skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, the combination screams.

Yes, I presume it's very fast because of a number of smart design decisions. I would guess that the relatively small on-disk size of executable is a consequence of these decisions, rather than a cause of the high speed. And as you point it, it's really the design of the core interpreter that matters.

When Python switched the interpreter loop from a switch to a threaded one, for example, they got ~20% speedup[0]; I wouldn't be surprised if the fitting entirely within the I-cache (which K did and Python didn't at the time) gives another 20% speedup.

I'm familiar with this improvement, and talk it up often. Since certain opcodes are more likely to follow other opcodes (even if they are globally rare) threaded dispatch can significantly reduce branch prediction errors. But despite not having measured the number of I-cache misses on the Python benchmarks, I'd be utterly astonished if there were enough of them to allow for a 20% speedup. My guess would be that the potential is something around 1%, but if you can prove that it's more than 10% I'd be excited to help you work on solving it.
It's a rival to http://vanilla-js.com/
I am not sure I understand your point. Do you feel that accredited investors that lose money on their investments are either not knowledgeable or not informed?
Maybe not in a startup?

I have company stock given to me in my 401k.

https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/personal-finance/company...

>More than 15 million people own about $400 billion of company stock in Fidelity-administered workplace retirement plans alone
> ...they’d need to be doing some pretty absurd stuff...

No, the team would just have to be more productive if the should-have-been-fired people stayed home and offline on any given day.
Good point, we shoud all just arrange bits of machine code.
No mate. I simply read other people's (scientists) output.

"They can't even output matching observed data!" - example please?
> Do the work to get featured by Apple & Google

Sigh...this is one of the last things to worry about. It's like hoping your roulette number hits. Doing a lot of work is like getting a second roulette wheel number towards getting featured, but a lot of work might improve your chances of success any how. Every year that goes by, this hope becomes less and less likely as the competition grows.

Also, the advice on how to get featured on Google Play is not great advice. If I wanted a higher chance of being featured in Play, I would read this web page - https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8.... . New features of the latest Android. Then I would make an app showcasing one of the new features that Android wants to highlight. If you look at featured apps, these are what get featured a lot. Think of it from Google's POV. Actually, Oreo has been out for a bit, so someone trying for Oreo is already behind the ball. There are videos of the Google people telling you what they look for when featuring, watch those.
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I wasn't really trying to imply it's bad advice or isn't ethical or anything. I get that the parallel I decided to draw does indeed somewhat imply that, but my intentions weren't as such. Just struck me as funny.
The big question is: Would YOU put your wealth and life savings in an investment environment that isn't regulated by the SEC? All of it not just a portion that is risky?

Everyone's retirement and wealth depends on a trustworthy market and securities.

Why do you think people put money in the market today as opposed to holding cash during the Great Depression due to lack of trust in the markets and banks?

Was the Great Recession not another warning that even robust banks might go too far with leveraged assets and thus investments would be even more sketchy?

I think the SEC is needed more than ever today. However some financial regulations like SOX were a knee-jerk reaction that caused some issues, iteration and refinement is necessary. ICOs and cryptocurrency I invest in pretty heavily but I wouldn't trust my life savings there yet. It is more like cash/gold today that can be lost. SEC coming out and shutting down shady ICOs is a GOOD THING (tm). I attribute the fast turn around of the Great Depression largely to the SEC and market regulations that instilled trust. It was probably even a better reaction than the TARP after the Great Recession as that was a longer drawn out bounce back and still might not even be fully back. Trust was gone for quite a while and it may have even led to cryptocurrencies out of it (Bitcoin 2008/2009).

The FDA has been bought and is regulatory capture in many ways but they still provide more good than bad at the current situation.

I generally agree that the information age makes people more aware but there still should at least be oversight and regulation on areas where things get sketchy. If anything it will make the agencies better or they will evolve, they won't go away. Some agencies like the DEA have too much enforcement/regulation power and over time these will be ground down. But even the money in Wall Street still hasn't done that to the SEC because it is a great institution and was setup well, and all Americans have benefitted from it.
Just charge any business that needs encryption several million per year, and everyone else can get fucked.

Even beyond the FCC backing this sort of business now, what other part of the government would care to stop that? The only other parts in charge of anything touching on communication technologies are all law enforcement and they are already explicitly stated that they want access to all encrypted communications
> Unlike tulips which wither, these people are not likely to sell their bitcoins even if there is a correction.

