skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh how wonderful... this led to another site:

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/software.html

which had the original vax/vms Dungeon (zork) that I played when young. It actually referenced MEMQ like I remember:

<DEFINE FEEL-FREE (LOSER)
<TELL "FEEL FREE, CHOMPER!">
<MEMQ ......
The rest is, alas, unintelligible (as were the implementers).
How many places do you have to be accommodated by people that don't want to hear it?
Ask HN: How to differentiate a work email id from a personal email id?
I'm sure you can think of some substances that the government should control. Almost everybody accepts the prescription system where medications are only available with a doctor's permission.

After that it's just arguing which substances should be controlled and which should not, and to what degree.
Oberlin was acting totally irresponsibly.

I'm glad for the damages. I hope this sends a chilling message to universities-- spend your time and efforts on providing the best education possible. Leave toxic politics in the past. Education should be the primary reason for existence, by far.
For any substance, the market should be controlled and the access to the substance should be hard, but easier than going to an illegal dealer.
And the best thing you can do is ignore him and never talk to him.
Of course, but when you use your position of authority (as a professor would have) as a bully pulpit, to have a call to action (like boycott), it can be argued that damages are justified. I'm actually very pro free speech, and I think the damages in this case are egregious, but there was very much a call to action from a very influential person on a group of people who had limited capabilities (though, not legally, maybe). The precedent is more similar to yelling fire in a crowded movie theater and being responsible for the outcome rather than voicing your political opinions in a town square.... Though, I will admit, when I wrote this first comment I hadn't read far enough down in this thread =)
We have another 20 to 50 years left, so we better figure it out. It's amazing what becomes possible when you don't have any other options.
> Second, you equate prison and taxes,

hardly?

> and declare both to be morally unsound.

hardly?

> It’s a neat rhetorical trick, but like my math instructor used to say:

like my english instructor would say, "did you even read the book?"

> The social drinker that misjudged their state and crashed a car?

they'd be incarcerated for drunk driving, not drinking in and of itself.

> The kid who fucks up his liver because he took Tylenol to treat his hangover?

you can screw up your liver taking too many tylenols without alcohol, and a privileged high school kid isn't not going to drink at some party because taxes made it cost a few dollars more. alcohol taxes are only going to impact low income people in any meaningful way. if the theory is, well these damn poor people just keep drinking too much and can't control themselves, the alcohol is not the reason for that, the poverty is. Address poverty, not punishing people for being poor.

edit: if I may add some tangible detail, in my extended family are some extremely impoverished, extremely diseased alcoholics. What these people need urgently, right now, is medical care and addiction rehabilitation services. Like, several weeks in a quality in-patient facility would be great, such a thing costs tens of thousands of dollars and is available only to the very privileged. Medical care and quality rehabilitation services are not generally available to impoverished people in the US. An alcohol tax would quite directly mean they simply would have even less money to buy food, which would directly impact the health of their 16 year old son, and incarcerating them would also destroy whatever financial ability they have left to survive. It's pretty offensive to read about proposals just to tax and punish people negatively affected by alcohol without even a consideration for the rehabilitation and medical services they desparately need and are denied by the US system of health care. Address the health care and poverty first. Going straight to punishment is cruel and out of touch.
No need to imagine. There are countries where you would win.
Milk cartons work perfectly well for water too.
Open Datasets for Autonomous Driving
No I would not reach quite that conclusion I would say
"Python saved 20% code lines over Scala!".

The results say something about the greatness of Scala, not of statically typed languages in general. The other ones did not do quite as good as Scala.

From what little Scala I've read it looks very terse indeed. That can be a benefit but at the same time makes it harder to understand code written in it, in my opinion.
Preaching to the choir, I personally use Ruby over Python :)

But I had to source from friends in the class, and my group used Rust because I'm all about that performance and correctness nowadays.
it is from a song. "Jenny" by Tommy Tutone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

from 1981.
"""
Two administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place “implants” — software code that can be used for surveillance or attack — inside the Russian grid.

Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister.

Because the new law defines the actions in cyberspace as akin to traditional military activity on the ground, in the air or at sea, no such briefing would be necessary, they added.
"""

Way to bury the lede
Interesting, thanks.

I was looking at First Tech FCU as it is nearby (in Silicon Valley).
We had a strict policy that we didn't do business with companies that hide their pricing. For anything.
I was getting really excited until I realized you needed the special deck also. Still a pretty cool piece of tech, for sure, and not easy, but ultimately, just a slightly fancier QR code reader, right?
> Highly customizable product that they cant or won't invest into making possible to pre-price online, probably wont get added to a cart and shipped or sold without a buyer wanting to actually talk to someone)

This isn't a good reasons not to have a guide to the pricing though (e.g., the base price plus the rough prices of popular options). That can be super useful for determining if this is possibly something the buyer might want to buy, and saves them a ton of time calling salesmen.

