skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about the potential impact of leaked episodes on HBO.

Unless it becomes a sustained leak, do you think that a significant number of people will stop (or fail to start) and HBO/HBO Now subscription? Sales for HBO itself are contacts through the cable companies, and those who have chosen to subscribe to HBO Now have decided that illegal downloading is inconvenient.

Edit: The standalone streaming service is HBO Now, not HBO Go.
The J2EE culture (for lack of a better perjorative) negatively impacted Java's mindshare.

I still love me some Java for personal projects. But work Java usually means Spring, Hibernate, Maven, and other monstrosities. I'd hate Java too if that's all I knew.
I cannot disassemble my 20 year old soccer ball without sacrificing it. Still has lasted 20 years tho.
^^^ Can admins remove this comment and block the account?
You might find this work on composable well-typed transducers in Idris interesting: https://deque.blog/2017/08/04/transducers-in-idris-2/
As I said above it was a surprise to me at the time, but nevertheless true. The domain was registered in April 1992.
One, in real terms the human race has existed for a tiny amount of time.

Right, but we're talking about 2000 years in the future, so the argument is reversed: we've existed for quite a long time compared to a couple of millennia.
Yup. I'm familiar with Strip's solution to this and am really happy with it. I also wish more API's had that.

But this brings me back to my original point: having a library that blindly re-tries POST requests that result database transactions on every conflict is not going to work. Until every external API, from printers to credit card processors, has an Idempotency Key equivalent you just can't do that generically, and you will have to do that with a custom bit of code for every situation.

Isn't it easier to just acquire an advisory lock for the critical bit and take your own database's concurrency contention out of the equation?
Rider Release Candidate is still free atm too!
He was dismayed at the declining quality of mathematical typesetting, so he took some time to create his own system.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont
Ok, I can agree and I'll tighten up my use of "magic", reserve it for Railsy stuff where there's a lot of cpu cycles behind the scenes.

It's an extra layer of indirection that you can't see in the debugger though. Not sure what to call that.

I think calling me dishonest is a little strange. How is poor word choice dishonest?
Still possible to have huge deallocations in C++. On top of that, C++ makes it possible to fragment memory, whereas .NET's GC can compact references.

In both languages you have to be conscientious of types of allocations.
It's somewhat common, and is sold as an appetizer at many non-Americanized Chinese restaurants I've been to. Unfortunately, not too many of those around if you're in certain areas.
Telegram bot creates disposable 10min email boxes
This is clearly a cash grab; there's no way the team needs to take in $400m to build this.

What I don't understand is, the code is open source; why not fork it and create a community run OpenFileCoin (OFC)? The point of ICOs is that we don't need VCs or even companies behind them.
Believe me, I've thought about it. There's a lot more to do than just designing the device. There's service components to the whole system as well (porting numbers, signing people up, subscriptions, E911 services, etc).

>You then battery back it with a lead acid cell.

Well you also need to pump it up to 90VAC for ringing. Again, more details but they are important ones.
I recall an article saying that

a) We use rebar in concrete for tensile and shear strength, which massively decreases the amount of concrete you need but shortens lifespan.

b) Our concrete sets a lot faster.

c) The specific mineral that the nature article is about, was already known. (I'm not sure if it was widely known.)

(These are the main things I remember, anyway.)
Always nice to see new hardware development for the Amiga, but I really do wonder what everybody is running on hardware that powerful.

Personally I don't have any interest in the newer OS's and software and I have my A1200 running 3.1 with a Blizzard 1230 IV accelerator, it handles the classics flawlessly and I've got enough RAM for WHDload now.
If replaceable batteries were something that more consumers cared about, I think more handset makers would be making them.
I've seen AI learn to walk in simulation, I've never seen one learn to tie a shoe.
Uber's primary competitor are taxicabs - they are a transportation company.
Do you have a 15 seconds explanation on how that's going to be much better than WebGL?
Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you can fake a QR code (2016)
In normal Tor usage, you just visit ordinary web pages. The Tor network hides the user from the server, but it still requires the server to have a known DNS name and IP address to be reachable. Hidden services (which are not a built-in idea, they are an ugly hack and not super secure) let both sides act like a user and connect through a publicly-known intermediary. https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en

I think the only problem called out here is having Google Analytics scripts running on the page, which try to fingerprint the user's browser even when you're trying to search anonymously.
Yeah, it's definitely the switches. The spacing is perfectly fine honestly.
> What you describe is a matter of willpower.

> ...only 10% to 20% more space.

