skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the docs in depth, but it seems that the extra safety Pony adds over Go, Java and C# is null-dereference safety, data race safety, exception safety and deadlock safety.

Go, Java and C# all suffer from all the problem above. Go in particular (due to confusing slicing semantics and dearth of immutable data structures) and C# slightly less (due to a lot of syntactic sugar to help you with null-safety).

Haskell is a slightly different beast. I assume that with idiomatic Haskell, except for an occasional runtime error due to bad program logic, you'll rarely run into these issues.
Yes, the U.S. should start taking ideas from China.

And cars in Belgium aren't 180% of the price in the U.S. (not to mention they're part of the EU so they don't have to import German or French cars). The main difference is that cities are built on a human scale so cars don't fit and aren't a good way to go around, not to mention garages are almost nonexistant and parking is very expensive.
Interesting question which is then used to spread a lot of unsupported FUD about "second hand smoke" and imply that marijuana is as dangerous as Tobacco and state without any support whatsoever that the marijuana market will become dominated by mega-corporations the same as tobacco was.
A long time back, I bootstrapped a SaaS which was useful to my reporter friends. So I tried selling this to what I thought were small town local newspapers. I called up the editorial or business development contacts listed in the paper; whenever I got hold of them, I was redirected to Headquarters,which always was some sort conglomerate enterprise. That is when I learnt the hard way there is not such thing as a local or small newspaper: they are just local branches of conglomerates. I gave up because I did not possess the resources required for an enterprise sales cycle.
Tencent Dominates in China. Next Challenge Is Rest of the World
> I grew up in Columbus, GA in the highly racist America Deep South. Blacks and whites each constitute roughly 49% of the population of Columbus, GA. This has failed to turn it into some kind of racial paradise. Also, from what I gather, black slaves on plantations often outnumbered the white owners and their family members.

Race and sex are different. There is no biological imperative to couple off with someone of a different race, such that an imbalanced ratio creates aggressive competitive pressure over a limited supply of partners.

> I don't think gender ratio has a thing to do with it. Using that metric as justification for the problem amounts to excusing it.

It's completely fair to blame individuals for their misbehavior, but when you see misbehavior at scale, there is some systemic problem.

If admitting that the problem is bigger than just one person has the effect of excusing that person, that doesn't make it any less true.
"Dude, cuz this stuff is kickin' in bro!"
Yes, highly litigious. And in the midst of a profound transformation in gender relations. Over perhaps the last century. Things are just chaotic. So the safest policy is avoiding potentially dangerous and/or compromising situations.
Are you talking about the /g/ "systemd is bloat"
meme? Because /g/ hates everything, and /g/ and Gamergate are hardly coterminous.

To be clear, I'm not objecting to potshots taken at either; /g/ is trash, and whining about vidya gaem journalism is childish and stupid - and lashing out viciously at people who work in the field is worse by far than that. I'm just saying it's worth checking your target first.
Yeah, but sufficiently so that most photons are not encountering any other things on their way.
What I look for in a coin is

1. significant development activity

2. near-term upcoming catalysts

3. relatively high "whale distribution" -- in other words, there are holders that are wealthy and heavily invested at prices not too much lower than market price.

Unfortunately in the short term, I am bearish Bitcoin, so I am out of all altcoins and short Bitcoin.

However, if you find any interesting coins that meet those criteria, please let me know!
At peak in 2003 there were 9.1 millions minitels for 55 millions people so not ubiquitous but common.

3611 used to offer the first 3 minutes free for a few years then removed this.
World population prospects for 2017-2100 (UN DESA, Population Division) [pdf]
I think you are conflating power with advantages. I have advantages over many people, but I have little to no power to punish them.
"Dr Drang" is a pseudonym. He doesn't use his real name to blog, and goes to some effort to obscure it (for professional reasons).

Edit: I was wondering why Dr Drang, and found the answer here[0]

> When I started blogging, I thought I’d do more political posts, and it seemed like a good idea to keep my online and real life personas separated. I didn’t want potential clients Googling my real name and having all the hits come from my personal blog.

> I do have a Ph.D. in engineering, with an emphasis in stress and structural analysis.

> “Drang” is the German word for stress and is part of the name of a famous engineering textbook, Drang und Zwang, written by the father and son team of August and Ludwig Föppl. The father, August, also wrote an even more famous textbook, Vorlesungen über technische Mechanik, but “Dr. Vorlesungen” just didn’t have the right ring to it.

[0]: https://512pixels.net/2012/06/writers-i-read-dr-drang/
I'm not sure why it would be; as far as I understand it, they don't have a hemisphere asleep all the time.

