skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this has little to do with an anti-authoritarian streak. It's mostly a combination of continuous property rights going back more than a thousand years (some of these unregistered bits have belonged to the Crown since the Norman conquest), and it being not-inconvenient for large landowners to be able to avoid scrutiny.

People with dodgy money would indeed like to buy English land, partly for the legal certainty you suggest, and partly because we've historically been very slow to ask from where you got it...
Probably a lot of slaves as well. One has to consider how a large band of soldiers survives "in country". A lot of pillaging, ravaging and general nastiness. Slaves were a fact of life back then.
Thanks for the feedback! I roughly added some previous and next links as you suggested.

As for playing audio from a background tab, I believe browsers actually allow it, but for some reason, audio played though emscripten's APIs seems to stutter or stop when the tab is backgrounded. It might not be hard to fix, but I haven't really looked into it.
This is a very nice looking font, I may have to try it out. I’ve pretty much stuck to Roboto Mono (with powerline for shell and ligature symbols [on/off] for editors) the last few years. I personally find it readable.
A more charitable view would be, "Currently I have better evidence in the literature that this medication would be more helpful than sun exposure, which in large quantities has more evidence of harm than benefit."

That's not an indictment of physicians, that's a recognition that our evidence base is skewed (for a variety of reasons). But there is good evidence that at least for some people, sun exposure above some level does more harm than benefit. You're saying the average primary care doctor should just toss that out. Who says this isn't the latest whim to be disproven in 20 years?

The evidence base for lifestyle interventions sucks because it's much harder to measure and pharma has certainly been able to tip the scales, no question. That should change and I hope it does. But when I have a patient come in and ask, we go with what we've got.
I have found that the best way of learning the HtDP approach to program design, at least for me (I find the book itself a bit dry), are the EdX "How to Code" free moocs [1] [2]. The instructor is fantastic. It completely changed the way I program and design.

If you like the approach and want to learn more, like, for instance, how to extend it to OO design, I list below links to several courses (most, except for the last one, offer enough material to complete them on your own, but I couldn't find any videos) at the university where HtDP's main author, Matthias Felleisen, is tenured (North Eastern). The courses are listed in the order in which they should be taken, and the rationale is explained by the professor in the paper "Developing Developers" [3]:

* CS 2500 - Fundamentals I [https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2500/]

* CS 2510 - Fundamentals II - Introduction to Class-based Program Design
[https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2510/index.html]

* CS 2800 - Logic and Computation
[https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2800/index.html]

* CS 3500 - Object Oriented Design - Spring 2018 (scaling up the 3 previous courses) [https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs3500/]

* CS 4500 - Software Development [http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/4500-f18/index.html]

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x

[3] http://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developers...
Humans also evolved to be pretty much useless after their children (or maybe grandchildren) are self-sufficient, so being mostly immobile in your fifties is probably of little concern to evolution.
I have no idea.

I have only read Thompson's Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming and some old ML books I can't name. I have no idea if it's a good compared to other FP books.
Sunlamps were used as a performance enhancing 'drug' by German and Soviet athletes in the 30s and 40s.
I agree completely. This book was recommended to me as “life changing”. I was skeptical given that my experience is that 90% of self help books are a rehash of “How to win Friends and Influence People”.

As I have moved into professional roles with progressively more responsibility, the tools and techniques in this book are what have allowed me to scale myself out in a way that my prior ways of working would not have enabled. Many productivity tips (such as inbox zero) have their roots in this book.
I agree.
But all data mining/machine learning projects I can think of are either trivial or typical.

That is why I was asking for suggestions.

Thank you.
10. The dermatological associations of Australia, New Zealand and Britain contradict the American one by recommending sun exposure in moderation.
It all makes sense when you look at basic facts.

Rocket reuse became a normal occurance, probably earlier than the majority of the industry anticipated. Their competitive pricing took the market by storm, changing the equation of sending anything to space. There are less new payloads to launch in 2019, because it takes much longer to contract and build a satellite than to send it to space, and the market hasn't yet adapted to this new mechanic.

Their need for manufacturing new boosters scaled down greatly because of reusability. You cannot reasign all engineers to other projects, some must go.

On top of that SpaceX is moving to new risky projects like the Starship, and they need to cut any fat that poses risk to their long term plans.

Lastly, as few pointed out, it's a great opportunity to get rid of underperforming employees and restructure the company.
I find the idea of contexts holds up even more importantly - In fact if you are constantly context switching (social phone at work, etc) it may be something you have to enforce yourself
This [https://gittobook.org/books/57/You-Dont-Know-JS] may be what you need. It seems to be the whole six books on one page, with .EPUB and .MOBI available for download.
I think you may be conflating two things here: C#/Java/etc style static OO vs Smalltalk/Python/etc dynamic OO, on the one hand, and class-based vs. prototype based OO, on the other. IMO most of the good bits of JavaScript's object system come from it being dynamic, not from it being prototype based (indeed, JS and Python's object systems are very similar, except that Python has language level support for treating some objects as representing types).
My wife came home yesterday and told me that her work said if the shutdown continues in late February - March that they'll probably have to cut her position along with others at her workplace (they're federally-funded).

