skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re correct about gaining an education that has nothing to do with employment as a signaling device. Your comment touches on my other point though. Regardless of employment options, “thinking” in the 21st century means STEM. Not knowing how to program is similar to not knowing how to read. I do think there’s a natural aptitude required to do STEM that has no relation to class. I think that’s why we see a lot of anti-tech commentary from institutions that have traditionally branded liberal arts as the only way to “think”.
Analysts do this tactic of pushing negative news (rumors and it snowballs) waiting for the stock to take a hit, then upgrading the stock later. This primary allows big money (funds) to buy stocks at lower prices capitalizing on "value".
I'm trying to learn to speedcube after recently relearning the slow solve algorithms. CFOP/Fridrich is very different from the traditional layer-by-layer method, and holding the cube "upside down," minimizing cube turns and trying to look ahead involves a lot of unlearning. (I first learned to solve the cube, not for time, in undergrad in '82 from a friend who had wild names for the algorithms like the "gabingabang," the "double gabinggabang," and the "kerflipkaflop.")

Cracking the Cube [1] is a fun and comprehensive look at the history of speedcubing, including the author's own quest to hit a sub-20.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430754-cracking-the-cu...
Everyone dies exactly once, no matter what they do, so I question whether driving causes any deaths at all. I think the comparison might need to be put in terms of quality adjusted person-years of life lost or something. People get tunnel vision when focused on optimizing a certain metric. If nobody was driving, how much would life expectancy go up?
I feel terribly for the family and my condolences for their loss.

If a family wants to keep a brain-dead body alive, it should be their right. However the family is on Medicaid, and the article says the girl's body costs the state of NJ 150K per week for 24/7 nursing care. That's 8 million dollars a year the taxpayers are spending while this family lives in denial.

How many living kids could be helped with 8 million a year in Medicaid funding?

It's tragic to see a little girl die from a tonsil removal operation. And If the McMath family can arrange for private funding for this, then so be it, but millions of public tax dollars are sadly better spent on the living.
Super-unethical? Is there a standard rubric for that, or do you just strenuously object?
Ditto. IMHO their business model isn't hard to replicate, they didn't invent it, and their biggest asset is inertia-eyeballs. Although they are a YC darling, the fact is they scaled with loads of marketing dollar versus established competition (eg. in Europe) and what this shows us is huge financial backing and aggressive media engagement can create a sector-specific behemoth. For all intents and purposes in the current world it has already plateaued, though. There's a school of thought that they are probably one of the last paper-valuation giants to climb out of the centralized marketplace world.

In future, perhaps consumers won't use branded marketplace apps and will instead publish data independently, branded search engine apps will rank and return it and third party reputation services will assist with filtering. Why? Because nobody wants a damn middleman app demanding its own permissions/login/customer service loop for everything they do, and people are slowly ceding anonymity for promises of assurance as the resource-constrained, higher-density, more urban world moves toward the political right.

A cryptocurrency AirBNB clone could take a serious chunk out of their market, since so many hosts are flying close to or beyond the legal or strata relations radar and would prefer not to declare earnings.
I miss segfault.org. It is still there on the wayback machine. It contained well written parody tech stories.
Apple sold fewer phones than analysts expected, and fewer than they did last year. They sold 77.3m phones, and analysts expected them to sell 80.2m. They had greater revenue because the average price of phones has gone up.

Apple issued guidance for this quarter that they expected revenue to be $60-62b. Analysts expected revenue of $65.9b.

Stocks are priced on the expectation of the future, so the change in the expectation has probably had a negative effect on the price. As an individual investor (disclosure: I own a little AAPL) I think it is foolish to worry quarterly earnings and revenue forecasts. Yet it is what people write about. It is easier to write about quarterly earnings then it is to write about industry trends, in the same way it is easier to write about polls than it is to write about policy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-01/apple-for...
The problem is bigger than misconfugured locale, namely: what is the encoding used for notionaly text zero-terminated strings that pass through the unix kernel (eg. filenames and program arguments)? There is no way to reliably and portably deduce that from locales.
For money, and whatever else, it seems. [1] It's a shame because it works well. I asked in their Slack channel if there would be a way to use Franz 5 without that, and was told no. The code has been open-sourced [2], so perhaps someone could fork it.

