skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like having breakfast in Cafe's a lot.
Placer deposits are secondary in nature. I was referring to the original source of the gold, not later erosion and deposition.

Most major gold deposits are related to orogenic events (mountain building). A significant subset of these are related to fluids associated with felsic magmatism. However, the majority of orogenic gold deposits are linked to fluids that escaped during wide-spread regional metamorhpism, as opposed to volcanic activity. In other words, they're not related to igneous activity, but rather with burial and heating of large regions of rocks. (Note - Metamorphism is not melting.)

That aside, my main gripe is with using "center of the earth".

Yes, many gold deposits are linked to igneous activity. However, even if it is volcanic, what does that have to do with "the center of the earth"? Volcanoes don't source anything from that deep. Nothing comes from the core.

The metorite bombardment I was referring to is an early phase in Earth's history. After the core and mantle segregated, most of the heavy elements should have wound up in the core and been unable to escape. However, we see relatively high concentrations of many heavy elements in the crust and mantle. The leading hypothesis is that the heavy elements were added during the meteorite bombardment phase of the planet's formation. Because the core had already segregated, the heavy elements added this way were able to remain in the mantle and crust.

At any rate, sorry to go on a rather technical rant. It distracts from the main point of the article.
He has posted about it. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11267526
An Introduction to JavaScript Promises
Hotels are under substantial competitive pressure to seem fancy. Fancy hotels can charge a lot more. Looking good is often more important than ease of use, as is demonstrated by every hotel alarm clock I've ever tried to set.

It's also partly our fault. Computer-y stuff has had poor usability for years. A standard tech response to bad user experience has been to tell people that they're doing it wrong, that they just need to learn a particular trick and it will all be great. So people often assume that when something is hard to use, it's probably their fault. Which means that a buyer of stuff like this can have a bad experience and wave it away thinking that the tech is just fine. After all, why would somebody sell a computer-controlled lighting system that is in practice worse in every way than regular switches?
If we stick in the word "even", it's clearer: worth doing even badly.

If something is worth doing, it may be worth doing even badly, rather than insisting it must be done well, resulting in paralyzing inaction.
Germany has a strong constitution, yes, and an even stronger constitutional court... but: Take a look at poland and see how fast things can change.

It is frightening how fast a government can eviscerate the very foundations of democracy. This is even more appaling when you look at the fastest growing political power in Germany: The rightists from the AFD. I have no doubt that, what is happening right now in poland can happen in germany too, given enough time.
Sure, I'll tag along. Problem is in a few years you may not have a choice because all fridges will be Internet-enabled by default. It's already happening with TVs where 70% of new sets are smart TVs. And you know, personally I don't mind because if it bothers me too much I'd just make sure that the damn thing never gets online access but I doubt the average consumer could go in such lengths. So instead of moaning and bitching about it perhaps we, as a community, ought to think about ways to solve security issues. Otherwise the industry will just go ahead and build them no matter what.
>We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson
>e) No other use - Gold is terrible for most other things

Not true, Gold is one of the best conductors of electricity and is used in electronics and wiring.
Bill Gates' quote fits perfectly: "Develop for it? I’ll piss on it."

http://www.quoteswise.com/bill-gates-quotes-5.html
Same for Portland. Also there are birds on literally everything.
This reminds me about signalling theories in animal mating (reminder: we are animals too).

For example, the idea about the peacock's tail being a good signal precisely because it serves no other purpose (and in fact can be a burden!). It signals that the individual is so well off, he can afford wasting resources on such a "useless" ornament.

According to this story, trading actual goods for a useless ornament would be a strong social signal that you are so rich, you can afford to lose actual resources in exchange for mere ornaments.
How did you get wind of this thread on twitter? (i.e. how does that work - I dont use twitter)
Best practices for prototyping mobile user experience
As a UK-based founder (of a service with more than 10,000 users, which I guess could be targeted): what real steps could I take to make it technically impossible to comply with an order like this?

I would sooner leave the UK than sell out on our users and be forced to keep quiet and carry on.
Honestly, i'm not sure.

It's clearly more work to do it that way, as you'd need multiple "layers" of firmware/code which all need to communicate and run on their own, but i personally see that as insurance against the exact situation you are describing.

Nest is far from what i'd consider a good IOT company. They are the epitome of vendor lock in, proprietary and buggy code, and shitty support.
You fill the characters that would be matched by the regular expression given. So the character has to match both the row/column expressions at the position where they intersect.
"This analysis does not take into account Airbnb’s additional fees charged per rental (Service Fee) and any charges optionally imposed by the host (Cleaning Fee)"

This is pretty significant as some hosts encourage long-term stays (or deliberately game AirBnB results) by lowering the per-day price while raising the cleaning fee.

