skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good contribution but don't exaggerate it. Just because you defined something doesn't mean it's impressive. Peano rigorously defined natural numbers but Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem is a tad more impressive. The parsing contribution of figures like Knuth is orders of magnitude more impressive. I see that above you state "Noam is on the short list of the most intellectually impactful human beings of the period since Descartes". This is just not the case. The religion built around Chomsky is a bit crazy. Chomsky contributed to linguistics and it was an interesting theory but it turned out he was mostly wrong, but fortunately his work is applicable to parsing computer languages. That's it. He certainly doesn't belong on a list that Einstein "maybe" belongs to.
iOS 11’s new App Store boosts downloads by 800% for featured apps
There is a material difference between UMTS and LTE, UMTS is using CDMA which comes with some practically unfortunate tradeoffs like the "breathing cell" and inheriting the old GSM style slow system design.
We use programming languages for tasks that do not require human judgement.

If using your product requires the detailed understanding of a standard EULA, my judgement is that I would not like to use your product without training. Think of all the details in those paragraphs that I might mess up!

But using these products does not require the detailed understanding of a standard EULA. It only requires you to click 'I Agree'. The EULA is not there to inform the user, it is there to ensure that your exploitation of them will not be punished when they find out.
I've been planning a side project with a lot of those features. That's exactly how I think about my budgeting and that's exactly how I would like to allocate my money. I'm really not aware of any way to do this currently, apart from a lot of manual work in a spreadsheet, which is annoying and still requires restraint in spending. Mint isn't even that helpful when it comes to budgeting because their alerts and categories are always inconsistent and they change categories that you've set for no apparent reason. Not to mention the ads.

Unfortunately, getting data from bank accounts is a pain due to bank security. The approach I was going to use just to get started was to export Mint's data as a csv, and then build an app around that until I read up on the bank transaction formats that would let you pull your transaction history. Not ideal, though.
A company that feels it needs to know the beliefs and opinions of its employees is a company that I do not want to work for. Professionalism is the standard--nothing less is acceptable, and requiring more is creepy. Violation of this boundary is one of the reasons that Google is in so much trouble these days, for example.
First Tech in the Pacific Northwest used to invent their own wheel, and it was great. Usable UI, 2FA; I had no complaints. Then they switched to what I assume is some pre-packaged SaaS. It's awful. Not even an attempt at MFA, just UID/PWD and off you go. UI sucks. Stuff doesn't work if you don't allow popups, but doesn't fail in such a way as to make root cause obvious ("here's an obscure error message with a string of hex numbers..."). I wish they'd go back to what they had.
Kaspersky Lab banned from advertising on Twitter
I did not used Japanese words, I used English words. And unless you are strongly colorblind, they are diferent looking no matter what your maternal language. So no, it is not true that they are same, that is frankly incredibly bullshit statement.

For that matter, light green and dark green are shades too, but they are not the same color and are not used intercheably.
He had a tremendous influence in making electronic music more mainstream. RIP.
I'm saying that people 1 or 2 generations removed from the farming WILL get it.
I'm not an aeronautical engineer but my understand is that a lot of the increase in efficiency is due to introduction of turbofan engines with higher bypass ratios. These economize on fuel since the fuel increasingly runs the turbofan to compress air that enters the bypass duct rather than generating thrust directly. Thrust instead comes from decompression of the air as it flows out behind the engine.

B787, B777, AB380, and AB350 all have GE or RR turbofans with 8:1 or greater bypass according to numbers in Wikipedia. [0]

This is not the only design improvement but it's a big one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_ratio
If only more people did what you did, take your money to the local bank or credit union. If they don't have any more customers they can't pull these shenanigans.

I've been with a credit union (ESL) for 5 years now and they are amazing.
I don't think there's really any correlation and believe the OP doesn't quite grasp that[1], based on the various work environments I've seen. [I replied just before on this point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887247 ]

[1] There are various things he could do to improve his "cohesiveness" with team members, without needing to modify likeability. Ideally though, being both likeable and a "team player" would be best but that is more difficult to achieve in the short term than simply getting on with the rest of the crew. Likeability means being able to join in on the after work drinks fun. It has little to do with being able to help others stay productive at work.
I think you might be confused as to what I meant by gaming mechanics. I'm not positing a vast network of deliberate bots or bad actors or anything.

I'm talking about gaming in the abstract psychological and problem theory sense.
Smart people would love working with a guy like you.
Makes sense. Think of all of the spam e-mail messages you get with tiny text at the bottom reading something like "You are receiving this e-mail because you signed up for {$web_site_you_never_heard_of_before}."
MoviePass’s finances show that it might be too good to be true
This is like someone saying web search could be solved by a simple database lookup.
New York has nothing to do with the CFPD. The CFPD's civil penalty fund is legally mandated to use all money for two things only: victim compensation, and consumer education and financial literacy programs.

