skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transition media conglomerates over a certain size/revenue to run as some new category of non-profit (imo 503 doesn't have enough categories)

Limit the number of boards any one person is allowed to sit on. Those five media conglomerates that control the US media aren't even really all that distinct.

Hell, break up the media conglomerates. Update the sherman anti-trust in order to do so.

Give the FCC more power. The lack of power is partially to blame for our sad state of affairs. Fewer regulations haven't resulted in a good system, and I'll be bold - I think more regulations will.

I'm with you that state censorship of political views is right out, but there are some standards of decency that I do think we should keep such as gore, and hardcore pornography on TV even on cable. Especially right after school.

Fund the hell out of PBS.

More Mister Rogers, fewer 20-minute toy commercials.
Yes. I have 10+ years of employment with so many projects it would take forever to list them. I have a 1 page resume. (I've also given up on .pdf and .doc, and just give it out as plain .txt)

Figure out what experience is useful for the job and write a cover letter. Most of the experience a seasoned employee has probably isn't relevant on the surface level to a hiring manager.

Something like:

"It sounds like from the job description you're looking to do <X>. I've done <Y> which is very similar to <X> in most respects."

</C3PO>
Google needs to be clear on what causes apps to be removed, and based on account history should be way more lenient on what would cause account termination...

I.e. 4 years good standing 3 strikes, 5 years good standing 4 strikes, etc
As a Chinese American (whose family is from the mainland), trying to combat misinformation amongst my relatives feels like talking to a brick wall. There's already no love lost between HKers and mainlanders, even before all this went down. It's especially difficult when Chinese identity is seen as intertwined with the CCP, and any criticism of the government is considered criticism of the Chinese people.

I naively hope for the eventual freedom of all 华人 from the CCP, but people in the mainland are extremely complacent due to their rise in economic status under the current government. The only thing that would cause true mainland revolt and revolution would be if the Chinese economy collapsed.
I was regurgitating the positive case for Brexit that I've heard, not making a case myself, because the previous commenter said he "had not heard" a positive case that is still relevant today (a sovereignty case is still relevent today). I wasn't making the case myself. I'm sorry 'unelected officials' triggered everybody, but that is what they say.
seems to me these keep getting buried on hn, lots of upvotes on reddit though, always something about it on the front page.
Ask HN: Will you pay for AI that direct you in the code?
Let's say there is a tool that can understand a ticket in Jira, and can guide you where you might need to change/add things in your project's code, would you pay for such a thing, and if yes, how much?
> Given long standing British democratic tradition,

It is long standing British democratic tradition that national referendums are unconstitutional.
Of course, it's probably easier if you can prove that you discard _all_ CV's with pictures anyways

That's exactly why it's done.
> Unknown keys and sections should also always be copied from input to output (this is how you embed comments).

Better than nothing I guess, but I'd say just use a syntax that supports comments.
Admittedly I’ve been writing code in Python for many years now but, even from the start I never had a problem with the significance of whitespace.

Quite the opposite.

I like to format my code nicely anyways (or rather, mostly my editor does it for me because I’ve asked it to do so).

I indent with two spaces usually, regardless of language. And have my editors configured to insert two spaces when I press tab.

JavaScript, Rust, Python, C. Same difference, in terms of how I use whitespace.
A chat app that only lets you talk to people at the same altitude.
i think its because tech is seen as a trade (like plumbing) and not a profession (like finance).
Don't consider us Europeansdead too quickly. A lot of Italians will unite against another «brexit» disaster.
Rust isn't going to be used until it has better CUDA support.
As one of the Julia developers; this is quite atypical. We’d like to get a bug report on our GitHub tracker from you if you’re willing to open one. Anecdotally, on my 2018 MacBook Pro, full startup of Julia, compilation and execution of a syntax error, and cleaning everything up, takes about 0.8s. (Measured with “time julia -e ‘foo foo foo’”). That’s not a time to brag about, but it’s an order of magnitude faster than your comment. Your system may be slower about certain things, but tens of seconds is way far out of the distribution of reasonable times.

Creating an array of three numbers is much faster; on my system (subtracting startup time) it’s less than 50ms, and that’s all because of compilation time. After running it once (so as to compile the random number generation and array construction routines) constructing a random array takes ~4ns.

Again, we’d like to see an issue opened in our github tracker to help figure out whats going wrong. Feel free to open one at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia
Why do we need modules at all? (Joe Armstrong, 2011)
Movie Streaming all though partly good is like an all you can eat buffet. There is plenty of food to choose from but nothing you want to eat. Compare that to buying movies ala carte food aka buying quality movies.

