skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain to someone not from the US the impact an constitution has which only imposes limitations on the government, versus one that only imparts positive rights onto humans? Or versus one that is a hybrid between the two - the German constitution would be an example of this.
Graphics & UI Designer Survey: Help Us Make Better Tools
This is a tool for prototyping, at least, I hope that's all it will be used for. Otherwise, this is a step backwards. No large company will use this in production because it completely kills accessibility. You have no idea the lengths I go to for accessibility, at least 50% of my development hours is programming for accessible users.

Also, canvas will kill mobile batteries because canvas rendering taps the hardware more than normal DOM rendering.

Kill this now, it's flash all over again!
There are at least a couple of ways to get supersonic as a civilian, albeit not exactly travel and not exactly cheap:

- http://www.migflug.com/en/jet-fighter-flights/flying-with-a-...

- http://www.spaceadventures.com/
Background info on the survey: I'm part of a small software developer house, working on new vector design tools. I'd like to get some feedback from the design & developer community and gauge what key features are important in design software, particularly the ones they use on a daily basis.

The survey is reasonably short; couple of minutes of your time could make a great difference to us. Also if you have questions and suggestions to improve the survey, please let us know. Cheers.
Quite a few. Famously Medallion:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...
Better yet, how about black box recommendation models that figure that people are more likely to click on things that outrage them, who don't realize that the end result of viral fake outrage can be war?

But that one would be current reality. People's tendency to click on things that outrage them (and therefore generate advertising) is one of the things that lead to social networks becoming echo chambers of various conspiracy theories. The result is sites like InfoWars, which helped make Donald Trump president. The war bit hasn't happened, but it well could.

My favorite book about this topic is _Trust Me, I'm Lying_. It lays out the human incentives that guarantee that the recommendation engines will produce terrible for us results.
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I still think there is too much hype around AI with all the doomsday prediction. Yeah, data processing will get automated away, but most jobs that require thinking within an ill defined framework will be fine for at least the next 20 years. The human brain is vastly superior to any machine learning algorithm we currently have.
Strange. This comment used to be on top, and in very little time got buried to the very bottom, despite its relatively high score (24).

Could there be an algorithmic reason for this surprising behaviour, or is this a manual intervention?
> Another use case is implementing actual functional programming

I remember our chat 8 months earlier on Reddit about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprogramming/comments/5ufm...

Yeah. You're still aiming for "functional programs encoded as (essentially) s-expressions but written in JS-Object-Notation (JSON) instead of LISPy parens". And that's still fine if you see that as a major leap forward. Not sure about the audience, those who want to "functionally program a mobile quasi-native APP that can self-update from a server" and know what the "functionally program" part means, wouldn't they reach for JS via React Native? Same selling points implicit already. Is it for those who never programmed but are expected to declaratively express functional idioms in your JSON notation without needing to install all sorts of dev tools and SDKs? Not entirely implausible at all I guess. Curious to see who will end up as your target audience. =)
> All of that besides the fact that you cannot really use VIM any more because the ESC button is gone...

What serious VIM user has not remapped ESC?

One of the reasons I don't like to use VIM, is that the ESC key is so far away, and not suitable for ergonomic typing. If I wasn't already used to Emacs/Sublime and had to use VIM, I would have remapped it immediately. I probably still should, but I use it rarely enough that I don't bother.

Mac OS even has a built-in option for remapping it to caps lock. Apple is very conservative about adding options in System Preferences, so I think this is something a lot of programmers do.
Why is it super awkward and how does JSON solve this problem any better?
People in the Microsoft camp still have to adapt to the Open Source mentality.

If the maintainers of a project don't manage the project properly and other people think they can do a better job, Open Source gives you the right to fork. And this social contract is an incentive for the maintainers to do a good job in order to not lose control.

On the other hand the maintainers have no contractual obligation to keep supporting the project.

When maintainers stop supporting the project, the code is still there to be picked up if there's enough interest. That's powerful, but also distributes the responsibility to all interested parties.

If no new maintainers show up to fork the project, then maybe it's OK for the project to die.
I think we can make supply distributed (given micro manufacturing/recycling etc) so even if it is less efficient for a community to do it than something more centralised they still have some autonomy. See my profile for my website if you are interested where I am coming from.
Excellent and very informative post. I'd love to see the things SureSwift needed for due diligence and their hand-over list - it would be a good checklist of things you need to have squared away to ensure a smooth transaction.
Off topic, but i wish i could open a simple blog page without enabling ton of JavaScript :/
music without lyrics.

i decided to pay for google play music, it's probably my favorite paid service since i got it almost a year ago.

cmd.fm and jamendo are also pretty fantastic
I also love the 12" MB keyboards. And the new MBP keyboards are even better. I treat my 2016 12" MB like shit, throw it in my bag without a case, eat in its general area, and I've never had an issue with dust messing up the kb. But I believe that there's a design flaw here that apple should fix. But the keyboards are great from every other angle.
Maybe the Concorde would be a better fit for trans-Pacific flights today?

