skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never had any problems with math until I went to university

So, here's the thing. Did I have no problems with math until uni because I'm smart? Because I have a specific type of brain? Because of my upbringing? Because I had very good education in my early years? Some combination of the above?

I struggle to believe that people can't do algebra. I am convinced that with some thought and help they'd find it trivial. However, is that my own experience overriding my ability to take their perspective as true? I dismiss "I can't" as "I don't think I can", but who am I to judge that better than them?
If a hole is deep enough — and a half-kilometer deep hole qualifies — the earth will warm the air inside it. The deeper the hole, the warmer the air. Warm air rises, and cool air sinks, so with a big temperature difference between in-hole air and aboveground air, you get quite a bit of air movement.

Thus, two things are happening. First, the warm air rising from the hole is less dense and gives less lift to helicopter rotors than the cooler air it had been flying through. Since the temperature change is extremely abrupt as the helicopter flies over the hole, the pilot may lose a bunch of altitude before managing to adjust the speed enough (read: increase the spin rate of the rotors) to compensate for the loss of lift.

At the same time, the cool air pouring into that hole from all sides is going to create quite a wind shear. If a helicopter loses enough lift to hit the stream of cold air, it could easily be slammed into the side of the borehole before it ever developed enough lift or power to recover.

https://oregonexpat.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/the-helicopter-...
In most companies I've worked, approval process is the scar tissue of years of mistakes. In every case where you need to ask for approval to do something, you can probably trace back in the company's history and find the past mistake that some goofball made that necessitated getting approval to do something like that. Someone got us sued. Someone lost us some money. We need to take some kind of corrective action and the easiest solution is to simply require oversight next time.

A place where you can "do whatever you want" strikes me as a place with a very short history of mistakes.
The first thing - it's very intuitive and simple, second - BotEngine will be the only tool integrated with LiveChat and third - we'll focus on machine learning.
Technically wasn't his father born in the US?
Your point is taken that English is indeed an evolving language, but there's a strong benefit to consistency that is illustrated here.

If definitions are inconsistent in the minds of people participating in a conversation, it can muddy an issue and make people needlessly argue because they aren't communicating effectively about what they mean. It also makes it more difficult for a reader to understand the debate.

Specifically, in this discussion, when I said "breaks userspace," I and others were referring to the term of art as developed over the past 25 years, and I expected (this being HN) that others would also understand it as such and discuss accordingly. Instead, this thread has turned into a morass of misunderstanding and confusion, because still others believe the term means something else, and are arguing a tangential point as a result.
A license to hack: Hackers in Singapore are going legit
This is a good point and I think it explains a sea change in US business. In the late 80s, business went from being pretty clubby and centrally planned (think big 4 auto companies, lots of union control, with big cross-industry labor bargains) to being a lot more competitive, with shareholders getting a lot more power.

Offhand I think it's a combination of globalization (requiring businesses to be "tougher") of both capital and customers, the increasing financialization of the US economy, and the birth of modern PE firms and other activists capable of putting more pressure on admittedly pretty lazy and nest-feathering managers. (Have you watched Mad Men? Two martini lunches? I wouldn't want employees at my company doing that!)
They are, but they're also frequently far more expensive, and downright unaffordable to many people compared to much larger homes in more rural areas. In the big city near me, a little condo in a high-rise can easily cost $400k. But a couple hours away from the city I can buy a house for $50k or $75k. People who have no hope of earning enough money for a $400k condo (even though jobs in the city usually pay a little more) can frequently afford one of those rural properties.
Microsoft’s Calibri font goes to court for new government corruption case
Its due to the fact that VC's see "software eating the world" and they make a bunch of bets that push that mantra. Also, marketing the business to people and or investors follows the same pattern. News will eat up "this is uber for babies" and market it to people.
Isolated anecdotes aside, oil companies had very little to do with how American cities are designed.
*music is almost DRM free.
All Systems Go! The userspace Linux conference announces first speakers
These are different things in my mind. Content marketing is much more sustainable and is a slow-moving day-to-day process, while getting press is a quick hit and big boost that dies very quickly.
Really hate the naming for JS standards.. ES2017, ES8, ECMA-262. Way to confuse people :/
I'm not affiliated with them, but: https://automic.com/business-automation-platform

It's been around for 3 decades. It hasn't revolutionized the world yet...
That's not correct. cargo will fail to resolve your dependencies if that happens.

For example (cargo_metadata 0.2.1 depends on serde ^1.0.2):

[dependencies]
serde = "=1.0.0"
cargo_metadata = "0.2.1"

Attempting to cargo fetch will result in this error message:

error: failed to select a version for `serde` (required by `cargo_metadata`):
all possible versions conflict with previously selected versions of `serde`

This is an intentional design decision in cargo that isn't well known.
Thank goodness we don't have to worry about the big tech companies working with intelligence services in the USA.
>> I have no idea who the politician is.

