skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about it if anything other services are finally catching up. I've ordered as much stuff in the last 2 months from walmart and best buy as I have from Amazon despite being a prime member.

There isn't really as much of a network effect to Amazon they can abuse. For a lot of people, the day they jack up prices to exploit their position is the day a lot of people tab over to walmart or target.com and buy the thing from there instead.
> The certificate does not entitle the student to engage in piracy.

Aye, but a pirate requires no charter to sail the 7 seas
+1

I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I worked my way through school), I had a hard time even landing an interview at first. As a social experiment, I changed my name/sex from Joe/male to Joanna/female, kept everything else on my resume the same, and reapplied to all the jobs that didn't want me previously. Every single company that rejected Joe was overjoyed when Joanna applied. In every case I got a email within the week wanting to meet and interview me. It was kind of eye-opening. I didn't follow through as "Joanna" because the sexist hiring policies were enough to put me off working at these companies entirely. I eventually found an employer that wasn't sexist and have been happy with them so far...
Except if you sell on eBay. I have a friend that is routinely ripped off and eBay and PayPal basically tell him to fuck off. He does a 500k in revenue through them and just has to suck it up. Both those companies are scum in my opinion
First JSON feed reader minimalist of opinionated
Think amazon is winning? You can own it very easily.
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XML Stylesheet Transformation, the language to describe transformations of XML documents into another XML documents. Isn't jq or JMESPath an example of such a language for transformations?
You can be recognised as a pirate, but if you're endorsed then you're a privateer? Licensing them stops them being pirates.
Did you read the full article? It's in there - he developed a new Titanium electrode to improve the efficiency ond reduce the footprint of the electrolysis hardware and he also developed a new hydride (with a weak H2 bond to support release of H2 using waste heat) for greatly improved energy density. The specific values are in the article; maybe someone nicer than me will do more work to pull that for you.
I know how to write some software before I went to school, but learning version control there was an eye-opening experience. It's the kind of thing I think they should teach in school to non-programmers. Anybody who writes anything, collaborative or not, is advantaged in some way by using it.
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>A single cup sold for $18. The coffee sold out within two weeks.

This is mindboggling to me. I don't think I've ever paid more than $5 for a cup of coffee.
Large famers lobbying groups.
For those of us running smaller companies, it might not be a management issue, it’s a budget issue.

The company probably doesn’t have the budget to support a $billion uptime organization with proper “governance”

But I does sound like five 9’s is possible in your case.

Edit: just saw author is claiming “six 9’s” is impossible ... maybe
This says they failed to even investigate. They could have talked to him. If he was clearly a threat, even if they had no legal avenues to retain him, they could have notified the school, local police, etc., which perhaps could have done something. For example, the school could have increased security.
That reminds me of people doing 3-D engines in MegaZeux.

http://vault.digitalmzx.net/screens2/cde248323538306a9712eb9...

MegaZeux is a ZZT successor.

https://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/zzt4.gif

And uses ASCII characters. MegaZeux up'd the ante and allowed you to edit the VGA text glyphs so you could make "sprites."

Back-in-the-day Megazeux and ZZT were like their own dedicated systems, like software console systems. It was really fun to see what people did with incredibly constrained systems.
Apparently JMESPath is a better JSONPath/dot-notation alternative for querying JSON, while jq and jl are full-featured fully functional programming languages that happen to use JSON as their underlying data type.

I had never heard of jl before, but I've recently compiled an "awesome" collection of jq tools, libraries and use-cases at https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq that may be worth checking out.
this points to the other side of a comment i just made yesterday (about uber):

"yes, that's how capitalism is designed to work. the window in which you can make outsized profits is meant to be temporary so companies can't just rest on their laurels.

it's beautiful when it works."

walmart has been smart enough over decades to never rest on its laurels, so it's competing fiercely (and successfully) with amazon.

barnes and noble and k-mart on the other hand are dying a slow painful death because all the pointy-haireds rushed in for their personal payday and didn't build a competitive business. both are probably hoping a white knight private equity deal will raise them from their ashes, as happened with target (don't think the brand equity is there, but who knows).

walmart and amazon have been setting the pace for competitors in retail. you can't use a low price strategy against those large players, but you can take a differentiation strategy (e.g., better, more knowledgeable service, as others have pointed to).

another area of pressure on large companies is on the labor side of the equation. walmart and amazon have squeezed labor to the bone and governments have done little to level that playing field (skills-based programs preferred there).
Lack of market forces.
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Maybe a better question is if it increases or decreases the aggregate wellness of the individuals in our society. (Using a sort of utilitarian metric to motivate our actions.) Maximizing GDP does not necessarily correlate with what we actually care about improving as a collective.
That's a good question and one which should be raised whenever new methods of data collection are proposed.
Just to clarify, assault rifles are select fire and NOT purely semi-automatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
> I can't believe you were downvoted for expressing that merit rather than race and gender should be use for hiring decisions.

