skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not an adventure, but you can do some fun things.

- Culebra has amazing beaches
- Visit the bioluminescent bay
- Visit El Yunque. You can do the regular tour or visit other trails.
- You can go rapeling
- You can go SCUBA diving
- You can go visit reefs
- You can go zip-lining

They're not limited to PR, but you can do them someplace new/different.

You can escape the cold. (45° here and raining. I _kind_ of wish I was back in PR)
At 3:15: "...Java VM and the language began as a sort of a better Smalltalk you might say..."
Depends how you smoke. When I'm burning spliffs, my roommate and I go through a half every few days.

If you vape, even if you are a really heavy smoker you won't go over a half a month
> Or will it? If it's an AI intent on approximating human speech processing, why should it be any good at programming?

Exactly! Any sophisticated machine will be as full of errors as a human, just different kinds of errors. Unless it's a Godel machine [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine
Yes, but getting to do JEE and stuff like Websphere is already enough, I don't need to fight with OSGi as well. :)

Having written a few Eclipse plugins was already enough.
Wow! In general, charts that have two axises to display trends when there are two different units are hard enough to decipher (temperature and humidity for example). But when the unit is the same (% usage), to use two different scales is just insane.

My suggestion: They should change the chart to just have one axis, and have the chart be "% change in usage year over year".
Look at the leaflet that comes with ANY prescription drug. Even something over the counter. Side effects can be serious, that doesn't make them common. If the more serious side effects to regular marijuana use were common, with the number of users there are, we would know. Also, think of it in terms of alcohol. There are people who have a few beers on a Friday night. Then there are people who have a 6-pack (2-3 liters) every night. The latter will experience more side effects than the former. I'm all for drug legalization but the attitude that you can/should use every day (and that is not really frowned upon) is the part I find that could be dangerous.
> You might argue the standard of living might have ended up the same under protectionist policies (e.g. poor because of high prices rather than low wages), but I doubt we'd see the same level of inequality under protectionism.

The inequality that you see today wasn't caused by globalism, but by tax cuts on the very rich, which incentivized and legitimized overblown executive pay. All that wealth was then funneled into influencing the govt. to fuck American labor (i.e. ridiculously low minimum wage, further tax cuts for rich, less benefits for the needy etc.).

Globalism is an easy straw man to blame for inequality, but its actually allowed people with stagnant incomes to maintain a certain standard of living (or not let it deteriorate too fast) via cheaper goods and services.
So you understand I was commenting that your post didn't really say much about Haskell (learning curve, libraries, tooling ). What you commented or implied is a bit of current Haskell culture.

> I actually like C++ a lot.

Haskell is an example of academic carefully crafted language, while C++ is rather a practically driven continuous patchwork (and they are extremities to both ends). I simply find your comparisons odd. Given their deliberate design choice difference and it ended up feeling alike, how can that be positive?
We reached out to everyone that ever did a review of a direct competitor within the last 4 years - we were very much last-to-market.

About 10% actually did a review of us on launch which gaves us a major boost. However, the ones that reviewed us a few months later are those with a long tail.

Reach out to those that love good products. Even if they have a small audience, it all adds up in the end.
Build2 – A C++ Build Toolchain and Package Manager
A lot of bars in my college town are starting to require two forms of ID before they let you in. One must be a driver's license but the other can be your student ID card or a credit card. I'm sure it would be easy to fake our student ID cards but for the most part, this rule works well. Some bars are known for letting in minors. Their bouncers are inexperienced or just don't care. Every now and then those bars get a fine and they put someone experienced out front and give them a UV flashlight. That guy will collect enough fake IDs until the bar isn't making enough money so they will bring the first bouncers out and rake in more money from the underaged patrons until they get another fine.

I've seen people get let in using the worst fake IDs I've ever seen and I've seen people rejected using real IDs. It all depends on the bouncer's experience and how much the bar owner cares about not letting in underaged people.
I just logged in just to upvote this.

Tachyons is where you go when you finally want to be happy with CSS.

I ported it for react-native, so you can style mobile-apps with it as well: https://github.com/tachyons-css/react-native-style-tachyons
U2F is great but everything is better than SMS.
I work for www.sqream.com, and our main product is SQream DB.

SQream DB is a GPU SQL database for analytics. Everything was written in-house - from the SQL parser all the way down to the storage layer.
We're designed to deal with sizes from a few terabytes to hundreds of terabytes, and we use the GPU to do most of the work.
It is the compiler (written in Haskell) however, that decides about specific optimizations and deals with generating the query plan.

Our SQL parser and typechecker is actually BSD3 licensed, if it's interesting: https://github.com/jakewheat/hssqlppp
Very funny!

