skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marketspeak is marketspeak because it lacks honesty and authenticity.

It's like "artist's statements" that are written so impenetrably that it's impossible for anyone to understand what the artist actually meant to do with the artwork. And that's deliberate, because of where the art world has got now.

If the designers of this shitshow were honest in their statement then it'd be "we made it look like this because it was the easiest and simplest method of getting it past the mass of middle-managers who got to veto the creative without contributing any positive ideas themselves. The brief was to be as inoffensive and non-controversial as possible".

As another commenter said, Go is brutalist. The gopher never quite suited it. But at least it was fun and original and different. But this... this is shite.
Are citizens required to follow rules of probable cause before reporting someone to the authorities?
Tesla Shareholders Will Vote on Booting Elon Musk as Chairman
> No. Those people built the communities you find so desirable to live in, sometimes from scratch, sometimes by regenerating a dilapidated area. The value you crave would not even exist if not for them. And now that the hard work is done, you expect to waltz in and have it for the taking?

Good luck with your desirable community as it closes itself to everyone, grows old and turns into an old-age home /s.

Just stop this characterization of all Millenials, will you? Young people are the future and they are contributing into the welfare programs that go into supporting old farts. Old farts who neglected the infrastructure, squandered billions in foreign wars and much more in toxic financial instruments and just elected the most unqualified idiot as the most powerful person in the world.

See how that kind of generalization works?
The Ultimate Cash Crop
Not even angry or slighted. People will just assume that Merchant X doesn’t ship to their area and they never go back because they never receive any information to the contrary.

I’ve only been flagged once, and that was when I was a new B&H customer. A quick phone call fixed the problem and in spite of changing addresses at least ten times since then, haven’t had a problem since.

However, it is occasionally a problem that B&H won’t ship to hotels.
I've had a case of someone walking into a Verizon store and buy 4 new iphones and charge it to my account. The amazing thing is that between phones, tablets and hot spots, my family has 7 mobile devices. The perpetrator did not upgrade any of the existing phones, but created 4 new phone numbers. This should have been a huge warning sign. I'm 100% convinced that the person at Verizon was in on this. In addition, over the next few days, they've made thousands of dollars in international calls.
To Verizon's credit, they were great at resolving the mess for me as an individual customer, but in the end they ate the cost, which means that it got diluted to all the customers.
"Brooklyn is 1.5x denser than Mission"

Citation absolutely needed. Show me source of your numbers. Brooklyn runs the gamut from skyscrapers to single-family houses, but the average construction is 1-3 story apartment buildings, just like the mission.

In any case, even if you're right, it's not a counterargument: how does the western 3/4ths of SF compare to Brooklyn? Why should we be focusing on the Mission, and not, say, Sea Cliff?

Let's try to put a condo building to Jack Dorsey's mansion and see what happens.
Yes and I find it surprising that people demanding socialised medicine in USA somehow think giving complete monopoly to government over medicine will not screw things up.
Have you seen the actual Common Core math standards? They're really not very complex. http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standar... I blame the textbook makers for 90% of the weirdness.

One hallmark of mathematical understanding is the ability to justify, in a way appropriate to the student's mathematical maturity, why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from.... The student who can explain the rule understands the mathematics, and may have a better chance to succeed at a less familiar task.... Mathematical understanding and procedural skill are equally important
Verifying a solution is harder than producing one. Identifying a flaw in a solution is easier than either.
Encoding categorical variables in practice
Netbeans was also a lot better than Eclipse IMO (though worse than IntelliJ). For Java and friends, anyway; I’ve never really used any of them but IntelliJ for non-JVM stuff.
Netflix is not losing much, the people are losing because of the colonial institution.
I live in the Central District in Seattle, which is like a 10 minute bike ride from the downtown core. Before moving here I lived in Wallingford for twenty years. I have two children now, both under 5 years old and I can attest that I never see my friends, even the one that lives two blocks away. I'm pretty sure this is an effect of parenthood in general, not geography. We'll probably move north to Shoreline soon, not because the city has exiled us, but because it would be nice for our kids to have a yard to play in and we don't frequent the nearby bars and restaurants nearly as often as we used to.
If you believe that the major danger of Facebook is that it allows people to easily be manipulated, then sugar coating your true meaning to be more appealing may just be counter to your purpose.
what a useless reply
That's correct but you're not playing along with the analogy. Analogies are not meant to be exactly the same.

