skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I guess I'll have to read that over again. I recall Diamond suggesting that they for some reason didn't adopt practices from the Inuits(?), like sealing, kayaks, etc, as the climate got colder after the medieval warm period, but I don't remember anything about them not fishing.
Curious to see what you guys think of this app concept. The idea is to bring home videos to mobile.
It is possible to find an infinite number of differences between Switzerland and any other country. It is very tempting to look for reasons not to update your beliefs in response to new data, but we must not give in to this temptation. Bayesian logic would dictate that events in Switzerland should cause us to be more skeptical of arguments in favor of inflation.
Because it was posted a week ago (and got 200+ comments). See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9150163
I think the nuance is that the WSJ offers a non-paywall link in its interface -- which the WSJ encourages folks to use. Not all paywall sites offer this functionality.

These comments help make the poster aware. If the poster is aware and still doesn't use the non-paywall link, then that's wasting everyone's time.
Most people would benefit from definitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

But otherwise the article is a bunch of baseless claims and stays amazingly useless. Also manages to hide the author's name, probably too ashamed.
> "Look, I don't know what the truth is here. To some extent I don't care. But I do know that there is a pervasive problem with sexism in tech, and I know that every time you or I publicly comment on it, we take a side.
If you show support, you're sending the message to everyone that that discrimination is not cool."

If I wanted to effectively promote animal rights socially I would not affiliate myself with PETA. Champion the articles that have a clear message and reflect your values, not just any opportunity to cheer for your team.

You'll come cross as being a lot more trustworthy if you're honest about what you stand for.

> Speech acts matter. Even online.

To my point: every time the reader sees disinformation they lose a little more faith in your movement.
Most people who rent out their homes to AirBNB strip the home of small, valuable items who's theft would not be noticed. I've never been in an AirBNB that contained jewelry, bank statements, blank checks, or other personal items.

For large valuable items, they inventory them before the rental, and check the inventory when the rental ends. As such, a thief trying to steal from an AirBNB can only take large expensive items (like the TV), and will be immediately caught during the check-out check.

Cleaners can quietly lift the pearl necklace you only wear for the holidays and you might not notice for a few months, at which time you might have 6 homejoy cleaners as possible suspects. People don't want to theft-sanitize their homes every time a cleaner comes.
Similar story for me here (8 years-old, 1994), but the sad thing is maybe his coworkers weren't trying to be assholes.

It doesn't even take something particularly racist to really bring things to a distilled clarity - it's not that they hate you or hate your race, but the realization that no matter what you do, what beer you drink, what work you do, what organizations you work with, where you live, or anything else, they will never see you as an authentic American.

(or in my case, Canadian, bah details)

That's the part that stings the most, not the vicious racists spewing hate at me, but the knowledge that everyday, reasonable people will never fully accept me as an authentic Canadian, and they see no problem with it.
When do we get to throw the whole thing out and start again?
I'm not the OP and have no horse in the race, but it sounds like the Professional accepted the booking and then cancelled with less than 24 hours before the appointment. The OP sounds fully within common sense and again I applaud Amex for listening to reason over a grey area policy.

The reason the cancellation policy exists is because if you cancel the Professional doesn't get paid and it's too late to rebook them to someone else. According to Handy, the cancelation fee goes to the Professional who you cancelled on. In this case the Professional cancelled, why should they still get paid?

A cancellation fee makes perfect sense in many cases, but sometimes companies take their own policies by the letter even when it's infuriating and bad for everyone. A better tack is to instead think about what the policy's intent is and how to handle it like adults. Usually in these cases the customer just shuts up and pays the fee and will never use the company again, but at least this time they had the follow through to take their money back (and if there's one thing a company notices it is their merchant account sending money in the other direction). A win for the little guy, great job OP!
This article links to another about footage from a dive in 2013. As far as I can tell this is part of it [0] – it's really quite beautiful.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCWop491Q9Y
Maintenance costs for a Bugatti Veyron
Definitely. I agree completely. For someone relatively uninformed on the scene, the NYT certainly seem like a leader in the news industry for going forward with new digital media [1].

I really like the idea of Particles. I had a similar thought this past year about building a news MVP that simply consisted of atomic facts (no more than a sentence) with an attached probability and discussion. Kind of like those you see in the IPCC (international panel on climate change) reports, where they have their claim and degree of certainty.