Plus buying movies your movie viewing do not get data analyzed in the same way especially not if you buy physical media.

You can then build a personal media library.
I've never understood the sun exposure guidance to be "stay indoors", but rather wear sunscreen / hats / etc, esp if you are prone to sunburns or have a family history... which doesn't seem that sinister.
It should not be up to individuals to decide whether to buy an apple or invite someone into their home?

Your rephrasing is not only hyperbolic but also just a theory. Obviously people would answer no. You might assume people are dumber than they are. Perhaps they are weighing factors you are not which lead them to believe that brexit will not have the outcome you think it will.
Trump Considers Buying Greenland
It's not the same format, but here's a few slide decks from Bruce Momjian's site, describing PostgreSQL's internals:

https://momjian.us/main/presentations/internals.html
I think part of their reasoning is that if they publish the rulebook, then people will find ways to misuse the services in a roundabout way. It’s easier to find bugs in source material you can see, than that you cannot.

I don’t agree with this, but I think it’s most likely the reasoning.
Why were regulatory bodies needed? Why wasn't the market able to decide they don't want smog and pollution?
Despite changes since when? When Boris took over 3 weeks ago? You are joking, surely?
Then perhaps this is not the appropriate metaphor. Which is why I clarified with choices regarding food and shelter.
That's also a very valid point and is applicable across many fields. For instance, I did some shopping the other day. Went to Waitrose,which is essentially an upmarket food retailer in the UK.I bought some veg,including some tomatoes.The price was 2-3 times higher than in other places.They had a strong and pleasant natural smell,which is almost nonexistent when you buy cheaper tomatoes.Now if someone grew up in a large city and never had a chance to have an access to a private garden where vegetables grow, he's used to that lack of taste and thinks it's normal. However I know how a real tomatoe from your own garden tastes so it's easy to understand the difference. Hadn't I lived in a house in a small city,all these things would be Impossible to understand.The same applies to pollution- once you go outside your polluted city,you realise how fantastic the air can be in the middle of a forest.
The backlog relevant for those importing goods would be on the French side?
> ...received a résumé for a finance job earlier this year that included an avatar of the applicant sweating.

> “That was to show they hustle like no one else,” says John Lowe, the company’s chief executive. “That is an important attribute that we prize.”

That has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard
Alibaba Billionaire Joseph Tsai Buys Brooklyn Nets for $2.35B
I will add to that that one of the best programmers I've ever worked with had one of the worst resumes I've ever seen. To the point where I asked my manager "why are we even considering this person?"

I was told to interview him anyway since someone working there vouched for him and he turned out to be a great hire.
This is rather remarkable. After the incidents at the airport last weekend, including viral videos of protesters battering individual policemen and Chinese journalists, I would have expected the Hong Kong public would become more divided on support for the protests. The 2014 protests had fizzled out partly due to disagreements on the direction of the causes.
That was one of the points of tension raised by the Trump admin. In addition to buying US ag, they would also stop fentanyl from coming in. According to the admin, their efforts in both have been lackluster.
Totally agree. I do plain ASCII text, specifically to help the robots, and it's easier to break down and paste into stupid application forms where they want your resume, but they also want you to write in all the info from your resume too.
Exactly this. Mathematics provides an imperfect model that needs to be adjusted for engineering problems in the messy, real world.
> "I want to see that movie made whether I make it or not"

I think this is an important idea, there and elsewhere, for a few reasons.

Besides it being a gut-feel check on the real benefit of a project (separate from money/career potential), and how that might motivate others... being able to want to see something done, even if one's own money/career doesn't benefit, seems a good sign, in an industry culture that sometimes seems mercenary.
Some of it gets shipped to mexico, where it is mixed with other 'product'.
This is the executive arm. Commissioners are appointed by each member state's governement.
This is no less democratic than the way UK cabinet ministers are appointed.
Military spending is a function of geopolitics and the world economy-- Moon Fever isn't even a key in the dictionary of an optional parameter.

Maybe the fundamental disagreement here comes down to whether we think the way our working society is currently structured alienates us from each other or not. Human wellbeing may seem like a function of population growth, but I believe that is an illusion. If what we have now is a healthy society, then sure, let's expand it to the moon and Mars.
It's very difficult to find anything similar to programming compensation-wise or job availability. Probably the closest one is to become a nurse, counselor, therapist that type of thing. But that would take years of training and $$$ as well.
I've seen this video and it's a Sinclair hit piece. Not worth the time of anyone who wants to engage in an informed discussion.

It's 2019 and this propaganda piece (yes, it's propaganda) is arguing mass incarceration is the solution.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

Also, personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do that either.

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> So why the obsession with popularity?

