skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh calc is way more than that. it's a cute CAS. And a nice RPN calc. (which I think is simple-calc-mode actually)

Emacs also has bindat, a nice DSL to create bytes structures (for network packets or FFI)

And that's just the vanilla distribution.. Anyway lisp.
Good to see his wishes fulfilled. In the end, it was his choice and no-one else's.

In comparison, Douglas Adams' remaining incomplete notes were turned into a book after he died (The Salmon Of Doubt). As a fan, it was frustrating to read - you could see his moments of genius, but the gaps in the story and the unrefined parts of the text were a let down. I gladly bought the book, but after finishing it, I'm not sure it was a good choice to publish the unfinished writings.

If an author had a very-nearly complete book, I reckon it might be worthwhile to let someone else do the final tidying up and publish, but if Terry Pratchett's remaining works were lots of partially complete writings, I think it would be a poor reflection on the author to let someone else work on them.
An AI can be like an electric bicycle, multiplying your existing ability. It can be like a car, working side by side. Or it can be like a self-driving car, leading your driving skills to rot with time.

You're assuming the only form is the last kind. As a human, I most prefer the electric cycle but I expect most will tend towards some kind of car. For the foreseeable future, only cars and cycles will exist because we don't yet know how to achieve deep understanding.

The algorithms understand in the sense of a set of rules to follow, transforming inputs to desired outputs. The rulebook doesn't merely consist of a look up table of all sentence pairs therefore at least some kind of understanding must be present. The algorithms can't turn words into stories with actors and predictions about their internal state, so I agree the understanding is shallow and far from human like.

Humans can often, even if not all choose to, step outside the system by integrating various modalities, propagating errors, to realize they're being forced to learn garbage. The machines can't reason outside the system. Compare with an animal of pure instinct (which are less common than many have supposed) whose behavior displays an implicit understanding of its environment's statistics.

DeepL translate: Das heißt: wenn zwischen Sprache A und Sprache B unbedingt etwas übersetzt werden muss, wird 2017 ein Zweisprachiger den Boden _absolut mit maschineller Übersetzung wischen.

At first I accidentally left in the underscore with Bing Translate I got:

Zum Witz: Wenn etwas absolut übersetzt werden muss zwischen Sprache a und Sprache B, in 2017 wird eine zweisprachige Person noch _absolutely MOP die floor_ mit der maschinellen Übersetzung.

Removing them, Bing Translate: Zum Witz: Wenn etwas absolut übersetzt werden muss zwischen Sprache a und Sprache B, in 2017 eine zweisprachige Person wird immer noch absolut wischen den Fußboden mit der maschinellen Übersetzung.

I don't speak German but mixing and matching between the three, I'm guessing the ranking for this example is Bing, DeepL, Google.
You actually get requirements?!? Luxury! /s
Fixed Price vs. Time and Materials vs. FBSC (Fixed-Budget, Scope-Controlled)
Technical whitepaper on #ROPEMAKER Email attacks [pdf]
I can't speak for every case. At my work, we've done some rewrites. On the back end, we've seen 20-100x improvements in performance and the code is easier to maintain after switching many projects from Perl to Go. On the front end, we had to switch because the framework was no longer getting security updates (simple js and html from a symfony back end to an API driven SPA). I can't talk to the benefits of the front end rewrite aside from allowing us to dog food our APIs and allowing the front end teams to use tooling of their choice.
cause

a) you can't see when you're being shot at
b) it suffices if there is a sufficiently large (to you invisible) reflection within your field of vision
c) you can automatically scan a whole field very quickly, invisibly, silently
d) the laser spot gets larger at a distance, so the laser is not a pointer but a shotgun cone with 2m diameter
Yea Breitbart is on another level, doesn't even make sense to compare them.
Like most problems at this scale, this is a complex issue with many causes.

First off, Dicamba is not a new herbicide. We've had it for many years and knew the challenges associated with it. Most farms didn't need to use it because glyphosate (aka Roundup) was just as effective and far easier to use thanks to Monsanto developing the compatible GMO seed over 20 years ago. Since then, two things have changed: roundup is off patent (so Monsanto's profits are being challenged) and many common weeds have developed their own resistance to the glyphosate mode of action.

This leads Monsanto searching for a new product they can sell, and farmers searching for a more effective herbicide they can use. Pressure from both sides.

Monsanto and the other chemical companies have a powerful lobby. They told the EPA that this new formulation of Dicamba was less prone to drift and somehow got that through without much field testing.

The drift issue is a great thing for the chemical/seed companies if they can keep the product approved for use. Here is why: everyone will have to buy their GMO seed. Not even because they want to use the Dicamba product, but because the need the resistant seed as insurance against damage from their neighbor. There is a LOT of profit on the line for Monsanto and Dow/Dupont and unfortunately they have the ears of the regulators and they have great influence over the "independent" farmer lobby (American Farm Bureau).

