skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm convinced nobody at ESPN has tried to use their website in a long time. I remember it not being a dumpster fire of UX once, but that was like 10 years ago.
Uh.Mazing. Hey, do you know offhand if there is an easy way to move things into the App Store, having made them with Expo? This is so cool! :D
It's not so much the value of the car that determines whether the credit benefits the wealthy or not. This is a tax credit, not just a check from the government. You have to have a fairly high income in order to have a federal tax liability of $7500. A single person would need to make almost $50k a year in order to benefit from the full credit.

That's not a big number by developer standards but it's more than the median household income in the US.

(Having said that I'm for the credit and have already benefited from it twice.)
They're cutting a lot of deductions.

EDIT: Seems like my information is out of date. I'll just edit my misinformation out (ie: most of the previous post)
NNTP was often hosted locally to the machine that you were reading on, so browsing it is incredibly fast, so much faster than using a website that it's not funny.

Plus, the clients had things like killfiles, so that one could ignore a troll or a subject (or even fancier stuff, like scoring: maybe a user tends to have worthless comments, but what he says about one subject is really worthwhile).
Oh I didn't know! I've only ever used it to exchange between USD, EUR and GBP. Do they pass the TransferWise fee on to you, or is it free as well?
Startups are ridiculously hard. The biggest mistake young founders and companies make is going heads down in code for 3, 6, 12 months without marketing and sales. I've been there and failed.

What is the market? Is it a good one? Open source while incredible, is damn difficult to build a proper business.

I'll reiterate my stance that the best products with the best technology often times don't win. That doesn't mean that you should not strive for perfection in products, it just means there is more to the game than that.
Fair point. These things change dramatically with debate.
Wow they were really committed to resolving their issues in public. It's pretty interesting to go through their github issues.

It's amusing to contrast the difficulty of tipping another internet user before cryptocurrency and after. Due to regulatory cost it's still rough for a company to act as a conduit using cryptocurrencies, but accept a tip from another internet user is as easy as (BTC): 18bsU4fM14AbiQ6aXSRc7XSnduT75cCigX
I'm also doing NaNoGenMo.

I've finished four novel generators thus far this year:

https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/54
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/43
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/3
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/16
I don't know what you mean here: "than copy the map while spinning on an atomic." Why would we copy the map? And by "spinning on an atomic", do you mean just spin-waiting on some flag? That's, morally, a lock. A well designed lock free algorithm allows all threads to make progress at the same time, and if there is contention, an alternative that hopefully is not just redoing that same work. The cost is more atomic operations, which means that if there is low contention, you're paying more overhead than needed.
This article says that google photos’ model can still have trouble telling your pets apart if you have the same breed - it kind of disproves your point. The model needs to be explicitly told which cat is which. That said, I’m pretty sure a toddler would probably need to be told which is which too.
Consumer's can't solve this from the ground up.
What's needed is to prevent certain kinds of key acquisitions.
The law around acquisitions is too permissive in an age of network effects; acquisition laws were fine pre-internet but don't solve their intended purpose anymore.
Normally, the market corrects against the biggest players because the biggest players are slow to change culture and their business.
But, acquisitions are the mechanism by which the big players are preventing themselves from being disrupted by smaller, more nimble players.
If the big players can simply buy up any new comers (who will want a deserved pay-out for their efforts) on the scene, they maintain complete control regardless of what consumers want.
Otherwise, any "alternative practices" you try to foster will simply be crushed, if they ever become a large enough threat.

Facebook acquiring Instagram is a perfect example.
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Why only a warning? These greedy celebs know exactly what they are doing. Nail one of them and teach the rest a lesson.
You know, Erdos (great mathematician) said that minds like his had to be constantly caffeinated (and sometimes involved with the potent psychadelic) to maximize their potential. Caffeine is good for productivity, or Mate (Yerba Mate).
I hope TW uses some of the money to build out recurring payments. That is the biggest thing stopping me from using it for B2B payments (think SaaS product with monthly billing). If there are workarounds, would be happy to hear.
Though, it would most likely end up in the ocean since the majority of the earth's surface is covered by water.
The Volt was the other serious contender for me (especially given that I live in a state that doesn't generally get the electric vehicles).

