skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Hampshire is usually against anything liberal Massachusetts proposes. They have a massive inferiority complex up their despite basically being dependent on Massachusetts for work.
CVS Health has PBM arm that serves other health plans, so it would be interesting to see how their health plan customers react. Health plan + PBM combo is nothing new, but health plan owning retail pharmacy chain would be interesting.

I don't think they will be buying hospital chain any time soon. Many are not for profit, and they are too fragmented to be integrated.
U.S. Vs. Overseas Developers: Do Overseas Programmers Get a Bad Rap?
I'm talking about run-time introspection into the type of a value. That is, the ability to ask the question, "is this arbitrary value an integer or a string?" That is what the OP needs for his example (clone an object of unknown type). That is something you need RTTI for, and something that I claim is better served by explicit variant tags.

I don't know what you mean by "run-time decision about choosing a type (or another type)". Can you give an example of some code that does this?

I also don't know what you mean by dependently typed languages requiring RTTI. Dependent type systems, like HM and other type systems, only constrain programs, they do not enable any behavior. Any program valid in an arbitrary dependently-typed language is still valid if the typing system is removed, rendering the language untyped (and thus devoid of any RTTI). (Specifically, DT adds to HM the ability to write expressions whose type or validity depends on other values. It does not grant ability to introspect those types; that is out of the scope of a type system.) Example: Coq is dependently typed, but has absolutely no notion of RTTI.
If I control both the client and server, I love GraphQL.

If I only control the server, and my customers control the client, I hate GraphQL. It's too powerful.
I feel the exact same way. My productivity is probably gonna take a nosedive tho.

I feel I need to tell everyone I know about this.
Good, we need this in Canada and all California cities.
Stanislav Seltser, Petacube Inc

ingesting data into postgres makes sense for sparce data but not for dense data because it is waisting a lot of of space due to storage of coordinates with every data point and every weather variable. If you are using NOOA grib2 forecast files those are dense . Not to mention losing compression in postgres. TileDB will store data compressed, the dimension coordinates themselves will be compressed, plus column storage (each NetCDF variable) will make retrieval of dense weather data blazingly fast as oppose to postgres where you will have to scan the whole table
NORTH KOREA HAS MONEY FOR MISSILE PROJECT YET CAN’T PAY FOR PURCHASED CARS
Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux
We're all going to learn some surprising things about "how property works" if cartoon villains such as you are permitted to ratchet up the homelessness rate towards 100% for much longer. In practice, though, responsible adults will step in long before that. California is already stripping local property owners of their anti-neighbor tools.

If we want to regulate population growth, fine. But we will have to start rationing birth the way we ration condos if it's really so important to us to avoid the scourge of homes.

EDIT: supporting property rights would be supporting the rights of property owners to build on their land. What you're really talking about here is the political power over others that's embedded in property rights. This power is ultimately delegated to property owners by states, and the correct response (and what we're starting to see in CA) is the state seizing that power away from property owners and granting it to the population at large.
Useful to know. I was considering moving over to them to save money on my ADSL2+ connection. My area has fantastic 4G speeds without any congestion issues as its semi rural and I was expecting them to be quite good.
You should report them to Reddit!
Shouldn't the programmer also be punished? I find flagellation by static type errors unsatisfying.
My main issue is that the investment enables digital consumption, without much impact on production.

For example, a flaw I had with the NZ rollout: it was deployed to citizens before businesses. It feels kind of sad as a business owner when your business remains on VDSL while the suburbs are getting fibre (although lovely to get Netflix at home on fibre!).
I was checking online to verify local stock at Lowes and Home Depot last week. Both websites stated '2' in stock. I had to stop in both stores BC Lowes diddn't have another item I needed, so being curious I checked both stock counts of the item. Both had more than 10, which made me think: if item count >= 2, display 2

Obviously it's not the only explanation, but I assume they use marketing research to help decide what inventory counts to display
Hey man, you asked me what I would make of that graph; I told you.

