skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be that guy, but we all knew that "Less stress" and "better work life balance" would result from working one day less a week, but it doesn't talk about productivity or revenue or any of that. I don't think you can realistically call this a "success" if it's not something most businesses could afford to do, and if there was a productivity loss on par with the 20% of work missed then...they're just paying more for less? Am I missing something here?
There really isn't any equivalent of the asteroid/planet split that exists for non-moons. We've known about small, non-spherical moons for over a century and nobody has seriously advocated giving a different name for them and the big spherical ones: Luna, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io, Titan, and Triton. But yeah, astronomers will certianly need to figure out some distinction between chunks of ring and discrete moons.
Well the outage itself died. Hopefully. Otherwise it would just be an incident status update.
Putin's motives are as simple as a playground bully. He has an inferiority complex; he wants to prove that he and his nation are rougher and tougher than the others. Not because there's anything rational to be gained by that; just because he wants it.
It's imposed on every commercial user of their API which is why a lot of companies are also leaving Google Maps. I talked about this in another post, but Apple[1], Tesla[2], and Uber[3] are all getting off of Google Maps. It seems that Google raised prices to the point where it's actually cheaper to just go and build your own maps or find a lower cost alternative.

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

[2] - https://electrek.co/2017/07/03/tesla-map-navigation-open-sou...

[3] - https://www.uber.com/newsroom/mapping-ubers-future/
PR piece = "quietly"
Someone else said this on HN: Python is the second best language in almost every field of computing.

That's why there's a library for everything in Python.

It's limitations are also not terrible for most people. If you want super fast, you will know how to do that some other way. If you just want simple and easy to read, you use Python.
You are moving the goalpost there. No one ever said that votes were manipulated.

What everyone has been saying is that (a) Russia hacked the DNC emails and laundered them through Wikileaks, (b) provided financial assistance to Republicans via channels such as NRA, (c) setup and promoted a mass fake news network on Facebook, Twitter et al.

Meanwhile 12 Russians are indicted, a dozen or so Trump campaign officials (so far) have been implicated and pretty much everyone doesn't know what the hell happened at that Russia press conference.
While I've experienced the frustration of having a formerly free service develop paid tiers (and policies that put me in those tiers), of all the changes a software service can make, this is the one that frustrates me the least, or at any rate less than:

* shutting down the service entirely because the user base never grew into customers who actually valued the service

* changing your terms of service to forbid an activity that was previously allowed, because someone discovered a use that messed up the price points and the service owners would rather forbid that than offer a reasonable price point allowing it

* moving to opaquely metered service potentially with apparently arbitrary levels of financial exposure to the client

A big price bump with a few months notice is painful (and I'm glad it's bringing competition), but it tells me they're thinking seriously about how to sustain/develop the product and lets both them and me explore the real value of the service.

When it comes to Google, I'm more worried that they might just arbitrarily mothball something on a management roadmap whim.
A very cool mission (pun intended)! It makes me wonder if it would be possible to exploit that huge temperature differential behind the heatshield to generate power...
If you ever decide you want to cutback/stop with the alcohol, I highly recommend the Sinclair Method.
Reminds me of this GDC talk:

http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/8-frames-in-16ms-rollback...

Similar approach, with some extra fanciness (you see the input at a fixed delay, always, and roll back if necessary to handle mispredict).
" What happens with crunch time? "

Managers actually plan, and stop relying on it. Crunch time is not something that should exist, as it's just punishing employees for the inability of management to make a sane schedule.
TIL there is a paid API for google maps, I just assumed it was free to use. Seems pretty nickel-and-dimey.
Fair point they are in the top 100 but not the top 50 Software/SaaS firms. They are at about a 600M run rate so I don't think of them as a "small" firm but but they not the behemoths that Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook are.
Good news! we don't just use 'curry' for indian foods, we'll use it for any most hot aromatic food that comes to the East of us. Thai, Indonesian etc etc.
It's really interesting. I am a beginner to python an just read the above article. it's really interesting and I too enjoy coding with python.
Telefonica Calls Authorities After Massive Breach – Infosecurity Magazine
Just today they came out with the full image set of a fruit fly brain (http://temca2data.org/). Is the output of this something that could be fed through you algorithm, and if so, how long would that take?
Duck!=DuckDuckGo.

If you're picking an awfully long name to compete against what is already a 2.5 syllable verb (Google), who's to blame?

Then there's the whole, "But our users only remember Duck" straw-man. Whose fault is that? Google's? Did they lawyer up and force a 3 word, 5+ syllable megaword as a brand/domain on you, when it defies common sense to pick LONG names for a service/domain you expect users to use a hundred times a day.
Some FP constructs can be productive even in a “dirty, mutable language”. It works well for JavaScript, at least.
For any non English people who might be a bit confused, Birmingham is known for being Indian and balti (balti triangle) capital of the UK.
I imagine the way this would feel for a homeowner would be that they have to pay an ever increasing amount of “protection money” to stop rich property developers from kicking them out of their home at any time.

