skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a bit incomplete. A planet can not just capture a moon from something that just happened to come near it.

In order for a moon to enter orbit around a planet it must lose energy, there are two ways for it to do this: Crash into another object, or complicated 3-body interactions, which fling another object away.

> It may be the leftovers of a bigger cosmic collision in the past, Sheppard says.

That is the mostly likely scenario: Two objects collided, one shattered into 7 moons traveling in one direction, and the other ended up as this moon traveling backwards.
Linters should catch most typos; failing that, Python's type hints are a pain to use, but you can address a lot of low-hanging fruit for free.

I think for your use case though, Go would be perfect. Everything is statically compiled, so you don't need to mess with virtualenvs, and everything is statically typed ahead of time. I'm a professional Python developer, but I often do my prototyping in Go because the type system is more ergonomic than Python/mypy.
Private sector debt is at the highest level in recorded history. This is why the post 2008 recovery was so sluggish, since on average every unit of currency circulated has to pay for a fraction of the debt servicing cost. If it stops doing this a crisis will occur, which will either be contractionary or bubble financed by creating new debt to finance old debt. The national authority, with it’s monopoly on coercion can use it’s power to declare debts null and void (this happens all throughout history), create new currency free of debt (pure credit) and spend it into the economy. It can also create an artificial hyperinflation to reduce debt burdens, instate a new currency region altogether (money is simply legal tender subject to the laws the state dictates for it), etc
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The terribly low degree of accuracy in medical billing might be partially why the credit agencies are placing lower weight on medical debt than they used to.
A paleontologist friend of mine often quips that in his field, everything from the 1950s onward is considered “present date”, because the additional radiation pretty much ruined any chance of accurate carbon dating after the atmospheric testing era.

Granted, paleontology looks back in the span of millions to billions of years, so those ancient fossils are ok, but I imagine future scientists will grind their teeth an awful lot when trying to make scientific sense of our present day.
Learn from Javascript. As a full stack dev who came to python only recently, I think Python could really learn from what's happening in the js ecosystem.
unfortunately the lack of diversity makes it hard for me to live there

You don't think non-whites live in Detroit/Chicago?

I'd argue SF isn't that diverse, especially some neighborhoods. It's mostly rich whites and asians. African Americans got chased out long ago or forced into Bayview.
Yea, I politely say no to everything. Boy, do they have a lot of questions though.
Weimar :)
In my experience, Best Buy’s return policy and process has been awful. Granted it’s been years because it was so bad. Literally the worst of any store I’ve ever shopped at.

Last time I bought a router from them it was defective. I had to stand in line for over an hour. The clerk was surly and didn’t believe it was defective. Kept opening the box, pulling everything out, looking at all the pieces. Putting it all back. Over and over.

Then he didn’t said he couldn’t accept it because the receipt was ripped - which it was when the check-out person ripped it out of the register. He said they could take it back, but I wouldn’t be able to make any other returns.

I ended up asking for the manager who took another 15 minutes to arrive, argue and get it sorted.

The return took almost 2 hours. Absolutely crazy.
No. For something of this nature, it is not entitlement to expect the people working on the core team to treat it like a professional. The entitlement comes when you believe that you can take a project like this, that millions of people are using to affect billions more, and treat it like a little hobby project.
> However we can't pass a function as argument

Right, Ruby doesn't have functions at all, so you can't pass them. This is why Ruby isn't simply better than Python here, though I'd say it's still mostly better.

> We can pass a symbol with the name of the fuction.

No, you can either convert the name to a callable and pass that, or for some methods you can pass the name of a method you'd like called on an object that the called method will get somewhere else. This isn’t esuivslent to having the name of a function. Instead, its a facility that is usually offered by a method to provide a more concise alternative to passing an equivalent block for a no-arg method. E.g.:

enum.inject(start, :foo)

is equivalent to:

enum.inject(start) { |obj| obj.send(:foo) }

If you actually have a function-like (callable) object (bound method object or proc/lambda) you can send that as a regular argument, or if the method it is passed to expects a block (as is more frequently the case for Ruby methods that need a single function-like argument) convert the callable to a block with the “&” prefix and send that.
> But if iOS reaches 60% shares in a country, can the country demand substantial changes to iOS to encourage competitors?

In fact, iOS market share in Switzerland is 65%[1]. It's also more than 51% in Norway, Sweden, Canada and Australia.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/switzerland
If you could add some sourced numbers to this comment it would be helpful. You might be right or wrong but I can't tell from this comment alone.
The Economist had a relevant article a few months ago: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/02/15/...
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You neglected to mention that Microsoft employees reverse engineered the YouTube API's and then, for good measure, prevented ads from appearing in the app. They also had no permission to use someone else's IP.

