skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was back in 2005-2006. I was working with a guy who loves to code. His favorite way to spend the weekend was to figure out ways to make our services more robust and optimized. He had one major disadvantage.

His forgetfulness was legendary. He could barely remember what happened in the morning or what code he wrote. He made this his strength by writing the cleanest and well-structured code I have ever seen. So, not only him, but anyone, without any prior knowledge, can jump into the code at any point in time and immediately understand the flow and be productive. Obviously, it helps that the code was in Python, but being in python by itself does not a great code make.
People who have perfectly functional iPhones 4 deserve to use the web too. Forcing people to pay huge premium just to keep the same functionality is messed up
Yahoo was using Bing from around 2010 to 2015. But since then they've been using a variety of sources - Bing, Google, and presumably their own, and I think it can mix the results.

Yahoo's search business was always odd... They had their own search, then switched to search powered by Google. Then they purchased Overture, which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista. Overture had originally purchased AlltheWeb from FAST, who had pivoted into the enterprise space, and later got bought by Microsoft and integrated into SharePoint.
Please stop ‘manspreading’ on public transportation, Madrid officials say
The developers of Signal and similar privacy-oriented apps will probably rather shut down than compromise the security of the app. As long as at least one secure app remains, the policy is pointless. And even then there's other ways to communicate securely. There's no viable way to enforce this.
When he says humans will become useless in the economic sense, i wonder:

When looking at the value created by the average human job, you see a constant decline in that - most of history human though wars, produced basic food, shelter, health. But today, many humans produce stuff that is far from necessary, we could live well with far less of those products and services. Heck, we even semi-deliberatly construct out economy in that way, for example, by creating/allowing tools like advertising and planned-obsolescence, tools that enable the rise of the consumption economy.

So maybe that's a trend, an we need to look where humans+machines are preferred over machines, just barely, and construct our economy around that ?
As the author, let me summarize. TLA+ is a language (not a programming language!) that allows you to describe software systems mathematically and reason about them, meaning, write which properties you claim they have (e.g., every user request will get a response) and verify that they indeed satisfy those properties. TLA+ is used by Amazon to help design their AWS services. This series is a deep dive into the mathematical theory and design principles of TLA+.
Science will save you from deadly roadblocks with your products
This. So much this. Diversity of workplaces is something we should celebrate, yet the media and activists are keen on converting every workplace into their ideal. Not everyone desires to work at the same company. Some people want to work at an Apple, some want to work at a s Google, some just want to work on a hippie commune/coop, and some want to work at a high pace, high states, only the toughest, most productive, most driven survive company like Uber.

If you don't like how a company is run, you have two options:
1) build the company culture of your dreams from scratch from first principles
2) let someone else do all the hard work of creating value and then show up later and colonize that company and try to change its culture to match your ideal. Hopefully, if you're enlightened you've given some though to how to maintain the positive aspects of that company's culture before you attempt to foist upon its employees your ideal of how it should function.

At the end of the day, employment is at will. If someone doesn't like the way a company is run, they should try to change it from the inside as an employee or move on to another company if they fail to change it. Outsiders, on the other hand, should stay out of it. If you don't like how a company is run, and you don't work there, fuck off. If you really want a company to be run differently, get hired there so your financial success is at least aligned with all the other employees before you try to influence the culture.
Thank you! I’ve been wondering what this AMP fiasco was all about when I have never seen such a site. It turns out I have developed banner-blindness on the Google search results. I have always scrolled to the “real” first result without ever considering the ads and carousels.
Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations [pdf]
Thankfully you don't get to decide how many children others should breed. They did that in China and the next thing you know, there's a >5% imbalance between sexes.
> I bet that most end users think that [X] button should make the AMP banner disappear, while leaving the page content there. Pretty common pattern,

Dark petterns, MS, google, facebook etc. It's becoming the norm for the behemoth corporations to do this.
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Norwegian Statoil has started making PR noise about offshore wind farms. But it remains to be seen how really serious they are about that.

In Norway there are a few fast charging stations for electrical cars throughout the country. But I not have seen a single one provided by Statoil or any other gas station operator. At best the companies that built them placed them near gas stations so during 20-30 min of charging on can go there and drink coffee.
If you have the patience to raise one, I'd suggest you go in for a Caucasian Ovcharka. Preferably raise a puppy so they can get used to your children and family. I wouldn't call them non lethal but they'd certainly give pause to anything short of an armed robber.

Second choice will be a pitbull.

