skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was sitting in yet another meeting the other day and started thinking...

We have two of our managers on this call, one of their managers, three of their engineers, and me. But I'm only there for some vague technical guidance. I don't even know the system/language they're working in.

That's 3 managers for 4 technical people, 1 of which is simply babysitting. So really that's 4 people making sure 3 people do the work right.

Everything takes months.
Last I heard, 4Chan founder Chris Poole now is employed by Google as of about a year ago. Shortly after that, people on various boards noticed /pol/ results etc. showing up in Google News. I'm not sure if there's a coincidence in that timing or not :)

At any rate, yeah, someone had to approve including message boards as a potential source to scrape for news. Not a good decision in my mind -- 4Chan's reputation makes this decision even more questionable, sure, but I can't think of any general social media / message boards / comment sections / etc. that would qualify as "news" in my mind. Certainly this lowers the value of Google News to me.
> WebAssembly definitely isn't replacing Node.js, for instance, or game scripting.

WebAssembly is certainly able to replace JS in game scripting.
As somebody with no idea how nematodes work, what does this model do? Does it basically try and find things that stimulate the chemotaxis neurons?
How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck?
It sounds like you're shifting the goal posts pretty dramatically to me. Compare what you said above (which presumably prompted the reference to this paper)

> Writing a garbage collector runtime in Rust has most of the same problems in Rust as in C, because you have to write most of it in unsafe code, where Rust inherits much of C's undefined behavior w.r.t. pointers via LLVM. In short, you have largely the same problems and have added a hard dependency on Rust.

to the conclusions drawn in the cited paper. They sit in pretty stark contrast from where I'm standing.
It seems like they are cheaper at least for Europe (before volume discounts), with 0.042€/SMS in France (Twilio would be 0.076€). Still 10x as much as the US pricing...
Alan Kay gave a talk at Qualcomm in San Diego, on October 30, 2013.
"Is it really complex or did we just make it complicated?" https://vimeo.com/82301919
Why would Apple ever implement that? They’ve made their point of view on preferring native development (and being very cautious about what’s exposed to the browser) very clear.
one of the top candidates for the ligo nobel prize would have been ronald drever, but he unfortunately died earlier this year.
I was recently reading up on Ionic[1], is going the hybrid route not considered a viable option for solving the cross platform development problem? I am not a front-end developer but also have a recent need for something similar to Matcha/React/Kotlin.

[1] https://ionicframework.com/
Story of my life, unless someone is paying for it.
I'd like to see this compared with heroin deaths for the same period. I think the 2015 number for heroin over dose is around 33,000 too.
I worked at Google News for 5 years, and completely agree w/Alexis. Google promoted 4Chan as a top result for people who wanted to know about Las Vegas; that's a fail, period. It is a fail. It should not have happened; it should not happen again; it should never happen.

Great, maybe you personally weren't fooled. That's entirely and totally irrelevant since there are 7 billion people on the planet and Google (and FB and everyone else) wants to serve all of them. Not all of whom are exactly like you.

Google fucked up, admitted it (kinda) and needs to do better. Period. Not hard to understand.
It would have to be structured as a voluntary turn-in with a benefit that people would be crazy not to take advantage of (e.g. some gigantic tax relief).
I was Army and learned the old school way. Compass, Protractor and Map. Refused to completely trust GPS. It will fail you just when you really need it most. Army navigation is much easier than Navy, but same rule applies.
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It's still experimental:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

Using FreeBSD as the Docker host requires the Linux compatibility layer, like Windows and macOS.
C++ in itself is pretty complex comparing to other languages
I think it's missing a "those". By the way, we could probably do with a content warning somewhere for this subject.

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

"Females attempt suicide twice as often as males. As with suicide deaths, rates of attempted suicide vary considerably among demographic groups. While males are 4 times more likely than females to die by suicide, females attempt suicide 3 times as often as males. The ratio of suicide attempts to suicide death in youth is estimated to be about 25:1, compared to about 4:1 in the elderly"
> Government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I seriously doubt that they had internet in 1948.

In any case the beginning of the phrase was casually omitted. Should be: "With an exceptionally narrow range of exceptions [link], Government censorship of the Internet is prohibited by ..." That omision is relevant for the debate, because when you follow the link in the eff.org article it states that the need to protecting national security, public order, or rights and reputation of third people, are valid exceptions to this rule.
Here in Germany you normally have some form of liability protection e.g. IT liability insurance so you don't give unsatisfied clients your house. Another way is a UG (it's similar to Ltd.) where you get some type of limited capital liability protection.

