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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Natural Expressions?
In you opinion, what online tutorial/video/course teaches natural expressions the best. Or, what method is best for learning them. I am interested in learning them and can't find any good tutorials on google. Thanks!
No, your company is not evil. You are being a pain in the ass, ergo they are treating you like one.

Just because your coworker didn't cop to complaining doesn't mean he didn't make it known he didn't appreciate sitting in the dark. Did you ask him first?

> [Patient] reports back pain that would be improved by a chair they have chosen.
Doctor writes a semantically ambiguous note. Reasonable to assume medical professional is not playing word games.
What Happened to Fan Bingbing, China’s Most Famous Actress?
It's a common idiom. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/for+the+love+of
The simplicity of a language doesn’t mean it will be easy to write a parser for. The grammar of SQL is actually quite lengthy. As others have suggested a ‘harder’ language like Lisp might be a better place to start.
A Tesla investor was recently questioned by US regulators
There is a replication crisis in every field that is not disciplined by a need to achieve externally-defined goals. Chemistry is in good shape because people apply it in order to e.g. create steel.

The difference between a scientist and an engineer is that the scientist answers the question "if I do X, what will happen?", and the engineer answers the question "what do I do in order to get Y to happen?". But if there are no engineers working off of the results, the scientist is free to say anything.

Sadly, as pointed out elsewhere in the subthread, this is a sufficient but not a necessary condition. Medicine has plenty of well-defined goals, but it doesn't know how to meet them. The cheap wisdom there is: if you want something badly enough, there will always be someone willing to sell it to you, whether or not they actually have it.
The Caddy license page states that:

"If your company uses official Caddy binaries internally, in production, or distributes Caddy, a commercial license is required."

So if you are not using the official binaries (for example a community-provided Caddy Docker image) a commercial license is not required.
Fine. I want to learn how to maintain/write software for a mainframe.

How do I start?
Can I get access to one?
Can I build up something I can learn on?
What is the best path for doing this?
How would I usefully gain enough experience to get into this?

I have linux, python, c, but unsurprisingly can’t afford 30 million (or whatever) on a mainframe.

I know about Hercules, but I’d only be able to run Linux. Is that right? Is that useful?

My feeling is that I’d need experience to get a job, but I can’t get experience without a job. Seems like the whole shortage is a lie. If there was a shortage I’d be able to find various organisations falling over themselves to help me into mainframes.
Makes you wonder what they call Van Eck phreaking.
A little cynical, but I enjoyed reading this lmao
With these tools you don't test that the output matches you test that the output has certain properties and it is called property-based testing.
This should help https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/property-based-testi...
I wouldn't say we're close to FTL transfer of information in any meaningful way. In particular,

> we can cause action at a distance

is not true, either.
We don't know what we don't know.
Was this submission inspired by yesterday's comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17972163

It sure feels like it. :)
To add to that, Narcissus and Goldmund was also a quite influential book.
I feel like I can blame people who say "you can't blame [whoever]," though. What you aren't saying is "let's actually change things."
The U.S. has always subjected foreign acquisitions in sensitive industries to tough review. But the present administration has taken it to a new level and made it a focus in its disputes against China’s trade practices.

Maybe it's an illusion, but, it seems as if, though most US allies dislike and resent Trump, they're following his lead in this particular policy area.

Maybe these nations think that, despite Trump's crazy bluster, the US knows something they don't.
It's a good learnin' experience.
but ideally for this a simple netlify/static site generator would be the bizzy.
How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation
That game (and others like it) would probably be much easier if instead of optimising for score they optimised for "game states (pixel arrangements) that the AI hasn't seen before". This metric should correlate well with moving the player character around each screen, and getting to new screens, as well as picking up objects.

I believe some researchers have tried this approach and had some success, but I'd like to see how far DeepMind (for example) could take it.
BREAKING: Linux version upgrades still free. - @NeckbeardHacker

... from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
When industry X complains about shortage of Y what they actually want is for someone else to pay for the training of a bunch of Y, so they can hire them for peanuts and dispose of them at will.
Yes, but at the end of WW2 some 15 million people were able to benefit from it. In terms of percent of the population this was vastly more people than those who benefit today.
Still though, LA is the densest metropolitan area in the country. Also from curbed (source being the census): https://la.curbed.com/2012/3/26/10385086/los-angeles-is-the-...

If you've been to LA, you know that those single-family homes are nearly touching each other and that the cityscape is very built, with hardly any empty space.

Yes it's overall not transit friendly, but it's still a huge area that you can reasonably call urban.
Aircraft are the perfect driverless technology candidate.
Edit the url to fullwsj.com
They were allowed to remain in operation until they were physically served with the order from the ICC, which might explain that.
I just saw two comments comparing Yarn's RFC to Maven - yours and one over on Lobsters.

