skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Nespresso machine and highly disagree with you. The worst part of preparing Coffee is cleaning and the time required when I just want the coffee and not to mess with tools.

With the Nespresso, I just put the capsule and I get my coffee. The cleaning is easy and I don't need to clean stuff for every coffee.

Sure, you might do a whole bottle of coffee and consume it during the day. But the machine gives you convenience and it is affordable.

I have no problem putting 200-300USD on a coffee machine.

For juice? Well, I like it fresh. I didn't try Juicero but I highly doubt that it compares to freshly squeezed oranges.
The definition of a side project is not clear. Is it just for fun/learning about new tech, and can be thrown away? Or is it a serious endeavor, and supposed to be the next big thing? These require completely different mindsets.
To be honest I am surprised WeChat is even allowed in the iOS app store with its all-in-one multi app experience, since app experiences of that type are explicitly called out as disallowed in the app store guidelines section 2.5.8 - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

(Actually, I'm not that surprised, they're probably too big to fail and Apple really wants to sell iOS devices in China)
The yin and yang becomes more amusing when you think that the site's title suggests an appeal to the first group: the techies for whom this is a passion.

Yet it would not exist without the second group because it was started by an investment fund/startup incubator.

I agree with you, I love both perspectives and the passions they ignite. I am squarely in the first group, and I love reading about the real life realities of product design/management, pitching, etc.
Yes, we still have a similar course at IU. Here's the textbook for the current incarnation: https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...
The gap south of Australia is in fact smaller than Canada. The problem is that there's a whole continent between the gap and the South Pole, and most maps truncate Antarctica near the coastline.
yeah but those don't make for interesting articles or discussions
India GDP growth at 3-year low of 5.7% in Apr-June as GST, demonetisation bite
Ayn Rand's principles invented the internet? Someone should write the history of how all those government-funded research institutes weren't really involved.
What's the salary?
Not necessary to pull whole boost
In an ideal world, yes. In practice, in the USA? This is what your policy makers deem "good enough".
Full driverless cars that can go down your high street with no one in the vehicle are a way off. Uber's cash will last about 2 years at the present rate.
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Ask HN: How long does it take for you to become productive in a new job?
By that I mean, understand the current system / requirements for new system in such a way that you effectively work alone, if you need.

And in general, how is the on boarding process? Do you normally have a mentor/guide to ask questions, or do you just learn by doing? Do you do pair coding in the first few weeks?
It works much better when the walls are made of brick or stone. No matter how much insulation you stuff into a modern drywall, it will never match the thermal mass of solid stone.
If Facebook's and Google's future is at risk, why haven't they done anything to stop this bill?
Note: Everything in this comment is based on personal experience and observations as a Facebook user. They're all my opinions too.

In my experience of using Facebook (primarily groups), it is a highly buggy platform and it's very hard to say that it behaves consistently or even that features are really ready before release - this, IMO, implies that both development and testing as well as rolling out the releases are messed up. This post talks about building a better "conveyor belt", so to speak, to release changes, but if the basic product is buggy and didn't get good attention in design/dev/test, no improvements in the "conveyor belt" can help make it awesome.

Standard features that have existed for long may or may not work (how good are the regression tests then?). Posts and comments in groups may sometimes just disappear (thank goodness an admin activity log was added sometime in the last several months so we can stop wondering if an admin deleted anything). There's a feature in groups to mandate people wanting to join a group to answer some questions setup by the admins. Most people submit the answers but that never gets saved, and it's unknown what the trick is to get the answers to stay (this has been around for several months now?). New features aren't always announced.

I see Facebook as a platform that's used to share ephemeral things. So this level of quality is probably just ok (though I don't believe it justifies the company's revenues and valuation).

Since I do not conform to Facebook's ridiculous policy on using "real/authentic names", I don't even venture into contacting support if I see any issue, lest my presence be obliterated (yes, I try to keep away from Facebook, but do need it for some important awareness building because there's a large audience there).

