skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be make for a good case study for business schools some day. MoviePass was billed as using the gym membership model because it relied on paying customers who don't use the service. However they totally ignored what makes the gym membership model work.

It isn't that people are just too lazy to cancel a product they don't use. People feel an obligation to have a gym membership and many of those people don't use it because they simply don't enjoy working out. Canceling a gym membership is admitting failure in achieving a goal to work out. There is therefore a huge emotional investment in maintaining a gym membership. That pressure doesn't exist for MoviePass. Almost no one feels pressure to go to the movies so you don't get people signing up for the service out of obligation. And everyone who signs up enjoys going to the theater at some level so low usage members are hard to come by.

Meanwhile the marginal cost of an extra customer in the gym membership model decreases at scale. Adding a single heavy user that works out 10+ hours a week isn't really going to alter a gym's bottom line. This isn't the case for MoviePass. Each ticket costs the company the same amount. If you get one heavy user that buys a ticket everyday, MoviePass might need as many as 25 paying customers who barely use the service. It just doesn't scale.
Source here: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/mac-network
Keats was the gateway for me as well. For me, good poetry is simultaneously unconventional in its design and convergent in its meaning. The poem introduces a novel way of understanding or describing its subject. In a political environment of constant repetition, loaded phrases, mottos, memes, etc., this is refreshing.

However, this classification sort of breaks down the walls of poetry, since many poems are ostensibly divergent i.e. arbitrary and pretentious. At the same time, many mediums (visual, aural, kinesthetic) can be "poetic" without having anything to do with literal poetry. Is there a better word to describe this quality? For example, I don't care for poetry as far as it is a category of written works, but I really like those lines that Keats wrote down.
This is one of the reasons engineering is a difficult field, not just edge of the envelope engineering like this but routine product development. Sometimes it amazes me that anything ever gets shipped.

Think about airliners. After billions of dollars of development, you have to pass critical safety tests (eg evacuation time tests). What happens if you fail the test in such a way that you can't fix it without more-or-less starting from scratch? How can anyone sign off on the development schedule? Yet they do and somehow or other eventually products tend to get shipped.

Back in the day when I was a working engineer (embedded systems, telecom systems) I decided there was basically an unspoken conspiracy of silence. The pointy heads would demand a schedule. The engineering staff would provide it. There would be a generous allocation for all kinds of testing. But sometimes the results of testing would require new board layouts or other things that were basically catastrophic for the schedule (I'm thinking things like electromagnetic compatibility testing - stuff that wasn't in my wheelhouse thank god). The schedules would never factor in serious go-arounds like this yet it could and did happen and was one reason schedules were rarely met.

To me the unspoken conspiracy was that we know we can't really control the development trajectory, but we'll sign off on it anyway. Because what else are you going to do? Apologising later is more practical than seeking permission for an open-ended schedule.
> ironically using the tool progressives despise the most: Regulation

"Progressives" are in the US most often characterized as proposing an overreach in regulation, so I find it weird that you call it something they don't want.

Political terms are hard.

I for one, as an EU citizen, strongly support and am proud of the pro-human (often by being pro-environment and limiting companies) politics of the EU (GDPR, bans of overly toxic substances, USB for smartphones ...).
Combined with repeated prosecution crises with forensic labs in the US, it looks like it is well past time to take a serious look at evidence handling.

The ones in the US have caused thousands of convictions to be called into question; this one caused the coerced collection of 3000 innocent people's DNA.

Incompetent and/or rogue labs are a serious, capricious risk to peoples' freedom.
Struggling to Believe This Report of an Apple AR/VR Headset Coming in 2020
Video-game consoles get a wooden dimension: Nintendo is boxing clever
Citation needed. Sanctions placed on the DPRK under the current administration are not more intense than those under previous administrations. The World Food Program, which analyzes the food security of North Korea, reports the food situation in North Korea is continuing to gradually improve. Current sanctions target various North Korean exports and the import of oil, natural gas, and textiles, but not food. DPRK agricultural production in 2017 was higher than it was in 2015. Additionally, the DPRK has gone through massive food shortages before without a regime change. Between 1994 and 1998, between 5-10% of the population died from starvation, and yet no regime change.
I wonder if this will have the Steisand Effect..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I would like to believe that I didn't get mugged and someone or something in the list ticked him off. It would have been nice for him to open up a channel of conversation as the list is genuine and we have bootstrapped our startup so far to profits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935441
Very sad news, one of the companies I worked at (with a few ex-Sinclair folks) used Rick for our case designs in the early 90s.