Having never used Maven, any chance you could point to a document explaining how Maven's cache approach works, and maybe expand on the similarities between that and Yarn's RFC?
Ah, good point. (I guess I wasn't confused by the edit - though if I'd been here longer I probably would've been - but I was by your comment!)
I think the broadening palette and recovering from WWII and processed food had a lot to do with it. You can only make so many things in a truck, but if you’re able to draw from worldwide traditions it represents real variety. Everything from ramen to falafel is doable and delicious in a car or truck, but for a long time Americans weren’t interested in it. Americans seemed to be satisfied with dirty water hot dogs, re-warmed pizza, and things like pretzels. They also weren’t about to spend a serious wad of money for more upscale versions.

Braden tastes, the foodie culture, the idea that even if you just want a hot dog there are good ones to be had for a bit more money changed things, but it took decades. You can chart a similar peak-trough-peak in bread in America actually. It used to be nice stuff, then post-war it was mass produced, pre-sliced crap for decades, and now... it’s back to some version of fresh. WWII didn’t have quite the impact on the American palette that it did on the Brits, but it did have an impact, as did modern “convenience” food.
That bug, no. The latest bugs that Windows no doubt has, yes.
The ICC investigation, over the course of a year, identified over 800 violations, most involving making unauthorized tows --- often from places they had formerly had contracts but no longer did, or places where they claimed they had contracts but where no contract was on file with the ICC. Which squares with the general take on Lincoln Towing, which is that they're just a bunch of people in tow trucks looking to tow as many cars as they can.

Lincoln's defense: the ICC never told them they were violating the law.

What I learned from reading all the ICC filings: in Chicago, you need to file different contracts to tow on a "patrol" basis (where the tow truck spots the unauthorized car) vs. a request basis, where the customer asks you to have a car towed. Lincoln Towing didn't care about the distinction; the ICC did.

Also, they had drivers without licenses.

Honestly, I doubt the other Chicago towing companies are much better.

Their Wikipedia page is pretty funny; it's pretty clear that someone with an interest in Lincoln Towing has authored chunks of it.
Am I the only one who's terrified of giving control of my authentication to a carrier? They have had so many absurd security breaches. Not to mention it's so easy to walk into any store and get a SIM card for someone else's account with nothing more than a phone number. They rarely check your id.
Do the rich have to pay interest on their debt, or is it just me who has it on his mortgage? I tend to avoid taking loans because of the riscs and because of interest, why do the rich take up this debt?
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Exactly my point. Collapse theories, in addition to the shady concept of "measurement", have a problem scaling to large systems. Many Worlds, or Decoherence, makes perfectly sense with any sized system.
Vehicle based grifts are tough to deal with, especially with it being so trivial and cheap to reincorporate.

A friend in the business took one of the Chinatown busses off the road after they pulled up for inspection with the rear brakes on fire with bald tires and no mirrors. The unlicensed driver ran off into a cornfield and vanished.

He pulled it off again a week later in the same condition, with another LLC on the side (something like “harmonious dragon 2,llc). That time it was associated with a more serious crime and seized.
Musk tweeted a Japanese flag shortly after, so unless they're delivering sushi to the moon, it's someone Japanese.
Show HN: Bitcharge – The easiest way to accept multiple crypto for freelancers
The Channel I/O worked on many devices and the OS. Far as cost, using AWS might not be cheap but I was thinking redundant VM's or dedi's with cost-effective hosts. That doesnt cost hundreds of thousands to millions a year.
Very carefully, of course.
I'm a structural firefighter and routinely spend time inside burning buildings. Wildland firefighters are _crazy_

"That mountain is on fire. Here's your shovel..."
But... the city should just disallow coercive towing generally, unless it’s a public safety concern. Ticketing, fine, but roving packs of tow trucks really only add value to the towing companies. Having lived both in a city where it was nigh impossible to get towed and one where I was towed out of my own spot I could notice no difference in parking availability.
UN warns about worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen’s Hudaydah
I work with quite a few Millenials. I quiz them on history often. Few to none can tell me anything about China's human rights record or Russia's under Stalin. They have never heard of Pol Pot. Not a single clue.
That doesn't imply that we don't know what we do know, however.

It doesn't seem likely that everything we've observed, discovered and experimentally verified about the universe since the beginning of recorded history is simply wrong, or that our level of ignorance about the nature of reality remains constant regardless of the data amassed.
You trusting a lot of _well regulated_ industries and government run services is one matter. Blithely grouping them all together at all, let alone comparing them with software, is another thing altogether.

