skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Why are you always trying to impress everyone by using big words."

Yeah, I had similar experiences. I read a lot of books and absorbed their vocabulary, and sometimes it would slip out. I would just say what's on my mind, and that's what other people do, right?

Then I would get into trouble also by pausing to weigh my words, people read too much into your pause before answering them.

Or I just wouldn't say much, because it leads to trouble. Then people decide you are stuck up and aloof.

It took years to present a more normal facade. Plus just moving on to people that weren't so judgmental.

And anyway, over time I have come to prize simple speech, simple explanations. Especially if the concepts are complicated and heavy.
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Because this is completely passive -- you don't have to click on anything or do anything -- this is news. Stop being an apologist for your favorite company.
If that was the goal, wouldn't efforts be better placed in the Jr Colleges, online courses, and similar institutions. Grade-school level curriculum is a pretty far-future return on investment is the only goal is cheap workers.
Hence my use of the word "eventually".

"It's very basic but you can use the model as a benchmark" is actually the pitch you get from AWS.
Wait so Wine can be installed as an Android application on a phone? That's amazing!
Assuming Amazon is going to create an HQ somewhere in America, consider the two situations: 1) Current situation, they will eventually get a very large tax cut from wherever they select. 2) Hypothetical situation: local tax breaks are not allowed, Amazon selects a location and pays the local taxes that it avoided in situation #1.
What is the value of a popular baseless comment on the internet?

In my opinion there is a system of homeostasis that exists in internet comments. When a popular wrong opinion gets large enough it is a huge low hanging fruit. There is a race to be the first one to debunk it and cash in all the delicious "well, actually" karma. Go look at the top comment on any given hacker news thread. I wouldn't be surprised to find an overwhelming number of "well, actually" child comments immediately below them.

Furthermore, popular anonymous comments are nice but the real world still operates on reputation based media. A popular comment might inspire a reporter at a media source of record to write an article about it but you can bet their first order of business is to cut out the rhetoric and make the opinion seem as objective as possible. In many cases once you cut out the rhetoric of a baseless popular opinion there is no article, so on a larger social scale the popular comment basically dead in the water. A firstname-lastname reporter is thinking in terms of a career, not upvotes. That's why when you read the sources of a non-fiction book you see The New York Times and not The Slashdot Comment Section.

* Also I just want to clarify that the "someone" in my original reply to your comment was not a veiled accusation, I literally meant someone (anyone). It was not a passive aggressive attempt suggest that you are getting too emotionally involved with your comments. I merely meant that a lot of people (myself included) get too caught up in thinking that 1. they are objectively right and 2. lack of recognition of this fact must mean that the system is broken.
[citation needed]

http://bfy.tw/G7Ox
I just run it in the browser (on Windows) ... the slack app has the tendency to consume ever larger amounts of RAM if I let it run for a while. I have the feeling they just append each new message and never clear old messages out of memory, but I never cared enough to actually check. Just banning it back into the browser solved it.
Sounds really cool! Thanks for explaining!
Toronto's housing isn't that far behind Vancouver. Locals on local salaries cannot afford it.
As the article points out, relatability is the key to bridging the gaps of knowledge and understanding between people. I think, at least in the USA, there is cultural pressure against "talking down to" others, at it indicates either that the speaker is an outsider or is attempting to set themselves apart intellectually from their peers.

> "I do know that over the years I've pointed out why something wouldn't work as planned and been told I was wrong and then later proved right. More than a few times it was an expensive lesson to be learned for those who ignored me. And pretty much every time I was hated for pointing it out."

The phrase "nobody knew" comes to mind, especially when used by person of authority to indicate why no preemptive action was taken before some accident/crime/disaster occurred. I mentally substitute one of the following phrases:

"significant barriers prevented the communication of obvious warning signs"

"fear of inconvenience and embarrassment prevented further consideration of the possibility"

"authorities were not able to be convinced in time"
I've never been clear on why people who know nothing about Smith other than a few quotes appeal to his expertise. This article does a little to help, but really everyone should read Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations instead of some blog post if they want to be informed on the topic.
If I recall correctly, you can still switch the processor to 16-bit mode but virtual 8086 mode is not available from x86-64. So more recent 16-bit Windows applications can be made to work but DOS applications and older 16-bit Windows applications that rely on more legacy DOS-style APIs don't work.
Running untrusted JavaScript as a SaaS is hard
Have you seen Trump's tweets about Amazon and Bezos? He's already pissed at them. Frankly if I was in their shoes I would go with Toronto also to have some sort of hedging against the US political climate.
Having lived in the South for the past 8 years and the North for ... Well many more ... I 100% agree with your statement.

