skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the overall rate of return for all the companies?

I would like to see how much money was invested total into the companies and how much they all valued in total today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBIKE
Is this really an article about polymaths that doesn't mention a single Islamic polymath?

The whole concept of polymath is not that you're a genius or even knowledgable about a bunch of stuff. In the Islamic tradition the concept insists that you can't understand math without knowing poetry. Can't understand medicine without understanding geometry etc. All elements of human interpretation and expression are linked and help you explore the other.

Here's a list of polymaths that the article didn't mention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
(Being a superior being, such a sibling would deserve their existence more than I do mine.)
Thanks! Good to know. This ratio is larger than I expected. It would be inspiring for other solo founders who want to apply YC to know this number :)
Report on Probability A was a novel I never finished as a teenager. Might track a copy down again - it is a formalist experiment as far as I can find out.

Getting your head around it could be seen as a challenge.
As I understand it, Michelson (The language used to write smart-contracts in Tezos) is better suited for high-value applications where you want to extract strong correctness guarantees out of the code you write.

I think it's a promising development in the field (blockchain meets PLT)

More resources on Michelson I found helpful:

https://youtu.be/4oG4Ead74xA

https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/language.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos
Is there anyone wlling to discuss and make do follow links from the forum?
Even with a library like async there will be so much boilerplate, since you need to handle (or pass) errors every step of the way.

With async/await you only need to deal with errors at the level you actually care about them (using the language build in try/catch block).
> If precluding all future chance of nefarious activity is the goal, you don't have a system of rehabilitation, you just have an excuse to exile people.

And I would contend that if there is a lacking system of rehabilitation, you are actually causing an increase in criminal activity as well as incurring excessive expenses required to support a punishment-oriented infrastructure.
Excellent point about NPEs (patent trolls). I think this comment gets to the absolute heart of the matter more than any other that I've seen.
Why ask for gender but not race/ethnicity?
Kotlin-based Spek uses standard lambdas for defining specs, whereas Spock digs into the Apache Groovy parser to change the meaning of labels in the syntax, as well as uses operator overloading. One's elegantly functional, the other's a cheap hack.
Would also appreciate insights into current average revenue, ideally by company category. Thanks.
> Again the first case of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a child was 1983, today 10% have it.

Sure, but what I'm saying is that if sugar were the sole cause, the first case should have shown up long before 1983. I was eating tons of sugar through the seventies, and I doubt very much that I was anywhere close to alone in that.

I do not doubt that sugar (fructose in particular) is bad for you. But it seems to me that it can't be just sugar consumption that accounts for today's higher disease rates. There has to be something else going on that we haven't figured out yet.
Android O is officially called Android Oreo
Facebook's licence is as half assed as the free Internet they wanted to bring into India and some African countries. It only benefits Facebook and comes with strings attached.
True, but a submarine does not necessarily travel submerged.
Others decide to break compatibility, wait > 10 years and there are still debates which version to use (Python), or fade away (Perl 6).
FWIW and/or for anyone interested, here's a related Wikipedia on the subject, talking about the different types of knowledge spillovers (MAR, Porter, Jacobs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_spillover
That's true if you think the real problem is the existence of green zones.

I'd argue that the problem is the existence of red zones, and we can fix that by helping green zones prosper and redistributing some of their productivity.

This is also a pretty pessimistic view of cities in general, if the best way to help a city is to abandon it. Could be true, but that's pretty dark. White Flight certainly reduced the affluent's competition for housing in cities, but it didn't exactly leave them better off. White Flight Round 2 doesn't sound like a good idea.
Student loans and health factors (specifically complications around health insurance or existing healthcare costs). Health considerations can be a massive issue when trying to do a start-up.

At 30-40 years old (with the average age around 30, I imagine there are plenty of candidates between 30-40), some small percentage of people are likely to be running into their first health problems or concerns.

Financially speaking, the only thing more ridiculous than the cost of education, is the cost of healthcare. If you need health insurance to cover a prescription that costs a thousand dollars per month, you're naturally going to have serious concerns about leaving the job that provides that insurance.
Compiled Compiler Templates for V8 (2014) [pdf]
> poorer countries footing the bill for educating their best and brightest only to see their best and brightest flee to San Francisco

Do you imply that "poorer countries" somehow own their people and those people owe them indentured servitude until they "return" the "investment" made into them to their "country"? And until then they are not free to move wherever they please and seek as large salary as they can find? That the only "just" outcome would be for people not to seek better lives, whereever that could be, but to stay where they were born, even in worse conditions and despite their wishes, because they owe "the bill" now?

Because it certainly looks like you do. Moreover, it looks like you claim US has a moral obligation to impose this lockdown and not allow any foreign nationals in until they paid their "debt" to the home country.

