skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Sprint customer, I think this deal will be good for competition in the wireless market. Both Sprint and T-Mobile struggle to compete with AT&T and Verizon in coverage, so hopefully the merger will allow T-Mobile to invest in greater coverage and speed.
My home is single income, two people. I don't see the point in dividing the what remains equally amongst each household member when there are so many expenses that can benefit more than one person and there will be different wants and needs at different times.

Living paycheck-to-paycheck means if you miss one paycheck, you'll have bills you can't pay. With the numbers you've provided, I don't see how your income and essentials would force you to not have savings to cover a few months. You didn't mention how many income sources your household has; even if 75% is from one source, having a second source does add a lot of security.
Coinbase values itself at $8 billion
Also on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :)

http://www.figlet.org/
It makes sense if trying to discredit him/put him down. It seems like an emotional reaction and it makes me wonder if the commenter has vested interest in incentivized crypto-assets like Bitcoin - Pyramid-Ponzi scheme structures.

Edit to add: I just realized the original comment might not have been said maliciously, and simply pointing out the ex-CEO was positioning himself well, if he was also part of the lobbying efforts - and if he owns stock still then it could benefit him.
So you're saying that if the owner of france.com was a Mr. James France, the French government wouldn't have done the same thing?
Did you have a link that somehow relates this to Snowden?
Which — once you're acquainted with its existence — is the very thing that makes it instantly recognizable.
Then they would also have to pay millions for applewatch.com macbook.com ipadpro.com macpro.com iphone7.com iphone8.com iphonex.com ...
dont do it. that quick $100k means you will never be in full control

instead look for how you can cut/delay/share costs until profitability.

smugmug self funded, and just bought flickr
Go Fast Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible Irreversible Decisions
easyDNS (easydns.com), based in Canada, has a reputation for not just rolling over.

Their UI though is a bit crappy compared to other places though (like hover). Hover though I suspect wouldn't put up any kind of resistance.
Getting multiple errors on both repos. OP fork of webview is getting a linker error in my windows 10 and the elm project doesn't build past elm-make, the webpack fails later...
ISP/DNS-takedowns affect only customers of a single provider. Compelling every US provider is tedious and would still not affect people in other jurisdictions. CA-levy takedowns affect everyone.
Does it not only provide you with the content but also schedule the distribution like Buffer?

For better or for worse I feel there is definitely a market for some version of this.
:yawns:
The Apple ][ wasn't closed, you could hack away on it just as much as any other 8bit machine of the day. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) it was from the Mac onward life got a bit more challenging.
The first thought which came to my mind was "Thanks god I don't have anything registered with Web.com". In case anyone does, right now might be a great moment to consider migration.
> distinguish if you were in a house, fire engine, office complex

If water is used primarily between 9-5 in large quantities: office building

If water is used during breakfast and dinner: home

Fire engines also have very distinct water usage patterns and pressures.

I bet you could easily get to >90% accuracy quickly.
MIT Tech Review Discloses a Plan to Let Down Bitcoin
Ask HN: Why does YouTube autoplay songs I have downvoted?
Why does Youtube keep on adding songs to my autoplay after I have downvoted them? WTF youtube? Are you guys even trying?

Also while we are at it... Why does autoplay keep on playing the same 10 songs? Why can't I tell it my listening preferences?
I got that but I can't imagine why you would even use the User ID for anything if we're talking about the row ID from the database. If you're doing tests against a user's profile why not use their username? There must be some case-examples that I'm not thinking of...

I know that some services have a public-facing "username" and a behind the scenes unique identifier (which is a great UX model), I'm just focusing on the unique identifier. Which I would think should always be it's own column, whether it's also used for the public "username" or not.

> Because if you change that, all your relations between tables will break.