Always seemed like a nice guy to me and I still remember the very nice BMW (early M6 IIRC) he was driving at the time.
The multi-core Go benchmark is spawning the goroutines before calling `start := time.Now()`.
Stunning scientists, NASA’s only moon rover just got canceled
You make the assumption that people won't give them more money.
Catchy Sales Phrases That Work
US govt review threatens to block firms’ Artificial Intelligence work with China
So for one there is no such thing as "infinite demand". We can talk about Seattle having an unmeetable housing demand when the whole city is hundred story condo buildings and the population density is twice that of Tokyo.

Of course in the short term, wherever you lift the crippling shroud of insane zoning policy, new housing will still be very expensive. It is pent up demand. But by building density you exhaust said demand. And on top of that, the denser and larger you build, the most scale you apply, the cheaper it gets per unit to house people. Economies of scale plus a bunch of other scaling effects on construction.

One thing the first bastions of reasonable zoning policy will probably fail to do, though, is remove some fairly insane mandatory minimum square footage requirements, which puts a kink in any reasonable approach to housing - developers need profit, and the smaller you can make units the larger your market can be because you can fit more people into the same building footprint and thus afford to charge less per unit, and thus enabling poorer people to live there.

Without that you do just end up with the luxury 2000 sqft condos that are only better than the status quo because they reduce pollution and traffic. They also dramatically help the local economy by enabling high income earners to live there in greater numbers. But to actually help the poor, you need to unrestrict not just the outside building size but the inside as well.
> What is published must not be purged.

Why? Why must everything automatically stay in perpetuity? NPR owns the story. They paid to write it, they chose to publish it, they paid to put it online. The story is theirs. Why can't they do whatever they want with it?
Show HN: Generate hundreds of leads with verified emails/numbers in one click
I don't want sick people in my cube. If they came in while sick last week, they've certainly had time to buy their own tissues.
Sure. Doesn't seem to change much for cars though. It doesn't seem like something Tesla has a significant competence in.

Even in high-stress environments, unless I missed something.
If you were using Selenium to generate the screenshots (they weren't, they were using curl) you could add Adblock to the browser being used on your server (Selenium just automates a real browser) which will block Coinhive.
Binance, Bermuda Ink $15M Crypto Investment Agreement
True, a verbal commitment is not a deal and the VC had even given an email confirmation.

We found our customers through facebook groups.

Maybe your first scenario is correct. and maybe the other startups found our customers the same way. There is no way to prove anything. That's why all I want is for the VC to delete our list from their emails and servers
Just for future reference, RADOS is actually not very S3-like. It is an object store; it does map from object names to buckets of bytes. But unlike S3 and many similar object stores or key-value DBs, RADOS allows you to do file-like operations: you can append, write to random offsets in the object, overwrite pieces of it but not the whole object, etc. (That's all in addition to some stunningly-complex stuff like injecting custom code to do specific kinds of transactional read-writes on the OSD [storage node] itself.)

That's all key to RBD being useful, or indeed CephFS itself. There are systems that map a filesystem layer on top of S3, but they have trouble because there aren't good ways to overwrite random small pieces of an S3 object. With RADOS, there are! :)
Same here, except my urge goes as far as writing to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it's easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature I just came up with that would finally turn me into a productive individual} than actually working with what I have and focusing on what needs to be done.

I wonder if there is some kind of all-encompassing solution (software-based or whatever) that actually manages to conduct you into a so-called "flow state" in some way. I've tried automating things like blocking websites, turning the computer off at certain times and so on, but it always either feels too constraining (which just makes me disable everything after some time) or too "manual" (which I never have the discipline to maintain). And ultimately, it doesn't really make me want to do the task any more than I would otherwise.
Solid marketing content.
I still keep holding out for the MBP that probably won't appear (with lots of ports and a magsafe charging connection, and while I've never tried the newest keyboard, I love my current one). My current MBP is a mid-2010 (2009? maybe? can't remember), and it still runs great, especially after replacing the HDD with an SSD several years ago.

However, El Capitan is the last OSX that will install on it, and this year even the Turbotax software gave me a warning that their software for next year will not run on my system and I'll have to either get a newer one or use their web product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors)
Maybe i'm blind - but i'm not seeing where the benchmark results are? Also, is this code the same code that you actually ran? For ruby, i notice you are outputting 'contens' not 'contents' so i imagine you would get a runtime error?
Dating can be a long, difficult experience, on line or off. So the online part is irrelevant here except that it makes fraud possible.

I understand that humans in general are lazy, and normally I am fine with that. But a) being lazy is different than not having time, b) if you don't have time to date, you also don't have time for a relationship, and c) you can't just skip the early parts of building a relationship. That's not how dating works.
>Get a lawyer and talk to them.

