skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice.

Yes, it handles message passing between instances in the cluster. That means if you publish a message on a channel whilst connected to one host, the message will also reach subscribers to that channel which are on any other host in the cluster. It shards all channels across available brokers, when you scale up the number of brokers, it will automatically migrate the shards across available brokers with no downtime.
You abandoned DBC and set up a competitor. A lot of people got screwed over while you raked in a ton of cash.

You may not be responsible for the decline of DBC, but part of the reason it is crap now is because they expanded to like 30 locations. I'm almost certain that's the model you pitched to Kaplan because you sold right after the New York Campus opened.
Videogames Might Be Keeping Young Men Out of the Workforce
You could store it redundantly, in a genetic RAID
Yup, pretty on the mark.

Also WRT snow performance Telsa has a pretty large advantage over any ICE since they can apply different torque amounts to each wheel in near sub 1ms timeframe due to two factors:

1. Lower rotating mass(you only have stator, axle and wheels in the physical drivetrain.
2. FETs respond much faster than an internal combustion engine.

We got a fair bit of snow a while back and even without dedicated winter tires I was incredibly impressed with the snow/ice handling. Much better than our Subaru by a long shot. You can still get yourself into trouble but it was much harder to overcorrect than on our ICE.
For what it's worth, I agree with pg and don't think your college is the best predictor of anything (after all, I actually decided not to go to an Ivy myself). That being said, I reject the notion that it's trivial to buy your way into an elite university. There's a whole class of second-tier private colleges that exist primarily because it's not that easy for rich kids to buy their way into the truly top schools.
At this point this is vaporware. The car is still nearly a year away from being on sale, and the software will come even later. Talking up something like this so far ahead is just an attempt to depress sales for its competition.

Calling it "level 3 autonomy" is misleading as well, given how highly constrained the situations are in which it can operate at level 3. From what I can tell from the press release, it only promises that the car can handle a freeway traffic-jam situation, ie, it knows how to stay in a lane and not hit anyone when traffic is crawling on a freeway.

Admittedly such a system would be nice for millions of people who commute through such conditions daily, but that is probably one of the easiest tasks for an autonomous system to perform because huge amounts of complexity can be ignored: pedestrians, cyclists, intersections, road hazards, trip routing. This is a baby step taken at the edge of a huge chasm. Good luck!
Is your program appropriate for students who are high school seniors/graduates as a alternative, or lead-in to college? What level of programming experience is required?
Ask HN: How best to report phishing emails to a domain holder?
I have received a phishing email from an email address using the Northeastern Illinois University. I cannot find and address to which to send an email regarding this and get no response on Twitter.

What is the best way to report this?
The average politically-flavored HN comment (not to say user, who can say?) is not ancap. It is not even libertarian.

It is liberal/globalist consensus: extremely liberal on social issues, globalist on economics.
Wireless charging for what? It's not EV, it's a hybrid. And not a plugin-hybrid, from what I can tell.
Facebook Messenger gets adverts added to app
Interesting. Filed an issue to track this idea: https://github.com/jaredreich/pell/issues/33
Did you close the sale? (Not being an ass. Curious)
I think the problem is that the passengers can collude to take the airline's money hostage, since this turns into an unregulated auction of sorts.

One person is willing to take $10,000? Great. Every other passenger is willing to refuse $9999 for the low price of $9999. Now, each passenger needs a 1/Nth of the payout, and that fraction needs to be >$10,000.

Now the negotiation's starting offer becomes: "You overbooked by one seat. How much will it cost you to ground the plane, or fly it empty and bump us all to other flights? Give us that much money."

Honestly, this outcome would be fine by me, since it would correct poor airline behavior pretty rapidly. They already let you buy standby tickets; overbooking is double dipping.
United Datagram Plane.
I regularly see 8 cores over 50% utilization. So sure 90% of the time you don't really need it, but a lot more things are parallel now than you might think.

