skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracey Lien completely missed the punch line: Mehta got into YC 2 months late by ordering a 6 pack and having it delivered to Garry Tan at YC Offices [0]. I thought this was legend.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/how-instacart-hacked-yc/
If the SEC gives guidance that something is high risk, and you are paying someone to managing your money with the understanding that you want a low-to-moderate risk portfolio, then if they lose it on what the SEC calls high risk, now you have a case against them being irresponsible. I don't think this is so much to educate investors as it is to provide some liability incentive for investment managers to inform their investors about the risks in their portfolios if they're taking these sorts of bets.
> Yea, the 80s were full of crazy people in government and everywhere.

2017 is just as full of crazy people in government and everywhere. They're much easier to spot a few decades later...
Why is it so much warmer immediately after totality than immediately before? Seems more like the camera shifted its white balance over the course of the video.

Thanks for sharing though! I wasn't able to experience the full eclipse so I love seeing others experience it.
Unfortunately very few people have their own domain for email (although they should!).

When companies have kindly sent me their entire customer list (by using CC in place of BCC) I see there are very few domains in it outside of the major free email providers, and those that remain are mostly for their work or small business. A personal or family domain is very rare.
It's a wildcard certificate, which isn't supported by Let's Encrypt yet.
How about a nice game of chess?
One principle of good management is that no one can properly manage more than roughly a half dozen direct reports (10 is the absolute limit, and at that point you're stretched way too thin).

At 40-50 people you're hitting the point where you have 6-7 managers reporting to the CEO and each responsible for 6-7 direct reports.

If you hire more people after that, you basically either have to severely overload someone's management capacity or start hiring a third layer of management.

The company still feels too small for that much hierarchy so instead of adding management it increases the number of reports either of middle management or the CEO until the situation is untenable.
Even if we can't take out the regime how in the world do we handle that situation? Not only are the people INCREDIBLY needy and the infrastructure a disaster but if they've have the evilness of America drilled into them since they were little children. Even if only a quarter of the population TRULY believes that… how do you handle that?

Where does the staggering amount of money needed to fix the country come from? Or would we (the world) do something like set up a new government keeps living conditions the same and just slowly improve them overtime to prevent some kind of… shock? Just to keep costs under control?

I know people have some plans but if you could just beam all the administration off the planet tomorrow would anyone be prepared for the consequences of that?
It's really hard to compare Movidius with anything else because there are so few published benchmarks.

A few notes though:

Movidius is inference only. That might be useful if you have the specific requirements that needs low power, high speed inference and also somehow has to have a x86 CPU.

If you want high speed, low power inference and don't need x86 then the NVidia Jetson wipes the floor with it.

If you want low speed (~2 inference/second), low power then RPi is a good option.

If you want high speed, you need GPU(s).
Citus is a pretty powerful tool. We recently used Citus to help scale one of our databases and wrote a blog post about it:
https://hipmunk.github.io/posts/2017/Aug/16/a-fare-cache-in-...
What's wrong with PMs who can't program?
Because Kim's reign is predicated on maintaining credibility with his generals. He does that by rattling his saber and extracting economic concessions from the global community in general (and the US in particular).

Why he needs to go precisely this far is a good question. Possibly because Trump has consistently misplayed his hand and made a series of stupid bluffs that were quick and easy to call. Kim is probably testing the edges of his geopolitical box, figuring that it's a bit roomier than he'd previously calculated.
I wonder if Rust could support pluggable concurrency models (with the accompanying runtime support). That's what Haskell does and it seems to work. At the outset that seems like a better approach than creating an incompatible sub-language. The rust-facing side of the standard library already abstracts away many platform details.
They can't. They saber rattle because it means that they are powerful enough to bring people to the negotiating table but they're not actually destructive to other countries (outside tit-for-tat stuff).

The minute they destroy a real city they are game ends and the rest of the world is going to actually do something. They LOSE negotiating power and are inviting in attack against them that will destroy the regeime.
I've never seen someone hate on Joel, but to me it would seem misplaced to hate on him, Fog Creek clearly know how to do enterprise tech.
Shout out to a fellow Coastie.

I think what I learned from my superiors is that it doesnt matter so much what system is used for risk assessment, but whether a conversation about risk was had in a meaningful way. Sometimes quantification helps this, where complex systems can be analyzed and the consequences assessed. Usually if you are going to do that it has to happen well in advance of an operation. Othertimes the desire to get a number leads to a real ham fisted attempt to "quantify" things like how fatigued the crew is on a scale of 1-10, or to rate the environmental conditions. When the GAR model, which stands for Green - Amber - Red, was used to facilitate an honest conversation about how people felt about an operation as opposed to just checking a box so that it could be put in the logs. When I saw it being used as the former it absolutely made things safer, but that was very dependent on the attitude of those participating.
Neurotoxicity is probably also related to people overheating and overexerting themselves while on the drug - I've seen people sweating profusely and not noticing while rolling a few too many times.. which generally results in me giving them water, salty crackers, and nudging them to consider taking a quick break.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ihoc.net

Take a look there instead.
First, because of undisclosed design and patents it is difficult for competition to compete in the x86 market.

