skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pp. 76-77 of Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" talk about the issues with boilerplate try-catch. He basically does not approve, as they make readability suffer and often do not do what they advertise (truly catch errors.) I don't know how he would feel about production assertions, but I'm guessing he would buy into it if it helps reduce complexity. In the sense of finding remedies to troublesome bugs--which will occur.
Jeff Sessions is probably gonna be gone before the end of the year if it's any consolation
Personal cars spend most of their time parked on the side of the road using up valuable real-estate.

Transportation services like Uber or taxis use the road to move people around and don't take up as much space as personal cars. Public transit and bikes are much more space and energy efficient, though don't get the investment they need to work for most people.

US cities are optimized for sprawl and personal car centric transportation, which makes it annoying that new ideas like these scooter startups (which are actually pretty great when you try them) are blocked by officials in favor of a system that is expensive and sub-optimal for the health of society.
DPI = Deep Packet Inspection (it's in the article)

DIAF = die in a fire
There are three main ways to reduce errors in code: tests, asserts and abstractions. All three have advantages and disadvantages and generally deal with different classes of errors.

In this thread, we discuss asserts, not abstractions. Monad is an abstraction. (On the other hand, many people only see tests and forget about two other solutions, which are as important.)
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Sadly, I do not, it's something our teacher told us during a Permaculture Certification course. I suppose it could be bunk... :-(

Funny story, I immediately piped up and asked him how the trees did it and he just kind of shrugged it off. I scanned around the room and only one other person was also looking around. Our eyes met and we realized we were the only ones in the room that knew the difference between chemistry and, uh, nuclear stuff. We talked about it after during a break and yeah, we were both pretty perplexed by the scientific ignorance.

So yeah, I have to admit I don't know if it's true. And if it is, I assume there's some sort of difference in the isotope ratios of oxygen in the oceans vs. ground water or something like that.
In case you missed the Blender Foundation debacle...

https://www.blendernation.com/2018/06/19/blender-foundation-...

Another piece in the puzzle that is Youtube's copyright compliance. You'd consider it good enough, until you realize how broken it is.
Wouldn't having quotas violate Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964? Unless board members aren't considered employees?

Honestly, this is just a bad law and I'm a feminist. I don't think quotas are the right way to solve inequality and only furthers the culture wars.

A lot of the landmark civil rights cases in the 1970s involved obtaining rights for men, such as spousal social security and spousal military benefits. This is a step backwards.
Well, I have to post this here now: So you want to abolish time zones ttps://qntm.org/abolish
Windows Desktop Notifications with C#, WPF, MVVM, and PubNub
What technologies are this built on? Something like Neo4j graph database?
Unironically, we can already solve the calculation problem with standard computing techniques right now.
Reminds me of deepart.io...

They started with a single GPU. As the waiting queue was getting longer, they made a paid feature that would let you get your results faster. Then they rented more GPUs with that money.
The practical guide for survey incentives
> which came out of Comcast

Not that it matters, but some fun history for you. ATC is built on top of Apache Traffic Server. Before being donated over to ASF, ATS was known as YTS (Yahoo! Traffic Server). Of course the story doesn’t stop there, it was originally known as Inktomi Traffic Server, Inktomi having been acquired by Yahoo! in the early 2000s.
There's a subsystem option for Linux on Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
I've already pushed v2.1 which should address the issues you have in chrome, but google is slow to publish new versions to the store.

And yeah, I do want to get around to making it less cluttery in the interface, but that'll take more work.

Edit: v2.1 is live on the Chrome web store.
Any single page version? As discussed here recently, "Skim reading is the new normal"[0], and this version with lots of tiny pages is impossible to skim.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841431
Your responses seem to indicate you don't understand the points I'm making (or you're just very invested in the narrative you're pushing). It's hard to see what I can say that won't invite a further response such as this.

But to put a very fine point on it, Asians with stellar scores, similar backgrounds, similar interests, similar extra curriculars lack diversity in backgrounds, interests and extra curriculars by definition. There's nothing deeper to be noted about this. Whether Asians that apply to Harvard actually have similar backgrounds, interests and extra curriculars is certainly up for debate. But it is plausible.

The issue is that the distribution of leadership potential in the applicant pool is not equivalent to the distribution of top GPA and test scores (past a certain threshold). So when you use your GPA/SAT metric to analyze something that doesn't follow the same distribution, you will conclude there is bias. But it is your metric that is wrong. If your argument is that they necessarily should use your GPA/SAT metric, then you have to argue for this directly. It is not self evident.
I have a first generation Lenovo Yoga Book too. I mainly purchased it on a whim too - thought I would use it for some specific purpuse, but never did.

However I've used it quite a bit since then for other things, mostly taking notes, watching videos, and reading PDFs when traveling.