>All to keep WP from being viable enough to have a significant market share

This is a company that not only had to pay developers to write apps for their platform, but would also offer to write it for them. They were never going to have a significant market share because of their incompetence.
I was gifted a 25$ Best buy gift card, I thought I would never remember to use it. One day the lady is looking at makeup and I see a Best buy. I go in looking for a new mousepad. The place is full of washers and blenders etc. The only mouse pad they had was 60$ (extreme gaming blah blah). I ended up grabbing a Pink Floyd vinyl for 22$. I found it odd but if it works it works.
Hard to fit an helicopter here, but cars enter well: https://praqualquerlugar.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/alfama-...
It was weird for me at first, but actually Rust provides a great solution here.

With https://github.com/DanielKeep/cargo-script you can have single file Rust "scripts" with ecosystem dependencies.

When executing the file (via the cargo-script wrapper), dependencies are fetched and a binary is compiled on demand (and cached for re-runs).

It's pretty awesome for scripts where type safety is important.

#!/usr/bin/env run-cargo-script
//! This is a regular crate doc comment, but it also contains a partial
//! Cargo manifest. Note the use of a *fenced* code block, and the
//! `cargo` "language".
//!
//! ```cargo
//! [dependencies]
//! time = "0.1.25"
//! ```
extern crate time;
fn main() {
println!("{}", time::now().rfc822z());
}

Then you can just execute it with ./my-script, which will download dependencies, compile and execute.
The source code in the open is one thing. However there are not a lot of design documents or discussions visible for the public. Therefore it's hard to follow the development and really getting an idea where the project is heading.
Reference counting isn't more efficient than GC; usually the value of reference counting is that it's deterministic and you can bind finalizers to them (with traditional GC, finalizers run when GC runs which may not even happen). The canonical example is a file object that closes its operating system file when the object is no longer used; this is nice in theory, but as the Python folks found out, not a good substitute for properly closing files.
This is a great article for defining terms. For some reason though, this quote made me laugh out loud:

"Excessive availability can become a problem because now it’s the expectation. Don’t make your system overly reliable if you don’t intend to commit to it to being that reliable."
AWS AppSync “no-code” GraphQL builder, HTTP resolvers, offline cache abstraction
If housing wasn't viewed as the middle class investment, housing prices would be much lower.
> other people will ride BART, which will reduce traffic for me so I can drive
> (I do hear BART has better ridership now)

Not just better ... It's literally bursting at it's 1970s-designed seams.

The culture around driving vs rapid transit access has changed dramatically in the Bay Area since that time. In those days, people who couldn't afford to drive (very poor) used mass transit, which is why people of means preferred to drive. Today, people pay for the privelege of _not_ having to drive to the workplace.

There's a lot of evidence that housing near good non-car transit is in higher demand than equivalent non-transit accessible housing.

For proof you need look no further than the price/sqft for housing within a few blocks of BART stations vs farther away:

"A condominium located within a half mile of BART is worth 15 percent more than one located
more than five miles from BART, all else being equal" [1]

Admittedly that's a study by BART themselves, but you can see the same pattern around the price of housing near tech company shuttle stops, which has in turn attracted the ire of anti-gentrification advocates.

1. https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2014-08%20BART...
I understand, and, though it's not in the original post, I will say again.

We screwed up. We are really sorry. This was a confluence of unexpected events that slipped through our systems (which included both humans and algorithms). We know it will take a long time to rebuild the trust we've burned, and we are committed to doing it.

In addition, as I said earlier, the options to ensure that you have additional protection (WHICH YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO, I'M JUST OFFERING IT) are at no cost:

- Provide a valid phone number where we can reach you in the event of suspicious activity on your account.

- Provide one or more billing admins to your account.

- Provide a secondary payment method in case there are problems charging your primary method.

- Contact our sales team to see if you qualify for invoice billing instead of relying on credit cards (this is much lower than you would generally think)
The midwest is underrated, but even though they have the right mentality there are still major barriers to this idea:

1) People almost universally live close to where they grew up. Trying to get someone whose family lives in California to move to the Midwest is inherently harder than getting a Midwesterner living in SV to move back.

2) Jobs don't just shift, and they definitely don't do it quickly. There are a multitude of reasons why it is rational for companies to pay more to live in a more expensive area. What company would move across the country in order to pay more reasonable wages if it meant they lost nearly all connection to suppliers or customers or industry associations or academic/research relationships?

