skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how broad they interpret their mission of

Does that seem a bit... bubbly to anyone else?
8AM Systems Analysis and Design and 8AM IT Project Management are the two biggest mistakes of my college career.
Umm, Amdahl's law is actually a negative result. It's saying that if you infinitely improve some magical hotspot that is 1% of your workload, the best you can only ever get to is 99%. If anything, Amdahl is telling us not to grind on trivialities.
Most notable feature of prettier being able to format based on the wrap length. I don't know about others, but I definitely switched to it just for that feature.
Probably when they found out how much gas turbines cost.

Turbine engines don't seem to get any cheaper below bizjet size, where they cost a quarter million or so. That's why light aircraft are still running on pistons. Ford built a turbine-powered semitrailer truck prototype in 1964.[1] Worked fine, but cost too much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODsl0-oW0Q
/r/place is probably the coolest project that happened this year so far.
Really the point I am making is that they have the ability to cover all axes because the information they have about each is so deep and their tentacles are everywhere in some form. Remember too, they don't need to brand a product with "Google" to be dominant in it. They just need to make sure that whatever startup is playing in the space is using a google product, be it GoLang, Tensorflow, etc... or has investment from GV

Technology: Check

Personnel: Check

Funding: Check

Consumer Understanding: Check

Industry Knowledge: Check
Speaking for myself, I've been waiting for 1.0 before using it, but I've been very excited for this project since its announcement. I've personally experienced how much time can be wasted bikeshedding over stylistic issues. In most cases, just picking a consistent standard is far more important than whatever the choice happens to be. Prettier will make almost all that bikeshedding unnecessary.

Even with ESLint having autofix capabilities, Prettier seems far more comprehensive in that regard. It also isn't doing exactly the same things as linters. They check for programming errors as well, not just stylistic issues. With those linters, you also need to decide how to configure the rules (though picking a preset can make that easier).

I have always loved that Python has an "official" style guide (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/), and gofmt (https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/) is one of the reasons I want to try out Go, so Prettier is a great development in my opinion. I am optimistic that the community will keep on adopting it, helping make our code more readable and allowing us to focus on actually building libraries, tools, applications, etc. rather than arguing over where we should and shouldn't have spaces in our code.

Edit: my TL;DR answer would be that it's a virtually zero configuration way to guarantee stylistic consistency.
I'm going to say "inside a dozen or more discrete pitch decks currently oscillating between a variety of investment sources".
As a fan of FFFFOUND and a neofyte of Tumblr, any specific blogs I should be reading?
Would like to note that the HoloLens comes with a clicker that makes a lot of those precise moments easier to maneuver, such as clicking and dragging, and scrolling using motion controls!
Someone has to write those compilers. Those with the skills to do so are vital to the industry. If we want more nice high-level languages and improved operating systems, we need new people entering this area of software engineering. Otherwise, where is the next iteration of systems software going to come from?
Because the USA government funded ISIS to begin with? There is no advantage to removing ISIS they aren't a threat to the US but are anti-Assad so they support our interests in the region indirectly.

Furthermore they are great scapegoat for an executive government power grab and building a surveillance state.

It doesn't hurt that prolonged military engagements do wonders for the profits of the military-industrial complex either.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14104102.
To legally play their old titles then.

And anyways, that's not Nintendo making it easy, that's the people who build emulators and rip ROMs making it easy.
> No criticism of DO was implied and I agree every company has such issues (I locked myself out of most of the servers the other day because I deleted id_rsa instead of id_dsa and then had to walk home to get my back up drive).

Oops :)

> It was just amusing timing.

Ah ok. Your link doesn't work btw.
Its easier to budget a few extra hundred every few years vs a few extra hundred every month.
Side-topic alert.

Stripe is my top design company these days. Just looking at their landing pages [1], [2], I'm deeply impressed by their effort on making the web beautiful.

Huge inspiration for me. Kudos to their front-end / design teams.

1: https://stripe.com/atlas
2: https://stripe.com/connect
You're breaking the site rules in two ways. First, "drivel" and "duhversity" break the injunction against calling names in arguments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Please don't do that; it triggers low-quality discussion.

Second, your account has been using HN primarily to comment on political and ideological controversies. We don't allow this because it turns the site into a political battlefield. If users who use HN as intended—that is, for intellectual curiosity—post occasionally on political topics, that's fine. But accounts that use HN primarily for politics or ideology are not fine. We eventually ban those, so please don't use HN this way.
Kinda like #3s : I like the doodle approach (http://doodle.com/), and expand it to work out recurring meetings as needed.

