skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you referring to the need to learn Scheme to work through SICP?

That's not particularly demanding requirement. The class began with a single lecture about how Scheme worked and after that Hal and Gerry assumed you knew all the language you needed to and dove in.

When the course was introduced (early 80s), most incoming MIT freshman had not programmed a computer (!), including those who planned to do course 6 (EE or CS -- 6.001 was a requirement for either degree).
Damn I never thought to consider the actual framework's startup time - just our own app.
Huh, it appears this this tread has also been buried. Either there is some algorithm edge case going on or that Harvard thread got really toxic.
If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people start to believe it.
Do you think government performs better in that regard than well regulated private industry? There are plenty of air-traffic control horror stories, and it appears to be systemic: https://www.rt.com/usa/312138-secret-faa-study-chronic-fatig...
> You choose to use iTunes

No one chooses to use iTunes, given reasonable alternatives. It is the only way to interact with some iDevices.
This shows that corporations can't be trusted to have any principle other that "FU, I got mine."
Unpack that for me? Assume we're already past the point where no new coins are being mined, and Bitcoin is appreciating value at a steady rate. (Volatility is a separate concern from deflation.)

In that scenario, how is spending Bitcoin any different, micro-economically, than foregoing the opportunity to invest in a similarly-appreciating mutual fund? What's absent from my model?
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It would be a non-profit corporation. This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
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There's a distinctive "Woo" guy in one of the front rows that's quite annoying.
The "Mountain View" campus now sprawls from Sunnyvale to Redwood Shores. It's a 20-mile bike ride from one to the other. The Redwood Shores office is so unabashedly exurban that you'd have to walk 3.5 miles to the nearest public library, 3.9 miles to the nearest coffee shop, and 4.5 miles to the nearest point of public transportation. These are Google's newest offices, reflecting their current thinking on "sustainability": everybody has to drive everywhere.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/10/23/google-se...
> Predictably, California’s citrus growers went bananas when they heard about the decision. Mr Trump’s conspiracy-minded critics suggest the move could be payback for the state’s strong support for Hillary Clinton in last year’s elections.
Judging by how the privatization of rail traffic in the UK worked out - terrible idea!
Why? Do you mean environmentally, economically, statistically or morally?
Show HN: Run crons with lambda for longer than 5 minutes
Hey man!

https://gist.github.com/pedrofornaza/6b71569972de0e2bfa3c775...

I did this sometime ago. Its probabbly not working 100% but may help you. :)

Its as script to run on background (cron or alike) and raise desktop notifications when articles with the keywords you put in the script.

I had several ideas for this but i just stopped developing for lack of time.

Let me know if it interests you.
I agree that I could've been more clear in my prior comment. Here's one in which I more precisely formulated the argument I'm trying to make here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489045
Been hearing that for like two years now. Hrmm.
I started reading it recently and while most of the topics are pretty obvious. But we tend to forget those. For example the very first topic - don't criticize. With the advent of internet things have turned into black and white. The more you point someone the more ardently they will defend. For example Trump supporters. Pushed to brink, they now don't even care for his near impeachment behavior because now defending has become about pride.
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Honestly, I couldn't point to many people who were making good arguments during the election. Facts, reason, compromise, and logic are Trump's weaknesses, and those were jettisoned from the political process years ago.

I'd argue that Trump is what happens when the media and major parties stop making good arguments.
Apple introduces watchOS 4 at WWDC with new Siri-powered watch face
Fang.[1]

Fang is a utility program for UNIVAC 1108 computers, written in 1972. UNIVAC's EXEC 8 had threads and async I/O for user programs, decades before UNIX. The machines were shared-memory multiprocessors. FANG uses those capabilities to parallelize copying jobs. The UNIVAC mainframes had plenty of I/O parallelism and many I/O devices, so this was a significant performance win.