It's been awhile since I've read in depth on this subject, but I believe when the authors say in the abstract "Nevertheless, in specific districts and years, Bt cotton may have indirectly contributed to farmer indebtedness, leading to suicides, but its failure was mainly the result of the context or environment in which it was planted.", they're referring to analysis showing that the suicides mainly correlated with regions where the banking infrastructure was under-developed (and good loans were not available to the farmers, to help them through rough times) that were subsequently hit with a bad year; within those regions, farmers who had planted Bt cotton were slightly worse off than farmers who hadn't, but it was a weaker correlation than the rest.

(But again, it's been years since I read in depth on this, and I could be confusing this paper with another.)
I used OVO for a while -- IIRC it was $60/mo for 50GB. No speed limits, Optus network.

I used this for work and the kids shared the 4MBps DSL.
I think SoundCloud's downfall would be it's huge investment into record label deals, it's paywalling to support said deals and then the lack of adoption for it's subscription service for access to those label's music.

Essentially, SC tried to pivot to Spotify, pissed off free users, and let it's actual paying user base stagnate for 2 years.

Then all that capital investment had no return and they're stuck in big contracts with hefty guaranteed payouts.
Ask HN: How do we grow our career as a Developer Evangelist?
Hi,

I'm really interested in starting off my career as a Developer Evangelist. However, I'm not really sure how to grow it after? Will I be seen as "less of a programmer". Any Evangelists want to share their experience and growth?
I have a hard time labeling it. A sprawling continuous town centre is really what I'm thinking of: low rises, shophouses, some mid-rises. But ideally fewer mechanistic glass plinths blocking out the sky. I just think you can justify the amenities and convenience of a well developed city without half the buildings being forty or more floors.
On the plus side, at the end of that unpaid 3 months, you'll have the ability to work "anywhere in the world."

Hey wait a minute, don't I have that now?
Salary is an obligation in return for your services. The company doesn't owe a person a job for passing time at office.

Its just people woke up to the fact that socialism wasn't a feasible model anymore.
The Fourth Profession, Larry Niven

Classic Niven, fantasy ideas treated as logical science-fiction, in film noir style.
>Is no way to opt out this? I'm more vulnerable to an attacker, right

Others can't send you a mail unless you publish those DNS records that say you use GSuite. Hiding your email host doesn't give you much in the way of security. If you're really concerned about security, see Google's Advanced Protection Program[0].

[0]: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/
Test of electron’s roundness could help explain matter/antimatter imbalance
Well why not? It's working out well for them so far.

Razer thin margins are still better than the zero margins that they would recieve by NOT entering the market.

If it is possible to make any money at all, then there is no reason not to take it.
Stanislav Seltser, Petacube
_pmf:
think of distributed persistent numpy arrays as opposed to key-value pairs in Redis. The idea you will not pull data to do computation, you will push your code in. pretty good for archiving due to compression
You should see the invoices from LastPass for "Enterprise".. it's hilarious. By default they dont send anything, the invoice link from their enterprise dashboard has been broken for months (support know) and they give you some other weird login to workaround and it loads a poor html page with tables, and a button to switch what kind of tax you want the Invoice to show (VAT, GST, etc)

It's so bad.

Side note: One thing that terrifies me about B2 is the ability to make a bucket public (when it's private and intended to be). Would be nice to have some kind of lock on it to say "never private" or at least make it harder to change that opening the same settings page as other stuff.

