skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Each cell can also grab this value from the cell above

Therein lies the problem I see. Grabbing this value from the above cell implies that this value has already been calculated- but it hasn't, as these cells run in parallel. The results of a cell in a single round of calculations is not accessible to the other cells during the same round.

In short- how does a cell know whether its new value is the value being inserted or the value being pushed down without knowing the result of the cell above it?

And having asked that, I can actually think of one answer: it can calculate whether it's neighbor will be pushing or not independently. So each cell is really doing the calculation of "given these two numbers (my cell's value and the above cell's), where does this new number fit in sorted order with them- before, between, or after".
Also to be fair Switzerland is a very compact country although quite mountainous. The length of the train rides, even with very fast trains would have an hard time competing against airplanes in the US.
In Switzerland a 3h hour direct, comfortable, Zurich-Geneva train ride isn't much worse than a Zurich-Geneva flight (30 min flight + security and transfer to the city is about 2 hours)
Thanks, that is very helpful.
Is there a part two of that Jason Fried tweet?
I've been thinking about this for a while, but I'm going to write down my prediction so in years to come I can point back to this post and say I saw it coming.

Prediction here -> They will make a VR version of this sports stadium app. It will become the biggest use case for VR (outside of geek circles).

Social sports viewing is VR's 'killer app'. It is what will take VR mainstream, and I believe it's the main reason for Facebook's purchase of oculus.

Imagine a VR sports stadium where users can sit in their own lounge, with their VR headset on, next to a avatar of each of their friends, who are in their own lounges. Everyone can have the best seat in the house. The virtual capacity of the stadium is physically unbounded. The VR adds the atmosphere that watching the TV doesn't provide. It also avoids the major VR problem of how to move around in the virtual world, because you don't have to. In the VR world you are sitting in a seat, just like in the real world.

Perhaps in many years time, no one will physically attend sporting events at all.
People have been saying that for centuries, and long before the US was a thing.
"I can" More like "you could".

The point of an insanely complex protocol with zillions of shipped variants is to benefit top to bottom silo manufacturers (apple, etc) while destroying the market for non silo manufacturers.

USB 1 really could charge off almost any port and almost any port could access almost any flash drive. That is being eliminated other than in silo'd ecosystems.

My favorite part of type C is the high voltages, its going to be fun watching Chinese grade cables short and utterly fry and ignite USB connected devices. Much like the fire department inspector gets out of whack about seeing extension cords plugged into extension cords, the inspector of the future is going to condemn office buildings where USB cables are present, of any sort, due to USB-C contamination.
But naive methods give way to more clever ones.
Silicon Valley's $585B Problem
The odd thing is that articles on the topic and seemingly all medical doctors assume that there is only a single way in which Q-tips can be used for ear cleaning purposes.

I think that there are several possible ways besides simply inserting the Q-tip in a straight motion and thereby pushing earwax towards the tympanum. Personally, the way I use Q-tips is to insert them from below the ear at a 45 degree angle, constantly rotating the Q-tip and then performing a swipe around the ear canal while keeping up the rotating motion (resembling the precession movement of a gyroscope). Using this technique, I never had any issues with pushing earwax towards the tympanum or irritating the ear canal. The advantages are less itching in the ear canal caused by ear wax, and having no visible crumbles of ear wax falling out of my ears. I seem to have the "wet" ear wax type.

It seems like this is a common and weird instance of problems that re-occur when medical professionals give advice to patients and the general public:

* Lack of insight into why people are exhibiting the behaviour. For me at least, the natural buildup of ear wax produces itching, and using Q-tips is a significant relief. In the re-occuring advice to the public by medical professionals this seems to be ignored.

* Lack of understanding of the importance of aesthetics. Yes, it might be natural to have large crumbs of ear wax visibly protruding from your ear canal, but that does not make it irrational to dislike how it looks. Ignorance of such social factors leads to 'unexplained' lack of compliance with medical advice, which in turn leads to a decrease in the quality of doctor-patient relationship and ineffective public health interventions.

* Lack of interest in harm reduction approaches. For several decades articles like the OP have been published, seemingly with minor or no effect on actual practices. It might be more reasonable to accept that people are very keen on cleaning their ears, and to find strategies to reduce the potential harm while still letting people do what they want. Simple advice on HOW to use a Q-tip without harming yourself (don't push in too much, don't push in straight if you really can't do without it) might have more overall positive impact.
She was the Gnome Foundation head honcho and co-lead of the Outreach Project for Women (the other co-lead was apparently from Red Hat, not Gnome) during the time period in question. Of course she was responsible. No doubt other people screwed up too, but according to the official FAQ they simply didn't have enough admin staff to keep up with the accounting work generated by the OPW and that too was her responsibility, because that's what being in charge means. Incidentally, she resigned about a fortnight before that announcement.

