skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds worse than it is. Every country has some version. The example I use is from MyCousinVinny where the witness/fiance tries to walk out of the courtroom and the judge orders the bailiff to grab her. That sort of arrest is a near-universal power of judges. It only starts looking evil once that power is extended outside the courtroom.
Finally...something truly horrible that can't be blamed on Trump!
Is this Hacker News? I can't tell.
Old English Has a Serious Image Problem
I'm with you. Educated comments are rare. The only good articles are HN are business advice. Rest, including technology is fanboyism, conjectures and one-upmanship.
The most amazing thing to me about watching my daughter learn and then become obsessed with Scratch is the community around it. She has dozens of friends in the network, and they organize to build projects together, have contests, manage deadlines, and give each other advice on coding. And every interaction she's had on the system has been positive. I don't know how the Scratch team managed to build a "nice" social network, but that to me is more important than any aspect of the syntax or whether she types or drags blocks. She sees herself as a programmer, and she gets tons of positive feedback for being a programmer.
He was shot. Surely it's reasonable to go to the police looking for justice. Are you suggesting letting gang members get away with crime?
Just looks some Bootstrap and ChartJS.org.
It support almost every language, SQL, HTML, JS and probably more.
I guess another question I have is what is a coder camp doing that it costs more (http://www.bootcamps.in/san-francisco/coder-camps/) $9,900 for a 9 week (just over 2 months) course, when in state tuition for a year at University of Washington (https://admit.washington.edu/costs-and-financial-aid/total-c...) is $10k for around 7 months and out of state is $34,791 for the same time. Eg are they really equivalent to a #12 ranked computer science school (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-washingto...)?
Just FYI, Seeking Alpha is a forum for many investors with short positions on Tesla. They have been predicting Tesla's demise for a decade.
I got the low-end Kindle Fire around Xmas. While I don't mind the hooks into all the Amazon bloat, the browser is atrocious on any site that isn't about as lite as HN.

It just can't handle the typical 200 trackers and ads of most media sites - possibly too little ram.

Consequently, the Fire sits unused.
> I've never approached a brand new subject and had a textbook or similar resource which walked me through it perfectly without having to look up words I did not understand or reference other materials.

Never? That sounds like you've always been taught things the hard way.

I learned about Pi by nearly the same method of Pythagoras.

Methods come first, and the words come later. Build upon the knowledge people have, don't just plop a steaming pile of high level concepts in their lap and expect them to figure it out.

I'm sorry you've never really seen that before, but it's how I see all the greats explain things.

Take for example, Novig's Lisp interpreter in Python [0], he does expect some back knowledge. But he explains the core ideas, and then each new idea introduced just expands on the previous.

[0] http://norvig.com/lispy.html
I'm using it right now. And boy does it suck ass. I mean, the keyboard itself is great. But it takes a long time too load, which I can live with. The ass-sucking part comes from that goddamn "change keyboard" menu. How does it work? Hold it down? Just tap it? I don't get consistent behavior doing either one. That's assuming it even wants to display in the first place. Every time I have to invoke the fucking thing I give serious thought to just uninstalling it.
It has the strong potential to grow but right now there are enough people opposing its spread.

Even so, terrorism may have cumulative political and social effects. People don't like to know there are others out there who wish them harm. Once a certain threshold of resentment is reached within an affected society then suddenly massive unrest could erupt.

Some politicians are trying to mitigate this by suggesting we should just get used to the occasional terrorist attack and treat it like a lightning strike or a piece of heavy furniture falling over.
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There's a lot of things that kind of meet that definition; many of the non-educational visual programming languages on this list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language#...
It is probably something to do with cultural habits in different geographic areas, not necessarily language. I moved from an English speaking region (Ontario, Canada) to another English speaking region (British Columbia, Canada) 5,000 km away. In BC people seem to measure distance using time but in Ontario they use distance. In Ontario they will say that a town is 150 km away but in BC they say that a town is 45 minutes away. Possibly this has to do with the mountainous terrain of BC which restricts your travel routes and speed, while Ontario is relatively flat, allows many different routes between point A and B, and you can speed without dying.

On the other hand, I also speak Russian, and switch between Russian and English several times per day. When I speak/think in Russian I tend to not worry about the time order of things that I speak about because Russian has few verb tenses and makes it easy to function in an eternal now where actions are either ongoing or completed. Good for getting an overall perspective on things.
Erm... that's actually a great book. I'm part-way through it, but set it down a while back because somewhere around chapter 10 I felt like I was up against the law of diminishing returns. If you could happen to get me a page reference, I'd appreciate it.
The stock still defies gravity to all time high. Not sure whether it's irrational exuberance or investors truly see something in Tesla.

