skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can never know how tightly they follow mathematical association rules

You might be interested in the way Pony (https://www.ponylang.org/) handles mathematical order of operation rules: it doesn't. Runs of like-operator are allowed, but any complex expression has to have all the operations grouped by parentheses so as to remove any ambiguity.
Take a look an Parinfer https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/. Which essential makes clojure a whitespace language with indent mode.
Prefix notation is a problem because nothing beats the familiarity of:

x = 10

But prefix notation is superior. You don't have to invent an order of operations out of thin air. All your functions take several arguments, not just 2. So + is now sum, - is difference, / quotient, > greater than order, etc. They aren't special. they're just like everything else.

It'll never be as familiar, but it's smarter and makes writing code easier. For example

"hello " + name + ", welcome to the " + place +"."
+ "hello " name ", welcome to the " place "."

The reality is you want functions that work on many things, not just 2, even when you're doing math.

1 + height + x + floor-height
+ 1 height x floor-height

infix notation does nothing to make code clearer
It's very hard to retrofit the rules that the borrow check enforces onto an existing language. That's because the borrow check enforces "aliasing xor mutability", and basically all languages in wide use don't enforce that. Adding that to an existing language generally requires breaking backwards compatibility in fundamental ways.

For example, all non-immutable objects in garbage-collected languages (or similar features such as shared_ptr in C++) are incompatible with these restrictions. As another example, mutable global variables are generally incompatible with the semantics that the borrow check enforces.

That said, I could see analogous dynamic systems (rather than static ones as in the case of Rust) becoming more widespread. In fact, Transferables [1] in JavaScript are an example of one such system.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferabl...
Are we overdue for a semicolonoscopy
This is the chance of an entirely colony dying out, right, not just the per-capita mortality rate?
I gave up at the "I just spent 15 minutes reading about electric cars and..." comment. Instant expertise is the best expertise!
Please also look at my comment that shows the opposite: Facebook is loading a lot of unnecessary modules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14916177
Given that Facebook is now worth $500B, this seems like a weird article to post.
Nobody has ever made a billion dollars simply by being a doctor or surgeon. In medicine, it's the pharma investors who make that kind of money, not the people who actually work in hospitals.
He can't but Facebook could give that data over to a Super PAC that was working for him
I cancelled my model 3 reservation over this. I found it very sleazy this wasn't mentioned in the official reveal.
always.
Some people do threat modelling kind of like this: What are the threats I can stop? OK, those are my threats. I will stop them. All safe now.
Because paternity leave is far less common than maternity leave. Because women expect to be supported during and after pregnancy.
Could be that people are more confident in BTC after they decided to do something about the slow confirmations. As in the value of the original Bitcoin jumped at the time of the split but was offset by the split.

Also possible that the split generated free publicity that made some people invest in it.
He was arrested circa 2012. At that time the regime was arresting every computer engineer, especially if involved with international organisations (such as creative commons). Some of them were harshly interrogated, tortured. Some of them coerced into working for the regime. It was "the revolution of the internet" so the regime made sure nobody could use the internet against him. As of the fate of Bassel (and the others) it is really arbitrary. It depended on who arrested you (military, air force, police,..) and luck within the maze of the chaotic administrations of the different armed forces of the regime
Seems like such a profound genius could do something more productive than save me the 8 seconds it takes me to tap out, "Awesome. Thanks."
Compare Best Brain Stimulation Technologies – #TMS vs. #DBS vs. #PEMF
Anyone can sue but therr is no case. You are responsible for who you let hold your coins. If someone gives everyone who is holding a coin a new coin whoever is holding your coin doesn't have to accept it; Unless you agreed beforehand. In this case they told you before they will not accept it and you still left the coins with them.
I don't see any clever way to make that more readable. I would have to break it into two subexpressions and then take the difference. i.e.

(setv e0 (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2)))
(setv e1 (-> (+ 3 2) (* 8)))
(setv result (- e0 e1))
Apparently they cost around $300 in India.
I was deposed in a case; after referencing one-way hashing in an answer, opposing counsel attempted to get me to ramble by saying, "I don't think I understand." I replied, "I agree."
Some interesting data points and explanation of some of those terms

https://www.fenwick.com/publications/pages/the-terms-behind-...

https://www.fenwick.com/publications/pages/unicorn-survey-as...
I've always wondered what percentage of employees at Google or Facebook are like this? Do you know?
Right. I pointed out it was useful for the person getting feedback, and not useful for the boss, company to do reviews.

