skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I used to think the same thing. Maybe I will again, but here's what changed my specific situation:

I once had Time Warner. It was OK, I didn't need to deal with Customer Service and my cable never went out. No real issues other than a bill I thought was too high at times.

Then Google Fiber came here. Literally across the street. I couldn't taste that sweet, sweet gigabit even if I wanted to. Time Warner, sitting on it's laurels didn't care. I was their only choice if I wanted something faster than 15Mb/s.

Cue the Time Warner/Spectrum/Charter (Honestly, I don't know what order that was, but the billing took care of it) buyouts. Oh no! Things are going to be terrible. Except your old login still works with Spectrum/Charter. The QoS wasn't affected at all by the switching. Oh, and since Charter came out I get a free doubling of internet speed, because Google Fiber.

Now I'm using Spectrum (I think). All of a sudden, the option for 940Mb/s is available for me. That's close enough for wireless devices to call it "gigabit" to me.

Even though companies changed hands 2 or 3 times, I still have the same options (but better!) that I had before.

It's easy for me to get behind the hatred that monopolies have for communications in theory, but when they literally make the transition seamless, still provide all the same options as before, and allow me to get a taste of that sweet sweet gigabit; I just don't care anymore. Especially when they maintain competitive pricing.
You can typically get an extension of prime for a month in this situation if you chat with amazon. I end up paying every 18 months for 1 year of service, basically getting 6 months free. As a frequent user of prime, I have no idea how this isn't losing them money.
I think the case resolved nicely. Both of them get it resolved on a Friday so everyone wanted it to be swept under the rug (especially with the markets being front and center). Uber and Waymo will still compete with each other for self-driving cars but most likely will be hobbled in their efforts due to the kerfuffle.
Hey, you're the guy who made sway! Thanks!
We have an ugly patch for subtitles over Chromecast. It will get there.
Please see my sibling comment for early evidence of both.
Silicon Valley has developed a $300M foot fetish
No argument here. But is it any worse than Thunderbird?
I avoid all the 'carriers' and use the Local Collect to my local Post Office.
Only disadvantage I guess is the Sunday deliveries, but It's a worth while trade-off.
It's funny how many of the cryptocoins pretend that they have some domain-specific use case (here IoT, which for reasons(?) needs a distributed ledger) that justifies their existence. Guess people can make a business out of thinking up ever more creative justifications for new coins.
That's a stale valuation, Uber's latest round was significantly down from that. The Softbank tender valued Uber at $48B, so a more up-to-date estimate would be:

0.34 * 0.01 * $48B = $0.163B
link to the HN discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16341094
How about a review of one that is marketed as anonymous or privacy-friendly? For example Monero or PIVX. Many people still incorrectly believe that Bitcoin transactions are anonymous (yes, I know they can be anonymous if you make an effort to make them anonymous, but by default they are not).
> It's almost impossible to immigrate to England (much harder than the US), yet programmers in SF are far better compensated than those in London.

Immigration per se may be hard, but working is much easier than the US; I know several Romanians working as programmers in London.
Why would something that is "pre alpha" be worth billions of dollars? Just doesn't make sense. IOTA has no utility today.
mpv is not the same as mpc-hc
How is Videostream buggy for you? I've been trying Videostream, VLC nightlies, and Emby. The latter two were buggy for me, but Videostream (although it is just Chrome embedded rly whatever that's called) works. So I just went for a one-time Premium tax and now I can stream. Including with a remote from my Android phone.

PS: and it has Opensubtitles support. I do sometimes have to resort to using VLC to grab subtitles (for a diff language) but even VLC sometimes does not work. Then I gotta resort to, well, a web browser to grab the sub.
Looks like defamation to me. Just because a website doesn't have https doesn't mean it not secure. It's not secure for some activities, and if the browser marks the whole page as not secure, it's defamation.

I don't care if the web would be better with all site having https. Chrome is saying something defamatory about websites without https.
Agreed, Cloud Spanner is an impressive piece of technology, but question: If you build your business on Spanner and it does start having problems for whatever reason, what do you do? Obviously at this size you’d get great support from Google, but ultimately you rely on one managed provider and your hands are tied. That’s a tough situation to be in when you’re servicing 3.4M users.
Yes, it is just approved, so wait 3 hours to get it. (Their CDN is not fast to sync)
This combined this other problems such as comingeling and how bad their listings have become convinced me to let my subscription expire. Really wish they’d stop trying to expand into everything and use that effort to clean up what they already have. I don’t think they’ve built anything that’s polished.
I feel like that's the kind of nuance you learn as you get older. Black Panther might inspire some pre-teens to start down the path to science, and someday they'll probably see October Sky or whatever the current equivalent is.
Not sure if that's the case? I travel past a Amazon Prime Now Warehouse occasionally and they always have loads of white vans parked.
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Raspberry Pi works via Docker, and the previous non-Docker version also worked. I'm using it on 3 Raspberry Pis.
Not always true. I’ve tried it every time and they go “it’s weather related” when it’s obviously not.
I saw that. He's mentioning a company, "Helix Capital Investments Ltd", that I've never heard of.
> Who really expects investors to act morally rather than doing whatever's legal? Heck, who expects Facebook to prioritize morals over profits? Don't people who have these expectations deeply misunderstand how today's economic system works?

