skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting comment. My interpretation is that your reasoning rests on the intuition that the tens of thousands of laws you know nothing about and created by strangers whose motivations may or may not be shared by you must be just 99% of the time. Further, that this view is shared by the rest of society. Does either idea seem likely?

Should the violence of the state be brought to bear on citizens because it is known that "most" laws are good? Would we benefit from a higher standard? Could we instead renew and expire laws?
A very good point. Most of my GC whispering is done in .NET, which also has value types, but I was guessing that escape analysis in Java would solve most of the problems in this regard. Is that not actually the case?
What is more likely, a change to federal law, or the existence of one of 50 states that changes state law?
I'm not sure that portability is a good reason to use Java in this case.

Firstly, these trading firms probably have tight control over their server architectures. Secondly, once you start using low-level Java idioms in order to optimize your code, you've started approaching the point where differences in performance between JVM implementations across platforms become noticeable.
A lot of good advise here, I think that even though you want to be helpful and useful your best bet is to be seen and not heard. People are going to behave differently with you there already, don't "taint" the observation by reminding them you are there. Also I saw one of your comments about wanting to help, possibly the sales team. I'm sure you are coming from a good place but I really think you would be best off just giving a "report" to the CEO at the end with anything you've noticed rather than trying to jump in and help.
Ask HN: What’s a good Christmas present for a 13yr old who wants to learn code?
Either online resource or a nice physical present or game?
There's a difference between an individual and an organization that intends to have an impact on the society. The society can't, or shouldn't demand that I give up privacy of my inherently private matters.

But it is very reasonable for the society to expect a basic degree of transparency from an NGO or a political party - insofar as the actions in question are meant to have public impact. It's a two-way street, to me.

Note that I'm not even entering the subject of legal obligations here. Whether or how to enforce this approach is a separate discussion (quite a few democratic constitutions do forbid political organizations of clandestine structures and membership). I'm only referring to common sense, and what feels justified.

Is it a private matter if someone held on trial is the judge's boss in a secret organization they both belong to?
The Fallout series isn't exactly obscure and Fallout 1 in particular is terrible. I got a game over 5 minutes into the game because I walked too far and the arbitrary timer ran out.
Year in Review: My Fifth Year of Consulting
http://gov.uk and other UK government websites that has had involvement from GDS(Government Digital Services) are some of the best websites I've seen. They are lightweight, to the point, accessible and still look good. If the whole web was more like UK government sites I'd be very happy.

Cool tidbit: gov.uk only loads a single third party script(GA)
I’m looking forward to too big to fail bankers being bailed out while little people like me will be supposed to just applause the big banks not going under.
I recommend reading Taleb's The Black Swan.

Imagining the unimaginable is much more important than most people give it credit for.
The 2008 recession saw the Dow retreat to a two decade low. Losing a year of market gains certainly doesn't indicate things are over. A recession hasn't even started yet.
Gov.uk is, in my experience, really really good. I find the design clean, the functionality easy to use, and the text clearly written. I'm currently setting up a business in the US and the contrast to US government websites is very apparent.
Thanks for taking a peek and your comments really highlight a need for me to make the pricing and explanation of the service much more clear. We generate several domain name suggestions based on your family name, you pick the one you like, and then we take care of registering and managing the domain for you. I also like the anti-facebook angle, great point.
You are right. But I remember, that I had read a similar story, a week, or two, ago and the topic was, that the police found out about the killer in a murder case, by listening to Echo recordings from the kitchen. I doubt, that this would be possible, if there is no constant stream of data on Amazon's servers.

That gave me the impression, that they store it all. At least for a while.
Oh wow. My whole life I was told it was nuclear!
>See, this is where "snake oil" claims give us problems

I agree.

The claim I'm making about placebo and seizures is that a seizure is dangerous, and anything that reduces the seizure is a medication. Sugar pill or no.

If the claim is that CBD compounds are more dangerous than seizures, or that what is in CBD compounds is dangerous at all (fear of the unknown, if you will) then the burden of proof should be on the poster to show examples of dangerous chemicals in CBD tinctures.

My proof, empirical or no, is that CBD reduces anxiety and seizures. I have not seen evidence to the contrary.
What!? If the aircraft is pressurized, then the cargo area is pressurized too. There aren't any aircraft that have separately pressurized compartments. That would be a very bad design.

