skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need "massive support infra in 100's of languages". Start with English and see if it works. Then expand slowly, making sure the service remains profitable each step.

An add-on of the kind I'm suggesting is exactly the way to serve both a mass market and a niche at the same time. Everyone uses Gmail, but the few who want support for personal use pay. That's much less effort than building another product with paid support.

It's also no different from freemium mobile apps where 2-5% of users pay.

Google decision-makers are smart, but not infallible.
According to whom? Certainly not according to wikipedia.

Given that it's a pretty big distinction I would think it's on the speaker to be un-ambiguous and say "it's not statically type safe" vs. ambiguous "type safe".

I've certainly seen my share of people claiming that "interface{} is just like void * in C" when they speak about Go's (lack of) type safety.

I also don't see how insisting on accurate and un-ambiguous terminology ticks people off so much to downvote. I imagine they think I said something much more incorrect than I did.
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"to instead become a leader for change"

he is leading the change. by exploiting swings in prices driven by emotional (over)reactions, he flattens the price and excludes the emotional component from it. good for investors, good for everyone.
Yeah, a "fun" thing to do was to change the value of built-in constants such as pi.
How are movie options priced? Anything close to a "real options" approach?
> get a mail account at a provider who has a tech office near your home/office.

In other words, a second-tier email service rather than the best in breed.

> In my uni most people do not care if they lose their gmail

No one's forcing them to pay for support.
Comcast consumer lines work great. You get a /60, it works, end of story.
What types of responses do you get?
At first I thought you hated to hire someone who will be a manager.
Thanks for that tip. Very clever, noticed it too, just never capitalized.
This title is a mess. Looking forward to the mission though!
How do you get it working on chromecast?
Here in Brazil, it may be a couple minutes during bank hours (10 AM to 4 PM).
That wouldn't be "direct", it would be through a trusted third party... Who has banking hours, could censor the transaction, etc.
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The number of banks in the U.S. is a legacy of President Jackson, who campaigned (and won) against rechartering the Second Bank of the United States

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

From the founding until President Jackson's administration, debate about the extent of Federal power largely revolved around the legitimacy of a national bank. Long story short, the state sovereignty proponents won. And until very recently that victory stuck, even after the Civil War, the institution of the Federal Reserve, and the expansion of Commerce Clause powers. You didn't see any federally chartered banks until the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934, but there weren't any federally chartered banks which challenged the predominance of state chartered banks until the 1980s.

In general, and until very recently, Congress has abstained from directly regulating the banking industry. AFAIU, banks are subject to Federal law primarily indirectly via regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve. But the Federal Reserve system is opt-in, and many smaller banks contract with larger banks to leverage the Federal Reserve transactional systems, and are therefore for the most part not subject to those rules.

It's all rather ironic because banking was one of the few areas of national commerce that was clearly contemplated to fall under federal regulatory powers, to some extent, during the time of the Constitution. Though opposed by Jefferson and Madison, the First National Bank was chartered in 1791. Yet now that federal powers have expanded to encompass every aspect of commerce, the legacy of the failure of the Second National Bank remains incredibly strong.
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Makes you pine for Bitcoin
This title is rather disingenuous. The author is upset because the SLPC designates her as an "anti-Muslim extremist".

I wasn't familiar with her before, so I went looking at her Wikipedia page. And I immediately found

> In a 2007 article in Reason magazine, Hirsi Ali said that Islam, the religion, must be defeated and that "we are at war with Islam. And there's no middle ground in wars." […] She reiterated her position that the problem isn't just a few "rotten apples" in the Islamic community but "I'm saying it's the entire basket."

I don't know about you, but that sure sounds like anti-Muslim extremism.

Similarly, she brought up Brandeis University withdrawing an offer of an honorary degree. It turns out that it was withdrawn because she was accused of hate speech by multiple people and organizations, as well as Islamophobia. And so far it looks like this wasn't an unfair characterization.

I'm inclined to say that the Southern Poverty Law Center is in the right here.
Just to point out, "equal by comparing addresses" is symmetric and transitive as well. (whether you call it reflexive is an uninteresting question, if you think about it)
First off, can we remove the editorialized title and use the original? Even with the original title, I don’t even know what “liberals” has to do with it. Did we all just assume that the SPLC considers liberals off limits? I’ll betcha that’s not in their charter.

As to the complaint, I suggest one goes to the SPLC link that the author conveniently provides. Read the quotes from this woman. Go cross-reference if you like, and make sure she’s quoted correctly and in context. Now come back here and try to argue that the SPLC doesn’t have a point.
I don't know why everyone thinks they need an API to reimplement (poorly) basic unix functionality that's been around be for years.
If you think Ayaan Hirsi Ali wants conversation rather than extremist actions, I believe you may have missed the bulk of her work. For example, this Reason interview (http://reason.com/archives/2007/10/10/the-trouble-is-the-wes...) with the following exchange:

Reason: [...] Do you think Islam could bring about similar social and political changes?

Hirsi Ali: Only if Islam is defeated. [...]

Reason: Don’t you mean defeating radical Islam?

Hirsi Ali: No. Islam, period. Once it’s defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It’s very difficult to even talk about peace now. They’re not interested in peace.

Reason: We have to crush the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims under our boot? In concrete terms, what does that mean, “defeat Islam”?

Hirsi Ali: I think that we are at war with Islam. And there’s no middle ground in wars. Islam can be defeated in many ways. [...]
Good lord I miss Hy-Vee. I used to live in that area of the midwest and I moved a few years back... I miss nothing more than Hy-Vee. It might sound weird to be so attached to a grocery store, but Meijer is just not the same.
According to the internet (always reliable), the natural pink color of wild salmon comes from their diets. The most natural diet for farmed salmon would make them gray, and that wouldn't have anything to do with their health, just the fact that they'd be eating different things. But people won't buy gray salmon, so farms include a pigmenting agent to give them color.
Last time I checked, the Servo team also had plans to execute JS off the main thread and introduce async versions of DOM APIs to enable better parallelism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011215

Servo is by far the technology I'm most excited about as a frontend developer. It will be a complete game changer for web performance once all the pieces are in place.
tldr; Shannon's 1948 paper
> Why is Apple supporting the SLPC when they attack liberals?

SPLC
"eighth-graders who use social media more than 10 hours a week are 56 percent more likely to say they’re unhappy than peers who use it less"

But is that a causal relationship? Are people unhappy first, so they therefore go on Facebook to seek help? Does taking away that escape route make it worse?

Correlation does not imply causation.
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With a headphone jack?

I know several people who have switched because of that insanity.
That isn't really irony...

Say the MBP cost $2k.

A $1.7k MBP and a $300 watch = $2k revenue.

What's the difference? Are you saying watch margins may be higher?
Duplicate of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087831
The produce is insanely overpriced.
"Department officials blamed the structure failure on high tides caused by the eclipse...."

That's certainly creative.
The submission is specific to the new icons website and icon system we've just released (vs. Clarity Design System itself that was out and open source since November)
1. $200 for the TX1 is a much lower entry point for GPUs than $600 for the TX2
2. According to Nvidia (see comparison here: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/jetson-tx2-delive...), the TX2 is about twice the performance of the TX1, but since the cost of the TX2 is about 3 times the cost of the TX1, I think you get more "bangs for your bucks" with this offer
Wow, I've never lost respect for an institution so fast. The #1 thing I appreciate about the Internet is freedom. You could put "fuck" on an ever-scrolling page and not many would have recourse.

I get there are "vile" things on the Internet, but this is humanity in its purest form: ideas.
I've implanted ACH file format and, worse, FedWire BAI2 file parsing… it's absolutely archaic. The worst part is that various partner banks will have differently erroneous variations of their implementation of the BAI2 spec… so we had to intentionally code buggy version to match the bugs they had on the other side… ridiculous.
Thanks for the link. I am looking for this.
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I think $140k/yr per single male is about the perfect "mix" of "I have money" and "I don't want to push it".

But that isn't San Francisco dollars. I guess it would be closer to $180k/yr there.
fish farming salmon is interesting as it turns a large quantity of less desirable wild fish into a small quantity of more desirable salmon.

i.e. if people just ate the inputs directly then there would be more food for less environmental impact.
I worked on the ACH system at the Federal Reserve Bank. When you're getting multi-gigabyte files from the Social Security Service daily that have many millions of transactions in them, you appreciate the NACHA format's compactness (~100 bytes each tx). We never transmitted files on insecure protocols like FTP, though.
Ask HN: What is the JavaScript ecosystem missing right now?
I'm not even convinced there is going to be a lighting port on all of the iPhones announced.
Different people have different reactions. That line is actually what piqued my interest.

Since AP CompSci in HS it's been hammered into students that any sort based on comparisons has a strict lower bound of O(n*log n).

And sorting is particularly important in search engines, of which I've been working on.

So, an algorithm that drastically improves the speed of sorting would actually open up a few more possibilities to consider.

Thanks for sharing the paper KirinDave, I plan to read it.
In that case you're right. I live in the mountains and my ebike makes it possible for me to bike at all.
You mean you've never heard of the Southern Loverty Paw Center?

(/s)
I will throw out the idea that you haven’t read the other side of the story. The article has a link to the SPLC’s complaint, I suggest reading it. Go read her Wikipedia page. Consider that many of the stories she tells of her upbringing are probably false, according to multiple sources, and as far as I can tell she did, indeed, resign from parliament “in disgrace”. I suggest caution in siding with her.
We don't need to be anecdotal about it, we have data.