I have seen no process that helps make reviews better.
Doesn't mean all the space is used. And 10TB isn't a big deal. El-cheapo laptops used by soccer moms have 1-2TB drives.
It is really sad that despite such wonderful income equality this ray of hope seems to be vanishing.
And there is no key, but an app to unlock your car, that's safe too, it's not like mobile phones get hacked. And the camera will come on after an update about which they didn't elaborate. And they just can't throw the video away after analysis or analyze it locally. If it turns out there are microphones hidden there stream audio to Tesla then it will be okay too because voice commands or something. Elon Musk can do no wrong after all and he will save humanity (as in - Americans, everyone else can fuck off and die, apparently).

Move along and mind the slippery floor, it's wet with his worshipers' j*zz already.

Relevant links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7FuAswPW0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Tree Lecture in VR/360-degree Video (2016)
Ask HN: 15 lines of code to represent yourself
A friend of mine was recently asked in an interview process to provide 15 lines of code, that he wrote, that represents him. After thinking about it I wondered what I would have submitted. Do you choose lines from an old side-project? Do you write 15 fresh lines? Do you provide a fancy algorithm? What if you're a web developer? I assume these lines are going to be "judged" by other developers that would potentially end up working with you.

Is this something you've had to do before, if so, what did you send?
The market expected BTC to fall by about as much as BCH increased. It did not. The market was wrong by about ~25%. At least in that moment.
She didn't win the popular vote by 1%. She won by 2.1% (that means your memory of the election results are off by a factor of two... maybe check that). Fivethirtyeight's prediction had her winning the popular vote by 3.5%, so the results were within the margin of error.

Not sure where you're getting your information from... but get it from somewhere else.
A depiction of a fictional person is still a depiction of a person. Its just that the person being depicted is fictional.

Would you argue that propaganda glorifying the extermination of a community of a real religious or ethnic group, say Jews, would be ok if the community depicted was fictional?
Ask HN: Good resources / tutorial to help a 14 year old learn to code
I've been approached by a father with a 14 year old son who's interested in programming. His father knows little about coding but would love to nurture his sons interest. Could anyone recommend tutorials or resources that would be good for a 14 year old?

Or resources for a non technical parent to use to help their child get a head start?
Why? By using Coinbase you are saying, "I don't want to hold any bitcoins myself, I want a bank to hold some value, denominated in BTC, on my behalf". For all depositers care, Coinbase might have zero Bitcoins issued before the fork.

It's like depositing a dollar to a bank, and then finding out that it had been signed by Andy Warhol in invisible ink and asking for the specific dollar back. Sorry, you shouldn't have deposited in a bank. You can get a dollar back, but not the same one you deposited.

What you're looking for is more like a safety deposit box for Bitcoins. That's a whole separate product, with a different fee structure.
Location: Texas

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, Python (Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn, Matplotlib), R, PostgreSQL, C++, MATLAB, Excel (Advanced), Tableau, Mode Analytics, Jupyter Notebook. Looking to learn more...

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/2u2inbe

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/randall-hall-18036752

Email: randallhall@icloud.com

GitHub: http://www.github.com/mathcoder3141

I believe wielding a math degree as well as having the ability to take ownership of my learning and learn new technologies make me a viable candidate for any type of analytical position.
Is there an ELI5 for lifetimes in general? There are so many features of Rust that I have no context for and no intuition about. I also do not have a CS degree.
No one is trying to trip you up. Quite the contrary. They're trying to figure out what you know, a so-called "fishing expedition."
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This is not Larry's first encounter with the witness stand and it won't be his last. He sounded the same as during the Oracle trial. He's a bright guy and is well coached. To a certain degree, you wonder why he was called.
Haha you see some of the salary conversations around here and you begin to wonder where you went wrong in life...
This suggestion also requires a JS engine to have an AST compatible with the one that is described. So the browser developers will have less freedom in a choice of an internal AST representation.
Oh, I thought he was doing more interesting and relevant stuff.
That should take less than one second, not ten.
I love your skepticism about 'intellectual hubris'!

Business schools can serve a very productive education service when students take the finance/accounting tracks if they don't have those backgrounds. This allows people without those backgrounds to either transition into new careers or get the underlying knowledge they need to take on new responsibilities/roles in their existing careers.

A lot of work in both finance and accounting are 'complex' so daily practice require detailed knowledge. Even if they may not be 'sophisticated', (e.g. PhD level mathematics). Some areas, like derivatives, are both complex and sophisticated.

Sources:
1. My Mom got an MBA to change fields and then used her learned knowledge in finance+accounting constantly working for a state municipal agency.
2. Our CEO got an MBA to learn the knowledge he needed to move forward in his career/transition into different roles.

I agree with the other responses to you question that in some areas of the US (e.g. Silicon Valley, East Coast) a 'name brand' MBAs may be used as a signaling requirement for certain jobs or to advance in a career - more so than for eduction. This gets more silly when a personal already has the necessary skills! And part of the value these schools supply to their graduates a network of similarly interested business contacts.

