skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You quoted that dictionary definition in another comment:

>Government: the governing body of a nation, state, or community.

Just because something purports to be a dictionary doesn't mean its definitions are useful or correct. That's a poor definition because it covers a large number of things that nobody ever uses the word "government" to describe, such as the football club. This is much more precise (from Webster): "the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it"
One exchange user selling to another user on the same exchange (or to themselves, i.e. a wash trade) needn't hit the public ledger.
> The captain is cool as a cucumber.

The pilot sounds cool, but I'm not sure she's calm. The initial communication with approach complaining about frequency changes (before even identifying) strikes me as odd.

More concretely, many of the transmissions are without identification or readbacks, some stepping on other stations.
You're missing the point. OP is referring to you filing taxes on the last day. Your post history shows you spent every day the last months on HackerNews, you could have filed before today. E-file went live on January 29, 2018.
Ask HN: Google search result initial vs. actual count
Does anyone know why google searches say an enormous number when you search, but then show an extremely small fraction of that number of results?

For instance, running the query:

free online revenue growth modeling tool

says "About 5,970,000 results (0.70 seconds)".

Clicking into the result pages though, there are no more links when paging 100 results at a time, and you end up with this on the third page: "Page 3 of about 236 results (0.65 seconds)".

I looked into it a bit but didn't see any info on it. Curious if anyone here knows. Thanks!

Edit: based on this analysis, it seems the distributed systems implementation is part of it, and user behavior is another part of it https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-only-return-50-pages-of-10-results-when-it-claims-that-there-are-560-000-results
Nor did they do particularly well, or fight it alone. You’re talking about a couple of hundred years of fighting at least, more like three hundred. I’m sure that given a similar time frame, the US could “win” in Iraq too.
Because there isn't a good reason to do this. They could have easily given each new signup a UID like ICQ and it would have been near perfect.
Since this seems to be the most accepted answer, I did some search on IP address re-targeting, and came across this, which is kind of creepy and annoying.

> Cookie-based retargeting uses online data while IP Targeting uses offline data, which is verified and drastically reduces the potential of non-human bot traffic. IP Targeting essentially takes the traditional direct mail approach and matches home and business postal addresses to computer/device IP addresses.

Source: http://www.accudata.com/why-ip-targeting-takes-the-cake/
I saw another cabin pic and it looked like NO ONE had their oxygen masks on properly. I wish people would actually listen when the stewardesses say "Place over your nose AND mouth and breath normally". Putting the mask cup over just your mouth is next to useless.
There's no reason to think you need sensors. Although it's not autonomous, look at GM's Cadillac system and you have a pretty good indication that we're probably fairly close (<10 years) from being able to have systems that are completely autonomous on freeways. May need some sort of beacon to flag construction zones and the like but it seems on the horizon.

Which would actually be a big win for safety and being able to generally deal with long, boring drives. That doesn't buy you robo-Uber or cars-on-demand but those are likely much harder problems.
I was uncertain which to use and went with the site announcing what was new, even if a bit corporate. I guess I picked wrong. Thanks for fixing.
For me it was taking a very long and very hard look at all the different notifications I was getting, and then cutting them down as much as possible. It sounds like a minor thing to do, but in effect I became more focused, as I spend almost no mental energy on useless distractions. I have only so much mental juice per day to begin with, and not wasting it on unimportant notices allows me to allocate more of it on stuff that actually matters.
It's not listed there, and didn't reach full feature parity (and seems to be dead now).

https://github.com/frodwith/jaque is the project though, which is an implementation of the Nock VM from Urbit
All the messages user A sends to user B is stored in user A's storage. User B poll's user A's storage for the messages.

We have offline messaging (file polling) and online messaging via WebRTC.

You don't have to be online, your contacts are polling your storage and as long as your storage is online, the messages will be sent.
> There's no reason for them to risk that just to make a little more.

Martha Stewart's insider trading saved her a grand total of $45,673.
I owe a few hundred thanks to the ACA. I have done the paperwork on H&R Block. I spent part of the morning on that in a familiar UI to try to get the figures straight.

But thanks. I will look at it.
To what extent is this compatible with all existing libraries for allegedly supported languages?

I'm also curious if .net standard/c# support is being planned.
Yes. All those countries you have in mind can attempt that and likely already have.
The creation of law or precedent in the USA doesn't make it happen elsewhere, nor does not having law or precedent in the USA prevent it elsewhere.
This response comes up a lot, and it deserves to be considered more than rhetorically.
You need to postmark your forms by the due date, not have it in the hands of the IRS. If it takes a few days to get in the mail, a few days (weeks?) for it to be scanned and OCR...that's less days left to audit you. That is one of my understanding why someone may file by paper.
Will your outreach be noticed, recorded and stored? Almost certainly. Will it impact your ability to freely travel and gain employment? I don't know. Maybe not today, but who knows how the winds of politics will blow.
I can't remember an article were an architect or engineer flat-out claimed that the Millennium Tower design was fundamentally flawed. I thought this article had such a quote but reading it again the claim is merely implied by the journalists.

