skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should carefully consider the IBM PC clone situation before they leap to the defence of things like patents, how much more innovative would IBM have been if it was allowed to hold a virtual lock on business computers, vs the entire PC market?
How the hell can these pages have common load times of ~500ms? This must be the worst case pages, right? Hundreds of milliseconds is very slow if network latency is out of the picture.
opam is bad. One particular pain I've had is that it refuses to be installed as root so it refuses to run in containers unless you make a user in the container.

Wercker only just got the ability to run jobs as a non root user. It's been painful.
Hey Mat, thanks for spreading the love. Hope you never stop using RDBMS!

Fancy a couple of jOOQ stickers? :)
This is a very ill-informed opinion. The supply chain is very strictly regulated for pharmaceutical medications.

Do you really think that Amazon can get their stock medications from just anyone? Do you think there is no oversight on this kind of thing? The DEA doesn't fuck around. They take all of this stuff very seriously.

Commingling medications? Really? In a pharmacy, medications are NEVER allowed to be commingled. If your medication is coming from two different manufacturers, or even the same manufacturer but the pills just look different, the pharmacy must put them in two different bottles to give to you. Stock bottle are not allowed to be mixed together. Ever heard of a recall on medications? That is exactly why. When a recall happens, they need tedious records of where every pill went.

When a prescriptions for a schedule II drug is filled, the pharmacy technician has to count the number of pills being filled twice. Then the pharmacist has to count the number of pills, and then backcount the stock bottle to make sure everything is kosher and no pills are missing.

I understand not everyone knows everything about the pharmaceutical industry, my wife is a pharmacist is the reason I know as much as I do, but to think that there is that little oversight on pharmaceuticals is ludicrous.
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>>Anyone can sue you over any civil law. Then teh courts decides. GDPR is not magically different. This is a straw man.

Yeah, but in this case that "anyone" is not spending a dime of his own, instead the limitless resources of EU will be coming after you. By the time the court decides, virtually any small company will bankrupt.
I see your point but 1) credit is being extended albeit only for about 15 days on average and 2) the Brex website appears to refer to the product exclusively as a "Corporate Card".
Do you have more detail about this? I edit files in VSCode/Notepad++ and execute them in WSL daily and have never run into this issue.
> But as far as general office/retail and housing, we need far more places where growth is allowed to happen at least a little bit organically. Maybe have some small nudges here and there for central planning, but overall city planners build for what they want, not for what the populace wants.

I'm with you mostly, I'm for a bit more planning with buildings and land because they are long-term impacts. I'd be down for an approach like yours if there was a better process to run ideas and concepts by planners.
Testing an SPA against a single pageload is absurd. You're not optimizing for a single page load (and if you are, a couple hundred milliseconds makes zero difference). You're optimizing against browsing the site.

Have you tried browsing the site...?
It improves efficiency for cars, while dramatically reducing efficiency for pedestrians. If a road is two lanes, drivers are more likely to avoid it. And pedestrians can cross anywhere instead of finding an intersection, hitting the crosswalk button, waiting 1-2 minutes, crossing, and then walking back to their destination.

Why should we give cars such privilege when they are so wasteful of space and fuel?
Perhaps the only story here is that Google would have (or may have) bid on Github as well as Microsoft. But that isn't more than a headline so the the editor said "It needs to be 500 words or it isn't a story" and the reporter just added in bits until they hit the word threshold.
I joke that I'm a "full full stack" developer. Writing JS (bare, or in a framework like React or Angular or whatever), backend (Python, Elixir, Go, Ruby, etc...), install the OS or design cloud infrastructure, attach GDB or ptrace to processes if they're misbehaving, use tcpdump to watch packet flows, program kernel drivers, put together a toolchain and JTAG for microcontrollers, and design schematics & board layouts (analog or digital, not great at RF... yet).
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Agreed about the name "ICO" being of dubious intent. That's why we tried to clear the air with our I<corn>O, https://initialcornoffering.com.
Label each coin, divide in three stacks each time, and shuffle meaningfully each time the subsets, to remove uncertainty.
small/mid companies also work great to form lasting relationships bonds...
Gentoo GitHub Organization hacked
Those people probably also believe that we have or ever had a meritocracy, when nothing could be further from the truth.
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> Using nothing but a smartphone for all my home computer usage would be a major setback.

