skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your answer. In large part what you have said is what I have done in the past. The question/issue is can this ever be automated or made easier with out reliance on expensive PaaS services?

Right now it seems the easy answer in general is... just monitor and deal with shit but that gets old fast. Particularly if you find out you were wrong in some architecture assumption it can become very expensive to change. These things should be foreseen but due to time, resources and economic dynamics they are not.

In large part this is why there has been so much success with PaaS... let someone else figure out how to scale but again these services lock you in and generally are expensive (in terms of scale).

You would think that such a closed system where you can tinker and adjust a few settings (eg thread pools, timers, etc) would be an easy problem for machine learning but I have yet to see many companies employ techniques like these for scaling.
We also are growing https://www.kaggle.com/datasets, which won't necessarily have clean data, clear problem statements, and a well-defined task.
Poor man baby.
I'm skeptical this is true. Is there any documentation or other evidence for this?
They're going to be sued regardless of what they do, so they might as well nudge people in the direction they want.
These days people prefer to live either in suburbia in Mediterranean climate or in old capitals (think Paris and London). That's a definite trend - we no longer have colonization of new spaces, we instead have consolidation in known good places.

One can perhaps start a commune in a forest or on an island even today, with handpicked people, but it doesn't happen.

Wanting to flee from Earth with all its problems is understandable, but I fear that we'll repeat a lot of bad stuff in habitats. Think totalitarian cults, slavery, plain old totalitarism.
Is the Jet.com sale a win for investors, execs, and Walmart?
> They'll just be more trim levels to work around the copyright.

Which is why there are judges and court cases to decide if design patents are infringed, otherwise we'd have machines that simply compare pictures. If your desk is exactly the same as the original bar a few trim levels, a judge will likely find you're infringing.

> So this kind of thing could theoretically impact small craftsmen not just Chinese factories.

That's entirely possible, but not a new phenomenon. Can small craftsmen make and sell statues of Han Solo without infringing Disney's copyright?
Oddly while it's closer I think it takes more energy to get to Venus then Mars. Something to do with orbital dynamics revolving around the relative speeds of Earth and the place you're trying to get to. That said the Venus exploration concepts I've seen look really interesting.
I live in one of those unserved rural areas. Both AT&T and Comcast refuse to run a wire another mile down the road, and since they are the duopoly, tough luck. Fortunately we have a local wireless ISP and I get 12Mbps via a 2.4GHz radio link. It's nowhere near as good as wired, but I'm grateful. Another local ISP is working on laying fiber with federal grants but it will take many years.

The best analysis I've ever read on why US broadband sucks comes from the CEO of Sonic, a Bay Area independent ISP which is awesome. tl;dr: Michael Powell sold Americans out on false promises of 5 different media for broadband. Turns out only 2 really work.

https://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/09/02/americas-intentional-b...
Anyone I know, I usually refer to them as a "friend" in conversation, whether they are or not. The word "friend" does not mean much to me, considering I'm invariably stabbed in the back if someone becomes "good friends."
How is search compared to Gmail? I would expect Google to implement a better search.
Funnily enough, Walmart Labs was the result of an acquisition.
https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
In this forum, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Misleading title. The author makes the argument that UBI would trade off with other vital social services and that's bad. It's fine to point this out as a risk of UBI adoption, but it certainly isn't an argument for why UBI is inherently bad. Plenty of people would be happy to see UBI co-existing with long standing social benefits.
"the mobile web interface is actually good"

This is true of their interface as a whole. I keep it pinned as my first tab and avoid using a native mail client at all. It barely uses any memory or cpu, is always responsive, and has never crashed on me in 2 years of constant usage.

It's an amazing product and I'm always happy to see people leaving GMail for it.
I am not OP, but I've been studying French for 7 years in school before I read Monte Cristo in French, and it was still a very challenging read - to the point of being more work than pleasure. It is full of old grammatical forms and full of passé simple, much harder to read than contemporary novels let alone Le Petit Prince.
Which was my point. There are at least two different uses for the words, and they are more relevant to some people than others. Neither is 'incorrect'.
Nevermind, bash on windows sucks for Emacs. The very first thing I tried to do was set a mark (c-space) and it doesn't work. Maybe there's a workaround but it's just not worth the effort. I'll get myself 100% on Linux one of these days :/
This is specifically untrue in regards to parallels to Edward VIII; there the issue was that Wallis Simpson was divorced with ex-husbands still living, which at the time, the Church of England did not allow. Charles remarried long after Diana had died, and so is not subject to this restriction.

I'm not intimately familiar with British law, and there may be other reasons why his divorce would make him ineligible, but it would not be for the same reasons that Edward was considered controversial.

Also, as regards Henry VIII and divorce, apparently he used the power of the newly created Church of England to annul his marriages, rather than actually get divorced.
> A vote for for one of the non-big two is unfortunately equivalent to not voting at all.

