skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also very possible that Kalanick saw the writing on the wall that Trump and his administration could not be reasoned with, and these protests against the immigration EO (and Uber's snafu) gave him an "out" based on external pressure.

I'm reminded of Eliot Cohen's response after trying to work with the administration in good faith:

After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They're angry, arrogant, screaming "you LOST!" Will be ugly.

https://twitter.com/EliotACohen/status/798512852931788800
I dunno, $2 billion over 5 years is not exactly a ton of money to big G.
Designing for developers
Successful is purely subjective. They were "successful" at suppressing free speech is another way to look at it as well. I definitely would not agree with the rhetoric that was going to be spouted by the speaker and protesters have a right to protest. That being said, I believe the protesters are not aware of how their actions have greater implications on future policies that dictate what is fair to say and what isn't to a crowd of listeners.
I've been using it for quite a while longer than that, and I'm still discovering new functionality on a regular basis.

If you're unfamiliar as yet with tables and source blocks in org-mode, you're missing out on a fair bit that might be of use to you. Tables support a wide array of functionality that normally requires a dedicated spreadsheet tool or custom code, and inline evaluation of source blocks enables a wide array of functionality around exploratory and literate programming. I use both almost daily, and the quality of the results and the speed with which they're produced regularly astonishes my colleagues, who are not familiar with such powerful tools and the capabilities they confer.

(And lest I be perceived as bragging in this last claim, let me hasten to note that I'm not talking up myself - I'm no blazing fireball in the brains department, and as serious Emacs users go I'm barely more than a tyro - but rather talking up the amazing things which even someone barely more than a tyro can achieve with org-mode, and the efficiency with which such a person can do so.)

Take a quick look, if you care to, at the relevant [1] sections [2] of the manual. Perhaps you'll find these tools useful! And if not, then at least you'll have some better idea of the superpowers which rest at your very fingertips, should you in future find yourself with a need to lay your hands upon them.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html

[2] http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-With-Source-Code.html
Email (let's drop the hyphen)
Ask HN: How important is workplace image and perks to you?
How much does it matter to you that your workplace has a pool table, beer in the fridge, free food, motivational posters on the wall, an Xbox games room, pinball machines, a chef, beanbags etc etc?
Congratulations! This seems an extremely important release, maybe even the most important since 1.0. Why? The lack of the trait deriving functionality on the stable release has kept libraries that are actually quite central to the ecosystem, such as Serde and Diesel, using the nightly compiler – until now.

The stabilisation of the trait deriving functionality is a small step for the compiler but a giant leap for the Rust ecosystem!
Alternatively, they can use Scaleway[1] VPS. Start at 3€/month and if necessary scale up to 6 cores, 8 GB memory, 200GB SSD and unmetered bandwidth (200 Mbit/s) for 10€/month. That should be enough for a static website.

[1] https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/
Who said anything about advanced knowledge?

We're talking basic literacy.

You should at least know how to learn more about most of those subjects as they're needed, or know who to talk to when specialist knowledge may be required.
If MS/Skype have bug bounties, there might be money to be made in determining the cause.
Seems weird (out of character) to be reading this from a news site rather than from the Mozilla blog.
Video/phone advice platform – SaaS Solutions for business
Innovative home designed for independent living donated to a U.S. Army veteran
Well I would work remote, but almost all jobs that should be done remotely have been outsourced.
Thanks winslow. I appreciate you saying that
Yes, but agriculture became less a source of great wealth during the industrial revolution. Trade probably continued to be quite profitable, though.
No, it really isn't. More specifically, just because the Saudi regime maintains a facade of visceral hatred for domestic consumption does not mean that they are actually hostile towards (as in, would ever consider using military force against) Israel, because both have shared enemies that are potential existential threats: Iran, Islamic State, etc.

Of course, this doesn't mean they're BFFs either, but (despite the best efforts of IS...) 200m Shias aren't about to disappear anytime soon.

Complicated? Welcome to the Middle East.

