skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about it, but the goal is for codeblox to be language agnostic, so it would need to run server side. Eventually I plan to add Python and Java support. It would reduce costs though, that's for sure.
They don't have to be Java-ish generics.

Think SML/OCaml/Ada/Modula-3 (modules parameterized by modules) or Haskell (typeclasses).
I think I understand what you're saying but wanted to express admiration for the opening thesis.
> protestantism on steroids

"Protestantism on steroids" (Puritanism / Calvinism) did conquer the world, so maybe there's something to it.
Yes, there's some pitfalls of Java that Swift avoids, like compulsory allocation, but it fundamentally has the same style of indirection (often pointers to stack memory rather than heap, but still pointers), type erasure and pervasive virtual calls, and brings with it even more virtual calls due to needing to go through the value witness table to touch any value (which might be optimised out... or might not, especally with widespread resilience).

The compiler specializing/monomorphizing as an optimisation shows that Swift has a hybrid approach that tries to balance the trade-offs of both (like many other languages, like Haskell, and, with explicit programmer direction, Rust), but the two schemes still fall into the broad categories of monomorphizing vs dictionary passing, not something fundamentally different.
It is foolish to pursue consumer space in this age. The muggles want mobile.

This is a wonderful opportunity for us original computer nerds... with the mainstream leaving for their terrible mobile devices computers can finally go back to being tools for power users. The appliance-like expectations of the mainstream was the worst thing that ever happened to traditional computing.
While desalinated is technically doable, is it scalable yet so that it could even be offered? I honestly don't know much about it but was under the impression it simply wouldn't work to provide California water because it's not yet able to scale enough to meet a large enough fraction of the need.

I could certainly be wrong though. I couldn't find much info googling.
May I ask where you live to get the drilling done in that price range? Just curious. At $10k it's insanely compelling.
This is also how I got interested in stoicism. This isn't about becoming some Ubermensch. It is about meaningfully improving one's ability to meet the commitments one makes and the obligations one has to loved ones.
If you have an X server installed, you can also get a windowed unix time clock:

xclock -utime -update 1
Hey there, sorry even without using any Electron apps I still have performance issues which in my case have 99% to do with building applications within the bounds of "microservice" architectures. That said Electron apps sure eat up lots of (mostly single core) resources too, which ultimately amounts to a bad UX.
Irish Summer Time I would guess.
If you don't know how to program it's pretty hard to do a job that requires programming. Likewise if your job requires networking skills and and appropriate existing network, it's pretty hard to do your job if you don't have those things.
As someone who has lived in Florida for 30+ years and worked two summers at theme parks: Heat exhaustion is very easy to ignore until it becomes heat stroke, at which point you typically need help to seek treatment. Especially if you are not well versed in the symptoms.
That's interesting; I have an Atlas invite that I'm about to use but I do not have a workable business...yet. I didn't even realized they "rejected" people, I thought it was more of a waiting list type of thing.
Emscripten compiled with Emscripten?
For what it's worth, our team - the Domain Research Group - specializes in this kind of weirdness.

Couldn't resist sharing this... (discovered when they decided to add support for Emoji Domains)

Here's our report on unusual characters in the dotcom world: https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/all-the-dotcom-emoji-domai...
Oh and their memories and friendiversary posts? I hate how easy those videos are for them to make, the entire feature is creepy. Facebook friendiversaries are stupid and should not add anything to anything's life, yet so many of my buds LOOOOOVE to share and celebrate.
Well, I can't speak to SF. I can tell you that in NYC, these salaries are going down down down as the supply of "junior Rails semi-devs" (hilarious btw) climbs ever higher with the rise of the last viable profitable education gambit: the bootcamp. I've actually started to see full time SWE positions on AngelList for $40,000 per year. (I know!!!!!) I realize you guys aren't a bootcamp, and I'm not speaking to anyone in particular here. Although- how are you not a bootcamp? Because by bootcamp, I loosely mean: a non-degree granting thing that gives you some skills you can sell in the decaying labor marketplace, but quickly, before it totally decays and there is nothing left at all. Anyhow, labor is dead. We all know it. Here is a great little piece from The Baffler on this point. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/why-work-livingston

That said, it is tough to do the actual life of a 2017 Bourgeois Professional with the income of a manual laborer (debt slave), even for a few years, because the theater of this requires a lot of energy, perfect physical health, and a great wardrobe to start, not to mention the attitudes and social mores that take a lifetime to learn. No one speaks of this crushing emotional toll that adds up to very real financial expenditures that help one deal with these theatrical maneuvers over time. It comes at great financial and psychological cost. People wonder why there is so much burnout in this field... I'm not claiming you should take this on. Not at all. It's just that it is never talked about. Some of these these "bootcamps" are desperate... some of these are in the top tier in SF and NYC. It seems that these issues should be raised at some point and discussed in a place like this one is all I'm saying.
A Southern California utility is testing out Ice Energy's units, but the focus is more on demand response/energy storage than on efficiency:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/ice-energy-will-provide-1-mw...

