skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to Germany or the US?

In my recollection, in the US, 30 years ago restaurants had "smoking" and "non-smoking" sections. And non-smokers sometimes complained bitterly about smoke wafting into the "non-smoking" section. Which in fact led to some restaurants being all non-smoking before government intervention. The NY statewide ban on smoking in workplaces was only passed 15 years ago.

I don't know about bars 30 years ago, though. Because drinking has always been considered a "vice", I think people tended to group it with smoking and think if you're going to tolerate one, why not the other.
Unilever worried about sexism? have they viewed ads for ax body spray?
Hm, I don't know of a rule that specifies how to use the word "about".

To me at least, "about 328 feet" seems okay. It gives you more precision than "about 300 feet" while still letting you know that it's not exactly 328 feet.
You are learning a lot of things today!
Then throwing the apple at their head, only to have the person continue insisting that the apple is a figment of your imagination.

Now you're getting to the realm of torture, pain, and horror. I think that most people can be quickly driven to the point of admitting the reality of the consciousness of pain and horror. This isn't an experiment that would easily get past the ethics board, however.
"a rather unique conversation with our investors about organically growing the business with it’s own cashflow and we structured a deal that accommodates that. So we’re not in a position where there is tremendous and urgent pressure to become very big very quickly or risk the board firing us."

Setting milestones for cashflow seems like main concern for any startup. It appears a lot of startups blow through cash without the ability to see the burn rate. This problem-solution is defined here Lean Start-Up http://amzn.to/2CdVEfH .

I love the fact that was talked out with the investors before the money was taken. Shows forward thinking which must feel good at the end of the payback period.
Oak Studio's Dropmark (https://www.dropmark.com/)?

Also, check them out at https://oak.is/, they are a great bunch!
See the comment on the same thread https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517#issuecomment-27051...
I remember that day, it was the day I abandoned facebook. Reading this thread confirms that I haven't been missing out on much aside from heaps of dark patterns.
(November 2005)
Ultimate physical limits to computation, Seth Lloyd (2000)
Man Redefines Horror by Building a Singing Furby Organ
Everyone seems to be shilling the crypto they hold.

ETH is interesting, but BTC has worked since almost 10 years.

The investment made in ASIC miners give a good reason to a lot of people to prefer BTC to ETH. They would certainly jump being BCH if BTC had some serious issues.

ETH certainly has a place, but it seems to be the #2 place because of the choice of algorithms.
The rise of the web app is basically what allowed OS X to be at all competitive with Windows, since more and more software was being written for the browser as the platform. If it weren't for the web, OS X would not have become a viable platform. I feel like the fact that browsers freed us from this OS dependence is underappreciated.
And the internet is probably the worst outlet for brand-building.

Why would Calvin Klein place their beautiful ad with Kate Moss next to photos of your right-wing friend's AK-47 collection and videos of his deer field dressing skills?
They have no reason to play math here, it can be proved by other statistics too, like the total population born that year, and the one participate in the college entrance exam 4 years ago.
Much has been written about it, but I agree that it feels like a “burning of the library of Alexandria” moment.
for the record, "assault rifle" is a defined term, it generally means a select-fire (can switch between single shot or burst/auto) rifle with an intermediate sized cartridge. these are almost entirely illegal and almost impossible to get legally in the US due to federal law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act)

"assault weapon" is a vague political term made up by the anti-gun lobby to ban weapons that are "like" assault rifles but are limited to semi-auto fire (one trigger pull = one boom) - http://assaultweapon.info is a quick slideshow presentation explaining the history
A bit of sad irony with the interjected clickbait-like links:

"... You really need to give your brain the chance for a complete recharge with no distractions.

- The mystery of why you can’t remember being a baby
- The man who can’t trust his own brain
- A new way to master your emotions

An excuse to do nothing may seem like a perfect mnemonic technique for the lazy student..."
In 2016, Backblaze swapped out more than 3,500 2 TB HGST and WDC hard drives for 2,400 8 TB Seagate drives.

That’s 7 PB to 19.2 PB. If they had replaced all 3,500 drives it would be 4X.
Of similar vintage to Bass Mekanik, The Crystal Method's "High Roller" has some very deep, musical bass in the first minute. This bass is lost entirely by most MP3 encodings. Makes for a good reference point for both subwoofers and music sources!
Are the benefits of meditation really that new? For example this article from 2013[0]. Seems like this gets repeated every couple of years like clockwork.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/study-med...
The author seems to gloss over the immense scaling issues Ethereum is facing. Furthermore, his dismissal of Bitcoin makes it clear he’s naive on its roadmap.

First, Bitcoin has smart contracts. Not providing a Turing complete scripting language was an intentional choice to improve security and scalability.

