skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I found his meaning clear. The core of the essay is that thinking with the right abstractions provides greater boons to reasoning capacity than comparatively trivial differences in human IQ. To make things a bit more concrete, take any game; Go, Poker, Chess. If these were truly (approached as) combinatorial problems then humans could not stand a chance at them. But over time, people have learned patterns, compacted them and shared them such that the average level of play is what masterful players might have once struggled to reach.

Lisp provided concepts captured enough structure that it cut through a lot of combinatorial complexity in the space of possibilities, making reasoning about the construction of computer programs and algorithms a lot less random.

A complaint might be he left out what aspects of Lisp provided that combinatorial boost but I'm sure many HN users could furnish those reasons. But one easy observation is the sheer number of languages and language concepts that are rooted in it. Newtonian physics is not the best physics but it fundamentally changed the way people reasoned about the world. Lisp is not the best language but it fundamentally changed how people reasoned about computer programs.

One objection one might make is that the real Maxwell/Heaviside Equations can instead be found in the Lambda Calculus/ISWIM. Despite the name, Lisp did not originally derive from the lambda calculus but just about all typed functional languages and future versions of lisp are of the LC. But a quick answer to that is influential languages like SASL and Meta Language were prototyped in and strongly influenced by Lisp (cognitive boost).
Or programs are not written to use computational memory because there isn't any for them to use.

Besides, computational memory is not restricted to SIMD. It's limited into local memory, but not at synchronized execution.
Wow. That was 4 years ago?

Here’s a Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1nln17/the_stackove...

Basically, he posted to stack Overflow using his own name and email address with code that was Silk Road was using. He quickly changed his username, but it was too late.
Travel prep in 6 taps (instead of 100+)
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Anybody who thinks that the US does not control its media is naive. See, for example, how Al Jazeera and RT (granted, the latter is no bastion of independent journalism) are effectively exiled from the US.

Al Jazeera had to set up an "American owned" subsidiary before it could get access to the cable network.
You're saying that even though someone on HN has submitted it you still won't read it - that's an interesting thing to say.

If it's lunk to from HN I always consider it might be worth looking at, but random stuff on Medium - no.
This is a bit aside from your main point, but stopping on a road in a whiteout snow storm is _incredibly_ dangerous due to the cars behind you being unable to see you until it is much too late to stop. I grew up driving two-lane highways in Alaska with frequent semi traffic, several times in blizzard conditions (to the point where the only way to follow the road was to drive on the flat part of the just-fallen snow). You could pull over to the side of the road, but you may not be able to get back on the road depending on your vehicle and the snow level (and in remote, cold areas this may be deadly itself).

You could say "just don't drive in blizzards", but on a long drive you may often end up in a blizzard when you started in clear weather. Frequently this happens in areas where there are no safe places to stop for miles.

I'm not an expert on self-driving car sensors, but it's not hard to imagine that they could be made much less weather-dependent than the human eye. Driving through blizzard conditions is incredibly disorienting and terrifying, so the potential of better-than-vision detection of roads and traffic is IMO the most promising way for self-driving cars to handle snowy conditions.
Do you really hold your own amusement to be the highest value?
This is a very cynical view, Indian government (central) is and never will be effective, its the structure of India. People feel well governed at district level/zilla parishads. Given the size of country, there should be more push for decentralization, but every Indian politician and his dog loves centralization.
Luckily I live in a mostly flat snowy state, but you quickly learn that you should never go up or down a hill when it's snowing.

Seattle would be impossible.
The PPI required for the "Retina" effect is largely dependent on viewing distance, which is why Apple vary the PPI according to the device, they aren't a blanket ~200 PPI as you suggest.

The Apple Watch and most iPhones (including the original Retina display on the iPhone 4) are around 300-400 PPI, with the X being 458. Only Apple's "Retina" laptop/iMac displays have been around 220, which normally looks great given the increase in the viewing distance.

Wikipedia has a pretty nice breakdown of the PPI of all Retina displays Apple has shipped:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Display
New web + iOS app that gives you everything you need to know before you travel internationally:

- Tourist visa requirements
- Vaccination requirements
- Travel warnings issued by the U.S. Dept. of State
- Currency import and export limits
- U.S. embassy locations and emergency contact information

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/flyright
Doubtful, the first purpose built memristor existed in 2008. Though to be honest we've seen them since the 1800's as oddities in certain electrical circuits.

They've been theorized since 1971 mathmatically but until fairly recently haven't been a thing.

