skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understood the talk correctly, except for the OOP+FP part, DeGoes seems to be arguing out of practicality, not correctness. He correctly argues, for example, that "FP + OOP in a concise language" is irrelevant as a marketing/business speech for Scala. He seemed to me to actually want to make those compromises and engineering decisions you mention, while maybe admitting that the existing ones are not as successful as initially hoped for.
Why does the fire department respond to a medical emergency?
Mentor a HS who is getting credit to learn JavaScript on their own
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I am gonna say it...

In my experience there are three systems to organize human behavior:

1) Democracy. People vote for one policy that is then enforced for everyone. This is ok and worked in history but not as good at making progress and building wealth than the next two.

2) Capitalism. This is where people have unlimited private ownership of whatever they make and it is enforced using force. It has been much better than democracy at moving things forward, because there is competition among sellers, and they fill different niches. There is far more variety and innovation.

3) Collaboration. I think ultimately this wins out. Science. Open source. Wikipedia. They beat patents, closed source, and encyclopedia Britannica. It takes a while to get started but in the end, open information where anyone can add something without getting hit over the head beats closed competing systems.

I think that if self driving cars would be done in a collaborative way instead of competitive way, then people would not get killed as much because they’d work out the kinks sooner. But then Waymo’s investors wouldn’t make as much money.

Cryptocurrency is ushering in a revolution in that open source can actuallu be paid for by having the original authors have a token sale to the first customers, and then there isn’t any more rent extraction like with VC funded centralized companies. It is also better for the end users whose data is only decrypted at the edges, thus they can trust the network not to get hacked, snooped in bulk, have information asymmetry, close their account, take down their website etc.

So when it comes to news, something like a wikinews for each community would be far superior at getting things going. Already citizen journalists can take photos and videos of the events in their neighborhood. Why do we need people risking their lives going to a dangerous area for the “prestige” when the locals can document it and an uncensorable network can carry images to other countries?

I would say that humanity will progress to #3 for most things and automation will eventually take over and UBI will pay for people’s needs. People will collaborate and the era of individual achievement (Mozart, etc.) will be in the past.
The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp
His basic argument hinges on incorrect division of devs into Java/OOP crowd and Haskell/FP crowd. There are plenty of Scala users who don't fit these stereotypes though. I personally very much appreciate the unique mix of OOP and FP that Scala allows for.

For me Scala is a very general and a remarkably unopinionated language. It efficiently encodes and integrates multiple programming paradigms in one language, letting you pick and choose what makes sense to you.

Scala is useful to a wider range of programmer preferences and skill sets than any Haskell-on-the-JVM could ever be. It's a feature, not a bug, both for individuals and enterprises. Pure FP is just some people's preference that requires a significant buy-in, not the one true way of doing things.

In general, this talk just seems like a case for one man's preferences rather than a fair summary of Scala's current market situation.
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I did something similar. I simply deleted my Facebook, Messenger and Instragram apps from my phone. Never went back.
I don't understand your answer. Can you explain more clearly what the process would be for removing personal info?
My town had a local newspaper for a while which went away. Now I have basically no source of information about local planning, zoning, etc. board meetings. I suppose I could more regularly attend town meetings and so forth but that often isn't really an option.
Not just that, also infrastructure investments.
HTML/DOM/CSS/JS was not intended for application development. Web Components are a modest attempt but you still need a framework. These frameworks give you higher abstraction and a decent architecture that scale. Ease of maintenance is also an important factor.

You will not necessarily sacrifice performance. Well, written react application might perform better: fibers, virtual dom, synthetic events, pure components and async rendering are decent optimizations.
Pai looks for any excuse to stonewall public complaints about monopolistic abuse. No need to whitewash his intentions. It's as corrupt as it gets.
Elon Musk Pledges to Pay for Clean Water to Homes in Flint, Michigan
Two parts:

1. Economic - you stand to lose the tokens. Similar to mining on bitcoin, the cost to spam the network is proportional to the value of the network. If there are a lot of users, the value of the token is higher and it will be more expensive to acquire the tokens needed to game the system. Even if you are well funded, this will hurt.

2. Reader disinterest - There is the negative feedback loop where users of the information will stop using the information, and the incentive to game the system will drop.
You would think a teenager with a job could just get their own phone plan. I'm kinda thankful helicopter parenting is being undermined by technology (internet+Uber), maybe one day we will get back to reasonable parenting practices they had back in the 60's-70's.

