skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you fix that?

We need some sort of karma for good deeds. I can up vote comments on hn without spending "votes", I don't run out of them. Using them as a sort of currency would be interesting. Would this solve problems that aren't profit making? Like fixing the climate.
Systemd again (or how to obliterate your system)
In this case, Airbnb is a motorcycle with 4 wheels, a roof and windows. While technically still running a motorcycle engine, the perception it is actively courting among its users is that of a car.

So in once camp, people are saying it should be regulated for what it feels like: a car. In the other camp, people are saying that it should be regulated for what it's made of: a motorcycle. There are good (and bad) arguments for both sides.
I'm one of those that bought Zelda without owning a Switch (yet) since Amazon sold it %20 off those who preordered it.

The console itself has been frustratingly difficult to find since I missed the preorders. I'm hoping Nintendo can pull it together before all my friends finish BoTW.
How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories
We come up with this risible excuse every time we want to do something awful: sport fishing, chicken slaughter, baby circumcision. "They're dumb / they can't feel pain."
It's a fair concern, but if I'd bet it's not an issue. We used to kill millions of these things every year in the 20th century for fertilizer. Even if we killed every single one we harvested for blood we're talking half a million a year. The horseshoe crab survived decades of much worse. Of course, it's definitely something we should keep an eye on, just in case.
Can you give an example of a regulation in the airline industry that's causing all these problems that is of the kind you describe? Because it sounds to me like a strawman.
Intel can easily convert their fabs to the latest fads. This is just a signal that the dominance of the x86 fad is on its way out. Nothing to be ashamed of considering the amount of time they were able to ooze out of it.
> is asinine

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Chicken and egg. Incumbents, the only people capable of taking money out of politics (short of some kind of revolution) enjoy the status quo too much to change it.

You can only take money out of politics after you've taken money out of politics
SpaceX’s second Hyperloop pod competition will focus on top speed
>The key thing for the Switch to do is to consistently sell, to give publishers enough confidence that when they target the platform that the effort will pay for itself.

I think the prospect of putting AAA games on a portable system, will draw a lot of AAA studios to take the risk, if their game can be run on the hardware. I think the portability factor is a large factor of why they are selling so fast despite the lack of games right now. I think people want to see what its like to play non-junk/freemium/IAP driven games on the go. At least it was a major factor for me. I can't wait to play Mario Kart with my co-workers at lunch!
That's because the programmer needs to make the choice of whether the data is text or just bytes. I suppose you could write a tool to infer that choice, but it wouldn't be perfectly accurate.
I personally use NO_RELEASE and TODO, the former can't pass the release script (such as isLicensed=true), and both are brightly colored keywords in IntelliJ. Am I alone?
"Do you want to be a startup founder?" is a trick question. Most people hear "Do you want to be Zuckerberg or Musk?" Most questioners mean "Do you want a chance to be Zuckerberg?" But the real question is neither of those.

"Over the years, I’ve run into many prospective employees in similar situations. When I ask them a very obvious question: “What do you want to be doing in 10 years?” The answer is invariably “working at or founding a tech startup” – yet most of them decide to remain on their present path and not join a startup."

"In 10 years, I want to be working extremely hard for extremely long hours, for low pay and a miniscule chance of real reward. I want to be a share-cropper on a venture capitalist's farm. I want to have a trail of failures behind me. I want to be doing the same thing over and over, because a MVP is a MVP is a MVP. I want to be ready to pivot at any instant, because shoveling everything into the crapper is better than spending an extra minute looking at another, greener pasture."

On the other hand, "I want to be working on the most interesting problems I can find" is crappy, too.
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I always wonder if a person is giving interview @ google Do google see his search history before hiring him or check its google mail etc? Does any news out there about this.
Ofo has claimed that it is the biggest transportation platform in the world, with more than 20 million rides in one day (yes more than Uber, and even Didi).
Wrong. There is actually a niche of financial engineering used to work around this problem known as aircraft securitization. Airlines don't buy the planes directly, they set up separate corporate entities (SPVs) that purchase the planes with cash generated by issuing bonds. The airline then leases the plane from the SPV and the bondholders are paid with the lease payments. The collateral in this case is usually the plane itself, and if the bonds go bad the bondholders are first in line for any payments from liquidating the SPV collateral. Also, the debt stays off the books of the airline.
The River Thames is wider than 150m inside of London. The London Bridge is over 250m long[1]. It is rather wide given its proximity to its headwaters but not on an absolute scale, even by British standards.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge
> Note: skip the Classic and skip RetroPie

It seems like a different set of tradeoffs. RetroPie (if you're running on a Raspberry Pi, and not on a PC) will have fewer game systems that it can support, of course. But it's also cheap enough to just buy one as a dedicated game system that you leave connected to a TV, so the kids aren't grabbing your laptop to play retro games, or something. For a little more money, you could set up an NUC or something, of course.

