skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is your point? You can not disprove what I said with one counterexample. Look for examples that confirm what I said.

I for example remember a documentary I saw a couple of months ago with starving people collecting single grains of rice, I think, from the streets at a market in India if I remember correctly. On the other side of the street behind a wall was a huge open space with hundreds, maybe thousands of tons of rice, bought by speculators hoping for rising prices but they didn't. Hell, even if everything worked as expected, less supply because everything got bought up causing rising prices in turn, this would be plain unethical extortion.

One other example that comes to mind is milk producers in Africa going out of business because of cheap subsidized milk powder flooding the markets. Cheap milk in exchange for now unemployed milk producers and capital leaving the country seems not such a great deal to me. And because of credits from the world bank they are not allowed to counter this development with import taxes. Free trade may be - not necessarily is - a good thing between equal parties, but between a rich, developed and powerful party on one side and a poor, underdeveloped and powerless party on the other side it becomes quite probable that it will not turn out as a win-win situation.
I looked over that "extensive analysis" too, and it's the usual libertarian ridiculousness. He didn't link to anything even remotely non-partisan. Despite his being pro marriage equality he has links to the usual Republican hit pieces on things like women's issues.

And it looks like he has the same weird fixation with progressives that every conservative fscking nutjob has.

I'm so sick of science denial and the kind of counter-narrative "look at me mom, no hands" clever boy bullshit that passes for intelligence on the right.

Hayek. Always with the god damned Hayek.
Love to see an example
Yeah, I'm pretty sure 'god' is just a ring zero awareness of all computing processes. What you are discussing would be the initial 'god' version 1.0. Consensus across race, culture and social standing. Stuff that into the blockchain!
a lot of people out there don't have access to mentors, so I (unfortunately) feel that the self-learning by books approach is still the most practical, generally speaking.
How was it designed and made? It is well designed at first view.
This has nothing to do with learning a programming language and everything to do with learning how to process text in a computer. Being a C programmer doesn't mean you have only a PDP-11's understanding of text ("it can be ASCII or EBCDIC, and I know how to convert between the two!").

When I learned C# (in 2003?), I learned that String in an array of Char and Char is 16 bit, and that .NET used the same encoding as Windows NT (UTF-16 in native endian).

I knew that both WinNT and Java made the mistake of being designed at a time when people assumed 16 bits are enough and consequently caused the surrogate pairs mess. I knew that Java assumes UTF-16BE and Windows assumes UTF-16LE. I knew what UTF-16 means in C/C++ and how to work with it or transform such data to and from UTF-8 and UCS-4.

When learning a new programming language, I know to look up whether strings are mutable and whether they're sequences of bytes, code units or code points. If they's immutable, I look up how to create a copy instead of a reference when using substring and when they're not bytearrays I look up how real bytearrays are called in this language.

Should early programmers be taught this? Absolutely. At what stage? I don't know. But they must be taught from the start that this has nothing to do with a programming language and everything to do with how data is represented in memory.
The Early Modern World of Game of Thrones (2014)
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AFAIK, WebAssembly code will come from places like LLVM IR. The compiler pipeline can simply choose to omit references to the original source code. Without the source, the WA code (whether in binary or text) will be just IR data. I haven't read IR code, but I'm guessing it's far past the AST stage, with many aggressive optimizations applied to it. It won't look anything like the original source.
I was just on Liberty Island and Ellis Island on Saturday. Everyone should have a chance to go there in person.
The size and scope of these changes are atypical for Microsoft, especially given the number of senior executive departures.
>>No, actually, accepting GMO crops could quite well go along with targeting specific unliked business practices engaged in by Monsanto.

Can you explain this? It would seem as the biggest player, they have a huge advantage over other smaller companies. So much so, I couldn't name two other companies who currently compete with them.
All from TechCrunch:

A16Z: Kyle Russell

YC: Colleen Taylor

GV: MG Siegler, Leena Rao

500 Startups: Ryan Lawler
More women + a psychologist + possible growth fund. YC is killing it
What's the difference between deobfuscating code, and decompiling it? Either way you end up with a weirdly-structured, canonicalized, symbolless mess.
"climate skeptic" is to "climate change denier" as "intelligent design" is to young earth creationism. It's the same position dressed up with language to seem less extremist.
1. Both the JVM and CLR have different focuses in terms of startup speed, which matters more on the web than anywhere else (this is one reason Java failed on the web). JavaScript and WebAssembly are designed to start up quickly.

2. If you have both the CLR and a JS engine in the same browser, you have problems with cross-VM GC cycles and the overhead that causes. That is one reason why WebKit opposed adding Dart bindings, for example. WebAssembly is designed to integrate with existing JS VMs.

