skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HHVM will stick around simply because Facebook has the resources to maintain it by themselves for only themselves indefinitely if they need to. Agree about the "vibrant communities" part though.
revisiting the thought, it may not have to deal with skillset as much as opportunity availability. There are more opportunities for American citizens that are equivalent to a PhD, whereas that may not be the case for non-Americans.
“We are trying to be the Netflix of sports in India”: CEO Interview
That's a good point, and an argument for why the iPhone X should've had the same screen size as the iPhone 8, just with smaller bezels.

Besides, the slightly bigger body of the X (ignoring screen size) makes it slightly less comfortable to hold in my hand.
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> And eventually, someone will need to convince a court

I think this is exactly what they want. They don't want to automatically tax every teenage kid making memes. They just want to create a legal minefield so whenever they decide a link is not ok they will have a law that backs them up.

In a way it's good because most fair use most likely will fly under the radar just as it does today, but on the other hand it's also scary that you never really know when you are passing the threshold and might face an army of lawyers.

It's very much like patent trolls. They strike like lightning on a sunny day if you happen to build a mildly successful product that can be remotely associated with their patent.
By the same logic, Google cannot charge much for targeting ads at those same people. So I am not sure what your point is.
You may well need to spot a deadlock or a race condition in code.

The thing is - if your production system really ends up going haywire and losing $10 million every second or whatever, then then the root cause isn't some race condition. It's the whole human and organizational process (or lack thereof) that allowed that defect to slip in undetected (and in a position to cause so much damage without proper safeguards) in the first place.
Indonesian POS startup Moka nets $24m from Sequoia, Softbank, and others
I was working on the code for mobile nodes, 3G and 4G. C++ with RSARTE (IBM plugin for Eclipse for Real-Time Applications) [1]. I left but my friends started working on 5G where looks like they want to get rid of RSARTE and use clean C++. At some point of time some people in Sweden started looking into rewriting it in Erlang but after around 1 year it was dropped, don't remember why.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang...
Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering
A better read than what is found at github can be found here.

https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
Its logistically impossible because they wont be able to rig the outcome as easily if there was a paper trail.
At least reviews don’t mine bitcoin on my box, come with malware, chug my processor, and track me across the web. Ads stink, but it’s the fact that ads have become synonymous with info brokering, spying, and all of the rest that makes me ready to dance on the industry’s grave. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago I’d have cared about what Brave had to say, now I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix and I evangelize it to everyone I know offline. I won’t be going back because of a long delayed come-to-Jesus moment had out of desperation.

Besides, a lot of ad supported sites are hideous, and the sooner they can’t support themselves and stop cluttering the net, the better. HN will still be here, most of the sites with articles submitted here will be too. The best content out there is free, crowdfunded, or paywalled, while the worst of clickbait is ad supported. Besides, it’s so much more relaxing to avoid ads, I don’t have to waste thinking about how they’re trying to manipulate me into buying tat, make me feel inadequate unless I buy their products, etc. When you stop seeing ads online, on tv, and then you watch some cable or unfiltered internet... it’s horrible. Marketing is a grim, tiring, assault on the senses aimed at the absolute lowest common denominator, and I’m glad to be rid of it and hopefully eventually, the businesses which make it.

This industry that abused everyone it could until a technical means to fight back was developed, doesn’t deserve any more chances. This whole, “oh we’re the good parasites, we’ve figured out that it’s bad to kill the host, we just want a slice out of you,” shtick deserves to go over like a lead balloon.
It's their current terminology for their widely-available, public early-access programs for all sorts of products. They are not completely unqualified builds like a a nightly build would be. That would break all the things.
> Bitcoin Layer 1 (on chain) ~= .09 euro

That's the same OOM as what one might expect from a traditional payment card processor (although I don't think it's ever a flat fee, but that's less relevant in the context of transactions that would otherwise be in cash, presumably low-value ones).

> Source: https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1029425619350642688

I'm not sure if that's someone who's a well-known follower of Bitcoin costs or just a random person who tweeted. I'm willing to take your word for it, however, without a source.

> There are no "middlemen" required to transfer bitcoin via layer 2.

If that's the case, why is the transaction cost greater than zero?

I'm not the least bit familiar with "layer 2". If it's well-understood enough that it's just as trustworthy as the underlying currency, then it would make sense to use it. But, then, why would anyone ever use "layer 1" in the first place?

> "Middlemen" required to transfer bitcoin via layer 1 are miners and a peer (could be the miner) to relay a block to you.

