skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they hated labels for taking a huge cut and didn't make deals up front. I can't say I disagree with them.

I really think you're misguided here. Sure, evil labels are a welcome narrative for Grooveshark's very illegitimate service. I'm sure you're already familiar with these stories, but to get a taste of how Grooveshark used to deal with artists read this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/dec/12/groo...

Youtube on the other hand is actually used by artists as a promotional tool. And if it isn't their takedown process actually works. Almost too good judging by the stories about false positives in their ContentID system.
Are we Y combinator material?
I was wondering, are we Y combinator material? Or perhaps we are too young sill?

We are disrupting the unfair higher education application process with our Google of “University Searches” and our natural language generation engine - we use software to help qualified foreign students get into western universities. We're successful with about 100 paying clients who, on average paid us $800 each. On top of this they all made it into great universities and in total received 1.6 million dollars in scholarships and other funding.

So we are ramen profitable and we are changing the world. On top of this me and my co-founder quit our jobs last year to work on this project full time.

Anyway, do you think we should apply? We have seen that some of the appliants had far more success then us when they applied. If anyone thinks that we should apply, are you intrested in looking over our application?
So you want to be a wizard – Julia Evans
Feeling peace part 4
I think it's mainly due to a different threat model. Linus only pulls from his trusted lieutenants, who are unlikely to try to attack the source in that way (it's way easier to simply hide a bad commit in the lot, no need to fiddle with SHA1). They do the same.

The rest of the code is sent through mailing lists as patches, so the hash is irrelevant.

SHA1 here protects against "random" corruption (which is more than some VCS do), but not an attacker. At no point one is able to send trusted contributors bad commit objects.

Now, the use people have of git is very different from the kernel (or git) style​, so their threat model is different, and SHA1 may become a security function.
Yep, seems to be helping out with this idea: http://www.firsttimersonly.com/
Which is a fine idea, until you drive to a different country and the data connection starts costing a fortune.

I have a 2016 Hyundai Tucson. To obtain the traffic camera alerts, I need to tether my phone to the car. The car then uses my phone's data connection to obtain the latest traffic updates. However, whenever I drive out of my home country, which is quite often as I live in Central Europe, I turn off my phone's data connection. Otherwise, I'm slugged with a big bill for data roaming.

If I had to use the phone's data connection for, as an example, the entire navigation system, it would seriously degrade the experience once I'd left the borders of my home country. As it is now, I already lose the convenience of traffic camera alerts.

I appreciate there are options - OsmAnd with local maps, a better data roaming package or simply rely on paper maps. Nonetheless, I don't believe relying entirely on the phone for in-car functionality is viable until data roaming has been addressed.
I'm from the nand flash industry. There seem to be a few fundamental improvements in XPoint. For one, achieving a 3X endurance improvement while keeping the same process size (dimensions of the memory cell) is new.

Given that XPoint is byte addressable is rather impressive as the circuitry and metal layers (wires) needed for this is a lot more than page addressable nand.

The true test is when they connect it directly to DIMMs versus the PCIE bus. Latency numbers there may further prove fundamental improvements in technology.
Savers build up capital stocks. When you consider domestic savers vs external ones, you start to see a weird problem: over time, you sell out all your assets. We're sort of seeing this in real-estate in major cities.
Yep and fancy handles.
> "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ... "

That's begging the question. How much innovation is gained and how much is lost? Nobody can give an answer.
Yes, that is correct. A person should not be compelled to participate.
I have a mac, is it possible to really buy an external GPU??
Counterfactual Thinking, Rules, and the Knight Capital Accident
That is all well and good, but if a review write things like this

For example, the similarly priced Electrolux EFLS617SIW removed 27 percent more stains than this
Speed Queen on its Heavy Duty cycle and 13 percent more stains on its Whites cycle. We got
similar results from Kenmore, LG, Maytag, and Whirlpool front-loaders

Those stains remain in spite of the fact that this Speed Queen uses over 40 gallons of water for
the Whites cycle and over 24 gallons for the Normal Eco. We estimate that this washer will cost
around $85 a year to run. That's average for a top-load machine, but almost triple what a
more-efficient front loader costs. A lot of our readers tell us they don't care about the
environmental impact of their appliances. But, maybe they'll care about the extra $275 on their
water bills over five years of ownership.

I'm skipping it sadly (unless their front loaders are any better.)
Will they really be higher quality displays for viewing television, movies, and video games? I would expect commercial displays to perhaps be brighter, but I would be surprised if they focused on things that matter more for home viewing, like color accuracy, refresh rate, and contrast ratio.
Great, so does everything by CNN and Gawker get slapped with that? No?
C has so many decisions that feel odd, but make so much sense! (Yes, I love C).