Consider, if your PC is going to last 3+ years, and you average ~40 hours a week on it then the most demanding 1% is still 48+ hours.
Ask HN: Help a fellow startup draw a target audience portrait
Hi guys!
We're about to launch our startup dedicated to customer support. So at this point I'm asking myself a question about our target audience. If you're a startup founder yourself, feel free to step in, I would really treasure your opinion.

1) What is your company dedicated to? What kind of business do you run?

2) Where are you located and which countries you want to cover with your product / service?

3) Which values do you prioritize in your business? What do you stand for?

4) Which online resources you as a startup founder find interesting, useful, trustworthy?

5) Which social networks do you use for business purposes?

6) What is important for you in building your customer support department? Would you outsource support and why?

7) What is your biggest fear related to support department? What are you afraid to do wrong?
No, magnetic ink is only used at the bottom of the cheque for banking systems to identify the source of cheque.
Yeah, I may have done that once or twice myself.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/naya9wqdemiovuvwvoyquq

Why browsers don't dump to disk in a format that makes for easy rendering ... I don't know.
Running 4 OSes at once (host + 3 VMs) I would hope you have a very quick SSD and lots of RAM, otherwise that CPU isn't going to help much.
Very cool! We did some possibly relevant stuff at ITA way back in the day -- ping me. :)
Should we build lots more housing in San Francisco?
My 2015 Hyundai Genesis can already do exactly that. It has automatic cruise control with lane keep assist. Sure, it beeps at me if I leave my hands off the wheel for more than 10 seconds, but if you disabled that in the firmware, it would technically work.
I think we can all agree that actively re-purposing the postfix-- operator to perform a dereference on a smart is definitely not idiomatic.

Idiomatic might be fuzzy, but it definitely does not include active attempts obfuscation, malice or jokes. The code in the article could be any of these depending on context.
The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead

Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman

and if you haven't read it already,
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
China may match or beat America in AI
Buy your subscription to Norton Anti-virus 2030 today!
64 instead of 24 pcie lanes is huge too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758435
Luxury phone maker Vertu is shutting down its UK manufacturing operation
Genecoin, cryptocurrency implemented in the human genome. We take a blood sample to check your balance.

edit: putting the bank in blood bank
Millions of things will soon have digital twins
Apparently, it's not uncommon for pharma to coach the families that comment to the committee either...
And in another orphan drug case with small sample size, that of Sarepta/eteplirsen, in which several evaluating scientists seem confused and the majority were overridden (for approval) by the FDA director in charge. Comments included, “serious irresponsibility” (by selectively publishing data during the whole process) and saying that the drug was a “scientifically elegant placebo”.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/09/20/sar...

This new leukemia treatment is a really interesting, and perhaps the effect size is large enough for the small trial size, but we seem to have some problems in the review process (ignoring data) and incentive structure (coaching parents) for these "orphan drugs".

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/19/im-...
They should encode some music on it and then watch the RIAA go apeshit trying to track down and kill all the copyright-infringing bacteria.
when you say proxy do you mean literally nginx/something or some go/java/etc. http server?
Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on a ZX Spectrum
RESTful CRUD Operations in Meteor.js
Everything from watchmaking to watch repair!
And those "change fees" are $200, more than many shorter one-way economy fares.
Show HN: Bucket Query – Automatically index and search your AWS S3 buckets
I assume the goal is to get to the front page which brings a lot of traffic (tens of thousands of visits in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658)

P.S. The main discussion about Yandex is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14760423
The reason they have to cede to Tesla is because of battery supply. There's a reason why Tesla invested in a huge battery factory and established contracts with a lot of providers so they could churn out the batteries cheaply.
Getting 100+ strangers to collude like that seems infeasible. The incentive to defect from the arrangement would be huge.
Goal: Land humans on Mars.

