skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2M stars in 3D with three.js and WebTorrent
Currently, the only way to make ranking tolerable is to limit the size of the data set before the ranking sort. This is what I did in my tests.

But it looks like it could be possible to massively improve ranking performance by storing all necessary information directly in the GIN index, as proposed here:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/2/25/Full-text_search_in_...
> IMHO anxiety isn't a defense mechanism, it's a leak, an inefficiency.

Given the association of anxiety with "worrier" genes and further association of those with higher cognitive capacity, as well as the possibility that worrying about a thing makes it easier to remember, I find it highly likely that it's simply the expression of a cognitive style, not even a defense mechanism. The defense mechanism is likely to be depression.

Anxiety needs to be assessed for its full benefit across the board, not merely whether or not it's obviously productive in a given, often artificial, situation. For one, it's an emotion, emotions are a method of direct informational processing and are meant to modify your behavior among other things.

The purpose of anxiety around someone that could harm you may be to generate a negative association with the area/situation/certain persons so that you stop going there/creating that situation/conversing with those persons. Whereas a non-anxious person would be much better at handling these situations but could also end up in them too often. For the most part, "warriors" are more popular in society and media, so it's not too surprising that their style of disposition is considered normal and the other is considered a disorder.

But being able to hold things in your head for a while (what leads to anxiety) is fairly useful and seems rather common among people who have a lot of responsibilities, especially mental ones, and need to keep track of and plan a lot of things. On the other hand, I met people who have very little anxiety, but are really poor at planning, remembering schedules, etc., because the information leaves their brain really quickly. Pick your poison, I guess, but I'm at least familiar with mine.

The flawed assumption here perhaps is that humans were meant to be happy.
My interest in race here is that these practices were probably inflicted on blacks _first_, probably without white objection.

It's decades later and the laws that allowed police to terrorize blacks are gradually being extended to all races. I worry that this pattern will repeat itself.
Where is this from? I'd really like to see this part. It's an idea that bugs me too.

It's like "well the others are going to cure cancer, fix the internet, make it so that machines can talk with us and make gold fall out of the sky".
A less open world would hurt the poor most of all
It always amazes me how much we still have to learn.
Dev channel for Chromium/Chrome (which is also on 55) has this experiment. You don’t need canary.
Yep, exactly. You wrap them all in the new one, and migrate when the user next logs in.
Geez, I hope not. Remember the disaster when AOL Research thought releasing search history was a good idea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
I'd strongly advise against it. I know a few Delphi engineers, who get considerably lower rates than, say, Java developers.

As good as it is from a technical perspective Delphi, while not truly a dead language (it's still commonly used in many enterprise-size companies), it is a dead-end. Besides, Delphi and its ecosystem is mostly closed source. The vast amount of readily accessible help and information programmers have come used to with modern language environments simply isn't available for Delphi. Be prepared to pay (or convince your employer to pay) for 3rd party libraries or build everything yourself.
Improved communication and information sharing does sharply reduce the necessity of synchronous everybody-in-a-room or on-a-conference-call meetings. There are more effective ways to do this stuff if we would just embrace them.
I think that my issue with the chart (and it's such a minor issue to quibble about) is that you're effectively treating your single dataset (actual traffic over time) the same way you're treating your annotations (expected and worst-case traffic). Both of these different things are represented the exact same way in your chart, which is a confusing way to structure things. I would alter the appearance of the ceilings/bounds to not be represented in the legend, and instead be on-chart annotations that show where those expectations were relative to the actual traffic. I would also recommend adding even the most rudimentary labels to the axes.
Sorry if I implied you did something wrong, not my intention at all. I'm just curious how someone comes up with an estimation at all for a game that doesn't have pre-orders, and where similar games don't already exist.
> Costco will sell you high quality cod and chicken at ~$10/lb (probably less in store) and steak around $20/lb.

Not sure where you're shopping or how much cod costs, but chicken is more like $3/lb ($2.50 on sale, and it can be frozen - and yes whole chicken is cheaper and more flavorful, but you get less protein per pound and it's just easier to compare) for boneless skinless chicken breasts and $5-10/lb for various cuts of steak around here, which makes it much more affordable.
> Is currency ever a good store of value? If you're a billionaire you're certainly not storing it in fiat.

What? Do you change all of your savings into stocks or bonds each month?

Currency is the best short-term store of value. And "short term" means anything I plan to use in the next 6 months (My emergency fund will last 6 months without me being forced to touch my bonds or stocks, giving me breathing room for when to liquidate my long-term savings.)

I trust cash to be stable in the short term, even if it loses value long-term. I can't trust BTC as either long-term or even short-term storage.