So would the veteran engineer moving into management be helped... perhaps/but probably not. But can a person looking to change fields or areas benefit hugely by doing an MBA? Yes. Absolutely.
I had an EE20N HW set due at 12am when I was at Berkeley. I was the only person to get that wrong. The prof laughed and let it slide.
And why would the pharma investors be bad people?
>> Q I -- I appreciate that. And again, this can be designated attorneys' eyes only. It's not going to be released publicly...

>Oops.

The paragraphs surrounding that are all blacked out, so I'm not sure that this is an oops.
Do not forget Dr.Olivia Doll:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/how-one-smart-doggo-g...
Most of these features are unnecessary until the user tries to play a video, a game, opens a dialog etc.
What about the wild bees?
Ha, don't worry about the CS degree - lifetimes are plenty confusing to people with a CS degree too! I think it'd take a combination of reading the theory and actually using Rust for most people to get a good grasp on them.
> Methods: Participants with probable AD (N=18), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, N=24),
other causes of dementia (OD, N=26) and matched controls (OC, N=26) were tested, with closed
eyes, for their ability to detect an odor, one nostril at a time. A container of 14g of peanut butter was opened, held medially at the bottom of a 30 cm ruler, and moved up 1cm at a time during the participants’ exhale. Upon odor detection, the distance between the subject’s nostril and container was measured.

> Results: The mean odor detection distance of AD patients’ left nostril (5.1 cm), and not their right (17.4 cm), was significantly less (F(3,90) = 22.28, p < 0.0001) than the other groups. The mean, standard error, and 95% Confidence Interval of the L R nostril odor detection difference (cm) for AD was −12.4 ±0.5, (−15.0, −9.8); for MCI was −1.9 ±1.2, (−4.2,0.4); for OD was 4.8 ±1.0, (2.6,6.9); and for OC was 0.0 ±1.4 (−2.2,2.1).
The upfront payment sweetens the pot. Now the 'cofounder' has the choice of 100 million on the table v/s say a much larger POTENTIAL payout 5-10 years down the line.
dang and sctb.

I think there are others in the background.
Is this related to the L3 fiber cut and related Comcast outages in the northeast?
Shot you guys an email, but would love to offer your users free months on Boost (https://getboost.io). We're the only on-demand career coach that's affordable for all.
I don't know what you're talking about unfortunately. My statement about compilers and SIMD isn't Rust-specific. My point was that "rust needs explicit SIMD due to bounds checking" is factually wrong.
Advice on getting remote software teams all on the same page
The latest round of reckless 'interventions' in the middle east from Iraq to Libya to now Syria have left hundreds of thousands dead, destroyed entire countries and societies with them, and left millions of lives in disarray.

Perhaps for those who care about humanity the time to be angry and sad at other human beings has long past and it's time to get angry at people closer to home orchestrating these violent aggressive self serving actions for nearly 2 decades now.
They stopped thinking when Jobs died. Now they're just taking his last known visions to foolish extremes. Sadly, the rest of the brands just blindly follow them, so it won't matter, they'll still be "ahead" of everyone else.
> or that the Telegram binary weighs ~11Mb?

The memory footprint of a native and JS app is very different. While 11Mb Windows app won't require more than 11Mb of memory for the code, JS 11Mb app might require some 50-100 Mb of memory only for keeping the code, different caches and internal structures.
"There is no single obviously correct solution to these issues. Instead, each decision was sort of weird and contingent and reversible: not the immutable code of the blockchain, but just humans sitting around and trying to figure out which approach would cause the fewest complaints. In that, it's a bit like the Dole settlement process -- only instead of a neutral judge making decisions based on written contracts and established precedent, it's the people running each exchange making their own judgment calls."

This is what I'm always repeating about blockchains: they're very valuable if and only if you cannot use the protection of contracts and laws when making a transation - for example because you're doing something illegal. In Every. Other. Case. systems based on trust, contracts and law (such as the banking system for example) are more efficient.

It doesn't mean that there isn't room for improving existing systems, just this is probably best done with regular servers and databases rather than a blockchain.
You're also taking them at their word that they do intend to start their own companies, I think to a lot of folks in the Valley this sentiment is the same as the "I'm going to quit and write my novel" cliche from the 20th century.

What's the line from the first episode of Silicon Valley "I don't want to become a Hooli-lifer"?
Where did you get that price from because i dont see that BCH has been anywhere close to that since yesterday.
I just tried to picture it and burst out laughing. Would you be able to provide any more details about this deposition? In what context did one-way hashing come up?
> controlling for all variables, including worker performance ratings, men's promotion rates were still 2.2 percentage points higher than women's.
I know this is completely off-topic, but what's up with the comments?

