skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is much good advice given by others here regarding the implementation of languages. However, if you really want to get into language design, there is one area that you should/need to understand (as far as I am concerned) and that is how to specify the meaning of your language and its constructs. If this is not done, you end up with too many gotchas and special cases in how you will do things.

I have found too many language designers have not thought about this clearly enough. When you go to actually use the language, you will suddenly find all sorts of oddities in how you construct the program you are trying to write. Undefined behaviour is a curse, implementation defined behaviour is a curse.

If your language allows you to write something and it passes the compiler, then make sure that it is completely defined so that no matter what there are no subtle surprises.
Sounds like Microsoft has now disabled the feature: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1039899988837511169
A related point is that we can't just make a single CPU do more computations per unit time by making the CPU bigger because the finite speed of electricity (which is upper bounded by the speed of light), determines the largest size of the CPU before the different paths that electricity takes through the CPU logic gates become out of sync.
2 factor. done.
It's surprising how people still don't understand that content hosted on "cloud" services doesn't belong to them, especially if the product is free.
Yes, this video explains in very easy to understand terms exactly how all of this works:

http://www.economicprinciples.org/economic-principles/index....

edit: It is a 30 minute video by Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest and most profitable hedge funds.
It blows my mind that Silverlake is attractive to former New Yorkers in the way that it is. It's far less walkable than the nearby neighborhoods that are just as trendy from Los Feliz to Highland Park.
> From 1957 to 2017, per capita GDP in China grew from $68.24 to $8830.17. That's over a thousand times more productive.

8830/68 = 130, not 1000. And is that $68 in 2018 dollars or 1957 dollars?
It's not easier than pushing a static site up to a CDN. Let someone else do the work until you're using actual compute.

EDIT: Others are already expressing my point, that this is overkill for a blog.
It is theorized that the laws of Physics can be different in different parts of the universe. Maybe elsewhere speed of light isn't an issue
"I think a thing that’s going on with the notes is that gatekeeping makes sense in some circumstances (such as the company buying a braille keyboard for a blind programmer)"

... No. Your employee who uses a computer shows up and says they are blind and need Braille accomodations? You don't wait for a doctor's note, that is explicitly unreasonable.

Gatekeeping is appropriate, if at all, where an accommodation is nice for lots of people who will somehow cost the company a lot of money if they receive it and it is difficult to determine the reasonability of the request on an individual basis without invading their privacy - so you ask a doctor to stand in as a firewalling proxy that tells you whether it is reasonable in this case without telling you the underlying cause.
They represent parts of the UK, and are unlikely to vote as a bloc, representing all sides of political spectrum. The UK is represented as a country on the Council, not in the parliament.
If you haven’t read Liu Cixin’s Rememberance of Earth’s Past trilogy you might really enjoy it.
I would make all my planet's tech based off of sewage.

Borg Drone 8 of 200: "Nothing to Assimilate here...time to go assimilate Risa".
LA is considered the least affordable city in the country (incomes are much lower than they are in NYC), but in nominal terms it's still true that you get more in LA than NYC.
Autonomous cars is a solution that is flashy and sexy, and has its appeal with some audience.

However, being pragmatic, to avoiding drunk driving, I'd rather go with non-autonomous sober drivers that are already available today.

You know, traditional Uber, Lyft, taxi, etc.
So I'm not sure what particular straw man or false equivalency argument you're trying to make but first let me point out that I'm not American, I'm Australian.

And you're right that there are grave issues (for these and many other countries) but that doesn't excuse the actions of the Chinse government. Nor does it make all such actions equivalent and the presence of such sins doesn't disqualify you from pointing out such abuses.

Let's not forget that in the US I can talk about slavery, segregation, the arguably illegal wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, taking land from Native Americans and a whole host of other issues because such information isn't censored and I'm not going to end up in a labour camp for bringing it up.

Until that's true in China, don't even try the moral equivalence argument.
>A phone is a tool for calling, texting, and listening to music. Anything else is for a laptop/desktop (to me).

I think you've kinda acknowledged an understanding that how people's usage of the device differs is the reason such devices may or may not appeal. I make and receive very few calls or texts on my phone, it's primarily a device to get emails, listen to music, watch video.

These devices are a lot of different things to different people, so it makes sense there's a fairly wide range of (sometimes mutually exclusive) features that different folks prioritize.

