skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct. Salaries are actually liabilities for companies. Profits are used to pay dividends to shareholders, not to pay the salaries.
What is a "sexy" company exactly?
Probably because we have seen how bullshit it is that we've "made it" while people who have worked a hell of a lot harder and deserve it so much more than us still stuggle to make it. Also, it's pretty hard to become an activist if you are struggling, so it absolutely makes sense that it would be the upper-middle class who take up the fight.
"all the kids getting their rightful inheritance from all their respective parents, not only my kids."

Some kids dont get an inheritance. Some get a huge one. None of it is "rightful"... Its not deserved. Its not based on need or on merit. Its based on who your parents are. There are few things less democratic.

"That said, I don't think there is anything wrong with providing for your kids and not others."

In the context of widening inequality, your sentence should read "at the expense of others". Im not opposed to inheritance per say but it should be highly taxed.
There are symptoms. It's only a nice, calm death if you're sleeping - so you'd want to do the usual suicide technique of sleeping pills + carbon monoxide.
Μάχη κορυφής ανάμεσα σε Φιλανδία και Ελλάδα
How the Pixel 3 Camera Pushes the Boundaries of Computational Photography
I don't understand the uncommented downvotes here. OP is provocant to make his point which is a valid one.

It IS pretty obvious that the raw, uncontrolled market is not increasing the quality of life for a majority of the population and arguably your luck (your family bought some hectars of land in SV in the 80s? Or even simpler: you were able to go to a good college?) is way more important for your economic situation than your own hard work. This is not healthy for society in the long term and if you are not closing your eyes you see more than enough alarming signs for wrong developments.
Better to share some wealth with everyone than being constrained to gated communities and let everyone else fight for meager rest in my opinion.
> The reason why projects like this aren't so popular and aren't subsidized is not because they aren't effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.

This. I've been hearing for 30 years how important trees are, and that we should plant way more of them. It is just not happening in any significant way. Politician's talk.

Makes me feel old and tired, when I keep reading this same conclusion over and over, and "We should take action now", but nothing much happens on the action side.
Nitrogen gas appears to be what states* are looking into [1] [2].

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

[2] http://time.com/3749879/nitrogen-gas-execution-oklahoma-leth...

*Edit: Changed "statesn" to "states".
Snaps seem to work well where they work, but it's limited by their systemd dependency. So they're most useful on an LTS Ubuntu or Debian stable in order to get more up-to-date version (or missing) of a package. But if you're in a more esoteric environment with a different init, Snaps do you no good - which is a pity, because that's where they would actually be the most useful to me.

Flatpak and AppImage aren't limited in this fashion, but have few packaged apps, and they're generally all the apps I already have access to.

In practice, I've found Guix, Nix, and Docker to be most useful solutions to missing/outdated apps, though these are more complicated than Snap, Flatpak, or AppImage.
I like Spotify fine, and it's social feature doesn't bother me. I just use a private session if I want to hide what I'm currently listening to, but that's rare.

If 99% of people are OK with how it works, Spotify isn't going to change if they don't want to. And this is small compared to Google storing browsing, map, and search history, using it for ads, and nagging you if you opt out of it, or Apple and Google blocking things from their mobile platforms without a fair and consistent appeals process.
It's not just principles that causes the issue for pharma companies (although the principles are, I think, real and truly held by the senior executives of those companies) - the EU has also banned export of any drugs for use in executions which makes it legally problematic for them too.
>Makes me think of spatial audio, echolocation, our sense of balance, all these forms of intelligence that rely on understanding space.

These are all brainstem functions. No cortex required!

Binaural hearing is basically sorted out by the time you hit thalamus, and most of the heavy lifting is done in the inferior colliculus, medial superior olive and dorsal cochlear nucleus.
I was expecting something like applying for the green card lottery and winning. Which is roughly 6 months from the deadline till the winners are announced.
Regardless of one's view on the death penalty, I've always found allowing people to view an execution to be incredibly disturbing.
Use the block chain to track it ??? Profit
You don't need belief to write a theorem. You need it in order to use/apply it - the theorem doesn't tell you where your prior comes from.
Demakes are an interesting concept. For example, how little could you get away with doing for a demake of the first level of the original Crash Bandicoot? By that I mean, how little time could you get away with spending on code and graphics and still have it be recognizable by someone that had played said game in the past? How little and still have them identify it as a version of Crash rather than just being reminiscient of Crash? How little and still be visually pleasing? How little and still be enjoyable to play?
Newtypes are actually zero overhead abstractions; one prominent example of Newtype is the structs Instant and Duration from std::time: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/time/index.html
"It's a bacteria that, apparently, lives in the digestive tract of half the world's population."