So not a matter of willpower then?
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We are the technology behind the Women’s March, People’s Climate March, Swing Left, Indivisible groups around the country, the AFL-CIO, Daily Kos, and hundreds of other progressive organizations. Our platform creates new possibilities for collaboration and mobilization that is meeting a real need for the progressive movement. We are a small team that is growing rapidly, and we are expanding our technology significantly.

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You'd be joining a small, flexible, largely remote team with a lot of autonomy and the chance to make foundational tech choices, rather than dealing with legacy systems, with the potential to ship products that immediately impact the world. Hiring process includes phone interviews, small take-home projects, and some pair programming.

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IRV voting in Maine, automatic districting to prevent gerrymandering, and reliable voting schemes like Scratch and Vote.
VR Gaming. We're a few years away from some incredible experiences in the space.
Are UK journalists still gagged under threat of imprisonment[1] from reporting on the memo where Bush and Blair discussed bombing Al Jazeera?[2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Connor–Keogh_official_secr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo
To help solve the nested/recursive query problem, Facebook created dataloader: https://github.com/facebook/dataloader There's graphql integration info on the blog: http://graphql.org/blog/rest-api-graphql-wrapper/#taming-pat...
If there's no extant disclosure of the means to work the invention then I don't see why not. For example we could find that you got the method wrong, and thus that no prior art existed. If there's a document, stele, or something you can examine to learn how to work the invention then that would be prior art.

Recall, USA have harmonised with the other systems now on using "first to file".

However you'd have to be the inventor, so you'd need to be able to argue you'd reinvented it. In practice you could just not reveal your source and probably get away with saying you invented it.
Yeah, I agree!

Actually one of the things I found during my work on transducers is that actually they seem to me more implementable in C++ than in Haskell. For example, you can implement state-less transducers with almost zero overhead, something that in Clojure is definitely not true (so the standard transducers do hide state inside the closure of the reducing functions). It is also easier to do n-ary transducers for zipping and unzipping and everything, as you intuit, is type checked.

Still, I agree that transducers are most useful when you have libraries that make sense of them. For example, you could implement a lot of "Rx" using transducers. Ideally I see a user never writing a transducer, and occasionally passing one to some library that provides "higher order" reactive collections (channels, observables, etc.) that can be transformed with transducers. For example, my motivation to implement them in C++ was to build "observable/reactive lenses" (something like "cursors" in Om) [1] where you could use transducers to specify how you "zoom" into the virtual sequence of state values...

Anyways, they are an interesting coding tool, but they don't really influence the architecture of the application.

[1] atria::funken https://github.com/Ableton/atria
I work with data as a neuroscientist, but I haven't used ML. What is an an annotation in this context?
How Blockchain Will Unlock Access to Capital in Emerging Market Economies
The price the customer sees, and the one they pay are two different things. In large part because of carrier subsidies.

One thing i love about living where i do is that stores are mandated to list the total cost of the device once the contract duration have been accounted for.

Quite often the sticker price would be as close to zero as they could get away with, but the total after contract is often 1.5x or higher than just paying for the device up front.
I agree. While pinpointing the exact definition of a "tech company" is a game of semantics, I think it's pretty clear that they're simply a meal-prep delivery service.

Same goes for Casper, which dubs itself a "sleep startup" (whatever the hell that means). They sell and deliver mattresses.
Biodiversity is already dead my friend. Corn and Soy absolutely eclipse other crops in USA because they are the most profitable to produce.

I'm also pretty sure we are talking about different things here, you seem to be speaking of the natural flora while I am speaking of the agricultural uses. I don't understand your point.
Mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other coins
Haskell would be an example of a language that is terser and more expressive with comparable concurrency primitives.
People talking to each other.
I find it interesting that they try so hard to eliminate warehouse workers, all the while making structural and capital decisions that ultimately increase inventory, shipping, planning, procurement, split shipment, and reverse logistics costs...all of which add up to way more of a cost problem than the handful of cents per unit of warehouse processing costs. Amazon's cost problems have almost nothing to do with warehouse workers and everything to do with management and their inability to comprehend the consequences of their rash decisions. And because their capital plan is consumed by these bad decisions, they are quite literally locking them into place.

