skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends..

case a) I already know the basic concepts (say "imperative" or "object oriented"). Then I skim over a few tutorials, the documentation of the standard library and some style guides. Then I build something I don't have to think about so I am not distracted by the task itself (once upon a time it always was a simple blogging software, nowadays it is a rudimentary httpd).

case b) I don't know the basic concepts. Then I get the best book about it and go from there. This takes considerably more time and is nothing I'd do if I had to use the language professionally soon. (I spent about 1.5 years reading On Lisp and Common Lisp the Language in the little time a 80h/week job in a startup left me, several times re-reading parts until it finally "clicked" when I could recognize functional concepts in my own perl code. Only then I started to write code in CL.).
Yes, the first two lines of the front page: "Darcs is a free and open source, cross-platform version control system, like git, mercurial or svn but with a very different approach"
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Age: 40, Location: DK, NW: ~300k USD
The problem is, that maintaining a stable API seems like not being that easy. Especially in open source projects where most of the people spend their free time and it is easy to make a tiny mistake to break an API.

You asked for specific projects. I can mostly speak for the JavaScript community where React seems to be the best example. They even try to maintain compatibility between two major versions, and give good deprecation warnings. Other big projects like lodash, webpack and RxJS seem to handle it good as well.

As I mentioned, React handles the migration path really well. Other projects do not provide such an easy migration between major versions...
Breaking with regen makes EV use the physical breaks less often as compared to combustion engine vehicles. Using breaks also emits particulates although I am not sure how it compares to the volumes of particulate emissions by combustion engines and tires abrasion.
Because the money was defrauded. That's a huge point.

The fact that "money will keep circulating" is irrelevant.
It's like saying, "Sure, the thief took your money, but you shouldn't say it's 'gone'. He spent the money on booze and cigarettes, and then the store owner spent it on rent and food. So you see? The money isn't really gone, it's circulating and increasing value for everyone!"
I just reran the test page in the repo and browsers have certainly improved. The gains have shrunk to the point (2x speedup at best) that the use of an unsafe API would not be recommended for general use. The test can also run a 'Simple' virtual dom which is a naive implementation with Javascript Objects. That one is currently faster than the typed arrays in Firefox, but in Chromium, the typed arrays are still much faster.

As a vdom hidden behind an API like in the case of Moon or Vue, typed arrays could still make sense.
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If you have a car with regenerative braking, doesn't that also keep brakepad dust out of the air?
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Wow! 32, with a network of half a million!

You are significantly richer than most of the people I know.
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State: CA
NW: ~15k

Kind of worried since I had to switch careers and now I have a late start to my technology career
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Sure, crypto has has always had both ways, not like you're locked in or anything.

There might be hurdles around the speed of delivery (measured in days or weeks) and I've seen some people cashing out splitting into multiple payments for various reasons, but overall just a little harder and slower than regular transactions. And probably some extra fees, but if you are a millionaire from crypto that is a drop in the bucket.
I'm a big fan of "allow everything with no judgement" to be honest. The principles and morals of some will always offend the sensibilities of others. What gives us the right to codify into law which reasons are just and which are not?
Not to forget that petrol is fueling terrorism. And oil tankers on the oceans are an additional source of massive pollution.
Yup. There is so much potential for improvement from just flattening out peaks of what we've got already.
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Hypothetical Equity Value: $40m
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"This did not, in fact, blow my sox off."

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Age 35

Country Portugal

NW: 700k€
A simple solution (with its own problems of course) is to charge $100 per year, rather than $10 per year, for each dot-com domain. This would destroy the economics of the parking business, except for the highest-value names, and thus would make a lot of names available for constructive use.
HTC basically owns the China market, that’s what they’re betting on.
I believe Microsoft's Pex [1] is an attempt to generate all the unit tests automatically. You can't do that with integration tests, because their number grows exponentially with the number of paths in the code [2].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/pex-and-mol...

[2] http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/integrated-tests-...
Can you recommend a book/resource that explains this from first principles and introduces the math involved as well? The books I've read either exclude math altogether or if they don't, they assume that reader already knows and understands all the math that is required for this.
Going to repeat this here:

A reminder to others, and a note-to-self that readable-lisp exists:

http://wiki.c2.com/?SweetExpressions

The wiki page makes a valid point; seemingly heavy lisp users will argue against non-s-expression syntax, but happily use prefix notation for quote, and infix for pairs...
They say some weird stuff in this paper:

>"Specifically, we take a candidate architecture and train it both on the true data and on a copy of the data in which the true labels were replaced by random labels. In the second case, there is no longer any relationship between the instances and the class labels. As a result, learning is impossible."

