skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you're joking, but I hope not, actually. Although it's fun to divide by different numbers like 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, etc., on the whole, I prefer the decimal system, because it is much easier (and hence faster) to calculate things mentally, using uniform powers of 10.

As a simple example, when I need to mentally convert between millions and billions (used in the West) and lakhs and crores (used in India), it is so easy, because I convert everything to powers of 10 (e.g. million = 10^6, lakh = 10^5) and then multiply or divide as necessary, which really just amounts (pun not intended) to addition or subtraction of powers, using simple algebra.

40 million / 2 lakh = 4 * 10 * 10^6 / 2 lakh = 4 * 10^7 / 2 lakh = (4 * 10^7) / (2 * 10^5) = 2 * 10^7 / 10^5 = 2 * 10^2 = 200.

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

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

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

I also prefer the Western numbering system (groups of 3 powers of 10) over the Indian system linked above, due to its uniformity (for the same reason as metric over Imperial).
Giancoli's book doesn't use calculus. Halliday & Resnick (or one of its later updates from Crane) is a better bet in this regard.
Summary:

- 68 year old male catches bacterial infection - Acinetobacter baumannii - on vacation in Egypt

- Traditional antibiotics courses don't work

- Wife suggested trying bacteriophages - aka "phages" - which are baceteria-targeting viruses

- Phages are not FDA approved, but can receive "compassionate-use authorization" — effectively an acknowledgment that nothing with an FDA license can save the patient’s life

- 23,000 people a year die from antibiotic resistant bacterial infections and phages are not necessarily on the radar due to their own bio-diversity (single phage for a single bacterium vs mostly catch-all antibiotics)

- The male patient was treated with phages, which worked, and lived
Right. Even when you're on a campus and not on the employee SSID, you need to VPN in.
That site seems like it’s all fake promotion - e.g. coinbase is on their and last I looked coinbase’s fees were monstrously high compared to Gemini and other exchanges. It’s definitley not saving you anything choosing them.
Hehe. Don't screw with the masons (or their daughters).
It's an odd dichotomy. However my biggest take away from it is this; if you are thinking about wanting to implement something on your platform of choice but think "Ehh, it's already done over there so nobody will be interested in it" reconsider! There will almost certainly be people in that ecosystem that will appreciate the effort :)

I for one am happy about some of this. I've used the javascript ssh2 library(with a nice async/await wrapper you can find if you look for it) heavily for automation from nodejs. It could have been implemented on libssh2 for my needs, but a goal was for browser support soo.. Who am I to argue :D Perhaps web assembly will make it possible to compile something like libssh2 and consume from JS, but that's a long ways off I bet(being viable to adopt, not get working).
VC bucks creating discounts is about the only form of wealth redistribution we [the U.S.] can count on these days.
Looking at this rewrite I was wondering, but didn't find an answer in the project README: would emscripten successfully compile Git to js/wasm?
4 developers picking a random restaurant (Problem)
Plus Google will illegally seize your domain if they don't like you.
Very nice! I think I stumbled on your implementation when researching my post. :)
>newcomers have a disadvantage against any type of regulation they need to comply to

This is unquestionably true, but it is an awful excuse to not enact any regulations. Honestly, what do people expect is the answer if the free market has already shown to fail to address this problem and we are ruling out regulation because is increases the barrier to entry?
The thing is, what's stopping employees from uploading files to a server? The physical devices are a fraction of a fraction of IP theft. Hence the term "theatre".
> Surely the money has to dry up sometime?

Yup, this fall. By the close of 2018 all the world's central banks will be in quantitative tightening after having spent the past 10 years perpetuating an unprecedented level of quantitative easing.
> Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones

Is Google really saying that or just the more breathless commenters? I thought they were pretty good at making it clear that Duplex took a lot of work to do well in very constrained conversational situations.
The number of people who became billionaires through venture capital– as opposed to becoming a VC after you were already independently wealthy through family or another business– is also quite small.
Their goal turned out not to be to distinguish themselves.
I dont know about that. Then they should have at least been able to correctly identify the wines served at optimal temperature (the red ones), but I can't say they did.

I didn't serve any spritzig white wines though. Then it would have been very obvious.
Alex's BECI model claims Bitcoin currently consumes 7.6 GW. Whereas this paper is more reasonable and states the future consumption might grow to 7.6 GW by the end of 2018. These are 2 very different statemetns. What I call "fundamentally flawed" is the BECI claim, not this paper.
Definitely. This GIT example reminds me of what some people are doing with the Web Crypto API (see PKIjs). Things I would never have considered a little as a few years ago.
Yup. I know things are too good to last, but (for the time being) I am happy to be on the 'winning' side of bad investments.