I'm in the process of building a tiny programming language for some Arduinos, as part of a homebrew computer.

I'm making the memory space as a stack.

But how to have a variable know it's location in the stack?

Return an int! Oh, I just reinvented the typeless pointer C has.

PLT exploration is fun, exciting, and love reading about experiments like Magpie and Wren.

But... I still use C99 at work every day, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Maybe [invited repost]?
Blind user is quoting the same BBC article.
You might be able to run the algorithm once on each color component.
Measuring Technical Debt with Incident Management Data
Nope:

However, shortly after this story was published, another source, who also did not want to be named, said there was "zero chance" of Mr Kalanick stepping down when the new COO is announced.
I don't think this is so much about competition.

I live in Vienna where most flats get heat and warm water from gas-powered combination boilers. There are a couple of companies who produce them.

Mine is 25 years old. The guy who comes for maintenance once a year says it should have broken down 10 years ago and he is only doing little fixes, but not swapping out larger parts anymore because: "If I replace something big, it might just stop working, then you have to get a new boiler, and those are all bad and break after 3 years."
Terry Tao and 'Cheating Strategically' (= interplay between rigor and intuition)
I'm very cynical about San Francisco, and given the choice I'd live in London in a second (it's a real city; San Francisco is a playpen, there's no comparison), but the ping-pong table thing is off-base.

A ping-pong table costs $200. (Maybe a really good one is $500.) That's about what your chair costs, assuming your chair doesn't suck. A decent engineer costs at least $150k basic, probably $250k all-in. That works out at an hourly rate of maybe $120? So if you get 15 fifteen engineer-minutes of work per employee through a catered lunch, it's a net cash win.

(Plus the tax treatment is very favorable for that sort of perk.)

There is a ton of excess in Silicon Valley, it's unbelievable, but the office perks are one of the less stupid parts of it.
"The increase rate could be different for different IP"

I would expect that to end up as just one other thing patent lawyers will use to dispute patents, as that would have the patent office (partially) decide not only whether something is original, but also, to some extent, what it is worth.
I am sorry if I sound rude or naive or both.

But I really do not understand why we hate ads. I have seen many tutorials which are given out for free. Of course, I am grateful that you decided to offer the course for free of charge, but I really would not mind a little adverts just to get you as the creator/maintainer some $$.

I am a self published author of a decent intro to web development book in Go language, it is an example driven tutorial/ebook and while the main book is open source on Github, there is a leanpub.com version which I offer for variable pricing, 0$ to 20$, and it has been working great for me, rather than getting nothing for the tutorial, I am getting something.

Without ruining the current tutorial, there are ways of getting something from it, of course.
sigh ... I'm not sure what else to say. The problem with "Zero Tollerance", minimum sentencing and lifetime registries, is there's no accounting for edge cases or practical exceptions. I'm hoping that over the next decade or two, a lot of this can be rolled back into sensible laws, and justifiable actions.
This was known for decades. People in the future will not believe how bad we were eating in the last 50 years.
Food is so important to our physical and mental health. We are literally killing ourselves, at this point the food industry is almost guilty of mass murder for profit. Same for fossil fuels, pharma, etc. I don't understand our "developed" countries.
I am a member of a community that takes care of its members. We are not perfect at it, but then neither are the more common social mechanisms like insurance. I recently had major surgery. The tremendous costs incurred are being paid.

As fragmented as society is today, I can understand why people believe insurance is an absolute necessity, but I also believe that mechanisms like insurance contribute to and frequently cause that fragmentation.

Insurance in particular warps normal market forces. For example, it seems likely to me that the very existence of huge pools of insurance money has contributed greatly to the hyperinflation in health care costs that has continued unabated and really unopposed for the last two generations. My mother told me recently that it cost a total of $80 for her to give birth to my sister in a hospital in 1959. I'm sure the billed cost for hospital birth today is many times that amount. That is an example of the great harm that insurance can do to society, as opposed to any perceived good.
Ask HN: Review my startup
Can I ask for feedback on a solution I am working on: BEcoFriend(Android App)

My idea is to solve world's biggest problem that is pollution.

The survey for this solution : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfq_6pa6TlXcntYRKPAFNgI09zszuZLe_gzm43e6KvT36o0_A/viewform?c=0&w=1

It's an android app which let their users to contribute in making our world pollution free.
Our government wants to take action regarding environmental issues but the concerned department is not taking action and there is gap between peoples facing problem and the aim of the government, which will be fulfilled by our app.
It is whole new concepts which take users preference on pollution in their locality or other part of the district, state or country(according to their choice).
When the concern regarding the polluted area or place verified by some peoples(threshold value decide by our app) then the snap or video of that place will be send to the concerned department(decided by our app) and also to the higher authority(like Pollution control board).
If government of the country supports then the main user who posted the issue(snap or video of the polluted area) will be awarded with prize or something like that.