Second, competition is exactly what we need to get rid of hardware backdoors and unwanted features. If I had the coice to buy a PC without closed firmware and hardware, I would do so. The more open, the better. We direly need competition there.
To further muddy the waters, in the context of sports, "legal" generally means "allowed in the sport", not just "non-criminal".
There is no automation in takeoff for current USN carrier based aircraft. The F-18 is the most automated, and the process is this:

1. Pilot sets takeoff conditions (throttles, flaps)

2. Pilot signals deck crew

3. Catapult accelerates the plane off the deck

4. The plane's fly by wire control system pitches the plane for optimal Angle of Attack for the wings (IIRC - 8.1* without flaps).

Once the aggressive acceleration of the catapult is complete, the pilot takes control again and begins flying - this is less than 1 second after catapult release.

Here's an example catapult launch from a USN F-18 pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9D1Ls-_JM

If you look at the stick directly in between the pilot's legs, you'll see him put his right hand on it at ~4.5 seconds. His left hand is on the throttles.
North Korea could be completely carpet bombed before they got a middle to South Korea. Why no one is willing to stop North Korea is bewildering.
Not directly related to the OP, but since it's a popular setup: the best you can hope for with a USB 2.0 FTDI or USB serial converter is USB fullspeed frame rate, or 1 kHz. So 1 millisecond in one direction.
Trying this was in fact one of the reasons that Rust ditched its runtime years ago; it doesn't work. Well, it didn't work for Rust at least.

The RFC that made this change https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0230-remo...
Seems almost like explicit mindfulness training.
Generac, Briggs&Stratton, and Kohler make many generators that are powered by LP or natural gas. These typically start at 10KW or so and go up from there. Powerwall is 5KW sustained and it lasts less than 3 hours at 5KW, after which you're without power again. Natural gas powered units cost about half as much and can run indefinitely. Indeed people even use them to power their cabins and such, with LP delivered only once or twice a year.
Sorry, I live in a country where that is unthinkable.
Oh why do you say that? I started with emacs and have generally thought evil was a big improvement.
> respectfully, it is time for her to resign.

> maybe if this was her only controversial statement all could be forgiven

A rare thing for someone to get so toxic even HuffPo calls her out, but flip it around and they would have no problem calling someone white with similar views a white-supremacist, and condemning them - without the "respect" or second chances.

In fact, they pretty much spell it out:

> many media outlets faced scrutiny for focusing on that tweet instead of the issues black communities are facing

Yusra is now causing more harm than good, so she has to go. Otherwise, they'd tolerate her.
We get the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea together on a conference call and all agree not to start World War 3 when China decides to push through some "regime change." Why would China do this? Because North Korea is useful to them as a buffer state and a proxy to aggravate the West, but only so long as they can be controlled. Once they pose a real threat to their neighbors, they also pose a real threat to China. And China would rather have the chance to prove its dominance than let US do so.

So, Kim Jong-Un accidentally trips down the stairs and lands head-first on a bullet, along with his entire regime, and we all look the other way, and the US sends everybody lots and lots and lots of money.
Basically everything about professional sports is detrimental to long-term (or even mid-term) health, yet no-one seems to have a problem with it unless it involves "chemicals".
2001 can be seen as a film that (mostly) exemplifies a conflict-free structure.

[spoilers]

While the plot of the film has been described as ‘a computer malfunctions and tries to kill the crew of a spaceship’, in fact that part of the film lasts for about 40 minutes — or just over a quarter of the two and a half hour running time. The actual overt conflict is only about 30 minutes, arguably starting right before the intermission when we see that HAL can read the crewmembers’ lips through the window of the soundproof pod.

Many films have conflict-free exposition scenes or sequences, but 2001 is interesting because it has a single conflict-containing act within a larger non-conflict structure, which is primarily expository and/or revelatory in nature.
What is the stackoverflow equivalent in China? Their circle looks too small to be true.
I wonder if China could just annex NK a la Russia and Crimea, but in this case bring them into the modern age. The world would probably breathe a sigh of relief.
> In your opinion, should I not be able to insult Scientology?

Of course you can

But then you have to suffer the consequences if what you said is against the law

For example if you say that scientology is a cult, it's your right to say so

If you say that members of scientology are pedophiles without any proof, it's not

When a right has no limits it's not a right anymore, it's a privilege

> What about making a negative documentary about Catholicism, or any other religion?

