skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes some kids from poor backgrounds can't buy a nice car even though they are doing a law degree at Harvard and will be able to cover it no problem in 3 years time.

I think you're underestimating how poor most people are. 60% of Americans wouldn't be able to cover an unexpected bill of $500[1]. Most people just don't have any money saved, or money left at the end of the month to save any. This isn't about young people buying nice cars; it's about the majority of people buying any car. Clearly cheap credit adds to the problem, but if the ability to borrow disappeared overnight a lot of people would have tremendous difficulties.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...
You evidently didn't read and understand what you're responding to, try again.
Being Muslim is not a necessary pre-condition. A lot of Europeans and north-American joining ISIS are not of Muslim background.

Trying to understand what leads human beings to kill and die for fuzzy causes might help. I suspect a perfect storm of mental issues, undesirable social status and support from the wrong people at the right time.

I also suspect we don't want all the answers, because we wouldn't want to expose how we convince our own young military not to walk out when sent to unjustified wars.
>That in turn may be because historically the level of abuse in the UK has been lower

This must be why persecuted religions fled from UK to US :-D
Single example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480955
That comparison is complicated: it's definitely easy to drop a .php file on a server but once you start talking about frameworks, using a newer version than your OS distribution shipped, adding C extensions, etc. it's easy to find counter-examples, and the Go proponents are not wrong to observe that deploying a single file is easier than either.

This is also becoming less of a distinguishing factor in the container era where the answer for a number of cases is “Extend a base Docker image”.
Because it's an extremely important part of who I am. If you look, you'll notice there's more than that.

Also, because people will see my comments and scream something about me being a white cishet male or say that I "sound like a cisshit". Shit's happened to me before and I try my best to squash it before it happens again.
Whoops. Thought you were replying to a different post
Non closable "open in app" pop-up.
Are most programming languages really context-sensitive? or aren't they mostly context-free?

My days of fiddling with writing parsers are long ago (https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7035/A-Java-Language-ID...) but if I remember correctly most languages aim for at most a LL(2) grammar, meaning they are designed so the parser doesn't have to peek more than two tokens ahead before being able to make a correct determination.
The instant someone steps in to make comments defending the status quo -- when the status quo is obviously deeply flawed -- they become complicit irrevocably and beyond any hope of later denial.

Like you just did with your comment.
Your entire post can be responded to with two words: Citation needed.
>> there are clearly more radicalized general idiots out there than there are radicalized muslims.

It's not the Christians in Belgium, France, Middle East, Philippines, England, US and Egypt who are blowing people up and killing people.

The violent conflict of the Middle East has spread to all these other places, and it coincides with the migration of Muslims together with the rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS.

The IRA were not on the scale of Islamic terrorism we have seen in the past 10 years, and which can even become more significant. The pattern of the Irish Catholic-Protestant conflict was more limited in scope. What we are seeing with Islamic terrorism is much larger and more bloody to EVERYONE, not just between Sunni-Shiite, but extends to Jews, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians.

So no, Islamic terrorism is not comparable to "all Christians". To do so is either blindness or pernicious propaganda on your part.

Check out "ISIS Enshrines a
Theology of Rape" at New York Times on the rape of Yazidis.[1] They are praying before they rape and after they rape. If this story is true, it indicates that ISIS is not a mere political movement, but is also bound to its theology. The BBC reported on the recent bridge attack of a witness who said the attackers said "This is for Allah."[2]

edits: added links, fixed typo.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-ens...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40148737
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Sounds like how I feel when writing code.
> And I say questionable compared to natural human scripts - none of them work from inside to out.

That's irrelevant. A better comparison would be to other programming languages, and in this case you'd notice that all popular languages are "inside-out". Consider, what's the order of evaluation in the following Java code?

System.out.println(Frob.frobify(a + b, foo(), bar(baz())));
You're not just paying the depreciation, you're basically getting a loan for the (depreciation value + profit). And the average interest rate on that loan is 14% APR. This interest rate doesn't have to be disclosed to you though, because it's not "technically" a loan. There's a reason why auto dealers advertise leasing so much, it's the most profitable business for them. Leasing is the most expensive way possible to drive a car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1NaDucAXIg
Yes and no. I would define a genius as someone who makes an intellectual leap that noone has made before. Stroustrup is a smart guy who just works very, very hard. As such he is an inspiration because he shows what an ordinary person is capable of if they work hard enough. Just my opinion of course.
It's a money market. We move money from the money market to a checking account to pay suppliers/make payroll. We also use company credit cards with to increase available cash.
The trouble is that we only get one vote at each general election, and those normally only happen once every few years. That isn't even close to enough to express any sort of nuanced view on important issues like civil liberties. It's not even enough to express a clear view on headline issues like economic policy or the NHS. And yet politicians produce these gazillion-page manifesto documents and the winners then claim a public mandate to implement the policy mentioned vaguely in the footnote on page 87.

