skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another court stated that copying data into a ram buffer for under 1.2 seconds was allowed. Depending on how they structure this it might be legally allowed.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=a-yu2-JUQNAC&pg=PT249&lpg=P...
That's simply not true. The middle and upper class can largely afford insurance. If you consider how much people (in countries that offer universal healthcare) pay in taxes, the difference diminshes.
What was the vendor's website?
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Extremely low cost, shared hosting but allows persistent processes. Can use MySQL databases.
Providing sources is great. It would be really helpful if you also provide some context as to why you're including it here.
I think the story here was the dollar amount, not the percentage.
This type stupid bloviating is why programming will never be a proper engineering discipline. There are two ways to implement oop: classes aka "object templates" or prototypes. Educate your selves people!
After a while decreasing GC usage in D, I ended up removing it completely. I got reduced memory usage but no speed gain. What I've found is that before you remove the GC, you can turn the overhead from excessive to very affordable with optimizations.
Especially today with std.experimental.allocator and -profile=gc
Well of course, mongodb is web scale don't ya know
If talent counts as luck, everything does. Maybe you mean that talent is also outside the individuals purview?

In the context of predicting success it does not make sense to put talent - or other non-changeable initial endowments like country of birth, parental wealth, attractiveness - into the "luck" bucket. While you can't do anything about these factors, an accurate assessment of them will tell you a lot about your chances of success in a given domain.

I.e.: you might need all three of exceptional talent, hard work and luck to succeed in an endeavour - and while luck might be random, and "hard work" can be influenced by yourself, the talent factor can be gauged but cannot be influenced so it can be a hard limit that should guide you in the path you take.
I.e. you don't dedicate your life to being a supermodel if you were born butt-ugly, or to be an NBA player if you are 5 feet tall. You might succeed, but your chances are microscopic.
> What is the assumed background for the students?

Just intro CS, I believe.
Depends on the game.

Drop a frame in a competitive First Person Shooter and be ready for death threats.

Drop a frame in an angry birds clone and be ready for 5 stars in a review just because you made your first game.

I suspect you could could get away with quite a bit of GC in most games. But by the time you learn whether or not you could get away with you have fully committed to language for several months. Unless you fully committed to D you are stuck with your memory management strategy. In order to be risk averse game devs dodge GC languages entirely because the benefit is small compared to the potential gain. Combine this with how everyone wants to make the next super great-<insert genre here> MMO that will blow everyone away, they think that they must squeeze every drop of perf out of the machine and sometimes they are right.

Lua is hugely popular for scripting in games. World of Warcraft used it to script the UI. Its garbage collector can be invoked in steps. You can tell it to get all the garbage or just to get N units of garbage. If you tell it to get 1 unit of garbage each frame while frugally allocating I expect you could easily meet the demands of many casual games.

Then there are games like Kerbal Space Program. All C# and all crazy inconsistent with performance. It will pause for no apparent reason right as you try to extend your lander legs and cause you to wreck your only engine on a faraway planet. I cannot say with certainty it is GC, but that cannot be helping.
@OhSoHumble: this actually came to mind for us too in terms of building better experiences on top of common government services. I'd love to chat and see how I can help, so shoot me an email at peter@wrapapi.com
The problem with opaque pricing is this: people don't want to start experimenting with something if it could be infinitely bad. i.e. if they can imagine the worst.

In the back of their heads, some people imagine the service is going to be huge, and then they worry that all the profits will be paid out to wrapapi.

Better to have a high headline number and then offer discounts for certain uses (non-profit, open source, students, etc). People are optimistic about how much money they might make so a high headline future price for when you graduate from the free tier is not necessarily bad.
The UI looks more like from import.io
If you don't mind me asking, what did you guys fall back to, and were you guys satisfied with it?
Something about Alex Karp's ideology:

He's a PhD student of Habermas of Frankfurt School of critical theory fame. No doubt a gross simplification, but one can safely presume that he's more supportive of the left in US politics.

Regardless, based on his having had such training, my educated guess is that Karp is more intuitively aware and sensitive to what one's particular actions and participation in a society's public sphere entail for its ideology and culture than many of us, not to mention Trump.

