skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I naively believed that HPE was the remaining value from the HP brand. The rest being a HP logo and consumer market milking. I ... am sad.

How many HP employees liked HP's image for real (quality, engineering) ? They should spin off.
Turok already answered, but you might enjoy this classic "On being the right size."

Money quote: "A horse splashes."

https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
Good points - however, not sure if you're arguing against yourself here (or if you're talking about different time frames):

> If you double America's output today, and take the GDP up toward $40 trillion - who is going to buy all of those products and services in the near term? Nobody, it couldn't happen over a short period of historical time (10-20 years); that supply could not be absorbed (...)

> If you're the US in 1990 with a $6.x trillion economy (20-25% of global GDP), doubling that quickly is essentially impossible.

US GDP[1], inflation adjusted :

Dec 31, 1990	8.91 trillion

Dec 31, 2010	14.94 trillion

It's not quite double in 20 years, but it's closeish at 1.67x? (An actual question, I'm not sure if you'd consider it close). Looks like it'll be doubled this year - so I guess one could view that as the slow-down (the extra 7 years).

[1] http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-inflation-adjusted/table

Apparently those numbers are in "2009" dollars - while the numbers in "current" dollars is more like 6 to 15 (as opposed to 9 to 16) in the same period - I guess this might have to do with the 2008 crash?

https://bea.gov/national/xls/gdplev.xls
> Churchill's decisions directly lead to the death of millions of people in India. He's no better than Hitler

It gets even more ironic than that. During the 1940s Bengal famine, things were so bad that the Axis powers offered to step in and send humanitarian aid. Churchill not only refused, but he tried to prevent the newspapers from printing news of the offer, so that people wouldn't know how truly unnecessary their starvation was.

Lest I be mistaken, this is not to say that the Axis powers were somehow anything other than evil themselves. But it does highlight the level of hypocrisy of the British to claim the moral high ground when their own leader was intentionally starving millions to death out of spite. (And yes, it was spite - read what Churchill himself said on the topic).
Parse.ly recently wrote a fairly insightful piece about their reasons for taking less funding than was on the table: https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/
> I'd advise anyone to prioritize having a work they thoroughly enjoy well ahead of a work that requires less hours.

Thanks, that's really insightful. I've been trying to minimize my work hours lately, but am starting to realize it might be that I'm not enjoying the job as much as I should be.

Seems like the ideal job would be one that you _could_ get done in minimal hours but _don't want to_. If you find yourself in that situation, you have a lot of control of your work/life balance.

At that point whether you are doing it for yourself or an employer doesn't matter as much, though it's pretty hard to find companies that measure employees on output rather than input. Or rather, ones that understand that more input _from a given developer_ won't necessarily deliver more, or at least higher quality, output.
Committed Use Discounts for Google Compute Engine
You're definitely not the only one. But in my eyes it's major. As you pointed out -- it's insulting to the reader's intelligence.

That would be fine btw... the real problem is when a valuable material is hidden behind clickbaity titles. Now _THAT_ is what irks me personally --
and is sadly happening lately.
So what you're saying is that some people accept poor startup offers because they want to work for a startup so badly that the opportunity to do so outweighs the bad risk they are taking? How is that anyone's fault except their own?

In my opinion that kind of person is in serious need of a moment of clarity. And refusing to acknowledge that there are people in the world that see things differently is quite uncivil IMO.

When I was younger, I took several craptastic startup offers because of the allure of working for a startup. Not one of them panned out. But I also turned down offers from Autodesk and Nvidia at a time when accepting would have made me worth 50 to 100 million dollars today. Feeling loyal to those craptastic startups and also feeling somewhat that I had no other options were part of why I made those bad calls. Don't be former me.
"cherry-picking "historians" such as yourself."

