skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the heads up, but meaningful whitespace means I'm not likely to look too closely at it. The use of invisible characters to determine control flow is not something I'm a fan of.

Here's a post I made on the topic a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15251078

Take note of how the reply that tried to play with whitespace was already broken by HN's code formatting.

EDIT:

Beyond whitespace sensitivity:

* It compiles to an intermediary language rather than leveraging something like LLVM.

* Despite having sum types it appears that idomatic Nim uses null pointers.

* I'm seeing that it disallows pointer arithmetic in the same search results page that links to a runnable example of pointer arithmetic.

* It uses exceptions, which obscure control flow and make grokking code much more difficult IMO.

* Bindings are mutable by default.

I'm not seeing a good reason to use Nim over Rust in the places where I would use Rust. (For personal use: game development)

I could see it being competitive with where I use Go, but with whitespace sensitivity, exceptions instead of error values, and compiling to C, I'm not even sold on using it there.
And yet your IP address is captured by every site you visit.
So the US administration said a lie which was convenient for them, and the media repeated it. The Russian administration said a lie which was convenient for them, and the media repeated it. What's the difference exactly? Is the difference that the Russian gov has more influence in Russian media than the US gov has in US media?

Why is it that you treat one case as "look at their evil propaganda" and the other as "oh gee practices could be better"?

Let me be honest with you. I'm European so I shouldn't really have a stake here. But I look at the world and what I see is that US media is infinitely more influential in Europe than Russian media. Infinitely more influential in Europe than even European media, and that concerns me. So your "oh gee practices could be better but we're the good guys trust me" doesn't fly with me.
Thanks for your debugging help. I'm working to see what the next step might be to contact people at that ISP and tell them that they're messing something up. You could also tell them via their tech support that they're misrouting requests for certain TLDs.
Nothing is stopping you from using functions with descriptive names without cucumber. Cucumber forces you to write functions (steps) however you can still create bad descriptions just like function names. Cucumber just allows you to define functions using a different syntax than the language your using. I don't see any wins here.
This really needs to be at the top. It is something 40-60% of the population have MTHFR mutation. Given the size it is kind of surprising the marketing departments haven't started touting MTHFR safe foods on their packaging.

After learning about it from my 23andme results I now avoid regularly eating foods with added folic acid and take a supplement which can't be found at the grocery store because they will sell the lab created variety which can't be processed. After these changes various symptoms I have had all my life went away. But I can only guess what would happen if someone with MTHFR were taking the lab versions supplements every day for years.
Yes, in that case, I totally agree - and I do believe that I'm lucky to be in this field when I compare working days to my peers that are in all sorts of industries. By "all the interns that..." I was thinking of those that don't have the confidence or feel they have to do this. In London I have seen places I worked at hire an intern purely as a "cheap employee" with little obligation. When I hear of people having to do internships to get an entry level job it really annoys me in all but a few cases. There was a time people were brought on and trained on the job.

Companies want it both ways now - they mandate having a CS degree or similar and then in the same breath tell people they expect months of low or unpaid work "so they can be useful". No wonder millennials are fed up with business culture. I don't blame them.

This is of course a particular terrible example of a "company" but I think good, strong internships as you describe are rare - from what I've seen in the UK at least.
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No, will check it out. Thanks.
I think this is really tricky. On the one hand I like other viewpoints to discuss such a difficult topic. On the other hand I don't want to get corporate shills. Also the filter bubble point, which brings you to only wanting to hear your own opinion. The way hackernews handles this most of the time is way better by letting people make a disclaimer.
If you're risk averse, you might want to invest that money somewhere else. If the company were to start struggling and you lost your job, it would be nice to not have your investment go down at the same time.
There's something special about breaking the fourth wall and having the players carry mementos in real life.
eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos
Water gets surprisingly less coverage as a particulate trap than woven filter media, but it can work better for most use cases, afaiu. Air washers and indoor water features clean air by electrical attraction on contact and then lose some water to evaporation, so you may also need a dehumidifier. They have a higher, more consistent particulate reduction than HEPA, and no lower bound particle size limit, and they don't lose efficiency from filters clogging through use. You can also add a small UV-C light as an antimicrobial, and they are very simple to build.
Ask HN: How would you maximize rep/upvotes?
Not saying rep is important, but I find that rep/likes/upvotes are a good representation of that community. When people get annoyed by the culture, they leave or don't contribute, so it self selects.

Every community seems to have these things that trigger an avalanche of shares, upvotes, downvotes or whatever. What I find more fascinating is how one would increase or decrease rep in a repeatable manner.

