skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you store the visual node positions? For me it is hard to imagine anyone want to edit those. Why not just automatic layout?
You can get a good idea of how it works by clicking through some previews, you don't have to actually use Cloudflare yet to preview apps on a site: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/
From your two comments:

a service that can deliver fresh or at least reasonably high quality food, which is customizable to individual preferences

I'm envisioning a facility tied to an Amazon warehouse or something similar that might be preparing food for >10000 people every day

I really don't see these two things being reconcilable. I eat at eateries very regularly and I become a "regular customer" and people know my name and become familiar with the tweaks I am going to make to my order. Over time, preferences of mine get learned by regular staff.

I don't think AI is anywhere near that point. There are a thousand small things going on that you would have to think to program into the AI and probably wouldn't without deploying and iterating.
Just once, I want a company being fined to just shut off service to the countries trying to fine them....
I suspect the pagination is more about saving battery (only need to re-render once per page) vs a smooth scrolling experience.
No BDFL or authority to tell detractors to screw off. Breaking backward compatibility is kinda a big thing in the web because most of the web is still running legacy stuff.

These kind of things don't happen without such a person or group who will arbitrarily make decisions. The same reason why better languages like Dart don't get adopted.
Wow. Really sad to read that here but:

1) They are a quasi monopoly. The word you use to describe searching on the internet is "googling". Most of the phones on this planet run on their OS. So please...don't fool yourself.

2) Who's creating those desires? You think that the desire for millions of useless shit products that drive the global market are created by some neccesity deeply in our DNA? Or maybe by your free will? Or is this just the ad-industry stealing the attention from you and fitting you into a pretty tight frame of the optimal customer while preaching to you: "everybody/your idol loves this, you have to love it too".

Prediction in the age of advertising is just like advertising itself. A convenient lie.
My biggest concern is how locked these machines will be. Judging from previous history, the Surface RT, it's a shame it won't be possible to install Linux on these machines.

Such a move could be the end of the general purpose computer.
Guide to Learning Management Systems
This has nothing to do with Chrome. It's entirely about the search engine and the results it gives.

(Though google does set up special APIs for Chrome first, like SPDY. But that's done in a responsible way.)
This is nowhere near the end of Intel, performance desktops and servers will still be running Intel processors for many years to come, ARM simply cannot match the performance - despite how impressive that demo video might look.

Intel was already dead in the water for mobile so I doubt they're too bothered.
Yeah the infamous "terrorist" threat ...
We live in a society presently governed by anarchic advertising and mass-hypnosis. Cynical is called-for.
There's cooking and there's cooking.

Most Americans, including students, cook standard American food such as hamburgers, hot dogs, eggs, spaghetti, roast chicken, ramen, steak etc., as well as a lot of canned soups, frozen vegetables, and boxed casserole mixes.

But these kits are for people who want to eat something novel every meal, and certainly not mundane working class food. I mean, you don't need a recipe for a hamburger.
MIT’s gas-powered drone is able to stay in the air for five days at a time
http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html
Given how notoriously energy intensive it is to process a blockchain transaction, I wonder what the lower bound is for each transaction to use more energy than the solar panel outputs. Not sure how to do the math on that :)
Twitter has a new VP of inclusion and diversity
This is from March 2017. I just thought that if the Monthly users were going to go over, they would have done so a while ago.

Another reply, from @jackmodern, indicates that they may have done that, so now I am less confident that it is the daily actives.
> awesome [...] hilariously

Please don't post trollishly about divisive topics. That produces flamewars, which destroy the site.
Yes, as long as the payments are individually relatively small and anonymous, it's easy for people to misunderstand the amount they may actually be getting. Once you paint a target in the millions, people will notice more, it will become a bigger news story, some congressman or another will make it a pet cause, and then you've got a lot or attention on you. Like any criminal enterprise, the less attention from authorities the better.
Maybe you're oxidizing the soil around the sensor? In any case, oxidization (especially with gold-plated sensors) is a concern. I was unable to get these simple resistive sensors to work consistently long-term.
You will get two types of answers here:

1. People saying they will use it => From my experience people have absolutely no idea if they will actually want something until they get exposed to it, especially so if it's a social app.

2. People saying they won't use it => This is also useless feedback for the same reason as above. People (including you and me and everyone else) have absolutely no idea if a mythical product will stick with them. They may like or hate the "idea" but this doesn't mean they will or will not use it. You shouldn't get discouraged by a comment about something people haven't even seen yet.

Just think of all kinds of "stupid" products that made tons of money. If the founder asked "I'm thinking about selling a bunch of small rocks as a pet, will you buy it?" on HN, probably most people will tell you to stop trolling. But the guy who made pet rocks actually made and sold them instead of asking. If he had asked on HN should i sell pet rocks he would have lost all his courage to start working on it.