The GAO has audited the CFPD, and verified the funds are being spent in accordance with the law.
Here are a bunch of job postings at Amazon citing that they use Scala:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/amazon-scala-jobs/?country=gb

https://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Amazon.com/jobs?q=scala&l=Londo...

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=scala&loc_query...
My cynical take. Phones are tied to identies and using google chat means that real people are linked to all their google activity. That is a extremely valuable for Google. So IM tied to phones is great for them.

GoogleTalk and chat that allows internet only is not very valuable to Google.

Since it’s trivial to have a chat protocol work well with carriers and browsers and everything else, Occum’s Razor says Google did it for money. By allowing anonymous accounts like gtalk and jabber and such, it makes their ad pool worse. They could go freemium and just ignore those less valuable accounts that aren’t tied to a phone. But instead save the 1000 engineer hours or whatever to not have to support non-phone based chat.
https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/incident/564314ae3309c22...

> April 20, 2018 6:14PM UTC
[Investigating] Currently people are unable to Tweet, engineering teams are investigating.
Direct sunlight coming in is a little savage - indirect light for me please. Possibly relevant, the UV here in New Zealand will annihilate most things quite quickly, and me after a few minutes.
And contracts that forbid people from joining class actions.
There are so many things that could go wrong in delivering a piece of code. Just the ones I've seen enough times to build rules of thumb about exceeds my own powers of recall. And some people reliably trip over certain failure modes, while others avoid them subconsciously, never even realizing there was a hazard to begin with.

My new motto is: filter out the reversible decisions and worry about the rest. When something in the former set breaks, make it a teachable moment.
Huh. Experience has taught me the opposite, that any code written in-house is more likely to be undocumented, untested, or buggy than a library used by many others. Especially in the case of a small team that has grown over 5+ years, where things devs write early on quickly become technical debt that few others can understand without the original context. Contrast that to using an import to a documented library where any new dev can quickly go and read the docs & examples and know exactly what it's for. The few cases where a package upgraded something which broke our code have always been easy to resolve by just downgrading the package.
Surely everyone within 20ft of them can pretty much see what they see anyway?
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was enacted October 3, 2008, a month and a day before the election and nearly four months before Obama was inaugurated as President. While both McCain and Obama voted in favor of the act, and issued a joint statement in favor of the action as Presidential candidates, that part of the crisis was over and done with before he took office.
I got an email recently from WF about the issue with them opening accounts in customer's names without them knowing. The email said something to the effect of contact them if I think an account was opened that I didn't authorize.

Why the heck is the burden on ME to go look?
The icons made the mac revolutionary? What a ridiculous exaggeration. The icons were an improvement over the "textual" xerox icons but it wasn't what made the mac revolutionary.
Well, the economy is not working properly: there's so much overhead with each step of capitalism involved in buying a home.

This is just one aspect:
Take for example taxes: 33% is a double whammy. If you build it yourself, it's like making your own bed: you don't pay 1/3 of the labor cost for making your own bed. But, if you pay someone to make a home for you: First your take home pay is cut by 1/3 by your income taxes, and the person your paying or companies, their labor is taxed at another 1/3. In addition to the income taxes, that company has many other taxes to pay as well, not to mention impact fees, environmental fees, etc, etc and the lumber company they buy from has to pay even more taxes,etc.
The CFPD is required to use all money from fines for victim compensation, and where that's not practical, they keep it to compensate future victims or they can spend it on consumer education and financial literacy programs.

They are not permitted to spend the money on anything else.
Some of my fondest childhood memories are from periods of major DIY home rennovation projects. Remodeling the kitchen, replacing the windows, installing tile and hardwood floors, all sorts of fun and hugely educational experiences.

These were times of pleasure, excitement, and productive collaboration for the entire family.

When I see comments like these it makes me wonder what sort of dysfunctoinal marriages people have got themselves into, and if taking on any sort of project requiring teamwork is simply forcing a realization of an already failed state.
"Can be replicated as in "anyone can do it" or as in "everyone can do it"?

I love that the English language has two words ("anyone" and "everyone") that seem to be similar, but which in fact lead to vastly different scenarios.

Too many "solutions" people give for societal problems are of the "anyone" kind.
OneDrive, text files. I can access it on my phone too if I need to.
The patients in the Yetter paper were all being evaluated for liver disease, so their measurements might not be what you want to use as normal.
> Has there been a proven (in court) accusation that Facebook has “abused users” “past” the limits of the law?

Many times. The FTC consent decree [1], the violations of Belgian law [2] and the violations of German law [3] come to mind. (In each case, a court ruled or supervised a settlement. In each case, Facebook continued breaking the law.) There are many more.