I like A smartwatch to transport wearables
2500 isn't an unreasonable maintenance estimate for someone that is 6'5 and 220lbs.

Obviously if the op was gaining weight at 2000 calories it was a bad estimate for him (or he was eating more than he thought, which is often the case), but it isn't a crazy estimate or anything.
I don't think it's powerful. As fanatic as it seems, emacs is more powerful for real work. It's more human and more theoretical than Eclipse, which is a "usine a gaz" more than anything. It doesn't bring performance, nor ease of use, or stability. I don't get it.
4 oz of weed per month is one of the most outrageously heavy uses I've ever heard of.

It would be grossly unusual for a single user. Grossly, extravagantly, extremely unusual.

I'd wager that less than 0.1% of all cannabis users approach 4g/day. They may binge up to 4g on their heaviest day of all time, but average far lower.

I would argue it's very unusual if only because the set of all people who can access 4oz/weed per month, and can afford the $1000-$2000/mo ($24,000/yr!) hobby is very small. Add up all of the trust fund kids with enough money, time and access and you have a tiny, tiny number of people.

An average heavy user can only afford that much weed if they're dealing and skimming, and supply and demand insists that not everyone can be a supplier. Even so, I'd wager the average heavy user chooses to use far, far, far less than 1oz every other week.
> Why are people upset about this? It seems like the right thing to do to my mind.

Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire

If something is culturally significant then it should be preserved and these two hyperlinks should easily make the case that preservation requires distribution.
Intel’s Skylake “Scalable Processor” family is a new approach to Xeon
I really wondered what's so special about this project that aims to achieve what probably more projects aimed to achieved than there are lines of code in the kernel.

It's not the goal, it's not the OS. But the documentation is a sight to behold! Very clear, detailed, interesting writing style, and it puts together quite a few frustrating topics in a simple, structured matter. Wow and kudos! Keep on writing docs, please!
How to Make Electric Water Heater at Home – Easy Tutorial – Homemade
here's the list of libs mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267364
Apple isn't probably thinking about doing this themselves. Note that Cook is going to "support," not actually build themselves.

They are most likely to invest in Foxconn to help them open up shops in the US.
> Why do something that can so easily ruin your health?

Do you drink alcohol? If so, you're already consuming a harder drug than marijuana. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness
Ha, I guess this must be some kind of selective blindness then :) I've seen myThreadId many times, it makes perfect sense, and yet, whenever I've had to grab the spawned thread id I've always reached for mfix... Well, in this particular case there's of course no need for that.

But the general pattern applies to many things. One other example that immediately springs to mind is e.g. registering a callback while needing the ability to unregister the callback from within itself, using some sort of id returned from the registering function.
Chip Authentication Programme (CAP) vulnerabilities

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/emvcap/

http://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/users/smurdoch/papers/fc09optimised....
VSCode is really popular! I wrote a very dumb extension for my own use and published it so I have access to it when I want it. Just checked and saw it has more than 100k downloads!
Not me (on Sierra 10.12.4).
pigz: A parallel implementation of gzip
Only about 25% of your daily calorie intake should be from protein. 60g a day for a 160lb sedentary person. Those high-protein shakes are usually around 60% protein. It is possible to consume too much protein.

So I say that it's a supplement rather than a replacement because it's not replacing a balanced meal. It's supplementing protein. A single protein shake can give a sedentary person almost 100% of their protein. That's great for active, athletic people who have higher protein requirements. Not great for sedentary people who have lower protein requirements.
Not really. In the first instance the fine print literally contradicted something that was said earlier, if it says in big letters at the top "Entire home/apartment" then having fine print that contradicts that isn't reasonable, it's just a lie. In the second instance the host just never responded which once again isn't a fine print issue.
Even with such a function, aren't there limits to how much sensible data can be stored? Something something Claude Shannon something something. I forget.

Otherwise you'd have infinite storage capacity, on any medium, which is very obviously impossible.

Why infinite? Well, there are infinite numbers. If your algorithm was just "keep applying f(i,j) by an increasing integer to get the next page of the data" then yeah you've actually just discovered infinite storage.

This is literally a compression problem, isn't it? :)

Edit: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/65726.html

Something I came across a long time ago.
> laziness would make reasoning about performance hard

Because of it potentially hogging memory! Now we were told to ignore mem issues by the commenter. I just point out the contradiction.
I think the chart is ok, you are all idiots
> This leaves me in an unpleasant spot as I, where I can, avoid using google services and now need to find an alternative dialling application.

AOSP dialer. Done. Don't want the truedialer app? Run CM, like it says in the post.
> so long as you can convince your phone company that you are you you're fine.

Well I think the problem starts when someone else convinces your phone company that they are you. As we've seen several times now it becomes easier and easier to pull this trick.

