skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is giving Gmail a makeover
Agreed that while "pattern matching" is a common term, it's perhaps not common enough. For comparison, a C# proposal of terser syntax (which uses the switch keyword) is available here: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/p...
I think this is an example of real versus expressed preferences: I’ve known a bunch of libertarians who would when thinking about the issue say all roads should be toll roads but at all other times act as if they should be taxpayer funded, complain that their taxes are way too high and should pay for plenty of roads, talk like construction prices shouldn’t have gone up since 1960, etc. Their unconscious way of thinking about it was basically the same as everyone else, and I think that’s in part because like everyone else they didn’t really want to pay every time they drive somewhere.
It is. Should be:

First phase of YCombinator's marketing funnel.
How AI Could Destabilize Nuclear Deterrence
It won't sustain 25% annual growth for 50 years.

But the advertising market is enormous (see Google's growth in the past 5 years) and Facebook has a lot of room to grow its share.
If your taking the 'protect wildlife' route, then it doesn't make sense to argue against taking trash out of the ocean which directly kills a god-awful lot of animals as it stands.
Ask HN: Small biz owners willing to be interviewed about crypto?
Hi HN,

I'm doing some market research & validation (or invalidation) for a startup that is building software tools for businesses to use Ethereum and accept Ether.

If you own a small business, would you be willing to answer some questions about accepting and using cryptocurrency? I'm looking for the whole spectrum of owners:

- those who aren't interested in accepting crypto & why

- those who have been considering it for some time, but haven't yet set it up

- those who currently are accepting it and have been paid in cryptocurrency

Offering $5 (bootstrapper's budget) Amazon gift cards as compensation for your time!

If you respond to this post, I'll reply to your message with a google hangout invite.

Thanks in advance!
Whatever, Canadian. My point still stands.
You certainly can't go wrong with the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem. With JavaScript, you can build web applications, APIs, compile-to-native mobile applications, desktop applications via Electron (and others).
>The truth is... you can't fix congestion. In transportation theory, there's an element called induced demand: if travel time improves in a corridor, then that induces people to take extra trips, often returning it fairly quickly to the same level of congestion.

That's not true though. Induced demand does soak up a lot of the increased capacity, but not all of it. Building more capacity does improve congestion (or at least make it less worse than it would have been had you not built more capacity); it's just that the benefit is a fraction of what you would have gotten had there been no increase in road usage.

See for example https://www.accessmagazine.org/spring-2003/induced-travel-st...
At home at my Desktop I type in an IBM model M. I used to have a Corsair k70 which I played FPSes and Warframe. I have a Apple Bluetooth keyboard that is a chicklet. I also have a Chicklet keyboard on a Toshiba satellite . I also used the chicklet keyboards on a MacBook Pro 2011 and a MacBook Air 2012.

On my k70 I had red Cherry MX switches . When I was in kindergarten I used Apple II keyboards.

For mobile devices I used an Motorola droid and a Treo. Also a blackberry .

EDIT: Sorry forgot to mention I touch type (I am touch typing on a IBM model M right now).
The USA would benefit a lot if it moved to a more proportional voting system. It seem ridiculous to me that such a large country effectively only has 2 parties.
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"People who self selected to apply for free medical care used it", study finds. More at 11.

People who self selected for free medical care didn't have much better health outcome than others who were not selected, except that they didn't go bankrupt.

So, the group that didn't get paid for didn't go to the ER, while the group that did get paid for went to the ER but didn't have better health outcomes than those that didn't. Surely that says something about the private, for profit institutions that run the ER business.
Insomnia now on Snapcraft
Poles have some pretty delicious meals outside of pierogis. There's barscht (cabbage soup), zurek (a kind of sourdough soup), golabki (meat-stuffed cabbage leaves). Great pretzels too.
> The people who created Drew Cloud are liars. And they lie for money.

If this is a crime lock me up.

Who isn’t lying in some way at work everyday?
Yup, not my favourite, hah. I usually notice the lack of conscious control over breathing at the other end, when waking up in sleep paralysis—which unfortunately is triggered by lucid dreaming for me. Thankfully since I’ve had SP my whole life, I’m used to it by now and can just try to relax and wait for it to pass.
It gets the same mileage on paper. It gets nothing remotely close in the real world. Read how the EPA tests mileage and you'll realize Ford is just gaming the system. How often. Do you do 55mph and take 5 minutes to get to that speed in normal driving? Ya, me too.
Yes. Russian did borrow quite a few words from French.