Stretch Goal: Bring them back!
Well, to be fair, you could still die in your sleep in an autonomous car...
Just because we don't do something anymore that doesn't make it a "lost art".
Yeah I've got a PCIe SSD that I don't remember the exact details on right now, and I setup a ramdisk to build from a while ago but never really benchmarked it to see if it was actually making a difference.

Still, you'd be surprised how much having the extra CPU headroom helps there. A lot is IO bound, but at least with the extra CPU cores the PC is still responsive and able to do other things while waiting (for the most part). When you get CPU bound, it starts to hurt.

Back when I built it I looked at the total cost and did some math on how long I thought it would last, and how much time it might save me and figured out that even if I really went all out, if it made me even a few percent more productive it'd be more than worth it, so I kind of went nuts on it, and I'm very happy with my decision.
That's a shame. C++11/14/17 each make the language better and deal with many of the might have pushed someone away in the past.

The typing is getting stronger, the library richer and hard things easier. If you know about or can google RAII and are willing to lookup things on occasion to pick algorithms or just the right member function, code gets very clean. After not too long the looking stops because the std lib is still pretty small compared to other languages.

But if you have already moved to Rust I can't make an objective argument for it.
In order for proteins to be produced, there is usually a very specific start/stop sequence that has to be present in order for the mechanism to take action.

Most likely this is just "junk" DNA that has no physical manifestation.

As for reading the picture, it is only seen when they extract the DNA and use methods of sequencing to produce the image, meaning it will only show the little gif when analyzed the way it was designed for.
It worries me that this is a legitimate question. The chief of the military does not define law.
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Space probes may be cheap but they are slooooowwww. Most of the research done by spirit, opportunity and curiosity could have been done by a trained astronaut in an afternoon. As an example, in its 2623 day mission, spirit traveled less than 5 miles. Rovers are great for low budget exploration, but if you want to kick things into high gear, there's no substitution for trained humans.

Some of you may be thinking, 'Hold on a second, if you took the money for manned exploration and poured that all in to rovers, surely you would get even more science done than humans could possibly do!" Perhaps, but I would argue that the research done to support the manned exploration should be counted in the scientific haul. Meaning that currently, for ten billion dollars, we could shoot rovers to every corner of the solar system using current rocket technology. But if we spent that ten billion dollars sending people to mars, we would have to develop new rockets, new infrastructure, new habitation technologies, cosmic radiation shields and much more. All that technology, plus the knowledge we gain on mars would be more valuable than simply sending rovers all over the solar system, partially because all that new technology would probably make it easier to later send rovers all over the solar system.

In addition to the above, there is also the massive pr power of putting people on mars. Everyone in the world knows Neil Armstrong, but no one cares much about luna 2.
No. There are already subreddits for this and I already get enough emails.
I was at DBC around the time of the sale and you're full of shit. You checked out, drove tons of taleneted people away (Michael, Lachy, Tony, Jesse, Keith, Zee, Myles, to name a few), and then decided you were bored with bootcamps.

You were in it for yourself and it would have been better for everyone if you could have admitted it. Sounds like you're still believing your own stories.

Kudos to you for hiring and inspiring an amazing team. Too bad you didn't know what to do with it.
Keeping a geologist alive on the way and while there, and returning them, are a little expensive, though.
I'm pretty sure my whole life is one long lapse in self-control.
Javascript's maximum date is Sat, 13 Sep 275760 (=8640000000000), so you've actually gone some ~43,000 years past the end of all time.
Python has zen. Zen is the basis of what is considered pythonic. C++ does not have zen; the language was designed by committee.
Can anyone tell me what would happen to Uber's stake in the joint company if Uber fails? Is it auctioned off to cover its debts?
More like vice versa, like watching a rattle trying to use a toddler for a hairbrush.
Depends on surge pricing
Opposite of what lots of us want too, kumbaya circles didn’t fuel the space race!
Again this is part of that pendulum swing. In an effort to combat low reimbursement rates the government agreed to faster bill payment which in turn lowered timeframes for quality/fraud control and the result is huge payments on faudulent bills before the fraud is identified.

