skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common talking point amongst the the anti-regulation crowd (not that I'm accusing you being in that group :), but it's not really true. The Ranger was killed in 2011 because its market was disappearing, due largely to the marketing success of the F-150. Jackie DiMarco, Ford's Chief Engineer for the F-150, said as much when confronted about it:

"We're investing in F-Series because the small truck segment has steadily shrunk from almost 8 percent of total industry sales in 1994 to 1.9 percent of industry sales in 2012" [1]

I agree that CAFE, as instituted, contains some perverse incentives, but that's an argument for more sensibly crafted regulation. It's not a good argument against regulation in general.

1 - https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/trucks/a8845/reddit-re...
What excites me is even the smallest possibility of Microsoft going towards Linux desktop.

Let’s see.
So charge more?
We're all here chatting and discussing from the offices of some of the most significant offices in the world... performing functions that affect literally billions of people worldwide.

I've been thinking a lot about the wealth of brilliant and near-brilliant, and sub-brilliant-but-still-very-clever brains here on HN. Wondering what sort of opinion shaping we are subject to... how we might notice it... and what it means for society that we're all here thinking and changing minds together.
Didn't realize this was possible with Sphinx (Python) until I saw your comment and did some digging. Here's the relevant documentation if anyone else is curious:

http://docs.sphinxdocs.com/en/latest/step-3.html#step-3-keep...
Everything You Need to Know About the Twelve-Factor App
Sadly this is exclusive.

"Udacity Universe offers virtually limitless opportunities to interact, collaborate, and problem solve, and is exclusive to students of our Flying Car and Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree programs."
One of my pet peeves is journalists who don't understand what a watt is. I frequently see statements like "The plant will produce 50MW, enough to power 40,000 homes for a year."
The idea is climate change + population growth will stress humans on the continent and increase environmental destruction and poaching.
Please stop posting flamebait and taking HN threads off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Experience with System76 14“ model?
I'm seriously considering it given the possibility to load it up with 32GB of RAM, but I'd like to hear from someone who actually used it.
Lewis Black [1] made this observation (with less diplomatic language) back in 2004:

... I flunked that course. It's not my fault.
They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning.
And there is absolutely nothing that you can
learn out of one bloodshot eye. After I flunked
the first two tests, I grabbed the professor
by the throat and I said, "Why are you
teaching this **** at this ungodly hour?
Are you *trying* to keep this stuff a secret?"

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414224/quotes/qt0252382
Last weekend, the Oregon Symphony performed the score for Jurassic Park as the film played on a big screen above the orchestra. It was great fun. More than once, I caught myself thinking "this place has a really great sound system".
No, changes in circadian rhythm with age are fairly constant across human societies, though we westerners do have our additional pathologies. Teenage bushmen tend to stay up later than their parents just like teenage westerners do. Making teenagers wake up earlier than younger children is just a bad idea.
Why do you think it hasn't been surpassed?
>It's the developer's responsibility to handle their ecosystem's problems, which is also nothing new in the world of software development.

This is where you have to start questioning the benefits of using node/npm/js on the backend. We're all stuck with it on the front end for the foreseeable future.

I've never had any of the problems in node/npm using NuGet/C# for example.

At some point, I raised my hands and emailed my boss about a new project using node, essentially saying "this is dumb. left-pad is dumb. is-number is dumb. is-odd is dumb. the amount of packages depending on these is dumb. And I won't be arsed to fix it because I value my time, so I'd rather just jump back to an ecosystem that has its shit together because the result is the same simple API pushing json either way we go."

node/npm sucks IMO. Sorry, but the problems I have to fix daily are not interesting, and conquering the mountain and being able to say I fixed all those every-day problems with it is not worth much on the job market.

If the amount of web backends suddenly needs node because they suddenly stop pushing json all day long, because node/npm is the only ecosystem that offers that solution, then you have a compelling reason. But other languages do json APIs just fine right now and have less ecosystem paper cuts.
Efficiency aside, that feels like awful planning to me. Growing up in the Bay Area, the threat of a significant earthquake has been ever-present. My family always had several dozen bottles of water and a reasonable amount of canned/jarred/dried food around.
you can only within 24 hours of publishing. After that you need to send them an email to request it and they determine if it can be unpublished or not.
My home IPv4 address from a major cable internet company hasn't changed in over a year and I don't have a static IP.

Even when they do change, knowing ping times plus IP address owner plus superficial usage patterns would easily be enough to narrow down to a single household. Many households will have a unique DNS footprint based on the exact makeup of internet connected devices in the household that are constantly phoning home.
There are so many issues with this comment (I appreciate it though, wish we could have a full conversation about this).
a) If you'd do some research you'd see that "100y ago" actually was often times better b) Getting off this planet? To where? Colonize Mars? To do what exactly? The category to that jeopardy answer is: Things that won't happen for 200
Thanks. This is exactly what I am looking for.
DECIMAL(38, 18) in SQL should do nicely for that.
> Some don't, it's biological that's all.

