skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is addressed in the short article. They have very few women who don't clean in their sample and possibly that group is therefore very of unusually high socioeconomic status. Also they have very few men who clean as a profession, and they may differ in their approach.

They're reporting what they find along with the caveats of their data sources.
> One of the greatest lies that Lispers have is: "Lisp has no syntax".

It's wrong, Lisp has a lot of syntax.

> What Lisp has, and is, is a syntax to describe an AST.

That's wrong, too. Lisp syntax does not describe an AST.

> To me, it's a chain of 5 functions which are neither shorter to write nor better than Java's jOOQ [1]:

That's not the point, the Lisp version is on another level:

* it does not expose its implementation

* the macro allows to translate this code at something like compile time

The Java code is a bunch of function invocations which create a string. Usually at runtime.
I did not see that in the article. They state not enough men could be found and even if they could they would have a different exposure to chemicals than women.
Is there any flavor of lisp that is close to luajit performances and still small?
Web browsers and Web applications actually completely break the distribution model completely on both ends, client and server. To fix this, you need containerization on both ends.

Chrome and Firefox ship new versions of their products every six weeks. Each version carries both new functionality (Web standards require field trials as part of the standard process), and essential security changes (e.g. for TLS). Ubuntu and Fedora repackage Firefox and ship it as fast as they can, because that is the responsible thing to do, but it would be easier and safer for everybody if that could be done with the transactional updates, parallel version installation and dependency isolation that flatpak and snap can provide.
The point was that one person riding a bicycle will not solve environmental problems if everyone else drives a car and the infrastructure is built for cars.
You seem to be well over half-way to LaTeX there, so what's the point in using markdown?

If the verbosity of writing \begin{description} ... \item[basis]... \end{description} is the issue, you can get around that with a couple of shorthand macros.
The Hitchhiker book "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" explores this concept somewhat (as do some other books in the series IIRC).

The cow in question repeatedly assures the protagonist that the entire process is very humane and that it desires nothing more than to be eaten and enjoyed by others. It's actually quite offended when Arthur only orders a salad.
My issue was with "shitty", which is pretty vague. Whatever you consider the bottom tier = "shitty", okay, let's do something about those. Now, bottom tier = "shitty" again. Okay, so we need to define a minimum limit of shittiness, which we're all happy with. That is called minimum wage, labour protections, etc. And this differs from country to country, depending on how society values people with limited options. Of the top of my head, two things that would predict this are a countries wealth, and how much influence corporations have in the political system, i.e. how broken/corrupt it is. However, I must admit that I'm living in a fairly wealthy and "socialist" European country, so it's easy for me to say.

I can't figure out if OP is hating the game or the player (Amazon), but the former is a bit of a tangent w.r.t. to the article.
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Do people not have Black Widows where they live? 90% of the spiders that I encounter in and around my home (mostly in my garage and my garden) are Black Widows and I thoughtlessly and indiscriminately kill them on sight. When I didn't kill them, they seemed to try to take ownership of different areas of the garden or garage. This happened where I lived in LA, in Goleta, CA, in north Santa Barbara county, and in Orange County. The only place I didn't experience this issue was when I spent a brief period in Riverside County. No spiders in that place, I always assumed it was because it was summer and > 100F highs every day. As if spiders give a shit about a heat wave, but it seemed to have some truth to it.

My thinking is: I don't want to risk my own or my wife or a guests personal health, and so I "deal" with them. Am I wrong?
Yeah, it's unfortunately rare, but it is easy: on mobile you could install some separate browser app. In Chrome on a desktop it's two clicks to switch profiles, and about three to create a new one. I used to open an incognito window for Facebook, but you'd have to log in anew each time.

Of course I wish people would leave Facebook instead. I'm doing my part by not posting there.
> The interaction between type I and type II errors virtually always have an inverse relationship.

