skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep and with Babel we recommend using https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env to compile only what's missing in the targets you support.

Hopefully we have a better solution about making multiple bundles (separate one for IE) soon
Maybe you can clear up something for me: I am in CC for an email discussion between 2 parties exchanging sensitive personal information.

Party A uses LetsEncrypt to protect the https site storing the information (And needs a username/password or something to grant access to Party B)

Party B does certificate pinning, and complains that Party A's cert changes every three months without warning and without being sure the new cert still points to Party A.

Party A says Party B should stop the pinning and just accept everything signed by LetsEncrypt.

Party B says they want a way to be 100% sure they are talking with Party A and need a better (EV?) cert.

The discussion is going back and forth for a few months now (and re-ignites every three months when communication goes down again and pissing everyone off). Who do you think is right here?
Pretty much, most of the workers rights gains made by Cesar Chavez have been rolled back, hence why workers are forced to shit in the fields (due to a lack of places to do the needful), thus causing e coli and other outbreaks. Same thing has happened in the meat packing industry, worker protections have been gutted, and conditions there are similar to those described in The Jungle, a book which helped cause that industry to unionize and fight for safe & sanitary working conditions.

Up in Canada, they straight up import workers for low end jobs, hence why at Tim Hortons up north, you will rarely if ever see a native Canadian, its nearly entirely Asians, cause they are there on worker visas. The Canadian Govt has decided their workforce should be doing something better than making coffee or baking donuts, which isn't the worst idea when properly implemented.
Does anyone know of a good tiling WM for Windows?
Yep, it was a discovery for me that it's easier to go to the source code directly than to try to do something using documentation.
I believe Amazon did this with Amazon Fresh. The tip option in the app went away, and when I asked the delivery person, he said their pay had been increased and they were good. No tip required. He said it with a smile on his face, but who knows if he was really dying inside.
>Try a decade.

And even longer if you're willing to pay outrageous sums of money.
Thom Yorke once said that after touring for OK Computer he was at a local pub and some guy stopped him and said, "No Surprises" is the most miserable song he'd ever heard and why had he written it? At the time Thom said he had to concur with that assessment of the song. I can't remember what interview this was from but I used to have the recording of it where he introduces the song this way.
Docker abandons SemVer
Ask HN: Why aren't offices paperless already?
Paperless offices were once a great hype.
Still it isn't a thing. Why?
i'm not sure where you are correcting the person you are responding to. It all seems consistent to me.
Well, GHC does have a runtime, and in some way XMonad also uses the compiler at runtime because configurations are written in Haskell...
We hosted the only Olympics in history that I've heard of that turned a profit. I live in Calgary and we still talk about how unique it was compared to other Olympics around the world.

There are definitely some winners post-Olympics, but honestly I don't think they make sense anymore. Seems that Olympics has gone down the wrong path in so many ways with the demands from the IOC requiring bigger and bigger budgets, private organizations taking stricter and stricter control over content even social media that it's just not the same any more when compared to 20+ years ago.

I remember feeling an emotion for the older Olympics that's just not there as much anymore.
PayPal will almost assuredly escape unscathed, Peter Thiel pulling up the ladder after him so others cannot be successful was what I was getting at there.
and potentially opening up ways to force people into slavery. For all the rounding-up, shouldn't there be punishments for people who employ undocumented immigrants?
Lol, don't worry about it.
This is spot on. The users are beccoming more powerful though, so buyers should pay attention.
Not a rebuttal, but another perspective.

American culture, viewed from other countries, is an inescapable force diluting local culture and customs.

For example francophones in Quebec make up less than 2% of the north american population. As a French Canadian, I support Quebec's right to pass laws to defend it's culture, before we become completely assimilated, lose our knowledge of our language and culture, and become a vacation destination celebrated for it's french influence.[1]

If we ever, by some crazy twist of destiny become a french MAJORITY, then I would argue that the laws be abolished.

