skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lisp systems also have fixnums and bignums. For example a 64bit Common Lisp:

MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM, value: -1152921504606846976
MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM, value: 1152921504606846975

Fixnums are typically stored inline in data structures (like lists, arrays and CLOS objects). Bignums will be stored as a pointer to an heap-allocated large number. Data has tags and thus in a 64bit Lisp the fixnums will be slightly smaller than 64bit. Bignums can be 'arbitrary' larger and there is automatic switching between fixnums and bignums for numeric operations.
What's the use case for Chrome icon anyway?
They do. The partial second floor overlooking mission control is the SpaceX cafeteria.
All my family's meals are device-free. My kids don't even question it: they turn the TV off themselves when we call them. We have one TV in the house and it can't be turned on in the morning. The kids don't seem to suffer at all.
According to the article:

> Nowadays, you can make the bestseller list with about 5,000 sales.

That sounds pretty cheap. For a book that costs $10-20 that would be $50-100K to buy your way in. I'm not sure what the margins for books are these days (particularly the split between publisher and retailer) but that doesn't seem that expensive.
You could probably find out from the code's log. I'd guess the small positive integers are common due to e.g. iteration or len() of small collections and the like, and the very small negatives are due to things like error values.
Technically, the color of that notebook is closer to "teal" than "green" or "blue", which is a color kinda halfway between blue and green (fancy that).

From the "uninterested big-box store employee" perspective, though - I would think it to be more likely described as "green", not "blue". Maybe "turquoise" if they know what that is (of course, if they get that fancy with their colors, they just might say "teal" as well).

But if we were looking at this on an RGB scale, it wouldn't be #00F - it would be closer to #0F0 - possible something like #088 - which amazingly:

http://www.color-hex.com/color/008888

Is closer to the color of your notebook.

FWIW - glad it was returned to you, but I don't understand how they could think it to be "blue".

Then again, that whole dress thing - and a whole slew of other research on how people perceive (and describe) colors - definitely show it's possible...sigh.
I wish I knew how to find the article, but a few months back I read something that backed the other commenters: a large number of the NYT Bestsellers buy their way on. As I recall, the publisher sends a bunch of books out to stores, buys them, and kind of "seeds the tip jar" to bestseller status, which then generates enough to pay for the initial buy-in.

I'm mangling what was a good explanation, but the answer to the question of the headline is, "yeah, probably, just like a lot of others".

(Small pedantic note: your opening sentence should read "I'm NOT sure why...")
Complaining that people aren't paying attention to a sorting paper is kinda weird and makes people take you less seriously.

Try to write a blog post on Medium that breaks it down and submit it that way.
What are the ideal use cases for nodejs?

We have a handful of stupid simple http servers. We use express, redis, aws-sdk, pino, misc. Responses are mostly JSON.

The http-request module has given us the most fits. I question that any one has ever used it for more than toy problems.

The redis module is also an engineering marvel. I gave up trying to add a rate throttling shim. The goal is to limit the number of concurrent requests. Because when our app is under load, we're not processing redis responses fast enough, so redis server's outbound client buffers grow and will eventually OOM ABEND the server. So I wrote our own stupid simple redis thing using async.queue as a poor mans thread (task) pool. Trivial. Eg my REPL parser is 1/3rd the size of node-redis-parser. Works great. I keep thinking I must be missing something.

From my reading, hapi (successor to express) does an inbound backpressure thing. I'll be trying that out asap.

Much as I hate Spring, AOP, jedis, annotations, jaxrs, log4j... I've never had these kinds of nuts & bolts problems. Now I kinda miss the elephant gun approach.

PS- I can only assume the on drain event strategy was someone's idea of a practical joke. Maybe its a uvlib thing.
It is amusing (well, to me) to note that ^lamby here is Chris Lamb, a major contributor to the Debian Reproducible Builds project. If anyone has the social currency to publish a such a capslock "no" and still mean it in a purely informative and constructive way, he probably is towards the top of the list of folks so qualified.
half the article is basically about working smarter. new machinery that can do the work of 8 men and is much safer than the old manual methods... And the crews using these machines do attract young people. It sounds like the young people joining the industry are just decided to join crews that have greater safety and the latest technology, which means their jobs are less likely to disappear as the technology spreads; in fact, they'll be those with the most experience with new methods rather than those with the least experience with old methods.
Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? - John Backus's Turing lecture - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1283933
It appears they have also posted Democrat/Independent details, too: latest release (Part II) includes Senators Warren and Sanders among others.
They were supposed to attempt to land/rescue some other part of the rocket this time. There was nothing about it in the webcast.
I always assumed that the NYT Bestseller List was a marketing vehicle that you could buy into. Not that it didn't track legitimate "bestsellers." I just figured you could pay to play too. If people really care about knowing that for sure then I guess it's nice to see some actual proof of it.
The Expurgation of Maniac Mansion for the NES – The Untold Story
This doesn't invalidate the article, but I feel the need to point out that the author lives in a $63 million house with $80,000 worth of TV screens lining the walls. "Anyone in the house can change the screens’ displays to their favorite painting or photograph, in effect personalizing the room (via lighting, temperature, and even decor) to the guest’s own flavor." [0]