See especially "schprocs". Those are the classic primitives from Dijkstra: P, V, and bounded buffers. That technology predates Go by 40 years. Here's Dijkstra's P function:

.
.
. DIJKSTRA P FUNCTION
.
.
. LA,U A0,<QUEUE>
. LMJ X11,P
. <RETURN> X5 DESTROYED
.
P* TS QHEAD,A0 LOCK THE QUEUE
LX X5,QN,A0 LOAD QUEUE COUNT (note: load)
ANX,U X5,1 BACK UP THE COUNT (note: Add Negative, i.e. subtract)
SX X5,QN,A0 REPLACE THE COUNT IN THE QUEUE (note: store)
TN X5 DO WE NEED TO DEACTIVATE HIM ? (note: Test Negative)
J PDONE NO. SKIP DEACTIVATION (note: Jump, i.e. branch)
ON TSQ=0 (note: this is an assembly-time ifdef)
LX X5,QHL,A0 LOAD BACK LINK OF QUEUE
SX X5,QHL,X4 PUT INTO BACK LINK OF ACTIVITY
SX X4,QFL,X5 CHAIN ACTIVITY TO LAST ACTIVITY
SA A0,QFL,X4 CHAIN HEAD TO NEW ACTIVITY
SX X4,QHL,A0 MAKE THE NEW ACTIVITY LAST ON QUEUE
CTS QHEAD,A0 RELEASE PROTECTION ON QUEUE HEAD
SCHDACT* DACT$ . DEACTIVATE PROCESS (note: system call)
OFF
ON TSQ (note: for later version of OS with alt wait fn)
C$TSQ QHEAD,A0 WAIT FOR C$TSA (note: system call)
OFF
J 0,X11 RETURN AFTER ACTIVATION
.
PDONE CTS QHEAD,A0 UNLOCK THE QUEUE (note: not a system call, just a macro. Stores 0.)
J 0,X11 RETURN

(Notes:

Instruction format is

OPERATOR REG,OFFSET,INDEXREG

The "TS" instruction is "Test and Set". That's atomic. If the flag is already set, an interrupt occurs and the OS does a
thread switch. CTS just clears the flag. Later versions of the
OS support C$TSQ and C$TSA, where the OS queues waiting test
and set operations.

X4 is the "switch list", the local data for the thread.)

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fang/
Consider that if you do find a collision, you would be able to take any bitcoin outstanding to said address on the blockchain.

Framed this way, you can see that in fact if your defensiveness is necessary, addresses would be extremely unsafe against targeted attack.
I hope so. Amazon's refusal to work with Google Cast is the sole reason I don't use the service.
Simple. This is a union-busting move. This would squash the National Air Trafic Controllers Association[1] as a public union.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_Traffic_Controlle...
Don't forget to take everything RT says with a pretty major "grain of salt."
You already have a serious education problem in the US. But now, with more and more people that will avoid college, the country future seems quite bleak. Trump like events are going to accumulate. And with the US dept and war lord attitude, this is looking bad for the whole planet.
I highly, highly, doubt that. If anything - Amazon is going to win because it can now Monetize Apple customers.
I wonder why you wanted interested commenters to look through your history. You thought you would be viewed as shilling for BBC?
> Donald Trump on Monday unveiled his proposal to hand over control of the U.S. air-traffic control system to a non-profit corporation, calling the current system an antiquated mess that doesn’t work and wastes money.

Did someone point out to this idiot that we are having a string of years where there are no deaths in domestic commercial travel. Whatever is happening in the US Traffic System appears to be working really well.

I also think that president holds a person vendetta against the FAA because it told him he could not land his plane somewhere or an air traffic controller delayed him by a couple of minutes.
Why would the owner care if they had anywhere to go or not? If you don't have anywhere to live, go die on a street. You can _ask_ people for charity, but you sure as hell are not entitled to it.
And remember, that there's a special function called VIP() .

This is an implied function that wraps around your full code. This is instantiated if/when core founders are losing money on a function that possibly had a bug in it. This function returns the wrapped function, under the guise of a new blockchain, with invalidations applied to all 'unintentional' side effects of bad or buggy code.

