skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the names mixed up, it was Andrew Koenig not Bjarne.

"My attempts to implement algorithms that work on any sequential structure (both lists and arrays) failed because of the state of Ada compilers at the time."

"In 1987 at Bell Labs Andy Koenig taught me the semantics of
C. The abstract machine behind C was a revelation. I also read lots of UNIX and Plan 9 code: Ken Thompson’s and Rob Pike’s programming style certainly influenced STL. In any case, in 1987 C++ was not ready for STL and I had to move on. "

"In 1993, after 5 years working on unrelated projects, I returned to generic programming. Andy Koenig suggested that I write a proposal for including my library into the
C++ standard, Bjarne Stroustrup enthusiastically endorsed the proposal and in less than a year STL was accepted into the standard. STL is the result of 20 years of thinking but of less than 2 years of funding."

http://stepanovpapers.com/history%20of%20STL.pdf
Detectron
I'm not sure we disagree?

My original comment said public art that looks ugly to many people is harming them, so elites should stop pushing it.

Then Matt said art shouldn't be concerned with beauty. I disagreed, and argued that artists should try to express their ideas with beauty. That standard (whether the artist tried to achieve subjective beauty) is actually objective. For example, we know that Hunter Thompson tried to create something beautiful according to him. After all, many other people found his work beautiful, and that can't happen by accident. Another example of such attitude in modern art is Rothko. I'm not a fan of his paintings, but he clearly went to extreme lengths in pursuit of beauty, and I can easily imagine how someone could fall in love with them.

Compare that to many artists today who don't try to express their ideas with beauty. They explicitly say as much. Read Matt's comments: beauty is merely "design", winning power games is what matters... That trend is causing the current wave of public art that looks ugly to almost everyone.
SEC Chairman’s Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute Regarding ICOs
You cannot learn React in one day. No matter how clever you are. You can learn enough to start coding but, until you understand Redux, how to use selectors with Reselect, middlewares, async-actions and the component lifecycle, you will be writing awful code.

Some people, when they pick a new technology, they choose to spend an afternoon reading half tutorial and then start coding straight away. By the time they finally "get it" and start to write decent code, they already put 5000 lines of spaghetti in production that some other developer will have to cope with in the future.
Every browser made for years just lets you type search terms in the address bar. You never need to go to google.com or duckduckgo.com or anywhere else to search, just set the search engine for the browser. (Not to mention bookmarks were invented in... 1995?)
Drug addiction is so bad because drugs fuck with your priorities at a very basic level. Asking someone to give up a heroin addiction is kind of like asking you to abandon your children. Sure it is physically possible to do it (not even that hard, really!) but if you have kids you know how impossible that would feel.

And when you are off them, you still feel that affinity, just as you would forever miss your kids.
True, but the reality is: Disney is going their own way. HBO, DC, CBS are all going their own way. The idea of a "one stop shop", also known as a monopoly doesn't make sense as soon as the market is large enough for multiple players.

Netflix doesn't want to pay the prices they'd have to in order to remain a one-stop shop, it certainly isn't practical at $9.99 a subscription.

There's no way the $100 a month cable subscription was suddenly going to be replaced by a $10 a month subscription. Now you can get CBS All Access, Netflix, Hulu, HBO GO, the new DC comics streaming service, the new Disney streaming service, a couple more probably, and you'll still be paying $100 a month... just a la carte for the channels you want.
Probably most of that was in December, so: massive growth.
I think the change is going the other direction. Native code and clean libs that don't depend on window/document globals are coming to the web via projects like this and the other 1/2 dozen ways the browser now has of running gcc/llvm target output.
Keep in mind, though, that the constraints for Bitcoin mining are a lot different. The Bitmain chips are far smaller than the NVIDIA ones to increase yield, so the absolute chip counts will be higher but NVIDIA is probably still ahead in terms of area shipped (latency is totally unimportant so no reason to have gigantic chips).
Not yet, it’s explored for prevention and some treatments but it’s not a cure on any measurable scale.