Bookkeeping is not too cumbersome, you just have to account for such tasks and their overhead in your hourly rate.
Factoring all costs is the only big hassle, but after this, it's no hassle at all.
You're comparing Go to RN. The comparison he's making is Matcha to RN. Matcha doesn't come from a giant company. The language it's in does, but that doesn't mean anything for framework momentum.
I'd like to thank you a lot for those error messages. As somebody learning the language, they are incredibly helpful.
Yeah, you just have to have Java installed on whatever system you're running the app on. From a development perspective (or anyone who has done end-user support of a desktop app) this is an absolute non-starter.

"Install this runtime, then you can install this app. Oh and that auto updater that is atrocious? You can thank us for having it. Thanks for being a loyal customer!"
>But not nearly as bloated as many of the competing Java and C++ applications.

I too like discord and VSCode, but VSCode uses far more resources than sublime, with the tradeoff being that it's more easily extensible and has a faster release cycle(which may or may not be related to team size). VIM locally is obviously also going to be much faster and capable of opening far larger files than VSCode.
And given the difficulty of parking at Berkeley, that is probably lusted after more than the prize money.
Taj controversy: Hindutva's hatred for the monument of love
The second chart you posted has no labels, title, or context, and as such is pretty useless.
The problem is that to get an SMSC that is respected by all of the operators requires a negotiation with an aggregator who has done contracts with all of the operators. The 2nd order problem is that you don't know the quality of the relationship an aggregator has with operators until you're a customer. All carriers have a prioritization in their SMSC's and, necessarily, no aggregator is in position 1 on all carriers.

The result is fairly untraceable failures.

Source: former telecom PM.
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It's not:

Why Don't We Build a Telescope Without Mirrors or Lenses?

It's:

Why We Don't Build a Telescope Without Mirrors or Lenses.
Where do you get the "gang warfare" breakout number from?
I just visited my grandmother who is 95 and is still going strong - absolutely no problems on a physical, mental, etc. level at all. Her father (who I knew) lived to be 105. I appear to have the good genes and have almost never been sick in my life so I will also probably live into my 90s at least. I still consider 67 to be old ;-)
There’s a classic book called The Goal[1] which is an outstanding example of teaching using the Socratic method. The basic lessons of the book can also change the way you think about business in general and software engineering in particular, as a bonus. One important concept for example is to liken unreleased software to a big pile of inventory in a warehouse: the inventory doesn’t do the company any good until it is paid for by a customer. Similarly, software doesn’t do any good until it is providing value in production.

Although it is a business book, The entire book is written as a novel. The author talks in the intro about how showing the Socratic method in practice is one of his key goals.

It’s also excellent on Audible. The follow-up book, The Critical Chain, is about project management and is also life-changing with its awesome concepts.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...
I think one disadvantage of runtime type checking and DbC is that the compiler can't aid you in refactoring.

For example, if you add a case to a variant or sum type, or change the parameter or return type of some function, in a static type system, the compiler can tell you all the locations you need to change. In a runtime system, you have to find them yourself, or wait till you see an error at runtime.

Now, this is still better than the alternative of having the error propagate until it crashes 10 functions down, but the compiler finding all the places that need to be changed is something I've found to be really useful, especially in early development when there's a lot of refactoring happening. Presumably, this is probably useful in later stages as well, when the system is large enough that you can't expect to find all the uses of a function or type manually.
For those asking what makes them different, this blog post by their European investor Atomico may shed some light? Starts at paragraph 4 http://news.atomico.com/our-investment-in-messagebird-a-euro...
There are some people working on that, for example:

http://www.clash-lang.org/
<mistakes a human never would

A great line! Have to keep that top of mind reading anything online

But G has no Murrow-esque anything and i think its unrealistic and unfair to expext it can.

G is simply a live canvas where everybody splatters paint and people walk by the gallery at different times seeing different things
Don't say no to Electron just yet. And if you do, jesus, there's better alternatives than JavaFX (use Qt).

You know what Electron has brought us? It's brought the Linux desktop reliable feature parity with other platforms. Fat chance Visual Studio Code (often hailed as "one of the best-optimized electron apps") would have existed on Linux without Electron.