My biggest complaint with the 1st gen was the single microUSB port, this new one looks like it has two USB C ports, that and better tech specs might make it worth getting.
It is now, but the drop in record sales started before Spotify — it started with Napster and similar services. Spotify grew from a market reaction to those sales lost due to theft.
It seems a bit short for investment horizons was my point. And also, you’re perhaps thinking of patents, where the public eventually benefits from using an invention - lack of patent would mean more inventions are kept secret.

Copyright is meant to be an incentive for the creation of works that otherwise would not be made. The public benefits by the fact that they’re created. They eventually get to use them too, but it’s less crucial than it is for patents.
There's no need to change time itself.

All you need to do is change your schedule.
These tools exist:

https://github.com/coreos/clair

https://help.github.com/articles/about-security-alerts-for-v...
> * extensions are easy to unpack & view the source if you don't trust I'm not tampering the extension before upload

Surprised browsers plugin centers (stores?) don't let you just put your github repository and build your extension depending on a given branch (or tags) and then informs the user that the extension was directly pulled from GitHub or other version control sources (and provides a direct link) it would be a little more interesting.
In this context, DPI is deep packet inspection.
Yep, same here. E-ink screen and keyboard is all I need; I'd be totally fine with black&white, I'd just switch Emacs to monochrome coloring (using different fonts and bolds/italics/underlines instead of regular syntax coloring).
Agreed that the environment is vastly different than on land, that a scratch through a coating is akin to no coating at all, that anti-corrosion measures are a constant vigil in oceans.

But I asked for sources treating the proposal in the original comment, and got told that "water is wet".
https://mises.org/library/libertarian-manifesto-pollution

Or rather, how this sort of thing happens because of the ‘wrong sort of’ government action
Their recommendation is not to "abolish" Daylight Saving Time, but to commit to it and make it the year-round standard.
I would think identifying as a female SOLELY to get cheaper car insurance (and not identifying as a female in any other aspect of your life) is just plain insurance fraud (which is illegal). Plus you risk claims being denied even if the policy was underwritten and you didn't get into any legal trouble.
I thought you were referring to a specific solution for a 14th degree polynomial.

If you're just referring to the notation, that's a modern translation using modern notation. What was in the original?
Oh I see. Yes, he did say that further up, and I think your reply to that was correct. However when he got specific in his next comment and talked about dense metro areas, I don't think your reply was valid, and that's what I've been responding to.
I'm not seeing that. I see a degree 10 equation, which oddly has no rational roots (though my guess is this is what is meant by "solving"). I've never seen any mention of the Chinese solving degree 14 equations in any books on the history of mathematics. I'm very dubious of the claim, in any form, other than finding rational roots of polynomials (which the Greeks were doing more than a millennium earlier). Edit: no they were finding rational approximations to roots, which is actually pretty clever.
From the Home page

> The MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium will conduct anti-disciplinary research

> What are the next things that were always impossible, until suddenly, they not longer are?

At the risk of sounding facetious, have you considered an automated proof reader?
> For example, on page 11 it says "Note that when the lower 32-bit eax portion of the 64-bit rax register is set, the upper 32-bits are unaffected." In reality, the high order bits are zeroed to avoid a data dependency.

Well, there is one case where the upper 32-bits are not zeroed. It turns out that xor eax, eax is assigned to opcode 0x90, which is better known to most people as NOP.

If you want real fun, read up on what happens with AVX registers. Whether or not you leave untouched or zero the upper bits are dependent on if you use VEX encoding or not.
Will these be making their way back to the author so the text is updated? Or documented somewhere?

Cheers!
But you want to make sure you aren't just creating drag you have to fight against. So even with the rotors, the wind direction still matters.
Some suggestions:

1. Add rel="noreferrer" to the links you inject.

2. I don't think nested anchors are valid HTML. Try injecting your links after the username link, not inside it. And the underline between each icon on hover (in Firefox on HN pages at least) looks horrible.

3. All those icons look messy. Why not collapse into a single keybase icon which maybe opens a tooltip with more details when you click on it?
I've been thinking a lot lately about how intertwined memory and the brain's capacity for pattern matching are. I'm really curious how they interplay, neurologically/chemically
Otter – Searchable Voice Notes with Speech-To-Text
Wait, so for example hedge funds can buy aggregated data from BoA about how much is spent at Walmart on BoA CCs on a daily/weekly basis, wouldn't that data be very valuable prior to an earning call/report, somewhat like insider trading (but I guess not technically?)?
The thing about UTC is that it is everywhere.

You can use it any time you want.
Lots of reasons, but one would be processor specific optimizations and/or extensions for performance reasons.

OpenSSL, for example, has a fair amount of ASM in it for various processors to speed things up.

