skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now I kind of want to see the data on power consumption/transistor count over time.
Big animals that evolved alongside us (elephants, lions, hippos, etc) have not been wiped out. Most of the North American big mammals got wiped out because they were suddenly exposed to human big-game hunters who had been hardened by thousands of years of living in the Siberian wastelands. Those North American animals didn't have the benefit of a long genetic memory telling them that the soft hairless ones are actually the most deadly predators on the planet...
This is incredible. If only they also stopped investments in fossil fuels... Chinese banks are by far the largest investors in fossil fuel projects today.
While they make up the moajority of new home loans, they only make up ~15% ot total mortgage originations, leaving 85% of homes being mortgaged with conventional mortgages.
This is indeed very light in content. Also, while Rust fixes a whole set of problems, it doesn't mean that Rust fixes all possible problems.

It is relatively easy to create a situation where you overflow your program. See here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50049

Googling around, there are many situations where bad code can lead to an overflow and your code breaking.
The reason we believe that humans wiped out the mega-fauna is because the megafauna of North America all disappeared within a millennia of humans arriving from the land-bridge. It's possible they all coincidentally disappeared but unlikely.
Apple has announced no such thing.

I suggest you actually read the article you linked.
It wasn't like that two hours ago, they probably updated it due to the news.

http://news.ladbrokes.com/politics/donald-trump-at-21-to-win...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-27/a-nobel-p...
>Until people start thinking that "it's better to just let the big companies lock down hardware, then everything will just work!"

Do a large number of people not already think this? I'm pretty sure that's why Chromebooks and iPads are appealing to many people.

Convenience is worth the sacrifice of freedom if you were never going to use the freedom anyways. It's not even a sacrifice if that's the case.

If someone offers to pay my rent on the condition that I never climb Mt. Everest, I am technically sacrificing freedom for convenience but I'm still going to do it because I wasn't going to climb Mt. Everest anyways.
>The only significant thing to change was American policy

Straw man - the above was just objecting to this characterisation of recent SK political changes as insignificant
> Random idea: replace the terminology of "duplicate" questions with "similar" questions.

This is not at all a bad thought, and it's a perfect example of something that Stack (company) could have tried to actually address complaints rather than just papering over them and telling users they're too mean. Addressing the actual UX issues would do far more to improve interactions than just policing language.

Unfortunately, we've gone around the sun many times with plenty of smart proposals like this simply being ignored by the company.
About bloody time. I live in the country side and can see what's happening, though where I live nature is doing ok. City folks though have no idea how bad things are.
One of the reasons SO was created was because programming forums didn't work well enough for Q&A. And I think SO did succeed at doing that.

I don't think tacking on a forum is the right way to make it even better.
I've recently wondered why cities don't tend to spring up on their own anymore. Either that's true or I just haven't heard about it. Has anyone looked into this?

I was going to bring this up as an anecdote but looking at this (http://www.businessinsider.com/federal-government-land-map-o...) it seems to be true; a relative of mine lives in a small city in Utah and says he wants a couple acres but the land surrounding the city is federally owned, limiting his options. How was this land released to citizens previously and how has that changed since? Was it really just doling it out to farmers who have since sold it?
Seattle was a dying city 30 years ago. Comparing historical housing prices would be highly misleading.
Had a really interesting "conversation" with /u/prokoudine a while ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686941).

His favorite reply to my criticism to GIMP's usability was "get a grip on yourself".

Love GIMP's devs entitlement to think GIMP's users are worthless pieces of crap.
Do you think Trump could get America to go Metric?

I'm kinda trolling but not really.

It occurred to me a week or two ago that he, of all people, might actually be able to switch US to the Metric System and make it stick.
Microsoft releases Office 2019 preview
Do you think a leading university theology department is confused about what theology is?
I know right!? He's so offensive! OMG!!!
That's one of the main issues here.
Houses should be about having a place to live, not your largest financial asset. The selfish protectionism that comes from treating housing as an investment is why so many cities are so broken.
Two predators together doesn't work, one has to work and yield.
Square actually has APIs for online processing now. https://squareup.com/developers
He does get long winded at times, but it’s worth sticking with it. There’s a lot of detail in there that is often lost in <hour long documentaries, including a fair bit of comparison to modern times. The first episode, where he discusses the importance of Gavrilo Princip and how his actions depends on the eye of the beholder is particularly enlightening. There are some comparisons to the Kennedy assasination which can feel like a stretch at times, but definitely thought provoking.

