skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this article is not the author of Racket.

Racket is built by a team and has been around a long time.
Blackberry Completes $1.4bn Deal for AI Firm Cylance
Using Norms to Understand Linear Regression
It's a 3D-map viewer for some particular set of Nintendo games.

The levels render correctly for me.

I guess the name "noclip" is because the effect is the same as using that cheatcode in quake etc.
Solo Boardgaming – A Beginners Guide
Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing (2017)
If you work in tech and a short commute is important to you, you can make it happen anywhere in the Bay.

I had a 2 mile commute when I was working at Google - it was 5 minutes by car, and about 12 minutes by bike. I've got a 30 foot commute now - I work from home. I've put about 30k miles on my 10 year old car.

Many of my friends are the same - live in Mountain View, work at the Googleplex, ~10 minute commute. Well, at least back when I was still commuting. I've heard traffic over the 101 bridges has gotten stupendously bad such that it can take 30 minutes to drive 100 yards, but that's easily averted by walking or biking. (Apparently it now takes less time to walk from most of North Mountain View to the Googleplex than to drive, during rush hour.)

You do pay for the privilege, and you sacrifice in other ways (eg. there's not much in the way of night life in the South Bay). But most of the folks with the 1-2 hour commutes in the Bay are a.) not in tech, and therefore screwed in many ways b.) consider living in the city to be non-negotiable, and therefore willing to put up with all sorts of literal shit to maintain that lifestyle or c.) consider living in the mountains to be non-negotiable, and so are willing to put up with a long but beautiful commute to maintain that lifestyle.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222180
> In LISP-like languages like Racket, the code is a list.

This is nothing special. In all languages, code is a list: a list of characters, that is.

Just saying.
My understanding is that biotech is actually better in Boston than the bay area by a pretty wide margin.
Of course lobbyists are behind the weakening of patent laws. Something really has to be done about the lobbying problem we have in this country.
How is Facebook not producing malware?

I struggle to see how they’re legally different from malvertising: perhaps there’s some vague terms about data or advertising (which also exists for malvertising! you agreed to the ads!) but at no point was there a “meeting of the minds” in which Facebook was authorized to bypass security mechanisms to exfiltrate data from the system.

I don’t see how Facebook’s behavior is anything but classic “hacking”, and a willful abuse of the CFAA.

I think it’s time we started addressing gigacriminals[0] like Zuckerberg: we need to stop pandering to people who commit millions of crimes a day, at “web scale”, and just use force.

If Facebook doesn’t want to get the memo that wanton criminality isn’t okay, then it’s time to use force to correct the behavior.

[0] I use gigacriminal in the technical sense: I believe Mark Zuckerberg, as the leader of an organization, has ordered over 1 billion criminal acts to be commmitted for his profit.
Leading by Example, as you describe it, sounds a lot like Andy Grove's concept of Task Relevant Maturity [0], described in his book High Output Management [1], which seems popular with the tech crowd.

[0] https://getlighthouse.com/blog/management-concept/
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Manag...
Medium is the new experts exchange. I loathe each time someone sends me a link to yet another blog post on this platform.
I largely agree but then I enter the modern ops stack where templated yaml is the lingua franca.

It’s incomprehensible and for each system you are operating you have to learn some arcane yaml incantations that have dramatic impact on your production systems. It’s a world crying out for a set of well factored dsl.
Barcelona vs. Sevilla Fc
https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/73a52bfe55e3a7701b08

https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/51ef92c11dac30590579

https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/049097521880bebc6044

https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/9c77a1ad80ab5243fe34

https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/045ac8f5973a0f11a656
https://qiita.com/HareGelam/items/bdfd3de2a71bb8f85d65
I wouldn't want a discussion with a single teenager about a movie though
You haven’t shown any supporting evidence of why you can’t compare them. Universal healthcare has shown to scale from Norway, Sweden, Denmark size to Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia size to UK, France, Germany size. What is the evidence it can’t scale to US size?
Visual Analysis of a Piece of Music (1930)
node-gyp has caused me headaches everywhere
A Good Bulk Certificate Generator in Python. Is There Anything Similar
Saffron is red.
Patent trolls would be OK if they couldn’t go after small companies. What’s worse is they prioritize small companies. In fact, buying patents and then suing makes IP from fundamentally valuable. I am generally OK with that, but not when it discourages startup ecosystems which are a huge source of real innovation.

