skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experian link just provides a grey page saying "Loading"

Equifax link is dated 2008 and hijacks the back button (wtf)

TU is an account creation page

I've never heard of Innovis :)

Which is not snark at you for posting these links, just a sad commentary on these important pages.
These people should study Japanese convenience stores. I doubt anyone can improve much on the fundamentals of that business model. I visit the local conbini every night, and it serves as my bank, post office, and of course source of snacks.

I saw a tv show about how the managers of each conbini uses a sophisticated app that aggregates inputs like weather and sales trends to anticipate demand for each product and help order and deal with logistics. Every cash register has a set of age bracket buttons, so that can track age demographic even for cash sales.

The original breakthrough of 7-11 when it first franchised in Japan was to use the stores as a distributed warehouse where almost all inventory is for sale almost all the time. Since then, they’ve been chipping away at refinements and there’s plenty of competition, not to mention jobs for immigrants, etc.

I read somewhere that the average person in Japan spends around US$6.00 per day at a conbini. Even with all the costs, that’s a pretty healthy revenue stream.
>Much written evidence of historical events or people that we have wasn't contemporary to the subject in question either, but authored by historians, sometimes far later than a century.

Thats not an argument for the accuracy of the story, thats an argument against the accuracy of the rest of history.
not talking about bump mapping.

Talking about the dents on the lens' filter silver filter ring. I doubt it was modeled.

https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/camera_pb...
I do pretty ordinary stuff and it makes my work a lot nicer. An open source example is the Elasticsearch client I wrote called Bloodhound: https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound

It makes writing and maintaining applications that use ES a lot more maintainable. Makes the Query API a lot more discoverable too.
Q&A with AJ Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder of VaynerSports and VaynerMedia
And Apple as well. And then ban every mobile phone because no one has the slightest idea of what's in the baseband firmware.
Same problem on my mac with 16GB RAM and also an SSD
I'm sure Equifax has far more sway with the regulators than consumers. Nothing is going to change and Equifax isn't going to suffer more than a few million dollars in symbolic fines.
Another giveaway of a TeX-savvy writer out of water is when you see --- for em-dash, i.e., ‘—’.
In this scenario the galera DB is only hosting virtual aliases/account info etc -- it's essentially read-only unless I'm adding accounts so the fail cases are less severe than if I was constantly writing data.

I'll add a section on recovery, but even with a few hundred thousand email inboxes my database size is likely to be under 100mb and backing that up will cause no issues in live since I'm only doing SELECT 99.99% of the time; each of my nodes dumps the db into /var somewhere every hour.
1. Google tracks links because the information is valuable. It can be used to build a better profile of you, and understand what people are reading online.

2. You can use a third party app, switch from GMail, or if it's the URL is in plain text, you can copy and paste.

3. If you switch to another app, you might be OK. I'd suggest finding either something opensource or something that you pay for. Remember, if you're not paying with money, then you're paying with something else (privacy).
where it happened: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/albums/72157631470798...
> We're talking about literal Nazis.

Wait, we're talking about Germans from the 30s and 40s? People that conducted the Holocaust, that invaded most of Europe and some of Russia and many other places?

Maybe we aren't actually talking about literal Nazis. Words matter.
I'm pretty sure that neither World War was started by Marxists

(EDIT: You are correct. While commonly called "anarchists" in popular accounts of history, The Black Hand were a nationalist paramilitary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(Serbia) )

You can also be certain that Marxists allowed the mass rape of civilians.

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

They are also responsible for the deaths of millions in Russia, millions in Ukraine, millions in China, and millions in Cambodia. They are directly responsible for emotional scars borne by my mother and father which affect them and my family to this day. It doesn't matter "who started it." It very much matters who craps on Human Rights. It very much matters whose ideology explicitly says that individual Human Rights do not matter.

"Mass murder in the Soviet Union sometimes involved motivations, especially national and ethnic ones, that can be disconcertingly close to Nazi motivations."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/03/10/hitler-vs-stalin-...

If the best you can say for an ideology, is that, "They started it!" and "The other one was worse!" it's time to throw away that ideology.

(And make no mistake, anarchism can only devolve into collectivism, generally resembling communism. Other than that, its only contributions are crimes, murder, and mayhem. You can look at the historical examples here too.)
Yeah... What I don't understand is why nginx doesn't have built-in LetsEncrypt cert fetching yet.
Sublime took off cause it just works and it has a nice default color scheme and just enough batteries included to make it a functional programming environment for the 80% of programming situations. And it now has enough addons to increase quality of life in many areas and or solve the other 20% in many cases.