But to equate the situation facing french Canadians with America, the most powerful country on earth, whose culture invades other cultures globally[2] is a false equivalence in my mind.

Maybe we should be asking why real wages haven't increased since 1970, or where all the money has gone[3] how come it's ok for CEO pay to keep increasing, for huge corporations to pay almost no tax, instead of focusing on a Mexican immigrant legal or otherwise, who takes jobs for less than minimum wage that a natural born citizen couldn't live on anyway?

In times of economic prosperity and double digit growth, you don't hear about defending 'culture' as often. I see it as a proxy for economic concerns and a convenient smokescreen that the ultra rich can use to keep us fighting amongst ourselves while we not only ignore the .1% and their increasing share of the wealth, but lionize them for their success.

[1] True fact the english in the province of Ontario once outlawed the teaching of the french language in school. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_17)

[2] And no I don't think it's some evil plan. America happens to be the most powerful culture on earth, so it's culture naturally spreads. It just springs from the imbalance of numbers and of political economic power. People (especially the young) from other countries often want to imitate it.

[3] Why is there a need for austerity?

[4] http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/
what did you expect from a vampire?
It seems that something like entropy-based helpers that predict probabilities of next letters and make those letters large could increase input speed. One of the first examples of such helper was done in David McKay lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software) .
Maybe a modern version of a punt gun?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
> why does anyone pay attention to ...

Because he has a lot of power to influence the decision makers in one of the most powerful countries in the world?
What goes up must come down gaining velocity in the process. This is exceedingly dangerous. Google for deaths from guns fired in the air at marriage parties / celebrations.
Young babies don't display any signs of self awareness.
Instacart wants to fix grocery shopping by eliminating the drive the store.

Amazon wants to fix grocery shopping by eliminating checkout.[0]

The friction with grocery shopping for me is in a completely different area, and also easily solvable.

If I could go to a store that was basically a Kiva[1] fueled warehouse, enter an order on a tablet, and have it brought to my car (or order in the morning and do curbside pickup on my drive home from work), I would save the hassle of searching store shelves while playing demolition derby with a bunch of other carts.

Walmart has toyed with free curbside pickup.[2] It should actually make groceries cheaper though. If they had a warehouse logistics backend, without customers wandering around through their inventory, they could do amazing things.

With apologies to Clarence Saunders, yeah, basically I want to end self-service.[3] Customers were more efficient than the clerk for that job, so that model won. But robots are much more efficient than customers now, so I'm ready for the next revolution.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-go-grocery-store-futur...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-amazons-busiest-employee-the-...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-is-expanding-free-cur...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Saunders_(grocer)
Our first stop in Munich was the Olympic Park and we were quite surprised how beautiful and alive the place was.

Entering the swimming hall we immediately wanted to go swimming (but sadly didn’t have the proper gear with us). When you enter the hall you overlook the Olympic pool (there is no wall or glass separating you from the noise and the smell) and that’s very tempting.

If you visit Munich I would recommend visiting the Olympic Park, but do bring you bathing things, just in case.
They talk about that in the article.

> A solution presented itself in an experiment by Dutch police, who last year used a trained eagle to pluck a DJI Phantom drone out of the air, Peter Holley reported for The Washington Post.
What is wrong with regular SMS? i guess i can understand whatsapp popularity in developing countries where SMS is expensive...
Federal tech startup falls down on rules, procedures
At university there was floating around a Postscript file which would render a Mandelbrot image at 300dpi.