This is like saying learning someones phone number is impossible because there is no relationship between the person and the number.
That is not late, and it sounds like you're just boasting to be honest. You are WAY ahead of the curve for most people on this planet.
This. It isn't clear how these CO2/km numbers were derived. Are they a function of average energy generation source mixes or are they taking into consideration when EVs are charged. Average would be more correct for Bitcoin mining.

PGE has an EV rate plan [1] which charges a lot less during off peak (midnight to 6am) than during the day.

[1] https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...
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These threads are usually masturbatory. You're not going to get a good sample
> establish a theory around whether designing any given system will improve someone's life

That would be sociology or one of its siblings, no?

... or, at best, the piddly "ethics" course that gets tacked on to most undergraduate CS degree programs?
Facebook is going way too far in many ways.

The other day, I had a couple of friends at my place. At some point, we decided to order pizzas. We did so online, at my usual pizzeria. 30 minutes later (not sure of the delay, but it was before pizzas were delivered), one of my friend check her facebook on her mobile and see ... an ad for that pizzeria. She said she's never seen the ad before, nor ever ordered at that pizzeria.

The best I could guess about it would probably make use of phones gps, detecting we were close and what I was doing on the net, through social share buttons tracking. Anyway, that's outrageous. Facebook use of personal data is that creepy thing we were all afraid Google would do. It really feels like having a glass of wine in your sofa, and the telephone rings and someone unknown says : "cheers!".
Providing for your family is not measured in NW but in time and dedication. Source: I am a 50 yo father of 4 who have taught me that.
If I started at 21-22 I'd be able to save an extra $1-2M by retirement, so yes, it is late when you're optimizing for financial independence.
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Can you make dmenu sort by most used? I want to switch over due to it's awesome minimalism but that's a feature from rofi I can't go without, mostly because to open my browser I can just go mod-d enter
The implementation was open-sourced and had a fair amount of work put into modernising it. Things seem to have gone quiet the last couple of years, but it's out there if anyone wants to try it:

https://opendylan.org/
Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop
A CEO, CTO, CFO, CXO etc. are all "employees", technically an employee is someone who works for the company (unpaid work also counts) the company.

E.g. You can have 100% equity, be sole shareholder, pay money to a manager/employee to conduct work/business. You can even derive a dividend from the said business. however you cannot "engage in business" which means that you cannot write code whose IP gets assigned to the company. You also cannot have day-to-day management responsibilities. If I remember correctly planning a business and/or attending meetings of board of directors is allowed.

At end of the day shareholding pattern trumps everything else.
I wholeheartedly agree. But the (at least American) education system is build around obtaining checkmarks on a degree audit so you can get the credentials to get a job. I think its a deep issue and you have to start with simpler problems near the top rather then heading straight to 'break the wheel'.
So we are here. It didn't took so long for vue to go from "will vue be new react ?" To "vuejs alternative".
Crypto ;) and some local stock market investments.
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Do you want an open ecosystem or a controlled one? There is no in between, and you will hate it no matter what you choose. On the Open ecosystem side of things you have things like Linux with 10,000 independent distributions doing slightly different things. On the controlled you have Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle telling developers the "right" way to do things.
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Why stop at 21? Those who started at 18 had 3 extra years to make money?
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Some form of awareness of its own existence is required for a machine to be operating efficiently. Otherwise it can plan to use materials of its own "brain" as an intermediate step.
Isn't free will a non-deterministic thing?

Whoo boy not sure that's a good rabbit hole to go down. If you're unfamiliar with compatibilism I'd suggest you check it out. I think hard determinism gives the most reasonable answer here with a resounding no.

As to the question of consciousness, it is yet to be well defined, with no possiblity to test (because of eg Qualia) so by definition you'd never verify or not. At most you'd recognize what you perceive as consciousness based on how you perceive other entities which you believe have it.
That would be considered a bug, like copying a deleted file.
Why?

Seriously, I can't think of a reason. You can have it registered without having anything there, so what is the advantage of parking it?
I can't read the whole story (frickin paywalls). But, as somebody who fairly recently (3-5 years ago) left Silicon Valley for the Northeastern US, I'm willing to bet they overlook two things that still make Silicon Valley what it is. Those things are a ban on non-compete agreements and state laws that say what you make on your own time is yours and not your company's.

You would think this would be standard across the US, but it's not. I've had to turn down a few contract jobs because I refused to sign contracts with similar clauses in them.

