skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chris Bryant is of course a Labour MP. Intriguingly he was also caught up in the expenses scandal. One does wonder whether his book (which is being serialised here) manages to wonder about how the occupants of "the other place" get and hold onto power.

It also manages to recycle many of the popular tropes about the aristocracy avoiding taxes, perfectly legally, while ignoring the concept of noblesse oblige which was for a long time the flip side of aristocratic privilege. We're starting to see a similar concept return in the form of billionaires being criticised if they fail to sign up to donate their money.
> that either some technique is actually found where pumping MORE heat into a heat engine makes it cooler, or people ditch the idea

It's not the waste heat that's killing us. Sure, given enough energy usage, just the generated heat would become a problem for the planet, but we're far from there. Like hundreds of years far, at minimum. Right now we're fighting with the heat insulation we inadvertently wrapped ourselves in.
Facebook sold over $100K in political ads to Russian company during '16 election
This article was all over the place. There's a big difference between fraud and selling promises.
A nail is a nail is a nail! You can use any nail for any application!
So boldly demanding massive amounts of corporate welfare is not only considered acceptable, but just done out in the open like this by one of the most massive and powerful corporations of all time. Nobody even pretends like there is any other option any more.

It's disgusting. When are the employees of these companies going to start calling bullshit on this? Apparently nobody else will.
> There is significant platform lock-in between iOS and Android

I've had an iPhone since the 4, at first because it was the best phone by a long way imo. Now? I imagine switching and would rather pay the premium not to go through that hassle.

I'm super sad that I'll have to use a shitty adapter to have semi decent ear buds (I use sennheiser cx-500 most of the time) - but again not enough to motivate switching. [I've not looked but assume Sennh don't make compatible headphones]
Which is the first?
Amazon Is Looking to Build a Second U.S. Headquarters Worth $5B
Fair enough.

Though I'm interested if you can give specifics, like tell us what culture you identify with primarily and what aspects of that culture you want to keep for only people you identify as 'in' (belonging, if you will).

Maybe expand and show what you're foregoing from other cultures, like if you're not Chinese so avoid cultivated rice, or whatever.
I agree that it's consistent, I find it easier to read when the branching condition is front and center. In 99% of cases I've encountered, the scope of the branching condition variable doesn't matter. When it does, an extra set of {} defines a scope clearly.
The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
To be fair, that's not really "white hat". Also being resistant to rigging is only one of the threat models of an election. The votes remaining anonymous is another one. I doubt that you can hack that in a "white hat" way.
BigData and ML Example and Model Weekly Roundup – Sep. 7, 2017
AMD continues its Ryze, takes market share and revenue from Intel
China Is Obsessed with Livestreaming and the Censors Are Racing to Keep Up
Could Google really buy HTC?
The RFP explicitly states that they prefer "Metropolitan areas with more than one million people", but that the site does not have to be "An urban or downtown campus".
Some previous HN discussion about this happened within the following comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14419867
"Brave" UX design choices - I'm looking at you!
What do you appreciate about it? Was the jack getting in your way before?
So in what circumstances would you need the polyglot bit? (I guess I'm assuming a container/VM architecture here).
I think we can assume that Jeff Bezos saw how Elon Musk played the game in 2014 to find a location for Tesla's GigaFactory.[1][2][3]

The upcoming stories for Amazon's high-profile decision will probably play out in a similar way. However, the particular candidate cities probably won't be the same since Elon was building a site for factory workers whereas Jeff is building a campus for more software developers. Therefore, a location like Austin with U.Texas compsci students to recruit is more important for Amazon HQ2 than a Gigafactory.

The desire to attract tech employers like Amazon appears to be more competitive than winning the bid to host the Olympic Games.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-ingeniously-man...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2014/02/27/the...

