skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inspired by biology is typically a better way to think about it. Airplanes have wings inspired from biological birds, and they share some structural similarities, but in practice they serve very different functions.
Isn't Lightning Network a layer to centralize what was intended to be a decentralized system?
but how do you gamify borrowing then?
ah, "microsoft people." Left that rigorously-walled garden a long time ago without looking back... it was the right move for me.
The First Native Parallel Graph
What if they are still benefiting from those historical acts ?
Firefox has fixed all issues for me. I am about to dump Chrome, just give me fast startup time.
Related story: https://www.datanami.com/2017/09/19/tigergraph-emerges-nativ...
> You're not just supposed to blindly reprint things people say.

They did not reproduce what he said as though the content of his statement was factual - they reproduced it to report what he had said.

To illustrate the point further, they had his quote:

> Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: "I fully support TfL's decision - it would be wrong if TfL continued to license Uber if there is any way that this could pose a threat to Londoners' safety and security."

and then several paragraphs later they had this from an Uber driver:

> But one driver with Uber in London said: "I don't think it is a fair decision. Uber offers a flexible schedule, and a weekly income."

The also reported on statements by "Fred Jones, head of cities for Uber across the UK and Ireland", and "Uber's general manager in London Tom Elvidge".

Reporting on the statements of a range of parties interested in a particular dispute is perfectly reasonable journalism, and should not be compared to opinion-led journalism where the statements of favourable individuals are rewritten as though they were facts.

To clarify, I'm not claiming that the BBC as an institution is devoid of opinion-led journalism, I just don't think that demanding that journalists substantiate the claims of interested parties (as O.P. did) is very reasonable.
Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius Complete Aspiring Undersea Cable Project
> There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews, both inside and outside Israel

Yes, Zionism was originally a minority nationalist movement within the Orthodox and Conservative Jewish communities. Only more recently did they become larger, empowered in part for political reasons by other political powers.

There are still large sects of Orthodox Judaism that believe that the existence of Israel actually prevents the Messiah from coming, because the true Israeli state will be founded by the Messiah.

In short: it's complicated. Not all Jews are Xionists, and not a Zionists are Jewish (anti-Semitic white nationalists are actually big supporters of Israel for reasons that aren't too surprising if you think about their motivations and the implications). And the reverse is true in both directions for people who oppose Zionism or the current Israeli state.
This is actually a really nice way to read HN. I just tried it in Emacs with https://github.com/ardekantur/gopher.el and it seems to work well!
I think on balance a better response to sordid histories is acknowledgement and solemn remembrance. It is important to recognize, as enlightened folks, just how terrible our ancestors misdeeds often were. That many groups often perpetrated such atrocities ought not be a reason to say "well we were just as bad as everyone else". Each person should draw a line from their own group's history to themselves and feel empathy towards the oppressed and yes, a bit of shame, that such things had been done by their ancestors. I'm not suggesting that means we walk around with our heads hung all the time, but rather that we challenge ourselves: how will we be different than them and what parts of our world are not yet just. Where do we have a part in making them more so?
It would seem to me that the Federal Government is in charge of the border, and that until you are actually in the United States, you have no reasonable expectation of the Bill of Rights. There are many things that need to get checked at the border. Maybe they could just have a judge there to stamp each request as it goes through.
You keep using the word "fair". What do you think it means?
In addition to the other responses to this comment, I'll note that Eisenhower Tunnel has tremendous stress and inherent danger in and of itself. Let's follow the other route of this driver's path.

Coming out of Georgetown drivers begin a long, steep incline up to the tunnel. As you climb the last few miles to the tunnel, the speed limit drops from 65MPH to 55MPH and you have some folks who instantly do the -10MPH acceleration and you have others who don't think that they need to slow at all. Then comes the jockeying for position with insane zipper merges as everyone squeezes down to 2 lanes. Once you're in the tunnel, the speed limit drops again and the it's clear that the "no lane changing in the tunnel" is roundly ignored as cars zip in and out of lanes. This lane changing sometimes leads to poor choices as someone who believes they're making a good (though technically illegal) move must immediately brake because they didn't see the slower car in the other lane to which they've moved. This all happens in a tight, two-lane tube.

Once you exit the tunnel, we're once again treated to an expansion to four lanes and it's a mad dash to fill all lanes as fast as possible to see who can make it to Silverthorne first. All lanes filled. We're now on the windward side of the mountain and here, anything can happen. Snowstorms in July. Slushy roads and a swarm of Subarus and Jeep Grand Cherokees either blasting past you at 70MPH or clogging lanes at 45MPH as we all manage the steep descent into Silverthorne. One (maybe two) runaway truck ramp is all that's available to you as you have to navigate the chaos around you.