Neither do I ;-)
>The rules of this startup visa never made any sense.

Can you elaborate specifically on the rules of the USA startup visa that didn't make sense? For comparison and discussion, you can look at other countries' startup visa programs [1] like Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, etc.

Basically, the idea is to craft the visa rules such that the barriers are high enough that it allows legitimate foreign entrepreneurs with real business prospects to filter through. On the other hand, if you make the criteria "too easy", it becomes a "back door visa" for non-productive foreigners to abuse.

It's a balance between those two outcomes. Did any other country tune their visa policy correctly? If so, what did USA specifically get wrong and what did the other countries get right?

[1] http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/visas-entrepreneurs-h...
Unfortunately it will be a feature of GNOME 3.26 or 3.28, so Fedora 27 or later.
You may not have read any of Gwern's articles before. For many people, the quality of articles they've written in the past is high enough to give them (Gwern) quite a positive reputation. At least I'm likely to click on basically anything written by Gwern.

Critically if you actually read the article you can judge for yourself whether they know what they're talking about, as it's going to be both incredibly in depth and include disclosures of basically all caveats.
Do you ever need to go the other direction, e.g. access NTFS-hosted files in the VM?
.NET Core Support in AWS CodeStar and AWS Codebuild
I suggest WordPress using WP Super Cache. Best of both worlds. You get static pages with all the ease-of-use that WordPress provides.
Audi introduces its semi-autonomous A8 with level-3 autonomy
Uber for babies? The stork will finally be real!
If you think you're going to catch every possible NIC-level modification, does tampering on the CPU really matter if there's no way to store or exfiltrate the data without being detected?
The ones I tried in olden times just used GPS and orientation to overlay geodata, camera input wasn't used
Also, the two things that push most people towards entrepreneurship is money and autonomy in their work.

If you can give employees these things, they will stick around longer.
> BotEngine will be the only tool integrated with LiveChat

How come?
Time to update https://es6cheatsheet.com

What's the feature you're most excited about?
Laws vary from state to state, and sometimes even between jurisdictions within a state. In Nebraska for example, yes I can get the permit, but the law governing that permit says that any private property owner may prohibit persons from carrying on their property by simply posting this sign: https://statepatrol.nebraska.gov/vimages/shared/vnews/storie... . If I want to be a law abiding gun owner I have to respect that (despite the fact that it is silly), otherwise I could have the permit revoked, and possibly face other legal repercussions.
I'd be genuinely interested to find out what you feel is real about the money compared to the nothing you got in exchange?

Also how does the system work from your point of view?
Slavery isn't, to be fair, such a huge leap when the comment being responded to disregards fairness and morals in favor of "Its business".

Many things are done in the name of business which have no place in a moral society - some forms of slavery included. How many people are in a form of indentured servitude these days? Or in so much debt from the cost of living as to make no real difference?
> It is irrational to believe something is true or possible unless you have evidence for it.

This is actually two statements.

> It is irrational to believe something is true unless you have evidence for it.

Sure, I'd agree with that.

> It is irrational to believe something is possible unless you have evidence for it.

Whoa, there. This seems like it goes...way beyond rationality. I would argue that you would need strong evidence if you were going to claim something was impossible.
Introducing High CPU Droplets
> Similarly for your other example of driving through the suburban gridlock. I guess nobody wishes for traffic jams and long commutes through concrete deserts. However, people just use the existing infrastructure.

People aren't just using the existing infrastructure. This is what they're choosing to build. In the late 1980s, Loudon County VA (the county next door to where I grew up) was mostly rural. Over the last 30 years I've watched it develop, and guess what? People developed it into a car-dependent sprawl, on purpose, and from scratch. People want their McMansion on an acre of lawn they never use, where they have to drive 15-20 minutes to the nearest grocery store. People want it so much, they get on municipal zoning boards and outlaw building anything else.
Good book. You might also like the manga 'Vagabond' which is loosely based on Eiji's work.
When I fist saw the headline that's why I went to read it. I wanted to know how a near miss 'possibly caused' the biggest disaster in airline history.

The story was very interesting. The title is technically valid. But as another native speaker I think it's very confusing.
That would have been a cool machine, but unfortunately, the price was way outside my budget.

If such a machine with reasonable specs (I do not expect a 64-core 256-GB-RAM-monster) could be brought down to the 1000 $/€ price range, I would seriously look into it.

(I am not sure how realistic that price range is, though.)