If you're adjusting a dial, yes. But hiring is complex, and having more time to evaluate candidates means you can do a better job. Spending more effort is a simple way to improve false negatives and false positives. It's entirely plausible that a company might have extra time budgeted for double-checking resumes from certain groups.
My first "real" game[0] was made in lua and love. It was a great experience and I loved the community (pun intended). Godot engine has got me now, but I always keep an eye on lua and love.

One thing that also made me laugh a lot (despite some people labeling it as unprofessional) is the funny love-related names people give to libraries. Stuff like: HUMP, Gspot, flUIds, Polygami, Swinger, Love Bone, etc. Such a funny community :D

[0] http://www.bitoutsidethebox.com/autumn
> after upgrading to the next Debian stable release, my stuff continues to work

can be replaced by

> with frequent upgrades, errors are sparse blips on the Debian testing release

-

standard line: if you're considering Debian for the desktop and want a reasonable mix of stability as well as recent updates,

testing recommended over stable.
Wave was cool technology with interesting ideas, but there is no substitute for getting the user interface right, and unfortunately they didn't. It's been a long time and there might be others I'm forgetting, but there were two important design errors:

1. Email lets you type an entire message before sending; IRC at least lets you type a whole paragraph, which is enough. Wave didn't let you type more than one character before sending.

2. The designers correctly realized chronological order isn't enough, you also want logical order, but unfortunately they provided the latter instead of the former, whereas you actually need both. (Gmail provides both: new messages and threads. Git provides both: view changes, and view current code. Google Docs provides both. Either view alone does not suffice.)

I would by all means encourage someone to take another shot at building something like Wave, with those problems fixed.
Wow, that's beautifully set!
Is there somewhere a link to a Visa statement? The one referenced seems from the Coinbase blog. I couldn't find any information from Visa, besides the one public post they made saying they aren't at fault. Its quite the tragedy for some people apparently.
The Honor 7X will arrive as Huawei Mate SE with 18: 9 screen at MWC 2018
I was curious and searched if there was a project of that name already: https://github.com/OpenIus/lexdown
It's probably safer than steel frame buildings

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/216369...
Actually wood buildings are safer in case of fire if done right. New techniques (can't find the link) are able to control the way fire spreads and how fast it burns far better, also iirc because the heat that develops is lower.
\usepackage{listings}

\begin{lstlisting}
your code here
\end{lstlisting}

That's not much harder, is it? Plus, it has a ton of other functionalities you might want.
I suspect that filing a false report with the NTSB would be a crime, in which case you'd be accusing the crew of breaking the law, perhaps even perjury.
People working in forestry are used to planning long-term, what you sow or plant now will be reaped by the next generation. They just planted the building and are now waiting for it to grow to harvestable size.
So how hard do they work at linking up data from people who expressly don't want them to?

It actually doesn’t matter how much effort they put in or how effective their techniques are. Doing that at all for people who have expressed a wish not to be is stepping over the line. That is why GDPR is going to hammer them.

And the funny thing is, with both Facebook and Google, this is completely obvious to anyone outside the very narrow demographic they hire from. So much for (their fake) diversity.
Society disproportionately ignores "women's issues."
And yet scientists still did a totally "unnecessary" study about them [1], because today miners are dying at younger ages than they did in the past and that's a troubling conclusion that you wouldn't immediately guess from annectoda.

Science is important, even for the 'its obvious, everyone knows it is dangerous' kinda stuff.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6549a1.htm
IBM acquired Softlayer, because otherwise their "cloud" offerings were basically marketing wank. Softlayer offered dedicated hardware, which a few years ago might have been appealing because of compliancy issues or lack of beefy machines on other cloud providers. In classical fashion, IBM snoozed and the competition has caught up (<insert IBM being morons rant here>). Great post if you want more detail: https://thehftguy.com/2018/01/15/the-inevitable-demise-of-ib...
The techcrunch articles states that they have confirmed the statement with Visa. Please consider reading it?
The name "Chevy Chase" (both the adopted name of the actor-comedian and the location in Maryland) traces its history back to this place and era via the poem The Ballad of Chevy Chase

