skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manhattan, though objectively denser, is less claustrophobic to me: though the crowd is thick, it walks fast, you can navigate the area quickly (via the subway), and big open space (Central Park) is never that far away.
Hehe, no question about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_sweets_and_dess...
Looks like HAMMER is DragonFlyBSD's filesystem, for those (like me) who may be unfamiliar with the distro: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

Previous discussion about the filesystem vs. ZFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8829194
I'm not the person you were responding to, but my reasoning is that I still get paid even on days when I phone it in and do poorly at my job. Why should I in turn get to deny pay to others, as long as they did the bare minimum?

I think the bar for someone to not get paid for working should be really fucking high.
The unknown there is their automation arm being sued by Google.
Once I read on a book, that there may be a star so huge that it orbits a black hole at half of the speed of light, i.e., 150,000 km/s. Is this possible?
Your fare for Pool/Line have low correlation to the driver's revenue. Especially if you shared the ride with another fare.

The driver gets paid for distance from the first pickup to the last dropoff. If an extra fare hops in and out along the way, that's almost zero extra revenue for the driver. Thus, if you're taking a popular route, the app can charge you very little and still turn a profit.
Well that's news to me. I generally tip 20% and thought I was being generous...
SpaceX launch livestream: EchoStar 23
Launch is now set for 2am EDT / 11pm PDT / 6am UTC

'Hosted' (lots of talk) Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZmqbL-hz7U (the countdown you see is until launch, not the start of the stream!)

'Technical' (minimum talk) Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8mi7laQGk

Twitter updates: https://twitter.com/SpaceX

This launch is of a communications satellite to GTO. Due to the mass of the satellite (5.6mt), no attempt will be made to land the booster. (The heaviest previous landings were JCSAT-14 @ 4.7mt and JCSAT-16 @ 4.6mt.)
But wouldn't the CLR run its own GC?
My local Lexus dealership does exactly this. The software platform they use will send me a text message when my car is ready.
"He's a criminal who got away with it for a long time because of geography and the supply and demand relationship … "

So pretty much Uber-but-for-some-homeless-guy-in-the-forest-in-Maine then?
But they don't support the primary reason for asm.js and thus wasm- C and C++.

They also, as you note in another comment, do not have the appropriate security model for web apps.
With tax miracullously not included in price, calculating tip and final total is a fun guessing game that you have to play each time you make an order.
I thank you for the compliment, but I am a lowly PM rather than an engineer, that doesn't find Cloud Databases [1] any more esoteric than the Cloud in general. :)

You'll probably find there are a lot of distributed database geeks at Google, me included, so we all get attracted to exciting posts on new distributed systems.

[1]: http://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/68
The performance of JS these days, for such a dynamic language, is actually very impressive.

If Java were our only option I assure you we'd have come up with all kinds of crazy alternative systems of doing things.

Plus, targeting the JVM for weird transpiled language was what all of the cool kids did before doing it in JS became cool. This isn't unique to JS. It's probably unique to any language with that much adoption.
Given that all the taxes go to perpetuate a system which allows the US to be successful, I think it's hard to make a case that overall the majority is not working usefully in some way, even if not obvious. I think it would be hard to make a case that if the government ceased to exist tomorrow and no more taxes were owed, we would all be better off.
I prefer ReWheel. It's like RollCircle but they've reduced everything to a single wheel so it's easier to reason about. Some people still think you shouldn't have a single global wheel but it's definitely where things are headed.

Anyways you should take a look, it's a lot easier to pick up than RollCircle and nobody really uses Wheel.js anymore
The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
do Java applets seem like they were way the hell ahead of their time?

Pretty much. If Sun had made a decent plugin instead of expecting every browser to roll their own VM, and if AWT had been a lot less buggy, it could have worked.

A unfathomable clusterfuck of module systems, transpilers, shit build tools and IDE support, crazy syntax gotchas, unholy and inconsistent exception handling systems.