This is the new world we unfortunately live in. Words and their meanings are transformed to fit within the ideology ("it isn't discrimination if it favors women over men, or minorities over whites...")...
If the complaint is they had an unfair advantage because of software patents, then it's easy -- end software patents.
A certificate is authentication. A license is authorization.
Ask HN: Is there a real career in being a coding bootcamp instructor?
What does the typical career path for instructors look like? Can it be a stepping stone to different careers in academia?
I've found those to be not very effective.
No, it does not save or cost money. That is not even a good simplification of the effects it has in the economy.
I wouldn’t say it’s more native, however, NativeScript gives you access to the entire API space of the target platform in JavaScript versus React Native which doesn’t. What this means is that if something doesn’t exist in NS land, you can open the Android or iOS docs and call the required api from JavaScript like so

var context = ...;
var button = new android.widget.Button(context);
button.setText("My Button");

To achieve the same in RN, you have to drop down into Java/Swift/Obj-C and link back to your JavaScript. Same result, different means.

See https://docs.nativescript.org/core-concepts/accessing-native...
You may choose to use words in a way that deliberately obscures an important distinction in the real world but please accept that other people may choose not to.
Re: "Amp for Email uses that language instead of HTML and CSS."

Is this correct? Looking at the example in the spec [1], it seems to be a subset of HTML.

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457
To me, JSON can be viewed as slightly enhanced S-expressions, enhanced in a particular way. It would sound strange hearing "shoehorning everything into S-expressions in Lisp that is already solved by structural Fortran syntax seems illogical".

NIH claim is probably valid when there are no noticeable difference. In my opinion, XML differs a lot from JSON, particularly when one need to write snippets by hand. JSON also seems more logical/laconic (once upon a time M-expressions were supposed to come to stage, but S-expressions turned up to be good enough).
I'm a little confused at where you're coming from. Do you program microcontrollers or something? Since when has recursion or the ability to allocate memory been an issue? 30 years ago, maybe?

I understand lisp isn't trivial to implement if all you have is assembly with no OS or libraries, but beyond that it's pretty damn easy. Even in C it only takes a few dozen lines.

> Javascript

I'm not a JS programmer, but I think JS has had infinite lexical scope at function-level since the beginning. It does not have scope at block-level, which is the confusing part.
I'm pretty sure I'm not confusing it with Rust!

That said, I don't think there's anything more I can say which can add to the conversation. I'm happy to allow what I have said to stand.
Is this a rhetorical question?

We know at what age ranges people are most productive, and least productive.

Are we increasing the number of most productive years or least productive years? You know what the answer is.
This guy was a nut and likely had committed multiple crimes beforehand that could have been discovered in an investigation.
So, can anyone explain what's the state of MySQL vs. MariaDB in 2018 and going forward? It's hard to find up-to-date information on this. A few years ago, everyone simply assumed that Oracle would kill MySQL, which it seems they didn't, but it's unclear two me what kind of sustained development one can expect from either of them.
Since Alzheimers onset is still younger and not rising, cost.
But you know, one tulip is still worth one tulip. Who cares about some stupid fiat value?
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You miss an important point, JSON is a subset of valid parseable JavaScript. This is a huge win when working with the web stack.
Bring it on. Can't wait until this is common.
That's really bad if it's true. When thugs invest in technology there are many other risks besides reputation, trust, etc.
So I pay more to save brick and morter retail investors.
Looking at pure "life expectancy" from interventions is a bad frame for this question; you can't answer it effectively. You have to look for other frames. Consider, for example, the QALY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
Availability of cheap agricultural labor?
I love the name. I realize that the word appears in many contexts, but it invariably reminds me of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
> Relative to all of the other things we're willing to spend $18 on — like a glass of wine or small-batch bourbon — investing in the memorable flavor experience of a great cup of coffee is worth it.

This quote further in the article captures the reason why someone might spend more. Producing good coffee is actually more expensive than the market would lead you to believe. For some people drinking good coffee is exactly like experiencing a fine wine.
With ride sharing you can create a profitable business with level 4. The key is to get the revenue rolling to support the investment to get to level 5 some day down the road.
No one cares about the efficiency of the tiny battery in your phone. But if charging and discharging a Tesla used twice as much energy as burning gasoline directly then people would probably care.