All of the relevant destinations on both sides of the ocean (Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle) are right by the sea, which of course isn't the case for Paris and London where the Concorde flew from.
Awesome!
Yeah I was thinking of creating a REST endpoint for form submission and get a text alert, just to test out the waters with Lambda.
Means a lot thanks!!!! <3
Well I should question whether if you are used to working with teams or developing projects others started, but I'm too nice for that.

I've had my own share of ICEs and patches back in gcc3 days where Debian mailing lists were being used as a gcc issue tracker :-) and these days you just fork and work from there. And if people really need your patches, they will integrate it willingly. No need to "get through" anyone.

If you need some confidence boost, start off with reading semi-old patches from other contributors. That will immediately take you to the cogs of the machinery so to speak. Also, debugger is your friend. I hope you have one for your parallel VM.

I maintain 15+ year old delphi code bases as a profession, so I guess your rant just flew out of the window for me. The "tests passed all green checks" insta-gratification is a lost memory. The freedom to implement whatever you want is kinda constrained but still there.
ah this was Traveller book 5 Trillion Credit Squadron Publish in 1980 or so.

The authors commented that having a computer (when Pc's where ultra rare and expensive) would be useful :-)

I commented at that time that a PC was essential and working at the cutting edge of AI would be "useful"

Traveller (book3) was the basis for Elite as well
Ask HN: How do you manage seed data for test where you work?
Was chatting to a friend about this. Curious how other people deal with seed data when you've got thousands or even millions of tests testing all sorts of scenarios.

At one stage we had a separate sql file for each test file but now we're trying to generate all the seed data using java instead. How does your company manage seed data?
I think grey goo is fairly realistic. Having small, self-replicating machines has many useful applications. Flaws during reproduction could trigger a runaway replication scenario.

The latter already happens with the existing small replicating machines that we know. We usually call that cancer.
> Animating nearly everything on a page is like putting 4 inches of frosting on top of a cake that is only 4 inches thick.

I love this analogy. In my view, animation (in non-game apps) should be felt rather than seen. It should be used to soften sharp edges over time. It really bugs me for example when a dialog fades away or slides off the screen in an excruciatingly slow manner when I hit the "X".
Oh man I have nightmares of XSLT from an internship I had a few years ago. Thankfully there's an XSLT guru on stack overflow that would answer every question I posted.

This is the guy: https://stackoverflow.com/users/317052/daniel-haley
Google Finance getting updated in November
Of course, the trading bot AI assumedly would only have outputs as either buy or sell shares. But what if the AI after a long time of analysing news and correlating it with stock prices determines that the best returns are somehow by buying and selling in a way that crashes the market temporarily.

I guess the central point is that even if they aren't advanced enough to enact OP's scenario, they do not understand negative repercussions outside of their specific domain and so can unscrupulously cause havoc by proxy once they get smart enough.
Are you peck typing on Android? Sometimes that can be slow, but using Swype like typing is much faster even without lag.
The term "beneficial owner" also includes anyone who has sole or shared voting power over the security (not just those with sole or shared "formal title", economic interests and/or power to sell or transfer the security).

A major reason for that is trying to prevent "gaming" of votes, along the lines of your footnote [1]. Just like right now, I don't think the LTSE proposal would require an outright ban on these arrangements--it just requires the issuer/exchange to make sure the disclosure requirements for "beneficial owners" are sufficient for them to "reset" the voting clock if/when voting power is transferred.
You're blinded by the hn bubble. The entire world economy is more pessimistic and the perfectionists here at hn refuse to talk about it.
Oops yes of course. I stupidly forgot about them. They spun them out from the Google brand and also my brain.
I am willing to send them out of state, so as long as we are in the contine tal US, it is a possibility.
To whom is it increasingly antiquated? Are you calling me old or what? I use uMatrix always, and allow pages i want to load JavaScript, and I try to get more and more people to do this actually when they say they have issues with bilion popups and adds. Using addblockers should be increasingly a positive trend not antiquated unless you want to part of botnet.
Are you planning to live in that big dream house all of your life? I have seen it through my parents. They saved money hard till I reached 12-13 where they were able to afford the "house". But guess what, at my 20, pretty much everyone left the house. And now they are staying in this "big empty house" that is expensive as hell to run.

