skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current pricing structure is a subscription, but you can use that subscription to use local vaults (syncing manually or via something like Dropbox):

https://support.1password.com/sync-options/

Subscription pricing is pretty optimal for something like 1Password since if there is one product you want to make sure is being actively worked on it is the one with all your passwords. If you previously purchased a license you can continue to do that.
Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution
I’m confused — you honestly expect Netflix’s model to have figured out that your profile is actually 2 people based on what you believe to be regular and obvious cyclical patterns? I would have to imagine that this is a relative edge case for Netflix, and there is no obvious answer for what to do with someone who mostly likes drama but for some reason, goes on a periodic horror binge.

I assume that Netflix’s model has the premise that profiles aren’t in fact, very easy to create. I have separate profiles for my parents, as well as a test profile to see what happens when a user only seems to like the “Human Centipede” trilogy.
To be fair. I used trains on any continent other than America. My comment is a passive critique to any system who aren't able to build such a transport system yet.
Google can't even keep a URL shortener working? Who is in charge over there?
That seems odd to me. If it happens so much how hard is it to have techs just drive a car through the area repeatedly on various days to get sensor data and reproduce it?

If they only tried at the dealership and not the actual place... that seems like a big mistake on their part.
Sure, of course not. But it's my job to decide what counts as substantive for shared HN purposes, and I try to do that by principle and not by preference.
Why do your knuckles crack? Engineers say they finally figured it out
"Retained Earnings" is what you want to google for.

Holding companies are also interesting
http://businesslawblog.ahbl.ca/2012/10/02/benefits-to-using-...
Depends where you live. I had no issues in Europe or Asia so far.
In the US you will have lots of time to sleep due to waiting for an oncoming train to clear.

In most parts of the country we don't have dedicated passenger tracks. Amtrak (our passenger line) just rents track time on the freight lines. The problem is that freight lines are often single track lines so if there is oncoming freight you just wait until the freight clears. Sometimes this his hours.

Until we have dedicated passenger lines, long distance train travel is a non-starter here. It was too slow for my 75 year old uncle on a site seeing tour. His exact words were "fun, but never again"
if (today.month != tomorrow.month):
send_email()
That's a nice way of looking at it, and I'm not going to argue against it per se, but a cynical part of me thinks there's simply more money to be made by pushing loans on young adults and then using them in the workforce.

US student loan debt is somewhere around $1.4 trillion. For comparison, mortgage debt is somewhere around $8.9 trillion. That's a pretty damn big market. [0][1]

If that education was free, I'd wholly agree with you that it's simply our society deciding this is for the betterment of all. But when you combine these two sources of debt (student loans so we can get jobs that afford us home mortgages) then we're looking at a new, weird, first-world form of debt bondage. [2]

Again, I realize that's a very pessimistic point of view. Will be interesting to see how the history books view it in years to come.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_debt#/media/File:Stude...
[1]: https://www.marketplace.org/2018/02/13/economy/divided-decad...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
Introducing Schematic
It seems like the "paradox of choice" could be handled better. Ideally this would be handled similar to how Wirecutter does reviews, with a clear recommendation followed by alternatives.
Thank you. I can totally understand that. I appreciate it.
Yes, it is obvious. What do you think a plane pilot does when autopilot is on? He watches to make sure everything is alright, and intervenes when necessary.
This is really excellent. I used to use Altap Salamander when I was more of a Windows user, and it became one of my most indispensable tools. I've tried most of the Mac commander-style clones (Forklift, Pathfinder, fman, Nimble Commander) and found them slightly off for various reasons. This one really hits the mark for me in terms of functionality, usability/feel, performance, and predictability. And the Sublime-style command palette makes it even better. Excellent job!
> True, but let's not blame the victim.

I don't even think that even applies in this case.

If TFA is correct and there is a problem in this particular spot and you still rely on autopilot then who is left to blame except the person who entrusted their life to a system known to be faulty?
I'm really curious about

> Mother Teresa as the sole artistic[...] oh, wait.

What do you mean? I just don't understand if you're saying whether we should only look to (supposedly) flawless people, or... what? If it's the former then I submit that there's a pretty long way from "not flawless" to "paedophile".

The reason I ask, is that I think it's acknowledged pretty widely that Mother Teresa was actually a pretty flawed person who, through blind faith and belief, actually worsened the suffering of those in her care, and perhaps even caused the deaths of people who actually had treatable diseases, etc. etc. There's quite a lot of interesting things: [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
Apple is aggressively hiring Siri engineers after widespread criticisms
I'd definitely blame an airline pilot who crashed because he relied on autopilot in a situation he knew was not handled well by the autopilot. (I would also blame the autopilot.) I don't see why the driver of a car with any kind of semi-automated system should be held to a lesser standard.

