skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My friends send me e-mails and messages, which I read with open source software, with links to news articles that I read with open source software. I message with open-source apps using open standards.

I manage (and share with my peers!) the books for an organization with GNUCash.

I collaborate on and write papers with LaTeX, write my code in languages with open standards, use primarily open source compilers, and run my code on Linux cluster which use open-standard parallel communication APIs and open-source implementations.

I do not play video games.

My office printer is plug and play with Linux/CUPS.

All done on my trusty custom linux distro (Exherbo) for years. Oh, and I haven't reinstalled since 2010 but I am running the most recent open-source GNU/Linux software.

Maybe my life and my needs don't match others', but then again maybe erikbye's don't either. Anyway, that is why I do not care about more people using Linux. If anything, more Linux users have made the internet a less useful resource for helpful Linux knowledge.

Why should I care?

P.S. my phone is another story, but I expect different things in that space.
The top 1% send their kids to the West, and often move themselves as well.
I'd say try reading "Haskell from First Principles". It's a great introduction to Haskell in particular, and FP in general. It has plenty examples and exercises.
Calories in two Air Heads: 120

Calories in 1oz bag of FRITOS®: 160

Calories in 2 slices of pizza: 320

Calories in 20oz Mountain Dew: 290

Calories in a large dill pickle: 0
For https://hellowebapp.com, it was running Kickstarter campaigns to promote the books. It's a really effective way to do a "pre-order" campaign for the book, start a lot of conversations, and start building my email list (not to mention getting a chunk of money that replaced a traditional advance a publisher could give.)

For https://weddinglovely.com, I work with small businesses and running the weddings blog has been our biggest marketing win. Our businesses send us content, which we publish, getting traffic and also cementing our relationship with the submitting business. We've also started getting significant affiliate revenue ($2k+ mo) from past articles we've written.
I would defend sous vide by saying that I've been able to have much better control of the internal temperature. For example, I can cook short ribs at 72 hours at close-to-pasteurization temperatures to get a very unique consistency.
I'm not anti-pot whatsoever and would absolutely switch from booze to weed if given a chance but isn't it flat out wrong to say "little to no long term harm"?

I'm not arguing that it's better than alcohol or xyz but it does have side effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis
You basically just need to reduce the P-value you need to claim significance (0.1 to 0.001 or less) to account for the probability of finding those correlations even in noise. This is part of why particle physics has such high standards - you can find a lot of things in the TBs of data CERN generates.

See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study

There's a figure in there depicting associations with P-values of 1e-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study#...
Four Chinese citizens arrested on college-entry cheating charges
I find it hard to believe that Americans like their weed this much. Smoking tobacco - gateway drug to smoking weed - is not the thing people do these days, unlike in past times when 'everyone' smoked. If smoking is not recreational/sociable, how do people start with weed in the USA? Is it just for kids?

Then there are all those meth epidemics and cocaine users and prescription opiates making the USA 'fun'. For kids that have gone straight to heroin from prescription drugs, what is the attraction of weed? It would be like an alcoholic going for a lemonade shandy rather than another bottle of wine/spirits/cider/super-strength beer.

I thought weed was going the way of interesting trippy drugs - LSD, mushrooms - that exist but people don't go crazy for. Nowadays the disease of addiction has better outlets in U.S.A. and the social aspect of smoking is gone, so who smokes pot in the USA these days apart from those with medical reasons to do so?
House Passes Republican Health Care Bill
I've never really thought about diving deeper into those tools until you and several others have been mentioning it more and more.