The alternative could have been to rent out a nice vila while we were young. It would have been then an expensive "few years" instead.
I don’t think Concorde has enough range to be viable for Pacific routes. Maybe a redesigned version with greater range would work well though.
Yeah I have the same issue as it forbids the loading of urls but does not disable the javascript so that it uses <noscript>
Life is already tiny self replicating machines, it still can't replicate inside of a wood wall very well. Further, life and nano-machines are stuck with the same building blocks. Outside of organic chemistry there are not a lot of options for self replication. At which point your nano machines are also just food for existing nano-machines with billions of years of evolution behind them.

TLDR; The problem is chemistry not design.
I focus best when listening to black metal, the actual setting doesn't matter so much.
Not serverless, but we host our build servers on Scaleway. 8 cores and more importantly 32GB for 25$/m. Can't complain. Clean up is done by the ci agents from VSTS.

Project is a React client and express backend. It's built and tested dockerized. We use testcafe and Chrome headless, so more memory is always useful for parallel builds.
yes, I saw that one, but the only video in that page, is from youtube https://youtu.be/-zWhT9YHYNk, looks like they don't like dog-fooding
I have a 13" MBP with butterfly keys for my job (desk) which work perfectly fine, and a 12" 2017 MB with butterfly keys which jam all the time, because I use it in messier environments. I have to blow canned air through the keyboard every two days to unjam some of the keys.
I know about medallion but its also run by quants and afaik largely algorithmic. My argument is against the more traditional fund houses and stock pickers.
Convos in coffee shops don't, generally, have the ability to affect yor task, position, employment, or career.

Convos in offices do.

You attune highly to the latter with reason.
Does anyone know of a website containing resources for teaching this? I'd also be interested in seeing who is using it now a days.
"Can't find one. If you want reconfigurable keys, why not put a small display in each of them?"

Good idea. The whole trend toward touch interfaces is really annoying. Something tactile is much better if you see it a lot. Same in cars. Operating a car heater through touch is much more difficult and requires more attention than old fashioned dials.
Hi raresp, we don't have any access to any of your code, that was the main objective when compared to other similar services.

You have two ways to update your dependencies:

1. Manually upload your gemfile.lock.

2. Intall a post-commit hook which only sends the gemfile.lock in case it was changed.

It would be great if you could try it out.

Thank you.
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The Fed's actions are public and lots of people carefully scrutinize them.
This one has been posted before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378022
Further, what if by the time the barista learns a new trade that trade has been eliminated?
I had the most bizarre issue with my 2017 MacBook Pro keyboard: the left shift key stopped working intermittently. Thinking it was a piece of dust, I took off the key cover and tried to clean it out. Nothing worked. I finally made a Genius appointment for the day after High Sierra was released. I updated to High Sierra that morning and, suddenly, my shift key was in perfect working order again.
V8 doesn't support (real) forking, unfortunately
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> The war bit hasn't happened, but it well could.

Give it time.
Thank you. Of course, small companies and startups should care about accessibility too.
Stephen Hawking should stick to saying things in his area of expertise. I wouldn't expect Bernie Sanders, Slavoj Zizek or Elon Musk to start making pronouncements about black holes.
I too have a typewriter at home. I don't use it often, but when I do it's very satisfying for some reason.

I find it to be a pretty useful tool as well. I like to type out initial contact or offer letters for potential clients. In a digital world, receiving something that was typed really says something - or at least I've been told. Every key stroke is done with thought, as one screw up and you'll have to start over.
Though the functions are serverless in the sense that you needn't allocate virtual infrastructure, the platform obviously utilizes CPU resources to execute your function. That platform underlying the serverless function is, as it happens, multi-core in GCE.
Really depends on what role they were in but the Bloomberg Excel API is very widely used along with VBA which I think can assist with some transition.
If you think a $220M acquisition is a home run for anyone involved, you don't understand the Venture model. Liquidation preferences means that investors are probably getting around 1x their money back, which will be considered a failure in their portfolio. They need a 10-100x win to pay for all of the losses. Common stock holders will be seeing less than their pro-rata allocation of the acquisition price (e.g. if you own 1% of common stock, you are getting less than 2.2M).

The top line acquisition price is probably the full package including costs and retention bonuses, not all of which will be paid out. The only people who will get something for their time are the founders, but they're probably looking at low to mid 8 figures at best.
This 6min video does a great job on explaining the differences between Concorde and Tu-144 and why Tu-144 was so bad at many things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWbuKr5-I8
I get it, I do. But that ship sailed loooong ago
I think a big factor that people are failing to take into account is time to market and deployment. Imagine we had amazing AI that could do a lot of office jobs now. We’d still need to make useful software out of it, distribute and sell that software, customize it for different needs. That, by itself, could take years.
Capitalism, Communism, Socialiasm, and Collectivism all have property rights. They are structured somewhat differently, but they all recognize that some things can be owned, and some cannot.