Cleaning fee amortized over short stays tends to add significant markup, and at this point many hotels do come cheaper, as daily cleaning in their case is already taken into account and is cost-efficient.

Edge case for AirBnB is family travel. Booking anything 1-bedroom and larger somehow seems to signal to the hotel industry that you've finally made it to the Forbes list and therefore no expense will be spared. I'd venture to say that any decent 2-bedroom (and up) apartment/house on AirBnB would be [significantly] cheaper than a 2-bedroom (and up) suite at the hotel.
Lighting systems are very common in the building automation industry but they're typically connected to physical switches. Placing a computer or tablet there doesn't really change things - this could have been hacked regardless of the end-user input. The core protocol Modbus/TCP has been available and easily hackable for decades.

Building Automation is exactly what your describing and it is the norm. It's common for schools, hotels, and commercial buildings to be "smart", with something like Modbus or BACnet connecting lighting, HVAC equipment, smart meters.
Intuitive Explanation of Learning to Rank (and RankNet, LambdaRank, LambdaMART)
AVP is something like the equivalent of senior software engineer rather than team lead. There are even plenty of MDs that are just individual contributors.

Titles in finance usually reflect pay band rather than any sort of management role.
All that internet, and the android tablets are still just sitting on the wall where the light switches used to be. What's the cost in hardware and electricity to move from light switches to android tablets for an entire hotel?
I mean you're technically correct, but how long will that take? The earth is large and we have not covered even a fraction of 1% of it with landfill. It's unlikely that we'd actually run out of space in practice, it'd take thousands of years. Not that I condone the idea.
A button at floor level that you can press with your foot is probably more practical.
Share your thought-maps for that merger? I cant picture "wow is basically an amusement park" in my head...

Thanks
Democracy for content, tyranny for developers (one legacy language or transpilation).
IANAL.

1) Probably the FBI has too keep a close control of all the steps to make the evidence admissible in court. If not, how would be the judge sure an evil Apple employed has not made up the evidence?

2) If Apple can unlock this phone, the next day it would receive a full truck with phones from other FBI cases. And the next month a container with phones from other countries that are also fighting terrorism, like China or Russia or whatever country you prefer ...
From Side Project to Profitable Startup – Part 12 – February's Figures
Maybe start from the assumption that the people designing election systems have considered someone printing extra ballots? The system I'm familiar with has safeguards to ensure that the only ballots that get counted come from eligible voters.
GoDaddy Having Major Issues
GoDaddy seems to be having major issues with their website. Trying to get to our interface to renew services and can't.
As I understand it, it's groundwater that's seeping up into the plant. See:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/info/images/130529...
Normally acquisitions requires key employees to contractually commit to staying for a minimum period after the acquisition. It's fairly common for founders to leave after this period though.
This is too cool not to try and incorporate.
Spreading the worst part of web to other platforms?
If he doesn't own BMW car, he didn't receive a written offer and can't really act on it.

You have to refer to actual written offer made to one of their customers. The argument that "I didn't see the written offer, but I believe it exists" doesn't seem very convincing.

edit: "own" is defined loosely here, you may ask a friend for a copy of the offer, or rent a car, or download it if someone publishes it on the Internet. But if you have never seen the offer, I'm pretty sure you're not in a position to enforce it.
> The other day I tried to implement a card layout

It sounds like you wanted a circular dependency: widths in CSS depend on parents' widths, not children's widths. (This is important for document layouts to work at all.)

> ...I did once find a pure Javascript layout engine; it didn't use HTML layouts at all, and positioned everything using code (and CSS transforms). They claimed to be actually faster than stock HTML.

I've seen these pure-JS layout engines, and they are invariably much slower than the browser's implementation.
Waiting for browser support: makeshift responsive images
As my grandfather once said:

"Those that can work, work. Those that can't, teach."
Turns out Swift developers are beardy hipsters
I showed this game to my partners, all Tycoon fans. They were salivating over this. Even in early stages, this is something we all want to play really bad.

It isn't every day you get on HN. Hurry up and release something. Provide the usual warnings (this is beta, this sucks right now, things break, etc), but release something. One of the reasons Minecraft was successful was the "release early, release often" philosophy they took. You'll get users, and user input, quickly, should you follow the same path.
Practical microbenchmarking with ltrace and sched
The Crime You Have Not yet Committed
Every single article I've read on responsive images has adopted the same angle: they're fantastic, and you should use them now.

In this post, I'm presenting a less popular opinion, namely that the new specification for responsive images is nowhere near having enough browser support, especially in the very devices that need it. That's why I explored an alternative way of having a sort of makeshift responsiveness to images.