They weren't just bad at collecting money either - if I'm understanding their announcements and FAQ correctly, the OPW came with contractual deadlines for Gnome to pay participants but no similar deadlines for sponsors to pay Gnome, which is why they had to prioritize OPW payments over everything else.
"The earlier you are diagnosed the better, so if you are suspicious, just go see a good specialist. Your family may try to talk you down: "he is just very introvert". Go se an expert neurologist anyway."

This. For ANY parent that suspects their child may have a learning disability or developmental delay RUN to get assistance. Many states offer early intervention to help with speech and motor delays.

My daughter got into EI around 12 months old and was diagnosed with ASD at 16 months. A diagnosis unlocks therapy and therapy (ABA anyway) is largely a play based program that helps your child build skills by breaking them down into much more fundamental blocks.

Speech therapy has unlocked a tremendous amount in terms of her ability to interact and communicate.

A diagnosis is just a key... maybe it's wrong... maybe they will outgrow it... it doesn't matter. A diagnosis doesn't mean your child will be subject to dangerous medication or institutionalization... it just means they will get help.

It kills me to see parents reluctant to get help due to stigma or refusal to acknowledge their child is struggling. There's no shame in giving your child every advantage possible.
Were you delivering mail or packages? Because apartment complexes around here usually have a set of letterboxes just inside or even outside the building, so the mailman doesn't have to climb to the 4th floor.
Isn't that a known fact that US police train their k-9 to false alert to get probable cause for a search ?

There's this video by Ex narcotic police officer Barry Cooper that features a segment on k9 false alerts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mU77Pie44&t=23m30s
They are difficult to read for humans. Without using a computer can you tell me when this timestamp was taken? 1453383978

Ultimately that was the point of the article, but the tone of the article about how they got it right and everyone else is wrong bugged me.

My approach has been to store everything in epoch form, do all of my calculations and manipulations from there, then build tools that make converting back to a human readable representation when and where it is needed. I think the idea that you have a problem completely solved though just prevents the search for any improvements.
Plotting data as music videos in R
Exactly what feature binary protocols can have that make protocols less bug ridden and with less security holes?

Because, well except for readability and ease of debug, that you lose completely by going binary, and message size that improves by going binary, I can't find any other difference.
"I also get bored of programming unless I feel I'm building something that matters or is challenging"

Keep an interesting idea of your own as a side project to do at home at nights and weekends. The startup is somebody else's idea. It may or may not be challenging to you, and it may or may not interest you after a while.
That's called selective enforcement and has the effect of giving the police even more power. Since they're only selectively enforcing laws that many people are breaking they can choose to enforce them on you arbitrarily.

For example the speed limit on a major highway in Ontario is 100km/h however they average speed is probably closer to 120km/h because the police are selective with the speed enforcement. This means they can pull over basically anyone based on arbitrary criteria - what kind of car they drive or what they look like. It also means that the speed limit will never be changed legislatively because most drivers can just go 120km/h and be fine so there's no pushback.
In The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder writes that the lawyer who helped the engineers start Data General made them take out a million each, to let them work with the fear of having to move back in with their parents. (Quoted from memory.)
Is it that they don't hire black coders? Or is it that there are very few black coders to begin with? African Americans make up 13% of the US population and they graduate college at a lower rate than other ethic groups.

It would also be interesting to look at selected majors across ethnic groups. I suspect that blacks go in to CS at a lower rate than other ethnic groups.
Bruce Shneier linked to two talks, one from a Regent University Law Professor (a third-tier Christian law school, but it is a good talk) and a Virginia Beach Police Department Officer who both argue that you should never talk to the police under any circumstances. The purpose of a law enforcement officer is to charge someone, anyone with a crime, and they will use any innocuous thing you say against you for that purpose:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/why_you_shoul...
The whole swarm of cheap ARM micros that are now around or below the 1$ per chip, plus with free and sane C compiler ?
Two reasons. (1) Until Obamacare, health insurance could be almost impossible to get for a small business and (2) the 401K and IRA programs have drained money away from Main street towards Wall Street.