[citation needed]

Even long term investors in traditional securities often get panicky during bear markets. They sell their holdings, even if the underlying value hasn't really changed.
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Who exactly would I be paying for the privilage?
> Interesting to see that Webpack ... because from my experience it seems slightly over-engineered for 99% of use cases.

Overengineered? I feel like un-engineered is the right word for it. I use it, but I dread touching anything in my config, cause every time I do, something breaks.

I've tried gulp and grunt, and both of those are pretty bad as well. Different problems, but problems nonetheless. I'd love to see Parcel deliver on their promises, but as of right now it's alpha level for even basic use cases.
I've got relos in Palm Spring FL. Should I be warning them? 8)
Would you prefer they say "lowest minimum extent" or "lowest average extent"? Is that really a significant improvement over "lowest maximum extent"?
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My point was pretty clear I think. There are people who are knowledgeable and informed about various investment opportunities who are not in the >$1MM net worth range. There is no good reason that those people should not be able to rationally take on the risk of an early investment. There are better ways to protect the uninformed than a blanket cut off.
Records when referring to an entire year rarely refer to a record extreme. For example, when they say that 2016 was the hottest year on record, they don't mean that the hottest day of the year was hotter than the hottest day of any other year. They mean that the average was hotter than the average for other years. I expect sea ice extent would be similar.
That's not an excuse for lazy policy.
> Does that mean you'd knowingly bankrupt facebook, google, gmail, youtube, etc? You absolutely cannot assume that could just seamlessly switch to a payment model and everything would be fine.

In the practical sense, I think that the hard part would be coming up with a workable transition plan. I think you're being melodramatic, though. There'd be massive disruption, but I don't suspect that Alphabet or Facebook would just slide under the waves.

> Do you really think the public would knowingly condemn facebook, twitter, google, youtube, etc.?

Hell no. People love all those things. I like them myself, despite their obvious problems.

> The public doesn't want to knowingly condemn every mom and pop liquor store because safeway would easily put them out of business.

All of the chain grocery stores near me carry beer, wine, and all varieties of spirits. We've still got mom+pop liquor stores all over the place. 2 are within a 10 minute walk of my condo. In Colorado, I think the big problem wouldn't have been the chains carrying liquor, but the sudden change in the status quo if they were allowed to now.
I tested this out just yesterday. It was fairly easy to set up - enable SSO, create a Directory Service, add a management EC2 instance, and you're pretty much up and running.

You've got to set up your own Active Directory using Directory Services, which is $288USD/month minimum for two domain controllers.

In order to have MFA for logging into the console (non-negotiable in my opinion), you have to configure your own RADIUS server.

And the question of how to manage access keypairs still remains unanswered, as far as I can tell.

I don't know if this is going to supplant Azure AD as our SSO method of choice.
Re: Homelessness. I have two profitable solotions for you:

1) Build affordable housing.

2) Create flexible earning opportunities that serve the types of people who are at high risk of homelessness. Ideally, make them accessible to both homeless and housed people.

A lot of homeless people have some income, just not enough to finance a middle-class life. The US has largely eliminated affordable housing, which can be profitable but probably has low profit margins.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to read your claims uncharitably. I'm not sure I get your point now even though you've told me you were being sarcastic.

> I am unsure how you read it as why the SEC came about.

Visiting your original statement:
> I admit I am not that knowledgeable on possible history where too many did fraudulent filings requiring this individual-lawyer-review preemption.

This "possible history where too many did fraudulent filings" is the history immediately preceding the creation of the SEC, the period before and during the Great Depression. Things like ICO scams are exactly what the SEC was created to respond to. Securities with no inherent value driven by speculation. I'm sure many will argue that this is unfair to the law abiding ICOs and that's true. But the SEC prevents a deluge of fraudulent securities from taking peoples money and doing the damage in the first place.
Ah, no, I don't believe so - colortool calls into kernel 32.dll to set the colors it looks like, so they're system wide. The github project linked in the second blog post would be a good spot to put a bug/feature request in though.
This is one of the funniest, quaintest posts i've ever seen. Great explanation! I feel like a happy moron that has learned something new!
interestingly, steam just halted bitcoin payments. It seems the transaction fees and latency will need to be resolved (hopefully with the lightning network) before bitcoin is practical for moving reasonably small amounts of money.
But why do they float?