They certainly didn't do themselves any favors when they built their house.

[0] http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/12-unbelieva...
I just wanted to give you a taste of how this works in an ungeneralized way before I went. Linear time algorithms are fast and feel very different. I want to stress this is not directly related to the technique in the paper, but is in the same "family" of algorithms, and is very easy to understand.

Imagine you're doing the classic "write an algorithm to determine if one word is the anagram of another". The classic solution is to sort and compare the strings to be checked.

We can do this pretty elegantly for strings without using quicksort. It goes like this: allocate a block of 26 bytes. Each byte is a counter for a letter in that position (0 -> A, 1 -> B, ...). Now sweep across the string, and each time you see a letter, increment that number. If you really care hard, you can go crazy with SIMD and other clever tricks here.

Once you're done this for 2 strings, you need only compare the two regions for equality (a constant time operation).

The worst case, average case, and minimum running time of this algorithm is O(len_word_1+len_word_2)+c, and because we can safely make assumptions about the length of the strings (no word in anym ISO-Latin-1 encoding exceeds 255 of any character), we can do it fairly compactly. This is MUCH faster and can be done with perfect memory safety (which is to say, it is optimal with mutability but all operations are commutative so they may be subdivided, done in any order, and recombined at will).

Try implementing this. It's really, really fast on modern hardware. Especially if you're working it out for a full /usr/share/dict/words file on a normal _nix/bsd installation.

We can even see that composability feature in our current problem! Imagine we have have that big dictionary file and we want to find ALL the anagrams in it. Imagine we start cutting the above technique in half and computing the byte vector for every word in the dictionary (which is O(n) time). If we sort THESE vectors, we could just pick out all the equal values and say "There are the anagram groups", right?

If we were to insert them into some very wide trie (as is the style these days), that'd be O(Numwords * log(numwords)), which is really just sorting again. We'd do it in minimum 2 passes with O(n log n) cost. But if we have composable discriminators we could do this in one big pass with O(n) cost! Our constant factors would grow because we're dealing with more memory. We could then not only sweep across the sorted list to extract groups (note the symmetry with the ABC counter approach above), but we could also pretend it's a tree structure (start at the length/2 element in the list and pretend its a binary tree) and search for new items inside the block, so we could check for new word anagrams subsequently in O(log n) time.

The paper I linked talked about generalizing this idea (a special case of radix sort) and making it composable.
My anecdote from spending ages immersed in video games and the internet has precisely the opposite sentiment. I find it heartbreaking how many youths replace socialization with social media and endless digital distraction.
That's disingenuous, at best. Yes, the rights to be secure in your papers and property are diminished. No, they can't make you house troops within that zone.

I'm also pretty sure they can't just come in my house on a whim. I live within that zone. I still have a right to express myself, bear firearms, etc...
I found:

"WILL MY EXISTING SIM CARD WORK ON THE LIBREM 5?

We aim to support 3G and 4G for the most common international frequency bands and carriers. Exact specifications will follow."

Unfortunately, all my contacts communicate via regular phone numbers, so this is a feature that I need for a phone. "We aim" is not too reassuring.
It would be great to have a reference currency (EUR probably) so that the comparison is easier.
I would suggest otherwise.
smart tvs still have hdmi ports, and you can still put a roku in it. if a smart tv ever became outdated, you just use an hdmi port.
Hang on. The longshoreman part is a bit more complicated than that. Longshoreman was actually not a shit job. The workers had a great deal of flexibility and good pay for the hours worked. The labor unions protected them too. What caused that job to decline and disappear was the container box. The container box moved the packing and unpacking part from the source and destination instead of the ports. During the Vietnam war, the US military basically forced the ports to adopt container boxes. This dramatically increased the efficiency of shipping and eradicated longshoremen jobs. Nowadays though, the people operating the cranes loading and unloading the container boxes from/to container ships actually make 6 digit salaries.