I'm curious what is attracting investors to these start ups in the first place, is it really just the idea that 'this could be the next amazon'? As the article pointed out - Amazon dumped a ton of its money back into the company to expand services. Most of these burn rate services are happy with just getting people signed up and then stagnating.
Nobody wants to navigate 90° intersections at 40mph, let alone 150mph...
The previous poster wrote about a duty to "optimize for maximum benefit for the shareholders ". What does this even mean? Dividends? Stock price? Longevity of company? It's way too vague to be meaningful.
$10 on $100 is far more than their fee. If you signed up, bought on Coinbase and sold on GDAX at the same price you'd make $8.51. Small but indeed free money if you know what you're doing.
Thanks!

And by the way, using python for training is a must right now(though JS is going to become an alternate for this in a few months, as tensorflow.js is being ported to node with bindings to actual tensorflow's C++ layer). Using tensorflow.js, I'd have been able to use saved models in the browser.
Often very true though.
Along the lines of "step 1", don't try to gamble/invest/go-all-in on stacks of chips, stocks, or start-ups. That will amplify and prolong your misery, as you fall behind more on your mental ledger.

I've done it before and lost 10 years of time (well, assuming I'd have used the time better). And, only in the last year did I get a second chance by basically making everything back.

And now, I'm left with the same question: what do I do now?

In retrospect the cause was definitely the rest of life being unbalanced and unfulfilled. The job is only part of it in that it takes up time and doesn't fit your desired persona.*

Unfortunately I don't have the answer except, as above, try to improve your life step by step. If it means changing careers, great. Just know that it's not a cure all and you should take the long view rather than expecting instant relief.

* Maybe crude but at the base level I think we're unhappy in our 20's when we don't feel successful enough to bang women on the regular. Then everything else gets lumped in.

For me now past my 20's, and as a parent, it's still bothersome but maybe not with the same urgency. I'm now thinking what I can do that's meaningful or interesting and has a better quality of life.
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I named my dog Siri and whenever I say "Hey Siri" my dog looks at my phone with frustration.
Mountable formats have the security issue that the kernel is not that great at protecting against hostile images in mount. On disk format fuzzing has not been common and there are definitely bugs.
You could do both. Register it out ten years and each your register an additional one.
it can work though - sometimes the evangelist role is under marketing (with lots of cross-pollination); customer success is usually under marketing. Think more post-sale support (keeping customers happy and increasing engagement) vs. sales. I wish more companies focused on marketing to existing, paying customers instead of just new wins. It's (a) easier and (b) has real, long term value over short-term metrics.
What, like this? https://blog.jscrambler.com/building-a-web-browser-using-ele...
'They are already sharing the revenue in the form of higher salaries for their employees which are making land lords in other cities rich. It is the kind of money transfer you are talking about.'

>> Agreed that is to a certain extent what is current going on, but what makes more sense to me is instead of the money transfer going to only the city with the shiny new office building and the landlords in neighboring cities, it should go to the neighboring cities that are actually hosting the new employees who are actually building affordable housing and more school capacity.
> The king of money-losers, of course, is Amazon, which went years without turning a profit. Instead, it plowed billions of dollars back into its business

The key difference with Amazon is that Amazon could choose to be profitable at any time- just raise prices ever so slightly, reducing growth in customer demand, and the stop building out its enormous logistics empire and new businesses. Amazon could have had profits for a very long time, but Bezos understands that re-investing money in the company grows the value quickly. Plus, you only pay taxes on profits.

MoviePass can't really do that. They don't have potential profits that they can just stop re-investing. They aren't spending money on investments- they just don't have income high enough to cover the costs of their product. And lots of other start-ups have the same problem right now.
Blue Apron going belly up won't even create ripples. They are not in the same league as the other 2 companies you mentioned. Just saying..
Don't, you need to multiply the raw conductivity by the linear distance occupied by the thermal paste? I presume that distance will be at least two orders of magnitude larger than that occupied by air in a metal contact only setup.

I would be extremely surprised if increased pressure due to air at higher temperature played any role whatsoever unless the bolts connecting the heatsink and cpu were very loose. If anything, I'd expect the increased conductivity of air at higher temperatures to dominate.

