skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"or even file system access"

That right there tells you the iPad will never be a pro machine or replacement for a laptop or anything but a toy. I bought my sister one a couple years back. I still have no idea how to play movies on it in non Apple-approved formats. Yes, I could research it. But this "it just works" machine is one now that requires research to play a movie. From what I could tell, each app will do it differently. Yeah, that's progress all right. Progress on a toy, a toy that by design (of its OS) will never be anything more.
Yes but that doesen't solve the problem. For single payer healthcare to work people will need to make more money. The more money they make on mundane things the more likely they are to be replaced by automation.

It's a vicious cycle.
What would be a better scenario, though. Do we not die slowly even if we are older, which also requires more caretaking?

What's the difference between having it happen early and late?

I do agree with the Quality of life issue, though. If I'm a highly skilled worker (And thus have prospects to migrate) And some people in say, a country in Europe, live to see 150 years of age, while in my country on average people live to 70 I'm moving out as soon as humanly possible.

Realistically the gap doesn't grow that large, but I'm using hyperbole to make a point. I might be too dumb to articulate it though.
There's a lot of that going around these days...
Interesting. I would like to know the comparisons between Fuchsia, and QNX which is also a real-time microkernel operating system that runs on cars and phones. It seems Fuchsia competes with QNX directly in that space.

Another question is if the operating system is designed to be real-time, the applications also need to be real-time. If the applications are not real-time, you lose the real-timeness. Dart is garbage-collected. I suppose it is not real-time, yes?
The glamor is fake, the dollars are real.

(OK, fine the dollars aren't real either, but what they can buy is.)
Your examples are actually pretty spot on.

> * Average load times for the 1000 most popular webpages will decrease.

Absolutely possible if companies in the top 1000 pay for priority over other companies in the top 1000. Also possible if an ISP decides to make their own version of a top 1000 site, and throttles its competitors.

> * There will be fewer internet startups over the next 5 years than the previous.

When ISPs create an artificial barrier to entry such as paid prioritization, costs to start a business and become profitable will increase, which will absolutely reduce the amount of new startups.
That's exactly what I tried opening it with. I suspect the issue may have been down to the fact that it was all on a single line.

That said I didn't want to distribute a 20MB file with the application anyway, so the reduction to 3MB is a good choice anyway.
So? The people targeted for this card are those who otherwise aren't saving anything. The same people would be subject to larger fees at a bank and get sub-1% rates on a savings account. They benefit from this program. Why should Walmart not see that hole in the market and exploit it? Isn't that what this community is all about?
> "The companies that are advancing machine learning and AI don't brand it with some nominally specious name that's named after a Sherlock Holmes character."

The fact that he doesn't check a statement before speaking it on TV really speaks to how seriously you should take the rest of the article.

>IBM isn't at the forefront of artificial intelligence, Social Capital CEO and founder Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Monday, and he certainly isn't a fan of IBM's Watson.

>"At the end of the day, when you are making deep methodical investments in technology companies, it is fundamentally first and foremost about the jockey," he said.

Err, so does the tech matter or not?
tricking people to save paltry sums of money meanwhile using the gains in interest to fund your company's most recent marketing campaign to trick people into buying more useless garbage they don't really need.

what's wrong with this picture? in any case, i suppose this is good -- in the same way a slave owner providing food and shelter is good for the slave. you even have to pay to deposit and withdraw money.
> "it's also just really damn hard to smoke in NYC."

Yes, it is :-)

Also banned in the parks. The age increase to 21 is a relatively recent change, the adult rate had been 14% and the teen rate 7% prior to that change.

Taxes, banning smoking in public places, hard-hitting anti-smoking ads spending $1 to $2 per capita are the main reasons for decline, all policy. Clinical intervention is also important, but have less effect than the policy.
Ask HN: Are front end and back end developers treated equally at your company?
Equally as in respect for their work.

Why or why not?
Net neutrality is essential to equal access to information. We should all have the same access to information on the web, regardless of who our provider is, where we live, or who is competing with our current provider. Access to information is critical and should never be compromised in the name of big business. KEEP NET NEUTRALITY UNDER TITLE II.
So if google is spidering all over the internet, pulling pages from other networks, would having a service like YouTube which will most be traffic leaving google's network be a good way to balance that?
Not only that, companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have full time people dedicated to dealing specifically with illegal content. They don't have many full-time employees (they can't as these positions often require very specific contracts with the Department of Justice for handling this type of evidence) which has resulted in at least two cases of employees sustaining pretty bad mental health problems:

http://mashable.com/2017/01/13/microsoft-employees-sue-ptsd-...
My point is exactly that, that states do have a right to self-regulate, notwithstanding constitutional questions.