Also, obligatory: http://www.slate.com/features/2014/07/middle_east/graphics/g...
Never thought about this before but it really does make sense for every government to provide a service like this.
When the comment says "understood", read it as "fluently understood". And again, "begging the question" has nothing to do with grammar, so there's no reason to sass by making grammatical errors.

Begging (for) the question is a correct literal usage of those words, under both prescriptivist and descriptivist definitions of the words. You're allowed to use the same sequence of words as an idiom in other ways. I can talk about a hot potato without metaphor, and I can talk about begging a question when not describing a fallacy.
I'm someone who stuck with Windows 7. The history of Windows has been so shaky, and the general software quality of Microsoft is so low, that the only rational strategy with Windows is "if it ain't broken, don't fix it."

I have both Windows and Mac hardware, and I prefer to update my Mac OS as soon as updates are available. On reflection, I suppose it's because the software quality is always high, and I know the core linux-based OS won't have any major changes. Upgrading, except for the occasional "I guess networking doesn't work now," is a pleasant and expected process. There are also rarely, at least for me, compatibility issues with existing software and newer Mac OS versions.

It seems like major versions of Windows are completely different operating systems, with "improvements" built on top of original hacks and poor code, and news reports of zero day crippling flaws in every new version. And of course, Windows 10 looks visually terrible. Flat design in general looks bad, but Windows 10 seems to have done something especially colorblind with it.
No, they are legally required to or could potentially be sued by investors for misleading
After neutering all the new "features" it's a GREAT system!

Really!
I wonder if at some point inheritance of the family wealth was dependent on having a viable offspring to pass the wealth onto. The article does not mention this, but in the 14 and 1500's, I can only assume at some point it was.
Yeah, it was aggressive, but it wasn't forced. Non-technical users do stuff they don't want to to their computers all the time.

The X button as an agree thing goes a bit too far though, i think.

Either way, I love my win 10. shrug
A non-exhaustive list:

1. Pedagogically, the lispy syntax was a big stumbling block for beginners. Probabilistic programming is hard enough as it is; prefix notation and parens only added difficulties (and these difficulties were unrelated to the conceptual material).

2. webchurch compiled to Javascript anyway, so it was nice to be closer to the target language.

3. Lisp can be a bit awkward for certain contemporary programming idioms (e.g., accessing object properties).
They have some courses on Udacity, but there are so many great resources available that it wouldn't make sense to reinvent the wheel.

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-techn...
(Disclaimer: CAF co-maintainer here.)

It's great to see more actor runtimes on the rise. Also interesting to see the actor model implemented in Go, which follows more of a pi calculus design with its channels. With an actor design, the software architecture shifts towards the endpoints of the communication.

CAF targets the performance-sensitive C++ community, so sending a message in the same process only costs a single hardware-support CAS operation. We found this scales very well. No GC other than reference counting.

For those interested in learning more about actors in the C++ ecosystem, I recently gave a talk about CAF and some performance comparisons to other frameworks in various scenarios:
http://matthias.vallentin.net/slides/caf-rise.pdf
I'd love to read your post on SVDs once it's written
GCE is incapable of doing the most recent cloud setup I've built on AWS, which uses g2 instances extensively (although Azure could).

I need the actual GPU—graphics, OpenGL, etc.—part, not just CUDA, in addition to the hardware H.264 encoders that come with nVidia's GRID CPUs. GCE has no equivalent.

We're also using Amazon's Elastic File System, and I don't think Google has an alternative—though that's something I could handle differently if I had to, at higher cost.
Not correct at all. You can run Tomcat in 5mb of ram and it starts in less than 250ms
Given that this runs on electron, which is basically a web browser with a node backend, is it possible to run this either as a webserver or otherwise remotely ?

I'd like to run this with the webserver running on a big dev machine at work and the client at work. X forwarding is not working well for me at least.
I feel you. Right now, we do have a node.js client that works with synced Realms, but it's only currently available to Pro and Enterprise customers. We're still exploring the best way to open up server-side coding to our Developer Edition users, but keep an eye out.

