skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly, gifs are palette based and only 256 colors. They also don't have alpha transparency, instead having 1 transparent entry in the palette, so for a gif to smoothly blend into its background it has to be pre-rendered against that background.
If the average reader imagines a dense raft of plastic bags and water bottles the size of Mexico, it's a bad headline.

I don't consider myself stupid, yet that's exactly what I imagined when I read the headline.
Show HN: Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14
Is this really the kind of thing we need to argue semantics about? We're doomed as a society if this is the top voted comment.
Australian Prosecutors Want to Make It Illegal to Refuse to Turn Over Passwords
That still wouldn't prevent an entity (person or corporation) that never agreed to the TOS from scraping.
How has it not seen widespread use? Buy just about any consumer-grade power tool today, and inside will likely be some powdered metal components. They're in some of the high-end tools, too, and can provide excellent quality with decent design.

I have no clue whether these prototyping machines will produce parts of that quality, but the important observation is that 'good enough' is the key threshold. Many times you don't need the full strength of a machined steel part, just something a bit better than plastics can provide.
We get interactive framerates ~30fps with Qt Quick on Raspberry Pi B+ with fullscreen video playback in the background.
This is not a problem. Microorganisms are already evolving to metabolize plastic:

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-plastic-munching-bacteria-c...

The real problems start when microorganisms that can metabolize plastic become so ubiquitous that plastic will rot over time.
Why are people with PHD and VPE level experience being slotted as junior engineers? It seems like a waste of time to recruit a senior person to a junior role.
I think it's better to link to the announcement page: https://download.racket-lang.org/v6.10.html
Just a little nitpick, (P)NaCl is not a current web tech as it's being deprecated by WebAssembly.

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webass...
Crashed my Firefox as well
As a shareholder this would really put me off. Unions are one of the main reasons we had such a huge American auto crisis just a few years ago. I'm largely anti-union anyways. We should have government enforced guarantees of decent treatment. We shouldn't have a tyranny of the masses demanding ever more pay, benefits, etc until a company is bled dry.
yeah, looks like it (I don't have prime)
I'm interested to know if the context of the role that is interviewed for is taken into account. I mean, the skills required to implement a large scale distributed database engine are very different to implementing, say, an accounting solution (an app).

I have personally been in interviews in the past to be interviewed by a "software scientist" for a role that was primarily high level business logic based, but, because of the interviewers background, the interview was full of puzzles, algorithms and whiteboard tests, completely divorced from the actual role that was being hired for. I.e, he was interviewing for a software scientist (like himself) where the company clearly needed someone with experience in building products.

This is basically my biggest gripe with interviews in the past ten or so years, companies who think they are Google, hiring like they are Google but are not solving anything near the scope of what Google does.
That's not so true in Germany, or in Europe in general
ANNOUNCING PICLUSTER 2.0 – EVEN BETTER CONTAINER MANAGEMENT
I don't think of myself as a libertarian capitalist, or anything close to that, but I think that being one does not preclude one from playing the long game. One can certainly decide that they will gain maximum profit by investing heavily in research that doesn't have an immediate practical result now, betting on the idea that over time, that research will see a return.

For instance, suppose that the cure for this problem turns out to be an expensive, complex drug. Somebody stands to make a lot of money by figuring out what that drug is and selling it. They can't make that money now, but eventually they'll be able to, so they support the research in order to get there.

Now, do I support profit being the driver behind this kind of research? Not at all. Do I think it's the best system for doing this? Hardly. But can it work? It can and sometimes does.
If it's illegal to scrape without permission, that makes the behavior of scraping illegal. They are not claiming it's a TOS violation, they're claiming it's a CFAA violation, which is a federal statue and (theoretically) applies equally to everyone.
If someone comes to you with a whole lot of pain and loss of function, ignoring it and thinking it's just in their head/they just need to toughen up and get over it because nothing showed up in thier blood reports is something that is almost ubiquitous in the medical field today. I have a connective tissue disorder that was ignored for years because nothing showed up in my blood report and I looked healthy. There is a reason why people are dysfunctional and in pain and once I got a diagnosis from a very highly respected geneticist, every doctor believes you and then they start helping. Otherwise, many just brush you off or worse, perform a surgery and when you keep coming back due to little change in symptoms you get brushed off so you find another doctor, in their minds they successfully treated you and the same cycle continues until you find a doctor who listens and then the treatment essentially starts.

Glad to see CFS sufferers get some validation as they are ignored plenty of times, especially women sufferers.

Note: I would say 40% of my doctors (I've seen over 50) were not like this and about 20% were over the top amazing. Acccesible through phone or email anytime, personally call you after appointments and intermittently to check up, personally call other doctors to explain issues and follow up treatments, extra long appointments.

