skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can Side Projects Reinforce Bad Habits?
Yup, even Richard Feinman agrees: https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/959057032698458112
Inheritance is worthless, then. As an heir I can more or less inherit from day 0 (in some jurisdictions even before) of my living life. This means there is the possibility of me putting in zero effort, besides from being born alive, to obtain it. Yet it obviously has some worth.
If you type a space after P_t it will figure out it's a subscript. That is, after you copy-paste your text you can hit space a few times to wake it up to the fact that it needs to render it.
I think its more likely that once Waymo has a complete plan they will switch to partnering with existing brands, many of which might not have gotten their own self driving efforts to a point where they can compete.

At least I have not seen any signs of Waymo aiming for car mass production.
Gold is practically useless day-to-day for a lay-person except as decoration, but represents the literal blood, sweat, tears, and toil of someone taking it out of rocks, refining it and putting it into your hands. Also it has some commercial use.

Cryptocurrencies likely follow a similar model. Useless to the lay-person except as decoration. Representing a "colossal waste of resources", but having access to the refining tools / techniques also has some commercial value.

Is gold useless except for swindling? Was trading land for gold (or vice versa- gold for land?) was that swindling?

I'd love to hear your rebuttal.
Adding insult to the injury the thumbnails in the footer are 2800px-wide. The web developer used srcset but every resolution links to the largest image. And they're PNGs not JPEGs, despite the url implying otherwise. Together they weigh 19.5MB, >99% of total page size.
As a counterpoint, I admire my immigrant parents for the ethic they attempted to impart onto me and don’t blame them even if at times I thought they were being “unfair.”

I think that far more worrying is the dangerous narrative pushed by people insecure about their accomplishments and aided by people jealous of others’ carefree childhoods that seeks to diminish immigrant accomplishment as lacking individualism or initiative. If it’s just strict parents and the kid is just forced to do it, then we can simultaneously criticize the parents, strip the kid of individuality and attribute any of their accomplishments to things outside of their control.

Again, just placing this here as a counterpoint because too often I see this discussion play out and get upvoted in the same way.
I sometimes think the lads at the three letter agencies were under the impression that only people with exactly their skin color would ever be able to code competently. Their long, insistent drive to make certain computers are unsafe when manufactured (always vulnerable) suggests this.
How about writing a book with all these potential ideas and name it "The Design and Implementation of Redis in-memory Database"?
In practice though you need a job and a new house. You might be legally free to leave but in reality you're not able to.
I believe our brains have a slightly different relationship to text on a page, because that page always has one specific location in the physical world. It will always be the same text, and on that same piece of paper. (Do you ever pick up a book and surprise yourself by remembering exactly where you left off -- that last sentence of the first paragraph at the top of the page on the right?) I think we're always subconsciously assessing where things are in relation to our current position, and that carries over to text on a page.

But there's not the same permanence for text in an ebook. (Poof, it's gone! New text! There is no page, nothing has a location...) And yeah, sometimes that same "view port" can turn into an ad. Sometimes it's your book, sometimes it's Amazon selling you something.

I just truly believe that you end up with a subtly different relationship to that body of text that you're trying to read and remember.
Calorimetry is not perfect, and the “interesting” results have always been well within margins for error.

https://sciencing.com/calorimeter-its-limitations-8290898.ht...
Waymo never had any intention of manufacturing their own vehicles. They've been failing at finding a secure manufacturing partner for about 4 or 5 years now. Sebastien Thrun and Sergey Brin went into a number of auto executive board rooms basically suggesting that the auto industry should be ecstatic to become like foxconn, a brandless low-margin manufacturer of hardware to support Google products and services. The response from auto execs was basically "Fuck that noise", and the carmakers are responding aggressively to the shots that have been fired across their bow.