That really sounds like we're hand-waving away what is happening. The biology might be an effect, not a cause.
Colonize other locations? If we can't live in equilibrium with our home planet, there's no way we'd be able to manage a second less habitable one. How about a third? Then we're a plague of locusts, descending, destroying, departing.

Agent Smith was right.
Zstandard v1.3.4 – faster everything
> “How fucking terrible that some irresponsible jerk decided he or she had some god complex that jeopardizes our inner culture and something that makes Facebook great?“

This sounds like the perfect storm in the perfect bozo culture, like the one perfectly described in Dan Lyon’s “Disrupted”. If you haven’t read that book, I can’t recommend it enough for understanding the insanity of tech startups.
The stuff being reported around Facebook is certainly cause for serious concern. "Cult"[0] has a pretty contentious meaning which is problematic when applied to Facebook without further analysis—it can certainly be separated from issues of loyalty and morality. "Cargo cult"[1] really doesn't apply at all, at least in the context of what you're describing here.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#Metaphorical_uses_o...
We have yet to return to the excellent pop music of the 80s.
I think that's true when they can tell the difference. But a lot of times, the doctor is just "go get an MRI, and hey, why don't you go to the place in our building". The price will be 3x higher than the place down the street, but the patient doesn't know that or care. Now, some insurers do indeed have strict in-network requirements, where they approve each place and how it provides care, and that can be a reasonable solution to this problem, but patients hate it, so many of them don't do it, and instead absorb this cost.

> You want to improve healthcare? Fix drug prices, fix the adversarial model between insurers and providers

What does 'fix drug prices' mean though? And why would 'fixing the adversarial model between insurers and providers' help things? In every other setting, adversarial models push costs down. These seem more like aspirations than solutions.
That was a succinctly put clarification of some thoughts I've been trying to coherently put together for quite some time! Thanks for this.
I am looking tutorial type stuff than on being informed about releases etc. So, following contributors is not much use to me, personally
What's widespread mean? I bet more people drive drunk than are tempted to vote illegally. The penalty for first time intoxicated driving is often just a fine.

The max jail time in Texas for first time DWI is 180 days (or as little as 3 days).
This is a nonsensical experiment:

The role of the old 'genius-stradivari' violin is there to impress by its own history - not by it's sound.

Of course can the Stradivari be 3d scanned and analysed to death and be rebuit as an even better sounding facsimile, but that totally misses the point:
Alternative title: Bing expands their market, now your go-to for both porn and piracy.

Edit: also note that it's just the autocomplete, not the actual search results
You've hit the key point from my POV.

I have a hard time having empathy for Facebook in this situation when their entire approach to user's information has been incredibly disrespectful. Constant TOS changes. Misleading privacy settings. Opt-out rather than opt-in sharing. Dark patterns designed to serve the company rather than the user ... and straight up bad ideas. I deleted my account right after they did the TOS change that Cambridge Analytica took advantage of. (The one where your friends choices would share your information. That was a transparently dumb idea from the get go.)
"Almost all of the shares [COB+CEO] controls get ten votes each, but public shareholders only get one vote per share. That gives [COB+CEO] over 50% of the voting power even though he only owns about 16% of the shares."

Question: In this situation, if the person serving as COB+CEO is "incompetent" (e.g., "absentee"), what can shareholders do, besides divesting their holdings?

Source:

Todays Wall Street Journal

Author:

https://www.skadden.com/professionals/b/barusch-ronald-c
You implied that the attitude towards discouraging leaks is cultish, but it seems rational to me.
Here are a variety of pictures to give you an idea of the range of morphology:

http://blossomnursery.com/

http://blossomnursery.com/pawpaw_PIX.html

http://blossomnursery.com/pawpaw_more_pix.htm
You're aware of rising poverty levels in the FIRST world? Besides you can't fix distribution caused poverty, there will never be a frikking oasis of societal beauty in the heart of the Sahara.
I logged into one on Sierra. Every iCloud service I use got locked down over the next 20 minutes and it wasn’t fun getting them back. Turns out I’m rather locked into the Apple ecosystem. Somehow Apple detect hardware configuration and check it on login. The mess it left wasn’t pretty.
That is an argument for thinking very hard about where you work and what you spend your time doing. Or, on the other hand, being very clear with yourself that you are a mercenary and work for money. These people can yell about the leaker all they like, it doesn't change what they've been up to for the last months and years.
CQRS is great. But you can implement it very efficiently using standard logging techniques. Blockchains are just a slow, inefficient implementation of CQRS.
Ask HN: Startup in USA, How do we comply with GDPR?
We are a small (4 person) company in the USA. We have a private website used by a small number of large enterprise customers. We are in the USA and all our customers are in the USA.

