skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average travel time seems to be about 25 minutes in the US (https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acs-15.pdf) so I suspect that for most of the driving that people actually do the Model 3 will be more than adequate. The problem is what counts as a day trip in the US is much further than in the UK. Of course you could just rent an ICE car for longer journeys. I have a colleague in Raleigh NC who rents a car when he drives to Florida (long weekend, not day trip) even though he has a perfectly good car of his own. His reasoning is that he can often get special offers so it is cheap, reduced wear an tear on his own vehicle, and if an incident occurs he won't have much to do and no impact on his car insurance.
How you learned a second language influences the way your brain works
My wife and her aunt just had a conversation about this recently. It boiled down to this phrase in the end: "That's not going to work for me." Whenever she has to tell someone "no" and knows they're likely to argue, that's the answer she gives. When they ask why, she just repeats it until they realize that the answer is obvious but would be rude to say.

Personally, I think it's still rude, but it works for her in ways that being bluntly rude don't.

I had a manager who told me for about a year straight that I had to stop telling people "no" so bluntly, but instead offer other suggestions for their problem. She said I was just shutting them down, and they ... felt bad or something. I forget what she said. The point was that I shouldn't just shut them down, but I should try to help them with their problem.

This was so hard for me to learn because when I ask a question, I really do want the answer to that question, and it infuriates me when they dance around it or try to guess what question I really want to ask and answer that. Newsflash: That was it. I'm very literal.
Apple releases a minor upgrade to Final Cut Pro X and iMovie
Sorry, but on this one given my comments history, I am with Kate Gregory.

C style code has only one place, unsafe C++ coding for optimization purposes, only after validated through the use of a profiler.

In 99% of the applications it is usually irrelevant for what the users are expecting, and there are even some nice talks at Nokia Wrocław conferences, where the presenter was able to generate better compacter code with modern C++ instead of classical C code.

It was the C mentality brought into C++, back when learning C before C++ was the only path as C compilers were adding C++ support, that brought the daily CVEs we nowadays endure in such codebases.
How is Musk going to pull the M.3 out of the Silicon Valley limelight? It has a car image for those types of people rather than for regular honest hard-working folk. At the same time he has to sell the Model S to pull in profits. His other problem is, the number of people who can afford the Model S is shrinking while the wealth gap continually increases... even if he leaves the pricing static, which is why he needs the Model 3. The Model S looks like more like a car for "wall street lackeys", yuppies and hipsters. Even worse, it looks like a car made specifically for silicon valley and US' middle and upper management. Now you know what the Model 3 looks like...

The gutsy move was to leave himself exposed in that market, while no one made a move... but does he want to move his elitist image? Sure that kind of image works to sell it in Norway, Scandinavia, and the US' wealthy class... but he has to fashion his company into a socialist type of entity dependent on the government just like the big three.
Anything at all relevant to the role - same language, same functionality at least.

Ideally things like good tests, good code structure, personally I'd also like to see a stable language choice too - if you're jumping from one language to the next to the next I'll probably assume you're going to want to rewrite everything in the new hotness every other week and that's a pain in the arse.

Associated blog posts that explain how your code works and why though? I'd put your name to the top of the "get this person in" list on the spot
Yeah this law is very unclear. Probably written by tech-agnostic folks, mostly.

The intention is mainly to prevent tracking without permission (so maybe 'no-tracking law' may have been a better name), no matter how you technically implement that. Obviously this concerns social media and analytics (not only third-party).

It's weird how the law states that a website must ask specific permission, given that (modern) browsers support the Do Not Track HTTP header [1]. IMO this would've been much more friendly to visitors (i.e. decide once if you want to get tracked or not; it's mostly the same few parties (Facebook, Google, et al) tracking you anyway).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
It is been awhile, I know Apple is mainly Objective-C/Swift shop but given the C++ use on IO Kit and Metal shaders I thought XCode had improved meanwhile.
Yep. Wasn't FB committed in removing fake news? Now it's explicitly inviting bias.

