skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, sorry to hear that! Our reliance on Sketch is not slated for the long-term — we'd like to integrate with Illustrator and Photoshop, and Figma just opened their APIs to us to investigate an integration with them, too.

We planning to build our own drawing tools in time — probably more Flash-style, e.g. with vector-fill paintbrushes and paint-buckets: lower barrier to entry, easier to be silly + creative, and they'd be more complementary rather than competitive with the precision-drawing tools of Illustrator/Figma/Sketch and co.
The jury is still out on whether the concept of p-zombies contributes to the understanding of consciousness, or is a misleading dead-end.
What data was collected and shared by that extension?
If we can't quantify "internal experience" then what leads philosophers to believe it exists? What evidence is there that conciousness is distinguished by something other than raw complexity?
Cash vs. Flow
We have all seen how little dealer support that electric cars need - not enough to support the traditional IC engined cars with all their fail modes. To be sure, Mercedes dealers can managing the long slow decline in service that an electric Mercedes fleet will bring over the next 10-20 years - keeping the declining rust buckets going.
So a smart car maker may even move to the Tesla model over that time period, especially with the anticipated changes in the car market that is predicted with self driving cars etc.
Author here. I agree. Some things we learn cannot be easily quantified. For example, the way I write code has changed compared to years ago. But I cannot put in words what it is that made me so.

It makes me think maybe my tool is better suited for more obvious learnings. One applicable demographic would be beginner programmers because I remember that when I started coding I had to learn many obvious things such as API, language features, etc. And even seasoned programmers are always beginners at some things.
This just demonstrates FBs switch to a different demographic. The user base has actually increased according to TFA, but it doesn't say which age group. I am betting the over 55 crowd, judging by the number of political and religious posts on my feed.

Yes, I still have an account but I have removed all personal information, pictures, and deleted all my posts. I also go months between using it. I can't bring myself to totally remove my account though.
AB InBev has a 28% global market share for beer. Interestingly as beer consumption shifts towards craft beers they are buying up a lot of the more well known and successful ones.
Probably not as expensive as losing the entire booster, though.
I have poked around in the git file format a tiny bit and I think the hash tree semantics aren’t incompatible with subversion’s commit tree semantics, which are what let you grab a particular sub tree cleanly.

I kinda think you might be able to convince git to let you check out a subdirectory. But I’m not sure if any of the plumbing exposes that ability or if it would take significant surgery.
I have. For whatever reason, I had difficulty with it.
Thanks for the clarification. I always assumed that this markup was from instacart and not the retailer. I guess I always found this very frustrating because instacart always says “we’re super transparent” but they never actually tell you what the mark up is. I guess instacart doesn’t even know what the markup is, which would explain why it isn’t communicated.
You can read Programming Rust online if you have Safari Books or their free trial, I started reading the book on my free trial and certainly loved it. I intend to buy this bundle to keep reading it. The book expects the reader to have previous programming knowledge, so it might seem a little bit too fast in the beginning, but it has plenty of explanations and code about the subjects being shown, if the book wasn't so expensive in my country, I would definitely get a real copy of it.
Looks nice. Could you put together an install script?
We leapfrogged contactless and went directly to mobile payments authorized by a fingerprint or PIN to a user-controlled device, a much better security model.
I hope not! Their new concept car reminds me of the BMW i8 -- which I adore.
Yes, definite risk.

Here's a friend of mine who plays harp and ... -does- did wrestling.

He dislocates his shoulder : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXS-hixeI_4
TR wasn't the only, or best, progressive of that era, but he was a worthy champion of social and industrial justice.
Late reply, I know.

The folks pulling down 160 amps are racing and don't care about exploding batteries. In fact, they expect to.
Go to Crystal if you just want to go faster.

Go to Elixir if you actually want to learn more, expand your mind, and are tired of bugs that can only occur in a mutable OOP language. And if you want to take advantage of the extra guarantees provided by a functional language, such as functional immutable datastructures making concurrency idiotproof.
You can't yet exceed your innate intelligence.

Put on your shorts and go exercise
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If their yearly "new and improved" marketing is to be believed then we are a long way from perfecting any of those products.
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I haven't had a chance to ask him why he didn't cover special relativity. Seemed like a great fit for a computation-based course.

Edit: Thanks for that - it's more detailed than the talks I attended (LibrePlanet).
The Malpractice Mess
For me, at least, I still use torrent//magnet technology on The High Seas.

I'm not sure if this is because I am yet again unaware of What's Next until it's too late, or yet again Simply Stubborn on what tech I use, or whatever Option Three is this time.
and in that case then everyone else needs to back the fuck off (I'm looking at you mothers-in-law)
Please tell me you are evaluating saas tools like zendesk and intercom. Depending on your app and your user sophistication, these can be great solutions. (If your username is expecting code examples, I'd look elsewhere.)

