skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to make sure your comment is clear, the powerful portion of your quote "In short, don't use it." is strictly intended for the percentile bootstrap. Immediately after the paper says "Use the empirical bootstrap instead..."
As a whole? Non-GAAP numbers are suspect enough for the SEC to create regulations around. Not every company abuses them, but enough do.[1]

[1]https://www.troutmansanders.com/using-non-gaap-measures--obs...
My point is you happen to feel this way. If everyone felt the way you did, it would be illegal. Thus a great number of people don't feel the way you do or simply don't care. Thus the system is working as intended. The people have spoken.
My first reaction was WTF?

Then 0.27^3 = 0.0197

And then, only 60% as dense (no core) so 0.0119 :)
Really proud to be able to say I voted against hosting the olympics in Colorado a lifetime ago, seems like we are always a bit ahead of the times.
>He is the least terrible billionaire industrialist IMHO

This is a great place to meet in the middle between the cynics and fanboys.
What about a location or IP-lock? That way the only way to unlock it is to literally bring it to a location inside the US, where Constitutional protections do apply.
It's difficult to hold professional standards without a professional association backing you up. Doctors and lawyers would capitulate to client requests if they didn't have the backing of the professional associations, and in many times law.

If you attempt to force your lawyer to violate ethics, and their document it and complain then no lawyer will work for you.

If you attempt to force a doctor to violate ethics, then not only will no doctor work for you, but you might actually get jail time.
Somehow won't back page correctly in Chrome. Please just turn that off, whatever it is. I don't think anyone wants fancy history munging web pages.
He's surfing a thin line these days. I'm not fond of the let's bore tunnels before going to mars games. But yeah, overall he bootstrapped many heavy innovations and drive all around, and inspired a lot of people. All that almost in a vacuum, and globally he's a trustworthy producer (he values value, his cars are tank secured for instance, not crass profit)
> You could just take that money and give it to a million other causes more socially valuable than distributing BI to everyone.

You're thinking of it as extra money. Try thinking of it instead as money that's already being paid to everyone, just made unconditional. People are not (generally) starving in the streets, so the money is clearly being spent to keep them alive. Some of that is via benefits, which BI would replace. Some of it is via pay-for-work, and given a BI employers could pay less with the BI making up the difference. You can make a separate argument about whether a BI removes incentives to work, but AIUI evidence from pilot programs so far suggests that it doesn't.

> Heck just think what some of this could do to research.

How many of the famous names in science were able to make their discoveries because they belonged to a gentry class who didn't have to work for a living? How many people have to leave academic research because they can't get funding any more? What tends to happen to OSS contribution rates once people move from study to full-time work?
> Government = bad

Because world has not seen a libertarian government yet.

> Taxes = theft

There are two arguments here. 1. Tax Amount. 2. Consent.

Most of the arugment against taxes from libertarins pov is the amount. Govts does provide a useful service but the pricing is too costly.

A libertarian may immigrate to a favourable country which gives best bang for the buck (for which somalia fails) and in process giving new govt the required consent to make taxation consistent with libertarianism.

> They don't get that monopoly on use of violence as ultimate arbitration is what allows society to exist in the first place.

You are thinking of anarcho-capitalism (a special case of libertarianism nonetheless) which I presume we are not talking about. Then libertarian govt still hold the monopoly on violence and only justifiable in very limited cases.
> In reply to fixermark, there is also nothing stopping you from very complicated queries in REST.

What I believe others are getting at is that those complicated queries themselves need to be expressed somehow even within a REST request. GraphQL provides a convenient mechanism for doing so.

In theory you can even do GraphQL RESTfully, with each REST endpoint exposing its own schema. But in doing so it quickly becomes apparent that it would be easier just to forego REST conventions and expose a single consolidated schema.

Speaking for my own GraphQL experiences, on one project we had a GraphQL query generating reports that was around 50 lines long, with half a dozen fragments. Flattened out to match the approaches you've suggested for POST data and GET params it would have been hundreds of attributes. It's unclear that there's any open standard that would have provided as simple of a solution for expressing and executing those requests.
If they already have unlimited access to your account, they wouldn't need to ask for the password. But ok, fine, stipulate that the US knows everything. The feature is still useful for people going to Canada.
Inbound foreign travelers to the US have pretty much already been screened.
Services are all handled with IP Tables, but in current versions of kubernetes you end up sending a lot of traffic to different nodes for no reason. There's an issue to prevent that, and send traffic to the pod on the local node if possible, but it's pretty gross right now.

This sucks for performance/reliability reasons. It also makes it crazy difficult to keep track of visitors' source IPs.
Code commits do not reflect quality. And GitHub is not the only one side singular open repo (thinking of GitLab where I also contribute a lot).
Ad someone who has been accused of that, you're flat out wrong.

