skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did the OP limit his claim to be about a specific thing like technology? And why did you interpret my comment as having universal applicability? There are categories of things which if you firmly believe that you are right and the other person is wrong in ascribing importance to them (following the OP's heuristic) you'd necessarily assume that person is a moral failure. For example, if I highly regard the ideas of a specific political philosophy, and others dismiss them as bad ideas that have been disregarded, it seems like a bad idea for me to conclude I'm correct in respecting them simply because people in my age group similarly hold those ideals in high regard.

My point was that a heuristic that urges one to have confidence that they have "correct" value judgements simply due to their age is a bad rule to have in your mental model of how to navigate differences with others, even if it's not a hard one.
Let me offer you Justified as a rare exception. Possibly the most satisfying ending to any TV show I've watched.
We used this at the editorial house I'm at to organize the editing pipeline. Super helpful when there are a bunch of people passing around different parts of a project over email. Really hope this succeeds.
The trouble here isn't with learning a platform, but with having to develop and maintain two.
Web tools often allow hot reloads so a smaller feedback loop.
I agree with you in theory but I feel that Stripe is an exception in that they have made it vastly easier for people to start businesses that will change the world.

Related to this is the talk the founder of Asana gave at Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. If you can make the people that are on the front lines of doing good a bit more efficient then you are doing good yourself.
Project fear didn't go far enough.
I think that reducing async/await to just sugar for callbacks is reductive. They provide improved error handling and easier extension. Sure they don't do any more than callbacks, but they're not callbacks. They're an alternative to callbacks that allows you to better structure your code. And importantly, they tip the before towards named functions.

As for this pep, I don't really like it, I think it adds dubious value and overly terse syntax. But that has nothing to do with the general idea that multi expression lambdas are unnecessary.
I agree with your sentiment but -

> you can't put a price on a 5min commute to work and letting your children play outside

That's very achieveable in parts of the US, and unachieveable in parts of the UK.

> having ghettos or "bad areas" in your city

Not exclusive to the US by any means. Plenty of nice cities in the UK have ghetto/bad areas.

> sending your kids to university without paying anything

If you live in England, this is definitely not applicable. Based on [0] (no idea how reputable the source is, but the first I could find) The average student loan debt is just shy of £35k. Anyone who borrowed for university from 2012 or later is paying 3% + RPI interest on their loans - That's fairly substantial.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/376423/student-loans-eng...
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Wagtail looks good. Wonder what's the learning curve from someone coming from WordPress development background.
the statutory minimum is 5.6 weeks paid holiday/year

and it's for every employee, including those not working for tech giants (e.g. people stacking shelves in supermarkets)

if you normally work 5 days/week that's 5.6*5 == 28 days paid holiday/year

(and this is the minimum, so most jobs give you more)
Doesn't work - I still get the OSD while seeking.
I use it on my motorcycle in the US, but there are some major pain points.

I have a Bluetooth headset in my helmet, so I can hear the directions... which are usually close enough. But you still do get some occasionally confusing voice prompts that - without the screen to glance at - may lead you to a wrong turn.

I do have a handlebar mount I've resorted to on a few occasions, but as others have noted (a) the phone can overheat, (b) subjecting a $500 device to the vibration and chance of falling is not ideal, and (c) I've had the acceleratorometer actions kick in unexpectedly, leading to the phone battery dying faster since it turned the LED flashlight mode on.

That said, I have only one serious complain - the opt-out-of-route-change that they've made the default is a huge issue, and I really wish there was a setting to disable that. If I've gone in and picked between a few potential routes, having it decide a different one is faster and that I'll need to press a button on screen to stay on my preferred heading ends up leaving me off course and/or on the side of the road digging my phone back out.

(And before someone suggests voice commands to fix it... that's not a workable solution. While the helmet cuts down noise, it doesn't eliminate it, and I have enough problems with voice recognition that I leave it permanently disabled.)
From 1862 till 1976 an American could always head west(or north) and claim 160 acres with 5 years of hard work(caveats apply)[1]. It would be cool if some similar opportunity was available today. 1976 was not that long ago.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts
> Unless someone really reverses it we won't know it doesn't as surely as we know that Telegram doesn't use encryption at all.

Telegram uses encryption by default, just not E2EE.

