skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Context and exposure matter in art, they matter a lot. Mozart's requiem for example, is probably the "Mona Lisa" of classical music, everyone knows it's a famous work, that it's great and that it's Mozart. Except it's not. We know today that Mozart wrote only the introduction and also only a few lines for some of the other parts. The rest was secretly completed by Mozart's disciples, most notably F.X. Süssmayr. Mozart was sick at the time but he was expecting a payment for the work (freelance, haha), so his disciples helped him to finish the work and get the money.

The result is that, Mozart's requiem is mostly incredibly boring. Beethoven even called it "amateurish" without knowing the details. The few beautiful parts that you can't not like is indeed Mozart, but the rest is not.

It's the context of Mozart's tragic and mysterious death, and the exposure that makes his requiem one of the "greatest" classical pieces, more so than the music itself.
And there you finally get to the heart of it. African farmers cannot invest in capital improvements upon farmland and farming equipment because they cannot be certain they will be able to recoup that investment with greater productivity over time.

If you build a farm that is as productive as a European farm, you are still only one coup, rebellion, election, criminal-at-large, or corrupted official away from losing it. I don't know what the best solutions to that may be, because I'm not African, and therefore lack the necessary cultural knowledge to do anything productive. Anything I might suggest would be flawed by my expectations that Africans will behave somewhat like Americans.
I've seen NonStop solution failing due to completely mundane reason of insufficient disk space after a burst of transactions. One condition for those 30-year uptimes is also a 100% predictable environment.
It's very difficult to feel that a city is "yours" when you are constantly attacked for the gall of trying to do so.
I know its not an option for everyone, but a good cyclecross bike will do wonders for that kind of commute. I picked up a hybrid bike and got a set of tires with some tread on them and I can now handle gravel fairly well, and still get good rolling resistance on the rest of my ride
> slack

why cables are loaded at 1.5tons. Electric motors have incredible torque and those looked like some honking big motors.
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This is also a silly reply, manufacturers bundle crapware themselves all the time.
I doubt that there is an algorithm that can consistently turn any good image of the same fingerprint into the same stream of bytes.
I don't think I was making an argument about the cost of mutual funds vs ETFs, but claiming mutual funds are more expensive than ETFs is silly. There are high cost ETFs just like there are high cost mutual funds. You have to look at the expense ratios etc, etc...
From article:

> With two cross-overs, there is little difference between the performance of the OCaml and C++ implementations. Note that the C++ was compiled with CPU-specific optimizations whereas the OCaml binary will run on any 486 compatible.

Ok, so the author is suggesting numerical C++ compiler generated SSE2+ code is comparable to OCaml 486, and thus with only very slow stack based x87 FPU available? SSE beats x87 hands down even without vectorization enabled, using a single float/double (scalar) per XMM vector register! That should make a significant difference in any ray-tracer worth 2 cents.

I didn't bother reading the source code, but I think it's very likely he didn't write C++ code like you should for a performance sensitive numerical application.

Although maybe the code for scene graph, bounding box and hit test was bad? FPU performance starts to matter once you actually find the ray intersecting object...

Anyways, usually if you do use C++, you do so because of specific performance requirements. Not to have the shortest or cleanest possible implementation.
modern or contemporary? Please explain the bias you find in the articles. Having majored in philosophy and used this site extensively I don't recall finding any bias.
No, the suggestion is to buy AA before all the index funds tracking the S&P 500 are obligated to buy it at the same time after it's officially added to the index.
Fortunately, this issue of inconvenient speech can be countered wonderfully with the application of more speech.
This looks like interesting work, and I suggest you repost it with two changes: (1) revise the article to be less "announcey" and give actual detail about the work; (2) don't get friends (or sockpuppets) to upvote it. HN's software detects that and penalizes the submission. We also take voting privileges away and/or ban accounts that do it.

