skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your experience contradicts my comment. At the time, they thought that was something worthwhile for them to do. They definitely did a lot of things that helped their reputation in the past. Google could do no wrong. Then their priorities changed and they did different things.

I'd be wrong if Google actually went out of their way and did things that were contrary to their business interests.
And, it would be very difficult to accept payments from EU citizens for their sold products and services.
[GSoC 2017] Porting Swift to Haiku – Final Report
Timely. I launched a SaaS a few months ago and have found early customers have expected custom domain names with SSL. It seems that not offering this is a deal breaker these days.

I didn't even consider that third parties such as yourself might offer a solution.

Edit: I tried to sign up. I have to already choose lots of detailed config options? No option for AWS elastic beanstalk or EC? Asking for my AWS secret key without explaining why?
Alexa is never going to reach the market penetration necessary for that to be plausible.
Nice. Examples with comments are always appreciated.
pfg is correct, the rate limits don't really come into play when you're issuing certificates with a lot of different root domains. We'll get the rate limits raised if we end up issuing a lot of subdomains, but for now we recommend people bring their own wildcard certs, and as soon as LE starts issuing wildcards we'll just use those.
That's the nice part of virtual particles. If they are short lived enough they can be so many or so massive as you wish. Well, not as you wish because there are a lot of rules that relate the amount of particles, the mas and momentum of each one and the available energy.

At low energy the effect of the virtual particles is negligible (except in a very few weird cases like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift ). At high energy the probability of the virtual particles is bigger, so their effect is easier to measure.

I like this drawing of that shows the firs three steps of diagrams with virtual particles that are necessary to calculate the magnetic moment of the electron: http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~bigdraw/feynman/slide3.htm...
The Smart Contract Network Fallacy
People have been doing this for a while[1], so it's not required. It will just give you more flexibility in the other specs for your box.

[1]: https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
Er, I supported Bernie Sanders... Don't know why you would think I was an opponent
I was surprised to read that in the article.

New android phones from top vendors (not the $50 junk devices) ship with 3.x kernels?

Wow.
Messaging-App Kik Plans to Raise $125M Through an Initial Coin Offering
self-proclaimed software engineer
Facebook is doing a ton of business in Europe and has for many reasons established local entities. They are absolutely bound by this law.

A lot of facebook's money comes from selling ads to European companies.
If I'm reading this correctly, the plan is essentially to add one bit of address space? (11 or 00 after the first three digits.) How much time will this buy? Is there a longer-term plan to use these two digits for more possibilities after the transition period?
Agree with you completely. Yes, maybe if you are doing a small app for use for a really small group of people, the user experience isn't as much important to you as the money. But with that kind of thinking you will never be able to conquer the mobile app market... Native is always better, period.
Just a note that Think Stats/Think Bayes are available for free on the authors website: http://greenteapress.com/wp/
I'm guessing based on the price point that I helped build the SDK for the headband you bought. :)
Great to see Google linking to the LWN articles on these features. I always like to see LWN get noticed for their fantastic kernel work.

It's the primary reason I've been a subscriber since they introduced subscriptions all those years ago.
1) Not nearly to the extent it would be. Unless you'd like to take the viewpoint that the upper class don't buy better educations than the rest of the country.

2) You still have a maximum 4 year experience level. As someone who grew up in a college town, I'd estimate having to explain the basics to 1/4 of the elected body every year would require significant resources.

Additionally, handled incorrectly, you imperil the stability of the legislature. Imagine if every year were Trump election year: Mr. John and Ms. Jane Doe go to Washington intent on toppling the system as it stands because they're unhappy with the way things are.

3) Fair, but the social censure of being judged is a few orders of magnitude smaller than the power these people would wield while in office. If you think politicians are corrupt now, imagine if Exxon offered $x million in bribes to an average person off the street to approve oil drilling in wilderness refuges.

There is a lot wrong with the wealthy monopolizing political power, but at least it semi-insulates them against outright financial persuasion.
>We as European businessmen were and still are unable to generate the same kind of innovation as the US

I don't want US innovation. Thanks for the offer.
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Probably not. Intra-AZ traffic in AWS has always been free and intra-region has always been pretty cheap.
That's not what this top comment says https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066729 at least that's how I interpreted it.
Berlin was a sump before becoming a city, it still has ground water almost up to ground level in some areas. Has a bunch of pumping stations to lower ground water, too.
I'm not saying we should refuse to debate in all cases. There are not always exactly two sides and just because someone comes up with a crazy idea does not mean we should spend energy arguing with them.

