skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is not immune from only being able to guarantee shipment within 24-72 hours of receiving an order. The "Only XX in stock" message may trump the "x hours and y minutes" message but that doesn't change how the math is being done - it just makes it invisible to the end user.

It is two day shipping. Starting from the time it ships which they calculate using the guaranteed delivery date. Often the delivery date is "sooner" rather than "later" but they're only going to guarantee the "later" date and not the "sooner" date for obvious business reasons.

While it is technically correct it isn't how people talk about shipping. Overnight means overnight to people - not overnight after I decide to ship it 3 weeks late. Which is why I agree it is a dark pattern. I imagine "Quick shipping" (no promise of X-day) doesn't market nearly as well.

E:

I'd like to make it clear I'm not meaning to defending the practice... only explain it. It seems very logical to me - even if confusing and unfriendly to many users who expect "2 day shipping" to mean "arrives in 2 days".
Oh no. you said 'Unless you also dislike any medicine or safety measures.' I asked you where the line of demarcation was for acceptable safety measures, and gave some examples for context, which is a totally legitimate question.

It was not a non-sequitur at all. I want an answer.
I really like where this is heading
Significant smaller headers means significant smaller requests. That allows the client to inform the server in a shorter time more comprehensively which set of files are needed. Especially in the mobile use case where bandwidth in the up-link is limited and the channel is not always stable this may really improve user perceived performance.

I don't worry about compression effort too much - deflate has been used for a long time.
No surprise really. Beme failed to be a revenue generating business; maybe it was never intended to be. It barely even succeeded at being what it was - a video sharing social network. The only out for Beme was to sell. What continues to surprise me, is how willing some companies are to buy garbage apps.
> could be charged via solar panels.

...but would actually be charged via grid power or internal combustion engine generator 99% of the time.
Well within in nonevangelicals, this article was popular for a while.

The Food Pyramid That Made Us Fat
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/29/934261/-

Not to mention the anti-vaccine people on all sides of the political and religious spectrum.

This article really suggests to me a long term trend in the establishments loosing their credibility across multiple groups of people or at least that is the real issue.
Nice one. I will make sure to bring out entropy next time someone accuses me of not thinking of the long run.
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If you found the ideas in this book about time and fate and freewill, you will also enjoy TimeQuake by Kurt Vonnegut from 1997. Highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequake
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Your for loop works, whereas the one in the parent comment would run forever, correct? Is there something I'm missing here?

edit: Ok, looking at it again the parent example is probably going to overflow or something right?
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Yes, but the whole community that spawned around it- is a open source community by mentality. People today dont have to setup a OS to get a computer going, they dont have to learn anything, thus many of them never get to know creation, and the joy it brings.
Minecraft reintroduced that - lego is programmable matter, and minecraft was programmable matter, and most servers where/are anarchic.

Its true it was proprietary, and it should have been wrestled with a real and better open source alternative from that fate.

Whoever at microsoft saw this danger growing, and voted for hugging it to death, i draw my hat.
You know, I think this is my real disconnect with HTTP/2.

To me, I see the problems that make HTTP/1 slow, and so I say, "okay let's address those issues." So I'll inline my includes, use spriting if I have a bunch of icons to display, cache things where possible, perform keep alive where I can, drop the use of giant JS libraries, don't use webfonts, use subdomains to avoid cookie pollution, etc. Doesn't take long.

HTTP/2 seems more like, "how can we let people keep their bad practices the same yet try and speed their stuff up a bit?"

And that's fine and I'm okay with the latter existing to make web sites easier and faster. But I don't like the presumption that HTTP/2 is inherently superior to HTTP/1, which is what 99% of these HTTP/2 explanatory articles promote. Complexity adds a dark cost. I think there's a lot of value in someone being able to write a client that can interact with my site in 200 lines of C code with no library dependencies. I feel like we could have put more effort into our libraries and web packages to make HTTP/1 operate much better instead, and kept the wonderful simplicity of HTTP/1.
To be fair, Theranos likely needed a large capital investment to bring its (described complex) product to market. The model you suggest is simply another/different model, but investing large amounts of money in a startup that in theory will need large amounts of money is a very smart thing to do if you believe the market you're addressing is long, and wide enough to one day sustain the returns needed.
4X the price, but can still be hugely subsidized through a phone contract or simply buying used. Getting any hardware widespread and into the hands of consumers is an artform in itself.
Actually, I think this is much more the key: "I never would have begun my own conversations without first experiencing clear and passionate outrage to what I believed from those I interacted with."

