skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's hardly surprising given the emphasis on CS trivia and fad-devops that exists in this industry. Basics like this are often neglected because employees are too busy chasing Kafka and Kubernetes or re-implementing skip lists on whiteboards. After all, if you can recall your textbook CS surely you can just re-invent the thousands of PhD and engineering hours that went into this stuff previously on an ad hoc basis for our projects and scale it with K8s.
The shit of my burning cats does not smell like cigarettes, but the cats do
PC 451.
The 2nd stage has 1/3 the length, 1/5 the weight and 1/9 the number of engines of the 1st stage, why do you think it is 1/2 of the costs?
None of those things happened to Alex Jones.

Freedom of speech isn’t the right to be heard, mind you. If you came by my house wanting to sell Jesus and I shut the door on you, you’d still have free speech.
`Amazon` named services are core building blocks (e.g. ec2 is just servers). `AWS` are services built on top of the `Amazon` services (e.g. Lambda runs on their EC2 machines, Batch runs on EC2 machines). usually
Amazon meets the incredible SHRINKING UK taxman
"Dont Make Me Think" - maybe around 2002 I think was my bible in making usable websites. I often think about the concepts within the book, such as "mystery meat navigation".

Whenever I see the hamburger menu so popular in web apps, I think of that term!
No Such Thing as “Primary Key Tuning”
"Lies to children" is a perfectly good pedagogic approach. Adding caveats to every concept sucks time and energy from learning the broad themes of the subject. When we teach people programming, we start with variables and loops and don't mention page faults and cache poisoning. The same goes for any field.

Demanding nuance of a particular kind in history pedagogy, as you see often these days, is just a bad-faith "isolated demand for rigor" that has the effect of privileging the worldview of those demanding the selective nuance.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands...
possible explanation: the younger generations aren't that sick yet, so they don't face massive medical bills for the most part. likewise, the younger generations don't have enough money to even approach certain sources of debt like a mortgage. (is mortgage considered a debt?)
Step back and see the bigger picture. I think most of us think Infowars is a weird nuisance. But I was responding to the claim that political opinion should have to meet a pre-approved "minimum legitimacy requirement". If this is normalized, no other, actually important issue will be able to gain traction.
Ask HN: What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?
Different professors are different. The person who taught my college general education literature class used it as an opportunity to unapologetically proselytize the good word of Jesus Christ. 90% of every quiz question or essay prompt was relating every book back to Christianity.

I found it offensive, but at this point in my college career the fight had been abraded out of me. I tried doing the assignments dispassionately, writing things like "Taking for granted that there is an omnipotent entity at the helm of the universe, I think the author contends that <rest of my answer>".

I'd get my paper back with every secular apologism scribbled out in red, and comments on the margins that were like "JESUS LIVES" and other such academically cool business. Also he was giving me D's. This was a state school, not a religious one.

Having fought 25% of my professors that ended up being lunatics no appetite remained in me to take this one to the tribunal. So, I salvaging my grade by feigning conversion. I started writing incomprehensibly unrelated answers to short essay questions. A question might read something like "In what way was Dostoevsky influenced by stoicism." I would answer "God is great!" My reward was A's.

I no longer find anything within a normal distribution of human arch-types strange.
Please don't make it look like Apple is a random company. They are a giant with monopolies. If Apple/FB/ABC start censoring the world will not become a better place.
Indeed I do support hate speech laws. As does a majority of the rest of the world.

There is a correlation between the support of freedom of speech and gender / race, unsurprisingly.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-1816....
"Is SpaceX going for 2nd stage reuse at all? That's going to be a lot harder"

Yes, they are (and yes, it will be): "SpaceX also continues to study the feasibility of returning and reusing the second stage of the Falcon 9, and Musk said he’s confident it can be done. The question is what “mass penalty” will have to be paid, primarily in terms of the fuel needed to slow the second stage down so that it can make a controlled descent back through Earth's atmosphere.