2015 sales: $15.389 billion

2016 sales: $15.724 billion

Their business growth has stopped. In fact, it's that negative turn (in regards to the perception of WFM as a growth machine) that halved their stock, which led to Amazon acquiring them.

To make matters worse for the company, their net income had been contracting for years.

2014: $579m net income

2015: $536m net income

2016: $507m net income

Amazon will hack that down further, basically taking WFM where it was already going as their margins were eroding for years.
Here is a link to the actual CSS used on the blog post. https://github.com/ericdouglas/ericdouglas.github.io/blob/ma...

I'm gonna try pointing to the relevant CSS, but be warned, I am not a CSS wizard. I am also probably not a smart man, posting about CSS on HN while not being a wizard.

The relevant classes seem to be .sidebar, .sidebar-toggle, .motion-element, and .posts-expand, the last of which seems to control the transforms and durations. This is where my knowledge breaks down, since I'm not sure how they .sidebar or .motion-element trigger .posts-expand or any of the other animation CSS. Hopefully someone can help fill in the rest!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Will probably elicit some help from friends. I think he was charging $200+ on Kickstarter. The laser cutting and CNC is probably free from his school. The PCB and LEDs are fairly cheap as are the rest of the materials. Probably quite a bit of profit built into each. Also a great learning experience.
There was also a moral panic about "penny dreadfuls" and pornographic literature and similar.
I technically can't say. But, my twitter handle is in my profile if you want to reach out privately.
Books and papers don't have an agenda?
Isn't that true though? The sun-moon-earth in a straight line when the moon is near perigee _would_ cause unusually high tides.
You can't spell Atlach-Nacha without ACH.
Lots of reasons. Just beware on marketplaces (Flippa, EmpireFlippers) etc. which have varying levels of vetting (from none to basic verification) as sellers often make up reasons or are lying about hours worked.

Some legitimate reasons to sell something "passive"

- Have another business growing that needs cash
- Need a lump sum of cash for X
- Lower tax rate (generally) paying capital gains vs. income tax
- Cash in the bank often beats future uncertainty
- Being passive doesn't mean it's low risk or doesn't keep you up at night
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Here's another story about SPLC from last year, about Maajid Nawaz who you might find more sympathetic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/ma...
I subscribe to a lot of sites and newspapers and they still show me their ads.
The space elevator even on Earth in GEO is a hopeless, fool's dream.
It is good to mention that it also a very similar system in Canada for EFT. I did implementation of that.
I was responding to the parent's claim that you can't respond to Facebook suing you by counterclaims or you'd lose the grant
Yep. My next phone will be an Android device because I require the headphone jack and I do not want to deal with stupid dongles.
The UK's Faster Payments system does same day (often less than an hour) inter-bank transfers for up to £250,000.

http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/about-us/how-faster-payment...
Yes, seriously. You're playing looser with definitions, but in the sense they used conservative, yes.
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It would, but the tidal effect of a perfectly aligned sun/moon would not be much different from the tidal effect of a mostly-aligned sun/moon. It's really just another spring tide, which happens about twice a month.

Plus, the failure didn't even happen during the eclipse. It happened two days earlier, when the moon would have been 20-30 degrees away from the sun's position. That combination happens quite frequently.

The article notes that tides weren't abnormally high, and had reached greater heights at some point in every month of 2017 so far.
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They said it plays on three of those devices which probably means the laptop, fire TV and Roku
Um, the "for evil to triumph" quote was Burke, not MLK.
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> On its maiden voyage, the innovative tanker used its integral icebreaker to cross ice fields 1.2m thick, passing along the northern sea section of the route in the Russian Arctic in a record six-and-a-half days.

I wonder if this has an appreciable effect on further ice melt. The tanker cuts a huge swath through the ice, increasing it's surface area and allowing it to drift off and melt faster. It's like an anthropic feedback effect.
I'm not sure why you think they're dead ends. Religion is often a lifelong thing and can be very beneficial for you and your community. Politics and history are important throughout your life. I hope I don't have to explain that one.

Revolving a good amount of your life around popular culture absolutely does not mean you don't have your own opinions. If everyone had the same opinion about characters on a show, then there wouldn't be much to talk about. Sure, not everyone is going to have their own opinion on if the latest P=NP paper has any legs to stand on, but who cares?

In addition, what's the difference between watching a high quality TV show or movie and reading a fiction book? Sure, the book may be longer and more detailed, but there are plenty of extremely high quality TV shows being produced now.
Every bank I've worked with uses SFTP rather than FTP.
Consider the environment & culture for the company
I presume, by using screen mirroring: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6059461
There is ssh.

Actually sftp (ssh) tends to be a lot more popular than FTPS (TLS) because of the whole FTPS NAT catastrophe that sftp doesn't have.
Totally makes sense. Where can I learn more about things like that?
Yes, it's from the crustaceans in the natural diet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaxanthin for background on natural and synthetic forms of the pigmentation.