As for U2F add more than one to your account (2 is minimum) and you are safe. The same applies to any kind of physical key (home, car, etc.)
Right, that's a bit more descriptive way of what I meant when I said "human resource allocation."

> "After all, how many people are still using the first programming language they started with?"

Is the answer to your rhetorical question here supposed to be "a lot"? Because anybody who has programmed a long enough time has had to switch languages to keep up with ever-evolving technology.

You're right, a lot of people on HN who started coding around 2013 when the web/mobile bubble started inflating learned JS and haven't touched anything else.

If you've been coding since the 1990s or even 2000s, JS was definitely not your first language (ECMAScript wasn't anywhere close to being capable of doing the things it is now up to even 2006), and so you're likely equipped with the necessary skill set to build a real desktop app.

So even if you learned JS as your first language, it's not TOO unreasonable to be expected learn something else like Python, C#/.NET, or C++ that is a bit more suited for desktop app development.

But, yes, when you have a market flooded with JS developers and bootcamp grads, THAT is the forcing function for using Electron because C++ developers are now VERY tough to hire. They're all doing the most hardcore infrastructure projects at the likes of Facebook, or they're working on bare-metal performance optimization at NVIDIA, or they're working on ML infrastructure for self-driving cars, or they're doing high frequency trading in New York.

Your run-of-the-mill seed-stage startup just doesn't have the budget for someone who knows C++ really well because even the big companies struggle finding and hiring them. With things like pointers and DIY memory management, C++ programming is HARD and easy to shoot yourself in the foot by making simple mistakes that aren't even possible to make in higher-level languages like JS.

Luckily, there's plenty of other languages out there for building real desktop apps that aren't JS or C++.
Indeed, more beneficiaries.
Good and something fresh here. I think the reason behind this is humans means us, becomes monkeys after heavy drinking.
Unlikely, particularly since the weed that is grown for officially-sanctioned scientific purposes is so terrible that it bears almost no relation to the street or medical product

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-gover...
You always pick between alternatives. Are lower income Americans better off with free trade compared to a closed economy? I think the answer is absolutely yes. An average American saves lot more money today buying cheap stuff from Walmart. Lot more than what he/she would have saved with protectionist regime.

More importantly a lot of services that were unaffordable 20 years ago are not trivial. This includes smartphones, flat screen TVs, better quality and safer cars etc. In closed economy you would have struggled for all these things. Just like my home country India.
Weed ensures there's a steady supply of safe arrests and easy convictions. It keeps police looking busy and jails full. Politicians love it because it pushes up convictions, and so makes them look tough on crime.

Police unions, private prison corporations and politicians all have strong incentive to oppose legalization.
GSL is the Gnu Scientific Library. It's been around since 1996. Check this for more info: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
Sugar Free chewing gum works great for satisfying post joint munchies.
hi i have applied to the mentioned through the angel.co.But i want to know if i can also email the CV?
thanks
Great. But not very patentable like the rest of their offering.
1.5 pounds per week: https://youtu.be/FkZ8VHh8tvA?t=2017
There's quite a few players already doing this. Iconomi has already "solved" the problem of paying out dividends by "burning" their own coins,.
The worst days are always going to be weather related everywhere, but clam days are really just magnifying the average impact not some weather pattern unique to china.

Perhaps I could give them more credit for real progress, but the root cause is still a disconnect from what's on the books being a long way from what's enforced.

Their smog problems largely relate to cars that would not pass US annual emissions standards from 20 years ago. Similarly coal is never 'clean' but it's not that expensive to dramatically reduce particulate emissions.

And yes, cheap labor etc plays a huge role in some types of manufacturing. But, by subsidizing the inputs and lax enforcement of regulations you see dramatic shifts in many types of production well past their less harmful competitive advantages.
It's an interesting philosophical question, but identity is only one aspect of the nature of consciousness. (And asking whether one would "accept" the clone isn't a particularly good framing of the problem.)

Far more interesting to me is how consciousness even occurs. It is seemingly impossible to study, because consciousness is fundamentally not externally observable. Even in humans, we have essentially no way of knowing for sure that anyone but oneself is conscious.
This post is so unbelievably out of touch, I don't even have the energy to respond point by point.
Hey, sockets in bash are a feature ;)
Robots will assemble iphones in the US.
Apple dispute resolution procedure and planned sale of MIPS and Ensigma
haskell is objectively expressive. (where expressive means amount of logic per character)

there are multiple reasons for this, kind've tied together. Whitespace is function application (no parenthesis to keep track of like lisp, or even e.g. c, java, or javascript, when programming in a functional style). Immutability forces you to compartmentalize and compose everything. when everything is a function, function and variable names serve as VERY powerful documentation, especially when combined with haskell's also VERY powerful type system (which e.g. has sum types where most languages do not, which allows for example, defining most error states of program as a data type (which can then derive from any typeclass)).

one of the primary benefits of laziness is to make function composition possible under a wider variety of situations (which also increases expressiveness, at the cost of occasional though not difficult to avoid space leaks)

one joke I've heard is that the ideal haskell program is 20 lines of imports and one line of perl.
Is this the author, Tae Kim?
Because of all the negativity in Soylent threads I always feel obliged to add my opinion. Soylent has been an extremely positive addition to my life.
> Haskell is an example of academic carefully crafted language, while C++ is rather a practically driven continuous patchwork (and they are extremities to both ends).

