skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does Theo. Base is where the core of the OS that's used to build everything (including base itself) lives. People are more than welcome to have Rust, Go, Java, Erlang, or whatever in the ports tree. There's no reason those are needed in base because they don't build what's in base now. If parts of base required one of those languages to build, that would be an argument for including that language.

It ends up being a bit chicken and egg, right? Don't put a language into base because base doesn't use it. Packages in base can't use it because the compiler's not in base. So effectively someone needs to recreate enough core tools in base in the new language that it's worthwhile pulling in the language tools themselves. And then one must justify any compiler performance and platform limitations before the PR is approved, too, potentially solving those upstream in the language community.

It's a major undertaking, and people keep asking why someone else doesn't do the work. That's why Theo wants people to show progress on code before asking for the tools to be put into base.
I don't think that's true. We didn't suddenly become better at building internal combustion engines because people grew up with cars. Just because you're good at using something doesn't mean you could build it. Race car drivers don't inherently make good engineers and professional esports players don't inherently make good game developers.
This is the case regarding whether someone could call themselves an "engineer" without going through some kind of licensure process, to which the answer turns out to be "yes, of course".
OP, could you share an email address where I can reach out?
Justices Suggest They May Let States Legalize Sports Gambling
If they manage to 'seize' your encrypted wallet, you can restore your backup on another device and move your crypto elsewhere.
This feels like the beginning of the end, doesn't it? You can almost feel the pendulum slowing down, pausing, and starting to swing in a different direction. Like we're passing into a whole new era...
I think remote controlled cars are a bit different to most electronic toys which don't move, and distract you with brights lights and sounds.
Does anyone know what the likelihood of is of developing algorithms to do this without relying so much on statical modeling?

Shouldn’t it be possible in principle? I realize there are other factors that contribute to hoe we look, even what we eat, the environment around us, etc. But even if theoretical best rendering of just DNA was achieved I’d imagine it would be very impressive.
Make sure he makes it back together...
This ignores the fact that internet service providers have a monopoly in a lot of the country. What's the use such a message if there is no alternative provider?
> The purpose of the discussion is basically to address whether non-monogamy is something people should consider - the idea being "hey, we were born for non-monogamy, so let people give it a try!".

That's not my understanding of the book. Heck, I remember that at some point in the book the authors explicitly say that they themselves don't know what to do with the consequences of their model. I never got an impression that they were trying to convince readers to have give any "alternative' lifestyle a try.

EDIT:
Here, I found relevant passage from the book:

Our model might strike you as absurd, salacious, insulting,
scandalous, fascinating, depressing, illuminating, or obvious. But whether or not you are comfortable with what we present here, we hope you’ll keep reading. We are not advocating any particular response to the information we’ve put together. Frankly, we’re not sure what to do with it ourselves.

> But it's modern social structures that have been limiting the engagement in non-monogamy in recent history, not our lack of a pre-historical understanding. So I think that aspect of the discussion is more important, because you can actually defeat modern social structures. You can't defeat evolution.

You're right. The fact that you can't beat evolution is key here. BUT we can talk about societal institutions all we want, but if the whole time we assume that monogamy is the natural and only way in which society can function, then the whole discussion is moot since we might be asking the wrong questions. For instance, think about what would happen to any discussion about the institution of marriage if we remove the monogamy assumption. What would happen any discussion of the nuclear family?
Hmm, a comment from someone who just learned about Huffman encoding and had a project on text classification -- it seems that the majority of commonly-written or spoken English words are terrible for conveying semantics; words like "the", "a", "to" are mostly just filler words.

Is it possible then to create a vocabulary of English words dedicated towards an emphasis on meaning?
Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits
Starting remote work brings you closer to consulting business which needs: networking + trust + skills + luck.

Know decisive people, managers, architects, entrepreneurs, also these who are far from your place - think global. From time to time ask them how their projects are going on, just let them know that you are available to help them. If they trust you they will come back after some time. There is always a shortage of good specialists so your pitch should be remembered.

Know your market - obtain skills which are remotely marketable. Just do some research what these people use, what stacks, what teamwork tools (Slack, Github, Stash, wikis, reviews etc) etc. Try to figure out their needs. Make a tailored CV every time to emphasize your skills and experience which match their needs.

Then you need some luck. As in every sale process that usually means repeating the process and constantly researching needs. Being on top with contacts and skills should help you close the deal, no mater where you are located.

