skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

People forget that Microsoft sold more copies of Xenix (A UNIX operating system) for both PDP-11 and PCs than all the other Unix boxen suppliers of that era. But then marketing decided that they didn't need a real OS, so they sold it SCO and then later bankrolled them into suing Linux suppliers, etc. That was all Steve Ballmer's watch, during which MS shares also lost half their value.
The problem with Google's motto is that it's about intentional harm, whereas your example (being sloppy) is about unintentional harm.
Yeah there are competitors and always will be. Point is does fb use its monopoly in one area to enter into another? Just being monopoly is not illegal.
PhD position on hybrid nanowires for topological quantum computing in Grenoble
I found the part tying the East Asian economic problems and their causes to the GFC absolutely fascinating. Definitely recommend.
serial killers just ignore the fact that murder is illegal, but there aren't too many serial killers.
What worked for me was going to a HSBC branch in Australia and opening a Uk account before I left.
I want to see the output of “top”
Graph theory, all the time.

Our product basically allows users to build a whole bunch of assets (specifically, LOB wrappers, workflows and forms). These may depend on each other (e.g. a workflow displays a form, which displays data from LOB). If you want to redeploy those to a new environment in the correct order, that's a graph problem: topological sort (and you need to find cyclic dependencies, i.e. strongly-connected-components).

You cache users from upstream identity providers (such as Google or Azure AD) primarily because those providers can be horribly slow. You want to determine if a user is [recursively] part of a group, keeping in mind that some providers (Azure AD) allow for cyclic group memberships. Another graph problem: reachability. You want to take that same graph and cache it on nodes that query frequently. There's a paper for that[1] (pre-order and post-order numbering).

Lately, everything seems to be a graph problem - but I may just be wearing graph-tinted lenses. If you've never bumped into graph theory, there's probably a system somewhere that's a lot more complex than it needs to be.

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/352.pdf
Depends. As the article states, the hybrid approach is becoming more common. This gives users the ability to use various applications from facebook messenger, and the UI capabilities of messenger is pretty much good enough to achieve anything.

Oh and this comes along with a modern website that can execute all those use cases too.

But then you throw in the natural language, enabling users to write complex queries in English. That and great funded teams focussing on niches.

My experiences with bots are becoming outstandingly good.
I fear Trump is doing grevious harm to our democracy, and would never compare the damage done by Trump to that done by Obama.

That said, Obama was notorious for his crackdown on leakers. If you at all kept up with the news then, you'd be aware. One of his darker qualities (though he had many positive ones as well).
Did you actually read it?
I've held the title of graphics programmer professionally a few times and I do think it was a bad idea. If you're targeting Android/Linux/Windows/OSX it's really handy to be able to run the same APIs on the desktop for debugging and faster iteration time.

The real knife in the back was when they forked for Metal instead of adopting Vulkan. I've not used Vulkan in anger yet(just a couple toy demos) but everything I saw pointed to it solving all the major issues people have with OpenGL. Now there's another N+1 APIs, shader language and graphics pipeline that you need to support if you're building a graphical application and not leveraging Unity/UE4/etc.
I assume that the pilot will still have windows, but it's possible to imagine an aircraft with no windows at all.

An interesting thought experiment is to consider a car with no windows; the driver wears a head-mounted display and sees the environment via a 3-D model reconstructed from cameras.

My initial reaction is that it seems terribly unsafe to have a safety-critical system like that with no backup if your HMD fails for some reason.

On the other hand, I could imagine becoming accustomed to seeing all around without obstruction, and feeling uncomfortable driving a regular car with it's opaque pillars and huge expanses of fragile glass.

Another consideration is that encountering a car with no windows would feel really creepy. We're used to be able to make eye contact.
I've found the speed of the framework generally matters more than what you do with it for the same reason. The size of the framework often dwarfs any application built with it these days.

We have a huge project in Spring Boot that crawls along, and a newer one in Dropwizard that's so fast we could support 1000x our current traffic. Funny because they both use Hibernate and JAX-RS to do roughly the same thing
That happens to me too, and I find it equally annoying, but I think it is a deliberate design choice. As I understand it they are trying to make it hard to accidentally turn off the alarm and go back to sleep, which would be a critical failure if you missed an interview or were late for work. Presumably irritation at the difficulty of switching it off is seen as the lesser of two evils
As a guy who gets anxiety on planes, it's because of the claustrophobia. In a tunnel, I am moving freely. In a plane, I'm stuck inside the plane for the duration of the flight, and I can barely move given the only moving you can do is to the lavatory and back.
I've lawyered up to get people out, more than once. Please be more civil.
>Mr Rogers may be most intentionally-Christian cultural influence that wasn't widely noticed as "Christian", in the lives of millions of people -- for both many people who don't think Christianity is a part of their lives as well as for many people who do.

It helps that, as far as I recall, he never actually mentioned Christ or tacked Christian doctrine onto any of his moral or ethical lessons.
Random selection is literally equal opportunity.
That's basically my point though. I'm doing just OK, not getting rich or anything, just not worried about bills and able to save for a retirement. But this used to be the standard for American families. Not the 90th percentile outlier. The economy has changed so fundamentally that it's either get rich or die.
Once Again, New York State Considers a Terrible Right of Publicity Law
Whatever anyone says about this, don't feel bad about it. We are not all the same - some can deal with it and some can not. Therapists actually have a high burn-out rate because listening to other peoples issues can get to them. It's great that you've established this boundary for yourself.
I have someone to chat to and they're aren't a bot, and maybe they have like a lifetime of experiences from a nation I will never really know and cannot really imagine. It's cool and I have utmost respect for it. I've worked with humans from places where food is considered sacred and given away for free, places where the Volkswagen is almost the only auto to be found, and humans who have survived genocides. They are worth a premium, sirs!!
Please put your site behind CloudFlare (if have not already). They have a free plan and it's totally worth it
It's going to get worse if PGE succeeds in its efforts to push the costs of the 2017 fires onto ratepayers.
I read the bit where the statistics deliberately excludes people who do it in addition to their regular job so e.g. folks renting out a spare room on airbnb don't count but that is definitely work.
> It's not zero. The numbers are pretty big

Woah.. treatment resistance is nowhere near the same as being untreatable. It's an alarmingly huge leap to make, especially since the definition kicks in after only two anti-depressants have failed.

> minimizing human suffering is worthwhile;

I agree..

> then the idea of forcing someone to live a life of pain bothers me

But I still take issue with the seeming over-simplicity of this statement, as well as your original comment, because it (dangerously, in my opinion) brings the notion of euthanasia/suicide [1] into the dicussion merely because of some pain.

If someone's life is going to be, essentially, nothing but pain, then, OK, I agree it's inhumane to force that someone to live, but that just hasn't been established.

Meanwhile, philisophically, I'm uncomfortable with not pursuing all the other avenues of pain relief before resorting to death.

[1] Assisted, unassisted, whatever.. I'm not categorically opposed, by any means.
I've been using the GOOGLEFINANCE function in Google Sheets for this. It works pretty well, but there are some institutional funds in my 401k without tickers, e.g. "Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust". Has anyone seen an API that can deal with funds like that?
The attribute you are looking for actually has a formal psychometric measure: neuroticism.
> US to Europe wrecks me on anything but a 787.

The from/to really matters here.

NYC-London is about 7 hours.
LA-Rome is about 12 hours.
And just wow.... this tweet from her in 2013:

https://twitter.com/aliwatkins/status/347800186195701760?s=2...
I participate in a rewards program and they recently started a daily "survey" that asks dumb questions in the form of "Do you prefer X thing or Y thing?" And I click either X or Y so I can get my stupid 10 points, never mind that in a high percentage of cases, the answer is "Are you freaking kidding me? I wouldn't do either of those two things!"

I have two points in bringing that up:

1. The older I get, the more skeptical I am concerning the value of any and all survey results.

2. Real relationships aren't based on some "hair or no hair?" quiz.

I'm a woman. My ex was slightly shorter than me. Post divorce, I have known a couple of men that I would have happily dated if they hadn't had a chip on their shoulder a mile wide about how women will not date them because they were too short. I actually spent considerable time trying to find some way to let the first guy know that I was interested in him without it somehow going weird places. But it just wasn't possible. He made it absolutely impossible to tell him "I find you attractive" without it coming across like "I'm offering you a pity fuck because I have zero self esteem myself and really enjoy eating shit."

My policy these days: I'm not your therapist. If you have some enormous hang up like that, it isn't my job to help you get over it.

I strongly suspect that a lot of people have trouble getting dates not because of X trait, like baldness, but because of the boatload of baggage they carry around about it. I get it: You have that baggage because people rejected you or criticized you over it.

But, IMO, there are better ways to handle that than to take a drug that can permanently impair sexual functioning. Or covering it with some fluffy fashion wear.
...It's unusual to me that Australians do police.
You’re right that it seems unlikely an individual could exploit this, and it’s silly for the article to emphasize that threat.

However: “it may be that not everybody has exactly the same chance” — this might still be a concern.

Whether it really is depends on how large N is, what version of Excel they’re using, and how often they re-run the lottery.
So what's not clear to me is what happened to the data that Facebook sold to Apple.

http://fortune.com/2018/06/04/facebook-friends-data-apple-mo...

I wonder how that jives with the fact that Apple bought personal information from Facebook, while at the same time deploring the use of marketing personal data.

It seems like they want to have both sides of the argument.
Good question!

