skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read, I love to see contrarian views on automation. I'm really tired of seeing poorly thought out rants from techno-prophets predicting unbounded exponential growth when economic growth is stagnating globally.
Really good in depth dive into the problem, love it
Do you have evidence for this? I seem to recall that low-mpg light trucks and SUVs were wildly popular in the US until the price of gasoline went to $4.
Be careful the AWS police will get you.
The parasite, toxoplasma gondii, is estimated to have infected about 60% of the USA's population. I'm not sure about worldwide infection rates. This parasite is thought to make animals (from rats to humans) more docile, less aggressive, and possibly like cats more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
> If you're a programmer, you should be able to code anything, anywhere, with a bit of effort.

Is that really true? I do database programming, and I feel like I would be absolutely screwed if somebody demanded I do, say, embedded programming for small microprocessors. I guess theoretically I could study up, but it would be at least a year or two before I could be competitive in interviews, right?

Maybe I just suck and there are genius programmers who are equally competent at embedded systems, mobile development, distributed systems...
This is one of the reasons I'm hoping fusion gets off the ground fast. Oceans + Lots of power is a decent recipe for fixing humanities fresh water problem.
Excellent suggestion. I'll fit that on the main page soon.
Urgent 2015 Is the Beginning of the End – Rebecca Sterling 1999 Vision of 2015
> It could lessen the impact on rising seas, to some extent

And where do you think that water goes, after it has been put on the fields?
It's unfortunate that the currently top rated post on this thread is about the merits of using Ruby as an introductory programming language. That's completely off topic!

I also backed the book with the understanding that it would essentially use pseudo-code. For as long as I've followed it this has never been advertised as a book about learning a language, it's always been presented as a book about learning basic concepts.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9456810
Bits and pieces of both your comments are correct..... Apple and Google are both complicit in it as well.
the issue with your comment is "only" - sure, they're optimizing algorithms, but its a symptom of not reading Terms & Conditions to believe they aren't also associating your search query with some sort of identifier. It's too easy not to implement this.
Show HN: Ceremony – Wedding photos and videos from every guest
The federal gas tax was last increased in 1993, 22 years ago.
Ask HN: Does Apple make any money off free apps like Uber?
If not, what prevents an app from having an pseudo in-app purchases that can skirt Apple's cut from app store purchases?
France would almost certainly do exactly the same, as indeed it did once upon a time when it was briefly dominant in Europe (late 17th/18th centuries). Yet it would have been correct to speak truth to might then, just as it is now.
I don't know anyone who works for Amazon... especially in this department, but if I did, I'd recommend a staged approach.

Medium (small GA) sized drones, and "drone ports" aka numerous, smaller, autonomous-only, airports would probably be a much easier sell to the FAA than door-to-door drones. The traffic issues would be much easier, and they would also be a better fit with the current airspace.

You need this piece of the puzzle for door-to-door delivery anyway, why not do this instead of jumping right to the more controversial low altitude drones?
We've been working on a new mobile app, Ceremony, to make it easy for people to collect and share photos at weddings (or similar events).

We still have some features to finish up, but it has reached a point now where we think it's complete enough for folks to use. Would love to hear any feedback you have!
That comes as a surprise. I expected Photoshop to be very similar between Mac and Windows. What's the biggest difference?
I get trying to humanize stories, but Moses Weisberg does nothing for this story. I spent as long reading the article as trying to find out why this guy was interesting... other than he once walked a bike past it.
German Regulator Forces Facebook to Allow Fake Names
How exactly did you sell yourself rather than just answer questions? I've been going through the former problem myself although I'm not exactly a programmer though I am in IT.
Angular gained a lot of popularity by being an earlier contender at the time it was released... React is on the rise now, and may overtake it... Angular2 is more like React and a departure from it's prior take.

Businesses move slowly, and new project uptakes on technology is usually 3-5 years after initial release... .Net was out int 2002, but it wasn't until close to 2005 that it really started getting popular... jQuery was 2006, and almost an exception, but still not really strong until 2009... 2009 started Node, but it didn't start to shine until 2012-2013... it takes a while.

As it stands, at this point Angular is out there and a lot of current jobs are using/require it... if you can't sell a better option (polymer, react, etc), then you're stuck with it.
Are they blocking Google.com?
Yes, this problem is often overlooked. I really wish the government would put more funding and research into things like thorium reactors and other types of reactors.
Interesting point, but it's a largely superficial one. It basically is all a matter of perspective. 6 years ago all of the same tools and consumption methods have existed. I.e. RSS feed aggregators, Google Reader & content websites a la Fark, Reddit, Digg, Slashdot, etc. They have simply morphed into the likes of Twitter/FaceBook/etc and in the process have become much easier to use by the general public. It sounds to me that the author is lamenting the fact that it's a lot harder to be a superstar blogger, which it is. There is a lot more competition for content these days because of streamlined delivery. Tough, but that's what it is.
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because water is a public utility and heavily regulated, and for good reason - you want to guarantee that everyone who needs water gets it, even if you are poor and unpopular. Of course that's vulnerable to pressure groups, in this case the agricultural sector who want lots of cheap water. Then again if it was all run privately with no regulation, all the water would probably be put in bottles and sold at 1000x the price.
If I were to compare complexity C++ and Java, I would say that the former is
much more complex and intricate than latter. Complexity of both of course keeps
increasing. But, that does not necessarily mean that programming in any of them
is getting more complicated. Argument is often made, for example by Stroustrup
himself, that while language is getting more complicated, using it is getting
easier and more intuitive. This argument seems to have some merit.

