skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal opinion Airbus needed the A380 to break Boeing's cash cow. The 747 was basically a running money tap at the time the A380 was conceived, and in order to level the playing field, Airbus needed to kill that cow. It's one of the weird strokes of economics where the company has to act against its own short-term interests, in order to create a long-term advantage (or rather, prevent a long-term disadvantage).

Additionally, now they have the tooling, supply lines, know-how, and IP to work at this extra large scale. While this might not translate into profit short-term, it could very well prove to be an interesting long-term asset again. I think in particular this is going to be interesting for them when the middle class of China and India (or Bangladesh) boom, and very heavily trafficked routes pop-up between heavily populated urban centres.
Salmonella May Have Caused Massive Aztec Epidemic
Being able to detach myself from all and everyone at will since I was a kid has been a blessing in disguise in terms of personal growth but it earned me soon a mr Spock kind of reputation ehehe.
> you think we'll still be using 19th century style fiat in the 22nd century?

No, but we can sure as hell come up with something better than this.
Personally I suspect we’ll be hunting rats for meat, but sure, that’s another option. Fortunately I don’t actually have to limit myself to the false dichotomy of Eth/Btc or “19th century fiat.”
I think the parent is concerned that it has the word 'sexy' in the title. In reality I suspect that this is just absentminded SEO tactics, or the result of an automated system. Even easier to do if english isn't your native language and it just becomes "put these magic words in the title to rank higher"
The Airbus competitor to the 767 is the not the A350, it is the A330, which is ubiquitous outside of NA in the medium haul market. It has been an extremely successful plane for Airbus and will likely continue to be so with the A330neo.

While each company's offerings overlap somewhat, the A350 is a substantially larger plane and competes with the 777.

Widebody twin 2-class capacity (variants):

767 | 216 / 261 / 296
A330 | 246 / 300
787 | 242 / 290 / 330
A350 | 325 / 366
777 | 313 / / 396
777X | 365 / 414
I'm confused, did i do something wrong or why can i find the referred article just fine on google, just by searching the keywords?

https://imgur.com/a/szBcB
mmm source please
Not unless people start to accept crypto as payment - it's not going to totally replace fiat quickly, but I have started taking payment from my clients in ETH, and also am selling digital goods and taking crypto as payment.

I am also paying others in crypto. Sure it's niche now, but the only barrier to adoption is a bit of technology advancement and belief in the value.
Thanks for the clarification, I thought it was parimutuel and the odds were going to change as more people bet on it.
You answered a question that the user didn't ask. If you feel they won't be around, that's fine. But if the discussion is about how hard drive usage will scale over many years, injecting "it won't matter" is a pointless comment. It not only doesn't answer the question, but it provides basically no information other than your feelings on a subject.

It's exactly the thing I come to HN to avoid.
It used to
That's cool... It seems KDE's KRunner is pretty extendable as well. (https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma4/Abstr...)
A Novel Approach Comes to Restaurant Pricing
Article is a bit vague. It doesn’t mention the police (it seems they were tax inspectors), and although it does say they had a warrant it doesn’t seem likely that police with a warrant wouldn’t have just seized the machines.
QISKit: A software development kit for writing quantum computing programs
Cheaper housing sounds good, but I wonder if it may just lead to lower salaries. Companies are maximizing shareholder returns by keeping expenses as low as possible. Shareholders, essentially, get paid before cafeteria workers, or even tech workers.
Perhaps, but it's difficult to imagine you're not in violation of some other kinds of laws for which there is ample evidence, and/or that no one in your organization is willing to talk.
DuckDuckGo seems to have no problem returning the result, even with general terms: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tim+bray+rock+roll+animal
Who "invests" that much of their net worth in such a thing? Who must bear the responsibility for that?
becuase the OP wrote an article that links to these things, and caused them to be re-indexed.

It's not purely a function of 'date published' it is also about frequency of access
I doubt it meets expectations
It tries to put the square peg of imperialism into the round-hole of 20th century left-right debates. The East India company and the later British rulers did bad things because they were conquerors, and that's what conquerors do.

You are right that the East India company was crony captilast* But it is no small thing that you changed the goalposts to go from the parent's "Unbridled capitalism" to "unfettered crony captialism". It was precisely the fetters that made it cronyist, since it was a state granted, privately owned monopoly.

