skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still a strong myth that there is a causal effect between how well you can write, and how well you can think, conduct a logical reasoning or w/e... And of course most people who say that believe to know better than linguists/psychology researchers on the matter.
There is no sign of average revenue per user decreasing. Even in US & Canada, ARPU increased from $13.7 in Q4 2015 to $19.81 in Q4 2016 [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/01/facebook-q4-2016-earnings/
There are decent GUIs in most major distros that do this for you now.
a modular decentralized network of local and non local
communities across the globe working together in symbiosis?

Okay, but how?
> Tesla is a vertically integrated company, so they have squeezed all the margins out of their supply chain. The big automakers all share their supply chain and have to feed it with margins at every level. Same story with SpaceX - vertically integrated.

Vertical integration doesn't guarantee better prices just because you don't rely on third party suppliers. There are other benefits, such as monopolizing a certain part of the supply chain (like batteries in the case of Tesla) but it also requires very high investments (Gigafactory). Those investments can pay off in the future but can also turn out to be very expensive mistakes - you basically wager long term pay offs against flexibility.
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The man who sold the world on credit cards
I suppose I did mean more common within our circles--the corner of the culture that reads Hacker News. I'm from Western Mass, which has way more small software businesses than startups, so I'm not sheltered from the idea.

I think you're right there's a certain groupthink that goes into it.
Interesting that you wrote Spotify out of that narrative. They were a really interesting early take on P2P there for awhile too, keeping legality and centralization but leveraging the technology for increased quality of service. It's a large part of why they're the market leader now. It's not like the idea of a subscription music service was novel, their execution was unusually good as a result.
If they want to justify $25 billion plus valuation they will need to open the platform to be useful to businesses other than the high spending brand advertisers, which is certainly a lucrative segment but not the totality of advertisers. Once the people at Snapchat just accept that buying things is also apart of the human experience, then they'll be able to build in direct response ad formats and sales tracking (online and offline). Right now their ad formats are on the level of vanity, though vanity does sell it doesn't sell to all. In the long run, for Snapchat to justify $25bn and greater the local Chinese restaurant needs to be able to send an ad with a call to action to Snapchat users in a vicinity of their choosing, and also be able to track conversion by who walked in. This is all technically feasible, and Snapchat may open up to more sales conversion advertisers. But, that same Chinese restaurant could be doing this advertising campaign today on Facebook and Google. So what makes Snapchat special? They will need to train their users to accept advertisements from unknown entities, because right now their ad content leverages previous brand recognition and borders more on entertainment than sales.
I am not 100% sure, but my understanding is that the bank is liable for those losses unless they can prove gross negligence on your part. I've heard that legal argument, at least. [0]

Though this is not worse from your cryptocurrency. If they get a hold of your private keys, you lose everything. At least in the classical banking system you have some legal recourse.

[0]: I might just be thinking of this comedy sketch though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Would love to see a sample of botpress actually in action.
Early 2015 13" rMBP.

Have no complaints—works perfectly.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I agree it was surprisingly readable. Most important part starts on page 9.
Innovation is batteries is hard. Which is why it is all the more impressive that lithium-ion costs have plummeted in the past few years.

http://analysis.energystorageupdate.com/lithium-ion-costs-fa...
Yes, short answer: will happen.
Speaking of quack treatments by the rich and famous.. mercury used to be a popular treatment.

Some rich people used to soak in bathtubs full of it. One of the popes supposedly had a special suit of armor constructed so that he could soak in mercury 24 hours a day.
Hehe this question was indeed inevitable. I'm using Hyper (https://hyper.is/) with the "hyperpower" plugin. Enjoy!
A Tesla can do 150 miles without needing to charge at all.
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Yep. Cloning it is also a great way to poke around and get a better sense of its functionality.
Some of the earliest writing we have is about attempts to live longer. Epic of Gilgamesh, Egyptian tombs.....
When it gets them fired. And if it especially makes them hard to hire again somewhere else.
Much better people than I have been dead or in prison in the name of preserving or gaining civil rights. And many more people are freer because of those people.

Sometimes people have to die or go to prison so that others may live or be free.