The ability to take a weekend project and turn it into the next big tech company is one of the things that made SV. The other was easy access to large sums of money, but crowdfunding has made that less of a factor than it was. That and the stories circulating about VCs screwing over founders.
OP wasn't asking about financial independence. Your post is unnecessarily dramatic for the sake of talking about how well off you are. I mean you JUST created an account to post about it.
Answered in the previous comment. Humble beginnings, trading since I was 16.
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I think that part was probably more important than exercise or social interaction. Not that they don't have their places, just that it's likely more the intellectual challenge that gets them going.
Sometimes, the effort is its own reward.
I use Kupfer -http://lifehacker.com/5344158/kupfer-launches-linux-files-an...

Just ctrl+space and start typing in the name of the application you want to launch. Works great. I very rarely use a menu.
Is there something wrong with engaging in the mental exercise of mapping these phenomena in one context? In this case: Blockchains?
How much are you making now?
This is 100% anecdotal, but a number of swing dance legends have lived to very old age. Frankie Manning, founder of Lindy Hop, died at 94. Norma Miller, the Queen of Swing, is 97 and still alive.

This is a video of Frankie at 92! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrqFFU4P5E
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It's like businesses that were listed in the phone book: "AAA Plumbers", e.g., so that they'd be listed at the top of their category.
It looks like HN doesn't like metaphors :) Since it's flagged, I will repost with a different title.
The learning curve is steep if you are not familiar w/ static typing, and its not unheard of to run into bugs in flow itself, but overall I have found it to be really helpful.

In my experience it pays off best in refactors - in projects w/ good flow types I have been able to make big changes to my code, fix flow errors, and then have tests pass on the first run.

It's also great when working on code that others wrote - the type annotations are about the same amount of boilerplate as something like jsdoc, but having them checked automatically in my editor saves a lot of context switching between files.
I have been using TypeScript. The TypeScript compiler gives me roughly 1-2 second builds, even on a large project that (it can watch code and build incrementally).

So I get the benefits of static types, plus the benefits of fast iteration, PLUS the benefits of a fully dynamic language for when I want to accomplish something quickly.

It's a full win-win-win. Throw in linting to avoid the legacy JavaScript crap and it's pretty awesome.
> Simplicity is often an important overlooked killer feature.

> And this is exactly the polar oppossite of that!

I totally agree but this project seems to be still in alpha state. Have they advertised any kind of stable end-user friendly release yet? It doesn't look like it and therefor attacking the user-friendliness of the project seems a bit pre-mature, I'm sure the first alpha version of dropbox was unusable too by common people it's just that this project is open source and therefor anyone can give it a try before it gets stable.
You would be interested in this book

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

It is quite long and dense but explains the math from first princples like you want.
By the way, a follow up : after that, I installed Disconnect in my browser, removed facebook app from my phone, used a dedicated chrome profile for facebook, installed firefox on my mobile and made it my default browser, and installed disconnect and adblock on it. We'll see if that's enough.
Guess which body heals faster from a wound and epidemics, and is more likely to survive childhood: one with modern nutrition, or one with our predecessors'?
>he'd promise the impossible to the customers and would then rely on me to get his ass out of the fire, which I inevitably found a way to do

I think sometimes about this relationship between assholes and engineers. On one hand it's entirely manipulative and destructive to the engineer on multiple levels. On the other hand it has a track record of leading to achievements engineers probably wouldn't even attempt otherwise (or of the task actually being impossible).

But looking at the positive outcomes, how do we get those achievements without assholes exploiting engineers? The sort of achievements that a reasonable engineer wouldn't even attempt because the demands seem unrealistic?
Age: 34

Location: DK

NW: ~509k USD
Isn't it like comparing your... Oh, well, nevermind.
A laptop with an internet connection in today's age can be more educational than attending college. Think of Coursera, EdX, Wikipedia, Google, Online Tutorials, Pragmatic Software etc.
Age: 30
Location: Lithuania
NW ~1,7 mln EUR
Mostly from Bitcoin (~1,5 mln EUR). Sold 200k EUR of BTC last month to build home for my family.
I am a huge fan of Waffle House. I love their hash browns. There are none on the West Coast. It is one of the few things I miss about the East Coast.

I am incredibly impressed. They tend to look like glass boxes,* typically with at least two outer walls of large windows. One back wall is bricked in on the kitchen side and one end wall where the bathrooms are. The front end may have glass on three sides. This is where extra seating goes.

They typically have a galley kitchen with bar seating in the middle and booths to either side that are readily served by cooks and wait staff, plus that additional seating area towards the front (towards the main road, usually).