Our political system is fundamentally broken, and it's not (only) because of FPTP. In many cases, there may not be any potential representative you can vote for who is even close to your own position on even most issues.

Saying that people "don't care" about an issue because they don't vote for a party that opposes the problem on that one issue makes no sense. For example, in the case you mentioned, the Lib Dems have essentially made themselves a single-issue party this election. By your own reasoning, should someone who supports their stance on civil liberties but disagrees with their headline position on Brexit vote for them?
The burden of proof doesn't lie on the voice of skepticism.

I think it's condescending to Islamic terrorists to pretend that their attacks are an illness rather than a calculated move to further the goals of their thoughtful interpretation of Islamic scripture: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-is...

It's also hurtful to the real mentally ill people, who overwhelmingly are a danger to themselves, to lump them in with murderers.
That has been less true for the last few years: C extensions are still a concern, although many of the major ones work now, but I've had a significant number of programs run faster simply by using pypy. It's a full JIT compiler and one nice area that improves is regex handling so all of my log-related work got faster with zero effort.
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I felt the same. But if you want to understand the whole bible I would recommend The Bible Project : https://m.youtube.com/user/jointhebibleproject
Exactly. I've done a number of furniture projects in Blender.
People with mental illness are not violent. Knowing the mental health status of someone gives you very little predictive power about whether they pose a risk of violence or not - even if we restrict ourselves to severe illness such as psychosis.

Even if you were to find that every single terrorist has a mental illness (and we know that most of the killers in the UK didn't) it still gives you no useful information.

Violence is prevalent. Mental illness is prevalent. There's obviously going to be some overlap. It's a coincidence, not a cause.
thanks, TIL. That Mozilla blog is misleading.
> but you will get all the extra tmux functionality

That is what exactly? I stopped using screen a few months ago, tmux offers a set of default key bindings that are adjusted to modern software, a new biding for copy and paste (so you can control what machine gets the command), and... I still didn't find anything more that is relevant.

If he is used to screen, the key bindings will be more a problem than a solution¹, and the copy and paste thing is very niche. I don't think one has any good reason to migrate from one to the other. I did it to get to know tmux better, and really, that's exactly as much as I got.

1 - Unless you need to keep setting the bindings again and again.
Is this what happens when someone reads a sell side report for the first time? The author is having a fit merely over choice of words in the GS report. The GS analysts aren't passing a moral judgement as to whether rising wages are a good thing or a bad thing. They are merely pointing out that current stock market valuations are baking in a corporate profit margin that may not hold in the face of rising wages. That's it.
In Germany board games are so popular that they have board game reviews in the newspaper.
It's a short summary of what's in a recently published book. As it says on the third line.
Ask HN: Hours and salary of web developers working in Japan
How many hours a day do you spend in average in the office? How much flexible are your hours?

Which technologies do you use and what's your salary range?

Although for USA and EU the internet is full of information, it's hard to find actual data for Japan. I'm thinking in particular to startups.
> I'm not sure how saying that a non diverse group is inferior to a diverse group is equivalent to saying that the specific elements making up the non diverse group is inferior?

That you don't see it is framed as a question. Ok, look at it harder and come back to me when you have an actual answer instead of a question on your own reading capacity.

> Like, saying all-white is inferior to mixed is not the same as saying white is inferior.

Yes, it is, that's exactly what it is. I'd ask you which mental hoops led you to think it isn't but I know every single one of them will be a fallacy so I won't bother asking.

> Also, do recall usages b and c, and that they are important to consider, and specifically see my third link for better explanation of how.

You don't get to tell me which definitions to use. And I'm not reading some rant rationalizing why racism and sexism is good based on the target.
Are there better Bitcoin faucets then thisone?
no, it's in your quote, Hitler did it /s

that's just some comtext blurb, you're extrapolating too much out of it
But I love parametric modelling. I like thinking about elementary shapes (cubes, spheres, cylinders) and inputing them very precisely by setting mm and angles, etc. (really)

I have not really tried blender yet; is there a simple tutorial that you would recommend?
Both Shuttle accidents were preceded by numerous nonfatal failures which were completely ignored. Experience won't let you improve if you won't react to it.
There are boardgames that seek to perfectly model the scenarios they describe. Almost exclusively they are wargames - multi-day affairs that involve sprawling maps, endless calculations, and incessant tedium as they attempt to model the greater water consumption of Italian infantry caused by their love of pasta rations.

These "grognard" games are generally reviled by more conventional players as miserable and pointless.

