skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad this initiative is working. The Indian govt emphasizes on this very frequently and I am surprised to see this dashboard: http://sbm.gov.in/sbmdashboard/Default.aspx
I commented a while ago with the list of note apps I was considering to replace Evernote. Might save you some time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642527
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"Capital" is a synonym of "Uppercase," so the name sort of means "Lowercase Uppercase"
When I say "few years" I mean 10, 15 years? 20? 30? In the context of a bank, which may be around hundreds of years, that's still not a lot. But maybe I'm still way off, hence my question: How long would it take?

I see a lot of people here telling me I don't know what I'm talking about without actually giving an answer as to how long it would take and how much it would cost, which was my question in the first place and I'm being downvoted for asking it. Seriously, WTF HN?
I would rather contact you directly but your profile is empty.

I would like to introduce you to HiveMind described here: http://blog.crudzilla.com/2016/10/managing-configurations-wi...

It addresses the issues that JSSONET does without inventing a new templating language.

I am happy to give a skype demo, email me if interested.
>You have assumed poverty in adults is caused by mental health problems and, in general, that is false.

You are assuming that they meant that mental health problems are the cause, while I interpreted them as a symptom of poverty.
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Seen https://blankslate.io/?
Yes I understand what the pointer means I'm just surprised they would default to that or generally encourage it (again I don't know the language that well but it appears pass by value is not used often for I guess performance reasons). I probably just haven't looked at the right libraries or programming practices in Golang but it appears most APIs are very much mutable and thus use pointers.

With Java (and lets assume Java now has Value types for argument sake) the default is immutable references but the language could easily provide other reference types (and in fact sort of does) that would allow pointer like behavior and value like behavior. And with immutable references the runtime may actually copy anyway for some types (I vaguely remember the JVM doing this somewhere).

The reason I don't mind pointers in Rust or C/C++ is that I expect to manage the memory because the languages doesn't do the memory management.
30 second impression:

The landing page has side arrows? Is this meant to be a Powerpoint slides deck type app?

Why isn't it just a 1 page vertical scroll to showcase the 'notes app'? Or do all the pages in notes have to be a click page arrow?

edit: I looked around a little more (never logged in) but all I ever saw was the slides. I am still not sure if that's the only mode, or is there another preview showing other modes/styles of notes? As boring as it may be, I'd love to see some generic notes examples: grocery list, todo, programmer's notes, school notes, lorem ipsums, or anything more representative of a real world notes and less of just listed features.
There's a lot of Sasquatch stories among Native Americans.

Homo Floresiensis overlaps with the Ebu Gogo myth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu_gogo
It's no conspiracy theory that Brad both claims to not be paxteam, but has no problem making accounts with the username paxteam when he argues in comment threads.

Also, pedantically, this wouldn't be a 'conspiracy theory', since all I'm suggesting is that one guy is being disingenuous​ on the internet.
Do you have suggestions to improve my question?
(NB: Not a criticism of interpreted languages, they add a lot of value)

While long compilation times are incredibly annoying, compilation offers a first pass test on code: Is this code syntactically correct? Do (at least some of) the semantics make sense?

With an interpreted language, you may be able to test for syntactic correctness with a simple scan over the language, but you're approaching compilation at that point. More likely, syntactic correctness is verified by a test suite that's sufficient to provide 100% code coverage (which can be hard to build and maintain).

It's also harder to know if a reference to foo is valid at any point, until it's executed. Which is where the semantic validity and verification of compilation comes in handy. A tool which can do this for your interpreted language is most of the way to being a compiler, it's simply lacking the translation step.

The nice thing with interpreted languages is that you could put off a lot of this verification/validation, similar to the distinction between dynamic and static typing, until you actually need it. The debate is when you need it and how much value is added by putting it at the start. But languages like go and incremental compilation being adopted by more compiler/toolchain developers is at least cutting down on the time to reduce the time spent idling (as a developer) in the feedback loop.
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These days I was looking for the Burroughs ICON. I wonder if any Canadian retrocomputist is around.

Another I've searched over and over in vain is a GUI I used on graphical terminals connected to a SINIX server. It was called Collage and looked a bit Mac-like.
Based on my walk to work along Mission street, I'd say we've got something to learn X_x
Undefined behavior is what makes C efficient. And NULL pointers are just a consequence of the ability of pointers to take numerical values. Naturally, this behavior was kept in C++, which is just a superset of C (with a few minor exceptions).

NULL pointers and undefined behavior make a lot of sense in C++. The mistake is replicating this behavior on languages where it doesn't.
It's also possible that drivers has simply been shamed into driving less, not more safely.