We should all hope to never have to be one of those people, but if someone, somewhere isn't or hasn't been, things will get worse and not better.
>"Edward Anthony Anderson, January 15, 1996, shot while handcuffed and on the ground. Frankie Arzuega, fifteen years old, January 12, 1996, shot in the back of the head; the following Mother’s Day, his family received taunting phone calls from anonymous sources: they dialed *69 (call back) and the police answered. Anthony Baez, December 22, 1994, chocked to death for playing football on the streets of New Your City. Rene Campos, whom police said committed suicide in custody by stuffing more than half his T-shirt down his own throat, reaching three-quarters of the way down to his lungs. Garland Carter, seventeen years old, January 8, 1996, shot in the back by police who earlier that day had driven by his home, making their fingers into the shape of a gun and “firing.” Angel Castro, fifteen years old, October 23, 1996. Having already moved out of a neighborhood because of death threats from the police, Castro rode his bike back to the neighborhood to a friend’s birthday party: He accidentally ran into a police cruiser, breaking his teeth, and as he rose from the ground a cop shot him. Sherly Colon, April 25, 1997, pushed off the roof of a housing project, after which police removed the cuffs which had held her hands behind her back….The list is as long as you want to make it..." –The Culture of Make Believe, Derrick Jensen

The Culture of Make Believe is a very difficult book to get through. The author talks about hate crimes and power, and how we've developed these very odd cultural norms around violence. It's pretty depressing.
You were right about turning down Temporal AA ending up with worse results than 2xMSAA. MSAA with r.MSAACount = 4 is a huge improvement, though: https://www.spinda.net/files/4x-msaa.mp4

Thanks for the help! I'll go forward with this for now and see if I run into performance issues. Around how dense is "really dense"?
Myspace was founded only 6 months before Facebook!
"It was a generation ago, you would work for "the company" until you were 65. And they would give you gold wrist watch on the day you retired."

But do you realize that this model lasted for about a generation, and only a small % of the world population (probably <5%) benefited from it? There's more to the world than the European and American middle class. That is irrelevant in the long term.
There's a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman that talks about systematic bias in human heuristic thinking.

> The more easily people can call a scenario to mind, the more probable they find it.

This is practically a restatement of the "availability bias" from that book. It came to mind immediately when I saw the article's title "How can Medical Professionals Avoid Making Assumptions That Lead to Mistakes?"

The answer is probably that they can't, because they're human. One can put good processes in place, and do things like checklisting that dissuade people from making fast heuristic decisions (which we know are systematically, and predictably wrong). But people really hate stuff like that, doctors especially, and so it's an ongoing cultural battle.

Doctors in this regard are no different than software engineers, or plumbers, or any other human at work, they just get more attention when they screw up because people die.
Not across all platforms, it does not exist. So my PlayStation Steam stuff takes a serious chunk of bandwidth.
Its not like the Dalai Lama is promoting an armed revolution or uprising in Tibet. He's a chill dude with a peaceful reasonable message compared to Milo Yiannopoulos.
Sorry, we exist. I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but cola tastes like shit, so I'll vote for anything else.
Now, I wonder if I can get an old calculator to play the accompanying 4 track MOD?

Add some music and the demosceners at pouet.net might get interested in seeing it; they have a "wild" category for hardware/exotic demos like this.

I agree with the second comment there about replacing the verbose chain of if-statements with a single expression; my first thought upon seeing that was "this really needs to be simplified"; likewise, the second part with 7 nearly identical lines shifting left and then right by the same amount, then multiplying by 255(?!) can be simplified to a loop; the way it looked with lines for B and C having a slightly-different mask constant is misleading, since it looks like a copy-paste error. Here's an (untested) attempt at simplifying the code:

int yoffs[] = { 0, 1, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2 };
shift = 6 - ((digit&3) << 1);
for(segs=0,i=0;i<7;i++)
segs |= !!(screen_buffer[bx+yoffs[i]][bx] & 1 << shift+(i<1||i>2) ) << 6-i;
This isn't safe or humane, 2 months ago a couple of refugees were severely frostbitten in Manitoba: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/refugees-frostbite-ma...

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting down-voted for showing not all crossings are safe and quaint like the story from this article. I'm from a border-town in Canada and there's no way I'd risk my life by crossing by foot.

Next time, try commenting instead.
For now, we are not aware of any major brand that runs on Botpress, but we have some great partnerships to announce soon.

We have built 1 month ago a community and open-source bot, but we didn't have the time to maintain it. You can try it: https://www.messenger.com/t/boostfuel
Close, but no cigar! I wrote my own mail client, inspired by Mutt but extended with a real programming language (lua):

https://lumail.org/

I added a game of life mostly to prove the extensibility covered the screen modes.
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I think there is some truth behind the Madden curse. In order for a player to be seen as ahead of the pack he has to put up statistics and plays that are abnormal on normal teams with balanced offenses and play-styles. Increased minutes or usage in a high impact sport like Football will cause what is probably a drastic increase in injury risk, as well as influence legal targeting where defenses stack in an attempt to stop the player in question, usually a running back or wide receiver.
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I have not heard that about Asset forfeiture.

