skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the root of the argument about small firms was not about employee count, but that small firms typically do not have the resources to comply. But what is Exactis’ annual profit? Maybe they did have the financial resources.
So, while probably being a skilled navigator, he was either a serial bullshitter who may or may not have been before the King of Spain and may not have actually seen features that were later ascribed to the area, or a man wronged probably by the viceroy who may have colluded with others to get him excluded from the archives. Both possibilities are fairly bizarre.

Then there's Englishman Charles William Barkley (1759 – 1832) who ran an unlicensed, regulation-dodging trading tour out of one ship registered abroad, in collusion with some top executives at the monopolist competition! He was the one who named the strait after Juan de Fuca, so clearly the English were much more fascinated with him than the Spanish.
Coziness in Games: An Exploration of Safety, Softness, and Satisfied Needs
A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security
Spacetime is pretty slippery already. At least, I haven't been able to stop moving through it yet.
This is hitting it on the head. A lot of clients don't want to provide their own content and spend time filling out headings and searching for images, sure some do but mostly they are focusing on their business and while yes they are the ones closest to the metal, actually doing the work, they aren't and likely shouldn't be doing the copywriting. Speak with them, figure out as much as you can about them, take notes, and get a copywriter like you said.

More often this goes pretty smoothly and they'll review the website quickly and will send corrections like "Oh, you should add this sentence." or "Don't say that, remove it." I usually do a few pieces and make sure the tone is on point and then take that new information to flesh out the rest of the site.

It's a lot easier for them to edit a "complete" product than to see a blank canvas and have to figure out what goes where.
> I’ve periodically done microbenchmarks of inner loops over the years and the various gcc outputs of the c++ loop functions are always performing slightly better than if I hand rolled. Perhaps with gcc7 or clang this is different.

Any code examples?

What I was thinking of is hand-rolling

for (a; b; c;)
BODY

to

a;

loop:
if (!b)
goto out;
BODY
c;
goto loop;

out:
...
what is the name of the first method (fit parabolic surface)?
That‘s a very American, footbally viewpoint. Few Europeans would expect or even want a „pure play“ time of 90 minutes.

European football doesn‘t have strictly delimited borders between play time and off time. Not like American football where a clock is stopped and everybody regroups in a neat and perfectly pre-planned formation.

The referee may signal a foul and a player may execute it immediately, or wait a bit, or wait even longer. In that moments, people don‘t have a clear conception of whether it is play time, until it has happened.

Not to speak of the nightmare handling exact measurements in practice.
Reversing autism with a cancer drug
So that's what dark matter is...
Django obselete?

Sure....
Venezuela’s Future – and Ours
I think it is up to everyone to weight the pros and cons of using SaaS. Many entreprises would not even exist if they had to build and maintain their stack themselves.

Also, I would not equivocate not controlling your software with being controlled by it. In some cases maybe, but definitely not all.
That intuition doesn't work for galactic scales, and anyway in the Big bang nothing really exploded
> nobody is buying or selling houses

You must not live in the US then. Housing prices are climbing to all-time highs because of demand.
IIRC, it’s a matter-antimatter drive, and the dilithium crystals in some way help to catalyze the production of antimatter. As you say, fictional.
This is needless pandering and fear-mongering, akin to the hysteria that inevitably comes with the evolution of technology. For example, the telephone will be the end of society trope that was popular at the turn of the century.

Anyway.

> With Google Drive, your 'docs' are just placeholders pointing to the cloud. You can export them individually to Word or print them to PDF, but it's a manual process, which you will likely only think of when it's too late.

This has been trod to death over the years. Let's do some find-and-replace.

With a Hard Drive, your 'docs' are just placeholders pointing to the platter. You can copy them individually to diskette or print them to hardcopy, but it's a manual process, which you will likely only think of when it's too late.
Installing vim plugins manually
Thanks, I have not read these yet, so I guess I shouldn't be judging until I have.
No new stuff on your resume though....
1. Longer steps can be run in parallel. One step of 24 hours with 1000 in parallel allows 1000 cars per day.

2. If no parallel allowed, 86.4 seconds is the average not the maximum. Longer steps balanced by shorter steps.
A logistic regression model is typically used for a classification task. 'Fitting a logistic model' entails finding optimal coefficients / 'weights' of input features such that classification error is minimised.

For a binary classification task, one could simply calculate mean squared error between predicted values and actual labels (as in linear regression) and then proceed to find the optimal weights iteratively using gradient descent. But the sigmoid shape of the logistic function makes gradient descent a poor choice of an optimization technique (w.r.t. lack of guarantee of finding a global optimum).