Edit: Got scared and got out at ~280. It was a good run but time to move on.
Thanks for writing this. I've been trying to figure out where I'm going with my career lately, and even if I've got one at all right now. This article really affirmed that the couple of directions I've been thinking of (finally break down and learn webdev, pursue ML/cogsci research) were in the right ballpark.

I couldn't have predicted ten years ago, when starting university, where things would be today. Yes, everything that's a Big Deal today existed in infancy then, but it existed in infancy among many competitors. I thought a lot of it was a passing fad, and I've been wrong multiple times over on that.

Lessons learned: stop expecting fads to pass, build fundamental skills far stronger and broader than you ever thought you'd need, and overall, stop letting history happen to you. Get out in front and choose which path gets taken for yourself.
The world needs Obamacare !
What are these basic engineering habits, and why was engineer #2 not able to adopt them?
I agree and moreover why risk losing a reference? When older references may be non contactable that's a risk that many including me wouldn't take.
What is the objection against providing witnesses with at least the same legal protections as defendants?
You could apply the same logic to university.
OMG, as I was reading this I thought, "man, this reminds me of a bug I ran into with std::string back in 2000", A few sentences later, and this is also about std::string and the STL.

Mine was different though, after tracking down a memory leak that was happening with the creation of just new empty string, I discovered in the stdlib that there was a shared pointer to the empty string with a reference count of how many locations were using it (ironic that this was intended to save allocations). It turned out this was on Intel and we had what was rare at the time, a multi-processor system. It turned out that the std::string empty string reference count was just doing a vanilla ++, no locking, nothing, variable not marked volatile, nothing.

A few emails with a guy in Australia, a little inline assembly to call a new atomic increment on the counter, and the bug was fixed. That took two weeks to track down, mostly because it didn't even cross my mind that it wasn't in my code.

From that point on, I realized you can't trust libraries blindly, even one of the most used and broadly adopted ones out there.
If free() took a size, what would that buy you?

You are aware that malloc implementations tend to stick the size just before the part returned to the caller, right? eg. let's say you store size at p, return p+4 to caller, then have free() subtract 4 again to get at this "header"... So I'm guessing that's not your suggestion because free() wouldn't work at all without that kind of hack. Or more broadly, free() or realloc() and others already need to have some way to determine the size of the allocation based on the pointer, so they track that somehow in a way opaque to the caller.

So then what...? You want programs to be able to give back a prefix of the buffer? or...?
I agree except for Snapchat, the real time computer vision they (or at least the startup they bought) put out I would have to say was on the cutting edge. Real time facial recognition was standard, but the facial transformations and 3d modelling in real time stood (and still stand) alone
If you live in Vermont and want one-on-one help you can contact me via twitter: @high_rigour and I'll personally help you out. We have a strong group of engineers here who would like to help veterans free of charge.
I get the idea: you saw something and the state forces you to testify to what you saw to solve the crime. It's a noble idea to punish the perpetrator and make the country safer.

In reality, most of the time it's best not to see or hear anything.
> I've personally never seen it given more than 325mg daily.

Really? Lortab 5/500?
> Insofar as Bitcoin represents a single world currency, the problem is that on a macro level this isn't a good idea.

I don't think a scenario in which bitcoin became the single currency that the world used is very likely to happen.

I suspect what is going to happen is that bitcoin is going to be the world's first Electronically Tradable Liquid Asset (ETLA) that is frictionless and uncensorable. Its going to legitimize the concept of a much wider class of ETLAs being acceptable as money. Any company stock that has high price stability could function as money if we had a platform whereby people could trade fractional shares of stock at low fees.

This is going to take away the ability of central banks to manipulate the money supply. If a given country's CB tried to print money to cause inflation, the population would figure it out quickly and the price of ETLAs in that currency would immediately rise.
Note that En Marche is a party that was specifically set up for Macron's presidential campaign in April last year - it's not one of France's established parties.
typescript makes it tolerable, if well-used
I'm not talking about the economy so much as the idea that everyone who wants a job has one (vis-a-vis full employment). Presumably men want jobs at a similar rate as they did in the 1960s (modulo the aging aspect which I had forgotten to account for).
https://www.google.com/search?q=slashed+subway+initiation+ga...
I think the remedy for a company is to slowly change the culture from command and control to directed collaboration. Why do I need a team lead to apportion work if I am a senior developer? Probably I don't. Maybe the team can burn through work and collaborate on decisions.

