skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that such a video is none of my business; just like the Clinton's bj, that's a private topic that should be relevant only to the people involved.

I get your point, that scandals involving outdated systems of morality are still a problem in some areas. Technology marches on, and we must learn - as a species - to update our social and moral systems fast or we may find out that intelligence is not[1] an effective survival trait in the long-term.

> The number of things I genuinely cannot imagine him saying is shrinking rapidly.

Trump's speech is very predictable in it's general theme. The details are random, but he always says things that are self-serving, in a childish "obviously I was always right" attitude. If there's is a way to add a not-very-subtle insult, he will add it.

Most important, it's foolish to try to parse his statements for information, because that's not how he uses language. Instead, he uses phatic[2] language to express emotion, confidence, and social standing.

> [Trump] saying very solemnly that bombs were about to be dropped on Russia

Why would he bomb the people he wants to do business with? The few comments Trump has made about increasing talks with Russia is one of the very few things I like about Trump (not that I expect he will actually do anything whatsoever on that topic). Anything that reduces the risk of nuclear war is great.

> I am literally shocked into silence.

Fear is the mind killer. Recently a lot of people of - orthogonal to political ideology - are doing everything in their power to push the politics of fear. Almost all of it is unsubstantiated hot air... which is what the Baloney Detection Kit is for. Science isn't perfect, but it's still the best method we have for filtering out charlatans, propagandists, and simple mistakes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916033

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577909
Probably not as bad as diesel fumes, but no one gives a shit about those.
(Generally speaking I would greatly prefer it if CPython wasn't so reliant on the libc. For example, on a 32-bit system you'll typically find that CPython suffers from y2036 for many date and time operations, including formatting. This would of course add a lot of size to the already big CPython distribution.)
i am sure you could have a dell reseller order it for you at some mark up.
I'm thinking how Netflix compares to the traditional media. On demand services have much less control of what we're going to watch. Bigger catalog -> better service -> less control.
Notes on 'Everything is fucked'
For now, I believe cryptocurrencies are mostly used for speculation, most people that buy them expect to sell them back with profit, just like stocks. The value of bitcoin is too volatile right now to be effectively used at a currency. I would not want to hoard bitcoin (or other cryptocurrencies) right now.

At the end of day, a currency is based on trust. If I have a 20$ Cad bill, I know all businesses in Canada will accept it, the Bank of Canada is backing this currency, people can be paid in Canadian dollars, and etc. I also know that I can easily exchange my canadian dollars to Euros, US dollars and etc. Most cryptocurrencies don't have that same level of trust right now. If there is no trust, people won't actively use this currency.

In addition, Currencies are also used by a country/central bank to regulate its economy through monetary policy.

But I can see cryptocurrencies to be an addition to "normal" currencies, but I don't think they will ever replace them.
I noticed that, too.

Clear Channel is also not Clear Channel anymore and do not own 1100 stations.

It is interesting the conversation it has started in this thread even though it is based on false and out of date information. I guess people just accept the infographic as reliable truth and go with it.
Silicon Valley Begins to Crack Visibly
Russian EGE system was hacked
You do in Pony. One point of the type system is to allow safe passing of data between actors without copying everything.
Ah that wasn't clear to me either.
The bots haven't taken over?
This video mentions memofon.com, which now looks like a good place to download malware. Don't visit.
> Is that not a personal attack

No, it isn't. That "layer of indirection" changes it from a personal attack to a statement of fact. It's a lesson that I had to learn the hard way, and I said it because I wish someone had said it to me back in the day. If someone had, it would have saved me a lot of pain.

But now I understand why no one did. I will certainly never make the mistake of trying to offer this advice on HN again.
The article has a link to her blog in that first paragraph (though links on Medium don't stand out that much). FreeCodeCamp was one of a number of things she did.
> This has to be some sort of logic fallacy.

Not a Devo fan, are you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan's_ass

> With multiple offers you are guaranteed to be able to get higher pay, more time off, and/or better working conditions.

Actually, you aren't. You are, however, free to pick one of many offers, and one of them may suit you better than the others. Perhaps you can negotiate better offers, but this doesn't mean that a potential employer may be willing to present a better counter-offer.
>Not only that, America spends so much on its military to compensate for the fact that most of its allies spend significantly less on theirs; without the so-called pax Americana the world would look very different.

That's a myth that Americans seem to believe firmly.

Like they're like parent figures to the world or something, exceptionalism at its worst, and the 21st century analogue to the "White Man's Burden".

As if any country would attack the EU for example, or even e.g. Germany alone.

