skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it support negative long integers?

EDIT: I am without actual internet or mobile tethering and an unable to `git clone https://github.com/django/django -b stable/2.0.x` and check out this convenient new feature.
Podyn: DynamoDB to PostgreSQL replication
Had no clue this was "a thing". I didn't buy it because "I can't believe we're importing garlic bla bla bla...".
Sentences aren't random.
You do realize that you are backing a dollar with a dollar?

But you cannot eat a dollar or play games on a dollar or drive with it. In and of itself a dollar is just a piece of paper and has an intrinsic value of say 1ct.

So adding a paper note to the economy increases the backing by 1ct and the currency by 1$. Adding an iPhone increases the assets by say 100$ (just made that up by taking 500$ cost - 400$ used materials) and leaves the currency as it is.

Hmm, now that I think of it: Are you maybe talking about accounting?
What's HEIF and HEVC in iOS 11 and MacOS High Sierra?
Serious question: should I flag op for posting a popular flamewar topic?

Edit: I do not appreciate being painted as a fringe extremist for refusing to ignore data. This "feminist" culture extends to HN, where I have been repeatedly down voted to oblivion for daring to suggest anything in this article.

The irony of course is that the down votes support everything that the "extremists" in the article claim is happening. The trouble is that we simply cannot have open dialogue while questions and answers like this are taboo, and so the problem of gender inequality in the workplace may never be solved.

I'm glad more and more people are become aware of the absurdity of the taboo.

Edit2: down votes are not intended to signal disagreement. You are reinforcing the toxic culture that breeds people like the ones in the article, by policing unpopular, but not low effort, answers. The trouble is that we can't even post supporting data because the topic had been taboo for at least 2-3 decades!

We see obvious, massive physiological differences in performance, but no one even considers the possibility that gender correlative differences in workplace performance could be manifestations of physiology.

No, we down vote instead. You people are cowards.
Yeah, some historical data would really help show how much impact this can be expected to have.

I guess if churches are organized enough to be helping people sign up, they will be organized enough to do it at noon. Doesn't make any sense to disrupt them doing it earlier though.
I'll believe this is an issue the day I go to work in a technology department that is more than 50% women.
I used to do development for a company with mainly government clients. The director of Operations (devops), had a policy of taking down the site every week for "maintenance" because it makes the customers trust you more.

It's like the story of the janitors that were too good: the executives decide that the office is clean enough, so they cut the budget and then everythings a mess... that's just how bureaucracy works at the high level.
Would this be less or more insane if transfered to a computer? It sounds like most of the tedium is computing and tabulating, but is that also most of the draw?
"one of my selves" - the flaw in your logic is revealed by this phrase.
> Who wants to repatriate 2-4 trillion in liquidity back in the US where its very likely to benefit small business growth?

The last time there was a tax holiday, the money was basically paid back to investors in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

Unfortunately the WSJ link is 404'ing, but https://web.archive.org/web/20140117143531/https://online.ws... you can see the first paragraph:

> The 15 companies that benefited the most from a 2004 tax break for the return of their overseas profits cut more than 20,000 net jobs and decreased the pace of their research spending
I'd like to see people that advocate for this do it in a straightforward way and start by advocating for the repeal of EMTALA.

It doesn't make any sense to legally require stabilizing care and then do nothing to get people to participate on the pay side.
New database tools worth learning about?
From 2013 to 2015, the hottest NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Apache Cassandra roughly doubled in popularity (on the expense of Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft), but there was practically no growth in the last 2 years.
There were many new names like Vertica Systems, VoltDB, Tokutek, CitusDB, REthinkDB but those did not pick up.
Anything new worth learning about?
Yes, that's exactly the point. It disarms people from fighting over patent nonsense. If you hate software patents you should love the bad + patents license.
there probably always were some men that thought anything had gone too far.
A Github App providing CI for OpenEmbedded/Yocto projects:
https://github.com/apps/yottaci,
https://yottaci.idempotent.info

Initially I tried to use TravisCI, but it proved to be very inconvenient for the case of OpenEmbedded-based projects because of its time limits. So, I've created my own on top of MS Azure Functions. Currently it's used to do test builds against pull request to https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros. But it can be used by anyone who's maintaining Yocto meta layers.
This topic burns too many calories and delivers no good end.
>Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle?

