skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that the left and right (and center) voters agree we shouldn't be bombing people, but don't care that much about the issue (as this article made as a central thesis). I think the left and right politicians (there are no center politicians / they are all center-right politicians) see bombing people as a good way to improve votes/money (people who are pro-bomb tend to vote/pay better, the difference works out in their favor).

I think it's important to clarify, or read from context, whether people mean voters or politicians (which I often use to include political operatives and partisan organizations).
I did this years ago to claims even here on HN that people think when you say "I deleted FB" or "I haven't used FB in years" are bragging.

I think it's important to spread the message that life goes on outside of FB. If you delete, you'll be in good company.

In a less extreme version, try not using it for 10 days and notice how you feel. There will be withdrawal, but if you can't pause a behavior for 10 days, you're probably addicted. Maintaining relationships outside of FB is like riding a bike and it'll feel awkward not to be involved in the "Did you see on FB" conversations at first, but you'll be past it in no time and back to more present conversations.
You know AM radio? That's Amplitude Modulation. Modulation here means "multiply your audio signal by a carrier signal".
What if it were a civilization of ocean-dwelling creatures?

That would make the whole premise more plausible for a number of reasons.
This has always been the case. America "stole" IP from Britain during the industrial revolution. China is doing the same now. IP laws are part of the legal doctrine of any country; another Sovereign entity cannot be compelled to follow it legally. So you use other tactics, e.g. membership in the WTO, which gives access to Western markets, to try and force other Sovereign nations to respect those laws.
And what that history tends to highlight is that, at least in a classroom setting without a lot of 1:1 instruction, there's probably only so much that schools can do to move the needle by themselves absent the right kind of home environment and involvement. For example, there's very little correlation between per student spending and test achievement between towns and cities in a state.
(as someone who doesn't use ember) This release looks cool, and I like the general vibe of careful development and clear messaging.

Is anyone here using Ember on big projects? How's it working out?

I tried ember, maybe 6 or 7 years ago, and was turned off by some weird magical behaviour, but I'm curious about how ember is doing these days, and particularly the glimmer engine.
Yes. Having worked at a company with a 99.8% retention rate, I'd absolutely be concerned if that jumped 10x.

Because that is the real metric... not how many people left, but how does it compare to the retention rate prior to the recent events?
One ultimate result of this was truly bizarre: students who couldn't write a narrative, but instead produced 5-paragraph persuasive essays.

I encountered this scoring high-stakes state tests years back; the 10th-grade students were prompted explicitly with "tell me a story about XYZ." (more verbiage omitted, but the question was clear about the requested mode). About 10% of students would write a clearly on-topic response starting from "here are 3 things about XYZ".

The state specified that those responses were to be scored "Off Mode", an invalid score which meant that the students would fail the test (and potentially fail to graduate).

The truly mindblowing part is that younger students will write you a narrative for ANYTHING given half a chance. (Think of a little kid telling you a story - "and then this happened, and then this, and then this...") These high-schoolers had literally had that instinct drummed out of them through essay-writing practice. :(
It’s an angle that a funeral directors could use as a selling point -
Fossilisation.
Yes, the parenthetical is correct. Words like “mix” have different meaning in different technical contexts. In signal processing, “frequency mixer” is a common meaning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_mixer
They basically are one.
What's the monetisation model?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16832329
time domain multiplication is frequency domain convolution.
Which is great if you want to shift the frequency band of some signal. Like if you have 2 songs that you want to play over radio in the same, shared airspace, you shift them to two different frequency bands. This happens electrically/RF-ly as a multiplication.
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The academic approach seems to portray systems as static, inflexible, snapshots in time.

However, the formation of systems occurs over time; so the practical art to Systems Management involves understanding the rate of change, flexibility of inter-dependencies, and sustaining momentum.
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A look at the ad-targeting tools AggregateIQ left exposed online
Nah the NVA let the VC do the heavy lifting and take the lions share of the casualties - look at who came out on top after the war was over.
They could just ask every passenger how much they would want to potentially take the next plane. Then just bump those that ask the least. If I’m choosing between the 1pm and 3pm place and decide on 1pm I’m obviously not that opposed to changing to the 3pm, so I’d enter a low sum. But if I’m going to an important event or connecting to another flight then my cost of switching might be huge.

But I doubt any of this will change, anyone who buys a cheap ticket isn’t buying a “seat” they are buying a chance at a seat. The alternative as you say is lower efficiency and higher prices for everyone.