It happened with the DAO, because founders lost too much money. Just be aware, that VIP() can happen to your code, regardless if your implementation is a bug or intentional. Wrong people losing money means VIP() returns successful.
Private organizations are more efficient than governmental ones. Ideally the way they are managed/regulated will remain the same. It would be really neat to see some innovation here as well, with governmental agencies there really isn't an incentive to break the status quo.

edit: If you're downvoting at least comment with why you think this isn't the case
The best part is when kids compete for that last place ribbon. Makes for some ridiculous races where everyone is barely running.
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Cinema entirely possesses the capacity to suggest elements of the world which are not defined explicitly, just as books do. In fact I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding of perception to think a film can possibly be a 'fait accompli'. As an easy example, I just watched Tarkovsky's Stalker this past week. The film revolves around the exploration of a physical supernatural phenomenon called 'The Zone'. Yet there is not a single thing on screen to demonstrate the supernatural characteristics of this place, aside from the protagonist's reactions to it.
Unlike most LaTeX templates I've seen this project was written with a focus on fiction so I didn't touch anything around code blocks.

I'd love to add some more templates and a structure to make them easy to switch between eventually though.
The pitch meeting for that must have been something else.
Consumer unfriendly behavior, your words, strongly suggests that it isn't a communications issue; rather it is likely a consumer affairs issue.

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consume...

Specifically:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...

"A simpler
consumer protection solution exists. Congress should fully repeal the common carrier exemption
in the FTC Act, and enable both the FTC and FCC to protect consumers and the openness and
innovation of the internet."

https://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/federal-trade-co...

"The FTC argued that if Congress really intended to divide jurisdiction along industry lines, it could have exempted from the FTC’s authority everything subject to the Communications Act or the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) jurisdiction."
I remember this one guy at Apple who made it seem possible by saying no a lot.
> a native Unix filesystem

Does HFS+ really count as "native Unix"? (I'm not entirely sure what that would mean, so it's hard to argue, but it doesn't feel right.)
Seems to have worked for Canada. Non-profit private sector organization, and they don't seem to have any more air disasters than anywhere else.
Sure they're private so they aren't bound by law to allow freedom of speech but they still send a bad message by suppressing it.
And we just elected the most anti-civil-right president in history, who is backed by the anti-civil-rights party controlling all three houses of government. We really fell over hard last November.
There are already ATC towers that are operated by private companies, so in a way, this is just accelerating the existing trend.

That said, if it ain't broke, why bother trying to "fix" it? US air is the safest in the world, it's rules are literally written in blood. This is one area, where I'd like to see less, not more, privatization.

Safety, and not profit (or cost-reduction), should be the driving incentive for something so critical, and so fault-sensitive.
Amazons policy there is really baffling - I have their app on Sony TV running AndroidTV... but standalone Android TV STBs (Apple TV competitors) can't download it. Do they really make that much money from their Fire sticks that it's worth losing subscribers?
The PowerShell terminal is also incredibly aesthetically grating. They decided to take the old aliased bitmap font and fixed width window from cmd.exe and layer on a white/yellow/red on blue color scheme.
Doesn't a lot of the expense of government run programs come from the retirement benefits? The government assumes the risk (pension) instead of the employee (401K).

As an aside, according to a controller I know, a lot of FAA employees are retiring soon and at about the same time. A large cohort of controllers were hired about the same time to replace the fired striking PATCO [1] controllers in the early 80's.

[1] PATCO Professional Air Traffic Controllers
The rule of thumb is that comments should explain the "why", and the code itself should explain the "how", so I tend to be skeptical of documenting how something works in the comments.

