skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're also going to have widespread gigabit fiber and 5G soon, probably prior to significant adoption of technologies like this. So even if there is a period of time where these optimizations don't exist yet, rapidly improving internet speeds will help mitigate some of it as well.
And neither a lobbyist unless that definition has lost all meaning.
In practice they don't on a lot systems. Last time I checked glibc baked in Linux's overcommit by default nonsense, just throws up it's hands and says 'malloc never fails'.
Please point to the point where it makes the argument absurd.
I think it's simply a fact that the UK will be faster than the US. A UK PhD or DPhil must be done within four years if funded by the research council (the usual method for funding) and most are done in around three. Finishing a US PhD in four years would be pretty extraordinary.
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I think there is a big difference between having an intuitive stroke of genius and then spending lots of time crafting a paper using rigorous mathematics and physics based on that idea. The later is not a process driven by intuition. And the former doesn't have a real cost like buying stocks do. If the idea popped into his head, but after an hour he realized the math didn't work, it would have been no big deal.
Ancient Alto workstations or LispM are build around high level languages and they were FAR superior to any contemporary competitor... So technically IMO that's not a real arguments. Maybe a cost arguments but that's a really complex point to evaluate.
i deleted it earlier

i was also the only parent in kindergarten out of 100 children who had problem to sign consent with publishing photos of my child on Facebook, since then kindergarten backpedaled and will discontinue using Facebook for photos and other communication and use their own site plus they upload photos to password protected galleries on other local photo sharing website without attaching names of children

speaking of backpedaling, photos and deleting accounts with Flickr deadline approaching in few days i am also gonna delete wives and mine Flickr/yahoo accounts and all photos, ain't gonna bring them any visitors with 1000 photos they let me store there after luring me to 1TB offer
Wow congrats
Haha well at least he isn't cursing anymore
Agree with the book recommendation.

Study linear algebra first!
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> innovations like the amazing standard library

Excuse me?
How bad would it be to insert a comment about regenerative braking here?

But yeah, that sounds so bizarre. The Emperor's New clothes territory.
Ask HN: What do you want to build in 2019?
Yes, whoever provided that particular soundbite really shouldn't be in charge of public communication.
Being a society, free, not tied to few big guys, for instance with the best "backup" possible for our valuable data. Apart of that if you want a distributed network (and we desperately need it) you can choose to participate or not if it's architectural designed for that...
A neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code for brain memory implants
because you distrust microsoft fundamentally enough to avoid .net core?
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my first UK company was a 'shelf' company. It was already pre-registered with a name ( which I never changed ) and all I had to was sign a document and pay a small fee to take it over. At the time it was WAY faster than starting one from scratch.

These days it's just as fast to create a company from scratch as it's all online. My second and third companies were 'from scratch'.
shape makes sense if you think of arrays in terms of linear algebra concepts(which you should if you're working with ML concepts imo)
I already did.

You try to use lobbyist to mean that he can't be trusted. That's absurd if you know who he is and how he works and what he works for.

He isn't a lobbyist in any meaningful way any more than you are in this thread or the environmental organizations or the IPCC or the oil companies etc.

If you think your argument can stand on its own you wouldn't need to put that in yet you did and that's absurd and provides no further context and doesn't add to the discussion.
Sort of like a reverse merger?
Not all of it. Is there something in there telling me what to do with a load of distorted images made with an ordinary flat-bed scanner? No reason why there should be. My whinge is a bit off-topic. Sorry about that.

Does anyone in the UK offer a cheap book-scanning service using high-tech hardware? If not, why not? Is there just not enough demand for it to be worth getting the equipment? In other words, in the UK, at least, it's cheaper to pay someone to turn the pages?
I recently opened a Hong Kong company. During the process I’ve seen how easy it can be to change your company name, but there is a company registry number tied to it.

I don’t know if that changes too though.
What kinds of chemicals are in these batteries, and what does disposal/recycling look like?
> I'm pretty sure inhaling vaporized ecig juice is much better for people's health than cigarette smoke.

I've seen this thinking many times in this thread. How is this so? Smoking seemed harmless in the 1950s as well.
World doe not have that many dangerous positions, unless you go out of your way to create unnecessary amount of dangerous positions out of sage ones. One way to do it is large permanent war, other is not to care about safety of workers.

Either way, it does not suggest anything good about those making decisions.

And of course, many historical groups were willing to die and sacrifice themselves while being were bad news as leaders (ss, communists, isis, French revolution actors, ...). Hitler himself voluntered for WWI, Stalin fought as young soldier and ISIS is build on former combatants.
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Aside from vaping being less harmful than cigarettes, kids were vaping long before Juul was popular. They are not responsible for this trend; they're just an inevitable improvement upon semi-disposable e-cigarettes.