It sucks that the driver died, and it sucks that the Tesla autopilot system had problems handing that kind of situation, but that does not mean the driver is blameless. He put himself and the people in the cars around him at risk by using the autopilot feature on a stretch of road where he knew it did not work well.
> Several employees suggested Facebook attempt to screen employees for a high degree of “integrity” during the hiring process.

Is this a euphemism for "fidelity", or do they really, genuinely mean "integrity"? In my mind "integrity" implies doing the right thing if it's not to the immediate benefit of those close to you, but that could very well involve whistleblowing or leaking information for the benefit of the greater good, which doesn't seem to be in line with what they want. Seems to me that they really mean they just want people who'd stay steadfastly loyal to themselves?
> I don't know how effective it is, I'd like to learn more. But I smell the possibility that these CA type firms are simply selling snakeoil to desperate political activists.

According to the article:

"The accuracy he claims suggests it works about as well as established voter-targeting methods based on demographics like race, age, and gender....the digital modeling Cambridge Analytica used was hardly the virtual crystal ball a few have claimed."

It's pretty clear that they were selling snakeoil. In fact, the use of CA wasn't particularly helpful to anyone [1]...hiring them was just a prerequisite for obtaining campaign contributions from the Mercer family, who had put up the money behind CA [2].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-facebook-...

[2] https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/975756418128187393
Still waiting for Dan Schneider to fall.
It would be too much of a double edged sword that I'm sure Troy must have realized.
Which raises the question of the purpose of link shorteners anyway.

They are usually so obscure and jumbled that reading them out loud to someone would be slow and awkward ( "that's goo dot gl, no e" ). So what is the use-case?
Is Infinity better than Trello?
It might be plugins.
Andy Warhol's Ruthenian Catholicism
Yoga and Ancient Indian technology has already talked about BrahmaMuhurtha, which is the apt time for meditation and thus time to practice any skill required. BrahmaMuhurtha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmamuhurtha).
>>> I think it's tangential to the safety question -- actually-existing commercial GMO crops have been tested and demonstrated to be safe, that seems to be clear.

Actually, it's not that clear. They have been proven to not be unsafe, which arguably is a lot easier. But a lot of countries still ban them specifically because the "safe" part wasn't proven. Obviously this depends on the crop, as GMO means a lot of different things.
Even in Europe to get from A to B you need to switch trains super often. Like in France you almost always need to go to Paris first before going somewhere else because the network is so centralized around Paris.
Slack's inclusion feels a little odd, since the customer in their case is the business paying for the service, not the individual. They do claim deleting a workspace cannot be undone.
In Asia and Europe it's only developing since ever in my pov
They are not able to be heard (at least in a common city setting) above 100ft or so, in my experience. Maybe less.

I imagine any drone network would fly at a couple hundred feet for most of the journey, and only be a "nuisance" for the period of time it has to descend straight down to the delivery point.
That was fantastic, thanks for posting it! It would make for a great story to be read aloud too, if one could find a way around the several-dozen-digit number...
1. There are programs to help scientists become data scientists:, e.g. https://www.insightdatascience.com/

2. You don't feel like you're a good bet. But companies may disagree, if you present yourself with confidence.
Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network
It's too early to draw that conclusion. Note that the claims in the article are coming from the family and haven't been corroborated by Tesla yet. It's possible they are incorrect about aspects of the story they're telling for various reasons.
I've been a satisfied 1Password customer for many years, and so far as I know, they have always supported the "bring your own" method for doing password database synchronization via some other cloud service. DropBox was the first obvious solution in this space, but they should work with any of the others.

And they've also always supported the local wifi-only solution, where you have to be on the same network, and physically authorize both devices to talk to each other, before they can sync the password database.

If enpass.io works for you, that's great. I'm glad you're happy with it. But this feature isn't unique to enpass.io.
Airplane pilots are supposed to do that, no?
One thing to remember in all the discussions about the accident is, that there is no information available whether the autopilot was active at the time of the accident.
None of what you listed is happening in China. It also will not be happening anywhere at any time. Restaurants won't become industrial kitchens because that is not what restaurants are for.
I must admit, when I read it, it did absolutely read to me like a contrarian attempt to start debate. I find it hard to believe that anyone would post sentiments along the lines of ‘we connect people, so what if someone commits suicide’ without it being a deliberate attempt to start debate.

If he actually believed that stuff, it would be extraordinary scary. I don’t think he does.
Howard Stern is also the venue where Trump talked about walking in on beauty pageant contestants while they were naked. And that was without irony.
Sorry for the ramble. The response is appreciated regardless.
(Feel no compulsion to reply by the way, I just wanted to try and be more clear, I'm already grateful you took some time to try and answer.)

