skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never once have I heard PNG pronounced like “ping”.
> outsourced manufacturing to Taiwan/China

Actually, it's 50/50 chips produced by TSMC (taiwan semiconductor) and samsung.
>…faster than all other WebAssembly implementations tested (go-interpreter/wagon, paritytech/wasmi).

Isn't Mozilla's implementation the fastest and most mature of them all? How does it fare against it?
ah, the insistence on PG language. The sign of someone that has a concrete criticism of an author's point, which we should pay attention to.
Other than the concurrent write that another comment mentioned, looks like this test is done with a data set that fits entirely in RAM. I wish we have enough RAM for the entire internet :-(
It’s not his contribution. It’s the company match.
Automating TLS endpoints in Kubernetes
HR startup Namely gets a new CEO and $60M in new funding
When he's "gifted" a private jet. Are they literally giving him a plane or does that just mean they'll pay for the use of a chartered private jet?
The $16k figure sounds like the amount that Apple contributed on Cook's behalf via matching funds.
It is either my isp, or this site got some malicious js that reidirects me to wierd places from my android device
The maximum total contribution to a 401k (employee + employer) is $55,000/yr. He likely hit that limit.

And/or Apple matches 1:1. The personal maximum contribution is $18,000/yr, and he intentionally stayed under that limit.
My friend is a single child and she was joking how since her parents are divorced and each live in separate homes she’ll have 2 houses in 15~20 years... the ones she grew up in lol. Kind of a weird dynamic for ‘modern’ Instagram culture but looking back on history , not so weird pre 1900s
"Nobody can avoid being X, so therefore X is pervasive, and it is pointless to try to constrain X"

That's not a nihilist. It's being defeatist. Giving up because you can't win is defeat. Giving up because there's really no point in the first place is nihilism.
That's already true in cases; for example, I've seen FFI code that has a use-after-free bug in it, but because of the different way that the allocator works on different platforms, on OS X it "worked", but on Linux, it segfaulted.
I wonder if these differences has something to do with the personality of drinkers? People who are drinking might be more aggressive and might also be phisically active or exercising more. Do we actually have any fundamental reason to believe if moderate alcohol might be okay?
http://egypt.urnash.com

I'm mostly an artist, and I take delight in the aggressive unhipness of my site running on top of Wordpress. It's had the same front page since 2011.

Someday I should really change the menus in the blog/portfolio sections to work with touch browsers. I got comics to draw, though.
Only if we use the correct form of parentheses.
I really like this advice. One thing I've been taking notice of at my job is just how meaningful the tracker is to our workflow. If things are settled down and well-managed, then no meetings are needed, the tracker is a really good representation of the current state of the project, and Shit Gets Done. For awhile when I first joined the team we pounded through sprints and often had a week or more of downtime that we could use to clean up tech debt or play ping pong.

It was Amazing. So amazing I ended up having to speak up at meetings telling our nervous team leadership that nothing was going wrong. We were kicking ass and playing more ping pong than everybody else in the company.

Now we're still kicking ass, but the management has gone into the shitter. We had a product owner, a team lead, and project manager, then the product owner got pushed out and it's been veritable chaos ever since. If anybody is looking for a Rails ninja, drop me a line.
Because "The Bronx" and "The Bronck's" are homonyms.
All of this is even worse with a distributed team. Don't get me started on what happens when contractors enter the picture.

Edit: and so-called development managers!
There must be an audio only version too. I'm pretty sure no one in my team wants to see my face.
Hi JP!

I´m a founder of a 20pp fully remote company, and I think your product could have a great impact! However seeing such a high (in my opinion) price per month per user is an issue for me. This product, while super useful, cover only a small portion of the remote dynamics we face each day, and that price per month per user in our case at least doesn´t justify it.

