skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't really think of it until I read this but it appears to highlight a situation I once had, and I assumed it was just down to a shitty Wordpress plugin implementation. I got 'declined payment' errors twice and, what's worse, the money was still taken from my account on both occasions! In one instance it was refunded five minutes later but the second failure didn't get the same treatment, so Stripe had rejected the payment after taking it, but my bank saw it as fulfilled.

I was lucky that the particular merchant was a friend, so I could personally reach out and see his side of the accounts and submit it as evidence to my bank, but I didn't think for a second that I could trust Stripe to handle that despite their involvement.
Your comment made me feel a little better.
> and BMW's inexpensive carbon fiber is a thing of awe and wonder that Tesla has no answer for.

BWM appears to be going all-in on 3D printing--which makes sense given their volumes. At practically every conference where non-hobby 3D printers appear, BMW is always a real customer of those companies.

To my mind, BMW is the most dangerous company to Tesla.
It's easy to understand when you consider that the proverbial "rat race" isn't really about about money; it's about social status. Most people don't real care about money, they just need it to buy status symbols with.

Add to this that social status confers power and vice versa, so even if a rational king doesn't care for bling personally, he ought to wear something exclusive. Not just be cause displaying bling enhances his status and hence his power. But also because enforcing the sumptuary laws displays power, which confers status, which enhances his power etc.
You have the wrong brand then. Check with your optometrist because I can assure you, you don't have the live with that problem. It can be fixed. Contacts should retain their orientation at all times unless under extreme duress like you just slept all night in them.
RPI has mainline kernel support for all its components, pretty much every other ARM devices has at least a closed source GPU driver, meaning you are going to be stuck on some old kernel forever eventually.
My daughter (now 4) loves:
Poor Louie;
Rosie Revere Engineer;
Ada Twist Scientist;
Iggy Peck Architect;
Elephant & Piggie books;
Llama Llama books;
Rory the dinosaur books;
...and because she loves the shows, she asks for:
PJ Masks books;
Paw Patrol books.
I think he meant connex.
All three options failing? So basically the very premise of Facebook is broken if we wish to uphold this value.
Still working for AMZN?
Not only that - the meeting might be highly useful and productive, but not to _everyone_ summoned.

i.e. those that find themselves in a meeting where they are not needed or have nothing to contribute should leave - however that isn't saying anything about the actual meeting being good or bad.
> it's interesting from a design perspective how many technically amazing products have dated website design

It's interesting from a user perspective how many nice websites have been ruined in an attempt to not look dated.
I use it daily, connected to a work Exchange server, though supplemented by the Outlook Web client for more HTML-rich content.
I hear a lot of disaster stories from corporate at Amazon too, some from coworkers who have worked there. It has a well-known bad reputation in general in tech, even for non-software fields. My girlfriend has heard bad stories about Amazon from the hardware side as well. This doesn't even include some of the absolutely terrible things they do on the warehouse side either - I have friends who have first hand accounts from having worked there, and none of them are pretty.

It's one of the few companies on my list of companies to avoid, unless they improved their employee treatment (and got rid of their bad employee RSU vesting schedule).
> If you read stories with the intention of fostering skill development you will neither inculcate skills nor get the most out of those stories.

[citation needed]

I suspect this only even approaches reality if by “intention” you mean “clumsily projected attitude”.

> The idea that there exist professional parents who explictly know what they are doing (with footnotes and sources) is a major conceit in our present culture.

The idea that parenting isn't a field which can be, and is, productively studied and that there aren't people who can provide useful guidance based on greater knowledge of that study and skill at observing and applying that knowledge is, itself, a major conceit in our present culture.
Yep. It is even more pronounced on a race track with long sweeping turns, even higher speeds, and nothing else in the world to worry about# (like traffic). The faster that front wheel spins, the more it wants to keep on doing that just as before (gyro).

You will be physically pushing the left hand and pulling your right to set the bike up for a left turn, not just "thinking" it - so as to speak. Of course it is entirely intuitive, until perhaps you stop to think about what actions you are taking, and then realise yeah that's countersteering all right.

#) It's been a few years for me now and I only got a few ride days in after also completing Superbike Cornering School lessons, but I found the art of riding my (then) 600cc GSXR motorcycle on a high speed circuit (Phillip Island) extremely meditative - and exhilarating, especially after learning the function of the knee sliders to assist with controlling lean.
What does the average household income have to do with someone who is choosing between a software engineering job in Seattle and another area with a lower cost of living?
Why is it on the main page? Is it a legit upvote or data manipulation? :)
That would be impossible. A shot could go out as an unforced error or be a winner, all without the other player moving his hand.
If you are building NAS for critical data just get a proper NAS board.

