skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Spain and all city streets and plazas have at least some lighting at night (enough that one can comfortably walk through the city at any hour of the night) and even the least lit areas are popular for people to hang out in. I do not think it would be feasible, desirable or safe to reduce lighting to the point where it would be uncomfortable to be hanging out at night.

I might even predict the opposite effect: drinking on the street, although popular, is illegal in Spanish cities. Darker plazas would make it easier to hide drinking from the police, and could attract even more people.
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Back when Andrei Alexandrescu was working at Facebook, I had hoped that Facebook would adopt D as a standard language. That didn't happen, and it seems unlikely that D will get a powerful corporate sponsor. I think that would have greatly helped D not just in terms of resources, but also in terms of popularity.

In an ideal world, good programming languages would win or lose on their own merits, but that doesn't seem to be the case in the world we actually live in.
yeah. even LLVM is very slow for a JIT. Ask any project using LLVM as a backend for a JIT and they'll tell you it's an recurring issue. See for example https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...

I know very little about ruby specifically but IME for this kind of dynamic language you get most of the initial gains by :

- removing (by analysis or speculation) dynamic dispatch

- unboxing / avoiding allocations in the easy cases

Once you've done that, you can generate pretty dumb assembly and still come out way ahead of your interpreter (and avoid very costly optimization / instruction selection / regalloc / scheduling).

Most of what llvm / gcc do only make sense when you've got your code down close to whatever you would actually write in C.
From Maudlin's telling of the story, in which "Einstein won—and would continue to win—all the logical battles", you would never guess that Bell actually refuted the claims made in the EPR paper.
Scala is the only other one I'm aware of.
David Beazley gave a talk on the exact topic a couple of weeks ago in PyCon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9z6Ge-vXs
Ask HN: What companies are using probabilistic programming?
Probabilistic programming systems (PPS) define languages that discretize modeling and inference such that any generative model can be easily composed and run with a common inference engine. The main advantage over traditional ML systems in deterministic code (i.e. Python) being concise, modular modeling where the developer doesn't have to write custom inference algorithms for each model/problem. For more info see, for example, [1] and [2].

I'm curious though, what applications of PPS are realized in practice? Notably Uber [3] and Google [4] are developing/supporting their own (deep learning focused) PPS, but is it known if/how they're used within these companies? Are the frameworks (Pyro [5] and Edward [6], respectively) used by other companies?

[1] Frank Wood (Microsoft) tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te7A5JEm5UI

[2] MIT ProbComp lab's page of resources: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/resources/

[3] https://eng.uber.com/pyro/

[4] https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-probability-dca4c304e245

[5] http://pyro.ai/

[6] http://edwardlib.org/
40 years research on growing more RICE?! what a waste of time and money. rice is essentially sugar with very little nutrients. Pretty sure the world has enough supply of SUGAR. We should get the world to eat more vegetables.
So now that we've established that massive chunks of the internet run on every significant language/platform, is everyone properly validated in their choice of language?
I was in the game industry for twelve years and the GP's comments illustrate why it would be so difficult for unions to form, especially if it included software developers - so many think they are the ne plus ultra of developer but somehow they are not John Carmack famous or giving away the source code to previous game engines for people to learn from because they write something revolutionary every few years ala Carmack.
VW's Golf: one of the best things of our age (2013)
A bacteriophage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
I didn't see a link anywhere to the source material, so here's the manual for TRS-80 Tiny Pascal:

https://archive.org/details/Tiny_Pascal_1982_Tandy

Page 17 includes some example programs, and the syntax of the language is described on a set of railroad diagrams starting on page 20.
The second you put music on “cd” its not art but a product. The idea of the musician as an artist is highly inaccurate.
> As I understand it DNA and RNA store their information in the form of certain amino acids.

Actually, information is stored as RNA, with DNA as long-term storage (mnemonic: RAM nucleic acid vs disk nucleic acid) and then amino acids are assembled into proteins (hardware) based on that information. Proteins only function as information storage in pathological cases like prions.

But yes, if 'alien' life used the same 20 amino acids, and especially if it has the same mapping from 64 nucleic acid triplets to 20 amino acids, then that's confirmation that it's actually just a earth microbe that escaped or was left behind.
Why the text only version link? I prefer the formatted: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/02/611082566/why-chi...
For hot code, probably, not the entire language in general. If you're looping through a million numbers doing the same calculation, or maybe rendering markdown in a loop an a lot of text, might hit 10X - the JIT will essentially write the code in C for you, then compile it and run it instead of Ruby.
The algorithm producing the EchoNest scores has some questionable results, like Hollaback Girl - 38% acousticness and Hey There Delilah - 65% danceability.
> a strike that had nothing at all to do with my own working conditions

Why would you think that? There's a reason that secondary strikes have been made illegal in the US, and that reason is not "they don't work".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action
Exactly. This is a point the article misses. I do believe they mark up the sale price similarly, but probably make even more margin on underpaying for their inventory.