I've never claimed to be a historian, and it's impossible to not leave lots of things out in a Hacker News comment, especially if the scope is as broad as "all historical atrocities". I didn't write these Wikipedia pages, I'm just linking to them out of convenience since I can't link to copyrighted history books.
My medical group has a website which allows you to send text messages to your doctor. It all gets filtered through staff, of course, but you usually get a response from the doctor. Sometimes the response is "you need to make an appointment", but it's really handy for conditions you can monitor at home like hypertension and diabetes.

I've been called a couple times by one of my doctors after I sent a message when she wanted additional information or wanted to verify something before adjusting my meds.

From what I can tell the big problem is doctors don't get paid for phone calls, at least in the US. A doctor who spent too much time on the phone would go broke.
A new verse in the Book of Mozilla for Firefox 58
Another "lovely" thing about PA is that will allow the loudest of the "apps" (groan) to ramp up the master control (do not recall the "feature" name right now).

Do wonder how much future hearing loss it has created by sudden spikes in volume...
It's not just one famine. There have been many. It's estimated that anywhere from 10 to 40 million died in these alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-35-millio...
I know it is popular to say that these techniques are based on how the brain works, but when I read about them, I have my doubts.

Can anyone take a real world example of human behavior and show me how it relates to how these techniques predict humans will behave?

I love the field but feel like there is a temptation to take giant leaps not supported by other observations.
I see this triggered a post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15313838
See ¶ 38 and ¶¶ 47-49 of the complaint: https://www.eff.org/document/alasaad-v-duke-complaint
For general TSA searches, you are correct, but border security is not about ensuring the safe transportation of the person crossing the border, so I am not sure how your framework makes sense.
The plaintiffs are mostly US citizens, who (in theory) have rights the government is supposed to respect even if they are far from US territory.
It's just data in memory. Rowstores are read from memory and columnstores are read from disk. The architecture uses leaf nodes and aggregator nodes so aggregrator memory is used for assembling the final results of a query.

Version 6 is even faster, you can try out the beta: http://www1.memsql.com/beta-6.3-features.html
That's intentional- this is "Part 1 - Browsers today."
Yeah, "int'l standard" in my comment referred to standardization by the International Standards Organization, not the old "international" export-strength keys. I'm saying I think standardizing weak params is a bad idea, even if strong ones are offered too; it gives folks who could afford sane block/key sizes an excuse to cheap out and use something bad and say "it's standard."

To the extent industry is calling for cheaper crypto, there are some existing civilian candidates (like the eSTREAM hardware profile though I haven't seen much interest in it), or we could have an open competition, responding to what civilian security folks say they're missing. You could definitely get, e.g. gate area down vs. AES or ChaCha without sacrificing sane block/key sizes.
More importantly it doesn't help at all with cross-column correlations. It can help with skew in between various rows though.
Introducing the FOAM Protocol, enabling a consensus-driven map of the world
This clickbait article links to a dailymail article posted in July 2014 as the source, which links to a NYTimes article posted 2 days earlier in 07/2014 as the source.

The article in NYT is about a phd student from Harvard showing the correlation in Google Trends wrt "iPhone slow"keyword and concluding that the Google Trends show a correlation and cannot be concluded that "Apple slows down old iPhones..." as it is in the title.

So much for a "Harvard Study".
CVS will limit opioid prescriptions to 7 days
Kubernetes 101 Workshop: How to get a simple app up and running on Kubernetes
I also used to think that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism, until I learned more about it. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews, both inside and outside Israel. This short clip explains the difference pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dJLP3L0Xw
If they can’t establish a better situation for US citizens, there’s no way they could ever generalize it. Seems like a sound tactic on the ACLU/EFFs part to me.
It will in any case not get any maintenance, so expect things to break with no recourse as new versions are released.

This similar to how on paper Firefox can still be compiled with GTK2, but it is not supported.
Apologies if this is a derail, but how does DirectComposition compare to IDXGISwapChain1::Present1 for high performance scrolling and things like blinking a cursor with minimal energy usage? I was looking at the latter for the Windows port of xi-editor, and unaware of the former. I'm less concerned with fancy graphics effects, but perhaps if they're available at low cost I would consider using them.