What I’d love to see would be the democrat party to refocus their policies to shift towards small business against large corporations. Re-invent the American Dream. This could tie in well with the green new deal. Rather than talk about jobs, talk about the tens of thousands of small businesses.
What exactly are you shocked by? Are you saying that you can perceive the work a composer does as creating something of value, but you can't see how the work done by an arranger or a performer adds value to that original composition work? In the pop world, where the majority of artists don't write their own songs, there is an incredible amount of additional creative input between the songwriters handing over their guide track and the producers/performers releasing the finished product. If the moral principle behind copyright is that ownership of any original creative work remains in the hands of its creators, then it makes sense that those arrangers and performers should retain the rights to their own contributions, separate from the work of composers and lyricists.
Brightness set to 1. Lights must be out while my wife sleeps.
I'm not pro, I've a girlfriend.
Not only that. Freedom has its limits. Your freedom to a decision should not trump another person's freedom to live.

By not getting a vaccine when you medically can, you're putting others at risk because of your freedom.
Crossing my fingers for a http://hckrnews.com dark mode
I think a lot of the problem is education. Without education a lot of these ideas wouldn't occur.
Object Oriented C: Interfaces
A Nun Just Read the Riot Act to Bishops
Hardly helps when all the discussion is on the ycombinator site.
MR is much easier to explain to people who are not familiar with git than PR. Everyone who has used at least one version control system knows what merge is, whereas pull is a much less clear term.
Here in the UK, gambling and gambling advertising is legal. Gambling companies are licensed by the Gambling Commission and are required to follow a code of conduct with respect to social responsibility.

If a gambling company sent sales representatives to Gambling Anonymous meetings to offer free bets to recovering addicts, there would rightly be a public outcry and that company would likely be penalised or stripped of their license. I can open an incognito tab right now, visit an online support forum for gambling addiction and almost immediately start seeing advertising for gambling; thanks to ad tracking algorithms, those advertisements will start following me around the internet. That behaviour isn't any less antisocial simply because it's automated and online.

The idea that gambling companies should be allowed to specifically target gambling addicts is not a popular policy position, but it's the default behaviour of online advertising platforms. Personalisation and targeting algorithms are innately amoral; they only reflect the values of a company or a society if they are specifically engineered to do so.

This isn't a binary argument between "the internet should be a lawless free-for-all" or "the internet should be regulated until it resembles network television". It is primarily an argument about corporate social responsibility - companies should not be insulated against the externalities of their business practices. We're never going to completely agree on how social media companies should behave and moderating content at scale is immensely challenging, but that doesn't give them a free pass to ignore the risks and negative effects of their platform.
We’re Reading Fahrenheit 451 Wrong (2018)
> What are you going to do... tell your friends/students

mentors, professors and friends can have a lot of influence which (imo) could be a moral and ethical obligation one may like to exercise? If you were receiving advise or learning as a junior and looking for direction from a mentor (or any person you feel you can learn from and also trust), wouldn't you appreciate hearing their personal opinion on a subject, and how they arrived at their believes?

> Also, people generally believe it's quite possible to work on good things in a company that also does bad things. (And many of them indeed will.) So it's not the most compelling argument that you shouldn't work with X/Y/Z because they did bad thing W.

it's difficult if not impossible to convince somebody that a company they just passed their 1st interview with, to refuse because of ethics. Especially if they never had a job they might say I'll do it anyway and see for myself, I can still bail if it's that bad.

But employees already working there have more power by changing things from within. I think this is why point above is valid because everyone has mentors so speaking up (without judgement) is key. Only by changing the inside it's possible to have a dialogue about impact on environment/society and only by talking about it will we eventually be able to abolish the practice of labeling any such discussion as anti-profit or social-justice seeking. It does affect the long-term image and how the company/brand will be perceived in the long run.
> paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.

TBH that doesn't sound like an awful bad idea.
I hope they will use SignalR and Orleans as backend for battle operations so I can market my skills as battle tested.

https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/tree/master/src/SignalR
There are 20 aminoacids encoded in the DNA, and you need an "stop" code (the "start" code is reused when it is in the middle).

There are some tricks to transform the 20 aminoacids in other aminoacids after they are in the proteins, so that increase the number of used aminoacids a little https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-proteinogenic_amino_acids And there are small variations of the genetic code that include other aminoacids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code#Alternative_genet.... So the total number of aminoacids used in the wild is approximately 30.

With 4 bases and 3 bases per codon, you can encode up to 64, so there is some redundancy and room for a few new aminoacids.

You don't want too much redundancy, because you have to synthetize the tRNA. And in principle you need a tRNA for each possible codon, so you want to minimize the number of codons. (Actually, the genetic code has some patters and instead of 63 tRNA the cells have at most 41 tRNA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA

I guess that increasing the number of bases makes it more easy to make mistakes, and more difficult for the enzymes to distinguish them.
You might want to look at the series of books by Timothy Masters, in particular; the book "Neural, Novel & Hybrid Algorithms for Time Series Prediction".
The USA didn't have a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying all major cities on Earth a few times over in 1941. Nor a military force that is larger than the next ten biggest militaries on earth combined.