The analogy for the jazz festival is that the hungry & thirsty attendees in a "walled-garden" of the park are offered up as so-called "products" to the vendors to be sold food & drink. Hence, "You Are The Product".

If we want to dismantle the analogy in the direction of Facebook, we could complain that "Facebook doesn't sell food & drink to the web surfer so I don't see how the jazz festival applies."

Well, that's how analogies work. You have to look for the commonalities instead of the differences.
No need for mumbo jumbo. Supply greatly outstips demand and HALA is not that ambitious of a plan (and took many years to get through). There just aren't enough new units in the plan to cause prices to drop.
Yes but what will those new solutions be? Will they be better? How will we know? Most likely scenario: they'll be replaced by some other chemical that on the surface may be better, but will be far less understood by virtue of being new. We may well find out years later that it was worse on a whole host of criteria, and may even be worse on the "don't kill the bees" criteria after larger scale/more research.

It's easy to assume banning the thing we don't like will yield better outcomes but that's not necessarily the case. If we want to get rid of chemical risk, we'll have to get rid of chemicals. If we do that, we'll have to seriously re-evaluate our agricultural systems and be likely willing to accept higher prices.
Goodbye Larry, see you in 5-10 years when OOP is back in style!
Munro and Associates was an engineering consultancy known for reverse-engineering not just automobiles, but everything from airplanes to household items like rice cookers, to learn how they work.

A previous tear-down was a lot harsher
https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-teardown-by-engineering-f...
I think it's reasonable to talk of a culture of engineering (or design) going back earlier than a given technology. A large company has to make sure at any given that a new approach does everything that an older approach does. The company may have access large customers for testing and requirements gathering so they can wind-up doing technology X "correctly" even if they start-out behind on technology X.

With the variety of changes different companies go through (being bought, sold, spun-off, etc), it's certainly an interesting question whether a company retains a given "core competency" or any core competency at a given time.

I know in the case of CNC manufacturing, the devices were essentially programmable lathes and one can talk of a "CNC programmer" but the system was designed to leverage the existing knowledge and population of manual lathe operators and there's no relation to computer programmers and instead the "touch stone" is ordinary lath operation I believe (a CNC programmer makes $22/hour average conveniently). Thus it's reasonable to say manufacturing culture in the US references things earlier than CNC.

You can see a similar thing in the way Photoshop, Illustrator and cousins ape paper and pencil tools - the standards, skills and terminology of layout were carried through the transition (to the point that these industry standard tools have an interface that seems fairly pathological to newbies).
I know someone who works at a place that gets ripped off to the tune of $50k+ each month. Police won’t do anything about it.

Corporate tells them to just let it happen. Presumably, it all gets charged to insurance.
Golang solves the problems talked about in this article. Except for “encapsulation” which is really just... the author doesn’t like pointers which is non specific to OOP.

Why is functional programming better? The author doesn’t really delve into that
So, if you were to obtain autolyzed yeast, and eat it, you'd experience the symptoms? Basically all modern packaged food with umami flavor includes it (it's the go-to-method for adding umami to processed foods).

Personally, I'd say that you may have an allergy or immune reaction to yeast, rather than MSG intolerance.
Quite correct on the guidelines; my error.