Buzzfeed is the new reincarnation of Gawker.
been safely driving a van with 140km/h top-speed on the autobahn just fine for years - there might be a correlation between the maximum speed of a car and the owners inability to drive safely, but the explanation is probably more a psychological than a technical one ..

your mindset is quite common among german car makers though, maybe the reason they are unable to offer competitive answers to a technologically rather boring challenge - bringing down the price for electronic vehicles by mass production
I found out about this through a comment on my website, that includes a simple example of how to use it:

https://lee-phillips.org/chicks/#comments
Did the Turkish President’s Security Detail Attack Protesters in Washington?
To me on the Desktop only graph it looks like Chrome is meant to be a logarithmic growth curve not an exponential one. It seems he wanted the data to fit the projections rather than the projections fit the data.
See also problog : https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/problog/

ProbLog2 is our second generation engine to reason with the ProbLog language. The current engine builds on logic programming, knowledge compilation, the distribution semantics and probabilistic, graphical models. It allows you to:

- Compute marginal probabilities of any number of ground atoms in the presence of evidence.

- Learn the parameters of the ProbLog program from partial interpretations.

-Sample from a ProbLog program.

-Solve decision theoretic problems
Why do you need to work there 2-5 more years if you're about to get acquired?

Why can't you cash in as soon as you are acquired and go pack bags in walmart?
I never used yarn, but I just did some research about the changes in comparison to yarn.
Well, actually they are more similar now, obviously (saving by default for example). In terms of speed, npm has improved as well (https://twitter.com/passcod/status/860437637764571140). Even though npm still seems to be slower than yarn (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1re-AGrTOf4zmnXXDMTG1...). At the end, I'd say it's about personal preference, they both get the job done.
JBuilder: a new build system for OCaml and Reasonml
> I imagine piping in bash feels similar...

It is. Piping is akin to an untyped subset of working with Scala's collections, and there's a similar workflow between the two, e.g.:

In bash, you build up a command line with something like (as a stupid example, the number of unique file sizes in a directory):

Step 1) $ ls -l
Step 2) $ ls -l | awk '{print $5}'
Step 3) $ ls -l | awk '/\d+/ {print $5}'
Step 4) $ ls -l | awk '/\d+/ {print $5}' | sort -n
Step 5) $ ls -l | awk '/\d+/ {print $5}' | sort -n | uniq

You can see the correspondence with collections--typically building up in the editor in a similar staged manner ending with something like:

Process("ls -l").lines // ls -l part
.map(_.split("\\s+")) // awk part {
.filter(_.length > 4) // ...
.map(_.apply(4).toInt) // }
.sorted // sort -n part
.distinct // uniq part

The tradeoffs between the two are essentially verbosity versus data safety (perhaps not important with a throwaway inspection, but more important when working on larger programs...).

However, the building process is the same--you don't write the latter all at once, you gradually mold the pipeline until you get the output you want.
Even when ignoring the weird claim about materialism unable to explain consciousness, what makes you think that Christianity is the answer and not some other non-materialist view?
Yes, in the TTML2 spec https://www.w3.org/TR/ttml2/#embedded-content-vocabulary-chu...
Everyone has potential to turn it around and get awesome at their job. This leads to the hand wringing and delays he is taking about. But if you are hiring senior leadership with experience ... You probably expect they have figured out a lot of their work practices already. Other commenters are pointing out that juniors typically take time to flourish and that's normal.

Lars is focused on the fact that keeping a senior employee who gives you a bad feeling that things are not working out is actively harmful to your company. Whether they turn into a rockstar later in a different context that big of a deal if you replace them with somebody who is at lest not causing good employees to leave.
Do you really need to overtake someone doing 130 km?
FYI I heard this first had from a DeepMind employee.
This is interesting. Potentially, inserting the "because" keyword could enhance the effect.