I drive both roads frequently because I love the mountains and I love heading west end exploring this area. This driver risked far fewer lives taking by Loveland Pass than he did by staying on I-70. Since you've later admitted to having never driven in the mountains, I think it would be best for you to scale back the rhetoric until you gather a bit more information.
Public-key encryption. The report item could be encrypted with the customer's public key, but to read the report after it's added, the customer would need to provide access to a private key.
This is a really poor article. Wages are growing, and at their fastest rate in history. Japan is not the world. Worldwide, labour's share of income has declined modestly, but that can be fully explained by the global decline in the labour participation rate:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS

And a declining LPR is an expected result of higher incomes (more people can afford to go to school, live on government assistance and retire when per capita income increases).
Agreed. There will also be the "This will prevent scrapers" excuse. Whatever the silly rationalization for all-Flash websites was will be invoked, as well.
Can someone explain the red-bag purple-bag analogy they use at the beginning? Made no sense to me.
Yes.

We will take aptitude over experience. In particular, a commitment to master the craft. Mastery has many parts to it: understanding the domain area with its parts and participants, understanding what our company can and should offer to the ecosystem, seeking out the best way you can contribute to that offering (and to the customers), studying the elemental parts that factor into decisions to be made. We don't expect you to come in like that, we do expect that you will commit to getting there.

This job I would say is 80% coding and 20% "research". So coding is a major part, but I can take the skill growth velocity over the skill itself.

For example, one way to understand the domain is to take "Supply Chain Management" course from MIT [1]. I am taking it now (first assignment dropped two days ago), not sure yet if it's any good though.

[1] http://scm.mit.edu/micromasters
The steep turns should inherently force more caution. The wide-open feel as you exit Eisenhower makes for some of the worst highway decisions I've ever seen.
You're being downvoted because this is quite offtopic for this thread; I suggest you post to https://users.rust-lang.org/ for these kinds of questions.
Indeed, or at least the dissolution of imperial legacy culture through domination by the populations and cultures of ex-colonies. Independence was a mistake. It only cemented global apartheid. There is still time to demand democracy instead, starting with imperial states granting the residents of former colonies the full rights of citizens unconditionally.
There's a ton of work being done at the compiler level to make Tokio more pleasant. This includes:

1. async/await. This is analogous to async/await in C# and ES6, and should make the syntax a lot nicer. https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-await

2. Coroutines. This is the supporting technology for async/await. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2033-expe...

3. 'impl Trait'. This provides a way to say, "Look, my return type implements 'Trait', but the actual type declaration is way to tedious to write out, and anyway, it's private. This will help a lot with cleaning up complex Tokio types. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1522-cons...

At work, we use Rust, but we're avoiding using Tokio until these features land.
HTML is also much a more convenient encoding for content than writing on the canvas. It's fully declarative¹ and everything.

Yet, plenty of people already prefer to send you a black page and manually write everything on the DOM's document. I certainly do not understand them, but they are way too common.

1 - You just write your content, and it's there. There isn't more declarative than that.
This guy says the conventional wisdom in the medical profession is wrong. I don't know if he's right, but just repeating the conventional wisdom seems like an unenlightening response.
What should keep Facebook shareholders up at night
Does that meant that your comment had little or nothing to do with the "panic and a crash every few years" from the comment of nerdponx that you were replying to?

Because I thought they were connected, and was following that same topic of "panic and crash".
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/71neat/new_a...

I like how the ID is 71neat
I used to get those all the freaking time. And it really sucks, because you start to feel a bit better, and then it drags on and on and on and you don't want to take antibiotics, but you don't want to feel shitty and drained and not do anything either.
Yes, you're right about index-only scans, in the sense that the data in the indexed columns can be used in some cases. As I understand it, indexed organized tables goes further than that in that row data for non-indexed columns is also included.
If Google is interested in acquiring the engineering talent of these at will employees, that seems like a strong signal that they're worth a lot more than they think, no?

At the very least, they should negotiate directly with Google to sweeten their deal, preferably with at least one counteroffer for their talent. On the other hand, if Google is making a better offer than all other comers, then they should just take it. If you don't at least attempt to negotiate, I can almost guarantee you're leaving something on the table.
Road navigation apps only work as well as they do because they lock your position to the road and assume no excessive changes in velocity.
I miss gopher, probably somewhat like folks a little older than me might say they miss dial-in BBS’s. All sorts of interesting and arcane content you could find, from a myriad of sources.