Okay, that is not a response to my question, which is why would you ever use the row ID for anything in your program. If you never use it, then it cannot ever be changed. Also SQL allows relationships based on more than one field, so it seems such a disaster could be easily avoided.
What doesn't make sense? They would rather have sole access to all the data even at the expense of having to build their own tools. It's not the first or the last attempt of government taking power through 'protection'.
Isn't this actually a marketing ploy to get people to read about the negative effects of social media?
You tried to allocate memory for the new information, and exceeded your current max heap. When you remembered that thing for long ago, it's because your GC scanned it :)
A curated list of engineering blogs
Does he still own stock?
My life is far from perfect and I don't try paint a perfect version on Instagram.. but my photos could be in these packages.
This is not a real service. Try to buy one of their packages and it brings up a page that says:

You're not alone. 62% of people feel inadequate comparing their lives to others online.

Then links to some mental health article on social media.
The FM for Common Lisp is called Hyperspec, or CLHS. Just append "CLHS" to your search query.

The parent is probably talking about method combinations - in particular, the method combination used by default, which supports :before, :after and :around methods.

It's the first time I see the term "daemon method".
They DO pay for city services — if they buy something within the city or work within the city, the costs of the city are reflected in the cost of goods or the compensation from employment.
Right, sorry, "daemon methods" is the collective term but may not actually appear in the documentation. There are three types, "before", "after", and "around"; there's a brief description at the bottom of this page: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/clos-guide.html
finding a real pain point that a customer is willing to preorder with real-money, is much much harder than coming up with a tech solution.

the former is harder because it is totally outside of your control, and the latter is way easier because it is almost entirely within your control.

have you thought of other tech solutions that can address the pain point? e.g. put ipads across the trade floor, with the app already installed, so you don't need to ask users to install anything. Or provide a $3 free coffee deal for every person that uses the app, as a marketing promotion? basically some other out-of-the-box way to solve that pain point that you spent so much effort to find

i would say, don't give up so easily because it sounds like you solved the hardest part (finding the pain point), and you are held up on the easier part (coming up with a technical solution). The tech part can always be adjusted on your end to meet the pain point somehow.
> Usability became more important than flexibility. And intuitive operation prioritized over ease of learning.

Why is this problematic? Why is more people having access to computing a bad thing? This is a dangerous, and (dare I say) elitist opinion. We're seeing positive impact, every day, thanks to the ubiquitously available computing resources.

If you'd like to use a computer with a learning curve, use a computer with a learning curve. Don't drag the whole world with you.
Yes, I think in C++ at-least you are supposed to protect from this by never having the child directly implement the virtual method.

This means inheritors only need to ensure they implement according to the specified constraints.

I also suspect some of the new C++14 and beyond meta tagging can even enforce a `final`.

class Abstract {
public:
// Even though this function might do nothing but
// redirect, it is a useful abstraction.
void
SomeMethod() {
// Do things which must be done first, if any.
ImplSomeMethod();
// Do things which must be done after, if any.
}

protected:
// Document all expected invariant behavior here.
virtual void
ImplSomeMethod() = 0;
};
Note that this is itself a fake site. It's put up by https://sanctus.io/ and clicking on any Buy button will redirect you to this Medium post: https://sanctus.io/social-media-mental-health-b1803b6b475f
except BigCo also has tons of systems, autobackups, legacy code, and S3 buckets that's no one understands or has enough knowledge about. you know it's secure but you don't know what the downstream impact would be of making changes to those systems. so now you have to divert a ton of resources to figure things out - and no SWE in the company will willingly move to _that_ project.

while small companies don't have the big legal teams, they can just hire a consulting firm to go over it with them. they also have the benefit of being nimble, having smaller dependency trees, and typically using 3rd party tools which will generally implement this tooling anyways since their customers will likely need it. BigCo likely did a bunch of roll-your-own projects that have become black boxes over time.
Likely someone will provide a better reference, but here’s one I found you may find useful:

https://franz.com/support/documentation/8.1/doc/flavors.htm#...
Here’s when you’d use them

http://www.virtuouscode.com/2014/08/26/how-to-use-rubys-engl...
Anybody has any data on how do these cultures compare to starting your own sourdough from cultures caught from the air?
Because you probably have to re-read some, if not most, of the code while working through a solution.
Why would you admit that? If you don't know something, look it up. It's not someone else's fault if you don't know something. On HN and in the world, don't whine about it, do something about it.
APL was designed to be taught to non-programmers. Indeed it was taught in some high school maths classrooms.