We were getting there with the whole Wikidata initiative, but it's still in its primitive stages with respect to content being statically authored and updated (AFAIK). It would be very interesting to see where we go with GraphQL - I could see that becoming the dominant machine-to-machine protocol for Semantic Web 3.0. The whole idea of taking what are usually REST resources and turning them into hierarchical JSON documents which you can query very flexibly is immediately appealing.

If this Particle concept catches on like cards have in UI design, I'd expect Twitter to be the first to ride the wave.

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-i...
I'm the lead dev at a company that ten years ago was a B2B publishing company. We published trade magazines for a variety of technical and R&D type fields.

We're now in online publishing (obviously) and just finished tagging several hundred thousand pieces of content with metadata that we'd used a 3rd party service to extract. We'd reached the exact same conclusions about the process of organizing and categorizing our ginormous back catalog of content, and having humans perform the tasks of summarization and categorization just "doesn't scale" temporally. Interesting topics come and go, editors come and go.

Anyway, I'm really proud that we already have (in production) a system for tagging our content in this exact same way and have already built a v0 recommendation engine out of it.
Show HN: 3-D engine powering my personal website
Those aren't problems with CSS - those are problems with how Facebook architected _their_ CSS. A lot of those don't apply to well-architected projects.
Walmart Seeks Permit to Do Tests with Drones
We all have one of these projects, wanting to finish that One Last Thing before showing anybody. But I just looked and my last commit was 9 months ago. I'd love to be able to work on it more but you know, kids, life, money. Mostly have to make it more mobile-friendly but it's a pretty solid version of what I originally set out to do. Enjoy!

https://github.com/dougkoellmer/swarm

(TIP: visit a bunch of different cells then hammer the browser back button...still entertains me for some reason).
who are you quoting? the military itself hires "females" as combatants. females are like males without dicks.
I think a lot of these ideas in here are awesome... but I don't see how they're different from the basic semantic web concepts that have been tossed around for years now.
The author's name is listed twice at the top of the article.
It's more akin to a bank not protecting their clients assets. It doesn't make the robber less of a criminal but doesn't make it ok for the bank.

Perhaps class actions against negligent companies with big payout would push their insurers to breath down their neck and would result in better security.

But make no mistake, the #1 problem is incompetence among developpers. I am sure it's not a direct order from the CEO to code in a way that leaves them exposed to sql injections. It doesn't cost more money to use a parameterized query. It's just that so many people call themselves developpers and simply just don't have a clue.
"Someone told their manager that they were uncomfortable working with her... Seems to me the co-worker did the right thing by going to their manager instead of being a jerk/passive aggressive."

You're drawing a false dichotomy. The third option (other than going to his manager or being a jerk) would have been to realize that not everyone at work is going to be his friend, and not complain about feeling uncomfortable because this woman wasn't acting towards him in the way he assumed she should.

A mature person would only complain to his manager about someone's behavior if it was clearly in violation of societal norms (hostile, racist, sexist, etc.). Feeling vaguely uncomfortable about somebody doesn't fall into that category.
When something replaces HTML holistically and isn't locked into a single vendors solution. So, probably not ever.
MS: https://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/shadowdom/
"we intend to begin development soon"

FF: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323
There are tools you can use to avoid this problem. BEM libraries for templating languages abound. When I worked at HuffPost on the current desktop rendering engine, I designed everything to be a system of nested components within a layout, and it was a pretty simple effort to make a helper that each component automatically got that was preinitialized with the component name as the BEM block and then within the template, all you had to do was provide the BEM element names and optional modifiers, and it spit out all the necessary classes. I just grabbed a link to the first article on the main page, throw it in dev tools to see what I mean: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/parts-of-persian-gulf-co....

It's not completely free of pain points, particularly when it came to the JS, where we had to resort to some explicit usage of full BEM names. But that was very minor compared to the organizational benefits in the styles and markup.
It's sad Iowa Governor Branstad got rid of our Air Guard and replaced the 132nd with drone pilots. Then even advertise they are manning Reapers from the DSM Airport/Camp Dodge at the top of the kill chain. http://www.132dwing.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123450496

The US Constitution delegated Congress with the enumerated power to issue letters of marque. This is murder.
It was inevitable. Tesla was, for a long time, over-hyped. Now the pendulum is swinging back the other way, and every little thing that goes wrong will get national attention.

I'd be very surprised if Tesla was "doomed".
"Ten thousand might be fine if it meant saving Afghanistan from Taliban rule, as long as that as low as coalition forces could keep civilian deaths."