Only a few cancers have been tied to specific genes and even then it’s not exactly clear.
It's not true enjoyment, but mindless engagement exploited for profit.

Slot machines are "enjoyment" for many millions.

It's a tightrope walk that doesn't really lead anywhere constructive to try and make a judgement between good, bad and "true" enjoyment. Unfortunately because it's so subjective and laden with judgement calls, you'll never settle on a definition for what is and is not a "true" form or enjoyment.
How US 'get out of jail free' cards work
If it's at all effective congress will preempt it.
Since SARS in Toronto, it's become more and more prevalent, especially among Asians. I was in high school at the time, and we used to make fun of people wearing these masks, and how crazy they looked.

Now in my older and wiser years, I realize that they were probably the smart ones!
I don't think this is the norm. My experience is at least as anecdotal, but most of my friends in tech seem to work pretty hard.
Don't you know people can't be trusted? e.g. compulsory seat belt use laws.
I don't think $1B is the transaction amount.
In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1]
Their trade fees are around 0.25%[2] so in the last 24hr they made over $60M in Bitcoin trading alone.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/gdax/
[2] https://support.gdax.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2425097...
Would you please not post snarky and/or unsubstantive comments?
Is this going to help BTC’s price as it’s been falling past two days?
China also sells to the rest of the world. Who will buy overpriced American solar panels?
A list of regexes is a list.

A list with one entry is also a list.
They're all over the San Antonio Zoo as well. My kids loved making them.
He did win though, so while there may have been unusual circumstances suggested by other commenters - he had some support of the people of the state.
> and a large majority of his campaign was self-funded or from small individual donors.

Source, please? Given the absurd amount of corruption going on in the administration (i.e. the missing inaugural funds and Mar-a-lago vacations, to name just a tiny fraction) and Trump's own charities, I find the idea that he spent even a penny of his own money on his campaign laughable based on first principles. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary, other than his own patently unreliable rhetoric.
So is YC sitting on a 5% holding in a $3B+ company?
Netflix original content is a mixed bag. They have some really good shows, and some more forgettable ones that are the type you throw on for background noise.
Your counter example uses a trusted source of info. The people who actively read those sources likely DO trust them. Facebook lets anyone post anything (to the extent that fake news is a huge problem), and reaches a much larger audience.
As a gamer, it sucks terribly. I want a 1080 Ti but they're impossible to find for a reasonable price.
$1 Billion in REVENUE, not volume transacted. They transacted $681,271,650 USD in the last 24 hours alone.
Quickly skimming, am I correct in assuming they are only looking at meals that contain a high carbohydrate load? Considering that a popular theory for avoiding bad post-prandial glycemic responses is to avoid eating a lot of carbs, this seems...curious.

Or did I misunderstand?

(E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzcOz38FjaU&t=2s)
Working hours have gotten longer in the US with the decreased power of unions.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208686.
The scifi novel "Spin" explores something a bit like this. Pretty cool.
So then this would seem to be a good argument against the idea of Comcast or Century Link being a monopoly and a serious argument against the idea that net neutrality needs laws to enforce it.
I hate this response. It's such a classic copout and one that attempts to completely nullify any argument for personal responsibility. We just don't "understand" how drug addiction works. Right.

How have some people come to believe that simply being prescribed these medications and taking them as prescribed STRIPS the patient of mental faculty to notice a problem, and renders them utterly dependent and hopeless? That's just not the case, at all. There's plenty of information available to patients about the risk of dependency and many choose to avoid it because, well, it feels good.

I know some addicts. Those that are clean today are clean because (in addition to many other proactive steps) they recognized that it WAS within their power to stop. They admit and recognized that they ABUSED the medication willingly, and despite sobriety being very difficult, is still a choice they can make.
Who builds those robots? Who installs them. Who creates the factories? Who designs the robotic software. Who sells that software & robotics equipment. Who makes the raw material.