Asset forfeiture is pretty fucked up. At least with eminent domain, there may sometimes be a good cause (building a rail/train/infrastructure that benefits all), but usually not (building an on-ramp for a shopping centre).

If the people who got away with the 2008 financial crisis were actually arrested, changed and convicted, it'd be interesting to see the government auction off the rewards of their crime (their mansions, expensive cars, etc.) As it stands now, ssset forfeiture seems to hurt the poorest and funnels money into the increasing militaristic police force.
Not directly related to voting, but a while back someone gave a talk or there was a book/lecture that used an example that went something like this:

"Two doctors give you an independent diagnosis: One doctor says there's a 99% chance it's disease A, but there's a 1% chance it's disease B. The other doctor says there's 99% chance it's disease C, but there's a 1% chance it's disease B. Question: What's the most likely outcome? Answer: It's most likely disease B, the point where both doctors/experts agree (even though they both only give it a 1% chance of being true)."

Does anyone recall where that example comes from? I wanted to cite it the other day.
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As a completely trivial takeaway from this, now I want to start using tissues to press elevator buttons in hospitals, and possibly bring along surface disinfecting wipes to use on them as well.
As others pointed out, Zerocoin intentionally provides much more anonymity than Bitcoin.

But even with Bitcoin, money laundering is much easier than it is under the regular banking system.
You have to go back.
> The Canadian policeman offers to carry her baby as she makes her way through the slippery snow path. She hands the child to him and then takes the hand of another officer who helps her to the road on the Canadian side. The police bring out a child car seat and place it in their cruiser.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

We used to be this kind to those seeking safety in our lands. When and why did we stop?
No, it is just that nobody is currently working on it. Last I talked with the Apple folks they are just busy with other stuff.

Patches are definitely welcome for MachO improvements in LLD (as always in LLVM!). You should be aware though that the Apple folks feel strongly that the original "atom" linker design is the one that they want to use. If you want to start a MachO linker based on the COFF/ELF design (which has been very successful) you will want to ping the llvm-dev mailing list first to talk with the Apple folks (CC Lang Hames and Jim Grosbach).
Virtue was more easily feigned when they looked like us and thought like us.
Most people can't switch from google to something else in a heartbeat...

we can email our friends, text them or meet them in the bar though.
Install an insta-streaming app that will live copy your video to either your own server or a service if it can get Internet. Test it.

You should always film. They might get angry, and that's usually a sign you shouldn't stop filming. Having something that auto-transmits/saves your video might be the only thing that will help you later should they destroy your recording device.

You might end up in jail, with harsh charges, but at least you have evidence you can present to a lawyer ... well that is if you can afford one.
Yeah, I'm not really sure why this story always gets the same reaction on HN; it does occur in some form a few times a year.

If a few rich people figure out how to add an extra decade or two onto their lifespan, I'm sure several billion other people will gain some of the benefits in this century alone.

At the very least, hopefully some of the research will contribute to our basic understanding of the human body.
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People would rather be in jail in Canada than deported back to their countries of origin.

If anything, this says sonething about the conditions of their originating countries
Isn't that the point in brand awareness, to sell product?
So upgrading your OS breaks your applications? Kind of my point.
That's even more reason to no stop filming ...
I find it pretty surprising that a trauma center would miss a pneumo in a multi-system trauma pt...

Perhaps the only saying more common in trauma than "if you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras" is "the problem is caused by the trauma until proven otherwise".
You still need the struct because all of these

s = append(s, f())
m[k] = f()
c <- f()
f().DoStuff()
h(f(), g())

work with single-valued functions but not multi-valued functions. The feature is not well integrated with the rest of the language.
America used to need more people to settle newly captured lands.
What about host shares in the guest OS? That stopped working at 14, and I haven't seen it work since.
We're just in the process of setting up our longer life tech startup. We will guarantee you will live to 120 or your money back.
It is interesting what exactly does eComStation support. Is that really mission-critical or just rarely used processes that no one wants to upgrade. Given the size of 4 companies you mentioned, there is non-zero probability that they allow entire eComStation to exist as a rounding error.
And they were still shit all over for two generations after coming here. It's not so very long ago that Irish, or Italians, or Poles were thought of as not fully "white".
You seem to say this as if people's livelihoods aren't something they'd feel strongly about. I've noticed a certain rhetoric lately wherein Theranos is """just headlines""" but I mean, imagine for a second if YOU were in that situation. It's such a high visibility thing too, I myself am waiting with bated breath for many reasons. Not the least of which being I'd like to hire some of their talent when it explodes, but I think even with that bias, I think my point stands that the situation is in fact much more grave for those involved than the headlines and HN fawning might convey to someone not familiar.