If I install emacs it is just okay. It probably has syntax highlighting, depending on the Linux distribution. It probably doesn't have any quality of life improvements for language X. I can drop in a theme and colorize it pretty quickly to my liking. From there, emacs is still very powerful, but there are a lot of things I really love for long and deep editing sessions when I am going through a lot of files on a code review or what not.
Not if you're constraining yourself to parametric polymorphism. In that case the mzero property is pretty significant and comes up a lot.

There's this whole discussion about "theorems for free" and why these formalisms are quite useful and relevant to languages like Haskell.
It could make sense for foreign visitors (to check for intended visa violations, etc.)

But there is no reason to search the devices of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, who are already authorized to live and work in the U.S. These people would have no reason to break immigration law. And if the government is searching digital content for evidence of other unlawful activity, they should have to get a warrant.

Keep in mind that any digital content you can bring through a border port-of-entry, you can also just send it via the Internet.
>Many Blender users coming from other 3D sofware often said that Blender UI is weird and stop them from using it further. I guess it is a matter of habit.

That's the same feeling I had of Blender, hence I put them into the category of GIMP.
Ask HN: What mic/headset gear do you use for conference calls?
I'm on a remote team where everyone uses different gear on conference calls (mostly GoToMeeting, sometimes Slack). They're all a bit terrible. Everyone has fuzzy audio, echoing and background noise, except the one guy who uses an old Plantronics DSP400.

Some of our gear:

* Plain MacBook mic/speaker.

* Jabra Speak USB. Lots of room reverb, catches a lot of background noise, audio quality not great.

* Plantronics Voyager Legend one-ear mono handsfree (BT 3.0). Range is short, audio quality is fuzzy, lots of background noise.

* Plantronics Voyager Focus "binaural" stereo headset (BT 4.1). Much better than the Legend, but not very portable, and has to be used with one ear uncovered since there's no audio passthrough (you don't hear yourself speaking, which is very uncomfortable).

* Plantronics DSP400 wired USB headset. Evidently the best audio, but not very portable, and one more thing to plug into a computer.

* Logitech H800 stereo headset (proprietary wireless via USB dongle). About the same as the Voyager Focus, minus all sorts of phone-related features we don't need.

I'm particularly annoyed that stereo headsets don't provide "playthrough" (right technical term?), where your own audio is played back at a low volume. If you wear a headset and speak, you'll not hear your own voice except the muffled rumbling coming from your throat, which I find extremely uncomfortable.

Coffee-shop noise seems to be particularly problematic for all headsets. I'm surprised there's no headset that provides an extremely short-range, directional, high-quality mic, so that they don't pick up any ambient noise except your voice. Everyone seems to be able to make a good headset; the mic is the weak point in all of these.

Any suggestions? Has anyone experimented with other solutions, such as a separate headset with a standalone recording mic? Has anyone solved the passthrough problem?
Interesting question to me: is any country offering easy-to-attain diplomatic-courier status, such that I could (legitimately) label my laptop bag as a diplomatic pouch to protect it from search?

(Yes, it's more complex than this; you'd have to be able to upload a manifest of what's in the bag and what it weighs to some service of that country's government, and then the country's embassy here would forward the manifest to the State Dept and they'd send you a sticker for your bag, etc.)
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https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/western-euro...

https://www.voanews.com/a/un-accuses-turkey-massive-destruct...

http://www.dw.com/en/unprecedented-destruction-of-kurdish-ci...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/09/destruction-s...

On the executions: References 56, 57, 58, 59: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish%E2%80%93Turkish_confli...

There's way more, these are just the top google search results on each of these claims.
That reflects some provisions of the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act, which limits what debt collectors and landlords can do when someone is called to serve. Interest rates on loans are reduced to 6%. Debt collection efforts are restricted. That law is from 1940, and is written with the assumption that creditors, too, must support the war effort.
> write software for a living

> resolved: works on my machine

Haven't we all thought this at least once in our careers?
By the way, briefly looking into Kastrup's views, they seem very similar to mine. I'll definitely look more into it.

Perhaps my main disagreement is that he puts other people's minds on the same level as one's subjective consciousness (but this is just after quickly skimming the paper).
Ask HN: Should we abandon our product?
Hi HN,

We've spent the last few months developing a product, but now we've hit a wall and we're thinking about abandoning it. We'd appreciate your brutally honest feedback about what we should do and if our solution makes any sense at all.

For context, here is our YC startup school presentation, and our landing page:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpVkonSHJQ

- https://tuiqo.com

Basically, we made an editor that tries to solve document versioning issues. While trying to find product market fit, we've separately tested it with different target groups, like writers, journalists, lawyers, academics and digital content creators. We kept getting great feedback from these groups, but had a hard time converting any actual users. We had to stop developing because while trying to sell it, everyone kept requesting more and more different features, and it seemed no matter what we would add, still no one was ready to pay for it.