As a platform used by billions, Facebook still has a very long way to go in being reliable.
Because like almost all laws of this nature, the costs of compliance will harm upstart competitors greatly while being a rounding error on the books of the major incumbent players.
Forth has great support for double width and mixed width intermediate operations like / which does xy/z with x*y being 128 bits on a 64 bit Forth.
Was mainly intended for fixed point operations.
No it isn't. Fuck off.
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Europeans can charge back just fine.
Tackling. Might be good to specify which SQL back end you focus on too. Looks cool though.
What YouTube codec is being used for the iOS app?
Hi,

I suppose that when I open YouTube in Safari on iOS or macOS the H.264 (.mp4) codec is being used.

What codec is utilized for the iOS app? VP9 that is being converted (via software) or H.264 as well? If VP9 is being used, would that mean that using YouTube through Safari would be more energy-efficient?

Thanks :)
I have worked with several machine learning methods in the past (mostly with financial data) and my immediate gut reaction is that the training/validatin dataset is far too small to make conclusions that the predictions are accurate.

I would guess that the projection the neural network gives will differ enormously based on the position they split the in- and there is no clear description on how the projection model has been trained/validated ie. has some of the out-sample data been used in verifying training results (ie. curve fitting)

Financial research is full of examples on overfitting the data to get some kind of result, and this is in most cases not even intentional.

Disclaimer: I have not read the paper discussed in detail so I don't know how they have eliminated the overfitting angle.
You are not 'behind'
Even in pre-colonial times? Or whas it just that Europeans settled in places that felt like home?
I built a website for global farmers,no money to cover the server cost now
Six months ago,I built a website for farmers,It would be a database for agriculture knowledge and farms.Although,the user number is going higher,the server cost is also going higher,after I received this month digitalocean bill,I found may be I cannot afford the DO server cost.What should I do now?I am applying Adsense,and tried to collaborate some suppliers.
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> In September 2015, I was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – I had previously worked at the IPA from July 2003 to the end of 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs#Do...

> The IPA funded by its membership which include both private individuals and businesses. Among these businesses are ExxonMobil, Telstra, WMC Resources, BHP Billiton, Phillip Morris, Murray Irrigation Limited, and Visy Industries.
"What sorts of decisions does he [sponsor] make?
According to some network executives, he no longer makes decisions that deal with programming.
Spokesmen for sponsoring organizations tend toward similar statements, but with a difference.
They say they don't want to control programming, but insist on the right to decide with what programs their names or commercials will be associated.
They leave it to broadcasting companies to provide suitable settings for this participation.
The broadcasters do so.

Perhaps they are all saying that sponsorship has become so essential, so crucial to the whole scheme of things, that interference of the old sort is no longer necessary.
A vast industry has grown up around the needs and wishes of sponsors.
Its program formulas, business practices, ratings, demographic surveys have all evolved in ways to satisfy sponsor requirements.
He has reached the ultimate status: most decision-making swirls at levels below him, requiring only his occasional benediction at this or that selected point.
He is potentate of our time."

The Sponsor - Eric Barnouw
They were not elected for being engineers, but because of their careers in the party (just as Angela Merkel wasn't elected because of her PhD, politics don't work like that). Article, at least as I understood it, is about the respect that society gives to an ordinary engineer. Is it considered prestigious to be engineer by common people or they view it as just a little better than being a technician or factory worker. I'm not very familiar with China, but I live in an ex-communist country and this resonates with me a lot. Here, back in time of socialism, your mom wouldn't impress any of her friends with your engineering diploma, but for instance if you were a doctor that was a big deal, you were a respected member of society. Have no idea why, I guess it has to do something with the whole "working class" idea of communism that insists on all workers being treated as equal.
how does oData hold against https://www.google.com/patents/US9646028 ? specifically the 'social networking' part?
(related: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/using-graphql-why-facebook-n...)
Came here to say something similar. That putting a tax on consumer's water bills will have a tiny effect on general water consumption. Compare this to a tax on water consumption in general: in the end it's the absolute water use that needs to come down, not the size of the consumer's water consumption relative to the total consumption.

Maybe this is what you get when the people's say in lawmaking is overshadowed by that of corps.
I never went in, but the baseline skills are there.*

Let's just say I was forced to show up at the principal's office at several educational institutions during my youth :).