Per-bucket keys would be nice too.
That's for `cd smoedir` I am not aware of what would do `./smoeexec`
Will Fed Hawks Take Control in 2018? [pdf]
This makes the most sense to me. Constant growth to meet investor expectations.
Interesting stats. I wish they said a little more about the most effective way to quickly filter out programmers in each domain.
i live in Woodinville, a suburb of Seattle, and have noticed over the last couple years that the weather forecast is getting really bad. Often (maybe once/month) showing 0% chance of rain when it's actually pouring rain. The temperature forecast also seems suspect, but I don't own a thermometer so can't provide numbers there.
Apparently better for consumers in general now that there's more competition. One Industry I really really want them to enter is Consumer Airlines. Service in most airlines sucks, like big time. Can't wait for Amazon Airlines with Prime Video and Internet available for all.

But of course I know that's a distant dream unless the Prime Air works great.
> It seems any excitement is contingent on believing no just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?

This kind of belief is more common than you might expect. There's arguably a whole genre of "faceless enemy" in various worldviews that is blatantly corrupt/incompetent/inferior while also being overwhelmingly disciplined and powerful.
> ‎‎75% of Auckland is zoned for 1 or 2 story buildings

Sounds like a great place to live

> Here's 97% of your house pricing problem. Not foreigners, not low interest rates, not land taxing policies.

Not really, you can still have a small city and keep it a that way if you keep the population under control and avoid speculation, which is sounds like what they're doing.

You could turn it into a big city like Los Angeles or Vancouver but that just creates different problems - and as they show - doesn't even keep prices low.
Sweet Potatoes and Chicken Breast
Online platform’s EULA barred software developer from owning copyright in code
Interesting - after the "new shiny toy" factor wore off, I've deliberately gone through the staffed checkouts where at all reasonable to do so. This way I feel like I'm keeping someone's job relevant and maybe even keeping them employed.

I admit this isn't a very rational response, though, because I'm fine with self-service airport check-ins and generally pretty happy to talk to a machine rather than a human.
shrug I was just cracking wise, but maybe? I've had the stock market on my mind a lot recently, hence the bad joke.
Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure
Are you suggesting that playing a media file with all the different formats, streaming resolutions, etc is not a "metric shitload of complexity"?

And your argument regarding companies wanting javascript so they can track everything goes equally for the video tag as well.

Though I agree the interaction with maps is different from video, how about we first give the poster credit for recognizing a problem/opportunity.

Ok, so let's say it is a real browser implementation. My first reaction was "but the map imagery providers all want to get paid for their content. I had assumed this meant the browser being built in with the map content, but that "might" not be the case.

Google, Microsoft and Apple all already have their own mapping solutions, so each browser "could" use those services by default. Otherwise, the website owner still needs to decide which mapping service to license.

Map tile loading and navigation is mostly (it seems) a solved problem, much like video is. Even 3d mapping for the most part seems to have fallen into common navigation schemes (though there is room for improvement).

So now, what is so out of scope? Layers? Common across platforms, why not? Directions, sure.

What are we missing that you think would be so impossible.
Yes, but with none of the inconsistencies.
“Are We Seeing Signals from Before the Big Bang?” – Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Overstock ICO is a security offering
I saw a documentary which analyzed footage found around 2000 iirc (discovered old footage) of the murder. The conclusion was that due to the wound exit, the shooter could never have been Oswald. It convinced me.

Who does the American public currently believe to be the shooter? Is there consensus for some theory?
Isn't Amazon notorious for bad customer service though? That would prevent them from disputing the industry.
There's a middle ground portrayed in the Culture Series novels. Everything is run by machines for the most part, and in some situations humans just tag along for the ride. At the same time though humans can basically get whatever they want whenever they want it, and do whatever.
Have you accounted for mixed-use zoning?
Ahh, make australia great again.
The 10 Most Popular M&A Project Names of 2016
Yes, I'm aware of Swift 3.2 compatibility mode. Unfortunately there are still a couple breaking changes–even if my code doesn't do anything funky I can't guarantee that any of my dependencies isn't mucking around with a Dictionary's keys or anything else that isn't the same between 3.1 and 3.2. I have updated to Xcode 9, and that's in part due to the work you and your team has been doing to make this transition easy, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't take time to update.
> 4% on dining

It sounds like 4% is only if you redeem points for Uber credits.