TLDR: You should never get discouraged by some random comment on HN about your idea that doesn't even exist as a product yet. Also getting encouraged about a product that doesn't even exist yet is also bad because you probably will build something that people may like in theory but never use in practice. Which means, there's nothing good that can come out of asking for feedback on an "idea".

The only way to get around this is not ask for feedback when you have nothing to show, and instead just go build it. Build an MVP and ask for feedback so people actually can see what they're giving feedback on.
Ask HN: What's the Status of Self Driving Car Legal Policy in the US?
If someone hypothetically created a level 5 SDC, would it be able to drive without a driver in San Francisco right now?

What about elsewhere in the country?

Are there any important decisions coming up that would make sense to call political representatives and influence?
This Bash function rebases and pushes all my feature branches on the upstream "develop" branch:

rebase-all ()
{
old=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`;
stashed=`git stash`;
for b in $(git branch --format '%(authorname) %(refname:short)' | sed -ne "s/^`git config --get user.name` //p" | grep -- -);
do
git checkout $b && git rebase origin/develop && git push --force || ( git rebase --abort && echo Could not rebase $b );
echo;
done;
git checkout $old;
if [ "$stashed" != "No local changes to save" ]; then
git stash pop;
fi
}
Right, but the source of ignition here is invisible to the human eye. So it's bit of a grey area.
The point appears to be: FB has, in the past, done "a lot of attempting to influence".
I remember reading something about a guy warning about intrusions on his company during Wannacry to steal company data and install malware. Now we have this. This is giving me goosebumps.
Moderate drinking associated with atrophy in brain related to memory, learning
I got screamed at by a police officer here in Austin TX for jay-walking. It was only my de-escalation of the situation that allowed me to escape with a warning, after about ten minutes of haranguing and accusatory questions about what I thought I was doing.
His mathematical talent is his greatest ability. But the ability to willingly switch fields to find what you're good at (or enjoy) is also important, and something most of us either don't have the nerve or engine to do.
I am not an accountant.

You may use a loss from a side business in order to offset W-2 income. No need for complicated tax credit forms. Look into the IRS rules around hobbies as they may get suspicious if your "business" loses money for years on end.
As well as how well your parents do. I know a ton of people that averaged their way though school and a career, but were given help early enough from parents that even in mediocrity they are doing magnitudes better than people who grew up poor and worked hard.
Basically anything that uses $1, $2,... because you save a split().

awk '$4 ~ /T/ { print $1 }'
perl -nE '@x = split /\s+/; say $x[0] if $x[3] =~ /T/;'

... stares at this and wonders ... reads `man perlrun` ... Oooh, there's a switch to auto-split-on-whitespace in Perl.

perl -anE 'say $F[0] if $F[3] =~ /T/;'

Sooo this doesn't quite answer your question anymore, but I'm going to leave this here since it's a nice instance of TIL.
Pentests aren't a magic bullet either. You can easily find a consultant who isn't going to rip you a new one.

Security is a mindset. Any "checklist" approach will eventually devolve into ass-covering by an organization that is not internally motivated to run a tight ship. Legitimate variances will be hassled to no end, while actual security vulnerabilities will be ignored.
I mean, most food doesn't take too long to cook, and the bulk of the work is just prep, which is amortized by the kitchen.
> Jigsaw is not maven, nor gradle, the versioning problems should be solved by those tools.

Then why do we need Jigsaw at all? If the assumption is that you run Maven or Gradle anyway then what is left for Jigsaw to do? The dependency management and check will happen by those tools.
They're bothered:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
Emotional Intelligence for Data Science Teams
Well, Zuck's dog Beast has a profile with a million likes and since a human is actually operating it, it is as legitimate a profile as yours or your pet snake's (assuming you keep it active)
Key quote:

"The only time that a CAP-Available system would be available when a CAP-Consistent one would not is when one of the datacenters can’t talk to the other replicas, but can talk to clients, and the load balancer keeps sending it traffic. By considering the deployment as a whole, high availability can be achieved without the CAP theorem’s requirement of responses from a single partitioned node."

It is true that if you assume your client app is not important that a CP system is the right choice. And I would also say this /was/ true up till about 2004 when Gmail was released. But it definitely stopped being true in 2007 when the iPhone was released and you started having installed apps.

Since then, users have slowly grown to expect both mobile apps and SPAs to work regardless of whether the servers work, regardless of load balances, regardless of connectivity.

If you look at the market trends, things are increasingly going in this direction. From self-driving cars, to IoT devices, to drone delivery, to even traditionally server-dependent productivity tools like gDocs and others - people need to get work done even if the internet to your server doesn't exist.