I'd like to propose that consolidation of farms is not driving this issue, but rather consolidation of seed and chemical companies. We have a massive oligopoly in the seed and chemical industry and it is only getting worse as the "Big 6" are becoming the Big 3 through M&A (Bayer/Monsanto, Dow/Dupont, Syngenta/ChemChina).

About me: My family has been farming for 6 generations, my dad, uncle, and brother all actively farm and I am the founder of FarmLogs (YCW12).
Show HN: Bigdelivery, online meat delivery service in Brazil
It's early so not sure I'm reading this correctly, but it appears Google funded a group, then one of the members posted a statement applauding the recent 2.7 billion dollar fine against Google and that member was subsequently removed from the group?

Well duh!

Criticize Google all you like. But does anyone really think companies have an obligation to fund their critics? Or that groups receiving such funding have an obligation to retain critics?
>At the Y-Combinator Female Founders Conference this year, every single company that presented on stage had a male co-founder. Every. Single. One.

So what do you want, forced quotas?
Seems like a reasonable use-case for a brief tutorial.
And its benefits can go way beyond note taking, e.g.:

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm...

I used parts of that approach for sharing notes with the peers and boss, besides my own notes.
Using the Java terminology, there is no "happens-before" edge. So every action must appear as if it occurred in the specified order in that thread, but other threads are free to see those actions in a different order.

On some machines/CPUs/architectures, this is very easy to organise, since the writes can and will be re-ordered. When this happens you can get the pointer to the string being set, before the contents of the string are actually set. Within the thread, you won't see this, since reorders within the thread of context are done "safely", or at least are visible, but to a different thread/core/CPU those writes may arrive out of order.
> That expression is a cynical look at the relationship of the individual to the State: so long as my belly is full and I am entertained I'm all right Jack.

Wow. You just describe Sweden O.o I'm mighty impressed how this saying fits perfectly into the context of the modern Swedish culture!
You can see a partially constructed String is the problem. Assignment is atomic, but it's not guaranteed to not be reordered with operations done in the constructor.

The double checked locking is broken declaration describes this: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedL...

Edit: nevermind, I believe others' points about Strings having a final value make this irrelevant.
The loudness war was great. I totally appreciate the extremes it reached and the new music production techniques that were developed in response. Some utterly squashed, distorted albums like The Prodigy's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned are masterpieces. Same goes for some 10-15 year old Mr. Oizo, SebastiAn albums. Over-compression can be very aesthetic. Dynamic range is overrated...
Microsoft has spent billions trying to beat Google, without much success. They now get a lot of traffic because it's the standard engine in Win10 (basically doing what they did with IE a decade back) but not because of superior quality.

I try to get away from Google and try Bing regularly (directly or through duckduckgo). For complicated queries, results on Google are clearly superior. Google knows that the whole company indirectly depends on this so that they constantly improve their algorithms. I doubt anyone could reach their quality, even with a few billion € to spend.
Ask HN: Who is your target market?
Exactly, and the defense claimed they handled the goods and put them back with the video being cut to simply imply they never were put back..

If you can claim duress in this case, then can you not bribe authorities in every case of being arrested and awaiting trial? Do you need to file paperwork to claim this duress, might another country acquire this paperwork before you flee? AFAIK, it is all a minefield as the higher post claims.
then don't pretend you are a think tank. you are a pr firm, paid to say whatever benefits your clients.
I did my bit.
Also animals like cats might actively try to catch it.
The issue may be to do with the guarantees that the JVM gives you about orders of operations and write visibility across threads.

The author hints at a possible solution when they say "As we see a non-volatile field stringCache", the key being 'volatile' which is a Java keyword with a specific meaning that constrains the order of operations and write visibility across threads.

See http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-concurrency/java-memory-mod... for a reasonable explanation.

edit: suggestion elsewhere that it could be a wonky JVM implementation, so may not be a BigDecimal problem after all
This is a problem which is commen in the US-Military.
As I know a dozen Soldiers - mainly Army - of the Bundeswehr, they all recall their trainings against US-Army units stationed in Germany. They all said: "Take out the higher ranking officers, then they are done." Even though the German Units were completely inferior in the main strength of the US, their superior quality material-based approach, they mostly managed to rip them to shreds with a high degree of flexibility. Practice in the Bundeswehr is to tell Officers, Nomcoms and Enlisted only "What to Achieve" and "Why to Achieve it", not "How to achieve it", allowing for higher initiative, less micromanagement and greater flexibility. What every US-Officer most feared were the Hit-and-Run tactics of German "Wiesel"-Vehicles, something the armored platoons were completely unable to counter. Or, as one US-Officer at a beer-fueled post-post-debriefing said: "We may have the better Material, but you have the better Soldiers"
IMO self-driving trucks are more like an android/fusion style of future prediction, rather than paper/containers.
law-yer
From a security POV, the URL being displayed at all times is absolutely necessary in order to avoid phishing.
Seems to be at least until Java8
You do realize a cable that connects Asia to Europe could be like 6cm long, right?
In Denmark we have two major economic think tanks, that are respectively self-declared right wing and left wing and they continually release results supporting expanded welfare and the other expanded free trade / lower tax.