After independence, India's did not break from those forces, embraced them (in less bad form) by granting new monopolies. They were only (partially) rolled back when the '90s reforms came (partially) embraced free market principles.
Not even this is sufficient any more. They now have a "verbatim" search, but I think even then some terms can be ignored -- terms which are not conventional "stopwords" like the.
I'm the same, I fly NZ -> DE often and I will choose my flights to get the A380 over the 777 or 787.
> If I was Nigerian, I would find this sort of charity to be very embarrassing

Fortunately, there are those willing to trade feeling embarrassed for making progesss towards eradicating polio.
As I understand it, Ripley's purpose is to destroy evidence in anticipation of a lawfully conducted search. If so, this would likely contravene anti-spoliation laws in the U.S., among other jurisdictions. See, e.g., http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/products/books/abstract...
Furthermore, if you get released you have to serve a probation period of 5 years.[0]

0: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__57a.html (In German)
No idea what you meant by that sorry. And now there's that other meaning..something about metrosexuals with beards or something. But either way, not clear to me at all what you could mean.
Ah true that makes sense, thanks for clarifying my confusion
Avoiding something is as easy as moving your eyes past it. You’re not avoiding, you’re engaging and attempting to dictate.

Have a nice night.
2017 Was a Banner Year, with 3 Gifts of $1B or More
> to other platforms like Gitlab

This made me think the gp was referring to Gitlab (pull sync) but you're right, they may have meant Github (push sync).
I should note that the demonstration is a toy example, you don't actually want/need to store blob data in a paxos-like log directly. For an in-depth look into what it takes to build a strongly-consistent S3-like system (and more) you could check out the paper "Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency". A link to the paper, a talk and slides is on this page: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazurestorage/2011/11...
>Is poverty a moral failing?

At what cost?

Minimization of poverty is important but I don't believe it can ever be totally eliminated. You and I just have different fundamental beliefs about human nature and motivation.

If the OP is right (and I think he is), the more safety nets and welfare programs there are the more poverty. This is because they have a learned helplessness and are subject to fiscal cliffs preventing them from escaping poverty.

in other words:
Poverty ought to be minimized.
Therefore, if giving people free shit increases poverty, we shouldn't do it.
Apparently Ripley doesn't wipe data from the computers. It just locks them. If the authorities have the legal right to seize them and compel Uber to give them access then all it bought Uber was some time to pursue legal remedies.
Well if Bitcoin Cash gets to VISA level transactions quantity they will have around 1GB block every 10 minutes, who will be able to run a full mining node?, 2 to 3 corporations worldwide, probably centralized in some geographical region for lower communication latency.
> Uber operates in some pretty lousy jurisdictions.

Since when was Canada considered a lousy jurisdiction? Last I checked, most of the jurisdictions they operate in are no worse than the US. Unless you’re saying that all first world countries are lousy jurisdictions, I think you are being rather hyperbolic.
The challenge isn’t just the hardware. Software in neuroscience is in an exceptionally sorry state.

As I write, I have a job running to infer the number of neurons and their spike trains from a recording done with 4096 electrodes. Sampling of voltage is done at 18kHz, and the big challenge is dealing with spikes that are observed from multiple electrodes. One approach to this is to detect spikes by a threshold and convert to a 5ms voltage vector, run PCA over these vectors, construct template waveforms for each cluster, and then merge similar clusters over neighboring electrodes.

It will take >24 hours to just extract the spike trains from a 1 hr recording, and that’s not including any interesting analysis. Fortunately I can run this on a few dozen nodes and start approaching real-time, but we are quite far off from being able to handle these data firehoses at the rate necessary for BCI.
yup. this.
I find it really hard to agree with you. Maybe you flew exclusively in business or first class?

> its not 11 abreast pack-em-in which is what the 787 has done

787 is designed for 8-abreast seating. In reality, carriers almost always went for 9-abreast. 11-abreast is physically impossible. It is possible in an A380 though, and airlines are really considering it.

> ... and its a premium quality experience

How is flying on an A380 premium experience? When you pack more people in the same plane, boarding and deplaning takes longer, food and beverage service takes longer, getting checked luggage takes longer, and the immigration queue gets longer. There's a higher chance a crying baby will be there to ruin your sleep, and I really hate the curvature of the fuselage, which makes it impossible to rest my head against it. Yes, I'd pick a Singapore A380 over a United 787, but it has nothing to do with the type of the plane. It's a soft product problem.
Judea Pearl is tough going for me. I've never met him but he comes across as arrogant and condescending through his writing. I also find his writing very tough to follow. Even so, his Do-calculus is a valuable perspective on causal inference. Dawid is my go to source for clear exposition of causal concepts. Hard to find a clearer thinker and better writer in this area.
This doesn't just prevent overreach, it prevents any collection. Also known as "obstruction" (and possibly "destruction").
This definitely happens. I have 1 email that is about 5 years old that I reference once or twice a year, often enough that it is a suggested search term. Recently Gmail has been unable to find it and I restored to starring it. It is literally the only starred email I have but I can no longer search for it.
So far, I haven't been super against most of uber's law flouting: taxi service stuff, tax stuff.