I expect (as in bound in duty or obligated) them to. However, I expect (as in predict) they will not.
Alphabet's probably accepting stock because they're one of the most risk-loving investors possible.

They've already got a business that's spinning off tons of cash, so they have no need for money, and instead, are pursuing any possible avenue that has the potential of making $$$ (e.g. all of the other bets).
Examples? Certainly nothing I purchase regularly is cheaper in a store. Especially considering the inconvenience of a store, and 5% cashback on everything.
Good points. I'll update Q3 and look at Q4 it was not intentional to use keywords.
> How do you apply that principal to the last mile problem?

Isn't the answer obvious? Make the Amazon Logistics team compete on an even footing with UPS, USPS, and FedEx. If the retail team has process for one of its customers to blackball UPS because it had a bad experience with it, then they should have the same process to blackball Amazon Logistics. (I'm 'should' here to mean that would comport with the SOA style business structure, not to make an ultimate judgment on whether it is a good model for a business overall.)
Sure, its the least bad system, but its still a bad system.
Safari is the worst by default. I don't have any Apple devices, but when I look at screenshots of Safari's URLs, they are not full URLs. Also, it looks like you can't show the full URLs on iPads or iPhones. (You can on Firefox for Android.)

Not a full URL: example.com

Not the full URL: http://example.com (the page will load after completing the URL with a trailing slash)

This is the full URL for the homepage of example.com: http://example.com/
Happily installed it on my Macs, but sadly still no 3.0 in the iOS store (at least in Canada).
Or an AI that is smarter than most humans, and super strong materials and super powerful miniaturized actuators and on and on.

And don't forget being a stone cold killer. He's breezy cool in lots of scenes that follow the deaths of multiple adversaries.
I am pretty sure quality content will be in text form for quite a while.
Waymo already pursued arbitration against Levandowsi, I'm unclear on whether that they can go after him again:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/waymo-pursued-arbitration-...
I wish they have something like this for MongoDB. Didn't find anything good on OSX. Maybe Mongo 3G is still the best option and they just sold.
I think a cross-country comparison clouds the issue. Think of it this way: if in an American city people started to frequently get sick from poor restaurant hygiene, would you expect them to eat out more, less, or the same? Would you expect them to be more or less willing to try restaurants new to them? My strong bet is on less for both, because people are pretty risk-averse when it comes to vomiting.

The US is in a very long restaurant boom: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/its-the...

And I don't think it's an accident that goes along with a large decline in food-borne illness rates: https://www.cdc.gov/foodnet/pdfs/FoodNet-Annual-Report-2015-...
I never realized the level of feelings of entitlement and melodrama from gamers until I ran a passion project to make a private server for a dead game. We don't even accept donations and people still treat the dev team like dirt, and will often write nasty manifestos about how we are ruining their lives or we don't know what we are doing and if only we would listen to their every whim, etc...

It's one of those things, though, that reveals the human inclination to remember negative events more even among a sea of positive events... Frequently as a game developer you will get loads of positive and helpful feedback but the small minority that want to shit on you for no good reason stick in the front of your mind.
Android Wear is getting killed, and it’s all Qualcomm’s fault
I was able to have them remove amazon logistics after repetive drivers called me first thing in the morning demanding I meet them at the street because they couldn’t find the entrance to an apartment building.
The obvious irony here is that this story was told via text instead of a video or set of images. Each medium has it's own place.
Pretty simple really. GDAX already does the calculations for you.

https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD

Move your mouse around the order book (the "bottom" chart). It indicates the current order book. There's some dude selling 0.0406 BTC at $8380. But then there's another dude selling 1.467 BTC at $8385.

If you wanted to buy ~2 BTC, you'd "run out" of BTC to buy at $8380.0. So you also buy the BTC up to $8381, $8382... etc. etc. until you get all the BTC you need. This increases the price to $8385.

Obviously, the numbers will be different by the time you see my post, but you get the idea. In essence, if you buy out the supply of BTC on the market, you increase the price. Even at ~$100 to $1000, you are already moving the market up and down a little bit, and when you get into the $millions, you start to really affect the market by a significant amount. If you watch the BTC charts long enough, you'll see some $5 Million+ orders come by and swing the price of BTC by $500 or so.

