skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "IF statement is an expression" functionality is neat. I don't think I've seen another BASIC that does that.
> By far the most widely used graphics toolkit in history is HTML and CSS. ... And it’s definitely the easiest option. It’s the first thing I learned as a programmer

And this is where we are. A huge number of today developers, maybe even majority, are so accustomed to web programming that it's the first thing that comes to their minds.
This is the first time in awhile Amazon has disclosed the number of Amazon Prime users. ("exceeded" 100 million paid Prime members globally)
Employee-job fit
Does anyone have insight or experience using this in production? We're currently running PostgreSQL 10 w/ pg_partman on our own hardware but looking at a several options for cloud migration. Unfortunately, Citus Cloud on GCP doesn't appear to be an option (yet?)

- Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)

- Citus Cloud (AWS Only)

- Citus (managed ourselves) on GCP
That’s a hundred thousand more people than the population of Florence!
That's like saying, "it was only a matter of time someone figured out time traveling", when it happens. The whole point of the investigation was about chaotic systems, regardless of whether they're complex or not.
Indeed.

Web browsers are generally free to use and there are several serious contenders and many less popular ones.

So the main thing they should be competing on is user experience.

But it seems to me that browsers frequently fail to deliver a user-first experience.

The browser should only take actions specifically requested by a user, as his agent. Everything about the experience needs to be reframed from that perspective.

Some browsers lately seem to be doing a little better at this, but just adding "advanced flag" features on to an existing product isn't going to help mainstream users at all.
Toyota won’t use Android Auto over privacy concerns
Zillow will give you monthly updates on their estimate of your house, and they show a history of their estimate when you drill into a house. When I listed my house for sale last month their estimate shot up immediately to closely match the offer price, so worth being skeptical.
It's difficult to believe that this is FTEs. Very easy to believe it's FTEs, contractors, temps, and vendors. Including warehouse workers etc.

EDIT: I was curious, so I took a peek at their 10-K [1]. "We employed approximately 566,000 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2017." I couldn't find any info on their FTE count with a quick keyword search.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-sec...
One of the big reasons the F-35 program is such a disaster is that it was intended to be a fighter that could be modified for basically all Western Bloc countrie's needs. This brought an incredible amount of complexity that not only costs more money in and of itself, but became ripe for milking by the military-industrial complex.
> Bike leans right, front wheel turns right

Agree. But this is not what the other person is saying.
If that, I often find I have to lock my bike to a street sign or parking meter frequently.
This pretty much affects every large site if they use tracking or advertising tools e.g. Google Analytics that collect certain kinds of data. Those tools' terms of service are being changed to require anyone who uses them to update their privacy policies to list them explicitly and to get consent before using them.

https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.htm...
Come on, would it really be the end of the world, if they got another small round of investment just until they hit that 6000 a week mark?

If tesla really is as good of an investment as they say it is, then the situation is nowhere near that dire. From the sounds of it, they're going to make their 6K per week, it's just a question of when. By all means, be efficient and cancel those meetings. But you don't need to push employees to the brink of failure.
Not way above, but yes. We use simultaneous multi threading and out of order execution to enable superscalar execution I.e >1 instruction per cycle. But it’s not likely to be more than 2-3 for a variety of reasons.
Their 2017 profit was 3B, so they could each receive a $6,000 raise with that.
The specific kind of chaos here implies (roughly) that a system starting in state X and a system starting arbitrarily close to X will at some point in the future behave totally differently. Not different as in "they'll drift further apart," but different as in "this one rolls off the cliff and this doesn't."

It's a fascinating field of dynamical systems, which is one of the coolest subfields of math (since the world is dynamic). Here's the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
> The underlying issue is executing arbitrary third-party JavaScript on your website's visitors' browsers.

Fixed that for you, but I agree with the sentiment: it's a real problem that browser vendors are disincentivized to address.
Another day, another $50M ICO exit scam
So what are your feelings about Theranos, another hugely visionary/envelope-pushing Palo Alto company (valued as high as $9 billion) that was investigated by an East Coast reporter who has no medical, bioengineering, or entrepreneurial experience?

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/how-a-reporter-pierced-th...
Wow, they're down to $50 now? I remember seeing these and thinking they looked cool, but hard to justify at (iirc) $80.

The ODroid-C2 is also mentioned; those look nice. That company also sells raw EMMC modules as an alternative option to microSD cards, which seems like it could be useful. Does anyone know if those EMMC modules are less likely to spuriously corrupt themselves? I haven't run them for any length of time, but it looks like an ODroid with EMMC would be on a similar price point.
I want to “crack down” on both.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Would you say that something turing complete is more error prone than something that isn't?
Marissa Mayer launches Lumi Labs, a new incubator
> And I wanted to do it in OCaml.

That's interesting. If you decided to use Lazarus instead, you'd have the project finished sooner that you wrote the blog post.