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase
Ask HN: What is the issuer of the icloud.com certificate by you?
What do you see when you view the certificate of icloud.com? At this moment, I see this chain: "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" " DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA" "www.icloud.com" Valid from "‎07 ‎February ‎2018 01:00:00", sha1 thumbprint: "‎66 de 98 b6 3a 7c 4e eb 0a aa 03 a2 30 57 9e fa 18 e5 c7 fe" I'm interested to see how many different certificates exist as valid and are being used at the same moment for some site so important like this one.
Nowadays everything kills you...sitting at your desk at work, cleaning at home....
Safer? Than steel or brick?
>The new lobster legislation that boils down to...

not the best choice of words
Also, while I still oppose systemd (because it's a monolith, because it reinvents logging and because... it comes from the people behind DBus :) I must admit that lately I prefer writing systemd units to making nohup workarounds. I never did grok init.d scripts and from what I've seen neither did lots of other people. So that's a big plus in my book.
I wasn't responding to the article's author, and the second affirmation of yours is completely subjective and myopic. I very often take notes from my favourite books, even if it's completely leisure reading. Sometimes there's a nice phrase I want to remember, or a mention of a very interesting thing that I want to know more about later.
Gichidan – CLI wrapper for Ichidan deep-web search engine
Society disproportionately ignores "women's issues."

Society ignored those miners too, and left them to die, and here you are in 2018 trying to erase that and make it about gender when it’s really about The Workers.
It's a funny phrase, because you'd most often say "My arm fell asleep." You might say "My arm is asleep." but never have I heard anyone say "My arm is sleeping."
Crt.sh should give you what you need: https://crt.sh/?q=icloud.com
Right. VirtualBox + overnight compiles might work (perf is going to suck). There exist cloud macOS offerings which work well, I've used them for iOS continuous integration. Depending on how much money those apps are making, could also be an option?
This research is quite timely. A recent survey of ultra-processed food sales in 19 European countries showed a wide variety in the purchasing habits of different countries.

UK consumers purchase the most ultra-processed food as a proportion of their diet (50.7%), followed by Germany (46.2%) and then Ireland (45.9%). Portugal consumes the least (10.2%).

France, Italy and Greece all had relatively low consumption figures as well.

Here is the full list (ultra-processed food as a % of household purchases)

1. UK: 50.7

2. Germany: 46.2

3. Ireland: 45.9

4. Belgium: 44.6

5. Finland: 40.9

6. Poland: 36.9

7. Austria: 35.0

8. Latvia: 32.9

9. Malta: 27.6

10. Lithuania 26.4

11. Hungary: 21.1

12. Spain: 20.3

13: Slovakia: 20.2

14. Cyprus: 20.1

15. Croatia: 17.9

16. France: 14.2

17. Greece: 13.7

18. Italy: 13.4

19. Portugal: 10.2

From: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...
Inside Vancouver's Brock Commons, World's Tallest Mass Timber Building (2017)
Same sha-1 fpr: 66:DE:98:B6:3A:7C:4E:EB:0A:AA:03:A2:30:57:9E:FA:18:E5:C7:FE
In other news the sky is blue
It could be trivially true for someone with zero personal friends :D
> “They move a certain amount of functionality that used to be in software into hardware,” says Xiaolin Lu, director of the internet of things (IOT) lab at Texas Instruments.

Hardware will always be king. It's the platform. Platforms should assume more responsibility, so that applications can assume less. It stands to reason that more applications would exist as we make it easier to build them.

Furthermore, less people can fuck up implementations if they are embedded in physical metals and rocks. Take more power away from the human, because the human cannot be trusted.
Sinhalese language
Two Russian Regions to Develop Large Scale Crypto Mining
What always amazed me is why Americans rely so much on processed foods? It seems like a cultural thing - you go out and buy a bunch of packages and then heat them instead of just cooking a meal from natural ingredients like we (mostly) do in Europe. And food companies bend over backwards to make everything even more processed.