You can criticise them for

- using their own crypto

- misleading advertising regarding the quality of said crypto

... and possibly more, but I still suggest we try to stick to the facts.
This is why we need to support organizations like EFF. Even if they are not multi-billion, they may be strong enough sometimes.
Firefox crushing the competition on this (all on iMac late 2015):

Firefox Nightly: 2216
Chrome Canary: 5078
Safari Tech Preview 60: 7216

Brand new iPad 2018: 16653

Moto G4 phone Chrome: 37735

Windows 10 Laptop:

Firefox Nightly: 2278
Chrome Canary: 4907
Edge: 16332
Since all languages should be able to compile to wasm, that question is pretty close to "Which language is the most performant?", which is a can of worms that I'm not going to open. Maybe something like the Benchmarks Game would be useful here. Or already exists, and someone could point me to it :)

A similar question would be "What languages do you know of that are focused on performance and compiling to wasm?" For that, I'd say C++, Rust, and Go, though I'm sure there are others.
I recently watched the biography, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

I can remember watching Mister Rogers on TV a bit when I was younger, but only through reruns (I'm a child of the '90s), and not very regularly. Until recently, he was a faint memory in the back of my mind. He comes up now and again when there are terrible events (as the article mentions), but I wouldn't say he was a defining figure in my early development.

After seeing the movie, I can only wish that I had had more of him and his show in my life. He was truly dedicated to producing emotionally educational television for children. I think we could do with more of that these days. Children's shows just aren't what they used to be.

I think I'd give the biography a 9 out of 10. Not because it's some incredible feat of cinematic achievement, but because the message is so crucially important. Do yourself a favor and go see it.
The book "The Design and Evolution of C++" helps one understand why some things are the way they are

As I've said quite recently elsewhere, C++ is an archaeological dig of a language. There are something like 4 major strata. If you would learn and use C++, it behooves you to pick a particular style, then stick to that. (RAII and smart pointers are very useful!)

There's something called the Taligent coding standards, which were once popular, then later castigated as turning C++ into "a poor man's Smalltalk." Small teams can write some dandy code using that style. Everything can fall apart at scale, however.

(EDIT: Here's an example from elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463569 )
> China has its money where the action is.

This has been absurdly obvious for about 3-5 years now. The knowledge of actual hardware creation & manufacturing has largely migrated to China (hello outsourcing). Costs of living in reasonably stable environments (required for broad innovation) in the US is absurdly high. Government support and funding for innovation - which is required for high value research - has been gutted since the Cold War. These things have a long-term effect.

All of the above are USA policies driven by politics. They can all be 100% fixed with political muscle and will. Much like our infrastructure. We can fix it: we choose not to.

China's government is not stupid; they can watch the US hamstring itself via libertarian policies and work to avoid such approaches. I don't like their approach to human rights, but they are working very hard to fund innovation and infrastructure.
Where do we get the names of these people?
I have a strong suspicion the reason the interface is set up like this is to prevent you from realizing how small their catalog actually is.
Sure, that's reasonable. I guess my point was there are likely better naive correlates for amount of startup funding than population. Perhaps number of STEM or college educated adults, perhaps levels of general economic growth, perhaps GDP, perhaps levels of business freedom, perhaps population (I'm not ruling it out).

Also Nigeria was a particularly bad example because they're developing spectacularly well, should have picked a large population country with a poor business climate.
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Intriguing, but not likely to make me want to change. Everything about my current setup is designed around having the mouse on the right side. Also typing on the keyboard doesn't use the amount of fine movement that my mouse does. It's easy to hit a key with my left hand. Moving a mouse over a 4px border is a lot more difficult.
That's not how the Amish do things, decisions are not made based on type of technology, but rather on it's effect.
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Yes, I can. Actually Herbert himself did have a good (taboo) thought in Dune with his Golden Path idea, that to save humanity it must endure a tyrant for thousands of years. Asimov's Foundation series had a lot to say about the natural ebb and flow of civilization on a long time scale, a very Buddhist view. He also had a lot to say about the nature of general AI, and the relationship to such beings with humans, in his Robot novels (I'm most familiar with the Daniel R Olivaw novels, e.g. Caves of Steel). Of course, when it comes to society, politics, and technology, Neal Stephenson, in both Snowcrash and The Diamond Age, has a lot of great philosophical ideas. Like a good author he shows, and doesn't tell us about his ideas. The character Raven in Snowcrash, for example, expresses the now pretty common understanding that individuals, armed with technology, can challenge states (e.g. bin Laden). There are lots and lots of other authors and ideas.
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The real problem here is that consumers don't want culture. The emoji movie made over $200mm at the box office while having a budget one quarter of that. Survivor got so many seasons because it did well with viewers. Studios don't care if they have to put out crap as long as it makes them money.

If Amazon prime becomes a household good, meaning it sees wide adoption by a large viewing segment which doesn't care about seeing high quality content, that puts Amazon in a great position to churn out bad shows with popular appeal.
As an American, our prisons are worse than 3rd world + Medieval dungeons [1][2]

I would highly advise Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants to procure a private boat or private jet ride to Indonesia, who (at least on paper)[3], will not extradite them to the United States. It may not be noble, but it's better than rotting in a US prison on non-violent charges for the rest of your life.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/0...