Do you think there is any scenario where someone would find this useful enough to actually use it or pay money for it? Or did we just build something that seems interesting to a lot of people but no one is really willing to use it?
Well, we also use the dollar sign to signify a variable in bash and PHP even though we aren't talking about an amount of USD. Likewise we use single and doublequote to mean special things.

HTML tags have nothing to do with less than or greater than, yet here we are.

In conclusion, it's simply convenient to use the standard keys we have and to use the symbols that are on it to mean something different from their original meaning in order to be able to express ourselves succinctly so that we don't have to spend so much time typing as we'd otherwise have to.

Of course you could always buy yourself an APL keyboard and write your programs in APL and use an APL REPL as your command line instead of using bash ;)
Google seemed to have address some of these concerns
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/15/google-chrome-power-eff...
If that's true now, it was true 4 years ago too. The McCain/Rubio claims are what's new.
> and they refused to acknowledge his presence

Well of course, anything else would have been a car seat cosplay fail!
I mostly agree with the author's premise: we need to take a step back from the digital (Internet, social media) and return to the chemical/material/physical world to drive future productivity growth. That's what drew me to research advances in the embedded industry - working with companies that fuse physical and digital in safety-critical/industrial products every day.

His 2 calls to action:

(1) for the readers of his blog to spend more time thinking about industrial problems (how to build an aircraft, run a cargo ship logistics company, "meditate on the importance of steel in the economy")

(2) for VCs and investors to fund morale-boosting celebrations of industry, such as world fairs and more movies like "The Martian".

I think #1 is unrealistic - a lot of highly-trained people get paid to do this already, and as productivity growth slows, the need for efficiency in these industrial processes has only increased. That's why the ML implications of IoT are so heavily touted by all major players across automotive, A&D, industrial automation, energy & utilities, transportation, logistics, etc. I don't think it would help much for everyone to go about their day thinking about how HVDC electricity grids work, or how gasoline is synthesized from petroleum.

I think #2 would be helpful right now given the current political/media climate, but needs to be done extremely carefully. If done quickly/wrong many would be angry - look at the latest SV and QE-funded propaganda, so out of touch with the 99% of people in the rest of the country, can't solve pressing social and economic issues so they are making up some fantasy-land "world fair" to celebrate companies and people that stand for what the majority of the country perceives as social and moral decay.

Overall I feel where the author is coming from, but I think this piece is a bit out of touch with reality - maybe hence the "optimism" bit in the title :)
What is the message behind the showing tensorflow cpp codes on the update image? Even cpp programmers can code on the Sublime Text?
The first quantum computers will need smart software
Does HN markdown understand &mdash; or &lsquo;?

EDIT: Nope.
Great post! I'd be happy to hear about some numbers about performance and resources.
A tuple is just an ordered bag of elements. E.G. a graph is a tuple (V, E) where V (vertices) is a set and E (edges) is a binary relation between vertices.

Defining stuff as tuples makes sense, because then you can define the set of all such tuples (e.g. the set of all monoids for a given set M or the set of all graphs for the given vertices V) and formally reason about it :)
Yes. I actually have a hard time using control now if it isn't capslock, heh. On other computers IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR ME TO END UP TYPING IN CAPS. That said, caps to control is a great quality of life improvement for anyone that uses CTRL for anything, but especially emacs users :)
caddyserver.com emits those headers if you want to see them in action: https://urlscan.io/result/8093833b-8ac7-4d18-8f20-a02373f577... Go to the first transaction, click the show button and click "Show headers". Right now it says:

caddy-sponsors - This free web server is made possible by its sponsors: Minio, Uptime Robot, and Sourcegraph

Personal opinion: I've never understood the appeal of Caddy except for the builtin Let's Encrypt / TLS automagic support. nginx is very powerful and at the same time pretty easy to configure, and I think they split the features between the Open Source and commercial version pretty reasonably.
In the 90s you could get away with making a Windows desktop app and call it a day. No one expected your web site to have all the same functionality as your desktop app. And mobile apps weren't a thing. Mac was also a small enough portion of the market to ignore for many products.
I feel like dividing the company wouldn't even be necessary with an interop mandate. Software doesn't require any capital to build except time. Competitors would naturally start appearing, probably in a matter of months.
There not as competing or inconsistent as people often think. Faith is similar to the scientific method(s). You have faith in God not purely because he's god, but because he's proved himself to be god. We learn more for ourselves as we go along. An example is from university. In first year you'll have a math lecturer who knows a lot, but you're just starting out. They'll at times ask you to take their word on it, but they invite you to study it out yourself. Sometimes you can't yet to get know though, because of ability, time, etc.

