skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are few secrets on the world stage. Pretending like your country doesn't have issues makes you sound either foolish or brainwashed.

Not so much "the American standard" as it is basic logic.
I'm a bit more interested in business (although a programmer first); so my article choices would have been somewhat broader. One of the things I value about Hacker News is that it helps introduce people who might be coders right now to business, market and management info; which will prepare them for the future, but also help ensure their coding decisions fit the business that hired them. I know that's not the primary mission of Hacker News, but I do think it's a valuable contribution.

There's an historical pendulum with a cycle of many decades re monopoly/market power regulation which seems to be reversing itself right now. IMHO, this will likely be the most important shaping factor shaping the tech industry over the next decade, especially re small startups. So I don't turn up my nose at "Big Tech Companies Behaving Badly" articles, although I know there's a fair bit of repetition. I do want to know where that pendulum is, and whether it's really swinging back. Yes, it's law that will be the instrument of that change, but it's public perception that will necessitate changes in the law (say re patent misuse) and its implementation.
France already has very draconian laws with regards to file sharing. I think their politicians would go for it.
There are great examples of lyricism in music. There are great examples of production. There are great examples of musicianship. And there are great examples of songwriting. Each has varying levels of complexity.

Nobody celebrates Led Zeppelin for their lyricism, but I think you knew that already.
> None of this takes money nor a ton of time. It takes some effort, however, which is apparently enough.

Most people are struggling to make ends meet, when they're not working they're sleeping. You can't judge most people for not having time to petition politicians. In my experience it's extremely time consuming to even get your voice heard in a local council (Australia) meeting; and 99% of the time you're dismissed even when you have multiple people making the same point against one corporate entity. For the most part it's futile and exhausting... and depressing.

Don't forget corporate entities have people whose job it is to petition governments, it's those people's livelihood. Meanwhile, your average person petitioning is typically adversely affecting their own livelihood.
Yeah - that is sort of what prompted me to comment as well. I was able to do the same thing to an old 2008 Macbook unibody. After replacing the HDD with an SSD (easy to do and huge perf change) its a good box for everyday stuff.
It's 2017. It's shameful that our expectations for web speed should be this low.
Multi page flows are fine for many data entry style apps which covers a lot of the web.

But for more nuanced software, responsive and rich ui is very important to user uptake.

Examples: Gmail, Facebook, Maps, Slack, SoundCloud, every autocomplete search box everywhere.

If you accept that parts of the page should be interactive then you need to consider the benefit of an isomorphic approach to eliminate code duplication. Usually it's not just a single interactive component.
It's in development, so we know it's on the cards (https://webkit.org/status/#?search=servi&status=in development)
I have mixed feelings about what you're saying and about the article.

On the one hand, I completely empathize with what you're saying--it's mystifying to me when I see practices continue when there's so much empirical data about them to suggest they shouldn't be used. In the US less-well validated procedures are on the wane, but they still appear in use from time to time.

On the other hand, although I agree Lilienfeld's paper is excellent, buried in it is the complicated truth that some projective tests do demonstrate evidence of validity. There's also the tricky issue that a test is not just a stimulus set, but a procedure, and even certain ways of the Rorschach have proven useful empirically. But all these things have been forgotten or ridiculed because of the current anti-projective zeitgeist. That is, certain projectives, used in a certain way, are invalid, and it happens those have been the most popular, but if you take another hard look at the data, it's not true of projective tests in general.

The article provides a nice overview of the Rorschach, but the end is puzzling to me. The MMPI is one of the best-validated behavioral measures in history, and the examples are so misleading that I wonder about the author and Annie Paul's motives. An item such as ‘My mother is (or was) a good woman’ isn't interpreted in isolation, and even if it was interpreted in such a way, it has predictive value in the same way as your social media history that so many services are starting to scrape for prediction also. It's an interesting article that ends on a note of incompetent ignorance.
No. People in the northern region would since it is similar to Hindi. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have their own language respectively which is different from Hindi and they wouldn't.

I am not certain about entire Andra and Telengana. People in Hyderabad speak Urdu.
It is acctually change for good as long as you are staying logged in.
Around 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.
I've tried picking up ocaml and reason a couple times, but found the build systems and standard library (and documentation) lacking. I say this in the spirit of constructive feedback. That said, reason's syntax improvements are welcome, and I'm excited to see it maturing!
Actually our Constitution states that Spain is indivisible for a reason. We had some rebel "cantons" in XIX century and a few revolutions in XX, so when we voted a new Consitution in 1978, it was decided to secure the union in the highest law. Of course you can modify the Constitution and there are legal ways to reach a consensus for that. It's just more difficult than holding an illegal, rigged referendum because some rogue regional politicians think they're entitled to it.
I can think of a retort that is ages and eras better than this!
The Natural Rate of Interest (2003) [pdf]
This is why I love John Shutt's Kernel[0]. All of these "distinct forms" are rolled into one form of "(combiner combiniend)", where combiner is runtime evaluated and can either be a regular applicative (like a lisp procedure call), or an operative (reminiscent of older lisps fexpr). Compound operatives can be created using the primitive operative $vau. Applicatives are created with the primitive wrap. (which $lambda uses in the standard library).