It is ridiculous that either is taken serious.
Title looks like something generated by a Recurrent Neural Network.
Can you tell Firefox to print in headless mode? I want to write reports using HTML and JS, but printing is always an issue.
Philosophically, I agree with you. But your refusal to measure utility (in dollars, because that's the unit of utility) hurts your argument.

When you make a folksy appeal to natural farming, imply that you don't have to assign utility to things, and then conclude by criticizing capitalism it... falls flat.

It's far more powerful to say that we are failing to price in the cost of monoculture farming, given the catastrophic effects it can have. But to say that you should measure yield based on nutrition per acre rather than dollars per acre? that just implies that you know better than the individuals who are making their own choices about what to consume (cheap food that you call non-nutritious, vs. expensive, organic-whatever that appeals to us emotionally).

with all due respect, I don't want someone else making my consumption choices. Let's just all agree to price it at the market.

And if you think that consumers are making the wrong choices, then the solution is to educate them. If you make your best case and fail, then you should consider whether your opinion should be changed, instead.
The omitted context here is that the lobbying against Google is much larger than Google's countermeasures.
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In the early 2000s I don't think it would have been methylone. MDEA was a big one that was similar (although not legal, was less scheduled and / or was semi legal at some point so there were big stockpiles of it. This was for the UK
I think there are certain elements that can be displayed differently. So maybe semi-headless is the solution.
Right that's probably better. I think you can do the currency conversion at the same time you send a payment but it's better to leave it on employees to choose when to convert currencies. They might better optimise exchange rates. They might even want to keep most of their money in USD if their local currency is not very stable.
investors are owners not customers
This isn't a problem with Google, it's a problem with the establishment left in the United States.

There's no genuine, credible anti-corporate voice in American politics. The reasons why are many, but of course they typically distill down to the incredible power of money to influence people, of which this is an example.

The side-effects of there being no credible labor party in our political system manifests, in part, in the extreme volatility we see in electoral politics.
I would be surprised if this makes much of a difference. Even with Travis gone, the culture is part of the organization, and it would be incredibly difficult to change at this stage, without Uber effectively becoming a completely different company.

I know many people see long-term growth and potential in Uber, but I don't. They shook up the market which is a good thing, but at this point it feels like they're rearranging chairs on the titanic.

It might be years while this all plays out, but I see the absolute best case scenario for Uber is a Groupon type of situation - making lots of revenue, but kind of struggling. Without a drastic change to the business model, I can't see them ever having Facebook/Google/Microsoft like margins.

And as much as some in the tech community see self-driving cars as just around the corner, I would be very surprised if it's a common sight in 10 years. Maybe 20 years. It's not just the technology, but also the political and societal resistance to such a big change.

And if self-driving cabs is what's going to make Uber actually work for the long-term, well... I personally wouldn't bet on it. But they have, so let's see how that works out for them.
Do you by chance work for Volkswagen?
Test-Driving a Stream-Powered Elixir Library
If corporations are sociopaths (http://politicalloudmouth.com/why-publicly-traded-corporatio...), imagine the fun when one becomes too powerful for a merely national government to check.
is there even a good reason for this to be cached. this almost like a memory leak. if someone wants to cache the result of toString they should be doing it in client code. this shouldn't be something that is forced on everyone.
The thing is that Google has absolutely gone down questionable path from their early days.

It is a little unfair to think this problem exists only within Google. Time and time again we are reminded why corporations will evolve to become as greedy and as protective of their turf expansive of their power and monopolistic as they can get, even if good people are running them. It is the system itself that does this, corporations evolve to survive and to thrive. That in of itself isn't a bad thing but you need checks and balances. Things like the Supreme Court saying that Corporations are people or all the money pouring into our political process those are things that have to change.

Even the best of them will eventually become the worst of them. Google is now evil for sure, no doubt about that, but there have been and there will be many others.
There may be finite real particles, but there are infinite virtual particles (and some times, the difference between a real and a virtual particle is not too clear).

