skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another option is a third founder. It's literally just a tie break if there's a stalemate that'll kill the company anyway. In that situation we'd be negotiating 0.01% of nothing

Edit: To additionally clarify, I never said it'd be me with the veto bit
"2014-11-28T21:00:09+09:00".parse::<DateTime<FixedOffset>>()

With chrono, I think that's all you need. If you want to name the timezone you can use chrono-tz:

let tz: Tz = "Europe/London".parse().unwrap()
let date = "2014-11-28T21:00:09Z".parse::<DateTime<Utc>>().with_timezone(&UTC)
Everything is relative and nothing is unique at a large enough spectrum
Every day of the week is the same for me. Wake up at 5:45am and in bed by 10:30pm.

For me, I'm 100% a morning person and can't function at the end of my day. After 9pm, my brain shuts off entirely.
Downsides of being a Product Manager
No, no one is saying anything about subsidies. You are making that up.

"But you can't come in and make economic arguments about how it's better for the employer because you don't know that."

I'm sure the people who found themselves unable to provide for their families will rest easier knowing the "economics" of it are sound.
So your position is that here has not been a massive, species-wide reduction in poverty (and pretty much every other negative outcome) over the last 250 years?
Man the comments on this. HN gold.
For me Rust’s sweet spot is anything performance related I would use C++ instead of Java, .NET, Go, Swift, MLs derived language.

Basically that performance hotspot where a managed runtime isn’t an option.

Rust is still new, it took C++ about 20 years to reach where it is, and even now there are domains where it cannot replace C for various reasons.
What about the people that started their career right after the bubble popped? There is a large segment of the population that has had its career and income dramatically stunted because they entered the workforce right after the housing bubble popped.

"You can even see this in the statistics, a divot from 2008 to 2012 where millions of jobs and billions in earnings should be. In 2007, more than 50 percent of college graduates had a job offer lined up. For the class of 2009, fewer than 20 percent of them did. According to a 2010 study, every 1 percent uptick in the unemployment rate the year you graduate college means a 6 to 8 percent drop in your starting salary—a disadvantage that can linger for decades. The same study found that workers who graduated during the 1981 recession were still making less than their counterparts who graduated 10 years later. “Every recession,” Spriggs says, “creates these cohorts that never recover."[1]

[1] http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...
Victory has a thousand fathers...
I've been having an interesting loop of thought about this chain's bankruptcy. Obviously, I'm nostalgic about it, and it's sad, but I am hesitant to say that a national chain going away is some cultural blow.

Given my age, I tend to think it's sad that shopping is less of a social event now. However, I don't think it's a core spiritual need that we go somewhere and spend money together. In fact, I'm not even sure it's a positive.

If people are taking care of their shopping at Amazon, maybe that's more time to do real social stuff and not consumerism masquerading as social stuff.
Hopefully with all these recent transgressions against digital rights we will see the emergence of some hybrid of Zeronet, TOR, I2P, IPFS, BitTorrent, etc... All these technologies have some serious usability/UX problems. We need something so easy to use and so ubiquitous that it will make nations feel like Metallica going up against Napster.
DNC “lone hacker” Guccifer 2.0 pegged as Russian spy after opsec fail
Friedman cautioned decades ago that “the doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ taken seriously would extend the scope of the political mechanism to every human activity.”

This is one of the things that always struck me as odd in my undergrad economics classes. That somehow we can realistically de-couple our actions in one domain (work) from those of another (politics) when in fact they all lie in the space of human action. This is where I found myself in agreement with Mises - in that all actions have impact socially and thus all economic activity has a social impact.

Thinking or behaving otherwise is a cop-out and a way to try and mentally compartmentalize behavior - it's cognitive dissonance and I see it all the time when people try and "separate" their work life from their personal life. It's a synthetic distinction.
Prove your statement, please.
It works both ways with different issues. Generally speaking every political discussion has degraded into accusing the other side of killing children.
I'm not sure I see your point. You're saying that, because there is advocacy on behalf of changing company policies in a particular direction, for a legitimate reason, the companies should avoid changing their policies?

Under what circumstances would you want to see companies revise their policies?

EDIT: missed a word
I think it's highly unlikely that we'll be able to move off this rock and survive, much less thrive. We are super-duper fragile. Space is extremely inhospitable, living on a space station for prolonged periods of time would wreck our bodies, potentially habitable planets are light-years away, and it's in our nature to be short-sighted.y

Perhaps one day our technology will advance to where we can create some kind of AI or AI/Human hybrid with a non-fragile body that can withstand zero gee and space radiation, but then you get into this deep existential thought of what it even means to be "human". I mean maybe Humans were never meant to colonize space, maybe our "job" as a species is to "create" a species that can, though.

