skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh?

Did Bain use its own money to buy Toys R Us? No, it was a leveraged buyout. They already made a profit on the transaction. The losers were Toys R Us employees and customers and the banks who provided the loans.
> Does it use IP and carrier as a fallback

No but it requires a data plan!
> isn't truly a debate over facts, but rather a debate over trust

Spot-on.

This is severely exacerbated players like Google & Facebook, whose algorithms favor "engagement" and "virality", with zero regard for truth. It/s been shown [1] that falsehoods sperad faster, in part because they contain more 'surprise value'.

The result is that these info vendors effectively create an editorial environment favoring falsehoods.

Google has done a bit to clean it up on their search engine, e.g., the Flat Earth search generally points to debunking entries, but the same company's YouTube site contains a bunch of fakes in the top 10 results on the same search.

It is no exaggeration at this point to say that these tech giants are significantly undermining our society by failing to exercise responsibility over their implicit/explicit/algorithmic editorial decisions.

[1] http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/study-false-news-s...
Oh, wow! Great tip. I found some vendors on Amazon selling the same thing for £10, which I guess is enough of a markup to make it worth it for the vendor, while still being crazy cheap to buy. Totally getting one of these.
unfortunately a lot of cows are raised and killed just for leather! (I think for high end uses like purses, etc.).
I don't have an a source for this handy but have heard it from industry experts.
Isn't there a precedent against using someone's body against their will after they die?
Anything you are missing from the spreadsheets? I started like you myself and it just wasn't good enough to make projections and fit those transactions that happen every three months for my austrian health/pension.
AI beats astronomers at predicting long-term habitability of 'Tatooines'
> Did Bain use its own money to buy Toys R Us? No, it was a leveraged buyout. They already made a profit on the transaction.

Bain et al lost over a billion dollars. Not only did they invest the equity, they also loaned some of the debt out of their own funds.
Jeremy Scheinberg and Chris Harden: “Focus on One Thing. Be the Best at That.”
CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7602

Nothing interesting there yet.
Dunno, I have a 32 core, 128gb ram that I bought for $1000.
I have a Xeon phi 60core card that I bought for $200 sitting by it ready go go in when I get the chance.
When GPU prices drop, I'm probably going to add 2 1080Ts.

I'm just a regular computer user.
> Remember Usenet? Remember email? Remember IRC? I think there's a false dichotomy in the mind of many nowadays, mainly that the internet is either centralized or "blockchain based", whatever that means. It's a lie. The internet is fundamentally decentralized, the centralization is a relatively new phenomenon that started in the early '00s.

The internet started in the early 90s so you are talking approximately about two thirds of its lifespan hence "new" doesn't really apply.
gg=G

couldn't be easier my friend
Thought limited, my experience in Toys 'R' Us was that it was no more fun and exciting then the toy aisles at Target. So how was a dedicated toy store going to win that way? Compare that to shopping for home improvement; way more fun at Lowe's than the junky/limited aisles at Target.
One word: Haskell
This is cool, thanks for sharing this site (archive.is).

Does this work because your browser was logged into a paid WSJ account before you used archive.is to log the page? Or is it only because WSJ's paywall allows archiving sites to read full articles as a matter of policy?

Just curious to know how reliable this solution might be for other sites.
A counterbalancing opinion:

"The departure of Toys 'R' Us from the retail landscape will give a boost to neighborhood toy shops.

That’s according to the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association, which predicted that 2018 will be the best year yet for neighborhood toy stores nationwide as consumers flock to these stores in the wake of the closure of Toys 'R' Us."

https://www.chainstoreage.com/finance-0/group-predicts-boom-...
Data mining confirms that culture makes cities richer
Would love to know when that was (more accurate than "late 90s") because at my first workplace we also paid for Cobalt Raqs (and I'm not sure if "random desktop pcs in a DC" were available), but because it was the summer of 2001 iirc it's maybe a bit too late to draw parallels (3 years back then could be a lot more revolutionary in hosting than today).
Also should note that at the time this strategy allowed the company to host about 1% of the internet at the time.
I once saw an interesting research report comparing publicly traded companies based on their outstanding pension / retirement plan debt. The investment thesis was essentially advocating for shorting the companies with the largest under-funding of said plans, based on the assumption that a company that didn't give a crap about its employees probably wouldn't stand the test of time.
"Walking into a store can get you observed by stores b-z and subcontractior 1-255"

Well what about the new amazon retail store, that records your every move?

Also what about stores or shopping malls that contract their security cameras out to other companies? Surely those security companies may be doing all kinds of stuff with people's facial recognition data.
It's not clear it would help you; a company could move part of your salary to a pension, but then your current life would be even more difficult.

