skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd advise you to read the rest of the thread as the vast majority of the responses were criticizing his vitriolic attitude, and based on the number of upvotes my comment received, I'd argue a large percentage of the HN userbase agreed with it.
I interned a Microsoft Research last summer and will be interning at IBM Research this coming summer, and they both seem great.

I can't compare to PARC, but there are a lot of cool things happening at these places.
Well, I respectfully disagree with your assessment.
First, I don't understand the two airport thing.
Second, the Israelis do a security check on people before they board the (El-Al) planes -- like a day in advance or more.

Also, we have plenty of veterans who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. who have real combat experience that we could pay more money for at TSA and train and staff appropriately. We could have air martials on every flight.

> "No one I know would ever be amused by a strip search."

Well, it was my own fault and a new experience and the agent/military guy was well trained and respectful. I was only too happy that they security was so through.

Israeli security is very professional and I don't feel nearly the same way with TSA in the US.
It's open source and custom built. https://github.com/reddit/reddit-service-websockets
> Have I been cheated? Of what?

In theory, you've been cheated of the certainties that tend to go along with brand identity. Calvin Klein, as a brand, is associated with a certain amount of quality, of durability, of accuracy in fit, etc. You've been theoretically cheated of those assurances.

In practice, you may not have been cheated of anything. Generally speaking, the trendline for clothing manufacturers is a rise towards a peak, and then a gradual descent from there. Looping back around to the article, Bezos would refer to them as "Day 1" companies while they're still proving themselves, ensuring quality and fitness, and "Day 2" companies thereafter, once they've attained enough brand recognition that they can coast on their laurels. In many cases, quality goes down, fit and finish suffer, and, of course, margins go up.
I Love You, Bot
That would be a great game. Try and trick others into using it while abstaining yourself.
There was an interesting post on HN years ago about why Google isn't a modern day Bell Labs. [1]

A common sentiment on the thread was that Microsoft Research was more akin to Bell Labs.

> I've always had the impression that MSR (Microsoft Research) was generally doing much more fundamental research than Google.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919184
I'm still waiting for intelligent life.
Sucks just got this on my github portfolio page that I put up a few days ago.

Any way to fix???
Static Site Generator Evaluation
U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches for Nuclear Trigger
Using MySQL Deadlocks to Avoid Overselling
Recursive grammar.
Updating a bitmap 333 times a second is trivial with one core.
Handling 100K websocket connections is the tricky bit I think!
The Jenkins project releases Blue Ocean 1.0
How Pushing to Extremes Led an Amateur Cyclist to Ventricular Tachycardia
This is absolutely ridiculous, if they just supplied it correctly (something I was hoping they would learn to do by now) this thing would literally be free money for Nintendo. Or that's what it seems like to me - I know I would have at least bought one if it was available for the holiday season. How do they always underestimate the supply that they need?
I've found this too.

Also: my code formatting has always been a bit unusual, in that I never put spaces in. Compared to what most people do, this is easier to type, because it doesn't require pressing the space bar as much. So code formatters are good for me, because I can keep not pressing space, and now nobody need ever know.

But, guess what: this means code formatters are good for you too. Because now you don't have to press space either.
I remembered that this question was asked recently; and lo-and-behold---

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
You shouldn't, but you will. Especially in small companies. The production with no access is a holy grail that is both a good idea and harder to achieve the bigger you get. Almost nobody starts a new service (unless you're already in a company where a framework for this exists) with "I'll use an immutable architecture with staging environment and simple traffic failover and database I can easily clone for debugging and...". They start with "I'll get a VM and put my app on it".

Authenticated wiki or documentation repo is fine. Automation for tasks, external log shopping, error collection, separate db interface even better. Complete mirror of production in a separate, debuggable environment is the bees knees. But they all take time to achieve. In the meantime, with one or two VMs running your business, I bet you're glad to have a command history, especially if something's down at 3am :-) It all depends on your size and system.
> PARC still exists, but Google advanced technology projects is probably the closest. Neither of these is that close to the old Xerox PARC since they tent to focus on near term commercializable projects.