To distill it: I don't share the perception that enforcement is consistent. Social/sexual topics REGULARLY frontpage with minimal scores, while economic/political topics regularly languish despite having both closer ties to our industry and relating to much more impactful individuals.

To answer your own question "what sort of site HN is trying to be," I'd echo a statement the mods have made in the past, that it likely precludes topics that things like ET and chose your favorite tabloid has already covered to death by the time it shows up here, and primarily end up encouraging polarizing arguments without productive ends.
For gaming. Also don't forget the annoying latency. But if you need to transfer from/to GPU memory all the time, like in large Deep Learning training datasets, you downgrade your GPU significantly; that's why I wrote 1080Ti -> 1060. You already have high end PCIe GPUs starved and waiting on memory transfers in Deep Learning all the time.

You could have observed something similar with e.g. SATA 1/2/3 SSDs and M.2 PCIe. For normal workloads, each new generation was slightly better performing, i.e. booting OS etc. But once you went into processing 4K RAW video, only M.2 PCIe was usable.
Unbeknownst to the author, if you have an internet connection, there are an infinite number of ways to communicate rather than use a closed-garden and predatory medium like facebook.
No, you can not drive into a wall, even if that wall has been missing it's safety cushion to protect those stupid enough to drive into a wall.
Runbox is leaving the Facebook platform
They typically are blamed.
Data is terrible, especially for polarizing candidates like Trump. People simply lie in public about not voting for him, afraid of backlash that they will receive.
What's the advantage of ever using cmp over just always using cmp_once?
You fail to take into account reduced price sensitivity and price manipulation, for instance Whole Foods prices in my area, Tucson, are 30-50% higher than Sprout’s or Trader Joe’s, and that nominal sales and marketing and general administration DOES NOT cost $5 per order, but functions more as a fixed cost.
You asked if Trump supporters have been disappointed. I gave you an example of a person who supported and even advocated for Trump, and is disappointed with his presidency. If that isn't what you wanted, you should have asked for something else.
I suppose it makes sense in weird way, since both Python and Rust have these features implemented in similar ways because it stems from more traditional functional programming. You could also compare Java to C++ on account of them both being inspired by C.
> He also makes a startling claim -- that before the crash, Walter complained "7-10 times the car would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot. Walter took it into dealership addressing the issue, but they couldn't duplicate it there."

Doctor! It hurts when I do _this_!
Maybe he should be. Especially if he started grooming her from the age of 13, as in this case. Lots of rich famous people get away with things.
So basically you just assume the first coins out of a freshly-blacklisted wallet are stolen?

Does that accurately model human behavior? Will it continue to once said humans learn of that technique?
Breaking Down HackerRank’s Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar
At it's core, this URL shortener is just S3 redirect objects [0], behind a cloudfront CDN. So by "fast", you probably mean one of these things:

1) User clicking on a URL: the latency of this action is mostly determined by the latency of cloudfront, which is pretty fast [1]. (Except in the case of a first-click when cloudfront has to do a pull from S3, which is also not bad [1])

2) Creation of a new short URL: this action is the execution of a lambda function, which in my experience is ~1s in cold-start scenarios, and near instant otherwise.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-...

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-typical-latencies-for-static-...
> as a test profile to see what happens when a user only seems to like the “Human Centipede” trilogy.

And? You can't just leave us hanging on that.
> Still, as an Amazon investor, I do wonder why Amazon has to do everything themselves. It makes me nervous that they are essentially building or their own ride sharing network rather than leveraging existing networks.

When Prime Now started, there were no other companies that were doing what Amazon wanted to do. Let alone, keep up with the expansion that Prime Now has realized over the past few years. In addition to all that, Amazon loves to optimize every little detail. Flex is the logistics infrastructure that didn't exist to support Prime Now and other delivery programs such as Fresh, .com packages, etc.
The gig economy keeps growing, but worker benefits aren’t
I was never able to hold a 9-5 job. I could manage a year, but during that year I was just physically and mentally exhausted. I just cannot wake up earlier than 8 and at the same time I am unable to get to sleep earlier than 10. In the morning I was asleep and feeling productive in the evening when I was commuting back home. My performance was really bad and employer didn't think I am a good worker. My only choice was to go freelancing where I can adapt work to my waking hours.
I think it should be illegal for employers to force 9-5.
Well, they do make a lot of what goes into the car in-house. And they design it in house, too.
So if 2 good coins and 2 bad coins go into a UTXO, then that's split to a 3 coin and a 1 coin output, is the 1 coin tainted?
For whom would calorie restriction be dangerous?

I don't get the time and monetary cost either. You can precook your meals for a whole week on Sunday night, as long as you don't mind a little repetition.
No. I know at least one political consultancy that does a similar work in Spain, although I only know they work with data, use micro targeting and is run by a sociologist.
If a Tesla on autopilot hit your car, would you be happy with an outcome in which the driver did not accept any blame?