They have startup pricing and we've used both. It wasn't great to pay a monthly fee, but it was far cheaper than anything I could have put together myself.
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Yeah, they have nowhere else to take this ad spend. They can't risk being left behind by getting rid of digital advertising.
Maybe someone will submit a PR for generics finally.
> Structs are aligned to the member with the strictest alignment requirement, so a struct of a `uint64_t` and a `uint32_t` will be aligned on an 8-byte boundary, meaning its size will be 128 bits.

Don't most C compilers support a pragma to control this? "#pragma pack(4)" for clang and gcc, I believe.

Given this (where I've made it add two arrays of 96-bit integers to make it easier to figure out the sizes in the assemply):

#include <stdint.h>

#pragma pack(4)
struct block_addr {
uint64_t low;
uint32_t high;
};

int sum(struct block_addr * a, struct block_addr * b, struct block_addr * c)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 8; ++i)
{
c->low = a->low + b->low;
c++->high = a++->high + b++->high;
}
return 17;
}

here is the code for the loop body, which the compiler unrolled to make it even easier to see how the structure is laid out:

movq (%rbx), %rax
addq (%r15), %rax
movq %rax, (%r14)
movl 8(%rbx), %eax
addl 8(%r15), %eax
movl %eax, 8(%r14)

movq 12(%rbx), %rax
addq 12(%r15), %rax
movq %rax, 12(%r14)
movl 20(%rbx), %eax
addl 20(%r15), %eax
movl %eax, 20(%r14)

movq 24(%rbx), %rax
addq 24(%r15), %rax
movq %rax, 24(%r14)
movl 32(%rbx), %eax
addl 32(%r15), %eax
movl %eax, 32(%r14)

...

movq 84(%rbx), %rax
addq 84(%r15), %rax
movq %rax, 84(%r14)
movl 92(%rbx), %eax
addl 92(%r15), %eax
movl %eax, 92(%r14)

(Some white space added, and the middle cut out). The 96-bit inters are now only taking up 96-bits.
Considering the growth in renewable technology I'd like to see an updated graph of build times. I doubt building Nuclear energy is anywhere near as fast as renewable energy today.
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There is a people aspect to this trend.

There is a lot of developer movement between the companies cited and it's not surprising that people take the practices they're familiar with to their new employer.

Companies incentivize people to deprecate feature X and replace it with feature Y and celebrate the win. Much harder without a monorepo.

The counter argument is open source, where the development follows the distributed model and the difficulty of syncing the monorepo with a custom build system. Figuring out a way to leverage the QA work distro people do in coming up with a consistent cut + patches would benefit everyone regardless of repo structure.
Any time I come across a project that uses Gerrit I immediately abandon any proposed patches I had planned to submit. Gerrit is terrible for actually working with and is unfriendly even to experienced git users. I have to battle with Gerrit to submit patches to MediaWiki and it is a painful process every time.

Clarifying that I believe that my personal off work time is valuable to myself. The more time and friction I have to spend putting in a pull request/code review is the less time I get to myself.
>: does your tool structurally helps users create sound statistical experiments? Can you share something about how you do it?

Yes, check out the methodology we use: https://vwo.com/blog/smartstats-testing-for-truth/
Seconded. I'm kind of surprised people use facebook without it. Bit like surfing the web without an ad blocker.
Here's a recent interview by Recode with Facebook's head of news partnerships & News Feed where they addressed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU-MIj5vEjU
Oh yes, I've seen the nuclear reactors that were built to power aircraft, they are on display at the site of Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1* in Idaho.

*http://www4vip.inl.gov/ebr/
Being customer obsessed is what this implies in my mind. "The renewed focus on quality is designed to make sure the company can fulfill promises made each summer at the annual developers conference and that new features work reliably and as advertised..."
Well from what I've seen in my googling, it seems to be a concept relating to the Unwritten Doctrine of Plato. He had esoteric teachings reserved for his close following vs his exoteric writings for the public. Esoteric came to mean shadowy/hidden, but it's really just how you say/think/act differently with an insider group then an outsider group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_unwritten_doctrines
Sorry about the late reply, but you are wrong about "collecting zero data". Without saying too much I can assure you at least one company does.
Part of the problem gun companies face is that guns are reliable -- very reliable. Like "last 100 years" reliable. And guns are likely to be maintained, stored properly, and not simply lost.

I think that's part of the reason for all the gear and "tactical" stuff and expensive assault rifles... they tend to keep the revenue flowing.

And I also think that's why people who are against guns in general want assault rifles banned -- they drive the success of the gun industry. If you just go by the numbers, I don't see any justification for banning really any kind of rifle (unless it's full auto or something)[1].