[2] countless anecdotal pieces of evidence you've surely heard, seen, and felt your entire life

[3] Cambodia extradited Gottfrid Svartholm to Sweden without any legal authority to do so
Maybe Soul Reaver?
Have you tried enabling the experimental new WebAssembly baseline compiler in Chrome Canary?
Anybody know how to get past the import error when trying to run cartoonify on MacOS?: ImportError: cannot import name run, discussed here: https://github.com/danmacnish/cartoonify/issues/5
That depends on (a) how you define your measure for "performance" (see other comments that talk about the difference between microbenchmarking and application benchmarking), (b) the compiler that you use, (c) the WebAssembly implementation that the code finally runs on.

So, do not expect a clear answer to that questions. Probably no one really knows because of a lack of benchmarks and deployments in the wild that have been analyzed. That's why they made the benchmark.
samba can use fingerprinting to detect what you are watching, even if you are watching using a roku (and have somehow opted-in to samba on the tv itself). It can even detect games, etc.
Why not just lay out a network of rail lines then?
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I see what you mean.

I'll be frank, I think that Knuth's analyses have surprisingly fresh and useful approaches, particularly compared with the other algorithms texts I've read. The usual texts are better at compressed results and a "Straight path" through, but as ways of thinking, I find Knuth more useful to study.

I wouldn't recommend TAOCP to anyone not interested in algorithms, mind.
> You can skim sections, you can skip parts, you don't have to understand everything

This was very true of the first (several) times I read through the book. I pulled the book off the shelf of my Dad's library at the age of maybe 10-12 (it had the coolest cover), and couldn't make head nor tail out of most of it. It did have a bunch of interesting pictures and I skipped most of the prose to read the funny and intriguing dialogues.

Each time I re-read the book I felt like I got more out of it, I think I'd read it more than ten times over by the time I was 20.

Having been through GEB a few times made Metamagical Themas easier too, and the same rule of "skip to the next section, or just take a break if I'm not getting it" worked well there too.
Yes, it is having potential for 11 years and will probably continue doing so.
Hey everyone, I'm Zan - the person being interviewed. Any questions about the survey, let me know :)
LISP was implemented on the PDP-1 in the early sixties - originally it was implemented for the IBM 704 in 1959. C was implemented on a larger machine, the PDP-11 in the early 70s. There were LISP implementations for the PDP-11 - Richard Stallman himself wrote one.

One of the problems was that LISP was not friendly to timesharing, since a LISP program could take over the whole RAM and something like GC would walk over lots of memory, which meant lots of slow memory swapping in machines with virtual memory. It was then best to use LISP when alone on such a machine.
If you really want to keep getting things done today, especially on Windows, and not just learn something new, then stick with Delphi/Lazarus for now.

Every year I keep looking to see if a language will become available that will be able to replace Delphi, and there have been some close candidates, but nothing quite there yet. The close candidates right now are: AOT-compiled C# and Go. If you like the OOP in Object Pascal, then the type handling in Go will probably seem wonky to you, and as far as I know, AOT C# isn't quite ready, but I may be wrong on that front (it's hard to find information on the AOT progress with C#) and someone else can chime in with more information. I cannot understate what a game-changer AOT C# will be on multiple platforms, especially if they can keep the binary size down.
This is one of my biggest frustrations lately. I have a modern phone with a large, high-DPI screen, but Google (and most navigation apps I've tried) only wants to show me the sparsest map. Plus having to zoom insanely far in just to check the name of a road many times, or names disappearing arbitrarily during zooming...
Twinkle twinkle Little Star
This is a bit strange that this is news considering a lot of the foundations of the tech industry were created at Cambridge and it's never stopped, with ARM being the most visible example. I'm assuming that average people outside of Europe are not aware of Cambridge's importance. Is it also true of the avg person in Europe as well?
Stay away from Samsung if you value privacy. They’re absolutely awful with it. Lg seems to be going that path too which is a shame. What I’d do is just get a pihole and get a tv ad blocklist and you should be fine.
for what its worth, I think they do a good job with Daniel Tiger to continue his legacy. My kids love it (maybe because its the only thing i'll let them watch), and it has taught me a few things on how my kids are going to react to certain situations.
As a matter of fact, I just did! Still getting crushed at 4546
I don't really see Waymo as being far ahead at this point. Uber pretty clearly stole Waymo's work. So unless Waymo had a major breakthrough since then that wasn't related to the basically everything Uber got then everyone is pretty much on the same page: promising it's almost here but in reality still about 10 years out or more.
I mean, nothing to apologize for, yeah? Everyone has their take. I grew up in a poor white community, so that's what I see.