Haskell is also a continuous patchwork, just look at the number of deprecated GHC extensions.
So maybe don't use it from your house?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/12/the-end-of-food
Having known quote a few stoners, it seems perfectly possible. Often the people with access to that amount sell it also, so the money thing doesn't case a problem.
Not sure if space has that much stuff in it outside the heliosphere...

Some numbers here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium
Thank you for pointing that out. I will refine the sentences.
I'm curious how long he thought the trip might take. The distance was accurately-enough known at the time, and it'd take decades at a walking pace with reasonable breaks.

Another neat-sounding 17th-century work in this vein was by Huygens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens#Cosmotheoro... who seems to deserve a higher profile. Unlucky in being so overshadowed by Newton.
> you can just start writing in a declarative style and not worry about debugging, because everything is checked by the type system

That is dangerously close to the infamous "if it compiles, then it works" boast, which Haskellers make all the time (while denying that they make it), demonstrating in the process that they don't write real software, where the defects one encounters are very often of a nature such that the program behaves exactly as intended by its authors, but the intended behavior is itself wrong. How does the type system help here?

My comment wasn't glib. I actually think those phenomena quite well explain much Haskell advocacy. Considering how massive an undertaking it is to learn the language and its Byzantinely-complex, PhD-theses-in-disguise libraries (each of which sports a zoo of custom operators) and how small the payoff is, it's unsurprising that those who take the plunge begin zealously encouraging others to do the same, lest their own investment have been for nothing. In a way it's like a conspiracy.
I can't imagine buying something for 20k that has that little versatility compared to a gas powered car. I drive 40 miles round trip everyday, but beyond that it would be a hunk of metal that I have no use for.
From a practical perspective I doubt it. While weed will have higher pricing you won't see the same quantity of people binging on weed like they do on liquor. You'll have many places of employment discriminate against it (it can stay in the blood stream for a month). Many people don't enjoy the sensation versus alcohol. It doesn't cause the same chemical dependencies, don't underestimate how much money bars and stores make from "regulars" known to the rest of us as alcoholics.

Finally and perhaps most important their is a huge logistical cost to being in the THC industry. Regulations at the local and state levels can take a healthy business and make it shut its doors in less then a week. Payment portals get frozen. Limits to growers, shippers, etc. keep pricing very high. I've yet to meet an un-affluent heavy user who doesn't still buy from a dealer because of pricing.

P.S. don't forget the religious and cultural push-back against weed. We accept beer advertising as normal, that won't happen with weed in most places. No superbowl commercials for Gorilla Glue.
I would expect that initiating a payment from your account directly from code would be forbidden by the platform itself. I'm thinking about this more in the terms of hooks that get called when a payment is received or sent. In essence, what do I want to happen when I'm sending or receiving money?
Licenses are legal and public relations whips cracked at people. They would not work otherwise.
Hey geeks!
NASA!!
Aircraft design!!
Spaaaace!!!!!

Just optimize our old code, and we'll pay peanuts!
If you win, that is.

We were going to hire someone to shephard the old code, but why bother when you geeks will do it for nearly free because it's so cool!!!

OK I have my cynical hat on, and I can't really blame them for trying a cost-effective approach, but is this the future of work?
Soylent as a company has been run terribly. They've had numerous recalls and the recent price increase for Canadian customers is highway robbery.

That said, Soylent has improved my diet significantly. My entire life I have struggled to consume enough calories. Adding one serving of Soylent per day has allowed me to do two things:

1. Increase the number of calories I consume so I am in a daily surplus (I've gained a healthy 13 pounds since 2015 thanks to Soylent).

2. More importantly Soylent has accustomed me to eating larger meals. I can actually go to a restaurant and eat a full meal. I'm sure you can understand how much that has improved my social life.

Prior to Soylent I was consuming Ensure daily for more than five years but it's not enough calories to make a difference plus it's way more expensive.
The way they do all stock charts. Because otherwise CNBC would be really boring. OMG The meaningless Dow Jones Index jumped 0.25% !!!
Nice try CNBC.