skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of bad actors in large companies. You'd think it is beneficial to remove them as fast as possible, but in any sort of bubbled environment, extrication is not easy. Especially when the bad decisions are a result of the existing system and the said actor in tandem. (That is, that person may be "good" in another system)
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But if you're doing that, then the exchanges don't get to take their cut!
How has Facebook taken advantage of uneducated users? Is there any evidence of this or you're just being edgy?
Jobs returned to Apple in July 1997, the same month that Mac OS 8 was introduced. Jobs had no real interest in Mac OS before OS X. He used a computer running NeXT until OS X came out.
The big problem being how you convince people to put real money into the system in the first place, especially if you want to keep the price fixed at 1:1. You end up with a huge quantity if BTC chasing tiny amounts of real USD. In a proper market the exchange rate should plummet due to the imbalance.
I am sure the workers wouldn't see much of this overtime pay as the TM would have just billed NV DMV at that rate.
The problem is around 98% of farmers have to lease their land. Most farmland in the US is owned by a handful of people.
I'm not sure I understand that, can someone elaborate?
I don’t know when I’ll ever get off the AMZN train, I bought stock for my portfolio a few years ago and it’s made me several times more money than what I’ve actually spent shopping on Amazon in the last 10 years! Even if I include AWS!
Yikes!

www.google.com/search?q=mislabeled+fish+uk
> They needed a boundary survey ($2,475) and a geotechnical study ($2,670). To called about 50 companies for each before he found ones willing to do it.

Why is it so difficult to find someone willing to do a survey?
I find http://dongerlist.com/ a much better resource
> I can't shake the feeling that Regexp could be written just as efficiently as a fluent interface with a more human friendly syntax.

You can use SRL - Simple Regex Language (https://simple-regex.com/) for making readable regex/matching rules. It is supported in C++, Java, C#, PHP, Javascript, and Python. Also, you can use the web version to generate equivalent regex if your language is one of the above.

Here is an example from the website for matching an e-mail address:

begin with any of (digit, letter, one of "._%+-") once or more,
literally "@",
any of (digit, letter, one of ".-") once or more,
literally ".",
letter at least 2 times,
must end, case insensitive

Regex to do the same:

/^(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\._%\+-])+(?:@)(?:[0-9]|[a-z]|[\.-])+(?:\.)[a-z]{2,}$/i

The first one is readable, second one is cryptic. https://simple-regex.com/examples has more examples.

SRL was previously discussed here in 2017, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384862

Also, the parse feature (DSL) of Rebol language is an excellent regex alternative:

1. Why Rebol, Red, and the Parse dialect are Cool (http://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/)

2. Rebol's answer to Regex: parse and Rebol types (https://rebol-land.blogspot.in/2013/03/rebols-answer-to-rege...)
It takes balls to imply that one may use Java in lieu of C++ so as to reduce complexity.
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Yeah, thats generally what they run for here in QLD as well, are the smashed avo loving areas over inflating building costs as well as land prices ?
Not sure what I am supposed to do with the extra 3500 square feet there...
Money won't be enough to attract the best developers. The best developers want to do the new and shiny. Apple is in maintenance mode as far as software - no judgement but working on the next iOS release is nothing exciting. On the hardware side there is still some exciting stuff going on.
I think you're missing my point. The original concept framed by Kodak was protecting IP, so that freelance photographers or whomever (likely large corporations) don't have their pictures re-used. But I'm saying that blockchain watermarking could have greater immediate appeal to the public when it's reputations and lives on the line. So journalism organizations and media corporations end up buying watermark protected hardware to ensure the veracity of content.
EA - Potentially a decent acquisition. A good supply of great exclusives is what the Xbone needs to fight off Sony.

Steam - Can't see a sale going through. Valve makes an absurd amount of money doing relatively little. It's basically Gaben's personal playground. Valve doesn't have the expertise to fix up the windows app store (which is an ecosystem problem). Steam was bootstrapped by HL2, not with exclusive partners. Valve has been doing some great work in VR (knuckles controllers, etc) that could be useful for Microsofts VR offerings, but it seems they basically give that away for free (or subsidised by all the games that use it being sold on steam).

PUBG Corp - Complete waste of time. Player Unknown made a game that is ridiculously fun, but is still buggy and poorly optimised. Unlike Minecraft there isn't an educational/mod play either.
When they do “copy” it and successfully put it in a human, it will make Pet Sematary the movie look like Driving Miss Daisy
Maybe I'm missing something but it looks like she omitted general contractor fees unless she rolled them into the sq/ft cost. Not that most people are qualified but I know people who GC the projects themselves to save a great deal of money. It's worth calling out as it's own item...