Loved the idea thought, so all the best!
Terraform 0.12 Preview: Rich Value Types
Mine's super simple, but once I have more projects under my belt I'll be expanding it out:

https://stolson.com
I really doubt he even knows about this. His accountant goofed, probably.
Home inspections are not very good at uncovering non-obvious issues. Some people want to get validation or guarantee they have a solid house without problems, however inspectors will not (cannot) dig in to find out the extent of a problem, and most trivial problems will be documented as 'recommend licensed contractor to repair' The real value in a home inspection is to have leverage to negotiate your offer down from where you started. "Licensed home inspector says this is a potentially unsafe electrical panel. My counter offer is $4000 lower"
That'd be interesting--a small, maybe even just $1-10, deposit that gets refunded if the bug is legitimate.

I don't think punishing dupes is a good idea though, because a researcher has no idea (and should have no idea) whether their bug has been found before, so dupes should probably still result in a refund.

However, as a kid who has no credit card, but has found some pretty spicy bugs (and gotten rewarded for them), it would make it impossible for me to report them.
Appraisers are also a scam IMHO. We weren't sure what a good price for our house would be when we were thinking of selling so we called a couple of appraisers and they both told us the same thing: they pretty much just report whatever the bank wants.

Even if we paid their fee they wouldn't even send someone out to look at the house, it would be 100% just looking at comps in the area--which we dismissed because it was the middle of the housing crash and almost every comp was a short sell of a unit that had been utterly trashed/gutted on the inside.
In the fansubbing world, footnotes are kinda reviled, such as the infamous Death Note "Just as keikaku. (Keikaku means plan)" translation.

But for things that make cultural references, like Gintama, even someone who knows the language itself won't know every cultural reference, so they can be useful.
Use startpage, then. It's a reskin over google, which seems to provide better results.
We're going to have to seriously disagree here. The people who have accused him of sexual assault (their stories written down before the video came out) described the experience in the way I defined it. Trump shocking them by kissing them in the mouth out of nowhere, grabbing them, etc.
Taking an FHA loan and not needing the 20% downpayment is also an option.
Thank you for your comment. I've been seriously thinking about this, but I want to do it in a way that doesn't convert it into a chat/text-based bot :-) But like you say, as a reminder/notification via Slack it sounds nice, I dig it and will try to do this soon!
Try New Zealand. Here the ACC will cover most things up to and including various forms of cancer treatment. You might wait a few hours if you just drop into the hospital unannounced but it doesn’t feel like a system that doesn’t work.
Understanding the Android Shape Drawable by tuning its properties visually
But it does mean they have an agenda.
>The maximum total contribution to a 401k (employee + employer) is $55,000/yr. He likely hit that limit.

60k, he's over 50.
It's the sort of business with low barriers to entry, and very few repeat customers. Ideal for scammy and fly-by-night operators.
Apple hits 1 trillion in value.

Canada gdp : 1.7 trillion

Catching up!
Your UPS doesn't save money by discharging its battery back to the grid when it's not in use.

Your UPS handles an order of magnitude (or more) less power than a whole-home solar installation.

None of these problems are intractable of course, but you are oversimplifying the problem a little.
This definitely looks interesting!

(I hope a project contributor is reading/commenting)

Q: Let's say I'm a representative of a company that wants to buy their name "example.com" to be resolved via Handshake. Assuming things are live and running well, what's the process by which we'd get www.example.com resolving to 123.123.123.123? (keeping it simple, not worrying about mx and srv records yet) How stable and safe is our record, assuming we owned the trademark for example.com?
Funny that a spokesperon for a retail banking company will label borrowing from a pretax retirement account (which is completely legal and usually cheaper than retail credit) as a bad thing.

Equity is equity. In fact, targeting your savings into real estate right now might be better than a 401(k).

https://slate.com/business/2018/07/does-buying-a-home-count-...

