skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agree with 1), specially if you look at some alternatives back when Java appeared into the scene:

- Oberon

- Oberon-2

- Active Oberon

- Component Pascal

- Modula-3

All with GC, value types, generics (just Modula-3), system programming capabilities and compilation to native code in their reference toolchain (Oberon variants also had JITs).

But now we have Java, with large installed bases, very mature tools, and latest by Java 10 that mistake might be fixed.
I didn't know about that, thanks!
I think the point is the reverse. Why are men happy to sacrifice family and everything else that really matters in life for the sake of the rat race, and women not as much? So, is that really a choice for all these men, or perhaps a necessity? What can be done to make it less of a necessity?

(As I understand it, some Scandinavian countries have brought in the legal right to paternity leave similar to maternity leave, which strikes me as a good start.)
Also, if you have children and register as self-employed, you can claim Working Families Tax Credit. If you work or claim to work from home the required number of hours, even if you don't earn any money, you get (if my fiddling with the DWP calculator is accurate) £~150 a week, much better than the £~70 from JSA, and you don't have to deal with the Jobcentre any more.
Supposedly XFCE plays quite nicely with other window managers replacing xfwm.
> you would store the concrete structs continously in Rust as well. Rust would also not waste space in the vector for storing a vtable-pointer, and would instead construct fat pointers dynamically when needed (since it knows the type, it knows which vtable to inject in the fat pointer).

Uh, what? How is the compiler just supposed to magically know which of the structures in the array are of what type, without any additional identifying information? I'm assuming that in this optimized case, there's a hidden type field in each struct, that it would use to index into a table of vtable pointers? If so, there you go, that's yet another level of indirection.
There may be a bit of sample bias here. Some recent comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9360470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277068

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9116181

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9116049

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9115965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9082641

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989514

It's true that we don't catch everything; we don't see everything. If you or anyone would like to help, we'd be grateful. Gently reminding users not to break the guidelines is one way. Emailing us (hn@ycombinator.com) when you see them being broken is another.
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"Spam-proof" is, since the beginning of (unix)time, an ever-receding ideal, not a point that you could actually reach, or even reach and hold. I believe that in the continuum between "lots of spam, some data" and "no spam, but also no data" a point needs to be chosen (and re-chosen) which is "good enough." Shutting the whole thing down is IMNSHO not this point, and certainly an overreaction.
Tangentially, there are still netinstall (mini.iso) and Lubuntu Alternate images (which allow to install a basic command-line system and go from there) with a text-based installer which DO fit on a CD.
Which doesn't account for the fact that this one is shallower than the previous earthquake. Shallower earthquakes create considerably more damage.
What's the meaning of a caret here?
> Turns off Javascript
> Complains page doesn't load.

It's your fault. Esp. since many sites are using stuff like AngularJS now.
Downvoters, look up Dunning-Kruger.
Fair enough, but I doubt the latest CPU features would help me in that regard :) With more HTML5 dynamic stuff it's also becoming very slow as well. I really only use it to control my DSLR.
The initial part is not my problem at all. When I start a project I'm full of motivation and can code very fast. The inefficient part is the part before launching the app. There are so many boring things you need to set up before the app can go live... Adding Analytics, logging errors, creating screenshots, making an about page, writing descriptions, creating logos, writing a privacy policy, writing terms & conditions, etc.
He's also referring to this follow up paper which attempts to explain the issue and show that it exists in other models too: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6572
Do they have sufficient storage on them to store all that data they're downloading? I notice that Apple is still offering 16GB devices which I can only imagine will be full within nanoseconds given LTE Advance speeds (although they probably don't sell the GSM model with 16GB, right?). Do Android devices still come in 16GB models over there? I am always saddened to see such small storage on devices.

EDIT: Someone's on a downvote party for my comments today I think.
> Simply make an encrypted backup and wipe everything before traveling through airports and borders.

True, but in some countries (such as the UK, under RIPA) it's illegal to refuse to give authorities your password or decryption key. You'd really want to use a decoy disk image with some content; an empty disk on an otherwise used-looking laptop arouses suspicion and would probably lead to further scrutiny.