Going back to C++ / Java comparison, lets have a look at some objective and
subjective metrics. I am analyzing "The Java Language Specification - Java SE 8
Edition" and "Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++ N4527", in
case someone would like to repeat this exercise.

The Java specification has 780 pages, C++ standard has 1367 pages. Of course
there are quite a few objections to be made about this comparison. First, if
you open both standards side by side it is quite clear that typesetting and
margins are quite different. Java has wider margins and a bigger font. So as a
next step lets have a look at number of words. I converted both PDFs to text
using pdftotext and counted number of words using 'wc -w'. This gives 227958
words for Java specification, and 477719 words for C++ standard.

But that is still hardly fair. C++ standard contains description of standard
library, Java specification in general does not (partially it does specify
Object, Class, Thread, and some of exceptions, but lets ignore this issue). How
many pages of C++ standard constitute description of standard library? I would
say that all from "17. Library Introduction" up to "30. Thread support
library", additionally including "Index of library names". Those constitute 777
pages, leaving only 590 for description of C++ language itself. That would be
less than Java specification, but if we go back to word metric, this gives us
249186 words for C++ standard, a little bit more than Java, but not much.

From more subjective perspective, I would say that Java specification is
written using much simpler language, but that does mean that it is less
precise. Moreover it seems to me that Java specification contains more
non-normative text than C++ standard does. I would also say that reading Java
standard from front to back doesn't seem to be very challenging (with small
exceptions like overloading, which seems to be one of most complex parts of
Java). And when I write 'reading', what I am really mean is reading and
understanding. On the other hand I would never said similar thing about C++
standard. Understanding C++ just by reading standard seems almost impossible,
as most of commentary and useful discussion is contained elsewhere: in
proposals and defect reports.
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Now this is a mysterious affair!

The article notes that M=27 books were analyzed to create the "whodunnit" formula, but N=83 books were published in her lifetime. So, does the formula work for N, or only M?

If we employ our little gray cells, it should be possible for us to determine just how accurate the formula is by running it against the novels that weren't analyzed.

If I had to put my cards on the table, I'd guess that the formula is overfitted.
Maybe, but you're making a bunch of assumptions here - people might well replace an old clunker with a small compact for only $3000, but you can't take that for granted. People who don't own a car already might enter the market at this price (adding to pollution and congestion) or those who have efficient cars might replace them with an equally efficient but much cheaper car and and simply pocket the savings, for no marginal gain.

I agree the existing system isn't very economically efficient but ISTM that you're assuming rather than demonstrating the efficiencies that would result from your alternative scheme.
at 10^8 HN will have annexed galaxy number UDFj-39546284 and constructed an alternate civilization entirely out of 3D printing. All of its citizens will be given stock options at birth.
> I got non-responses or rejections from pretty much everywhere I applied.

Turns out that Corporate America is really bad at recruiting, thanks to poor technology investment decisions.

Here's an excellent assessment on the hiring situation by headhunter Nick Corcodilos > http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-headhunter-recr...
Greedy advertisers + good Javascript libraries used by bad Javascript developers= end of the Internet we loved
No, they don't. Last time I checked, the terms state that Apple doesn't take a cut for any offline service or products.

To answer your second question, your app could be shut down at any time if Apple finds out you are skirting their system.
Somehow really fascinating despite being ridiculously far over my head. The pictures help :-)
I almost got in trouble with a friend for using dogpile. A teacher walked passed and immediately assumed that it was obscene (thinking it was referencing a pile of dog poop I guess?). Luckily their was another teacher nearby that knew what it was and gave it the OK.
Here I was thinking the New York Times had written an article on mark and sweep...

I would have read that.
It will vary from company to company and culture to culture... I have a friend at a large aerospace company who was basically told he had 3 years to get his degree or he was out... He's now a mid-level project manager and does 2-3 the workload of his closest peers, but H.R. policy was that he shouldn't have been allowed into his current position without it.
Most of the precise GCs I know of are in JIT'd or interpreted languages

GC is orthogonal to JITing. OCaml and Haskell are two examples of languages with non-JIT AOT compilers (ocamlopt and ghc, respectively) that do precise GC. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
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Pretty sure he means "actually becom[ing] better" at the game...
Agree completely in this case... just pointing out that for better or worse, there are situations where they can be effective.
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This make sense. Now I get why EFF support this.
The FUD and comparaison with China still bother me, but in the end they are right cause yeah indexing engine should be agnostic...