But that's not the analogy here. This is for the "last mile". Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is using a lightweight laptop (rather than a phone)
There were definitely publishers who had to block EU traffic while working on compliance. Additionally, people at companies like mine had to rush out features to allow users to view all of their saved data retained by us and optionally save or delete it. Additionally there are lawsuits out already for non-compliance, which cost money to deal with even if you win. So it had a big impact to companies' bottom lines and was worth the press in my opinion. Definitely penalizes startups who couldn't throw a couple engineers at GDPR compliance for a couple months as well like we did.
You can use the messenger app (non-Lite version) and contact people with FB accounts without having a FB account.
When I learned Caml Light, OCaml was starting as project, still called Objective Caml.

I don't remeber anyone on those assignments ever complaining about syntax.
As of 3 days ago... yes the bitstream is frozen (see the reference PDF)

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-spec/

The date in the PDF is 2018-06-25.
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In my career I started off with OO/imperative, then got heavily into functional programming. I came out at the other end strongly preferring immutable objects over struct+procedure function programming. It's a style I consider deeply OO, and still has referential transparency, but which usually gets ignored in these discussions.
... and I'm going to belabor this, because I think it's important.

There's a fair bit of excitement around the new, exciting, open source friendly Microsoft with built-in Linux kernel emulation, an embrace of git and a huge release of open source tools...

Honestly though, I'm not buying it, the issue I've had with Microsoft over the years doesn't just stem from the shitty software or aggressive business practices... it's the deep rooted culture of mediocrity it promotes.

People who belong to that church believe it's ok to build shitty software because doing it right is too hard. Why root-cause an issue when you can just script reboots? It's too hard anyway, we're at "Microsoft scale."

The rise of the internet and the companies that grew around it showed us that if you have a culture of giving a shit, you can build really complex things "at scale" that aren't complete shit.

I worry that the new Microsoft will be a different kind of trojan horse for the OSS world. It won't be "embrace, extend, extinguish" it will be more like a social media psyops campaign that beats it into everyone's heads that now we're at "Microsoft scale" it's ok for everything to "kinda suck", and if we're not careful... everything will.
It sounds like you're talking about things that would be affected by a corporate tax rate, not a personal tax rate, which GP was talking about?
OPAM? [1]

(Haven't used cargo, and only briefly touched OPAM. Don't know the feature gap, but am curious to learn more)

[1] https://opam.ocaml.org
The SEC stuff was a civil action. They are being charged criminally by the state. From the article:

> In a parallel proceeding, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia filed criminal charges against Bonthu.
Apple to reportedly get its OLED displays from LG to reduce reliance on Samsung
Coincidentally, Chicago has a disused network of underground delivery rail tunnels.

They were widely forgotten until a pile was driven into one beneath the Chicago River and the river flooded many of the buildings in the downtown's Loop district.†

Today a few are still used, though not for deliveries. Mostly for running fiber optic networks, and the Palmer House Hotel uses its section to raise mushrooms for its restaurant.‡

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood

‡ https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140618/loop/palmer-house-h...
Funny though, small crimes always seem to be used to distract and deflect from the fact that no on ever gets punished for the large ones.
Valuation is different than market cap.