Will banking applications still need mostly server-dependent behavior? Yes. Is CP still important? Yes. But it is biased to say that CP systems are better. Choose the right tool for the right job. CockroachDB and RethinkDB are definitely the right choice for a strongly consistent database, but they aren't the right choice for everything. My database is an AP system, but it should not be used for many apps out there. Neither of these are "better", they are just tradeoffs you have to decide upon.
It's just a covert trade war with the US. The US fines VW, then the EU fines Google and Facebook and maybe Apple too. I don't like Google's practices or their ad network but this is just about taxes and clawing back some money after Google used Ireland and the Caymans to avoid paying some taxes in the EU. In the UK they got a slap on the back last year - some 300M in back taxes.
Probably just passing along the farcical story June Huh tells himself.
Very interesting - the situation they describe for those born in Southwestern Ontario is exactly what happened to me. I was born there, went to a local university, then moved to Toronto and now make more then my parents do. But many people I went to high school with that didn't get post-secondary education remain there, and don't make significantly more then their parents, and sometimes significantly less.
> you are free to use other companies products

It doesn't work like that. Because of their market dominance, there really are no alternatives. This is a combination of companies simply giving up on competing with Google, but also in terms of SEO, Google is the only one that matters for publishers and advertisers drive profits towards Google as well. Mobile? They now own it.

And btw, if you'll mention DuckDuckGo or Bing, the there's a high probability you're not living in the EU, since those are really, really bad at local or non-English searches.
It's a social network. If a lot of your friends are not on it (or are not active on it), expect it to be dull. Most people use it as a clubhouse not a personal journal.

If you friends don't post, then your feed will largely consist of advertisements or pointless posts from pages.
So, how would one grow a competitor at this point? Appeal to underserved users?
> They had basically accepted they had failed at life and had come to terms with an existence of scraping along the bottom of city existence.

At that point they have a job, it's working at being homeless full time.
As a curious aside, if you bought an x86 powered smartphone or tablets running Android, it features ARM binary translation given that many apps with native elements included ARM native code but no x86. I did my own tests with it to find it achieving close to 100% performance. It's turtles all the way down.
EU Just create your own search engine ! Height of stupidity .

Glad that Britain is exiting EU .
Google faces years of EU oversight on top of record antitrust fine
> When in doubt, try to think what humans evolved to do and to process, and try to mimic that.

You mean die at age 30? Sorry for being sarcastic, but that's actually really horrible advice, and exactly the type of advice OP is trying to avoid. Please back up your claims with scientific evidence, not conjecture.

I think part of the reason that there is so little reliable and definitive science is that people living long enough for nutrition to be a problem is a relatively new thing. Just 100 years ago the average person in the US died in their early 50's. And during that time our medical knowledge has been increasing rapidly. So it's really hard to isolate a person's diet from everything else that's changing.
I understand your argument but I disagree.

According to the Merriam-Webster, this arguably fits two of the three definitions of "robot".

I guess you could say that measuring soil moisture and adding water isn't "complicated" but I would also disagree with that assessment.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot

2: a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks

3: a mechanism guided by automatic controls
Perhaps you were thinking about Bitcoin instead of blockchain? Blockchain doesn't have to rely on expensive mining, it's all matter of incentive structure. For a microgrid, fees and algos don't have to be that expensive.
I would argue that the future of JS looks bleak when you effectively can't have any meaningful discussions about proposals if you are not in the committee (the author just ignored the issue for half a year, then closed and locked it): https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import/issues/35
There is, in my experience, a difference between the courses required of mathematics majors and the courses that students who might want to be mathematicians are expected to take.
Sales Efficiency: Data Is Key to Top of Funnel Success
The paper:

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/loquat-smartedge17.pdf
It's WOW64, like Itanium and AMD64. The former also used an emulator, whereas the latter is hardware of course.
Sticky headers bother me especially when trying to read news sites on a laptop. Similar bookmarklets I have found helpful are "static ding" and "static nuke" (staticding.org). Static Ding just changes "fixed" DOM elements to "relative". They remain in the DOM and visible but they can scroll off screen. I use that to read (for example) New York Times op eds because a NY Times' link to view comments is on the sticky header itself. If I don't need continued access to a sticky header, I use Static Nuke, which sets "fixed" DOM elements to "display: none", similar to the posted bookmarklet which removes them from the DOM.
> awk doesn't offer that much more than sed

The one huge thing that sed is particularly bad at (unless I don't know the particular trick yet) is to split fields on a pattern. I frequently have pipes where sed is used for most of the text-processing, but then cut is used to select one (or multiple) character-separated fields, or awk is used to select one (or multiple) whitespace-separated fields. I only go one step further (usually to Perl) when operations involve multiple lines, e.g. when columns need to be summed up.
Except upgrading to Python 3 on your application server is pretty trivial to do.