In fact, most of the mess the planet is in (the middle east for example) is because of US intervention and fucking things up. In the past 2 decades, new training grounds for terrorists created in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria, all thanks to breaking up stable regimes there.
With the "positive anymore," [O] you can say:

"Anymore, nobody at Apple cares"

[O] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
sadly these days it is all too easy to stick fingers in ears and go "troll troll troll" or "hater hater hater" than actually introspect.

Tempted to label it as a ripple effect of the rising SJW element in FOSS, because both terms seems to attract that group in defense of the shouter without concern for context.
Why is this article flagged? I think it's pretty relevant given all the recent coverage sexual harassment in the tech industry is getting.
There are some people who really like passenger trains. They see passenger trains, including some really fast ones, in Europe and Asia and want such in the US. To get those trains, they want big bucks from the US Federal Government.

In the US, NYC is there and spends a lot of money on various public and commons projects. Passenger trains are an example.

We will not build another NYC, and how NYC spends money on trains, etc. does not generalize elsewhere in the US at all well.

For the US, for people, as they travel, for nearly all miles, say, commuting and shopping, to and from school, etc. there are lots of origin-destination pairs. Trains can't serve that many origin-destination pairs. First, can't lay that much track. Second, can't start, accelerate, and stop a 100 ton train with several hundred people just to pickup or let off just 1-4 people at a time, and that is what the many origin-destination pairs would require.

Also on a train, tough to carry all the stuff for shopping -- an SUV is much better. Also on a train, tough to carry all the stuff for a family visit to grandma's, either across the country or even just across town -- an SUV is much better. For a soccer mom with several kids, her own and some neighbors', an SUV is much better than a train for keeping all the kids, their sports equipment, etc. together.

As has been fully clear in the US since the end of WWII, nearly everywhere in the US, passenger trains flop.

Then, now there is another stake through the heart of passenger trains -- the TSA.

In nearly all the US, for nearly all their transportation, people prefer private cars and public roads paid for with gas taxes to trains. Otherwise they prefer airplanes.

Trump wants to do a lot on US infrastructure, but I don't think that will include more on passenger trains.
Say hello to HAL when you get there.
Ironically, this article has just been flagged.
Why is R not decent? The performance could be better but what else?
Denmark already does postcard 2FA called NemID for all its citizens
I've been enjoying The Economist and Aljazeera lately. Intelligent news that covers important things happening all over the world, not just the USA.

I'm also interested in the same question. It's hard to find news that is both covering important long-term issues and trying to seek the truth of the matter. Plus I get frustrated at how insular news in the USA is, many of the USAs problems have already been somewhat solved in other countries but the media rarely mentions them. So citizens and politicians waste time spinning their wheels and arguing about theoreticals instead of learning from experiments that have already been done.
>However, you don't see me commenting there to derail the discussion away from the fascinating topic of these creatures' breathing.

Only in this post's case, the quality of the typography WAS the topic under discussion.
We already do this in Denmark and the company is looking to USA too
And yet cannabis smoke does not seem to carry the same life expectancy and particularly lung cancer risk for light to moderate smokers. How do you square this with your understanding (mine, too) of smoke being inherently carcinogenic?

Not to argue against your point; i'm a little confused why one would argue FOR second hand smoke. In any circumstance with smoke.
It could, assuming it was not overtly harmful
Is it not possible for a combination of positive attributes to produce a useless attribute as a consequence, but the surplus attribute can't disappear as it's a manifestation of positive evolutionary traits that give you an advantage?
> Interrupts on NaNs are extremely expensive to implement on vector and GPU processors.

That's ok, because NaNs are exceptional responses to numerical errors thrown during number crunching, indicating that something failed unexpectedly and the output is crap.
New Buying Habits Are More Important Than Technology
I was in the audience and asked questions, and chatted with him afterwards..

Data flow dictates control flow (to a certain extent).

The paper you linked to is very interesting: but even there they have to augment their 'linked list' with more links. And they assume one processor per list element and don't count the set-up time of having each processor find its list element.

(There's some more complication to it. But I am glad between 1986 when the paper was written and 2009 when he gave the talk, he figured out how to explain some of these issues more simply.)
No. Using Latexit, your equations will use the same (configurable) font size. If you wanted them to have the same width for some reason, you could resize them once they're in the document.
I know that at least two of Philip K. Dick’s short stories dealt with this issue; he liked exploring the question of “What is real, and how can we know?”.

• The Mold of Yancy, 1955 (http://defectiveyeti.com/moy.pdf)

• The Unreconstructed M, 1957 (https://www.jerkersearcher.com/sffaudio_pdfs/TheUnreconstruc...
)
Did not listen to podcast but the summary says that a person named "Anil Bokil" gave idea of demonetisation to PM Modi. This is not confirmed by PM or sources close to PM. It is only "Anil Bokil" who is claiming credit for this policy.