"Still, Musk believes the Falcon 9 will get to full reusability. In terms of the rocket’s overall cost, the first stage accounts for 60 percent, the upper stage 20 percent, the fairing 10 percent, and the remainder are costs associated with the launch itself (fuel costs are between $300,000 and $500,000), Musk said."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/spacexs-block-5-rock...
Since local governments in the U.S. have no sovereignty, the states to which they belong can certainly impose bans that would prevent them from using facial recognition technology. The federal government probably could do so as well, using the commerce clause.
> 3.4. Changes to the Price and Subscription Plans. We reserve the right to change our subscription plans or adjust pricing for our service or any components thereof in any manner and at any time as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion. Except as otherwise expressly provided for in these Terms of Use, any price changes or changes to your subscription plan will take effect following notice to you.

And there is a forced arbitration clause (and as much as I think those are a mockery of our legal system), this would seem to allow fairly substantial changes at any time.
I think this is the fine line where the limit should be drawn.

I am entertained as anyone by conspiracy theories, and I am free to believe them or not. But if tomorrow morning, I would wake up with my name on infowars, saying I am part of the plot, it would not take long to create serious problems.
It's an unfortunate characteristic of many that conflate cryptocurrency and blockchain as one and the same inseparable idea. Cryptocurrency is only one application of one type of blockchain.
> you can only chuckle at HN comments arguing about Python vs Node as if that’s the crux of a new business

I definitely relate to this. I use Go a fair amount, and any conversation about Go on /r/programming invites a whole bunch of "every product built on a language without generics is doomed to fail". While generics would be a nice feature to my mind, I like Go for the tooling and the ecosystem, which are still an insignificant contribution to the success of a commercial product, but still many times more significant than the type system (and I'm a fan of type systems too).
The thing that shocked me the most is that it's economically viable. The tolerances are so tight, the machines so expensive, the volumes so big, that the math works. If I had no idea what semiconductors were and you just sat me down and started explaining things, it'd seem like magic that it would even be physically possible, much less economically...but somehow it is.
I highly doubt an insurance company would give any money prior to recovering the art and without a solid reason to think they'll recover them, but that's just a gut feeling.
>For example, when you do the math, you'll see that it is basically impossible for a large enough orchestra to play perfectly in sync.

Why? The conductor keeps them in sync visually, so the only limit is the speed of light.
Yes, Cloudformation is my main tool too. I just simplified my comment. Read it as managed by code, be it CF, python, awscli from shell, and all of it in the end boils down to specific API calls.
Google is refreshing YouTube Music with shiny new features
Exactly, if the younger generations have decreased, while older has increased, its the same generation constantly inflating bankruptcies as they get older
1. Yes they did, I had it in 2013. They didn't change the terms at that time, like they're doing now.

2. I didn't say that at all. I would have simply liked to have shared it with my wife so she could go see a movie from time to time. I would have liked to have it tied to more than just one device in case I happened to have a different device on me (restriction can still be in place, but limited to, say, three devices).

It's all about usability for me. It was considerably unusable for anyone who isn't single and has a single device always.
I agree we need better education about this sort of thing. I think it would be useful for all public schools to include this as part of their curriculum; I think you could easily spend an entire semester on learning to qualify media sources.

However, I think we should make the tradeoff explicit here. Just saying "Apple shouldn't do this because it's censorship, and censorship is bad" is a rather naive attitude. I would argue two things:

1. This isn't censorship, it's a refusal to broadcast. It's one thing to say "You can't say that", and another to say "I'm not going to allow you to use our platform to say that." The government is not allowed to prevent speech, but that doesn't mean that private companies are required to enable it.

2. It's not "fake" news. It's fake. It's literally made up stories, about child sex rings in pizza parlors and slave colonies on Mars.

So you might say, what's the harm in making up stuff? Well, people are shooting up restaurants and making on-air death threats to journalists and generally gravitating towards authoritarian viewpoints sponsored by organizations such as infowars. And guess what tool authoritarians love to employ? CENSORSHIP. Failing to hold these jokers accountable for their words and instigation actually and inevitably leads us farther down the path towards actual censorship than refusing to give them a platform. I would rather companies take a stand against this stuff than just allow them to exploit our misguided notions of democratic rule to undermine actual democratic rule.
social is difficult to get but amazon success is not built on very high value... lots of weird products, lots of weird sellers ..

