skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was mentioned at the very start of the 2nd link (see "superior good") and it's true virtually everywhere in the long run (especially in developed countries with reasonably reliable growth in disposable incomes and where we have pretty reliable data). If we want to identify systems that might allow us to contain costs on the margins knowing who spends least or the most is not informative in and of itself. Rather we should be interested in residuals with the best model, as in, who is furthest below trend (as a function of comprehensive consumption or disposable income), what plausibly explains this, and whether are we actually willing and able to implement those sorts of features in our system....

Incidentally these patterns are not only found in health care, the basket of goods has changed and continues to change as countries get richer:
https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/towa...
I want Apple Music to just play my fucking music. When I'm driving in my car, trying to manipulate the buttons, etc, is almost impossible and in a rage I turn it off. There is so much fucking swiping and hitting small buttons it's tremendously frustrating.

I usually listen to music in my car, as opposed to in the office, so I want big buttons and easy navigation. Does no one have an app that is designed specifically for car use?
> How can Oracle get to this point in the process without more buy in from the community?

Not trying to be snarky, but you've never worked with Oracle, have you? Their modus operandi is to literally make whatever it is they want, then kick it out the door and tell everyone: look at what we did, deal with it. They have absolutely no idea how to collaborate. With partners or customers. They've had 20+ years of "our way or the highway". The house Larry built.
Quran recital provides multiple services
Lame Grammar Startup Raises Stupid Amount of Money
Rails 5.1 introduced assert_changes and assert_no_changes
I'm not offended. I am happy to talk to open minded static typing advocates. I myself am not really sure where I sit.

You're right, I haven't used ocaml or haskell in production. I did use F# though, which seems to be in the same ballpark as those languages in terms of having algebraic data types and inference and all the rest. I suppose the fact that I still don't really grok polymorphic variants after reading the real world ocaml a few times may say something about my ability, motivation, or at the very least how my brain is wired.

Fundamentally though, a type system is a restriction meant to help the programmer. This restriction must inevitably put you down a certain road when you explore stuff, right?
For others who aren't familiar with Java's governing structure,

EC = Executive Committee

https://www.jcp.org/en/home/index
I would love to read a detailed explanation of the packaging process for iOS and Android.
Jigsaw would have helped thousands of developers. Yes it does not solve all use cases, but no none of the use cases are solved.

Killed for political reasons because OSGi/IBM/Redhat and money. What the OSGi evangelists would not understand is how Jigsaw does not aim to solve the same problems as OSGi.

Bonus: If OSGi was a good thing, most developers would use it after decades of existence compared to practically noone. Which proves that OSGi does not solve the problems of the mainstream developer, which means making Jigsaw into OSGi-NG is not the way to go.
Mobile operators can scan your SMS messages just as Google can scan Gmail (etc.)...
Report: 77% of All Detected Ransomware Targeted Four Industries
Quran Recital provides multiple services for the woman who wants to learn to recite the Quran in the traditional way. Quran Recital can provide short half hour lessons to fit into your lunch schedule, or longer hour lessons for when you have longer periods available. We will find a course and class that will suit your scheduling needs.

We provide all our courses online, through Skype. Our lessons are private, one on one, not group based. Because of this, you’ll enjoy having the full focus of the teacher during your scheduled time.
The other security industry. Not IT security.
NASA has datasets that are easy to integrate into maps. See https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/
You can expect to write software with a long (10+ years) shelf life in astronomy. Especially if you write observatory infrastructure code. Things like data-flow software, science archive code, pipelines etc. Also most end-user analysis software tends to stick around for a long time: in some cases 20+ years, which of course is good and bad.
> Or at least announced quite publicly that loans originated after a particular date could not have their interest deducted

That would probably cause a crash in the housing market and leave many homeowners underwater on their mortgages. Phasing it out gradually seems like a better approach to me.
U.S. mulls widening electronics carry-on ban to European airports
Correct. Java's >>> is unsigned, since it's a logical shift, but there's no corresponding unsigned division.

