skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The light rail isn't that bad as far as traffic goes: it isn't grade separated, but its not in the street either (e.g. to Santa Monica). The two subway lines I'm referring to (red and purple) are actually subway lines though (vs. the Expo line which is basically light rail). Living in LA, I actually never had a chance to ride any of these routes.
Tell me about it. I remember when it was single digit dollars, and it was a curiosity, but it didn't hold my interest.

Then it was double digits, and I was like, "huh."

Then is was somewhere around $40, and I thought "maybe I should get a couple? But money's kind of tight, maybe later."

Then it was over $100, and I thought "surely this can't go much higher? This definitely isn't the time to buy."

I thought that same thing when it hit over $300, and over $700, and then over $3000, and then when it was well over $15k.

I've learned a valuable lesson. I'm far too risk averse to invest in something like this, because I'm still not sure I could convince myself to invest even though it seems to have hit a bottom and is climbing again.
Not only that, but he dryly calls commercial computer science a "symbol manipulation" job, which I find frankly extremely insulting and unnecessary to drive his point.
Not every fun hobby is fun as a job. You mentioned the exact reason: when it was just a hobby, it didn't matter if you accomplished anything and you got to decide what you worked on.

I can't tell you how to like something more, but I can tell you that most people don't have fun or fulfilling jobs, and that's OK. The rest of your life might be enjoyable enough that it doesn't matter.

It's also OK if you look for a career change. Just because you loved coding and used to be easily absorbed by it doesn't mean it should be your career.
Thanks for the feedback. We've now hired an editor and the next book summaries should be higher quality.
Alexa is still struggling to understand what Album I want to listen to from my rather limited music library.

She won’t be replacing the Amazon website anytime soon.
Windows NT started from scratch. It was never an OS/2 fork.
> The brand will shift how it connects with consumers — to conversations, with a combination of bots and humans, through a messaging front end like SMS or Facebook. We are already working with several large brands to make this a reality.

This is arguably happening in third world countries. At least in Indonesia (which I'm familiar with), a lot of new businesses don't bother with websites but relied on things like Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp (coincidentally these are own by the same guy) to reach out to customers and get orders.
it's really empty unless you need to compute gravitational deviation over the course of decades. Then it's suddenly bloody full.
It’s very easy to contemplate how to solve this problem: make it easy to build extremely dense housing in SF. The problem is that the powers that be don’t want to make it easier, and they all have ultimately self serving excuses as to why.

Every time a politician tells me more housing won’t make it cheaper, I posit the hypothetical “what if we built 100,000 more units? No? How about 1 million more? 5 million more?”

The answer I get is the same: “well, we don’t want to change the character of the city. Do we really want to be like New York?”

Press the question enough and the subject will eventually confess.
A four month six figure consulting gig. Thanks HN.
By definition, a program in a turing complete language can be turned into a universal turing machine. More, turing equivalence means that any turing complete language can be turned into any other. The most naive implementation of the GPs suggestion would involve creating an IR, then for every language a compiler to this IR, and a reverse compiler to get back source from this IR. With this, you could trivially jump between languages in a mere two steps.
That site certainly seems to be though, given the bold quotes plastered everywhere.
Thing to note is that NT started with portability in mind and the first processor it was running on was a MIPS.
Thanks for asking! We honestly weren't expecting to get this far this fast, so our plans are a bit nebulous. We're trying to figure out how to schedule for an additional dev to come out to Philly as a new stretch goal. More details later, I'm heading to bed.
Except realistically, 80% of harvard grads come from high income households.
Less than 15% of direct sales is through ecommerce, but I'd bet a good fraction of RL dollars spent is a direct result of an app or website.
The solace in knowing that true discourse need not be confined to real life situations!

People can speak in a civilized manner on the internet.
C# and Typescript are great at this, and a great combo together.
I believe it's the definition of discrimination, not prejudice, that you're looking for.
Always the good ones behind the paywall
But I find some type of persistence of data usually figures into my serverless calls. And those tend to lock you into a vendor. Especially when you want to start analysing the data you have.

Even if you could separate them it would add latency. Now if it JUST compute... and I can see that as a possibility for some CV applications.
A small, dingy window into the world of dyspeptic 40+ y/o's. And a few good reads, here and there.
Why I like HN: I get caught up to date on newest tech news, the community is the absolute best, and includes many people famous in tech history. It's not the echo chamber of SV but more libertarian. And people will debate you without namecalling, politics, or downvotes. It's like reddit for adults, and I pray it always remains that way.
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Quicklisp is excellent for finding & installing Lisp libraries. I don't know that nano libraries are a good thing — the world probably needs a decent strings package more than it needs left-pad, right-pad, count-chars &c.
Ask HN: Best option to host an MVP within budget?
I have built an MVP, it's a social network, with specific features that target a niche group of user (atm, I just want to see if this works and then make it more general in case it is actually useful the way I think it is).