Politicially, the optics of this for the elderly or others on fixed incomes would be terrible. Just imagine story after story showing sobbing old person removed from the area they lived in their whole life, “ripped away from family and neighbourhood ties” etc.
Can we agree on that "curry" dishes are effing tasty?
Not really what im getting at. The pnw was developed later so I'd expect it to have less old money -- look at Oregon. The tech industry has certainly done a lot for the upper middle class in Seattle but the article is talking about people making 400k+ a year..
I always feel like I need at least one day to unwind and recover from working hard all week. But then it's Sunday and I need to get ready for the next week already. Would be great to have one day to not be recovering or preparing for the next work week.
I have been thinking about this a lot.

On average, each year I use some of my PTO to be able to take some 3 day weekends which I really enjoy for going outdoor.

This means that I have had some ground to compare 4 day weeks and 5 day weeks.
Based on my observation, my output is almost exactly the same. I feel like in a 5 day week, there is at least one day where I feel unproductive, or just wait to coordinate with other people. Since I'm officially paid on that day, it feels like an unproductive day at work.

In a 4 day week, I usually feel like each day has been productive. I sometimes agree to connect on the 5th day, for very specific events, but with no guarantees or expectations on my side. As such, the 5th day feels like I'm 100% off.
The solution is a startup and if you want to talk about what I'm working on I'd love to
Python's core strength, among the half dozen of language I used in daily work, is that it is simple and focus on easy human expressiveness.

It is the best example of 'simple is hard' when done right. Its core abstractions are carefully selected and weaved in a way, using them to organize/orchestrate your thoughts is just natural and fluid.

Huge thanks to Guido for presenting the world such a meticulously crafted work.
It seems like most people who manage to hold on to power for long periods of time become fundamentally paranoid. They aren't just looking at present threats, but basically are doing a Bayesian analysis of potential outcomes and trying to situate themselves in the best possible way for all of them.

For example, Putin may have a pretty firm grip now, but what happens during a sharp economic downturn when some of the oligarchs start to really feel pinched? Since this is almost sure to happen eventually and Putin appears to want power for life, he probably thinks a lot about this and other possible existential threats to his regime and acts accordingly.

Leaders with term limits do less of this long term thinking and are therefore less likely to make these kinds of dramatic moves when things seem to be going well for them (for better and for worse).
Sorry if I brought you down. Despondent is where I tend to go when I prognosticate. There's nothing sacred when it comes to people making money.
This may sound super n00b but I really like that Java is explicit about everything. So for instance, you explicitly specify variables, methods as private with the keyword 'private'. In python you have to use an underscore, and its still not really private, its obfuscated. That's just one example, but in general I really like that kind of by-the-book verbosity, instead of having to mentally map it into the OOP concepts.
Would it be possible to use a local copy of OpenStreetMap database, not paying for API calls?
There's a small Polish startup that helps people find nearest pharmacies with given drugs.

They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month and they would have to pay additional $5000 for Google Maps alone (right now GM costs them nothing).

Looks like GM will be ~10x more expensive to them than Mapbox or MapTiler, here's the original article (in Polish) translated by Google (sic!):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Looks like many folks who leeched on GM's free plan will move to alternatives so maybe this dick move will turn around and became actually a good thing, would love to see more competition in the area and right now Google Maps is years ahead of competition: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Sure, that's more reasonable. You're describing a match between business needs (the potential Android successor - quite an important business target) and a critical mass of senior engineers eager to work on the product.

I'm sure Google is aware that more interesting and ambitious projects do tend to capture and hold the interest of the most talented engineers, and that figures into their business decisions.

What I strongly dispute is this notion that such a project would be subsidized solely for retention. Everyone knows about big Google projects that were shut down when their business case lost its appeal. I've also seen much smaller projects shut down when their value proposition was no longer deemed sufficient, even when their members were talented, passionate, and at real risk of leaving once their project shut down.
In a city as large in London, obviously I don't literally mean zero bakeries. But they're not common.
Is there something like Amazon or Google shopping with a list of prices for all products through time? Kind of like the Wayback Machine (archive.org) but for products.

Maybe having a searchable historical database of everything imaginable and their prices would keep companies honest and prevent price gouging.
I attributed side bias to my scoliosis for a long time. But after I switched from a soft bed and traditional fluffy pillow to a more minimal blankets-over-floor with small pillow, this problem went away and I will use either side without difficulty.
Mueller releases list of more than 500 pieces of evidence against Manafort
Americans should have mandatory cooking classes if this is how the average person thinks of food. Rice does not take an hour to cook. You can even cook normal rice in the microwave in 12 minutes, just put it in a bowl, add enough water, cover with plastic wrap (with a small space for the steam to escape), and that's it.
> Importantly, prices are the same from US to the Africa, despite the fact that revenue generation is vastly different in most developed countries compared to the others.