If you (or anyone) wants more advice about how to make content that HN will find interesting and/or how (not) to get penalized or banned, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
Yogi Bear was named after this guy?! Oh that makes so much more sense than who I thought it was all my life (the TV inventor, Logi Beard).
No, it's scary because they didn't plan out things 3 months into the future.

Or they did, and it's even more scarier to think that they dont care about being honest with their customers.
"We have two options with us, and we'll show you one now. You can buy that. Then we'll show you another 3 months down the line, and maybe you can toss your old one out and get the new one."

PS: It's great that they are offering an exchange program of sorts for the Time Steel owners, but I am sure there are a lot of people with the Time version
There are at least a million IPv4 not in use here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

Possibly 100+ million.

What the frack does Halliburton need with 16 million IP addresses?

On that note, US Department of Defense apparently does not just consume most of the US budget, it also consumes over 210 MILLION ip addresses.

There are also a quarter billion ip addresses in the E block, which is probably easier to reprogram all routers than get all consumer devices to support ipv6 properly.
Why would that be hard to enforce?
Lack of diversity means lack of black engineers?
I am with the commenters who have a problem with this being a weekend project. How about assigning the problem on a Monday, and reviewing the results toward the end of the week?

If they are asking you to do your interview homework over the weekend, it seems likely they'll be "asking" you to work unpaid overtime, weekends, etc on a regular basis.
A graph I like to check from time-to-time is Google's IPv6 stats:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Nearing 10% worldwide
I wonder what is viewable screen size in sq. mm. of different Pebble watches. I suspect they compromised on screen size a lot on this model and make it look bigger via wide bezel. Anybody have real data? It also would be good to see a side-by-side picture of Time and Time Round.
I do wonder what the "fix" will be for these cars. The test drive is a quintessential part of the purchasing decision in my experience, and potentially the fix will significantly alter the drive feel.
Thank you for your response. There are would be more interesting projects related to neural networks.

And also thank you for detecting this problem with [source] link. I fixed it.
The article says the port charges $300 to unload a container, and can unload 30 per hour from a ship. That's $9000/hour. The cost of labor in the operation is trivial.

The author's calculations of efficiency (units transferred per dock) appear incorrect to me since he failed to account for how often the dock is empty.

The interesting questions to me are (1) are the docks in use full time? If so, automation might improve the ports volume. (2) If automated, would the reduced expenditures on cranes be sufficient to offset the cost of automation?
Are you saying you'd value shares at the same amount with or without a liquidation preference? I'd value the shares with liquidation preference at a premium, no contest.

e.g. 1,000 total shares. You can buy 10% (100 shares) for $10mm with 2x liquidation preference included.

Now say I remove the liquidation preference. Your valuation model doesn't change? Mine certainly does. I'd value the shares lower, causing a lower company valuation for the 10% of the company that's changing hands.

>The reason there are $1B+ valuations is primarily because the VCs believe the ventures will come to dominate major areas of commerce, will typically go public with sky-high valuations, and will continue to grow and dominate even after all that. Investing $100M at $1B valuation is risky but pays hugely if the company later becomes valued at $100B+.

It pays hugely even in a down round with liquidation prefs. I'd invest $100mm at a $1bn valuation with 2x liquidation preference, even if I thought the monetization event would occur at a $300mm valuation (down -70%). I'd still get paid out $200mm for a +100% return. If I didnt have the liquidation preference, I would've lost -70%.
As much I read, the difference between "standard cycle" and realistic driving is currently at 30-40%. And I guess, there is no realistic way, may you be a good driver as ever possible, to reach these consumption levels.

And I don't agree: The tax incentives are also made by the government and the taxes are of course based on the official (forged) numbers. Also when you argue the fuel tax will make it right: No, I don't agree, because the consumers can not decide -- they are also lied at with the wrong numbers!
This is a misconception - it's like saying Hollywood is worried about Youtube celebs.

There was an episode on "What's the point" (a 538 podcast) where book publishers talked about how they use data in their industry. Publishers are primarily interested in cultivating "star" authors and use social media + a number of other signals to find them.