Say that we've got that 1% case that's irreducibly complex (i.e. clarifying/simplifying the code kills the performance of something that gets run a million times a second), where we might want to explain the "how" because the code's unclear but can't be changed. The comment itself might take the form of pseudocode representing the slower-but-clearer version of the code. Being a complex and sensitive area, you'd want to have as many tests built around it as possible, to verify that the behavior doesn't change unless it was planned in advance. Part of the code-review would be that any change in behavior (as reflected by changes to the tests) would also need to be documented in the comments.

Computers are good at accurately tracking multitudes of small details (like automatically tracking all the places a piece of code is called, etc). Getting them to synthesize a summary of something's behavior ("seeing the forest instead of just the trees", the kind of thing that would be useful as a code comment) sounds like it would be interesting to research, but I don't think there's anything like that right now.
Right, but part of efficiency improvements would probably include some level of automation, which would be more safe in the end.
How do you feel about actually solving them in any language and then documenting the solution?
https://github.com/megamindbrian/jupytangular
Perhaps efficiency was a bad word. The private sector is able to make changes and fix problems faster than the public sector. Easier to fire a bad controller, or fix a problem in a private environment.
Here's a helpful article: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/air-traffic-control-tech-...
1) People want a "college lifestyle". It wouldn't really matter much to me, but I know this is something kids leaving home care about, so it's surely a massive factor.

This is manufactured demand. Many other countries have a norm of commuter schools (Where most students live with their parents).

Those that don't tend to have cheap, barracks-like housing, instead of 'lavish' dorms.
Maybe it was a sugar pill and they were just screening for who would read the fine print.
Here's the first Google result for "Windows homegroup" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17145/windows-homeg... . Microsoft is famous for its meticulous documentation compared to other closed sourced systems and is often even better than open source systems where developers will not document and instead tell you to just read the code.
Apple announces watchOS 4 with a Siri watchface, better coaching and more
> this will fly likely under the same rules as red light cameras which send a ticket to the owner regardless of who is driving. you "car/phone/spirit/thoughts" were there so you are considered there

In most states, the red light ordinance makes the driver liable, not the owner. There is no "you were there in proxy" rule of the sort you suggest. The law merely creates a rebuttable presumption that the owner was driving. Also, Courts have upheld the presumption because red light tickets are civil infractions, not criminal penalties. The due process clause recognizes that the amount of process "due" (i.e. warranted, or appropriate in a given context) depends on the magnitude of the deprivation of property rights at issue. Civil infractions thus create lower due process concerns than criminal cases.

In this case, there was no similar presumption along the lines of: "your phone was here, therefore you were here." It was simply circumstantial evidence of the sort regularly used in criminal prosecutions (e.g. your business card was found at the murder scene).

The real concern here is an evidentiary issue. Cell tower tracking isn't very precise. Courts need to make sure that the jury appropriately understands the lack of precision in the data. Courts are often very bad at this. E.g. courts often don't permit defendants to argue to the jury that, even though the probability of a false random match in DNA testing is remote in theory, in practice the odds of wrong results due to lab error are astronomically higher (almost 1 in 100).
Oh my goodness. I work in the architecture industry at a firm that does a great number of LEED projects, and there is not a shred of truth in this claim.
Yes. You are right. We ran into the issue of user adoption for the post-purchase usecase.
So we added the price monitoring as more users wanted prepurchase options but there are lots of players there.
This blog post[1] is a great example of positive unintended consequences of deep learning:

> We were very surprised that our model learned an interpretable feature, and that simply predicting the next character in Amazon reviews resulted in discovering the concept of sentiment.

[1]: https://blog.openai.com/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/
But it would be controlled by a board, which would include representatives of the big airlines, and several other seats that could likely end up controlled by the same. So, effectively, I'd expect them to end up beholden to airline company shareholders moreso than the agency currently is.
Tenants are not asking for charity, they're asking that the contracts are enforced in line with the law.

If you don't want to buy a house with existing tenants you should check before you buy.
[1] is part of the basic domain knowledge that makes one competent. E.g., any programmer who deals with US PII should also know that social security number collisions exist even though nobody on the team has struggled with it. Your coworkers' personal experiences are not the only or best way to learn about users' problems, because not only are they a very small sample but they are self-selected nerds and inherently unlike most users (unless you sell programming tools).

