skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, middle-class families can do this. Lower-middle and the bottom 25 percentile of income cannot readily build a support network.
WhatsApp has 1B DAUs now
"What problems do you have with absentee landlords that don't even live the same state as you?"
That's not THE core of Lisp. It's a comstruction of a pure subset variant of Lisp. The actual LISP wasn't pure. Not before this particular paper and not after.
The Mount Hamilton to Yosemite view (168 miles), is the one that blew my mind when I first saw it:

http://astronomy.snjr.net/blog/?p=416
Due to it's impact on short term memory I'm not sure it's the best thing for "studying"...but I knew of some med students who would smoke then write R code on datasets until the wee hours of the morning. I guess they were using it as an Adderall substitute of sorts
Nice, but a little disappointing that it only goes as recent as April 2015.
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"An American acquitted of spying for the Soviets–even after he confessed to it"

I am not sure why the word "even" is necessary in this title -- forced confessions happen all of the time, even in America.
It isn't clear how that passes points 2 or 4. Maybe if you explain why you think it does, you'll get a better answer.
That's the issue here. Price as a proxy works in a world where manufactured goods account for a large portion of economic value being generated but not in this new unprecedented digital world where the value is intangible and the services are often free.

Networks are the new monopolies in this new world and Facebook has the largest and most engaged one which makes it damn near impossible for new incumbents to participate in the market. Just look at Snap.

The question is this: how many companies or products were not created or could not sustain due to Facebook's built in monopoly? And of those that were created, how many will thrive? And of those that can thrive, how many can afford to not to be bought by FB?

I don't have the answers, but I'm convinced that these are the right questions. Price as a proxy just doesn't seem to make sense in this context.
A truly terrible dataset that leads to AlexNet/VGG/Neural Style Transfer/GoogleNet/ResNet, and facilitate research so much, is still a good dataset. Actually no, it is a phenomenal dataset. Not to mention, it is free and open to all.

You can make assessment even if you are not an expert, but I would think you need more efforts to backup your claim a little bit to convince people and avoid downvoting.
This looks really awesome. I liked that rehydration was factored out with a higher order component like that. That seems like a much cleaner solution.

Overall, I'm really intrigued by Apollo Client and GraphQL in general. My guess is that using them cuts down on a lot of custom Redux related code you'd end up writing, mostly fetches and mutations. And replaces those concerns with much more declarative code. And also handles conventions about the shape of how to handle errors and load states.

But what are the gotchas of a stack that might heavily favor Apollyon Client and GraphQL?
…No? I wouldn’t consider it a trick question, since I’m not trying to “catch” them or anything. The answer doesn’t even really matter. If we’re talking about “chemicals”, I think it’s a reasonable example to bring up.

That is, it’s not about being right or wrong, but making people think more deeply about a topic that I care about.

Something I used to do that did make people defensive & dismissive was to try to be technically correct, shit like “everything is chemicals”—which is true, but that’s not the meaning of “chemicals” under discussion, so it’s just smug and pedantic.
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The Mount Hamilton to Half Dome in Yosemite (168 miles) is the view that blew my mind when I first saw it.

http://astronomy.snjr.net/blog/?p=416
In court, there's a big difference between your assumption vs. published code.
My assumption was that this was going to be more like Google's A.I. Duet. But from the music in the video it seems like hes mostly using deterministic algorithms which is also pretty cool.
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I mean, who would have thought a distraction would affect grades? Video games, alcohol, parties, weed, whatever - you think any of these benefit your grades? Of course not.

The results of this study aren't surprising, but the potential for it to be used as political ammo rightfully annoys pro-marijuana advocates. Personally, I'm all for legal weed - but trying to shuffle this study under the deck doesn't benefit anyone, we just need comparative studies on the effects of other activities because chances are it's little to no worse than any of them when it comes to impact on GPA (and if it is, then deal with it).
Inside Cuba’s D.I.Y. Internet Revolution
Shameless plug: I've been hacking on headless chrome in AWS Lambda but with selenium webdriver support [1], also using the binaries from the serverless-chrome [2] project.

To echo another comment on this thread, headless chrome seems well-positioned to shake up the automated browser testing market. The price—especially with the AWS Lambda free tier—is very, very compelling for a number of projects.

[1] https://github.com/smithclay/lambdium
[2] https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
Yeah that's why article says it is gonna generate 22000 indirect jobs.
I'm not sure this argument is any more plausible than the "evil genius" argument from Descartes.

