skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting play but doesn't seem like a good fit.

The examples on the front page: "how do I connect to our database", "what kind of email templates do we have". Are these questions that you're going to get multiple answers for and I'm going to upvote the best and/or select one as the "selected" answer. I would think this would be a sign of dysfunction in most cases. And how does the gamification play into it? (maybe it's a secret bus-factor detector.)

It seems like a regular wiki/knowledge base would be a better fit for this kind of knowledge. How would the SO structure help.

A related note, I wonder if you can disable the "Soup Nazis"[1] feature or it's too deeply embedded in the psyche of the product.

[1]https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/741.php
How is this a patent troll? Nikola isn’t a non-practicing entity. They have their own competing product.

Was the Apple-Samsung patent litigation “patent trolling?”
yes, layerJS needs a "Stage" where navigation can happen so the scrollable content will be inside that Stage. In this case the body is the stage and the page is a frame inside it. We are working on something where the stage length adapts to the frame length. Then the body will become as long as the full content and native scrolling would even work if there is no JS
Stable Android PLT hook library
Men Arrested in Philadelphia Starbucks Reach Settlements: The Two-Way
This finding (fully believing it is at best anecdotal and preliminary at this point) brought TTF "tumor treating fields" therapy to mind.
In the last year or so a medical device was approved by the FDA to treat brain tumors (Optune, Novocure Inc) in which the patient uses helmet that introduces alternating electrical field though the area of the tumor ( ie the patient head). It sounds super crazy, but it seems to have reached statistical significance in a couple large brain cancer studies. There are some caveats about selection bias of patients in these studies ( e.g, patients that enrolled/stayed in the study were motivated/strong enough to carry the heavy backpack and wear an onerous helmet) but it is being used and has some scientists and clinicians scratching their heads. Novocure is expanding application to multiple other cancers.
Bitcoin at $136,000: Can it become the new gold standard?
Constitution of 3 May 1791
ECB and BOJ are currently working on a joint research project on distributed ledger technology called project Stella. Like you said, Bitcoin right now is unfit for Real Time Gross Settlement system. However, the project also concluded that with appropriate modifications, Distributed Ledger Technology "could meet the current performance needs of an RTGS system." It should be noted that the project mostly concerns with large value transfer system between financial institutions rather than retail payment system.

They also explored delivering securities for cash on the blockchain. The project summary leaflets are really fascinating and provide a good overview on the progress of the analysis.

[1] September 2017 leaflet: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/news/shared/20170906_st...

[2] March 2018 leaflet: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/stella_project_leafl...
Playing the devil’s advocate here:

Most of the commenters seem to ignore the fact that experience is not necessarily a good thing.

A person who has 10+ years of experience (be it programming, business or anything else that this person has done before) under their belt is likely to have their own opinions about how things are done. They will either suggest their own ideas (which may be incompatible with the rest of the team’s view and engage in arguments that distract the management’s attention from other issues) or, on the contrary, if they had a bad experience suggesting their own ideas, be apathetic and do their job mechanically adding little to the group’s discussion.

Also, if a person has been doing their job for many years, the employer can have a more or less definite idea of what kind of output they can expect from him or her. Sure, a person with a 10-year experience has a lower chance of being a non-performer, but you also have a much lower chance of discovering a rising star.
If you're a good citizen who has nothing to hide it's true, you make "simple" A->B transactions that are out in the open for all to see. If you're doing something shady and are worried about being tracked there are ways to launder your coins by mixing them, converting them to other currencies, going through multiple exchanges under different jurisdictions etc... It's probably not as easy now than it used to be, it's true, but it's still way easier than anything else (well, except cash, but that doesn't work so well in the virtual world).

That's why it's kind of the worst of both worlds, if you're a law abiding citizen your company can see that you're moving some money they paid you to the wallet of dragondildos.com, meanwhile if you're a drug dealer you can launder money internationally with relatively little risk using Tor and Monero.

So I maintain that bitcoin is the best way to do illegal stuff online. It's not perfect but it's safer and more convenient than all the alternatives I can think about.
I don't meet people through groups, I just go up to them in public
Silicon Valley’s Rigged Game of Life
It becomes a vicious circle because the only way to be more certain about the odds is to place your bets as late as possible. Which means that fewer and fewer bets are struck earlier on, making the 'current' odds even more inaccurate. Which motivates people to wait even longer before betting...
I'm not sure how that last part plays out. If you need 100 cars active at rush hour and 10 active the rest of the day, then sure those 10 might have 90% utilization but the other 90 wont.
Atlassian's "Questions for Confluence" is only half the price. https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions
What Is Absent from the U.S. Cyber Command 'Vision'
Same here in Germany.
Maybe the dating is wrong??
This is probably best rephrased as an "Ask HN:".