One reason could be altruism. If you believe your tool is superior to the tools that most others are using you may be highly motivated to convince those people to upgrade.

Another reason could be that higher popularity leads to more jobs.
Or more importantly atime is updated in tandem with mtime.
You could always try openuniversity.edu
I really don't think so. Plastics are used because they solve a lot of very real problems for the amount they cost to produce. That's a good thing. The vast majority of the plastic waste in the environment comes from rivers that flow through countries that lack even basic sanitation/garbage collection facilities. A plastic bottle floating down a river has a real potential environmental impact. A plastic bottle sitting in a landfill isn't hurting anything, and isn't going to.

Investing in waste management infrastructure in these communities would essentially solve the plastics problem, even if nothing else was changed. It is, unfortunately, not very exciting to talk about civil waste management infrastructure as the way forward, but it doesn't stop it from being the correct answer.
Career advisers at my university never gave advice like that. They mainly highlighted that resumes should be clear, informative, and concise.
Melanoma biopsies are not typically “small pieces of skin”.

Any other kind of biopsy will be unreliable and is more likely to be a waste.

How are you basing detection rate on that information? Hint: you can’t. Or if you are implying that detecting 1 case in 52 cases of melanoma is good (a sensitivity of 2%) then you’re nuts.

All medical students and dermatologists train on the basic guidelines for skin cancer screening. Please leave this to the professionals.
Python 3 rejects mixed whitespace so the problem will be caught quickly.
Kubernetes supports JSON but overwhelmingly leans towards YAML. I've had to spend some time really grokking it to do basic dev ops, and now have my IDE pretty dialed to support it. That said, its not my favorite by a long shot. Can Jsonette save us?
Namespaces are great when used wisely: they allow for embedding unrelated XML fragments in your document and your application will not see them. Or versioning your XML in namespaces. XPath and namespaces are trivial but it depends on the library you use on how to setup the namespace resolving. My pet peeve about namespaces: people that use HTTP URLs for their declaration and expecting them to be resolved for some reason. The other one being people that see a namespace prefix and think that that is the actual namespace.
Disclaimer: I work on Tree Notation. (https://github.com/treenotation/jtree)

Here's a proposal: use a Tree Language.

I created a demo for you called "Fished": https://github.com/breck7/fished.

Took me just a few minutes but already get type check, autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more.

Tree Notation is early, and there will be kinks until the community is bigger, but I think it may be useful for you.

http://treenotation.org/designer/#grammar%0A%20fishedNode%0A...
In that case, a study that can be multiplier to my programming experience can be a good option. For example, business management ?
now that we actually know
[...] what it will cost
Why on earth would we do this?

To some euroskeptics, the cost is irrelevant.

Before the referendum, I heard euroskeptics call the EU undemocratic citing the process where the 2005 EU Constitution / 2008 Treaty of Lisbon. They saw the constitution-to-treaty change as bypassing the rejection of the former by French and Dutch referendums; and the second Irish referendum as bypassing the rejection by the first Irish referendum.

They saw this as analogous to an election in a tinpot dictatorship, where the Glorious Leader winning is the only possible outcome. That the EU had no taste for hearing the the average citizen's voice, unless it was supportive.

If you honestly believe the big thing that's wrong with the EU is that votes are only allowed so long as the outcome is pro-EU, earnestly implementing the referendum result come what may is really the only option. Anything that stands in the way of doing that only serves to prove the importance of doing that.

And unfortunately, the Tory party has a lot of euroskeptics.
You forget that the resume works both ways, which is what GP was saying. You may want to only look at the facts that say if the candidate can do the job, but the candidate may want to know if, in a larger sense, you're the kind of company they want to work for.

In that sense, he's right: that system works for both sides.
Theresa May is the greatest Brexit champion mankind has ever known according to HN.
so .. first off, these are not William Blake .. (though it looks very similar) .. these are mystic christian theological moments, "defeating" the false and dangerous (sic) Eastern and Middle-Eastern mystic moments... as a Jungian, it is hard to look at.. there is a well-meaning side to it, but in the modern world, where disparate cultures bump up against each other quite a bit, and in the modern mindset, where the events of death and tragedy are antiseptically hidden, to focus on economy and science.. it is easy to dismiss .. all-in-all, worthwhile if you care to go deeper.. or enjoy the draftsmanship.
Does this happen to use SPARTA (https://github.com/facebookincubator/SPARTA) for its abstract interpretation?
Browsers can and should be agents of the user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent

Google's Chrome has distorted that historical idea so they are agents of the ad network and advertiser, working against the user.
Mochizuki’s paper seems like a debatable example. Many mathematicians have been baffled by the proof or ended up feeling that it was not that promising, even prior to attempting to do a detailed analysis. If it’s unrecoverable, then the community will look good for its hesitation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15971802
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Human readable in that I can use TCPDump and make sense of it all. That's one of the reasons HTTPS everywhere sucks.
I guarantee it's not dedicated. it may go over a dedicated line at some point, but I'm in the layer2 business running GMPLS and shared switched traffic and you're either on GPON or some Metro Ethernet gear. you are sharing the neighborhood bandwidth on a metro switch, or you're sharing both light spectrum (GPON) AND the neighborhood bandwidth. you could have 100g but it's still shared.
Nice note; I hadn't heard of that program before.