Of the above examples you posted: lambda, let, set!, cond, and, or, when, unless, etc, may all be implemented as a library in the Kernel Report. Some of the others aren't in the report but can be trivially implemented as compound operatives. This simplifies the compiler implementation to requiring only a handful of primitives.

A distinguishing feature of Kernel is the lack of quote in the report. Although it has a trivial implementation ($define! $quote ($vau (x) #ignore x)), quote is considered harmful by Shutt due to the way it interacts with operatives. Also omitted from the language is macros, as their capability can be provided by first class operatives at the library level.

The big downside to Kernel is performance. Compilation is generally not possible because the behavior of operatives can depend on runtime defined environments. This would be one of the reasons macros were chosen over fexprs in the 80s. It means Kernel is not a good language for number crunching, so it'd be nice to have an FFI for the cases where we need to invoke optimised code. (Currently no FFI spec exists).

[0]:http://web.cs.wpi.edu/%7Ejshutt/kernel.html
Will Climate Change Make Worcester the Capital of Massachusetts?
Tree shaking should help... eventually.
Happiness Is Other People
>Better public transit is simply a win-win for almost everyone

No it isn't. Many neighborhoods are quiet and/or cheap because they're difficult to access. Their residents have a vested interest in keeping it that way. You don't vote for a new subway stop if you'll be priced out or have your perception fo quiet and safety ruined by the people it brings.
Cost of doing business
This is pretty defineably public record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93Russia_do...

notably: it's not the GOP the organization that initial funded the oppo, but a private news org with conservative leanings. and the FBI did not fund the dossier, but were provided it during its creation. (side note: who cares)

When it comes to corroboration: I would think the special investigation is good enough evidence that the claims of Russian cooperation are being taken seriously, no? Significant is a weasel word but there is actual smoke here.
And military.

Adam smith mentions that war should be a direct tax on people's incomes, as opposed to long term bonds. It would thus make people very much against any kind of war, realizing how expensive they are.
A Guide to Rent Control in San Jose, California [pdf]
12 Shades of ISTP – MBTI and the Zodiac – Astroligion.com
This is the corresponding 'FU Comcast Thread' from reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/792tq3/comcast_...
They'll tell you, once you have happened upon it: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/crypt.html
For learning Reason, I found this page invaluable: https://reasonml.github.io/try

You can put in Reason or OCaml and it will spit out the other. I used it to work through Real World OCaml in Reason.
I don't see the dichotomy you are talking about. Can you elaborate?
Second, the government has no desire to modify the current regional system,

Sorry, I need to correct that. Not just the govern, an overwhelming majority of citizens in this country have no desire to modify the current regional system. At least in the direction that separatists want.
Thanks Dane! I'd actually just published that copy on cyph.com to edit into the above comment, and missed the edit cutoff by a couple minutes.

The rest of that is very interesting! I wasn't aware of that PGP signing discussion, but it would be very exciting if it panned out.
An attacker (eg. a criminal or foreign power) can pretend to be a website you know. Certificate pinning is a way for website to alert you to a hostile change of certificate. HPKP Cert pinning has some issues that create other problems. Chrome is removing HPKP Cert pinning and replacing it with something better called Expect-CT.
So as an European living in Thailand I can search for lectures on Greek democracy and watch Chaplin’s Dictator on YouTube but a Thai person sitting right next to me cannot.

That makes the world such a diverse place again.
It's not a thing of the past. The majority of websites still use this capable and pragmatic approach.

I haven't got any information to support it, but I suspect it was mostly cargo culting from big vendors with big platforms that has made JS Single Page App style sites seem ubiquitous, because everyone in the spotlight is talking about the cool stuff they are doing with it. But in reality they still make up a minority of the web.
regarding .cat domain TLD, will they be reclaimed?
How's that? There was a referendum to find out what Scotland wanted. It was hold in Scotland IIRC. Didn't Scots vote? Wasn't the result honored?
I’m shocked at how good DuckDuckGo is these days. I switched my desktop and laptop to it months ago.

Maps on it are still awful, so for the moment my cell is using Google.
> so even if there were mechanical problems, I'd trust the autonomous car to halt operation before the human.