As stated in another comment, a coin only needs to sell one unit, and because of the supply; they have a large market cap.
In some languages they also have methods like 'curry', which further blurs the lines.
Protonmail under DDoS attack
That list is about recreational biking, not about biking as a means of transportation. Look at cities where people commute by bicycle[1] and it is basically just the cities listed plus a bunch of small towns with gigantic university campuses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
Car infrastructure is anything but cheap. Our suburbs are going broke, in a large part, because maintaining roads, bridges, parking lots, and solving drainage problems caused by these things is very expensive. Add to these the external costs of pollution and car crashes, and it gets even more absurd.

Most electric wheelchairs have 10+ mile ranges,can be fully recharged for pennies, require even less physical exertion and special skills than cars. And they don't put other residents at serious risk.
The new model at Microsoft is to run these big acquisitions as separate companies with a lot of autonomy. I suspect Github will do very well from here.
The language is, however, designed to be JITted. Languages are not designed in isolation.
> members of Congress are not allowed to trade on information for which they are bound by either a confidentiality agreement or a fiduciary duty

Prior to 2012, Congress was actually explicitly permitted to insider trade. That was fixed by the STOCK Act [1]. It doesn't make it easy to pull up records, but it does close the loophole.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...
We don’t allow people to carry a balance, it’s technically a charge card. Personal history is never toched
Why is an article like this okay, but you'd never see a clickbait article for illegal activities called "pros and cons of embezzlement"? Is stealing fine art not really stealing?
This video is about : "Finance as Strategy: When and How Startups Should Build a Finance Function" - a16z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9_OGz4SeE

But this could apply to any Function in the business.
I'm with you on this. One of the huge advantages of having worn all of those hats is that you have pretty good experience of having seen how badly some interactions can go. I can look at a system design and point out problems that specialists miss. And on the other side of it, I'm a swiss army knife. Need someone to figure out how to get your web app talking to the crusty old COBOL app? I've got ideas on how to pull that off too...
I have heard this is a danger as the drone could hit the rotors of a helicopter causing a crash.
If life were fair, Harlan Ellison would have been one of the best-paid writers in the United States, and an utter social outcast.
YMMV, but when I've dabbled with what I believe are good SPAs, I've noticed what I was essentially was essentially implementing a crude primitive web-browser inside my React app. I mean, I was neck-deep trying to code page transitions, load progress indicators, history states, all this sort of stuff.

Thankfully, I'm not a frontend developer. Was just toying around here and there. Maybe it was just that I sucked at simple things.

Still, for now I believe many (not all, of course) fancy SPAs are a probably a waste of otherwise productive time. There is already a browser, and it does things well. Having something that would allow for smaller documents is a good idea, of course, and some eye candy for transitions between different documents would be neat to have, but every site doing this for themselves feels just plain wrong to me.

Exceptions - e.g. for heavily API-centered systems - apply, of course. If a webpage is one of half a dozen client applications that consume the same API, then SPA could be a sane way to do it.
BP buys Chargemaster
Or a payment for the pretty whitepaper you get to read.
You should look at the articles from First Round Review[0]. I haven't read any in a while but they tend to be high quality long form write-ups from successful execs. Similar to this piece.

[0] http://firstround.com/review/
"Programming Productivity Without Breaking Things"

Nice. That's cute.
Would the more practical version of this not be base level being cars on roads, parkings etc in buildings, and a 'floating' mesh of streets for pedestrians, bicycles etc?
I wonder how many of us managed to use Smalltalk and CLOS then.
I'm saying there are probably unexplored good solutions to that kind of congestion. Another I just thought of is the city motivating companies to make shifts not so centered around 9-5. Spread the rush with shifts of 8-4, 10-6, etc.
Even if you use the ORM to design the schema for you, an ORM isn't going to just willy nilly put fields in tables by some confusing whim. Even the most opaque ORM conventions for field naming tend to have relatively easy ways to spot that MyClass.propertyName binds to table my_class and field property_name, or whatever is the case.
Very true. The Netherlands needs a TON of healthcare workers right now. But you can't just hire someone from Greece or Spain who doesn't speak the language.
This is true in the same sense that "a JIT" should really be "a JIT compiler."