[1] Around 5% of murders and probably lower for accidents and suicides https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
It means I would like "liking" a post of grumpy cat to use as much energy as a Toyota Carola driving from Miami to Washington DC. Luckily, actually posting grumpy cat photos causes brownouts, so there are none to like.
I always hear about how online advertising has a lot of data to show how effective it is. I've always been skeptical of that, but I have no evidence either way. This seems to show that it wasn't working for this company.

I really wonder how many companies are actually getting anything for their money.

Does anyone know of any data either way?
>There's no talk of setting a timeline in advance of the test. There's no hard numbers to set a context of what's an acceptable sample size - in fact the guide is specifically aimed at small business owners.

You should take a trial of our product. Before setting up a test in VWO, we ensure you understand that the test will have to be run until we have statistically significant results. We've moved away from frequentist methodologies (where peeking at results was an issue) to bayesian. Check out what we do here: https://vwo.com/blog/smartstats-testing-for-truth/

The guide is aimed at people who are just starting out, but I agree with you, we should have pointed them to the importance of getting statistically correct results.
Good riddance. We don't need the advertising companies to regulate free speech on the internet.
go ahead, please
In what sense do you think a driver’s license is a “treasure trove of personal information”? Especially information which FB does not already have from other sources?
> Sounds like they are knowingly giving up good people since the current culture fires anyone that doesn't produce already.

I wouldn't be surprised if these lay offs were also chosen to increase average employee quality.
It's not perfect, but I think that's what network location is meant to be used for. Check out: How to use network locations on your Mac [0].

I wish you could trigger more preferences automatically based on location or other factors. For example: I only want to enable certain sharing features when I'm at home.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202480
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If you're not receiving criticism, you don't matter.
hrmmm... sounds like a coinductive description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinduction

(i've done a bit of modelling using coinduction, and it has a very funky but precise relationship with immutable object oriented program descriptions)
And how do you test if a change in one of these repos fixes the problem you’re seeing? This is what we’re failing at with our multirepo.

That and resectioning code to split or combine responsibilities in different ways. Something a monorepo makes trivial.
The irony of it all - by electing a republican* president, the democrats have a victory which would not have been possible if a democrat president took office.

I wonder if this effect has a name and whether it can be applied to computer security too? For instance, having a pro-encryption-backdoor president inadvertently increasing security.

*republican in name only
Too bad you haven't read the article - my submission covers more of the subject in depth plus gives out the numbers.
I'd get that point if the users were 14 years old. But hell adults use it, movie stars and other celebrities - no matter if the app is dumb and buggy as hell... I wonder if Snapchat usage in over-16-year-olds could be a sign of a dumbing down populace.
Paranoid fantasies about 42% of the population being lured into smoking and millions of lives lost to easily preventable disease.
Many critics agree that the DSM-V has become unduly influenced by industry (pharmaceutical, insurance, but mainly pharmaceutical). However, keep in mind that the idea was that insurance base their payments off of the DSM, not the other way around.

Luckily, there are previous editions of the DSM that are far less influenced. Note that I'm not a mental health professional by any means, but even after the DSM-V was published they taught us medical students with DSM-IV-TR.
The argument against this is that other external-to-Google-but-started-by-Google projects like Golang and Android use the multirepo model, with gerrit.

There are pros and cons to each - do you want to have a hugely churning "I always have to rebase/merge" repo under you, or multiple repos and trouble keeping them in sync?

Having done both, I'm not sure which is better - it's probably very project specific.
The orgy of gun hoarding over the last decade or so is staggering. It’s truly bizarre and unsustainable.

Add a lag in that insanity to the pump and dump mismanagement of private equity guys sucking the place dry and poof.
How is it excellent? For one, the standard by which content is determined to be toxic is based off of basically nothing. Take for example The Rubin Report on YouTube, which is constantly demonetized for simply facilitating discussions between intellectuals from across the political spectrum. Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew who is an outspoken opponent of racism and the alt-right, was accused of white supremacy by these same groups claiming toxicity. Advertisers determining what is and is not morally toxic by whatever standards are currently being employed is not exactly a step in the right direction.

Unilever exists at upper echelons of a free market that even most libertarians would begin asking for a semblance of regulations. To think that this is an attempt at anything other than capitalizing off of social trends in order to lower advertising costs or simply to cultivate easy social good will would be foolish.
I am not an expert but isn't that just the kind of dogmatic viewpoint which the article suggests has little value.

You may believe day-care for two year-olds is fundamentally wrong, but there's little empirical evidence to show that children raised in different ways have different outcomes.

At least you should indicate why you believe those millions are being raised wrongly, rather than merely assert it as fact.
This strategy may actually work for drones. I know very few people who own a drone and don't also own five drones.
Totally agreed with your thoughts on Flash — it did a lot of things very right, even though its age and its combination of technical & corporate missteps led to its death.

Unfortunately, Flash got such a bad rap through performance/security issues and the wrath of Steve Jobs that the "baby" (the authoring tool & connected approach to design+code) got thrown out with the "bathwater" (namely, the plugin, Flash Player.)

