skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter if kids get bored, rather what the people giving the money want to get.

So far, I haven't found an enterprise customer that was willing to allow anything but Java, unless it is required by the tooling.

For example Scala only when making use of Spark.

I am happy that Kotlin is now an approved language on Android, but trying to kill Java on JVM, C on UNIX, JavaScript on the browser, ....

It is never going to go away, and those that embrace the language of the platform are in advantage.
What are you talking about? The link you added supports my claim: there are in fact radical Christian terrorist attacks in the US.
Clickfraud has been a problem for as long as online ads exist. Its widespreadness has caused ad revenues to decline to the point of non-profitability years ago, and many web media outfits to close shop. On what basis should customers be refunded without actual, objectively measured clickstream data? This piece feels like a media campaign to make AdSense appear as premium service over alternatives to me.

The point is that, without incentives for quality content creation, there aren't that many web resources worth searching anymore. Have you checked your web usage recently? Do you actually go to Google search for your daily web consumption? Or could your search needs be fulfilled by, say, better StackExchange search?

Google is struggling to keep growth as ad revenues go to more evil companies such as Facebook, as their AMP project shows.
If the trends continue, the fear propagated by website will be so absolute everyone will kill themselves immediately.
For what it’s worth, cuneiform writing lasted about as long or longer than any other writing system in history, though the Chinese writing system is pretty close by now.

I think the main reason it went out of style is that the languages written in cuneiform were replaced by others which already had their own alphabets. I’m not remotely an expert on this though.
As the guidelines request, please don't use uppercase for emphasis on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To everyone in this thread: This entire topic is incredibly contentious and as such requires even more care and benefit of the doubt when engaging in discussion. Please ask yourself, what is your goal in discussion here? To understand the others you're talking with? To express your opinion? To convince the "other side"? If you're not here for useful, constructive, civil, and respectful discussion, please just refrain from commenting. Shouting louder than every one else is not helpful, and as the mods repeatedly point out, HN is not the place for ideological flamewars.
Why do you have to interact with people you don't know?
You know, you're talking to somebody who writes graphics drivers for a living :)

If you don't believe me or crzwdjk, just go ahead and actually profile a system running an OpenGL application. The syscall overhead -- as in, the overhead of transitioning between user and kernel mode -- is laughably negligible compared to everything else. Also, the vast majority of driver CPU time is spent in user space building up command submissions. The final command submission itself isn't free of course, but clearly more time is spent processing precisely those glDraw*() calls that you seem to think don't matter.
MAy or may not be NSFW depending on where you work, but http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dhaka-streets-b...

They are a small percentage of the American population, but this is what their religious celebrations look like
Even military flights, its mostly a theoretical exercise. If you have a refueling tanker based out of somewhere, you can just base the planes you are refueling out of there instead.

Not to say its worthless of course, but its not as useful as it might seem.
Is that supposed to be good news?
I just mean a number such that both itself and its reciprocal is a terminating decimal (rather than a repeating decimal like the reciprocal of 3; 1/3 = 1.33333...). That is, some rational number made up of 2 to some power times 5 to some power (either or both of the exponents could be negative).

“Decimally regular” might be a more standard term.
>strong believing hindu, you obviously culturally associate yourself with the massacre of muslims, and vice versa

Hindus dont have religious literature (and Hindu countries dont have laws) against other religious. Muslims do, Muslim countries do. I dont know anything about Christianity though, but yes, I guess you do culturally associate with all churches if you are openly Christian and wear a cross at work,etc.
This is why I am orienting my frontend work towards Web Components.

There are several libraries/frameworks that enable us to write Web Components now, even though browser support for the spec isn't fully there. E.g. [Aurelia](http://aurelia.io/) and [Polymer](https://www.polymer-project.org/) have great features, component APIs, and cross-browser support.
Profound. I don't think this explains the connection in the original post, but everything else you say makes a lot of sense.
A Players hire A players. B players hire C players.
Norway, land of hydropower, and where natural gas is more common than coal.
That wouldn't explain why Latin American sperm counts hadn't fallen as well then.
Eich wasn't ignorant of history, he just had marching orders to deliver something that resembled Java for marketing reasons, and only a week to finish or be displaced by something worse. The trouble is nobody ever got to fix it until ECMA.
Go away, the fact you see yourself as the victim is the problem. It's all about how you as a victim. Your religion idolises a child rapist. Encourages murder of non believers, rape and pillaging, and as a result of your religious beliefs are surprised by people's vulgar reaction?
We have github repo with a ton of markdown files. Helps with reviews and it is nicely portable.