Because they're less dense than the liquid water that surrounds them! If they were exactly the same density they wouldn't float. But since they're less dense, they stick out an amount proportional to their lowered density.
My ISP (sonic.net) doesn't block anything, specifically including port 25, and I'm not paying them a premium to do so.

I am paying the (very high per-mbit) premium of using them instead of, e.g., Comcast, but that's, at best, tangential to port 25.

EDIT: phrasing.
The menu is broken for me using Firefox mobile. I can't scroll down, it just keeps snapping back to the beginning of the list. (That's my state of JavaScript :)

I really like all this information and the way it's presented.
Yeah, that is actually a pretty good point to be honest. Go is not ideal for low-level components such as that. I suppose the analogy of Go and Rust being successors to C and C++ is reasonably flawed, from that perspective.

On the other hand, I'm glad things are turning out the way they are. Rust and Go are both filling niches that C and C++ didn't, in ways that they couldn't have. I look forward to Rust-based OS kernels, for sure. It seems like with time, we can build very resilient foundations with Rust that wouldn't have been possible before.
> Longer identifiers don't make C programs larger.

They make the source code larger.

That makes it harder to read.
> Focus on a colour in your immediate environment and ask yourself whether that could really be only a figment of your mind.

Yes, of course that could really be the case. It's a bit of a downer that this article ends with an argument from incredulity.
It's not a new version of the framework. It's a completely different framework and shouldn't have stole the name of an existing framework.
on the one hand bitcoins dont physically wither, on the other hand, it's about the personalities of people who own it. I don't know who pumps the bitcoin bubble, but much of the bitcoin is owned by people who can't quickly cash it out for USD or EUR because it's either illegal, not taxed or going to face big taxes. many of them are also ideologically driven. Sorry i dont have citations, i m (fittingly) speculating over these
There are also problems that can't be solved by businesses because they ARE profitable.

For instance, a lot of aspects of poverty. Because people living paycheck to paycheck are desperate for cash and typically don't have enough savings to open bank accounts, they're easy prey for money lending at incredibly high interest rates - including payday loans and pawn shops; and for check-cashing services that take a significant cut of their paycheck. If your credit score is low, you may be able to get a pre-paid debit card (since credit/debit cards are necessary these days even to do things like open App Store accounts so you can get [even free] apps on your phone in order to do things like apply to jobs or know when the bus is coming), but it'll eat away at your money with monthly fees - whereas if you have good credit and pay your balance monthly you can be fee free.
"Artistic rendition of a qubit" belongs to the MoMA or the Louvre.
In case anybody sees this comment: I am having a bad brain day today. I clicked OP's link a few days ago, saw a wall of text in a font that's really big on my 1024x768 screen, and never saw the discord link buried near the bottom of the wall of text.

Since nobody copied the discord link to this thread I never realized it existed, so I created a discord server of my own and then spammed the thread with replies pointing to it. I have now deleted all 20 of them.

I've decided /not/ to delete the discord server I made though, because now I realize the "official" discord that was created has over 500 people in it I am most definitely not touching that. That's an overload I know my brain won't deal well with - my upper limit for realtime chat is around 20 or so new chat messages per day.

So here's the invite code to my low-traffic server: https://discord.gg/ffDd8uW

And the moral of this story is, I guess, good web design that works for everyone. Medium is great on new computers... old ones, not so much.
Well, sea turtles have their own predators. Their population won't grow fast just because they have more food available.
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But by the time they become liquid (if they ever do), they could be approximately worthless, or worth much less than they were when you paid tax.
I love fish shell, I love the autocomplete, but I've been forced to switch back to bash lately, because fish syntax is just different enough from bash-isms to break too much scripts / tools / commands.

I know I could just invoke bash, but prefixing commands with "bash -c '" is tiring and papercuts are why I switched to fish in the first place. I wish bash had a sane auto-complete prediction like fish.
> much of the bitcoin is owned by people who can't quickly cash it out for USD or EUR because it's either illegal, not taxed or going to face big taxes.

