skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dunno if they're fallacies so much as oversimplifications.

No, they're far enough off of correct that I wouldn't even call them oversimplifications. The statement of the problem is wrong:

The second assumption this chart makes is that the total cost of production increases as supply increases.

That's simply not what the curve says at all. The curve isn't about any one producer making more of an item (as the Ford example given), it's about how producers with different costs are able to profitably add to the supply or not, based on the price they can get for the product.

The review might be fine otherwise, but there's no reason to throw supply & demand under the bus to motivate it. In fact, if you frame it correctly (say, technical innovations have enabled more people to more easily write software, thereby shifting the supply curve to the right and lowering prices), you can still meaningfully analyze these situations with those curves.
Microsoft and Amazon release preview of Cortana and Alexa integration
Oh... yeah that makes sense now. Very confusing wording though. I thought that they were ONLY saying "there were a lot less T-cells in the bone marrow."

I would have said: "Increased T-cells were found trapped in the bone marrow, a possible explanation for the decreased T-cells in the brain."
The Deadly Waterfall in the Instagram Age
This is amazing. We really needed an alternative to YAML, and this seems great.
I've been developing CRUD apps for my company's clients for eight years. They're all superficially the same, but every single one of them has had something unique about their schema design, and they all have different business rules (in a general sense and in specific details) that make every project unique. We have a model that gives us ballpark estimates before we get into detailed analysis, but every time a customer insists on taking our ballpark estimate and treating it as a fixed-price commitment, the project becomes uncomfortably stressful.
Best practices to achieve balance between design and performance
I wanted to see if I could get in.

I don't like large corps, period.
You'd be under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Provincial Police and their marine unit would no doubt ride some snowmobiles out there to find out wtf is going on.
How much time do you take for a code review? If I did a full review that really tries to understand the code it would take me close to the time it took to write the code. But I don't get that time. So I pretty much nitpick on some style issues but rarely find any real problems.
If he wants goverment support he probably is stealing IP from the american side and YC is either naive or knows this very well but is willing to trade IP for cashflow.
That certainly explains the regular silencing of criticism of China on HN.

The irony is really something though:

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

> Also, smart people tend to have an allergic reaction to the restriction of ideas, and I’m now seeing many of the smartest people I know move elsewhere.

> It is bad for all of us when people can’t say that the world is a sphere, that evolution is real, or that the sun is at the center of the solar system.

Or what totalitarianism is, what sociopathy is, what obedience to and identification with abusers is and how it comes about.

> This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics.

But we absolutely cannot quote any of the greats on whose shoulders we stand on -- and mean it, that is, and actually deconstruct the sophistry that is inevitably replied to that. I've had accounts throttled and shadowbanned which had not a single comment below 0, and many upvotes. None of the comments were off-topic or not substantive, it's just the powers that be didn't like them, but could cite no guidelines and refute no points. Come to think of it, it's like all these comments from mods telling people to "not do that here" are really just to give a pretense of transpareny and good faith. From where I'm sitting, it's mostly silent and mostly hypocritical.

Maybe we have to allow the KKK to speak their mind. But do NOT talk about moderator action in public. Shedding light on the ways discussion is manipulated would degrade the quality of discussion, you see. So send us an email! Do not talk about votes, don't feel strongly about anything, no matter how solid the argument. Sure, a racist or homophobe might cure cancer, or someone who just uses the word "gay" to mean "lame", or someone with an IQ of 170 but also Tourette's. But you won't hear about it on a site where even a comment starting with something like "this is fucking bullshit!" followed by a detailed explanation of why it is, has to be punished or at least chided a bit. Yes, it would be better without that. But no, that doesn't excuse patting each other on the back for form over content. That's even dumber than swearing.

Be that as it may, in the end it'll just eat you whole, spit out nothing, and the people who pretended your shit doesn't stink will turn out to have been your worst enemies all along. Totally apart from being an intelligent or good person, conformity for the sake of conformity and any "hacker spirit" are oil and water, so that really just leaves money and electric toys, with shades of censorship and direct and indirect murder. A little hut of gold on a lot of treacherous sand.

The more you sell out, the more you give in, the more good you also can do, the more whistles you can blow, if you should ever grow your spine back. That is the one silver lining, but I won't hold my breath for it. Good luck though, without sarcasm. You do need it, and everybody deserves to come clean.

Fuck your fear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQEPtOyIHY
It doesn't actually draw anything, it just provides a means to move your windows around and change their z-order.
> Previous work shows we can handle a project of this size in 6 months 85% of the time

More like: Previous work shoes that this project should take between one week and eighteen months at a 95% confidence interval.

