skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I was just looking over the GitLab product page[0] and it looks like there might be a small issue with the FAQ:

Under the "Can I add more users to my account" faq it indicates that additional users would be billed at 50% upon renewal, while the following question "The True-Up model seems complicated" indicates that additional users would be billed at full price.

I'm not in the market right now, but for people that are this might be a bit confusing.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/products/
How do tech companies spend 100's of millions?
I just read about instacart raising $400 million, I've read that AirBNB has raised over $1B, I'm curious as to how these companies spend that much money.

From my understanding, these companies have identified sales tactics that work, and marketing tactics that work, so I'd imagine some of the money would go towards supercharging their sales team's and marketing teams etc... but still, 400 million? Why so much? How do they spend it?
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Good plan, I'll have to set it as default app for code files. VS is SOOOOOOOO slow when it's not already open.
You can do it yourself for free, I believe. https://github.com/blog/2298-github-data-ready-for-you-to-ex...
No new Chromebook Pixel this year. :(
Doesn't that prove the point?
That's a moral argument for tax compliance. Even Christianity teaches that Caesar gets his due.

You have no moral obligation to pay a tax that is not levied.
I agree with doing something with javascript in the browser. I remember my first programming class in college. There was such a large disconnect between what I was being taught and what I was expecting. Normal people understand programming as building programs, the software that they use in their daily lives. If you start with a terminal and compiler teaching syntax they're not going to be able to relate to that.
The contents table [0] which they ran the query on is 1.8TB. Assuming you only need to do a single pass (seems reasonable given that it's a simple regex), the price should be about $9 [1]. Free quota covers 1TB so the remainder would be $4.

[0]: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/bigquery-public-data...

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing
I read your article. In New Zealand the Countdown supermarket chain has an online ordering system: https://shop.countdown.co.nz

You select your local supermarket, and it has a pretty good idea of what they actually have because it's an official service. You can also specify per item whether substitutions can be made, and if necessary they'll try to find a good alternative (like your "different salsa") if they can. The times you end up with a substitution or no item sound VERY low compared to your experience with Instacart. You might order 40 items and get a couple of subs if you're unlucky.

It also sounds cheaper than Instacart. It costs around $10USD for delivery (depends on how much your order), or around $3.50USD if you want to collect from the store,which is still super convenient because you just go in and wheel out your already-full trolly.

I'm kind of surprised that supermarkets doing delivery doesn't seem to be a big thing in the US. Usually we're the ones who are a few years behind.
That's why, instead of trying to figure out what Congress intended, people should just worry about the law as written. Congress can always make changes.
I'll get it better next time.
That's a good point. I was really only thinking of how for-profit news organizations could reorient themselves to serve their readership. There's no reason such organizations need to have be for-profit.
Florida is porous. You can build walls but they don't do much. The water will rise to cover the entire peninsula.
Long before that tides and storm surge will destroy all of the surface roads to coastal cities. I wouldn't lend money there for longer than 30years.

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml
See, I don't get this.

I have a congenital hearing defect in both ears, and have hearing aids since I was a child. (I am not deaf - only hearing impaired).

If I could undo all that, and fix my hearing, would I? Heck yeah. Without a doubt.

I also have a daughter - and I most certainly would not wish a hearing impairment on her. She doesn't need to go through the c*ap I went through.

If I was profoundly deaf and used sign language - well, I still don't think I'd wish deafness on my enemy - let alone my own child.

You don't see people with blindness or bad eyesight going - gee, I'm glad I'm blind or have bad eyesight.
so I'm the author of one of the first usable unum implementations. We're actually moving to something called sigmoid numbers which are even better. The lecture doesn't cover "valid mode" but that's more like the "unum". At the end of the video, there's a demonstration where I show some very interesting results concerning machine learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y

You can try out sigmoid numbers in julia here:

https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers

Also, I am working on some verilog implementations, so we may have this in hardware rather soon.

A few things about sigmoid numbers: 1) they have fixed sizes, so you don't have to worry about keeping track of things (which was a pain). 2) they have a property I call "isomorphic structure" - which means that zero-padding does not affect the value, and truncation gives you the nearest value at a lower bit resolution. 3) they really do perform better than floating points in several applications. There's a higher bit-per-bit entropy for 'most things you want to do', so the information content is richer. The distribution of the numbers is "more human" - that is to say at a certain point you stop caring about the details around the number, and more care that it's 'really big' or 'really small'; and the distribution reflects that.
Safeway does delivery in the US AFAIK
Massive infrastructure expenditures (prepaid cloud or custom datacenter construction), high salaries, paying Beyonce to perform at company parties, deciding to invest in robot cars, drones and space travel, etc. The usual...
The California Ideology (2011)
Really cool, kudos to people helping with this. I wonder if this could have been done in a way that non-Googlers could have pitched in too, given that this is for a public good -- but it's tricky with security issues.
Usa says: no we are zealots, forget your evidence!
> This guy put the ad division's interest ahead of the company and hurt Snapchat's reputation in the process.

