skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plenty of incompetent developers at all levels and all languages. I don't think it's a javascript issue.

While that's potentially true, I do suspect that there's a lot fewer, say, Haskell, Clojure, or Elixir developers than there are for some other languages. Not that they don't exist, but it seems unlikely that you'd cross paths with them.
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Thanks, I have been looking for that. But it's command-hyphen for en-dash, and shift-command-hyphen for em-dash on my Mac.
it's not about you, it's about us, america. if you want meaningful metrics for you, talk to your doctor.
Is that ethical?
The em dash is the most beautiful punctuation mark, all the more because it is rare --- and it is best kept that way. Certainly a sentence with more than two is imparsible. In fact, more than a few in a whole article is probably getting annoying. It's like the exclamation point in that way.

Once you discover the em dash, it is hard to restrain yourself. But I'm trying to come back to the comma. It does its work without fanfare, almost invisibly. The mature writer realizes his job is to tell the reader something without getting in the way.

I land on the side favoring a space on each side of the dash. Unconventionally, I prefer to ASCII-encode my em dashes with three hyphens. The traditional two aren't long enough. But two is better than one. I always have to reread sentences by someone who thinks the hyphen and the dash are the same thing.
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Ugh—and to think that extra effort had to be put in place to allow that to happen, too.
Or allow more working from home...
Two dashes are an en dash or a range for me --- so 1--3 is my hyphen encoding count range!
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You could have separate entries for each part of the building and not share amenities, but this gets back to the central idea. If you allow people to segregate by price then they will do so. If every building in a city must have some affordable units then the city as a whole is better off, but it's going to feel less exclusive.

I can see both sides of the argument, but we need to figure out how to build cities that work or we are in for a lot of chaos.
My sixth grade teacher cured me of this right quick. “Pick up a book,” she said, “—go on.” I did so. I looked up at her but she just looked back down at me. I opened the book. I looked at the spacing. I closed the book, looked back up at my teacher and said, simply, “I see.”
In the future people will look back on this on wonder what in the world we did that for. And just chalk it off to "cultural burial tradition". :P
> Is there a way to measure “Life expectancy of people most similar to you”?

Sure, to some degree of similarity, if you want to spend effort analyzing the multidimensional demographic and other factors in mortality data; there's very little public policy value in that, so the public organizations that compile public health information to support policy aren't likely to package that up for you, though.
Also for me:

Opt-P for Pi π
Opt-8 for Bullet •
Opt-Shift-8 for Degree °

(And there are simple, memorable shortcuts for Pounds, Cents, Yen, Euro, Trademark, Copyright, Ohms, Infinity, and lots of math notation...)
or not to travel to countries with such policies, such as the usa or saudi Arabia.
Republicans and poor people are Americans too
I really wish somebody could explain the Univalence axiom to me. Without assuming that I know category theory or algebraic topology. You know, just like you can explain the axioms of set theory pretty easily. I mean, if it is a foundation, there should be an easy way to explain it. And not in metaphors, please, but in a precise way.
It’s a vanity metric. Life expectancy gives no actionable information for anyone except for “move to another country”.
I am an unapologetic curmudgeon who uses two spaces. Or rather, my right thumb does. I learned to type on an IBM Selectric, I use mostly mono-spaced fonts, and two spaces after a full stop makes perfect sense. I went thirty years between learning it and thinking about it, and then some point-and-drool twee bloggers made it unfashionable.
Honestly their bots are pretty good about giving back refunds - I've never had problem
This wasn't about money. Markets, in general, refer to exchange of things that we humans value. Since exchange is voluntary, both parties benefit. Liquidity means having someone around to have that exchange with.

Economics is much more than simple allocation of money. It's fundamentally about human wants and how to satisfy them.
Tens of thousands years later, future archeologists will find out about this creepy religious ritual primitive humans used to perform.
I put spaces around mine. I’m not sure if that’s the norm — let alone correct usage — but it tends to help readers differentiate it as a non-compound word structure.
only because chromeos is so crippled.

this is like suggesting a kids toy in the shape of a power tool is easier to repair than a proper power tool. while true, you can't do the same tasks with the kids toy.
I agree with your idea that, in an ideal world, we should promote more land use and transit decision making to metro level governments. The problem is that politics is the art of the possible, and this is the set of stakeholders we can currently wrangle to push forth a pro-housing agenda.

> if you want State government overriding local government rights, you have to be prepared for the day when the State legislature is doing something you don't like, and the local government is doing something you do. Right?