Quora has surprised me how much traffic you can get from it if you're correctly and directly answering questions with value
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/insight/cutler_monkey/c...

a little understanding of art history would indicate that the appropriate thing to do is understand the context for monkeys at the time of painting.

e: I don't mean to be overly snarky here, but most Renaissance/Enlightenment art is done in a symbolic language, and objects depicted are words, with the arrangement often in a particular grammar, with the context serving as part of the message. It's not particularly difficult to learn this or to access basic symbolic meanings. I don't think the author (hi there), has done enough due diligence. Sorry, Author.
With backdoors, which I'm not advocating for incidentally, the TLAs know they're being​ blackmailed and can intervene. Without that access politicians can still be blackmailed but it's harder for the TLAs to know about it.
Something I never really thought of but that definitely looks like the trend: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne...
It looks like they're charging 190 dollars a month for the full sports package. That seems insanely expensive. I don't know how it compares to the UK but with sky you can get their max tier bundle for ~90 pounds a month, and that gives you al their sports and movies channels. (Not that I think it's good value, but certainly better than 190 dollars plus tax!)
The German word, "Handy" is also good. They are very handy, after all.
Ok - imagine you are completely paralysed, or blind, or deaf, or all of the above.

Are you dead?

People do, and have experienced a there and back from this..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill

(also sleepin' dreamin')
If Soylent were a good idea it wouldn't need a $50M funding round at this point. People know about it. Most people I know who've tried it after a while didn't like it any more and abandoned it.

And now they've brought out flavors, basically turning it into an expensive meal replacement. It's ridiculous.
Kubernetes 1.6.2 generally available on Ubuntu
Sure, but then neither are neurons.
This thread is a bit removed from my original point, but, again, Godel's theorems really have nothing to do with reality. They have to do with very specific formal systems (and not even all formal systems, at that). I just don't really understand why invoking him is even relevant.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson is basically hard sci-fi directly inspired by Penrose's book "The Emperor's New Mind". Also one of my favorite books. :)
Anyone regularly drinking a six-pack of beer a night should seek medical help.

Anyone smoking a joint a night... I suppose that makes them a stoner?
Add in our need to reduce carbon output, locally produced products will have some advantage.
We only know how the human body reacts in 0g - and it's as bad as you say. But we don't know if 0.3g is bad. Humans might live perfectly fine in 0.3g, or it might be as bad as 0g. However, there's no data either way to make the claims you are making.
This sounds like a case of someone not reading the fine print, not doing their due diligence, and then complaining about their outcome. Which is fine, that's how most people go through life. But it's not particularly illustrative of a fundamental issue with AirBNB.
Windows Is Already Dead, It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet
Which would be an issue if Android came without any defaults and gave you a debilitating number of setup options.

But it doesn't, and the stress of choice is only undergone voluntarily when someone volunteers to choose. Otherwise, defaults are king.
Also a card holder and I'm very much looking forward to the movement into the mainstream so we can get rid of a lot of the hippish pseudoscience and actually have medical studies on the stuff.
Fortran is fast because there are US-Department-of-Defense-line-item scaled funds to pay for making it fast and there have been funds at that scale for more than half a century.
> Time and experience can never cover up for lack of expressiveness

Expressiveness is subjective. Experience can alter one's perception.

In fact, time and experience alter the basis of comparisons, from objective comparisons to subjective comparisons.

> No, they don't. Javascript and macro Basic do not even have enough expressiveness for supporting the kind of library you'll find in Haskell.

You mean you can express the idea of taking browser screenshot (for example) or producing a publisher acceptable document with the same kind of ease(expressiveness in my dictionary) in Haskell?

Again, without specifics, the comparisons does not mean much -- which was all I was commenting.

> But the sheer amount of hard stuff that becomes easy is unsettling.

Another meaningless subjective word (sheer). I wasn't debasing Haskell. I was commenting on the meaningless of original post.
That's great, but why shouldn't this be extended to computer displays? If we're going to acknowledge determinism, and that people's behaviors can be steered by triggers and feedback cycled through both ads and browsing activity orchestrated in tandem, why should this form of assault be legal if it has the same effect as intrusively injecting neurotransmitters into a victims brain physically? The sophistication and effectiveness of these techniques are only going to get more and more dystopian.
Is it possible to have something similar to this (http://youtubeonrepeat.com/youtube-repeat-button/) for Souregraph. I use Safari and there is no extension that allows me to instance view github repo in source graph.

