skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I'm not mistaken then Brooks used diminishing returns in relation to headcount.

Oh, I'm referring to "No Silver Bullet" and diminishing returns in the sense that languages at best help with "accidental complexity", so the less of it there is, the less languages can help.

> New programming languages are not simply "more programming language".

But there are inflexible theoretical limitations on their utility (even without Brooks). We know the effect of different programming constructs on expressive compression and reasoning costs. The closer we get to the limit, the less benefit we can have.

> then we cannot exclude the possibility of the same happening in the future.

I'm mostly pointing out that it's not happening at present. I'm less sanguine about future advances because of various limitations (and, BTW, Brooks's predictions were called overly pessimistic by PL fans at the time and it turned out they were too optimistic), but I won't rule out another major breakthrough, or possibly two.

> but there are undoubtedly significant differences in LOC, certainly significant enough to make an economic difference.

I don't think I agree with your first assertion (although that depends on what we mean by "significant" here), and I certainly disagree with your second. We simply have not been able to detect or induce such an effect. Here, too, there are theoretical results showing that increased expressiveness cannot lead to cheaper reasoning, which is not an obvious result even in the worst case (because there are far fewer "compressible" programs than non compressible ones).
Akamai has Prolexic...it is what kept GitHub up.
> Why should pornography actors not have responsibilities for what they do?

They should have a right for privacy.
Unless they are armed, you can simply shoot at the air and they'll scram.
Iran can top this easily:

"the temperature was 53.7 degrees Celsius, which is 128.7 degrees Fahrenheit"

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/06/29/129-degrees...

The
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index, which also takes humidity into account, hit an incredible 142 degrees.
The performance concern can be addressed by monitoring it and informing the user when extensions slow down page loads.

The security concern is difficult to solve (more fine-grained permissions might help), but also seems a bit disingenuous since extensions can also inject code into the HTML of all sites and already syphon off a lot of data if they want to. Sure, it's a sharp knife, but some tough issues require sharp tools.
Oh no, I'm saying it's another usecase, not the only one. And yet, it is a pattern I follow quite often in my mixed Clojure/Java projects: Clojure code is much easier to tinker with, take to new directions, rapidly modify and see the results. But once I settle with an approach/algorithm, I rewrite some things to Java for performance, or for easier interop with other Java/Scala teams, or because the imperative mutable code looks much better in Java.

So, you can say that Clojure among everything else is my IDE to write Java code. Is that a bad suit for a language? Depends on your perspective, but I personally am very happy that I have Clojure by my side.
graphql-tools-fork – keep on stitching
To put it bluntly, because the road constant progress and improvement can potentially unveil the meaning of existence of the universe. Nihilism is naive by definition, just because you don't know the meaning, doesn't mean that there is no meaning at all.
Not everyone has the luxury to ignore news and politics. Sometimes these events touch our lives in ways that a new release of the Rust compiler could never.

(Not to pick on Rust, I love the language, but just an example)

I agree this site should not turn into Reddit, or Digg. What keeps HN great is the highly technical discussion around these topics. On mainstream articles like this I often skip reading the article, and go right to the HN comments to learn real info about the topic.

We have a community of some extremely smart people, let's not filter the articles posted, but instead harbor the intellectual conversation around the articles, because I think that's the real value of this site.
The border search exception means that certain searches are assumed to be "reasonable" that wouldn't be otherwise. Exactly what searches are reasonable and when has always been a bit in flux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

Brief stops for questioning at a fixed post on a highway are legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuer...

But it seems you can't actually physically search vehicles, unless something has since modified this precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Ortiz
Offices and shopping malls are upper-middle class things in India. They would not come close to holding the entire population. There would be millions of people dying if temperatures got that high.
Does GDPR applies to third party users of a website? Does it cover use of public data by other visitors or just use of private data by the site owner?
Because generic support for H264 in Firefox came in Firefox 43, four years ago. If Firefox finds ffmpeg, it uses it.
Haskell - laziness can be exceedingly hard to reason about. Also it takes a lot of experience before you start designing your purity boundaries well.

Ocaml - figuring out the things surrounding the language (dependency management, concurrency, formatting, linting, etc)
How are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index related?
As this kind of behaviour becomes commonplace, immigration officers will start simply rejecting those very few who don't even have accounts. Nowadays having a healthy LinkedIn account is a near requirement for some jobs, people check the online accounts of who they date, and the cusp of all is the chinese social point system.