Would it make a difference if you learned that the driver knew there were problems with autopilot and was using it anyway?
Computing skewness and kurtosis in one pass
This is actually the exact sort of long-form journalism I would expect from an outlet with proper pedigree, and it's the sort of hard-to-monetize journalism which BuzzFeed funds with its separate clickbait business model.

This is Palanti(e)r journalism from them. Your comment suggests you didn't even click the link.
If you take issue with my post, then please be specific rather than throwing a link to a big page at me.

Seriously, am I somehow supposed to divine your criticism of my post from that link?
If they stop this option, I'm moving off of it ASAP. It's the only feature keeping me on there.
That's interesting, but it will still rely on some method of enforcement to do something about it, the entire point of bitcoins existence seems to be to make that harder.
It's not clear what this is.

Is it related to Apple's Swift language?
>I don't know how effective it is, I'd like to learn more.

Here is an interesting Ted Talk which discusses an FB experiment that details how effective minor UI changes can be on voter turnout (13:40)

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
I'm not sure it's true that social/sexual topics get more moderation support than economics topics. Both overlap with politics and both have intellectually interesting areas. From my point of view we moderate them much the same. Purely political stories are different.

One of the most consistent phenomena I've observed here is that people's images of bias invariably reflect their own preferences. Users place a much higher weight on things they don't like than on things they do like. So to the extent that you prefer A stories to B stories, you're likely to feel there are way too many of B relative to A.

You're welcome to let us know (hn@ycombinator.com) if you see a particularly interesting economics story that deserves a chance at attention. We can take a look and maybe put it in the second-chance queue, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there. What we look for in such an article is how much of a diff there is from other stories of the genre. If it's more substantive than usual, that's good; if it seems predictable or likely to lead to predictable discussions, that's bad. Same standard as we applied to this one.
If foo and bar are functions,

foo() > bar() ? foo() : bar()

can have a different result than

int __x = foo();
int __y = bar();
__x > __y ? __x : __y
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Postmortem
Anyone have a video of what this does? I don't want to register, I want to just use it.
I think that's what the poster means.

If you disqualify impactful people who are imperfect, you have disqualified all people.
> Something that will also be great will be a sort of "crash dump/bug report" button for these cars.

Good point, and it isn't just vehicles with auto-pilot perhaps all vehicles.

The 2017 and 2018 Chrysler Pacifica Minivan kept on randomly shutting off[0] and loosing all electrical power at freeway speeds. You had to put the vehicle back into park, on the freeway, to restart it. There are several stories of near death experiences trying to get to the shoulder. It was intermittent.

This is relevant because nobody could figure out why, even the manufacturer. They had to install custom self-powered diagnostic equipment in consumer's vehicles to even try and get enough data on it. Turns out that suddenly cutting power to the onboard computers doesn't make them very useful for diagnostic analysis, some dealers even acted like the problem didn't exist because the computer had no record.

They did ultimately get it fixed (replaced an engine management unit or similar) but it does go to show that modern vehicles are getting so complicated that even manufacturers are struggling to stay ahead of it. Tesla's autopilot and similar just takes that up another notch.

[0] https://www.autoblog.com/2017/11/21/chrysler-pacifica-owners...
'I was so excited about auto-pilot and dreamed of getting in my car and sleeping while it made cross-country trips. So much for that, that seems way far out.'

My only experience of automated driving is the feature where you can set a maximum speed. This is useful in the UK since average speed cameras are commonplace on the motorway network nowadays and it is easy for your concentration to lapse and drift over the current limit. The cameras are automated and there isn't much leeway.

However, the speed limits often change in range of 50, 60, 70 mph depending on local conditions and roadworks, so you can never just 'set and forget' you need to be alert all of the time since speed limits can change frequently.

It's going to be a long time before I trust a car to do this on its own without my supervision and, as regards going to sleep and letting the car do 'everything' on its own, I don't envisage being able to do this comfortably in my lifetime.
Magazines' purpose historically has been to promote and spread materialism
Cool! What's it's license?
> It seems that such people can't possibly deal with legal problems, medical problems, car problems...

230 times a year? they probably can't.
> What I want to know is what's wrong with __builtin_constant_p.

1. __builtin_constant_p might not return a constant--it might return a magic value that says "I don't know yet, ask me again at a later optimization step". __builtin_choose_expr needs to be evaluated pretty early, so "ask again later" isn't good enough for it.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/18/268

2. It doesn't really care if it is constant in the __builtin_constant_p-sense, it cares if it has side-effects.

> ({x++; 0;}) is constant in the eyes of __builtin_constant_p, but not side-effect free.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/18/316
Curvature and automatic differentiation