From my experience it is easier to work for global or remote-first companies. Their main communication happens over distributed medium which is usually transparent for all remote peers. However if you are going to be just WFH guy in office-first environment then expect lack of information, dealing with poor communication tools and being forgotten when decisions are made.
Oops. I was trying to dam it, not damn it.
There is also a new out of beta podchaser.com but it's web only. Somewhat active.
The walled internet people are proposing would break so much shit lol
Were there any successful attempts to design a brand new and complete OS API in the last decade?
Every writer needs an editor.
I'd think twice about whether "Echo" is a wise thing to call a new app right now. When I read this I immediately thought it was some sort of podcast integration for Amazon Echo, which might tend to suggest Amazon will have a problem with it. Without getting into the merits of any such dispute, I would think that unnecessary litigation with Amazon would probably be something you'd want to avoid!
As someone who is often mistaken for other people, I'm not looking forward to this.
Not sure why this is being downvoted? The author seems to have faced a problem with the abstraction of these services and has described it.

If anyone thinks that is wrong or has an argument supporting it or against it, just point it out. I don't think this is worthy of replyless downvotes.
> Basically, Mercurial is migrating away from Python as its primary and core programming language. You don't say Git is written in Python even if Git were to have a few Python code (I actually don't know, never read Git code), would you?

Not necessarily. It would show that you can prototype an application in Python and once you have a stable product you would have a migration part to Rust for optimization. That might be even a bit more convincing than the prospect of starting a new project in a non-GC lang.
Wandelbots wants to reinvent the way we program robots
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15846852
Let's not forget about bill riders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)
Negative aspects:

- Twitter auth requests the ability to send posts, an easy no

- signing up with email, you require an avatar picture. just use a placeholder

- can't test drive anonymously
I'm excited to try.

I started something similar, almost a "Book Club for Podcasts" that stemmed off this Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/daveambrose/status/918124906092597248). We organize discussions in a Google Group but this looks like it's much more automatic than the manual curation piece we use.
Thanks for bringing it up. That's a terrible list. Each use is unknown in both content and purpose and you can't verify it or really draw much in the way of conclusion from it at all. Was it an intern project that was abandoned or is it now performing core functionality. We'd wish the latter but no way to know. Have 10% of those not worked out (which would be a fabulous success rate or 99% which would be comparable to Java? </troll></just kidding></java is ok really>

Signal to noise is awful on such a thing other than to provide the confirmation bias we might be looking for. We're better than that.
Have you ever asked your banker if they would make the funds immediately available? Mine will do that for me because I have more than a decade of history with them.
You have a very misguided view then. Unless you're committing a crime or are associated with criminals you really don't have much of anything to fear
We've asked you many times to stop breaking the guidelines and post civilly and substantively, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, if the other's country has bombed yours, when you've done nothing to them, and you were 10,000 miles away from their borders, then it's quite safe to assume non race-based motivations for hating them too...
Japan lost the war, yet they still can not educate their population about the horrors performed in Korea and China. They pretend nothing happened. That kind of response does not foster forgiveness. Germany on the other hand _really_ have taken a responsible path after the war, and I also believe there is an understanding (at least in northern and western Europe) that a big part of the blame that Hitler could take power was on the victors of the first world war (England and maybe more France).

I guess better forgiveness for German aggression are due to good behaviour from post-war Germany, okay education in north and western Europe, and also that Germany behaved _relatively_ good on the western front. Of course it will take longer for eastern Europe mostly due to the extreme ugliness of the eastern front, and the huge economic differences.
People at Facebook who use both internal repos and external ones (like me) need to know both hg and git. It's not too hard; the two provide similar functionality and many of our hg extensions (https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental) make hg more git-like in some ways.

Most of our open source projects also use an in-house tool "fbshipit" https://github.com/facebook/fbshipit to automatically export internal commits to open source so if you make changes that happen to touch an open source project but it's not your primary focus then you can work entirely in the internal (hg) repo and your changes get copied out automatically.
The question is tricky, because it suggests that getting things done and having quality code somewhat differ.
For me it doesn't.
In my company, code of poor quality is just not done. To get code in master branch you must have made a design document to explain your assumptions and decisions, it must pass automatic checks and code review, it must be tested, and pass regression checks on CI.
When this is at the core of how the team works, this doesn't decrease time to market, and actually helps accelerate as you can add new features with confidence that you don't have to stop because of breaking something.
State your assumptions clearly. It helps. What conclusion is being drawn by who before the data is collected?
I agree. The only thing that would work is for a whale to sell some of their bitcoin and buy the futures. I'm guessing whales will come out of hiding to make this arb.
Man Hacks Jail Computer Network to Get Friend Released Early
This is the reason why I sympathize with drug dealers more than law enforcement officers.
It does have to do with a corporation because we're discussing about hiring for a business.