That attitude is exactly why.
I have been upset by how quickly many people have concluded that the problem in San Francisco (et al) is something something supply/demand and not about speculation, and that the solution is to open up zoning laws and allow new development.

The existence of enormous wealth inequality means a few billionaires can easily scoop up all the available property on the market in San Francisco, and thus the housing price is extremely vulnerable to speculation. Since land is the most valuable thing you can own, and thus the most lucrative thing to speculate on, I am sure this is happening.

Here http://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/schularick_fig1.png is a figure from a recent paper showing a dramatic rise in the price of housing since 2000. The authors of this paper again conclude that something about movement or building or zoning needs to change.

I disagree. To me it is obvious that this shift after 2000 is the result of speculation. Specifically, we know that the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 opened up a vast new derivatives market in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. This market contributed to a series of enormous bubbles and speculative bursts - e.g. the energy market speculation that Enron caused, and later the housing bubble that destroyed the global economy, still ongoing.

It seems obvious to me that the sudden and dramatic rise in land price is at least partially, and probably mostly, related mostly to derivatives and speculation. We didn't change much since 2008 - it stands to reason this would still be ongoing.

It is also my belief that the recent push to "build build build" and "rezone" in SF is a result of this speculative putsch, which wants new and valuable property in SF to make good on the bubble of speculation.

Since this bubble is driven by billionaires in tight markets (not poor people being given fraudulent mortgages nationwide), it's probably harder to see and pop. But I really, really wish people were paying attention to this more. We haven't learned the lesson of 2008 - things have changed, and not for the better.
I live in a rural area and have fiber to the home from our electric co-op. It's amazing: $99 symmetric gigabit and rock solid service.

On the other hand AT&T is the phone provider here and selling DSL is the least of their worries. One of my clients (a block from the phone switch office) needed DSL as a backup to their fiber connection and AT&T can't provide it because their "equipment is already full". As I see it that's the damage of a monopoly; luckily for us we have proactive co-ops that can compete on projects of that size or we'd have no wired internet.
Three percent shall be the number thou shalt grow, and the number of the growing shall be three. Four shalt thou not grow, neither grow thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
I really hope Walmart doesn't scrap the Jet Anywhere cash back program [0].

It seems not well known and somewhat controversial, but offers generous rates higher than everywhere else. For example, 4.8% from Expedia, 5.6% from Orbitz. Unlike every other cash back program they do not cap the amount for flights.

JetCash is effectively real cash because many items are available cheaper than even from Walmart, Amazon, or Costco. Presumably Jet was taking a loss on those transactions in the short term. It really has been my favorite cash back program ever.

[0]: https://jet.com/anywhere
Fifty years? I think 10 is more than enough. Maybe 15.
These kinds of exceptions/clauses/preferences are exactly why people need to think twice before sacrificing their life over stock options. The process is not transparent enough, and even doing some due diligence to try to ensure you're not getting shafted often results in you still getting the shaft. Unless you're dropping major coin as an investor who can dictate terms, all stock options should come with a huge bucket of complimentary salt.

It is pretty gross when founders/management try to incentivize burnout with false promises, while banking a nice payday at the end of the rainbow for themselves.
E-mail is a solved problem. I run my own e-mail servers and I love it. It's a beautiful decentralized and distributed system. Every time self-hosting e-mail is brought up many ppl say they have problems with the big players, but that is not my experience at all.
Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale
Some caution and some action gets us where we are.
Followup about Code Fellows and programming bootcamps
HyVee (Midwest), is free for orders over a $100. Everyone I know without a family just ordered $101.
One of the stupidest things our government did (in my mind) was to introduce the accelerated moratorium of nuclear power (this wasn't planned at first but put into place after Fukushima, except that nuclear power station was built at the coast in an earthquake area, something the middle of Europe is not exactly known for). The short term demand will just be met with coal and a bit of renewables (which might have no local greenhouse gas emissions, but are still dirty to produce/consume rare earths). Oh, and there are lawsuits worth hundreds of millions of euros ([1] says there are estimated damages in double-digit billions of euros overall) in denied profits going on.

I'm really just waiting for fusion power to become viable and solve all of our earthly power consumption problems once and for all...

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/akw-betreiber-m...
Github has a nice web interface for directly editing files and creating Git commits from them (and Pull Requests), which is why I like to stick to the GH Pages flavor of Jekyll. It's nice having the option for a web interface for quick edits and the editor of my choice for long form posts. The Github website is the only reason I use Jekyll over many of the more recent alternatives like Middleman/Hugo/et al.
I knew this was their plan as soon as they pivoted away from the "club" business model.

