skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fentanyl is coming from China and other places. The main problem is the users not knowing what they are getting and dose exchanges, not the opioid itself. The DEA and people using addicts to make money instead of treating as a healthcare problem is what is causing this.
The Top 20 500 Startups Batch 17 Startups – Sorted by the Growth Score
>Apple is rendering the gun symbol as a gun. That's very different from rendering the letter "a" as the letter "g", which are distinct symbols.

It's actually referred to as "REVOLVER".

If they replaced the car emoji with a helicopter, would you defend that since they represented a vehicle symbol with a vehicle?

A water gun and a revolver are about as different as a sedan and a helicopter...
If you consider a novel a work of art, then creating it is an act of artistic creation that has some intrinsic value. There is a benefit to expressing yourself carefully, to telling a story that says something about the world that you think needs to be said. Those outcomes are "significant" even if the novel has a small audience.
I am of the mindset that risk profile is entirely a subjective concept when it comes to what actual living people do in the real world. What a person knows about their situation or for that matter, someone else's, is the only real factor in how they perceive their risk and their ability to confront said risk. This is to say, there is no real variation between the risk an employee takes and the risk his/her employer takes.

In cases where employee ends up dependent on their employer, knowledge and experience of their job market would have prevented them from falling into this "trap", and also help them to escape it.

Likewise, employers (the shrewd ones at least, which our contemporary world tends to worship for good or bad) often don't actually take on real risk. We have witnessed many cases where companies have capitalized on profits, but chosen to socialize losses, bankruptcy or even worse, internal misconduct. This is in addition to the veil which usually shelters real corporate decision makers from risk.

This is not to say that risk analysis does not matter, but to emphasize its inherent subjectivity, and that the perception of risk can be varied through greater knowledge of one's situation.
The IE process has run in protected mode since IE7. In 10 they introduced enhanced protection mode and AppContainer sandboxing.

The multiprocess architecture in IE8 isn't an isolation layer as the browser can and does frequently render multiple tabs under the same process. It's not uncommon to hear reports of 40 processes for 2 tabs or 40 tabs for 2 processes.
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There is - Sonic. Sonic is a dumb pipe company. No middle boxes, just bits. Sonic fiber is deployed in Santa Rosa and is slowly moving into San Francisco, but their management doesn't want to go into heavy debt, so it's slow. You can also get Sonic in many areas of California, but it's over leased AT&T lines.

The CEO of Sonic says that being a fiber provider is profitable without any additional services, and that their wholesale cost for upstream bandwidth keeps dropping.
Can you elaborate a bit on how the hashing and chunking works?
There's a rolling hash for determining chunk boundaries, and also SHA-512/256 somewhere.

Does the same data chunked differently have a different hash?
Why is this better than Learn You a Haskell for Great Good?
In my experience doing a heroic amount of opioids was enough to not care, uppers mixed in as anti-nod.

I didn't understand why people mixed in benzos, unless to curb withdrawals.
World's first fantasy stock market app?
Interesting.

Google Docs seems to cover most of this already, and is free.

The fact that a for-pay competitor to Google Docs (adding in in-context chat and everywhere-tagging) is finding success, is very interesting.

I wonder if there's a market for an end to end encrypted collab tool... all I could find was https://www.crypho.com/ which seems fairly basic.
Your answer also shows a common misunderstanding about economics, because it takes too narrow a focus.

If there exist jobs that produce $1MM in value but that have a going rate of 200k, then there should be more of those jobs: either the company doing the work should expand, or it should have competitors. This will lead to increased competition to hire, which means higher wages. The increased number of jobs might generate downward pressure on the value produced by those jobs (since the output is now less scarce), and the increase in salary should increase the number of people who want to work in the field (which would dampen the salary increase), but we should ultimately reach some sort of equilibrium. The fact that tech companies bemoan how hard it is to find employees suggests that we aren't at this equilibrium.

To give an analogy, your explanation is akin to when people observe that the price of a good is based on the competitive market, and that the cost to produce merely provides (in most cases) a floor to that price. However, that's only part of the story: in a well functioning market large spreads between cost to produce and price encourages competitors to enter the space, which leads to lower prices. There may be delays, and there may be exceptions, but generally the function of competition is to reduce these spreads. Likewise, we should expect competition to reduce the spreads between job value and job salary, generally by increasing salaries and lowering values.
The blue + yellow = green is in subtractive mixing so it doesn't directly apply here, but taking red + green = yellow from additive mixing, there are two different things that could happen:

* you can have a red light and a green light both shining together (like on your computer screen)

* you can have a pure yellow light (like from a yellow laser, or the yellow part of a rainbow)

These are physically different, as could be detected by a spectroscope. But for a normal trichromat human, perceiving either produces the same color sensation and we can't distinguish them using our eyes (because the excitation of the cones produced by either is roughly equivalent). (I should add that there can be still other combinations of wavelengths which, when they occur together at the same time, we would perceive as the same yellow.)