I now sometimes make money doing white hat stuff.
Many Google products are getting worse. The Maps UI isn't as good as 5 years ago. Search doesn't find things as well as it used to. And competitors are catching up. The developer libraries and languages they have released are all 2nd rate.

The grandparent is right - they basically haven't been able to capitalise on their incredibly strong position, except by becoming better as selling ads.
It is harder to present criticism of christianism as racists. Youtube is not anti-exmuslims, simply when you have a guy named "The Masked Arab" who has a dozen of videos explaining why islam is a violent and backward religion, that a hundred people have tagged "arab haters" it is hard for youtube to see through it.
That really depends on the company and the software they are building.

I work in healthcare and before I was hired I was told it would take me about 6 months to become productive (understand the system, the jargon,..).

The first month I had a mentor that I did some pair programming with, in which I was mostly watching at first and then being the programmer. I also had courses on how to use the software and was taken to many meetings to get 'context' of what we worked on.

All in all I became productive around 4-5 months (developing new features without bothering colleagues too much and leading some own projects)

--

At a job before the current one I was not really guided at all, but they had written tutorials about how to work with their software. And in the tutorial you build a 'new' feature as you went along using more and more complex features of their framework.

No pair programming and actually felt more like a university course (as you kind of got graded via code reviews and had to retake a tutorial step if you failed).

I would actually recommend the first approach.
Good point, thanks for letting me know! (and leaving a message on Doorbell itself) :)
You are missing gp's point.

Any boost dependency is an instant no-go in a lot of projects.
I think the aerospike concept is related to this solution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-reducing_aerospike
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This tax is just more dope for the money junkies in Sacramento who think the answer to their fiscal misdeeds is more money. Anyone who has a healthy relationship with money knows the answer to money problems is to be fiscally prudent and stop buying things you can't afford.

Prop 52 and 56 approved funds that were earmarked for new health services. Brown and his lackeys made a $1.5 billion dollar error in MediCal. Sacramento's response? Use the prop 52 and 56 funds and "let the lawyers figure it out" [1](Senator Richard Pan, Sacramento) In effect, we have lawmakers saying they will willfully break the law and if you don't like it, you can sue them. I'm sure they will do the same with this new tax, use it for something else and wait to be sued. They should all be facing RICO charges.

1. http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essentia...
Precisely, this is Trump trying to raise his poll numbers.
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> To be blunt, those i915 GPU drivers are shit.

these days, for stability it's prefereable to use the modesetting X driver (comes with xorg-server /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so) instead of the xf86-video-intel driver.
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I am very fascinated by this notion of teaching compilers by starting at code generation and working backwards from there. I've read about nanopass compilers before, but do they also work well if the compiler is written in a statically typed language? They clearly will for passes that do not change the program representation, but my experience is that it is awkward to define large amount of similar-but-slightly-different representations in a statically typed language.
I'm also wondering if this transfers between programming languages, and to what degree.
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Well yes, if you build your house to need AC then you will need AC. Probably also lots of heat in the winter. So do the smart thing.
Probably even more if you count the commute cost.
If you commute to London you can expect yearly ticket costs to be easily £5000 (that is if you can afford to buy a 12 month pass, if you do not you can pay as much as double, train pass loans are very common in the U.K.) for even a relatively short commute (Oxford or Luton to London for example).
£5000 is 1/4-1/5th of the median salary in the U.K.

If there is anything more depressing than U.K. rent it's its seasonal ticket rates:

http://vt.nationalrail.co.uk/service/seasonticket/search
You're forgetting about the $1.9 trillion nonprofit sector, of which 15% is spent on health research, 12% on public + social benefit...[1]

That seems to bely the need for a government that can fund research that 'puts the advancement of our society over their own personal gain.'

[1]https://philanthropynewyork.org/sites/default/files/resource...
Is it good or bad if a programming language leaves room for personal style?
I don't see why they don't just put all their subsidiaries under Alphabet. What is the purpose of Alphabet if not a holding company?
Can you make a small web server on top of this to demonstrate the performance?
A major restructuring of one of the largest companies ever is not mundane.
Why do you assume it's so easy for the compiler to tell the difference between the two cases?