At some level of inefficiency, an energy solution can indeed become useless at scale.
To me this sounds almost like "S-expressions still don't support comments".

Why do you need comments in a structure of nested
- unique key mappings
- arrays
- strings
- numbers
- booleans
- nulls
? You can include comments, just like any string, into it, just reserve a key with unique name, if you want. From JSON parser/transformer point of view, "comment" as a concept isn't a data structure piece, it's rather "intent" piece.
Apparently the author and HN user are the same person.
This HN comment has a good diagram about myopia vs presbyopia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16196062
It is interesting to see an exploration of astrocyte involvement and the use of optogenetic techniques to establish causality is promising. Hopefully there's more work like this going forward

That said, animal models are poor predictors of human biological activity. Animal models of psychiatric disease are some of the worst offenders. There's plenty of data showing stuff works in rats / mice but not in humans, but just take a step back and think about it: the human brain is unique among all animals, and its uniqueness imbues humans with all sorts of important mental and emotional features (and bugs). a rat brain is a very poor approximation but it's often the best we can do.
Actually, I wonder why we don't need to 'workout' our eyes? I mean there are muscles in our eyes and staring at a constant distance monitor all day can't be any better to those muscles than sitting the whole day to the rest of the body.
We now live in a world where you can have two products side by side, where one has any of "Crypto" "Block" Coin" or "Chain" in their name or description and the other does not, where both products do the exact same thing, and have one of them raise billions of dollars overnight from VCs and the other one not get a single upvote on the new page of HN.

We truly live in a post-informational time. Everything is emotion. Nothing is about rationalization or sense or an actual understanding of how something works. Because we don't know how the thing worked, the numbers got giant, and we want giant numbers too. So if you use the same words as the thing we will plow money into you like no tomorrow because we still don't understand the thing but we see 1000x profit in 5 years.
That's very common. People with good eyesight tend to become farsighted as they get older - hence their need for reading glasses - and people who are nearsighted tend to become less nearsighted.
Elixir, for one. It's only when I started properly learning other languages than JS that I started seeing how much better a lot of things could be. I say that with a lot of affection for JS, but JS style Promises are among the things that I don't miss.

EDIT: To elaborate a bit, what I don't like about (JS) Promises, in hindsight, is that 1) they seem to infect my entire codebase, and 2) making non-async code async is usually nontrivial. In Elixir it's basically a matter of 'telling' a function or an entire module to go do it's thing in another process and report back when done. It means in many cases I only need to change the caller side of things and the code that runs async itself looks the same as the sync code. And that's not even the best part of (Erlang style) processes!
Same over here. Didn't crash when emailed through Gmail to a Mac running an outdated version of OSX. But also didn't render correctly.

Looks like it rendered as two characters instead on one
You're also forgetting about exFAT which is also supported with full r/w on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Personally, I've got a partition with exFAT so I can transfer data between everything on my drives...
Methanol isn’t a common additive is it? Most (all?) gasoline in the US has ethanol added.
Isn't the whole point of the post that it wasn't a hardware independent jump table?
Google moving them out of driver seat. So not possible to fake it.

https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-google-arizona-phoenix-dri...
Waymo Finally Takes the Driver Out of Its Self-Driving Cars | WIRED
CMA covers "unauthorized access", obviously GCHQ get authority under RIPA etc
A similar thing happened to me, although unintentionally. At a previous job I discovered that I was given an interview because they thought I was black (based on my name). They would have otherwise passed on my resume.
The only eBay difference is that eBay effectively forces you to accept "returns".
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While we can argue about precisely where the blame lies, I'm leaning towards a FreeBSD bug here since it cannot handle the topology that QEMU supplies (yet Windows, Linux, older FreeBSD can). In any case maybe the FreeBSD community could interact with the QEMU community, since virtualization is probably the way most new FreeBSD users come on board.
Unfortunately we don't. Definitely puts a damper on the conclusions. The optogenetic technique involves gene delivery to specific brain cells which is not yet something we're comfortable doing in humans for basic research, although there are a few drugs using this tech in clinical trials
Yep. Was also predicted a computer would not beat top Go player until 2026. Love seeing some of these coming in sooner now. For decades it was the other way.
I want to add one more into the mix - Couchbase has something called "N1QL" ('nickel'), which is actual SQL adapted for JSON:

https://www.couchbase.com/products/n1ql

It's not standalone though, you need Couchbase to use it.
wget has a default read timeout of 900s, yours has no timeout.
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> Is it legal for effectively crowdfunded projects to then fund other projects?