I already noted below that I believe this to be the most likely scenario, except it's also in Snapchat's short-term interest, which is why he probably got away with it, at least until now.

That said, the quotes are fairly sparse, and possibly out of context, so I'm hesitant to attribute too much intent to how they are presented in this article.
Excel VBA with some practical examples.
you throw an error and stop the calculation, and let the programmer decide what to do.
it's still a big handout to the wealthy

The wealthy pay most of the taxes today, so if you were to cut taxes, most of it will go back to them, no?
Neurons Recall Place-Related Memories If You Just Get Close
Accelerated silicate weathering seems like the best bet. Naturally occurring silicate compounds of magnesium and calcium react with ambient CO2 in the presence of water to form stable carbonates and silicon dioxide:

CaSiO3 + CO2 -> CaCaO3 + SiO2

The thermodynamics are much more favorable than "combustion-in-reverse" (trying to reform hydrocarbons from CO2). The products are stable and the process can deal with point CO2 sources, distributed sources, atmospheric CO2, and ocean acidification -- the whole shebang.

But the natural kinetics of silicate weathering are very slow. Kinetics can be improved by orders of magnitude if you grind the silicate minerals to dust; it's a surface area limited reaction. Kinetics get better yet if you apply the mafic rock dust to e.g. acid sulfate soils used for agriculture in the tropics. Those soils already need a pH boost to avoid crop stunting by soluble aluminum. Doing the adjustment with silicates instead of limestone means a two-for-one benefit (crop productivity plus drawing down CO2). But I think that to see widespread adoption there will have to be some targeted donor aid to poorer countries; ground limestone is cheaper than ground silicates if you don't care about CO2 abatement, and the rich world's farmers don't have a lot of acid sulfate soils in need of treatment within their home countries.
edutechnion's link says 1108 open PRs and 999 closed.

Interesting that 2100 of the PRs are "Upgrade Apache Commons Collections to v3.2.2" and just 7 were "Upgrade Apache Commons Collections to v4.1".
Because a 60 meter high seawall around pretty much all of the country would be a bit problematic material wise alone (you'd have to chop down a couple of major mountains, assuming you have those), coupled with the slight problem of then having to get rid of all the water landing in your nice new bathtub by precipitation.

A seawall isn't just a wall, it's more like a dike if it is to survive and that means it has a width many times larger than it's height.

And then there is seepage to contend with. This is anything but a trivial problem and we have never done engineering on that scale before.

The easiest solution would be to move to higher ground.
Theory emerges in Sony hacking suggesting Russian hackers
That would be principled but not in Snapchat's interest.

Their audience demographics would probably hate to see an NRA ad in a story about gun control, and it would hurt Snapchat's reputation, brand, and loyalty. You might even see hashtags trending about it, calling them "insensitive" and worse.
How is that unethical or immoral?
I'm pretty sure they're doing this, It was in an interview the ceo had with techcrunch.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/how-many...
I'm curious what this tax would change for :

- iPhones made in China and sold in Europe (i.e. would Apple have an incentive to involve Apple USA or not)

- iPhones made in China and sold in the U.S.

- U.S. based company (LLC/C-Corp) offering SaaS subscriptions in the U.S. and abroad
It was definitely a bit odd... it worked, but it wasn't the ideal solution. In the end, there's a reason why that was a dead-end.

The problem is that everyone wants to create bold new interfaces, but few people want to refine existing ones. If you can make a breakthrough, go for it, but if not... just make iterative improvements. I'm a lot happier with how Sony and MS have gone with their controllers, by contrast.

Honestly the Switch seems like the closest thing to a classic control scheme that they've had in a while. If it had more than 3 hours battery life, and didn't seem in need of a day-0 patch, it might even be worth it.
It is the first scenario not the second. The person is gaining access to the GitHub organization via SAML SSO. They are bringing their own identity and do not lose access.
+ Gameboy, Color, Advance, DS and 3DS titles also. I would be so happy.
I'm almost positive there are regulations of some sort for ads on over-the-air (broadcast) networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW), as their are specific rules applies for their use of public frequencies. I have no idea exactly how that applies to advertising for broadcast networks. I doubt it affects Snapchat in any way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQxF_3BSxQ#t=567

This is the only proposal I've seen regarding ocean acidification.

In brief, we need massive amounts of lime to dump into the ocean as an artificial carbon cycle. The problem is how to get lime? If we have massive amounts of clean power, something similar to the cement process (CaCO3 -> CaO) is possible because limestone is cheap.

