skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the developer of it, feel free to ask me questions about the stack.

In brief: The client side and the server side are both written in C++, and they share a lot of the game code. The clientside is compiled to Javascript using emscripten, and uses the canvas 2d API directly. There's also a load balancer which is coded in C++ (the lb.diep.io endpoint). Servers connect to it to inform their status, and clients query it for a list of servers. It also handles the auto scaling (as it works across several providers, at the moment only Linode servers are enabled).

One interesting bit is that the client is able to swap its code pretty easily, so releasing updates is very smooth (outdated servers start kicking clients as they die, clients update themselves without reloading the page, and connect to an updated server).
Im a journalism student and would like to investigate this issue. Can you keep me up to date if you find out anything?
Strictly speaking I guess you're right.

But, still, I think Obama cares that American voters vote for a Democrat in 2016 so that Obama's signature accomplishments and legacy are preserved.

I believe he also cares what Americans in general think for the sake of his long term reputation -- the usual presidential narcissism, "my great legacy" etc.
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This depends on country. In Sweden for example, 1.3x UberX rates are equal to a standard taxi.
Just face it - 'it's a trap'!
http://www.sfbarf.org ← The organization mentioned in the article. You can apparently sign up for ~4x/year email from them. Seems like a no-brainer for concerned locals.
I often see this wish expressed (also in here by somebody):

>JS engines in browsers should evolve to more general VMs, for which you can implement/port other languages.

You do understand that when this happens (and is spread enough to use in production), the web framework and tooling fatigue will be 2-3 times worse.

It's not just that everybody and their dog will write their own framework (as now), they'll split even more and do it for 10 languages... And expect the same dilution of effort for libs too...

I'd actually prefer a better JS replacement, that is, a new, single, language that draws from it and gets rid of all the caveats fixed (lack of ints, coercion rules, small std lib, optional types, even better designed for high speed JITing etc), than seeing Python, Clojure, Ruby, Lua, PHP and 200 others re-implemented in web assembly...
Well said, never thought of it that way.
I'll bite. Please post the C code required to portably and safely create a file and write a timestamp to it in a way that beats the safety provided by SQLite.

Most C programmers can't even write that piece of code. Let's see if you can.
How true! I couldn't afford a computer in 1977, so I bought a book in 1978 on how to program DEC PDP-11 in assembly language. I understood something for every 10 I couldn't grasp without a real computer. In 1978 I bought a Commodore PET with a cassette tape drive built into it. Learning was slow going. Even in 1995, I was still calling companies for information, unless they had a website (< 25,000 then). I've had the chance to do some cool stuff, because I tried hard to make those connections, whether it was writing a letter to a company for a sample-kit of their electronics products or something other. Now, my son, has made rockets with sugar fuel, build a robot controllable via the web, made magnet ski boots for walking upside-down on steel, etc.. all from YouTube and other sources. I think he is smarter than I ever was, but I also think the information availability (1 min. vs. 2 weeks for an answer by letter or phone), the amount of people publishing videos, how-tos and such, have greatly amplified the process. It is only a matter of time before we walk up the exponential curve of progress we are standing before today on a slight incline.
that might be helpful if new apartments were being built -- or not -- but to a rounding error, no new units are being built in SF or in most of the surrounding area
The End of the American Empire
There's a difference between religious hope and active use of all your faculties to inspect reality — body, speech, mind.
Apply HN: Robin – Banking for Children Focused on Education
Kids' bank accounts require tedious processes and does not teach him/her about saving. Children just receive money and spend it without much thinking and the parent is not much involved other than depositing monthly allowances.

Robin is an educational tool for children to learn while they do, all while being supported and guided by us and their parents.
Parents can set "Quests" or tasks, kids access a planning tool linked to a wishlist to foresee their expenses, and ask for parent loans with different interest rates depending on their level.

We believe kid's finances are not about transactions but rather education.

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Using node.js, telsa coils regulate an internal blockchain economy by forming self-assembling carbon nanotube based deep learning networks, breakthrough for self driving flying cars powered by hybrid thorium/solar roadways.
But StavrosK just claimed it doesn't work that way. He said that it will only tell you about instances of your own app, not others (such as Waze or Google Maps).
My theory of comedy inspired by ANNs
Personally, I think that answer is more useful or actionable than attempting to answer in absolute terms. How much lead does "trace amounts" actually amount to? Is it realistic to expect manufacturing processes to be completely lead free to arbitrary significant figures?

This response quotes a documented standard that they are in compliance with, so it instead becomes a matter of evaluating whether the standard is sufficiently safe or not.
Here's an anecdote about India.

They started requiring customer authorisation on all card transaction recently (signature doesn't cut it and no Paywave for you). There were reports on how that that forced Uber to use local payment gateway.