Before tax-advantaged savings you would save money in such a way that you could tap it to start a business. Now people disinvest in their own businesses and subsidize big businesses by investing in their 401K. No wonder why a few people have it all.
but this is so faulty. There can be hundreds of unrelated reasons why he didn't put the project into life. And even if he didn't find it interesting enough it doesn't mean he has better judgement than you.
> I never heard anyone praising the public transportation system of the U.S. also everyone and their childs appear to have 2 cars.

The US has pretty good public transit in the places that have merited it prior to the widespread adoption of the automobile. If the city was large relative to its size today (geographically) in the early 1900s odds are good it's got acceptable to good transit.

The places which have mostly grown after the 1940s tend to have poorer transit as cars came to dominate.

Comparing what works in Switzerland with what works in the US doesn't make that much sense, though. There are plenty of stretches of railway in the western US that might be hundreds of miles between places big enough to warrant a substantial power station. Which means that you're going to have to pull hundreds of miles of high voltage lines (which aren't free) in order to have a stationary power plant power the all-electric locomotive. Or you can just drag around your own power plant, sans wires everywhere; a diesel.
Fun fact: 8M Swiss do 1.8x the passenger kilometers of all of the US combined [1]. I'm pretty sure you have enough densely populated areas in the US that are larger than Switzerland, especially in the East coast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_usage_statistics_by_count...
> himself and his citizens

Nah, not himself. The Inner Party is still good, just having some inconveniences. It's mostly the Proles who're getting fucked over.
FreedomPop Raises Another $50M, Launches “Free” Global Data Hotspot and SIM
The big dig was a feeding trough for any construction contractor with any connections to pad their pockets on the taxpayers dime.

When people in other cities complain that raised highways are ugly the civil engineers point to Boston and say "well there's your alternative, take your pick"

I'm not disagreeing with your opinion on long term projects but don't hold up the Big Dig as an example of the way things should be.

Years later, sure the tunnels are cool but they're expensive and can't be upgraded reasonably (a problem with tunnels in general). The Big plans need to be future proofed, something you can still get utility from even if the big picture changes. Highways in tunnels under cities don't fit that (railways are somewhat of a different story IMO). An expressway that bypasses the city, maybe but a normal highway with exits, no way (IMO). The I/O locations (exits) and volumes of a highway change too frequently to invest to heavily in any particular stretch of highway.

I think the culture change that needs to take place isn't the long term outlook but more responsibility with other people's money. You can't have a long term approach to infrastructure while people are trying to squeeze every dollar out of every project. As it stands, the time it takes for something to pay for itself (monetarily, via utility or otherwise) is impractical because the time something like $project stops being "in the red" is long past the time it's a clapped out POS that needs an overhaul.

I think it's worth looking at the beginning of the 20th century when large civil engineering projects were more common for insight into the social/political side of things.
I think that analysis is too one-dimensional - it's not meaningful enough for me to simply say "hardware startups are probably bad and software startups are probably good." That's not a complete picture, even if it's true that successful startups are not evenly distributed between hardware and software, because all the other factors of startup success are not evenly co-distributed between hardware and software. It is merely one dimension of risk analysis.

In the United States, ~32,000 people die annually in car accidents. In New York, ~1200 people die annually in car accidents. I live in New York. Which statistic do I pay attention to? Does it influence my analysis of total vehicular accidents that New York has a much higher population density than most of the country? Am I more likely to die in New York or somewhere else?

What is the startup building? What is the existing market the product? What experience and domain knowledge do the founders have? How far along are they? Who are their actual and potential customers?

That's the first five minutes of a due diligence conversation. If it were so easy to divide potential winners from virtually certain losers, people would hedge so well they would lose almost nothing and most angel investors would become rich. The reality is very different.
Chrome 48 released
It used to be. The current implementation is the result of the effort in speeding it up.
I gave up on Meteor because of 10-20 sec build times. They have to fix that.
Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

This should account for all civilians killed by Russia in the Ukraine in the last 3 years plus a security margin of factor 10

Of course, there are others such as Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and more contested theories such as Syria, but the above should already go to show that lying is not a unique feature of the Russian government.
Meanwhile http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35339475
I've thought about doing that too. Would be a fun way to get them all out there.
I disagree. Libraries existed before the internet, and if the internet were healthy, it would contain an analog.
if the USB Type-C cable was USB 3.1 compatible and the device (phone?) with the USB Type-C port was USB 3.1 compatible, I'd assume they'd still be able to talk to a USB 2.0 device (notebook pc?) on the other end. This is how I imagine USB works... I imagine one would try to negotiate the highest possible specification and degrade from there. We had a chance to make a standardization, to say that "not just it is reversible but we guarantee a fast route if it is Type C on both ends"
Dining with Cannibals: Why Eating Human Brains Can Kill You
You completely dismissed the possibility that you come up with something better than anyone has and by sharing it you just give it to them for free.
The Soul of a New 16-bit Atari Micro (2009)
International postal agreements cap the cost to China Post for the final delivery of mail artificially low and USPS has to absorb the actual final delivery cost.