I found an up and coming architect so my design fees were substantially less than my GC fees... by about 8-10x.
Dear HN users,

Please stop voting down comments you disagree with when they are clearly written well and express an coherent opinion. Realize that you may not always be correct, or even if you think something is wrong, it can still deserve tobe at the top of the page.

I have to scroll to the bottom and highlight the comment because it is so greyed out (I'm guessing it is sitting below -4).

Diversity of constructive opinion is important to site quality.
It doesn't matter as much if an iOS upgrade breaks stuff as a Mac OS upgrade. The iOS market is so strong that developers rush to make their software compatible. Within a month of the iPhone X introduction I had dozens of apps with updated that just said they were updating to support it better.

Mac updates are a lot slower if ever.

Fortunately, the only apps I really care about besides the browser are developer related tools. Those are usually updated relatively fast on Macs and Windows.
What problems, or are you just unfamiliar with Elon Musk's PR strategy of always underestimating delivery dates yet always delivering in the end?
Even identical twins are not all that identical. Reading and understand the DNA is one thing, reading and understanding the regulatory network that controls which genes are expressed under what circumstances is at least as difficult.
A few points:

* 3484 out of 160,683 tires is about 2.2%, not 0.2%

* By June 1998, Goodyear responded by increasing the G159s rating to 75 mph, even though its own data “revealed that that if Goodyear approved an increase in the speed rating of the tire to 75 mph, the tire would generate temperatures well beyond the design capacity of the tire, producing predictable tread separations, with resultant death and injury,”

* literally everything in the story is ludicrously damning.
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Agreed. I use regexr daily for building my regex's without having to execute the programs they'll be part of.
This I believe is the direct result of the demonetization that they went through.
I was astonished as the ease of building houses in Perth when I visited recently.

Since its all sand, digging and compacting your foundations is ridiculously easy, and typically getting out of the ground is the riskiest part of building a new home.

Then pick a off the shelf house design which is simple brick and tile, so there's no gotchas during construction.

I can well believe these costs.
> Commit to values -> I think the last 20 years have shown that Amazon is pretty committed to investing in growth...

It depends on what you mean by "growth".

When you think of Amazon, you probably think of shopping. It’s the site that sells everything from books to phones to full-on vehicles. Accordingly, the company is the dominant player in e-commerce.

But as this chart from Statista shows, Amazon’s most well-known business isn’t its biggest driver of profits. That would be the company’s cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, which accounted for about 89% of Amazon’s $1 billion total operating profit this past quarter. That’s despite AWS accounting for just 10% of the company’s overall revenue during the same time frame.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-cloud-onl...
ICO's aren't securities. Cyrptocurrencies aren't investment platforms.

Some people are attempting to con investors into believing they are, but they do not represent equity, or legal rights of any kind.

You get into trouble if you market your ICO as a security, or promise capital gains. Issuing tokens by itself is not subject to SEC scrutiny.
FYI, when people ask “why is a private transaction between two willing participants a problem,” this is why. Nobody blames themselves for getting duped into a scam. No, it’s Bloomberg’s fault for calling the spade a spade.
To be fair this is very hit or miss, depends largely on your transaction history, the specific bank (and branch) policies, if that bank manager is having a bad day, etc. And that's the problem.

I've been hit by the insanity of "yes it's your money but you can't have it" from banks before, and it's one of those things you think everyone else must be a borderline criminal and/or exaggerating until it happens to you.

Anecdote isn't entirely useful here. The fact is they can do it, and even with sizable assets I had far fewer avenues of recourse than one may initially think. This made me really rethink banking security in a new sense.
I read something along the lines of files having no meaning until we interpret them with programs. The idea is that files are almost schemaless and we bestow a schema on them by the way we consume them with programs. I believe this may have been a SQL book...

In any case, what does "copying the brain" mean if we don't fully understand how it works? How can we bestow meaning on the raw data, given we can even collect it, without knowing exactly how the brain itself interprets it?
Adversarial attacks on modern speech-to-text
In my experience this disease afflicts more than just some C++ programmers, the immaturity is boundless. I’ve noticed some colleagues even think there must be something wrong if code looks simple.
They're a little off, but not much. The problem is that most people can't build a 5k sq ft place on a 7500 sq ft lot without going down as well as up. Basements in the Palo Alto flood zones are crazy expensive to build and permit so most don't do it, opting to stick to the sq ft requirements, which on a 7500 sq ft lot would be ... 3200?

5k would need a 10k lot in palo alto. A 10k lot in palo alto goes for 3m to 5m depending on neighborhood.

So , yes, it's nuts.
I'm not sure about 4x, but 3x is certainly reasonable. Or at least, I've worked for consulting firms that billed clients about 3x what they paid me. Some of the difference is social security, health insurance, management, and other overhead. But much of it is profit.

However, starting out as a consultant, it's unrealistic to expect that much. Unless you're already a star employee. But it is possible to get there, within a few years, if you're successful, and build a good reputation.

