skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you support the United States' disengagement from ICANN?
On October 1st, certain antitrust exemptions granted to ICANN under the US Department of Commerce will expire. Subsequently, ICANN will no longer be legally able to administer the root zone while under US jurisdiction, and will seek stewardship under a different government entity willing to provide similar exemptions.

Do you support or oppose this change?

The formal proposal: https://www.ianacg.org/icg-files/documents/IANA-transition-proposal-final.pdf
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Ok, sure, I see what you mean. But I put that under "not using tool correctly so blame tool" category.
This new electric car is designed for a $37 weekly subscription service
I can't see why it would.

It amplifies much of the criticism of JS and the JS ecosystem that I have been presented with.
A secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise
I started using their "Account Key" process, any time I log in on the site from a computer, I get a notification from my Yahoo sports app (iPhone) asking me if I would like to allow the login attempt. I actually like it better than the two-factor auth I use for other accounts. Whether it's more secure or not, I don't know..

EDIT: just for clarification, this replaces the password entirely. So I never enter a password on the site.
How does this compare with DAE, which seems to be the existing standard for this?
iPhone – Difference between RAW and JPEG photos is huge
I fail to understand this. Are you saying that the GPL is not an open source license?
That's not the point I was trying to make.

In America, the coverage provided by Medicaid, Medicare, and private plans under ACA rules, will determine whether to approve or deny a treatment plan based on a number of criteria, which are largely based on a balance between the cost of the treatment versus its likelihood of resulting in additional QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) for the patient. An expensive treatment that's unlikely to help, or even a less-expensive treatment for somebody who's already 90 years old, is likely to be approved. Thus, there are potential treatments that the government will deny.

You're right that in America, emergency acute care is going to be provided in any case. This was true before ACA, and in this context may be seen as one way that the American system, as defective as it might be, is still better in many ways than is commonly admitted. (Source: my wife's job used to be Medicare reimbursement, and now centers on "DSH" payments to hospitals, which is essentially reimbursing hospitals for bad debts from indigent care and stuff like we're discussing in this sub-thread)
Yes, it is assumed that all startups are running in EC2 us-east-1 and "bare metal" is the accepted term for non-virtualized systems.
Does any other country have separate courthouses for the local and federal governments? Courthouses that hear virtually identical cases, but apply different rules of evidence and procedure depending upon in which states the litigants reside? Courthouses that literally cannot be allowed touch each other? There are four or five standard courses at US law schools virtually dedicated to state/fed splits. The American system of divided sovereigns is exceptional. It's weird.
You cannot modify a work so much that the original licence no longer applies, unless you in effect create a new work.
> in true open source fashion, people instead re-create from scratch.

True open source fashion is also the freedom to work on whatever you want.

"Just think about it, if they would have contributed to foo instead of working on bar, then foo would be twice as good!" keeps being thrown around every time someone announces something new around here.
I use Arq https://www.arqbackup.com

Encrypts everything, and manages the revisions. Available for Mac and Windows. I use for Mac.
> S16: 54.7% did not have a recommendation.

This begs the question:
How much weight does a recommendation carry?

Or put in another way:
Should you network with YC alumni in case you ever want to apply?
This should be titled "How to Learn Deep Learning".

"How to get a job in deep learning" would include:

- What specific topics will be asked during interviews

- What the interview question format is like

- How to prepare for the interviews

- How to get interviews without a PhD. What do you need to show competence in your self learned skills?
Is that good? They have poor data handling and sunsetting protocols is what you're saying.

UK law requires that personal data is not kept for longer than is necessary and is securely handled and such. So if those passwords in an "ancient DB" had personal data associated with them (real names, say) then they've been breaking the law (for a long time, is the implication).

Surely if you had passwords in old DBs then when you introduce hashing you salt and hash them and sanitise the DB and all backups ... having them still hanging around is a significant failure too. But yes, not as significant as having plaintext passwords in DBs now would be.
It seems like the receiving ports and their respective authorities should consider creating a process by which the ship can unload and cannot be seized while unloading or prior to leaving the port.
Yes, however, there is no way to connect this to human-friendly categories of meaning, since (1) the method is unsupervised and (2) it might be difficult to impose that sort of supervision on the training, as human semantic meaning is often difficult to encode.
The Why Behind the GitHub GraphQL API
That's actually a pretty neat stat. Most rejections for someone that was accepted in S16 was 7.
I a not web developer, but as programmer who reads news regularly, it is quite horrifying how one company (Google) single handedly make everyone to use one technology.What about standardization?

Am I missing something? Isn't AMP for google? Now days I see every site switching to it.
Formal verification of Amazon's s2n SSL/TLS library
A lot of people suggest moving somewhere less expensive. For banking and other industries where jobs very geo-centric, that just isn't realistic. Beyond that, I think the macro trend we are seeing that is in part causing the huge migration to cities is uncertainty with employment.