I think if you come into the series believing you’ll hear a straight up factual recount of events without bias, you’ll be disappointed. It’s more of a discussion (albeit in monologue form) than documentary. That said I find he treads the topic very carefully, trying hard to present the case in different lights – I think this might be why it’s a bit long winded at times. At the same time, this is what gives it color in my opinion. He’s also a very good narrator I feel.

I wouldn’t base a history paper off of these episodes, but I’d be comfortable in using them as a starting point for deeper dives.
Incremental compilation is not tied to the compiler, since it has this ability when coding C/C++ applications too. I always disabled it since does not work properly with multi-project with custom libraries. Main project, it worked just fine.
Praxis wasn't the homeworld. It housed their key energy generating facility.

Good to be able to contribute something substantive to an HN discussion :)
What is the false premise? The linked article http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 is saying the same thing you are, with an in-depth explanation.

The article isn't great in how it explains, and it's unfriendly toward the legal profession, but it makes the same claims you do.

rayiner:
> If you can prove that the bits came from an RNG that’s not copyright infringement.

article:
> It doesn't matter that it looks like, or maybe even is bit-for-bit identical with, some other file that you could get from a random number generator. It happens that you didn't get it from a random number generator.
Seems like optimizing the wrong thing...

As a developer I'm not sitting down an typing constantly like some bad Hollywood "hacker" montage, or a court reporter. So preemptively optimizing a tiny subset of my workflow really doesn't offer much value.

Contrast that with something like Chrome Debugging for VS Code[0] or GitLens[1] that are fitting into what I actually spend a lot of time doing, therefore improving productivity. If my typing was 50% faster my overall productivity would be maybe 5% better, because that just isn't a bottleneck.

I feel like the vim/emacs crowd experiences professional programming VERY differently to anywhere I've worked. Myself nor any of my colleagues are just type-type-type. I spend more time reading and writing OneNote documentation files (specs, etc) than I do writing code. I spend more time in meetings than I do writing code. I spend more time debugging and testing than I do writing code.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/12/20/chrome-debugg...

[1] https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens
Indeed - this is often forgotten but just like the fashion of necktie widths and the length of hemlines, so the AI pendulum swings from symbolic representation to ML. I believe it will return, eventually, and at it's foundation rests LISP or at least the core tenets.

Prof. Rodney Brooks (MIT, Robot Lab), who is famous for his subsumption architecture (SA) and against Minsky's central-model of representation (arguing instead for radically separate distributed systems), wrote SA and nearly all of his research in LISP. In fact, Brooks wrote a book on LISP programming and developed his own efficient LISP engine. Many, many of his grad students have gone on to become leaders of the AI (not ML) world.

Curiously, I am now reading "The Elements of Artificial Intelligence - An Introduction Using LISP" which depicts a "Knowledge Engineer" which stirring a cauldron labelled "Expert System". Copyright is 1987. It's a joy to see how far we've come in some respects, but how little progress in others. Perhaps this represents a measure of the maturity of certain subdomains?

I suspect in another decade "we" will rediscover the wisdom of those who have developed symbolic knowledge representation.
Yes, this VP's disdain for Stack's core users is long-running, deep-seated, and intensely hypocritical.
> It's not about easy or hard, the point is that it is under your control.

My point, if that hasn't been clear by now, is that your emotions are not under your control. Your physical reactions may or may not be.

> If your emotions are subconscious and you yourself aren't fully in control then how could you possible blame someone else for them?

People stimulate each other's emotions with their behavior, some behavior can certainly be measured to to elicit certain emotions. If I follow your argument, clearly people are in control of their behavior and they are also responsible for it (agreed). So, under certain circumstances, it should be possible to "blame" them, though I'm not focusing on that.

Your "solution" boils down to: "If you're so sensitive and not in control of your emotions, just go away."
That's fine, but not every community needs to have such "low" standards.

> The world happens. You react. Equip and train yourself to react differently if you don't like the outcomes.

An online community is not "the world", we get to design such environments. In "the world", there are tigers and lions, but you wouldn't argue to set them loose on main street just to make people stronger and more vigilant, would you?

> Predictability does not mean causation, especially when it is not accurate 100% of the time and therefore subjective.

That's a pretty weak argument though, in "the world" you always have to go by approximations, even in science we struggle to remove subjectivity completely.

> Sure, when you yell at someone, they might become upset. But another person might not care at all.

Let's say I had the desire to punch a random person in the face, there's certainly an off-chance that some masochist would love to have this happen to them. It's clearly a subjective reaction. Yet, it's not acceptable to go out punching people, don't you agree?

> So are you now causing both anger and apathy in these individuals with the same statement? Or is it that they react as individuals instead and it's really under none of your control?