Obviously, it's not perfect, and I wrote why in the conclusion, but it did get me some pretty decent performance improvements!
You need to watch some air crash investigation episodes on youtube.
Which Issues Each Party Debates, or Ignores
That was a fun game!

Ever play Knights and Merchants? that game was wonderful, albeit buggy when you got too big a city.

HNGHHGUHG - the sound of a serf dying due to the AI not able to properly manage routing of all the serfs when you had a big city with >100 serfs.

So many hours spent on that game in 1997-98
I feel as though Dave Barry would jump in and point out that you've just shared an awesome band name:

Felsic Magmas
This is actually a problem I ran into last weekend. My wife and I were going to a friend's wedding in the suburbs of Nashville and essentially all the rentals available on AirBnB were whole homes, 3 bedrooms or so. The prices were quite reasonable for such homes (and if we'd thought ahead of time we probably could have coordinated with other friends of ours who were going to the wedding) but we don't need all that space for the two of us, so in the end we just got a hotel room. But last time we went to Nashville we were staying in the city and AirBnB was significantly cheaper for a one-bedroom apartment than a hotel room would have been.
I'm working on a new social media app called With. It's about who you're with. You physically tap phones with the people around you to tell the world you're with them. On your profile page it shows everyone you've met... so let's say you tap phones with Jay-Z, everyone will know you're a pretty big deal because you've met Jay-Z!! Check it out. http://apple.co/1SdYMhV
As it should be. It's none of our "right" to visit any particular site. The person who sets up the site gets to identify the terms of use - since they're the one footing the bill for it.

If you don't like it, that's your prerogative - you can go somewhere else. If enough people do that, the person who owns the site loses out. But I can't see why it's not entirely within a provider's rights to say "if you use our service, you must agree to X. Otherwise, Y."

I think a better use of resources than the clunky EU cookie law would be to say "sites can analyze what visitors do on their site - but only there." Then it's truly opt-in (by virtue of using the site), and sandboxed. There's no "following you home" - the site owner would only have access to what you do on their site.
Counterpoint: the barista always knows what you want.
"You stole my TV!"

"If you don't want to give people access to your house don't provide them with a f*ing door explicitly designed for doing so."
How to Think About Investing in Open Source
Yes, but not at the time gold rose to prominence as a currency. In those days people needed mostly swords and axes.
ABC Language: Predecessor to Python, Worked on by Guido
Learn the basics of video compression with the Cairo codec
Stacking contexts aren't about hardware acceleration. They're needed for things like opacity to work at all. (Think about the alpha blending functions when you have multiple objects stacked on top of one another.)
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Am I correct in assuming that the cost of "fire fighting" the situation far outweighs the value of the energy generated from the plant?
It's cute that the article is littered with Amazon referral links to textbooks.
Have you submitted this to /r/roguelikes?
I have a bunch of audio friends that love to do glitch art by processing images in audio processes.

Something like this: https://questionsomething.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/databendi...
I did some video work in a couple of prisons. We had to sit with the prison security team afterwards and watch all the tapes looking for images of keys - they had already been burned to the £m before.
Cannot find PDF for Slim Binaries paper by Franz, so I cite it from memory.

They used syntax trees of program as a distribution format, compressed these trees with LZW variant and executed using simple JIT compiler (basically, tree automata over program trees). The size of Slim Binaries was smaller than JAR files for comparable Java programs. I don't remember exact percentage reduction, it was about 20-40, I believe.
I tend to agree that the technical inaccuracies are glaring enough to detract from the article. And I'm not even a geologist - just an amateur rockhound who tends to pick up bits of gold along with the other (more interesting) things I find in the mountains and deserts of Utah.
> Serving ads in the start menu.

"Serving ads in the start menu?" Fascinating. My start menu never had ads...

It did have a "setup skype" which is part of their "get skype" campaign, but that was already installed. It did have the "activate your office" stuff but again, I already had those...

Do you mean the store livetile that sometimes shows product pictures?

> Serving bing search result in the start menu.

Bing is the second most popular search engine in the US, and uh... the sad insider truth is that Bing searches are less of a privacy exposure that Duck Duck Go or Google. But whatever...

Ubuntu was doing this forever. So was Firefox. They get paid to set your default search engine. To the tune of millions.

> Collecting data on usage, browsing habits, and god knows what else.

I mean, you can see what they send back if you're so inclined. It's not hard. You can even find articles where people have done that analysis.

> OS coming with an advertising ID

And you think... your cellphone... doesn't have one of these? Or your Mac doesn't have a distinct ID for the purposes of Mac store purchases? Or that Canonical didn't make a "Store ID" for their store?