Amen. It's ridiculous how many millions of engineer-hours have been spent trying to turn JS into a usable environment.
At a recent job interview, I started answering questions in APL. Didn't quite make it through. In retrospect, it didn't matter as long as I could explain it to the reviewer, because he couldn't read APL anyway.
WebAssembly also lacks Javascript's problems with its tool ecosystem, syntax, and exception handling system.
I think people don't consciously think in these terms. I once had debt in the form of student loans and a car loan. Becoming debt free was a great relief. It removed a ton of stress and provided me with freedom. The emotional well being from being debt free is not something that can easily be quantified in monetary terms. For the average person, I see it as "don't take on debt" being akin to "don't willingly get into a situation where you may have to worry".
Sure, but if you're not used to tipping, it can be confusing to figure out what services you should and should not tip for.
"micro" if you will
Amazon Elasticsearch Service Support for ES 5.1
Thanks for recommending that essay. Reading through it I found myself first agreeing, every other attempt sings about Lisp's wonders without showing you the what/why/how, only woo. Then, here I was halfway through this essay also not yet knowing what the fuzz is about, and when the author finally gets around to it I end up not really sold on it. I have given Racket and CL my time before only to end giving up, not having found "enlightenment" or even the motivation to keep at it. Another day, with more free time I expect I'll give Beautiful Racket also a try.
> A modern car company

Tesla is a battery / energy company.
Growth Hacking case studies by Rob Liu
There is a whole other inequity that arises out out of the ridiculous US tipping regime, I will quote restauranteur Danny Meter again:

"What is a tip? It’s a multiplier of menu pricing and as menu prices have gone up, so too has the multiplier over the course of my career which is now 30, 31 years.Tipped employees, happily for them, are making about 300 percent of what they were 31 years ago. During that same period, everyone in the kitchen — the dishwasher, non-tip eligible employees — have seen their hourly income go up about 20 percent."[1]

http://www.eater.com/2017/1/12/14250128/danny-meyer-tipping-...
To some, debt is a hit to one's freedom, dignity, and privacy.

Most debt requires you to give a lot of personal information, tell a bank what you are buying, and then stick to a fairly arbitrary payment plan with various penlties for non-compliance.

So it's perfectly sensible to minimize your debt for non-financial reasons.
> It assumes Government subsidies for solar, which may be going away for political reasons.

Isn't their car operation also vulnerable? Tax credits may be less easy to get rid of, from a political perspective, but I think Trump would be far more interested in promoting cars that run on coal than cars that run on electricity.
Just curious, did you read the article before commenting? Your comment isn't offering much that isn't in the article itself.
Exactly. All a non-profit means is that they don't set aside money as "profit". They can still pay themselves outrageous salaries. It's also why rich people set up "foundations".
Chevy Bolt is $37,500 MSRP, and GM likely turns a profit on it (once the R&D investment is recouped), are Tesla's unit economics way worse?
I think that star size is irrelevant here - any massive object will need to have the same speed to hold a given orbit. It's black hole mass and star's proximity to black hole that are in this equation.

Assuming star is much lighter than the black hole, or course.
> Amen. It's ridiculous how many millions of engineer-hours have been spent trying to turn JS into a usable environment.

It's not just JS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
(I don't really agree with the simplification of debt = risk. Despite that...)

> What's risky about using a credit card to buy a kayak?
If you unexpectedly lose your job or are otherwise unable to pay off the card on the schedule you expected, you'll incur significant interest on the debt and end up having to pay far more than you originally planned. Compared with saving up money and paying in cash, there are clearly additional risks incurred when using the card.

(If you had the money to pay off the card already and are just using the CC as a convenient method of payment, the risk is obviously far lower.)
Reading the diff, I'm neither surprised that this bug existed nor will I be surprised when similar bugs arise.