Also, I would suspect that the bottles were bagged and in a box and not necessarily right next to the pilot.
Chinese chemistry student charged with poisoning US roommate
Baldur's gate also comes as smartphone apps, it's not super convenient but works, finish an RPG on the loo! :)
Webpack 5 alpha
My partner is Hungarian and her language and mine (I'm English) share very few words, it's strange with most languages I hear from other Europeans I can at least get one or two words fairly often but Hungarian is just straight Klingon.

It's an interesting hidtory, it basically shares no (known) common roots like most languages around Europe do.
Good job! This is called “dollar cost averaging”.
I always read about how Electron is very resource-intensive, but I'm curious as to how the performance improves as time goes on?

Does the Electron team have a focus on improving performance? Or is the issue with the developers using electron, should they be optimizing better?

I assume it's some of both, but curious if anyone with more experience in electron can provide any insight as to how the performance changes over time.
I would imagine because actual commerce is built around it, rather than its valuation being mostly derived from speculative investment as a value hold.
I'd love to see a version that is based on Firefox / SpiderMonkey.
Whoops, that's certainly an oversight. Thanks for pointing it out, will make sure that gets fixed :-)
I agree with you, but interesting part about this suit is that it does not claim that contaminants are being emitted via the smoke. There are essentially large hills of radioactive coal ash just sitting on the site, the residue from the burned coal. They are just sitting in the open and the wind is blowing it into the surrounding area.
Maybe you'll like this FLT related story too, it's the most worthwhile numberphile video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nUN4NDVIfVI
Go static type system doesn't find bugs a Python program might have, but introduces plenty of possibilities for bugs too.
And those games have a pause button so you don't have to have insane controller skillz to play 'em.
⌘+F “performance” or “memory” does not show anything :-/
Would be interesting to see another FirefoxOS attempt.
Different transaction fees, too. On Schwab IRAs for example, there is a whitelist of mutual funds and ETFs with no fee to buy/sell (including their own funds, which have really good expense ratios for passively managed, like .02% for SWPPX) but ones not on that list are a typical few-dollars commission for ETFs but many-tens-of-dollars for mutual funds.
If you chemically try to, you have to avoid combusting the coal or putting it into a form that isn't combustible or through a process that lowers its potential chemical energy in the powerplant.

That leaves physically, which is really tough considering that it would probably require a chemical transformation to be able to run it through a centrifuge (like uranium gas in uranium centrifuges) in order to do the separation, and centrifuges can require nontrivial amounts of power to run, so no free win here either.

On top of all that, now an output is a more-concentrated radioactive material (a lump of uranium), and suddenly whoever is doing this removal has quite a number of new NRC and OSHA regulations to follow, which are known to not be economically cheap.

So it's no wonder businesses default to "just burn it, let the public suffer the externality costs".

Edit: To be fair, a variant of this this has been attempted before: see the gasification of coal and the "clean coal" movement. It failed.
I'm really surprised that nobody has pointed out that your 4 rounds of rejection have all been in the most competitive city in the world for software developers. I am a software developer of average skill who lives in the midsouth and I swear to god I can't get recruiters to leave me alone. Have you considered expanding your search beyond the SF area? NYC, Chicago, and Atlanta all have world class tech scenes and are not nearly as competitive as the Bay Area. Nashville and Charlotte are rapidly evolving into tech centers as well, with relatively low cost of living.

Giving up on the software industry because you couldn't hack it in SF is like giving up on the NFL because you were a second round draft.
"We have a long history of data that suggests that in the long run the stock market is the good investment to get returns from."

But that data is cherry-picked, as far as I'm concerned. It's only using about 100 years of American stock market performance. During those 100 years American stock exchanges changed from hosting regional companies to hosting the largest international companies.

Obviously that same market growth cannot recur over the next 100 years; once you're at #1 you can't go higher.

So a true measure would be a basket of stock markets. And that basket 100 years ago would have included a large portion in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, whose history has not been as favorable as the NYSE...
Say what you will about Electron, but congrats to the team on getting 4.0.0 launched!
Ray Dalio wrote a book about the different kind of debt cycles. Just because 2007 was bad, doesn't mean this recession will be equally bad.

There are short term debt cycles and long term debt cycles.
Ice-filled Martian crater is a permanent winter wonderland
Meanwhile a bunch of people put up satellites as a hobby, and having been doing it since the 4th satellite ever.
>In C++, memory allocation is slow, so you worry about memory allocation up front. In Java, GC is a pain so you worry about memory allocation up front...

This.

A lot of people seem to be willfully dismissive of this reality when they are fanboying for their favorite languages.