I love this stuff.
There's tons of different kinds of memory intertwined with combinatorial logic in a 6502. Close to half the chip is ROM or latches, all implemented with transistors.

And the main part of the paper is that destructive tests in large systems have weird cascading failures that don't generally point to the purpose of the component that failed. Combining that with a domain where you don't have great feedback into the veracity of your conclusions leads to specious results at best.
EU Removing Russian Ambassadors
Why do stocks have to sell at one given opening price? I ask this honestly- I don't understand how public markets work in this respect.

What if instead, a giant silent auction occurred. All potential buyers would submit how many stocks and the price they want to pay for them, then the submissions could be sorted from most to least expensive and sold at that submission price until there are no stocks left. This would maximize the income for the founders/investors and achieve a market rate that is fair and accurate.
> universally terrible documentation

Wait, what? Rust has what I consider the best documentation I've seen of any language. The docs explain things at a high-level, but concisely, and have numerous examples. The formatting is good, the keyboard navigation support is good, it's well-linked, and it has convenient features like links to the source and the ability to collapse everything but method headers for easier browsing. And it's extremely easy to add docs to your own project.

Maybe there are some dark corners filled with poorly documented unstable APIs that I haven't seen?
Do you really need your own certificate vs using their free provisioned ones?

If you need that kind of technical details than Cloudfront or Stackpath are pretty good for low traffic sites.
With the requisite "why would you do this? it's trivial to <insert something incredibly time consuming, annoying, and non-trivial> instead!"
The context is the British pharmacy "Boots" - think Walgreens. The parent commenter's argument is that our society at large does not want heroin and coke sold at the corner drugstore. They want these substances out of sight, out of mind.

It's all very well for us to imagine legalized drugs would be safer and more easy to regulate, but a majority of people disagree - so for the time being, they will continue being sold out of the boots of cars.
I agree with the basic premise - that the best way for companies to be good citizens is to be good, ethical, companies. Pay your employees fairly, provide good benefits, obey the spirit of the law (not just the letter), and do the right thing for your customers. Companies that spend a lot of time vocally supporting social issues while being bad corporate actors are just virtue signalling for PR purposes
Question: looking at the article's "AI Product Management" infographic, one item includes the phrase, "Adopt a bread-first approach to building a product". Is that supposed to be "breadth-first"?
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring a Junior Support Lead
The article and Cambridge analytics seem to attribute a lot of credit to their ways. Was their impact larger than the Russian meddling, and if so, did Trump win through tactical methods versus foreign interference?
I've been learning Rust for a little while, and while I agree that it can be frustrating, it's nowhere near as bad as trying to learn Haskell. I regularly get a friend of mine to explain things to me, because the documentation and community for Haskell are 90% incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't have a comp-sci degree or a higher education in mathematics. Example: https://wiki.haskell.org/Lifting. It's not that I don't get the concept (after being given a much better explanation), it's just that the Haskell community in particular really seems to struggle with communication. And I think that's where Rust is actually in a good place for learning.

Rust has some confusing concepts, and it does feel like you're fighting the compiler sometimes, but I can see what it's trying to achieve and it's improving very rapidly. I find that I can more-or-less stumble my way through it until I get where I want, as the documentation that is about is generally well-written, even if it doesn't cover everything yet :)

And it's kinda fun!
I'm almost 40. I sleep 8-9 hours a night (typically 10-6, sometimes ~9:30-6:30) and wake up feeling rested without an alarm. In my 20s I needed to sleep 10+ hours a night or I was miserable; but I also pulled roughly one all-nighter a week. Can't do that anymore.
When you focus solely on the "economics" of it, then yes, you are showing yourself to be heartless. There is far, far, far more to this situation than just the economics, and your robotic like desire to focus solely on that does not reflect well on you.
> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/23/13/4A7A6E970000...

If this guy hacks any harder he might pwn the whole Internet.
My mom is a special educator and she mainly works with autistic children.

She had this one child that was severely non-verbal, she did everything in her power to get the County school system to do the right thing but they refused to give her the classes she needed. So, long story short, the parents refused to give up and told their Pastor. The Church went to court and won and the kid got their services. The kid afaik is still non-verbal but is doing much better.

When my mom asked the pastor, why the church went to bat was because they had hope that the kid would get better and it was the right thing to do.

Now, I say all this to say this, that people will do what they think is right. They want their best for their children just as the parent who stubbornly got their church to go to bat for them. And the parents who put their children in homes want the best quality of life.

