skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that certain constellations of personality traits seem to travel together, even in different cultures, and in different centuries. The cult-of-personality goes with the authoritarianism, which goes with the desire to delegitimate all criticism, which goes with particular ideas about sex, and the relations between men and women. So again, in 2017, we see the revival of the same united set of personality attributes that are described from the 1930s:

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At first Claretta was brusquely mauled by Mussolini under his desk or on mattress-like cushions installed for the purpose. Towards the end of his 23-year-dictatorship, however, the Duce’s potency inevitably diminished and he became addicted to a German-manufactured aphrodisiac pill trademarked Hormovin. Taking this prototype Viagra was, in some ways, a political act as it served to prolong the myth of the Duce as the one who never flagged. Not only did he squeeze women’s breasts as if they were ‘rubber automobile horns’ (in the words of one of his British biographers), he routinely made for their genitals, Trump-style.
for the patent you mean? if you didn't read it use the spec, but did a black box reverse engineering of the format, you'd still have to pay for the patent.
Was this a serious article? Its pop-culture references and opinionated run-on sentences made me sicker than a whale watching boat on rough seas.
Please don't recommend that random non-tech folks do this. It is VERY VERY difficult to set up a hidden service correctly.

A better comparison here would be neocities
Do you have any opinion on a pass-through Delaware S-Corp vs LLC?
A company is defined by the type of goods/services it provides instead of how it operates.

I can operate my bagel shop like the CIA but it won't be spying on the Trump Tower through microwaves anytime soon :)
Sure, but rust benefits from must_use annotations, which effectively turn those annotated affine types into linear types. Turns out they are both useful in a very overlapping venn-diagram kind of way.
The React documentation says it so it has to be true. DOM slow, VDOM fast. Facebook is out there buying developer mindshare.
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I read it to mean efficient as compared to other ways of producing protein rich food, not efficient in the strict sense with regard to conservation of energy.
Being the main company that in 10 years replaces all cars that currently exist that drive around autonomously that no one owns and that can only be ordered via an app that are powered by Solar panels that are on Hyperloops all around the world.

In short. :)
If they're making money, they won't have any interest in mining your data though.
I used a cost of living calculator[1] and compared it to theirs. Found the numbers don't match up. Just matched Nashville vs SF and the low end of Nashville was higher than the low end of SF (-3000 SF dollars) but the high end of Nashville was lower than the high end of SF (+3000 SF dollars).

[1] I've found this calculator to be decently accurate http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...
I think Fauna is not very good at docs and communication yet, at least judging by confusion from some of the comments and by reading their docs. But launching will probably make them a lot better at it. Here are my notes which may add clarity for some:

similar to a RethinkDB/MongoDB:

* Designed to be great for storing application data. Fields can be dynamically added (schemaless) and their values can be arrays so it is easy to maintain data locality according to your application use patterns.

* Uses a non-SQL query language

* Probably not great for ad-hoc reporting (arguably SQL is a requirement for that)

Unlike MongoDB: supports joins

Unlike RethinkDB: great support for transactions, just not SQL transactions with an open session (which are unnecessary for an application)

Unlike most databases

* cloud-hosted and pay-for-use (on-premise is on their roadmap)

* claims support for graph data by storing arrays of references

* QoS built-in so you could run a slow analytics query without disrupting your application

Cons

* Unfortunately just like MongoDB/RethinkDB they have no real database-level integrity of schema and foreign keys, but at least foreign keys are on their roadmap.

I am a huge fan of the cloud-hosted pay for use aspect: I wonder why anyone would design a DB today without this in mind. You can transfer your data from a pay-for-use application DB (FaunaDB or Google DataStore) to a data warehouse (Snowflake or Google BigQuery) which is also pay for use and gives you SQL reporting abilities.
Random related story:

I was in New Mexico recently to see family and my brother said he had recently picked up a hitchhiker who had been searching for the treasure. She had started in Colorado and apparently been following clues found in the poems with geological features to travel along the Rio Grande in search of it. She believed based on her searching at the time (this was 1-2 months ago) that the treasure was likely hidden somewhere in Pilar. Apparently she had found marks on rocks in Embudo that led her to believe it was apparently on the other side of a rock formation she was near.

I wouldn't put too much faith in this person's account, but she had apparently been searching for it non-stop for several months and had been led to Pilar by these "clues".
While Cockroach has more emphasis on being globally consistent than Rethink (which has more emphasis on realtime), they are both distributed Master-Slave systems. So:

(1) RethinkDB got good reviews/patches on the Jepsen tests, the recent Cockroach review wasn't as successful (although I'm sure they'll get patches and performance up).

(2) The convenience of the realtime updates and developer community friendliness is going to win over (from a social perspective) the types of startups/teams that choose to roll their own not-locked-in all-open-source infrastructures that they deploy to clouds.