Is it possible to use something to make this work?
Machine Learning 101: Decision Trees
Ask HN: What presentation framework do you use for the browser?
My last in-browser presentation was done in Reveal.js. Is this still the #1 framework for the job or do you recommend others?
I don't know, Rogue One had a droid typing on a keyboard /s
The parrot one is the best

https://youtu.be/QHk2ZA70qEk?t=294
Hi,

I'm also a big HN fan and I've been lurking around here for the last 10 years. Start your own firm, go get VC, someone will fund you. If you are at a well known company now someone will fund you.

Otherwise, expect more of the same for the next 20 years. I doubt anything will change. At least if you run your own firm you can work very cleverly, and over time build up $$ from equity in your own projects. Trust me, you will learn much more and faster at your own startup.
So let me say this to others who may be reading:

If you book something like this, and your expectations are not met and you call the company and they do not provide adequate compensation, do not bullshit with calling them back or tweeting their customer service or whatever. Tell them you are going to call your credit card company and dispute the charge. Period. Normally this is a magic keyword to immediately remedy the situation, and if the situation is still not fixed, then your credit card company will deal with it for you. This is particularly true if you have a high-end credit card like the Amex platinum or CSR. No need for you to screw around with bullshit customer service.

Example: GF and I booked a tour. Tour bus didn't show up. Called, emailed, no response. Called credit card company. Transaction reversed within 24 hours after the credit card company called and took care of the situation (CSR in this case).
> what if high intelligence doesn't require self-awareness

How could that work concretely? I'm struggling to think of how an agent could be intelligent, e.g. able to effectively achieve its goals, without being aware of itself.

I suspect that, if you could communicate with one, any sufficiently intelligent being would be aware that it's a thinking being.

What else does "self-awareness" encompass that I'm missing?
Show HN: Dartmouth College CS 52 – Full-Stack Web Development
Suffering is not a signal from a pain receptor, it's the conscious experience that results from that signal, or indeed from the much more complex inputs that can lead us into psychological anguish.

The feelings one might experience upon hearing of the death of a close friend are clearly not the result of a "nerve transmitting pain", but most people think they're pretty unpleasant nonetheless.

If an AI can experience similar anguish, then that's ethically relevant to how we use them.
This doesn't help if the bank shows your linked phone number when logged in.

You could also buy a dual SIM phone and buy a throwaway sim card with a phone number you do not share.
OP here. These answers are great! Feels like content marketing is a big winner so far.

If you'd rather not comment on this thread, I've also created a quick survey here:

https://tinymarketingwins.com/2017survey/
Maybe not alternative, the medical industry are in the process of converting the weed into several brands of pharmaceuticals based on extracts from the plants.

I was kind of surprised by that when i heard it but apparently the process of productification of is far enough in places like Denmark that medical marijuana pretty much exclusively refers to extracts with limited psychoactive effects.
Then consider yourself lucky.

And you probably shouldn't care, except for altruistic reasons :)
In my case it seems to be a random anxiety. I don't want to make calls. Oddly, I'm basically OK with receiving them, thought spam calls are unreasonably annoying.
Interface methods is an attempt to add traits to Java. I find it especially nice that interface methods are insulated between interfaces. I find traits a much better approach than traditional inheritance.

You can inherit from only one base class; if Java had multiple inheritance, as C++ has, a number of other problems would arise.
> the chances of using it for more than toy scripts are slim

If you are proficient in Haskell and willing to relocate, I believe there are some amazing opportunities for you. You'll work with really smart people and be innovating. I see investment banks, startups and defense contractors using this language. Interesting mix.

> you'll find it a hard sell

So was Ruby at some point. But oh boy how much quicker was I writing those web apps in 2005 because of it!