> You need a mac or PC anyway to load up the SD card

A lot of kits come with NOOBS loaded on them. You can load RetroPie directly into Raspbian by using a setup script that they provide. You could also boot into Raspbian via NOOBS and use a USB adapter to flash a microSD with another OS.

You could even take a blank SD, extract NOOBS onto it with your phone, and boot the Pi off that (NOOBS and Berryboot just need to be unzipped onto the SD; they don't require images to be flashed).
Illegal != Immoral

Not that you said otherwise.
>People always talk about Moore's Law falling apart, and it seems like people didn't see it coming.

First of all, let's be more precise. In this context, what people mean by the "end of Moore's Law" is the slowdown and, soon, probable end of CMOS process scaling. The issue is that CMOS process scaling has been such an incredible engine for performance that just getting those kinds of performance increases in other ways isn't easy. I wrote a bit about this a year ago.

http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2016/01/beyond-general-purpose-...

To answer your question, people did see this coming. There were disagreements about how far down you could economically drive feature sizes so there has been debate about exact dates. But pretty much no one thought CMOS features could be made arbitrarily small.
usually the prices are on par with AirBnB

This varies a lot from city to city. In Austin, AirBNB easily wins (last time I checked) on location and niceness for the price. Hotel prices are exorbitant. Recently I traveled to Houston, though, and was shocked to find that hotels were price-competitive with AirBNB. My girlfriend and I expected to rent an AirBNB but ended up staying in a pretty nice hotel for less than $150 a night. AirBNB prices in Houston were similar to Austin with much less selection and not the greatest locations, so the convenience and predictability of a hotel won out. (Friends staying in Austin have had almost all positive AirBNB experiences, but there have been a couple of unexpectedly poor experiences as well.)

I think that as with ride-sharing versus taxis, the greatest disruption happens in cities where the traditional services are very poor or very expensive. Houston has plenty of cheap hotels and seems like it would be fine without AirBNB. If I lived in New York City and was used to hailing cabs, I might never have tried Uber. In Austin with our unforgivably shitty taxi service, and now our exorbitant hotel prices, AirBNB and ride-sharing services are fundamentally new, different, and better than the traditional offerings.
Announcing ElectricFlow 7.2: Push-Button Deployments to All Container Platforms
Datalog all the way down
Try it again with closed eyes. That worked for me to move the number to 50% and lower.
within certain parameters.
Only replying to one point in your post, but if you think org-mode and paredit take you halfway to AST editing, try abo-abo's lispy. It's closer to the ideal by half again, at least.
>...Yes, Apple's would be at a disadvantage due to higher tax rates but maybe that would be offset by the inherant advantages that California offers tech companies.

What you are forgetting is that US law doesn't discriminate against foreign owned companies. (Which is good - it encourages investment in the US.) So if a corp with US headquarters would pay 30-40% taxes on profits made in non-US countries, this would make those companies very uncompetitive against a foreign company.

>...they will continue to find startups in California because it still offers the best return on investment.

If something like this was done, there may still be lots of money invested in CA, but eventually it would be mostly companies with a HQ outside of the US.
I've imagined mesh networks across weaker frequencies, it'd probably require some new protocols but I haven't done that much research so I'm just not aware of any.

If devices or modems/routers were accessible and marketed correctly, I think the niche would grow with passionate users. Just knowing you could hop off of your terrible ISP (or at least avoid them some) would be enough for many people.
33 and SNES games still give me a nostalgia kick to the face. So many warm happy memories of that system and time of my life.
Atom tends to be my go-to, but being built on Electron is what hurts it the most, in my opinion. I don't reboot my work machine often, only for updates, which means that having 2 or 3 projects (in 2 or 3 windows) can eat a lot of memory if it has been open for a while.

It's frustrating having to restart my editor because the Electron window gets stale and needs to be closed.
I played a game of Monopoly where I started with a roll of 12. There was a 97% chance I correctly rejected the hypothesis that the dice were fair. Maybe this is true in some sense? But it's still somewhere between misleading and nonsensical to say.
Right, I've heard that floating around, and it's true that neovim exists primarily due to the lack of async in vim. Whether or not it appeared in vim 8 because of neovim is something I can't personally answer.
The Crisis of Attention Theft–Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return
Google's coding style guide calls for TODO comments to include the author's username, like `TODO(username)`, for future blame attribution:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#TODO_Comme...
Correction: the ASIC processors that Google used in 2015 and just talked about, two years later, were for inference. We don't know what they use now and how. The paper hints that training might happen in a later revision.

You have to wonder why they started with inference and not the other way round. Perhaps it's the case that you train a model once, then use it for predictions many, many, many times, thus using more aggregate compute power. (I used to work at Google, but the above is based on public information and speculation alone.)

