skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf]
I'm going to blow the lid off this one and share a very "out there" opinion.

Read both. Soft skills books won't help you navigate the insane economy of web technologies and current framework books won't help you develop your fundamental, transferrable skills.

Any time someone tells you a choice is 'one or the other" they're probably lying and the correct answer is 'a little bit of both".
If we take a step back to look at what Musk has done at scale:

* Tesla has tremendously accelerated electric car deployments. I am going to count Solar City in this bucket as well. It was not a smashing success as Tesla or SpaceX are, but it helped to accelerate solar deployments.

* SpaceX proven out booster re-usability and lowered launch prices.

* Helped start open AI which is pushing limits of building machine intelligence by tackling progressively harder problems.

Whatever you think about the man, you can't ever take away those accomplishments. All of the current controversy looks so small and insignificant compared to them.
agreed, they'd probably need to be substantially higher to really enter criminal's conscious consideration to put a dent in things, and even then it might only be a small dent, if any. Especially when the motivation is something like drug addiction.
> I can have someone else prepare my meal that will taste just as good or better

Maybe. For one thing, it depends on where you live. I guarantee you that I can cook better than pretty much anyplace within a 15 minute drive of my house. Secondly--and this is perhaps at least partly a reflection of how much I eat out when traveling on business--but, when I'm home, I mostly don't want to go out to a restaurant.
Correction: What happens if you do `example['#myVar'] = 500`? Does it throw an error? Wouldn't it be the same situation?
Puts Elon's net worth at around 27 billion!

TSLA 59 B * 19% = 11.21 B
SpaceX 30.5 B * 54% = 16.47 B
Total: 27.68 B
They do it for both reasons. The hydrogens in the water molecules are good at absorbing neutrons. The control rods are also typically made of carbon, and will release x-rays, which the water is also fairly good at blocking. Not as good as gold, but who's got that kind of money.
People do it all the time; many US office workplaces are okay with it.

However, not everyone has an office situation like that nor should we need to live in fear of getting items delivered to our home.
Yup this is already happening. Save-on-Foods in British Columbia has this and they also have their own food delivery service, so they're successfully replicating both Blue Apron and Instacart.
>Can you cite a law that says they're not legal?

The Geneva convention, for starters.

It's also a five second Google search: https://definitions.uslegal.com/b/booby-traps/
Not sure if you saw this recently but there might be some relevant lessons to drawn on from Chowdy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18312602

Your business model description sounds a bit similar.
uh. what? what exactly is the crime here? from the presentation:

"The lawsuit moves against multiple defendants: Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, Bitmain Inc. Bitmain Technologies LTD. Bitmain Technologies Holding Company, Jihan Wu, The Kraken LLC, Jesse Powell, Amaury Sechet, Shammah Chancelor and Jason Cox. This legal action will seek to prove that specific key actors, including some of the biggest US-based and international names and entities in the digital currency world, have been operating with the support of the Chinese government to centralize the Bitcoin cash network resulting in Chinese entities now having established dominance over this important segment of the cryptocurrency market with proprietary software checkpoints and instituting other means of control over the system."

The lawsuit is almost equally vague, talking about "hijacking the Bitcoin Cash network, centralizing the market, and violating all accepted standards...". Later on the lawsuit document goes into the ABC/SV split and how this has led to a lower value for both chains.

The plantiff is apparently some company behind "the development of a low cost, rapid deployment solution for operation of cryptocurrency mining – the BlockchainDome. The BlockchainDome is a passive “cooling ground-coupled heat-exchanger"..." basically sounds like they use excess energy from chimneys to mine bitcoin (and bitcoin cash)
Why Most Academics Tilt Left
It's a different argument, because child molestation is a heinous crime, but white supremacy is in itself, not a criminal offence. Certain behaviours which may manifest as a result of white supremacy may be criminal.

We have legal systems which can deal with accusation of crimes. If you suspect somebody to be a child molester, you can report them. The legal system makes the judgement. It also prevents you from falsely accusing somebody of molestation if you do so without evidence or reasonable motive.

The same legal system should apply to anyone being or claiming to be white supremacist. Their action is not a crime unless they are inciting crime (ie, calling for racial genocide). If the latter is the case, then they should be prosecuted following the due process. Witch hunting is not due process.

I also think the same legal process should be applied to the far-left, who are frequently falsely accusing people of something they are not. Unfortunately, most people do not have the resources to fight anonymous twitter trolls for libel.