Being involved in social media starts feeling like a Turing test.
So which articles of the bill of rights do you think shouldn't apply to illegal aliens? Note that the one concerning fair trials and so on explicitly states that it doesn't apply in times of war.
Whoa this is a tech overload /sarcasm.. hmpf
Problem with that is anyone with a little python-fu can hack together something like this without being an "engineer". I could probably do it using "ethical" FLOSS code and I'm pretty far from being employed in the industry. Hell, if I did do something like this and someone complained to my company they'd probably promote me since our IT dept is iffy on the best of days.
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...

^ This absolutely riveted me. It's a long read, but mindblowing for someone who's accustomed to a much more hospitable place.
Tell me again how buying a Tesla will save this village
You do it with your laptop in the meeting...
We should not optimize for the common case at the expense of making the uncommon case impossible.

With C style switch, you can fall through or break. In languages that don't provide fall through (say Erlang's case expression), if you have something that fits fall through, you need to either duplicate the inner code, or have a more verbose construction with multiple phases of matching.
Nah, I have no idea. Find an old machine with Win XP and IE 6 maybe.
I agree that needing time for analysis is important, but what's preventing you from working through all of this during the meeting?
From that explanation, it sounds very similar to pattern matching in general, and Erlang's case statement in particular. Would you care to elaborate?
I think they mean something that turns a list (array) of unique elements into a keyed collection (like a map or an object). So something like:

[
{id: 1, name: 'Jane'},
{id: 2, name: 'John'}
]

becomes

{
1: {id: 1, name: 'Jane'},
2: {id: 2, name: 'John'}
}
Grassroots Movements: Americans, Taiwanese, Russians and civil society
When I switched from Windows to Mac a while back it struck me that I needed to rely on paid apps a lot more. There seemed to be more quality freeware for Windows.

I'm also running a fair few Electron apps on my Mac at the moment.
How the anti-vaccine movement crept into the mainstream
I am not sure if this is true. This is from my state (which is in South India) this year (March-April) when the temperature was in the 35-40 degrees range. Highest recorded was 42 degrees I think in a border district. I don't think South India crosses 40 most of the time. One place reached 47 in 2016 [3].

>With mercury levels in Kerala rising this summer, the state’s Labour Department has issued an order allowing mandatory break time for labourers to avoid sunstroke. All labourers in the state who are exposed to sunlight which could potentially lead to a sunstroke have been ordered to rest indoors between 12 pm and 3 pm during the summer months.

>“Those working in the morning shift will get a break from 12 pm to 3 pm. Their work timings have been fixed at 8 hours from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening. For the other shifts which begin after morning and post noon will be rescheduled to end before 12 pm and begin after 3 pm,” read the order.

>In 2018 too, the State Labour Department had issued a similar order to reschedule the shift timings of labourers during the months of February and April to avoid exposure to heat from 12 pm to 3 pm. [1]

[1] https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kerala-govt-orders-man...

[2] https://english.manoramaonline.com/districts/thiruvananthapu...

[3] https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs...
TITLE :
GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS: Do Americans, Taiwanese and Russians volunteers share the same motivation to engage in emerging transformations of civil society ?
> For instance, Safari doesn't allow localstorage while in incognito

It does allow (at least in the version I'm using), but doesn't persist the data between sessions. Which is the whole point of Icognito mode.
It would be nice if localstorage worked in a new instance in incognito. This way webapps that require it can still function without affecting non-incognito tabs. What other privacy concerns would there be I'm wondering?
I think most text based browsers—for example Lynx—have CSS disabled. Also very few bots and almost no crawlers have CSS enabled.
Yeah, at first I assumed Gabriel had a digger. Then it slowly dawned that he probably didnt.
Why did you use double quotes around Paris?
I'd want to see cites for that, honestly. Obviously India's commerce centers can't come close to handling a billion shoppers, but there's enough floor space in the urban core of Bangalore to house the at-risk population for a 72 hour heat wave.

The point is emergency management here. And I'd bet anything that somewhere there's a workable plan drawn up for exactly this kind of occurrence.
They're also under concerned about useless and wasteful jobs.
You're moving goalposts. You denied language mattered:

> then the reality is that no big effect has been found for the choice of programming language on software quality

Then I show some evidence giving small programs rapidly developed, which you then say doesn't count because it's 'tiny' and 'prototyping'. You also don't define quality which gives you lots of wriggle room.

Nope, 1000 line programs aren't tiny. They aren't industry monsters but you can't dismiss them because it contradicts you. It's not proof, but it is strong evidence.

...arxiv paper... Interesting, thanks. It would have been helpful to have posted that in your original post.

However from <https://soarsmu.github.io/papers/A_Large_Scale_Study_of_Mult..., and note this paper is not mentioned, as in not debunked, in the above arxiv paper.