The problem is the energy requirements are insane. One of the estimations in the talk that remediates only 10% of our yearly CO2 emissions requires 700 TWh (2.52E18 J). Unless we start building \several hundred new GW-scale nuclear[1] power plants (and started a decade ago), I doubt we will be able to do much to address ocean acidification.

[1] I know solar has improved a lot recently. Unless it's possible to generate >1TW of continuous power (24x7), nuclear is probably the only option.
Relevant to this discussion:

A Model of Technological Unemployment
http://www.danielsusskind.com/research
As I see it the underlying issue is that Github doesn't want the GPL of one customer's project to attach to github itself, or to other projects hosted on Github.

I think that's a fair goal for Github to pursue - maybe they didn't get it right this time (IANAL) but I think we can all work with them to get something that makes everyone happy, hopefully with less heat and more light

Disclaimer: I have GPL and LGPL code and hardware hosted on Github
If we are already past the point where conservation will help, a carbon tax seems like closing the barn doors after all the cows escaped. the market is already going down the alternate fuel route.

What I want to know is there any concrete plan to build something that will remove excess CO2 from the air and ocean that can be built by the government. Build this is going to go over a whole lot better than tax this.
Were you under the impression that wealthy people are supposed to follow the same rules as the commoner?

I think that depends on who or what is doing the supposing. I certainly don't expect the wealthy will ever live by the same rules as the commoners, but it would be very interesting if someone like Bloomberg admitted that. Americans are pretty fond of having a legal system that at least nominally holds the wealthy to the same standards as the commoners, and Americans are well armed so punching a giant hole in the facade could get ugly.

Either way, I don't quote that to point out his hypocrisy, but to point out that he finds guns to be useful.

And that guns would bring about a homogenous equality to all, instead of forming warring factions?

History is not my best subject, but I think warring factions predate guns by quite some time. No, guns will not bring about equality, but they do seem to move the scale in that direction. Controlling an armed group of people seems at least to require you to pay greater respect to their wishes.
I have had that book on my Amazon wishlist since Jan 2016, so I guess it's time to get it!
You company only managed your membership in the GitHub organization. It doesn't have access your personal account or the details within it.
Just to be clear, this distinction is of no help in deciding which argument one prefers. in particular, it is of no help in deciding which argument has the better basis in fact.
And that was just on a city scale. Doing this country or continent wide is engineering on an entirely different level. NL has something like this but it's only 30 feet high and extrapolating from that experience to something able to withstand 60 meters of ocean (which is dynamic, an an average of 60 meters does not include storm surges and tides) is making me think this is infeasible.
Twitter | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

We're looking for engineers to come work on Twitter's Cloud Platform team. The majority of this work revolves around developing Apache Mesos[1] and Aurora[2].

Aside from the constant challenge of making sure our platform can scale with the company (we have the largest Mesos clusters in the world), Twitter is in an exciting stage where efficiency (and thus hard performance problems) are becoming more and more important.

Because most of our platform is open sourced, contributions you make on this team will also be felt across a huge number of companies in the community. Mesos is used at companies like Apple and Netflix and Aurora adopters include Paypal, Uber and Electronic Arts. Twitter's commitment to OSS as well as our unique position in terms of platform size gives us a huge opportunity to lead development of key features.

One of my favorite things about working on this team for the last few years has been that I get to touch literally every part of the stack. It's a constant learning process. Mesos is written in C++ and is very heavy on systems, Aurora is on the JVM, much of our developer tooling and automation is in Python, and then we also have a product layer and other tooling that are written in a modern JS stack (React/redux/etc.). So no matter your interests, you can make a huge impact here.

From a product point of view - trying to keep thousands of developers happy and productive in the face of constant comparisons to public offerings like Heroku and AWS, as well as other platforms like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc. is also a huge (but fun) challenge. So if you're a product-focused engineer, this is also a great opportunity.

We have a great team that's based in SF and within six months will be completely onsite. So we're not looking for remote workers right now.

If this interests you at all or you'd like more information, please get in touch at dm@twitter.com for my work e-mail or david@dmclaughlin.com for my personal e-mail.

[1] - http://mesos.apache.org/
[2] - http://aurora.apache.org/
Thanks for the feedback.

My book is neither tech nor mass-market, and I've heard from another author in the area that "piracy" doesn't seem to be a major factor. It's also a large enough file to be a pain to email or put on a free blog, and unlikely to turn into a reliable torrent, so accidental or casual mass distribution is unlikely. Hm...
"When we've initially started [..], dominant was Go 1.3, which had mechanisms to detect memory blocks allocated inside used libraries and all such blocks were to be freed by GC. Go 1.6 significantly improved its memory management, however as part of those improvements memory allocated by external libraries was no longer garbage collected by the runtime."