> If China can make cheaper solar panels, LET THEM.

That's a short term win long term loss attitude. China then becomes the R&D center for the next gen energy equipment. That's not in the best long term interest of the US.
If it's not a joke, it's at least an exercise in absurdity.

I wrote a regex that would allow things that aren't facebook, and then you said "No, you're not allowing things that aren't facebook, you're not allowing things that don't match not being facebook".

If it's not a white-list, it's at least an opposite-of-black-list.
If you assume you can make payments, then you are equivalently assuming your job has present asset value (or that you have human capital). So yes, a full accounting will show you are not actually underwater.

If you are delusional and have no job security, then yes, you're worse off than the child.
I feel ya.

I'm watching a 2013 TV Series, it's not on Netflix, and I can't find any seeds for it.
> and X server (no Wayland)

May I know why that is? By all accounts, Wayland is more adapted to embedded devices, with a cleaner architecture. I don't think that you need features such as xdraw, printer and gpu drivers, input handling or a lot of what isn't display related baked into the compositor.

I tkink that PostmarketOS could actually fit your goal quite well (you can run a variety of desktop environments on it, with Xorg o'er Wayland, including lightweight ones such as i3). But of course, the project is still in its infancy, although the community is pretty welcoming, and would probably be happy to help you get started ;)
Seems pretty similar to fire fighters having special license plates/stickers.
What an incredibly naive statement.
> Hyped up stuff like Docker & co are the few written in Go and often not mature and stable enough for enterprise.

Haha, you're funny!
> it's almost taboo to suggest that our brains are, in fact, unique, that we don't all experience the world the same way

We can only hope (and work towards) that will change. Of all the things I've read in the last year, Andy Clark's "Surfing Uncertainty" [0] has most changed my view on the experience of being.

You can read a synopsis at the link, but my quick take is that its core premise is that based on the totality of our life experience, our brain creates models of the world and our interactions with it. Our everyday experience of the world is then the interaction between what our brain predicts will happen from the model, error corrected via our sensory input.

So yes, everyone is unique and experiences the world differently. Where this is relevant to pain is realising how much of pain is in our head (so to speak). I started thinking about this originally when I was trying to work out why I would voluntarily put myself through the "pain" of long-distance running...

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25823558-surfing-uncerta...
Absolutely. I don't speak Polish and I was able to open a company, find an accountant, hire help.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not political flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SpaceX gets good news from the Air Force on the Zuma mission
They are useful.

However: I think there was a bit of deceit in the initial marketing push by the drug manufacturers which indicated "not addictive" when this was known to be false, so over-perscribed.
I've had a Coinbase account for years, and am verified. For some reason, I need extra verification for GDAX. When I try to do this, it always fails, with no explanation given except to try again later. So as much as I like Coinbase, and would like to use GDAX, it seems they haven't been able to handle the scaling load. It's frustrating.
> that this is all you can come up with.

Its not though is it. He was making a point about the subjectivity of it.
Browser-based Botnets
Your local library may carry DVDs of it, for free to checkout.

Not saying you should rip them. Or seed those rips.
You could probably do some very interesting work with Go and lattice theory. It's a very symmetric game
Please don't post political flamebait to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is China dumping subsidized oil/coal into the global market?
Problem with iPhone is when Apple decides to pull the plug with iOS support. Android devices suffer from the same problem with their vendor, but then you can flash it with e.g. LineageOS (+ microG if you wanna avoid Google) or postmarketOS.
I do imagine that it's not significantly different than the professional courtesy one would likely get in a smaller department. But NY being so large, where there's no chance any given officer knows who another officer's family is, they need some sort of card. "I'm Officer Smith's wife" doesn't cut it in NY.

But it is amazing how much official bureaucracy has been placed on a system... designed to give people a loophole out of the bureaucracy.
My car isn’t supported (few years too old), but I am running chffr+panda out of a sense of curiosity and for some internet points.

