skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long-time Pythonista who's been using Ruby for work for a year now, I've really grown to appreciate anonymous multiline blocks, and wish they were a Python feature.

I am not a fan of all the syntactic variants in Ruby, and think they add some unnecessary complexity but on balance I think this is something that Ruby does better.
But money is the quickest way to get those things.
Interesting how they're pushing the high refresh rate. Is this a standard move of gaming oriented laptops?
It’s been about 25 years so far, with no real downwards correction. Definitely a major bubble, but ive given up trying to guess when it will burst.
Everyone acts like it will go on forever, but that would mean >$50mil median homes in another 20 years which is surely impossible (but what do I know)
If I am doing my math right, and Tesla is burning 8-900M / quarter, I am not so sure they would need new cash. Even if they are only selling only 2500 / week (and I believe they hit 3500 now didn't they?) that is $125M / week at $50k each average. And I think it is currently higher that each. And once they hit 5000 / week that is $250M. Over the course of a quarter that would be $3.2B. Which would more than cover that loss of $8-900M.

Not saying they definitely won't, but it seems plausible to not need more cash.
> Seems like the mods just revealed that they can watch people type in real time :)

I'd say it's more likely that they are watching new accounts that come from the same IP address as old accounts that they already throttled. They could do that automatically.

If you feel that this was unjustly done, you can shoot deng an email.
Amazon has always been a pro-law enforcement company. Remember how they shut down Wikileak's site with a single call from Joe Lieberman? (not even an official law enforcement request)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-webs...
I like Tesla and I want it to succeed, but I don't see how it can possibly be justifiable for Tesla to have a market cap anywhere near that of Ford and GM. They manufacture and sell several million cars a year and could easily start cranking out electric cars if the consumer demand is there. I'm sure they'll be grateful to Elon for creating consumer demand for electric cars, but they, not Tesla, will be the ones who sell millions of them.
I wonder how much more outraged people would be if you swapped Amazon for Facebook which has names and much more information to tie back to a bunch of faces.
In my experience/observation phone addiction and similar has several causes in addition to the obvious positive feedback loop. I know that in college looping music was used to cover up depression lack of motivation. Not healthy but it took me longer to recognize what it was.

Anyway avoidance of stressors is one which ironically is potentially situationally healthy but not always. I don't know the age of you nephew other than younger than you - using it rather than melting down about say an uncomfortable medical procedure is actually the healthier alternative. Obviously unhelpful in procrastination contexts of course unless tightly self controlled like a literal five minute break between an hour or so of studying. Or ADD/ADHD style attention regulatory failure loops. Borderline cases (no pun intended) might be depression if it proves helpful. Seeing a mental health professional for help is of course the right thing to do period.

Phones like many things are tools. It is helpful to look at the why of how they are used.
My initial hunch is yes, and perhaps we can look for evidence of such in caves, deep ocean, and single-cellular life.
For the record, I am with you on this. For all these reasons, I hope Tesla pulls through (and also practically, that if I'm going to buy one of their cars next spring, I'd like for them to be alive for the life of that car).

But sadly that doesn't change the reality of their financial situation. I hope investors are able to see the potential and give them more runway to get through this very difficult time.

Elon's weird performance at the investor call didn't help.
TLDR: "tax-subsidized contributions are being set aside indefinitely -- subject to no obligation for them ever to be put to active charitable use"
Ah, so it makes sense as long as we assume the words being used don't mean what they actually mean. Ok.

/s
Low-fat is the actual name used for the type of milk used in this particular cap, it’s not an advertising trick or anything.
You're completely missing the point: challenge the ideas, not the person.
I was CEO at 21 bootstraped with full time employees and profitable.

I think the only thing I have learned is to be more confident in the choices I make, and don’t 2nd guess so much. There is no secret to success, no miraculous connection, and no magical idea. Try to understand the world the best you can, and bring as much value as you can. And that can apply to everything.
Gotcha, thanks for the info
Maybe that's exactly what they need, a different "leader", maybe someone with a bit more experience in the manufacturing space...
"So if you feel lonely, unless you're in solitary, please at least TELL SOMEONE how you feel... if nothing else. Tell me, I'll listen."