This argument also completely ignores the beneficial aspects of Juul. It is far more effective at helping smokers quit than most other products. To focus in on "save the children!" fear mongering while ignoring the primary benefit of vaping is dishonest and helps no one.
> why not google it?

Two reasons:

- the quality of information available in HN discussions is usually much better than whatever you can find in the first couple of pages of Google search results. It's usually more up to date, and usually presented with less bias.

- setting aside the quality of search results, the time needed for a person without much knowledge about the topic to look through dozens of pages can be actually a full afternoon of work (which would be prohibitive on a day such as today); on the other hand, people who are familiar with the topic can provide an answer in a few minutes.

> Or are you “just asking”?

Please don't do this. I'm not a mod or anything, but I actually quite like the guidelines here - and the relevant point is near the top of guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
https://grammarchecker.net/ is awesome i like it.
so you can offset server costs to the client which usually means bloated laggy apps until someone comes along and figures out an optimised way of doing things, for eg react.js vs phonegap's comparative shitshow
Thank you for the paper - it is well-written and succinct. Karhik, do you think this approach can be applied to Apache Spark as well (given its well-known slowness with UDFs)?
Replying again as I am no longer able to edit.

Just quickly read the terms for Lumberyard and they state the following[0].

> Operating Restrictions. Without our prior written consent, (a) the Lumberyard Materials (including any permitted modifications and derivatives) may only be run on computer equipment owned and operated by you or your End Users, or on AWS Services, and may not be run on any Alternate Web Service and (b) your Lumberyard Project may not read data from or write data to any Alternate Web Service.

But reading their github repo and FAQ you are allowed to use hardware you own and operate yourself and you are allowed to connect to things like steamworks etc [1]

> Q. Can my Lumberyard game connect to services like Steamworks, Xbox Live, PSN, Apple Game Center, Google Play Games, or console social services?

> Your game may read and write data to platform services and public third-party game services for player save state, identity, social graph, matchmaking, chat, notifications, achievements, leaderboards, advertising, player acquisition, in-game purchasing, analytics, and crash reporting.

So it would seem that you are fairly locked down to what Web Services you are allowed to use with Lumberyard so that is where Amazon will make their money back.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#57._Amazon_Lumberyard_...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/faq/#licensing
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Upon investigation it seems they are likely of enough accuracy to get you into the right ballpark of understanding what life in the Gulag was like.

If you want to debate specifics of how many million vs how many 10s of millions, you're missing the point.
doesn't it affect complexity on an exponential scale though? codebases aren't paragons of perfection when even 2 devs are working on them
Solid prediction. I've been THIS close to learning Scala a few times. I did pick up some Groovy/Grails a couple years ago and decided, while familiar & powerful, I'd try to venture outside of the JVM next.

Scala still on my mind though. Kotlin too.
I don't understand this debate in the comments. Yes, vaping is less dangerous than cigarettes, but it is still waaay more damaging than simply not smoking at all.

Juul sells itself as a way for smokers to quit or change to something less damaging but it is mostly introducing it to kids who didn't smoke anything before!
It appears to me that someone at Patreon has an axe to grind. Otherwise they would start enforcing their TOS against racial slurs or discrimination on their own platform first rather than using the TOS as an excuse to ban specific individuals for "breaking" their TOS on a separate platform like Youtube. This type of selective enforcement wouldn't have turned out to be such a big issue if they had notified the affected accounts and gave them a grace period or a chance to change their behavior. If this really was about the TOS then Pateron wouldn't try to enforce it on their competitor's platform which by definition doesn't have to obey it.
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Catching and dealing with naughty devices on my home network
Kind of interesting, but then what's the point of Facebook? Asides from invitations - which, perhaps naively, this friend did through a post in his feed - the only thing that I'd be interested by is maintaining a light-touch connection with friends who are overseas by looking at their posts in the news feed.
Loooong enough. https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/
Also potentially of interest to the HN crowd, my hometown has municipal broadband [1]. Where I live, I actually have municipal broadband as well, though it looks like perhaps OMU beats us on speed [2]. My mom lives out in the country and gets her internet from an antenna pointed at the water tower, which seems to work pretty well [3].

[1] https://osage.net/telecom/internet-services/high-speed-inter...
[2] http://centraliowabroadband.org/
[3] https://osage.net/telecom/internet-services/rural-wireless/
It’s so frustrating when the code or a binary isn’t released and we can’t play with this ourselves.