Seriously, if you don't get the difference between criticism and hate speech, I can't help you.

BTW, you can't say lightly anything bad about Scientology for the same reason Citizen United is a threat to freedom

They can throw an enormous amount of money to "the problem"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_law#Cases_in_t...

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/us/scientology-s-puzzling-...

http://www.sptimes.com/News/32899/TampaBay/Hardball.html

> Are you sure? Europe doesn't seem too stable lately.

Still not killing each other in the streets over a stupid statue
There are a number of submissions that follow a similar pattern. People discover them on their own and want to share. Not everyone checks the history to see if it's been posted before.
I don't agree that it's horrible, but it really doesn't work particularly well in the context of the S4 objects in, for example Bioconductor.
> I would expect part of that budget includes the replacement of several legacy databases and software applications to support the high frequency, low latency querying of license plates several times per second, per vehicle.

Well, if we're just checking to see if a car is registered stolen, that's hopefully a very small database. A simple hash table should be sufficient for a yes/no decision. But God only knows what goes on inside the DMV, and getting that data out into a rapidly queryable state could be tricky.
"I don't see how this happens unless brokered by China, who emerges the big winner on the world stage."

NK is entirely dependent on China, and every administration has tried to get them to do something about their unruly vassal state. Unfortunately the status quo is what they desire most, so absent escalation they won't do anything.
I'm doing this in my pilot training as well. Makes a difference, sure learn faster/better.
I don't think you have any idea how many pieces of artillery they have, nor how many tunnels there are going beneath the DMZ. They are ready to cause as much destruction and chaos as their 1950s era arsenal can inflict.

It would take thousands of cruise missiles to even dent their defenses. You can't use bombers until the anti-aircraft systems are down. It's going to take hours to finish the job, and even then who knows what they've launched in that time. Seoul is an easy target, very hard to miss.
China doesn't want this mess getting any messier. At the end of the day, both Trump and Kim are wild cards, and a simple fuckup could blow nuclear fallout and/or waves of refugees over the Chinese border.

Meanwhile, China can come out a big winner by seizing this opportunity to play the adult in the room while simultaneously embarrassing the US. Trump has handed this win to Xi in a tidy little gift box.
Because you end up cutting crucial corners because you think you understand whether the two options are equivalent when they are not. Case in point: the topic we're discussing.
Excellent point. The company I worked (not a startup) had existed below 30 people for most of its multi-decade history. They started expanding rapidly the past few years and I came onboard when they were at 60 people. That double in the two years I was there. The higher-ups, who had started and run the company for decades, were strictly against not wanting to "seem corporate" or have too much organization / structure because it was "corporate". Yet, they kept running into ways that the structure would self-organize or that things would stagnant because they weren't being responsive to the large amount of employees below them. They wanted everyone to participate in a vision but the vision was basically "get bigger and don't be corporate" and rather muddied. Everyone I spoke with that had been there more than 5+ years, and that would be honest, had said the major changes in the company 'felt' like they came at 50 people, 70-80 people, and definitely after 100.

It was interesting for a while but a bit of a shitshow. All the leadership felt they could run things they same way they always had instead of adjusting to the new paradigm - which is rather 'corporate' in my book.
An insider's take on the future of bootcamps
Case in point why email will live forever.
Prior art here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo01082a022

With the sainted Carl Djerassi. There are citations that indicate that the plant and its properties were known in the West 100 years ago.
Required in-person interviews for employment-based green cards
Are there more examples of synced videos like these?
A... news letter, if you will?
Agreed, and a more succinct way of saying what I was getting at. Attempts to quantify inherently subjective attempts aren't very productive in their own right. What matters far more is having a substantive conversation about risk, and work to promote a culture of open and honest communication.

Semper P
Voyager 40th Anniversary: Watching an Alien World Turn
Not in the current form of the constitution, but this kind of 'trial' will sure be used by the prime minister to push his article 9 reform.
Okay, and Antifa have seriously hurt multiple police offers. I seriously don't get how you can ham on the alt-right but defend Antifa, they're both fringe groups that shit over society's rules.
best source I could find for the 'understimulation' claim was this: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/2/370/684049/Bored-t.... although they attribute boredom as a proxy and not a direct cause of poor health.
¿Por Qué Apostar Por Los Videos En El Marketing Digital?
That people can casually accept the massive loss of lives this would cause is bewildering.
Show HN: I will try your project/ startup idea live on periscope
I'll review your project/ app/ startup live on periscope. I know stuffs about things so... post what you're working on and I'll try it out/ test it live :D.

Periscope username: dannymullan
Streaming info: 7:30pm-9:30pm CST.
Twitter: DanE_Beats

Link to stream
https://www.pscp.tv/dannymullan/1djxXLLadDyxZ
Huh, seems to be working now.

