skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plus -- "first newborn in the house" is something that causes upheaval for maybe 6 months or so, and then life settles down again.

Ha! That's fine until they get to 8 months and stop sleeping through the night again (which apparently is a common thing). A few weeks of chronic sleep deprivation can absolutely destroy your ability to do anything vaguely brain-work-related.
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Perhaps that's a fair point if you are the kind of user that keeps up with all that you've detailed. To say that users who use of Google's voice controlled features are probably aware of it is another thing entirely, and highly unlikely.
> But it is a smear campaign, which is very unlike Airbnb.

Why is it "unlike" Airbnb? Airbnb's very roots color it as being dodgy, with growth hacking techniques like spamming Craigslist and all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbnb#Use_of_spam
It's $193 which is more than nothing but not much...but there are also a lot of other business taxes that pay for the library - what businesses are all the other contributions coming from?
Am I reading this right? Live on air in 40 minutes?
You could point out "its" vs "it's," too. It's like stabbing me in the eye every time I see it. It makes me stop and re-scan the sentence. (He got it wrong in the sentence starting with "Option 1.")
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If a US national security letter with a gag were used it wouldn't show up here.
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Everything is six lines when you have semicolon.
Hey -- working on similar things here. Would love to follow up but don't see your email in your profile. Mind adding it or sending me a note? (mine is in my profile)

Cheers!
Things I like: moving away from an ad supported model (ads are really horrid for content creators, even though it may seem otherwise).

Things I don't like: google treating creators like their personal property rather than putting more power in their hands.

Long term I'm not sure this is a good move for youtube, as it's likely to drive away and discourage content creators.
So...you are CIA then?
Interesting idea, sort of a strict liability approach.

If I'm a superqualified, incredibly careful, good-guy explosives chemist, I still don't get to whip up a batch of Octol in my garage. The law deems explosives manufacture an inherently dangerous activity subject to strict liability. No mens rea needed, intent is irrelevant, conduct is all.

Strict liability principles have worked fairly well. Maybe they're worth trying in the financial sphere. I wonder how we would define an inherently dangerous financial activity?
+1 orgmode is the way to go. Everything is kept in a text file and you can have multiple text files. It's a bit of a learning curve but a quick tutorial and some practice can get you going.

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html

The tab effects are pretty cool. It's the best way to track your ideas, tasks, notes.
I am a big fan of viznut also, and took the liberty of translating this into Javascript so we can all hear it without trying to find a /dev/dsp analog (I used ./viznut | sox -t raw -e unsigned -b 8 -r 8000 - -d):

https://jsbin.com/tazeyoqoci/edit?html,output

Amazing work.
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Meh. "Automotive science" was cleverly branded as "mechanical engineering". "Financial science" is "financial engineering" or if you're less keen on making money, "economics".

Besides, the exact fields and their delineations are largely arbitrary. They're just historical artifacts. Why is there a line between math and statistics? Where did "applied math" as a separate field come from?

We could just go all European and call CS "informatics". After all, that's probably the best description of the field: it's the study of information. If not for historical and social reasons, I'd say that CS was a superset of math, not the other way around. "Computer" is just the name we give to the whole class of physical tools we use to study information.
I can't say for sure, but I don't think AirBnB is actually intending to make the argument you give. My read of what they want to argue is more along the lines of: AirBnB is good for the city, because it brings in tax revenue, which helps fund public services. Therefore, please vote against the proposition that would restrict AirBnB rentals.

The tone-deaf part is just the way the ad campaign making that argument came off. The format of a letter saying effectively, "you're welcome for the tax dollars, love AirBnB", ending with a comment about how maybe libraries can use the money to stay open later, was probably intended to come off as cutesy, but was instead perceived as smug and passive-aggressive by at least a portion of the public.
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>Or you could just use a digital piano with headphones.

Not necessarily. The tactile feedback from the keys is an important part of playing the instrument. Properly weighted keys are for some reason very, very expensive to do well on a digital piano.

Some piano teachers will require that students practice on a real instrument after their first year of instruction. That way the student can figure out whether they really want to commit to it before making a large purchase, but a decent upright in the home is considered a requirement for further study.
Somebody should make a movie about that /s
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Someone help me out here because I'm not getting it. Why does it matter if the creator is part of the subscription deal? If they're not, just don't pay them their cut of the revenue income?

1) Subscribers will view just as many videos; no bandwidth increase for Google there.