While the government did not pay out over a billion dollars, they likely paid out $250 to $500 million before suspending payments. Little of the money will be recouped and few will see any substantial jail time.
"Entitlements" is a technical term that's been used for quite some time (including the usage of the word in the original Social Security Act).

There's plenty of cases of speech manipulation, but this isn't one of them.
Music Competitions
It's harmful to hotels, but the argument is that the AirBnB sellers and consumers get more benefit than hotels lose. Increases in efficiency should result in a net benefit to society. Assuming perfect information, free-markets, yadda yadda.
That's not quite the same. Bumping people involuntarily and paying them the minimum cash required by law is how you end up with security beating people up to get them off the plane.

I don't think that law should exist. They should be required to pay whatever it takes to get enough people to go willingly.
I would send emails to abuse@neiu.edu and phishing@neiu.edu.
In addition, you could perform a whois lookup on the domain to get the Technical Contact: https://who.is/whois/neiu.edu
and send an email to admin@neiu.edu

If you wanted to take it another step forward, here are the folks you could probably contact: https://ssb.neiu.edu/mercury_neiuprod/GZKDIRL.P_DISPLAY_DEPT...

Hope this helps.
He had little impact on mortgages or inflation. Nixon drove most of the stagflation of the 70s with his wage and price controls not to mention taking us off the gold standard. Failed monetary policies exacerbated the problems. Carter inherited all of that and it took the fist of Volcker to fix it.

If a failed rescue of some hostages is what you gauge your views of Presidents on, you must be particularly low on the Bush and Obama war torn years.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/1970s-grea...
Think this way, if you have 100 widgets you promised to be delivered in a week, and you know you will have another 100 widgets coming in stock next week, would you take payment for 105 or more today, hoping at least 5 people do not mind to wait to get their widgets a little later?
Is this an Aprils fools joke posted a few months late?
I have a 2 sockets x 8 cores (16 real cores) Xeon desktop machine from last year. It's very fast.

But to make it useful for compilation, I had to make a lot of alterations to our software and build systems to ensure we were maximally parallelizing builds. This included splitting up C programs into separate C files almost comically fine-grained. I was literally using ‘wc -l *.c’ and trying to even up the size of the files.

Eventually you hit Amdahl's law: Some parts of the build (I'm looking at you, autoconf configure scripts) simply cannot be parallelized and they slow the whole system down.

The other thing it does well is virtualization, but that tends to be limited by RAM and disk space. The machine has 64 GB of RAM so it can run plenty of VMs, but I had to install more disks so I could store those VMs. It now has 4 SSDs and 3 hard drives, and managing the space across those is a bit painful (with LVM).
I was hoping for some lecture notes/videos.

EDIT: Gee, downvotes.. instead of lecture video links... too many reddit users came to HN apparently.
Props-transform: Transforms properties of an object by given transform functions
Not yet. The conversation is ongoing though.
I am not saying that I would exclude Node projects; I am saying I would exclude all Javascript projects that are not Node. Or React Native. Or Electron. Or whatever is used to create a purely Javascript app instead of one that only uses Javascript because a portion of the app's user interface exists at runtime in the context of a web browser.
There is no light used in a CPU (or any other kind of chip found on a PC motherboard). Grace Hopper was talking about the speed of light, which is roughly how fast a change in voltage will propagate. That can and does curve all around your CPU because the wires are not always routed in straight lines.
How lazy is your country
Fortunately not, I mostly finished the colour port. And then Brother cancelled the contract (or at least didn't choose us for the colour device).

I still see Ran from time to time (we're both at Amazon)
The Soviet Union pretty much quitting a year or so after the US landed on the moon is what did it.
"... put humans in orbit around Mars... '
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I still think it might be best if government funds the research and then allows anyone with the capability to use it. In other words, no patents. There would be competition and the price would come down. The big problem I have with this suggestion is that I don't believe in governments ability to do anything cost effectively - even funding research - but I might be wrong.
Not really, the part you are missing is that it is easier and cheaper not to have C or C++ compilers available at all.
The reality is that planes can be automated completely. The only reason they aren't is because of public perception, and the fact that if there's a bug and it crashes, 300 people die all at once.