This can be understood in two ways:

1. Cost of serving is the same from US to Africa (datacenters, network bandwidth, engineering etc), so prices are same

2. If #1 results in less adoption from developing countries, it is okay because they are not the focus anyway (i.e. SV companies are focussed on US/EU markets first). So getting rid of non-revenue making chunk of traffic doesn't hurt much.
Because most people reading it are employees, and as such, really are not going to care about the business side of things. Especially given the last 30 years of business gobbling up all the gains of increased productivity, and leaving workers the scraps.
It's not about any competitive RTS: StarCraft (1 and 2) have a game design and balance that emphasizes speed and reaction time. More "contemplative" RTSes with less or slower micromanagement can get away with higher latency.
Show HN: TAPIR Player, a [hardware] Audio Player for Studying Languages
None of what you just said is entirely true. Beans, Lentils, Rice and Oats all consist mostly of starches, which are broken down slowly over the digestion process and contain many indigestible starches or fiber to fill you up and promote body health. Not to mention that beans and lentils are about 2:1 carb to protein content and they all contain some level of other micro-nutrients (vitamins/minerals). Not all carbs are the same, and many junk foods are spiked with glucose/fructose sugars that break down quickly and create the spike you're talking about.
> It goes to show: something doesn't need to be actually-better. It doesn't need to be actually-simpler. It doesn't need to make your job easier or better. It needs to make people think it does that.

I don't agree with that takeaway. You ask us to consider all the diversity of opinions here, but then you evaluate them out of context, what one person says about Python is not necessarily in reference to the metrics that another has laid out, hence, they don't "directly contradict each other".

To claim that "oh you all just think Python is less verbose than Java, but it's all hype and no fact" is utter absurdity. You seem to have had bad experience that make you think Pythonistas are the tech world's Jehovah Witnesses, when plenty of other programmers will make the same case against Javascript (especially in the Node.js context).

Why do you think Python, or any programming language, has to be "revolutionary" -- or engage in cultmindthink -- for it to become popular?

edit: added "or engage in cultmindthink"
Hypothetically, an economy will split into top tier employers (say 10%), and the rest.

The top employers, are usually quasi-monopoly or rent-seeking. So these employees can in fact be a bit less productive, and can enjoy the 4 day week, and the employer can remain highly profitable.

The rest of the economy is a lot more competitive. These employers already offer lower wages. With 4 -day weeks, these employers will basically get 20% less revenue per employee, and have to cut back even further.

So now, the inequality between these 2 sectors will simply become even larger.

This is obviously a very gross generalization.

EDIT: the counter argument is that in an advanced economy, many many more employers are service-oriented and in the 1st group.
Because we're not actually borrowing from ourselves, we're borrowing from future generations. That said, there is no plan (or will) to ever pay back the debt, so the difference is academic. The politicians will just keep borrowing (i.e. spending; it makes zero difference whether the funds come from loans or inflating the currency supply) until there is no capital left to consume.
This mentions Apple mapkit js. This is the first I’ve seen of that. Has anyone used it before?

I’m wary of building anything on a proprietary JavaScript api, but if they provide tiles that can be used in leaflet or mapbox gl it might be an attractive option.
The bulk of the user-hostile bits are in this list[1] of what's removed from Firefox for the Waterfox builds, mostly telemetry and tracking, Pocket, ad-supported nonsense, and DRM (for those who prefer a DRM-free first class browsing experience).

Waterfox also allows users to continue using "classic" extensions that Mozilla completely abandoned, and the developer has committed to staying with Firefox ESR until he feels Quantum has reached a point where he can switch to that codebase (i.e. maintain older extensions while allowing new features).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox#Overview
This is what they actually do:

> Parker Solar Probe is powered by two solar arrays, totaling just under 17 square feet (1.55 square meters) in area. They are mounted to motorized arms that will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2018/05/07/solar-pow...
I have a native Android app I need to update before Thanksgiving. Right now the map uses Google Play Services. I've done fairly deep OpenStreetMap projects on several websites, but with Android I'm afraid what it will mean to find a Google alternative. What are other people doing there?
There is no mention of a determination of what was done with it. I want to know how he knows, is that not fair?
Can't say as I have. My expertise centers around Flutter and Fuchsia, for now.
Here's what I spent year working on, a kind of full-time 'side-project', I guess. I learnt electronics, and went to Shenzhen to figure out the production details.

Maybe you will appreciate the interesting UI of the player. The decision was originally in part to keep the BOM low, but actually I think the audio-only interface has its own advantages.

