skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Democrats like all immigration,

I'm a Democrat. I don't like all immigration. With some quibbles, I'm mostly behind long existing rules barring certain “bad people” from immigrating.

OTOH, I think hard caps are bad ways of dealing with the social costs of high quantities of immigration of people that aren't excluded, and it would be better to assess direct fees for people who wanted to immigrate beyond the caps (or without a preference category but who aren't personally barred for bad conduct, etc.) And it would be better, in existing preference categories with caps, to align allocation per-country with demand (or just abandon specific per-country allocations altogether and just a use a global limits) so we don't have a handful of countries with very long waits for legal immigration in various categories due to per country, rather than in-total, caps.

I also have issues with the priorities (both positive and negative) implicit in some bits of the existing structure of immigrant and non-immigrant visa categories, but that's kind of secondary.
Elementary observations: deep rectifier networks
The first Chinese history wasn't written down until around 100BC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian) and only covered as far back as the Yellow Emperor (2698BC to 2598BC), and the first Chinese writing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script) didn't appear until about 1250BC, so we're entirely reliant on archaeology for the period in question.
If you are writing sequentially to a local disk, perhaps it would make sense to create a tiny shim process that listens on a socket and writes to a file. You could do that in C, or perhaps even as a socat invocation.
Netflix pays it's bills like everyone else.

Net Neutrality means that if you were to start a compelling competitor to Netflix, as long as your technology was sound enough, and you could keep up with the bandwidth bills, you would be able to offer the service to your customers without any subjective political negotiation with ISPs and entrenched market leaders.
where did you get the native speaker audio ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14065072

Pick one.
So in the end Uber got away with obstructing justice and the driver got away with theft. It is surprising that police cannot find the thief even knowing his identity.
Coinbase is down again
Show HN: Sapient – library for securing HTTP APIs
I use Plaid for my own bank account access, which I used to replace my own OFX code because my banks kept randomly breaking their OFX interfaces.

Plaid was fine with creating a developer account for just a few bank accounts, they didn't have any minimum or anything.
It's a blog post on a personal site. Your editorial opinion is not required.
Go is still a systems programming language, in the original sense of how Rob Pike explained it in the introductory presentation video about Go from 2009.
The greater part of operating cost isn't wages, it's rent for the premises, cost of energy and of raw materials, and yet this pernicious meme gets trotted out every damn time the subject of minimum wage comes up. What I cannot understand is why that is.
How is D's memory safety without the GC? How does it guarantee you don't use-after-free, de-ref nulls, buffer overflow, etc?
This is one of my favorite art projects. It's goal was to teach starlings to say Schieffelin. Idk how successful it was.

http://teachstarlings.societyrne.net/html/intro.htm
You could, but you could also explain why they're myopic and damaging. I realize it's obvious to you but for the people in general the impression that it passes is that you don't have arguments and resort to name-calling. Seeing as you probably actually have good points to make, it's a shame that this is what transpires.
Counter-argument: http://fortune.com/2017/05/11/tophatter-e-commerce/

Disclosure: I work at Tophatter.
Is archiving a bunch of porn really safe legally? I always had the impression archiving a large number of copyrighted images wasn't.
"Then, for no particularly good reason, this is combined with some smart contract / crypto coin scheme. Other than for PR purposes, it's not clear what the gain is."

Oh, it is entirely clear what it gains.

Cryto currency backed equity is just free money that you don't have to pay back if things go south.

There are basically zero protections for the "investors". Numerai could just walk away with the money and they'd probably get away with it.

Why wouldn't you turn down free money that the market is throwing at you?
Tutorial: GraphQL Subscriptions on the Server
In the Event of Attack,  How the Government Plans 'To Save Itself'
What's D's LINQ equivalent?
Is it less true that if you go back immediately, it's also likely to be a negative review?
"In the normal population, g and IQ are roughly 90% correlated and are often used interchangeably."

Sorry the science doesn't agree with what you think it should be, I will be sure to let the scientists know.

https://www.iq-tests.eu/iq-test-IQ-and-general-intelligence-...
In case anyone is wondering:

https://blog.etsy.com/news/2012/office-ecology-composting-at...
I want to downvote you because of how intensely I disagree with everything you're saying, but you're saying it nicely so I won't.

Instead -
The major concern about losing NN is that instead of just paying for volume of data, I'll also be required to pay based on type and/or source of that data, and that the entities providing the data will also be required to pay based on type and/or destination.