Surprised by this. But Seems not to be the best of the germs. A nobel price was given due to the discovery of Helicobacter and ulcer disease:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/press-releas...
Chandra enters safe mode
So much this!! Facebook's mad they didn't makes any cash off it.
Graphene: You Don’t Get What You Pay For
We're actually putting together a Websocket spec at the moment for IRCv3. There has been a few experiments and an implementation that has been getting used more frequently has proven to be helpful here.

https://github.com/kiwiirc/webircgateway
I didn't say it was evidence, I said "Mindnfulness meditation seems to have dubious benefits", and the quoted article outlines specifically the lack of evidence around the benefits of meditation. I'm perfectly comfortable standing by this conclusion from the lack of evidence as outlined in the quoted text.
It's their windfall ... They can spend it any damn well they want.
Zero-Indexed Stock Market
This is a pretty light-weight article - doesn't go into security/isolation differences, or disk usage comparison. Here's something I came across a few days ago while I was researching the differences: https://askubuntu.com/questions/866511/what-are-the-differen...
I had h. Pylori. It can also give you stomach ulcers, which was quite painful.
Those companies have no access to the software platform and would be under immense scrutiny by Apple.
He doesn't need to move the lot to space. Just use it to move a human to space...

Either way I don't imagine his neighbors will be happy.
If that's all the information you had, you probably shouldn't be making a hiring decision anyway.
Last Week in Pony – October 14, 2018
I'm not talking about Master/VISA gift cards, I'm talking about Netflix gift cards. I'm not in the US, yet they are readily available.

According to [1], they seem to be available at least in the US, Canada, Australia, many European countries, Brazil, Malaysia and Japan. That's far from the whole world, but quite enough as a source of potential pirates.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/32950/br
There is also llvm-mca, which is kinda neat since it uses the I formation that LLVM has about the op cost. Contrasting that to IACA or OACA is valuable as well.
The whole point of death penalties is to kill someone gruesomely as a warning to everyone else. Electric chairs do that, opioids not so much.
No one ever mentions it, but the answer is simple. There are a siginficant number of people who don't want executions to be painless.
First, I’m not sure why you’re making assumptions about what I do and don’t do with my money.

Second, you’re exactly right in that people’s fortunes can turn. Which is why we should all support things like universal healthcare and higher minimum wages. No one should feel like if things go badly for them they could literally no longer afford to live.
As far as entitlements go, I don’t think there are any others that Apple has given out. Private API, though, has been approved by Apple for use in certain apps.
But the general thesis that people are making so much money from their crimes that they don't fear criminal penalties seems to hold. like the 2.x billion in profits lost from the 1.9 billion fine?
Cruel methods are used because the intent is to terminally punish, not to merely kill.
It always struck me as odd that for lethal injection, the medical staff sterilized the needle site before hooking up the line.
What's to say a particularly notorious criminal doesn't get the firing squad aiming a bit too far to the left (victim's right) to miss the heart and deliberately inflict additional suffering? I know there's more than one of them but still...
It has nothing to do with being humane and everything to do with appearing humane and, even more importantly, avoiding association with otherwise extremely similar killing. Shooting prisoners in the head would be humane, but it would invite comparison to terrorists, revolutionaries, and other unsavories. However warranted the comparisons are, dressing up executions in medical nonsense avoids them, so our government does it.
I feel the same way, but I guess allowing people to view the execution is a way to show the public that the person is in fact executed and the state didn't just say that the person was executed.
Speaking as someone who is 50, I would say you have 2 choices: take your risks early so you have time to recover from them before you retire, or take a very low risk approach to your early career and save a lot of money so that you can afford to take risks later in your career.
His criticisms come off as seriously naive and green if he was expecting to upend the design practice of a behemoth tech company with many competing business units and products, each with their own leaders, legacy code dependencies, and teams of designers who would poke holes in his design decisions from a UX perspective (e.g. didn't test designs with users, just made it up) and see him as a 'graphic designer' who is a glorified pixel pusher and lacks a fundamental understanding of the field of HCI and user centered design.

This is clearly evident from when he mentioned his outrage that he:

"Never would’ve imagined that I was joining a team of 50+ designers where a bunch of them had never designed before.

And I was “evaluated” at about their level? These weren’t interns, these were designers in their very first roles ever...at Google."

From any UX design professional's perspective, he comes into their world, lacking any background in UX or basic understanding of user centered design methods, and just does the visual design portion of the work, not the actual hard work that goes into understanding human behavior, being curious and testing hypotheses and validating designs with quantitative and qualitative data via UX research methods.