Still another PR disaster for Palantir tho'.
What I wanted to say is ith the GPU, memory access have a known latency (you are writing to the L1 equivalent) without a statistical component.
Also the nature of tasks submitted on the GPU (reified) makes it easier to optimize imho.
A very worthwhile story, behind a paywall. Welcome to modern times.
I think there's a big flaw in this argument, because it doesn't get applied universally. In my opinion people who would have starved to death or died from some medical problem except that the government stepped in and took care of them gained far more than Musk did. I'm not saying I know what Musk's tax rate should be, but the argument that it's somehow related to the benefits provided to him by government seems spurious. If that were the case then surely you'd support a pay-as-you go funding plan for all government services, right?
A photo I took of Chicago from an airplane from a while back: http://bettinson.tumblr.com/post/107622904892
Here's Aurora Flight Sciences, contracted by DAPRA, flight testing their similar but smaller prototype a year ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWSuZbGh0s

This is part of DAPRA's VTOL X-Plane program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL_X-Plane
The details of using ipfs in production? It's very early beta software and I don't know of anybody using it for real work.
Same debate is going on in Rome at the moment, where orange-y light also contributes alot to the beauty of the city at night: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/world/europe/rome-streetl...

What I wonder is: ok, so LED ligts save a lot of energy, which is great. But do they all have to be #FFFFFF white? Given that there's LEDs in all colours, would it be much more expensive to build/ buy/ run e.g. orange LEDs?
For anyone thinking about building a language with a JavaScript target, I would strongly recommend building on Babel. I've found the tooling to be terrific.

In my case, I wanted to build a (rough) superset of JS, adding the syntax and language features I was interested in but otherwise starting from a working (tested!) language. This made the task dramatically easier.

Forking babylon, Babel's parser, worked well for this in my case, but you could also write your own parser from scratch and use babel-types to build your AST.

In my case, I have a ~1,000-LOC babel plugin "compiler"[0] with maybe 1,000~2,000 LOC of mods to the parser[1], resulting in a language that looks fairly different from JS but feels pretty solid. Users of the language benefit from Babel's tooling – it works with webpack, ESLint (decently), etc.

[0] https://github.com/lightscript/babel-plugin-lightscript/

[1] https://github.com/lightscript/babylon-lightscript
Extension signing makes Google money because it supports their platform infrastructure. It supports things like Google Play. Microsoft also made money from Internet Explorer, even though they didn't charge money for it. They benefited from controlling the platform.

Mozilla has no such incentives. And they also don't have any larger strategy that Firefox supports.
They're not a uniquely Chicago thing, for sure.
This is an extremely disingenuous article. Not even the worst case models of the Kessler syndrome predict any real impact on beyond-Earth space flight- rather, they are concerned with higher probabilities of impact over months to years for satellites in specific overused low earth orbits. Nothing for comms satellites in geostationary to worry about, let alone a rocket just going past orbit to the moon or Mars. It's definitely something for scientists to think about and track so specific useful orbits stay useful, but has nothing to do with space flight. It's wild how much this idea has been misrepresented in the media!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Far from the spartan shopping experience turning me off, I preferentially shopped at Aldi and Lidl when living in the UK. I like that it's noticeably cheaper, but more than that, I like the feeling that I'm doing my small part to limit wasteful excess consumption by freeing up the resources that traditional grocers spend on pretty packaging and arranging cans and packages on shelves.
Sure. I bought back in the day a G4 Mac Mini just for that purpose (running both Linux and OSX) :-)
Well, if they're Inuit APIs, I can see why there might be hangups. Something's bound to go wrong between here and the Arctic regions.

:)
> The big companies that use them have started to finally admit this

I didn't get as much whiteboard coding as I thought in my recent interview with a big company. Last 2 actually.

But of course facebook and google was still all coding. Google is still obsessed with their overwrought process, and still try to sell a poor false positive rate as a feature.

I still haven't really heard a better idea. Some of them sound incredibly hostile to the applicant (e.g. lets try it for X days). Do this work, bring it in and discuss is a pretty decent idea.

I'd like to see more of "here's what we want, lets code it on this computer however you want.". Lets talk about while we work.

or just talk about what you have done.
The economics of serverless computing: A real-world test
I just added to my extensions in Chrome and still have Adblocker in Safari, Bing and FireFox
Yeah lots of cities and towns use HPS lights.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165026.
this is a major bombshell. I'd hate to be those guys running zecco. The fact that they coerced an NDA to hide the millions of customer transactions that now have no way of proving were legitimate or not.

I'm pretty sure the author wasn't the only guy looking for vulnerability. I'm pretty certain criminal minded folks would've already used it....with no way of finding out which are real or manipulated.

Which further raises the question, why they would go to extreme length to cover their tracks? They could've easily saved themselves trouble by coming clean but because they've gone such great length to hide it and threaten anyone who tries to expose it makes this a hollywood type story. That just seems so over the top like they are protecting something much bigger.
I have the C book... It is quite antiquated and has a lot of ugly pointer math in the tokenizer/lexer beginning parts. It does sound like the ML book is a better choice.
> few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old

Surely people don't believe that an 18 year-old shouldn't have the same income as a 45 year-old?