Not really, no.
Russians unsuccessfully tried to hack states election systems
Unfortunately that doesn’t fix the mess of sick people dying of easily treated diseases because they don’t have enough money.
Similar sentiment FTA

> “In just the last 48 hours, I’ve spoken to a female tech executive who was grabbed by a male C.E.O. at a large event and another female executive who was asked to interview at a venture fund because they ‘feel like they need to hire a woman,’” said Dick Costolo, the former chief of Twitter, who now runs the fitness start-up Chorus. “We should worry about whether the women-in-tech movement has gone too far sometime after a couple of these aren’t regularly happening anymore.”
This is a perfect example of where the judicious use of a hyphen would bring clarity ("black-cab driver" vs "black cab-driver").
It really is telling that there is essentially zero advocacy for repealing EMTALA.
Anybody who claims a "cabal" of women have a goal of subjugation of men, or that standing up against sexual harassment has resulted in a "witch hunt" atmosphere has their credibility drop to nothing. These aren't merely extraordinary claims. They're claims for which there isn't any reasonable way to provide evidence for support or refutation due to the presentation in the form of "men's rights" activism. The goals always shift with these claims. "Witch hunt" will just continue to take on different meanings until it's impossible to refute. The "cabal" will have a shifting constituency, agenda, and methods until it's more or less any woman or male who supports their goal of equal treatment and respect.

"Many men now feel like “there’s a gun to the head” to be better about gender issues, said Rebecca Lynn, a venture capitalist at Canvas Ventures, and while “there’s a high awareness right now, which is positive, at the same time there’s a fear.”"

Men should feel great pressure to be better about gender issues. The gender imbalances that exist currently are driven primarily by men in a society in which men exercise almost all the power. The "fear" described seems to me to be a fear of losing that power. There's no need to fear. My wife and I are equals in our relationship, and I haven't feared her a day in my life.
It could be so easy- if everyone treated intersections as roundabouts..
I agree, but with the system as it stands now, that’s why this particular aspect exists.
ty, a list is better than nothing :)
What about VRML ? SMIL ?
Why Is YouTube Demonetizing LGBTQ Videos?
The next ethics wall is gonna be steep.
I suppose I should clarify that without joking so much.

Drug addiction can be very harmful but society retaliating against the victim is endlessly worse.

Its like death by a thousand cuts, everyone seems to want to take a stab at the person as if that is going to cure them but it only makes them use more. They have to hang out with criminals to buy their fix and become one themselves to finance it.

A drug addict can be successful and have a happy life but only if no one finds out. When people do it triggers a kind of social death spiral.

You get the proverbial guy drinking a liter of coffee then smoking a cigar with a glass of whiskey at 11 am ranting about drugs as if the drug user is the embodiment of evil on earth.
I'm not the author, but I recently joined the BBC as a software engineer and haven't found all that many contractors at all, the ones I have are in regular non-senior positions.

It may be the case for 'talent' and management of TV projects (for example), but in the tech departments - your assertion, in my experience seems to be far from true.
I've had enough computer for one day. I'm leaving the house.
U.S. Navy Orders Sailors to Get More Sleep After Recent Collisions
That plan by a former mayor (former NBA great Dave Bing) was hugely unpopular and never launched.

Police and fire in Detroit is hugely difficult because they have a large area to protect that includes numerous ghost neighborhoods. Often a fire is set in an abandoned house and if it's windy spreads to occupied residences.