What’s the point of publicly releasing a paper with no real proof of work? They could be faking the algorithm.
Well that’s cool, but the wording worries me:

public information should be open by default to the public in a machine-readable format, where such publication doesn’t harm privacy or security
federal agencies should use evidence when they make public policy

The word “should” is used in both one and two. If my time in the government taught me anything, it’s that “should” is only slightly stronger than “may”. If an instruction says “shall”, then it is required to be done.
Separation between allocation and construction is a fundamental part of the C++ language, performed by different functions.

I'm not sure why you think that placement new is against the grain of the language, it is what allows non-intrusive yet inline data structures in the first place.

Re constructors newings things, one still has the option of passing the preallocated objects via constructor parameters, or customize allocation via an allocator. The language itself doesn't have a preference.
I've used it a fair amount, and continue to be amazed with the quality it puts out. There are still some issues with formal pronouns, subject-matter-specific contractions etc, but otherwise it does a great job with both EN->DE and DE->EN
No he meant “being the author of an article".
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I have a lot of family in rural Arkansas and Dollar General has been a life changer for them. It's only about 30minutes to Walmart or a grocery store, but that can huge hassle for small things or late night medicine.
I found Taleb's writing style to be extremely pompous and very hard to read. His ideas may be interesting, but I couldn't finish any of his books because every sentence reads like "I'm smarter than anyone else, and I need to remind you as much as I can"
Compared to what? Extracting fossil fuels requires bringing toxins to surface and combusting them endlessly.
Why is Japanese culture and society not changing in the best interest of the Japanese people?
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$100->150 is really good. That puts these flow batteries directly in lithium's territory in terms of cost.

Flow batteries would make excellent grid batteries. I was under the assumption that cost and manufacturing were the prime limiters.
Lisp and Haskell use obligate GC, which is a non-starter in any sort of low-level or latency-sensitive programming. Haskell uses laziness, which makes memory allocations very hard to reason about. Lisp uses dynamic typing, which means you have to dispatch on literally every single variable access... There are lots of these hidden overheads - you can write a kernel in a higher-level language than C (see Redox as an example) but it really can't be the usual sort of quick-and-dirty application-programming oriented "higher-level language"
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Small stores in rural areas are overpriced, understocked, regularly have expired products, and often close around 6pm. I've literally ran into store owners in Walmart who buy things there and just mark them up 2-3x. But to be fair, they really have no other options unless they drive a couple hundred miles.

DG pops up in extremely rural areas that no real store wants to go, not even gas stations. I know several in towns of 100-200 people that are 40-50 miles from anything resembling a town.
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"Make producers pay for the clean up. F them."

Totally agree...but this isn't a lake or local stretch of a river that a pulp mill is polluting, this random/isolated stretches of the ocean where everything ends up.

Does international waters jurisdiction make it harder to make them pay for it (from a legal perspective)?
When you factor in the commute many of us have, 7 days a week would be horrible. Of the many refliefs the weekend brings, one of them is not having to waste 1.5+ hours in a car.
I put it uncooked into the blender and use it as a flour replacement. Works well as a 1:1 replacement. You need to reduce fluids about 20%. It makes great pancakes -- it does stick more and is less binding, so be prepared if you put it in a waffle iron. Probably need to use PAM to avoid a "bad time".
> Also, if you create a C to C# port, it means using the C Language style API

Is this really necessary? Is it impossible to just write a .Net-native library with whatever an API that would just open an SQLite file and run SQL queries against it? As for me that's all I ever needed of it.
That's weird because you can use US student loans to fund education in the UK..
He was stupid in a sense that disidents standing up to communist were stupid, slaves talking back to slaveovners were stupid and students openly directly saying that grade is unfair are stupid.

He did not failed to think independently. He failed to be appropriately submissive. That submission was being framed as independent smart thinking is quite usual authoritarian move.
For this to lead to a net negative, it has to be more than just a lost opportunity to make energy: either it is a significant energy consumer (i.e. not just a dissipater), or the turbines must be incapable of producing significant amounts of energy even when working correctly. There is something that has not been explained here.
I've been working on a Bomberman clone in the past, but never got to finish it. Re-wrote the app 3 times (v1 and v2 written in ObjC, v3 and v4 written in Swift). Didn't finish it last time because I couldn't really get collisions between monsters working correctly. Gonna give it another go in 2019.
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Good thing nuclear plants don't produce any toxic waste either.
You are putting words in my mouth and misrepresenting my argument, as I suspect from your tone you are aware.

