skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's maybe true but in that case also quite incomplete and doesn't actually conflict with my point. Ethnicity is a readout of where that person grew up, those cultural touchtones reflect that you have a bunch of people living in the same geographical area. These people scramble their genes together, but because they're in the same area, they would naturally begin to diverge genetically from those in other areas.

You're right that ethnicity and the common definitions of race (i.e. skin tone, hair color/texture, dominant facial features) don't always correlate as well as expected, but that doesn't stop it from being used that way. Another example in addition to yours would be someone who is north african and someone who is south african may have quite different tolerance to lactose because of different prevalences of cattle herding in those regions of the world (Lactose tolerance arises very quickly when humans raise cattle). Still an outside observer would label them both "Black", despite their ethnicities and genetic makeups being different.

In short, ethnicity/race/genetics are all correlates but not absolutes. You have to do a follow-up test, you have to be careful in your assumptions or you'll make a mistake.
Yeah it seems plasma gets used a bit lightly. I was under the impression you need stonking amounts of pressure or heat.
I have four kids (two of my own, and two stepchildren) and I generally agree with this style of parenting. I feel like there is a bit of a "cult of the child" in America (where I am) where it is a competition now to raise the most perfect children, with the most perfect Instagram ready activities all the time, each a potential STEM subject genius with world changing thoughts, etc. etc. It's tiring to watch if you are on social media, which I feel is one of the big drivers of the new attitudes toward kids. I see parents using their kids for virtue signalling all the time.
Interesting question. What does that have to do with "Koch"?

Do you think there are currently no businesses that invented, exclusively make, and control the pricy distribution of specialized diagnostic tools? how does the political philosophy of investors in such corporations change whether a doctor decides additional diagnosis is required? are patients expected to reject diagnosis on the basis of the political thoughts of people who may, or may not, have invested in the relevant pharmaceutical companies?

What about the purchase of food and clothes? does the same standard apply?
Parallel compilation in Scala 3 for early adopters
I’m stumped by that as well. Traveling faster than the speed of sound doesn’t make you silent; it feels like time is being arbitrarily defined relative to light(?)
Well first, I did not give a position regarding the article just information - so there is no argument to be an ad hom. fallacy.

Second, given the Koch's long history and extensive network of supported organizations, many people can come to their own conclusions about the motivations of past and current actions in the context of the currently posted article. Taking more information of past actions into context is also not an ad hominem attack.
It should be understood by the employees. I joined a Big-whatever company because of the stability. If I was going to join a small startup, I'd be aware of the instability.

That doesn't mean it isn't bad to lay people off in a startup; it's horrible. And it means the founders did something wrong (hired too many people, didn't have a good business model, etc).

But it should be understood that the entire company can disappear in 6 months if its a new startup.
> that common of a pattern?

The point of homoiconic languages like lisps, where the language is just the syntax tree, is that you can make your own nodes. `if-let` and `when-let` are patterns, they don't have to be common, the definition of which remove at least one node. It's not any different than the idea of having lots of small functions but at the syntax layer. Do this enough time and your actual business logic starts get pretty terse.
I like the macro transformers in R5RS Scheme. Here's how the multi-binding if-let and when-let look:

(define-syntax if-let
(syntax-rules ()
((if-let ((var value) ...)
consequent ...)
(let ((var value) ...)
(if (and var ...)
consequent ...)))))

(define-syntax when-let
(syntax-rules ()
((when-let (binding)
body ...)
(if-let (binding)
(begin body ...)))))
London Cabs – Find and Compare Taxis in London
For sure... have bitbucket and github on the roadmap. Right now we're wrapping up a Jira issue import that totally migrates your whole deal over to Croc.
Rocket Bullets: The Flame and Fizzle of the Gyrojet
> 18 months... Certainly not enough time to find product market fit in many cases if you start out with only a vague idea.

I don't understand how "only a vague idea" is able to raise millions of dollars in the first place. Can you elaborate or give an example?
I wonder if China's chips have something like Intel Management Engine?
Saw this the other day. Seems like it would make sense.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/03/google-clouds-coo-departs-...
They were active in at least one Midwest city (Indianapolis) until last week, so $880 might not be a full-time job there, but would be a very nice supplementary income.
When I first started evaluating research, I was able to deconstruct studies and show why they were bad left and right. I thought I was so smart, but then when I started trying to do my own research it became obvious that we operate under the same limitations as everyone else -- how do we design the best imperfect study given the limitations of money, time, people, and geography?

