skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to think of a house using ingredients and some portion of 200 complete items.

Also the odd item you occasionally need when something goes out of stock locally (like a trash bag, clothing reaches end of useful life etc).
Before power-tripping, an executive should be a professional. It doesn't take a PR expert to know that threatening freedom of the press is a "now I have two problems" solution; anyone considering such behaviour should have been screened out at the start of their career, not empowered.
On IRC, if you stay in a channel long enough, you'll find that (depending on the channel) communities there do have their own slew of personalities and politics.

People may eventually reveal information about themselves (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.), and if the information happens to be real, whatever harassment or bigotry that's made in response to that can do just as much damage as if it were done over another medium.
I agree. These investment firms pickup companies for a song when their stock prices fall and then basically gut them of any value they possess. They force the companies to take on massive liabilities that make them unsustainable. Then they slap on a fresh coat of paint and sell them off to any sucker whose willing to buy them. They leave these companies circling the drain.

Is this capitalism in it's final form?
He probably meant to say "measure of central tendency".
A lot more wear- it's seriously nontrivial to make large flexing electrical connectors that will last through the stress cycles of loading and unloading the wheel. It also makes cooling waaaaaay more difficult for high power motors. Liquid is obviously challenging but air is also a huge problem- you run out of space for sinking heat. There's lots of air in that area but it's very, very challenging to prevent it from becoming turbulent and stagnant. Wheels are a big aero drag and it's a very hard choice to add more drag there.

Just to reinforce the brakes message: The braking power on the Bugatti Veyron is in excess of 1.1 megawatts. Braking requires 30% more power than accelerating.

>be very difficult to connect to a powerful cooling system. Even electric motorcycles with 30-40 bhp rely on water cooling, let alone a car 20 times the weight.

This is true- Teslas besides the model 3 and several bikes use liquid cooling. I want to point out that this is not a necessity for motors <200 kW though. Manufacturers are uniformly switching to IPM motors (aka PM synchronous reluctance motors), including Tesla. These motors are much more efficient and allow for cooler high power operation. For instance the Chevy Bolt's 150 kW motor (a weird but decent design) is fully enclosed and cooled pretty much passively.

Previous motors were either inefficient at high power (induction motors) or inefficient at low power (PM motors)- in order to reach low-power efficiency they had to be undersized and required extreme cooling to reach high power.
Yes, there is a lot of backstory and context; this story has been developing for either a few days or a few months, depending on how far you want to go back.

To get some idea of what's going on here, see (EDIT: possibly NSFW based on where you work, and this is deeply part of the story) http://archive.is/GE0he from May. I have been following this story not super closely, but a bit; my understanding is the original tweets have been deleted, but Dale was saying stuff in line with that story up above. The article discusses why that matters.
> best handled by machines

I don't think best is correct in a lot of contexts, but just good enough is enough in most cases.
https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim

It's not just "literally use Neovim as the editing engine", I've tried to make editing the text in "Sublime Mode" work too, including running Sublime plugins. Work in progress, but afaik the most complete Vim integration for an existing editor. Waiting on updates to both Neovim and Sublime Text to polish it a bit more.

VSCodeVim is using it as a reference for some of their new work as well.
The USA charges people for evacuation at military rates. There are cases of people being bankrupted by this and wishing they'd not been "rescued".
> In Germany, Apple is estimated (you don’t publish the exact figures) to have generated revenues in the billions last year – of which it paid 25 million euros in taxes.

I assume that Apple paid 20% German VAT on those billions, as well as paid taxes on the salaries of the Germans it employed, and probably several other taxes such as environmental tax on packaging. The article raises an important issue but it's disingenuous to focus just on the profit tax, which is a highly malleable number in the hands of an accomplished accountant.

But since they do focus on profit tax, they should have made it clear why profit on a phone designed in the US and built in China should fall to Germany, and they fail to do that.
0- My open source project is: https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot
Website: https://servicebot.io

1- We started it because we were tired of sending manual invoices to our clients for custom web application development work. We couldn't connect our invoices, customers, and services we provided to our customers in a single place. So we built Servicebot to automate the process of invoicing through Stripe. Creating a self service portal for customers to order more work, approve existing and future work. And we open sourced.

2- We have been writing blog content to show people how Servicebot will help cut business cost but automating the billing and customer management processes.

3- We have been posting it on Medium, Reddit, HN, and a lot of word of the mouth.

4- I don't think unfair is the right word. I think it's lack of knowledge. We spent a lot more time developing a solution for our itch than to think about marketing and product roll out.
I am very happy to hear that Zyn-Fusion will be completely open sourced. Once again, thanks for this tremendous work. I understand that financing open-source work, specially for end-user programs, is very dificult. Best wishes!
A little off topic, but does anybody else feel like GitHub's pace of feature development is...unusually slow? Admittedly, I have never used the paid Enterprise version so I don't know if it has received more attention. But, seriously, why is the search so terrible (talking about a global search across repos)? Doesn't not having to worry about semantics (just focus on text matches) make this easier? Also, why is the mobile view so crippled (no way to sort or search issues or pull requests)?

If anybody has a reasonable explanation, I'd be very interested to hear it.
> if you're not the smartest guy in the space you're playing in, you're just another sucker.

I know you're trying to cargo cult some machismo from GGGR, but the stats don't support your claim. There're literally hundreds of successful quant finance firms. Which one is 'the best'? I'll be sure to let Ken Griffin or David Shaw or whoever isn't 'the best' know that they're just 'suckers'.
Perhaps the majority of longer form tweeters have already left the platform or altered their tweeting behavior?
That's for access, but the question was is it fraud?

If someone gave me access then I'm allowed but am I committing fraud?
I've dropped using the heavyweights and have been happily using Bulma for some months.

Thanks for your efforts and may you reach a healthy v1.
Russian Hackers Fueled Catalan Separatism, Madrid Institute Says
Not for high cardinality events like what happened to a particular user during a single session. Metrics will never help with that type of problem.
Entertainment is wonderful, but as a k12 teacher I simply look forward to improving live knowledge of, and communication with, my students. My job - or at least my 'face time' with students - is performance based and logistically constrained. Better tools to understand student progress and extend the variety of communications I have to guide and assist them would certainly help improve my professional practice.
Approach every team problem with these 3 steps
This really highlights the need for always-on internet and fallbacks to a cell network if the IoT-connect fantasy world they keep selling is ever going to be a reality.

If your IoT device depends on the internet for functionality it really should be able to connect to cell networks, not just wifi. The only problem is the security risks with that, but it doesn't expand the attack surface that much more than having a cloud-connected device as it is.

Some proposals for future 'smart cities' is having CAT-6 LTE (which can be as fast as most home broadband connections) broadcasting everywhere and having all the devices connected to that, so you don't have to depend on your home wifi staying on or being in range.
It may be anecdotal, but the local retail malls have put up their holiday decorations earlier than ever before. Every pole wrapped and bows everywhere. Feels like they're trying to fight the good fight.
You CAN Disrupt Markets with Legacy Applications
We're currently using this as our auth layer for https://empatico.org, so it's production ready!
Whose torch are these media co's carrying? I'm not so quick to swallow a newspaper editor's moral indignation about taxes. Much ado about symptoms, not so much a cause.

Our governments waste so much money, even Apple's lost taxes are a drop in the bucket. Should we all join in crying about that loss? We know 90% of it would go to military and corrupt, partisan, spending.

I say spank the news media along with the government, for being partners in the inertia. At least Apple innovates.
Previous discussions of Tradfri on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14077614

I have some hue bulbs right now, but if I ever need more I'd definitely consider a Tradfri hub too to away from the Hue's internet connected stuff.
Have you considered saving files (such as fonts and JS libs) loaded through major CDNs centrally just once instead of storing it again each time a page is saved?

Maybe you already have plans for this, but it would be smart to implement a system that checks whether files are already present on your server so you don't waste any of your user's quota and the server's disk space.
I posit that shopping by visiting multiple stores and maybe finding what you need is a less optimal experience than choosing what you want on a screen and having it delivered. You waste less time, vehicle and fuel expenses, and you get what you want. There might be a few niches where touching or trying it on make for a better shopping experience, but for the most part, I think people would be opting for online purchasing which would put many stores in trouble even without the debt.
Part of the October boost is probably caused by a significant increase in road toll for any ICE-powered car entering Oslo, introduced (if memory serves) October 1st.

Roughly half the population of Norway live within an hour's drive from Oslo (this is probably a slight exaggeration, but emphasis on 'slight') - so this increase probably served to boost sales of any toll-exempt vehicle instantly.
These people reserved a field using correct, official channels. Why should they have to change their plans because some other people squatted on the field? Why should the Dropbox people have any moral obligation whatsoever to play a game with people they didn't choose?
Yep that's right
If I were to make a statement on this, I’d say that other countries shouldn’t attempt such an exercise, and if they do, they should certainly look at how it was done in India as a classic case study of “how not to do it.” There’s close to nothing that came as a benefit from this exercise. But the so called “collateral damage”, that the richer classes ignore, on people’s livelihoods, their very lives (many people died) and the economy was significantly bad.