That said, if I recall correctly, the architecture that supports this capability is more heavily bicameralized than our own. I can easily see that imposing the kind of limit you describe. But I'm not sure we know enough about their connectome to really say one way or another.
AWS may be 8% of Amazon's revenue, but I believe I've read AWS is disproportionately profitable (compared to Amazon's retail segment). I'm not sure what the exact numbers are, but I think it you can make a reasonable argument that a company is defined by where its profits come from moreso than its revenue. I could see reasonable arguments the other way around too though.

EDIT: Thanks njarboe for catching confusing typo
If this is meant to target modern browsers, what's the use of this check and fallback for IE's obsolete API?

if (global.addEventListener) {
global.addEventListener('message', onGlobalMessage, false);
} else {
global.attachEvent('onmessage', onGlobalMessage);
}
Treating Alcoholism with Ketamine: Vice Media [video]
"The tailpipe emissions are only CO2 and water," explains Mr van Cappellen. "No other harmful gases like nitric oxides, soot or sulphuric oxides are emitted."

The same is true of the complete combustion of petrol and other hydrocarbon fuels. I remember the same was said of propane when it became the popular alternative fuel several decades ago.
And both parties misuse media. One example: http://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign...
also, maybe the people they interact with tend to use R, so writing it in that language might give more immediate traction / feedback.
There are some very good ways. Thats how redshifting was proven in the first place. Cephiads (sp), pulsing stars, were used to prove that galaxies were a thing. They give very accurate distances at ranges where redshift is detectable.
You needn't swerve but there's no harm in braking.
A 3D Trip to the Summit of Everest
The ‘free’ wifi networks I’ve been using recently give you a free 5 minute window to verify your email before shutting off again.
The people of Britain vote for their local MPs, who vote for a government, who appointed a European Commissioner. Theoretically that's a chain of accountability (and purely theoretically it's also possible for the European Parliament to dismiss the Commission), but it's too weak for democracy to apply in practice - Mandelson could not have held an office that the British public had any real control over. The British civil service has a similarly limited level of accountability which is exactly why they're required to be politically neutral - it's a reasonable arrangement for a technical regulatory body, but obviously unsuitable for general-purpose lawmaking. Unfortunately the EU has subtly slid from the former into the latter without reassessing whether its institutions and conventions were still suitable.
Ask HN: What is cheapest way to buy Bitcoin?
When distribution is bottle necked to a single or few locations, the difference between content creation and content consumption blurs significantly. If its not distributed - its not seen. The same net effect as not ever being created.
> IMO salary secrecy is a weird fetish and probably counter productive.

Hidden salaries are why the job market is so extremely awful and costly. I have heard a million times that it is really hard to hire talent. But still, our approach to the job marketplace is akin to a bidding system, not a market. Imagine that each time that you go to the supermarket you need to negotiate the price of every item. It will be so hard to know where to buy your groceries.

And related to that also salary secrecy helps to hide discrimination from view. Again it makes it a hard problem even more difficult (https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail).
This seem pretty hackable, anyone have one yet? I'd love to have something run on a battery at the cottage and let me know when the temperature gets close to freezing.
> They could have planned the implementation in stages so that the transition could be done smoother.

Is that really true though? Seems like the whole point of this was to surprise the market and force people into the banking system on short notice so then you can tax them.

But if you give people notice, then they have a chance to come up with alternative cash-like arrangements in advance so that when you take away their notes, they just switch to a different 'black money'-like asset.

Not saying this couldn't have been planned out better, but if you follow the logic then the 'big bang' change is inherent to what they're trying to do.
Even though these mindmaps are very simple, and basically re-arranging a table of contents, there's something deeply satisfying about having a bit of spatial layout.
Actually technically it doesn’t. America is the short name of the United States of America. North America is a continent. South America is a continent. There is no such place as “America” unless you are referring to the United States. “Americans” refers to the nationality of one from the United States. It’s the adjective describing “something from the United States.”

I have never heard anyone in Brazil refer to themselves as American. That’s just nonsense and no product from Paraguay is stamped with Hecho en America.

Interestingly, people from the US or Canada are referred to as North Americans by Mexicans – despite Mexico being in North America.
Would be more useful if it rendered these inside of R - instead it just converts one text file format into another and you need something else to render it. I browsed the code and wondered why it was only 180 lines...
A big difference between the US media and the rest of the developed world seems to be a complete absence of state-owned/subsidized/run media. To me, this seems much more problematic than the limited competition between corporate media.

In the US, it seems that news/stories/investigative reporting without some commercial interest to some company tends to go underreported. There is no money in being critical towards business (except extreme cases) for the media companies, who depend on good corporate relations for advertising income. Critical reporting towards businesses is not happening and government mistrust is promoted with nothing to balance this.

I think that a healthy media climate needs a mix of commercial and public journalism, that balance each other out.