A 45 year-old shouldn't have higher income just because they're older. In the UK, at least, we have laws about that sort of thing.
Currently S3, hadoop, dynamodb.. Probably elasticsearch again before too long.
Pretty interesting; I just today found it and added the extension to my Chrome and it works fine. Still have Adblock in Safari, Bing and Firefox.
Until corporate officers and shareholders are subject to lawsuits, Limited liability creates an entity that behaves pathologically - without regard to anyone/anything outside of itself.

Theranos,Enron,Volkswagen scandals are just some of the way too many to count scandals that damage citizens.
I'm not sure tbh. The documentation says "Collections may continue to occur in instances where the implementation deems necessary for correct program behavior, such as during an out of memory condition." My understanding from the forum discussions is that a collection could happen and you would not know about it.
> October 2008

This may be a lot of it. In October 2008, a massive security breach affecting all accounts was maybe a solid #2 on their list of problems.
> C#'s equivalent quixotic fever dream is probably LINQ.

Maybe the weird query-style syntax.

If you use it properly, it's no different than map, fold, filter, etc that are ubiquitous functional higher-order functions., just with T-SQL-ly names.

Linq is so much better than doing all of what it does by hand, with for loops and temporaries galore, the way we once did.
That's interesting. Are they going to use webtorrent?
large by land area. small by population. Who is hiring software developers in Winnipeg?
What sort of questions about the OS X kernel do you have in mind?
It's hard to imagine you really understand Bayesian statistics when you mention what happened the last time as support for your point. It is quite hard to believe that you know with reasonable degree of accuracy the probabilities involved.
Haha, basically all the big names :) There are some gems spread out across them all for sure; such as "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" from LinkedIn.
I don't see why a human has to do this.

Even if they do, I don't see why it can't be done with an awareness system like the F-35 helmet. That would let you see the outline of the runway through arbitrary fog.

There is no special "rejected landing turn". You rise up just a bit, keep following the runway, and retry when you wish.
Israeli finalist in Google’s $20M race to the moon won’t make it
It's not a realistic assessment of skills though. You don't write code on a whiteboard for work, you do it in an environment you have setup to let you work most efficiently. You have the option to look up things you can't quite remember, do some research to see if there is anything you missed, take a quick break to clear your head, etc...

Plus, too often it devolves into a game of algorithm trivia with the interviewer. Gotta prove how smart* you are.

"So what have you been working on?" "Oh I was the lead engineer on our new backend system. Built it on top of X, built a custom foobar because we needed to scale Y functionality blah blah blah" "Oh cool, cool. We actually are looking at building something similar. Well anyway enough of this obviously useless information exchange, here's a question about graph searches".

*smart may be substituted for grinding out leetcode questions for weeks beforehand, at the interviewees discretion.
Release: npm5.0.0
I'll have to second MS. I'll have to check out these individuals, but for sure some of the teams have been putting out really good reads. Recently with the chakra and DOM articles for edge, and I also enjoy the TypeScript and .Net blogs on a regular basis.
HN is on fire today. Zecco and now Theranos. I'm getting the feeling that we are going to see more and more stories like this in the near future.

Theranos running fake tests is just another example of the type of charlatans enabled by socioeconomic lineage.

> Theranos plans to offer investors shares in the company in exchange for them not filing lawsuits against the embattled blood-testing company.

How far removed can you be from reality to even think like this?
This a valid observation, why have no down voters commented? Oop implementation was studied extensively in 80's, CLOS was very contentious in fact. The lack of training and perspective is stunning.
Ask HN: How do you do config management at your company?
The only difference from standard ipfs usage is to keep the data private. To do that I use a private subnet to stop incoming connections, make sure the ipfs instances don't try and contact the real ipfs network, and use my own bootstrap ipfs node which is permanent.
Business interests don't seem to want that either. Members of a certain party keep introducing legislation to take the free-rider problem nationwide instead of adopting your principled suggestion.
I love the 3 named presidents.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Warren Gamaliel Harding.
Yeah, automatic static reflection for serialization of standard-layout structs in C++ would certainly be nice. You can achieve something like that with std::tuple, but it's certainly not comparable to first-class serialization.

PS, I used to enjoy your posts on SDN, before the site owner threw a fit. :-)
That is an awesome video. Thanks for sharing!
San Jose also uses orange sodium lights to help reduce light polution for the Lick Observatory.

I agree with the article they have a "gloomy" effect. They are also pretty much the exact same color as the yellow in traffic signals, which can make driving at night a tad more annoying.
Growing with vstack or hstack is very slow.
I have seen code where a big csv with time series data is parsed line by line the corresponding numpy array was grown using vstack for each row. worst case: quadratic runtime
This is why I think workflows matter too, at least as much as the language itself. If you write Python like you write Java, of course you're going to not catch some errors that Java would have caught before you ship, and you're probably going to be frustrated when you're at a company where everyone writes Python like Java. But if you write Python like Python (you can't write Java like Python), you'll find many of your errors almost immediately after you write it because you're trying out the code in the REPL right away, and writing chunks in a way where that's easier to do in Python.