I'm pretty strongly opinionated on these things, I think Firebase and RethinkDB nailed it, and other contenders (in those spaces, whether a Master-Slave service or open source one) have hard fighting battles.
Maybe it is a very personal tendency, but I don't think I could ever not have more chicken, especially if I had fried chicken after 20 years... I applaud your self-control.
Way more than that. The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine produces over 200,000 ounces of gold per year. Not to mention countless closed mines that are probably yet to be played out.
What is up with the use of the term "donated" when in comes to transfering control of open source code to a standards body? There is no legal transfer taking place, and politically, there if there is a power transfer, the power transfer happens in the form of the "doner" gaining more power over the "receiver". In the real world of serious standard bodies, the standard body does not "receive a donation of a standard" but works on choosing and developing the best standard possible based on technical merits.
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Seems like he's setting himself up for a kidnapping?
Event push / feeds are on the roadmap. Currently we have everything implemented at the data model level to do live query feeds, you just have to do polling until we ship the feature.

I'm working on a follow up example to this CRUD one, that implements a multi-user TodoMVC, and will use event queries to keep the UI updated between tabs and users. You can see the basic Serverless CRUD starter example here: https://fauna.com/blog/serverless-cloud-database
They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDriveol or Apple iCloud doesn't do

AFAIK, neither Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud will work on Linux.
Seems like he'd be setting himself up for a kidnapping?
You don't need to match the scale, since people will pay a premium to not kill a chicken (or treat a chicken inhumanely). But you still would have to get pretty close - maybe double or triple the cost.
Telegram web doesn't support so called secret chats - good reason to use a native client. No idea about whatsapp.
$750M, not billion
Why does Tesla need this? What is the money going to be used for?

Is this like Solar Bonds that SCTY used?
Title is incorrect. My account was created before 2012 and they just disabled all public links.
Going off that. It would be pretty cool if there was an app that showed your average death-date but also connected to multiple platforms to show extensions in your death date. Hey you got your resting heart rate down X, ran Y miles last month and had cholesterol drop Z, you extended your life an estimated ~1.5 years!
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If you live in San Francisco, sign-up for Sonic Fiber. Even if Sonic hasn't reached your neighborhood (or city) yet, sign up now because it helps them with financial planning of their build out. If you can't sign up because Sonic has no existing plans for your neighborhood or city, call Sonic and demand to sign up.

I just got Sonic fiber service a few months ago, and it's been great. I had signed up nearly a year prior, as soon as my neighborhood could register, and I'm glad I did.

Sonic is persevering and succeeding. And profiting, apparently, at only $40/month! They're besting Comcast and AT&T without the whinging and excuse making. Not that they don't gripe about the bureaucracy and NIMBY-erected barriers, but they're committed. And they should be supported; not simply to be socially conscious, but because they deliver. The more [prospective] customers they have the more quickly they can build out.

If you don't know the backstory in San Francisco--both AT&T and Sonic spent years working with the City on fiber plans. At some point AT&T decided that if they weren't going to have a monopoly, they'd rather sabotage things by dragging things out in the hopes that Sonic would bleed cash and exit the market. The big hold up, IIRC, was NIMBY opposition to street-level cabinets. Also, Sonic was hoping for permits for micro-trenching. The city refused to permit micro-trenching, and AFAIK the cabinet issue still hasn't been fully resolved. But as best I can tell, Sonic decided to make lemonade from lemons, got permission to hang fiber from utility poles, and began building out a network in the Western half of the city (i.e. the parts with utility poles instead of underground conduits). Instead of making excuses or going home with their ball like the big guys tend to do, they've pushed forward as best they could.
I'm talking about the article title as shown here. If it said "Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder (2012; 2017)" or perhaps "... (2017)" then readers would be able to go "okay, what's this, it has this year in it, what gives" and click it. You're only able to know about Sep 1st once you actually open the article, which in its current form seems to talk about an event from 5 years ago.
FaunaDB has a per-database replicated transaction log. Once a transaction has been globally committed to the log, it is applied to each local partition that covers part of the transaction. By this point, the transaction's order with respect to others in a database and results are determined. While writes require global coordination to commit, reads across partitions are coordinated via a snapshot time per query, which guarantees correctness.

In short, writes require a global round-trip through the transaction pipeline; reads are local and low latency.
VRX was worth $257 in 2015, now it's worth $11.
The concept of the calculator is very strong, but I don't think they've implemented it well.

It seems obvious to me that they should be paying relatively more to people in cheap locations than expensive ones. That saves Gitlab money, biases their hiring to people in cheaper areas, incentivizes people to move to cheaper areas, helps cool down the overheated housing markets in expensive areas.

