skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Umm, yes? They have a 100 billion dollars of cash on hand.

Or in other words, they have no idea what to do with that money, so they rather have it waste away, and lose money to inflation.

Berkshire Hathaway has basically admitted that it has no idea what to invest in. Because if it DID have an idea of what to invest in, well then they would put their money into that, as oppose to continuing to set it on fire due to inflation.

Perhaps in the PAST they had a good idea of what to invest in. But those days are no longer.

Past performance is not a prediction of future performance.
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Hundreds of #Instagram accounts were hijacked in a coordinated attack
> This is why in Bulgaria, Cz and other countries you see locals paying low rates while other Europeans paying private college fees.

That's incorrect. In EU you can't price-discriminate, based on nationality, regardless of the product or service you're offering. Of course, that applies to EU citizens only. Non-EU citizens do indeed pay higher university fees than locals.
> In terms of market size: there are over 4 million Indian immigrants in the U.S.

This is the wrong market. What fraction of Indian immigrants spend over 10 dollars on a meal -- which is a waste of money at median income? How will you satisfy the nuanced tastebuds of Indian men who only prefer their wife's specific cooking on a daily basis? I would guess your actual market consists mostly of wealthy Americans who think all Indian food is "the same". I don't think too many Indians will go for this, but best of luck.
I had a look around at David Blaine poking various things into himself. I think I was probably wrong. It looks like poking a needle into a bicep is a somewhat common trick[1]. I assume he just takes the pain.

Still, I would tell everyone to be cautious believing a magician's explanation for any trick. Lying to mould people's memory of the trick is a really common technique. In one version of David Blaine's icepick through the hand[2] he says "This is the first time I let someone else choose the place" When he clearly chooses where to push the icepick through.

[1] https://vimeo.com/33462933

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw-l5SW5hik
The Major Advantages of Multi-Tenant Architecture in SaaS Applications
Just installed it tonight.

High Sierra

Python 3 installed via Homebrew

pip3 install leo

Ran fine right out of the box.
Are Blind conversations still indexed by Google?
With things like SIGWINCH / ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) we already know what kind of API it is, we are just haggling about the price.
> One word of advice, capsaicin is an oil. Trying to dull the pain with milk, etc is a waste of time.

No, it's not; cold milk, largely because of casein, which is lipophilic, is one of the most effective remedies (sugar solution in water is also effective, though somewhat less so.)

> You need to dissolve the oil off your tongue and for that alcohol is the best solution (no pun intended). Pure spirits work well to remove the capsaicin and then you can follow up with something that will soothe your raw nerve endings. So, German beer may have been the right answer for you at the time.

Pure alcohol is effective, and recommended for cleaning things that have been contaminated with capsaicin, but is not a great idea to ingest. Mixtures of alcohol and water that are far more of the latter than the former are not particularly useful.
Amazon wasn't the tiny startup you are making it out to be. In fact its market cap was larger than Apple's through the late 90s to mid 2000s. Apple has seen sustained but slowing growth since ~2008, while Amazon has absolutely exploded in the last 3-5 years. Here's a 10-year stock chart for comparison: https://i.imgur.com/PKLfYbG.png
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They don't have to be finished with digital (and they clearly aren't) to start expansion elsewhere. Amazon is a slow and steady machine that eats entire industries, often planning 5 years ahead.

Jeff Bezos is an amazing risk taker who has no problem spending billions on experiments to find the next area of growth. Apple is now sorely lacking this kind of leadership which has led to a relatively "meh" level of product output these days.
I don't think anybody really enjoys long haul flights, but personally, I especially dislike them. I'd much rather break my flight up into <8hr segments. I guess with everyone trying to squeeze as much of their vacation time though, it's more efficient to take a single 20 hour flight than two 10 hour legs with a 3 hour layover.

A while back, I flew to Vietnam from New Zealand. My flight there was AKL-HKG-SGN (11h30m, 2h40m). My return flight was HAN-SGN-KUL-OOL-AKL (2h, 2h, 8h, 3h). Total flight time is about the same, but the total trip time including stopovers was 18 hours to Vietnam, and 24 hours on return. I found it so much more pleasant to be able to get off the plane, stretch my legs, and eat some real food every few hours. I really don't enjoy long flights at all and I don't think the couple of hours it saves is worth it. 4 hours is the limit for me being comfortable on a flight, after 8 hours I'm feeling quite uncomfortable but I'll manage, and 12 hours is the absolute limit for me for flying. 20 hours on a plane would be absolute torture.

I really don't see the point in these excessively long flights either, you usually have to layover somewhere anyway, these ultra-long flights are most often to a hub like DOH or DXB, where you then need to connect to your final destination.