There is a difference between Tesla, the car company (good) , and TSLA, the stock, which I belive is overpriced and has grey area accounting (bad). Sometimes they get confused.
Starbucks' brand perception has plummeted since announced plan to hire refugees
I think social media and gmail are a complete lost cause wrt privacy. I already de-activated my facebook due to it being a time sink. But I think I'll go ahead and delete it now.
This reminds me of Starcraft AI experiments. They can't actually make the computer smart, so they just jam 2000 button presses per second down the tube, giving every single unit its own simultaneous AI, and it out micromanages anyone.

With Marines usually.
Ask HN: How to systematically prune your Twitter timeline
I have the gut feeling I have either follow too many accounts or I follow accounts which tweet too much. I'd like to reduce the volume of my twitter timeline. But I rather have numbers than a gut feeling who to unfollow.

The ideal tool would give me an histogram of users and their number of tweets in a defined timespan, e.g. last month or per day.

I found an old twitter-timeline-cleaner on npm but it throws an error, possibly because of an Twitter API snafu. ManageFlitter seems to be a tool but its web app times out.

Any good suggestions, strategies or tools?

(As an aside for developers: what I really miss in apps like RSS readers or Twitter clients are statistics. Nothing fancy, tables as UI would be great. Export even greater.)
Sorry, the Egyptian pyramids were build with tax labor, not slave labor.
Ask HN: What makes a good educational robot?
What criteria makes a good educational robot?
- Wheels vs arms vs legs
- Visual vs text based programming
- Gamified vs serious
- At home vs at school

I am interested in practical experiences and feeling you had using them/watching kids use them.
I've never seen any of that, I've only ever seen outright discrimination against Indians.

> People not hiring Chinese, because they will steal their IP.

At what point does this become a legitimate concern? We know that the Chinese government and corporations are stealing a lot of IP.
/bin/true sets the return code to 0, signifying success to the modprobe process, /bin/false sets it to 1, signifying failue, and producing said message.

Due to the way modprobe may be hooked by various things, its best to use /bin/true to ensure less breakage.
The value isn't the commit history, the value is the network of people you build up while creating the commit history. That network doesn't evaporate when you change jobs. That network will likely help you land your next job.
One of the notions in HATEOAS as far as I can surmise is that we decide to build a common vocabulary describing our API and that becomes the fixed interface for interaction. It's not at all meant to imply that software clients can magically figure out what to do next (thought often a human with a reasonable API app could do so).

Imagine for example that we decided that whenever you request a comment resource from my API then I promise to provide a link in the response called "upvote" which you can follow to upvote that comment.

We have agreed to a fixed interface but left plenty of details flexible.

Maybe we are experiencing heavy load: let's stop sending the "upvote" link - the clients should understand that in its absence the operation is not currently available.

Maybe we have implemented some load-balancing system which redirects clients to `fiji.api-server.com` or `romania.api-server.com` based on their geo-ip data: those clients need only hard-code one top-level API URL into their code and all other URLs come through successive API responses. Load-balancing happens automatically and can even change throughout a single session because the client follows the links instead of building its own URL.

Maybe we are running some test or gradual rollout of a new API or URL structure; as long as we provide those links and references the clients can follow the right path without needing to know about the changes. It's possible that we ended up moving comments from `api-server.com/api/threads/1337/comments/42` to `api-server.com/comments/what-do-you-kow-joe` and this won't break any client designed to follow the interface instead of the incidental details.

For what it's worth I think very few APIs come reasonably close to this design and maybe few even have much need to. REST and HATEOAS become much more important when someone is publishing a public API that many third parties will consume and the ability to introduce non-breaking changes and server-side control of different specifics is important.

/my 2¢
Digital Ocean hasn't required that you change the kernel through the UI for some time now. Are you sure that's necessary?
RT is beyond biased. Your claim, if true, equates all media to propaganda. Biased media is simply not the same as propaganda.
Indeterminate? Being a non-citizen with a one way ticket is already pretty good cause for being subject to high scrutiny - this would likely tip the balance in favor of refusal.

Most people have return tickets. So (and don't think for a second I'm in favor of this) they'd know exactly how long your detention would need to be.
The capitalist playbook suggests that street prices won't see the same price drop as important OEMs threatening to launch a big AMD line.