We also use jira (i.e. quite a lot of information might be stored in deploy notes for particular issues), confluence (mostly product feature discussion/specs) and google-docs (mostly for meeting minutes), but for anything there that is not ephemeral (i.e. just this release/meeting/feature), we move it to our repo.
Two counterarguments:

1) self-sustaining space travel is more likely to be achieved by AI/robots, DNA or biological beings in general aren't well suited to space travel

2) Humans are the animal that have the highest risk of making the Earth uninhabitable before anything that can be self-sustaining leaves this planet
> A minor quibble: if you consider options/equity as part of employee compensation, then I see nothing special about preferred shareholders than means they 'need to recoup the money they invested', any more than employees need to recoup the time they invested.

That is a fair point. Although, can you compare this situation to other businesses where the treatments towards the workers are more fair? For example, I invest in real estate partnerships (syndications) where the sponsor does all the work (i.e. puts in time) and investors provide the capital to the sponsor to buy the deal and execute. in 100% of the cases, upon liquidation investors receive all their money back plus a preferred return (usually enough to make a 5-10% IRR). After that, if anything is left, the profits are split between sponsors and investors depending on the agreement. The sponsors also get a monthly fee (usually a % of the gross monthly revenues) to justify their time investment. In this case, the situation is quite similar to a startup, where employees get a monthly salary and have the option to participate in the upside, if they execute well. These kind of arrangements are quite customary in all industries where private equity is a way to bring capital.

> Advantage relative to what?

I interpreted your original statement as if you were implying that the strike price of the common options is typically equal to the current price of the preferred shares (quote: "the company may justify the strike price based on the valuation of the company at the last funding round"), and I was pointing out that's not the case, so the pricing has a slight advantage with respect to the price of the preferred shares, so if the company were to be sold today at the exact last round valuation (e.g. X), the employees would still net X - Y per every option they have (where Y is the strike price), as opposed to 0, even if those options were granted while the company had the same exact valuation. Maybe I just misinterpreted.

Of course it would definitely be better if startups granted shares rather than options, but I am not aware of any company at early-medium stages doing that.
But also think of the human benefit gained from ads. Free search, free email, free news articles, free videos. Also consider how Hacker News survives.

As soon as you start charging a fee, you eliminate huge swaths of the world population. Ads are an equalizing force.
It didn't occur to me until I was developing a Game Boy Color game to understand just how difficult it would be to create an accurate emulator.

For Infinity (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12291850) we employed a number of tricks, notably changing video parameters mid-render. For example, when walking around on the overworld, the screen looks tilted. This was done by adjusting the camera's X offset after each scanline.

Before this experience, I would have thought all an emulator needs to do is emulate the CPU, and render video frames as fast as possible based on video memory. Instead, the GPU needs to be fully emulated too, drawing pixels from top to bottom and left to right, at exactly the rate expected of real hardware and in sync with the CPU.

Speaking of hardware tricks, one neat thing we discovered during development was that if a cartridge isn't present, then reading from the ROM memory area returned zeros. This was possible to do if your code was running from RAM and could survive a cartridge being taken out while it was running. This only worked with Game Boy Color (and not original Game Boy) because Nintendo removed the safety lock from the power switch. There is actually code in Infinity to do something with this, although it is unfinished. Just another ridiculous thing emulator authors would have to support somehow. :)
In a competed market, cost savings that are passed on to consumers in exchange for less comfort is just normal business following consumer preferences.

In many of the world (not familiar with the US), the minimum level of comfort is regulated and some consumers would probably go for even less comfort if airlines were allowed to provide it.
I haven't talked about Moon, don't know too much about it. Just wanted to say that small size doesn't always mean that it will have low TTI.

And Moon is small because it doesn't have features that are necessary to build complex apps. For example, keyed updates :)
I wish I could say I lost two pounds this week. I probably gained. I will be the size of the known universe eventually.
Don't quit your job until you've proven that your business idea can work (for example by building a MVP on the weekends and becoming at least Ramen profitable).
Chargebacks seem like one of the worst ways to deal with it. If you're that afraid of losing money this type of transaction probably isn't for you.

What seems to be the biggest failure with most of these companies is setting the expectations right. It also seems like a subset have good intentions, but lack the experience and/or ability to execute. And an even a smaller subset are actual fraud.

Edit: I would think that if it's proven fraud then some other form of legal action should be taken. It'd be interesting to see if that should be on Kickstarter or not. Perhaps they should step in on such cases to protect their customers.
I'm sorry you feel that way.

> Encourages murder of non believers, rape and pillaging

If this were all actually true, don't you think that things would be quite... different, given that 1/7 of the world's population is Muslim?