Ha! We are a startup from a developing country and our budget of $10 per day of facebook ads is killing us.
It's pretty bad: Say it's searching for "AB". It won't find it in this string: "AAB"
They should, but as far as I can tell, they don't.

Obvious freight forwarder + foreign IP + local US credit card with the wrong billing address...doesn't raise any suspicions from them.
Online dating is less efficient than what went before. Online dating is more efficient than what before. Both of these statements are true. There are some metrics where is it worse. There are some metrics where it is better. For example, if you are trying to maximize the number of rejections per second, than online dating is very efficient. Even speed dating doesn't have as many rejections per second as online dating.
Yes, yes I should. Many thanks!
The first time I was telling a fellow .Net developer about the awesomeness of Firefox vs Internet Explorer, I thought the 3D view would blow his mind. It crashed instead.
This is how we can get blacklisted by VCs and they talk to each other which means we are royally screwed even by other VCs
> so optimizing using this tool

This is a debugging tool. I'm not sure how you optimize for a visualization of how your layout rendered.
We could start using more GMO products, bred to resist insects without killing them.
Results are in the black rectangles above the code
False. NVidia is not supplying off-the-shelf DRIVE systems. They supply the chips that go on them but the board design and manufacturing is by Tesla.
I also had a hard time finding performance. It's listed in the grey bar at the top of each language.

I'd love to see this comparison expanded to a few other languages (particularly C/C++ with custom memory allocation).
Is one allowed to speak to a lawyer in these circumstances? Or do those protections not apply? Does one simple disappear to one's loved ones?

> Carrillo sued for false imprisonment and was awarded a $20,000 settlement, but ICE made no admission of wrongdoing

This is a shockingly small sum.
Seems like there are some pretty good ideas there in principle, so it would be unfortunate to dismiss their work because maybe it wasn't ready for engineering applications in the 90's.
Most fake things on the internet exist to drive traffic.
The website says to only look at really high values ( more than 0.99 ) and everything below 0.90 is "low risk".
No movfuscator post is complete without mentioning the demovfuscator [1]

https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator
>Although if birth-related mortality is rising while home births are dropping, doesn't that suggest there's something else going on?

Huh, where do you see mortality rising? The link refers to a decrease: "Historical data show that 7-day (28-day) mortality declined from 4.25 (5.35) deaths per 1,000 births in 1980–1985 to 2.42 (3.18) deaths in 2005-2009"

>Having read a bit more about the issue, it appears the jury is still out.

I don't know how you can think that. Every statistical comparison shows home births kill babies. Unfortunately, there are still people who claim otherwise, but none of them have data to support their claims.
Ask HN: What types of adds do you see?
I was using a computer that wasn't mine recently. I saw adds that was, to a degree, catered towards me (a student). Then I reformatted this laptop and another family members laptop, installed linux and changed some setting in the browsers. (because the computers had problems and I don't have any windows keys to install legit versions). Now, I get adds for "small business owner" or "startups". From Internet companies, hosting companies and other businesses that caters to them.
So, I am just curious as to what type of adds HN sees.
Thanks.
I think the point was just to test each string against the query for equality. The benchmark could be slightly tweaked to test each string against the query for substring inclusion or regular expression match, but I suspect the results would only change by the cost of the test predicate.
But they are allowed to sell data based on loyalty programs? That would be a weird regulation.
I'm deeply curious how #metoo is related to structured procrastination. Would you mind diving a bit deeper here?
Anecdotally I'm finding this shift to remote work in some area's fascinating and powerful.

My career started only about 5 years ago but over that time each position I've had has either been fully remote or had a remote aspect to it.

The company I now work for had a similar start to zapier but with one key difference: the co-founders were opposed to remote work. However the market forces of hiring the right people pushed this venture to become remote and our team is now scattered across North America and Asia.

I think we're going to continue to see companies moving in this direction and more "remote native" workers like myself come to expect it. Especially after visiting Canggu I don't think the trend is going to reverse itself.
> There was no evidence shown, though. That almost certainly means it doesn't exist.

OK, using that reasoning, what evidence do you have to support your statements? What evidence do you have that supports the reasoning quoted above?
Is this is a tool for finding people to send spam e-mails to?