I'd also expect there to be effects at the metal-paste and paste-metal interfaces which reduce the effective system conductivity (i.e. phonons are much more likely to reflect in this scenario than in a metal-metal interface).
The West was also not very interested in the rest of the world except to conquer, prior to the development of the modern worldview between Bacon and Newton. This was a singular event that marks the sudden rise of the West in power and knowledge.
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I’ve accumulated these over the course of 7 years. Some exported from IE, firefox, Chrome, del.icio.us some saved as .lnk files, some as text files. You get the idea. I realized a lot of them are dead (sadly). What do folks use to keep your bookmarks relevant ?
I think I behave in an eccentric manner because I was raised by two liberal parents and am an only child. Although I always made friends just fine. I'm bright, but no genius. At least not yet. I often feel somehow that the eccentric behavior and intelligence are the result of a latent property, like some kind of general freedom of mind. Also I have (will inherit) some assets that generate money on their own. So I guess I can "get away" with it.
Since I said that government brings "innumerable benefits to humanity", and you've characterized that as "nothing more than a villain", I think we're done with this thread.
> Who pays your waiter?

The company in which they represent does. And tips are a way to shove the responsibility to directly pay them on me.

> Do you think your waiter is secretly conspiring to push you to order the most expensive entree?

Secretly? It's no secret that you're 'supposed' to tip on percentage of the bill. So the bigger the bill, the more presumed tip. And the IRS makes this assumption as well (even if it is false).

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/ma...

http://www.buzztime.com/business/blog/upselling-tips-z-26-ph...

> If you're going to call a sommelier a used car salesman, why stop there with the hyperbole?

Its not hyperbole. They both know the product. They both know how to discuss and address it. They both are compensated upon price. And both are not returnable after sale (or opening).
Its really not that hard to create flat surfaces- anyone with a lathe, a hard cutting instrument, and a bit of fine grinding material can probably get a contact bond between two pieces of metal.
Couldn't find those stock images anywhere else. Some names are unique enough to be mistaken for someone legit.

The site was announced today. The whitepaper was created on 2018-04-11 and the site was registered on 2018-03-08. So they probably spend a few months and 10k's $ on this scam project.

This project only works "PR"-wise, because it is posted on social media. No unsuspecting investor is going to happen upon on this site and change his/her behavior and be "educated". That's a deluded pipe dream by out-of-touch no-coin government employees.

This is 1990's Microsoft level of lame.
I'm not disregarding the cost of compliance. In fact it's implicit in my argument. Some business models would no longer make sense. Others would look more attractive. It would increase the cost of, or completely do away with, doing things certain ways which naturally opens the door to doing things differently. Yes, there likely would be fewer services initially.

"Insurance to defray the costs of potential litigation and fines, development time, ongoing compliance...GDPR is a startup killer"

That doesn't have to be the case. The law could easily carve-out a "safe harbor" of sorts for companies that commit to not gathering or storing any but the most basic information about their visitors.

"... there will be far fewer of them and they'll have more power..."

Or existing companies could loose a lot of power and leverage because their business-model doesn't makes sense. New ones could pop-up in their place.

I'm more than willing to give up tyrants like Facebook and Equifax for the right to control my own private data.

Privacy is good, long live disruption!
...hey everyone, I made a C/C++ developer blood pressure checker in Rust.
And distances (on land and maybe sea too) were long ago measured in interesting units like maybe an arrow shot (distance an arrow can travel) and such like (from my memory of reading legends as a kid, both Indian and probably Western or other ones) :)

E.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojana
I really have to second this. I am an avid source reader and when the project is in JS, dart, php, python and to some extent go it's really easy to quickly grok what is happening. C++, Java, Rust - not so much. Some of it has to with the syntax itself but often it has to do with how much indirection and decomposition is standard practice in the language. If I have to jump around to 5 files to see what a single function is doing, it's hard to grasp the bigger picture.
Pets.com is probably the wrong example from the 90s. Webvan.com is a bit better: hundreds of millions spent on actual warehouses, trucks and more.

Pets.com clearly overspent on advertising, but I don't think they risked too many assets on the line. So when Pets.com eventually died, it wasn't a big deal. Its funny, because they had superbowl commercials and huge outreach. But nothing like like Webvan's huge warehouses or fleets of trucks.
They pay NIC on their employees, but not their driver partners. The driver partners like all contractors in the UK are responsible for paying their own NI. I don't see why the contracting company is responsible for enforcing tax law for its partners?

Self-employed people in the UK pay class 2 and class 4 NIC. Those that are class 2 pay £2.95/wk on earnings of £6,205+ per year. Those that are class 4 pay 9% on annual profits of from £8,424 to £46,350 per year. They pay 2% on profits over £46,350.
Senate votes 52-47 to reinstate net neutrality
I don't think anyone wants to solve the hard problems of mass transit, I think people are looking for cheap workarounds. Everyone wants to start the next Uber, and this is a major unsolved problem. However, the history of failed private transportation ideas is really interesting, and really detrimental to the stuff that actually works: walkable areas, biking, trains, buses, etc.