However, as they grow, as they get autonomous cars, as they get autonomous drones, once they get to the point where there could be more serious consequences, I'd like to see more accountability.
Uber does lots of really screwed up stuff but I would not consider this particular event to be one of them.
One of the things that sold me on Go was this slidedeck (back in 2013 -- wow!): https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

TL;DR: Discusses how Google engineers replaced the download server written in C++ with one written in Go, and analyzes the reasons why. It's pretty cool.
This user has a track record on this front [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127928
The style used for the links borders on vulgarity.
Honestly it feels like a good time to go back to MH handling my inbox but dropping a nice indexer like elasticsearch on the front.
Google also returns the article with this query
Moreover, we should remember that Uber operate in countries whose police likely have a worse reputation than Canada's, so if the policy of "Page this number if the police (or people claiming to be the police) turn up" is applied uniformly across jurisdictions, that may be perfectly reasonable and a lot safer than Uber trying to make politicised judgements of which offices should be left to deal with the legal and security situation by themselves.
You can find it now because it's getting traffic again
due to TFA. It's no longer "stale."
Here's a reasonably recent document from the President of the Family Court division in England.

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Document...

> What I fear is an even greater cause for concern – and it is for me a real concern – is something symptomatic of a deeply rooted culture in the family courts which, however long established, will no longer be tolerated. I refer to the slapdash, lackadaisical and on occasions almost contumelious attitude which still far too frequently characterises the response to orders made by family courts. There is simply no excuse for this. Orders, including interlocutory orders, must be obeyed and complied with to the letter and on time. Too often they are not. They are not preferences, requests or mere indications; they are orders. This principle applies as much to orders by way of interlocutory case management directions as to any other species of order. The court is entitled to expect – and from now on family courts will demand – strict compliance with all such orders. Both parties and non-parties to whom orders are addressed must take heed. Noncompliance with an order by anyone is bad enough. It is a particularly serious matter if the defaulter is a public body. Non-compliance with orders should be expected to have and will usually have a consequence: see Re W (A Child), Re H (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1177.

But you're talking about a parent ignoring court orders, I guess, in which case this one is more relevant: a mother made false allegations of abuse against the father, and continued to do so; and removed the child; and continued to do so; and she did those things after being ordered not to, and she got a (suspended) prison sentence as a result: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2017/3358.html

> The judge had indicated that she was prepared to authorise disclosure of her Judgment to the Judge at the Kingston Crown Court, and that if the 1st Respondent objected she would be required to make her objections known. On 25th January 2016, the judge ordered her judgment may be released to the sentencing judge. The 1st Respondent received a four-month sentence, suspended for six months on 27th January 2017.

EDIT: And here's a direct link to the cases he mentions at the end of the para I link above: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2013/1177.html
Except that the critique of Hardin is that he actually inverts the cause of the tragedy. It should be "Tragedy of the Enclosures". The article argues that this inversion is what has allowed people to ignore the huge chicken which is just now coming home to various roosts.
n+1 I've 100 percent noticed this too, infuriating when it comes to looking for emails as they pertain to legal matters
2017: The year of increasing app downloads, hiring interns and startup growth
If the other clients pay the higher quote, and thus it is a better strategy for you to put a higher price whichonly a few haggle, you didn't pay for it. The rest of the customers subsidize the haggler.
No, Chicago
I can find the article just by searching 'tim bray rock roll', so for one reason or another, the article is now indexed.
Then you wouldn't be able to replace welfare. because their kids aren't 18. I'd say limit the payout to the bottom 10-20% in continuous graduations to eliminate any fiscal cliff.
Life in the age of noise
I had never heard of it either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign

> The fact that there is no single word in English for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase[3] or Spanish and Portuguese arroba, or to coin new words such as asperand,[4] ampersat'[5] and strudel,[6] but none of these has achieved wide usage.

That Wikipedia entry start "ampersat", another term I hadn't heard of.

There's a lot of discussion on the talk page about the various names and neologisms.
So, here's where your theory is flawed:

Many people equate standards in criminal law to "beyond any doubt", when the reality is "beyond reasonable doubt".

When you write a program like this, and you can be shown to have executed it at a police raid, _followed by_ a call to your company's general counsel (or in this case to a "special team", "specially trained" to run a program called "Ripley", with the purpose of "nuking a site from orbit") to advise them, the claim that "this is common practice" goes out the window and "we're specifically obstructing a warrant until counsel/whatever other process happens takes place" becomes entirely "reasonable" as a depiction of what you are doing.
... Why? Looks fine to me (other than that I prefer underlined links)
I had a different boss who trusted us implicitly but essentially we were managing ourselves. Unlike Mr Mentor we didn’t talk shop and he didn’t challenge us very much or at least concretely to do better. In fact I was only ever aware of him doing about 20 hours of work a week and half of that was meetings (the other half administravia).

Given the politics there I suspect the rest of his time was kissing butts or covering them. Since the end of the dotcom era I’ve never seen a more high minded bunch of Emperors New Clothes types all in one spot. Woof.
> Public health insurance is most of the times miserable.