Just goes to show that even between English and French, same alphabet or not, just because a word looks familiar it does not mean that one can guess the meaning correctly.
the lesson i learnt from this is don't read leftie's news or their fake news.
You should get yourself a good Scrummaster. Backlog grooming sessions are great IMHO.
So somehow you've connected to the internet
This looks like a cash-grab
You mean for computing the p-value associated with a range of means rather than a single null mean value? That’s the only thing I can think of for which providing code or calculation steps would be applicable (well, there’s also getting a Fermi approximation for the total number of experiments ever performed in a discipline, which I gave as a preliminary suggestion for a cautious estimate of x, but I don’t have time to do that and the main difficulty of that isn’t the math anyways). Anyways I would be happy to provide that if you can confirm that this is what you meant and that you are asking out of genuine curiosity.
The company was a hard sell for me to even take the job in the first place. The owner is a piece of shit human being. Once I saw the inside, it's likely even illegal what they're doing.

So no, I didn't jump. I had to be persuaded to take the job in the first place. Life is too short for bullshit. I delivered what I said I would, and when they didn't live up to their end of the bargain, they faced the consequences I told them they would when I was hired.
Additionally, the Java language spec[0] does use the word pointer: "The reference values (often just references) are pointers to these objects, and a special null reference, which refers to no object." That isn't an implementation note, it's the language the spec uses to describe how reference values relate to object instances.

0: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-4.html...
Replace these scooters with bicycles and all of the same issues apply.

Imagine if real self locking bicycles were somehow theft proof and private citizens started putting their bicycles willy nilly everywhere. That is the only new issue that is generated by these companies, and creating more parking for bikes and other low speed vehicles is the eventual solution.

The fact that these dockless bike companies have effectively created the 'theft proof' bike is pretty amazing on it's own.
Speaking for myself, besides the price, some driving patterns and destination may not favor electric cars today.

If you travel frequently by car or can't always count on a charging station being available, then a hybrid could be a better alternative.

The gap is closing, though.
Me neither. But I know for sure that someone around VP level or higher could make changes if they actually cared. They shouldn't hide behind facilities policies.
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Getting a little tired of these showing up.

Yes, these services exist, yes some people use them, and yes, it's totally "weird Japan."

But no, they're not anywhere NEAR mainstream. I think using the word "industry" really makes the reader think it is and imagine a huge, dysfunctional society. I do appreciate the paragraph or so where they point out that this kind of thing has existed and does exist in other countries, as well -- I just don't understand why people always insist on pointing at a minor subculture in Japan and writing entire spiels about it as if it were a common thing.

Imagine a Japanese writer talking about the "greased pig chasing industry" in America.
Usually, it's structured as a WFOE (wholly foreign-owned entity) with Singapore, BVI, or HK LLC as a parent company. Then shares are issued in HK LLC.
Ask HN: Remote Development Workflow and Environment Setup?
I'm investigating setting up a remote instance for my dev work.

I'm curious what your setup is if you do this, and what your workflow is like on a typical day.

1. Are you just using a remote unix instance and SSHing in?
2. VIM & Tmux?
3. Any gotcha's on workflow?
4. Security?

I recall things like cloud9 as a product in the past but seems they got acquired.

Thanks!
> this is the database that lied (lies?) about ACID transactions

Time moves on. The Innodb storage engine has had ACID transactions for over a decade.

> no problems storing non-existent dates in a DateTime-column

PostgreSQL checks date formats, but updating (or not updating) timezone databases would affect validity. So it's not as simple an issue as you make it to be.
Not only can you verify the code, you can verify that the code and the output wasn't modified during execution by some external actor.
I've heard the same comment from Mexican immigrants, but for different reasons. A Mexico City expat friend of mine derides all Mexican restaurants, even the higher-class ones are just "ok".

I suspect that Mexican dishes highly according to the part of Mexico, but experience in higher quality Mexican restaurants in DC leads me to believe there is also a huge quality difference.
I don’t usually claim to be a real person either, but it’s generally assumed that I am.
> Ford also today reaffirmed its commitment to bringing hybrid-electric powertrains to the ... mustang

oh that's just wrong.
Ah I get what you mean about the use of go as an example.

Also, I think when the author refers to callbacks they are referring to callbacks in the JS sense, that is to say callbacks in the context of an event loop type environment. The author certainly wouldn't care about other types of callbacks, since they do not create the split execution paths that he is describing.

The distinction you are trying to draw between concurrency and parallelism, while totally valid, isn't particularly relevant here. The problems the author is describing are almost entirely to do with developers writing and understanding code, and they generally apply to both parallel and concurrent systems. The user experience of writing parallel and concurrent code can often feel extremely similar, so the tools the author is describing will tend to apply in both situations.
I’m trying to understand exactly what this is. Is it like Twine?
If you know how to type Russian, using Latin keyboard is no problem.

I'm not really good at touch-typing, but I have no issue typing in Russian using a standard US keyboard without Cyrillic stickers (although I do put them on my home machines to make it easier).
I'm disappointed this isn't drawing more attention in the community.
This guy is going to jail for 15 months for trying to address a serious problem in our industry and Microsoft is sicking their lawyers on him to try and prove a point. Fuck you MS. This only reinforces my resolve to avoid using or buying your products whenever possible.
> You've got a situation where there is typically no competition and little or no information available to the consumer. Free market economics simply don't apply.

