skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe people downvoted you for talking about yourself in a manner that could be considered arrogant except they didn't realize you were actually just being hypothetical.
What gets me is their articles key line is 'it depends on who you ask' then they ask you to subscribe because they are "telling fact from fiction".

I hope journalism changes soon. Id love a higher-cost service that actually looks at the broader picture and takes a side (edit: an informed side, clearly explained, rather than an ideological one) rather than focussing on headlines, 'he said she said' and too much undistilled text
It is the poster child for flamewars. Moreover we've asked you twice before not to do this. That path leads to getting banned on HN, so please stop.
Podcast is called The Changelog, the episode is abiut the guy who runs Homebrew project
I don't think the charging cycles is quite as open and closed as you represent. Its probably 1000 cycles to maintain 80% capacity (or some such threshhold), but you can keep running batteries in a storage-only application them far longer than one would find acceptable for keeping in a car.

But overall, yes, there are lot of technical considerations to actually doing it. And the article and discussions just touch the tip of the actual complexity involved - but it seems like there are power arbitrage opportunities of various corners of the grid in both long and short lasting sources.
NYTimes pioneered a lot of data visualization techniques. I think the lead guy on the project built the now-famous d3 library.
What Adam (?) said, but now in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA
There's some interesting technical history behind some of the emergency number choices:

999 in the UK (from 1937) was chosen because public payphone could be easily modified to make it a free call.

111 in New Zealand (from 1958) was chosen because the system was implemented using British Post Office equipment that already supported 999. But New Zealand phones pulsed in reverse so 111 on a New Zealand phone produced the same pulse as 999 on a British phone.

000 in Australia (from 1961) was chosen because 0 was already used for trunk access. On an automated rural exchange, 0 would connect you to a main centre. In remote communities it was 00. This meant that dialing 000 through an existing remote exchange would at least connect you to an operator in a main centre.
Nothing post-gen-Z'ers relate with more than Excel.
Blue Apron believes its cash and borrowing capacity will be sufficient for at least a year, it said in its revised deal prospectus after lowering its IPO price range.

That's crazy they only have a year's worth of runway. I'd imagine that today's tepid IPO is going to make it that much harder to raise additional private capital. Looks like they'll have to take on additional debt financing just to keep the lights on, let alone fuel more growth.

That seems to be backed up by the final paragraph:

With its reduced IPO, Blue Apron no longer intends to pay down existing debt with the proceeds, according to its deal filing. Instead, the funds will all go toward working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate purposes.

If you didn't catch it, there was an excellent discussion about Blue Apron the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646679
Travis-CI apt-get failures due to outdated GPG key
Nice to see cell phones don't cause interference with the systems aboard airplanes... SMH
I get what you're trying to say, I think, but you should use a different term. Pandas and NumPy aren't DSLs unless you interpret the 'L' to mean Library.

It is unusual but perfectly cromulent in Python to overload the magic methods on a class to provide whatever semantics you like though operators. So to me it doesn't seem like a DSL.

There was a recipe on ActiveState's site for essentially creating new operators by defining classes that overrode default operator semantics in "both directions" if you will. So you could write:

foo <<my_op>> bar

And my_op could do whatever it wanted to with foo and bar, by overloading the left- and right-shift magic methods in the my_op class. Neat, eh? (But still not a DSL! Heh.)
That takes a side? You mean like fox news or the New York Times? Doesn't all media these days take a side?
Yes, and the Zeo is a REAL sleep tracker in the sense that it uses EEG -- not accelerometers -- as sensors (where the latter actually don't measure anything that has to do with sleep, just a proxy that is somewhat correlated but also easily fooled). Remember, when you get a real lab sleep study done, the primary measurement of sleep is via the spectral powers of your brain waves via EEG -- these measurements represent your sleep stages, by definition.
The problem statement doesn't forbid duplicates. Let's assume K=1. Seems to me that both solutions from the post would return 2 for 7,7,8 and 1 for 7,8,8.

While either an answer of 1 or 2 could be justified by some definition of "pair", I can't think of a reasonable definition that would allow inconsistent return values for these two examples.
> But after having discussed and researched this stuff for years and in the context of at least 8 or 10 tools, there is some psychological issue holding us back rather than a practical one.

I think the benefits of graph-based programming are pretty clear. Having used such a tool already, I see the benefits of being able to visualize code at the top level. In fact, everyone does, we just don't have the time or willpower to recreate the visual layer for all our code. When that visual layer is built into the language, it saves everyone time, both in building and understanding.

I don't think plain code is going away anytime soon, and it will always be an option, but I'd like to see more done in the visual top layer space, like Luna.

It has a level of conciseness like fuctional programming that I enjoy. Almost like bringing back (Turing's?) finite state machines at a higher level.

