skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't in fact imply that PHP is slow. What it says about PHP (besides "php seems to fail in most categories" which doesn't imply any single specific failure because most != all) is this: "But php has both an ugly syntax, horrendous stdlib, and fame of security issues." You will notice that none of those specific complaints is about speed.
I believe C++ was a preprocessor at the beginning, and I had long time ago a book in French explaining how to do OOP with standard C.
This attempt provides probably as much I need of OOP, I always (since 1994) thought that C++ was an ugly thing.

Thanks!
While interesting, what does chernobyl have to do with nuclear weapons testing?
The article really made me feel for Joseph White. Poor guy, out of a sudden he gets accused of a crime he never committed. That's pretty bad in itself, especially when fighting with inhuman US judicial system. And then the prosecutors find 5 other 'accomplices' who remember him committing a crime and then testify against him! It says a lot that he was the only one who persevered and continued to fight through this Kafkaesque horror ultimately proving his innocence.
Someone posted an implementation which uses vmsplice on the reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/6gxduc/how_is_gnu_yes...
And here is the madness: :)

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/35217221c211f3...
Cloud Foundry Foundation Eases Kubernetes Management with Kubo
Also quite relaxing, for trigger control practice, randomly load a handgun up with live rounds and snap caps. Then balance a .22 brass or penny on the front site. Works best with single action guns like 1911, but need to complete trigger cycle without dropping penny. This works great for breaking oneself of the instinctive flinch due to anticipating recoil.

Alas, BB guns are banned in my city, so I just go to the range. Airsoft in the living room too, but it's messy as the pellets tend to bounce out of the trap.
its worth also noting that this is also an expectation of the SEA market now so its really pissing into the wind to try to not to do it if you're selling to consumers. As it can be interpreted as a "fuck you" to people in developing nations.
> people would just consume something else

Yeah... this is the problem right here. The biggest issues facing our species and our planet boil down to one simple thing: the majority of the human race is too selfish, shortsighted, stupid and stubborn to change even the smallest aspects of their destructive behavior.

I mostly agree with you, the reason I said eliminating dairy is a 'non-starter' is entirely about how difficult it is to get fellow humans to upgrade their life choices. That was my whole point. This is also why I half-jokingly mentioned a civilization collapse as the sole way to 'fix' this, because it is only after the nukes have gone off and things have gone all to hell worldwide (and dairy is no longer available) that you will get people to stop eating cheese and ice cream. Outside of complete dictatorial control over a population closed off from the rest of the planet, they will keep consuming dairy until they cannot. It's sad and pathetic, but that's nature of the human beast.
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Ask HN: What should be salary expectations for remote work?
I'm applying for my first remote job. I'm sending CVs mostly to USA based companies and most of them are not posting salary. My plan is to get the job, work from home for first couple months and then travel around Europe while working for sometime (1-2 years).

How should I respond to the question: Whats your salary expectation?

I know my minimum in GBP, but how high can I go to not overshoot? I assume that most of companies are paying salary based on employee location and here is my problem because it could happen that I will live for couple months in relatively low cost country like Bulgaria and then go to high cost country like France or Austria.

Should I set my salary expectation to average salary of city/state where company have it's main office, or should I ask for average salary of my current location (UK) which may change in following months?

I am senior full stack webdev/devops with 10yr of experience, currently living in UK (medium sized city, not London)
'Never trust a benchmark you didn't Volkswagen yourself'
In general I love reading the code base of BSD-systems, NetBSD in particular is really beautiful and easy to follow.
I wonder what really going on inside the mind here

My sister tells a story-

when she was in college, a hypnotist came to her school to do a show, she was the one of the people called up on stage and hypnotized

anyway... she did what the hypnotist told her to do, but she's unsure of whether she was actually hypnotized, or whether it was merely the social pressure of being up on the stage, and playing the expected role

Clearly humans are susceptible to psychological manipulation or bullying

I'm not entirely sure it follows that that's how the neurons are actually firing inside the mind
Yeah, when it comes to unknown names, freemium is (in my opinion) best for both the creator and for the user.

The user gets to make sure they aren't completely throwing money away, or don't need to hassle with refunds, and the creator gets an easy way to get their name out there and grab users from the competition without any commitment.

As long as the price isn't obfuscated, i love the freemium model.
Are you claiming vinegar is an ineffective treatment, or merely that the explanation for why it's effective doesn't meet your requirements?

If the latter, I can probably agree. If the former, please do some more research.
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For reference, I had that exact same issue on my MBA - went on for years. Many times while watching youtube or doing something Garageband related.