Also, as a point of clarification — when you say "back our websites," do you mean you'd like to run a node.js webapp with Realm as the data store?
Yes, when you trick and manipulate users into upgrading, it results in a substantial short-term boost in market share.
IG is definitely ramping up features to compete. But I have a weird feeling that it's going to end up being a camel. Snapchat on the other hand, is being too selective with their advertising channels. They require ridiculously expensive contracts that reflect the way TV ads are sold. What really bothers me is that the stories are too short and I cant produce content and publish it there.
'Member when windows did what you needed right out of the box?
I have had very few functionality issues. The main problem is the decision to self upgrade, constantly, without so much as an alert anytime you restart the machine. The dual control panels and ads are also really annoying and I can't imagine what a pain it would be for a laptop or tablet with more limited screen real estate.

So a good OS, great by M$ standards, with some annoying "features" baked in.
> macOS has been on version 10 for 16 years

OSX/macOS promoted their point releases to be something between service packs and major version releases, keeping it at version "X" for marketing purposes. From what I can see, between Cheetah and Sierra the expected workflow of the system has changed strongly a few times.
Pro tip: If it's "free," it just means you're the product.
What's the "golden pineapple"?
Oh, I see. And when are they expected to enter the market?
This is good advice - in fact at http://course.fast.ai our main teaching focus is transfer learning
The NFL 2017 Bad Lip Reading Has Arrived and It Does Not Disappoint
Expanding business without an actual person doing it (inbound marketing) is cheap, but very slow going. Twitter probably has people making deals, helping bigger accounts work on their presence, and things like that.
Is it possible that they are collecting resumes online but never hiring or interviewing the candidates? The resumes would be used as evidence that they tried to hire Americans but didn't consider any of the applicants to be qualified. This evidence was used to file visa applications.
The curious case of NextStep on AIX
Yes! The DB logic is separated from the game logic and both are separated from telegram's logic :D
> It uses three 1GB Heroku dynos for scaling, which is $150/mo. It also
uses some Heroku addons which add up to another $80/mo.

I have been involved in commercial projects that don't cost that much monthly. I can't imagine spending that much on a non-profit thing.
Not all of those are equal.

* Pool table, Xbox, pinball machines, beanbags: Whatever

* Motivational posters: I don't really care. But, if a company consciously chose not to have posters as a cost-saving measure, run. Again, stuff will be on the walls at any company.

* Beer in the fridge: Again, whatever. You could read a lot into a company's culture depending on their alcohol provisions + alcohol consumption.

* Free food (and a chef): This can be a legitimately useful perk. It saves you time, is more convenient, can be healthier, and grows team unity.
This is purely anecdotal, but I live in Florence and know a couple of people from the "old-money" families and they are not rich by todays standard. They make a modest living renting out and managing the properties handed down through the generations and have to be frugal to make it work.

Also, you should be very sceptical of any study made using Italian tax records as a data source :D
Don't forget Facebook, where to even view some local community pages they bug you to make an account.
The argument is that giving up and leaving, is the best way to have a more radicalized group leading the country, and that will result in even worse policies.

You don't want to have a POTUS with majority control of the Congress and a friendly SCOTUS, to be fully radicalized. But that is what you'll get if their only advisers left are the ones wanting him to rule like that.
Apparently,

free speech!=hate speech

I'm confused
Embarrassingly easy Hadoop like processing
$400 million USD total revenue in 2016 (from the article) is not exactly "billions of dollars".

