skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense that eventually things would eat plastic.

Lignin (wood) and cellulose are pretty tough to break down, but there are things that eat them.

Plastic fundamentally (chemically) is made of the same stuff as wood, just in a different arrangement of atoms, and releases energy when decomposed. So it seems quite reasonable that there would be things that can eat it.

I think the plastic pollution we are seeing right now is a temporary thing - soon enough there will a large enough population of plastic eaters that it will no longer be a problem.

(We should avoid plastics that have chlorine in them though, except where needed. PVC is the most common example of a plastic like this.)
Kills people = bad stuff, keep it locked away is a pretty dangerous, slippery slope.
And you have invented Generative Adversarial Networks. They are the basis of all new ML findings, like pix2pix.
Data Science of the Facebook World (2013)
I am skeptical that any sort of bacteria/insect based plastic decomposition project will address the problems with plastic waste.

The biggest problem with plastic is not with the products that make it into the landfill, where bacteria could be used. The problem is with what happens when they don't make it into a landfill, and they end up as basically permanent pollutants in the water.
Scientists that voluntarily work to bring such stuff in the world are amongst the people I least respect. It's one thing to be dumb, quite another to be extraordinarily gifted and to use that gift to do something which has no upside at all and plenty of downside. Exposing them to their own creations would be poetic justice.
Ending the cult of the CEO
Yep, Python's "re" is the usual PCRE+X story.
I built a quick model to compare IRR of contributions vs. benefits using the numbers in the Bloomberg article and income distribution reports[1].

With some massive assumptions (that I can enumerate if anyone is interested), the Bottom 20% quintile gets a 6.5% IRR on lifetime benefits vs. contributions. The Top 20%, by comparison, gets a 1.7% IRR. So despite "the rich taking more", the system is still very progressive. Just, perhaps, not quite as progressive as it used to be—but certainly not "proportionate" or "disproportionate" in favor of the wealth.

To give you a sense, had a Top 20%-er turning 65 in 2016 invested his or her SS contributions over the years in a Dow Jones Index Fund, the value of their investment would be $1.1M... versus the $290k lifetime benefit they would receive from the government. (It's pretty much a wash for a Bottom 20%-er: their DJI investment would be worth $136k vs. $130k in SS Lifetime Benefits).

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/113th-congress-2013-...
What React is missing is a set of idioms and patterns. When you inherit Angular or Django project it's quite easy to understand it and be productive if someone follows the philosophy.

Create-React-App is a great step, but what next? How to handle AJAX and state if I have a simple app and don't really need Redux. How to structure it so it would be easy to add it.
Income isn't the racist factor here I'm talking about, but lifespan. The life expectancy differential between a black man and a white woman is a decade. It's not the amount of each individual check someone gets, it's the fact that some groups collect checks for many years longer.
Sure, but what does this say to developers when the policy appears to be "if we catch you doing sketchy things, you will have to stop"?

Doesn't this simply teach would-be bad actors that they get to act with impunity until they get caught, and then simply stop?
Tesla owner asks $1m in Model X fiery crash with Falcon Wing doors not opening
I really love Redux, and I use it for most things, but that is simply not true. Redux/MobX is a solution to the Angular 1-style issue where state is all over the place, but you sure can make full blown apps that way (it's not even a full solution, but rather a different set of tradeoffs...which is why a lot of people start using Redux then start pushing back in the other direction and you end up with a mess).

And even if you want to centralize state, with local state it's not even that hard to do yourself (put it at the top or in a few small containers, push everything down, have callbacks that bubble it back up. A bit verbose, but easy to abstract out, though you'll end up with something close to redux).

The main issue with all of this is that 95% of the stuff you read about all of it on the internet is wrong, namely because building a real app and maintaining it is very different from making a toy project or a Silicon Valley style MVP in 6 months. People optimize for the later, then when they start maintaining their app its shit. So all the info on the net helping you to reduce boilerplate, optimize for the first version, etc, is just hurting you (but its almost everything you find online)
> And any excessive force or mistake that they engage in will be trending on YouTube in under an hour. So you better be damn careful.

And what's the best outcome, huh? They get out on temporary administrative leave? Ha. Go ahead and record the police. They don't care. We on HN don't care. And you won't care after a week.
If the context of the title is to capture the goals of the private funding foundation and the article's contents are to describe some potential avenues of investigation or outstanding problems, then that does make me reconsider my expressed opinion in the grandparent. Thanks for sharing.
That implementation looks pretty inefficient, creating lots of strings that are thrown away immediately. Could it not be refactored into a generator combined with a string.join?
The wax worm eats plastic
Complete mis-representation of the truth. The rich pay more into the system than they cost [1] , and the non-rich cost more than they pay - which is OK as the system is designed to be that way.