2) Subscribers still don't see ads

3) Creators on the subscription deal get traditional ad revenue for non-subscribers and a share of Red fees for subscribers

4) Creators NOT on the subscription deal still get ad revenue for non-subscribers, but completely forfeit any share of the Red fees for subscribers

Where is Google or the subscriber losing out in that scenario? It's only the creators who don't want part of that deal, as their ad impressions drop proportionately.
A day late and a dollar short. I wouldn't be caught dead developing on their API ever again. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Swift death be to you, Twitter.
FWIW, most of this code is actually contained inside for loop expressions, since you can chain them together with commas and get away without using any braces. Once that's done it's hard to even count "lines".
1. Didn't see that coming. (had information, chose to ignore, possibly by way of narcissism or hubris)

2. Couldn't help themselves. (lack of impulse control, compulsive behavior)

3. Space cadets. (lack of full circumstantial awareness)

The reverse of all of these being, of course, overly cautious, prudent behavior. A coward.

The brave and the stupid.

Maybe some of us are just lucky.
Did you read the same article I did?

He didn't download the book 10 pages at a time, and he didn't use an image editor to remove the watermarks.

He wrote a script that simulated navigating through the book with a mouse and keyboard and a browser, and generated a bitmap image of every page.
Watch out, you don't want to die of a public telephone transmitted virus.
We're not talking about a binary choice. Rather, low Treasury rates influence the risk-interest demand curve across the broad market. People are pushed into low yield on low risk investments, which pushes yields lower on marginally more risky investments, &c.

Furthermore, leverage allows you to make portfolios that mimic the risk of other portfolios of riskier/less risky assets. In a theoretically perfect market where the replication can be exact, this fact alone can generate the entire risk curve.
5 years after my dad (a Boomer) finished college, he faced unemployment and mortgage rates over 8%.

5 years after I (a Gen Xer) finished college, I faced unemployment and mortgage rates just under 6%.

Today the unemployment rate is 5.5% and the mortgage interest rate is under 4%.

While buying a first house is never an easy thing to do, there are plenty of indicators that it's not harder today than it was in the past.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428402 and marked it off-topic.
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It must have been something to live in an age like that where wonders still existed. (Yah, yah, I know there were drawbacks as well.)

Today it's just so hard to get excited about things, since anything you want to see or know is available in an instant.
He told me I was childish for expecting the job description to match the job

Seems like he should have been head of marketing, not technology.
You're right that you can't compile Julia to static libraries (yet). Calling Julia from Python is not very mature at the moment, but calling Python from Julia is actually pretty robust via PyCall.jl (https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl).
> "If you don't want to do something stupid, you probably don't want to have higher expectations of your abilities than you should," Balazs said. "The worst thing someone can do is act confidently, and seriously, and still not act rationally. That's as stupid as it gets."

That, in my opinion, is totally stupid ;)

It's hard to assess ones abilities without risk of looking stupid. But of course, one must hedge the bet prudently.
As opposed to what, implementing your own proprietary control socket? Redis is extremely compact and stable, and relatively tiny.
Yeah it's Alphabet's site. You play by their rules. Don't like it? Well there's always other options.
> trying to avoid paying for mistakes at the same time

I observe that many people appear to be successful at avoiding their own suffering and offload it to someone else. It's far easier to blame someone else and judge them harshly, than accept our own hand in the matter. Looking confident is simply avoidance of work, or more bluntly, just being lazy.
I feel like it looks gimmicky already. I would seriously consider one of these if not for the (to me) hideous styling. The Model S is clearly better from a pure performance standpoint, but I expect the details of the BMW would be better, as well as likely the handling (although would have to drive them to see!) Also I don't live near a Tesla repair facility, which is really making me second guess getting one.

However, I really don't think I can drive a car that looks like this. Especially with the silly blue trim.
Well said!

Cowards are just jealous ;)
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Considering I've spent my life seeing people that looked like me everywhere I look in the field of CS, I'm happy there's an effort to highlight the fact that CS also includes people who _don't_ look like me.

I think the coding community has been effectively convincing people like you and me to pick up coding for years now. This website is a great initiative to convince the types of people we haven't been effectively reaching.
Kudos on the site!

Before leaving my last job, I had to do a similar tool for outsourcing, but nothing of the level of Bullet, or to what you've achieved. Mine was written in Qt5 and was desktop application, so they had to had certain machine to run it. Also exchange was done through some secure ftp.

But got couple of ideas from artists, technical people too while working on it (then left the company):

- Wireframe is required. This way an artist can spot T-junctions, irregularly shaped model, too much density, too less (other things I don't get, but they do)

- LOD (Level of detail). This usually comes at different stages - e.g. initially your outsource would do the highest (or lowest LOD), and then progress. But you need to be able to see them.

