skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even an individual choice nor just "biology." When you have a dorm full of people making noise until 1 or 2 am. When you have all the social activity kicking off at 8 or 9 pm...

Unless your institution has a "quiet dorm" you can get a slot in, and you are sufficiently secure in your own, non-mainstream social status...

P.S. U.S. perspective.
Scaling GitLab CI
Keep in mind that GHC/Haskell has a gazillion extensions, so parsing Haskell directly is fairly complex.
Consider it as an internet meme

Copied, modified and spread, until it supercedes the original meme

And then you have the original meme's creator complaining about his meme was stolen

You'd tell him to shut up, its the natural existence of a meme, to be subsumed and regurgitated in new fashion

That's how I see this, anyways. Art should be modifiable in this way; though I don't have an opinion on the ownership of the case, but it seems to me (based on charging bull's wiki) that Modica is overly defensive about his meme in any context (possibly purely for licensing's sake), and fearless girl clearly kills any value Modica has in charging bull

In spirit I think fearless girl is fine; in practice, its pretty messy.
I had this too - one professor who taught the only two sections of a class required for the CS major. He always made them 8 am, and made a point about doing that. Walked in like clockwork on the dot every session and bellowed "Well good morning class! It sure is a beautiful morning, isn't it?"
He didn't start out with that kind of size. He built it from nothing, with strong competitors like Walmart who had more volume for physical goods that could negotiate better deals with UPS and FedEx for years.

AWS is beating Google, Microsoft, etc. Those companies had as much free cash flow and more engineering resources.

He has good investor relations because he produces great returns.

So, yes, your facts are correct, but you are wrong in an essential way: Investor goodwill and the market position is built by Day 1 mentality and customer obsession, not the other way around. A few bad moves will quickly erode both. Look at Blackberry, Dell, HP, Nokia, Westinghouse, Samsung etc. All these companies had massive market positions and investor confidence, with stock prices to match.
Good comment, but I'll nit-pick this statement:

> When I picture life arising from nothing

Please don't. Life didn't arise from nothing. That would be like saying "When I picture a supernatural entity creating life".

The rest of your post sounds interesting though. Can't comment on that, not my field.
So in that case, each pixel would be stored as a separate row in a relational database? And to query the whole canvas you'd query a million rows on every read?

I lean towards just using the ratelimiting stuff we already have in place (via memcached, which we talked about in a previous post). We just overlooked it.
The real problem is that the pricing is so complicated that it's almost impossible to pay more for better service.

In my last flight, I would have paid to select my seats if it was reasonable but there wasn't any to actually do that which didn't cost a disproportionately huge amount and wasn't bundled with other perks.

When flights have a 50% swing in pricing for seats without any add-ons -- who knows what's going on.
To be clear their retention is only bad in the fulfillment centers. Those are generally low skill, low pay, seasonal employees meant for short term stints - of which there is a near infinite supply.

For their core engineering, BD etc... teams in Seattle, retention is great.
United isn't the only airline which did/does use 757s on transatlantic flights. And the fact that US east coast to western Europe was within range for the 757 is a big reason why airlines are pushing Boeing for something else in the same class.

Meanwhile, airlines are also looking at Airbus, which is talking up a long-range variant of the A321neo for exactly this purpose.
IMHO: The article is too much rage-laden. The much more interesting article comes beneath the one linked (https://www.wired.com/2017/04/united-airlines-overbook-fligh...).

At the core doesn't seem to be evilness of capitalist corporations, but rather

a) the economic usefulness of overbooking

b) an uncooperative (ex-)customer (his refusal to leave being unlawful)

c) an unqualified and brutal airport police

d) the disastrous United management resulting in employees unfit to deal with situations like these (diplomacy, authority to up the bump-fee) and a company that didn't understood what kind of PR fallout this situation would bring.

See https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/united-airlines-video-pas... for why United had every right to remove the customer.
People who care a about empiricism call them psychotic.

If there was something real to this "other side" it would be reliably reproducible. Yet no well formulated double blind follow up study has ever reproduced any psychic phenomena.

Not to mention, I can trick a "psychic" every time with acting.
Stripe is in a class of its own in many ways.
U.S. Drops One of Its Largest Non-Nuclear Bombs on ISIS Target in Afghanistan
This could be really cool. I welcome a more consolidated place to source development-based content as I find independent development blogs are hard to find and even harder to follow. Best wishes to the team behind this.
> Susan Fowler joined Stripe to found and edit Increment and the first issue launches today.

BTW, this is the same Susan Fowler of ex-Uber fame: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on... Congrats on the new position, Susan!