I think that all it's saying is that given our limited reference frame within the universe, we can't judge what is "normal" and what is not. And that's basically a definitional observation.
Buy a house or condo near Apple's Cupertino campus and rent it out on Airbnb. If you have significant income, in addition to balance sheet, buy an apartment building halfway between the old Netscape (now Google) campus and Castro St.
Seems like no one's commenting that the study isn't actually about marijuana - it's regarding the access to the cafes. My instinct tells me that they're probably not entirely off on the conclusion but it seems like a more complicated relationship - if I couldn't get into the place where all my friends hung out, of course I'd have more time to study!
Ah ok, hyperbole can be an effective oratorical device, I use it myself from time to time. It's tricky though.
Heh came here to say this. Take away legal alcohol and see what happens to grades.
> Improving the already-open-source players would be a better alternative.

Between the options of open-sourcing an already-complete and canonically "correct" implementation, and having Adobe document their code and interfaces and improving the partial (but open) implementations that we have, it seems like the latter involves a lot more work. I guess I don't see the benefit.
"Do no harm" speaks to intent, as in harm can't be the intent. Making great discoveries doesn't justify doing harm. Mengele (the Nazi) comes to mind.
This will be in Paul Ryan's district. Fishy enough?
>The takedown of this large virtual currency exchange

I haven't kept up to date on exchange volume. Was btc-e still a popular exchange (up until this takedown of course)?
Definitely! Second hardest is paper for me. I've finally settled on Muji's .7 pens and .5 grid notebooks. Very cheap, and the notebooks are thin enough that you get a frequent fresh start.

I choose physical notebooks over digital because it's easier to go freeform when needed and you don't need most of what you think is important at the time.
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Here's the study in question:

http://www.restud.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MS20610manu...
Your establish fake accounts and pay those IT cells

You pay influencers/fake news outlets/biased media sources.

Though, not much is probably spent in India this way, but it's definitely there
The US legal system has discovery for patent cases. You can sue and then subpoena their code base to confirm whether they are in violation before going to court (and really racking up the fees). Since these are US companies I think that it's more likely fear that others would see the horrible hacks or clever trade secrets.

In other countries (most of Asia), where there is no discivery, it's almost impossible to prove hardware or software patent violations so your case is kicked out of court immediately, even if your patent claims are valid and their product reads into your claims. That's why most patent suits end up in the US or Europe (or in the even faster ITC import injunction).
Note that OP runs an ML consulting firm.
I'd argue that the monopoly action against Microsoft was an unqualified success, even if the consent decree ended up being weak tea.

Before the antitrust action Microsoft was knifing the baby and cutting off the air supply whenever anyone threatened their hegemony. Afterwards, a million little inroads were made that ended up making their monopoly irrelevant.

In fact the continued existence of Apple is a product of the antitrust action. Bill Gates struck the deal with Jobs in order to keep Apple alive as a "showcase competitor." If Gates didn't feel the need to keep up appearances he would have crushed Apple by ending the Office port.
Part of the challenge with ZFS is its amazing and (almost) nobody uses it. It creates a weird chicken-and-egg scenario with regards to familiarity in production. If Google can get away without using it then why do you need to have it? The reality is: you don't. It's another incredible technical achievement that was amazing for its time, but the world of containers, speed of systems, and abstraction of physical machines have made it more or less a moot point for everyone other than SAN administrators or hardcore COW optimization junkies.
only certain types actually help

Out of curiosity, what are those? I'm not an expert and I'm really only aware of the sativa/indica divide.
Wasn't there a HN post/thread a week or so ago about some scientist having a (new-ish) theory about DNA and the role specific genes play? If there's enough doubt that there's still room for other theories, is CRISPR really a good idea?
That's a one time cost.

Sounds reasonable when you compare it to California spending $21 Billion each year to subsidize 3 million people.
It’s a myth that doctors even take this oath. There might be some modern version taken, but it is a symbolic pledge, not a legal requirement. Laws and committees cover issues of ethics these days.
> Reusable space rockets, self-driving cars, robots, artificial intelligence: these things do not exist just because someone thought it would be cool to create them. They exist because there are business interests behind them. And I’m not saying the people behind them just want money, I’m sure they think that stuff is also cool, but the truth is that if they were not economically viable or had any potential to become so, they would not exist.

This feels like an overly reductive assessment of why people write software. Is the author completely unaware of software projects or technology in which profit motive was not the goal? Are all the engineers at the Internet Archive just using IA as a stepping stone to joining a VC-funded firm? Is ESR just a big fake? And Woz, too?

While it's possible that everything we do in life --
from joining Tinder to hook up, or building Tinder's phone app with React Native and getting paid a high salary -- has no higher purpose than increasing the survivability and propagation of our genes -- there are folks who program and derive joy from building. This includes the early days of Sergey and Larry and Mark Z.

In any case, I'm not sure why this is a useful or interesting lens to view JavaScript churn with. The assertions in this article are just all over the place. In one line, the author writes:

> Optimize when you need, otherwise you will probably be adding unnecessary complexity to your software, which increases cost, and not generating enough revenue to justify that.