- Annotations/Comments - ways to select, leave comments feedback what you like, or what the outsourcing artist may ask. Ability to share reference images would be good too.

- Different lighting models - day/night/etc.

For a really awesome 3D diffing check - http://3drepo.org/
What does this have to do with real-names policies in the slightest?
It took Facebook quite a while before they became profitable. The issue is with the lack of lock in. The "on demand" and service type startups are easier to substitute. It's just another challenge though. I could see Uber reach a point where they raise prices by 25% and I'd still pick them over another service with fewer drivers available.
Payday loans are a necessary evil. That is the best rate that poor people can get, thanks to society totally failing to provide a better safety net.

While I am a huge defender of the payday loan industry, I should note that it does deserve scrutiny: I have worked in the industry and it is a magnet for scammers who prey on poor and uneducated people because doing so is easy and low-risk.

Here's an example: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/payday-loan-network-sold-...

This details the operations of a guy who simply bought loan application data/leads (which included bank account and routing numbers) and then processed $30 echecks to each account with no consent or contact and without rendering a product or service. He amassed 25 million dollars over several years before catching any heat.
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Congrats on the growth! Also nice to see startups partnering with startups alike when it comes to choosing tools to use for the run-the-business stuff like customer support.
Scattering seeds definitely has a high cost. Just scattering from 1000 feet and hoping for the best has been reviewed again and again since the 70's. Its too expensive due to losses from seeds that landed on rocks and in creeks.

Where this technology advances is in using drones to fly to pre-selected coordinates where seeds will survive and fire a seed into the ground (such as next to a stump). Called micro-sites, the combination of drones and new lightweight sensors have made this possible only in the last few years.

While we love tree planters working with shovels, we see huge potential in lowering the cost of replanting trees with technology. Imported work gangs with shovels dont do a lot to reduce labor costs. This has big impacts for replanting and reducing the carbon load thats been put in the atmosphere already.

Im happy to answer questions and will check back here or email us on our site. We're always looking for developers and people interested in the data science that micro-siting requires.

Grant, CEO DroneSeed
I don't think they are the first ones.
I had been using http://sketchfab.com since more than two years now.
tl;dr: HotSpot doesn't seem to optimize a data copying loop for code that uses sun.misc.Unsafe, due to unknown reasons. Thus, we can generate bytecode at runtime to unroll said loop to make things go twice as fast.

Does anyone know if Unsafe is indeed blacklisted for JIT optimisations?
Isn't RoboVM in the same place license wise as Android? Start with loosely defined subset of Java. Transform to something that isn't Java byte code and doesn't adhere to the Java VM specification. Doesn't pass the TCK and never will.

Up until now RoboVM has been featured frequently by Oracle in an attempt to mask their weakness in the mobile space (since Oracle doesn't acknowledge Android). I wonder how quickly this will stop.
I agree with the forced feeling. Also odd to me, looking through the "Community & Events" there aren't any opportunities listed for a white males. Every organization and event listed is for women and minorities.
130 HP? Has the definition changed?
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The farmers were compensated, as I understand it. The Aral sea area was very productive and supported tens of thousands of fishers and nearly a million people lived within the general catchment area, Inyo county has, what, twenty thousand people. The Aral sea is an area of near total devastation today and the people who remain suffer quite a lot economically and health-wise as a consequence.

Let's put this in perspective, the Aral sea was larger than lake Michigan, now it's one tenth its original size and three times as salty as seawater.
> I can't think of any interpretations that are actually positive.

I can think of what they might've been aiming for. My read is that it was attempting to come off as cutesy/joking but didn't pull it off. I think I've seen this ad style before, though I'm drawing a blank on a good example. A fake "you're welcome" from a brand, "You're welcome for [thing], make sure to spend/not spend it [in accordance with knowing in-joke]. Love, Your Friends at Brand".

The problem here was that instead of cutesy in-joke, it came off as a mix of smug on one hand, and complaining about libraries on the other, which isn't really the right tone for what the campaign is trying to achieve. One thing I'd be curious about is where the ads originated. Is it AirBnB itself being tone-deaf, or did they contract the campaign out to an ad agency that bungled it?
I worked on FB integration where a feature being used was disabled and the API replaced with a new one between our product freeze and release (actually the old API was closed a week and a half before the replacement was in place). If I was working at a smaller company at the time, our team would have had no way of knowing WTF happened, other than it didn't work.

The fact is, even with a large corp to corp relationship, you still can't absolutely rely on API consistency... it's pretty sad, but true... Netflix, Twitter, FB, Google and others have changed/revoked APIs before with minor to significant impace.