The paper does confirm that CPUs are closer to GPUs for smaller or latency-sensitive workloads than most people assumed. At least on 2015-vintage hardware, that is. And they're a lot less trouble to set up and provision.
I agree in principle. I would also argue that there should be a bias toward informational and clarity-enforcing regulation as opposed to specific action regulations. I.e. regulations that say, "you must disclose this clearly and transparently" as opposed to, "your widget must be minimum 12mm wide".

That said, regulations that are less specific in the text of the law often yield cumbersome lawsuits and may end up with a huge volume of case law. Just because the law is 2 pages long doesn't mean you don't need an army of lawyers to comply with it. They'll just be parsing 2,000 page case law briefs and judicial rulings.

Of course even specific laws generate lots of case volume, but still, short laws aren't a panacea. Smarter laws that seek to even out knowledge in the marketplace might be a better way to go as the economy gets more complex.
Yeah that's amazing.

More generally, Apple was providing working OS upgrades for years while the notion of upgrading Windows between major versions was basically laughable. Wasn't Windows 8 the first version of Windows that you could actually upgrade to and have the system boot successfully? Maybe Vista to 7 worked for people. I never bothered trying. But I remember upgrading from OS X 10.3 to 10.4 and being floored when everything just worked.
VMware buys monitoring company wavefront
The current guideline is "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

I probably would have left the original title alone, personally, but you could make a case that it was misleading. HN moderators apparently agreed and have since changed it.
Very cool, well done
AirBnb is not great with refunds.

My experience: rented a room in South San Jose for a week. After coming back from dinner, the apartment building was surrounded by police and I wasnt able to get back in so I had to get a hotel instead. After going through support, I ended up getting $150 in credits on a $600+ stay.

I still use airbnb often as I'm fairly risk tolerant. I'd say it's about 1 out of 10 times I end up in an unlivable place that I have to leave (losing my booking money).

Agreed, not for everyone.
Here's the full article about Vault, if you're curious: https://tozny.com/blog/crypto-tools-for-devops-hashicorp-vau...
First: thanks for the link, interesting to know that there's kind-of something out there for this.

From the FAQ on the linked page:

> Who can purchase Economy Plus seating?
All customers who are not traveling on a Basic Economy ticket may purchase Economy Plus seating subject to availability. Advance complimentary access to Economy Plus is available to Premier® Platinum members and higher (for themselves and up to eight companions), and Premier Gold members (for themselves and one companion). Premier Silver members and one companion enjoy complimentary access to Economy Plus seating, when available, upon check-in.

I just... what is this even? How about just putting the legroom on ticket sale data—including for sales on 3rd party sites—and selling different ones at different prices? I don't want to become an expert on all this weird tricking-you-into-spending-more-money-with-us-than-you-should-if-you're-not-super-careful crap for every airline I might fly with, I just want to buy a ticket and fly every now and then, and I'm willing to pay for more legroom. How would I even begin to comparison shop for this upgrade vs. other airlines? I know the answer is "you're not supposed to because they're trying to screw you" but that's an awful answer.

This is precisely where regulation is useful: transparency in WTF you're buying and standards in how it's presented so competition can work its magic without consumers having to learn a bunch of otherwise-useless junk (the worst of which is "how to navigate systems and jargon that are specific to one vendor") in order to confidently make a simple transaction.
I have no idea what you mean about "intentionally destroying" line info. The info is right there, and there's a perfectly nice interface (Cursor) for getting at it; no real difference between calling next() on a Cursor object and doing line_index++.

Besides, what's a "line"? Is it a source line, or a visual line after wrapping? In an editor, you care deeply about both, depending on what exactly you're doing. With an array of lines, you pick one for the representation, and when you want the other one, it's quite painful. With ropes, no problem at all, just two different Cursor objects into the same rope.

I agree, other decisions besides buffer representation are important, and I'm doing my best to get those right too.
This has been my experience, hell I even got bed bugs in one in Berlin and there was fuck all I could do.
Put this in your settings file:

"workbench.activityBar.visible": false
Haha, it "could" cost $100T too
Training can happen asynchronously and in batch - inference needs to be low latency and have massive parallelism because it's powering millions of android devices voice to text recognition - for instance.
I would argue the Switch looks to have the 2nd best true exclusive lineup (edit: coming out this year) at worst (PC + console isn't true exclusive). XBox One doesn't have a whole lot coming out you cannot get elsewhere, PS4 has a decent lineup (Nioh, Persona 5, Horizon off the top of my head), but with Zelda + Mario Odyssey + Splatoon 2 + Xenoblade Chronicles 2 they have a pretty solid first year. The problem being what will they have coming out year 2 to add on to that? Only so many dev teams at Nintendo and they are putting out a LOT of first and second party content this year.
So you think the "populist" forces at work in Turkey are not the same as those in Hungary and Poland? Are they the same as those in the US? or Syria?