Outrage is the only reasonable first response to what happened and must come first. If that opens the doors of discussion like it did here, great. Most likely it won't as most people are not persuaded by argument, though they are susceptible to manipulation by sympathy.

When those people choose hate over everything else, however, they deserve to be ostracized and relentlessly attacked. Hate is NOT acceptable. I'm disgusted by those who suggest otherwise, especially in the name of "understanding" the other side. It not only shows an incredible lack of understanding about the human condition, it encourages the acceptance of that hate as a legitimate part of the political process, and brings into question the morals of the person making the suggestion to acquiesce to hate.
I have the same thought in the Facebook Ads and Google Adwords control panel that I do sitting down at a craps table:

"I'm going to lose all of this, aren't I?"
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I think a lot of the VC funding probably ultimately comes from the increased credit that was allowed when Bretton Woods were abandoned.
It has been hilarious to see the government become the opposition and vice-versa. It is like around midnight on election night they've just exchanged their scripts and switched places overnight.
Gates was quite a cut throat business man. He might be the warm philanthropist gates now, but he was quite the cut throat business man back in the day. How do you think Netscape market share went from like 90% to pretty much 0?
I'm not sure I believe that. Depending on the size of the nail and how sharp it is, it could pass through, but could also puncture something along the way or get lodged.

If a child swallows anything larger than a dime, the standard recommendation is to seek medical attention.
I started reading this article thinking, "nice try guys, not getting anything from me".

I'm about to order one, and sent a link to about 10 friends. Good job!
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If it's the video I'm thinking of they ran a huge number of tests, introduced packet loss and saw some issues.

There's a few challenges here…

WebPageTest uses DummyNet to simulate packet loss and in a HTTP/1.x scenario the not all TCP connections in the test will experience packet loss, whereas all the HTTP/2 ones will.
Now in the real world if there's packet loss on route how likey is it that TCP connections experience packet loss?

Our H2 implementations are still young, this Cloudflare work is one example, until they made this patch nginx didn't support HPACK and there are other issues in other browsers and servers too.

As the implementations mature and we understand how to make the most of H2 then performance gains will appear - there's already evidence from people like the FT that there are gains to be made now.
> does not guarantee resources for any given database

Correct. Instead it gives the most resources to the pages in all of the databases which are accessed and used the most. MySQL and InnoDB are remarkably well tuned to ensure that the most often used pages are in memory, where they can be accessed and updated with the greatest performance.

> It's something I see all the time.

We apparently work on very different usecases. Fair enough. Just be aware that your usecase is far from typical. Continuing to argue points across such diverse usecases isn't going to make for a productive discussion.
GKH somewhere explained that they accept gotos that don't go back (leads to mess) only gotos that jump forward in function. Nice rule.
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As far as I know most space software these days, and embedded in general, is in (at least a sub/superset of) C.
It will get no more version upgrades, but it still has at least a year of security updates (depending on when it went out of the play store). I'm not saying new versions wouldn't be nice but personally that seems like a minor advantage.
What happened to VIA and their x86 CPUs and mini-itx platform people used to build media PCs on? Wouldn't that be a viable option if you really want to avoid ME?
Thanks. That's quite nice, but also reduces available hashing functions to pairs with that property. But I guess that's not really a problem.
" But I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve mega-corporations that own more money than entire nation-states"

So should we limit companies that operate at a global scale to revenue or profits to that of the worlds smallest nations? Where do you draw your line? Or do you limit companies from ever operating at the scale that many of them do? What has permitted them to get so big in the first place and is that a good or bad thing?
This is what the BBC microbit should have been.
Why this over the CHIP, or even an actual GameBoy with a flash cart?
Location Services.

If you "opt out" it cripples locations for third party apps. If you opt in Google tracks your location.

Google Accounts.

If you don't put a Google Account on your Android phone it cripples, well, everything. But if you do put a Google Account on it then Google tracks the IP address when it connects to the internet as well as sync times/login times/etc.
I think not bankruptcy...

It's been reported that Theranos still has $400M in cash. And the founder has majority control.

So this is a very rare condition, where there is still assets in the company (so a judgement can be paid) but the company has no business plan. So you have a founder who's best play now is sit around for the next 10 years spending down that $400M on new business plans to see if something hits.
Mouse aside, Bravo isn't in here because its command set doesn't feel like an ancestor or a child of any of these other editors.

For example it uses G (for Get) to load files and P (for Put) to save them, instead of r (for read) and w (for write) like the ed family does.