The “first cashless village in India” touted during that time has gone back to using cash. [1]

Dreams about digital money alone won’t do. There’s a long, long way to go on telecom/Internet infrastructure improvement, availability of electricity, availability of devices that are easy to use, education and awareness on security, etc.

I believe any future government in India would be downright foolish to consider doing such a thing again. Now all that the government has done by eliminating the Rs.1000 note and introducing the Rs.2000 note is made it easier to hoard and transport large sums of cash.

[1]: https://www.bloombergquint.com/demonetisation-one-year/2017/...
I'm American, and thus not terribly familiar with the details of VAT. Is there anything about how it works that makes it less regressive than a simple sales tax? Sales tax as it exists in most US states is just about the most regressive tax scheme imaginable.
I felt like this chart shows that retail store closures are a lagging indicator for employment. Stores are up in NY, WA, TX -- all states where people migrate to to work in tech companies. (Not sure about ND and UT, though.)
That’s not enough. I’ve been posting crypto/security links here https://www.cryptologie.net/links for 2 years and for almost every day and I've been unable to gain any traction. Of course I don't mind because I'm actually following the news and reading a lot of these links.
It's running on Google infra, of course it's banned.
I think it still is, aside of older versions of itself.
> Aggregation, filtering, sorting, recommendations could be best handled by machines.

That only changes who those middlemen are and their scope. Based on what I'm currently seeing on search machines can only deliver exactly what I'm asking for. Rarely do they recommendations that aren't patterns. For example, I was looking for backup software a few months ago, I get tons of ad pages on backup software now. I purchased that software months ago and no longer need backup software. It's probably going to be many more months before my search history cycles out of ad networks.

Another example. A road was recently converted to pedestrian only in my neighborhood. Would you like to know the number of Lyft/Uber drivers that follow Google Maps end up at a dead end and have to double back? And that is coming from the world's most powerful search engine.
Original tweet from Dale: "I am questioning who she really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg
A friend of mine has a strange approach to tech, at least in my opinion.

She didn't buy a computer till 5 years ago, only used the library ones to write and print some documents.

Then suddenly she bought a laptop and setup Linux on it. Took her a few weeks, but she got everything up and running without any help.

Also, she had an old cellphone for years and then she bought a Nexus 4, rooted it and installed an OS of her choosing on it. It took her at least a month to get the thing because she never used eBay or PayPal before.

My girlfriend also rooted her smartphones multiple times when they got no updates anymore and installed Cyanogen mod.

Both these women aren't what you would call tech affine, if you interact with them on a daily basis.

Somehow they got rather complicated technical issues fixed without any help.

This really challenged my perspective on technical know how.
They fly here. On privately built and owned planes.

They are then moved a short distance by trucks that pay for their own road costs via fuel taxes and tolls. Finally, I drive to the shop, paying my own taxes along the way to pick one up.

At no point is corporation tax paying any part in the transport of goods like iPhones.
A PhD (and sometimes a postdoc) is a requirement if you want to do more than low pay lab-tech work in some fields, like pharma. In the life sciences a PhD is more of a professional degree.
"I honestly can't understand the mass hysteria around this."

"Mass hysteria?" Consumers thought they were just buying a CPU running what they put on it. Instead, it has a second CPU that can watch or control what they're doing. That CPU has a network stack, web server, and what seems to be hackable software. Intel also won't remove it. There wasn't demand among most individual buyers but this risky setup was forced on them anyway. Being forced to run a backdoored CPU on a hostile Internet just to continue to use x86 applications should create a strong, well-deserved backlash.

Business sector is different where there was lots of demand for management capabilities. That means there should be two tiers of products with and without the built-in backdoors. That responds to the expectations of each. The businesses probably also prefer the remote administration itself to be secure. Intel had things available but didn't use them to save about $50k from what I can tell on something that generates billions in revenue. There's a segment of business needing management capabilities that would prefer to buy from a third party offering quality software in event Intel is going to slap some stuff together. Their interests aren't served even though there are such solutions in the PPC and ARM markets esp for embedded.

One other thing worth mentioning is that Intel and Microsoft were part of the Trusted Computing Group that were trying to use both CPU and OS modifications to force DRM on consumers for movie and music industry. Lots of their presentations bragged about how Intel's chips, esp with TPM's, might do that. So, it's probably also a conspiracy against consumers by tech companies who must have taken bribes from those who wanted DRM or have some other incentive (eg NSA's BULLRUN or FISA courts). Again, at least on DRM, there was backlash that watered it down a bit where it ended up fragmented such as protected media path in Windows, encryption for HDMI, etc.

