skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one of the problems, for instance, is that experiments like this are basically un-peer-reviewable. Who has the money to build another LHC? So it's hard for others to review the work done and thus, basically we all have to trust ONE team of scientists on this.

But the particle scientists, in this for science and for them rather peculiar position, don't take proper care at all to explain their findings or their theories, which is obviously made harder with the absence of pictures from experiments like we used to have in particle physics. They just anounce "we've found the Higgs!", throw a party and ask everybody to believe them.

The theories of particle physics are not really understandable unless you choose to study them very hard for a couple of years, and for sure the amount of theory needed to understand the experiments at LHC is staggering. I'm just a layman in this regard, and I will probably never understand the theories you guys do.

So I'm not a scientist, but I am pretty well versed in politics, and I can tell you from a political view there's two options: you either found the Higgs or you didn't. If you did, you'd be very happy and publishing your results. If you didn't, you'd also be happily publishing results because for all 10,000 of you it'd be career suicide to admit that y'all just spent 15 billion euros to build a device that didn't give the expected results.

The amount of anger and disdain displayed by scientists in this field towards anyone asking genuine questions is starting to look like other fields where "the science is settled".
Senior scientist argues that we should bypass Europa for Enceladus
This was a pre-internet book though.

The internet has made explanations hyper competitive. At this point I can find dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of explanations of Godel's theorem.

But in the pre-internet days I could go to the library, or have my friend Kent explain it to me. (He had to explain first that languages were either complete or true -- he called it sound if I recall. soundness was the property -- and then it was demonstrated that these formal languages were sound, therefore incomplete.)

Back then you couldn't just google Godel and say "oh, that reminds me of music returning to the tonic" or whatever and then google that.

I think because a lot of the ideas have sort of spread out into culture, and been re-explained over the years, the best explanation are not in those books anymore.
Similar here. I accept that it's a cartoon-y version of Big Adult Concepts, but as a teenager, it taught me what meta means.
I also dislike Thiel, but this is gratuitously negative and irrelevant to the discussion.
Isn't 9-5 still normal now?
Your boss must have really hated you to have you run OS/2 on 32k of RAM at 4.7MHz. I didn't even know that was possible.
From the page linked:

> WebSub was previously known as PubSubHubbub.
But you are allowed to save all of that 20k in a pension fund and pay zero on it. Up to 40k a year and 1m in your life.
Yes, precisely. I count myself as one of them. SO and other things online provide a minimum quality level for many solutions, and we didn't have that a few years ago. So you did what you could with the meager time and resources available.
After using scala, it was hard to go back to Java. After learning Kotlin and reading others scala code I don't see myself using any other JVM language besides Kotlin unless I'm forced to. I never minded Javas verbosity because I liked the type safety, but after experiencing languages without it java just becomes annoying to right. Scala was great initially, but because they put every concept ever thought of into the language it becomes a mess because people pick and choose from all the esoteric options. Kotlin is a happy middle ground to me.
0, but only because all of our interns are juniors and seniors (or grad students). In our area, CCs top out at the sophomore level. I would say the vast majority of our interns come from the local, 4 year state schools. We're generally not importing kids from "Top Schools". There's a good chance a good portion of our interns did indeed attend a CC at one time; that's a very common path to a 4 year degree here.
If you had 4x your salary, wouldn't you be spending a lot on keeping up your house, and paying a lot of taxes for local amenities like schools? I don't understand how an area that affluent could be a ghetto.
I think it does and it doesn't. It really depends on what your end goal is. Writing a web application? Not sure it really matters much if you use Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring. Just use what you (or the developers) are most comfortable with. Trying to make a game engine for AAA games? Yeah your not going to get away with Ruby or Python.
There _was_ a government operation like this recently:

"Russia spied on foreign powers at last month’s G20 summit by giving delegations USB pen drives capable of downloading sensitive information from laptops" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/104...
Maybe he read it too old. I read it in high school and it absolutely blew my mind. It was a slog at parts, predicate calculus and symbolic manipulation like that was new to me, but I can say without qualification that it changed my thinking and life.
> it's dominant in certain spaces for a reason.

That reason usually is: "no other compiler were available" or "no other choices at the times".
To what? Don't use Hacker News as a test bed for you shit-posts, asshole.
Have you tried Smullyan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan#Selected_publ...
Do you mind saying what their compensation package is?
By definition only one place can be the Schelling point: the one that, in the absence of any coordination, a plurality of people think would be picked as the one that a plurality of people think would be picked as... etc.
That's supposing that the weapons work as advertised. The UK is entirely reliant on Trident for its nuclear deterrent, and it is reliant on support from the USA to maintain Trident. If Trident turns out not to work very well (which is entirely possible), or if relations with the USA sour, or if ballistic missile submarines turn out to be easier to detect and/or more vulnerable than expected, then the UK could very well not have an effective nuclear deterrent.