In that context, I think this study is great. It is always true that the results of a study in a narrow group do not extrapolate to a larger group and it is good to be aware. However, that doesn't mean it can't generate hypotheses for a larger group (which can then be studied). The researchers likely would not have had the pull to generate an equivalent amount of data and follow-up data for a world-wide population, but I'm glad they did the best they could rather than spend their day posting criticisms on HackerNews.
> It should be understood by the employees.

I agree.

> I joined a Big-whatever company because of the stability. If I was going to join a small startup, I'd be aware of the instability.

I concur with your reasoning.

> That doesn't mean it isn't bad to lay people off in a startup; it's horrible. And it means the founders did something wrong (hired too many people, didn't have a good business model, etc).

100%

> But it should be understood that the entire company can disappear in 6 months if its a new startup.

That's fair.

But just because something should be understood, doesn't mean it necessarily is understood by all parties. Assuming "ought implies is" is how a lot of dangerous mistakes happen.
A/B Testing for Engineers w/JavaScript
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but it has predictable effects on HN threads, and they're bad for the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Physics is raping our company. We need to make a better deal with physics.
First, thanks for sharing this data.
Second - why on earth would anyone create a 1.8TB zip file of 100k videos? Likely the video encoder already compressed every possible bit out of these videos, zip is not going to make it smaller. It is, however, going to make it mandatory for everyone to download the full 1.8TB file even to get a single video out of this archive. Makes me wonder what else is happening here (like the chrome only download link which is hosted on another domain, and the non-https login, and that escalator to nowhere..*)
Here is the PDF of the Bill (took me a while to find it, thanks Patently-O):

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/07/legislation-leadership-...

https://cdn.patentlyo.com/media/2018/07/FinalPatentBill.pdf

Let me quote the revelant paragraph:

"(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con5
gress that—
6 (1) the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence
7 concerning subject matter patentability has harmed
8 the progress of science and the useful arts;
9 (2) the United States patent system must pro10
tect and encourage research and development in
11 such scientific disciplines as would promote the
12 progress of science and the useful arts by securing
13 for limited times to inventors the exclusive rights to
14 their discoveries and provide scientists in the life
15 sciences, computer sciences, and other disciplines,
16 with certainty that their discoveries and inventions
17 are entitled to patent protection; and
18 (3) this amendment effectively abrogates Alice
19 Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347
20 (2014) and its predecessors to ensure that life
21 sciences discoveries, computer software, and similar
22 inventions and discoveries are patentable, and that
23 those patents are enforceable. "
I think I've learned something. Very eye-opening.

> 1. staff up

> 2. let your employees go

> 3. profit

> 4. give tips on the internet that you shouldn't staff up

> 5. stop to look into a mirror because you don't have any integrity whatsoever

I hope he just forgot to mention that there was a <minimum time to let it seem reasonable and humane> duration between the firing and the holiday.
Hugo 0.43 Announces Hugp Pipes, with Minification and SCSS/SASS Support Etc.
Well aware of the dangers and effects too, they just didn't care. "Everyone does it around here!"

This isn't a species destined for long term survival.
Amazing.

Is this relying on an external server to work?
Who created CSS as we know it? CERN. More or less.

Who first tested and implemented CSS? Browser programmers.

These days it's under the control of committee. I think I would disagree with the notion that CSS devs are the ones to blame in this case. Sure, there's lots of blame to share for the problems. To imply that CSS developers intentionally forced it to be complicated for purposes of job security is laughable.

After all, CSS is not C++.
Man... $880 a month to drive around Seattle sounds miserable.
If you chase down the science paper (cough scihub cough) they tested various "native" breeds and found they were not genetically pre-contact.
Ask HN: Is going back to college worth it if you already have experience?
Though I'm happy with my current position, I'm starting to look towards the future a bit. I have an associates degree and four years of experience as a full-stack .NET web developer. I'm considering going back for my bachelors to make myself more marketable.

Have any of you out there without a bachelors had professional doors shut because of your lack of degree, even with experience?
Show HN: Tampery – Tamper browser reuqests like a Pro
RubyHACK 2018: Why Funding Open Source Is Hard by Eric Berry
I'm not personally super invested in this, but you might want to check to see if that violates GDPR.
I only mentioned it because chrome makes it feel like it's not a problem. Tabs are big, wide as the screen, and there's only one column. It's easy to browse and find any tab with a few flicks, even when having hundreds of tabs. Switching through these tabs is fast, way faster than firefox's UI allows, and that's the point I'm getting at, that there's much improvement that can be made over firefox's mobile UI.
Yes you got the jist of it. Apple is trying to be the Anti-Google in this regard with privacy first defaults but they are guilty of making very agressive decisions to keep control of their phones. Safari is the only browser that can be used on iOS and it's responsible for its market share today! It's viable competition for chrome.
I worked at Intel for two years. They don't have a "toxic" culture. They are just like any other big company. Believe it or not, Google and Facebook will end up like that in 25 years too.