In years past, young homeowners got gifts or loans from family to help assemble a down payment for a home. This really is no different, although it signals that the millenials' parents have no free cash to loan their children.
Sounds like they actually gave him a jet. If they just chartered a private jet for him whenever, they wouldn't reimburse him every time he used it for business purposes.
> As far as I know there isn't any way to recover costs from them

My home inspector had a 1 year warranty on anything that he tested in his report. Does that mean the company will cover all damages or buy the property from you, no; but it is a small disincentive to be a rubber stamp.
It's not difficult to have a free or nearly free college system. Many European countries have this and participation rates are still generally in the same range as US college participation.
> Stand-ups ENCOURAGE plans to change daily. Lack of consistency is a great way to ruin developer flow.

Do they ever. Every day I have no idea what I'll actually be working on. It's almost never what I say I'll be working on because shit comes up in a stand-up. I'm not a manager so it doesn't bother me much, but it does slow progress on larger tasks considerably at times. Sometimes I just avoid saying what I think I'll be working on to save time as it's irrelevant and the meeting is already twenty to thirty minutes anyway.
Hi, I created rough.js (https://roughjs.com/) earlier this year and was curious if I could use it to turn any image to a hand drawn, sketchy image in the browser.

Using a web assembly build of OpenCV, I extract the shapes out of an image and feed it to rough.js which draws them and fills them with colored hachure lines.

Comments/suggestions welcome. Cheers.
Apparently it was literally gifting him an airplane.

> After Jobs' death, Apple's design chief, Jony Ive, purchased that jet, with Ive said to have quipped "at least I don't have to redesign anything."
I was kind of thinking the same thing reading this and the above comment. I'm sure with a bit of saving I could afford a business class trip, but spending the money to spend extra time on vacation or doing something interesting seems to outweigh the thought of having some extra legroom or food.
Musical.ly now turned into TikTok
Also thanks for passing on these comments, we've been more focussed on the app itself than our website which is in v0.1 - really appreciate your comments though and looking for a great web developer to drive that part of it
Plant-based milk alternatives disrupt dairy
Ask HN: How do you get paid for the design / requirements phase?
I'm curious how other software developers or teams handle the uncertainties of scope at the beginning of a new project. I end up doing a lot of "free consulting" helping clients define exactly what it is they want before signing a contract with a solid estimate.

What is your strategy - separate consulting contract, build a consulting phase into the contract, other ideas?
Which is interesting, because at its most fundamental the value of a firm should be no different from the net present value of its future dividends (or other monies payable to the shareholders). These are the most fundamental of ‘fundamental’ valuations. Presumably (assuming the Efficient Market Hypothesis or some approximation thereof) investors are convinced that those discounted earnings will be forthcoming, whichever the successor technology may be. This in turn implies they (in aggregate) have faith in Apple’s ability to develop and bring to mass-market at premium prices whatever comes next for several generations.
Well it is on Microsoft Windows, so users are already accustomed to a corporation collecting their data without the possibility to opt out. CCleaner is just adding to the pile..
so a bit like 2 fold search. Interesting as we have taken a similar concept much further with an app we will be launching soon www.loomi.ai. We can take any topic/keyword and pull relevant/top information from any source. That and much more. alxpez, send me a message, can show you what we have...
> that richest person a century ago is totally irrelevant in most conversations about wealth

I agree that this is true as a practical description of how most conversations about wealth go. But to me, that is a bug, not a feature: it means most conversations about wealth are ignoring the huge increase in absolute wealth that has occurred as a result of advancing technology. In other words, people are being encouraged to ignore this huge positive impact on their lives, which, if they only realized it, empowers them to do all kinds of things, and are being told to focus instead on relative wealth disparities that, in a sane world, would have negligible impact on their lives.
Are either of these the Alt Road you're referring to?

https://www.google.com/maps/search/alternate+rd/@38.5320081,...

Looks like they might have updated it since then.
https://magnASCII.io

I love ASCII text a lot :)
Basically by not relying on legacy systems. Collateralize your contracts on-chain with an agreed arbitrator in the contract.