Any plans to add detection/visualization for iOS chffr? Also, what does grey panda do?
Facebook announces that it has invented a new unit of time
There are many ways to spread it evenly. You can build infrastructure, or make loans and investments to capital-constrained communities, etc.
I feel libraries should be doing this. Maybe the national library of each country should archive every out of license movie. Heck they can even just use Youtube if they don't have the infrastructure to do so.
These have been around forever, I grew up in NJ and a friend's father was a cop so he had one. Definitely a corrupt thing that should be eliminated. A few dynamics I remember:

- many cops saw PBA cards as corrupt and insulting. So the rule of thumb was you never offered these, you just let the card be visible when reaching for your license. If the cop was in on it they'd then ask you about where you got the card. It was a huge no-no to offer it not just because some cops didn't take it but because even those who would could probably be offended by you not deferring to their authority to decide to ask about it (ie offer to give you a pass) or for being entitled. The net dynamic you wanted was the cop to of his own volition see the card and decide if he wanted to cut you a break since he knew you were connected to the police somehow. (Ie, total corrupt dynamic)

- a big variable was if they took the card or let you keep it. If you were a son or daughter of a cop you probably never got it taken. Otherwise you'd get it taken if you would have otherwise gotten a ticket. If you were just being pulled over for no good reason they'd probably not take the card from you so you could "use" it again.

- these were not gonna get you out of trouble if you did something more than speeding, talking on a cell, etc. If you ran a light or stop sign it was borderline. If you committed a felony or were drunk etc then flashing your PBA card probably would have made your life worse.
More like 7%, and yes, YC will typically "sit" and not do anything. In fact, given that Coinbase has raised recently, YC's share is probably higher than 7% through the YC Continuity fund.

Who knows what will happen once an IPO happens, but no YC company has reached that point yet. We'll find out soon with Dropbox.
>> Star Wars

Clone Wars is good. The first season has some questionable animation quality, but it improves.
> So we should rather invest in IPOs that pop as soon as they're available to retail investors right?

IPOs are regulated, so there isn't that much of a mess around them, and it's more difficult for people who shouldn't be investing to play that game. That's on purpose, and it came to be through some hard-learned lessons.

> If our monetary system was so good we wouldn't be in 19 trillion in debt

National / international debt is, first and foremost, a tool, and it doesn't work the same way the "regular" debt does.

> and cryptocurrencies would have no reason to be adopted

They still don't. They live as long as they get to be financial wild-west, where it's easy to get rich off fools.

> there is a reason why Bitcoin debuted in 2009 after the 2008 Recession...

Yes, because it was developed around then.

> When the government does bailouts and Quantitative Easing, this can be seen as a scam to some

Maybe, but then again taxes are seen as theft by some. We can talk about ideologies all day, but in the real world, the "traditional" system still remains somewhat suitable for running a technological civilization, whereas cryptocurrencies are not, and will not because they don't scale well.
Bah. That's either wrong or overly pedantic, depending on the case.

At least Newton's lab of universal gravitation and Coulomb's law defined their eponymous constants directly.

In other cases the people doing the defining named them retrospectively after the originator of, or most significant contributor to, the concept that motivated the definition.

The point is that we ascribe enough invention to these definitions to commonly name them after the people who invented them.
Microsoft aligns its different Office code bases as of the latest Mac Office
This is definitely creating value for TSMC shareholders, and for it's country (taxes).
I just found one on ebay...for only 10 dollars; and shipping is 2 dollars for US domestic destination...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PATROLMENS-BENEVOLENT-ASSOCIATION-Y...

The product description says it's obsolete but I don't see any invalidation cut or mark on the badge...seems to be still legit...