>you can't just assume that all of our nukes are faulty (and nor would anyone else)

No, but you also can't assume that we have enough nuclear capability to successfully respond to Russian first strike. No-one really knows how well the relevant systems will work. France is the only other EU country with any significant nuclear capability.
Most likely, but who honestly cares about a ToS?
My hospital sold me a week long pass for £10 when my dad was ill
But these same people support a political party that is in favor of capital punishment and against a larger social safety net. Where is the basic humanity in the state murdering someone or a person dying for lack of healthcare?
Enterprise WiFi at Home Reflecting on Three Years with Pro Gear
While I agree that it is good to not always dwell on the negative, there can be a lot of value in pointing out the deficiencies of programming languages.

Some folks will just use a language without thinking about its downsides. If you use language X for a long period of time, you can become blind to areas where it is wasting your time.

Again, I do agree that the tone could often be much more civil, but I would hate for experienced programmers to stop pointing out things that bother them about their programming languages. Much of the time it is not just about personal taste -- it is about real problems with the language that have a real cost.
Sounds like they learn from Influence by Caldini. Ask for a far-fetched goal then conceded to what you want originally.
I won't go so far as to imply that the American justice system is intended to further the institution of slavery with a racially biased system of laws and law enforcement that results in disproportionate black incarceration.

But... it is telling that the US just couldn't bring itself to let go of slavery entirely.
there’s a huge percentage of the population that has to deal with major difficulties in life

Do you or is this just some lefty privileged angst?
I created a somehow complete gui for youtube-dl, It is opensource in github and has a combination of youtube-dl, ffmpeg and mpv player. Written in java. It is called musicboo and I programmed it after learning java in my university. It has been working for some years perfectly with the automatic youtube-dl update system, although I have moved my backend many times preserving a domain.

http://musicboo.hontzakdio.com/
Personally I like it better. There's so many crappy movies my wife and I love to watch, often as the secondary focus, that otherwise get buried. Basically Netflix says, "hey I see you like crap so here's some more Adam Sandler!"
A Survey on Agent-Based Simulation Using Hardware Accelerators
Definitely pick the right tool for the right job.

Using C (maybe C++ ?) may be great for micro controllers, a BIOS, a stage 1 bloat loader, OS kernel and device drivers.

If you're writing application software, and probably even server software, you should be using something higher level and a bit more abstracted away from the hardware. Not necessarily by much. But definitely more than C / C++.
Can MongoDB really deliver ACID?
Show HN: Ryeboard- a free virtual whiteboard (open beta)
If you only want to read the joke interview, here's a website with a better layout: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all
It seems that windows kernel is C also : https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4oruo1/windows_10_code...
Are you in the second year of a degree in economics? What you write is textbook.

What's your planned thesis?
Huge tech industry profits, high demand for skilled programmers, limits on foreign workers who tend to drive wages down.
> A protocol is neither legal not illegal.

My point is that when you send someone something you've written as an email, it constitutes an informal agreement (essentially a private contract) with the recipient.

> It's also not a necessary condition because an internal company mail server wouldn't run into copyright issues since the company owns the copyright on all their employees' work.

That's true, but anyone with a company email address is legally considered a representative of the company. (That's why you always need to deactivate people's email addresses when they leave.) So while the company (almost) always owns the copyright over work created, the employee is able to dual license that content by sending it via email.

Anyway just to be clear we're not saying you should go ahead and dox all your friends. We're not ad supported, that doesn't benefit us at all. (If your first experience with the site is getting doxxed, you're probably not going to sign up, and almost certainly aren't going to start paying for the business product.)
This song has been on my mind recently for just how much of a lie it is:

If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life

And I had to start again with just my children and my wife

I'd thank my lucky stars to living here today

'Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away
An Android dev told me, it is between JS and Java, some low-level stuff is harder, but most day-to-day tasks are really simple and you can always fall back to Java if you like.

Sounds nice.
This is interesting, I picked up GEB a while ago and never finished. Got to page 400 (I just checked because it's sitting next to me). I was fatigued from reading the same book for so long, it didn't get boring but it's not an easy read so I found I couldn't read it before bed otherwise I'd have to reread pages for it to sink in. That means I couldn't spend as much time reading it as I could other books which is part of why the fatigue set in I think.

I'm going to try this mit course, I think will help motivate me to get through the rest of the book finally.
When a celebrity buys something, it is perceived as higher quality, since a low quality product would damage that celebrity's brand. Celebrities also have filters for bad branding, too.

