skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. Actually, we used this programming language and its ancestors (this is the fifth iteration since 2010) in many evaluation campaigns and it proved very useful. For instance, XML is often the way dataset are exposed and I have encapsulated libxml2 in order to read these files properly. I also provide a kind of BNF grammar compiler to read complex formats and split them into meaningful components. The conversion is really done at the very end of the process, which prevents most errors. Furthermore, Tamgu requires each variable to be explicitly typed in function declarations and for global and local variables, which prevents many of the problems that I used to have with Python. The fact that types are explicit transform many Python runtime errors into compile errors in Tamgu.
Having mentors is so so important. My advice to me younger, find the right mentor to follow
If you have historical sales data and advertising data by geogrpahy, you can control.

It's not perfect, but if you do it frequently you can estimate (some of) the impact.
Fedora CoreOS
Output prices rise, aka inflation happens, when input costs rise. Input costs can either rise due to market forces or regulation.
>What should concierge say?

I'm sorry sir, the system is not allowing me to do this, You will need to contact corporate offices.
Technically most software engineers are getting overpaid for their time :P
Lots of animals can walk long distances just fine. If you don't run long distances, I'm guessing you wouldn't notice any difference.
I liked the quote, and went on to find the source [1]. Must say it surprised me:
[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts...
There is a newer version here: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT3/
Quasar upgrade 24th July recommendations – roadmap to Genesis part 2
The part about ProtonMail and Tutanota seems pretty biased. I would like to hear how the author suggests that they should implement IMAP and SMTP without compromising the encryption.

It sounds like the author prefers dubious advantages to real improved security.

That's quite ridiculous considering that according to him HTML emails are:

>"... a security nightmare, are mostly used for advertising to you and tracking you, are less accessible for many users, and don't offer anything especially great for it."
The transmission and encoding/decoding is probably significant however even if the processing may be more efficient in bulk- look at streaming vs downloaded energy useage for one.

But it is still probably a win over retail distribution.
He forgot about the even worse AMP emails that come out now.
Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being consumed by AWS
You could, but if your statistic is a function of one person's data, differential privacy will force you to add enough noise to mask that one person's data, i.e. destroy almost all of the utility of the statistic.

It's possible to learn something by aggregating a bunch of those individually-privatized statistics. Randomized response [1] is a canonical example. More generally, local differential privacy is a stronger privacy model where users privatize their own data before releasing it for (arbitrary) analysis. As you might expect, the stronger privacy guarantee means worse utility, sometimes much worse [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
Mushy grey stuff.
Because I have a farm. We have to have a truck regardless. But at the moment my wife is commuting in the truck.
Getting Started with Ls
> Artists who work on gory cinematics integral to games like Mortal Kombat suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

This makes me wonder how surgeons and morticians manage. Surely something must be done for them too.
And, on the command-line at least, "theirs" and "ours" are reversed (only) for "rebase" [1] so that means, at least for me, I have to mentally ask myself "are theirs/ours reversed for this command?" for every command I execute, they might as well be called "foo" and "bar" at this point for me.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...
>That is a lazy excuse - literally the cheapest diets are vegan. Rice&dal will give you both calorie intake and protein at a cost of less than a dollar a day (which is why a lot of the world's poorest people subsist on it...).

The world's poorest people subsist on it but tell of how nutritiously healthy they are solely because they eat rice.

>Prosecuting? On what legal grounds?

You know that any country at any point in time can create any law they want, particularly when they want to preserve the environment. If there isn't legal grounds, one can be created.
(My point here is not that this should be a law - there's better ways to go about getting companies to be a bit more eco friendly than just banning. What I try to say that we should be shifting the focus a lot more on companies rather than people, because they are the biggest contributors to this mess than poor Jose who works at the factory 9-6).
"After all, everyone has their plaintext style"

This is counter to my own experience. I am using (plain text) email since 27 years. Including inline quoting and avoiding top posting at all costs.

People used bold (not sure how to render a '*' in HN) /italic/ and _underscore_ consistently on lists, newsgroups and -- rarely, as seldomly needed -- in private correspondence.

I learned how to do this by example. Everyone being very disciplined about this in the 90's still.

This started deteriorating rapidly in the wake of eternal September [1] and Outlook becoming the standard client in the corporate world, using HTML as default.
Personally I blame Outlook for HTML email hell foremost.

It is very simple to display plain text email, omitting aforementioned formatters and applying them. The same goes for displaying in a proportional font (detecting intended indentations from the original and replicating them with tabs, on the fly).

Using such formatters is just another (and not even alien) form of inline markup. Actually the very one that inspired markdown, ReST, etc.