Big organizations get like that. There's a generation that's raised on the company Kool-Aid and they live and breathe the company slogans and they forget that reality is a different place. That's not TOXIC ... that's just the nature of human organizations.

And I mean all organizations that are large. If you ever hang out with DNC or GOP people who work for the party you'll see the same blinders. Same goes for people that work at NASA ... or in certain academic fields. They all believe certain myths internally that no experts outside their group believe.

The point about Intel being addicted to narratives that aligned with its profits is true. And Microsoft was addicted to Windows and Office narratives too before Satya Nadella.

It certainly makes you admire IBM as a company a lot more, doesn't it? They have weathered so many changes in the landscape, and they are still around.
Ask HN: Are developers actually bad at self-testing?
I've heard this claimed before and even parroted it myself, but I'm curious if there is anything empirical backing this up or if it's just a pseudoaphorism to justify not doing a tedious part of the job.
I haven't pushed to production yet either, but I've been using Prisma for about 2 months now and I enjoy it quite a bit.
You could also introduce a "locally" form (for those wondering: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/CLHS/Body/s_loca...)
I implemented two simple interview tests in order to weed out people who can't do simple debugging.

In one, I hand them my laptop and give them a basic create-react-app sample that uses fetch on a remote URL, but there's a typo in the URL. I tell them it's supposed to fetch a remote REST API and parse the JSON but it doesn't work--how would you fix it?

So far, two ways to pass: Just look at the source code, or use the network debugging tools to find the error.

Spraying console.log statements everywhere is a red flag to me. So far, the test seems to work well.
Are you assuming that parent is an American voter? Or that the Americans will protect the rest of the world with their votes - even when it's counter to "American Interests"?

Going with the copyright theme: most American voters would have been happy with the copyright provisions of the trans-atlantic treaty since that increased "shareholder value" that would benefit their 401k's.
Would you please not post ideological rants to HN, like this and your other recent comments? That's definitely not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of ideology, because doing it destroys the intellectual curiosity this site exists for. So if you could please (re-)read the guidelines and not use HN that way, we'd appreciate it.
Agressive is the right word I think Bird has the former Uber head of growth.
The police aren't being asked to enforce a civil action. Theft is a crime and the police do not need the victim to approve action against the criminal. They simply didn't want to follow up.
How do you reconcile this advice and position yourself if the seed round is only enough to prove out whether the product can be built at all?

As an analogy, say I had the idea for a car when everyone is still using horses. I raised a seed round to build my car but the funding is only enough to build a car prototype that goes 10mph. At 10mph, there is obviously no product/market fit since horses are still faster and cheaper. However, the prototype proved out the technical challenges, so I know with more capital I'd be able to make a car that can go 80mph, making the horses obsolete. How would your post apply in this case?
IEEE can do whatever it wants. They don't certify anyone as a professional engineer. That is NSPE's job in the US.
If anyone could help, I'm working with a company led by a young woman in Kenya who is actively creating paving bricks out of used plastic bottles. They need about $25k-$50k for machinery to help scale out the operation, and we're trying to find some people who can help secure this funding. Contact me if you'd like to help with doing something good with them.

Her company website: https://gjengemakers.wixsite.com/mysite
There is some good sense to the argument though. Being entirely surrounded, Germany couldn’t afford to mobilise slower than it’s neighbours. I appreciate this isn’t exactly what you are arguing against but it a pretty complicated situation.
given the phrasing I’m working on the assumption that they didn’t end up >$250k net income/profit (not clear what the $100k number refers to) soon after getting in the black. Given that they were in the red before, they still had some losses to work through before they could start building towards that $1M profit. The one year timeline sounds about right
There was nothing soft about chinese troops fighting for north korea and supporting many decades of the most brutal dictatorship. Or the personnel and materiel support of the khmer rouge while they buried a part of their population alive.

Due to internal strife and catastrophes China was not very active on the international floor in the last century but boy did they step in it when they did.
My first debate :

https://www.kialo.com/kalios-source-code-should-be-free-and-...