Do note that there's nothing stopping Intel from setting it up as a general-purpose core that can run user-supplied code which can be a firmware package like ME, a third party alternative which might be FOSS, or nothing at all. Intel forcing it is almost certainly about benefiting them and their scheming partners at everyone's expense instead of a fair, mutually-beneficial offering. People should be mad. They should also boycott any company doing that if they can. In the past, the solution was PowerPC or SPARC since they supported Open Firmware standard. Leon3, a SPARC for embedded, was GPL'd entirely. For high-end, OpenPOWER has open firmware with Raptor Computing Systems planning to deploy them in their Talos line when IBM puts POWER9 on the market.
Pure black and white don't create too much contrast. I'd like to see some actual research if anyone claims that it does. And there is a contrast button on every monitor to turn it down.
You are correct on both of the points you raise.

The example was simplistic by taking all of the dividends out to make it a straightforward comparison with a salaried employee who also has to take all of their and thus do not get to defer their tax.

Being able to choose when you pay tax is one of the biggest advantages of working through a UK Ltd company. But by choosing when you pay you hardly avoid paying tax. The bill will be due sooner or later.

As for legal ways to reduce the corporation tax you pay, I would love to hear more as the options I know of would be to setup pension contributions or doing a voluntary liquidation. (which is only an option for the day you decide to stop contracting as you are not allowed to be a director of a UK limited company for 2 years after completing the liquidation)

Every contractor accountant I have spoken with has given the same advice. So if what you are doing is legal I would be interested to hear who your accountant is.

Always remember that your accountant won't be the one that HMRC comes after if you followed dodgy advice.
How much programming experience do you have? For example, have you used other low-level languages or do you come from more abstract languages?

I use cplusplus.com and cppreference.com as a general reference. To learn best practices, I read Herb Sutter's books.
Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks
That's because professional designers are neither professional nor designers. How many of that folk actually have had any sorf of education at all on related topics? Graphic design is as old as civilisation and knowing how to do font-family colon Raleway and a bit more doesn't make you a designer. But somehow it gets you jobs, it seems to me.
Snapchat Has a Child-Porn Problem
"Abolition of class. Democratic control over the means of production"

Oh wow, these people still exist.

We tried that in the last century and it ended up being the most horrific, mass-murdering, totalitarian, controlling era in all of history.

About half of my schoolmates growing up in Canada came from places like Cambodia, Vietnam, Ukraine, Russia, Czech, China, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Hungary ... see the common thread there? :)
>The fact that "you should let your users have freedom" is still a controversial statement in those type of companies should tip you off as to how they treat their customers.

Apple is well known for not giving its users freedom. And their products are preferred by the majority.
Could probably use a NSFW warning on that link. The woman from the linked article is also pictured there, but in even less clothing.
Indeed. Almost a quarter of my net worth? The income from the remainder would still be taxed in the new jurisdiction.

Slaves in antiquity could commonly buy their freedom, too.
The problem is not, if we have enough applicants. It's did THESE people agree to it. If not, it's wrong to disclose this data publicly without their consent. This is an example of better to ask permission, not forgiveness.

Combined with the notion that I'm sure the paper will be anonmised and re-released. I'd even bet this is a non-issue. (Assuming the assertions previously made in this thread of course).
PG already had a following because of his essays. He shared a link to Reddit in one of his essays. This allowed them to transition from artificial content to content from real users.
It is impossible to update a gesture extension into something that works properly. The APIs don't exist. The workaround is to inject scripts into the page to track gestures, which means gestures don't work until the DOM is parsed, and don't work on about:newtab or other about pages.

Multiprocess had a significant migration period. Webextensions had "Well here's some APIs, we'll try to get you more before the day we switch. Some of the important ones are coming the version after, oops. And some are still missing but suck it up."
> I love markdown in Slack for sharing code. I will inline commands and snippets all the time. Now I can do it in emails easily. Huge win!

Once upon a time email was always pure text, and you'd have been free to use Markdown to your heart's desire.

I think that the Right Thing™ here would be for mail clients to support RFC 7763, which specifies the text/markdown content type.
*Udacity
Naomi (@sexycyborg) is a well known maker who happens to have a lot of risque maker projects and plenty of photos of her online would be scandalizing for more socially conservative people.

She has been blamed to be the face for a manufactured persona, to be generally incompetent at anything maker related, etc. The explanation for why she (and her "handler") would do that, is that they get hired to endorse products. Plenty of sexism, slutshaming, and circumstantial "evidence" (e.g. the comment about almost cutting her finger this one time) have been used against her.

It is a generally disappointing story of slutshaming.

Now a well known media persona in the maker community decided to entertain those allegations and ruined her reputation.