A surer way to find globally optimal weights is using the Newton's method of calculating weight updates. This is a numerical optimization technique that requires one to calculate the 1st and 2nd order derivatives of the error function. The matrix that 'calculates' the 1st order derivative is called a Jacobian and the one that calculates the 2nd order derivative is called a Hessian...
WeWork Upends the Conventional Architecture Firm
Closer to the CPU isn't a valid argument. Most major programming concepts don't exist in a CPU.

* CPUs are dynamically scoped

* CPUs are weakly typed

* CPUs are dynamically typed

* CPUs only compare to zero

* CPUs have no way to represent OOP

and so on

All that said, tail calls are very close to how the CPU works. They are just GOTO with additional parameters. If you implement tail calls with dynamic scoping, the parameters would be registers and the tail call would be a change to the instruction pointer. That would be very close indeed.
As someone who ran a business that accepted credit cards before Square (and others, I'm sure) made it a lot easier, I think it could qualify as important.
That's how you know its built with quabity!
ICOs Have Already Raised Over $13B in 2018
21 Best Ways to Change Your Habits So You Can Stop Feeling Bad About Yourself
Some info about learning Cologne dialect.

https://www.sk-kultur.de/inhalte/themen/akademie-foer-uns-ko...

An initiative to teach Bavarian in the schools

http://m.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/schule/bayerisch-lehrer-i...

There are similar initiatives for other dialects.

Sorry they are in German, just wanted to provide direct links, instead of Google translate.
The Israeli Military Has Big Plans for Small Drones
San Francisco probably does have more homeless than England, but that is a likely a case of lieing with statistics. Which is to say there are external factors that make homeless likely to migrate to San Francisco meaning you will find other places "near" San Francisco with much less homeless.
Then mine comets or dip into appropriate planetary atmospheres. The material in the article is way too spread out.
> we still don’t know how to make Damascus steel or Roman concrete

That's an oft-repeated but ultimately meaningless statement.

We know how to make things better than Damascus steel or Roman concrete. Our processes have exceeded the ancients. The quality of Damascus steel is likely overrated, since it wasn't quite as absolute shit as what was being regularly traded at the time. Same with concrete.

We might not have exquisite written recipes and procedures for these materials, but they have been reverse-engineered, and it turns out, they weren't that great compared to modern chemical and material engineered products.

We don't need to 'rediscover' Damascus steel because it is obselete. A romantic idea, and poetic in how it was 'lost' to time, but consider that it was 'lost' to time, similar to Japanese steel-working, because nobody wanted to buy it anymore. It became economically and culturally irrelevant.
It's co-founded by the author of the featured article. I was also impressed by it.
Anyone using Crystal in production? What do you use it for?
It was just a matter of time that somebody from outer space would find us and conclude that we must be fumigated ASAP. All we need to find now is an huge spaceship shaped as an aerosol can
We don’t want cars, horses, trains, buses and things. They are all means to an end. The means of being able to move from place A to B quickly and in relative comfort.

People select whatever gets that means satisfied at the price they can afford. It’s a demand supply curve.

I take a bus to Seattle everyday even though it slower, but it’s way more confortable than driving. I always get a seat and I can read a book / get work done.

I wouldn’t take a crowded bus though. 545 is so crowded you can smell people’s sweat. I’d go back to driving. I love driving and bobbing my head to good music.

But most of the days, we don’t give a shit. We just want to get to work in morning and get back home in evening. We chose whatever means gets the job done!
For many people, the benefit of being able to look up information is greater than the cost of letting other people have this ability - most people still won't care too much even if they know their data is published in this way. (For example, most people were willing to have their home telephone number published in a phone book)

For some people, the cost of letting other people look up your information is overwhelmingly huge - this is why privacy should be regulated.

We don't really "all suffer" the same - some people suffer disproportionately (stalking, harassment, abuse).

Publishing the data as a torrent is unlikely to change people's opinion, but will almost certainly harm people.

Don't take this approach.
From Mozilla yes, but there was some activity by others this year: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/pull/2442
Feel free to read the article I linked, it addressed your comment.
Losing memory via attrition is certainly a concern. But I think the bigger concern is losing memory via censorship and copyright. For most people, the internet is now google search and a couple of social media companies. Google has been curating search results for a while now. We no longer see what is out there in the internet, but a narrow google approved view of the internet. For example, 10 years ago, google showed us the entire elephant ( more or less ), today, we only get to see the tail or the trunk or whichever part of the elephant google decides to frame. Now all of the social media companies are now curating. And with the loss of neutrality, ISPs will undoubtedly curate.

And then there is the copyright issues where archiving is getting more difficult. Kids today don't know what a great tool google cache was because it's gone. And archiving sites are being attack from news, media, politicians, etc.

