skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 3 languages that I would and do recommend for any new programmer:

- Python, because it looks like pseudocode and it's hard to fuck up as a beginner. Plus, if you're trying to do something real/effectful (rather than write implementations of algorithms) imperative code matches your intuition.

- Haskell, because it looks like maths and it's hard to fuck up as a beginner. It's really easy to convert any maths stuff that they know verbatim into Haskell and have it Just Work without accidentally having to worry about, for example, how many times a piece of code is run.

- C, ASM or LLVM IR (leaning towards the first because it has great tutorials), because it matches how a computer really works. Ok, yeah I know, it doesn't, but it's closer than anything else that you'd actually want to use. C and manual memory management has gotten a bad rap recently, mostly because of all the security vulnerabilities it causes. Sure, you don't want to have to think about memory safety as an application developer but when you're learning it's OK to accidentally read or write uninitialized memory or cause a segfault as long as you've got good debugging tools to turn it into a useful learning experience.
The same pro-Russian propaganda uses the same talking points over and over, on every issue. 'There is no evidence!' (regardless of the evidence).
Go learn Rails or JavaScript first. Lots more resources, examples, and people to code with. Also, learning two languages, a web framework that is different from most, and OTP is a bit too much.
The original developer of Transmission and Handbrake are the same IIRC. I hope this is just a coincidence.
Load testing using Tsung
China and Europe to build a base on the moon
Vaccines are not 100% effective. A small percentage of those vaccinated do not develop immunity.
Tutorial contains a nice overview of language features and usage[1]

[1] https://tutorial.ponylang.org/
You aren't. They describe how to check your system for the Trojan if you've already run the installer.
Not really. Even just putting a buoy in place has issues. It would turn a subsurface wreck into a new surface obstacle/hazard. Then you get into the tricky matter of detection and response. Sending out a tiny ship every time the buoy lost contact wouldn't be safe. You'd have to assume pirates each and every time. Local law enforcement/navies aren't going to be happy responding to possible pirates tampering with a buoy only to find none.
I'm sorry, but I can't make this any more clear. I have repeatedly said that the insurance should cover those who have genetic issues or issues not caused by their own lifestyle choices. I can't make it any more clear. If you don't understand that, I'm sorry.

I have also repeatedly stated that we should not be paying for the healthcare costs of lifestyle choices of smoking, drinking alcohol, sugar sweetened beverages such as Coke, lack of exercise, etc.

Instead of doing the right thing and increase the tobacco taxes to pay for the programs (as other countries such as Canada, UK, France, Ireland, ...) have done, the Democrats chose to burden others and have chosen to dramatically increased Medicaid costs to the states which means that public universities (or course not the universities of the elites that run the Democratic Party) will get less and less funding and the students will have to go more and more into debt.

The Republicans fixed the problem caused by the Democrats. Instead of blaming the Republicans for fixing these harms, blame the Democrats for folding to the tobacco lobby.

Now, either you understand this that I am not saying that people with genetic issues or issues caused by those others by lifestyle or you don't. But don't blame the Republicans for fixing the harms caused by the Democrats. If you were to actually speak with people as I have you fill find that most agree that they shouldn't have to subsidize the healthcare costs caused by lifestyle choice.

If people really cared, they would lobby for increasing the tobacco tax to levels comparable to Canada, UK, France, Ireland, .... to pay for the programs. Neither NYT, WaPo, or any other MSM or their columnists have advocated following the example of these other countries in order to pay for the care.

BTW, the states can increase their own tobacco taxes, and put the money into Medicaid as NY State has done. Louisiana has a tobacco tax of $1.08 and NYS $4.35. If it raised its tobacco taxes to about $3.00 for the 200 million annual packs smoked and then put the money into Medicaid (matched 2:1 by feds) they would have $600 million to take care of uninsured while lowering the rate of smokers which, at 24%, is one of the highest in the nation.

People claim to care, but if they truly cared, they'd lobby to raise the tobacco taxes using those funds to pay for people who need healthcare.
I've created a tool that can help small businesses to create dynamic PDF letters and send them as an attachment to multiple recipients.
This could have been prevented by hosting downloads on a reputable site(Github), instead of developer's own PHP backend.

Software like https://github.com/google/santa can help, especially if you're doing IT in a large enterprise.

The feed used by the software's autoupdate framework(sparkle) was signed, so that would've prevented bad downloads through autoupdate.
Simple Regression with a TensorFlow Estimator
We could certainly calculate how much error was introduced by rounding, if we had the time and inclination. It is useful to understand that about numerical modelling, it should not be necessary to accept any indeterminable discrepancies.