I'm increasingly convinced that amazon has opened themselves up to competition on simultaneous price and performance fronts, even with relatively few robots and a unionized and well paid work force. A few key structural decisions made up front by intelligent and informed people will make all the difference.
Racetrack Memory.
Not knowing the language might even help in accuracy, though probably not in speed! I've heard that copy editors would sometimes read the text backwards as that made spelling errors more obvious. When read as part of a sentence it's easy to skip over a spelling mistake.
The version of Mono that is shipped with Unity is bad specifically for licensing reasons, there is no technical cause.
I read that as "[C#] takes some careful coding (to avoid GC stutters) but not nearly as careful as C++ [requires in general]".
Which means either a smaller battery or a thicker phone. I don't want either of those things.
Elite Dangerous already exists.
It's not clear to me what you're saying. 2000 more years is nothing in broad terms.
? I get at least 10 hours out of my Pixel on a daily basis, what rumor are you talking about?
That seems like a fair comment, I wonder why you're being downvoted?
Search "Phil Bagwell", most of his papers are quite interesting.

If you allow me another shameless plug, I also compiled a good bunch of references in the "Related Work" section of my own paper on immutable vectors: https://public.sinusoid.es/misc/immer/immer-icfp17.pdf
Ask HN: Advice if mobile platform I built can be used for other verticals?
I recently built a mobile app for my church (API and admin back end is Rails, front end is Ionic 3, push notifications are powered by Amazon SNS).

https://www.sdabulletin.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_f8CQqEdnU

Basically a member can select a church, view events, and get push notifications. The custom admin content platform is based off weeks, so you author the content of the week, and the app automatically views the correct content based on the date.

I was just wondering, would there be other type of business verticals this type of platform might be useful for? I was thinking maybe California farmer's markets, but am not sure if there was enough new content weekly.
In math, the Abel prize, Wolf Prize, or Fields medal would most likely do it, as would winning any of the Clay Institute prizes.
And Truecar
I think I'll open with a dubious metaphor I just came up with and a demand that the reader immediately and wholeheartedly accept that metaphor as literal truth. That's how you grab an audience!
You find a nice lady?
Hearing you on FM. (Totally agree with you.)

But honest question: Does where you work in the stack, meaning the level of abstraction, matter for language choice? Or vice versa?

I've written a few parsers in Java. Not terrific but not terrible either.

My (future) interest in Clojure is CSP. Mostly because I'm tired of wrestling with concurrency. But I'm not sure I'd want to be doing data processing with it.
> More than half of the employees at the Jersey City facility have decided to move to Linden, New Jersey

Fun fact if you haven't experienced it before. A company will close a facility, and say you can have the same job elsewhere usually requiring drastically different travel time. If you refuse you can't draw unemployment or get any benefits because you turned down the job.

It's not all roses.
Show HN: R Package to Access iTunes App Store Reviews and Ratings
I could upgrade as well (I already run ClockworkMod, in fact), I just don't have the patience to deal with eventual problems.

As for the external storage, I can use any flash drive with an OTG micro-USB port, which are common and cheap nowadays (or a regular drive with an OTG cable). But I rarely need the extra space.
Facebook is a large geek shop; not how the vast majority of enterprises work or can work for that matter.
This seems somewhat surprising to me since they are, in some sense, at opposite ends of the functional programming spectrum... but it's the path I took.
I am not certain. Theoretically, it should be better, because I think they implemented a GC algorithm similar to the one on Windows. But I have never actually run it.

It's hard to emphasize how bad the Unity Mono GC is. It's a Mark-and-Sweep garbage collector, which is like the simplest-yet-least performant approach to GC there is. Nearly every other GC in production use in other stacks is better.
Unity 5.x only uses Mono for the editor. On non-Windows platforms they use their own AoT .Net implementation, IL2CPP.
Apollo Team Announces Vampire V4 – A Standalone Amiga
I agree, but I don't think there's a difference whether the initial idea is consumed as fiction or non-fiction.

And it's certainly true that writers of hard-to-grasp ideas often use both - fictional examples in non-fiction books, historical examples and exposition in fiction books.
The second coming of WebTV. I am sick of small devices, I want a huge 100" display managed by a touch remote where I can play and work, watch videos, movies, track my cryptos, even code my own apps from it, all from the comfort of a fat-ass recliner.
> illegally confiscated Six Grandfathers

Odd description. Illegal according to US law, or Lakota law?

(Legality has interesting implications in war between two nations.)
Note: Protocol Labs is a YCombinator company and many of the insiders given early access were YC affiliated.
Why do you think it's "ideal to move first and apologize later" when rolling out a socially transformative technology in a democratic society?
Lenovo ThinkPad Retro! That's certainly right around the corner: two months and one day until pre-order opens.
That's a reasonable approximation of PA school: publichealth.tufts.edu/Academics/Physician-Assistant-Program/Curriculum
Last I heard, ranked choice voting had been ruled unconstitutional in Maine: http://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/23/maine-high-court-says-...
Vikings supposedly used polarity of sunlight to determine the suns position through cloud cover.