Though the NYTimes article points out that the improvement from AC efficiency is mostly related to peak demand shaving as well, so it serves a similar purpose.

Their commercial page is here:

https://www.ice-energy.com/residential/
11/15 A few I missed because I didn't know enough to tell them apart (eg Kotlin/Swift.) Others were process of elimination or a straight up guess. And I didn't even know there was an abstract visual programming language!
Very soon after the Wrights demonstrated their warped-wing technology worked, they were already trying to sell planes to the military. It didn't take long at all for people to figure out they could use airplanes for surveillance and bombing.

There's no such obvious commercial use to going to Mars. If you want resources, they're much more easily available in nearby asteroids.
It is the melting of the ice on above the water surface minus the difference in volume of the ice below the surface and the water it would become. Someone else mentioned that if the entire iceberg were melted it would cover California with 4.5in of water. If you divide that by the ratio of the ocean area to the area of California you get 0.13mm. I'm not sure how much is above the water vs below the surface but it seems like a reasonable thing for them to estimate.
Ask question the opposite way: at what point is getting an investment going to exceed the rate at which you acquire customers and revenue compared to doing it without the investment? Your default plan should be no investment if possible.
Apple’s HEIF image format choice reinvents photography
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/6myzac/making_ui_eas...
My font shows zero line. I can see a slight difference in shape, but only if I put the two symbols right next to each other.
"The GOPATH issue" is the requirement that I keep my source code checkouts at any particular path, in any particular structure, to be able to use the toolchain.

Solving the GOPATH issue would be letting me "git clone" a Go project to a directory of my choosing and still use the tools.
The joke is on them. I'm not a little pervert. I'm a huge pervert.
>They should be scrutinised.

I'm sure they should.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Cry-Foul-at-Their/...

Sarah T. Roberts said she doesn’t understand why she was on the list.

Sure, she told The Chronicle, she was a Google fellow in 2009, but that meant a $7,000 award to cover her expenses during a 10-week stint working in Washington, D.C., for the American Library Association.

Why that 2009 fellowship would be relevant to a 2015 paper on information privacy — in which Ms. Roberts, an assistant professor of information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, was listed as the fourth author — is not clear to her. More important, she said, she didn’t receive any money from the technology giant in connection to that paper. And if the advocacy group’s concern was that she had benefited from Google in the past, that information is on her curriculum vitae.

"What else would they like me to do?" she asked. "I think it’s pretty irresponsible."
DevBootcamp Shuts Down – What Comes Next
Easy fix: instead of Stoicism and weightlifting, choose Catholicism and BJJ. Similar benefits, but with much more human interaction.
The article explains that an iceberg of this size would add 3 mm to sea levels if it had not already been floating in the ocean. I'm curious, too, about the 0.1 mm.

EDIT: Apparently the 0.1 mm change is due to the difference in salinity. https://phys.org/news/2005-08-ice-sea.html
The planet would be better off if people moved out of the cold North and instead used more air conditioning. That's because heating is incredibly carbon intensive. Think about the temperature gradients in New York in the winter time. Going from 20 or 30 degrees F to 70 degrees is more carbon intensive than going from 90 degrees to 70 degrees, and the number of days it's cold in the winter is often greater than the number of days it's hot in the summer. The overall carbon burden of heating is greater than that of cooling.

This means that the carbon angst directed at AC is primarily a puritanical impulse. It's a new thing! It feels nice! So it must be a sin!

However, refrigerants are bad for climate because they have huge greenhouse gas potential multipliers.

So the solution isn't really to improve air conditioner efficiency, it's rather to find refrigerants with less warming potential.

And move everyone out of New York and Boston - their climate conditioning is very carbon intensive.
At the modern core, stoicism is self-therapy. It is about handeling set-backs by tempering one's emotions. Considering the amount of hype and bubbles in tech, this probably seems reasonable. Especially when you think the hype is nothing but empty hype.

It also just seems more sustainable than constant jubilee, and more honest for considering the possibility of failure.
When you say "birth rate is falling" its effectively the second derivative on "number of people" right? As in, if we have go from 2 children born per person to 1.5 children born per person, we are still growing the number of people.