The incident where a passenger was dragged off shouldn’t be possible regardless of system since the bounced passenger should never be boarded.
You are lying
That's an interesting site but doesn't seem to be picking papers the first one I picked up on was the Monty Hall game show problem which isn't a paper as far as I know.
> What does humankind make that would survive 60 million years into the future

Nuclear reactors are recognizable for their crazy isotope distributions for billions of years. Geosynchronous sattelites might be stable for that long, too. The anthropocene mass extinction is likely to show up in the fossil record, and the rapid climate change based on burning carbon out of the ground (which doesn't match the isotope mix of atmospheric carbon) will likewise be detectable from sediment.
Wait really? Do you have a source for this, I'd love to learn more.
Oh, I'm sure Cambodians are happy that America didn't invade it and the same intellectuals that blamed US for Vietnam praised Pol Pot as champion of peace and enlightened socialist leadership.
I want everything to look the same. Terminal apps all look the same, Emacs "apps" all look the same. When things look different it's hard to tell what the hell is going on, and for what? So your stupid brand can advertise more efficiently? I don't care, I want to do whatever it is the app is supposed to do. So I'll pass on this brutal nonsense, thanks.
> http://khamidou.com/compilers/lisp.py/

Lacks an actual description of the grammar/semantics of the implemented language.

Should this work:

((lambda (foo) (+ foo 3)) 39)

or this

(begin (define foo (lambda (a) (lambda (b) (+ a b)))) (define bar (foo 20)) (print (bar 22)))

> As you can see, it turns out its pretty easy to make your own interpreter

but of what language? If you don't document the language you are trying to implement, we don't know what code should be valid. It's especially easy to implement something if you don't say what you are trying to implement...
Uh, i think society deserves to know that man abused an animal and is potentially dangerous/mentally unstable. If you’re a young woman about to go on a date with someone i’m sure you’d want to know about that incident
It is not unusual at all to multiply signals. That is how basically any modern radio transmitter and receiver works. It's also how you can convert between the frequency and time domain, which is used in basically any sort of perceptual compression (jpeg, mp3).
Bruce Sterling’s story Swarm has a brilliant take on the collective that doesn’t have intelligence. Won’t spoil it by saying more but your comment brought it instantly to mind...
>Here's how the China trade illusion works (and the West keeps falling for it for some reason):

Plainly, its because most Western Governments (especially in the US) are heavily influenced by business interests via lobbies, PAC's etc. And Businesses simply want to use cheap labor in China to improve their bottom lines, even if that means the labor force in the US suffers as a result. They do not give a shit if China reneges on its WTO promises or destroys other Western companies.

Sometimes the kind of skilled labor force or logistical supply chain is simply not present in the US, or is too expensive to implement in the US.
I suspect that the "people" would be quite happy to drop a MOAB on Assad after the pics of the gassed kids in cellars came out.
The reason it isn't hard to say that (about war and power) is, in large part, because we are preceded by people like Madison.

It is, I have found, very difficult for people to accurately assess what it would be like to not know something they already know. Steven Pinker calls this the Curse of Knowledge.
Fashion is but the extreme end, where 90% or more of the value is created by the branding and designer cachet, but it goes all the way to much more prosaic items, like washing machines (Miele) and DIY tools (Makita), where the brand is acting much more as protection for a promise of quality, yet the branding still has pose value - showing off your middle class credentials when someone is visiting your house or borrowing your tools. I don't think there's any real cut-off point where you get to say it's an abuse, because value is whatever we humans think is valuable, whether that's high quality or socially desirable.
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Well... both Catia and NX (among others) have the ability to natively create and use organic shapes. With Solidworks, it's not (or at least wasn't) a native capability.

There is a company (nPower Software) making plugins for Solidworks giving organic shape capabilities:

http://www.npowersoftware.com

Addons vs native integration... I'd doubt the add-on approach is as in-depth and practical to use. I could be wrong though. :)

Catia also has things like "Natural Sketch", used for ideation and general concept development:

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

NX may have similar, but I'm not sure.

Reputation wise... Dassault has a bad reputation for not listening to customers / forcing customers to adopt stuff they don't want/need. Siemens has a much better reputation.
Autodesk's is mixed. That's all just my outsiders perspective. ;)
These kinds of surveys are notoriously unreliable. There is no way for the interviewer to verify, no penalty for the participant lying, and you're talking to a complete stranger over the phone, further reducing the barrier for lying. There's also possibly a motivation to "send a message" to FB such that they improve their policy without the interviewee personally having to pay a price.

Would be amazed if even half the "yes" responders actually did. Wouldn't be surprised if literally none of them had.