I must appeal to your common sense. If some behavior of yours causes, for example "50% anger, 30% apathy, 19% annoyance and 1% joy" across a selection of subjects, then the chance that any of it is not negative is 1%. Yelling at people probably isn't so far off from that, DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN? Sure, I can't predict with 100% certainty what the reaction will be, but if something is 99% bad, it'll better have some strong upside for me to accept it in my community. Yelling at people doesn't have that upside, it's generally frowned upon, so it's reasonable to not allow it. Of course, most people generally understand and follow that without it having to be made a rule.
What's more worrisome is that I haven't heard of this and haven't seen it on the news, yet I've seen reports on Kim Kardashian's fragrance bottle being shaped like her and Kanye private texts with John Legend about Trump. And these are on so-called "news" stations, it just blows my mind....
>The foreign minister is likely smart enough to fluff up the leader of their most critical ally, regardless of how much they feel he contributed internally, and especially when you know that specific foreign leader responds really well to praise.

This is what I'm replying to.
S/MIME no, PGP no, TLS yes.

TLS means in transit interception is not easy and SPF that the address is not spoofed, but without DKIM I'm not able to verify that the content is not forged. As such, for example, my email provider is able to read those emails, and probably to modify them without me noticing.

If something doesn't grant confidentiality, data integrity and authentication, it's not encryption. I don't think TLS alone is enough to qualify an email as an "encrypted channel".
The worthy-but-dull obituary of Gustav Born
Algorithms tutorial for beginners
The two people I know who teach theology teach at an accredited (Jesuit) university with about eight thousand students. Now, as it happens, one of them is a nun, so she isn't marrying anybody. Not sure about the spouse of the other, but they met well after he had tenure.
aka How North Korean leaders have acted for self-preservation. Act crazy, and people respect you. Trump's crazy tweets are incredibly persuasive in this realm.
Doubtful. It's pretty well established that alcoholism, autism, psychopathy, and to some extent downs syndrome predominantly affect men. (And counterexample: depression is twice as common among women.)
I would have like that the Plan was put into action, I was yesterday in the area concerned and not much has changed since Corbusier's time.
Ahem. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="professor+of+astrology"
>When homeowners say they’re fighting to protect neighborhood character, Lubarsky says, “it really feels to me like they just don’t want young people in their neighborhood.”

This is also almost always coded language for not wanting to live near racial minorities. This whole article is yet another example of baby boomers pulling up the ladder behind them. The millennials I know are angry and there's going to be a reckoning in the near future as it comes to a head.
our DNA is private. they should not be able to look at it without a warrant even if someone else slimier to you recklessly throws it in the public domain.

Imagine I could read your mind by reading someone else mind. are you ok with me having access to your private thoughts just because someone gave me access to their mind?
How interactive prototyping is changing clinical UX
Using the wrong compilation models?

It is not even the case of using GC and such.

Our phones are way more powerful than any Xerox PARC or Lisp Machine ever was.
Datalog is the canonical forward chained LPL.
How Humble Leadership Really Works
Remove the end of the url "?w=500"

I use the Imagus addon which does this kind of stuff automatically
Netbeans was better/easier to use than Eclipse for a long time in my opinion (100% accept that isn't worth a whole lot). I vaguely remember that in about 2010/2011 trying to use the maven and git plugins for eclipse together and hitting a lot of errors. Netbeans wasn't perfect but it worked AND used the system installations of git/mvn. Also, Ive never understood why Eclipse insists (at least last time I used it) on importing files/directories into some sort of workspace decoupling the files you see in the IDE from those on the disk.

Switched to jetbrains IDEs now though ha
I have the same experiences with Go regarding xplat. I was particularly amazed that I could trivially cross compile by simply setting the GOOS and GOARCH env vars to the correct operating system and CPU architecture and then running `go build`.

EDIT: Curious why people are downvoting this. Is it really so taboo to suggest that Go could be nearly as pleasant as Rust at something? Do I really need to roll out my Rust fanboy creds every time I participate in a thread on the language?
Cost too. Many costs scale with die area, so a smaller chip has a cost advantage over a big chip all things considered.
Venezuelan Bolivar to satoshi converter
Do you have an opinion on the treatment-free option? The idea that you can adapt the bees through selection to make them resistant enough to mites seems interesting and there are quite a few success stories. Probably none on a large commercial scale though.
> I'd estimate it took me about 10 times longer to implement in Rust than Python. And I don't exactly know Python well - it wasn't just extra time Googling how to do things.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Writing it in C++ would probably take me a lot longer than writing it in Python too.
The North isn't going to disarm. Nuclear weapons are their one deterrent against the US, who have shown in the past that they are willing to invade and destroy regimes that went through the trouble of disarming (Iraq, Lybia). So why would he disarm now, if he knows - for a fact - that ten years from now his goodwill will count for nothing with the next, presumably hostile, American administration?