Even if "children per person" falls slow enough you could even indefinitely increase the rate that new people are added right?
in a sense, generics just let you provide parameters to your types, just like you give parameters to functions. it's not all that magical.
I would like to see the main distros collaborate on/ invest resources in an IDE for GNOME or w/e desktop environment they choose to standardize on. Seems like there is one already but I don't know how actively it is being developed (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder).
Air conditioners are really inefficient, and people run them in excess. And because there's no carbon tax, the cost of them is too cheap to curb usage. Sure it won't solve the whole problem, but solving this issue would be very valuable to the planet.
Yes I think so too. Long-term I'd like to have a extensions (Chrome, desktop, etc) that give access to running blocks from anywhere. I think this makes code much more usable to non-developers.
this is what I built actually, though not active anymore. Users can upload functions with defined parameters and output, which can be strung together. Very ETL oriented. Each of the function will run as a web worker.

An example that I did with the platform was, parse Skype chat log (500MB ish) of it, and look search for specific strings and dump it back as CSV by stringing 3 functions together, all running inside web workers.
Yes and it can be very big and very efficient and replacing it for a more efficient one doesn't require convincing every citizen to replace their unit. Also, less plastic would be used.
yep, yep, yep, Leukaemia. I thought of it based on a Call the Midwife episode.
Maybe it's getting a little better but in the apartment buildings I have seen the wind pretty much blows straight through the windows and the walls are paper thin. Even on the East Coast where they have real winters.
It's frustrating.

First, I've got proof no. 3. I can offer a nice 4 argument proof, but you wouldn't let me provide it.
Second, I tried proof no. 2, where I'm offered words like given and algebra I have no use for.

To make a system like this right it needs to be deductive and have a large library of concepts. Getting this right is complex enough to be a PhD project. Properly scoped could be done for MSc.
Carbon taxes are the way to go.

Why? Because they allow governments to set policy empirically. You can raise the tax a little, bit-by-bit, until you start seeing negative effects. Carbon taxes allow a legislature of non-economists to procedurally find the maximum reduction that the economy can bear, which is good, because obviously you don't want more than that, and given the nature of the situation you probably don't want less.

The difference between this and a cap-and-trade model is that with cap-and-trade, there's a lot of money tied up in the carbon shares allocated, so lowering the cap is politically impossible. Big corporations like it because they have an easier time acquiring carbon credits than small companies, because they have political influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emission_trading#Incent...

Cap-and-trade worked with other kinds of emissions because those emissions are less common and come only from certain industries, whereas carbon comes from everywhere. As such, it wasn't possible for the acid rain producers to lobby Congress to raise the cap on NOx. Or to not lower it. Furthermore, the market is small enough that it was possible for charitable organizations to make a dent by buying emissions allowances and "retiring" them -- which is extremely unlikely to matter for carbon given the size of the carbon market.

Carbon taxes are fairer and simpler, and it's harder for a company to weasel out. Some observers have suggested that an industry could lobby to be exempt, but this seems unlikely: how many industries have successfully exempted themselves from income tax? From VAT? By contrast, this happened:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-credits-sy...

> a diplomatic cable published last month by the WikiLeaks website reveals that most of the CDM projects in India should not have been certified because they did not reduce emissions beyond those that would have been achieved without foreign investment. Indian officials have apparently known about the problem for at least two years.

>[...] Today, more than 720 Indian projects have been approved and have gained some 120 million tonnes' worth of carbon credits, a large fraction of the 750 million tonnes issued since 2005 (see 'Cleaning up').

> Yet on the evidence of discussions at the meeting, most of the carbon-offset projects in India fail to meet the CDM requirements set by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
You might not realize this, but you're advocating keeping people in the developing world poorer than people in the West.
I don't know what country you are from, but I am saying that as an American who has lived in Germany and has studied this problem space some at the college level. Most American homes are terrible cardboard boxes. German apartments routinely have thicker walls, fewer windows and other interruptions in the wall space and the windows are more useful than American ones. It was common when I was there for windows to have two ways to be opened, one just for airflow that was not a security risk and one to allow it to open completely, like a door. They typically had no screens.

There is zero reason why American housing cannot incorporate, as a minimum, more thermal mass -- like German apartments routinely do.

Furthermore, many American cities are simply not that dense. There are few places in the U.S. that are really densely urban with lots of skyscrapers. So most passive solar methods would be applicable for most structures here.

