skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, such a massive improvement to clarity.

Given that === is not a standard operator in OCaml, I fail to see the problem with clarity.

> Certainly nothing that justifies forking an entire alternate syntax.

You do realize that this is very much a subjective judgment, do you? Syntax does matter. You can argue that it doesn't matter enough to bother, but that's down to personal taste. Given the popularity that Reason seems to be enjoying, clearly, syntax is a sore point for enough people.

In any case, I fail to see the problem in general. Reason doesn't fragment the OCaml ecosystem, really, since it's just a different syntax for the same core language, and libraries etc remain. It's not any different than all the macro libraries for Lisps. Nobody is forcing you to use them, and you can still use a library written in Reason from OCaml, and vice versa. There's no real fragmentation.

And if Reason ever dies, all code that's written in it could just be converted to OCaml using the last version of their transpiler, and maintained as such thereafter.

So, what's the problem?
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Sorry, not enough time nor money. You have enough time to be a moderator of a new HN instance, though.
Please understand that I have no problem with genetic engineering in general, and am probably one of the few people on this thread with genetic engineering experience. I have customized a DNA sequence and had my custom version synthesized into a plasmid, which worked as designed. I am a huge proponent of genetic engineering technology when applied to extend human life and augment human capabilities.

I think that an arms race mentality is a dangerous approach to engineering ethics. I would rather that the arms race of the Cold War have been avoided if it were possible, even if it meant one or both sides being willing to lag behind when it comes to ethically dangerous technology.

Do you have a citation for the supposition that Neanderthals are not legally human? I believe that the legal personhood of Neanderthals has not yet been established, and would likely have to go the Supreme Court. If legal personhood was denied to Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis), would you say that it should be denied to mentally challenged homo sapiens sapiens as well?

I am Catholic and have no choice but to align with the Vatican. I am just trying to do the right thing no matter whether it's with the help of a national government, a religious authority, or simply individuals who want to do the right thing.

Please don't accuse me of not doing enough. I have invested 10 years of my salary into animal welfare companies and outrighted donated 2 years of my salary to other philanthropic organizations including medical and educational organizations. I'm just trying to do the best I can and there's not much more I can do.
Yes and no. You end up with a weaker api, eg you can’t perform atomic updates across shards. But you can create data atomically, perhaps build atomic counters, etc.

Giving up some flexibility in the types of atomic operations you can do for a simpler architecture is sometimes worth it.
In Estonia we had something similar but instead of letting us top up via app or card remotely, you had to stand in line at a booth and give them the money and then register your bracelet online to get the refund of any additional funds left on at the end of the process. I get what they were going for but it felt like a ton of friction to me, all to eliminate a single swipe at the payment terminal?
> Still, it's bizarre considering you can install Linux on any PC/laptop you buy.

Apple is trying to change that with their new T2-line of machines where you are effectively locked out of using the device’s storage if you try to boot a OS not blessed by Apple (like Linux).

You don’t own your new MacBook or Mac Mini.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2...
Immune system support.
Another take on the topic which has been passed around before here on HN: https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/.
Firefox Android is more important than the desktop version as that's the only way to have uBlock on mobile.
Samy Tarazi is a sergeant with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office and a REACT supervisor.

The author should have clarified that "REACT" is a local police task force and is unrelated to the React framework.
That's great imo. I strongly dislike these things being much more than "viewers" for the underlying git repo. Deleting branches and especially merging and squashing should be done with git. Double especially squashing... I hate to think of the mess that could cause when attempting it with a Web frontend.
Even in the East Village parking is scarce, especially when there is some kind of large event downtown, which is often. Under current regulations landlords are required to provide parking for tenants, which as you correctly imply, means that street parking is relatively more available. Parking is bad now, this will just make it worse. It's bad for tenants and it's bad for local businesses. The only people it's good for are real estate developers who will shave some upfront costs by not building garages in their projects. This doesn't address the housing shortage because the set of developers who say "yeah we'd like to build a 200 unit tower, but nevermind because the law says we need to dig a parking garage" is empty.