If you don’t want to go for an embedded X86 then this one is a good option it comes with ECC memory and decent enough crypto acceleration for full encryption.

https://kobol.io/helios4/
This article reeks of spin. I'll bet real money that it's a PR piece.
The Odyssey is a blast from the past. I remember playing with that before I think the 2600 even came out.
Our system is also near-realtime. The default batch duration is 3 minutes, it's also configurable but it will also affect the background processes (shard compaction, data organization jobs etc.) so our customers usually prefer 5 minutes which is also near real-time for 10B events per month.

Please note that this is our core business. Of course, we maintain these services but we also try hard to push more work to cloud providers. For example, both AWS and GC offers managed Mysql servers, auto scale groups for nodes, object stores such as S3 and Cloud Storage so we actually maintain the software and help the customers to upgrade the software when they need.

I agree that BigQuery will save time if the users are not familiar with distributed systems and big-data but again, "ability to go from 0 cores to thousands" doesn't make sense to me because in practice I have never experienced such case. Since we need to start the instances it may take up to 2 - 3 minutes but this is often acceptable for data analysts.

Could you please elaborate the part "re-materializing and optimizing your dataset."? We do a number of optimizations for compacting ORC files, bucketing etc. but I would love to hear how BigQuery does post-processing.

As a note, I usually tend to simplify things but most of the BigQuery customers that I see usually do overengineering because of the cost optimization. For example in the article the author uses Redshift for the dashboard data the solution they use for moving data from BigQuery to Redshift also needs to be maintained and it's not that easy. If I'm going to adopt my whole system to the way how BigQuery works and push hard to save costs, then I expect it to be pretty cheap but 40K for reserved slots doesn't sound like cheap to me. We maintain similar size clusters for 20% of this price for the same data volume and it's much more flexible.
> enterprise-y / custom

> send me your ....

> I'll get you back a quote

Thanks, but nah. I don't want to call or email or negotiate, I just want to give you my money and get the service, so I'll be using your competitor who has actual pricing and plan comparison front-and-center on their website.

...or are you just a quote bot and unable to actually read comments? It certainly doesn't appear that you understood the parent's comment.
This is an excellent application that's specific to watches, great idea :)
Because of a number of factors, mostly to do with memory latency, modern superscalar OoOs achieve ~2, sometimes 3 IPC, so not "way above".
I've read that cryptography algorithms written in wasm (wat format) are nearly as fast as their C implementations.
Related, and similarly interesting:

How a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula -- https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-stealing-dupont-whit...
Policy is, you are supposed to use the sub-heading, or even words from the first paragraph in those cases.
Is there some subset of native capabilities that one can still attack with an RN codebase and not have to deal with the native <> JS issues you ran into? Say, my app "only" needed to access contacts and images (no GPS; no bluetooth; not take pictures; not worry about accelerometer; etc.) - in your experience, does that put RN back in the picture (somewhat)?
(wife works at amazon (but in palo alto) (and is 1 year out of grad school))

a. That salary is not low. If you chose to run a family of 4 on one salary of 160k, it's your choice. It's still quite good.

b. If you discount 30% of the comp because you feel like it, I wonder how many of the 20 other metro areas are going to match up.
You might want to check out this PR: https://github.com/cockroachdb/activerecord-cockroachdb-adap... looks like a lot of work has been put into compatibility but it hasn't yet been merged
I didn't invent git, cgit or e-mail, all of which predate Github.

Github imposes a Terms of Service; I don't have to agree to any Terms of Service to use my own site. I am the Terms of Service.

There is all sorts of cruft in the ToS. Here is something I just spotted: "GitHub does not target our Service to children under 13, and we do not permit any Users under 13 on our Service." If a good programmer has produced a good patch, I want it, whether they are twelve or 92; and they are welcome to post it to a mailing list or send it to me directly. GH have to have this kind of rule because they can't 100% control what goes on their site, 24/7. (Really, if they were smart, they would make that 18.)

Another: If you believe that content on our website violates your copyright, please contact us in accordance with our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. No spectre of DMCA hanging over my own site.

Abuse or excessively frequent requests to GitHub via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your account's access to the API. I can hammer my own server with as many requests as I want.

GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time. No comment required. Today, you have a bustling project; tomorrow it's gone.
Politics. Nicer weather. Better environment for women/girls in schools. :)

The weather point is, of course, tough. Seattle summers are bloody amazing. The winter sorta blows.
are you related to jinyang?
When I first started getting serious about programming in the early 00's, I thought, I'll figure out how to code a game for the 2600. Those games are so simple, it must be easy to work with. I couldn't have been more wrong. Imagine coding a game without sprites, objects, threads, or anything really. At a high level, coding a game on Atari 2600 consists of timing the toggling of the beam that is racing left to right and back throwing light onto the tv screen. You literally build screens off that!

On the plus side, when that finally clicked, a lot of the mystery of how a computer worked finally made sense and I could now understand the abstractions on top of abstractions that allow me to just instantiate a sprite instead of having to manage hardware directly.

