using these? Middleware or reverse proxy or anything else.
The abuse and exploitation of the h1b by Indian bodyshop and lack of action by Bush and Obama have ruined it for everyone. I hope the body shops go out of business and we get a more sane immigration visas. But we need immigration. Thinking removing immigration will make more uS jobs is stupid. It will hasten global employers to build r&d centers outside of the US and then we are all screwed.
Twitter is a global chatroom for "journalists" and others interested in any kind of global/regional/local event.

It is focused on moments, topics and the "discussions" around them. The UI limits discussions, by design or accidental design. But it works, just hammers everything down.

You want to witness news as they are being digested by the media and turned into "real news"? Use Twitter.

There are only so many news junkies, but for those, nothing beats Twitter.

It is the breaking news ticker bar on the bottom of the TV, amplified - plus the ability to yell at it.

I love it, and I hate it.
> "Users will be able to change settings at any time and choose the default search engine which suits their needs,” the FAS said.

Seems like a good thing in my book.
Ok it took an hour but I reformatted the "food" chapter on my blog as an experiment in readability.

http://titojankowski.com/sustainable-energy-without-hot-air-...

Thoughts?
Democracy is "tyranny of the majority" no matter which way you look at it (I'm still in favour of it though). And I think equality, fraternity, respect for minorities, socialised and universal healthcare, feminism and focus on ecology would be much better served without capitalism.

Why didn't you include the right to privacy and freedom of expression too?
But these aren't public records. This is a curated list of public records, curated by an organization backed by a retired billionaire. This isn't even a new GAO. It is just another layer of political reporting pretending to be neutral. It itself must be vetted and fact-checked.

Even if one gets beyond that and down to actual public records of facts, what is and isn't available to the public in the US is itself political. The public is denied so much information that in other nations they would expected. Want to see a candidates tax return? You have to ask. Want to know how many firearms are sold or how many people were shot by police last week? There are no electronic databases, even the government doesn't know. Want to see how much your neighbour pays in property taxes on his new house? Canadians can look that up on a website. Americans cannot as "privacy" too often trumps information. When access to facts is itself politicized anyone trying to neutrally report on those facts can only amplify divides.
I agree that the open border is important for those on both sides. Personally I was hoping that the political leaders of both the UK and EU would start the negotiations by aiming for common ground and establishing some good faith, and the Irish border would surely be one of the areas where everyone could agree a high degree of openness was in everyone's best interests. Alas, they seem to be doing the opposite so far, and now we have this new spanner in the works.
some pet project to convert webkit to JS will be the end of the free web? seems a bit hyperbolic.
> It’s a minimalist or geometric black design, like mine, popularized by Buzzfeed listicles like this one.

So, a ‘list article’ is a ‘listicle’ nowadays.

Wonder how'd they call a ‘test article’…
A lot of those costs are taken indirectly via suppressed wages as many people get insurance via employment. It seems to me that a great deal of effort goes into hiding the costs of services and products from those who are paying them in this market.
And yet somehow the US imports mind-boggling quantities of other things we put in our bodies at safety standards that appear to generate no controversy whatsoever.
He wasn't saying it's the same as C++ to C. He was saying it's like C++ in that it has way more features than it should.
> I always treated them as networking

I did too, but the format is a class: chairs arranged in rows, facing forward, with one person doing all the talking.

I suppose we are supposed to do our networking before and after class, over pizza. But come on, we're programmers, generally shy and quiet. If we trade a few words or sentences, the degree to which we know each other is less than after an interview --- and interviews are notoriously bad for getting to know programmers.

Maybe arrange the chairs in a circle. Then, instead of planning a long talk, encourage participation. Even something as awkward as going around the room would be better than the lecture format.
Like jumpcrisscross said.
Ideally, where every euro of taxpayers' money goes should be a matter of public record.
Hi! tldr; It was completely an OSS project to start with and MS wanted to get on-board which was great.
Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat
This is the most inane bikeshedding
Many were looking to loose their seats after the boundary changes next year, they might prefer their chances now.
The Sugar Conspiracy (2016)
My random advice from the internet:

Sell to people who are willing to buy. Don't argue with potential customers, because they win the argument by not buying. In a team setting, being a good teammate often means not doing exactly what one wants...somebody has to play goalkeeper.

Good luck.
It's only two sentences in the article but it's pretty important - they had to move back in with their parents for four months when one of them got sick. So make sure you have that or someone you can really depend on if things go wrong. Assuming you are in the USA - the main couple in the story are so young that it seems like they would also be covered under their parents health insurance under the ACA as well.
Why the laptop keyboard design remains ignored? And, what's next?
What experience are you basing this opinion off of?

Regional differences in food is one of the great things about the US.
Sounds like textbook comparative advantage, and in any sane market, imports would be about as controversial as paint drying.
Submitter here. I am amused and puzzled as well. Apparently people care more about barbecue than they do about the more 'hacker-ish' things I've submitted. I've long since given up trying to predict the tastes of HN voters - nowadays I just submit anything I find personally interesting.
> So apparently this medicine is used for treating parasitic worm infections, which I imagine is a vanishingly small market in the United States.