And I don't necessarily see them as giving up, we perceive that, but I feel deep down, they aren't. They want whats best for their kid.
This is not a defense of the behavior - but it's been strongly asserted that Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers and journalists has more to do with improved abilities to track document access and sharing than it does the explicit desire to confront whistleblowers and journalists. All presidents have wanted to minimize whistleblowing and critical journalism, we just have better tools to understand just who, exactly, accessed that version of the 'secret prison memo' on Feb. 23.

The investigations are more successful so more leakers and whistleblowers get caught.
> Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form.

Slavery is still legal in the USA according to the 13th Amendment.
Apple working on ‘foldable’ iPhone for release in 2020
The division between work-time and pleasure-time was not as rigid as "I'm in the office/vacation," but I don't see that that invalidates the argument. Hanging around drinking and dancing around a maypole is clearly not working.
Thanks for noticing the spectral analysis. We put quite a bit of work into the training system. Besides the base-level Fourier transformed images, we also have a UI for partners who can easily report if an alert was correct or not which also feeds back into the system.
Their lesson, "Build Breadth-first (Data/Pipeline/Model) instead of Depth-first (AI model)" is insightful. Once the pipeline/etc. are built perhaps the AI part is not even needed any more. Finding this out early can save you a lot of trouble.

Another perspective, in which we talk about on integrating AI into existing workflows, among other lessons:

Smith, Reid G., and Joshua Eckroth. "Building AI Applications: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." AI Magazine 38.1 (2017): 6-22.

https://www2.stetson.edu/~jeckroth/downloads/smith-eckroth-2...
Well he is so old he will die well before he can write Population Bomb Re-Revisited.

He would have taught his grandchildren to carry the message on, but he already knows they are doomed.
Civil cases categorically cannot directly result in incarceration.
For anyone who was wondering, that's about $2.5 million worth of gold alone at current prices.
Right. There will be a false positive rate, and there will be gray area cases, as there always is.
I can’t function without 8-9 hours of sleep. Sometimes I try and it doesn’t end well. So I work to avoid it.
A problem I foresee is that even if we could determine them to be as good as a human, they will still be different from a human. People will live that would otherwise have died; people will die that would otherwise have lived. Members of the second set will tend to get far more emotionally involved.

As good as humans implies that over one million people would be killed by robots every year. Some of the families, loved ones and attorneys of these people would be able to make very convincing cases that they would not have died if a human were driving. This is a hard problem to overcome.
I usually sleep 9 hours, sometimes 10. I enjoy sleeping.
Just checked myself in google. It looks he really did. No Facebook page opened
After much experimenting I've found much less than 6.5/7 hours a night and I'm definitely not at 100%. Similarly, much more than 8 and I'm not at 100% either. One offs are fine, but I try and stick to this as much as possible.

I try and exercise every day - I'm not sure whether that equates to me needing more or less sleep, but again, without the exercise I never feel I'm at 100%. Meditation also helps me greatly.

This definitely hasn't always been the case - I'm late 30s. In my 20s, less sleep (or working after drinking, etc) was very much doable. Or maybe I just care more / notice it more.

OP, I'm all for getting stuff done, I appreciate we're all (very!) different, and definitely I'm not trying to mother you(!), but just keep an eye on yourself and your health. Burnout creeps up quickly. Have been there more than once and it's miserable.
> In this context, is it curious that no one has signed on to co-sponsor the following bill?

No one has signed on to HR 5147 because everyone (84 members, all Democrats) who cares enough about election security to cosponsor a bill on it has instead signed on to cosponsor HR 5011 [0], which is a much broader election security bill; to the extent the specific requirements in HR 5147 are desirable and not address by HR 5011, they probably make more sense as an amendment to HR 5011.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5011...
I think it sounds exactly right when a developer comes from a higher level language(like C# or Java with the rich base libraries) to a much low level one.
They both have competing products (Amazon Drive and Google Drive) and yet Dropbox lives on.
Completely agree and this is one of my primary reasons to believe that the social media will be regulated globally with each country following some flavour of the China route.

At the status quo, any politician is at risk of being killed by an angry mob just like Gaddafi if they fail to outbid their opponents. CA showed us that by profiling users it's possible to skew the perception of the public on issues in dramatic ways that are not necessarily in line with the truth at all.

Unlike mass media propaganda, the validity of these messages are not discussed because everyone gets a different message. Even if you try to outbid your opponent, it may not help without reverse engineering their propaganda algorithm.

Even if the Arab spring was an organic outcome, there's no reason why you can't achieve the same effect with bots, data and a creative team of copywriters and graphic artist.
Looks pretty ambitious. My take from skimming:

* switch, if, choose and case extensions look good.

* I can see the justification for labelled break/continue, but looks pretty hairy. Might discourage rethinking and refactoring to something simpler.