I started out billing my first clients at about 2x what I'd earned as salary. Once I started getting inquiries from new clients, I negotiated for more. I negotiated the hardest when I had lots of work from old clients.

What I billed new clients became my standard rate, going forward. Every year or so, I renegotiated rates with old ones, more aggressively when I had more work from new clients. But they always got a discount off my standard rate.
My roommate does PR consulting in the cyrpto space, I've never heard more bullshit come out of one person's mouth. Seems like 3 months after each project he's talking about how bs that on was, but this new project is super legit.
> many traits or diseases might be the result of 200+ genes that are also used elsewhere.

What are examples of 200+ gene diseases? At this level of genetic sophistication it should probably be called a trait which causes disadvantages in some situations.
The verdict is in. Amazon with free Prime shipping: $18.90. CVS insurance co-pay: $22.50.
Why? There’s no manual component to accepting money for an ICO, is there?
What if there is no meaning. What if "meaning" is just a word we invented to describe whatever our brain does with information.
I believe the on black story was another company, not FedEx.
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Weirdly enough, I'm 95% sure that's a thing in New Orleans.

Two of my coworkers are based there and it's come up in the past...iirc when they were purchasing monitors for the office.
Most times the reason people switch from thing A to thing B is because they have a problem with A. Nobody has a problem with C++. Talk to any C++ dev, they love their job.
Yes, C++ is a complex language. Yes, it has a ton of warts if you know where to look. But, you can write beautiful software with it, and it can even look beautiful too.

Yes, there are alternatives, but when it comes to performance, expressiveness and actual deployability, C++ is pretty awesome.
There was this other load of shit that tries to keep track of every diamond. Sure track the ones that are tracked!
This is only true if there really is a USD for every USDT out there in the market. If it turns out to be a fake, the whole thing comes crashing down and becomes unpegged as soon as growth stops, i.e. as soon as we run out of "greater fools" to keep supplying sufficient inflow of USD for everyone that's trying to cash out.
Exactly. For people who already use tmux heavily, and use it on linux as well as macos, the iterm2 integration isn’t going to be an attractive direction. Partly because it will lose the uniform experience across OSs, and partly because they’re happy with session/window/pane management using tmux’s UI.
Decentralized gambling like Augur
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Well, achieving the Marxist utopia involves forcing the genuine owners of capital goods ("the means of production") to surrender those to the state, in practice usually requiring imprisonment, execution, and initially a certain amount of genocide to avoid revolt.

Clumsily named, the aspects of "distributism" being lauded here only seem to involve convincing people to partly own instutitions rather than simply transacting with them as a third party. Seems to me that this reading of "distributism" is just capitalism plus a social norm of a bias toward involvement and ownership, rather than just employment and consumption.
> clone

Being genetically identical is not equivalent to having same memories and experiences. Such things are not stored in DNA.
Really want to see a source on this one.
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How to generate swift model class from JSON automatically?
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While it doesn't address your request not to link them in the first place... For anyone looking to bypass the paywalls when they are linked: you can copy the article's title and search Google for `site:wsj.com [title]`.
They even have a fleet of branded cars they drive around competitor's events to promote themselves: https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/935647345823309830

They promise to cut your Amazon bill in half. I guess they have scissors.
Tri-X is sold by Kodak Alaris now, not Eastman Kodak, although I'm not sure who actually manufactures it:

http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/ph...

Kodak Alaris and Eastman Kodak are separate companies.

Disclosure: I'm employed by Kodak Alaris.
I'm going to throw out an off-the-cuff hypothesis. What about microchimerism as an inheritance process? Microchimerism is the presence of of cells that originate from another individual and are distinct from the cells of the host. Transmission between mother fetus has been observed. Moreover, olfactory bulbs are one area with continued adult neurogenesis. Thinking on that, I reasoned that if so, there might be increased neurogenesis in the olfactory bulbs during pregnancy in mice. A quick lit search came up with:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12511652/
Yes, increased neurogenesis during pregnancy in response to particular hormone.
Pretty out there hypothesis, I know...
It seems like this article is essentially complaining about the language giving you too much control (e.g. in his copy assignment operator example), when that's exactly what its goal is.
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No wonder Apple seems faster for iOS devices. It’s latency is really leagues ahead.
> I'm at least twice as likely to hit "emacs -nw" for a quick edit than launch the GUI version.

I think that alone marks you as an unusual emacs user; the standard pattern for using emacs is to leave it running all the time (either in a window, or as a dæmon), not to launch new instances. But yes, it would be interesting to have numbers.

> Being useful in a terminal is a critical requirement for me.

