skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An obituary should detail a man and /his/ life rather than his relationship to a company, I understand how some people think this is justifiable, but I also just find it grotesque in every way. I know nothing more about him than I did prior to reading, or whether he achieved any kind of satisfaction in his personal life, which I think is kinda the point of these things.

Quarterly OKRs for a millionaire? I really hope they weren't the entirety of his existence, otherwise we're all doomed
I always wished C gave access to the overflow and carry flags. Would have made a lot of things simpler.
It's quite hot air in your lungs, and isn't gonna do anything good. Not hot enough to scald you but the interface in alveoli is very sensitive to changes in consistency, thickness and makeup and it'll change how well you can absorb oxygen. Plus it's irritating which can cause inflammation, making it harder to breathe. Not something you'd notice normally but all of that will lower your lung capacity for quite a while.

At super low power it's pretty much totally safe and the impact on breathing is temporary[1]. At ~>18 watts formaldehyde starts to become a possible irritant, and there are also lots of other carbonyls. One of the really fun ones in the graph in [1] is acrolein- it's still at extremely low levels but that shit is not anything you want in your body. It's generated in small amounts any time anything fatty is burned, but absorbing it through your lungs daily is a totally different thing.

Vaping at low power (<20 watts) is pretty safe, but my girlfriends vape goes up to 200 and she uses it constantly at 85 or so. There are definitely significant amounts of chemicals besides glycerine and propylene glycol.

[1]: https://monq.com/vg/
Nothing warms the heart, after a family reunited after a diaper-change avoidance drama is resolved by finding a common hobby - such as collecting little pictures of former presidents.
WTF? Seriously? This kind of thinking doesn't help anybody.

A more reasonable solution: agree to the return in 50 years time. That provides sufficient time for even a reasonably funded small team to study the problem, design solutions and create the necessary technology (e.g. a macro-scale container with MEMS-rebalancing to smooth out even the smallest vibrations), while still providing a hard date with no back-outs. In the mean time, entrance to the museum or collection containing it is free or discounted to anyone carrying a Mexican passport.

That took me all of 3 seconds of serious thought to come up. We solve problems by working them, not acting on emotional responses.
Digital Content Sticker Shock – How will people react to price tags?
It reminded me of a moiré pattern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern#/media/File...
It's likely that at the time they deleted their account (unspecified "long ago"), Facebook either did not have a guarantee of deletion of all data, or this person did not follow the process that would delete all data and are misremembering how they deleted their account.

They are simply looking at the current documentation and thinking "oh yeah, I must have done that, and these guarantees were supposed to apply", when of course that isn't true if those guarantees are new, or if they never followed that procedure in the first place.
Original Star Fox staffer tells story of sequel’s shelving, surprise launch
Some people work on a farm for all their lives. Some people stay at home with their kids and don't work. Some people tend to a monastery and meditate all their days. And on and on and on.

Different things fulfill different people.
> Nicotine alone is not harmful, it's addictive, but not harmful, it's not what causes cancer from smoking.

Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor. It substantially increases the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis, especially when combined with another chemical that produces clotting enzymes, such as estrogen. Speaking of estrogen, nicotine also antagonizes the estrogen receptor, which is pretty bad if you're a woman. Ever notice how women who have been smoking for a long time look pretty bad? It's not your imagination, it's because nicotine shuts down their bodies' ability to use estrogen (and estrogen is what causes smooth skin, curves, etc.).

Also, go look up "Green Tobacco Sickness" [0]. Too much nicotine can have all kinds of adverse effects, and since it can be absorbed by the skin, people who handle wet tobacco plants get all kinds of health problems. Oh, and too much nicotine can stop your heart. I've seen people seriously suggest it as a suicide method.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tobacco_Sickness
Couldn't have guessed from this comment/URL that it would be about finding/accepting jesus.
I enjoy my work and plan on working until I am no longer able to.
"What about the human!"

I don't know if they've since edited it or what, but it currently describes plenty about how "the human" is the reason for those numbers. It reads to me like a recognition of Otellini's successes as CEO.
Stranger than Fiction: Why won’t novelists reckon with climate change?
I wonder if this obsession with saving lives will end when we hit the maximum human capacity of Earth, sometime in the next 1000 years. Though perhaps we could be multi-solar-system by then.
Some programs are resource hogs. Most programs don't justify the effort to be pre-occupied with speed. I think it's fine for a developer to place runtime speed low on their priorities until they see an actual problem. Then, if it's hogging resources for something, they can do something about it. Thing is, however, for most tasks, this will not be necessary, and for many programs it will not be a problem, even if you use the slowest algorithms.
Sharpmake – build tool by Ubisoft
What is this nightmare? Neither the Space bar, Down Arrow or Page Down keys are working on this page in Firefox. I don't see the scrollbar either, so I cannot guess how much will I have to scroll using the [sigh] mousewheel.
Ask HN: Does anyone fund competitors?
If generic products are good for society(lower prices/competition), but aren't good investments.