There were emails from the IT department begging people not to print it on the elderly Laserjet IIIs during peak runs because it would take about 30-45 minutes to run, and the job couldn't be cancelled without physically power cycling the printer.
How to Promote Your Products on Facebook
Good luck identifying and transporting 10-20 million people with due process while simultaneously not destroying the businesses that employ them, accidentally deporting citizens, and doing it outside the vision of cameras and youtube who will record thousands of frightened people behind razor wire or packed like sardines in railroad cars. 5-10% of the working population in this country are likely illegals generally working jobs no one else wants for low (and often illegal) pay. Who is going to build a 2000mi wall in Texas in the summer for minimum wage? Certainly no one reading HN.
How billions vanish into the black hole that is the security industry
> get these people paying taxes as soon as possible

I think that's a mistaken assumption. Undocumented immigrants pay far more in taxes than they get back: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/undocum...
One interesting use of a Winter Olympic venue - the sports arena in Hamar, which was used as an ice skating arena in the Lillehammer Winter Olympics is used once a year for The Gathering, a massive LAN party with around 5000 attendees, and it's also used throughout the year for winter sports too, they add and remove the ice as needed.
Fencing Tokens in Node.js
SMS are not only being charged in developing countries. lol e.g. Spain has symmetric 300Mb (home) connections for ~50€/month but SMS are still being charged.
The Munich olympics were also a great chance for the great graphic designers of the time to show off their system. The event icons lasted for many olympics after.
that's amazing, I will definitely try it
I see a future where residential heating is powered by community owned bitcoin mining rigs.
Eh, the ZTE MF96's will go a few months between reboots, and its hard to get anywhere near their price point with mini-PCIe, automating management of them would likely make more sense IMO.

Wrt OpenWRT being aged, not too worried there, I'm still running Debian Jessie over here :P
The current level of art assets requires displacement maps, specular maps, texture maps, a zbrush high poly model, lods models, and physics models. While all of these things are very doable, in order to DO them, you takes highly skilled artisans. Highly trained artisans are expensive. Therefore if you want to create some new art assets it takes lots of money. Lots of money means getting investors. Investors mean giving up significant amounts of equity. Which means you have a very narrow window in which to succeed and if you do, they benefit disproportionately.
Or they could just say, migrate your phone number elsewhere.
Obama deported a lot of people and Trump is further expanding the deportations. The problem here is that we need immigration reform, not that we need to stop deporting people who have over stayed visas etc...

Immigrants are self selecting people who want to have a better life. Why the US cannot figure out how to streamline legal immigration has been a failure of the US government for many years. Instead of 10k more officers to implement deportations, a better use of money would have been to use those people to improve/speed up the immigration process.
A lot of SaaS businesses offer priority support for paying customers.

As a SaaS founder — I've always felt it's a bit of an odd value proposition — "pay me more, and I'll fix my flawed, buggy software".
I'm surprised at how little attention Tesla has given to the idea of robotaxis. At the time they decided getting Mobileye's chips into every Tesla would be a good idea they should have started a dedicated L4 development program, with the big spinning lidars and everything else.

The idea of taking an incremental approach has been abandoned by every serious player except Tesla. Musk is more interested in sizzle than steak. Selling cars and keeping investors excited near term seems a bigger priority than being ready for the day L4 becomes a real thing.

Properly validating a fully autonomous car isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. Tesla is acting like a hare, but I'm betting on the tortoises.
I learned something about Thread.MemoryBarrier().

I expected the following to be safe:

Dim V(99) As Integer
Parallel.For(0, 100, Sub(i)
V(i) = i
End Sub)
Dim Result = V.Sum

If I understand correctly it looks like I need to flush the memory before accessing V:

Dim V(99) As Integer
Parallel.For(0, 100, Sub(i)
V(i) = i
End Sub)
Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier()
Dim Result = V.Sum
> What is it about formalized schooling specifically, that you believe makes it uniquely capable in teaching people what they don't know?

The teacher. Teaching/learning was always about the teacher, who knows what
and in what order to teach.

You can have the same effects with the same effort as with formalized
schooling if you have a private teacher, but how many self-taught developers
had them? And then there's this small thing that in formalized schooling
you're taught by several people, each for their own discipline. It's hard to
come by a tutor that knows seven different fields and it's hard to come by
seven tutors for each of the fields.
The “X” in a macOS window's close button appears off-center
WhatsApp can be more than just a messaging alterative. So far they've added small features incrementally and it would seem have been successful with this approach.