I for one have never murdered, raped, or pillaged :P
Same with the calculator app
iOS has always had this and android has had it since marshmallow.
Vast number of Americans live paycheck to paycheck
"Even in adults, exposure to chemicals, such as bisphenol A, which are thought to affect fertility, can have a negative effect"

BPA is very common in paper receipts you get when buying stuff from the store. A study in JAMA showed that for people who handle receipts often, it is detectable in urine:

http://www.newsweek.com/youre-absorbing-bpa-your-receipts-st...
I wasn't aware that IEEE floating point provided for two different kinds of equality checking? How would you invoke one or the other?

A NaN value does not compare equal to itself, because NaN is not thought of as a value at all but rather an error signal ("Not a Number"). You can check whether something is NaN, but that's not a distinction between comparing by identity and comparing by value -- it's a distinction between comparing values and checking for the presence of errors. The analogous operations to (1) comparing NaN to itself (unequal) and (2) checking whether NaN is NaN (yes), for another value such as -0, are (1b) comparing -0 to itself (equal) and (2b) checking whether -0 is NaN (no). They aren't (1c) comparing -0 to itself and (2c) checking whether -0 has the same "identity" as -0.
Yeah, I have a similar reaction about being surprised MDL and algorithmic statistics isn't better known. As you say, it's very fundamental stuff. It seems so fundamental to me that I just sort of assume without thinking about it or even questioning whether it will eventually become more prominent.

My guesses as to why it's been slow to be adopted so far are that (1) it's relatively new, in the grand scheme of things, (2) certain things about it are really challenging to everyone, and (3) it has a certain perspective on inference that can be alien to a lot of people.
Meanwhile in China...

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/china-reclaim-title-wor...
> Hindus dont have religious literature (and Hindu countries dont have laws) against other religious.

But hindus have the same culture. Going by your logic, every hindu culturally associate with the other hindus.

> but yes, I guess you do culturally associate with all churches if you are openly Christian and wear a cross at work,etc.

Then let me give you a more extreme implication of this logic:

By calling ourself openly human beings, we culturally associate with every other evil man since they are also human beings. Therefore, we are no better than the most evil man on earth.
Absolutely agree with you, problem is that this is not a SaaS, for an MVP I have actually to produce, store, package, label and ship a product.

This requires a number of man-hours and some expenses.
Google, I'll take my refund for childrens foreign language learn your ABC's and Peppa pig traffic anytime you like. Or reimburse for hours wasted on phone to your Indian call center.
Why does it need to detach? The battery life without the keyboard is awful, and the firmware that supports this is pretty buggy.
My ex-gf has worked in fertility clinic and we were talking about it a lot at home. What I recall is that there are couple of reasons: siting, obesity, alcohol consumption and smoking among others. It is not like there is just one thing that is happening. There are speculations that another factor is high level of woman hormones in drinking water.

I find it interesting that count of sperm that did label you as an infertile (or at least in problematic category) during 70s is now considered completely ok.
Essentially stealing people's power to fund their bitmining
iOS and Android should offer location precision setting for each app.

If GPS location is: [47.49233343443, 19.05412443234]

Then it should offer to round it [47.5, 19.1] for some apps.
I agree. I have been meaning to try choo or hyperapp for small projects since they are so simple and small
That Finnair A350 J tho...
A language that is exceedingly popular and has a great type system and has great tooling for tests is Rust. When using Rust, it’s quite evident why you have to use both and not one or the other.

And when it comes down to it, in theory, proofs are better than tests, and Id say no one would disagree, and in practice, types are proof. Unfortunately, you can’t use types for proving everything, so that is where tests comes in.

Imagine a platform where you could indeed prove everything. I believe, but am not sure, that there is some languages that do this, like Idris.
I have celebrated Eid Al Adha in the UAE for at least 15 years and have never seen anything so gruesome before. That is definitely weird stuff!
Read the United States Government Accountability Office: http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf

"Of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in death since September 12, 2001, far right wing violent extremist groups were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while radical Islamist violent extremists were responsible for 23 (27 percent)."
They took a trend of 40 years. You took a trend of 1 week.
Reminds me of people who buy chrome "dress up kits" for under the hood. I'm partial to the "rad rod" look myself :-) i.e. all go and no show.
A Usability Evaluation of Tor Launcher [pdf]
I'm pretty confident that you will find more pizza places that would be willing to sell for gold than for bitcoin.

War economy also functions on gold.
Refactoring tools appeared for the first time on Smalltalk.

Eclipse was reborn from Visual Age for Smalltalk.
Sperm count is correlated with testosterone levels, and testosterone levels have also been dropping.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/modern-life-rough-o...
Censorship or Protectionism? Reassessing China’s Regulation of Internet Industry [pdf]
Interesting.. Why would someone want to park domains when web hosting is available for $3.xx/mo
That makes a lot of sense. I was wondering why the demand for that route would be large enough for a daily non stop flight.
> More low-level radiation access? (smartphones/computers/smartwatches)

I don't get why people are so worried about this. The effects are so small, it is almost like worrying about undesirable side effects of homeopathy. (What if all this healthy "information" in the water also makes cancer cells more healthy?)