Hell, there's a suburb outside of Miami that just vetoed a rail project because "self driving cars are right around the corner!" which sure sounds like the flying car predictions of the 50s-70s.
Google's a bit more trusting of its employees. There's an expectation that you won't use non-Google services to store or transmit anything work-related, however. No code on laptops, no documents kept outside of G Suite, etc.
I think SoftBank now owns them from memory. I'll have to investigate how the Japanese stock exchange works!
Pets.com only had 320 employees when its IPO flopped.
> I'm not current on Node features, but that looks dangerous to do. Is that equivalent to reading the file and `eval()`ing it?

No:

> const fs = require('fs')
undefined
> fs.writeFileSync('file.js', 'console.log("yes")'); require('./file')
yes
{}
> fs.writeFileSync('file.json', 'console.log("no")'); require('./file.json')
SyntaxError: file.json: Unexpected token c in JSON at position 0
Right, they need to prevent the innovation from leaking out -_-
Cycling, Photography, Backpacking, Mountaineering, Cooking and Bread Baking.

I'm actually surprised others here bake bread. I assumed it was pretty rare.
If the previous commenter was familiar was familiar with 47 build tools and has discounted a lot of them as extraneous. Is he advocating building an npm module with make? What about a jar? Nuget package? Cargo module?

Its seems more likely that they’re frustrated about the sheer amount to learn and they probably know make quite well.

But there are real advantages to these tools. There’s a lot of vanity libraries out there but not many vanity build tools.
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I wonder how much of that is HN, and how much of that is DevOps "fashion" meaning fewer people configure their own server stack in the startup world now. Presumably the abundance of free AWS/GCE/Azure credit means people don't need to read about configuring their own load balancing proxy or SSL certificate as often now. For lots of services SSL is a button click. It seems possible that HN readers have greater access to free AWS stuff than Reddit readers.
But what about all of the legitimate scams that get caught up in the crossfire. >:(
Agreed, and Gemini is not well known enough... it's basically no fees for most users moving between USD and BTC, and it's legit, based in NYC and follows all of the NY state regulations on crypto.
Clickbai title.
You're not the only one with this problem.
I worked with typescript for a project, but the compiler don't help a lot compared to the elm compiler.
If I am not willing to spend time on karma earning posts and comments, can I please have at least 10 karma delivered to my account weekly to compensate for the inflation?
That's interesting, but where does it specify which python version is used and the version of all the dependencies?

If the versions are specified in the 'python-botocore' type definitions, how do you install more than one version of a library?

Does guix only track the latest version of dependencies or can you request any version of something?
Yes, why should a shizophreniac who wildly connects everyday experiences to form strange conspiracy theories would have a natural advantage when it comes to wildly recombining seemingly unconnected ideas, to leap over boundaries every 100 recombination?

Of course, if there is a birth advantage there- all the meritocratic idealism and work wont get you or your kids there.

So its very very anti-equalizism. Its okay, though, if that "benefit" messes up someone elses life and strands him/her living in a box. That is just how the world is supossed to work. Sick people must suffer, if they do not fit into the world tailored for average people by average people. No sense in protesting gods wanted order. Move along.
Can you provide data to back that specific claim around timing?
Your original statement was that ISPs should not get to ban. I noted that ISPs might not get to ban, but governments do get to ban. You are now asking me if governments should get to ban. I believe I already said that they do get to ban.

If your point is that you believe specifically cities should not be able to ban, then maybe that should be the case. I'd like to hear your argument, though.
But cash still exists as a potential threat right?

> bitcoin markets is a pretty significant negative externality

You know for a fact the benefits of bitcoin outweigh the positives? Could you share some of this data perhaps?
Just because you've gotten the the point of checking references doesn't mean the candidate is definitely going to accept your offer.

If you called my manager and got me fired from my job in an interview process, I'd most likely hire a lawyer and sue you.
I misread the author as Kevin Rose, which would have been fitting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rose#Startups
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Plus Amazon is Amazon. They've essentially been saying to investors for years "sure, we could make more money for YOU, or give YOU dividends, but WE can do better with your money than YOU could." It's worked, of course, enabling them to grow into the gargantuan enterprise they are today. A smaller company without that proven track record wouldn't get such a license from investors for long.
Maybe it's a disease like bipolar disorder. I say that because of "5 years".