Here is history of demonetisation in India from Wikipedia-

"The Indian government had demonetised bank notes on two prior occasions—once in 1946 and then in 1978—and in both cases, the goal was to combat tax evasion by "black money" held outside the formal economic system.[19] In 1946, the pre-independence government hoped demonetisation would penalise Indian businesses that were concealing the fortunes amassed supplying the Allies in World War II.[19] In 1978, the Janata Party coalition government demonetised banknotes of 1000, 5000 and 10,000 rupees, again in the hopes of curbing counterfeit money and black money.[20]

In 2012, the Central Board of Direct Taxes had recommended against demonetisation, saying in a report that "demonetisation may not be a solution for tackling black money or economy, which is largely held in the form of benami properties, bullion and jewellery."[21][22] According to data from income tax probes, black money holders kept only 6% or less of their wealth as cash, suggesting that targeting this cash would not be a successful strategy.[23]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
More Millennials Are Having Strokes
When I ditched cable TV about 7 years ago I lost track of these outlets. I can't say I've missed them. I occasionally open cnn.com if I'm bored, mostly because it's quick to type.

I have a (physical) subscription to the Economist, which is where I get all my serious news. I can't tell you how great it is to read the news without the page content shifting all around because of ads loading.
only if the structure encodes something. in general it doesn't
The level of evidence for most of these recommendations is quite low. That doesn't make this bad advice. In fact, most of it is probably good advice. But it does explain why the GP's physician is not going to be discussing this in detail.
Delimited continuations are the full ones.

The so-called full continuations lack the flexibility to put the delimiting prompt anywhere but the top-level entry point to the program or thread.

Delimited continuations are complete in the sense that they let the programmer control where the top is.

Put the delimiting prompt around the top-level startup function and you have a "full" continuation.
What the standards say supports that assertion even less than what the other manual pages say. There is a standard for this. It is IEEE 1003.1 a.k.a. The Single Unix Specification.

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...

Valid portable user names can have digits and letters intermixed. They are simply restricted to not starting with a minus.

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681377)

In the actual bug report, as opposed to Mattias Geniar's article headlined here, this is already mentioned.
I live in NYC and I see people smoking cigarettes which cost about $12-$14 per pack. Some people smoke 1 pack a day and some 2 packs a day.
I have a hard time considering something "human-centred" when the very concept seems completely inaccessible to people with visual or motor impairments.
Or rather, undeclared types are assumed to be int. Is that what you are talking about?
Why is icaro so much more performance? It's two orders of magnitude faster than the other frameworks if I'm reading the results correctly.
I think he meant pre-Modi people were getting killed in terrorist attacks but now they are getting killed from lynching. A terrible thing to say.
Well, it's not crazy. Look at how effectively phillip morris axed vaping nicotine. They've effectively destroyed any chance of producing the stuff without several million in float per flavor. That is, the only ones left standing after the new DEA laws will almost all be owned by phillip morris members.

It is easy to demonize a single thing (smoking) and regulate a whole bunch of things (anything with nicotine in it) related without a rational connection (is the vaped substance as carcinogenic as smoking?). I have full faith there will be anti edible campaigns.
Ask HN: Tech podcasts in India
Being an avid consumer of tech podcasts, I wonder about the podcast scene in India. Reaching out to the like minded to ask if you are aware of any up and coming podcasts based out of India on the tech and startup scene.
We can blame, in large part, the MSM for having on only generals and contractors and feeding us the bullshit line that torture works and is a good thing.
It'd be interesting to find that whales are left-finned when one hemisphere is asleep, and right finned when the other hemisphere is asleep.
Yes and thank you, very good points.

We are a larger organization, and getting past the HR filter is understandable. We have taken significant measures to improve that step with us, and it has yielded much better throughput on worthy candidates. At sounds as though we do something similar internally -- incorporate shared reviews from our team with inbound resumes.

And to your point about a two-way street -- I couldn't agree more. We respond to everyone, and do so manually. We don't automate that way, as I want a human contact behind the message. (We don't get thousands of resumes, but we do get in the low hundreds.) I've found executing those directly is meaningful and translates to better communication over time. I think of it as a function of customer service, not recruiting.

To really tie it all together: we want to speak with those who have genuine interest, and are willing to put effort into it from the beginning of any conversation with us. We hope our candidates do the same.
Calculating How Many Cups of Coffee in a Day Can Kill You and More
Maybe.

On the other hand, we also barely have high-speed rail between New York and Boston or DC, and those cities (and travel between them) do drive a huge chunk of the US economy.