I do some volunteering/organizing in local politics, and there are a few "problem domains" within local government. Pretty much everything in local government boils down to "land use", "police" and "education". Additionally, smaller governments are _always_ more beholden to parochial interests than state governments are. Its kind of a "sample size" issue with local governments. As an example, lets say that 1 in 1000 people cares a lot about 1 specific issue and get involved, and that there is a universe of 10 issues in which government is looking to work on. In a city of 20k people, you would expect that each of these 10 issues would have thought leadership promulgated by only 2 people, thus the debates, policy crafting etc will be highly impacted by these 2 peoples narrow views. in a state government of 2m people, there will be more like 200 people interested in thought leadership and policy crafting on a single issue, thus the ultimate policies crafted will be less beholden to the specific biases of individuals.
> Lingering effects of the great recession

Other countries went through the Great Recession, didn't recover as well as the U.S., and are not suffering from the problem. Also, the problem started in the last couple of years while the Great Recession began in 2008 (EDIT: and has since ended, with unemployment low for the last two years).
This was tried in New York. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/3...
Well, it isn't their fault.
Nor should they, because the process has to be done on an individual basis.
They do some demographic breakdowns:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db293.htm

I wouldn't be that surprised if they also sliced out "substance abuse", because mortality of the using population is likely a useful metric in characterizing the problem.
> The email address format is so useful for domain-based identity.

Agreed. But this is also where the problems of spam begin.

Perhaps if we chose to 'phase out' MX records in DNS for something new, say 'MSG'. A domain could then have an MX as well as a MSG server...
A local MTA would route to the 'new shiny messaging system', so that clients could use the one system to read emails.
Remote MTAs could also lookup and see if there's a 'MSG' on the receiving end and talk to it instead, rather than the designated MX, increasing the security. (In this case the sending user would still be sending via a normal email client)

Ideally, everyone will migrate over to MSG, upgrading the world smoothly.

(I figure something like this has already been tried tho...?)

2c.
Ask HN: What is the one new skill you're hoping to learn in 2018?
Him selling his maximum allowed grant and also options when he knew before everyone is plenty.
Yes and if I'm not mistaken that's what alias on bleve for.

Not yet looking into scorch. So scorch would replace other storage engine like rocksdb and leveldb?
npmjs.com is the repository both yarn and npm use—this is about npmjs.com the repository, not npm the package manager per se.
Ah man, … as a single character is the best. I believe on a Mac it’s shift-alt-;

I’m on my iPhone right now so I can’t verify my muscle memory.
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Vacancy is largely a function of the relationship between supply and demand curves.

What it also shows is how open to changes a given market is; if there's too much vacancy (think Detroit) then it's clear that something went VERY wrong in the market.

If there's too little vacancy (think SF, Seattle, etc) then what went wrong is mostly NIMBY and regulations failing to pair jobs and housing increases together. The result is a lack of flexibility and skyrocketing prices.
wang tiles as noted are used for dna based computing machinery, https://www.dailymotion.com/NicolasSchabanel/videos has videos about molecular computing

people in this field made DNA tile game of life capable implementations, with a full logic substrate.

the chemistry involved is very sensitive but in theory they could compile programs into this (in early 2017 they were limited to afew hundred dna pairs in program size before error rates became unmanageable)

ps: also look up damien woodz
"Unpopular but probably very true fact: ..."

Another unpopular but very true fact:

"Email", the technology, not the business, can be defined as party A depositing an RFC811 formatted message on the computer of party B. Email requires only a reachable IP address.

This definition of email can be implemented withut using third party intermediary SMTP servers. Sender and reciever SMTP servers can communicate directly, without so-called "store and forward". I conducted an experiment of "peer-to-peer" email: both sender and receiver are on a Layer 2 overlay, i.e., /dev/tap0 with private IP address, each running their own smtp server bound to tap0. qmail was used, it accepts IP addresses; no ICANN domainnames were needed but private DNS names were also tested. All traffic going through tap0 was encrypted. (Note: I did not use OpenVPN.) It worked as expected. The Layer 2 approach I used would be limited as to the size of networks but would probably accomodate the size of a persons cricle of friends, family and colleagues; addtionally small virtual LAN networks can be bridged to create larger internetowrks. It would probably work with encryption at Layer 3 as well, without such limitations. Maybe people have/will do this with Wireguard.

Whether or not this works for the email "business" is irrelevant. Whether or not this is practical for anyones use case is also irrelevant to this comment. The question is whether email can be encrypted. For me, the experiment proves it can, in at least one way.

Of course, once party A and party B have an end-to-end connection, e.g., over a "virtual LAN" over the internet, then there are many more interesting possibilities for communication than just "email".

Email has evolved in the way it is implemented, and IMO it can evolve further. If I recall correctly from reading old RFCs, I believe the original "email" was actually done via FTP. One deposited mail by appending to a file on the recipients computer. Of course in those days that computer was timeshared by many recipients because computers were too expensive for individual recipients to own. This is no longer true today. Computers are affordable for all recipients. (Yet, with respect to email, recipient still share computers. These are run by "email providers".)
> I land on the side favoring a space on each side of the dash.