There's also an element of chicken-before-egg - If you had a larger format phone possibly you would also start using it for stuff you currently use your laptop for?
Simple, it's a luxury status symbol like Vertu phones of the past, Gucci bags etc. There are a LOT of people in the world that can afford such things, and there are a lot more that will go beyond their means to pay for it.
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Random question for Thomas or the peanut gallery: would you be interested in reading How Consumer Credit Works if I were to lock myself in a room for a couple of days to write it?
It is not exactly closed. We also pump new money into the system based on our models for the actual increase of the gdp. Many times our models are off and we create inflation because of this (even if someone has no agenda).
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And as a society we reject a lot of possible technology out of hand.

For example, we could have a device on cars that transmit basic information. Such as licence ID number, speed, location, pedal position etc. It would be ridiculously useful data for a whole host of different things. You could use it to bill parking, catch speeders, sequence traffic lights, and warn of hazards ahead. And maybe even help self driving cars make sense of the world.

From a technological point of view this is a no-brainer. But this is incompatible with the way that we think about cars and roads. Every car has to pretend to be isolated from every other car.
Why add an additional layer of abstraction?

Really, you don't even need Ansible.

Just ssh into the box, apt install nginx, run the Let's Encrypt script and install Ghost.
Ok, not sure how that changes the point.
It happens that I was working on the essay right as Cambridge Analytica was hitting the news.
This is cool, but TC's site is shit. THis seems to be just a article to push you to a iPhone advertisement that loads once you scroll down.
What does that have to do with anything?!
No doubt this book has been an inspiration to many (including myself), but what I find most fascinating about it is the author.

Here's a quote from the link below: "Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich. In fact, he helped invent the genre. But it’s the untold story of Hill’s fraudulent business practices, tawdry sex life, and membership in a New York cult that makes him so fascinating..."

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon...
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No, the sentence in question is—and the context you are dismissig makes this abundantly clear, though it is also the most natural reading of the sentence in isolation, IMO—using “standardize” to mean “seek to establish as an industry standard through the process of a standards body.”

(Note that while I think the language is clear, I think this whole approach from Google is ill-conceived to the point of borderline lunacy; there is no need for these to be special-case subdomains or for them to be treated specially by UIs at all.)
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Not on similar scales. I found traffic in NYC to be a dream compared to Beijing.
I'm just curious - why? Forgive me if I am missing the obvious advantage over a blogging platform like medium.
Perhaps other civilizations which manage to survive know something that prompts them to use highly directed, highly efficient spread spectrum technologies which are very hard for us to detect?

Perhaps the universe is much more dangerous for intelligent beings than we know in our youthful naivete as a species?

This is terrifying.
Oof, I just checked the top of the page. Thanks!
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>everything real can be measured in some way

False

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_problem
Venice to Downtown is 25 minutes if you make the drive after 8:30-9pm, where on the weekends it can be the same the entire day. It does suck when you have a concert you want to get to that starts at 8, but you do get used to it. Note that this distance is close to 15 miles anyways, where virtually no one in NYC is traveling that distance in less than an hour.
> How do I edit the code in my preferred syntax? Do I need an editor plugin?

> When working on the project, each developer runs forest dev, which mounts a virtual filesystem in the local directory using FUSE, called dev/.

> dev/ contains all of the source files, projected into the developer's syntax of choice.
You're grasping at the words trying to force an irrelevant and unsubstantiated point. No, I'm not saying to treat people like animals, on the contrary, I was arguing for allowing people the dignity to study without debts.
For someone who doesn’t follow lower level browser dev that closely, this seems like an optimization pretty specifically for a react style ‘nested redraws’ use case. Is this at all correct?
Lasers still diffuse; they are not fundamentally different in that sense. In the signaling sense of "is the light there or not?", whether it is coherent, or would be coherent if it was there, is not relevant to anything.
Bad habits of coworkers - the worst of all is loud throat clearing or summoning snot. Eating smelly foods noisily at desks when there is a break out area available! Loud talking on conference calls!
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So it's cool to invade countries next door if you have a dispute with them. But not okay if they're not your neighbors. What if they're technically not your neighbors, but still only like 100 kilometers away? Is that okay?
You'll want to read "The Eerie Silence" by SETI lead Paul Davies who's job is to think of this stuff.

