skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s “The Cycles of American History”

“The Forth Turning” or “Generations” by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Although be warned although those books were well received at the time in like 1993 (including a pretty positive review by the N.Y. Times) they are little less ‘academic’ than Schlesinger’s.

Also the authors Samuel Lubell, R.G. Collingwood, and Frank L. Klinberg.

Regarding the concept of “willful blindness” that is currently experiencing a revival in academic legal circles and is forming the basis for an aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach to white-collar crime, look at “The Chickenshit Club” by Jesse Eisinger.

The Cycles of American History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0395957931/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_0ea9...

Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688119123/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_kfa9...

The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501121367/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_aea9...
I doubt they need to at this point.
common decency
Yeah. I kinda wish ReasonML would encourage the use of the ML appendage for this, uh, Reason.
Even optimization for "good" is problematic. I'm fairly sure that you and I would have a long and loud argument over what "good" means if we really got down to brass tacks.
> those are the skills that are required for Deep Learning

Why do you believe that?
Maybe use these for trucks and CAT vehicles
What about the years of low income that go into medical training, including residency? That's a huge opportunity cost, and I don't think the above analysis covered it (unless I missed something.)

I live a very simple life. I have no debts of any kind! I don't have a physical office to go to, so I am generally in total control of my environment. I live in the city, so my commute is a two-minute walk across the street to the coffee shop. And underneath all of that, I actually enjoy what I do!

I'd have to be paid many times more than 190k to put up with the BS that doctors have to deal with on a daily basis.

The point of all of this is that if you play these trends out another few decades, software will continue to rocket forward, while medical care will become much worse. Like I quoted above, don't get sick.
Correct.

There have been many questions about his story. I believe several media outlets have raised questions about the authenticity of his alleged castaway and rescued story, the most telling being what you've raised too, which is "why is he so plump".

> Why is he so plump?

> Where's the sun tan?

> Could he really drift 8,000 miles across the ocean in 13 months?

> Do urine and turtle blood add up to a credible alternative to fresh water?

> How did he survive and his crewmate did not?

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/458050/Is-the-castaway-s...
On a mental health, the US has the highest[1][2] prevalence of mental health issues in the world. You can't really conclude much from this except I think it suggests that there could be over diagnosis. I wouldn't say the US is exactly at the forefront of everything mental health related. My real issue is that I new many kids growing up who had diagnosis who then in result suffered weight gain, high cholesterol and other health problems when they didn't really have control of their situations.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/why-more-...

[2] Bipolar is definitely highest in the US http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/07/US.highest.bipolar.rate...
You keep saying the same thing, and I keep telling you why you're wrong, and for some reason you keep saying the same thing, as if somehow rewording them changes anything.

I'll repeat myself for a change, since you don't seem to get it:

"All this theorizing, and you still don't explain to me why we see the distribution of the AP testing that we do, why at gender-blind universities the rate of females in STEM is lower than that of those practicing affirmative action (which essentially amounts to bar-lowering), and why you think discriminating against qualified men is an appropriate solution.

Until you provide feasible arguments to each of these, no amount of implicitly calling me a sexist is going to change my mind."

>> Those were dumb arguments then, and it's a dumb argument now.

Back then, there were laws that actively prohibited African-Americans from attaining freedom and women from voting, and government backed frameworks in place to enforce these laws.

Name a SINGLE law today that actively restricts women but not men from choosing any career path.

>> you can probably work out what I think you'll actually do.

Can you tell me some of YOUR efforts in helping educate and tutor young kids in STEM?

Quit stroking yourself by claiming to be morally righteous, get your ass off the internet once in your life, and go tutor a young girl in trigonometry this weekend.
This story does add up. Likely fake / staged, with just enough facts to make it feel and sound credible.

> Why is he so plump?

> Where's the sun tan?

> Could he really drift 8,000 miles across the ocean in 13 months?

> Do urine and turtle blood add up to a credible alternative to fresh water?

> How did he survive and his crewmate did not?

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/458050/Is-the-castaway-s...
Bogosort
An obvious interpretation of this data is that some people are risk-takers and others are risk-averse; the risk-takers are collectively more inclined to do drugs and more inclined to have sex.

(Something like an extrovert/introvert divide would also work.)
It doesn't work like that. If you sell significant goods in China, you have to manufacture there and your methods will be copied. China is moving towards economic autarchy very quickly.
https://www.similarweb.com/apps/top/google/store-rank/kh/all...

According to this page,number 8,9,10 ranked Android apps (from play store) are app offered by Chinese companies.

Also, there are cheap Android phones directly brought over from China which are installed with Chinese app stores (I know that's the case for Myanmar, not sure about Cambodia), they wound be missing from this chart.

