skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did comment on that fact:

> Modern usage associates the use of "chick" with the beauty of the individual. Calling a woman a "chick" is using her physical appearance to describe her, disregarding her actual skills and achievements.
They also fended off any sort of corporate raiders/vulture capitalists who could leverage a billion in debt, buy it out, take it private, then strip it of assets.
If you like that, you will probably enjoy the a language that I made called TXR. It's a Lisp dialect (TXR Lisp) plus a whole-document pattern recognition and generation language. These can be used independently or in combination.

This example shows generation (with some very light extraction: munging a copyright header from existing files to stick into a generated file):

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/gencadr.txr

gencadr.txr generates all those caar, cadr, caddr, ... functions down to five levels deep, in C. Plus it generates the Lisp defplace definitions for all of them so they are assignable, as in (set (caddar x) new-value).

That part could have been done in Lisp rather than textual generation, but I said what the heck.

Generated results:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/cadr.c

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/cadr.t...
Why does this code using random strings print “hello world”?
Because they can switch on a 30% profit margin at a moments notice once the competition is sufficiently demolished
Tesla uses batteries at supercharger to avoid demand charges from spikes in power demand when vehicles are charging (load shaving).
Automated pain detection system for dementia patients
Not trying to pressure and persuade someone to take your pill is not the same as "shielding consumers".
Wow.

Any one of the 3 test subsystems the describe is already ahead of well more than 99% of all software projects being developed. How is this funded?
I disagree. Another comment here mentions "military grade verification" (?!) is required to write such high quality C applications. No, not at all, unless you count knowing what you're engineering as Military Grade Awareness. You seem to be saying you prefer the code-slinging style of "see if it works, it seems to work... release it". I've been including SQLite in various applications for 10 years, as well as have been coding, primarily in C, for 35 years. If you are not testing your work to a degree of statistical awareness of it's behavior, you're an irresponsible cowboy, hardly a true professional, and probably a liability to you and your team.
First Detection of the 21cm Cosmic Dawn Signal
"It is not just a company which owns 95%+"
Lol! What? Where did you get that ridiculous number form?
I read Ta-Nehisi_Coates' "Between the World and Me" right after Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" and felt such shame that so little has changed in America between the two.

I felt like I read the same book twice.
You were running a mining pool, but somehow not mining? The dissonance astounds.
While some of those were open standards, most/all of those only ever had a single implementation each. JVM's startup time is painful, and its sandboxing abilities have been frequently broken. Wasn't Microsoft p-code interpreted, or are you referring to something else? NaCL was still architecture-specific until PNaCL. PNaCL is pretty comparable to WebAssembly besides that PNaCL was driven by Google alone, and WebAssembly was worked on by many players after it evolved from asm.js.
And doesn't exclude people at polling locations.
I agree generic consumer opinion won't really take into account the subsidy and unprofitability situation.

That is in fact my entire point: because generic consumer opinion or anecdotes don't qualify themselves based on the subsidy mechanism, it means generic consumer opinion or anecdotes are largely irrelevant for purposes of comparing with older taxi experiences or assessing a claimed value-add of a newer ride-hailing company.

In other words it doesn't add information to say that consumers like to be given better quality things for free.

> I need to get from one point to another in a safe, economical manner, and NYC's Yellow Taxi fleet is failing at that.

This seems like a red herring tacked on at the end, since Uber is not providing this either (because of the subsidy) and from an analytical perspective, it's irrelevant if average consumers are aware of this yet or not.
Sarah Jeong posted that "crypto is short for cryptography" shouting-from-rooftops sketch a while back but I'm not sure where it's gone.

I think when she refers to Bitcoin, she also means every other piece of madness that has come after it including altcoins/cryptocurrencies on the whole; and does not play favourites.

Edit: Here's some evidence - https://twitter.com/search?q=%40sarahjeong%20cryptocurrency

I'm sure similar searches on related terms will reveal a similar sentiment very opposite to yours.
I wrote some code that was handling upwards of 2 billion qps and every few days it would mysteriously blow up. Fortunately my gut instinct, replacing stl::map with a boost::equivalent saved the day. It's not that I don't have faith in using boost, it's just that I prefer to avoid complication and dependencies when it makes sense.
A lot of it is common sense, banks for example: If you use your bank (you have to via checking or CC) they have to know your PayPal information.

Also they have to care about fraud.
I was just Googling it, I don't have any better sources sorry. It is showing me a registration nag screen now too. But it was companies like Samsung, LG, Panasonic and then some Chinese companies that I hadn't heard of.

edit: BYD was the chinese one among the top 5.