Maybe a few type errors will still slip by, but you'll have found and fixed so many other kinds of errors much earlier. Kinds of errors that benefit by being caught immediately instead of festering because they passed a type checker. (I've never really found a type error to be a catastrophic-oh-I-wished-we-found-this-sooner type of bug. You fix it and move on. It's not dissimilar to fixing various null pointer exceptions that plague lots of corporate Java code.)

To me your obvious claim is not obvious at all, because the tradeoff space is so much richer than what mere type systems allow. We're not even touching on what you can do with specs and other processes that happen before you code in any language, nor other language tradeoffs like immutability, everything-is-a-value, various language features (recalling Java only recently got streams and lambdas), expressiveness (when your code is basically pseudocode without much ceremony (or even better when you can make a DSL) there's a lot fewer places for bugs to hide)... Typing just doesn't tell that much of a story.
Stanford sells rich parents membership in a club for their children. Their billions is a pile of bribes. Poor smarter children go without.
Your link is just one example, like mine. Guard rails exist for a reason, of course, but I still believe that living under a skyway will be far more risky than living next to a busy road.

As for autopilot tech, we're still in the very early stages for autonomous navigation. Absent a central controller or cloud (the presence of which is something I vehemently oppose) we're still learning to pilot vehicles in a mostly-2D plane. Throw in the third dimension, and all the safety stuff that that will entail, and you end up with a plurality of political, engineering, and safety risks.

All it will take is one tragic loss of life writ large to kill the industry and set back plans 50 years.
Mobile industry loses its bid to stop Berkeley’s cellphone warning law
Full title: The Israeli finalist in Google’s $20 million race to the moon won’t make it to the starting line

Had to trim a bit off because of the character limit.
Net Neutrality Alive and Well in Canada
They're crooks whom subvert democracy and exploit people and businesses with obsfucated trickery. Who cares? Next financial crisis brought closer because coworker competition in performance reviews means legitimized stealing even more money, faster.
But did you reset the phone before handing it over?
Current versions of LED streetlamps are absolutely awful. They have very high blue glare which is not only momentarily distracting in peripheral vision and disruptive of sleep cycles but also totally wrecks your night vision. It doesn’t help that they are often turned up to several times brighter than necessary. Same goes for LED car headlamps (especially on SUVs), which should be regulated right off the road. After San Francisco installed some awful LED lamps on my street, I’ve taken to wearing orange safety glasses when I walk my dog, and if I had to drive with any regularity I would consider wearing orange glasses to drive at night.

The excuse I’ve heard that “these are the same color as moonlight” is total nonsense. We don’t have 10 moons hanging 20 feet off the ground on every city block. Nighttime is not supposed to look like daytime. People are not supposed to be reading novels in the street at night, or critically examining the colors of paintings.

Moreover, much of the efficiency story is exaggerated. Recent types of high-pressure sodium lamps are very efficient. The big advantage LEDs have is that they (theoretically) don’t need to be replaced as often. We’ll see how it goes in practice over the coming decades.

The real story of course is that lighting companies have made a big marketing push, and from what I understand there is state/federal grant money available for new LED lighting projects (which are sold as “environmentally friendly”, etc.).

If cities want to use LED street lamps, they should be <3000K correlated color temperature, with as little blue light as possible. They should include diffusers, should be shielded to not shine in the eyes of pedestrians or drivers who aren’t intentionally looking upwards, should be spaced closely enough together that there isn’t a huge contrast between patches of dark and light going down the street, and should be set to a reasonable brightness. Human rod vision is incredibly adaptable to seeing in very dark situations.
> C#'s equivalent quixotic fever dream is probably LINQ.

What? LINQ is terrific.
I can confirm it (born in USSR, grew up in Eastern Europe). It's an interesting phenomenon which I believe can be explained by the fact that the movement for gender equality was started by marxist-bolsheviks in 1900-1920s, almost 50 years before it started in Western countries. Arguably, it was more successful and led to less controversy in society than what I can now see in Western countries. One of the key differences was that gender equality was initiated and led by the Soviet government (i.e. it was top-down) according to Karl Marx's ideology. While, in the West it was initiated and led by civil activists -- i.e. it was bottom-up.
Parachutes generally need 1K feet to be effective, and VTOL cabs will operate at fairly low altitudes. Maybe there are special ops low-altitude parachute designs that can be adapted for airframes.