The only reason people use HTML email is that it's the default. Not that it's better in any way.

The average user simply doesn't know any better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Farm subsidies make us have less diversity in our diet because only a certain short list of crops are insured. America makes way too much corn and soybeans, and we should be using that land for something else that could create more value. Not mentioned how soy and high fructose corn syrup get shoved into every food item because of these.

Farm subsidies are anti-capitalist. Milk is a perfect example of how this is an issue, I can get a gallon of milk for about 2 dollars in the USA. It should cost about 8 dollars. The cost difference is made up by farm subsidies. There are many cheaper ways to get the nutritional value provided by milk, but the US government is choking these industries out. If the free market were to decide milk would not be a beverage and only used for cooking because it would be impractical to drink.

I am all for a safety net for farmers, but the farm subsidies need major restructuring with the American consumer and the small farmer in mind, instead of the farm industry and the profits of some of the biggest corporations in the world.
I'd like to buy some guitars from my favorite players one day. I wonder if the person who ends up buying Lucille will actually play it. I hope they do!
If you have an abortion because it's the cultural expectation and everyone around you is telling you it's the right thing to do is it your choice?

If not, then a heck of a lot of high-shcool and college age women in the west aren't choosing either.
Is it just me, or is there an uptick in boutique programming language posts on HN lately? Not complaining, just curious if anyone else has noticed.
Te operative word being independent. RH may be bigger, but it's not independent any more.
480p isn't that bad, but then it depends upon what your used too. But way better than 640x480 resolution that many grew up with.

India consumers are really price savvy and look for value for money more than most people I know and with that, not as easily hooked into the fashion whims of society. Though that may well change as the average income rises.

I had a look at the best selling phones in India and https://www.gizbot.com/best-selling-phones/ and it is most insightful, of note - not one single Apple product there. Though I do recall Apple looking at producing phones locally - which would help in price as would avoid import taxation saving around 20% of the price and allow them to pass that onto the consumer. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-foxcon...
overwriting HTML styles is harder than setting how to format plaintext. HTML styling has order of magnitude more customization options than plaintext, which has three that I can think of: font, font size, tab width. Almost all clients have customization for plaintext, I haven't seen one that can override HTML customizations.
Technically I suppose you could call "inedible corn only suitable for processing into high fructose corn syrup" "food".

It's not how these supports started out but it's what they have become to a very large degree.
> Do some people genuinely find these things really enjoyable?

The "masses" go consume what they are told to. The (n)th remake of some series is about to come up, the marketing ramps up, adverts, product placement, discussions, reviews, interviews. It all drives demand.

Do you really not notice this? Even if it is a "here we go again, groundhog day" type of noticing?

People (on the whole - in before 'not me I spent hours searching / reviewing my next purchase') don't put effort into their consumption, they just buy / spend how they are told. Why do you think advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Idempotent consumer pattern – A piece of the eventual consistency puzzle
I guess it's $100k due to the fact that it's not the original Lucille he saved from that fire.
This is correct.

"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output." -Milton Friedman
> the size of our solar system is ~7.5 billion miles

For those wondering this is the radius to the outer edge of the Kuiper belt. 50 AU.
Fintech firm Zeta’s valuation climbs to $300M in its first funding round
Email is supposed to be easy to quote, just like you’ve used a block quote in your comment. I assume it’s obvious that rich text is difficult to quote, but a quick explanation is that the invisible formatting characters used to represent rich text behave inconsistently when re-contextualized for a quote.
That's the cheapest tier. Others tiers exist, perhaps an upsell opportunity.
> Bear in mind neither MPs or electorate got to choose him to lead the Tory party

It's worth pointing out that Tory MPs absolutely voted for him before Tory party members got the chance to, and that if MPs in general don't like him then they can vote to bring down the government whenever they like. Quite why non-Tory MPs should get to pick who leads the Tory party I have no idea.
The Journalism industry can't go on like this.
I'm very sad about manual line wrapping too (since I love plain text otherwise), but unfortunately it's in the MIME standard.

> Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.

Of course with HTML, your source code can adhere to this standard while still having arbitrarily long lines of text...

https://mailformat.dan.info/body/linelength.html
I don't think that's the case. I believe the problem is that large German companies tend to be hardware companies. They're used to development cycles that take years and extremely conservative in adopting new methods. Management and company culture is not used to dealing with fast changing development methods (where fast is anything that changes more often than once a decade). Rigid processes for compliance with external regulations over time where adopted for internal rules as well, making any change a bureaucratic nightmare.

