skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory that can't be true. To IPO you don't need to convince "normal people" to IPO you need to convince institutional investors (those that run funds that are called on to fund retirement payouts, people who manage university endowments etc) on a road show that investing in your company will be a 'good thing' because the company is growing. The S-1 and prospectus should tell you all about the risks in clear detail and what is and is not known about the market. These people are not 'normal' people in that they analyze investment opportunities all the time. They usually ask detailed questions and want detailed answers. Usually a representative from the independent accounting firm that audited your financials is along to answer questions as well as the company's CFO to put the best possible spin on it.

These investors are not going to buy your initial stock and then turn around and dump it because that would kill the value of any stock. Instead they have to believe that they can buy your stock and hold it for 12 - 36 months and it will become more valuable so that if they chose to they could sell it into the market over enough months to not disrupt the price and make a return on the money they invested. They need that return because the people who pay them to manage the fund demand a certain standard of performance or they get fired.

If the goal was to just 'cash out' you have to convince all of these people that you're not really going to cash out in order for them to buy into your IPO. That is hard to do with dozens of new investors.
GraphQL has been a breath of fresh air -- you can tell a lot of thought went into its design and implementation.
Improving autonomy
A mistake on one end of the axis (BA is a tech company) doesn't need to be corrected by an outrageous statement on the other end of the axis (there is no such thing as a tech company).
Great resource for anyone wanting to learn more: https://www.howtographql.com/
For those skipping the article:

Both HBO and Star India told The Verge that the leak was coming from Star India.

According to the article this leak was does not appear to be part of the recent hack.
Iron Man style AR has so much more consumer potential than VR imo. Being able to get real-time info about the world around me without having to wave my phone around would be killer.
WebGPU. Granted, "right around the corner" is a bit of a stretch.

https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-...
I agree, the show has really declined without being able to stand on GRRM's shoulders. Battles are still good but the dialogue has been terrible and they miss a lot a nuance that's in the books.

It's probably demotivating as a writer to see a lot of the twists you've been preparing for years exposed in the show before, stuff like hold the door, resurrection, etc.
Beat me to it. Industrial AR is going to be a multi billion dollar industry very soon, and for a very good reason.
It's Bloomberg - they specialize in getting info out quickly and filling in the details as they hear about it. Not thorough, but being first is what, you know, gets you to the top of Hacker News and lets you sell ridiculously expensive stock trading terminals.

Now we see some of the future details coming in:

> Blue Apron Holdings Inc. is closing a New Jersey facility and moving 1,270 jobs to a bigger site opening in the state later this year.

> More than half of the employees at the Jersey City facility have decided to move to Linden, New Jersey, a company spokeswoman said. According to a public notice, the original Jersey City fulfillment center will close by October. Workers notified Friday of the changes will still have the opportunity to relocate to the new warehouse, the spokeswoman said. The move affects 24 percent of Blue Apron’s workforce.

> Opening new site in Linden that will need 2,000 or more staff

They're growing and relocating, this isn't a massive downsizing as the headline would have you believe, unless it's PR spin on something I don't fully understand.

The stock is definitely down 5%, so if you figure it out feel free to let me know and I'll buy some options :)
I wish I could go and help at an excavation. Anyone know if there's volunteer programs?
It's important to consider the difficulties in translating Mandarin to English.
Its all explained here: https://clojure.org/about/rationale

Here's an excerpt:

Why did I write yet another programming language? Basically because I wanted:

A Lisp
for Functional Programming
symbiotic with an established Platform
designed for Concurrency
and couldn’t find one.
Sorry, immigrants make better entrepreneurs? Is this a fact or just something you pulled out of thin air?
Not to mention the fact that allowing only immigrants to benefit from this is discriminatory and directly contradicts your first sentence. What about all the potential native entrepreneurs that might not get their chance to shine due to not being given the same advantages as the foreigners?
You should work for government, I think you would fit right in.
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I don't go for reality TV. But this would be a reality TV show I would watch: Competing to be the robots in Amazon's warehouses.
I've given up any hope. GRRM will never finish the series. It's made him too much money, and he doesn't have the drive to tie things back together. We're gonna get like 3 more in-the-universe stories, and maybe 3 years out we'll get Book 6, but we will never see 7 or 8.
> intel-only

So... >99% of servers and the vast majority of desktops?
Anecdotally, I got better NER results with spaCY than OpenNLP and CoreNLP with their respective default models, and spaCY was easier to install (though I'm biased, being more familiar with Python tooling and documentation style). I was eventually implementing in Java so I did use OpenNLP for sentence splitting, but I retrained the NER with data bootstrapped from spaCY, in a way similar to what the Prodigy tool is aiming to facilitate, by first classifying using the default/vanilla model and then manually correcting labels where they were incorrect.
I think you're being a little too pedantic. When I said Roman, I meant a person living in the city of Ancient Rome. I deliberately avoided the use of the term citizen.
I agree. Was super excited to test the header only to realize it's not responsive. Created an issue on youtrack on the same.
Nobody is the villain of their own story.
It's incredible how versatile our hands are. Simple pressure, two jawed chuck, three jawed chuck, four jawed chuck, roundgrip, tweezer grip, scoop and all that in a tiny, totally quiet package with force feedback across the whole surface.