They were asked about it and basically said that the hostility between publishers and self-published authors is only perceived, and in reality the self-publishing makes it easier to find the star authors and pick them up.
Podcasts do this very thing and it's lucrative enough for the lot of them to stay afloat while providing great content. The only thing I'd say sucks about it is the price for curated ads are probably prohibitively high compared to highly targeted, algorithmically picked ones.
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Well, that’s true — I don’t want all unsolicited email to be banned — although the types of unsolicited mail I want are narrow enough to almost be defined (and thus solicited).

There is perhaps a distinction that could go really far, though: unsolicited email from and on behalf of an individual, not a company, legal entity, or service provider, is 1000× more likely to be acceptable than the latter!
I think you're absolutely right about this.

There are many, many couples struggling in relationships who have a kid hoping it'll fix it. Instead, they break apart anyways, and now there's a kid who suffers as well.
For 1), it could be that one set of engineers was tasked with gathering emissions data and finding which parameters got the legal result, another set wrote the software which gathered the data to determine the run profile, and another was tasked with setting the parameters in software for a given run profile. And, the internal emissions testers are probably told to replicate the various government trials. It could be probably done with just one or two directors knowing the whole story.

Reminds me of the denouement of "Real Genius": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoT-h0S1gkE
Again, as OP pointed out, you're confusing wealth advisers with mutual fund managers.
They have admitted that the software detects tests.
Thanks for those links. Am I missing something in them or would using managing GTM programmatically via their API kind of defeat the entire purpose of giving business users like myself the ability to add/manage tags?

Seems like a case where there's no good way to have our cake and eat it too in terms of usability for business users and testing/security for our engineers.
I'd disagree with you on the literature point. Sure, Hamlet's value wouldn't depreciate if it was found to have been written by someone else, but I suspect the value of the Mona Lisa wouldn't drop too much if we found out da Vinci didn't paint it either. Both works derive more value from their own fame than from that of their creators. However, I would also expect a lesser-known Shakespeare play (and there are many) to fall off the map if it turned out he didn't write it, in the same way a less-famous Rembrandt (for example) is only significant because it's a Rembrandt.
Or perhaps, 'Since his death he's become a living legend.'
There are a number of modern-day services that perform a similar function. Spamhaus is probably the most famous. Looking at the wikipedia entry, it looks like SPEWS failed because their whitelist process was not good (and the DoS attacks).
Many thanks for your thoughts.

> Lisp's hierarchical list notation is by far the most natural, intuitive way to represent HTML.

HTML-representation is also important to me, and it's how I got started on eslisp actually. I wrote an XML templater https://github.com/anko/whatxml for LiveScript that abused the ".." cascaded-function-call feature to create XML hierarchies. It took me a while to realise it was basically an S-expression in disguise!

I'm working on an "eslisp-html"-macro that compiles to an HTML-templating function. Here's the gist of it so far https://gist.github.com/anko/f8ecc66a99a8ec656b49 No implementation yet, just an early-ideas readme with an example. What do you think?

> For example, one could use "define" instead of "=" to declare bindings, or "begin" instead of "block".

If you want to use different names for the built-in macros, you are welcome to. Aliasing them is just a matter of "(macro define =)", then "define" does the same as "=".

> The "this" syntax in macros is reminiscent of the arguments to ER syntax transformers which can be used to operate on elements in macros. Is it possible to simplify it further? Something like (this/evaluate) instead of (. this evaluate)?

Property access can be sugared to "this.evaluate" with the eslisp-propertify macro https://github.com/anko/eslisp-propertify It's quite convenient if you use it as a transform macro https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/how-macros-wo... from the command line, like this https://github.com/anko/eslisp-fancy-function/blob/master/ma... Is that what you mean?
Actually I have to say I'm very sensitive to certain noises; like lots of people talking, or kids screaming etc will drive me really mad after a certain level, it's not technically 'pain' but I really have to go away, fast when the level is passed...