I expect that your statement is about public health insurance in post-communist EU countries (I have no experience of this). Public health insurance in Australasia is very good (though has arguably been better in the past in some senses and could obviously be better in the future).
What are you talking about, the rumors of the Kennedys being bootleggers/smugglers have existed since the end of prohibition due to the rather immediate appearance of their liquor importation and distribution business once prohibition was repealed. Plus there's the fact that they sold the family alcohol business to a known mobster who was a bootlegger. While the truth is probably much less exciting, such myths are definitely not due to some political smear in the 80s by a "dying monster" (no idea who you're referencing).
>Money well spent.

There have been human costs too,

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/africa/in-nigeria-po...

Of the nine vaccination workers killed, "Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of the head"
Or it could just mean that your battery died.
DDG uses Bing as the backend.
Hi, for now you could use VNote as an editor to open and edit any md files. VNote treats internal notes and external files differently. Indeed I use VNote to edit the github page and it is really enjoyable.

VNote uses notebook to manage notes. A notebook could be local, or synced via Dropbox. So you could use git to manage your notebook, too. Integration with git will be considered in the future.
It entirely depends on how you structure your data, so asking for help in this regard is essentially asking someone to do it for you.
There's a perfectly reasonable explanation, but your adversarial tone suggests that you don't actually care what it is.
From now on the police should cut power and network access to Uber’s offices just before they conduct their raids.
Could the federal government "force" cities to offer fiber services? that might speed up the process... (they would offer grants based on city population density... lower density = more money (Build It, They will come!))
What a strange claim about 'capitalism'. This is the opposite of regular or even anarcho capitalism; this is a capitalism where you select out for anyone able to do other trades or generally comply with social norms. Cartels and this kind of behavior don't happen because it's an ultra-free market or something. It happens because regular capitalists aren't participating in that market. What an absurd claim to paint capitalism as bad because the drug war is producing bad players. The exact opposite is true; the players in the current drug war is a perfect example of why this needs to be a freer market.
Nigeria has a $2,000 GDP per capita. Embarrassment over assistance on polio eradication is not a luxury they have. Any help there is fortunately going to be largely welcomed by Nigeria.
Don't they have something roughly equivalent to the Lightning Network on ETH called the Raiden Network as well? Or am I misunderstanding that?
Do you have any supplementary materials, such as a tutorial or git repo to go along with it? I've been using the d3.geo cli for something similar.
> p(mud | rain) = 1.0
> p(rain | mud) = p(rain)

I'm not sure these statements say what you think they do. Assuming P(rain) > 0, the first statement

p(mud | rain) = 1.0

is equivalent to

p(mud & rain) = p(rain).

The second statement therefore implies

p(rain | mud) = p(mud & rain).

Thus

p(rain & mud) / p(mud) = p(mud & rain).

This, however, leads to the surprising conclusion

p(mud) = 1.0.

According to your theory, it is always muddy.
I don't think you can just set a line like that. Eventually the programmer might want to consider what to do in the case of data failure. Otherwise, why even write shared code? The programmer might be wise to write all their software from scratch, affording every consideration where they know best, but they certainly won't want to start there. And this says nothing for teams where people leave and enter over time and persistent experience is ephemeral.
I think there's plenty of evidence that people who never tow still respond positively to marketing about towing.
What? No, that's not what happened. It's not a piece of software that says "here, based on the scope of your warrant, here's the information you require".

It says, in about as many words, "FOAD until our counsel green lights unlocking, potentially before or after some housecleaning".
'Very High Level of Confidence' Russia Used Kaspersky Software for NSA Leaks
In many cities and countries the taxi industries have successfully ‘captured’ the regulatory authority, and now the regulations mainly exist to restrict competition.
"When writing C++ you should use function references when possible, as references cannot be null."

Not true. You can still pass a dereference of a null pointer, which will create a null reference. The null is detected only when (if) the reference is used, not when the dereference expression is evaluated as an lvalue for its address to initialize the reference.

char (transform_ptr)(char) = NULL;
transform_string(s, transform_ptr); // no exception
// ... later, in transform_string() ...
transform(...); // exception
And yet humans need even more years to correctly play chess.
OK, i'll bite.

Give me an impossible to abuse welfare system
Would it be wise to invest in this?
It's not arguing that "no one would be selfish enough". It's arguing that "if someone is selfish enough and everyone has control, then the negative feedback to the selfishness is effective."

"Privatization or local ownership" is a non-useful formulation. It mixes together two distinct ideas.

"Socialist" countries for the most part do not and have not existed: they have all been state capitalist. The comparison being made in this critique is between resource in which (to use Taleb's phrase) those with skin in the game get to make the decisions and those which don't.
Twilio.
To be fair your humour was subtle.