Not sure if there is one available for other states...
Wonder why Q4 had such a big bump but Q1 2018 seems to be dropping back down to prior levels. Is this just people purchasing subscriptions at the holiday? Discounts? Special content?
Police should believe in the Rule of Law, capitalized like this, as their prime directive. Cards say otherwise, and that's the offensive part.
Considering this means a lot of low quality sitcoms and endless comic book television series (until the next fad is made manifest), its hardly a value proposition.
Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature
this is likely to be an unpopular opinion but I hope they produce content that is also family appropriate. It doesn't have to suck or be cliche, just be relatively clean. Too much of the original content I am seeing is TV-MA. If they do this they will enfranchise many families to ditch cable than would otherwise have done so.
"Panels account for about 40 percent of the cost of solar farms" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-22/itc-votes...

If that's true, then 30% more expensive panels would increase the cost of a solar farm by 12%, falling to 30%/6% in 4 years.
$100B?! That's like Dogecoin X 50 back in the day.*

(* which is to say last week.)
They're a pyramid scheme with a pinch of showbusiness sprinkled on top :).
While the pharmaceutical companies deserve penalties, it's ridiculous that someone with a pre-existing Valium addiction and a history of "hard drug" addiction is blaming the pharmaceutical companies.

Nan, admit it, you like getting high.
To me it seems that having gendarmes with big guns wandering around is very third world and the civilised thing to do is have unarmed police like in Ireland. Our police are mildly corrupt, but at least they don't shoot people.
The movie plot here is to secretly get 51% of the hashrate, cash out a billion-dollar fraud, then walk away. In reality it's unlikely to happen.
Out of all of these types of terms, I like the aviation industry's term for a crash the most: uncontrolled flight into terrain.
As with the rest of the Drug War the only losers are the hard working taxpayers, and the elderly or disabled who depend on the drug for pain relief via government support. It is doing nothing to stop the flow of drugs, fentanyl is flowing into the streets from China now, in addition to the existing infrastructure bringing in black tar from South America and heroin from the Golden Triangle in Asia.
> There are plenty of ICOs with legit projects.

Name three.
Duplicate discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208392
US industry is actually very competitive with Chinese industry when it comes to the key ingredient in silicon PV, high purity silicon. Unfortunately, retaliatory tariffs from China that followed the last round of anti-Chinese solar tariffs in the US have prevented US silicon exporters from serving the huge Chinese solar silicon market. Hemlock had to write off over a billion dollars and mothball a nearly-finished US silicon plant, and REC and Wacker's plants in the US are running below capacity. So there is plenty of high quality, low cost refined silicon capacity in the US if wafer and cell plants start operating here. Specialized solar manufacturing equipment is more likely to come from European companies, e.g. Meyer Burger.
May I know why my post has been removed from hn?
I've bought a 1070 last year for machine learning and used it for a few days.

Now I don't know what to do: sell it since Volta will be a game-changer for ML anyway, but what if when I will want to do ML again it will be impossible to buy any card?
No, they are not pyramid schemes per se - they are more of an inverse funnel.
Alternately, Netflix's DVD service is still around and still has a much better selection than Netflix.
>> the donation is to the labor union representing the police officers.

Not always. Many US department accept donations directly. Often people donate equipment, up to and including cars. The Tulsa shooting in 2015 involved an insurance salesman acting as a "volunteer" police officer. He had donated substantially to the force and was, allegedly, given privileges in recompense. Pay to play imho.
Funny nobody ever asks how rational employers are, in squeezing the wages of their consumers.
The units were names in honpur of those people, they (usually) didn't define them themselves.
I think that the idea that the US can't manufacture things cost-effectively is as dangerous as it is ludicrous.

China will be selling to less of the rest of the world once the rest of the world stops allowing economic dumping from China.
Cryptomarket manipulation groups
Clarifying, download + standard license to the copyrighted content in all formats in perpetuity only.
Alternative definition for NTSC -- Not The Smartest Choice. In contrast to PAL, which was specifically designed to overcome NTSC's shortcomings.