skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a massive fan (and user!) of Segment. I think it could be revolutionary. I do worry a lot about how they tell the world about what they _are_ though, it's an inherently complex and technical product - and often the buyers of this software may not be technical enough to appreciate the sophistication of this product. In my experience Segment is confusing to explain until you actually use it, then you love it.
It's not that surprising. Hn isn't a single being.. it's a bunch of individuals with differing opinions. Some are web devs who like usage analytics, some email from the command line because they're afraid of web browsers.
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...except threatening Taiwan with war? And ask the people in Tibet and (some) in Hongkong.
An alien invasion could fix our politics.
Co-founder here. I just liked the quote, and I don't know who left it. Can easily replace it with many others. Maybe that is more legitimate.
I'm studying for a PhD in the burgeoning field of Theme Park Theory
Stallman is an optimist.
BTW I had to move to tmpfs to keep this CPU busy when building Gentoo stuff.
sadly, the importance of the title is going downhill. giving one out to an enabler of torture and war was a joke. a very sad and twisted joke.
Fast compilation and restarts doesn't at all address the style of programming where you evolve an in-memory program in an exploratory way.
A Monkey Snapped a Selfie. Now a Court Is Deciding If He Owns the Copyright
It is not a problem though. My friends in big pharma did better than me - big houses, cars, holidays, money in bank. I guess they will be on the Narcan gravy train too. Doctors have to drive fast Porsches too, don't they?
Doesn't that assume that contracting resources are all the same?
I'd also like to know the name of the theme in the "Manage your .gitignore file" section.

https://code.visualstudio.com/images/1_14_gitignore.gif
Video games are show business, though, and follow the same gig-oriented pattern.
Does this mean that you could end up holding on to bitcoins that don't have anymore value? Or are you fine if you just wait for the longest chain to emerge and don't do any transactions until then?
Not maybe, definitely. A first-gen pi can mine at 200KH/s [1], and a 3rd gen pi is roughly 10x faster in cpu tests [2].

At 2 MH/s per pi, times 7 billion people, you get a paltry 14 petahashes/s. That's a hair over 0.2% of the network...

You'd need three trillion raspberry pis to get half the network. Good luck with that!

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis...

[2] http://lifehacker.com/how-the-raspberry-pi-3-benchmarks-agai...
Agreed - 3062 for the TR-1950X and 2431 for the TR-1920X are colossal results. 2167 for the i9-7900X is still huge!

At first I thought that (given it's AMD running the test) they'd hamstring the Intel CPU with an under powered cooler, but it looks like they gave it a big Corsair H100i 240mm water cooler. If that's not enough for a 140W CPU, I don't know what is - it was probably on turbo the entire time. They gave their own CPUs an "EK Prototype SP3" cooler, though - is this it? https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-kit-s360

Regardless, the message seems to be that if you want top performance, get a big cooler.
still too reimannian. go lebesgue: "time spent waiting for the ride" is all the time spent not riding. About 8 hours minus 10x3minutes.
That's so incorrect I cannot resist replying.

What do you think a market is, if not negotiations about prices?

The simplest markets are commodity markets: there are a large number of sellers, a large number of buyers, a large quantity of goods which are all substitutable for each other -- who cares whether you buy this bushel of winter wheat vs that other one? -- and everyone has perfect communication with each other.

Like perfectly spherical cows, this doesn't happen exactly in the real world, but is close enough to some scenarios to be useful.

Here are factors which affect the price in the market and therefore require negotiation:

- flood
- drought
- unexpected hot weather
- unexpected cold weather
- diseases
- war
- transportation costs
- fertilizer costs
- labor costs
- legal manipulation
- accidents
- irrationality

(I left out governments, taxes, and all sorts of illegal things that won't count as "transparent", but exist anyway.)

And that's just to buy grain, a commodity so basic that the Babylonians invented accounting and writing to deal with it.