I never did create that game.
Primitive technology is pretty great, having a video format that shows everything step-by-step really reflects the "aha" moment that comes with interesting inventions.
Atom 1.26
Letting them hide behind their branding as "credit agencies" is ridiculously naive in this day and age. They are surveillance companies. Faceboot's only difference is being a relative newcomer compared to the incumbents.

This entire surveillance industry is an escalating crime against humanity.
Thanks for your comment. It kind of makes a little sense now. I just wished the octals needed a stricter prefix like "0o" as they are not very common compared to decimal and hex (in my experience at least). The way Python casts strings with leading zeros makes more sense to me. Later I'll update the post with your feedback. Thanks.
That's an interesting point of view from my perspective. Most people I know are trying to pay bills and save for a house deposit.

The one's purchasing for social status are regarded as wasting their time generally (and speaking from personal experience).
Different perspective / explanation:

Coffee works and tastes better while on other drugs.
It would be fascinating to apply this technique to card shuffling. Shuffling techniques are not even close to random...casinos hope for chaos at best. It would be interesting to see if a machine learning algorithm could come up with an approach that could be carried out by humans to, for example, predict whether or not the next shoe of a hand-shuffled blackjack game is going to have a positive or negative expectation for the player.
is there a format called "wat"?? lol
Downside: Holy shit fuck mailing lists. They're terrible.

Major downside: You miss a huge percentage of possible contributors.
Dynamic dispatching comes to mind.

d = {Foo : do_something_with_foo,
Bar : do_something_with_bar}

d.get(type(x), default_function)(x)

Probably some more efficient way but honestly I've used this before instead of writing a whole if elif chain.

--edit--

Makes python's lack of a switch operator sometimes less painful...
I was going to comment in here about how the Simons Foundation runs Quanta. Glad other people have mentioned it. Simons is an amazing guy.
CockroachDB sounds amazing, and all of these blog posts are great to read, but I'm yet to see someone talk about production experiences in comment threads when the blog posts are put up.

Has anyone here actually run it in production yet?
It's ridiculous to expect average people to have even a passing familiarity with Facebook developer documentation.
How to integrate a blockchain technology into your project
is_cloud_provider, would be great!
I looked at the Tinkerboard when it was released but it is limited to USB 2.0. The Rock64 is a better option with the same SOC as the Tinkerboard but USB 3.0 ports and decent Linux support.

Even more interesting Odroid is releasing a new board the N1 based on the Rockchip 3399 SOC that has 2 A72 + 4 A53 processors. It also has 2 SATA ports, USB 3.0 and 2 Gigabit lan ports. And Odroid software support is significantly better than most other vendors except the Pi.

Their previous C2 board based on the Amlogic 905 was a great buy at $45 and plays 4k content without missing a beat while my kabylake desktop on Linux seems to struggle.
Catching Exceptions without Trying
Amazon says it has more than 100M Prime members
“Web assembly text” format, yes.
Thanks for the feedback!We'll probably push this by the weekend :)
Now that you have acquired that skill, why don't you move elsewhere?
I genuinely don't understand why this comment was down-voted.
This isn’t a package manager. It’s tooling to create npm packages.
Nope I meant software I don't think h265 hardware decoding is in mainline yet (could be wrong thought)

And yes I explicity tested software decoding and my 720p sample played without noticeable delay/framedrop and 1080p was uhm kinda running.
This is one of the dumbest blog post I've seen in years.

How can you compare two databases in this way ? Each is running on different clouds with different hardware. Aurora isn't even using Provisioned IOPS (or is it we can't even tell). And in the Large Cluster scenario they have a staggering 30x GAE instances. Where is the cost comparison here ?

Anyway this is just SEO/Content Marketing fluff. Shouldn't be on here.
Graal, GraalVM, Truffle, and family of related tech videos
I'm really hoping they're only blocking PR's from non-collaborators if the PR description is empty. Requiring someone to be a collaborator on a repository to open a PR is a step backwards to me. It's really nice to notice a trivial fix like a typo when browsing the code, fix it in the integrated editor and hit PR right there. I could see having the option to disable PRs useful, but removing the functionality entirely
RPI3 was still "blob"-bed as of about a year ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13396625

Have they finally succeeded in pulling all the blob out yet?
What's the quality of Xiaomi phones compared to the ZTE's and the Huawei's from China?
Ask HN: Resources for teaching kids to code
There have been a number of people in my neighborhood asking about a week long coding camp for kids in the area. One of the local universities runs such a thing, my wife and I both having degrees in computer science figured we could try our hand in running a camp like this out of our house for part of the summer.

We have been trying to track down good resources for teaching kids. We don't want anything simple enough that kids could get online and learn it themselves (like code.org) because we want this camp to have more value than being motivation to be self taught. We are thinking about doing two age groups, one for kids younger than middle-school age and one for kids middle-school and older.