3. Both Java and the CLR are open source, but both are patented. Both have licenses for those patents, but this has been the cause of much debate, as there are corner cases in those licenses (e.g. if you do not fully implement all of the VM per the license, you may not fall under its protection). This could be resolved - all existing patents could be offered up to the public domain - but I don't see Microsoft or Oracle (and there may be others with patents) doing so.
We could achieve the same benefit through a public safety net such as a guaranteed basic income. There is nothing inherently wrong with paying social benefits or redistributing income. Bringing employers into the mix through a minimum wage just distorts the market by preventing price discovery and making people whose labor is worth less than minimum wage effectively unemployable.
Ah, my mistake. Forgot that the access groups are scoped by bundle id on iOS. So yeah, this would only apply to OSX.
We are in an early stage, we will have a distributed version by end of this year.

It isn't about "YAS3I". It isn't compatible just for the compatibility sake.

Minio implementation is opinionated: "There is only one way to do it". Given a choice between Amazon S3 and OpenStack SwiftAPI compatibility, we picked Amazon S3. As SwiftAPI gains adoption, we may switch over to SwiftAPI, but will have to drop S3 then. Let the community decide.
Is just this a subtle ad? The twitter/facebook on the bottom direct to a website-maker company.
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You act like it's a big binary shift one day. But it's not.

Uber has massive consumer mindshare, and its still growing fast. When they start phasing-in self driving cars you will have a day where your UberPool ride to work was driven by a human, but your UberPool home happened to be an autonomous car.

Uber is building a brand as the go-to transportation service and that won't be displaced just because another company deploys a fleet of autonomous cars with their own app. Even if that company is Google. Sure, it's a competitive threat, and I have no idea if Uber will be a brand people know in 25 years. But in 5-10? I think they are positioning themselves for dominance as the provider of autonomous transportation.
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What content does an Editorial Director entail in the context of YC? Just the http://blog.ycombinator.com ?
It's not too late, you can take free courses online about digital circuitry. You can also take any electronic device you have taken apart and just google the part numbers on the IC's, it should lead you to datasheets that explain what each one does and many of them include a reference design so you can rip it off the board and add the components mentioned in the datasheet to make your own gadget! You should also look into microcontrollers, they are very fun and act as a gateway between software and digital electronics, so if you can program you'll enjoy this. There are many development boards on the market and a lot of free software that you can use to program them.
I am currently in the middle of a lawsuit with the Instacat service. Instead of delivering the cat I had selected, I received a hamster in a cat outfit which bit my child. The cat outfit was also poor quality. My child's wound became infected and then my husband divorced me. I am only 3 years old.
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The second feature page allows you to rent your own cat out- could be a purfect solution.

Have a cat of your own? Want to make some money off him or
her on the weekends? Well Pimp your Puss by signing up for
our Kitty Consignment program, or sign up to be a driver
through our Kitty Conveyor program.
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Show HN: 75 Syntax Coloring Alternatives for Jupyter Notebooks [Plugin]
> ...(even though its contract is something quite atrocious)

Headline of the year.
I'm on "Unlimited web" plan, but not 21GB.
I think of even greater note is:

> I don't think we needed to know how to use anything but strings, functions, and arrays

Strings, functions and arrays comprise a huge amount of information. Many C programs of rather frightening complexity and functionality could be written with just those primitives.

When we think of a beginner, we have to imagine that they have the computer science knowledge of a child. Would you ask a child about strings and functions?
As "Amen" is to "Hell Yeah". Well done.
Maybe there will emerge a common "screenreader toolkit" for sideloading a non-visual interface instead of expecting every designer to remember to interleave ARIA hints at magic places in an otherwise fundamentally visual interface, keeping it all in sync as the design evolves, etc.
Maybe your cat needs a power button...
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There's no better way to improve your "computational thinking" than to write code.

There are other good ways, but writing code is the best way.
Uhm. You can, in fact, selectively breed any given gene into any creature. You are, of course, aware that plant mutation rates has been accelerated with mutagens for decades in search of desirable changes.

So while it may not be a gene copied directly from a fish, it will be a base-for-base identical copy of the gene found in a fish. Then it can be merged back into the main line of the plant via a recombinant backcross technique.

This is how plant breeding has been done for quite a long time now.
> The gender gap that exists in the technology sector is a complex issue that will take time to solve.

There's also a gender gap to address with janitors and bus drivers. Go smooth that out first.

