skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart also sells everything, and it actually sells more of everything than Amazon by quite a lot. Just not online.

The gap is not even close. Walmart sells almost $500 billion in goods every year in the US alone. Amazon sold less than $200 billion in 2017. You could fit more than 2 Amazon.com's into Walmart. This is admitted by the article halfway down but a lot of people don't really take this into account when they think about Amazon.

Amazon may be a very exciting stock, but it is not the leading retailer. It is only the dominant retail website online, and that dominance in market share is actually quite misleading because the Amazon Marketplace is not a 1:1 comparison with how Walmart retail stores work. The Amazon Marketplace is hundreds of thousands of independent retailers daisy chained together to supply the website with valid, high quality offers combined with a small number of conventional vendor suppliers. Walmart is Walmart. When you buy from Walmart you buy from Walmart (unless it's through the online Walmart Marketplace which aspires to be an Amazon Marketplace clone).

Amazon has had some breakout successes in entirely different markets from retail, like their leading cloud business.
Rofl, I definitely share some of the sentiments you have regarding crypto is a scammers paradise. That is pretty much due to ICO's imho. What you might want to do, if you do use this in production servers, and I am sure the keybase team will add the option not to use it, it is open source. So you can easily simply remove that, I know that creates a bit of work and will therefore make it harder. I am just saying if this is being used in something that you find as useful, than the extra effort is definitely worth it. There simply isn't a tool like Keybase out there anyway. They literally solved the WOT issues related to PGP, and now they are adding some extra features which can potentially lead to other use cases. There are always upsides and downsides to anything. Imho, the upsides here might be justified, given the unique position that keybase is in.
I was really glad to see that Hacker News community was able to recognize white knighting and deal with it decisively. While it's indisputable that "chick" can be interpreted as derogatory, context is even more important than knee-jerk hair-trigger sensitivity.
This is incorrect. Diesel engines are not 100% efficient, with passenger vehicles (especially lacking regenerative braking that is standard in all production EVs) being closer to 25-33% efficient. So increase the diesel emissions to about 750 to 1000g_CO2/kWh.

From your third source (engineering toolbox):
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...

"Note! Heat loss - 55-75% - in power generation is not included in the numbers."

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EDIT: US CO2 emissions per kWh produced is now about 430 grams. So even including battery construction emissions (which are lower than your figure), EVs still win (by nearly a factor of 2).
Assbook - because that's where we all go to take a shit. Really wouldn't say half of it to someone's face anyway.
... Also, don't the disks spin at the same speed/uniformly? Meaning closer to the axis things go slower than on the edges?
Statistically, Elon Musk and John Carmack are "outliers".

Also... Would you let a self-though doctor put his hand on you? Yeah he/she did not go to a "formal university" and he did not do practice in a "real hospital" but hey, HE READ A BUNCH OF MEDICINE BOOKS!
Fact check: False.

There is a material difference between lying and the type of framing and optimism that successful founders typically engage in.

The line just isn't particularly thin. Elizabeth Holmes didn't have a minor accident. She deliberately engaged in serious fraud.
And not to forget this tragic story, the suicide of one of Theranos's chief scientists: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/22/british-he...
> It simply provides no training wheels or safety harness - meaning one needs to know what they are doing

Meaning that if you are human you will make mistakes.

My point is that people who do know what they're doing still make mistakes. Clearly the tool does not match the reality of human cognition.
Though an income share agreement is not a loan. It will still affect a student's credit adversely if they default on it.

We're actually transferring the management of the income share agreements to a third party company that's built a software platform for this that directly uses ACH.

So with that combination, hopefully we never have to sue anybody ever about anything! Seems like a terrible experience.
This post is almost impossible to understand if those concepts are truly new to you. The hard way is supposed to just dive in, not skip necessary bits. I understand it's a promotional piece for a book, but this makes me wonder whether the book is also like this (probably (hopefully?) not because there is more space).
I think this is going into the wrong direction. In my world "plumbing" means realizing ways to do things. When you want to write a simple web app that shows a Hello and has a contact form: even in 2018 that's still a reasonable amount of work. It's really not a lot of code but every line needs to be chosen wisely. That's what I call "plumbing". Most people new to Software Development become desperate at such tasks and to the rest it becomes embarrassing quickly... :-)

Yeah and then there's actual code writing: the heavy lifting has been done, all the functions/classes/modules/... are still small and wait to be stretched with a lot of nice code. In well sorted projects the latter is a trivial tasks for simple features.