I think it's not absurd to picture a different market
> It is worth recalling that SpaceX only flew a "used" booster for the first time in March 2017.

It's amazing this happened just a little over a year ago.
Infiniium UXR-Series Oscilloscopes [pdf]
It seems like it is technically a debt, but financially I wouldn't consider it debt until you have either failed to pay it back in the agreed upon time or are missing payments.
How can a 72-year-old retire just get his health insurance revoked? What's even the point of health insurance when it only covers the young and healthy apparently.
It's amusing to watch so many people, for probably the first time in their life, fight so hard for the 'rights' of a large multinational corporation.

The basic problems, of course, are the natural monopolies and near-monopolies that came from networks. Given the amount of power you'll find in those companies given the surveillance society, I wish that antitrust law would actually come into existence again.

The be fair, there's nothing new here. Whether it was the day of Hearts newspapers or the big 2 1/2 TV networks, mass media outlets have always been political tools that are argued over.
Thanks, that's good to know.

I interpreted some comments on that ticket as dismissing account migration as almost frivolous. But maybe that's because it's an old and difficult challenge, and I didn't have the context to understand the comments.
A Culture War Is Brewing Between Bitcoin’s Old and New Money
I think it’s fairly easy.

It’s not my fault people have the wrong assumption that free speech meant you could say what you want without consequences.

Part of why free speech work is because adults accept responsibility for their actions, and part of that is living with the consequences of how you behave. When you offend people for a living, people are going to get offended and then they genuinely won’t want to listen to what you have to say.

Which is their right.
Like another commentator mentioned, dinosaur started appearing ~230m years ago.
If you go back ~200m years, you'll see that India, Africa and the Americas are all fused together into a supercontinent.
The graphs are related to number of bankruptcy filings. I don;t think younger people are any less sick now than they used to unless preventive care has gotten significantly better, could be interesting to explore
yep. still alive

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You can almost hear the truckloads of grant money driving to their office.
I’ve always been fascinated by the animals from the era of megafauna, specifically the Pleistocene. Wikipedia is a great start, but details like paintings, behavior, etc are a bit more scarce.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good resources that are approachable for non-scientists?

Some megafauna examples:

Megaloceros, the giant deer who had antlers 12 feet wide- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_elk

Arctotherium, the largest bear and potentially the largest land carnivore, ever - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctotherium

Titanis, one of the largest carnivorous terror birds - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanis

Megatherium, the giant, elephant sized sloth that dug gigantic burrows - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium

Thylacoleo carnifex, the marsupial lion, and largest carnivorous marsupial in Australia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial_lion

Camelops, a family of camels native to North America - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelops

Thylacosmilus, a Metatherian (similar to marsupial), Sabre toothed carnivore from South America - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacosmilus
Fortnite APK is coming soon,but it will not be available on Google Play Store
The first stage represents about 75% of the cost of the vehicle, not 50%. This represents the actual cost of the metal on the launchpad, but not the services around the rocket, including launch control costs, etc.

You can't take a rocket to India and you can't manufacturer that rocket in India (Skilset, US based corporation, ITAR) so you can't achieve your savings that way.

Even Russia - which is using a very old tried and true rocket design - can't match prices at this point. In addition, the budget cuts in Russia have resulted in a massive reduction in reliability, which has blown up their insurance cost recently.

In terms of second stage re-usability, they are looking at that for FalconX, and it's designed in at the start for BFR. Landing something from a second stage is as difficult comparatively vis-a-vis landing the first stage, as landing the first stage was compared to the suborbital hops that Blue Origin is doing.

The latest SpaceX idea (judging by Elon's tweets) appear to be some sort of Ballute based approach.

The first stage re-use should be good for 10 flights without a overhaul, with a complete tear-down on flight 10.
Brace yourselves for WhatsApp group voice and video calls
I built a toolbar ad network for about 200k users and would do inline ads on every page and replace all search results with ad api feeds
I was just trying to remember some older sites I used to visit and cockeyed was one of them.