Do you think this concern is not valid? Why?
Do you think this concern and there is a better way to address it? What?

If defending it using law is wrong, what would be a right way to defend it?

And if "free market" is part of you answer, can you talk about the handling of last-mile connections?

Finally, I just straight up don't understand what you mean by "defend it using... force". Can you explain?
We are paying the real cost, just not in the price of goods. We spend it on public assistance, food stamps, medical care for these cheap laborers. A direct parallel would be the outrage over walmart employees being asked to go on supplementary services in order to survive. I'd rather know what this magical extra cost is so it can be compared to the other real hidden costs.
Are you talking about this part? It seems a pretty thin statement on which to rest an allegation of obstruction.

"The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the driver had not driven with them for 2 years."

This still leaves a lot of open questions and is IMO not even a compelling allegation of obstruction of justice, let alone proof. As I said before, it's entirely possible that the actual driver/car were not the ones registered with Uber on the account. It's also possible that somebody erred when looking up records, or a million other things.

What we do know is that by the time this made it to the first court date, Uber was not denying that a trip or a theft took place.

I'll reiterate my fundamental argument since this has strayed a little bit: this article is muddled and confusing with regards to cataloguing bad actions by Uber.
Teach them to connect reality with a business objective. The "field of dreams" theory of business planning is successful 1 in 1,000,000 times. Ergo, hitch your wagon to a horse that can pull a wagon. Said another way, ensure that the product or service which you spend your next 20-hours per day, 7 days per week, actually is something that the market demands.
finally a good plaintext candidate for the thinking emoji shortcut!
Hi HN,

I'm interested in turning this into a full code editor, probably starting with JS (since I already got JSON). But first I want to get some feedback on the principal idea, I hope this version already gets it across.

Anyway, a few more words on it:
I very much believe that our current editors are too literal and too close to the actual texts. While there certainly already exist tools that treat the base programming language structures as primitives, instead of the literal symbols, few programmers use these (as they are mostly mouse/menu based).
Even more advanced IDE's still fundamentally make you edit text, which must bring some cognitive overhead with it (even for pros). We, as programmers, should be more generous with ourselves here and allow us to introduce a layer of abstraction, which I believe will yield many advantages (yes, even speed).
If you're satisfied that you responsibly wrote code that was easy to pass off, then you have nothing to feel guilty about. Leaving them in the lurch, drastically increasing your fee -- anything is on the table.

Of course, there are pros and cons to any approach. You may make enemies if you leave or boost the price too much. In my experience, having as many friends as possible is a good thing.
If you're a founder and looking to sell your company, is there anything you can do to guard yourself against these kinds of situations?

I imagine it might be some particular part of a golden handcuff / golden parachute deal, but making it work for everyone involved sounds super hard...
Blockchain novice here. Is there any way to tell from publicly available info if anyone got in a really big buy at the bottom?
Javascript Classes vs. Closures – Testability
Yes, handles are partitioned per-process. Having them be unlikely to be reused or collide with small numbers (locally) helps avoid some common failure cases (somebody uses a fd after close but somebody else has opened something else that got the same fd and now you have two problems).

Having them be harder to guess provides some (minor) additional defense against attempting to remotely exploit bugs in another process.
These types of practices make me sad for humanity.
Driverless shuttle service coming to U-M
> I'd rather do unexciting work in a profitable company, than exciting work in a company with a writing on the wall.

this is a very good point
I was going to comment, but it'd end up just being your comment reiterated. Very weird headline, I guess they were trying to be playful?
Who do you think pays for the unintelligent people in the welfare society the left envisions? Additionally I do find it rather amusing the left complains that the only reason they don’t win is because of stupid people, and then insists on bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible, something doesn’t quite add up.
If you didn't have a machine, we would of course provide you with one. The feedback we have received is that people felt more at home with their own tools and hardware.
Mostly personal experience including some stories from permaculture types who've been approaching these problems for a while. I'm designing a habitat that will have an additional complication of both low-pressure gravity fed and electric-pump (city pressure) circuits.

Regulations lag behind optimum configuration, though parts of EU, especially in the north, legislated triple-glazing (f.e.) quite a few years ago (can't find a cost analysis of break-even points, unfortunately). I'm sure there's plenty of assumptions wrapped up in these regulations around estimated abode longevity, energy pricing over that period, etc. But as to multiple water sources into abodes, I haven't seen much formal work on it. I think the idea gets touted in London periodically - it'd be a nice solution to the dual problems of high water table and (surprisingly) occasional potable water shortages. But retrofitting this to an existing, massive, badly planned metropolis would be a nightmare.
> postgres is going to get multi-master replication soon in postgres 10

No it's not. Postgres barely has decent replication as is. Logical replication is a good step beyond (while still missing major functionality) but nowhere near what it takes for multi-master replication.
This doesn't explain why the driver didn't return any calls. And in this case Uber could give data about that passenger to the police.
But there was an initial sale of the coins right?

