skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The internet will almost certainly spawn a social movement to destroy the class system in the US.

I'm unconvinced. The class system is, at its core, money. And short of eBay allowing people to sell second hand items peer to peer, I really don't think the internet has enabled economic mobility all that much. A select few in Silicon Valley have gotten very rich, certainly, but an effect on the population at large? Maybe it'll happen one day, but even stuff like Bitcoin has somehow transformed from "the new cash" to "the new speculative investment that promises to make people with disposable income even richer".
Interactive ML Analytics with Google's Facets Dive and Scikit-Learn
Yep! This is all of the configuration needed to use VSCode as a debugger for Ocaml:

https://i.imgur.com/kY6NuXC.jpg
Delays hit KodakCoin crypto-currency plans
The worst part about all these scams is that they seem to be generally perpetuated by (or at least the owners are) somewhat older people, lots of baby boomers and gen Xers, and invariably the people buying in are millennials or even younger.

It's a real shame to see so many scams along the various crypto chains transferring so much wealth from the young to the old. Like millennials haven't had it bad enough already.
Apple removes encrypted messaging app Telegram from App Store
Homoiconicity just means that procedures are stored in the same representation in which they are entered, or nearly (modulo tokenization and such). It was defined that way by the programmer who coined the term in the 1960's, and is well documented in the Wikipedia.

POSIX shells are homoiconic; you can type set to see all the functions, which are printed in reformatted source code, that you can copy and paste.

That could work in any interpreted language. Classic line number BASIC is homoiconic. You can LIST the lines of code.

A Lisp is useful even if it isn't homoiconic (functions cannot be edited). ANSI Lisp has some loosely defined support for homoiconicity via the ed function. This isn't used much; actual Lisp environments have other means to recall and edit a function definition, such as an IDE with buffers or REPL with history.

The term homoiconic doesn't really "nail it" when it comes to Lisp.
Forth. It's a procedural language stripped down to the absolute minimum amount of syntax. Somewhat like what lisp is to functional languages. Its low level and minimal overhead make it excellent for highly constrained embedded systems.
I afraid your post is too brief and vague to connect to anyone?
What if your server crashes after you commit to the database, but before you submit to elastic-search? Even if submitting is flawless, this still presents a problem.
Taxi service has been great in finland. Competent drivers (they know their way around the city) and clean cars. Pretty good availability, except for the one hour when the bars close when you have to fight for your life at the taxi stop :)

And you could actually make a decent living driving cabs.

This will probably change and the foreigners who now deliver our food (Foodora et.al.) will start driving taxis.

So drivers getting lost and crashing in the winter months because of lacking skills in snow driving. And of course not speaking finnish so handling the eldery and school transports which are a big service taxis provide here might get more difficult.
We'll see... But in my opinnion it is not possible to operate taxis much more cheaply (and with the same quality) as we have now.
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No, just raised poor in Appalachia on spring water (no floride) and a cultural expectation that false teeth and dieing in your 60s are normal.
I've been enjoying these lately:

* https://syntax.fm

* https://hasspodcast.io
The term fair use is US-only but many nations have similar concepts or concepts that overlap with it. Australia's 'fair dealing' policy allows for the use of copyrighted material without seeking approval if its purpose is in satire, research, reviewing, media criticism, or news reporting, for example. What's notable there is that length or amount used aren't as important, which has some positive effects but also some important negative ones (it would not be possible to create Google in Australia because taking the summary snippets and image thumbnails has no legal justification). Interestingly in the last big debate over loosening Australian copyright law and adopting broader fair use, the American MPAA was the biggest funder of opposition efforts.
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A friend of mine worked as a private investigator for years after his dream of entering law enforcement didn't pan out. His job was mostly investigating insurance claims. He would actually drive his car and park near the home of the claimant for days and take photographs of any activity that would tend to support or disprove their disability claim. He's moved on to another career now, mostly because the career path in that field was not great.

I'm not seeing how this is more invasive. I mean, people are making certain content public. Having a PI parked up the block in a car with tinted windows seems much more invasive and that is business as usual and legal for the insurance industry.
The lowest-hanging fruit is through accelerators / incubators, although no one has quite cracked the accelerator model for biopharma yet: diagnostics / tools / software can be great investments, but biopharma / therapeutics is where the real opportunity is though it is the most idiosyncratic business. While these are more accessible sources, they are also more picked over and investors need to rely on their own diligence to filter for quality:

Indie bio, qb3, Jlabs, illumina accelerator, start x, y combinator are prominent Bay Area ones

The best opportunities come from relationships with influential, well networked academic researchers; venture investors; r&d execs at big pharma; and successful serial entrepreneurs. If you have any of those in your network, that's the best place for high-quality deals. However big VCs often have established relationships with these folks and they will seed the most promising ideas

Universities also have a lot of events supporting startups and these can be a good way to get involved in the ecosystem and build a network. If you talk to enough phd students and postdocs you'll get a sense of what opportunities are out there. phd students and postdocs are an incredibly under appreciated group, and they have a ton of potential to start great companies if they get the right support. If you get smart on the space and make an effort to meet these folks you'll find many seed opportunities