Oh, certainly; in fact, I have 'vi' aliased to 'emacsclient -t' these days for just that reason. It's awesome to have a powerful, extensible editor available in the terminal.
The last few insurance companies Ive delt with seem to act more like banks giving loans. Twice now, they have priced premiums for our company policy low in the first year before increasing them the following year based on how much was claimed. One agent actually admitted it was to "recoup costs".

We joked that the meme where actuaries were being replaced by machine learning was actually just the insurer firing actuaries because they figured out they could just demand the money back from the client after a claim.
Movie theatre, grand dining room, home gym, steam room, VR room, office, woodworking shop, wine cellar, etc. The possibilities are endless.
Not sure about open market to be honest. I'm currently on COBRA (left a FTE position that had access to both). Will let you know in 9 months :)
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You're completely ignoring the question. Do other smartphones start out fast due to new batteries and slow down due to the battery degradation like Apple or do they account for the battery degradation and keep performance stable?
I’d start with asking the questions: who was responsible for the contract and it’s implemntation, and what were their motives, incentives, qualifications and abilities. Then I would ask the same question, but what would the IDEAL motives, abilities, incentives and qualifications of that person be? Then try bridging those gaps....
It's amazing. are you Chinese boy ? how did you find Qtum ICO :)
This has changed a lot in the past few years. My company started as an outsourcer with a WFOE in China doing custom development for clients in North American and Europe. Today much of our business is driven by Chinese clients. About 2 years we noticed ago that Chinese companies were willing to pay the same rates as our North American clients. There is a lot of money on the table, a big push by the government find tech solutions to modernize existing industries, and a massive shortage of skilled engineers.

This is also why we've seen so many Chinese companies in the tech and games spaces outsourcing to North American these days. It seems every week another Chinese company is opening an AI research lab or game studio somewhere on the west coast of North America.

I would add, it's still more difficult to do business in China than North America. And you will still find bad actors who don't want pay the final instalment post-delivery. But the are increasingly rare these days. As China matures it's becoming more and more like any other stable market.
It was a reality for some time.
> On servers I usually just install mg/zile/jed.

I normally just use TRAMP. For those who've not used it, it's an incredible little emacs package which gives one a very Plan-9-esque feeling, in the sense that all the different systems one connects to feel like one whole.

As an example, when one is editing a remote file shell-command runs commands on the remote system, and of course find-file and friends work exactly like normal — only looking at files on the remote system.
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> All the other manufacturers have this problem, they just don't attempt to detect battery power fluctuations and mitigate it with throttling. They just eat the system crashes.

Really, because I have not heard of any other manufacturer with this problem?
Agreed. $400/hr outside of SF Bay, 10 years ago, for CMS and e-commerce websites?? I've hired lots of devs and other agencies in the bay and that does not match my experience at all. For very niche stuff maybe. For freaking WordPress and Shopify, anything more than $175/hr and you are being robbed. For generic custom dev work (iOS, react, backed) $250/hr is near the top for very reputable studios.
btc would rise in terms of the real USD as well because the demand for it would increase.
like when cyber started to become slang for sex while online.

it has probably happened through out history where well established names get hijacked when something else get picked up by the general population.
e.g.

hacker vs cracker.

drones (rc helicopters vs pilotless aircraft).
This is a problem with many blockchain ideas. On one hand you get an immutable public record (and smart contracts), but on the other hand you need an incentive to use and mine the network...thus the in-built currency. But if that currency isn't seen as valuable...then the whole system falls apart.

I'm not sure why Kodak didn't piggyback of an existing blockchain like Ethereum.
It depends. Any code that I see written in support of cross cutting concerns that are not specific to specialized needs of the business are a cost I look for others to bare. I'm not going to write my own logging framework, ORM, configuration, scheduler, etc.

Recently I removed three custom written classes - one involving a friendly wrapper around .Net Http client, one to handle writing and reading CSV files and one to handle retry logic. I found better implementations on Nuget and replaced my custom versions.

Why? Because I knew my future self would appreciate not having to maintain them. Of course I had unit tests around the existing functionality first to help keep me from breaking stuff.

Any company has a narrow niche for which it is writing software. Avoid writing anything outside of that niche and use third party software. You are not giving your company any competitive advantage by writing yet another wrapper around database access.
That's pretty much exactly how hash array mapped tries work.

Take the first 5 bits of a 32 bit hash, use it to set a flag in the bitfield, a populated field indicates a populated child array element, find out which one using popcnt. When you find a conflict on insert take a step down the tree, use the next 5 bits in the 32 bit hash rinse and repeat.

A HAMT is the basis of a fully concurrent data structure for maps which can also do fast atomic snapshots called a ctrie.
Not sure if it's the same issue I had recently with iTerm2 periodically going black, but consider disabling the Core Text renderer with the following command:

$ defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMUseCGLayerAlways -bool YES

This was the developers' suggestion and it solved my issue. There's an informative discussion of the root causes here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/557.