Discord, another fantastic Electron app, is functionally identical on web and desktop (all platforms), feels fantastic on Linux, no issues at all. What are the odds I would have a functional Text/Voice/Video chat Linux desktop client for Discord if Electron didn't exist? How much time would have had to be spent reverse-engineering the protocol then implementing a decent UI for it all?

Obviously you shouldn't use Electron for certain things. If your app is tiny especially, you'll be better served with a leaner framework. But that's nothing new.

Electron has given desktop developers access to the web's fantastic tooling and iteration speed, and web developers access to the desktop market. It's given the ability and incentives to all those developers who might not have touched Linux before to make a Linux release alongside the rest.

If you don't like how Electron performs, your time would be better spent optimizing it than seeking out Java frameworks, which work atrociously bad on anything that isn't the author's platform (if even that).
Such a rule probably wouldn't have seemed necessary before the rise of big physics during WWII.
general American public -> general public
Another Java developer scared that JS is taking over. Sorry sweetie
The damage is done. Thank you Oracle.
Does anybody have a good reference on how to implement inlining and beta reductions efficiently (efficient at both compile time and run-time)?

I've found SPJ's paper but I find it a bit of a grab-bag of ideas (difficult to see how to implement it step by step instead of all at once).
That it doesn't have reified generics like C# does not make it a dynamic language. Go doesn't have generics at all, but it's still a static language.
Agreed. Although to draw conclusions from high-level stats like this it's necessary to drill down into the data. For example, I'd be curious if you could isolate the 'ghettos' in all the US/Canadian/European cities and allow you to toggle them within the stats to compare all the countries.

People tend to talk about the unique US obsession with firearms - which is true, but the core problem is gun violence, and the amount of violence happening in the US ghettos is also highly unique among western countries. And I wouldn't be surprised if it accounted for a significant percentage of 'mass shootings' (not just the type in Vegas but as the FBI defines them with >=4 victims).

Generalizing about the US gun problem as a singular 'gun problem' doesn't do them any favours. These problems won't ever be effectively confronted as a generic problem if it's multiple groups of with different cultures, incentives, circumstances, etc. People in the US have been obsessing for decades over a politically (and practically) dead options such as national gun control laws or more harsh gun sentencing as the only solutions - while missing opportunities to confront this as the nuanced individual community or cultural problem it is. Much like the drug war, there's no panacea solution in law enforcement.
Yeah I haven’t even had java installed in years. Only have a single app that uses it but it’s tucked away in a docker container. It’s basically flash to be, no longer a need.
Hi,

where (in the world) is your data stored physically? The FAQ only says that

> The MessageBird platform is build to be secure from the ground up, through all application layers. We have put in place best practices from several industry standards to help reduce and mitigate risks. MessageBird’s communication platform is hosted at secure data centers that comply with leading security policies and frameworks, including ISO 27001 and NEN 7510.

Similar question/issue has prevented us from using Twilio in the past.
We are discussing about the framework itself and not go as a language.

The framework is a nice idea, and will definitely help into diversifying some of the mobile frontend stuff.

On the other hand you can't compare RN to this framework.

As the person you commented on, facebook has been using RN on its main products like instagram, so it has proven that the framework can be placed on production ready apps with a massive userbase.
Well, it's been flagged. Didn't match what everyone on HN already knows to be true, so it's gotta go.
Announcing Fn – An Open Source Serverless Functions Platform
is it bad to look at the first image and think: "needs AB testing"?
See my comment above - on of their VCs has posted some stuff
Ask HN: Where Can I Buy Six Figures of Ethereum Today?
Hello Hacker News,

I am interested in buying six figures worth of Ethereum. The few places I have looked at seem to have limits on how much you can buy, especially when you first sign up. Does anyone on here know a trusted place where I can buy greater dollar values immediately (or within a couple days), that only charge reasonable fees?

Thanks!
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the theory and prediction of gravitational waves has been around forever. and the work to do experimental detection has been going on for many decades. so the actual detection was just a sort of check mark that validated many, many years of work. plus, the people involved are getting quite old, and the nobel prize isn't awarded posthumously. for example, ronald drever died earlier this year and could have probably been named instead of barry barish.
There's little doubt that Levandowski and Lior Ron are in deep shit if this goes to criminal court, but I'm still waiting for Waymo's slam dunk against Uber. If they have one, it hasn't been presented yet.
>Hey look at this proprietary software that's so cool and old and established!
>The web has only been around for 20 years!
>Pfft not even kidding they're trying to make desktop apps with web tech! PFFFFFT

'nuff said.
> Now, Australia's homicide rate was already declining before the NFA was implemented, so you can't attribute all of the drops to the new laws.