At the time I had 10.11 on it, but that OS had itself been upgraded from 10.10.

When 10.12 came out, I decided to install fresh - so I backed everything up and installed onto a new SSD drive. The issue has now gone away completely....
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You had a ride, enjoyed it and grew tired but did not crash, on the contrary, all is ending level for all parties and you have lined up a new good job thanks to this experience. It is much better an outcome than the great majority of startups, so congrats, quit now and good luck with your new endeavours. There may be another shot down the line, who knows?
United Nations Sends Aid to 10,000 Syrian Refugees Using Ethereum Blockchain
The biggest war on General Computation is that devices are replacing our computers. I work for a non-profit education company. We have 2 Dell All in One computers in every classroom. Hard to argue we need $1,000 computers when they are basically a web browser machine. Now Apple is making an iPad to be useful for the average person's computer use 95% of the time.

Who needs DRM when the devices themselves lock people out.
H-curves are not Hilbert curves! I know, the name is very confusing, but read the PDF: H-curves have better locality than Hilbert curves (possibly even optimal).

And I'm sure that constructing H-curves doesn't need to be as complicated as that linked academic code makes it look, but for now I don't know of any implementation.

Thanks for the link though :)
Our traditional idea of the top five browsers may be over-simplified
No I haven't, I have never known a person who owns either. However, a quick search confirms my suspicions that it takes significantly longer to charge batteries than to fill a gas tank. A journey that takes more than 1 recharge would be considerably more difficult than the same trip in a gas car.
I think the Anarcho-Capitalist paradise you're talking about would involve personal contracts with "security" companies to keep the pirates away - although it has never been explained to me what keeps the security company from becoming the pirates.

The Libertarian version involves paying for a military, I think.
I make within $5k of you and live in semi-suburban/semi-rural Pennsylvania (not near Philly or Pittsburgh!). COL is in the high 80's where national median is 100. I'm not even in management. My boss is in the $130-140 range and his boss is probably $180-200. (Glassdoor is a beautiful thing)

For your retirement account alone you need to get a better job with something at least approaching a market rate salary.
Access Control System with Raspberry Pi, RFiD and AWS Rekognition
And it's also a source of many bugs (in the past and likely in the future as well). In most use cases today I'd rather have a slightly slower userland which is easily read (and audited) then one which compromises quality for speed in edge cases.
My specific example (from the article) seems to counter some of what you suggest, though. E.g. -

- Of the 37 sizes, only three are available for subscription.

- Even the 5% subscription discount is not the best deal.

- The lower $/unit on larger quantities does not consistently hold true.

I was unaware of the additional 5% back on the Amazon Prime card, but I'm not sure that should really factor in here. My AmEx, for example, gives 6% cash back at grocery stores and I'm sure other cards have comparable offers. Also, Amazon Prime, like my AmEx card, has a yearly fee that will eat away at some of those additional savings.

If we accept that the amount of choice Amazon.com provides is a good thing (and I think it is), does the subscription model not defeat that advantage? I think it does, at least to some degree. Since the 15% discount subscription price is the best deal (on Amazon.com), why even have the other 36 "sizes"?

What you suggest as the "easiest way to avoid pain" is precisely what I fear - that Amazon.com may eventually become "shopping".
New study discovers your brain actually works in up to 11 dimensions
If you're worried, engage Airplane mode.
I generally look at some BSD sources when I want to know how some unix tools are working, they are always much much more readable than the GNU equivalent.
I lucked into learning to shoot with a small weekly local group that included a future many time US National Champion, and another person who was in the top five nationwide.

Competitive pistol shooters actually use several different sight picture styles.

In the speed styles of competitive shooting, the goal is to hit targets as fast as possible, so you want to make each shot in the "worst" way that will give you about a 95% chance of a hit. So for a close, low risk target, a shooter may look only at the target and ignore the sights, for a tiniest fraction more speed.

For most targets, the looking at the front sight is correct. Shooters tend to lock their upper body into one shape, then pivot it from target to target while shooting a string. This locks the rear sight in just the right place behind the front one. When the front sight is put on target, the rear sight is automatically in the right place. It's true that the target does become blurred a little when you do this.

Then for really far targets, you do have to bring your focus back a little farther, and see and care about both sights.

The sight picture is not the only thing that changes from target to target. You usually budget the amount of time spent for each shot.

Surprisingly, many pros know where their round will hit before it reaches the target. The time penalty for missing a shot is so high that it's almost always better to take a second shot in case of a miss. However, it takes a while for a pistol shot to reach the target, and for your eyes to see where it landed (plus you'd have to change your focus to look for it, then back again to your sights). To get around that, with practice, you can know in the moment you pull the trigger where the round went, and follow it up in about a twentieth of a second with another round.