The end-position that you describe would be terrible, but it's very possible. But I don't think the states would go down without a fight, and I don't think the Supreme Court should ever be looked at as a slam-dunk; many Presidents have learned that lesson.

It would be a very awkward argument that the Feds know garden hoses best, at the same time that the Feds are saying that States know health care best. And courts so far have shown themselves willing to consider what this administration has said in recent history about the Muslim/Travel ban to judge intent and constitutionality. So the two self-contradicting points of view ("We know best," "they know best") are likely to get some scrutiny.

Just because things look dark doesn't mean it's over. Even if you're a cynic.
>What do you lose by them taking something to make that easier?

Going with your argument, one stands to lose on at least two fronts:

1. severe side-effects

2. potential long-term harm stemming from chronic use (as per the present article)

>Do you normally fix all of your other problems in the most difficult way?

This is disingenuous. The argument is that fixing depression sans medication is a better (= safer, more effective) way.

Granted, this argument is far from being obviously correct. Things also get murkier when we admit that there are various forms of depression, but that's not the point. The point is rather that you're arguing against a straw-man.
How often people log environment variables? Maybe the places I've worked are outliers, but `puts ENV.inspect` or the use of PHP wouldn't pass code review in my prior gigs, nor would they be things I'd write today. My experience is literally the opposite--somebody forgetting a chmod is a lot more common than somebody leaking environment variables like that (leaving it up to somebody to figure out a really smart way to read `/proc/pid/environ` or something).
21 in CA as well as of March 2016 http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/05/47687267...

I didn't notice until very recently when I saw a sign on a cash register (I don't smoke). Good for us. It's also very hard to smoke here, many places have lots of rules about where you can do it (not indoors, really far from doors, etc). I'm kind of surprised that people still bother.

That said, when riding a bike around, it's very apparent that many people smoke weed in their cars now. You can smell it for about a block or two behind their vehicle.
Multiple files is coming soon!

As for Appetize, will check it out. For now I have to reiterate that Expo is magical in that after you download the mobile app it's seconds and you're up and running and then running the code on the phone is sub-second.

I've said it before but Expo is the first bootstrapped mobile development environment and I think we're just scratching the surface with what can be done with this tech.

That being said I'll check out Appetize and if it's not too expensive will look into integrating it.
Deco seems to be Mac only, where Repl.it is in-browser (hence cross-platform) so that's a pretty strong difference.
Are there any efforts to feed an AST into a neural net and see what comes out of it? Like a coding assistant that "understands" what your code does or something?
What's the demarcation of post-modern politics?
if its anything like his JavaScript 30 I'm all in
They're also diagnoses of exclusion with a looooooong list of prior pathologies that are tested with objective measures.

The point being: it's a much higher standard of diagnosis than the catch-all term "depression".
I miss MicroProse and those fat game manuals! Looking inside for code words so you could land in Gunship...good times.

Edit-Airborne ranger was well ahead of its time IMO. Think that was first game I really felt like I was "sneaking".
Here are some things I've learned the hard way:

1. Negotiate your salary. That means doing research up front about what you can get, and then making sure you ask for it, and making sure you don't let previous salary set baseline for what you get. Read this before you start looking for a job: http://valerieaurora.org/howto_salary/

2. If you really aren't happy at work, or if there's layoffs, start looking for a new job. Don't hang around hoping it'll get better. It might, but it might not, and better to look for new job while you're still employed then after you've left (voluntarily or otherwise).

3. Some companies will want you to work long hours. This is total bullshit and counter-productive and you should avoid such companies (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/18/productive-programme...). Find out during the interview process (tactfully and carefully!) and walk away (politely and without mentioning the reason!).

(You can get the full stories of the many and varied career and software mistakes I've made over the years over at https://softwareclown.com).
I was more referring to the repetitive nature of CRUD apps and how work sort of repeats at a high level but details are different enough that it feels a little repetitive. Also keeping tests isolated tends to lead to repetition since you don't really want dependencies there.
This is very nice.
I'd been looking for something like this, and the teacher (Wes Bos) really does a great job.
In the learning to let go department, if you have a hard time letting go, I think it is totally worth trying to get the money. Eventually you get it, or become so exhausted, you just wanna give up. Then you just reflect on how it went, and get better at deciding how to proceed in the future.
That's how a win-win works. If Wal-Mart can make a profit by getting people to save money there's nothing wrong with that. Especially when compared to the banks that make significant money fining you for being broke.
Because I can't reply to your "correction" of my English in the relevant thread anymore, I'm telling you here:

You don't know what fop means; you just typed into google and looked at the first dictionary definition to come up. Look it up better this time, and don't (pettily) correct people unless you actually know what you're talking about imo.
Does Edisons 1% inspiration (innovation) and 99% perspiration (maintenance) apply?
Adrian could speak for himself but my guess is from what he has written in the past that he got his start by being mentored by one of the FreeBSD developers. FreeBSD is big on assigning mentors to those interested in developing for it. So if you have an interest in getting all up in the underwear of an Unix OS you might consider developing for FreeBSD. I'm sure they would love be to have another developer join their ranks!
this is beyond ridiculous. there is no big market for what is essentially just a feature of any ms-word competitor. money down the drain...
Self-report for pain management relies on ontological subjectivity, not epistemic subjectivity.
Interesting!