But yes, I agree with the sentiment that there is a lack of general "understanding of stuff". I'm not sure if you must be able to use strace to be productive but it sure helps if you're able to get to know tools that are installed on most systems. Coming back to the OP's topic: LISP is a language that uses formalisms (ways to plumb ;)), tools (ever heard of asdf?) and syntax complete alien to even long-term computer addicts. It always puzzled me how people can be comfortable using this kind of stuff.
How can we know anything about what cannot be observed?
Well sure, but there are over 2200 games per month and less than 3-5% are the kind of games you are talking about. Super good team vs terrible team (assuming your local home town team is not Barcelona)
Stewart was done for obstruction and perjury, not insider trading.
> It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today.

They're already doing that, it started a few months ago. It seems to be an A/B test, so if you're lucky it might not be applied to you yet, but it looks like this: https://i.redd.it/4lrxutwazc701.png
First, Kuddos to John Carreyrou from the WSJ for great investigative journalism.
I’m too tired of all these “fake it till you make it” lines of thought, and it is not only a YC issue, it is pervasive across the valley.
Cloning flappy birds, "uber" for pet grooming, etc I don't care. But when things get serious and your life and money is at stake, there is no room for BS "disruptors" with 20 hours of training on subjects such as insurance, medical care, banking, or your lifetime investments.
The list of "pseudo disruptors" is pretty long:
Remember Zenefits' Parker Conrad fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/technology/zenefits-scand...
or that 3D printer for makeup:
https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/05/mink-is-a-3d-printer-for-m...
There are a lot of very comments here, at least that is reassuring. Folks get it.
Thou art too wise sir. I guess we all have to do is to first wait and see how the implementation is done.
Wpgtk: A universal colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager written in python
If they have side income, we currently write them some custom terms to exclude it so it's only for the actual job.
Hah, I actually got the same message about the website being expired but it also served me a PDF. Link updated.
The problem is that both CL and Scheme communities have very little to do with each other.

For practical purposes Lisp dialects are those directly inheriting back to Lisp I from McCarthy. You can run programs from 1960 in Common Lisp with very little changes (unless it uses machine interfaces). To port them to Scheme is possible. To port them to Logo, Clojure, Javascript or other languages considered to be dialects in a wider sense mostly means a rewrite.

Thus for me Lisp means the dialects of Lisp and their respective communities which can share code, libraries, applications by relatively simple ports. For example Emacs Lisp has Common Lisp enhancements, which are semantically very similar. ISLISP could be directly integrated into a Common Lisp - Kent Pitman mentioned that he actually did that to see that they are culturally compatible.

Languages who don't directly share code are maybe part of an abstract family, which has no agreed on definition - thus this is for practical purposes relatively useless.
> Also 7% of first year salary seems steep

The real long term benefit is if using the service results in a better entry level position. A person starting a career developing on Win32 will have a significantly different career than someone starting a career in React Native. If Pathrise leads to an increase in job offers (quantity of offers) and an increase in the type of job offers (diversity of projects types) than they can be worth the 7% even if the initial pay is equal because it will give the recent grad more options in choosing their path.

There is a lack of job hunting skills among recent CS and CE students, and there is a potential customer base. If I were looking to invest in Pathrise I would specifically be interested in how they plan on targeting students that have tried and failed in the job market and filtering which students failed because of a lack of job hunting skills and which failed because of a lack of technical skills. Graduates they have tried and failed in the job market are the ones that should see the most benefit from this service.
yeah I had a yellow cab pick me up from Chelsea Piers once and not turn on his meter. It was a short trip and the driver turns around and asks for $20-something. I laughed in his face and left. I'm sure he got plenty of tourists on the same scam.
Ask HN: Great Product Managers to follow?
I want to learn by example more about Product Management.

Any recommendations of great PMs that are active on twitter/blogs/etc?
I really like this concept for college tuition or for funding people who haven't already gotten a degree. However if just focusing on soon-to-be/recent graduates, I don't get why a student would be motivated enough to use your service with a non-trivial fee over going to a university provided one that they have already essentially paid for.

Even going to a state college, the schools are still quite driven to have very high job placement statistics, and the career services offered were quite helpful if you took the effort to go.
Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks in Pytorch
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Should have a subtitle, "The benefits of a compiled language over an interpreted language"
> We're actually transferring the management of the income share agreements to a third party company that's built a software platform for this that directly uses ACH.

Care to share the third party?
The "is likely to be" part is not true in general.

Changing that "likely to be" into a "may be" would make the statement true(r) without the if-clause.

Also if the if-clause stated "suspected of" rather than "convicted of", then the "is likely to be" part
would be true in general.
I have a lecture to recommend: Shelly Kagan on Death by Yale. It's amazing and probably the most important course for anyone willing to open up to ideas around the notion of self and existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...
From pictures it looks like the fan would definitely be needed. The hat is very low clearance to maintain compatibility with the official cases.

https://blog.hackster.io/the-new-raspberry-pi-poe-hat-823de8...
"But what about spread? Yes, the price is different if you buy or sell bitcoin (for instance). Circle doesn’t try to hide that and says you can expect a 1.5 to 2 percent spread between buy and sell price."