Ask for memory in C++, you'll take a HUGE hit getting it. Ask for memory in Java, and you'll get it lightning fast, but you'll take a huge hit getting rid of it. Either way, you should carefully plan memory usage up front.

Basically, one road leads to death and despair, the other leads to disease and destruction...

pray you choose wisely.
Part of it is that we dont want to face what our forebears did in the 18th and 19th centuries to native populations. Better to portray Hitler as a comic book villain than as the culmination of a trend.
Reminds me of the legend (maybe true, who knows) of the salmon cannery that marketed its naturally paler-than-usual stock with the slogan "Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can!"
Marketing departments.
There is no methane on Mars – Living organisms are thus less likely
You're welcome. I like the concept.

You might also want to check which TLDs support international domain names (IDNs) and which don't. The Czech TLD .cz, for example, doesn't[1], even though Czech is heavy on letters with them.

[1] https://www.xn--hkyrky-ptac70bc.cz/
Thank you! Any suggestions of useful topics/notes that I should track of to include in a report?
Things like this is why I think India has a very flawed political system, the executive is having too much power, and the Constitutional guarantees to citizens are flimsy, and courts including the Supreme Court are temperamental and inconsistent.

Civil law protections are insufficient as they are presently. Govt can put you in jail on flimsy grounds, but you can't sue for damages on wrongful imprisonment, etc. Most things are governed by criminal laws, where only remedy is punishment for the convicted, instead of having a strong tort law, where the aggrieved parties can extricate monetary damage claims.
It was called XUL, long before the Electron craziness.
Those are some magnificent high-resolution manuscript images that the Getty is making available for fair use.

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https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt is a continuation from https://github.com/mozilla/positron - last commit 6mo ago though. Probably what is needed is a killer app - VS Code, Slack, Spotify...
Tax treatment is different. You pay capital gains every year on mutual funds while you paid only on transactions wirh etf.
Why do you think families need this?
And how does that person in that small village in Peru converts their WhatsApp coins, or whatever they are called, into actual money?

And if the answer is: they do a transaction with someone else who wants to trade their money for WhatsApp coins then again, why do you need the blockchain versus a centralized WhatsApp currency.

Blockchain is a solution when there cannot be trust. If I trust WhatsApp, and you trust WhatsApp, and WhatsApp has a money exchange feature, we don't need the blockchain.
I really doubt developing nations are avoiding using cheap natural gas because of fracking concerns.
> ... individual candidates aren't accountable to the general electorate and no one has anyone they can point to as “their” representative.

Alternatively, individual candidates would be accountable to the voters who placed them there. Similarly, the voters who placed them there would think of them primarily as their representative. Those voters who are represented by more than one person in their ideological camp would find they have more than one representative they can reach out to on issues. Those who are more independent but find themselves more closely aligned to a set of reps in one of the camps will also find they have multiple representatives to reach out to, ask to cooperate on something, etc. I live in a state that has GOP dominance at all levels. I’d love to feel like there was anyone representing me the last 20 years at the state and federal levels.

EDIT: I’m not advocating for such a system per se, I’m just suggesting its efficacy is somewhat a matter of perception/perspective. Both voters and candidates can find accountability and notions/feelings of representation in a district-free proportional system. It is surprising to me there’s no way for voters to challenge gerrymandering directly when, in many states, voters aren’t represented by someone who shares their views for decades (on either side of the ideological aisle).
Life goes on. Stop using social media for a few days and you'll find that you've lost nothing by avoiding it.
I'd say it's about the value of low-cost alternatives from an industry (medical devices) that very often disregards cost entirely.

I understand the precision and expertise that goes into medical devices, and they've saved millions of lives (mine included) — but in countries where $6,000 means something might as well not exist, they need something in-between precision manufacturing or nothing at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium_poisoning
If you've given up on shelf-stable GF convenience foods, Hormel does a decent job of marking and has a few options suitable for stowing in a desk drawer (chili with beans, beef stew). For soups, Progresso has a variety of GF options, including "creamy mushroom" which might be useful if you're trying a recipe that calls for concentrated "cream of x" soup.
There was one started called Positron, but it was discontinued in early 2017. https://github.com/mozilla/positron
Think Outside the Box: The Sad Truth about Agile Timeboxes
thank you, I usually follow pretty close to this in my job searching and interviewing process. I didn't know about resumasters, that looks like a great resource, thanks!
I'd be extremely wary of FB's ambitions in this area. FB the social network will not last forever, and it seems obvious that companies like Google, Amazon etc will shift their business model towards secretive "enterprise" services, like AWS for the Pentagon, Dragonfly for China etc. Facebook tried to create it's own walled-garden Internet in India under the extremely deceptive "Facebook.org" initiative.