There must be a more readable to write even low-level code like this.
I'm dubious: Roche limit.
Also:

What is needed is constant work, day and night,
constant reading, study, will ... Every hour
is precious for it …
Three Women Blinded by Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
i understand its not that simple, thats why im advocating getting legal advice from places other than startup blog posts.
This is super interesting. It's also interesting to see the converse - who isn't moving anywhere. Go, Elixir, Dart, and Clojure all seem pretty happy!
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles...
No. That size, that speed, would see the star ripped appart by tidal forces. The situation would not last long. The star wouldnt be a star, more a bunch of gas being accelerated/heated into a stream of particles mostly flung away into space.
There's also https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie - a Clojure flavoured Lisp on top of the PyPy JIT foundation.
I doubt the client-side web pages are written in C++ -- they were probably talking about the server, unless you have a source to the contrary.
When the alternative is your mind falling apart, I'd expect quite a few people will risk the side effects. I certainly would.
I wonder if you could model this in Universe Sandbox [0]? (I live in Seattle so I've met the author Dan Dixon a few times at meetups but have no other relationship to it)

[0] http://universesandbox.com/
Because a huge factor of pay is cost of living. The only reason people in San Jose are getting paid so much is because they are in San Jose and could not survive otherwise.

> Are software companies pricing their computer programs based on location? Do folks in Ohio get to pay less than folks in New York?

Yes?
im not confusing anything. Deleware C corp is beneficial for a lot of reasons. so is an LLC. Many startups might have both.

Corporate structures are significantly more complex than:

> if you plan to raise outside capital and have an exit, then you should be a Delaware C Corp.
AFAIK there is a maximum number of phased arrays in an area, something like one array per 5-cit blocks. So this is great if you are in a rural community but it isn't a substitute for high-speed fiber.
That sounds nuts; it seems like a huge liability that they are putting AP2 in the hands of consumers when it can be more dangerous than just the average driver...
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Your dream could be to serve another man's or woman's dream. But why?

Quick example:

- get paid $S as employee, government takes X% in income tax

- get paid $S as consultant/corporation, government takes Y% in corporate tax

Usually X > Y and you have no ability to write-off your operating expenses as an employee, but can as an incorporated entity (phone plan, fuel, portion of your rent/mortgage, office supplies, etc)

It is about Structuring your life and professional dealings in a way to keep more money in your pocket (and have your money work for You, instead of You working for money).
Vietnam, ranks 110 or so in transparency index
I believe it has to do with the processing power of the intermittent routers/switches able to handle that many packets per second. Not sure how parallelizable ISP-scale switches are though.
It's completely logical. If you value a silent car ride, or more significantly, if you value not being asked for money by someone who has you trapped in the back seat of their car and whom you are trusting to get you to your destination, then you would pay more up front for a ride free of hustle for a tip.
Though it's a lonely frame of mind you describe, it's likely not rare, given modern globalization by the numbers. Even if most reform into cliques derivative of both parent cultures, some small percentage of singletons is still a fair number of people.

I can from experience say it's one that some children of immigrant parents (or parents that moved a lot, and/or both) identify as, when they don't identify with their own culture nor have complete familiarity with their surrounding one (nor have a 'derivative clique' of similar parents-of-immigrants to identify with - though even if they did, they'd likely have a common 'outsider' mindset w.r.t. 'everyone else').

It's funny, iirc the whole "thankful for the outsider's perspective" thing was essay/application fodder for me at one point, and something which I considered might be useful for a particular career path.

All this to say - thinking of yourself as "alone in a crowd" is likely a risky supposition if what you're after is the true state of things. https://xkcd.com/610/
:) if you'll notice maybe half of those are other languages adapted to the JVM to make them more usable, which should say something is redeeming about the JVM at least.
> Right now, Uber is subsidizing each ride

How can this be true? I thought Uber takes a cut on each ride. Are you suggesting that they actually pay the driver extra money on top of what the riders are paying?
With optional after-the-fact tipping, I'd still be concerned whether or not the fact you tipped is tracked. When you tip, is the driver individually informed? The next time you get the same driver, are they in a position to remember that you were a bad tipper on the last trip? Even if the driver isn't made aware of your individual tipping history, surely the company as a whole is tracking this information and building a (negative) profile for you. Do they charge you more on subsequent rides to compensate for your perceived poor history?