I'd be interested in hearing what it's like moving from a code-focused job to a content-focused job. Seems like a very unique shift!
I love the funfunfunctions series where he covers advanced programming topics and functional programming in javascript.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q
That's interesting: commands that consume everything in the stack. About saving/loading words: I have plans to work on that, it could be a very useful feature.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/science/saturn-cassini-mo...
One of those tools that you don't realize how much you need it until you use it.
The link posted jumps straight down to the "Exercises for the reader" section. Is that intentional?
Hints of Conditions for Life Detected in Plumes from Saturn Moon
Are you suggesting that you had a concurrency bug that was solvable without changing your entire storage layer? Heresy..
I absolutely know what its like. Thankfully my job now starts at 9, so I get a little extra time for sleep in the morning and I can stay up later without big consequences.

For me, ideally I would work from home until lunch, and then come into the office for the remainder of the work day. Not having to get up and get ready in the morning would push my schedule even further towards my comfort zone. Plus, my compiles are quite long (FPGA work) and I can easily shower, get ready, or cook breakfast after kicking something off. Someday!
"I'm saddened by some of the comments here. It's true that COBOL is not safe. It's true you shouldn't be using it for large portions of your professional setting. It's true that these sort of libraries appear to be slapping a bandaid on a broken bone... All of those things are true, but you should learn COBOL. And you should learn it well.

I wonder where we will be in as little as 10, 20 years. When the COBOL dinosaurs die and universities stop teaching the basics of computers. Young programmers are being pushed away from the harsh realities of COBOL (not to mention anything below COBOL), who's going to be building the building blocks in the future? Who's is going to keep optimising modern languages like Smalltalk and Simula? That minority is only going to get smaller..."

It would sound ridiculous then and it sounds ridiculous now.
Your description of the Chinese system reminds me of the cursus honorum[1] from Ancient Rome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_honorum
If I need to see what's going on, I've relied on orpie for quite a long time. I like soveran's video showing off what it does, but I'd rather manipulate a stack rather than have the output appended to the end of my cursor.
Themejuice has a sweet design.

I'm not your target market, but I liked looking around it for a minute.
I think this particular incident will help, if only solely for the procedures around deplaning already seated passengers.

Needs more analysis, but it sounds like the airlines are somewhat limited in invoking "interference with crew members" as a threat, since the door isn't yet closed. At a minimum, they're aware now of the potential PR backlash.
I'm actually on iOS. I used to be a version or two behind, but with an iPhone 6 I expect the camera to open & be ready to shoot video within 2 seconds, which doesn't happen currently. It's much slower and I usually don't end up capturing the moment I want to capture
20 recent (~2016) highly-cited machine learning papers
This Driverless Electric Pod Is the Delivery Guy of the Future
Sketch Map Generator
The entire reddit website goes down every night, especially during weekends, sport matches, etc, so there you have your answer.
Really good question - the way we help managers coach reps isn't giving them the data to say, "you should be making 75 percent more calls in a day." We show managers and reps what the highest performers are saying and when they're saying it, and then visualize week-over-week trends.

Sales reps are thrilled to have this data - it's helping them understand their own call behavior and adjust accordingly, which has a very tight feedback loop for teams with transactional sales (or any high velocity sales cycles).

As a sales rep, if I can see that the person at the top of the leaderboard is asking 8 probing questions per call and hardly ever highlighting product features, and I'm only asking 2 probing questions and talk extensively about features, that's extremely valuable and actionable information.

We aren't tracking rep/agent satisfaction quantitatively, but anecdotally we're seeing highly positive feedback.
I feel that part of the problem here is that booking sites don't tend to be fully transparent on how much any given flight really costs, beyond the initial ticketing cost. Extra costs are typically hidden and the UX is optimized for finding the cheapest possible ticket price, ignoring fees and overhead.

Tangentially, in some ways, its a fact of reality in the US that the price you see will almost never be the price you pay, which is generally higher. Americans seem to accept this as a norm and it still baffles me even after 17 years.
Hi Lordarminius, I wanted to let you know that if you are interested in investing you should contact me. My email is timothy.mcsweeney at parameterone.com
So, create crisis, stress, and confusion... then hire media to make you appear charismatic, and you could be the next president?
I need a physical copy of this 'magazine' so I can read it on the pooper. :) Thanks Stripe.
investors will probably wish Elon could just stick to one thing and finish it
Ask HN: How to remain employable till 60 as a software developer
I am software developer having 6 years of professional experience. Professionally I have created small 2d games in c# and c++ for appstore and playstore all these years.I want to increase my chances of being employable in software industry till 60.What kind of learnings I can pursue right now ? I am planning following :
1] Implement most of the Data Structures and algorithms which are generally asked in interview and apply them in work if possible.
2] Learn a functional language.I am gravitated towards haskell.
3] Learn TDD on my side projects.
4] Be an open source contributor so that there can be a chance to grow a career in that project.
How you guys find this plan ?
and what you guys are doing to make sure you remain employable ?
Doesn't work either on my FF. I works when you click on "show only this frame"
Agreed, but the concept & use of their app is (supposed to be) much simpler so it's not quite comparing apples to apples.
I had a similar experience with Sony back when I was younger. Although, I did purchase the PS2 legitimately.