Awareness of stuff like Google+ breaches or FB's data sharing will soon become a thing of the past once these companies start dealing directly with governments and move away from public-facing products entirely. If FB starts to implement an India-specific version of China's "social credit" policy towards blacklisting suspected defaulters, with no recourse, the people likely won't even know who's supplying that technology.

Phone-based currency transfers like M-Pesa have been successful in Tanzania, Kenya and is available in India and Afghanistan. Unlike whatever FB will offer, it doesn't require you to use Whatsapp. I can't wait to see the permissions required on the new version of WA once that service is live.
For me it wasn't even the big breaks. Aside from the crunches to prepare for the finals at the end of high-school I would come home from school in the early afternoon (schools in Israel operate on a 6-days per week but fewer hours per day schedule), food/housework would already be done by my mother & I basically had 2pm-10pm completely free almost every day (more on weekends & holiday).

Completing a game like Fallout 2 multiple times (it must have taken 50+ hours of play at least the first time) was nothing exceptional & I didn't need to wait for summer break to do it.
After reading the recent post on Medium by two Americans who tried to expose Relotius last year [1] I have to say that my formulation "may have massively overdone it" above may have been a massive understatement.

[1] https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m...
Haskell abstracts away order of operations. Both high performance and low latency benefit from the ability to be very specific about as much as possible and Haskell take the opposite approach. This may be good for data flow and throughput, but as soon as you need to control explicit order, state and resource usage Haskell is going to be working against you.
Yeah, more metadata to Facebook.

Also more ways for a huge American company to mess with my life if anyone human, bot or algorithm working there has a bad day at work. (if anyone doesn't catch my drift here, losing access to your mail account happens, getting it fixed most likely involves either knowing a person working with said company and/or hitting the front page of HN or another watering hole.)
My Stepdad's Huge Dataset
I've had spruce beer on a few occasions and it's exactly what it sounds like.

Bubbly liquid spruce. If you peel a few needles off of a Christmas tree and chew on them, you'd get the same flavour.
> If Facebook can deliver something that can then be exchanged for real dollars, that could be huge.

There's absolutely zero reason for that something to be blockchain-based. They can just release Facebucks, a private fiat currency that's just backed by ... drumroll please... a relational database.
The issue itself is that Chromium uses a lot of memory. And electron basically just runs Chromium. Except that since each Electron-based app ships its own very isolated copy of Chromium, the following problems occur:

- The operating system cannot share memory between different Electron processes. Normally if you start many processes of the same binary, the memory is shared and only copied on write. Since each Electron app is a different binary (even though they are 99% identical) they each eat memory.

- The above applies to disk size as well. Electron apps are usually huge, and 99% of the binary is the same as all your other electron apps.

This is mostly why I'm against electron. If electron worked like the JVM and each app shared a runtime, many issues would be solved, including many electron apps running old, and vulnerable versions of Chromium. Now it's only updated if the developers decide to ship a new version.
That you don't like the taste of no space after comma is a fair reason, but it is still a pedantic reason.

Personally I think the importance depends on the font face and particular letters used, and in your example it was entirely unimportant: I couldn't actually see the difference for a good while.
Yeah. A jammer. Seems to work great for tens of meters...how does it cope with inverse square law, I wonder?
Sorry, but that's not what you claimed.

> I don't need some retroactive scientific study to show this because the evidence is already there, vouched for by those who use it. There is no placebo effect for seizures.
Own your places
Wuzgud lets you save all the places you loved on your trips or in your hometown. You can add as many photos to your post as you like and add lots of info about the ambiance, the menu and other things you would like to recommend to friends and followers. You can toggle between your own world map and a shared one with your friends to get inspiration for your next trips from people you know and trust.
Sites like Facebook and Instagram have great content, but unless a post was made recently, you can never find it when you need it. Wuzgud lets you filter posts by any combination of city, country, tag, and user to help you explore your world.
Standard deviation vs. Mean deviation
> find restaurants near me

How does that help me at home? I don't dispute the value of voice recognition on a phone. But we're talking about smart speakers here, in your home, always on.

(BTW, on a phone I can set up common queries like "find restaurants near me" as shortcuts and access them with a single touch.)

> gps represents a bigger value add relative to the trade-off

Yep. Also, I can easily turn my GPS off, restrict apps from accessing it, etc. Home smart speakers are necessarily always on.
Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment