skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the 140 character may not be a problem for existing users, but it’s also a great reason not to use twitter if you don’t have a desire to cram arbitrary thoughts into arbitrary formats.... what kind of discussion can you have in that medium? Not a very meaningful one....

It’s certainly amusing to see people get angry that the experience is less stressful.

Just saying—it seems pretty obvious this is at least in part to increase attractiveness of actually using the platform. The content certainly ain’t gonna do the trick.

Or to put it another way, the last person to see how shitty it is is someone who already uses the site.
With Android, Google was able to maintain its influence by the use of the Play store and other external services tied directly to default and popular apps (i'm aware there are hacks to get around certain restrictions within the AOSP).

Those same concepts won't necessarily be applicable to self-driving car tech.. unless Google is able to establish auxiliary services required to support the self-driving network (public monitoring stations, deep mapping, etc) that can further solidify their position while continuing to distribute just the software. This would further raise the bar for competitors to enter the market.
I'm sure they have (or could have) analysed that.
A low pass filter that can pass 50 kW isn't exactly a trivial device or small in any sense of the word.
I like this: "seeing through the noise". PhD of Applied Mathematics here.
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There are many pros to a de-centralized and self-governing social network. The con is the network effect working against it. So in whose interest is it to push this network? You argued that businesses should, because Facebook might cut them off in the future. But in the now Mastodon doesn't have customers. Individuals may not like what Facebook is doing with their data, but inconvenience is hard to sell. I'm genuinely curious how people think adoption of decentralized social networks can be accelerated?
It states that they create a hash server side, why couldn't that happen client-side?

> it's not implemented in Javascript.

They can implement it. Hell half the readers on this blog could implement it..
I agree, but as that's not the case there was no need for a disclaimer in my original comment. I just felt like I could contribute to the discussion which is not often the case here on HN. Hope that's ok.
They absolutely do have a single, coherent plan, just as all businesses do: make money
Evan Spiegel... of Snapchat?
I just want to hijack this thread to say hipps other creation Fossil SCM is a great SCM. Better than git imo. Everyone should check it out.
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That's why, for me, the Tesla Supercharging network was a complete game changer. I've gone on multiple multi-day trips that were enabled by the Supercharger. We got rid of our last ICE car more than a year ago.
Devoxx is live on YouTube :)
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To detail one particular addition of traffic to the roads: students - with self-driving cars, students from K-12 may much rather want to have the independence to hop in a car rather than ride a "stinky school bus". Parents may end up loving it, especially those who already drive their kids to school. And I'm sure the school districts would love self-driving cars, because it means they can pass the travel expenses onto the parents to pay for those cars, instead of having to buy tens of millions of dollars worth of buses, pay bus drivers, liability and insurance, gas, etc. (where I grew up a single school bus cost the district over $1m; we had a fleet of maybe 40-50 buses)

In my home-town of 30k people, nearly 2,000 of those are high school students alone, plus probably another 1,000 elementary school kids, and maybe 800 middle school. No doubt they'd all want to use the cool tech to ride to school instead of taking the school bus. Add 4,000 more cars to the road please. (And as for ride-sharing, that may be fun once in a while, but why do that when I can get an entire entertainment pod all to myself?)
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/issues/67

I probably won't do it, though. I'm pretty sure I'd have to reimplement the entire thing in .NET.
Sort of like how you can "interject" via quoting in email? ;)
They are a public traded company, and for us casual users of Twitter the only change that has been in the talk the last couple of years has been to increase the character limit. What other companies can have this little improvement over the time, and still be a public traded company on Nasdaq? (I acknowledge that they might improve internal & marketing tools, but nothing us users sees)
The immediate benefit I can envision is being on the highway more than the city. I regularly do a three hour drive between two states and automating the highway portion alone would be a godsend. I've actually considered getting a Volvo S90 for this purpose, but apparently the tech still isn't really where I want it to be, which is: get on the highway, press a button, don't touch anything until the final exit.
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At last report it works:
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Compatibility#p...
It's in the public domain. Of course they can sell it. So can you.
I don't think most users of FreeRTOS particularly care about the somewhat wonky license. It certainly hasn't damaged its commercial adoption.

FreeRTOS' license is GPLv2 plus an addendum to permit its incorporation in commercial products. FreeRTOS allows you to statically link your own modules as long as you don't modify the FreeRTOS kernel. If you do modify the kernel, you have to contribute back upstream.

The wording of the license is somewhat troublesome which makes it GPL-incompatible (see: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4676/is-it-wr...), but the developers have been very clear as to the spirit of the license in many public forums: you can use you own code alongside FreeRTOS and link it into a binary blob, but if you modify the kernel, share your changes. The no-benchmarking clause is sort of annoying, but really isn't a showstopper for most people.

