skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of requests to BI teams are simply “what’s the <metric> for <some set of dimensions> for the last/next <timeframe>”. Literally, thousands of analysts just answer these one liners day in and day out.

More diligent/experienced people will know to ask the “whys”, and recommend better insights, but generally it’s not much more than that and Alex can handle a lot of these provided there is a robust enough dataset/reporting API behind it.
Paying off student loans, medical bills, emergency car repairs... basically anything that might deplete an emergency fund or where you might have dipped into this on the assumption your job wasn’t about to be made redundant.
Sometimes those we love do things that hurt us. While we may still love them, our trust can be broken (to varying degrees).
Which is a roundabout way of saying mobile Chrome doesn’t work well on lower end devices, which is why many users switch to it. This is the reason why I (and a distant parent, I’d assume) was looking for.
> Arguing a debate from 0 to its conclusion is tiresome

Irrelevent. If you accept a statement without proof, you become vulnerable to manipulation.

This is also why topic-specific forums exist, so that short proof suffices. Though I dont know an appropriate forum for this article.
Haha, I predict 2018 will be the year of the "I failed at my startup and didn't write a Medium piece" Medium piece. Similar to the "I quit Facebook/cut the cord but it's no biggie" Medium post.
It's a bit disturbing that it's the go to metaphor for promoting policies.
Wait, does the copyright not just cover the actual movie/videos/art/... of that time, still having them own the character itself (since they're actively using it)?
I’m so glad with how well all of the checks and balances in the constitution against the ruling of the minority over the majority worked /s
My apologies. Father of two little kids here and didn't know if it was going to get any attention. I just had my wife proof read it, but if you find some other typos, please let me know.
On HN not every title needs to explain itself immediately. It's good for users to have to work a little.

With this type of post-mortem post in particular, there's a tradition of elegaic titles, and it seems fair to give poetic license to the author under such circumstances.
I want to add to what you're saying: a lot of resources for artists, from music hardware to video cameras to painting software, have massively inflated prices because paid creatives are paying for them. If you take a lot of the money out of the system, you deflate those prices and make those resources more available to everyone.
I've seen rats in DC that would eat a cat for breakfast. Those suckers are huge!
MEMS are replacing FOGs in many applications, Fiber Optic Gyros are the low cost version of RLGs.

MEMS gyros are used in military INSs today can’t say if in missiles but in guided mortar shells and field artillery for sure.
Sometimes it's a good move on behalf of your current employer as well. Gives them more "cables" with the investor.
I found the article/story to be interesting, but I do agree it could have used more self-reflection on mistakes that were made or different decisions that could have been taken.
Weird thing: after you click either of them, it's the same YouTube app, with a little lag.
Realistically, you’re covered until Disney goes bankrupt for any work you publish.
Please don't post shallow dismissals to this site. We're trying for something better here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Better
I think a simpler solution is that people and restaurants throw their trash in closed trash bins. Rats eat food which are thrown on the ground or otherwise easily accessible.

I believe that some people in big cities has lost a sense of community. Thus some throw food on the ground that the rats eat.

To get rid of rats cities need to be cleaner.
I interviewed there a little over a year ago and was extremely unimpressed with their responses to my questions regarding the viability of their business model. The only answer anyone had for anything was "our CEO is VERY well connected so you don't need to worry about that" which of course means you should worry about it a whole lot.

Odds are good there are absolutely no production locks in existence and he made this whole buyout boogeyman story up to cover his ass.
I've only seriously examined the source of Z3, but encoding an SMT problem to multiple SAT instances remains a feature there - just convert any qf_bv problem into bit width * SAT instances / 2!

I recall that many popular simplifications required a problem to be expressible as CNF.

(I also seem to recall there is some strategy to simplify logics over Reals/Ints into BV without encoding logical "bignum circuitry" as well?)
This was a part of the Nixon southern strategy, Lee Atwater discussed it with some detail.
https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...

And in my view the current Attorney General is carrying out the same old ideas and policy effects, which is why he's so neurotically anti-weed, conflating it at every turn with opioid addiction.
thanks for the info & links!
Police shooting people is rare in US in absolute numbers, but it's higher per capita, and worse yet, it keeps going up (and the crime rate keeps going down, esp. violent crime, so that can't be the explanation).
Interesting idea. Except Disney would pay tens of millions to keep the original Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Hell they might even pay much more to guard against weakening their brand.

So, While your idea ensures public domain for many works I fear it extends the biggest players their perpetual rights because they can afford it as a result of their scale.
Just reread your reply.