I don't know about the statistical independence of the DNA search and the match on separately-collected DNA directly from the suspect (once a suspect was found via the DNA search), but I think it's a little irrelevant; as long as existing laws aren't broken, I understand the court to generally not care how police became aware of evidence of a crime. Consider the oft-maligned "Stopped for a broken tail-light but there were drugs in the car" scenario. If the defendant goes to trial for the drug possession, the broken tail-light doesn't enter into the trial as evidence (mention of it may enter if someone asks the arresting officer why they chose to stop the defendant).

Bringing the analogy around to this case: if a DNA relative match narrowed the field of suspects to the relatives of match candidate X, then the police still need evidence tying relative Y directly to the crime. In this case, they subsequently investigated Y and found such evidence. Should the initial scan of a DNA database for candidate X have been illegal? I think that's an open question. I personally don't think it should be.
On the other hand I've shopped with NewEgg since 2005. I've had orders flagged as fraud once in a while both from NewEgg and also (more often, actually) from the bank when they receive the charge from NewEgg. While quite annoying, it is one of the many reasons I continue to order from them.
Ask HN: Good Cheat Sheets for Posters
I'd like to print out useful/interesting/fun cheat sheets for the walls in our hackspace/garage.

Can also be fun, trivia and random nerdy stuff. So far I have one for "latency numbers everyone programmer should know", thinking of printing all the original Pokemon but I'd love to browse a list of resources.
Safely secure secrets, personal vault
It is always seems kind of cute when someone discovers something new and thinks it's a silver bullet.

On a side note, .NET is not a language, it's a framework, like JVM. In fact F# runs on .NET and it is purely functional.
I know right? Those rich people are not assholes! They must be criminals.

EDIT: /s It ended up he was right, but maybe he had no reason to actually know they were cons. We don't have the full story, which is exactly why it has been retracted.
"All of your information" is a bit over the top don't you think? It's just an e-mail address. It's not relevant to anything. The important info is address and name.

I have the same system. It achieves 100% reliable spam protection with zero false positives and zero false negatives. It's a perfect system, if I follow some basic rules. It also eliminates phishing, except in case of unannounced data leaks. I mark e-mails received from random e-mail addresses I generated in the past with green color, so it's immediately obvious what is legitimate and what is not.

It'd be a bit ironic if someone would think that I'm a fraud, because of this system that is designed to protect me from fraud. :D

Never had an issue with businesses accepting my addresses, except one person looking at me strangely, when I was opening a bank account with a random email address, when I told him that no, I'll not repeat the address to him. :)

All the person on the receiving end has to do, is open the email address domain in the browser, and there's an explanation what's up right there.

If I were a fraudster I'd make an address that looks perfectly ordinary. It's so weird for someone to assume that weird looking address indicates fraud.
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(not that it adds any credibility ....)
Tips for Creating a Killer Cryptocurrency Portfolio
I like mountain climbing, skiing, rock climbing, sea kayaking, hiking, snowshoeing, backpacking, mountain biking. Many of these things are only possible near mountains. I live in Boulder currently, but grew up north of Seattle, and it really does provide more variety in outdoor pursuits than just about anywhere.
That's a very anthropocentric metric to use, it's no surprise we're the best at it.

Whales are the largest animals alive today, so perhaps they're the pinnacle of evolution.

Implying there's a "pinnacle" of evolution implies evolution has a goal or intended outcome, which it does not.
>The "you're the product" labels us as sheeple.

Why? I use a lot of services knowing that they are spying on me and selling my data. In those cases I think the service is worth it.

You don't need to be some kind of sheep to make this economic decision. The sooner people realize that we truly are the product in these circumstances (and other non-online activities) the better as they'll be more educated in respect to what they're choosing to be part of. Sugar coating it or bringing up its complexity doesn't really help. That saying is perfectly valid as-is and should be a message worth promoting. Hemming and hawing about it not being totally accurate doesn't seem to be helping things.
Data Warehouse Architect
Monroe & Associates has been tearing down cars and other things as their sole business for quite a while. https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-company-that-tears-cars... is a pretty good overview of their business and the insane depths of knowledge that their engineers have.