I'm also looking to optimize smoothness on window resize, which I've noticed to be pretty janky in many applications.
Same here.

I am beting once WebAssembly gets mature enough, we will get the revenge of plugins.
PR hacks are mostly Government and Corporations.
They routinely dribble out acronym babble and veiled feel-good propaganda. I read a lot of foreign policy and corporate announcements, so it's pretty common to see PR spread out across the net unattributed.

Oftentimes PR firms are happy for you to print their copy - but they answer no questions and offer no insights.
> In the US, republicans control the presidency and congress. It means that somewhere around 50% of american people believe that the rich should be taxed much less.

It does not. Democrats have always policed their taxation language towards "high income" and never "rich". The difference between the two is that the second group does not have to work to generate such income. The money flowing from inheritance, trust fund, municipal bonds, oil wells or massive land holdings is good enough.

How many wealth taxes have Democrats proposed while controlling various branches and enjoying a supermajority back in the days?
Casual 3D: High quality 3D reconstruction from 2D images
Security researchers warn GO Keyboard is spying on millions of Android users
Only thing I think ought to be improved is that readers ought to earn access to the new top rankings by reading and ranking at least a few new articles
"WebAssembly addresses the problem of safe, fast, portable low-level code on the Web"

Bad idea. The beauty of HTML/css/js semantics is lost.
Would it be possible to do a special distribution for non emacs users? I'm thinking of one download with emacs + magit + CUA mode by default + run magit-status on startup (or whatever else would be appropriate).

So it looks like a standalone git client rather than emacs.

I'm an emacs user, so I would never use this, but it's just a thought.
NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet [video]
These are individual people. If the British government was to complain, then that could be considered hypocritical. But an individual person can't be held to account for actions taken, by others and (quite probably) before they were born.
> I've never claimed to be a historian

That's why they put it in quotes.
This issue is investment ratchets and guerentees.

IE, if the company does a down round, certain investors are privileged and get their money back first, without taking any of the loss.

Imagine if you own half of a billion dollar company, and an investor owns the other half, but has full guarantees on their 500 million dollars that they invested in your company.

That means that if the company's valuation goes down to 500 million and you sell, the investor loses 0$ and gets their full investment back, whereas you are left with nothing.
Hm, not offhand, but one reason for the discrepancy may be the way Indian trade is counted versus trade with other parts of Asia (both companies did trade outside the Indian subcontinent as well). Furthermore, the Dutch company was much more organized in its earliest days, being the first publicly traded company, so it's possible that the British company reports are underestimated, depending on the timeframe we're talking about
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I'd have to go back and check, though; I'm not certain.
Calling it 8K seems a little dishonest. It's really just 2 4K screens. Still impressive, but certainly not 8K.
All colonialism can be criticized except zionism?
My understanding is what tptacek said: they were proposed for real-world use, with IoT and other small/embedded platforms as the justification.
> I absolutely don't want to be rude, but the 'inventor' of ADHD (Eisenberg), when he died, said that ADHD is a pharmaceutical dease and the cause is social. Wrong food, bad sleeping habits, wrong teaching methods all influence the way we get stimulated. Studies agree with this.

Do you know anyone with ADHD? When you talk with them and something happens, like a phone rings, their minds completely zoom out and they instead become focused on something else. It is not possible to continue the original conversation because they have forgot everything about it. It can be incredibly frustrating because it is like talking to a human gold fish. Although they can't do anything about it because it is just the way they are.