There are too many client vendors and devices for this to work. And even with the new features in ES2015, almost everyone actually using them is still using Babel to support older browsers.
In some sense, sure, thus my use of the word promote. Depending on what (if anything) Google does to promote that it might be antitrust related.
Wow that really is a cool app. Awesome concept/implementation. Thanks for showing me that. I wish there were better lists of these kinds of apps.
This afternoon I was sitting next to a Maersk employee when people walked in with bricked laptops. This person didn't believe it immediately (with all the fake news these days), he tried to get it verified through some former colleges. One minute later this laptop wasn't working anymore. He was lucky as his laptop was synced with a corporate subscription of one-drive and can continue from home on his personal iMac.

Externals and people with a MacBook could continue working.

Some departments request personal to stay home tomorrow.

Mail seems to also be down, although I don't understand as it is hosted on outlook.com
Alarm on Place is GPS alarm for those who enjoy sleeping in their commutes
You and I have different definitions of high quality then. I am thinking of the kind of food produced at the Googleplex or at a similar facility, except with slightly more choice. I would wager most would view this similarly, since most people (at least nobody I know) aren't gourmands with personal relationships at where they eat. I'm not talking about a premium restaurant experience, more like restaurant takeout a la ubereats but without the prohibitively high cost.
> Or is the idea you can add/remove these things dynamically through the CloudFlare web interface without having to touch any code?

Yes. There is a fancy preview thingy which lets you visually choose where to inject the element into the DOM, and a configuration UI which supports things like provisioning OAuth credentials for APIs, etc. No code needed (on the part of the site owner; code is written by app publisher).
Vivaldi browser live streaming coding of sync feature on July 5th
I don't think "economically optimal" is a goal to strive for, especially under the current inflationary busywork treadmill.

In fact, the current regime seems pretty close to economically optimal - 1. cheap/quick to develop because required diligence is not done 2. incremental cost to keep the zombie going via "patches", lobbying, and legal threats 3. planned obsolescence when the defects can no longer be ignored.

The downsides only show themselves as mortal risk accumulating outside the system, hence the spectre of "nation-state" attackers. But the economic puppeteers will easily move to another country if this one collapses!
Yes... or at least it could be.

Intel must have been seeing this coming for quite a while. Even to a casual viewer from the outside it's been pretty clear for years.

I wonder what their response has been and if it has a chance of succeeding.

I am assuming we haven't seen their response yet. If we have, then they are in a bad place.

If you want to be an optimist in Intel's favor, perhaps recent chip delays and stagnation is due to them pulling resources away from incremental improvements to dead-end architectures and putting them on to The Next Big Thing in CPUs, which we'll all find out about soon... ha, ha.
You mean just like they have forced millions of websites to show the "Warning: This site uses cookies" message (which arguably cost a fortune in compliance costs and user annyoance, but made no difference in the end)?

I would encourage a "follow the money" train of thought when thinking about this.

My question then becomes: if this money (the $2.7bn) did not accrue to the EU, or was not levied at all, do you still think the EU would still pursue this as ferociously as it has, just to protect the consumer?
Bad politics, bad public policy, bad policing.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-new-york-became-safe-f...

NYC used to be worse than SF is now.

"Bryant Park, in the heart of midtown and adjacent to the New York Public Library, was an open-air drug market; Grand Central Terminal, a gigantic flophouse; the Port Authority Bus Terminal, “a grim gauntlet for bus passengers dodging beggars, drunks, thieves, and destitute drug addicts,” as the New York Times put it in 1992."

NYC's "solution":

"In sum, a diverse set of organizations in the city—pursuing their own interests and using various tactics and programs—all began trying to restore order to their domains. Further, in contrast with early sporadic efforts like Operation Crossroads, these attempts were implemented aggressively and persistently. Biederman, for example, worked on Bryant Park for 12 years. When Kiley was struggling to restore order in the subway, he had to withstand pressure from powerful opponents: the New York Civil Liberties Union, the mayor’s office (which had suggested bringing portable kitchens and showers into the subway for the homeless), the police commissioner, and the transit police. In fact, it was after the transit cops resisted Operation Enforcement, Kiley’s first effort to restore order, that he hired Bratton.

By the early 1990s, these highly visible successes, especially in the subway, had begun to express themselves politically. Better than any other politician, Rudy Giuliani understood the pent-up demand for public order and built his successful 1993 run for mayor on quality-of-life themes. Once in office, he appointed Bratton, who had orchestrated the subway success and understood the importance of order maintenance, as New York’s police commissioner.

Under Bratton, the NYPD brought enormous capacities to bear on the city’s crime problem—particularly Compstat, its tactical planning and accountability system, which identified where crimes were occurring and held local commanders responsible for their areas. Giuliani and Bratton also gave the force’s members a clear vision of the “business” of the NYPD and how their activities contributed to it. In short, a theory previously advocated largely by elites filtered down to—and inspired—line police officers, who had constituted a largely ignored and underused capacity."