If you add more cones, you could hope to distinguish these physically different phenomena, and have them somehow produce different sensations. However, we also apparently can't describe what those sensations would be like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument#Thought_exp...
But at least in the UK it's normal for job ads to include a salary range.
Serious question: what is it like being on an engineering team like this? Where the explicit objective is to clone a competitor head-to-toe. Does it impact morale? Can you recruit great people to such teams?

(Note, I get that nothing is completely original out there, and that there are a few differences between this and Snapchat.)
Did they ignore NSFW categories?
Are you sure that it's not anyways, because of lagginess (i.e. did you try the new release)?

The addition of e10s has also majorly improved scrolling performance (through the implementation of Asynchronous Panning and Zooming [0]), which I've personally found to be exactly that, it felt weird beforehand, but I couldn't have told you what was wrong exactly...

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/02/smoother-scrolling-in-fire...
> It would be great if there was a major telco that was excited about being dumb pipe and just crushing the others.

The return of Ma Bell?
Markdown, vim and git, plus spreadsheets for notes and The Plan (list of scenes, etc). Wrote some scripts that use pandoc to take the markdown files and generate both epub files for the Kindle version and OpenOffice files that I later save as PDF for the print version.

I should write an article about my workflow. From Markdown to Amazon using 100% open source :)
Don't put "No rem0te" in the description if you don't allow that arrangement. Simply say "onsite" as per the instructions at the top.
Most founders (at least in the software area) provide a lot of sweat equity, but almost never any cash.

Also, early startup employees are persuaded to accept below-market salaries and work a lot of overtime, exactly like the founders, without the upside ( rarely more than 1% of the company).
The specific claim I'm making is that Rust has language (in the form of making it the default in `for` loops) and library (in the form of the `Iterator` trait) support for this pattern.

Further, Rust's monomorphizing approach to generics means that you can count on efficient code. Iterators over a slice typically elide the bounds checking, reliably.

Of course you can use these patterns in other languages, but you lose something, specifically, clarity and safety. I believe that's the reason you see them used all the time in Rust and rarely in C and C++.
The indexing itself is great - I use Everything [1] heavily.

The client on the other hand? It's baaad.

[1] http://www.voidtools.com/
I used Linux on the desktop for years. I ultimately switched to Macintosh because I was sick of battling my operating system to fulfill basic consumer needs. To be fair, this was five years ago, and I'm sure that Linux has made usability strides since then. But it's hard for me to believe that the ethos of Linux -- a platform by developers, for developers, that is additionally hindered by the FOSS orthodoxy of certain camps -- has been fundamentally altered in that time.
It was not two seconds, it was two minutes (in the response.)

The car starts to alert you by beeping when it doesn't detect hands for a few minutes and displays a message on the dash to grab the wheel. It does this a few times (every ~10 seconds I think) after which if there are still no hands on the wheel, it starts to slow down and come to a complete stop.

In this case, it looks like the driver disabled Autosteer by abruptly tugging on the steering wheel after two alerts.
VMware: We're gonna patent hot-swapping your VMs' host OS
A tech cooperative is a kind of structure that should be more popular, I agree.
This is an interesting question. As much more of a Haskeller than an MLer I don't tend to feel the "need" to structure my programs explicitly modularly, and when I do I sort of instinctively use a combination of typeclasses and polymorphic higher-order functions to do so.

More basically, just think "everywhere I would open a module, instead I can take a parameterized record of functions" (and furthermore, if a datatype uniquely determines that record, I can associate a typeclass to that datatype). There are limitations to this, but in fewer circumstances than you'd think -- mainly about sort of cross-modularity (aka the expression problem).

There was a very nice discussion on lennart's blog about this in 2008, with a problem posed and some partial solutions (read bottom post to top):

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
No one mentions that this isn't officially implemented until 2018. Don't go into interviews expecting this to be law, and definitely use the strategies that other users have pointed out.
While there is no such thing, what immediately comes to mind is Hurricane Electric (he.net).

