skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this company worth $12B? Is it hard to short? The $12B equity valuation would imply slim odds of Max-Hervé George being fully paid out.

If not, what information are we missing?
Yes. It would be tragic to cut out polluting forms of energy production that destroy rivers and lives.
> It's more like a VM, but it uses the same kernel that Chrome OS uses, so it's more like Docker than Virtualbox.

I'm amused by this explanation, because I grew up doing chroot before virtualization took off and obviously before Docker.

Feeling old.
As others have said it's very strange at first. My co-worker introduced it to me a little over a month ago and I remember thinking "how is this maintainable?". After a few hours it started to make sense and now I can't imagine going back to BEM.

Being able to design UIs without opening a single CSS file has made HTML pretty fun and I've found I'm much better at componentizing the right things.
I'm eagerly awaiting for someone to add Stanza to the myriad languages at https://learnxinyminutes.com/. Cheers!
Mohamed Atta Marwan Al-Shehhi spent over $40,000 on flight training in a 4 month period.
It's not the electric motor that's the problem, it's the battery.
If you see a strange pattern, you can email dang (the moderator) at hn@ycombinator.com . They can look at more data to try to confirm the problem.
> bower install cutestrap

People still use bower...? Somehow I thought it officially(?) was dead.
In a Room with Radiohead
I have a Chromebook and a Macbook Pro. I use both, they have their places. I feel much happier traveling with the Chromebook - I don't care if it gets stolen or destroyed. It was only $300 and nothing is stored locally.

The Macbook I worry about more.
I am not convinced people are still on 2 year phone upgrade cycles. Worse, Intel already dropped the Tick-Tock cycle and phones are not that far behind.

I have a 4s, skipped 5s, thought about 6 or 6s, now I am going to wait for the 7. I just got the new 9.7 inch apple pro tablet and I don't notice it being all that much faster browsing the web.
Google adaptive smartphone
>I can register using a name and e-mail address that has a lot of Z characters, and then I know that just XORing with Z will reveal most of the plaintext.

Wouldn't it reveal the stream of bytes the plaintext was XORed with, not the plaintext? Unless the article means indirectly, which would be strange writing.
Bankruptcy is a shrewd way out of the foolishness. Nobody made any moral stance, attempting to discharge debt is equally as amoral as paying it off.
You got to provide more info than that! Was it suddenly regrown? Or grew in spurts? Slow and steady? At what point did they decide it was regrown? How well does it work? Or is this like some joke I would tell my kids how my leg was chopped off as a child but later grew back?
Those are also far, far, far lower displacement. 19,000rpm, sure, but with 250cc displacement. In 1999, Formula 1 engine displacement was mandated to 2400cc and engine speeds were limited to 18,000 rpm to help keep costs in check -- they could still maintain 19,000rpm despite an order of magnitude higher engine displacement (and the far higher forces involved).

Heck, remote control car nitromethane engines have operated in the 35000rpm - 40000 rpm range decades ago. But with minuscule displacements (~3cc).

If valve springs worked at those speeds and 2000+ cc displacements, trust me, Formula 1 wouldn't have abandoned them several decades ago.
I think the question is why explicitly represent these mathematical concepts in a programming language. Since they're difficult to explain, the cost of including them is high, and they don't seem to have compensating benefits that are worth the cost.
Just a guess, but could be a test for a larger product(seems their main thing is some finance tool)
>This is very much a sticking point that was extensively discussed in the prior hullabaloo regarding the YC-affiliated post on the matter.

For all intents and purposes consider YC/Cruise/Vogt all one party. So it shouldn't be surprising that any YC post took a legal position consistent with Cruise/Vogt that: Guillory was not a co-founder and had no claim to ownership of Cruise.

>Cruise and its founder Kyle Vogt now acknowledge that Guillory was a cofounder of the company.

This is simply part of the terms of the Settlement Agreement, they didn't necessarily have to include this, but as a former commercial litigator I will give you my two cents...

Guillory demanded that, because without that he purely seems interested in money and not the credit. In a way it is part reputation (important) part ego (not important).

Nevertheless, the big arbitrator here (behind closed doors) is GM, cruise investors and $1B. GM is weighting the idea of no publicity is bad publicity with the fact they just bought a start up for $1B that doesn't have its shit together. Investors just captured their unicorn, and now have pending litigation, putting that in jeopardy for how many years. So at a certain point both GM and investors are going to put a lot of pressure on Cruise to settle the lawsuit ASAP, whatever it take, including give him credit as co-founder publicly.
Thanks for clarifying the difference - I'm very excited to see where Stanza is used and where it goes.
"If you care about privacy, you shouldn't use your voice. Because the default is talking instead of whispering, if you aren't careful when discussing sensitive things, you might be overheard."

OK, reach and permanence are far greater with internet chat than with voice. But what we really need to teach our children is to be careful... full stop.

I like Google's suggested short reply options in Inbox, and look forward to the convenience of Allo's bot tech. I also applaud Google for providing a simple and easy way to switch to a private channel if it is needed - surely that is something to celebrate instead of denigrate?

Edit: Small grammar fixes.
A good response would be, but "If it wasn't in the requirements, it didn't get coded."

We have to use that response alot when someone asks about a program that doesn't work the way they expect it to. Did you explicitly say that it needs to do this in the contract? No? Then it's not a bug, it's an enhancement.
Not knowing anything about the author's background, I can only assume he is not very technically knowledgeable, especially when I read:

> but how many people use Incognito for every search?

and then later:

> Likewise, it’s smart to turn off location history in Google Maps because once Google has that data, it's out of your control.

By providing inputs to either service mentioned (Google Search or Google Maps), you are already providing them with your "private data". That's the entire point: you give Google a set of keywords, and it gives you answers. If you didn't want Google to know what you're looking for, why would you tell them?
I've thought it would be cool to make a virus that doesn't do the usual but a specific person.

You the programmer get a request to target John K Smith you make a virus specifically for that person. Then the virus is released where infects anything it can and if it finds John K Smith it deletes or permanently encrypts the info.
Impressive income.
What do you suggest to use instead?
Udi doesn't work at Google now- he's at NIH. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/10/search-whiz-udi-manbe...
Your commit history should be readable like your code and your tests. It's part of the final product you deliver to the rest of your team. It's easy to forget or ignore your commit history, which is probably what leads people to encouraging squashing all commits in a PR. Ugly commit history is a code smell.

I agree with the OP that it's a bad blanket policy. We are fortunate that git has powerful abilities to edit commit history (git rebase -i is my favorite). Rather than just requiring everything to be squashed as a matter of policy, maintainers should instead request that commit history be cleaned up if it's not presentable, IMO.
Now THIS here is the interesting idea, the ARA becomes the local compute component in a larger system, rather than having smaller components attaching to the ARA!
I am the original author of this article. I just found out that a friend had posted it on HN and found these comments. Most seem to fall into a few categories:

"If I'm not paying attention, it's because your meeting is boring or irrelevant."

I am not talking about people who open their laptops in a few (or even most) meetings where the content is boring. I'm talking about people (including myself until recently) who open their laptop or pick up their phone in every single meeting they attend. If you are not that person, no reason to be offended. If you are, then please explain to me how every single meeting can be irrelevant.

"I have ADHD, I can multitask. In fact, I work better when I multitask."

Somewhere between 5% and 11% of all children in America are believed to have ADHD. Even if quadruple that number for people in the computer industry, that still leaves the majority of the population as non-ADHD sufferers. Those are the people I'm talking about. The majority. Also note that I'm not just talking about people in the computer industry, but all information workers. The incidence of ADHD in the general population is not nearly large enough to explain the epidemic I'm describing.

"But I use my laptop to take notes."

The second sentence in the article clearly states that it is fine to do so "for the purposes of the meeting - to take notes..." I guess you must have been multitasking and missed that sentence. :)

"Maybe you should make your meetings more interesting if you want me to pay attention."

I will just quote from the article again: "As the meeting organizer, I should, of course, strive to make the meeting relevant and the decisions concrete. Otherwise, I deserve to be ignored for the latest tweet or alert."
Do you have a reference to the work from DeepMind?
You can wildly speculate about Trump all day, but Bill Clinton messed with a lot more women than just Monica Lewinsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct...

It's especially weird that "Trump will be bad for women" is the (hilariously inept) angle the Clinton campaign is trying to take on him, given this.
> What if your email client gave you empowering choices of ways to respond, instead of “what message do you want to type back?”

Communicating directly via writing or talking is the only thing here that is not driven by limited choices.

It reminds me of the koan about the expressiveness of the command line compared to point and click:

http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master's hand.

“I don't understand you!” said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer's head. Then he pointed at a rock.

“Why can't you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment.
The "Year of the Linux Desktop" FINALLY arrived, and the HN community finds out about it after the fact from the mainstream media...
Say my nudes which I shared with my ex got leaked and are all over the tumblr and porn sites.

The blog I created 10 ago bashing homosexuals is now a problem.

I used racists slurs against someone on an forum 5 years ago which now show up as top results.

etc. etc. you get the point.

I will of course share all the necessary credentials with the target company.
It's an application, not a legal document for creating a legal entity. They're asking the question because it's valuable to them as an indicator. If you have two do-nothings that own 90% and a PhD researcher who's the brains of the operation who owns 10%, that would be a red flag. Additionally it's important because there's a minimum equity stake required to join them in CA and they don't want you making it up after the fact.
Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript
Is this sovereign citizen crap?
Yep. The typical American family dinner is the Digital Dinner if you can call it that
I don't know how to read the monoid equations. <> to me means not equal. Is that what they meanin the article?
The difference between Stack and Heap
They do say that when you go self-hosted quickly, you end up with a language that's good at writing compilers :)
That was suposed to happen 2014 IIRC. I wonder if 2019 rolls around and they push it back to 2025.
The highest official salary was about 1200 roubles a month - two people had this salary, Prime Minister and President of USSR Academy of Sciences. Nevertheless, there were people earning (illegally, of course) tens of millions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsekhovik
Posted a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11742568
http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06065
Not the first Paul to think like this, 1 Corinthians 9, 20-22:
[...] I am made all things to all men [...]
OK so how many months of several people working and saving does that require?

Can one not get student loans?
I came of age during the thin client craze of the 90s and I remember the grey beards then telling all of us whippersnappers that it was just the latest swing of the pendulum. Cut 20 years later and now I'm one of those grey beards.
I bet math textbooks would be great with "syntax highlighting" ... If it works for code, why not?
What was the problem you were trying to solve when you decided to create Stanza?

Google Go's story was that they wanted a lowest-common-denominator language for use by their mixed-skill-level development pool. C was written so that some games could be ported to minicomputer... And so on.
There's a pendulum, but there's also a long term trend. Each swing towards thin clients seems to go a bit further and the local swing a bit less far.
RealReachability support IPV6 now.pod v1.1.5
This paper is either really important or total bullshit. Anyone know which?
It is very similar in the basics. A mixture that may be too lean to ignite via spark ignition can nonetheless sustain combustion if it is "hit" with enough ions, high-energy molecules, or radicals. Hence the "pre chamber" which initially ignites a richer mixture with a low ignition induction time.

The difference between what is discussed here vs. the CVCC seems to be principally about the kind of precise control that we can achieve using today's technologies, including electronic control and micro-machining. From there, it looks like the shaping and direction of the combusted jet from the pre-chamber has been well-optimized in comparison to systems like CVCC.
Amazing how policy makers fail to grasp basic supply and demand.
> Formula E is making advances in that regard but it's just nowhere near the level of F1 ATM.

A Formula E car can't even make it through a single race.
It incurs costs both financial and political. And really, it's antithetical to being a politician. It's like being a physician and wanting to not cure people. Being a politician and simultaneously wanting to have things shutdown is anathema.
Good job Smudge. I found a similar technique quite helpful. The only difference is instead of asking the server for a partial I just download the entire HTML source and query it for the parts I need and inject those parts into the DOM. Super helpful for zippy photo galleries or infinite scroll.
Is this one of the new macbooks? I'm strongly considering doing exactly this but figure at this point I might as well see what they have in store for MBP, or even MBA if they don't can the product line.
I don't understand. The usual explanation I hear (and that I think of) when explaining what a STD of x is, fall somewhere along the lines of "most (about 2/3rds) of the data will be within +/- x of the average". Is this wrong?

If not, can you give me an example of the typical description people give for STD that actually describes MAD?
3D Printing Homo naledi
Is there a benchmark for measuring racism or xenophobia? Ie the terms are so vague and subject to personal interpretation that I think they pretty much mean 'Someone's whose views I disagree with'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880

> The U880 is an almost identical copy of Zilog's 8-bit Z80 microprocessor.

I wrote my first machine-level programs on that chip (I didn't have an assembler, only a dis-assembler, so I hand-translated the code and then used the dis-assembler to check if I had made typos).
I think you're missing the point; divestment is perhaps part of a larger strategy. Re: what they're doing though, I think it's main aim is to help people be in tune with where their money's going.

Also, did you even bother to check the site out? Not sure how into finance you are, but it's a pretty decent all-purpose scrapper, if you don't dig the gun thing, just leave them out. Pretty clear that there are tons of alternatives, with comparable returns and no guns, to choose from however.
My hope against this scenario is that the kind of person who needs to buy every new accessory wouldn't touch a Project Ara phone because they're too silly looking or because the all-in-one models are slimmer and more fashionable (see iMac vs desktop towers). We'll see how it shakes out.
Nation of Reason: Coming Out of the Religious Closet Together (on Atheism)
Did I claim to be?
return x is way more pythonic, because it's much clearer and any non-boolean value can be used in boolean contexts as well.
It's being used for more than just police surveillance. Entelo watches for your LinkedIn and other profiles to update then tells recruiters that you might be looking for a job. https://www.entelo.com/
The biggest obstacle people seem to complain about (besides print, which is trivial IMO) is unicode. This is generally also the most painful part of making python 2 code work on python 3.

