skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreign trade is, interestingly enough, considered the most important reason to convert the US to the metric system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...

Apart from trade though, this issue might cause some countries to hesitate to work with the US for scientific research or related initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
Is this satire? I cannot tell.

If it is, it's pretty distasteful.
If it's not, I need to hear more about this court case.
They're tracking to around a likely ~$23 billion in net income for 2018. That's a 20 PE three quarters out.

That's for 50% sales growth, 63% net income growth. That's a bargain in this market.

Microsoft has hardly net grown its income in a decade and it's sporting a 30 PE; nearly all of their valuation increase the last five years is multiple inflation. Coca Cola has a 30 PE ratio and nearly zero growth for a decade. The same for McDonald's. Boeing has a ~25 forward PE ratio for ~10% growth. Walmart is getting a mid 20s PE for barely any growth. The same pattern holds true across most of the traditional blue chips. It's even worse for other tech companies, the PE ratios there are hilariously inflated, from Workday or Salesforce to nVidia to Activision to Netflix & Amazon.

If anything Facebook is considerably undervalued here vs the wider market. (note: I have no position in Facebook)
This is very true. The same way one doesn't know if a background was started is the same way you can't know if a file was written to or some global state was changed. I thought async/await solves most of his examples
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My understanding from this article is that Ford will continue to sell SUVs, Trucks and Crossovers. They are only decreasing the size of their "Sedan" portfolio. Basically they are discontinuing those vehicules : Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, C-Max and Taurus. They are keeping everything else (including F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Escape, Bronco) as well as adding a new "Ford Active" car.
> I wish we would. Conversions would be so much simpler.

Not really, and you'd have to do it more frequently. The US already has a standard, and a lot of existing stuff built to it. Adopting the metric system isn't going to change the size of the pipes in my house's plumbing, the units in my recipes and cookbooks, etc.
> I'd argue that lack of static typing makes a language tougher to learn rather than more approachable

I think it's a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It makes it harder to master, but less intimidating when you're first starting out.

Also, I probably shouldn't have used the term static typing, since the issues I'm talking about are more associated with weak typing rather than dynamic typing.
Make it 2. I try to avoid drinking while driving (pun not intended) but I'm not 100% on that. Sure, if you're on the road for a few hours you might take a sip now and then, a cupholder is nice - but I try to avoid it. It's better with a second person who can hold your drink. :P

I don't think I've had coffee while driving more than twice in my life (as a driver, 16+ years).

Both cars I have access to at the moment do have 2 cupholders in the front bottom middle, but in one car they really suck (not high enough, very small, not flexible, anything bigger than a small can will nearly touch your stick shift) so they're never used. In the other car you can put a coffee cup there, but using both of them at the same time is also not ideal.

Oh, and the bottle holders in the doors also kinda suck, you can kinda wedge a small can (250ml, like Red Bull) in, or a 500ml water bottle, but good luck taking it out to drink. The unscrewing part is why I also try to avoid this.

That said, I never even looked if and how many and what quality of cup holders a car I was about to use/buy has.
Killcord treats ethereum as a project backend API. The smart contract is pretty simple in construction by design. Writes are restricted to one of two accounts (the owner account and the publisher account) and the publisher account is further restricted to only allow writes to the publishedKey variable in the contract. Reads are open to the public.

As stated in other responses, the decryption key is stored own trusted systems that run the owner or publisher killcord projects.

As for attacking the system this is something to think about. So why did I choose Ethereum for this?

Why Ethereum - The contract code (backend API) and variable state are written to the block chain, so the availability are dictated by the network itself which is made of around 20K nodes (give or take). Of course, as others have mentioned the other aspect of this is internet access for the publisher and project owner.

For the publisher, this can be accommodated by running the publisher in a geographically distributed set of trusted systems. What do I mean by trusted systems? These are systems that meet your risk profile. The code can run on AWS Lambda in multiple regions, or on a raspberry pi, or in a datacenter in iceland, the more, the merrier.

For the owner... If you are cut off from checking in, the system assumes something bad is afoot. This is why its important that anything put in killcord is something you really want to publicly disclose. Killcord should really only be a system that runs on your behalf in the case that you go MIA and you feel that is a threat to the data being otherwise released.

Hope this helps clear things up a bit?
Crypto Pump and Dump Scheme in the Making
As far as I'm aware, all mining software (including Bitcoin Core) support it.
Are there tweets out there worth archiving?
They meant car to be interpreted as Ford, the subject of the article, interprets car. Ford classifies their non-commercial vehicles into 3 categories. Trucks/vans, SUVs/crossovers and cars. It is the line up of what Ford considers cars that is getting reduced.
There is porn within the digits of pi. That doesn't mean that hosting website with X number of digits of pi is illegal.