Flying from Auckland to London, I'd much rather take AKL-HKG-LHR (12hr, 12hr) than AKL-DOH-LHR (18hr, 8hr). I'd even pay a premium of a couple of hundred bucks for it, although conveniently basically every option with one stopover from Auckland to London is about the same cost (I really don't know how it's profitable to fly from NZ to England for US$450 though, that's insane, I'm fairly sure freighting 100kg to London would cost more).
Note that there's a more recent paper than the one linked on the project page: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04702
$49 per month?? For that price I could afford a human to search code for me.
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What’s preventing that right now?
>If you don't have an undergrad degree at all, I'm not sure a master's degree is appropriate?

Why shouldn't it be? I don't see why 3 years worth of miscellaneous classes and 1 year worth of classes toward a major (not even necessarily in computer science) should be a prerequisite for a cybersecurity program, or for any masters program for that matter. It just seems like another part of the false mythology of undergraduate education. And I'm sure the people running these credential rackets realize that allowing students to cut to the point would put an end to their gravy train.
To clarify WHY I think it's very plausible: There is of course a lot of data connecting indoor time and myopia. There is also a muscle which controls the curvature of the lenses in our eyes to adjust focus to different depths. Not using this mechanism in a "normal" way, across its full range and with regularity, stands out as the important factor of the indoor time link, since it's most directly related to focusing.
I missed any reference to GOPATH. Does this release fixes Go's problem of forcing developers to specify source code directories through GOPATH?
Nope it would not have worked. You see movie theater owners have to pay the movie owner a per viewer fee. So it is not merely about filling up empty seats. The entire "filling up empty seats" story relies on the misconception that if you have empty seats there is a zero marginal cost to extra viewers, but that is not the case, movie owners charge per ticket sold.

The deal movie pass offered theaters was "if you make a deal with us, we can help you raise revenues at a marginal loss." No sane business person wants that. The point of business is to make money not lose it.

Moviepass was always a crazy impossible scheme. The business model was: get famous, get high growth, then we'll figure something out. This is something we rational people do not like to think about, but there are people out there that take bold and reckless actions without thinking much or at all about the consequences, under a belief that it will all work out in the end. You can just look at the political news to confirm that.
>>If there is an actual hot conflict between the US and either of these nations, I shudder to think what will happen.

a hot conflict entirely dependent on satellites and other means of communications. The war can end right after the first shot is fired.
You can't. The tunnel is cheaper because it's not for a subway. The tunnel for this 'Dugout Loop' is a simple tunnel lined with concrete and possibly some lamps for lighting. That's it. It doesn't require any of the expensive things that a subway requires like tracks, electrical systems like a third rail or overhead cable, fire suppression systems, etc. The dugout tunnels can probably also be steeper and have sharper angles, which allows more possibility for routing that a subway wouldn't be able to do (vehicles on train tracks can't go up very steep inclines or take very sharp corners).

Another substantial part of this is that the Dugout Loop vehicles ascend to the surface through an elevator or ramp, which allows the station platforms to be built above ground. The platforms can also be smaller (they only need to fit a couple car-sized vehicles, not an entire train). This reduces cost substantially, as building out a large underground train platform is often one of the most expensive parts of a subway build.
Currently, Mastodon is in a very similar state. I often have deep, insightful conversations with interesting people, some of who are even local! Its like Reddit circa 2008, but easier to find quality users to add to your feed.
I consider topology an important branch of mathematics. Morse theory[1] is very powerful to prove existence or non existence of solutions in other spaces of mathematics. I saw it applied to robot motion planning [2] (and could use that to prove to an engineer friend that the sort of algorithm he was looking for cannot exist), so yes it has practical real world applications.

On the other hand I would be surprised to see data scientists apply cohomology in their daily work (citations?).

Also while a short glimpse at your digit arithmetic gives me fun (i’m far from fully getting it that fast) I don’t see any deeper insight we get from it at this stage. I would be careful to propose to someone to learn cohomology if they were interested in data science or arithmetic. Most likely the time could be used in a better way.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_theory
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111197
This essay is incredibly ironic. Thousands of words to sneer at "fatally bad thought," based on nothing but bald assertions that it's flawed, pretence that we dear readers all agree and can see that it's flawed, and appeals to emotion via expressions of Stove's disgust at the intellectual corruption its flaws reflect.

A "nosology of thought" sounds like a fine research program, but a manifesto about it ought to at least give a few examples to show the criteria for helpful diagnostics.