This is the problem with tipping - there is ALWAYS room for abuse. I don't understand why you'd be at ease for not being "put on the spot" to tip, when the driver or company still knows afterwards. The facts haven't changed; they still know whether you tip, and any "consequences" for not tipping will still be in play. You're playing a mind game with yourself if you think that adding a few hours of buffer between service and tip is any different than tipping on the spot.

This is why, all employees - regardless of the company and its industry - should not be tipped. Pay your staff a proper wage, and fire people who do not provide good service. The very concept of tipping is ridiculous. It serves no other reason than to satisfy employers' lowballing of wage, while inducing anxiety to their customers.
Trying to be as open as possible and ready to debate is exhausting, and often leaves one tired and misunderstood. I can see how the 'big picture' reward isn't worth the day-to-day depression and anxiety. I still have yet to figure out the most efficient balance between more information and more inner stability.
A friend is a cook who says that even at decent restaurants, cooks don't get paid much and they get just a minimal share of tips. So when I get takeout, I tip 10-20% and say "Thank-you, here's something for the kitchen." Sometimes I get thanks in return, sometimes just a sour look from a server who expected something more for putting my order in a bag. I have no idea what they'll do with the cash, but hopefully some of it gets to the back of the house.
Here's XSLT code that transforms RGB colour space into LCH (and vice versa), which is then used to colourise an arbitrary number of visually distinct and harmonious pie chart wedges:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/25481023/59087

The algorithm is straightforward, albeit verbose.
This is like saying, "paying for your food is subsidizing the business." No customer can "subsidize" a business. If anything, you're hurting the business by tipping your servers. If you were to pay the bar directly and not tip, you can't assume that 100% of that would go directly to the bartenders. Profits are generally seen as some percentage of revenue, so those would be taken out, then the inceased wage would mean the business would have to pay more in payroll taxes, so that gets taken out as well. The only way to ensure the bartender doesn't _lose_ money from the change would be to pay the bar _more_ than you would have tipped. But in that case, you'd buy fewer drinks. In the end, the only one who profits is the tax man while you get less beer and fewer appletinis.
The moment they add tipping the driver salary will go down even more.

I hate this american business method of shifting blame to the customer.
> It assumes Government subsidies for solar, which may be going away for political reasons.

Residential solar costs average out at 15c per kWh, post 30% tax credit. If the credit goes away, the 20c per kWh generation cost is still competitive compared to utility's retail rate. The bet is on solar technologies to continue incremental gains in efficiency, pushing the final price per kWh down.

In the commercial and industrial world the cost can be driven down significantly since the installations are larger (4c per kWh is the lowest I've seen), and the one-time installation costs are recouped faster, so that sector is likely to grow with or without tax credits. It's subject to the same efficiency metrics as consumer-grade tech.
GitLab has made a big deal about working remotely; I thought that's what they did. https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/
On the bright side, this will be solved forever with the first full auto taxis.

Unless Johnny Cab suddenly starts asking for Bitcoin...
Upvoted for having actual information
Did you catch the demonstration from a while back of using Excel to do 3D drawing _in_ excel? Here's a video showing this awesome and rather absurd ability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6uiZj0FHM
GoPro to lay off 270 people
I agree that 20% is the new normal. 10-15 years ago, it was 15% for adequate, 20% for excellent (that's my memory of major US cities on both coasts). Tip inflation is real.
Tell that to Europe, or Japan. Tipping a Tokyo taxi driver would be an extreme insult. Or I should say trying to tip, they arent going to let you leave the cab without exact change to the Yen.

