skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it is important to separate the policy issues from the person.

This is only true if you consider policy to be separate from humanity. The advocacy of anti-poor policies (he's in favor of preventing caps on the price of inmate calls in prisons, he and O'Rielly submarined the Lifeline internet program designed to help the poor connect to the internet) speaks to him as a human being as much as anything else. The notion that policy and politics are somehow separate from the measure of a human being is dangerous because it provides all sorts of cover for nasty, anti-social behavior just because it seems like he loves his wife and his dog. (This can also be called the Mike Pence strategy.)
If anyone is looking for a summer application that won't inundate you with so much information, try radio silence
No, that's my point. They would not be permitted within 31m and they'd be stupid to try. That's the kind of pedantic crap that junior judges get pissed off with every day (depending on your country I guess). Round to 30m and realise that they really mean "not in your face" because you're an intelligent human being.
To clarify, I meant this thread on HN when I said thread. I don't find it strange at all that that your article didn't mention it. Thank you for writing it!
We don't use Redshift to run our queries. Nova, our customized columnar store, is designed to handle more specific use cases. You can read more here, https://amplitude.com/blog/2016/05/25/nova-architecture-unde....
Yes, although the system can be modified to permit it.

Also, google play services require a library to use, and this library runs in your process. Likewise, the dynamically loaded mapview problem takes some external code and stuffs it into your process.
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> if providers can sell a fastlane to Netflix they can reduce prices for the consumer.

Historically, this is not shown to be how companies act. The implicit assumption here is that a supplier has some sort of benevolent desire. But the reality is that if a company can increase revenue, they will do so without redistributing it to the benefit of their customers or even employees.

> They would argue that in the end that's great for consumers too, but as far as I am concerned, that remains to be seen.

We have seen it, and it's not great for consumers. Trickle-down economics is a fallacy. It's also been debunked by Economists very thoroughly.
Man, some people here just cannot picture life outside their bubble. It's amazing to me that someone flippantly dismisses making 5 million dollars as an average thing. I'm from a country where only 68,000 people out of 45 million make at least $1,000 per month[1]. That's 0.15% of the population. Where you were born is probably the biggest single factor in success

[1] http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Number-of-Kenyans-earning...
The thing the Guardian did that was really unforgivably bad is not canvass expert opinion. They didn't even care that 'backdoor' has a specific technical meaning, they just stuck it in the headline and then edited it out after getting called out.
Agreed. I'm not sure exactly what I read, but I couldn't piece together a single coherent line of thought as we jumped from sketchy individual developers to requirements gathering, something about UX, valleys, zombies, Salesforce as a CRM (except it can do anything really 'cause it's a platform), to the closing statement about perhaps not building the application you thought you needed. And what did it all have to do with spreadsheets, or building a better one?
I am not sure how you define 2015-class, but building a release with distillery, and running docker build on a Dockerfile that copies the tarball (that includes everything needed to run your app (ERTS, app code, NIFs, etc)) makes a docker container that you can deploy as you'd expect. If you want to use clustering it's a bit more setup, but I was able to get a simple phoenix app running clustered on Google Container Engine (Kubernetes) in about 4-5 hours, starting with zero knowledge about Kubernetes or Elixir deployment. I pushed my code to github[1], and I did a talk on it at our local Elixir meetup[2].

Now that I have it figured out it's totally painless to upgrade, especially because of the Kubernetes tools. Simply make a new release, build a new container, push it to your docker registry, and then do a rolling update with kubernetes using the new version of the container. You can also add/remove scale on the fly, libcluster handles it all.

[1]https://github.com/bbhoss/k8sexamplephx

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNll1r6ZtO0&feature=youtu.be...
Nobody's starving in the U.S. Our problem is obesity. Raising the cost of food would be a good thing.
but if I block Little Snitch from Little Snitch, will Research Assistant still work?
Yes, that would have been far better. It's not like they'd have been shy about converting units like "cubits", so why not do the same with "feet"?
> this is the worst piece of literature I have ever read.

The first line says it is a transcript from a talk, so you shouldn't expect literature.
Doesn't matter. If Uber doesn't work, Lyft will be happy to provide.
I believe Checkers the Dog was a brave trailblazer in this category
She directed the movie, and provided the painting that was used for the "other half" of the style transfer - so was critical to creating both inputs and guiding the final result.

That alone is more involvement than some PhD advisors have in papers they co-authored.

And she may of course delved much further into the technical side of things that what I've described above.
It is probably a sign of a good language that the words used most should be similar in frequency to their use in pseudo code. When words like "end" (Ruby), "self" (Python), "import" (Java), "err"/"error" (Go and Node) are over-represented, it's likely a sign that the language is introducing accidental complexity. By this metric Swift looks astonishingly sane.
Word gets around. People attending the Women's March in DC got an email telling them not to use WhatsApp. We have evidence that people in authoritarian countries outside the US are moving off WhatsApp based on this article.