What's wrong with fresh tomatoes? Why don't you buy fresh vegetables and make a nice meal at home? Is it about saving time? I could never understand it.
Also, I'd guess the use pattern on ios is rather different, and more homogeneous, from the use pattern in macos. I don't think these millions of devices really give Apple good code coverage.
TeX is still TeX!
Fermat tends to disagree. I prefer taking notes and quoting phrases on a separate paper block because I want my notes searchable and easily organisable, but I'm okay with writing notes or making marks on a book as long as it's mine.
> Indeed and this is why I read: I just don't have the patience for video, much less (shudder) audio.

Both video as well as audio can have a function but neither of them replaces written text. Video can be useful as an addition to written text in the same way that a practical demonstration adds to a lecture. Audio fills a niche all of its own since you can listen - or half-listen - to it while doing other things. As long as these sources are used in addition to a written original or base document nothing of value is lost. If video is the only source I tend to assume that the narrator does not have that much to say and skip it. If audio is the only source - as often is the case with lectures or panel discussions - I sometimes listen to it while I prepare food or build on the house or do something else which requires partial attention. I might skip back in the audio stream every now and then to catch something which went by half-heard the first time but as this is much more tedious than re-reading a paragraph in a written text the format is not a replacement for it.
Instagram, of course, will allow Facebook to keep tracking and advertising to people just fine

There aren’t many “like/share this in Instagram” buttons around the web.
Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (2001)
Back in ancient Venice, everyone wore masks in public.
You talk about it as if it would be bad process. It is not. It is process that takes into account our natural need to eat, pleasure we have from eating and practicality of killing.

If civilization crushed and I would be suddenly living in the forest with family, I would kill the animal however I could - to eat. Probably painfully, because I know nothing else and probably am too exhausted to waste energy. I care more about me and kids not dying then about lobster pain.

On the other extreme, we have cheap pulses to kill them quick available, why not.

The same process happen with everything: legal systems, medicine and even child raising.
I doubt that’s true. Even I could make sense of the sentences. Of course it takes some time, but I found it quite clear most of the words are based on either French, Latin, English, German or Italian, and if you know these languages and you think a little bit about them, you can start making out a meaning and I doubt it’s random. There’s even a plot of sorts.
Confluence has a chat plugin.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.chat/se...
Goodness, no.
People said the same thing about sun exposure and smoking half a century ago.
Have the solved the issue of people never seeing their money they've sent via wire transfer?
Here's a site with more information on wooden skyscrapers. It has a design for a wooden empire state building.

https://www.metsawood.com/global/Campaigns/planb/cases/woode...
Write a good LSTM to generate new chapters in it, would be a good way to start, like this one:
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/5/24/writing-finnegan...
> [...] but clicked "back" after waiting 2s [...]

This is not a new phenomenon. 2 seconds is already well within the "users/viewers tapering off" band in the Nielsen thresholds.[0] The Nielsen study formulated the usability latencies in early 90's, but the effects of measurable delays have been known at least from the 70's.

The moment you're above 1 second, you're making your users wait for something to happen. Apply power law to get an estimate how many are getting annoyed and giving up.

To make things even worse, keep in mind how horrible the mobile internet latencies are for connection handshakes. It's not impossible to have a base latency of ~700ms for any new connection. That leaves you with no more than 300ms to actually serve the content. And for the mobile device to render it...

0: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
I know this doesn't really add to the discussion but thanks for the reference.
I wrote my math phd thesis in Markdown/LaTeX in this way.

I also replaced all maths symbols with their Unicode equivalent. The result was very readable markdown
source text, easily compiled to Latex and PDF, using
a mk file.

My thesis also included formalised proofs in a proof
assistant, and they were just written straight into
the markdown files as code blocks, and were using the
same Unicode symbols as the rest.

