skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. helps to educate and provide opportunity to people, regardless of national origin - regardless of the arbitrary, invisible lines on a map, drawn by the powerful, in which they were born. Partly as a result, the greatest economic miracle in history has occurred since WWII (and especially since the end of the Cold War), with hundreds of millions of people pulled from millennia of hopeless, abject poverty.

Another great result is that U.S. businesses now have enormous markets in China and India in which to sell, vendors from which to buy, and more talented employees which to hire. China and India are the top two markets in the world for many products, including cell phones IIRC. Imagine the impact on the bottom line of SV companies if they went away. A smart businessperson wants other businesses to do well; they want rich, successful neighbors; otherwise, who do they sell to? Who do they hire? Who provides goods and services to them?

Yet another result is that those people are familiar with the United States and its values, and can bring them home. Wars start because political leaders can propagandize about how evil the <other people> are, which is hard to do with populations that have direct experience with each other. And the values of democracy and universal human rights (i.e., regardless of political borders) have revolutionized humanity.

And finally, due to immigrants the U.S. has become the academic center of the world. You may notice that much of the great scientific work before WWII was done in Europe, but then nationalism and ideology in Europe chased out their great scientists, who emigrated to the U.S. English become the language of science. The halls of U.S. academia have been filled with immigrants since then. If the center of knowledge and research moved someplace else, the U.S. will have lost what has really become an enormous, and really an unfair benefit. How much does SV benefit from all that research, talent, and knowledge at Stanford and Berkley?

So I want more immigration, more opportunity for more people. How absurd that people with the talent and drive to get PhDs would never have had the opportunity. If the U.S. has to build more universities, that's great.
No because RS abstracts away how the computation is queued, what latency is involved and has some pretty non-trival overhead in the framework its self.

Like I mentioned above, earlier GPUs are pretty poor at fine grained scheduling + latency and NEON has pretty ubiquitous support on the target devices we were shipping.
Can we get some examples where the dominant cofounder was the reason why the business did not succeed? These success stories reference generally smart and savvy executives.
I don't see how that's the point at all. There are many, many awful things that have happened in the past. It's still completely fair to blame people who are doing awful things now. I'm not trying to accuse you of bad faith, but in practice, bringing up past injustices by people who are no longer in power seems like little more than a distraction unless you're suggesting a way we can redress them now.
It is indeed true that selfish motives take precedence - in the minds/deliberations of those that stand to profit. But isn’t a govt formed of the elected representatives, who are in office just to represent the interests of the commons?
>> We are on a path to some entities knowing almost everything about most citizens but these citizens know almost nothing about these entities.

I think Google is already there, at least for chrome users.

>> I think a good way would be to open up all data

Psychologically, this is a bad option. People need privacy, especially interpersonal privacy, which today, is generally, somewhat preserved.

Of course, you could come with the claim that once everything is open, people will adjust, and things will be fine. But that's a huge and very risky experiment, and relatively hard to back-off from, once the data is released.

And technically/legally it is possible to create more corporate privacy on the internet. It's just that there's no real political pressure to do so.
Or seems that a specific variety of bee is required.

https://agrieducate.com.au/farming-fact-sheets/vanilla/
He only beats the improved one once, as far as I can recall - the last time, the one that matters, when they go all out.
You're acting like shipping never worked before 1950. Many thanks to the U.S. Navy for what they do today, but they did not invent the concept of safe passage.

Shipping containers have made an impact in the efficiency of shipping, not the existence of shipping.
Lol, I think agree with first part, but not the second part.

At best the non-democratic component of money doesn't completly squash innovation, but the capital distribution and control resulting from it has seriously constrained it in this phase of our economy.
This is my experience also. People not fluent with Gradle or just don't want to invest the necessary time in learning how it works just cut and paste stuff into it and wonder why it doesn't work anymore.
I'd like to read about first-hand experiences founding startups with equal or unequal equity splits. A postmortem of sorts, what worked about the founder arrangement and what didn't and why, or if it was even a relevant factor at all.

I could believe that unequal equity splits are common in these mega-successes just because everyone involved is savvy enough to push hard for their own interests, but that ultimately it's an irrelevant detail to the success of the business. They'd be successful either way, but this way is the best possible outcome for the founder.
Hjson: a user interface for JSON
Gene therapy show promise for DMD
I was actively recruited out of my last company. I was the last person engineering in the company but not the last engineer. Over a dozen other people had left by the time I did. The management was somewhat dysfunctional the whole time; but somewhat functional. We were always a subsidiary of a larger start-up which is still in business. Even thought they wanted it to be a unicorn worth billions it has been valued at 100 million for over five years now. They tried several times to hire me into the first company but the management disfunction there was very similar. Most importantly the company hired a replacement and is still profitable, with its existing customers. I just needed a change and I didn't do the hard work of finding a job until I was actively recruited. Once I received a job offer I was countered at the exact same level (not better though!). It seems that I myself had gone stagnant. I like the advice from others, don't be a person at a small startup who doesn't own part of the company. Just don't.
> "Which of you thinks you are the smartest?"