This case with Sargon can be seen as a pretty good example of your argument falling apart. He is frequently labeled as some kind of alt-right white supremacist, when it is precisely this he denounces publicly. (Yes, his words were not the most appropriate, but words are meaningless without context. Patreon specifically ignored the context.)

What has become of the left, is not that they're shunning white supremacists, but they are shunning anybody that they perceive to be a white supremacist. A whole different story. If you have loose definitions like "hate speech", then it is justified to take down anyone you perceive to be your political opponent according to your standards.

Another example case was the witch hunt against Kavanaugh. It seems the left are determined to dismantle the idea of due process and putting people before judge and jury for the sake of virtue signalling and social "justice" (an oxymoron).
(no/less functional) C --> Java --> C# --> Scala --> F# ---> Haskell (more/all functional)
- form a talk by Martin Odersky
How would you define "rich enough"? My SO and I collectively make $80k per year and we can afford 4 meals a week. Granted, it's a little more expensive than planning our own meals. But it saves shopping and planning time, so the overall time commitment is at most an hour per day (the time it takes to cook the meal).
More accurately, "Stop Obsessing Over Frameworks".

Learning frameworks is fine, especially if you have to/want to use one. But to think that all programming revolves around a framework? That's the real mistake.

Rails, for example, taught me a lot about how to make good web applications. I've transferred that knowledge to other disciplines and found some success simply by regurgitating some of the concepts Rails taught me into other paradigms, like Go, Elixir, and JavaScript.
Windows PowerShell Package Management
Hey folks,

Glad to see Dustin's good post get some visibility here :)

If anyone is interested in learning F#, there are some resources available:

F# docs index (has multiple guides for specific editors and a comprehensive overview of the language): https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/

F# on JavaScript with Fable: https://fable.io/docs/

More F# in the browser with WebSharper: https://try.websharper.com/

F# on Azure Notebooks (a hosted Jupyter notebook service that's free): https://notebooks.azure.com/Microsoft/projects/2018-Intro-FS...

And of course, the now legendary (at least among the F# community), F# for Fun and Profit: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/
Great work! I had a similar idea a decade ago when I wrote a calculator to solve for perfect cheesecake. The idea was to have thick New York style cheesecake with perfect texture top to bottom yet have caramelized top and bottom (no water bath cheating!)
Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code
They key is to put yourself into the mindset of a hurried deliveryman and design your system around that.

I have a sign low on my door right where a deliveryman would leave a package that asks him to put it in the box (with a simple message in big text, a big red arrow pointing towards the box and a photo of it with a package inside). There's no lock to get in his way.

Deliverymen from all carriers use my box about 90% of the time they want to deliver to my doorstep.

For Amazon specifically (since their deliverymen are gig workers), I entered address-specific delivery instructions into their system, mainly so I could complain about their performance more effectively. I think the actual, physical sign is more effective.

I have a camera watching the porch and have a few videos of deliverymen doing a double-take on the sign, then putting the package in the box.
Then the thief would be liable, same as if you commit an illegal act and get somebody shot.

Proving things in court is much less efficient, and more likely to harm those who are innocent, than to make sure the crime is punished immediately.
Interesting! thanks for the link
"suspicious person walking on street"

My dad used to say "there's few things more dangerous in the suburbs than a bored cop".

Been involved in some of those interactions while walking home in my own neighborhood. They're not pleasant. One involved handcuffs and a 30 minute sit on the curb while my backpack was searched. Yes I'm referring to these past incidents in plural for a reason. No, the complaints to the city and precinct didn't do anything.
Nobody should ever use words like "large" in reference to housing construction where absolute numbers are meaningless. "Large" and "small" are useless without some agreed-upon baseline.

What you're describing is a city where a large-in-absolute-numbers-by-some-arbitrary-standard amount of housing is being built while also not being enough. As sufficiency for demand is the operative question, I submit that a better set of words is "sufficient" and "insufficient".

Given that it's less than the amount of population growth, I would characterize it as an insufficient amount of housing supply being built.
What's the summary, here? A civil lawsuit in and of itself means nothing to a spectator.
I feel like it's sadly telling that such a poorly written article has managed to sucker at least 175 HNers into up-voting it (assuming that's how the score system works).
Anthony Levandowski's new startup has already autonomously driven 3099 miles
What does that acronym stand for?
Basic probability theory and information theory can fix most of the problem, just calculate mutual information between adjacent words.
In terms of charities:

The Jimmy Fund (http://www.jimmyfund.org)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (https://www.stjude.org)

Feeding America (https://www.feedingamerica.org)

I gave to some political causes as well, but the value of those are far more subjective.
Iron rule of the corporate world: if you have a problem with your boss, or with something the boss likes and supports, from his end it's not a problem that can't be solved with a pink slip.