Here's a clearer example of how GCC handles the different cases of signed vs unsigned division and shifting: https://godbolt.org/g/glC97v

Note that the signed division is the most expensive, but it still doesn't resort to a full divide instruction.
I was surprised to learn that. I always assumed it was K2 because it's widely said to be the most difficult peak to climb.

The one quote I found online from Ed Viesturs:

"Annapurna is all about objective danger, it's all about the glacial architecture. There are these big ice cliffs and seracs, and the question is: are the seracs leaning forward or leaning back? It comes down to that." His account of the Annapurna climb and his earlier failed attempt on Annapurna is chronicled in his new book, Himalayan Quest: No Shortcuts to the Top.

http://blog.stadum.com/2007/02/annapurna-most-dangerous-moun...
How the Henry Jackson Society Promotes Anti-Muslim Bigotry
We’ve taken on the issue of Honour Killings in the past and exposed the hypocrisy and double standards of the anti-Muslim brigades who seem to think it is a “Muslim only” problem. The piece below eviscerate a recent smear by the likes of Robert Spencer and his echo chamber in the Islamophobe-sphere that was making the rounds, claiming that there was an “alarming rise of ‘Muslim honour attacks in the UK.”

How the Henry Jackson Society promotes anti-Muslim bigotry

Media coverage of the police figures for so-called “honour” crimes in the UK, revealed by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation in association with the Guardian, was generally fairly balanced, avoiding the Islamophobic stereotyping of the Muslim community that you might have anticipated...

The exception was the Daily Mail, which headlined its report “Alarming rise of Muslim ‘honour attacks’ in the UK”. This irresponsible accusation against British Muslims was predictably endorsed by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch (“The Daily Mail headline goes straight for the elephant in the room: this is largely a phenomenon within Muslim communities in Britain”), while his friend Pamela Geller of course agreed (“As Muslim immigration increases, so does sharia, misogyny and gendercide”).

Full post: http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/12/how-the-henry-jackson-society-promotes-anti-muslim-bigotry/
How we convinced everyone to care about technical performance
or_fail_with("") ?
Denali is pretty bad as well.
"they sit a lot and listen a lot"

For most of our couple hundred thousand year existence as a species we've been very successful using every learning technique except "sit down shut up and listen for a couple hours". In fact we've only done it for about a century almost exclusively with lower to middle class white European kids and all that's certain about that technique is its mostly resulted in the production of a lot of cannon fodder and factory (now cubical) drones. For most of our species history the shut up and listen technique has been limited to religion and brainwashing; perhaps there is no difference.

Its likely that what we arrogantly claim is education or training is merely implantation of weird religious beliefs via brainwashing, as opposed to actual education. Does it matter if the kid mindlessly repeats that 2+2=4, or the kid irrationally believes 2+2=4, or the kid understands how 2+2=4? In a world where all that matters is the correct oval is filled in on the endlessly growing number of standardized tests, I'm not optimistic anyone is learning anything other than to fill in ovals and parrot a belief in whatever this hour's authority claims is today's truth. Until tomorrow when it'll all be different.

This might explain how some new grads are so hopelessly useless in that perhaps they absorbed the "true believer" aesthetic and therefore were passed along, but they were never actually educated, never actually learned, perhaps algebra, or programming, or philosophy, or politics, or any other topic.

"I learned how to tell the teacher what they wanted to hear, then forgot it as completely as possible so as to endlessly repeat" could result in a very successful student career yet not so successful post-graduation.
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> the US is switching slowly.

As a US citizen who is a metric fan and loves using it, in what way? The government did switch - in the 70s - according to its own statutes, it had to.

It has crept up in various places (and I find it hilarious) innoculously, like in 2 liters of soda, or in how computer processors are talked about in mm² die areas.