Second, Bitcoin offers Ethereum compatible smart contracts in the form of a layer 2 solution — rootstock. What happens if you want to have a “world computer” with GPU support? That’s not something Ethereum can add without greatly impacting decentralization (for a coin which is already hugely centralized). With Bitcoin, you can define a new second layer network to add that functionality.

Third, he brings up Ethereum’s confirmation times as if changing a constant is beyond Bitcoin’s reach. Bitcoin chose their parameters (1mb blocks, 10min block times) to optimize decentralization. This is a feature. Ethereum doesn’t care for decentralization to the same degree. If Ethereum had the same level of decentraliation as Bitcoin did, they wouldn’t have been able to invoke their VIP function.

Second layer solutions are the technologies which have the full backing of the Bitcoin community. Sure, Ethereum could maybe add second layer solutions as well, but they aren’t fully embraced by the community. Ethereum wants everything and the kitchen sink to be on layer 1. With Bitcoin, layer 2 solutions are the solutions preferred and embraced by the community.

Ethereum is already imploding under its own weight. Syncing a full node, today, requires a very beefy PC with an SSD. Bitcoin can sync with a raspberry pi.
Many religions' attitude toward these topics (abortion, LGBTQ, etc.) are why I have problem with religions to the point that makes me very angry.

Religion should be something you should practice to determine YOUR own choices, not for OTHER people.
I'll add about him that he doesn't just occasionally write code as someone retired or a director. He's usually deep in critical parts of current projects ranging from Windows NT back in the day to the Xbox last I saw.

Chuck Moore of Forth fame was the other mention in these comments that just stayed digging deep into systems pushing the state of the art of his style of tiny, flexible, stack-oriented systems. Both of them contributed to real products, too, instead of only theory.
That's not a Google Maps problem, that's a problem with the deliberately misleading marketing of crisis pregnancy centers, which has been going on since before the Web existed; no one blamed that problem on the Yellow Pages, and it makes as little sense to blame it on Google Maps.
'Uncontroversial statement' if they prefer. I'd be happy to nitpick with them provided they aren't murdering people or sending their babies to preschool.

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11271
I just found this 1.5hr visit (SETI Talk) with Lee Smolin really insightful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QIJtICy-vE

In short, Smolin urges moving from the "Naturalism 1" view of the universe (timeless, 'physics in a box') to "Naturalism 2" in which the Now takes a more central role, and the universe may have evolved (including the 'constants').

In the last half-hour it becomes clear how much effort he's put into these ideas ... and quotes several well-known personages who voiced similar concerns ( Charles Sanders Peirce, Einstein, Dirac, Feynmann ...)
> going to tradeshows was a must to stay up-to-date

For actual information, yes, I agree. For trying out new stuff directly in a short amount of time, trade shows are pretty effective. Depends a lot on the product category.
Not that I am aware of:

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/23/apple-homepod-no-mutli-r...
"Half the guns in America are owned by only 3 percent of the adult population, with an average of 17 firearms each."

Interesting. So there are really two target markets - people who want one gun for use, and people who are into guns as a hobby.
What is happening to hacker news? It's no longer about js frameworks and most comments are well informed and well reasoned and not just I know more than you do from the past

Is this because smart people have migrated from reddit due to the political propaganda? Are their any public visitor stats ?
This makes me wonder: is there any downside to enacting laws to make patent invalidation due to them being overbroad applicable retroactively and forcing Blackbird to return the money it extorted? It might be challenging to enforce due to limited liability, but I don't see any obvious downsides to trying? It seems like it could provide an incentive for companies to not attempt to create over-broad patents.
On a tangent, the ability to delay reward is largely determined by the time you are 5ish years old, but unlike height and IQ, people don't think of it that way. See the Marshmallow experiment, which has been succesfully replicated a few times. It is a big reason why life is unfair.
Love the idea of investing in the local community. Training and mentorship is so important, and so many companies sacrifice it for other things.
Reverse DNS in IPv6 for ISPs (2015) [pdf]
I have found that when it comes to Apple hardware/software, the experience can differ greatly from a person to another by cheer luck.

Isn’t this the crux of the issue? You spend big money on an iPhone/Mac and you’re left crossing your fingers as to whether it will work.

My I-devices have worked flawlessly to date, but I understand the frustration.
Not all ads are banner ads, and TV spots are no guarantee you'll have people's attention (not to mention you know less about who those people are).

There reason advertising is hard to measure despite lots of data is that the data isn't always accurate and doesn't always tell the whole picture.

When you do advertising for a big brand, things are even harder to measure than direct response advertising. Viewability is a problem, but attribution is an even bigger one because your tracking to the end purchase is missing many key data points.

Hope that helps clarify a bit.
So, his whole point was exactly what you (and a half-dozen other people in the thread) are bringing up as some kind of revelation that no one considered. Yes, it's true, autorouters suck. Most professional PCB designers think of autorouting as a waste of time, and it typically is.