They’ve accumulated a ton of knowledge about How To Cars. Of course it is possible that Tesla is making a bunch of design decisions that M&A thinks are weird because they are optimizing for very different things than most other carmakers; it would be pretty interesting to be a fly on the wall in a discussion between Tesla’s engineers and M&A’s.
ISO blocks NSA's IoT encryption systems amid tales of backdoors and bullying
"our DNA is private."

How does one even come to such a conclusion?
Any chance you can talk more in depth about this? I'm really curious! FP seems wonderful, but there are few side-by-side code examples out there.
Not at all. Their project to make ICBMs and nukes goes back to the early 90s. It culminated recently, yes, but it's not like Trump was elected and Kim went all like "oh no, they elected Trump, let's go make nukes and show them how much we dislike Trump!". Without the DPRK's ICBM and nuclear weapons program there would have been no negotiations in 1994 (under Clinton), not in the aughts (under Bush), and not now (under Trump).

EDIT: They never needed nukes. Vietnam has no nukes and we've all left them alone. Iraq would have been left alone had Hussein not invaded Kuwait. Afghanistan would have been left alone had 9/11 not happened or had the Taliban turned over bin Laden. And so on.

We don't yet know what the DPRK will get out of this. So far it seems like "security guarantees". Probably also money and such, but in any verifiable nuclear disarmament by the DPRK all of such concessions are one-time. I'm shocked they're even offering anything given that once they give up the nukes they give up all leverage, but it goes to show that we (Trump!) have something even stronger leverage: we can starve the DPRK into submission because we can hurt China in the pocket book, and everyone believes that Trump means to do these things.
> Show me source of your numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_District,_San_Francisc...

> Why should we be focusing on the Mission, and not, say, Sea Cliff?

Why not both?
How much farmland did you drive thru as a kid vs now? I live in a small city and never get bugs on the windshield or grill. When I drive out of town and thru the surrounding farmland there are tons of them. To be fair, though, I grew up in farming country and it there used to be way more than there are now if my memory serves me. It does appear that there are fewer total insects in those areas. The farmers are getting better at controlling them, I think.
No. They're upset because the cost of housing isn't high simply due to gentrification, but due to an artificially created shortage, which can be easily remedied if not for the stubbornness of the people who got there first.
Not sure what you are referring to -- at least in the P/NP problem complexity classification verifying the solution is easy, coming up is P/NP-hard, i.e hard.
That has nothing at all to do with the changing quality of a manufactured product.
Would you care to point out any argument in your little tant, so that it can be refuted?
No, when I think that an idea is false or harmful or both, I feel morally compelled to present the reasons I think that as clearly and cogently as possible in an effort to provide additional information both to the person presenting the false and/or harmful idea and anyone else who might be observing the exchange. Censorship is inherently immoral.

My hope is to persuade others that the initial idea is false and/or harmful, not to prevent others from hearing the bad idea.

If I succeed, the bad idea still exists, but others can understand why the idea is bad and recognize similarly bad ideas in the future.

If you simply censor the bad idea, at least two bad things happen as a consequence: 1) the bad idea is not refuted, and so is likely to be reintroduced later with fewer people who understand why it is a bad idea; and 2) the person who originated the bad idea does not have any reason to change their mind, but rather is more likely to resent being censored and so hold that bad idea more tenaciously and attempt to spread it more surreptitiously.