Problem is I have no experience in hosting and I am not sure what are the things I should be aware of when choosing any particular option.
Identity as a Microservice
There is also crossplatform and still actively developed OpenWatcom [1], which can generate code for DOS and runs from all mainstream operating systems.

[1] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
I think he may be making the point that the only real metric is salary.
Just force yourself to get started, without making excuses, and then you'll find yourself in the thick of it again.

I have to do this every Monday.
Not sure why no one has mentioned ClojureScript to you, it has first class support and is supported first party by the Clojure team
Boilerplate can happen at a higher level than just writing down type names.

A good example is "variadic" functions. Consider computing the max of three numbers. Clojure's `max` takes any number of arguments, while Haskell has `max` that takes two arguments, or `maximum` that takes a list of arguments; both require some boilerplate to apply if you have exactly three.

It's impossible to write down a Haskell function equivalent to Clojure's `apply`. You have to work around its absence, e.g. with awkward folds.

Or for a more immediate example, compare Clojure's flexible `map` to Haskell's big 'zip' family: zip1, zip2, zip3, zipWith5...
So at least 20% don't? Given the high standard of qualifications which are obviously easier to meet when you have more resources, that's pretty good. We're talking about the #1 school here, which is also free for any low-income families.
Thanks! And sorry for the FF snag - we’re working on supporting Firefox later this year!
Implementing unnecessary features also complicates the code. There is a network effect for complicated code -- the more complicated it is, the more complicated you need to make it to add functionality. It's really incredible how fast you can slam the breaks on a project simply by not questioning if you should be implementing something.

On the other hand, feature poor software is not necessarily simple. Simplicity is hard to achieve. It requires a lot of thought and usually a fair amount of iteration. "Don't touch that code because it doesn't have a good ROI" is also a surprisingly good way to slam the breaks on a project.

Maintaining velocity (or even increasing it) requires a delicate balance of avoiding work that will harm you and encouraging work that will help you. There needs to be a dialog between stakeholders and developers that's 2-way to accomplish this.
Barnes Noble is killing itself
Franzis CutOut 2018 Professional Cracked and Portable Is Here
Weak Men Are Superweapons
it's a major pita for me that is not possible to turn off local snapshots.

Try this terminal command:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

Edit: I'm still on Sierra. Someone else mentioned that HS removed that. But also pointed to: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/solution-reclaim-storag...

Good luck!
"In cryptonetworks, these decisions are made by the community, using open and transparent mechanisms."

Or maybe, depending on the coin, through infighting among insiders and forking. There is apparently no guarantee of transparency or good governance.
Here's a simple example: Is sqrt(2)/2 or 1/sqrt(2) in "simplest form"?

The answer depends on whether you have a calculator handy. Because computing sqrt(2)/2 from a square root table and the long division algorithm is a lot easier than doing 1/sqrt(2). But on a calculator, 1/sqrt(2) is just as easy and it's simpler to write.

But at least as of the last 90s we were definitely teaching kids to put their radicals in rational-denominator form for basically "magic" reasons: the students had no idea why, and I suspect neither did most of the teachers.
It's the mass ~ size cubed that's deceptive.
Also see ttyrec:

http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/
I hate conversations when I'm shopping. If a chipper salesperson walks over and starts chatting me up or making small talk, I will immediately turn around and walk out, and I'm an extrovert. I want to look at price, price per unit/spec, hold the thing if quality is relevant, then make a purchase. The less you pitch to me, the more likely I'll buy.
Yeah, the first year even after YC funding was very tough. Long story short: sold a car, borrowed a ton on those credit card write-yourself-a-check 2% balance transfer deals (thankfully had good credit to be able to do that), and withdrew early from an IRA (those penalties hurt!) - wouldn’t recommend :)
Except you're making the leap that the natural ratio is much higher than the norms that are seen in every progressive nation on Earth, many of which have very different cultures. Don't you see how this shifts the burden to those who claim it's naturally higher to demonstrate this fact?

Any other position is literally assuming the existing culture is full of bigots that must be stopped and forced to comply via "diversity promoting programs", all of which may ultimately have zero positive effects. How is that not insane?
I remember reading about meltdown and spectre here first, and thinking “huh, I should short intel stock before this goes public.”

I was too green to understand just how far ahead HN is though, and I just watched instead as it all played out without me.
A 1700-ton telco building that was relocated while running in 1950
Only the names mutated:

Ethereum -> ETC.