Also I've known a signpost with the following words to be very deterrent if deterrence is also an option : "Please do not walk on this property unescorted. Pet Cobra on property. Insert picture of large realistic cobra" How many people are willing to rob a house with snakes?

And finally on weapons, i know a guy with a homemade flashlight casing taser. Not sure it's even up to 5000 volts but he claims its come handy in an altercation with an intruder before.
Would your graph include future post-operative death?
Putting #FirstWorldProblems into Perspective
Vue is widely praised for its official documentation, often pointed as one of things differing it from React. But if you have other experience, I'd kindly asked you to mention the places you remember were wrong, so that I can submit a PR for them.
Or you can grow your own chicken if you live in the country. It's not a very labour intensive task and they also eat most of the vegetable waste from the household.
This seems to take a very inclusive account of government spending but maybe not so for the attackers. We may need to consider the recruiting costs and ongoing operation cost for years leading up to the attack - even for expenses unrelated to the attack but part of the support and growth that led to it. You could argue that every AQ expense upto 911 was in some way building towards that event. I think if we have such a broad account of the government spend, we should do likewise for the other side. But your point is still good.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+6/11/17:+DraftKings+MLB+Lineup+Top+Pitchers
I came here to say exactly this, and before doing so thought to ^F first. Heh.

The other two comments I see in this subthread are practical and pragmatic, but I also agree with your view as well. I would far prefer to pay the fees and have all transactions processed via the blockchain.

Although at the end of the day, pragmatism makes money...
Medium just became Small..:(
Show HN: Cmus-osx – Integrates media keys and macOS notification into cmus
Having conducted over 100 interviews for JS positions, here is my advice.

- You have to start with ECMA5. 95% of new features in later versions can be transpiled back to it, and examining resulting code is usually the easiest way to comprehend them. Oh, how many candidates I've seen that talk about 'modern classes' with a flare and then can't explain prototypical inheritance at all. So, the best start is "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition".

- Be very careful about what you read online. Blog platforms are full of script kiddies trying to feed you their misconceptions without a second thought. I generally only 'trust' two sources - Mozilla Developer Network and http://2ality.com/ by Axel Rauschmayer (I believe his books are mentioned in other answers too).

- Whenever you are faced with a particular library/technology - look from books/posts from their creators or someone associated with them.
Right, it's like everyone's forgot what Google's business model actually is!
double edged sword and/or two sides of the same coin
The Wired article was probably bad, but I don't think blaming "the media" is a good idea, since "the media" is often understood as "any media". It creates confusion.

The author has written an article. Somehow the author is also a media.

The media must not manipulate our view of the media.
>no longer use Google's search because of it

I'm not using it too, but not because of that (and I was unaware of amp before). DDG shows instant wiki, stackoverflow, lyrics previews, while google only does that for wiki. I don't use gmail because of crappy ui, ux and designs. I wouldn't use annoying youtube if dailymotion was not blocked. Translate is only bearable for english. Local maps are way better in navigation/street/company info (probably not true for US/EU).

Summarizing, I clearly see no value in google services for me today and it was surprisingly easy to get rid of it completely.

Edit: and in search regard, ddg/yahoo links lag far less than google's redirects and ddg never presented me "you're a robot, enter captcha to not get to our search service anyway" for hours.
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Yeah, I agree. But I think mixing personal and professional on Facebook is pretty much by default, and most people do it. Also, the illusion that people could control their own presence comes from the fact that this is how it used to work, back when the internet was a much different place.
Searching "wwdc" on google.fr
The very first result (top story) is not an AMP page.
The other top stories are AMP pages.
Then, in the regular search results, only the last one is an AMP page.

Searching "wwdc iphone 8" (not in the "people also searched" list for me) yields about 50% AMP pages. The first result is but the second isn't.

I don't really see a pattern here. The only part where AMP seems mandatory is the news carousel.
Though you jest, Forth did influence certain decisions in L2's design. In particular, by using continuations you can make an L2 function temporarily leave a variable amount of data at the top of the stack in order for the caller or some other function to use.
You should read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

> I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.

> I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
Sound, Bass, Water, Sound makes water come alive with cymatics
I'd say no because nobody, not even Sergei and Larry, not even the devil incarnate at the database company, not anyone in silicon valley has done what Travis and his team have done.

I was never a fan of ubers because like Dropbox I thought it was too simplistic and too easily replaceable. I've become more wary of the anti uber propaganda lately. I'm more suspicious of the press than ever. When I read some news all I can think of is which ax are they grinding there. The constant onslaught of anti uber propaganda makes me think something is wrong here.