...there aren't many projects one can do 300 times to narrow that window. And asking for a date instead of a confidence interval is asking for an ambiguous estimate in the first place.
Promote failure? Do you even know what the scientific method is? They found the higgs boson! They proved some of the most difficult particles predicted by the standard model. How is that a failure????
I would say there's no independent variable here because the effect goes both ways. Suppliers set their prices based on the quantity demanded, and consumers choose a quantity to purchase based on the price set.
Face Detection Using Python and OpenCV
Fair enough - there's truth in what you're saying :)

But while strictly speaking behaviour and concern overall are to your point similar; I think what additionally bothers me personally [and I recognize this is an emotional reaction] is this feeling of overt attempt to mislead.

A bicycle is a bicycle is a bicycle. They are predictably unpredictable - I understand what to expect out of them ("Anything":).

These electric scooters are intentionally made to look like a licensed motorized scooter which (in Toronto) is a vehicle like any other, licensed, insured and held accountable. Motorized scooter's behaviour is in principle predictable like any other car or motorcycle vehicle - they ride in the blocking position of lane and obey all traffic rules.

The electric scooters try to gain the veneer of respectability of motorized vehicle and look different than bicycles/e-bikes... but they do not behave like motorized scooters or motorcycles (and couldn't even if they wanted to - they cannot keep up with traffic to tide in blocking position and move with the flow).
> it would better address the political and humanitarian issues raised.

That wouldn't make it "better", not doing so makes it completely unacceptable.
Ok so are you arguing to Joe Public or for Dave Hacker? You can't have it both ways. Somebody who can desolder and resolder a flash chip to a good device isn't likely to forget their freaking iCloud recovery questions or password. Conversely, someone who does or rolls without iCloud isn't likely to have the skills to recover data in this way.
true --- NYC is more expensive than the cities mentioned, but all of the cities you mentioned require a car (yes I know Chicago has a train, but it's not super convenient, the other two cities absolutely require a car).

A car requires a car payment, an insurance payment, gas, maintenance (tires, oil, general problems). Not to mention while your sitting in traffic, you cant work or a read a book or study math, learn a new language etc. Long car-based commutes degrades your lifestyle. I think most people that have this perception NYC is outrageously expensive, but they do not take into account the expenses they endure when they live in other locations.

Groceries are not double the cost of other cities here either. If you go to whole foods, that might be true but there are a ton of options to find fresh, reasonably priced food.
You want money in nominal terms, so PPP doesn't matter. EU is not really a single market, they have unified regulations, which is helpful, but at the very least language differences mean you're doing custom work for every country.
How freeconferencecall.com makes money reminds me alot of how car windshield companies make money. (E.g. safelite)

Insurance sometimes covers it, but a windshield company makes money through the insurance company many times, not necessarily through you. Sometimes you pay in the end for the higher insurance premiums down the road though, depending on your state and insurance package.
this is so cool, I've been wanting to learn more about windowmanagers for a while now!

Any chance anyone knows of something similar to this but using Wayland as opposed to X?
How is performance when adding a new, additional enumerated value to the table that already has millions of rows?
UDP sockets, not TCP ones. And don't forget about the bunch of MIME and Internet Message format that precedes the XML. (-:
> California wasn't always pure blue.

It's not pure blue, now, either, and more to the point, the Democrats in the California electorate are not a hive mind of stereotypes.

> But the effort the parent described is from 2004, so what matters are the politics of modern CA.

The Norquist-before-Norquist Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is one of the most powerful political forces in modern California, too.

(Also, in 2004, California was less bright blue than modern CA; it had just recalled the Democratic governor and elected a Republican replacement, after all.)
Recent experience has taught me to think of those type of people as delivery managers, rather than people managers, and so long as they understand the limits of their knowledge they can be invaluable.

I've worked with two people who were excellent in that role, they work with the rest of the business to clearly define priorities, and to ensure they understand what we can and can't deliver. When it comes to hard technical decisions they delegate to technical leads and developers, but they have enough experience of engineering to be able to intuit whether what they're hearing makes sense.

I've also worked with someone in the same position, but without the self awareness to know where his knowledge ended and it was time to delegate. That was possibly the worst six months of work I've done, but thankfully he was eventually forced out by the board.
Even if you have planned it in advance, car rentals get expensive quickly, especially if you want something more than a passenger car.

SUV/Pickup rentals are often >$500/week, AND the agreement will claim that I'm not supposed to take it off road, so if I'd like to go out to some hiking trailhead along the way, I'm totally uninsured if anything happens on that dirt road.

Adding $1000 to the cost of one of my yearly vacations adds up to a lot of money over the life of a car.

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On that same note, long trips are quite common for many Americans who don't commute those distances. My daily commute is 4 miles each way, I could bike it if the road had better infrastructure for it.