We don't let our kids roam the neighborhood anymore even though it's a magnitude safer than it was decades ago. I don't understand how we expect kids to start acting like grown ups between 18-20 when they've been treated like babies until then.

I was working at 14 and driving wherever by 16. By the time I was in college I was completely independent. Maybe 50% of my friends never even had a job and had no idea how to do laundry or take care of themselves.

If my parents said they were limiting my internet I would've laughed in their face
Thanks for pointing that out and correcting me. I'd not followed it personally since the Abbott prime-minstership and didn't realise that Turnbull had actually reversed the inital plan to cut $115m over 5 years. The first year of that was the ~30m reduction in 2014-15 that your data shows. I hope the 2016-17 figure continues that trend.

Again, thanks for fact-checking me. I appreciate the correction!
The good old times when Apple let devs fiddle with their OS.

These APIs are already deemphasized, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were to deprecate/remove them altogether when they release the ARM version of macOS. They’ll probably do it with the update that introduces UIKit on macOS (as Craig Federighi said on this year’s WWDC) to divert the attention. Sneaky bastards, but their stuff still sucks the least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No. The point being made is that many smaller papers, which are mostly owned by large publishers, have some original, local content with the rest being non-local wire stories.
The narrowest street in San Francisco is roughly a regular European street. This[1] is par for the course on most European cities, while San Francisco has very few streets narrower than this[2] (and the average is probably wider, if you look anywhere westwards of Park Presidio where theoretically two way streets are wide enough for traffic to continue flowing in both direction even with double parked trucks.

I would also point out that I'd prefer narrower streets in SF[3].

[1]: https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-narrow-san-francisco-...

[2]: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7998615,-122.4141133,3a,75y,...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/08/san-francisco...
Awesome! I loved playing this game growing up. Cool to see it again, here.
SF in general seems to be more vitriolic towards public services. Might be the entrepreneurial mindset of the region rubbing off.
Residential-only energy use is irrelevant. What matters is peak grid usage (ie. residential+industrial) and it is actually mid-day—perfect for solar. For example the UK's real time grid monitoring system clearly shows this peak on the weekly chart: https://i.imgur.com/wTIt5tg.png (source: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/)
I'm not talking about solving the bottleneck. No api can change that. I'm talking about mitigating the effects of this bottleneck. Namely, SQL is a bad design decision for this area of web dev.
Have you ever tried reading e-books? I've replaced most of my "on break" or "during commute" social-media time with plain reading of long-form content.

I wouldn't describe myself as "being a slave to technology"—I just wanted something to entertain me when I had nothing to do. Social media was a bad way to fill that hole, in terms of the emotional costs. Books are a better way to fill that hole. Even if both just look like "staring at your phone screen" from the outside.
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I love CSipSimple, but it hasn't been updated since 2015[0]. I'm having issues with it on Android 7 and looking for alternatives to use with my own Asterisk PBX.

[0]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/csipsimple/source/default/commits
Super interesting. My dad had a pretty interesting hobby: recreating all the old photographic processes.

I sat for many of them and worked together with him to prepare, expose and develop many of these.

Super dangerous stuff, think Mercury vapor and Iodine in quantities large enough to raise eyebrows at purchase time. It's a miracle nobody in the family got seriously ill because of all of this, my dad wasn't really aware of how unsafe this all was (and I was 10 or so and definitely wasn't aware of it either, I just thought it was all super cool).

Another one that I really liked was very early color photography using potato starch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re

There are worse ways to pass the time.
N.b. the article uses d for the dimension, and n for the moment index. I haven't cranked out the details, but I believe that this is already true just assuming the fourth moments of the distance are integers. That is, for n != 1, 2, or 4, the fourth moment is never an integer. Idea of the "brute force" proof:

Take the formula in the article for the 4th moment of the d-dimensional sphere, which is always a rational number. Basically, for n=2^k, the denominator should be divisible by a larger power of two than the numerator (specifically, if I crunched the numbers right, the gap should be k-2). When n is not a power of two, then for any odd prime p dividing n, I believe the denominator should be divisible by a larger power of p than the numerator. This requires calculating exactly how many powers of p divide various factorial expressions, but you get the idea.
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I have used the Salesforce service formerly known as ExactTarget to send emails to 6-figure lists. Other ET clients have included Microsoft, Apple, the Republican National Committee, etc. I've also used Marketo and Emma to send emails to 5-figure lists.