Compared to that, the effects of more and more sugar consumption are huge and quickly visible. Same for missing physical activity.

Also, much larger effects come from dirty drinking water, with "dirty" in every sense: chemical, biological, etc. Some countries even resort to chlorinate all their drinking water because they finally gave up keeping their water clean.

Or, fine particulates in cities who fail to keep their air clean (read: almost all cities).

These are real issues with huge effects. No need to exaggerate on tiny effects like wifi radiation, unless you are talking about nuclear radiation caused by vulcans or more recently, malfunctioning nuclear plants.
>But hindus have the same culture. Going by your logic, every hindu culturally associate with the other hindus.

There is no text which codifies it, unlike Islam. So Hindu culture is much more fluid than Muslim which is written on paper

>By calling ourself openly human beings, we culturally associate with every other evil man since they are also human beings. Therefore, we are no better than the most evil man on earth.

Unlike religion, its not voluntary.

I would say a better analogy would be a white man associating himself with black gang culture by getting gold teeth, gold chains, tattoos,etc to a job. Which would probably get him rejected from the interview itself
"Just imagine for a second the total time lost due to..."

Did this many times over the years with respect to time lost as result of being forced to use a substandard operating system. Because it came preinstalled on PCs like the ones in used offices and there was no 386BSD yet.

The www did not come "preinstalled" with ads. But some companies want it to seem that way. False claim: "If no ads, then no www."
I often exclaim how glad I am that my work doesn't directly lead to a life and death situation, but reading her biography gives a sense of the pride that must go along with those demanding challenges. I don't have those kinds of nerves, or I don't trust my ability not to error. I'm impressed by those who work in the fields of navigation and aviation.
This stuff isn't black magic, it's science and engineering. As more hackers participate in this space, the open source components and techniques will get better and better (I'm not familiar with open source battery management systems but I would bet there is already some good stuff out there). I think there are a lot bigger dangers to hand-wring over than nerds needing out over this stuff.

I think there are as many or more car hackers than ever - CAN bus opened car hacking from the world of the gear head to the world of the computer geek.
Building a desktop notification tool using python
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Even if your hobby is in demand, that still doesn't mean you'll love doing it on somebody else's terms. Like, I enjoy developing software, but I've had projects that I didn't particularly enjoy and constraints that rendered seemingly-enjoyable projects miserable.
I assure that this is not your fate. Eventually you'd become so large that you collapse into a black hole, and then you'd slowly evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. Nature has a feedback mechanism for everything.
Computers and phones don't provide any radiation of the variety you are thinking of. It's not merely a matter of degree it's a difference in category.

For more info look up ionizing radiation.
I use a zsh plugin that changes the F1/2/3 keys to show information about my cwd, so I can have a simplified PS1. I can't remember the name of the plugin, but I'm sure you can find it if you're interested.
Ask HN: If you had $500 to spend on Startup services – what would they be?
I recently won a competition and got this small yet fun reward. Since I only need a premium WIX account and a server, i'm having a hard time thinking of other "essential services" to spend this money on. I only have a few more days to do so.

Any ideas??

Thanks!
> You know, you're talking to somebody who writes graphics drivers for a living :)

That's great. Why do you think you are the only one?
And what should I believe exactly here? That there is a syscall in every OpenGL API? If you are writing drivers you know it's not true yourself. The syscall overhead is not laughable, it's tens of thousands of clocks.

>Also, the vast majority of driver CPU time is spent in user space building up command submissions.

Exactly. OpenGL system (if you want to call it "driver" be my guest, DirectX does not do that for example, neither do other APIs) works mostly in the user space.

> The final command submission itself isn't free of course, but clearly more time is spent processing precisely those glDraw*() calls that you seem to think don't matter.

??? I don't even know what are you arguing here. Let's rewind.
Someone said that "driver calls" are expensive. And it's true for people who understand drivers as a part of OS, not "user mode drivers", which are just shared libs. I corrected, saying that there is no actual driver call in the sense that people understand, i.e. there is no OS call or "syscall" since the OpenGL "driver" is mostly a shared library in the user space. You seem to agree with me.
Now, I am well aware that some calls are expensive. I even know why. Some are not though. On some the overhead of moving data from a managed language to the GPU will be much greater than the call itself. E.g. setting an index buffer.

It still does not make it true that there are syscalls in the OpenGl calls anyways.