skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> High unemployment should have been brought down in 2009 but instead did not come down till 2013

That doesn't match any graph I've seen. The unemployment rate shot up in 2008 and continued in early 2009, but from that point forward, it was a pretty regular, almost linear drop in the unemployment rate to today. Nothing special happened in 2013.

https://www.statista.com/chart/8974/us-unemployment-rate/
It's hard to find practical applications for walking. The vast majority of environments in which mobile robots can be useful also have smooth floors. Legs have higher cost, weight, failure rate, and power consumption than wheels.

Better gripping, though, has immediate practical applications in manufacturing and distribution. We're much more likely to see that in use in the near future.
>As someone who has interviewed and been rejected several times, I don't think cheating is why someone with good grades would do poorly at a coding interview.

As someone who has interviewed and been a TA at a top school, I would not be so quick to dismiss - especially for a broader definition of cheating.

In the school I went to (and I've anecdotally heard this is common for many top schools): Most professors don't change their homework sets and often don't change their exams either. The place was loaded with students who would get the assignments from older students and just memorize. As a TA, I remember one student who consistently only got the answers correct for questions that came from previous semesters, and got all the more original questions wrong - even trivial ones.

He was an extreme case, but the sentiment was strong in the student population, and is just as another commenter out there described: People who got to top schools tend to optimize for GPA, and not for learning. Most of my fellow students would refuse to learn anything beyond what was needed to get an A.

I get what you're saying: Live coding is not for everyone. But I also get what the GP is saying.
It's not a totally lost cause — I wrote a piece on what we can do about this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/02/...

It's a first step, and my thinking has also evolved since—expect more updates in this space soon.
And yet in a congested city, the closest car parking may be 2-3 blocks. Not a huge advantage over bike docks.
I'd like to see a comparison of a IIsi (or a 25 MHz 040 NeXT Cube) to a Raspberry Pi, or even a microcontroller.
What about a company that happily sells guns and bombs to both sides in a Civil War? They are filling the needs of individuals to decimate society.
Express Gateway v1.10.1 has been released
Building a blog client in Common Lisp
ebikes are pedal assist bikes. If there is no pedal assist, and the motor can be activated with a throttle, then it's an e-motorcycle.
The best advice I can give you is to not buy more house than you need (too expensive will run the risk of negative equity). But also make sure what you get will meet your needs for at least a decade or so. And watch out for potentially high property taxes.

One guy I worked with had an issue where his family outgrew the house he bought, but he couldn't get enough out of it for a down payment on a bigger place (even though the bigger house was cheaper than what he bought his small 2-bedroom for). So you don't want to get into this situation either.

Another situation that just happened to someone else I work with, she bought a house that she thought was reasonable. However her property taxes took a bit of a jump (the previous owner had lower taxes due to some senior discount). And it will be a few more years before she gets enough equity in it that can be used towards another house.
Lawyer who argued for Internet sales taxes admits he doesn't pay them
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We are already vulnerable to this attack, they are just called "viral marketing campaigns".
>This just tells you that your are just not that important to him.*

That's the problem though: it's not just that are people X and Y, and X is "by nature or nurture" not that important to Y.

It's also that modern technology encourages X being indifferent to Y (and e.g. maximising its eyeball capture).

Not everything is about conscious decisions -- or even subconscious but from someplace within us. There are tons of factors (like social norms, fashion, family, ads, etc) that influence us and shape us, and not all of them for the better. Mobile phones are one such factor.

Evolutionary, the human is totally susceptible to all kinds of BS tricks and influences.
1990, 1991, or 1992, most likely, the years the Classic was on sale.
Why do you find that electric bikes work better for longer trips?
The self starter with a 4.0 GPA is a highly paid lawyer, or something, and is not in your applicant pool.
True, and I meant this in the context where you could embed assembly into your functions if needed.
I've been a CitiBike member in NYC since launch. I moved out of the city and lugging my bicycle on public transportation for the "last mile" to my office was a hassle. Being able to grab a shared bicycle close to my train station and take it to work, and back again, is really nice. I don't think car ride sharing is "super cheap" compared to a yearly membership for unlimited bicycle use (or a $3/30 minute single-use ride), especially when factoring in all the other costs of having another car on the road. I don't know what city you live in, but in NYC close to 100k trips are logged PER DAY.

I'm not going to hit every one of your points but would also like to add that 95% of the time, the bikes are in great shape and well-maintained. I don't know if that's due to a lack of vandalism, or regular maintenance, or both. I've logged hundreds of trips myself and only a few times have I had a broken bicycle.
I badly wanted a 24 bit color card for my SE/30, but lost interest after I got my NeXT Cube.
It was just recently that C++ got some underpowered kind of generics (beyond templates). So, no, I don't think anybody advocated that in the 90's.