Salary for developers really isn't that much of an issue. In Berlin for example a developer gets two or three times the median salary easily. That's enough for attracting people who are talented enough to choose, e.g. git and JIRA over whatever crusty system of shared folders and zip files or IBM crap you'd see for projects in many companies.
Changes in relative pricing are not inflation. Inflation is the generalized increase in nominal prices: doubling minimum wage, if it affects prices, will not increase the cost of a lambo or a yatch, etc. The inflation model that is all about costs is old and not correct.

The government institution in charge of controlling inflation is the Fed, through monetary policy.

Sidenote: getting a bit tired at the insta-downvotes on any straight-forward opinion.
Five cities, five different approaches to algorithms in government
The China section is missing the “trough in the ground” squatting toilets. A single trough has water flowing in it washing everyone's poops down the stalls and you can see it all under you as you squat.
There are also way too many people with access to non-anonymized data. i.e. the development team that has read privileges on the production database. e.g. employees at uber spying on customers (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/13/uber-empl...).

edit:
shameless plug. check out tonic.ai for a solution to the above problem.
> If my window is small (maybe because I am using a small screen), the text is painful to read. And a non manually wrapped wrapped plain text is not wrapped at all in certain cases.

If the MUA (Mail User Agent) does not soft wrap text, then text without hard wraps is painful to read. This also applies to text that's not meant to be soft wrapped (source code, error message output, log messages, etc.).

There is an RFC [1] that addresses this issue by introducing a format= flowed option in the MIME headers.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt
That's one of our many genetic differences but the article and paper don't include the word "brain." Do you have a source showing that it's related to this particular gene?
We heard from the owners, from politicians (why?) and from the beneficiary employees.

Who speaks for those that got laid off? They would seem to me like the most important stakeholders
Based on what I have heard from friends in London and Germany salaries are actually a lot better in Germany. Especially once you account for cost of living.
For Protonmail: maybe using PGP and sending over TLS?? Protonmail bridge basically does this, just over a proprietary protocol.
>Yes, so your issue is your distribution is not up-to-date, not VLC.

I've always found it odd that many of the packages on certain linux distributions were old . Like how one time the latest openvpn version on the latest Ubuntu release was a year old.
It's unlikely that we're talking about the same thing. Based purely on your reply I reckon you have your concepts all mixed up.

(1) The exchange is the middle man. The market maker is your counterparty, i.e. the person you actually trade with. The exchange facilitates the trades (often, not always - e.g. you might also trade off exchange, e.g. in dark pools (but you wouldn't do that unless you thought you were getting better prices) or by trading directly with market makers - in which case the US law protects retail customers from being "scammed") and also does clearing which means that it "guarantees" the trades - but that might not really work because an exchange cannot print money and so can go bankrupt itself - recent example in Norway:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/nordic-po...

> The loss for Nasdaq’s default fund, that helps guarantee trades, amounts to 107 million euros ($125 million) and the exchange has issued a “replenishment contribution request” to cover the default losses. Current trading members will have to contribute in relation to their size and this is the kind of event the default fund was designed to handle, a company spokesman said.

(2) If you really want to call market-making "arbitrage", sure, go ahead - but it's time arbitrage, not price arbitrage. Similar to how your bank is (or was) doing time arbitrage by connecting short-term deposits with long-term loans (and earning a fee in the process). Without market makers, if you wanted to sell 1 share of AAPL (Apple), you'd have to wait until someone came along wanting to buy 1 share, and then you'd have to agree on a price. Market-makers facilitate trading by continuously providing bid-ask quotes, so that you can sell immediately at a known price, and then 1 hour later someone can buy immediately at a known price (minus the "fee" (spread) that marker makers earn).

All in all, I don't think you even need to use brokers. You can just find buyers yourself and sell directly to them, avoiding the "evil arbitraging market makers" in the process.
the mood of the character doesn't change. The plot is quite good though.
> "Email is supposed to be easy to quote"

Since when? I have never heard anyone say this in my entire life. I want emails to look good. So I guess people are different and we can't draw a simple conclusion about what people want from email?
Co-author here, we will add the source code very soon. A little swamped with the press coverage, but the source code in Julia+Python is coming.
This belongs in my ~/.signature
Visa free countries to visit in 2019
> I'm using GitUp and it's really good although not maintained anymore.

That's a shame, I didn't know that. GitUp is really nice.
Paywwall...
I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make here. But it sounds like you're trying to say the sexual objectification of children is okay, as long as they are fictional children with a tiny amount of body covering. Is that what you meant, or did you mean something else?
In the case of cows we can selectively breed for sex, 97% of dairy calfs are females, the 3% males are mix of particularly good mothers that they want to pass genes on from, and cases where the sex selection failed. There is a large amount of data/science to select which mothers gets to pass their genes onto sons (which in turn pass their genes onto thousands of mothers). This works in part because most cows are bred with AI - bulls are dangerous and so nobody wants them if they can avoid it.