The Millennium Tower was not flawed. It just unfortunately bumped into the law of large numbers. Even if all future towers in SF rest on bedrock, that still wouldn't reflect poorly the judgment of the Millennium Tower architects.

Frankly, New Yorkers should be more concerned about the seismic safety of New York buildings. In terms of seismic risk vs seismic structural resilience, New York may be facing a great chance of catastrophe than San Francisco.
Building player-first startup teams
Generally all emails are read by the five eyes as well as China in some automated way I believe.

I think if you do research for spying purposes you'll eventually get attention from someone and you may need to figure out which side you want to be aligned with if it is good. If it is not useful, and this is likely the case given no prior, then this is just idle talk.

I prefer to stay away from these things as the intrigue youll run into as an independent researcher is just not worth the hassle. Go get a job at a three letter agency or something like that.

Seriously do not get between China and the US as an independent researcher. It isn't worth it, especially if it is just intellectual curiousity.
You can't run in heels. And we crossed only a short bit of tarmac before being assembled on a big patch of grass.

I think you're better off running in bare feet than damaging the slide or spearing the person ahead of you. That ramp is STEEP (apparently broken ankles are common).
Demystifying SKWarpGeometry or how I wrote an editor for a single SpriteKit API
If you choose a time in the future, other nodes could reject you.

If you choose a time obscenely short (say, 1 second after the last block), presumably the difficulty is an average of many created blocks, and it would take a lot of malicious actors to make this valid.

Plus, if Block A is found at 10:00, and I find Block B at 10:10 but say it was 10:01... and then Block C is found at 10:20, the average of these three is ~10 minutes still.
B would need to refer to a transaction output that has at least 1 BTC to be able to sign a transaction sending 1 BTC to B. Until A's transaction is included in a block, B can not do that.
webpack adds support for link rel=”prefetch/preload”
Since it's not dilated, it's possible
I very often spend time on HN on my phone in bed. So, no. Being able to log in here is not proof I could have done my taxes any time.
Ironically, The Guardian connects to Facebook. Please don't allow this unless I click on something that actually requires Facebook access.
US and Russian nuclear arsenals set to be unchecked for first time since 1972
What are some things you like in Metabase better?
Because that's an overly complex solution. Why not just fix the server capacity problem (or whatever is causing the outage)? Seems much simpler and they've been able to handle this in past years.
It's pretty much required if you're doing F# work with VS Code, but I'll give my shoutout to Ionide[0]. I'm largely an F# dev these days, so I spend a ton of time with Ionide, and it's a great example of the open source community filling the gap where businesses have not done so (Microsoft in this case, since they focus F# resources into Visual Studio proper). The extension can be a little slow even on my fully-loaded Surface Book, but I suspect that's more to do with the underlying F# tooling than the extension itself.

[0]: https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp
Sounds like a design problem. A covering of woven UHMW HDPE would make the slides more puncture and slash resistant, and could take the "collect passenger shoes" item off the emergency checklist.

But that would also make the slides more expensive, so it really all depends on what the airline thinks a dead passenger is worth.

Edit: The structural integrity of the slide is provided by pneumatic pressure on a rubber-like material (neoprene?). The thickness of that material could be reduced somewhat if HDPE fibers were added. You're not trying to make the things bulletproof, just shoe-resistant. The end result would be a lighter slide, but it would be an order of magnitude more expensive.
The meaning of = for logic programmers
Based on the status website, looks like it's back up:
https://www.marketingexpress.irs.gov/systems-status/system-s...
Interestingly, each unit uses a chemical reaction to create the oxygen individually. They have fuel for around 15 minutes. So the moment the plane loses pressure, the pilots need to dive to a safe altitude where the masks are no longer required.
The doctor isn't going to be making decisions without access to the computer diagnosis.

The computer aided diagnosis isn't another doctor, it's another stethoscope.
> When Wittgenstein said "Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." He meant it in a respectful way, as a defense of religious mysticism.

What is mystical about this? I think this is thoroughly a practical advice. If its mystical just because of the silence part, then those who speak are also mystical, in the sense that they're speaking mystical mumbo-jumbo.
Apple’s New Design Ethos: Making Gadgets Easy to Sell, Hard to Use
From Latin "viva voce", literally 'with a live voice' and roughly meaning 'aloud'.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viva_voce#English
Yes, and this actually has a use.