> try to avoid code that requires your coworkers to know abstract algebra and category theory in order to contribute to a project

Good quote. But it does not "summarizes functional languages well" in my opinion. It shows that you should keep the clever stuff in libraries, such that colleagues do not have to trip over it.
Wishful thinking. :) I'd say 1/8 oz a day (about 1 oz a week / 4 oz a month) would not be unusual for a single, heavy smoker/vaper with bigger amounts most certainly possible (depending on tolerance, way of consumption (efficiency), and quality of the flower). This is just for one person. Ounces range from around ~ $120 - $500 or more across the country (if bought in bulk). You really cannot underestimate tolerance. As far as I have been able to discern, there is no upper limit on it. At some point, you can consume all the cannabis you want and simply not get much higher. I have no doubt there are many people consuming (and possibly spending) way more than these numbers indicate too.
Perhaps you ought to take note of consumer debt, cost of education relative to income, cost of housing relative to income, cost of child care, cost of healthcare?

Yea, the country can chug along while population gets ever impoverished and averages can continue looking just peachy as the income gap grows.

I'll just throw in an anecdotal email from the local school district about how they will no longer permit elementary students to purchase lunch if their lunchroom balance is negative. Think about that next time you strut out the "exceptional country" argument.
>if the mind is deterministic how can we change our views

There's nothing incoherent here. Determinism doesn't mean you can't change your views, it just means that the change was not acausal in some manner. You can still form new beliefs from being exposed to new ideas. Determinism doesn't mean you are a static thing that can never grow and change with your environment, it just means that the dynamics of your changing person was written in the initial conditions of the universe. But at no time point do you have access to all future influences, and so you will still change as time passes.
Well, as long as you don't care about stopping any time soon, it still can accelerate a ship to one-fifth the speed of light...
The USB-C cable that comes with a MacBook's power adapter is not charge-only but only supports USB 2.0 throughput for data [0]. I think that means it also can't be used for things like DisplayPort Alternate Mode.

BTW, if you order an extra USB-C power adapter from Apple [1], it does not come with any cables, not USB-C, not AC for use between the brick and the wall. It only comes with the fold-out prongs (I don't know what non U.S. models are like) but thankfully they didn't change that connector type so if you have an AC cable from a MagSafe adapter, you can use it.

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLL82AM/A/usb-c-charge-ca...

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNF72LL/A/61w-usb-c-power...
What's the difference between async/await and a future? I've only used futures, but async/await looks like exactly the same thing: You're forking a thread (green or otherwise) to do some stuff and to set a flag of some sort when it's done so you can check on it. Right?
> the consumer should approach it as if they are taking on risk that some number of reservations will fail, and you'll have to pay a premium to find lodging.

While that may be true now, that's a pretty shitty deal to actually have to take as the norm. Having to always have a backup plan makes travel budgeting unpredictable for a lot of people.

I'd be curious to see what the rates are on reservations falling through, also compared to the same rates for the hotel industry.
Blitzcode.net
>Search in Keyboard Shortcuts editor is improved to support all possible terms for modifier keys in corresponding platforms.
meta, cmd, command, windows
ctrl, control
alt, option
shift

Except `super` :)
Cop Stages body-cam footage, prosecutors drop drug charges
Haskell does have some corporate adoption. Facebook uses it, and one of their Clojure based projects just switched over to Haskell.

https://wit.ai/blog/2017/05/01/new-duckling
The animation and silliness is absurd, but I've definitely seen people choose Dominoes over similar cheap-tier national delivery chains based solely on the tracker.

When you order PJ or PH, you get a "maybe in 30-45 minutes" email, but D gets you the "out for delivery" notification.

The only thing better is Postmates/UberEats style tracking of delivery drivers so you can track progress in real time.
Anyone know where I can find the Slideshare?
(OP here)

I do say it's not that big of a deal in the end: it almost always is OK and at the end you optimize the inner loops by looking at profiles; like in any other project.