I like the dialog with Muggeridge at the end, though.
Add-Ons build the trust and then gives an update and do malicious thing , Mozilla/Google/IE can not scan every update I believe , so any possible solution we have right now ?
You might call it clueless, or you could say they're waiting to see a better deal at a good price. Some years are better for this than others.
I work with Nikhil. He's incredibly smart and a fantastic programmer. Didn't know he wrote a book on libuv though!
I apologize. I believe you may have misunderstood brevity for cynicism.These are systemic problems. There are no bad actors and everybody means well.

I came to HN because it was supposed to be a place to learn about how startups work.

I'm still here years later. One of the things I learned is that you let the market pull your startup. You can't push it. In other words, you don't know when trying to make something people want where this is going to lead you. Instead you interact with the folks you're trying to help and that interaction drives the things you do.

There is much wisdom here.

The other major thing I've learned in this area, from my own work with tech groups instead of HN, is that people like doing what people like doing. That is, given their druthers, people will always drift back to doing certain types of things. Like making reports? I'll bet you we can take you out of this job, put you somewhere else in a completely new surrounding -- and in a few years you'll be doing reports. It's what you like doing.

We tech folks are really smart people, so we've managed to take everything we've touched, split it into smaller pieces, and make them complicated. It's what we like doing. Over many years, this means that any significant tech effort contains dozens of skillsets, all of which can be very complex. This number continues increasing.

So with limited resources, as a small org or startup, you're faced with either letting the job drive out what skills you have to learn/use -- or not getting the work done. In larger companies, you can have the illusion that somehow you just need to grow enough experts. Small efforts can't do this.

>>How do someone even know they need an X if no X exists in their world?

Because X is a skill, not a role. If you transition from "jobs require these roles" to "jobs require these skills", and you let the problem drive your learning and adaptation, it all works out. If not? Overhead and friction increase as the required number of people increase, leading quickly to very slow projects. Everybody gets a role where they do what they want, but it's at the cost of focusing on the value instead of the employees.

We naturally tend to view tech development backwards from what it actually is. So good people, doing their best to help folks, end up creating interwoven problematic nomenclatures, policies, and systems. Hopefully that sounds less cynical.
If I'm understanding this correctly the traffic will be towards Dodgers Stadium before the event, and away from Dodgers Stadium after the start of the event.
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>>Amazon could go global.

Amazon is already global. In India they are now competing with the likes of Walmart and Flipkart.

And India is a huge market, not just for their ecommerce buisiness, but also for other offerings like aws and prime.
They are, however, laying power lines to have illumination of the entire tunnel. Seems more like they're doing batteries because that's something they have already, not because it's the optimal solution.
About all risk leaving you with severe brain damage. Suffocation, bleeding out.
The cost would be an order of magnitude larger as well
Three words:

Creative Fucking Labs.

Someone told me back then that the sound blaster drivers were responsible for more crashes than the next several causes combined, so I started watching and I’ll be damned if I didn’t see the same thing.
Design the skates so that one can push another at reduced speeds. Bang, built in redundancy.
> it feels like there's a lot of ideas in here. Stop it.

If you read the comments, you'd know that there's an unclear market which is a totally reasonable concern. HN is a place where people share their thoughts and concerns.
Hey, Benthos doesn't yet provide any general tooling for exactly-once processing like Wallaroo does, that's possibly a goal for the future.

My main focus has been providing general purpose stateless processors. So you can build a your own stream processor focusing on what makes it unique, and then the moment it's compiled and packaged it can read and write to anything, and convert any kind of payload to anything else just through configuration.
I obviously have no technical info, but my guess from this article is that 'back entrance' is probably inferring too much.

I would bet that communication apps A and B made connections to the same someCIADomain/IP range (or other less obvious metadata patterns, maybe the shared methods produced enough entropy on the whole to fingerprint).

Thus even if one can't read the content of the message the firewall matches the discovered pattern === likely a spy; so if the less vetted App A source was compromised offline and thus the shared online pattern is now known so too are sources using App B who were less likely to be compromised offline.
I don’t see how deleting action is a link. Why not use a button which fires xhr and injects return message into the doc?
> Warning customers that your food is spicy is one thing. Refusing to accept that your culture isn't the only one on the planet that enjoys spicy food is something else entirely

Different peppers contain various combinations of different capsaicinoids, and spicy dishes fun different cultures also have different non-capsaicinoids as best components. It's very common for someone used to spicy dishes of one culture to not be able to handle those of a different culture, and I'm not at all surprised that people working in food have developed a fair skepticism of people who think (often not inaccurately, for some particular cultural cuisine) they can handle spice (and often food-culture-specific codes that bypass this skepticism by signaling familiarity with the food culture in question.)
USA has the death penalty for treason too. Now you can argue back and forth (US wants China to eventually be democratic so I'm helping China by spying for CIA...etc) but they essentially betrayed their country. Chinese efficiency: Torture them till they tell want they know and then teach others a lesson along the way too.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
I hope control-S (XOFF) is disabled by default.
Can't really compare public projects to a privately funded one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762067

