skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a banker so maybe I'm missing something, but I wouldn't be too happy if my company popped after the IPO. The way I see it, that just means that I left money on the table.

If anything, this increases my respect for Zuckerberg and team.

I'm not really excited about the prospect of bankers lining their favored clients' pockets with my money.
Have you seen Cuphead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KaXZcjQiWc
Those are more like events that have been ongoing for decades. Russian airspace incursions aren't much of a signal. (see e.g. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/full-list-of-... )
Making a decision to change is important not just because of the direct impact it may have but also because it's empowering. Being empowered is enabling and has an amplifying effect on both personal and social change.
Young people don't stay young forever.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS FailING, ONLY IF
100% agree. It doesn't matter whether Obama intended it to be a tax, or a mandate, or a duck. It was a tax because it was.

It doesn't matter what Trump thinks about the order. It's legality is the same no matter who signed it.
NASA starts wind tunnel tests for its quiet supersonic jet
Haskell was designed by academics to be used for programming language research. With that in mind, being a trend-setter seems to be a much better metric for success than actual industry adoption.
It makes absolutely zero sense to me too, but what do I know, other than that the idea seems to be that snapchat, like Facebook before it, is seen as the drug that compels today's generations.

It was newspapers, radio, and TV before and now it's Snapchat after Facebook. At least I think that's the reasoning. If you can capture people's minds and compel them to put real money into people's pockets, then you can capture the whole of society.

If you think about it, we are somewhat still in an equivalent world where there were only a few radio or TV stations, i.e., Facebook, Google Ads, Snapchat, etc. who command the minds of ever more people in the world. It's a de facto cartel monopolized market not unlike the Robber Baron period of American history, where few dominated the vast majority of economic activity with their stranglehold.

Unfortunately, due to the inherent network effect of the internet and technology, it will only ever increasingly become a race for who can steal away the vast majority of human minds of the ever increasing digital human herd.

Snapchat will have its day as Facebook starts atrophying and contracting as people shift to Snapchat, then something else will come to poach away a future generation that is then ridden to poach away minds from Snapchat. It will be an ever repeating cycle of one company stealing away the vast majority of minds from the last company. At least as long as certain conditions are true.
Uber  has a  law firm  investigating me – Susan Fowler
As I mentioned I have played it, but not by any stretch as long as other games, so it might have been unfair in that regard. You are probably right.

However, would it be unfair to suggest that designing a game with unlocks that way takes you down one of two routes below?

* That unlocks (whether it be items or heroes) give you unfair advantage by being fundamentally different in balance and design, and having those available only to some skews the advantage towards the one with a bigger pool.

OR

* That to avoid being unfair to newer players with less unlocks, you end up balancing everything towards a lowest common denominator, that variations in function/mechanics can not exist because it would skew the advantage to only the few who has unlocked it.

In dota you can have really hard hero counters, because everyone has the entire hero pool. If you could only expect players to have 20 out of 100+ heroes, you would have to design them in such a way that at least a 1/5 heroes could play in either the exact same way, or a sufficiently equivalent way.

And at that point, what's the case for making a lot of heroes?
Here's the intro post for context: http://sequoia.makes.software/what-is-javascript-part-1-the-... . I linked to the "solutions" one because I'm particularly interested in thoughts on my suggestions.
Bitcoin price tops gold for first time ever
What a sticky situation. I applaud the groups concerned with well-being for being up for partnership with Facebook. In reality, I also want to see the tools as on the positive side, in how they can do some good. Deploying such tools is a risk on Facebook's part, and I think it's the good type to take. Harm prevention is probably a consensus point to work on; I see it as a good.

My imagination did give me a little pause though, that if somebody was going through some kind of paranoia state and suddenly the Facebook AI scoots them over to one of the crisis providers - you know, kind of like technology being indistinguishable from magic/witchcraft when using AI - that could be a compounded situation. Granted, a drastic hypothetical, but perhaps not an entirely useless one.
Well, it's only sexual harassment if its true and not just some line from a Hollywood movie: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/04/17/ken-segall-steve-job...
Is that why they sued NASDAQ?
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I'd be curious to know what exactly this explained.
Hmm, these last years were one of the best years in:

- strategy gaming (from Deserts of Kharak, Civilization, Paradox interactive grand strategy games, Eugen Systems games, Total War series, XCOM and more and more)

- RPG gaming (2D isometric RPGs are making a huge comeback with good writing and gameplay, things like Pillars of Eternity, new Torment, Divinty and more. 3rd person Witcher 3 collected record amount of awards and with good reason.)