This isn't new a new field of research. This is literally and exactly how branding works.

If you feel a century of advertising science is unproven, feel free to show your own research that goes against the experiences of millions of people in the field.
> Although the workers got higher wages, they were denied control of the corporations

There is an interesting lesson on giving up control of your rewards in favor of an uncontrollable but larger reward. Stupid humans.
Article appears, is rendered fully, and then shows adblocker-blocker popover. Dismissing the popup results in being redirected to the start page.

This is very anti-web.
Nope.
I use a standard mouse on the right-hand side, but on the other hand, I have a trackpad on the left. The trackpad is great for quick macOS gestures and for occasionally standing in as a pointing device when my other hand is occupied (hush).

Only slightly related: I also have a "shuttle" on the left-hand side, it is wonderful for audio editing. I highly recommend such a tool for podcasters and other sound-making people. It's nice to pan and zoom effortlessly.
PSPDFKit CTO here: We've been using WebAssembly since 2017 to render PDF documents directly in the browser and strongly believe in the future of the technology.

We published this benchmark to have a public indicator of the performance gains WebAssembly promises in a real-world product.
EURUSD: Strengthens, Risk Continues to Point Higher
No, no, how do we stop brain drain to US companies while still paying less than half of what those companies pay?
What are the alternatives to unit tests?
Can't say I felt that with the shows I've watched in the last few years, like Dexter, The Wire, Six Feet Under. Some didn't even last more than three seasons, yet became classics, like Twin Peaks.
Blue/red thing is mostly american politics, while I'd argue that tumblr vs 4chan is mostly abstracted from politics and more about world views and has lesser of a chance of hurting ego, which I believe would lead to more productive discussion. I know it's just semantics, but a lot of people are very emotionally invested in those colored labels.
> If their desired career are less lucrative, they will not take out more loans than absolutely necessary

This is not in fact what is actually happening. Lots of people take out loans whey they are first starting college, when they are young, inexperienced and by definition uneducated. Few of them even try to calculate the expected value of college for their future income, and the ones who try don't have high quality information.
Yeah, "roguelite" usually implies losing some of the big classic elements (e.g. not being turn based).

"coffee break" only implies short length.
Only as a child, a German translation of one of his books with Knaves and Knights. Also Gardner.

It impressed me, but was too difficult for me back then.
“The best explanation”... That is something which you should reconsider. Few problems have a single optimal solution. And knowledge is more a matter of cumulative subjective experiences than a single event.

What is good for me is bad for you (as a matter of fact I find Gödel’s proof unmistakeaby clear).
I am not a C++ fan. But D&E of C++ is one the best books I ever read. It explains a lot of the real world of the decisions they had to make. It was iluminating.
> nobody here will come to the conclusion they better leave to the EU

We don't have Trump here ;-)
To help prevent sunburn and decrease risk of skin cancer. I've seen people who spend lots of time in the sun without any kind of protection. It's not something I hope to achieve.
Rust Traits Deep Dive, Part III–closures, impl trait, dyn trait, object safety
When I think about language that gets out of my way for the backend I think Python. I really need to find time to dig deep into a language like kotlin to confirm or dispel my assumption that nothing else comes close to python for getting out of my way and letting me focus on the problem not the code.
Buffer overflows to gain remote access to a computer were fairly well known in 1995. "Smashing The Stack for Fun and Profit" (http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html) came out the following year.

Most people weren't really writing network facing code though, so most buffer overflows were as you described. They just resulted in seemingly random crashes.
Yea I did, what is it to you? Do you take joy in asking that question? Does it make you feel better to know my mom was a single parent without very much money?

Do you feel like you productively added to the conversation?
> Except that the entire job ecosystem has been moving away from a lot of the ways they used anonymous functions (callbacks replaced by promises, replaced by async/await).

This isn't true at all. Async/await is just a nice way to think about chaining callbacks. They're still callbacks. You can await raw promises and lambdas. Callbacks are still used when they ought to be used, which is in situations where there isn't an "end" to the deferred computation.

> It's pretty rare that I write multi expression anonymous functions in js, and the language appears to be doing everything in it's power to make them wholly unnecessary.

I don't agree with that assessment and I think a lot of Javascript programmers would too. You still see multi-expression lambdas used a lot, and as I've said elsewhere async/await is just a way of monadically handling lambdas with the appropriate call signature.

