skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can anyone comment on support for purchase orders which a lot of companies use to recognise or initiate a purchase?
it seems to still be the only thing that needs to be manual in that process....
People in the UK took a different approach to get potholes filled in [1] - basically spray painting penises on them to shame the Council into filling them in.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32448103/mystery-artis...
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Yes. A very large amount of use cases.
To go back to the whole "different rules apply to the rich and the poor", nobody would bat an eye if this were done as part of AML for poorer people. What about the person who took out $10k cash and is now subject to AML reporting if he wants to deposit it, would you say that we should re-tag all the bills so that we can know who took out money before the rule applied?

Of course not, that's absurd, you would have to put up with AML like everyone else. And to be clear, that's what we're discussing here - a form of money laundering reporting. No actual property is seized from someone who obeys the new laws, and all they need to do is disclose ownership.

The idea that this is somehow an onerous burden is just a reflexive boot-licking defense of the rich. They will be fine.
1. Electric != electronic. Electrical engines have been a staple of engineering for about 200 years, about as long as ICE. Integrated circuits, on the other hand, have only been around for some 60 years, and while those are pretty reliable on the hardware side, we're still figuring out how to manage the complexity that they enable, and how to make software that's not shitty.

2. One anecdote does not a rule make.

3. "When you make a motherboard that works properly for more than 5 years, let us know." Maybe you should stop buying bottom-shelf. I've seen 10-year-old Thinkpads work like they did on the first day. And my current Asus notebook is already 6 years old and shows no sign of old age at all. Even the battery still holds over 80% charge.
You know that Tesla uses way more people per car than say a GM or Toyota in their assembly line...right ? This number may go down in the future but it is a fact right now. Don't take my word for this: http://www.autonews.com/article/20170611/OEM01/170619951/tes...

It's because in this temple of lean manufacturing, Tesla uses far more workers than NUMMI employed to build far fewer cars. In 1985, its first full year of production, NUMMI had 2,470 employees and produced 64,764 vehicles — about 26 vehicles per worker per year. By 1997, it had 4,844 ​ workers and produced 357,809 vehicles — about 74 vehicles per worker per year.

Tesla, on the other hand, had between 6,000 and 10,000 workers in 2016 and manufactured 83,922 vehicles. That puts its vehicle-per-worker number between 8 and 14, about one-seventh the efficiency of NUMMI at its peak.
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Is this officially up and running, or just an announcement? Would love to talk to someone at CV about what we're working on.
I'd say preventing a nuclear war is pretty damn stabilizing across the world.
Finland aims to be the leader in battery technology in Europe
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Hmm. I guess I didn't read it with the same sort of antagonism that others might. It just sounds like he's saying he doesn't get it and that he doesn't see a way to React from his current way of thinking (e.g. Rails). I don't have much experience with these technologies, so I don't have anything useful to contribute that might bridge the divide he's experiencing.
Although I agree that it’s a non issue, it is a big deal to identify patients against their permission. It’s also illegal.
The ongoing myths and misconceptions about ‘accidental addiction’
Grave of the Fireflies is a movie I can't think of watching again. Extremely beautiful but also emotionally exhausting.

I really enjoyed Only Yesterday. But I tend to like "slice of life" stuff.
My main issue with Perkeep is that a lot of the automated tags are very limited, and adding more is not really easy-to-do. Though the last time I used it, it was known as Camlistore. So maybe things have changed (there were some pretty bad UI issues back then as well).

I do like the idea that nothing is deleted and everything is stored using "permanodes" and signatures of objects defining mutations of a "permanode". The downside is that everything is so incredibly dependent on the indexer, and my experience is that if the indexer has a bug you are in a lot of trouble. Also sometimes you don't want to keep everything you made 10 years ago around -- especially if it's burning storage space that costs you money.
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Sure, all I see is that insurance companies will be the ones with the most to gain (economically) from this information, and thus the ones that will pay the most for it.
> Except you need a whole lot fo heavy battery. The model S is not a light car.

And that heavy battery concentrated at a very low point makes Teslas (or, for that matter, most E vehicles) excellent in handling.
But _________mat____ is so much catchier.
function FancyUserBox(user) {
return {
borderStyle: '1px solid blue'
...