Conservation of energy, momentum, information is hardcoded into all known laws of Physics. It is our integration algorithms which do not all ensure conservation of information - but that is carefully achievable with basic first order schemes, such as Verlet and leapfrog integration.
One very good reason to not rely on password managers...

That is not to say that there are many good reason to do so, but the password manager do become a very coveted target.

edit: Maybe I phrased that badly. It is a risk associated with password managers that everyone that are using one should be aware of.
I'd love if someone who disagrees would post why. The references are found in my earlier post (linked to above).

The honeymoon period, role of vaccine failure rate vs R0 value in epidemic generation, and herd immunity are all derived from the same general SIR models... So I don't see how you can reject what I am saying while still accepting the herd immunity concept (which is generally accepted).
What nokcha said, plus: Some people for legitimate health reasons can't get vaxxed, so they depend on others being immune (aka "herd immunity") to stay safe. That model only works if healthy kids get vaxxed
I was already on my third job by 1995, but that was still a long time ago (especially in tech). The most likely explanation for this observation is that teaching in these subjects was too tailored toward boys' learning styles at that time, and has become less so now. The only confusing thing is how this can be true and yet women are still entering the actual profession at even lower rates than they used to.
> If computation mandates neural interfaces ...

And if almost everyone has that to enhance their abilities and you refuse - you would be unemployable.
Coincidence seems unlikely, doesn't it? Same compromised admin level password, or same vector/hole in 2 places seems likely to me.
They haven't made a white MacBook in a very long time.

At the time I made my switch, a MacBook Pro lasted 7 hours, my Dell with very similar configuration lasted 4.5 hours. There were numerous technical discussions about how custom sealed batteries could provide more density in the same or smaller space. But their problem was they weren't usable because they typically lost capacity after a years worth of charge cycles, so no one could figure out why Apples didn't. Until they realized MacOS had special conditioning software in it.

And while today's laptops have roughly reached battery life parity, for years MacBooks were indisputably the best at it. Look it up, the facts are out there.
You can't get vaccinated before a certain age. If there are unvaccinated people around, spreading the disease, your child has a chance to catch it when they are still vulnerable.
Black hole in terms of money.

As a company, you throw resources (money) at solving a particular problem.

You are hoping that as a company, you can accrue enough customers to cover that spend.

Should another company come in and then disrupt your efforts, you have two choices. Either hire more engineers and develop more features, thus incurring more costs. Or you lower your pricing and hope your competitor is bleeding faster than you are.

As a company with a black hole, if another competitor isn't bleeding and pushing out more features and gaining your customers. You'll then do something drastic like buy another company.

This is what actually happened in that space. The only problem, is that it shows your competitors you have no ideas left. The company is effectively a zombie. It will collapse, it's a only matter of time.
well aren't I the idiot
Contrarian Beliefs Lead to Outsized Returns
It's called “Turn the Page”.
CRISPR Will End Diseases and Remake Species
I'm curious, you mention that users can request a paycheck advance of $250 with no-interest - but then how do you capitalize that, moreover aren't you losing the interest on the lent money for that month?
What are good tools for running scripts on an AST? Are you talking about like an Eclipse plugin or something?
Thank you for just following the path I layed for you

So what? Males and females need different teaching styles and today boys are falling behind girls in math, physics and computers?!

Maybe the boys are ahead of girls in languages and other soft-skill subjects today?

It always evens out
The issue is 2-fold. First and most importantly is that there are people who either cannot get vaccinated for either medical or religious reasons and there are people with immune systems so weak that the vaccination serves little use protecting them. By having high vaccination rates, it serves as a buffer to protect these people by limiting their exposure to it.

The other side of the issue is that vaccinations do not guarantee immunity from a disease. Exposure to a disease puts anyone at risk but they are much less likely to get it if they are vaccinated but they still can get it none the less.
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Planned Reading: The Trick for Reading Nonfiction
A conversation with the author of this piece.
> The most important thing to understand about evolution is that natural selection can only work with the existing traits of an organism, the current environment in which the organism exists, and what random changes happen.

I believe most of the time you're right, the changes are random. However, at least one experiment has shown that species can pass adaptive traits to their offspring (called Lamarckian inheritance) [1]. The experiment is intriguing, in that it seems to hint something more is going on than the Darwinian inheritance model.