How does this play out?
How to avoid making an idiot of yourself
And if anything, he has solidified that to a greater degree than most people in SV burning through start-ups and VC money will anyway.
Your burger, sir: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iyakwegodne9gl/burger.jpg?dl=0

A fun side-note, zoom out to see this is an infinite burger stack, where every other burger is upside-down: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lz53ybz3pmchh9s/burgerStack.jpg?dl...
Strange pcAnywhere has fallen by the wayside. That was de-facto in some support jobs I did and you could expect customers to have it for support. What do people use now if pcAnywhere is not there?

I don't do support but I did use it in non-support roles, I just can't imagine the use case nowadays.
This was very interesting, thank you!

I'm sure I missed something in your first paragraph though, because the process that you described sounds very much like a normal modern JIT compiler. In V8 and SpiderMonkey for example, the engine starts with the first tier, which is a baseline interpreter that collects type information on each function call, and then if a function is invoked enough times, it compiles the function to machine code using the type information collected in the first tier. There are more tiers up the chain, slower to compile and faster to run, where dataflow analysis is done on the hottest functions, which get optimisations such as inline caching, etc.

All that is done on the CPU of course, so I'm curious how an FPGA could help in this process?
EU to hit Amazon with bill for Luxembourg back taxes
read somewhere tomatoes buy my mind might be cloudy matey, also stimulate your... that's advice from my fam
It would also be great to see a comparison to the couchDB-sync which I currently use via pouchdb/rxdb.
Hoare in 1981 referring to C.

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

Fran Allen on "Coders at Work," about C.

"Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."
The 2nd Amendment allows citizenry to be armed in case it becomes necessary to overthrow a corrupt government that no longer serves the needs of the people, the government is no longer legitimate if that threshold is broken and what it determines is illegal doesn't matter anymore. Killing in retribution when the law fails isn't really a 2nd Amendment usage case, though.
Having seen family members in similar situations, this is not "interesting" - your implication being that OP's mother is the swindler.

It's a common pattern: Family "takes care" of an elder while blowing through their money. Money now depleted, a more responsible family member steps in to manage the final years, only to be vilified by everyone who rode the gravy train in.
Techmeme Summary: Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon to be fined several hundred million euros in back taxes by the EU on Wednesday, after investigation into sweetheart tax deal with Luxembourg
bad performance and lots of bugs.
Equifax Amassed Salary Details for People at 7,100 Companies
I think it would be cool to see how easily they could create a WASM/asm.js target.
Google's Teachable Machine experiment with deeplearn.js
Looks great, however, I still have hopes that something similar to a GraphQL interface for a SQL based database is coming.

NoSQL is cool, but ultimately GraphQL/Apollo serves many of the same issues but has the capability of a much richer, standardized and potentially lower cost backend.
Binary compatibility is as much a reason as the language itself.

For C++ I remember spending years trying to carefully track compiler versions, precise build setup, etc. or your library would probably fail to link. I have never had a binary compatibility problem with a plain C library.
The companies where people spent their careers aren’t like the ones today where everyone job hops. You grew with the company, and often, the company supported your growth because it was expected that it would grow its talent in house. And you didn’t give up 100% of your life to the company in a continuous sprint trying to get to the big exit.

My dad worked for the same company for 25 years. He helped it grow and benefited from that growth by moving up internally, and he had enough time left over to raise a family. When he left at 60 to consult and start his own company, it’s not like he’d spent the previous 25 years in a sprint with nothing to show for it.
> CalTech was lower than I expected, but your number is too low.

CalTech has always been pretty tiny (MIT had about 3× the faculty, Harvard 15×; Berkeley has more than 5×, but possibly much more—I can find total faculty for all the rest, but only full-time count for Berkeley, which has nearly as many degree programs as CalTech has faculty; I think for most of those the student body multiples are much higher.)
Fully driverless cars could be months away
I'll have to try this. One of my biggest regrets was deleting my Facebook account sophomore year of college when I moved schools. A lot of pictures and memories erased. I moved away so a huge part of my connection with my old life was gone. It would be amazing to get them back.
He probably has opted in without noticing. Quick show of hands: How reads all ToS that they agree to?
Tandy Color Computer with 16K of memory. I did my Numerical Analysis homework on it - early 80s.
Ah, land of the free...
Is happiness the ultimate pursuit in life?