I suspect the problem to which you allude, the lack of pervasiveness of visual-based programming, has more to do with how many folks have implemented it successfully.

You may not be aware, but Ab Initio runs in a lot of big enterprise software stacks. People trained in that software are proficient in building solutions quickly with little or no CS background. Jobs in that tool remain high salaried to this day. The company is quite secretive and only licenses/trains with certain consultancies.
It's innumeracy. I don't need to know anything about the subject matter to understand why the concepts, numbers and relationships mentioned above are important. In fact, I am absolutely not a solar expert -- I have no expertise in this specific area -- and I know that I am entirely qualified to understand the basics of load variation over time.
The solution to preexisting conditions is usually mandated coverage. This way, since you always have insurance, you can't be blamed for only getting insurance when you need it.

This still doesn't allow people who get a condition to upgrade their insurance. Allowing this amounts to socialized health-care. An alternative is to make such coverage part of the mandatory package. This way, it is still insurance. This is only as socialist as insurance inherently is (i.e. the unlucky being covered by the lucky).

The big issue here is 'liberty', but if you hold that no-one should die because they cant access health care, and don't want to make healthcare free, mandated insurance is the only option.
It's really sad since you make a long, sober argument. Nothing off-topic or inflammatory but something that could be attacked with a counter argument instead of a cowardly, anonymous downvote.

EDIT: how was this flagged? The post was neither insulting, nor deranging nor inflammatory.
The Braves aren't in Atlanta/Fulton anymore because the city wasn't willing to pay for a new city. They are in Cobb County - a suburb of Atlanta.
Thanks EFF. Should I ever get a threatening letter from a Big Corp, I'm def going to use this letter as a template to respond and save myself some lawyer fees.
The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease [pdf]
Okay lets go with an informed side, not an ideological one
Which is awesome if you have a monitor with 1000 nits or more, as (0,0,0) to (255,255,255) has a blinding contrast on them.

The basic issue is that CSS colors are defined in terms of relative brightness of the monitor, and not within of a proper colorspace. Most browsers assume sRGB, but many users don’t even have that.

In sRGB, a contrast of (102,102,102) to (255,255,255) is a very pleasant, and perfectly readable contrast.

But many users are on shitty 6-bit color depth 100 nits or less displays.
Absolutely - there are cases when branch misprediction is not the bottleneck. It depends on a lot of factors.

Another such case is when sorting strings because every comparison causes a potential cache miss and introduces even more branching, and all that would dwarf that one misprediction.
Kent State, Dresden and dronings are well-known, if not in the US, then in Canada (where I'm from). The first one is mainly from the protest song by Neil Young which may be played more often here due to Canadian content requirements.

Of course, Canada has its own sordid moments in history... Residential schools, Oka & Ipperwash crises, Japanese internment during WW2.

I think the Chinese government may play a role in strategically choosing only the most extreme and nationalistic individuals as eligible emigrants. This will skew the perspective of Americans who don't leave their country. Chinese student-spies on American University campuses is a well documented phenomenon [0].

[0] https://nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-western-c...
Maddox-tier humor?
Pretty cool lineup. Even just a few speakers in, it's clear for as much commonality as exist between companies and founders, there are also a lot of differences in how to successfully approach different industries. It's validating(?) to see how different companies' & founders' personalities interpret and make good on otherwise simple aphorisms, "be tenacious", "measure, achieve, repeat", "just start". I like seeing that different interpretations are in themselves successful when applied to the appropriate domain.
Yup. Probably just step lightly out of that one. Already have too many irons in the fire
"moving forward" means future posts won't use Zillow images, but she doesn't have to take down any existing posts. Explanation: https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/880538191094263808
Please don't take downvotes personally; I think people are just downvoting the entire subthread because it's off-topic, and it's understandable.
Slow? What is slow. VMs start in 4 seconds. While a container might do it in 1 or less, 4 seconds isn't slow.

Resource consumption might be more, but it's not going to be dramatically more than a container. It's not like a container uses nothing, the management and resource constrainers take up resources too.

Containers simply solve nothing and aren't 'better' in general. Containerizing certain programs might be useful, but other than that they are being hyped by the 'shiny new thing' crowd more than it deserves. On top of that, the amount of people using it vs. the amount of people that actually need it is way more of an issue than a container vs. vm debate.
HN's original users came directly from pg's site, and HN is largely responsible for YC's meteoric success. His audience was in the hundreds of thousands, so without an audience none of that would have happened. And the audience came for his ideas.

