skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pretty common problem with any of the newer languages or environments that have great native stdlib support for http/s servers.

A bare bones http/s server is so easy to spin up with nothing other than the stdlib, people who are used to using full stack frameworks forget about all the stuff it did for them behind the scenes.
Oh, perhaps I wasn't clear. When I say I allot a week for something (5 days), that task, working at a normal pace, would probably take 3-4 days. I'm not asking for a week when it takes a day. I'm asking for 1.5x how much I think it will take to pad. Normal practice.

However sometimes, I am just not able to work on that project for a few days, and end up doing it all in one day/night after having a few days to thinking about it. For me, a good chunk of the job is thinking about it. The coding just kind of flows after that. The problem is that the thinking gets delayed =]
Eh, my plan now is to work on my kOS moon-landing script...and when I hit a snag I'll build the Lego rocket.
Ask HN: Do you have a routine that helps you learn new things better?
I'm somewhat struggling to learn new things outside of work. Partly because I switch between learning so many different topics that I don't see one topic through completion. The other reason being I don't have a set routine that I stick to. I'm wondering if you have experienced this before and if you have any tips to overcome it.
Google Earth VR is incredible, as one non-game example.
I realize that much of the Go community is hesitant about the sort of third-party code that intentionally constraints the problem-space by restricting choice and then calls your code at a few well-defined points; preferring to call out to libraries instead (vs. the other way around); but what solutions, if any, are widely utilized to avoid the above situation?
how is this different than iOS being stuck to safari ?
Are you saying that either the author of the infographic, or Musk considers the sale of PayPal a failure?
I use the "change color scheme" trick and it does work.
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From the guidelines:

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I've heard it suggested that when people put up with buggy incomplete software, it suggests that even the buggy incomplete version solves a meaningful problem for those people.

Putting something out in the world is hard because people will probably ignore it and those that don't ignore it will probably say something bad about it because saying something bad is easier than ignoring the bad and seeing the good and because it is easier to say something bad about something another person has built than to build something better (or as good or even worse).

The hard part is often talking to people (also called sales).
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its insane how short some of these implementation are.
What is this referring to? Like, where is there a reference to SV on their site?
I really wish those sets had been around when I was a kid.
And that is why your insurance gets significantly cheaper when you turn 25.

And no it's not unreasonable at all to assume that. I am frightened enough as it is by drivers under 25, heck some of that is thinking back to 18, 20, 23 year old me driving.
Supreme Court judges are elected by the same lawmakers that write laws in the first place. Their rulings also cover more than just one state. So, this patches a wide range of laws not just for that specific state, but every state and federal law.

Further, the democratic process and popular pressure has little impact on most laws. The context is first personal conviction as most bills have minimal impact on getting elected, next attention as bills are mostly to long and complex to read and understand in their entirety. Sure, a bill might only be ~200,000 words, but this is a diff that's updating other complex legislation which will then get applied in a huge range of complex situations.

So, honestly having a small group which can debug the law in response to specific escalations is not only reasonable, but also vital.
Varoufakis is a kind of special case. I believe his personality combined with his charisma, puts fear in the establishment so they needed to discredit him as much as possible.

For example if you read the picture The Economist paints around him, as opposed to Dijsselbloem (Dutch Minister of Finance) who is technically several orders of magnitude inferior is astonishing.

Varoufakis said that when he went to the US, at the beginning of his tenure, someone (Larry Summers?) told him that he'll be the victim of an organised campaign of character assassination by Brussels. I found this claim a tiny bit far-fetched, but on the other hand, the amount of false claims the established media kept throwing at him is amazing.

I came across ppl who thought Varoufakis as a buffoon like Trump, Boris Johnson, etc. and other political figures who can't put two words together. V is not like that at all, he is a intellectual beast, with a surprising ability to simplify rather complex ideas.
All that speculation seems kind of weird to me. Zuck is already president of facebook (pop. 2bn), why would he want to be president of America (pop. 300m)? As the article you linked to says, the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative is the sort of thing retired presidents do - he's not angling to become a world leader, he already is one.
It's exciting to me that there are still this many naysayers, even here on HN. That suggests there's still time to enter the field before the inflection point hits.
It seems to be a classification of sorts. He's using {guy running} for performance optimizations like ae65f95, {paint palette} for visual changes, etc. What a neat idea! It's easy to glance at the commit log and get a sense of what the changes are doing.

EDIT: Whoops, the emojis aren't rendering in HN comments. Changed to textual descriptions...
Twilio Ships Chat API to GA
That is safe to say.