There's a list of top lithium mining companies here: https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-in... - those don't sound like places with zero emission power generation, either. (not to mention that mining typically produces power on-site with diesel generators)
Very few people know every corner of the English language, or, say, French.
This doesn't prevent us from communicating, though.
This situation is trivially detectable though. Simply plot the inclination angle of disc galaxies as a function of azimuth and inclination, if it's like you say, there will be a very clear banded structure.
I may be misunderstanding things. Are pronouns not tagged as people? "Obama was the president" vs "I was the president" or "He was the president"
I thought it was mainly about lying to others about how well you are doing, given that the central idea is that of giving an impression of success before you are successful, in order to gain access to the people and markets you require in order for you to become actually successful.
Yeah, so, nothing really useful when what you’re waiting for is proper keyboard customization.
I'm 6'1" and I've been uncomfortable on every flight I've ever been on as an adult that was coach...not really special to Spirit.
Some Russian tulips in 3D (WebGL). Don't you be worry they ain't no poisonous )
I think it's funny that Fortnite will probably cause the inevitable unraveling of UE4, as yet another game engine without baked-in anti-cheat.

Cheating in Fortnite is practically unheard of at this point. But it won't be long until the player base is just as jaded as PUBG's: https://github.com/Griizz/Fortnite-Hack
This can be true and still be not so great at the same time. What any company like Amazon tries to do is capture revenue, typically by taking it away from someone else rather than create something new.

In the short term that can mean a boon for small business as large competitors to Amazon are undermined. In fact, Amazon uses small sellers to do the undermining. Once everyone in a market segment essentially works for Amazon then they are free to tighten down the screws and extract more profits.
Ah, HN pedantry at its finest. Never change.
POE <3
Plenty of people have assessed guilt. It has not been demonstrated in the court of law which is an important difference.

However, when you consider how many people don't trust the US court system. You can't expect them to reserve judgement based on what they consider a biased system.
it is not economically viable for entertainment or disposable "apps", but extremely required for any serious, mission critical software. Seriously, the comments here betray how many people are in disposable software careers.
C# cannot express generic algorithms on unsafe pointers unlike F#. C# has dounting inconsitencies in generics inference, delegate and event handling, operators and in expression-statements, unlike F#. I use C# but love F#.
Reading the first sentences I thought that'd become that weird semi-philosophical speech on death which you hear from some people in funerals. Internet is too big to digest, and in a blog or comment there is not much things which can prove you that the writer has some authority on what he's saying, whereas the name of a known scientist on an actual paper book that costs money to print is authority.
Tyson is intellectually underwhelming and doesn't seem to understand the limitations of his own knowledge. He's made his fame for speaking with the mannerisms of a preacher; and for remaking (in science a necessity) the Carl Sagan classic. He's already being forgotten by mainstream culture, which is not worse for it.
They're not all aligned on the same plane, they're somewhat aligned along the matter filaments and sheets (including the suspected dark matter) that make up the large scale structure of the universe.

"Galaxies are not distributed randomly in the cosmic web but are instead arranged in filaments and sheets surrounding cosmic voids.
[...snip...]
We found evidence that the spin axes of bright spiral galaxies have a weak tendency to be aligned parallel to filaments. For elliptical/S0 galaxies, we have a statistically significant result that their spin axes are aligned preferentially perpendicular to the host filaments;..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0068.pdf

"Galaxy shapes are not randomly oriented, rather they are statistically aligned in a way that can depend on formation environment, history and galaxy type."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05465.pdf

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March15/Joachimi/Joachim...
For me, it's more that I'd have no idea which app is the go-to taxi hailing app in a given city, or if one even exists. Like if you were going to visit Miami or Phoenix, would you know what to install besides Uber/Lyft? I wouldn't. Would the difference in quality/price be enough for you to spend time trying to figure it out?
The subreddit you refer to has since been banned:

"This subreddit was banned due to a violation of our content policy, specifically, the prohibition of content that encourages or incites violence and the posting of personal and confidential information."

https://www.reddit.com/r/cbts_stream
While the kernel is C, I believe that most of the windows OS is written in C++.
Ok, my mind is boggled too... Anything we can read on the topic ?
Ironically without an appropriate degree it can be harder to work your way into an average government contractor than a big tech company. In particular, I could see agencies like NASA strictly requiring an accredited degree as I know a lot several government contractors to do. I have a desire to someday work in space exploration, and have to make sure of knowing JPL & NASA's requirements ahead of time.

I have a Arts degree. I spoke with someone with prior experience at NASA. From what he told me, I would say their SWEs have backgrounds "diverse, but still very same". They come from many degrees, but they're all STEM degrees.