Separately, I find it ironic that the term "no haggle" has been now socialized to mean "buyer friendly". Certain segments of the population have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. In reality the notion that they refuse to haggle (i.e. refuse to lower our prices) should be viewed as anti-consumer. At least that's how I take it. I'd never, in a million years, buy something that high in price where the price couldn't be negotiated.

Lastly, the article [1] that's linked to in OP's article is actually more fascinating in my opinion. It describes a California court ruling against CarMax's inspection policy and how it violates 2006 California Consumer Protection statutes. Pretty interesting.

[1] https://jalopnik.com/california-court-says-carmax-certificat...
forwarding tables to be correct.

Routing tables are in the control plane.

ASIC's really only do "layer 2" forwarding. (this is not an entirely proper abstract, but close enough anyway.
None of those defines whether a song is similar. The melody and harmonies mostly do.
I am against stronger copyright protections as a whole. I think it effectively hands over large swaths of culture to large corporations forever and can make free speech onerous.

I would also like a new YouTube to have a similar shot at existing and not “close the door” by legally requiring programs that only large existing companies can implement.
As per [1] there's GMO rice which tolerates 12-15 grams of salt per liter. Seawater (depends on place) is about twice as salty.

Salt accumulation is an issue that needs to be taken care of even with normal irrigation.

[1] https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/08/18/as-sea-levels-...
I think it is a facetious statement to reflect how difficult meeting the regulatory requirement would be.
In turkish cuisine, butter and olive oil are both used, depending on the dish. I always found that fascinating because it goes against the stereotype of a olive-oil-based mediteranean diet.

As a person from southern germany, I always use clarified butter for frying meat (unless I explicitly follow a recipe that calls for oil). Whenever I am in parts of the world for some time that don't feature it as a product in the dairy section of the supermarket, I go to an indian store and buy some ghee.

I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of populations always also used butter if they had dairy. It may not always be the prestigious choice, but I suspect no one let it go to waste.
> In the youtube video, how is one to know tom7 refers to the author when his youtube name is suckerpinch.

The video’s first frame: "Reverse Emulation by Tom 7 VII Ph.D."
I notice on your second point you didn't use the phrase "whilst the minority live in misery" like you did for your first point. Good attempt at making readers more sympathetic to your one sided argument. You say the minority here are not lesser people, but you write them off as irrelevant and we shouldn't even bother to look for a solution because the majority have decreed it, and therefore their problems or opinions are irrelevant.

If the majority decided to torture the minority, or enslave them, or segregate them, I assume you would consider that immoral, right? And that the majority shouldn't just have carte blanche to do whatever they like to the minority - democracy isn't about 'screwing the minority'.

So, if the sound does really make life "a misery" then isn't that accepting of the torturing of people who have to sleep during the day? Isn't that immoral? The majority inflicting torturous sound on the minority during their sleeping hours?

Or, is it actually the case that the sound isn't really that bad, and that we should all learn to be a bit more accommodating to the fact that in a city people live and work on different schedules, and that your nighttime hours are not sacred. And using your majority position to inflict your will on other people's waking hours just so you can enjoy your sleeping hours is unjustified.

If you live in a city, in an area that's known for it's nighttime scene, I don't see why you should have any special privileges. Just like I don't expect any special privileges because I often sleep the hours that many are awake.
No, it's not okay. Imagine a blog engine (or a better forum) where the user can upload media (be it pictures or video) - and all those files will have to be sent for analysis to a EU server?

The checksum is clearly not enough in this case, so EU administering bodies would have to set up a really sophisticated system - and in countries where getting even an appointment date to the social healthcare system is nigh impossible I see literally zero chance for such a backend (so everyone's on their own).

In this case what's happening here is that we are killing the internet as we know it (or knew it five years ago). Government bodies most of the time are incompetent in IT (unless they have an ulterior motive, like large scale censorship or surveillance), so you're probably better off relying the giants' service and create a facebook page, or a google doc, instead of building something on your own (creating a gray net).