Setting aside the comparison you're trying to make, there are a lot of choices you can make. You can choose to rely on a web app hosted by a third party to secure all of your data and provide you with a consistent service. I think time and time again this is proven to be the most foolish choice, at least if you truly believe the service will continue to be provided. You can also choose to rely on third party services implementing common standards (i.e. POP and IMAP) and allow interchangeable third parties to provide services while your day to day interactions with your computer are managed by software that you run yourself. That software doesn't have to be open source or free. When you have purchased a license tied to a physical installation medium you are still in a better position to control how you choose to use your computer compared to being completely dependent on whatever trustusoksoftware.com is serving up today. Free software is best of all, but isn't the only alternative to web applications.

Anyways, I will come back around and address you on your own terms after all. You can draw parallels between open standards and the regulations governing all the services you claim are nothing more than time savers. You can also draw parallels between the civic duty to vote and take an active interest in the health of your society to the need to push for open standards and free software that respects user rights. Well functioning societies didn't pop up like mushrooms after rain overnight, and they don't continue to work without constant maintenance (not mere delegation of trust to third parties). Software needs to be treated as seriously as everything else you rely on. Personally you can save your time and ignore these issues entirely, but you can't just off hand compare anyone concerned with the current state of software freedom to being a model train builder and laugh it off as a waste of time.
anyone tried Traefik?

https://github.com/containous/traefik

Thinking of using it for a new home based reverse proxy solution over HAProxy
I found it incredibly difficult to find part-time (20-30 hours per week) work. It was even more difficult to find it remotely.
Didn't Portland (OR) come up with a reasonable compromise to regulate "food trucks" somewhat less rigorously than "restaurants" and then leaving it up to a (hopefully informed) consumer to choose?

I'm perfectly happy to take my personal food safety responsibility myself when visiting, say, Thailand - some of their street food is _amazing_, and I'm sure some of it is not very safe. I've never "rolled the dice" wrong there, using just a small modicum of common sense and trustworthy local advice... (I'd eat pretty much anything deep fried, pretty much nothing raw, and lean on locals for advice on choices in between...)
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Hi everyone,

I recently created something called Bitcharge, an easy way for freelancers, businesses and just regular people to accept crypto payments in multiple cryptocurrencies. All you have to do is create your profile, get a link and share it with the world. As an example you can take a look at my profile. (https://bitcharge.co/yogesh)

The idea came from a personal frustration I had while I was working as freelancer in the crypto space. It was getting difficult to manage all the addresses I had to send for client payments and making sure there aren't any typos and also verify if the addresses are active.

At the cusp of it, it's nothing more than a url that you can use to share your crypto addresses with the world with a single link.

I would love to hear your thoughts, and I am more than happy to answers any questions you have about the product or anything else.
Do you say that in every Show HN or just this one?

No, GDPR doesn't require that.
Put that flex & bison book away. Don't think about compilers. Design your own litte interpreted language. Write a lexer by hand (not that hard). Write a recursive descent parser by hand. It's a bit tricky to get infix operator parsing stuff right, but an important learning experience. Once you got the basic parsing algorithm right you can probably add lot's of fun stuff to your language just with general programming skills. When you feel ready to move on. Read the flex & bison book, and explore more advanced topics knowing you don't need to write lexers and parsers by hand again.
To Live by Yu Hua. It was one of the most traumatic books I've ever read. A simple stoic "tale of an ordinary man enduring hardships--both of his own and others' doing."

I always felt my life was messed up and unfair because it seemed I managed to experience almost every suffering possible. This book opened up my eyes to how much someone could actually suffer and how it doesn't matter in the end in the long run.
S3 with a static blog generator seems sufficient at this point and will likely cost pennies per month.
No! Don't agree! These people are trying to run your life.
That's why I think these blogs/projects are useful. Or should people learn all this stuff first time they run a real app in production?
Fair, I hadn't considered that. I guess I'm just happy the conversation is being had.

That said to solve your specific problem, I'd say this is meant to be a punitive measure and therefore it doesn't need to be a 1:1 dollar-for-dollar cost recovery program. Take the 80th percentile burden on the government from underpayment, assign a 50% surcharge as penalty, then apply it for each employee paid less than a living wage, period. Now the mother costs just as much as everyone else, and it's a lot - so now it's in their interest to simply pay a living wage as it would be less expensive than paying the penalties. These problems have solutions, let's focus on finding them instead of pointing out problems and throwing our hands up.

Or better yet don't tie it to the cost. Fine them. Or like. Set a living minimum wage.
I think we need to distinguish between assistive technologies, ADAS, self driving, autonomous, and driverless. They don't mean the same thing but are all interchanged.

For your professor, yes assistive technology like lane keeping assist and collision avoidance will save lives, but are no reason to go driverless.
Pan Am signed people up for moon flights in 1968.†

We'll see if SpaceX lasts longer than PanAm did.