Only problem is getting people to fill in all the data required to make it work.
You're right to say that doing away with overbooking would simplify the system, simplify the logistics.

As a consumer though, it would makes things more complicated and/or more expensive. I would argue that in most cases, the airlines are in a better position to handle the complexity and costs than the individual consumers, who may be delayed, break down on the way to the airport, whatever.

This particular scenario is bizarre and unwarranted for two main reasons:

1. The event happened after the individual had boarded the aircraft. If the dispute had happened at the gate, the individual would have had to use violence to board the aircraft. As it happened after he had boarded, it was the aviation authorities (at the request of United) who resorted to violence, to remove the individual. It's also worth considering that violence at the gate is more easily contained (minimising harm to anyone, including the perpetrator) than violence on a confined aircraft. It's also worth noting that in all of the video footage available, the individual shows no signs of violent behaviour.

2. The flight wasn't even overbooked. It appears to be a last-minute decision for United to ship crew to a new location, whilst also deciding to give the crew precedence over paying passengers, who had already boarded. There's been some suggestion that there is no legal precedence allowing them to do this.

I think the practice of "over-booking" is unduly taking the fall in this example, because the flight wasn't over-booked, and even an over-booked flight shouldn't create the circumstances for this type of harm.
>Let's suppose you were given the chance to attend lectures by the most impressive person in the world. Don't you think that you'd soak it all in even when those talks were given at 6 am?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I physically wouldn't be able to. I'd try (most impressive in the world would require that I do my best), but at the end of the day circadian rhythms are really hard to tame.
If you think a submission doesn't belong on HN, please flag it instead of posting like this.
This entire project is just an elaborate hack day project. There's no reason to fault them for trying new and interesting hacks to get it off the ground. They realized it wasn't the right method and moved on. End of story.
How do you fraudulently overcharge in a grocery? They see the price on the shelf, and I'm guessing it wasn't something as simple as it scanning in as a higher price. If they don't like the price they can not buy it.
He meant Blink, but he raises a valid point. Development on Blink is just as rapid as it is on Servo if not more so.
i'd not heard that. but the way it was marketed always seemed to me to be another small experiment in nintendo's non-stop attempts to artificially limit supply. they seemed to use it to test word of mouth and their viral marketing abilities ready for the switch.
> seems to be pretty simple, I feel like it shouldn't take more than a day to code

From a reddit "expert", so I guess that answers that ;)
The theory is that a developer can estimate the approximate difficulty of a given task relative to other tasks and thus give a coarse estimate of how long a set of tasks will take. One is supposed to use this estimate, compare it against the amount of work actually accomplished in a given period, and then project ahead against estimates work remaining to get an idea of when the project will be finished. This is intended to help managers set expectations with customers and cut or adjust features if the date is too far into the future.

Unfortunately, what most organizations actually do is use the progress estimates to try to bludgeon developers into working faster, with entirely predictable bad effects.
I'm not sure of the legal terms but it's private in the same way that Disneyland or a store in the mall is private. There's a lot of people there but they obviously have the right to arbitrarily evict you. I've been kicked out of a store for just being too loud before
Us low-level types don't post there.

We know the bias against defence contractors, against the south, against the non-urban parts of the USA, and so on. We know we aren't wanted around here.

The jobs can be nice though! My place is looking to hire dozens per year. We do emulators, JIT, hypervisors, stuff like valgrind, debuggers, manual disassembly, and vulnerability research. I've been here 11 years. I've worked with more than 10 different CPU architectures and more than 10 completely different OSes. I don't normally work overtime, and I get paid more if I do. I have extreme flex-time. I never have to worry about outsourcing or H1B people. I'm never expected to take work home or be on call. I get to live in a place with no state income tax, a stand-your-ground law, almost no crime, almost no traffic or commute, and houses that commonly go for $100,000 to $400,000. We're hiring in Florida, Texas, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama... totally the dream for SF and NYC people I'm sure!

Email acahalan, at gmail, if this suits you. Be sure to mention this comment.
Helm, Tiller, Charts, ...why does everything have to invent new languages to describe the same things. I mean charts to most people approaching this is going to mean those things with axis and lines, not a map. Nor is a map really even a good analogy.
Tesla will unveil electric lorry in September
Please cite a reference where Muslims who are living in the US legally were forced out of the country.
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Isn't this true for pretty much anyone that hasn't actually experienced it?