Whether it's HN, Reddit, Facebook, Stack Overflow, Quora. What patterns have you found?
Among authors, Yog's Law is widely known. I assure you it applies to every field:

“Money flows toward the writer.”

or, to generalize:

Money flows towards the people doing the work.

Anything which involves the other direction is a scam of some kind. If Weiden Kennedy thinks that they are so awesome that people should pay them to learn from them, the legitimate thing to do is to open a school, not pretend that they are employees.
It doesn't add up in any way, and the whole thing is ridiculous on its face. The only money that matters here is the money media platforms milk off the outrage of people caused by making this a top story.
> For instance, he has the right to make violent threats in certain circumstances compared to normal citizens.

No one has the 'right' to make violent threats on twitter. It is a private service with a ToS.

There are no principled reasons to treat the president as a special case here. The practical reason is simply that it is often and free advertising for them and the terms of service dictate what they can do when breached; not what they must do.
What I meant was that the skill set to become a successful professor (grantsmanship, political wheeling and dealing) is antithetical to being a good scientist.
Nit regarding proper tail calls versus tail call optimization: As I understand, JS maybe will be getting the former but not necessarily the latter. I.e., you'd avoid blowing the call stack, but not necessarily get a dramatic speed boost just for moving something to tail position.
These being “Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, and Geoffrey Hinton.”
Lately, when stuck in traffic, I've been thinking if there's a scenario where the behaviour of a bunch of people using traffic-aware routing can cause worse delays than usual for some commuters. If the response of the system (drivers) was instantaneous, you could make the argument that this is not possible, but because it is not this might look like a classic case of a closed-loop control system failing or becoming unstable due to sensing delay.

Trivial example I came up with: an accident on a major highway causes routing software to redirect thousands of drivers to a minor side road at around the same time. Once the drivers are committed to the detour, it's too late for the software to correct its advice as the side road gets clogged with the influx of traffic, and those who chose to take the side road end up in a situation that's worse than the one they started in.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm only too aware that expertise in a field doesn't make you a good teacher. I did badly in some subjects for the same reason, I feel.
As someone with an as yet unexplained B12 deficiency (meat eater, never-smoker, no intrinsic factor antibody) who gets injections via cyanocobalamin every other month I feel like I’ve just been hit with more FUD
NPR has been reporting on the issues farmers have had with Dicamba for months now

http://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=dicamba

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/13/557607443/wit...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/07/555872494/a-w...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/06/535669282/dam...

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532879755/a-pesticide-a-pigwee...

It's not surprising that Monsanto would try use their widespread influence to stop research on their product.

Monsanto has claimed that the issue with Dicamba drifting and killing crops in fields that it wasn't applied to was the fault of the farmers mis-application of Dicamba.
Evidence now shows that Dicamba will evaporate from the soil _after_ being applied to crops safely, meaning that it cannot be prevented from drifting into other fields and killing innocent farmer's crops.
That would make sense if the odds had been plus or minus 5 pts but by all accounts the odds were something like 93:7 in Hillary's favor. I don't think Russian intelligence had better understanding of our electorate than the DNC itself --they can't have been that out of touch with the people they were looking to represent.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen a definite uptick in pop-unders on chrome desktop the last few weeks, even with uBlock enabled.
I wonder if he asked any women to watch him shower...while wearing Google glasses.
They also spent a lot of man-hours spreading and sharing that content, making it look like it was supported by 'American citizen' sockpuppet accounts, and coordinating that effort across several platforms to actively drive a consistent and singular message.

Not the sort of thing that a grassroots could easily manage; buying a few hundred ads was just a small part of the wider propaganda and sabotage.

Twitter has just been complete shit at figuring out what happened on their platform, anyways; half of their 'identifications' come from, "Facebook told us this account was a sockpuppet on their platform..."
> but spare me the moralizing

I doesn't have to be a moral argument. Some people think its simply a waste of time to stare at a screen while browsing facebook. and you get more out of life by being bored and finding something else to do thats more fulfilling.
This. There's an almost inevitable orchestration involved in maintaining good documentation for a fast-moving codebase. Tools like Swagger[1] are good for automatically generating API documentation, but beyond that there is little help for maintaining generic README-style documentation.

How do large, fast moving projects like the linux kernel manage this?