POINTING to the exact digits of pi, and telling the audience the decoding method, that points to thr illegal porn, or content would get you in trouble though.
That you can do transliterations doesn't make it a good idea.

> French (accents can be dropped)

What? No! See for example https://french.stackexchange.com/a/24410
Great point. Use taxes to make it expensive for companies to offer jobs where housing is expensive, and perform proper urban planning where land and housing is cheap to fix our previous mistakes (car centric, low density, non-mixed use).
http://logo.pizza/
So is Ford taking the next few design cycles for IC sedans and putting them into EVs - sedans or other forms?
Yes, handing the credits to companies for free is stupid. They should be auctioned off. Giving the coal companies credits is tantamount to saying those companies own the environment!

For CO2 at least the microeconomic incentives are simple because the amount of CO2 generated by burning fuel is fixed, so you can just require that retail sales of fuel come with a CO2 credit. For NOx, the emissions of which depend on many variables it's much more complicated, but I can't think of a good way of taxing those either.
I tried using my phone to type words into Google Translate while in Armenia.

Typing Armenian was a non-starter. I'm not dyslexic, but felt it when faced with words that looked like "արարողակարգը" (random copy-paste from Wikipedia[1]).

The second language was often Russian, and typing in Cyrillic was a little better, especially once I found the alphabet is derived from Greek rather than Latin -- so р is r, and н is e, and п is p. But it was still 10 times slower than typing rough Vietnamese into my phone.

But anyway, this is clearly a political change, so any reasoning in favour or opposition is irrelevant.

[1] https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A5%D6%80... (Armenian Alphabet in Armenian).
But what about the focus and fiesta?

It's true that the Taurus is a ridiculous fuel burner but to get the same fuel inefficiency out of the focus you have to move to the rs super hot hatch.
GGGP wrote that they spoke only one language, that implies that this is their mother tongue.

So as soon as you 'pick one language' you are talking about two languages, your birth tongue and another one. This was not the case with the comment I replied to so either you are off-topic or you really are confused. So I guess you are off-topic then rather than confused?
This is absolutely not satire. The case is 1:13-CR-00966-JCH-KK-1.
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens (~50 kiloyears ago) were cousins, both descended from Homo habilis. But modern European Homo sapiens sapiens are descendents of both. So Neanderthals are not their cousins, but rather grand^N parents.

That is, it all turns on who "our" refers to. In the article, "our" clearly refers to you and me and other humans who lived during the past few thousand years. So the article should say that Neanderthals were "their" cousins, referring to Homo sapiens sapiens living ~50 kiloyears ago.

There really should be new species names. I mean, if you're going to distinguish Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, shouldn't you also distinguish hybrids? As we do for mules, "E. asinus × E. caballus". But damn, that would distinguish those modern humans without Neanderthal ancestry, which probably wouldn't be a good thing.
> vehicle silhouettes that combine the best attributes of cars and utilities, such as higher ride height, space and versatility

Subaru has been successful in this zone for decades. In fact I'd hazard to say that they set the standard for this and would be the point of comparison if Ford launches a model like that.
Ditto for me. After reading some of your posts, I sent your site to a few people I know that are hiring.

If nothing else your approach has generated visibility and leads.
http://logo.pizza/wild-eyed-tiger
> I can't tell whether you're talking about how you think things should work or making claims about how they actually do work.

How can you not tell? I was extremely explicit that this was the former in the very first sentence of my initial comment:

>>>>>> Taking a step back here... ___shouldn't___ proving ownership of a domain involve the domain registrar some way, rather than involving whoever happens to host your DNS?
If Europe had cities as far apart as America does, it would be different.

Remember that North America has states and provinces larger than some European countries.

Heck, there are American COUNTIES larger than 23 European nations.
I’m experiencing this issue with my B key and it’s annoying af. I use my MBP in clamshell mode with an external keyboard and I dread going mobile.
Fiat currencies contribute largely to asset bubbles and malinvestment by suspending market forces. The Fed is actually on record stating their desire to create and reinflate asset bubbles, see Bernanke on “wealth effects.”
Cyrillic was heavily altered to be closer to Latin script in the 18th century, too.

https://www.quora.com/What-changes-did-the-Russian-Emperor-P...
Honestly I'm not sure the Javascript story here is much worse - Babel tends to allow you to opt in to proposed specs pretty early, without worrying about browser support because you're not shipping it as is.

The benefit is that your polyfill/conversion to something browsers support today is handled by someone else, and your actual code base can point a reader to the proposal to at least make some sense later on.

Not that I imagine many people would encourage using a stage 0 proposal, but it's probably a bit better than everyone writing their own adhoc implementation.
> Eastern European food (and Mexican and some Chinese cuisines) are deeply underrated

Well, one interesting point is that native Mexicans and native Chinese would hardly recognize what we in the US call Mexican and Chinese.