> Pinning down exactly how much the NFA contributed is harder. One study concluded that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people correlated with up to a 50 percent drop in firearm homicides. But as my colleague Dylan Matthews points out, the results were not statistically significant because Australia has a pretty low number of murders already.
You can bundle the JRE with your app.
Gun deaths went down in the US at a similar pace as the Australian graph, without any significant gun control... http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/201...
As a user that is true. As an administrators the you are using those utilities more and so the complete system is important.
React 16 – Taking control of your errors using Error Boundaries
I can guarantee you that the Day 1 phrase at Amazon has exactly 0% to do with driverless cars.

And it is foolish to ascribe any singular viewpoint to investors in general. While some investors may hold the views you do, you’re likely suffering from a false consensus bias if you think your views are shared by anything more than a single digit percentage of investors in general or even specifically Amazon’s investors.

As for the rest of your theory, I also think it is complete rubbish, but feel free to do with your money as you please.
Dualism is wholly wrong. There is no mind-body split. Even speaking of 'the brain' is just a rough convenience. Individual neurons stretch from that tangled mass of them up in your skull all the way down your spine and to the soles of your feet. Every nerve fiber extends from nearly every point in your body right into your brain. Perception pours in from every point, and it is all extremely important. Emotion, for instance, primarily arises from biofeedback. Remove the feedback of feeling your 'expression' of emotion and you will cease to be capable of 'feeling' that emotion.

Consciousness is not a 'thing', it is a property. Thus far we know of only one sort of system that can hold the property (human beings in our environment) although we do gain some information from observing humans of different configurations (such as seeing that people with total facial paralysis experience significant emotional dulling and substantial changes to their subjective personal experience over time) that hints at what things are important for different aspects. So far as we have evidence for, there is no reason to think that you might be able to, for instance, simulate solely a brain and have anything akin to consciousness. Just removing patterned sensory input from a typical person via sensory deprivation quickly results in their consciousness dissolving. So how a brain without a body and without an environment to perceive might ever have a hope of consciousness I've no idea.
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I'm a contractor. Have been for six years. Why do you care about other people's titles? A title won't save you during a lay off.

A company can call me janitor as long as they pay my rate on time.

At the end of the day, the risk for you and your family is a lack of cash. A "permanent" job is anything but that (you think they'll keep you around if the company is headed South?)

Learn to negotiate better. Build a bigger savings. So that when you're in between jobs, burnt out, you can sit back for a bit and calculate your next move(s).
We should be looking into motive and psychological makeup, was the person on antidepressants for example? I feel all of those non religious based mass shootings were done by regularly medicated people - they were normal for years and all of a sudden snapped... more needs to be done testing long term effects of medications designed to change peoples brains...
I go on this collection of subreddits (I think I found it on HN, can't remember).
However, a lot of it seems to be the same content!

https://www.reddit.com/user/ashish2199/m/cs_student_subs/
It isn't "due to C." This is a popular meme on HN, but it's incorrect in its focus.

If anything replaces C I'm skeptical that more than a shift in the character of the attack surface (rather than the area) will occur. That is, there will be just as much to attack, it's just that the attacks will require alternate methods. Some attacks will be harder to employ, some less, but on average probably about the same quantity and seriousness will occur.
"Cold turkey is best way to quit smoking, study says"

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/15/health/quit-smoking-cold-t...

Not convinced switching people to a just as addicting, just as nasty way of killing themselves slowly is any better.
The story there is an incredibly uncharitable reading of what actually happened. It appears as if the author's password was guessed and the account was reactivated. When he went to dispute this as account theft, they demanded ID to prove ownership.

That doesn't strike me as particularly unreasonable, rather projection of ill will onto Facebook. They have no way of knowing which person is actually the account owner, actual ID would definitively settle the matter.
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OP here. I actually expect to live at least another 50 years (all of my family on both sides are very long lived and I seem to have inherited the good genes). Hopefully I do end up beating the statistics ;-)
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