Damn shame, I was hoping to maybe apply there at some point.
The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle
My brother is a real estate agent in Vancouver. He is really upset at this law because precisely this. He predicted before the law passed that the ones who will suffer most from this tax will surely be honest immigrants. He says that the law doesn't close the right holes to protect the right people, and it certainly doesn't deal with the supply-side issues, only the demand-side.
Intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more
2 that I've given and reread myself a few times would be:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
> There is absolutely no reason to do that using hardware. Build an online portal where users can upload images and then check them yourself before offering them as background choices.

Doesn't that just move the threat surface? Now instead of having to convince end users to put something on a USB stick, you have to try a password dump against your interface.
It's pretty revealing that almost everyone in the world would far prefer to live in the red countries.
Curious what y'all think of Protonmail? I've been using their service partially (just within family and a few friends).

They lack two big (features/caveats?) as of now.

(1) searching for a text within the body of the email is not available (They can't read my email kinda thing.) and

(2) Inline images don't work - pretty bad flaw.

I do like :

(1) Simple and Fast UI for web app, and iOS App.

(2) Knowing that I'm supporting folks that care about privacy and freedom. They do open source some of their stuff and are now the maintainers of openpgp.

https://protonmail.com
Hey this is awesome! I'm a little confused about the NatGeo copyright; aren't these USGS maps and therefore not copyrighted?

If you want an online map, MapZen recently produced a really excellent outdoor map style. No contours, but really beautiful relief shading and an emphasis on hiking trails, parks, etc. It's based on open data including OpenStreetmap, SRTM, and a lot of other sources. https://mapzen.com/blog/walkabout/
No offense, but your standpoint sounds like the naive one. You'll miss out on a lot of good talent if you are only hiring from a pool of people that are pre-specialized.

For any position below senior engineer or tech lead, I couldn't imagine putting much stock at all in competency in any specific tech stack. Hiring quick learners helps you hedge your risk if you ever need to pivot (scale, platform swap, etc).
What problems does she have with the web interface?

For example one thing I like in FastMail is that in the message list you can finger swipe an item to the left for Delete and to the right for Archive. In Gmail doing that is not accompanied by a drag, so it isn't intuitive and you can only Archive, but not Delete. I like my Inbox to be clean and I prefer to delete junk, no reason to pollute my archive with nonsense. And when viewing a message, FastMail's UI also has arrows for jumping to the next message, which I like.

Another thing that bothers me in Gmail is the message details. In FastMail's UI you get more details.

And also, Gmail's mobile UI has virtually no preferences you can adjust and you have to switch to the desktop version for it, whereas FastMail's mobile UI has most settings in the desktop version.
Phalcon – a ‘no compromises’ framework
That is rather silly, kind of like being a Texas International Diplomat or something.
4ns is only 250MHz. That's pretty much DC nowadays ;)
Pretty sure there are laws against this. But then, it was widely reported that the old 'TV detection equipment' was bullshit, so I suspect this will be too.
> this change will prevent makers from using 3D printing to produce furniture

Surely that's (part of) the intent of the change?
Heating might be a concern. Also the speed of electricity means that density would be a concern depending on how large your memory array is.
Yes and I hear the DNC has changed ownership as well.
Completely feel you... I'm in the completely same situation. My main language in the past three years is generally Java, but I worked in Node.js, actively working in Scala (Play, Akka and the bunch) and now I'm taking a bit of Python in a side project. I generally like to work with different databases so switching is not that huge to me, as databases go.

But yet I feel left out. I see every day things about Elixir, D, Clojure, all kinds of different databases, front-end stuff coming up (although I'm purely back-end big-data/analytics/database guy), and it's anxious. I also have a soft-spot for IoT stuff. The thing is not helped when reading articles and comments that say you should touch as many paradigms as you can, learning a language each month, reading a book each week and so on. And if you don't you manage your time badly and you sleep too much. I'm not saying I don't invest into myself, I take webinars often and my Kindle is always by my hand, but jeez sometimes it's overwhelming.
If they were taking a loss on those items, isn't it practically a guarantee that they were doing that with VC money in order to grow their customer base either to build a sustainable business later or make them a more attractive acquisition target? Either way, I wouldn't expect it to continue. Not even after a normal acquisition, and certainly not from WalMart. WalMart (in)famously pinches every penny; they don't sustain money-losers.
The short answer is that it's very hard to know as Jet was a fairly unusual company. They raised (and spent) a tremendous amount of capital and it's not generally known what terms those raises were done on.

If the terms were favorable (standard preferred stock) the employees likely made several billion dollars (in aggregate) on the deal. If the terms were not favorable the employees could have made relatively little. You'll note that some other people in this thread are assuming various liquidation preferences just to validate their priors (employees always get screwed) with no real evidence to support their claims.