If that happens, I will likely be forced to quit my current job as well and find a higher paying job to help compensate while she looks for new work. I'm currently paid under market rate, but I love my job, so I'd prefer to stay where I'm at instead of look for other work to make up for our loss of income.

If this shutdown continues, I think people severely underestimate the negative impact it's going to have on this country. There's going to be a lot of pain and transitions that will have to happen.

If he really wants this wall funded, he should go through the normal channels. It's difficult to see how this isn't anything but a temper tantrum.
Reminds me of an episode of Futurama.

https://theinfosphere.org/The_Futurama_Holiday_Spectacular#A...
It's only just dawned on me that you don't need chairs in space.
This Quirky Car Is Japanese. But There’s ‘Something Very British’ About It
Reviewing: I review the daily todo every morning and update it every night, and I do EOW and EOM status updates with detailed analyses for the weekly and monthly files.
Why could I not finish something? What should I do next month to correct it? That kind of analysis.

Moving / Reprioritizing: It's a necessity for me, because unlike a salaried job, I have to balance between my revenue-earning work and my hobbies. I do have to defer tasks often, to a different week or even a different month, all the time. The EOW and EOM updates are when I decide what I should defer to later. But the ideal is to stick to the schedule as much as possible through self-discipline and willpower.

Working notes: Each project and idea gets its own directory. I maintain current status of each project in its directory along with detailed notes, so that I can pick it right back months later. These are stored and tracked outside the above todo system. Since I review even the yearly goals everyday, everything gets done to a reasonable extent even if it's some months later than planned.

Trivial tasks: When I started off, I had just the yearly and daily todos. It's precisely because of trivial tasks - esp tasks which are one-time but critical nonetheless - that I introduced weekly and monthly todos. Anything important that takes time and requires me to allocate time goes into one of these lists. Otherwise my mind is unable to allocate time efficiently. Very trivial tasks like "have lunch" don't go anywhere, but I keep buffers in the daily todo for all such daily routine tasks.

If you are into learning stuff, you have probably heard of "deliberate practice". Reviewing tasks daily/weekly/monthly, and explicitly analyzing and planning for them is my way of "deliberate practice" for my life goals. I have tried a lot of visual tools in the past - GTD tools, Trello, Mind mapping - but two problems all of them had was 1) writing detailed analysis is not possible in the given interface and 2) they are designed as store to remember tools which means review may be possible but deliberate practice of planning is not easy.
> Most of the patches I recognise were churches or Government buildings, roads etc. [...] These aren't the 'elite'

"Elite" qualifies the owners, not the property. The Church of England and the crown are most certainly elite entities.
The start ups that talk about saving/changing the world are typically the ones that seem to be doing the least to change the world out of pure empathy. I see that the most in digital media, or the companies that are in a really traditional area but are being hip about it, something like point of sale systems.
Tesla/spacex – financials and raising
I'm a huge tesla and spacex fan. going on 10+ years now.

I've recently gotten back on Twitter and in an effort to be more exposed to opinions outside of just the tech world have seen a lot of criticism about Tesla/SpaceX running out of money and about to die.

Understand everyone here worships Elon and loves the products. Without spending 25 hours researching what is real about this, the good and bad vs the supposed media/twitter craze.

I chalk it up to finance not understanding how to build innovative and very lasting companies. But also don't want to be ignorant.

Some of the things I saw, cited by influential finance people

-SpaceX tried to raise 500m and only raised 273m (might be explained by holiday season)

-SpaceX laying off 10%

-Tesla breaking ground on factory without designs (feel like this is so wrong but I just don't know)

-Tesla not being able to raise more money (because of a wells notice, of which I just learned what that means)

-SpaceX resources being used for Boring Co tunnels

-Tesla not sending permanent license plate tags for some super complicated finance scam to delay paying down their a/p until they sell another car (ponzi scheme)

-Elon vs Azalelia banks drug cocaine twitter beef

there's a ton more. And I realize everyone tweeting could have a short position and be doing so to try to instill doubt but this seems like a lot.

what is the tl;dr other than Elon does some insane stuff and is equally an asset as he is a liability?

What should someone who wants both of these companies to succeed but doesn't want to be optimistically ignorant need to know?
For people who require FP64 performance this seems like a really good deal.