For example, a proton has three real quarks. But the mass of the three quarks is only the 1% of the mass of the proton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark#Mass the rest is crap, or in more technical terms https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/81284 . When you measure with more energy, you see more and more virtual particles, infinite virtual particles.
F11?
I was reading Augustine one day and was struck by a passage that referred a silent reading in a way that made it seem quite uncommon in those days. Here it is, referring to Ambrose of Milan:

"When he was reading, his eyes ran over the page and his heart perceived the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent. He did not restrict access to anyone coming in, nor was it customary even for a visitor to be announced. Very often when we were there, we saw him silently reading and never otherwise. After sitting for a long time in silence (for who would dare to burden him in such intent concentration?) we used to go away. We supposed that in the brief time he could find for his mind's refreshment, free from the hubbub of other people's troubles, he would not want to be invited to consider another problem. We wondered if he read silently perhaps to protect himself in case he had a hearer interested and intent on the matter, to whom he might have to expound the text being read if it contained difficulties, or who might wish to debate some difficult questions. If his time were used up in that way, he would get through fewer books than he wished. Besides, the need to preserve his voice, which used easily to become hoarse, could have been a very fair reason for silent reading. Whatever motive he had for his habit, this man had a good reason for what he did."
Fair enough. I just never allow for duplicate code. I don't wait for duplicate code to be present on three clases, I attack the problem the first time.
'market-driven urban planning practices'

National Flood Insurance Program subsidizes building in flood-prone areas. Doesn't sound very market-driven to me.
Posts don't have downvotes anyway. Only comments do.

The real "fight" is upvotes and substantive comments vs. people blindly flagging articles they disagree with.
It's not an either/or situation.

Less like a PR firm, more like not sawing off the branch you are standing on.
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AFAIU the JIT-compiler (or the CPU) could reorder the code:

String x = allocate String; // allocate memory only (no initialization)
initialize string x // constructor
publish x // e.g. store in some global

reordered to

String x = allocate String;
publish x // after publishing some other thread could read unintialized object
initialize string x
Kubeless brings functions as a service to Kubernetes
What's a good resource in getting introduced to "the postgre of graph databases", including it's value proposition over regular relational databases?
Nationalizing said companies might sound like a good idea at first but one must wonder if this is indeed for the better.

In theory, we own the Govt. in a democracy but it's often realized that in practice, it is owned by whosoever can afford to lobby ignorant politicians, who often care neither for the profit of public industries, nor for their constituency composed of generic ignoramuses.

This seems reminiscent of how 'communism' came to indicate a crony-capitalistic system with a single worst crony possible - the state itself. I for one don't believe public ownership is the same as being owned by a state agency.
I share the sentiment that we are dealing with a new kind of companies that don't fit into our "capitalism 2.0" thinking but I wonder: where are those crazy and capable people trying to compete with them in a realistic way? Probably optimizing ads and investment models. Please don't mention blockchains as a solution to this problem.

I have some very raw ideas about this. For example, I really think that Google search engine is unique and its complexity almost almost irreproducible but back in 2013 I wrote[1] a small piece thinking about layered search engines where web sites, specially the top ranked ones, improve their local search, and subsequent layers improve the global searches. Local searches within a specific site are usually awful. I am thinking of these web sites sharing the search "parameters" so we can integrate these information along the different layers. I find many flaws in this thinking but it is good to start discussing different ideas.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bKpAf08NQa7ChQnGQh--YwdP...
OK for everyone describing issues with RDBMS
take Postgres create table with id and "data" jsonb column
and you will have a NOSQL solution with Nx the performance and Yx the features.
Red-Black based implementation for Java custom TreeMap
Shouldnt there be more data in geologic strata? Flooding leaves distinct marks if i remember correctly.

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

Would love to ask these gentlefolks that question:
http://www.beg.utexas.edu/presentations/2005_presentations/b...

https://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/841632
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How could term insurance for homes be possible? Homes are (despite some fluctuations) relatively good stores of value that you want to pass on to later generations. Comparatively, once a typical human retires from working, he isn't producing much of insurable value (and presumably, his offspring are capable of achieving financial independence).
This! 100% this. I loved phases 1-4. Then 5 hit and horror show. I realized quickly that I was building kludgy extraction routines to get the reports/metrics I needed. Once the horrible process became unmanageable I would have gladly paid the longer development/iteration time on phases 1-4 in order to have a robust and resilient system which allows proper reporting.
What were some of the questions they asked?
You could also go into areas that are less code intensive. So what I mean is for example ETL where you often use visual tools to develop data integrations. It's still engineering but more approachable or less complex. Same with Business Intelligence where you maybe develop reports (also tool based).
> Yes, you do need to send plain versions. I make my e-mail clients to use plain text version first, and if that's not available, HTML version dumbed down to plain text.

So if OP sends an HTML mail, you will be able to read it anyway, proving that they don't need to send plain text at all :)
which nation?

perhaps, instead, we need to tokenize them:

https://blog.bigchaindb.com/tokenize-the-enterprise-23d51baf...