Or keep your data on a server somewhere and hide the address and key, accessing your data remotely when you get to your destination.
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"child care is extremely expensive... a median full time salary would go wholly& to child care when one has two children... 1200+ euros per month"

Minimum wage for an adult is 1500 euro per month working full time, so even if you're a single breadwinner family earning minimum wage, you're already exaggerating. You also fail to mention that the government pays for nearly all of this if you're making minimum wage. Calculate it here:

http://www.belastingdienst.nl/rekenhulpen/toeslagen/

I filled in the numbers for a single parent working full time for minimum wage who sends their two kids for the maximum number of hours per month to an expensive daycare which charges 7 euro an hour. The government subsidizes their daycare for €2894 per month.

A family making €40,000 in taxable income a year still gets a maximum of €2584 per month reimbursed for 2 kids going to that same daycare.

I filled in the numbers for a family making €100,000 in taxable income (about three times the median income) a year, and it looks like they still get about half the costs reimbursed.

It actually looks like the fewer hours you work, the lower the percentage covered by subsidies becomes.

People keep bringing up the cost of daycare as an excuse not to work more, but I don't think it's a very good excuse. I think the actual reason why the number of part time workers is so high, is that people can afford to do it. Outside the Netherlands, if you're not working full time, you're seen as lazy and unambitious. Unless you're doing it for an ambitious reason, such as studying for a degree, you can forget about a promotion or a raise, if your employer allows it at all.

In NL, for some reason, the right to work part time was championed as a women's rights issue. Unless you allowed women to work part time, you were oppressing them. The government also started stimulating part time work to reduce unemployment. Employers were limited in their ability to deny part time employment, to the point that it became very unusual for women to work full time. So unusual, that those working full time are now becoming somewhat socially stigmatized as workaholics or greedy. Some women are also putting pressure on men to start working less to do something about this very unenlightened looking wage gap between full time working men and part time working women.
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Using Charles Richter's formula

Magnitude of Earthquake M = log I / S

(where I is the intensity of the earthquake taken 100km from epicenter, S is the intensity of a standard earthquake)

First earthquake 7.8 = log I1 / S

Second earthquake 7.1 = log I2 / S

If we solve this for I1/I2, we get 10 ^ 1.10 ~ 12.5

> The intensity of first earthquake was 12.5 times as intense as the later earthquake.
What's your location? Distance from initial epicenter?
I too see many cheap Android devices for sale from noname Chinese brands. But are you tempted into buying them?
Also, take a look to StarLancer game
Phobos 2 probe again ...
so does the machine also open the patients airway and safely insert the breathing tube ?
While I agree that Americans have benefited (and continue to benefit of course) from a huge range of morally dubious actions by its government, I have quite a few reservations about the rest of your comment.

The main objection is to your belief that morally repugnant actions must benefit the American public (and their de facto consent). Neither of those statements hold. There is a long tradition of those with power and no accountability doing many vile things even when it's obviously counterproductive or there is no greater benefit.

Without corrective feedback, political/personal incentives often misalign with larger social good, and there are few corrective measures that can be taken. Just because there is short-term benefit to some does not mean it's any good for the American public. One only needs to look at the history of CIA operations and blowback to see that played out over and over. Even when not explicitly clandestine, these things can flow from pure economic logic - one only needs to follow the development of the military or prison industrial complexes to see that in action.

I'll also take exception to your description of torture. Any reading on the effectiveness of torture will show consensus that not only is it not an effectiveness information collection method, it also makes future collection more difficult both from the source and in strategic/game theoretic terms. The costs far outweigh the benefits.

Torture is great for getting things you want to hear, whether they are accurate or not, which goes a long way towards explaining its use. That and those misaligned personal incentives. And the banality of evil.
So you are saying women get all these advantages for being attractive, but can not use them because they would be called sluts? Bummer.

Also, when/where can men sleep with women to get ahead?