So not completely free :)
What do you have in mind as a terse solution? I'm thinking as folllows:

Let f(x) = x/log(x). Then f has a minimum at e - for example f'(x) = (log(x) - 1)/(log(x)^2), so f is decreasing for x < e and increasing for x > e.

In particular f(e) < f(pi)-- that is, e / log(e) < pi / log(pi).

Multiply through by log(e) log(pi) to get e log(pi) < pi log(e) and exponentiate both sides to get pi^e < e^pi.
I'd say that's another issue, namely that most words don't have one single, clear meaning, as is evident from a bunch of other comments. It's equally pedantic and cause-harming to pretend that this is not the case.

I can definitely accept that in many circles 'chick' has this connotation, and, again, I'm happy to be cautious in my use of the word if I don't know for certain whether this is the case or not.

That said, most circles I've been part of would most definitely not agree with your rather narrow and negative interpretation of the word, and its use is perfectly okay and similar to 'dude'.

Again, I don't see what you're trying to achieve with this kind of pedantry. If you actually care about these I do hope you find a better way to communicate about it.
You don't need any prior math knowledge to attend college. The math they teach at high school only serves to develop a bit of mathematical maturity, but it's quite different. The abstraction level is much lower, there is little emphasis on proofs, and too much emphasis on elementary algorithms to solve some oversimplified problems.

Furthermore, unless you have followed some relatively uncommon high school program that teaches logic and discrete mathematics, the actual overlap between high school and first year CS math is almost empty.

I think a major part of excelling at mathematics is to understand that you must go through material very slowly. Mathematics is not literature. Taking 1 hour of good effort to go through 1 page is far from unusual if you want to truly conquer concepts by understanding definitions, developing good intuitions and proving all major results.
BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

Seriously BBC is as state owned as it gets in the west, to be more specific it’s a statutory corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation

BBC world is actually not tied directly to the British government.

And how exactly have you managed to avoid paying a license since any TV monitor and today a device capable of running iPlayer counts for the license.
Here is the pre-print version of the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05363

It is a kind of funny situation that springer has this published.

Pre-prints are extremely useful in fields where they are widely used. Physics, my original field, uses arxiv as well as self hosted locations. I know biology is trying to do more of this as well. I really don't understand why other fields just start pushing towards this more open model.
> I really like this concept for college tuition or for funding people who haven't already gotten a degree

Something like https://lambdaschool.com? (YC S17)
I wish that were true. I've worked on products that are very much not "disposable" and I've seen some terrible code and very poor testing infrastructure. It's especially bad in shops that were not primarily writing software and had to integrate software solutions to remain competitive. Execs don't understand it, don't care for it, don't invest enough resources in it. It's often delegated to some 3rd party and integrated like a black box in their solution.
Holmes isn't in trouble for hyping -- she's in trouble for lying in financial documents. Unless the uBeam pitch deck claims that they have earned $100M in revenue when they haven't or that they have accolades from Public companies when they don't, they're fine to say that they are going to change the world with wireless charging.
From that article;

"The bill starts by giving the executive branch dramatically more power than it has today. It would allow Attorney General Sessions to enter into agreements with foreign governments that bypass current law, without any approval from Congress. Under these agreements, foreign governments would be able to get emails and other electronic information without any additional scrutiny by a U.S. judge or official. And, while the attorney general would need to consider a country’s human rights record, he is not prohibited from entering into an agreement with a country that has committed human rights abuses."

"That level of discretion alone is concerning. Even more, however, the bill would for the first time allow these foreign governments to wiretap in the U.S. — even in cases where they do not meet Wiretap Act standards. Paradoxically, that would give foreign governments the power to engage in surveillance — which could sweep in the information of Americans communicating with foreigners — that the U.S. itself would not be able to engage in. The bill also provides broad discretion to funnel this information back to the U.S., circumventing the Fourth Amendment. This information could potentially be used by the U.S. to engage in a variety of law enforcement actions."

I do wonder if they are being slightly coy here in their analysis. This isn't at all paradoxical, unless you are giving the players some serious benefit of the doubt.
Yes, but the acquisition was to be financed with $106 billion in debt https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/broadcom-...
There's a very good book about pricing called How Much Should I Charge? that warns about exactly this.

Her advice is to make sure that you base your "absolute minimum" price on what it takes to sustain your business and not just on what your competitors are charging because the competition could be going out of business and just don't know it yet.
Mostly column A, a little column B as well (sometimes I travel).

