skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Education was a big component of US services export. How many students will this insanity discourage from even applying to US schools? And this from an administration that supposedly worries about the trade deficit.
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The Pragmatic Programmer is one that I re-read every few years.
This is WILD
> GridDB is an In-Memory NoSQL Database

> GridDB utilizes a “Memory first, Storage second” structure. “Hot” data is kept in-memory, allowing for much faster writes/reads on the most-used data.

If that would result in being a in-memory database, than nearly 95% of all databases in the world would be a "in-memory" database.
That is significantly different than disclosing social media profiles and different emails. One (filling out travel information) makes sense because...uhhhh...you're crossing another border so it makes sense to disclose previous travel history that coincides with your stamp book on your passport. The other is uhhhh irrelevant to travel information?
Any suggestions on where in the literature to get started if I wanted to play around with different graph layout algorithms?
MyFitnessPal Data Breach
well played ... or is it? Freddy Mercury anyone?
More than your contribution of idle parroting of the current trend of creating division between the sexes and races. Why does an opinion need to be masculine or feminine?
I thought about having the software auto auto-rebrand itself when a non authorized addon is installed. It's a pain I know, now kodi addon developers need to sign addons. But I'm sure they can automate it somehow.

Require addons and kodi itself not to hardcode the Kodi name/brand (even in logos/addons titles, etc.), if an unauthorized addon is installed kodi replaces all the kodi brand with a generic name, the harder to google the better, something like "Media Player" sounds generic enough.

But I'm sure these box sellers would just "create" custom skins/addons and put the kodi brand there just to spite the developers.
We have jpeg2000 and dng.
Your second link discusses the problems with voting and correctly votes that they are unsolved, which was the entire point. Every solution proposed so far is a huge regression for privacy or coercion, so it’s dishonest to claim that as anything other than an area which could become not-worse if future fundamental breakthroughs occur.

File storage is similar: lots of people want you to buy their pet project but if you want reliable, secure, and cost effective it’s all “maybe sometime in the future when we have something different”. Talk about it as an advantage when it’s competitive for most people.
Maybe it's a part of _your_ problem but I don't think it's a part of _the_ problem. What OP said is correct. Democrats continue to escalate and promote legislation that is deeply invasive.
The social media companies are US companies. Why are they hurting their own companies. Why would I want to have a social media account if every country wants to look at what I consider my personal life. Having accounts won't be worth it. Fuck that.

I already work at a large university that can't use anything hosted on US servers because of their shitty homeland security server laws. So many cloud services out of huge campus wide contracts.

I delete all my apps and texts when I go through borders as well.
Pssssh... you don't know fear until you've tried to put a spring clip cooler on an Athlon XP or Pentium III without rocking it. Even after they added those foam circles to the corners it didn't add much comfort.

Nothing makes you sicker than the sound of a corner of your CPU die crunching.
There are some USB c complaince issues which are yes literally just the wrong resistor.

What you're describing might go beyond that though, in particular if there's multiple ports and hubs involved, that could be not just a usb problem.
If you won't comment civilly and substantively like the guidelines ask we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually went back and deleted all my “controversial” social media posts while I was applying for a visa transfer. This was even before this policy announcement. I don’t put it past vindicative people in the administration to causally check out social media posts while adjucating petitions
No notification via email or app for me as of yet... Seems like the sort of thing I should hear from them first, rather than the Baltimore Sun.
"Sir, we have reviewed your git commit history of the last 5 years and come to the conclusion that you would be gravely endangering the code quality of this country."
Please don't recommend this book. Jared Diamond, while an excellent writer and a solid ornithologist, is a crackpot historian. There's no other word for someone who ignores a couple centuries of work on the question at hand (the influence of geography on history) that would invalidate his ideas and brutally cherry picks his data to match his thesis.

The reason the book is derided as racist is exactly that it tries to generate a mechanistic inevitability for European dominance, the facts be damned.
> five years of previously used telephone numbers,

I couldn't tell even if I wanted to, I go somewhere, pick up a SIM card, trash it when I leave. These days many countries sell them from machines or newsstands at the airport, this is not unusual any more.

Japan and the UK, both from 2015: https://cdn.techinasia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Screen... http://travelpal.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploa... and actually even the USA, this is JFK: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CX0y79EWQAAGlfZ.jpg
I put together a browseable set of example high-quality landing pages here, ranging from startups to larger companies:

https://design.crowdbotics.com

These examples were originally selected by Kesler Tanner over at the Stanford Institute of Design. They represent what's going on as of mid-2017 in landing page design. The one shift that I've seen since this collection was last updated is the migration to bolder, more contrast-heavy color palettes that make use of more illustrations. Intercom and Dropbox's current sites are good examples here.
Well, there are some apps that recorded your call history, even if they had no business knowing that as well.