Ultimately, it was trunk space that made me choose the Prime. We have one car and occasionally go camping and having more storage in the car was more important than the fifth seat or longer electric range.
The mobile aspect is important. Nowadays we are starting to see more non-Android Linuxes on mobile phones (like Post market OS or KDE Plasma), so it is important that messaging doesn't hog RAM.
>that is also assuming electric cars (in their current state) are less impactful than fossil fuel vehicles (which isn't the case)

Unless your electricity is generated by burning peat, in terms of CO2 emissions, this is false.

Of course, the correct solution to the emissions problem is to reduce the number of miles Americans drive. But you'll never hear a House Republican say that.
These guys are the best!

I've used transferwise to move dollars into euros the day before Brexit. They could not ship the money in time because of the overall transaction volume, and so they offered me the best of the rate I had locked in and the market rate after Brexit!
Having had a recent experience with that, their "support" is utterly incompetent. Made a donation to a charitable organization (same one I've made in a previous year), PayPal reversed it without giving any reason, I contacted their support trying to find out why, and several hours later they could tell me nothing more than what the website said: that it was rejected and no reason was given, and I should try using some other method to make the transaction. (They also referred me to an email address for another department, who had no phone number, and that email produced no answer for a week, after which they gave the same non-answer.)
Having helped out very little with this project - it makes me sad to see it go. Chad is a great guy and means well in all that he does.

I wish him the best :)
What ethnic / socioeconomic background are most people here from?

You're really grabbing on to physical location to justify ignoring the fact that that person is perfectly representative of most of the folks here.
At the end of the "gittip crisis" it seems that they capitulated to the demands of a group of users who felt unsafe sharing information about how much money they made. Users who had mostly already left. I think this was a big mistake, as the "leader-board" features provided important social-proof that gratipay worked. That you could make money from it. Tracking how much money projects gave to other projects was good UX, it meant you could feel good about giving money to a large meta-project, because you knew it was passing that money down to smaller projects it depended on.

After they made the decision to remove leaderboards I mostly lost interest.
Starting with vs2015 microsoft promises more stable abi.
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I like your style. I am really surprised no one has thought of this. Nominating you for Minister of the Internet Discussion Boards, next time there's an open election :D
That's what I ended up doing, if I recall correctly, but the docs on this were pretty much non existent.
> But many of the providers of "content" know they have little to provide, so they drag it out in video form, saving the actual information for the last 10% of the video (if ever!)

0:00 - 00:10 Useless video animation

00:10-2:00 "Hey guys welcome to my channel. Make sure to like and subscribe and let me know how I'm doing in the comments. Also make sure to check out [sponsor] and use coupon code [code] for 10% off"

2:00-5:00 Useless personal story about why creator is making the video

5:00-10:00 Useless history of the subject matter

10:00-11:00 The actual useful content
Of course they are slow, atomic RMW [1] at least on x86 stall the pipeline waiting for the implied memory barrier to be flushed out of the store buffer. What me and
arielweisberg have been trying to say is that barriers and RMW are purely local and have nothing to do with caches [1], as such they are purely a constant overhead on algorithms and they scale perfectly: in the contended case the scaling cost is completely determined by the number of cacheline written to and the number of cores involved and it is completely independent of the number of atomic operations performed per operation.

[1] atomic stores and loads are extremely cheap on x86.

[2] you can see that from the cost: a RMW or membar is around 20-30 clock cycles, while cross core communication costs in the order of 100s cycles.

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If you visit this page on mobile and start to scroll down while it's still loading, you'll have to scroll down multiple time because the loaded content resets the scrollbar (Firefox on Android)

Top comment: 'Impressive engineering on the whole stack'

Really?
I think you're addressing the first half of his objection to Linus' behaviour, not the second half though.

I agree with you completely, but I can see how this can be accomplished, i.e. removal of trust and correction (public at that) without the need to demolish the person him/herself.

I think we can both agree that it's a fine line though.

Personally, "losing your temper" (i.e. something you have to apologize for later) is something that should be relegated to children. Adults should exhibit self-control in this regard.

You can get the "job" done without this. Some have to work harder at it than others. But saying that it's just okay to denigrate others is not correct.
I'm not sure how rsync solves this any differently than dropbox.