The fine print sounds like cash back redemptions are at a flat 1%:

> Points can be redeemed for Uber credits directly in the Uber app. Points can also be redeemed for cash back or gift cards. All redemptions are at a 1% value.
Why consumers should care about the dismantling of class-action lawsuits
A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too
> keeps printing money for investors

Amazon doesn't give money to investors. Late investors give money to early investors. (Edit: Amazon has bought back some shares in the past, but that's far from even offsetting all the shares given away to employees...)
WinX Video Converter Windows 7 Full Version [Free Download]
This was an anti-pattern of the runtime model that Java inherited from Smalltalk. Tuning the GC used to be an arcane art. There was also a lot of effort put in by programming shops to just reducing GC pressure as an optimization. This is why I appreciate Golang's pragmatic approach of not using the GC by avoiding the heap. The main benefit to having GC is to make initial development faster by reducing the severity and frequency of mistakes. It's really there as a safety net, not as a foolproof end-all be-all. Use tools in a way which plays up their strengths.

It's hard to tune a GC to be super-fast. It's easy to profile and find your biggest memory leaks.
I think they're a mixed bag, probably depending on some customer profitability / value score. I've heard other people complain about trouble when packages were stolen, but the few times it's happened to me, I've gotten replacements overnighted without even having to talk (chat or phone) to anyone.
Stanislav Seltser, Petacube
you are talking comparing structured workload(array-based TileDB) to unstructured one (JSON+Spark). Once you convert your JSON to sparce array structure (one time conversion) TileDB will beat Spark+JSON by several orders of magnitude. Caveat: assuming your spark+json workoad is a some heayy processing not a lightweight one.
> But these cashback values are much better than my current credit card.

The page is misleading — those percentages aren't cash back values, they're for if you redeem as Uber credits; only 1% if you redeem as cash back.
Amazon is notorious for the opposite actually, at least in their retail business.
It is my understanding that HARC has stopped funding Victor’s [1] and Hart’s [2] research.

Is that accurate? Have other groups in the list suffered from the same fate? If so, how does that fit within HARC’s long term research strategy? These sort of initiatives rarely bear fruits in a single year.

[1] http://elevr.com/elevr-leaving-ycr/

[2] I was at Dynamic Land earlier this week, and they said they were closing down for the winter, actively looking for funding, and not reopening if they cannot provide said funding.
Why were they withheld?
Amazon for example requires you to put picture on white background. They do not actively enforce it, but if someone complains - they will remove picture which does not fit their requirements.
That's really great. Core Product is still in alpha phase. Will reach to you guys once we started to integrate billing.
This is a totally valid point. I'm on the consumers side, so to me it made sense to bulk out the build for eyeballs but not enabling SMEs to leverage high bandwidth was silly. The stuff they did in Wellington making a city heart fibre ring some years back had lots of upsides.
Maybe he missed out on some of the other important things Tinder does on the "addiction" side of things.

When the app first came out (or possibly when you first start using it), the first person is/was always a match. Then they got clever about hiding matches deeper in the swipes.

This triggers addictive behaviour because the "match" reward is inconsistent. Though, clearly, before you start swiping, Tinder knows which matches it is going to present to you. It's a delicate balance to judge how long you will spend swiping, when to show you your match and how to make sure you swipe right a few times to keep the funnel loaded.
???

I've always found Amazon customer service to be amazing.

Seriously, I can't think of any other company where it's as easy to get a real person on the phone. Or a refund.
The sad part is that amaranth is actually a healthy crop. the palmer amaranth specifically is edible, nutritious and very climate and drought resistant.

it's just not as profitable in the US compared to corn or soybeans and therefore it is destroyed and considered a pest.

that's really sad if you ask me, because they undergoe such troubles to kill a field crop. why not just embrace it and farm it??
> Not sure what "All redemptions are at a 1% value." means though.