So it propably doesn't hurt to mention?
Thanks for noticing it, it was down for 45 min.

There are not many services that offer same service that we do.
advantages:
1. You can show ads in more than 98,000 markets in Adwords, 55000 in US alone. No one can have all of the data for all of the markets, if they are scrapping they are getting the result for where their servers are, not where your market is. for example if you are a flower shop in NY, you don't care what ads are showing in SF.
We don't have much data already, but we start collecting it for you once you give us a keyword and location.

2. We are showing all the copies of all the ads showing for any keyword/location not seen that anywhere else.

there are more, check out our sample report and you can see what kind of data we provide. Or you can create login with any google account(free trial, no credit card needed!) and put in some keyword/location and see for yourself.

We scrap the data every hour.
My bad, I thought this was for work visas.
HN quote of the year IMHO: "I think on HN the need for clarity is seen as more important than having fun..."
Summary:

* Context overhaul that makes it way easier to pass state/props down multiple levels of components. Uses function as a child for the API

* Adds React.createRef function to create refs. Creating refs through callbacks is still a thing for advanced cases, but this provides a more ergonomic API to replace the old clunky ref={(c) => this._yourthing = c} type callback.

* Adds React.forwardRef, which solves the issue of HOC not passing refs to the component they're wrapping.

* Lifecycle methods (componentWillMount, componentWillReceiveProps, and componentWillUpdate) are now considered legacy, and will be deprecated in future releases. To replace them, they added two new ones (getDerivedStateFromProps and getSnapshotBeforeUpdate). This is due to these lifecycle methods interfering with the goals of async rendering and other ambitious ideas.

* Adds a StrictMode component, which basically just causes React to log more errors during development about deprecated/legacy APIs and unexpected side effects.
Hacker News???
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>empty promises

Can you please support your position? Bitcoin promised a digital decentralized payment solution, and it delivered the first solution in history.

Monero promised anonymized payments, and they delivered the most private solution for untraceable digital currency.

Can you point me to the superior non-blockchain alternatives?
Two reasons not to... You'll end up with particles sticking to residue on the grates - steel wool breaks apart a lot. And because steel wool rusts. Combined with stainless steel you're not doing yourself any favors. If you've ever scrubbed a white wall on a tire with steel wool you'd never use it on a cooking surface like a grate. Maybe cleaning a pan you can wash out, but. I don't know many people who wash grill grates with any level of frequency.
its a huge amount of mental and emotional work to decide what to get rid off. the storage industry capitalizes on people's procrastination.
Why not the same difficulty across time to give all users equal fair access?

Perhaps it would diminish the ability for early users to extract wealth and capital from later users?
Ditto. When I logged into the web page to change my password (which I never use.. dear god, it's ugly, too), I got a warning. But nothing in the app.
MyFitnessPal was horribly written app when I used it. The idea was good but God was it slow as hell when doing simple things.
This is how Comcast works too: introductory offer and then the price goes up. So about every two years I call them acting like an over sharing man-child and say my parents cut me off and I can’t afford Comcast anymore.
Zealots of the Blockchain: The true believers of the Bitcoin cult
Is there anything better than finding there are 263 comments here on this article? I'm settling in for while.
I really hope it's not perceived or implemented as mandatory "at least one" required.
Unlike victims of gun crimes, the victims of copyright violation do not need to contend with a fundamental right to effect change.
They would have had a long lived token though
It is one of my favourite GC enabled system programming languages.

The most well known version, Critical Mass Modula-3, was made open source and some devs are still developing it.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3

Last commit 4 days ago.
Actually, after reading the article, this doesn't mention tourist visas so my previous point is valid
America’s gender-fluid future, in 100 years of baby name trends
I think it depends what you mean by landing page, and what you're hoping it'll achieve. Most of the pages listed in this thread so far are just good home pages. If you sent ad traffic to them, them will never convert as well as a page with no leaks other than the primary focus of your funnel.
> Can you point me to the superior non-blockchain alternatives?

Credit cards, p2p payments in various countries, and cash.

All digital currencies in one form or another are inferior to existing financial instruments.
> While the Democratic administrations may have continued these kinds of policies (and I will challenge you on whether they as bad as the Republican ones)

It is the same question, on a different immigration form. See this article from 2016:

http://fortune.com/2016/12/23/us-customs-social-media/

The proposal (and public comment period) came much earlier in 2016. This wasn't the result of legislation, the executive branch (both then and now) are doing this all by themselves.

So sorry, I'm not buying the whole, "well when MY party wins this will stop" debate. Both parties have been doing this and neither one seems to be slowing down or stopping. I don't care who is "worse" because actions speak louder than words, so until Democrats OR Republicans get into office and actively repeal these things, it is all just hollow words.
God I wish that game had classic VWs...
Time to revisit any business decision you've ever made based upon default Random Forest feature importances in scikit (Python) or R! Zoiks! :)
> Let's not forget Modula-3.

https://github.com/modula3/cm3

Last commit 4 days ago. :)
Like if this week had not given us enough reasons to not use social medias...
OK, but the point is that the people who want to use inflationary currencies already have lots of options. Good for them. They are free to use those.