It is the fourth fundamental circuit, give it a while before discounting it. And be happy you're alive when the fourth fundamental circuit was discovered and made real.
It seems to me that Catalonia has put the rest of Spain in a "no win" situation. If Spain tries to prevent the (unconstitutional) vote, then Catalonia tries very hard to push to have the vote anyway, and Spain either has to enforce their ban on the vote (which means violence), or else back down. If Spain doesn't forbid the vote, then the vote gains legitimacy in public opinion. So either Spain's the bad guy (because violence), or they're a paper tiger, or they tacitly say that it's OK for Catalonia to vote on independence despite what the constitution says.
But I mean that, even under the Catalan separatist view of legality, this resolution is not a law.
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Catalonia could have obtained a similar system when the constitution was written, but declined to do so.
I'd much rather they figure out snow conditions. Driving in a snowstorm is challenging even for experienced human drivers, and I'd feel far safer in a autonomous car that has been shown to handle snow well than one that merely dogfoods with employees in sunny California.
How? The first memristor was created in 2008.
How to build holographic audiovisualizer with gesture control
Parts of East London were always there, but remained in the shadows, underdeveloped and relatively cheaply priced compared to the west and central areas. Everyone waited for others to make the area trendy, they needed someone else to socially validate and approve the area before they then came en-masse. They demanded new expensive bakeries, tweeted their delight with the distressed decor coffee shop, and simply purred about the expensive butcher. Then at some point later, those some people went on to complain the area had become gentrified. One day even the hipsters and shiny people will be priced out, and maybe the area will change again, but the original locals, who had business and family for generations there, were never asked about any of this, and the remaining few still don't have a voice.
I've been struggling with 1) for years. My current attempt is to exploit ZFS snapshot shipping, since modern ZFS ports are available for both mac and linux (and apparently one for windows is on the way).

Unlike rsync, ZFS always knows what's changed since the last snapshot, so there's no directory scanning.

Unlike inotify, there is (seemingly) no(?) risk of dropped events, which I've experienced with tools like watchman. My ZFS solution still needs prompting event to start the snapshot, but it no longer needs to be told _what_ changed.

Critically the sync flows in one direction. This is a deal breaker for applications that need to communicate file changes back out to the host, but that hasn't been an issue in my use cases.

Unlike NFS, it also means we must (and can) relax the strong consistency model, and so using the filesystem is not so latency bound. This becomes important if the virtual machine is not running locally..
I'm Chinese (well, half-Chinese). I don't appreciate an opinion on individual liberty and freedom of expression, association, self-determiniation, etc. being labeled as "East vs West" or worse, connected to imperialism or being implicitly racist.

The Enlightenment began with the belief that all people are equal. ALL. Doesn't matter if you are white or black or asian or indigenous, or what family, race, gender or sexual orientation you happened to be born into. The Enlightenment has torn down the institution of slavery, overthrown monarchies, revoked state-run monopolies, and given franchise to women and minorities. And it has brought monumental progress to ALL of humankind, including basically all modern technology and medicine. And we are still moving forward, this juggernaut of progress, and we are doing so BECAUSE we have freedoms. The history of the world is that of brief stints of progress being flamed out by oppressive regimes until at long last the scientific revolution took hold. I won't apologize for standing with the Enlightenment and judging governments by how well they achieve these goals for their citizens. As China seeks to control its people, it does so at the detriment of future progress not in service of it.

China's anti-liberty actions and policies are regressive and on the wrong side of history. And to say that it is somehow just an expression of different culture is insulting to the Chinese people who deserve freedom and personal liberty, and dishonor to the memory of those like Sun Yat-sen and others who fought for and achieved societal revolution towards Enlightenment ideals in China and with the support of the Chinese people. There's nothing uniquely Chinese about totalitarian oppression, or anything unique about the Chinese people that make them ineligible for our sympathies.
The United States recruited (or even pilfered) Nazi Germany's nuclear and aerospace engineers. Wanna bet they'd have had them killed if they hadn't agreed? Israel did it with both Iraq and Iran's nuclear engineers.
> Do we want to be a white-washed Disneyland for software developers, or do we want to be a vibrant, diverse, integrated (and bigger) city?

What if people actually prefer the former? I mean, sure, their "stated preference" can be later but the "revealed preference" can actually be a myopic selfish one; which is not that abnormal and totally in line with basic human nature (claims of "being progressive" notwithstanding!)
I've noticed that overly excited articles are tend to be nonsense until they're finally true.

I know that sounds like tautological nonsense, but the trick comes down to predicting when these things will become real rather than if they become real. From my experience, if you want a good indication, look at price/performance trends for a particular technology. If that technology has no price/performance data, look at the price/performance data of its components or related technologies.