[1] https://meetfranz.com/pricing/
[2] https://www.github.com/meetfranz/franz
If even mundane stuff keeps breaking your workflow and demands all of your time to keep up with, then all the power for reinventing it.

All the better if it is simple.
Free Electrons becomes Bootlin
Amazon is using the Echo/Alexa to get direct access to consumers, and reduce friction shopping with Amazon:

Millions on Alexa Super Bowl commercial:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/so-whats-up-with-amazons-a...
Ah dentists. Following the same sophisticated techniques for the past 3,000 years.

If something is in pain just chop it / remove it.
Not my dentist. He's honest.
It depends on what you're doing with it, I'd guess.
The question was for reasons to __not__ remove them.
Function composition do most of that. Now, I said it was a fundamental explanation, not necessarily the whole story.
The trace_macros! stringifier isn't inserting parens when required: due to the use of 'expr' the macro is treating 3 + 7 as a single node X, and then the multiplication with 4 is, in the AST, X * 4 (i.e. correct). The thing that is being printed there is the recursive rpn invocation in the @op branch, and specifically the '$a $op $b', which is a "disconnected" sequence of AST items/token trees. Once it's forced to be parsed as an expression (that is, when matched against the recursive '$... : expr' rules), the printer handles it correctly. For instance, the last 'to' line of the output in the example you quote, or, if that example is changed to 'rpn!(2 3 7 + 4 * 5)', the trace_macros output includes:

...
= note: to `rpn ! ( [ 5 , (3 + 7) * 4 , 2 ] )`
= note: expanding `rpn! { [ 5 , (3 + 7) * 4 , 2 ] }`
...
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You will work closely with our Product and QA teams to turn designs and feature ideas into provable customer value. This often requires coding up and down the stack. Many days you will be writing SQL to CSS and most of the languages in between.

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> Apparently he's been pretty consistent in getting big leaks like this right:

This still makes it a rumour.
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We are currently looking for iOS & Full Stack developers to continue development of our first client apps. These are flight logging tools which solve real problems and replace traditionally paper-based and manual processes. We are looking for people with a passion for Aviation, and the drive to continually learn & improve. As an early stage member of the team, you will have a great opportunity to influence architecture and product direction.

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That would continue to work fine with a default same origin allowance. A separate domain would require a referral policy.
The current, negative narrative around the iPhone X is based on supply chain rumors. We don't know what Apple's original orders to suppliers were, but the numbers in many rumors were: "Apple cuts production 50%, from 40M to 20M." Analysts try to tease these numbers from the supply chain, but Apple is notoriously opaque with their supply chain, and typically use multiple suppliers for the same part.

As noted by @rjones [1], 2Q total units sold historically range between 50-52M.

If Apple had originally placed orders in Q218 for 40M iPhone Xs, then either a) iPhone X is 80% of all iPhone sales, which is hard to believe because of the current lineup diversity, or b) Apple expects total unit sales for 2Q18 to be above 80M, which is hard to believe because of 1Q18 guidance.

The better explanation is that Apple probably cut production for any number of reasons, but nowhere near as drastic as 50%. 20M is 40% of 51M, which would point to the iPhone X selling very well through 2Q18, and continuing to be the best-selling iPhone model.

[1] - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/958421107245232128
That could mean demand is down, or it could mean that supplies are up.
UK’s Royal Mint Launches Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency
Exactly this. There's a ton of gray here. Have to pick your battles as best as you can.

Another example are game engines. Hard deny the value engines like Unreal and Unity provide. They are hard to ignore and have thousands of expert hours put into them.
Many Lisp dialects are not homoiconic, as defined in the Wikipedia page for "homoiconic".

Homoiconic means that procedures are stored in representation in which they are written, or more or less.

A Lisp that compiles everything entered at the REPL isn't homoiconic. The input looks like (lambda (...) ...), but the storage is some block of x86 machine code with an environment vector.

POSIX shells are homoiconic. When you type set, you see your functions, in source code form (modulo reformatting).