I wrote something vaguely similar called 'WhatIsThisLicense' [1] available under AGPLv3 [2].

Mine was less ambitious in that it was using a straight approximate string matching approach using Levinstein distance with a "thresholded" Ukkonnen algorithm and was only meant to be used on the license text itself, rather than a whole source file. It uses a C library ported over to Emscripten to run in browser [3].

[1] http://mechaelephant.com/whatisthislicense/

[2] https://github.com/abetusk/www.mechaelephant.com/tree/releas...

[3] https://github.com/abeconnelly/asmukk
I really wish that journalists would learn some 3rd grade maths before writing anything with numbers in it. How does the life expectancy vary by "more than 20 years" when the difference between the counties with the highest (85) and lowest (67) life expectancies is 18 years?
Without maintenance things decline. Progress is exciting, decay banal. A recent example is the Oroville Dam spillway.
Nice. I think multiple files is more helpful. Expo on a device is pretty easy to get going. I mainly recommended appetize because I think it's a useful feature used in Snack when you click "preview"
I have all of my investments in an S&P 500 ETF. I've been wondering - should I diversify my ETFs or go all-in on the S&P 500? In other words, go large cap only, or large + mid (and or small) cap?
There are a bunch of hard realtime kernels; QNX is not a major player.
That's true, but think how much worse things would be if modern western civilization had never happened.
Capital One 360 pays 0.20/0.75 APY (checking/savings respectively) with no fees or minimums (I'm sure others do too, I just happen to be a customer ^).

So... they are not benefiting. They are losing out on interest and a real bank account, and Walmart is seducing them to stay with a lottery.
It was brilliant for creative people to use, I'd say if it wasn't for Flash we wouldn't have things like Unity editor today.
I don't understand what you 'mean at that price'

As for scale? There very much is efficiencies to be gained in becoming a true mass transit system.
If you get enough issues that have a very large number of people opposed, it can crack even the strongest districts.
Innovation changes the world, maintenance keeps it going.
How is this different from what WhiteSmoke has been doing for years? Does the AI magic pixie dust make it more fun findable?

http://www.whitesmoke.com/
Yeah, Microsoft's WebTV unit morphed into a conventional set top box business and was sold off to Ericsson.
Same. I am not super hip on modern web dev, but why are they calling 19 uncompressed, external JS resources and a 6k line index.html for a single page with 2 gifs on it?
Huh. I see your point now. I wonder if there's a better way to accomplish your goals than to encourage people to not donate to WMF. After all, you can't exactly donate to Wikipedia, so there's no way for people who want to support WP to choose what they want to do.

Yes, I did read about the Reward Board. No, that's not a real alternative, it's a half-baked idea that doesn't take into account why people donate to non-profits.

Donation is simultaneously an act of trust and an act of delegation. I am saying that I trust that whoever I'm donating to can spend this $20 better than I can spend it. I donate money precisely because I don't care enough to donate time, which is far more valuable to me than my money is.

Literally the only reason I've bothered to read your rationale, and trust me it was a struggle, is because I find the idea of Wikipedia fascinating enough to briefly care about the political intricacies.

If you guys were the Red Cross and you told me to not donate, I'd just roll my eyes, the $10 that comes out of my account every month towards it isn't worth the effort it takes to verify whether it's money well spent or not. I'm well aware of the fact that it's not an efficient donation. But they actually help people that need help and if I spent it on beer instead that would help nobody.

I want money to come out of my account and someone who cares about it more than me to spend it more wisely than I ever could. That's why I donate. I donate some $60 a month to various Patreons. I am mildly interested in what they do with it but honestly they could be spending it on beer, weed or meth themselves and I wouldn't give a toss.

If Wikipedia wants to distance itself politically from the Wikimedia Foundation then what it needs is enough organization to collect it's own donations and the gumption to run its own outreach campaigns. I'd even do my part by telling everyone I know. Someone has to lead the charge, and being that you seem to be the one who cares the most, you should at least seriously consider stepping up.

But you're fighting an uphill battle by asking people to not donate to Wikipedia / WMF. Education is expensive, and you are using the scarcest resource you have, time, to convince me, one person, to not spend my money, which is super cheap for me.
There used to be major US companies that were really into maintenance, and pverbuilding for low maintenance. The Bell System. The Pennsylvania Railroad (the Standard Railroad of the World). The King Ranch (the King Ranch line was "we don't fix fence, we build fence.") Teletype Corporation. IBM. Xerox.