I can see drawbacks to paying a strict flat amount regardless of local cost of living; some adjustments probably make sense. But Gitlab seems to be doing the opposite. I don't get it.
Note to others: Arrow seems to be out of stock, and now shows a backorder button.
d33kay--Happy to talk offline about it. Connect w/ me on LinkedIn? https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmmayer/
My takeaway is that web components are purposefully low-level (as specs out of the W3 usually are). It doesn't have a databinding spec because it's not supposed to. That's why libraries like Polymer emerged, to make the features more streamlined to use. The apples-oranges comparison from the article is similar to comparing jQuery to vanilla DOM.
GC has non-zero overhead compared with linearly typed de-allocations, but that's not the main point. The title mentions predictability, and one of the big blockers to using almost any GC-ed language is the lack of predictability about runtime latency, which is very different than throughput, which I generally associate with the term bottleneck.

Additionally, predictable performance is about what the programmer can predict (whether you are talking about throughput or latency), and the argument is that linear types make it much easier to reason about the performance of a system, hence making it more predictable.
Well no. A Global latency of 2.8 ms is just bullshit. As others pointed out, they did not beat the speed of light. I hate stuff like this. If you really have a worthy product just point out what it really can do, not what in a lab environment worked once.
Dropbox has been becoming increasingly user-hostile for a great while now, and it all centers around the deprecation of the Public folder.

I think this change primarily serves to funnel downstream content viewers to the shared file "landing page". That landing page is filled with valuable screen real-estate that Dropbox can use to promote itself.

That page is a usability nightmare, too. Photos can't be zoomed to full size on certain screen configurations, videos are served transcoded, and many other file types that the browser can render natively are flagged as "undisplayable". File content will often become unavailable or hidden behind a full-splash "create a Dropbox account!" affordance that pays no heed to whether you're logged in, a customer, or just a casual observer.
I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed to spell it out: LLVM front-end compiles a high-level language into an intermediate representation ("IR") which is then transformed by the backend into machine code. A compiler targeting wasm occupies the same space as the LLVM front-end. Now, in a browser there is not as obvious a back-end, but it's there: it's the JSVM JIT code.
> That said, I'm pretty sure the "RoundUp Ready 2 Yield trait" has nothing to do with the application of RoundUp.

And you'd be wrong from what I can tell; RoundUp Ready 2 Yield is a trait that provides glyphosate-resistance without (or maybe with less of) the yield cost of 1st Gen RoundUp Ready.

> I don't believe any RoundUp application is required

RoundUp application isn't required for growing any RoundUp Ready crop, but you wouldn't choose a herbicide-resistant crop (especially with a yield cost) if you weren't going to use a herbicide it provides resistance to.

> it is normally paired with the original trait.

No, it is itself a new glyphosate-resistance trait; it's usually paired with an additional herbicide-resistance trait in RoundUp Ready 2 Xtend seeds.
Domain or Extended Validation SSL Certificates?
agreed, the first keen trilogy was right up there with prince of persia in terms of gameplay
It could perhaps be a) put to other uses or b) no longer grown in such large quantities and replaced by some other less harmful plan (speaking about corn in particular which is heavily subsidized and terrible for the soil it grows in).
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Sort of, but not really...the FASB has said you can treat the underlying shares as non-dilutive if the stock price isn't above the conversion price (this is called "net share settlement"). So basically, while outstanding, the debt acts like debt for accounting purposes until the stock price is above the conversion price. When it goes above the conversion price, the you treat those incremental shares as dilutive. Additionally TSLA is putting what's called a bond hedge (or call spread) on top of this, which limits dilution over and above an even higher stock price.

Pretty sweet deal if your stock price doesn't go up and you only have to pay minimal interest.

Here's an example that lays out a similar structure and accounting treatment: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000119312513...
Same. I was using Chrome on Windows
1 [mb hour] * 24 [hours] * 365 [days] * 10^9 [mb] / 1000 [points] * 0.01 [$] = 87.6 million

So unless you have some quantity discounts, that would seem to be the price for storing 1 PB , without any querying.
Is that a problem or a good thing. We currently suffer from deforistation due to agriculture. If those feilds could be reforested that would be a good thing. Of course pure capitalism doesn't allow for that, but with a little government intervention (aka, buy up the unneeded feilds) or economic decay (feilds become abandoned due to their lack of value ;) ) then reforestation could occure.

Or there could be solar panels put there, or the corn could end up producing the input to the vat. Or hemp could be grown there which could be used as a construction material, or ...
An uncompressed ECDSA signature is 64 bytes, which is the length of that string.
NYT bestselling author. How many units do you need to sell to be classified as a bestselling author?
The $750M is the amount of convertible debt; there's a separate $250M of new common stock being issued.
Guile 2.2 omg
One thing I notice in learning styles - is they don't seem to test retention rate months later.

