skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We scroll down and that becomes a "animation while scrolling". While its an unusual orientation, it believe it is the right one. Its not a time axis - its "time since the user was created".

The graph isn't a "this is how many followers the user had at this point in time" but rather "right now, here are all the followers this user."

A point is "the Xth user following had a join date of Y" and thus the X axis is in effect a time axis (though not a linear time axis).

From an eye scanning view, the horizontal bands are easier to follow and notice than vertical ones - and that is part of the goal of the graphic (to emphasize those bands).
I am also so disturbed by Facebook’s “keep the user always logged in” policy. If you click on a link inside a reminder mail sent when one of your friends post something, you are automatically logged in. I noticed it after forwarding such an email to one of my friends. At least they could explicitly indicate such behavior in the email.
Yes. It's abuse because Uber presumably have a lot of bikes they would like to inject into the system. Every bike displaces one available parking spot.

Suppose there's a small town with one bike lot at the library. Everyone keeps their bike at home except to go to the library. Does the use of those bike spots affect the public? Yes.

Would it be okay if Enterprise Car Rental used public spaces to hold their inventory? No. That's not how rental companies work.

Perhaps there is no law, but I expect that to last about ten seconds after Uber pulls this stunt.
Send and Sync: the “marker traits” that Rust uses for safe concurrency
It's a standard chassis yes, but the powertrain is made by the teams. It's to force the manufacturers to concentrate their developments on the EV powertrain (cooling, inverter, motor etc) instead of aerodynamics and suspension.

The battery is also a spec part to force powertrain efficiency rather than cramming in more batteries, plus battery technology is expensive.
Fortunately for me, it didn't go that far. But I know that feeling, because I've been there. I cut off facebook after a pretty low point in my life, and to this day, it has been the best decision I ever made.
Congestion collapse is what happened in the mid 80s that led to the creation of Jacobson's congestion control. He's at Google now, working on BBR (which their QUIC uses). Are you thinking of the early P2P days?
Quote from "Sorely Vexed," in the comments, points up one aspect of the scenario that's rarely discussed:

"The US medical industry is a racket that uses patient fear and vulnerability to commit robbery. Doctors who keep themselves aloof from the dirty business of where their paychecks come from are just as complicit as the ripoff hospitals that employ them. Just because someone else slices up the the body before you eat it, doesn’t mean you’re not a cannibal."
I'm with you. I love the changes they did to the newsfeed, because now I'm seeing way less viral shit, and way more actual interesting posts and updates by my friends. And since everyone gets the same interesting content promoted to them, there's also more comments on that content, making it better.

Love it, love it, love it.
If at the end of the day, you've got a world to live in with problems to solve, it does not suffice to say "oh, gee... there are lots of interesting ways to look at the world." You have to do something more than just catalogue esoteric thought. And there's a lot of junk philosophy that poses questions and says "this is interesting", even if, for all practical purposes, it is definitely not interesting. (Like P-Zombies, the Ship of Theseus, free will, etc. It's all junk philosophy.)
Russel:

Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation. All definite knowledge—so I should contend— belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack from both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy
Async/Await II: Narrowing the Scope of the Problem
A tangent on one of your points: Facebook not only lowers photo resolution, but it also visibly deteriorates color quality in some cases. I had a beautiful golden meadow turn into a pretty ugly dry yellow (edit: orange-ish, not yellow -- I misremembered) field after uploading a photo. It was quite astonishing switching tabs and seeing the difference.
That sounds a bit dangerous, especially with rm.

As always, with great power comes great responsibility I guess.
aka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion
... and they happen to own several crypto hedge funds.. wonder what their strategy is if they think something suspicious is happening.
I provide strategic tax and accounting solutions for cryptocurrency. AMA
It's far from affordable, that's why HEVC failed miserably. Not everyone has deep pockets to pay for protection racket.
fish is released under GPLv2 and afaik Apple has a policy to not include any new GPL software in macOS.
>After filtering 1,000 tweets per query, I barely found 10-20 real human users.

I am kind of surprised the number of human users is so high. I know a lot of bloggers of various sizes. To the best of my knowledge virtually all of them have hooked up one of the available services to post on their behalf. They either spend a little time scheduling out their tweets for the next week/month then forget about twitter until their schedule runs dry OR they set something up to randomly pick from some pool of blog posts and spam links.

Either way they then essentially never go on twitter again once things are up and running. The whole thing is full of bots talking to each other.
Hey, you edited your comment to remove what I responded to. Thanks for not labeling the edit.
In this case he really did invent the "Realtime-RPG" that made Diablo what it is.