Where do you get e-mail addresses from? Presumably, people don't consent to having their e-mail addresses shared in this way.
I like to substitute "petroleum distillates" when people say "chemicals".
I love this story!
Interesting how much time and effort was spent on something that looks great but uses such a fantastically imprecise icon for the actual thing it's mapping. Is the bottom of the handle the "point" where the court actually is?
Given that they are a significant subset of "everyone", yes.
This reminds me of this quote by William James in a review of a book of essays by the mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford:

But even the distant reader must allow that Clifford's mental personality belonged to the highest possible type to say no more. The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. And if in these modern days we are to look for any prophet or saviour who shall influence our feelings towards the universe as the founders and renewers of past religions have influenced the minds of our fathers, that prophet, if he ever come, must, like Clifford, be no mere sentimental worshipper of science, but an expert in her ways. And he must have what Clifford had in so extraordinary a degree—that lavishly generous confidence in the worthiness of average human nature to be told all truth, the lack of which in Goethe made him an inspiration to the few but a cold riddle to the many.
Should Game Schools Fail Game Art Students More Often?
meh, pick your battles.
I write regularly, and I call it poetry. I write 3 to 4 nights a week while I'm out.

I've also participated in slams and open mics. There is some poetry I'm just like meh on. It's like I don't like country it's just not my tune.

I didnt really get into it till I saw a guy perform at a slam. The inflection of his voice, body posture, it was close to rapping in a way. There was just a palpable fire. But I won't read others poetry, ill gladly listen. Poetry is best seeing the missing element the author left off the page.

I feel my writing is very cold. Being an aspie my emotions are very distant. So my writing comes off cold and logical. Instead of math i rely heavily on mythology Greek, Nordic, Roman, and enochian. Then will also drop to Latin at times.

Listening to people perform. It's often in a similar bar, and phrasing. Which makes sense they've crafted a tool set. Then are crafting new ideas with it.
Context is everything. The number 123456789 is not illegal.

But if associated with other information such that this value is understood to be a social security number (if it were a valid SSN), it becomes illegal to share it, or even have it, in some circumstances.
WiGig: 60GHz, 8Gb/s Wireless Networking (2016)
Elon Musk says the quality has vastly improved and continues to improve. That means today’s Model 3 is worse than tomorrow’s and yesterday’s is worse than today’s.
After most of human history, humanity has achieved are astounding, world-changing successes in human rights (including democracy, liberty, etc.), civil rights, women's rights, etc.

I see the above as just an argument to do nothing, usually (I can't speak about the parent's motives) made by the enemies of justice, such as the white supremacists, to suit their agenda.
0.25s for 200MB (in memory) seems pretty slow for a modern CPU (800MB/s) which is more than an order of magnitude below what you would expect from main memory.

There can be a lot of performance left on the table even in standard library implementations: http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-strfind.html
Except he never actually sold the discs, so no one lost any money at all.
To be clear the widespread use of LEDs has caused significant health issues for many people, especially shift workers, due to disrupting their circadian rhythms and decreasing their sleep quality.

With that said, even though I’m against regulation as a means to effect change, I can’t say I’m upset about fewer pesticides being used on our food, it’s literally poison.
I think the issue is that it can be difficult to prove/disprove intent for something like stolen lunches unless there was a camera pointed at the fridge (or some other clear indicator) if you're going to fire someone over it and be protected against a wrongful termination suit.

It's a bit over the top to have that in place to enforce the policy unless it was a known issue in that workplace. So the statement the GP made seems a bit extreme without context.
USCIS Lays Out Far-Reaching Anti-Immigration Agenda
How would the EU block them?

In a hypothetical scenario where, say, Google pulls out, would EU dare block google.com? Given Google's revenue model is largely based on ad impressions, as long as they don't set up a firewall, Google gets all the business they need.
Clever. Sadly not a lot of detail in the article about how it was designed, or how it works, or.. well... anything.

Shame - feels like there's a lot they could say about it.
Doctor tells of harrowing arrest after calling popular tonic ‘harmful’ in blog
If I recall correctly, immigration in the US is considered a civil, not criminal matter, so there is no right to an attorney if you cannot afford one.
Brief math reminder, 1273 days is over three years, which is a shockingly long time for the result to simply be "Oh, here's 20k. Not that we did anything wrong.".
Oh! I didn't know about this property. Thanks, this will be very helpful in picking bulbs in the future.
I mean, sure. And you can just sneak in for free. What is your point?
> I dare you to call the FBI the next time you have a business disagreement

I have a friend of humble means who, in response to an incident, filed a police report, sent copies to the public e-mail addresses of our state's responsible regulators and then packaged that correspondence and sent it to a field office's public mailing address. The response was quick, courteous and effective.

You're launching baseless conjecture.
Those aren’t Flask components. They just work well with Flask. And Jinja, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic just happen to be the largest and best of them.

Many of these independent components pale in comparison to their Django counterparts in glaring ways—they are often a pain to use, with some pretty questionable internal code choices. They remain used because they are often the only choice out there, even though their implementations are inferior to Django’s.

I say this as someone who has used Flask for over 5 years, as well as nearly 5 years of Django.