This is part of the reason why you shouldn't try to make applications designed to scale/adapt for years... design the simplest thing that does the job, and in as modular a way as possible. Avoid "enterprise" patterns as much as possible in favor of the simplest thing that works and is cheap/easy to replace if/when needed. It doesn't mean don't test, consider performance or write good code, just don't rely on it being around, and over-invest in that it likely won't.

You never know... a piece of software I once wrote to test our own product turned into its' own product and pieces of it are still in fortune 100 deployments... It's horrible, and was a hack to begin with. It didn't even support half the specification it was designed for (only the parts we needed)... just the same, it got the job done.
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> Tell that to Instagram or Snapchat.

This is no longer true for Instagram. It should generate $595 million in ad revenue this year, and is expected to reach $2.81 Billion in annual ad revenue in 2017. (Remember: this company was purchased for $1 Billion.)

So, to recap, Instagram was "massively unprofitable" for five years, after which it started bringing in revenue most easily measured billions.

In other words the notion that a product isn't "a product" until it's profitable is farcical.
It saddens me that the first I heard of this was the author hearing of its closure. We need to have a serious rethink about how we do housing, and building better communities is part of that.
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Huge potential for celebrities/politicians or general public?
No. Cars are amazing now. 35 years of tech, like compound interest, it adds up. Also, i think the time machine was widely regarded as being a bit underpowered. 9 second 0-60 wasn't all that great, even for then.
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The Youtube Partner relationship is a true contract, not a line in the ToS.
Since a catchy name is now de rigueur for an attack to get recognized and get coverage, and given the perfect timing of this announcement, I hereby donate this name to science.
Shameless plug: https://talansoft.com, something similar that I build & maintain somewhat as a hobby. Its free to use, you can share, embed tag and there's a disqus based comment section.

The major difference is that you have to use the desktop app to upload, but that app allows you to do a lot more, you can build interactions, do animations, day/night cycles, custom shaders, it does physics, audio, etc...

It's been used (desktop app & publish part) for a long time in production (5+ years) by me and various companies (including Alibaba which acquired my previous company) so its decently robust.

It does lack in term of documentation/tutorials and on boarding in general, but if you're interested feel free to join the slack channel, I'm happy to help getting you started.

Oh and you can also export to desktop, android, iOS, etc... and there's an alpha build for OSX (ask on Slack if you're interested).
Great! I see that you created "pyexperiment" [ https://github.com/duerrp/pyexperiment ], so it's safe to assume you know your way around Python & Numpy.

Is there a good way to get in contact with you?
“Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site.”

Wow, seriously? I enable JavaScript just to see what exactly on the page requires JavaScript so badly that they have to replace all the content with this message, and what do I see? A completely text-based article.
The fact that there are a not-insignificant number of Americans who feel like any sort of cultural exchange is an appropriation that promotes division bewilders me. The idea that this cross pollination of culture, art, fashion, etc. somehow drives these cultures apart rather than bringing them together doesn't seem to be any sort of logical sense.

Honestly, in this sort of situation, it seems racist on the part of the people protesting. Outside of the outright division it promotes, it assumes a patriarchal arrogance, that they (Middle class Americans in America) know better than the Japanese in Japan. Are the Japanese so dumb as to be "duped" by these museums? Is the rich history of the kimono actually so weak that it will be destroyed by non-Japanese wearing them?

Of course, they, as Americans, understand the dangers of American culture and the effects it has on the world, so they must protect other countries that don't understand American culture and the danger it poses! They'll look out for you, <Insert Other Country X That They Are Not From>, so don't you worry your pretty little head about this. They know best.

What a bizarre and hypocritical stance to take.
Cars with internal fake noise generally have an option to disable it. There are plenty of gas cars with small, turbo engines that have this noise, it's not particular to cars that are part or all electric.
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"Ok, so say I need you to go and put this note of death at the end of the Mason file; that would be the 20th folder. You go to the drawer, count up to 19 from the first Mason folder and put the note there. You just ended up declaring Mr. Moriarty dead. Mr. Łeldon here will be processing credit card applications later in the afternoon; I'm pretty sure that Mr. Moriarty isn't going to get his now.

This is the way one uses the 'buffer overflow' problem in computers to manipulate data. With a little skill you can use it to do serious damage. Consider, for instance, what would happen if we were at an engineering company and slipped in a new blueprint for a machine instead of a personell note. Later someone else would pick up the design and the factory, none the wiser, would proceed to build our machine, instead of the one they wanted.
How should TTP cover Russia or China? It's not about Russia or China. It's still important and it's good that they released it. For every citizen that may suffer from that.

Your comments looks like straight out of the Cold War PR battle.
HP is giving up on competing with Amazon's cloud