New Coin -> Ethereum.

The market said New Coin a.k.a. Ethereum is worth more. But who cares about fiat, eh?
Then, they can come after me, but again, I don't really care. I know the truth about myself.
I envy China for their willingness to invest lots of effort in moving forward and innovating. I would never live there because I don't feel that throwing away all notions of privacy is worth it. The totalitarian aspect of the Chinese government along with some territorial disputes are the only real sense of negative feelings most people I know have towards China.
Couldn't upvote this enough, for folks who are lucky to get those fat checks from investors with just a POC or even a business plan, never understand the pain and pressure of making it without that.. good that you hanged in there till the last moment without breaking.
Hope <3

This is vague, but I love this community. I expect that in the future we will accomplish amazing things together.
You're not wrong, but in an election at the national level, 9 points is normally considered a pretty big spread (for example, Obama's victory over McCain in 2008 was pretty solid, and that was by a 7 point margin).
I don't automatically assume that the mere "SF" means San Francisco, CA, USA, first and foremost to everybody in the world. And the full "San Francisco" exceeded the 80-character limit; dropping any other word would have lessened clarity. So, I chose what I thought was the best unambiguous abbreviation. Perhaps it was a poor choice; mods are welcome to reword it any way they like.

"Frisco" would have fit, but SF denizens tend to go nonlinear upon its use.
So rentcontrol can be considered conservative if you define conservatism as everything that causes failed government policy. Got it.
Yeah, Earth is huge!

It also has the highest density of all the planets, thanks to the iron and nickel in the core. Earth is so dense that its surface gravity is higher than that of Saturn and Uranus (for a suitable definition of "surface" for the gas giants) despite the fact that the latter are much more massive as a whole.

We should make note of these facts and use them to burn the aliens if we ever come to an interplanetary rap battle :)
I'm wondering about the fate of the paint, plastic, rubber and leather.

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/02/07/tesla-roadster-starman-s...
I agree. There is this marketing principle: people love to buy, but hate to be sold.
https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-firing-of-diversity-memo-a...

>Google didn't break the law when it fired James Damore over a memo that criticized the company's diversity policies and claimed tech's gender gap may be due to biological differences between men and women.

You're right, its some other entity in US that interprets laws, I assumed it was a court
Slashdot is still limping along, but it hasn't been a site I've visited for many, many, years now.

I always feel somewhat nostalgic the rare times, like today, when I'm reminded of it.

Slashdot, Kuro5hin, LWN, all used to be sites I visited daily. Now only LWN is left.
I was suggesting that pit was an extension of it.

I think the j in jt is a remnant of jw (true), jw-?t, (biological father), but only because jw is the only egyptian j- lexeme I know so far, because I like to connect it to IO and Jo- and the jedi knights. For p- I'm not so sure, but something like grand-father or god-father would fit the theme, or less familiar for us distant from the Neolithicum, the stone-father (grey/old, hard/strong, inanimate/false vs true, crafty/fundamental).
I'm not quite sure how this should have been titled, but there appears to be as yet no mention of Putin in Mueller's indictment of various Russian nationals on charges of identity theft, wire fraud and trolling Twitter.
On this one point, without taking a position on the rest of your comment: everyone making political donations in CA knows (or should know) that donations over $200 go in the public record. If you want it to be private, keep it under $200. Eich's donation was much larger and he knew that it would be in the public record. It cannot be fairly characterized as a "private donation".
> Americans have a very weird conception of what "far-left" means. Liberal feel good minority appeasement by billion dollar multinational corporations is as far from "far-left" as you can get.

You're not paying attention that's all. All American politics revolves first and foremost around identity politics. Do you support illegals or not? Are you in favour of transgender kids using this or that bathroom or not? now go educate yourself about the "wonders" of "diversity", "inclusiveness", "white fragility", "toxic masculinity" and all that intersectional bullshit.

Intersectionalists have infected every level of management in corporations such as Google,Twitter or Github. So much that these people will actively try to fire you if you don't agree with their extremist ideology. The power grab is real and they are using the companies they work in to further their political agenda and giving bullshit jobs to their friends from social studies.

These people are putting their ideology before anything else. The wealth of the silicon valley is just a mean to spread their influence and their doctrine. Their first victim was the open source community, conferences, where they established tribunals under guise of fairness through codes of conducts. These venues are now politically charged environments where using the "wrong pronoun" will get you kicked out of a project.
Conversational UIs: Rise of chatbots
Pioneer 10 and 11 probes left the solar system as well.