(Whereas Sam for Plan 9 uses the mouse like Bravo does, but applies ed-like commands to the mouse selection.)
Their discussion may have consisted of "too bad these extremists don't realize that the ME is harmless if you don't have an Intel NIC".
> others have no idea there even is a pay wall.

True.

> won't it limit the discussions that can be had?

Perhaps, but if it were someone creating Amazon links to books that automatically added the book to cart and redirected the user to checkout, I think we'd accurately see the paywall link spam for what it is. I don't think there is really anything that is covered by paywall sites that doesn't have solid coverage in AP stories or other general interest, non-paywalled publications.
When Extra Credits "Propaganda Games" video came out about a year ago[1], I was relived when I read that "Sesame Credit" was a complete fabrication, and even questioned EC for posting such a video without source checking.

Apparently is wasn't completely fabricated after all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
The Rust ecosystem is growing rapidly, and I personally think it's awesome that we're telling the world about it. Rust is production-ready and presents several advantages over C and C++. The more people that jump on board, the faster we get more libraries, and the more companies will take a look at using Rust in their own production environments.

I predict Rust will also begin to find use as a backend server language, and begin to eat into Java, Go, Python, and Ruby mindshare. Though there's a learning curve with Rust, it doesn't take too long to become productive. I'm also excited to see how Rust makes inroads in game development.

I think we're all going to start seeing more Rust in our headlines. It's a great language, and the people I know that use it are in love with it (myself included).
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Nobody disputes that, but a) once it has been explained via a warning, why should responsibility remain with the manufacturer, and b) once someone of ordinary intelligence plays with the magnets and sees how strong they are then it is obvious. Neodymium magnets will pinch your fingertip painfully if you're not careful. If it can hurt your finger it could hurt other parts of your body.
I tried survivejs but whole complexity and explanations started falling apart when flux and whole concept of provider was introduced.

[1] http://survivejs.com/react/implementing-kanban/react-and-flu...
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From the benchmarks that I've seen you lose about 5-10% of your GPU's performance compared to what you'd get on a pci-e 16x interface.

As for USB-C, I use its thunderbolt3 properties to enable Razer Core. Haven't used it that much as just a usb-c port. My idea was that it would be nice to be able to power it up through something like Razer Core since it has more than enough power output through this port. According to the documents it is not possible with the NUC. Maybe next gen version will provide such a feature.
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> To me, my linux install is my manual F-150 and my windows install is my auto/hybrid Honda Civic.

To me, the Windows machine I have to use is a Trabant with a missing front passenger seat and a nasty tendency to catch fire when it's cold out.

Seriously, it's horribly painful to use.
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Truffle uses Graal, a new JIT compiler for the JVM written in Java. As it's written in Java, it can be used like a library - directly calling methods to compile exactly what you want, exactly how you want. Truffle uses this to compile your Ruby program using partial evaluation, a technique which is really good at removing the kind of overhead that the JVM usually adds, like costs for allocation.

This blog post and video explain where a lot of the big speedups come from.

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/

I wrote my PhD about this topic, so there is even a whole thesis if you really want to get the details on how it works.

http://chrisseaton.com/phd/
> Making all of these available and chaining all of these together wouldn't be a simple script.

All transformations are readily available in the standard library of a language like Python or Ruby. And note that this CyberChef tool doesn't chain them together either. The user does that. Likewise with a Python or Ruby script.

I guess I can see how this would be useful if you don't know how to code, but I don't know anyone who would be able to use a tool like this who doesn't know how to code.

Also, I can see how this would be useful in the same way that a web app like jsfiddle is useful, to make a quick example to share with others.

In any case, I clearly wrong, since I've been so highly downvoted.
> Whereas white nationalists demand the full scale deportation of native born citizens who aren't white?

Quick jump from "Alt-Right", a term that has become debased with all sorts of negative connotations, to "white nationalist".

It's easy setting up straw men.
I don't know, I mean I consider myself to be grown up and successful; degree, child, mortgage, full time software development career.

I fall foul of the same problems that this journalist has tried to solve with this approach and it was interesting to read an account of someone who's taken a radical approach to their habits.
In my anecdotal experience, Facebook is really only good for the very top of the funnel. And even then it's sketchy. Creating awareness or piquing interest with your one sentence value prop (e.g "Never manage servers again!", "Write native iOS apps in COBOL!", etc.) seems to be the best use of it.
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I thought this was a neat tool, and also an excellent demonstration of ReactJS working quickly.