The -20C to 150C existing range is instructive- you don't need to hit both your extremes, merely occasionally deviate past those extremes. -20C for instance occurs throughout the world, so any outdoor vehicle or asset rental tag would benefit from a hardier version.

If the RFID tag can employ a bit of logic (it's dipped below 140 C, or above -10 C and that's only when it emits, for example) then the world is replete with applications in the food service and manufacturing industries.

Yup. Freezer alarm beacons are your bread and butter with this technology, but only if you can put some signal to them.

I'd consider instead of touting your larger gamut of temperatures, developing technology to tune predictable failures (and perhaps permanent ones) at bespoke temperatures. It'd be very handy to scan a pallet of eggs and know that the -1.4C threshold had been crossed, with frost damage a likely result.

Reach out to me directly if you want some US engineering support- know a startup in the food service industry that has a market for this kind of stuff.
My gut instinct says they misdated the bones.
In my experience, the real desirability in China lies in getting engineering jobs for the popular, growing tech companies (just like in the US). There are millions of engineering jobs in IT departments all over the country that are undervalued and paid minimally.
Straying OT, but I find Google Cloud's array of database options to be hopelessly confusing. Particularly with the Fire* offerings that are all really cool, but seemingly limited to mobile use cases.
They have no interest to charge you less. The strategy is to lock you in and get the most they can from you.
Well, the conference organizers are "respecting" the "US public"'s choice by holding their conference somewhere where more people are welcome.

If the management of the Holtin Hotels said brown-haired people are no longer welcome in their hotel, would you hold your conference (which has some brown haired people attendees) there or would you hold it somewhere else?
As others have already alluded to, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, but even if he had won the popular vote that definitely doesn't mean his policies necessarily reflect the will of the majority of the American people (and the polls clearly demonstrate that the opposite is true)
I think you are trying to solve the wrong problem. An alternative way to look at it is that the problem isn't leaving children in cars, it is that cars get too hot. It is basically a solar oven. Instead of trying to detect children, why not make it so that when the car is parked, that enough airflow occurs that the internal temperature of the car is similar to the outside temperature?

Of course, this solution has two problems. One is that you want your car to be sealed against outside air in cold climates. The airflow could be gated by a temperature sensor. The other is that sufficient airflow might make theft easier. This means that the airflow must be provide through a protected location (as opposed to e.g. just opening the windows).
"Is proving the existence of the multiverse possible?"

It's proving it's nonexistence that is quite a challenge. Proving their existence could be demonstrated by, for instance, traveling to them. I personally see no reason to believe that is possible, but if somebody traveled to one and thereby disproved me, that would be that.

That said, it might just about take that to prove one. Even if one produces theories that say a multiverse might be possible, I expect there will always be a simple transform for which the equations still work but there is only the one universe. For instance, taking well-established existing equations, while the QM field equations may imply that a quantum multiverse is possible, no matter how mathematically distasteful some people may find it the Copenhagen interpretation is still possibly the truth, and I'm not sure what possible experiment could disprove that. (The Universe may do as it damn well pleases.) I'm unsure what evidence we could collect other than concrete proof of existence that would somehow prove multiverses.
It would, they already did, pure audacity, and they're getting burned for it.

Meanwhile, a loud minority (mostly from outside the EU) complains "why don't you respect their best efforts?" -- because it's too little, too late, this law has been on the horizon for years, but instead of preparing they've been increasing their data harvesting efforts, only making it harder for themselves to actually comply when it finally passed.
A Guide to Pgpool for PostgreSQL – Part Two
While cancer rates are often higher in cell types with higher division rates, there are many other risk factors. The increased incidence of skin cancer is due largely to exposure to mutagenic ionising radiation from the sun, which is absorbed readily by the skin. Microwave radiation is more deeply penetrating. Although I believe it is unlikely to cause cancer.
Seeing "layers" and "frames" in the top content gave me a throwback to Netscape 4, so YMMV.
> Are you saying that the conferences shouldn't be allowed to move because "almost the majority" of Americans made a decision?

I didn't read it that way. I think the intent was to say that if anybody is to blame for this, it's the people who voted for Trump. And that their will will be respected when conferences are held somewhere else.
Deer culls rarely have anything to do with deer starving. They are culled when they become pests, when they start spreading disease or endangering humans. Deer populations are not limited by resources, rather by the number of predators. What causes deer populations to explode isn't food but human intolerance for bear/cougar/wolves.
Will be extremely sad to see fun maps projects disappear as a result of this. We're also seeing a huge increase in cost (we are a paying user already) at https://www.openrent.co.uk/, but I kind of hoped commercial projects would be treated differently to non-commercial ones.
Some other generators I like are;

https://www.leandomainsearch.com

https://www.nameboy.com

I've done this a handful of times. Sometimes you luck out for a quick win. Most of the time it's hard sweat like you wouldn't believe, especially if you want to cover the main domain options.