I'm guessing typical implementations would involve a lot of caching.

It would be nice to hear about people's experiences though.
Not OP but thanks, this was helpful to me too!
I find myself hitting stop instead of snooze, which may turn into a disaster some day. Simply touching your phone without care may stop the alarm.

iPhone alarm control became so wrong that I stopped using the screen and snooze only via top physical button. I’m not sure, but feels like it wasn’t like that before some idiot decided to change the way alarm works for sleepy subconsciously-trained users. Curious how many $M net cost was put into this “design”.

(Googled it: there was no stop button in ios 5, only slide-to-stop, which you cannot do accidentally)
Fuel (all numbers approximate):

An A320 carries around 25,000 L of fuel.[0] Jet fuel weighs ~0.81 kg/L (it varies by temperature).[1][2]

25,000 L * 0.81 kg/L = 20,250 kg = 44,550 lbs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family

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

[2] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/48785/how-is-fu...
The flip side of this is your company gradually becoming dependent on a sprawling and ever-growing tangle of likely undocumented scripts. This can be a time bomb (no matter how good your intentions) waiting to explode if you ever leave.
After reading Creativity, Inc I've come to understand Disney's turnaround under Bob Iger is really down to John Lasseter in bringing their bags over to Disney from Pixar after the acquisition.

It'll be interesting to see whether the films still carry that certain something going forward. Hopefully they don't fall to 20th Century Fox/Sony standard.
Accidental is rather bold. I'm sure Ledger was aware he was playing with fire. I've taken hard drugs for chronic pain -- and the threshold of difference between pain relief, sedation, and ultimately death- it is a stark dosing and feeling difference, not easily overlooked. I'd garner 90% of overdoses from clean drugs (not fentanyl swap/cut with other things), 90% are people who have an existing death wish. The risk is like penance, self whipping or cutting or whatnot. It is almost cathartic because they think the result is binary; either death or numbness. But we all know that there are medical midpoints like brain death or organ failure..etc.. Depressed people tend to be catastrophic, taking complex odds and possibilities and projecting them onto a binary, almost altruistic pair of contrasting outcomes. Its sad..I only know this because I suffer the same way..just not with drug abuse anymore.
Might as well grab an FPGA. :)
...But could you match a platform to a slipcoach's velocity?
Ask HN: Tech Interview Prep Pairing (SF)
I have just relocated to SF from London and have onsite interviews at all of the big tech companies.

I haven’t interviewed in a long time so thinking about the best way to prepare for these, normally I would ask a CS friend to practice some questions with me on a whiteboard.

Since I don’t know anyone here I was wondering if anyone else is in the same boat and wants to pair on some whiteboard questions or if there is a meetup for this kind of thing?

I’m located in soma.
I looked at X dot AI, but cannot justify the price. I would do 20 meetings a week and place a high value on my time, but to me their value proposition is simply not aligned with the price they are asking. I just don't believe it will help me that much.

As an aside, I tend to think about what I'd be prepared to pay for something before I click on the pricing page. In the case of X dot AI, it was about $5-10 per month. I'm sure it is good, but docusign (similar price) is MUCH more valuable to me - time kills deals and docusign helps bring them in. An AI bot that books in meetings just doesn't deliver the same ROI.
There is an anti-use-competitor-tech bias against c# though which you won't see in smaller companies
That's how you send yourself to therapy. How long do you put up the act for?
and what would these same people do instead? you’re pretending there’s some much better job out there waiting from the uber is preventing them from taking
Ask HN: As a founder/entrepreneur, is Indie Hackers still valuable to you?
With the recent focus on the “community” and the weirdly hidden interview and podcast content, I’ve found IH’s value has diminished for me considerably. The current community seems more like a Product Hunt 2.0, and unfortunately, I’m not a fan of PH or the rather immature (sorry, but being honest) “maker” community. I feel like IH is heading in the wrong direction and it makes me sad. Am I the only one?
Countless times i've been victim of the "do you want to save?" dialog where the replies were |Yes|No|Cancel|. In some cases the brain knows it made a mistake, and whatever dialog comes, the reply should be the negative one. And with those options, the subconscious clicked No (the most destructive operation) before I knew what was happening.
To me, the buttons should read |Save|Discard|Go back| in whatever order the creator wants. I think that even the dialog could just skip the text, with those button labels it isn't needed at all.
Ask HN: What do you do with CI servers on off-hours?
We have some servers running all day for CI, but sit completely idle during weekends and nights. What are some good ways to make use of them?
Glass wasn't hype by any means, it just didn't take hold in the consumer market (which, who's to say Google didn't predicate that). It's been in use by massive enterprises for years now, from Boeing to GE to large healthcare organizations.
I think that one reason for this is their new fully electronic menu boards. They rotate through segments of the menu, never displaying it in its entirety, and some items aren't even displayed at all in a recognizable manner.