The Titan V which also has 6.9 TFlops FP64 costs $2999, has 12 GByte memory compared to the Radeon VII's 16 GByte, and it has only 652.8 GB/s memory bandwidth compared to the Radeon VII's 1 TB/s.
We strongly support all initiatives that support free speech and Bitcoin.

Of course this solution is fine for those who have tech background and can handle the necessary customizations.

But our mission is to provide a user friendly censorship-free Patreon alternative for everyone, including all the necessary features: all integrations, video hosting, etc.

To achieve this goal, we need to sustain our 6 dev team to work full time and deliver a top notch product.

We would love to do it without needing to charge, but it's not possible tbh. Ads rev isn't even an option for us.

Also, we will use the revenue to create marketing and edutional campaigns to educate others and help Bitcoin - the free speech money - achieve mass adoption.
Ask HN: How to get better at large system design?
There are a lot of resources for learning algorithms, code design patterns, etc.

As you grow, what are the good resources for system design patterns? How did you get better at it? For large system designs, like say a fulfilment ecosystem, the choices become more abstract with not immediately clear trade-offs.
To defend GTD slightly, one of the core tenants is if it will take less than 15 minutes or so, do it now (maybe it’s 5 - I stretch it to however long it takes me to do dishes or mop the floor).
Not even wiped out: redwoods still exist. But the biggest trees were destroyed.
They can and do hire approved permanent residents too.

It’s harder but they can work on ITAR information too.

However the point stands that those people are vetted and tracked. How effective that is once they are in China or Russia etc I don’t know.
Pork Cake Recipe Discovered at the Internet Archive
My aunt got laid off after ~40 years of employment, which meant a welcomed bit early retirement for her and a multiple year salary severance pay.

My mom got laid off after a bit over 15 years of employment and got about 2 years salary as severance pay.

On top of that stuff like healthinsurance isn't a "benefit", but a social security and taken care of even in unemployment.
Source: it's fucking MIT.
Do you have any experience monetizing open source projects? Like, server costs are definitely the most negligible of all costs of running a project!
As you point out, sounds can only start in foreground tabs, but the glitch here is that already-running audio is getting stopped when the user switches to another tab. So it's a bug in my code!
Going to take a lot to pry Ubuntu Mono from my hands, but I'm game for giving it a shot.
So what’s your point? People should shut up and stop wanting to improve things?

> The web would be a better place if Javascript developers put all of their effort trying to write code in the language they would rather be using into writing better code in the language they are using.

Right, but then no one would use “this”...
The running conspiracy theory is that they want to sell you support via application engineers.

Could be a case of unfit business model leading to wrong incentives.
I used to use GTD. I still use it for reactive tasks. It is not good at proactive tasks. I use evernote as a GTD repository, but I only act on it occasionally.

Since I retired my tasks are by nature proactive (since they come from me). I tend to organize by long term goals. I start a goal by defining the success criteria for that goal then each long term goal is a "project" in an outline text file. Each morning I look at my long term goals and decide what I want to make progress on today. That turns into a backlog for today.

Since one of my long term goals was to learn swift - I wrote an iphone app to parse the file for items marked "@today" and turn that into a todo list that I can carry with me. Apple made this convenient when they added an icloud file system for the iphone.
> People with downs can lead rich and rewarding lives

Anyone who visits or is in Berlin and likes their theater wild and creative, these people rock so much:

https://rambazamba-theater.de/

https://rambazamba-theater.de/programm/

I went there with a kind of patronizing attitude, like, I was prepared to clap politely... but I left feeling very alive and utterly impressed. I know such examples are not representative of the full spectrum of people living with that condition, of course not, but for what it's worth (and that's a lot, to me personally) that theater didn't blow my mind because "it was pretty good for people with Downs syndrome", but because of what they did, because of what it was in and of itself.
If Musk is really more interested in getting humanity into space as soon as possible then padding his already large bankroll, having some competition can really keep people and companies focused on making quick progress. I have heard him say he would like some more companies competing with SpaceX in interviews for just this reason and his actions seem to suggest he his main goal in life really is making humanity a multi-planet civilization.

He also said that he joined Tesla to help jump start the electric car revolution by a decade and his total asset liquidation in 2008 to support Tesla and SpaceX seems to support that this attitude is not just some PR move, but who knows for sure.
The maximum universally accepted death tall is 4000 but it is not actual deaths but rather outcome of statistical simulations. Still, much lower than 2.1 mln.
Not if you enjoy eating food or flying. Or are dependent on SNAP benefits. Or are a Native American. Or are trying to use constituent services with a freshman member of Congress.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683642605/how-is-the-shutdown...
Warning, anecdotes ahead:

I tried to read SICP after about 6 months to a year after learning my first language, and I couldn't get past the part where they turn a recursive function into a tail-call eliminated 'iterator' style recursive function. I understood what was going on, but I just couldn't grasp how to generalize it. Of course, I get it now; you just pass an extra variable in and use it like you would the `i` var in a for loop, but at the time I just couldn't grasp it.