In his own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc
local maxima trap hill climbing style optimizing, many (most?) times improvements require jumping large sub optimal chasms that can never be crossed by gradual improvement.
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It has public, private and protected members (checked at compile-time), which is a bit of a mess because ES is gaining an independent notion of private fields (checked at runtime).
>non-disparagement clause

I've had to sign one of these to get cashed out after a company-wide lay off before. I ran it past a lawyer friend and he says they do not hold up in court.

Saying that, there are plenty of ways to frame the situation without being overly negative about the former company or yourself.
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ClearBrain models are primarily based on a logistic regression. We automatically run some parameter tuning like ridge regression and class balancing of your data for feature selection and regularization. We connect directly to your data in Segment, Heap, or Redshift out of the box, so can definitely help with your own data!
Sad that it took that Youtuber embarrassing OBike to make any attempt to retrieve their bikes (47 in one trip, @5:15 into the video).
I agree. So, I made link preview from buk.io platform the quote itself. Here is one example. Try to put it in slack, facebook or twitter to see how it looks. https://buk.io/@ea1149/5/9704~9850
Comparing Machine Learning as a Service: Amazon, Microsoft, Google
Don't worry, once we get self-driving cars sorted out you can just browse hacker news rather than suffer the misfortune of seeing such unpleasantries. :)
Great explanation of the math, made it very easy to follow. And the joke at the end was a nice touch, I was totally waiting to hear about his SAAS startup...
Depends. Some hostels have strict age limits. Most are a bit wary of older looking travelers but I've definitely run into over 40-ish people in them. OP is going to be fine. Not to mention, most hostels have a rooms you can rent and in a lot of places, like Asia, you'll end up with your private room for cheap anyway in many places (Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, in my experience).
Hi HN, I've been working on this project for the past few months. It's a website that allows movies and TV shows to be explained frame-by-frame. To see some concrete examples check out:

Citizen Kane explained: https://www.spoiled.tv/orson-welles-citizen-kane-explained

Rick & Morty explained: https://www.spoiled.tv/rick-and-morty-pilot-explained

The hardest job has been adding more spoilers (which I'm very much still doing) because it's hard transcribing them from Wikia or IMDB and finding the correct timestamp. Please let me know what you think!
I always think of everyone having their own personal spectrum, ranging (crudely) from the most positive experience they've had, to the worst. Any new situation encountered by someone is judged relatively, based on their own personal spectrum.

My point being that someone can honestly believe they are suffering at least relatively, if not absolutely. Each person has their own level of experience they consider "suffering".
As an extension to this on Google Apps you can do mail routing based on regex rules. I have an email address bs_(.)@... that forwards to my primary inbox. You do have to be the admin to set these up.

I did this as a lot of places don't include a + in their email validation and I was sick of it. I did try a service mailhero.io but for privacy (I know, I know, I'm on Google, what privacy) I wanted a self managed solution.

Now with this script I'm going to change my catchall to a handful of phrases
orders_(.)@...
confs_(.)@...
paywalls_(.)@...
newsletters_(.)@...
home_(.)@...

That way I can autolabel on the first word and group labels logically instead of a label for every new email address...
I don't want to be the hater guy but am I missing something or isn't this just a glorified web highlighting service? (Including medium.com's own highlighting feature, or genius.com)

I root for any new attempt to do things in different ways but I don't like it when people try to spin things to make them look novel when they really aren't.

I wouldn't have been harsh if OP didn't invent a new ridiculous terminology as "Deep hyperlink" and call itself a "revolution".
The idea is similar. Deep Hyperlink is a regular URL and one of its application may be Transclusion at the end. The simplicity of using a regular web address which is permanent is what I believe is the first try of such kind. Transclusion is kind of proprietary implementation, I believe.
>But these bots exist because some people actually use Twitter as a newsfeed for that sort of thing.

I would dispute that. I'd argue that the bots exist because spamming twitter is free. If it costs me $0 and I get even a tiny benefit out of it then it is to my advantage.

Its essentially the same problem as spam email.
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Does that include electricity costs? For which cryptocurrency?
If tether pops, what happens?

Do people try to cash out immediately or do they flock to the "stable" coins like BTC or ETH?

To my knowledge the only thing you can trade tether for is other cryptocurrencies.
> seems unlikely

I can't imagine why anyone would lie when they stand to make billions of dollars from it. What an odd idea.

That aside, there is a gray area between lies and not really digging into truths that you don't want to know the answer to, like how many of your accounts are actually fake.
Would love to see that - any chance for a screengrab?
Their web page doesn't let you see anything about the service without creating an account or signing in.
No, Aussies have a bit of a "larrikin" streak, to use the polite term.

As an Aussie, I'd term is as bordering on obnoxious and irresponsible at times - and it saddens me to write this.

Whether in Europe, South America, or Asia, everybody has a funny story about what we've allegedly done - whether it's pissing on the eternal flame in Paris, stupid stunts with climbing temples in Cambodia, trying to plank on idiotic places in Singapore hotel balconies, or just general pranks.