Despite the difficulty Detroit's current mayor is committed to all the cities neighborhoods. However if you follow the money resources are concentrated in a handful of neighborhoods.
I have the same question. If I remember right, it's going to happen in 2020.

I don't work with a studio yet but studios who buy the software don't seem too worried for some reason, even though their pipelines depend on it. Maybe someone else can offer better insight. As someone wanting to go into pipeline development, I am very curious.
Going from Jr to Sr in an organization is "easy/ier." Making the same progress as a freelancer/contractor is more difficult.
"I wanted to make sure that my first job post-university would be somewhere where I would feel happy and work not on my own, but with an agile team ..."

It's interesting that any young developer would regard the micromanagement that comes with agile as a plus.
Can a "pattern recorded on a physical substrate" consent? What does this even mean?
Saudi Arabia to lift ban on internet calls
Walmart wants to walk into your home and put groceries in your refrigerator
In this community in particular, startup is more commonly associated with the meaning in this essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

(I'm not arguing that you're wrong; I'm citing the reference that explains the confusion.)
In the absence of antibiotics, there is selective pressure to eliminate the genes or mutations that confer resistance. However, there are opposing factors - antibiotic resistance genes are often carried on plasmids, independent genetic elements that can be exchanged between bacteria. Plasmids that contain antibiotic resistance genes frequently also contain heavy metal resistance genes[1]. This allows for co-selection, where the presence of, for example, mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants will maintain antibiotic resistance in antibiotic-free environments[2,3]. Plasmids can act as parasites on their bacterial hosts - many carry pairs of genes that encode both a toxin and a less stable antitoxin. If the plasmid is lost, the bacterium will die[4]. All of these mechanisms can maintain antibiotic resistance without antibiotic exposure.

[1]: http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/abstract/S0966-842X(...

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00284-012-0194-4

[3]: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490450902889072

[4]: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.micro.5...
Around here there's a little white T-shaped line painted where you should roll your bicycle to trigger the light.
After several hurricanes - you should treat them as 4 way stops, however a large chunk of people just run through them (most recent example is from Irma)
What React patents are there? And it seems to me that using Preact/Vue/etc would not be any better than using React if in fact there are patented technologies in React.
I must agree with you. Between these 2 frameworks, even though they have their differences (and lots of them), they are mostly equivalent.

My recommendation these days goes like this: If you are more familiar or prefer Python use Django. If Ruby is your thing, go with rails.

Of course this rule has its own exceptions.
Despite being quite young, I've used mutt (and to a lesser extent mh) during most of my life. I am now transitioning to some combination Gnus and notmuch do to its excellent integration with org-mode.

If you hang around lkml or any other big free software mailing list, you will see how a big chunk of people are sending emails with either mutt or gnus.

I hate seeing how email is slowly degrading by HTML-only messages, incompatible with many clients, or people moving to walled gardens like WhatsApp (which is ironically a slimmed down version of XMPP, arguably THE Internet chat protocol along with IRC).
Forking is totally possible for states. Different factions are constantly vying for power and many revolutions are quiet shifts that occur behind the scenes. This is very true in complex democratic republics but is even still true in monarchies and dictatorships. Monarchs have power by consent of a whole hierarchy of people and they are subject to overthrow or silent sidelining.

Gold is still the closest thing to a true non-fiat money but even gold has a value based on a consensus and any monetary form of gold will typically come as some kind of coinage for convenience and quick assessment. You can't eat gold.

Money is a social construct.

You could argue that crypto currency promises a form of fiat that is more transparent, auditable, accurate, and open in general but IMHO that remains to be seen in practice. The shitshow that is most exchanges and the majority of flimsy ICOs is not encouraging. All economic systems have corruption and dumb sheep like speculation but this is ridiculous.
Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup So Long to Go Mainstream?
Like Detroit it comes down to poor leadership. I remember when Chrysler left. The city needed to go on an extreme diet because the revenue was gone. But instead leaders kept spending, borrowing and postponing the day of reckoning. When it arrived the hole was large.
Maybe I just don't fully understand the bill...but how is this not an open and shut violation of the first amendment? Not in the usual "i can say what i want and nobody can stop me" kind of way, but in the "government cannot directly censor its citizens" kind of way. Particularly with the inclusion of automated filtering, it sounds like the government mandating that all internet companies disallow anyone from posting content matching a set of parameters. The target (sex trafficking content) doesn't matter, the important thing here is that its sweeping government mandated censorship, with legal ramifications.