I've learned that people here (the South) are far more accepting and far less racist than up north.
Oh no, Boulder housing and land use is a mess of issues. For instance, imagine the 2011 flood with 10x the population density or the craziness of the Hill with even 2x more students. Let's not get started on Maple Hill's snootiness.
This is what I've been waiting for. As a developer, I love developing on Linux, I just flow better with it, servers are Linux as well etc...

But I do a lot of design work and this is where I miss all the Adobe apps. I've found a good workflow with inkscape and it serves me well.

Using a Windows VM with the Adobe cc suite is fine, but it's not as clean as having it (somewhat) natively available.

Great work Wine team.
I sincerely doubt the majority of their customer base cares at all, and it would almost certainly have very little impact on sales.
Terrible title with a terrible description of the invention.

What he is doing appears so be interval arithmetic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic

Because we don't have infinite computer memory or processing power numbers have to be finite, so no one will ever "solve the floating point error problem" however being able to quantify the error is both extremely useful and extremely complex because you have to try to determine how the error propagates through all of the operations applied over the original input values.

In science this is also done based on the precision of the raw data... roughly through selecting a sensible number of significant figures in final calculation. In other words they omit all of the digits they deem to be potentially outside of the precision provided by the raw data, e.g your inputs a:123.456 and b:789.012 but your result from some multistep calculation is 12.714625243422799, obviously the extra precision is artificial and should be reduced to something slightly less than the input precision (because it will have been rounded).

For floating point math this is about going a step further by calculating the propagation of error from the end of the maximum length significand provided by IEEE 754 (where anything longer causes rounding and thus error), and trying to quantify how that window opens wider and wider as those rounding errors propagate towards more significant digits as more operations are performed. With interval arithmetic this is done by keeping track of the upper and lower bounds of that window (the real number existing somewhere within that window).

This doesn't solve any of the many issues that floating point math has, but it allows whatever is consuming it to potentially assign significance to the output of a calculation more precisely. i.e so that you can say 1369.462628234m is actually 1.4e3m (implying ± 100m) perhaps translating into understanding that your trajectory calculation isn't actually as accurate accurate as the output looks, but instead the target has a variance of up to 100x100 meters.

I expect the patent details a hardware implementation to make this practical at the instruction level rather than a likely very slow software implementation.
Because I hate it when I come across acronyms that I gotta google.
There is some debate on that point:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Xk06al1sAmUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...

Passage begins on page 171 but I can't link to it via Google Books.
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> I read quite a bit of cosmology and physics, mostly 30 or so years old

Well, you get all the way to the standard model, so not so bad. I suppose the book quality might have been a problem though.
Serious question for the HN community - why do you leave your GPS on/activated by default? I have mine disabled unless I specifically need it for something, which is rare. Usually the only time I ever need GPS is for driving instructions. Otherwise, it's off. GPS is also the biggest battery hog on the device. Why would you leave this on? Do you all use it far more frequently or was it something you never thought to shut off? I can't think of one app I use that requires my location other than weather, in which case I just set the location(s) I want and can refresh at any time. But I generally get weather from a saved DuckDuckGo search - "[zipcode] weather" - stored as a bookmark and problem solved.

On a related note, Google has created a tool that allows you to see all the data they have on you (and delete it if you want). Because of the way I set up everything and my habits, they had virtually nothing on me. The only stuff I think were some chats from years and years ago and a few searches I did while not in incognito mode on my phone. I also don't use any of their apps from their main product suite - no search, email, chat, drive, etc. And I never leave myself logged in to my account on anything. I don't think this reduces my productivity or quality of life at all. In fact, quality of life is almost certainly improved.
> That isn't a problem. innerHTML is lazily computed from the tree structure: if you don't use it, you don't pay for it.

I'm not paying for it, the DOM implementation is - with increased complexity. (E.g., HTML parsing suddenly becomes a time-critical operation because some wiseguy decided to implement animations for his website using setTimeout and innerHTML.)

And they can't drop it because a lot of sites rely on it - however, if you wrote a new, limited-purpose renderer on top of WASM, you could decide to drop it and simplify the implementation without losing much utility.

> And if you reinvent restyling, it'll be a ton of work to do better

But that's kind of my point - if you can control which parts of the tree are exposed and which mutations are valid, you might not need to implement restyling at all. (Or in reduced scope)

I'm not talking about cascading in general, but about how you can make arbitrary changes to the DOM after initial load, which the restyler has to fully support.
Not to mention Princeton is less than an hour away too.
Well one could just as easily respond that even into the 1920s half of Americans lived in rural areas if recency makes a way of life somehow made-up.
Pet this earlier article [1], the OS (currently?) is licensed under a combination of BSD3, MIT and Apache.