It's not like you can describe it exactly, I've seen a lot of "the most accurate description of depression"s that really hit home, but there's no way to make someone understand what it's actually like.
It's private property. Which does not automatically make it private space. As I recall, part of the definition in at least one set of law involves whether or not it's reasonable to expect members of the public to be there without explicit invitation.

There's a lot of people there but they obviously have the right to arbitrarily evict you.

That's just plain not true. There are reasons why people can be asked to leave; those reasons are curtailed. There are unacceptable reasons to kick someone out. You may not arbitrarily evict people. If you evict someone for the wrong reason, you may have committed a crime. Obviously I'm talking about US law; in other places, other rules apply.

While I'm here, just because it's one of my favourite legal misunderstandings, putting something in a contract doesn't necessarily make it legally binding. But that one's just for fun.
We run a youtube channel called The Holo Herald you can check us out we put out almost daily content centered around mixed reality and the HoloLens, maybe not as core tech related as you want but definitely content you'd find interesting!
"Not transpiling" sounds like a marginal benefit, considering most apps are going to have a build step anyway.
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Thank you! We're keeping the particulars of that piece on the DL for now, but feel free to ping me at daria@voiceops.com if you want to talk shop offline.
Yes, but if Ubuntu becomes a historical distro it'll be dead in the water.
That is one of the reasons I'm stuck with Python, I find it pleasant to read (I'm almost as productive as I used to be with Perl but at least I can understand my own scripts 6 months later).

I know, many people can't stand significant white space... The idea sounded weird for me too but after trying it for awhile I was hooked.
Most people don't check the price on the shelf with the price they actually pay, unless they're only buying one or two items.
> Life seems like a very inefficient way to dissipate energy

It seems like a good way to dissipate complex energies. Chemicals pouring out of deep sea vents contain lots of chemical potential energy, but it's difficult to unlock without a complex mechanism. Life unlocks those mechanisms. Taking it several steps further, a uranium-powered particle accelerator produces massive amounts of complex entropy.
It is legal. I have every single NES cart I've ever owned sitting in storage. Format-shifting is perfectly legal.
>> One of my points is that replication does not require a separate energy source, in the right environment. RNA is highly reactive given the right temperature and conditions,

I actually don't know what a flask full of RNA will do when left to its own devices. My science education has gaps. However, really basic chemistry says that you can't create big molecules from small molecules without some sort of energy gradient, because​ the big molecules have less entropy than the small ones.

When you have a flask full of stuff, what it does spontaneously is go to thermodynamic equilibrium. If you want a self-sustaining reaction that creates specific big molecules over and over, you need to keep adding energy.
I mean, the more trivial way to lock it down would be to have a truly read-only OS partition, rather than apparently trying slightly (based on my quick skimming of the ways to manipulate the device).

That would forbid dynamic updates (which would let them play cat-and-mouse with fixing holes, if they were so inclined), but would also avoid most things that would require replacing the OS stack.

e: They also clearly knew they weren't building a fortress, given the note buried in the image of "Many efforts, tears and countless hours have been put into this jewel. So, please keep this place tidied up and don't break everything!"
> Why use Redis and multiple machines instead of keeping it in RAM on a single machine?

Because machines go down. If you don't expect your hardware to fail at the most inopportune time, you'll be screwed when (not if) it happens.
Game development also needs people going low. Both in terms of cranking every last bit of performance from an end users machine, to packing as much information into a packet as possible to stream to the server.
Would you please stop violating the guidelines like we've asked?
It gets weird when the cursor leaves the box while dragging. Now, when you go back inside, you're still in drag mode since the box did not get the "mouse up" event and you end up selecting and dragging random text.
Product Hunt:

* Superficial comments like "This is awesome. I was on the beta." An upvote suffices

* Curated/Stack everything jargony, useless terms like curated are now rampant

* Very little transparency from hunters. Did this person invest or have some material stake in the product's success?

* Lack of succinctness from founders/makers. You have one shot at summing up your product/value, and people write a whole essay. Keep your words to idea ratio low.
Did you try to use it?

It's still there: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

They have may have fixed one or two scrolling issues since, but the main issue is that if you

a) press LMB

b) move the mouse, and move outside of the pixelized area

c) release LMB

.. it does weird things.
"Does that work for the hands-free activation?"