As apart of the "technology sector", I don't think we further anything by playing the hand of God and trying force quotas. You're just ruining the chance sincere women have of having a career in tech by creating bias towards them.
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Yeah i was wondering why everyone was buzzing about it now, until i noticed that it had been re-published on their .com site.
I think I'd start with dogs, really. Trained therapy dogs that come with a trainer for a couple hours to businesses and individuals.
okay, how do you figure?

EDIT: I thought you meant there was some wasteful high-energy way to get it from something, the way you can do electrolysis on water (to get oxygen and hydrogen, though this isn't used due to it being easier to just get hydrogen from fossil fuels.) I didn't think you meant we should literally fuse hydrogen to meet our helium needs!
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I haven't followed the module loader work super closely, but the overriding impression that I've gotten is that the ability to customize how code is loaded and from where is a primary goal.
Is Uber really cheaper than a taxi?
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An office manager with a BS in Biomedical Engineering...Wow
If you're in the U.S., here's some information from the Department of Labor about employee vs. contractor classification (PDF):

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs13.pdf
H + H = He, trivial
Additionally, the team is all internet-famous cats (not just people who have a cat picture instead of a profile picture.)

The UX guy: https://www.facebook.com/blindcathoneybee
> things that experts know about computing that they don't remember learning?

After a certain point, you can learn a lot about something by teaching it, because doing so forces you to re-evaluate things which you've internalized and forgotten.
I never understood how word processors and web browsers are so incapable of of doing hyphenation. The Knuth algorithm is great and open. It requires a bit more computing power, but I'd rather my computer be doing that then implementing some crappy transition.
There are no qualifications for either upvotes or downvotes, as far as I'm aware. Pg has said that any reason up to and including mere disagreement is valid[0], and this seems to have been accepted in general, although many people here also disagree with it in practice[1].

There's really nothing to do but accept it. Asking for clarifications about downvotes, or complaining about them, will only lead to more of the same, and the staff finds meta discussions about site policy to be tedious and tends to kill them.

On the other hand, karma is practically useless so I wouldn't worry too much about losing it.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275
Interesting. One suggestion -- if you're going to use dynamic URLs with query parameters, you should re-evaluate them when the browser back/forward buttons are pressed.
The web is hard to read because people have an incentive to use alternative languages/tooling to produce web content.

These alternatives wouldn't exist (or be so widely used) if the web provided the benefits that these tools give.

For example, look at how many people switched from CoffeeScript to ES6/7 once these languages started providing most of (and not all of) the benefits that CoffeeScript provides.

In all honesty, I don't think sourcemaps are the answer to the black-box problem.
In machine learning, more data always better than better algorithms?
If there's an animal shelter in your area, they tend to be in demand for volunteers; based on what I've heard from family and friends who've volunteered for the local SPCA shelter, for example, it sounds like it's right up your alley.
Tell HN: Kevin will be on Show HN again this Friday
Last week, Kevin Hale, YC partner, Wufoo founder, and general secret weapon of design, took a notion to comment on a bunch of Show HNs. We thought that was great and asked him to do it again. This time we have a bit of advance notice to share: he'll be in the threads this Friday (June 19). So if you have a Show HN in the pipe and were thinking of posting it soon, Friday is your chance to maybe get feedback from Kevin!

You can see the previous threads at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kevin.
I honestly had the idea once of a rent a rabbit cafe. My problem with the idea was protecting the animals from abuse.
Is it possible that a regular time series could have better read performance (particularly in aggregations) vs an irregular one due to determinism/randomness - or is that irrelevant to the underlying implementation?
This all seems to be 'as it should be.'Science is after all a human endeavor with all the frailties that implies. Errors and fraud are to be expected. What matters is that the process is reasonably efficient at catching such things.

And the push for open data repositories and open science to increase accountability has to be a good thing.
Oklahoma has an earthquake catalog for each year:
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/pages/earthquakes/catalogs.php

I picked a random year (pre-fracking): 1989. There were 62 quakes with magnitudes between 1.7 and 3.1.

Now lets pick a year with fracking: 2014. There were 5417 quakes with magnitudes between ~1 and 4.4. (Edit: for comparison purposes: 4923 were at 1.7 or above.)

13 out of 20 of the largest earthquakes since 1897 have been in the past 5 years.
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/pages/earthquakes/information.ph...

