skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine all the sites you ever worked on suddenly broke and all your clients called you demanding satisfaction. This is a direct result of something Google has done after telling you they wouldn't (you could infer this according to their guidelines saying not host the fonts yourself).

Being the nice guy you are, you bring the issue up to them and give them a very reasonable solution.

Not only do they ignore you, but they do it again.
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Oh come on. It was voted up. Let the users decide
> Waymo chose the Phoenix area for its favorable weather, its wide, well-maintained streets, and the relative lack of pedestrians. [1]

These are not very common conditions. So what is Waymo's plan for the rest of the world? And what wizardry is needed to make it happen?

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/report-waymo-aiming-to-...
>> "Car usage will go up by an order of magnitude because a major cost of driving isn't the dollars, but the time."

This is the Jevons paradox applied to time cost. Definitely true.
I'm not sure I understand your point. It only leaks a subset of data (cat lovers who have an intent to buy paperclips) and is hardly valuable at scale to anyone for anything other than prospecting new customers.
“Excess inventory and related charges – In Q3 2017, we recorded $39.9 million of charges related to Spectacles inventory, primarily related to excess inventory reserves and inventory purchase commitment cancellation charges.“

Looks like spectacles was a failure.
> E.g I’m not super comfortable creating my own sdfs that aren’t just a combination of the geometries from hg.

Leaving aside complex fractals - isn't it all about combining simple primitives? It's a bit like saying "I understand the basic chords but how do I write a song?"

The basic ingredients are shapes and domain transforms of various kinds. The rest is artistry.
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You can have way more passagers on a highway than on railroads though. Capacity wise cars are the better choice because its a continuous flow. Plus, they get you where you need to be, not just where the track stops.
"not visible" is a very tricky thing in human perception. I'd love a way to subtly mess with someone's eye. And not for trolling purposes. It matters in art.
I'm still on chrome, because of pepper flash.. :/
and because debugging angular sucks on firefox.

Edit: still checking out if it might be possible. i've just seen that the newer firefox has also some kind of flash player integrated. just the debugging is now strange.
Exactly like Chrome.
I do not argue about the good intention behind.
If you want the browser to conform, you do control the browser. It isn't hard to set it up so it doesn't do autocomplete.
I thought they interviewed Evan Spiegel.

I guess he would be Facebook head of product.
I use origin for the limited set of exclusives (sim city, mass effect3) and consider it the poster child of what not to do

Admittedly my usage is low. However twice I have encountered installer errors regarding permission issues

It turned out origin never created the root installation folder. Manually creating it yielded a successful install. WAT?!

I won't be buying anything further requiring origin until 2019 at the earliest.
Wouldn't you want your tests to be run against the same DB family (and version) as production anyway?
If votes were all that mattered, there'd be a lot more cat pictures on the front page, too. This is the oldest argument on the site, and it is long-settled.
Ironic he also had to type out the entire thing in 140 character segments each of which bounced all over the world rather than sharing a simple text file write up.
Ask HN: Is anyone using AvalonEdit for commercial purposes?
I have recently incorporated it into my spare-time project over a more basic editor and it's turning out to be a great piece of kit.

Is anyone else using it in their production apps?
That's a nice appeal, but on reflection that case isn't actually virtuous.

What you have described is not an employer who is just violating letter of the law in some harmless defiance of red tape... No, that employer is deliberately breaking the spirit of the law too.

The H1-B exemption is intended to allow for immigrant workers when domestic supply doesn't exist. Not "when you really really like a dude."
Absolute clickbait. Facebook is allowing you to flag pictures you have already shared in messages as something that you don't want to be shared any further. They are not asking you to upload pictures they don't already have, even if according to the article you can do this by starting a messenger conversation with yourself. No idea why this is being upvoted.
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a spectacular failure
My reply was to say that such strong statements about humans and religion are perhaps unwise at this time, considering we may be going through a paradigm shift in our understanding at this time. The statement is not wrong, per se, but caution is advised.
What kind of companies sign 35 year support contracts?
I don't see any indication that this is any more important than the public backlash.
And it isn't like this stuff is exactly trivial: with content transfer encodings, trailers, and exotic stuff like Expect: 100-continue, no one ever does this stuff correctly when they think they can just throw it together :/.
Ask HN: Line Ending hassle
I know this is probably a novice mistake, but this is a constant source of frustration.

PS C:\Users\ms\chef-repo\cookbooks\my_cookbook> git add .

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in metadata.rb.

I've switched from Mac to Windows.
How do I avoid this hassle? I don't want to commit CRLF, when the target is always Linux.

I'm generating the cookbook on Windows, but like mentioned, it's always going to be for Linux.

How do I ensure that in the end it's LF and not CRLF?

I'm using VS Code for my editor, if that matters.

git config --get core.autocrlf returns "true"

I'm trying to avoid needing to do everything in a Linux VM, if I can help it.

Thanks in advance.
I wonder if it will ever get good enough to detect counterfeit bags? My understanding is that they are a prolific problem.
Probably PhotoDNA or similar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

That is, a hash that survives resizes, cropping, etc.
Inspired by this post installed Quantum beta and used it for the last few hours. Stuttering videos and subtly laggy typing. In what sense it is faster?
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/
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Your Amazon link I think is for an older model that doesn't mention GPS I believe?
After using various IDEs for a brief period of time I was always comming back to Kate because there's no input lag there.
In the last week Disney prevented industry critics from accessing a new product early enough to have a review prepared before release. This move was a reversal of both their own previous behavior and industry standard. People were outraged.

In the last week Apple prevented industry critics from accessing a new product early enough to have a review prepared before release. This move was a reversal of both their own previous behavior and industry standard. People didn't seem to care.

I am at a loss to explain why these reactions were so different. Is it because Apple has more goodwill? Is it because Apple is more opaque in their motivations? Is it because movie criticism is a more mature field with more consistent and well defined standards?

EDIT: As a response to the downvotes, here is the specific recent change that Apple made regarding the iPhone X [1].
And for those who say that it is different to punish an outlet for unrelated negative coverage, do I have to remind people how Apple reacted to the Gizmodo iPhone leak? [2]

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/11/01/apple-iph...

[2] - http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/06/07/gizmodo-banned-from-ap...
Facebook are using (or was using PhotoDna.) dunno if they still do.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/864695
And for their actual corruptive capture of Anaheim. I mean, thats why they banned LAT in the first place right?
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It's mind blowing to me how much LE gets done with such a tiny team. Hats off to them, they've done a ton of good for the PKI world.
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Yes! I would like actually to know what's going with CafePress and Zazzle.

CafePress IPO'd in 2012 ("PRSS") at around $19 and has been all downhill since to its current $1.76. CafePress started in San Mateo but is now apparently in Kentucky.

Zazzle seems to be healthy and active and 12 years later still run by its founders, the 3 Beaver brothers.
Privacy not included (Privacy-centric review of IoT products)
Done? Almost every .0 version I checked in https://www.sqlite.org/chronology.html saw some new features.
Reward good behavior, punish bad behavior. Recognition to Disney for ending their bullshit ban, but they still need to answer for their position on the $1.2b Anaheim parking lot that the city "leases" to them for $1/yr.
The 13% you mentioned I'm assuming is the percentage of the US population that is foreign born. That is not the highest in US history. Take a look at page 3 of this: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/cspan_fb_slides.pdf (sorry for the PDF). You'll see that 13-14% foreign born was pretty much the norm from 1860-1920. The US society seemed to survive that just fine.

To your point though, I suspect a lot of older voters grew up with much lower immigration (due to the Immigration Act of 1924) and so this level feels really high to them even though it was common for a large part of US history.
Road Traffic won't worsen as you mentioned, let me explain why ? Increased capacity utilization.

I assume, you are a technical person. If you look back at year 2000, In a typical IT company there is a server Box for each category. A Database server box , a WebServer Box ( physical machines ) etc.. very few people used viruvalization etc.. Physical Machines capacity utilization is around 15% .
Come to 2017, with Amazon AWS cloud is providing on demand servers to thousands of companies, all of them TIME Sharing tens of thousands of Servers.

Same thing applies with self-driving cars. Higher utilization by ride sharing leads to FEWER cars on the Road.
Today average occupancy in a car may be 1.3
with Self-driving RIDE sharing, if it goes to 2.6 that is HALF the CARS on the ROAD compared to today.

Doubling the average people in car from today is much EASIER, since that BEHAVIOUR of Sharing is tied to FINANCIAL gains to people. If you ride by yourself , 1000 miles/month SUBSCRIPTION cost is $500 vs. If you Share it is $200/month, that motivate people to SHARE and leads to LESS cars.
> Said service zones wouldn't include anyplace where increased crime is a concern.

What? Is someone going to try to steal a car without a steering wheel?
I'm honestly surprised that these companies haven't started extracting business intelligence information from their data flows and using it to make investment decisions in public companies. Surely there's a correlation between how often people search for "JC Penny" and JC Penny's earnings. And these companies have far more data than that, alongside a giant pile of money that they can use to fund an investment arm.
> But I also need to not be fucked with when I'm trying to work.

But that's true of shipping any bug and isn't guaranteed to happen with a field trial any more than any new feature.