It's really not that easy. You can feel lonely in the company of supportive people or you can feel not lonely while in solitary.
Don’t expect much from Bitcoin next month
> Theranos's test erroneously diagnosed a Safeway senior executive with prostate cancer

Jesus! That's horrible!
I understand. In fact, classifying individual social insects as organs doesn't sit well with me also, it feels more like philosophy than biology. I think it also ignores other possibilities that could explain why sexual reproduction is reserved to a subset of a population, but well, I don't teach evolution.
Roughly speaking, ray tracing shoots rays from the camera frustum, bounces them off geometry, and sees what lights they hit. Path tracing is Monte Carlo integration of the rendering equation. [0]

It is easier to get soft shadows and global-illumantion-like effects with a path tracer. I remember reading articles circa 2013/2014 about Pixar moving to a path-tracer, which significantly reduced the amount of time they had to spend manually tuning lights and hacking in shadow effects, etc.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-ray-traci...
OP gave the example where they felt better because someone got a harsher punishment.
> We have a few ~200 line long queries in one of our applications. With comments one of them is 460 lines.

You can decompose large queries into smaller views/temp tables, and such queries will be much more readable..
I read this again for some reason. I was the "idiot" in this scenario, not the "genius". Please understand my ego is very minimal but I wrote this in such a way the first sentence could be misconstrued if someone stopped there.
If you've ever done any work to break a habit, or talked to someone who has, you'd know that it's not always that easy.
The math is pretty clear: the chances that homosexuality, as a trait in and of itself, is selected for is highly unlikely. A gay person would have to result in their siblings having 2x as many children as they would have themselves, which is possible, but a really steep hill to climb. The explanation that makes much more sense to me is that homosexuality is an occasional side effect of something else which is highly adaptive to non-gay siblings who possess it.
I don't know what evidence you'd want. The claim seems self-evidently true to me.

You were able to find one wiki article on a curious case of a family who, unlike billions of other people, survived as individuals for less than 50 years in partial isolation. That's impressive, but it doesn't change the basic facts of human survival.

Case in point, in the first paragraph of the link you provided about the Lykovs, the article says only one daughter yet survives (as of 1988, so they are probably all gone now).

Minimum viable populations are partially about day to day survival and team work, but in the long term it's about genetic diversity which is critical for long-term population survival. Evidence: all of biology?
I looked this up as well! Hah!
Those million dollar violins where 'mass produced' in that they had similar production methods as modern five figure instruments. Basically the market for 10,000$ instruments is not enough to pay for full automation and they would be worth less with automation, so it's still mostly hand crafted. Outside of a few odd pieces like unique 3d printed designs.

However, automation generally results in higher quality items with fewer defects. So, hand crafted is more likely a selling point without any actual benefit for the product.
I have a popular Apache Spark blog on Medium (https://medium.com/@mrpowers).

Spark is a niche technology and there isn't a lot of competition. I rank #1 on Google searches for common searches like "spark null", "testing spark", and "spark udf". I haven't done any SEO - I just write what I need to teach my coworkers and Google has picked up my articles.

I'd look for a rapidly growing technology that's relatively new. That'll give you good opportunities to write blogs that rank #1 on Google without doing any SEO.

I am writing all my new posts on a new domain (https://www.mungingdata.com/) and it's harder to get traffic. So Medium might be a good place for you to start.
If you really believe in Tesla to bet big on them you do not need 100k. You can buy 4 $275.00 call contracts for approx 26k that expire in 2020. This would be equivalent to ~$110k worth of tesla stock. And if you are really a believer you can just pick up a bunch of way out of the money contracts making the initial cash requirements even lower.

But this is exactly why TSLA is worth so much right now as so many people think the same way as you. They all want to bet big on Tesla and Elon. It is the most interesting stock to watch as it hemorrhages money and just keeps going up and up.
interesting data point on its performance but the reason decision makers might be cloud happy is amazon has the resources to scale this to thousands of RPS and develop the backend codebase up to hundreds of engineer contributions for many years, even as key talent comes and goes. The same might not be true of your prototype especially if the core competency of your business is sales or legal compliance not distributed computing platforms.
The person above literally said "work for free". Those were the exact words said.

And I don't know about you, but I can't buy food or pay rent with "time from a good mentor."
They already wrongly ticket people at stop lights, it's a racket. They could just mail you a ticket for very small petty "crimes," like not throwing something in the right bin, jay walking, etc. Do people really think police will only use this to solve crime? Solving crimes doesn't pay the bills. Ticketing people does. Then they could also use the facial recognition to get everyone that's at a protest of the government (they already do this somewhat with cell phone signals) then they know who to put on a watch list...even if it's a legitimate protest.

I'm a bit perturbed that people on this board aren't more concerned about the many bad ways that this can be used for, especially since police oversight is notoriously bad, in virtually every country, including the west.
That's probably kqueue, not FSEvents.
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There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
> Do you have evidence for this that's not a reality TV show?

Yes. Let's start with the fact that there are no recorded instances of an isolated human couple successfully reproducing in the wild ever. Merely having a baby doesn't count. To be a viable evolutionary strategy you have to raise that baby to maturity and then that baby has to reproduce themselves.