In most competitive pistol matches, the sequence of targets to be shot on a given stage is not rigidly defined. There are often plenty of constraints (this group must be shot before these) or timing related constraints in some sports (shooting this target will cause a pair of targets to pop up in 1.2 seconds). Given this, there's a surprising amount of planning that goes into discovering the optimum run. The details of each shot are then worked out and mentally rehearsed.
Apple validates AI, throws hat into the ring in a major way
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Why to learn machine learning from scratch instead just the available libraries?
Hacky and Clean Programming
All excellent points payne92. More than that,JavaScript study for a front-end developer(for example) demand MongoDB. Or you must know elementary programming in any language first off.
First you argued that the setting system was too strict, but now you're arguing that it's not strict enough.

Anyway, Firefox protects itself from the Bing Bar. It warns you that an add-on has been installed and disables it by default. This is the type of settings protection behaviour I like.
Hey, what do you have against albinos? ;)
It may also push everything in memory to swap in the process, what is the real speed killer.
I think the comparison to EM or GR is pretty much absurd. For one thing it’s comparing two completely different things: tests of a particular prediction of a theory (EM or GR) that made lots of other testable, confirmed predictions to the case of string theory, where there are no predictions at all. More relevant to the argument over how long to wait for an idea to pay off is that the real question is not the absolute value of the amount of progress, but the derivative: as you study the idea more carefully, do you get closer to testable progress or farther away? I don’t think anybody can serious claim that, 33 years on, we’re closer to a successful string theory unification proposal than we were at the start, back in 1985. I’d argue that the situation is the complete opposite: we have been steadily moving away from such success (and thus entered the realm of failure).

The problems string theory are attempting to answer are many magnitudes more complicated than general relativity and electromagnetism and hence require tests many magnitudes more precise and complicated. It's possible such tests may never be developed and that there may be many competing theories of everything with no way to ever ascertain which one is correct.

New theories take not just decades, but centuries to develop. There was at least a three-hundred year gap between the development of Newtonian gravity and general relativity. Much of string theory is only a couple decades old. If physicists and mathematicians decide that string theory is untenable, they will gradually abandon it, similar to how in capitalism products become obsoleted in favor of newer, better ones. There is no need for someone to determine which theories are worth pursuing or or not; the ‘marketplace’ of ideas does that automatically, gradually nudging the natural progression of research towards better ideas as old ones are discarded or modified. For example, 120 years ago aether theories were conjectured the propagation of light and gravitation, but these theories were later were supplanted by special relativity.

http://greyenlightenment.com/falsifiability-string-theory-an...
String Theory succeeds because it offers a means that is logically consistent to bridge gravity and quantum mechanics, and the strings themselves are building blocks for all particles. If someone can come up with a logically consistent theory that is as encompassing as string theory and can be tested and verified with existing technology, the physics community is all ears.

The tyranny of verificationism impedes scientific progress. Let string theorists do their thing/string.
Save yourself the hassle and buy Affinity Designer – it does a better job of most of what I did before with Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator (or Sketch for that matter).

I'm very grateful to my designer friend who recommended it to me.

It's 50 Euros... just buy it and get happy :)
Correct, and that's not an issue (for me)

But the rigorous winters are one, also see my other comment in this thread
What stupid mistake? It was an NPM bug.
builds a game quickly using a canvas element in a browser

no engine or library

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Actually the second python version is about on par, however it's running on a slower system. He got 6.78GiB/s from GNU yes and 6.76GiB/s with python3. Some one later compares it with python2 which in fact is slower with this codebase.

> $ python2.7 yes.py | pv > /dev/null
> ... [7.22GiB/s] ...
> $ python3.4 yes.py | pv >/dev/null
> ... [8.76GiB/s] ..
I disagree that this is not an architecture for others. We are a research lab, and we're building a distributed cluster. Cheap infiniband. Lots of gtx1080Tis. It's not that expensive to have a 40-GPU cluster with 10 4U servers (about 100K Euro).
I am getting 26 MiB/s using native yes, and 620 MiB/s using GNU yes in macbook air.
Another thing in favor of a pistol: it's far more manoeuvrable when clinching [0] or grappling [1]. Police are rarely advancing on a target guns-drawn. It's more likely they'll have to draw from a clinch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinch_fighting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappling
Nice! Now I wonder when 36 vs 8 machine instructions become a bottleneck. I have seen applications of space-filling curves in quasi Monte Carlo integration, it could be potentially significant there.
In Australia's defense, if an imported item is "priceless and irreplaceable", maybe one can't put that on the form, but it's certainly possible not to estimate the value at "$2".
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>standard model and GR are mutually inconsistent?