And: going on a date with somebody does not imply that you have to have sex with that person.
China and South Korea are actually in their best relationship because of Japan's Abe government
=> this statement is getting to be less true. Recently Xi Jinping met with Abe which came as a direct hit on the apologize-or-no-meeting hard line of the South Korean government. South Korea is budging to mend the diplomatic fences with Japan, lean back to the United States, and steps back from China a bit. The general perception here is that South Korea is not ready to go all-in for China.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring React engineers to build the future of life science
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I am intrigued too - what's taking up all the space? Hires desktop images or something?

It would be interesting to see an analysis of the space and how it is used.
More Lenovo woes: security flaws, website clerical errors, maybe layoffs
Thanks a million.

I'm looking specifically for analytics servers. I expect many are to be found among the lists you supply.

The reason is that I don't object to advertising, but I do object to tracking.

While not a leading player, most blatant is www.hosted-pixel.com.
Hover are a scumbag registrar and should be boycotted the same degree as godaddy.

ICANN rules require registrars to support DNSSEC for clients, but hover use their "reseller wholly owned by the registrar" status to avoid consequences for not implementing support for DNSSEC.

To add insult to injury, they claim they "support" DNSSEC because you can submit a support ticket for them to manually upload the required data, at a cost of $500 per time per domain.
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Read the book "Patent It Yourself", published by Nolo Press.

After you write your patent application, pay a patent attorney to look it over for you. That won't cost much at all.

You'll need a prior art search; if you want to hire someone to do that for you, I do prior art work from time to time, email me at mdcrawford@gmail.com
Electric brain stimulation decreases IQ scores and racial prejudice
It would be interesting to see if the new dialog box is improving the number of users paying for the software, but I guess they are waiting for more data to see that. Appart for that, I have absolutely no problem paying for Elementary, in my opinion is the best Linux distribution and by far. Everything is really polished and well done.
I don't think you are obliged to have sex when you agree to go on a date, or when you are being approached because you are attractive.

And supposing wealthy men would try to take advantage of their wealth (promising money for sex and then not delivering), why wouldn't it be fair game for woman to take advantage of their attractiveness (promising sex for money and then not delivering)?

You also seem to assume that men are incapable of being genuinely interested in a woman. What if the guy really was interested in the woman and merely wants a date to get to know her better?
It would not be a problem for a male executive to marry a woman working part-time at a café.

Would a female executive marry a male who works part-time at a café?
All are tools to make games. HTML5 is not a programming language. It's a markup language, meaning that it describes what different blocks of texts mean. E.g. <b>this</b> is a bold text. The programming language you make games with for your web browser is called Javascript or Ecmascript.

But we are smart people, we don't need to be nitpicking, right? We know that when somebody says they make games "with HTML5" they mean "for modern web browsers using all the tools available, like HTML5, CSS3, JS, AJAX, etc". The same applies to "for Android". The common chain to code an Android game is in the Android Java version. You can off course use other tools as well to get something on an Android device that can execute as a game, but special cases would have been mentioned as such.

In any case game making, at least for the beginner, is not so different, no matter where you start. There's a canvas and you need to get started drawing something on it. You need to track your game state, images and audio data, you need to react to key and mouse events, you need to write a reasonable game loop. And that was actually the point I was trying to make. Pygame tries to take away simple things like the game loop. But things that are always a mess like the key handling (if you use more than WASD and space), lightning, etc seems to be in your hands (at least I haven't found a nice helper for lightning in the pygame docs).

And yes, in the end, making the decision to make games for mobile platforms (Android or iPhone), for desktop platforms (pygame, C++, Löve2D (yes, programming languages and frameworks compared, uh)), or for the web, that's one of the basic decisions you need to make when starting to develop games. The audience is different and the problem space is different in some details that will cost a lot of time to get it stable in the end (e.g., different browsers treating your code differently).
HKT = Higher-Kinded Polymorphism [1]

[1] http://www.hydrocodedesign.com/2014/04/02/higher-kinded-type...
One more Korean here.

"fuck you Samsung but thanks for making Korean a little bit more relevant in the tech industry."\n

-> I would have concurred 3-5 years ago, but I disagree now. I think now Samsung is the bottleneck which functions as an engineer hog and nefariously undermines their productivity/potential.

Take Tizen. An Army of 1,000+ developers have been working on it for years. What do they have now?