All these cryto ico things are premined or centrally allocated in a way where they get a cut. If you have access to the printing press, then you make all the money, no matter what happens with the currency.

Sure, maybe they gave away some of the coins to datascientists, but I am sure they kept a healthly cut for themselves.
As a both a business school graduate and company founder I witnessed this first hand. At my school, the majority of people wanting to do "entrepreneurship" were not really committed to it, but rather dabbling in it. They had an idea and did surveys to "validate" the need and were always looking for random undergraduate engineers to seduce into helping them.

That being said, there was a small handful of people who were serious, committed, and willing to do whatever it took to get their company off the ground. As with all stereotypes, there is some element of truth along with countless counter examples. For MBAs, the core issue is a lot of ambitious, idea-generating, risk-averse people without technical/tactical skills on average, looking to do something risky with technical/tactical requirements.

As someone wanting to start my own company, I hated that I didn't have the technical chops to get even a basic prototype off the ground and didnt want to just another MBA with an idea and no ability to execute. Luckily, my school, Chicago Booth, began offering a Ruby on Rails coding class. From the first class, I got addicted to it and spent all my timing building out an idea, that I didn't even initially think was good, just so I could learn to code better.

When I released the idea, 60% of the school started using it in the first month. There is no substitute for being able to cheaply and easily get a workable prototype onto the market. As a result of having a real product and the ability to iterate on it, we made it much further than any of our competitors in our schools New Venture competition and ended up winning it and raising a seed round.

We are by no means successful and are still in the startup grind for sure, but without bringing the initial ability to get something real onto the market through some technical skills, we would have been dead in the water no matter what. Our product is now used by half of MBAs in the country ( https://www.transparentcareer.com ) and it would have never of happened without at least getting some basic technical skills.

MBAs can start companies and be successful at them, and some companies require way less tech than others. That being said, I think everyone would wind up being better off learning to code no matter who they are. There is nothing more empowering than being able to create something real instead of just a powerpoint presentation.

Now that I have a team of engineers, working with them is way smoother as I more deeply understand the development process and can understand how to spec things out better. Even if i'm not coding on a daily basis, its immensely valuable to at least know the basics.
Somebody told me when I was young that in the late 1800s in Ireland (when he was young) that the flocks would be so large that they would block out the sunlight all around. He was not a man prone to exaggeration.
Excellent back and forth. As someone considering an MBA post a failed startup, the meat, for me, was here:

> Michael: Because I think a lot of people here in the valley would argue ... spending two years at an early stage startup in the Bay Area might be more fruitful than spending those two years at an HBS or a like school.

> Jeff: Look, I think there’s an argument for that trade off in the short term. I think the harder question for people is 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, where am I gonna end up? Because if I spend two years stepping off the treadmill at a Harvard, or a Stanford, or an MIT, I’m gonna come back with a network, a set of relationships, and a skillset that may not be immediately high ROI.

Well worth the listen to / read.
And get off my lawn, you, you ... bro-grammers.

Sorry, somewhat serious though. I was going to say something about this recent "bro-culture" having cast a pall over the software engineering profession but realized I was going to sound like an old man.
I don't see a problem with this. Growing up poor and being an african american, if I wasn't a self taught software engineer, I would probably be in jail or dead with the rest of my siblings. Growing up poor and having to attend local schools are a complete utter joke in this country. Only thing they prepare us for is gangs and jail. Looks like a lot would have to be done for this to change. And given what's going in trump's america, i doubt things will ever change. :(
Yeah, but why would I use that over PostgreSQL? I already know postgreSQL and it's also THE gold standard for SQL implementations. AFAIAC PostgreSQL is the obvious choice.
Ohayo Sneak Peak
There's a great writeup on a company that experience similar:

https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
The Culture series of books are the most uplifting things I've read. They just make me feel great, especially the parts that take place on Orbitals (apart from the strange shit in the first book).
Sure. I've heard of that problem, both with Uber and Lyft, on things that had nothing to do with fraud though. I don't know that either company does anything to reward drivers that answer calls/texts, or punish those that don't.
If ever there were a use case for a lawsuit punitive damages, some poor company that is driven out of business by a well-documented case of this would be it. I know I'm being naive here but I feel that it should be clear to anyone with a sense of propriety that the big company should have to pay the liquidation cost for the small one!
At least in Chicago, they are required to accept credit cards. If they can't accept a card, you don't have to pay.
F-35 bomb dropper and evade from air missile
Why does DDG only seem to search videos via Youtube, even with Safe Search set to off?