I'm not an expert, but from what I understand GR and standard model don't exactly contradict each other, they are both considered "valid" and self-consistent on their own as they merely describe different processes on different scales?

On their own, they work just fine but if we try to stick the two of them together, to get a "unifying theory", we get different outcomes than we expected, that's why we are now trying to find the "glue" that fits the two of them together while still making sense in the end.

At least that's my layman's take on this whole situation.
Concerning over-penetration, that's largely a function of ammunition. Hollow-point rounds from a submachine gun don't (practically speaking) over-penetrate any more than those fired from a handgun.
Since you didn't add anything other than an unwarranted attack on the person you're replying to, this falls under “Avoid gratuitous negativity”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
He's definitely an Apple enthusiast, but he doesn't pull his punches when he thinks Apple has made a misstep. His criticism come from a place of love for Apple: he wants Apple to be great, but that's not quite the same thing as being a paid publicist for Apple. I don't think it's fair to call him a shill.
Huh. If Pebble had done that from the start, I'd have stayed a customer of theirs. Still, good on 'em. I choose to believe it was the engineers finally getting a say after being forced to do all of the creepy spyware stuff.
Dragos Inc. Analysis of CRASHOVERRIDE Threat to Electric Grid Operations [pdf]
I can see how having to look at the esc key all the time could slow one down. That said, I think I look at all of the other keys -- actually maybe not volume up -- since it's so close to pwr
Just tried it,

cat /dev/zero|pv >/dev/null

gives me roughly 2/3 the speed of yes. (5 GB/s vs 7 GB/s) Plus yes gives you an arbitrary string, instead of only zeroes.
You quoted this bit

> as you study the idea more carefully, do you get closer to testable progress or farther away

but didn't really answer it. the author points out that negative results in the LHC don't disprove string theory (because it would be impossible, given the lack of testable expectations it creates), but show that it's even harder to test than we thought.

In his words, that makes it seem farther away than ever.

At what point is something so far away that you move on to ideas that are less tested but more grounded?
So many things are being made today with WiFi connectivity and an app. So long as the app is just an optional add-on feature you can use, I suppose it's harmless enough. But so many devices don't build in setup etc. functions that you can use in the absence of an app. How many smarthome/wearable devices being made today does anyone think are going to be supported in 5-10 years, assuming the companies are even still in business?

Open APIs etc. help to some degree, but realistically very few people have the expertise or the inclination to setup a home server for some sensor.
> notable recent improvements have been asynchronous breakpoints that are integrated in IntelliJ's debugger and some optimizations for sending messages across isolates.

Where did you get that info? I haven't seen it in the changelog. Is message passing using structured cloning?
Ask HN: How to develop an ear for grammar as a non-native speaker?
My English skills were quite mediocre few years back. I made lots of mistakes and my punctuation was terrible. I believe I have grown considerably since then. However, I still find myself making grammatical mistakes and forming sentences that sound unnatural. A sentence like "Why Amazon is so great?" doesn't sound wrong to me at all; a native speaker, perhaps, would see the obvious mistake. It often becomes incredibly difficult for me to decide between two choices for a sentence, as both sound correct; yet, I can feel there is something amiss.

English Grammar is pretty complicated and it's an impossible task to mentally organise a complex sentence into its constituents (subject, predicate, conjunction, determiner..).

Apart from reading, what can I do to develop an ear for Grammar? How can I learn to avoid conspicuous mistakes?
ActFramework r1.4.0 released with websocket support
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Please do derail the thread. The thread is interesting, but so would your input be.
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ReasonReact – React components in Reason
> in total compensation offers amortized over four years.

Which is an incredibly disingenuous way to phrase it. As a new graduate you can't pay rent with stock grants that vest in 48 months.

The value of $1 worth of stock 4 year from now is work a small fraction of $1 in someone's paycheck today, especially when they're just starting out. That $120k "in coastal cities" (just say NYC/SF) is closer to $75-80k in cash compensation, before discretionary bonus, which means in San Francisco you've got a 2-hour one way commute from your studio with 4 roommates.

And what's the average tenure of someone at a tech company these days? A year and half, maybe two? So your 4-year average compensation including stock grants, discretionary bonuses, free beer and catered food, etc is still well above average when you consider many people won't get half of what needs to vest.
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