In other words, the internet dark age isn't going to be a result of formats getting old ( though that is an issue ). It's going to be a result of us only being allowed to see through the frame that a handful of companies deem appropriate. The dark ages didn't happen because formats got old. The dark ages happened because the powerful decided that we should view the world within a certain narrow religious frame and censored everything else.
Why Goldman Sachs Is Lending to the Middle Class
Apparently some implementations have tail-recursion modulo cons. You spot a tail-recursive function where the result is placed in the cdr, and you compile your code so that it chains cells by calling "set-cdr!"

For example (using CL), the code could be turned into two auxiliary map%% and map% functions (map% would be what a call to map expands into).

(defun map%% (cons function list)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (debug 1) (safety 1))
(type function function)
(type list list)
(type cons cons))
(when list
(map%% (setf (cdr cons)
(list (funcall function (first list))))
function
(rest list))))

(defun map% (function list)
(let ((fresh (cons nil nil)))
(map%% fresh function list)
(rest fresh)))

Testing TCO:

(map% #'1+ '#1=(5 6 8 4 5 1 3 . #1#))

Heap exhausted, game over.
If you're in Insert Mode, and you want to paste the thing you last yanked, without leaving insert mode, you can do the following:<C-r>0

That pastes the contents of the 0 register into the buffer. Very useful. That'll work for all registers too.
There's this: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-u...

"Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have developed the recording and retrieval processes of five dimensional (5D) digital data by femtosecond laser writing.

The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records."
Varnish + Grace period == solved
Yes, Redfin shows some of the properties at least in Seattle area are being sold at an exorbitant price (way more than asking price). Too few houses, too many buyers!
People always talk about Orwell and 1984, but it was Huxley who really nailed it imo. I think he appreciated the degree to which a stable dystopia required the consent and participation- even enthusiasm- of the general populace.
Amazing piece of historical journalism. Thumbs up for the quality material. Thank you for posting this.
> It's interesting that we consider this a leak only when the marketing firm loses the data.

We don't consider this a leak when the marketing firm loses its data. It's only a leak when we find out that the marketing firm has lost control of its data.
The eponymous straight is a major seaway. It's Spanish origin challenged my naive model of US historical geography when I was alongside it a few weeks ago -- I generally associate Spanish with the coast further south. At the time my wikipedia connectivity was limited. Yesterday, I mentioned having been there and was reminded of my curiosity. Partly what made the article intellectually interesting to me is the contemporary interest in discrediting Juan de Fuca's account. Partly it is that Juan de Fuca was Greek rather than Spanish. And partly it is the proximity of the straight to Seattle and Vancouver without a well known "Amerigo Vespucci" story of it's name.
As a word of caution - the authentication framework used in this boilerplate, Allauth, is opinionated and badly documented. Expect to do code dives if you use this.
It wouldn't. Grease is slippery relative to e.g. metal sliding on metal, but still has friction. A vacuum has no friction at all, and so the tiny amount of matter present in space, hydrogen, this grease, dust, etc. can only slow you down.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I meant is a sorting service, not a collection service.
Jokes don't contribute to the discussion. They're generally considered noise rather than signal here.

HN's official policy is that it isn't reddit and doesn't want to be reddit. In my opinion, intolerance of jokes is the entire distinction between the two.

There's also the issue that jokes are often misunderstood and end up causing even more wasted text.
Wow. Cake is good! Story is also good!
EDIT: how do I get an invite?
We use Crystal at RainforestQA to replace our heavy-load / slowish Ruby microservices. It's been great so far and we love it. We're also increasing the adoption to Crystal inside the organization.

Also Crystal has a dedicated a wiki page for production users

Used in production: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...
The low-hanging fruit amenable to this type of discovery has been plucked years ago.
Let's make this more generic:

Anyone using Crystal? What do you use it for?
If you don't think regulation is a serious threat, you're crazy. The fact that Airbnb being completely outlawed is on the table in a lot of places should tell you that regulation is a big concern.
Sorry no - just Mac and Windows for now.
Is there a decentralized anything that has been successful outside of email?
I think it's a UK thing, never heard of that in the rest of Europe?
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead also gives this deep simulation experience in the form of an ascii survival game.

You’ll be hopped up on cocaine trying to offset the painkilling effects of the opioids, so you can maintain the necessary concentration to install a nightvision cybernetic enhancement directly into your eye, when a once domesticated hungry dog stops by and sees you as a regrettable alternative to starving. Knowing you won’t survive the encounter in your current state, you throw a grenade at it just to be on the safe side. Except, you didn’t throw it cause in your euphoria you decided to take a little micronap.