From this optimization pass's perspective, it has proved that in a legal program `Do` can only have one possible value, and simplified the code appropriately. Most of the time this sort of optimization is correct and the programmer wants it; how is it supposed to figure out that this time the programmer had some different semantics in mind?
I have been kind of struggling with this question lately. As a rule of thumb, what percentage of your income would/should be spend on rent? I can totally understand there are many variables but I'm assuming the cost of buying a new house could be one on that list.
Not exactly, but you can choose to be paid partly/fully in bitcoin, which is the best performing "stock" in 6 of the past 7 years (and could potentially keep performing as the number one for some years).
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1/3 max
Developing every busy application with multiple branches is a pain. Sounds like a cheap excuse.

As summarized on r/programming:

> Translation: We needed you guys back then. We don't now.
From a landlord's perspective, they prefer if you do not spend more than 1/3 of your income on rent.
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Indeed. Lots of supermarkets and coffee brands in the UK sell their own Nespresso-compatible pods, often much cheaper than the "real" ones.

In Germany, Nestle tried and failed to ban sales of unlicensed pods:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandcon...
1. Template syntax instead of JSX, the latter being unfamiliar and initially off-putting to many.

2. Two-way data binding. Convenient, no need to write handler functions.

3. Comes off as a better version of Angular. Appealing if you're familiar with Angular.

4. Comes off as more curated than React with regards to e.g. routing and state management, less need to shop for libraries.

5. More performant in some situations.

That said, I prefer React. I consider 1 and 2 drawbacks of Vue compared to React.
From government research to the Great Depression, the only way libertarian economics escapes unscathed is by ignorance of history.
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> 1) The machines are very cheap (compared to other espresso makers)

Simply not true, I have an 160eur Delonghi espresso machine which takes grounded coffee (doesn't grind it itself), and it's pretty awesome for what it cost me. Every 2 weeks, I go to a local coffee shop where I buy on high-quality freshly roasted coffee which I let the shop grind for me. It gives me way better coffee than what I get from a Nespresso.

Sure it's a bit more cleanup, but the results are a lot better, and it allows me to pretty easily make a killer cappuccino.

> 4) Capsules have a long shelf life, you can get them in small quantities...

Coffee, once roasted and grounded does not have a long shelf-life, taste and quality goes down remarkably. That's probably also what makes the most difference in quality comparing a Nespresso with my 'fresher' coffee. The capsules being packed in vacuum does improve this, but I wouldn't keep them for longer than a year.

I get my coffee in 250g bags, which is about 15 espresso's, that's not exactly 'large quantities'.

> 5) They have really fancy stores in top locations where they sell their capsules

I prefer local specialized shops that know what the hell they are talking about.

But yes I get the convenience and cleaning. Time to prep is a thing, with my machine, it takes about 1.5 to 2 minutes from start to finish, including 30 sec brew-time and quickly rinsing and wiping everything - which isn't that bad in my book - but yes, a Nespresso scores points here. I don't think I would go through the hassle at work every time I wanted a cup.
Yeah, this is total bs. The economy needs the money to circulate, then everybody gets richer. Money has no value but as a share of the economies' production. When money flows, production goes up. The problem is when some people who are so rich that they can barely spend a few per cents of their income. Instead of getting spent, the money gets invested. But that's not really circulation, it's the opposite: Stuck money used to stick more money.

Edit: This is not to say that there isn't any merit in Georges' other ideas.
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What would it even mean for compiled, machine language code to invoke UB or not?

UB is mostly a C concept, not a lower-level one. The semantics of assembly language programs are well-defined much more often (the only counterexample I can think of is stuff involving using threading, memory barriers, etc. incorrect)
Prof: Efforts to recruit women for STEM 'may be backfiring'
You just admitted the would-be study actually has ulterior motives. That's not good.
I see the irony here :)
Turn it into a SaaS. Three pricing columns, middle one is "recommended", small price is awful value for money, and a tiny text link for the $0 option.
This is basically what happened in real life with HTML, with the results you predict.
Keep it affordable for people to live in, but too expensive for the tenants to save-up to buy their own place. Devilish.