We also really hope that Haiku helps empower experimentation and drives a new generation to explore the boundaries of design and code — the way several on our team were inspired by Flash many years ago. This is the crux of the name Haiku — we believe the artistic/creative spirit behind writing a minimal poem like a haiku is really similar to that which goes into crafting UIs.
People living in places that have long, dark, cold, wet winters certainly appreciate the shit out of summer while it lasts.
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Honestly, no more ads for Unilever brands sounds like a solid improvement. What do I have to post to get rid of the rest of them?
Its not what you want to see or buy - they’ll push the ad from a provider who’s bidding highest and providing them most revenue.
> Why?

Shysters gotta shyst. After all, somebody has to buy those heavy bags...
I can't speak for advertising in general, but I do performance marketing on Facebook for clients and if it's not profitable we don't get budget. It's profitable for us (we're in the middle doing the arbitrage) and presumably profitable for them, or at least the clients of ours who are doing the measuring with their call centers, ROI, etc.

How I wish all the brand dollars that are probably wasted stopped advertising and making our clicks so expensive, ha!
I think what the parent meant was that creating multiple gmail accounts is also piss-simple.

I personally own over 100 from a couple years back when recapta was easily automateable and the phone-number requirement wasn't there.
We're doing well but our annual ad spend is like any of those company's lunch breaks at best. I imagine profitability analysis doesn't scale well, plus you run into more and more bots / fraud as you spend that kind of money.
I use it for renaming files on Windows. I got used to being able to rename files from the keyboard on macOS, so now it feels awkward to have to click (twice!) to rename something.

Menu + m does the trick nicely.
I'm slightly puzzled by the degree of negativity to facebook for example as I quite like it. My theory is HN folk analyse things more deeply than the public and worry about stuff. For me facebook is something where I can post some pics and see some friends and message them and that's about it.
I just picked up a '64 SKS. Fires like it just left the factory. Unless I get a squib, my AR-15 will last for years. And if something breaks I can replace the part. I have no reason to get another AR unless I want a different caliber or a a SBR or something. Remington sold me what I wanted, so I never need anything else from them.

The gun industry loves when people rally for guns to be banned, it's why the NRA takes such a hardliner stand. Conflict will drive sales. I think the general populous has come to the notion that guns will never be banned (if it was going to happen, it'd have happened after Vegas. What a fucked up world we live in...), so there is no reason to stockpile. Also, the 2nd hand market is booming, which I think is a major factor.
Well if it helps, sentry is incredibly easy to implement on a basic level, and the free tier is more than enough to play around with for quite a while before you need to step up to something more.

For us the process started with just including the script and getting a few crashes or exceptions here and there, and once most of us were comfortable that some time investment here would pay off, we really wired it in and the benefits just skyrocketed.

Now we even have it running on our server side code in one case because it's just such a damn good tool.

I will say that the downsides are that the search is fairly poor unless you self host and have access to the database, and forget about using it for any kind of reporting over time periods (it's actually really hard to see things like "number of times this error happened in the last week").

But overall it's a very easy system to layer on top of just about anything. I know nothing about your company or product, but see if you can get the approval to spend an hour or 2 to just try it out. As long as you don't have any PII its a pretty risk-free thing to try.
Not anymore, except for small children.
Yes, tho I'd go further and say semver is table stakes -- and so is determinism (achieved on the library-consuming side by committing and maintaining the yarn.lock file, in the specific case of node projects).
When people say ads are ROI trackable, they are referring to ads that have specific monetizable actions, such as buying a product. There's definitely some advantage there.

However, most big ad spenders engage in "brand" advertising, where the goal is building brand recognition to influence decisions at the future point of purchase decision rather than driving a purchase decision at the point of viewing the ad. I don't see what measurement advantage an online ad brings for this type of advertising, and I see many reasons why it would be inferior to, for example, TV, which can more fully capture a viewer's engagement than a side banner ad.
Doing my best to walk on eggshells here.

>I think that's part of the reason for all the gear and "tactical" stuff and expensive assault rifles... they tend to keep the revenue flowing.

Fear sells. In the case of ARs and the vast accessory market, it's been quite lucrative since 2008 or so.

>And I also think that's why people who are against guns in general want assault rifles banned

As people on both sides of this debate are bound to point out, "assault rifle" doesn't mean much in terms of operating characteristics. It means a lot in terms of marketability, though!
Guns are easy to make if you have the right tools. There will always be someone making and selling; even if it is the local store down the road. This will change nothing.

Arms sales are a big market. I think what happened here is that Remington took a bet on the Civilian Market in the US and lost.
Does that follow?

Here, I found another example:
> Between 1968 and 1975 the Dubai's population grew by over 300%

Maybe OP could find a sweet oil job there!