I would think that this is a mistake and you'd need to say:

"Which of you thinks he or she is the smartest?"

I'm not a native speaker though.
New Variant of Proof of Work – Proof of Rental Work
Well you could use CSON, which uses CoffeeScript notation that allows for constructs such as:

required: [

'firstName'

'lastName'

]

which is the same as:

{

"required": [

"firstName",

"lastName"

]

}

in JSON :)
Chat with the p2p swarm on your mobile device (Android and iOS)
Yes, it does mean the former.

Usually, they would use the cash to wind down.
> We can't do this crab bucket thing where we say it's foolish to defend people with some amount of privilege because there's people over there who are worse off--what is the ultimate end of that strategy, a search for the most downtrodden person on earth and delay all progress until we work our way up the list?

How about we start with someone who is below the 50th percentile?
Most UEFI systems nowadays can boot directly from VFAT partitions on USB drives and memory cards. Some even ExFAT. You can put your bootloader and FS drivers there.
I'm somewhat heartened that 6 Justices were in agreement that cell records should be protected from warrantless lookups.

Gorsuch appears to have dissented because he disagreed with the rationale of the decision and felt the 4th Amendment protections should be far stronger.
If it were email, those same people would abuse email. I don't think what you're saying is really a problem with Slack. Those people you're referring to are disrespectful morons.
Happy to help.

If anyone's going to DEFCON this year, I'll be hanging around the Crypto & Privacy Village a lot, so feel free to say hi.
Are we alone in the universe?
My comment on the article. Usually I am of higher opinion of NYT, but now this piece of writing is simply tendencious

The court case covered there is just plainly the case of plaintiff's lawyers being paranoid about about petty theft case, and having rich imagination. Think of Aron Schwartz case, except even more absurd here, as the defendant have called police on himself.

An employee from mainland who previously worked at a competitor company accidentally put coworker's phone into her bag along with papers on the table. They guy thought that his phone was stolen and called police, police found his phone in a locker of a coworker.

During investigation of that theft, they stumbled on some company docs on the phone, and opened an espionage case based on that. Why a defector would file a police report on his accomplice?

For it to be an espionage, a less lame way to exfiltrate information would be employed, and certainly, a spy will not call the police to arrest his accomplice.

Just thinking that somebody can carry netlists for a chip which take few hard drives to store in compressed form on a tiny memory of a smartphone does not pass a BS test.
How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries:

1) Allow transit systems to provide a luxury tier of service with no upper limit on price

2) Mandate that 100% of the money that comes from (1) has to be pumped back into expanding transit infrastructure
Why do we drink tomato juice on planes?
A "vanilla startup" is perhaps one of the most interesting ideas I've read in HN comments these past few weeks.

If I may ask, are you from Madagascar or an expat? This is all quite new information to me so I am fascinated to learn more. Are there any sources you would recommend?
If you are in Istanbul and you want to use public transportaion with monthly subsrciption you need to buy Istanbul Pass with your ID, it has your name, picture etc. Because you provided your ID they know your birthday. Thus, on your birthdays when you step inside your bus and make your Istanbul Card read by the device (NFC) it says laudly "happy birdthday!". Because all kinds of public trasport use same card, like in ferries, metros, toilets, busses, trams you hear "happy birdthday!" all day in multiple locations.
https://youtu.be/1mJJPID104s

Oh, and you can see from their web sites where you have used your Istanbul Pass in the last few months, like "bus M42 Mecidiyeköy-Bakırköy, at 12:34 Today, -1 credit".
For the most part I don't use social media. My Facebook exists so that members of my family and friends can contact me via messenger when either of phone numbers change. I use Twitter to show my interest in the web development community to potential clients and employers.
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(Question from the FAQ) Although I have not filed a proof of claim by the filing deadline for the bankruptcy proceedings, can I file a proof of claim in the civil rehabilitation proceedings?

(Answer) Those who have not filed proof of claims in the bankruptcy proceedings or who have filed proof of claims after the filing period had passed (i.e., the date of the investigation of claims, May 25, 2016), may file proof of claims in the civil rehabilitation proceedings. We plan to post further details on this website.
Well, usually they are using the money to wind down.

(All of this is a good reason i hate LLC's. They aren't necessary anymore to actually do risky innovation in 90%+ of cases. In a non-LLC, they shareholders would be liable, and then you'd still have someone to go after)
Author here. I'm open for discussion.

The source is in the text, but conveniently accessible here: https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal/blob/master/exam...
> It depends on the person. If you're not dependent upon it and you can immediately give it up without ill effects, then it's not much of a problem.

But that's the problem. How do you know? I seriously doubt anyone here would try to intervene if they discovered a friend had a beer every day. Yet that could easily be the beginning of a problem.
I started using gnucash again recently after a 10 year break. It has made some progress around ease of use and there is an android version of it now too. Still tedious though. I played with ledger and found it even more tedious.

Fava sure looks pretty, but I haven't tried it:

https://beancount.github.io/fava/
Even Mexico relies on hand pollination. The bees are not reliable enough for mass crops.
Currently, ULA has much bigger fairings available than SpaceX.

https://twitter.com/wingod/status/966728779992150017
Frankly I think that's a load of shit. I've not seen or hear of patreon cracking down on anything except for fringe (in an objective sense) political content or pornography.

I'm sure creators of such content are much aggrieved, but compared to the scope of the demonetization on youtube, it amounts to approximately jack shit. How many times has Patreon kicked CodysLab or TheReportOfTheWeek off for non-political non-sexual content? I've not heard of anybody kicked off Patreon for profanity or any similarly chickenshit reasons youtube regularly demonetizes people for.
Unreal Engine used to render the Weather Channel tornado graphics
Here is a bookmarlet[1] that will allow you to bypass paywalls. What it does is redirect you to FB outgoing page. Since news networks allow Facebook users to see their entire content, you get access to the article.

javascript:window.location.href=decodeURIComponent('https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3D')+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

[1] http://bookmarklets.org/what-is-a-bookmarklet/
Some dogs do that but most don't. Sometimes they are occasionally startled, but most of the time they just ignore the reflection.
AI Startup Seeks Its Voice – EE Times
Engineered Mosquitoes Backed by Bill and Melinda Gates to Wipe Out Malaria
The elevator pitch for Elm is that it helps you build UIs which is just never easy. And mostly prescribes its own architecture instead of having you picking between vanilla React, Redux, Mobx, etc.

I never knew how amazing "if it compiles, it works" could be when building a UI.
You don't adopt it on a macro level you keep it in mind just like when you apply the falsification principle when doing science.

If you believe the world is flat you aren't exactly right but you are right enough to get from village A to B if they are close enough to each other.

Newton wasn't exactly right but his understadning of gravity was good enough that it was useful to us.

Einstein wasn't exactly right but he was right enough for classical physics (just not Quantum Mechanics).

In other words, we believe in things all the time that are useful while not necessarily true.

That's the point. you don't need universal truth to be locally right. The models have their limits, Us and our ability to establish them. They are an interpretation of reality not reality itself. I.e. our experience of reality and reality is not in a 1 to 1 relationship. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do science or we shouldn't make assumptions about whether something is good or bad or better or worse or right or wrong we should just know that we are really just playing word games in the grand scheme of things.

Postmodernism doesn't say we can't make assumptions on macro level it's indirectly saying we ARE making assumptions and these assumptions are the frame of references but are limited by the language we use to express them. So we can't really know the true interpretation of something just the reduced version that our perception and vantage point allows us to establish.

In other words we are ultimately the axiom of the available perspectives of reality.

I have linked to a few things in another discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366596

would be happy to continue the conversation my contact info is in my details.
Bethesda Sues Makers of Westworld Game, Saying It Uses Fallout Shelter's Code
More. The more companies make a fuss about birthdays, the more it takes the fun out of it. I no longer wish people a happy birthday on facebook because of the way facebook shoves it in my face all the time. There are like three people I say happy birthday to - facebook may remind me of them, but I call them on the telephone to say it. I use Jan 1, 1970 as my birthday any time a site asks me for it.
Only if you don’t agree to the cookie prompt.
can't you history search through outlook under the 'conversation history' folder? (or click the 'see more in outlook' hyperlink on skype.) Although yes, it's not built in to the skype app UI itself. And that would be nice.
Hailo Hunts Missing AI Puzzle Pieces – EE Times
>Gravity syntax is designed to be familiar to people coming from C-like languages like Javascript, Swift, C++, C# and many more. We started working on this new language a year before Apple announced Swift and we were happily surprised to discovered how similar both syntax appear.

Amusing how the language looks so much like Kotlin - a language released in 2011 and 3 years before Swift.
Show HN: Ipdig.io – Fast IP Geolocation Data API
Oh I'm so sorry I've misunderstood completely...