For example, the only way to find the price of an a la carte sandwich like a quarter pounder is to look in the meal deals section and recognize that the lower price displayed at bottom left is the sandwich-only price... and only when that panel is visible during its 1-in-3 rotation.
The pillar seats in Model X were considered by Tesla to be a killer feature at launch.

Lots of people Monday-morning quarterbacked Model S's disappearing door handles, and now Porsche is putting them on Mission E.
There's a not-bad summary of the controversy in this review: http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-134.html
First Impressions of the Rust Programming Language
I'm 6'7". Car seats have influenced my decision to purchase before, and will again.

Right now, I drive a Subaru, and not the (cheaper) Ford or Mazda equivalents that I was considering because the Subaru seat is that much better.

I sat in each car in a tesla showroom a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised by the seats, Although the driving position in the model 3 isn't great for me. - I'm unlikely to be able to see traffic lights. No such issue in the model X with it's wrap-over windscreen, but that's out of my price range.
But why? Mouse pointer tends to be at a random position relative to a dialog window. According to GOMS, there should be no difference, unless one of the buttons touches screen border or is significantly closer.
> I know people in the bay area working 70 hours a week at dead end jobs barely making ends meet; a fact I consider unacceptable given the wealth they are surrounded by.

By what means is this unacceptable? "I find myself working 40 hours a week to afford cable and a new iphone. I consider that unacceptable given the wealth I am surrounded by."

Those two statements are qualitively equivalent. Because you move to a nicer neighborhood, you shouldn't have to put up with things other people put up with? Huh?
I used to use Excel's RNG to determine random winners for various drawings at work, including such momentous things as shift bid winners when there were more otherwise equally positioned people than available slots for a specific shift.

Excel is far and away the best product Microsoft has ever produced, and definitely one of the top five applications ever developed by anyone. It's one of the most useful and flexible tools for all kinds of practical analysis involving just about anything mathematical. Another example is that handful of us once used it, quite successfully, to manage a particular $500MM book of business for a very large insurance company.

In fact, the only people I've met who really hate Excel are developers who find they're not as necessary as they wish they were because regular managers are able to figure things out and make reasonably good decisions without their help or input because they have a good grasp of Excel.
While not the best solution, there is MoltenVK [0] which handles Metal from Vulkan code.

0: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
Node.js Creator Blasts Node.js, Offers a Secure TypeScript-Based Alternative
Yep Canada has pretty tight immigration policy.
Since you asked... About half of the first Castlevania is right-to-left. There are plenty of cues as to where to go, so you never really notice it.

On the other hand -- it's set in an evil castle, with dark muddy colors and a minor-key soundtrack. So maybe the right-to-left motion is intended to make the player feel uncomfortable.
I'd downvote this for the title if I could.

Better:

> Ok-Cancel versus Cancel-Ok: [added value of article]

E.g.: "A/B tested", or "a historical review", etc.
Most established car manufacturers have the body line near 100% automated. Tesla isn't doing too bad really but they are still playing catch up.

People like to talk like the existing companies are back in the stone age or something. Hardly.
With the trend for logging hours and reporting, I better get onto the next jira ticket
For funds that track a well known index (like VFFSX), use a well known fund that tracks the same index (SPDR) and normalize the results. There will be some tracking error, but it should be small enough to not bother correcting.
The only up-to-date information I've found so far regarding the storage system for this beast is:

* 250 PB GPFS

* 2.5 TB/s

I'd like to find some information on the burst buffer that is sitting between compute and the capacity storage system.
Sure, just make the process much more restrictive. The idea is to take in the best, not help the most vulnerable.
All of these are wrong, because they're answering the wrong question. Stop second-guessing the user!

Get rid of all these buttons, but provide a mechanism to UNDO the change. Linear undo plus the option to reinstate "factory default" settings is probably optimal for most applications.

Would you tolerate a text editor that asked you to confirm each letter you typed?
> "OK on the right" designers will say that the positive response carries the user forward, and because we read from left to right, forward progress should be on the right.

I look at it using a more logically safe approach where the first option should be cancel/back/safe_option to force people to think before clicking through.
https://www.compose.com/articles/getting-started-with-elasti...

https://blog.raananweber.com/2015/11/24/simple-autocomplete-...
I actually stopped using linux as my main OS in 2010 because of Gnome3 and Unity. The "Applications","Places","System" menu was clear, intuitive and desktop oriented. I never liked KDE, and MATE seemed like a rather unoptmized fork. So it left me with using Xubuntu VM on a Windows host (and I hate Windows because of it lacks bash).

Once I moved to the US I started using Mac and never looked back. The best thing that Apple does is that they don't try to merge desktop and tablet UX.