Edit: What would be cool though is a legal right for tenants to sublet their parking space if they choose not to own a car.
Thank you, I will, downloaded it already. I've not read much PKD at all, but read some of his VALIS writings after seeing A Scanner Darkly and Radio Free Albemuth, which both seem about 80-90% autobiographical. Radio Free Albemuth strongly reminded me of the amazing movie Equus (1977), also (you could say) about the founder of a religion.
In my (limited) experience, you go to their website, enter your bank account details and some days/weeks after the festival when they've processed everything they send it via Swift to your bank (if in EU, haven't tried for a foreign account)
Questionable in terms of numbers right now. At the end of 2017 Facebook still only had about 25,000 global employees. Amazon is talking about 25,000 employees just in each of these HQ2 locations. Assuming Facebook gradually becomes obese like all large tech companies do, I'd expect them to begin rapidly bloating up in the coming years (they appear to be on the way now, given the acceleration of adding all manner of staff even while their sales growth plunges).
An N-gram Comparison of the Late War and the Book of Mormon
While I agree with you, and personally I think we're on the brink of (or perhaps we've shot right past and just haven't noticed yet) a new kind of software creation - some kind of "company-supported, source-available, relatively-free-to-use, but with restrictions on uses that compete with or financially benefit from things the company that mostly funds the software do" thing. I don't know if it'll work out long term, or if it does whether it'll be a good thing or a bad thing, but I think it's worth a shot to see what happens when you pursue those ideas, and will be watching RedisLabs and MongoDB (and others) with interest over the coming years.

There's a very left leaning socialist part of me who thinks "That's bad. Apache and MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP and many many other genuinely free software projects have worked fine for decades now, why change to less free alternatives if Stallman-style free software can and does work?", but there's also a pragmatic part of me that thinks "I wonder what new software might come into existence if companies can afford to hire teams of devs and architects (and QA people and tech writers and and and) by limiting _some_ of the freedom to allow themselves to generate revenue more easily, without limiting anything like as much freedom as, say, Microsoft or Oracle do?" Personally, I don't think I'll be contributing to any "commons clause" restricted software, but I _do_ wish the people experimenting with that new model the best of luck and have some optimism that it _might_ open up new and unexpected opportunities as it changes the landscape around how software gets written, shared, and monetised.
I have a hard copy of this book. It was incredibly valuable when writing a boot loader that understood the elf format.
For me, it’s always been cheapest to use an ATM at my destination, and let my bank do the currency conversion instead of using the rate offered by the ATM. My bank charges me something like max(5€, 1%), which is usually substantially cheaper than all the other options. I think this is more or less the same (or cheaper) for all German banks.
I just left Osaka yesterday. I didn't use every machine, but I never found one that didn't support English.
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Kudos to the author for going the extra length of trying to maintain semantic interoperability and reuse by showing how to be backwards compatible with e.g. JSON-LD. This makes it possible to continue to build upon all the vocabularies already created.
Magento vs. Shopify Comparison Based on Google Trends Data
I've just found this link: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/21/examining-the-nyc-footprin...

frankly if amazon actually opens a 25,000 employee HQ in NYC, it would much more an Anchor Tenant then google ever was.
do you have a link to this little patch so that I can refer to this post at some point in the future?
> It's too easy to call functions without being aware of the set of possible errors.

Yes, and that's a very good thing.

> Many c++ projects disable exceptions entirely.

Yes, and they're objectively wrong.

> Writing "exception safe" code is tricky and non-obvious.

The word 'exception' here is redundant.
>I wonder if that is just my impression because it's not my field, or if maybe color science really is just not developed enough to tackle these kind of questions.

I have wondered the same thing ( https://ask.metafilter.com/245014/Help-me-understand-color-t... ) and haven't found anything.

I've had some subsequent thoughts. We know that there is a characteristic of the human perception of scenes called "color constancy". That is that our visual perceptual abilities are surprisingly robust to changes in the character of light sources. We may be aware of the light source color, but we easily "factor it out" of what we see of the objects in the scene. It is as if color constancy takes the distribution of colors and applies some transformation to standardize that distribution.

My guess is that the mechanisms underlying color constancy contribute to the aesthetic feel of the scene. If a scene's colors lie along a single line (e.g. a grayscale image), there is a sort of cramped or confined feeling (at least, I experience this), as if the color constancy mechanism is attempting to make a gaussian sphere* out of the colors but there's not enough variance to make it work.

At the same time, if you make a palette out of the corners of the RGB cube, there's an unusually high amount of variance. The image might be very vivid but it gives me an impression of excessive busy-ness or energy. The sphere has spikes now!

Maybe harmonious color schemes are those in which the color constancy mechanism doesn't have to do too much work to make the color distribution into a standard shape... maybe. I don't have any evidence or anything.