Basic message: if someone is in pain/unhealthy there is a reason. Rarely it is psychological but that doesn't mean they should not receive adequate treatment and that doesn't mean you place them in that category unless you rule out plenty of other possibilities
My link described performance too. A cluster of innodb boxes is going to be slower than a single tokudb box.

(Src: have run each, and stuff like shard-query to parallelise queries and scale them out)
Are you a bot or a real person? How could you ban cytokines? That doesn't even mean anything to the point where I'm not sure you are a human author.
Look, I know, it's cool, and like, it has the potential to help. But trying to tech/math your way into a better democracy isn't very likely because people are assholes; you have to make incentives for the assholery to fight itself, it's not easy. Hofstader in Godel Escher Bach goes WAY into why that is from a math/physics/art/music point of view, you should read it (maybe you have already), it's like 6 bucks. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0465026567/ref=tmm_p...

I'm not confounding bitcoins with marxism and that mess of history. I'm just saying that there are things out there that were good in theory, but the applications of the theory are just plain terrible, marxism is a famous example of that.
Eh, just don't upvote it. Or upvote other PL stuff you do like.
HN also agrees that privacy is desirable in just about as many areas.
The genie may be out of the bottle, but maybe if we cut off its food supply before it gets on land...
Ideology is a funny thing, I often identify as a libertarian but the American definition seems bizarre to me.

For me it's a definition of a governments or institutions place in an economy. Put simply their only remit is to address market failure.

You could probably call me a classical liberal I suppose
People do care about these things if you are a well-known public figure. I think the constant scrutinizing over the conduct of public figures misleads people into believing that their own actions are being scrutinized in the same way.
They are produced by the body. Your comment is truly off topic because it has nothing to do with the article.
The kinds of problems these machines might be able to solve are of a completely different type than current computers, so the way their "speed" is measured will be different. For example, a biological system might be able to perform calculations in a few seconds which we simply don't have the techniques or methods to solve with modern computers in any reasonable amount of time.
I think you've misunderstood the science in this article. You can't ban cytokines - they're endogenous; a signalling protein produced by many of your cells as part of the immune response.
I'm sorry for your diagnosis and hope you are surrounding yourself with good people through your journey.

As a doctor I will say that there is no real evidence of this decline in age of first cancer.
I respectfully suggest that you may have bias through the inevitable path your life has now taken, the people you talk to, see through your treatment etc.

An aside to this is that we are much better at detecting breast ca, prostate ca and cervical ca through screening which leads to earlier detection (and earlier staging, meaning higher survival)
I suspected the same thing.
True, but in making the request, you will provide information on who is making that request. If you say, "I am a bot!", and they grant you permission, your request is legal.

But if you say, 'I am NOT a bot', like spoofing a browser's user agent string, but you are a bot, then you are requesting access under a pretense, in order to circumvent their terms of service. Kinda feels morally wrong, and illegal.
"It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Elinor Smith
> But let's say that in turns out cytokines do, in fact, cause CFS, and that -- for the sake of argument -- banning them would be a good thing.

> banning cytokines

Cytokines are endogenous. I fail to see what "banning cytokines" could even mean.
Fair enough. There was a lot of Drama from TD, and I'm pretty sure a signifigant slice of TD was TRDT's data mining/scientist campaign using bots to amplify semi-organic user input. That said, there was a lot of fuckery from the admins and mods in that and other reddit sagas, and the spez drama never materialized anything more than a half-assed apology for essentially violating some core principles that should be behind a privately run limited public forum.
Seriously, they made it seems like I'm connecting with my contacts that have linkedin account already.

It turns out I was spamming my friends to get on linkedin because of them.

This was in the early days of Linkedin. That was such a douchey move, even if there was a warning their UI and stuff enable it easy to mass spam your contact list with 1-2 clicks.
While not a reactor, there's also the criticality accidents with the so-called Demon Core, aka the core for what would have been the third bomb to be dropped on Japan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
I might add that it's also fairly easy these days to unit test in the database itself, especially in pg, so moving logic down is a perfectly acceptable practice.
Cytokines are actually produced by the human immune system, so banning them wouldn't do much good. See the slides linked in the article[0]

Unless you were making a joke, in which case I didn't get it.

[0]http://www2.nau.edu/~fpm/immunology/lectures/Chapter012.pdf
> Internally, Racket's intermediate compatibility layer over operating-system facilities has been moved into its own library, "rktio", so it can be used in future Racket implementations.