Horrible; if you are going to set a dash open and use it for the purpose of an em-dash, use an en-dash.

Setting an em-dash open is ugly as hell.

> I prefer to ASCII-encode my em dashes with three hyphens.

Two-hyphens is conventional for an en-dash. Since a set-open en-dash serves the same purposes as an em-dash, a lot of people just use that instead of the three-hyphen conventional encoding of an em-dash.

Some people use set-open hyphens on ASCII in place of dashes, which is actually probably the best thing in a monospace presentation but ugly in proportional fonts.
Ask HN: What benefits does the blockchain provide?
I've heard many people stating blockchain will become ubiquitous over the next few years, but I'm not entirely sure what benefits it provides.

The internet obviously provided companies a way to reach and connect with millions of people from all over the world. AI allows companies to use machines to do tasks once only humans could do. Cloud computing frees companies from the hassle of maintaining physical hardware.

But what does the blockchain offer me if it's really on par with these other innovations?
That selfsame teacher admonished me for turning in a creative writing assignment with single sentence paragraphs in dialog: “Paragraphs consist of a topic sentence, supporting arguments, and a concluding statement,” she insisted. I looked up at her, “But... books—!” She wouldn’t have it. “When you write a 40,000 word novel you can use one sentence paragraphs.” So, 19 years later, I did.
very happy you managed to avoid these experiences

I wonder if you could put yourself into high morphine diet until the pain goes away but right now I'm just very happy you found a trick
Assuming that "bad" doesn't mean merely "ugly to glace at."
I find that depends largely on the problem at hand.
Unfortunately, average, typical, and modal are often confused.
Also Moore's Law in this context doesn't even seem to make sense, the "Law" deals in transistors, not optical technologies.
I use mdash for "side thoughts", such as:

It turned green—like I care.

He kicked that person's butt—quite hard actually—without thinking of the repercussions.
Well, you got personal out of the blue.

Speaking how he spoke is exactly what the situation called for, and shaming him like this might give people the impression that the community doesn't support it. People feel differently, but for me, it was a breath of fresh air. Finally, someone talking straight with a community! "We fucked up. Report incoming." Done, A+. We can all relate.

Maybe that's not professional enough for certain circles, but hopefully this mindset will permeate to them eventually. We could all stand to loosen up a bit.
I thought she put it well enough to understand, but here's another stab at it:

Fifty years ago, if the husband gets a job offer in a town of 10,000 people with one main employer, he'll take it and relocate the family there. It doesn't matter that there's no career prospects for the wife, because she isn't likely to be working in a career job.

Today, the husband (or wife) gets the same job offer, but the family doesn't take it because the other spouse works in public relations (or whatever) and there are no good jobs of that type in the small 1-industry town.
Other measures of human welfare that are declining in the U.S.:

* "This year, the number of domestic undergraduate students dropped 224,000"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/international-enrollme...

* If nothing is done, the number of Americans with health insurance is expected to decline by millions this year (due to the repeal of the health care tax (I forget the term they used) in the new tax law).

* With CHIP not being funded, the number of children with health insurance also should decline.
I'd say less the recession and more just a particularly-hard-hitting-in-America trend away from the country's historical industrial base. The 20th century US benefited massively from being on the front lines of modern industrialization and mass production, creating a ton of jobs especially in certain regions. And in areas that haven't been able to replace those jobs as the US economy becomes based in different areas and other countries take over in mass production, that's been a particularly rough blow.

The sense of hopelessness in a truly fucked town is particularly brutal. Retraining and education sound nice, but aren't going to be all that appealing in practice for a lot of people, even if the money is there. So now the US suffers the hardest from the loss of this industry, the other side of the coin of getting to benefit the most from the growth of it. Add in a historical lack of awareness around the dangers of new painkiller drugs... and you've got the recipe for a disaster without needing any judgmental conclusions about a society as a whole.

Britain, another even-earlier industrial power, has similar things going on in some regions, but I'd argue never saw quite the same peaks as the US.

It will be interesting to see what a more controlled country like China does if/when all those jobs that first drew money to the country fully evaporate.
There is some drama over OpenBSD and KRACK that may have been why they didn't get told. But that is just pure speculation.
Yes, when you create a new index, you can choose the index implementation. The previous one was called 'upsidedown', and this one used key/value stores for the actual storage. So, you would also specify BoltDB/RocksDB/LevelDB/Moss/etc. The new index implementation is called 'scorch' and it writes directly to disk instead of going through a key/value store.
I use an old convention for approximating em dashes in ASCII by using two hyphens, set apart from surrounding words by spaces. Typographers might shudder, but I find the meaning clear -- its presence signifies the same sort of rhetorical devices that the article talks about. The surrounding spaces serve to make the deliberateness of the punctuation more obvious.