Yep, researchers at Google just don't seem to publish much at all. Unlike MSR and IBM which have a great culture of publishing and releasing things publicly at high rates (yes, they do also commercialize stuff).
The other issue people are forgetting is efficiency of shopping. Just thinking back to when "Wal-Mart" first came to our town, I remember shopping trips where we'd pick up, say, a spatula for the kitchen, a present for a kid's birthday party, oil for our push mower, some bathroom cleaner, and some tennis balls. With Walmart, that was 1 stop; before Walmart, that would have been 2-5 stops.

It's certainly relevant that we could go after dinner, when many specialty stores were closed, and the prices were probably better. But even without those benefits, the increased efficiency was a big win – especially for parents where every transition from car to shop to car was a hassle.
Certainly - download the original version of whatever scripts you're using and host them from your own domain, instead of unpkg.
I try to run the R&D side of my sports science business like Xerox PARC. I take a ton of inspiration from them.
I just set it up on my Intel NUC and it was quite easy (particularly if you have some basic Linux experience - running scripts etc.). I even managed to get my PS4 and Switch Pro controllers hooked up via BT.
Biology notwithstanding, no other species has deliberately transformed its environment and improved it longevity and standard of living like humans have. Not even slightly.
I think that refusing to leave someone else's private property makes the use of force inevitable.

I know Americans are a bit high-strung when it comes to "property rights", but here's one example: It may be your property all you want but you can't call the police to kick your tenants out because you decided you don't want them there any longer. IF there has been a contract violation, you can go to court and eventually get an enforceable court order, but if you call the police and tell them to kick your tenants out because you just changed your mind about renting it to them, they're more likely to laugh in your face.

That is what the police should have done in this case. Once they ascertained that the passenger ticketed in his seat and was not a safety issue, they should have said "sorry, this is a contract dispute. You can take him to court."

Edit: Note that after kicking him out he was not arrested and has not been charged with any crime that I've heard of.
yeah we have dedicated machines to rabbitmq because it's basically memory hungry. but i like it that way because it's only going to crash if the machine crashes.
Slack status updates from Spotify
Difference in building software in Silicon Valley vs Los Angeles
Fwiw, genesis does composite or rgb, not svideo. RGB didn't really happen in the states though (component video is sort of rgb, but tweaked so macrovison works)
In that case it wouldn't be showing up on Amazon's tracking.
Heard of Paul Graham first circa 2002 via a classmate who had become infatuated with lisp. Rediscovered his stuffs (essays, On Lisp), circa 2007 when lisp was my hobby language of choice (picked up during a brief attempt at grad school before burning out on being a broke student). Found HN via that and/or Reddit about that time, eventually made an account to post something. Scratched an itch (tech-interest-wise) that work was not satisfying at the time.
Do you think letting ISIS operate freely in the region is better than the speculative notion that building debris will cause cancer someday? Do you think the US should merely inform the local governments and hope they will do something?

Regardless, I agree that the US should never get involved in the Middle East militarily. There is NO way to prevent civilian deaths, there is no way to prevent people on the Left from reducing ALL military action to American imperialism.
As a foreigner living in SZ for the past few years, and literally 3 minutes away from the markets, I have to say, well done Scotty for capturing the mess and awesomeness of Huaqiang Bei. Shame that the markets won't stay like this for long though :(
Erm, I can get an emulator from my operating system: "apt install fceux".
This has been discussed here in the past. If you look at the FBA program they explicitly charge extra to not co-mingle your inventory.
The Followup
That's not a union, that's a product of 2 types. A union is one or the other but not both. You rw here is both a reader and a writer, you can't pass something that is either a reader or a writer, which makes your snippet useless in use-cases where unions are appropriate.