One of our long-time customers suddenly had their attorneys contact us regarding new European laws called GDPR. They are demanding that we must comply with GDPR and prove this to them by sending various agreements like "DPA". They're calling us a "processor" which is apparently a GDPR term. They are using a lot of terminology we don't understand.

We've spent a lot of time Googling this and are more confused than anything. We're not even sure if we're subject to these laws. We asked our long-time lawyer, who said he had no experience with GDPR.

Our system processes technical data. The only user or personal information we collect is name and email address, which is provided by users when they sign up. We have a small number of colocated servers that we own. All customer data is stored on those servers and we don't use third party services whatsoever.

Are any of you in small companies facing a similar situation. How are you handling it?
This seems to assume that public debate is masterminded according to a particular design
I agree. Just beginning work on a react project installs 300MB or so of tooling, and when you throw Electron into the mix, expect a huge node_modules folder.
In the PowerPC days, they didn't really even have the option of an integrated GPU though. Even Intel's GPU that was integrated into the north bridge didn't come along until 98. And it was more of a cheap option for desktop fleets rather than a power conscious chip for laptops.
?

> https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html

Write doctests in your docstrings, run python -m doctest
People do often forget this about DHCP addresses: Most DHCP servers will renew your same IP for as long as practical, and this often spans years. At work, my NIC held its same lease for about two years, I was a little sad recently when I discovered it had finally changed.

How I monitor my house also lets me know when my public address changes, and its extremely rare.
Music is one of the few remaining areas of mass media where I think having the file on your drive is a must. I’ll buy from places that don’t let me download, and then pirate a copy to actually own. I want to support the artists, but get real, if I bought it I want to own it.
In every somewhat serious company I've worked they used a local npm cache like jfrog (usually same one that's used for maven) that can get scanned for security. So yeah, that's how people use npm.

Unpublishing within those companies is usually not allowed, in the official npm registry you can only unpublish within the first 24 hours of publishing, after that you need to request it by email.
OK, the headline and press release basically have nothing to do with the underlying paper.

The paper itself is a small sample size (24) trial that looks at tolerance. There are no statistically significant physiological effects of dosing with NR in the paper. You see a small increase in the levels of various metabolites that you would expect to see increase after dosing. They only look at cardiovascular effects, and the results are inconclusive at best.

University press offices are doing nobody any favors with this kind of thing. It has to stop.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03421-7.pdf
Coinhive Exposé Prompts Cancer Research Fundraiser
That's only somewhat true. If you're exposed to sunlight during the day, much brighter than a lit room, it will tend to have an influence on your circadian rhythm. You might be able to sleep at arbitrary offsets but the quality of your sleep will suffer. Though wearing sunglasses when outside during the morning will help you get to sleep later and wearing them outside during the afternoon will help you sleep earlier. And I'm not aware of research showing a problem with shifting your sleep to arbitrary offsets if you're never exposed to sunlight, though that might have other bad effects.
Yeah why would FB sell that info when it's the key to their targeted advertising?
> I’m betting that we will see a GPU-backed external display

Does iOS show any signs of supporting external GPUs?
They accidentally made it publicly available (hence the cache) but I wasn't able to submit it yesterday when it was available.
Not that much longer. This mass extinction is believed to be 10-100 times faster than any previous.
In self-contained apps couldn't a single prop be passed down that's an object with all things like that in it? Maybe there's a scenario with 3rd-party components where context could make it look more elegant, but I don't have a clear picture.

I know there are several ways to construct a component, but I like that your examples make them functions of props, because that's how I picture a component. Having its behavior depend on a semi-hidden context appears less purely functional. To stretch the term a little, the component is no longer idempotent. Maybe there's a situation where that's what you want, but the examples you've given so far sound like ones where props would serve just fine.
Moi, je vois français.
Here's what happens (from someone who's been trying this for 12 years, to make the switch):

You go to bed early, lay in bed for an hour or so trying to fall asleep. Eventually, frustrated, you get back up again and try to read a book again for a few hours to help you fall asleep. By now it's very late and you wake up tired in the morning.

Chronic lack of sleep during the week causes you to catch up on the weekend by sleeping in until 11AM or later, which means you can't fall asleep at an early time again.

Your advice doesn't work and you have to frame of reference as to why because it doesn't happen to you.

Do you go around telling fat people to just eat less also?
In that they have a tender, thin green skin and creamy white flesh. The flavor profile is pretty different though.