Yes, the miners were the middlemen I was considering. Since they have to be paid, blockchains will never have free (gratis) transactions.
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I was surprised at just how comically angry people were over this. I can kind of understand their arguments against a trend of being too change-happy and over-correcting, but these things really should be considered case-by-case, not on whether it's part of a trend. It's an opportunity to use more descriptive terms, with being less insensitive as a bonus, and neither of these warrants the level of hate that's been coming out.

Really, "master" and "slave" are pretty overused in tech for situations where it only kind of makes sense if you squint. There are a couple of examples of this. For databases, "master" and "slave" doesn't accurately describe the relationship, its more like "original" and "copy". For git, "master" as a name doesn't really make sense either since it implies it's master of something, when "main" or "primary" is closer to the truth.

I also remember seeing "dom" and "sub" being suggested somewhere, and even if it was a joke I'm all for it.
I believe that patch referenced in the article for "global task scheduling" that allows you to use both the big and little cores at once is now in the mainline kernel. But I don't recall where I read this so apply a few grains of salt to my comment.
This. So much this.

Specifically when reading fiction for pleasure, an audiobook can provide too much "color" not indented by the author. This, alone, makes it hard to recommend an audiobook as a solo source. However, having that second voice can force you to rethink your readings of specific situations. It can challenge you to really dig in when your understanding does line up with the reader's tone.

The first example that comes to mind is the English translation of "100 Years of Solitude" on Audible. All the voices have a comedian's intonation, especially Melquíades, who is supposed to be an Armenian gypsy, but instead comes across like a poor man's Count Dracula. That said, the temporal complexity of the novel is really clarified with a second voice, regardless how over the top it is.
Didn't catholics in britain have a hard time og it for some period? Didn't that contribute to internal instability? Or am i misrecalling history lessons?
Not disagreeing with you, but as a developer, I'm happy that we can now do UX design for 4.7-inch phones, and prevent installation of our app on smaller phones.

You do that in an indirect manner, by requiring NFC, thus eliminating 4-inch phones, which don't have NFC: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De... (Cmd-F nfc). If Apple had updated the iPhone SE with NFC, this trick wouldn't work any more, and I'd be forced to do UX design for 4-inch phones.

Till I find product-market fit, I don't want to be distracted by overhead like this.
I don't think Silverlight had a mass amount of public use (Flash and Applets were still available at the time - so there was no pressing need).

But MS really did earn a lot of bad will from their dev community who had been pushed to learn yet another framework which ended up dead.

I rarely even use my PC anymore. I basically then it on once a month to download the gigs of updates. It's interesting that Silverlight still listed at the top of optional updates.

There must be a few businesses and schools who bought into the hype and built their internal app on SL.
>So there's no cost to open sourcing

Not true, there's a legal cost associated with making sure something is really ready for public eyes.
Wow so her ICE quote would've been 100% correct if not for the word "required" (evidenced by what Politifact ends up admitting in the body of the article).

Is there a rating worse than "Pants On Fire" we could brand this liar with?

(I don't know about sexist but the media sure is dumb and pedantic as shit.)
> She was criticized for being female

I've read a lot of critique of O-C but never "for being female". Could you quote some critique like that so that it would be clear what do you mean? I honestly absolutely can't even imagine how such thing would look like: "We know O-C is female and thus unfit to hold an elective office..." or what? Name the most hostile press outlet to O-C outside wacko forums and 4chan and it would never dare to print something like that. Sure, there are sexists here and there, but openly and publicly criticizing a major political figure "for being female"? It's just rhetorical suicide. You must mean something else, but what?
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It’s coming.