That's certainly an interesting aspect, but I thought you were talking about all the new, smalltime buyers of cryptocoins, which I assume don't fall into this category.
I was previously an instructor at a data science bootcamp and helped bootcamp grads get their first jobs. You’re missing questions specific to data science :), but still, this is a good resource. I'd be curious if you're looking at machine learning or statistical techniques to really maximize the value of information/recommendations...sometimes people don't realize they don't even know what they want!
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I’m seriously trying to figure out what state you are talking about. Definitely not California (cities aren’t very near the desert, even Los Angeles is in a semi humid basin), Arizona doesn’t have lawns mostly, Utah SLC wouldn’t really qualify as desert either. So then I thought you might mean Saudi Arabia?
7 years wasn't normal until Pinterest did everybody a solid and set that precedent:

https://medium.com/@michaeldeangelo/unlocking-the-golden-han...
Of the 3, which is your favorite?
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Except that they're charging you for some of them? There is no structural difference between zero rating certain traffic and adding surcharges for certain traffic.
> Tools for code analysis and debugging will be less useful or even completely unusable.

If you don’t put bugs in the first place this causes very little problem in practice.

> because your personal style is alien to other people you lose the ability to collaborate with other developers.

Another solution is to expand the program by adding white space and long identifiers after it is written.

This works better for me since if someone wants to change my program it’s because they want it to do something that I didn’t.
Ask HN: Best way to get rid of net-negative employees
What’s the best way to get rid of an employee that doesn’t make the cut? Fire them? Lay them off? Suggest they leave?

Please share your experiences and suggestions.
Other answers on backend section: 138 mentioned .NET, 129 mentioned Rails, 90 mentioned PHP.
The whole front-end build process ecosystem seems hopelessly complicated and frustrating to me, but I'm a hoary, old, nearly thirty, backend developer. I've yet to have anyone satisfactorily explain why grunt or gulp or webpack is better than makefiles and shell scripts, other than "But its JavaScript!" Every month or so, dependencies break, and everything changes; it seems like a lot if work for very little result.
Don't underestimate the propensity for doing absurd stuff. Like, I know of a software developer who urinated on a coworker's keyboard.
SHA is already quantum resistant. The problem is with public key encryption, i.e. bitcoin addresses.
For someone wanting to learn Angular , which should they pick first ? Angular 2 or Angular 4/5 ?
Curious what you dislike about Gulp? I keep hearing people poo-poo it and say that it's "totally uncool now", but I can't understand anyone's frustrations with it, especially compared to other build tools.
Fish doesn’t break scripts, they use whatever interpreter you specified when you wrote them.

I use fish interactively and write very simple scripts in bash and the more complex in Python.
Someone linked this video the other day:
https://vimeo.com/180284417

I really enjoyed it for layman's perspective while still exposing technical depth. I hadn't thought about how one of the big challenges of quantum computing is figuring out how to morph your traditional parallel algorithm into a quantum algorithm (with all the weirdness that entails)
Analogies only work until they don't. For this one to be applicable, the power company would have to be using the dual-lines to pitch their own (or their partners') ancillary services, or degrading standard service in order to push customers towards the premium service.
Bitcoin doesn't have fundamentals. Stocks are a claim on assets, buildings, inventories, and future profits. Real shit, like a parking lot full of trucks or something. Those are the fundamentals. Cryptocurrencies dont have anything like that.

To the extent that there is an analogous concept it's their utility as a means of exchange. Which outside of drugs and hard drive ransoms is minuscule at best.
good job SEC.
>Have you done any research on this whatsoever?

I think it's fair to say climate models are modelling a very complex, near chaotic, system. One of the difficulties with this subject is understanding and verifying these models is simply impossible for the lay person. I don't think it's fair to accuse someone of a lack of research. It's possible to study this very in depth and still lack the ability to assess if the models are correct.
I had to call my bank and explain that I needed a mobile deposit limit increase which took less than an hour to happen. Prior to that conversation I was cussing a lot though.
Maybe op is sourcing said scripts instead of executing them?
yes sorry about that. i assume however that people investing a small amount will not panic, because they really don't care. It's like buying an expensive fad fashion item, that is then left to collect dust rather than being sold. fear of missing out is driving adoption atm
Bash and C absolutely suck to work with if you're not a systems developer. There's so many caveats, gotchas, extra ways to do things, hidden things you have to learn, and lack of clear explanations that touching any ordinary shell file makes me want to scream.

If someone wrote a "makefiles for web dummies" tutorial that told me exactly how to do things everything in bash I know how to do with javascript, I'd love to read it.
From what I gathered, it's similar to how a CPU and GPU compare: different complexity classes, different problems it's efficient on.
I'd say that if you think a 6 month gig is acceptable ROI from a side project investment then you might be aiming too low.

I suppose it's better than nothing. But then again, as mentioned, that's not saying much.