Facebook's culture is broken. The precedence for such lawless cultures is they get broken up or they go Enron.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-belgium/facebook...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-facebook-court-case-pri...
TiddlyWiki + SyncThing! I'm a heavy emacs user and used org-mode for a long time, but I'm finding that TiddlyWiki already lives in the browser, so it works well in places that Emacs has a harder time (tablets, phones, Chromebooks, whatever).

TiddlyWiki is quite underrated, I think.
https://tiddlywiki.com/
So what do you think will be the end result of 5G ? same as William Webb says, that most likely, nothing will come out of it - because consumers are happy with current speed, and they're only interest is paying less, which doesn't fit with investing billions in 5G ?
What does this mean for a company that has java 8 embedded in its products? Would customers who use those products also have to purchase java 8?
> Both me and the parent were referring to Native.

I know.

So they are charging for a Kotlin Native debugger, no?

No, Kotlin Native can interface with GDB or LLDB, they're charging for CLion which provides a GUI interface atop of these.

> Do they provide a GDB fork or something that can use without CLion?

No need to fork, you just won't have the frontend that Clion provides.
If the bits going through your router were the only way Facebook gathered data about you, that would make sense. But it's only one way. You don't even need to have a Facebook account to have a Facebook profile.
> Law in general has multiplied

It's no surprise reading the comments here and elsewhere these days. The media helps build a furor amongst people, and people believe there is no other choice but to use the heavy hand of the government to solve their issues. Many times it's done without alternatives attempted first with the proponents criticizing those against a law as against its intentions. We see it with the Patriot Act, GDPR, etc.

And as global internet laws are written more and more by governments of citizens who implicitly trust them a lot (often just guessing at what can solve the problem instead of empirical evidence based on timid baby steps), their tentacles spread to the point where only those with resources can abide. Things happen in waves and I can only hope we'll come around to not adding laws and regulations all the time.
The coverage/range of 5G depends on the scale of deployment, and the environment of the deployment (e.g. urban with lots of tall buildings, vs rural), assuming we are talking about mmw type of 5G not LTE+ type of 5G.

Due to higher frequency, 5G might actually have a disadvantage in range for a single tower, in dense urban environment due to weaker penetration. But it could be compensated by deploying more towers, at more strategic locations. The value proposition is that the gain in speed and delay would be well worth it.

Weak penetration is still a problem for long range open field 5G communication, but due to different factors like fog, weather conditions, etc.

Regarding data caps, I view it as more of a business model question, less related to the technical capabilities of 4G vs 5G.
At the POINT of intersection. Those objects are both at the point of collision and not at the point of collision.
Intelligent scanner to detect security vulnerabilities in layer 7 assets
I personally hate that aspect of Whatsapp. Having to scan a QR code to use chat on my desktop/laptop is a huge pain and is a major reason why I stick to Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts.
The authors of this original paper have been leading this work on backscatter and even have a long range backscatter system that gives ranges of a kilometer. They also have a startup commercializing backscatter.

https://www.jeevawireless.com/

http://longrange.cs.washington.edu/
That's Random Startup #347 ;) I have considered trying Simple but not gotten around to it yet.
> become more opinionated by promoting programming idioms we found to work well

Which idioms exactly?
Maybe writing regulations is hard. Have you tried it?
Yes.

If your data is not in three different places it might as well not exist.
I would argue it from the other direction: it's unethical for a doctor NOT to recommend cannabis to a patient seeking it. Based on the evidence we have available today, incarceration causes more health problems than cannabis use.
s/no one die/no one did/
Agreed. I changed over to a local credit union from Bank of America a few years back. Their online banking is a bit more awkward, but I can always talk with an informed person, which more than makes up for it.

My theory is that banks started out personal, but as they have consolidated have become ever more industrial in their scale and processes. Unfortunately, industrial-style human interaction is pretty awful.

I think the massive restructuring will come as banks split tasks into a) fully automating the boring things, and b) creating really good tools that empower their front-line workers (instead of treating them as dumb peripherals).

If our current major banks all went the way of Blockbuster during that process, I'll shed no tears. Few will, I imagine.
You said words, but there's no substance, how does SpaceX and Tesla in any way prove that "Elon Musk gets more done per dollar than anyone else alive" exactly?
In the UK, there's this odd thing where some big high street banks have sub-brands that use the same core bank, but have their own customer service, online banking, etc. The Co-Operative has Smile, HSBC has First Direct. And these sub-brands generally have fantastic customer service!

Why? Why not just have great customer service for the main bank?

These sub-brands aren't, AFAIK, aimed at better-off customers who are worth more (there are examples of that too - Santander has Cater Allen), so it's not like there's some greater payoff to decent customer service.