So I wouldn't say it's entirely MIA.
Paper doesn't break. The price on paper doesn't suddenly disappear because the internet is down or someone's program glitched, which is especially important for unit priced items which have strict laws about accuracy in pricing. You don't need to bug the home office everytime you need to change a price locally or they make an error in pricing because
someone transposed a zip code number.

I mean...we have something like this already with climate control and thermostats in offices and stores. The central control can screw up spectacularly at times,
I really admire the work you are doing to fight censorship. I may be mistaken but it appears that posting messages that are impossible to hide/delete has been solved (since governments cannot afford to block BTC).

However, the government can simply use DNS to block your website. Do you have any plans to overcome this? Any promising research that would make a website unblockable by China Great Firewall?
Wasn't sure where to comment. So I will comment here. Which north Indian state do you think Hindi is the native language of?
Lucky: A new Crystal web framework by Thoughtbot
At Facebook, Hand-Wringing Over a Fix for Fake Content
Yes, lots. StackGAN comes to mind.
Why did you decide on migrating so many parts at the same time? Curious what pushed you to make the change.
I'm gonna argue beside the point, but currying has negative semantics and type system impact in a language with uncontrolled side-effects. It also prevents some optimizations and new type features.

Don't take my words for it: https://github.com/facebook/reason/pull/1299#issuecomment-30...
https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/imperative-programming...
https://drup.github.io/2016/08/02/difflists/
https://bucklescript.github.io/bucklescript/Manual.html#_cal...

I'm jumping into this conversation early on because too often this point is raised and turns into an uncharitable interpretation of our motivations, e.g. "look at these js programmers, not understanding the beauty of currying". Rest assured that we do (and that we're not just js programmers), and that the Merlin and BuckleScript authors know very well what they're doing. Hope this clarifies things a bit.
Yes, comcast threw tantrums in city hall on multiple occasions.

Longmont's story is rather complicated and interesting. I don't know all the details, but knew a fair number of the key players. Essentially, Longmont allowed an upstart ISP to put cable in the ground. Part of the deal was that if they were going to sell it, Longmont got first right of refusal (or something similar), and when they went under, the city bought the fiber for cheap. They were sitting on dark fiber for a long time, and they leased it out to several companies who failed to make it work. Then, after enough people in the town and city government cared (I'll call out Jim Wall - the town CTO - for being awesome), the vote passed and with some creaking and groaning, the roll-out got started. Residents got 1 Gigabit symmetric for $50 per month (you're reading that correctly).

Interestingly, nearly overnight, both Comcast and Charter were offering more than 1 Gb/s for $75ish.
I think they do. Went frog gigging a few times as a kid.
Note, media outlets do not have medical degrees, but do have a vested interest in generating controversy.
It's just called "getting a decent tea bag" and works pretty well.

The flip side is of course brewing with real quality leaves, but it's more expensive and is more effort. They both have their places, unlike this machine.
There's an unofficial in-progress comparison here: https://github.com/glennsl/reasonml.github.io/blob/124268155...
He was just on Quora last week answering the question, 'What did Alan Kay mean by, "Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed"?'

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-mean-by-Lisp-is-the-...
Yes! When first saw Reason I was horrified by the syntax (I really like the ML family syntax). But then I though about it, and here's my take now: if syntax is all we're giving up in order for OCaml to reach a far wider audience, then we're still coming out way ahead of what we had before.
Not saying you are wrong but it doesn't make sense to me. Hindi is not the native language of any of the states anywhere in India. They all have multiple native languages. The whole language issue is because of the unfortunate language politics in South India but the same flames could be fanned in any part of India believe me. For example in my state (Rajasthan) I am pretty sure there are at least 4 dialects. What's amazing is that nobody is offended if we keep using a foreign language to do all the mediation but as soon as the majority understood Indian language is mentioned everybody is up in arms. I am forgetting the name but a recently passed away Tamil celebrity had made a famous satire on this situation, where everybody must speak in Persian.
Have you been here long? We call it a “Michigan winter” for a reason. Yes, Detroit suffers less for a few reasons, but I still wouldn’t agree with your assertion.

It doesn’t sound like you’re describing the Detroit I grew up in, where dozen+ car pileups are a regular occurrence, particularly the big hundred+ ones on 94 out your way. That’s even discounting the wide-area ice storms that knock out power from everything getting coated in three to four inches of pure ice, which I can remember happening at least four or five times when I was younger. The last couple winters have been relatively light. We are due for a whopper.

Seriously, Michigan winter is accelerated natural selection for drivers. You learn quick or you die.
Currently discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558861
Yc has safe notes on the website. Get a lawyer
> "The Methbot is a beautiful simulacrum of a real browser. It's gotten better over time. And by better, I mean, a more perfect life-like copy," said White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany.

