skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space and time are very macro concepts according to general relativity. It doesn't actually explain how time elapses differently on one atom vs. another atom only that it does.

I am traveling close to the speed to light how is my watching running slower? How do the atoms in my watch know to run slower?

I am not suggesting that current quantum mechanics is more than a model, but I think we are along the right path to figure out the answer to my above question.
It is. :-)
Who the hell works for a company (remotely or not) and uses their own equipment? I'm not a lawyer, of course, but a developer exposing their personal system to company data could be a significant liability risk to the company.

In particular, my last employer gave everyone the option to use an app[1] for easy access to email on their personal phones. I refused to install it, since it gave my (then) employer the ability to remotely wipe my phone at the press of a button.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.good.andro...
Yeah, except people were saying they were hoping Microsoft would kill Slack, as though it's some cardinal sin to not be innovative. (And I contest that, Slack definitely bought things together that other people didn't. It's obvious in hindsight, but so was Dropbox, for example).
I didn't suggest this discredits general relativity.
Check out my detailed answer a few comments down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861180
Speaking of Amazon - if you have Prime membership and buy something with "free" shipping from third-party seller fulfilling via Prime, seller still pays ~25% - 30% of the total to amazon to ship this product. So all sellers factor in shipping into prime price.

Where it get really bad - when you do NOT have prime - you also get charged extra for shipping, yet seller still pays same cut to amazon! :)
Variable Fonts on the Web
But what would you say about HipChat or other competitors? Why didn't HipChat win? Was there a critical feature they missed or botched?

Providing value is not the whole story. That's why I begin looking for alternative factors -- like luck and circumstance.
It's also interesting to see that they knew notifications were crap circa 2011 and _still_ haven't done anything to get ahead of Android.
This article seems to imply that Facebook, Google, etc are behaving nefariously in offering high compensation to employees. Startups have always been at a disadvantage here, and employees should not be made to feel poorly for looking after themselves first.
That's totally missing the point.

We can both condemn the stupid/wrong behavior and celebrate the intellectual achievements. The point is that we shouldn't hold back our praise of the latter on account of the former.

This is a typical false-dichotomy that plagues contemporary discourse around social justice and various *isms.
Gah! You are correct. Posting comments in a post-lunch stupor leads to grave mistakes.
or the managers don't have the right incentive. I manage a team of devs at a startup, and beside some promise of "do well, get liquidation event" I have no incentive to make a good product other than personal pride.
Hospitals shut down by malware, advise patients to go somewhere else
The whole reason hops are added is for their antibacterial propterites.

> Hops are used extensively in brewing for their antibacterial effect that favors the activity of brewer's yeast over less desirable microorganisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops

> Hops have a long history of use as a natural preservative in beer. A little known benefit, however, is that hops also contain high concentrations of unique “alpha” and “beta” acids that can inhibit the growth of Gram-positive bacteria at surprisingly low concentrations. To that end, Hopsteiner produces a variety of natural and modified food grade hop products which can very effectively and economically inhibit bacteria growth in a wide variety of applications including food, spirits, fuel ethanol, yeast and process streams (to name just a few).

http://www.hopsteiner.com/antibacterial/

And this rule of thumb was told to me by a brewer who just got a GABF medal. The guy knows what he's talking about.

What state are you in? And have you done any brewing at scale? A lot of times you can tell that a craft beer scene is new because of how much everyone is into IPAs.
Exactly. Apple should build the post-Cloud era instead of trying to beat Google on their home turf.

If Tim Cook really cares about privacy, bringing user's data back into their own hands is the only way to go.
It turns out that if you ramble on enough about Grandma Multi-Millionaire-Moneybags enough, nobody stops to think about businesses.
Thanks, I saw that, but it's not the same graph-based UI as the screenshots.
So, go back to the beginning of the comment thread; it's about how a bot that only speaks English is "dystopian". English doesn't have gendered words, so we can quite easily fix the problem with almost no effort at all.
Yeah, their JavaScript is better. Electron has nothing to do with the speed.
While they certainly have some catching up to do every now and then, it's been working for me pretty well for over a year, now.
Why do you think the IPA bandwagon got started to begin with? And why does it slow down in areas with a more developed craft scene like Colorado and the northwest?
Sure, the US climate is diverse, and it makes sense to use the appropriate transportation method for that climate. That doesn't negate the fact that "just keep using cars" is a bad idea.
i used a combination of opencv and dlib.

opencv for the face detection and dlib for the landmark detection. but technically dlib actually does the face detection too so opencv is strictly necessary.
Maybe 30% of graduates of top 30 universities. There are lots of CS grads from lower ranked schools that are definitely not getting fought over by the likes of Google/FB/Amazon...
I agree, but the point was rather about censorship.