All it takes is a rumor.
In general, Twitter infrastructure didn't start by building solutions in house. Like most early stage companies, it started by using whatever it can find in the OSS repertoire. But a lot of problems that are non-existing at a smaller scale or at least tolerable become more acute when you scale up.

This is when the developers face a decision: to improve the existing solution, or develop a new one? There are many factors that impact the final decision. Maturity of the technology? Community support/inclusion? How big is the necessary change? What scale can existing solution handle by design? How does in-house talent compare to those maintaining the original? What's the focus/need of the in-house use cases compared to the broader objective of the OSS solution? It should not be a surprise that the answer differs from project to project. But if the decision is to use the existing solutions, it probably won't raise much eyebrow/question.

It is very common for larger-scale operations to write up their own solutions. Because a different scale can change the nature of the problem fundamentally. Google, Facebook and whoever has production fleet above the 10K range tend to build a lot of in-house solutions, often after similar considerations as mentioned above.
>"Not gonna happen. Why? Because: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...

That's a misunderstanding. Most specs aren't fully fleshed out code, they're the bare bones of describing what something needs to do.

Think of it as if you're designing electronics out of integrated circuits. You can design a schematic just by knowing the inputs and outputs that the integrated circuits need to provide. The actual implementation of the integrated circuits is abstracted away.

It's the same with the relationship with specs and code. Specs are meant to be at a higher abstraction level than the code they describe. You can use code to write specs (and there are advantages to doing so), but the idea with the specs is to define something which is universally true, rather than get into the detail of the work done to meet this specification.

An obvious example of this is design by contract:

https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...

Whilst code contracts aren't necessary in all languages (this is a good starting point for looking into why: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2016/02/10/types-properties-software-de... ), I believe they do offer benefits to software written in most imperative-style languages.
Whitelist for phone tethering. Use it almost every day!
If true, and if the internet is correct about company size being between 51 and 200, then that means each employee only generates between ~$78K and ~$20K. Anyone know if that is low or not? Seems low to me (compared with software engineer salaries), but I suppose that depends on what kinds of employees they have and how much they pay.
I've had problems with code having non-ASCII spaces appended, and the terminal rendering them as zero-width, so I had to use hexdump to find the problem.
Because voting isn't important and plaintext is easier to deal with than markdown. Plaintext works in a terminal and with embedded patches and inline replies and so on. You don't grok it, that doesn't make it worse.
I wouldn't call "knowingly breaking the law and throwing VC money at the lawyers until the problem goes away" necessarily "figuring out government regulations".
I don't think it is legally available online. Getting the physical book would be the best option since its legal and more thorough than any online resource I've found, but I don't know what your budget is like or if you even like reading books. Just saying that its one option you have.
We can regret the loss of jobs to automation, but picking is brutal. Very hard on the body. And it's seasonal, so it won't sustain you all year. I don't think it'll be missed.
Manipulating Probability Distribution Functions
Apple sues Qualcomm, saying chipmaker withheld $1B as “extortion”
Airtable is a better spreadsheet imho.
Email puts mail delivery man out of work.

This luddite news clickbait should not have a place on HN.
Jack Ma Interview at Davos 2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742
> Developers have better things to spend their time on than jumping through hoops to learn the obscure workflow of an old community

Do developers really think that way?

I know if I'm going to invest 50+ hours of my time on an activity then an hour or two to get setup is no big deal.
Quip (a better spreadsheet) or Django web framework (its ORM and built-in admin can do wonders) are worth mentioning. Another example that comes to mind is how Vox uses Google Sheets for content & config: https://product.voxmedia.com/2014/7/29/5863004/take-a-peek-a...
> compare the phrase "peeled peach" with "hairy-peeled peach"

Is that a rule of grammar, or simply the meanings of the adjectives "peeled" and "hairy-peeled"?
I read that processor makers are betting everything on multicore. More and more cores.

Languages with great support for these hardware features will be the languages of the future and today.

Elixir is definitely a great bet, you'll max all your cores and not break a mental sweat about it.

Really compelling stuff and great developer UX.
What you think others will benefit from should have not bearing on regulation in my opinion. I am prefectly happy paying $10 a month for an internet connection that plays just netflix and nothing else to give you an example.
Relatedly, I booked an Uber last night from within the Google Maps app on my phone, and the entire experience was in-app -- route selection, driver pick-up tracking, in-ride tracking, and drop-off confirmation. That's a whole lot tighter integration than I've seen in the past. The rumor-monger in me wants to read all sorts of acquisition talks into that level of product integration.