On at least 2 weekends a month, I'm driving 200+ mi each way, and my destinations typically do not have charging infrastructure (or paved parking lots). I know lots of people who do the same for their various outdoor hobbies.
Because insurance is a private industry and there are few goverment assisted options if you are very poor its very expensive to purchase it by yourself in the US. Private insurance has every incentive to keep raising prices and to keep lobbying the government to stay away from the market.

Your employer can group all of their employees into a single risk pool, so each employee gets a discounted rate. When you purchase insurance on your own you are no longer in a group and so the cost is far more. Doctors are also incentivized to prescribe you drugs you don't need and drugs that insurance covers instead of the correct medication.

My wife had to wait to get surgery on her leg because she just signed up with a new employer and didn't have insurance yet. If she had gotten the surgery without insurance it would have cost somewhere around $100k US.
This advice is grossly incorrect. EB (Employment based) immigrant visas are employer-sponsored apart from Eb-1A (people of extraordinary ability). And they take years to get (EB-1A is an exception that takes less than a year typically).
More quantity demanded = more quantity produced = better economies of scale, in theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
Back in 2015, builtins were mostly implemented in self-hosted JS, native assembly, or in C++. They were fairly small, and creating a copy for every Isolate was less problematic

So bizarre, they made this problem for themselves then had to undo it with the presented contortions. Accidental complexity anyone?
It was pretty common at my last job; seemed like every third PR got at least one request for a total or near-total rewrite, usually for completely non-functional changes without obvious benefits over the solution implemented.
The candidate’s portfolio
Or water pumps. Imagine no water to drink or flush the toilet above the 10th floor.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...
MoviePass has less than two months left before it runs out of cash
Elon delivers. That’s why people write things and there are fanatics.

He did something almost impossible with SpaceX and Tesla. Boosters that go up and land back again? That’s nuts. Doing it at a peanut of existing cost. That’s takes some entrepreneurial and engineering skill. A high end pure electric car? That seems like a suicide business. It is however a very highly desirable car. It drives on highways by itself is just science fiction brought closer to reality.

Sure the guy says a lot of crap, sometimes his timelines are way off, he could be a bit sexist too. The world probably puts him on a pedestal.

You can’t however take away his accomplishments. He’s putting his money where his mouth is and trying to push the world towards sustainable energy/transport and first steps towards possibly another earth.
Apple encouraging subscription model for apps
I like how comments like these get immediately downvoted. It is _almost_ as if the big red is monitoring comments on HN. ALMOST.
The author is talking about a societal shift whose consequences are difficult to foresee; one person electing to [strip DRM from media they purchase in violation of US law] makes little difference to the broader trend.
In those examples, a rush job is qualitatively worse, not something completely useless. Half finished tunnels, bridges, and (usually) programs provide basically no value.
Thats the point, software is a creative endeavor with more in common with those fields. Does anyone wonder why the novelist or the artist is taking too long. Why do they get that freedom but not in software?
A Lesson from Germany on How to Cover Far-Right Leaders
Tech, Not Turkey, Proves Contagion Catalyst in Global Selloff
Break your operation into a series of discreet tasks. For 99% of use cases, if you have an discreet task that takes 5+ minutes, there's a problem. In most cases, it can be split up.
Safety critical environments though are just fundamentally different when software is developed. Like a reality of them is that the assumption is a development time of years if the needed platform doesn't exist, and if it does then the changes need to be trivial to the point of being done by the time you propose doing them since all your time will be spent analyzing and studying the impacts.
It's something of a self fulfilling prophecy I suspect. People use Intel because people use Intel. "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" etc.

As a sysadmin (who admittedly doesn't deal with hardware much) these issues with Intel chips (the mitigation of which can seriously decrease performance), and the relative ease with which AMD has come through the problems make me wonder if we would be better with AMD.

I'm reminded of this experiment:

https://www.dowellwebtools.com/tools/lp/Bo/psyched/16/Smoke-...

"People respond slower (or not at all) to emergency situations in the presence of passive others."
Design queries iteratively.

Having an understanding of relational algebra (not the symbols, but the concept; math is always about the concept) generally helps a lot as well; it's the reason why compsci database lectures often start with relational algebra.

> We would like to find the total weight of cats grouped by age. But only return those groups with a total weight larger than 12.

The total weight of cats grouped by age.

SELECT sum(weight), age
FROM cats
GROUP BY age

But only return those groups with a total weight larger than 12.

SELECT sum(weight), age
FROM cats
GROUP BY age
HAVING sum(weight) > 12

Ordered by age.

SELECT sum(weight), age
FROM cats
GROUP BY age
HAVING sum(weight) > 12
ORDER BY age

The total weight column should be called total_weight.

SELECT sum(weight) AS total_weight, age
FROM cats
GROUP BY age
HAVING sum(weight) > 12
ORDER BY age
This is a geothermal heat pump.