They are phone and online only, without physical branches, so there are lower costs. Perhaps it's that?
That’s a good point. Apple attests that it’s end to end and people have tried to track and fail and leaks don’t reveal vulnerabilities.

By comparison, no other majors attest that (eg, Google explicitly says it’s not end to end) and leaks have shown data accessed in clear text by government actors.
That might make sense IF the caps only applied during times of congestion.
Steemit: The Decentralized Social Network Challenging Facebook Business Model
and/or xz? because xz gives better compression than gzip or warc?
Have you looked at plaid? I'm not sure what their rates are like, but if you're doing just a personal project, you might be able to get away with their developer evaluation (though that only lets you interface with big banks, not the small ones - the developer evaluation that is).

Edit: plaid is a nice abstraction bank api: https://plaid.com/
I'm curious how many candidates actually put their Twitter profile on their application. I mostly use twitter to banter with friends and family. Although nothing is rude or offensive, it wouldn't be relevant for companies so I would never disclose it. I can see it being useful for top influencers who do share interesting articles, but I doubt these people need to apply to companies in a traditional way.

Is it time for people to fake their tweets and constantly post "interesting" articles to get interviews? That sounds absurd.
Then they should apply caps or throttling during hours when capacity is a concern and let me download 100 GB of games from Steam between 4 and 7 AM when the Netflix watchers have gone to bed.
The way I see it, the authoritarians in the US hijacked the word liberal and want to conflate it with progressive, despite the derivation of the word itself. If one is a proponent of liberty, forcing people to do things/ not do things is authoritarian, and therefore, not liberal. I'm all for change, but I despise force (other than Gandhi's 'force of truth', Satyagraha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha).
Legalese is not what you think it is, it contains perhaps even more ambiguity than plain English in many cases. As often as not legalese circles around the matter rather than addressing it directly and clearly.
> Not even remotely true. SMLLCs are disregarded entities for tax purposes, so their transactions are taxed directly to their owners. And legally, the concept of veil-piercing applies to SMLLCs generally, and especially to undercapitalized SMLLCs (meaning any LLC without sufficient independent assets to pay off all liabilities against it).

This is true in Finland, which has fewer forms of corporations than the US for example. The corporation can decide to not pay out all of its earnings to its sole shareholder, but in such situation, the company needs to pay an additional 20% tax for the retained amount of money, for conducting a successful year of operations. This is rarely a good idea, but in this case where the owner is subject to constraints of personal income imposed by the government, it might make sense.
The high point as far as I’m concerned is the California bungalow that was a thing here in New Zealand from about 1910-1940.
Huge eves, low slung, wide decks, great windows, local materials incorporated (eg timber, volcanic rocks, river stones).

I had the misfortune of painting under the eves on one once. The weather couldn’t reach the wood and it had gone so hard that it was like sanding glass.

https://www.renovate.org.nz/bungalow/history/
If you cant achieve change, camt negotiate and cant explain, you are not providing leadership. Regardless of whether you are right.
Has the time finally come for Postgresql?
Create Digital Nature Renders Using Octane in Cinema 4D
How about an even simpler question in the realm of Carnot efficiency.

What's the theoretical minimum number of transistors to build a real time hardware MPEG-4 decoder @4k using Intel's 14nm process.
Except that was the goal of the one that did this to themselves and they made it not to "survive" but to live the life they want.

UBI should be fixed to a survivable life style. You get the minimum, no luxury. I'm pretty sure that movement fix their income to a bit higher than that, to an amount that at least allow them a bit of luxury (restaurant is one).

It was also their goal, not working of working to pass the time.

As a counter point, look at anyone that make more than 100 000$ a year. They have much more than needed, yet can still works insane hours. Is it that they ALWAYS NEED more money or simply that's what they want to do and having more money is an extension to it? Workaholic exist...
Why email? It's not an email service at all....I guess we need to improve our content marketing but we don't have the word email anywhere on our site. Having said that the main service is an API that you can use for a lot use cases for example a good use case is an incident response team that goes manually through a lot of phishing reports to tag them and some hosting providers that goes through their websites to get down phishing or hacked website
Capitol One has one of the largest advertising budgets at > $1.5B. Seems a bit insane to support an organization that is willing to send so much revenue out the door when a good chunk of it could be recaptured by its customers.
It's only pretty trivial if you're doing an app that has some forms and does some CRUD and so on.

For anything above that, it can hairy real fast.
So in a related study if we take a bunch of people with low basketball skills insult some and flatter the others there should be no different in shot percentage of either group?
I disagree that all those questions (and probably most of the others he didn't list) need thorough discussion. A strong product head can define the vision that answers those very early on. Integrating with existing systems is definitely the hard part.