The book covers many many possibilities for how a civilization might try to communicate or get the word out from Von Neumann probes to leaving something in our DNA, which could easily last multiple millennia to monuments...etc etc. It also covers the search for life elsewhere like looking for reverse chirality DNA on Mars (basically there is no reason all DNA found on earth should curl one way and finding DNA that goes the other way strongly suggests it didn't come from us).
I'd suggest that you read my colleague's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 to understand just how much friction the legacy addon ecosystem was creating. It just wasn't sustainable.
"The Laws of Human Nature" is scheduled for publication in October 2018. You can pre-order it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJLX414/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
> Mozilla's big and I think they need to offer something unique compared to Chrome and Safari

Mozilla is tiny compared to the size of the Chrome team.
Hundreds of crimes will soon be solved using DNA databases
well there's humane ways to limit growth, and then there's what CA does. If you want to limit growth, then you need to convince companies to move out, get the jobs out of there. once the jobs leave, the people leave. But continuing to have FB and google and various other companies lure more and more people from outside the state to CA and then not building enough housing for everyone, is just plain wrong. Sure, the people coming in can probably afford it, but it causes so many housing problems for everyone else.
There's a short film adaptation of this as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
I don't think anyone is arguing that you should replace PGP signing with HTTPS.
Right, the projection part is clear. The question was one of diffs, reviews, etc. What does a diff look like when projected between languages? Can you still feasibly use a line-based diff format, or do you have to account for transforming syntax structure? Do you just try to diff the projections instead? Lots of interesting things to try out.
> On the other hand, you can get rack-mount x86 server with several TB of RAM for fraction of price of mainframe which is exactly the hardware for new applications that would otherwise be best served by mainframe.

I expect the largest one of these is still a fraction the size of the largest mainframe, at least for processor power (e.g. 224 cores[0] compared to 1700[1]). Maximum memory, though, is 32TB, which isn't exactly huge compared to 12TB [0] or 24TB [2].

[0] https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7089/SYS-7089P...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_zEnterprise_System#z14 (Not saying they're necessarily equivalent in performance, but they might be, as you point out)

[2] https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...
"There's a ball in the middle of the road, is a kid going to pop up from behind a parked car and run towards it?"
This video: http://www.economicprinciples.org/economic-principles/index....
Why? We don’t simplify high bandwidth satellite radio signals for the benefit of the Sentinelese people, and unlike extra terrestrial life we can be certain that the Sentinelese are sentient, and also that they can (given enough time, but less than even a RTT to Andromeda) learn both how to tune in and what the signals we’re broadcasting ultimately mean.
The speed limit is not a limit but variable. It's what you can get away with considering the conditions and surroundings. On I40 through Texas I was getting passed going 90.
I, for one, would be interesting in reading almost anything that involves you locking yourself in a room for a couple of days to write.

Even on a topic like consumer finance where I consider myself fairly knowledgable.
assuming jwilder publishes updated images..
> From a technological point of view this is a no-brainer.

Yeah, it becomes a brainer, though, when you ask “how do you deal with malicious transmitters”, since the answer to that tends to involve developing the systems to monitor the same variables externally without trusting the transmitted values, and once you do that, what is he transmitted data for?

Using transmitted data for less safety-critical things like route intent for efficient holisitc route optimization, with a penalty system for misrepresentation might be useful, though.
I don’t get it. Why would you want error messages sent to the browser? This is what error logs and interactive debugging are for.
The docker-machine command creates the droplet for you, and then docker-compose runs everything for you. It's two commands and one config. It's repeatable, automated, fast, simple, and complete.

But, sure, you could do it in a more complicated way, or a more manual and time consuming way that isn't documented or automated. I think that's called the "job security" method.
Whether or not it was done in good faith is irrelevant because it does not and cannot compensate for the harm Amazon/Bezos has caused.
This response is unhelpful. The evils of the US do not negate the evils of China.
> When the data is signed anyways you gain nothing

Wouldn't it have prevented this bug?
+1 to this. Huge pain point at several startups I have been at.
As a serious question, aside from communications, what are examples of things they are looking for?
Medium's reading experience is pretty bad with all the annoying popups showing up all over the place. Also with Ghost you can easily export your data and move it across different ghost installations, you can customize the look and feel of the blog, you can use your own custom domain without paying medium extra for that, etc.
In Carl Sagan's Contact (the book, not the very good movie), Ellie is on the life-extension station with SR Hadden and about to land back on earth after the accident. I can't find the exact quoted exchange but it goes something like:

Hadden: Ellie, when you find them and talk to them, be VERY careful. These folks are old and their tolerances for risk may be alien to us.

Ellie: Well they sent us the Message, they obviously want to chat

Hadden: With beings that may be immortal or close to it, what we may consider a sure-fire bet may seem like an impossible risk to them. When they offer you something, you take it, you hear?