If you value being able to feed your family, learn to love your boss and his ideas.
I think it's more like saying, why pay for a mechanic to be shipped to your house, when it's only a short drive to the mechanic.
What is Max Q?
I'm a python hater. Yes it is easy, but in exactly the wrong way. Easy for simple code for middle schoolers. For grownups with large codebases to develop and maintain, it's not optimal.

Of course I hate the whitespace trickery. I hate the auto formatting that sometimes doesn't work. Those are fairly minor.

What I really, really hate is the lack of static typechecking. You often have to read lengthy swathes of code to understand how functions are actually used. The conventions in the community are terrible. I have used respected libraries where functions are designed to return a variety of types, just because, so you need to dynamically typecheck your results. Gawd.

And just as bad the fact it is impossible to encapsulate code. This underscore nonsense, don't even mention it. Sheesh. I have found that in real life, internals bleed out over the code base making code more fragile over time and harder to refactor. It has all these open source scientific libraries because professional programmers were working on other things, and that is truly unfortunate.

The lack of seriousness is demonstrated by the fact that it's frozen in time in terms of runtime data structures because cpython knows and relies on those internals. Nutso.

And then the GIL!! What the ?@.
>"I know what some of you might be thinking: “He’s back?” Yes, I’m back."

Exactly nobody is thinking that dude.

This person's sense of self importance is incredible. I guess the "hardships" he claims to have experienced the last 18 months failed to teach him any humility.
With all that experience it's a wonder he fell for the oldest "does my bum look big in this" trick in the book.
The mistake is not to learn about frameworks but to spend too much time with the details of one framework. Reading a 500 pages book about a specific framework is most likely a waste of time.

But getting an overview about the framework landscape is crucial.

Using the wrong tool can lead to a dramatically slower dev speed. Choosing React over Angular for an app with complex interactive views leads to an enormous increase in dev speed. (Angular is hell for complex views.)
All people at all times?
I love Blue Apron but get how they are not exactly profitable. Almost every single week they leave an item out of my box and the customer support resolution is to credit my account $40... for like a $3 head of broccoli. I am not complaining obviously, but yeah, fix the missing ingredients.
... and to think... if it hadn't been for this fateful night, half the world's smartphones wouldn't have that weird RPC mechanism...
My response (pewdiepie to Vox Media)
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/7/25/why-are-develo...
" learn to love your boss and his ideas. "

Or at least learn to keep your mouth shut, no matter what anyone tells you to the contrary.
My attitude has no effect on crime.

I'm describing the reality of the world we all live in. Even if its not their first time, they'll be out in a day or two, maybe not even that. Its just packages, most of them under $100, no one in harms way, no drugs, no guns/knives. Even if they broke down your door when you weren't home and went inside to steal your package, there's going to be no APB on their license number, no road blocks, no helicopter sent out to see where they are.

My time in retail quickly taught me that unless you catch and hold a perpetuator, nothing will happen to them.

"We have them on tape! I ran outside and wrote down their license plate?"

"What was stolen?"

"$250 worth of goods!"

"Meh, we know the guy, but if its under a grand the DA won't do anything. Since we know him, we'll tell him to avoid your store, if he does show up again and steals something, we can get him on trespass and stealing, the DA might do something then.

The fact is some people live 100% on small thefts, small odd jobs paid in cash, some begging. They'll be living with their parents at 30-40, with no assets in their name, borrowing cars to get around. There is no down side in swiping a few packages besides the pain in turning that into cash, which is the only disincentive to them stealing.
Strange, no mention that flutter is the main language used for Google Fuchsia's UI.
FiveThirtyEight also predicted a 10% chance that Clinton would win the popular vote while Trump won the electoral college.
I'm not sure what your point is...
In California (and some other jurisdictions have similar rules), police cannot, by law make a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor (with some specific exceptions, none of which is applicable to the pattern of offense at issue) unless the crime occurred in their presence, and prosecutors generally do not pursue misdemeanor warrants except in conjunction with broader investigations.

(If the offense occurs in the presence of a non-police witness, something that a casual observer would describe as a police arrest may occur after the witness reports to police, but that's actually a citizen’s arrest by the witness with police assistance. But a camera isn't a witness, and, as for police misdemeanor arrests, a citizens arrest for a misdemeanor also requires the offense to have occurred in the presence of the arresting party.)
Ha, that's probably true. Though the last time I was walking down the street when a city cop rolled past, he waved. I waved.