BTC utterly fails at "6-month" storage due to its volatility. BTC has no history for growing (stocks are based on company profits. So as long as companies are profitable, they'll grow). Bonds are strong guarantees for growing: only bankruptcy can prevent me from getting me money promised through a bond.

What guarantees do I have for long-term BTC storage? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Short term? Well, again, stability is more important than gains in the short term (which is why my short-term is cash... not stocks).
(I'm the author of the aforementioned article)

Yes it was a throwaway :-) But I mean "untested" as not tested at all, by any means; code that has went through automated testing (unit tests and the like) has been tested quite a bit, so when QA receives it, the defect rate is not so overwhelming (5% or so as you say). I maintain that the code I write almost never works if I don't write automated tests for it (which is why I always write tests now :-))

You're right about the importance of "looking for undesired behavior outside the requirements". I'll think about an update of the article about manual tests. Thanks for the input!
Cool! I've been going mostly off of satellite photos and guesses.

If you can answer, are most of these new regions in leased DC's? Can you be more specific on locations? (It's going to be hard to find Tokyo just looking at maps.)
Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News. Please don't do this.
> It's clear the client has enough data to do the launch style footsteps (see: all of the PokeRadar apps on the store), but for some reason Niantic has no interest in re-enabling it.

I've always suspected that was because they quickly realized that getting pokemon to not spawn in dangerous spots was an insurmountable task, so having tracking that encourages players to go to those locations was asking for even more lawsuits that what they face currently for that issue.

edit: added quote I was responding to
There's no such thing as "secure", and frankly complaining that anything that has better security than regular products shouldn't advertise as such is ridiculous.

How else is there any progress when the community's just pulling everyone down with this "it's no good if it isn't completely perfect" crap?
> Are prosecutors dropping shoplifting charges for "upper middle class" people because they brought in an $1,000/hour lawyer?

Yes, they are. It's not this blatant, but the result is the same.

First, the rich person has probably been told, repeatedly, "Shut the fuck up, and only talk to your lawyer." This is a HUGE deal and helps your end result dramatically.

Second, the rich person likely doesn't have to worry about losing their job or coordinating child care while being missing for 24 hours due to incarceration.

Third, the rich person doesn't have to worry about making bail.

Fourth, you mentioned "social separation". Agreed. The richer person likely has a closer contact to a friend inside the justice system. That helps.

Fifth, a rich person is more likely to "look" not guilty. So both the prosecution and defense negotiate with that in their heads.

Sixth, the rich person likely knows English well and understands the cultural norms. This is a significant advantage. For example, in the southwest US, more than a few Hispanics wind up pleading guilty to having underage sex thinking it's not a big deal without realizing that they're about to have a felony on their record.

Seventh, the rich person understands navigating a bureaucracy. Do NOT underestimate this skill. A lot of lower class people don't realize the power that lower level functionaries have and wind up pissing them off to their detriment. The number of times I have seen people mouthing off to someone in the probation office makes me cry.

Finally, your lawyer likely knows the inside game. He knows that this judge likes to slam young punks, so he'll try to avoid him for stupid pot offenses. He knows that this judge is getting back from vacation on this day and is likely in a good mood so he can get a better deal. He knows that this judges hates DUI's, etc.

The list goes on and on ...

So, the prosecutor doesn't actually think: "He's rich, so I won't prosecute this so hard." But at every point where a decision can go for or against, there's a bit of bias in the rich person's favor distributed throughout the system.

Eventually that multiplies up to a big advantage.
It doesn't lose in every category, OP just chose a specific situation in which it was very expensive and then wrote a blog post showcasing his poor planning.

As a counter-anecdote I saved hundreds of dollars transferring USD10,000 in the US to THB cash in Thailand via Bitcoin.
I'm in the market for the new MacBok Pro and the OLED row makes me excited, but as a Vim user the lack of an physical escape key would be problem for me.

I have Caps Lock mapped to Ctrl and I'm glad that MacOS provides this option out of the box, but Caps Lock as Esc is not an option for me. I hope there will be an out of the box way to map Escape to something sensible.
I'd trade ~ for Esc anytime, as long as ~ and ` are accessible via the OLED strip.
> Civil forfeiture is plain unconstitutional. The legal idea behind it, that property is charged with a crime, and so it doesn't matter if a person is guilty/inocnent or even charged is simply absurd.

Civil forfeiture isn't a punishment for guilt or innocence. It's an adjudication that, more likely than not, nobody has an interest in the property that the law will protect.

Say the police raid a mob stash house and find $10 million in cash. Even if the court cannot figure out exactly who owns the money, it can determine by a preponderance of the evidence that nobody has a legitimate property interest in it because it's more likely than not the proceeds of a crime. Same thing if the property is contraband (drugs, automatic firearms, child porn etc.) There is no need to figure out who owns the property then charge that person because nobody could have a legitimate legal right to contraband. Due process doesn't require anything more than that.