If Travis loses, it will be a teachable moment for other unicorns. What lessons can we learn about what he did incorrectly in stacking the board? How can a CEO/founder prevent a coup?
Someone posted a reply to my comment a few minutes ago then deleted it. Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531411 / http://i.imgur.com/HcU8NgS.png - yes, looks like Arc completely hides newly-posted-then-deleted comments, very probably for aesthetic reasons.

In a nice bit of timing, HN Replies (my HN notifier) grabbed the comment before it was deleted! It was interesting, so I'm anonymously adding it below:

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> I have seen first hand a large VoIP carrier reach out to an ITSP because one of their end subscribers was scanning the 710 number space either manually or not. And it was within a few minutes after the scan started. This type of activity (and others too) will set off all kinds of alarms at phone providers.
You seem to be responding seriously to satire...
Find a new job. Biggest raises I ever got were when I quit and looked for a new job.

My second job after graduation actually meant almost 100% pay raise. After that it slowed down but I still usually get extra 10-20% every time I switch jobs.
Seems Stockholm's system in Citybikes were the remnants of a test project by JCDecaux, which was providing the data. The actual project on Stockholm is run (or at least used to be) by ClearChannel.

Actually, many years ago we supported Stockholm's system but stopped doing so after receiving a C&D by, apparently, a sole guy that had permission to use the data in exchange for providing the apps. Most possibly the situation has changed (this was more than 5 years ago) but it left an aftertaste that has stopped me from adding it. A PR to the project for adding Stockholm would be welcome, though.

// Disclaimer: citybikes
I don't see an issue of learning Vue and not being able to write native apps for iOS and Android as a valid one.

Weex quickly gets better and is maintained by Alibaba, a company of the same scale and with development resources comparable to Facebook or Google. NativeScript recently started work on Vue port, the project is already available for testing. That's excluding the Cordova solutions like Onsen and Framework 7 having official Vue ports.

To that, PWA slowly becomes the new trend for mobile development, native apps are not necessarily the optimal solution to every use case.

The "++ many more in the future" is an optimistic assumption. As much as I wish it to be fulfilled, same can be said about any other framework.
That's not how any Universal Basic Income plan I have ever seen works... they are all based on what is essentially a negative income tax bracket.
>What’s causal emergence? It’s when the higher scale of a system has more information associated with its causal structure than the underlying lower scale.

I don't understand why the writer invents new (grand) terms to discuss phenomena that is already widely studied.

Information as a function of scale in a system is well known phenomenon in physics and complex systems theory. Systems different in microscopic scale can behave similarly in macroscopic scale. Renormalization group formalizes this emergent principle of universality. Multiscale information theory is generalization of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization_group

https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4708
Uber Board to Discuss Travis Kalanick’s Possible Leave of Absence
I disagree. The point of focus should be verelox and the criminal negligence on their part. Verelox is the criminal, not the victim. The clients may be the victims.

We should not equivocate on cfaa. It is good for nothing. Full and unconditional repeal should be our only demand.
the hardware is simulated, but you do actually start from NAND gates to build primitive logic gates, then forward to a half adder, full adder, ALU, CPU and ram memory
Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? (2012) [pdf]
Unless you use -o/--only-matching, that works fine for binaries!
If corporations want us to treat them like people, I'm all for treating them like people. This means they are able to defend themselves in a criminal lawsuit and the board is willing to go to prison or the chair for the scrims of the organization.

They can't have it both ways.
Looks like the filter bubble is on your end.
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In case you mean the dot just next to London, that's a town named Slough, with their own bike share system. By clicking on the dots you can actually zoom in on the systems. Here are some links with these zoomed in:

- https://citybik.es/map/santander-cycles

- https://citybik.es/map/cycle-hire-slough
OWS probably wouldn't comply, but have you noticed how hard it is to install something Apple/Google don't want on their platform? Side loading is feasible but improbable on Android, totally impractical on iOS. In place of well engineered solutions from principled developers there would be apps from collaborators. I'm thinking WhatsApp/Facebook will fold pretty soon. 99% of users won't care, and we'll be back to where we were with PGP: most messages are in the clear, the only encrypted ones are huge red flags for further tracking.
I prefer Bear Grylls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wZ2oIzuR4
I would if it meant:

1. The rule of law has not been compromised (snowdon has shown it has already)

2. warrants are issued by a proper judiciary (not the likes of FISA)

3. Oversight that protected citizens privacy rights (let's all laugh at this one since it requires Snowdon to show us that oversight just doesn't exist)

So, agree with you :)
I liked the point "GitHub probably makes more money from their largest Enterprise customer than from all personal accounts combined". I think the same is true for desktop apps. For instance, Sublime Text's price point of $70 is precisely for Enterprises. Nevertheless, I believe ST could easily make an extra $ x0,000 by having a one day sale for personal customers. I blogged about this [1].