Longer term this is a problem for Waymo. Their supposed partnership with Fiat Chrysler isn't a full-blown, intergrated manufacturing partnership. Waymo is mostly just buying Pacifica mini-vans from FCA and retrofitting them with Waymo's own custom designed hardware at a separate facility in Nova Michigan.

This is not cost effective, and not viable as a long-term strategy. If Waymo does have a strategy for producing robotaxis in the tens of thousands, they've been very quiet about it.

With every year that goes by building an autonomous OS gets easier. Best practices have been established, knowledge continually disseminates throughout the industry, there is, every year less software and hardware that needs to be built from scratch. Automobile mass production, on the other hand, isn't getting any easier. It's as hard as it ever was. So really, over the long run, it's the legacy automakers who have the true competitive moat, and the real bargaining power.
I would be very interested in 2. I know some other folks who be as well. Cheers.
A checksum would help and give immediate feedback that the code was entered wrong.
> Each one represents a kind of private ledger.

That is an interesting quote. So, without the blockchain, how does Lightning track which transactions have been completed?
I know it isn't quite what you're asking for, but I recommend writing a static site compiler from scratch for a static site you actually use. Buy a nice HTML / CSS template (I found this one https://html5up.net/story then modified it) and build yourself a nice personal site from scratch.

You'll be surprised at how nice it is to just fully understand everything without a mess of libraries getting in the way and the resulting project will be perfectly tailored to your needs.
I'm a product of a magnet school. Switching to a school of excellence most definitely helps.
Actually format shifting is expressly allowed under US copyright law. So it's entirely legal for you to create a CD from a vinyl record you purchased. Or a DVD from a VHS tape.
The main complaint of GP was that people would vote by headlines. Which is exactly what our congresspeople do. WaPo estimates ACA to be 10k pages in total: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/how-m.... If you want to tell me that even the majority of the people who voted for it gave it anything more than a cursory, headline level look, I have some fine Florida swampland I’d like to sell.
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FWIW this reminds me of my iOS app Mindscope which is more visual but has the same core concept of zoomable hierarchies. Kind of a mix of Workflowy and Scapple. http://www.mindscopeapp.com
U.S. Policy Toolkit for Kaspersky Labs
The goal is as much profit in the short term as possible. The intent is to extract profits. The impact, damage, consequences, whatever are not factored into the equation.

They aren't trying to bankrupt companies, they are aware that what they're doing is harmful, and they don't care if their short term actions do bankrupt the companies in the long run.

It's like a kid throwing rocks at cars. They aren't trying to cause an accident or injury anyone but their actions can only lead to bad things.

That problem is not necessarily what Bain does, it's that they don't care about how it impacts others. That's pretty much the problem with society today. They're like vampires extracting the wealth from these companies and leaving them by the side of the road. At the end of the day the profit at the expense of everyone else.
Single-MO theory is now out of fashion even in policing.
Great! Is it just one deployment or you guys have already deployed and tested your solution in multiple hospitals?
'European'? I don't think you can generalise on a continental scale. Irish people are generally pretty happy about their Irish-ness in my experience. Same with Basques and Greeks, and probably lots of other assorted Europeans
Only in that you don’t be able to directly measure it anymore because the mitigation is buried in the performance data of a new processor.
Third party google authenticator applications worked (and continue to work) really well on the Pebble as well.
Fun fact, in Portuguese Fossa means cesspool but hopefully this was named after the animal ;)
Hopefully self-driving cars stuck at intersections will draw decision-makers' attention to the issue and fix it for humans.
I certainly wouldn't like it. Flying is largely unpleasant these days for anyone who isn't paying for first class and TSA pre-pass, but one bit of joy is watching the earth recede, and the clouds and landscape pass below. (It's even better in a little Cessna where you can open the windows.) Having the window replaced by a low-quality video screen that will probably soon be showing no-skip ads like the seat-back screens do these days would kill that.
That’s a great suggestion. We are working on connecting with a few different smart home hubs including smartthings.
> largely targeted at Chinese-speakers. These policies included major tax breaks for Chinese speakers with advanced degrees

It's not about being a Chinese speaker. It's about ethno-nationalism or racism, depending upon one's perspective. Merely speaking Chinese fluently isn't nearly enough for a racially European or African person to gain Chinese citizenship. The total number of those who have ever done so is less than the number of people the UK nationalises each week.