The thing you want for metaprogramming is a smart internal representation of program text (not same as the external one).
Tanks is a unity game, so it's representative of the (probably) single most popular use case for WebAssembly right now.
They are making one of the biggest tax payments in history ($38 billion). Let's stop with the Apple being a tax dodger outrage.
Super Mario Kart at 25: Dissecting a revolutionary game design
>I want to teach...

>I don't think this would interest any 8 year old...

Sounds like you're filling you back pocket with goodies to share... But don't hold back, don't limit the selection only to what you think a kid would like. Why?

Since I was 5 I remember being ravenous for all the complexity and hidden knowledge of the adult world. Cursive, how driving works, cursing (lol)... This was before the wide adoption of in-home personal computers, but I suspect if I had been born 20 years later I would have gobbled up any and all technical data on how those things worked.

I say don't hold back. Heck, even offer up some super technical obscurities like Fortran or assembly or MIDI. The more esoteric the better. Be the bottomless cornucopia.
I was going to reply to the general point, but I got interested on this:

> you try moving 50 different clients off the service they've been using for three years

This sounds like a major red flag.

Are they on-prem air gapped servers? Do you manage the infrastructure? Because if you do and they aren't, they are not supposed to see it. And if it is automated, what does it matter if there are 50 or 50 thousand clients?

The point of the cloud is that the customers don't have to care. And you also shouldn't care about individual servers. Or even clusters.

On K8s, it does a lot of really neat stuff that would keep me awake at night otherwise. Oh a K8s worker VM died in AWS. I don't care. There's a machine that's misbehaving. Kill it, another one will come, containers will spawn there. I don't care. Need more container instances, done. Need to deploy a new service? Push the new yaml to the server, done.

Upgrade twice a year and you'll be ok, unless your dev team insists on new features.
If you want to confirm a severe case of apnea, it's extremely simple: record yourself during the night. Then listen to the recording and look for moments when you stop breathing completely.

Milder cases of apnea require a more thorough counting of apnea events to confirm; that ought to be done in a proper sleep lab.
>> Is there really a difference between what he does and me getting on my bike and riding in the presence of pedestrians?

There's a difference of scale, for sure. If you crash onto someone with your bike you won't necesarily kill them, you might not even injure them. But with what this guy is doing, one mistake means uncertain death (he will certainly die, we just don't know exactly how).

Obviously, if he hits someone on the way down, that someone is also dead on the spot. I don't think that's such a big issue though. For me it's just stupid to do something that dangerous for the fame of it, especially if you risk encouraging others doing the same.
>We can have a sensible discussion without condescension.

Fair.

>I've "experienced bottom" and I don't really find what I said to be inflammatory or offensive, if we're willing to be honest with ourselves, it's rather quite self-evident.

Well no. It may be self-evident when you're honest with yourself but when "we're" honest with "ourselves" it's not at all, hence the downvotes and disagreement in the replies.

>I'm familiar with how "easy" or not it is - I've lived it. If you graduate high school and don't have a kid before you are married, you're pretty much guaranteed to enter the middle-class.

This is the success sequence stuff? Look it's just not very true. Almost the entirety of various 'success sequence' poverty figures can be explained by one thing: maintaining full-time work. Everything else is small or zero. Well maintaining full-time work isn't always easy! There's a variety of circumstances outside ones control which can affect your ability to maintain full-time work.

http://www.demos.org/blog/8/13/15/success-sequence-extremely...

>What exactly do you mean? Do I think that racially homogeneous societies exhibit more social order? I don't know, that to me sounds like a question for a social scientist or sociologist.

You didn't need a social scientist or sociologist to declare that class distinctions are natural and helpful. Why the trepidation on race?

>I don't find it to be analogous to what we're talking about here though, as one cannot change their race, but many are socially mobile.

Are many mobile in an effortful sense though? Say I have a society where at birth we roll a bingo machine filled with balls 1-5 and we assign you to a quintile. This society would demonstrate perfect intergenerational mobility yet there would be no way to exert effort and change your circumstance - same as race. Now what if instead of a bingo machine we just had a very large 'luck' component to mobility? It's the same deal. It's not just about how many went from bottom quintile to third quintile or better, it's about how it happened.
High average phone revenue means more X's are selling.
Hate how they’ve complicated notes and messages and am not elderly!
> Eluding taxes is super-unethical.