I don't think the "standard" distribution of colors that would feel neutral is actually going to be a sphere, but it's not going to be perfectly flat and it's not going to be a straight line. It is possible to visualize the color histograms of images as 3d point clouds to get some sense of what feeling is evoked by different color distributions (e.g. http://opensource.graphics/visualizing-the-3d-point-cloud-of... )
Amazon bidding to fit cameras operated by ICE and DHS with facial recognition
In practice, back linking or otherwise connecting notes in some relational manner is the difference between a knowledge base and just a stack of notes.
The strategic business value of the blockchain market – McKinsey
The problem is that there are now alternatives out there like the GPD-Win 2 and GPD Pocket, which are way more "open" (and actually using the mainline kernel now) than the Pyra can ever hope to be (The Pyra will use to use a number of binary blobs to function. Such as the GPU support...). Of course, the GPD may be inferior in some aspects, but they release hardware very quickly and the market is pretty much captured by their efforts.
As he said, some suburban appartments in the US look more like hotels (and $500/month HOA on top of your rent).

In the UK (and most of Europe) the suburban apartment is most akin to a concrete box.
The much more interesting question is, what is the density of the rational numbers in the set of computable numbers.
What kind of fraudulent transactions?
Speaking as one of the investors in Eve myself (Zubair, the guy mentioned in the video), I agree with this comment. Of course I would have loved it if they had continued with Eve, but it is very hard to monetize programming tools, especially when the vision is as big as the one that the Eve team had, as so many different pieces of programming had to fall in place.

Anyway, they inspired so many others who are now working on reactive programming and they showed the market that there is interest in other models of computation, so I see their work as spawning 1000s of others interested in democratising programming.

And yes, I was a professional investor in the past, so we know the risks :)
Yes, the fraud product from a one-product-wonder public company Amarin (NASDAQ: AMRN).

(see my comment below).
It's banned in the EU, not just Germany. In fact, I'm surprised Germany doesn't have an exemption like it does with many other EU smoking laws. Germany is way behind with smoking. Smoking is cool in Germany. Smoking bars exist. Cigarette vending machines exist on every street corner in many parts of the country (and yes I mean every corner, meaning in suburbs, not just in town centres).
Link is paywalled. Reckon I had more than my 3 articles this week. Anyone has a free link?
The BJP(current government) has neither the brains and nor the motivation to develop the country. All they want to do is get the country back to the vedic period(which is nothing but denting the education to the majority of the people).The leader of the party Modi was in the ads(jio) publicly. It was a public announcement by the corporate to the other organizations that they own the government. Also this same government banned the beef. This government is more like trump focusing on religious hatred for votes and nothing more that that(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots was led by the current leader and prime minister of the party).
Laniakea – a new definition for grouping galaxy superclusters
The purchasing of the new best thing can also be the case, take for example that there hasn't been a flagship phone that actually fits in most peoples single hand since the SE and yet I know lots of people that will just "buy the next Iphone" because thats what they have done for 5 years with no consideration for ergonomics.
You might find this license useful:

https://licensezero.com/licenses/prosperity

In essence, a modern permissive license, plus noncommercial language similar to that in CC-BY-NC licenses, with a built-in, free, thirty-two day trial period.
Because there is no alternative. It's not legit to say "people like thin smartphones more" when you are only making thin ones. Same for the headphone jack.
Here's a modern permissive license, plus CC-style noncommercial limit, with a built-in, thirty-two-day trial: https://licensezero.com/licenses/prosperity
Proprietary software can and, in many cases, do have their source code accessible, so yes, Common Clause is as good as proprietary software, no more and no less.
Also submitted a couple months ago. Only got a few comments back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15211604

The first sentence of TFA captures one of the most annoying things about REST discussions: "In this manifesto, we will give a specific definition of what REST is, according to Roy, and see the majority of APIs and API specs (JSONAPI, HAL etc) fail to follow this model."

At this point I've read or heard dozens of claims like this, that almost everyone is doing REST wrong. It's well past time to stop blaming all the REST implementers in the world for being too dumb to understand Fielding's brilliant vision. If most software developers can't get REST right, then either proponents have consistently done a crappy job explaining the idea, or it's not as great an idea as they think.

Skimming the table of contents, it looks like the authors have thought deeply about the problems with REST and come up with some well-reasoned solutions. So they're answering the "REST vs Introspected REST" question. But much more relevant to me is the "Introspected REST vs GraphQL" question. What would make someone choose this over GraphQL? Introspected REST has a lot of catching up to do to match GraphQL's tooling and market share.
Might I suggest opening the link in an incognito window?
You mean like an electric toothbrush with Bluetooth?

I’d love to have been in the design meeting where thry decided that was more important than world voltage compatibility.

“World voltage are you mad? Who packs a toothbrush when they go travelling? Nope, what the people are clamering for is bluetooth support!”
Thou Shalt Not Lie: Git rebase, amend, squash, and other lies
Creative Commons offers noncommercial licenses even more restrictive than Commons Clause.