190+ points, 69+ comments
Considering how extensible org-mode is, I wouldnt be surprised if someone added this functionality to org-mode
I think blue light causing gradual vision damage is actually a more recent and separate claim that just also happens to villify blue light.
I stared into the fontconfig, and the fontconfig stared back at me
That photo of a face just lying on the table disturbs me...
I don't get it. How does this improve on the underground subway? I'm unconvinced that making the tunnels smaller means that the construction costs will be significantly cheaper and faster. Further, the electric skates make no sense from an operational or RAMS perspective:

1. They're smaller so you need a lot of them, which means wear and tear = possibility of failure is higher;

2. They're inefficient in terms of energy use (gotta charge those batteries first) vs third rail that supplies continuous redundant power;

3. How are the electric skates driven? Autonomous? If they're relying on cameras to do autonomous driving, any disruption in the tunnel lighting will kill them all dead.

4. Lighting those tunnels continuously will not be cheap.

5. If the electric skates are driven independently, how will others behind know if one has broken down in front?

6. How do you maintain headway if the electric skates don't know positions of those in front of them? How do you make sure they don't collide if all you have is a camera?

7. Emphasis on average speed is weird, no passenger actually cares about the average speed of the carriages carrying them, only the frequency between those carriages that they can get onto to get to their final destination.

8. How do those electric skates know they've reached their destination and open the doors for passengers to get off? The illustration shows tightly packed electric skates. Do they travel up the loop lifts and then exit? How will these loop lifts be operated?

This doesn't seem any different from a regular subway, only smaller tunnels, and smaller carriages carrying passengers, without any rail and other wayside equipment. Why not a battery-electric bus?
If it pops up on AOSP.
Berkshire Hathaway isn't a company like Amazon or Apple. They don't have a business or a product to invest in. They are a investment company, which has to identify successful businesses and invest there.

Also after a while so you sort of max out of how much you can play that game over the years. And Warren Buffet is a man who is very picky about where he puts his money.

Its hard to get a never ending supply of companies with Moats.
The WhatsApp founder who left Facebook is still employed
From my perspective, this could serve as a decent proof of concept for building cheap, barebones tunnels (the tunnel for this project is literally just a concrete lined tunnel with lighting - no additional costs like laying tracks, providing electrical third rails for the trains, etc) that self-driving vehicles can easily use.

If this works well enough for something like a car-sized, self-driving, self-powered vehicle, I could see it being scaled up to use bus- or train-sized vehicles, while still utilizing the cheap, barebones tunnels.
Nobody seems to understand that it’s possible to have one source tree and multiple binaries.

You can have hybrid systems where the code runs in isolation but the pull requests are still self contained instead of split into multiple pieces that have to be coordinated.
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> the sodium comes from the traditional Indian spices used in each dish so it's an intricate process to adjust the levels and keep the same quality and taste.

This is untrue, bastardized Indian dishes tend to overcompensate for not only sodium but also oil. I'm guessing the extra sodium and sugar in your dishes are added to appeal to Americans and keep a longer shelf life...
Don't underestimate that if those 5% instead of taking the car take this Loop, there'll be less cars and less traffic. So a higher % will be home faster.
Just give me a sharp knife Google*
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Honestly, I didn't know what you meant. I actually thought your comment might have been sarcasm.
Go is missing 2 things that I care about:

1) proper dependencies management system (the new module system might address this) and

2) gener... nah, just kidding -- actually null protection. I don't want to see another segfault or null pointer failure ever again.

If it had these two features, I'd probably stop toying around with Rust and Crystal and just use Go. Unfortunately, 2) is probably impossible without seriously breaking old code, and they're not gonna break old code.
outline is a node in hierarchical / tree structure - term used e.g. in OPML format which is a type of XML
Out of curiosity, how do you think traitors providing potentially critical intelligence to one of the most dangerous agencies of a powerful and aggressive unfriendly foreign power should be treated, when there is literally zero doubt as to their guilt?

And to be clear, I'm not condoning this action but I'm also not so quick condemn it. I'm genuinely uncertain if I somehow were the Chinese government what my decision would be, but I think you are quite certain -- and it's sparked my curiosity.
"IBM didn’t understand that"

Can you explain a little further?
On the bright side, your code will always be as easy to understand as a novice's code too, so it conserves other programmer's mental cycles as well.