What about Loongson? IIRC, Richard Stallmann uses a Notebook based on it, because it has free firmware. Performance is probably not breathtaking, but it exists. Does somebody know if there are Desktop machines built around that chip?
https://www.livechatinc.com says there are over 20,000 businesses using LiveChat, so there's actually a market for chat bots someone creates. It's nice to build things for fun, but even better if someone uses it in real life.
The death (and rebirth) of the salesman
Nasal Polyps: Causes, Symptoms, Natural Treatment
> What makes you think this approach is faster than just writing down the specification in your head?

For non programmers, manager type people it would be the holy grail. Not necessarily faster but probably cheaper :)

> Is it because you assume the machine can guess important design decisions that you leave out?

Yes, if sufficiently enough systems are wired up then it should be able to at least guess what level of abstraction is missing or what to ask next to proceed.

I know what programming is, I do it day to day. Here I'm talking about a generally intelligent system that could do the same. The trick obviously is to skip writing detailed enough specification that would be equivalent to code.

The article says that programming won't be automated. I say that we don't have the capable systems, but we are getting there slowly.
Is there a "What's new" section?
But I don't think anyone is willing to go to Canada considering the huge salary gap. I got Canadian developer friends who is making half of what I am making in US by sheer number besides the currency exchange rate.
Building Languages on a budget using Kotlin
Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a real looney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
It's not even usually "shitty behavior", it's just social interactions that are imperfect for one reason or another.

Concrete example: I see a lot of complaints from women about being talked over in conversations at conferences. I used to get talked over a lot too. It seems frequent that there are one or two people in a conversation who will talk over anyone with a less-pushing conversation style. I think most of these people are not doing it on purpose, they just really want to say things and don't properly gauge the social balance of the conversation. Also there are other weird human tendencies happening -- for example, someone habitually wanting to display how smart they are -- which, while being mildly negative, are not negative in a way that involves hostility to others.
Almost everything that Trump does is good for the rest of the world. This one will help other countries to innovate which is good.
Oh wow, didn't expect to see this on the front page.

If you enjoyed this I have a bit more content on user acquisition that is a similar actionable, step-by-step style.

SEO: https://medium.com/startup-grind/seo-is-not-hard-a-step-by-s...

Instagram: https://austenallred.com/the-growth-hackers-guide-to-instagr...

Pinterest: https://austenallred.com/how-to-growth-hack-pinterest-699d29...
I saw what looked like this sort of thing with my daughter. She struggled in her high-school algebra 1 class, but whenever I would sit down with her and she would work out problems, she had no trouble (but she also had no confidence that she could do it).. She ended up having to repeat the class, which ruined her confidence even more, and she hated it even more the second time through.

At the start of middle school, her teachers were recommending accelerated math classes, but she never ended up doing that, because she stopped liking math and stopped trying. Why? Maybe because it was unpopular or she didn't like her teacher... I don't know. In any case, she went from kinda-liking math to completely hating it over the couple of years, even though when I was there, she seemed to understand it just fine.
"The reason is that mathematics creates its own universe of concepts and ideas"

This also applies to reading music and understanding music theory. Written music is a map of events/time - which is totally different than any other math I studied. I've noticed that a lot of musicians pick up programming pretty easily. I've often wondered if learning more symbolic systems that are different from natural language makes it easier to pick up additional systems like programming languages.
My company has been getting a lot of talent from Amazon and Microsoft, so we are getting their "scar tissue" without any of the context, jacking up our culture. I have to do a detailed doc and plan for everything.
It wouldn't be a big deal but we've gone from 700 to 1500 employees in just 2 years, so its been fast change.
Just because these others exist doesn't mean that Lambda cannot be a monopoly. Minix was around when Windows had a monopoly, but Minix never had any meaningful market share.
The "finished" proposals have a good list:

https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/finished-propo...
Reminds me of South Park's episode on the 9/11 conspiracy.
How to set up a React project without flipping tables
ES2017 is the conventional name now that there's annual publications of the spec. ES8 is someone reading the edition number on the document and trying to be terse. ECMA-262 is the formal name of the spec document, not the language the spec defines. All slightly different things, only one of which names the language itself, officially.
2014, though, I think we all heard about the salary cartel.
We're building the integration and it will be available soon.
I understand but an excuse is not what OP is looking for.
Let me rephrase. Why not on-prem?
A friend's kid did not know how to do subtraction with just numbers but when you said it like he had some currency in a shop then he understood it. That was peculiar although the kid was very young (5-6 I guess) so it's interesting how kids develop ability to do abstract thinking as they age
Show HN: Streamer Insights – Big Data for the little guys (and girls) on Twitch
Can anyone recommend a good book or guide for someone who knows pre-ES6 javascript but wants to learn all the latest ES6+ features in depth?
I created a set of Python bindings to Tesseract a couple of years ago. While not complete, they would likely make a great starting point for anyone wanting to interface with it at a deeper level. Reminds me, I should do some modernization work on it. https://github.com/blindsightcorp/tesserpy
I discovered this a few months back by participating in their beta. I will not give them any more money. I wish them luck, they had a great product that met my requirements. Now they are moving i na direction where they will not support my requirements.