Very interesting.
The article doesn't mention colonization as one of thr factors of dying languages because BBC.
So, I presume from the naming of your project, you are not afraid of being confused with “goatse”?

For me, once that concept is seared into your brain, that would prevent me from ever creating anything ever again that begins with those four letters, or anything that might even remind me of those four letters.
> This sort of concern would be addressed by the library ecosystem rather than "the language", which might not be for everyone.

The JS world has this in Immutable.js, which provides a set of persistent data structures that are excellent by any measure. However, since it's not the default data structures provided by the language, practically no third party library actually consumes/emits them as input/output directly.

What this means in practice is that most of the performance benefits of structural sharing through Immutable.js ends up being outright negated many-times fold by the necessity to recursively convert to and from JS native collections at the edges of your system that inevitably needs to call out to/consume data from third party libraries. Not to mention that the developer ergonomics of working with Immutable.js pales in comparison with that of native JS collections, since you're limited to the traversal and manipulation APIs provided by the library, and have to forgo excellent functional utility libraries like Ramda [1], and handy language features like destructuring and spread.

This is why even in systems that embrace immutability like Redux, the prospect of using Immutable.js comes with a huge list of caveats that are well documented [2], driving most developers to end up choosing JS native collections and doing naive copy-on-write without structural sharing across the board.

[1] http://ramdajs.com/

[2] http://redux.js.org/docs/recipes/UsingImmutableJS.html

In contrast, in the ClojureScript ecosystem, everything uses the default persistent collections, and so this is never a problem.
I don't understand the endgame for slack. It's a chat app with some good features and some annoying features. It's easier to write integrations against, I've heard? Where's the $5B value in that?
> “Like so many other things in life, you solve a problem and go on to the next thing,” he said in a telephone interview for this obituary from his home in Jacksonville in 2014.*

So the New York Times calls up old people to prepare for their eventual obituaries? Do they tell them the true purpose of the call or do they pretend that it's background for some other story? I'm aware that they write draft obituaries on people who might pass away, but to actually phone them for pre-death interviews seems a bit macabre.
REXX Programmer's Reference [pdf]
Videos of the Repression in Catalonia by the Spanish Police
>That this sort of rhetoric is the way almost all programmers and language designers try to find truth and communicate ideas is probably why we ended up all programming in javascript.

It sounds like all the knowledge should be delivered right into someone’s mind in a couple of minutes. It is right there, go and learn it for a week at least.

When I try to directly convince random internet people that e.g. Lua has better async[1] than js due to language primitive that is more abstract and cannot be reimplemented in lower-order primitives, all I hear is usually butwhys and dontneeds, real data on both sides (at best; at worst they claim this code cannot be asynchronous). Instead, folks stick to cumbersome syntactic methods fitting their evolved familiarity. They don’t need anything beyond js, that’s why there is js. And this is one small step torwards less cognitive load and yet we have a friction. Good luck explaining macros, call/cc, evaluation models, etc to them to the point they actually get it en masse.

That said and to be honest, I never mastered lisp skills because it is not actually easy (and I’m not very smart too). You enter the completely new and broad area, where you almost have no clue what you can do. The same would feel a junior entering, say, java after dos basic. But more confusing, because junior has lots of time and is just learning and you’re a professional that “already knows it all” (not really) and has little/no time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15472204
i wish i could downvote stories on hn
According to its recruit page (http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/recruit.html), they have researchers in US and Shenzhen, China.
File Reading in Reactor
Try opening a landscaping business. You'll see why this fails.
Click "flag".
Kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12
The problem with basically all of the keto science (this study included) is that it doesn't adequately differentiate between the effects of a ketogenic diet and simple caloric restriction:

> In rodents, ketogenic diets – and caloric restriction, in general – are known to reduce inflammation,

While there is some science showing differences in calorically balanced diets that vary in macronutrient composition, the truth is it is not strong, not well reproduced and there reasonable logical models that strongly bring the keto claims into question.

That doesn't mean keto is stupid or not worth studying. It's just that the interesting things about keto aren't really the metabolic changes (which are controversial, and small even if existent), but the behavioral controls. Obviously it's an oversimplification to draw a strict line between metabolism and compliance, but the point is the important difference with keto is that for some people it helps them comply to a calorically balanced diet, not that the macronutrient composition is making a difference.
> Why is he so plump?

Look at his left hand, at how his knuckles protrude from his skinny fingers. He’s emaciated. His face is probably not plump but swollen from edema arising from the sudden influx of fluids. The article discusses this.

I imagine if he were “plump” all the people who encountered him after he washed ashore would have noticed.

> Where's the sun tan?