If one or two automated cars crash due to glitches, however, the risk is perceived as being a lot smaller because those individual incidents would theoretically affect fewer people. Also, car automation would end up saving more lives overall in the grand scheme, and would also solve a lot of traffic problems in the long run.
Money spent on NASA has provided significant breakthroughs in science that includes the internet, MRIs, ear thermometers, automatic insulin pumps, implantable heart defibrillators, fiber optics, light emitting diodes for brain cancer surgery, programmable cataracts, long distance telescopes, solar energy, artificial limbs, memory foam, shoe insoles, smoke detectors, water filters, enriched food, and tons of software.

Smoke alarms alone have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
Intel Has a Bright Future
Author here. npm5 was released months after this was written. (A breath of fresh after the npm3 had -- look it up -- intentionally non-determinstic versioning based on install history.)

If you read the whole article, I conclude with recommending lockfiles and npm shrinkwrap, the traditional JS lockfile solution. Yarn is the new kid and awesome and deserves mention too.

Lockfiles are an appropriate choice for JS because of unique dependency loading. For Java and many other ecosystems, fixed versions are appropriate because they automatically deduplicate.

There are pros and cons. The absolute most important thing is to achieve determinism. Programming is hard enough as it is.
Ask HN: Books on the first industrial revolution
Can anyone recommend books (or online courses etc) on the original industrial revolution.

It would be interesting to learn more about how people reacted to a rapidly changing society, due to technological progress.

Perhaps one could gain insights into what may be happening now.
Well, the president did just get out of the Paris accord, which was probably kind of a minimum in the first place.. so, sadly, a bit necessary still ;P
>> It's worth so much that a person shouldn't be required to pay for it. Like a right.

It can't be a right. That would mean someone has an obligation to provide it. I would say it's worth so much that a monopoly on it should not be allowed.
A set of open source best practices around employee onboarding and training would be super valuable. It would certainly have saved us some painful lessons early on.

Do you have plans for engineering kits?
I too am subscribed to /r/UpliftingNews/ and pondered making a website based on its content at one point

Serious answer though no. I'd not pay for a newsletter with any kind of bias, no matter how good the bias made me feel. Bring me a paper with real journalists and no (or as little as possible) bias and I'll pay for that
They have also spent heavily on the new Star Wars areas and have announced a make over of Epcot. Likelihood of a new park anytime soon is low.
Climate change and inequality
The numbers are about throughput. Bitcoin has 7 TPS throughput and VISA has 50K TPS (peak) throughput.

With regard to latency bitcoin is still worse in practical applications - because VISA confirms a transaction immediately even if as you write it settles after 15 days - while bitcoin more or less settles after and an hour - but the first confirmation you get only after about 10 minutes.
> personal connection there - a meetup or hackerspace

HKGers should check out DimSumLabs ( https://www.meetup.com/dimsumlabs/ ) as a really nice bunch (at least when I was there).
The next big leap: putting Pepe memes in a frog
In many science fiction books we assume that if an alien planet ever got a whiff of us they'd quickly board their space ships and come see us.

It's somewhat comforting to think the alien planet could also be in a perpetual bureaucratic budget crisis and they've dismantled their space program to make more room for tax cuts.

Politics could save us from an alien invasion!
The reason I ask is that it seems subsequences of DNA are enough to generate proteins, or other molecules. (am I right? if not anyone who knows biology please correct me)

It doesn't have to be the whole code that's dangerous, what about a section of it?

That still makes it very improbable, but orders of magnitude more than the whole sequence.
Except for the size of cheque and the position of magnetic characters, none of the text on cheques is standardised in India. Hence we might stand a chance of chopping characters