Assuming they don't have strict degree requirements, I could lay out a job path that goes from local web shop (I'm mostly a web developer) to local web & app shop. At this point I get to add Java to my resume for Android. Even though Android is going away from Java it will be years before it stops being used.

After 1-2 years of java experience I'll likely be more applicable for a lot of good software engineering jobs and on fairly equal footing with someone with a 4-year degree. I might still have that barrier of entry with JPL, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

Now let's go to the other option, getting a more appropriate degree. I would like a second 4 year degree, perhaps in ECE or CS to complement my Art degree.

A lot of people also want to get another degree, but that's easier said than done since some options become harder and some become easier when you are in your mid 30's like me

I have no SO and no kids, so potentially I can be very mobile, but the lack of a job offsets that. How do you set aside years of time for another full degree, with a small support network, and prevent myself from living on the streets? I don't have any friends or family that I know of that'll let me life rent-free for years. I also have to consider if I have to return to the life of working a humbling service job. I'm not in my early 20's anymore so I can't be as flexible and open with part-time jobs and living arrangements.
Microsoft translates Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person
It was always people's opinions but the author is arguing that people's opinions used to based more off of information closest to the matter at hand, but now people's opinions are based more off of reputation of the one claiming the opinion.
Tech Leaders Are Growing Up (Again). That’s a Good Thing
'science' is not defined as 'experimenting with control groups'.
That analogy does not hold up when the CD you are observing from is in the same plane as all the others.
Tech lead of Mononoke here. Thanks for your comments!

The experience of using Mercurial within FB is quite different from the stock open source one. We have many local extensions, as well as integrations with the rest of our developer infrastructure. We're definitely optimizing for the linear-history monorepo model.

We don't see things as a competition between hg and git, but between good developer experiences and bad. Thus far, we've found it easier to improve the developer experience with hg than with git, so that have been our main focus.

But we feel we're reaching the limits of what we can do with hg, which is why we're investing in Mononoke. We feel that version control in general has been pretty stagnant, and we're hoping to do some neat stuff over the next few years (based on Mononoke and other projects).
1) Some of the metrics we are currently already tracking:

Response and follow up rates from cold emails

Response and follow up rates from referrals to hiring partners

Technical interview score over time (measured by internal rubrics we design to be very close to what is actually used at companies)

Success rate per interview over time (hard to see trends for an individual, but kind of starting to see trends for a batch)

The classic feedback form, 1 to 5 in how much did you learn after every session

Average gain from negotiation compared to the base offer and to industry standards

Pretty basic stuff for now, but still able to prove value. For example, like I mentioned we're seeing a response rate from under 5% to over 20% after applying cold emailing techniques. This is theoretically already a 4x difference in the number of opportunities you receive. Another example is average raise as a result of negotiation through the program can be thought of as literally money we get you.

2) Yes. We mainly look for a fundamental conceptual understanding of your field (since we don't do technical training besides interview prep) and a high level of motivation.

Surprisingly, we haven't found the need to look for anything else. This lets us ignore something that might increase implicit bias like trying to evaluate culture fit. We can focus on finding each individual candidate the company that's the right culture fit for them instead of the other way around.

3) We have about 10 hiring partners right now as well as an advisor and alumni network we use to make referrals on behalf of students to top companies like Facebook, Google, etc.

In terms of experience: my co-founder and I are unique in that while we have past founding experience and have worked at top companies like Facebook, Salesforce, and Yelp, but we are also young enough that we are not decades separated from the problem of figuring out your early career.

There aren't many people working on career services that understand both sides of the table when it comes to what it feels like to be a university student looking for a job and what it feels like to be a hiring manager evaluating a university student. This would describe us though.

We like to think we understand what a student is going through and how to help them better than anyone else because of this.
:(

Keep Talking

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjwvvmEn2M
A bit defensive, aren't we? I didn't see OP say anything about hating JS, just that it only got popular for the wrong reasons.
I suspect that in your example you would observe a number of different apparent orientations, but that there would be some types of apparent orientation that could never occur.
Pretty mixed in Ireland to be honest, and we have our own sport Gaelic Football which gets confusing.
"You are the 1 millionth visitor! Click here to claim your prize!"

Please. People have always been gullible, it's just that the scams have moved to more lucrative enterprises.
A concert ticket isn't an ownership interest, it's a license/permit to attend an event.
Love it. Initially, I was thinking that it wouldn't be as sturdy a build as the ThinkPad W530, but it's been great.
> Sqllite didn’t start for fun it was built for navy destroyers and submarines.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. I for one find destroyers to be an absolute riot.
Most who give that advice are very imprecise about which deceptions they're endorsing.