If the statements are false, does that mean the individual/corporation won't get any repercussion from the gov't? No. When it comes to the matter of doing business, there's a level of restriction and punishment on the things they say.
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Full stack web developer. Some things I typically work with:

Frontend => React, JavaScript, TypeScript, SASS, Bootstrap
Backend => Python+flask or django, node.js, go
Storage => Postgres, redis, sqlite
Cloud => Docker, AWS

I cut my coding teeth writing compilers in C++ and Scheme, I'm comfortable working with any stack.

Shoot me an email at phil@upvalue.io or check me out further at https://upvalue.io or https://github.com/ioddly/meditations
Also bizarre how often they mention BMW in this article without ever once bringing up the i3.
Well honestly, I wrote that because I wasn't sure what to reply. I'm taking in five comments about power supplies, tons of wrapped wire, and I get a reply about a single wire.

Anyways, I apologise for being snappy.
As an engineer working on security applications, how do I learn more about the machine learning/deep learning discussed in this article? Is it enough to have a general understanding and use off the shelf tools/libraries, or I should study the nitty gritty math? I have a CS degree but haven't touched math in years.
From the paper:

> The hypothesis that fewer toys in children’s environments would improve the quality of play, measured by three variables, was supported.

But given they only conducted a paired difference test for 4 toys and 16 toys, they can only conclude that there's a statistically significant difference between 4 and 16 toys. This is very different than saying fewer toys correlate to any result, because when one says "fewer toys correlate to X", it implies that the correlation stands for any two numbers of toys, and that's not what the study looked at.
I'll believe it if there is an actual DNA match between the man and DNA found at the scene.
We do a book exchange. We tell all would be givers that we will not accept gifts but only used/new books. You come to our house and give one of your books to our child and we will give you one back in return. Works for birthday parties too.
I guess I don't see how C makes things any more complicated. The employer has a budget in mind when creating the position.
The Most Hated Woman in America.' Linda Tripp, All about 'dangerous' Hillary
Isn’t it a bit weird to donate to some other kid a toy that you consider not so good for your own child?
Users might notice the battery penalty.
Congratulations California. You just capped everyone's salaries.

All you had to do before was say "It doesn't matter. My price is $x." I've done it many times and still been offered the job.
I'm not sure if that's the base Leaf because Nissan doesn't appear to have pricing on their website, but they definitely tested a loaded Bolt. The base Bolt starts at $36,620 according to a quick search and the one MT tested was $43,905.

Th big difference to me is that Tesla is the only one so far offering a larger battery and Autopilot/FSD, which add $17k to the price of the 3.

Hopefully Tesla will make the base 3 available early next year so the base version of each car can be compared.
Yeah, those kind of circles would have been against the Nazi's even during the 1930's anyway.
Scheier just had a post on why "Cryptocurrency" is a stupid name - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/12/crypto_is_bei...
If you’re still in the market for a transcoding service but fancy a better API, consider Transloadit. Disclaimer: I’m a founder :)
I built a fairly large system using the Serverless "framework" on AWS. It's been running for over 8 months now with zero maintenance and zero service disruptions, with an ingress of ~50M events per day and providing a sleek ReactJS/SemanticUI frontend that the users seem to really enjoy. Being a side project, it's been relatively stress-free.

While the application is still very profitable, the cost is ~10x its implementation on traditional servers. I'm not going to argue the pro's and con's, just providing some numbers. At this point, we're working to optimize the original stack in order to reduce costs.

I will say though...honestly, working with Serverless and the AWS stack is a very pleasant experience.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin just moved in the opposite direction. A bill has been introduced which grants employers the right to ask job candidates for salary information.

http://dailyreporter.com/2017/11/17/bill-would-prevent-local...
This is clever idea. From my first look it appears to be an Instagram-like social network, but with no user generated content. While social graphs themselves have value, I think we have hit an inflection point with users getting tired of sharing their personal content. Personally, I am much more interested in what other people like and have to say about mass media content rather than their selfies or wedding pictures, frankly I just don't give a damn about user generated content and I think I'm not the only one. We need more platforms like this for other types of content such as movies, TV, music and vetted news publishers. Just curious, is the news feed 100% reverse chronological? Do you have any ranking/recommendation algorithm for the discover tab?
I think you said it better than I.