Will people use this solution(app)?

Is it better to think it as a startup which solves world's pollution problem?

Any feedback are more then welcome.
Why should it? It's a for-profit entity fine tuned to surface the kind of links YOU want to read. The problem is us humans, we're prone to set rational thinking aside when presented with "news" to our liking. Every time we click on a link too good to be true, we're hoping that this one time the universe has finally rewarded us for our persistent but futile attempts at moulding it to our fancy.
Thanks. You might have a point there. I have to admit that I'm surprised to see such low figures for the average yearly spending on purchased music.
Or they're not fooled by them. E.g. they know they'll incorrectly discount the regular savings deposits in the future, so they buy the insurance contract as a commitment device.
Just the control board on a miele will cost more than a regular washer. The higher end units are basically junk once the warranty runs out.
I go for this strategy for everything from audio equipment to washing machines. Pro gear is still well built.
For whatever reason, Sutton's was the first serious book I read in any area of AI. The balance between explaining the history, the concepts and the code is handled really well.
As someone who spent 2yrs trying to figure out how FOSS projects work, I would like to extend help to any newcomer who is interested in contributing to FOSS projects, I have one of my own which you can contribute to,

Feel free to contact me, repo: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks

email sapatil@live.com
This happened so often, that I assembled a group of 100+ fintech entrepreneurs on facebook just to counter situations like this. Urgh. I feel bad for him.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1650565665218718/

I know this is awful, but the general reputation/expectation is that a foreign company can't handle payments infrastructure in Serbia, I never thought it would be the backwards version of this.
I completely agree that taking some reasonable action is one way to reduce the perceived need for insurance. For example, the recent California floods affected populated areas that were never inhabited by the indigenous peoples. Why? They knew from experience that it would flood someday -- maybe not in their lifetime, or even their grandchildrens' lifetimes, but someday. So they didn't build there.
How we upgraded our Elasticsearch cluster to Version 2 without downtime
I have a question about your site - "Google engineers" have a lot more data than just "Google's index of the web", they have street view data, data from people doing captchas (including the new street sign ones), click data for how people use their products (gmail, maps), maybe android autocorrect data, speech recognition etc - how would you provide access to those?
Unter
I was told by the guy that delivered my washer that the High Efficiency washers spin dangerously fast which was why it locked. Switching off immediately would still be capable of causing harm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaful

The purpose of this system is not profits, but to uphold the principle of "bear ye one another's burden". The principles of takaful are as follows:

- Policyholders cooperate among themselves for their common good.
- Policyholders contributions are considered as donations to the fund (pool)
- Every policyholder pays his subscription to help those who need assistance.
- Losses are divided and liabilities spread according to the community pooling system.
- Uncertainty is eliminated concerning subscription and compensation.
- It does not derive advantage at the cost of others.
...
Might be worth suing them in small claims for breach of implied warranty.
Apple blocks apps on iOS that have AC-3 support without a license. Even VLC got bit by this and thrown out of the App Store.
Maybe online software as a service? Lufthansa does something similar with their backend airline systems to defray the development and operating costs (and turn a profit). Maybe more uptake of the product from California wineries.
No, it's referring to formal methods. Elm will prevent you from writing a binary search that returns a string, but will happily admit a broken binary search that (say) never terminates, or always returns 0. Formal methods allow you to catch that class of mistakes.

I don't see any case for a functional-programming inspired change now. 30 years ago programmers were enlighten by LISP, 15 years ago I was enlightened by OCaml, and today's generation is enlightened by Haskell, or in your case Elm. What's different now?

If anything I think we're moving in the opposite direction. Development speed is now king, and deployment is easier than it's ever been, which means that bugs are less costly to fix. Bondage-and-discipline type languages that promise fewer bugs for more work are just less relevant.
Tentacular JavaScript on a path to universality
They are controlling the narrative, in a way that's more blatant than every before.
I do have liability insurance for my car, since it is required by law. I would be prepared to live without one if it became unaffordable. For most of human history, the vast majority of us got around on foot. (In fact, that may still be true, I don't know.) Buses and trains still work, if that's not palatable for some reason. Whole startup companies have been built around getting people from point A to point B in larger cities.

I do not have health insurance. I recently had major surgery that others have helped me to pay for, but I was in fact completely prepared to die, as odd as that may sound to most.