And then later on (by "later", I mean the very next line):

> This is why I think we should apply Test Driven Development principles to everything we do in our job. And by saying this I’m not just talking about testing. I’m talking about waiting for problems to appear before solving them.

OK.

Maybe the author seems to have worked on projects in which problems reveal themselves, and do so in convenient serial order. But I imagine many people who end up in frustrating technical debt don't get in that situation willingly, but because life and work and problem solving are messy and chaotic.

> Software does not exist to please us as programmers and let us write beautiful code. Neither it exists to create jobs for people in the tech industry. Actually, it exists to kill as many jobs as possible, including ours

I think basic income is a serious issue that we have to consider in the coming years, but I never understand why programmers can't think past their own jobs. When I write programs to automate work in my life, I don't think of it as writing software that puts myself out of a job, but writing software to enhance and augment my intelligence and productivity. Sometimes that helps my financial bottom line. And other times it let's me tackle even greater, more satisfying challenges.
The SEC Report on the DAO isn't surprising, but I would love to see the SEC draw a clear line in the sand by issuing another report on a better token offering that is determined to not be a security.

The ability to fund development of important network infrastructure with a related digital asset is too useful to remain in indefinite legal limbo!
Outer Milwaukee is a logical place to build a large factory in Wisconsin. So hard to read much into that particular aspect of it.
I have a good friend who's in a similar situation and of a similar mindset, so I can empathize to some extent. I'm sorry you're suffering like that.
There are tons of benefits, to the end users. But most of them result in the user having less reason to buy a new device in the hopes of faster or more reliable WiFi.
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I don't have strong feelings on browser plugins vs no browser plugins, but I can say that I can now watch streaming video from the major services and play browser games on Linux now, and that wasn't possible a couple of years (or maybe a little more) ago. I welcome the end of Silverlight, Flash, Java applets, because it means I can use any modern browser to do anything I want on any platform I want (kinda, but it keeps getting more true over time).

Plugins aren't inherently Linux-incompatible it's just that for most of them Linux support was an afterthought or actively avoided for competitive reasons (in the case of Silverlight, I would guess). I don't miss fighting to make Flash work in a 64-bit browser, or having to set my user agent to claim I'm on Windows, to make something work (and have it break periodically for whatever reason).
appears to descend from a single common ancestor

A universal common ancestor does not imply that there was only one organism at that time. All humans share a common female ancestor dubbed Mitochondrial Eve. [0] She was not the only woman in the world when she was alive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Drivers are published code, freely available. If the driver does something, and you can't find an expert witness to testify it does what it does, maybe it doesn't do what you think?

Reading assembly with no comments is a different skill than reading C or C++, especially since it's not always clear what's an instruction and what's data, but it's still reading code, and there are tools to help you trace through it. And most of the drivers aren't writing code like it's a 64k demo (where the code is the data, and the data is the code, and they both modify each other)
https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/30d?c=e&t=b

BTC-e was still pretty big.
Especially 5" (or smaller) touch screens, good grief what a hassle that would be.
Maybe you just happened to work in industries that don't need it? I've had 5 software development jobs, two of which used ZFS. At one of them, it was an integral part of their product: at the time their product was launched, there was no other filesystem that did what they needed. I did not seek out jobs related to ZFS.
Additionally, there must be worse things to blow three big ones on.

In FY 2015, Pentagon and related spending totaled $598 billion, about 54% of the fiscal year 2015 U.S. discretionary budget.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
They don't have to eat each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

The vast majority of life on Earth has been wiped out simply because other life created inhospitable conditions for them. Even if multiple events created life, if the wrong life is created, it will die.
The subsidies are tax credits. They make the location more attractive, they don't finance the project.
We wish we had that many Facebook group members.
> I'm not certain where the premise that our medicine must "Do no harm" comes from.

It comes from the hippocratic oath. "I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice."
It's all just 'news' (and by that I mean random memes and videos) I never wanted now. "Things people liked" is a massively spammy medium for content.
Side note - this type of exchange is why I love HN. It's like Reddit for mature adults.
what do containers, speed, and abstraction have to do with maintaining the integrity of data? ZFS is the most popular filesystem for NAS's for a good reason...because it checksums data and can tell you (and correct from) failures.
Wow, are you a physician? There are a myriad of reasons this could be happening starting with something as innocent as adjusting. Sitting all day and staring at a computer screen can be exhausting.