This article is sensationalist click-baity crap that wants to paint a picture where the rich somehow feed off the poor.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/13/high-income-...
Wouldn't the handlers for exception handling by dynamically scoped, not lexically?

If we have a try block, and call a function, and if that function throws, we want the try block to be able to catch that. The function is not understood as having magic access to an environment; it's a pervasive dynamic environment that is visible to the current execution context at all times, in which exit points for non-local transfers are established.

That's almost the entire point since an error situation that is entirely confined to a lexical scope can be dealt with using some local control flow (some form of goto, or structured derivative thereof).
We're pretty good at mass producing bombs. Hasn't ended civilization yet. Dropping a bunch of plastic eating enzymes won't be more effective...
It does in-memory, hybrid, and disk. It's typically benchmarked versus kdb+ only:

http://financial.mcobject.com/downloads/white-papers-collate...
Frankly, I don't see Ness & Friends as paragons of virtue. Sure, they were effective at upholding the law, but I don't see the law as at all just. I just can't look at people who relentlessly upheld prohibition and say "I want more of those in my government". Sure, Capone was a crooked crook, but the government was not any better in that case.
It was recommended by our data scientist as he made the claim it would be easier to gleen useful data from what we've collected. I know nothing about this, so I have no opinion on it at all. It was also proposed to prevent increased server load as a result of not denormalizing any data in our schema. Granted, we haven't started building yet, as this is all preliminary. Would this fall into the "premature optimization" category of common mistakes?
And we still don't know how its brain works.

Perhaps there's more involved than a connectome and a simple neural model.
No hard numbers to present, but it would be beneficial in long-sequence LSTM networks, because TensorFlow has to do time-major <=> batch-major transposition between steps.
Have a link? I'm not seeing what you're seeing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_(nerve_agent)
Same goes for you I guess! Showing up in milspec combat armor because of someone popping off a .22 or something and then killing a dude with a camera seems pretty unprofessional of a paramilitary org like modern US police. I don't know what actually went down, but there are a lot of ways to respond to that kind of call without killing some random citizen, and that's what makes it flimsy - there was no gunfight. There was a guy with a camera.
In other words, we're totally insignificant. Happy Monday!
Here is the same but with star and doublestar for handling slashes:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/master/src/borg/shel...
http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#borg-h... ("Shell-style patterns, selector sh:")
Panic by far and away isn't an "indie developer". In the Mac dev space, they're pretty big.

There have been countless posts on HN from smaller devs getting their apps immediately pulled upon an update review for something they got no warning for.
I see Musk as having a Caesar-like role. He commands the army (of execs, engineers, technicians, skilled labor), his job is to decide what to attack. Each of those bullet points probably has 100 to 1000 people actively working on it. I don't think Musk could stop attacking new problems any more than Caesar could relinquish control of the army.
This is the best news I've heard all month!

The levels of abraded plastic in our water have gone up steadily over the past half century. While not so much of an immediate threat as rising CO2 levels, it's still something we'll have to contend with eventually. Not to mention the eyesore that is plastic waste. If they can make this work at industrial scale it will really be something!
Good choice. I hope later they understand that algorithms are not necessary. All that you need is npm install.
Because there are different culture surrounding firearms, particular classifications and regulations.

In most countries, this sort of equipment is definitely classified as war guns. You are prohibited from possessing one, let alone use it.

In the USA, it's more opened, some stuff you can buy, some stuff you can't buy, not sure where this one is. I believe it's being discussed in another thread here.

This has implications on the story. Knowing the kind of weapon and the local norms would give more context about the situation. Expect the police to react differently against a handgun and a military grade assault rifle (not the same type of individual on the other side either).

Judging by the "hundreds of rounds", it might have been modified to automatic or it's an old model.
I, for one, have never understood the problem with landfills. There's tons of unused space left, and landfills take up a tiny fraction of that. Who cares if we make a trash hill somewhere and styrofoam sits there for a million years?
Usual use would be "translate pattern once, compile it and then match 1000 file names against it".
I don't have any info to add about this particular case, but in CA the law he was charged with breaking (the articles I've found just say "assault with a machine gun" ) covers actual machine guns, 50bmg rifles, anything that California deems an assault weapon (which more or less means centerfire rifles with adjustable stocks or pistol grips, eg most AR-15s).
Order Type and Parameter Optimization in Quantstrat
Although it's nice to express things concisely, we don't think size in raw lines of code is the most important metric in the code.

Generally we are interested in solutions that allow us to iterate quickly, and to ship less buggy apps, and React has been helping out with this.