[3] google results of similar stories: https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+bidding+nevada+texas
Wal-Mart Brings Its Online Grocery Pickup to Amazon's Backyard
I totally agree! Especially with your point that we CAN radically change what we do and its really not that difficult to learn new stuff. People are great at learning new stuff. There are more hurdles with convincing other people that you can learn though..

I would love your help on a dilemma - how do you get past the practical hurdles of recruiters and "X years work experience reqd" & background & credentials?

Like I have an interest in ML and a very solid understanding & passion for math. I have picked up a bunch on my own and I'm sure i can pick up the rest - its mostly just linear algebra / statistics. But working data scientists tend to be grad students/PhDs and have some credentials to prove they are "academic" (because the rest of us could not possibly be "academic".. LOL). How do I get past that?
Judge's ruling didn't go far enough. He should have allowed Techdirt to have Shiva cover their legal fees.
Definitely. It's veering on absolutism when you try to enforce your subjective morality on everyone else. This was the left's principal criticism of the right only a decade ago, after all.
SLS parts aren't substantially weaker in the Z direction like your typical FDM parts are.
Not exactly pointless. He released his PCB layouts with the MIT license so it wouldn't be surprising if Chinese vendors started releasing DIY kits. It also proves that Apple totally could have fit a headphone jack into the phone and that the current design is purely for vendor lockin.
Most responsive sites use media queries which involve CSS, not JavaScript.
An extra set of {} seems to be clutter to me.
>I foresee a thriving secondary market in high quality DACs that people can just connect their extant headphones to.

No need to foresee...plenty of external amp/DACs already on the market.
All experts I've heard from on this agree that we're decades from being able to implement such systems in a secure way, if it's possible at all. Most people trying to tell you that's not true are trying to sell you something, usually with some vague blockchain reference.

I'd recommend the various talks and papers J. Alex Halderman has given/written on this topic, especially on Estonia's e-voting system.
> with GraphQL there are relations that get used through each other which is less straightforward to determine when pruning or updating your API

Add a new GraphQL version endpoint?
Just send the recruiter to the Linux Wikipedia article and have them read the first line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15191064
Caveman BDD
KW is not a bedroom community. It's sprawling, yes, but it's too far from Toronto to function as a bedroom community. KW stands on its own.
It highly depends on where and what exactly you study, but in many cases you've probably been explained shell basics once and can get by with knowledge how to to copy-paste commands to install packages and basic git usage.

Of course, many students are interested in more and learn it, but isn't a requirement, so students with other interests have no real need for it.
"We took some chronological samples in the summer and we received the results which showed that wood is oak from Sweden, and it was cut in the winter between 1612 and 1613, which is a really good, precise measure."

I'm really curious about the analysis process involved here. Is C-14 dating that precise? How do they know it was oak from Sweden?
>It also manages to recycle many of the popular tropes about the aristocracy avoiding taxes, perfectly legally, while ignoring the concept of noblesse oblige which was for a long time the flip side of aristocratic privilege.

Yeah, so noble of them...
Marriage being "about love" is a relatively recent phenomenon. It has previously been about managing resources, making family political/social alliances, and (as it still is) creating social and economic stability for children.

I don't have, want, or even particularly like children, and even I have a problem thinking of them as "shares" or "assets" or pre-deciding their fate with a formal contract written before they were born or old enough to express their own wishes.
I'd flip that around. The key question is "Have you actually built a house? You didn't have to do all of the work, but have you built a house and understand how all the pieces fit together so you could help us build us a house of our own? Could you help us hire a plumber, know enough about his work to keep an eye on him and help him out while we're out playing golf?"

"Heck no. I've spent the last ten years becoming an expert in cabinet doors. I don't worry about all that other stuff."

This attitude of breaking things into tiny silos is how you get small projects with 30 people in them that still can't deliver a working product.
Agreed that this is a newer architectural paradigm and a younger product. Of that there is no doubt, and there is always risk there. Also return, of course; someone had to deploy an RDBMs for the first time too—and everyone is glad they did.