And those of us who prefer deflationary ones should be free to use those as well.

I don't get why the mere existence of alternatives pisses off economists and the like so much.

If inflationary currencies are so great, then that's fine, feel free to go use those, and those of us that disagree will choose something else.
Scalable ML/AI on k8s with new Pachyderm release
> And before Amazon and Newegg, return policies were patchy.

OTOH, before the main consumer storefronts were the kind of flea markets of no-name sellers that used to roll into county fairgrounds every couple months, you could actually find good retailers with not only strong return policies, but also focussed on quality parts with a high S/N ratio in their catalog, that even offered added value (including, e.g., mounting CPU and memory when bought with a motherboard.)

Some of those same places survived, but they don't do consumer retail anymore.
One thing to know is that apparently the reason for having seemingly idiotic questions on immigration forms ("are you a terrorist?", "are you a nazi war criminal?") is not that the government is stupid but rather that they're there in order to be able to deport someone for answering the question incorrectly in the event that the government wants to deport them but lacks sufficient evidence to pursue a criminal case. There's a blanket "you answer wrong, we deport you" law somewhere on the books.
The thing I really don't get is why CockroachDB is avoid benchmarking with it's rival tidb (https://github.com/cockroachdb/docs/issues/1412). tidb already pretty mature, used in many big companies (Let's say, Didi, which on the similar scale data with Uber, and banks).

Even if I like CockroachDB's pg sql more, it would be helpful to have the comparison/benchmark to show something more.
Hm, then I'm not familiar with what you're describing.
> "Satoshi invented a useful solution to decentralized consensus".

I think that even if decentralized consensus is workable, it's irrelevant for Wall Street projects because these organizations already have experience creating strong trust relationships and useful governance for collaboration (e.g., traditional contracts).
It was baffling to me why they changed the story in all these ways that didn’t even make for a better story. The scene where Harry just happens to be standing there when Ray is trying to get a loan, for example, felt sort of odd. Screwing the brothers out of the handshake deal for royalties is another odd thing to make up.

The movie was all plot, anyway, just sort of a timeline of facts in movie form, so it’s not like altering the facts at random, in large and small ways, made it more cohesive or something.
tag Troy Hunt and underarmor on Twitter with a pic of this, sit back and enjoy.
I wonder if the daily progress photos were leaked as well. I imagine most people won't be thrilled to have their not-too-flattering progress selfies be out in public for the whole world to see.

Side note: MyFitnessPal the app is awful, but many of us still use it because it has the most extensive database of food products out there. Outside of that it has no merit and has felt abandoned in forever. Can someone recommend an actually superior alternative?
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot_(mimicry)
It mostly works pretty well and looks okay, though the add actions have inexplicable lag on an iPhone X. The web page is horrendous, though.

Overall, the execution is good. I love the integration with iOS activity which means all my Strava and watch+activity and Wahoo cycling computer activities are tracked/integrated. I thought it would be a massive PITA and avoided tracking for years and years because of this, but I'm at something like 120 days straight and it's been a breeze.
>I'm hoping Apple finds that PWAs can actually start replacing native apps in 2018.

Funny; what once was old is new again.

Back in 2007 when there was no App Store, and everything was a web app I wrote one of the first non-Apple weather apps for the iPhone, in conjunction with a local TV station.

It had streaming audio from a real meteorologist to accompany the weather graphics and animated radar. This was a big deal back then. Today... notsomuch.
> It’s purpose being?

Connecting people. Communication between friends. Social events.

> Maybe it’s the use I make of it, but it doesn’t add much to my life. It could go away and I could replace any of its function with something else, or not miss the function at all.

So, maybe learn to use it better? Less? Not at all?

> many are arguing more and more that Facebook is doing more damage than good to society.

I wish people who actually use it and benefit from it would be taken more seriously on HN. This is pretty stark "silent majority" scenario.
Project idea: globally hosted / managed CockroachDB that lets developers quickly start building small apps cheaply or free using this database.

This database has the potential to dethrone Spanner in a major way.
You’re right of course, but it is in the public interest to know that it is happening. Profiling individuals for price discrimination is not popular, violating most people’s notion of fairness.

Amazon experimented with it years ago before pulling the plug after consumer outrage.
If you're in Toronto, the Fifth grill has one too. It is such a long ride for such a short distance but pretty cool. The elevator is about a hundred years old
> You will have to pardon us if things like visas aren't at the top of the agenda right now.

I'm a lefty Democrat, but this is a cop-out. We've been shit on drone strikes and mass surveillance long before the Trump emergency was even a hint over the horizon.

There's extensive bipartisan cooperation in Congress on intrusive surveillance via the NSA, ICE, etc.
In Europe there is public television. They broadcast news and documentairies sans advertising.

Commercial TV is trash.
You laugh - but yes, precisely. The rules specify that you have to declare five years prior history, so if this worries you, keep that in mind!
But if you vacillate between those positions at an exponentially increasing frequency, what is your position at the end?
The French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass
150M MyFitnessPal Accounts Hacked, Says Under Armour
That doesn't mean that creating a new social network automatically besets the network effects of the most dominant platforms. I realize that platforms sometimes get replaced. It is early days for crypto, to be sure. It certainly hasn't reached maturity yet. However, there are examples of other monopolies (AT&T, Microsoft, GE, etc) that have lasted for many decades.
Announcing it after markets close and right before a long weekend (markets are closed on Good Friday). Classy.
Yeah I'm not saying it's hard for me, but I've built a few (using pcpartpicker) and do a lot of electronic design work, so I'm comfortable handling PCB's.

For others, even just pcpartpicker can present an overload of information.
It's pretty easy to intuit about where allocations will occur in Go even though it's not explicit as in Rust, but you don't even have to intuit because Go's profiler does an excellent job of highlighting the allocations, and strategies for working around them are the same as in Rust.

The profiling bit is harder than in Rust, but you only need to do this analysis in the hot path, while Rust requires you to make memory allocation decisions everywhere.
Note: createRef doesn’t replace callback refs. It just offers a more ergonomic API for common use cases.

There are still rarer cases where callback refs are useful. For example when you need to run a side effect on a node as it attaches and detaches.

Also note: legacy lifecycles are not deprecated yet. You won’t see the warnings unless you opt in with <StrictMode>. They will be officially deprecated in a future minor release when more libraries have had time to update.
Nobody is talking about weither google is legally allowed to do this, stop conflating legality with morality.
As We May Think[1], anyone? Or self-driving cars, which go back to at least 1984 in CMU, and yet are still "[near] future tech" now. Neural Nets were a half-century old idea[2] before they became actually useful...

I mean, the question is not "Is Bitcoin as implemented by following the original whitepaper going to be the future of mankind?" It is whether or not there is something big in that whole area (blockchains, decentralized tokens of exchange, PoW/PoS/etc) and, if so, how big?

Of course, for a lot of people, the question is "By, say 2025, is my BTC going to make me rich or is it is not even going to be worth the bits it is encoded in?" Equally hard question to answer, but much less interesting.

The current cycle of blockchain furor could all end up badly (I hope it doesn't, but who knows), and yet that won't mean the tech has no future. Now, it could be like VR/AR/AGI, which are always the future, of course ;)

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...

[2] McCulloch, Warren; Walter Pitts (1943). "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity". Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics
I agree, just pointing out that this isn’t new. GP comment implicated that it is.
Or end up being the loser in one of those forks.
Note that we have no current plans to deprecate componentWillUnmount. (Edit: Parent originally said "componentWill*" deprecated.)
Why do you deserve a job over a resident with equal skills?
> Why does an opinion need to be masculine or feminine?

Uh, that was the point of the comment you called "virtue signalling". It was critical of the idea that international cooperation is "feminine weakness".
Gah! Forgot about those. Maybe because I hate them. I'm sure there was some type of cognitive bias at play.
Try a Looftlighter (or something similar) if you've never. You don't have to use paper/chimney anymore. I started smoking things about 10 years ago and have tried it all. With regard to speed, ease, and cleanup you can't beat electric. Wax starters are another good option if you're out of range of A/C. I'd put my old chimney in third at this point. I'd rather recycle the paper quite honestly.

I don't cook meats anymore but still use my BGE quite a bit.
My favorite was the New York Times from the early 2000's. Lots of information all concisely represented. https://web.archive.org/web/20010202075200/http://nyt.com:80...
Hot concentrated sodium hydroxide will do it. Or oven cleaner, if you can't get chemicals. It won't damage steel, but will dissolve aluminum. Ammonia works too, but not as effectively.
Airbnb to start sharing Chinese host information with government
Noooooooo

I want my pics.
Hmm. I've always thought it was exciting and fun, even when I didn't have the money to replace parts in a potentially-botched installation. I can see where you could get a feeling of anxiety from, but that was never my experience.
The size of the observable universe in Planck lengths. All larger numbers are meaningless.

(Oh no, am I a troll? I think I'm a troll now.)
Note that when the article says "...and Scarlett and Victoria at 1.00, without a single boy.", they actually don't know that for sure. The SSA doesn't report on any name given to less than five children (for privacy reasons), so it's possible that there were up to four male Victorias born last year.