"Disenfranchised by Clinton when she never even bothered to visit them"

Please define "disenfranchisement".
It was intentionally reductive :)
The thing is, I bet you they would find sympathy here if they launched, competed, and couldn't find a toehold. That would have been an honourable exit. But the way they went out here, after burning through $45m in investment funds and mismanaging a potential sale, then trying to imply blame on the would-be buyer--this doesn't look good at all.

Edit: example of HN crowd sympathetic to a postmortem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
This is pretty amazing, thanks for the share
Yeah, based on the video I think they got the market for this wrong. I can easily imagine businesses wanting something like this. I don't know anyone who would be running to get it at home.
Oregon resident here... My parents are Baby Boomers. About 2 years ago, I sat down with them and had the "talk" with them about opiates. My talking points were:

* I'm a Gen Xer, I did drugs for fun back in the day so I fundamentally don't care if you are taking opioids for whatever reason.

* If you get an initial opioid script from a doctor for more than 10 days, you have a 20% chance of being on opioids a year after. Again not a moral failing. [0]

* If you do find yourself taking opioids and finding yourself uncomfortable about your use, you can talk to me about it because I don't consider drug use a character failure. Been there, done that.

* When my parents visited from a red state, I took them to a cannabis shop and we tried non-pyschoactive CBDs together. They found the shop like visiting a dentist's office with an herby smell. Dad went back to his home state of Montana (fortunately legalized years ago) and got himself hooked up with various relieving CBD and THC compounds. He does not like MJ very much but it's better than tramadol for him as it has fewer side effects for him.

This is my contribution to the failed drug war. Screw big pharma...

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/with-a-10-day-supply...
Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories
I'm glad you work at CERN as an engineer. I work at Hacker News as a moderator. Really, please don't "do this". You're doing more damage to this site, which is trying against steep odds to be a place for thoughtful conversation, than even 100% rightness of your points could justify.

I assume you benefit from Hacker News, since you're a user here and a welcome one. But if you're benefitting from it, please take care of it, the same way you wouldn't litter in a city park or set fire to one.

If you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html you'll get an idea of the intended spirit of the site. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do; assume good faith, and please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
I wonder how much of the daily trading volume for crypto currencies is just people doing arbitrage.
Headed to bed. Enjoy.
"Hacker News always trolls new products" and "Entrepreneurs should always ignore Hacker News because they always troll new products" are equally problematic absolutes.
Wasn't a dismissal, rather a comment, and technical language aside it stands as true: being happy "solves" problems collaterally, by rendering us oblivious to them.
Network Neuroscience Theory of Human Intelligence [pdf]
Or pass it into the func, especially if its running in a goroutine.

for _, ele := range eles { go func(ele string) { // use ele }(ele) }
Agreed, building a high cost high value brand, and then moving downmarket is known to work.

I compared this to Juicero because the "degree of innovation" in their product doesn't seem to justify the 20x price premium [1].

To compare, a cheap Nokia is ~INR 4000, a OnePlus 5 is ~INR 30000 and an iPhone 7 is ~INR 45000.

However, there's a world of difference in features, components, software in the 10x phones.

[1]
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EZYA61K/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=...
My comment concerns the interviewer's "Got it" response, not the interviewee's lack of information. I immediately considered what you're saying, but I wonder if it justifies the affirmative response. Your assumption is merely contextually reasonable. It is not implied and not 'clear'.

I think it's becoming accepted to say "got it" when a conveyance is understood even when the conveyance remains between the lines. The result is a confirmation of one of two meanings, and no telling which one it is. It's a lot worse when the only value is to be snarky. I've seen both result in dysfunction, though. I think I prefer sincerity.
We're building an interface like WebMO, but modern. We are not re-writing any quantum chemical software for the moment, however we've written some as grad students. For now we are concentrating on replacing JMol and getting our API functional with NWChem.
I disagree. Civility in conversation has been a tactic used against women for centuries. "You can't talk that way! It's un-lady-like!" It is the morality of society who want to control those they oppress, by silencing them.

And I didn't post from the bottom of the barrel, FYVM, I posted from the bottom of my heart.
To your three points:

0. We could all delightfully try to innovate all day without millions of wasted funding and a guy spewing garbage like every day that for a boss, filling our heads with propaganda. Also, does a lock need to be delightful? Did you not read they wanted you do be addicted to using their lock????

1. What's the difference? How about money, ego, and industry. we all get to have passions, but do they all deserve millions in funding?