See [1] "The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of `Placebic` Information in Interpersonal Interaction".

> Langer had people request to break in on a line of people waiting to use a busy copy machine on a college campus. The researchers had the people use three different, carefully worded requests to break in line:

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine?” [60% compliance]

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine, because I have to make copies?” [93% compliance]

> “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the xerox machine, because I’m in a rush?” [94% compliance]

> Using the word “because” and giving a reason resulted in significantly more compliance. This was true even when the reason was not very compelling (“because I have to make copies"). The researchers hypothesize that people go on “automatic” behavior or “mindlessness” as a form of a heuristic, or short-cut. And hearing the word “because” followed by a reason (no matter how lame the reason is), causes us to comply.

So, maybe:

"Can you just take on $LARGE_TASK?" -> "No, because $RANDOM. But I can put you in contact with X, because $RANDOM"

"Can you fix dinner?" -> "No, because $RANDOM. Maybe we can cook something together after?"

---

[1] https://jamesclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/copy-machi...
Npm v5.0.0
Seems like their catching up to Yarn, and finally they are there. I'm happy to ditch Yarn and go back to NPM once it's as good.
Clearly my experience is not normal, but chrome is on its way out in my life. On Android, I've been pushed to Firefox for ad blocking, while on Windows it's such a battery hog that I've switched to edge almost completely (they finally added ad blocking.)
Secure Messaging Scorecard:a full review of trending apps
I'm not sure what you're hinting at, but it sounds like the current state of UK politics has you exasperated.

Still, the UK is objectively doing alright these days, and objectively has a monarchy :)
We use ammonite everyday! Its a great tool!

Li has a patreon I advise anyone using ammonite to checkout!

https://www.patreon.com/lihaoyi
Bootstrap a Zero Configuration React App with Neutrino
VitamineD verbetert denkvermogen en doet studenten beter presteren
I've never really been convinced by these kind of grandiose abstract messages.

I think our best bet to actually convince a hypothetical future civilisation not to dig it up is an understated "FYI: This is radioactive waste. It's a pile of worthless stuff that will make you sick." in a few major languages. If we add more ceremony to the message, they may more likely to understand it, but I think they'll be less inclined to believe it. Why would we spend so much effort to protect something worthless?

And ultimately, how much is it worth to prevent a few excavators in the far future getting radiation poisoning? And for that matter how likely is the hypothetical series of events needed for this to happen? I think like many things to do with radiation, we're vastly overweighting the risks involved.
Cmake is acceptable for distribution, but not for ease of development, in my experience. There should only be a single step needed to generate a correct build, no matter what has changed. Instead, some changes require running make (e.g. modifying existing files), while others require running cmake then make (e.g. adding new files, or changing header file includes). Why would I use cmake when I could just write a makefile to handle everything in a single step?

Granted, I've been moving more towards scons lately, as python is a much easier language to work with. My usual SConstruct will check whether I am making a python extension module, and will download pybind11 if I am. That sort of thing is still possible with make, but starts getting more painful.
Blog on NLP, Data science and predictive analytics
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001)
We do both.

Right now it's a split of app and desktop. If you have the leverage on the OEMs, teradici clients are cheapest, but they are at the edge of not having sufficient lifespan for us. There are newer Intel devices that are getting close that we're using on a trial basis.

I can't get into specific dollars, but all-in the cost for VDI delivery is about 10% more, and we end up in the black with a longer client device cycle (which basically skips a rollout cycle) and dropping field service contracts -- FedEx is cheaper than a tech.

We're big enough that the component makers are willing to discount parts like CPUs for us though. Our pricing is generally 18 months cheaper than the market.
Its amazing for anything internal,

I import it using sbt/ivy and load the console/run an ssh session!
Well, for the sake of precision, its own sovereign money is never going to be the problem for a state: you can always make more.