[1]: https://swagger.io/
No disrespect to those who do original research, however it seems that these images, made freely available to hundreds and thousands of people seeking to educate themselves, contribute more to the advancement of human knowledge than all but the most important published theorems.
Think back to where you might have acquired this belief.
It does for Koala's. There's probably better articles. This was the best of a bad lot on a quick search:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-10-10/scientists-discover-tr...
This video is about quitting sugar, but it mentions a part from Alan Carr's book that helped my boyfriend quit smoking. Realizing it isn't making you calmer, but actually just restarting the cycle of ups and downs while steadily going downhill. (the part with the graph) https://youtu.be/olEMIohTgzQ?t=3m18s

Also for him he did the "don't break the chain" method. Bought a paper calendar, a pen, and a red and green marker. Week one was 8 cigarettes per day, week 2 was 7 cigarettes per day, etc. You write down that number with the black pen through the calendar so you know what your goal is. Exception being for 2 weeks you do 2 cigarettes per day, and for 3 weeks you do 1 cigarette per day because when it's that low you are fighting more of the mental aspect.

Then every day at the end of the day, exactly midnight you can put a a big green checkmark if you kept to the number, or a big red X if you didn't.

The idea is that you never want to break that chain of green checkmarks.

He hasn't smoked in a few years now. :)
This was a beautiful post-mortem. Thank you for writing it.

They said it beautifully: when people want to spend money, they'll spend more than they should. But when people need to spend money, they'll spend as little of it as possible. Some have more forgiving tolerances on how little they'll be willing to spend. The airlines and, I think, retail companies call this metric "willingness to pay" (WTP) and spend A LOT of money trying to figure this out. The goal is to make prices as segmented as possible, since you "can't" give everyone a different price for a thing.

If Walnut took VC, they would be doing the same because, according to this armchair CEO, that's where the margins are in businesses like these (service industries).

Many people will do crazy-ass things to save lots of money (driving two hours or more to or from an airport with significantly cheaper flights, even if basic economy). And people say they care about the well-being of the workers providing services for them, but when put to the test (increasing prices), the truth comes out.

Case in point: ultra-low-cost carriers (like Ryanair) pay their crews jack shit to be the jack of all trades. The pilots will do light maintenance (heavy maintenance is contracted out). The flight attendants will check you in at the gate and clean the plane. If people really cared about this state of affairs, then they would fly with a legacy carrier that treats people in these positions better. Instead, ULCCs are beating legacies in profit hand over fist.
Sorry my culture is that those, outside my culture, with smug arguments aren't allowed to respond negatively.

Retract your comment or prove you're wrong by maintaining it.

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Also, are you saying anthropologists would never intefere or contradict a distinct cultures wishes? I know that's not true.

We should let the rich decide who pays taxes too, as they have most experience of it, no.
Here's a bootstrap template for creating your own README.md:

https://github.com/jehna/readme-best-practices

You can use it to quickly go through most common information you should include in your own readme.
I believe OP is suggesting that the next election will see domestic individuals or cohorts of them with the wherewithal and motivation to at least significantly replicate the reach of a government propaganda machine. Plus, digital advertising's reach has grown cheaper and broader over time, why wouldn't digital propaganda follow the same pattern?

I think there's room for debate on what draws the line between "propaganda subverting the election" and "leveraging our modern scary-effective digital marketing techniques to spread your electoral message." Does it only count as an attack on democracy if a foreign state or individual is doing it?

Both parties made use of shops like Correct the Record in the last election, what does it mean when in addition to the campaigns, wealthy and influential individuals can exert even more reach in the next election? Is it only propaganda if the message is factually false or misrepresented, or is it enough to have enough money to spend or leverage over the platform that you crowd out all alternate dialogue? Is there a definable ethical spectrum for subversive digital messaging? I think there's plenty of subversive messaging online already, that's advertising. Personally, I think creating fake Americans on twitter to influence the American election crossed whatever the line is. It fails the smell test, it stinks of deception.
While this is true, it in no way makes my point any less valid.

Pebble went out of business, the very opposite of commercial viability.

Apple went on to outsell a 4.7 billion dollar player in close to a year. If the choice of Rolex offends, insert the name of more or less any other watch manufacturer you like, the comparison usually stands, or at the least shows the exceptional sales the line achieved in a short period of time. If anything, it's even more impressive when one compares to 2016 revenues of cheaper watch makers such as Seiko, Fossil, Citizen etc.
Caesar's "Germans" were almost certainly Celtic/Gallic - "Celtic" cultures and tribes stretched from Iberia in the west to Galatia (Anatolia) in the east.

I'm sketchier on where the Angles/Saxons/Jutes came from before they emerged into the historical record in modern-day northwestern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. Whether they were a reconfiguration of the tribes that had been there since time immemorial, or were groups previously to the east, displaced westward as a ripple effect of the great migrations out of central Asia.
Trolls are also shaping opinions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-...
Never underestimate the power given when people take the attitude that something they are looking at is "not my problem".
15-20% margin is a lot better than I thought it would be given the incredible amount of competition.
My guess would be the intern owns it.
But what's next? All known fallacies becoming "genuine concerns"?
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Checks diogenescynic's comment history for evidence of anti corporate shill shilling
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Interesting discussion here. Excellent post.