Presumably by "future racket implementations" they mean the Racket 7 move to Chez Scheme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656397

Also, this seems like a neat thing for people needing to deploy racket code x-platform:

> Racket supports cross-compilation of executables in more cases, including executables that depend on packages for foreign libraries.
>> From a trust perspective, it makes no difference if your banking cartel is writing to a Quorum, Hyperledger, or Kafka instance.

> Of course it does. The protocol of blockchains makes them work with "proof of X". Appending to any event store, whether in Kafka or SQL does not require proof of anything.

The author should have qualified that from a user's perspective, it makes no difference. If my bank decided to store its users' transactions on a proof of work database, I wouldn't even know. Which is the author's point: it makes no difference from a trust perspective, I'm still trusting the bank to store and settle my transaction either way.

It's not proof of work by itself that makes something like Bitcoin trustless (again, from the user's perspective). It's the fact that both the proof of work and blocks are public and verifiable, thus I can validate the blockchain and make sure the miners are doing the work correctly (my transactions are there and the proof of work is valid). Proof of work without making the database public and audit-able by users is pointless. But if it is public and it's shown that the miners are not settling transactions as they should, then users can fork or move to a blockchain that doesn't censor transactions.
Why is ARKit better than the alternatives?
If you're important enough you can get the lock makers to make you your own custom blank that they don't sell to anyone else.

I ran into this at college when trying to issue a bunch of keys to club members.

"Laser cut" keys have a second set of teeth inside one of the low spots in the blank that normal machines can't copy. Luckily, the locks that have the bar to fit the inner teeth are expensive and only important things get them so the hardest part of copying the key was convincing the guy at the hardware store that I just needed copies with the same profile and not the inner teeth.
I do think that for someone living in the US, Canada, western Europe, Japan or other stable, low-violence parts of the world it is irrational to devote significant mental energy to concerns about terrorism or rape by strangers. It is more irrational to give up time, money or civil rights to assuage such fears.
Can this really be true? Is there any science on this beyond a blog post?
When you make your conenction to Linkedin, What user agent would you provide? One that's blank, another that's "lelandbatey bot" or one that says, "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405" ?
It does have at least some concept of auth and encryption, though the auth is optional, and somewhat simplistic:
https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/android/man...
I am an MD, born in Russia, but did medical school here in the United States. All the same, people constantly ask about the Russian medicine, and so I was recently asked if we have fibromyalgia in Russia. My answer was that I don't know about fibromyalgia. But what I know is that half of the psychotropic drugs that people are prescribed in this country we only give to political prisoners in Russia.
Same can be said of Hydro though. Even the part about passive safety measures that are often inadequate on installations.
Please see the output of your website on Android device, it all unreadable.
but if you were to push those states into a table, you'll likely end up with degraded performance due to the joins.

I agree with your comments about ENUMs, though, especially having built many "static" products that suddenly need their ENUMs changed, and having a group of developers visiting me and asking why it's not as possible as they had assumed :)
Well, there is a third even better option, don't charge insane fees to finance ridiculous gimmick programs that for the vast majority of people never have >=1 RoI.

Interchange fees for CC are capped at 0.3% and 0.2% for debit in the EU. No 20 cards in every wallet, black pink yellow variations, no "yes VISA but not MasterCard" sillyness. Honestly even the cap of 0.3% is still far too high.
Yes the branding is very confusing: I have a choice of Fresh, Prime Now, Pantry, Prime...and I never know which one is right to use.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://download.racket-lang.org.
The API spec says:

"Note: The Nearby Connections API does not require the user to authenticate, which means that it can be used even when the user does not want to sign in or sign-in has failed."

"Warning: Messages sent through the Nearby Connections API are not encrypted. Do not send sensitive data through this API."[1]

[1] https://developers.google.com/games/services/cpp/nearby
If the patch is bigger than Mexico, then why doesn't the article provide a picture? A Google Earth link? Color me suspicious - and I used to trust National Geographic
Kitchen sponges are festering germ dens–and sanitizing them doesn’t help
Well I made 2 claims..

1 Claim was that Github is not a open source company, and they are not. Their core business is not open source, yes they have some side projects that are, but so does MS, I do not believe anyone is going to say MS is a "open source company"

the second claim I made is they are a threat to free software, I used free software here for a reason, free software and open source are different.

GitHub may support some Open Source things, they do NOT support free software.

Tom Preston-Werners infamous post on open sourcing only some things (http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...) Is a key piece of evidence to prove this.

Git hubs general actions over the years show they do not support free software at all, and have limited support for Open Source software.

They are classic Free Software leaches, using and abusing free software not for the ethical reasons around free software but to advance their profit center

See I am support free software for ethical reasons, not monetary reasons.