Immigrants (and furthermore children of immigrants) can and do respect and uphold the culture of the nation they move to. The idea that immigration destroys culture is patently false and there are countless counter-examples.

This view of immigration as "replacement" is just obviously wrong.
>> Well, I’m nowhere near as talented a programmer as Linus Torvalds, but I totally disagree with him.

I think that says it all. On top of that, Linus is in charge of the project he works on and is allowed to run it as he sees fit. Given all that, I decided to stop reading. OK, that and I already have my own impression of C++ but this intro doesn't make me want to reconsider.
I think they can dumb it down if they want.... BUT have an 'advanced' button for people who know what they're doing. I wonder how simple of a plugin it could be to make a 'Firefox Config Plus' if one doesn't already exist...
Hi, this is how I do it:

1. First I read some theoretical info about the new technology that I want to learn. It can be a book, documentation, or the information can be in a form of a podcast or a video. You need some theoretical background in order to understand the core concepts.

2. Then from my ideas list I pick a new project to work on. I then create some sketches, designs and start coding. As a new school coder, I mostly use google for answers regarding syntax, methods, patterns and general best practices.

Sometimes it works the other way around: I first decide on the project I want to create, and then learn the tech that the project requires.

I also closely watch the general tech ecosystem, and pick projects that allow me to learn new things, building upon the previous knowledge. In 2019 this will be less important, because now I have my skillset in place, so the main criteria for picking projects will be the project's potential for commercial success.
This country ( UK ) is highly prone to mass psychosis. Not really ascribing anything negative there, just an observation.

A few winters ago there was minute by minute updates on Bird Flu.

The press was covering swans and ducks found dead on the ground. Each individual fowl corpse was covered in breathless detail amongst infographics and timelines

The government was manoeuvred into buying close to a billion pounds of Tamiflu treatment. Some of that was returned, but £500m wasn’t (thanks to commentators below )

Tamiflu killed more people that the H5N1

So may more examples beyond this
Replaced my 2016 macbook pro with a T480s and the touchpad is okay (running Ubuntu). I don't miss the old touchpad so much for pointing, but the two-finger right click doesn't work for me on Ubuntu (tapping does, but not clicking), it's still the old fashioned hinged design and it doesn't have inertial scrolling, which is really a drawback. But the keyboard is so much better and the keycaps won't break and fall out. So it's still a win for me, I don't want to support apple as a company and their planned obsolescence.
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Thank you for the clarification, I like the UI of this browser, maybe it can get adopted officially by ParrotSec OS, looks like they customize Firefox a bit as it is, you may be saving them a bit of effort.
Trovalds is not comparing top C programmers to average C++ programmers. What he meant was -- a lot of people mess up with kernel code and some of them choose to contribute back. Most of these guys must be => average programmer. So if these guys used C++ to give back to the kernel then it would be chaos.
I really like:
„We're not masturbating around with some
research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole
and only point was to make a usable system. It's why it's not some
crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.“

It‘s too direct but easily understandable.
I find a classical clicky-button mouse to be superior to trackpads (or Apple’s weird no-button mice) and I am extemely happy that not all industry is blindly copying Apple at this point.
Regenerative braking is not an issue here. Wind turbines slow down the wind to generate electricity, so, in a sense, they are always doing regenerative braking when operating as intended. They would only be mechanically braked when this (and also blade feathering) is insufficient or inapplicable for some reason.
And the simplest process and best service always will be- piracy.
You sound like someone who uses vim instead of emacs. So many keys for each operation!
Earlier discussion after release of suspects yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18745624
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I've been a fan of Apple's trackpads for a long time, but I was still surprised at how much the addition of haptic feedback improved them. Just getting away from the hinged click mechanism was nice, but being able to adjust in software the force required to click is a really great feature, and it doesn't require support at the application level.
At scale and in the medium term, none.

There is (was, maybe, don't follow it that closely) a "coin" ICO by the IPFS author that would supposedly monetize and incentivize. Sounds shitty if you ask me. There already are some storage based ICOs such as Storj, and all suck.
Resource Allocation Is Initialization is one of the central themes in C++.

> one still has the option of passing the preallocated objects via constructor parameters, or customize allocation via an allocator

I'd rather just allocate_the_thing(); initialize_the_thing(); do_things_with_the_thing(); free_the_thing(); which makes it very easy to pull these farther away from each other, or to perform bulk operations over many "objects". In other words, I just want to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and not have to build and use awkward semantically heavy trap doors (rvalue references?) to not do the systematic things that weren't a good idea in the first place.
You're on the wrong website then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery#Chemistries