They're a big, big network and getting bigger all the time and they run their business just like I like to run mine: provide simple, boring services that just work.[1]

They are the best dumb pipes around.

[1] rsync.net uses he.net in Fremont, Denver and Hong Kong and Oh By (0x.co) uses he.net in Fremont.
Advanced civilizations with a constructive proof that P=NP don't need all that much compute power.
Might this be unconstitutional under the first amendment?
That's a great point - and really does describe the situation for many of us. However, that doesn't imply we should head down the regulatory path - because once we do, we can't come back (at least history indicates this).
> most people are horribly risk-adverse

Free market socialism (i.e. a large UBI + single payer healthcare + low regulation) would largely mitigate that risk aversion, especially when combined with low levels of personal debt, since if you fail you can always count on decent healthcare and the UBI check.
Retrieving table data from Postgres function with Elixir and Ecto
I'm surprised you didn't use a functional language like Haskell or OCaml or Rust to do this, since the article talks about love for functional programming.

I'm not criticizing Go at all, it's just not really a functional language.
It is hard to get true data, when the only supposedly creditable source (CDC), mixes its data to include all prescription drugs including SSRI's and illicit fentanyl from china.

Opioids can be used in VERY high doses as a person becomes more dependent. What is clear is that people are use to heroin and then take the higher dose without knowing and OD. This is the current trend. It is cheaper to get the Fent from Ch than the H from Afgan.
Revolución.

It can be pretty demoralizing when you look at it from that perspective. We really need to have a conversation that even though passion is important and great for quality of life, it can hide real systemic problems and inequities
Glassdoor skews heavily downwards. Even for companies I've worked at, where I knew what everyone made, its data was roughly 25-40% below reality.

Also, why look at median salary? We're arguing over whether it's "possible" to become affluent as a mere employee—even if only the top 20% of engineers are capable of it, it's certainly possible.
Same way git does?
In Python you don't use getters or setters or properties just for the fun of it
This probably works pretty well for continuing to preserve the artifacts. Our ability to gain knowledge from them will only increase over time.
> this idea is a hundreds years old

It was the plot of the Mad Max remake, too.
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My local electric, gas, and water company provide great service. Their stuff Just Works, it's cheap, and on the very rare occasions I have to interact with them, they handle it well. I'd have no qualms signing up for internet service from any of them, if somehow they offered it.

To be fair, Verizon is pretty good to me as well, but that's probably because I'm paying $$$ for a high-end business account.
The new Chrome DevTools Application panel has landed in Stable
I have it, too. It's worse when I didn't get enough sleep (which is most of the time).
This is the thread you should post in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202867
Briefly, there are two main hash functions in use in noms.

sha-2 is used to compute the hash of individual chunks. This is the classic use of hashing in content-addressed systems.

We also use a rolling hash to compute chunk boundaries. We do this in the typical way that tools like bup, camlistore, rsync, and others do for large files.

But our observation was that if you squint your eyes, a merkle tree looks a little like a b-tree. So we use a rolling hash to break up huge lists, maps, and sets into trees where nodes are roughly 4KB. So it's a kind of self-balancing, probabilistic, deterministic b-tree thing.
Irresponsible coding follows naturally from irresponsible management.
1. Ants are not, technically, apes.

2. Ant biomass is about the same as human biomass on Earth.

3. Typical human mass is 60kg, typical ant mass is 3mg.

4. Do the math.
While this is a good suggestion, shouldn't this have its own thread? This is "Show HN" - a chance to startup owners to shine. Such a post steals their momentum...
This study comes up time and again but is really not founded very well. I couple of members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs - whatever exactly that is - sat together and scored a selection of drugs on a selected set of criteria. That's it, there is really no data behind this study other than the opinions of those people. Those opinions might be correct but they may as well be biased or even totally wrong.
I always thought King's writing could stand to be edited down (a lot). But I feel that about most genre fiction. I find it stifling as a reader especially when characters thoughts and emotions are over described. Usually a simple detail about their appearance, their manner, or similar is sufficient to clue me into what's going on inside. And the uncovering of those clues makes for a much more enjoyable reading experience.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallofhair/138454683/in/photol...
Minitel was a completely separate system. iPhones have a walled garden for apps, but they interoperate just fine with the rest of the world. My iPhone can call or text anybody with a phone number, and it browses the same web as everybody else.
Heh--go all the way!
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/466362/Blend-PDF-with-HT...
I started off with a really low salary because I was working as a developer outside the SF bay area and in an industry that paid really low. Then moved to the bay area. Every company or recruiter tries to place you at maybe 5% to 10% more than your current job.