The clickbait title is plain wrong: GUI development can be easy and fun, depending on what toolset you choose.
I disagree- HN should remove any links that have autoplaying media.
And does California charge them for this?

That's an incredible story, especially from a Europe where immigration controls is on everyone's lips.
Have you... Ever read anything about his early life? He wasn't dirt poor but he certainly wasn't born into wealth.
Both the blog and the homepage are served over TLS for me. And they’re forcing plaintext to TLS ... so not sure what’s wrong on your end.
It is not an absurd priority if you are disabled. These scooters in the middle of side walks can literally mean injury to the blind, and a big pain for those in wheel chairs. Think of that the next time you simply 'step over' a poorly-parked scooter.
There is the Forbes pigment collection at Harvard's art museum.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/a-wall-of-col...
It is not illegal to park a car in the bike lane in California. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traffic_l...
That is bullshit. If I just lean to the left, the bike does not "react" by leaning to the right. If I lean to the left without touching the handle bars, the cycle ll start turning to the left.

With counter steering, it can be made much quicker and in a much responsive fashion.
I’m all for it if they stay off the sidewalk.
It should be recognized that you were willing to admit you were wrong - personally I find nothing in the world harder to do, let alone on the internet. That's awesome.

Here's another video that helped it click for me when I didn't get it either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgUOOwnZcDU It's more "phsyics-ey"

When your hands are off the handlebar and you "lean right," the handlebars won't visibly "turn left," and if they do it will only be for the briefest moment. It only takes the tiniest countersteer to cause the "lean angle." It has to happen because your handlebars are non-rigid.

Let me know what you think after the video above. IIRC it has the "rolling cup" example, which for me works best.
citus isn't simply postgresql. It has many tradeoffs
> - how does fraud get monetised?

In the early days of ecommerce, we jokingly called it 'Toners for Taliban'. They would purchase goods with a stolen card from a company that ships fast. They'd have the item shipped to a rube who answered a "Make money fast! All you need is a computer and a mail box!" advertisement. Then, the rube would resell the item on Ebay and send a cut back. The rube takes the fall, if any.

Detecting this fraud was pretty obvious when you actually had a chance to look. Someone with a billing address in Florida is shipping a video projector to an address in Arizona, from an IP address in Austria? And they always fill out the forms in ALL CAPS? And that same IP has placed orders on a dozen other accounts?

The problem back then was that humans didn't have the time to do that exercise, and ML wasn't up to snuff, yet. Things are obviously better, now. However, at the same time, the fraudsters are probably smarter, too.
AMP achieved this, for better or worse - the only script allowed on the page is AMP common library and approved plugins. I wonder if the Google CDN was removed from the equation if it would have been more embraced.
Not the original commenter, but I had a similar experience, and gave up QWERTY. I point and peck the few times I have to use it (which isn't often, except on phones where it doesn't really matter for me) and that's worked well enough for me for many years.
Couldn't they turn that poop into something useful such as manure? Also they should check that it is kept under constant airflow (even though at the risk of spreading more stink) because the gases could be highly flammable.
(Part of) the idea seems to be synthesizing missing data from later observations of the known data, i. e. "to arrive at this state (A_t,C_t,E_t), the initial state must have been...(A_t-1,B_t-1,C_t-1,E_t-1)..."

I have my doubts that this can just overcome the fundamental problem of chaos, but it doesn't sound impossible.
As far as I know, eBates doesn't directly sell the websites you visit. Instead, it makes money from the fees paid by "affiliates". For example, eBates is an affiliate of Macy's. That means when you buy something on Macy's with eBates installed, Macy's assumes that eBates is helping to get the user onto eBates. Macy's pays eBates, and eBates pays a part of it to yourself.

As far as I know, it only sends URLs of your visits to its affiliates, but not for other sites
That's already likely illegal. At least riding them on the sidewalk usually is, sometimes parking is allowed (or just ignored).
“Thinking about what's next, I returned to my roots, rented the original Google office where I started my career, and founded a lab with my longtime friend and teammate @eamunozt. A bit of info: lumilabs.com”

https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/986716678682587136?s...
Now's the time to be suprising, stunning, and shocking
Interesting, I didn't quite interpret it that way but I can see what you're saying; thanks.
Well the aviation people, who also control vehicles that are controlled by banking, don't bother to come up with a special name. When teaching people to fly they first teach how the controls can be used to control the attitude of the vehicle (roll, pitch, yaw are the terms that are used). Then they start a whole new discussion of how various attitudes will affect where the vehicle will end up.

Some things can't really be simplified (and perhaps shouldn't be).
I own an ODROID-XU3. Haven’t used it for a while now but back when I did — including using it as desktop computer for several months — I did not have any data corruption issues with the eMMC module. Meanwhile with Raspberry Pi I’ve had several instances of data corruption with different SD cards.
I don't like open office. But Bose QuietComfort work pretty well with music/noise on very low volume.