As for Eastern European food, I think some of it may simply be quantity. I can't think of a single ethnic dish in my family that wasn't meant for an army and was meant for one. Even the article author talks about having made 1500 dumplings. And many of the dishes get better on the second day.

It also doesn't help that ethnic dishes tend to all have little quirks about how your mother, grandmother, etc. did it and you won't like somebody else's quirks. The author's grandmother had her own quirks to her dumplings, for example.
I had missed the point that Hackworth's cultural modifications were what led to the mouse army. I'll have to read it yet another time.
I can't recall a time I chose not to go to a country because their alphabet was different...
The War on Waze
Yeah, I may have to eat some crow from an argument the other day with another HN user. Surveys and #deleteFacebook and protests and so forth seemed to indicate that people did finally start getting interested in their own privacy.

But no. Somehow, even with a declining youth demographic and widespread reports of less time spent on site and the CA fiasco, they still ended up with a growth of users in all markets.

I've wondered sometimes whether we're headed towards a post-privacy world, and what it'll look like -- not just one in which there is little privacy, but one in which privacy is not something that most people think about or value.
Can anyone explain why their operating margin is seemingly seasonal, improving through the year?

And damn, that tax rate is insanely low. Looks like they're settling into around 10% effective tax. Average across profitable companies is ~25% according to an NYU study I linked to below. Damn.

www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/taxrate.xls
Isn't that equivocation on the word "proof"? In the case of "proof of stake," I don't think it's referring to a formal proof of the correctness of the system. It's intended to be a consensus mechanic that the users of the blockchain consider "good enough" to trust. Of course there can always be collusion among parties in a blockchain or other attacks on the blockchain, but "proof of work" (and every "proof of x" mechanic I know of) is intended to be "good enough."
These are valid points and anyone thinking about using killcord should be aware of these.

As for the second attack vector, the publisher is built with idempotence, so it is important that a killcord owner configures n-number of publishers in geographically diverse areas to mitigate the false negative attack vector.
Yeah, those lucky Java developers get all the best classes
The fuel economy situation today is vastly different though. Sticking with the Ford line,

In 2000:

Taurus sedan: 20/28

Taurus wagon: 19/27

F-150: 16/21

In 2018:

Escape SE: 23/30

Edge SE: 21/29

F-150: 20/26

There are (not all, for sure) crossovers and pickups today doing, fuel-wise, what sedans did when gas was $1 a gallon.

Note: I don't work for Ford, never have, no plans to. I don't own one, never have, but I do have plans to.
It’s more comprehensive in scope but much less in depth.
Thank you for your reference, but I would not prefer your source supersede the OP.

I’m glad to have both.
One Young Harvard Grad's Quixotic Quest to Disrupt Private Equity
There were plenty of naysayers back then too.

Engineers love to play devil's advocate. Now that the posts/articles about cryptocurrency are becoming more frequent, those dissenting opinions are also becoming more frequent.
If someone held a gun to my head, and told he to open a restaurant with my meager saving; I always felt it would be a take-out burrito place.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't like a burrito, or pizza.

My point is I think a clean burrito joint would go over practically anywhere.

It needs to be clean, and the portions need to be generous, and the owner needs to keep an eye on the business.
Or with wanting to _decrease_ the % of the economy that depends on Russia.
I'd say SF is more mid-California, compared to what's north of Sacramento. North of Sacramento is pretty rural, full of people wanting to implement the State of Jefferson. But you're right, there isn't much in the way of social services in northern California, due to the population. The only real population centers are Chico and Redding. I haven't spent any time in Chico, but Redding has quite a few homeless, and there isn't much in the way of social services. The City of Redding doesn't have money to burn like SF apparently does, so the homeless pretty much have to fend for themselves. I get the feeling that a lot of Redding's homeless population is on their way somewhere; Redding is kind of a midway stop along I-5 or to the coast.
Veganism is now an "alternative lifestyle"? That's a bit extreme. Or is it a non-traditional sexual practice too?
The US car industry has made that mistake multiple times.

But, even when gas prices were climbing, Ford made most of their profits on trucks. They kinda own the US truck market, making about a third of all trucks sold (as I recall, anyway), and more than any other make, by far. I don't know what it is in the international market, but I think Ford trucks are strong in a lot of other markets, too.

I don't know that you're wrong, but I am holding some F lately (mostly because it went on sale on disappointing earnings last quarter), so I kinda think that in the short term it's a good move. The writing has been on the wall for a while about this move, though it's more dramatic than I expected. I thought they'd drop to a lineup of four cars, instead of just two.

