skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've nailed the way Richard Fairbanks (CEO of Capital One) thinks with this part:

>it has consumer banks shaking in their boots, because there's no way they can outcompete those companies in tech. So instead they focus on regulatory capture

That's why COF is doing the whole "we're a tech company that also happens to be a bank" spiel. They are doing their best to back that up, as well. Lots of modern practices and of course they're all in on Cloud.
Maybe that's all true but you're not going to fix it by shitcommenting every time you think someone is wrong on the internet.
It is labour intensive to directly infest into poor. It involves setting a good programme and/or charity and managing it...

Technically government is already equipped to do everything a charity can and more eith superior information so should be more efficient at it. Although it depends on the country/state in question.
Also an _inaccessible_ design. Yellow text on a black background creates a contrast which a whole swathe of people can't read.
Maybe not today, but who knows how this law will be used in the future. This could be used shut political website by slapping it with fine for non compliance. Vague law means any company can be found non compliant. By the time you appeal you'll be bankrupt.
That isn't new - just look at old photographs of commuter trains packed to the brim with everyone burying their face in a newspaper. Even the for profit part isn't new. At this point a lack of people for smalltalk is as much of a societal problem as the inability to find a badminton partner in say Eugene, Iowa. It is the norm and it is time to accept that people don't like talking with random strangers about nothing of consequence out of boredom.

Similarly parents not being attentive enough to their children is also sadly not new. (Satisfaction is also likely elusive for kids given the sheer craving they have proving incompatible with maintaining a house and necessary income.)

Although I wonder about the psychological impact of that being combined with helicopter parents going full surveillance state as the discourse shifts from "Tracking bands on your kid? That sounds stupid and horrifying." to being seriously considered and accepted. Like asking for a very locked down "can call only them with GPS" wrisrtwatch-phone." Society pendulums too much for linear social progressions and I hope it does so before we reach "You don't have trackers on your kid what the hell is wrong with you!" norms.

It must be frustrating being constantly watched yet never being able to receive attention when desired.
If the public balks at giving out a massive tax break to one of the worlds biggest companies, run by the (publicly) richest man, then Amazon can just point at the city next door and say "Well they promised us X, but we really like you guys so we wanted to go with you".
1) Many actions of Antifa are immoral, authoritarian, and bad for society. I can write this here on HN, but I've encountered what can only be described as toxicity on other social media and in person. (The most extreme example of this would be someone responding to a wedding invite by calling me a racist.)

2) Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, which results in some biologically driven differences on average between men and women. Again, I can write this here on HN, but I've encountered what can only be described as extreme toxicity on other social media and in person.
It would have been a perpetual motion machine of the first kind (you could get an unlimited amount of energy out of it): https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494

The evidence for it was no better than the evidence for any other perpetual motion machine, there was nothing that made it special other than not claiming to be a perpetual motion machine (despite being one).
Strange that the BBC quote says 'mum' but the original piece uses 'mom'
Practicing the game is not pay-to-win, is pay-to-practice. It still requires skill to win.
If you read further, it also says that by CIA guidelines at the time, you were not required to report on CIA assets smuggling drugs. It's hard to find any evidence when you don't need to keep a record, and any payments made can be written off as part of Iran-Contra.
at least it's responsive!
You've linked to something associated with David Foster Wallace, but the author of the NYT obit is not David Foster Wallace.
It's funny how incredibly highly the money and success narrative is emphasized in the news, and the drug-like high aspect of the work is rarely mentioned. The truth is that a lot of us would do it (and do do it) for free, and the high demand aspect of it is to a large extent just a blessing on the side.
It logically should. It either is or isn’t the public square.
Looks like for all practical purpose you have to be an US resident.
I love how they took all the bad parts from the first CoC iteration (that they removed after enough people complained) and shoved them right back in! I guess they figured out people can’t keep fighting forever, but Google sure can; they can just hire someone else to do the job (like they have just done)!

Of course the lack of any democratic process or input from non-Google is the typical behavior I would expect coming from any Google-ran project.
You mean general relativity?
RamdaJS is my go-to for most new projects. Other contenders in the space include lodash/fp and Elm.
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> You can't stop market forces.

Surely you can, we do it all the time. That's why we have subsidies on American sugar and tariffs on Chinese steel and higher taxes on cigarettes than on milk and... We have entire government agencies who spend all day thinking up ways to affect market forces.
OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out
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I totally agree, such a system certainly has a big potential to be misused, either by design or by abuse. But if you think about it as a softer judicial system, you might be able to get something useful out of it. Just be really careful to not go too far and use the same care as in the normal judicial system when building it.
I think the article misses one important point. Google is not just an aggregate. They are also a publisher/provider and therefore have massive advantage in placing their products within the results: Home, YouTube, GCP, Gmail, Shopping(!), Etc.