Am I missing something that makes this constitutionally allowable?
Hey, author here! Sorry it didn't gel with you, but I'm happy to defend this example.

A zero-knowledge proof is about a prover convincing a verifier they have some knowledge, without sharing the knowledge. In the case, the prover certainly didn't share the knowledge, and convinced the verifier. Bingo.

I appreciate if you'd prefer mathematical rigor, but if that's the case, you're not the audience. The point of this post is to help make the topic more accessible- there are plenty of rigorous explanations aimed at those interested in the crypto.
It's not about need. If it is profitable to mine, professional miners will exist. You can't create an incentive structure and then call it a "bug" when somebody optimizes for it.
When I rode a moped I would never trigger these things till I started rolling around with a large magnet zip tied to the bottom of my ride.
FWIW, youtube has been demonetizing videos that promote conservative POVs.

(Edit: Gee, I didn't think this would upset people enough to attract so many downvotes. Looks like I was wrong.)
SEO ir – SEMSEO
If you could get in-browser support for LaTeX, that would be great. It might arguably be better than MathML. But do any browsers support that today, and is there any initiative underway to get such support? If so, I'm not aware of it. MathML, OTOH, is supported by Firefox, and I think by Safari, and it there's at least some reason to think Chrome may eventually add MathML support. Not sure where Edge stands on this. But in either case, from a pragmatic standpoint, I believe MathML is close to giving us quality "math on the web" than anything else. That said, I'd be happy to be proven wrong if something else is truly better positioned to do that.
It would be useful, at least on HN, to distinguish small businesses like a new pizzeria from what most of us call a startup; i.e. a tech company that's probably building software to solve a problem and scale.

That would assume the conclusion. As a thought experiment, imagine a world in which the number of startups is growing. In that world, you can imagine that every new pizzeria is going to grow into the next PizzaHut or Dominos. That is every tiny little new retail store might be a giant 10 years from now.

It is from the frothy, primordial soup of little mom and pop shops that new giants emerge. I don't have time to make an attempt at making a list, but 2 examples off the top of my head: both McDonalds and Barnes & Noble were small family businesses, for decades, before new management took over and found a way to turn them into giants.
Do they just mean agile in the sense of "adaptable and fast-moving"?

Also, for some (many) junior anythings some micromanagement is a good thing, especially for a college grad with little "real world" experience.
That link is also worth reading because the author is a lawyer; he claims the React patent clause is a paper tiger.
In theory dividends and share buybacks will be reinvested by the stockholders. In practice I wonder how much just further inflates various asset bubbles.
A lot of UK cities suffered 70s/80s economic decline, to the extent that the government was discussing "managed decline" for Liverpool: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281 . Even London suffered a decline in population from ~8m to ~6m.

But somehow I don't think it ever got quite as bad as Detroit. It seems that somehow American politics can just abandon cities, and declare their failure not a problem for the nation or the state.

(Last time I ran the numbers, 80s Detroit was more dangerous than troops-in-the-streets Troubles Belfast, but I don't have it to hand)
You can frame the questions in a way that discloses no information to the prover. The questions ideally would have a 50% guess rate either way and leak no info. So, a question like “is her name Alice or Eve?” is a bad one, as you have leaked that her name is one or the other. But, questions like “is her birthday in the first half of the year or second” or “is her birthday on an even day or odd” (modulo there being 31 days in some months) leak no information if you don’t tell them if their answer was right or wrong. You come up with 20 such questions and then give them a pass/fail. No information is leaked, but the prover has a very low chance of guessing 20 50% chance questions correctly in a row.
Private and permissioned ledgers
You and rrggrr are not arguing opposite things. "Theoretically", these investors who have received the profits from dividends and share buybacks will then turn around and invest money back into the economy.
I have the same thing with the email address for this nickname. A few people are occasionally using the version without a dot.

