skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've purchased more than a few items from China (usually Shenzhen) - via Ebay, sometimes Amazon, and more recently AliExpress - and I had always wondered about the whole "ePacket" shipping I was able to get for certain things. It always seemed to be smaller stuff, too. Always had good tracking, and was fast (I think the fastest I saw was about 2 days - obviously flown in).

This article answered some questions I had, but seemed a bit ominous in the tone that there are powers-that-be that are trying to close the "loophole" (?) for consumers in favor of larger retailers; at least, that's what I was getting from a quick read of the article.

Now honestly, I can understand the retailers fears - from a business perspective. But here's the thing: I can't go to one of these other sites and get everything that I can get from, say, AliExpress - I'm not going to typically find low-cost ESP8266 boards by the 5 pack or anything like that. That's the kind of stuff I buy, not the regular "consumer junk" that places try to sell.

I can get some of the via Amazon - but if I can get it cheaper and just as fast (or even if I have to wait a bit) via AliExpress, why shouldn't I be able to take that route? Also - there are some things I can get on AliExpress that I just can't get on Amazon or Ebay; maybe the demand just isn't there for it from the US?

I've recently been toying with the idea of going thru a agent/broker and using TaoBao in that manner - I'm just trying to work up the "courage" to go thru with it (still, it's not going to be an easy way to get stuff - but it will likely be cheaper, and even more "open ended" on the kinds of stuff I can buy).

Honestly, I wish I could just stroll to my downtown and it would be like browsing the electronics disneyland that is Shenzhen, but I know that's never going to happen (Radio Row in NYC was probably the closest example here in the States, and even it pales in comparison to Shenzhen in size and variety).
Who said anything about taking out a fraudulent loan?
> or he might just been doing a build at home for Google in his last days there.

If you look at the details of that allegation, that's not really a feasible assumption (depending on how much stock you put in the details presented). According to Google, he installed custom software to access the files, and the files where in a data store he had no normal access to. From the filing[1]:

In December 2015, Mr. Levandowski specifically searched for and then installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop in order to access the server that stores these particular files. Once Mr. Levandowski accessed this server, he downloaded the 14,000 files, representing approximately 9.7 GB of highly confidential data. Then he attached an external drive to the laptop for a period of eight hours. He installed a new operating system that would have the effect of reformatting his laptop, attempting to erase any forensic fingerprints that would show what he did with Waymo’s valuable LiDAR designs once they had been downloaded to his computer. After Mr. Levandowski wiped this laptop, he only used it for a few minutes, and then inexplicably never used it again.

1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dzPLynxaXuQjY3dkllZ2ZKb0k...
For example, in (at least some) European countries there is not such thing as private person going bankrupt.

In many there is, though it's more restricted in some countries than others, which leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_tourism
I got one from "DocuSign": https://twitter.com/choxi/status/844949531896655872

The link went to a page that looked like Google Docs and asked for my Google login, but I noticed the domain was wrong so I didn't sign in. I tried the link again today and it looks like Chrome does flag it as a phishing site now.
I am not too sure, but I have a friend here, sitting beside me and he can easily send and receive messages from other people. So I'm pretty sure it hasn't affected every WhatsApp user everywhere. Maybe it's a matter of a new built released for specific phones, or maybe it just affects a random set of people.
The Windows 10 seems to be flipping the emailer away from Thunderbird over and over, since each time I open Thunderbird it asks me if I want to set it as default, again.
If the intended result is some kind of scientific presentation then kinda yes. If I am writing a classic software code, then I do not see how \alpha is better or more readable than, well - alpha.
Stealth is a sign of weakness in a life sciences company.
Super useful if you need to inline some SVG in a react app. I recently learned about the benefits of inline SVG thanks to front-end center and started using similar to OP's tool for that.
"How much marketshare do you think that Javascript will lose once WebAssembly gets mainstream?"

I'm no fortuneteller, but I suspect that people writing the most demanding client applications for web will be very happy when it does.

Browser-desktop convergence wasn't meant to happen through JS, and after the proliferation of the hacks that we have today to get around inherent design flaws in the language, it really shows.

"Has it evolved so much that it's now a language you would pick out of free will?"

"Free will" is a very good way of putting it. I suspect some Node developers were ex-frontend devs that just didn't want to learn another language. Moreover, the realities of project management, human resource allocation, and fast iteration are the forcing function behind using Electron instead of building a real desktop app.
Yesterday there was a thread on HN about using Electron to build desktop apps:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245183

I posted a comment lamenting that Electron apps are so big because each contains a full set of the Node + Chromium runtimes, and proposed a lightweight version of the same concept using the system-provided web browser engine.

The idea seemed interesting, so I spent some time today putting together a minimal proof of concept.