Even the green card is nearly unobtainable. Dashan could get one but the vast majority of expats who have spent a decade in China, marred a PRC national, and started a family cannot.
Not playing that game, sorry. Suffice it to say that they were post-doctoral researchers and subsequently worked for several years in major City companies you've heard of, both reaching senior positions unusually quickly.

[Edit: This was a private discussion at a mutual friend's house, on a controversial subject. I have no idea whether the people in question have expressed their views publicly, and no intention of outing them if they have not, particularly given that their personal views may be at odds with their employers'. In any case, they aren't public figures and it's unlikely anyone here would know them unless they happened to have worked with them. And even then, there is still no good reason anyone needs to know their names unless an ad hominem is about to follow. Downvote all you like, but downvoting isn't an argument.]
Seems like a baseless article that is pulling fake facts out of thin air to supplement a couple of real ones like the cost basis and failures of large government projects.

It's not uncommon for large government projects to fail with all the bureaucracy and politics that is in play. I am not saying IBM is great, but this article is just not worth it.
> Iota is horrendous(they rolled their own crypto and its bad)

Yeah, I probably didn't emphasize this enough. In addition to last year's curl fiasco[1], and this year's email dump[2], there's now this unlucky-13 exploit[3].

> no IOT company will ever bother with it

This would seem to follow, but [4] (partnership with Cisco, Samsung, and Volkswagen), if true, contradicts it. (I'm skeptical of IOTA partnership announcements because of last year's IOTA/Microsoft “partnership”[5].)

[1] https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1...

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/crypt...

[3] http://blog.lekkertech.net/blog/2018/03/07/iota-signatures/

[4] https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/630565/blockchain-n...

[5] https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-clarifies-misleading-mic...
Strings don’t have to fill the char array they live in. Overallocating a buffer is a common technique to avoid frequent reallocation.
I don't see this as a Dropbox problem, you may not be the end user they have in mind. You have the freedom to use any cloud provider you want, so you should definitely switch if you find you get better value else where.

To backup dropbox, they are fairly easy to use, can be installed on multiple OS's / devices, etc etc. But hey, if you have all Apple products, then you save $$ by just sticking with them right?
Try seeing it through a powerful eyepiece telescope. It’s absolutely one of the most astonishing experiences I’ve ever had.
All of the big consultancy firms are bodyshops in some sense. But in my experience IBM is truly one of the worst. And people still keep falling for it.
The video doesn't have a link in the description. Found in a previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347785):

"We have recently released a narrow down version of our product in play store for public use. You can find it on Google PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.janitri.war.... You can find more about our solution on our website: https://janitri.in (Product name is "Daksh" - Hindi word for Competent)."
>The EU and their stupid cookie warning

Great in theory! Let people know what cookies are and the privacy implications.

Absolutely terrible in practice since any non-trivial site with user accounts will require cookies to use. It's as useful as the peanut warning on a package of peanuts (although at least that exists to save taxpayers money).
I came to the comments to see if anyone else was bothered by this glaring omission. The lede is that this cyber attack didn't just delete files, it caused real world physical damage.

> The attack was a dangerous escalation in international cyberwarfare, as faceless enemies demonstrated both the drive and the ability to inflict serious physical damage.

Can you reasonably call this an "escalation" after Stuxnet? Maybe? But not even mentioning Stuxnet? At best, that seems like poor reporting.
If I'm dying of thirst a bottle of water gets very valuable for me.

In aggregate across a large population, however, a bottle of water has a fairly stable price.