But the average American still uses imperial units religiously, anywhere they approach a problem involving any unit of measurement they always default to imperial, and having a 14 year old brother I see no change in his education or habits to indicate a slow transition of mindshare. The government moved decades ago, but the people aren't moving at all.

I get the impression it is much like high school language classes - you learn it once early on, never practice it, and by the time you are a full adult you have completely forgotten it. I'm not sure how to improve the situation to actually get the people to start using international standards, because if you were to start trying to force it on the supply side people would just not buy metric tools and information because they forgot it back in primary school.
>There's no supply issue.

Oh, but there is! FTA:

>"One client called to complain the software was malfunctioning. A competitor across the street had slashed prices in a promotion, but the algorithm responded by raising prices. There wasn’t a bug. Instead, the software was monitoring the real-time data and saw an influx of customers, presumably because of the long wait across the street."

Maybe the only way this gas station can stay in business (add supply) is to charge congestion premiums.
This rule got so much press 7 years ago that it will be one of those "truths" about a platform that never dies on internet forums, that and the Playstation platforms using OpenGL as their primary API...
I love Apple Music and he perfectly captures my frustrations with it. Beats 1 and Curated playlists are my favorite thing yet there are so many simple things I can't do. Reminders for shows. Easy navigation to shows I always listen to. Being able to add something to my library which won't work because some Curated playlist I have already have it added. I hope iOS 11 deals with many of these problems. To know that someone else shares my frustrations gives me hope that Apple does too.
THat's not my experience with F#, I've used it with EF and .net core 1.1, and VS. I've been extremely happy and had little to none of the issues you listed.
There is a github link in the article with both things: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq

Google and Deepmind released a lot of stuff, I don't feel I have the right to complain about it.
I used to work at a Wawa gas station where the manager would occasionally send someone out to check the station down the street and make sure we were still undercutting them by a few cents. I assumed that was pretty standard in the industry.
Some talks from the last year:

Ladder (life insurance) - https://youtu.be/qijWBPYkRAQ

Apex Data Solutions - https://youtu.be/wR2kYn-7ijQ

Sandia National Labs (research lab) - https://youtu.be/RB65-zYLNSY

Cisco - https://youtu.be/8rRzESy0X2k

DataStax - https://youtu.be/wfrajaEyNX0

Audyx (web-based sonograms) - https://youtu.be/K6ZoF3CHsa0

Latacora (crypto) -https://youtu.be/Lf-M1ZH6KME

Nubank (banking) - https://youtu.be/aw6y4r4NAlw

HCA (healthcare) - https://youtu.be/OxUHgP4Ox5Q

Center for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge - https://youtu.be/-NebRpbMTK8

Zimpler (payments) - https://youtu.be/s0QG3QCV1LY
It's amazing that the Apple TV is considered a turd. They seemingly did everything right. Support for third party apps, an awesome remote, decent power. Aside from missing 4k, what makes it such a turd?
Haven't worked on Clojure for a few years but would love to know more details about your Hackathon
Neat! I was just complaining about the lack of multiplatform Rust games proving out the concept. If only there were some consoles or handhelds on the list... although iOS/Android being on the list is somewhat encouraging.
> If your IPC is < 1.0, you are likely memory stalled,

depends on the workload.
Amazon are strangling the Alexa ecosystem in other ways. They have a strangely parochial attitude to international usage. Phillipines? India? China? Japan? Germany? France? Russia? Korea? Forget it, you're not welcome to develop for this platform.

You can't buy one, and if you try developing for it, you can't test or demo anything that is location-based.