FreeRTOS is intended for use on severely resource-constrained embedded systems where you have a few kB of RAM. Most people developing in that sort of environment don't really care about the existence of a benchmarking clause that probably won't get enforced anyway.
LinkedIn is very good place, and hack news' whoshiring is very good place for remote job.
To be fair, once you hit 260 characters, it starts counting down, showing you that you have 20 characters left.

I like the circle. It puts less emphasis on number of characters you are using, so perhaps people won't be as motivated to use up all 280.
> You yourself claimed that designing convincing studies without shortcomings is "straightforward"

Yes because - like I said in my other comment - studies on effective teamwork have been done for decades.

Point me towards a well cited meta-analysis on the impacts of race and gender diversity where the studies are repeatable experiments involving complex problem solving in a small team.

> Similarly, when challenged to provide a design yourself you change the subject.

Because you are not acting in good faith.

We both know designing a proper study would take at least a couple of months of work.

What I have asked from you on the other hand is to provide a link to an existing meta-analyses that supports your claims.

For someone who works in this space and claims there is significant evidence this should be a 5-10 minute exercise.
SQLite was originally developed for missiles. Aircraft sound like a natural extension of that use case.
I just quickly tested and it still seems to work. Make sure you have rich editing enabled[1]. If it still doesn't work, create an issue with more info.

[1]: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Compatibility#f...
You forgot DVT
It's just a small Cython-compiled utility throwing the warning, it works fine. Everything else is pure Python and so doesn't care about 3.5 vs 3.6. We will fix the warning, though (disclaimer: I work on TF and added fast_tensor_utils--sorry!).
Why would I advertise on a platform that has no users?
Great presentation, but I do wish they'd throw in an equation or two. When they talk about the "channel objective", which they describe as "layer_n[:,:,z]", do they mean they are finding parameters that maximize the sum of the activations of RGB values of each channel? I'm not quite sure what the scalar loss function actually is here. I'm assuming some mean. (They discuss a few reduction operators, L_inf, L_2, in the preconditioning part but I don't think it's the same thing?)

The visualizations of image gradients was really fascinating, I never really thought about plotting the gradient of each pixel channel as an image. I take it these gradients are for a particular (and same) random starting value and step size? It's not totally clear.

(I have to say, "second-to-last figure.." again.. cool presentation but being able to say "figure 9" or whatever would be nice. Not everything about traditional publication needs to be thrown out the window.. figure and section numbers are useful for discussion!)
Ok, I can see not worrying about permanent forks. How do you deal with double spending in short-term forks that will soon be merged?
I read the story to mean that there are critics groups awards.
TL;DR anyone? I got half way through and lost interest.
Thanks for sharing! I wanted to get more information, but couldn't find it on the website (mobile, without downloading), until I found this series of screencasts. https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=PLC4ZkBr87CO0jmrQvGQ77t44...

Looks very interesting for power users. Going to check this out!
Why does everybody persist in calling the great man Dr.?

He refers to himself as D. Richard Hipp.
You assume that tuition is actually an "in kind" benefit. Most of that tuition money is not an in kind benefit at all. Rather, it is a way for the university to siphon off overhead from grant money. If you think of graduate students as apprentice workers, which is far closer to the truth than students, then taxing overhead costs is a ridiculous idea. We don't tax business expenses, why would we tax educational institution business expenses?
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Well, obviously they should rewrite it in Rust.
Small IT team, in public health, using MediaWiki on Windows.

Search was underwhelming for our 400 or so pages, so we tuned an old MW extension called RigorousSearch, see https://github.com/thomasswilliams/RigorousSearch-MediaWiki-...
This is a really great article that lays out a proper implementation of idempotent requests, something that many people (even very experienced developers) regularly mess up. Thanks for sharing
WhatsApp is basically how me, my family and friends text, call or video chat.
Disney are not perfect but this move is really out of character for them.

I wonder if it is some ego driven VP that made this call in the first place.
But that question doesn't make sense. It contains the assumption that the alternative would be to never ship broken features to users. While the actual alternative would be that they'd ship the same broken feature to all users. Because at some point there's no other testing left.
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Hwaci is a U.S. company, and the U.S. recognizes public domain. Therefore, no contributor can sue Hwaci in the U.S. for selling SQLite licenses.
Greaaaaat... Seriously, does humanity really need this?
Well, if there is a period that your transaction might get reversed, then the seller can't send you the stuff. Or, maybe you need a reputation system for buyers and sellers and so on (what eBay does) along with chargeback systems figuring out whether to let the transaction be reversed.