For a short time Target turned the Target Balls in my area (I'm assuming others as well) into giant Pokeballs. That was fun.
Right. I probably have at least 100 email addresses. Most of them I've abandoned, however.
How long does it take to run the distinct on its own?
I'd be interested to know what happens if the distinct is in a sub query then the result is joined with the commits table

Ensure project_commits.project_id is in an index before running the test
Zinc supplements. It turned out I was seratonin and dopamine deficient due to multiple (6) genetic defects in my liver’s zinc uptake genes, so whenever I was under duress, I’d run out of neurotransmitters and be unable to produce more.
You know perfectly well that Paul died in 1966, and the Abbey Road cover was shot somewhere in the Arizona desert.
Why not RTZ?
Funny enough I worked at a ecommerce clothing “startup” that had upwards of $75 million in sales but wasn’t profitable
Compute Is the Boon and the Bane of Supercomputing
Unrelated, I'm looking for a "Save File" icon that doesn't use a floppy disk. Does anybody here have any good ideas?
They've worked hard to get rid of pieces that have significant re-engineering. A good example is the grid-fins which have been moved to titanium, because they old ones were being worn away.
Jetbrains products' icons are OK, but there's clearly a gradual Adobification going on.

Their designers recently declared that colored icons were distracting (?) and are currently moving most of the them to gray. Quite confusing when gray usually means disabled.
There is an arxiv version of the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08711.
I'm very excited for AMD and their market successes lately. I never wanted a world controlled by Intel, and even if all my computers are Intel at the moment I feel the world benefits from this competition.

That being said... Processor pre-orders? I had No idea that was a thing. Hope you get a QA discount. It doesn't talk about sockets but for sake of preorderers I hope it's compatible with original threadripper boards. edit: Actually it does, and they mention it's compatible with existing main boards too. I missed that this was multiple pages.
In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich – but rise for the poor
It's what humans have used throughout human history.

"Oh, that guy? Don't trade with that guy; he's an asshole." ;)

Now we're just scaling it up with fast-communicating hardware.
Why Numba and Cython are not substitutes for Julia
> Driving the surge, the study suggests, is a three-decade shift of financial risk from government and employers to individuals, who are bearing an ever-greater responsibility for their own financial well-being as the social safety net shrinks.

This is going to be an increasingly serious problem over the next few decades. Expect bankruptcy filings to increase across the board, across all generations going forward.

This is my main critique of the "sharing" economy and tech darlings like Uber and Lyft, who have accelerated this anti-labor trend. What I find especially ironic here is that these services are currently only economically viable because of VCs subsidizing the costs, who themselves source a large percentage of their funding from traditional employee pension pools, etc. But of course it's all worth it because these "sharing" companies are just sooooo convenient.
It was a epoch defining change. It does feel like a ton of time ago, and everyone in the industry (most notably ULA, Arianespace and the Chinese) are trying to figure out what they do now that the SpaceX steamroller is in full force.
I hope you know San Francisco is an expensive place
Japanese students create VR experience of Hiroshima bombing
More critical than cosmic rays, the article mentions there are errors in reading now:

“Sometimes hydrogen atoms can be removed from incorrect locations.”
Yes, you have to look behind a few cherrypicked racist tweets...

....and you'll find stuff like a bizarre conspiracy theory about the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax.[0]

[0] https://archive.fo/ByFXt
Maybe it's actually an inborn tendency they can't change.
I was arguing from the perspective of somebody trying to get something they want, the individual perspective, but it seems like you are considering the social utility one. While I can facially agree that there can be some arenas in which persistence can cause concern, I don't understand where your strong disagreement comes from.

And personally, I want my heart operated on by the guy that's done hundreds of heart operations, preferably my exact procedure. I want Dr. House to diagnose me, and Todd from Scrubs to actually do the operation. Dr. House's brilliant diagnosis doesn't actually affect my body, the potential problems that genius presents only guide what more sane, stable, dispassionate professional hands actually do to me. Stable dispassion is the realm of persistence.
>Apple is not virtuous

So much this. Apple is a corporation. Every action the company takes is in the interest of increasing their profits, whether directly or indirectly
I always forget the "how about you" part. Somebody asks, "how are you", and I say "good" because I'm supposed to say _something_ and my wife reminds me later that it was rude not to ask how they were so that they could say "good", too.
The Good and Bad of 2018 Design Trends