Probably the best way for most people to "resist" would be to block FB tracking, and anyone who sells it to them, at the browser level. If enough people did, that swing the "materially hurt FB" vs "keep my personal utility of the platform" balance into the positive.

edit: to clarify I meant the respondees lying.
Almost

Uses javascript at various point though.
The budget of the Department of Defense is only a small part of what the United States spends on war. Add in the Department of Energy's portion for nuclear weapons, the Veteran's Administration, the "black budgets" for the CIA, NSA, and others, the accumulated interest on the national debt for various wars (declared and undeclared), and the costs of PTSD-wounded warriors shifted to the public. I don't have a number, but I imagine it's quite a sum.
Actually, the frequency mixer wikipedia page is describing a kind of mixer that multiplies.

The wikipedia page on "electronic mixers" is more informative:

> An electronic mixer is a device that combines two or more electrical or electronic signals into one or two composite output signals. There are two basic circuits that both use the term mixer, but they are very different types of circuits: additive mixers and multiplicative mixers.

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

This was news to me; the mixers I'm familiar with are additive. I would call something that multiplies a ring modulator or a heterodyne or something like that. The website could have been a bit more clear that they're talking about a different kind of mixer than how most people understand the term.
In a survey of people I know, there are many who claim that they "only use it very rarely", most who say they "should use it less", several who quit (incl. me many ca. 2012) and three who never had an account. Those three also never had whatsapp. Those who do not have fb accounts agree that it did not have a noticeable impact on our social lives. We use mail and calls to keep in touch, and we have more to talk about when we see each other, as we have not seen and read about most of each others' experiences already before we meet. The one thing I missed in the beginning was the simplicity of organizing events with people in common networks who I was not close with, e.g. study groups, student parties, study trips, I hear now for parents this also includes kindergarden activities etc.
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled on smart people is to convince them that there are no conspiracies. ok

On your point in Douma, the deal to evacuate was reached two weeks ago (about 10 days befoe the alleged attacks)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

So it's more likely that the attack is false flag last ditch effort one. We all know that the civilians that the "rebels" hold are hostages. Even the article you cite says this much.
Somehow I have the feeling this whole Webassembly thing will be a giant flop.

Tech people seem to think that making code run twice as fast is a huge step forward. But in the grand scheme of things its nothing.
I'm sure it's a dumb question, but it's a genuine one. How do we know that the Yucatan crater is from an asteroid, and not from some kind of man-made explosion created by an advanced civilization?
These people were fleeing a war zone where there was a transition of government. And of course there are also large numbers of people who were unhappy or afraid of the Communist. I'm not saying they are angels, I can not stand communism.

The US also directly supported this and helped many people who otherwise would have stayed. It was part of a dilibrate strategy to weaken the North.

Many of the fears people had about what the Communist government was doing were false, and the Communist government actually implemted some sensable policies.

At that point it was not clear that the North would get more support, but over the coming years it became quite clear. The South just failed as a state way more so then the North.

A bunch of poor Vietnamese were able to defeat the biggest and most powerful military in the history of earth. That's a pretty hard thing to explain.
I love seeing old YC companies continue to try to discover product market fit. I remember this blog post which made me think they were toast because pg told them: “But until you’ve got a major discovery to show, or some serious growth, I can’t recommend you to investors”

http://tomhoward.co/part-1-reality-check

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3941754
What does that mean? Honestly curious, does it mean unfriending everyone?
I strongly suspect that the article is allegorical. That it's describing the resonance between people, using waveforms as a metaphor.

If it were just a technical article, the last step — where you bring the two signals back into phase with each other — would be pointless and redundant. But if the true meaning is outside the mechanistic / technical, then that last step has tremendous purpose.

Bret's background is in electrical engineering. He knows the proper technical meanings of all the terms and concepts in the article. So rather than simply pointing out that he's "misusing" them, perhaps look for reasons that he might have intentionally chosen to do so.
Supposed "study guides" existed back when I was in school but you had to get to a store and buy one. Today, I guess I assume that any student who doesn't want to read some book can just get whatever information they need about it, including analysis, with a few keystrokes.
Emacs with org-mode.
For what it's worth, Tesla built a Supercharger network all on their own, instead of shoehorning their way in, like expecting cities and gas stations to add electric charging capability.

As far as the weight, the society would probably benefit from narrower lines and narrower single- (or double-, but in a tandem way) occupant cars, as congested city freeways could essentially double the throughput overnight. The benefit would also extend to any internal-combustion vehicle, so this is not Tesla-exclusive.

The infrastructure (lane width included) is governed by US DOT and respective agencies around the world https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/geometric/pubs/mitigationstrateg...
Africa, even China has been moving that way.
The connection is that the USSR never managed to produce enough food. After the collapse and famine of collectivisation, mechanisation helped a bit, but never back to 1917 levels IIRC. From the 1960s there was little more growth, and a growing urban population.

The other half of the story is oil, which was more amenable to communist production. And exporting oil let them buy food from the west, for a while.