Existential problems:

+ We don't put a number value on these things, so it doesn't work into the GDP, ergo, things that do have a numbered value get overrepresented in policy making. This is how 'big business' and business/libertarian types move against communities without realizing it.

+ 'Old' cultural artifacts come with a lot of baggage (ie gender, sexuality), and it's hard to change - so lefty progressive types like to discount almost anything 'traditional' in favour of modern 'culturally secular' values of their own intellectual making. But they throw the baby out with the bathwater. This to me is how progressive type people and thinkers move against communities without realizing it.

I am originally from a very small town, and I go back often, and I am very thankful for it.

What scares me the most about modern culture - is the suburban kids I know have the concept of 'community' completely erased from their cultural knowledge after only one generation in the 'new world'.

These are the types that get sold 'Starbucks' as being some kind of legit 'community meeting spot'. They don't grasp that the 'warm glow of a Starbucks' is manufactured in a marketing meeting!

Ok, enough with my 'I'm getting old' rants :)
We hang in the Louvre
Am I the only one that's extremely disappointed there's no Web site to use and only an app?

I would have given the site a spin. Maybe it makes a good impression, maybe not; that'd influence whether I then sign-up. I'm not downloading an app just to see if it's any good.
How is it any different than being misidentified by a witness's description?
Navy’s Much-Hyped Electromagnetic Railgun May End Up Dead in the Water
You can make it authenticated reads only and only give your server authentication. Granted, it's not the primary use case it's trying to support, but it does support it.
Actually to be pedantic the Montessori school I attended was an opt-in program at a public school. For reference, a suburban middle class midwestern USA school district. At the elementary level, about half the school was Montessori and half was traditional. And at the middle school level, there were less than 100 students in the Montessori program out of a school of somewhere in the range of 1000-2000 (don't remember).

Just wanted to throw that out as aspirational. There's truly nothing about a Montessori classroom that need be more expensive except for the training, the high cost of which is just a function of the lack of economies of scale.

I don't know that I would say that I got more out of high school than those around me. I would say educational culture is the most important factor - in the sense of being in a classroom with students who respect their teachers and with parents at home who pay attention to they child's performance and behavior. And I was lucky enough to attend both Montessori and traditional schools at a middle to upper middle class school so we were able to take those things for granted.

I would say that I had a much broader exposure to thinking outside of the box, of being self-led, and of taking initiative than most of the other students. But I also had more of an independent streak, a desire to be free, and a questioning of authority.

I was a model student in high school for other personality and I-feel-need-to-prove-myself reasons that are separate from Montessori vs. traditional debate. So I can't judge how my prior education influenced my performance in high school.

But I can say without a doubt that I felt like a dog locked in a cage.

The biggest side effect perhaps of moving from a Montessori program to a traditional one was that I became an incredibly active participant in class just to ease the boredom. If you go from a program where you're free to spend half the day on whatever you want, speak to your friends, and be wherever you want to a program where you're locked to a seat the entire day and can't freely have conversations, you have to find other ways to get interaction and to be able to speak. So I just constantly wanted to answer questions or ask questions in class just cause sitting there doing literally nothing was unbearable.

We should be asking ourselves what we're training our students to do when we have them sit and listen to an authority figure speak in a one sided conversation all day everyday. There's no two way conversation being had at schools. We're teaching our kids to sit down, shut up, and listen to what I think is right. Not to engage with the world.
Canvas doesn't need more than a browser. It's not the same thing of course, but it's easy to get into, you can do cool things quickly, and it's a useful skill to have now anyway.

(I know Chrome even comes with an editor built in.)
Rousseau's work is very interesting to read even if it's a bit hyperbolic at times. He was quite ahead of his time on a lot of issues given he was writing in 1750. Regardless of whether you agree with his overall premise I think you have to admit that he scores some points. Definitely worth reading some of his work if you haven't before particularly "First Discourse" and "Discourse on Inequality."
Just so you know, I couldn't get the site to work in Chromium: "Uncaught ERROR: too many uniforms".

But I took a look in Firefox and the site is very informative and the solver is quite snappy.
More context, other links, etc
Because people can discredit a witness. But with this they say "DNA evidence" and the jury is already deciding.
The state and federal rebates have made a used Leaf a great deal; you can get them from 7-10k. Great car if your round-trip commute is 80 miles or less.