In fact, this is not unique to humans. It's true of all simians. In fact, it's true for the vast majority of mammals. The only exceptions I can think of are some species of cats: leopards, cheetahs, tigers, mountain lions.

We can also reason from first principles: you need a minimum viable population in order to maintain genetic diversity. So even if it were possible for isolated human couples to reproduce, you'd need more than one instance of this, and these families would somehow have to find each other in order to procure mates. How are they going to do that?
The top 3 banks all have this functionality in their main mobile app.
Just curious what intrigues you about this framework in ways that React does not?
How long until there's a pay service where private citizens can access the toolkit also?

(Follow-up question: how long until the toolkit is just an open-source library that you can run on a Raspberry Pi? ;) ).
TLDR

"...this doesn’t provide the sort of certainty I know founders want in answering the question of when to raise. However, I think that knowing that there is no clean answer is important because it provides a framework for thinking through the relative advantages you have when thinking about a raise."
Yes, obviously.
But I am honestly baffled here. I mean, when did anyone really seriously argue otherwise? Isn't that already universal knowledge what you are describing here?

(Well, depends a bit on the definitions, I'd still say that ants are organisms, but so is the ant colony, and yes, you always have to see the bigger picture)

I don't get what the NYT is trying to achieve with their "reporting" here.

(BTW, the title here on HN has been changed, for anyone coming a bit later to these comment threads)
Zuckerberg apologises to European Parliament for 'harm'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17127687
They are NOT selling a service that identifies people from data sets other than the police's supplied data sets. It is not inappropriate for police to be able to determine who they are interacting with if that person is a known criminal.

The cat is out of the bag and is already something the police could do themselves. The real fear is when they are able to source commercially available information from linked in, facebook, etc to identify everyone's whereabouts.

Pushing back this early will not have mass appeal and will not help to prevent the future, broader concerns IMHO.
How many times do we have to learn this lesson?
"Who's watching the government?"

"Voters" is generally considered the correct answer in democracies and republics, I believe.
Same here. After what honestly seemed like a mob-style shakedown for licensing fees last year (they honestly used the threat of litigation to force us to buy their cloud offerings), my employer is in the process of migrating 20+ years of Oracle-backed apps to the .NET ecosystem.
Trend Micro launches Zero Browser for iOS – a web browser that protects privac
I agree. It's not their fault. What interests me is this: If the eccentricity of planetary orbits is so small, I wonder if we can still uphold the circularity of orbits, but place the sun slightly off center? Will this geometry save the observations?
A company of any decent size engages in political speech constantly, much of which many of their employees might disagree with. Why is it ok for the company to do so, but not the employees banded together?
> By your definition I'd argue that everything is political.

There's certainly an argument that can be made that virtually everything connects to government or public affairs in some way, but this is literally and directly discussing the actions of government directed at people who are, overtly, trying to provide information about the actions of government to the public so that the public can effectively supervise the actions of government. The connection to government is not distant, indirect, or of dubious centrality to the issue.

> HN was initially very friendly to discussion of Wikileaks when it was revealing the misdeeds of the Bush administration and foreign governments.

Initially, WikiLeaks was itself an example of a novel phenomenon, which is right there in black and white in the guidelines as an exception to the general rule that most political, crime, and sports stories are off topic.

HN is not, and does not want to be, a general-focus news channel. There are plenty of those, most people in HN have their preferences for those, but HN is something else, by design.
I sought only to say how the upside could be something other than lift increase (in the absence of any white papers from Boeing or the like) and provided some loosely framed concepts that support that possibility.

I would address the GPs nit-picky points, but the tone is so snarky it's not worth my effort. I may not be a fluid dynamicist, but neither am I a pedantic putz. (subtext: chill out, dude.)
I don't think that's true. Jupiter is just as likely to sling objects that were going to miss earth directly towards earth as it is to sling a directed to earth object away. For objects that end up landing on Jupiter, if you think that has a significant impact on Earth, you're underestimating how huge and empty the solar system is.
Oof, having been responsible for maintaining the building and upgrading of a bunch of open source software for a client years ago, this comment twisted my guts up something fierce.
Read the headline and immediately thought there was a company named "When" raising a series A.
It depends how reused those subcomponents are, sometimes separating portions of the logic into views can obscure what's going on and end up increasing the LoC you need to parse to grok where a bug may be.

It's a trade off.
Many things that are interested in the filesystem would use kqueue instead of FSEvents, as kqueue can give fine-grained event notices as opposed to FSEvents's course-grained "something changed in this folder".
> “When we learned our platform was abused and interfered with, that was super shocking to all of us,” said Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan in a recent interview with Recode. “[I was] shocked that we were abused. Angry that our platform was abused, manipulated.”