Perhaps it's just me being pedantic and these are just examples. But when I see React examples that set style properties directly it makes me cringe, like it's ok to go back to a time before CSS just because everything's in JSX.
The problem is that FB encourages a popularity contest online. This is not healthy. We are social creatures, but the internet based social does not cater to our social needs. It caters to our dopamine kick needs.

Several studies have proven the ill effects of social network. So you are only partly correct.
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One very good resource are the writings of Aphyr where he tests various distributed databases: https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen . Jepsen is the framework he wrote to test them. Next would be formal verification but you get very far by understanding the distributed db semantics and applying practical tests.
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How can they be "Copyright 2015-2018, Night Dive Studios, Incorporated."?
Not true. Say for example you went to a restaurant, a nice fancy one with a few friends, and ran up a £1000 bill. Now £1 coins are legal tender for any amount, which simply means that if you are trying to pay off a £1000 debt at a court of law, you could dump a pile of 1000 £1 coins on their desk, just to be awkward. However, the restaurant is not bound by legal tender rules, and is quite within its rights to ask you to pay using a more reasonable method, like say £20 or £50 notes, or a bank card.
By curating and organizing these stories...

This ad ("3 minute read"?) perfectly encapsulates why I can't take Medium seriously in the long term.

If you're going to claim your content (including that in front of the firewall, too) is "curated", you had better apply some basic critique (and, sadly, basic proofreading) to your writers before throwing it up on your wall.

In the past week, I saw two or three excellent longform articles on Medium , and outside the paywall, too. Meanwhile, I perused and abandoned maybe three dozen pieces that were basically ads/selfpromotes or unreadable gibberish. And this was a relatively good week.

When I see the Medium branding (under whatever domain/masthead), I am less likely to click on it, not more. Am I alone?

Curation means standards. It means editing. It means somebody says "no" to accepting and publishing inferior writing. That doesn't seem to happen with Medium.
His advice seems pretty good and timeless, what makes you think it needs an update? I’d say a little less sperging out on technical nitpicks (who thinks about pointers anymore, why does a trivial social media site think about them) and also his technical question sounds way too complex to tackle as part of a 30 min interview. It’s a bit of reverse “imposter syndrome” as the millennials call it. Just try to get some sense of the person’s communication ability and thinking process by asking them about their resume.
Your last mile ISP is almost certainly a hostile entity, but HTTPS alone isn't going to save you [0].

[0]: www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2017/cmsc818O/papers/tangled-mass.pdf
Thankfully we also invented rubbish bins to dispose of stuff instead of throwing it down our pipes.
> (2) According to the article, the project was never actually started. So it sounds like a bit of a non-story.

According to the article the reason for why it was never actually started was because of the "Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal". Very important distinction.
There is a high probability that you did something wrong last night. /s
Umm, there absolutely is, unless you want to start using the backspace character instead of line feed or any other arbitrary swap, or maybe 'null', or 'delete'; Sure, 'null' should mean new line... 'Line Feed' by words, use and history, means new line....it feeds lines...i don't understand how you could make such an argument.

The fact that some keyboards say 'return' (but usually have a down-and-to-the-left graphic) is a separate issue, now that we are talking actual hardware; The lack of need for a specific CR, LF keys is obvious. Once again, of course today apple is using the odd choice of 'return', despite the rest of the industry. Many (most?) of 70s onward keyboards had an 'enter' key, no?
Won't they do with decentralized chat what they did with XMPP?: integrate support for a while to keep users from getting away and then drop that support again when the time is right?
I've sent you an email, could go to spam, not sure.
Studio Ghibli movies shaped my childhood and I loved them. (My parents didn't even realise they were Anime until later, they assumed it was from Disney because they were so well made) Spirited Away was a favorite family movie for a long time.