- platformers (Ori, Shovel Knight), roguelikes (Darkest Dungeon, Don't starve, Spelunky, and more)

- experimental narrative games (Papers Please, This War of Mine, This is The Police)

- modern adventure games (Until Dawn, Telltales Wolf Among Us / Walking Dead / Game of Thrones and many more)

And those are only on PC and none of them are first person. Just like movies go beyond just Marvel and Transformers, gaming goes way beyond just Call of Duty and Battlefield. The AA market of smaller but still established companies (Paradox Interactive, Relic Entertainment, Telltale and many more) build great experiences and I don't think gaming market was ever so live and broad as it is these years.
connection via land to sea, later better positioned for potential Lithuania to Finland ops
Generate integral values, then move them into the [0,1) interval.
So, would you call this a Snap pop?
No, it was a disaster that led to years of litigation. NASDAQ admitted it was their technical error and paid millions to settle lawsuits stemming from it.

This obsession by techies that you're leaving money on the table if your shares go up after an IPO is bizarre.
I enjoyed it a lot as well. The impression I have is that it's Skyward Sword, not Twilight Princess, which had a big divide between critic and user reviews.
Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
I'm a light snapchat user (send/receive ~100 snaps/week and post to my story every 3-4 days) and I have a question about its value as an advertising platform. I always skip the ads, and I don't know anyone else who uses snapchat who does't immediately skip the ads. When I do this, is it counted as an impression? I can't imagine advertisers would be happy to know that the ads can be skipped. Also I never use the Discover page and I don't know anyone who does. Yes, I'm one person and this is an anecdote but hopefully advertisers are getting valid engagement metrics.
Java had widespread adoption.
Heh, I was intrigued by the title, because I thought "Key" was an adjective here.
Ukraine shows how much can be tolerated.
Her precautions sounded totally reasonable. Being a US Citizen with security clearance won't even protect you from unreasonable searches if you don't seem white enough:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkann...
On that note, there really have been a number of white Christian terrorists coming from the Carolinas. It's a valid discussion.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
Well personally I feel that using religion as a "flag" in something like that is still wrong.

Now that might be my "mid 20's white male never been directly affected by any kind of terrorist attack" talking, but I just feel that the risk for abuse is too great.

In the US we have laws that make it harder for the police and the government to take action. We deliberately tie our own hands with things like laws against unreasonable searching, against being forced to incriminate yourself, and more. We have many times in our history let very bad people walk free because of these restrictions we have placed on ourselves, and personally I believe that to be the right choice.

Now things are different when you are talking about non-citizens, but at the end of the day I think we should strive to that same kind of standard. Don't use things like religion, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other things like it as a basis for "flagging" someone.

If they are violent, then disallow them based on that.

If they surround themselves with violent extremists, then disallow them because of that.

If they publicly speak about how they want to hurt americans, then disallow them because of that.

But don't group someone from the same religion in with them.

Yes, that means that it will be harder to "secure our borders" and yes i'm sure that means that bad people will get through at some point, and yes I know that those bad people could very well do a lot of harm. But I really truly believe that more good than harm will come from it simply from the amount of good people that will be coming into the country compared to the bad.
An American craft brewery is a small, independent, and traditional brewery where small means a production of less than 6 million [US beer] barrels per year. [1] A US beer barrel seems to be 177.348 liters so that we get slightly more than 7 million hectoliters. The largest German brewery produced 5.5 million hectoliters in 2002. [2] So US small is German largest plus 25%? Or did I make a mistake, is there yet another barrel? In Germany you are considered a large brewery above 0.25 million hectoliters or 140,965 barrels.

Also the world beer production seems to be just shy of 2 billion hectoliters per year, so you can produce 0.35% of the world production and are still considered small? That would also limit the number of non-small breweries to 286.

[1] https://www.craftbeer.com/breweries/what-is-a-craft-brewery

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großbrauerei#Gr.C3.B6.C3.9Fte_...
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S3 Drive Brings S3 Compatible Storage to the Windows Desktop
According to Web performance chart, it looses to 7700T, which has 1/2 TDP and 5% lower price.
Can someone clarify why the author talks specifically about Trump's America? This kind of excessive profiling at ports of entry happened under GWB and Obama too. I have heard many anecdotes in the last 15 years. Is there a provable and statistically significant increase in intensity or number of such incidents? In its absence, we should settle for a prior for likelihood-of-being-profiled that is defined by pre-Trump rates. We can't arbitrarily update this prior based on our political opinions.
Regarding Kaliningrad - wouldn't it be way more convenient for Russia to have that patch joined to the main country?
Because enterprise sales dwarf consumer sales? Enterprise is replacing servers and workstations every 3 years. Your 7 year old home beater will run until it dies.

With AMD's previous offerings, they benched well but ran like crap because so many applications are single-threaded. These single thread tests are important to know how these chips will work in real world scenarios.