Yes, you need to negotiate. Sometimes you can just say: "the price you quoted is sufficiently low that I can accept it immediately", but that's merely the fastest negotiation.
I don't know which tickets you are buying, but I fly ~ 150,000 miles per year, all on non-refundable tickets. I change my plans ALL THE TIME, and those tickets are always credited to my account. I have to re-use them within 12 months, and the airline deducts a change fee from the value before making the deposit.

My work travel system even has a built-in tracking and reminder system for ticket vouchers that will nudge me to fly on a particular airline if I have a credit with them.

And, I will say this -- in nearly all situations, if an airline thinks they may need to involuntarily bump you, they won't assign you a seat. Once you have picked a seat on their reservation system, you have a very low chance of being bumped involuntarily. Once you have a boarding pass with a seat number on it, I'd guess that the odds are 100,000:1 that you're not going to get on board (unless you volunteer to take a voucher). All the more reason that the infamous United dragging incident was some kind of anti-unicorn (which wasn't about over-sold seats, after all -- it was about needing to accommodate a non-revenue flight crew).
That might be because China hasn’t been a superpower for very long, they’ve literally not been able to project that sort of force.

Bit disingenuous to imply that’s solely because of policy, not reality and vice versa.
I used to think so, but not anymore.

Consider: you write perfect code, and you write the perfect web and mobile app.

1. Does it have a server?

2. What happens when everyone upgrades their browser?

3. What if everyone upgrades their iOS?

It is not your fault that it may not work in 2 years, let alone 15.
Agreed. Where I do miss a true REPL (and fingers crossed, this project is it) is when I don't have a specific Go project I'm working on but want to quickly explore an idea.
I have a question for anyone who has privacy concerns with these type of devices: do you own a smartphone? Those seem nearly infinitely more dangerous from a privacy standpoint than a smart speaker. First off, you are likely to carry them with you wherever you go instead of being stationary in your home. Secondly they are more technically advanced with additional sensors like GPS and much higher processing power and storage space. And lastly they are much more difficult to completely monitor due to having a network connection that isn't created and operated by the device's owner.
Here's Anandtech's recent SPEC benchmark deltas on hypertheading.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-...
>...You'd then sue them and be awarded damages because they breached their contract with you. But it'd cost you a ton of money to do that, and so nobody will do this.

The limit on small claims court is usually 5 thousand and small claims court doesn't cost a "ton of money" and is very accessible. Since anyone could be bumped, there are cases where I am sure the damages would be greater than 5 thousand, but then you would have the incentive and means to hire a lawyer.

The law to set up compensation limits in the US was done to lower the costs to the airlines, not as some way to help the consumer. There is no reason that anyone should ever be involuntarily bumped - this law just made people think this was somehow acceptable.
For now, there is one correct solution. So it's dependent on the teacher to pin any statements/reasons to ensure there's only one possible answer. I have some ideas for making it more flexible in the future, but haven't quite solved the user interface problem for assigning parent and child steps.
I'd tackle this in my head by realizing the answer is close to 4, and the derivative of sqrt near 16 is about 1/(2 sqrt(16)) = 1/8 which is not far from 1/10. So always round up.

So 4^2 = 16 is under by 1, add 0.1. 4.1^2 = 16.81 is off by around .2, add 0.02. 4.12^2 = 16.9744 so add .003. You're basically adding a digit at a time without needing division.
There's not really a need for a terms of service on a static page. We should probably get a privacy policy up. And there is a contact... both email addresses and forms. Do you need a physical address? We don't have someone sitting around waiting to answer the phone all day.

We're Lambda Inc. Incorporated in Delaware. Haven't announced our fundraising yet but that will be public soon. Clearly need to work on making the site look more legit.
One of the best threads Reddit has produced in a very long time.
I like the idea, especially that it's written in C (the core part, anyway) and
there's just a few dependencies to install. However, the part of README that
shows how to run it is completely unreadable for me, as it uses magic Docker
incantations that I can't separate from SiriDB's own command line options.

