skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see how. Particulates don't persist in the atmosphere...

You said

> I would really hate to see the US loosen pollution regulations because of some weird idea that we shouldn't bother cleaning up our air unless everybody else does too.

which, to me, only makes sense for types of pollution that are shared. Why would anyone think that China's position one way or the other on a strictly local pollutant should influence the corresponding US policy?

But in any case, my comment is true regardless. Even for local pollutants, there will be more low hanging fruit in China.
Distributing Data in Druid at Petabyte Scale
That's all bad, but what would you propose instead of democracy?
The article seems to cite public policy as the source of the difference. I don't think public policies are the root cause, but rather the underlying values of the culture that gave rise to them (as the article later seems to suggest). I'll bet that the U.S. end of that chart tends to be characterized by cultures that put individualism above all else, while the other end much less so.

Individualism is good; I'd never want the other extreme. I think Asian cultures subvert the individual to the group far too much. But the extreme individualism of the U.S. has led to an ever more selfish, narcissistic and cold society, where material gain and personal comfort trumps everything.
The 12-24 month timeframe seems off. The % of startups who after 12-24 months should have 25 employees and do all the other things that sama mentioned has got to be very small to the point of making this blog post seem out of touch with reality.

Tell me a startup that went anywhere within one year? Now count the startups that went nowhere. That ratio has to 1/1000 or greater. I actually question how many YC startups this really applies to. 10 or less? How many really have market fit?
I love Spark but they don't seem to have a clear way of making money so I'm concerned about its future.
Latency for short copies is very important. I think "rep movs" is always going to win in this case.
For my seasonal pollen allergies here's what I do.
a) Take a spoonful of dried bee bread
b) Take 2 spoonful of local honey
c) Add 100ml warm water
d) Stir it until the bee-bread dissolves
e) Drink it. (Starts acting in 10 minutes)

Anyone know why it works?
Imagine a tool that did all of that for you.

Everything about your code, the libraries and APIs you're using, their documentation, function signatures, return types and codes, all a simple keystroke away, without having to so much as glance away from the line of code you're on.

And your code sneakily compiling itself in the background and reporting back anything that could potentially raise itself as an issue, run-time or compile time, presenting it all in the form of little red squigglies and gutter icons.

Imagine writing an entire feature without ever having to alt-tab anywhere other than the end product (browser, app, whatever), and never needing to google anything at all. It'd be pretty cool, right?

That's an IDE. This guy built one that lets you do all that stuff on a tablet.
This is what the campus of a $250M startup looks like: https://goo.gl/maps/hRpUS1BQbZL2
How do you find out that it doesn't work? Some loans default, company loses money on those. The model gets updated continuously from the real user data, so it learns from the mistakes
On the importance of democratizing Artificial Intelligence
> I agree that Rust likely does not have the be-all answer to automatic memory management, though what I love about it is that they're pushing the boundaries and getting people thinking differently about memory management.

Me too. I intend to use it for more of my hobby things, but Go is currently the best fit. Eventually I imagine Rust will pick up some decent GUI libraries or at least get decent editor support (vim-go is lightyears ahead of YCM+racer) and I'll be able to afford to justify using it more.
How will the failure of Italian banks take down Deutche Bank? Does it hold too much stock or bonds in Italian banks?
#	3. AT PRESENT, ERASABLE LOCATIONS ARE RESERVED ONLY FOR N UP TO 5. AN N IN EXCESS OF 5 WILL PRODUCE CHAOS.

I want to just leave comments like this and have users be responsible for avoiding said chaos.
I will not beat a dead horse with my "mutt is superior because they know the best they cannot do is suck without confessing it" trope, but almost all email clients lack is Maildir.

Even if you are not a technical user, you should respect the fact that proprietary formats will bite you. Look how many this guy alone used. If you use opensource, even, the mbox and mh all email, one giant file paradigm is all nice until it is corrupted.

I wish more clients respected Maildir underneath, or tried to bend the truth on Windows FAT32 and NTFS ad the ; in path names limitation is a pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir#Filesystem_Compatibili...

Sadly even Thunderbird has struggled to re-engineer a Maildir subsystem where it was never intended. Show me any email client devs who had the khutzpah to even dare that.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845952

But you have a lot of safety in spreading it across files, and you can throw dumber full text search at it, shell scripts, and a lot more flexibility over all.

Sadly, some Unixisms will never escape Unix culture. As someone who has watched people screw 10+ years of email in Thunderbird n>1 times, I wish for the love of God everyone would use Maildir in the client, regardless of interface, free or not, et cetera.
> As an aside to this, there's a lot that society and governance can do to make life easier for parents both in the short and long term.

And further subsidize child-bearing? Property taxes already directly fund public schools in most localities in the US.
It also eliminates any opportunities for personal development and expanding social circles that are critical for both career and personal growth. There is a reason why rents are so high in the cities: they are desirable places to live because of the opportunities they offer for recreation and personal and professional progress.

Edit: Also I think its hard for anyone (including myself) to relate to kind of lifestyle that most Indian villagers face. Lack of education, illiteracy, importance of superstitions and so on can greatly hinder the progress of any people.
Das Keyboard 4 Professional for Mac: http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-professional-for-ma...

Some nice to knows: has a builtin 2 port USB 3.0 hub (superhandy for USB sticks and the like), N Key Rollover over USB, and a footbar which also can be repurposed as a ruler.

Can be purchased with Greetech brown (tactile) or blue (clicky) switches.
GP talked about this occurring at a defense contractor. The specifications tend(ed) to be much tighter. System X will receive input from this data bus. It will use this wire protocol. It will use that address to push output to <other component>. Messages will be of the following forms.

It's often a lot of embedded systems, and the good thing about these is that this level of specification is quite feasible. I've written a "simulator" (not full-blown, it was a stop-gap measure) for a piece of code we're supposed to get from another contractor. My code pretty much started off this way (but LP isn't liked here and it got butchered, started off in org-mode). I had to receive certain messages reading from shared memory (old architecture, can't change it without changing everything else), and respond back with messages stored in other address ranges. So I described the messages, I described the addresses, including references to specifications. My code was, essentially, traceable back to the requirements and specifications documents.

In this world we often have an SDD, usually not well developed and unfortunately sometimes made after the fact. Literate programming is a way that you can pair up the design and the code into one place, along with a rationale for the code by way of tying it back to the requirements documents.
I'd really like to see a study specific to female happiness with children. I live in the US, and I think men and women's experience with children is entirely different.

When my wife worked, she missed our kids tremendously. Almost 75% of her take home went to day care. She was pretty miserable.

Now she stays home. She gets a lot of off-hand comments from other friends with kids about "how bored they would be if they stayed home". Or from friends without kids about "how they feel like they are doing something with their lives".

Now she feels like she isn't doing enough with her life.

Maybe she needs thicker skin, or maybe the societal pressure for women is immense.

Men working is expected by society. IME, the dads I know who stay home get more of an "awesome bro!" type response when they say they stay home.

I just feel like no matter what I do, I will feel happy with kids. No matter what my wife does, she feels like it isn't good enough.

[Edit: so many links to books! I've exhausted my audible credits for the month. Thanks for the support!]
> in Russia

In Soviet Union. That's kind of a different entity (for me at least).
No one should be above the law
Why “session keep-alive” makes a huge difference in multi-WAN networks?
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You do this on your time, so I expect nothing.

Thanks for letting me know. I have to avoid people like you. I have tons of HW and I can never finish it because I drown in all the interesting system design and articles here. GO AWAY! Haha.
GPS already use a Kalman filter to create a filtered output. You cannot apply a second filter to the output of the first and expect better results.

Specifically, the Kalman filter depends on the data having the Markov property, and that the noise is Gaussian. The output of the filter has neither property, so you are not going to get better data. You may "smooth" the data, but all you are really doing is 1) discarding useful information, and/or 2) introducing a lag into the signal.
>> For instance, Justifying terrorism on social media is also a crime in Germany

The only difference is in Russia you would be better careful when you "like" posts of opposition on Facebook. Because someone who writes about corruption of the government can "turn into" terrorist any minute. And then all his/her friends and followers will be under attack.
Technology is gained but so much intellectual capital is destroyed. And there's no good A/B test with war to see how much technological progress would have been gained from the intellectual capital if it hadn't been destroyed.
Disclaimer: I work at 7C Studio. I am happy to answer any questions if you have.
The solution proposed by Heinlein has all the desirable characteristics: zero barriers to entry, not very burdensome (for the received benefits) and reliabilly produces good citizens.

The problem is that I can't imagine a real method that can compare. There is no proof that the military way produces good citizens, and every other method ever tried introduces barriers, which usually leads to minorities being excluded.
Keep beating that strawman.

The poster I originally responded to said electric cars have no place in public transportation because of space issues. I merely objected to that by pointing out that other means of transportation do not cover all bases, to which I received a bunch of nonsense saying "but they work in these conditions". Well, yes, they do, but they don't work in others, like Minnesota winters.

Taxis should make it obvious that, yes, there is a place for these vehicles.

Electric cars as a panacea? That wasn't anything I ever argued. In fact, outside downtown Minneapolis, I think autonomous vehicles would have a very difficult time in Minnesota winters as well. But I suspect, once autonomous vehicles hit the road, it's going to be a lot more ubiquitous than you think.
I've tried Spark too; I kind've slotted it under the "others" in the "needs Mac app" category. I didn't really feel it did anything better than EasilyDo Mail (which has more personal assistant type features) or Boxer (which is more customizable) if I was going to go for an app on iOS only.
I don't know if the parent post was edited but it does state right now:

"The story is a little different in the case of Portia, given that they are apparently at a visual advantage to their prey. "
There is a huge difference between an internship and that sort of volunteer work.
Mail.app is fine for me... What am I missing in an email client that Mail.app doesn't provide?
Wow, I have a very similar experience to yours. My wife worked, same thing, now doesn't work, and she feels lonely and like she (1) isn't contributing and (2) has no adult conversation.

I try to help her by mentioning how great she is with the kid, and by taking the kid places by myself so she can go see and do adult things.

It is tough, good luck.
Anything worthwhile is hard. Was I happy day 6 on a weeklong hike on an island in the rain and mosquitoes? It didn't seem like it at the time. Yet I'm going again. Its a silly question really.
New ggplot for Python released
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046235
Ask HN: Anyone wants to come to Shenzhen?
Hello,

I've been meaning to ask this question here for a while and I hope it doesn't sound like an ad since this is not the intention at all.

We are a startup here in Shenzhen and we see first hand how FAST things move here in hardware and software. It is incredible and words cannot describe what an great feeling it is to be going through the Huaqiang bei markets, doing plastic moulds, PCBA, etc.

So, if we could help our fellow HN friends come here and experience this mess of electronic goodness vs. you give some coding hours away would that be a good proposition?

If you don't fancy giving anything, we can just help you with visa and other questions you may have. The more hours you want to give, we can give you a place to sleep + food.

We are also HAX alumni (If that matters)
Do you have a wishlist for an openkeyval.org replacement?
Putin.

Like it or not, that's the only answer. A VERY strong, totalitarian leader who fully disregards his own people AND foreign interests, while having at least some interest in improving the economy of the country, no matter what it takes. And, sure, benefiting tremendously in the process, but if you ask me - well deserved.
Any references on this? I think most engines are Indian manufactured and India uses emission norms based on European regulation [0]
Would be interested to see any data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Stage_emission_standard...
Well as long as we feel that limited, I guess we will be. I would rather think that we will uncover/relearn that we do not have physics solved and we come to a new understanding of natural limits. Unless we all get stuck watching AGT and playing Pokemon GO and choose to give up on everything else.
Why would anyone protest? India doesn't have enough electricity to waste on Malls and Movies theaters. Or big offices like tech parks in Bangalore!

What you have mentioned applies to every tech park in Bangalore, so should people now protest against their very source of employment?
Geary is actually quite a nice e-mail client to use if you use GNOME or something close to GNOME (Unity, Cinnamon, Pantheon).
coconutBattery
Placebo effect
Hillary Clinton’s Email Was Probably Hacked
Tragic end to such an influential person.

A few months back I was researching debian and found out that the name comes from a combination of Ian and Deb, his then girlfriend. I obviously never knew him personally but his legacy will live on.
Good point. No matter how you arrange it, its important to have respite, regularly. Back when the boys were babies I'd come home Wednesday night, she'd shove the youngest into my arms and head out the door for a night off with the girlfriends. Every Wednesday night. Just her time. It made everything else endurable.
Do you have any argument? I can say exactly the same about this topic. meduza.io is owned by old angry woman that were kicked from lenta.ru for being too pro-west.
He did:

"#Putin has signed a repressive new law that violates not only human rights, but common sense. Dark day for #Russia."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/751019610258964480

"Signing the #BigBrother law must be condemned. Beyond political and constitution consequences, it is also a $33b+ tax on Russia's internet."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/751020926456721408

"People ask if I fear retaliation for my criticism. I do. But it did not stop me from criticizing the @WhiteHouse, and will not stop me here."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/751023099945123840
If we further subsidized child-bearing we would have fewer abortions which for my personal socio-economic beliefs (YMMV) would be a great thing but would the right wing allow that? NO! — Ironic, huh?
I have no doubt there were many before PayPal. If you weren't looking for porn or looking to pay for it then there weren't a lot of options. Especially, in the early days of the WWW. When there was an actual yellow pages of the entirety of the web.
Nylas is pretty bug-ridden at this point, and they have committed to a pretty crazy pricing model ($7 per month). It's hard to get behind it.
"Top-down" and "bottom-up" in compression usually refer to which direction you build the prefix tree. In Shannon-Fano coding (top-down), you start with the set of all symbols and their frequency distributions and then recursively divide them into roughly even-sized subsets, assigning a 0 as the prefix to the first and a 1 as the prefix to the second. In Huffman coding (bottom-up), you start with a priority queue of each individual symbol/frequency pair, and then merge the two lowest frequency nodes together, building the tree from the bottom up. In middle-out coding, presumably, the algorithm decides at runtime whether to merge two existing codes into a single prefix tree, or to split an existing prefix tree in some other way. There's some speculation [1] that this is done in a probabilistic way.

All of these algorithms require known frequency distributions, which requires that you have the full data available. In typical DEFLATE compressors (gzip, pkzip, zlib, etc.), this is handled by dividing the input stream into blocks and compressing each block individually.

A similar approach could be used for video - you could easily make the block size a single packet - but in practice, you'd rarely want to use a lossless compression algorithm for video chat anyway. Most video compression is lossy; you can drop a lot of detail before the human eye notices. That's how you can stream a full widescreen movie (which has an uncompressed size of 2 megapixel * 4 bytes/pixel * 30 frames/second = 240 MB/sec) over a typical 5 Mb/sec broadband connection.

[1] http://news.mlh.io/i-hacked-the-middle-out-compression-from-...
firefox motto is take back the web.

start by disabling custom fonts. select decent defaults you like to stare at. done. perfect legibility, saved bandwidth, faster page load times, less data leakage to google (who magnanimously host all those fonts)
Any opportunity for working part time, or working from home? I've always wondered if that was the ideal solution.
> meduza.io

Why on earth do you think that bringing unrelated things in the discussion is a workable discussion strategy? Downvote.
Do You Own Your Own Fingerprints?
I'm pretty happy...

OSX: Mail.app does the job very well, little bloat.

Linux: I like Geary. Lean but not as good as Mail.app though

Windows: Mailbird. Light but also not as good as Mail.app

For Business I have Outlook.

None is perfect but all do what I need in the corresponding context.
I don't like how Star Citizen is being handled. Luckily, I never backed it and it's clear that the project is going to be undergoing massive delays and is going to be a huge mess since it's gone beyond mere "feature bloat".

But this guy seems too immature to take seriously. In fact, I stopped taking him seriously at the first mention of "Shitizen". That doesn't really do him any favours.
They're even a YC company!
I'm disappointed by this advertisement. Initially looks like an article, but
it doesn't convey anything that wasn't laid out before (and more
exhaustively), then it mentions two competing services (to disguise as
a review, I suppose), and then, of course, the service sold by the company
that wrote the advertisement.

If this is how "native advertisement" is supposed to look like, I find it very
sad.
Children are an absolutely massive financial net-negative for all quality-of-life levels above the poverty line, and a few below. They will contribute to society far above their cost, but never pay back their parents. Maybe we should subsidize childcare more? Surely, that would better align parent's benefit with civilization's.
Hey John!! Couldn't agree more.

We had an event bus in an early implementation of our application and it was a huge pain later when we didn't know every place that was using and relying on a given event.

We switched to a much more explicit structure with defined dependencies and more boilerplate to reduce the "magic". It is much easier to debug and maintain over the long haul. The boilerplate stuff sucks to write, but when you are going to maintain the application for more than a few months, it takes MUCH less time to go back and understand than the alternatives.
Good thing you pointed at aviation.

Aviation standard goal is 9 nines of reliability, and many systems get there.
When we become the old people running the government (and the old people always voting for them).
Here's one with subtitles and interactivity http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...
CNVLUTIN: Ineffectual-Neuron-free Deep Neural Network Computing [pdf]
You don't necessarily need a full room with no furniture, just a big enough space in a room, which can be temporary - for example, I use half my kitchen with the table moved back. You only need 1.5 x 2 m minimum (though that is a little restrictive).

I think 100,000 early adopters given the current very high price suggests going mainstream isn't much of a problem.
Privacy Shield to be dragged across finish line–sources
I like Phoenix

October

Yes two blackholes of food aka teenage boys

#isthatenough ?
I wrote this statement and want to respond to your criticism.

Firstly, I think you make a very good point. I experience a similar feeling when I read things that appear one-sided, and I try in my writing to communicate the fact that both sides of the issue have been considered, even if I think one is completely absurd. I'll take your criticism into account with future writing about EME.

FWIW, here's the other side of the argument as I understand it:

"DRM is already happening on the Web, so we might as well do it at the W3C, with the vague hope that we will win some kind of concession from the DRM companies. Also, maybe if we don't, they will take their content off the Web and into some other system (subtext -- we care more about Netflix being on the Web as defined by W3C than we do about the Web as defined by W3C being free and open.
The irony that the second edition of the book is digital only, so can't be used for stoking fires, covering windows, making paper airplanes... etc.

Unpleasant design ?
I've used Gmail since 2004, when they had invites and everyone wanted one. I use Outlook for iOS at work and think it's great, although there's issues getting signatures to transfer when your company uses Sharepoint.

Email is a non issue for most people because most people just use a web browser and a mobile app. For the record, I wasn't impressed with Outlook for the Mac.