Debatable - some of us hold taxation to be tantamount to theft, so we believe in the exact opposite. I'm not here to debate or change your mind though, just offering a perspective.

> America made it possible for them to start a company like that....

What do you mean by "America" made it possible? Steve Jobs, Wozniak, and all the other people who worked there made it possible.

> people gave the a shitload of money,

No one "gave" them money. They voluntarily purchased a product or service.

> It doesn't matter if one is obliged by law to do something or not.

Yes it does.

> I don't have to offer an old lady my seat on the bus, but what kind of piece of shit doesn't do that?

That...is a ridiculous analogy.
Concepts (lite, the version that is still around) are "one-way." They constrain what types you can use as template arguments, but they do not constrain what templates can do.

Which means the templates themselves can still impose additional requirements based only on their internals, leading to the same bad error messages for users and lack of checking for library authors that we have without concepts.
I agree with you, but those social issue narratives are much easier to consume than the far more wonkish economic policy world.

Why should a member of the bottom 70% care that the top marginal corporate rate was just cut from 36% to 21%?
Everybody else is talking about today.

I'm talking about tomorrow.

Here, I'll give you the obvious scenario.

Apple wilts. There are no exceptions, all the top corporations from each generation falter to one degree or another. The very few that are lucky or good enough, revive after taking a big hit.

Profits fall to $12 billion, or $25 billion. I'm not even modeling a loss scenario here, I'm being generous.

Shareholders are used to being bribed with fat buybacks, financial engineering. They also like the solid dividend, which then has to be slashed as the situation worsens. Simultaneously Apple has immense capital outlay requirements to maintain their margins. They're also bloated on labor, as they massively bulked up on employees and operational costs (the new HQ, and HQ2 et al.) during the extremely fat years, that means mass firings.

The market cap crumbles, 15 pe * $25 billion = $375 billion. Now shareholders are really ticked off.

$200 billion in debt. $200 billion in cash. Hey, debt is cheap after all, so why not.

Today their net income is more like $50 billion against ~$104 billion in long-term debt; a two to one ratio. Now make that ~$20 billion in net income against $200 billion in long-term debt; a ten to one ratio.

That $200 billion debt level will be reached in just four or five years at this point, if they don't stop accumulating at the rate they are.

Interest costs rise considerably as the market has a lot less confidence in Apple's prospects. How does just 5% sound on $200 billion, $10 billion in interest costs, while yielding $20 billion in net income. That becomes a debt hell, that is nearly impossible to get out of. This is not a reach, this is almost guaranteed to happen at some point if they keep pushing the debt up (unless one assumes the utopia outcome, where Apple is the sole exception in US history, and they just soar forever).

That's the medium outcome scenario. Feel free to model the bad scenario where the iPhone loses its place in the market. In that scenario, Apple goes bankrupt again circa 2030.

It could never happen, that the present Apple glory falters, everyone will say. My refutation: it has never not happened in US industrial history, that the top tier giants don't tumble (typically in a big way). Apple is far more exposed to that outcome than the very few corporate giants that have done it best over long periods of time, such as Exxon (even they just saw their profits contract toward zero when oil crashed).

And that's why you get rid of the debt.

Just ask GE how they feel about their present balance sheet (negative $32 billion in net tangible assets). GE was on top of the world not very long ago. They're not the same situations, skeptics will declare; of course not, they don't have to be, Apple will follow its own unique scenario of faltering, as all companies do.
That is a very informative source, thank you!
I’m happy to see inlining on the common Array.prototype functions.
Best of luck, I know how frustrating it can be when you’re doing everything right, and the dentist still has bad news.
A 100 billion dollar industry that I have almost no exposure to thanks to an unpaid developer.

Thanks Gorhill and all the list maintainers out there you're my only hope!
I have not had issues thus far signing in on sites, though that might just have been dumb luck. I appreciate the heads-up and the additional information, thanks!
Apple's always gone through booms and busts - and if they transition to a bust again, Steve Jobs will not come back to save them.

I also find it questionable whether 18.26 is a "low" P/E. I still think of 15 as a normal P/E for the whole market. Although perhaps we will have low interest rates forever.
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