Late 90's advocacy was much more on the lines of "OOP lets you reuse code" and "widget libraries are great, and they all but require OOP". One of those is blatantly correct.
FWIW I was just in london and saw a bunch of people riding their own Mi scooters in the street. (That's the same scooter Bird uses.)
I need to see numbers on console sales dwarfing x86 sales because it strains credulity. I don't buy it, not even close.
What is Unsplash's business model? I can't really discern one.
Seems like it's a new communications channel which is ripe to get PR'd into uselessness, just like the company's official channels.

Maybe it can't be, because there has to be some useful channel to tell people that, no, those ships aren't coming in today or that train isn't going to make it on time or so on, but if the company sees a value in presenting the happy face to everyone, it has an incentive to make whatever deals it needs to in order to ensure all public or not-private channels stay on-message. This works out to NDAs and encryption, usually.

Maybe that's impossible at a practical level.
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Keep in mind this was 10 years ago. Phone triangulation was much less accurate then.
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In my city, cars are parked everywhere, on the sides of every road, on sidewalks sometimes, now THAT is egregious!
Ashamed of what?
Agreed. I'd personally rather see better integration being transit and bike share. "Taxi" + bike isn't that common, but either pair well with public transit.
I could see a service doing extremely well if they offered something for people who want to bring their own.
Not much as much as you think, apart from the routers, computers and phone, the only other thing I can think of is the dishwasher because it's half-recent. And I suspect the new ones just include a cheap Android board.

I suspect you’re thinking at the wrong level. Your washing machine definitely does have software even if it’s not “recent”. When you press the buttons or turn the dials and it does stuff, even if it doesn’t have pretty graphics on the display, that’s software.

If you have a microwave, that has software, if you have a car that has a ton of software. Your car keys and your credit cards probably have software.
My impression is that the clear majority of the Nordic C64 users had a datasette and tapes.
Ask HN: Does sugar intake help with stroke symptoms?
So about 5 years ago, someone I knew had a stroke, and incidentally, as soon as we administered a sugar liquid, he came into his senses and we were able to prevent any permanent and lasting damage to his brain. The doctor said that he suffered an Ischemic stroke.

Coming back to today, he started showing symptoms of stroke again after all these years - difficulty maintaining balance or comprehending the surroundings. We quickly gave him a glass of sugared water and a spoon of sugar and he was again back to his senses. Now, I find it hard to believe that there is any relation between sugar and the role it plays in alleviating stroke-related symptoms, and I would like to ask an expert's opinion on this.

PS: He's a diabetic too.
Wasn't it Steve Keen (Australian economist) who wanted the cheque to go to debt forgiveness before cash and for that to get the funds that ultimately went into QE?

I'm hazy on the details now but I think the idea was it would both help the citizens and also help with deleveraging the banks.

He seemed to be cropping up in the media every other day in 09.
In its time, BeOS (which Haiku intends to clone) was super fast and had a minimalistic UI that was very joyful to use compared to Windows and Linux back then.

I wasn't too familiar with C++ or filesystems to comment on the veracity of the claims, but my understanding is they also exposed some seriously good APIs for the time and a neat filesystem. But as an end-user I would raise that there were a few very avant-garde apps - to me at least.

But that was over 15 years ago... Everything has been moving forward fast since. Hardware (an iPhone 4 was as powerful as Deep Blue), software, languages, libraries, network speeds, computing paradigms, etc.

Put another way, it's basically ... cool, but meh.

As a former BeOS user for a while, I've been looking every now and then at Haiku out of curiosity, hoping it would soon come out and pick up momentum. But in all honesty, and as much as I respect the impressive work the team poured into it, progress has been so slow and there has been so much to catch up with since that I suspect it'll be too little too late to make any difference by the time there's a stable release. Then again, who knows...
Anti-Flow
According to the Lime app, there are at least 50 Lime-S scooters within 1km of the corner of Broadway and Telegraph right now. There are 9 outside 12th St BART alone.
I thought CitiBike was owned by Citi bank.
Yes this is how they do it in France. It's self-service but monitored by an employee... learned the hard way the first time I showed up to the register and they gave me stinkeye because I didn't measure/label my produce.

Have yet to see that in the US... instead we have shrinkwrapped everything (and barcoded stickers)
This sounds the same as someone trying to justify Death Grips' existence.
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> it's entirely possible to have the latter without the former, ideally via something like a post office bank.