Unless there was a problem with the halt override.
Any update on algebraic effects for single-threaded structured concurrency? In vanilla JS we can implement structured concurrency using generators as primitives. How do we implement structured concurrency in Reason?
Have you read about the J-machine? An older research machine that was sort of like that. Trouble is that we need to change software and hardware together to really reap the advantage.
In support of this: I work in structural steel fabrication in Tasmania. Between working 56hr weeks and taking care of the dog, I don't have much to do anything else.

I recently bought a house, so I have been meaning to pay more attention to local council.
Uber/Lyft are causing declines in the usage of public transit

Are there studies that confirm this causation? They've certainly caused declines in the usage of taxicabs, but they compete at very different price points from public transit.
You're right, I misread what you wrote. You're actually only covering a small portion of the rationals.

Either way, to order the reals, you have to include the non-computable ones, which cannot be written down in any systematic way. This also means that ordering and equality relations cannot be systematically defined either.
Most sites can do with very little JS. Many do well with just a bit, like hacker news, which uses JS for little stuff like voting.

Appier sites, like video, music, games, maps, etc are gonna need a lot more client-side logic to be pleasant to use.
At UN, robot Sophia joins meeting on artificial intelligence
Everyone is bad at changing themselves. A company is a system where the individual parts are people. Systems are built with a purpose. Changing the system means changing the purpose, often requiring exchanging old parts for new and completely revamping the system.

Creating vision for this re-design requires distance which most CEOs don't have as they are too embroiled with the day to day maintenance of the existing system, by definition.
> There are very few brick roads in Pittsburgh. Most are in older sections of the city where the residents have lobbied against a paved road for one reason or another.

Many places still have brick. It's not a majority, but it's not a couple of historic district streets either.
Subjectively, I think PureScript is the better language (in terms of aesthetics and expressiveness) also it has overloads so (25) and (2.3 3.3) instead of OCaml's odd (2.3 *. 3.3).

Reason has a much faster compiler, efficient immutable operations, and is built using tried-and-true tech (OCaml).
Yes what you're missing is that the CBO is trying to give people relevant and accurate information and the Tax Foundation is a think tank founded by wealthy businessmen whose goal is to generally protest all tax increases and work to make people think that the US needs to greatly reduce taxes on the wealthy and on businesses.
The current crop of AIs is already starting to make a big impact in commercial and other spheres. All of the major tech giants in the US and China are using AI in their offerings and behind the scenes. There are substantial differences between the two eras.
Interesting, care to share the source?

I was under the impression that Cambodians are mostly using devices from Chinese brands and hence exposed to pre-installed Chinese software (at least to a small extent).

For example, Xiaomi phones come without google play stores but Chinese app stores.
The US government does not directly control the media as blatantly as regimes like Russia or China. But they sure do have the ability to influence the editorial agenda, and they sure seem to have a way to divert the attention of the media when itis advantageous to do so.

Consider the Gulf War of 1991 and Iraq invasion of 2003. http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-first-iraq-war-was-also...
You can do all of that with very lightweight JavaScript though. 10+ years ago I did autocomplete using a few carefully crafted lines of code and the page still renders just fine.

The problem is JS frameworks make development easier but have high real world costs that are often ignored.
“I am the Alan Kay in question”

Hah. Not everyone can be that cool.
I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of Clojure(Script) which has efficient immutable lists, vectors, and maps. It doesn't do a full copy every time you do a cons or assoc. It seems to me that PureScript would really benefit from having something similar baked in.
We need a pirate party in the United States.
IMHO the best devices for tea to date are those little spring-loaded double mesh hemisphere tea infusers. That said, at the reduced price I may have bought a couple of the Teforias, one to pull apart and one for my dad who is a tea fiend, but they apparently only ship within the US.
I always view his scenes as dance, actually- since I first saw him in Rumble in the Bronx.
What is the reference to mealworms and crickets?
The service worker spec was deliberately designed to give the browser, not the site, control over resource consumption. The browser is permitted and encouraged to keep them on a tight leash on behalf of the user's experience. See e.g. https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/blob/master/implementat...
It's understandable that Comcast wants to shut down the competition. They know how much customers hate them. If any competition shows up, Comcast is history.
Well, there are already IOT bidets...
... tea bags are the k-cups for tea. Shitty and fast and convenient.

You didn’t actually say anything new - you just sound like you work for Teforia.
People presumably benefit from those directly in old age, should we count how much people spend in groceries too?
I read a great book back in the '80s called "Adrift", the story of Steven Callahan, who survived 76 days lost at sea. At the time, it was believed to have been the longest solo survival-at-sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Callahan

https://www.amazon.com/Adrift-Seventy-six-Days-Lost-Sea/dp/0...

Unlike the man in OP's story, Callahan was adrift in a small life raft and had only a tiny emergency kit aboard with which to save himself with. He used those meager supplies to perform some miracles, including a very clever technique that he came up with to patch his raft when it developed a leak.
Yes, I think you have it correct for the US.