That way, Intel sells to those OEMs not only the hardware but also the promise that end customers will think that the parts were more expensive.
Thanks for the tip! Ordered. One of the better bundles I've seen.
Yeah that is an interesting question.
I think if the provider of the socket interface could be sure that the client code using the interface would know about flush(), then it wouldn't need to set timers or anything like that to flush after X ms etc. However there wouldn't be any point, I think, to buffering up more than e.g. a MTU worth of bytes. So it wouldn't be delaying indefinitely.
I'm concerned that many programmers who use mostly OSS (e.g. web developers) never submit a single patch to any of the multitude of projects they benefit from. Clients save millions of dollars because dev agencies leverage tons of free/open-source software. If programmers do a proper job they should routinely come across bugs or incompatibilities in at least a few of the myriad gems, node modules, etc. What could be more natural than for the developer to fix the bug and send a pull request back to the maintainer?

When looking at candidates I almost always find some correlation between a meaningful public commit history and quality.
Part of this should be covered by the upcoming chapters of http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
> With the exception Fowler's 2005 testing argument being reiterated

Besides testing, dynamic languages can also be good for glue code, or scripts for builds. Just don't use them to write systems. Of course, when a script starts becoming a system is vaguely defined. I think the best way is to always be ready to pull some logic out of a script into its own system whenever a script starts getting too big.
No, but they can "tip off" law enforcement who will tap you on the shoulder as soon as you leave the customs area and start the clock again, with different rules.
... I honestly can't tell if people in this thread are trying to be long-winded or not.
>even in the happiest timeline we could have ended up on after 2016

I'm not really sure why you mentioned this, did something bad happen?
Deconstructing: The 8 Dungeons of Link's Awakening – The Musical Narrative
Consulting firms and investment banks recruit plenty out of my alma mater, UCLA (a public, state university that isn't considered part of the Ivy Plus). They did the same at University of Texas, where I went to graduate school, another public, state university.
Note that you can also run it in the browser via Azure Notebooks, which is free: https://notebooks.azure.com/
Part of the skill in competitive play is to be able to predict what move your opponent is going to do next.

Most mid-level players already have a good grasp of prediction, which is arguably along the sames lines of being able to know with certainty what action your opponent is taking a few frames before he does it.

Coupling that with pretty obscene frame-lag for Smash, it's not really that much of an advantage.

As well that competitive isn't really that impressive considering how limited your actions are by banning items and more dynamic stages (see: restricting RNG). In this way, it's nothing more than a simple chess-bot. Now, if it could actually take in complex environments and multiple tools, that'd be pretty next level.
Did the boots break in, or your feet? :P
Oh, damn, I can imagine the sinking feeling this employee must have felt when he realized that he had made a mistake. It's very heartening to see the responsible way in which this was handled by both him and Boeing. No mention of repercussions for the employee, although I'm willing to bet he won't make such a mistake again.
We're talking about draw calls on the CPU, not pixel fill. Still wrong about Rift vs 4K though. Due to the lens unwarping you have to render to a much larger render target to get native screen res. About 1.7x more pixels than he native res.

> GPU's can deal with making 2 images without meaningful CPU overhead.

I meant to say that with this "There are some optimizations to reduce the per-eye overhead, but it is still a lot." But I didn't word it well. I didn't mean per-eye overhead was a lot after the optimizations, but that the increase in CPU usage was still a lot in spite of them due to the higher update rates.
Yeah. Everyone* would be able to see what I’m posting during my trip (which itself could be dangerous…), but no one could see the history until after the trip.

* who is normally allowed to see what is posted in the first place.
fyi - I don't know how else to reach you. Your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848894 is my first google result for 'ycombinator green username'. So much for teaching people how to fish :)
well i mean there's all this stuff i vaguely see about .NET Core not being as good as the offering on windows but that eventually it will be? i don't know C# but i'm interested. i guess i'm just wondering if i should make the leap to starting to learn it even though i develop solely on linux.
I clearly said that some speech will be denied a platform...

What does it mean to you when you say that something has been "denied a platform?" It seems to me that the very notion depends on the assumption that ideas have some sort of natural right to an audience and outside support.

But your unpopular ideas do not entitle you to special outside help. You may have to build a platform for your unpopular idea, as was the case for so many once-unpopular ideas in history. That's what it means to be unpopular. It might be a lot of work. Nobody owes your idea a donation of that work.

The notion that some ideas are "denied a platform" today is both inaccurate and incoherent. No one has the right, the authority, or the power to "deny a platform" to a particular idea in general.
I just wanted to extend congratulations from the team at buddybuild!

It's awesome to see the mobile developer tools ecosystem as a whole expanding.

It wasn't too long ago that mobile teams had to use web CI products, awkwardly repurposed to build & deploy their iOS and Android apps - imposing on them a huge maintenance burden and slowing down the development of their apps.

Great tools help build great products, and the future for mobile development tools is very bright today.
Prince died.
Book: Restful Web Clients – Enabling Reuse Through Hypermedia
"Loss" is the wrong word for this. We need better terminology.