If you time poor and have some funds, consider buying something from those sites that have business name packages.
thanks I know you're probably targeting larger companies but for small teams there's a big difference between $10 a month and $5 per user per month :p
> After five years on the job, no one cares about your cute degree but the 21-year-old version of me who knew nothing and was a tiny bit terrified of being found incompetent cared.

If you feel that you know nothing, this is good, since then you know that you have a lot to learn, which you will hopefully do then. I thus consider it as dangerous if one does not feel dumb all the time.

> I spent years flailing within technology. I learned the wrong things, dove deep into the wrong technology (Java Swing :|) and made obvious mistakes.

Also the mentor will just tell you about what is trendy to him/her at the time. So be honest: You rather look for a person to pass the responsibility on for the things that you did wrong.
>There's little invective

That is a wonderful Freudian slip!
Its popularity and its popularity specific to the mentioned use-case is not, for those that know their history.
> The big selling point is going to be the difference of buying a plane ticket to Canada vs buying one to the US + having to deal with the hassles of US immigration and customs.

Exactly. I for one voted for Canada for exactly that reason.
Version your API if you want enterprise customers.
Thanks for reporting! The website uses a mechanism to load subpages dynamically. I guess the closing and opening restores the history, but reloads the page from the server. The the content from layerjs.org is missing, but the history "thinks" its there. So we need to catch this...
Fortunately "existing as a for-profit corporation" is not a fundamental right to FB.
Or people who are more likely to commit to long term exercise plans are also more likely to commit to long term relationships? Like, maybe it's a discipline thing. Are people with advanced degrees and skills that take discipline to maintain also more likely to be married?
> but being in a course means you are not counted as "looking"/"available" for a while

Are there enough people to whom that distinction applies to be more than statistical noise relative to the other regional variations that would have an impact?

Seems like a minor nit to pick in the grand scheme of things.
If you've never seen any evidence of that, you've not looked very hard: This is what every supermarket does for their filler jobs, and to a lesser extent for their till and other store facing jobs as well. If you're over 18, you have to be very lucky to keep your job (or more realistically, to keep being given work) in such a situation.

Outside of supermarkets this sort of practice is also pretty entrenched in a lot of small-medium IT businesses: They have a sizeable portion of their workforce as trainees or whatever (they may be underpaid legally, so they almost always are) and don't hire them after their time is up (ever, as a rule). New trainees are then cycled into the slots that are now vacant.
>It's weird to see the top post on HN be an immature and empathy-barren rant that is completely irrelevant to the article.

That sense of entitlement is endemic across the internet, honestly.
I accept that Go is more verbose than Python, but your maintainability claim doesn’t match my experience at all. I find that Go is more maintainable for a few reasons: magic is discouraged in Go, everyone writes Go in pretty much the same way and with the same style, Python’s type system is still very immature (no recursive types, doesn’t play nicely with magical libs). Further, in my experience with working with large Python and Go codebases, Python becomes less maintainable very quickly as code size increases, especially in the face of more junior developers. Go seems to be more resistant to these forces, probably because of the rails it imposes. Lastly, any maintainability advantages Python might have had are quickly eaten up by the optimizations, which are necessary in a much greater portion of the code base because naive Python is so much slower than naive Go.

Go is ~100X faster than Python and about half as fast as C/C++/Rust, and I find it to be at least as maintainable as Python for most (but not all!) applications.

As for your power law claim, I agree with the premise but not the conclusion—-“rewrite the hotpath in C!” is not a panacea. This only works when you’re getting enough perf gain out of the C code to justify the marshaling overhead (and of course the new maintenance burden).

I don’t like bashing on Python, but it doesn’t compete well with Go on these grounds. It needs to improve, and we can’t fix it by making dubious claims about Go. We should push to improve things like Pypy and MyPy, as well as other tooling and improvements.
>Is this a reprint? I swear I've read this article before.

There was an article in Cigar Aficionado in 2003 that told the same story, but focusing on Alan Woods.

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/the-hundred-and-fift...
I am developing on OSRM.

OSRM is done by Mapbox guys, Valhalla team has joined Mapbox.

PGrouting is very slow.
OSRM expects data in OSM/PBF format for parsing. there are no Postgis plugins to export to OSM/PBF.
QGIS is a friend.
OSRM is fast but needs 2 times the size of index as memory, for one server we are using 36gb RAM.
Openstreetmap has many abandoned projects, does not have many features available in commercial projects.
openstreetmap needs a fork to make it competitive for current generation of GIS apps.
> but most states allocate electors in a winner-takes-all fashion.