Haircuts and coffee are also not commodities, there are quality factors involved so variable pricing based on location, supply/demand, and the like is expected.
A Poisoned Russian Spy Just Inflamed Cold War 2.0
Flask or Django for dynamic sites.

Jekyll hosted with Netlify for static sites.
There are many reasons to celebrate Stephen Hawking but the one I personally am most impressed by his ability overcome an ALS diagnosis in his college years and go on to live a life of such distinction. It takes some serious courage to soldier on after hearing you may only have two years to live and know that at best you will live a life of slow & debilitating physical deterioration. I'm not sure I could face a such a prospect, so many of the things I enjoy in life require full motor skills and then some. I'd like to think I could adapt and follow such a bold example provided by Stephen Hawking. His story is truly inspiring to me and I hope his story inspires others to do great things.
Why his account age has any meaning in the discussion?
I spent 10 minutes before work today trying to get it working, but couldn't do it. Any hints? The contract was developed using truffle and the solidity files for the contract, ERC721, and ERC165 interfaces are split apart.
> I'm looking specifically at the ones that prey on human "bugs" - casino, betting, but especially porn.

These have existed since the beginning of humans. Would be easier to just end people instead.
Tableau and Google Analytics – Integrate, Expand, Create
I don't want to tax income, I want to tax wealth.

And we need better international coordination. In this future scenario the super rich that take their marbles and go home will be banned from travelling into the countries that co-operate. The super rich act like they gain nothing of value from our social safety nets, but they do. Happy liberal cities cost money. I don't want a world where the Koch Brothers can leisurely enjoy a city like Toronto, Paris, or Tokyo without contributing a dime to the others around them that made them rich.
Tesla manufacturing high volume of flawed parts: employees
iHeartMedia bankruptcy: new media takes another victim
I'm going to give an answer that some people won't like, and to be honest I don't like either:

Richard Stallman.

I no longer care about the "super coder" or the "smart dude" or the "rock star" because it doesn't really matter. Good and bad coders are both capable of getting things done.

Stallman is, for lack of a better word, a zealot. For as much as that may be off putting at times, he really isn't wrong. Closed source and closed design, starting at the hardware layer, has bitten us rather badly in recent days. This isn't the first time, it won't be the last, and until we collectively demand more it simply won't change.

There are other people who I have deep respect for and look up to, Bunnie Huang and Salvatore Sanfilippo spring to mind as people I keep an eye on there are more but those are off the top of my head.
Waymo also doesn't drive drunk, which is one of the major causes of human accidents.
Does anyone else remember the days when "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" was true? You might pay a little extra, but it was never a total fail to use IBM products.

I'm not sure when that changed, but I feel like these days, IBM is closer to Oracle than AWS.
Please show me how Redis rebalances data when more shards are added.
You say it's obvious, and I agree. But I want to know why kqr called it a "C-like language" and why inamberclad said it comes from "a team of academics and industry pros [who] took a long hard at C and C++ and then made something to fit the the same niche."

Those seem to be ahistorical comments.

It's no surprise that languages used in embedded and real-time systems would cluster together. But that doesn't reveal intent and influence.
I get that cynicism is sort of an HN thing, but this (building a SaaS company and then building and open sourcing a developer tool) seems like an incredibly expensive way to be an IP troll. There are way lower hanging fruit for IP trolling.

Disclaimer: I work for FOSSA.
I am skeptical of this pervasive claim because it is effectively unfalsifiable; claiming kids from Asia are “just good at tests” and that thus we don’t need to worry about our education system ignores the fact that most European countries do better on standardized tests too (the UK, Germany, Finland, etc.).