That is with out even getting into the MASSIVE issue that is having all of these open source projects on a SINGLE platform. Unless you think github is "too big to fail" which I can assure you it is not
>Geico began offering policies to the general public in 1974, so this is historical trivia now.

I do recall that they offered a rather significant military discount when I was a soldier. I have wonder if that discount was backed by actuarial data. I would rather expect members of the military to be higher risk than civilians or civil servants.
Made an account just to say that I couldn't tell if this post was sarcasm or not. Really? You don't want "...tyranny of the masses demanding ever more pay, benefits, etc until a company is bled dry", but you're ok with "..government enforced guarantees of decent treatment."?

Strong fucking everything
Regulations can't defend hordes of gullible suckers.

It's a two part problem: Consumers need to be equipped to defend themselves with basic critical thinking, in addition to regulation that punish abusive entities.
Yeah. That is a bit scary. People got used to think that plastic and wood are pretty weak and fragile materials (compared to metals).
But people believe that metals have much more strength (even if in reality they don't - in case of some metals and alloys), so I wonder if they start using printed metal parts in their cars (or similar), because it is much cheaper (but "it is made of metal, so must be strong enough!").

Will this cause more accidents?
I think those are both explained directly in the evaluations?

"​She does have 3 years of work experience prior to graduate school, but plays down the experience as her job
search is focused on a specialization she has less direct experience in." Not to mention, the significance of "VPE" at a startup depends highly on the startup.

"However, he was less comfortable jumping into thinking about a problem outside of an area of expertise." Where the area of expertise is not software engineering.
> Presumably by "future racket implementations" they mean the Racket 7 move to Chez Scheme:

Presumably, it's broader than that, and applies to any new VMs enabled by the Racket-in-Racket effort, not just the expected move to Chez as the primary VM.
So your debt becomes their problem. Nice.
We are past the epoch of industrialization where the worker's union was a useful tool to protect people. The modern union masquerades as a protection mechanism for the worker while crippling the growth of successful scaling companies all while incentivizing the wrong behaviors (outsourcing of labor).
If unions are "tyranny of the masses", isn't no unions "tyranny of the dictators"? It's not an either/or situation. As pointed out elsewhere, the relationship between unions and employers in the United States seems particularly poisoned, but there are many European countries where unions and employers have a much more productive relationship.

Of course, it probably does require the company to route some of the products of their labor back to the workers, which I guess is what American companies are loath to do?
I too feel there is a generational hype cycle at HN. However, I don't see much in the way of "language N sucks" as a precursor to "everyone should use language N1!" Maybe I am just blind to the negativity, but in general, what I see with each hype generation is only the positive side: "everyone should use language N1!"

I suspect with any given hype generation—with each trending language—we're going to see a lot of positive messaging as the fans up-vote articles pertaining to the new hotness. Meanwhile, those who disagree (or simply don't care) probably don't see much value in taking the time to evangelize their disagreement. I'm not upvoting Elixir content, but I'm certainly not going to downvote it either. Why should I care if other people enjoy a platform I don't care about? Good for them!

Also, perhaps as everyone is hyping language N1, those who are using N are simply too busy using N and making a living to keep layering on the hype.
I get an SSL error SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER when I try to load this page. I tried removing https from the URL but then it's blocked by OpenDNS with message "This domain is blocked due to a security threat"
Yes, currently I know it and use it. It was just an example on top of my head. Other series don't have an equivalent. And of course there's a lot of known gifs that don't come straight from TV. RightGif mentioned in another comment seems to work better for that purpose.
And you believe that makes them an "Open Source Company"

To me in order to be a Open Source company your primary product must itself be Open Source.

RedHat as an example... RHEL is open source

GitLab.. GitLab is open source

These are open source companies

Hiring a few devs for work on some side projects that are open source does not make one an Open Source Company

If they open GitHub Core then they can claim to be a open source company
There are an awful lot of online discussion groups for various medical problems. It is not uncommon for members to share new research in hopes of better understanding their own condition. In some cases, they are pursuing alternative remedies because conventional treatment and proven science are failing them so badly. Getting solid information about what is likely actually happening in their own body can be empowering.

It isn't the sort of thing most policy makers or business makers want to hear. People in such positions tend to be incredibly controlling and actively against the idea of empowering patients to take better care of themselves through better understanding of their condition. But it is actually a low cost, effective way to get better quality of life in the face of coping with a chronic, likely incurable, condition.

Written in reply to this, which is now dead, so I cant post it there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14896446
Yes, instead we should have a tyranny of shareholders demanding ever more dividends, stock buybacks, acquisitions, layoffs, managing to Wall Street expectations, etc. until the company is bled dry.