(eg. https://asoftmurmur.com/)
> There are articles every week

I looked, it's an exaggeration to say every week.
New fitness website in the uk
In the example they give they predict the future of a simulation. If you have a perfect simulation, with perfect observation, why not just run the simulation forwards? Well, the goal is to apply this to the real world, where you possibly have only an approximate model and observations - which are noisy and imprecise. So, instead, try predicting the future based on noisy observations. Due to exponential divergence, it seems unlikely this would work. Looking through the paper, it looks like they do not analyze the performance under noisy observation - they just analyze their ability to estimate the Lyapunov exponents under noise, which is much easier.

So the real world application (in terms of forward forecasting) seems like it's limited to cases where chaotic divergence between simulation and real world is due to simulation model errors rather than observation error - the latter is still a fundamental limit. Otherwise, this demonstrates that DNNs can be trained to solve diff eqs well, which is fairly well-trodden work.

As a result, claiming that this can enhance ex. weather prediction is highly misleading at this point, as nothing has demonstrated any prediction performance improvements under noisy observation, which is really the fundamental (and practical) limit in chaotic systems. While it still may be possible to use DNNs to do that (by ex. learning how to most accurately estimate the components of state with the largest Lyapunov constants) I don't think this work demonstrates the feasibility of that yet. The language in the paper is more reserved, in that they primarily claim that they can use the DNN to learn a dynamic model even with observation noise and then that model can be used to estimate Lyapunov constants accurately. That's much more reasonable.
Shouldn't it be trivial to convert an existing F-35 to a "drone"? Maybe just a software update should do it?

If not, then there is definitely a big problem with the F-35 (not future proof)...
Case-Shiller cuts it a different way though. The post is pointing out that city centre areas in general are increasing in value compared to outer areas. Case-Shiller is an index of price trends across different metro areas that doesnt differentiate city centres from suburban areas.

I don't think the headline statement for a 'dow of cities' is really useful to implement.

But there is a good point in there of society and industry not paying much attention to broad trends in cities. Case-Shiller is well regarded, but its a very blunt tool for analysis.
for scale, there are estimated to be 326 million US citizens and 126 million US households.
It would be an interesting exercise to design a lambda calculus evaluation strategy and then a compiler to convert an arbitrary lambda expression into this dialect of concurrent brainfuck. This would let you access the massive parallelism already apparent in lambda calculus expressions 'for free'.

The issue of course is finding an evaluation strategy that doesn't explode the memory complexity as well.
Logged in just to say the same. Metric system for life.
I'm a little confused at the safety claims. Manganese is a cumulative poison:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganism

I'm not really qualified to quantify the toxicity of metals, but the chemists I've known are usually very careful when they have to work with manganese.
There’s some complexity, but yeah they could do that. I really doubt it will happen; if we couldn’t get browsers to include jQuery, why would they do this? It’s even harder than that would be.

> reach not on merit

Node’s popularity and success is counter to this notion, IMHO. Seriously, lots of people love JavaScript.
Althea Development Update #46: User Interface Design
>I know plenty of people who work in advertising.

That’s the funny thing, most people I know in advertising complain about page slowness and marketing run ad blockers.

Even they hate auto-play video, but they’re perfectly willing to try and force it and a thousand other abominations on other people.

Which makes them... sociopaths?
On the other hand, you should make backups anyway.
Same here, I always use an incognito window for facebook.
It's true, but in all the years of my childhood when I did this (and I rode and turned no-handed often), I never once had an accident when my hands were off the handlebars. Your warning is still useful, I think, but I also think good judgment goes a long way here.
We get that, but I left off (for brevity) the reasons why Citus would be a net positive for our use case.
A few reasons--for the last few years, I've mostly worked as a science writer and have learned a lot about the fields I cover at a high level. Although I can write competently about these subjects now, I feel that because I don't have a background in the actual fields I'm covering I am doing a disservice to my readers and am limiting myself as a science communicator. At the same time, it's made me realize how much of the world my brain effectively treats as magic for lack of the basic knowledge that comes with just an undergrad degree in almost all STEM fields. Finally, when I look at career trajectories in media, i've realized that financial incentives are not great unless you make it to the top 5% of those employed in this field and many of these positions aren't something I'd want to do anyway, much less work my ass off for decades to get there.

So I guess from STEM, I'm looking for:

-financial stability/mobility in career

-understanding of the world at a deeper level

-the chance to actually be work at something that can change the world, rather than just writing about the people doing this work (arguably, media does change the world, but from the inside I'd say I'm being generous by saying that 2/3 of media is entertainment 1/3 actually results in change).
I guess it boils down to that - it was built primarily as a vehicle for transferring money in various directions. Not to cost-effectively project military power.