(and the OP doesn't seem to establish that it has anything to do with the field trial, just that the processes were run with that option? Admittedly I don't know how they actually work :)
I agree. Instead of applying for a job, I do my best to figure out who's in charge of hiring and connect with them on LinkedIn. Once they accept I mention what I like about the company, that I can fill the role they have open, and that I'd like to talk further about it in the next day or two. I never let more than 4 days pass without a message between us as long as the position is still open and I'm still interested. This works a lot better than hoping I get an email back from their applicant management system that they'd like to setup a phone call. It puts a little more agency in my hands.
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Not sure why you are getting downvoted.

IIRC, OpenBSD is slightly more sophisticated than issuing one syscall per call to malloc(3) and friends. Just slightly, but still. ;-)

Still, I do not like expressing disagreement by downvoting. Sorry about that.
By "simpler multisig" I just meant a normal multisig contract with less functionality, where the keys still separately call contract functions and update state.

True multisig transactions like you're talking about are supposed to become possible with the next Ethereum upgrade.
I'm not sure formal verification would have helped here. A linter would have helped.
Which Apple Case?

Disney got a poor reaction because they retaliated against the Los Angeles Times for reporting on fishy financial business between the City of Anaheim, and the Walt Disney Company - the issue is not secrecy, its retaliation.
I think it's fair to say you're wrong.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#px

1px = 1/96th of 1in

There is a A LOT of content being built, have been build by designers for 96dpi. The reason why it isn't a concern for you is because that standard exists, and your webkit knows you're on a 218 dpi monitor and scales to the px unit.
“The $280M internet bug”?
What I'm dying to see with the OEMs is how it will impact their advertising and design. They used to design for individuals and advertise for brand affinity. Will they still make that distinction with self-driving cars? Will they have a luxury line, a mid-end line and an economy line?
> Or because the "good guys won" are we just supposed to be giddy that Disney got rightly put in their place by the MSM?

Newspapers blocking Disney from a private function, from which Disney benefits but does not depend, is an asymmetric response to Disney blocking a newspaper's film screeners from screening its films, access on which the screeners depend. When we add in that Disney moved first and in response to truthful reporting to its detriment and in the public interest, it's pretty clear that this private dispute is perfectly appropriate.
I think a big part of it is that Disney did so because the LA Times reported on their actions in Anaheim. I haven't heard anything such that Apple prevented industry critics from reviewing their product early because those outlets covered bad behavior by Apple.
Killer work Johan and Paul!
The kind that give away their product for free, give the company to their wife, develop an in-house distributed version control (fossil (which is excellent)), give that away for free and encourage other version control projects to please steal ideas from fossil. drh (Richard Hipp) is an interesting duck.
I would preorder such an ebook.
Let's Encrypt is a part of the Internet Security Research Group and is literally a Public-Benefit Organization in California.

Still a subjective measure in some way I suppose, but they are not for profit and I think it would be hard to argue that the organization is not a benefit to the public.
Ones that have effectively 100% test coverage on their codebases, massive existing deployments, famous levels of documentation, and world expert level comprehension of their problem space.
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I'd check out the Firefox nightly which now has all the Quantum stuff - it's a lot better.

I also switched to chrome back when Firefox was a lot slower, but now I'm tempted to switch to Firefox or Safari and I try to occasionally.

I've historically had to switch back partly because I (stupidly) rely a lot on chrome's omnibox autofill memory and also because we use the switchyomega plugin at work and I don't want to deal with having a non-standard setup.
Another thing you're either missing or deliberately omitting is that the LA Times didn't disqualify Disney from awards. The rest of the industry, upon hearing that Disney did this because of reporting on their actions with the city of Anaheim, did this because trying to silence journalism like that is objectively wrong.
Why would FB want them? They have successfully replicated Snap's model and are taking their users/recapturing shared users.

WhatsApp had large marketshare and growth outside of FBs core markets.
The economics of self driving cars make any such assumptions sort of up in the air.

Maybe self driving car fleets will be so numerous, they will optimize via carpooling in busy urban pockets.
Maybe people will stop driving there own self driving car to work and use these.
Maybe people will own/ride in really small self driving car that network to optimize and self park.

> The more comfortable it is to be inside a car and the less people mind long car rides.

This may not be generally correct. People also like to commute quite a bit by rail in certain areas. Living on the east coast I can tell you this because of #of people using NJ Transit and Amtrak is big. Cars take much longer to get to NYC already. Commuting to city via subway trains is so that there is shortage of housing right in manhattan where no one goes by cars.
Has anyone driven in one?
Your probably using a computer without a graphics card, or at the very least it's hidden to your browser.
Official SQLite response http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Window-functions-td77470...
What is the terminal they use in the clips?
That is a fairly inaccurate, to the point of being dishonest, portrayal of the context. That last part, in the italics, that you claim makes no difference, is a huge difference in context here.
People who sell or support things with long lives where retrofitting is expensive or impossible.