It's hardly similar circumstances. An attack on the US mainland today would mean global nuclear war. It's highly improbable to ever happen.
Ruby/rails is not the only factor, but it is certainly one of the contributing factors, and it is a big one. There's no need to deny that.
Where do you see that Delta Chat uses ICMP ?
> Few things in philosophy are definitively discarded (and if they are, they can come back in some revised form); they may fall out of fashion.

Disagree.

Some philosophical ideas seem increasingly unsustainable in the face of mounting scientific knowledge. Vitalism, for instance.

In a similar vein, I'd say we're seeing an ongoing erosion of dualism in philosophy of mind, which will be unlikely to recover. Like with vitalism, the more we learn from science, the less magic we need to explain ourselves, be it 'life', or consciousness.

In the case of logical positivism, it was a case of showing the position to be unsustainable on its own terms. That's analogous to disproving a scientific hypothesis - I don't see it coming back.

> either you took Brouwer's intuitionism, which has no inconsistencies but is inconvenient, or you take classical mathematics because it's useful. But if you do, you need to know that it's consistent, but you can't.

Neat. I see I'll have to do my homework.

> LEM is an axiom that you either include (in classical mathematics) or not (in constructive mathematics).

But if you do include it, don't you have to commit arbitrarily to either AC or ¬AC?

> if the formulas refer to something, what kind of thing is that thing, and if that thing exists independently of the formulas, how do we know that the formulas tell us the truth about those things?

Isn't this 'just' a question of knowing that the correspondence is valid?

> There's an infinity of possible derivations, that yield all the theorems in the theory. We can look at that as a form of nondeterministic computation (that nondeterministically chooses an inference) .

Right, I'm with you. Infinite graph traversal.

> Gödel did.

Roger Penrose too. Honestly I find his position to be almost risibly weak. It's plain old quantum mysticism and wishful thinking, as far as I can tell. Microtubules are meant to be essentially magical? Seriously? Here he is explaining his position (takes about 10 minutes) https://youtu.be/GEw0ePZUMHA?t=660 and here's the Wikipedia article on his book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
You are correct. Thank you.
There are a bunch of things going on in your post:

1. If you're willing to train programmers, then all you're really looking for is an IQ test to see if they're smart enough to learn how to program. So in that case, you don't really need to ask programming questions at all. But if you're not willing to train programmers, then it makes sense to filter out programmers who aren't familiar with basic problem solving techniques, regardless of background. If they don't know how to do the job, that problem doesn't simply go away because you identify the cause (that they don't have a formal CS background). If a candidate is coming out of a "hacker school", I'd be MORE likely to ask this sort of question because I want to figure out if their lack of formal education is going to be a problem.

2. Someone with a formal CS background obviously has an advantage with this sort of question because they've seen this problem before, or a problem like it. But there's a lot of value in seeing how a candidate approaches a problem they've never seen before.

3. I'll say again that the response I posted doesn't require any formal CS education, as proven by the fact that I came up with that algorithm in an interview for an internship, before I had any formal CS education beyond for loops and if statements.
That thing looks really wild. Never seen one like that before.

This is the kind my mom had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxgSd59Z4Yo

The lady in the video seems to not really understand how it works though, and is only making jello mix, which seems like a poor demonstration...
Engineering a Mood Predictor Based on Data
Unity and Diversity in Human Language (2011)
What a joke. This amounts to ragging on an emergent technology by an obviously biased party here
Okay, but I don't need to know the concept of a PDA to implement that, nor would I assume a candidate understands PDAs from reading that code.
Anecdotal evidence, but that has been my experience as well.
I think you do a great disservice to the Chinese people by assuming that they don't care or that they support it. The fact is that they're helpless. They have nothing to gain by expressing their true beliefs and everything to lose. I have many Chinese friends and they all either post government propaganda (that they don't believe in or support) on weixin or stay quiet. Why? Because it will be seen by their families, friends, classmates, professors, coworkers, bosses, etc. When they go travel, want to get a loan, a promotion, etc. then it will play a major role.
I love my ARM-powered Chromebook. True, it can’t teally do native development, but ARM clients aren just coming. They’re here. And wow doesn’t have amazing battery life and an unbrickable OS.
Patents are meant to protect you from bigger companies muscling you out. They have however found a loophole by acquiring as many patents as possible hoping that will scare you. That strategy however doesnt help against trolls. So they lobby to weaken the patent system to make it easier to steal ideas from small startups.
The difference between Boston and SF for biotech is so interesting. SF has a lot of future-tech looking biotech companies, super cool DNA sequencing, longevity, synthetic biology, whereas the Boston area is much more pragmatic. It is so funny how west coast vs east coast biotech really is--romantic futurism vs pragmatic present.

The other way to look at the divide is protein vs nucleic acid. A lot of very interesting MAb and designer protein companies are in the bay area, but all the major CRISPR, mRNA, siRNA companies are in Boston. Sure you have Ionis and Caribou in CA, but that's really it.