The Schadenfreude part of me is having lots of fun reading reports of the Norwegians' F-35 misadventures though!
I consider Tealium doubly in the wrong here since the appeal to some orgs is that their tag manager allows BizDev/AdOps types to include scripts on sites without answering to product owners and developers.
In addition to this, the recent tax bill actually created "Opportunity Zones", which are intended to allow for "Qualified Opportunity Funds" -- investment funds so you can invest in distressed communities.

I don't know a lot about them, but they were discussed in the most recent Freakanomics podcast[0]. I don't think any such funds exist yet, but seems like the hope is that they'll become a way to "buy stock" in (some) cities -- from the sound of it, available to regular retail investors.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/awesome-terrible-tax-cuts-pa...
The main thing I want to hide in minimized comments are "+1 fix this plz!" comments on bugs, comments that add nothing above and beyond a thumbs-up reaction.

The "reasons" Github offers for minimizing comments are: Spam, Abuse, Off Topic, Outdated, and Resolved. "+1" isn't exactly any of those. (I guess they're kinda "Spam" but they're not unsolicited commercial messages.)
Samsung tablets.
Strong cryptography with steganographic/deniable key storage is much more cost efficient.
A Stunning Cure for Beta Thalassemia, One of the World’s Worst Blood Diseases
>You would have known if you stayed at the meeting

If a meeting is structured such that an attendee has enough time to realize it's pointless and leave before the meeting gets around to the important part, then it's a bad meeting. That meeting sounds like it should have been an email, or a message in an IM channel, or even more than one smaller meetings.

A manager who structures meetings so that people have to sit through pointless drivel in order to receive one or two important nuggets of information, is a bad manager who's scheduling exactly the kind of bad meetings that Musk is talking about.
Just like introduction of generics and interfaces to static languages is a concession that there is value in "informalism" (if that's a word).

Basically, there are values in both. There is no silver bullet, these are all different tools in our belt, and some work better in some situations and others in others -- hammers and screwdrivers.

One thing I love about Python is that it allows a lot of different tools and methods, allowing you to select what works in a given situation. Many of those tools are far from perfect, but they get the job done in a very satisfying manner, more often than not.
> With some random bike or scooter, not so easy, if there is not some kind of enforced numbering system.

Even if there is, someone else could have moved the scooter after it was properly parked.
Statement of Dr. Eric Schmidt to the House Armed Services Committee [pdf]
(White takes a sip) "This is incredible... what the hell are we making meth for?!"
Chicken and egg perhaps; as a Java contractor back in the day, I noticed the eventual creep of Ruby on Rails stealing some of it's limelight, then JavaScript or whatever the new hotness became (not saying JavaScript is in any way hot there).

As a contractor, I was compelled to learn those technologies because the companies were demanding these skills, not because I had a desire to learn another scripting language or whatever. Of course, it's often (senior) developers within the company that push the new, less-well-travelled technologies and the cycle repeats.

I guess the lesson is, don't let frontend developers dictate that JavaScript should be on the server, or is in fact a good language for desktop apps and so on.
Based on the same type of anecdotal evidence, I have the complete opposite view. I've not met anyone that has enjoyed their time at Microsoft. They all talk about the awful work situation, terrible management practices and the backstabbing politics to the point you can't trust your own co-workers.

With all that said, the reality is that you can't take a single brush and paint companies that have so many employees with it. The experience varies very widely on which part of the company they are in.

I'm sure parts of Microsoft are wonderful to work at. Just like I'm sure parts of Amazon are wonderful to work at (they have numerous awards as well indicating this: #1 by LinkedIn this year, for example). I wish we'd stop taking articles that point out the experiences of a couple people to mean that is the situation at the company. Report the full story, not click-bait articles.
Really like this concept -- people talk a lot about product market fit but the same applies with employees/coworkers in my experience. It really just clicks or it doesn’t.
I agree with your first paragraph, but I don't think it's fair to compare Tesla to Uber and Twitter.
If your data directories have much redundancy (so deduplication can help), or are nicely compressable, then VDO can also make sense for home setups.
Like companies, you would consider things like "does it make sense for my kind of data", "do I have enough CPU cycles/ram to spend on getting storage down to some degree" and "am I ok with the additional layer, so more complicated setup".
We don't, and legally we can't. Once they accept the ticket to SF and choose to make their home on the sidewalk, they become our problem, legally. And SF (even now) is so much nicer than Texas that few of the homeless are willing to go back.
there's a documentary I forget where that shows a russia jet closing their front of intakes and opening the top of them at take off, preventing debris on the runway from being sucked in.
"Amazon was also just named the #1 business on LinkedIn’s 2018 Top Companies list, which ranks the most sought after places to work for professionals in the United States."

This statement/award strikes me as very far removed from reality.