And this is why the Echo will ultimately lose the market to every other voice assistant.
Now I have to rewrite my arcade game emulator in rust just so I can use that to load rom images...
I upvoted because this does sound interesting, but as another commenter said, at the moment it appears to be vaporware (or at least invite-only, since they ask people to email code@radiant.earth). Is there something real behind this or is it a scam to get newsletter subscriptions?
BuildZoom is hiring
The Echo Show’s killer feature is next-level FaceTime
He used to be a postdoc at MIT when I was doing my PhD in String Theory. I remember him as an extremely snobby person, but an incompetent physicist.
>.NET Standard is a standard that the 3 different implementations of .NET try implement (.NET, .NET Core and Mono). Any implementation of .NET Standard can add in extra functionality, hence superset, it's a bit silly.

It's actually pretty smart if it's implemented correctly (Which it's not, there is another article floating around the moment which says that .net standard isn't working correctly because people pick and choose what to implement anyway).

So the .net standard is essentially like "interfaces" in code. It says, if you want to say you are .net standard 1.6 you must implement these things.

When you go to write a library and you want to release it to the masses. You would normally have to go "OK, do I want to write this for .net core or .net framework?". With .net standard you can write it in a way that you know that a call to some method will always be there no matter what platform is actually running the library.

A bit more info here : http://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2017/01/13/net-standard-vs-ne...
No. Even in the cases where the adword result is at the top and the exact same result is right below it, I choose to click the non-ad version.

That situation is, in fact, a classic example of why adwords results are not relevant, ever. Either the actual google search result is literally the same as the ad word result, or the google result is more on point.

Never has there been a case where the ad word result has been what I wanted, but Google couldn't find it, and that's not surprising because Google is the one assembling both the search results and the ads, so if they can't find it in the search they also can't find an ad for it.
glycolysis and the citric acid cycle
You're right in specific areas.

Medical is fucked. Primarily, because of complete opaqueness in everything, and heavy regulatory control over many parts. We could either use a whole lot of socialism here, or a whole lot of capitalism here. Cause right now, we have the worst of each with none of the gains.

Education is also fucked. Except this is good ol' protectionism straight up. We need look no further than the laws that forbid bankruptcy on school debt. Only one other area shares that distinction: criminal debt as a part of a punishment. Once these laws were enacted, school spending/loans/building/spending loop was going to spiral out of control. They have a captive audience, and they know it. And, a simple fix? Re-allow bankruptcy. It'd certainly be painful for the schools... but what's that phrase? "Market Correction"?

I do still think you're wrong, overall. Cheap goods don't do a damn bit of good when people don't have money. And where we're going, AI applications and robotics are going to eat a lot of things quickly. I'm just waiting for the trucking industry to go "poof".. But you know, cheap goods.. With jobless, moneyless workers displaced who can't afford even cheap.
While I hate to interfere with any Microsoft bashing, the use of system32 is actually because too many 3rd party apps didn't bother calling "GetSystemDirectory()" and just assumed it was system32. And Wow64 is Windows On Windows 64, a subsystem for making non 64 bit apps run on 64 bit Windows. So that one will remain properly named until SysWow128 comes about.
I suspect Apple would like you to be using CarPlay rather than using an interface specifically not meant to be used while driving.
> Tab is LESS lossy than traditional sheet music because it encodes the string as well as the pitch.

But it doesn't encode the note type, right? All the tab books I've bought don't differentiate between whole notes, quarter notes, etc... So that seems pretty lossy. Look at any guitar fake book for an example.

Plus, I never looked at tablature as a literal transcription. That's why I would describe it as a more of a framework. Like you say, a note can be played in a lot of different places. Once you internalize the fretboard logic, when you see an A in the tab, you play the one you think will sound right or is physically accessible.
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Probably just hedging their bets. But they definitely want their own horse to win the race.
Soylent is exactly that - it's kibble for humans.