Our lives on this earth are finite. Most people don't deal with that reality in any meaningful way, even when they acknowledge that it is true intellectually.
Could it be that the lifespan of a appliance is shortened because it his to be more energy-efficient? The old fridges (and car-engines, or antything) were not very economic. A few decades ago getting 10 km per liter of petrol was more or less standard. Now the engine with the same cilinders (1.6 liter for instance) easily get as much as 20 km for the same liter of petrol. The engine is highly optimized by cutting away all the heavy parts and replacing it with lighter ones, adding electronics and more moving parts, etc. This optimization is best seen in F1 racing, where the same 1.6 liter engine can deliver as much as 750 bhp.

Now the more you optimize, the closer you get to the boundaries of what the materials can handle. You squeeze out all the buffers, all the extra's. And quite likely, all these buffers made the device last longer but at the cost of running inefficient. So the fridge that the OP talks about - the one running for 50 years - will have used much more electricity than the ones you could have replaced it with. Likely, the lower energy consumption of the device will have paid back the investment in 7 years.
A surprisingly large number of seemingly-unconnected people I know have switched to Lyft. The switching itself isn't the issue, it's that these people come from several different social groups and they are all surprisingly vocal about switching.
I live in Austria, so can relate. But "just a screen and buttons" does not mean "permanent internet access". It could/should work without inet as well. But really, who wants car nav systems, when Google Maps on my phone is so much better?
One solution would be to have minimum FULL-REPLACEMENT warranty requirements for home appliances of 10-15 years... If it doesn't last 10 years, the mfg (or whoever owned it at the time of mfg) would be responsible.

Sounds ripe for a class action lawsuit against the major brands.
I know that it's one of IT's hard problems, but one of the best ways of keeping a language lean is renaming it after it accrues a certain amount of changes, or at least attaching a qualifier. If users are still interesting programming with HyperPascal, Modulatrix Xtreme Pro or "Mongolian Vowel Separator", then feel free to make some more considerable changes.

Otherwise I'd be very careful, and especially if it's actually a language with multiple implementations.
I purchased my appliances with much the same idea in mind; I wanted something that would last, period.

Turns out around here (Scandinavia), the brand to beat is Miele, which also seems to enjoy a near monopoly in pro gear, from what I can tell (Just about every vessel I've ever sailed on carries Miele gear in their laundries. I cannot recall ever seeing anything else.)

Also, after asking around at a place repairing appliances as to what brands they trusted in their own homes, the answers were similar - 'Miele. Or, if you think that's a bit over the top, ASKO. Both are made to last and to be repaired.'

So far, the ASKO stuff has stood up very well - ten years in, both dryer and washer are still working flawlessly - and I've got three kids; running two machine loads a day is pretty much standard fare, and has been for years.
Seems you can do AC-3 on iOS now by using the OS to do the decoding.
Fighter Mom
Credit card use is highly uncommon in large parts of Europe.
Original posting had 100+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8492815
First world problems :)
What industries are using formal methods to not crash things? Honest question. What I see is the opposite - Uber and (to a lesser extent) Tesla cowboying their way towards autonomous vehicles. The idea of formally verifying a DNN image classifier seems absurd.

And the old guard is even worse - recall Jeep's entertainment unit remote hack, or Toyota's 10,000 global variables? Those guys can't handle basic software engineering practices, let alone formally verified programs.
I went through a period where I used a Muse almost daily, and it's definitely fun/useful when you're starting out, but I found the positive feedback (birds) only kicks in when you have a particular type of focus on your breath. There are both false positives (you may be distracted and thinking while keeping a superficial focus on the breath and the device will report that you're totally focussed) and false negatives (you are well-focussed on both body sensations and breath but the device is reporting that you are distracted).

So it works for a particular type of meditation, if you're relaxed in a particular way, if the battery level and contacts are good, if the initial calibration went well. It's great for starting/restarting a meditation habit but I would say one outgrows it fairly quickly.

Edit: the following pay-what-you-want course really helped me; it even improved my Muse scores! I have no affiliation.

http://www.peterrussell.com/HMWET/index.php
Robots not replacing lawyers yet
And stop putting north up top every time.

Or even stop aligning with the earths spin occasionally.
Any chance you can share the adapted scripts? I assume they are easy to make, but the less barriers to entry the better.
Agency work, for one.
I wasn't able to do that with my last car but I did avoid air conditioning, the salesman just couldn't grasp why I'd wait a week and pay the same for a car with less features.
I designed and coded the FCEUXD hex editor shown here. I did this back in 2004 when I was a teenager -- built it in C in pure win32 API. It's great to see it still show up when people are hacking NES games.

I remember on my 1.33Ghz AMD machine at the time, it could not draw all of the RAM values in real time without causing considerable slowdown. I rewrote the code so that it only redraws ram values that changed, keeping a buffer of old values and checking for changes.

I also worked on other parts of FCEUXD including creating code/data logger. Parasyte coded the debugger.
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