This also looks exactly like the argument USSR made when prohibiting its citizens to leave. "The country invested in you, so we can't allow you to move freely outside and benefit those capitalists now". I mean, exactly to the letter. It is eery how closely these match.
Michelson language is the smart contract language of Tezos, which is a competitor to Ethereum with flexibility in governance changes. Tezos is not fully live yet, but has active development.

https://github.com/tezos/tezos

https://www.tezos.com/
And due to that removal, NYT articles like this one now have broken links to his blog: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/business/the-stock-market...
You can act like you're not a cog, but there's only so much autonomy you get working under someone else.

If you're an employee you are a "code monkey" to one degree or another. If you do not need clear goals, Work for yourself.

You don't need dozens of people above you telling you what to do and extracting part of your paycheck if you can figure it out and execute it on your own.
The name is probably ironic, but I immediately found it offputting: "In literary criticism, purple prose is prose text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself."[1]

I'm still going to read the full first issue.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose
The problem I have with ddg is that their non english and local searches are lacking. Those are the only reasons why I stick with google.

Anywats, I used to use ddg for english non location dependant queries for a while
...as long as it's not uploading while downloading.
White men represent only 23.3% of NBA players despite white people representing 63% of the greater population of the US. Clearly this is evidence of systemic discrimination against whites and the NBA needs to step up their diversity efforts to balance it out. In addition, blacks need to rein in their offensive and exclusionary 'hip-hop' culture in the NBA as it is making whites uncomfortable and reluctant to join or remain in the league.

> If the above doesn't sound insane to you, I don't know what to tell you :)
I remember I was going to donate some old software text books to a prison volunteer organization. They turned my offer down saying something to the effect that inmate's reading levels would prevent them from comprehending college texts. I remember thinking it would inspire some Malcolm X type person getting all absorbed in reading and expanding the mind. I was pretty shocked at being declined, and made me contemplate being a Pollyanna about this subject.
Android Oreo
await/promises/etc mostly exist to solve the problem that JavaScript doesn't have threads

async/await was popularized in C#, which does have threads.
Airbus Xo: Pop.Up  Urban Transport Reimagined
> but everything is fully removed

It is always like that. Google doesn't disable a service, they disable your entire Google account.
The way I look at it is as just another way of manipulating continuations, alongside conditional, loops, call/return, generators, coroutines, exceptions, etc. Even in some other hypothetical asynchronous paradigm, all those patterns still occur all over the place, so making them all composable with each other is a win. (Credit to http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2015/08/07/scoped-continuati... for describing it this way.)

The surface syntax could maybe use some work- maybe make functions generic across asynchronicity, maybe swap `await` to being the default and explicitly mark the case where you want a reified Promise instead, etc. But in the end it's another valuable control structure.
Huh? Everyone is sexist. That's the whole idea of sexism. Just like everyone is covered in germs and potentially spreads disease. Just like proactive action is required in order not to spread disease, proactive action is required in order not to spread sexism. When we point out people (or, more commonly, actions or policies) as "sexist", we mean that they either choose not to take that proactive action, or worse, choose to take action to increase sexism. So yeah, of course you're a sexist, and so am I.
Or just have an allowed limit for 1 liners, then indent all of it the way you suggested if it is surpassed.
> I'd argue that the problem is the existence of red zones, and we can fix that by helping green zones prosper and redistributing some of their productivity.

The problem is when the socialized cost of “helping green zones to prosper” exceeds the redistributed benefits.

Given that green zones map pretty well to outsized political influence, there is a lot of incebtive to use that kind of language to sell a policy that focuses much more heavily on helping them prosper than on redistributing benefits. Especially since that reibforces their already outsized political influence.

EDIT: I'd go farther and argue that the existence of red zones already is a direct and deliberate outcome of policies directed at helping green zones prosper, because the manner in which that is done is to make sure that poor people, crime, and facilities which adversely impact land values are redirected out of green zones to somewhere else. Those other places become the red zones.
>While top-tier YouTube influencers can help put a game in front of tens of millions of eyes, their celebrity can also be a double-edged sword when fans are more interested in watching the player than buying the game.

Maybe this is why there seems to be a lot of open-ended sandbox style games being developed at the moment
> there is no way to avoid crap ending up in them

If they instituted a $20 screening fee, that consisted of a manual review (by an actual person) before going live on the store, that would curb the vast majority of the bad acting apps. I've said similar of some content sites that charge for educational content, that have pirated materials.
So then if were to download a copy of a movie off bittorrent or some other place and I prevent uploading then you would say I am not in violation of Copyright law. You believe it is UPLOADING, not the DOWNLOADING that is illegal

Interesting position, Most of the lawsuits however have sued over DOWNLOADING and uploading, not just uploading or "distributing" infact in some cases it has been shown the copyright owners themselves were distributing the content to catch people "illegally downloading" the content.