As someone living in the Netherlands, there are several popular TV shows on public TV that, I think, could never exist in the US, because they would be seen as harming corporate interest. An example being a program investigating the background, production and health aspects of all kinds of food.
TL;DR: Buckets of algae collect carbon dioxide emissions of some small factory. The algae is fed to pigs, who fart the carbon to atmosphere anyway.
Once you have "Erlang-like actors", you don't have data sharing.
At Lambda you charge 17% of the first two years of salary (down from 3 years previously).

At a salary of $80,000 that's 27 thousand of tuition. That seems extremely expensive for a non-accredited education.
This sounds so partisan. "Free-market fanatics around the country flung praise at the study"

This economic issue is far too important to allow it become a Left/Right conversation.

More information:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/business/economy/seattle-...
Just scattered information.

You have Joe Duffy's blog entries about Midori and one entry back when it was still called M#.

Then there are the little pieces that came to C# from it.

Namely async/await, TPL, the MDIL compiler on Windows 8.x, the .NET Native compiler for UWP, the improved GC control in .NET 4.6 and the planned features for C# 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 related to more mechanical sympathy.
Pew keeps tabs on this.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/15/state-of-the...
>But if one of these companies somehow bought youtube from google, that'd be bad, because consolidation (especially around distribution of information) is typically bad.

So youtube2.com can never be created? How long has Instagram been around?

Furthermore, your premise is financially flawed. How is the bankrupt NYT going to buy google?

The MSM is turning into the "horse buggy whip" situation. Its an old, out-dated industry that is dying. Who cares if eventually only 3 businesses controls "ACME Horse Buggy Whips" -- its not really something to panic about.
Maybe this one? https://www.ponylang.org/media/papers/opsla237-clebsch.pdf
Thought experiment at the extremes: if you wait for your product to be literally perfect you will never sell anything.

And of course you can sell a product that doesn't even exist.

The dimension is confidence or maybe approval.
If this infographic is to be believed: https://twitter.com/jmalvpal/status/869297376439173121, then FB ad revenue is greater than all newspaper ad revenue combined.
Earlier people were getting blown up now lynched. Some may call it a trade off.
We have NPR and PBS, but no large/official federal apparatus. I think a big part is the history of suspicion of government (part of America's founding myth, etc) but there's also always been a robust private media in the US. Lots of Founders, eg Ben Franklin, were publishers.
The problem in my view is that somebody still needs to do the original reporting. From what I can tell most internet sites just comment on what other sites are writing but they rarely add any new information to the mix. They just comment on existing information.

We still need organizations that can afford to undertake long investigations.
A side question about the t-shirt biz: business of that type(marketplaces) usually have strong network effects and usually it ends at a winner takes all situation.

But in custom t-shirt platforms we have many competitors.

So why isn't there one winner ? What's different ?
I mis-interpreted your use of 'marginal', sorry about that.
Just for refrence.
Most rail systems do lose money, but this one sounds pretty bad planning.

The population of the cities being connected is extremely low, and prices are ridiculously cheap too (2 to 10 dollars?).

100 million was wildly optimistic, French-style light rail was really expensive too, about 600 million per mile - http://www.citymetric.com/transport/rer-or-rer-c-how-paris-t...

The cheapest I can find on Ferropedia for a similar project would be 600 million dollars, so 800 million isn't way over budget. And the fare is 20 euros (more than twice the most expensive fare for the Road Runner).

http://www.ferropedia.es/wiki/Costos_de_construcci%C3%B3n_de...
How America’s 5 Top Hospitals Are Using Machine Learning Today
>Not just these days - even before streaming got big. Most artists have always made pennies from sales and most of their money from tours and merch

In the last 10-15 years maybe, but up until the nineties or so, merch (even t-shirts) wasn't much a thing for most indie musicians -- except in the metal world perhaps.

As for tours, they were seen as loss-leaders for album sales. Some select concerts in big cities could get money, but the expenses of touring around e.g. the US where big too, and in the end it was a bet in getting even.

On the other hand, in the vinyl era, indie musicians (which had better profit-sharing deals and recorded cheaply, not spending $200,000 for farting around in the studio for 6 months) could sell 30.000 - 50.000 albums or so and be able pay the rent from that.
Except that's not the case, all WWDC slides from all sessions go through design review. I've presented there several times when I was at Apple.
This is what happens when you don't enforce anti-trust laws.
>Is not that fair? Shouldn't all parts of society be represented in the industry that consolidates the cultural values of a nation? Why should only economic power have representation in the media? It is one person one vote, not one dollar one vote.

Your dollar is your vote. You choose what industries you support by where you spend your dollars (or cast your eyes in this case).

You have the ability to hurt these corporate boogey-men by simply not giving them money / attention. You already have this power, you don't need a politician to give it to you. Use it.
Marijuana probably will be dominated by mega-corporations. Same as alcohol or junk food. But that doesn't mean we can't regulate them (better than we have with junk food, at least).