Because of that artificial cap and China Post's cost of mailing, the shipper bears a very low cost. Probably still losing money mind you but that loss is in effect heavily subsidized.

Airmail costs for a button would be 6 RMB or $0.91 per china post's web site for a letter in the 3rd group (US, Europe, Canada, OZ, NZ).

Surface mail cost for the same letter would be 4 RMB or $0.61.

That's cost if you walk up to the post office. I don't really have the patience to try and sort out the discounts that might apply to volume shippers. I assume they have the whole line of discounts for electronic stamps, large volume shippers and pre-sorted mail, amongst others.
React.js the simple way
Lol, and progs are any better?
Yikes, no discussion of how one might interpret this model, what its assumptions are, and how to assess validity or fit? Look elsewhere--this is not the guide to linear regression anyone should be looking for.
Show HN: Pastry Development Kit
One approach is to store numeric timestamps in UTC format. Then if you do have data stored in a different timezone you have to include the timezone with it. That is the default mode of operation for many of the standard date formats.

If you get timestamp data from a system outside of your control though you always have to make sure you know what it means. At least half the time it seems like a date without a timezone isn't UTC, but in whatever the originating timezone was but the developers didn't include a timezone offset in the data...Timezones....the bane of my existence.
SBB Cargo uses electric trains except for the shunters.
I can't comment if it's a good idea though.
The mindset behind creating a great product
Being about startups, "Only" might be appropriate.
It has a free demo (oh and its free) - I’d recommend using it for 15-30 mintues, but if you’d like to talk after that - myusername @gmail.com
At the current exchange and the salaries that are higher in the US, you can nearly double your salary. Lets says you can have 100k USD, exchange to Canadian gives you 145k CAD. In a city like Montreal where you can have a maximum of 85k CAD in most places (yes I know some pay more, but it's still not that common), this make a huge different.

Best is to work remotely, but if you move across for a couple of years, when you come back, this is a new house paid cash.

I can understand it's hard for people with family, but otherwise I really don't understand why young engineer stay here.
Glad to see that our dog isn't too weird with that behaviour! When she doesn't know what to do, she cycles between sitting and laying down, pretty rapidly. Great entertainment!
JavaScript web apps considered valuable
Which is more reason to be aware of reasons to get one: security, Annoyances, security, mental effort to pay attention to ads (Takes effort/training to block/ignore/click X/etc), security, bandwidth (more for mobile), Oh... did I mention security (lots of attacks through ad networks)?
I would say some of the students in the article probably aren't SV material - "They’d begun studying computer science in college"? So you've been involved with computers for 4 whole years and you think you're qualified for a top tier job? I'm sure not all of the students only started in college - I'm also not naive enough to think there isn't prejudice in SV, but didn't start until college...
We work in tech and often use/design SDKs. We had this goofy idea to build a “Pastry Development Kit” to help food lovers bake great French pastries at home, with the qualities we appreciate in good SDKs: easy setup, simple interfaces, clear and exhaustive documentation.

It took over 40 kit iterations before finally making one that everyone (so far) loves: the Raspberry Pie Kit!

I wrote this landing page and did my best to avoid the most reviled HN offenses like scrolljacking or requiring JS for stuff that shouldn’t need to. :) There’s still work to be done: better accessibility, less janky 3D animation, less ugly sticky header. I’m a software engineer starting to learn design and let’s just say it’s not easy.

What do you think? I’d be curious to hear HN feedback about both the product and the landing page.
Just to be clear, when you say "Asian", do you mean east asian, south asian or both? I'm inclined to assume you mean east asian because of your body odour comment.
Having grown up on that keyboard, I can say that I sincerely hope so. Adieu!
In March 2015, Karsten Nohl is quoted wrt type C in the context of BadUSB:

'"The additional openness and flexibility of USB Type-C comes with more attack surface," says Karsten Nohl, one of the researchers who first discovered BadUSB. "No solution for BadUSB is in sight even with this new standard."'

(source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/16/8226193/new-apple-macbook-... )

Any new developments or new information available on that, other than, say, iOS prompting the user on 'Trust This Computer'?