There was a time when I was just hopping from job to job to increase my salary. If there wasn't this convention of paying someone the same I wouldn't have switched so many jobs. There are plenty of places I wanted to stick around but got a much higher offer somewhere else so I pretty much had to switch.

My salary is more than 400% what it was 10 years ago. I feel that I have finally reached market value and have a salary I am happy with. It would have been nice if it was based on supply / demand and how well I interviewed.

That being said, I'm not sure I agree with this law. I like the outcome but not the implementation.

Having a law that says you can't ask someone something seems to violate Freedom of Speech and it sets a dangerous precedent.
We never chunk the same data differently. An inviolable rule of Noms is that the same logical value is always chunked the same way and always has the same hash.

If I start with integers 1-1000000 and you start with integers 0-999999, and we both make mutations to converge at the same list, we will end up with the exact same tree, with the exact same hashes.

This is what makes efficient synchronization and diff of noms data possible.
It takes 4-6 years to break even after what part of the investment? A USA size national network will take +20 years to implement - to say 95%, more like 30 years for 100% When does the money start rolling in (7 years for 50%, 10 years for 75%, 15 years for 90% - numbers just for fun, but you get my point).

All the sum's I've ever seen (or done) end with 20 year+ paybacks, followed by lots and lots of money.

This breeds real shareholder fear - everyone who ever built this kind of network (rail, phones...) was either the government or went bust and then watched someone else (banks) cash in on the distressed asset at 0 risk.

So - agree, the red tape is a big issue.

But while modern organisations and investment structures can do 50 years of work for you, the capital is an issue. It can, and will, be done, but it will be quite some doing.
Was this comment supposed to go in the "Non-passionate developer" [1] thread?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12207970
>Electric and gas utilities aren't expected to drastically improve performance year over year

There's a reason for that. We have enough electricity to power our things. We have enough gas pressure to create a flame. Delivery, price, performance, etc are all pretty good. They're solved problems.

Not too long ago Edison was running filthy coal plants in downtown city centers and running thick-gauge DC wires to businesses. That's where we are today with the mish-mash of cable and copper for last-mile internet. Half-assed, but profitable, efforts by players incentivized by the wrong things.

The last mile problem is largely solved via municipal fiber. The real question is do we have the political will to socialize/monopolize these things like we did in the past. It seems that we don't. We have the innovations and we know how to fix this. Its getting there politically that is the problem.
> I'm really at a loss as to seeing any reply to you that I've made that is insulting, silly, or ad hominem

I say this with kindness: then you don't understand that you're doing it. That's ok... but you are.
Ohio Urology Hacked, 520K Files, 156GB Leaked – RansomWare Files Found
Does this sort of information get revealed in background checks for previous places of employment or is that a privacy thing?

Also is it really necessary for a state to dictate such things? Is it too much pressure for someone to respectfully decline to answer such a question and practice some negotiation skills? What exactly is the state's interest in this sort of thing precisely?
Why limit yourself to spending 140 billion of other people's money? Go a little nuts, spend it all. You won't know the difference!
Installing the latest Node.js on Ubuntu via nvm
This is not the reason why churches are lobbying against the law though.
Tech trivia: This was written by the inimitable industry veteran Jean-Louis Gassée, former top exec at Apple, founder of BeOS, chairman of PalmSource.

Some of his attributed quotes are real gems: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e

I would love to have some wine with this guy and talk tech!
Real objects are processes.

Alan Kay has had many opportunities to specify precisely what he means by objects and messages, and based on reading his more recent (or less old) VRI papers, Kay draws inspiration for objects from biology, where swarms of molecules pattern match against the partially constructed molecule and build it up step by step. I've seen him give an example in only one paper.

Needless to say this is not how Smalltalk works.
Unions typically only exist when there is a huge supply chasing fewer jobs.

With tech it's the other way around.
The numbers I have seen look like this: Return on invested capital is ~7-12% across successful internet companies. Borrowing costs are in the range of 3.5-4%. That's an invitation to print money which some small company's are doing though masked by growth.

Note, returns very a lot by company the industry average is ~6%, but that includes a lot of poorly run lemons.

Also, there was a huge bubble that put in a lot of dark fiber, but that glut has passed.

PS: Yes, those returns look low compared to say MS. But, software company's have larger issues borrowing money at very low rates.
What works of Nietzsche did you read that idealised immortality? The concept of eternal recurrence is almost opposite to the concept of immortality.