It's incredibly common in veterinary medicine in the US.

Veterinary pharmaceuticals are oftentimes (though not always) manufactured in the same plants. Sometimes the inactive ingredients are not safe for human consumption, so that doesn't mean that you can always just take veterinary drugs safely, but sometimes (particularly in the case of antibiotics), they are literally manufactured on the same lines, and are simply packaged and distributed differently.

Given the massive difference in price between albendazole for humans and albendazole for animals, I'm willing to bet that this is another attempt at market segmentation (which we already know is rampant in the US pharmaceutical industry - that's how they make their global profits!), rather than a real necessity of the scale.
> Which YC companies are successful?

I dont know the founders but the idea that you could start the apts section of craigslist that out values real established businesses itself is a huge motivator.

Of course with close examination, nothing more than a repeat of near zero interest rate capital flooding a crowding market.

Some will strike the lotto, most will not. Hindsight bias is not at all being discussed here.
Quadratic Delays in Bitcoin Scripts
I suppose the bit in the headline about her being attacked 50 years ago was too political? Too much like "clickbait"?
TAoCP is called "the Bible of computer science" because the number of people who claim to have read it is much greater than the number who actually have ;)
I gave you the means of verification. It's not my problem if you are not using it. (BTW many of the Turkish people on Camfrog are directly in the military.)
Are there even any other "pixel alternatives" out there now that that's dead? By which i mean 3:2 or 4:3 display rather than 16:9/10, relatively small, not a tablet, etc. I'm not really interested in the surface pro, and was excited to see this until i saw it had an atom CPU.
> But that's not a whole lot, is it?

Combinators, type-classes, ad-hoc polymorphism, monads, applicatives, FRP, ...
Is Indiehackers.com quality is going down?
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/lighting-shoes

This business seems too good to be true .... besides the site went unsold on Flippa (https://flippa.com/7797091-lightingshoes-net) for obvious reasons.

I have nothing but respect for what CS Allen is doing and have always considered the earning claims on indiehackers with a pinch of salt but this one is really taking it far.

Anyone else knows any more about this?

Cheers!
I'm not even sure you can call it "free market" because of the distortions that patents bring into it...
This is pretty neat.

The more I try to do Web VR stuff though, I get frustrated because there isn't yet a good way to design it "responsively" so that it will look right on normal flat screens, but become an environment in VR.

I also wonder about what the right UX for linking pages in VR is. I don't want to have to fist-bump some floating blue text. Maybe there should be a "link shape" or halo that draws the eye to certain features.
Theranos settles with U.S. health regulator, could reopen blood labs in 2019
People often misinterpreted the "point" or value of meet-up.

The one and only good thing about meet-ups is to meet and talk to other programmers, in a fun, social environment.

Don't waste time listening to the speaker, or care about the stated "purpose" of the event.

Just treat meetups like a bar full of techies, where the alcohol is free.
The manufacturer is the same, but manufacturers rarely sell directly to consumers. They sell to pharmacies, and medications at Canadian pharmacies are (surprise) generally priced based on whatever price controls and negotiated rates apply to Canadians. When those rates are 1/10th of the USA cost for the same drug from the same factory the same lot number, either someone's getting the drugs at less than cost or someone else is getting screwed on price.

Or put differently, "Why does the USA fund so much of basic drug research and drug company profits daddy?" "Regulatory capture and bought politicians, son."
It's important to note that in Java you don't have leaks in the same way that you do in C.

When someone refers to Java 'leaks', they actually mean "Objects that are kept in memory by references that are never used again, but in theory could be." It's like your code is a hoarder, keeping all those old back-issues of newspapers 'In case I need them again' when in fact they are just taking up space.
You're not welcome to make unsubstantive generalizations like this on Hacker News.
That was a good class ('07). 5 listed exits, and in addition: Dropbox, JustinTV, Disqus and Cloudant.
Yes, it's not a leak but many Java devs are aware of these things and instead of typing out "somewhere in my graph I've retained a reference to something that shouldn't" has been colloquially shortened to "GC Leak" and if you see those two words together, they know what it really means.
so that's what the healthcare.gov team has been building after they got fired and replaced by the googlers.
Can someone do a eli5 ? I don't understand what the product is.
It's the trend line generation, not the data. The start and end points are the same between the two graphs. To say that this nitpick throws shade on the entire project is a bit overstated.
Precisely. It's not "YouTube's shifting algorithms" that are killing independent media, it's the wave of bad publicity in publications like the New York Times that lead to advertisers pulling out and made allowing ads on anything even vaguely political or controversial an existential danger to YouTube. The algorithms didn't do this by itself. And the clear-cut line between "videos that espoused extremism and hate speech" and "video makers who bear no resemblance to terrorist sympathizers and racists" that the NYT is attacking YouTube for not recognising doesn't exist. There are definitely loud, vocal, media-connected groups who classify The David Pakman Show under the former category, for example, because of his choice of guests.