I grew up in the Deep South, where 98F was quite common in the summer, with much higher humidity than 55%, and I have lived in the High Desert, where I did my long walks for exercise (up to 6 miles) after the sun set so temps would drop to a cool 99F. The temperature and humidity you list does not qualify in my book as "wet, hot death" and I see zero reason that a building could not be made reasonably comfortable in such conditions using mostly passive techniques.
Generally, spending for every program goes up every year. "Cuts" as typically talked about in the press are reductions in the already planned increases. Very few things are ever cut in real terms, and usually only in reaction to some significant embarrassment (e.g. Alternative energy research funding with Solyndra).

Nobody cares enough about EnergyStar to cut it, so I doubt it will be cut. It made it through the last time Congress was under Republican control totally unmolested, so I really doubt anybody is going to bother with it now.
Even if we curbed consumerism our current appliances, infrastructure, agriculture and transportation still gobble up large amount of energy / emit carbon. They will need to be replaced one way or another.

Nobody is proposing we magically manufacture billions of new units of everything tomorrow and kick out all the stuff we purchased yesterday.

Turnover takes years or decades anyway. Just like the EU did not make possession of incandescent light bulbs illegal, they just mandated that all new ones sold beyond a certain date must meet energy efficiency standards that can't be met by incandescent ones.

> We have to consume less, build cell phones that are upgradable and last a decade instead of 2 ~ 3 years.

Cars already last more than a decade. As long as moore's law is not entirely dead cell phones will be obsolete simply by advances in the underlying hardware and software exploiting those hardware advances, you don't even need planned obsolescence for that.

And ultimately it depends on the individual product whether it requires more energy to build or during its lifetime. Without checking I bet a space heater will burn significantly more energy during its operation than manufacture, and replacing it with a heat pump would be a net gain at almost any point in its lifecycle.
And only 7,494 days, 5 hours, 22 seconds until timestamp -2,147,483,648 (assuming your system uses the original Unix signed 32-bit integer time format).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I'm curious, what don't you like about ngrok? Is it just that it's a paid service? You do need a server somewhere to forward connections and that normally costs money to run
Houston already has large pipes running out into the ocean for other purposes. Radiators installed in deep ocean would just need to be more resilient to corrosion.
Europe already has gasoline prices that are 2x to 2.5x higher than in the US. So compared to US, Europe has already gotten somewhere.
>With Eiffel tools you got the IDE with interactive development, including a VM for rapid prototyping. Then you would use the AOT compiler (via compilation to C) to produce shippable binaries.

I seem to remember that there was some intermediate form of language translation too - something called melting or freezing or some such (might have been two different things). This was for EiffelStudio, probably, not generic Eiffel stuff.

>This is what I always kind of missed with Java and .NET, the previous generation of languages (Eiffel, Modula-3, Oberon(-2)) all had a mix of interactive development and AOT compilation for shipping release builds.

Interesting. Didn't know that that generation had both. As an aside, I had read a good description about Modula-2 (not -3) in a BYTE article (IIRC, years ago), and it seemed to me at the time that it was a good language. Having had a good amount of Pascal background before doing a lot of C, I was interested to try out Modula-2, but probably didn't have access to any compiler for it at the time. Later I read that Delphi's feature of units for modularity may have been inspired by Modula-2's modules, along with the concept of separate compilation.
You are really swimming against the current by using Node (or Java, or other languages) and not Python or C++ to do things with OpenCV. There are so many resources that you have to painfully translate to Javascript. Plus, almost every other thing you would want to hook up to a pipeline containing face detection (like face recognition, tensor flow object detection, etc) is easily accessed from Python.
Not stilet.to though.
It seems like half fall below and/or above the screen limits every round. I may be incorrect but you would think evolution after a round or two would take care of that type of issue.
> Congratulations!

> rape.to is available!

I guess you're not a pervert if you're willing to engage in acts of violence and ignore consent :/
He is though, right up in the title. And then he changes the subject to discussing why he prefers hiring inexperienced developers; which is fine, I guess, as long as shitty software is your goal. That being said, the rock-star/code-ninja culture isn't really helping anyone. I once got hired for one of those positions, but failed to realize in time what a shitty pool of wishful thinking I was diving into. From my experience, it's not the magic it's presented as, it's not about solving 10x as many problems in the same time; rather about skipping 10x as many problems and doing exactly what needs to be done, because intuition and pattern matching is much more effective than logic reasoning for heuristics.
Shakespeare lose a lot in the translation... (Sorry: couldn't resist)
I wasn't talking about suites or fines. Amazon Prime is such a large business they can lose hundreds of millions just from cancelled subscriptions and list customers (and it would only take a 10% loss to do that).
Turns out it's two, not four VMs. From macOS Sierra's EULA[0]:

> (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software
within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is
already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during
software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

[0]: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1012.pdf