I think it’s also likely that all the stuff left on the moon might be longer lived than a car shooting randomly around the solar system.
I think some existing stun guns work in that manner? Granted, they might not vaporize the wire. Still an interesting idea.
They have regulations, they are just selectively enforced.
In no country does Amazon have more than 40% online market share and in many it is far lower; 16% in the UK for example.

Other retailers can compete on many aspects; for example in the UK Amazon is completely locked-out of online groceries by the big supermarkets. Or hobby specialists who know their market well, a UK example being Hannants who work closely with the model-kit industry.

And most other retailers don't require an annual fee for decent service, such as dispatching within a week...
I am by no means expert, but fpm helps a lot.
https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
Relevant results for me have gotten a lot harder to find in the last several months. I believe this is since they switched over to neural networking instead of algorithms, but I’m not inside enough to know if this really happened.

I get a lot of queries now where the first few results are missing at least one of my terms. I have to scroll before I find my first result that doesn’t say it’s missing a term.

I don’t think google is done with their search, but I have a feeling they’re going through a major transition right now and a lot of the web is still designed for old SEO models.
Uber International Growth Strategy
Ascii art – dead or alive?
What this guy says makes no sense whatsoever... for anybody that knows a peanut about the matter. But he is speaking to business types, and among those, technical knowledge is less prevalent. Probably he wants to start another meme infection of "the web is going to die" among investors and business analysts...
Unfortunately, it isn't actually that simple.

Since WW2, the vast majority of our financing mechanisms and housing policy has been aimed at creating family housing because that was what the parents of the Baby Boomers wanted and needed. Meanwhile, our population has diversified away from that. Plus there are myriad zoning policies, tax policies etc at all levels of government that are pieces of the puzzle for how SF has ended up this way.

There isn't anyone on the planet who actually knows exactly what needs to be dismantled to untangle this mess and trying to do so comes at high risk. It isn't at all unusual for the baby to be thrown out with the bath water when dealing with things as complicated as city planning.

I wanted to be an urban planner before life got in the way. It is why I took a class on homelessness and public policy. I have a good grasp of what is generally wrong. I can't give you a point by pint list if instructions on how to fix it for SF.

San Francisco proper is physically much smaller than New York City, 231 sq. miles vs 468. Part of it is built on infill, reclaiming land from the waters around it. Such infill has serious structural limitations. You can't build on it like it is solid ground. San Francisco also needs to be built to withstand serious earthquakes. All of these geographic factors further constrain what you can realistically build there.

I generally agree that simply building more housing would help. But when I lived in Fairfield years ago, SROs in San Francisco were $1000/mo. San Francisco is one if the few US cities that still has more than a few SROs and it still is not cheap enough. I am not convinced the problem is as easy to solve as you suggest.

Easy fixes very often come at a hidden cost. That cost can be quite high, catastrophically so.
If politicians only pay lip service to the ideology when their major supporters are NIMBY property owners, is it really an application of progressive policies?
Yes, that’s because being conservative is socially okay. Being a Trump supporter is aligning with more than conservatism - it is signaling an acceptance of several divisive and socially toxic ideas. Society should and will continue to shun this openly.
> Meritocracy is incompetent.

So is so called "social justice" and diversity quotas. It leads to an environment of nepotism and corruption where people aren't getting jobs because they are competent but because they have a vagina, are brown or they have the right political stance. The irony of your statement is funny, your goal is just replacing an elite by another, not unlike what happened in Soviet Russia.
We’re building a product and sharing everything we learn
APFS not having block or file-level checksums really seems like a big oversight to me.

It wasn't an oversight; it was a deliberate design decision.

Others replies have noted that maybe it was a performance issue, etc. But I think it's something much different. The real reason is that there is more downside than upside to reporting these errors.

Users would be very upset if iOS told them that there was a bad block in one of their precious selfies from last month. But they might not even notice or care about a few bad pixels in the image itself.

I'm just telling you what one big probable rationalization was for this decision. I'd personally want to know, but people on HN aren't "average" IOS users.
Judging by the article, they don't do "subtly".
The Peculiar Pricing Model of the Live TV Services
I suspect you'd find that what look like surface differences actually go deeper into the meanings of programs, like a plant whose roots go deeper than one would expect.
This meta post violates HN guidelines per dang:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16370081

This should be taken down
An echo chamber to bolster my own paranoia and disconnect from reality.
I'd say Quora is rather good as well.
Silicon Valley has more college-educated, younger and more diverse work force than average, so it doesn’t surprise me that this work force is more liberal.
Everything I've experienced and read about China (I'm American and lived there for a year) leads me to believe that Han Chinese in China are extremely racist. Look at how they treat their own ethnic minorities, for example (Tibetans, Uighurs, etc.).

I know less about Japan, but everything I've read suggests that Japanese are also extremely racist.