Something went wrong with the disc reader after a year or so. Sony told me to send it in. Then they sent me a replacement PS2 to keep... and a couple weeks later I received my old PS2, with the disc reader fixed. All free of charge.

I've been loyal to Sony ever since that fantastic experience.
When the owner of a work is a corporation (eg. Disney), and corporations are considered legal persons (in many ways - including their religion!), then 70+ years starts to make sense in a certain (but ugly) way...
This was just a back of the napkin estimation. I think at one point we calculated that we'd be able to support one tile placement per user per second.
NASA set to reveal new data on 'ocean worlds' in our solar system
I bet United's management don't hold stock in American or Delta...
I think this might be pretty damning on how unwalkable and unbikable America is.
Try buying an Apple charger or cable on Amazon (even sold by Amazon directly):

https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-ca...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2016/10/23/apple-n...

Apple has the clout to force Amazon clean up their listings, most manufacturers don't. Why does Apple have to coerce Amazon to do this, instead of them being proactive?
I'd blame corporate purchasers who blindly enforce lowest price policies over the actual flyer. United has figured out how to save my employer money by sacrificing my comfort and convenience.
Today's bots are just hipster versions of Microsoft DOS
MIT Press Publishes Communism for Kids Book
Are you thinking of the term "burn rate", perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_rate
I thought this might be the micropayment service that I've been waiting for. Turns out, it's a newsletter.
The whole point of capitalism is that you solve those problems from the bottom up, not from the top down. Pick one.
The dark side of Earth: NASA releases clearest images yet of our planet at night
I found the headline a bit ridiculous to say the least. It seems to suggest that working from home is particularly popular, until you realize that the US probably has an exceptionally low rate of people walking or biking to office jobs. So this really just says that working from home is gaining some popularity.
They violated the contract with their customer because:

a) the circumstances did not warrant his removal pre-boarding per the contract and

b) there are no clauses pertaining to post-boarding removal

IANAL so here's my source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sdtG0WyktMM
'Discover' is the name of the Snapchat feature first introduced in January 2015 [1][2] that surfaces content from media and 'Stories' formerly just referred to the landing page for the 1:n casts introduced in October 2013 [3][4]. Over time, more and more of the Discover pane has been bleeding into the Stories pane [5][6][7], to try and push that content.

With that in mind, I think it's the introduction of 'Discover' that truly painted the target on their back, but Discover also played a necessary role in their quest for monetizing their users' attention, in a way that was praised by many pundits and analysts at the time as forward-thinking, while invoking comparisons to popular TV channels of the 1980s and 1990s.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/snapchat-launches-discover...
[2] https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/introducing-discover/
[3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4791934/snapchats-next-big...
[4] https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/surprise/
[5] https://www.recode.net/2016/2/12/11587814/snapchat-wants-to-...
[6] https://venturebeat.com/2016/05/20/snapchat-plans-discover-c...
[7] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/snapchat-discover-previews...
> If we as consumers are voting with our wallets, in most cases we're the ones who have accepted the new norm as acceptable in the spirit of chasing ever lower fares.

I think that's not true either; the ability to readily compare fares has led to opacity in pricing by moving a growing and shifting (and inconsistent among carriers) set of services out of the base ticket price into separately charged services.

Interpreting market behavior as revealed preference assumes all the classical ideal market situations, including perfect information, which is particularly silly when the supposed revealed preference is for a status quo with deliberate selective opacity of key information.
The Mother of All Bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CGPdJQ_oo
I know its my vision,
but it has to be validated with customer!
- inspired from Steve Blank talk
yeah, I would've liked to see some more diversity in the content as well. I do like the concept though. It's nice to see companies putting resources towards efforts like this.
Thank you for the fascinating writeup! How long did the whole thing take to put together?
I think I remember reading somewhere that the pick-up truck would be based on one of their existing frames.

I would imagine that the new roadster will also share a frame with the Model 3 (assuming it's a different frame from the Model S)
I hate it too, but the UI is about discovery. Facebook stopped being cool when they stopped focusing on colleges and opened up to everyone. There's nothing wrong with that, boring companies tend to make more money than cool ones.

But Snapchat wants their content to stay cool. Snapchat's UI was designed specifically to keep those who are not tech savvy from deeply using the service, which in theory would lead to better content as those who take the time to really understand the product make use of all the features.
Brazilian here, I thought the same thing. Matter of fact, I only noticed the word after the second guy mentioned it...
That would be great. The fearless girl stared down the bull, and the bull flinched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CGPdJQ_oo
Also see
https://github.com/Vitallium/phantomium
If google would simply charge a "review fee" for new adverts, or when a target for an advert changes (via detection), that could cover the cost of manual review. Another fee to "challenge" review, etc...