This looks like a serious API break.

To be fair, the whole idea of the runtime automagically managing external memory gives me shivers, and this looks like moving in the right direction - I just think it was not very wise to go with that initial decision in the first place.
I imagine every article about style/fashion/clothes sounds that way to HN readers. Consider pg's article on "submarines,” which to me was just a blithe lack of understanding of cyclical fashion, and his noble defense of wearing sneakers in professional settings. A fashion editor trying to write about trends in software frameworks would probably fare no better.
> The fact that you can print a multiplication doesn't mean it's an integer :P

I mean, we're circling back on it on 'what do you mean by...' - and my basic point which is a lot of the time, especially for simple stuff like this, it's completely arbitrary.

>>> print(int(2**128))
340282366920938463463374607431768211456

You can tell me it "doesn't mean it's an integer" all you like, it's integer enough.

Perhaps this whole thread would have been better summarised if I'd initially asked Where is it being stored as what you're terming a 'standard integer'?

Edit - actually, I did ask that, in my second reply:

> My point is - where do you think the problem is?
Yes, it's not the temperature (though that would already cause lots of problems) it's the secondary effects such as oceans rising, likely a change in the gulfstream and so on.
I used their delivery service in SF about five years ago. The delivery and item correctness itself was fine, but the online ordering system was atrocious and seemed to have either a very limited inventory or terrible searching/browsing (or both). I think we also had to have over $100, or maybe that was just to get free delivery.

The experience wasn't terrible, but it certainly wasn't sticky. We never used it again.
There is no "blind culture" as there is Deaf culture. Also, many deaf people don't consider themselves disabled, and some even view hearing people as the ones who are disabled because they don't know sign language and don't understand or appreciate Deaf culture, and can't appreciate the world as a deaf person can. Another reason is they want their children to be like them, to share their culture, to share their language, to see the world as they do, to understand what they went through and be able to relate to their children as well. There are many other reasons too.

I'd say some of the issues involved are somewhat analogous to the Europeans and Western people coming to "civilize" indigenous populations, which were viewed as primitive and inferior, and towards whom the Europeans held the attitude that they know best what's good for the "primitives" -- but without actually knowing much of the indigenous peoples at all, surely not understanding them or their culture, often misunderstanding them, not appreciating them, and at the same time in many ways it was the Europeans who were inferior. But they were blind to it.

Still, these Europeans managed to virtually wipe out the cultures and languages of the native civilizations and languages they encountered and dominated.

Today sign language and Deaf culture both face a very real possibility of extinction in the near future. Those are yet more reasons that many in the Deaf community are concerned.

At the risk of making this issue even more political, but with the aim of clarifying what's at stake for some in the Deaf community: imagine if what was at stake was the extinction of the Hebrew language and the Jewish identity.

Once again, I'd recommend watching the documentary I linked to for a clearer understanding of some of the issues, and to hear some of the reasons for the anti-implant position from the mouths of the affected people themselves, parents and children.

On the other hand, some deaf people and hearing people with deaf children, especially those who are not part of the Deaf community and who don't know sign language, feel like you do. The choices even in these cases are still not easy, as the film makes clear. Check it out.
Much of customer service and sales can't be scaled via technology, particularly in the B2smallB markets (ie - AirBnb), where there is a requirement for business level support.

I've seen huge 'boiler room' setups at companies of this nature, with rows upon rows of support representatives in one big room.
I grew up in California, in a household speaking Japanese at home, and going to two schools at the same time: one American school 5 days a week, one Japanese school all day Saturday following the Japanese government curriculum (it was mainly for students going back to Japan after their families' overseas work assignment was over).

All my friends were Japanese until middle school, and my social life was dominated by Japanese. Definitely didn't fit into American elementary school at all and was a problem student.

But then I stopped going to Japanese school in HS, and then figured out how to excel in American school, met likeminded friends for the first time, etc.

Then I went to work at a Japanese megacorp in my early 20's.

It's a strange mix of time spent using the language.
I was running X11 apps (mostly xemacs) in Cygwin on Windows XP nearly a decade ago.
I always find it funny that people think like this. Do you think only struggling companies should strive to grow their brand? Market leaders stay market leaders with PR/branding and of course, their products.

Products like Coke are internationally recognized but recognition != likeability, which is why they continue to pour in big $$$ in advertising.
Do you sponsor visas? (AU)
If only there were some entity with the capacity to take that surplus produced by mass automation and help those displaced by it.
That sounds really interesting. If a government said "yep, we are doing that" what is the mechanism they would use?
There have been a lot of articles and suggestions for mitigating S3's single-region architecture (design flaw?) since the outage.

One solution that I haven't seen much of is to just use a service that gives you multi-region without any extra work, such as https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#multi-...