But excuse me if I prefer DuckDuckGo over Google on that matter :P
I made the mistake of reading the comments on this NYT article. The thread is filled with people who are against recycling at collections points.

This has been one of my pet peeves for a while now. We should be figuring out how stop delegating to end users and figure out the recycling of most things at the aggregation point. It's a huge economic cost to have 9 million people do it vs. centralize it. Not to mention there's a lot of communities in NYC that do a poor job at recycling.

For now I'm going to keep separating my recyclables till they solve it, but doesn't stop be from being angry at the government for punting to me because it's easy. On top of that you self righteous folks who don't want to make it more efficient because they feel good when they sort it themselves.
I miss Old Man Murray, they wrote some really wonderful (if not quite polite) scathing critiques. One of my favorites is when they savaged Origin for not having the server component finished by the retail ship date of an Ultima Online expansion:

"In these two short paragraphs, Origin has effectively ended what will someday be known as the golden age of games. They've broken the sacred bond of trust between gamer and gaming mega-corporation: that there is actually a game in the box you're purchasing."

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umm, what planet are you from?

There is zero difference between drones and RC planes. Some are tiny and light, some are large.
Excellent, I love it!
Did you calculate the font size so that almost all lines are equally long automatically? Why are some lines shorter?

I think Courier and Courier New would be good additions.
They are terrible programming fonts but for years were very widespread because they were very often the default and still very often are the last resort fallback.
Those are going to have to be massive charging centers.
That's how the law is written. A newspaper can publish archives, but not do anything it likes with the influence of the front page.
Only when using composite output, I think. The 9-pin connectors had TTL-level pins.
Ask HN: How many non-techies are employed in software for every engineer?
Just wondering if anyone has stats or stories about the number of non-engineers who have jobs as a result of the work of engineers.

A casual look at job postings these days shows a huge number of openings for sales, finance, customer support, marketing, HR, and managers, but I'm not sure there's a corresponding increase in engineers. It seems the number of non-techies working in the tech field is increasing while the number of techies isn't growing at the same rate, at least in software-driven companies.
In the movie Her, there were several office scenes and a subway? scene with Joaquin Phoenix talking in a low voice to his computer. You probably need a directional noise canceling microphone, but not headphones. In the last link that I gave, there is a recommended microphone that Tavis Rudd uses.
You would do exponential average rate of change calculation over linear progression to compute an estimated date.
I see a brass horn at $140 (to the pTrumpet's $180) and I'll wager the pTrumpet is a much better instrument. But I didn't say brass costs more than plastic.

The problem with bassoons is the labor. Because of the low volume, they're not made like commodities (as trumpets and even violins are). My suggestion is that plastic manufacturing, of the sort proven by the pTrumpet, could be a fast route to commodity bassoons.
There are [multiple desalination methods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination). My favourite is [reverse osmosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis), though it does cost about $1.2 per cubic meter of water.

To answer your question, ion exchangers do what you ask, using sulfuric acid and sodium hydroxide, and produce a ton of sodium sulfate in the resulting desalinated water.
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What about all the ML-family functional languages? JIT compilation is a fairly recent innovation and I don't think its accurate to say that garbage collection is restricted to JIT compilers.
> Inefficient use of water will disappear very quickly

Yeah, I'm sure that will have no public health consequences whatsoever.
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I use emacs with jedi too, but the auto-completion is not so good. For example, if my code is:

def function1(x):
variable1 = x+1
return variable1**2

def function2(x):
variable2 = 2*x
return 5+v...

And I get two auto-completion choices: variable1 and variable2, while only variable2 is logical.
> it's not related to censorsphip at all.

Censorship: the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

Isn't the suppression of "unacceptable" information the stated goal of the right to be forgotten?
The "prisoners dilemma" arises from politicians & the people in power playing society for their benefits. Homogeneity is not a necessary condition.
Depending on the town and your specialty, you might be surprised. Not every place outside of the typical hot spots is corporate-fief. Specialization means you can have a good job market without the crowds causing traffic jams and running up the cost of living.

For example, you might not expect much good in Melbourne, FL. You'd be wrong if you happen to like low-level code (assembly, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, embedded development, etc.) or EE stuff. There are both larger companies (Harris, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, and the http://advancedsecuritylabs.com/ part of Raytheon) and lots of startup-ups.

Since a specialized area (like Melbourne, FL doing low-level stuff) doesn't have too many nerds outside that specialty, the cost of living stays low. You can get a cheap house within a mile of work and there isn't much traffic.
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Even with the benefits paired down, Amazon Prime has been a huge upgrade for me. If wouldn't be exaggerating if I compared it to going from dial-up to broadband Internet. Maybe because I read a lot and impatient to boot.