Obviously these are not ideal paths. One of my passion projects is running a program that connects promising young scientists to life sci VCs to explore startup ideas. The main goal is mentoring young scientists as PhD students / postdocs are a woefully under appreciated sector of our workforce, but a few interesting startups have emerged from this as well.
I didn't say it was required. It's not uncommon for people to want to use ZFS specifically because they highly value data integrity. If that's the case, then it probably makes sense to use ECC.
Give it all up and become a mountain hermit? Live off the land, build a home out of logs and commune with the animals.....then when you get tired of that come back and remember why society is fairly great...or discover your true self and remain as a mountain hermit.
Everyone in crypto world knows that Tether is borderline fraud. Everyone's waiting for this correction. It's important for the coin and the people who invested in tether may get shafted. It's an important learning lesson. There are a lot of coins that may just not go anywhere. Don't read the whitepapers and make the right conclusions - and you're burned. Not defending tether at all. The top commenter is absolutely right about tether. Hope it dies fast.
Dear Eli: How introverts can network and get real tech job search results
Yeah, I'm talking about start-ups whose focus is getting and staying in the black (profits) as opposed to putting all the focus on growth and getting more and more VC. And as I mention below, I'm not ragging on the latter, just wish the former was more prevalent as that is the atmosphere I, as a developer, personally prefer.
Would you say that it's more likely that the rich are using the Illuminati OR the Greek Fraternity to collectively conspiring against the common man?
What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery
> Dentistry technology seems similar to battery technology in that these developments never seem to filter down out of the lab, ever.

What?

Batteries have made enormous strides in the past two decades. Surely, you remember the days of almost everything running off AAs, which took hours to recharge (If they were even rechargable), and tended to leak their contents at the slightest provocation.

Or, alternatively, you could shell out large amounts of money for lithium-ion batteries, which wouldn't hold half a charge after ~50 cycles, and which would be at 1/6th their original capacity after ~100 cycles.

If anything, battery technology has been a monumental success story. No, we don't have batteries based on unicorn farts that charge in 20 seconds, and hold more energy then gasoline. But what we do have is pretty damn amazing.
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I lost one of my front teeth and now have a titanium bolt threaded into the tooth socket, with a ceramic tooth screwed into the titanium bolt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_implant

There was a CT scan of my mouth, and then a bolt was selected and a ceramic tooth created that would accurately fill the gap. It works just like a real tooth, except it is slightly chunkier (but it's chunkier in the direction that points inside my mouth, so I'm the only person who can tell).

It felt pretty high-tech to me, although the article mentions that the first titanium dental implant was placed in 1965.
Just adding my own slight perspective here. We launched a bootstrapped genome sequencing facility August last year. With barely any advertising and word of mouth, we're clearing around 8% MoM revenue growth and are forecasting ~$350k-400k in revenue this year.

Biggest problem? We don't have enough float to keep up with demand. There's significant demand in the life sciences & biotech space right now - especially with the confluence of software and bio. It's been very hard to talk to investors because (no offense) they hear life sciences, bio, genetics, etc. and they turn away because it's out of their comfort zone of investing.

If you're an angel or seed investor, I'd highly recommend diving in and learning more around the problems of the space. They are large, lucrative, and have high probability of disruption compared to current status.
I have requested a refund because a driver asked me to cancel from the app. I'm on iOS but if you go Your Trips -> Find it -> I would like a refund. I was refunded in a very short amount of time from what I remember. edit: This is from the Uber app, not sure about Lyft.
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Work life balance is incredibly good here. We work a 9/80, meaning we work 9 hours a day and get every other Friday off. I usually use that off Friday to go surfing or hiking. There are a multitude of projects here that you would never get the opportunity to work on in the private world. Technologies include: C++, Java, C#, SQL, Machine Learning. Salary is competitive!

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> Drivers calling me to ask to cancel the ride

Tell them to cancel it if they want it cancelled!
Much better, it's certainly worth giving it another go. It's still much slower than Python, but it's quick enough that I don't notice it all.

$ time julia -e 'println("Hi")'
Hi

real 0m0.241s
user 0m0.216s
sys 0m0.196s
$ time python3 -c 'print("Hi")'
Hi

real 0m0.046s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m0.000s
> certain DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of a second, transiently morphing into alternative states that can allow the replication machinery to incorporate the wrong base pairs into its double helix

Sounds like a race condition bug...
But isn't AI getting percievably better every run?
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You can use it to record your screen, not just to live stream.
Any example? Just know that they are Functional Programming Languages. But I don't want to burden myself learning anything else because now I know a lot of things with which I can build Websites, Mobile & Desktop apps. So want to just apply it with Blogging as a hobby.
> That's missing the point

I didn't say it is mathematically wrong

> It is "wrong" by Ockham's razor.

You do know that there are dozens of mathematical and formal versions of Ockham's razor.