The other solution is to be locally compliant. Cities are looking to use “blockchain” to issue “micro-bonds”. I’m sure you can draft legalese to refer to data on a blockchain. See blockchain notary services.
Your comment is a non sequitur. Blockchains already depend on physical matter, human social behavior, game theory, and yes, the legal system. Mining farms require legal protection to prevent marauders from commandeering them.

An example of a blockchain/legal system hybrid is colored coins, where a token represents a real world asset. The legal system is required to enforce whatever contractual obligations are implied by that token. But it still adds value over a purely legal approach as at least ownership and transfer of it is transparent.
The mention of "reimbursement" would indicate that it was a real gift.
They're not useless. They're designed to find non-obvious issues that might have structural or safety implications. I've bought and sold a few houses, and most homes I've looked at either have obvious disqualifying problems, or are in fairly good repair; in the former case the inspection would reveal obvious problems, in the latter there would be none to reveal. It's when they do find something important that they show their worth. They're also useful for getting the seller to correct minor problems so they don't become major problems (here in the midwest that usually equates to preventing water from getting into the structure)
Very true. The only thing that bugged me was that Trump can not even win with grace. He won but had to claim additionally without any proof that he would have won even more if not millions of illegal voters would have voted. Pretty sad.
That's already three conditions, and those spider up to the conditions above.

It's like ACLs. On the surface they seem so easy, but in practice they're a nightmare to manage because you have to track so many dependencies to figure out a simple yes/no question.
The county couldn't care less what Google Maps shows. Outside large cities, Google Maps is often pretty inaccurate, just outside Seattle in Kitsap County, Google Maps has yet to gain the 300k renumbered addresses that the county put into place over the last five years. Makes Google Maps fairly useless except where locals have manually updated their favorite stores and the like.

The funny thing is, Google can get updated road info in a timely manner as most counties offer a weekly dump of their map data. Open Street Maps is often on point in rural areas due to pulling these weekly dumps, meanwhile the 3rd party vendors Google buys their address data from rarely pull down the publicly owned dataset, contributing to the shoddy quality of Google Maps outside most cities.
I think there's a 4th level of wealth that wasn't mentioned which is financial independence. This is independent of how you think about expenses - it's more the freedom and stress removed of knowing you don't care if you're RIF'd and you don't need to impress someone or depend on someone for income or a job.
You describe a better way of doing standups than simply status reports, but I'm finding it hard to distil into a couple of sentences. Could you help me understand what a better standup would look like?
I'll also chime in to say that `pass` is a fantastic tool, and I'm so glad I switched to it as my password manager. So the effort you went through to get there (which I can sympathize with since I've had to use the OpenPGP CLI directly plenty of times) is very much appreciated.
To an extent, but it's hardly the first time that any of these people involved have had their fair share of controversy, backroom dealings, being shown to openly and repeatedly lie about the topics they're admin'ing or "neutrally" arbitrating. Hell, half of them are so voluminous in their misdeeds that they got entire subforums dedicated to them on Wikipedia Review (before that place turned into a ghost town inhabited by crazy folk):

* http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showforum=44
>>In fact, all I like about standups is seeing my team mates once a day.

Yeah, I think a better way to do standups is a couple minutes of social time, and "anybody finish anything? any blockers?" rather than going person-by-person.
> The incumbent can instantly kill any new competitors by buying their core technologies into the public domain

By buying them out at a price set by the competitor involved, sure, and only after the first renewal is due, sure.

Of course, a monopolistic incumbent can have the public (instead of tolerating monopoly rents) and prospective competition band toether to buy it's technology out into the public domain for competition to use, too.

> If you're creating something for the first time e.g. a small indie game, you need to know before you release it whether or not it will become the next minecraft.

Well, no, because we are talking about the method for setting a renewal tax for copyright, not an initial one. So you have to have an idea of how valuable it is to you before the first renewal.