The issue with it is that from unicode perspective your python 2 code is inherently broken. There's no automated tool that can fix it, and there's no way python 5 will be able to run python 2 code correctly unless unicode support would be removed. You have to manually tell python which string is made of characters and which one was made out of bytes.
Most climate skeptic people I talk to worry but claim that we shouldn't actively suppress and cut funding to research that could contradict the man made global warming hypothesis. I agree with them.
Well done on starting the list. I chipped in a bit on Australia, though I'm frankly quite amazed at how difficult it is to find any sort of authoritative list of locations! There are clearly thousands.
How about 19? That young enough?
Exactly. The hallmark of any mediocre programmer and above is simple : they know the field they're writing software for. Usually pretty well.

Most programmers I know simply demand the requirements are "clear". Unfortunately that often doesn't work, as it would require explaining half a year's worth of economic theory and then another half a year detailing a client firm's experiences selling X/manufacturing Y/...

There's just no working with that. You cannot think of all the possibilities because you cannot attach reasonable chances of actually happening to anything.

When starting a mission I always make a point of spending at least a few days manually solving the problem the software I write will solve. Because doing so lets me know what I know and don't know, and actually doing so informs me of both shortcuts used in practice and political problems/attitude towards automation.

Without reasonably correctly assessing all of this a software design needs to get very lucky to work at all.
> Crouton is a more real development machine than anything Apple ever made, because it's more like the server where you'll eventually deploy

Well, this assumes one particular type of development! I would not choose a Chromebook to develop, say, Chrome!

I tried Crouton a few years ago, wanting to run xbmc. Audio didn't work, because it required a newer version of the Linux kernel. It turns out you can't just install a stock Linux kernel: you have to use a patched device-specific kernel that Google provides, and for my device, the Google-provided kernel was too old. Perhaps I could have built some frankenkernel, but instead I gave up and got a real Linux box.

I would not try to use Crouton again for a general Linux box, because you become dependent on Google for updating core software.
That's a strange arguement.

That's like saying it's not hysterical to say everyone needs Kevlar, because try being a soldier without Kevlar!?

It makes no sense.

People who need to hide things have encrypted options. People who don't, also have options. I don't see the problem.
Actually, the advantage of the Atkinson or Miller cycles is not due to avoiding autoignition limits. Rather it is because of, as you pointed out, the greater than unity ratio of (expansion ratio)/(compression ratio). So you are improving the ratio of work that can be extracted from the power cycle as compared to the work that you are doing on the mixture.

For the same engine displacement as a standard Otto cycle engine, the maximum power you can develop with the Atkinson-type cycle is decreased, hence you trade efficiency for power density. The Miller cycle approach is a way to shift that balance back toward the Otto range by doing some precompression on the air.
Related, why is Whatsapp missing the facepalm emoji, U+1F926?
I'm curious if you ran into any performance issues with partiality typed programs as described in [1]?

[1] http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/05/is-sound-gradual-typing-d...
Chrome already killed the unity plugin which is what really lit a fire under there ass to get WebGL working well. Its reasonable now, at least for some types of games.
"An emoji is a coloured glyph."

OK. Stop right there. An emoji is a glyph, it need not be colored. The funny part, is that on my system and my fonts, all the examples (not provided as PNGs) are plain black-and-white renderings with the Symbola font. Even on Chrome on Linux, I don't even see the Canadian flag example she shows.

Really, most of this seems solid but it continues a rather annoying trend of assuming that Apple's font are the emoji. At least she recognizes that other fonts exist, but carries on this assumption...
Another small thing that makes a big difference: in Japan there is basically no street parking anywhere. There's a ton of small automated parking lots, and lots of car-elevator parking. When you buy a car, the police visit to confirm that you have a private parking spot. Not having the visual noise and clutter of parked cars everywhere makes it easier to keep the place clean, makes room for bicycles, etc.
I dream of a day when you can have CSS loaded that has no dead weight. If one page doesn't have an accordion, there's no point in it loading the accordion CSS. Foundation slimmed down their base CSS files because it had so much dead weight from 5 to 6; but I wish there were some way (and I have seen some projects on GitHub) that I could load a page and it only would load the CSS needed for that page, but would still cache the common assets.
Our population is homogenous in many things, particularly in our adoption of tools.
One thing we're missing is whether the company is "too big to fail".