Essentially what you're saying is that you'd like to get a raise (more pension without a loss of salary). Well, wouldn't we all!

Now for people who spend frivolously, forced savings might be helpful, but it's not clear to me why the companies should take that role; seems like a role for the State (and, in fact, that seems to be the rule in many countries, with mandatory pension plans).
That's a separate argument, however.

We can disambiguate the "Safe places are necessary for non-privileged groups to have an area where they are predominant members and the space is catered to them rather than the predominant culture" - examples would include a place like a gay bar or youth group, or a club that is only of one ethnicity - and "we should expect a college to be a safe space."

A college that is governed by the predominant culture cannot be a "safe space." The redefiniton, then, is that college spaces should be a place where one's group should be default be treated with respect. That is, we make it "more safe" to exist without prejudice.

If we want to argue that a college space isn't a place where people are by default treated with respect, that's an argument that can be made, but it's not germane to the original argument that people expect to have private, safe, spaces to communicate via the web. The "friends" or friends-subset restriction that Facebook makes is that private/semi-private "safe" space. The open web does not have a great equivalent. (Password-protecting is insufficient - we would need some sort of Mozilla Persona system and for various reasons, that never caught on.)
Probably depends on how much an organisation wants it done and who can do it: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iphone+recycling+robot

Meanwhile, China has recently stopped accepting a lot of recyclable waste: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-10/china-ban-on-foreign-r...
Yeah, but the once a week cases are handled by a connection to the grid, just as at present. The bulk of the necessary time shift is handled by the battery and some other techniques to shift demand, and the rest is balancing contention between households in aggregate, and nudging storage and peaker plants, that is, exactly what currently occurs on the grid.

> As for shifting our day's schedule around electricity rates, good luck bringing that idea up with my wife.

The electricity costs of washing and drying are significant, could easily be hundreds of dollars a year. If you could save half of that by generally running a programme overnight, lots of people would do it . Not everyone would be able to because of noise, with that number increased by technological developments in software and hardware specialized for that use-case, but a lot of people would. And you wouldn't do it for every wash, only when it was convenient. This already happens over here, I often run my dishwasher overnight when the tariffs are lower, it's good for the environment and saves me money, or when I need it sooner I run it straight away.
Hey, I remember my boss telling me about the wonders of Lightswitch. Silverlight was going to revolutionize things for "power-users".
Well, that's just the little difference I mentioned about C conflating arrays and pointers to them. The char ^ is being viewed as an array, which in C happens to be synonymous with a pointer to the start of the array. It's certainly not inherent to pointers that they be mixed up with arrays like that (or to strings that they be represented as char arrays).

As an aside, C's conflation of arrays and pointers was done because they're very closely related, and you can get very similar results to a C pointer-to-pointer by wrapping an object in a one-element array. In C, ^x is equivalent to x[0], and Java doesn't have ^x, so you can just use x[0].

More generally, though, a C programmer is virtually never thinking of 'the address 54fc892d': unless they're doing really low-level stuff, they won't think of it like that any more than a Java programmer, even using pointers all day, just like the Java programmer is; that's what I don't get about your point. The C programmer will think of ^x (or alternatively x[0]) as a handle on the string "foo", the same way a good Java programmer would. Some programmers (Java or otherwise) might confuse a handle on "foo" with "foo" itself, but they'll be bitten by that when they try to write a swap function or mutate a string literal or whatever.

Java's reference types are restricted pointers that you can only dereference using . or array indexing, you can't use array indexing on any arbitrary reference (it has to be of the right type, but C pointers were already strongly typed), you can only do arithmetic on them via indexing, and you're not allowed to refer to the non-pointer type. None of those differences make them not pointers, to me.
Do you have any recommendations? I've been looking to get one to play with the same concept as this article but I've never pulled the trigger on buying one as I'm not sure if there any quality aspects I need to be aware of. The shipping costs for my location are a bit too much to just try one. I can also imagine there's no real difference for that price range but I want to be sure before I order one.
On that same web page:

> We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

Of course, all of that is meaningless if you want to think that Google is lying in its privacy policies.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on 8888).
How are the ads that FB pushes into your feed not spam? Seems more or less indistinguishable too me
I'm confused, isn't emacs in the shell? Are you saying that emacs is a gui editor?

I was talking about GUI editors. I already use a term editor. I even game an example of vim/kakoune/emacs, ie, term editors.
Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions
I liked your reading challenge idea! Very interesting, even though apparently the results indicated that I didn't read any faster.
Capitalists, you mean capitalists.
Overall, the fundamental career decision is whether your goal is to join "big tech" or to be at a startup/small business/non-tech firm.

If the goal is to be at Google/Amazon/etc, I'd probably suggest an overall strategy of "pick something relatively narrow, and be the best in the world at it". Big Tech firms tend to be the land of experts -- there are fewer job titles of "full-stack engineer", and more of "we have enough engineering resources to have specialists for everything".