And if they're so at odds, why throughout history as religion (and those practicing it) been 'scientists' themselves?
Managed Full Mesh VPN on AWS
Well, I guess, it's useful to remember that String type is a monoid after all! :)
Everything that is desired takes resources to get, the price tag is just an approximation.

That said your sentiment is appreciated.
> Don't confuse the limitations on mathematical notation with a limitation on imagination

Good luck proving or calculating anything.

You can define "infinitesimal/2 == infinitesimal", but nothing good will come out of it. A definition is no good unless it lets you do something.

Letting e=infinitesimal, you have e/2==e, so e==2e so 0==2e-e so 0==e. This definition is inconsistent with being able divide by non-zero integers and subtraction.
You can choose to select a definition of 'consciousness' that does not depend on experience, yet our experience is still wanting for an explanation.
When you donate money you arguably "purchase" the good feeling of doing something "good" and also social validation if you choose to make your donation public.

I think it's a great idea to entice more revenue by giving an option (a hoody) for people who are not interested in "purchasing" the above.
Yes, and I guarantee you will not find any speech or writing by Trump that says some class of people in the USA needs to be "exterminated". The analogy breaks down at that point. The logical leap comes at the step from "Trump is prejudiced against X" to "Trump wants to commit mass murder against X"

With Hitler, he explicitly proclaimed the need for genocide at the time that he was in jail and his movement consisted of about 600 guys in Bavaria (e.g. he wasn't simply glomming onto some broader social trend in Germany and riding it up. He created it)
It does not sound like you understand what net neutrality is. Have you read their statement on it [1]?

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
These people are nazis. They're not being labeled, they showed up and said "yes we're nazis look at this flag". Like the false equivalence between crazies saying every political figure is nazis and people that are calling themselves nazis with pride is ridiculous.

We're not operating in a grey area, one group is waving nazi flags, chanting blood and soil, and killing people; the other isn't. Pretty open and shut.

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spot the grey area http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/nazi-flag-charlott...
So you're taking the "pro-corporate control" position instead. Brilliant.
Even as a moral principle, free speech isn't a blank check to express whatever you want without consequences. The founders of free speech principles even acknowledge this with the harm principle, where someone's free speech liberty can be hindered if the expressions cause harm.
The Lonely Future of Buying Stuff
Well let's not generalize on the clunky part; there's always Visual Studio ;-)

I would generally agree with your point, especially on the discoverability front - this is why emacs and vim have an often dreaded learning curve. But OTOH, there are also a couple of rather nice benefits to the terminal focus that I don't currently see in more GUI focused editors. It would certainly be doable to replicate them, but it seems like no one's trying currently.

So I would hold off on forgetting about the terminal until there's a viable alternative around.

Oh, and: I've seen my fair share of botched remote access solutions on the Windows side of things and would probably use any TUI editor short of ed over any IDE in those situations. At least SSH is responsive.
I went through your Medium post and let me give you props for using writing as a cathartic tool.

My personal impression is that you might be seeing things a bit darker than they actually are.

I am absolutely sure that in real life we would manage to work together on a professional level. No need to fall for the media hype machine. With a deep breath, things are not as bad as they are made to be.

Cheers,
Who uses PHP (and Laravel) anyways?
It's a simple concept that appears all over in computing. I'm not surprised that that's the case.
I did notice (anecdotal) that people in management are usually taller. Taller than me I might add, and I'm a solid 6'2" (which is like... slightly above average in NL). A lot of people in management are closer to 6'6" (2 meters).
Diff eq-like behavior is everywhere: species population, popularity, technology, market saturation, economics, spring rates, etc.

(Malthus was partially ;) mistaken.)
It's not binary. There are some questionable patents out there for sure, but that doesn't mean that innovators shouldn't be able to get reasonable patents to incentivize risk taking. It's a complicated problem.
Ya, i did this a long time ago. All my computers have capsLock key mapped to CTRL
let's be honest here, no company is going to make change for the 0.001% who happen to disable javascript
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It isn't a question of actual dollars in circulation, you can always print more after all, it's a question of total economic value. All goods in circulation in the U.S. have a finite value, and it definitely is a zero sum game. You can add more goods and therefore value, but that can only happen at a certain rate (this would be tied into population growth, employment rate, and profit margins among other things). There are also close ties with median income as the value of goods tends to be tied directly to wealth distribution. Ultimately at any given time there is a finite amount of "wealth" to go around, if one person gets a bigger slice, then that means someone else has to take a smaller slice. People don't want to be millionaires because they have some unhealthy attraction to U.S. currency, they want to be millionaires because of the goods and services that they can trade that money for (or in many cases because they can use it for rent seeking to generate unearned income). The actual amount of currency in question is irrelevant, it's a question of access to those goods and services, and those goods and services are finite, therefore wealth is finite.