3) For many people, it isn't okay to just pack up and leave if you don't like it. Don't like slavery? Move north! I know that is an extreme example of the mentality, but we are still talking about the wealth and prosperity of an entire generation being swept away by the greed of another generation. Why shouldn't we fight back?
Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator (2016)
One of the bullet points is "Abstract data types (with `Option` and `Result` predefined)." I wonder if they mean "Algebraic data type", since I have seen Option/Result before as an example of those, and they're both commonly abbreviated ADTs. Or maybe they're trying to get at a concept I'm missing here?
> Best Buy doesn’t install anything on the PCs they sell.

This isn't necessarily true. Some PCs are Best Buy specific models, with extra bloatware from Best Buy (in addition to the OEM bloatware from Dell / HP / Lenovo).

This also affects physical components sometimes. I remember from laptop shopping a few months ago, that the MSI GS63 Stealth laptop ships with a crappier screen specifically for the Best Buy model, where as most other models had a decent screen. This was done so that the Best Buy model would have an artificially-low price in comparison to online retailers.
Getting the definitions right
The customer has been informed.
This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.
That's generally correct. Though a lot of SLOs of SRE teams are influenced by external commitments as well. But I suppose that's pretty obvious considering there's SRE teams supporting cloud products.
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You claim that the python core team should be aware python is used by so many people, but you have no clue what them being deeply aware of that looks like, so how can you possibly claim that they're not doing that now, that doing so will make any difference, and that it's "forwards" for them to internalize that?

I also am absolutely floored that you'd pull out the term gaslighting for the parent comment which makes no assertions and only asks you to elaborate on your point more.

I think you need to step back, re-read this comment chain, and go look at a mirror.
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I just renamed my microwave to "refrigerator", but all of my food caught on fire and started leaking operational debt! :(
LC_COLLATE is the critical category according to the bug report. No need to set anything else.
most home owners have the vast majority of their wealth tied up in a single asset

Is this a problem, and is it feasible to fix it?
I'm not affiliated with Optina and I don't know specifically what they're doing, but the classic symptom of Alzheimer's is the formation in the brain of amyloid plaques - and it appears to be the case that they also form on the retina, and can thus be detected by appropriate optical scans.
If you believe your account is flagged, you can sell that account to people who are willing to purchase Aged Amazon accounts, they will buy out the remainder of your Amazon prime payments.
Agreed. Why should the city and its residents stretch thin... businesses and newcomers will simply wise up and spread out. Living and working here has become like a high on drugs, and people are doing whatever it takes to get their next hit.

I'd love to see what an intelligent generation does to build up neighboring cities rather than complain about one that would do just fine without them.
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One studio (CBS) owns the rights to the televised Star Trek universe, and another (Paramount) to the movie Star Trek universe. But to make it even more complicated, the movie rights trump the TV rights, so elements that were in both (such as TOS and TNG) can't be in any new series without Paramount's permission.

Both studios used to be owned by the same company, but they split a few years ago, around the time Enterprise was ending its run on TV. A rumored merger of CBS and Paramount vis-a-vi the Viacom merger would have reunited the rights, but it looks like that is permanently off the table (see the Redstone litigation).
Does TypeScript make for more performant JavaScript?
Awe inspiring is correct!

My grandmother was born in 1888. In her lifetime, she saw the first automobile, the first airplane (propeller-driven, followed by jet aircraft!), radio, "talkies" (movies with soundtracks), television (black & white, then colour!), stereo records, indoor plumbing and electrical service, electronic computers, rockets, artificial satellites, the moon landing, refrigeration(!), vaccinations and antibiotics(!), the internet, and on and on.

She lived through two world wars, and the aftermath, losing brothers and friends as a result. There were joys and horrors to be sure. She remembered seeing the first car (which she called "a noisy piece of junk"), and the first time she spotted an airplane, and her first electric appliances (refrigerator and clothes washer).

For a thousand years prior, life had changed but only incrementally -- someone from the year 900 could still recognize life in 1400. However, in this short 100 year span during her lifetime, from 1890 to 1990, the transformation of civilization was so thorough and amazing that it is difficult to appreciate civilization's quantum jump.

What a profound change! Just stop and imagine this for a moment: a world without automobiles, where all travel is by horse/carriage, or train, or boat, or foot. No antibiotics. The milkman delivered (unpasteurized milk to the front porch) and the ice man delivered a block of ice every few days. There was no telephone -- a telegraph was the "text message" of the day and the radio was as close to instant information as one could get. There was no telephone. Photographic news could take weeks/months to travel across a country or an ocean, and the only way to cross the oceans was a boat with cloth sales or a steam boiler and a commitment of months.