If you believe the future is in the digital information nature of nucleic acid, Boston is the center of gravity by a huge margin.
I remember attending the first HOPE conference in 1994. Shocked, but understand, to see it is now $170 to attend (unless you hack admission?);)

I started in 1978 on a Commodore PET 2001 with a cassette drive to load and store programs, and using PEEK and POKE commands. I moved on to Amiga, PC, Macs running Minix, Linux and the usual suspects. You were always low-level then, and I loved creating tunes on my Vic-20 and Amiga 500. The demoscene came along and inspired me to push my 6502 and 286/386 assembly skills to squeeze as much as possible out of my system's resources. I never joined the demoscene, but only created at home back in the days of my old 300 baud modem (2400 baud modems were over $500).

I think this early wonder with low-level, and being crafty, is why I think I find myself attracted to languages (like forth, CToy, the TCC compiler, J, and even assembly) amongst the bloat of Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript. However, I do like Zig/Rust for low-level. One-line C code to produce music from the command line? You bet; watch and listen to bisqwit. [1]

The demoscene produces some truly entrancing artwork, an acid trip manifested in pixels. I have great respect for the sole creators and creative teams alike that make such spectacles.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9KLnN0GczI
Well it still makes sense to some extent. i and d still mean petrol and diesel, with e for hybrid joining the ranks lately. But in general x1x(say 116d or 114i) are entry level engines, x2x(320d) are mid-tier and x3x(430d) x4x(240i) are higher end, more powerful engines.
That's exactly what I mean, it goes both ways. If you can't respect each other, either one or both of you aren't an actual friend.
Why don't you write a unit test and see? :)
A pretty big single point of failure and no fallback
Ludwig: Deep Learning Toolkit Without the Need to Write Code
If you think you haven't seen systems of censorship in America, that's concerning.

Deepwater Horizon, where reporters, scientists, and anyone with a camera were barred from the entire area.

The Dakota Access Pipeline, where Stingrays were used to prevent news getting out, and no mainstream reporter went for days.

Coverage of Sanders' 2016 campaign, where he had roughly 5% of the coverage Trump got.

Whistle-blowers getting exiled / jailed while the whistle-blowees walk free.

The no-fly list, which you could end up on without any due process, and have no way to appeal.

There is no shortage of examples... if you look. I even seem to remember certain important stories getting removed from various social media forums...

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum" - that's a system.
Working from home and still choosing to live in the Bay Area sounds like an inefficiency. A major, 5- to 6-figure per year inefficiency.
> Only a small portion of SF is matches the dystopian vision you claim.

My impression of SF having spent time there is that it hits the nail on the head. Sure, I doubt you get junkies asking you for money for heroin in Marin County, but it certainly happens in Union Sq.
Does contract involve some backend work using .net core?
What do you mean? Why?
You're right. They demonetized them. Point stands though.
to do that you have to go down to their level. if you spend your free time in the garden working just as hard, then you can sit down and share the refreshments together. same goes for housework.

in china, nanny's are generally relatives. the grandparents, an aunt or a cousin. so they are part of the family. they are there because they are genuinely needed to share the work, there is no class difference. only when relatives are not available, someone else is hired, but their status is not much different.
But aren't there numerous situations in which it is rather dark and one might want to spend some time reading?

Like at a bus stop in the evening, long distance buses, during flights, while one has difficulties to sleep next to a partner.

I struggle to see how stopping to read in dark environments altogether is a serious proposal to the problem.
Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Shareholders - 2018 [pdf]
The federal courts can create law solely because overruling them is nigh impossible. The Supreme Court exists to rule on constitutional matters, but it is merely the final arbiter and uses that to its advantage based on case law they made for themselves.

Overruling the Supreme Court requires a constitutional amendment and this won't happen, and the court rarely does something untenable or an impossible outcome for a functioning society as it wants compliance. It tries to match a partial collective conscious understanding of a topic.

When it does act as fill-in legislature, Congress/Legislatures are capable of simply changing the law it ruled on, such as repealing the legal framework supporting enforcement agency.

The courts can also overrule itself in a future court case.

(The Supreme Court exists by the constitution, the other federal courts are created by congress and have a path to the supreme court.)
Just chiming in from the perspective of a medical technology company guy, I think biotech talent in the bay area is second to none. My own startup was in Wisconsin, but the guys and gals out in San Fran knew... their... stuff!

That said, I would agree that Boston was right up at the top with the bay area in that respect. We always thought of it as Boston for depth, and the bay area for breadth.

The rest of the country was lagging way behind as I remember it, but this was a while ago. I mean there were a few bright spots. Places like Maryland-NOVA-DC area believe it or not, but they didn't shine like Boston and the bay area.
Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Annual Shareholder Letter [pdf]