But when using GHC, I have indeed sometimes ran into situations where I expect something to be fast when it is not (e.g., `ByteString.map (+ value)` is incredibly slow compared to a pseudo-C loop).

I also did find a bona fides performance bug in GHC https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11783
> Automated small batch production could even make things like ordering the exact same shirt you bought 10 years ago affordable.

Automated production does not imply that setting up the production line is automated. You can't just reconfigure a production line because you don't have machinery on standby (these would be dead assets in the 10 MM range). High precision molds used for Lego, for example, are in the 250000 EUR range. You don't have these laying around and cannot order special tools with a lead time of less that a quarter year.
Four new Videogame Hall of Fame inductees shaped gaming industry and pop culture
What do you do about phone interviews?
VS code is improving faster than any other IDE / programmer's editor. I wonder what sort of team size is behind it, and how long microsoft will keep funding that team on something that doesn't earn them any money. I also wonder what the end game is with respect to the regular visual studio, because as VS code picks up plugins and features it is covering more and more of the IDE feature space, and eventually the difference is going to come down to how it feels to use, not what it can do.
> If you ignore mem issues you can also reason about the performance of Haskell :)

Really? My guess (based on close to complete ignorance) would be that laziness would make reasoning about performance hard. Can you ELI5 why my guess is wrong?
Majorly cheap, but you're also highlighting a massive bystander effect. "What hope do I, one citizen, have of changing anything?"

The other point is (arguably) that government should not be risking bankruptcy for the sake of innovation. Which in the cases of government bankruptcy, was not the reason for insolvency anyway. So then it comes back to mismanagement, where maybe the better analog is personal bankruptcy. If an individual came to you and said they were declaring bankruptcy because they had spent more than they made for the last 20 years, you probably wouldn't have much sympathy.
I highly recommend Quora as a marketing channel. It's worth exploring for your subject. Some areas aren't great, but some are very good. Mine (interviewing, salary negotiations) is particularly good on Quora because people have LOTS of questions about those things.

You could just search for a few terms in your area of expertise and see what comes up. You'll know pretty quickly if there are a lot of questions about it, or if Quora might not work for you.
> It's not the "financial guys" forcing everyone to sign up for the huge amounts of per-capita debt we're now up to.

Except that the price of houses rise when everyone else can take out loans beyond their ability to pay. You can't opt out of this game.

Not to mention that most of the people defaulting on their mortgages had the ability to pay - until they lost their jobs. Which they lost because of other people defaulting on their mortgages. The economy was a tinderbox.
The HTTP/2 client is incubator only [1]. Strictly speaking it's not part of Java 9. But that's not a big deal because ALPN is part of Java 9 so you can use 3rd party clients.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/110
Sure they can. They can provide an ad-free (well let's say ad-lite), HD, low latency stream for an affordable price, without awful hidden charges or long contracts.

It's been a long time since I tried the illegal streaming websites, but when I did, they were awful experiences; low quality streams with heavy buffering, multiple timeouts, full screen pop up ads. Some of them required a captcha before trying each stream, and if it didn't work, tough luck.

Compared to Netflix, where (assuming they have the content) you get a HD stream, no interruptions, minimal ads, at a reasonable price point.
Honest question - as a non-user who has dabbled in pain-dampening aids, how effective is it? In particular, there is this great scene in American Beauty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpsmoAe9pM ) where Lester smokes pot while bench-pressing. Is it much better than taking aspirin ( the A in the ECA stack ) ?
My trainer in India used to come drunk to sessions - he said whiskey dampened all the pain. So he had great arms but a big belly too! But these days ganja is freely available & you can see the results everywhere - Instagram is filled with 6-pack models vying for their chance in Bollywood, & most of them do weed from what I hear.
Unethical behavior: let people decide with their wallets.
Marathon runners eat during the race