I have been reading many books and other historical documents on APL from the 1960s/70s/80s and this one I found to be especially interesting:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Papers/Elem...

I would like to thank the HN user who has posted this a couple of times. I am grateful for this resource and reading it sooner rather than later.

Why I found this particular publication unique amongst all the others I have read:

It is many pages before the reader encounters any programming jargon. I believe the use of the term "primitives" may be the first slip.

It is possible the reader with absolutely no familiarity with programming would not be alienated by any of the terminology Iverson uses. That is uncommon for an expository text by an author who knows how to program, in my experience as a reader.

Perhaps terminology was carefully chosen with a view to avoiding programming jargon and letting the symbols (notation) and example input and output communicate the concepts.

Here is another question:

Matrix multiplication can play an important role in so-called "AI" or "Machine Learning". For example, Hopfield networks.

The extraordinarily popular Python language, specifically the "NumPy" library, is frequently cited on HN.

How suitable or unsuitable is APL for matrix multiplication and, by extension, "Machine Learning"?

Assuming in each case a programmer competent in her chosen language (i.e. ignoring the competencies of the programmer), which language has faster execution times, Python or APL?
Check out Q'Nial for something like what you are asking for here. It is an array language, but uses more verbose function names:

https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
Interesting. Yes, training takes way more time. In some really big projects like https://blog.openai.com/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/
"We first trained a multiplicative LSTM with 4,096 units on a corpus of 82 million Amazon reviews to predict the next character in a chunk of text. Training took one month across four NVIDIA Pascal GPUs, with our model processing 12,500 characters per second."

For smaller ones (and smaller datasets) a few hours of GPU is considered fast (at ~1$/h it is not much!). If you want to use it online, there is https://neptune.ml/ (no setup, $5 free credit for computing; full disclosure: created my colleagues).

In any case, I would be excited to see it on some site with code (like SO) or formulae (math or stats). Especially as I am a big fan of StackExchange and analysis (vide http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/ :)).
Was going to say the same thing. I'm 44 and feel like someone's blasting me with that Men In Black brain eraser once a day.

I also sleep like shit. 3-5 hrs for weeks on end.

I have about 3 hrs of work to do today. Normally I'd wait till everyone is in bed, work on it till 3am, then 'sleep in' till 7 so I could be ready for work.

Now I'm just doing it midday so i can go to bed at a normal time.

(Actually i'm procrastinating currently, another bad habit that i've developed by telling myself i can just do the work when everyone goes to bed).
I think he meant to say "banks" and not "Bitcoin."
I assume that HSM as discrete hardware devices certainly use their hardware RNG only as one input to some /dev/random like CSPRNG. On the other hand I would also assume that single-chip "HSMs" (smartcards...) do not although I vaguely remember that for TPM (which is hardware-wise a smartcard with weird host interface) the RNG output is somehow dependent on state of attestation registers.
Declarative way to track promise lifecycle states using “render props”
Many of the .flf files in https://github.com/arsham/figurine/tree/master/bin mention figlet etc in their comments.
I've been on a keto diet for nearly 2 years with only a handfull of cheat days. The rumored "mental clarity" never came. It seems to help greatly with migraine though (which is why I've been able to stick to it for so long ... I get a lot of migraines).

My cholesterol went up quite a bit while on it, but is still within the target range for the statin, so we haven't changed dose.