However, that's also not the same type of program as Fusion 360. Fusion 360 is a parametric modeler, which means it's used for create precise mechanical designs, rather than artistic pieces or animated figures. For example, you might use Fusion 360 to design a adjustable desk or car part. Fusion 360 also has built in CAM features, which allow you to automatically generate commands for a CNC mill, lathe, or router.
I love reading these ideas, similar in "otherwordliness" to Rich Hickey's, but the silent majority goes against them. Giving every programmer the ability to create a language of their own does not work out well. (similarly, on Rich's ideas, having library authors forever support old implementations to avoid breaking clients does not work out in reality)

The truth seems to be closer to having to endure the constant pain of rewrites and reimplementions, imperfect abstractions and systems, that slowly etch us towards some shitty golden medium, something everyone hates but everyone agrees is the best we could come up with so far. The next iteration of that is most likely not gonna come from something completely different, genius, but from something just slightly different, slightly better.
You can wear sunscreen and still get the benefits of sun exposure. This isn’t an either/or situation. Portraying it as such is harmful.
In which case you would be using click. If I have any expectation that someone else is going to use my script I give it a REAME.md, a requirements.txt, a setup.py and I use click. It literally takes about 30's to do and you now have a cli interface indistinguishable from any other cli on your system.
A few questions that might help people answer better:

1. Where do you currently live?

2. What country/countries do you have citizenship for?

3. Do you have the equivalent of (what we would call in the US/Canada) a high school diploma?

4. Do you have any sort of degree or academic certificate already? If so, in what?

5. What is your interest in business specifically? Are you interested in startups, or getting into management at a large corporation?
> Given the rapid increase in programmers across the globe, I'd bet on there being more LISP programmers now than at any other time in human history. So why the obsession with popularity?

I think that there's a difference between a concern with popularity, which this article demonstrates, and an obsession with popularity, which may afflict parts of the Lisp community (not LISP any more, at least in most dialects) but isn't clearly demonstrated here.

If quantitative popularity is important at all, then surely it is percentages and not absolute numbers that are most important (e.g., in 2016, Hillary Clinton got more votes in Texas than in Delaware—15 times more!—but that's not the relevant number).

Even if quantitative popularity isn't important, surely some basic level of popularity is to be desired by fans of the language; and it must continually be renewed, not taken for granted. Note that more than the popularity of the language as a practical tool is at stake here; the article specifically talks about the declining popularity of Lisp as a teaching language, and, whatever language you use later in your hacking career, it's a shame to embark on that career not having been exposed to the ideas of Lisp (although, to be fair, those ideas have disseminated so much into the mainstream that many of them can be at least as easily found outside of Lisp as inside it).
For the love of god, if anyone reads this, please don't do this!

Config files are fantastic. Trivial to read, write, copy, track in version control, diff, grep, generate with scripts, etc.

API-driven configuration has none of these properties.

Some Java application servers take this approach of API-driven configuration. It's an improvement over UI-driven configuration, which is what they had before. But it's still significantly worse than simple file-driven configuration.

If you want to provide a 'friendly' CLI tool, by all means do so - but provide a tool to interpret and generate config files, not something which replaces config files.
> It can be everywhere in the world

German universities offer Batchelors and Masters programs almost for free - literally just a few hundred Euros per semester.

The language barrier obviously might be an issue. I know it's certainly possible (common, even) to take Masters programs offered completely in English, so I would assume English language Batchelors programs are also available, though might be harder to find.
It's not terribly obscure: al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي‎), from whose name it derives, is also the source of the English word algebra, from his Al-jabr (الجبر)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calcul...
More like invest in proper waste management and landfill facilities in the cities that border the main rivers in asia.

Seriously, that's the answer. As it stands, a truly staggering amount of waste, of which plastics are only a fraction, is just straight dumped into these rivers because there's no way to handle it locally. Stopping the flow at the source through proven, straightforward waste management techniques would help the environment is innumerable ways, including the plastics problem.