I think Laputa - Castle in the Sky will remain my all-time favorite and Princess Mononoke second.
If your ISP doesn't support IPv6, just try sending RA packets upstream and see what happens. If they're doing it wrong using blacklist instead of whitelist, then it might well leak. It's good to notice, that this doesn't affect IPv4 networking in any way.
You can look at the crawler of YaCy, free and open-source, decentralized web search:

http://yacy.net
> It's fascinating how Raft has democratized distributed computing

First I thought you probably ment commoditized but then I realized how democratized actually applies perfectly well to consensus algorithms because by definition they apply decisions via voting by all participants :)

But anyways, I agree very much with you that Raft has transformed the industry and we can't be thankful enough for it. But like you said, it's just one of the core building blocks of a distributed system that also shards data. Sharding is more use-case specific and so it can be valid for different databases to have different sharding logics.
example.com (and other example.*) is reserved for documentation purposes, i.e. you can't buy it.
My personal recommendation to US people is avoid connecting PayPal to your bank account. I don't know what protections they have in the EU but I doubt we have them so better safe than sorry. Use your credit card.
Anybody about Aaron Swartz and MIT?
EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16769270
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This is actually good for the refugees because they won't end up in a country full of people that don't want them there and won't have to suffer from discrimination and marginalization.
Well, you seem to be under the misconception that I think these are some kind of platonic ideals or whatnot. There was a time when the law tried to describe the values of the people rather than to dictate it and they came up with common law and some ideas about human rights after considering human nature and what did and did not work.

You can say there's construction there, but there's a limit to it. I mean, just as you can't simply construct a functional bridge out of anything you want, neither can you reasonably construct any sort of right and have a functioning society. There are both positive and negative rights, tensions among the rights of different people, and responsibilities imposed on individuals and society by any particular conception of rights.
Old technical writing is the same. Check out this camera repair manual from the 80s: https://www.dropbox.com/s/36tlkpnrsbmszar/nikon_fe-fe2.pdf?d...

Clear, easy to understand. A patient person without any prior knowledge of cameras or tools could follow the instructions in here and completely disassemble and reassemble the camera as well as troubleshooting any problems with it.

I think the reason is
A) there was no internet! These books and TV shows were as good as it got. No googling if you have any questions.

B) They had to appeal to a lot of people. Now the audience is bigger and everything is more niche. General TV has deteriorated to news entertainment, sports, and reality shows, because that is all anyone who watches TV now is interested in.

I was shocked at how good this segment from the "glory days" of TV was: https://youtu.be/eDw5Y8qSmBk

It's interesting and well researched. They spent plenty of money doing locations etc. Network TV just isn't this good anymore.
CSS doesn't work, it's a failed model.

It's based off the premise that content and styling are independent. It works very well when that is true. Often they are not.

If I'm designing a "date-picker" component, it will be completely broken without the corresponding styling. There can be no separation of content and style, the content does not make sense without the styling to produce the actual final output.

Such components require style definitions to function.
Why does jQuery or a DOM method could not find the element?
Sure, I understand that you're proposing it as an improvement , and it would even be an improvement - but using this for scapegoating will happen, as long as there are multiple parties to any accident; we have seen this in the last Uber crash ("find anything pointing anywhere but at Uber"), or in any bike crash ("yeah, the truck has smashed into him at 60 MPH and spread him over two city blocks, but he's at fault for not wearing a helmet - it would have saved him!!!").
I'm not sure how that applies.

Granted, I have a _very_ limited knowledge of languages. I speak German. And persist/keep trying to reach some level of competency in English.

German has French (and English .. and more..) loan words as well. I'd still argue that it's _a lot_ easier and more consistent to pronounce than English.

(I might just be entirely blind to German issues that are basically the same, because .. I constantly stumble about English's warts and grew up with the German ones. There's a lot of bias involved, I think)
If you require SQL, sharding and concurrent writes, yes do use CockroachDB or other equivalent solution.

If you don't have those requirements, dqlite or rqlite might get the job done with less moving parts and operational overhead.

It's pretty much the same argument of using SQLite vs (say) PostgreSQL, but translated into distributed systems. See:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
Obviously they can be, it's just there's a cost to it.

We value our safety from, e.g., rapists more than the rapist's liberty.
> Musk is trying to beat the standard.

And I would not be surprised if part of this will be a massive simplification of the current "cable trees" with cables from each component to the central fuse board to something like 2 24V power rails and 2 high speed data buses (one for safety critical stuff, the rest for everything else), with plugs every 20-30cm or so, fuses inside the components themselves and everything controlled with intelligent boards in the components.

Installing the cabling tree is inarguably one of the most complex parts in building (or, for what it's worth, servicing/maintaining/extending) a car and also the part where you right now need humans in the loop. By including the power rails e.g. directly in the car's composite frame and only running a tiny strand of wire for the bus you save a boatload of money.
Ask HN: Are there any open source alternative to Better touch tool?
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Then there should be a recommendation too that people should write a comment what they don’t like instead of just voting to help people understand what they did wrong. Like this it feels like downvoting is simply abused to push down opinions some don’t like.
> The ultimate gauge is how the person feels.