You're right that money was a necessary ingredient, but it wasn't sufficient.
I'm not really versed in this topic, but it seems like using a database for a socket makes the system entirely centralized around that database. Is there something I'm missing?
If someone is deriving 90% of their income from labor, and 10% of it from stocks, then I don't think it's meaningful to call them "capitalists". It's technically true, yes, but in a way that doesn't make sense in the context of this discussion.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that reduced capacity of old batteries is a symptom, not the problem. If reduced capacity was the only issue, then yes, it would make total sense to run old batteries into the ground.

But the issue is that the reduced capacity is a symptom that the battery is decaying internally, through a variety of mechanisms (cathode/anode micro-cracking, dendrite growth, physical leakage, who knows). Old batteries are dangerous fire risks, exactly what you don't want in a warehouse full of flammable batteries. Even a 1 in 100,000 risk of fire is unacceptably high if it causes a warehouse to explode. For this reason, it's risky to run old batteries into the ground. This is why there isn't a market to turn old electric car batteries into utility-scale storage.

Then again, this doesn't seem to be an issue for consumer electronics like laptops and phones and electric toothbrushes, so I wonder what's different, if anything.
The sad part is that many people will read the title and use the article to say "solar power is ruining everything and is a waste of taxpayer dollars!" But, when you actually read the article you realize that the utilities are the issue because they keep building natural gas plants and transmission lines rather than just investing in storage, demand response, or other technologies that add more flexibility to the grid.
By definition, internal (or embedded) DSLs (a term with well established use) are valid host-language code, relying on whatever host language features exist that allow defining code that reads fluently for the application domain. That is what distinguishes them from external DSLs.
There are at least several comments in this thread right now that are some version of "I don't like this because it is segragatory".

Here's why I do like this: because I have young nieces, and I want them to have role models that look like them. I have a 12 year old niece that I try to expose to as much positive encouragement around her ability to create things as I can, and things like this are a HUGE help.

So good. I'm glad this exists, and I hope this continues to exist for years so that when my nieces start getting older, I can show it to them.

I think if you don't have daughters, or don't have young girls in your life, it's really easy to overlook how powerful the zeitgeist is. Music, movies, pop culture, business, everything seems to be wanting to steer these people in a specific direction, and if that direction is something you disagree with, it's REALLY difficult to get around it.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning: A Becoming Resemblance
I think the quote is a valid point. How do you fix gender imbalance issues? Well, partly by balancing genders better in highly visible places. The "how" is very, very tough, but the goal is worthwhile.

Also, "the world needs more women-led companies" and "the tech industry needs more female engineers" are not mutually exclusive. "The world needs more women-led companies" also isn't mutually exclusive with "the world needs more ____-led companies". I know that's not explicitly what you said, but I want to address the inferred sentiment because it shows up every time one of these discussions happens.
That's so sad. I hope that the city can find a solution that works for everyone.
How do you intend to ensure the fruits of your research will be used to benefit people rather than the large organizations who will (at least initially) control healthcare AI?
Look up mechanical signal interlocking. It's pretty interesting.
People who insist on relitigating this from first principles every time anything in the category comes up are trolling, whether they mean to or not. Why? Because they force everyone else to either (a) cede the battlefield or (b) suffer the soul-crushing boredom of engaging an argument they don't want to have, one that is always the same and never leads anywhere but nastiness.

Here's a first principle that really does apply here: Hacker News exists for the gratification of intellectual curiosity.

There is no intellectual curiosity in this battle—only resentment and repetition, the chocolate and peanut butter of tedium. You can agree with either side ideologically, or with both, or with neither, and still know that such flamewars are off topic here, because they violate the core value of the site.

Imagine a 2x2 matrix in your head. "Angry tedium" is the quadrant we most want to avoid.

Does the conference not gratify your intellectual curiosity? That's cool; there are 29 other things on the front page that might. (Ok, 28 and a job ad.)
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I'm surprised he didn't call out title insurance as a place for potential innovation. This insurance pays out at something like 1% of premiums collected. Historically, the customer acquisition was handled by making a large kick back to the real estate agent. The research involved (look for contractors liens and such) seems like something that could be automated using NLP.
I really appreciated the insight by Poppy CEO Avni that pursuing your passion might lead you to think you know what you're doing and not be open to feedback, whereas pursuing a combination of curiosity and frustration is much healthier. Food for thought.
It just frees up funds... its not a real emergency.
Among other things they provide certs which are valid up to three years. Let's Encrypt certs are short term. There idea is to auto renew, but sometimes that is difficult to implement.
I thought this was particularly interesting:

Third, Zillow cannot leverage its agreements with third parties to assert some kind of ‘super copyright’ that overrides fair use. The original copyright owners could not deny Wagner permission to make fair use of the photographs. See Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., 815 F.3d 1145, 1152 (9th Cir. 2016) (a fair use is not an infringement of copyright). Zillow, which does not even own the relevant copyrights, cannot then assert rights that the original copyright owners could not assert.