You can read the epic tale of playing such a game here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/940888/life-altering-game-d...
The letters might fall out.
IANAL, but it makes sense to me that A) you've agreed to the GPL and thus have willingly entered a contract, or B) not agreed to the GPL and are committing copyright infringement.

You can then only be in breach of contract if you're operating under A.
The sort of stuff you see here wouldn't even wiggle the needle.
Don't confuse defending the status quo with resisting the misguided attempts at breaking it by encouraging something even more deeply flawed.
I had the same observation. I'm a Perl fan, but I can see some submissions were solely motivated to make Perl appear competitive. Like using threads in Perl, which isn't often done in real life.

I'm not sure how much evidence is needed. It seems obvious that people who are fans of language X are going to submit code with the sole intention of bumping up performance at any cost.

The site is still interesting, but probably useless for real world decision making.
The unexpected effectiveness of Python in science
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/ works something like that.
It depends on the country, in the UK (which this article is about) prices have been increasing above inflation for years.

http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/explore
Yes. I use version 0.16, as 0.14/0.15 was not usable.

0.16 is fairly good. I used it to design a microscope assembly. It took a ton of time to learn all the features required but once i did, it was fairly straightforward. I'd probably switch to Inventor or something else if I had the time (my coworkers use OnShape, which looks good enough for the basic stuff we do).

To me the advantage of FreeCAD is, well, it's free, and it runs on all the major platforms (IE I don't have to leave Linux to use it).
https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/
Does anyone else think he shouldn't have given the attacker all that information about his defenses?
A better example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define ifl(op,a,b, ctrue,cfalse) if(a op b){ctrue ;}else{cfalse ;}
#define strtolong(x) strtol(x,NULL,10)
int main(int argc,char**argv){
if(argc<3){
puts("2 args req");
exit(1);}
ifl(>,strtolong(argv[1]),strtolong(argv[2]),puts("Arg1: > Arg2:"),puts("Arg1: <= Arg2:"));
;}
> Assuming that any attempt to change the system necessarily involves hiring/promoting "unqualified" people shows one of those biases: the bias to believe that anyone who does not resemble the existing majority must be "unqualified" or else they'd already have succeeded

You're not describing meritocracy, which has literally nothing to do with majority conformity, but literally reduces to ability. It's the most unbiased position possible.

There is literally zero unjustified bias in a true meritocracy.

When trying to build a meritocracy, pre-existing bias can certainly skew who has more ability, because some group or other has better access to education or opportunities for acquiring better experience. The solution is not to decry meritocracy, but to enforce those principles even more strongly.
> The instant someone steps in to make comments defending the status quo -- when the status quo is obviously deeply flawed -- they become complicit irrevocably and beyond any hope of later denial.

Counterpoint: no, it doesn't. Because, being against racism against white people or sexism against men is not the same as being in favor of racism against non-white people or sexism against women. You're doing a false dichotomy.

> Like you just did with your comment.

Good thing I'm not in the USA and I'm not white, then. Now you'll tell me I have "internalized racism."

I'm also gay, facing actual discrimination because I can't even get legally married in my country.

And none of that makes retaliating to racism and sexism with racism and sexism ok. Nor it does retaliating homophobia with heterophobia, of course.
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Working link here: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1580226/shanghai-san-...

Note also, misleading title. Supercavitation technology has been around for a long time, the Chinese have solved some of the technical issues regarding scaling up to full size Submarine and steering. Still no solution to range and many of the related issues. Also unlikely to be put into service any time soon.
A detachable session of an IDE could be a killer feature. Especially if the "terminal" would be your favorite editor.
I first heard that in the 80s. I'm not holding my breath.
If the laws were the same in the US, and I called Donald Trump an idiot, would I have to furnish an IQ test? If I wrote that Ballmer/Nadella was incompetent and Microsoft products are crap?

I guess the problem is that the nature of speech often results in opinion-based insults being interpretable as a literal factual claim, and that the benefits of people being able to express their opinions freely generally outweigh the potential reputational costs to insulted individuals.

It is really analogous to the ongoing debate in US universities about whether mere words can cause such a high degree of harm as to be actionable. I think they can cause harm, but that the chilling effects caused by restricting speech are almost always greater.
I hope Silicon Valley or Mr Robot steals "acoustic function" for use as a plot device of hiding something nefarious in your codebase.
>(https://twitter.com/nmsanchez/status/870811022306574336)

I usually hate doing this, but hey.

From that twitter:

>OG tech diversifier. GitHubber. Lecturer, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

And her github is: https://github.com/nmsanchez?tab=repositories

Two repositories have only a README, with, more or less, one line in it. One has a document about, not surprisingly, "diversity in tech" (and a code of conduct, ofc). And one is a fork. Her contributions to other projects sing the same song.