Example: industrial equipment, military stuff, bridges, aircraft, etc.
Apple severally limited pre-release access to the iPhone X and almost all extended access was given exclusively to non-tech sources.

Apple also has a history of doing the exact same thing as Disney by shunning reviewers that they feel do not treat them fairly.
One of the things these platforms do is allow you to optimize your message quickly by gauging response.
If I could press a button and have a car pick me up, take me to the train station, get on a train, and have a car waiting on the other side I'd choose that over the present litany of call a car, hope it arrives in time, get on the train, arrive at the station, wait around for a car. Many times I'm just too tired (or lazy) to do that, and call a car for the whole journey instead.
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The papers aren't blacking out Disney, they are saying, you do something to one of us, you are doing it to all of us. They could still cover a movie, they just wouldn't be attending a pre-screening.
By then SpaceX will fly you there in 30 mins plus the trip to the spaceport.
What is your source for your assertion that they're not asking you to upload any pictures? That conflicts both with the article linked in this thread's title and with their source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-02/facebook-offers-reveng...

The fact, as reported, is that you if you want to block a picture (which a former partner may also have) and you don't have it on your facebook account already, they will tell you that you have to upload the picture to facebook (where they say they will retain only a hash) and then flag it. This is a test program in Australia, as reported.
I'm really rusty, but if I can recall the simplest example correctly, you can't just naively go from this Kotlin code:

Server { req -> Response().html("<h1>Hello world</h1>") }

to this Java code:

new Server(req -> new Response().html("<h1>Hello world</h1>")

Because Server is implemented in Kotlin and the Java lambda certainly isn't a kotlin.Function.

If that's a bad example (foggy memory), another one would be the use of @DslMarker or reflection to build my type-safe router: https://github.com/danneu/kog#type-safe-routing. Or how about inline functions with reified generics.

Kotlin does have Kotlin->Jvm interop annotations, but my take-away was that you would have to put some thought into your API and possibly make concessions so that you could sufficiently annotate it to the point that it's pleasant to use from Java. Not everything maps.

For example, you can see that OP went the route of using Java at the interface edges yet Kotlin internally to solve interop for their project.

I admit that "effectively one-way interop" is too heavy-handed of a statement, but there's definitely asymmetry that I ran into on my own project. For example, I would not recommend building something in Kotlin in the hopes that, once you're done, you can just sprinkle on some @Jvm annotations and end up with an API that's compelling to use from Java.
I've never seen that.
That's true, but in that case adding optional catch binding is completely useless.
That was worded like a rebuttal, but I think you agree with me. Sweet.
People entering and converting through a purchase funnel?
Only for 2/5 IEEE 754 rounding methods!

What's 0.5 of a bug, anyway?
>"then have not-so-transparent results"

I'd argue that Facebook's metrics are not always as transparent as one would hope.
Inspections can be automated with computer vision and gas sensors
Cool. Reminds me a bit of https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geomet...

(Though maybe not as symmetric?)
Ask HN: What experiences and places are at the top of your 'bucket list'?
In this case it was apparently a law firm.
I intend to be an early adopter of these subscriptions, but there's a key item they don't overcome: kids. When you have kids you don't just have to bring them everywhere, you have to bring lots of equipment everywhere. Baseball, hockey, football, etc. has lots of equipment that people are accustomed to leaving in the back of their vehicles. Same goes with strollers and diaper bag for babies. I don't know how we'll overcome that, most families will presumably still need to own at least one car. However, many two-car families should be able to downgrade (upgrade?) to one car and a subscription.
Did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualify (or threaten to disqualify) Disney from award eligibility?
SQLite is used for small and embedded systems, which (if successful) can have very long lifetimes. If you were building something like an ATM for instance, you would be very sensible to sign a 35-year support contract for a crucial part of your system.
That’s not the standard that we hold civil matters to.

Integrity is essential to the business of news reporting. Creating a culture where it’s assumed that only well behaved critics get to review movies undermines all newspapers and media.
If a significant percentage of the population shift to a subscription service where they summon cars on-demand, the benefits to smoothing out everyone's commute schedule will grow dramatically. Ride-sharing will help, but assuming population keeps out-pacing growth of infrastructure in already-congested area, removing individual car ownership and switching to a shared pool will increase avoidance of peak hours. I really see a future in which having most people work 8-5 will become incredibly inefficient, and more work will be done on flexible / rotating schedules (or more remotely).

Which means the little benefit of daylight savings that is there will disappear, which would be awesome. Long-live the driverless car subscription model.
Most established providers resist putting any code into production without a support contact for it.
In the first case, Disney punished a news organization for reporting the news.

I can't find the second case in the news -- who did Apple block from pre-release reviews? The closest case I can find is an employee fired for an NDA violation after his daughter posted an unauthorized review of prerelease hardware, but I don't think you're talking about that one.