"Bhattacharya et al. study four open-source projects which
use C and C++, i.e., Firefox, Blender, VLC Media Player and
MySQL to understand the impact of languages on software
quality [20]. They compute several statistical measures while
controlling for factors, such as developer competence and
software process. They find that applications previously written
in C are migrating to C++ and C++ code is often of higher
quality, less prone to bugs, and easier to maintain than C code."

and from that same paper:

"As can be seen in Tables 8, 9, and 10, the mean de-
fect density values for the C sets can be up to an order of magnitude
higher than the mean values for the C++ sets."

> Sure. Here's code review...

I was talking about your claim about languages not mattering, I did not mention code review. All these papers are about code review. This is relevant to my code review comment (edit: I meant process comment), they don't say anything about language vs bugs (unless you wish to point out a paper that does).

> process matters a lot

And I agreed with you, I just said it didn't deliver quality, it just prepared the ground for it. With enough process you can close any hole in a language, but it gets exponentially expensive.
(and why) to build a programming language
The FSF takes the more extreme stance that general adoption just doesn't matter. If big companies ban libraries using their recommended viral licenses, that's not a problem they're looking to solve; it just means the people writing free software will have an advantage.
wow, FUD at forbes. I still prefer Chromium than Firefox.
You're not forced to use an app.

You can go on a web browser even a phone browser and do almost all the activities you can do in an app, and not deal with the T&C of the app once declined. Of course, no one does because they can't be inconvenienced. Again, you might believe that you can't check your Facebook/tender/whatsapp/Snapchat/etc, but that's generally untrue for most of them..

In most places due to govt regulation, you only have one or two ISP's serving a geographic area. So the T&C in this case have an actual impact, not some mythical and perceived injustice by "big tech".

Those app providers have the right to suck every last detail from their meatspace, down to what color socks they like on Tuesday and sell it to Hanes.
line-line potential is 2kV so the wear is worse between conductors. The only saving grace is the current is so low that the wire will see almost no heating which almost eliminates thermal stress.
> the right to opt out and the right to erasure of data among others.

Algorythm doesn't have to collect any data on you besides your image which is not considered private data given that you need to carry one. It can have single image and compare it to the porn collection without storing any results anywhere, but just returning 'XXX was a porn star in YYY'.

Tool can also create opt out mechanism which would have to be pretty complex as providing ZZZ in the name blacklist isn't appropriate solution given that many people share this name.

> But the tool is doing more than that as it's also using data gathered from crawling social media profiles and then matching people, you cannot do this without specific consent under

Implementation detail. This can be totally avoided. Tool can accept picture and return the result.
I don't think so. Google is abusing their power with Chrome to force their standards on others. I hope they lose their grip on the browser market like MS did, and standards become open.
I’m definitely interested in more information on this topic. Could you assist with a source or point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Your failure as an alpha male could be deduced based on this sentence. Try to be little more subtle next time. Tip: use peripheral vision. :)
Every human is effectively a 100W space heater just from being alive. That means you need at least 30W of air conditioning capacity per human to keep the temperature constant (on top of what you need to counter heat from outside).

Unless these buildings are designed as emergency shelters for heat waves their air conditioning systems won't be able to cope with all the people.
Reduce is also known as "fold" in other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)

And especially when using immutable data it can be used for iterating, traversal (lists and trees, like say an in-order fold), filtering and other things. But there it is not an just an nice trick like for JS, but it is the canonical way of doing things.
Tell me again what you are doing to slow climate change.
Could someone please post a link to a non-paywalled article?
Do you realize that by abusing this thread to make a single PR focused comment with no intention of participating in the conversation -- you've disrespected the community here and the few remaining DO customers within said community.
This approach treats time as the only factor in determining the fair distribution of equity.

Slicing pie has a much more realistic set of methods

based on the principle that a person's % share of the equity should always be equal to that person's share of the at-risk contributions.

The method has been road tested by dozens of startups and I'm in the midst of using it for a new startup and find it to be quite approachable.

If you are interested in some research behind optimizing cooperative systems, check out Shapley Value.

Shapley Value assigns a unique distribution (among the players) of a total surplus generated by the coalition of all players. The Shapley value is characterized by a collection of desirable properties

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value
I dunno, I like working. I don't think I would want to go on an extended period without working hard. In fact, retiring early increases mortality[1].

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/627711
Your report restricted itself to public universities, which of course are more highly affected by governmental funding decisions. Also your journal has an agenda, so it makes sense it wants to secure more federal funding.
http://sci-hub.tw/downloads/2019-05-14/30/10.3758@s13423-019...
So first, FISA warrants aren't remotely relevant to the policy at hand of wanting routine social media identifiers.

Second: FISA is one court, the government can't commit mass surveillance along the lines of a social credit system using FISA warrants even if it wanted to. You literally think those three (I think it's three) judges are going to pen hundreds of millions of signatures on physical pieces of paper?