Eg https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20052-vikings-crystal....
That would make more sense. I can see that now.

Whether that tradeoff is the one to make probably depends a lot on what kind of game you are making.
I often find myself wanting to pirate when watching an official stream that just plain sucks. The worst is when I am forced to watch ads when I start and scrub, then the video fails for some reason shortly after starting (and watching the ad). I refresh the page, watch the ad, scrub to where I was watching, watch another ad, then it fails again a few more minutes in. Finding the pirated copy might be a PITA, but I at least will have a file on disk that I can do whatever I want with and there's no question whether I'll be able to watch all the way through.
To anyone unfamiliar with previous releases of the Vampire, they're the fastest Motorola 68K compatible accelerators for the classic Amiga (there were some PowerPC-based accelerators for the classic Amiga, not sure how they stack up against the Vampire in terms of performance).

The main news here is the standalone Vampire board (previous versions of the Vampire would need a classic Amiga to plug into, the older versions sat on top of the existing CPU, intercepting the power and data intended for the existing CPU, the name 'Vampire' is a play on this parasitic approach).
Ah, then that's the PR spin I was trying to be cautious of. It's hard to tell the math from the way they've written it here. What was the former number of employees and what will it be going forward?

That makes sense, and explains why the stock is down. It's actually a nastier form of layoffs. Thanks!

Edit: Actually it looks like it's a net increase in employment. This is insanity.

buying blue apron calls. It's trading at $5.78
Those aren't contract phones.
Yes but the unit is not company, it's strategy/experiment.
Dr. Kings descendents are free to publish it as much as they want. I can say Donald Trump is an asshole without a shred of honesty or character and not risk arrest.
I have, but that is a terrible idea for a laptop, because it has no driver support so the battery would last less than an hour instead of the 6 hours it does with windows 7.

https://reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards

(Look for Radeon HD 6290)
He has plenty of other great books!
Essays and Papers - For deep knowledge!

Goodreads and Reading list of someone - whom we know! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13235767
HTML is ironically very nice as a standard, even if broken by design. Think about crawlers for instance, which would not be possible without HTML.
It would probably a shorter list to say what could go right unless in the go wrong column you write the word everything.
Even just "terrible survival conditions" contains such a vast range of possibilities, including humans I might not consider people, and itself is dwarved by terrible political and social conditions. The question isn't so much will there still be some form of two-legged entitites. Technology doesn't help here at all, to the contrary, it can be used to enforce the wiping out of all people as I understand them, and not at all to protect that. That does have to come from people; and it's not. So, the trends remaining as they are, it's curtains.
"capital decisions that ultimately increase inventory, shipping, planning, procurement, split shipment, and reverse logistics costs."

That's interesting! What are these decisions? I'm guessing there is a natural increase due to Amazon's growth but are they making any structural changes to make the system more unwieldy?
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
People could just post these encrypted messages on pastebin, Dropbox, whatever. It's someone else's choice to send you the message and paste it somewhere. You can choose to ignore it, but it's not really your right to tell someone else not to do it.
What's wrong with the licensing? Not disagreeing with you; this is just the first I've heard of it.
I am very much against leaks...unless it's a Game of Thrones episode. Yeah, I guess it might suck for HBO, after all they paid for and took the risk for the series, but who can wait until Sunday?
You can call for legalizing CASM all you want. You just can't host it. The US protects political oppinion.
All the Cosmere books are really good. Warning though, Stormlight is about to release book 3 of 10. Mistborn is also actively being written, but the next book to be released is 4 of 4 for "Era 2". (the eras being self contained but building on the previous)

Elantris is the least well written, so read it first or not first depending if you want to lose interest in Sanderson, or be let down by the writing style. The rest are excellent though.
If you download VR games, all the ones I have seen so far - that give credit - have been done with Unity. I know ones made with Unreal are out there, I have not download any with the Unreal logo yet though.

I dabbled with the Daydream Google VR NDK C++ sample app and did a demo app for myself of simple shapes moving around. While I could do simple things, I couldn't imagine doing the type of games others have done on the platform (or Oculus, or Vive) without Unity. For most people the question will be, why reinvent the wheel?

I don't know if C# will be the lingua franca of modern game engines, but for the foreseeable future, I think it will be the lingua franca of VR.