There's something to be said for that.
I did not evade the point. You are choosing to to ignore it.

This comment is well within HN guidelines.
amendment to my original reply:

I thought about this more and I think your "problem" is that you are young and healthy and have no kids. You do get kind of screwed in that situation since you are basically subsidizing everyone else. But, it has to be like that otherwise health care would be prohibitively expensive for people who actually need it.

If you have kids over here, you will pay the exact same price for your health insurance as you do now but it will also cover your children. At that point it will be a great deal for you =)
They're benefiting because before they were not saving in the first place.
Yeah, I doubt it's much of a money maker for WM, even at WM's scale, as the transactions are so tiny. The bigger win is presumably that their customers might have some money to spend later on.
How are you reaching that conclusion? The unsupported and unscientific assertions made by Dr. Brogan have no relation to evidence-based medicine techniques such as CBT.
I'm sorry to say this, but this is literally one of the funniest things I've ever heard
hey, I get all my organic ice cream and craft spirits from there.

You can buy junk food from almost any market, but WF is great because you can assume that everything they have is of reasonable quality, that their meat + fish is reasonably more sustainable / quality-controlled than elsewhere, that their produce is reasonably fresh, etc. It's more about saving time from not having to research every apple farm and figure out their distribution networks when I just want an apple. Also, their return policy is super generous ("I bought this brand and I actually don't like it" = money back), their lines move quickly (sometimes Safeway is a 30min wait), they're rarely sold out of things, and they have some higher-end products which are hard to find elsewhere (I like some fancy cheeses and cured meats). They have some of the same stuff at other places, sometimes for less money, but it's never more convenient or a one-stop-shop.
Personal experience isn't Science, but it is a powerful influence on one's beliefs.

I'm okay with that. I do hear you that it shouldn't be generalised to a broader experience.
Net neutrality us essential to equal access to information. The FCC should keep access neutrality.
The one in front of the White House is one of them, I believe, but then I also seem to recall that it's lit 24/7, so may not count. The other five I couldn't hazard a guess at.
That's a pretty amazing first round for a bootstrapped company!
Please protect title 2
Agreed, though I think it somewhat depends on your definition. Most sysadmins at my clients have been uneasy at the pervasive sort of automation that we like; a lot of it is much more dev-heavy than a "modern" sysadmin (not your graybearded Perl wizard) seems comfortable with. Everybody else? Business is pretty great.
Look, I'm super cynical and I make statements that group people together like this too; but that said:
King fights religious & cultural bias to promote a more equitable set of norms; works on fixing reliance on a finite and harmful resource for sustainability

Your response was that all of "them" (hundreds or millions of people potentially depending on how you define it) are backward. Religion isn't math; it's subjective. Not a subscriber myself but I welcome the reinterpretation.

Oil / The economy isn't going so great. 1) It is certainly generating income and power. 2) The most wealthy and powerful beneficiary announced he's trying to distribute the money using that power and transform it in a positive way
Leave the law as it stands
More than half. The vast majority of Soviet population and industrial base was in the burned-down part.
Women are still not considered their own legal person in Saudi Arabia. While this is progress, for sure, this upgrades the position of women from outright slaves (perhaps comparable to the legal status of a dog or other pet in the west), and this doesn't change that.

In sharia/islam, women are the legal property (effectively, not "in legal theory") of their "guardian". When they're married (yes I'm using the passive, they don't get to pick when, where & to whom after all) that becomes their husband. They have full legal authority over them.

In fact they have less rights than a dog has in the West: in legal theory, you cannot legally just abandon a dog in the west, but you can just abandon a woman, even if you're her guardian, in Saudi Arabia.
It's interesting to see how many classic/nostalgia-games were actually simulations and sandboxes, rather than scripted experiences.
I wish we had more New Leaf markets around, but it's kind of a local Santa Cruz-area thing.
PS4 and Xbox One have this as well. No one really cares.
They are supposedly profitable, but yeah, the market size seems limited. It's a freemium product. The upgrade is $30/month if you pay month to month, or $12/month if you prepay annually. Seems high for unbundled nature of it. Maybe someone is hoping Google buys them to put it in Google Docs, Chrome, Gmail, etc?
Sure you can. There are only so many eye charts in use. It's possible to memorize them.

Just being left in the exam room for 30 seconds unobserved would be enough.
> As this fix runs in Ruby, it results in larger memory overhead. To address this, we are working on an executable binary that will be installed as part of the build-image. Work on this is expected to be complete by the end of the week.

Run it through sed?