But I still don't follow the argument. If the eviction model is a loud, clear signal that this is the wrong solution, why isn't the mutability of RDBMS data the same sort of signal? Claiming that the presence of a DELETE statement in SQL rules out relational databases as durable data stores would not get me too far. And nor should it!

You are 100% right that this is a new approach. You are also right that it is possible to make configuration errors that will break the system. But this is true of all nontrivial systems. At the end of all of this, we still have a very interesting sequence of events (all NYT content ever) stored in an immutable log. This seems reasonable. Maybe the NYT team is blazing a trail, it's not prima facie a crazy one. :)
First, the Bloomberg headline is incorrect. The actual Amazon headline is:
Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America [0]

Amazon does not specifically say that HQ2 needs to be in the US.

So I would ask, why not put HQ2 in Vancouver?

Okay, yes, house prices are unrealistic, but hear me out:

1. Not in the US (helpful for any non-American employees who can't get a visa or no longer want to live in the US)

2. Easy for Americans to work there

3. Close proximity to Seattle

4. Canadian salaries are typically lower than America, so this could be a huge boon to Canadians working in tech that they're finally paid similar to US counterparts and/or Amazon can save a bundle on salary costs by paying the Canadian market rate...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17044620011
A bad policy can be undone, publishing data can not. So I understand people want to play it safe more so on the later one.

Also keep in mind that with DNA you are not just making the decision for yourself. Your relatives share significant parts of your DNA, thus the potential risks will affect your brothers kids /etc as well. Consider asking their opinion / getting their consent.
Node.js on the Onion Omega 2+
Shipping costs are already basically irrelevant. So that's an irrelevant benefit, not a decent reason.

(the cost to ship a medium size box is about $10. $10,000 of iPhones easily fit in a medium size box. Shaving some of 0.1% is pretty irrelevant.)

And if they did it in service of "owning the headphones market", that's a really dickish reason.
According to all the tests I saw online there was no Samsung phone that came close to matching that Apple phones ability to withstand water over time
Still better -- and more current -- than aristocracy-ass kissing 19th century peasants...
Sorry, you're absolutely right. I misspoke about it being a bedroom community.
Yeah, Mongrel2 looked like a good idea… but turns out it's kinda pointless. Why talk to your app via HTTP-reencoded-as-ZMQ when you can just talk straight up HTTP? Pretty much all languages have very fast and concurrent HTTP servers these days.
What would you suggest instead of mongodb for large scale production db? Our DB size is growing on daily basis and currently near to 200GB on a dedicated machine.
> It's still a serious issue

It's as least as serious, I think. More dangerous, too, since the regular people don't see that there is technology involved, as opposed to voting machines, where it's obvious that electronics are involved.

But, conveniently, the block parties have adapted the narrative of the Evil Russian™ as scapegoat for everything that might go wrong.
As a young person trying to build things which change the world, I appreciate the wisdom found in the link. Thanks!
I can think of some potential benefits of an EV if you lived somewhere remote like that. Charging at home would be even more convenient if your nearest petrol station was some distance away, possibly wasn't open 24 hours, and had higher than usual prices due to the low traffic throughput. You'd also probably drive more miles than average, meaning the lower fuel costs and maintenance of an EV would add up faster. (I seem to recall a story about a rural delivery driver in the US that realised his per-mile reimbursements for fuel meant he could afford to buy and pay off a Tesla Model S with his fuel savings)

An EV with a range extender for those emergency unexpected long trips could be the best of both worlds, though a higher capacity EV may relatively soon be cheap enough to make that a poor choice.
I'm pretty sure a company that recently acquired Beats, the notoriously overpriced headphone companies, and sells wireless earbuds at 169$ is most certainly not making "pennies" on headphones.

So this point is not moot, much to the contrary, yours about waterproofing is: three years ago Samsung had a phone with: headphone jack, SD card, removable battery. Lots of other phones have headphone jacks and are waterproof. So that point is moot.