I care because any in-efficiency just drives me crazy and we would be more productive($$$) as a whole if he was more productive.
Taxes are even less palatable than subsidies. A carbon tax is a great idea, but before you can implement it, you have to fight the people who hate taxes, the people who hate environmentalism, and the companies whose products you're now directly attacking. Subsidies for the alternative are a compromise solution meant to work around the unfeasibility of passing a carbon tax.
It's my understanding that, at their height, IS derived much of their revenue from captured oil assets. Note that I'm specifically not making the claim that all middle eastern oil revenue is tied to some terror group, but I'm pretty sure some of it is.

Please do correct me if I am wrong.
Ask HN: How to avoid places that do not allow me to grow as a developer?
So far I've been in a several companies and the story is always the same - the interview doesn't really raise any major red flags, the pay is decent, I take the offer and a month or two in I feel like leaving because there's very little or no opportunities to grow.

The companies seem to always have most - of not all - of the flaws:

- no Glassdoor reviews

- bait and switch, hired for the knowledge of a newer or popular technology, yet work is 100% legacy systems

- no mentoring of any sort

- poor or no documentation and/or tests

- raising the issue gets me murky promises of things being better in the future, but no actual improvements ever come

- weird and dated tools and systems

- verson control exists, but for some reason the projects I'm working on do not use it

- lots of grunt work that should have been automated ages ago

- suggestions of improvements either met with resistance, ridicule and excuses

- people working here are not passionate about technology

I'm looking for advice on how can I find a place where I can truly learn. I don't mind occasional grunt work or having to navigate through a legacy system, however with 2 years of experience of doing mostly that I feel like dedicating myself towards this type of work is actively hurting my future prospects. I just want a place where I can look back one month and say "in this month I learned [x]". So far nearly every single improvement came from learning on my own, after work, and it's getting to the point where this is the only source of improvement for my skills.

I'm interested in what I can do to remedy the situation. The easy answer is probably "networking", however most of the time I'm on my own. How do I leave this broken circle of terrible jobs?
And we should make it black and rectangular shape. I suggest we call it the monolith. We might want to put a few of them around the solar system just to be safe.
It did actually just extract the data of the "hero" item. The thing is that it gets offered by multiple companies for different prices. So all the prices are valid and none is right or wrong. So really depends what you want. If you want simply "a" price, you can take the first. If you want the cheapest one you would have to itterate over them to find it.
Why do articles like this always paint reductions in a negative manner? This is actually a positive. The credit should be scraped immediately. The credit was an initial incentive to help encourage drivers to adopt electric vehicles, and it worked very well. Electric vehicles are everywhere especially in major cities; they are huge in my city San Diego. However, now that they are mainstream there is no reason to continue with tax breaks. Electric drivers will continue to drive them, and their share of the market will continue to expand with or without the tax breaks as more people convert. Lets us that tax money to pay for other important things like paying off our debt or funding sustainable energy solutions.
A strong argument is that using an already existing car (buying used) is way better for the environment that creating a new car, regardless of the MPG.

Obviously if you play with the numbers (CO2 per mile driven, # of miles in life of car, CO2 per new car, expectation for expected reductions in total CO2 reduction by waiting if you want to get fancy) you can get it to tilt in either direction.
> Incumbents like Western Union have always been very expensive and borderline evil.

I'd be interested in more information on this; what kinds of things have they done?
Could someone explain why people keep directly comparing Snapchat with Instagram and Whatsapp Status?

To me, Snapchat is a fancy way to tell a small subsection of my friends about something i'm doing / seeing right now which they might enjoy. Everything I see on Snapchat is highly relevant, personal, and real. The whole Snapchat Story thing is not even remotely relevant for a lot of users.

Instagram and Whatsapp Status do the complete opposite thing. Their services are simply another copy of traditional social networks, namely posting perfect pictures of the ideal personality that you wish to be to all of your "friends" - or rather all of the people you ever cared enough about to add to your network. Instagram especially seems to have devolved into a cesspool of poorly hidden advertisements.

It's more or less the digital difference between sending a friend a postcard while on holiday, or submitting an opinion piece to a major newspaper. They seem so different to me that any direct comparison is completely meaningless. Why is this valid?
CapitalOne for credit cards, Schwab Bank for ATMs
Based on a few trips to the Pawnee Grasslands this summer, I can say that lightpollutionmap represents the state of the night sky better than darksitefinder.
Yes its true. I do not have a source handy so I'll have to rely on some other HN commenter to help me out.