[1] http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2014/07/17/effects-of...
Colonizing other planets is not a good plan
I can't believe this. I literally downloaded handbrake like 45 minutes ago! Luckily I got the proper version, but boy oh boy, it was a close call. I think I'll reinstall claXmav on all my macs.
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what's the point for all the hate? everybody who got the shot is safe. now you are running around screaming at ppl who didn't? how can one non-vaccinated person endanger vaccinated ppl?
Eventually we'll find a better way of paying for online content than with our attention or ads will become promoted content that is actually interesting to people. I don't think that advertisers can win an arms race with users. Eventually ads will be annoying enough that people look for different content, like many people do with TV today.
No worries, happens to most of us ;-)
The hobby outrunners come in both varieties: the cheaper ones are surface magnet ones, like this one: https://hobbyking.com/media/file/1010923149X745660X9.jpg
and the slightly more expensive ones have the magnets recessed into a thicker back-iron, and hence have saliency: https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/uploads/db1493/orig...
Usually package managers on linux distros, to use an example for comparison, tend to check checksums of downloads for security purposes during any installation. For MacOS users, I guess I understand they want to use software not blessed by Apple, then isn't homebrew or whatever supposed to do the same thing?
Australian Scientists Declare Virtual Reality Is Officially Considered Exercise
Even more importantly certain vaccines are given at certain ages. So if some anti-science parent doesn't vaccinate their brood and say, take their kid to the same play area as my kids, one of which isn't a year old yet, she's now got an exposure to something she can't be vaccinated for yet.

This is why having high vaccination rates are so important. There is a percentage who can't be vaccinated (age, health issues, whatever), there's an unknown percentage for whom the vaccination just didn't work, and then there's the wide circle of immunity formed around them by everyone else who is immune and up to date on those immunizations.
The Gravity esolang falls roughly along this line of thought: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Gravity
> Instead of

As well as

I can copy paste the list but I can't copy paste the map. For anybody who isn't focused on their immediate personal life a list is often more useful.
‘Fatboy’ Ransomware Extorts Money Based on Victims’ Countries
Best line is at the end:

> They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.

What are the odds that they made plenty of legal mistakes in addition to the logistical ones? I would bet that everyone involved in this will have a very bad time over the next few months and years, and anyone who backed it financially will think harder before committing serious money when all they've seen is a slick marketing campaign.
http://learnyousomeerlang.com
Pretty sure browsers no longer permit overriding ctors for literals.
Wow. I read that link and they flat out tell their people how to get around the airport ban. They tell the drivers not to have the app in view, keep it in your cup holder, ask the passenger to sit up front and say your a friend if asked. Drop the passenger off as far away from the terminal door if possible. And if you do get caught they'll provide you with a lawyer and pay the 1100 dollar fine up to 3 times before deactivating you. That last one is messed up, like sorry you're fired for not being sneaky enough
I believe that 1942 refers to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.

Back at the time, there was not very much requirement for nuclear safety/contamination prevention... so if you want steel definitely free from non-natural radiation you'll need 1942 or earlier steel.
Most Mac users don't use anything like Homebrew. Typically you just download the software as a .zip file or equivalent, unpack it, and run it.

Apple does support code signatures for apps downloaded this way through their Developer ID program, but you have to pay $99/year to be a member of their developer program in order to do so.

In theory, you could still sign downloads using a code signing certificate you got elsewhere, but system wouldn't check it for you, and few people would bother to do it manually.
GEICO isn't really a "low cost leader" (even if they are lower cost in many instances) - they are where they are because of marketing. Something you might want to remember if you're going to get into the SAAS business yourself.
I agree, just stating that plain code review isn't enough.

Those patches also come in small blocks.
What's the alternative? Using different passwords for every account is not practical without some way to store them, and using the same password makes you even more vulnerable. We could write them all down in a big book or something, but that leaves us vulnerable to physical theft and loss.
No common friends, but college girlfriend recommended as potential friend on Facebook is my creepiest data mining moment ever.
Ultimately you will win on the relationship with people. Building trust, delivering service, being friendly, treating them as people and not customers, and doing your best is the right mindset. You can and perhaps should be more expensive in some industries, because you offer better relationships and service.
You're basically letting strangers run code on your computer. That's basically what a "website" is. It is truly impressive to me how we can have something so complex and still manage to somehow keep it (usually) secure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14264001
I have no idea why I thought you were serious. Poe's law?
> True economic maestros are as rare as unicorns

Are they? In the sense of fantastical dreams of communism, yes, but I think we are seeing proof every other week that the opposite is true. There is a staggering amount of power concentrated on few individuals/families, carried across generations.
Maybe there's an error in the authors assumption that we'd seriously try to evacuate the planet. I've always assumed that the point of colonizing Mars is just to have an off-world colony that's also like an ark. At least at first.
This reminds me of an idea I've had for a while.

TLDR: why are we relying so heavily on cloud based search engines to organize hyperlinks? Local bookmarking tools could be so much better!