A more accurate statement would be something like, "The tangible value of the company's assets, as far as anyone can reasonably ascertain with any degree of certainty, declined by 53 cents per share this quarter".

The question is whether the company is making good investments. If you believe its infrastructure investments will provide long-lived, strategic advantages which support the reduction of cost (increasing margins and free cash flow), decreased time to market (making more revenue accessible, more quickly), or other things, these "losses" are hardly bad things. [1]

[1] Of course, this assumes the company has access to continued financing on good terms, which seems to be the case.
You can find smarter clients by Googling "hypermedia client". Also, O'Reilly just published a book on the topic: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037958.do
As one of the Founders of buddybuild, I'd like to perhaps also provide another perspective on this specific thread.

We certainly don't think of buddybuild as a closed ecosystem.

In fact, our users are able to customize buddybuild infinitely to meet the needs of their workflow (details can be found here: https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/customizing-the-build-proces...)

Further, while buddybuild is favored by thousands of because it can can auto-provision iOS devices for you on the fly.
Meaning, you never have to deal with provisioning profiles and UDIDs ever again.

We also care deeply about making sure that teams can involve and engage their end users as part of the development process. One of the reasons we built buddybuild is because of the frustration sending builds to our users... AND then never hearing back from them. Phones are great devices for "consuming content", but it became obvious that the physical form factor of the device tends to result in infrequent feedback which was often ambiguous.

So, we build an SDK that gives you high quality and actionable bug reports from beta users. With a simple screenshot, testers can file bug reports that include graphically annotated screenshots, feedback notes and their device metadata.

We also have a feature called "Instant Replay", which lets you watch a video of the exact steps required to reproduce a crash. Instant Replay works in conjunction with our Crash Reporting solution to offer you both the exact lines of code that caused a crash as well as the exact sequence of events that lead up to it (https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/introducing-instant-replay)

Thousands of teams with fairly complex needs use buddybuild every single day. They teams like Slack, Meetup, FireFox, Wordpress and others..

You can read why they made the choice to use buddybuild here: http://www.buddybuild.com/customers
My cat told me so a long time ago.
I kind of feel like we're speaking past each other here. I'm not sure what sort of dysfunctional cat/owner relationships you've observed to make you so vehemently opposed to the idea that they can be mutually beneficial.

I assure you, my cats actively enjoy and seek out my company, attention, and affection, and I likewise enjoy and seek out theirs.

When I get home, my cats run to greet me, with the straight upraised tail (with slightly curled tip) that indicates "friendly excitement." They sniff me and rub themselves against me with the full length of their bodies, which is a common greeting ritual for cats that belong to the same colony. They come and sit next to me on the couch, and when they want privacy, they will go and sleep somewhere else.

If they seek out my attention, and I don't have time or the desire then to give it them, a few firm setting them on the ground or shifting them out of the way, and they'll settle and not bother me (unless something is genuinely wrong and I haven't noticed, like the water dish being empty/dirty).

When I seek out their attention, if they don't feel like giving it right then, they indicate so through body language or even just leaving, and I respect their desires and don't force myself on them (unless it's in the case of something for their health, like giving them medication or taking them to the vet).

They can't speak English, though they understand a handful of words, such as their names, "treat", "dinner", "come here", "no", "gentle", and "please" as well as tone of voice. I can't speak Cat, but I understand a handful of words via body language and tone of voice when they meow.

I don't ever get angry at my cats for being cats, though occasionally I do get frustrated. And in return, though they sometimes get frustrated when I am failing to understand one of their requests, they don't get angry and lash out either.

I think we communicate fairly well for beings of two completely different species, and find each other's company mutually agreeable.
A single permanent site will never happen. What I think would be better would be like The Open golf, they have half a dozen locations that are rotated between in a semi-random fashion. Other locations can be added to the rota if they prove themselves. And the locations should be country based rather than city to spread the load.

But I think due to the corruption of the delegates that will never happen either, they get too many kickbacks from being part of the bidding process.
HealthTap shipped Dr.AI in 4 months b/c they weren't wasting time on interviews
So if the water and gasses migrate to the cold side, I wonder if that would eventually make the cold side heavy enough to be rotated towards the star, causing the planet to periodically(probably over several millenia) reverse the side facing the star.
Node v7.6.0 Released
Plus what you leave in and out of the "safe" profile makes for a very interesting info ;)
Because technology is in service of individual and consumer needs. If there isn't a sustainable business model for supersonic passenger flight then it doesn't exist. And, frankly, it's not up to government to provide that.

Technology is both economics and engineering. Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done if no one is willing to cover the costs.