I don't even need to speak for that to happen. I just bend over with the phone in my back pocket and it wakes up, beeps, waits for me to say something (I say nothing,) boops, then goes "Sorry, I didn't get that."
The demand is quite low. I think if you want a good low-level code implementation, you can easily find one on github. For example, you can easily find a good compression algorithm for your CPU budget or other application needs on github. So you can get away with mostly writing high level code and using these external libraries. Second, the demand for writing really optimized code is not as high as 10-20 years ago. Now, writing reasonably fast, readable code is OK and no one expects you to run gcc -S and count cycles unless you are working in some high frequency trading firm.
Understood, but when they stare at that COG sheet they should also have the prescence of mind to look for hidden costs. A toolchain and IDE with a C compiler is going to cost much less in the end to the project than a 8K chip with an assembler and no debug environment/support tools will save it. It's very easy to be penny wise and pound foolish in this area.
Hi Otto! While you're waiting a response from VoiceOps, I'd love show you what my company can do. We've spent the last few years building an ASR system with advanced features like biometric speaker diarization, homomorphic encryption, multilanguage support and the fastest STT engine online.

Ping me at colinh at intvox dot com if you'd like to check it out.
I believe we're both slightly over one standard deviation above the mean for adult male height.

Regardless, I am a competitive distance runner (and have the right body type for the sport). My femurs are likely even larger than yours, and yes, my knees stick a little bit outside of my space into the adjacent seat, but I am still perfectly capable of sitting in my seat. I've had overweight seatmates that encroach more on others' personal space than my knees do.
Shameless self-plug but it's applicable to the conversation!
-- https://www.youtube.com/theholoherald
We make content centered around mixed reality and the HoloLens!
Please don't comment unsubstantively like this.
Looks like the owner changed it to be private :/ Hopefully they'll open it up again.
Sorry, not "normal" but "common" as in "not rare". 100,000 people out protesting Ahok is a pretty firm sign that the artist is part of a large movement, even if his viewpoint is in the minority.
Certain types of products are extremely commonly counterfeited. I would never consider ordering luxury goods like cologne/perfume/handbags, flash memory cards or sticks, or small mass-market electronics like chargers.

Due to the way Amazon commingles their stock at the SKU level, there is simply no way to guarantee that what you're getting is genuine, even if you order "sold and shipped from Amazon".

Even from an authorized retailer - the first thing I do with any flash card is fill it full of a test pattern using f3write, and then validate that it actually reads out fine. Counterfeiting of flash cards is absolutely rampant.

http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/
I'm also curious about this. FWIW, I came across this post on adding Prettier as a pre-commit hook that might help others: https://medium.com/@brindelle/format-your-javascript-with-pr...
You may like Build Quality In.

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These collectors have fixed pause time given a fixed heap size. All collectors have that. My toy mark&sweep collector have a fixed worst case pause time of 100 ms on a 128kb heap. The trick is offering a worst case guarantee on an arbitrarily sized heap.
So what you're saying is, "if your use-case doesn't support kmalloc then shut up and go away, no statics for you!"? That's ridiculous, inappropriate, and generally unhelpful.
Seems odd, there is still huge demand for this thing. Why discontinue it?
Context:

Meta joke to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102532
Given two candidates for a job, one that knows assembly language and one that doesn't, I'll hire the assembly-capable programmer nearly every time.
From the moment this was launched I had wanted to buy one but never could find one in stock at MSRP. Eventually just built a RetroPie box :/
First things first. Set up a VM with Arch Linux, Slackware, Gentoo or if you are feeling adventurous Linux From Scratch. It'll go a long way to help you learn how Linux systems work. (Don't install a graphical environment, plain X server is OK though).

Now to your original question:

If you want bleeding edge packages go with either Arch Linux, Gentoo, openSUSE or Solus. I haven't used openSUSE as extensively I'd like to but haven't had any issues with it yet. The package format is a bit too much if you want to create your own packages though. openSUSE ticks all the marks in your checklist too.

Other than that I will suggest to keep your local dev environment as close to production as SANELY possible. Fedora and openSUSE are good bets.

Personally for rolling releases I've found Arch Linux to be the best (not because they are rolling release but because they generally keep the packages without any modifications from upstream). There is a huge selection of packages. But it suffers with the problem that it's not used in production and hence some issues can't be caught on it.
I just tried the Servo nightly tech demo on TheVerge.com. The first attempt crashed it and the second attempt rendered the page incorrectly. Memory usage was 1.27 GB.
> they know something I don't

Am I weird for thinking that it's very likely that an entire company with over 100 years of experience _does_ know something that you don't?