I have lived some places where the police culture was more toxic, definitely.
The tick size for stocks less than $1 is $0.0001.
Ironically, one of them has "assorted glitter colors"
What we want is immaterial in this case. The police will be able to do just that, very soon.
A copy of The Pragmatic Programmer

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I think a toy robot would be great
Ask HN: Missing comma (Julia)
julia> +(2 3 4)
ERROR: syntax: missing comma or ) in argument list

If Julia knows that commas are missing, why can it compute the sum without commas?
Hint: it's those letters in front of his first name.
It also depends on the ownership model of the property. If the landlord only owns a single unit (e.g. an individual condo in a building, or a single-family home), the financial aspect of rent control doesn't apply.
Now release a native F# variant with rustup/cargo like tooling and a REPL and I'm sold.
The article is missing some critical details.

What does the fund do? The article suggests they do arbitrage. Those opportunities actually tend to increase when things are volatile. Also while you can lose money doing it you wouldn't expect a precipitous collapse in NAV. If you discover you're slower than everyone else you can shut down.

Volumes aren't necessarily correlated to price either, so that isn't entirely convincing.

I've also heard that plenty of arb guys are doing fine.

If he's speculating and not just running arbs, what is he doing? If he's just punting the cryptos that would seem more in line with what's happened, but it's not clear what he's up to from this.

Also, with arbitrage it's limited how much capital you need. A lot of HFTs use very little. If you're getting money like a hedge fund you have to be sure it can be put to use.

Ex HFT and fund manager.
>I suspect Blue Apron will survive as it will probably be taken over or bought out. It's kinda the leader of the pack and the market will eventually consolidate. It also helps that I might have helped I bought about $1000 discounted gift cards at Costco.

I'm not so sure. Even most people I know who have tried Blue Apron tend to either regress back to not cooking or they "graduate" to buying their own ingredients and planning their own meals. It's not like grocery delivery is that different or hard to do.

I actually think it is pretty great as a way to build the habit of cooking at home and to get comfortable enough in your kitchen. But it only takes about a month to do that. Afterwards it's so much cheaper and easier to just handle the recipes and cooking yourself. Once you get a feel for proportions and learn some staple recipes Blue Apron adds very little extra value and a lot of extra headache (no flexibility in the menus, fixed proportions, etc.) So there isn't much point in doing it.

Also, their vegetarian options too often tend to either be carbs + cheese or bland vegetables. I'd much rather just make Indian food at home.
No, the biggest irony is that C as a language does not even have a syntax for passing by reference. Everything, including pointers, is passed by value. References were introduced in C++.
I can't remember the last time I've sorted anything with an algorithm written by me. Last time I did that in AI class in College. :\

I just don't see a reason to spend excessive time optimizing, unless performance becomes an issue.
You'd end up with an "error portfolio" that was somewhat random that you'd be investing in proportionally with your SpaceX investment.
Keep it anodyne, pretty much always. You can tell your spouse what you really think. Or better yet, your dog.
I was thinking of what you can and cannot mail; specifically, that what he did could be construed as a letter bomb. Granted, it’s much much less dangerous, but the mechanism is the same. At a time when public figures get pipe bombs in the mail, rigging a package to “explode” once opened... I think there’s enough material for a humorless DA (or one with an agenda) to make hay, or at least for a uneasy explanation with some serious people. Obviously IANAL, and I don’t know if the federal laws on mail extend to packages left on the porch as the other poster pointed out, but still.

Source: what my teenage self thought was a hilarious prank got to the attention of the FBI. Although the matter was cleared up in the end, being interviewed by an FBI agent at 17 taught me not to count on the understanding and second degree of law officers.
You're screwed because of the application process. To get a place you need:

1. To have never had your name on a housing court case, even if it was found in your favor or you had a legitimate reason to be in housing court

2. A completed application including the contact information for your last two landlords who have to say nice things about you even if they were crazy/bad

3. Annual income at 40-45x the monthly rent, as reflected in your last two tax returns (hope you were making more money than you actually need to be able to afford the rent 3 years ago!)

4. Letters of reference

5. Months of bank statements

6. Pay stubs

7. Tax transcripts

8. Perfect credit (or 6 months of deposit-- you have $15,000 in cash for this, right? Oh it's okay, do you have a guarantor who makes 100x the rent (hundreds of thousands of dollars) that wants to put their SSN on your rent payment? Oh no?)

Getting approved for a tiny 100 sq ft studio is the same process as getting approved for a 10 million dollar loan. Normal people have no chance. Don't have your financial life in perfect order? You're garbage that doesn't have a right to live somewhere.