My doc is fine with me experimenting with the diet. I've lost quite a bit of weight doing it and it seems to be reducing the frequency of migraines. His only comment was if the cholesterol keeps going up he would recommend a higher dose of simvastatin.
Making such a warning should in no way reduce the consequences that Facebook should be forced to face for their responsibility in dragging all of us kicking and screaming to this place.

That is, of course, precisely why they spoke up. Their lawyers and accountants determined that would be the least costly approach.

As an aside, why do we continue to tolerate this kind of behavior from corporations? They aren't _really_ people and they don't deserve and should not be afforded the freedom to experiment with their impact on our society and our lives that real people are privileged to enjoy. Regulations and massive punitive consequences are _good_ things to ensure corporate behavior serves the public interest. And yet this has been going on for almost a century and nothing ever happens to change it?

It's nothing but an evolution of the robber barons.
on the contrary, drug cartels jumped at this opportunity to increase profits by effectively controlling price, reaching ridiculous levels down there
The solution is, of course, Blockchain.
That trigger circuit looks pretty big. It would be very hard to find a spot for it in an existing layout without moving things around. Moving things around would invalidate their timing which would be noticeable to the chip designers.

A fab would most likely not be able to do this unless it was an extremely valuable target. But it would be pretty easy if the design team wanted it in the first place.
I'm not sure that's true. I remember reading Alex Martelli (famous in the Python world) write about how people now consider methods based on Bayes Theorem (ie, statistical learning) to be part of AI. His view in 2003 was:

> considering Bayes' theorem to be part
of AI makes just about as much sense as considering addition in the
same light, if "expert systems" had been the first context in which
you had ever seen numbers being summed. In the '80s, when at IBM
Research we developed the first large-vocabulary real-time dictation
taking systems, I remember continuous attacks coming from the Artificial
Intelligentsia due to the fact that we were using NO "AI" techniques --
rather, stuff named after Bayes, Markov and Viterbi, all dead white
mathematicians (it sure didn't help that our languages were PL/I, Rexx,
Fortran, and the like -- no, particularly, that our system _worked_,
the most unforgivable of sins:-). I recall T-shirts boldly emblazoned
with "P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B)" worn at computational linguistics
conferences as a deliberately inflammatory gesture, too:-).

So we have an algorithm which wasn't considered part of AI by the then-AI practitioners, because it didn't aim for semantic understanding, become part of an expanded definition of AI.
T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, finally, strutting 5G clout
I wrote something similar some years back for a bot I used to run. Given an input URL, it concurrently attempted to create snapshots across as many archive sites (archive.is, Wayback Machine, etc) as possible, with caching, retries, smart backoff, and continuous updating of the destination as HTTP responses arrived. Always meant to release it as a standalone library, but never got around to doing so. I wonder where the code is now...
There are _a lot_ of ui bugs. I easily hit 24 an hour with some products.

I probably hit at least 24 bugs a day on my phone. Apps crashing. Back not working right. Apps popping up and disappearing. Unexpected latency causing wrong things to be clicked on. They're all just papercuts, but there are so many of them.
Mergers are costly to society because they concentrate power. The government should _absolutely_ prevent mergers that concentrate power, or otherwise redistribute that power.

I'd rather them just block these things like they did up until the early 2000s ... but it's not unreasonable for them to break up the government granted monopoly on spectrums if they do allow mergers.
Did I Choose the Wrong College?
figlet + lolcat = figurine

I'm interested in the rainbow library (which does reference figlet https://github.com/arsham/rainbow/blob/master/README.md#see-...), but only to see if it's any faster than the painfully slow Ruby implementation of lolcat.
Lets not forget how the rich have gated out the young intelligent from early markets, where 1000xs happen, through the corrupt SEC's accredited investor regulation. This ensures that rich can keep shotgunning into YC batches and be successful.