The same thinking could then be applied to our "war or drugs" -- the killing of several thousand innocent Colombians could be easily justified in order to eradicate the cartels, albeit temporarily.

Do you find that a satisfactory trade-off as well?
Your math is incorrect. This is a common mistake. Tonnes is not a unit of force although many laymen believe it is.

90 GPa is 90x10^9 Pa which is 90x10^9 N/m^2

90x10^9 N/m^2 x 1m^2/1^6mm^2 = 90x10^3 N/mm^2

90x10^3 N/mm^2 is the equivalent to weight of 9,174 kg at sea level (9x10^10 / 9.81 = 9.17x10^9 kg/m^2) which is equivalent to 9.174 tonnes per square millimeter.

As an aside, to make this more relatable: 90GPa is equivalent to ~3x10^7 feet worth of water pressure or roughly 5700 miles.
Cool, I have some more reading to do -- thanks for that link!

My understanding of TRIPS is that compiler complexity is an issue -- it depends on being able to chunk the program into hyperblocks with fairly high control locality (i.e., remain in one hyperblock for a while), because the transition cost is higher than a simple branch on a conventional superscalar. In the best case this can be great (32 ALUs worth of ILP, IIRC) but in the worst case (e.g. large code footprint) this can degrade terribly.

IIRC there are some more practical issues too -- e.g., the ISA is specific to the microarchitecture (because it explicitly maps to ALUs in the fabric), so binary compatibility is an issue.

All that said, still a really interesting idea, I think.
Modern in the sense of looking like a smartphone/tablet, which ironicaly makes it easier to make work on a C64 than many of the user interfaces that were actually used on the C64, like GEOS.

It's quite fascinating that systems like GEOS with "proper" windows etc. looks more dated than a menu system similar to ones you might have found on a real C64 app (e.g. Koala Painter had a full screen full of rectangular "icons" to pick tools etc.)

One of the ones that impressed me at the time, was the GUI of The Final Cartridge III (the irony of there being a 3rd "Final" cartridge...) [1] which had "proper" windowing system in ROM with a look that was inspired by AmigaOS 1.x. Unfortunately pretty much no software supported it, so the GUI bit went mostly unused (wasn't typically why you'd buy it anyway - these cartridges were "freezers" used to pirate software and/or for their built in fast loaders and machine code monitors)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cartridge_III
Three words: Negative Gross Margin

Even a lemonade stand cannot stay in business when the price you're charging for lemonade is less than what it costs you.

Fred Wilson has written about this..
How would you tell if a shark preys upon giant squid babies when humans aren't looking? These babies look like they would quickly dissolve into mush in a shark's stomach. Maybe if you knew exactly what you were looking for, you could order a DNA analysis of the stomach contents?
It's fairly common for humans to use "our planet" as (rather hyperbolic) shorthand for "our current form of human civilization on our planet".
Gaijin is the classic one, isn't it?
No kidding about Amex. OP said they "did a chargeback for every dollar we ever spent with [Handy]". Wow.
I would like to see a license as well. Replies in general would be neat. Show HN and disappear for 6+ hours I guess.
Bob Lutz is the author. he's moonlighting as a talking head after being the consummate insider of the automotive industry in the United States, having worked for all of the Big 3 (GM, Ford, and Chrysler) as well as BMW [1]. This is pretty much like taking your advice on smoking cigarettes from R.J. Reynolds. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lutz_(businessman)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Reynolds
Lutz is right about cost cutting. The Model X is a boondoggle; even Musk admitted they over engineered it, and they should have made the rear doors optional for those who want a roof rack.

A huge benefit of ev's was supposed to be the cost savings in using a single platform with multiple bodies. The Model S already had an all wheel drive platform, so I don't understand why Musk wouldn't take advantage of that with the Model X. IMHO that was a huge, huge mistake that's going to cost shareholders a ton of money.
Founders take these arguments as a devaluation of what they brought to the table: an idea, and a connection to an investor.

We all know execution is what makes a company.

BUT

As long as there is a supply of young and naive technologists who let themselves be sold on low pay and "considerable" equity packages (< ~5%), nothing is going to change. That's capitalism, baby.
TL;DR: usual scenario of "person did something … on a bike, therefore punish all bike users in ways we would never punish pedestrians."