1% back if you redeem for cash. 4/3/2/1% only if you redeem for Uber credits. The page feels misleading about that.
> the divide is urban/rural and racial diversity

It's not even a race thing for the most part. City white people have a lot of the same political leanings as city black people. Same goes for country.

Sure there's different cultures but the urban/rural divide is constant for any given skin color.
> let things take their natural course.

That sounds like letting someone die. :-)
I'm not personally sold on the baby bell model of regional monopoly. I think the whole FIOS debacle, and what happened when google started offering citywide fibre says a lot about how US telco industry operates. Lobby your way to the people who make rules and then get rules passed to shut down anything which freaks your own monopoly of indifference.
The thing you are missing is that it's not actually a cash back card.

Those percentages are only for Uber credit redemption. The fine print says it's a flat 1% for cash back redemption.
They're just trolls.
Xcode 9.0.1 is fantastic. Best Swift IDE out there (and I've tried a lot) and when I am forced to use "X" IDE because of the dev language I need to use for "Y" project I end up shuddering... and wishing I could use Xcode (yeah ok, and Swift).
And probably me too. Didn't shut down the DCOS cluster.
I had to open up the pricing page just to see what you were raving about.

I'll admit it's well done, and a simple solution, though I'm not sure it deserves the rave review.

What ones do you hate so much?
> I'm thinking of, for example, cultures that are based on gift economics.

In a culture that didn't have the notion of private property, what would a "gift" mean?
I don't understand why they not just farm amaranth (pig weed).

it's a healthy nutritious crop, regarded as food in other countries and the palmer amaranth especially is very drought resistant and resilient.

but because soy and corn is more profitable in the US they undergoe so much trouble to kill what would otherwise considered to be a perfect choice of crop.
Sick of politicians?

Sustainable Australia party is who you're looking for. William Bourke is eminently sensible. Dick Smith joined. The anti-corruption fighter who wrote "Game of Mates" Dr Cameron Murray is running for them too.

http://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au

http://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/qld
You're right that Amazon has higher capex than income, however this has been intentional; I haven't been in finance for a while, and apparently this is how they're doing it now, but the main point holds true of purposely avoiding income.

From an a16z partner:

> So, though we can’t be sure, it looks like the capex is not going up because Amazon’s existing business has become more expensive to run, but because Amazon is investing the growing pool of operation cash flow into the future. All of this brings us back to the beginning - Amazon’s business is delivering very rapid revenue growth but not accumulating any surplus cash or profits, because every penny of cash is being ploughed back into expanding the business further. But, this is not because any given business runs permanently at a loss - it is because the profits from what is already there are spent on making new businesses. In the past, that was mostly in operations, but in recent years the investment firehose has again been pointed at capex.

Source: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
Realtalk/Dynamicland is fascinating to me, though there's something about it which I haven't been able to get over, which is: how can it provide the kind of generality we're used to in computing without giving some set of re-combinable primitives? In other words, something like pixels where the primitive thing is simple and easy to configure algorithmically, and yet the range of configurations is vast enough to represent a large fraction of human imagination.

I love 'being in the world' as opposed to sitting statically at a desk—but I would need something that could give me the similar feeling of vast possibilities when I consider what I'd like to build next.

I wonder if some kind of re-combinable primitives for representation are part of the plan, or if it's an explicit aim of the project to avoid them—a kind of stance against abstraction, reduction, and uniformity. That's part of why it's so fascinating to me: I can't see a general enough system being built without that—but if it were to succeed, I'm fairly confident it would be one of the most interesting systems I'd ever encountered :)

Edit: I should add: this is from what little I actually know about it. I've just seen a few few videos, read the blurb from the article, and read another article on the laser socks project which talked some about Realtalk.
They might all be dead by now.
Why not cut out the middleman? Make the captcha be controlling a paperclip manufacturing device.