I'm curious what per-capita driving hours and mileage changes look like over the same period.
> Implicit pointers means you have to often think extra when shuffling data structures around.

This basically answered my question. Thank you. I don't know why I didn't make that connection.
The danger is political risk, not necessarily theft or vandalism. Any dependency on territory not under your own societal control can be used to hold you hostage and cannot be depended upon.

Forget the solar farm, easiest is to cut power lines. (explosives?)
Possible evidence of humans in California 130k years ago
do you really think it's a good idea to give a badge and a gun to corporate ISPs? that opens the door for so much invasion of privacy.
Sorry if this is nitpicky but fyi, coal in 2016 was almost exactly 40%, not 'well over':
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...

But you are absolutely right that its entirely due to natgas and that will maybe last us a decade or two but certainly not three.

In fact its just enough time to build a fleet of nuclear plants, but as you also point out, fear rules that decision far more than physics.

Wind and solar and batteries are awesome, but even in very optimistic case scenarios we need an alternative to coal and the temporary surge of natgas to handle baseload between here and ~2040. It should be nuclear, but, sigh.
Solar appears to be on an exponential. If true, no one is prepared for where that will take us in just two to four years!
Author here -- Very neat, saves writing another tool!
I'm wondering if your picture will appear in the amazon ads if Alexa recognizes that new shirt as a recent order.

Also given that all the pixs in the ad are women, we can assume if Alexa sees a little baby bulge and the other signs of pregnancy that your amazon advertisements are about to take a huge swing to the maternity style.
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Just like a new generation of engineers doing math on computers would give us flying cars?
Is it an unaffected third party, when your unsecured lightbulb is participating in a DoS that knocks out some service he's relying on?
I would suggest some of the essays regarding Mutualism and Georgism at C4SS. They tend to do a decent job breaking down the problems of capitalism without smothering you with thick language.
To the contrary, this mentality is alive and well in America. HN's own yummyfajitas usually drops in on these kinds of threads with a lot of links proving that the poor deserve to be poor due to their own poor decision-making.
It's not about hiding costs, it's about capital cost vs. marginal cost. When marginal cost is near-zero, you get significantly different economic behavior from something that has a balance of capital and marginal costs.
Well that was vague. I can't help but wonder why. Is it because they have exclusively worked with The Deck for advertising, or did they just get bored? Surely they could find some similarly minimal way to advertise in place of The Deck.
Well, I've never heard of this site before, but so long and thanks for all the fish, I guess. Looks like I missed a pretty nice website.
Read the rest of the guide :)
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
Sure, depending on the chances of it happening. The problem is that we don't know what the chances are, and as a species we're fairly bad at assessing stuff like that in general. If it's a million-to-one chance, there are probably plenty of other more worthy perils to be concerned with first. If it's a hundred-to-one chance, it may be an imminent threat. Which is it? How do you trust that the person telling you the odds isn't vastly over or under estimating the chances?

The answer falls into an area that's somewhat unknowable with current information, which is why I can't fault either behavior.
Thanks for sharing, would love to see this combined with solar panels under the top layer.
Other discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202994
Oddly I find pointers intuitive and easy in Pascal and assembler - arcane and complicated in C. Java (memory model) is also rather difficult to internalize IMNHO - probably because of the complication of "bare" types (eg: int), boxing, pass by reference and some rather muddy default/usual containers/objects/arrays etc.

Other than for teaching "an industry language" I don't immediately see much reason to teach C and Pascal - but I suppose the "modern" equivalent would be Python, Cython, C and assembler, followed by haskell/(oca)ml, Prolog and/or a lisp/scheme - with the benefit of showing C interop along the way.
Brokerages have been doing this for ages. What's new? There's no test for "sophisticated investor." You fill out a paper form and margin is enabled. Oh, you want options, too? You check another box.
you conveniently forgot to mention the fundamental difference: the upstream kernel isn't developed for free whereas our code has always been. changes the equation quite a bit, doesn't it?
I don't give money to panhandlers, I think it encourages bad behavior. But to anyone who asks, I look them in the eye, and say "sorry, not today". I'm surprised how few people do this, it takes less effort than actively ignoring someone.
I really hope you are right :)
How is anyone unaffected when IoT devices with bad security break the net?
Yep. I think 6% is pretty good...it's enough so you don't need a heat cycle to extract electricity, and dealing with the neutron damage is easier than going to Uranus. But working fusion reactors probably also means working fusion rockets, and if we find ourselves going to Uranus anyway, all the better.