If someone can find the actual quote, thank you!
The homeless issue is, IMHO, a mental health crisis. We as a society didn't want to pay for the freeloading mental health patients, so now we have the homeless.

In 1955 there were 560,000 patients in all mental hospitals across the united states, private, public and government.

In 2010 there were 43,000 psychiatric beds in the United States, or about 14 beds per 100,000 people—the same ratio as in 1850

In 1950 there were 300 state psychiatric hospitals in the U.S., with 320,000 patients, today there are about 180 hospitals, with and about 20,000 patients.
Alpine is a popular choice for containers because it has very small footprint.
I buy Polar unsweetened sparkling water. Comes in great fruit flavors (just a hint of flavoring) and is cheap, cheap, cheap.

I still occasionally have a Coke -- about once a week with a movie or something -- but my days of Jolt-fueled hacking runs are behind me.
Yes I did. And you're proving my point; you're just trolling with no evidence.
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But you have to communicate the states of each other's particles (as far as you can tell random noise) to compare/contrast and glean influence, so it's only suitable for encryption of classically transmitted messages.

Think faster-than-light XOR ;)
Not giving your content to someone else. Not obeying their rules. Having control over the domain name (Medium doesn't support adding custom domains anymore).
Ebikes make most cities flat, and the Netherlands only relies on bikes for last mile transport. Medium and long-haul routes in the Netherlands have great transit options.
Michio Kaku certainly argues for existence of aliens in the higher dimensions than our own-4th dimension has time element, all the way up to the 11th.

In fact he argues that it's possible that these higher dimensional beings figured out how to travel between universes (if you follow the multi-verse theory) by heating up to an insane temperature point where it rips a hole in the space-time fabric, allowing for the said civilization to continue living in another universe where it isn't collapsing.

To me the Minot airbase incident is the most telling based on all 20 something individuals that witnessed the same events where light orb like things deactivated the nuclear silos.

This suggests that the nuclear tests basically triggered a radar somewhere deep in space by said advanced civilization, then suddenly you have a spike in UFO sightings.

I think this scared a lot of people at the top, because their power base is directly threatened by an advanced adversary that has technologies far beyond your own, want to keep hush hush so they mix lot of hoaxes to make it impossible to distinguish real from fiction (a classic disinformation strategy with tall tale markings of tradecraft also used by Soviets).

What's even more strange are both USSR and US encounters with UFOs and the same type of hush hush, namely the Phobos satellite which was 'decomissioned' by a similar looking object found during the initial Apollo moon landings, which is riddled with censorship, including what appears to be unnatural and regular structures and objects you can observe with a powerful telescope (check out https://youtu.be/3xiJnDuVOFA?t=2m12s)

Just watch Unacknowledged on Netflix....it was frankly eye opening.

say what you will but the fact that US Navy released the UFO video captured by F-18 IR radar, the announcement of a "Space Force", it's all obvious that the next bogeyman won't be communists or terrorists but extra terrestrials....this is the ultimate logical conclusion one can make based on the following core belief that tests one's affinity for trust in higher institutions formed by humans.
I don't think that anyone is arguing that, either. I'm saying adding HTTPS isn't an improvement.
If they are functionally immortal - and what sufficiently advanced species wouldn't make themselves immortal at first opportunity - thousands of years may not be a deterrent at all.
It seems that way because the costs are centralized, but cars are as well, and it's disingenuous to compare this way.

If you look at how many people go in debt to own cars or the amount of credit on cars, you would see poor numbers there as well. Cars are incredible money sinks. There is a reason why Uber doesn't operate its own fleet.

If public transit billed by value it would easily be kept afloat. But the value proposition in most cities in America just isn't there, because they simply aren't dense enough. It's not a mythological idea. It's simple math.

> funny you mention Seattle, a city that blew over their recent rail budget by half a billion dollars [1]. plus is it also a city deferring maintenance to hide the costs of their folly.

Funny you mention things going over budget because nearly all infrastructure projects in this country do - yes, including roads. This is a problem with our government, not mass-transit solely.

In your very own article, the reasons stated for the price increase have nothing to do with mass transit inherently. They would be true of any infrastructure project.
Medium has tracking and social media integration. And you don't have any real control over the platform.

(Also, the sticky headers are so damn annoying!)
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That's essentially what is already done, without the browser's assistance, with "virtual DOM"-style libraries. The point of this work is to obviate the need for a virtual DOM.
Clouds reinvent mainframes. They're still cheaper, run more FOSS, and have more talent available. They're a better form of lockin than mainframes.
Programming languages are not languages (2018)