I don't eat meat, but watching a documentary on sea lice in farmed salmon made me lose my appetite for everything. Getting a little queasy just thinking about it.
On Earth, it's hard to build due to much higher gravity, higher required orbit, and the atmosphere. Getting much shorter lengths of much less strong fiber to Moon may be more realistic than 20.000 km of super strong carbon fiber to GEO.
I noticed a few comments specifically referencing FTP (and who can blame them since the HN title as of this moment specifically references it). In the first post of the series, the author refers to the server as a "Secure FTP" server, which can be confusing to read[0]. In later parts (and a little googling of my own), it's clear that the server is actually an SFTP server, not a plain-old FTP server.

It's still plenty archaic, but takes the headline's shock value down a small peg[1].

[0] It adds a mental pause -- a Secure ... FTP server. It hints that, possibly, it's a reference to a different aspect of the server's security (a non-technical person might refer to a server as being a "secure" server simply because it's protected by an ID and password, for instance).

[1] Based on my personal interaction with banks and software, as well as several friends who had previously been members of a few banks' IT departments, my first -- very sarcastic thought -- was "of course it works that way!"
It's probably climate change. The increased energy in the atmosphere is driving water molecules into space, which are captured by the moon?
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https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-wi...
If not evident already, time will tell that this paper brought us to a new era.
I think they don't do it (or don't do it as much) for paying customers (G Suite) and the recent thing was including G Suite for Nonprofits/Education in that group.
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Regardless of Uber's drama, I was really looking forward to having more major tech companies spread out throughout the Bay Area. There's no reason they should all be concentrated on the peninsula and South Bay.

I understand the concerns regarding gentrification, but all this concentration is just stratifying the haves from the have-nots.
Is your company better than Facebook at retaining its employees?
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I don't think that's the exact argument the parent was making. We've lost just as much from the car, suburbs, and plane travel but you can't do much about them - they're there so we have to adjust.
Most i've seen use Connect:Direct Secure Plus
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Agreed - discomfort and fear have value. If you can't stomach the low-stakes game of using public transport without a lifeline how will you handle anything more serious?
A $50 roku plays Amazon prime video just fine.
The marketcap for CryptoCurrency was $11b at this time last year. It's currently $153b as of today and growing fast. If you put $1000 into Ethereum in January you'd have over $30k today for example.

Making $150k/200k a few $1k investments shouldn't break the bank too much. If you are good at Internet research, finding new crypto's with groundbreaking tech before the masses can get you some good return. It may not last forever, but I think it's here to stay and the best ones will remain just like the dot-com bubble era.
I am reading Haskell Programming from First Principles right now. If I did not know how the language works from doing this reading, then I do not see how I could make anything useful without quickly getting annoyed by the compiler
Three quarters OT, but I really don't.
Yet another ill-informed, misguided piece of flashy form before content. I have given the text a miss. I generally do if it can't be arsed to show itself without a load of js trickery.
Most programmers I know are like yourself. I'm the opposite, I'm the person you say you can't be, I will study and read until I feel I have a good handle on some nitty gritty before I ever put hands to keyboard

At some point in my career i became a team lead and that's where this difference became obvious. It took me a long time to adapt to the fact that everyone but me on the team learned by doing
You are right: a text is not a string - because it is subject to completely different axioms (the "grammar"). I guess, this is similar to, say, groups, in mathematics, and sets being different categories, and even though the usual naive definition of groups is based on sets, this is only possible because of the existence of the "forgetful functor"... In fact, in computing, a string is not considered a (valid representation of a) text until it has been successfully parsed and, often, translated into its "true" representation which is not a string at all!
As opposed to the internet in 1990, which was not designed to be but emerged as extremely addictive to me at least
You're seriously saying you really can't find any companies that need lead devs or managers?
Wut? Pretty sure phosphorus never goes atmospheric
On iOS, by contrast, TTS quality depends on available disk space. If there's too little of it, iOS removes Siri's higher-quality voice files.
Wouldn't FileZilla have been happy with a fake blank directory response?
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That's not actually an answer, but OK.
In fairness, the phrase he used was "looks like". I don't think his comment was intended to suggest that he'd done rigorous and exhaustive wide-spectrum analysis of compile times and executable size, just that expectations matched the result for his project.
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The tenure system allows strange, awkward, and awful people to hold lifetime jobs. This is one of the most stupid concepts ever devised by "smart people." Further, get rid of "easy money" visa vie the U.S. Federal Student Loan program. If you're stupid, you don't belong in a higher education setting. Boom. Problem solved.

And yes, you PhD morons, I'm talking about you.
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Yes, it's a shame they didn't hire her to do the iOS 11 voice.