This features genuinely adds to the user experience and its nice to have a way of sharing statuses with most if not all of my contact list as opposed to a select few that use snap chat.

My only gripe is the privacy concerns, I can't help but feel Facebook will combine all data one day and most worryingly in retrospect.
Digestive issues are more common than you might think and tend to get worse with age. Taking a 'daily' multivitamin 1-3 days a week is likely plenty and very cheap. They also become more important with calorie restriction or unusually poor diets.
I can't go between my phone and a web browser (relatively) seamlessly with SMS.
It doesn't use robots but Hannaford has a curbside pickup option. Anecdotally doesn't seem to be used much though and for me seems to satisfy a pretty narrow use case--people who can easily drive to the store but can't or don't want to wheel a shopping cart around.
I wear Crossfit socks inside my Karate Kimono, and this won't turn me into a Strength/Fighting machine? Want my money back!

Seriously though, some of these article titles lately ...
The purpose of Babel/transpilers is to eventually allow users to use the native versions of language features. Native support will eventually be faster (not at first), will result in less code sent to users (compiled code is larger), and easier to debug (don't need sourcemaps).

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/02/high-performance-es20...

I made https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env to make it easier to transition. Hoping that Babel makes it easier to not have to think about whether you are using native or not, so we'll work on that workflow.
The more threading code I have seen, the more convinced I become that it should be avoided at all cost. The pitfalls are nonobvious and potentially incurring datacorruption.
Rather, they should be behind understandable abstractions (like await/async and Task/Task<T>, but those have their own pitfalls) where applicable. Also, I can see value in an "unsafe" block (e.g. a "threading {}" keyword) where the writer of code communicates to the reader "inspect this with special threading awareness"
That's definitely possible (and advisable) in GhostScript - the article itself touches on this in the end, when it mentions you need to use -dNOSAFER for the example to work in ps2pdf.

https://ghostscript.com/doc/9.20/Use.htm#Options

The SAFER and NOSAFER options are described here, and SAFER is essentially a sandbox. So, the problem described isn't so much a problem with PostScript, as a problem with anybody that writes an app that fails to invoke their PostScript interpreter appropriately. Apparently some unnamed web application had this problem, but ps2pdf does not.
This individual feature isn't so bad, but I still dislike the precedent - WhatsApp is an amazingly fast, efficient app right now. It'll be a shame to see it descend into the usual junk as they pack in feature after feature no one really asked for.

My parents use WhatsApp on generations-old phones - it performs great and it's simple enough to understand. Why can't we keep the more complex stuff over on Snapchat? Or Instagram. Or Facebook Messenger. Or...
In the UK people are recommended to take a vitamin D supplement, especially in winter, and children under 5 are recommended to take a vitamin supplement of A, C, and D. (Poor parents can get free vitamins for their children.)

And there's women who want to become pregnant (or who are pregnant) who should be taking folic acid.
I'm betting that Google Photos will necessarily stick around in order to keep Android competitive with iOS (and perhaps Windows.) I desperately hope they make it a paid service, if needed, rather than shutter it.

I've fully committed and have uploaded 40,932 photos. All of the automation has been amazing.
Not the OP, but here are just a few things that immediately sprang to my mind:

* Group MMS messages are a nightmare so people in my demographic often use GroupMe to facilitate them

* I'm not even sure if attaching images and other media on MMS messages is supposed to work consistently. I usually end up with an image that has been severely degraded in quality

* No read notifications, which can be useful if you goose to enable them on WhatsApp, Signal, etc.