We've found a few things that we are looking into (teachkidsprogramming.org and greenfoot mostly). Does anyone know of anything else that would be useful for what we are doing?

Thanks in advance!
I don't think they care. Here in Australia at least, unlimited calls/text starts at pretty cheap plan options. It's the data use that's the moneymaker. As long as you're watching videos and snapchatting I don't think they care if you text or not.
I use Yahoo email for some purposes (and GMail for some other purposes), and I just got an email from Yahoo about "Important update to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy". I tried to understand the changes (which involved plowing through pages of legalese on several web pages). One thing I noticed was that there was very little specifically addressing Yahoo Mail. There were some brief mentions that would apply if I lived in South America (or other non-US regions), but almost nothing for US users.

What I did read made me think that I really need to look into replacing my webmail provider by something else, like ProtonMail. Unfortunately, changing would require getting a lot of family members (who are less tech savvy than I am) to switch my email address from one they've been sending email to for decades.
What Your FAQ Says About Your ECommerce Business
I knew that about Java but I didn't know the same was true of JavaScript
Show HN: Citadel: Turn an Arbitrary Command into a Kubernetes KMS GRPC Server
I enjoyed My Father's Dragon so much! Also the Little House on the Prairie books, and then when she's a little older, everything by Tamara Pierce.
We use H3 based boards, but the H5 seems to be fairly mature. I know its been under heavy development wrt mainline kernel support for the last year, might want to take a peek at the status matrix: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...
You can mark a transaction as safe directly from the Stripe Dashboard.

But only manually and retrospectively, no? For an online subscription business with extensive automation, if one of us has to go to the dashboard to fix something like this, that sale was probably already lost anyway. More likely, that failed charge already resulted in cancelling the subscription and all that follows, with a relatively low chance the subscriber will start again later.

From various recent HN discussions, I get the feeling that the team at Stripe totally fail to understand how devastating these false positives are to the growth of an online subscription business. For example, I have one business where it's not unusual for the majority of the entire churn in a month to be due to unexplained card payment failures with Stripe. Based on a back-of-envelope calculation, that business would be around 50-100% bigger today if those charges had worked and everything else followed the usual patterns.
the blobs are firmware and booting related, they dont hinder the ability to actually use a new kernel.
More recently, Samoa switched from driving on the right to driving on the left.

This change was so that they would be able to import cheaper Japanese used cars.
Link to the MOOC: http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/all-oli-courses/causal-statistica...
the durability of most fake leather is drastically inferior to natural leather

How about Corfam? It was promoted as 'wearing like iron.'

Remember the song from "Oklahoma" about the "Surrey with the Fringe on the Top"? It says, "The dashboard's genuine leather." So what was artificial leather in 1905 Oklahoma? Something like cardboard with wax-paper veneered on, IIRC. Is Mylo better than that?Geniuses been trying a long time to do this. Even money that we'll have tomatoes with leather skins or cows that are born with 'Wilson' on their sides so footballs are easier to make before anything exists that is a better leather than leather.
Also look at hair salons with all of their old pictures of hair styles on the front window and notice how blue they all are.
They won’t take away terms of your existing grant, but they will nerf future annual grants when they see that you’re “already making plenty” with the shares that are yet to vest.
CMU MOOC:  Causal and Statistical Reasoning
What is the cheapest RPi kit containing everything needed to get started?
does it require codes to unlock native x264 processing, like the RBP does (or did, back when I used it)?

Also, does it have hardware support for HEVC? My poor RBP 2 can't handle HEVC at all.
> I don't think so at all. Sure, Amazon has a certain reputation, especially in hacker-news circles. That said I think you're forgetting about the silent but huge majority of average joes who would kill for an Amazon job.

They are the most aggressive at recruiting. I've never gone 6 months without at least one e-mail from an Amazon recruiter, despite asking to be removed multiple times from their lists. This leads me to believe they have turn over problems that would make your assertion incorrect.

For anyone arguing it is growth, consider they are the _only_ company that does this but they are not the only company that is growing at that pace.
This program was by Warren Robinett, of Adventure fame; both were released in 1979. He later went on to write Rocky's Boots for the Apple II, a rather more successful educational game involving logic gates.
Off topic - but does anyone know who (companies especially) that are committed to developing PostgreSQL?
Ugh. I'm almost always early to things but people like this need to calm down. Stuff happens.
The tragedy of losing our own Communist (and Socialist) Party is how they could counterbalance the narrative of China. Imagine Chinese and American Communist students having a debate in public of these universities. How many disaffected Chinese could we swing our way? Regardless of your stance of Marx, ceding the entire argument ground to the CCP doesn't do us any favors.
It "can" be on here, IMHO just don't upvote it..(or downvote if you are really angry at some text)