Unfortunately for them I purchase and maintain this stuff for everyone in my family, so they are actually losing several customers.
>Depends on the SUV.

No, it doesn't. The requirement is more than 3 kids. A small or midsize SUV has the same passenger capacity as a sedan (5: 2 in front, 3 in back), so now you're talking about a large 3-row SUV. There's no possible way a large 3-row SUV gets better efficiency than a typical minivan.

> Trailers are cool if you have a car with a hitch. I'm not even sure if my sedan's even capable of having a hitch attached without some sort of bumper replacement.

Wrong. Any normal sedan has a hitch available. Check out Curt, Hidden Hitch, Reese, etc. etrailer.com carries most makes. I'd be surprised if you could find any car other than maybe a Smart which doesn't have a hitch available. Even a Prius has a hitch available.

>Regardless, my point isn't that SUVs are the perfect solution, just that they have their uses.

No, they really don't, except for off-roading, which isn't something you need to do on a regular basis anyway unless you're some kind of far-out rural dweller (and even there, a Subaru will probably work just fine). Other vehicles can do the same job but much better. People: minivan. Cargo: 4x8 or 5x8 utility trailer. Worse, SUVs are dangerous: they're far more prone to rolling over, and can be rolled even by high winds.

>Case in point, if 10 years from now we have electric SUVs that are completely powered by solar/wind/clean energy

Why would you want something so inferior, even if you could reduce the energy requirement? And it's still never going to be that low. Electric is better, but not that much better: hundreds of millions of people driving eSUVs is still far more energy than those same people driving e-cars. You can't get around the basic laws of physics: more mass and higher wind resistance = more energy.
True, not directly. So it's not as clean a comparison as Windows vs Linux so I meant it more in terms of the ability of one to replace/supersede the other.
Bullshit on the Internet
Ethereum dips below $200
A security-focused desktop OS that aims to provide security through isolation
Badoo dating app finds you matches that look like your ex, or yourself
Definitely async functions. JavaScript code will be _so much cleaner_ thanks to them. Can't wait for the much needed improvement in readability.
Can't speak for American English but "black comedy" is standard in British English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
It's still click bait.

For clarity, exchange 'might' for 'could' and include 'almost' as an improvement.

SFO near miss could have almost triggered aviation disaster

This would clearly mark the situation as an event that did not happen, and also did not result in other terrible things.
It's HN.... I get a good laugh out of all these aviation related threads. Understandably your average CS undergrad doesn't have much real aeronautical knowledge but that doesn't stop everyone from blowing up the comments every time the word 'airplane' is uttered.
The best part of fedora 26 is built in f.lux /redshift. No need to install or setup third party apps.
Just that feature makes it worth it
Would absolutely love any feedback from you guys! Thanks!
Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson

Zima Blue by Alastair Reynolds
Use 5ghz instead of 2.4? I have zero neighbors on 5ghz, my network is the only one my phone sees :D
Do you have any source on this? That statistic does not make any sense.
A lot of ways, but it all starts with an an analysis of where your bill is going now.

Generally, turn off idle things. Embrace elasticity. Autoscale. Look into spot fleets.
Because you don't need to, to get some return.
Encourage her to give it another try when she gets to late high school or college. I know a lot of math phds who fell out of love with math around middle school and then fell back in love during their first proof-based course in college.
Analytics for your Spotify account
True. But as with any other discipline, it's about thinking about the intent and final goal, not just following a rule book containing arbitrary roles.
This new 'vertical bike' allows people to scale buildings
Went through a phase of recommending SSGs for some client projects. Worked well for very small projects (landing pages or one-off microsites) or for clients where we had ongoing maintenance agreements. However many clients ended up feeling short changed that they couldn't update the site themselves (despite being told this up front and opting for SSG as the cheaper option). I'd not recommend it for non-technical clients.
Launched today: brandless.com
A bit off-topic, but I want custom bots per person via facebook or mail for something like:

››You still owe me back book XY. Type "snooze" to be reminded again in 7 days. Or be reminded again tomorrow. Type "done" if you got this reminder despite having done it (same as "snooze", but I'll manually review if I should remove the reminder)‹‹
The startup visa is a bad idea (it makes immigration status conditional on funding, which adds perverse incentives to an already dysfunctional funding culture), but the fact that the tech industry can't even get small concessions like this from Trump vitiates the argument that it's worth attending very public meetings with him.
I found the You Don't Know JS series books by Kyle Simpson very helpful.

The last one is for ES6.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. [1]

Is it just me or is this blatantly off-topic? Or is anything major happening in the bay area automatically on-topic for Hacker News?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html