This is why I'm all in on cryptocurrency.
have you considered which side of the market is more important to focus on first

if you can get a lot of attendees to willingly use the app, the event organizers will follow. They might even knock down your door demanding to pay you $ for a chance to be your customer

if you get the event organizers to sign up, but the attendees don't use the app, then the event organizers will leave

so it would be best to focus on signing up attendees first? aren't they 100x more important then convincing the event organizers? just a thought.
Ha ha.... :)
I wished it was a real service. They should have scheduled uploads and some kind of travel package so it look like you are on a back packing trip or something. You could add this as sabbatical on your resume.
my kids are watching shows like backyardigans, creative galaxy, daniel tiger etc. There is no violence and they are filled from top to bottom with (boring) wholesome lessons.

The shows I watched (tom and jerry, loony toons, brady bunch etc) were filled with violence and pretty much had no redeeming qualities.

I wouldnt worry if my kids watched the shows I watched, but I agree with a previous poster that there is no way the author actually believed the shows of his childhood were wholesome and pure.
Between the Gmail and Reddit redesigns Reddit's redesign was so much worse.
I think that this glosses over one quite important detail: while the "RC-integrator out of digital logic" is quite small an inconspicuous, the logic required to activate it would be significantly more complex and almost by definition very suspicious.
Because if you change that, all your relations between tables will break.
Hidden Masterpieces of the NYC Subway
That's very true. I'm having fun trying to wedge my brain into an APL-shaped hole right now because I did it with Lisp before and know it eventually pays off.
> the Internet's original intent: to facilitate the fast and open communication of information

Where'd you get that from?

I think the Internet's original intent was to do it "because we can". Everything else came afterward.
This blog post is really condescending. Marketing buzzwords are not for you, they're for people who don't understand marketing, and probably view it as a black box. It's marketing people marketing themselves. I don't exactly see where the problem is....
Better than Reddit's redesign
I would assume there is a backup chute that can be deployed, probably with an altimeter that can auto far if manual deployment fails.
I guess the term isn't as common as I thought, but it appears to have been used explicitly in the Flavor system, which was the object system used on the MIT Lisp Machines and which predated CLOS. That must be where I picked it up.
The minimum efficient scale doesn't need to be more than 50% of the industry, it needs to be beyond a size at which competitors are willing to invest.

The evidence that no one has successfully contested Norfolk Southern is evidence that it's a natural monopoly. The burden is on you to show that it's possible and there's some other reason it hasn't happened (and why it's okay that the free market is allowing a monopoly to exist).

>If even the monopoly on violence, the core characteristic of a state

Not sure why you brought this up. Can you explain how this relates to your argument?
One could argue that a stronger combined company could better take on AT&T and Verizon. It’s not simply “mergers are bad for customers”.
How would that make the original comment more or less valid?
How ethereum could become the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency
I guess there are some monopoly proponents here.
Running NoScript in default deny javascript mode (so no JS runs at all) there was no anti-adblocker, no redirect, and the entire text of the article was readable.
The other side of the equation should be rebalanced too - there is every reason to believe that less extreme inequality would lead to greater overall economic activity and wealth (so more money in the pot). So the it should be $740k distributed more evenly vs $325 skewed to the right.
> languages [...] more verbose notation

With IDEs, and soon 3D, programming UX design space extends far beyond language syntax. Concision is important for APL-style abstraction-by-eyeball. So one might enrich tooling instead. "Tell me about this expression... What does it mean? Highlight related expressions. What idioms are being used? Are there any relevant design notes? Where is it in the dataflow graph? ..."

We've not yet been discussing it much, but with VR/AR and cloud, the constraints under which programming languages have evolved for the last several decades are about change. Perhaps unicode-enabled concision will be part of that.
ha they got me. Thanks for sharing.
> They don't do that after the fact.

They have and do. https://voiceofpeopletoday.com/kim-jong-un-orders-change-num...

It's unusual for the French government, who has some of the strongest consumer protections on the planet.