Also, a collection of time series is not a flat space, contrary to your data
model, where a time series only has a name. Usually there are multiple
dimensions, e.g. (location) x (server name) x (cpu number) for CPU usage
collected from servers from multiple server rooms. Note that it's not
hierarchical and the dimensions can differ between metrics (mount point for
disk space, device name for I/O operations, <nothing> for RAM usage, and so
on).
The cost is, with 8MB blocks, 95% of nodes that validate consensus will be excluded (unable to keep up or become too costly to run) within 6 months - as per BitFury's (heavily invested Bitcoin mining company) research on bigger blocks: http://bitfury.com/content/5-white-papers-research/block-siz...

Without full nodes validating consensus, miners can (will) force protocol changes (eg. change 21,000,000 coin limit) on users, effectively changing the decentralized leaderless attributes to a centralized dictatorial less-efficient PayPal. At this moment, bigger blocks mean a less-free (as in speech) bitcoin.
Continuous Integration with Angular CLI
I had this happen also with a particular customer once. They were a large financial institution who bought our product to replace their previous software package that had been way past EOL.

Because they already had software to do this task, my boss assumed that determining the custom requirements for them would be very straightforward, and would only take a week or two. We ended up spending the next 3 months in very tedious conference calls preparing requirements documentation that their obnoxious internal processes required.

Just when we finished that, the customer came back and said, "That's great. Government-Alphabet-Agency gave us a hard deadline to switch to the new system in three weeks." By that point the scope of the project expanded to about 3 months of work.

We still managed to ship something for their deadline, somehow, and we're still providing maintainence for that, oddly enough.
Cell phones aren't doing this... that you know of. If you don't trust Amazon or Google (and I don't mean to imply that you should!) then it seems like you can't trust them not to lie about when the mic is on.
Just doing sponsors like in auto racing would go a long ways.

"Mobile 1 the official grease of $a_bearing_on_mars!!!!" is pretty damn good advertising.
> Now you know 95% of Lisp, and you know 90% of Clojure. That silly little parentheses syntax really is just about all the syntax there is to these languages.

And yet I still can't do anything useful with them. A language isn't just the syntax, it's also all of the functions that are defined by default.
>Because a. not everyone qualifies for that

Everyone who has federal student loans (90% of all loan disbursements) qualifies for income based repayment plans if the plan will lower your payment.

*PLUS loans your parents took out don't qualify, but you won't need those if you're going to a 4 year state school.

>20 years for something that didn't work out is still a pretty awful deal

Didn't work out meaning can't make much money. For a family of 4 making $50k (about the median household income), you'd pay back around $100 a month.
They've got a lot more people, so it's just a matter of time. That, and there aren't any real "trade secrets" when it comes to AI. It's all just computer code, and anyone with an Internet connection can teach themselves how to use Wikipedia and run TensorFlow.
But there is really no waste when they sell out 100% of the seats. If people no-show the seat is paid for.

The airlines are trying to make it sounds like they are just trying to reach 100% capacity but in reality they are trying to arbitrage the fact that a few people buy non-refundable tickets and don't show up.
> This post could benefit greatly from a little more quantitative analysis.

It sounds like she's just articulating the arguments of both sides, rather than taking a stance herself, so I don't know how much quantitative analysis would really improve it.
You're being overly selective with the facts. In the US there are problems but there is hope for change through free discourse, independent courts and democratic decision making. In China there are problems but the power to change is invested in officials and bureaucrats with their own interests at heart, and hope for change is hope that such people can be persuaded or bought.
You're wrong about who does most of the work. But even if you weren't - who builds the machines?
Does anybody know if this is finally a real full-blown REPL? Does it allow starting new goroutines and communicating with them over channels? Does it support FFI, i.e. package syscall + unsafe? on Windows and Linux?