Mimicking that mechanically is a major challenge, it has nothing to do with AI per se.
My thoughts exactly, but many people (my wife springs to mind) simply don't care. I'm always amazed how some friends are happy to watch the most awful pirate streams, even where they could comfortably afford a subscription to whatever streaming service it's on.

To each their own, I guess.
Ethereum's Casper

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/pap...

It aims for more economically secure public blockchains with shorter confirmation times and less cost (electricity/hardware/inflation). I haven't delved deep enough into it to be fully convinced, but what I've gotten through so far is promising. AFAIK its the only proof of stake algorithm thats been formally documented.
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And now the Bloomberg headline for the same link changed to "Blue Apron Is Closing Jersey City Facility and Moving 1,270 Jobs". This is irresponsibly different from the original "Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO" headline.
Yeah, "easy" is in the eye of the beholder. For some folks a BGA rework is a piece of cake, for others it means "scrap". Depends on your tools, skills, time, will-power, documentation and tolerance for screw-ups.

Mostly skill.

I've seen techs performing successful BGA replacements on laptop MOBO's in repair stands in Mexico with pathetic equipment.
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It's not that either though. if AWS left amazon that would be value leaving amazon stock and going to the new aws stock. in this case there is no value leaving bitcoin. bitcoin is still the same. someone just decided to start a new coin, and instead of starting from scratch, they are copying the bitcoin blockchain up to this point and giving everyone who has a coin now a new coin that has no real value to speak of yet. it doesn't do anything, isn't accepted anywhere, and currently functions worse in every way (these could all change in time, but for now they are true)

Anyone, anywhere, anytime can fork bitcoin and give away new worthless coins. Forcing shorts to go an buy all the worthless coins is simply unreasonable.
Start reading Sanderson
Don't make comments like this

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With Facebook having such a huge audience, similar to MS during the PC revolution... They can actually pull this off if they utilize the user base correctly.

Currently doing a deep dive into this business offering for our portfolio companies at Startups Showcase Group

Thank you,

JDD
I built a GraphQL API earlier this year. The learning curve can be a little awkward coming from REST, but once you get the hang of it GraphQL is super fun. Can't recommend it enough. Enjoy!
I'm pretty sure underwriting and IPO standards have nose-dived:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...
To be fair, those aren't mutually exclusive.
Yeah, he told me that he did similar thing in the past before and it worked. Now that trick no longer works for him unfortunately... Thanks for the tip though!
And if you can also elaborate on why SPARQL and RDF were a major failure, and how GraphQL is different/better?
We never know what will happen in the future. Imagine if "something" happened, and no computers were built for 50 years. The Internet relies on a constant stream of replacement hardware. The information is geographically scattered and at least partially redundantly stored, but the hardware it's stored in is all pretty fragile.
This is part of DNS.

Having a period after the domain tells DNS not to search any search domains setup on the system. If your system was setup with the search domain example.com, www.independent.co.uk could also be evaluated as www.independent.co.uk.example.com (if it had a DNS entry) by your system whereas www.independent.co.uk. can't.
That's really neat, thanks for sharing.
There are rumors of phones with batteries lasting longer than 5hrs. I'm still not sure if true or not but when it happens it will revolutionize what you use your phone for. It may even replace the watch completely some day.

Obviously I insist they still need to be as thin as they are now. That is much much more important than batteries.
I think we don't have enough people trying to improve human's autonomy, that is their ability to do something by themselves (or in smaller groups).
I'm trying to build a community around this and this is an something I'd like feedback on
ARkit finally pushing AR to the masses. From a developer perspective, having an SDK that simplifies "environment detection/reasoning" is huge. Previously required pretty deep hardware requirements and now is turning into an AI/ML/software problem.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/building_a_b...
With the 1.1.4 version they have added a dead code eliminator which really helps with the resulting javascript length. In the example above the resulting javascript file is 440 KB (zipped 113 KB). Which is not bad if you take into account that the included libraries are more than 2MB (the standard library and static html builders being the biggest ones).

I haven't measured runtime performance, but I haven't noticed anything being slower than plain javascript yet. A clean compile in this example takes ~8 second, incremental compiles takes 3-4 seconds.

The jvm doesn't play a role when targeting javascript so I am not sure what you mean with JVM variables and I don't know much about GWT. But you can debug the resulting javascript from intellij and step through the kotlin sources if you want.