This makes me wonder, people (presumably) bought into an ICO to fund a specific goal and not to enable a new age of venture capitalists.

Though this could be another classic sign that we are witnessing a bubble in its pre-bust stage -- would seem to fit with the "spike the punch bowl" phase but with replacing central banks with core cryptcurrency advocates methinks.
> Dominance is not illegal.

This is tautological. Legality the wrong question to ask when we're talking about what laws we need.

A good question to be asking is whether net harm outweighs net benefit. Another is whether we can get the same benefits with less harm.
Commodore frequently made (bad) decisions based on cutting parts cost. Plus/4 was just plain cheaper to build than the C64, and they thought they could charge the same price for it...so, it looked great on paper to the bean counters. They just fundamentally misunderstood the market and the success of the C64 within that market and repeated that misunderstanding over and over again.

C64 was successful not just because it was cheap, but because it provided a lot of value. It was a powerful computer for the price. The Plus/4 couldn't provide C64 compatibility without including the C64 chipset, and those were the features that made C64 expensive (comparatively) to build. The Commodore 16 was an even bigger joke; at that point, nobody was shipping such an underpowered machine.

Similarly, they put a lot of resources into things like the CDTV, which was a five-year-old computer in a home stereo style chassis. At that point, cheap VGA and high-quality sound cards were already available. It was anemic, but because it was old tech, it was cheap to make. Just more cashing in on their previous successes by making lower value versions of good products.

The C64 wasn't seen as the "cheap" product, IMHO, it was seen as a good value. Where Commodore screwed up later was failing to deliver good value, while keeping the cheap price. The 64 was a revolution. And, the Amiga was, too, but on a different set of metrics (cheap and good value were not really Amiga characteristics, in a world with cheap PC compatibles with VGA and 16-bit sound flooding the market...the Amiga 500 was probably the last great value product Commodore ever shipped, and that's reflected in the relative success of the product).
AMP for Email is another Googles attempt to grab more dominance by abusing their market share.
Yes. But remotely monitored in a control center. I picture the replay center in the NBA.
Same source. Basically the same article too. Probably a marketing piece by GoSquared.
We should. Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16146106
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The premise of the article is right in that those students who need extra attention for learning the actual course material fall to the bottom while other disciplined and receptive students learn more. This widens the gap, and you can see it during online course discussions. The former group usually respond later and with much poorer quality, but they fulfill the requirements to earn the grade.

This is where my objection to online courses come in. The checkboxes for what is needed to complete the course are much easier to tick online with far less scrutiny of the actual work than in-person classes. (Then there are those in-person classes which use online platforms for work, but that's a whole other topic)

Even for those who are willing and able to learn efficiently from online courses, a simple search for what professors see on the backend of the platform used administer the course will show what metrics they use to decide whether the student did the work.

For example, in Instructure's Canvas platform professors know when you've copy and pasted, how much time you've spent on the system (and specific modules), which areas of the course have been opened, and other details on students use. Professors use different methods with the data they have access to, and some use none at all. Once a student figures out the professors hidden methods for determining gradable work, that's what can become the focus for the student and not the course material itself.

I do both. I figure out the professors hidden methods, usually after a couple of graded assignments, and then I make sure I check those boxes as well as fulfilling the assignment requirements. So even if a student is good at learning online, they can game it enough to make it easier to get a better grade. This further widens the gap because those who care less about the grade but just passing the course likely never think about these variables.

Ultimately, a student can pass an online class and not learn a single thing, while others can learn as much as the course offers, but likely retains less than an in-person course since they're able to have a crutch with tricking the system.

Needless to say, there's more to the story for success with online courses. Anecdotally, I learn far less from University online courses than I do from high quality tutorial videos that I find for subjects I want to learn online. Oddly, more and more professors are using these videos to supplement their curriculum. I don't know how I feel about that, as it seems to cheat the whole idea of paying them to teach me. Let me supplement the course material with outside material on my own, and don't integrate into your lecture.
Actually, it flags Damore's interpretation of science as squishy and ideological.

The 55-country study he cited has effectively one of the highest P-values in social science of recent years. It's widely considered in psychology to be an important result. Denying this is basically parroting intellectual dishonesty on the level of Global Warming denialism. The Big-5 personality traits he cited are the strongest results in psychology outside of the effect of General Intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

The NLRB is basically saying that it's now open season on anyone who cites scientific studies, based on whether anyone on the internet finds it offensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSQWajPxH8
FWIW I review the original article and this one here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/02.html

Index of posts about expression parsing: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html