Basically the math works like this:

An internal combustion cars cost X tons of carbon to produce. An an EV costs Y tons of carbon to produce. If you need a new car, it will probably require the same amount of carbon to produce an EV as a combustion car. But if you can drive a used car and extend its life 5, 10, 15 years, you save all the carbon of producing the car (which is where the majority of the carbon cost comes from).

> I don't see the issue with rich people benefiting from it, because it's exactly those rich people buying 100K Teslas that are paying for the cost of driving research into better battery technology and cheaper cars so everyone benefits from cleaner air and reduced global warming.

I love investing in technology. However, there's probably more efficient ways of doing it. Every dollar spent to help the rich could have been spent helping the poor, or the environment, or funding research.
I don't think we can safely assume the shirt he is wearing in the modern photo has any connection to the story.
Well, not immediately after WWIII. But, possibly, eventually after sufficient millennia have passed.
Docker is not a replacement for proper application monitoring.
> Through careful tracking of influential voices, Dorsia curates a constantly-updated, searchable list of the best bars, restaurants, cafes, and sights.

Does this mean that if a given location stops being mentioned, it gradually slides off the list?
Please don't post this kind of partisan flamebait on Hacker News. We're here to try for better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Most common developer problems?
Thanks for reaching here. I am looking to write a paper for my CS class (in my sophomore) preferably centering around technical problems experienced by developers. So as devs which technical problems do you experience most?. Much appreciated.
My opinion is that you can't stop it because it is a byproduct of other things that are desirable (the difference between CRISPR'ing pigs to be less fatty and CRISPR'ing humans to be less fatty will become increasingly less of a technical difference, and more of an ethical one), and most of the scariest parts of these changes are only scary when they're concentrated and controlled.

The best solution to this is to democratize it by making it less expensive.
I usually have a few hundred tabs open in Firefox without issue; it seems to do a good job of putting unused/old tabs to 'sleep' until you come back to them.
The correct solution here is not to get rid of the credit, but to introduce a phase out as income rises, so middle class car buyers benefit, but wealthy car buyers don't.

But that won't happen because the real goal of the proposal is to support the oil and gas industry, not to remove a subsidy to wealthy car buyers. As the article states, even the auto industry has come out against this.
Almost every pyramid was looted nearly immediately, and the limestone covers on the pyramids were stolen long ago. Most of the reason the pyramids remain as they are is because they are made of very large blocks which are inordinately difficult to move and impractical to use for other purposes.
The Linux Foundation Collaborated with AT&T and Tech Mahindra for Acumos Project
>"This is a good text, at an upper-div/grad level, of fundamental neuroscience with all sources cited."

I was able to check a bit and see no citations:
"The human brain contains a huge number of these cells, on the order of 10^11 neurons, that can be classified into at least a thousand different types."
https://neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1049&sec...

That 10^11 number is out of thin air. How was it determined? That is what a citation is for.

>"I'm unfamiliar with the toxicity of Golgi stains, but it may be able to be done alive."

No, the gogli stain is very toxic. It depends on a precipitate forming in "random" (no one knows why) cells. Also I see no reason it couldn't spread from cell to cell (via gap junctions, etc) so that method isn't too convincing.

>"Also, the visual systems to the brain-stem are remarkably conserved through evolution."

You can remove a rat's cerebrum and have it stay alive and keep doing stuff:
"Cage climbing, resistance to gravity, suspension and muscle tone reactions, rhythmic vibrissae movements and examination of objects with snout and mandible were difficult to distinguish from controls."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/630411

Rodents are much more reliant on their brainstem than humans, I wouldn't be at all surprised that there are large differences. In fact, there's been a long debate about a similar claim regarding the cortico-spinal tract:

"Direct connections between corticospinal (CS) axons and motoneurons (MNs) appear to be present only in higher primates, where they are essential for discrete movement of the digits. Their presence in adult rodents was once claimed but is now questioned."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704511/
Thanks for the explanation. I think I get it now.
You'd need [required] instead of [minlength] for :valid to work.
The other option is :placeholder-shown, to style no-input normally, but it's newer and not as supported.