I highly recommend reading Yegor Gaidar on this topic:

http://www.aei.org/feature/the-soviet-collapse/
I can't relate to this line of thinking at all.

Your one big method interview example - so you think had they not been able to reply on static typing for refactoring in their previous work they would have gravitated toward cleaner code? That just seems wildly speculative as a counter to me. A fair amount of projects don't get the refactoring they need in the first place, so developers working on those don't get the experience to begin with. Developers who write large functions often have reasons like "if you use multiple functions you have to jump around to see whats going on." If i'm attacking a straw man, its unintentional.

Anyway having unit tests in a projects would encourage smaller units more, you can have tests easily in static languages - so you get the best of both worlds - smaller units and the ease static typing brings to refactoring.

The go-to sources on writing good code in c#/java land are proponents of keeping methods and classes small as well - that's where i learnt from. (Not to start any wars on over use of design patterns)

Your comment assuming we'd all agree choosing a static language is a bad choice for a small example is also very strange to me. When i'm under pressure id go with what i'm most familiar with, likely C#. Though, with JS and PHP being my dynamic alternatives, i may just be sounding like a very bad programmer to you ;)

I've seen plenty of very long functions in javascript (and c#), and dont think it has anything to do with static typing.
Stream or silver screen: Netflix pulls plug on Cannes, is Hollywood next?
I have a hard time believing plastics will persist as plastics. It doesn't take much heat to denature most plastic, and geologic sediments tend to experience a good bit of pressure and heat over time.
> Gmail stores the DKIM check result in the header of the email.

That's an interesting idea. Unfortunately it makes Google a trusted third party. And a printout of that email would be easy to fake.

It would be nice if the report was signed by Google and timestamped (e.g. RFC 3161).
Anti-MS sentiment is related to its business practices and perhaps dev community itself, not tooling.

I've never seen a person who actually is familiar with Typescript say anything negative about it, and it has huge uptake in the open source community.
We lost that when the gopher protocol went away. I was hopefull about RSS for a bit but then they started just pushing a tag line or summary...

...I take it you have tried local style sheets (or w3m)
I don't know if it's very accurate to say "f(o) is like o.f()". I think this depends on the language and the way it deals with methods.

For example, Python makes this explicit: the first argument of a Python method is `self`, which is nothing more than an object. The first argument has nothing special, and its name is `self` only by convention.
So, in Python, yes, maybe we can say "f(o) another syntax for o.f()" and the signature of f is `f(my_obj : MyObject)`, not f().

So, in some way, a Python method has the potential to have "pure" scope just like a regular FP function: You have no special global reference like `this`, you only have what you have passed to the function.

But what about other OOP languages ? Do they have the same semantic?
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As mentioned above, there's significant churn in the Earth's crust that would shift the location and distribution of resources over very long timescales.

Also, we couldn't be sure that there wouldn't have been ecological or cultural reasons why they just never exploited fossil fuels. Especially if they were ocean-dwelling, it's possible that other methods of generating energy were just much more practical for them to develop first.
https://segment.com/ seems to take design really seriously. They also have a pretty nice React toolkit here: https://segmentio.github.io/evergreen/?selectedKind=alert&se...
I doubt that they will be the same after a few million years, no. But what kind of rock will it make? Won't it be unlike anything else?
No but they mention #deletefacebook "trending" (i.e. on Twitter, without even mentioning Twitter and apparently without seeing the irony).

You might know a lot of people who want social cred for deleting their accounts, without actually deleting them. But it's also possible that Facebook is keeping those accounts active on purpose so others will continue interacting with them, which is a tool of temptation they can use to get those users to come back.

100% of the people I am deleted their Facebook account long ago, based on a fairly dispassionate assessment of the user experience and the loss of productivity when saddled with it.
Gravity is just a theory which happens to not fail whatever limited tests we have done so far. I mean everything is a theory for science which is great & how everything should be, except when that theory came from Indian / Hindu rishi's about the consciousness of the universe or any of the studies & accomplishments which got appropriated into Western culture as their own. That is what I am calling out on. Many glaring examples of such dishonest appropriation exist, but we choose to ignore them.
Written in 1795. From:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-042...
Does it? If you apply that logic to other species I’m not sure it works. What you want is a few populations that have been cut off from the outside long ago, sharing an ancestor but evolving independently. The places I have I mind are the Galapagos island birds, Australian and New Zealand species, Rift Valley fishes and the other I’m sure exist.
The State department has become essentially a property managment arm for the DoD.

Lots of 'War against Drug' money is used to support the wars. Lots of 'devlopment' aid is used to support war.

Massive amount of money are given to Israel and Egypt that is essentially military spending. The list goes on.
They Sublimed, Culture-universe style.