My guess is that in the next few months we will see none of the vague promises made today come to life. This will then be followed by retrenchment, with both sides blaming the other. I can already see Trump furiously blasting tweets about the treacherous North. Meanwhile, Kim will go on doing what his family has been doing for generations - play regional and global powers off each other in order to get small concessions from each of them, while keeping his personal dynasty intact.

I hope it's not so, but logic suggests it is. The goal of every state is to survive. As long as the US poses a legitimate threat to the North, they are not going to willingly give up their one effective deterrent.
Isn't VS Code (without any extension installed) already an IDE? As far as I know, I cannot disable the integrated NodeJS debugger or the integrated terminal for example.
It's even easier than that:

let buf = [0u8; 810241024];
A lot of Americans are giving Trump the props on this one. But what about Xi Jinping? He just recently secured his position, just met with Kim Jog Un and has the most vested interest in cooling off NK. He has a brand new naval fleet asserting dominance over the South China Sea.

I think Xi Jinping is quietly going to allow Trump to take the public credit. And meanwhile Xi is going to build a new bridge into Korea based around Capitalism with Chinese characteristics.

I think we'll need to look back and reflect in 10 years to see if Korea has moved closer to USA or closer to China before the real credit can be given.
"Information" is simply an abstraction of the physical world.
The physical world that we experience and describe is simply a metaphor on top of that raw data.

Everything is information. How can murder be forbidden? It's just an arrangement of quarks?!
it does go both ways, but drops in housing price also cause the economy to go down. like a lot. This is already a well established fact
I bet Pascal, Ada and a few others will achieve similar results.
How is it selfish?

People have got to save for retirement somehow. Company final salary pensions are a thing of the past. Investments in shares can go down as well as up. The government can’t or won’t help. What do you expect people to do? Sacrifice their own wellbeing for your unearned benefit?
Can a Nation Attack a Country? http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/can-a-nation-attack-a-com...

Dilbert-man advises going against the 10 Powerful conglomerate Chinese Companies that handle all the trading with NK, back in July 2017.
> Another thing I've found is that because of the type inference it often gets really confusing whether a variable is a reference or not. Doesn't help that code completion basically doesn't work at all at the moment.

Out of interest what setup are you using?
My editor is telling me whether a variable is a reference or not so maybe this is just a plugin you don’t have?
I’m currently using Rust Enhanced (with RLS), I believe VSCode shows you this information too.
I think ReligVoc is training to become a rabbi or minister or whatever. I haven't read the methodology of the actual survey, but I have a hard time believing that many religious studies majors would self-categorize themselves into the theology category rather than just checking off liberal arts or whatever.
Some frameworks however are much better at forcing you to make good design decisions.

PHP is absolute garbage at that for example.
You might find this talk by Paul Reading interesting. Paul is a consultant neurologist who specialises in sleep disorders, and who is a past president of the British Sleep Society. Don't let the amateur video editing put you off, the content is so interesting, I attended the talk at two different venues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXSoqQF93lU (1/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCjDUYjnfg (2/2)
Reminds me of the playful acronym for PHP, which is "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor".
The difference is that Pi is apparently normal, up to all extensive existing evidence. The Universe is not normal. Anyway, Physics doesn't preclude Helms Deep.
You've got to love companies that have the don't be "clever" attitude... Whats the point of hiring skilled workers to just dumb them down. I've stopped counting the companies that openly stated, "we don't pay you to think," only to see them stuck in an endless loop of mediocrity.
> NIMBY exists to protect most people's largest financial asset.

To protect some peoples most larges financial asset, at the expense of everyone else.

I think as an owner the incentives are pretty clear. It is also cleary why the city indulges them: city officials live in the city and are owners, and local propositions will always have more participation of owners (concentrated interests) than renters and visitors (who might not be able to vote, dont have residency, nationality, commitment, etc).

Seattle and SF are cruising on the back of tech, they are not producing benefit with their regulations. This is not up for economic debate: official econoimsts of the city of SF and the state of California have made their case already. This can only turn economical if another city provides a better incentive than these and competes away at the taxation level.

The cities live on their incumbency, but they will pay a price in homelessness until another city starts taking away their business.
Ask HN: Why Python good for web development?
Nobody, anywhere, ever, in the history of this topic, has suggested the fed would raise rates such that rates would 'suddenly' jump to 10%. That's the straw-iest of straw-men.