And, while there is a positive relationship between population and elector count, electors aren't even assigned proportional to population, so even if each state assigned electors proprtionately to the vote, you could still win with less votes than an opponent if your support is concentrated on low-population states.
I agree, why?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robotsquidward/public-asse...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy
Yes, it's somewhat tricky to get entirely right, which is why Delphi/Lazarus/.NET have wrapper components that take all of the pain out of doing it. It's just a matter of dropping a control on a form and setting a few properties.

We use an embedded IE instance for running web applications in our web development IDE, Elevate Web Builder, but we're looking to move to embedded Chrome if MS doesn't provide an option for embedding Edge in non-UWP desktop applications soon.
(: good old times
I worked at Facebook. I am directly familiar with how the company treats those cases.
"Some have posited that there are an infinite number of molecules outside of the one we call home. They vary in size and shape, according to multimolecule theory. In some of them it is said the hydrogen galaxy is in the outer section, some the exact center, and some have no hydrogen galaxy at all!"

"My biggest skepticism of this theory is that it has been proven here in our molecule we cannot create or destroy atoms. Insofar as we know no atom has ever been added or removed from our molecule in the millions of plancks we have observed the known molecule for and none ever will."

"And for there to be an infinite number of molecules beyond the confines of our own - each with their own strange and exotic configuration expanding and changing off into eternity - you would need an infinite amount of atoms and electron fields to properly bind the vast regions of atoms. And as it's been well proven, atoms in this molecule are finite and unchanging."
At my workplace we have a daily DMZ (De-Meetinged Zone) from 11 to 3. Since engineers tend to roll in btwn 10 and 11 and most product ppl work normal hours and leave by 6, you end up with a lot of meetings btwn 3 and 6. But at least they aren't methodically fracturing your entire day anymore.

Care is needed when scheduling. Standard parallelization stuff. If all your sub teams want to have sub team meetings (retro, planning, blah blah), try to parallelize those meetings so there's more time on the clock for cross team meetings. If you don't do this, manager schedule ppl will start violating the DMZ.

To manage Slack interruptions disable whatever your personality is distracted by. For me I turn off all notifs that aren't direct messages to me or @mentions. I hide chat rooms with no unread messages. And most importantly I don't keep Slack on top 24/7 on some second monitor. When ppl need me the client grabs my attention and I answer. The rest of the chatter can be read at my leisure. We use emojis in our engineering channels to make it easy to scan for action items like code reviews and we use threads for replying to ppl so the channel is like the top level view of a message board.

This is functioning fairly well with ~30 engineers at the org but i think we will need to more consciously manage the 3-6 window if we doubled in size again. Fred Brooks stuff, the 3 hour window is fixed but as teams grow so does the communication overhead.
I totally agree with your statement, but how can one compensate for the fear of missing out of new technologies, interesting discussions among interesting people sharing their insights to the problem in hand, like you're doing with us at the moment.
That's the only reason I check Hacker News, or some Subreddits multiple times a day, so that I won't miss that one non-upvoted post which could have proven significant to me, whether personally or educationally.
> the implication that it is pernicious behavior on the part of white males that is responsible for this state of affairs.

Historically, it has been, yes. Even today, there are pockets of white males who are virulently against anyone but them having access to their little clubhouses (cf GG for one prime example.)
This will greatly help open source projects (at least my projects) to sort and filter issues. I'm happy to see GitHub start shipping again at a more frequent pace well crafted and intelligent features (not like the first iteration of projects which was... not on par with their usual level of quality).
Yes, it’s a lot stricter than having someone else review what you look at.
> I used to manage plenty diverse global team of engineers

To have Chinese engineers in China, Brazilian in Brazil and Mexicans in Mexico is NOT diversity. That is the contrary of diversity. That is to have homogeneous teams.

I have worked for companies in Stockholm that have people from India, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, ... working together in the same office. That is diversity. All of them were had the same range of salaries and expectations. Of course, it was not fairytale perfect. But it was quite good.

Externalizing costs to a low-cost country has nothing to do with diversity, as I understand it.
Ask HN: If HN were a person, how it would be?
For me HN is going to be a guy in 40s and working in technology field. Don't like new tech such as NoSQL and blockchain. Don't have facebook and snapchat. Care about his privacy and freedom of expression a lot. Don't borrow money to buy things.

What do you think HN would it be if it were a person? :D
7 TOOLS/ APPROACHES THAT CAN HELP YOU DEPLOY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT SUCCESSFULLY
A step that the CEO certainly would have done, if it happened, which it most probably didn't.

I'm not saying it couldn't happen, or that it has never happened, just that you'll need some serious arguments to convainc me it's more probable than the CEO being simply a crook.
This is what a payload fairing looks like as it returns from space
IRK.

It's almost like people will tell you what they are interested in you ask them. If they don't tell you, then you never had a shot anyway.

If you rely on artificial serendipity for romance, then you're going to have a bad time.