† https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/were-you-member...
Texas has zoning laws, especially north Texas. As a culture, Texans tend to want to distance themselves from each other as they age even at the cost of large commutes. Combine that with a willingness to rezone, large numbers of capitalistic home builders, and few natural barriers to prevent sprawl and that's why the bust/boom isn't as significant. It is a non-stop suburb-building expanse which does respond to demand quite naturally (i.e. a current, ongoing, immense population surge).

Of course, each metro handles details different. For example, in Houston you'll find more multifamily dwellings amongst single family ones than in the Metroplex as well as a larger mix of incomes in proximity to each other.

I'll come up with a term for building in an environment with lots of land: FISEBY - fine, in someone else's backyard.
And they also serve the best poutine I've had outside of Canada!
Problem with IaaS clouds is that it is strictly less reliable than having your own infrastructure.

With IaaS typical reliability issue is that whole location/datacenter/AZ goes down, with your own infrastructure the typical issue is that the colo-facility/datacenter goes down, which would be essentially identical save the fact that with IaaS there is significantly larger probability that the reason for going down is some byzantine failure of orchestration automation, which in the self-hosted case either isn't there or is under your control.

One fact of running your own infrastructure is that you should plan for hardware failures, but not stress about it too much, because even entry-level enterprise-grade hardware just does not break (and if it does you will get signs that it is going to break well in advance).
>A lot of people think that mass transit is for the poor, and the car represents independence and freedom. Go where you want, when you want (but you're gonna be bumper-to-bumper most of the way there.)

What the hell is going on in Austin?

Bumper-to-bumper traffic happens mostly at commute hours in commercial zones and during special events. It's very much not the norm for driving at other times. To wit, I live in San Francisco, one of the densest and least car-friendly cities in the U.S., but the last time I returned from a road trip, I traversed the whole city corner-to-corner -- from crossing the Bay Bridge to arriving at my home near the zoo -- in less than fifteen minutes. Why? Because it was midnight! Cars provide unparalleled mobility for irregular trips outside of peak commuting times, even in the largest cities.

I wholeheartedly support deprioritizing car infrastructure and working towards a norm where most people do not drive to work, but I nonetheless believe that car ownership provides a lot of independence and ought to be accessible to the modal citizen, at least outside of the very dense coastal cities (SF/LA/NY). Cars work really well for irregular trips outside of rush hour. They work terribly when large amounts of people need to go to the same place at once.
I interned at Volvo and it was a very positive experience. Sweden has a very different work culture. And I learned a lot.
>if an experiment is part of popular culture then it's part of us too.

Sure, but so what? The point is that certain psychological experiments can, just by being known to the participants, have their results change, and this means in some sense there are fundamental problems with the replicatability of those experiments.
I ain't no astrologist either, but there's also an assumption other beings would have similar biology to us, it seems.

To the side now with assumption they might communicate chemically only between themselves... WHAT IF their clock rate is way slower than ours? Like snails, or plants. Their bitrate of communication would be undetectable to us, if they're way slower. I suspect it would be detectable if their rate is higher though.
That was the minus side.

On the plus side, you guys are inspired and working towards your vision which is awesome!
Why is Julia growing so fast and where is it going next?
LOL no fuck off. There is literally no organization I would less trust to authenticate me than either of those two, unless Comcast decided they wanted to get in on the act.
Generally you take out a loan at X% if you have some opportunity that will pay back >X%.

Also, loans can help with liquidity. I'd rather have $1,000,000 cash and $999,999 in debt than $1 to my name. You can work with a million dollars in ways you can't with $1, even if your net worth is the same.
That is a lie. If the system is so resilient then why did the governments had to intervene in 2008?

The financial system is quick to ask for less regulation/less red tape but when comes the time to own their mistakes, they are really happy to get some of that taxpayer money from the government!

We are living today in the biggest bubble of all times.
It is the everything bubble. The stock market is hyperinflated with valuations that are completely disconnected from the real economies of the world.

Most of the major economies are so indebted that to even think they would ever repay their debts is just a pipe dream.

Most emerging economies have been having huge political and economic issues in the last few years as well.

Housing bubbles are popping up all over the globe. Major resources are dwindling and our ecosystem is starting to crumble while we are day by day emitting more and more carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

Finally using bitcoin as an example of a great investment is more than dubious. Bitcoin was a gamble in 2009 and is still a gamble today.
It is a relic that you want nothing to do with.

You own one because your company or agency bought one in 1970, and it is cheaper to run it than to redo everything. You may need one for certain new workloads if you’re a defense contractor.

As an employee, you’re a pure operational cost center. You have skills that few employers care about, and vendors/contractors are churning out cheap replacements for you.
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Even people who get degrees with good employment rates go into a ton of debt (by non-American standards) for them unless they have a scholarship.