The reality is it is easier to get a new job (let alone a good job) in a big metro with lots of businesses than it is in the middle of flyover country. For people burned by lack of employment, gainful employment, or secure employment, having a a couple companies within reasonable commuting distance is seen as a real risk since remote work is hardly common yet.

In those cases, the high costs of city living are seen as the cost of upward mobility and more stable employment. Unfortunately, the net result we've been seeing with housing/rent cost increases, etc. is that this leads to a reduction in overall standard of living compared to say, the Baby Boomers.

Bottom line, younger generations have the deck stacked against them in a lot of ways. Often times it is not "which is the better choice" but "which is the less worse choice."
> Wouldn't it do more to encourage local food production and consumption?

It would, only by making food more expensive -- specifically, by driving up the transportation costs so that the more-expensive-to-produce local food was competitive with less-expensive-to-produce imported food. This might be pleasing to those with an ideological preference that other people should eat locally, but the other effect is increased cost of living for everyone.
It's because we all keep logging in to change our passwords.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into the scrset thing!
There's a difference between paying attention and meddling.
Eddie Antar was an innovator, disrupter, and crook
I think having tighter contracts to keep people from weaselling out of their pre-sale commitment is a Very Good Thing; anyone who makes a such a commitment should be bound to it.

But here in Vancouver there are people who are upset that pre-sales sometimes don't include the general public. There are builders who've restricted pre-sales to friends and families, and this is perceived as 'unfair'; when these units do show up on the market, they'll be more expensive than the pre-sale price (of course! they no longer get the discount and the market rose in the 8 months that it took to finish the project!). I think there are Vancouverites who then assume that this difference is cumulative across the market and that it is the cause rather than the symptom of the ridiculous increase in cost of housing here.
"7, knowledge bases, is particularly concerning on that list. A truly intelligent AI shouldn't require humans to input knowledge about the world into it, it should be able to learn it itself."

Isn't that the point of school?
Having a parameter 'user' doesn't infer what properties are on it. If you're going to document what properties it has you might as well create a type definition for it.

Duck typing (or checking types at runtime) is verbose and forces you to handle type mismatches at runtime. Which means you will probably end up throwing an error anyways when types end up missing the properties you expected.

If your code relies on properties added dynamically that might be useful for you, but god help anyone working with your code.
Customizing Common Lisp's Iterate: Averaging
Flybrix is having a very successful launch today driven by a PR strategy that goes against Steps 2 and 3 of this advice. We hired a great PR firm to manage contacts and we got blanket coverage everywhere because of a press embargo.

I don't think I could have managed this on my own and on the timeline we did it.
The lack of margin on the homepage, highlighted by the 'Take control of your presentations ... ' feels like bad taste, fixing might create a better first impression!
Yeah of course , but we are talking about chrome as browser. I would love to see semiofficial Android runtime for Linux.
I would keep it simple

1. Figure out what the market is for the normal work-week.

2. Scale the work-week until you can afford it.

3. When you can afford more, add more hours.
Their analysis of the impact of recent increases in shipping capacity and the impact on price today is also an interesting read: https://www.flexport.com/blog/why-are-ocean-freight-rates-so...
1st sentence should be:
1. Be a fuckin math whiz.

Had it been, i would have clicked the back button.
I know US media shoves propoganda down your throats, but you realize there are countries in Africa that are SAFER than the US right?
Copyright Loophole Could Undermine Important Consumer Protection Bill
While the thing you're responding to is obviously idiotic it occurs to me that the sanity of the valuation of Yahoo! is not "obvious" at all. It's a result of the application of partially visible heuristics to determine the worth of things like users, views, "talent," and etc, all passed through back-room dealing at the executive level and bargaining behind closed doors.

The reason I bother coming here to say this is that I think the idea that 4.8 billion dollars "makes sense" to an outsider is endemic of thinking that leads to a dangerous lack of regulation. In other words, I'd be careful not to assume that the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing in companies at this scale.
The pre-filled syringes are not FDA approved, according to http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...

(search for Adamis)
I agree, but the typical PR spin tends to be "a sophisticated adversary". It'd look bad to say an attack was state sponsored if you didn't have good reason to believe it, since that's a pretty specific accusation.

My guess is they hired a firm that actually knows security - probably FireEye or Crowdstrike - and their analysts came to that conclusion.
Cool , did they used Wayland? I didn't know that. It is quite fascinating, Wayland finds its actual place in industry.

About API reimplantation, I do remember a little bit, you are correct, the guy in Google talk mentioned it is simultaneous development to Android and they are not using Android underlying technology on top of namespace,etc (Linux syscalls).