(I like the 4-12 year granted period proposed upthread, but using the declared value approach I would probably go with annual renewals with a long limit—maybe even the current maximum—rather than 6mo renewal with a 21 year cap.)

I might keep the idea of having an exponentially escalating fee by doing that for a required floor to declared value of a work (maybe even instead of a maximum time limit.) Have a nominal floor at the first renewal (say, $1 in today's money) and increasing by 50% each year, with the annual fee as 5% of the declared value. Sure, you can keep renewing as long as you want, but after 50 years of renewals you're at a $32 million minimum renewal fee.
The other way around, if his financial professionals weren't taking advantage of this total "gimme" of the planning world, he'd probably be concerned.
> The analog is Visa. What would ordinarily be a huge lawsuit is settled by a private commercial arbitration process--namely, a chargeback--in case of dispute.

Which remains a process with human-based wiggle room.
Looks great! Not sure if you're aware of it but Helpful (https://www.helpful.com/) seems to be doing something similar.
Not really apples to apples, pardon the pun. Total value of Canada is much higher.
Sadly in the Toronto market, the issue runs even deeper. Home inspections are almost always provided by the seller, and if you try get your own, as the market is so hot, the sellers typically refuses to allow it.

Home inspections are mostly useless (i want to say always, but im sure there is some exception out there), but they're even more useless when they're provided by the seller and the market is so healthy that they don't feel the need to allow an independent view.
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Sequoia is a Latin word. The pronunciation in English, Spanish, and Portuguese (and probably others) is almost identical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_(genus)
The maximum total contribution to a 401k (employee + employer) is $55,000/yr. He likely hit that limit.

Not sure I understand. How could he hit the limit? Tim can contribute $24,500 ($18K + $6K since he's over 50). If Apple matched $16,000, how could he hit the max of $60K?
The buyer has every right to find and hire their own home inspector...
Jobs had his own jet (now owned by Jony Ive https://www.cultofmac.com/296364/jony-ive-now-owns-steve-job... )
Apparently I belong to a small minority that does not get down and depressed when it rains.

It is all about mindset. Ok, if you go to a meeting and your nice suit gets soaked, then it is less fun. But on the way back home, just catch those raindrops. Look around. Look at other people hastily walking by with frowned faces. Relax. It's nature. Things are moving. Clouds roil above you. Enjoy it.

While I like some of the artwork, seeing sentences like "You are amazing" appear everywhere, would spoil the beauty of a nice, honest rainshower for me, to be honest :)
I think the most important thing is to focus on original design, and to treat said design as solving a problem defined by constraints.

While most of my site has the feature flags disabled (still working on content), I’m really happy with the design! It was really hard and it took a lot of work, but in the end I think it turned out very original and authentically me.

https://asimpletune.github.io
There are rules about how much the company contributions can be (aimed at preventing executives paying themselves huge tax-free pensions).
Most of the people I know that did construction worked like dogs for six months of the year on the road, then took most of the rest of the year off. These were mostly workers for largish construction contractors, so they would go into a plant during the biannual shut downs, tear the thing apart and put it back together over the course of three weeks or a month, then move onto the next job. They tended to work a lot of hours, since it's a very tight schedule with deadlines - it costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars every day these kinds of plants aren't operating - so they'd rack up a ton of overtime, plus living on the road with housing taken care of or a per diem. It's not really that bad a gig, especially if you can live somewhere cheap the rest of the time. In a lot of ways it's very similar to people I know who are merchant marine.

After a few years they tended to have specialized into something, so they'd get a more regular job or go into business for themselves.
no, I wasn't being pedantic. I don't care enough about him to have any opinion either way, just that I'm pretty sure he defines himself as a journalist.
Well nobody tell craftyguy, but Far Cry (the GoG version), Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3, and Far Cry Blood Dragon (the Uplay non-Steam version), Call of Duty, CoD 2, CoD 4 Modern Warfare, and MW 2 have Platinum ratings on Wine at least.