What they had was less real resources.
On the Autobahn.. Yes.
Loved the idea, but I would prefer if it was a ready-to-use web product. Not something I have to install myself, complete with a db and server. Even a desktop app would be better.
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (2014)
Best part:

>Although it will be our newest vehicle, Model 3 is not “Version 3” or the most advanced Tesla. Like Model S, it is designed to be the safest car in its class.

Gotta applaud the honesty.
Do you intend to say that mathematics is different from UK to USA? Do they have integers?
New insights into the ancestors of all complex life
In _Understanding Human Error_, Sidney Dekker points to a study done at the time (many decades ago) that within an industry, the guys with the most frequent small accidents had the least frequent big accidents. Of course at the time, it was not fully known that covering up small incidents would mean you almost inevitably faced a catastrophe.

Just an interesting thing.
Utility of Go plug-ins diminished by vendored dependencies
Great work! I've replaced npm with yarn for development because it seems to install packages about 10x faster than npm.

Has npm 5 caught up in speed yet?
Some funerals are attended by a large number of people.
"ADU" appears to be bureaucrat-speak for "inhabited garden shed"?

At least the one in the article photo looks rather nice and a reasonable single-person dwelling, but too much of this kind of thing results in London-style near-invisible rental slums. :(
It was important for me back in my university days, when I was still living in family home. Now, when I visit my mother, I just block off that chunk of a day (preferably the last part of the day, because conversations with her and my younger brother are so interesting I stay hours longer than I planned...).

Anyway, for people from Poland who might find the essay useful, here's the translation: http://esejepg.pl/eseje/makersschedule.html. There are also some others (in particular, I wanted to have "What You'll Wish You'd Known" available too, to show to my younger siblings).

(I'd also love to get some help with translating more of the essays. After some personal issues back some 4 years ago I lost the drive to continue the work; since then, however, I've been told those translations are actually being printed out and given to people in some business classes, which sounds like they're useful to someone.)
What+is+Ethereum?+A+Step-by-Step+Beginners+Guide
a) take a break, month or two if you need to and appoint someone that will handle your d2d business in the meantime.

b) exercise more. I cannot stress this one out more!!!

c) wait until the company is sold and move to a new project. Negotiate that you will be only an advisor(maybe only for the following year) and find someone else as ceo.

d) do not quit without selling out. All that time you have invested in this company will go to waste. So suck it up for now.
I've been there. A ton of good advice is on this thread. You need to try to influence your internal state chemically if you want to stay on track. Exercise, medication, meditation, eating and sleeping healthy are all helpful. It's also good to reconnect with people that matter to you: family, friends, etc. If you're closing the deal, and the money is significant, just think what you could do for them, or for other people who need help. And find ways to spend more time with them, because our lives are defined by our relationships. You could say your self exists to the extent that your in conversation with people who understand you. So go find with and be with them. It'll help you refuel.
I strongly disagree with that MDN is a mess, it is one of the best places to find good documentation about web development. Especially for the more advanced topics. For example I had issues with the Math.round() method, and at MDN they have a great example of how to fix it! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

This is just one of many examples!
US-led strikes kill 35 civilians in east Syria
> Try psychedelic mushrooms

Don't do this. Psilocybin has the tendency to "turn out what's inside you" and might make your feelings much worse. People do get bad trips and the consequence can be panic attacks and severe anxiety for months after the trip. It's incredibly dangerous advice to tell someone "take drugs, despite your psychological problems"
Should I just try using the tools at https://datproject.org/ ?

It sounds like Dat is a ways off from being something I could use as an authoritative source of data, but I could include it as one way to get the ConceptNet data. If it succeeds, that could save on the S3 bill and maybe even distribute the data across continents better. (Heck, I'm sure a lot of the downloads are scripts I'm running, and I could be file-sharing the files to myself.)

And I guess a Dat URL shouldn't really be an authoritative entry point referred to in a paper, as it would just point to one version of the data with no context. Maybe Dat plus Zenodo could do the trick eventually.
Confirming ownership of on-chain assets off the chain – Catallax Dev Log Week 4
As it stands it indeed doesn't because it's closed source and not that much ends up being built around it.