I find it troubling that we should censor (explicitly or otherwise) someone on accounts of his respectability. I find this especially true when the source of disrespectability stems from an unrelated topic.
> It's funny that Slack thinks they've perfectly balanced a unique and special snowflake on the tip of a unicorn's horn when what they've really done is added a pretty UI to IRC. It's a chat room. With channels. So, sorry to tell you guys, but it's not innovative, it's lucky. We had chat rooms back in 1995.

It is kind of amazing that Slack are the only chat system out of dozens our hundreds who can make a UI that doesn't suck (I wouldn't even call Slack good), but evidence would suggest it's true.

> Yes, that scrappy startup Microsoft will not have too much trouble implementing a chat room and they don't need luck to get users.

Well they've tried four or five times and always managed to screw it up.
Reputable recruiters charge employers, not candidates. Any so-called "recruiter" who takes their cut directly out of your salary (as opposed to charging the employer a percentage of a candidate's salary in a lump sum payment) is a con artist. Period.
Smaller companies attract me by the absence of bureaucracy and the ability to get a lot of productive work done.
By 2010, the commute in SF was worse than LA. While caltrain & bart do help in SF, when it breaks, you got problems. Bart is pretty reliable but Caltrain seems to break or hit something/someone a few times a month.
Agree.

This is similar to $BIGCOMPANY passed on $BIGIDEA see how they sucked and passed up a great opportunity!

Without knowing the thousands of other ideas that they passed on that never made it anywhere.

A small example is perhaps HP not taking Wozniak seriously. (Also assumes the presentation and pitch was done right and all of that...)
In office applications? That is the one they would be abusing.
The one thing that solves all problems and is cheap, is lots of customer conversations.
Maybe true at Stanford or a top school?
Because cigarettes deliver nicotine very, very fast, giving an instant and pleasant rush. After an hour or so the nicotine level in your blood has fallen quite a lot and you'll be craving another one.

E-cig nicotine delivery happens slower and you avoid both the highs and the crashing lows. That makes it a lot easier to cut down to insignificant amounts of nicotine over a few months.
This, my start time on Atom -- using an SSD -- on Windows is several times longer than VS Code, it just feels jarring. On OS X the start times for Atom are a lot better though, in my experience.
Indeed. Stimulants tend to form habits. It's not as noticeable with caffeine, because there is a 15-60 minute lag time for it to take effect. Nicotine (largely due to the delivery method, I assume) takes effect in 10 seconds. So it's easy to start forming associations with the feeling, leading to the psychological dependence.
Show HN: Tufte Pandoc CSS – Use Tufte CSS with Markdown
Amazon has been providing drop-in replacement implementations of Google APIs (for proprietary Google services) for some time now. For instance:

"The Amazon Maps API offers interface parity with version 2 of the Google Maps API. Most classes and method calls in your Google Maps app work the same on Amazon devices. "

https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/experience/maps/doc...
Given the recent sentiment here you might think some people would prefer a c64 over a mbp.
That's the key - make something worth more than the sum of its parts
They already selectively show/hide ads - for example, I'm in the Republic of Ireland, and see ads on the BBC News site.

It's a bit more complicated than that. BBC in the UK aren't allowed to operate outside their charter - they're severely restricted in how much they can compete with private commerce.

BBC Worldwide is the beeb's commercial arm, who do exactly this - outside the UK, where they're competing fairly as any other commercial venture.

So Worldwide aren't allowed to operate within the UK precisely because of the licence fee - it'd be unfair competition. It's not just because they're shown ads - it's simply because the content is produced by their commercial arm, so finds itself on the wrong side of the home/worldwide silo.
What does EQ stand for?
Read that as, "When I can afford to not work..."
That's probably it.

I just checked my papers now and it does say "consultant".

Is there a difference (legally, in the US) between contractor and consultant?
It's relatively uncommon in Rust in general to create types without going through their constructors.
https://i.imgur.com/09Sf7jj.png
$4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer
Why is client-side rendering slow enough that something like this is even worth considering? Our smartphones are supercomputers in our pockets, after all.
Why is that wrong? Shouldn't you be on the best framework, especially when 2 years have passed?
Psst . . . verilog (not saying the same for systemVerilog) isn't doing its job ;)
> Steve basically did it three times

Yes but the 2nd time he had the advantage of having the first success. That would mean he was taken more seriously and would be able to hire and influence better than if he was not famous. And of course in the current culture having even a large failure is enough to put you on the map to get more attention for the 2nd time around. This is not the way business used to be by the way. Used to be if you failed you failed and nobody would touch you with a ten foot pole.
While the weather may be comparable, San Francisco is a very hilly city. I imagine that Amsterdam is relatively flat. In spite of its problematic, yet aesthetically pleasing topology, there is a strong culture of biking in SF.
> It's largely the summation of the preferences of residents in different areas.