Of course, Go compiler itself uses "unions" with runtime-tricks to implement them. But we're talking about runtime then, not compile time type safety and correctness.
It's hard to have an idea that's completely unique. It actually makes me feel better if there's a precedent, because that's an indication that the idea makes some sense. It's possible that I encountered the MF hypothesis previously and forgot, but it entered into my thinking somehow. I'm really cautious about claiming to have a unique idea without having verified it.

The idea of how MF would work presented in the article sounds really implausible.

My idea of how MF would work is something like this:

1. You get a lot of weird chemistry happening, say, in pools of water. This chemistry starts creating large organic molecules that are like sludge building up in the pools. These molecules are dead, but they are rich in energy and perhaps interesting building blocks. Maybe they are made of amino acids.

2. Now you have this unbelievably rich energy source, and at some point there start appearing chemical chain reactions that start "eating" the sludge.

3. Life originates from these chemical chain reactions.

In that article, their version of MF seems to require high energy. Mine happens under gentle conditions.

I think that's the whole of my idea.
That's a good point, I do enjoy road trips for the purpose of a road trip. I usually take two or three on my motorcycle every summer. But if I'm just trying to get somewhere (work, family for the holidays, etc.) I'd be happiest if I could just teleport. Until we all have a personal Scotty beaming us around, I guess I'll have to settle for Alaska Airlines.
Interactive graphs based on that research:
http://ncase.me/ballot/
There are alternatives like the Analogue NT which is fully compatible with the entire Nintendo library, including Flash carts like the PowerPak and Everdrive. It has a built-in Four Score. It supports Component and HDMI output. It has a built in hardware upscaler. It supports wireless controllers with no input latency, light guns, and basically any 3rd party controller ever made. It also has a Famicom slot, so it'll play both NES and Famicom cartridges without adapters. It has the Famicom expansion port as well, so it'll even play Famicom Disk System games. It is the Nintendo completely reverse engineered using an Altera Cyclone V FPGA to emulate the hardware in hardware.

Granted, it's $450, but it plays your games perfectly, and on your modern hardware in ways that an original NES couldn't without RGB modding a top-loader and getting a separate upscaler.

I'm a retro speedrunner, and I intend on getting one later this year rather than modding my 30-year old NES (which I self-refurbish) and buying an upscaler and having a nest of cables.

Hobbyists are making some amazing stuff. Someone is currently making component cables that work with your SNES, as well as ones for the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn. I'm on the waiting list to pounce when the next batch arrives. It's like classic cars. In the 60s no one cared. In the 80s and 90s people built businesses to fill the niche and take all the money being left on the table.
I'm in the same boat—long-time Prime user, but the counterfeiting has made me think twice about purchasing things from Amazon. I recently made two high-ticket purchases through Best Buy instead.

It's not just electronics either. I now search comments for "fake" or "counterfeit" on nearly every Amazon purchase I make. I was about to buy cologne from Amazon and ended up just purchasing it from Macy's.
American energy use, in one diagram
Stone degrades faster than bone?

Stone tools have been found that are 2-3 million years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool
The British Archive article (OP), says that the holy book of the Zoroastrians was written sometime around 224-651.

Of course, the New Testament contains unambiguous and extensive references to Zoroastrianism so clearly it must be far older than the origin given for the Avesta.

so clearly Zoroastrianism is much older than the origin of the Avesta. Is there a generally accepted date of origin for the former?
An affordable Raspberry Pi based ocular fundus camera
William Gibson on 'The Peripheral', the power of Twitter, and his next book
Mines seem like a possibility. Hmm, this kind of rock is usually associated with these minerals, but not when these weird streaks appear.

But radionuclides are the ultimate signals. Palladium-107 is a byproduct of nuclear weapons use that becomes incorporated into palladium-bearing rocks and decays to silver, which can be detected by the presence of Ag-107 in palladium ores lacking other silver isotopes. Remaining Pd-107 can be used to estimate the date at which the palladium was deposited or the ore can be dated by its depth. So we can exclude the use of uranium-based nuclear weapons by previous inhabitants going back about... 60-80 million years since the half-life of Pd-107 is about 6 million years.

In theory we could have tried to detect whether nuclear weapons had been used on Earth in the last 120-150 million years by looking for iodine-129 in the oceans, but we already blew up too many bombs to confound that experiment. Finding iodine-129 some place we don't expect it would be interesting.
Android app challenge, with android print apis
Harnessing the Power of Big Data into Actionable Insights
The original post was "Can you explain how exactly?" You misread the comment.

The only confrontational word in that question was "exactly."

It's a fair question because of many people who do remember the pre-Walmart times (their big expansion was in the late 90s-early 2000s). The going narrative at the time was that local businesses were destroyed and this was a tragedy. Additionally, Walmart was one of the first retailers to primarily buy products from Chinese manufacturers instead of sourcing American-made products (after the death of Sam Walton). There were frequent news stories about how a factory closed and all the laid-off workers got jobs at minimum wage at Walmart, selling the very goods they previously made. Several municipalities enacted "no-Walmart" legislation and zoning regulations. Even South Park made an episode about the phenomenon.

Looking back, it might have been unfair to demonize Walmart for what was likely the rational decision to make in a competitive environment. But taken in context for the times, Walmart's growth in the late 1990s/early 2000s was controversial and frequently challenged.
Of course, his last point is probably the most telling:

"Dig more coal...the Teslas are coming."

One of his major sources is eia.gov, and their 2015 report has electric power use at 38% of total use.

Transportation is another 28% of total energy use, so the sooner that can switch over the electric, the sooner we can drop the 36% of energy being sourced from petroleum.
"inevitable tech dip"
A dip in stock is inevitable? Sounds like you should be shorting the stock if you somehow know better than investors.
Thanks to Google Docs and video Hangouts it's gotten a lot better than it used to be when I first joined the industry a decade ago. You're right though, it's still not as good as being physically co-present in a conference room, or sitting side-by-side at a computer. I suspect it will get better with VR. For now, though, I definitely enjoy working in an office with my coworkers the most, with perhaps a very occasional work-from-home day (only 5% of all work days) thrown in as a sort of quasi-vacation.
unpkg are reporting this as fixed. https://twitter.com/unpkg/status/852668919768694784.

We got hit pretty hard for the 50 minutes or so the problem existed, Dropbox host their JS SDK lib on there...
You had 2 mobile phones 25 years ago, for $40 per month?
You make me feel better about spending time on HN as a CEO :) Keep up the good work and the worthwhile mission.
> the power consumption of our disk drives and screens is rising

Uh. SSDs use, what, 1/2 the power of a spinner? And LED screens use less than fluorescent, which use way less than cathode rays

The switch to virtual machines, now docker on servers saves a bunch of extraneous running computers too
Antarctica will eventually leave the South Pole if I understand it correctly.
>"This one is just plain wrong. Mom-and-pop stores closed at 5PM; they had "banker's hours".

Do you not realize that Mom and Pop stores are still around? There not note extinct so I'm not sure why you are talking about that the past tense. There are many in my neighborhood and none of them close at 5:00PM.

Have you ever been to New York City? Your dry cleaner, your pizza place, hardware store, your news stand, your bodega - all are Mom and Pop shops.

>"Why are you sticking up for the mom-and-pop stores so much anyway?"

Because without them we are left with an endless horizon of chain stores and sameness.

Do you realize how central the role of Mom and Pops shops has been in the history of the US and continues to be today? The history of the US which is the history of immigrants is inextricably tied to the existence of the Mom and Pop business[1].

>"Why are you sticking up for the mom-and-pop stores so much anyway?"

You are actually asking why am I sticking up for the small guy? See all of the above.

[1] http://business.time.com/2012/06/15/immigrants-outpacing-the...
Different space, but after reading Alan Kay's answer, the only current entity that comes to mind is CERN.
That's why toy companies don't spend a dime on advertising right ?
Comparing Webpack to Closure Compiler
Definitely not for coding. Would code on a phone before I would on the HL. It's pretty handy when you just need a display to read or watch content off of while you do something else. For example, when youre looking at a solution on stack overflow while coding. Or perhaps when you're trying to replicate a circuit diagram using real components.
There are corner reflector arrays on the moon that might make someone curious, if millions of years of moon dust doesn't effect them or they aren't destroyed by an asteroid impact.
Are banks using ML to verify my signature?
I recently noticed that someone compromised my identity and opened a retail credit card with my information. Having worked in retail where I opened store credit cards, I know that employees don't always reliably verify someone's identity, and often times all someone needs is a social security number to open a fraudulent account.

But now, with modern Machine Learning applications, are banks deploying software to actually verify that someone's signature is at least 80% legitimate? Or are there any startups/projects/organizations/open-source projects anyone might know that are actively working on this?
It's like cheating on a game of solitaire. Nobody cares.
Sears offered returns long before Sam Walton was born.
> "These cities are also 24/7, to a greater extent than any Western city, I would argue."

Have you really been to NYC? Jazz, Blues, much other music, etc.

No 24/365 Apple Store in Asia.

# Apple Stores Tokyo = 4

# Apple Stores Shanghai = 7

# Apple Stores Seoul = 0 (Possible 1 in future)

# Apple Stores NYC = 10 including the 24/365 store
The issues described in this article sound like exactly what the Uptane[0] project was designed to address, which is also open source.

[0] https://uptane.github.io/
My answer to this is simple: we have Turing machines. Somehow, our communications are Turing-complete, whereas other species's aren't.

(I make no assumption as to why we have Turing machines, but note that implementing one usually requires some work)
> It's definitely doable, but you'll need to heavily fine-tune your queries

Misrepresentation; then it's not actually over 120 million rows. You're basically encoding which subset to actually search in the query, rather than building a proper overall schema that trivializes queries.
Related to this special time in computing that Kay discusses is the book "What the Doormouse Said?" It's a good, relatively quick read about the rise of personal computing in the 1960's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
React.js server rendering is only for SEO or there is something else?
Hi there. After making some server side rendering app with React, I just wanted to listen appoints about why you are doing server side rendering for React.js applications.
In My case it is just for SEO. Just share your use-cases and ideas.
I was hoping it was some declining balance product as well!
> By your logic they better go ahead and just block of 20 seats. You know, just in case they need to re-position a B747 crew. Wonder what tickets will cost when they can only sell 30 seats on those 50 seaters.

I would think that a better argument could be made than a straw-man, but in this case, I don't think there is, so I don't blame you for it.

What's unreasonable is to think that a moderate action shouldn't be taken due to an unlikely extreme result that would never happen.

The company needs to eat the cost. Whether that means blocking out a few seats or offering more to get someone to volunteer. And sure, you can argue, that this could make tickets go up for all-but the rates at which these events happen is very low, it's hard to argue that would happen. And due to competition, many airliners would find a better way-they still have to compete on price.

I guarantee you United wishes they did.
That's funny: "referring to the group as 'The Chabad'"

That sounds so much more evil actually. "What kind of people were you with Friday night?!" "OK OK... with The Chabad. I admit it." "I rest my case, Your Honor."
What's Intellectual Humility?
Is there a prototype anywhere? I want it!
Wasn't he going to do some kind of work with ycombinator attempting to recreate some of the spirit of Xerox PARC? Maybe I just dreamt it.
An AI stereotype catcher: AI ability for unintended racial and gender bias
Is this data:

https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/6396u5/rplace_archiv...

Complete?

I've been working with that.
> California is derived from Khalif, a Muslim Ruler (same
> word that Daesh uses to refer to their leader today).

Not really. That was the invention of Edward Everett Hale (a theologian with no linguistic training, who died 100 years ago).

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_California