Such a scenario is not remotely plausible, in my opinion. The commonly claimed scenario is fraud at Vanguard, but I'm highly skeptical that this is possible given that Vanguard doesn't hold the stocks in the funds; they are held in trust at (last time I checked) JP Morgan.

The bigger concern is massive sustained outflows (for some reason) from Vanguard, triggering capital gains distributions which would hurt me tax-wise. I have thought about switching to pure ETFs rather than the dual share structure that Vanguard has with their mutual funds, for this reason.
This is effectively the same question but if someone answered no
You might like this talk on historical computer viruses and the shift from hobby to business in the 2000's. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswPIwDFYDY
2000 USD is too high for the cost of a VR PC. I built a PC in fall 2016 that was more powerful than what was required for VR and it cost me around $1200. Additionally there are companies advertising "VR Ready PCs" that come with an Oculus headset for around USD 1,000. See this article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/dont-look-now-but-ocu...
Does anybody know anything about the company behind this, OfferZen?
> this is how democracy works

No, that's a common misconception.

Democracy isn't characterised only by the vote, but also by liberal values. We call it liberal democracy.

I'm from Romania btw and until 1989 we've had communism / stalinism. Guess what - we had votes then too. It was all arranged of course, party members didn't dare going against the dictators, everybody was dancing on the same music, etc.

In other words, everything is up for vote except for the liberal values that make democracy work. Without those liberal values, you don't have a democracy.

And to put this in perspective: you cannot claim that a popular vote is legit without freedom of speech, because in that case people can be coerced or manipulated by those in power, without the opposition being able to fight back at all.
How many people has Erdogan imprisoned? You also cannot attest the legitimacy of the vote when you don't have separation of power in the state, because you no longer have a functioning judicial branch.

All famous autocrats in history achieved power through popular support.

But here's where it actually hurts: it's easy to vote an autocrat into power, it's hard to vote him out.

Turkey's economy will suffer, tourism is already going down the drain, other countries will slow down trade with Turkey due to political instability. Erdogan, like all populists before him, will end up pushing more and more nationalistic messages, blaming the Occident for his own fuckups, threatening with conflict because that's what populists do when they lose support.

Either way, I'm fairly confident at this point to say that Turkey is no longer a democracy.
His hand was quite full as long as Tsipras agreed to do what Varoufakis thought needed to be done. The moment Tsipras decided against him he lost his hand. So, his error was probably to trust Tsipras would do what needs to be done instead of clinging to power.
The article was just getting interesting when it ended abruptly. I was hoping for some information about the technology in use there. I heard a rumor that the station is still using DEC VAX minicomputers.
I just want to point out that Stroustrup's A Tour Of C++ is an excellent quick guide and it does include C++11 features.
The fresher your meat the more carbohydrates is going to be in it. Apparently the Inuit got something like 20% of their energy from glycogen in their animal kills.
You can. Some mutual funds are available depending on countries.

But in any case you can just buy the ETFs, either in the US stock exchanges (same as you would buy your FB or AAPL shares), or they also have some UCITS version trading in european stock markets.

The UCITS version may have some advantages depending on your country of residence (since they are EU based, and follow EU mutual fund regulations). There are also some downsides (e.g. you might be losing a bit of US tax that might be recovered otherwise depending on dual taxation treaty). Also US stock would be subjected to potential estate tax in case of death (detail will also depend on dual taxation treaty).

Overall the largest difference between the various options is going to be tax, and since it can be significant, it is worth spending some time.

As to the original question, there are also a lot of other similar ETF to the Vanguard ones (e.g. from BlackRock/iShares/UBS/etc.). The fees will be different, but as mentioned before, the tax implication might make a bigger difference.

(you can research the ETFs on sites like justetf.com)

Edit: and depending on your country, some special retirement account might have much much better tax treatment, compared to simple ETFs, also worth researching.
Gigabit fiber is being rolled out in my area. It is amazing how quickly it is progressing compared to the work of Verizon or Google Fiber. So at least from that one example, there seems to be new players entering cities
A bunch of trains that don't run after midnight.

Plenty of US cities have 24 hour bus service too.
The sec will put a stop to these at some point. Probably sooner then later.
So, when you are in a rut, and don't feel productive at work, you take the day off as unpaid leave?

Or are you always equally productive, every day that you're at work?
While I appreciate your vigilantism (given you aren't actually a moderator nor do you work at FB), the real elephant in the room is that HN really needs to a better solution for vote collusion. I am already familiar with the guidelines, and I usually follow this rule to a tee, but the optics here are damning.