Anyway, couple months ago I was in Chennai, went to a restaurant with a customer and when the bill came which customer didn't give me a chance to pick up, they handed over a card AND a PIN number for the card.

I was shocked, naturally. The customer explained to me this is standard practice and "a requirement" now for locally issues cards.

It isn't really, but since most terminals are wired and installed at the checkout counter, Customers aren't invited to enter the PIN over at the other end of the venue and aren't keen to, frankly. It is upper class who uses cards for payments and psychologically and culturally they're expecting a full service. Walking to the terminal to enter a PIN is a bit of a "walk of shame".

So, that's how best government intentions turn into known, en-masse and country-wide security hole and a direct breach of banking service contract, that requires customer to keep PIN private and waives any responsibility if PIN is shared.

I would not at all be surprised if this 12-digit personal API ID will be shared just as easily as a card PIN.
Thanks for the info, as a heavy user of Postgres it's great to know that option will be available!
Can we have metadata ? Submittors can mark up "the talk starts at 1:22, topic X starts at 1:34, ..."?
I avoid using Lyft specifically because it has tips. Lack of tips is one of the best things about Uber.
There was a time, less than 20 years ago, when people would have said the same thing about Nokia.
but if they catch on, most people won't replace it and they will be converting to the "cloud" ... and hardware with decent storage will become even more scarce (they even try to make the SD cards disappear for phones). Any laptop with less then 1TB of storage shouldn't be sold nowadays...
Does anyone have an efficient way to consume podcasts? If I want to quickly read an article I can skim certain sections and skip others etc., but there is rarely such indexing for a podcast and I would have to skip forward, listen for a lot of seconds to get context before I know if it's somewhere to skip past or not.
oops, had that wrong. Thanks for noticing!
I think answering a yes/no question with anything other than a yes/no answer (and then as much mitigation or explanation as you want to follow) gives an appearance of something to hide.

Yes, politicians do it all the time. But does Apple really want to be seen as equivalently trustworthy with politicians? I think not.

The issue is not whether or not Apple products contain lead, it's that they're employing misleading tactics on a page meant to show how open and "pure" they are
Your ApplyHN is more of an idea for an application that an application.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501823

I would encourage you to resubmit including a mockup (not just a picture of a notebook), and in particular to talk about whether it is designed for recreational use and whether a pilot's license would be required.
They create an environment where the nanotube is the lower energy state.
It would help, but housing will retain value as an investment vehicle unless the rental value of the land itself is taxed. Only a Land Value Tax would entirely achieve this, for what it's worth.
Why assume that? Houston wasn’t one of the first 20 domestic or foreign markets for Uber: http://cl.ly/3g1Z081h1Q2G (link is an image originally from uber showing timeline of new markets opened)
Apple extends iPhone production cut for another quarter
s/general partners/limited partners
Self driving mini busses semi-scheduled for commuters
Less trustworthy according to you. I can appreciate the level of detail in the answer. Guilty until proven innocent is not a valid.
Well, from the last discussion where Sonja participated:

Philadelphia, additional housing, plus market crash. It doesn’t say that prices on existing housing went down, but the new “luxury” housing did not sell for close to the expected luxury prices.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370964

http://grist.org/cities/urban-activists-set-out-to-sue-san-f...
This review article may also be of interest, "The evolution of concepts on the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals" (2004): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pawet_Koteja/publicatio... [pdf]
What is "pure"? Is one atom of lead too much? If so why? Is it realistic to expect perfection? At what cost? In comparison to what?

Stating Apple is employing misleading tactics without stating what isn't misleading is disingenuous at best.

Engineering isn't perfect, in fact the real world is anything but perfect. Do you consider chocolate with trace amounts of faeces impure? Even if it is measured in the parts per million?

Comparing an engineering reality with political maneuvering is specious at best. Willfully misleading at worst. Be specific please in what is so abhorrent.
I was just a kid. My parents were low-level Soviet diplomatic staff. But my paternal grandfather had emigrated from New York in the 30s. So when in New York, I attended the UN International School. But I also had cousins to hang with.
Not clear to me how a driverless car has any advantage for a senior vs. Uber or Lyft with a driver. In fact it seems less desirable, as the human driver could help the elderly passenger in and out of the vehicle, help with walkers or wheelchairs, etc.
For me? All of them that matter. I mostly print on gelatin silver paper in a darkroom, and I don't use digital inkjet paper that contains OBAs.

I have digital copies, of course, too, and those are stored on my iMac, in a backup hard drive, in Backblaze, and on S3.
Thanks. Found a reference to the CircleCI code base:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/typed-clojure-draft.pdf

I wonder how their move away from clojure.typed has impacted code size.
> You have 100 concurrent web serving processes all writing to an access.log

That makes no sense. Have each process write to its own log. This is making your life hard for no reason.