If you can't find price/performance data, then don't get too excited yet.
yeah, deflation is bad for the economy, unless it is high tech, in which case staggering rates of year-after-year deflation for decades on end are the engine of economic growth.
I have noticed that waiting around on the subway platform or at the bus stop is way more stressful than sitting on the subway or the bus, even if the subway/bus is just stuck for some incomprehensible reason and showing no sign of progress towards my destination.

This leads me to suspect that the stress of waiting for public transit is largely incidental and could be reduced by better station design, without having to make any (difficult, expensive) improvements to service frequency and reliability.
"Quite brutal" by the standards of the ordinary course of civil society, yes. "Quite brutal" by the standards of governments facing an insurrection? Not so much.
That provides proof of identity for both parties, but not a way with which a party can prove anything about the message content afterwards. The key with which the contents are encrypted is symmetric and known to both parties, so at that state the content is not bound to the sender identity. If you can't tie content to sender identity, you do not have non-repudiation.
> At the risk of sounding xenophobic, Portland is going to turn into San Francisco soon enough ...

It is already in the process of doing so.

> please please please push back against freeway expansions ...

And this attitude is the reason. I don't know why people think that adopting the same anti-growth, anti-construction, anti-roads attitude that has made San Francisco so unaffordable for regular people will have a different outcome here.
Many local governments are very happy to build more housing: more housing = more residents = more local tax income.

The problem is everyone else who votes against rezoning.
The internet exists for surprise goatse and cats.

I wonder what the goatse guy is doing right now?
It was over 100,000,000 CPU-hours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550922 And they still got extremely lucky to find such a good address. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538390 It's not usually that easy.
I bet a lot of the frontend guys will have problems when someone comes out with something like Visual Basic for the web. It's harder now to develop a LOB app than when it was twenty years ago and I think this will change at some point. Same for a lot of "data scientists". Unless you are on the forefront of development there will be more and more tools that make the data accessible to regular people instead of having to go to data scientists.

Yes, software developers will always be in demand. The profession stays but the people in it get quickly marked as obsolete and replaced by new people.
Why Is It So Difficult to Get Started Writing Automated Tests?
Incredibly interesting, but I can't resist nitpicking!

The with extrapolating this to real life would be that it's making assumptions that are not realistic. For instance it assumes infinite granularity in candidates. In other words the rating of a candidate can be from 0 to infinity instead of the granularity we really see things in which is going to be closer to 0-4 or very bad/bad/neutral/good/very good.

It also assumes a normal distribution. Something that's perfectly reasonable for an unknown distribution, but in my experience the number of 'very good' candidates tends to be much larger than its equal but opposite 'very bad' end perhaps due to some sort of survivorship bias.
Bay Area buses don't solve this problem but many bus systems do. Compared to an effective bus network, Bay Area buses suffer from:

* Short distance between stops (due to low housing density).

* Traffic due to lack of bus lanes.

* Long time spent at stops due to cash payments and/or single door entry, rather than proof of payment or tap on stations at every door, no cash allowed.

* Inaccurate/nonexistent realtime updates.

A bus every 30 minutes isn't a big deal compared to SF/Bay Area travel times, but only if I can rely on a timetable/GPS to arrive at the stop 2 minutes before departure and be confident with a scheduled arrival 2 minutes before my appointment.
I agree. I got my friend (who's a medical resident and doesn't have a ton of time, but has an awesome dog) a subscription to Fuzzy. They do exactly what you're suggesting with preventive care. Their service includes an in-home well pet exam and all the vaccines, flea/tick and heartworm medication the pet will need until their next preventative visit. Obviously, outside of a clinic with equipment, they're not really able to do anything too involved: giving vaccines and taking blood/stool samples is about the limit, but that's all that's necessary for a healthy pet.

We had a good experience, and my friend's dog loved the vet and the assistant who came to examine him. I think the pricing was similar to what it would have cost for an in-office appointment.
I believe there are a few companies working on piping music through the internet.
But it doesn't cost users anything, and they really don't care how much the service costs to run.
Because they were planning to spend millions of euro in an illegal thing, and use the results to try to legitimize the illegal thing in the eyes of the world.
In firefox: about:config -> privacy.firstparty.isolate = true

Note that containers provide similar functionality but in a less rigid manner. On the other hand first party isolation has the advantage that it also applies on navigation within a single tab while containers are fixed within a single tab. Currently neither is a superset of the other. If bug 1323873 [0] gets implemented then containers + some scripting by extensions could act as a superset of first party isolation.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323873
Why don't you buy now? If may be worth $10,000 in the future. Though, it may also be worthless, too.
"Everyone nowadays seems so convinced that you can equate watching a couple of youtube videos to getting a 4 year education in a field"

Well, I certainly did not.