So, they are moving from GPL to a more permissive model. Though, sure, they could easily change the terms for the final version..

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smar...
Just tear down all single family homes and build non luxury high rises that reduce housing costs down to realistic levels again.

Boomers and richfags btfo...
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The best open corpus project I know of is OPUS: http://opus.nlpl.eu/

They say they welcome contributions; I don't know if they just mean new sources of text, or if this includes code for filtering or fixing their existing ones.
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It wouldn't make sense for Americans to stop believing in the dollar most likely... but if they were to do so, I'm sure those insurgent terrorists would find out exactly what military might is backing the dollar in short order.

Also, don't see how it would be the case that Americans or others lose faith in the dollar? Imagine tomorrow that it is revealed that the most core systems in the financial and banking industry were hacked 10 years ago and have been extensively manipulated by, say, Goldman Sachs. Or Walmart. Or whoever. Basically, any bank who says "there are 2 billion dollars in that account" fundamentally can't prove it. What then? When Walmart says 'we made $5 billion last year' and the rest of the world says 'prove it, and no we don't trust your funny-money IT systems'... what do we do then?
The beauty of the patent is that it will never be tested, being of no practical value, for numerous reasons already mentioned in other comments, plus a few more not worth the bother of going into.

So the inventor gets a patent number for his LinkedIn profile, and USPTO get their fee, and that's the end of it.
A win-win for all involved.

Earlier HN discussion of the phenomenon:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015371
I'm thinking more mid-city/mid-Wilshire area. Still close to Hollywood/WestLA/DTLA but much much cheaper and less dense.
They also have a completely different mentality about the environment.
What's the application? You can tell Wine to claim it's Windows 7, but that doesn't necessarily mean the application will work.
Hah. This is right by my office in DC. The only people who live around there are GWU students and profs. It’s been around forever, but it exists to support the bauinsss and tourist lunch crowd.

That said, in DC, where lots of people don’t drive, you can support grocery stores and hardware stores. There was a Safeway and an Ace Hardware in the building over when I lived in China Town. You don’t need one in every block though.
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I'll eat you through a proxy network then, unless you want to slow down your legitimate users too.
Quantify "many many," and compare it to the user count that enjoys having Maps know fine-grained detail about the neighborhood because volunteers answer the questions it asks.
Depends on where, really. Some places had real taxi mafias, other had taxi market that got stuck in the 80s, yet others had well-functioning taxi services.

But "destroying the taxi cartels" wasn't a good thing, because it replaced an imaginary taxi mafia (that supposedly spanned cities) with a single taxi mafioso that's a global corporation. Uber tried to paint itself as an underdog fighting the establishment, but the truth is that in this battle, it's Uber who was the only large player. That's how they won, too - they could strategically allocate funds to beat taxi networks on a city-by-city basis.

I'm not going to defend all taxis. I happen to live in a place with nice cabs, but I've heard plenty of horror stories from elsewhere. But - ironically, as I warned years ago, back before Uber was a frequent guest of newspaper headlines, but right about time when their rotten-to-the-core culture became visible in their dishonest and unethical behavior - this is a story of unleashing a monster. We should have slain it long time ago, before it got the chance to grow. Alas, here we are.
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Which companies?
And LAX has good flights to Asia, which is important for sourcing goods.
I know nothing about the topic. I'll only point out that https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36664 says ".. the reality in the past the 16 bit code was not a issue because the [Linux] kernel always supported it." and "...3.15 after 16 bit support by [Linux] kernel is optional on 64 bit systems."

That links to lmkl posts like https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/14/207

>> Afaik 64-bit windows doesn't support 16-bit binaries, so I just
assumed Wine wouldn't do it either on x86-64. Not for any real technical reasons, though.

> Yes, there is still a significant number of users, and we still
regularly get bug reports about specific 16-bit apps. It would be really nice if we could continue to support them on x86-64, particularly since Microsoft doesn't ;-)
Except no one in Denver wants them here except the Governor and business council. It would be a huge net loss for the community and people.
Inferences from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20081020-00/?p=... . I also know that 32bit programs could load 16bit modules without issue. In fact that was one of the things that MS was harping on people to not do; was stop using 16bit modules in their 32bit applications (which would have otherwise run fine on 64bit systems). I'm pretty sure it worked because 32bit system DLLS all got a 32 appended to them so the linker and loader would know which version they were going to and ensure that call was routed appropriately.

Edit:
It's also worth noting that 32bit and 16bit instructions are different because of register size operands.