This would allow good advertisers to pay once or twice a month for reviews on new ad campaigns and the spammy throw it all at the wall campaigns less likely. But google isn't interested in quality... but quantity, so they can charge higher rates per view/click.
IIUC the kernel bypasses all the filesystem code when swapping (except during swapon when getting the starting block address and size of the swap file).
This is the standard answer and works well.
They are not Apple. They are a smallish company in Silicon Valley that sold servers and built a business around being an alternative to NetAPP / EMC on the storage side. Mistakes where made. It is growing pains. If that does not work for you then please go buy from EMC / Dell.

Also IIRC Apple pulled an iOS release or 2 in the last few years for major issues.

I have worked at a few startups that have sold for a few $100M or gone public for a few billion. Stuff happens. It is how you handle it. They owned up to it fully and have a path forward. That is much better then most.
Prettier is a code formatter for JavaScript, like the hugely popular "gofmt".

Highlights of the 1.0 announcement:

- production-ready (and used, eg; React, Oculus, Cloudflare, etc)

- --no-semi option

- --use-tabs option

- parens that help indicate precedence

- many formatting improvements

There are a ton of edge cases in this work that really matter (read through the announcement for a few). Speaking as a contributor, this is some of the hardest stuff I've ever done (beats building a JS superset, http://lightscript.org). I've been super impressed by the prettier team.
It's more that if you put all of your employees up there, they start getting poached.

It says a lot about Stripe's workplace culture that they're not afraid of this.
All this tells me is that a slide deck matters little, if at all. There's hardly anything on these slides except some marketing bs. None of the graphs even show important metrics.

I'm sure what was said when the deck was presented was far more influential
That would be nice, as well as a 'one year in' perspective on the cultural differences between those two companies. Getting the company culture right is a lot harder than getting the tech right.
The styles and animations are quite similar to the Stripe dashboard, so I would assume it's all internal styling.
It can help there exactly as much as it can help non-desktop web apps.
Terracotta warriors
If California Adopts Universal Health Care, It Will Be a Model for the Country
Is that hyperbole or are you really experiencing that much downtime of Reddit? I see it occasionally but it's never down for long, the odd "servers are busy" message usually disappears after a single refresh.
Slavery lasted for thousands of years, and it's REALLY hard to argue with the "business results" of slavery.

Having "success" be the metric is a very slippery slope.
Interesting how big the Norwegian and Swedish flags got, given our small populations.
I'm in SoCal and even with our own bike lanes I refuse to bike to work. I'm 2 miles from work and will walk every now and then but never bike. 3 months after starting my job I was coming home from work one night I saw a guy with a mangled bike laying on the side of the road. Later I read that he died shortly after being hit. The driver of the minivan that hit him wasn't paying attention.

Maybe if they were protected. But, even then I'd still be hesitant. Drivers just don't care.
Understood, thanks for the insight.
I'd love to see the article as well.

Having said that, from a genetic standpoint it's possible to have it so that just certain stable percentage of population has a given trait.

How can it be selected for - be eliminating whole villages/societies that have a wrong ratio.

Imagine you need 5% of population to be crazy risk takers with no survival instinct. Any more and a village collapses, but any less and you won't have anyone take certian risks when necessary.

Now, let's assume that the gene is encoded in mitochondrial dna (carried from mother to child, no influence from father). Also, nobody can really tell who has the gene uless a disaster strikes and such a gene is very helpful for survival or reproduction. So if a generation T has X% of this gene, T+1 will most likely have X% too.

Originally, nobody has the gene. So all the societies kind of manage to go by without it. Then one woman has it by random mutation. Her is now 1%, others are 0%.

But then a disaster strikes. And villages with 0% die off. 1% villages die off too, but not as much. After the disaster they are now the majority.

In one of the villages, a woman with the gene, by pure chance) had more children than usual. In that village the ratio is 5% now.

Disaster strikes again, and only villages with 5% are left.

Villages where the ratio increases above 5% through chance again, die because the chaos ensues. Villages with lover ratios are decimated once in a while.

One day people invent ways to protect themselves from the disaster, and ways to cope with above 5% ratio too. Then the gene will begin slowly drifting in one direction or another. But it will take generations for proportions to change significantly, and it's not certain if the geme will disappear or dominate the population ultimately.

I'm not syaing that this is the case with sleep, but that's the wyanit might work.
I think the parent meant it more like, life arose out of no-life.

Or in othet words, there was "stuff" that wasn't alive and then something happened and life was formed. Instead of "there was this absolute void thennlife was formed".
One of the things that stuck me when reading Susan Fowler's Uber article, was just how well written it was. It gives me a lot of hope for this magazine.