Writing the firmware was fun, there's 128kB of ram on the SOC, half of which is used for audio tasks (decoding and buffering). I read in, and store in ram, a compressed version of the SD card FAT directory listing for faster access to the audio files (currently should work well with 10,000 files in a directory). There's more things to try too, I was thinking of adding a Lua or JS interpreter for creating interactive materials.

If you'd like me to message you if/when the player is available, you can add your email here:
https://goo.gl/forms/S09XTDQANVTvB9M83

Or like this facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/swpress/
I’m not a strong FP proponent per se. I just really enjoy using things like Java 8 Streams, Lodash/Ramda, etc. Comprehensions are nice but they have a more limited scope than functions. Honestly the same can be said for decorators. Useful, but ultimately not much more useful than a plain old higher order function.
Did Neanderthals Know How to Make Fire?
Scooter startup Bird will discount rides for people in low-income brackets
does anyone know if this development will affect users of MapKit that hosts Google Maps within an iOS app? I've been using Google Maps through this SDK for over a year and haven't heard anything about them charging for the service or being able to track usage as one scales.
Isn’t tunnbröd also often soft?
IIRC Google Maps via the iOS/Android SDKs remain free, so theoretically the price increase does not apply to mobile-first X-sharing outfits like Uber/Lyft/Lime/Bird/etc.
I'm very confused...

"Errors discovered through Instabug are most likely to be resolved within 24 hours of being reported" is one of the TL;DR points, but only ~1.5% of bugs are resolved within 24 hours.
>”Indian food” in the western world, we usually mean the British adopted version

That seems to be the contention of Brits, at least, though it's a claim fraught with much contention.

Many of the early Indian immigrants to the US were Punjabi and so it is the dishes or variations of Punjabi cuisine that are considered icons of "Indian food" in the US.

With subsequent waves of immigration from Kerala and other regions of India and growing pressure to differentiate many more regionally-focused places have sprung up in the US, at least for the general public.

A Chettinad restaurant recently opened near me, though I've yet to try it.
They could hire enough people to where there would be enough people for every day, yet everyone still gets to work 4 days.
This is the stupidest comment I've read on HN for a very long time. Maybe ever.
$200 in the US for a Pro, $130 for an Air. Their price list is online. You might check your country-specific site and see if the same is true.

https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service

It's pricy, for sure, but I assume that also includes the cost of a new OEM battery which usually isn't especially cheap.
I love that there is a nice short word for a bucket of curry.
The most commonly cited study of success rates across trials lists Phase 3 probability of success, in aggregate, at 70% [0]

Phase 2 success rate is 34%.

Phase 3 studies are more expensive than Phase 2, but the higher failure rate in Phase 2 makes Phase 2 failure the largest driver of the cost of drug development.

Because predicting Phase 2 success from earlier stage data is a daunting task, the industry has started tackling this issue by "failing faster / cheaper", getting to Phase 2 data quickly and cheaply, to reduce the cost of Phase 2 failure. However, companies don't want to fail -- so they sometimes design Phase 1/2 proof of concept studies to increase chance of success rather than increase truth finding. This may end up causing the Phase 3 failure rate to increase, though there isnt yet data to prove this. The IDO-PD1 failure from Merck / Incyte could be interpreted as an example of this phenomenon

I wrote a blog post that in part discusses ways companies are trying to reduce cost of Phase 2 failure: https://newbio.tech/blog/bio_startup_ideas.html

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20168317
Punk connecting people across space and time is pretty much the theme of the movie "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (adapted from a novel by Neil Gaiman, I would recommend it).
Maybe just map and filter but there are far more operations that can be done on these types than what is cleanly expressed in a comprehension.
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Several vendors offer scrubbing as a service already, so it shouldn't require any additional engineering to use it to try to mitigate BGP hijacking. How effective it would be depends on how widely dispersed the scrubbers are, since you're relying on the scrubbers being closer to users than the hijackers.

(Disclaimer: I didn't read the paper.)
Nope. Pretty sure usage through the SDK remains free
I can't tell whether you're happy with Amazon's service. It sounds to me like you waited for delivery, got a bad TV, waited for delivery again... but at least you don't have to deal with the box?

No thanks.
Come on!! Google didn't lawyer up and force a 3-word, confusing brand down Weinberg's throat.

If you want to compete with a market leader, whose domain is 2.5 syllables long, and you pick a confusing, 3 word megadomain for a brand, you don't get to cry foul over Duck.com !
True about Brave, part of my pasted text (on my phone) is missing.

It meant to say like all other similar initiatives, they don’t add anything were differentiation is possible and that’s privacy IMHO.

Firefox IS the only browser users can trust these days.

The rant about Eich was given in respect to Brave and not Vivaldi. Apologies to the developers of Vivaldi.

I said forced not fired. He couldn’t have stayed. There’s no place for racists and homophobes in Mozilla.