There are many worst case scenarios with this law. Facebook and Google creating a new Internet, government bodies setting up "copyright servers" (with advanced data mining capabilites), link tax rendering hyperlinks feared, extortion schemes by shady organizations and lawyers, implementation tax for software development, fear of innovations et cetera.
I don’t actually see the problem here. By their nature the filters would be inspectable. To me it just sounds like encoding the law in machine readble format.
Fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to codified formal procedure.
Reykjavik, really?

How come a city in a country of 300,000 people pay as much as $100k USD for a SWE?

Do you have any data to back it up? I did a quick look at Glassdoor and it's far from that.
Success of Homebrew was based on marketing, not on the tool being well
designed on technical level (because it was not designed well) or its authors'
technical competence (because they haven't displayed it much). Google was
hiring for a technical position based on technical prowess, not on marketing
one (maybe the skills tested were unrelated to the job, but they were still
technical), but people pulling out the Google vs. Homebrew case mistake one
for the other, which certainly needs correction.

> [...] likely [...] we are coming from perspectives so far apart that there's little hope we could agree.

You see, I come from Linux administration field. We have package managers
deployed in the field for two decades now. These package managers usually
don't silently break your library dependencies on update (though Fedora and
desktop Ubuntu break them with a lot of noise) and have integrity ensured
cryptographically. I take these features almost for granted, as I work with
them every day for a long time. Any package manager that provides anything
less than that is, in my view, badly designed, especially because there are
many examples of how it should be done, it just takes some effort to learn
them.

On the other hand, you, coming from macOS angle, didn't have a prior
experience of working with many package managers -- or at least that's my
guess. If I am right, it's quite clear why a poorly designed but popular
package manager (i.e. one that has many packages available already) was a huge
improvement for you. It was the same for Debian's APT twenty years ago, but
APT had pretty much no prior art and the internet was not
a viruses/worms/spyware-driven machine it is nowadays.
firefox and firefox focus
They probably knew about feedback loops, though, given the creation of waterclocks. Applying those principles to psychology is a short leap, yes ?
Org-mode, magit, and tramp are the three stools in emacs I keep resting on daily.

Really is nothing quite like the trio of the tools.
Ask HN: What are some good technical conferences?
I watched a few videos of DefCon, CppCon and JSConf, and found them to be pretty interesting. I was then looking for other conferences I can watch and follow
Any app where text input is a major feature — messengers, social network apps, email clients. Most apps with a search field — usually some parts of UI move when opening and closing keyboard.
Long time android users don’t expect any of these interactions to animate smoothly and in perfect sync, but it is essential for iOS UX.
YouTube is a really interesting case. I'm probably not unique in thinking they were going to go the way of Napster given how much of the content of YouTube 1.0 infringed copyrights. It operated in a time when "user-generated content" wasn't nearly as big a thing and certainly wasn't monetizable for the most part.

I doubt they'd have made it out the other side had Google not acquired them.
Don't you ever wonder how many excellent contributions to Julia were not made, because that person overstepping boundaries?
There might be a great opportunity there to write a github with open source documentation for both

It’d be an awesome way to contribute to the community and I’m sure it would look great on a resume
Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of data science is dealing with stuff like "some of the people collecting the data used 1 for yes and 0 for no, and some of them used 'Y' for yes and 'N' for no, and some misread the question and put in numbers, your job is to figure out which 1s mean yes and which mean that the data is bad," and you can go your entire career in data science without ever using a SVM. But sure, let's have yet another article on methods.
The most consistent thrust efficiency coming from the four labs that have gotten positive results is E-8N/W though there have been tests with significantly higher results.

If you’re concerned with an answer to the Conservation Principle issue, I recommend that article. If you’re concerned with the broader issue of what makes good science, I recommend the one on Pathological Science.
Published November 25, 2014
Import tarrifs when shipping to the Netherlands
To me it sounds like implementing censorship tools.
50-60 hr workweeks aren't uncommon, especially including oncall stuff.

As a new grad in the US(< 1 year out of college), I pay ~38k in income tax alone, on top of a 8% sales tax and a local city surcharge. I also pay 27k/year for a room in an apartment wirh 2 other people in a neighborhood with a lot of crime. The cost everyday of living is also high. Someone posted a picture online of a $30 loaf of bread for sale in a bakery near our 'downtown'. Granted, I live in one of the most expensive areas in the country, but I suspect many of the people on HN also live in high COL areas, so your data is inflated.

If you live in a lower cost of living area, things are probably more spread out so you probably need a car since the public transportation is usually limited in those cities and everything is 10miles away from each other. That's several thousand dollars plus insurance and maintenance.

Besides the costs of living, keep in mind that many people are paying off student loans into their 30s and 40s. A salary looks a lot smaller when you're 150k in debt.