Later, when publishing the different parts of my thesis,
this separation from Latex made it easier to convert to
whatever cls the publisher wanted, since I would just
change the template.
I don't know how the public transportation is in Berlin or Bonn, but I remain pretty unimpressed with it in Düsseldorf. The train schedule is very unreliable; trains and cars share the same road, and the train is regularly held up by cars. It is difficult to buy a ticket because the machines on the train only take coins, do not offer guidance on which ticket to buy, and are regularly out of order. Tickets are not checked before boarding. Instead, they regularly send stealth ticket checkers into the trains and give fines to people that weren't honest or bought the wrong ticket. Many stops are not elderly/wheelchair accessible, and it would take a lot of work to update them.
That said, I did move here from Japan, so I have a high expectation. If I had come from the US, I would have been pretty happy just to see that trains exist! Minus the handicap-unfriendliness; everywhere I've been in the US, the bus drivers get out and set up a ramp for wheelchair users when needed.
Can Facebook operate if they don't track people to the degree they are doing now? Can they offer good adverts? Can Google?
Interesting, do you have a link?

I'm not really sure what Schmidt "does". Is he limited to running business processes and exploiting markets profitably or has he proven a talent fostering the invention of ground-breaking tech? If I want to successfully build the next Wave, I'm not sure if I want to be listening to him or not.
Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't find a link to the paper in the press release. Not that I would understand the hardware-specific parts, but I was just curious what software implementations they benchmarked against and how their elliptic curve algorithms were implemented.

I guess research chips like those end up serving as inspiration for the CPU designers of Intel/AMD/ARM etc. to evaluate which encryption instruction sets might be good to include in the future? Or are the fast vectorized multiplication operations and such already good enough to implement fast asymmetric crypto and no specialized instructions similar to AES-NI are needed? (Though of course this paper seems to imply that specialized hardware is useful)
Thanks, I had to look up the AMOADD instruction. For anyone else who's interested, this is nice RISC-V reference card:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1617/ECAD+Arch/files/docs/...
Wrt the title, I disagree, there's nothing creative about it. Wrt the rest, I disagree again. Obesity is a disease that you physically have, and you can't decide to not be fat anymore. Violence is a problem of society and you can't decide that the society won't be violent anymore (that even sounds off grammatically). Consuming too much online entertainment or being distracted by social media is nothing like these, you have all the means in the same devices to cure it. I won't dismiss it can become some sort of addiction, but then again, it won't create new receptacles in your brain, not give you diabetes or heart diseases, you won't crave it and hurt people in its absence that a therapy in a dedicated building will be needed. You seem to like hyperboles indeed.
I imagine many people are already using Latex inside Markdown, a rather nice solution for the quick production of mathematical texts.
I get the point you're trying to make, it's just that you have picked the perfect counter-example to make it against. Both with animal protection (no human will profit) and with Switzerland (we as citizens can force a popular vote against any law our elected government is about to pass, or even propose new laws).
Basically, while the communist block went through 1984 first, now we're globally going through Brave New World...

Of course, to understand what I say one would have to read the book, and it may be too late to be able to do that :)
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Is it about saving time

Yes. Time and effort.
Yes. The reason is slow and predictable burn that doesn’t affect the structural integrity until it has burned for a very long time. Even without special fire proofing, glulam burns at less than 1mm/minute.

The idea behind a fire safe high rise isn’t that it can’t burn but that when it burns it doesn’t collapse until people have left. That’s why the integrity is measured after 30min burn, 60min burn etc. As a wood beam burns the charring limits the oxygen supply of the fire, slowing the burn.

Steel beams require fire proofing and high temperatures or compromised fire proofing makes them structurally unsound which can cause unpredictable catastrophic failure (this happened in both of the WTC towers).
Aren't these only the ones that the issuers willingly made public themselves?
Facebook admits SMS notifications sent using two-factor number was caused by bug