But, in general, yes, I think the sales force required to engage advertisers should not be discounted when the first thing going through the head is "but it's just an app!".
John Carmack has a history of betraying employers (e.g. softdisk). Hard to take him seriously when the evidence is he said she said and the law decided against him.
I think 27 is old for HN, so I'm right there with ya. The tinder and snapchat generation blew right by me. I still use twitter and instagram, but I don't immediately reach for them. I typically go to HN, an article, or another piece of reading material when I'm bored.
Honestly, less than 5% truly 'understand' moving flux distributions or top cylinder quenching effects. I think it means that they are comfortable with what their (limited) understanding tells them. I have built a dozen engines and am still learning.
Isn't this article purely an opinion piece? I don't mind, but if it is, it should be labeled as such and not passed off as investigative journalism. That being said, you could argue that its both or any number of things, for example:

news supression/distortion -> Orwell

class system of superiors/inferiors -> Brave New World

Could even possibly throw Citizen Kane into the mix but that may be a stretch.
I had to pay $1000 to a squatter to get my own personal name.
DynamoDB?
The project would lose a lot by coming under the "management" of any one company. I imagine several forks would quickly ensue.
I hope you're right, honestly. The cynic in me just sees Trump going on with terrible policies for the next 4 or even 8 years. Regardless of Kalanick's impact, there's too much hand-wringing and not enough people studying how to influence public opinion, how to run a successful movement that won't peter out, and how to organize from the grassroots.
The oppression faced by millionaires like Brendan Eich and billionaires like Peter Thiel is one of the biggest issues facing America today. We should all stand up in solidarity for the minority demographic "Holders of Immense Wealth".
A lot of manufacturers have parts designed as drop in replacements for older parts, sometimes even with similar looking part numbers. Another thing that I often do is use Digikey's search and check their stock quantity to find out what's "popular". For example, if I want an op amp, I'll go to that category on Digikey and then first enter a quantity and sort by price. Then I'll start adding constraints - for example, for a 324 replacement, I might want it to be through hole (I nearly always do SMD designs though). From that, I unsurprisingly find the LM324 (it's still one of the cheapest!). But I also find the MCP6002, which is lower voltage but has rail to rail inputs and is designed for a capacitive load - perfect for driving a microcontroller ADC.

The truth though is that it's not like the old parts got any worse, and are still often the cheapest choice. You have to add additional constraints (I want lower loss, better performance etc) for something else to be "better".
But they still don't solve major transportation problems. They will never have the capacity of trains (even on self-driving-car only highways), and safety requirements will most likely lead to a situation where people will no longer be able to modify, or even own, their own cars:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
Travis Kalanick exits Trump advisory council after #deleteUber
> By any reasonable interpretation, the fastest Java database system is definitely not Spark

What database would you recommend for solving the taxi problem using the JVM?

> Spark is Scala, not Java, though both do use the JVM, so I'll give you that.

What does JVM stand for? I was under the impression that we were talking about it's size (10mb v. 100mb).

> You will find that benchmarks of Java database systems generally don't even include Spark

And? What are we talking about here?

> If you know anything at all about runtimes, you'd know that if you've found a Java based system that is 1000x slower than a C based system, either your benchmark is extremely specialized, broken, or you are comparing apples & oranges.

Why?

We're talking about business problems, not about microbenchmarks.

If this is a business problem, and I solve it in 1/1000th the time, for roughly the same cost, then what exactly is your complaint?

> Fast is an ambiguous term... usually you are looking at things like latency, throughput, efficiency, etc. I'm not sure which you mean here.

It's not ambiguous. I'm pointing to the timings for a specific, and realistic business problem.

> Look, Java certainly has some overhead to it, and sometimes it significantly impacts performance. Before you get too excited about attributing it to runtime size, you might want to look at the size of glibc...

Does Java include glibc?

What exactly is your point here?
We've got a bunch of Win 8 computers at work, but we missed the free upgrade. So were stuck.