I never said I knew everything about theranos, and anyways I don't care to, but I've been in a situation where my corp was really fucking up and I started to worry about my hirability being affected just by working there. I was only a contractor, but still.
Fifth Circuit is a Federal District Court. IANAL, but I think the only thing higher would be the Supreme Court, right?
Has another Federal court offered a different ruling?
Qin huangshi (China's first emperor) was famous for this, so much that he died taking mercury to prolong is life.
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Of all the things wrong in the US, drugs, surveillance, healthcare, I don't think anything is worse than asset forfeiture.

Zero due process and assumption of innocence. Pretty core values being ignored. Not to mention the perverse incentives it gives law enforcement who often get to keep the money and spend it themselves. At the very least it should be put in a neutral state fund.
Trends are a really interesting topic that I didn't consider. Some of the libraries that got in the front page in HN for me where riding the you might not need jquery/bootstrap wave (+small libraries), so I totally see that happening and didn't really consider it. There was definitely a Node.js, machine learning and arguably now there is a love/hate React wave. I'll try to dig deeper but this (trends) is not something I consider myself good at.
The first line was sarcasm.
I think one of the most perverse and increasingly popular reasons people are still stubbornly using FB is to look at images of their crushes. nothing more.
> These are also handy to test for SQL injection issues without screwing anything up.

They're also handy to exploit SQL injection issues, in cases where you can't see the output of the query, but can measure how long it takes to execute :)
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Why are people so confident that full-fledged self-driving will decrease ownership? I get that cars are usually parked, but IMO self-driving could turn driving into a leisurely experience which would increase my desire to do it in a personalized/homey space, increase my desire to have a long commute, and increase my desire to drive purely for leisure as well (driving around country roads reading).
Interesting, but has nothing to do with the classic lisp's ASDF (https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/)
According to the article, they aren't staying in jail for long.

> "Once that we do all our checks and that we can confirm that they're not a threat to national security, we hand them over to [the Canadian Border Service Agency] who then start the immigration process," Habel says.

Does "immigration process" mean deportation or admission?
They mention this in the article.
Well, that deleted comment was one of most respectable I've seen in a while. You were accurate about its features but maybe missed the justification: it was a replacement for C in terms of low-level use and performance (ideally). That made typical Scheme features impossible. Additionally, it was a critical part of VLISP project to mathematically verify a Scheme (Scheme48). They had to balance power and complexity carefully. So, it was efficient, gave you some Scheme power, and mathematically verified for correctness at the algorithm level for VLISP version.

So, not as nice as a full Scheme but great in other ways and used to write a Scheme.
We've never been that country.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1907

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

Jews in WW2: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007094

If you had HIV: https://www.immigrationequality.org/get-legal-help/our-legal...
If you could outline points of what I've posted that aren't substantial or empirically correct, I'd appreciate it.

Otherwise I might be bold enough to note that it would seem you'd like to influence this discussion (which is well within policy afaik) by whinging about good posts, which obviously is horrendously unethical, so I'm sure you are eager to prevent that misunderstanding. Just trying to clarify
Cops in the US regularly shoot unarmed civilians and get off with desk duty.

The idea that a cop will lose his job for harassing someone is wishful thinking.
What's so hard to understand here? The music it plays sounds awful! I have no doubt te tech behind it is interesting but the results are pretty bad.
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Bresenham is easily beaten in speed and simplicity by a fixed-point loop:

https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/faster-than-bresenhams...

Furthermore, fixed-point also allows antialiasing since it always gives how close the line is to the pixel being drawn.
At least in the US, you cannot lose much money because of fraudulent electronic funds transfers, unless you ignore the fraud for more than sixty days. https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/efta.... See section V "Consumer Liability and Error Resolution."
Well of course it brings Kahneman to mind. A good quarter of the article is a digression into Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's research, including a mention of availability bias by name ("“Consequently,” Amos and Danny wrote, “the use of the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases.”")
I deleted it because I realized it was nonsensical. The T garbage collector was written in a subset of T, which is not a strict-subset of Scheme, as it uses system-level features.

It differs from T in that the VM is written in a different scheme dialect than the VM hosts, but it is still as much scheme-all-the-way-down as T was. It's also considerably safer than T as it will prevent you from doing some unsafe things and warn you about others (e.g. run-time closures).
Also, we don't ever talk about this (although it affected many more poeple) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

> In 2005, the State of California passed an official "Apology Act" to those forced to relocate to Mexico, an estimated 1.2 million of whom were United States citizens.