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/finally-understanding-sublime-texts-pri...
Ask HN: How do you store your Machine Learning models (when you have a lot)?
How does services like api.ai or wit.ai store their ML models as they have a handful number of them (at least one per customer). Do they store them into HDFS or in a database like Mongo, MySql? Really curious to know.
There's good and steady money in "old" frameworks that the kids don't want to learn about.

I work 2 days a week on maintaining AS3 / Flex projects for around $110/hour, fully remote. Which for my client means a more economical choice than to build a new team and knowledgebase and rewrite.
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Pretty cool, but 2 pointers of overhead per object is a lot. The linked-list approach to garbage collection is also going to produce a lot of memory fragmentation compared to arena-based collectors. The docs also suggest calling `ugc_step` multiple times per allocation. So this isn't a high performance solution, but the code is clean and easy to read.

Related reading: http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/NoMotionGC.html
The proportions and standard lengths are all slightly different. For example, standard US fences are 3 feet high, but standard EU fences are 1 meter high. This is a noticeable, but not striking difference.

It's like using letter paper format instead of A4, it also feels a little odd to me.
What we need now is a text-to-speech engine programmed with The Mary Whitehouse Experience's "Man With A Sarcastic Tone Of Voice".
I guess it kind of depends on what you mean by value when you say "value created by the average human job", but I think for most definitions the opposite is the case. Average productivity per worker has been rising pretty steadily since the industrial revolution, even if you correct for inflation.
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Opioid crisis: The letter that started it all
Absolutely. Let's deal with it severely. Let's put the CEO and the board behind bars. I don't see how verelox is a victim. It is like saying a police officer who leaves his keys in the patrol car is a victim when someone takes of with the patrol car. The patrol car isn't his! Similarly, the data isn't verelox's!

Let's be practical. What is our end goal? Is it vengeance or is it prevention? If it is the latter, our actions must not be centered on retribution but rather on logic and reasoning. We should ask what can we do to prevent this from happening again? Throwing someone in prison is not the answer IMO.
Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't particularly dedicating this to new users. This solves a problem for me, an experienced *nix user. I'm not even sure it /would/ solve a problem for new users (arguably ninite doesn't either) - you need to know what packages you care about in order to have an interest in downloading them.

This site gives me an interface to say, "oh yeah, I /do/ need VLC on this laptop, come to think of it", rather than having to lazy-evaluate that when I have a video downloaded and realize I don't currently have a means of playing it.

I spend a fair bit of time doing DevOps work, and this isn't meant to be some sort of configuration management or provisioning tool. This is for desktop / dev users, which is, I think, quite a different use case (but an increasingly relevant one). I have a dotfiles repo, which is to say I'm familiar with the "document things in scripts and repos" game - but it's not clear to me that something like a script-as-documentation is even a useful process to go through when any given computer I set up is going to be used differently. That laptop playing VLC is very different than the web dev box I spin up to mess around with a new project.
The original letter is pretty clear that it's talking about short term (acute) pain in hospital settings.

It's surprising to see this being used to support long term use, for long term (chronic) pain, outside hospital settings, but that's what the VA did with their "pain is the 5th vital sign" campaign.
Flagging because it seems too political, but in case I'm wrong:

I can't compare, but I heard it's easier for women to keep their legs together for long periods of time than for men. Possibly something to do with thermoregulation of testicles. Also, cases of complaining about "manspreading" when there's plenty of room around make me wonder how much is it about being space efficient and how much about just comntemporary feministic misandry. Is there any scientific data about this subject, supporting either of sides?
I started using a self-hosted searx[1] instance recently, and I highly recommend it if you'd prefer to not have to care about this nonsense.

It's the first time I've found an alternative to google.com that is actually usable (i.e. I find what I'm looking for near the top of the first results page every time I make a search).

You can use Google as one of the results providers, but you won't see any AMP results, and since searx can mix in results from Stack Overflow etc, you might find that a different search engine than Google still gets you good results.

I think Google would pull fewer of these monopolistic tricks if people would realise they have genuine alternatives.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx