skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not nearly instant. The transaction is registered as pending in your checking account nearly instantly, however, it settles later in the day when the merchant closes out their daily transactions. The actual transfer of funds takes 24-72 hours from your account to the merchant.

And no, paper cash is not very scalable at all.
Yeah, thinking about it I'd guess that the exhaust-gas system didn't take off because of noise. Exhaust brakes are noisy and all the applications that made sense were suburban or inner city. Hydraulic would be much quieter.
>Firefox seem render[s] it flawlessly

It doesn't. Almost all highlights are missing. Compare side by side with Chrome's.
When they did the plastic bag ban for grocery stores in California, I immediately went out and bought a case of those thin ones to stick in my car.

They're far stronger and more reliable (even with the overall poorer quality control, which I believe causes the occasional breaks you refer too, easily remedied by conservatively under-filling) than even the best paper bags they're replacing. The handles on those paper bags require such delicate, special handling, and if there's any wetness, well, I'd better have a cart, because I'm not making it to my car no matter how closer I parked.

The case of 1000 takes up very little space in the trunk, lasts me essentially forever, costs way less than the mandatory 10 cents per bag the stores are now required to charge, and, more importantly, is far more sanitary than reusable bags.

It is enough of a challenge to shop for fresh, relatively healthy food and having it last a worthwhile length of time, without worrying about cross-contamination from the last shopping trip.
Corrections Department holds hundreds of inmates past release dates
It is basically impossible to get enough information on a company in order to know and understand it prior to working there. Most company web sites provide zero information on org charts, work processes, communication flows, etc. It is very unusual for a company to provide any information during on-site interviews of how the company actually works. And any information that is given usually conflicts with other information provided later by another employee :)
I don't understand what Twitter is doing, I think they arguably have one of the most valuable social tools on the planet in terms of real time information and news, more than Facebook, more than Google...but they don't seem to understand what they have, how useful it can be in rich API forms, etc. It's baffling. They are hostile to their developers and to their userbase all in some weird chase to be Facebook. The one and only good move Twitter has made recently is teaming up with Bloomberg...but even that has been a botched a bit.

IMO Jack has to go, he seems to understand Square, but he seems very very out of touch with Twitter.
"The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is dedicated to strengthening marriage and family life"

This is just a lobbying group trying to ride the news cycle.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, though it's a bit more dry IMO.
Scuttlebutt is as anonymous as you make it. That being said, people tend to not tolerate insensitive name calling much, and will likely block your feed from being replicated by their client, if they find your contributions annoying. But that's sort of the point of taking back distribution, you get to pay attention to what you find worthwhile.
> The aether theory...

Good example. But physics has a way to bring back old theories under new names, thus “New ether theories”:

http://vixra.org/pdf/1708.0318v1.pdf

It can also be said that Einstein substituted “space-time” for “ether”. But you are right my blanket statement turns out to be too general.

> Special Relativity is clearly right enough that particle accelerators work...

Unfortunately, I don’t agree that SP is a useful theory. Physicists include branded labels in their equations to save their theories and then when it comes to do actual calculations they eliminate those labels and use numerical methods. And then they say their theories work. This is my own view and I concede that I no longer have the energy to talk about such contentious physics issues.

I don't like to argue on "theories" level because in physics all theories including Special Relativity are merely names given to a huge collection of statements. This collection will include contradictory statements as well. So if you argue with a physicist about Special Relativity he will simply pick and choose suitable arguments from the available legal arguments and prove his points. Some other physicist may choose other legal arguments and prove just the opposite point. Both arguments would be legal in physics.

So when you say "Special Relativity is clearly right enough that particle accelerators work and atom bombs explode..." for me this is problematic because no term called "special relativity" enters any calculations in particle physics. They may use philosophical concepts associated with the theory and then eliminate those philosophical terms. But if we try to enter into specifics here we'll be lost in detail.

I wish Stephen Crothers good luck and I hope he will succeed. This will be good for physics. But as an outsider his chances to succeed is minimal. If he were a prominent physicists lots of people here would have read and discussed this paper. But now it is dismissed because he bolded some sentences.
I think they are all in Jurong
> Could you get good-enough performance with something simpler and more portable?

Hmmm. Did you read the article? Any of the C versions are relatively simple and portable. They basically work the same as the assembly ones and give great performance... I'm not sure what you're trying to get at.

> The optimized assembly is much more complicated and specialized.

Well, it's my article, I wanted to see if I could beat a PGO C compiler with all its optimizations turned on :-)

> Porting platforms/architectures is very difficult and you loose out on the compiler's abilities to make assumptions and optimize your code.

I know the trade-offs that come with assembly. But if you're okay with them, you can get the best possible performance out of the underlying hardware. That was the goal of this article.

> String length is a very poor probabilistic filter as you're specifically looking substrings.

I don't understand this comment. String length is a great filter because if any strings in the table are longer than the input search string, then there's no way we can have a prefix match.

> Also if you already have a hash of your input string's prefix, and the hash of all of your known strings, in the case where you actually need to check against your "known" strings becomes a fast search of a set of numbers making the fail-through case of your code negligible. If you impose a limit of strings in your "known" pool the compiler can have a field day.

I don't know where this fascination with hashes comes from... have you looked at the implementation? Even when it has to do a string match, the timings now are around 13-14 cycles. The nature of the data structure means you're really only ever doing max 2 comparisons... 3 if someone is sending you worst case data (and even so, with 3, you're only clocking ~20 cycles).

Hashing and prefix matching just don't play well nicely together.
Viral video captures border patrol conducting checks on Amtrak train in Syracuse
Not at all. I'm against taxes that cost me more money on the homeless problem while disproportionally effect me more than others. Spending more money locally on the homeless giving them handouts is only going to attract more worsening the problem.

My girlfriend was recently assaulted downtown by a homeless person which is why we liked kirkland when we checked it out because there seemed to be less of them in kirkland.

I think the homeless problem should be tackled on a federal level since it is easy for them to move states but not countries. Thus, any non-federal government that spends tax revenue to help the homeless will likely just attract more homeless people from other areas worsening the local populations lives through the negative externalities and the costs which only reduce other local areas homeless externalities/expenses.

Seattle seems to be growing strong with this methodology which is why I am against taxes like this that incentivize the homeless to move here.
Today 3mph, next year it will be running at 30mph+.
Well there's rack railways[1] which are pretty close. I've been on one in India[2] and it was amazing, although a bit scary when (halfway up) one of our fellow passengers told us that one of the trains on that route had derailed and fallen into a ravine a few months prior, killing everyone on board...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_Mountain_Railway
How to make this easy? wz_jsgraphics.js FTW. RIP, WZ.

http://www.walterzorn.de/en/
http://www.bjarne.altervista.org/walterzorn.html
> While a lot of it, including the very name, revolves around sex, I think it is important to consider the lack of emotional intimacy such relationships provide and if there is any correlation between lack of any romantic partner ships and lack of close friendships. Completely lacking both would indicate a very isolated individual, which isn't good for mental health.

From what I know of the incel 'community', it really is less about 'just' sex, and pretty much always about intimacy in a broader sense. Furthermore, while I don't know if this applies to most 'incels', it often does seem to be much broader kind of loneliness than just a lack of intimacy with the other sex.

I suppose that shouldn't really be surprising, as I know plenty of 'involuntarily celibate men' who are otherwise relatively happy with all sorts of friendships and communities, and have no need/desire to join a community centered around that celibacy.
Great! We're all old here it seems (I'm 42), a few of us joined back in the 90s...

It started as a great human experiment, such fun. It became co-opted by commercial enterprise. The two largest gateways into the experience are now Google and Facebook. Really, what did we expect would happen? Probably best to take it back now.
maturation of people

If anything it’s the opposite. The old golden rule used to be “what goes online stays online”. Now people call the police if they are “offended”.
Don’t kid yourself. The future is bleak
Where's all this newfound interest in hash maps coming from? Once you hash something, you lose the prefix information, making it kinda' useless for this activity. Unless you create a hash for every string length variation... but, that seems like a lot of overhead for very little gain.

I also can't see how you'd get that negative match fast path performance if you were reliant on hashes. That owes its speed to the length and unique char filter working in concert.
That's similar to a cubist picasso imho... not bad actually...
Feeds, URLs, uids, LoveSacs and HTML oddities
And yet, weirdly enough, you can find a slew of second- and third-rate animated movies about the very same fairy tales Disney based their movies on...
> You also have things perfectly backwards. These companies are what is driving growth in Seattle, not the other way around. These companies are responsible for more than doubling local government revenue in the past decade. The companies create the growth, not the ‘amenities’ of Seattle city.

Why in the world would companies insist on staying in the bay area when they could pay people half in Ohio? This is HN, and story after story talks about how VCs /demand/ you locate yourself in the bay for the talent pool.

Seattle is in no danger of becoming Detroit, or an entire industry leaving, not when software skills are as in demand as they are right now. Its in no danger of Amazon picking up and leaving. Reminder, we're talking about $20 million dollars here, which is less than the budget for benches outside their brand new buildings.

I honestly think it would be a great thing for companies to go set up somewhere else and not over-inflate the 4-5 "chosen" tech areas. Maybe then housing prices can get reasonable, and some town that desperately needs any jobs can get started again.
That's really cool, thanks. It seems that whenever I come across an annoying text-processing problem, it's always really hard or too generic-sounding to get search engine help with potential bash solutions. However I'd somehow like to improve in that area.
Past, Present, and Future of .NET
Yeah, if you're actually going to deposit your paychecks then clearly you aren't passionate enough about the work.
> The federal government likely cannot make it illegal to place a sports bet

That is my personal interpretation of the constitution. But if you read the supreme court decision, the majority opinion states that they can.
Source: I'm an engineer & recruiter that works with over 100 tech companies in NYC. I also work on a SaaS platform for recruiters.

After A/B testing tons of messages (and analyzing messages from a SaaS platform I built for recruiters to send messages) the messages that work are ones that are short. So I try to keep messages brief, reach out about a specific company that might be a match, and hope to get on the phone with you to actually be able to do my actual job. It's very hard to convert someone over an e-mail message. Getting you to respond to my e-mail is the first part of the funnel.

From there if I can get a conversation with you I can move on to the "fun" part of my job. Giving candidates a broad overview of the market based on their interests, expectation setting, and career counseling.

Edit: To answer your question directly the reason you get bad recruiting messages stems from a mix of bad recruiting practices, bad companies/ low investment in HR departments, and bad engineers. Would be happy to give you a recommendation for a solid recruiter in SF or NYC if you're in those areas.
Vote to impeach Trump and risk death, adviser says
What do we know about John Lasseter now?
I agree. Consistency wins over typing 2 extra characters. It's much easier (for me at least) to scan shell scripts and notice the variables when they are written consistently.. and that means using braces.
> > In spite of all the bitching about California, more people come in than go out.

This is correct.

> The truth is the direct opposite[0]:

No, even your source doesn't support this. You have confused what your source says about domestic migration with total migration. More people are coming in to California than leaving (the state has positive net total migration) even though more people are leaving California for other states than are coming from other states (negative net domestic migration.)
That's more than a bit dismissive and ignores what has been the reality, at least here in the US:

The rules are different in every (small) municipality, often different between all three of home, work, and other commercial locations and can change remarkably frequently.

So, no, it's not something anyone does every day of ones life, at least not in the same way every time, not unless it was, "throw all trash into the one trash can".

Food stained paper? Well, actually, today, in some locality, it is recyclable, because it's "compost".

For the general public to know the details of the particular waste management program du jour of every geographic location they happen to be in is, indeed, too difficult.
You're making a straw-man argument.
You seem to be the correct person to ask what are the do's and dont's regarding lithium battery maintenance and to increase device (say mobile phone) battery capacity?
> but history shows beyond a doubt that we overcome them and it works astoundingly well

Yes, yes, end of history and all that jazz. Yet greed is at all time high. We had a couple attempts at that in 20th century and it didn't went well at all. Hatred and violence are still strong. I'm

A lot of things you listed were done in societies that didn't fully embrace liberty/democracy/universal rights. USSR or commie China or Japan or Singapore. Western civilisation that did fully embrace them built their prosperity without any of those things and now just run on their former glory.

Walking on the moon was possible specifically because of war effort.

> > We're simply not capable ...
> In fact, we certainly are!

Dunbar number. Anything above that needs a super simple approach to keep people together. Greece crises was a fantastic example. Lots of people were against bail out. Meanwhile they were pissed others don't want to help them too. If fellow europeans don't feel strong connection, I doubt they'd truly feel it for culturally much more different people on the other side of the globe.

> The question is, why would anyone want to take away all that success and ruin it?

What success? The success to not be able to keep population at replacement levels? Rampant mental illnesses? All that while democracy support is at 50 years low, liberty is in danger and people are too afraid of violence and war to solve any problem?

Oh and it's been a while since we were on the moon and it doesn't look like it's happening any time soon...
Why ever resort to shell scripts when we have languages like ruby / python for anything more complex than installs?

Clarity is king people
"'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS"

Funnily enough I always find it that the people with passion are the ones that get themselves all worked up and distracted with the BS, the rest just keep on chugging (assuming it's not so bad that they quit).
Bill would force Philly's 'stop-and-go' stores to remove bulletproof glass
> Everyone is competing to find the most attractive/compatible mate

Well, is it attractive or compatible? The two are not actually synonymous and it makes a significant difference. While attractiveness may be fairly universal (although not completely so), compatibility is very individual. This would severely restrict the size of any marketplace so as to make the dynamics very un-market-like.

I mean... perhaps I'm not the best person to ask. My wife and I were both the first person the other had dated, and I was very clear on our first date that I was not having sex with her that night, nor any other night, until we married. There were a few other guys who wanted to date my wife, but since my wife and I were dating, it's not like they could outbid me. That's kind of what it means to be in a committed relationship. After marriage, I've had women hit on me, and the answer is a universal back off, because -- you know -- sex isn't actually a marketplace. All the couples we interact with have similar stories (Although obviously, marrying the first person you date is not typical).
Update: Spent the evening researching software options for the "old school" style forums, and it seems like Xenforo is a solid choice in terms of active development, lots of addons/themes, and not crazy expensive. So I think I'll snag a license and put it on a droplet later this week when my wife is out for the evening :)

Also think I found a good domain for it that I'll snag tonight as well.
Nice idea, but why not have the daily joke on the homepage as well?
And you haven't even touched localization (digit grouping, decimal separators, singular/plural noun forms, currency formats, week/month names with correct capitalization, …) yet.
Inside a Warehouse Where Thousands of Robots Pack Groceries
Ask HN: Can the CRA actually get away with this?
I just got an email from them that contained the following line:

>"The new terms will come into effect on June 25, 2018. If you are still registered on this date, that means you agree to the new terms, and no action is required. After this date, you will begin to receive emails for changes to this account, such as when address or direct deposit information is changed. You will also continue to receive emails when online mail is ready to view."

So apparently... I have already agreed that "whenever they send me an email, i agree to have read it immediately and any dates or timelines mentioned stem from the date sent"... which I find ridiculous... and probably not enforceable in court...

But now they're trying to tell me... that if I do not unregister from their online services before a certain date... that I automatically agree to whatever policy changes they decide to make?

How is this legal?

I am amazed that this is coming from the Canadian Revenue Agency... (The Canadian equivalent to the IRS)...

Shouldn't I at least have time to review the changes at my own leisure whenever I decide to login to their website (which is typically once per year around tax time) and tell them yay or nay if I choose to agree or not?

Also... when I signed up to their online portal originally... they forced me to agree to the notion that "if we get hacked, sucks to be you, we're not responsible" essentially...
2 Chicago cop-legislators changed law to benefit 2 people: themselves
So, out of the box you are only going to have the kind of people on the network that go to hackerspaces, and they will only post the kinds of things that they would like the people that met them at a hackerspace to see?
With continued pressure from SciHub, I'm thinking this might not be a bad bet to make. Elsevier et al. might just be willing to jump on the occasion, in order to save some of their business.

That said, I still think it's time to double-down on supporting SciHub. Both scientists and the interested public like it.
I think https://purescript-users.ml is running on Discourse. It's quite young though.
It's interesting how most "skepticism" is exposed for what it truly is, that being unwarranted assumptions and semantics that prop up weak models of reality and block out better fitting ones.
New McCarthyism: John McCain Accused Me of Russia Collusion
Ask HN: Isnt using private blockchain for securities/voting proxies not ethical?
I'm a consultant but I can't seem to wrap my head around why they want me to look into a private blockchain and had me speak to some organization for cryptocurrencies for help. I hit a brick wall here. Isn't private blockchains supposed to be a NO for companies? Any help is appreciated.
Enabling an AI – Diffused Retail Sector
Dear dulo, please stop spamming the new page. You've been posting new articles close to once every 3 minutes.
Haskell 98 is a very simple language.

Modern GHC Haskell is to Haskell 98 as C++ is to C.
Gov. Susana Martinez wants to grant immunity to New Mexico law enforcement
It's make me sad to read this kind of questions in "Hacker" News.
Do You Work Remotely or Work from Home?
Do you work from home or remotely?

Do you have to screen share and draw or write while you explain?

Do you feel it easy or hard to draw/write with a mouse or a laptop touchpad?

https://youtu.be/GyA5qhpWSo0
https://youtu.be/GyA5qhpWSo0

Please share your experience and how you feel...

Thanks,
Laxman