skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this! I use an ipinfo bash function on my Mac probably every day.

ipinfo() {
curl ipinfo.io/$1
echo
}
Huge increases in student loans will certainly have effects on future borrowing - mortgages, car loans, business loans. What happens when fewer people are buying houses? Cars? Starting businesses?
I fly probably a 15-20 times a year and I've never been on a flight with wifi. I'm super curious what it's like though.
It was already dependent on print edition, which varies over time and territory. E-books just emphasize the meaninglessness of page numbers.
Sorry to be blunt, but they don't really care that much about you. Sure, they want to take your money, they don't want to leave it on the table.

But most of their money comes from the Netflixes and the Adobes of the world, not from mom-and-pop stores :p
It's an educational problem, Chandler Caruth of LLVM gave a really good talk on POD type slicing and how useful it can be. More to the point that for PODs it's supported in the standard. I do agree on the abuse of pair... pair is there for implementers primarily and shouldn't be used outside of deliberately templated code. Ditto tuple.

That said... with C++17 destructuring... it's a lot less painful since you can do the equivalent to a std::tie in a single line.
I'll take a guess:

300 feet is awfully deep. If you believe that 300 feet of draft is needed to get the stability they need, then this seems like the only way to get it. There are no ports, or even semi-protected waters, where you could build, launch, or dock something like that without it running aground.

Some quick research shows that the deepest draft on oil platforms is in the range of 25m (1/4 of the FLIP ship), and further that this ship was built a decade before the development of floating oil platforms.
For me, there's about 4 months between idea and first public launch. But another 4 years between that first launch to deciding to build a company around it. The time between 4 months and 4 years involves building a community, helping users, and improving the core product...

My personal examples:

Launched Selenium as an open source project in 2004.
Founded Sauce Labs Inc ("Selenium in the cloud") in 2008. (Sauce makes roughly ~$25MM a year now. https://www.inc.com/profile/sauce-labs)

Launched Tapster (then called "Bitbeambot") as an open source project in 2011.
Founded Tapster Robotics, Inc. in 2015. (Not disclosing revenue at the moment, but still going strong!)

To echo some other comments, I also have many other side-projects (some posted to GitHub, but even more unpublished) that never went anywhere. Success is a combination of luck, timing, ABC (Always Be Creating), stubbornness/persistence, and getting feedback from as many people as possible.
"When he is not writing sick c++ programs he is most likely writing sick music."

This kid is pretty cool.
You know why this is fake news, because:

> I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/fake-news-...

> Fields has already been charged with second-degree murder, ...

http://wtvr.com/2017/08/18/james-fields-jr-charged-with-5-ad...

> Murder ... by any willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing ... is murder of the first degree... . All [other murder] is murder of the second degree... .

https://vacode.org/2016/18.2/4/1/18.2-32/

The 2nd degree murder charge means that the killing was NOT "willful, deliberate, and premeditated."

Of course, the author is not actually saying that Fields is an accidental terrorist. The author isn't saying Fields used violence to pursue a political aim without any willful, deliberate, and premeditated intent to do so. The author is lying. The author is trying to trick readers into assuming facts which are not. That's why it's fake news.
Yep. Imagine a spectral histogram. Pure white light looks like this:

R G B
_=============_

A surface that reflects the wavelength at “x” will look fully saturated and bright:

R G B
_=============_
x

But now imagine a “peaky” white. The histogram has peaks at pure R, G, and B, but the other wavelengths are underrepresented or absent.

R G B
_=_ _=_ _=_

The light will look white to the eye, and surfaces that reflect a wide spectrum will look relatively normal. But look at our hypothetical narrowly-reflective surface from before: It falls in between the peaks, and thus will have a washed-out appearance.

R G B
_=_ _=_ _=_
x
Common Lisp has some very fast implementations (I think SBCL is the fastest) and it was designed to be a systems language. It can be optimized to be as fast as C.
Really cool design.

There are a few of these services, but I always wonder how engaged are the testers.

I would assume most of them don't really care about trying your app. I'd then much rather post it on https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaandbetausers/, although it's not amazingly active.
Real authors use WordStar 4.0
I feel similarly with Ulysses. In my case, I organize my thoughts in sheets from a legal pad. This maps nicely with sheets in Ulysses.

I want to like Scrivener but it's not quite the right fit. I'm glad it exists though - this is a space ripe for exploration.

Pen and paper still are best for my initial creative stage.
I've been watching Isaac Arthur's interesting youtube channel recently. He points out that fusion is really nice, but is not actually necessary since we have the sun. If you think "dyson swarm" big, you can capture all of the energy you could ever need from the sun, and without the need for any particularly advanced technology.

https://futurism.com/could-humanity-ever-really-build-a-dyso...