Lastly, I'm pretty sure the rationale for any company's decision is "to sell more stuff", not to "envision a future".
Definitely up to date :)

(open console on article and paste this hacky code for an automated version)

[ ["carpenter", "Data Scientist"],
["brown", "Machine Learning"],
["walnut", "AI"],
["rock", "Kubernetes"] ].map(function(r)
{
var rg = new RegExp(r[0], 'ig');
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(rg, r[1]);
});
tl;dr: they're good businessmen and do their best to preserve the wealth they were handed over from their parents.

The article spends too long telling irrelevant stories to make its few points:

- owning land is a great way to get rich

- the rich evade taxes by restructuring their business

- investing in business keeps your family's wealth intact

- networking from elite clubs helps you find opportunities to invest in

None of these points are specific to aristocrats. We all strive towards these goals - my family started out living in a rented apartment, and their first milestone was buying their own house. They wanted their kids to go to an elite university so we could get good networking opportunities. Investing in business is just a truism - past a certain point of wealth, it's no longer worth it to sell your time for money, compared to investing.

The writer also spends some time carefully conflating the aristocracy of old with the modern aristocrats, in a weird non-sequitur parallel. People of old did something bad, therefore...what, exactly? This is bigotry and prejudice, but we hate rich people, so it's okay.

As a whole this reminds me of Varys's riddle from Game of Thrones - if you are so incensed at the aristocracy, why do you keep giving them power?
I spend a lot of time in the city and I've never had a dog put his paws on me - not even in the Presidio sitting on the ground with food or a ball - and I'm very dog friendly. I know things are different in different parts of the city, but forty some years of being dog friendly and spending a lot of time in dog friendly cafes and parks and I've had nothing near to your experience. Do you walk around with bacon in your pockets? Sounds to me like an exaggeration.
This is a misleading description of how US elections work.

On the ground, the election is run by local volunteers. You can sign up to check peoples' voter registrations and count votes yourself.

The state 'runs' the election in that the state and the state's Secretary of State establish the rules and certify the results.
Why not put HQ2 in Vancouver?

Okay, yes, house prices are unrealistic, but hear me out:

1. Not in the US (helpful for any non-American employees who can't get a visa or no longer want to live in the current political climate in the US)

2. Easy for Americans to work there

3. Close proximity to Seattle

4. Canadian salaries are typically lower than America, so this could be a huge boon to Canadians working in tech that they're finally paid similar to US counterparts and/or Amazon can save a bundle on salary costs by paying the Canadian market rate...
Is this "adding of metrics" to fields part of graphql api, or something the data store would provide? Apologies but I've only just started exploring graphql.
Thanks for committing the minified js. Wouldn't want to be able to read it or anything.
Bitcoin Declared Dead 140+ Times and Counting
Catch up? Everyone has their favorite feature; I could ask you when Python is going to catch up with C++ on static typing, or when Go is going to catch up with C++ on generics.

Anyway, Go goroutines and Python generators are very different beasts. Because the term "coroutine" can refer to very different things, implementing any single interpretation of the term would likely leave proponents of other interpretations disappointed. Coroutine support for C++ has been in progress for several years now, and some fundamental design questions have been quite controversial. However, there's now a Technical Specification out [0] and, if all goes well, it should be on track for inclusion in the C++20 standard.

[0] http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2017/n4680.pd...
It's only exactly what they'd do anyway if the chosen location was getting their new HQ anyway. While I don't necessarily agree with it on a personal level, this is a pretty basic "supply vs demand" situation.
The interesting explanation for why it's the least saline sea in the world, is that there is a narrow outlet channel via Kattegat, and the volume of water from rivers with outlets in the Baltic far exceeds the amount of water that evaporates, so there is a constant outflow of water through Kattegat. So there's not much salty water backdraft. We have perch and ordinary grass growing in the Baltic - weird!
Just as likely they analyzed the width of the growth rings. Trees in a given area will have similar high growth and low growth years.