The other two reasons are reasonable.
> Hmmm I do not know about that, the test real, meaningful control would be who gets the funding, no?

Well no. That's arguably showing what politicians perceive the value of each department to be. But it doesn't say anything about power on campus.

The test of control should probably be what the undergrad degrees of the administrators and deans are.
This also caught my eye,

“Developers with nothing to do become disruptive or lazy.”

So the trick is to pat yourself on the back for being so good at hiring (but please recognize that if your genius hires aren’t worked to 100% capacity they will suddenly become a problem) and then make sure they never have any downtime.

Seems easy enough.
In Brazil, evertyhing which is not @gmail or @ hotmail is considered work email, until further notice
For those interested in moving apps (or parts) into a web worker, this project by the AMP team has some fascinating ideas (via DOM API replication in a worker): https://github.com/ampproject/worker-dom
Markdown has about the same feature set of Microsoft's WordPad (the bulit in RTF editor in Windows). If the document you're writing can be structured with simple Markdown, why not just use an RTF editor and enjoy WYSIWYG, graphical image resizing and positioning, and great portability?

I have tried to see the use case for Markdown for a long time but have been unable to do so. And yes, pandoc understands RTF.
The causality could go

Dry County -> Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol)

Or it could be

Lots of Drink Driving (Unhealthy relationship with alcohol) -> Dry County

You’d need to do historical research to see if the bad relationship preceded the alcohol ban. A first pass would be historical murder rates seeing as drunkenness leads to violence, which leads to deaths.
I think you might enjoy this interview with Elon Musk:

Elon Musk - How to Build the Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBQmEqBCY0
One correction: I don't think thread safety is the issue at all. First of all, existing Javascript may not have parallelism in user code, but it does have concurrency. This means you absolutely have to deal with race conditions and resource sharing. Secondly, web workers can't access the mutable state in parallel, because they can only share data via message passing of copied data. This is what prevents thread safety from being a concern, while still enabling parallelism.
Most of my friends in the UK were in their mid-20s and had never driven, so that certainly makes it easier to avoid the source of many of the issues.
> It's a shame people are down voting you for sharing a personal experience. Perhaps it's some sort of moral judgment

The "Dad just gets in the way" part earned my downvote. If that was his personal experience, well, there's no nice way to put this, but that means he's bad at being a dad/husband. Even if we accept that Dad has no role in breastfeeding, there's still diaper changes, laundry, baths, and cleaning up various messes. Then there's helping out mom recovering from child birth and all of the cooking/cleaning to support normal life. With all that needs to be done and the best you can do is just get in the way? Not a good look.
I have no questions just admiration. This is so awesome!

I can't begin to imagine how long it took you to build this... This is amazing, thank you kind sir.
High Country News. I used to be a subscriber. Weird mix of mountain hippie viewpoints. With some ranchers mixed in.
> I'm a free speech guy who thinks we're better off when we can discuss issues openly.

You can already do this. You just can't harm people with your speech and expect no consequences.
A bit hypocritical of you to complain about them not protesting for your rights, when you are unwilling to protest for theirs.
I'm sorry but complaining about convenient bathroom location leaves me nonplussed. I don't think it's a gender issue that you are embarrassed about using the facilities.
I too have a huge problem with touch screens in cars. Having tactile knobs means I can find things on the dash without taking my eyes off the road. The thing that I think most of the comments are missing is the thing that powers all tech... Ads

There is currently a push behind the scenes to own the in-car advertising system. This is a reason why Google is making a play for an automobile OS [0].

I desperately hope that car manufacturers return to physical buttons, but in-car ads are offer huge potential financial upside. You could sell a car at a loss to consumers and still come out ahead...

[0] https://www.android.com/auto/
> I'm extremely dissatisfied with the performance of current compilers. The fastest compilers written by performance-oriented programmers can be way faster than ones you generally encounter. See luajit and Jonathan Blow's 50k+ loc/second compilers and the kind of things they do for performance.