This is the problem, not that they are an aggregator.
I would have expected shots as a common answer as an invention they are exposed to only negatively.
Chicago promised to give the taxes paid by employees back to Amazon.

It's disgusting.
Do you already have a Visa? If no, you can't apply.
But not everyone is using git! (I.e. me)
> Just because one cannot explain a phenomenon using known physics doesn't mean they should outright dismiss it.

I don’t think most people appreciate how solid our models of well-trodden physics is.

Any new engine is going to be more exotic than microwaves in a chamber.
I like this, though I think anyone who mentions SLoC as a metric is honor-bound to quote Dijkstra: My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
Yes. But he had other jobs with increasing responsibility in London up to being operations director for a passenger railway before moving to Sydney. I think people are omitting that.
It sounds like it's negotiable.
I think this mainly seems bad because of the risk of false positives. If someone has a legitimate outstanding debt, then everyone who calls him should be made aware of that - all of them are at risk of being suckered into lending him more money otherwise. I've been stung by entering an agreement with someone who had failed to repay his debts - guess who the next person he didn't pay was? Western countries have sex offenders registers for the same reason.
So that you can use any map or list implementation without them being second-class citizens, that's why.
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Ok, so, assuming that all the things he mentioned are just nitpicky, what's the upside of Kotlin over Java 10?
Lots of people would need adequate training, perhaps some new tools and rewrites. There needs to be a serious upside to get a mainstream company to a niche language.
If I ignore GDPR for the next year or so, waiting until this all simmers down to a level of abstraction below the surface level I care about, will I be any worse off?
> It is also much more likely for such a discovery to appear at the edge of our knowledge

This instantly reminds me of the Casimir Effect. Yes, it's way more likely for problems to appear at the edges of our knowledge. But discoveries within the noise of experiments people run every day are not unheard of.

I would also expect any such discovery coming from public science made by somebody wondering why their instruments are off, not by for-profit research looking for patents. But that's not unheard of either.
Logistic regression is also referred to as a "supervised classification" problem, which this book only addresses in the specialized space of document clustering or image classification. They do also address Support Vector Machines, which is a generalized algorithm for classification. However, there are a wide variety of specific implementations of logistic regressions that require quite a bit more conversation (dummy variables, log-odds ratios, ordinal variables) that are more directly applicable to a general stats background to machine learning itself.

Considering that the authors are all CS professors or researchers and not statisticians, that makes sense to me why they don't view logistic regression as foundational.
Jesus, I remembered my Dad saying the same thing in the 90s about his boots from the 60s.
Knee jerk reaction: Good.

However since it is a 'Bitcoin cash' type coin this will ultimately hurt bitcoin and the community as a whole. I can already see the buzz "Bitcoin double spending attack!" articles
> The author complains a lot about how Kotlin is different from Java. Err.. it is a new language — it is supposed to be different — otherwise why bother?

Kotlin advocates try to have it both ways. If it's a full new language, to be evaluated as a full language, then why would you adopt it when it's missing important features compared to Scala? The narrative is that it's a set of small enhancements to Java that are easier to pick up than Scala, but the reality doesn't live up to that.
I wish they were true to the cause, and used black on white, the most brutalist anything could ever be.
LBJ was a well known asshole. Did you actually think about your statement before you wrote it, or just assume that it would be true?
"Give us your ideas"
Optionally ignoring thread safety seems indefensible -- until you can go full COM and declare your package apartment-threaded, working in a mutable language with uncontrolled multi-threading is the deal with the devil you've made and code that doesn't embrace that reality is just broken.

Agree about the shadowing.

var x_2 = f(x_1) // never use x_1 again for anything

deserves its own syntax and compiler checks
Kurt Cobain once predicted,

We are patiently waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die, and then we will move into their homes.

Or was he warning us?
The point of my post was to let you know how easy it would be to accidentally kill someone due to mismeasuring the dose. Calibrating a scale before and after measuring a dose then verifying with a second method is something dealers aren't used to doing.

The dealers' intended approach is likely not to kill off their customers. I'm willing to bet they simply don't realize what to look out for.
should be a non-starter for anyone.
seems more ammo for the argument by Bitcoin Maximalists - cant easily own/manipulate a larger network
Workers with RSI will get a doctor to prescribe a proper ergonomic workstation / peripherals. In fact, it's almost impossible to see a doctor for RSI without getting that. Afterwards, the employer will be forced to comply with that prescription. Even if they don't legally have to comply (in many places they do), the threat of a lawsuit should take care of that. This also solves the jealousy problem of other coworkers wanting gadgets because their disabled colleague is getting the equipment he desperately needs to work as they would need to be prescribed by a doctor or other health professional.
> publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people

Are they really public in that case?