The idea that the "property is charged with a crime" is mistaking the form of the action for the underlying rationale. The cases are styled "U.S. v. 10 cupcakes" because the case is about the legal status of the property, not about any particular person's guilt or innocence.

Now, I think civil asset forfeiture creates more risk of abuse than it is worth, and we should get rid of it. But it's not based on some outlandish legal theory like you imply. If there was a sensible way to cabin it to its purpose (seizing assets that are found in circumstances where it is obvious they are the proceeds of crime), it might even be a good idea.
People buy clothes with religious, political, and identity writing all the time.

Why would you call atheists "sad individuals" for doing the same?
There are economies of scale, but there are also people who don't know they're going to go out of business for undercutting the major rates.

And there will be people who bought a self-driving car et voila, someone pitches "AirBNB for self-driving cars!" and they decide to undercut Uber to make a few easy bucks.

There will be constant downward pressure on price and no structural way to build a moat against it.
AFAIK IBM's spent a good amount of engineering effort on making linux stuff run on power.
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This appears to be a rebrand of Google Apps; https://apps.google.com now redirects to https://gsuite.google.com
Yes you would. But if this becomes widely used you would expect the decode portion to distributed to work on a variety of platforms. Just like jpeg is today. Although I dont think this going to happen. If they can do the same for video, leveraging temporal correlations, then I can see it taking off. In this case the decode neural network would be embedded in the codec.
Speaking as someone who has never gone to traffic court, can you tell me how the system handles people with lawyers versus people without lawyers?
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Stable currencies are a good short to medium term store of value. If I withdraw $100 from the ATM, I can spend it a week or a month later and be fairly confident that it'll be worth essentially the same. I'm not rushing to the stores on payday to buy all of my supplies before fluctuations wreck my money.

This is not the case for BTC or AAPL. If I get 1BTC today, some new MtGox story might wreck its value before I buy groceries with it tomorrow. AAPL is unlikely to move as much, but it moves around by several percent on a fairly regular basis, and some huge negative news could send it plunging.

I could imagine your scenario of pricing in AAPL and paying in oil and GOOG in a technological sense, but I have a hard time imagining anyone actually doing it.
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> ...most of those HN posters are people with progressive-left tendencies...

If you have data about this, please share, otherwise avoid making unsubstantiated generalizations about the community. It's a predictable rhetorical device that doesn't move us towards gratifying our intellectual curiosity.
I would say Parents gave you money is when most would consider your success tied to your parents.
Everything besides C and C++.
Similarly, Pythagoras' theorem turns out not to be literally about "squares" but about squaring as what happens to area under linear scaling. Mathematicians seem to find this proof more satisfying than most of the many proofs available, as it points towards the reason for the identity... Something to do with right angles in Euclidean space.

I'm afraid this is not a prestigious source but my Google-fu is failing me. Polyps mentions this proof, as has Terry Tao more recently:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/surprising-uses-of-the-...

Edit: more credible discussion here: https://math.berkeley.edu/~giventh/papers/eu.pdf
Roy Fielding thinks this isn't REST. He says REST APIs != HTTP APIs. So, read with caution. Also, I noticed the MSFT guide doesn't mention HATEOS.
You should also watch the commercials on HGTV. The ones for paint never show anyone painting a wall beige. It's always something more vivid.

Personally, I prefer beige over white, which probably still dominates as a wall color for homes undergoing sales prep.

So to a certain degree, HGTV has doubled the palette for us casual decorators.

PS -- I haven't watched HGTV for a couple of years - cut the cord. Are they still pushing granite counters / stainless steel appliances?
Prices are still way higher
Sounds like people that buy these shoes are the people who want to be different and really stand out.
When you were thinking about fear, were you thinking about an actual threat, or an imaginary one? Was it something realistically possible, something that has caused you fear in the past, or something theoretically possible, like getting in a car accident. I tried the exercise and it took me about 30 seconds to work myself into a minor panic attack, and a couple of minutes to walk that back. I'm in the process of buying a home and didn't leave myself enough time between the offer and when I needed to deliver the earnest money check to make the bank transfers into the checking account I needed to do so the check will clear. Thinking about that creates enormous anxiety in me. Working out of it involves logically walking myself thru the steps, the possible outcomes, and what I need to do in the event of each outcome. Basically, if I deliver the check today and they deposit it same day, it won't clear until tomorrow, giving the transfers just enough time to get completed. I"m still slightly nervous about it, but it was easy to ramp that way the hell up. It was less easy, but completely possible to ramp it back down by thinking it thru.