Heck, the entire point of the PEP we're discussing is to try to make it easier to write what'd trivially be recognizable multi-expression lambdas into things like list comprehensions or for decls. What a victory! Now you have to read the entire list comprehension at least twice!
The treatment of Godel's theorems in GEB always struck me as gratuitous: It treats a technical result as having great philosophical import. The philosophical content of Godel's theorems is already found in the Liar paradox, "This statement is false." and incompleteness in a grand sweeping sense involving language in its entirety can be found in works as early as the Daoists and the Greeks.

Edit: I should say that this wasn't at all obvious to me when I was in college and thinking hard about incompleteness. The limitations of mathematics disturbed me deeply. These days, I think it's part of the beauty of mathematics that its limitations are its own result.
I found this article underwhelming. There are a few examples, whereas concept of death in games is way broader.

Moreover, it does not go to extremes (I mean, I didn't expect Saw-like scenario, or Russian Roulette). E.g. "You Only Live Once" is even harsher. Once you die, you die. There is not "play again?":
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/505914 (warning: Flash)
How to update your scikit-learn code for 2018
> The party hadn't changed in 60 years. Why do they, and the US in general, allow these failures to continue? Tribalism?

Even though I completely agree with you on the policy issue: Given that the other party is literally harboring white supremacists, is it really a surprise that people in black communities reflexively vote democrat? If you think about it, some of these policies are incredibly bad for them. E.g. public unions divert money intended to help people in need to pay above-market salaries for middle class, mostly white people. Why would folks in black communities keep voting for that? Because they're worried the other side wants to take away their right to vote. When people feel attacked they'll band together with the people who aren't directly attacking them.

We just had our republican mayor in Annapolis booted in the blue wave. Larry Hogan is facing a much tighter race than he should. These guys are very moderate and very competent, but when your party is responsible for children being separated from parents, it's a tough sell.
It depends on your goals. I use C and C++ everyday, but I'd suggest if you are trying to learn how to deal with very low level concepts than C is probably the best thing to learn initially. So much has been written in C over the years, and so much continues to be developed in C that it is really a powerful tool to know and understand. There are plenty of good code bases to look at for either C or C++, but C will give you a rooted understanding of core concepts.

Plus look at it this way, every time I use a higher level language I know that it is helping me get things done faster, but I also know everything it is having to do for me at a lower level. Which means when I debug it, I look at things differently than others whom don't have the same low level understanding. So IMO it makes you a better all around programmer even if you decide to work mostly in a higher level language. One draw back to that too, is you have to look at the obvious first and not get lost in the weeds.
One of the reasons labor unions are weak in the US is the Taft-Hartley act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Management_Relations_Act...

Although the article at the top claims it didn't have a major impact on the power of unions, if you read further down and see what the act actually does, it's easy to see how over the longer term it crippled the effectiveness of unions. In short, it made unions less capable of forcing change (by curtailing strike actions) and gave employers much more power to oppose unions (including preventing supervisors from joining or supporting the union). This means a system like that in Germany where the labor union has a seat on the board is explicitly discouraged.

Personally I'm ambivalent about unions, but my opinion is shifting a little in favor of collective action in light of how power has shifted between management and labor.
Speak for yourself. I personally find it simple to see direct parallels between his speech and the current treatment of black people.

Nobody is saying "it is impossible for a black person to make it in America, because of racism." But racism does stack the deck against them.
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
When do I get to use this?! At the moment I'm just "avoiding highways" on my scooter in Austin. Would be cool to see how this translates in the US
Java was very definitely "cool" in the 90's.
This is one of the greatest toy idea of the century, and yet I'm sad that it's never going to see store shelves.
Defunct Jawbone fitness trackers kept selling after app closure, says Which
Amazon didn't make American Gods, that was produced by Starz.
Health is fleeting. Human life is short and brutal, so eat away while sitting on your lazy arse, I say.
Your assumption here is that regular people need to have their bad decisions to use shit services mitigated by government using threats of violence.

It is bad for people. It allows them to keep using bad, centralized, censoring, services without acknowledging the problems that causes. It prevents alternatives from springing up both indirectly because they can continue to make bad choices without consequence, and directly because the heavy new regulatory load makes start-ups harder and gives giant corps (and their giant legal teams) an advantage.

Additionally, you imply that regular people are not impacted. People are businesses. They don't stop being regular people when they run a business.
It really depends on your third world country.
My car does this on the dash in front of my steering wheel. It will switch to an overhead of the lanes and highlight the one you have to take when you get close to your turn as well.

Much easier to process this than the full map on something like my phone or the map on the center console.
The Fred Rogers We Know
Perhaps it isn't that important to you then. Most people who read a lot do it because they like it, not because they feel it will improve their character in some way.

One of the things I like about getting old is I can let go of all those things I should be doing, in my case writing but in your case perhaps that's reading.
Bitcoin drawing some of the world's fastest traders (2017)