My parents are originally from Singapore, and like it or not, they at least have the law and order thing down pat.

Look at the mess we've made with shopping trolleys from Coles/Woolworths...

So don't blame the bike companies for us deciding to do stupid things with their property.

It's like somebody blaming a shop for graffiti, because they left their wall empty...
Will look into changing that font up, many thanks for the feedback!
> This is one of those things that sounds trivial but has tons of hidden gotcha's.

to support your point, from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255
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Instead of speculating about the reasons why workers wanted defined work hours and work weeks, why don't you use the many free resources at your disposal to either read primary sources or a summary someone wrote up?
Mind blown. Any idea where I can see something like this in person?
Refactor your Ruby methods with the parameter object refactoring pattern
Interprocess pipeline is a difficult problem only because there is no standard encoding. Elvish has pairs of builtin commands like from-json and to-json; so if your command takes JSON and writes JSON, you can use it in a pipeline like:

... | to-json | your-command | from-json | ...

It is also trivial to wrap it into a function like:

fn f { to-json | your-command | from-json }
Definitely a huge fan of window functions. I once read a comment that there are two eras of SQL: Before Windowing and After Windowing, and I have to agree with that.

Not mentioned, but pg_x and information schema is a probably my favorite somewhat-hidden feature. It really let's you dive into analysis and can help get out of little binds very quickly. It's not something I use every day, but I'm always glad it's there.
"Long before news of the subpoena, Bitfinex, which is believed to host more trading than any other Bitcoin exchange in the world, had gained a reputation for a lack of transparency and a confusing structure, with European executives, offices in Asia and registration in the Caribbean."

Oh boy this sounds like the banking system I was hoping cryptocurrencies would supersede...
I would always pick a make file over a script when it's appropriate - why did you shy away from them?
He didn't work on torchlight.

He did hellgate london (pile of shit) and Marvel Heroes (kinda a mmo successor to the marvel ultimate alliance games but deeply diablofied (didn't play much but it seemed .. ok))
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> Also, they would not always want it in exact increments of $100 million, as has been the case.

Not to question the Tether story but I don't understand this line of argument. What is the problem with exact increments?

Sure, the tokens have to be issued only if the issuing conditions are met. But given the number of hacks, wouldn't people want to use the issuing account sparingly? You know, use the issuing account to issue tokens in fixed increments to build up reserves. The move these reserves to be held in another account.
"After a while you realize that there is no point in posting your own because they will similarly not show up for friends."

Glad I'm not the only one. I once set up a list for viewing posts just from family etc. It would only show me 24 hours worth! There seemed to be nothing I could do to adjust it. Everything about facebook is a usability shitshow.
Sorry, but this is just being shifty and irresponsible. And how are they using littering as a business model? The bloody twats who are picking these up without paying and dumping them in a creek are the ones littering - it's like blaming the shopping centre for you stealing, because they had stuff for you to steal.

Look at the mess Aussies have made with shopping trolleys from Coles/Woolworths. The supermarkets got so fed up they implemented locks on the wheels - nearly every supermarket here does this now.

The only reason the bikes are worse is because they're lighter/easier to move than trolleys, and the locks aren't as hard to overcome as for trolleys.

That, and Australia is in general very un-bike friendly. It's a cultural thing - we love our V6/V8 engines, our big SUVs, and our giant McMansions - we essentially copy the US in those traits. You compare this to say, Europe, or Japan which tend to be much more bike friendly.
You should read the article, he wanted to give terraria and starbound more of a point.

"It Lurks Below combines Diablo-style dungeon-plumbing mechanics with sandbox-style worlds that let players dig and construct, à la Terraria and Minecraft. In an interview with Polygon, Brevik said he’s a big fan of those games (and Starbound), but wanted to add something of his own to the genre.

“I wanted more of a point to a lot of those games,” Brevik said. “I wanted to make an RPG, with classes and leveling up, random items, where you get more and more powerful as you go down into the core of the world and fight baddies.”"
I referred to the double colon as something I saw used with IPv6 to indicate a sequence of 0's.

I wasn't aware that inet_aton supported all these forms and the regex I provide won't parse them. It seems like inet_aton supports specifying the numbers in octal and hex too.
As always, things are a bit more complicated.

Being largely for-profit is part of the problem with healthcare in the United States, but plenty of other countries have privatized healthcare that works, Japan being the first that comes to mind.

The difference being that, in the US, the long-term dysfunction of our political system has allowed the regulatory framework for healthcare to be built to service its own industry, rather than the needs of individual citizens or society at large.

As one example, regional hospitals used to band together in groups to bargain collectively when purchasing supplies. This arrangement was formalized, legislated, and then warped, so that rather than the hospitals controlling the organization, it was instead controlled by the suppliers, driving the cost to the patient up, rather than down.