Mailchimp's pricing tool tells me that 200k subscribers will cost $875/month for up to 2.4 million emails sent. I will tell you that that is a fraction of the cost my employers have paid for the above platforms.

The thing to understand is that it is expensive to reliably send high volumes of email. Anyone can send high volumes of email if they don't care how many go into the spam folder. Sending spam is cheap. Sending email so that every single one gets to the inbox is expensive.

Why? Because to send high volumes of email reliably, you have to follow elaborate steps to prove that you're not sending spam. That means building lists through opt-in only, using clean IP addresses, warming up the IP addresses over time with progressively larger successful sends, aligning domain names across header fields and content links, applying every type of email authentication, hooking into common recipient feedback paths, monitoring and dealing with blacklist services, etc.

If you just want to slam a ton of emails out the door, and have some technical capability, you can save money using a "dumb" mail sending platform like Mailgun, Sendgrid, Amazon SES, etc. But you won't necessarily get "marketing" type features like link tracking, engagement reporting, responsive templates, etc. It does look like Sendgrid can give you a lot of that stuff for 200k contacts, for about half the cost of Mailchimp.
True, though the article was talking about PV.

I haven't followed closely recently but my impression was solar thermal has not delivered as promised. Things like Ivanpah was relying on natural gas more than expected. Is this an accurate impression?
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Ok, and a lot of non-user-facing cruft too.
Try industrial organization in econ
None of those devices work on busses, cars, or hallways.
Insta-API clients
sounds like thinking about this angle can also make it more inclusive! Also, I already added a question about length of stay, so thanks for that
I think also it's that the average user doesn't know how to "hack" things. This includes "hacks" like editing etc/hosts to send domains to 0.0.0.0, but also extends to the general mentality and ambition to even think about altering software to their own personal needs.
Often this is because many firefighters are also certified EMTs. So sometimes, it’s just easier to have the fire department respond.

That being said, I live in a rural state where this makes sense. I cannot imagine the crowded streets of SF are good for this.
Fake News Is a Meaningless Term, and Our Obsession Over It Harms Actual News
The point of that if The text is to be edited in a general purpose text editor, I would rather it be in Markdown. Org mode is pretty useless as a format outside emacs proper.
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Automatic label placement
> I can’t believe any user would do this because it instantly breaks all their scripts.

You mean those scripts which they are expected to upgrade to Python 3 using the 2to3 program, which installs with python? The same scripts that Python 3 advocates claim can be fairly easily converted?

> Evidence please

The fact that Python 3 has a documented option to install as /usr/bin/python and it mentions it on every regular install is evidence.

> Every python 3 program I have thinks python 3 is #!/usr/bin/python3

But did they initially? That's the question. We're talking about decisions package managers made years ago, so the status of Python 2 and Python 3 at at that time is what we need to look at.

Also, it's important to note, this isn't the first time this has happened. I remember having lots of problems trying to get Python 2 installed on systems that shipped with Python 1. It's entirely possible that the solution to this problem is from when that happened, and rather than rather than come up with a different, Python2 -> Python3 solution they used what was decided at the point they had to support both Python1 and Python2, so the solution be familiar. That's got a fair chance of being likely, since package managers are working on systems on timeframes much longer than the vast majority of system administrators, but still need to support those admins that are managing systems a decade after install.[1]

> As naive and full of hope as the python developers are, they’ve got nothing on the sheer hubris of Linux python packagers who think they’re doing gods work by commenting out random seeds in OpenSSL.

I'm not really interested in enumerating all the logical fallacies you're falling back on here. That, combined with your denigrating characterization of entire groups of people doesn't really lend itself towards my idea of a useful or constructive conversation, so I think I'm done. Feel free to reply, I'll read it, but I won't be continuing this discussion.

1: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
This is neat, but are there any like this that you can pull up on your phone?
I find that when I have reinstalled something I would generally not have with me 24-7 like Twitter, writing about how I haven't gotten around to removing it yet is generally the final push to finally pick up the phone and nuke the app.
I believe the article said the ladders were sealed with multiple coats.
That's just a part of electricity. We also need to tackle other major contributors like transportation, heating, concrete manufacturing and agriculture. And soon, for all of those.
Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease?
I built my own because I got fed up with Evernote:

https://nanote.co

The most valuable thing hasn't been any individual feature (though those are nice since I can tailor them to me) but rather the fact that if I don't like the way it works, I can just pop the hood and change it myself.