I also had similar struggles with the early use of math problems as examples and other vaguely described algorithms.

Granted, my background is in Music, so I didn't have the domain knowledge that the author mentions, but programming is more about strategic and logical thinking, so I was perfectly able to do that even at an early stage.

I think MIT is right to think SICP is too much for a freshman. Hell, I was already graduated and applying for grad-school when I tried to read SICP and I still struggled.
5% is insane, I would never work for a company that regularly laid off that many people. Firing under performers is one thing, but to systematically clear house is toxic. How are you supposed to build a career if one of your coworkers/friends is canned every year, so everyone is wondering what year is theirs? So people overwork themselves to make sure it doesn't happen to them. You need to show your employees safety, so one bad project doesn't ruin their lives.
Anyone remembers Monster vs Blue Jeans Audio / Kurt Denke? When a bigger company tries to legally bullshit the small guy and it falls very very flat.

> Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.

https://www.audioholics.com/news/blue-jeans-strikes-back
Please don’t make the claim that “both sides” are responsible for or prolonging this shutdown. The House passed a series of bills that are essentially the same as the ones given unanimous consent in the Senate last month in order to provide for government funding.

Those bills passed by the House include substantial funding for border security. All sides are in agreement about the necessity of border security. A single side and a small group of men on that side are holding the lives of 800k federal workers and the lives, health and prosperity of the public at ransom. They’re doing this in order to get a cheap political “win” for a border wall. A wall that will be ineffective and will never be built even if they’re handed the money to build it, due to the enormous ecological, logistical and legal barriers to do so.
Show HN: Generate hashes of online resources
`this` is just an environment parameter in JS and must be treated as such.

Any function call in JS is a short form of this:

func.call(its_this,arg0,arg1)

In the same way as arguments at call site are passed through named parameters into function body, `this` parameter is passed to the function from outside.

That stands true for any language that uses this keyword. C++, Java, etc.

No rocket science in all this.
I also don't think it quite gives the right impression to say "[t]ypically this land belongs to wealthy families, old institutions, the Church, or the Crown". I zoomed in on my house, and the three largest parcels of unregistered land nearby were a public park, a school (a Church school, but I don't think that's quite what people imagine when they hear 'land owned by the Church'), and one has a fire station on it.
JFK's famous "we choose to go to the moon" speech would be propaganda also.
> 7 does not seem valid (consider the case of sugar consumption)

How much refined sugar do you think people were eating in the environment of evolutionary adaptation?

(Although, I agree that causes of death change as life expectancy changes, and things that didn't matter before start to matter now that the low-hanging fruit has been picked)
Honestly there’s no use for prototypical inheritance. You get simpler code by avoiding it altogether as with standard OOP inheritance. You were taught correctly.
Fun fact: “tycoon” is a loanword from Japanese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tycoon
>Obviously sarcasm, but as a non-car-owner I get a kick out of people freaking out about these scooters taking up public space. Meanwhile every street in the city is full of cars

There are laws for cars including but not limited to federal highways laws, state/city/county/municipal traffic laws and parking laws. Those laws authorize what you refer to as “leaving them around the city”, you can only leave your car around the city if it’s in compliance and authorized by the law, the Law often specifically penalizing leaving your car in certain situations (ex. in front of fire hydrants; in handicap spaces without permits; in traffic lanes). Their are no laws blankety authorizing scooter companies to adbadon and/or sell their products/goods/services on public sidewalks or roadway. Generally speaking most states/counties/cities/municipalities will have laws specifically prohibiting the same subject to various penalties without prior authorization, permits, etc... consider the number of stories in recent years about kids lemonade stands being shutdown and fined for operating without licenses.

Depending how old you are you might remember pay phones, phone booths, or coin operated newspaper stands...definitely you are probably familiar with atms and vending machines. What if a “tech startup” just started cluttering streets and sidewalks with those. That too would be illegal and not at all similar legally to cars being “left around the city”. Maybe another example is farmers markets, think if a “tech company” just started setting up farmers markets wherever they wanted without prior authorization.
its harm.
Ellen and William Craft
There are plenty of judges who didn't attend Cambridge - if nothing else, there are plenty who attended Oxford.
Rebuking one point in the article.

This article confuses treating vitamin D deficiency to taking high doses of vitamin D.

1) Studies show that excess amount of vitamin D provides no benefits against cancer, heart disease and stroke.

2) Studies also show that vitamin D deficiency is related to many illness. Taking supplement protects against them.

You can determine if you have vitamin D deficiency with simple blood test.
I tried "tits", that worked.