Many philosophers thought so, but there are other pursuits. The philosophy of virtue (not in the biblical sense) describes one such alternative. The teachings of the virtue ethics can be perceived to mean that your pursuit should be mastery of any one (or number) of subject(s) and/or character traits. Mastery would be the perfect marriage between effort, preparation and result (or in the case of ethics, the perfect life in balance, cultivating the good in you).

There are as many reasons to do things as there are people do do them ;)
There's a tradeoff, however. You can trade C++'s compilation time for the program's runtime, in many cases. You can now do quite a lot at compile time in C++ that is not possible in C.

Therefore, technically, C++ has slower compilation time but potential for faster runtime.
That's exactly what it is! You need two patterns for moire, so in my case one is the continuous function, the other is the pixels (or sampling). If I sample every other pixel, I get a completely different moiré.
>We know for an absolute fact that cold turkey doesn't work for most people.

No, you know that most people who attempt to quit "cold turkey" decide that quitting smoking permanently isn't as important as relieving their current symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Its a minor point but an important distinction.
There are some recruiting firms that specialize in executive recruiting. That may be an option for you and is worth exploring. Another option is to reach out to some of the tech recruiting firms and let them know that you're looking for an exec position (director/VP/CPO/whatever) and to reach out if they see one. I've occasionally seen those pitched. You may also want to look at consulting firms, as those can turn into executive positions if the hiring company wants to keep you.
Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles?
How expensive is the search for empty blocks going to be towards the end? Would it be possible to introduce a more efficient algorithm in the future, or would it invalidate past sales?
It's ironic that our academics might have to employ the same tactics as Chinese academics due to government censorship.
How does damaged mitochondria cause cells to divide uncontrollably?

Also wouldn't this idea suggest we should see cancer in cells with the most mitochondria? Muscles?
At $25 dollars a transaction it's great business for the transaction companies like MtGox... before they went bust
The SEC prosecutes a huge number of securities frauds.[1]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases.shtml
So little faith in the US government to do this with the least bit of efficacy. It will be contracted out to a big firm, for a ton of money, with project overruns, budget overruns, and in 20 years will probably still be using SSNs while they continue to fix this new system.
> I just want a full-featured (i.e. not QML)

what are you missing with QML ?
No university will subscribe to everything so there are plenty of academics that may require journal articles that they either aren't subscribed to or can't get on loan form another university. Unless the school has given you a budget to pay the $35+ per article, then using a site like sci-hub is the only choice.
Last time I checked out Christiaan Baaji's CLASH, it was a Haskell DSL for generating RTL. That is neat, but it doesn't involve any LLVM-like abstraction of FPGA primitives for synthesis.

That would be more than neat, revolutionary really. But it would require buy-in from the major vendors, in the form of publishing many low-level device details.
SSN's were never meant to be used for identification purposes like they are used today. They were designed only to be able to make a SS benefit claim when you came of age to help prove you are entitled to the benefit. That's why they gave you a physical card. Combined with your other, regular identification (if requested), you can prove that you are the person you say you are and the benefits available to you have already been recorded. The SSN itself should never have been used in lieu of proper identification.
Harvard and Berkeley are huge schools compared to CalTech and MIT, which affects placement on lists that count number of affiliated people with some trait.
Is there any way to download the docs en masse to serve as a mirror? I imagine the total is in the tens of terabytes (at the very least), but maybe a physics-related mirror would be possible for one person.
Not really. And that doesn't address my question. Why do I care that our businesses are more profitable if I don't get any of the benefits of it? What do I get for that "more profitable"? Do I get to work less? Do I get more vacation? Do I get more stability? Do I get more pay? The answer to all of these is no. So what do I get?
A while back, Noah Vawter was using this to make ultra-fast math at the cost of accuracy. [1] He computed each bit of an output function such as addition and multiplication as a function of any two of the N inputs of both operands. Then generated approximations using single-operator functions (and, or, nand, etc.) that minimized error. The result was single-cycle approximations.

For example, he claims 44% accuracy (not sure how this is measured) for 7-bit multiplies in a single cycle.

[1] http://gweep.net/~shifty/
20 Ways the 2018 Election Will Be Stolen
There is no pm here?
Nintendo have always been Nintendo about this sort of thing.
Not clear if the site does this or not, but it would be good for the Clojure community if the course covered a lot in Clojurescript (or even focused on it). I think the browser development audience is likely much larger than the JVM audience, and Clojurescript and its ecosystem are an area that particularly shines in the industry.
Well, they didn't have a competing product at the time. Atom on phones is kinda new, and I'm not sure it would fit Apple's requirements of battery life, etc
Great update, congratulations. It sounds similar to https://deepstream.io records - small JSON documents that are stored and synced in realtime across clients and can be arranged in lists and reference each other.
Codeless data automation for email marketing
A proper button to trigger the 'shut-down' sequence would be better.
You're right that a good chunk of the questions were a bit rhetorical and sometimes impossible to guess. And I approve that leading students to come themselves with intuitions is very important. But I believe the goal was to emphasize the notion of chaining succint and precise predicates to construct a larger abstraction.
Holy macarena this entire bitcoin scam is getting ridiculous every minute

pass the popcorn!
My mother, who turns 97 today, is utterly astonished that she's still alive.
Sure. When you die of other causes, you don't die of cancer. This is middle school set theory.
How skipping NDAs and contracts cost this founder $30k at acquisition time
This is long overdue.

In France, the privacy watchog CNIL was founded in 1978 when the idea of using the social security number for all sorts of other purposes got proposed (and rejected), prompting for some safeguards.

In the US, we've been so allergic to a "national ID card" that we just re-purposed the SSN into the very same thing. But then we decided to make it both a unique ID and a password, despite it being a terrible way to perform authentication (and an even worse way to do authorization).
What new tasks? And how are these people going to train to work on these new tasks if they've just lost their job, and therefore their ability to pay rent and buy food?

The "progress" argument doesn't mean much from people who aren't going to have to bear the negative effects of it.
Whoa nice, seems like exactly what I wanted
Why does it have to be that this is an evil white-man conspiracy trying to hold black and laitno's down? Why can't it be something much more simpler, that perhaps there aren't as many qualified black and latinos?

Take a look at typical black culture in largely black only areas. You'll find that speaking without using ebonics is, "talking white". You'll find the culture doesn't value education and shuns literacy, mathematics and sciences as "white people stuff".

Why does it always have to be a white persons fault? Are liberals subtly admitting that black and latinos only live and work at the behest of white people? Are they admitting that if it wasn't for white people there wouldn't be any silicon valley jobs for blacks and latinos to even work in?

If blacks and latinos are equally as capable as white people, why can't they start their own silicon valley and hire blacks/latinos only?

Why is it the white mans job to nurse, baby, coddle and farm out black/latino talent? Why are they incapable of doing all these things themselves?

Why does the burden of an entire race's existence fall upon white people?

Why are blacks and latinos incapable of doing these things themselves without white peoples help?

As a white man, why in the world should I give a shit about black/latino problems? When was the last time a black or latino person gave a shit about my problems?

Why as a society has the narrative been flipped to blame all problems on white people?
But perhaps not because of the nicotine.

http://www.medicinenet.com/smokeless_tobacco/article.htm

To me it's unclear whether or not nicotine itself is actually bad.
I'd rather they represented the number a extra days alive. "Switching to vaping would bring XXXXXX more days of life to Americans".

If those 660,000 people were on average 95+ years old and would have died soon later anyway, then "saving" their life has a much lesser meaning. Of course this isn't the case, but the statistic is not very helpful as a measure.
Point is, Walmart is Amazon's primary victim. And it's a victim I have trouble empathizing with.
Could there ever be more than one?
> I can't think of any internet stars I'm particularly desperate to see go into politics, and that's not because I'm delighted by the status quo

This is a good point, but consider how a lot of politics is kept off of typical social media channels, either due to overarching censorship or decency concerns, because of concerns about repelling advertisers, or simply because the main issues we are fed have mostly to do with what powerful interests want (fear of Islam, fear of Russia, fear of immigration, fear of global warming, etc.)

Certainly such a system would be full of many of the same noise and garbage that fills social media, but I think it would be very interesting to see what would emerge if the constraints imposed by elites were not relevant.

Right now, the only people who focus on social media are the Kim Kardashians and Donald Trumps of the world. More serious people avoid it. Even Michael Moore, in an attempt to use social media to spread his views, now acts like a B-list celeb and plays to a very large, mainstream audience. He essentially plays the part of earnest lefty filmmaker, but he's not anywhere near power.
I think he was talking more about "mainstream impact" than accuracy in his comment. How many average Joes that maybe didn't care for science and space are now interested because of movies like this? And for ones that already liked science and space it was awesome to see an abstract thought (more dimensions) put into play in Interstellar, that maybe got them even more interested in making contributions towards teams like LIGO? Although there was a lot of silly things in the movie I would like to think movies like those are pretty inspiring nonetheless.
It is if you care about your users. None of the cross platform toolkits, especially the ones that use JavaScript, are any good from a user standpoint.