Looks fairly tan to me. I imagine if he were healthy he’d look even darker, since being starved isn’t conducive to a healthy complexion. People tend to look pale when they are sick.

> Could he really drift 8,000 miles across the ocean in 13 months?

6700, not 8000. That’s only 15 miles a day. (And only 18 for 8000 total)

> Do urine and turtle blood add up to a credible alternative to fresh water?

Not for 14 months but he didn’t claim to be drinking urine and turtle blood exclusively for that time.

> How did he survive and his crewmate did not?

This question is just dumb. How does anyone survive when someone else doesn’t?

If both survived it would be significantly less believable.

If this is a hoax, it’s pretty impressive. Apparently he killed a man to make it stick.
The parent comment was suggesting it's possible to have a map element built in to the browser which would not leak the user's location. That is probably not possible.
Find me anyone who follows all rules.

Maybe draw the restriction back a bit, there.
Previously and previously:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=alan%20kay%20reading%20list&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803165 has some comments by Alan Kay.
That was a fun read. Thanks for the link.

On a somewhat related topic, I worry a lot about things on the internet disappearing, most often simply due to neglect (domain expiry, companies being bought, et c.) I try to save everything I can that I find interesting, in fear of it never being available again.

That said, it makes me very happy to see emails from 1987 archived online--so happy that I've even saved a copy.
This is how integration works, when it does. The parents might stick to their own country-men, but over time the children will be raised in the local-schools, speak the local language, watch the local TV, etc, etc.
Groundbreaking study says people socially connected enough to have a hookup are more likely to be socially connected enough to have a hookup.
It's too bad that something like DHT isn't used for storing info about game servers.
It's definitely a change for good for me. There might have been a way to set the locale in my settings before I didn't know about, but I've moved to a new country every month for over a year now and I never want to be redirected to the local Google (for a bunch of reasons). It's nice that I can just set American/Google.com apparently now, instead of manually flipping back every time I use google/maps.
The pictures of him are after receiving both food and fluids. The article discusses the edema he experienced. That’s probably why his face looks so full. His hands and forearms still look awfully skinny to me.

If the recent picture is what he looked like prior to the whole thing, he lost a lot of weight on that boat.
Here is the same submission from the previous year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803165

Alan left a lot of comments there.
The fun thing is that fixing this might not be as simple as a CPU swap. I believe that the B2 stepping Core 2 Duos are 1066 MT/s FSB, while the G0 stepping ones are 1333 MT/s.
Like others have said, the vehicle will localize using GPS, LIDAR, other image features and then attempt to continue in it’s route. If the confidence is low the system will most likely just take no action.

I did the self driving car class on Udacity and it was super effective as a primer for how these systems work in general and framework for solving these problems.
"Do we need all this JS?"

I know at least one user who is asking this same question. He does not believe it is needed.

Is it possible that "what users want" and what developers want may be two different things? Could developers have wants that are unique to developers?

Purely anecdotal but I do not know any fellow users who "want javascript". I know many who do not want a number of common annoyances though. And I know these hassles are in many cases enabled via javascript.

The tactic leveraged against users is to tell them they need javascript for some thing to work. Then users want it. But I think really they just want the thing to work. They have no particular affection for javascript, let alone any knowledge of why they need it.

One thing I have observed over the years the web has existed early 1990's to today is that users can adapt to anything. Whether it was learning keyboard shortcuts on the console and using text-only programs like Pine, or running www searches that took minutes to finish, or communicating with 140 characters or less, or working with tiny touchscreens and horribly slow web pages and mobile apps. Many more examples if I gave it some more thought. From what I have seen, users accept what they are given and find a way to make it work.
What's with this idea that an accident of birth must determine which flag owns you?
Having basically the same feeling, albeit with different amounts of experience, I took up a moving job. Lifting things in and out of a truck. Most of the time it was much more satisfying, but I wouldn't call it fulfilling.
there is a benefit to owning your story and owning your narrative.

If you can concretely demonstrate that you’ve grown through your experiences, it may earn you the respect of prospective employers.

It is a big risk to be dismissive of critiques though. It is productive to engage with critiques and be able to explain and convince.

Being dismissed from two positions for perf is not a good look. What can you say has changed since then?
I would be hesitant to consider it a self driving car if it can’t drive in adverse conditions.
Was at Barnes and Noble today looking at magazines.

The internet is garbage for finding out what is going on so often.

Just go to the magazines section at BN. It’s so visually compelling, looking at all the covers, scanning the aisles, a wonderful way to learn.

Also make sure to look at magazines that come out quarterly, they tend to be more highbrow / simply have better / longer articles. Stuff like Jacobin, The Baffler, Monocle, New Atlantis, The Hedgehog, etc.