The President can share information with 1 person, 2 people, 3 people, or 336m people (the number of Twitter users). But he can't share information with 335m people?
Only if they also converted to a more polished, native UI.
Uber’s raising up to $600M secondary at $62B valuation, Q1 sales grew to $2.5B
What does Charles offer that is not free in Chrome devtools?
Life expectancy in the U.S., uniquely of advanced countries, is going down last I heard.
Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not Regulate? [pdf]
Great post!

> To keep the ‘small working set’ even smaller, we cycle these JobDBs roughly every 30 minutes. The manager cycles JobDBs when their target of filled percentage data is about to exceed available RAM.

I'm confused - why does JobDB's memory trickle up over time? Isn't it a database? Are you using MySQL's memory storage engine or something?
Even if you do most are tied to employer..so that's a no-go as well.
"If you had to write "extends" in kotlin instead of use a colon, how often would you be doing it?"

Certainly more often than you'll need someone to tell you what ":" in a class declaration does ;)

I see your point, I just don't think this language trait deserves to rank as "confusing" for a professional programmer.

While we're at it, Kotlin, unlike Java, provides explicit "constructor" and "init" keywords. So if it loses points for the lack of "extends", why doesn't Java for not having these?

Nim's manual doesn't seem helpful indeed (they acknowledge it openly in the beginning), but I feel this is sort of beyond the point.

Kotlin's docs are very clear and exhaustive. Case in point - as we discussed inheritance declarations - https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/classes.html
What problems with bridging them do you have in mind? I thought this was entirely solved.
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(See my example referencing Kafka downthread.)
A lot of my favourites are already mentioned but I don't see https://electrek.co . It's very pro Tesla so if that bugs you don't bother with it.
You cannot exercise this right when there are no viable choices that will do so. Welcome to bipartisan politics with both sides not being socialist.
reminder: this information was provided to the open market by the credit reporting agency hax, dont blame me if you see my social in there
Depends on the size of the company you're doing work for, really.
> For example, my main language is C++, and my second language is Java. But when the problem I have is picking snippets of text out of a text file, I reach for Perl, because Perl is far better at that than either C++ or Java. I don't want to "reuse the same [C++/Java] tools and techniques" in that domain - it's considerably more painful than using Perl to do it.

Not convinced. I used to work in a similar way (indeed I would've made a similar argument), using Java for a primary codebase and Python for lightweight scripting around it. But I found that it was possible to adopt a general-purpose language that did both of those well.
My hypothesis here is that before smartphones, those parents literally weren't there. Smartphones (and other modern contrivances allowing for remote work and remote socialization) have turned households with one 10%-visible breadwinner and one 75%-visible homemaker into households with one 40%-visible breadwinner and one 95%-visible homemaker. Parents are at home more now. But that doesn't mean that they have any more time+energy available to give their kids than they always did.

Before smartphones, a working father might head after work to the bar, to avoid his own family until he's calmed down from how frustrated his boss makes him. After smartphones, the same father might instead head into his study with a bottle of whiskey and talk to his friends (who are also getting drunk in their own homes) on a group-chat, or over a game of Fortnite.

Before smartphones, a stay-at-home mother might have to run errands for a few hours: going to the bank, going to the grocery, going to attend a continuing-education class; and she would perhaps leave her child at home, or ask someone to babysit them, depending on the age. Now, instead, she's setting up some bill-payments and transfers in a banking app, then picking through a grocery-delivery app, and then watching an online lecture and participating in a forum as part of an online continuing-education program.

In both cases, the parents are now spending more time at home than they were before—but no more (or less) time paying attention to their kids than they were before.

If you measure the delta (time where you're near the kids but ignoring them), it looks like it's going up. But this is as misleading a statistic as the one that says seat-belts increase injuries: no, they don't, they just turn fatalities into injuries, and nobody was counting the injuries sustained during fatalities. Nobody was counting time spent outside the home as time spent ignoring your kids.
See also @RealPressSecBot, which hammers home the point:

https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot

For those who don't want to click, it collects Trump's tweets in real-ish time, and reframes them into images of official-looking messages. The latest one as of the time I post this comment begins:

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2018

Statement by the President

And then puts the text of Trump's tweet immediately below.
The two options should not be 1) moderation or 2) no moderation. Some moderation, as you pointed out, is required. The key is to find the right balance.
Not OP. But I’m using it for 2+ years now almost daily. Love it. I use focus and nap modes primarily.
Not to mention creating a world in which people can't build their own cameras, or change the software on those cameras...
Have you ever thought about writing headlines for Buzzfeed?