I'd've picked a different name, too. But the idea that "commons" means only open source, or only free software, doesn't sit right. Compared to pulling their software back as fully closed or source-available, all-rights-reserved, a Commons Clause combo makes a lot more available.
Cambodia's ISPs hit by some of the biggest DDoS attacks in the country's history
Similar thing in india is happening with a single monopoly player paytm.
Have a look at the Peer Production License and HESSLA.
The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies
Yeah, very much situation dependent. I started working remotely while in the US and then decided I would just move out of the country. 2br apt for 750$ per month. I paid that much for a room in Boston in a Apt that I had to share with 2 other people that was old and had no amenties… yeah not going back to that. My working motto now is "make my money in/from the US, spend it elsewhere".
This is a very cool idea, and I wonder if eventually we'll see new tooling spring up to support this.

Running coroutines like this seems like it would potentially create more cache pressure. Is the idea that you'll execute instructions you already have loaded, so you won't incur any cache misses for instructions?
So, basically you are saying war would destroy the economy.

I agree.

Cash or no cash.
Just 2.8 stars on Google Play store. Why?
Indeed, I started using Markdown because it was simple and minimalist and could quickly edit it in vim. In recent years it seems like a lot of complexity is being added to it.
Awesome. Does anyone know of a USB-C alternative?
GitHub supports asm to certain degree but definitely not the .6502 extension (is it the standard choice?).
You have to pay someone to take away the cash and its often slower than tapping your card on a reader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(China)

>The "National Day Golden Week" begins around 1 October.

>Three days of paid holiday are given, and the surrounding weekends are re-arranged so that workers in Chinese companies always have seven continuous days of holiday.
Exposing the scrotum/testicles to direct sunlight for 20 minutes/day increases testosterone significantly. I wonder if a sun/S.A.D. lamp would have a similar effect?
Hey, sorry for the slow reply. Generally, no you'll probably be fine with non-stick pans. The precursor chemicals used for making teflon are definitely not good, but once it gets into your pan it's mostly ok. That said, if you get the pan too hot (think no food in it and its just sitting on a hot fire) then I believe the teflon can offgas which is bad for you. Also, you should use bamboo/wood/silicon utensils on non-stick pans. Anything else can scratch it and take off some of the teflon. Once it's been scratched it becomes very easy for bits of teflon to come off in your food and parts of the layers to continue to peel off. If you scratch it you should either see if the manufacturer will replace/fix it or probably toss it. You don't want to be eating the stuff that flakes off the scratched areas. While teflon is I think technically inert (which is why it's used everywhere) I don't think it's healthy to have that passing through your system.

So, if you take good care of your non-stick pans you'll mostly be ok. Basically just baby them and make sure they're in good condition and you should be fine.

Stainless steel doesn't have this problem but of course isn't as non-stick as teflon or the teflon-similar materials out there and can be much more expensive depending on quality levels.

I wouldn't throw them out if I were you, but would invest in some high quality utensils to use with them (silicon on the end and bamboo for the handle part) so you never scratch them. Oh, and of course when cleaning don't use anything metallic like steel wool/mesh on them. Even barkeepers friend has potential to be too abrasive and take off some of the layers. Soap and water when it's still hot is a great way to make cleaning the pots/pans easier.

Hope that helps!
I think your definition of ML may be too narrow. I recently had on my plate to determine -- for all incoming requests -- whether or not they belonged to an outlier category that was only very loosely defined as a group, but impossible to separate on an individual level.

This is one of those situations where I greatly benefited from thinking of the problem from an ML perspective, as it allowed me to create a very simple probabilistic model and verify that it was sufficiently accurate.

I believe we'll get more of those "ML in the small" things popping up even for regular developers. It's not something new, it's just a mental perspective shift toward the probabilistic.
Actually they pay about the same commission for cash (yes!) when they take it to the bank.
i know mountain bikes get pretty much all the innovation, but here’s Cervelo’s p5x tt bicycle:
https://www.cervelo.com/p5x
Dont Copy That Floppy
>There is really no software lock in

Tell that to average consumers. There are people who are even reluctant to upgrade their iPhone because they don't want to do Data Transfer. Let alone transferring to another system, say WhatsApp from or to Android. By far most people don't want to relearn what ever it is on a new system.
How  Cryptocurrency Is Already More Honest Than Legacy Finance
I just published 5 Ways Cryptocurrency Is Already More Honest Than Legacy Finance - Part 1 EXCHANGES

I hope you like it!

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