I don't know how easy it is to integrate with react.
it's not a spin off though. nothing is leaving btc. no value is going away. someone else just created something out of thin air. also, bch was never a part of btc. it's simply something new that is using the past history of btc as a starting point, which creates new coins out of thin air, and distributes them to all the holders of btc.

No part of this makes sense for a short to have to go and buy bch.
I think "every company is (nowadays) a tech company" is a relatively fair assessment, even if somewhat exaggerated.

Increasingly, successful companies require ownership of proprietary technology, rather than purchase of commodity technology from third parties, and in that way more and more companies - even those in "traditional" fields - have invested in in-house tech R&D.

More importantly, software engineering has become a critical part of companies' success, even if the company doesn't ship software to end users (see: UPS, FedEx, Visa, MasterCard).

It certainly seems like the old definitions of "tech company" is increasingly archaic - is Amazon a tech company? Or are they just a retailer that uses technology? Is Grubhub a tech company, or just a delivery service with a frontend?

> "Every company uses technology, at which point saying anything like "tech company" is a useless modifier compared to just "company"."

I think that's exactly the point. Software has become so critical to almost every field (and more importantly: in-house developed software) that many companies have become tech companies, and those that haven't are either getting on the bandwagon shortly, or will perish soon after.

There may come a point where "company" vs. "tech company" loses its distinction, but for now it seems like "companies" are becoming "tech companies" rather quickly.
""$700 or so every two years""

I don't think most people are doing that. They're buying much less costly phones. You can get a new, unlocked Nokia 6 (3GB/32GB LTE) with Android 7 from Amazon, Walmart and others for about $230. If you wish you can suffer lock screen ads and Amazon will sell it for $180. And they aren't replacing them every 24 months either.

I know the folks that frequent HN don't hesitate to spend $900-ish every 18 months, but this is not representative of most people.

When you get to $200 for something that lasts 3-4 years it approaches disposable. Most people will replace it rather than try to get it repaired. This isn't me advocating manufacturer's behavior. It's just the reality of the phone market; most people aren't going to care about this.
Yellow journalism. They should change the title to "Steve Bannon Colluded with the Chinese to Steal from American Game Companies."
Excited may be too strong a word, but I'm interested in seeing how the world of decentralised apps evolve. I like the idea of decentralising the web using plug and play home servers. There are a few projects in this space already (such as Sandstorm) and there are some existing projects that aren't strictly limited to dapps but could play a key role in the future (a few unikernel and meshnet projects spring to mind).
I don't think the Chinese citizens have a choice about whether they say they like their government or not. The Hundred Flowers Campaign was pretty brutal.
> Does that argument fly anymore when corporations are so much more powerful than most nations?

Anymore? Corporations were radically more powerful in the past than they are today.

US Steel, the railroads, Standard Oil, JP Morgan they were all more powerful than the US Government a little over a century ago. Rockefeller all by himself was financially more powerful than the US Government; he actually bailed out the government, a concept entirely impossible today. Contrast that with Gates or Bezos, they're not even pikers by comparison to the US Govt and Federal Reserve. Just one month of the recent QE program from the Fed is about equal to the richest person in the US.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are all a joke compared to the power of the Federal Government in all possible regards. Alibaba, Baidu etc are a joke compared to the power of the Communist Party in China; the CCP can destroy or seize those corporations any day of the week.

Even mighty Samsung isn't more powerful than the South Korean Government - as recently demonstrated - and it's a rather extreme example. Turns out the guns give you a very solid upper-hand, even when you're equivalent in size to 13% of your nation's GDP.
Great find, thanks! Has Knuth ever explained why he took such a long break between volumes 3 and 4?
O365 (commonly used at large enterprises) makes this dead simple too. You can even have it be self-service, where individuals can empower themselves to have access to a list-serv (its not just "CEOs").
C# has value types, it takes some careful coding to avoid GC stutters, but imo not nearly as careful as C++
Gene editing, particularly on living people. I'm looking forward to cancer treatments being no more involved than an antibiotics regimen.

I don't know if its around the corner, but considering the human genome was completed circa 2003, I'm pretty enthusiastic that it isn't too far away.
I would recommend CxJS to people looking for advanced data widgets, e.g. data tables, date pickers, charts, ...

Here are a couple of sample pages based on CxJS widgets:

- https://worldoscope.cxjs.io/4v5b3k2

- https://starter.cxjs.io/dashboards/sales

Full disclosure: It's a commercial framework, I'm the author.

https://cxjs.io/

https://github.com/codaxy/cxjs
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Those examples are definitely cringe-worthy. I wouldn't want to be any of those people!
>Our diet is full of fruits and vegetables containing thousands of complex chemicals, indistinguishable from "synthetic" chemicals, that have entered our diet far too short a time ago to have had evolutionary impact.