Note that this information is also available for the Stock Market. Its why people pay attention to a number called "volume", the more trades that happen, the less your particular trade affects the market.
From the Github issue linked above, apparently Google supports something similar: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
It's The Economist, which is basically a PR publication for the MIC, so take that into account.

The next generation of drones won't be homemade. It's too simple of a problem to arm small drones with small arms, use for grenade or explosives delivery, electronic warfare, you name it.

The droid armies depicted in Star Wars aren't far from the truth--you just need huge masses of them to overwhelm your opponent.
Are offshore developers not being payed competitively to their local rates?
Free Adobe XD UI Kit
I always let packages ship to the local supermarket.

Actually feel bad for delivery guys who have to go to every single adress when its much more efficient to collect stuff at a central point. And how many people are not at home during delivery hours?
> Only a few rarified corporate people and independent consultants can pull down pay in the 200s.

I'm not sure that's true. I've lost track of the number of software engineers I know who are in at least the low 200's Total Comp (in Texas).

Common? Probably not. Rarified? Not as much as you think. There's two just on my current team.
Just How Large Can Nvidia’s Datacenter Business Grow?
There is a working Linux client. Note that the "wallet" is a Haskell-based node (cardano-sl) that serves a restful http server that the front-end app (Daedalus) connects to.

I built both components back in November and could run it, I just did the same now.

Official Linux packaging would be great but until they get there you can build and run everything yourself.
> It is interesting that Alphabet will accept stock because that means they believe they can carry it to market (or at least, won’t lower its value until it does) which might still take more than a year.

It doesn't mean Alphabet thinks the stock won't lose value, it means that they think that it won't lose enough value to be worth less than what they could have gotten in cash, either in a settlement or (discounted for risk and time, and netted against the expense of continuing) from taking the lawsuit to it's conclusion.

> This could mean Waymo will probably not be able to announce anything significant until then: Uber would suffer from having such a big rival step up.

Is $245 million really worth any significant risk to Alphabet’s position in self-driving cars? I suspect they’d accept the risk to the value of the Uber stock to maximize their own future prospects in that market.
Bad specs bumps you to level 2.
The 2nd Amendment is a right to bear whatever arms are current at the time, not just guns you know. Same as the 1st Amendment covers Internet speech.
They aren't directly comparable given the difference between common and preferred shares.
Have you looked into Stellar Lumens? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it and if it fits your requirement of being usable for its supposed use. It seems so on the surface to me, but I don't know what the look under the hood reveals.
In SF, the resistance to denser housing comes from the same people who are not paying enough tax for the land they are occupying. Ramp up the taxes and the incentive they have to fight the denser housing will dissolve. They'll just move somewhere cheaper (or into denser housing).
I'm in a position where, if my Samsung S5 breaks, I'll probably just see if I can find another refurbished S5 off of ebay or similar. Nothing newer seems to have the same combination of hardware features I care about.

Hopefully this S9 signals a return to manufacturers adding hardware features again instead of removing them.
Monopoly: "the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service."

Not sure how increasing competition in any space creates a monopoly.
You should give cinnamon a try. I think you would prefer it over gnome.
DBeaver (https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/) and the IntelliJ solutions: Datagrip or the IDEA ultimate database tool.
Homeschool French Language Curriculum-Foreign Language
For those who don't already know an ML, just saying "functor" isn't helpful (the term is too overloaded). "Parameterized modules" might be a better term for that context.

For those who don't know, ML-style modules are significantly more interesting than most module systems, and let you pass modules as arguments to modules at import.
I can't offer any troubleshooting advice, but I can say that it works for me. On macOS 10.13.3. https://imgur.com/BQqIUsX
That is my end goal. My best chance at having a lasting impact on society and this world requires me to first accumulate more capital before I can help. If I spend everything helping others now, then I won't have done all that much, and chances are it won't be a lasting change.

It is important to be aware of your place in society. I am a 28 year old white male with only a handful of years of professional experience. I am benefiting from the past and present exploitation of others. But within this privileged class I am not so high up on the totem pole.

By working my way up the totem pole, and always looking for ways to help, I will find myself in a position to make a real impact. And if not myself, then hopefully my children.

It makes sense to enjoy your prosperity to the extent that it allows you to continue progressing toward this goal. In order to climb the totem pole, you have to spend money on luxuries. You have to wear expensive suits and go to exclusive parties.

At the same time, there are always things you can do to help right now. For example, I tip service workers well as they need the money more than I do. I give change to beggars and those who find themselves in tough spots. I also make an effort to spread the perspectives of those less privileged than myself as I've found that straight white males pay more attention to other straight white males.
Gamers aren't simply entitled; they can be aggressive, threatening and altogether horrible. I've personally received threats on my own life from users. There was a nice medium piece on it recently. [0]

Anecdotally, I'm seeing more and more peers leave the industry as a result of being disgusted and worn down by the constant, unending abuse that game developers receive from users.