The above is numbers from one dairy farm I know of with ~3000 cows. I'm sure each farm is different.
Perhaps the risk that some of the data the probability is based on is wrong, e.g., "She fits the bill except they only have 4 children and the 5th is an entry error, so it's not her."
Has College Gotten Too Easy? Time Spent Studying Is Down, but GPAs Are Up
Mortal Kombat games are coming out at a clip of about every 4 years now. People get fighting games to play competitively. You'll find thousands of these people at the EVO tournament next weekend.

I imagine the competitive aspect holds water for FIFA as well.
The Mutable Web
>It should cost about 8 dollars

8 bucks? I know that farm subsidies drive down costs, but a 4x increase seems quite high to me.
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I'd expect very little success, most people on Linux download software from repositories or other trustworthy places (e.g. Steam).

Though some people do tend to install stuff via "curl | sudo bash"... but i think this malware is the least of their concerns :-P
> The more uniform linux (and linux desktop) becomes the more easier and more valuable target it becomes as well

This is an oversimplification. There is a sweet spot for security between monoculture and excessive fragmentation.

Most lesser-famous Linux distributions struggle to provide extensive and timely security updates (or provides no security fixes at all by doing only "rolling" releases that track upstream).

To provide security a skilled security team, as well as a large enough userbase is needed.

Linux Desktops are not very common, which leads to wonder if more uniformity can be a good thing.
How Google Search Will Look in 10 Years?
You will find the same population bottlenecks in India. It's really quite extreme:

https://caravanmagazine.in/science-technology/what-genetics-...
I would generally agree with your logic, but the problem here is that he broke AA's interpretation of a vaguely worded rule rather than clearly committing a violation of the terms. Given this AA should have contacted him about their view of "fradulent" usage.
Clearly I disagree. Feel free to ask the mods to clarify and update the title accordingly.
AlphaBay Market: Lessons from Underground Intelligence Analysis
Common Lisp's condition system was first described in '83 for the Lisp Machine in a technical report that's hard to get one's hands on these days. It was described in an MIT AI Labs working paper a few years later by Pitman (https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41474).

Algebraic effects were introduced by Plotkin in 2001 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45315-6_1) as an extension of Moggi's 1991 work on monads (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0890540191...), which in turn built on work from the 70s and 80s on understanding computing from the perspective of category theory.

The chief difference, IMO, is that Pitman defined terminology for a language feature in some LISP dialects, while Plotkin showed operational semantics for algebraic effects that are compatible with the denotational semantics (ie, adequacy). Pitman wrote his paper using the AI Labs' practical experience with LISP for the benefit of other LISP practitioners. Plotkin wrote his paper using previous work on lambda calculus and category theory for the benefit of programming language theorists.

Plotkin may have been unaware of CL's conditions system, but since conditions do not have formal semantics, and their behaviour is not particularly useful for probablistic non-determinism (the main thrust of Plotkin's effects article), I doubt that being aware of it would have made him any less motivated or likely to do the work he did.

Dolan et al (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-89719-6_...) discuss algebraic effects for concurrency in the setting of a dialect of OCaml, and reference CL conditions (amongst other things) as related work. It's a very brief mention observing only that conditions fail to convey the full continuation as a value to handlers, making them unsuited to the use case at hand.

TL;DR: no, conditions aren't the same thing, and if they were, they lack the rigour to be useful without the work that went into algebraic effects.
As the chaos monkey dials up speculating on food becomes more profitable too, mitigating at least some of the risk. If I expect harvests to fail on a significant scale, buying up huge warehouses of grain (or other storable food) and selling it when prices soar is a great investment strategy.

As climate change makes disruptions more frequent I wouldn't be surprised if some investment fonds started launching their own cubesats to feed their prediction models to spot such opportunities before everyone else.
> I think the situation depends on how important making practice is.

Just ask Jonas Gray of the Patriots [1].

“On November 16, 2014, Gray rushed for 201 yards, and a franchise-record four touchdowns on 38 carries “

This was such a historic event that he promptly featured the cover of Sports Illustrated [2].

A little bit later he was late for practice. He was essentially benched for the rest of the season. It was also pretty much the end of his career in the NFL.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Gray

[2]https://amp.si.com/nfl/2014/11/18/new-england-patriots-jonas...
Behold a humblebrag wrapped in feigned ignorance.

GP knows people buy games that interest them. In my family we buy select indie games and select AAAs just like everyone else.
Do you use an IDE for Rust?