Or is it again a "recompile and rerun everything after each new line is added and pretend to be a REPL"? Or is it maybe something inbetween?
As far as I know, all the places you mentioned are either Chinese territory or disputed Chinese territory. All of them are recognized by most countries (most likely including yours) as part of China.

Can you name a sovereign state recognized globally that is being threatened by China militarily?
I think we should remember that although this may be the case today, cultures of the younger generation can change quickly. Also, although you haven’t explicitly stated this, it can be extremely easy to dismiss or judge a whole country based on this, so make sure to keep an open mind.
Chinese Government is all over the Silicon Valley these days trying to get into US AI developments, using all sorts of nefarious tricks.

A case in point. There is a conference, SYNC 2017, in Computer History Museum tomorrow (July 14th), organized by Pingwest, which itself seems like a Chinese Gov. front if you look at the team.

They have several good speakers, and some Chinese, Gov fronted, fake VC types.

Till 2 days ago, it was titled SYNC 2017 - Unbounded: Building Across Borders.
Yesterday, it's title was changed to SYNC 2017 - US China AI Summit

It is pretty clear that if they had gone with the US China AI Summit in the beginning several of their speakers may not have agreed, but now it is too late for anyone to change mind.

Edited: To change from "Chinese" to "Chinese Gov." to clarify I'm referring to the Chinese Gov and not Chinese people
Does the author say anywhere whether anyone has actually given him $980 yet?
You're not wrong, this does give up that sort of control. That's a different issue, but certainly a reason why they might not want to do it.
I was wondering that too, the best I could come up with is that the unused part of the rectangle represents the remainder we haven't "pulled down" yet, so in the first iteration, 0.17

I don't think its important to the calculation though
You are wrong, at least in some sense.

I was teaching English in China making about $800 per month. I wanted to build an application and had no experience and certainly no money. I went to school for Journalism and have zero family money or connections.

I bought Agile Web Development with Rails. I spent the next year or so trying to learn while working an ultra low pay job with almost a dial up connection.

I applied for an accelerator with my terrible app, got accepted, ultimately didn’t raise any money but I did end up with a junior engineer job. Which led to another, then another until finally here I am, I still work contract jobs but finally that terrible app is actually good and generating real money.

I own a house now. I get paid more in a month than I would make in 18 months teaching in China.

I didn’t go to a bootcamp, I didn’t go to Stanford and I have never raised investment money.

How I really got it? I worked very hard. Studied cheap books, reached out to experienced developers I tracked town through sheer force of will.

By most definitions, I am successful however that success might not have yet resulted in a million dollar pay day but life is pretty food.

Another story, the founder of the Gringos restaurant chain in Houston, literally started as a dishwasher and now he flies in a private jet and gives millions to charity. And before someone declares “white privilege” or some other nonsense – he’s brown.

Another kid I knew was a minimum wage bar-back at a nice Houston bar. 5 years later, he owned the place.

Look at Asian immigrants to the US, plenty of stories of first generation immigrants that speak not a word of English and arrived in the US with $500 and now they’re sending their kids to Harvard.

How many Algerian immigrant kids are in France’s elite schools? Probably close to zero.

There are tens of thousands of stories like that.

You rarely hear about rags to riches in Europe.

While the US doesn’t have a monopoly on success stories, the American dream os far from a myth. It is literally there for the taking. Look at the Apple story, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet. How many self-made billionaires are there in Europe? How many self-made millionaires even?

Nothing is stopping a poor guy with a squeegee and a bottle of Windex from creating a window washing empire – if he’s willing to dream that big. Good luck doing that in most other countries – they’d crush him with taxes and regulations before he could even afford to buy his first truck or hire his first employee.