I am living in Finland which used to be the country of Nokia and the country is rebuilding itself post-Nokia. South Korea can do the same "without Samsung".
Cost of carrier access.
the ATC's need at least 150Watts to perform right.
So it doesn't matter if an amp is in the "high end" category if it doesn't have the watts to actually move the speakers.
For those looking into this topic only now we interviewed 6 people who have been doing this for some time, collected their answers and published them + did a hangout with them here: https://highops.com/insights/immutable-infrastructure-6-ques... (pure content, no sales pitch anywhere)
It does look a bit weird doesn't it!
I hear quite a lot about how freelance design works well for freelance designers.

But I'm a software consultant; mostly I do "Greenfield Development", that is, writing entire applications completely from scratch. It's fascinating work but so painful that I would not wish software consulting upon my worst enemy.

For quite some time now I've been struggling to get out of consulting, and into a regular job where I can work in and office among coworkers.

Just making that statement in an interview, in reply to their query as to why I want to give up consulting, is absolutely all I require to be turned down for the job.

It is profoundly frustrating.
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Well written, but as others have mentioned, this technique is almost as old and well-known as game development itself.

However, it's still pretty cool and refreshing to use. See e.g. Notch' Ludum Dare streams where he makes his levels in Paint.net: http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/293084461 about 3:23:00 in.
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I agree about the medallions, but there's much to be said for regulations.

In my wife's country, taxis are basically a no-go, especially if you're white. Minibuses were OK in the day, otherwise you have to get a private driver, preferably one whom you know personally (so that if you're murdered or robbed there's a way to enact revenge). And just when I thought they were being paranoid, we did witness a robbery and subsequent shootout when we were there, one of her friends did get car-jacked and robbed, and shortly after we left one of the people whom we visited was gunned down and murdered by bandits.

Lawless countries are less fun than they appear...
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I observed a bit of that effect here in Thailand. Apple is considered more prestigious by many Thais who are willing to spend a month's pay to buy an iphone. But many were quick to convert to Samsung when larger screens came out - the little iphone looked like a toy next to the big screen Samsungs so they handed down their little iPhones to younger siblings. Apple seemed silly to insist that people didn't want bigger screens. Now that they finally caved to the demand they are clawing back some market share from Samsung. And the Xiaomi Mi4 is coming to Thailand soon so Samsung is going to take another hit.
Do you have a citation for this supposed redshift failure?
Not all TAS videos are speedruns, some just rely on the incredibly intricate controls made possible by Tools.

This level only exists to be run as a TAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRQjaOhwGM
Correction, that's not "conservative popular opinion". As with many surprisingly conservative elements of Dutch law and culture, it's the result of the coalition-based politics where "non-essential" concessions are made to the (socially, not fiscally) conservative minority.

Basically the "stuff that isn't worth fighting an election over". See also: drugs (we're now falling behind, and even moving backwards), opening hours (most of the country still shuts down on Sundays), or to give a recently newsworthy example: insulting the royal family being illegal.

Mix that with the dominant right-wing urge to "privatise all the things", and subsidised child care gets happily thrown under the bus by various coalition governments, despite what the majority of the population actually wants.
Ask HN: What are some good Machine Learning resources?
I'm currently learning and researching more in the field of Machine Learning. I started with Machine Learning course in Coursera (http://ml-class.org/).

Any other/more suggestions to go deep into the topic?
>... Participants (n=60) were randomly...

Beside from that, the title suggests something like a causal connection when they just found it correlating on a sample of 60 persons? Seriously?

This study is utter bullshit.
Before that was the Ocarina Of Time wrongwarp trick [1] that became so ubiquitous in real-time runs that real-time and TAS are going head-to-head nowadays (The TAS times are actually slightly slower, due to including the title screen/outro sequence in their measurements).

[1] https://youtu.be/0M7IINwTFVw
Any clue about the software?
That's the tutorial - o you have a more detailed link?
I'm Belgian and now living in Norway, it's even "worse" here.
It's really one of the first things you notice when being here.

Being a few meters off from a crosswalk cars will stop while they would easily be able to drive on before you (Which they would do in Belgium).