See https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/improving-openssl-... for some examples of what they specifically did for x86/64.
>When moving circle is outside, its called Epitrochoid
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitrochoid

The combustion chamber of the Wankel engine is an epitrochoid. (From the above Wikipedia link.)

I had read up about Wankel (and also the more conventional internal combustion) engines as a kid. Thought the Wankel engine idea was cool. It has both pros and cons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Sounds like what we are getting could be better described as integrity rather than authenticity. Makes kinda sense
"Chain migration", "extreme vetting", people legally seeking asylum are "gaming the system", "turn off the jobs and benefits magnet", "Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. And they’re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don’t like", "almost every student that comes over [from China] is a spy", we admit too many immigrants from "shitholes"

If you haven't seen rhetoric against legal immigration, you haven't been paying attention.
I work on sundays. I'm french. I have a life. Your comment is weird.
To illustrate what you mean: The Abelian Sandpile Model, aka the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld model, is a dynamical system displaying self-organized criticality, that suggests you can't predict the behavior of adding one more grain of sand to a pile, because it might have very little effect, or it could cascade into a huge landslide.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality

>In physics, self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of dynamical systems that have a critical point as an attractor. Their macroscopic behaviour thus displays the spatial and/or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to a precise value, because the system, effectively, tunes itself as it evolves towards criticality.

>The concept was put forward by Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld ("BTW") in a paper published in 1987 in Physical Review Letters, and is considered to be one of the mechanisms by which complexity arises in nature. Its concepts have been enthusiastically applied across fields as diverse as geophysics, physical cosmology, evolutionary biology and ecology, bio-inspired computing and optimization (mathematics), economics, quantum gravity, sociology, solar physics, plasma physics, neurobiology and others.

>SOC is typically observed in slowly driven non-equilibrium systems with extended degrees of freedom and a high level of nonlinearity. Many individual examples have been identified since BTW's original paper, but to date there is no known set of general characteristics that guarantee a system will display SOC.
Founder here. OpenCyc (as well as Freebase) are human attempts to enter and curate a structured knowledge base. Likewise DBPedia is a set of scripts that extract Wikipedia infoboxes (semi-structured data which is also human crowd-sourced).

The Diffbot Knowledge Graph is built by applying computer vision and natural language processing techniques to reading all the pages on the web (which can be in any structure and human language) and extracting it into a structured form, without the element of human annotation in the build pipeline.
I was going to say this. I just saw that movie for the first time about 6 months ago and it killed me. For some reason I had it in my mind it wasn't a good movie, but it's one of my recent favorites now.
Wish, Netflix, Uber and ~100 Others Testing WhatsApp’s New Business API
Improving tech education doesn’t start with tech
The hunger in my stomach and the desire to not sleep on the streets.
I think you've made yourself clear. You've jumped into half a dozen threads in this post with some variation of the same comment as you do with every Go GC post. Your comment is interesting, but repeating it over and over is tiresome. Have you reached out to the Go GC team? What is their response?
if the keyboard has similar characteristics to the android yogabook, then I'm skeptical as well. I have one, and while the device itself is pretty darned neat, the keyboard leaves a lot to be desired. the haptic feedback helps some, but the keys often don't register.

the hardware itself is pretty nice, though.
Thanks for that link. That GitHub post linked on this HN post looks like a sham now.
Crypto is confusing.
I didn’t love the massive size of the new trackpads but it took me all of 5 minutes to adapt to the click. Happy to trade off a real click for click-anywhere behavior (and potentially better durability). Although I found the trackpad didn’t actually click well along the right edge. No idea what that was about.
Is there any evidence that women are actively prevented from getting on the board due to bias? If not then I worry about these kind of laws. I am seeing too many big shots desperately painting themselves as minority messiah to boost own career and get attention in press. This is very slippery slope. What’s next? Forcing businesses to hire people each race, country and sexual orientation? Once you abandon meritocracy, it’s then all about what you are born with and not in your control. Laws are supposed to protect citizens from this! I hope one of these days Supreme Court makes these kind of reservation system illegal.
Anbox – A container-based approach to boot full Android on a regular Linux
I think it's interesting how there are two common threads in the comments:

1) People don't like switching twice a year.

2) People have a preference for summer time or winter time based on the perceived benefits of the existing system in the summer or winter.

I wonder if there is a certain wisdom to time shifting that people are ignoring. For those of you who would prefer permanent summer time would you rather get permanent winter time or the existing system?
Copyright and all forms of intellectual property absolutely are subject to estate and inheritance tax, in the US. As one random google result says [1].

https://www.weinstocklaw.com/files/newsletters-04.pdf
I see other users keybase icons on their twitter feeds, but if I look at my own I don't see the icons at all. Is that intentional?
It's a little funny and ironic how most big companies who love to call themselves capitalist and operate in an environment of market capitalism, internally look more like communist dictatorships. Resource allocation and deployment is centrally planned by a politburo who are more equal than the rest of the party members (employees). Internal propaganda communications to shape morale. (Some) employees' life needs taken care of (retirement, health care, legal services, etc.). Strict and pervasive internal surveillance/security. It's as if Lenin himself designed the internal corporate structure and functioning.
1. definitely! thanks for the pointer

2. yeah. I should do that.