When I was still in college, my health insurance out of pocket was $350 a month. Now that my company pays for health insurance, I pay $100, and that's as a non-smoker at a healthy weight with little family history of cancer/heart disease, etc. I imagine those that are older/heavier/less lucky with genetics pay more for health insurance. I still have to pay a few hundred dollars as a deductible if I go to the doctor.

I guess I'm just throwing numbers around but my point is, it adds up. Also the peace of mind of not worrying about affording to go to the hospital is a non-zero value.
I understand but this disease is almost a best of of every hack there can be in our cells.
I just started at a new job where using filezilla to drag and drop changes is what has been done... It was previously one other dev working on it and after a week of there being me and him there were already a couple of major conflicts that happened. I set up git on the server so at least now we can do "git pull" like a real web company

I don't know how you guys did it 10 years ago, I couldn't even last 2 weeks with that system
Xamarin.Forms provides an abstracted UI definition of common controls across platforms. This makes design faster since you can simply specify a Button or a Picker without knowing or caring that the actual implementations on iOS are UIButton or UIPickerView (eg: UIDatePicker) or that on Android they are android.widget.Button or android.app.DatePickerDialog. All UIs defined in Xamarin are rendered with OS-native widgets.
The Id is easily scraped as well though
Should FedEx be liable if someone ships a picture of an iPhone and a block of wood instead of the real iPhone that was ordered?
Kik CEO pessimistic on blockchain after 100m ICO
Counterintuitive examples in probability
haha seriously fox . Fake news is getting out of control.
I think that was a thing that Alex highlighted as an unexpectedly great thing in the language in one of his D talks (on mobile, can't find it right now) because it enabled all kinds of neat organisational tricks
FFI is actually quite bad. You can't talk to native (C, C++, Go, Rust) code directly. You have to talk to Java, and if you need, from Java to Native.

You also communicate to Java through serialization, rather than through shared memory.

Oh, and any communication goes through a Future, which is annoying.
This is not 'Show HN' material. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Whatever you believe is right. Amazon is what you make of it just like everything else. With such low spirits ahead of your start date I suggest you defer it further, we expect enthusiasm at Amazon,you will be rewarded handsomely in a couple years. But that first impression has got to be one of a winner , a go getter. YOU cleared the hiring bar , why do you look back? Who cares if it is lower than Facebook or Google , are you trying to tell me that is the ceiling of an Amazonians potential. We want everyone to feel great working at Amazon , and you are no exception . Nobody will tell you to buck up at Amazon , you will just stop being relevant and quit one day if you don't have the fire in you from day one.
YouTube does take lot of effort, to recognize and take action of copyright-infringement and piracy.

They even have some videos explaining what copyright-infringement is?

If a uploader is reported or found uploading any videos which breaks there terms of service for three times, your account is going to be permanently banned.

They do have complex algorithms, which searches for matching video content, once your video is uploaded, some uploaders just get away, by decreasing the screen size or by adding some watermarks or logos ...
Honestly? Around here both Brexit and the British government+parliament is mostly viewed as a plain joke at this point. Heck, even people who I never heard utter a single peep regarding politics are making "Brexit Logic" jokes now.
> If you want night parties, vote for it until it is allowed

So, minority opinion should always be ignored?

> or get some isolated nightclubs.

One of the major problems in London in the past 5 years has been the smoking ban. So these nightclubs which were previously sealed now have people outside smoking, which has caused additional conflict. It's not as simple as isolating a club or bar.

> Status quo is that most people sleep at night (and mostly drunk if not)

Wow. So people awake are night are drunks? Fantastic. They're not awake for any other reason? Like they did a night shift and want to eat late? Or they want to go shopping when they're not at work? Or ... /* lists all the reasons people do stuff during the day */

This notion that we should be awake and work during the day and sleep during the night is one that's been forced upon us. If you look into the sleeping pattern of the middle ages you'd realise it wasn't always like this, and we're not all like that [1]

> Earplugs don’t save from lowfreq noise that goes through walls, floors and beds almost intact.

I've used earplugs when in places which are noisy, I have found they're absolutely fine for this purpose. It's usually mid and high pitched sounds that are more jarring if you're trying to sleep (the human voice). Things like music which is repetitive is quite easy to tune out because of its repetitive nature.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
> In reality the notion that they refuse to haggle (i.e. refuse to lower our prices) should be viewed as anti-consumer

Lowering prices isn't the same as haggling. Haggling is going to see some salespeople lowering the price more or less for some people vs others, and open them up for a massive discrimination class action lawsuit.