Been using it for about three years now.
how much parenting expierence do you have?
I would really like to learn more about manufacturing. Does anyone know how to do this?

There are books out there on hardware startups, but that’s the only thing I’ve seen. Are there any museums, courses, and or paid experiences people recommend in the US?
And they have one overwhelming reason: aluminum is not an option because of the overhead muni lines. So it's possible that tradition has a role, but there's no evidence that it is even "somewhat" significant.

If you're operating under the assumptions that A. all the relevant information is in the article and B. everything in the article can be taken at face value, then I can see how you would arrive at that conclusion. So fair enough. I didn't mention it earlier, but I'm operating from a place of applying additional knowledge and perspective that comes from over a decade as a firefighter.

Anyway, I doubt we'll ever really know for sure. In either case, SFFD do a great job, so mad props to them regardless of what kind of ladders they use.
I think the issue for biotech isn't just you need more money -- you do to get initial POC (the most analogous concept to product / market fit), but can actually get to exit with less than tech co's nowadays -- but that you have to spend your initial money right. product / feedback cycles are orders of magnitude longer / more expensive, so you need to do more planning to make sure you do the right experiments. this is the hard lesson that the experienced biotech VCs have learned, that generalist VCs have struggled with and why you dont really see many generalist tech VC backed biotech co's succeed (except stemcentryx)

more money without better planning = more money wasted
I am no expert in German copyright law! But your own source says:

"It is worth noting that the result would stay the same if CC0 would not even contain such an explicit fallback rule. According to the prevailing opinion of the legal scholars, public domain licenses (which cannot be interpreted as a waiver of rights under the German copyright, see above) are reinterpreted as unconditional, unlimited, non-exclusive (i.e. public) licenses."

which appears to contradict your statement that public domain dedications are treated as no license at all.
> Can't be worse than what we already have

Please proof. Otherwise good irony.
Interesting headlines from the "Presentation PDF" found at [1].

> Installed prices are higher for systems at tax-exempt customer sites than at for-profit commercial sites

> Residential new construction offers significant installed price advantages compared to retrofits

> No clear relationship between installer-level pricing and installer volume

> Prices vary considerably across installers

> Installed prices in the United States are higher than in other national PV markets

> Installed price declines have been partially offset by falling state and utility incentives

> Installed prices continued to fall in 2016, albeit at the slowest rate since 2009 [emphasis mine]

> Module-level power electronics have a seemingly small effect on installed prices

> Ground-mounted non-residential systems are generally higher priced than rooftop systems

[1] https://emp.lbl.gov/publications/tracking-sun-10-installed-p...
OHLE is specially overhead equipment like that used for trams, trolleybuses, etc. Most places I was thinking of don't have electrical supply wires overground.
It's the way social media is going.

From google news to facebook to twitter to youtube, instead of seeing what you want to see, now you see what they want you to see.

Social media is now parlaying its giant audience into social engineering. Buckle up because it's going to be a rough ride.
I am hardly the peanut gallery here. An accusation was flung at an honorable organization from out of the blue, and I responded to that accusation. Since this is your first appearance in the thread, I would suggest you are the peanut gallery here.

I will post a motherjones (not exactly conservative friendly site) that, while not complementary, at least highlights that oath keepers is composed of individuals of diverse backgrounds and beliefs, and that they do strive to weed out bad actors when they are identified, just like any other group would do. I found the reporting to be relatively unscathing, considering it's source, and I learned from it myself.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/oath-keepers/
I would like to introduce you to "portable video games" like the PSP
Well, ereaders and ebooks are really obvious things to develop if you are in selling physical books business.
If you quit, they will fire you
nextdoor.com? Though mine seems to be filled with people complaining about things, and lost dogs...
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> A lot of the "lazy uneducated" workers you mentioned spent years getting a university education, up to the PhD level frequently, and they feel they're invested in a thing they might be good at or they might enjoy practicing.
Objectively, they should give it up. Subjectively, I can understand wanting to hold on to a small hope that you might eventually get to do the thing you enjoy doing for a living.

And all it takes is one(!) bad/uninformed decision in your past: skip STEM.

One of most cirurgic comments I read in HN. It's a pity that is buried in the thread.