Making Clojure open source but Datomic closed is, for me, still the equivalent of building a beautiful world you can wander around and explore for free forever, but whose roads and and signs all lead up to a single temple at the center, which in turn has a big sign on it saying: 'magic happens here; don't look under the covers; don't mess with it; and also... please pay.'

If that weren't the case I can only dream what people like Nikita Prokopov would be able to build and open-source around Datomic ... and the many more like him who would probably emerge from the woods if they knew their contributions could be further built upon.
My comment on another post about the new release might be interesting for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14423133
Short version: It's faster, but not as fast as yarn yet.
Value_ptr – The Missing C++ Smart-pointer
I think Nintendo qualifies, no?
Please do not advise people who are clearly depressed to take mushrooms. Always remember that whats an elixir for may be poison for others. Yes, mushrooms do help anxieties BUT it is also known that if you are not in a good mental state, you can have bad trip and a bad trip... is not going to be relieving any anxiety, it will make it worse. That said, maybe Microdosing is okay.

I agree with all of your other points but I think it is important to point out that mushroooms will grab you by your genitals and take you for a spin. Not everyone can handle this. I am speaking anecdotally. These things have been mentioned way to often now. I get that its a new thing, and given that the stigma is no longer there - at least in our community - it is also important to know the 'cons' along with the 'pros'.
http://berzniz.com/post/14669116083/dont-be-a-liar-and-4-oth...
Does anyone know, if coroutines are implemented by the compiler, will they also be available for C? Specifically, I'm thinking about the brilliant Io language which uses its own cross-platform C coroutine library. If this could be done 'natively' I wonder if it would simplify the code?
Simplest framework to create, use personal chatbot for businesses or individuals
AI Chatbots transforming online marketing and customer experience through conversations.

Aiming to take chatbots to masses - businessees or individuals. Solving the problem of creating and deploying AI - bottr.me
Once modern languages like Crystal, Elixir and probably all the rest begin to allow AST manipulation, the appeal from Lisp dialects diminishes even further as like when mainstream languages began to ship with a garbage collector.
Clojure like all Lisp is not dead or dying, it's not just for everyone, and that's fine.
Building a rest API for a DevOps platform wont be easy in bash.

Scala is also less verbose, easy todo FP with and its very natural to do system/db work with.

Its basically a better java for me.
PyCon 2017 Talks and Tutorials
It's an interesting set of ideas, and the concept of trying to warn future generations away is certainly a good one.

Unfortunately, I don't think any of these ideas will work quite as well as people think they do. Okay, they kind of figured that one out in the full study (they give between a 10-40% probability that a low technology society will understand the warnings) but still. Just looking at human history, mythology and media will tell you how well deterring people from a location through warnings and scary geography has worked out.

The spikes, skeletons and other deterrances are the kind of thing any future historian (or Indiana Jones style explorer) is going to find extremely interesting regardless of warnings. Even if they do know about nuclear radiation.
I was in the same position sometime back.

I was convinced that chasing startup money and fame was some objective form of happiness. The chase never made me happy.

Luckily, I woke up before I made any hires. My startup is still profitable, but it's more of a lifestyle business now. I work enough to make sure the profits don't fall.

I use my time to travel the world, live out of a backpack, make friends, do shit that scares me. Still struggling with the last part.

Last month I volunteered at a not-for-profit pay-as-you-go restaurant taking orders and cleaning tables and it made me the happiest I have been in almost a year.

I am also exploring my other passions - fitness, food, nutrition.

You know best what you need to do. I thought I'd share what I did.
Why?

Do you have a limited amount of time you can stay in the autobahn as opposed to a French or Spanish motorway, forcing you to speed up?

Or is it that you just want to go 200Km/h and it's not about overtaking safely?