I would love to read a blog post about this, and since your poked around in source code you are right person. So please, if you have any spare time, write a blog post.
> JS/Babel ecosystem

I mean, sure. In that when you use typescript you probably don't need/want Babel, as most of the ES6 features you want are part of TS already.

> JS ecosystem integration with JSX/whatever.

Typescript supports both react and non-react JSX natively, so perhaps this isn't a pain point anymore?

Also: you get types. Good types are great.
> Sixty-two percent of millennials have considered starting their own businesses

I call horseshit. "Considered" in the same way as "considered what life would be like if you could fly". There's a giant difference between daydreaming and taking even the first step towards merely investigating what's required to start a business.

> 72 percent think startups are “essential for new innovation and jobs,”

I'd be genuinely surprised if 72% even knew what 'startup' meant, let alone have such a strong opinion of them.

I'd believe the above numbers if the survey was limited to an area which is hyper-aware of startups, like a college in SF or similar.
You can think of the result of a bloom filter as a lossfully compressed index of the question: "Is this in the set?" which has the lossful property of sometimes falsely answering yes.

If you actually have the backing data then it's possible to re-compute a new result which excludes some items. It is also possible to confirm if an answer that was yes is actually in the set.
Well, it is kind of like using the word ketchup to refer to only premium ketchups in some other language. Whenever a person who speaks that language says they enjoy ketchup, you wonder - what are they talking about.

As for artisanal, if there isn't an apprentice program for producing the good, then it probably isn't artisanal. Interestingly, by this definition there are artisanal soy sauces.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557020
Why did you have to simulate pixel level output to sort your polygons, out of curiosity?

I've also written rendering engines for hardware lacking Z-buffers, and our approach was to build a BSP tree of the level, which gets you part of the way to working around no Z buffer, since there's no Z overlap in static polygons after being partitioned, but the downside is you split triangles and increase the triangle count, so it reduces model complexity if the splitting blows your poly budget.

Once you have your BSP cells, you can precompute all the visible cells from any given cell - heh, we too did this on SGI's, but by rendering each cell is a unique color and seeing which colors were visible in an output frame.

Then, within each cell, we'd have six draw orders for triangles, picking whichever was closest to the eye vector. Not pretty, and sometimes this produces quite a bit of overdraw, but it works. I'm guessing your approach minimized overdraw as compared to a heavily pre-computed BSP approach.

Anyhow, thanks for the post, it's fun to read about the the hacks form the early days of graphics hardware.
Special interest groups are organisations that promote a specific interest. I would be shocked if drug companies didn't donate to groups that are critical of the FDA when it is in their interest.
First order of business would be to crack open the champagne
Many hedge funds spent time analyzing the effect on a stock price after breach disclosure. From what I read overall, the only negative effect comes if the breach is repeated over longer period of time in media. But as Elena Kvochko put it, "shareholders are numb to news of data breaches" [0].

[0] https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-data-breaches-dont-hurt-stock-pr...
Care to elaborate on the technical inaccuracies you spotted in the article? I would like to correct them, that's why I'm asking.
And guarding your health, in the first place.

P.S. No one will do it for you. (Not even your parents.)
I think the argument is not "You can't write something maintainable in a dynamic language" - it's more like "Given the majority of projects, static typing would have helped readability".

Since in SDLC maintenance is like 80%, and most of the time code isn't written amazingly, it seems pragmatic to have static typing.

I love Dynamic languages as much as the next guy (Ruby and clojure are pretty great in my book) but in my career, I get my guys to write in statically typed languages.
Yes. There have been several that operate at a level equivalent to state-sponsored actors.

"Corporate adversaries" are pretty much a myth, or are just a black hat group hired by a company.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong in assuming this but it seems a company like AirBnb would only raise private capital instead of going IPO because it's financials suck. I mean if you were doing really well and had profits that you were pumping back into the company you would want to IPO to raise money for lower dilution right? A private round might cause much more dilution than an IPO. Maybe I'm missing something.
Use any templating library that gives "template inheritance" as feature. I use Nunjucks (from Mozilla)
Pure NaCl and pure KCl are easily distinguished by taste. Salts with different mineral contents will have different taste characteristics.

But that's really more for distinguishing pink Himalayan salt from Utah salt, or similar comparisons between other salt deposits from long-gone ancient seabeds. Fresh sea salt all comes from the same ocean, and salt dried from pools on Japanese shores will taste largely the same as salt from the California coast, or from France.

But much like audiophiles, you will get people who will insist they can taste a difference, right up to the point where you do a double-blind comparison and prove that they can't.
Move to an open-source orchestration platform and turn compute into a commodity so you don't feel tied to any particular VM vendor. I recommend Kubernetes, but there's also docker swarm, mesos, Nomad, Rancher, and probably about 100 other options out there, many of them very viable.