I think the author's fear of mega-corporations stems from analogy with tobacco and the implicit assumption that all marijuana use (smoking, vaping, eating) is as bad as smoking tobacco products.
Stream Video to Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram at Once with Vertic
Middle east based company accept Bitcoins
Public health advice following the Grenfell Tower fire
> Physics may be mathematical, but that doesn't mean you can start from the Big Bang and use mathematical physics to predict the contents of this particular thread on Hacker News.

Only because the only available approaches for even beginning to do anything of that sort are constrained by being embedded in that same universe.

It's unsurprising that a system cannot exist, and at the same time embed a calculation which calculates all of itself.

(We cannot even use mathematics to predict simple N-body problems; we have to switch to numerical techniques which have limited precision. Once you have floating-point in there, it's no longer the math, but an approximation.)
Miso – An isomorphic Haskell front-end framework with minimal dependencies
Well that's a fork of https://github.com/YuzuJS/setImmediate so it must be removed! Would you mind making a pull request?
s/profits/revenue
> Maybe people should wear suits and ties then. You know, to make it abundantly clear that the workplace is a stiff and formal environment.

Suits and ties are a step in the right direction, but I think what many of us would really like to see are non-gendered company uniforms along with well defined personal style guidelines (hair, makeup, et al)
How could they have gradually evolved these abilities without drowning?
It doesn't contain a proof for the type system either.
Whilst not state-owned, and only modestly state-supported, PBS, CPB, NPR, PRI, APM, and PRX produce programming and operate television and radio stations across the country.

NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered news magazine programmes are the 2nd and 3rd highest rated radio programmes by listenership.

(Rush Limbaugh comes in 1st.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_rad...
> Linux desktops are not terribly stable and something always crashes sooner or later

One's experience on the Linux desktop depends on the distro choice, the applications used, and the hardware itself. I once had a Slackware box that ran non-stop as my daily driver with no crashes or odd behavior; I only rebooted it for kernel upgrades. I've had Debian and Ubuntu boxes that were crash-happy turds, but I've also had stable Debian-based machines.

In my experience, the most stable machines are name-brand pro workstations that use fully open source GPU and audio drivers, running stable branches of conservative distros like Slackware. If you're running a bleeding edge distro like Arch on a self-built Kaby Lake or Ryzen beast with the latest and greatest GPU using closed source drivers, yeah you're going to have stability issues.
It's worse in the UK, 3 companies own 70% of the newspaper readership. They have huge political influence, especially Rupert Murdoch, who all prime ministers would try to schmooze https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/21/uk-media-plura...
GST is raional only when each state in India has a separate currency;
Creating a Facebook Chatbot in Less Than 3 Minutes
It is a channel.

With 2 billion viewers / readers / listeners.
this looks like it does what you're mentioning (R lib wrapping js): https://github.com/seifer08ms/Rmarkmap
Some might ask why this matters. The problem with these six mega-corporations is that they are controlled by a handful of billionaires and a few distasteful foreign governments that do not have the best interests of Americans in mind. These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites. They have, in my opinion, been quite effective at brainwashing a huge segment of society with regard to the important political issues of our day. I've long ago moved on to better news sources, but I don't personally know anyone else over the age of 30 who has also done that. It looks like it's going to be many decades before these giant media outlets finally lose their relevance. And that's a crying shame.
Hubtype offer great AI integrations to build efficient chatbots easily and quickly. (here is their website www.hubtype.com)
> the script I used to algorithmically apply

I'm not the same as everyone else, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.

I'm a hiring manager, with many openings. To those who are considering this approach, keep this in mind:

- This industry is smaller than you think. I have colleagues all over town and across the country. It's not uncommon for me to be maybe 2-3 degrees of separation from any person or place on your resume. If I think you automated your way into a conversation with us, I don't discount you right away but I highly doubt your sincerity.

- Generic templated messages vs. thoughtful direct messages are _easy_ to detect. Even if I'm wrong, if it doesn't pass the smell test, I will pass.

Do NOT kid yourself about the importance of managing quality vs. quantity in discussion with us. This process likely works in landing you an interview, but it can ignore the human element. To me, how you get in the door matters. Picking out the interested-after-the-fact vs. those who have done their homework on us is easy, and that matters greatly to me.

I hire for the long-term and career-growth minded, and I recognize anyone on my staff can up and leave at any moment. I commit time, resources and energy to ensuring my staff is healthy and happy with us. This saturate-the-airwaves approach to introductions, even if refined, makes me think you're going to treat us as a temporary stop, simply looking to jump to the next "better" opportunity, and therefore leaves me less interested in devoting time to you.

If all this just sounds like better execution with this approach, you're right. Just remember you don't get a second chance with us to make a first impression.
While still small, Netflix probably represents one of the bigger threats to the Big 6. Of course, this makes it a prime merger target. [0] Netflix is not mentioned in the article.

[0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/11/15/better-buy-the-wal...