2. Uh, what community is that? One of those "global" communities? I'm a hacker and maker, but I certainly don't feel like i'm a member of any such community. I'm not here to pat on the back the privileged failure of people I don't know, just cuz they are by some loose definition "makers" or hackers. Like, hackers do things with ingenuity and curiosity, not $50M. And I am mocking that project from the top-down, starting with the manic CEO who wrote that crap; so, it only trickles down to the hard working people who were conned into giving passion and time to the endeavor, but at least they got paid for being hoodwinked into believing they were "changing the world"... with a lock.
Show HN: Stocks on your TV with Chromecast
In case it wasn't obvious, that was at least partly aimed at The Intercept: http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/the-intercept-reality-winner-s...
Something what is almost never told in this discussion about drugs in the US is the root cause of drug use and it's epdemics is simply this:
Live for a lot of people in the US is shitty, that is why they use drugs. The circomstances that cause these shitty lives is of course debatable but never addressed by the rulers of the US.
I need to read this one - and the Callahan's series.
That makes it sound worse. Based on what you say he wasn't paid for 2 out of 3 months. And presumably they were bringing new people on until the very end, when they must have known it might fall apart.
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A few years ago I wanted to read Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse" so I searched for it online and discovered it was public domain in her native Great Britain but still under copyright here in the United States. If I downloaded it from an UK server, would I and/or the owner of the UK server be in violation of copyright? If I bought a reprint in the UK that was printed after it entered public domain, would it be legal for me to carry the book back home? What about having it mailed? Is it realistic to expect the average reader to understand all of these details of various copyright laws across the globe especially in an age where data flows so easily and it isn't even obvious where from?
Well, then the answer is to stop voting for people willing to take lobbyist money, and for those that were already elected, make a public stink over it.
I'm glad to see that increasingly people are recognizing that shallow mocks of an API interface are not very good at testing anything.
I would have thought most of that merch would be based on Disney's visual depiction of Pooh dating from 1966.
Almost a decade ago I wrote a tool to search forum dumps from various EVE Online alliances. The content was acquired by spies and often watermarked.

The first barrier was that homoglyphs would inhibit text search, so I had to build an automated homogylph detection and substitution layer.

Once homoglyphs were stripped, the challenge was then to fit the entire search corpus into memory, so I compressed each page with LZMA, loaded it into memory, and decompressed on the fly when searching—probably not optimal, but still way faster than loading from disk.

I always wanted to try reverse engineering some of the watermarking systems so we could modify the watermarks on certain material, subtly leak it, and effectively frame adversaries while protecting our own spies in the process. Fortunately or unfortunately I never got around to that.
Thanks!, your points really help out a lot, I appreciate it!
A framework is kind of like a big template for software applications. A framework gives you a skeleton to work with, where the programmer fleshes out the details in the flexible spots. Except that instead of just some boilerplate code, you have a whole set of libraries and applications.

For a trivial analogy, consider this template for a C program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// Your code here.
return 0;
}

It is not technically a "framework" because it's just a few lines in one file, but it's different mostly by magnitude (though also by the fact that it is trivially modifiable). And maybe, if this is an IDE, it puts our cursor right at the line where you're supposed to start putting your own code. Conceptually, what this does is give you a clear place to start developing. It sets up some libraries that you'll probably use defines a main function that accepts arguments and gives you a default return code of 0 (which means success, by convention).

Frameworks essentially do the same thing on a larger scale, and usually with multiple discrete components. The key difference between a library and a framework is that a library is something that the developer imports and invokes, whereas the framework establishes a useful context for a specialized type of development.
How is Netflix going to move off the cloud overnight?

If this vulnerability applies regardless of where it is, what is the mitigation then? Move your machine to where? Your suggestion is not practical and you know it. The right mitigation is one that actually will fix the vulnerability. No one shut down machines and migrated everything to another distro because Debian had a bug in generating private key a decade ago even if the bug was zero-day.
Wouldn't they just lobby to reduce the fees once they ratcheted up too high?
I worked with probably a dozen or so scientists and engineers who were building the SDSS telescope and the associated data analysis infrastructure (full disclosure: my role was very nearly entirely nothing compared to everyone else).

It's really a technological marvel, and some truly brilliant engineers and scientists were working on it. I'm intensely gratified that the survey has been such a smashing success; they all deserved it.

The part I was always most impressed with was they way they took the spectra. As mentioned in the article, the survey was twofold: the image survey over the vast swaths of the sky and somewhere around 2,000,000 spectra taken of distant objects.

Every single one of those spectra was taken by use of a fiber optic cable at the focus point of the telescope. They would take a metal plate, drill holes in it where the objects would appear, and plug the holes by hand with the cables: http://blog.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/twitter5.jpg

2 million times!
My apologies. You've a tough job as it is without me adding to your woes.
That's lucky. Was your service down for the entire time until the data was recovered?
Disney is already paying tens of millions to do that. The proposal is mostly to make them not keep everything else locked away too.
When is mickey mouse due to enter Public Domain?
I wish people would extend this same logic to type systems and formal methods.
Interactive Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks
Which compile flag is that? (I run Gentoo)

Edit: nevermind. It's the -fstack-check flag mentioned in the other comments.
I'm disappointed by the half measure in this proposal. Shulz and Aspe suggest possession for personal use should be decriminalized while drugs should remain illegal in large quantities. This leaves prohibition intact and supply remaining in the black market.