Would be nice to get the free upgrade back.
Why not? Those problems fit into cache.
Media source extensions don't give you the low-level control needed for low-latency and streams need to be re-muxed into fMP4. Web-RTC is a good option, but the infrastructure required can be a non-starter for many projects. For example, native webRTC libraries for golang are currently lacking to support needed to stream low-latency video.
I figure this will probably be shit on here, but have you ever played with Windows Server Deduplication? We use it all over our corporate Windows environment, with a distributed file system, and it averages 48% globally. It doesn't chew up RAM, integrates with shadow copy services, behaves itself while it runs in the background, and I honestly don't see much if any performance hit reading/writing. Now we're not talking petabytes of data, but each of probably a hundred file servers worldwide has 10-20 terabytes worth stored.

It's literally set it, and forget it. While you gain 50% of your storage back.
Hate speech is not forbidden outright. Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Supreme_Court_case...
Got any facts to back up:

1. Zero degradation

2. Recycling (and producing) batteries has less e impact than petrol
On the first day of black history month, a gay Jewish immigrant with a black boyfriend tries to exercise his first amendment right to free speech, oddly attempting to give a speech about free speech. Naturally, at Berkeley the response is to damage the Martin Luther King building, assault a woman for having dared to vote according to her own wishes, and attempt to beat a person to death with a shovel. To enable this, the police are even ordered to stay back and let it happen.

Is this really something you want to support?
> It might sound a frivolous reason, but i reverted back to Win7 because i don't like how newer Windows look like.

User experience is important. Would be like a car switching the positions of the Gas/Brake pedal.

UI matters.
> web apps will be able to cover 50-80% of native app use-cases in the next 2-3 years

Feels like this has been 2-3 years out for almost as long as "native apps" have existed.

Reminds me of the first scene in "Snatch" -

Turkish:
What's happening with them sausages, Charlie?

Sausage Charlie:
Five minutes, Turkish.

Turkish:
It was two minutes five minutes ago.
IDE and compilers for legacy computers
Yes, it's against the interests of car manufacturers to do so. But i could see china encourage that open battery standard(among chinese companies only, behind closed doors) as a way to get market share of both cars and batteries.
Oral History of Richard Boucher
Clean in the city, most of that power is still from coal, just further from your tailpipe. You are just moving numbers around.
From experience, majority of 1:1's turn into detailed status updates rather than goals and career growth. When you think about it, your goals don't change every weeks. Which is why a weekly status update on your project will always be the main topic of conversation because it changes constantly. "Are you blocked?", "what's your ETA for XYZ", "did you talk to bob about ABC?". etc...

Your goals and career growth are discussed prior to your annual review. It's sounds bad but that's reality.
>Would be nice to get the free upgrade back.

You're not missing as much as you think :)
There are patches to BTRFS (actively developed) for inband dedup as well.
Depends what is considered as employees. I believe a lot of people are hired as artists, etc. for small items such as geotags.
07:00 - Philips Hue lights slowly turn on until bright at 07:10

07:10 - iPhone alarm goes off

07:12 - Bedside alarm goes off to make sure I actually got up

07:14 - Shave, long, hot shower

07:40 - Leave for work (either walk to the train station or drive), eat a Banana on the way

08:15 - Arrive at work, make a coffee and fill water bottle

08:20 - Team lead of a small ops / systems engineers, some management style work, lots of puppet coding, keeping an eye on monitoring and tickets, assist my team and developers with any peer review / issues / discussions

10:00 - Sometimes get a morning snack / coffee

12:00 - Lunch, avoid carbs and try to stick to high protein, low sugar foods when possible.

12:15 - Back to work any time between 12:15 and 13:00

Any time between 15:00 and 18:00 - leave work

Any time between 17:00 and 20:30 - Order dinner from UberEats, maybe have a wine or two

Most evenings - Catch up on comedy shows, read books

Some evenings - Perform out of hours scheduled work or finish things I was on a roll with remotely from home, go to gigs, catch up with friends over dinner etc...
Cali's top court to decide if emails/texts from psnl devices are public record
Falling prices is deflation, not inflation.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13555580
I'm not arguing for anything: I'm asking what do we get for this cost.

It sounds like you're suggesting we get:

* Not having to write in SQL (note KDB supports SQL92)

Maybe something else? I'm not sure I understand.