skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sleeping isn't a waste of time, either.

TV is source of background cultural knowledge and is enjoyable for that reason. When it ceases to be enjoyable one can stop watching.

OK, one might be addicted to watching TV, but that's a separate issue. Here one is using the TV to avoid addressing other problems. True, it might take a period of mindless watching in order to appreciate this. Has that time been wasted? Well, no, because it had to be spent in order to gain that very appreciation.
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Yeah, that was an odd start, given that Dr. Downey is a Professor of Computer Science. Even a charitable suggestion that he was looking to keep things as understandable as possible for a wide audience doesn't seem to give much defense.

I think he was trying to articulate how much more expressive/extensive programming languages and libraries (and tools?) have gotten over the years, so that a student can get to do something interesting with much less down-and-dirty arithmetic and arcana.
Is there any info out there where you can map your body dimensions like height, arm length, etc. to optimal desk and chair dimensions?
YouTube did 8M simultaneous streams back in 2012:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/15/felix-baumgart...
On a Symbolics you can add swap space files when there is an out-of-memory error. If you find some disk space somewhere (possibly after deleting some unused junk), create a swap file, add it and continue.
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Did you read OP? His dad can do that. Once or twice. Then he won't. Or what about someone with am injury requiring minimizing the use of the leg to heal?
The basic conception of the university is to give you a well rounded education and not turn you into a savant ignorant of anything not directly related to your major. I don't think that makes it a "joke" in the least.
StartCom is untrusted by Chrome these days.
> If you can hop out and sprint to the door, that space isn't for you

1) They author didn't say sprint, they said walk "briskly" or whatever.

2) How do you know? My dad's injury severely limits the distance he can travel on foot. He can move ok at the start of the day but he's only got a limited amount of steps in one day. If he has to walk across the parking lot then that's further limiting his day. He doctor says he's supposed to use it every day but not overuse it. His limitations don't seem to be very apparent (at least to me) because he's good about keeping within his limits.
Would like to mention concept-oriented programming [1] which is work in progress but has highly ambitious goals of changing the way we think of programming. The initial idea is to make references active and customized elements of the program which can intercept all accesses to the represented objects. A new programming construct, called concept (hence the name of the approach), describes both behavior of references and behavior of objects. Objects exist in a hierarchy modeled by the concept hierarchy. IS-IN relation is used instead of the traditional IS-A. Also, concept-oriented programming distinguishes between incoming and outgoing methods, that is, every method has two versions: for external access and for internal access. More papers in [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00720
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandr_Savinov

Disclaimer: I am the author of concept-oriented programming and data model
It's funny that you say that an Adobe CS user is "captive", but you don't consider yourself "captive" to the superior Linux hacker tools. Ie: why is the creative user captive, but you are free.

If you wanted to move to macOS/Windows you couldn't, because you wouldn't bear their inferiority when it comes to hacker things, so aren't you also captive?
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> "Mac's are for users who don't know about computers"

I honestly haven't heard that argument in years from anyone I'd consider in touch with the current state of tech.

And for a decade I was right there with you on the OSX == *nix plus creature comforts.

But the landscape has changed since that argument held sway for me. Linux has gotten way less fiddly, and the size of my scripts to keep macOS on the straight and narrow has gotten larger.
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> msg.sender.send(p.lastPayment); // refund previous price of pixel

This code suffers from Recursive calling vulnerability (same bug which caused the DAO to be hacked).

You're sending the money BEFORE you're updating the balances.

There is a better way to write the payment code (and also wouldn't take you more than 5 minutes to write).

Here is one way to do it:

function colorPixel(uint x, uint y, bytes3 color) payable onBoard(x, y) {
Pixel p = board[x][y];
lastPayment = p.lastPayment;
p.lastPayment = msg.value;
if (msg.value > lastPayment) {
if(!msg.sender.send(lastPayment)) throw; // refund previous price of pixel
p.color = color; // set the color
} else {
throw;
}
}

Another shorter way:

function colorPixel(uint x, uint y, bytes3 color) payable onBoard(x, y) {
Pixel p = board[x][y];
require(msg.value > p.lastPayment);
if(!msg.sender.send(p.lastPayment)) throw; // refund previous price of pixel
p.color = color; // set the color
p.lastPayment = msg.value; // set new cost to whatever the person sent in
}
John Snow [1], who traced the cholera outbreak to an unsanitary water pump plotted the occurrences directly on a map. The other map in the article shows a similar flaw to that of using zipcodes.

Lesson, if you want to correlate something spatially, use spatial coordinates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow
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Wall Street is lined with the corpses of people that were right but too early.
Credibility issues of the author/website aside, I actually hope this is true, and I hope it's catastrophic for Intel.

Maybe then we'll finally see hardware companies taking security seriously.
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Opinion is not fact. Given this is Scientific American should we expect something, say, more scientific?

Let's put this under the heading, "One Size Does Not Fit All".

The underlying assumption of this opinion is that there is only one model to teach too.

In the modern era we really need to take into account our differences.

In this case, functional versus procedural programming.

1. Write this in a Lisp as functional.

2. Present the functional form as human readable as the given procedural.

3. Conduct a study and gather the data.

4. Present the findings.

My experience has taught me that there is subset of the human population who think more naturally in functional programming.

But if one model is insufficient? then why would two be?

What languages are yet to be invented to meet the needs of the millions of daily programmers?

It is time for experimental science to be conducted given the millions of people involved.

The path has already been laid out with Usability research that is entirely experimental.

It is time to do the hard science on usability of claims of functional and procedural programming languages.