Pawpaw has been described as tasting like banana custard.

They area related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherimoya

(And yes, Sapotes are amazing too - one of my favorite fruit.)
Western countries aren't nearly as overpopulated as most Eastern countries. Compare the States, one of the larger Western countries, to China. Or India.

It's absolutely an issue, but the West is a saint compared to the East right now.
Maybe I lack ambition, but .. I don't need my career to change the world. I do a job which helps people to be where they have to be at the time they should be there. The world doesn't change because your elevator gets repaired faster (because someone could see "oh right, x has space in their tour and they are in the area, great") or if you can call your new internet provider and they can say "Your technician will arrive between 10 and 12" instead of "between 9 and 17 'o clock".

Neither changes the world. But it is a small step to help people do their jobs just a little bit better, so someone can be a little bit happier or less inconvenienced and that's enough for me.
Glitch, now v1.0, goes open-source starting with Glitch.com
This is a nonsensical experiment.

The role of the old 'genius-stradivari' violin is to impress by its own history - not by its sound.

Of course can the Stradivari be 3d scanned and be analysed to death and be rebuit as an 'even better sounding' facsimile, but that totally misses the point:

When someone plays an 300 Year old instrument, the ooze of connotation to that history alone is enough to elevate the performance.
It's not only a horror, it's idiotic and completely avoidable.

Some people say it's an upgrade, but I don't see why they couldn't upgrade and keep the other ports around, since people need those daily.

For sure I've used my 89-euro dongle a lot more than I've used the USB-C port (which is never), until I got sane again after 8 years of getting overcharged by Apple and switched to Microsoft hardware running Xfce Linux (which are both wonderful).
Not many students see their ethics course as anything more than a writing credit, with some resentment.
What if you didn’t have to drive to work?
It's no use being jealous of those that have lots of money. It comes with it's own problems, by the way.

The good lesson of the article is this: If we spend less than we make (no matter the amount), we can eventually stop working if we allow the magic of compound interest to work for us.
My statement was just anecdotal from what I've heard. I don't have a lot of inside info, so thank you for sharing.
You have that backwards. Pretty much everything else is a symptom of overpopulation, which is the root problem.

No matter how green and efficient we are, if the population keeps growing it won't really matter.
Yeah, but do you want that sort of food when you are sick? Plus I don't dig into my emergency supplies when there are other options available.
Debate in a corporate environment is, in fact, masterminded. In these cases, its often specifically encouraged, in a certain fashion. The venues for the debate are built and moderated for that purpose, backed by the policies of allowed conduct of the employer.
git doesn't offer what github offers (PRs, reviews, comments, ...).

Do people here actually think about the alternatives when they complain certain systems are too centralized?

If you stop using Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket today, you won't be able to collaborate because you no longer have a way to do the things Github lets you do. This isn't Github's fault.

Git is decentralized in that it has logic that allows multiple upstreams/downstreams. It's not magic. It's not "blockchain" or whatever.

Github is not decentralized, it's a SaaS product which offers git-compatible and svn-compatible repository storage, an excellent UI, comments, reviews, issue tracking and a bunch more. FOSS developers are asking you to create accounts to Github not so you can download their repository (you don't need to!), but so you can actually use the contributing tools on offer.

Sorry, I realize this isn't the tone you want to hear, but these comments about "centralized systems in decentralized worlds" are just so empty and meaningless. There's a few projects out there which actually try to solve the abstract issues you mentioned by, for example, adding comment/review metadata to git repositories. But you still have access control to take care of and at the end of the day, you need to trust some party; just like at the end of the day, with DNS, you have to put in a couple of IPs that you trust to provide you with good results.

Yes, you have to create a Github account to contribute to some projects. Has nothing to do with git, has everything to do with being able to use the services that Github provides. What is it that you're actually suggesting?
> in spite of all the evidence to the contrary?

evidence of the contrary? What is your evidence to measure the value of Facebook is not outweighted by its costs?
The author is a pm at Amazon
Mailchimp has offered dedicated IPs for years - the code and operational processes around that are already established. Gmail also rarely blocks at the IP level, especially for an established provider like Mailchimp.

Ultimately, this is first and foremost a policy decision around the extent of fraud in ICOs generally, and secondarily related to many ICOs' lack of adherence to Mailchimp's anti-spam standards.
None of this is censoring. The government is not prosecuting this speech (which falls under commercial and is not completely free) and closed platforms can do whatever they want. In fact, as the last 100 topics have shown, regulation in digital advertising is sorely needed.

Email is the most open API of all, you can send people anything from anywhere using a simple email server so I don't see what the big deal is, especially in dropping a service for doing something that doesn't have any affect on your business at all.