There are traditional outside air conditioner units that run in reverse which use heat in the air, as well.
Martial arts are an individual pursuit. Software development is a team sport, which is precisely where your analogy falls apart. The best boxing coaches are not the best boxers. The best football, basketball coaches, sure, they may have experience as players, but you don't see the best players consistently go on to become great coaches. That's because leadership and coaching is a different skillset. I agree with a lot of e folks in this thread that perhaps the best combination here is a good (servant) leader to lead the team as a group, and an individual like a tech lead to train up on technical skill.
This reminds me of the generator parties Kyuss used to play at in the early 90s. So wish I could have gone.
Is Electricity a Limiting Factor to Bitcoin’s Promise?
I think what Gates is saying is that, while the "bits and bytes" economy is getting larger, perhaps lawmakers are still thinking in the terms of the "old model" which Gates indicates is obsolete.

He then says:

That has major implications for everything from tax law to economic policy to which cities thrive and which cities fall behind, but in general, the rules that govern the economy haven’t kept up. This is one of the biggest trends in the global economy that isn’t getting enough attention.
> My VM image HWID got banned from using App Store fairly soon

I never heard about HWID on Mac OS X before, and quick googling didn't produce any information about HWID on Hackintosh. Are you sure that is the real issue? Where can I read more about HWID?
> Because insurance is a private industry and there are few goverment assisted options if you are very poor its very expensive to purchase it by yourself in the US. Private insurance has every incentive to keep raising prices and to keep lobbying the government to stay away from the market.

This is proven to be false by Switzerland, where people purchase their private health insurance themselves.
Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights?

Two days ago I said these words to a cyclist on the sidewalk coming toward me: please don't ride on the sidewalk. His reaction was to park his bike and walk toward me flipping the bird and yelling at me to "shut the fuck up"... I've never been in a fight over this, but too often this is the result.

And lest you think I yelled those introductory words, I said them in the most pleading way I could muster.

It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk where I live. That doesn't stop the dozens of people I see each day.

And this fun thing happened last night when I left my building (a very busy street): 2 cyclists coming through the intersection and one cyclist wanted to get around the other, so at the intersection he whipped onto the sidewalk, at about 20 mph, and rode between the people walking there. Had I exited my building seconds earlier I could have been serious injured by stepping into his path.
What was the memory problem specifically, and how did you solve it, if you don't mind going into that?
Blockchain Dramatically Transforming Operations for New Age Data Centers
Muslims and others charged for RAPING girls as young as 12 in Huddersfield, UK
Deep Learning Framework Showdown
I was first annoyed at the amateur level of analysis in this piece. "Um, it's 2018, open source software runs production workflows in every single business; if you don't realize yet that every industry in the world is being reduced to becoming a commodity machine to run business rules & agreements as fluid software, then you're about 5 years behind the curve."

Then I realized it was written by Bill effing Gates. And that made me feel sad.

Firstly, because Bill is smarter than this. His lack of awareness of just how pressing this phenomenon is, indicates that he's either had his head in the sand, or the intellectual circles he swims in hasn't been ringing the alarm bells about this. (See my essay on the Changing Nature of Scarcity: https://medium.com/@pwang/the-changing-nature-of-scarcity-fc...)

Secondly, because of the irony. Bill Gates made his fortune having created a business around selling software. It would be good for him to review John Perry Barlow's "Selling Wine Without Bottles": https://www.eff.org/pages/selling-wine-without-bottles-econo...

As the world's first and most successful wine bottler, billg might find this perspective illuminating.
The World's Best Potato
Not a snowball's chance in hell of doing a Wayland compositor in 50 lines. OP has the benefit of the X server doing most of the work. Wayland compositors also have to do all of the rendering, input dispatching, GPU setup, etc themselves. With wlroots you could probably get pretty small, though, but you still have to do rendering et al yourself: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots (note: I am the maintainer of this software)
That's right. My first reaction after learning Node was that its Tcl/TK done poorly but with a faster runtime. Tcl/Tk had first class event loops from the beginning (of time), later it acquired coroutines as well.

The best part for me, however, was that in Tcl you can have multiple interpreters in the same process, each in its own native thread if you want. No GIL, no need to pickle/unpickle to talk the other interpreter. Had Python adopted this model, using multiple cores would have been so much nicer.

That said, the mantle has passed on to Lua, but I still harbor a soft corner for Tcl.
FBI warns banks of worldwide ATM hack threat
In a lot of cases, I see variations of this when there was not enough up front thought put into the design (before writing code).

Slight tangent, but a good way to tackle that is to outline what you want to do (sketch the API you're going to fill in, etc), and run that by a reviewer
Is this how you/your team/your company work? Do you know of any resources you would recommend for those of us who are interested in learning more?