They have begun focusing on hybrid and electric drive trains for their trucks, and they already have probably the best economy option in pickups with the EcoBoost 6 cylinder that tows like a big V8 (an F150 with EcoBoost and tow package has a tow capacity similar to my older diesel F250), and gets car-like MPG. So, it's not that they're ignoring efficiency, it's just that they're acknowledging that American consumers like big-ass vehicles for their big asses to ride around in (I make fun of American consumer culture and its dumb choices, but I have an F250 for towing my house, so I'm included in that demographic).

So...it could play out like the 70s and early 80s did, but I'm not so sure it will. I think we're going to see car makers take a beating on other fronts, but I dunno exactly how it'll play out. Fewer young people are buying cars and more are opting for transit and Lyft/Uber. More young people are moving to cities where that's a feasible lifestyle choice. So, the pool of people buying cars is looking like it's gonna shrink. Cars are lasting longer, too, and quality has gotten pretty good across the board. So, cars made today might make it through to the end of car ownership as we know it. Again, I don't know how it'll change exactly, but it's looking like fleets of self-driving cars owned by Lyft/Uber/Tesla/GM/etc. are gonna replace a lot of current car ownership within the next decade.

One other point about trucks: People outside of cities buy trucks at a much higher rate. Vehicle ownership in rural areas is still very, very, high, by necessity, due to no mass transit and inconvenience and expense of ride sharing services when the trips are very long and far out. So, Ford may just be acknowledging that city driving by individuals is on the way out, while we have a few more years with a solid rural truck market.
He has one felony. That felony is for his second time flashing someone.
Presumably an employer would verify identity.
The second letter in both those words is the same. The first character differs, the next does not.
Pigovian taxes on a massive scale.
>Nazi Germany, Japan, and alot of other countrys got drunk

Isn't it the Godwin's Law in action? I seriously doubt that getting out of Russian influence means something apocalyptic. Estonia, for instance, does well, and I'm old enough to remember Russian newspapers predicting its collapse without Russian "big brother".
The risk with a bottle on the seat is that it can roll off, slide under the driver seat and then obstruct the pedals.
During Stalin, it was the general policy to suppress national languages.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...
No way every book, websites, etc. gets rewritten, so between everyone knowing Cyrillic, lots of people knowing Russian and how easy Cyrillic is (I know it and I learned it very quickly) it'll end in a de facto digraphia.
Neat project! I thought up a trustless scheme for this a while back, but it's beyond my means to implement:

You can encrypt an entire circuit with homomorphic encryption, which users can run without decrypting its internal state. Construct a device like so:

Inputs:
1. Ethereum block
2. Previous run-state (encrypted) or zeros.

Outputs:
1. Next run-state (encrypted)
2. Decryption key (if triggered) or zeros (if not.)

Internal state:
0. Hash difficulty range
1. Hash of previous block seen
2. Pubkey to scan for
3. Counter of # blocks seen without a tx signed by pubkey.

If you feed the device more than 1 week of blocks without a tx from pubkey, the accumulator hits zero and it spits out the secret.

An attacker would have to mine 1 week of blocks at hash power IS.0 in order to trick the device into spilling its guts. If you die, and don't send txs for a week, anyone with the device can play a week of blocks into it and the secret will pop out.

Unfortunately, homomorphic encryption is still too slow for this to be quite feasible. Food for thought though! And you can build this today with SGX, if you trust that.
Pale Fire and Lolita only have a handful of characters. If you have time this summer, I recommend reading Lolita. It's more than just a novel about a perverted obsession.
And, that EcoBoost will haul as much as an F250 from a few years ago, which is pretty incredible. It's my next truck, if I keep hauling an RV around (currently in an old F250, but it needs enough work now to where I'm shopping for something else rather than repairing it).
This is an article in Science. Science is literal.

I'm as much a scientist as a hacker. And my right hemisphere is just fine :)
I built Streak's Gmail add-on (launch partner, and #1 add-on in the marketplace) so trust me when I say that I'm very aware of the platform's shortcomings :)

If you want to do something fancy then I highly recommend using the InboxSDK (inboxsdk.com).

But for basic functionality the add-ons are pretty sweet. Native mobile integration is huge, alongside massive a great distribution channel. Not sure if you've noticed in the new Gmail but they put a + button below the list of Calendar/Keep/Tasks icons that brings up the Add-On installation modal. That's pretty major.
Anyone know when this will make it to AUR on Arch? I've been waiting for CTEs for a long time!
The entire West could do this, and in 10 years time either the Russians or the Chinese would have filled the gap.

So then you've got a bunch of authoritarian regimes that are censoring the Internet, and the stability (perceived or otherwise) they've got is dependent on countries who don't care about human rights.

Giving easy soft power to the Russians and Chinese isn't ideal.
To the best of my understanding, you can opt out of personalized ads with google, but not all ads. At least for the search product.

For email, one can pay for their google apps tier, which doesn't have ads, but it is obviously targeted to business users, so the value prop is completely different anyway.
Thank you for standing up for moral principles. I applaud you.