This is the data enterprise buyers want to hear. If AMD can match Intel at a much lower cost, expect enterprise buyers to switch.
I've wondered this as well, but my guess is that they'll go the Youtube route and make the ads less and less skippable over time.
The Development of Computer Music Programming Systems [pdf]
After using lambda for a while, the opinion I've landed on is that the concept of serverless is a powerful one in specific domains, but (1) being the zeitgeist it is encouraged for use in domains where it doesn't belong, and (2) AWS Lambda itself isn't very good, for reasons that are specific to Lambda, not to the concept of serverless.
Well yes, obviously tech jobs are "worth it" but they are an exception, not a rule. And most Polish people went to work physical jobs which at the time paid a lot better in the US than the top-skilled professions in Poland, but that's no longer the case.
Part of the problem is that you're in Chicago, and Heady Topper doesn't travel well.

Also, you already live in one of the country's three centers for Double IPA production. :)
Oh wow that's horrible that we will no longer be graced with your presence
Your proof that the statement is some kind of coded language is what, exactly? Parent's assertion?

Please don't assume racism where none has been proven to exist.

I absolutely refuse to cease challenging unsubstantiated statements because of this conceptual boogeyman, and so should you.
thank you, I hadn't read that anywhere.
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TensorFlow: How to optimise your input pipeline with queues and multi-threading
The hard part with these things is that in some ways progress and growth is non-linear. So Snap has (by all accounts) done a masterful job of launching their first hardware product:

https://www.spectacles.com/

How do you value that? I'm of the opinion that AR style glasses are the technology that will be the next tech wave post mobile phones (FB buying Oculus and Google pushing so much money on MagicLeap is explained for a similar reason).

So how do you consider Snap's Spectacles? Say there's a 10% chance that they become the initial dominant hardware player in the post-phone mobile space? What's that worth?
Groupon was also similar if memory serves. My prediction is Snap will be the Myspace of 10 years from now.
If I had 5 extra hours in a workweek I'd probably do house chores like grocery shopping, maintenance, doctor appointments, cleaning, cooking for the week, etc. That way, my regular free time is actually free.

Coming home after 8 hours of work to 1-2 hours of chores isn't fun.
"In Russia all men aged 18-27 have to spend a year in the armed forces."

I don't think that's correct. College graduates only have to serve a few weeks, IIRC.
> it concentrated on how the author felt in anticipation of the problems.

That was the whole point of the article. The author describes the internal struggle of having to hide one's authentic identity because they could be mistaken for being a "muslim terrorist".
> Major holders are still mega wealthy though.

EDIT: I was wrong, that's just what they are selling today, not the total value of their shares. In which case, good for them!

It actually surprised me how little the founders got. Their shares are worth about $400M each. Certainly nothing to sneeze at, but usually when you're the cofounder of a 24 billion dollar company, you're a billionaire. :)
I wonder what'll happen with app store, even if the developer doesn't use centralized servers.

From what I understand, old unupdated games will soon be removed from app store and it won't even be possible to download them?
Yes, that is a common misunderstanding with the kubernetes community. We are correcting that misunderstanding with a few simple steps:

- What kubernetes needs from Docker is a simple and robust container runtime. We are spinning out containerd (the core container runtime that powers the Docker platform) to provide exactly that. We are actively working with the Kubernetes community to make sure containerd is a perfect fit for kubernetes to integrate - a better fit than Docker itself, in fact, since it will be much smaller and change only very slowly. See https://containerd.tools and https://blog.docker.com/2017/02/containerd-summit-recap-slid...

- This in turn will free Docker to focus on serving its userbase of developers and enterprises, which do want an integrated platform. Take a look at Docker for Mac/Windows or Docker for AWS/Azure for a sense of where we are taking the platform.

- If you ask the core kubernetes maintainers, they will tell you that kube is intended to be the "kernel" of your distributed system, and it's up to you to build a platform on top. So in that way, I think we agree that kubernetes is ultimately a component - nothing derogatory about that!

- You mention "camps". I think this evolution is very exciting because it allows us to move beyond the concept of camps. With containerd, a lot of bridges are already being built - engineers are collaborating peacefully and focusing on solving technical problems, which is a huge relief to everyone. Nobody likes drama.

- Lastly, we are making sure Docker is a very modular and loosely coupled platform. So, who knows? If enough of our customers ask us, maybe we'll eventually integrate kubernetes as an optional component ;) The point is, we have an opportunity to refocus the conversation on technical tradeoffs rather than silly pissing contests.

For all these reasons I think 2017 will be a good year for the entire container community.
I think your criticism of startups overselling themselves to college grads is fair.