The problem with shit jobs is that they tend to be "muscle" based jobs in unpleasant conditions, which makes them vulnerable to automation and mechanization.

(Source for all this is: The Box (https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Econom...)
We got rid of cable tv years ago and tv watching dropped off sharply after that. These days we barely turn it on, although the kids play XBox here and there. The iPads they have are a nuisance, though. We excised the worst demon, but Youtube has some pretty vapid crap, too. It's a process. I don't want to entirely cut them off because they do learn from it here and there. It's a tool, not a drug.
It's true. I was having hot pot with my wife the other day. Sitting near us was a couple, both on their phones the whole time and not looking at each other.

When I first played with smartphone, it was before most people had phones with Internet (it was pre-iPhone). Someone commented on how I was on the phone all the time and the lesson stuck with me ever since. Now I don't do that to people.
What about highly specific technical roles for which there are few paths to fulfilling? Wouldn't that qualify as a shortage in labour supply?
Not sure if this meets the letter or the spirit of HN guidelines for apolitical content.
Why not poles?
When links and text are available together, many of the top level comments will be direct responses to the original poster's text rather than discussion about the link itself.

By forcing the original poster to follow the same commenting rules, it greatly cleans up the top level discussion by confining direct responses to the poster in their own tree.

This is one of the reasons why the AskReddit subreddit moved to the headline-only model: It encourages people to share their own stories at the top level rather than respond to the poster, whose comment also needs to be able to stand on its own merits rather than get a default high visibility position.
No, they may ask for an authorization of funds, but they don't actually charge unless the project hits its goal: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_41...

(Scroll a bit up, it seems their fixed header hides the question when directly linked)
I'm going to take an unpopular opinion here, but with the increases in minimum wage in California to $15/hr by 2020 - driven by increased cost of living - these jobs will be paying slightly more than minimum wage. No doubt, the answer is "increase the logging wage", which, in reality, will happen across all skilled occupations which are now suddenly just above the minwage line. And what will be the result? Increased cost of living again.

I don't know what the answer is, but perpetually increasing the minwage just so we can play catch-up to perpetual increases in cost of living is probably not it. The goal would be, of course, to examine why cost of living is on such an upward trajectory and try to stabilize or reduce it even. As to how that can be achieved? That's an open question.
Not necessarily. We could require by law that all ISPs provide an "industry standard" network protocol defined by a group of major internet companies.

This is how the EU defined the phone charger standard (and the industry board of phone manufacturers recently decided to switch the legal requirement from microUSB to USB-C)
SERIOUSLY. Terrible pay + dangerous work = a "labor shortage?" Whodathunkit?
Call it the uncanny valley of automation safety.

I am not disputing your assessment, but please don't discount liability. Planes can pretty much fly themselves today - there are no significant technology issues with the idea of "taxi away, take off, fly to destination, land, taxi to gate". all of this happens in what is perhaps the most regulated traffic environment on the planet.

The issue is with creating the code that deals with "oh shit" scenarios. Whilst is is probably possible, and even feasible, to write code to cover every possible failure scenario, who is going to be left holding the can when this fails (all systems have a non-zero probability of failure)?

Who will be held responsible? The outsourced company that coded the avionics/flight control software? The airplane manufacturer? The airline company? The poor fucker that wrote the failing logic tree that was supposed to deal with that specific failure scenario, but was forced to work overtime the 47th day in a row when that particular code was cut?

It is a liability nightmare, and when you add up the cost of creating a software system that must never fail, the increased insurance premiums, the PR/marketing work to convince the unwashed masses that this is actually safer, and the whole rest of the circus required to make this a reality, you will find that pilot costs are not all that bad. Especially since pilots have significant downward pressure on real earnings these days anyway.
What are the constants hiding inside that 𝒪(𝑛)?
> the backup option is only for the wealthy, leaving the rest in a worse state.

Like most technology, it flows from the rich to the poor eventually as it becomes cheaper. The important part you omitted is that it leaves the rest in a worse relative state. Their absolute state is no worse, and likely better.

Arguing against a backup for civilization (or more appropriately, a backup for the species) because it will be used by the rich is like arguing against a cure for cancer because the rich will benefit before anyone else. In the end, a cure existing still drastically increases the chance the poor might be able to make use of it, from zero to some non-zero amount.