And there's nothing wrong with that. It's great to enjoy your meals, but you don't always get an opportunity for that.
There are definitely use cases for them. I was talking to a nurse the other day who was trying to track someone down on campus and she lamented "I wish we could just go back to our old Nextels".
And not "securities" (i.e., financial instruments), which is what I thought from the headline.
This is actually a relatively common technique for resetting local Administrator passwords in the event that they're forgotten.
I'm using it for web development as well as backend services for large data pipelines and some ETL. I've also used ClojureScript in production, for an entire web stack built in Clojure(Script).
Yes - my Dash finally died last year, which I mourned. This looks like the next gen.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-HIDC10-Personal-Discontinued-Man...
Alexa is coming to cars (at least from Ford):

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/ford-turning-cars-amazon-alexa...
It seems that the possibility of death plays a large part in the appeal of something like this. This makes me wonder in the future if we will have VR games that will actually kill you if you fail.
This is amazing news for DatosIO and validates thus solution in the marketplace
While include_bytes is nice, xxd -i in a makefile is pretty workable solution in the scale of things.
I wonder if, now that the costs of satellite launches are starting to come down and camera-equipped drones are commonplace, it might be feasible in the near future to start building up a truly open collection of satellite and aerial imagery for use in projects like OpenStreetMap.
Type-safe Datalog in OCaml
I didn't compare them in that sense. I only compared how easy it is to get started with.
They share some concepts, like being functional languages and having good type systems.

Elm definitely helped me understand many concepts in OCaml and Haskell. But to go beyond that, it's difficult.
Quran Recital also provides lessons for children. If you want to give your child the experience of learning to recite the Quran using Tajweed (traditional ways to recite), Quran Recital can provide this experience.
And please AUTO PLAY the last thing I was listening to when the phone connects to bluetooth or at least when the app opens.

If I'm listening to a radio station when I shut off my bluetooth device I want it to start playing again as soon as I connect to that device again (or open the app via a voice command).

I don't want to touch my phone and I don't have any car specific hardware.
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Wasn't BartPE all the rage back then, though?
Similar tool (textarea + localstorage) on HN few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14285740 (Show HN: Nute – A super simple writing app)
And Tahoe (light snow) and Seattle (rain/fog) and a couple of other places. Sure, most testing has been in the Bay Area (although at this point I'm not actually sure if that's the case anymore).
Same here. We'd get a call informing us of a price change. The station I worked at typically followed the price movements of a station down the street.
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*Ooma likely, e.g. Ooma Telo.

Didn't know GV integrated w/ it though, cool.
Google Music allows you to upload your own music, and has a near seamless integration of personal library and streaming. GM at least covers the use case of personal music across all devices, mixed with streaming. Not sure about iTunes Match as I've never used it.
World's First Zero Emission, Fully-Autonomous Containership Planned for 2020
Every time I hear about the Canadian tech screen I hear about how salaries are low there. It's a shame. Also, having been to both cities, it seems like someone leaving SV could go to Seattle before they go up to Vancouver. And I've heard Toronto is basically a newer New York, with increasing costs of living. Montréal would be pretty nice, but English language laws...
The age is why patents expire.

I think the copyright on code should be as short as patents. Nice and simple.

Law is hard to do right. Some parts do good and some parts don't. The first few years of code copyright do good. As far as I know the rest of those years don't.
The Startup CTO’s Guide to Ops (1 of 3): Guiding Principles
Jupyter/IPython + https://github.com/catherinedevlin/ipython-sql is a wonderful workflow for interactive DB exploration.
My (ex-)team at https://www.goopti.com used Clojure for the entire data infrastructure, all the machine learning and exploratory data science.

I've given a couple of talks about our experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLXmGeuoOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmggfGD3RQ&index=6&list=PLe...
Sounds like someone should find a way to disrupt VC.
...on television.
That is a good point. I did a quick internet search, and it looks like the max number of years for cliff vestings is now 3 years, which for most people is fairly reasonable. For gradual vesting, it looks like they can spread it out over 6 years, which seems a bit much, but at least you are vesting some of it over time.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
That feature has been added in the last few hours :) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cphp%...
A Priest, a Guru, and a Nerd-King Walk into a Conference Room