Yes. With the complicity of states/feds/courts etc... who have allowed neighbors to run rampant over others' property rights to a degree that I think has lead to a number of terrible consequences.
I use this style. I work with queries that are a little bigger than average, and it's very difficult to keep track of it unless it's well laid out.

conditionals, loops, etc, get formatted like they would in a procedural language. the DML gets formatted similarly to what you've posted.

a not unrealistic example from this morning is as follows:

if (select object_id('aTableName', 'u')) is not null begin
select column
from aTableName
where thisIsTrue = 1
and somethingIs in (select aList from aListTable)
and somethingElse = (
select aValue
from aValueTable
where aValue = 'somethingImportant'
)
end else begin
print('Oh noes! I couldn't find somethingImportant or something in someList form aTable!')
end

we work with huge amounts of data with systems and processes that don't lend themselves to other methods (yet... it's coming.) so we have to make SQL as readable as possible.

edit: yes... i know... subqueries are bad... it's just an example. those would have been done in joins or as temporary variables or something else.
I am not in the habit of assuming technical sales personnel will have useful things to say. Having been in some companies in the past with technical sales people, I wouldn't want to inflict a sales prospect on a dev who has other things to do.

I have greater faith in my ability to deal with a random executable somewhat safely than I do my patience for a salesweasel who might know what source code is.

So, yes, we have differing opinions. I don't see why I should have to hand over any non-essential data and deal with a human to try a purely software product.
I'm used to the large amount of Asian food that's available in Dallas. I could go off on long tangents about how much I love the variety of food I can get here. Unfortunately, most suburban areas I've looked at are snow white, which really disappointed me and cause me to scratch a lot of places off my list. St. Paul on the other hand has a very large Asian population.

It helps that I have a friend who moved to Minneapolis after college (I think he specifically lives in St. Louis Park), and he's been trying to convince me that I should move there if I need to leave Texas. So I started looking at the demographics of the area, and St. Paul's 15% Asian population jumped out at me.

By the way, St. Paul isn't the only place on my short list. Another one is the San Gabriel Valley in SoCal (Monterey Park, Alhambra, etc.), but a big turn-off to that area is the high cost of living.
The protests were peaceful, eh? So the govt forces that were killed during those "peaceful" protests shot themselves.
Uh, what? I thought companies pay the recruiters a percentage of first year salary, or a flat fee, for the successful referral. The employee should not be paying anything.
> So they want to build a pipeline from Qutar to the med through Syria.

They want to what??? You really need to look at a map before saying things like that.

I just.....

Do you realize Qatar is on the coast? Why would you need to build a pipeline to another coast?

And why go through Syria of all places? There are so many other routes you can take, and you think they want Syria so badly they triggered a war?
Not to be overly critical but:

It does not match my definition of A.I:

"UNU enables groups of online users to think together as a unified emergent intelligence -- a "brain of brains" that can express itself as a singular entity. Touted to as the world's first "hive mind," the UNU platform has had over 60,000 human participants in swarming sessions this year, together answering over 250,000 questions."

Also I would reasonably expect some of those 250.000 questions to beat the odds and get answered right.
Production-Ready Deployment of a Swift Vapor App to the AWS EC2 Cloud
I used to agree with you about putting commas at the beginning of lines, but now I've changed my mind. By putting the commas at the beginning of lines it becomes much easier to do dynamic sql and to be able to add remove select statements without having to check the ends of the lines to make sure the last line does not have a trailing comma and to make sure the preceding lines each does have the requisite comma.
Org supports literate programming and that's what makes it so attractive for writing teaching materials. Pandoc only gives me static documents.
For many embedded systems anything that has 'bindings' is bloatware.
The agreement was negotiated because of MASSIV pressure by Iraq leaders and the US not having the financials or the political support to stay.

> This is false.

Sure. If the US really wanted, it could have sustained 1 Million guys there for the next 20 years. This is however totally absurd from a cost benefit analysis and it has absolutely no support in the population, the congress, foreign policy community, budget bureaucrats and essentially everybody accept a tiny group of right wing warmongers.

> Also false. At any rate, it was the Iraqis that elected leaders to draft their constitution and developed their government.

Clearly you have never read any analysis of the Iraqi state. It was one of the most corrupt in the world. It was politically exclusive to large groups of the population. It was not at all democratic. The constitution was absolutely meaningless.

> And the Syrian refugee crisis coupled with our current and future involvement in Syria is free?

And the US saying in Iraq would not have prevented the problems that arose from the Arab Spring. If you believe that you live in a fantasy land that nobody can help you out of.

Even if that were true, the action in Syria are much, much, MUCH cheaper then a decades long occupation with large ground forces. Maybe read up on the history of foreign occupation in Iraq to give you some estimations what would have happened.