Really? I am genuinely confused about how this would come as a surprise.
Scale factors in biological systems are collosal. It amuses me when I hear e.g. Alan Kay talk about objects as biological cells. (Conceptually, sure.)
"The public unions in Janus, for example, which are given special status and powers by state law, are nothing more than adjuncts of the Democratic party."

This is absolutely not true in the least. Unions tend to support candidates that will help and support them, just like anyone else who backs any other candidate.
It does suggest, however, that a slippery-slope argument of "More surveillance plunges us immediately into a 1984-esque dystopia" has a big [citation needed] banner hovering over it though.
> i'm just wondering what one can do with this type of machine better than an intel.

The BIG advantage to Power9 is the massive L3 cache. Utterly, utterly huge. The 18-core Power9 chip has 90MB of L3 for example. With 8x RAM channels at only $1300. With 4xSMT, that's 72-threads.

Compare to Intel's Xeon Gold 6150 $3000 chip, which only has 24.75 MB of RAM and only 6x RAM channels. Intel only supports 2xSMT for 36-threads.
Be careful about that Brooks guy, he might qualify for the White House, the way things are going these days.
Not to mention the people who 'have' to check while say operating machinery. Also, tallied up the time spent checking / browsing the phone or devices which could be used either for rest or learning a new skill, or even just being bored as you suggest.
It's really about moats. What is the major moat you have around a battery production business? If batteries produced from Tesla versus any other competitor are almost indistinguishable, what is unique about Tesla that those market forces wouldn't suck out all of its profit?

In oil, even though it is a "commodity", in that one barrel of crude oil is mostly indistinguishable from another, oil companies can have huge competitive moats by having integrated refining, the ability to distribute, or the fact they can have large monopolies on the resources of very specific areas. Batteries don't have quite the same sort of easy complementary businesses.
> that's not really powerful at all.

I'd be more inclined to agree if it wasn't working so well for him.
I'm not making any assumptions about anything, and I'm not attacking any company. I'm addressing the point that jamra made above, which is a general commenting stating that publishing a list of addresses is harmless because addresses are public data.
Only if you consider privacy as a means to an end rather than a goal by itself. Facial recognition has a negative effect on literally everyone's privacy.
Whenever I talk to people about downsides of A/B testing, I always try to talk to them about this slide:

< https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/gilt_bayesian_ab_2... >

This one visual sums up the most ubiquitous naive use of A/B testing, which I've seen practiced everywhere I've worked.

The whole slide deck is very worthwhile.
imo these apps are completely unnecessary. all i needed to do was leave my phone on do-not-disturb mode at all times. this way, i don't have notifications and vibrations constantly nagging me, and i only check my phone during natural breaks in my activities

give it a try
> Edit: My account was throttled just now so hitting submit on this post was blocked. Be careful criticizing anything about the mods :)

New account, go deep into threads, experience throttling. No mods required.

> HN mods prefer a world in which such people simply report to work for some silicon valley firm and do not take responsibility as citizens for their beliefs.

This is very uncharitable and does not match what I see here everyday. The mods try ridiculously hard to keep discussions civil and productive. If they have a bias, it is against topics that almost unfailingly produce more heat than light.

> HN moderation is anti-citizenship and anti-rationality.

No, they've just pissed you off as they've pissed of others people who want to go at it.
The US's last third party president was George Washington.
then why work on it when it's bound for abuse either way?
Yes, we updated the submission headline to representative text from the article.
Woman Collapses Outside Grenfell Inquiry Seeing Footage of Burning Building
"Charities" that exist only to give tax breaks to their rich donors.
I find your points interesting and worth discussing. But we can't have this discussion on HN b/c my account was throttled (punished) for my other comments in the thread. If this account stays un-throttled I will post a reply later today.
Simple fix, always keep your Wordpress up to date, I don't know why people in the CMS world have fallen into the trap of not upgrading. Drupal for example is notoriously hard to upgrade on point releases, Magento isn't much easier. Wordpress is fairly seamless, couple that with Cloudflare and your site is pretty secure from attack.

I also don't see how you can be "locked into" Wordpress either, it's actually one of the easiest CMSs to migrate into and out of. It gets flack for being widely used and running on PHP (so does Magento,) but it's widely used for a reason.
I think you're missing the point, but maybe I'm missing yours.

Perhaps I could use some mentorship from you. =)
The problem really isn't what they do with their money (it is their money), but when they get a charitable tax break without doing any charity, it does get somewhat annoying.
Here's an interesting case driven by surgical removal of part of the brain.
http://www.businessinsider.com/radiolab-story-on-klverbucy-s...
Damn right, unless one lacks strength.

I'm getting older. Can do it. Just don't want to. May not be able one day. There is that too.