He's complaining about how autorouters have trouble with trivial boards like the one he was working with. He's pointing out that this is costing the industry a lot of time and money. He's asking why the problem remains largely unaddressed, at a time when computers running relatively generic tree-search algorithms with minimal prior training are beating 9-dan Go players like rented mules.

By trying to call the attention of ML/AI researchers to the issue, he's doing a good thing IMO. No one disputes that a well-routed PCB is a work of art, whether it was done with Altium or rubylith. But it shouldn't be.
This is an excellent change. While Gerrit is undoubtedly more powerful than GitHub's PR, GitHub is easy and familiar. I've found a fair number of small fixes and changes I've wanted to make to Gerrit projects but just abandoned due to not being inline with my current workflow. Now, I'll submit a PR and figure out the rest later. Hopefully, code review still being through Gerrit doesn't mean more stale PRs to deal with though. I guess time will tell...
If GDPR analogously has a chilling effect, reducing the proliferation of "social" products, I'd consider that a positive outcome. I don't really buy that any of these are "making the world a better place" as Zuck loves to say, though you might have a better case with the health products.
I can see how it was taken that way, but I wasn’t trying to say that the DSM is bought and paid for. Rather, I was just describing its modern function, without implying anything about influence one way or another. Mostly, the DSM should not be taken for a comprehensive resource for anything other tham insurance codes for accepted disorders. The ICD-10 exists, and there is an accepted, ongoing body of ongoing research.
I’ve found MAPS.ME to be a good alternative for navigation. It’s not perfect (especially with time estimates) and the UI is a bit clunky, but as long as the OSM data is correct it should get you to where you need to go.
In the settings under Accessibility there is “Reduce Motion”, which takes away most of the animations.
Even After Bedbugs Are Eradicated, Their Waste Remains
I know who we should ask: Ziggy
I think streaming VR and peer-to-peer HD video are probably the big bandwidth hogs on the horizon.

Looking back at history, I'd say we've lived in alternating periods of bandwidth < content (1990s dialup), and content < bandwidth (2010+?).

But the definer has always been content. Jpegs to gifs to digital photographs to music to video to high-def streaming video.

If there's no content, there's no need for more bandwidth. If the content exists, people will want the bandwidth.
I can't wait for someone to implement a C interpreter in Haskell or something and boldly proclaim that imperative programming (called by another name, of course) is the way of the future.
Just as quiet contemplation can induce memory formation, playing Tetris after a traumatic event (like a car accident) seems to help prevent the formation of intrusive memories.

https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201723

> Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial
Depends on the grocery store and how large of a player it is, and how well it thinks it can anticipate consumer demand, and cross-market across the entire store, etc. Both the distributor and the grocery stores have sales figures for the products, per-store, so it's a matter of who is best at crunching the numbers.

When I used to live in Stockholm, my closest grocery store was one of the big two chains in Sweden, and they had "outsourced" part of their shelf re-stocking to the distributors, so if you went there in the mornings, you could have one or two people from a big bread producer/distributor restocking half the bread section, and you'd have someone from a different producer/distributor doing half the candy section (probably someone from Mondelez). I don't know this for sure, but I would bet that the distributor had a lot of leeway on how to restock the shelves using their own sales data.

Right now, my local Safeway has a bunch of shelves of deli products, but it's all Boar's Head products. Five bucks says that Boar's Head is choosing how to stock those shelves, and not Safeway. They also sometimes have a little floor display promoting new products from Boar's Head, that's also something that the local Safeway didn't do, they were just served up with some ready-to-go marketing, and they're okaying it.
How Apple's Startup Security Utility and Secure Boot Works
I always assumed that sprang from the tv show with that name.
Japanese Flu Treatment Cures Flu Symptoms in One Day
Who flies 100km? It wouldn't cost that much to rent a car and drive it 100km, and also wouldn't take as long as a flight plus airport time.
The i8 looks great, but it's a low-performance car in all-electric mode. And a slow seller -- 32 sold in the USA in January.
After one of the recent updates, if I use a keyboard shortcut to switch to a tab while the mouse is over the Terminal window, it starts to rapidly cycle between tabs and will not stop until I move the mouse away. You can try to reproduce this by opening two tabs in Terminal, moving the mouse over it, then pressing Cmd+Shift+] for more than a few tens of ms.

This has interrupted my workflow enough that I started to look for alternatives to Terminal.
It can’t be that simple, however, because all three show lots of old content for days even after you’ve looked at it. There must be some component of predicting the content you’re most likely to click on or guaranteeing views for promoted content.
This isn't really something that's specific to guns. Any hobby is going to end up with statistics like this. If you take a sample of say, motorcyclists - you might find that for 10 people who own exactly one, there's a collector who owns 20 who skews the average strongly (and a few more who own 2-5).