So what can you do with abundant energy? One thing is to make "active" structures like launch loops. This would allow you to make buildings larger than would be possible with normal materials (but your building collapses if there is a power failure).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_structure
Because as the other answers to the question show, sometimes there's more to be gleaned from a human interaction than a straight fact-finding trip to the Internet.

Or, sometimes, people just want to interact with a human. You know, converse. We're a peer group, right? We're here to discuss things. Op is discussing. If the entire group deemed it too obvious a question to merit replying, no-one would have replied.

Further, this question and answer is now available to Google to crawl, store, and return for future searchers. How did Google get all the answers that are available in the first place? Someone typed a question, and someone else answered it.

Finally, I Googled _your_ question and came up with this answer:

"Because receiving a personalized response is far more gratifying than reading a Wikipedia page. It makes you feel at the very least a connection to another human being which other than " leaving a footprint " is mans greatest desire in life."
That's true, even the cheapest carriers (cogent/he) charge around $0,15 per mbps and only if you commit to over 10 gbps or more.
If you're going to be snarky, fix the useless use of cat.
I love to see someone prove D as a Better C by porting the "small" sqlite 124K line of C code to D and run some benchmark/test code against it.

I used to work on OO database engine that handles billions of records.

I end up rewriting/overloading my own new/delete and redesign everything how data is load/store around it. Shorten the open/close document time from hours to seconds for large documents.

Basically, one can easily mmap billions of records directly into data structures accessible by C API easily in a few ms. One can dispose billions of records also in a few ms. I saw similar design patterns from the sqlite code base.

Language with memory safety (GC) design in mind won't allow anything like that as far as I know.

I love to see some D experts prove me wrong.
I'd say there is a certain amount of both kinds of flags. I don't tend to flag submissions that aren't obviously spam, but for political topics the quality of the article does need to pretty high to prevent sane discussion being drowned out by the flamewar, so I can understand when others are flagging more aggressively.
It takes less than a second to Ctrl-+ a few times until the site becomes extremely readable.
What makes me angry about this is that politicians in industrialised nations have no qualms with bailing out current retirees (because those will save them their next few re-elections) and shoring up mindless consumption at the expense of those who try to live more frugally.

Yet at the same time the very same politicians claim there's not enough money for implementing a universal basic income right here, right now.
Have you also read the "and choosing opt-out" before that?

The topic is a choice that Mozilla plans to make, and is questioning users, and more about.

The decision has not been made.

My argument is that, if Mozilla (and whatever users Mozilla asks to give an opinion), choose to override the current decisions of users who do not want telemetry, and require a new hidden opt-out, then that would be proof that they (as group) don’t really care about the users choices.

The user I was talking to has no power in making that choice, nor do I. Nor is all of Mozilla making that choice.

I was using "you" with the meaning of the German word "man", (I’m natively German): one; you; they; people (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular).
Unfortunately. It's a very important news. I don't understand what's going on here.
Howard specifically tries to brand itself as a school that has a large amount of economic diversity, and a high percentage of students who are first generation college grads (around 38% for the class of 2014 [1]). Its a pretty well-known/prestigious HBCU, and doesn't have a problem attracting applicants.

But, unlike a lot of other schools in its position, its alumni network generally doesn't give back all that often (probably in part because first-gen college students are more-likely to have financial responsibilities to their families, and less-likely to be able to afford to give/prioritize giving back to their universities).

But I do specifically remember having to move off campus because my dorm had a mouse/mold problem (woke up multiple nights in a row to mice in my bed, and started having breathing problems because of the mold. Some students even had mushrooms growing out of their carpet). And when I brought it up to the director of residence life, he responded by saying that it wasn't a big enough deal to address, and that students always complain about these things and eventually stop pushing....So....

[1] https://www.howard.edu/assessment/documents/reports/Graduati...
Which is why for me the best way is to be able to choose between JIT/AOT deployments, instead of a plain interpreter.

Maybe one day PyPy will finally become the default option.
> If savings are put into banks or investments, is there even a significant difference between saving and spending (for the whole economy)?

There's a difference in the velocity of money in the domestic economy; it’s not fundamentally tied to savings vs. spending, but is correlated to it.
We have ways to synthesize hydrocarbons - it's just that they require very cheap energy to be practical.

Also some things (like asphalt) are only cheap because we're already refining oil to make fuels. It's essentially a byproduct. It may be that other road surfaces become more economic if the alternative is to refine oil just to get the asphalt.
There seems to be a prevailing idea among startup people that if you can't get an MVP up and running in ~3 months or less, it isn't worth doing. I have heard this exact statement made on a few of the well known podcasts.

The reality is that not every concept is going to get the low hanging fruit, and for many people real life gets in the way. Plus, for some people the journey of learning is just as important as launching the product.