To me they seem as kinda unusual for HN, more reddit-like. Among all the threads I have looked at in the last few hours, this is the only one where it is so extreme.
> No one in the life-sciences or science industry was harmed by Holmes lies. The only ones hurt were the patients, un-knowing employees, and the inept vc funds.

None of these things fall under the category of Tech Industry, much less its reputation, which is what I was speaking to. In the case of the patients, they were rarely direct customers of Theranos and their actual provider (like Walgreens) has the responsibility of arbitrage. Walgreens, of course, is doing so via suing Theranos.

For the VC funds, risk is a necessary condition to "sit at the table", so if Theranos bankrupts a VC, the blame rests only on the VC itself.

The only group I agree may have been hurt are the lower employees of Theranos. Sadly, that seems to be part of the new American status quo. $company plays fast and loose with the rules, and the grunts (or taxpayers) suffer the consequences.
Spakovsky is probably the worst person in this country to quote on election fraud. I'm not being hyperbolic.

According to Professor Richard L. Hasen,
an election-law expert at the University
of California at Irvine, "there are number
of people who have been active in
promoting false and exaggerated claims
of voter fraud and using that as a pretext
to argue for stricter voting and registration
rules. And von Spakovsky’s at the top of the
list."[24] Hasen said that Spakovsky's
appointment to Donald Trump's Presidential
Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
was a “a big middle finger” from Trump to
people “serious about fixing problems with
our elections.”[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky#Criticism

Here's more:

Finally, there’s Hans von Spakovsky. In the
Bush Justice Department, Department veterans
wrote that he was the “point person for
undermining the Civil Rights Division’s mandate
to protect voting rights.” He wanted DOJ to
give the thumbs up to several state voter ID
measures which critics said had a negative
impact on minority voters.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/true-the-vote-signs-b...

Former lawyers in the office said Mr.
Spakovsky’s decisions seemed to have a
partisan flavor unlike those in previous
Republican and Democratic administrations.
Mr. Spakovsky declined to comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html
People are worried about the wrong bees. Hundreds of native bee species are in decline - possibly due to pesticides and loss of habitat. An enormous number of plants - including many crops - are dependent on native bees for pollination.
So yes?
Notes from Alan Kay's Talk at Creative Think Seminar, July 20, 1982
Not sure why I was downvoted. This was mentioned in an issue of Last Week in AWS [0].

[0] https://snarkive.lastweekinaws.com/issue_14-_US-East-1_Drops...
Location: Washington DC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate:
Technologies: API development, React, Nodejs, Java, PHP, Python, ROR, RESTful API design, strongloop, loopback API, OAuth2, open API platform, AWS.
Résumé/CV:
Email: justinhuang.sea@gmail.com

I am interested in joining a YC startup or other startup incubated by techstar, 500 startups, or any startup that is promising to make a impact.
I am a full stack hands on Architect and lead software engineer, experienced in API design, web/app development. I served as the Chief Architect for a startup incubated by 500 startups, built the company, team and MVP from scratch, and helped successfully raising 1.5M+ seed rounds within 1 year. I architected a RESTful API framework for an ecommerce platform, also developed the open API portal for 3rd party developers. The product is live now. I am familiar with all phases of software development, including requirement analysis, software design, backend/devops, software testing. I am a big fan of continuous integration, continuous deployment. I have several years' experience in API development, React, Nodejs, Java, PHP, Python, ROR, RESTful API design, strongloop, loopback API, OAuth2, open API platform, AWS. Feel free to drop me a line if you are interested. My email is justinhuang.sea@gmail.com . Thanks
Don't you see this as a problem of compensation and the level you were hiring at? If you felt like they were cheap, it seems they thought so, too.
Of equal interest is author's other paper entitled "How Do Venture Capitalist's Make Decisions?" And after 900+ interviews it's neither jockey nor horse nor any other correlation, but spray and pray all around.

Am currently negotiating a small ($10k) angel investment in an ecommerce startup in Indonesia. All "go" signals are there: ambitious team, growing market, outside foreign investment, etc. But as far as calculating a probability for any IRR? 50% it goes to zero, 50% chance 10x or better return, is as good as any model for the risks faced at early stage.

So what was the data point that finally tipped the scale for me to pull the trigger? The fact that in Jakarta you can hire a fresh, world-class engineering graduate for $500 a month to come work for you!
Quite weird that background check. We have something like that in Belgium but no employer ever asks for it. They actually never even asked to provide proof of my degree.

Only exception government jobs....
"Delusions of Gender" has a cool anecdote along these lines.

Parents claim they've learned nature trumps nurture. They gave girl firetrucks, found her tucking the firetruck to bed. Parents conclude it's the nurturing feminity.

Psych asks "who tucks her to bed every night?". Oops.