Nowadays the most varied content seems to come from only a handful of sources.
To be fair, usually when companies lay people off with no notice, in these high profile layoffs, they will include severance (aka, a fat chunk of money).
The distinction I would suggest is that CBP should have the power to search the effects of entering travelers looking for physical contraband; so, for instance, to examine a laptop and cell phone to make sure they're not fakes full of cocaine or fentanyl or something. They should have no jurisdiction over information. They don't get to examine all the bits coming into the country over the Internet, and we certainly don't want to give them that power!

The idea that the CBP can make a meaningful difference to the security of this country by searching the informational effects of .1% of incoming travelers, when there's I-don't-know-how-many gigabits/sec of connectivity to other countries that anyone in the US can use by firing up their smartphone, is ludicrous on its face. The idea that they can accurately select the .1% of travelers that might be carrying evidence of a crime just by looking at them is equally ludicrous.
I’m impressed by how stable it is! I know it’s a nightly that’s two stable versions “behind,” yet it’s been totally solid for me so far.

I’m surprised the built in containers left behind the extensions option to always a url open in a specific container. To me that’s the unique interesting bit — my banks can always be in my banking container, Facebook in a social, etc. By having the browser force the mapping I can make sure that I minimize cross-contamination, reducing attack surface area and increasing privacy.
NASA’s asteroid mission is slingshotting around Earth today
The most interesting thing, these misdeeds are judged with the very eyes of morality created by the British themselves.
This comment is an oversimplification.

There are many situations where the marginal cost per employee is negligible, but the cost to missing deadlines or failing to complete every item is significant.
My first thought was "It couldn't possibly be more boring than I think", then in the article I see it's the more accurate title for the book I read that convinced me of that.

tl;dr. Even though Tulipmania might have been an exciting and fascinating event, the actual details of what/why it happened have been lost to history. There are ledgers and letters mentioning tulip prices and do definitely show a bubble. But there's not really any information on why people thought tulips were worth the price they were promising. As with investors today, they generally don't make their motives public, and when they do, you can't necessarily trust them to be honest.
I don't think your comment is logical.

> then for the average person further gains are going to be unremarkable

I'm the average person, I'm blown away by each iteration's improvement. I can already feel like the quality of the pictures I took with my previous phones were completely shitty whereas I did not noticed back then due to my lack of exposure with good quality pictures.

I have an iPhone 6S but I'm being tickled by the idea of upgrading just for the camera. Of course I won't, this is too expensive, but in a year or two I will.
works like a charm, though the last update was too old for me to get to read this discussion via Gopher.
It will happen if:

about:preferences#applications ->
Portable Document Format (PDF) ->
Use firefox

is set. A fix is to set

about:preferences#applications ->
Portable Document Format (PDF) ->
Preview in firefox

The problem can be caused (in Ubuntu 16.04) by selecting Firefox as the system default for PDF viewing.
How to Build a Habit?   Seinfeld Strategy
They'd reduce inequality but will never be fully realised as it'd be too politically unpopular. Perceived fairness is more important to most people than equality.
GitLab CI does this.
So I'm not suggesting building a new straight-jacket, and for example I am not suggesting people should be forced to work all 16 hours of daylight in a UK summer and never any more than 8 including travel mid-winter.

But working from home for most using power only for lighting and laptop in the the winter on days that would otherwise be a grim commute sounds better all round I think. Apart from anything else a lot less time lost to flu! As an employer I've thought a bit about the logistics and it could work well.

Can we kill DST while we're at it, please? B^>
For me the native version is stunningly good. Both on desktop and mobile devices. It loads tremendously fast, has the correct font types and no smuck.

The only sidestep I sometimes make is to Boreal[1][2] as a native ios app. It has a more convenient way if reading the comments. Double tap a comment to collapse instead of hit the little minus sign. Especially as I read with only my left hand and minus sign is on the right. Funny how little things can be so great. In addition it's indenting is easier to follow. However, I keep switching back to the default hn site as ios doesn't let you set chrome as default browser so you can't open all articles default in chrome from Boreal (you can in safari, embedded safari, their native browser or their in-app browser).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9830622 (old version, current version is much better).

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/boreal-hacker-news-client/id...
How first time founders accidentally alienate engineers
The poster child for hype over substance. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...
Exactly. Image compensation and the concoction of an HDR image are the visual equivalent of a loudness enhanced audio file.

Loudness enhancement reduces the dynamic range of the source, and HDR enhancement also removes information to allow different information to be more easily perceived by the human.
The hard thing is to have a Windows PulseAudio server and send all audio there.

Instructions here: https://parseq.co.uk/wordpress/archives/setting-up-pulseaudi...