So no oil company is going to make that argument.. because there's no evidence it reduces the likelihood of larger quakes.. and people would start asking questions about why they're causing thousands of quakes each year (not to mention the liability).
Wasn't sure if you had misspelled "memristor" or if there was some sort of aquatic resistor I had not heard of.
Well, again, if they're not going to be used for what they say, then the wording can be changed. If the wording can't be changed then I can't trust them never to use it.
IIRC, the volume of production wouldn't nearly meet the current market demand.
As an active scuba diver I feel sort of guilty about wasting a non-renewable resource by breathing helium through open-circuit equipment on deep dives. And the USA retail price that divers pay for helium has roughly tripled in the past 15 years. Fairly soon I'm afraid we're going to have to either quit diving deeper than 30m, or switch to more complex, expensive, and dangerous closed-circuit rebreathers.
Hey this is anecdotal, be warned - many of my friends (all of those with kids) say they'd be happy to pay more for the peace of mind. To most of them the illegalities of Uber and Lyft are hazy, if not opaque. But they all know things aren't entirely kosher.
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No, some of us are dumb as shit. Bell curves don't lie son!
While I think increased accountability is a good thing for the world of science, I'm concerned this will fan the anti-intellectual, anti-science rhetoric.

Science, like every human institution, is flawed. That's not a reason to reject everything about it.
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"Dan Lungren is running for attorney general." -- Andy Hasse

"Did you register his domains?" -- me

"Com, net and org!"
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A good reference are the Microchip ANs (Application Notes). They'll tell you all you need to know about a specific IC or technology. They even have an AN about electric motors.
NPM has a nice user interface, but having every dependency keep its own copy of its sub-dependencies is bad. What "npm dedupe" does to move modules up the npm_modules tree as long as version numbers don't clash is also incorrect. What should be done is to have the npm_modules directory have sub directories for each named module, then each named module have sub directories for each version that is required. Then, no module would ever have to have its own npm_modules directory and disk usage would be kept to a minimum. And yes, disk usage has been a problem on some of my larger projects.
Tiny piece of advice, declaring a possible total revamp of the API as soon as you launch might not be the best way to attract early users.
did google closure compiler or other js obfuscation tools ruin education or open design?

i dont think view source has been instrumental to the web or education. yes there have been good moments and uses of it, we all have our anecdotes, but it's not a killer feature.

i would happily remove the ability to view source in favor of a faster, richer web site.
I wish so dearly they would allow ragged right text.
Because it is the baseline for yellow cabs and black cars in the US
Security flaw in Apple devices that could allow hackers steal passwords and data
I would say the same thing for asm.js. If you had enough time/patience you could still determine how some given logic worked in some sample asm.js code.
The binary format that I mentioned/proposed would map one-to-one with a text format. They would be interchangeable. That means if you open a file in that binary format in a text editor (with the right plugin), you'd see almost exactly the original code. It's not decompilation. Only decompression.
That'd be perfect; thanks! I'll have to play around with that once wasm is in a testable state.

As far as compiling within the browser, it sounds like compiling the wasm will be the same process as compiling to asm.js – except the final bytecode format won't be directly executable as JS. If that's the case, then I'd imagine any asm.js compiler could have wasm support added the same way emscripten will.

I think in both of our use cases it all just depends on how easy it will be to execute the code from there. (In your case, the worst case scenario is that you have to post the generated code to a server and redownload it – ridiculously ugly, but not a blocker.)
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732145
Helium is the waste product of every serious contender for a power-producing fusion reaction.

One of the great things about fusion is that it requires so little fuel to produce huge amounts of energy, though, and correspondingly would produce very little helium waste. So, probably not gonna be all that practical for propping up the commercial helium supply.
The results are pretty unwieldly if you have a lot of passwords so I used the following snippet to sift through the crud

cat results.txt | grep -A 20 'applications' |grep \[0-9\]: | grep -v entry | grep -v description | cut -d\ -f14- | sort | uniq

I made a couple of assumptions so YMMV:

- up to 10 apps in the ACL ( the max I saw in mine was 7 )

- the word 'entry' or 'decription' was no present in the app name
Many of those journals charge very high prices, 4 figures per year IIRC. Perhaps they could earn some of that by verifying and vouching for the integrity of what they sell.
But why is Monsanto pursuing GMO? What problem are they really trying to solve? It's not a problem of food supply. It's a problem of getting greater control and higher profits out of a saturated market.

What's good for a single business is often not good for the general public.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TmmF79Rw0
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this kind of bad breath is because of bad digestive fauna. Perhaps you can find some way to get him to eat yogurt.
It is an open source alternative to Amazon S3. Just few months old project. Client utility 'mc' and language libraries are already usable.
Hackers have been talking about LastPass security problems for years
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9731963
Why do you think GMOs are inferior? How are they fundamentally different from plants that have been human-modified for many thousands of years?

Let's get concrete. In what specific nutritional manner do you think Golden Rice is inferior to the varietal of white rice from which it was derived? And if the answer to this is that we don't know enough about nutrition to be sure, then what basis do you have for alleging its supposed inferiority?
Very well-written. The suspense was absolutely killing me as well.