Used as "a JIT," the term is given new meaning (to refer to a compiler implicitly). And used as "JIT language," its giving the term a new meating (to refer to the fact that the language designed to be JITted).
FBA and Sold By Amazon are commingled (unless the FBA seller pays for it not to be; Amazon doesn't segregate SBA because the commingling is part of Amazon's logistical efficiencies, which is why it costs money for sellers to opt out of it.)
Actually, yes, the QRNN has all of those features.

First figure from our paper: how the LSTM with a twist allows for the equivalent speed of a plain convnet by running efficiently in parallel on GPUs, like image processing convents.[1]

Best of all, as it's only an "LSTM with (these) twists", it's drop-in compatible with existing LSTMs but can get you a 2-17 times speed-up over NVIDIA's cuDNN LSTM - essentially speed equivalent to the TCN or WaveNet speed-up.

That's why Baidu implemented QRNN in their production Deep Voice 2 neural text-to-speech (TTS) system[3].

This isn't to say TCN or QRNN is better, simply that it's dangerous to flat out say _no_ if you're not actually certain or don't correctly recall the underlying information.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-author of the QRNN.

Double disclaimer: The TCN paper cites the QRNN but decides not to test against it. They also show results over one of my datasets.

[1]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Quasi-Recurrent-Neural...

[2]: https://github.com/salesforce/pytorch-qrnn

[3]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Deep-Voice-2%3A-Multi-...
Actually, Milo was banned because he already had been suspended several times, and then he decided to impersonate another user, which is blatantly against the ToS.
>they don't know why they failed, and that's why they failed.

You can very well know why you failed. Post-mortems (most of the times) try to answer that question

Knowing something doesn't make it inevitable.
We will use your transaction data for underwriting purposes. We contractually have the ability to commercialize your data in an aggregate way, so for example we could say “starups on brex are spending more money on saas every month this year compared to last year”. But never the name of specific information about your company. Don’t worry, your competitors won’t have access to your data.
I am personally grateful to Microsoft for 1) saving github, because I love github 2) reducing the amount of private information that will go into Google database, because I fear Google.

Years ago, Google was about do no evil and Microsoft was the evil empire. It's funny how we've gone full 180.
I believe the GP is making reference to the Equifax executive that sold a lot of stock right before the announcement of the data breach.
Currency control is good to have, but I think it's also a kind of patch, not a fix.

As a Southerner, I think we do need structural changes; unfortunately, as you write, these are usually a code for austerity and job precariousness, whereas the changes we need are at the top level, not bottom. In government, major companies and even many small ones. We have hard-working and qualified people, who are wasted by the corrupt and incompetent.
For projects in which 80/20 would be overkill, there are luckily smaller options available, such as 15mm (openbeam, makerbeamxl), 10mm (makerbeam), and 5mm (nanobeam). I imagine the 15mm ones are the most popular because you can use standard M3 fasteners with it easily.
A more transparent slogan would be, "Let's build cities for walking and bicycles rather than cars." Or maybe "Let's build cities for walking and subways and electric scooters." Or whatever. But whatever means of transportation you optimize for today may be inappropriate a century from now. It was horses in the not-too-distant past, and as much as I like bicycles, I can imagine a figure in which bicycles and bike lanes are obsolete too.
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Fantastic article! I’m in a similar position as you, and will have to face the same decision you did, so this was refreshing and edifying to read. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

One thing that stuck out to me was your mention of focusing on “diversity and inclusion”. Why did that become a necessary thing for you to focus on? It seems political, and entirely unrelated to the actual work of building a good engineering team. Isn’t it enough to ensure that anyone and everyone has the same opportunity to get hired? At my company, my goal has been to ensure that all candidates get judged without focusing on attributes like gender or ethnicity; to make sure that the doors are open to everyone, no matter who they are. I then try to trust that the people who want to work in this field, and this company, are capable on their own to come to us.