So to think of the transition from a time where a little scratch could lead to an infection that kills you, or an injury to a limb means chopping it off and hoping one lives, a scientific (lack of) understanding illuminated only briefly by Phineas Gage's tamper-rod-through-the-frontal-lobe injury to a time where surgeons can cut abnormal things out of your brain and you go home in a couple days functioning normally is just astounding.

We live in a time of miracles. There is no other way to say it.
> Your opinion. Fortunately, not the opinion of the majority of voters in San Francisco.

A mere electoral trick. If every person that works in SF voted you would get the opposite result.

Also, all the people you mention will die and will be replaced by others.
Back in the early 20th century, American doctors lobbied very hard to ensure that radium-coated water dispensers sold did indeed contain enough radioactive material to provide “health” benefits.

My, how times have changed.
Universities patent lots of practical research that has yet to be commercialized. Here are some patents I've helped file that I know are not yet commercialized:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Let me know if anyone has any questions. OP and main developer here.
Jail time
> High confidence that I'm getting a genuine product

Coming from a guy wearing a $50 pair of counterfeit Billabong shorts right now, that I bought off Amazon, I agree.
I live on the Peninsula in the Bay Area, SF's suburbs. Recently there has been a huge uptick in apartment building, mostly because Caltrain is building apartments on their land. I rent so I like there is some downward pressure on property prices. However one problem with these apartments blocks is that they make them cheap and they look lame. Nothing like the nice apartments in Italy or France. It's too bad. There should be some big tax break for good architecture.
Not Adora here, you don't need a co-founder to join startup school.
I don't know which HN you've been reading, but there's a fairly strong anti-Google sentiment around here...
It isn't a simile. If they are colluding to reduce supply and increase prices, they actually fit within the dictionary definition of a cartel.
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I was an exchange student who became Canadian after some time , later traveling to outside of north america I found Aunt Jemima's was not what people are thinking of what is maple syrup(something that the host family was buying as a staple and sometimes adding to corn and barn flakes).

For me this is the only kind I would put on pancakes.
> Just about no one would want to see their neighborhood turn into ...

Just about no one would want to see their rent go up year by year either. These interests should be balanced by the market, and now legislation is tilting the table in favor of people who want everything to stay the same way it has been.
Isn't that one of the reasons for Netflix' chaos monkey? To make sure no one thinks "my dependency will always be there"?
Just note that this friendly graph employs the bad practice of not having the vertical axis origin at 0, which visually exaggerates the change.
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All of the reasons mentioned were BS when wkhtmltopdf was in active development, as, even with all that, wkhtmltopdf (and phantom.js later) was the only game in town.

Now we have Chrome headless etc as well.
SLOs certainly don't rigidly map to OKRs. Maybe it's easier to consider them (two sided) commitments about the quality of service? They're more of an ongoing measure of quality rather than a quarterly objective.
> If they were of similar mass my intuition is that you'd go weightless while it was happening.

Remember that they would be attracted to each other, so the orbit would have to be absolutely perfect for this to work.

Imagine an X - each moon traveling on one of the lines, and just barely touching at the center of the X. Their speed would be incredibly high - don't try to touch the other moon, in fact it would be so fast you might not even be able to see it. (In reality X would be very curved.)
how about "2nd tier" city sourcing
That's super annoying. Amazon needs to be clear when an item is going to take a damn month to arrive. A giant huge warning at the top of the page telling me that I should be okay with waiting 1990's amount of time to get the package. And I should be able to filter it out of the search results, too.

I bought hangers, HANGERS, from Amazon, shipped and made by AmazonBasics, and they're "Arriving Aug 15 - Sep 21". Uhh? Well now I'm gonna have to go to the store anyway because I need hangers NOW not 5 damn years from now. Also how is it possible to have a whole MONTH for the expected delivery date?
Okay...here's more statistics for you. 75% of American online shoppers use Amazon for most of their online shopping [1]. 80% of Americans shop online [2]. So approximately 60% of all Americans frequently shop at Amazon.

_________

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/more-than-75-percent-of-us-o...

2. http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/12/19/online-shopping-and-e-...
They did that for me a couple of times, but what started to happen is packages were mark delivered, then not be there. I complained to Amazon, who gave me the run around (and kept it open), so when it came a day later, there was all the sudden no issue.
No, you don't get to blame this on the processor. Modern processors are perfectly capable of operating exactly at the limit of the cooling system they are provided. No worries there. There is no "setpoint" you need to set; the processor ramps up, then sustains.

This is purely a mechanical engineering issue. They haven't designed it properly.
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Might just be your neck of the woods? I went in last week looking for a portable speaker[0] and was pretty young, of course my metro skews young so it might just be my neck of the woods.

[0] - If anyone has a recommendation for a good one that lacks a built-in microphone / assistant I'd be very grateful.