Health reasons could be causing exhaustion from low vitamin levels, poor diet, thyroid issues etc. Depression is possible but to throw out something like without a thorough medical work up and off of just a few statements is irresponsible. The OP said nothing about no wanting to get out of bed, not wanting to communicate or be around people, or any of the classic signs of depression nor did he/she mention anything such as feeling blue etc. quite the opposite, enjoys his work, etc. If all it takes is enjoying your job and being exhausted at the end of the day to be diagnosed with depression there would be far more than 10% of US adults with depression.

To the OP, If working out does not raise your energy levels I would suggest having a medical work up to rule out imbalances that are easily remedied. Working out does take time and requires consistency in order to raise energy levels but if it does not then you may need to talk to a physician.
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If you want to dig through history, FreshBSD may be of use: https://v4.freshbsd.org/project/openbsd/src?q=clang
Very useful for events of all scale, especially in countries where services like meetup don't exist.

Groups for making money. Need an instagram bot, find the best cryptocurrency, learn how to sell on amazon, there are groups out there with people that will help.

It's actually becoming more useful for me and people I know, though their feed is focused on attention and not quality as you mentioned.
Does it predate content ID on youtube? I suppose the difference with ContentID is that it's free to file a claim and it's limited to youtube and not multiple tube sites.
How would you propose a placebo in this context?
Wow, there are a lot more than I imagined. What is the point of many of these? Do they have special purposes or something else that is not obvious?
$110M: BTC-E Fined as US Vows Crackdown on Unregulated Bitcoin Exchanges
This is a bit late, but in the book The Tao of tmux, I delve into how I use Makefile's to create cross-platform file watchers that can trigger unit tests. https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read#file-watching

I use Makefile's regularly on open source and personal profiles (e.g. https://github.com/tony/tmuxp/blob/master/Makefile). Feel free to take and use that code, it's available under the BSD license.

The creativity comes in when dealing with cross-platform compatibility: Not all file listing commands are implemented the same. ls(1) doesn't work the same across all shell systems, and find on BSD accepts different arguments than GNU's find. So to collect a list of files to watch, we use POSIX find and store it in a Make variable.

Then, there's a need to get a cross platform file watcher. This is tricky since file events work differently across operating systems. So we bring in entr(1) (http://entrproject.org/). This works across Linux, BSD's and macOS and packaged across linux distros, ports, and homebrew.

Another random tip: For recursive Make calls, use $(MAKE). This will assure that non-GNU Make systems can work with your scripts. See here: https://github.com/liuxinyu95/AlgoXY/pull/16
Amazon’s push into social may set it on a collision course with Facebook
Even though you were mistaken in this case, it's only because Vinnik stepped out of Russia. If he had stayed, he'd have been mostly untouchable. No extradition treaty exists between Russia and the US; not so for Greece.
I am under the impression that refined sugar interferes with the optimal functioning of the brain, in addition to skewing a person's energy level, but I don't have citations or anything. It's a just info that I internalized as a child, from a family member who works with children who have learning disabilities.
Thanks for the input. I think you either are an extreme autodidact or haven't been exposed to the poverty trap.

Try a park in town? Not at night time you won't. Night time? Yeah, your irregular shifts cause you to have down time at random times. Remember, the Facebook contract isn't their only gig.

I never pretended the job should pay more. I'm remarking about the choice to purchase electronic entertainment being rational.

I actually agree with you that the parents have the choice to commute from East Oakland, Antioch, or Tracy if they want to start saving money. They are clearly making some trade-offs. I think their trade-offs are rational, but they shouldn't blame Zuck

Facebook is heavily pushing employees to transfer to Seattle. They even keep their pay rate!
There are some amazing ideas from that era. In 1985 Jim Gray described how to create hardware and software with a MTBF of decades, yet other than the few people using Erlang those ideas have been ignored ever since.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf
From the GP: "higher CBD-strains"

Here's a description of how CBD differs from THC: https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/whats-the-deal-with... and I can attest to what it says. I don't like feeling high, but I do like feeling mellow. It's sort of like the difference between having a glass of wine and pounding shots to me.
It was pretty similar to Numentas stuff and hierarchical temporal memory.
While the technology exists, so-called "terminator genes" have not been implemented due to opposition from anti-GMO activists and other groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...
That's implied in + on a pointer. uint32_t* + 1 actually adds 4.
MRS should be MARS
What are functional languages, as a group, "absolutely awful" at?
I knew a couple of semi-heavy users that were great students but they were probably the exception. Similar to alcohol, young people tend to fall into the 'more is better' fallacy and overdo it. Especially with things like concentrates or edibles. I think there is a bit of a 'ballmer peak' to help with certain tasks but it requires some diligence around strain and dosage and it's not for everyone.
Also watch the caffeine or sugar intake during the day, if you are consuming either, your lack of energy could be simply a sugar/caffeine crash.
That's only on the BTC map. The other maps don't even go that far. Unfortunately.