I think a bigger issue is that during an emergency, even in the case where you are conscious and cogent, you will often have no ability to determine if you should get treatment at that hospital, or another.

I think it's utterly insane that life-critical procedures could result in someone being in massive debt (or bankrupted) through no fault of their own.

This insanity is one reason why when people ask "Would you be interested in working in the US?" my immediate answer is "hell no".

Even if employers were offering gold-plated top of the line insurance (doubtful), the insurers have so much wiggle room with bullshit about lifetime limits and whether they will cover X treatments, and whether specific hospitals are covered.
Take any answer you get on ANY discussion with a grain of salt. Bluntly, most people will answer "The language I use."

Instead, visit jobs websites with current positions. Look for software jobs. Make a list of the keywords (languages, frameworks, whatever) that appear in those jobs. You'll quickly make a list of what's really wanted.

Some websites aggregate that data for you -- https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ is one of the most famous -- but it's better to choose your own biases than to use the biases of any aggregator.
Software framework for explanatory modeling of big data
> There are fewer women among Supreme Court justices than there are men named Anthony, Clarence, John and Neil

... Really? Thanks.
In crypto, yes, and there are tons of bots out there, many taking very different approaches.

There are a few very big ones that are quite easy to spot if you sit and watch GDAX for 5 minutes.

It's too high risk for most big firms to touch it, but I assure you many are writing bots for it. Many HFT, many AI based predictions.

I've got one that's ranged in return per year estimates from 15,000% to 1000% (the thing I capitalize on is decreasing steadily over time). Currently sitting up 100% in 3.5 months with a relatively low amount put in.
The iPhone 4 antenna fault wasn't minor - I had that phone, and it was unusable without a case. If you were holding the phone, you had no signal.
> Who isn’t lying in some way at work everyday?

Most people. A chief commercial skill is knowing to keep quiet or change topics instead of saying something unambiguously untrue.
My B and J occasionally stuff up. J sporadically doesn't work and then JJ happens. Sigh.

I admit it's a pleasure to type on this keyboard all day long though.

I was toroughly disappointed when I bought the $179 'magic keyboard' from Apple (the dark one from the mac pro), and found out the tech is the outdated keyboards, with 2.5x price tag!

No single key problem on this keyboard can overshadow its biggest problem: the useless arrow keys.
>This is a fluffy story with no content

There's plenty of content here, the most important part being the discrepenancy in privacy that Zuckerberg affords for himself, while he readily prmotes open transparency as the business model of his company, funnily illustrated in an attempt to steal Mark's trash.

A good idea for the disparaging commenters in this thread would be to pay attention to the moral of the story. Why do so many people trust a guy with their most private data who bulldozers the neighbouring houses just to keep the public out?
Halal Guys from New York is already national, and actually has international locations: https://thehalalguys.com/locations/
This helped a lot!
Do they really have $18B in liabilities when they only generated $822M in revenue with $1.8B in expenses? Could someone explain the math of how this business makes or will make money?
If you think that's bad, let me tell you about this dude supposedly called "Mark Twain". Beloved American humorist? Or lying liar with pants on fire? You be the judge.
What you're discovering is why most Americans of other political persuasions take such a dim view of modern American 'libertarians'. Most of them just use libertarianism to mean "I want taxes to pay for the things I personally use, but not anything else'.
Women were likely taken for slave labor. The fertile ones as sex slaves, the older ones for physical labor.

"Old women" as we think of them today (65+) didn't really exist back then because life spans weren't as long as they are today for a number of reasons. Most "older" women taken would have been 50-60 years old and perfectly able to work as laborers.

Human history is pretty brutal.
I’d argue that if totally effective limiting discourse, and limiting what it is acceptable to believe/think can be worse.

I don’t see that in the extreme case, denying a person of any human interaction for their lifetime is any better than killing them for example.
> I think you’re reading malevolence where none is intended. Simply pointing unintended consequences is not smearing.

Pointing out (potential) unintended consequences is fine, even welcome.

Putting sexist remarks in the mouths of others is a smear, even if it is done merely flippantly.

> While it is true that the effect is merely claimed, as I know of no relevant study, your anecdote equally meaningless.

Anecdote is more meaningful than mere speculation. Even without statistically valid data, examples that are contrary to our expectations can bring to light factors that we had not previously considered.

> The the on-site solution remains a blind audition if the people doing the evaluation are not the people administering the test...The purpose of the blind audition is not to hide the identity of person being interviewed, as much as it is to enforce an objective standard and remove bias. If the rubric is, “Accept all that got automatic evaluation score of at least X”, then that achieves a similar goal.

A fair point.