[2] is a product design decision, not a programmer's ignorant error. "A product should side with a child against their legal guardian who actually paid for the product" is by no means the consensus across all cultures.
not quite; a Republican Congressman has had this plan ready to go for some time, and it fits the theme of "infrastructure" so it was easy to do an announcement about it.
That's your choice, as a parent. You're going to attempt to manipulate the child into certain behaviors whether you think of it in scientific terms or not. Might as well do it effectively.
To be clear- the fact that gene therapy is "messy" has been one of the biggest issues holding it back for the past 20 years. This isn't a new concern based on "one study," as Wired seems to frame it. Crispr is just the latest and most promising method and it should be framed in that context. One step forward, not a silver bullet.

One example of this concern stopping research in 2002, but there were some in the late 90s too iirc: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v420/n6912/full/420116...
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The situations are not remotely analogous.
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I was thinking the same thing. I'd actually prefer if there were only one link per week - that way I'd feel I could keep up.
The article title on the original site was changed from "... Confirms the Lead-Crime Hypothesis" to "... Bolsters the Lead-Crime Hypothesis", since "It's a good study, but it's still just one more study." Title here should be changed likewise.
A monolithic private institution doesn't inspire confidence in me any more than a monolithic public one. I don't see the purpose in switching one for the other, and would probably rather see it run by the government.

If it was replacing the current system with one where you had 12 different companies competing with one another, maybe so but I don't really see the benefit in what I'm reading. But I don't feel strongly about it.

What worries me the most about this in some ways is how it seems to be focused on the large airlines and not on passengers and private pilots. This is the current trend that disturbs me the most about Trump and the GOP: they seem pretty blatantly to be representing large corporations and their own party rather than the public at large. The assumption seems to be that what benefits the fat cats is what benefits everyone.

I'm not anti-large-corporation per se, but a big part of the reason for democracy is to protect the average person.

I don't really see any arguments here other than "it makes the airlines happy." As if they needed more latitude.
What I stick with is based on what I'm developing and working on. The important part is to not be afraid to learn and try new things. I have not stuck with anything in particular but I stay strong in C/C++ because most of my development has related to efficient memory solutions.

On the other hand, Java is really nice for algorithm testing, and writing for classwork.

Javascript is obviously inescapable in some format if you are doing web development so I jumped right in and have learned it with Angular, Express, the MEAN stack in general etc.

It's better to have actual projects to work on. From there its easier to center around a framework, but I still prefer C/C++ but I am learning to appreciate Java the more I develop GUI applications and test more complex algorithms.

Recently I'm trying to test out an idea for an app, so the first thing I knew is I wanted it to be cross platform, so I've had to learn alot more javascript/ionic framework, etc. cordova and how phonegap is a version of that, and learn android and ios app dev to understand how phonegap links the two, and of course theres a movement to use react to dev natively, and Kotlin is coming in strong in the Android space with cross platform app dev, so there is alot you have to learn once you have an idea, and need to learn what helps you implement that idea/project, and you learn more that way instead of saying "I'm going to create something pretty with javascript". You will learn 20x more by making an entire project from design to implementation, and become familiar with how to navigate when and when not to use languages, frameworks technologies, you have to try stuff and fail alot and keep going and continue to make time to put thousands of hours of work into it.

You have to like it to do that, I really enjoy it.
As in, RT doesn't allow content that doesn't criticize America to be published.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Just because there's no incentive to reward shareholders doesn't mean there isn't incentive to maximize efficiency. Too many people wrongly assume that just because it says nonprofit that they are instantly humanitarians working toward the betterment of society.
The UK's privatised air-traffic system is a model studied Worldwide; the stakeholders include a group of seven
airlines, yet it remains non-partisan and is amongst the most efficient globally.