It worked, but sadly, PulseAudio for Windows doesn't support 5.1 sound, only stereo.
It's not a great analogy IMO. It's just stating that if you don't address all of your customers' concerns, they will stall. I've got seven metrics [red bags] on which I evaluate these vendors, and your webpage covers five of them in ten bullet points. I wonder if it will handle these other two criteria, hmm. I'd better put this in a queue to think about later (keep waiting for my bags). Vs: "all my bags are here, shut up and take my money!"
The quote explains exactly why: the higher the current round, the more risk that the next round will be a down round.

Investment valuations are strongly related to the amount raised. Don't think of it as "this is how much we think your company is worth" but more as "we want to invest in you and we're going to set a valuation based on the amount of capital we want to invest and the ownership we want to take".
Alas poor applets, they were before their time.
Working link:

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/wechat-c...
WeChat Gives Chinese Government Nearly All Private User Data
For interseasonal energy storage it does, sadly!
I have my whole life on my phone and laptop. Most of the details and particularly papers, as stated in the 4th, of my life are contained there. I also need my devices to function and keep up like a normal person in 2017, and to keep a job.

So if I need to leave the country and come back, and must bring them, I just forfeited my expectation of privacy guaranteed by the bill of rights?
> What's the reasonable thing to do when a grow-memory instruction returns -1?

99% of the time, you proceed to try to write into address (-1) and your process is killed by the supervisor. Despite what many people say, that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, if you can afford to have your process killed.

The rest of the time, you'll do something very application dependent, like cleaning caches, optimizing for space instead of time, postponing some task, etc.
it is illegal for privately owned publications to publish government calls for the referendum. They receive threatening letters asking them to comply, and many pulications thus refuse to publish these calls.
I can't agree with you, reading comments is an awful experience on both desktop and mobile. Their addition of the [-] eases the pain but it is still painful to click on it on mobile, and it still on the freaking right of every comments instead of being on the left.

I know have two [-] [-] on both side of each comments because I use a firefox plugin to have one in the right place.
I think the thing is that it was damn "easy" to spin up a half-assed BBS, gopher, or even a early HTML site.
After buying new Apple computers for 25 years and iPhones for 10 years now I can attest that they've done this.

My wife has recently been complaining that her iPhone 6 is getting slow and has with everyone she had before it.

I will give Apple credit for not obsoleting my `09 Mac Mini as fast as they did every Mac I purchased before it, but it's definitely on that path now because it won't run their latest OS.

Not sure if I'll buy a new one. The "Mini" is the only thing they have that I'd consider and if they don't keep one in the $500 range I'll build a Linux box and use it going forward from here.
You're suggesting it's not unreasonable, but your evidence of a reason is poor.

I did not accuse anyone of being apathetic or lazy (nether word is in my comment) but I do question the behavior because it is drastically less efficient than tap water.

My mother is anything but apathetic and lazy but has always insisted on bottled water only. I have quesioned it and my impression is that she is marketed to. It seems like a comfort food of sorts.

Of course people are different. This point brought nothing but noise to the conversation. Face palm.
I don't have an employer that cares about my schedule. It's literally never come up. My daily productivity has increased noticably since this regimen, and if my employer didn't understand that as a benefit, they'd be silly.

By the way I'm active for more than 4 hours a day, and after the morning sprint I'll spend some time chatting about business, reading and learning, triaging issues, etc. It's just that I don't spend more than 4 hours intensively coding or debugging.
Work from home, sleep more than seven hours, take naps, work in uninterrupted 3-hour bursts? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess the author has no children.
From a pedagogical point of view, I think it's a very strange choice to go with gradient descent in this case. It makes linear regression look like something much more complicated than it actually is. People might be misled into thinking they need to hand code gradient descent every time they do a regression, for their 100 point dataset.
I don't get it, from the video, they say brokers make 3-5 billion a year, yet, they value the company at 800 million?

I've never seen a startup valued at this large percentage of market size

please correct me if I'm wrong
Yes, the "slow and speed" insight is good. For many processes it need not be binary.

Maybe your favourite highly processed calorie-heavy snack is made in slightly smaller batches in winter and gets a bit more expensive. Demand may be more elastic than currently expected.
Walmart tests delivering groceries straight to fridge
I suspect you're being downvoted for being off-topic, consider asking on reddit.com/r/rust or StackOverflow.
Oy, that has to be the most depressing thing I've read all day.
Why I cannot defend Equifax’s CISO
Can Code Review Etiquette Be a Thing?
What law says they have no rights? That seems to supercede the constitution, which can't be done. Constitution needs to be interpreted in this case.
Or: how modern rationalists reinterpret historical records of psychic imagery through a matierialist causality predicated on psychadelic chemicals, because 1960s.