I do know that some things come much easier to some people than it does for others. For example, one might spend a lifetime studying music but never create a remarkable piece of it themselves.

I think the ability to apply logic to coding solutions is similar. It's as much a gift as a learned skill and those who are gifted will almost always be better at creating solutions than those who are not.
I think there will be increasing scrutiny over Facebook's ability to wipe their hands while claiming "it's free speech."

There's a reason the media were information gatekeepers: there's a responsibility to be accurate and unbiased.

Facebook's product was manipulated and helped Donald Trump get elected by swaying public opinion. There has to be consequences- sorry, but in my opinion not every voice deserves to be equal.
You've lumped "redistribution of wealth" in with "price setting" as if they are in any way related to each other. They certainly can interact if they're both present, but neither need to be there for the other to exist.

I'm actually having trouble following your line of reasoning because I can't tell how these two are related in your formulation of the hypothetical.
It seems like it wouldn't be hard to make a Smalltalk-like sub-language inside a Lisp dialect like Common Lisp or Racket. It could be programmed using S-exps, or custom read syntax to make it look like actual Smalltalk.
AI stuff would be easy to implement on it, but general computation will almost certainly benefit just as much once research is done. It's a fundamentally different architecture when your assembly language can include instructions that essentially re-wire the FPGA which is your processor/storage. That makes possible entirely new classes of algorithms.
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Running an ICO.

I'm not kidding.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne78vd/goatse-cry...

(Unless you're asking about the guy in the photo, no idea about him. I hope he remains happily married, and ... limber.)
Try a trackball instead. I've used Kensington Orbital trackballs for years and wouldn't go back to a mouse for anything. (When it comes time to do a desktop 'refresh' at work, I tell the IT guys that anyone who touches my trackball is going to lose a finger.)
At least in the states, both healthcare and education are subsidized by the government so everyone can "afford" to pay more.
I always get slightly sad when I hear the complaints against Google in Boulder as I honestly believe the effect it has had on housing prices has been overstated. For some context, I'm a Boulder native, I grew up here, went to preschool through college here, and am fortunate enough to get a job that pays me enough to stay here. And for what it's worth Google has had an office in Boulder for about 10 or 11 years now. I'm more than happy to discuss this more thoroughly here, through pms, or over coffee :)

Disclaimer: I work at Google, in Boulder.
Actually, there is a quite a bit of jobs that require PHP considering the plethora of sites built on Drupal and WordPress. I guess it depends where you live.
So the object detection extension is mostly focused on breaking down complex operations like anchor generation into functional steps that are compatible with the base tensorflow metagraph definition. You can see these builders here: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/ob...

What that means is that when it comes to inference in a production environment, we only need our Tensorflow python package, as the metagraph is defined in terms that the base Tensorflow package can decypher.

Although as I'm not an author of the object detection API, there is probably a more nuanced answer here.
The weather is miserable for half the year, and there’s less to do. A bunch of my extended family lives in Fresno and elsewhere in the Central Valley, but I can’t imagine living there.

The politicians they elect throughout the Central Valley are also absolutely bonkers.
"The robots are designed to free up store employees' time so they can use it to help customers."

HA-HA... right.

Any time I ask for help finding something in Wal-mart the person feigns ignorance. They're not compensated well enough to actually be helpful.
Self determination would be meaningless if entire country or entity needs to vote to allow its parts to become independent.

There are many examples of self determination in 20th and 21st century, and normally only region/area that wants to become independent votes. Most recent example is independence referendum in Scotland. Entire UK did not vote, only Scotland voted.
Is coding a BST and traversing it that big a deal?

I routinely code tree traversals at my work, so my judgement may be clouded here, so I am genuinely curious here to know if most people here think that it is unreasonable to expect someone to code a BST from scratch.

In my opinion, BSTs are one of the easier things in programming, with a complexity that is maybe only a little above a for-loop. Most often, in real world, the more complex stuff happens in the business logic, or API contracts, or that sort of thing outside tree traversals.
This is pretty damn amazing.

HN is a pretty critical place most of the time but sometimes it's valuable to take a step back. The challenges associated with building a car that can drive itself are pretty insanely difficult (even something as straightforward as "how do we get the training data?") and the fact that we're now at a point where there's a possibility of self-driving cars working in snowy conditions is pretty awesome.
There is no reason whatsoever that this would be limited to SIMD operations. They will be easy to do because you just spam a certain set of gates out in an array, but you could be laying down completely novel, or programatically determined, gates instead.
Why Simulated Roads Make Self-Driving Cars Safer