However, I don't know if Addepar is more guilty of this than any other local tech venture. It's an industry wide issue.

Just curious, did you previously work there? Your only HN submission was over a year ago, and it was an obscure news article about Addepar cutting sales staff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bfrink

> While there are some operational inefficiencies to be alleviated in the wealth management performance reporting space

Addepar already does more than just "wealth management performance reporting".

And all successful startups, as far as I can tell, start by shipping something simpler and smaller than their ultimate vision.

Facebook started as Thefacebook. It was a PHP+MySQL site that had the names of your classmates, profile pics, and a Poke button.
What western military doesn't pay service members? Pretty sure you mean "a job, that rarely, but sometimes involves killing." There are many jobs like that: policing, security, and depending on your moral framework, murdering animals.
And that's not their only product:

Bitmoji has been the #1 iPhone app overall since January 11, and it was already the #1 iPhone Utility app since July 22, 2016 (Log in to see) -

https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/bitmoji-keyboard-your-...

https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/top/united-states/overall/...

And yesterday on eBay, 22 pairs of Spectacles were sold, with one pair went for $229 and 2 others went for $200 each, even though http://www.spectacles.com has been offering them for $130 since last Monday -

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_from...

Then there is the rumored Android Snap Phone:

http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/snapchat-phone-concept-design...

And Snap Drones, as reported on page 2 of today's NYTimes -

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/technology/snapchat-drone...

http://i.imgur.com/6Nl0Ymq.jpg
> It's not so clear, because 7700K offers more bang for the buck in single-threading cases

hence, "things get interesting"
Hello everybody,

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I'm mentioning it because it was explicitly stated by the White House as the justification for temporary travel ban. They also said that Muslims as well as members of other religions who were at risk of religious persecution because they belonged to a minority religious group would have special considerations (it's often unreported that Islam is not a monolithic religion and not only Christians, but members of competing sects are often executed for their beliefs).

These countries were excluded from relaxing visa requirements under the Obama administration because of documented concerns about their identity verification processes. In Somalia, for example, the government esentially has no control and can't leave the capital city without risking death.
My understanding is that Uber was never popular in cities with good public transport...

As for 3$ a day, this is the choice people make everyday with using free Google stuff and promoting ads and surveillance culture. It's really not that simple as money as you make it sound.
Your example of a "tell" is quite narrowly defined. Yes, in fact it would make more sense to exclude WBBC rather than all Christians, but how do you identify members?
I understand the current interpretation of the constitution. I disagree with the interpretation, as when I read it, the fourth amendment applies to the entire federal government, not just part of it.

Regarding rayiner's sibling comment: The presumption of guilt, particularly upon the part of citizens, is unreasonable. A government that doesn't trust its citizens by default can lose citizens' trust over time.
So, in your opinion, we won't have adequate AI in time to help us deal with AGW? That is, a disastrous AGW collapse will precede any Singularity (or even a non-Singularity AI that radically improves our engineering/scientific abilities)?
I don't even understand their logic here:

> Linux and Windows don't have built-in dictionaries.

Every Linux distribution I've ever been on has had a dictionary. I'm not sure what package it's in, but the point is that packages exist, and can be depended on (or, although I dislike this, vendored in).

(Is it perhaps that they need a dictionary with the syllabic breakdown of the word? IDK if the normal dictionaries will give you that, or if it can be computed or heuristically determined?)

(Edit: e.g., on Ubuntu, the "text" category includes a number of dictionaries in various languages … http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/text/ )
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-is-dropping-processor...

http://www.microcenter.com/product/472529/Core_i7-7700K_Kaby...
> since young people aren't known to move on to the next big thing at the drop of a hat.

I'm assuming that was said with a whole lot of sarcasm? In my opinion, that will be the death of Snap - something else new and shiny will come along in a year or two and Snap will be a ghost town.
I wouldn't say that Bhutan lacks a sense of humor. It is the happiest place on Earth, after all.
That's equivalent to fixed point, right?
Rocks suggest there's chaos in the solar system
I'm not interested until we get to the point where we, as a culture, are willing to tell people that their feelings are unjustified in sensitive areas. And here I'm talking about general public discussions. If you're emotionally close to someone then of course be empathetic. If you want the general public to listen then you'd better be prepared to put up or shut up with regards to data.

If you just want to talk about your feels with no justification whatsoever, there's plenty of platforms out there for fiction writing.
What is there to "actually look into"? The driver added exactly 0 new information to Travis' view on the business. His entire job is basically a constant process of "looking into" this question. Acting as if the driver's complaint was some revelation that exposes some previously-unconsidered drawback of Uber's strategy would have been pure political ass-kissing of the type that HN usually detests.
Such people are called "exceptions" or exceptional