It might be worth considering that you shouldn't stress out if it takes longer than the conventional advice might dictate.
Very true, though fuels that start as water-soluble halide salts should theoretically produce somewhat less complicated flowsheets. You have elegantly summarized why adding a fuel reprocessing step to commercial BWR/PWR fleets makes the systemic costs of nuclear power higher and the waste problems worse.

EDIT: oh, uranium and thorium halides hydrolyze except at very low pH. And so will a number of fission-product-halides. So maybe not simpler to start with halide salts instead of oxide fuels.
For clarification, she uses the smart phone, not I. I might touch her phone to solve some technical issue, but that is about it.

And it's not like I'm a Luddite. I still consume my news and watch some HBO Now on my laptop, but I set boundaries. Relationships, life-long learning, and hobbies are all very important to me, and I see technology as something that has the strong potential to compete with these things.
It's not so much people overreacting as banks. Banks call in loans which forces the borrower to stop whatever economic activity they were engaging in.
If I'm not mistaken, the image comes from the author's own video of the murderous assault.

The post is about the author being demonized for having published it and the contrivance of conspiracy theories and threats against him and his family.

It connects these events to "fake news" by first hand experience dangers of muddying the informational waters around controversial and important issues.
The photo is of the event that the author witnessed. I don't really see what the problem is?
Clever -- bummer if you are hosting in India and have Customers in the Arab world or vis-versa i guess.
It goes both ways. For example, submissions that were critical of Google's handling or the media's reporting of the "Google memo" were flagged as well.
Love me some fusion. Was really excited that Bussard's project was given a breath of life. Wish someone would fund the build of the full-scale wiffleball... maybe some day :-)

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

http://www.emc2fusion.org/
Most Algol derived languages have it, it became a lost art as C and C++ pushed them aside.
I like your thinking, but one minor clarification. BigQuery's actually introduced Flat Rate [0] ( a year ago) and Committed Use Discounts [1] (Amazon RIs are similar) since that's kind of what some Enterprises want. These are optional and flexible.

I personally still hold that pay-per-use pricing is the cloud native approach [2], the most cost-efficient, and the most customer-friendly. However, it's unfamiliar and hard to predict, so starting out on Flat Rate pricing as a first step makes sense.

( work at Google and was a part of the team that introduced BQ Flat Rate)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing#flat_rate_pricing

[1] https://hackernoon.com/why-googles-answer-to-aws-reseved-ins...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/visualizing-t...
Good god, please no! The most harrowing pedestrian segment of my commute isn't crossing the 8-lane highway with poorly timed lights (though that's a close second). It's the one block where the bike lane is officially marked as being on the sidewalk.
Reactors similar to MIT's ARC proposal have been built in about four years. You can do more experiments, do them faster, and since it's so much cheaper you can do more of them and take more risks. Speeding up progress is one of MIT's main objectives.
I agree that the image is jarring.

I think that graphic images like this, or of terrorism, or of warfare are a necessary check for those of us who are so disconnected from these events. It does not strike me as exploitative.

Previously, I had seen video of the car driving away, reversing, and video of the aftermath. I had not yet seen this still image, it's very striking. It is clear to me that it is sheer luck that the devastation and loss of life wasn't worse than it was.

> I closed the page after only a few seconds.

If you're disturbed by the image I really recommend that you consider reading the article with your browser's auto-image-load feature disabled. I don't think there's any downside to reading the article. After you've read it, decide on the merits of what the author's written and any credentials they have whether it should be credible.
I wondered if I was the only one to feel dizzy. Maybe it was the colors.
I just realized even Eclipse uses less memory than Atom.
Fantasy Bachelor season? That actually sounds hilariously awesome!
So, say I had $1 million in my retirement account at age 67 (I have maybe 1/2 that today). I could use $30k of that each year on top of my social security benefits, correct?

Seems like I will want about twice that. Maybe $2 million saved so I can have $60k / year and I don't think that's going to happen. Shit.
"ideation" is a real word?
A "cable" is actually comprised of many dedicated fibers, that could each one transfer some Tb/s and be leased for millions.

I doubt that anyone would keep ALL of them for themselves.
How Germany Deals with Neo-Nazis
At least back in the early 2000s when I worked there, the expectation set by Roy was that once the legal issues versus Schroder, et al [1] were settled, that Thoughtworks would someday become a public trust. It would be very surprising to learn that the company was now being sold for the profit of an individual.