> This is exactly the case for a take home assignment, only now it is timeboxed and with access relatively timely help if needed.

The point about timely help is definitely a point in favor of on-site work tests. But working in a timebox can also be stressful. A take-home assignment without artificial deadlines (i.e. don't schedule any interviews until after the assignment was received and approved) can eliminate that stress.

> As far as time-poor people, never underestimate the desire of having a clearly defined block of time. Of course, onsite or not can always be optional as well.

I think this hits on an important point, and one that I think would benefit from research and expertise I don't have. I'd hazard a guess that it depends upon why one is time poor.

If the candidate is intelligent and capable, but somewhat disorderly, then they would probably benefit from a structured, on-site task.

If the candidate is more organized but simply has a difficult and rigid schedule (which is actually something I would expect true, for example, of a working mother) then a take-home assignment might be better.

I don't know that either one is superior in all cases. Honestly, I think the best option would be to give the candidate a choice.
You don't get taxed when they are granted. That would be pretty rough, because a lot of people get several years of RSUs granted when they join a company.

When the RSUs vest, they are taxed as income. If you hold on to the shares for a while before selling them, and they increase in value, you'll pay capital gains taxes when you sell them.
Same for me... from the title I thought that Ford went completely crazy but after reading the article, it doesn't seem so bad.
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Sorry, but you seem really confused about Godel's theorems. You're going to need to explain why you think it's related to proof of stake at all, besides the use of the word "proof".
the most requested things from Subaru.

The other being a BRZ STi?
In older C#, that would be delegate:

delegate(int x){ return 10; }

(But yeah, nowadays that would be:)

(int x) => 10
The reason is because advertisers are willing to spend more targeting a US user who had an average annual income of $50k where as one in India may have $5k. The user is 10x more valuable from a revenue standpoint so the cost you’re willing to bear to advertise to them is 10x etc
Basically, Medicare and Medicaid are tired of getting screwed. When those programs were established, they were intentionally hobbled in negotiating prices with drug companies, hospitals, physicians, etc. Because, you know, it wouldn't be fair to providers.

As a result, Medicare and Medicaid often pay more than private insurance. In part, that's because their ranges for negotiation are pegged to list prices. And so providers inflate those list prices. And nobody, except for a few clueless patients, actually pays list price.

Anyway, good for Medicare and Medicaid!
You can actually find some of the best Chinese places these days in college towns with high Asian populations.
You are conflating two questions:

1. What percentage of JavaScript/front-end web developers are familiar with any other programming languages?

2. What percentage are familiar with a certain specific subset of other programming languages, namely functional or functional-ish languages with pattern matching as a core construct?

And you're treating an answer to (1) as an answer to (2).
Hamtramack in Detroit also has great Eastern European food, or did in the 80s and 90s. Many families in Central Michigan and Upper Michigan even have paprikash, goulash, and dumplings for the occasional meal.

Btw the sausage in Hamtramack is fing awesome.

If only Detroit could export its food like Brooklyn does. Detroit-style pizza is just so much better than yours ;)
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As a lactard, I can attest—I tried this and didn’t have any indigestion problems. Maybe lactose intolerance is a hoax.
List prices are meaningless but Medicare prices are probably the most meaningful. Insurance prices are benchmarked off them.
eh, i took russian in high school eons ago, and picked up cyrillic in a couple of weeks, even could write in cyrillic cursive by the end of the course. it's not that big of a deal (the hardest part was the variations of the "zsh" and "sh" letters).
That's actually a really good point (especially if one includes Android) - but "20 years later than we hoped, in a completely different form than expected" is significantly what I was trying to handwave at.
Some of that is because there's a vast economic gulf there.

For reference, the EU minus the UK has a GDP per capita of about $33,000. The US is at $60,000.

Europe as a whole (minus Turkey), has a GDP per capita of about $27,000. The total European economy is very similar in size to the US at roughly $20 trillion. There's $14.5 trillion inside the EU minus the UK, and about $5.5 trillion outside of it.
GP’s point still stands though. We can look at the best tier public transit systems, they will be themselves congestionned as they are the best mean to go from A to B on the area they cover, while also keeping the other transportation axes congested at peak hours for those benefiting from the mass move to public transport by average people.

It’s still better for everyone to have congestionned public transit, it’s just not a magic way to eliminate congestion itself.
Sir Thomas Beecham was by far the most savage critic that we have documentation for.

Musicians have been giving each other shit for a couple of thousand years, but most of it is people who are still famous talking shit about people who no one now has heard of.
I thought the #deleteuber campaign was somewhat successful? My understanding is a series of unfortunate events, largely kicked off by that campaign, ultimately led to Kalanick's downfall.

http://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-uber-takedown...
The most surprising thing in the whole article is that one of the people writing as Drew Cloud could really think ‘meant’ is spelt mean’t.