There is no easy solution here, without first fixing our broken political system, and I see no evidence of that happening.
You could also point out that it mostly consists of not giving untrusted users access to internal stuff, like webapps would.
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To spread FUD so that prices are lowered and they can buy coins cheap?

Edit: So looks like attempt at humor lacked the /s tag attracting downvotes. So let me clarify, the answer to the above post asking "what will do they next?" If they believe in cryptocurrencies they will buy more if the prices are cheaper.
Reposting from another thread:

I recently created my own cryptocurrency, UCaetanoCoin (UCC), with a supply of 100 trillion and one coins, all owned by me.

I sold one to a friend of mine for $0.01 yesterday, which made me not only the richest person in the world, but also the first trillionaire, as the coins I own are valued in $1T USD.

And my UCC has a total market cap of $1T USD (and one cent). Then I exchanged a single coin with myself for $0.01.

As my coin has zero transaction cost and instant transactions (it's a badass coin), I traded it back and forth with myself 100 quadrillion times.

This generated a total traded value UCC-USD of 1 Quadrillion Dollars yesterday, more than any other security was ever exchanged in a single day.

Anyone wants to invest on my UCC? Here's my white paper:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0858/9696/products/122_102...
Who and why uses Facebook today anyway? All my friends use messenger apps like WhatsApp or Telegram to communicate to people they know in real life, sites like Reddit and HN to communicate to random crowd sharing their interests and Instagram to share pictures they take. I personally feel like Facebook is a concept fading into the past.

UPDATE: The only thing I used to use Facebook for a couple of years ago when I had more spare time was finding events to attend for fun. Does anybody know a good alternative? There probably is a special app just for this. Another useful feature of Facebook seems to be the groups directory: there are groups in WhatsApp and Telegram but they are harder to find - isn't there a project building a directory of them already?
You won't get out of local minima/maxima with hill climbing though.

Eyeballs are nowhere near optimal either.
We have Coinbase/GDAX, and now Robinhood and Square Cash doing BTC (and other currencies) to USD, so that's becoming a legitimate option.

I've always wondered though - how do you move multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worth out to fiat in a single instance? Is that possible?
> In the short term very few people are going to cancel Netflix because of this, but enough of these decisions in succession is erosive to customer goodwill.

The “auto preview” is so unpleasant that I’ve essentially stopped using Netflix entirely. I’ve no doubt that their testing shows it increases engagement, but I find it so jarring and abrasive that I rarely open the app any more. I’m sure they still have content I want to watch, but I can’t stand the experience of trying to find it.

I would love to have more insight into their A/B engagement metrics. I’m sure they capture if immediate engagement goes up when a feature is enabled, and probably the same over time periods of days or weeks. Do they also capture if total app usage declines 75% over 6 months after a feature is enabled?
I don't think so. A/B testing is like gradient descent which is a greedy algorithm. You move in the direction that locally looks best. Evolution on the other hand allows for suboptimal species to persist for enough time to let them develop their advantage. (In the language of optimization evolution allows you to go past the local optimal and reach global optima by allowing you to move in non-optimal direction -- as long as the move is not catastrophic.)
CTEs are very nice, although their performance characteristics push me over to lateral joins and subqueries by default.
If tether pops suddenly, such as by the revelation that the supposed dollar account backing it was a sham, there may not be any cash to out. Simply no one will buy it, or only for pennies on the dollar.

Alternately, it might drag down other currencies by taking away the illusion of easy crypto-to-dollar exchange that tether offered, but other than that the dominant effect would likely just be investor panic.

So, no one knows how things will turn out! Such is finance. It makes for fun stories, at least.
Hi, Elvish author here :) I am really glad that you find interesting, but I also wonder which aspects of Elvish do you find awkward? Like Fish, friendly experience out of the box is also one of the goals of Elvish.
lateral joins were already in the list so I skipped them, but I agree. I tend to reach for CTEs first as they are more readable in my opinion, but when there are perf issues, lateral joins are the way to get out of them.

They almost feel like cheating!
http://www.businessinsider.com/40-percent-of-bitcoins-are-he...

> According to AQR Capital Management, about 1,000 people own 40% of the world's bitcoins.

I'm not sure having bitcoin oligarchs will work out great.
How a quest for man's origins found a living Tasmanian culture believed extinct
> I wouldn't want unreliably hardware for any task, even as simple as gaming.

Would you prefer frame-perfect rendering to increased performance?
I don't understand your point? These examples would have to either provide care or have contracts with providers. Cigna and your examples provide access to their networks for a management fee (where your company pays the actual costs)... So we are both calling tomatoes, tomatoes.
You can't do a blanket search and sort by price. You have to narrow the search down to one of their main categories. Really eliminates a significant amount of results for many searches.