Tipping is in no way necessary to ensure good service -- a fair wage is.
Is it finding people or background checks or onboarding? What's the source of pain?
Are you guys incorporated in India , or the US, or both? Asking this because the yc requirements page suggests that every company would have to incorporate in the US.
Obituary: The National Endowment for the Arts, 52, of unnatural causes
You can breeze through it in an afternoon and it ends up being strangely applicable to life.
Wow, I'm surprised this isn't bigger news yet. Even further indication that Level 4 driving needs LIDAR
Couldn't they dump out the list of all individual write commands sent to the disk and have seen that the writes are in a suboptimal pattern? This would have been one of the first things I would have done when testing a file system of any kind: Make sure the thing writes what I want to be written and in the way I want it to be written.
What an idea! You are the devil incarnate!

I've thought about that many times when watching old sports videos, especially some motor racing and football which used to have very prominent cigarette advertising - thankfully illegal now here in Australia.

Often the ads are blurred which I actually don't like as it kind of ruins the feel of the show. I'm not a fan of such retroactive censorship, it feels historically dishonest. What is a film if not a recording of the zeitgeist? And within that zeitgeist, cigarette advertising was acceptable. I'm not sure if it's actually required legally as I could have sworn that I've seen some without the blurring.

Customisable TV ads is not an idea I'd be prepared to release onto the world. If there's one thing that humanity doesn't need, it's more advertising.
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> Supply Chain is not that big a deal to fix

This is kind of irrelevant, but somewhat amusing, so I figure I'll tell it. My neighbour (in the middle of nowhere in rural Japan) was some kind of automotive manufacturing expert before he retired. I don't even know his name (he tells me to call him "Tom"), but we go out drinking occasionally. He must have been a big wig because he spent a considerable amount of time in the US and even has a personally signed thank you card from George Bush Sr.

Anyway, we were at the bar and I was telling him about the use of kanban in software development. My wife interrupted and asked what kanban was (because in Japanese "kanban" just means "signboard"). I tried to explain the concept, but she remained confused. He said, "I can explain it very easily". He picked up an empty plate and handed it to my wife. "We're out of fish", he said, motioning to the bar. :-)
Thanks for your reply :) I'm enjoying that article so far. Very good quote and point about automation. There's a forum called permies [1] where I've seen posts about such permaculture automation :D

[1] https://permies.com/
A robot that can hold my baby's bottle.
Open Terraria Rewrite
Hello! I'm a creator of open-source Terraria rewrite in Java. Our project grows and already supports modding. Here is a simple example,
that allows player switch to Ghost mode using 'g' key:

public void onLoad() {
ModAPI.addKeyBinding(Input.KEY_G, new Callable() {
public void call() {
enabled = !enabled;
ModAPI.getPlayer().setGhostMode(enabled);
}
});
}

Full code: https://github.com/egordorichev/LastTryMods/blob/master/GhostMod/src/org/egordorichev/ghostmod/GhostMod.java Here is the repository: https://github.com/egordorichev/LastTry

If any one is interested, please, join me! Thanks, George.
Thank you! Will contact you. Basically a lot of the opportunities lie in creating better experiences for customers, from on-boarding to self management and CRM comms. The business model works, demand is continuing to increase, and marketing is on-point and effective. Hence, a hands on CTO would really take the business to the next step.
In my opinion that's like saying the "DVD buzz is wearing off" in comparison to VHS. :D But yes, if you don't believe electric cars are going to take over everything, the Gigafactory looks super risky, and regardless it's definitely an enormous investment to have on the books while it's not paying for itself.
What fascinates me about human color perception is our brain actually interpret everything as a mix of the four colors you mentioned: red, green, blue and yellow; the opposites of the two color axes. It's why it seems so weird at first that yellow is a mix of green and red while our brain perceive it as a totally different color; it is a color of its own in our brain.
Sort of. It also appears to be based on average comment score.
You also have to factor in the fact that meat produced in this country is also heavily subsidized by the government.
This sounds more like what we used to call "This Be Africa" when I lived there, rather than reverse culture shock per-se.