Almost like they're asserting a confidence in a belief that isn't really merited -- wish we had a term for that.
> always been a community made up of shady folks

That's not fair. Shady folks are just getting more publicity. Noone talks about people who created stuff that works and doesn't scam people. And there's a lot of such stuff. This space is growing because of such people, despite the shady folks.
This still doesn't address the fact that the reason Uber experiences are different from this is purely down to subsidy. If drivers weren't being subsidized to provide the unprofitable rides that yellow cabs are forced to provide by law (and which drivers try to avoid), then Uber also wouldn't provide this.

Basically, your comment is the same as saying, "I am glad VCs are giving me reduced-cost rides and subsidizing drivers to provide ride stock for intrinsically unprofitable routes and locations."

You're not saying that the Uber experience is better than the old yellow cab experience. You're saying that the experience where VCs give away money for free in order to finance a ride you could otherwise never expect to get (except at much higher price) is nice.

This isn't a property of Uber or any transformation of taxi services. It is just a temporary property of VCs being willing to artificially increase supply, artificially increase car quality, and artificially reduce prices via subsidy, while not providing any evidence that it could persist without subsidy.
This March Madness, we're using machine learning to predict upsets
It is generally accepted as gender neutral. Lately, I've seen a lot of LGBT communities encouraging its use.

Googling "Is dude gender neutral?" results in a lot of sites telling you that it is.

"In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was "dudette" or "dudess," but these have both fallen into disuse, and "dude" is now also used as a unisex term." Dude - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
I don't doubt that the comments you're referring to existed, but the HN community has been overwhelmingly skeptical about Theranos for years, to the point of cliché.
Let's use "coordinated disclosure" then - that is generally considered the preferred method these days.
I'm simply saying that you should not assume that because the SEC encourages certain self-regulating features that that approach is necessarily optimal.
Critical thinking skills have never gone out of style. Where does it come from? Does the source have a good reputation? Who are the authorities who believe it? What are my reasons for deferring to these authorities? I was taught these questions in Sunday school decades ago.
How to write email subject lines
To get the feeling of different programming lanugages I would recommend:

MIPS(how processor works),

C(how memory, pointers and syscalls work),

Ruby(fully object oriented),

Scheme(simplicity, composion, code-as-data),

Haskell(abstractions, side-effects management, immutability, types, FRP),

Erlang(distributed & concurent programming, message based communication, immutability),

Prolog(logic programming).

Every od these feels differently and operates at differently level of thought and abstraction.

It's good to just get the feeling of these languages as it will give you better perspective.

I tested a lot more but these I can recommend for expanding horizons.

EDIT: formatting
doesnt their history indicate that they can't have so large margins in online sales?
Please don't copy and paste content into Hacker News, regardless of how good you think your past comments were. The threads here are for conversation, not reciting from the record.

There is no "HN mentality", just a large statistical cloud that people see what what they want in. Most of that cloud has been the opposite of what you're suggesting. Commenters here have been not just skeptical but cynical and outraged by Theranos for years, to the point that it became tedious. It looks to me like you're engaging in a bit of revisionism for the purpose of posturing above the community. That is a popular sport but a distasteful one.
I think you got the emissions of a charge cycle mixed up with emissions of battery production per capacity unit.

For the CO2 per 1 kWh capacity, the emissions of battery production are 200 KILOgrams. I got the 200 grams from 200 kg by dividing by a supposed 1000 charge-cycle life of a battery.

So my calculation showed that per 1 kWh power charged/discharged, the emissions come out at 200g per kWh.
Which is comparable to using diesel to produce the same amount of power.
>So you pick a LISP language you're severely limiting your hire pool.

I'd rather have 5 very good Lisp programmers than 50 code monkeys.
Yeah, I don't think she gets nothing. She was paid a salary for many years, I would't be surprised if it was a pretty hefty one. There were probably other perks, too (wasn't she known to fly private for business trips?). It looks like she simply relinquished some equity that probably wasn't worth very much anyway. This settlement doesn't look like much of a deterrent to future would-be fraudsters.
Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 mod cancelled due to voice acting copyright
Just because you say you're a psychopath doesn't mean you are one. You'd expect a neuroscientist to be aware of the limitations of your ability to self-diagnose. My personal opinion is that he loves the attention he gets. He gets to play tough and loves it. He feels dangerous and special. It's an escape mechanism. He might even act like a sociopath on purpose, but he doesn't seem like one. He might be a narcissist. Or he might be just self-delusional. It's a sad situation regardless.
Here's a link to the website of the organization itself: http://www.damanhur.org/en/what-is-damanhur

It provides a much more clearly laid out view of what is going on here, and somehow manages to be less of a sales document than the OP article.
pls reorder in time-sequence
typo: $25 ==> $25mm
Probably people bailing out of their short positions.