I live in the UK and with our internet laws here becoming more and more strict over the last few (and coming) years, I wanted an alternative to Google or Bing who both actively cooperate with the governments existing proclivity to censor things like Porn.

Bing's video search for pornography is absolutely fantastic, it's legitimately the one thing I use Bing for.
D was marketed as 'Mars', but for some reason people insisted on calling it 'D' instead, and Walter relented and changed the name of the language.

It's great that C++ is catching up. It's almost got static if, except not because it introduces a new scope. Maybe next time...

The C++ programmers I know are attached to native code, but not exactly content with C++. Ethan Watson of Remedy Games (Quantum Break) said "we are an industry looking for salvation".
The general idea is "poison pill," but generally no, there's nothing the seller can do.
Cute but false, in each of those scenarios they would tell me "five minutes" and then when I'd call back 15 minutes later to ask & complain, they'd say "oh there was traffic, now he's five minutes away" and then one time I called back again 20 minutes later and the guy yelled at me and hung up on me.
Can someone explain to me this dichotomy I see with the almost thermo-nuclear war when it comes to copyright protection of total drivel, but when it comes to fin-tech there is literally a flourishing industry of screen scraping typing companies and well-publicized plays like Mint and it's just like a big shrug? How are these companies able to mitigate through the banking companies TOU and such?
The EU has already stepped in—IIRC, starting in 2018, the PSD2 directive will force banks to open up their API’s.
> Additionally I do find it rather amusing the left complains that the only reason they don’t win is because of stupid people

"The left" doesn't do that, a small minority of the people on the left do.

> and then insists on bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible

Even fewer (like zero) people on the left advocate specifically for “bringing in the least intelligent immigrants possible.”
Yes, I agree.

Both systems are logically consistent so there would need to be other reasons to choose one or the other.

If there is an (E) the only possible way we would have of knowing - would be if (E) communicated somehow and provided evidence.

Even if one considered complexity as evidence it would not be sufficient or specific about (E).

In my case, the evidence that leads me to conclude that (E) does exist has little to do with the complexity of life.

Anyway, thanks for your time and thoughts. I especially appreciate your insight about the requirement of eternal complexity in my point of view. That will give me something to think about for quite a while to ponder it's implications.
You might want to consider what effect the endless insistence work in tech requires some sort of religious levels of 'passion' has on women or beginners or really anyone from an atypical (for tech) background looking to enter the field.
Apple goes after clones and spam on the App Store
It goes into cold storage for a later date.
The Democratic party does not credibly propose any of those things. Hillary Clinton explicitly rebuked Bernie Sanders' campaign promises with regards to health and education.

We have not yet seen a candidate running on a socialist proposal coupled with even mediocre or passable mediatic support. Every time a socialist-leaning candidate pops up, moneyed interests work really, really hard against them. However, it's getting better and better (see: Corbyn in UK).

It'll come. People will vote themselves, not bread and circuses, but health and education. And democracy and markets, as opposing decision-making mechanisms, will clash.
Thanks for the feedback!

You still can have errors at the ETN level, but you cannot have parse errors at the TN level. TN will parse all inputs fine.

I totally agree that compile time error checking is a great thing! ETNs support that too, and you can make your ETNs behave at compile time exactly like languages do today if you want. But they also allow easy to implement cool new error handling patterns beyond just "crash and point to the offending character".
Congrats, Gustaf and others! Very well deserved.
That's not true. They recently received a banking license (https://monzo.com/blog/2017/04/05/banking-licence/) and they have built their own platform (https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...).
Real estate on the Washington side of the border is insanely cheaper. As soon as you cross the border, prices skyrocket and just keep going up until you hit downtown Vancouver.

Seriously, our affordability problem is pretty much at crisis levels. People who argue that we should increase density aren't wrong, but we're already building towers as fast as we can. And the majority of those suffer from substandard, shoddy construction. We call it 'leaky condo syndrome'. And even those are selling for $750k+ for under 500sqft.