This is all also ignoring the fact that when it comes to species level propagation and survival, I would rather Hitler and his closest Nazi associates makes it off world sustainably in the event of a species level disaster than nobody. My commitment to making sure Humanity survives is much more than my commitment to ensuring we are a caring and accepting civilization. We can rediscover valuing life, but once we're gone, the chances we are coming back are essentially nil.
whenever i see parents struggling with issues like this, i wonder why everyone wanders into parenthood without any forethought, any preparation. its so frustrating to see people take their hands off the wheel and say "well, i have no control over this situation. i hope my kid turns out ok." people have this idea that you cant influence your kids. they send them to school where you have 0% control over what they see and do.

parents do prepare when it comes to finances and having a crib, but its the larger picture that is not considered in advance. nobody seems to look at how kids are raised now and think "this is completely broken" and then make a plan to deal with it. children are like any other animal, they need to be raised deliberately. if you spoil a dog, and dont train it, what kind of dog do you wind up with? what kind of people do you end up with when they are sucked into ipads while still in a stroller, and they are sent to schools that are little more than zoos being overseen by air-headed sorority girls? well, what a coincidence, you end up with the poorly adjusted and frustrated kind of person that seems to be more and more common these days. just because society says that everyone has to use social media doesnt mean you have to let your kid use social media. fuck society.
My house is the same way, but I think you have to realize that we're in the vast minority though. Whenever I'm visiting with family in the US, their TV is usually on. It's constantly on. The kids run around with devices with very little oversight or limits. It's absolutely terrible, but's also super common. Sigh.
Hey everyone I'm Jess the other cofounder of Life Bot thanks for all your comments so far
This is an incredibly naïve point of view.

> Saying there will be vulnerabilities in the future is FUD.

Saying there will be vulnerabilities is 99.99% likely to be true. All software written by humans is highly likely to have mistakes. Remember Heartbleed? The code was open for all to analyze and used by millions, and yet we recently found a vuln that allowed attackers to dump the entire memory of a server. Open source is no guarantee against vulnerabilities.

Default assumption should airways be that there will be vulnerabilities.
Thanks for your comment :)
The big difference here is the application to unit selection synthesis as opposed to parametric synthesis.
Atlassian's cut is 25%.
that's never happened to me - I know this because I've had several times when my credit card info changed between pledge and completion, and I had to update my cc info because the card was rejected at completion.

they confirm payment when you back, but the charge doesn't happen until successful completion, at least on KS.
As a lifelong Albertan (until recently), this is an accurate description of Northern Alberta.
zero comments. We do get a lot of resubmissions but if there wasn’t a previous discussion, we just wasted our time clicking those links.
It's amazing how well kids adapt when expectations are set and they know them.

We used to let the kids watch an iPad in the car and there was always fighting because everyone wanted to watch different shows. So we took the iPad out of the car and now the kids only have books to read in the car. Since we did that car rides have been so much better.
Ya, my next green field project will definitely use something actor or CSP flavored. Maybe clojure based, more likely Elixir or equiv.
As a lowly brown-belt at a dojo in a small town, I've actually trained (or at least begun the training of) several police officers.

The things I'd tell them in response to your hypothetical:

* If somebody is attacking somebody with a deadly weapon, you don't use a stun-gun, and neither to do the police. You use a 9mm.

* In the unarmed scenario, you need two trained police officers. Two people, well-trained and with good teamwork, can usually restrain even a huge, out-of-control person.

If they can't, I advocate adding more peacekeepers (police officers or other trained citizens), not more weapons.

Additionally, the scenario you describe is fairly rare. I prefer adding what might seem like logistical inconveniences to very rare scenarios if it means adding clarity and peace to much more common ones.

(side note: a very senior practitioner in my lineage was kicked out of the association in large part because, as a police officer, he was found to have acted brutally and unethically - his name is not even mentioned at my dojo. That might give you a sense of the commitment to good purpose that at least some martial arts schools have regarding training agents of the state.)
How can this be true? Technology is created exclusively by people. Our values are baked in.

Filesystems have a concept of ownership, ask your dog what that means.
Ah, weekly average makes more sense.

As to the second part:

"If dry weather is what you’re after, the months with the lowest chance of precipitation in Portland are November, December, and then February."
People will acquire those skills if there are positions and pay for them. Employers simply don't like a demand surplus on labor.
When my daughter wants to start watching videos and she's had plenty I come up with something we can do together. Abandoning my own plans is hard but youtube gets forgotten quickly.
I'd argue that the military is an order of magnitude safer and you'll get a decent wage, prestige, the GI bill and free housing.