> If you have a use-case for strictly serializing writes to disk like this that's fine, but it's not the common case with log files

This isn't about access.log, it's about transaction logs for database systems. Like the commit log for Postgres or SQLite. You can think of their commit logs as like a block chain. Imagine a block chain that didn't have a pointer to the previous block, but just a timestamp. It wouldn't work. If you have two conflicting blocks you need some central arbiter to decide which wins.
A Brief History of Robots Making Music, from Ancient Egypt to Modern Day Berlin
Right, Uber works in China as well...same app, completely different infrastructure. If you come to China with your uber app, it will still work (provided you have wifi or data).

Uber also does UnionPay as a payment option...again, same app.
It highlights one of the biggest issues in tech today. Buzzfeed is one of many tech companies that really should just be a fun little mid sized company that makes enough to go around, but in the end has gotten caught up in the Silicon Valley hype and is biting way more than they can chew with pumped up valuations.
Oh this is great.

Yeah the Balboa CAC meetings are particularly frustrating. The answer is yes - there is benefit to SFBARF representation at the Res meetings. It's not obvious, but on the CAC there are pro building people, and having supportive people commenting helps them argue that housing at the reservoir is something people want. I know it helps because I got calls and emails asking me to encourage people to go when we hadn't been there for a while. If our presence didn't matter, no one would have complained when we weren't there. :D

However much you can go is good. When you're there introduce yourself to the CAC members, and chat them up. Definitely testify whenever you get a chance. Especially trade information with whichever CAC members seem the most pro-building and let them know they should get in touch with you for particularly important meetings or if they need a letter written.

For spring - vote for the pro-housing slate, that's easy at least www.sfyimby.org/slate/
> Does iOS have separate permissions for the different location resolutions

No, and why should it? I'm a technical user and I'm not even sure what the different resolutions are. What is important is to know when an application is asking for location data. iOS permissions for location are a) Never b) Always c) While using. Those make complete sense to even normal users.
I feel like you put some pre-concieved notion on both the topic and animals. The article talks about tracking animals so we can better provide protection for them and their habitats (which will also provide loads of benefit to humans, as well, as we learn more about them).
Unfortunately that is not documented in any man page I've read, because that is very useful (crucial) to know and not at all obvious. I reiterate that aio is weird :)

Also, I'm pretty sure that issuing IOCB_CMD_FSYNC from io_submit(2) has given me an error in the past. Not sure about aio_fsync(2), because last time I checked, POSIX aio only had a pthread-based backend, rather than the native support that libaio (i.e. io_submit(2)) provides.
I agree with this assertion. Albeit, isn't this what's to come with WebAssembly?
no but who said everything that happens is what was intended
Exactly. These include such situations as:

- a mistake where misaligned incentives are against fixing it

- a questionable decision exacerbated by a mistake

- malice on the part of an external actor plus internal incompetence (essentially all data breaches)
This map assumes, such as in the case of the southeast, that urban centers never change.
But they didn't actually answer the question, they just listed which parts don't have lead.

Obviously their answer is yes but they are working pretty hard to avoid saying it.
Seattle: https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=sea...
Tesla now offering Autopilot Trials
It's interesting how the PR machines at both Apple and Microsoft apparently are recently running quite hot to diffuse any further emotionally grave discussion of concerns regarding their low-level-builtin 'security' holes in their products in the name of constant surveillance.
Most people don't like to share rides with strangers. There may be a preference for smaller but more vehicles.
Should I add www prefix or not?
Now a lot of establishments are getting wireless terminals, which they bring to your seat.
I think this is a big reason why Los Angeles does (when compared to the Bay Area) an adequate job at delivering public transit-- unified governance over the entire city allows for this, as opposed to the power than any mid-peninsula city has to stop the advance of subway lines.
NTFS handles append just fine. As another comment speculated, the parent may have meant NFS, which does notoriously have lots of problems with append, and many other POSIX semantics.
What makes you better than Amazon Vine?
Infinity's pretty big, there's lots of room for people to know it.
I know that. I was responding to a poster who implied that critiquing neoliberalism makes one a "very poor quality publication"
I drew the diagrams in Inkscape. (Naturally, this doesn't include the screenshots of TensorBoard or EEG.)
American company lost $100M to email fraud, U.S. says
Google has the map data. Google are working on autonomous vehicles. When they get the latter, what is the need for Uber? The $250M would be an irrelevant sunk cost at that point.
> That makes no sense. Have each process write to its own log. This is
> making your life hard for no reason.

This is literally how pretty much every daemon process works on
Unix systems. You don't log in and tail /var/log/apache/access.log.{1..N}
where N is the number of threads/processes. You just tail
/var/log/apache/access.log which all of them write to by virtue of
PIPE_BUF semantics.

Having to tail N logs where N is some unknown number of processes is what's making your life harder for no reason. That's what O_APPEND and PIPE_BUF are for.