In full disclosure I know the developer who built this, so I may be biased.
I know it's really dangerous but, when I was 3yo, a friend of my father bought me the most awesome gift I have ever got: a tiny set of tools. Since I was a really curious kids (about the inner mechanisms of stuff), my toys would always get broken. With my set (and my father's guidance), I begin to fix things up. Three broken gi joes and a horse? Praise Quiron, the three-torso centaur. A broken rc car "engine" is, now, a boat "engine". Today, I'm a mechatronics engineering intern and really thankful for those - dangerous - tools I've got.
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lol no. You could accomplish that with an all-rights-reserved copyright.
I was responsible for doing backups on a AS/400 during a Summer internship in the early 90's. Sadly did not do much more than exchanging the tapes, logging in and starting the backup.
EDIT: The man himself made a post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13058481

I wish it could be summarised in a comment, but it's actually not "that simple," so I recommend you read Chris Seaton's posts about GraalVM and JRuby+Truffle which has some excellent high-level explanations [of why Graal is amazing]. :)

http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/
Another possibility is that 1 and 2 day shipping gets you put in different queues for available stock; if they don't have enough Exploding Kittens (?!?!?!!!) on hand right now to fulfill all 1 and 2 day orders, they're obviously going to prioritize the people who's revealed preference through hard, cold cash, is for "1 day" delivery.
> How much are you willing to pay for it?

Wrong question. Correct question would be: "How much are you willing and able to pay for it?" (for me it much more strongly fails because of the second criterion).
What's frustrating is that People/Google keeps on blaming the OS nature of Android.

What they forget is that to put Android on a phone, practically you need Google's permission.

If Google cared, they could have made it part of the terms and conditions that it has to have security updates for five years.

They obviously don't
Sometimes it's the platform and sometimes it's the product.
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> Is paying for news categorically bad, or is it OK?

Imagine if many HN posts were links to academic journals with subscriptions costing $250 per year. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's not fun to continually click on links and be greeted by a paywall.

> If it is bad, why do you think volunteers will magically produce better results than paid journalists/editors/etc.?

It has nothing to do with how the writers are paid, it has to do with how the publication generates revenue.

> If it is OK that news gets paid for, why do you object to posting paid news sources on HN?

I simply don't like clicking on a link and finding myself at a paywall. I'd prefer to be able to filter out all such links and avoid ever knowing they're there. They amount to teaser clickbait headlines for content that is not free to read.

> If you do not object to paid sources, but only to some sources, and the sources are indicated when the link is posted, why do you think they should the system should prevent the links from being clicked rather than let users choose which sources to visit?

The source is low contrast and I rarely notice it when skimming the home page. My suggestion of converting the link to a google search to allow the content to be freely accessed would solve the problem.
The "React" part is the same regardless of web or native. But there are a lot of other concerns for web (css, DOM stuff, and integrating libraries that use those two).

Ideally web is just another taraget :) https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

That said, while writing a website with react-native-web is potentially interesting for new sites, it can be less worthwhile for an existing site to just embed a little bit (which is one of the huge values of React). It's also still very experimental. But I suspect it will be supported in a huge way soon.
It's not just about "trying something audacious" or "sticking with it". Do that with your social photo sharing site.

People's medical diagnoses and health is on the line here. The cavalier attitude of "getting caught up in taking nothing feasible to market" makes me sick.
Holy crap, the ceo wants to get rid of the fdic, which is like the best protection against the sort of mass market crash (and runs on the bank) that caused the great depression.
How are we supposed to have a conversation when facts no longer matter? Should I start spewing out delusions also?
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I was unsure how to read the diffusion function's description, so I went to the source.

The first line, "x ← x ≫ 32", might have a typo? It's actually assigning (x XOR (x >> 32)).

With "x ← px", p is a fixed prime number being multiplied by x.
At a certain point you have to ask yourself if "she got caught up" or if she was aware of the full implications of her company for years and merely covered it up. I hold zero sympathy for the latter because it wasted years of the lives of hundreds of employees. Not to mention money, that guy who killed himself, societal implications, etc.
I agree, and of course I would like us to do both, but in light of announcements like these:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear...

all I am saying is that we need to keep our priorities straight.
Writing a unix process supervisor system in erlang itself as a thin wrapper over OTP might be a fun project. Cool idea!
I'm going to use this when asking about legacy code. Thanks!
I'd like to see a dataset like this that includes email forwards, e.g. from Snopes.
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Wouldn't it be nice if all languages made indentation significant?

Or at least included a tool to fix it.
You wouldn't be able to sell simply a modified GameBoy with modified hw/sw parts. Nintendo would sue you into oblivion.