I do wonder what can be further done; the social consciousness of the NBA is one of the reasons I feel good about watching it, and I have anecdotally heard it's made some inroads, but that seems like it's bailing out the ocean. Structural problems, structural fixes...
Channel plus on my oled spams me with notifications even though it’s disabked. Clearly lg doesn’t care.
First of all, I'm talking about the free version of IntelliJ (IDEA), you cannot use it to create Java EE applications and the HTML and JavaScript editors are pretty basic as everything else.
Yeah, that definitely depends on your preferred method of consuming movies and TV.

If you're the sort of person who decides they really want to watch Film XYZ and is happy to wait a few days for it, DVDs are perfect.

On the other hand, some people watch TV to fill an hour or two here and there on an ad hoc basis. If your approach is "I feel like vegging out now, so let's flip through the channels and see what's on", the instantaneous nature of streaming is perfect because you don't have to plan ahead to watch the things you're interested in.
It also invested more than US+Canada

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/in-q2-2018-global-vc-scales...
yep crony capitalism; thats why we need to abolish the state and have anarcho-capitalism, as long as government has power, the companies can manipulate their power with money
I'm pretty sure you can make a smart tv relatively dumb again by just not connecting it to your network though.
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My guesses would be handling unsigned hex https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-4749

And bitwise operations
https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/when-does-bit-fiddling-come...

And maybe handling generics. I haven't had any issues, but kotlin is a bit stricter which is generally a good thing, but I'd believe that for some edge case it makes things harder.
What do you mean by reasonably stable. Suburban Ohio is literally an order of magnitude cheaper than say San Francisco and Cleveland isn't that much more expensive or for that matter unstable.
> Imho, companies need to collaborate on certain aspects like perception instead of competing.

I also work on self-driving cars. Why would I share technological innovations with another company?
> Basically, we need to watch out for these intermediaries.

In what sense is the company that plans, funds, creates, and delivers a show an "intermediary"?

> Why can't we both watch both shows? It wouldn't defund the shows, since we both keep paying the same. It wouldn't be skin off either of our noses either. Show creators would prefer universal availability and so would consumers.

You are proposing that all content should be free. You just don't realize that's what you're saying. You believe you should get Amazon content for free because you pay for Netflix. You argue this doesn't de-fund, but it does, because if I can watch Amazon content for free, I'll cancel my subscription to Amazon. I'll pay for the cheapest streaming service that exists if it somehow grants me access to the entire world of content. Universal access would mean a race to $0/month.
I'm really struggling to find a good use for this.

Putting content in a blog post means the author thought the information was worth at least copying and pasting (and possibly even editing). A lot of blog posts aren't even worth the time reading the title. This is somehow less than that.
On my computer, the native PDF reader is xpdf, which is made of security holes, or something based on libpoppler, which is made of patches to xpdf.
Android is fine as long as you:

- don't login into Google Account

- don't enable GPS, because every time you enable it, you get a popup suggesting you share your location with Google. If you choose "don't ask me again", the button "decline" gets disabled so that you cannot choose a wrong option by mistake [1] (I wonder, why Google wants to know where I am going to so badly? Did NSA made an offer they couldn't refuse?)

- don't have spyware from a manufacturer (noname Chinese phones often have it)

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/115944/in-lollip...
I wonder why your city government doesn't do something to help these people. Open shelters, mental health centers, etc. These people have issues, they shouldn't be left in the streets to be prey for drug dealers.
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You really, really, really need to get a lawyer, because this sounds like you're just spitballing here.
Brutalist design, the bad influence we all need
> consumers are much more sophisticated these days

Do you have something to back that up? Curious if this is true, or just your perception.
Yes, but that goes both ways: choosing a popular language can be just as fatal as choosing an unpopular language.

If you're a "body shop", then choosing an unpopular language could be fatal, whereas if you're building a specific software product that needs to do certain things on certain platforms, then choosing the language becomes less of a popularity contest and more about how it can help you finish the product quickly with the highest level of quality and performance.
"Youth is wasted on the young"
The simple answer is: smoking. Ubiquitous for quite some time and literally addicting. Now that everyone has Facebook on their phablets (arguably addicting) the market has met demand by adding USB ports.
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Please excuse the tangent, but is there any programming language that has done away with the file as a basic organizing unit of code?

Whenever I consider PL ergonomics (as I do now, in connection with this article), files come to mind as an incidental inheritance of file systems past.