Our diet of fruits and vegetables has been refined through thousands of years of trial and error, and the result is that we eat a tiny fraction of available plants. It's arrogant to dismiss that history.
Home-assistant also has a great homebridge plugin (https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant) to easily bridge devices to HomeKit. I got home-assistant talking to zwave and zigbee with a Linear HUSBZB-1 stick (new version does both) and finally threw my wink hub in the garbage. Even through Home app -> homebridge -> home-assistant, everything is super fast and 100% local, unlike most of the commercial hubs.
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I've also worked with both Perl and Clojure professionally. I think Clojure code, by nature, has a higher chance at being "beautiful" or elegant, or at the very least as a close proxy, minimal. I feel that doing a lot with a little is easier in Clojure, and it makes these "beautiful" code snippets less likely to be mysterious and more likely to be understood by maintainers down the line, even sans documentation.

The non-author comment is well taken though, as I find Clojure development to have a much higher thinking-to-coding ratio, so when a solution gets translated from the author's head to code, much of the complexity can be hidden due to the conciseness and lack of verbosity. I didn't really find that to be a problem in Perl, however, with the exception of perhaps the (over/ab)use of complicated regular expressions.
If you were to put Dr. King's I Have a Dream speech on your website, the government can force you to take it down under copyright law. Both the US and China censor free speech, they just do it differently.
so....AOL chatrooms?
This great! I'm sad that _none_ of these components were built with accessibility in mind.
by pirate streams, do you mean the torrent downloads too? because those are almost as good as watching it on HBO.
For me it is Raiden, I believe Ethereum should be able to beat Bitcoin in their lightening network implementation, and for the cryptocurrency of future, Raiden is very important for Ethereum.

PS: So you don't support Ethereum Classic anymore?
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What do you recommend from him?
Not really. It's 1 mining pool with maybe 1-2% of the total hash rate of bitcoin. I'm not sure it has significant community following or backing. I suspect the majority of the community would have preferred not to have the confusion in the market and avoided the split entirely
Fundamentals from the perspective of a consumer: if you buy a HomeKit-certified device, you'll be getting something pretty good. There might not be any HomeKit-certified devices because the development process is/was onerous, but that's a separate question from what consumers get in the end from the devices that do make it through that obstacle course.
IMHO the real bottle neck here is NAT, so I'd throw universal static ipv6 consumer adoption in with this.
Why are you being downvoted for expressing an opinion?
Minimum viable US medical school (in theory):

Prerequisites: High school AP bio/Chem/physics/stats. College biochemistry.

Standard interview process.

Preclinical: 1.5 years of online instruction and drilling (UsmleWORLD, firecracker, Pathoma etc) for USMLE 1. Cost ~$500 per year.

1.5-2 years clinical rotations. Cost: at current yearly tuition.

Then graduate, residency.
This almost looks like something able to replace ExtJs…
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How do you define love? Isn't the whole idea that it's beyond reason and moral?
Using blockchains (crypto-currencies) as digital escrows will have wide ranging and high value impact. Modernized escrows for the 3rd millenium.

--

Early merchants used cuneiform impressed tokens (or equiv) to represent some kind of trade, for convenience. You and I agreed to trade 100 bushels of wheat for 10 jugs of wine. I give you 100 bushels. You give me 10 wine tokens. I later redeem tokens for actual wine. Or trade my 10 wine for 2 silk. Or whatever.

Those tokens only became "money" when they became ubiquituous enough to become units of measurement (of value) onto themselves, independent of their original intent.

Meaning the escrow medium became currency. A phase change.

Maybe that happens with bitcoin. I don't see it. For me, bitcoins are akin to collectables, like limited edition baseball cards. Precious bits of data that you might be able to pawn off onto someone else.

Until bitcoin becomes currency (a ubiquituous form of escrow), bitcoin investments is just a form of gambling.

Anyone wanting something like bitcoin to supplant something like US dollars should build towards that future by tackling the escrow use cases.
Typo. "Made"
You'd think they would have bigger fish to fry if they could substantiate any of their claims about him secretly being Vlad's half-brother and the like.

But instead we get this.
Unless, of course, you host an opinion that is so unpopular it has been declared unlawful (say, with regards to child porn or advertising assasination services or something). In that case you would soon discover that any society censors certain opinions. It's just that the Chinese government has a different opinion than most westerners about which opinions are intolerable.
I assumed zipping to be determinative and that a standard gzip would lead to a "known" hash, ergo the idea to create a unknown zip file by adding some bytes.
I was actually referring to Lauri Love, a British hacker currently in a situation very similar to the one McKinnon was in. https://freelauri.com/

These extradition fights are largely played out in the media, it would probably have been unwise for the US to request the extradition of another sympathetic character with lots of community support behind them.