For small companies (or small tech teams), it's the opposite. There is a ton of value of being able to be able to move up and down the stack -- Sales, Product, Design, Frontend, Backend, Devops... and pinch hit in any job capably as needed.
Oh I think this is a misunderstanding. I thought you were talking about the binary file size which is very big for electron apps since they ship a full-blown browser. It is possible that JavaFX apps also use a lot of memory (RAM) but I was referring to the file size of the .jar file of a JavaFX app.
The pension is 70% funded, so he can only count on $59500/year actually being there. The likely scenario would be that all pensioners take the same percentage of haircut as the pension obligation is transferred to another company.

If he cashed out of GE and went into index funds, the stock portfolio would be conservatively worth another $3300 a year.

That's still $62800/year. If he owns his home, that amount can fund his retirement, until his first major medical expense.
Practically speaking, how many key loggers and backdoor tools are detected by AV?
Take an empty bottle and get free water at some UK airports. I've not confirmed this personally yet

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/travel-tips#water
Check out Oni: https://github.com/onivim/oni
It's under heavy development, wouldn't recommend it at the moment but it looks promising.
Not sure why that's an either or?

Do you believe the batteries should be subsidized - Yes, I think that they should be subsidized now. I normally don't like government involvement in markets other than protecting against externalities, but in this case I believe that subsidies can expedite innovation in the area. Once the market exists and the technology moves far enough along, I think that we will be able to slowly remove the subsidies and battery systems will be cheap enough to warrant their place in the market without. Also I strongly believe that the faster we move away from fossil fuels, the less lives will be lost to climate change.

instead of the power going back into the grid - Not sure what you mean here. People sell back to the grid all the time. A battery backup system in sell mode is essentially another power plant. Great!
Show HN: Techstack tower building game
Neat little idea. Brings me back to the mid-2000s when CSS playgrounds/css-garden/css edge were all a thing.
That's not possible, you're not getting a place for 2% of purchase value on the open market. There are no £1mn properties available for £1,666/month, or £500,000 places for £833/month, it's more than double that everywhere in London
yes I too would like to know the reason for being "all for eating meat". I think most reasonable people wouldn't eat meat (provided reasonable food alternatives) if they got to know the animals and how much they suffer. (just like most Americans would refuse to eat dogs or cats)
They're unsustainable because they require the ability to predict what will happen in the world 10,20,30+ years into the future, a feat that no one is capable of, hence the decline of defined benefit pensions. Except for those that can lean on taxpayers to make up for the miscalculations and erroneous assumptions.
It's so funny how propaganda works. When we do it, we call it investing. When china does it, the propagandists spin it as something nefarious or underhanded - "buying it's way into europe".
>After projecting their monthly cost of living, the Rooses determined they’d need $300,000 in investments to be able to live off the dividends.

What sort of dividends are they receiving? 10% would give you 30K a year, and seems pretty optimistic for planning.
It still bothers me that we as an industry completely botched the "productivity application" formats as thoroughly as we did.

For just about every other domain, we have a clear distinction between formats meant for editing vs publishing — You publish mp3 or aac, not Logic Pro files. You publish jpegs or pngs, rather than Photoshop files, etc.

Yet, for some reason, MS Office formats meant for editing became ubiquitous for distribution too. This incident is just the latest bit of nonsense that comes from this mistake.
It is about choices. Having 5 kids was a choice.
“Virginia Is Horrible: Send Cheese”
*eyeroll

You're also one of "those" people
The author of the article is forgetting a ton of things that software building needs. If that Janitorial service needs to scale and use data to drive optimizations and improvements, I doubt quick base can do all that. Another way to put that is, can you build google maps with quick base?

So it’s not really the future. The future that the author suggests is already here. We have form builders, web site builders, accounting tools that can be customized, automated billing and scheduling tools etc etc. So yes, most business can subscribe to these tools and avoid writing code. However someone still has to write code to make that happen
I'm not a fan of short aliases. They obscure what you are attempting to do.

Personally I write very little SQL anymore (the ORM does that for me unless I need performance), but the only time I use aliasing is when the same table is joined multiple times.

Like:

SELECT Mother.Name, Father.Name, Child.* FROM Person Child JOIN Person Mother ON Mother.Id = Child.MotherId JOIN Person Father ON Father.Id = Child.FatherId

That said, this naming convention also obscures what Person.FatherId points to without looking at the FKeys. So Take that with a grain of salt.
I am not sure the Categorical Imperative rules out misleading people for their own good. If a win win result is highly likely the categorical imperative says it’s OK if you do it because if the whole world did it, things would become better!
Huh? Stocks (shares) were invented to raise capital for businesses.
Self-Driving Cars and the Future of Real Estate
Seeking a quiet place in a nation of noise
I'm a little confused as well. I skimmed through the comments a second time to see if I missed something but none of the negative comments look especially disrespectful or hateful. Mostly just people complaining that they don't like pop-ups or find the feature useful.