In Europe, starting or growing a business is only for the rich or privileged generally. In America, anyone can do it; but not everyone wants to put in the sweat and hours to actually execute.
What if those in control of the market are those who can benefit more (in the short term) by restricting the supply? A completely free market works well for many things, but not for housing, in part because there is a extremely limited supply of land, and nobody's making any more.
I think deathanatos meant binary search as in

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

rather than representing numbers or performing arithmetic in base 2.
Yeah, and this is the information that is needed to really move these skills forward. I wish you could set a threshold on the intents based on confidence level and prioritization to have more of a custom fall through logic.
"I don't think that law should exist. They should be required to pay whatever it takes to get enough people to go willingly."

Agreed. That would be the "free market". They always would find people if they offered enough money.
You are conflating Bitcoin with decentralized currency.
"passholders and people staying at the park get priority"

They didn't trade a faster system for a slower system, they started price descriminating to further maximize their profits. You just happen to be in the group that gets a slower experience.
Nope. It has only worked that way since the breakdown of the studio system in the early 1950s.

But the key to making it efficient is well-defined and well-understood roles.
Lessons learned teaching data analysis with Python
Yes, and it took about 5% off my link step. It was nice, but no a fundamental game changer. I suspect someone who didn't already a bunch of smaller link steps would benefit more.
My smartphone is plenty useful even if Siri is turned off, though.
As you might know, most (all?) of SMT/Persona demons are from somewhere. It's actually a pretty cool idea - the creatures may be familiar but Atlus can give them their own spin.

You might recognize this guy: http://i.imgur.com/tonkSbq.jpg
This comment thread, the thread on the article, and the article itself are so disappointing. I expected more from Hacker News and Engadget.

This is fake news and so many people fell for it. And I NEVER use the term fake news, this is literally the first time.

Like many cases of fake news it is based on something that is true but either through ignorance or intentional misdirection is drawing and leading people to draw a false conclusion.

What is actually happening:

- Website app can see an access log of every page you visit on it when previously they could only see successful pages that didn't error or result in a 404. Just instead of a typed URL it is a spoken sentence.

- Web app STILL CANNOT access what you requested from other web apps (other Alexa skills).

What everyone is ready and the Engadget article strongly implies:

- amazon is now sending everything you say to all developers even if you said to to another app

Edit: To the one person (so far) who down-voted me and to the others who probably will as well... I'm OK with that. I am willing to sacrifice some HN karma to spread the word that intentionally misleading articles like this are not OK. And coming on Hacker News and allowing yourself to be mislead rather than form your own opinion is also not OK. We deserve better.
In my book Craigslist is good software. Looks the same as it did 10 years ago, does the job, works in the shittiest browsers imaginable.
I wonder who will be the first to posess a computer with enough quibits to properly implement Shor's algorithm and steal all the bitcoin.
Insurance pays for off-label therapies all the time and oncology it's very common.
Which word does rhyme the most?
I happen to be Portuguese (land of pioneer seafarer) so had a chance to live with these legends in popular stories. There were other empires with better ship technology and huge fleets in place (e.g. China) and back in Europe one could find countries with better economical conditions to pioneer into the unknown seas (Genovese, Castillians, French, ..).

Yet, it was a tiny land on that corner of Europe which did the initial jump into the unknown.

Not just jumping, they crossed the whole of Africa using tiny boats and bargaining food at each stop. They succeeded because there was no other option. If the Portuguese crown were to make money, it had to risk doing what the others wouldn't.

500 years later. The US rulers don't see yet the money aspect in Mars, not even at the moon. But there is another "crown" already aiming for the moon, the Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_large_modular_space_st...

It's going to be interesting. Let's see if a human can finally reach the moon.
> The last thing I want for notable developers of high quality WYSIWYG editors is to get upset.

While I'm certain you have good intentions, the size comparison chart at the top of the README is a bit misleading. It would be fair to list out the trade-offs on going ahead with ContentEditable so that users can know what they are getting if they choose Pell.

To clarify, Pell looks awesome and I don't intend to diss on your project or your hard work, just that the way the project's README is laid out I feel @marijn's response is not totally unwarranted.