Yes, talking and educating people is an important endeavor and one that Bill Nye has proven to be well suited. However, education and debate are not the same thing and it is easy to legitimize dangerous ideas by putting them on an equal footing with proven concepts in the context of a debate.

I have all kinda of crazy beliefs, many that I probably can't even identify myself. That doesn't mean I should waste an expert's time with debate.
How we encouraged people to freely license their solar eclipse photos
Shervin Pishevar's letter to Uber's board stylized as poetry
The comparison is somewhat weird and the space is a bit weird:

- Xeon-w cpus seem to be i9 HEDT just without disabled ECC - everything else (beside a price premium) is the same

- Epyc CPUs are server CPUs and I'm not aware of any desktop motherboards for them, but considering 32 core Epyc has the same TDP as Threadripper they could release a desktop variant (different socket)

- Xeon-W and i9s with more than 10 cores have only been announced, you can't buy them yet

so it's a comparison of parts you can't get your hands on with either parts in a different space or ones that were not announced yet
Maybe we should distinguish these two meanings (1980's image file format and any short looping video) by pronouncing them differently. I suggest we use the correct pronunciation for the former, and the infamous wrong pronunciation for the latter.
Valve should probably just farm out HL3 to Obsidian, and continue printing money with Steam.
"Kik is creating 10 trillion tokens, called “kin,” and plans to sell 1 trillion in a Sept. 12 offering. Its goal is to raise $125 million."

Is this company really just making up $1,250,000,000 out of thin air?
I am trying to understand what you offer, compared to AWS. Does it kind of substitute the combination of API Gateway + CloudFront + Certificate Manager ?

I have some Lambda funcs running and just today starting looking into this AWS combination to access Lambda from the outside world. So I wonder if Fly would do the same.

If its the same then it certainly is simpler to set up. And might be cheaper as well, but the pricing of AWS is unclear as always (meaning always having some unexpected aspects).
The alt-right wants to build its own internet
Gray whales and sperm whales are carnivores.

So are Humpback whales, which switch off between krill and small fish (like sardines), depending on what's available.

Also, hippos have been observed killing and eating other animals, so they've been moved into the "mostly herbivorous but enjoy a meaty snack on occasion" category.
In The Netherlands this would be quite expensive, though it depends a bit on what your insurance would cover. For example, my health insurance plan (covering just me, not a family of 3) costs around €110 / month ($130) but is a fairly basic plan and requires that I pay the first €300 myself (which is stupid if you ask me) per year, anything after that is covered.

You can get cheaper or more expensive plans depending on the amount of value you pay yourself (known as the "eigen risico" or "own risk"), but the cheapest I could find was around €80 / month.
Oh sweet summer child, even the act of making deep learning models has been automated...
For sure. 1200 per month to cover my family at the same level I had when I was a W2 employee.
Is any criticism of Islam or the prophet a fair game as per your interpretation of those positions?
> Strike 3 - 4% of your TOTAL GLOBAL REVENUE (or 20mil EUR, whichever is higher)

20mil EUR even for zero revenue?!
May I ask why specifically mindfulness? I find that concentration practice is far more beneficial to hacking, and it also leads to mindfulness. Example: with sufficient concentration power, one can easily code on a noisy open space without being distracted.

Anyway, if you don't want to waste your time, find a real teacher, ideally a monk/nun who's been trained, and study under him/her. Thai Buddhist monks are renowed for their mindfulness practice. Meditation practice is a risky thing, meaning you can practice 10 years without going very far, and you will never know you wasted your time.
You're spot on. Autonomous driving (level 4/5) has been demo'ed by a few players at low speeds, but no-one has a product to market yet. While Google/Waymo currently seems to be farthest, it will take 10 years for clear winners to emerge.

One of Zoox advantages (compared to Apple) is that as a pure play autonomous driving company they can retain focus over long time scales. The Apple project seems to have changed focus multiple times.
Also from the article: "Adjusted net loss fell almost 9% quarter-over-quarter to $645 million"

So they probably mean gross margin. They did reduce the losses as a qoq comparison. But, it's still $645M lost in a quarter.
True, it's definitely one of the most annoying things that bad designers do...
Exactly. Relevant passage from ^

An object is considered to be completely initialized when its constructor finishes.
A thread that can only see a reference to an object after that object has been completely
initialized is guaranteed to see the correctly initialized values for that object's final fields.
How might one make sure their accounts get classified those that fall under the scope of the GDPR regulation? Would it be sufficient to set your location to an EU country?
Replace that cigarette box by a smartphone, and the implementation would already be simpler AND slimmer. Possibly also cheaper.
I really hesitate to say I'm in favor of agile. It's just a flexible tool for getting things done which prioritizes team empowerment and short feedback loops over top-down command-and-control project management.