It is time to put to rest opinion and one size fits all.
The major key is ESPN was the ONLY source for sports, highlights, discussion, etc. SportsCenter was a staple of most young males in the 80s and 90s growing up.

Now they compete with the internet. Highlights? Go to r/nba, r/soccer, r/nfl, r/hockey, boom, done, quick gif, lots of good discussion. Why spend an hour watching sportscenter? Especially now that they talk about music, twitter, and lebron james 24/7, endless commercials, always before what you spent the last 20 minutes waiting for, for something.

Not only that, youtube channels, podcasts, fans making their own content, blogs, and other forums...there's just way more content out there now than in the 90s, where all you had was the newspaper/magazine instead of the TV.

On top of that, all the major leagues have their own networks now-NHL net, NBA net, NFL net. In addition to FS1, and competing with the major networks for top events.

It's not just people watching game of thrones (those shows don't air all year around and only take up an hour a week anyway.) Although I'm sure it reduces those numbers a bit.
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Yeah, there are dozens of startups working on crowdfunding. AngelList should have been able to make something work by now, but it will probably be someone else.
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You can get around the blackouts usually by using a VPN service (like Private Internet Access) when you originally load up the stream.
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That is true.

However, he doesn't have to consciously think of himself as a tail risk fund for an investor to use him as an instrument.

The investor has to believe that risk is mispriced. Paulson is just a mechanism for expressing a short view.

Why not just put it in an index fund? Because Paulson has access to different kinds of shorts (CDS, convincing banks to allow him to short housing and so on).

I have no answer for 18-20%. That is, as you pointed out, unsustainable.
Maybe you'd love it :)
Thought-provoking. The examples are all programming languages, but the paradigms themselves can apply on a smaller scale, i.e., for application features, as design patterns or inspiration.

The section on "symbolic programming" has me pondering still about potential implications. It makes me imagine something like a "visual" WYSIWYG editor, but a "conceptual" editor.. Looking forward to digging deeper via provided references.
I don't think anyone intends anything harmful. People do harmful things because they are mistaken about stuff, including about what is good. But mistakes are a normal part of discovering the way forward, so, no, not a waste.
That's true up to a point - but there are also ways to mitigate against those losses without completely giving up all the alpha you can get from betting on extreme tail events.

I'm sure there are some fund managers who do follow this strategy - but they also mitigate the risks associated with it, which means their extreme gains are not as extreme as Paulson's, but their losses are not as extreme either.

We hear about Paulson because he's an edge case. We don't hear about the funds that won big, but not quite as big as Paulson but who have had much better risk management practices.
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Could be the disk speed.
Stop Shaming Your Users for Micro Conversions
Here's what I said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12849689#12850055) the last time this was brought up:

> That said, it would be nice if someone presented some evidence to back up claims that yelp is doing something "corrupt".

This is an extremely difficult standard to meet. A lot of the accusations against Yelp involve phone calls with their sales reps, which is not public data that can be aggregated and parsed. All we really have to go on are anecdotes.

Speaking personally, I've heard from two people I know who have small businesses- a wedding photographer in Seattle and a small restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire- who separately told me how they had good Yelp reviews, and then watched them get pushed down and bad reviews pushed to the top shortly after they declined to buy Yelp ads. These two people didn't even know each their and would have no way or reason to coordinate their tales, and they told me identical stories. I never use Yelp anymore, for this reason.

Anecdotes might not be scientific data, but if the circumstances are such that scientific data is impossible to obtain, they're better than nothing.
Backend and SRE/devops engineer, also interested in leadership/management role. 10+ years of experience.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Optional

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C#, Java, GWT, Python, Lua, ASP.NET, bash, AWS, Javascript, SQL, git, CSS, HTML

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An object that derives from DynamicObject in C# can have conditionals in its TryInvoke override, so it can change which method calls it responds to. However this sacrifices useful static compile-time checks, so it only gets used in unusual situations where the extra dynamic behaviour outweighs the cost.

> whose results are then relied upon to be visible directly after invokation

I'm not sure I buy that, surely those details are down to the individual methods in question. There's lots of hairy (distributed) COM code out there that doesn't make that promise for example, and it won't hold in a multi-threaded environment for objects that are not explicitly thread-safe in any case.
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Also, the font is Adobe source code pro.
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My small business occaisionally gets calls from them and they are very very rude and high pressure. I remember hanging up on one guy and they kept calling back probably 3-4 times per hour. Even after literally telling the guy to "fuck off". I will never pay for anything on their site or even use it. Foursquare does a much better job at what they do now anyway.
you don't have an email account, a telephone, skype, AIM client, or even USPS?
It's used heavily in application code for automotive ECUs. It has code generators that generate output with a really, really, small footprint and zero runtime overhead; due to optimization at very high levels, this is on the level of really good LTO optimization.

Drawbacks: it's very un-agile; you really have to think the system through completely. (The magic being that if you do this, it is very likely correct by design.) It's not really feasible to specify a part of the system now and leave other parts open for later refinement. The other drawback being that no good non-commercial options exist.
Cleaning up legacy python code
I and my wife left two negative reviews for our realtor on Yelp. The realtor botched the sale of our house in Half Moon Bay, she harassed and lied to us, and we even filed a complaint against her with the San Mateo realtors board.

Because she advertises on Yelp, our reviews were shelved into "not recommended" category. The realtor still has 5 star rating. Never mind that I had submitted more that 30 reviews to Yelp before, so I consider myself a good Yelper.

I went so far as to write a letter to Stoppelman, CEO. No response, no action.

PS The same reviews were published on Zillow no problem.
I believe that Aurora (covered in the article) was some kind of pre-cursor to Eve, by the same Chris Granger.