Whenever somebody register on any website using it, I use the recovery options from the emails they send me to disassociate my email address from their accounts (I never ever keep access to those accounts).

For direct / personal emails (usually in Spanish) or anything else with some customer support involved I just send a short reply in English stating that they've got the wrong person and email. Then I usually spam flag everything not English (I'm only a little sorry for doing that).

There was this one day recently when somebody kept re-registering on this one site about a dozen times, and I kept resetting the password because they used my email every time. I have to guess that they eventually figured out their mistake, because it stopped. I hope...
Someone did not read the article.
Every one of those companies is someone's dream. Don't dismiss them for not being tech. Domino's Pizza ($2.5B revenue) was once one of those new pizzerias that you wouldn't call a startup (read the History section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino%27s_Pizza).
Numerous people eligible for medicaid don't sign up because they try to and get turned away with some bullshit excuse about not filing the paperwork properly or whatever, either due to innocent bureaucratic bullshit or because the state is explicitly hostile towards government assistance.

With single payer, people wouldn't have to sign up; they would be signed up and have to opt out of they so chose. That's how it should work and it's not hand-wavy in the least.
Far less. It does not seem any more complex than something like Gary Gigsby's War in the West and while it has a hill to climb if you want to learn how to play it, it is far from a 1500 hour game.
Abusing Delay Load DLLs for Remote Code Injection
It's GPL, right? Why hasn't anyone forked it with the citation requirement removed?
Darpa seeks modular, affordable anti-drone systems
Show HN: A simple, readable crypto address scheme in DNS
Quite interesting read. However, I would refrain from drawing general conclusions about democracy out of this. I guess, we as a species tend to have anger problem, no matter which societal form we live in.
I think somebody should develop a standardized and open auto redaction flagging scheme for anything printed, where cameras and any software meant to share photos can offer the user to redact every sensitive field in a secure manner.

Something like a Qr code saying "this stuff in that position relative to this code is sensitive", giving the user a prompt saying "this was redacted; undo?"
Drugs are cheapest in India. Let's normalize. I.e. far end of the pricing bell curve.

But the answer is still, yes, there is profitability. Just not as much as with the hyper inflated prices in the US.

In short: Does the extreme cost for drugs in the US cause groundbreaking research to benefit the whole world?

No, same results could be had with way less profit. Money to fund moonshot research is still important though.
Microsoft and Facebook Complete 4,000-mile ‘marea’ Undersea Cable
Neat! It's a lot like http://adamjgrant.github.io/bitcoinbills/
Fix the Inadequate Systems That Protect .gov Networks
Popular Chrome Extension Embedded a CPU-Draining Cryptocurrency Miner
Have you tried calling him up? http://www.canada411.ca/search/?stype=si&what=Doug+Webb&wher...
The real problem is the lack of explanation. If a film is refused certification, it will usually come with a list of reasons, making it possible to recut to an acceptable version. If it's demonetised by youtube you get no explanation.

Yes, that will result in people working exactly up to the line, but at least having a line is something that people can work with.
"The leader of a team that rebuilt Colossus in the 1990s showed that, in its wheelhouse, [Colossus Mark II] would still easily outperform a 1995-era Pentium processor."

I find that utterly incredible. What a feat of engineering for the 1940s.
@devdad sorry for posting here - could not respond to an old thread - can you disclose what's your consultancy domain / focus? thx
So much truth you get sick of hearing the truth.
It's one thing if a government regulates a market, yet another if a company regulates it.