You can use this to increase the fee of a transaction after the fact. So, suppose A has a fee of 0.001 in the first transaction, and the current fee needs to be 0.01 . Then, B has this transaction, but no-one will put it into a block, so B hasn't really received his money yet. A could sign another transaction with a higher fee that would send the money back to A. This could happen until the original transaction was actually deep enough in the chain.

But using your situation, B can do the same thing as A. B can create a transaction sending his own 0.999 BTC to another address of his, and include a fee here of 0.019 . In this fee, there is 0.01 to fund this transaction, and another 0.009 to fund the fee A forgot to include.
Miners will see this, and include both transactions, and B is guaranteed he has his money.
Well, I'm not talking about epidemiology, just personal choice. People had to use incomplete information for personal choices for centuries, I'm afraid. I'm not sure what to do about that, the alternative seems to be chasing after the conclusion of the latest study and a lot of said latest studies are very poor, often in very insidious ways that are hard to identify.

If something was literally poisonous and was consumed by lots of people, we'd be seeing drastic effects. Like drastically slashed life expectancy.

If something was literally hyper-beneficial and extended your life by 20 years, we'd be seeing some cohort expressing that, as well.

If there are lots of confounders, it just means it's not the only problem, which I think is already frequently true for many of these things (i.e., smoking and weight gain associated with lots of root issues).

The effects of a lot of things taken in vacuum often seem less significant than their very confounders.
These sorts of calls are infuriating when working at a web des/dev company. No we don't any need dev/design services -- we registered that domain because we're doing that!

Looking to change the number out to a voicemail transcription number now that things are picking up so it's easier to filter out the duff calls
Maybe he wants to travel :-D
Not having to constantly make minor adjustments to throttle position to maintain the correct speed is a big bonus for me, both in traffic and out of it. I find I can focus much more on watching my surroundings, and whats happening 500m down the road, rather than constantly looking at the speedometer. This also makes a big difference to how tired I feel after long trips. The same applies to the Lateral Control part of Autopilot, although I use that less.

(To be fair, many other cars provide adaptive cruise control too, but Tesla's is the best I've tried so far).
You’re not the Equifax customer. Equifax arguably behaved poorly with its security breaches that have long term implications for millions, and even more so with their disclosure.

What other corporation are you going to buy from, when you’re not the customer in the first place, but have been commoditised to be their product?

How do you protect the product, if the corporation and it’s customers have no incentive to do so themselves?
For what it's worth...taxes for C-corp are due March 15th.

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/s-...
Toothpaste.Coffee
Sorry to hear all of that has happened to you, but from your post it kind of seems like your victim mindset is also working against you.

Nothing you wrote precludes the ability to file your taxes earlier. If you can work on some things, you could have spent a bit of time figuring out your taxes - I'm sure there were 10 hours this year so far that you could have put to better use. Seems like lack of planning is at least partially to blame.

I hope you can reflect on how you could have acted differently to avoid this problem: if you view all of your problems as external and outside your locus of control it makes you feel powerless in your ability to solve them. I'm sure you are a fundamentally smart and capable person.
> Every person that advocates for gay rights abjectly refuses on a basic level to find promiscuity bad.

Why should they even consider it? Their opponents usually dishonestly represent homosexuality as one of the worst forms of promiscuity (by the volume of their concerns, worse than nymphomania, cheating, pedophilia, fetish addiction, polygamy, etc.).

The answer to promiscuity is 1. Non of your business, 2. education.
Are you a US citizen? I am not (I have a green card) so won't even sign a greenpeace petition. A legal ruling during the Reagan administration made it clear that green card holders do not have first amendment protection.

Even US citizens need to be careful these days: https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/983418121808760833
In the US political example I gave (Lee Atwater), you have a Reagan era strategist who admitted privately on tape that it was racially motivated.

And then we have about 4 decades worth of the policy record of what happens when the supposed "small government" advocates get into power. Tell me, why do they end up deficit spending? Is it because they are overwhelmed by the reality of running government? Or is it that they never held the position very strongly in the first place? My personal interpretation is even more cynical, that perhaps they actually like the thing they claim to oppose, so long as it benefits the "right" people.
Engineers may deem this acceptable, but given that San Francisco taxpayers may end up footing the bill, I doubt the rest of us do.

I understand that the people who built it believed that they were doing just fine. But I also understand that there are enormous pressures to keep costs low on a project like this. The notion that for this building those enormous pressures had exactly zero contribution to this outcome is a claim I certainly wouldn't accept without evidence.

If this were really in the range of statistically expected outcomes, then a) there should have been a plan in place to fix it before the structure went up, and b) they would have had sufficient insurance coverage to pay for the fix. Neither is true. The ongoing gosh-golly-who-cooda-node routine plus the simultaneous festival of blame-shifting suggests to me that, at best, the business side of the operation went well beyond what an engineer would have done in the same place.