* I'm wary of exceptions.

* I don't like the 'with' clauses.

* Weird to add syntax just for mutexes, but they integrate concurrency/coroutines later, so maybe it make sense.

* Tuples are generally useful, but C11's unnamed structs are generally good enough, ie. instead of [int, char] you can return "struct { int x0; char x1 }" or something.

* New declaration syntax is welcome, but the old syntax probably isn't going away, so I'm not sure it's a good idea.

* Constructors/destructors are good. Syntax looks weird though.

* Overloading is very welcome.

* Not sure about operators, but they have their uses.

* Polymorphism is welcome, though it looks a bit cumbersome, and it should come with a monomorphisation guarantee for C.

* Traits seem like too much for a C-like language. I can see the uses, and the compiler can optimize this well, but they're probably too powerful.

* Coroutines are cool.

* Streams look interesting, but the overloading of | will probably be confusing.
OpenPOWER Ecosystem Gains Steam; New Customers and More Than 100 Reveals
> What about the people that started their career right after the bubble popped?

These belong to the group that I called "[those who] invested indirectly into the bubble".
It will be interesting to see how Spotify’s direct listing does.
It seems the page is entirely broken for me, even after disabling all script blockers. Console reports CSP violations.

Is there a plaintext version since the link above is only blank?
They are often in a terrible state here in New Zealand. No liner, on costal estuaries and all of a sudden a storm pulls a section into the sea. It’s depressing how perfectly set up they are to cause trouble.
Russian Astronauts Prepare to Bring the 'Internet of Animals' Online
I got tired of (only) working for other people as a consultant.
Started a side project 14 months ago to create a small scale integration tool, and it turned into a full-on search indexing tool for digital product companies - https://getctx.io

(Basically you connect it with your Slack, Trello, Google Drive, email and GitHub and it indexes the content & lets you search via web or our Slackbot)

I've got multiple clients in trial and a couple of promising community installations for large tech bodies, hoping to get some decent revenue on the scoreboard soon :-)
I'm not sure you can compare the groups in that way without distorting the answer to the question being asked.

In a previous study, a side-effect was discovered in which the gender of the researchers handling the rodents had some impact on their tumor rates. They have a more acute sense of smell and male hormones induced a higher level of stress which caused a higher rate of tumors.

So, let's suppose that approximately 1 member of each group will develop a tumor for some reason unrelated to the effect being studied.

If you have 5 groups, one control and 4 experiments, then potentially you'll see a 4x effect increase if you lump the experiment groups together.

This would only hold of course if the effect isn't directly proportional to the population size -- if it's proportional to the number of groups instead. So, I dunno, maybe. But I'd be reluctant to draw any conclusions from numbers for "all experimental groups" vs "one control group".

And while the percentages and ratios involved can look conclusive (varying from 0% to 2.2% -- that's an infinite percentage increase!), the effects in absolute numbers are still quite small.
Its called calling, or writing those important to you. This has always existed. Quit trying to app the problem away. Its social, not technical.
I'm not in the US so if I'm pulling my stuff out of the US, I don't believe the CLOUD act will bother me.
I'm afraid this view is completely incompatible with the findings in population genetics. Two papers to get you started:

* Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/

* Genetic Structure of Human Populations https://rosenberglab.stanford.edu/papers/popstruct.pdf
"It depends", some offenses require malice, some can driven by negligence and ignorance alone. I'm not sure what category the Hatch Act is in.
I'm roughly the same. I try to be in bed by 9 and wake up at 6. Though it varies a tiny bit on weekends. Going to bed "early" is a habit now and staying up is pretty tough.
> You don't know what the side effects are because you don't know how an assault rifle is defined (it depends on which legislation you're talking about, there's no standard definition)

To clarify:

"Assault rifle" is well-defined with a standard definition. Assault rifles have been illegal for non-military, non-LEO use for decades (with a grandfather clause for rifles purchased before a certain date - these are incredibly expensive due to their rarity and belong mainly to collectors).

"Assault weapon" is completely undefined with no common consensus around what it refers to, and plenty of inconsistent or self-contradictory definitions in use.
Where I live people raid the recycling bins and collect all the cans.
There are several differences between ISPs and websites.

1. ISPs generally require licenses or leases from the government in order to build and maintain their infrastructure. Wireless ISPs, for example, need to license RF spectrum. Wired ISPs generally need to run their wires on public land. You can't just start a new ISP, like you can a new website.

2. Broadband ISPs are generally monopolies or near monopolies in a given area, especially wired ISPs. This is related to #1.

3. Telecommunications services fall under the Telecommunications Acts of 1934 and 1996. Websites do not.