My point is that it is incredibly obviously a clinical condition and not something "behavior change" can fix.
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit – Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers
Your second paragraph works if you insert pretty much any word instead of devices, including drugs or gold bullion. Which is a consistent position, but one that needs the backing of much more than a paragraph.
30-minute guide to rocking your next coding interview
This is seriously well done. I love great stats. I guess the real question here is how memorable is something versus how prolific it is? Could you have the most amazingly memorable logo, without it plastered on every inch of the earth? Likely not.
You can find a local bookstore at which to buy it here:
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393608717
Digital signal (disambiguation)
How you do multiple async http requests in rust? Last time I checked the only way do it was using tokio crate. But tokio is a huge mess and looked like Rust++. I.e. some language based on rust.
All they did was lower the profit. Most everything is electronic now anyway. I have a relationship with a my Logistics company. They charge approx $2800 for a 40ft container to my door from Hangzhou. The ship takes 8-10 days on the water, approx 10 days by rail (East Coast). I'm not sure these guys could save me time or money since my containers already come on one of the fastest ships.

The problem is Container ships leave on weekends. If you don't get your shipment to the dock by early Friday it isn't going. You have to wait until next week for it to leave.

On another note he did found import genius which presented everyone's customs / shipping information for anyone else to see in a nice format. I would bet he leveraged the data to figure out how to approach the logistics industry. It gave him an advantage over his competitors that were old school. Probably mined the customs database he fed into Import Genius. It has all shipping records for almost every country in the world.

Glad to see someone shaking up the industry. Smart guy...
Hi DenisM, what's your contact info? Are you hiring a lead role? The industry is very intriguing and would love to learn more.
Oracle started before microcomputers (PCs) were anything but toys. In 1983, they were multiplatform: mainframes and minicomputers. a 1983 minicomputer might have 2 CPUs, each good for 2 MIPS, 8 MB of RAM and primary storage of as much as a gigabyte or two of disks.

In the early 2000s, a serious database machine -- say, a Sun E10000 - had up to 64 CPUs, running at 400-500MHz each, 64 GB of RAM, and a huge cabinet full of disks.

Now you can call up a SuperMicro VAR and order a 64-core AMD EPYC server with 2TB of RAM and 4 TB of NVMe drives, that talks to other machines over a 100Gb/s ethernet, for a price around the same as a used Tesla S85.

If your database is under 2TB, it all fits in RAM on commodity hardware, where commodity is defined as "anyone with a credit card can order it without even talking to sales".
Smartphone cameras are so good now, the differences in photo quality are pretty negligible between flagships. IMO, DxOMark basically makes mountains out of mole hills.

Given the option, I'd rather have killer new features like 3D scanning [1] than a bokeh effect which is slightly better to a trained eye.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/31/16232720/sony-xperia-xz1-...
“Temple Arm”: the first myoelectric, pattern-recognition prosthesis [1963-73] [pdf]
Is there any service like Travis CI or CircleDI that lets you add your own slaves? Jenkins let's you turn a box into a slave by running a simple jar file.

It would be nice if CircleCI or Travis CI offered as that would mean not having to pay them for instances and instead turning AWS instances into CircleCI/Travis slaves at a lower per-instance cost. I'd still be happy to pay for their website and for their system managing the slaves.
$80k is not senior.

And no, finding a job in 2 weeks is not realistically obtainable for a senior engineer. Try 6 months to a year. This whole 'developer shortage' BS I keep hearing needs to stop.

And besides, most employers' hiring timelines (from first contact to first day on the job) are longer than 2 weeks.
Right. It looks like tree tabs is being ported too, which I'm glad about.
If you have such a huge knowledge how come you haven't mentioned a particular HUGE difference between Spain and Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia one of the main reasons of the war and secession was RELIGION, in Spain there's no such clash between muslims and catholics.
It's really interesting how many people remember the previous version of any given logo. I wonder if this means these logos were updated at the correct time, so when people see them they seem fresh and modern.
It's not even worth thinking of it as a currency until the volatility stabilizes, which may never happen. It's a store of value.
True.