The correct fix to the building code here I'm happy to leave to the experts, just as long as they eliminate outcomes like this. If that ends up raising the costs for other fancy buildings stuffed with pied-a-terres for the wealthy even to prohibitive levels, I am entirely fine with that. Erring on the side of of earthquake safety while building near major faults in major metropolitan areas seems like a great choice to me.
Exactly--Sherry Turkle made the interesting point that while it is concerning teens spend so much time on their phones texting, it's because they can't drive yet and go see their friends. Tech is a band-aid for a spatial problem.
Unfortunately US departments take it to a level of absurdity, academic solipsism, and middle-class liberal puritanism that's not present in their continental counterparts (who could be very involved with society, daring public intellectuals, and hated middle-class salaried intellectualism -- even if they did work for universities often themselves).
> Its hypothetically possible to recreate this approach in any language.

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that I was providing an exhaustive list of languages where this approach could be implemented. I merely mentioned Python because it had been brought up several times in the thread.

> Grab the item in the map at that key -> check that it exists -> check that the type is what you expect.

I'd argue with that phrasing. You don't check for the key, nor do you check the type. That would imply something like an if-statement to ensure the presence of a key, and switching over a type. In such a system, you could forget to check for null, or make some other mistake that causes the program to fail at run time.

The functor approach does not rely on the developer checking anything. It is 100% type safe, enforced by the type system, cannot crash at run time, and does not require you to provide a data type to extract the data into.
Well, I'm not after other people's money. It sounds like you and GP aren't after it either. We all want to make genuine connections and have meaningful relationships.

That makes three of us, and I have a feeling there are many more. We're just not connecting enough, and have been bitten so much that we stay home licking our wounds instead of risking getting hurt again.

But it's not because good people aren't out there. They're out there. We just have to find them somehow, and that takes trying instead of sitting at home.
Ho wow, never heard of it. Will put it on the experiments list. Thanks a lot!
My argument is that people are fighting too much on left and right wing lines.

Saying you are left wing or right wing can now be accepted as the distinction of right and wrong, then there is no point of political discussion, as a title puts you in either the right and wrong.
Unfortunately that usage makes the word completely useless for its actual meaning. It could have been a very useful word.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're hoping for a bit better than that here.
First, as to SIGPIPE, I just don't want even to generate it (and try hard not to), much less catch it -- so if I can then I set its disposition to SIG_IGN.

Second, as to exit conditions, I always set a sig_atomic_t variable to indicate that an exit has been requested via a signal, and I check it in the event loop, so even if the pipe is full, the event loop will see this and cannot miss it.

Third, if need be I use multiple pipes, one per-signal. I've only ever done this for SIGCHLD and SIGUSR1/2 -- that is, I'll have a pipe for all the exit-request signals (e.g., SIGTERM), one for SIGCHLD (if the process creates children processes), and one for SIGUSR1 and/or SIGUSR2.

Fourth, the pollable signal notification interfaces have caveats. I don't even need to think about or know them as long as I have a reliable way to handle signals (which the self-pipe pattern is).

Fifth, signals are not reliable. Generally, signal events can be coalesced (yes, I know...) -- coalescing them in the self-pipe pattern by simply ignoring EAGAIN conditions is just as well (provided you leave evidence of the signal in a sig_atomic_t if you need that evidence).

Sixth, select()/poll() suck, a lot, but they are portable, and more so than pselect()/ppoll(). And if you're using select() or poll() then the self-pipe pattern works very well and yields portable code.

Of course, whenever possible I prefer to use kqueue, epoll, or Solaris event ports. Since I have to work with Linux (sadness) I have to work with epoll (much much sadness), and for all of epoll's warts, it's fantastically better than select()/poll(). Even so, I prefer to self-pipe than to use signalfd() or what have you. I've been using the self-pipe trick for well over a decade and it's never been a problem.

It's true that I don't usually implement language run-times where I need to handle synchronous signals such as SIGSEGV or SIGBUS in creative ways, and if I did I might well make use of longjump() and such in signal handlers -- I'd probably write an async-signal-safe stack walker even, and stack trace printer, and I've looked into that in the past and know it can be and has been done. I do maintain a run-time, jq's, but it's as a toy by comparison to, say, a JVM, and it does not need to play such games.
> I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of Hacker News. No, this does not gain me entree to the old boys club. I still have essentially no professional connections here, though that may be painfully slowly changing.

I think you might think Hacker News is something that it isn't. The leaderboard isn't something anyone really looks at and this is definitely not a good place to make or manage professional connections.