I've often thought it'd be great to have some kind of browser extension that used search queries to automatically tag and categorize bookmarks and threads of browsing history. Then, instead of having to manually put bookmarks into "folders", or think of tags, they'd be organized smartly based on the tree of searches and links that they are related to.

Here's a more concrete example: Say you searched for "curry recipes". You click through a number of different pages, finding one you like. When you bookmark it, bookmark would carry that "curry recipes" metadata, and be more searchable in that way.

A more complex example. Say you search for "gravitational force", and end up reading part of a blog post, then clicking through to another page and another. The third page is really interesting. So you bookmark it. Since the original search of "gravitational force" was the seed of finding this third page, that query would, by default be associated with the bookmark, even if it's not directly related.

This could be extended with all kinds of interfaces. For example, your browser could display a kind of "tree" of recent search queries at all times, which could be pruned, cleared, or added to at any time. A new tab would by default inherit the old tab's tree. Bookmarking would flow naturally from this, as a way of snapshotting a given thread of browsing.

Another, more complicated option would be to bookmark actual threads or trees of links themselves. A cluster of related wikipedia pages could be bookmarked together and traced to the search query that initiated their discovery.

If a page was implicated in multiple bookmarked clusters, it'd be easier to find it in your local bookmarks.

The upcoming annotation standard could end up being a great tool for extending this idea: https://hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/
If you have Gatekeeper enabled(which it is by default), the system prevents the user from running random unsigned apps.
Strong types give me the feeling of expressing some sort of universal truth in a math way. I am actually quite bad at that.

Lisp let's me understand how procedures go together to build things. In particular, it helps get to a dual phase of programs. Macros aren't my program running. Rather, they are a program that makes the program I want to run. It just so happens that being able to cycle between those phases is very useful.

I can make no claims that one is superior.

Edit: s/string/strong/.
Sigh.. This could be somewhat repaired by making a beta-release, distributing to devs and testers. Once confirmed good, rename file and release via IPFS. The key here, is if multiple devs did this, the hashsum would prove the file being shared.

Any one client that's been hacked or infected would show up as an improper hash and easily spotted.
Handbrake for Ubuntu is distributed through the official Handbrake PPA, and this means there is still more transparency: there is a public record of the source code that went in the build process, and the binaries were automatically built from that on the Launchpad build servers.

There's a potential downside too: If a trojan gets into the PPA sources, it will be automatically downloaded and installed by users.
Ethics are largely irrelevant here. The advertising industry will simply do what they have always done, which is the things shown by their models to bring the most revenue. Asking the advertising industry to be less manipulative is like asking casinos or supermarkets to stop employing behavioral psychologists to figure out the best ways to get people to spend money.

>and the fact that the host is speaking for it says something

In most cases (e.g. all except the ones where the host would mention the product even without any incentives), it just says that they value the money they get more than their viewers' attention.
To use your analogy then I should just install a gym-membership blocker, stroll in every morning, and use their workout machines without paying.

That's absurd.

My argument has always been: if you want to use an ad-blocker, be my guest, then block the damn content too. Ad-blockers seem to have this entitlement complex where they deserve the content how they want it -- others' rights be damned.

No one's forcing anyone to consume this content just like no one's forcing anyone to get a gym membership. And somehow you don't see how your own analogy proved the absurdity of the situation?
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The problem in this case is that TFA presented this phenomenon as some black magic unexplainable by science, despite reasonable explanations having been provided half century ago and popularized even among lay audience by books like The Selfish Gene.

But hell if you are wrong about the general trend ;)

edit:

Really what TFA did is it just falsified some extremely naive and humanly-subjective interpretation of the slogan "survival of the fittest", without bothering to mention that this interpretation had already been known to be defective years ago and there are subtler alternatives which don't have this problem.
The "African Beasts" Alseny and Sekou please the crowd at Huntington Beach, California.
You really think that each person in society has a random share of wealth? That each season a random team wins the Super Bowl? If that's not what you mean, I'm afraid you're not making your position very clear to me.
In 50 years the idea anyone could die in a car crash (not a joyride) will be inconceivable.
This survey from 2014 suggests that a majority of people still use a mouse all the time: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/compu...
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Aren't the dmgs digitally signed?
Your website is completely broken at higher resolutions

http://i.imgur.com/xw4XHWY.jpg
I've seen them in the US, even though it is hard to find any clotheslines here. They were ostracized as being "unsightly" and even banned in many home owners associations.
> One very good reason to not rely on password managers...

Or for desktop security. Pretty sure Wayland's current security model prevents this as long as the password manager has a well-designed API.