But it's not just that, if I hear a musician playing even so slightly off key, it's almost painful and I have to physically move away.. Same with singing... Off key xmas carols will have me running in no time :-)

And it's definitely not being pedant or anything like that, it's really some bizarre reflex...

And yes the level varies sometime; my assumption was that it might be linked to blood pressure, but I have no way to correlate that.
I think your reasoning takes property as a given. Discard property, and it becomes much more of an open question how to organize large cooperative projects.
This is bad but not so bad for CIA HUMINT. Most* human source handlers, at least from what I've read, work under Official Cover. That is, they work at the embassy under their real name. This way if they get caught they have diplomatic immunity and can't be charged as spies.

Foreign governments know that people that work at the embassy are often spies and generally the know which ones are spies (used to be the case that the passport officer was almost always a spy).

Not that this won't hurt, but it won't be a death blow. The real danger comes from the fact that handlers, and more importantly their superiors, are vulnerable to blackmail because OPM stored VERY personal information (affairs, drug addictions, etc...).

* CIA does have Non-Official Cover personel (NOC), this will hurt them more. Then again fingerprint readers are not impossible to fool and even before the OPM hack NOCs were facing increasing exposure risk due to biometrics.
While I agree to some extent that "food is food" I don't think that's the start and end of it.

Fruits tend to have a lot of water in them. Imagine a fruit that has somehow magically had all its cell have 50% more water in them. It'd be 50% bigger than before. And it would sell for 50% more than before. But would it have 50% more nutrition in it? Hard to say, but it feels like no. There'd be more of some stuff sure, like more cell walls to hold all that extra water. But more of the stuff you want? I don't know.

I think this is a legitimate concern to have in the whole "superfood" or modern food nutrition debate. Farmers like increasing yield, and there are probably ways to increase yield without increasing nutrition. It's like the old cram an extra 100lbs on every cow in water with salt trick that ranchers used to and perhaps still use.

I'm not suggesting that the whole idea of a superfood is real or valid. But there probably are foods which are better for you by virtue of the fact that the agricultural machine hasn't highly optimized them for whatever yet. I am skeptical of the claim 100x, but I might readily believe 2x or 3x.
The purpose is to give the power of LUA scripting (via OpenResty, used by companies like Cloudflare) in the hands of more people, since Lua is a small community (even tho, it's great, easy to learn and fast). Thus, adopting JS is the solution for them.

Disclaimer: we built one of the biggest Lua+Nginx project [1]

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/kong
Sure but I don't know that there's as much a need to tweak it to both pass emission tests and have good efficiency.
I evaluated moving to MTV last fall to take a job with GOOG; bayshore drive certainly is the most direct and dicey route. I'm in a position to move there this fall and knowing that Palo Alto, MTV etc would be connected via safe bikeways would be a huge plus to living in the fairly bland suburbs.
Excellent movie reference!

And ya, that's a reasonable hypothesis. I wonder if we'll ever find out what really happened. Probably not. :(
I actually find your hypothetical device very unappealing.

I've tried several kindle models somewhat extensively, and eventually opted for a thicker model (2015 Paperwhite) because the thinner one (Kindle Voyage) was much less comfortable to hold. I think that the ergonomics of a piece of paper would be even less pleasant for long periods of reading. I think we're just wired to handle stuff in our hands, whatever that stuff happens to be.
More than that, I love that the "traditional" Asian Buddha statue is in fact directly descended from Greek schools of sculpture who did him first. :-)
I loved this book! Have recommended it to a few friends interested in doing dev bootcamps! Nice work :}
Venture Capital to Software Engineering with Preethi Kasireddy
How One University President Is Trying to Save Public Higher Ed
you should give cyclocross bike a go
This sounds like it could be easily solved by you riding a more suitable bike for commuting. It seems people in the US fetishize road bikes with drop bars and skinny tires as the 'best and fastest' kind of bike and then complain about how uncomfortable biking is. Even in the tour de france they don't use 23mm tires anymore. Going to a wider tire won't affect your speed adversely and to an extent will actually speed you up.

https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/tires-how-wide-is-...
> Armchair social commentary doesn't cut it for me.