Chicago-Madison is interesting because they're too far apart to commute between: the drive is ~150 miles/2.5 hrs each way and train is, inexplicably, much slower. If it instead took an hour or less to get between city centers, it's suddenly doable. Similar arguments might apply to Boston-Manchester and other pairs of big-medium cities. Someone would have to run the numbers, but I think HSR has the potential to create demand, rather than just shift it from cars and planes.
I was going to ask why AWS Lambda was not used instead. Or any other serverless offering from the major cloud providers.
I disagree, I don't think that's the purpose of HN.
Cooking with gas in a kitchen also exposes people to toxic fumes. Burning wood in a wood stove without adequate ventilation exposes people to carcinogens, particulates, and carbon monoxide.

The secondhand smoke discussion is a good topic derailment for marijuana legalization. People will argue about that issue instead of just thinking about ways to consume it without exposing others to harm, such as going outside or any of the non-smoking ways to consume cannabis.

Second-hand smoke is an actual risk, but the studies that WHO cite all consider indoor use. Burning carcinogens should simply never be done without adequate ventilation, whether for food preparation, science experiments, or recreation.

http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/secondhand_smoke/about/e...
A different view on orthodontics, breathing and healthy facial development
> That's "expensive" in terms of losing bits of expressiveness that could have been used to represent actual numbers.

The double precision floating point format already represents between 15 and 17 significant digits, and those who, for some reason, believe they need more expressiveness can already use the illusive and rarely needed 80-bit extended precision floating point format.

0.4% of anything is nothing.
Managing Your Career and Yourself Like a Product
It's a good way to derail the topic and preserve the status quo of illegal cannabis.
You can probably do it quite easily with Pandoc if you know Haskell, or with Pandoc + a panflute filter if you know Python.
To be fair, though, if you have two drugs that are separated only by very similar looking characters, that's a recipe for disaster anyway. Even ignoring the localization aspects, I wouldn't want two drugs separated only by the difference between i/l, u/v, etc.
Given the 90% number cited in the headline, you are living a world few of us inhabit.
Formic acid contains 53 g/L of hydrogen[1]. The Mirai has a 500 km range, using 5 kg of hydrogen[2]. So you would need 95 L (116 kg) of formic acid to get the same range. The actual tanks on the Mirai (87.5 kg, 122 L) are physically larger, but weigh less.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/yoo1/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai#Fuel_economy_and_...
Then you don't have "Erlang-like actors", which is an implementation of CSP
(unintended, designed separately, but still).

Unless you mean that some data is shared, but cannot be modified, but this
would be semantically identical to not sharing anything.
Or maybe it should be "Apple is not a mathematician society"
I suggest getting involved in New America / Open Markets and directly participate in tackling this problem. The downside to this group is that a number of its funders are, in fact, monopolists themselves.

https://www.newamerica.org/open-markets/
The Silicon Valley blacklist
I am yet to see a study that has compared one-pack-a-day smokers of tobacco and marijuana. Effects of cigarettes become significant after one pack year, and I don't know if you can even find participants for a test, who smoke marijuana in equivalent weight.

Until then, "marijuana is better than tobacco" is simply a bullshit statement. Smoke less cigarettes and your risk of cancer and respiratory diseases will of course be lower!
The article isn't kidding when it said that the old phone system was terrible, phones typically had a second earpiece so you could hear through both ears in the hope of making out what the other party said.

And them in a huge jump foreward, the PTT switched to digital and by 1980 anybody could get digital service (isdn) cheaply at their house.
You're shifting my argument into a strawman to bolster yours: nobody is credibly advocating infantilizing women.

I will help you with your reading comprehension:

> People do form romantic relationships from working relationships. This should be approached with the utmost of care, because the workplace isn't the appropriate place.

Since you strawman-ized my argument, I'll do the same to yours:

"When people tell me I can't hit on women at work, that's infantilizing them."
This is rather normal in the real-world goods economy. $4 app on the phone is considered as a rip-off.
Allowing people to murder him is going way too far. There is already a simple legal solution to people who willfully defy court orders: put him in jail for contempt until he complies with the order. This is simply a failure of the legal system to apply the law equally to the rich and powerful as it does to the poor and powerless.
Rail line is like airline but for trains, perhaps?
I think you're responding to an argument I didn't make.

You claimed "Type bugs just aren't that painful". Haskell allows you to make all sorts of bugs into type bugs, from SQL well-formedness, through certain concurrency guarantees, to guarantees that your HTTP routing is correct. So yes, type bugs can be very painful, and that's a good thing!
You explained this once to me before and it was very cool. Did you ever write a blog post about it? I think it would be neat to link to in the future when these sort of discussions come up.
Why std::bind can’t be formally deprecated
I suppose he knew it would just be reverted by the next president?

It is disappointing. Are any cases on their way to the Supreme Court yet?
The two billion figure is not an accurate one. Two billion users (not individual persons) rely entirely on Facebook as their primary source of news. I don't think the relevant figure is more than a few millions.