Lua and Jai are lot less complex than say C++: sure, LLVM isn't necessarily built to be the fastest compiler in existence, but I don't think it's fair to compare it to compilers for much simpler languages and bemoan its relative slowness.
This is an absolute masterpiece! virtual hat off to you sir
A lot of times. It was dead pretty quickly but I went a bit overboard just to be sure.
we weren't born yet.
Possibly, but not necessarily. You might want to lead with your value before price, especially in an industry where it's difficult to see at first look what the differentiators are. Alternatively, public pricing could start price wars, leading both companies to unsustainable pricing. Or maybe you want to be able to give strategic customers specific discounts. These aren't pricing strategies to make sure your customers get the best price possible -- they are designed to allow me, as the creator of some value, better control over how that value is perceived and deployed.

For a business, you want to build relationships, not just have transactional customers. The more custom or integrated your solution is, the more important this is. (Also, it's the best way to make sure your customers are deriving the most value from your product, which is a win-win.)

Yes, competitors can do that, but that additional friction means they won't stay up to date, and you have a chance to discover what's going on.
That's not an extreme position, it's the law of the land and has been for a long time. It's basic civil law that if you harm someone they can take you to court to be made whole. Civilization is sort of built on this concept.

The thing here is that you're not being harmed by rhetoric. If you were, you'd have a case.
The amount of fantasy required to consider colonizing mars an option for escaping extinction is mind boggling.
It’s an interesting reply but your conclusion feels like a stretch to me. Mostly because that’s a very long time ago. Access to information has massively changed since then. I feel like saying America can’t have a good relationship with alcohol is a cop out.
> Scala has a very rich standard library. Python doesn't.

This is not something I could have expected someone to say about Python's standard library…
The extension seems to arbitrarily follow no existing prior format. For example, tar.gz is clearly a tar file that has been gzipped. But what is a .a file?
> The researcher shouldn't affect objective results after all. In a social science setting, the results may not be the same even if both researchers used exactly the same research design on exactly the same subjects at exactly the same point in their lives.

This is true of physics as well. Measurements in quantum experiments are contextual, in that the experimental setup interferes with system being measured. Measurements conform to statistical distributions. The difference is that physicists took the time to quantify how measurements influence the system, thus generating a practical theory. It's not clear to me that something similar couldn't be done here, even if human systems are in a sense, messier.

In fact, it's already been done to some extent because we clearly know how the phrasing of some questions influence the answers. We also know from tragedies of justice [1] how important this subject is.

Replication and a culture that encourages publishing negative results should be prerequisites for any field to qualify as a science.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria
> The precedent is more similar to yelling fire in a crowded movie theater and being responsible for the outcome rather than voicing your political opinions in a town square

A closer precedent would be yelling "this sucks!" in a crowded theater of a film that in fact is quite good and then calling for people to boycott it on that faulty basis. Mostly joking with this example, but it kinda gets to where we disagree too.
There are a number of red flags with that article:

* It uses the words "strong" and "tough" a lot - which really means nothing but sure sounds good.

* It endorses taking away the driver's license of someone caught with a fake id - without paying any thought to what that does to their life. Some kid that takes an Uber to a bar and is caught with a fake id on Saturday now can't drive to his job on Monday. This is messed up and almost certainly impacts lower income populations more than higher income ones.

* The article specifically cites a "news release". The whole article is a summary of a press release of a study.

* The study was conducted by Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), which describes itself as: "PIRE was founded as a 501(c)(3) organization in San Francisco, CA, in 1974, when a group of allied scientists were among the first to recognize the dangers inherent in the emergence of widespread drug use. PIRE developed and disseminated some of the earliest prevention strategies."

This seems like a low quality article summarizing a press release from an organization with a clear bias. I can't speak to the quality of the study itself (although, due to how PIRE describes its founding, I'm suspicious), but the article isn't worth citing.
With the article behind a paywall I'm wondering if you can tell me what the walkout was staged over?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14uqr/boxingstreamsfury_vs_schwarz_live_stream_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14uq1/fightstreamsfury_vs_schwarz_live_stream_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14upi/boxingstreamsfury_vs_schwarz_live_stream_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14up0/officialthread_tyson_fury_vs_tom_schwarz_live/
https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14uoj/officialstreamingtyson_fury_vs_tom_schwarz/

https://www.reddit.com/r/copasamso/comments/c14vcb/officialtreams_fury_vs_schwarz_live_stream_by/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoxingFuryvsSchwarz/comments/c12o9k/officialtreams_tyson_fury_vs_tom_schwarz_live/
Given that they had two Rust versions where one was a third the size of the other, I don't think you should consider that a big result.
Difference between Sigmoid and Softmax function in deep learning
Have you evaluated whether you were cutting off your nose to spite your face? In a commodity market, this makes sense. But if you're eliminating potentially valuable and unique solutions to your problems because of a principle about up front pricing, you might be hurting your own business. After all, the whole concept of buying something like this is that it adds more value than it costs...