Typically, that period is until the next consensus. In Ripple, the consensus eventually takes place but sometimes may take up to a minute. In Bitcoin it may take 30 minutes. You are never quite sure that everyone "phoned in", but presumably if the network participants announce themselves on the network then you can know when a supermajority has "phoned in". If they haven't - you've got a fork baby.

You can also get a fork if they phone in but start a second consensus somewhere else lol.
> HTML emails are an abomanation.

They're a life saver. This is 2017, the least we can ask is that people take the time to use bold, italics, bullet points, tables, hyperlinks, and type faces to make their communications more cogent.

If you mean that "abuse of HTML" is an abomination, then yes, sure. But light use of HTML is extremely important today and my opinion of someone trying to communicate an important piece of information to me is directly related to how much care they have put into composing their email.
How's that working out for you?
I'm not familiar with this publication, so it might just be that I'm not the target audience, but it throws me that there are a bunch of French phrases used in the article without translations being provided. Is this intended to just be for people who can read them, or am I supposed to just keep reading and pretend that I understand what's being said?
All you need next is to build A near B and you can take the person out of the car entirely. They can walk to their destination, and the car can be made out of aerogel and powered by fairy dust and the ride sharing software is simpler, the logistics are easier to manage, wear and tear is reduced, and the companies can have a valuation into the stratosphere.

> I could see taxis serving city centers that are more like a golf cart than a Crown Vic.

http://www.tqsmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/john...
"If you are a pessimist about autonomous being bigger part of transpiration then add 2 years to DATES shown below."

I think you drastically underestimate the possible values of pessimism. In my opinion, truly autonomous vehicles driving in arbitrary, real world, public roads in my lifetime sounds optimistic ...
interesting. That is close to the salary I was starting with more than 10yrs ago...Either the wages have stagnated around Boston or that number seems low. Glassdoor reports ~$80k which is closer to what my current employer has been hiring at, thats why the Wayfair numbers seems low to me.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/boston-entry-level-softwa...
Didn't he make stories at Facebook before starting Snapchat??? Why else would it be in every product?
The fact that Gmail hides the quoted portion actually encourages people to use top posting more.

Which is a great thing.

I know, not a popular opinion here, but top posting saves a lot of time in catching up with long email chains.

If you don't agree, pick an old style mailing-list like a Linux kernel discussion, choose a discussion with 20+ emails in and read it from top to bottom. You'll quickly realize how exhausting inline quoting is.
Low pass filters don't have the power go through them. It's a capacitor going across the power supply, with a resistor for damping.
#programming #interview: Find if a string is palindrome string
Snapchat needs to cut 60% of their workforce and then relentlessly focus on the iOS platform. Make a better spectacles and make it work only on iPhone. Let the Android app languish. This is the only way to long term success. This way they maintain exclusivity and also able to polish the app much better. For example the shit transferring experience on spectacles can be easily fixed if they optimise it for iPhone. And then the people who bought it may have actually liked it a bit.
Bottom posting would be okay but what opponents of top posting are advocating is "inline quoting", which makes reading long chains of emails absolutely exhausting and obfuscated.

Top posting won for a reason: it saves everyone a lot of time.
Chrome still complains that the payment form is using non secure elements on the page but anyway I bought the book.
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Its a liquid stock with volume of $10m+/day. It seems like its worth what other people are willing to pay for it.
Curious how Twitter detects when it's Chinese or Japanese to restrict the length to 140 chars. What if it's a tweet that starts with English, then includes Chinese characters? Is that what the progress indicator is for, to let Twitter detect the language?
Let's guess who's the apple hostage...
That's, increasingly, apparently not understood by the average correspondent. Anything other than a continuous block of text preceding a quoted reply ("top posting") may cause confusion.
I'm not sure what "hosting costs" encompasses. But maybe this includes analytics costs? I assume they have far more ML and data collection infrastructure than before.
Once you can easily hail a self-driving car at both ends of the trip, where the track stops ceases to be a problem. You can do that with cabs today, but the cost and convenience aren't where they need to be.
There are plenty of organizations that are incorporated as Public-Benefit Organizations that might still be considered objectionable to get a free pass on hiring posts.
That's not exactly the same as NIH, which is where you would have reimplemented the other library instead of using it. Wrapping a dependency can make sense, because it gives you a stable thing to test against (and depending on the language may make unit testing actually possible), or to handle some version updates (especially if you're testing multiple versions -- e.g. we have a wrapper for Jetty because we needed to transition from Jetty 8 to Jetty 9 but had a lot of code to gradually update) though yeah there's less value when it's just a 1-1 and no one ever updates the underlying library...
Good luck finding support for code highlighting with this approach. Markdown Here is unbeatable for this.
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Don't get me wrong. It is a popular taking point. I just think it is wrong now. Specifically empirically. My "hard to manage" macros have maintained better than any of my friends resumes in other formats. With basically no effort, all told.
Can you point to the relevant documentation section? I couldn't find it.
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Parallel. Probably has to do with the different handling of different charsets, and therefore not being able to give a simple "N more codepoints"
Second MailMate. I wish I could swap out the parser for Kramdown... but it is leaps beyond Mail.app in utility!
You might get a prosthetic that's robotic, but you're not going to have some kind of "Ironman" capabilities.
Try it! I wonder, too.
Handbag detection may be a good way for digital signs to identify high-end females for targeted advertising
> OK, so how is the success of that funnel measured vis-a-vis other promotional channels?