So to speak you're absolutely right... a 16bit read/write COULD do that... but it's a feature, not a bug.
10% is plenty to drive business to Lyft, especially with Lyft’s better brand.
« this will open Slack up to users of Linux-based services like ArchLinux, OpenSUSE, Solus, Debian, KDE Neon and others. »
I don’t get it. I use the slack app on my Debian for almost a year. Am I missing something ?
That's like saying wool is made from sunlight. I mean, it started there, but there's a lot more to it.
That's great. Different people want different things. My phone no longer does that :-)
Well, old enough to also respond knowingly to the comment mentioning the Rush album 2112, anyway. :)
Do you have another description for a society where you can't buy chewing gum, caning is a punishment meted out by courts, and making a video criticizing Lee Kwan Yew can land you in jail? Where there is no freedom of association and the press freedom ratings are consistently poor? I don't think the idea that Singapore is an authoritarian state is even controversial.
while ScraperBlocked:
scraper.sleep(5)
No, and I never pay attention to those reviews. They typically don't match the actual experience.
Silicon Valley innovation now is directly aimed at oppressing the underclass, and everybody knows it and can see it. They hate Uber. People hate Uber. It means the death of the era of good feelings that came with this constant Moore's Law style innovation.

This has been coming down the pike since at least 2012, in days when Sidecar was still a big deal. One good practice all the world religions and philosophies worth a damn tell us: Keep checking your level of smug. Put a dipstick into your smug-sump and read off the level, because it is directly correlated with your douchebag index!
Here's a link to the patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US9817662B2/en?oq=No.+9%2c...
.Net 4.5[1] seems to be well supported at this point.
Windows 7 has partial support[2], it really depends what pieces of the windows API are in use.

What is the name of the app?

[1]https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
[2]https://test.winehq.org/data/
I collect company shirts, often from companies or apps I like. Occasionally I wear them, especially if they just had a good earnings report.
> Perfect weather

People say this about a lot of places in California, but it's not my experience. "Perfect weather" seems to mean a dystopia of identical days, no changes, no wind, no clouds, just constant sun. Living in Alameda/Oakland drove me crazy in the summer. Nothing ever changes, every day is exactly the same. Yuck.

Santa Monica weather isn't nice for everyone. But I get it, there's a lot of sun and not much rain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California#Clima...
Half the reason to have some BTC is all the excitement. I think, in the end, it'll be the biggest dividend I get from having a little.
From what I’ve heard, there’s a bunch of mostly unused land south of the football stadium that has been slowly being bought up over the last year or so. Obvious speculation is that it’s either Amazon or someone betting that Amazon will want to buy a big chunk of land near downtown...
Not a fair comparison: DigitalOcean in 2018 vs. AWS in 2013
The counterpoint (and what this article mentioned in several places) is that the "more aggressive fingerprinting" techniques can have high false positive rates, and then the legitimate users of your site are going to end up thinking it's broken or the data never loads because they're inadvertently triggering your fingerprinting.

It feels pretty ridiculous to tell a user "you can't use our site because your system language settings don't match our IP list for that area."

Sidestepping the fact that assuming you can tell someone's language from the geo mapping of their IP address is already pretty problematic.[0]

[0]: https://medium.com/@kristopolous/stop-guessing-languages-bas...
I have not seen a single gas station in California that does not accept credit or debit cards for 10 years, let alone in the Bay Area. If they do exist, it’s most certainly a tiny minority.
There is a multi-million dollar industry around blocking scrapers, it's not "just add rate limiting".
Amazon reveals top 20 city candidates for its second HQ
I think you're reading it wrong. I think the intended meaning was that it's accurate for real numbers up to, but not including, the final digit"

That's how I read it.
I've started my search to buy a place in Midtown, precisely because of the walkability. The prices really do reflect it..
I can imagine one - I would gladly wear SpaceX swag everywhere I go. Hell, I'd wear a SpaceX-themed tie.

Beyond that, I prefer to order t-shirts with my own design; $random-company swag frequently ends up as home/nightwear for either me or my SO.
No one is against people living in rural areas; people who want that are welcome to it.

The focus is more on suburbs, which are more of a recent invention, especially the US-style ones where no one can live without a car and all the subsidies that accompany them.

Realistically, not everyone is going to live in some dense urban core, and there'd be a gradation from that to rural, like there always has been. The point is that should probably be a bit more natural curve, rather than having tons of burbs that don't really pay for themselves, long term.
Given the message in the article, I find it interesting they use Google Analytics on their site still.
> Most apartment buildings can't even support an on-premises convenience store. SF tried.

Then they aren't building high enough.

My Vancouver apartment, in a 30 story building was floored by retail. So were some of the other neighboring buildings.

Thanks to mixed-use building, Vancouver has a vibrant downtown - one used by people after 6pm. Seattle, where I currently live... Has large stretches of it that are largely dead in the evening - because it's all office/professional space. Vancouver downtown feels far safer after hours.