This initial version of Electrino can load the "Hello World" example from Electron's quick start guide -- and that's pretty much it! With that enormous caveat, the difference in file size is huge. The Electron version sizes up to 115.7 MB, while the Electrino version is 167 kB.

I'm curious if this could be turned into a real project. Anyone out there with a small Electron-based Mac app that you'd like to put on an Electrino diet? Ping me, and let's see if we can make it work!
Just wait until Trump gets rid of the Dodd-Frank Act and other regulations designed to prevent 2008 from re-occurring.
It seems useful if you have an SVG that has been produced in a vector graphics editor that you want in a JSX format to make pieces interactive using React.
Shell companies are your friend. You can move a lot of money around faster than the authorities can follow the paper trail in many cases. That's why some people refer to delaware as the world's biggest tax haven - Delaware is extremely friendly to corporations and it's trivially easy to set one up. So if you are skilled in the technicalities of company formation and business administration, you can make your audit trail very difficult to follow.
If I promise to meet you for coffee, it's understood that there's a silent "but not if my wife winds up in the ER".

If I promise to pay you back a loan, it's understood that the interest rate you'll charge me is related to the risk of my defaulting and that the option exists.
I have not yet tried this OP's tool, but I've been using something similar (http://svg-jsx.patmoody.com/) and I'm very happy with the utility. Next time I need to inline SVG in react I will use this one.
Much of the Puerto Rican debt has been sold at a discount by the original lenders. The risk of default was already priced into those purchases.
In fact, when I was young, I built little ships and using an RCX even a submarine, using only plain Lego pieces and a shredded paper towel in a little "chamber" between the water and the motor to keep incoming water from damaging the motor. Funny enough, the towel was enough to sustain half an hour of water exposure.

Legos are amazing.
> There are alternative views on this.

Since in the post you were responding to, I was challenging the premise you quoted, I think that I am quite aware that there are alternative views to it.
Meaning it was a good activist play? It was trading negatively because there was a chance Yahoo management would sell that BABA stake, and use that money to fund their operating business.
Seems to be back up for me in AU.
Depending on the rules of the game, people also campaign differently.
The problem, it seems, is that we are increasing the complexity of the "Secure Software" in an attempt to thwart the most sophisticated attacks.

However, as many people are already thinking, Complexity reduces Security and Stability. Therefore, it seems that the more we try to fight the "hackers", the more likely we will add some insecurity which they can exploit.
https://www.thereportertimes.com/technology/whatsapp-down-br...
Hi! Judging from the comments only this looks to be a great tool. Good job!

I'm a developer currently learning more backend and JS. I hope this question doesn't come out as arrogant. I heard once that "a good compiler should be able to compile itself". Does prepack prepack itself to run faster or can it just for the fun of it? :-)
hub.docker.com is an alias for elb-default.us-east-1.aws.dckr.io.

That seems indicative...
What was cited was Marx's views on how things work in a capitalist society, not his ideal of how they should work in a Communist one, so the fact that PR isn't Marxist is irrelevant to it applicability.
> You just ran a command that printed a few pages, you want to scan from the first line. You have to scroll up and find the last prompt, where you typed the command. Why isn't there a shortcut for this?

macOS's Terminal.app has this. Key shortcuts can jump between prompts (or between marked lines if you want to press a key combo to mark arbitrary lines), and can also select all text to the previous/next prompt (so you can trivially copy the output of a command).

> Hmmm, were there any warnings in the build I just ran? Anything on stderr? Let me toggle stdout / stderr after the command has been run.

Potentially interesting, but I'm not sure if it can actually be done. Both stdout and stderr are connected to the pty; can the pty meaningfully distinguish which connection is stdout and which is stderr? Also, what happens if stdout and stderr get mixed in the same line? You can't really collapse that.
And then we'll have AST wars instead of language wars... unless we can compile to and from Turing machine instructions :-D
> this could aggravate the financial distress of many high indebted public entities that are already struggling to pay the bills.

Governments don't make payments at adjustable-interest rates. If sovereign borrowing rates rise, because the financial markets decide that sovereigns have a higher rate of default then they thought before, this doesn't affect outstanding debt - only the ability to get more.
Except that Google can kill those auths.
What if the market can't efficiently fill the gap because of a monopoly on some resource (whether that be physical or IP through patents)? Do we give companies that have monopolies a pass? Finding some other way to punish them might be simpler in the end.
It is if you happen to buy stolen property. You might not be held responsible for stealing, but you'll have to return the property and say good buy to the money, I think.
True, I don't look at it as an ethical failure either way. I am saying, however, that the public/federal government have an interest in maintaining the perception that that is a one-off and state/local governments are reliable borrowers. If a string of bankruptcies happen in a short time window, this could quickly erode the perception that state governments are reliable, and negatively impact many other states that are struggling and need low-interest financing just to pay the bills.