The US is also very unique in which it’s the only country that expects you to pay taxes on money earned overseas as well.
That's still very less than the majority.
As it happens, I'm just now reading about General Grant's difficulties in changing the culture of the Army of the Potomac. He never quite did, really. The war would have been significantly shortened if he had managed that trick.

It's extraordinarily hard to change a culture. If there are specialists now who aren't total cranks, bring 'em on.
Human drivers in Seattle have trouble driving in snow, rain, and sun. Subarus are still useful, regardless (more so before AWD was so common).
I was going to say this but wanted to read the comments first to see if anyone else did.

The constraints on global technology sever for this budget. But I have a personal standard of 200ms for TTI on my projects, and I push hard against any requirements or suggested libs or UI features that broach this.

5 secs? You can get away with that if you’re a global brand that people are already hooked into, I guess. The amazon iOS app is infuriating on a brand new iPhone 8 on gigabit WiFi. And that’s an app where every second of load time is lost revenue. They do not, apparently have any kind of budget concept.

Facebook is similarly awful.
They can afford to blow their load budgets because users are already locked into the network. Or at least they think they can.

When I’m bringing a new app to market, speed is my highest priority feature. And the feature backlog is organized by cost of speed, not by difficulty or time to market.

And like another poster said above, most of this is completely unnecessary. Be a dinosaur. Write “MVC” apps with server side rendering and deal with Ajax where you have to for as long as you can. Write the very little bit of js you need, and rock on.

It’s not hip, and it’s not always fun. But it’s fucking fast.
One of the best videos on cinema. You gain a huge appreciation for Jackie. IMO his best work was with Benny the Jet, particularly this fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owz45n-QUNQ
Next year, in Jerusalem
Study finds healthy obese people still higher risk for heart disease
>A bit of a click-bait title as the article does not show how much or little the super-rich of Scandinavia pay. Just a study on how much tax they are avoiding.

Not even that. It's just a guess at who has money in offshore accounts. That's not proof of anything.
I think dolson was making a joke that the interviewer was actually following this strategy in the hiring process.
This brings back something I had all but forgotten. The first ever assembly language program I got to run was a bubble sort implementation that sorted the text characters on the screen. I painstakingly typed it in from a book on 6809 assembly language programming. I didn't know what it was going to do, so I was blown away when I saw how it could actually manipulate and sort characters in video memory right before my eyes.
I was driving my Subaru through Idaho on I15 during the winter. Going down one pass, I put my car in first gear and prayed because even though I had AWD, no snow tires or chains meant I was in for a hard time.
Ask HN: Getting out of a long employment rut?
This is a bit more complicated than just an employment rut. I've been in web development for roughly 8 years, but have only acquired 2.5 to 3 years of professional development experience depending on how you count it. Have been a front end developer for a few years now.

I've been through 4 tech jobs, 1 of which I was let go from apparently for lack of necessity, dismissed from 2 for performance reasons, and the remaining 1 for irrelevant reasons. I took up employment outside the industry for a short period of time to pay the bills and that was okay. Post-dismissal from my last formal position, and for reasons that led me to start looking for new work before they got to me first, I was massively burnt out for a very long time.

At present I'm 25 and have been professionally out of the industry since May of 2016. I've been working on code for the last year or so and interviewing for most of that time, unsuccessfully. Furthermore, now that I have experience in industry and out, it's hard to feel compelled to not relegate tech to a hobby and go in a different direction.

After almost exclusive failure, by most definite measures—I consider my experience, ability to work with people, communication skills, and overcoming burnout to be successes as much as they are—, what direction should I go in?

Is anyone else in a similar position?

P.S I'm in Canada which has less of a job market and can't cross the border professionally. I've also moved back home to attend a semester of school while I look for new opportunities.
Alan Kay's Reading List
Yes it does get annoying hearing them bitch about how the rich aren't paying enough when they contribute nothing though.
After writing that comment, I was thinking about how it compares to Martha Graham's school of dance; many things that look very simple and pure on the stage contain a staggering amount of attention to detail that the audience will never notice, except by its absence in a poor performance.
I believe the tea pot is also rather good.
An accounting firm helps clients avoid taxes? You don't say!
Seems like every content platform starts out as free speech or at least more free reign (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit), and as they become popular the various minority groups they attract can become larger, more insular, and more vocal, which leads to a backlash against the groups. The companies are worried about that backlash extending to them, so they shut the groups down.

I don't think this is dangerous to free speech, though. There are enough alternative platforms for fringe groups to congregate on that they can't effectively be silenced. The danger is the pervasive lack of diversity, but there's no good solution to this. People want to have their opinions validated and be around like-minded people, and we as a society have made this easier and easier to do, from increasing political homogeneity at a geographic level to users on specific content networks.