It's a suboptimal process to limit options because you personally are affronted by having to talk with someone on the phone.
Would you see the regulations regarding tabaccomor gambling as efforts that did more harm than good ?

I think there are efforts that are ill placed, and others that counter balance natural harmful tendencies or other efforts from groups benefiting from harmful behavior. I wouldn’t label all banning and efforts to shape a society as useless or counter productive.
Plant-meat, one I cold contacted. The second I got an introduction from a mutual friend. Cell-meat I got an introduction to them. Sure, feel free to emial me simon bitesociety.com
I stated my intentions on the ticket.

The puritanical (not to mention sexist) complaints that you can see the knees of an alledgedly "high school" girl on an obscure corner of the legacy site is not something I have a lot of patience for. This ticket is really a thinly veiled hatred of anything "anime". Eventually the page will likely go away in the due course of development of the service, but I'm not in any rush to appease puritanical jerks who make a moral appeal to hide their distaste for anything Japanese. These people are not uncommon, you get pretty good at recognizing them.
We often forget context: alcoholism was an utterly rampant social malaise. It was everywhere, and affected everyone.

Consider Winston Churchill used to drink 12 ounces of hard booze a day.

Underneath the House of Commons / Parliament in Canada, the used to be the 'bar' where people would go and get wasted every day - and a lot of official government business would happen! Canada's 'George Washington' - Sir John A MacDonald would drink 12 ounces-ish a day as well. Literally the first Prime Minster would disappear on several day binge benders and show up to Parliament so wasted he could hardly speak. Again: head of a nation. [1]

The Prohibition movement was strongly associated with those leading the Feminist movements at the time, it was a matter of social justice, because drunk men were a serious problem in their potential violence, infidelity, absenteeism etc.

"The Prohibition amendment prohibiting the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol would not have passed without the persistence of the women involved in the temperance movement starting in the 19th century. " [2]

So I think we have to historically contextualize the issue a little bit differently that we would otherwise, now that we have alcoholism mostly under control, better public health, and I think a little more ability to handle such problems.

It was a different time, with different problems.

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/everyone-knows-john-a-m...

[2] http://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/how-prohibit...
> would chose a programming language or system for reasons other than how competent they are with it

Good point these were students so they were eager to learn new things. Can't blame them.

At the same time much of programming is learning new things continually. Some things are harder to learn and master than others. Seems like Haskell might be one such thing, based on what the professor says.
Research into the reasons for trepanation (2016)
Excluding the lens library (as per the article) is unusual, it provides natural getter/setter and row polymorphism type functionality.

More anecdotally, I’d argue parsing libraries are common, just look at the prevalence of attoparsec and others. But most parsing libraries in the ecosystem are parser combinator libraries which don’t support as performance and nice error messages that compilers need
This is outstanding tear-down work.

I wonder how they read out the ROM. JTAG?

And what was in the part of the phone where the camera and LEDs are now?
I presume it works through Plain Old Telephone System and pre-recorded messages and not Twilio with Google Cloud Speech.
I'm really surprised not enough people are making this point.

So bug prone, so many fragile packages, so many weird incantations that must be done if you ever want any flexibility... it absolutely sucks, but then I use it again and again.
> If you were, you'd have a case.

So if Eli Cash was my actual name (rather than a Royal Tenenbaums character), and if I didn't get a job because the employer googled my name and your claim came up..? You really think I'd have a real case?

I guess if we still disagree nothing can be done about that. We've both made our points.
Researchers are not stupid. They did try to control for social class, although it may have failed due to data limitation.
Pro tip: Write in Word but use the LaTeX font. You get the speed of Word and the virtue signaling of LaTeX. Win Win.

This is just tongue in cheek, of course.

I wrote my thesis in 1993, and in that time period, my anecdotal observation was that the students who used LaTeX generally took longer to finish.

Today, I use MathJax inside of markdown, and don't even use word processing very much. Industry has gotten less formal. Most text is edited in an e-mail editor with screen shots pasted in. The main use of word processing is documents that nobody will ever read, such as functional procedures and HR proclamations.
OK, it was a bad choice of words.

Basically, the US has warned adversaries.
How much time was given for this task?
Eh, you're underestimating the attraction of vice. Trying to say it's the industry that says alcohol is a right completely neglects the enormous black markets for illegal drugs that don't have rights for.

Education only goes so far, as DARE shows you must tell the truth and not embellish it or people neglect your whole message.

Push taxes too high and you create a black market too.