And to add some anecdata of my own, in college I did not notice any race of people being less or more creative than another. If anything during office hours the people who had trouble “improvising” were remarkably well distributed corresponding to the demographics of the school.
My friend's father did a DNA test and found out he was some portion Ashkenazi Jew. He went around screaming about it for a week, so proud that his genetic line birthed Albert Einstein.
It exists. It is called nano: no fees and instant transactions through the block lattice. https://nano.org/en/whitepaper

I am surprised more folks on HN are not familiar with nano considering it is one of the few teams in crypto with endorsements from familiar faces: Zack Shapiro on the core team (ex-Product Hunt), Garry Tan (YC, angel investor in Coinbase), and Charlie Lee (former director of engineering @ Coinbase).
Looks really nicely written and laid out.

One note on borrowing/ownership that really made it click for me was that to move from &mut T to &T you have to transition through owning the value type, so:

&mut T -> T <- &T

Whichever scope holds the actual value-type is the only scope that can make that transition(absent cases like RefMut)
Interaction Experiment: Scaffolding [LeapMotion]
I've used two services from IBM: Notes and node DB2 package. Both of them were pretty low quality, the db2 package was so unstable that it constantly segfaulted the entire node process. It's not fixed for years since the issue was reported with reproducible code. Needless to say I wouldn't recommend IBM even to my enemies.

Can anyone share a good IBM experience? I'm honestly interested.
Google clearly has lost direction here, anytime they start changing names around it's never good for the products. Yet Fitbit and Apple seem to have the wearables thing down.
They are great. Currently the 'A compiler from scratch' episode is free to watch in case you want to have a preview
The APIs that Apple should announce in WWDC
Indian and Chinese systems certainly have tons of problem themselves, but that's a separate issue. Chinese students need to spend tons of time cracking the college entrance exam (and all exams before that). When the exam focused on memorization, the students would optimize for that, and the "top talents" selected by that exam are those best at memorization. However, the exams also changed overtime, and it is much less focused on memorization now.

While these exams still receives tons of criticism nowadays, being able to perform well on these exams still correlates highly on being able to succeed in future.
I'm writing the HTML and CSS in Emacs, applying common elements with Make, and feeding it to an Apache server over on NearlyFreeSpeech.
> Your fork is not the same system though, everyone else considers it a different currency. The argument is whether or not 1 given currency is decentralized, not whether or not you as a human have the freedom to use any currency you want...

No, everyone does not consider it a different currency, you consider it a different currency. The name changed, sure, but again, who cares? A rose by another name would smell as sweet.

Calling either BTC or BCH a different currency from the original bitcoin really just shows a lack of understanding of what a fork is. Both BTC and BCH have made changes that weren't in the original BTC.
In almost all versions of civilization, the game, techs are about the most valuable advantage and spoils from war.

We gave almost all of our tech to China for some plastic kewpie dolls.
In laymen terms, sure! Its a useful enough way to think about it.

Technically though the fov is refering to fovea, not field of view.
It went beyond just "reverse engineering", I didn't really phrase that right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Controversies
IEEE 128-bit decimal can handle a precision of 34 significant figures (decimal digits). You can store a million times the world GDP (1e6 * US$75.59 trillion) accurate to picodollars. How much more precision do you need?
The blood, sweat and tears that go into gold production are irrelevant to its economic value, except inasmuch as they reflect its scarcity.
Oh, wow..

Honest question:
I know that plea deals and other rather arcane behind-the-scenes agreements are a thing, but as someone who is not all too familiar with the American justice system, is that really the only relevant difference?

So, what kept Shkreli from taking a deal?
So cool! Redis is one of my favorite pieces of software and it's super interesting to see some of the internals explained more clearly. At the moment I'm only on the second episode, but I look forward to the rest of them. Perhaps replication could be a topic as well, if it's not already covered in the Sentinel and/or Cluster episodes. Another thing that would be interesting is how connections are handled and how concurrent commands from separate clients get executed in a sane way.

As an aside, I noticed several typos sneaked into comments here and there ('command gets replicated to the salves', etc). I'm half considering filing a pull request for them, but feel it might come across as overly pedantic. Would such a PR be appreciated?