Then criticism becomes normal and non offensive and can be used constructively to make the team better because you are convincing peers not overlords.
A UAV launched from a nearby ship would have provided much better imagery.
> Calling someone a C* holder isn't sophisticated though.

Neither is wearing a huge red leather strap-on (1).

http://www.cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/lit/CLA364-1...
A space engine that could make flying into orbit commonplace
You can do it in swedish in a similar way, so I would think this is possible, too, in norwegian (the languages are really quite similar).
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I read 1 hour a day, mainly nonfiction, with the idea that reading is somehow improving me. Funny, I just recently came to the realization that I need to apply what I read - learning by "osmosis" is probably just wishful thinking. Reading without any application is just entertainment.

I've recently cut my reading time and I am spending more time recollecting and figuring out how to apply what I read.

You said you don't read a lot but I would 1st suggest that you increase the time needed to understand how to apply what you read rather than just add reading time.

Make a list of what you want to improve, get a book on that and use it.
There's already an easter_days(), and comments complaining that it doesn't revert to the Gregorian calendar before the 1700's... http://php.net/manual/en/function.easter-days.php
Free Software doesn't mean unpaid volunteer any more, given the number of projects that have developers working for large companies...
I've been reading every article that comes up in the news from a wide variety of sources on Tesla for 6+ years daily, and Seeking Alpha is one of the most consistently biased. They're as reliable as the tides in terms of which side of the story they want to tell.
Perhaps a bit cynical, but that is exactly the reason I would expect from the TSA.

It's not that they're enhancing their screening of anything in particular, they're just helping you get through more quickly... sureeeee.
You wrote that, as the nationalism being bad thing. Why is so?
It's an engineering company that does math/science stuff along with regular software development.
>> Third, emojis create some issues for judicial operations, including if and how judges will display emojis in their opinions...

Seriously?
I understand what you are asking & why you think there is an easy answer that I'm not giving you, but unfortunately, there isn't one. There's no easy explanation that wouldn't require learning or understanding criminal & civil procedure first. I recognize that's not satisfying, but, well, law is overlapping, conflicting, and complicated.

But no, civil disobedience is not about sentencing guidelines, and its not statutory (legislatures don't create laws for breaking the law) nor is it a defense, but nonetheless, it may be relevant. Again, it depends on many things, like the case itself, the jurisdiction, local rules, applicable laws, the judge...and why any of this matters is hard to understand without a background in civil & criminal procedure.

Someone else asked similar here & I went into further detail about why. A short answer is that humans have have states of mind, intentions and motives, and corporations do not (maybe you think they do; the legal system does not--judges and juries determine them as elements of crimes for humans, but not for corporations.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14278589

Hope this helps; I wish I had a better way of explaining, but, I'm no sure what else to say other than that our laws distinguish between humans and corporations and so do our courts, because our democracy has determined that its best for public policy not to, for example, allow companies, whose legal purpose is to produce monetary profits for shareholders, to instruct their employees to break laws.
> Akasha stores users' files on IPFS instead of a centralized server which means that a government could not simply block access to a single server to shut down Akasha.

If you live in the Western world (like almost 80 % of internet users) and you're not a silicon valley type, this is a non issue because Western governments don't really go around shutting down social networking sites. In fact I can't think of a single case of them having done so despite social networking site like 4chan and 8chan which have really pushed the envelope when it comes to content.

Even if you target the small percentage of people in the developing world, it still won't matter - because these people are more concerned about their government blocking the site than they are about some government closing the website completely.

>pay you to post

People use social networks to socialize, not to profit. I'm not saying that profit motive can't be a secondary motive - but given the relatively small amounts of money you can pay people per post, it will never be a very strong motive.

This is not the first social network to think paying people for posts and it won't be last . . . but it will be wrong in thinking it can motivate people to use it with the promise of a few measly dollars.

And this should be obvious from the fact that every single social networking site that is popular (with the exception of youtube) does not get users by offering the cash to post. And even youtube never really got users with it's partner program. Partnership incentivezed people to spend more time on high quality videos - something that doesn't work for social networks - how much time and production could you possibly put into a social networking post?
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Delays don't seem to be part of the process at Slack, Google, or any of your top tier software companies.