Guns are cheaper (on average) than motorcycles, they last longer, have been around longer, and tend to get passed down by generations (so one might find themselves with their grandfather's collection of 20 guns, and then add another 20 over their lifetime, then pass them along to their grandchild), so the skew is going to be much stronger.
So two things here. First, you have the fact that these types of products are not easy to track ROI with. It's not like a click through ad where it is easy to see a direct conversion from a click to a purchase. The other issue has to do with privacy and pending regulation. More regulation and a drive towards privacy will mean less data, less data means less targeted direct measurement. Any way you look at this, it sounds like things are going to get interesting.
The death of XNA is pretty disappointing, if they'd invested more in that then Microsoft could have basically made Unity.
Wire Chat App is actually close-sourced
It's Oracle, as the clickbait headline won't tell you.
The SRE book is also a great resource:

https://landing.google.com/sre/

[disclaimer: I work at Google]
Can confirm, it works for cameras too. This brought to you by the menagerie of Panasonics now littering my office...
I see, it's joining with the lagged weight. Same without CTE:

SELECT c.name, c.weight, c.weight - lw.lower_weight AS weight_to_lose
FROM cats c
JOIN (SELECT weight, lag(weight, 1, weight) over (order by weight)
lower_weight FROM cats
GROUP BY weight
ORDER BY weight) lw ON c.weight = lw.weight
ORDER BY weight
How AI Is Changing Work
Also, you have to keep in mind the relative size of the players.

If the grocery store is small, and Unilever, for example, is responsible for 10% of the inventory, but they're not happy with what the store is doing, it's probably really easy for them to say "Our delivery trucks only come every other week now, because you're not profitable enough. But, hey, if you let us decide what you should stock, the trucks will be there exactly when you need them."
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" - Bjarne Stroustrup

I've found that quote to apply to everything. Familiarity breads contempt, even just from boredom, or wanting to shift blame for the monotony of the task you're using the tool for.

For example I think Excel is a great piece of software, but I know someone who spends all day every day in it doing dull but important spreadsheets. They're what I consider an Excel expert. But they hate Excel because every little minor issue is magnified for them because they spend all day every day in it.
How many websites do you know that have implemented Subresource Integrity or CSP? These technologies are a pain in the ass and don't provide enough benefit to be worth it.

If you're interested in pursuing something like this I think you really need to find a problem that is big and important enough for your average developer to agree that the cost is worth it. Being able to use insecure networks safely turned out to be important enough that we're making strides to TLS, though with a lot of struggle, what problem is as important as that for people to start thinking of doing this much work? And is there any way to scope it down to be less work?

Maybe you could convince people that we need to sign ads so that it's not so trivial to deploy exploit kits inside ads, but we're largely solving that by making exploits more expensive, rather than solving ad integrity, so the gain on this is smaller than it would have been a decade ago.
Every couple of years there's a whole new batch of people who've not heard it yet, or who've forgotten it and need to be reminded :)
Not surprised coming from salon.
Oh, I hope there is a Windows-compatible way to use this (i.e.: in a .NET dev environment), if not now, then in the future.
And let’s not forget all the crazy (better word?) features like independence from indianness. They built the file system with an eye toward versatility.
The point is that extra precision is unwarranted. We only know that it missed by somewhere between 50 and 149 meters, so it's not appropriate to imply that we know it more precisely.
Another effortless way to improve memory and concentration: put your phone away
It seems odd to me that Golang treats Github as a first class citizen for package management, yet a second class citizen for core contributions.

I'm really only a dabbler in Golang, so would appreciate any context.

For instance I was affected by the recent go-bindata owner change[1]. The Github user deleted their account and some random user reregistered the original user's name and recreated the repo (albeit seemingly innocently to help everyone get their CIs running again).

Actually while we're on the subject, Golang's whole package management experience is surprisingly disappointing :/

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/7vv9zz/popular_lib_...
You're missing the bit where the sites in question are basically zero value link farms, who got downranked for low quality content.

Don't get me started about the maps thing. They're very keen on defining Google search as Web search, and neatly divided search engines. Don't know about you, but if I put an address into Google search I expect a map back, and it's daft to expect Google to guess how to find it on a competitors sites when they have (likely better) data at their disposal. And yes, they got ruled against for this.(giving a helpful Google map result if I input an address)
Seriously, get off it indeed! I’m not a rabid Musk fan, but that article was ignorant garbage. It’s not as though that one car was going to make a dent in the state of the world, and every bit of relatively inexpensive publicity for rocketry is a big goddammed win.

Mostly the article seemed to be an excuse to call Musk a “power-hungry Titan,” in a world where the likes of the Koch brothers exist. Then they link to another garbage article “explaining” why Bill Gates isn’t really trying to help at all with his philanthropy. Why not just offer to shit onto a typewriter for clicks? It wouldn’t be less gross, cheap, or desperate than this article and others like it.