3. Yup. Already on my roadmap, just makes things a bit more complicated.

Edit: 1 & 2 done in v2.2
Salt water destroys everything so don't build boats guys
It's basically become the first EU-wide referendum on a topic completely disjointed from party politics. As such, it's historic.

If "your" media didn't pick it up, blame them. What happens in the EU matters more than national squabbles.
The drawback to use https everywhere is that a big company can't cache locally things that gets downloaded again and again from the network like OS and application updates, videos on the web, and so on

I think that we need an alternative to https, a protocol that guarantees only authentication (sing the packets, basically) and doesn:t encrypt content, you can verify that what you get is what the website owner intended (no mitm) and you can have a cache.
Those kind of edge cases already exist.
How Facebook Has Flattened Human Communication
The point of the article is that the salaried people get to contribute a voice to the ethical decisions being made, including how does the company act in the rest of the world.

That is kind of the opposite of living under a feudal Lord: the nonsalaried employees are in that bucket (noncitizen residents in the ancient Greek analogy).
I just say PT all year (Pacific Time). Problem solved.
I agree that full legalization of all substances would be dangerous - but I would support decriminalization.

Why so punctilious on the distinction between legalized and decriminalized? Individuals would no longer risk felony convictions for consumption.

- Deaths related to accidental overdose would drop

- State and Federal agencies could still pursue "distributors"

- Reduce the stress on the prison and judicial system (I'll forgo my usual rant regarding for-profit prisons)

- Gives states the legal wiggle room for legalization socially acceptable drugs (i.e. marijuana)

- Could open up more avenues of research on substances that have otherwise been effectively blacklisted.

The execution becomes problematic in having everyone agree on what amount constitutes personal consumption (misdemeanor) versus distribution with intent to sell (felony). But I still believe it would be a step forward.
Ignorant question: if operational costs trump all, especially fuel (Maersk says in the article 60% of operational cost) why not pure sail power? Is there some other maintenance cost or infeasability there? Or is there another hidden variable that is not satisfied?
Quantum blockchain AI, not the other way around. The AI running on this quantum blockchain is electrovegan.
No, in section 3.4.1.1 General-Purpose Registers in 64-Bit Mode of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, it says, "32-bit operands generate a 32-bit result, zero-extended to a 64-bit result in the destination general-purpose register."

`xor eax, eax` actually generates 0x31 0xc0, and `xor rax, rax` generates 0x48 0x31 0xc0. 0x90 decodes to xchg eax, eax in all modes except long mode, which has no effect. In long mode, the opcode 0x90 has no effect still but is no longer equal to xchg eax, eax.
Can confirm - permament summer time was an awful idea. Both from personal point of view and some economical conclusions.

Rigth now (since 2014) we have only "winter" time for all regions except for a few (like Altai for example)
In truth, it's hard to make a lot of evidence-based scientific statements given the government's propensity for not supporting marijuana in research [1]. We would be able to find out a lot more about health and societal implications if it could be openly studied in the first place.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/10/25/ag-sessions...
The detail of the numerical algorithm is here: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%A6%E4%B9%9D%E9%9F%B6%E7...

As you can see Horner's method is a very important part of it because it makes the numerical steps practical to do with little memory.
I don't have a source, but as an engineer working for the US Navy, we are frequently told that the Navy spends an enormous amount of money on corrosion control. Like, in the billions to tens of billions of dollars per year. As a consequence, corrosion control is a significant fraction of the Navy's R&D budget.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/650/647926.txt

https://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Departments/C...
If they were anonymous Google wouldn't be able to match purchases against ad views or let users opt out. I suppose they are just exchanging something like a hash from customer data, so technically Google doesn't get personal information.
VC funding is an extremely narrow measure of a city's economy. Seattle (metro area) has Amazon and Microsoft's HQs. That alone is enough to give it a pretty large tech scene.
Too true. Like the new dodge ram etorque, using its electric motor to replace the alternator, it can launch the truck and let the combustion motor take over at highway speeds. 1-2 mpg is a large improvement for a truck. 1500 dollar option that pays for itself, and a good step towards getting battery tech into trucks.

I've seen it mentioned boats/ships using electric assist will also be another catalyst for battery tech integration, fuel costs on those large ships are always a topic.

Bolt on solutions that are affordable with quick turn around on investment.