If you'd consider to argue a bit less aggressive and just a but more nuanced, I would in turn consider a serious answer to your arguments. As it stands I am one of the people who can "categorically get lost" for you. Not because I criticize people who are changing the world, but the priorities of some of those people and social structures which ensure that mostly white, western men are in the position to change the world.
Apple wasn't uploading that data to their servers. It was only used locally for location accuracy.
There honestly isn't a perfect option out there, but for example I've sworn off Lenovo at this point entirely. The unfortunate thing is Google recently sold Motorola to them.
Kind of a double loop because we switched the BoingBoing URL to the source it pointed to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263971.
Silicon Valley is a car-centric urban area, and this Google initiative strikes a cord with this talk "The Importance of Designing Streets Instead of Engineering Them", well worth watching:

http://www.architecture.io/talks/mikael-colville-andersen-th...
This is getting ridiculous. AWS has been going bonkers all week.
You could make the floor foam blocks or a trampoline, but in concept it's very similar to the Skycam used for NFL games and they are very reliable. I've never heard of one coming down (and they have a lot more travel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam
Palo Alto is also building a bike only bridge over 101 which will make it easier and safer for bike commuters to go over US-101

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/topics/projects/facilities...
You're right - I stand corrected.
Perhaps historically, but shift your gaze forward and the opposite is likely to be true. Climate change will likely lead to the end of many millions of lives (billions?). Not to mention, of course, all the death and disease that has been caused as a result of the various pollutants produced by ICEs.
I believe you. I used to play Diamond Mine compulsively, until one day the 'ching' noise it plays when you make a match started to cut into my brain. It felt like being stabbed - real panic and adrenaline rush each time. Hurt like heck. It got worse, definitely that noise. Needless to say I have never gone back.
I appreciate the effort, although I'm annoyed that FastCoExist mentions Mountain View and Santa Clara, while avoiding mentioning Sunnyvale, the actual 'heart' of Silicon valley and right there on the map between Mountain View and Santa Clara. But hometown prejudices aside, the challenges are in connecting existing stuff. For example, once you get to the Stevens Creek Trail you are good to go right up to Goole's campus. Sunnyvale has been adding protected bike lanes that cross it east/west to aid that effort.

I suggested to the Sunnyvale city council rather than remove a couple of lanes from El Camino they add an elevated bike pathway right down the center. You can ride on El Camino from Gilroy to Milbrae and if it had an out of traffic bike lane on it then you could open up a lot of the bay area to bikes.
> Google is also hoping that other areas copy their data-driven approach of mapping out stress on bike routes, and finding the best places to invest.

Previous week, we had the Fiets Tel Week [0] (Bicycle count week) in The Netherlands. You could download and install an app, which gathers data about cycling behavior. Connected organisations can now start to use this data to optimize bicycle routes.

[0]: http://www.fietstelweek.nl/
keep in mind that even if you go with angular you don't need to use it in 100% of your site.
Need to display a grid of data fast? Use any grid. There are lots of fast grids out there.
Angular 2 eliminates dirty checking (last I've read) so it could be good enough, or maybe there will be something faster on the market that works best in your situation. There is no reason to assume that once you go with Angular you are now limited by 2000 watchers. you don't have to choose between Angular vs React vs Ember for that a single specific case (unless maybe one big mega grid is the bulk of your app). It is far more important to decide which architecture works best for your needs/team and how it will fit with all the other decisions you've made in your application stack.
I'm not. A wealth advisor is a financial coach who is going to help guide you when you're a high net worth individual.

A mutual fund manager is someone who tries to attribute luck to skill.