Also, the US is not forced to 'stay in Syria'. That another fantasy, some war mongers on both sides convince them selfs of.
This is just one of the reasons Syria is a National Security interest for other countries. Another is that Ba'athism in Iraq and Syria has aligned itself against Saudi Arabia. Another is that the possibility of autonomous Kurdish regions in Syria threaten to support domestic terrorist organizations in neighboring countries (Kojave). Another is that Syria provides Russia with a Mediterranean base.

The gas pipelines are a huge reason, for sure. But it's not the only reason. Many different actors have many different reasons why supporting their side of the proxy war makes financial and strategic sense.
I suspect there's some bandwagonism at play in some of it, but I think the VS Code team has generally applied lessons learned from some of Atom's more obvious performance shortfalls (large file handling, for example, for which support was added very incrementally).

In my day-to-day usage I'm not seeing any significant performance differences between Atom and Code, but that may just be a function of my particular use cases, or it may well be that newer versions of Atom have, at least somewhat, caught up to VS Code.
Nintendo DS Quake
More information:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00295/...
> I love visiting but I can't imagine living there.

This sums up how I feel about NYC. I have family there, both my parents were originally from there, and I've had a good time every time I've visited, but I wouldn't want to actually live there. It's a great place for spending a weekend, but it's too noisy, crowded, and expensive to go about my day to day life there.
Well, "why should I pay for my neighbour's re-education when they should've just picked right in the first place?" - if you are lucky enough to pick a field which grows for the rest of your life, and you're a reasonably good worker, you're never going to take advantage of that and so your neighbour gets more than you from the Government. Not fair! /s
Gasoline taxes aren't "vice taxes." They're usage taxes that pay for the maintenance of roads and bridges.
Why here? Does this hipster's travel diaries contain some valuable advice for startups?

Update: you might downvote this into oblivion, but objectively this text has nothing of value, but naive, oversimplified views and generalizations any traveler could produce. I honestly cannot see why it should be published here, on HN. There are specialized sites for narcissistic "writers" - medium.com etc.
A PEO like TriNet can typically manage it all for you (for $$$ though).

I personally prefer to pick each service provider separately. For example, a payroll processor like Gusto will handle all the onboarding forms (W-4, I-9, W-2, state new hire reports), state insurance compliance, fed and state payroll taxes in all 50 states. TaxJar figures out and reports sales taxes in all states. Guideline for 401Ks etc. Healthcare is definitely still the most problematic one.

Yes, it could be easier and more streamlined. However there's already some great services that can make hiring in multiple states easier.
ActiveState.com seeking Lua community feedback
> Well, what you want and the physical realities of synthesis are different :-)

Then why doesn't the language let me describe what I want, and if reality disagrees, throws some compiling errors back?

Our current HDLs are lower level than block diagrams. And anything higher level they may claim to provide is iffy and won't work on practice. That's not a problem with the languages, but it is a problem for hardware development.
Now what does Paul the octopus say?
I love how you didn't even try.

You don't know what HN even is, you copied and pasted an email into a message board and you didn't even care to tell us why we should care.
ActiveState.com seeking Go community feedback
That is so depressing. I lived in London from 2011 through 2014, previously having no clue about GDS or anything else in the UK for that matter. Being a ruby developer, it kind of blew me away when I met so many GDS developers and saw what they were doing. They were operating like a top-tier commercial agency much moreso than anything that resembles government in my mind (and I'm half-brazilian, so US government to me is far from the worst in terms of inefficiency and boondoggles). Next thing you know they stop letting the non-white people in, and before you know it Berlin leapfrogs London as the primary tech destination in Europe.
This is a more recent post http://unu.ai/election-fatigue/
> Are there mature versions

let's start from this
Nothing about this seems to add up.

They claim they made the prediction in early July, but link to a newspaper article dated 4 August that indicates the predictions were made just one day earlier.

They picked the team with the best record all season long to win the championship. They got one of the division winners wrong.

Just publishing the current favorites from MLB.com's probability page [0] as of 3 August would have also gotten 9 of 10 postseason teams correct, including going 6/6 on division winners. So the 'knowledge' of fans voting actually did worse than a monte carlo simulation.

I'm not impressed.

There's no way this should be considered predicting the "full baseball post-season," and I am not seeing any evidence that it happened in July. Wish they'd have shared it.

[0] http://mlb.com/mlb/standings/probability.jsp?ymd=20161002
The idea is that you'd use your commute time to do something other than drive. You could read a book, watch a TV show, play video games, etc. You could even take a nap if you wanted to.
You're a couple years out of date with the metagame. What state are you in?
What is an example of a site actually using it for this potentially legitimate use case?
It's a race to the bottom. The US, a leader in many things, often leads that race to the bottom.
Curiosity Rover Finds and Examines a Meteorite on Mars
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If you already have some familiarity with functional programming but aren't extremely fluent in it, I recommend _Functional Programming in Scala_. It's one of the best functional programming books I've read.