It started with a fairly specific pathway to "revolutionize". Thus always with cliches. They start as meaningful terms, with some interesting insights rolled in. Then literally becomes literally: People who don't understand the joke still use it.
Another "unity-style" one to watch is Atomic Engine (https://atomicgameengine.com/), which is from Josh Engebretson, who came out of the GarageGames scene and is one of the most prolific and talented developers I've ever seen.

Atomic is structured very similar to unity, has a C++ core and C# and Javascript bindings, but unlike unity the C++ core (as well as the editor) is open source so you can modify and customize it if needed.
> That hypothetical problem is anecdotal

If it's anecdotal - that is, it happened at least once, so there's an anecdote of when it happened - then it's not hypothetical.

And, in fact, it's not hypothetical. It happens. It has happened. Instances have been cited in this thread. It may not be the statistically most likely outcome, but it does happen.
Are there any projects in the works for an open-source-friendly Power9 system that doesn't cost $6k?
A massive sad part of all this is that so much of what is going on in Linux DE land right now seems to be driven by a pipe dream called multiseat. Or effectively using software to turn a Linux desktop install into a desktop mainframe.

This by attaching a bunch of peripherals and use software to assign them to groups that effectively form the equivalent of a graphical terminal.

All this supposedly in the hopes of introducing affordable computing to schools in the developing world. But said schools have already tested and discarded this idea, so why the DEs keep pushing it is a mystery.
I think your post actually proves the point of the person you were disagreeing with.

If you, someone experienced with "real" camera gear, were "astonished" by the iphone 7+ pictures and thought they were taken by "five grand worth of gear", then for the average person further gains are going to be unremarkable.

That's kind of a strange argument, no? You're saying that if experienced photographers think the improvement is large, then average people can't tell the difference?

That's very strange.

Have a look at e.g. this paper from Google. http://www.hdrplusdata.org/hdrplus_preprint.pdf These changes certainly count as "astonishing" to me (let's say, an "enthusiastic amateaur" photog), and I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that this tech is insignificant to the average user.
Jamie Dimon is being accused of market abuse in Sweden for badmouthing Bitcoin
Just because it is in the TV show doesn't mean it's not based on real stuff. Silicon Valley is satire and they have some of the best consultants in the business. A lot of stuff on the show is close to reality.

Sometimes it gets it so close I kind of cringe because I've been through similar things in real life.

The tabs vs spaces argument comes to mind.

Edit: to stay on topic. As other people said, I would take a lower valuation in a heartbeat if it gives away less equity and it is enough money to get me to another round (or exit) at a higher valuation owning more of the company.
I've said the same, but you just know somebody comes along and says "If we render our entire site into a <canvas> it'll make ad blocking more difficult," and then poof there goes the last 20 years of work on accessibility.
How our team is growing by 120,000 this summer
Indeed. But he's right to point that out.
With a reengineered manufacturing workflow factories could slow and speed with available energy. Energy will soon be free, but only during daylight hours. If one was going to have a PV powered machine shop, it would more advantageous to spend nearly all the money on building the largest sized array with almost no battery storage. One could run a welder, lathe, etc directly from PV. On days when not using generating capacity, dump it into a kiln, pump water, smash gravel, etc.

James Burke, "Water Wheel Industrial Revolution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ii_x2QxHlI
The problem get exacerbated by the fact that nearly every so-called picture friendly sharing service (Facebook, Instagram, etc) recompresses the shit out of uploads, destroying detail and mushing colors. It was so bad that I told my friend one of his shots was out of focus, except it was perfectly sharp in the original. I get that bandwidth and storage cost money, but there should be certain limits to how far you compress, or these services should use better formats (the state of the art is really promising).
Revolutionary guitar string rocks the guitar world
Warning: A scientific result that a treatment "doesn't help" is always suspicious: (A) The study may have neglected to measure all the ways the treatment might help. (B) Getting a result of "doesn't help" is always easy -- just use a silly means, e.g., insensitive or nearly irrelevant, of evaluation.
The Welfare State in the Twenty First Century by Joseph E. Stiglitz [pdf]