They have sort of a bad reputation as a dive restaurant, probably in part because the building looks so much like a glorified trailer and the prices are low, but the food is good and I have always loved the chain. My dad grew up on a farm, so I come from humble people who like down to earth places like this. Reading this article makes me feel really good about being a huge fan, in spite of the classist contempt some people have for the chain.

You would think that a place that (very often) looks like a glass trailer would not be the first thing open after a hurricane. So, I am astonished, but happily so.

* https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=waffle+house&go=Search&...
Are you kidding? How narrow is your definition of major US city. That's a reasonable salary in Salt Lake City for a senior developer. And with that you can easily handle property, retirement, and eat quite well.
Is a 200-300 mile range enough for Tesla to break into electric trucking?
The greatest sound pollution from cars is the tires noise. At low speeds this is not noticable but the faster you go the worse it is, I believe engine noise is overtaken by tire noise somewhere above 30km/h.

This sound is spread 10km in each direction from a highway, the areas which are truly spared the noise of cars are hard to find these days.
> The gains have shrunk to the point (2x speedup at best)

call me a skeptic, but i suspect that whatever impl you're comparing against is not terribly good.

this bench [1] allocates (and discards) ~3,000 virtual nodes per redraw, and each redraw is ~1.3ms, pegged @ 60fps.

the GC time is ~2% [2], so even if all GC went away, a 2x speedup is plain impossible. unless you're suggesting that the majority of the time spent in "Scripting" is heap allocations, which i'll concede may be a good amount - do you know if there's a way to measure cumulative time spent growing the heap?

[1] http://leeoniya.github.io/domvm/demos/bench/dbmonster/

[2] http://imgur.com/a/TwwRf
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To be honest if you're making minimum wage in the USA, you are also way ahead of the curve for most people on the planet.

But yeah, people in this thread are doing a bit better than most people in America!

I heard the other day that 2/3 to 3/4 of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and could not afford an unplanned $500 expense.
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Why does it have to be black or white? It's a spectrum. Or as pmoriarty greatly put it further down:

'If one can't save everything, one must save nothing?'

You should watch the presentation by Ethan Brown, he talks about creating meat using plant protein.

He's a great entrepreneur and 'hacker'. You might enjoy it.
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I am in my final year of my bachelor's. I will be a marine engineer. You guys seem to be doing good. Will you guys offer me advice about a good tech start up and what I should know before hand. After I earn some saving, I want to try my hand on commercial farming.Also important financial decisions I should consider at my age.
> humans can mimic something just from a single (even partial) observation;

Human learning is similarly based on large numbers of exposures; we don't form categories from single exposures. There are times where it looks that way, but what's happening instead is we come across a new particular instance of an already known general category (e.g. I have the general category 'cat', and I know they can vary on the dimensions, color, size, unruliness, etc.—and I've never seen a purple cat before, but I understand it after one exposure because it's just another value for an already known attribute. The less obvious examples are just super abstract, but have the same basic relationships in place).

> Then the hard problem of consciousness

That, by definition, doesn't have to do with any states of physical matter, nor any kind of computation. It's asking about the subjectivity of state transitions. So it should not be involved in considering a functional equivalent for (important subsets of) human brain behavior.

Edit: to clarify about the 'hard problem' relation to this: if you take Searle's 'Chinese Room' critique, for the question of functional equivalence it doesn't matter whether the person in the room understands Chinese or not; it just matters that at the end of the day the correct cards are held up.
France electricity is mostly (72%) from nuclear power. Aka the most under-appreciated clean energy that everybody is panicky about and wants to get rid of. Which means, unless you have a luxury of having tons of hydropower or something, nuclear is probably the best way to lower carbon footprint. Of course, this is also the least discussed way.
This is called the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis if you want to do more reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
These studies compare to standard Word writing, you wrote your notes in LaTeX, which is vastly different IMO.
Same here, but Albert on Ubuntu MATE.
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Why? Are you making a website or creating an app.
>A nonprofit has "taken action against Stormfront." What kind of action has it taken that allows it to have a site in essence seized and taken down?

Sending a bunch of abuse emails tends to work.

>This should be a concern to an business that has an internet presence that may have a difference of opinion with any other person/organization. While I do not agree with Stormfront or their rhetoric, I also do not agree with seizing a website from its owner without some type of legal action or court order to do so. More needs to be said on what happened here or we should all be concerned about these actions.

This happens 1000s of times every day, but people only seem to be worried when it's Nazi sites that get taken down. Nobody gets worried when domain registrars shut down 1000s of "malware" and "phishing" domains every day with little to no verification based on abuse reports from automated scripts
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