For anybody who has taken a look at the balance sheets of public entities, it is shocking how poorly capitalized many of these local governments actually are, and how aggressive some of their financial assumptions are (with low interest rates and 50% of their capital held in debt, a 8% assumed rate of return is extremely aggressive, and they would need financial rock-stars to achieve this at their scale). If investors are spooked, then interest rates could spike for many other government loans, and cause contagion among local government entities that would eventually require the federal government to intervene.
could you please elaborate or give some example?
Or they'll do better jobs. At one point, 70% of US workforce was engaged in agriculture, now it is 1%. The 69% didn't become an unemployed underclass.
Yes, until users have the expectation of their phone and other distractions are part of the VR experience. Maybe we'll call it AR.
* Their strategy is evidently a losing strategy. (Or, rather, suboptimal.)*

It was not their strategy that competed and lost. It was the strategy of paying them to play the game for you. Their strategy of running a hedge fund instead of an S&P 500 index fund could be working out very well for them.
Back up now in Brazil
There have been referendums on this. The next one is June 11, 2017.

I did not realize there was a vote that close. I'm sure I read about it but forgot. I bet you could learn some very interesting things by studying the costs and reach of advertising via Facebook or whatever social networking platform predominates in PR, since vast sums of money could be gained or lost based on the outcome of the referendum.

I don't really have the time or expertise to research this, but I would be extremely interested to know who is spending money on trying to influence the outcome. It seems like it would have significant consequences for the USA in general as well as PR in particular, and election manipulation seems to be a hot growth industry lately.
Elegantly stated.
> Puerto Ricans definitely live in capitalism.

Puerto Ricans definitely live in a mixed economy, not the system that Marx described as capitalism, but it arguably shares the salient features of capitalism that Marx was addressing in the excerpt under discussion.
Defaulting worked pretty well for Iceland. It worked poorly for Brazil and Argentina.

Not defaulting worked extremely poorly for Greece.

It all depends on the particular circumstances of a country. If you're going to be building massive amounts of infrastructure, then yeah, you may want to consider not defaulting. On the other hand, if the foundations of your economy are sound, you may do well to default, and live with the credit rating hit.
He meant to say "bigger than the Beatles".
Sorry for not being clear. All roles (engineering included) are possible from our Santa Clara / San Francisco office. All engineering roles are available in Toronto. In Sacramento and Baltimore the only roles available are NLP (one of our engineering roles) for now.

Hope that helps!
OK, but a shell company in Delaware sounds pretty useless as a means of sourcing your income from Puerto Rico.
So you're looking at it on an app that touts its readability mode, and think that I must be "hyperbolic"?

I can count at least three inline O'Reilly ads, with adblock enabled.
The parent's point was that the JVM didn't vectorize, not that it wasn't possible.
"They" didn't stop satellite Internet, in fact there's a Federal law that requires that everyone facilitate small dish installations.
Back in Edinburgh, Scotland. But I still can't message a few people -- the messages leave my phone (single V).
You'd set up a system where you pay the black market dealer and they in turn pay SpaceX from an account outside the country.
For actual end-user experience and impact of using Zing on AWS/Cassandra, check out:
https://twitter.com/garryturk/status/859883566267871232
The only real benefit I see to Electron is it's finally delivering what Java promised, which is apps that run on all platforms from a single code base. Although, just like Java, they end up having non-platform-native UIs, and I imagine there's still some amount of platform-specific work you need to do (e.g. providing appropriate keyboard shortcuts on each platform).
Back Up In Morocco For Now
Almost every company I mentioned is already making money.
To be fair, a lot of breakthroughs happen by people outside the field in question applying new ways of thinking to that field.

Sure, these people can be kind of annoying, but I think we lose more than we gain by discouraging cross-pollination between fields of science.
Haha. Exactly. This should be a bigger concern recently since that's what keeps happening to good, attack tools.
Aren't the interest rates and credit ratings supposed to factor that in?
I'd say it's more of problematic than great news for places with state controlled study. But it has potential.

Where it's Great news is places which already can use only satellite internet, but have very poor experience. Rural Australia for example. Having low local (or even global) latency would be amazing.
> they've successfully predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions

Have you transposed the numbers or is this an amusing reference to something?
A plea deal involves an admission of guilt to something, otherwise prosecutors would have no incentive to offer it. Exactly what is another question, but I don't care enough to research the case.
Fair enough, I'm just a little tired of people that live in overwhelmingly white areas patting themselves on the back for their lack of racism when they have rarely if ever interact with non-white people. It's like Mongolia boasting about how they have never lost a navel battle.