Dude needs to check his ego in my opinion, design is a team sport and anyone can mock up random dribbble worthy interfaces in an afternoon and think they deserve the title of designer then diss others who have a 4 year degree in fields related to understanding human behavior, not just art or graphic design (although art degrees are good if you solely focus on visual design due to color theory, typography, understanding design aesthetics, design critiquing etc.)

tl;dr

UI designer ≠ UX designer
But the law doesn't work that way, what's technically illegal is illegal. Prostitution and illegal drug use are two things in that camp.
They used them to research, develop and build every piece of technology you used to post this snarky comment ... ??
Nitrogen would be a lot safer for everyone else around. You can release lots of N2 in a reasonably ventilated room without harm but that's not the case with CO.
This dynamic could change if previously arid land can be put to agricultural or residential use. But that requires a lot of initial investment. The first step I think is to convince people that the problem can be fixed - and be profitable at the same time.
Heh, property keyword was my favorite in Delphi/C# and I really missed it in C++. So Zig is not for me.
I don’t get it... how is this a religion? Doesn’t a religion set out rules for living and have weekly services and stuff?

Also isn’t a theory a hypothesis that has already been tested and supported with evidence?
That's not how it actually works in practice. this is the feel good video representing the most positive version of this type of transaction. ring police portal is not only deployed in America but also in the Middle East. Not everyone who signed up for a cool doorbell gadget, paying for the service to store your videos, expected it would be used for mass surveillance.

This is how China operates. The police merely 'request' footage before an owner hands it over right?

Either way this shouldn't be deployed with our law enforcement because it's fundamentally not a secure application. It's not encrypted, there are no controls in place for need to know for access to make these civilian requests and can be hacked by an 11 year old. Police didn't buy this product or ask for it on the market....Ring just gave it to them...from the ukraine.

thats weird.
Yet 'getting the needle' is also used as a threat.
Citation needed. From what I understand, 1) that theory is incorrect and the death penalty is not seen as a deterrent by potential future criminals (rather it may be the opposite) [citation coming]; and 2) Policymakers who say it is a deterrent are either lying or disinformed.

My understanding of the death penalty is that it is intended as violent punishment and is done gruesomely for the purposes of revenge. Read any thread online about a bad crime and you will see mobs of people calling for violent, public murders of the accused. It's human nature for a lot of people and something I think a civilized nation would immediately outlaw, especially ones that pride themselves on not doing "cruel and unusual punishment". I remember reading that the death penalty in the US doesn't fall under that category merely because of the 'and' clause and the relatively common nature of gruesome murders by the State in the US.

[citations]. It seems that states without the death penalty have lower murder rates, suggesting the opposite forces are true compared to your post (edit: i.e, it might even mean that a place with state-sanctioned/performed murder is more likely to have murders).

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-death...
New Microscope Reveals Mouse Embryos Growing in Real Time, Cell by Cell
I don't think Nim has one in the standard library, but people have built variations on it. Here's a couple:

* https://github.com/bluenote10/nim-stringinterpolation/blob/m... This one does string interpolation and a printf-like syntax with compile time type checking. It does call out to C but only after it's already parsed and validated and transformed the format string.

* https://github.com/kaushalmodi/strfmt/blob/master/strfmt.nim This one implements a more complex string formatting syntax with lots of convenience functions. It's more complex but provides a lot more functionality than the previous one without relying on FFI.

I'm not a Nim programmer but I imagine those two demonstrate how Nim metaprogramming works even if neither exactly duplicates the behavior of printf.
Thanks for sharing this info. I've heard it discussed on HN before too that getting an EB-1 visa isn't what it sounds like in theory (i.e. you don't need to be a Nobel prize winner or something).

BTW great work on velocity. I've heard of it before too. Super useful library. Definitely a win win for you and the open source community.
No, I don't think so.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fuchsia/comments/7pywqu/how_unixlik...

https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/google-fuchsia-zircon-ear...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/concepts...
H. pylori was first discovered in the stomachs of patients with gastritis and ulcers in 1982 by Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Perth, Western Australia. At the time, the conventional thinking was that no bacterium could live in the acid environment of the human stomach. In recognition of their discovery, Marshall and Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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

To test this controversial idea, Marshall self-administered the bacterium and developed an ulcer:

Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and prohibited from experimenting on people, Marshall grew desperate. Finally he ran an experiment on the only human patient he could ethically recruit: himself. He took some H. pylori from the gut of an ailing patient, stirred it into a broth, and drank it. As the days passed, he developed gastritis, the precursor to an ulcer: He started vomiting, his breath began to stink, and he felt sick and exhausted. Back in the lab, he biopsied his own gut, culturing H. pylori and proving unequivocally that bacteria were the underlying cause of ulcers.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/07-dr-drank-broth-gave-...
IRC was the sole pathway I used to go from writing AOL "proggies" to actual, real, meaningful code. Thankfully bash.org exists to document my transition: http://bash.org/?7717
There are three competing standards, so everyone will still use curl|bash.
Ask HN: I am scared to get old
I am 27 years old. I am scared to get old. I am scared I will never achieve anything. I started programming when I was 15 yrs old. I know I could basically write code for any idea. I want to give all of my life to an idea. I am ready to sacrifice everything if it meant I could change peoples' life for better, if I could help. I want to change the world. But I am realising more and more clearly as I get older that I will end up as another human being, out of billions that already live. I am scared of it. I am really scared of it. I am scared to not matter.
It's an interesting point. My experience with it, though, is that if the language is too simple, the complexity gets pushed off into the application. The result is "boilerplate", a lot of code that gets routinely cut&pasted into applications.

This is a frequent complaint I hear about Go: they made the language too simple in certain places. People also tend to cite Rich Hickey's distinction between "simple" and "easy".

So the question about Zig becomes one of what exactly was kept simple, and what was allowed to become complex?

I think the world would benefit from a Hyperpolyglot-style comparison here. Rosetta Code is too much of a mess; ideally, I want to see a thoughtful side by side comparison of the same program written in several languages, with commentary.
Because there's a difference between reading professionally produced news and watching contributed videos? Is there a reason you think they are the same?
> many important language features boil down to forcing users to do the right thing

this just causes the users to use another language for their projects instead
Wish I could recommend as an alternative, the (satirical, and now defunct) URL shortening service by David Rees, http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com

Who is David Rees? Glad you asked...

http://www.mnftiu.cc

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvvve8/motherboar...
Nim appears to have taken a lot of inspiration from D in general, eg UFCS.
One of the writers at ARS got it to work: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o...
Ukraine is a war zone - like Syria in 2011. there are 1.5 million refugees in Ukraine with no place to go - EU will not take them in and Russia is attacking them.

Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe - their economy was shattered after the revolution. Why is it so crippling?

Cyber attacks - low wages on the tech sector. How do you expect them to negotiate higher wages if they can't even leave the country safely?
I loved comic chat! I was talking to coworkers about chat clients the other day and the usual list came up including ICQ, IRC, AIM, etc. But I was surprised to find no one had heard of comic chat. I mentioned a few others such as PowWow and The Palace and got the the same response.

It's amazing how just a few years of age difference shapes our past experiences of the internet so much. It's all moving so fast.
sorry thought you were commenting on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215168
I've not seen it in a VM (and I am not a low level hacker) but the getting started docs outline the build process so it would assume it's doable...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/HEAD/docs/getting_...
> Isn't this a false equivalence? The Higgs boson is predicted by the Standard Model. Antigravitation of antimatter is not. How is an experiment that might have failed to detect something predicted by the Standard Model equivalent to "experimentation for novel theories"?

The comparison you're suggesting isn't the one being made; the comparison being made is that any experiment yielding net-new knowledge risks shifting the accepted expertise in a different direction, and to that end, the Higgs Discovery is representative of this fact simply because it confirmed one set of predictions and refuted others.

> What "conspiratorial" reasons? I never suggested any conspiracy was required whatsoever. Please refer to my other recent comment on this.

Let's not gaslight people in a public forum; it's poor form. You set the tone in your initial comment: "Suddenly, I wonder if they are having a harder time than other experiments, and whether there are any at CERN who actually don't want the experiment to occur." focus is drawn to the sudden change of heart ("suddenly"), the emphasis on how this experiment might be having a "harder time" than other experiments, etc.

> I don't know if you'll be receptive but I also happened to touch on this very point in the same other comment.

You touched on positive outcomes alone. Any net-new knowledge including validation of existing knowledge is fair game. The risk here is that neither validation nor invalidation of existing knowledge will take place, i.e. we'll be no further along after the time is spent.

> That's also not equivalent to what I suggest, which is that it can be deprioritized, not blocked... a notion which you and others are already admitting.

True, we're admitting as such because there are other areas where the maths already suggest there's likely to be something interesting to explore or some existing body of knowledge to strengthen from a novel angle. You also did in fact say "harder time," which is not the same as blocking; I'll give you as much.

> Is that why we do science?

The point conveyed is that there is no personal motive observed by the ALPHA-g detector team to impede the experiment. The most likely motive is simply prioritization because of... again... the likelihood of net-new knowledge.

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I hope this helps. If not, I hope other commenters are successful in bringing you around, but I now need to invest my time elsewhere. Feel free to have the last word. Or not. It's up to you :)
Carry a 20 lbs backpack for a bit. Then take two pounds out and see if you can tell.
An lets be clear. Only in theory is this true.
Stop telling people this. Just like everything good on the internet, once people find out about it, it will be gone.