That said, I intentionally try to read text online in the most charitable voice possible, so maybe my perception is very different from others.
Right. There's the IP address, cell tower location, wifi name location, and GPS. People don't care which it is, except they want it (because then they want precision).
Especially considering insurance in the US can easily cost over $1000/m for a family.
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Sounds like applying the web tracking to the real world could be the next evil business idea.

When I somehow get upgraded to business class while flying it is rather flattering to be greeted by the stewards by name while being offered a glass of decent champagne.

What if your store could do the same for people considered social influencers or "whale" spenders? As they enter the store, dispatch your Personal Shopper squad to gently welcome them, and nudge them towards purchases -- or if nothing else, a little social media moment worthy to share with their followers.

Perhaps their social posting history will reveal a hyper-personalized special offer that can make them buy that $2000 handbag.
I've definitely thought about this. I live in San Diego, where the cost of living is very very high. If I relocated to somewhere cheaper, I could probably work for 40% less than what I need to make in SD.

But it's unnerving to be in a spot where you MUST work remote. I've been working remote for over a decade now, but I'm still kinda amazed I've managed to keep it up for this long.
Most people target 4% withdrawals if you want to live off the nest egg in perpituity, which in this case, would be $12k/year. Less safe investments would earn you a higher return at the risk of sacrificing principal.

Edit: Something important to note is that you can live very well in other countries for what would be considered the poverty floor in the US. For $2k/month, I can pay for a very nice luxury apartment, day camp, and a nanny for my kids in parts of South America.
Getting people to click on advertisements.
Totally agree!
My current team always asks increasing complex questions in an interview until we the candidate admits 'I dont know that'. People with good soft skills can easily say 'I dont know, what does happen in that case?'. They come off as polite and self-aware.
My other favourite interview question is what do you do when QA says they can reproduce a bug but you cant? A lot of developers don't have the soft skills to explain how they work with QA instead of against QA.
> "it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship"

I think it was just a light-hearted joke.
Heptio Gimbal: LB control plane for k8s and openstack
Whenever I hear of this I think of "The future of math is no algebra, only geometry".
It's more than a bit of a stretch I reckon. That's how the all but hermetically sealed SV tech scene warps some engineers sense of what a regular nerd has access to I suppose.
There was a very interesting article about hydrogen fuel cell cars posted on HN the other day, one of the things they mention is that excess energy could readily be diverted to hydrogen manufacture.

http://www.thedrive.com/tech/14431/are-hydrogen-cars-the-nex...
You are misquoting:

> So specifically, blockchain offers a totally accurate, reliable, secure way to track and exchange data across a multitude of distinct businesses with little opportunity for corruption.

There is nothing said there about contents of the data, so the GIGO principle still applies, as always. Attacking blockchain that it doesn't help if input is garbage is thus pointless.

I would suggest you read the quoted statement again. It is very precise and true (imho of course).
Not only that, but I was almost directly quoting the arguments that were routinely used against Linux back in the 90s.
Identifying and Fixing Forwarded Records Performance Issue
It's been years since I've actively worked on my UI education, but the ones I liked were:

* The Design of Everyday Things

* The Inmates are Running the Asylum

* Any of Edward Tufte's books

* Usability Engineering
My understanding is that while load following is possible in nuclear plants, there are significant design, efficiency, and cost compromises involved. For these reasons, load-following nuclear is fairly rare.

In the UK, all of our nuclear power plants operate at their design capacity all the time. Their output only changes during scheduled periods when they are shut down for maintenance, refuelling, etc.

In contrast, all of the remaining coal-fired power plants in the UK effectively operate as load-following reserve. They ramp up only on cold winter days when demand is high and when wind generation is low. There are now many "coal free" days in the warmer months where there is no coal-fired power generation in the UK at all (it looks like today will be one of them!)
.. but does the location leave the device?
bigclive works on electric / electronic stuff, and he's sometimes a bit sniffy about cheap hobbyist kit. (Fair enough when he's talking about things you use with / on mains electricity where there's a risk of death.)

For RS232 any 'scope is going to be fine, even a chinese clone knockoff or an ancient second hand scope.
regl (http://regl.party/) instead of three.js. For such relatively static scenes (the 3D model doesn't change, only the vertex colors), regl is simpler IMO. You have more control over when stuff (buffers, shaders) are allocated. And no scene graph means you don't have to traverse it during each render (to update the world matrix etc).