If we get really good at fusion we could also use boron fusion. It uses the most common isotope of boron, which is plentiful on Earth, plus regular hydrogen, and the main reaction is aneutronic. There'd be some minor side reactions but it'd be under 1% of energy as neutron radiation, probably better than you'd get with deuterium in the mix.
Exactly. I see very little difference whether my notes are stored in a github repo or a google drive folder. In either case they are under "my" account but I don't think I would say that I really "own" the data because either service could hypothetically be gone tomorrow.
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Try dragging the rear brake, if you're not already. It can help stability a lot.
peat extraction is extremely harmful to the environment due to large amounts of carbondioxide and methane released by the extraction process. Calling it "semi-renewable" is highly misleading. It's a really destructive source of energy.

(As far as I'm aware most peat extraction happens not for energy usage, but for gardening and agricultural use - but the harm is the same.)
We're not unaffected anymore. Mirai did a lot of damage to a lot of people. Very diffuse damage, sure, but a lot of damage.

Note we've had worms and such for decades now and most of them don't deliberately break things. It's generally far more profitable to exploit the resources than simply destroy them. Brickerbot almost certainly wouldn't be if we weren't all getting affected.
Depends on the government agency I'd say. For example: unemployement or social security checks going out, VA Hospital systems, etc.
Then fix your lightbulb so that someone can't tell you how to handle your lightbulbs. If you can't reach that low bar then why are you even connecting to the internet? You are implicitly allowing your tools to be used for botnets which should be a crime in itself.
I hope signing up for disappointment isn't the real goal.
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One reason people oppose spending more money on homeless is how expensive it already is with poor results; mismanaged, it seems, by half grifters and half bleeding hearts, and no one with a head for effectiveness.

Here's one of Seattle's big problems: http://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-of-a-swindle/

Here's another Seattle problem: the housing association has a ten year waitlist. The government wanted to change rents so people would be rotated through so more could be helped (since most homeless are just temporary) but the socialist council member got all the people getting a sweet deal together (unlike the others who have to work for a living) to protest and nothing got fixed: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/12/seattle-housing-...
You make it sound like DSLRs do this automatically, which is not the case. My Nikon doesn't and my old Canon definitely had the option but didn't by default.
There's a PR open for it: https://github.com/adtac/commento/pull/3
If coal is so great and cheap, then why is no one building new coal plants? Over the past few years wind and solar account for ~40% of new generation capacity and natural gas makes up the rest. Based on your comment, one would expect to either see only natural gas capacity being built out or some mix of natural gas and coal. That is not what is happening and it's because wind and solar are cheaper than coal in several areas of the country.
True, and the only way to know more about the quality of his decision-making is to wait another 20 years and see where he's at.
The coal is waiting on hot standby when wind stops blowing and there is no sunlight. Until there is battery technology which can replace powerplant, coal is not going anywhere.
Thank you for the link, but I've already read that article.

I realize that the way my team is doing things is not the only way. It's difficult to change the minds of people who are already set in their ways even when you're in charge. My team believes that the method which I described above is the "best practice" way of composing with react. I disagree, but I need to work with what my team is comfortable with.
I work at startup called Mixpanel usually 8 hours a day and sometimes even less if I get mostly what I need to get done.

I've worked at big cos like Microsoft and other smaller companies too. Some startups legit give a shit about employees.

We are also hiring if anyone is interested.
It doesn't account for the majority of wages since the wage dampening done by immigration is oddly done by legal immigration (H1b). The regular manufacturing or service industry job is more affected by outsourcing than immigration.
Engineering needs to stop being subordinate to anything but top management (if at all). An MBA can always outrank an engineer's decision and that is a big reason why we have crap devices out in the field.
Tell the family that the device was defective, and the manufacturer is entirely to blame. It's the simple truth, no need to try to blame the deceased.
Unfortunately for coal, not all of its problems are externalities as much as they used to be. If your customer is paying for it, even if not directly in the price you charge, that can alter their behaviour, as we are seeing around the world.
I got here: http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/

But I'm not sure where to go to find information about the returns.
Yeah, I'm sure it'll look just great that Germany or whoever is stationing the Wehrmacht in northern Africa, and no one will complain about that...
/s

You really think that's a viable way to maintain the electric power supply for all of Europe? "What could possibly go wrong?!"
On the plus side, the CO2 from burning natural gas is less than coal and it doesn't emit mercury or the other particulates and doesn't have a waste issue like coal does. Unfortunately for those who care about climate change, (and if you don't, you should) there are inevitable methane releases from fracking and from distribution of natural gas and those are now known to be much worse than previously thought:

>...Back in August, a NOAA-led study measured a stunning 6% to 12% methane leakage over one of the country’s largest gas fields — which would gut the climate benefits of switching from coal to gas. We’ve known for a long time that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), which is released when any hydrocarbon, like natural gas, is burned. But the IPCC’s latest report, released Monday (big PDF here), reports that methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale, so its global-warming potential (GWP) is 34. That is a nearly 40% increase from the IPCC’s previous estimate of 25.
...The IPCC reports that, over a 20-year time frame, methane has a global warming potential of 86 compared to CO2, up from its previous estimate of 72. Given that we are approaching real, irreversible tipping points in the climate system, climate studies should, at the very least, include analyses that use this 20-year time horizon. Finally, it bears repeating that natural gas from even the best fracked wells is still a climate-destroying fossil fuel. If we are to avoid catastrophic warming, our natural gas consumption has to peak sometime in the next 10 to 15 years, according to studies by both the Center for American Progress and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

https://thinkprogress.org/more-bad-news-for-fracking-ipcc-wa...

As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947
This is relevant here: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/publica...

MIT Poverty Action Lab. They find that "A multifaceted livelihood program that provided ultra-poor households with a productive asset, training, regular coaching, access to savings, and consumption support led to large and lasting impacts on their standard of living across a diverse set of contexts and implementing partners."

Exiting from poverty is a delicate process, and can be derailed in many ways. These multifaceted programs attempt to overcome the main obstacles, and it seems to work fairly well (at least better than most other interventions.)
Molten salt reactors require an external chemical plant processing radioactive materials. Radioactive chemical plants are a huge headache. If anything goes wrong, there's a huge mess and another long-term toxic waste site. Hanford (a PUREX plant) and Pantex (in Texas) are both now toxic waste sites.

Every nuclear reactor design that has something complicated going on in the radioactive section has had serious problems. Gas-cooled reactors leak. (Ft. St. Vrain was so promising.) Pebble bed reactors jam. (The one in Germany is permanently jammed and can't be disassembled.) Sodium reactors have sodium fires. Ones with attached chemical plants have problems with handling of hazardous materials. It's discouraging.

Ordinary water-based reactors have a simple radioactive section. All the complexity is outside. Yet even those have problems.

Hyman Rickover on this subject:

An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following
basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is
cheap. (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is
very flexible in purpose ("omnibus reactor"). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components.
(8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now.

On the other hand, a practical reactor plant can be distinguished by the
following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind
schedule. (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on
apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem.
(4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of
the engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is
heavy. (8) It is complicated.
Unsophisticated investors already have access to 4:1 leverage in every stock broker out there, which is quadruple the money, so you don't know what you are talking about?

Surprise! Robinhood is going to make revenues like a normal broker, who at this point already have mobile apps that are just as intuitive and more fully featured.
Do you even use a phone with a front facing camera while sitting on toilet? I bet those pictures could be embarrassing too.
Amazon says that my echo isn't recording me, and I just have to trust it. People have confirmed this to be true.

Google says that my phone isn't recording me, and I just have to trust it. People have confirmed this to be true.

I don't see a difference.
Thanks, from his portal seems that they will operat in two months.
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Put this way, I'm interested. If it could reliably figure out my size and show me clothes that it guarantees will look good on my body type - I'd probably be interested. Although I'd want to just rent it, not own it.
They're offering 2x margin, if I read the article correctly. So it's at best 1/3 secured, and probably a lot less than that if you need to make a margin call and try to collect.

The gigantic risk to Robin Hood isn't that they'll have problems collecting occasionally. They can make up for that by fiddling with their fees to come ahead in the average case.

It's that some big market move busts everyone at once and they go bankrupt overnight.
Seriously, who thought the stalker sneaking around the door camera shot was a good idea?
The description in the article did imply it's seeking very specific targets.

First, <2,000 devices hit per version? Mirai certainly doesn't show limitations like that.

Second, erases and corrupts? Unless I'm missing my mark, bricking a device that's running on firmware takes a fair bit more targeting than just adding it to a botnet.

edit: Ars has more info: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/brickerbot-the-perm...

Apparently it specifically targets devices open to Mirai, and claims a 2,000,000+ kill count. Not sure what that means for medical gear, but it does mean XP is safe.
I clearly remember VB6 being an excellent tool. Quality of code varied widely between developers.
If you're actually day trading you will still end up under SEC pattern day trading rules which require > $25k in the account. At that point, just get a real account with real tools.

http://www.finra.org/investors/day-trading-margin-requiremen...