Some good adaptations I've seen are largely around handling distributed collaboration, and favoring out-of-band communication practices over regular interruptions. For many teams benefit from replacing a daily standup with a status email. A good compromise is also a daily status email with standups every other day. Having a mid-sprint status meeting and a regular standup time in slack is also a good compromise.

I think engineers in particular get caught up on the rituals they're asked to attend because they view it as invasive. The rituals are just part of it, but in my opinion, the end goal is to provide regular feedback loops for measuring progress and actively communicating. This way, teams can react to changes and blockers before they prevent a group from delivering on its commitments.

Agile is good for teams that are matrixed and highly empowered. If there are strong dependencies on external teams, then it's hard to get out of the proverbial waterfall.

I don't think agile is appropriate for handling questions around product-market fit, but it does help a team to iterate on a product in measured paces in response to the product / sales cycle.

In terms of an alternative project management approach, I think maybe the question needs to be framed differently. Other approaches don't need to fail; agile just needs to be different in a useful way. Agile has a focus on self-organization and measuring progress in short intervals. It suits the increasingly distributed and technological ways in which groups perform work, specifically because it's up to the team to implement the process in a way that works for them.
Lisk: Blockchain development in JavaScript
uBlock doesn't work with Nightly yet :(
De-Mystifying Serverless Terms
Airports normally aren't the most valuable nodes to connect in a mass transit system, compared to other projects that could be accomplished with a similar amount of space and money. Alon Levy wrote a fairly detailed argument to that effect here: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2014/05/28/airport-connec...
That's a great idea. I can imagine a simple hack that modifies a Polaroid Snap [1] or similar so that it prints a lenticular-compatible image, then sticks on a lenticular lens automatically. It might be challenging to keep the lens in alignment with the picture, but I think there are many clever solutions to that issue.

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/polaroid-snap-10-0-megapixel-di...
With how many libs I've been able to find on NPM, I don't miss the libraries of the JVM really. Most (if not all) of them have been rewritten by now. And the speed and concurrency of the JVM itself is great when you want to scale vertically, but there are plenty of decent ways these days to scale horizontally instead. The only thing I kind of miss is REPL-driven development, but for the most part that's only really a crutch for Clojure's slow launch, and it's just as easy in Node to write some experimental code at the top of your main file with an early exit, auto-reloading it using nodemon, and outputting whatever you're trying to see. You lose the ability to have live objects, but 99% of the time that's a non-issue.
What about printing little flip books? :) Cool project in any case.
Listen to the podcast.
The water "shortage" is more of a distribution problem.
Also timezone difference may be the factor depending of what level of presence and availability is negotiated.
Pontage, Hyperloops and Trips to Mars. Can We Use ICOs for Infrastructure?
On this particular topic, I am of the opinion that the degree of success of the "old ways" of meditating is far, far superior than any app user of the present.
I liked those comments, and I thought they reflected well on Raymond. It's a sign of a healthy technical organization that contributors are willing to disagree and still heed decisions made by those higher in the decision-making chain.
Ah, found the explanation:

The problem with that idea is that the kernel cannot count on those types being consistently defined for all configurations, and cannot create its own definitions for the standard types. So the kernel/user interface must continue to be defined using kernel-specific types (__u16 and such).

From: https://lwn.net/Articles/113349/

And as close to Word Of God as I can get:

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/int_types.html
Patrick?
> 2) Electric motors capable of producing the energies required to produce the thrust necessary to propel a full-sized vehicle must also have a tremendous breakthrough in size, weight, and heat dissipation (especially if we're discussing vehicles capable of typical cruise altitudes over long distances).

This one had me wondering, especially since one of the reasons that model quadcopters even exist is because of breakthroughs in brushless motors which have good power to weight ratios for things that fly. So trying to compare a state of the art helicopter engine and a state of the art brushless motor lead me down this path ...

It is notoriously difficult to get details out of Tesla but according to this: https://chargedevs.com/newswire/elon-musk-cooling-not-power-... the Model S electric motor is 362 bhp at a weight of 70 lbs (5.2 HP/lb), and according to this: https://www.geaviation.com/sites/default/files/datasheet-T70... the engine used in the AH-64 Apache is 1662 shp at a weight of 458 lbs (3.62 HP/lb).