Looks like it's not picking up Django! ;)
300k PAID subs is kind of a lot.
Even if you have a perfectly effective system you have to deal with the fact that when you shoot a missile down debris is going to fall. If you shoot a nuclear missile down, nuclear debris is going to fall.

Depending on where the missile is projected to land it might be a better idea not to shoot it.
Fair point. Let me rephrase the question:

Do you really think reducing standardised tests would improve the education system?

If so, what objective evidence can you provide for this belief?
Does not work under Brave - which means I'm protected from retargeting, too?
OK that was pretty cool. Props to these guys for taking such simple thoughts/ideas and generating interesting content. Youtubers like this are the modern-day Bill Nye. The faster we all 'cut the cord' and ditch TV, the faster we can force the return of quality creative content like this. Either because TV dies outright, or networks are monetarily forced to put effort into quality programming again.
Depending on where this is, you can think of it as generations of people have already picked out and settled in the naturally safe spots. What's left then are the less desirable, potentially riskier locations.
I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor. A "smugglers war".

I'm assuming the US Coast Guard is all over this kind of threat, but I don't know how hard it is to detect a bomb hidden aboard in some cranny, shielded by multiple layers of inches-thick steel.
Some say too dangerous not to invade. It's a complicated situation and there's no easy choice IMO.
I feel like there's a killing to be made in "bidding for government contracts as a service". Plus you'd be doing A Good Thing (at least in theory)

Obviously complicated requirements exist but I think there's a way of embracing this with some skilled workers

I think that the digital service is trying this a bit
That's because you're comparing to base-r. The data.table way would be:

dat[col_a == 'Good', .(Length = .N, Sum = sum(col_c)), col_b]
This is why Russia makes their own chips in their own fabs for defense applications. [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST
I have always loved the USMC's leadership principals, but they have a hard time adhering to them in practice. Talk to pretty much any infantry officer who saw combat in the last 15 years and they have endless stories of chaotic command arrangements.

My guess is that businesses have the same issue - it's great in theory, but the cost of failing to achieve it in practice is low at first so it creeps up over time. It takes a catastrophic event to force leadership to rearrange reporting relationships and clear up lines of communication again.
I suspect that the US has had the capability to disable ICBMs for some time now. (See patriot missile system and iron dome and remember Regan's star wars project and its not a big leap to make) I think it's just a matter that we don't want to let would be nuclear assailants know until they have already committed.
You forgot Celebration Dinners!
Ask HN: Working at Facebook. First hand experience?
Hi,

I've heard vastly different opinions when it comes to working at Facebook in an engineering position: some people say it's literally the best job ever because of the freedom, quality of coworkers and environment. Others instead said it's a highly competitive place (to the point where you're going to have a very hard time if you don't work 12 hours a day and aren't extremely smart) where you are worked to the bone until you naturally burn out and are then let go after a minor mistake, forfeiting your fat RSU package.

Do you have first hand experience? I am currently talking with a few big SV companies and I would like to avoid taking the wrong decision, so the more data points I have the better.

Thanks!
> Email is a set of protocol and thus it _will_ outlive any centalised, closed, walled garden.

What stops email going the way of XMPP?
Basic high school calculus and linear algebra is really the only required thing.

I would recommend probability theory and statistics as well.
Day Trading in Wall Street's Complex 'Fear Gauge' Proliferates
Interesting. The problems section isn't really convincing to me though.

Especially, indirect function calls for IO functions seem fine since IO is usually much slower than a function call. Also binary size increase may not be a problem for people writing web-scale servers.

It would be great if the Rust compiler infrastructure provided the necessary hooks for re-implementing std::/using a different concurrency model and independent projects could make those "problems" trade-off decisions on a individual basis. Rust-core could just only support/ship the native threaded model to lower maintenance burden for themselves.
Indeed, it is hard to overstate the damage NK could wreak on Seoul, even in the opening hours of a full scale conflict. Roughly half of the population of SK lives in the greater Seoul metro area. Artillery barages could claim millions of lives, and wreak economic devastation, and we're not even talking about nukes yet. I don't relish the thought of Kim, backed into a corner, fearing total oblivion, his fingers fluttering inches away from the big red button.
To be fair, America seems to change up a lot of conventional English, haha :P
Would like to know how quickly Shannon cycled through these steps. The "fill your mental matrix" may suggest some for of priming or unconscious process taking place, perhaps over night, or over a walk? My experience is that ideas take time to bloom.
Scripts for GC languages wouldn't be compiled directly for WebAssembly -- their runtimes would. That's why I suggest browser vendors bless a few specific alternative runtimes and distribute them with the browser. For example, PyPy would be compiled for WebAssembly, and then Python could be executed directly as a client-side web language. Same with Dart and other languages that depend on a VM to do the heavy lifting.