In the very near future I really hope to see cloud vendors losing a lot of their business for hosted applications, and just becoming big elastic pools of bytes and FLOPs, with open source orchestration tools managing the consumption of those resources and keeping cognitive overhead low.
Somewhere it's the collapse of the fisheries. Somewhere else it's shuttering of factories. And somewhere else it's consolidation of farming. Basically, it's the same thing: dwindling opportunities in the rural areas, and growth in the cities.
Eh, I guess it was mainly the learning curve and lack of payoff. As mentioned here, I think my project size wasn't big enough for it to show it's usefulness.
> So, what a kilowatt hour of high-grade electric energy can do for you?

According to my car, it lets me drive 4.2 miles at highway speeds.
Quixote: Unit Testing for CSS
In the UK's case, I'd think that you'd see relatively little race-based self-segregation but a lot of class-based; I've always heard that the UK is classist but not very racist, and that non-whites tend to be higher-class than a lot of the locals.
Frankly, the amount of the tax is so tiny, it makes me believe that there is something else afoot.

It won't make any difference at all to the dozen or so billionaires who are looking to buy their Nth house in Vancouver. But it has devastated the detached housing market below $5 million here and that will ultimately put pressure on condos and townhouses. I think the only reason it's working is that TO and Seattle don't have a similar tax; Vancouver has made itself less attractive, but only marginally so.
Moving somewhere less expensive might also be moving to the suburbs. Millennials seem to be very turned off to that idea, but it can significantly reduce cost of living while still being in a desirable city.
I've interacted with ISPC based trading cores, they provide some value but the trading context is frequently not that parallelisable and often the things that ISPC is good at are even better done by custom hardware.

The real challenge is integrating with other systems and changing the code as new requirements come to market, so the kind of work being described is to make the some Java component that must be communicated with fast enough to not have to be rewritten entirely.

In any case, if you have a mix of Java/C++/HPC, can prove it, and enjoy it, there are lots of finance jobs that pay in that relm.
Not that those things would necessarily apply or happen just because the collective solution would go away, but yes - I would actually be fine with that.
I've bought two: a first generation Pixel used, and after two years, a Pixel 2015 directly from Google Play the month they came out.

The browser is so much faster than my desktop, that I tend to use it even when at my desk.

The best part, to me is that, unlike windows, I never need to troubleshoot it. I logged into the 2nd Pixel with my gamil account, and 2 minutes later it was synced, configured just like the previous. That's one of the reasons I bought a new one the second time -- consistency and trouble free use.
My devtools still doesn't show me the unmangled name. The abstraction leaks.

As a practicality, I prefer the naming conventions to the CSS processing pipeline, because it gives me a much better ability to debug and iterate.
I wonder how they are doing valuations? Expedia is worth about 16 billion. They have pretty steady positive cash flow. They have about 16% growth. Airbnb is pretty risky they might have better growth, but they are worth 30 billion?

Priceline is worth about 70B. They make 3B in cash a year. If you are investing at 30B valuation your upside might be 2x, but there is a ton of downside risk.
Big Data: A Novel About Machine Learning
If you read the article carefully, you'll realise that this is not just an optimisation (check for example the sections on colour blending and rendering; those artifacts are gamma calibration independent.)
Batteries have different discharge curves, influenced by many factors such as chemistry, age, etc. Often "packs" of cells are balanced in an attempt to minimize variance. Something tells me your 10kW "wall" may not perform as you expect it to (providing you are actually loading it for real use).
Thanks, I fixed the title. I'm not an English native, so I make a lot of errors like this :-).
We have overcapacity that could lead to the formation of cartels if profit margins remain small.
We need more companies in this game, not less, but with overcapacity, who would like to join?
A company that desperately needs parts stuck on one of these ships is only going to have at most, a handful of containers onboard. Those containers might be worth several million but then that one company would be shouldering 100% of the unloading costs for a negligible portion of the ship's cargo. Nobody wants to be the party that blinks first as the longer they wait, the greater the likelihood of another party paying those fees becomes.

It's in every party's best interest to get these ships docked and unloaded but no single party will own more than a fraction of the total cargo. Cooperation is possible but it will take months for hundreds of primary owners to come to an agreement. Before that happens, each one of those primary owners will need to come to agreements on cost-sharing with all the party's downstream from them in the supply chain first.

It's the very definition of "tragedy of the commons" played out in private enterprise.
You could go with Dokku and host it on a $5 Digital Ocean instance.

Almost the same features plus you can install a Let's Encrypt plugin to handle SSL for free.
Main difference is that you can't scale up - doesn't have that whole dynos thing.

https://github.com/dokku/dokku
It's not an emulator, but rather integrated directly into the chrome OS, like the previous "android runtime for chrome" (aka ARC) was.