It's like "I am doing X … on the Internet/a computer, give me money!" except with less expected return on investment.
Up to a point: "Though in case you’re wondering, I stand by my criticisms of the China Study and Campbell’s rat studies. Nothing in this post supports the idea that animal protein is uniquely harmful, and acknowledging when some parts of the plant-based movement are legit doesn’t give a free pass to the ones that aren’t!"
Eugene Fama once countered Freidman by pointing out the fact that (according to Friedman's data) the US banks had massive free reserves during the great depression, but they were not making loans, thus it is not clear that the Federal Reserve had anything to do with the deflation (or could have done anything about it). According to Fama (as the conversation was in private), Friedman neither refuted the argument, nor did he admit he was wrong.[1]

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/01/fama_on_finance.htm...
FBI Director Doubles Down on Tying Scrutiny of Police with Rise in Violent Crime
If the service employed the cleaners as straight employees, they wouldn't have that problem. The service's value add for employees should be good scheduling and steady work. Merry Maids, the big company in the field and a unit of Servicemaster, does have their people as employees. Their problem, from reviews, is that many of their local managers are disorganized.[1] What they need are better tools for their people.

But you don't get to be a billion dollar unicorn by developing an in-house app for a house cleaning company.

[1] http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Merry-Maids/reviews?fcountry=US
We have been breaking the traditional news article apart at Newslines for over a year now. The result is a hybrid between daily news, Wikipedia and Google Search. We break each news story down into a 150-word summary unit based on each news event which we then sort by date to make a timeline of the news. For example, Tom Hanks[1].

Because the news summary is treated like data, we can sort it to show different views of the data. for example, reversing the sort gives a "biography view" [2]. Compare this to a Wikipedia page, or even a newspaper article, which, because they text-based, cannot be sorted. By adding meta data we an then filter the data. For example, we use "Event Types" such as births, deaths, arrests, and many more to let the users take control over what they want to see. For example you can see all the apologies on the site.[3]

A big advantage of this way of creating pages is that it results in far less bias than in a traditional news article. If you're interested in more, I wrote a follow up to the NYT article [4].

[1] http://newslines.org/tom-hanks/
[2] http://newslines.org/tom-hanks/?order=ASC
[3] http://newslines.org/event/life/apology/
[4] http://newslines.org/blog/the-article-is-dead-long-live-the-...
I always thought Sagan would have been the best spokesman, ironically.
Not sure what you mean - the Model S and Model X do share the same platform.
How very strange, in that you think that water should not be a resource appropriately managed/subsidised by a government, but you're totally on-board with the concept of private ownership of land - a concept wholly enabled by government. It's only the government's "threat of violence" that allows private ownership of land in the first place.

You don't want the government to manage water for the benefit of the population? Why do you want government to manage land, then?

Isn't it funny how libertarianism is always so lopsided? "Freedom for everyone, as long as the elites get to keep their status quo!". There's always some flowery rhetoric protecting the power of the elite...
Move fast and break things, but know when it’s broken
There is no reason for new information to be more important than old information.

Sure, there's a subset of information that's ephemeral and must expire at some point. The kind of information with a call to action. But that shouldn't be the whole picture.

We need a new kind of information engines that both knows what you know, and knows what you want to know. Something that both teach you old and timeless facts, and keeps you up to date with new discoveries.

New shiny stories shouldn't distract me from what I planned to read yesterday. We need a cure to novelty.

I like this New York Times initiative.
Ask HN: Do you use Medium? Whom do you follow? Can you link to your blog?
We use a single monolithic HAProxy to route to all of our applications. We have about 8 different kinds of applications we host. Of those, we have a few separate instances of those applications available at similar (but different) URLS. Think: `https://sub.domain.com/<prefix>/appname/path`.

We route based on `sub`, `prefix`, `appname`, and even sometimes `path`. Managing the config is literally going into this relatively big file, adding in ACLs, adding backends, and setting up the routing rules. We manage the file with puppet, but it's static - not generated.

I feel that it's probably time to start deploying many HAProxy instances, generating the file per service, and then maintaining a frontend haproxy that routes according to subdomain.

Can anyone comment on similar deployments? Have you found it easier to manage many haproxy instances rather than a single monolithic one?
Imagine for a moment that the death toll and civilian casualty toll were exactly the same as our drone program except that instead of carrying out such killings using drones we were using remote detonated car bombs. Would that affect your judgment of the morality of the campaign?
So much this! I wish I could remember the site where a medical researcher is going back and trying to reproduce past studies and finding something like 50%! can't be reproduced. A very close friend was telling me about an archaelogic dig he was on with a famous researcher that destroyed evidence that disagreed with his theories. Frustrating. At least our planes aren't falling out the skies so kudos to the physicists!