I'm a freelancer and when I am between client projects I try to just code without the internet for a few hours first thing in the day.
As someone who’s been in this field for quite a while now, my experience in working with most freelance bookkeepers is that...they’re terrible. It’s a trade that has its fair share of thorniness, and most freelancers I’ve worked with simply don’t have a sufficient grasp of it (or are simply unmotivated to care enough to follow through).

With sufficient (very deep) automation it can be done properly, which is what Pilot seems to be aiming for.
Every founder is optimistic to the point of delusion. It's a requisite.

Investors know how to deal with that. What they don't know how to do is deciding if "those complicated papers that use words you never even heard before say we can do X" is a lie or not.
Actual text of bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/238...

Congress finds the following:

(1) Timely access to electronic data held by communications-service providers is an essential component of government efforts to protect public safety and combat serious crime, including terrorism.

(2) Such efforts by the United States Government are being impeded by the inability to access data stored outside the United States that is in the custody, control, or possession of communications-service providers that are subject to jurisdiction of the United States.

(3) Foreign governments also increasingly seek access to electronic data held by communications-service providers in the United States for the purpose of combating serious crime.

(4) Communications-service providers face potential conflicting legal obligations when a foreign government orders production of electronic data that United States law may prohibit providers from disclosing.

(5) Foreign law may create similarly conflicting legal obligations when chapter 121 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the “Stored Communications Act”), requires disclosure of electronic data that foreign law prohibits communications-service providers from disclosing.

(6) International agreements provide a mechanism for resolving these potential conflicting legal obligations where the United States and the relevant foreign government share a common commitment to the rule of law and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.
Here ya go: https://leif.org/
As an alternative, could we also be wrong about the gravitational constant at a large scale, or perhaps it's not really exactly an inverse square? Or maybe there's another relatively weak force that's only apparent at a larger scale that maybe only drops off linearly so it's predominant at large distances?
Capitalizing entire words doesn't strengthen your case.

To answer your question, yes I would in cases where they are more educated than their schooled counterparts in the specific help I need. This is less common in medicine than in art, business or science, but it is not unheard of. In those cases, I would, and I have.

You should realize that with the exception of surgeons, most doctors lose skill throughout their careers. After medical school, doctors tend to slowly get worse in diagnostics and often ossify whatever was the best practice when they graduated. This is particularly clear in nutrition. Surgeons are an exception, due to the rapid feedback their work offers.
CoFlaVis: New Coal Flame Visualization tool promotes cleaner-burning fossil fuel
I don't think he was a scapegoat per se, he did actually do illegal things. But I imagine that things would have gone a lot better for him if he had not jacked up the price of Daraprim to the extent he did. It seems that drew attention to his previous activities.
Careful with your language there. The guy isn't "fucked" in any sense of the word. The absolute worst case scenario is that he has to pay a couple hundred bucks in court fees.
Nah, the SEC rarely actually prosecutes someone (or more correctly works with DOJ to indict them and try them.) It is just how the SEC typically does business. They, (and other regulators, CTFC, SROs) take these little actions all the time in the financial industry. I think when see a case where they really try and nail someone then you look for the politics.
True, and besides having lost money, their investors also continue to lose credibility, considering the poor if not complete lack of due diligence on their part, as long as this fiasco is in the spotlights.
Ngrok
Hi, when I try to connect to my site(on localhost) using the ngrok tunnel I arrive on my wampserver homepage but cannot open the site (This site can’t be reached, ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) can you help me solve the issue?
Git comes down to knowing 6 commands... and you don't need to even need to be an expert with all 6. If can grasp the following 6 commands, you will know about 99% of every day uses of git:

git add .

git commit -m "my commit message"

git merge my_feature_branch | or my personal favorite: git merge --squash my_feature_branch

git rebase my_feature_branch

git log

git checkout -b my_feature_branch
Coherence API is Serverless revolutionized. No config, just code
you're in a sheltered snowflake zone, what did you expect?
People who educate themselves are outliers already.

> Would you let a self-though doctor put his hand on you?

There are consequences here beyond time and money so it isn't nearly as much of an apt comparison.

> did not do practice in a "real hospital"

Medical doctors already go through many years of residency as well as continually take standardized tests to keep their medical licenses.

Also lawyers in California and Louisiana can skip law school by passing their boards (and undergoing a type of apprenticeship I believe).
That’s impressive:

> Libraries written in C doe not have a huge run-time dependency. In its minimum configuration, SQLite requires only the following routines from the standard C library:

memcmp()
memcpy()
memmove()
memset()
strcmp()
strlen()