If coding is such an art and so important to the industry, why are all people at the top do not have a git hub account to show? They must still be "passionate" about coding, no? Or is it a function of how much money you have?

Facebook worked not because of some guy wrote great, highly maintainable code. It worked because of the idea. Same with others great companies.

If there were these unicorn people who did not write "unmaintainable junk" there would be no security bugs, hacks, leaks etc.

All big companies have recruited "the best" for forever. Can any one of them guarantee a bug free software. They can't. Suddenly, all these passionate people with their github account do not look sexy.

Insisting on a side project is similar to people insisting on TDD and i am sure TDD does not solve the problem of bugs in code.
To a point.

There was a retrospective study looking at grant scores vs. outcomes (citations of the papers produced). The correlation was pretty weak. Reviewers can identify the obvious dreck, but beyond that was a bit of a toss-up.

If you have too much competition, people start rushing sexy, half-baked results out the door, regardless of whether they seem likely to hold up--or even make sense. This selects against the people doing the careful sort of research that we probably intend to encourage.
I actually know some of the family members of one of the guys here - they are good people and he's got a brother that is also a known entity in the tech world - here's to hoping they can understand why this was a poor approach and learn from it.

We've all been young and made mistakes - I know that does not make all of this OK but I also know I wouldn't want to have to live in infamy for everything I did when I was in college either
Russia does not have open elections.

Political opposition figures, business figures and members of the press are murdered or imprisoned arbitrarily.

Media networks and large businesses are arbitrarily confiscated.

Primary media channels are direct forms of state propaganda.

State agencies are deeply systematically corrupt - always in the control of the friends of Putin, taking massive kickbacks, using state power to force deals. Sochi is a good example of how these shennanigans work. See the CBC expose on Sochi construction - kickbacks were up to 85% on construction (i.e. state pays $500M for a building, most of it goes back to the buyer, a 'friend of Putin'), and 15% goes into actual construction.

So it's not 'North Korea' but it's not a normal democracy, not by a stretch.
Obviously, a tax credit would amount to a government subsidy for organizations that don't need one. That's not going to do anything to reduce their influence. If you're going to publicly fund campaigns, why not just do it directly? You don't need to tax SuperPac donations separately if you just made it harder for them to get tax-exempt status in the first place (i.e., make them ineligible for 501c4 status, or eliminate that category altogether).
One very rich individual, or one in charge of a major corporation's propaganda budget, can spend a huge amount of money to move an election.

e.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-...
How is it tricky? If a company wants to defend itself, it shouldn't do so via paid individuals masquerading as private parties ("Let Nothing Go"), the only purpose of that is to misrepresent public opinion and appeal to bandwagon bias.
Monsanto claims they've solved the problem independent weed scientists are talking about, but won't show their work. So do we believe that Monsanto is right about their multi-billion dollar strategy and won't show their work for mysterious reasons, or do we believe that they're lying to protect their multi-billion dollar strategy and won't show their work for the obvious reason that it doesn't exist?

I'll be interested to see how HN responds to this.

On the one hand, by and large we're probably pretty friendly to the sort of hacking Monsanto wants to do. Not that we're all on board with GMO crops, but I'd say we collectively lean that way.

On the other probably stronger hand, independent scientists should win out over corporations with this crowd. I mean, there's an awful lot of corporate love here, but science trumps all, right?

Then there are the paid shills, and those who show up to remind us all that there are the paid shills.
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Last year: Ionic/Cordova and Visual Studio Pro.

This year: Expo/React-Native and VS Code.
I agree that Assange acts very untrustworthy, but has anything (in terms of documents) they've released ever been shown to be false?
> How does that wording that I quote or the fact that we've been in Iraq for such a long time contradict the point that "The intel didn't state that Iraq had WMDs. The Bush-Cheney WH made that misrepresentation."

It doesn't, it's completely irrelevant. Just like your opinion that that history is ancient is completely irrelevant.

> Do you agree with the fact that it's the Bush-Cheney White House who perpetrated the fraud by cherry picking and hyping the evidence, but the only nit you have to pick is with the Washington Post's wording calling 16 years "ancient history"?

You're the one making the distinction between US intel and US gov. No one else is talking about that or cares.

US gov/intel/whatever told a lie and US media amplified it. Just like the Russia gov and media did now.
I hate to be this guy, but prepare to see much more of similar stuff happening. While I think Trump is better president than Hillary would ever be, Mr. Trump stance on your privacy is that it should be given up to government. In other words, don't expect for the guy at the top to be outraged or actually do something about it, as he is not a champion of privacy himself.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/70079517002382540...