I don't have experience with Vue, but I also heard great things about it, so I'm glad there are many alternatives if React doesn't work well for you!
or process any data in that way while it is added or read.
that avoids scanning the whole table, too.
I get it, but disagree. WW I and WW II is was both a lot more than a bit of misinformation. And by ops definition, we've been fighting a war ever since we invented language and the ability to lie and make up reasoning. A very sensationalist headline.
Use HTTPS,redirect to Non-WWW with AWS S3,Cloudfront,Route53 with Custom Domain
Avoiding a drug because of it's scheduled status makes a lot of sense, and because of what it might be cut with, but I am not sure why someone, or how someone would cut LSD with fentanyl given how small I thought the effective dose of LSD is comparatively and how different the effects are.
What's the weakest link in your case? How resistant are your locks to picking? Can someone just smash a window or drill the lock?
> One group gets decaf coffee with an LSD microdose
> One group gets normal coffee.
How so? Sweet smelling liquids that kill and children are not compatible in the same space. That's a pretty good reason to keep your various cleaning stuff out of the reach of toddlers whose need to experiment exceeds their capability to understand.
I don't understand exactly why all space pictures are black and white.

There are hi-res cameras that are smaller than a coin now available to consumers, so I can't even imagine what could be used by scientists.

Is it because they need to be transmitted back to earth, and 1 channel would be better than 4?
Meanwhile Apple banned the drone strikes news app like what - 12 times?

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-appl...
No - on macOS Calendar you just type the city name (or a nearby city).
Hillary sounded very off, but what is new? Joking aside, Obama didn't sound too bad, but the Hillary voice was bad enough I wouldn't have included it in a demo.
I think you've answered your own question. :)

My memory is that it was rare pre 1998 in Silicon Valley but ubiquitous post 2005 or so - Silicon Valley and Seattle. It's unclear whether Seattle's development was independent of the Valley's, stemming from Microsoft's well known emphasis on algorithms and the same stupid logic puzzles that Google became infamous for.
It seems that this is current modus operandi in the business world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agent
As any reptile owner will tell you, wax worms will eat through plastic containers so you should store them in glass. It's common knowledge.

It is however amazing that nobody (me included) never thought that this could be a solution to our plastic issues. "It's common knowledge, why waste time thinking about it?"
One of the better solutions, but nobody wants a landfill near them.

They're disgusting.
I'd really like to start a software consulting business providing enterprise modernization and application security vulnerability analysis to corporations. Basically going in telling people where the security holes are and what needs to be modernized and help them choose / create solutions.
we have 8 colors in the English rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) because Newton insisted there must be eight for mystical reasons, who really uses indigo? Really most English speakers see six

You mean 7, right? If your quip regarding Newton is true, I would have assumed he was influenced by Latin. However, there's no evidence that Romans saw 7 rainbow colors either [1,2].

My next best theory is that the 7 rainbow colors are analogous to the 7 notes on the major scale.

For what it's worth, to a Russian speaker, the 7 colors are quite distinct. English blue maps to light blue (голубой) and indigo to blue (синий).

[1] https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/2116/colors-of-the...

[2] https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/275/what-colours-d...
This is great, thanks for linking to it. But yeah, Rust may be the first programming language where you have to read an entire book before implementing a linked list! (I do like Rust a lot though.)
Try http://example.com/
And who would like to actually use such device, willingly? It is bad enough that our computers can be hacked, I don't need anyone directly hacking my brain.

Not to mention that sometimes you want to just take a break from your spouse's stream of grumbling, "telepathy device" would make that even harder.
Hello. My name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
SHACL is a W3C Recommendation
Placing a more sensitive EEG inside the head isn't anyone's definition of "non-invasive."
Yes, I thought so, but the point he raised was interesting.
A typical round about way for human civilization. Since plastic is an environmental problem a logical solution would have been not to produce and use it. Or at least manage its lifetime better. But of course the industry doesn't care about cleaning up since there's no money there.
It really wouldn't be the first time a startup hadn't fully checked the regulations that would affect them, or decided to take their chances with flaunting them…
Correct. Given average life expectancies, the IRR of contributions vs. benefits of Upper-Middle and Top 20% are 2.9% and 1.7%, respectively. Given a 3.22% inflation rate, both are negative (meaning the returns don't even keep up with inflation).
The article seems like three disconnected stories. I'll try to do a better job of combining the stories:

When the automation eliminated the blue collar jobs, my friends, if I had them, would laugh because we are white collar.

When the automation eliminated the rural jobs, my friends, if I had them, would laugh because we were superior urbanites.

When the automation eliminates my white collar urbanite job, there is no one left to laugh at me, because urbanites are lonely and have no friends.

But on the bright side we'll spend the income we don't have, from the jobs that don't exist anymore, on fitbits to make us happy, instead of spending the money on other people. The progressive stack was to eliminate the family, no more babies, then eliminate the pets, no more fur babies, finally eliminate the jobs to eliminate the human-like machines such as fitbits. The last step will be eliminating the remaining people.