Tesla? Delay after delay. Want to cite auto industry, I can point more successful examples.
Valgrind would've caught those, wouldn't it? Or, maybe the C++ layer prevents it from catching that since it's application-level, which is at least another reason to remove it.
Thanks for writing this, you make some important points.
Remember when people kept claiming Facebook buying Instagram wasn't a bad thing because "they're not ruining it" "They're just leaving it as the same old Instagram".
Okay, I'll bite. Why do you refuse to ride in a car with Waze running?
Ode to the use-after-free: one vulnerable function, a thousand possibilities
Obviously some developers get paid. But there is still a huge amount of unpaid volunteer work given to these projects.
Mechanical computing is awesome. Miniaturized mechanical computing doubly so. I'm glad it's alive and well in the world of watches.

I especially love this sort of thing because there's not really a practical reason for this to exist. Its pure art. Technical art of amazing effort and skill. The best part is that people appreciate it and pay big money for it (lots of people). People pay for good art! That's all kinds of awesome.
I should have canceled sooner. I thought it was possible he was filling up gas, or some other sort of bio break. Which in retrospect is kind of dumb
Thanks! I miscopied that. :)
"Pedagogy" is the art/science to guide kids, literally speaking. First, I wasn't sure if he didn't actually mean "didactics" but then he talked about "students" so he probably just talks about "kids" of computer science.

Why are all thoughts about how to teach/promote Haskell centered on the language itself as if it were only an academic tool? If you want students to get excited about Haskell, don't make it look like an academic tool that's only useful as a didactic device in university classes on functional programming.
The technique presented in the article is very interesting, and it show's promise for accurately surveying and conserving many species.

However I'm skeptical of this quote.

"Commercial fishing has depleted the stocks on which these seabirds also feed, and the baited longline gear used by some vessels has an unpleasant knack for attracting foragers and pulling them underwater where they drown."

From my several seasons of experience long-lining black cod off the California coast, I suspect that albatross are a species which directly benefit from commercial fishing (population wise). Black-footed albatross follow boats around scavenging the deep water bycatch, these fish would otherwise be physically inaccessible to them. These deep water fish are in a distinct ecosystem, and only have indirect interaction via the transitive nature of the food web.

Anecdotally, I've never seen one get caught in gear. So I strongly suspect physical danger from long-line gear has an insignificant impact on their overall population. Since the birds are very common, and attracted to the boats/bycatch, there would seem to be plenty of opportunity for the gear to harm the birds. They appear intelligent enough to actively avoid the gear, maintaining a close but safe proximity.

Now this isn't to say that there aren't any anthropogenic impacts on their population. However, any impacts likely stem from other more diffuse human activity (climate change). Also I can only speak for species endemic to Californian/Alaskan water's, though I believe their behavior is probably pretty universal.
One factor: At least a couple of major investment banks, along with many other commentators, see Musk's apparently good relationship with President Trump as a reason to invest in Tesla. Of course, nobody can say how much it affects their market capitalization, but just the banks saying it will be self-fulfilling to an (unknown) extent.

Musk wouldn't be the first to use lobbying to help his business, and so far (a small sample) Trump has used his power much more than past presidents to help and punish businesses he favors/disfavors (e.g., threatening businesses that want to relocate factories, threatening airplane manufacturers, tweeting favorable and unfavorable things about businesses, etc.). Trump has a reputation for corruption, that's factual; that doesn't tell us how true it is or how it applies in this kind of situation or in this particular case. What I'm trying to say is, let's be careful with the facts.

If you search for 'musk trump', you can find plenty of discussion of it. Here's one article from a good source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/elon-musk-donald...
Methinks someone wants Tesla stock cheaper. Absolutely no mention of the considerable IP capital Tesla is building, or what that might be worth to a company with smart car ambitions and 250B in the bank.
Your decision is going to look very funny in 4 years.
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Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
This sounds way too good to be true.

- 8 core RISC-V w/DSP

- Hardware Convolution Unit

- RTC

- SDR!?

- Ultra low power

- Low cost

- Lots of libraries

I hope this is real, but I'll believe it when you can buy it.
"Full employment" is a technical term that means no cyclical unemployment; it can involve arbitrarily large quantities of non-cyclical, e.g., frictional and, more to the point, structural (mismatch between skills and demand) unemployment.

It seems intuitively likely to me that structural unemployment is becoming a bigger problem (and that structural rather than cyclical factors are an increasing factor in discouraged workers.)

"Full employment" doesn't mean no employment problems, it just means that the problems are non-cyclical.