Or: you build a freaking TANK powered entirely by an array of solar panels. It doesn’t move very fast or far given its power source, so you just let it roll forward on its own while you read a book from before the cataclysm about How to Win Friends and Influence People (in case you ever actually meet anyone). While you’re reading, you accidentally crash at 5mph into a wall. You get out to repair the minor damage, and a zombie grabs you, and hundreds more are spilling out. If only you were in your tank...you bludgeon the zombie with your book and think about how to Win Friends and Influence People.
- are these files local or remote?

- do you need tail?

- could you provide a link to a typical log file (with sensitive info removed of course)?
Yes, the way they do that is having specific mattresses that are only produced for them. So for example, let's call it Dreamliner XL 2000, this mattress isn't manufactured by anyone else, even if there are Dreamliners sold by other vendors it isn't that model, hence the bold claim. Whee!
It takes some skill to figure out that your throughput is significantly lower than the actual radio transmission rate. There are a lot of factors that can hurt WiFi performance, and ruling out poor signal strength and interference isn't easy for most users.
Facebook patent would turn your mic on to analyze how you watch ads
You don't think it's remotely a concern that a new law in Japan wiped out 40,000 Airbnbs overnight?
There's no limit to longevity, says study that revives human lifespan debate
Any matter starts to resemble a nuclear detonation as you impact it approaching c. As your relative velocity becomes Relativistic in relation to the matter you’re impacting, the energy liberated increases in a non-linear scale. Grease, individual hydrogen atoms, anything. You’d really need some kind of exotic material, a few kilometers of ablative shielding, or “energy shielding” to make near-c velocities work. You’d be slowed down, but you’d also be blown to bits... tricky thing relativistic velocities.
People need to keep their own personal archives. While there are great projects like archive.org, it's becoming more clear that it's not enough. There's not enough resources for an organization(that isn't spying on everyone) to archive YouTube, or Slack history, etc., so it's up to you to back up that data if it's important to you. Culture can be easily lost to the void if we don't do this.

As I've mentioned in another HN thread, I've been using youtube-dl to back up YouTube videos that are important to me since it's increasingly obvious that YouTube is merely a profit machine that would delete all of its user's videos in one fell swoop if they made an extra buck off it. I've also begun to back up some blogs that have vast mounts of great content, but I've found that HTTrack is... well, terrible. That's not to say it doesn't technically do its job, but it's way too aggressive. I wan't something that's easier to configure and can do a better job of taking "snapshots" of blog entries while blocking ads, javascripts, being able to resume properly if my power goes out, etc.
I think the secret is crankiness. I have a family member who is stuck in the 70s.
Startups have very high highs and very low lows. It's normal for things to go extremely bad. I used to keep to a saying: "If you can avoid dying long enough, you'll be rich."

However, another strong rule of thumb I keep to is 'no bullshit'. Bullshit means retaining people who should be fired. Bullshit means following down a long route in order to blame someone. If you're spending a lot of time covering your butt, setting up documents of proof, attending pointless meetings so people can't blame you for not attending meetings... then that's a sign things are going downhill.
If you don’t have the resources to be a good steward of a dataset, you don’t have the resources to gather and store that data in the first place, even if it may seem easy to do so.
I found it enjoyable and understandable, but I guess I was already slightly familiar with matrix factorization for recommendation/characterization problems.
PSA: None of these are guaranteed to work. At all.

Been taking time to go to these even though most are at terribly inconvenient times & days. Even in the city that never sleeps, I've had no dice with any of these. I've had more success with a Discord channel for .NET programmers than I have in going to real world meetups.
Interesting, thanks for the pointer I will check that out.
Crystal looks interesting although I decided to learn Golang instead. It's more mature and the WIP features described below made me cautious (i.e. what other features are immature).

Anyone know when Crystal will get concurrency-a-la-golang? i.e. running concurrent processes in parallel? At the moment I think it's still single-threaded. https://crystal-lang.org/docs/guides/concurrency.html

Still no windows support: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
Can humans reach even older age? We haven't maxed out yet, some scientists say
I'm not sure why anyone would actually use it in the current state, unstable, lack of libraries, lack of community and the biggest problem no multi-threading / windows support
AT&T’s low-cost TV streaming service Watch TV goes live
It is a matter of quality. LEGO uses more expensive plastic, and scraps their molds at the first sign of wear. The competitors use cheaper plastics and keep using their molds until they are significantly out of tolerance. This is how they are able to be much cheaper.

There isn't anything magic about what lego does, other than they do it.
Have Humans Reached Their Limit on Life Span? These Researchers Say No