If it's possible, there's money to be made, and we live in the capitalist society I know exists in the US - how come you don't see it happening then? I would like to think if the market were truly that way then you would see it happening.
One person told me that area is so bad in particular because that's the area unemployment checks are obtained. So a lot of the poorest people without an address besides a shelter have to go there regularly, and they don't exactly have spare money to travel much. It might be better for them and the rich doctors who want to run their conventions if the city found a better site to disburse the checks.

The city built a transportation center, surely they can dedicate a government building to being a combination shelter and benefits center. Or place it near a place that handles the homeless better like people's park does in Berkeley where, yes there are campers, but they keep it pretty clean and respectful.
I would pay for something that I can hold in my hands and read that has deep detailed and interesting stories. I would love to have a new magazine that is somewhere between Dr. Dobbs and Byte.

To be fair, I pay for the Finance Times and The Economist right now because I find them to be worth more then the free information I can find on the web.
Why not *BSD?
What ever happened to.the $35,000 price? Are these only being offered with premium upgrades, or are they not able to produce them at a lower, more attainable price?
Do you/your clients perform any sort of pre-screen before going through the first round interviews?
Victim blaming much?

Commercial airliners look nothing like strategic bombers. If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets before pulling the trigger, these types of situations could be avoided. That would actually take careful consideration and a valuation of non-combatants' lives, but hey it's more fun and easier to just blow stuff up amirite
Ask HN: Who is starting? (July 2018)
I appreciate the "Who is Hiring" post for what it is but I'm a lot more interested now in 'creating a job' than 'getting one'.

To that end, who has started a new venture and created their own job this month?
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> But since the government tends to want to investigate all crimes it is capable of investigating, a criminal can easily create a situation where the costs involved with a prosecution (disclosing a sensitive technique, causing people to update opsec accordingly) outweigh the benefits (prosecuting a small time criminal).

This is the part I'm disputing. If a criminal could reasonably control what evidence is available to the government, a better and less risky strategy is to give them no evidence rather than to give them evidence that they don't want to use.
The way that is expanded is very structured, by going through the a 3x2:

Personal Motivation
Personal Ability
Social Motivation (peer pressure)
Social Ability (support from peers)
Structural Motivation (carrot-and-sticks; incentive structures)
Structural Ability (technology, architecture, gadgets)

Public policy and governance debates are often nominally around "structural motivation", but policies and governance along do not form the full picture.
IMO, signed overflow should be implementation defined behavior, rather than the anything goes of undefined behavior.
A simple wrapper script or alias around git-send-email could help you out here. The config option has the same effect as passing `--subject-prefix="..."`
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> no matter how many layers of indirection you might add the binary size and runtime performance would be unaffected

This is an unfortunate glaring false statement in the Morte documentation. Correctness of refactoring and code abstraction is understood to be with respect to semantic (extensional) equivalence, while normalization only works up to beta-eta equivalence. It can't eliminate abstraction in general.

Examples in Morte which suggest otherwise use hand-crafted forms of Church-encoded operations which are known to fuse, but there are many equivalent definitions which don't fuse, and which are actually more natural to write. Converting non-fusing definitions to fusing definitions is equivalent to supercompilation, which is generally undecidable, and thus can be implemented only up to some approximation.
> But since the government tends to want to investigate all crimes it is capable of investigating

Sure, but is that appropriate? Is that what we actually _want_ from _our_ government?

> The end result is that the government is figuratively forced

You can't start a problem with desire and then claim a forced hand when it doesn't go your way. The government is not forced to investigate or attempt to stop _every single_ crime.
Welcome to 2018. This is so sad I am exploding out both ends.
Imagine if you could combine the two - take a scooter to your Uber/Lyft drive for a discount/bounty so it can get recharged?
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I would argue it was the worst decision they could have made. There was a ton of talk in the press that they overvalued ATi at 2-3x it's actual valuation ($5.4b), forcing them to take on a hefty debt. It also directly led to the sale of Spansion (which is now part of Cypress Semiconductor and valued at 4.5x it's sale value) and Imageon (after they purchased ATi, which became Qualcomm's Adreno) literally right before both of those markets skyrocketed.

On top of that, Nvidia was valued at much less than ATi at the time and was willing to sell to AMD, given the requirement that Jensen Huang be the CEO of the new combined company. A competent CEO was exactly what AMD needed at that time, given their turnover of three inadequate CEO's previous to Lisa Su. And Huang has proven to be quite competent [1].

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/nvda
I am also one of the only ones.
What's an "edge connection"?

http://edgeconnection.net/ ?