> This isn't about access.log, it's about transaction logs for
> database systems. [...] think of their commit logs as like a
> block chain.

I really don't see how any of this is relevant to the original point
of having "log" files. Now you're talking about DB transaction logs
and blockchains, which really don't need to have their nuances
implemented in terms of POSIX file semantics. They can just have a
single process that manages those expectations.

Everyone's expectations don't have to be implemented on the filesystem level, particularly when those expectations inherently involve locking writes and retry loops.
But if ssh'ing into boxes every once in a while is all you need to fix or debug stuff, why is it "best practice" to build out a lot of infrastructure to replace that?
It's not quite a right to bear arms, but I learned to shoot about the same time I learned to read (which happened before I started kindergarten.) GP was probably being facetious but it's not a joke that has no basis in reality.
Not sure if this is sarcasm or just strange.
I for one would like to take advantage of the slow deployment of L2C and L1C to change the payload. The program delay is potentially an opportunity to add cryptographically strong authentication to the signal structure. The greatest near-term threat to GPS isn't jamming as mentioned in the article, its spoofing. Strong authentication is the most promising antispoofing defense, and the growing commercial drone industry is going to need it.
They're using less than 1000 PPM for lead. I dunno, that feels like a tiny amount.

Stating they're compliant with RoHS feels better than the alternatives, such as the much misunderstand Californian Proposition 65 warnings.
There are two insidious angles at play with the push for MSAs:

1. Software stacks for MSAs dovetail too well with the cloud service offerings from the same company or a division of the parent (EMC/Pivotal)

2. Latency kills. How are you avoiding it with highly distributed choreographed flows that are present in MSAs?
Decades spent in business cured me of similar notions. Externalities, reflexivity, and information+power asymmetry are (among others) unsolved problems in our capitalist systems. Pretty much anything anyone can get away with that doesn't impact the metric being measured, they will. When the metric is price, all sorts of information is lossy-encoded into that metric.

I agree with the overall direction of your sentiment, it is just that ample time in the trenches of doing business has disabused me of the effectiveness of capitalism to regulate markets the way we think it does. It regulates the markets all right; the amount of human ingenuity spent trying to game the system at others' expense either now or in the future never ceases to impress me.
Weel, they could have been straightforward and said 'Yes.' And then they would explain how it's only trace amounts or whatever, and how this is a realistic expectation or a safe level and how it compares to other companies etc. This would have been the more honest answer.
That sounds a bit high. Based on numbers from the last few months, GoDaddy has about 40m of the 127m .com domains, or 31%.

Sources:
http://www.registrarowl.com/report_registrar_total_domains.p...
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi...
Agreed, LibreOffice is free and it handles some of the MS-Office documents formats as well in case your potential employer needs a Word document or something.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Even has torrents to download it via BitTorrent. I hope other FOSS apps use Torrents to download them, it is a better way to download and not have Internet timeout errors cancel your download.
Hacking is definitely a worry. A bigger problem might be communicating and teaching people not to part with this information easily.
Meh, I'm an autodidact and I rarely complete a MOOC that I sign up for. There are many reasons for this. Quite a few try to just be copies of the campus course. Others focus too much on lecture and not enough on doing. In some courses, there is a huge disconnect between the difficulty of the assignments, and the content covered in the lectures. But the biggest reason for me is, I usually sign up for a course as a means to help me get going on a project. As soon as I'm up and going with the project, I leave the course behind. There are only a handful of courses where the content was so interesting and well paced that I stayed for the whole thing. The embedded electronics course at edx being one of them.
In the 1700s, some Europeans clubbed one of my relatives to death. Where's my money?
Sorry, meant NFS.
> This was done by untaxing it

We never had a full land value tax in our country (or anywhere in the world, for that matter). What does this refer to, exactly?
Mobile Gaming in Japan: Is It Gotcha Time for Gacha?
Do you have an example of a multinational firm, let's say, 1/10th the size of microsoft doing such and where they don't rely on a large amount of business from the US?

I'm not being flip, but, in technology, outside of China, when it comes to things internet, most of the companies are either US based or have a US subsidiary.
India is way ahead of the US financial system. I am a student here in US and I can't really fathom how bad the US financial system is.

- Intra bank wires / transfers are free and happen within 10s

- Cheques are free

- You don't have a system where you can lose all your money if you give your handwritten cheques to somebody (who came up with echeques anyway?)

- You don't get charged to have a checking account. They pay you interest for your account.

- Get a message about every transaction, every withdrawal that you do immediately.
Maybe the tips are why Lyft drivers are perceived as "nicer"
You are essentially arguing that there should be no cheap burgers, since there are much, much better expensive burgers. What you seem to be forgetting is that some people won't be able (or not want) to afford much, much better burgers and that's the reason cheap burgers exist.