Do you think websites also aren't doing this? In ways that Do Not Track can never even address?

If Microsoft is your whipping boy for this, then you've got a lot of anger to direct towards them. But the reality is that your entire digital experience is heavily instrumented. And you know what? We're instrumenting them because it's the only way we can possibly do what users ask us to do. We desperately need telemetry on failure, user engagement, and performance. Otherwise our customers choose products that CAN make changes based on these things.

Simply put, the Market has spoken. You kinda have to look in awe at Microsoft for being able to put this off for so long. But with the complete collapse of Desktop Linux as a serious contender there are only a few shops in town that service OSs and they're locked in frantic competition to produce what most people treat as a commodity.
Tableau acquires hyperDB
I agree that omitting the type rarely, if ever, makes the code more readable.

But readability can easily matter less than other things over the course of one compile. This is why I think the best choice is demanding top level annotations for reasonably complete code (say, every commit) and not doing so before I can ask for the shape of something, or see that it outputs what I thought, or run my tests, or see what type errors I get elsewhere.

It might be marginally better to demand it by default and have a flag to disable the check. Demanding it always is more than marginally worse (which is not to say it's the end of the world - it's totally not).
California to Permit Medically Assisted Suicide as of June 9
The solution is a 4x4 grid of letters where each row and column match the corresponding regexes.

So the 4 letters descending from the column marked (LN|K|D)* should match the regex ^.(LN|K|D)*$ entirely. Hope that helps.
People shouldn't unplug equipment in a hospital without express permission, sure - they shouldn't do it in your home either.

If your security model relies on this, though, you have failed. Period.

It is maybe a little fuzzier in a hotel (should I be able to stream content to the TV from my device instead of paying you extra for a movie?) but similar applies.
Why wouldn't it be the other way around? It seems plausible to me that those who aren't open about their paraphilias would also respond with a "Thanks but no thanks" when a research assistant calls them to inquire about his abnormal sexuality.
Virtually everyone in your class learned to solve systems of equations in middle school or high school, and again in college math.

The reason the teacher explained it is that for many students in an MBA program it has been many years since they had to use that particular skill.
The classic example of this is ultramarine blue in the Renaissance. Typically cost three times its weight in gold. Painters often had to have their patrons supply the ultramarine if they wanted blue in their painting. Having a very blue painting was naturally a status symbol.
I don't know any successful quants that claim what they do is "advanced" in any fashion.
So, was the Cruise acquisition for the talent or the tech? How many other "Hard Tech" startups have had successful exits, when compared to how many have failed? How does this ratio compare to software startups?
How Power Undermines Collaborative Performance [pdf]
Instacart Pay Cuts of 40% for Some of Its In-Store Shoppers
Dabble Me (https://dabble.me) is a private journal that can be done all through email. It emails you daily, you reply. As you build up entries it will start sending you past entries in the daily emails.

Some of the better use cases include:
* Keeping a developer journal (I see a few others here are working on something along those lines as well)
* New parenting journal
* Daily journaling
I would say most hotels have a first floor with rooms.
I was at one recently where the "balcony" was connected by a small path to the pool, so it was purposefully easy to access.
>Which are sadly fictional.

For context, these are reviews lampooning the style of modern horrible reviews, applied to some landmark TCS papers.

So I'd say these reviews being authentic would be very sad.

>I suspect the tumblr blog may be as well, though I don't know the language in biology reviews.

I hope sending some of the most hateful ones would get the reviewer a good scolding, not a good laugh.
School choice fixes the wrong problem. Those children who have parents smart enough to select the right school are going to be better of in any case. It is those children that are left behind in the bad schools that need the systemic improvements.

That is, if every child getting a decent schooling is what you want.
Food Tech Media Startup Funding, M&A and Partnerships: January 2016
Probably via this mention: https://twitter.com/imdsm/status/708286213975908352
In praise of the passion-driven, 'accidental' entrepreneur
The great thing about adding emoji Reactions to all our social media posts is that now AIs can finally learn human emotion. I'm sure Google is already training theirs on how different keywords make people feel.
> Protectionists have been elected many times in many countries.

I'm not saying it's impossible to punch a hurricane.

I'm saying you can only harm yourself. Like the U.S. did with tariffs to turn a sudden recession in the 1920 into the Great Depression (aided by subsequent massive government spending crowding out industry investment).
I wouldn't pay a dime for most of those features, even if it worked perfectly. Where I can see the use is doing things remotely, as in when you're far away: locking/unlocking the doors, making sure the lights and appliances are off when you're traveling, turning on/off the heat remotely etc. IF you could do those things securely.

Too lazy to walk up to the light switch when I'm at home? Just no.
Why Agile Engineering Is the Future of Product Design