What I'd really like to see is this discussion steered back on topic. It was originally interesting and productive. I like talking about web technologies; it is my passion.
Finally! Can I write scripts to for example trade some stuff for bitcoin, pay people etc.
I think switching the context is a good way to go.

As I said in one of the above comments, I was working on tooling for the week, and I was feeling good about it (I was motivated).
The CEO of unity believes that AR/VR will be bigger than the internet and develop in much the same way [1].

Obviously he is biased but still pretty big statement from a CEO of the most popular game engine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXMhaNIF5E
Unless you have access to the HN database, there isn't a way to know the source of downvotes.

This kind of commentary is not welcome on HN.
Quite interesting remark.
However, I'm not saying the savings from producing more wind are not real. They are very real, because you avoided using other means of production, potentially fossil fuels. So that's good.

On the other hand, saying that you basically got your Macbook for free (saved all the money, i.e. ran exclusively on wind) can only work if you didn't spend anything else.
Saving 999$ but spending 200 more (i.e. also having coal) and not counting it because you somehow earned more money somewhere else (i.e. exported it) is not what I call proper bookkeeping.
Researchers develop 'seeing' bionic hand
This looks like a hilarious accident of enabling scammers to target vulnerable people through the magic of gradient descent. Nobody would want to look like they're intentionally targeting multi-level marketing schemes to special education students, but if the students happen to "become part of an audience" and "people like your audience" happen to be special education students, then you get all the benefit of exploiting them with none of the terrible optics.
One of the examples contains a function to calculate the nth fibonacci number, and then a variable uses the result of that function.

Prepack doesn't seem to optimize for V8 in particular; rather, it just does some calculations ahead of time. V8 cannot possibly do these optimizations. How would it know that e.g. my code tries to calculate PI to 1000 decimals? That's where prepack steps in and calculates PI to 1000 decimals for you during your build-step, so that the JS you ship doesn't have to do that calculation.
I've build a small Universal Windows JSON formatter that made my life simpler
That was one example. My personal favorite is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_shrimp
He's said he wants to die on Mars. He's working towards it; give him time.
Terrifying. Off to buy a bow and arrow, smear my face with rabbit droppings and crawl into a bush for two weeks.
No it also required a computer, which a lot of people did not have back in the mid-90s, and not everyone was prepared to shell out the money to get one (it was certainly not "inexpensive" if you were buying one for the sole purpose of getting online).

My source on this? I worked at one of the first consumer ISPs in Canada, and we regularly had people coming in to sign up because they heard about "this Internet thing" but did not have a computer.

Most people thought we provided one with the service, and some people just didn't understand that you accessed the Internet through a computer.
This is amazing.

I have to admit, though, that I felt slightly disappointed that at the highest zoom levels the map does not resemble Dwarf Fortress terrain. ;)
It sounds like there is really no such thing as an overturned conviction. There is no constitutional right, apparently, to being "made whole" if your "conviction" is "overturned".
this is the main challenge startups in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia will face when trying to launch financial service alternatives; Fear and distrust of the young and unknown and subservient loyalty to the mature and known.
You're wrong. Being called "unprofessional" and shamelessly "unethical" are moral judgements.

Yes, there was some advice sprinkled in: ("Don't say this out loud"). Frankly though, my employers are quite happy with me. I do incredible work, and often beat my deadlines to deliver systems that are above and beyond the scope of what was originally intended.

I just have some off periods sometimes, and I have no trouble giving an honest account of my experience to someone who also shares the same problem and needs advice.
T-Mobile has a similar box. But it comes as two units. One unit connects to the cellular network. The other is a microcell. The two communicate wirelessly. You put one where it can see a tower, and the other where you have a dead spot. I have one of these because there is a hill between me and the nearest T-Mobile cell site.
By correcting someone, you are breaking the unspoken rule of anonymous communities - ideas standing on their own merit, regardless of who you are.

It's the equivalent of walking into an anonymous alcoholics meeting with booze, telling everyone how great it is to drink.

There is no reason for them to cater to you, therefore they want to get rid of you in a fast or fun way. Hostility can be both funny and gets rid of people who do not fit in.
Among the examples cited was the Sony entertainment breach, whose causes included a negligent security officer keeping passwords in a plain text file on his desktop. It's not clear what better coding practices could have done to improve that (or anything else at Sony entertainment, where the breached systems were mostly running commodity software).

Ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/sony/11274727/Sony-sav...
I think you're viewing this suggestion in too negative a light. At times when I've been uninspired by my job, I've definitely found it meaningful to try to optimize my life on other fronts. Sometimes you can't just up and leave because there's a cost to switching as well.
In which jurisdictions will this account be available? Just South Africa?
I mean it's totally AI in that it's an example of weak AI or more precisely it's a type of machine learning. Neither it or anything else we have is any other type of AI, however.
(Of course I don't know if I am getting better results, but obviously I believe I do.)

I read and highlight stuff in the evening, when my brain is too toasted for high-end productivity. (Please don't read this as adherence to an "early-riser cult"!)

The next morning/day I re-read and take serious "notes." This can mean all sorts of stuff, I mean the first productive step with the material at hand. Most of the time this means taking notes, copying stuff and annotate it for further use.
Great idea. I hate the current system where companies can get access to your bank account and pull money out at will.
IMO this attitude (ie. deception) is not okay. Whatever the frequency of it, it sounds dishonest. Besides I think you're overlooking the impact it has on your peers: it is very likely someone with similar skillset will see right through the padded estimates and/or can tell the difference between bogus and actual work. Some may have trouble keeping their heads down once they've figured this out. When uninspired I think it's best to openly admit it and fallback to more menial tasks while you wait for the energy to comes back than to engage in this kind of behavior. Personally I wouldn't put up with it for very long, for fear of seeing it spread to other team members.
Ah yes, the old CyberRebate business model
> Please, give me a break.

You're confusing Varoufakis with Leventis. Varoufakis, to this day, is always put under unjustifiable strain by the Greek media.

As far as your previous post, it's so mis-informed and ill-conceived, that the fact that you have a right to vote in my country scares the shit out of me.

> Just because some of us don't agree with defaulting it doesn't mean we're in the elite or we're serving some agenda. Please, you can do better than that.

Of course I can, but you're a .NET developer! So I'm not sure you could follow through even if I did :-P

ps. Jokes apart, I understand there are many different opinions in a democracy and I respect that. Let's agree that we disagree...
I rarely agree with Thomas and certainly don't in this case. I find his rationale to be nonsensical.
Code boilerplate: Is it always bad?
The benefit of this would be at runtime when implementing interpreters:

> experiment with JavaScript features by tweaking a JavaScript engine written in JavaScript, all hosted just in a browser; think of it as a "Babel VM", realizing new JavaScript features that cannot just be compiled away

I've been playing with making toy languages inside of Javascript, and I believe there's lots of untapped power there. The paradigm battles don't have to be: we can run all sorts of paradigms in the same VM, with data executing as code. This means that you can decompose expressions to see where they came from (e.g. the steps in a state machine that yielded an evaluation result). If you believe (as I do) that invisibility-by-default is one of the greatest pain points in the history of computing, then these sorts of approaches are essential.

The problem with doing that is that some things will be slower than they would in "native" JS. I've been proceeding anyway and thinking that could be dealt with later. So I'm bookmarking this, because it attacks that exact problem: runtime-compilation of generated AST's.

The name is a little unfortunate, in that respect, though, especially since it will make people think it's a build tool like Webpack. Webpack is for dead fish. This is incomparably more powerful.

edit so to answer your original question, this would piggyback on the optimizations of the VM (V8 or SpiderMonkey, or whatever), taking for granted that JS which is not needlessly verbose (as generated code must sometimes be), can be run nearly optimally.
Nonsense! Britain's best known food is fish and chips.

Consumption per person is amongst the highest in Europe.
Verizon sells its private cloud and managed hosting businesses to IBM
most classical AI research was in fact around symbolic logic which is basically if statements.
immersive concerts - TheWaveVR [0]

reinvented museums - TiltBrush [1]

court-side sporting events - NextVR [2]

Not to mention architecture [3], communication [4], collaboration [5], medicine [6], 3d modeling [7], game development [8], film [9] and the myriad of other industries I'm forgetting. Also if you haven't tried any of the latest games on Oculus Rift or Vive you're really missing out. They've gotten incredible since the consumer launch last year.

[0] http://thewavevr.com/
[1] https://tiltbrush.com/sketches
[2] http://nextvr.com
[3] http://insitevr.com/
[4] https://web.facebook.com/spaces
[5] http://bigscreenvr.com/
[6] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601911/better-than-opioid...
[7] https://www.oculus.com/medium/
[8] https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/12/15/editorvr-experimental-b...
[9] https://www.oculus.com/story-studio/films/henry/

*Disclaimer: I work or have worked for a few of these co's.
I think this is a reasonable question, as different headsets are more likely to make people feel ill than others, from what I've heard.