* Poor security, I would assume that SMS is far easier for law enforcement to illegally bug

* Conversing with people who are in different countries as SMS typically invokes outrageous charges, and my mobile provider includes 2G data in most countries

* Can't use SMS on a computer unless through something like Google Voice, which isn't a pure SMS solution

* Message history backups are much better documented on WhatsApp/Signal, so that I've never bothered to figure out how to restore SMS history after I get a new phone or install a new ROM on my phone (Android)
Yup, as confirmed by the author[0].
Also, it's opensource, 'dweet card' template shows that it uses iframes[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13702021

[1] https://github.com/lionleaf/dwitter/blob/master/dwitter/temp...
Proceeding to feed this Paul Bettany's "Jarvis" from some movies...
I'd be interested to know: for what kind of application did you use APL?
Millions of dollars and human lives. I think things like the fact that Nixon had an Apollo failure speech ready is the exact opposite of "cross your fingers" and more proof that they tried to think through everything they could, including unpredictable failure.
if (time_elapsed > some_arbitrary_threshold) {
interrupt_sandboxed_code();
}
My short advertisement is that it has proven very useful to study Diophantine equations by reducing mod n. The Chinese remainder theorem [1] tells you to focus on reducing mod p^r, where p is a prime. If r = 1 then you are working in a field but in the ring Z/4, for example, I know 2 ≠ 0 and yet 2·2 = 0.

To make the p-adics Z_p I stitch all of these Z/p^r together: an element is a choice of a_r in each Z/p^r and these have to be compatible: a_2 reduces mod p to a_1 and so on. The resulting Z_p has no "zero divisors", and if I allow myself to invert p I get a field Q_p.

This is a huge improvement, a foundation on which to build analysis and geometry as we did over R.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem
The US is a sufficiently large enough domestic population that it self-generates and self-fulfills most of its tourism market. I was surprised myself when I looked up how lopsided it is. Similar can probably be said of China, EU, and perhaps Africa in a couple decades.

Overseas arrivals to the US is tracked in [1].

Domestic tourism represented 96.7% of the annual market in 2013. [2]

In the context of this thread's discussion of overseas visitors avoiding the US and its knock-on effects upon the US tourism industry, if overseas visitors 100% disappeared tomorrow, it wouldn't be a rounding error, but according to these statistics it's definitely not the political-economic club it's made out to be in these discussions. For better or worse, it is up to US citizens to vote in any changes in border control service delivery standards.

For what it's worth, many of the procedures I've heard people complain about have some basis in reasoning lurking in the background. International transits (where you land in a US airport but go onwards to a different country, never once stepping foot onto non-airport soil) requiring a security re-screening is explained in some places [3]. The cost to Americans getting People's Republic of China (PRC) visas traces back to diplomatic tit-for-tat, as PRC citizens visiting the US pay similar fees. Many security industry observers admire Israel's airport security, yet discussions like this thread neglect to mention Israeli border control also demands social network and email credentials, and the US is singled out for adopting an Israeli practice, when just scant few years ago the US agencies were excoriated for being too unenlightened to adopt Israeli practices [4].

Where I see room for improvement is service delivery, and education of citizens might help, while increased focus upon anchoring the mobility of capital to mobility of labor will definitely help. I've had my share of visa issues traveling into Canada as a US citizen, but the staff were unfailingly polite while still being hard-nosed, while I hear of other US citizens getting hassled at the Canadian border. I've had minor snafus in border crossings into Mexico and the PRC as well, and I was treated politely there, too. My attitude in all of these interactions was, "Ah, sorry I made your day harder just now, what can I learn about what I missed with regards to the policy so I don't make the same mistake again, what is the rough, overall process and timeline to fix it this time around, and what is the detailed next action item (who/where/what/how)?" This has never failed to elicit the officer politely, sometimes gladly, assisting me, so maybe this helps others. YMMV, of course.

[1] http://travel.trade.gov/research/monthly/arrivals/index.asp

[2] http://www.eturbonews.com/53328/research-domestic-tourism-si...

[3] https://www.quora.com/Airports-Why-do-you-have-to-go-through...

[4] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-justifiable-for-the-Ben-Gurion-a...