If only more platforms, publishers, and creators took this concept to heart.
Is this just a function of how many households in CA get 100% of their power from solar currently? I got an email recently from PGE where I can opt into and decide the % of my power that comes from solar.

Does the state generate enough power to move over every household to solar?
What makes things tricky is that there are a couple of common cases that can be sorted in O(n), and that more complicated algorithms might have better asmyptotic behaviour, while being worse for small or even moderately large lists.

To make matters worse there are also more specific sorting algorithms like radix sort, which can be even faster in cases where they can be used.
Along the same lines, checkout "Functional Core, Imperative Shell".
In class terms, a capitalist derives the vast majority of their income from capital, a laborer from labor, and the middle class has both as significant sources of income.

A worker owning a handful of shares of stock isn't a capitalist, or even petit bourgeoisie.
The US is a bad example in this case because it hasn't really fought wars with equal powers except for total war during WWI/II. Even the Civil War was largely an asymmetric conflict. General Sherman could destroy rail and other industrial infrastructure because the Union had industrialized so much that they could restore anything they needed relatively quickly with parts and equipment brought in from the North. During the World Wars, retreating German troops would often go scorched earth on their own infrastructure to prevent the advance of the Allies as a last ditch attempt to slow their losses and come to a more favorable conclusion that total defeat.

In the case of wars in the last 30 years, the US military has operated on a shock and awe strategy followed by nation building. The former encouraged destroying (or crippling) power generation to cause chaos and the latter is very lucrative to American companies that come in to build the power generation afterwards. Since the US military has absurd resources, bringing in portable generators by the thousands (along with the fuel) is also easier than having to deal with existing infrastructure that was already decaying and incapable of properly supporting their logistics. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the power stations rebuilt by the US were never used, even for the military, and sit idle to this day.
Whats your crypto currency Bitcoin ethereum Dash litecoin  trading strategy?
Right now i have been following buy and hold. Are there any specific strategies you follow and recommend? Are there any specific times of the day/week you buy/sell?

How do you discover under-rated about to explode crypto-currencies such as ethereum ?
I'm always confused when nobody else ever has a permuted index, even when they have thousand-word identifiers.
Why do you want to send me notifications?
It's not a capital problem, it's a mismanagement problem. The London Tube spends about $2.9 billion (not including capital costs) to move 1.3 billion riders per year. The NYC Subway spends about $8 billion (again, not including capital costs) for 1.7 billion riders per year. That's roughly double adjusted for ridership.
+1, that's a pretty cool idea

>> I write the test after, then I reorder the commits once the test passes, and make sure it fails predictably in the way you were expecting it to fail.
Thanks for the advice, Jeff.

I didn't have too much trouble getting to the second or third dates, and you are correct in that the goal of the least bad profile pic was to get myself in a position to have my humor work for me ("personality shine through").

Perhaps the most controversial part of the process was treating dating like a hiring process, kind of like picking a co-founder.
Imagine understanding this was something you were assigned at work. What would you ask first? I am a web programmer with no specialty in any of this, but here's my top list:

- what's min / max usage and production?
- density plot of usage throughout the state
- density plot of usage over typical 24h? typical 356d?
- what kind of special events w.r.t. usage are there?
- cost of storage, improvement over past decade?
- cost of transport, improvements?

This is off the top of my head, non-expert studied math but never professionally. How many of these are answered in the article?
I don't think they do address everything else - or rather, I believe that if you have to trust an entity for enforcement, you have a perfect avenue for everything else along with that. A blockchain is specifically designed for situations you have no trust in anything (except that 51% of mining power is not colluding in a specific way) - the rest of the time, there are much cheaper and simpler solutions.
I think his whole comment begs exactly the downvoted thread's critiques: it's merely saying the popular stance on the same topic (without actually engaging with those others!) and doesn't really address why he thinks it's beneficial.

It's entirely vapid virtue signaling.
No chance. The deferred maintenance would be even worse, operators would come and go rebranding everything every few years, they'd all point fingers at each other when something went wrong... ugh.

Look at the mess the UK rail system is in - absurdly high ticket prices, confusing interconnections, bad service, finger pointing, bad maintenance, it's a mess.

The original railways were privately owned and apparently worked pretty well but it is a different world now. Minimal costs trump all else and that's no way to run a city's mass transit system. They will never be profitable enterprises, they are a public service, for the good of the public and the city itself.
An important nuance between the idea that you should be trying to solve a problem vs your problem. Identifying your problem gets you aimed correctly and can be a significant insight, but if you don't accept feedback by dint of determined (unselfish?) curiosity you're likely to overshoot what is actually marketable.
This looks awesome. I may look better at it later, but would love to see examples of use-cases.
Thank you EFF!