I agree that there is still large amounts of overt racism in the south that affects many people.
Honestly, 100ms is bearable if there isn't too much jitter. I play Overwatch with ~140ms ping and it's not too bad.
Webpack handles sourcemaps, and one of us, gajus, has already integrated it. Prepack should be just another stage in the build pipeline.

Having said that, there appears to be a sourceMaps flag in the Prepack source: https://github.com/facebook/prepack/blob/57cc59c07d164e4827c...

I will be attempting to use this as a simple black box, relying on Webpack for features that are only tangentially related to this new optimization stage in my build stack.
American Airlines to squeeze seats closer together on new planes
> Why would USA want PR as 51? What benefit is there?

Wasn't the USA founded on the principle of no taxation without representation? On a principle of enfranchisement? On a principle of self-determination?
I'm not familiar with American Samoa, but generally states and countries with high minimum wages are doing pretty well economically, see e.g. [1]. States that have recently increased the minimum wage have seen higher economic growth than those that haven't [2].

[1] http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/evidence-higher...

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/07/19/332879409/...
I'm really pleased that there are people doing this kind of stuff. It's awesome to see.

> The pins were manufactured by AMP, which was still in business. They had taper pins in gold or tin, but not in the silver that was required for the CDC 6500. With a bit of convincing, negotiating, and LCM+L’s promise to purchase 50,000 pins, AMP agreed to produce a limited run of silver pins:

Can anyone say why silver pins are needed?

Silver seems to me to be the worst material for a connector.
I wonder if they migrated their infra over to facebook's, and if they're still running Erlang/OTP on FreeBSD boxes.
What is a mixed economy? The definition of capitalism I use is based on the capitalist mode of production, that is, how goods are made within a capitalist economy, viz. production to maximise exchange value over use value, the primacy of wage labour, private (and yes, this can include the state's) ownership of social means of production, and most social production is for the goal of capital accumulation.

In my opinion this is enough to say that a particular society is 'capitalist', though like all words there are variety of nuances and exceptions and additions that can be attached. Capitalism in my view neither necessitates nor excludes government controls on production, social democratic policies, taxes, the state (except for defense of private property) etc.

A good example of a capitalist (state capitalist) country is the Soviet Union.
No "for free" in the analogy. You had $999 from wind work, $200 from coal work. You can totally say you bought that laptop on wind only.
I don't know, but I know it's taught me to literally never believe a word of anything they say in terms of price, and to literally never sign a contract of any kind with them ever because they can't guarantee what the first bill will be (they can only give estimates), and by the time it actually comes you are already locked in for the 2 years.
Your property is really part of you

':-|
If enriching yourself is the goal they do a fantastic job of it. It's a plutocracy.

Shareholders vote on the BOD candidates after they have been selected by the Board.

Do you really think the Board will nominate someone is going to cut their compensation?
you probably could have captured a significant commercial marketshare but i highly doubt you could have beaten git in the open source world, since it was created by your highest profile customer who also happens to be the highest profile open source author (linus torvalds) in direct response to your licensing situation.
Are you still hiring? If so, I'd like to check your company out and send a resume over.
We're developing a VR application for chronic pain management. http://karunavr.com I don't think it's too sci-fi.
I apologise, I was more aiming to bring to light a particular alternative for wage labour, rather than trying to bring to attention that there are alternative theories in general. I didn't mean to imply that you are ignorant.
WhatsApp is down worldwide but Facebook is fixing it
Texas (at the time of writing) only appears in this page the once ... which is surprising in this context given its history. [1]

A country / protectorate defaulting is not necessarily something that can't be recovered from, and in some cases is the only sensible (or indeed feasible) course of action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_dollar
Yeah, its not like he gets paid to make smart bets or anything... oh wait!
I have a friend who's super-nervous about his laptop battery. The concept that sold him on owning a Tesla was that if he was home, his car would start with a full battery every morning. He only has to think about refueling on long trips, and then he supercharges.
Most governments don't receive loans with adjustable rates, but they plan their budgets with the expectation that they can refinance their debt once their loans mature. Most governments have regular debt maturities that they must meet, and they would be in big trouble if they can't refinance those loans.

It is also important to separate local governments from the sovereign federal government. The federal government is allowed to print money to cover its debts, which dramatically reduces the concern among creditors that it may default. Local governments have no such option, however; they can only address their deficit by reducing spending or raising taxes. Both options are politically unpopular (hence why most politicians do nothing and pass the buck to their successors), and may be counterproductive because the local citizens can just pack up and move if taxes are increased, or if public services deteriorate.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the most attractive way to raise government revenue is to actually attract more productive citizens to move there and increase the tax base (aka how California managed to dig itself out of its immediate financial hole). However, this is obviously very difficult to achieve in practice.