Has that been your experience, or has there been good reason to put extra effort into finding/favoring candidates with certain characteristics?
That was what drew me to the T470P absurdly fast little machine, 200+ dpi screen and upgradeable ram and storage.

I like the 14” as a step between 13 and 15 as well.
We could record and curate all of our personal encounters, conversations, activities, and crafts. Imagine being able to sit in on someone's long-past, deep discussion with Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Adam Smith, Newton, Galileo, Aristotle, Plato, or Praxiteles. Or your own late-night story-telling with a now-dead older relative; being able to hear and see them again.
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That seems like a good use for a blockchain-based reputation network (LOL)
Certifications are pretty useless. But self-taught developers are awesome (if they have some evidence that they're capable; past projects are a good indicator). They're typically self-motivated and fast learners, which are great qualities in an employee.
Yes, indeed, or at least in the Italian part. French wouldn't help much.
BBC Newsround, nanoservices and serverless
dockless bicycles have taken over San Jose. They are worse than scooters by far.

The only advantage I can see bicycles having over the scooters is not being "dead" due to battery issues, but plenty of other things can also take bicycles out of commission. They also take up more more room and can't be packed as close together.
Portugal seems to be very attractive to northern European tech and media freelancer types, know a couple of guys who live and enjoy Portugal and work for German companies remotely. Pretty attractive, would do it myself if it wasn‘t for the kids.
Those guys are more likely to expand, build startups and employ people, who knows what it might lead to.
I can see a few problems here (launching the app seems a little carzy, but there's gotta be a good reason for it, right?), but the inability to 'whiltelist' an app is not one IMHO. Requiring explicit permissions for each app receving events is a great thing, and would make it to trust an app like RemoteBuddy.

Here's the thing, if Apple allows whitelisting an app, then every developer will just request that level of access rather than per-app permissions even if they don't need it "just in case". Eventually we wind up where we are today with everything having permission to send apple events to everything.

Even if my dystopian whitelist fears aren't realized, those apps that do regularly get whitelisted (or claim to require it) will become targets and potential vectors for attack, as they are the most privileged apps on your mac.

PS - and to the author, no need to exaggerate things. Just because your app can control 100+ apps doesn't mean your users are all using it to do that. It seems perfectly reasonable to request approval for each app as they are enabled/configured - if you're asking for apprval for all apps upfront that's on you.
1 - you don’t have to worry about prefunding the card, just spend!

2 - you have 30 day float, so more time to pay the statement
What kind of a dick would do this to Gentoo, who makes everything available to everyone? I don't understand the world sometimes.
Bitcoin was quite a hype in the EU around December last year, with it being talked about in bars, at the hairdresser etc. And people putting all their money in of course.
That time I had Steve Jobs keynote at Unix Expo
Including "This web site works best on ...".
Yes, but I'm talking about the myth that gets perpetuated post-2012.
This already a regular thing - see Medco/expressscripts who will mail you items.

Additionally Pill pack address this on their website for temp. Controlled teams being shipped in a temp controlled way door to door (see Omaha steaks as an example of ‘it’ll be fine)
Ask the opposite question- rate of success for startups with >$50m valuation

IMHO, it's certainly below 3.8%
Oh and if you mean the secured credit card - we can give higher limits without having to set up a security deposit and tie up your cash
This stuff is cool, but it is also ridiculous over designed and over thought out. Anybody with a welder, angle grinder, plasma cutter, can do all of these things in seconds, from scrap on the side of the road. I guess what this is proposing is having a bunch of pre-fabricated metaL with holes cut. So, 95% of your holes won't be used -- which is a massive overhead for nothing. I can drive in any neighborhood on a Saturday, find a broken threadmil, and cut it up with my plasma cutter to whatever size I need and weld it. If I make a mistake, I can grind the weld off and re-do it. Also I would never trust that bed frame that looks like a deathwish.
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