One way to look at it however is to consider the question "What is Walmart buying in this deal?" From my perspective they're not really buying a pile of code or a customer base or a brand name (none of that seems this valuable). What they are really buying is an energized and engaged team working until the leadership of a reportedly excellent CEO. They hope that this team will do a lot to help Walmart to capture a larger share of the future of e-commerce (where Amazon is clearly kicking their ass at the moment). So if a lot of the asset Walmart is buying is the people then it would't be an effective purchase if most of those people got screwed as part of the sale. This is just speculation on my part but I think it makes logical sense.
And yet, MSI is the official package manager format. Saying that you prefer shipping your product with a InnoSetup or NSIS installer is akin to saying that you prefer self extracting shell scripts to .deb or .rpm packages under Linux.

Aside of the (slightly) transactional support, MSIs also allow for easy centralised deployment and because correctly authored MSIs are declarative only, an admin can potentially audit the installation process before running it.

Finally, when you kill dpkg or rpm at the right time, you will have an equally non-working install under your Linux distro as you will have a non-working install of your MSI file when you kill msiexec at the right time.

Don't get me wrong. I agree with you that MSI is suffering from overengineering and I agree that the UI is really messy, especially with regards to updates, but instead of trying to find different, less standardized installers, we should invest in better tooling (compared to WiX) and maybe tell Microsoft what we need changed.
> For a company that needs hundreds of millions of dollars and is trying to beat Amazon? Let's say 3x.

Jet.com raised its A, A1, B1 and B2 with 1x liquidation preferences. Common will get a pay-out.

Since all of Jet's preferred stock is non-participating, their holders will probably receive a dividend, convert to common and then participate alongside everyone else. (All Jet preferred stockholders get an 8% dividend except A1, who got a flat 48¢ per share, so that's a bonus $45 or so million to preferred.)
> It's really eye opening to see all the copies plainly represented in code and the lifetime checker is really good about highlighting where you should be making a copy vs sharing a reference.

From a Rust POV (a useful one, even if you're using a higher-level language), when you use a garbage collector, technically everything is owned by the garbage collector, and merely borrowed by you. That's why in most languages you can get away with making shallow copies everywhere, even when Rust would tell you that a `.clone()` is in order.
I was going to post the same thing. I found it interesting that the parent comment thought that quote was one of the highlights of the article. To me the quote is far too vague to be converted into anything executable.

My impression is that he means something like identifying a part of the codebase that anytime a story requires working in it, it sucks. I remember we had some old UI object written in some arcane javascript and everyone felt like dying when they had to work in it. But in my experience, the pointing process naturally included that as a consideration. I believe my brain already processes that algebra of complexity in it's native operations when I estimate a point value. I'm not sure that attempting to materialize this "algebra" into some system of equations would be very helpful.
Apple Buys a Machine-Learning Startup for a Reported $200M
Meet the VC going after the $2.5 trillion market most investors are ignoring
Sending robots to Mars is hardly "no action".
Hulu will soon ends its free streaming options
Of course not, it will be a very large novelty check. /s

But why cash or at least 100% cash? Just seems weird to me that at least some of it wasn't in stock. Is it because Jet was still private, so any stock in the deal would have been immediately liquidated by the VCs?
>UBI is quite literally the opposite of capitalism. It is a form of socialism, so saying it makes 'all forms of socialism obsolete' is a very strange thing to say.

I couldn't agree more. What I see here is an attempt to not so subtly sneak egalitarianism into the right and create confusion.

The question that must always be asked when such initiatives are proposed is, who will pay for it? Often this question reveals that it is always the case that you'll be forcefully acquiring from a producer and giving to a non-producer.
Can't you use something like a Raspberry Pi for that?
And the average daily highs for Detroit in December, January, February are still higher than Stockholm
> Investor liquidation preference guarantees investors get their money back 1x or 2x or 3x or whatever (assuming they don't lose all of it).

I haven't looked into the walmart/jet deal but one hangup on this assumption is very often the entity purchasing was the entity that invested initially in the first place (directly or indirectly).

That is they are just moving money around and buying something they already own (either directly or indirectly and in some cases very very indirectly).
A move by local government to drum up votes for upcoming election.

Make it look like we doing something, at the same time raising additional budget with the tax surplus.

I think it's too little very late.

15%tax on illicit funds is just cost of doing business ( with says around it too).

Quote from a localasian realtor to me: "now my client can't buy the 9million dollar house he wanted for investment cause of tax." in one scenario
I meant potential zealotry: Catholics seem to be quite peaceful nowadays, but my opinion is that this is a temporary state of affairs.

Religions are totalitarian, since they are the holders of the One Truth.
There's a lot of countries where financial motivation to become a doctor is far lower, yet people keep doing it. Don't assume your own drives are shared by others to the same extent.
The Immortal Life of the Enron Emails