That would also mean downloading from Usenet would be completely legal...
Dude, read the scientific debate!
This is still a widespread idea. See how many people look at a shoplifter who was killed by cops, and resolve that the killing was appropriate because the kid committed a crime.

I haven't fully processed it yet. There's a common trope in horror movies where someone commits a minor infraction... say, cheating on their boyfriend, and then they get murdered and the audience shrugs because they were obviously not one of the good guys.

I think the general idea is, we only want people around who have a fundamental allergy to wrongdoing. If you'd commit some small infraction, how can we trust you to not commit a big one in a crucial moment when we are relying on you in the future?

The alternative is to view minor infractions as a normal part of life, and to see them as an opportunity to rehabilitate someone. This approach only works in a somewhat... for lack of a better term, "wealthier" community, where you have some insurance against harm. If you can afford to have kids doing some bad stuff, you can be more forgiving. My perspective is that we're currently in a time of surplus, and so we can afford to live that way, (he says from his apartment in the Bay Area) but I think much of culture is still operating in a scarcity mode.

The other relevant concern is surveillance. If you can't surveil your community, you need to rely on them having an internal model of correct action. If you can rely on surveillance you can allow people to play more fast and loose with rules, with the assumption that you'll be able to correct for it in moderation.

But again, we're not fully into the surveillance age yet, so many people want to rely on the stricter mode of social organization.
Moving Past the EHR Interoperability Blame Game
Because there are more females than Hispanics/Blacks (that complain, at least).
It's an interesting suggestion, but it may also distract from the sexism issue.

For instance, the company in question discriminates against women when it comes to promotion of employees. I have a friend who worked at a very well known company where she experienced the same problem.

I think these apparently structural problems should receive continuous attention, otherwise maybe they will never be solved. So, I think it might not be a good idea to shift the focus away from that discussion.
Possible reasons other than "just so happened":

* VC money is more accessible for Chinese startups in China

* Chinese startups are mostly targeting local market

* Visa issues?

(these are all wild guesses)
What’s new in Android Oreo
Download Image Using AsyncTask in Android
The sun is being taken offline for several minutes for planned maintenance
Highly recommend watching:
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_uTsrxfYWQ

Basically what the author (Daniel Miessler) is seeing is this suburban sprawl being selectively re-invented. Originally the Peninsula was sprawl for San Francisco in the 1940-70s. Then the housing stock slowly aged and the rich people moved on to Pleasanton, etc.

At some point Oracle, Google and the dot-com bubble and associated traffic jams on 880/101 made it make sense to re-examine and subsequently re-invent/re-invest in infill locations like San Mateo and Mountain View respectively. Usually the leading indicator for re-development is the school district.

Mountain View when I was growing up was were you went for well priced non-Italian/French restaurants. In fact there are some original still there on Castro street still hanging on if you look closely. It was most definitely not high end baked French goods (i.e. Alexander's Patisserie).

I would say with the arrival of Box in Redwood City, it's starting to happen there too.

I'd also add that in places that are not physically constrained (like in Texas or even Southern California), you just have more sprawl. It looks different but it doesn't seem any better (or any worse).
> Brains and talent are equally distributed throughout the population.

This is false and you know it.
The following is related and has been featured on HN before:

http://beautifulracket.com/

"how to make your own pro­gram­ming lan­guages with Racket"
Not helping them better themselves is also a real risk. "Criminal activity" is generally not an attribute of a person — it's something they engage in. Giving them a better direction for their life reduces the risk of future criminal activity.
Perhaps he thought the issue was permitting inmates to write programs that, while they were institutionalized, would be released to the public. Maybe they would be permitted to electronically converse and cooperate with open source project maintainers. That's what I thought before reading the article, probably because I was primed by the comment about Caspia.

I still wouldn't agree that categorically restricting such activity is reasonable, but it's less laughable in that context.
I imagine it'll be heavily context dependent. If you're a day out from contact at sea, bringing it back is viable, whereas if you're half-way up K2 that's a far different proposition.
Wait, so nobody knows why Google shut down his accounts?