0: https://medium.com/@morganjaffit/the-cost-of-doing-business-...
water problems are less often but when they happen you're out of phone for at least 48h
Amen - once in a while is weather or whatever. Happening enough that we notice it's a trend is Amazon being shitty and hoping they don't get caught.
Dr. Brain
Is there any precedent for settling with stock? I would imagine this could create a dangerous standard.
In terms of an alternate UI, I think this would be at least a better use of resources than developing a new mobile client.
(Consumer side) Market forces have nothing to do with it -

Vendor side 'content partnership' forces yes..

this is DRM and 'closing the analog hole' pure and simple..
Yeah, this has totally been my experience too.

FedEx, USPS, UPS - they all manage to get into my building and deliver my packages. Sometimes they even go all the way up to my door.

I've asked Amazon to stop trying to send packages via their couriers, because they don't even seem to bother trying to get in before giving up and leaving.

I don't know if it's a laziness thing or if they're under some sort of horrible time crunch to deliver every single one of these packages (not sure if they get a bonus for more packages delivered or something), but Amazon couriers REALLY suck.
Not sure about iOS, but Android has multiple color blind settings built in.
Fastest production car ever built.
Here, I would take the opportunity to publicly congratulate to Jean-Baptiste and his team for the great job they are doing, and thank them for the joy they are bringing to many people.

Hugs and kisses

-- Havelock
is water resistance a real feature? AFAIK Apple's iPhones are supposed to be "water resistant" but at the same time Apple isn't responsible for any damages, which leads me to conclude that they're not actually water resistant. Might be different with Android though...
I read as much text as ever, and semiliterate lowbrows read as little as ever. None of the numbers that article presents suggest otherwise. Sure, there's a lot of consumption of non-text media, too, but we're a long way from post-text yet.
Few days ago there was a post in HN basically saying "centralized = no need blockchain" -- why they need to do in blockchain then?
TIL enjoying the process of selecting and cooking your own food is "extremely niche"
Well, my problem with Soros is my wife attended the Women's March a whole freaking year ago and she still hasn't gotten her check!
Awesome. I'm actually looking forward the Apple TV version.
I currently have Infuse 5 to play 4k HDR content via NFS, it's mostly working. VLC was able to play a movie that none of the other apps were able to play but it was missing HDR. Can't wait to test the new version now.
FedEx Home Delivery (Ground for residential) is on a route-franchise system as far as I can tell. The owner of the last route I was on was terrible- had to cancel Blue Apron because of it. Nothing would show up until 10-11 at night. My new route is awesome. Lady always has a smile and always shows up by 4 PM.
I don't see how it's unclear. You can't go through arbitration and then sue because you want more than arbitration awarded you. The entire point of arbitration is that it's binding and final, specifically to avoid the messy lawsuit process.
> I don't know if it's a laziness thing or if they're under some sort of horrible time crunch to deliver every single one of these packages (not sure if they get a bonus for more packages delivered or something), but Amazon couriers REALLY suck.

Contract workers with unreasonable expectations dictated by management.
For those finding this piece inspiring, I would recommend "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds" by Michael Lewis [1].

The book is about Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and their research. In my opinion a very good combination of telling the story of the main characters and also giving interesting points from their research.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Mi...
Unreal is already an extremely competitive choice for multiplayer games (read: the best choice). They are putting resources to solving these problems because they are making millions of dollars from "free" players.
Sure what I just wrote is technobabble

So you are saying you are fooling yourself and you can't do it in 45 seconds.
Have you looked at SCTP?
> It's huge, slow to startup, and creates a larger install size.

I think these tradeoffs are okay for backend services, but I agree that they don't belong in user-facing applications if it can be avoided.
This NASA filing undercuts Elon's claim that the Roadster is headed for the Asteroid belt. 1.7 AU is past Mars (1.5 AU) but well short of Ceres (2.77 AU). I think it's fair to call him out for unreasonable exaggeration on that one.
To become a good programmer you need either a gift (which some young people have) or experience -- lots of experience. A CS education gives you a good foundation, but you still need to learn so much more: software engineering practices, lots and lots of details, a variety of programming languages and their huge libraries, mistakes mistakes mistakes (so you can learn the patterns, so you can spot them in code reviews, so you can avoid making them again, ...), full-stack-ness (so you can scale, so you can foresee problems before they strike), ...
I wonder if she needs financial support for lawyers and stuff. I would gladly make a donation.
In this case I don't think it really matters. No one says "my car is fine, it's just rusting not biodegrading". What matters is that the car is disappearing right before your eyes through natural processes that could have been prevented with normal maintenance.

Wood, when properly taken care of, lasts forever. Steel, when properly taken care of, lasts forever. Each of them will degrade without proper maintenance, and oddly enough they both have basically the same maintenance needs. Keep them dry, otherwise oil them occasionally.