I am asking because I think most writers think of these as part of a larger global movement, but your comments suggest you think they are different.
North Carolina that place where the tribal leaders frequently condemn to death by stoning of by being burned alive woman that don't cover their head or that engage in any contact with some non family related male before marriage without any impedance from national or local government?

Or that North Carolina where homosexual people are flogged and hung if they repeat their "crime"?

Or North Carolina where if you declare yourself an atheist or join another religion your own father and brothers will cut your throat?

Oh, wait, nope, none of that actually happens in North Carolina and you comparing Islamic countries ruled by Sharia with North Carolina to try and tell people that Christian majority countries are just as bad is just some absolutely nonsensical hyperbole.
Anyone else see massive opportunities here for entrepreneurs?

I like to say "climate change will create the first trillionaire". I can't help but imagine the powerful technologies and systems that will be developed out of this. Eco-friendly tourism, environmental sensors, synthetic biology reef protectants.
web-scraping and the like always seemed like a problem that could be done fairly elegantly with distributed systems.

Elaborate?
Have to wonder how these iOS bridges are doing in the wake of Swift:

http://blog.motioninmotion.tv/why-swift-will-never-replace-r...

https://katanacode.com/blog/posts/12-a-review-of-rubymotion-...

I remember a few years back when Hypercritical revisited Copland 2010. RubyMotion looked like potential future, but Siracusa didn't believe in bridges.
So, I take that they say it's unfair because the government needs to help the shipyards to make them economically viable. Thank you for the detailed answer.
Yes. Certainly a conspiracy.
"See Page XX" was such a common typo in early D&D books, where someone forgot to update a page number reference, that there is a RPG blog called "See Page XX":

http://site.pelgranepress.com/seepagexx/
Yes it makes sense. You can't just sit in the first class if you didn't pay for it and then expect that people are okay with it.
That's what this situation reminded me of too. eBay sellers will say a $12 item is 1.99 plus a shipping cost inflated by $10, which makes the price look cheap in search, and also avoids fees on eBay and PayPal.
Wild analogy.... Inference machines cleanup the neutral model itself when put to relax. Wait, are there any Neural Nets out there, which produce toxic "weights" to be discarded later, If not than we are far from copying the real glucose based neural networks. /Imagination
Minimal maintenance, no inspections on safety equipment, and the owner isn't there to notice strange smells (Ozone (electrical problems), Gas, chemical leakage, mold, etc), no compliance with local code.
Airlines market is much closer to a monopolistic competition than a cartel/oligopoly structure.

Not that I would trust a random journo to know the economics, but this is the NYT. This is why journalism is dying - instead of checking up the science and basic definitions behind the article (by shooting a quick email to Krugman, perhaps), it's just an article that gets views by piling on the hate bandwagon against United and dragging the rest of the airlines with it.

The headline is wrong.

If you want a typical cartel/oligopolistic market - look at the telecoms.
There's another wrinkle with buying plane tickets: they fluctuate, seemingly at random, on a daily basis. Apparently its now better to call up the airline directly than to buy online because the prices are so unpredictable. I'll watch a flight on Google Flights oftentimes and watch as it goes up $100 one day, down $200 another day. It makes shopping between carriers very difficult.
Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil
The hotel industry has been adding "resort fees", parking fees, enhanced wi-fi fees and other charges that also don't appear in search results.
It's specialized but also very general (abstract) without contradiction. I'm finding NLP applications of monadic parsing as in "Monads for natural language semantics" by Chen though still theorical afaik. They thrive to enrich compositionality starting from programming language denotational semantics resulting from a version of a recursive descent parser obtained by monadic parsing as studied by Wadler.
Pink Trombone – an interactive articulatory speech synthesizer
Have you been keeping up with the stock trackers? I had some luck this weekend with istocknow.com: at 10pm on Saturday night, it was reporting that a Walmart about an hour away from me had gotten a shipment about three hours earlier. My girlfriend and I thus went on a late-night trip and managed to snag one. I was thoroughly surprised, but the guy working electronics confirmed that yup, that information was accurate.
Ask HN: How do you code while dealing with personal problems?
I had some personal problems this weekend and it's been on my mind all morning to the point where I can't concentrate at work.

Unless it were some urgent bug fix, I find coding to be extremely hard for me as my mind is always wandering.

Any advice?
This is a really dumb headline.
I guess my point was completely missed. I meant only to say that maybe the message could have been more positive and highlighted solutions and how people are already trying to affect real change for the better and not just ready for when someone else does something.

I don't think it fair to say that Linus or Ryan where Hermits or out of tech with reality. They saw an opportunity and acted. Let's be solution based, not problem based.
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