This proposal would give street users a break (a step in the right direction) but would leave the supply chain intact. Cartels would continue to destabilize regions of Mexico.
Riding was a modernist poet with a bunch of radical theories about language so it's not surprising she was using words in an unconventional way, even with an eight-year-old.

IIRC she was Robert Graves' partner for many years, and later in life was something like a spiritual teacher seeking truth in language, of all places. Martin Seymour-Smith, who single-handedly wrote a great big encyclopedia of 20th century literature, regarded her as the best 20th century poet in English.
That's a decision you can make, but all you're doing is costing yourself more time later for the benefit of less time now.
They really try pretty hard to make it easy already. "311" is available as a web app, native mobile app, and automated SMS service. I bet you could tweet photos to @dohdc as well.
The material may not be a property (an intellectual concept can not be property), but the copyright itself is a property. You can own it. You can buy it. You can sell it. I very much dislike the term "intellectual property" because it conflates a lot of very different issues. Rights like rights of monopoly, mineral rights, rights of way, etc, etc, etc, though, are legal properties even though they do not represent physical things. It is ineffective (and I would also say incorrect) to argue otherwise. You're not going to get much traction trying to backtrack 800 years of legal framework. The concept of legal ownership of certain rights is an important part of how freedom is structured in modern society and I don't think you intend to try to dismantle that.

Exclusive right to copy something (or make derived works) is not an intrinsic right. It's a right given to you by society. As above, it's great that once it is given to you, that you own it. It would suck if society could just arbitrarily take it away from you. What I think you are trying to argue is related more to the fact that copyright is not an intrinsic right. As a society, we do not have to grant a copyright at all if it is not beneficial to us. We need to do a better job of balancing the interests of all parties.
Has anyone ever shot down a F-15 in combat?
Though I'm sure the guy with IBD would be pretty depressed if they couldn't help him medicate it, so how off-label is it really.
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Hi! Long time follower of your blog here. As a general database-internals-enthusiast-in-training, this kind of stuff is really fascinating to read about.

In general, however, I kind of get the impression that game development is much less rigorous even than normal software engineering, and that things are less well-architected, much more ad hoc/hackier, etc. Is there any truth to this?
Finance people and people in Seattle and NYC can definitely hit that. Outside of those though I assume it is likely much harder.
A small library function like document.getElementById?
Mind to disclose the industries they are in?

I am stunned by this!
He fought hard to become full time, he came in as a contractor and became full time within a month. He was paid until the last day.
The contractors in the engineering team were all given option join full-time from the get go - they chose not to become full-time.
No one in engineering knew we were shutting down. We were told 2 days before shutdown. I worked until 11 pm with many team members, including my manager until the night before.
Non tech book “On tyranny by Timothy Snyder”. The book points out that it is easy too loose democracy if you do not protect it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
Can they not make metal bins that work with the same mechanism?
This is so naive that it sounds like a joke or a parody.
Love is sacrifice. Be with someone that brings you joy when those sacrifices are necessary.
(&article).legs = 99

This would not work actually because it would only be modifying the copy that exists in the inner loop of the for loop. You'd be taking a pointer to the for loop stack variable and modifying it.

If they were already references as you first mention that way simply article.legs = 99 would work yes.
Kona airport feels doesn't feel like an airport at all. That's why it's nice.

But there aren't a lot of international flights getting there, which helps.
Mickey is trademarked. Old Mickey Mouse movies, like Steamboat Willie, will be free to copy and distribute but I don’t think other people will be permitted to produce new works starting Mickey Mouse.

It’s a bit of a legal gray area. I don’t think anyone has settled the question about whether trademarking characters runs afoul of the constitutional prohibition on perpetual copyright.

Based on how much money Disney has put into absorbing every trademarked franchise ever (Marvel, Star Wars, etc.), it seems like they’re willing to bet on those trademarks being enforceable.
My default stack is almost exactly yours, except

> gunicorn

Any particular reason you use it over uwsgi? I last did real research in 2013 and have not revisited since then.
I'm confused, what makes you think the AMD and Intel cpu internals are the same?
No worries! Thanks for listening. This is slippery stuff that we all need to be mindful of, especially at 4 AM. Myself certainly included.
Also the other "fun" approach:

for _, elem := range elems { elem := elem; go func() { /* use elem */ }() }