I think we need some digital tenancy laws. These companies need a buffer period before they can digitally "evict" people. If Google disabled my accounts, I'd be totally screwed in so many ways.
You can do this using an MDM solution on apps that have enterprise distribution licenses.
It's the bible for undergrand EE students. Highly recommend.
If you still want to donate: Pick up a copy of 2600. There's almost always ads or requests in the back from people in jail asking for tech books.
When you just need one to a few of something, no vendor is going to bother with giving you quotes/invoices/etc when they know you a) aren't a big company to keep around for future business and b) aren't buying enough for any of that extra work to be worth it. If I'm working on an SBC and need a couple floppy driver chips, I'm not going to find any "real" vendors that have them in stock. All I'm going to find are second-hand dealers that might be selling fakes.
They're also holding a press conference tonight at 2030 local time.

https://twitter.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/89968767838346035...
Eclipse shadow from NOAA's GOES
If a program uses only POSIX APIs then it should compile on Linux and macOS with minimal tweaking. But real apps use a lot of APIs that aren't included in POSIX, like Cocoa.
That is very true - there is a lot of cobol out there.

Fortunately, it has a JVM target too. http://documentation.microfocus.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2F...
Now you're just being a dick. I spent a few studying this subject. But you'll go to great lengths to justify to yourself why you shouldn't look at the fossils.
For the most part, yes, unless you're a non-practicing entity (patent troll).

Large companies carry massive war chests of patents, such that anyone who makes software is most likely violating several of them without knowing it. They defend themselves from patent lawsuits with countersuits from their war chests. (Trolls are immune, though, because they don't make software and therefore aren't infringing in the first place.)
I can't help by wonder if this date is some latent Y2k bug:

https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_photos/2017/08/17/hacking.jpg

"July 2, 1905"
Oh yeah, very much agreed (though debuggers are rarely bound so tightly in my experience). And all the language-server-protocol stuff seems exciting and fantastic and I hope it brings about a new breed of tools

But that's probably still a year or two away at least for any given language for basic support, much less reaching parity with mature IDEs. In the meantime...
Missing journalist died in submarine accident, inventor tells police
Hey HN!

So, I posted this web app builder a while back and got some good feedback and some awesome customers, but it was just too complicated. Originally, it had a UI builder like webflow or something on top of the API builder. So, painfully, I ripped out all of the UI builder and tried to simplify it.

Now, it's like a jsfiddle meets a rails generator. Anyway, play with it for free and let me know if you think that it doesn't suck. :)
I'm saying the power and reach of our government into our personal lives has reached an unprecedented level, contrary to what GP was suggesting.
> it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up

Perhaps Java 7, but Apache Groovy doesn't have the lambda syntax from Java 8. Development on Groovy has stagnated -- someone even contributed a fully working Antlr-4 based parser to replace their outdated Antlr-2 based one last year, but it's been sitting in their development repository at Github going nowhere ever since.
The morally wrong part is with not finishing it later. Stick it in the fridge and eat it for lunch or evening snack next day. Or make a meal which includes the leftovers as ingredients (leftover pasta sauce goes as pizza topping, and so on)

It obviously depends on the circumstances. I am more talking about the pattern of wasting, than accidentally wasting food now and then.
If that were the case, I'd care very much about a mislabeled/counterfeit good and thank the buyer very much for letting me know, as well as immediately giving that refund.

Claiming that it was "damaged in shipping" is the shadiest part of the whole deal. It pretty much guarantees the intentional fraud of the seller.
Security Breach at Bitmain: Users Are Advised to Update Passwords
There's no such thing as a partial account removal. It's like your LDAP or AD account: you disable it and all services stop working, without having to worry about how each of them does access control on the front end as well as the back end. The latter can be the tricky and non obvious part.
Let go and let god. :D
Is the IRHydra is not working with the latest V8 pipeline (Ignition + Turbofan), AFAIK: https://github.com/mraleph/irhydra/issues/52#issuecomment-25...
I don't understand well enough dynamic language compilations to answer that but in principle, having 1 billion devices consuming CPU cycles to JIT recompile the same javascript paths over and over seems horribly wasteful.
This is what happens when great speakers open their mouth
Rather than ascribing this to Google's maliciousness or overzealous use of power, is it possible that the shutdown was accidental?
I was just brainstorming this type of use-case for Tectonic[1], which includes Prometheus as a cloud service that runs on-prem and on cloud providers. Remote monitoring is just as important as app metrics.

Very cool project!

[1] https://coreos.com/tectonic/
Along with that, generators (redux-saga) are amazingly simple to test.
So if Google blocks someone for using Gmail to share child porn, they should give the user a chance to download the content?
Here's what I could find on the page:

Supplied with a data structure, returns a data structure with the complicated bits summarised. Every attempt is made to preserve those parts of the data structure that don't need summarising.

Structures are only summarised if (1) they're blessed objects, (2) they're not the root structure passed to tersify (so if you actually to want to dump a complex DBIx::Class object, for instance, you still can), and (3) a plugin has been registered that groks that type of object.

Summaries are blessed scalars of the form "Classname (refaddr) summary", e.g. "DateTime (0xdeadbeef) 2017-08-15".