;)

It's also an awesome tool to help one at building a reasoning
Fair Trade coffee is not an inherently beautiful and good system. It has worthy goals and maybe does more good than bad, but it's hardly a great example.
A word of mouth documentary:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0ULKCM

Also this survivor has a website of the event

http://indysurvivor.com
Doesn’t the wormhole scenario require bending the thing back on itself? I always thought that just because something could violate causality doesn’t necessarily mean it would, but IANAP and maybe that distinction doesn’t matter.
The systems and especially the software are nowadays the limiting and expensive part.
I started with apollo-client on a new app, but switched to using ngrx and turning off apollo-client caching (basically using apollo-client as a fancy graphql request library - I should probably just use apollo-link directly). My main problem was that it felt like it required both developers and components to have too much knowledge of the individual queries that the app was making. Instead of writing an app that happened to use graphql, I felt like I was writing a graphql app.

An example of that is updating the state after mutations that modify lists (e.g. creates or deletes). It's up to the developer to remember all other queries that could be affected by a mutation and to update them manually after the mutation completes (more info: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/3505 and https://www.apollographql.com/docs/angular/features/cache-up...). If you add a new component that performs
a query that could be affected by a previous mutation, you have to remember to also go back to that mutation and update your query from it. With ngrx (or redux), the consistency is baked in, and part of the beauty of it is that if you update the state, anyone who happens to be reading that state will get updated automatically.
Please don't post ideological flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do that. We've also had to warn you about this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Still doesn't solve the core problem with the Android emulator - performance. Android needs a "simulator", not an emulator running the entire stack. iOS handles this wonderfully.
The picture you're talking about is a Minkowski diagram and it's very useful for conceptualizing how time and space change in fast reference frames. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_diagram
User count. Put a big LED on your wall right above your monitor with your weekly active users in the last 7 days. Any time it goes up, play a bing noise. Eventually you'll pavlov yourself into liking that sound.
Japan has a vastly different approach to public transit versus the US.
Is the code actually bad or just different? Consider the costs of enforcing a different coding style from what previously existed - is there a business case for it?
Totalitarian control of your platform is tough pill to swallow but modern tech Giants have to keep their internet services visible. Microsoft especially is like a preview of future Google gone bad, having a free/paid OS laden with Ads and restrictive defaults. Cortana is useless since it literally won't accept any other search engine!

I'm curious to see legislation attempt to tackle this, obviously more competition is good! What gives me pause is this relentless trend of killing off small startups and competition through strict defaults like only using Safari on iOS and no other browser. Even chrome on iOS is just Safari with a different navbar
wonder what Google's real interest is in building a city. Actually, I don't really wonder.

It’s not a city. It’s a panopticon.
Although I don't really have a dog in this fight, it's important to note that the contemporary literature in the fields of philosophy, sociology and critical race theory generally considers racism to be involving not only a prejudicial element, but also "acts" (it's important to not restrict racism to acts but also to include ideologies) directed from a position of power. The characteristics (i.e qualitative differences) absolutely matter, along with the history which forms both the perception of what's being said (giving words and actions their meaning) but also may provide context for the action to point towards analysing the act critically.

Regarding a related topic, there's a wonderful paper by Swanson[0] on the use of slurs (in particular racist ones) and the ideologies they hail, and the ideologies hailed absolutely depend on who's using them, in a similar way that the use-mention distinction most people would agree exists.

But there's another point here: you have directly assumed a subjectivist-individualist interpretation of racism (and perhaps even race, for a fresh look at the relation between race and racism see "Racecraft" by Fields and Fields[1]), but while you may account for individual actions of prejudice based on "race", it won't account for structural (going by structure driven through ideology) interpretations of racism.

[0] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ericsw/research/Swanson,%20Sl...

[1] https://www.versobooks.com/books/1645-racecraft
Please don't do ideological name-calling here, regardless of how wrong another comment is, or feels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Counterpoint: Software engineers can just make it a configuration option and leave it to the user to decide how it is run. Unlike civil engineers who can't build a bridge with a configuration option for a 'light & unsafe' bridge, software engineers can make everything an option, and that's often the best practice.

Of course, assuming that they are unaware of how their user / client / employer will actually use the software, they should be fine.
From the GH readme, it seems like it runs a full Firefox locally in the background and then consolifies what that renders.
Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized
If a signature was located in the least significant bits of the pixels, you couldn't recover by just filming. If you altered the video, you would need to re-sign.
Kara Swisher to Contribute to NYT Opinion
Arc has corrupted me to barely be able to tolerate all those parens.

(mac iflet (var condition . body)
`(let ,var ,condition
(if ,var ,@body)))

(mac whenlet (var condition . body)
`(iflet ,var ,condition (do ,@body)))
I don't quite get the scooter renting. I own one. I put it under the desk in office and carry it into my flat.
This is even better than bicycle which I would have to 'dump' on the street.