Show me a formal version in which it is wrong. Otherwise arguing about this is like discussing politics where the loudest voice wins. Using English to debate the philosophical foundations of physcis after almost a hundred years of Hilbert, Gödel etc is what is wrong.
> It really is true that there are unspoken codes and mores to follow, and it was uncomfortable when I didn't

Any examples spring to mind?
In what way is a transparent blockchain where every transaction is recorded and fully public analogous to unmarked bills?
Exactly! As for the driver calling to ask you to cancel, that should be on him. He should cancel, not the customer. That seems like a scam from his end. Trying to up his numbers, or keep from getting the ding from the cancellation.
This is my biggest complaint with these apps as well, its a terrible experience and I'm surprised they haven't hashed it out yet. Generally I call the driver and tell them I won't cancel and sometimes it works. If it doesn't then I open up the other app and hope it doesn't happen again.
"When you compare Linux and Windows applications feature for feature, there is very little, if anything, that Microsoft has that Linux hasn't yet perfected."

https://i.imgur.com/PcHtYWC.png
From what I can tell it is mature enough for stack overflow to use it
When I run elastic search out of the box, I've noticed that search is quite slow, on the order of 5 seconds per search, over say 10000 PDF documents (papers), on a single node. Is this normal? And is there an obvious place to look or a (quick) fix which doesn't require me to delve into the ES details too much? (as I'm not a Java person)
They aren't going anywhere, they are part of the browser stack. Now React, well lets seen in 5 years time.
> The internet will almost certainly spawn a social movement to destroy the class system in the US.

Right. I'm sure that the fact that the leading internet companies are run by Harvard (FB) and Stanford (Google) grads will not interfere with the Revolution in any way.
Audio only media being dominated by a few large players is nothing new, it's been done on talk radio for years.
Vermont Teddybear Company, Pajamagram (which I just found out is owned by Vermont Teddybear Company), and 1-800-Flowers ad reads are so burnt into my brain from years of listening to the radio and don't get me started about Cellino and Barnes or Foxwoods casino.
The class system in the US might be about money but here in the UK you can be penniless and still look down upon someone by being born into the right family!
Would that screen hurt the front passenger in case of airbag deployment?
I'm pretty sure this was the strategy before something resembling modern dentistry and basic oral hygiene became common place... As in, people would get all their teeth pulled out and made into a set of dentures for their 20th birthday due to the inevitability of the pain and loss after that age if they didn't.

I empathise with your having to deal with dental problems... Everyone experiences it at some point and no one enjoys it. But I think this is the right strategy for science, perhaps it wont help us directly, but it will help our ancestors.
Does this worker make me fill out a captcha twice a day to use the internet?
If uber charges you $5 and makes you spend an hour to reverse it, no one reverses it. Those $5 add up.
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HN should just change its name to Hate America and Capitalism Knews. Yet another all politics story about how America isn't perfect or capitalists is evil. A daily occurrence on HN.
Social movement encompasses rather more than just an economic movement, it also covers things like political unrest and direct action campaigns.
upvoting this for starting a healthy debate.
Ok, I guess I was kinda ragging on the latter but I shouldn't have, haha!
That's a fantastic question.

It's not ready yet, but we're hoping to roll out import pinning for notebooks soon.

Each notebook is versioned — every time you make a change and re-run the cell, a version is saved to the server. And every time you publish, that's a publication of a specific version of the notebook.

Our plan is to pin the version of any code you import from outside the notebook, including require(npm-module), import {value} from "other-notebook", and even the version of the Observable standard library that was current when you wrote the notebook.

Hopefully, that should provide a good foundation for robust notebooks that don't break as libraries change over time. Of course, you'll be able to re-pin a new version if you want to upgrade something.
I enjoy:

- "The Daily" by the NYT - High Quality, but it is skewed towards "liberal ideas".

- "Who? Weekly" - This is a weird one for this crowd, but it's 2 people who are deep into celebrity culture and it's fun to get outside of my depth.

- "Limited Resources" - MTG podcast with great in depth coverage of the limited format

- "S-Town" - Fun narrative podcast, that opened some ethical questions by the end, but I think would def make this crowd cry.
6,000.. Wow! I seriously assumed just a couple of administrators
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Nimble Labs is looking for a senior level developer to help us work on a new data visualization platform that we are currently developing.

This is a hands on coding position. Looking for developers that are "Smart and Gets Things Done" and also "Done, Gets Things Smart". (google those terms if you haven't heard them)

In a perfect world you would already be well versed in Javascript and front end development (we are using Vue.js as our framework and D3 for visualizations). Rails experience would also be helpful, but intelligence, work ethic and willingness to write tests are all required.

Ideal candidate would have a high upper bound on potential and also have aspirations to become a CTO level team member.

This will be a salary + equity position. Full-time employee only. Must be based in the United States. Remote is allowed. Preference will be given to candidates local to Austin, TX, but only if everything else appears equal. Skill is the ultimate arbiter.

Please email me at harris at nimblelabs.com and let me know what you scored on the math portion of the SAT/ACT and provide any relevant links to corroborate your skillset.
> If this program is to be rolled out a national scale, the govt. needs to address the systematic corruption in the healthcare industry first.

I think it depends on how much corruption is tolerable when trying to achieve such an important goal.