Devices becoming more human like, is good, because humans won't be able to afford living in the expensive cities without any jobs and no personal relationships. In the old days people worked and retired to a pension and were given a pocketwatch they don't need at a retirement party. In the new days people will be downsized as population only increases and the number of jobs only decreases, teased by being shown a fitbit they can't afford and don't need, and left to die under the freeway overpasses unemployed.

Although historical experience indicates the outcome will look a lot like Mogadishu shaken with the French Revolution and a sprinking of Detroit, we would like to think instead that our biggest problem will be solving loneliness, because lonely people are unproductive. People have to be productive, British Stiff Upper Lip and all that, even though we no longer have any jobs for them to be productive in. If they were not lonely they would not notice they are unemployed.

I like to think I did a better more serious and thoughtful job than the article. Its a little funny because the topic is of course ridiculous but I still think I made numerous serious points.
Let's talk. See the contact info at linuxbsdos.com/contact and ping me.
"feel sharper" vs "actually sharper"
I can't say much about Google, but at FB we have a combination of unit tests and integration tests. We don't strive to have 100% coverage, but the amount of tests is always growing, and we are investing effort into efficient tooling for running thousands of front-end tests: http://facebook.github.io/jest/.
18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 70
I think that it's also the other way around: Functional Mri(fmri) is currently,maybe the best brain diagnostic device we have, by far. We've done some crazy shit(at the early research stage) with it,like reading dreams, treating depression/anxiety, increasing empathy, and training people to achieve very deep meditative states, which takes mediators decades of training.

But Fmri is extremely expensive and unaccesible, even to researchers. Just think of a few min. mri test costs hundreds/thousands - while for fmri neurofeedback training you probably needs some tens of hours, per person, and a minimum of tens of people, at least, for statistically meaningful research.

But recently, Mary Lou Jepsen has started working on a $100, personal, wearable(?) fmri device. This could be the equivalent, in a few years, to jumping from mainframes to the iPhone.

So if you're in Musk/Zuckerberg's place, if this explodes, it would be kind of nice to be in the field.
Bad joke of the day: Even Trump can't do it, and he really is President of the U.S.!
I think the biggest issue people have with landfills is that it's basically banking on the things being dumped there not having an adverse effect on the environment, ground water, etc over a long period of time. Even if no one really knew/knows/ensures what is entirely safe to dump.
Isn't skepticism a wholly appropriate response?
Physicists create ‘negative mass’ – Science Bulletin
I agree. When I TA'd intro programming courses, I found that most frustration stemmed from a piece of code not doing exactly what you expect it to do. JavaScript is famous for having a million quirks and places where behavior changes based on context ('this', for example). That's going to lead to a million places where students blow up because it doesn't do what they expect it to do. Students need lots of little wins, and JavaScript is full of little losses.
For front-end development some strong options in different languages are: Elm, TypeScript, Reason, Coffeescript (although Coffeescript usage has fallen dramatically every since the newer versions of JavaScript added a lot of its great features).
Oh man this is positively insane! The original Tomb Raider games are probably my all time favorite video games. I recently revisited Tomb Raider for PlayStation in an emulator on my laptop. I find it a bit mind-blowing that OpenLara in the browser seems to be performing better than the native PSX emulator did.

I think perhaps the ctrl-action button is more sensitive here than it was in the original PC version? In order to get out of the water hole I had to swim into the corner basically. It was a long while since I played the original on PC though so who knows.

Mad respect.
You can use ClojureScript, Elm, TypeScript, or a myriad of other compile-to-JS languages on the frontend. You can use anything on the backend, but React server-side rendering only runs on Node.js AFAIK.
Yeah, SQL mapping frameworks, like MyBatis, seem to be the pragmatic sweet spot for most use cases.
Renting Hotel Rooms by the Minute
ES6 modules support lands in browsers: is it time to rethink bundling?
Thanks for sharing! I edited the post in response to the negative feedback here, so I'd appreciate if you could give it another look and let me know if there's something else jumping out.
On what basis do you claim that your solution is logical, but using a caterpillar is not?
When I was in college, I spent 3 years building a site for an organization that I was in which was active on campus. By the time I graduated after having served as a director of 3 different committees and president once, I'd built the site into a tool that ran the entire organization.

My entire career and employment came from that experience.
Life is not fair, never has been, never will be.
> Judging by the "hundreds of rounds", it might have been modified to automatic or it's an old model.

Most likely not, you can empty 30 round mags in 15 seconds or so.
With all due respect, you are responsible for how much you get paid. If it behooves you to stay current with trends, capitalize on them, identify bogus ones, then go for it. If you know of a better way, the ball is in your court.

I think a side-effect of devops is that more developers have to be good at more things, and less excellent at one. But, if I'm a hiring manager, there's places for both of those profiles in my team.