"Emotions play a huge role in anxiety and really cannot be ignored or just reasoned away. They need to be experienced. They need to be felt and expressed. And once they are, logic is a useful tool, as you said, to dive into them and think more about why you are feeling that way."

You are totally right there. What i learned in CBT: you experience emotions. Period. You have no control over whether or not you feel them, and if you try to repress them they will force their way out in weird and inappropriate ways. Emotions cause physical feelings in the body. Fear gives you that pit in your stomach, the FFF reflex fires up and your body prepares to flee, fight or freeze. As you experience the physical sensations, it provokes cognitive thoughts, and the combination of feelings and thoughts will produce actions. Each of these things feed back into each other either reinforcing them or diluting them. You may take actions that produce more fear, or actions that make you feel safer. Your thoughts may reinforce your emotions or calm them down.

For me the big revelation was that there was a separation between emotions and feelings. To me they were literally the same thing. Understanding this concept has allowed me to find a tiny bit of space between experiencing the emotion and the physical sensations it provoked. That allows me (sometimes) to drive a wedge of logical thought in between them and experience the emotion, without it uncontrollably driving physical sensations that then uncontrollably drive thoughts that feed back into the emotion, creating a vicious cycle. It's true that you can't just tell yourself "stop being afraid". But there are a lot of cognitive things you can do to temper and interrupt the anxiety cycle. For me, it's not easy, takes a ton of work, but it DOES work, and it has changed the way I view life and my place in it in enormous positive ways.
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> I've always wondered why we don't just get rid of private lawyers and legal teams.

Because bringing the quality of someone else's defense down does not solve the fundamental problems of the justice system.

The problem is that the justice system is unfair to the poor, PERIOD. And we need to fix that. The problem is not putting more rich kids in jail.

In my opinion, the better change is to remove things like prosecutorial discretion for juries. If the prosecution can't make the case without stacking the deck, he shouldn't be making it.
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Except that... I'm pretty sure Google knows how to run big software systems...

This is called back-peddling.
Easy money transfer is not bitcoin's value proposition though
>I don't get it

Let's say you're gay. You shoe maker belongs to the Mormon Church. When you purchase shoes from her, 10% of her income typically goes to the church[1]. The Mormon Church then uses that money to lobby the government to deny your civil rights, and succeeds[2]. It's not rational to contribute to your own oppression. That's why some people don't want to "leave tribal politics out of shoes". You're asking someone to leave politics out of politics.

[1] https://www.mormon.org/faq/church-tithing

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.htm...
I am assuming that Tesla is pressuring other car makers to make high-mileage electric cars at affordable prices, and they will pay for worldwide battery production to increase dramatically. They may not build their own Gigafactories, but I hear even there the battery manufacturer is actually Panasonic. Tesla makes the battery packs.
Ah, I missed that bit! Thanks :)
> Taking a piss in woods managed by Fish and Wildlife Services will land on on the sex offender registry, if caught. It's absurd.

That's seriously absurd. Are the any instances of this being enforced in a public park? I've read of many cases of getting added to the registry from public urination, but they're all in cities[1].

[1]: And usually it's not even in "public". It'd be behind a dumpster or the end of an alley. Yes it's not something we as a society want, but who in their right mind puts that person in the same category as a pedophile.
Based on the name of the newly-created account (Gold Coast is a Chicago neighborhood), I would guess so.
It always amazes me how much we have learned.
These systems should have hard and fast audit trails. Look it up -- but your action will be logged. Permanently.

They should also have well thought out and implemented permission sets.

But, log everything is a good and simple place to start.
I was writing desktop apps and (later) Python during the J2EE boom, so I may be really badly understanding things, but: if you're in a pure-Java workshop, isn't something like a J2EE container the equivalent of Docker? My understanding was that it provided security isolation and containment, while allowing a much richer API, and that it also provided a trivial ability to deploy new versions just by submitting a new .war, similar to how you just upload a new Docker image. Is that not what was going on there? Or maybe it proved insufficient?
So if you have something capable of winning this prize, how much more would it be worth to keep it?
Interesting listen on how Uber is creating a massive consumer surplus: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/
7 is an average - as some states have a minimum up to $10/hr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
That's decidedly not fine. It's beyond any arguable definition of "fine". A normal average size male should not be subsisting on 1k calories.

The thing you're linking says you need 2k to maintain weight... you're claiming to eat half of that and still maintain weight? Then you are not counting your calories right, plain and simple.
I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I'm a heavy vim user, and a weird ESC key would really suck. I may be able to get used to ~ as escape, would take some getting used to though.
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I don't really get it either, but apparently almost 400 kickstarter backers did [0]. I would guess its just branding, since differentiating yourself as a small shoe maker is probably very difficult.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1497254033/atheist-shoe...