What difference does it make? If it’s profitable, it’s profitable.

> And are you able to demonstrate definitively that a visitor from FB concluded a sale? If so, how?

Through the variety of existing measurement solutions, or a custom solution.

Twitter: https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-measurement-an...

Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/pixel-wi...

Google: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722054?hl=en

I don’t understand why you seem to think that companies are throwing tens of billions of dollars a year at Facebook (and Google, and Twitter) with not only no returns but also no ability to measure that lack of returns. It’s just such a ridiculous viewpoint to hold.
The UIs on those three should be dialed back (animation, JS), but Discourse is pretty good otherwise.

I've looked at all three:

* Flarum had nausea-inducing animation, and now it overrides natural scroll behavior. (Please never do that to users.)

* NodeBB had some problems when I was using it. If JS is disabled, even the homepage links don't work. Forums should be server-rendered.

* Discourse could be improved by removing most of the animation and Material Design creep (bad for motion accessibility), but other than that, it's the best at the moment. It would also be nice to have easier, full theme customization. Maybe it's in there somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.

I would like to see forum software that has the feel of classic forum software (like Flux), not in PHP, that is server-rendered, with a very minimal default theme (no animation) and minimal JavaScript, and that has many of the modern features of Discourse.
> they estimated it would cost an attacker renting time on a commercial cloud service an average of $38 and 25 minutes to break a vulnerable 1024-bit key and $20,000 and nine days for a 2048-bit key

Can someone explain why a 2048-bit key isn't 2^1024 times as costly to break?
I am just waiting for a lawyer for someone with Internet Addiction (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/) to sue this company over one of their supported apps.

This is the kind of thing that I fear will prompt a backlash from the people and government and destroy the entire online ads regime that underpins the current Internet.
> While Brown condemned the behavior that’s been attributed to Sacca — and expressed disappointment that Mazzeo found the same troubles at his would-be new home, Binary Capital — he said that it didn’t dissuade him from taking Lowercase’s money.

Yup, people always take a high moral stand.. until there is money involved.
Except unless you have some sort of an impedance follower you'll probably just end up attenuating your powerline networking to the point of not working.
An IoT device that offers a web server for configuration and also runs some network services, and possibly a display?

Ideally, you trust none of them. They are all attack vectors.
Yes, Mozilla is doing just that for Firefox, and there are lots of demo projects. (There's even a minimal kernel example I have bookmarked somewhere...) The problem is that once you accept that, you open the door for many other languages that are arguably better than C and can be introduced piecemeal just as well. Like Nim, but others too. Now you have to decide which one you want to use, evaluate their various merits, it's not just a "use this hip one that pops up on HN every week". It's easier to just keep everything in C and propose out-of-band ways of making things better. (e.g. I don't think there are any unit tests in vanilla Linux but it wouldn't surprise me if there's a bank of unit tests some other groups have written to occasionally run the latest vanilla against. People have found bugs with fuzzers. Etc.)
Not to worry, chromium is open source. Just pop open a text editor and trace the code from the option parser to see where it's used. How hard can it be?
Agreed 100%. I'd been using Firefox right since the early betas but at one point the scrolling performance grew so janky that I had to switch to Chrome. I hate the kind of bullshit chrome keeps pulling, specially the IE-like random standards that they keep inventing to make sure other browsers can't use certain features.

With quantum, Firefox is performing well. Even if chrome catches up I will not give up Firefox until it becomes so slow that I'm unable to use it normally. I don't care about the performance delta, just that it be good enough.

Go Firefox!
Ditto. They did a big upgrade a few months (years?) back and yet my Nexus 6P takes literally 10+ seconds before Snapchat responds to touches. It's horrendous