So you always have your tablet plugged into power then?
> mountains of evidence

> shitty person

> shitty companies

Elaborate?
Imitation vanilla extract is also better in many cases as it can tolerate the high heat of baking where natural vanilla doesn't do as well.
Object-Based Storage Defined: Why and When You Need It
Welcome to Right to Try
O like the faceless judges that grant thousands of warrants? There's no accountability and it's absolutely criminal.
https://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=7m31s
That was my smile for today!
Just to remind you where you’ve came from.
I use Safari, which doesn't have profile handling at all. The web should not rely on clumsy browser hacks. Chrome profiles are way too coarse-grained — all the settings and state (history, bookmarks, etc.) are separate. It also interacts badly with everything else on a computer. If I click on a Slack link to a Google document, then nothing knows which Chrome window to open it in.

Google's mistake was the account switcher. Supporting multiple accounts is fine, but pretending they support concurrent logins is nonsensical.

But I have no choice to use multipel Google accounts, since my company uses Google Apps or G-Suite or Google For Work or whatever it is called today, and I'm consulting for a third company that also does this.
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Lots of these services are being created piecemeal. Professional management works for these people because the clients are overwhelmed and don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to budget X million dollars for 4 years.

Most average people think that they do know what they're doing. They have a few hundred in the bank, they're paycheck is the same and comes every 2 weeks, and they know the price and value of the things they need. They don't suffer from the illusion that they can buy jetskis on a whim without bankrupting themselves.
It could actually be a huge win for Amazon's third party sellers as well, as services such as FBA could handle the tax collection on behalf of the third parties. It just adds to the value that Amazon can provide in its services for sellers.
This is kind of fascinating. My first impression was I'm not sure this works as a substitute for the mirror test because I don't know how you distinguish a dog recognizing a smell as self from a dog recognizing an unfamiliar smell jumbled with a familiar smell (without associating the self-smell with actual self, just with "I smell this all the time").

But that got me thinking about the mirror test itself. If it were somehow possible to---in such a way that the person was unaware of the change---wire someone up to co-opt their vision to remote cameras, then give them control of a robot body that looked like them and mimicked their movements faithfully, then numbed their sense of touch... Could you fool a person into "failing" the mirror test by identifying the robot as themself when it is not actually their own body?

Too far down this road, of course, you run into some weird philosophy questions on "what is 'my body' anyway?" But I don't know of an experiment of this style that's been tried on people. Could be interesting.
I shudder to think about how much time it takes to juggle all the different financial things I deal with, and how sub-optimal they are because it's too much of a pain to coordinate.

Lovely example: I have autopay for all my recurring expenses except my water bill. Through some mixture of losing some information and the shittiness of their website, I can't get a login to set up autopay. So each month, I spend a few minutes on the phone to pay--it doesn't require authentication to pay over the phone, but it requires authentication to pay over the web.
YouTube now lets you pay $4.99 per month to support your favorite creators
That's definitely key, and I think that behavior should be default. (though arguably that wouldn't be in the financial interest of Slack)

Another thing that's key in my experience is learning to take one's time in replying to people or learning who to say "no" to. When people learn that you're not 24/7 tech support, they'll bother you less often. But it really depends on the kind of company you work for, what your role is, etc.
Well, that is assuming everyone will support HEVC, which Google seems to be the major force opposing it. Youtube won't use HEVC.
Performing Data Changes Audit Using Temporal Table
my bad, my bad. Corrected my digits. We are looking at around 20 to 30k complete DRAM waffers per fab. For god knows what reason, digits for a line and a whole fab swapped places in my head.
In that context you'd probably be better off with Rust (which takes a similar attitude to inheritance).
One a side note, I thought of a joke where his "vanilla startup" would be far from a "vanilla" startup. And that got me curious as to why the adjective vanilla refers to anything plain.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanilla

"For lexicographers, vanilla has more flavor than chocolate, because it adds a tasty synonym for plain to the English menu. The noun vanilla was first served up in 1662, but it took almost 200 years for its adjective use to become established for things, like ice and sugar, flavored with vanilla. By the 1970s vanilla was perceived as being the plain flavor of the ice-cream world, and people began using the word itself to describe anything plain, ordinary, or conventional."
I am with you on this. I am a recruiter for a large tech company in Seattle and with the recent political environment, I have asked my team to take it upon themselves to ask if the person they are going to bring into our team and our community is going to help us progress as a whole. I get angered when people tell me to look at just their CV, but there is so much more there. If I know that someone on their Facebook profile liked some Alt-Right podcast or calls themselves a "Libertarian" on their Twitter profile, I know that there is a good chance that they are not going to work well in an inclusive environment. So I save us both the trouble and move past the candidate.

We have an obligation to stand up for our beliefs if we are going to see the change we need.
A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics
Automotive Grade Linux Welcomes Seven New Members
It can but then you are back to subjective interpretation.

You can wink, that wink can have meaning or it's just a wink or you got something in your eye. How do you determine what it is without having used language somehow to establish what a wink could mean? And that's just on the surface of the amgiguity.
A solar panel in space can be in direct sunlight almost 24/7 without worrying about night or weather, is the big benefit.