And then there are big events where growth will correspond across wider regions.
For the most part we aren't climate scientists, there is absolutely no debate about carbon emissions and climate change.
> as the media might lead you to think

I really do not like sentences like this one (irrespective of the context).
They give the false impression that...

...(1) there is a monolithic thing as "the media"

...(2) "the media" has one - among them - agreed upon agenda

...(3) their agenda is the opposite of what you want or hold true
Is this similar to openresty ? Instead of Lua - python, go and php? Or something different?
Apple playing such tricks for marketshare is exactly the opposite of why Apple was loved. They used to find better ideas that would make the market look sad (magnet power cable instead of friction socket that would break).
typo: should be finding not funding
I see a lot of people saying "technology will solve it for us, we should do nothing. sure I'll fight climate change - when it's zero cost to do so" as an argument to wait for better batteries, better windpower, better coal power etc. This will be another "wait for the scientists to fix it" item.
> I distinguish ideology from person

So do I? Bit of a non-sequitur…

> Would you happily say the same wrt criticism of a belief in flat-earth?

Happily? What a loaded question.

Would I expect a flat-earther to respond to claims which criticized their point-of-view by requesting evidence? Yes I would.

edit

> The question is not of being merely unhappy about criticism, but being personally affected.

People are affected by criticism simply by receiving it. Feeling unhappy because of criticism is being personally affected. Words can harm and kill.
I had a question a while back about potential spill strategies that may be appropriate to ask here, given that a bunch of compiler people are probably crawling this thread.

Do compilers ever do "computed spilling" (for lack of a better phrase)?

For example, if you have code such as:

int x = f();
int y = x & MASK;

use(y);
// ... bunch of code that uses x, but causes y to spill ...
use(y);

If we're spilling 'x' and 'y', the compiler could theoretically notice that 'y' is purely derived from 'x', and turn the "spill" of 'y' into a no-op (assuming 'x' is kept live), and the "load" of 'y' into re-computing y from x (in this case using a BITAND).

Mostly academic curiosity, but is this technique used by any major compiler?
Great. The population of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge combined is just over 500k [1]. Disqualified, then.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Cities_(Ontario)
I'm sure they could have gone another road regarding sealed phones and sockets.
What's dismissive about the comment, or has it been edited since you replied?
ALICE Computing Technical Design Report – CERN
Fair amount is an understatement when talking about the whole field of engineering. IIRC Metro Detroit has the largest population of engineers in the US. Granted a big portion of those jobs are in Auburn Hills, Dearborn and Warren rather than Detroit proper.

Edit: just checked the BLS numbers and apparently it's #4, beaten by Houston and edged out by NYC and LA.
Well, the idea is obviously flawed, but I don't think the author meant geostationary orbits.
If I'm reading the paper right, the init statement could be any expression-statement or simple initialization. So, modifying unrelated, externally scoped variables in the init would be legal. I don't see this improving readability.
Consistency here is CAP consistency[1], not ACID consistency. In short, if datum d is visible to Alice at time t1, it MUST also be visible to Bob at time t2 > t1.

So financial transactions are transactional, but there's no guarantee that every node has a fully up-to-date state at all times.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
Hardly a thriving market though. I'm talking mainstream
'Learning database' speeds queries from hours to seconds
I wasn't thinking about library code but I guess that's a fair point. However I just don't recall this being enough of a problem in real world situations. And I don't recall many Python libraries that bother to do this.

I just looked through a few stdlib functions and other popular libraries and I'm not seeing much trace of validity checking as a standard working practice:

> from random import randint
> randint(1, "strawberry")
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

This fails further down the stack - and would succeed for any types that allow addition with an int (and might fail somewhere further on in those cases)

This aligns with Python's encouragement of duck typing but directly contradicts what you seem to be claiming as a universal best practice?