I am frankly frightened by this relatively recent promotion of the idea that preventing the public utterance of bad ideas and distasteful speech is good for society. Based on my understanding of history, it is, in fact, a precursor to totalitarian society.
This reminds me of what happened with BPA. The chemical companies use to replace BPA is at least sometimes worse than BPA. But no one seems to care.
A lot of students have buyer remorse when they realize the money they just spent online could have been used more wisely. Unfortunately, when a network has a small percent of bad actors, the network as a whole is punished.
True, but the performance difference can be huge. It's reasonable to illustrate things in a blog post just using EVAL, but you should be using EVALSHA for almost any production workload.
Obama and trump getting nobel peace prizes, what a time to be alive
Those are dropshippers, many of those items you can order from Alibaba / Aliexpress and skip a layer of reseller.
>>The Seattle area, the nation’s 22nd largest by population, has the third most homeless people, behind only Los Angeles and New York City.

I knew it was bad, but didn't realize it's that bad. One Seattlite once told me there are a lot of homeless people because they refer to it as Freeattle, as they get lot of things for free - not sure if that is true. Anyone who is from Seattle know more?
NPR's biggest accomplishment in the last decade is selling people on the idea that NPR is unbiased.
Introduction to go compiler
> is being historically accurate when it comes to human wave attacks

He is not.

> specifically in terms of infantrymen operating in fire teams that shared one rifle among several men attacking the enemy in enfillade

That's bullshit straight from Enemy at the Gates and CoD2.

> is described in Zhukov's memoirs

I happen to have them on my shelf, I'd like you to point me to the pages you're referring.
Reminds me of Gawker. Sure don’t miss those clowns.
> We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.

I signed in (been years) to comment. Bravo! I could not agree more. People can change.
These posts are tedious, like a stereotypical newly converted non-smoker or vegetarian cornering you at a party.

The same arguments about the diamond inheritance problem, and blah blah blah. Funny gun-foot meme...check.

I'm not even saying it isn't true. I'm saying that it's boring. Functional programming has it's own set of stupidity and anti patterns. If your favorite language doesn't have any that spring to mind...give it time.

Queue the people saying OO is really message passing.

Then the Rust people. I guess the world has always been this way, but it makes me think we are screwed as a species.
Will it come back? Maybe it will be hot among the next generation of programmers that failed to learn from the past. Just like the mistake that is explicit asynchronous programming (e.g. callback hell in node.js) when (cooperative) multitasking has existed for 50 years!
USPS used to have huge offices at its distribution centers with people who figure out bad addresses.

At one time you could send a letter to a particular famous person (I can’t remember if it was an actor named “Rip” or Mr. Ripley from “Ripley’s Believe it or Not”) by simply putting a rip in a blank envelope.

I bet the U.K. has massive departments for this since so many addresses are just something like “Stuffypants House, Humberside.”
Switch to the metric system? I'm all for it. I doubt it rises to the level of the President's attention, honestly. It might not be until we get an engineer or scientist as President that we switch.
The board in the video that Munro is holding up looks bigger and different than those two.

You're 100% sure those are the same?

Munro acknowledges that the chips are from NVidia, but claims the board to be unique.
Ask HN: Do you use OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Routing systems on production?
Hi,

We are trying to replace [Google Maps]( https://developers.google.com/maps/premium/) to use other alternatives like Mapbox, HERE in the future. However, we found that there are some Open Source Project like OSRM [1], Valhalla [2]. I would like to know what is your experiences with OpenStreetMaps as a backend for routing systems. If it is the case, would you please share your opinion and experience.

[1]: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

[2]: https://github.com/valhalla
We could kill any animal on Earth effortlessly. We’re the fittest. From an evolutionary standpoint I’d say we won. I’m not saying we’re better, but arguing that humans aren’t the most advanced species really serves no purpose other than pedantically pointing out “many other ways” in which we can define pinnacle. You know what the parent meant.
agree, and would like to add that businesses can either spend time on figuring out the most efficient flange design or spend that time on improving a feature that will bring higher customer value. I would suspect most people are not buying cars because the flange is not the perfect size, or that there are overlapping panels.

Take any gen 1 product apart from an innovative company, I am sure you will find skeletons.
This article is about OO+[bad language design/patterns].

You can do OO without sharing state with your parent(s).