There is no future for prohibition of cannabis.
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Very good point. I studied a lot of Philosophy in college, and the postmodernist movement drove me nuts, but Foucault had a very good point in his paper on mental illness, that mental illness is socially constructed. The way I'd formulate the definition of a disease is that it's an atypicality that has a significant negative impact. What's a negative impact though? That's a value judgment, and most everyone has a value system that agrees in cases like cancer, but not on homosexuality. It's even situationally dependent. There is evidence that soldiers that measure higher on measures of psychopathy are more effective in conventional combat because they do not hesitate to kill.
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Static random-access memory
Good point. Not a lot of people remembered that Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer in 1996 for millions. There's a pretty good old book about it "High St@kes, No Prisoners"
What happened with your friend's wife? Did she come over?
Agree! I used Mailbox initially. Since gmail got snoozing in the new design all I’m missing in gmail is snoozing reminders.
I'd love a little spreadsheet widget for Jupyter that was only for data entry (i.e., a formula-less spreadsheet) and produced a Pandas dataframe.
I use Gentoo.
By last year my 6Plus got really slow and sluggish with the release of iOS11 to the point it was barely usable for me. Switching between apps took ages and somestimes i waited seconds for the Keyboard top pop up. Hopefully iOS12 will be better for old devices. In the end I got a good deal on a used 7Plus and am happy with that.
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I have not found much opportunity on PredictIt to exploit that sort of thing. Seems like most people there attempt to make rational investments.
Yes. They think they can figure out what we should see (and how we should vote, obviously) and their mission, as good people, is helping us to get there. Kicking and screaming, if needed, it's all for our own good at the end. Yes, it is concerning. That's why there should be many search engines, and that's why everybody should support projects like DuckDuckGo. Having one corporation - with however noblest intentions they see themselves - solely controlling information input of billions is not healthy, no matter what your politics is.
There is an English translation at the middle of the change.org page.
Indo-European languages came from a common root about 15,000 years ago (2013)
One does not "just" learn Chinese. Becoming proficient enough to read scientific papers takes many years, for any language, but for Chinese in particular.
Will those intructors teach from both sides of the political spectrum and give both major philosophies similar time?
The IRS doesn't know your net worth. They know your income and deductions, mostly.
Ultimately, the voters decide. How long do you think a prosecutor who doesn’t try murder cases would last?
In today’s homes, consumers are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience
that's the thing, after i switched to inbox from gmail i never had to touch that feature. sometimes i'd bump against my old labels/containers in gmail and wonder how i used to live like that. honestly this is depressing
The classic in the valley is https://www.recurrent.com/
They're on a six week release schedule. Some of them being underwhelming is expected. That's not a counterpoint, even though you're phrasing it like one.
VISA Electron (and I believe Maestro, the MasterCard equivalent) cards only support "online" transactions, so they're able to reject transactions without a PIN, without enough money in the account, etc. They don't even have embossed numbers so you can't run them in one of those old carbon copy machines.

This is why they are issued to people who are underage or a credit risk since they can't run an offline transaction without coverage in the account.
It's not quite the same thing, since CPU clock speeds do in fact have a well-defined meaning.
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There isn't really one particular source. Just kind of been something happening about and written about in numerous forms over the last few years
Haskell uses /= too
I dont know how easy is it to transfer games to another account - but if possible you could do that then initiate the chargeback
I found that interesting as well. He seemed to be the most informed and data driven. "Data shows that no, we are not as divided, but that these voters are bored and have routine jobs..."

First result I found was this article:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/health/boredom-extreme-politi...

Which references a few studies:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2205

Though can only see the abstract. It shows that boredom leads to extremism both left and right wing as extremism provides meaning. I can see that to some extent. Article is the just the abstract, need a login and possibly to pay money to read the full text.

Another one:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/07/13/consevatismas...
The moment the article mentioned "Fat jar" I knew that'd be the problem.

I don't recommend using any type of fat jar plugin (like OneJar) or even Google Guice for that matter. Custom class loaders are a nightmare.

Thanks to Docker containers, you should never really need a far jar again. Just find a decent Docker packager for your build system (sbt, gradle, etc.) and it can plop all your dependencies in there in a nice, isolated container that uses the standard class loader.
vos Savant's article on this that lists highlights from the letters:

http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/
Why should Google be able to profit off of others content without compensating them? Compulsory licenses are standard in the music industry, and in theory the same could work well for journalism. But the devil is in the details.
Duly noted the desire of Hack to have more "typing". It seems that as soon as projects growth beyond a certain size, everybody starts wanting to add that.

I wonder what would be the optimal lifecycle for long projects. Obviously, "start with dynamic language X until you reach 10^n lines of code, then fork X and add types to it" doesn't work for smaller companies :-(
yeah but every service you sign up for now has newsletters/mailing lists and constantly sends you semi relevant spam with the occasional gem that you can't instantly consign to the rubbish bin. inbox was so simple for dealing with things like that
Back when I was studying physics, in the university library of the exact science campus I found a couple of shelves full of identical thick volumes in the physics section. Curious what they were I took one out and I forgot the exact name but I think it was Chinese Physics B / Acta Physica Sinica (overseas edition), which is basically the english translation of a selection of the local Acta Physica Sinica. Browsing the articles and actually reading the ones that seemed interesting, I can confirm these were of high quality. Apparently they cover all branches of physics, including fundamental particles but notably excluding nuclear physics. Before that moment I had a very Western-centric view of exact sciences, but quickly realized that this is merely an illusion: whenever we search and find articles we search in our own language, and since then I have encountered countless references of theorems and discoveries and observations which were also discovered abroad, but due to different communication language the concepts have typically different scientist/mathematician names attached to them. What you describe is partially true but partially it was always the case or at least for quite a long time now. Not just science in chinese, but also of course in russian, probably the dominant language in india too etc...
And quite a few of the CEOs who have presided over some of the biggest business disasters have MBAs.
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Breitbart is hardly unique in being
accused of being a tool for manipulating voters for the business-owning elite. In any case, it's just a conspiracy theory. You have no reason to believe the people at Breitbart don't sincerely believe in the issues they report on.
so now i have to pay for features that were previously bundled as part of the product...why exactly would i do that for a free email service?
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In the beginning the article talks about contestants being things such as "python + numba, Python + C" and later it says:

> "Types & Functions From Different Packages
It's mandatory to use an existing package without changing it. This can also be emulated by putting it in an isolated module not using any constructs defined in our implementation."

I don't know if the article has been revised, but this I read the rules about libraries completely opposite from you.
How can they not anticipate de-listing of EU content from news and academic article aggregators as an outcome of these new policies? (Resulting in even greater outsized impact on one possible front page that consumers can choose to consume)

For countries in the EU with less than 300 million voters, if you want:

- time for your headline: $

- time for your snippet: $$

- time for your og:description: $$

- free video hosting: $$$

- video revenue: $$$$

- < 30% American content: $$$$$

Pay your bill.

And what of academic article aggregators? Can they still index schema:ScholarlyArticle titles and provide a value-added information service for science?
Oh I know, I’m the person that chose a helio ocean over the original iPhone because it came with Yahoo instant messenger out of the box and had a physical keyboard. Maybe there’s something more there - it’s it just doesn’t make me want to run off and get a thing.
I'll see that study and raise you the UVic cohort study that found the opposite[0], among others if you're willing to look. The "growing body of evidence" is all about correlations in interview studies.

[0]http://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/carbc/assets/docs/report...
A similar strategy on a smaller scale could be gradual typing, for example Typescript. For me personally, clojure + spec seems very inviting.
I have meet people that believe Obama knew how to do it.
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The no-throwaway rule is probably to prevent people from making a new account for every comment.

I am not at that level of paranoia yet, but I do rotate my accounts once a year to avoid accumulating too much information under one username. This is usually enough to prevent stylometric analysis. So I just need to worry about people with access to HN database/logs/moderation tools, assuming HN itself never gets compromised.

I guess I just want some reassurance that the tracking is being done responsibly and is considered privileged information only used as needed to keep the site working (moderating is pretty fair) and nothing else. Bonus points if the session logs aren't kept forever (something something GDPR compliance?).
> A drug company might have a lobbying arm that has to care about policy (and that, for pragmatic purposes, talks to all sides!), but a researcher looking at chromosomal recombination isn't going to do a better job of examining the damn chromosomes after being subject to political screeds.

If the researcher refuses to politicize, he will be used as a tool by others who will. Play the game and win, or be used.
That sounds directly user-hostile. Imagine if HN's web server served 401s to everyone with a Mozilla user agent.
I forgot to mention this also has a strong parallel with a different phenomenon in within society: a lot of the people who think education is useless, even though they actually use many of the skills, think so because it is easy to pretend one learnt something on their own (which is kind of true) once others (teachers, authors of books etc.) have invested the time and effort to explain the subject. It's easy to pretend or believe you have no one to thank for such a simple thing as being able to read and write!
i personally started to find dynamically/optionally typed languages troublesome to read -- i have to do type deduction in my head, which just feel burdensome.

as simple and easy as python feels without static typing, a handful of files of python is my tolerance level before i start to hate it
So nice to run Linux and not care.
You can't really draw parallels with the virtual and real world. Starting at someone's Facebook profile pic is not the same as standing next to the person and doing the same.
I will try to find the actual study link.

Percentages hides values:

"However, because US income inequalities have increased substantially, the consequences of the "birth lottery" - the parents to whom a child is born - are larger today than in the past. US wealth is increasingly concentrated in the top 10% of American families, so children of the remaining 90% are more likely to be born at lower starting incomes today than the same children in the past. Even if they are equally mobile and climb the same distance up the US socioeconomic ladder as children born 25 years earlier, the bottom 90% of the ladder is worth less now, so they gain less income value from their climb ... especially when compared to the top 10%."

And, those who fall from the top quintile are likely starting at the 80% point and not the 95% point.
I'm okay with directing "why would you want to do that?" at people that want to deliver binary drivers to their customers, since that makes them a lot harder to fix later.

But unless it's a gnome dev speaking, I don't think it's something commonly aimed at users.