The point about cooling is well taken (Elon mentions it as a challenge) however in both model airplanes and quadcopters the motor typically is mount directly under the rotor so that not only does the prop wash provide the lift for the craft, it provides a lot of cooling for the motor driving it.

Again, not saying that you're wrong or that I'm right, I'm just saying that things are changing rapidly, people are investing in that change, and that is a recipe for surprising results.
Android should really use a modern kernel. All the forking mess involved in Android updates is a terrible problem predicated by the lack of generic drivers on mobile devices.

Copperhead[0] has been working to apply security patches to the kernel for some time and PostMarketOS[1] has an eventual goal of using the mainline upstream kernel. Really pulling for PMOS.

[0]: https://copperhead.co/android/

[1]: https://www.postmarketos.org/
Yeah I read this article and it seems like this should be the future of KDEConnect. It has controls for multimedia but these shortcuts would be fun.

Side note, I listen to music on my laptop a lot. All the sudden the music would stop, I'd say, "Damn wifi." Then half a second later my phone would ring and I'd have a conversation. When I hung up the phone music started again. This happened probably 5 times before I realized KDEConnect was pausing the music (and movies) when my phone rang and resuming them when I was done. Tons of potential with this app. Wish I knew how to program.

https://cgit.kde.org/kdeconnect-kde.git
There was clearly an SEC change for transparency of executive compensation that was driven by concerns of rising inequality in the early 1990s; I can't find anything about one in the late 1970s with that as a motivation, and it seems improbable, because through the 1970s the slow compression of wages following the 1940s “Great Compression” was still continuing, and significant rising inequality took into the 1980s to take off, and wasn't generally a concern of policymakers or in the political sphere in any significant way until the 1990-1991 recession.
> You can easily avoid being tracked by using an adblocker.

Except not really. Plenty if tracking happens regardless based on fingerprinting. And even ignoring ads there are plenty of free services that after a while turn iut to be so shoddy that they lose the data i left on their services and provide no way for me to demand deletion.

I get a mail every other month that my email address and password where found in a data leak.

This regulation is a good first step of forcing companies to think about the consequences of having data.

> As a German, I'd like to have more transparency into the backroom deals that are done in Berlin and Brussels

Same. I want a lot of transparency including from my own government. I'm however going to accept any positive development and won't demand them to be in a certain order :P

There are a lot of people who are trying to shape the EU into a better institution. It's not perfect but it's a pretty good start.
It blocks me without ad blocker because it wants me to subscribe to continue reading.
Hey gwern, it's you! I remember reading "Bitcoin is Worse is Better" and forwarding to quite a few friends. Great article, really like the pieces you've written over the years. Keep up the good work.
Your high school English teacher was wrong. Words mean whatever people think they mean, much like how money is worth whatever people think it's worth. Of course as an individual you can't unilaterally redefine a word, just as you can't declare that a $100 bill is worth as much as a car.
Very cool - what settings did you use, and did you have any issues with the copper underneath being reflective? I was thinking of trying this with a K40 for some simple single-layer designs that don't merit waiting a few weeks for fabrication, but I'm a little worried about how shiny and conductive the underlying copper is.
Up/down is sufficient to capture the vote itself but there is more data in there to consider, like:

1. How long did it take for the person to vote in the first place? (Might change weight; if we're talking cars, nobody really knows if they "like" it 4 minutes after purchasing and it means something different if the rating appears 3 months later.)

2. Has the vote changed between up/down? Has this happened twice?

3. Has the person voted for other things in similar categories? Might make sense for phones, over a period of years. Doesn't make sense for a person to buy and rate 20 different chairs in a week. Use it to give credibility.
My understanding was you can use a trademarked name but only if it was in an unrelated category. Clearly no one will confuse a phone running Oreo with a cookie you eat and dip in milk. now if google made a cookie and called it oreo, they would get sued. But IANAL and am probably totally wrong here.
Wirecutter is particularly good for a lot of reasons. I'd actually argue that the "Wirecutter treatment" is mostly less applicable to Wirecutter than other areas given that many of the items they review are relatively pricey and sophisticated.

But, to your overall point, there are a lot of things that I just want a hopefully mostly unbiased expert to tell me what to buy and I'm just fine with that. When I buy a garden hose nozzle, I'm just fine with whatever one of Wirecutter's sister sites tells me to buy. I don't need or want to do a lot of research into the finer points of garden hose nozzle design.