In many rich text generators, an em dash is often made with three hyphens, but for as-is plain text, I find three hyphens excessive. In my opinion, most of the usage of the en dash -- the rival, shorter dash -- occurs in situations where you wish to connect, rather than set apart, so while typing in ASCII for the things you'd use an en dash for, a single unspaced hyphen suffices.
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Just. Wow.
This article mentions Carlos's collaborations with Kubrick. She actually composed a full score for The Shining, but the director ended up using only parts of it. [0] Instead, he used existing pieces by other contemporary classical (acoustic) composers. Carlos's influence on music was huge, as this article points out, but Kubrick's eventual choice of music for The Shining has also gone on to influence horror movie scores since then. To this day, many emulate the sounds of Bartok, Ligeti, and Penderecki.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos
Paying living wages for that area is probably the last thing they would consider, after all else failed, including petitioning government.
It certainly does not count as bullying.

But people do have knee-jerk reactions, and people do overreact for fear of it being bullying next time. None of those are likely to be necessary on this case, but people's feeling aren't very contextual. Many people will react to overreaching political correctness for fear alone, and it isn't nice for the GP to accuse them of bullying.
I'd say it's large reductions in government programs, from health to education to food and welfare programs for the poor. I don't have data, but it's hard to believe that such programs have no effect.

Also, the U.S. moved on from being an industrial economy decades ago, long before most people realize. In Detroit, for example, auto industry jobs began declining in the 1950s.
A mythical kind of project that depends on macOS having a recent bash?
An equivalent (but more so) case was the Russian decline in life expectancy during the 90s for the same reasons.
McDonalds is at it again
http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html
I swear by the Leatherman Skeletool - super durable, less features than a wave but much handier. From a product design perspective I have not seen its equal - I'm always finding new uses for it. Its my everyday carry, I feel naked without it most of the time.
Actually learning packet analysis, and getting better with Wireshark. I'm in school to become a network engineer, but I never actually got around to becoming proficient at this.
Incorrect actually. Though it is true that Krzanich has consistently sold stock every 4th quarter, for this recent transaction, he massively increased the amount he sold. Krzanich sold so much in fact that if he had sold any more stock, he according to Intel corporate mandate bylaws would no longer be allowed to continue as CEO.

If you don't believe me, look for yourself:
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-so...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00011276021703...

And 'coincidentally', this massive increase in selling just seemed to somehow perfectly fit right in the middle of Intel being privately informed of Meltdown in June but before any public disclosure kept locked away all the way until now in January.

This is blatantly illegal insider trading. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I agree with you but I think you have mistyped "em" as "en" is several places.

EDIT: Fixed now.
There's a few broad interests/hopes/dreams that I tend to juggle, as is the case for most people.

I also have this note in my phone called "pipe dreams", in which, whenever I fantasize or think about something that's plausible while simultaneously kinda crazy/life-changing, I write it down. I occasionally visit it when I'm feeling uninspired or bored, and this usually results in me working on something that incrementally reaches towards one of those "pipe dreams".
Oh man, listening to Switched on Bach now. First music I loved as a kid; it still evokes an emotional response. Life has been hard recently, living through a serious illness with lots of pain, feels good to kick back and listen to this.

BTW, archive.org has the best quality recordings I've found of Switched on Bach. It's not got a very full sound, but there are less pops and crackles than other sources online such as soundcloud. I wish Wendy Carlos would reissue this as a re-mastered CD
immigrant effect?
Because today, most lay people equate deep learning with AI.

The black box part is also an issue which both the author of the paper and literally everyone else, including Google's Peter Norvig, is concerned about. But that's not related to the hype part.
Separate entries are often done, but rightly referred to as "the poor door". I don't think there's much sense in half measures to do affordable housing: making a building that is effectively segregated is less efficient and sensible than the current San Francisco "just pay us" system.
It’s very frustrating to watch America decline and not being able to do anything about it. Has democracy failed? Is it time for a rekindling of the study of comparative politics? It seems the Chinese have a viable solution to the problem of a largely uneducated and passive populace.
Complete opposite of my experience.
What technology was this filmed with? D-VHS wasn't commercially available until 1998. Was this made with a prototype?
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I had to program this and other special characters—notably •, ™, and ®—as an autohotkey script on my work PC. I was going insane. I already had autohotkey going to reverse the direction of Windows’ stubbon backwards scroll anyway. (Once I used so-called “natural scrolling” for a week it became impossible to understand why anyone would choose anything else.)