I may be able to cram my brain with crap - but in 2 months time, i'll be able to remember what I can visualise, not what i heard or learnt with a lecturer yapping on about.
it seems like the exploding self-publishing market has coincided with a massive increase in fake marketing tactics, purchased reviews and copy-catting of any material that gets traction. as an indie publisher how do you compete in a market that is inundated with cheap frauds?
Cynical-me wonders if this is because whoever got this passwords also got the backend source, and they've discovered security problems that're easier to fix by killing features than but actually fixing the code the attackers have?
Use gifsicle. It's excellent and very fast, I don't think there's anything that produces smaller gifs than it. [0]

You can also use ImageMagick to produce optimised gifs (it has about 4 different options for that, eg -layers OptimizeTransparency). See [1]. But in my own tests, gifsicle always beats it (often by a huge margin) and is vastly faster. That ImageMagick page may be out of date. Also, Tumblr contracted the author of gifsicle, Dr. Eddie Kohler, to make some improvement for them, hopefully that made it back into gifsicle [2].

[0] https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#compress_opt
[2] https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/80003435120/who-doesnt-l...
Thanks, we realize the docs still have a long ways to go and are working to improve them as fast as we can. This is a good summary.

We're definitely aware that the lack schema definition is a problem for certain use-cases, and solving this is on our roadmap.
> Omnispeak requires a computer with OpenGL 2.0 support

That is the strangest requirement. I could see requiring OpenGL 3.1+ Core for someone who really wants to use a GPU (despite how unnecessary that would be) and thinks that glBegin is Teh Devil. I could see requiring OpenGL 1.1 for someone who still wants to use the GPU but doesn't want to bother with GLSL or any of the later more complex APIs.

But why OpenGL 2.0? I could see it if the games needed some special effects or something through GLSL, but all Keen games do is basically blitting pixels around (and from a quick glance at github, all the pixel shader code in the source does is to draw the bound texture, nothing else), so they don't need that (nor the code does anything more than that).
People aren't buying Apple stock because of what the company is today, they're buying it because of where they think Apple will be in the future relative to what they are now. In Apple's case, that future version might still be a consumer electronics company. Just one with (hopefully) innovative new products and a higher share price than you're buying in for.

Given the Tesla's SolarCity merge, the associated solar shingles project, the battery gigafactory, the PowerWall, and their grid energy storage projects, I wouldn't invest in Tesla today thinking "Tesla is a car company, and 5 years from now they'll be a bigger car company with new car models!" in the same way that I'd approach Apple.
Our company has no malware. We don't run any 3rd party content or tags and everything is simple, static, fast and non-intrusive native ads.

That being said, other companies do run 3rd party tags/content and since it's impossible to verify this completely, they're open to malware and fraud. Until advertisers stop sending them money, there's not much I can do about it.

However committees like this and working with adblockers and other industry groups to put some rules and, more importantly enforcement, in place has the potential to finally change things.
My argument still stands. There is no law against using user-level interfaces and abstractions that wrap those provided by the kernel.
There were several stories that broke over the last couple of weeks. It started with Uber and the travel ban. I don't want to get too into it so you can read about it here: (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/business/delete-uber.html).

Then there were several sexual harassment claims that were handled poorly. They can be read here: (https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e..., https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...).

Their SVP left because of similar claims against him at Google (http://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google...).

Their VP of product also left under similar circumstances (http://www.recode.net/2017/3/3/14805384/uber-ed-baker-resign...).

Google is suing them over potential stolen IP (involves a former Google employee leaving to start Otto, which Uber promptly acquired). This has still yet to be settled but you can read about details here: (https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell).
There absolutely is a legal transfer. the donation assigns copyright, and normally includes the intellectual property rights of the trademark and logo.

In theory, the recipient could choose to relicense.
It's not incorrect if it is only true for a (in this case, large) subset of people.

The now changed title completely misses the point of this submission, and is not more correct or less editorialized than the original one. I would prefer if it were restored, the "today" could get removed to cover that it will happen later for Pro Accounts. If memory serves me right it would be something like "Dropbox disables Public folder". That is what happens.
Well, he robbed vacation homes, so I don't know that owners were really put out as much as all that. What strikes me as funny is that he went to such lengths to rob them, it seems like gardening, hunting and fishing would have been easier. But I suppose it's possible it was the thrill of getting away with it that motivated him.
You are saying most people don't do the survey and I think also most would think it matters how they rate the company for their own future prospects. 4.2 is actually pretty low considering this.
He admits to this: "I stole. I was a thief. I repeatedly stole over many years. I knew it was wrong. Knew it was wrong, felt guilty about it every time, yet continued to do it."

If folks haven't already, the GQ article by Michael Finkel (linked in the older post oska pointed out) is worth the read:

The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit -
http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true