(Which is great for another reason -- I don't give Uber access to my location when I'm not using the app, and the Uber team has apparently decided to basically brick their own app for users like me. But hooray, Google Maps is now a functional replacement for the Uber client!)
Why doesn't it run on Windows? (Though the Windows firewall does a lot of this, it's not formatted as nicely.)
Doh, I guess I could have used better wording. Hopefully it's clearer now. =)
I teach 65+ y.o. people to have a web page on the net, so I love your work! :)
That was my initial reaction, but if you look at section 2, both paragraphs could plausibly have been written by Stewart and/or Shapiro; all the images are authored by Stewart as the director.
They would not be permitted within 31m

Do you have a good justification for that claim?

If a judge made a ruling that someone couldn't approach closer than 30.5m, and the subject was outside that limit, surely they are complying with the judge's instructions?

I would find it hard to imagine a lawyer arguing "I know the judge said 30.5m, but that also includes 31m, and 32m - the judge meant that they can't be in the person's face".

You don't find similar arguments for prosecuting someone driving at 1mph below the speed limit - "I know the limit's 70mph, but that's an absolute limit: 69mph is not OK either. Nor 68mph."
Let him reduce it to 64Kbps what difference does it make ? Call an elephant a horse will not make it a horse. As users we constantly want more bandwidth and ISP that fails to provide it will go out of business nevertheless.
It's worth noting that Quantrix Modeler [1] (founded in 2002) did carry on the torch after Lotus Improv, and continues to exist. That said, it's not clear how much traction Quantrix got either. It was bought out in 2010 by IDBS and te deal value wasn't disclosed, but it was reported that they had only nine employees at the time of acquisition. Another very interesting earlier attempt in this market was Javelin [2].

[1] https://www.quantrix.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software
In the News: A BGP Hijacking Technical Post-Mortem
You might checkout the literal optimizations that ripgrep does. IIRC, the underlying regex lib is optimizing a few classes of "simple" regexes with SIMD to achieve better perf than the first handwritten code in that article.

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#literal-optimizations
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Are NCDs the next world pandemic?
> Do they care less than they used to, though?

That's impossible to measure, but the arguments you have employed regarding personnel changes do not demonstrate your point.
Davos 2017 Cyber Resilience Report [pdf]
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Duh.

We wanted to pay for Trello, we tried paying for Trello, we even explicitly asked how can we give you money, but the only option was to get stickers and smileys as premium pro features. So $4m sounds not a bit surprising.
A physically separate network for medical devices in your home is too expensive to justify.
> And yet people starve all over the place; not just in 3rd world countries but here in the USA. So either it's not that plentiful or we have a serious logistical problem.

It is the latter, in case you were curious. Access to food requires uninterrupted distribution, which is not always the case.
99 Percent Invisible has a great episode on this device:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vox-ex-machina/
Proprietary tools that do those sorts of things are currently penetrating the market, yet slowly. I've been called to advise on a few projects under development, but have found the mindset behind them lacking for meaning or purpose beyond commercial activity, which is perfectly ok and useful – though what interests me most in this realm is version control coupled with open access and put to use by citizen groups for legislative proposals.

Check out Contract Express from Thomson Reuters (http://contractexpress.com) for the establishment's instantiation of something that approximates the features you describe.
DigitalOcean: Cloud computing designed for developers
Perhaps I should clarify that the "they" I referred to are the app publishers, not necessarily Google.
> The good news is that hedge funds are not advertisers and don't care about particular individuals

This sounds disingenuous; it's not hard for the author or anyone else to imagine how Wall Street could use personally identifiable information, and the author claims to be at least somewhat sophisticated in the 'big data' field.

Also, it's an industry that has an incredible track record of fraud, even fixing the bedrock interest rates like Libor, prides itself on an anything-goes atmosphere, and disdains regulation.
Is all this investment in self driving cars done to replace taxi drivers? Will food get cheaper if picked by robots? And even if, what the use of it if nobody can pay the cheaper prices anymore, because they don't have work anymore, because their work is done by robots? Do you really think big money does decide by sexiness of the product where to invest? Like some JS Hippster selects a framework?
I mean, it'll probably be missed by those who rely on it for their livelihood. I doubt they'll be offered much in the way of retraining or scholarship.
I swear to god, anytime anything pops up on a website when I click on it, it seriously pisses me off.

A fucking chatbox? I already hate your company.

A fucking chatbox from the author of a blog? I hate you and everything you stand for. You are what's wrong with the internet. You should know better, and you do. But you do this anyway. Just stop.
By that reasoning though, isn't almost every problem in open source projects a "non-issue", because you can always just fork and do things your way?

The point is that reducing the friction required to contribute to an open source project is a great way to attract new contributors. Using more user-friendly dev tools is a great way to do that, and is therefore something existing maintainers would be wise to consider doing.
A nonspecialist such as Stewart may or may not have contributed to the paper.