You can't build a consistent legal, or ethical system from the first principle of "Property rights are the most important right."
Great video; thanks for sharing!
Right. "Probably", "maybe".

I don't think it's society's responsibility to look back further than the formation of that society. For the US, I think you can safely use 1776 as a starting point. The US formed itself with the express purpose of creating equality for the original settlers.

If someone is violating those principles, society should punish accordingly. If not, society is not "rewarding wealth". They are allowing for the fact that everyone is someone else's child, and that comes with it certain rights.
2012: OK Google /
2014: Alexa /
2017: Hey Siri
> I know others feel the same.

This is the reason I would do it if I ever make FU money.
> I really think it's difficult to see the two as being anywhere near the same league.

I really don't understand why it's difficult to you. 55 flights aren't a success by chance. What you've said about staggering achievement fully applies to Tu-144. The creators were facing same challenges, and had to solve them in the same time - and got the plane flyable, if not efficient and safe enough, to be used by NASA in 2000-s.

We can say that Concorde had less technical flaws than Tu-144, clear in hindsight, but I don't see how that makes them incomparable.
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We use an older piece of software called Campaign Enterprise. It runs on a Windows VPS, connects to our server at Rackspace that actually sends the email, and we can send as many newsletters, welcome emails, etc we want - every day. I think it was a couple hundred dollars to buy outright.

Once every few months you get on a blacklist but an email or quick phone call gets you removed.
> The eagerness from particularly the US to paint the Russians as aggressor in the last years concerns me

That makes absolutely zero sense in the context of the article you were lambasting without supporting argumentation. Rather, it comes across as a cheap bailout excuse for your original comment. What would any US effort to paint Russia as an aggressor, have to do with what you said about the BBC + the Concorde vs the Tu-144? Where would anything to do with being an aggressor, play into that?
Bear in mind that Lenat won't release the Eurisko source code, and some people have speculated that it didn't do all that he said it did.
I love the short throw keys. Obviously everyone has their own personal preferences. I feel like my fingers are dancing across the new keyboard. Initially I disliked the size of the keys, but now when I go back to an older keyboard I realize I even prefer those. (Edit: I still dislike the arrow keys, those suck).

Apple’s big problem is that they cater to everyone with a single offering. And since the keyboards are cut into the metal casing of the laptop, it would probably be expensive to offer an option here (though they probably should). So they make a decision, piss off some, make others happy. This is where PCs have an advantage, as you have more choice.
Nice, but does it allow multiple people to work on a website simultaneously?
Great thanks good to know. Do you have any issues with sleep or closing lid draining battery ?
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Not to mention that neither do any people who glance over at you have the ability to affect your task, position, employment, or career.
Do people not remember how terrible XSLT was?

I mean, sure, it could do the job, but did anyone ever sit down at a file of XSLT and think "yes, this is the best way this information about transforming this XML could be represented"?

JSON is even less suitable for this. It's horrible to read this stuff, horrible to write.
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Oi... XML wasn't the first format to be used for data interchange and encounter these problems either. At least JSON is designed for data interchange in the first place...

Too many tools? Are you not selective about what tools you use anyways? The field is decades old. Do you program in assembly? Fortran?
As of right now, no :(
I believe the original story didn’t bother with the specifics of machine gun logistics and maintenance as it wasn’t the relevant point.
The distinguishing factor between multi-processing on one machine and multi-"machining" is latency of communication.

Likewise, the distinguising factor between multi-threading and multi-processing is shared memory, i.e. again, the speed of communication.

Multi-threading does well for some problems, but often, multi-machining or multi-processing is sufficient, which is why so many runtimes don't really do multi-threading: Node.JS, Python, Ruby.
There's a famous quote :

"never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity"
1. Only certain types of rich can do that.

2. Someone in the family history had to be a diligent/industrious/successful. And that person probably tried to pass those values down to their children and so on and so on.

If you give people wealth, no such ideals will be passed down to their children.
They are investing in automationnlargely because of the rapid wage increase.

But you are mixing concerns. This is mostly old style automation which has never bothered is because it could never fully replace humans so we simply moved to new jobs.

However now we are getting closer to the beginning of a period were people will become FULLY redundant because eventually there will be NO task which machines can’t do cheaper and better than us.

What then?

If common people don’t have stocks or don’t get money from government they will get screwed because there will be no job for them.