There is also a link there to her profile on https://medium.com/@nmsanchez

>Lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. VP of Social Impact @ GitHub. Founder of Vaya Consulting. Purveyor of fine race/class analysis.

All this kind of behavior rubs me the wrong way so i won't even comment on it all.

To be honest i never had a high opinion of electron as a piece of software, so i don't know why i am even here. Sorry, i guess.
This has all been available in Visual Studio for as long as I can remember.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc sure is handy... in this particular situation.
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C++ Coding Guidelines (2014)
You are getting off track. The point I was trying to make is there are other routes besides legislative. Maybe it's not mental illness. Maybe it's Peace Corp. Maybe its less bombing of Muslim countries. Whatever it is, it's probably not wiretapping the internet.
You read the pointer from memory, unbox the pointer into an integer, do arithmetic, then box it back up and write it back into memory. The pointer-as-integer stays in registers while you do arithmetic on it.
> I thought everyone hating PHP ( also) because it was slow

Most of the replies here are stating that PHP is fast. It can be for these kind of benchmarks.

But, it does have the reputation you're suggesting. That reputation, though, is based on the old CGI model. Most php apps are built in a way that all of the initiation and setup code is run for every single request. That makes it comparatively slow.

Some PHP apps get around that by using a shared memory cache, like apcu, to box around that. That helps a lot, but isn't the same as a typical golang or node.js app where startup code is truly run once, and new requests go through a much shorter path.

All of that, though, is less a "language" thing and more of a runtime thing. You can, for example, use Facebook's HHVM+Proxygen and run PHP code in the exact same way as node.js.
It wasn't anything like this when I went shopping for a car at Audi and MB last year.

I was expecting some discount for paying cash since the interest rates were all less than 2% (which barely covers inflation). However they were completely indifferent to whether I paid cash or financed so I financed.
FTA:

> Life has not been entirely utopian for the villagers however. As the 2008 financial crisis developed, Sanchez-Gordillo lead his Pueblo on several raids of national supermarket chains in neighbouring towns. As a result of these raids, several Marinaledans were arrested for stealing foodstuffs to distribute amongst the village poor. This gained Marinaleda national and international notoriety, and earned the former mayor the nickname of the “Spanish Robin Hood.”

Well, it's easy to live in an utopian communist experiment if whenever your economy collapses you simply ransack and pillage neighboring capitalist ventures and rely on them to stay afloat, and ultimately flee your collapsed society to take refuge in the cozy mist of capitalism.

Recommended reading: El Che Guevara de Marinaleda abandona la alcaldía y deja un pueblo en la ruina

http://www.periodistadigital.com/andalucia/sevilla/2014/11/1...

Taken from the newspiece:

"In spite of its small population, Marinaleda is now the sixth most indebted village in the province of Seville - 105 municipalities - with a debt of 1,020 euros per citizen. Unemployment is 22% and the average income per capita is only 9,273 euros. His anti-capitalist legacy also leaves other gaps."
> Instead of giving a diverse audience the best possible information using a blind selection system, the organizers are now going to select based on something that is not part of the lecture.

You're making an assumption here that the blind selection process will change or that added/substitute papers will not chosen by the same criteria. I'd wait for the followup, before judging the followup ;)

I agree it could be done in a better way, but hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
A recent thread about Matchbox cars had a video in comments that shown how they used a similar contraption to scale down a model cut out from (I think) wood.
The biggest feature of tmux is that it's natively integrated into iterm2. So I get scrolling and splitting like for a normal local session.
Good to hear! I agree :-)

It was a necessary transition because we need to keep attracting customers that initially are reluctant to invest in Scala training. We've found our Java APIs to be a potent gateway drug to Scala, with many of our customers who begin with the Java APIs quickly realizing they'll be even more productive with Scala :-)
It must not be forgotten that performance isn't always the main concern, let alone the only one.

And yeah, the expressiveness/speed ratio of Lisp is great.
Straight to Nazis, huh? I'm not talking blood and soil here. I'm talking about benefiting from structural inequalities that favor certain groups over others.

And to the degree one benefits, and takes that for granted, and perceives the calling out of those benefits as a form of persecution, then yes, there's a degree of complicity.

But no one's saying (well, not anyone on HN, anyway, and not most people on Tumblr) that white people or me should be persecuted. Just that they shouldn't be accorded undue advantages to the direct detriment of others.

How you get to Nazis from that, I don't know.
Curious to read more about the planned DoubleSign thing, not sure if it's spelled out anywhere.
You can now get Wi-Fi connectivity on Mount Everest
Crisis, one of the games listed in TFA, is this, and a pretty rich one. With of course its specific slice of economic simulation, since you can't have a single game trying to simulate all of economics.