All the evidence we have now is her name on the paper (for which there is obviously a strong propaganda/PR incentive for all authors, so that evidence should be at least partially discounted).

I certainly wouldn't consider this (fairly thin) body of evidence dispositive in an unusual situation such as this.

I'd be more convinced by e.g. a string of commits on the paper's repo coming from her account (if we were confident that her account was really hers).

The parent's skepticism seems to me entirely warranted, given the currently available evidence, and I don't think it should be downvoted.
A diet built mostly on rice and beans[0] with the occasional serving of liver, piece of fruit, can of sardines, and multivitamin to make sure you don't end up deficient in something important is already very, very cheap. So cheap that the annual cost of the square footage for the kitchen to cook it in (maintenance, rent/mortgage, tax. et c.) may be a bigger concern.

Granted it's not a very fun diet, but hey, there are people who pay a whole lot of money for a bland food-goo meal substitute (which, admittedly, removes the need for a kitchen).

[0] This prepper site http://geekprepper.org/what-is-the-cost-of-5-gallons-of-bean... (2015) figures over 100 days worth of rice+beans at ~$125, not counting containers to keep it in. Call it $300/year for a ~2500 calorie/day diet (in JUST rice and beans, not counting anything else). That's $700 for other stuff with a budget of just $1,000/yr/person for food.

[EDIT] now that I think about it, you could probably get away without a real kitchen on this diet. Rice cooker or crock pot, microwave, mini fridge, water source. Portable propane burner if you can swing it, for when you have stuff that's not rice+beans. [EDIT EDIT] and you can skip the microwave if you have the burner.
I don't think it's distribution - there is food available in every store I've seen. It's money to buy the food with, or money to buy mobility to get to the food.
That was Amit's doing, actually. Around 2012, with the success of Knowledge Panels and the acquisition of Metaweb (FreeBase), he decreed that search would become a "conversational answer engine", devoted toward getting you the answer to your question as quickly as possible. The Hummingbird ranking update was part of that - it made it much more effective to phrase your query as a question rather than a bunch of keywords. Also renewed integration of Google Now into search, expanded Knowledge Panels, cards on mobile search, bigger investments in voice search, etc.
Did Nintendo download a Mario ROM and sell it back to us?
"The world is fine", you mean right here right now? So far the stunning thing is the derivatives / rates of change, not the values as such. But rates of change is not something to scuff about. If you are speeding off a cliff you don't go "so far everything looks good" just as long as you are not over the edge yet.

In 30 years if you regret these words, I hope you do not go saying "there was no way I could have known give the data at the time". Because that would not be true.
> My parents would only benefit if they get a restricted internet at lower prices

Then they can get lower speed internet and/or lower caps to lower their rates.
The ERTS runtime (VM + libraries) are taken from the host and are not built. That said, it is possible to build the runtime for other platforms via cross compilation. [1][2]. I've done this for ARM, but have not tried to generate a release using the cross-platform build.

The beams themselves are cross-platform bytecode, but in practice beam files are not distributed on their own (except for patching). Typically you'll ship them as part of the released package which includes ERTS, your application, and all required dependencies (system libraries, other apps/libraries, and any native dependencies you've introduced). It excludes anything you don't declare as necessary from the final release package

In practice, people will usually use either the official release tooling or third party tooling to create platform-specific releases.

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/installation_guide/INSTALL-CROSS.html
[2] http://www2.erlangcentral.org/wiki/?title=Cross_compiling
My guess would be that they had a sufficient number of "do you have something less complicated, we'll pay you for it" questions which they can now/soon (I'm assuming they'll restructure the pricing/general model a bit) answer with "here buy this Trello subscription for X$".
The funniest thing on that page is the "Frequently bought together" section. A moustache-twirling coffee mug?
“Track Trump” will compare promises to policy changes in the first 100 days
Just live in the UK a while, and you'll see it's completely normal. The Guardian has link-baity headlines all the time, that grossly exaggerate stories. Pretty much all newspapers in the U.K. do this, save for the BBC. If it wasn't for the Snowden reveals, I'd consider the Guardian just another junk partisan newspaper.
Love the concept of this "How to" series. Seems like it'd be a good opportunity to spotlight the interesting HN threads on any given topic.

e.g. for NLP:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686029

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11690212

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839611
Showing concern for those who will be without a way to support themselves or their families is not being a luddite.
Check out the linked Github repo.
It may well be that the IT services industry you mention is taking all the talent. Apparently, the Indian ecosystem tech is currently structured such that this is the most rewarding career path.
Captured a user base that they can try to convert into paying customers? (With real paid tiers, unlike the worthless Gold.)
I was thinking more on the processing of incoming emails, ones with attachments or routing. I worked years ago on an enterprise product that did this, but it was integrated with large printer.