[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/de-court-of-chancery/1138774.html
Thank you :)

Illustrator is an amazing tool, I have seen a few use cases of that feature in logo drawing tutorials. My main differentiation points with Illustrator (and sketch) are:

* Web based

* Grid based (there is always a grid bellow that you can use to create patterns)

* Free (right now the export to svg is the only planned payed feature, I hope to make it enough to cover my cost of living, maybe I will add pro accounts to those that need to produce non CC0 stuff if there is audience for it, but I will need to pay a lawyer to help me with that feature if it comes to it)
A number of years ago I did a year without the Internet (except at work, but only for work purposes). You would be amazed how much I got done without the distraction. To be more specific, I designed over 12 table top games, wrote numerous stories, and learned a ton by reading good old fashioned books.
The concern about fast lanes was mostly about unfair prioritization of traffic over a single link. In this case, Google is offering different links that you can choose to send your traffic over, and they're letting you choose rather than choosing for you. Probably both the standard and premium networks are uncongested on Google's side, although there may be congestion elsewhere in the Internet (that Google can't be blamed for) that slows down standard traffic. The standard path also probably has a higher RTT which may lower TCP throughput.

IMO net neutrality was never about equality of outcomes (there's probably not really any way to equalize performance short of socializing the Internet), but that seems to be a common misconception.
> users hell-bent on hn being only about tech

I think communities, like ours, having this attitude is very self-destructive. We can't keep trying to operate in a silo and exclude politics from our discussions. Especially when a lot of us work on tools that exasperate these political problems.
i assume it's because of UWP and the monetization and visibility opportunities offered by the microsoft app store.
Asking a question in a social setting is about getting credit for the question as well as getting the answer.

In case you haven't seen LMGTFY before: http://bfy.tw/DXEk
Well I wonder who the PE team is because perhaps they see value that exists intrinsically in quality programmers that know how to design software both quickly and at a high quality level and engineer it in a way that it can be built-in iterations and refined into a maintainable system.

For example someone like Joel Spolsky could probably find a way to drive profits from the TW team and so maybe its a programmer that knows business behind the PE money.
Around here the most lucky ones have 8 GB, while some still have machines with 4GB.
What is the alt right? A linguistic data analysis of 3B Reddit comments
Hooray, now I only have 44 more failures to go!
I worked as a Rails developer at ThoughtWorks for three years, from 2008 to 2011, on three different projects, including the one they called "the largest Rails project in the world" at the time. [1] I didn't see any of the toxic behavior Zed recounts. Rather, I got to work with some of the best developers -- and smartest people -- I've ever met, and had a lot of fun while leveling up my career.

[1] https://conferences.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/de...
Photoshop CC Tutorial: Huge Fantasy Snow Leopard Manipulation
Don't allocate these items individually; don't store pointers to such items. They're tiny, and the pointer chasing + allocator bookkeeping overhead + potential randomisation make it inefficient for no gain. Just allocate an array of items. This way you'll also deal with fewer potential errors. Speaking of errors, please handle them and fix the API so that the caller can know if there's a problem.
It is lazy, but only if the summaries are replacing actually reading the content.

Also a summary is only as good as it is accurate. If the piece being summarized has sufficient nuance it can't be summarized well, or is at a higher risk of being summarized incorrectly.

There's a joke here somewhere about judging a book by its cover.
I've just launched latency.at and I've started working on it about a year ago but in the beginning worked only a few hours per week in my spare time on it. In the past months I put more time in it while freelancing the other days.
And yes, I felt exactly the same. The core piece was literally done in a day, but everything around it took forever. Happy it's "done enough" to finally launch it. But now the next hard part: Find (paying) users.
Since QNX is proprietary, QNX messaging is likely patent encumbered.

What's a good open alternative, or starting point for new innovation, given current investments in microservice architecture?

- ZeroMQ (and nanomsg)
- gRPC (Google)
- Apache Thrift (Facebook)
- Finagle (Twitter)
- L4/seL4 IPC
How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction
There are many tests to tell you the risk of developing dementia, which is only a "probability" number. Darmiyan's brain maps show (and measure) the actual pathology (neurodegeneration) in the brain, at microscopic resolution.

There is currently no other method to detect and quantify micro-structural abnormality in the brain at presymptomatic stages of dementia, which is one of the main reasons why all clinical trials of Alzheimer's test drugs keep failing, one after another.
I've just imported a story I'm editing into Quoll. It seems quite nice. Little visual clutter, a decent feature set that helps with keeping track of characters, scenes etc, organize ideas, keep track of word count targets, keep you motivated etc. The achievements are a nice touch, and the ability to invite editors looks helpful (though I haven't tried that)

There are a few bugs (it reordered my chapters when I marked a chapter as edit-complete the first time. That obviously shouldn't happen).

Overall it seems like a big step up compared to Word. It can't quite keep up with the feature set of scrivener, but in exchange it has a much more approachable and clutter-free interface, much closer to the idea of distraction-free writing.