Once again, you and the other aggrieved posters in this subthread want to turn this particular issue into a proxy for warrantless surveillance, or border searches, or immigration abuses.

And it's not. It's a requirement to get your facebook ID. Not every policy is the end of the world, and if you want the uninformed masses to take your (and my!) civil liberties worries seriously, you need to present arguments that make sense and aren't irrelevant digressions.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned: Chrome OS. I have two Chrome OS devices that are useless without adblock. They can't handle the real internet. And who would want to buy a Chrome OS device that could?

My Chromebox is my most used computer in my house (it powers the living room TV) so this'll be a real inconvenience for my family.
yeah, I was referring to Long Island in particular but I have been to Albany a lot and I have friends living there. Not sure about other areas but Albany
doesn't have as many good paying jobs as suburbs of NYC has to offer, in my observations.
Sure, the “home-made” option is hard to regulate in any field. You also can’t stop people from using hone remedies no matter how unethical they are. So you can take it and use it with little recourse.

But I was thinking more at FAANG for example. They could be required to hire “certified ethical” engineers at least on sensitive projects at first. This means that even if the code is out there no coder would implement it in the company’s solution without risking losing the “certification” and the job. Anyone working for the Hacking Team (those guys selling exploits to oppressive governments) should be more or less unhireable especially if all code in a company’s portfolio should be traceable to a specific engineer.

The principle is already in place for other fields. Journalism being the closest probably. It could be made more effective if needed. It’s obvious that something is needed in this direction.
You don't need separate kitchens to keep a kosher home. Both the meat and dairy ovens are located in the same kitchen. Separate kitchens are only needed for food establishments, to facilitate supervision.

In fact, it is possible to keep kosher with just one oven and separate racks, but it is a bit of a hassle.
Preventing problems like this seems to me to be what AI as we know it is least suited to - failures of human organizations generally seem to be failures to choose the right context due to no individual grasping it, and my impression of AI today is that it doesn't even engage with the problem. You can have a computer program that recognizes cats, or plays Go, but nobody even thinks about "how do we make this same program spontaneously respond to a spilt glass of milk, or a hostage situation, or a fire alarm...", let alone take into account everything in the world while doing so. It feels to me like people have tunnel vision that is getting worse, and the "intelligent" software is inheriting that.
Without information regarding the medical device, it can be difficult for us to provide a solution, so in my opinion you should ask yourself:

* What properties cause the device to malfunction?

* What kinds of scanners/tools can lead to the malfunction?

* What would the malfunction look like?

* How much time would she have to get medical support?

* Is there an alternative medical device that decreases the risk?

* Is it possible to get a medical certificate that shows she has the device and its implications, allowing the officer to know before-hand?

It is worth noting that some devices that can cause the malfunction may already be available for private citizens to purchase, so creating a plan of action may be the best option regardless of whether reinforcement officers intend to use it.
How are AMP pages to the detriment of consumers?
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Invites Applications to New Academic Programs
The Role of Bot Squads in the Political Propaganda on Twitter
I'm sorry, but I just have to do this.

Even with Trump as president?

He takes "dumb" to a whole new level!
I wonder what the long-term implications will be on American businesses for this. Will non-US major companies be wary of relying on US suppliers?
Keeping hot snakes in your home is definitely not a good idea. You will get bitten eventually, and you'd better keep your own supply of antivenin since there's not much cobra antivenin in the US.

On the plus side, an escaped cobra probably won't live long in the wilds of Wisconsin. No other cobras to mate with, different food supply, and it's too cold.
The water is cooler because the specific heat of water is very high, meaning it takes more heat energy to increase the temperature of water.

So a large body of water stays cool for a long time, and then stabilizes around the daily average temperature, not the high.
Well before you guys start doomsday predictions, let me tell you that Churu is in Rajasthan which is in Thar desert. Temperatures like this, even though very high and uncomfortable, are not unheard of.

We are in midst of a very hot summer but it is not something out of ordinary and yearly cycle (we don't love our summers). We are eagerly awaiting monsoon to arrive in India (early june is when it hits our shores). After rains arrive, we expect our dams to fill and possible water scarcity to end
i think its time to replace pichai
This is a requirement for a visa application- how many people applying for a US visa are on American soil?
This is very interesting to me since I'm actively watching elections being stolen by the central govt in India. This is an amazing idea. It would be causing a great amount of debate when I introduce this in my friends group!!!
Under international law, they have to be treated this way and not charged with crimes. As long as a soldier is acting under the laws of war, they can't be tried for violations of ordinary criminal law. They can only be held for the duration of hostilities and then must be returned to their home country.

So they really aren't subject to domestic law at all.