By that metric, psychics saying they can talk to your loved ones can be morally justifiable.
Does that include retail workers (no outsourced dealers)? Supercharger installation workers? SolarCity employees and salespeople?
Let me try an optimistic thought experiment.

Roughly around the end of the Napoleonic era, call it 1815, 9/10ths of humans lives in what we would call abject poverty. today it is reversed and only 1/10th does. (This is still a travesty, but it is objectively better)

In that period we have seen incredible technological, political and economic improvements. But it's not clear if we will continue to see them "we might have invented everything" is a fairly common refrain (if not on HN!)

So can we say anything about where we are in this period of chnage - near the end? Well with no other information we can only plump for "in the middle". Which roughly speaking means we expect to see change on the scale of 19th and 20th Century well into the 2200s.

And part of my monkey brain just recoils at this ... optimism. My monkey brain does not trust the numbers.

But articles like this help me quieten my monkey. We look up into the night sky with powerful telescopes and find events millennia old, light years away and they confirm how we think galaxies are made. We look into the night sky and find Dark matter that we do not even know what it is made of - and I ask my monkey brain, at some point we did not know what was over the oceans, but we predicted new lands, we did not know what the land was made of and they were made of ores and minerals.

I am by nature a skeptical optimist, but the awesomeness of astronomy, it's generally leading place in science, still impresses me.

It looks like a good two centuries to come.

Just sayin'

Bibliography: I am probably stealing from people cleverer than i whom I cannot remember to reference or am too dumb to reference

Edit: I need to write more clearly. I am not arguing that we have invented everything, just that it can feel "where can the next thing possibly come from?". And Astronomy does things like point out "We can see 13 billion years in every direction, and most of it we don't even know what it is made of. Some of it might be useful :-)"
You're welcome. The link was also posted somewhere else on the thread before me, so I'm not the only one who thought about that.
Google's take good care of it... and they explain precisely what they do on the topic...

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/ecs

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#locations (when EDNS0/ECS isn't supported)

The tin foil hat brigade might suggest that this is deliberate to ensure that only what's served by cloudflare gets to be fast...
I currently have sixteen (16) credit cards, but I'm certainly an outlier.

Wow. I'm taking it you don't have to pay an annual fee for having a credit card in the US.
Facebook users would have to pay to opt out of their data being used for ads
> (2) According to the article, the project was never actually started. So it sounds like a bit of a non-story.

I don't think it's a non-story.

At least for me it reinforces my reading of this company's attitude and hangling of their user's (and the population's) privacy.

It's a datapoint. It's not everything, but it's not nothing either.
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This position is located Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

We are looking for someone with 3 to 5 years experience in HTML/Javascript/Node JS and is well versed in streaming video and web technologies. Our current technology stack consists of HTML/Javascript/NodeJS, Bower, NPM, Grunt, Webpack. Plus we use tools like Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA and Slack.

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I think it's ugly as sin. And I can't consider this as art. But that's just my opinion.
A way to see folders & tags is to treat folders as tags but with the property that items may only be of one folder. The same happens in biology where scientists try to classify animals into one folder; a cat is put into the mammals folder (which has multiple hierarchies of subfolders). Instead, this classification system may be much more effective if it is classified as tags instead, where items may belong to multiple folders (or categories). This solves problems like the platypus, which belongs to multiple "biological folders".

It seems that humans have a hard time reasoning with the tag concept. I'm not sure where this comes from; is it decades of working with the folder/subfolder idiom in Windows, where most people are grown up with? Is it the resemblance of the physical world where we also put documents into one folder and one folder only? Or is it our intuition to simplify matters, and therefore seemingly make things simpler to uniquely have items belong to one container? I don't know; most likely, it's all the reasons above plus a few that I didn't mention.
Can we just put a pause on all the Facebook stories for a while? Lots of fluff pieces with no real content making it to the homepage from outlets that are banking off the current outrage.
> 300K pages/day

Does that qualify as "high load"? That's just below 4 pages/second. Given how beefy server CPUs and SSDs are, I would consider something like 100+ requests/second "high load".