Edit: I meant that as a compliment.
I'm hoping DAG-based cryptocurrencies will be able to provide the transaction speed necessary for consumer transactions to be practical and we'll see stores actually take cryptocurrencies directly. If so, we'd just need someone ambitious enough to make the payment terminals and hopefully stores will see tiny/zero transaction fees as enough of an incentive to switch.

To add to your list of points, I'd argue privacy is another thing crypto as a whole hasn't really taken seriously apart from a small set of cryptocurrencies. How many people want to dish out their address to stores when this implies they can see their history and with it way too much metadata like where you spend/earn, how much you spend/earn, and so forth.
Maybe it's a type of work you're doing? I remember I was excited again when I've switched from web dev to C++ desktop dev - still here.
> You may recall another candidate who was running for president in 2016 getting raked under the coals for using personal email to conduct federal business.

I thought the other candidate was raked over the coals for jeopardizing national security?

In any case, I speak of Trump's "government" Twitter, "government" Gmail, "government" Slack, and "government" Facebook. (IDK how such a distinction is made, but I would like to compare apples to apples.)
> They don't seem to have the stomach for it.

Oh, and what would the West's "having the stomach" entail, exactly? Re-education camps? Execution for dealers?
AFAIK, today compilers are producing both asm.js code and Webasm binary. Webasm is for tomorrow, asm.js is for actual use, because it's backward compatible with any JS enabled browser.

Webasm is not so compatible. I tried to run random demo and got error message: CompileError: wasm validation error: at offset 8: binary version 0xd does not match expected version 0x1. WTF?

I tested https://webassembly.org/demo/Tanks/ demo, and on my system (Firefox, Fedora Linux 26), asm.js version is a bit faster to load than Webasm version. (Turn off support for Webasm in about:config to test). Asm.js: 1.57s to load from cache, Wasm: 1.82s to load from cache.

So what will happen when webasm finally more closely match traditional backends?
Bitcoin Maximalism is a Cancer
OK, so I’m used to : from doing Pascal back in the 80s, but anyway.

Read the colon as “is a”, and it makes sense.

“counter is a number”

“DogClass is a (special) MammalClass”.

Not seeing a problem there, but again, I have no particular love for curly brace languages. And I would MUCH rather see the type expression spewage AFTER the symbol name - especially given Java 5 generic declarations mixed with Java 8 lambda declarations (yuck!).
> Which begs the question - what tokens are actually worth trading in the first place? Is all this value really justified by CryptoKitties?

I guess the old adage "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" really applies here.
If none of your customers are outside the US, go ahead, feel free to ignore GDPR. When companies are unable or unwilling to discriminate their service by geographical boundaries, the country with the strictest law rules.
Say whaaat? You must not be based in the USA then. Owning your own business means EVERYTHING is a tax write-off. I mean everything. Food you spend on lunch, your home office space, anything you spend money on during the course of doing business. All of it is a tax write-off.

You do not get any of those write-offs if you work a corporate gig. If your income is the same in both cases, you will pay significantly less tax as a freelancer.
Also minimalists.
Yeah, I can easily acquire $150k somewhere else.

Edit: For the record, I'm being sarcastic here. My point is that it's hard to say that this "should be a non-starter for anyone", because almost no one can acquire a $150k investment under any condition, and it's a difficult decision one would have to make.
I was definitely addicted to my phone right around the last election cycle. Podcasts, reddit politics threads, other social media, websites, you name it.
Luckily, its an easy habit to kick. I use timers and a tracking app on my phone to monitor pickups and screen time spent. I try to hit 12 hours between opening any social media apps, 6 hours between opening any news apps etc.
I've managed to get it down to under an hour a day.
When did this trend start, this monoculture of design? It seems that nowadays, content and function aren't even important--what's important is getting the right filter, portraying the right "vibe," and using vapid, trendy, copywriting. I write this as someone who's obsessed with design, but who kind of hates myself for it. It seems like people around the world are designing defensively--insecure with themselves and making everything as Squarespace/Stripe lookalikes, to the point where if one does something different, it's considered ugly/bold.
Not to comment on the politics, but... I had fentanyl during a medical procedure a while back, and I can totally see why it's so addictive. It was wonderful. Both pain and anxiety were totally wiped out, and and the comedown was clean and fast, with no ill effects at all. It's the most pleasant drug I've ever experienced.

As long as this kind of high exists, people are going to take it.
Particularly when the mining is concentrated in a handful of big players in the same jurisdiction with an authoritarian state...
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Berkshire Hathaway is a private business entity, not a public government with whom we all are required to interact with.