skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they have the money to pay for placement because they make more money from search because everyone uses Google already... hmm.

If everyone likes Google best, why do they bother paying anything for the default settings? Or are they simply protecting their dominant position by using their dominant position?
It's the sad state of affair in "trusted" App Stores. Little Snitch is the first app I install on every machine. I look forward to a day when network access becomes a permission a sandbox app asks for.
Research in carbon nanotubes only really matured from fundamental to applied in the past 15 years, so I don't think it's that surprising that the market isn't flooded with them yet.

We're already seeing some of the first commercially available CNT products, though. Take Vantablack[0] as an example. Or for non-commercial applications of CNT tech, see the CNT-reinforced bicycle frame that Floyd Landis used to win the Tour de France in 2006.[1]

When you consider that Bakelite was invented in 1907, but didn't see major manufacture until the 1940s, or that PVC was discovered in the 1870s, but didn't see commercial production until almost the same time, it doesn't seem like CNT are much behind the timeline for plastics. The entire chemical and plastics revolution didn't really take swing until the 1960s.

CNT probably aren't vaporware, and even if they were I don't know if that'd be too damning a story for Quantum Computers. Quantum Computing isn't "undiscovered" or "[not] proven to exist." Plenty of labs have produced physical quantum logic gates, and IBM even makes access to some of their real 5- and 16-qubit machines available online through the cloud.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

[1] https://archive.fo/20120713061226/http://news.cnet.com/Carbo...

[2] https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx
Reflecting on 20 Years of Good Design
Certainly regarding your example.

However in languages with rich type systems you can do Type Driven Development, which reduces the area space for many kind of errors.

Basically a simplified version of dependent typing, where one makes use of the type system to represent valid states and transitions between them.

For example, one can use ADTs to represent file states, with the file operations only compiling if the file handle is in the open state.
Thank you for the plot summary! It's given me a lot to think about. The name of the film is actually "Le Couperet" if I'm not mistaken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Axe_(film)

Your comment may be even more fitting to my Ask HN about a fake résumé generator project. You're correct about my feelings of disobedience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934916
So long as the cost to post a review is less than the reward, abuse will continue. The more a company polices reviews and/or verifies legitimacy, the higher the "cost" of the review.

The value of the review can be diluted by encouraging reviews from actual users. Here, however, the user can't review behavior that is concealed.
Yup. Here as well.
In Palihapitiya's defense, he presented a logical argument of how this could work when I heard him speak in person. Essentially:

1. More SaaS products like using Stripe for payments, AppAnnie, etc. can audit and monitor revenue.

2. Small, seed stage investments up to 250k and placing a lot of bets.

3. Companies could apply online allowing for startups in non-traditional and underserved areas like Mexico City to receive funding. Ditto as well for removing potential human biases like founder gender, race, etc.

I don't believe he ever proposed using a completely data driven decision for a $200M Series C round. Personally, it seems like an unfortunate situation as I like when someone undertakes a new approach to an old problem, but it sounds like he stopped showing up to do the work needed for this to happen.
I can't connect to Slack either. It says

Server Error

Sorry! Something went wrong, but we're looking into it.

If the problem continues, please check our Status page for updates.

But the status page says smooth sailing. Can't even contact them via https://my.slack.com/help/requests/new
Not only NYC-centric, but affluent NYC-centric. One of the advantages of Uber is that you can get your ride to wherever you need to go, whoever you are and the drivers have far less to worry about.

I've heard many stories about people saying that cabs and private hire companies simply wouldn't go to <neighbourhood> or pick up people who sounded non-white-affluent, meaning a large swath of people were discriminated against and couldn't get rides.

With Uber/Lyft, the driver doesn't know what I look like, what I sound like, or where I'm going until I'm in the car. And the driver has no reason to discriminate because he's getting paid regardless.
I had never heard of "default mode" before this. Do you have any suggested reading on the topic, especially around creativity?
Maybe in drier times when people use water from the reservoir it is recharged from the wet sand (wet because of the dam and reservoir; it would be dry otherwise) that surrounds it?
Not really. Everyone else who worked their longer, or had more experience elsewhere, got paid more, typically with a different job title.

Another job that was more uniform was in a factory, where I was making roughly $12 / hour. Not only was it unskilled labor, but those jobs were slowly disappearing as lines were being replaced with fully automated systems that only needed a third, at most, of the people to run them. Any effort to raise wages or unionize would merely ensure that the remaining lines were replaced sooner rather than later.

Therein lies the problem with trying to "solve" unskilled work. It's easier to automate, and there's more people capable of doing it. Given that often means that supply exceeds demand, wages are inevitably going to stay low, or the jobs will simply evaporate.
What a lot of people have presumed is that nothing was done i.e. the driver wasn't closely monitored until someone got hurt.
Nope.

See here for a better summary of the feature: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332673/what-and-ho...

From my own experimentation in Terminal.app in Mojave, ~/Library/Safari is unreadable without granting permission, but I can read everything under ~/Library/Application Support/Google just fine.

Probably Apple should expose a way for applications to register their data to be included in the protected data set.
I recommend that you go check out some of the data here: https://humanprogress.org/dws

In the past 150 years, the human race has made extraordinary progress, lifting billions out of poverty.

There are still many globally who are left out, and I am aware of that. But you can't argue against the widespread gains to humanity through improved technology.
I had a related question - if you can't trust the status page to show when the application is down, then what does the 99.92% uptime actually measure?
The US already puts limits on who can vote (have to be a citizen, have to be 18+, can't be a felon), would it be so terrible if we also had a test to see if you actually knew what was going on?

It would have to be worded carefully, e.g "what does THINK_TANK believe will happen to the economy under Trumps tax plan" (as opposed to "what is likely to happen under Trumps tax plan", so there would be no political disagreements) and it would of course have to be applied equally to everybody (no grandfathering).

But the question I am really asking is, would it be so bad if the number of eligitable voters were smaller, but they were more informed?
Seems that they're up now.
And it's back!
Status page is updated. Here's the outage status link: https://status.slack.com/2018-09/60787986d73e3949
Seems to be back up. It was funny, my first instinct was to go on slack and tell everyone about it.
By random-access he means O(1) indexing, unlike lists. Yes, arrays works the same(but there is bounds-checking).
Privately Enforced and Punished Crime
There's nothing to stop Chrome or Firefox from encrypting and/or obfuscating their history file.
Gotta keep the hype up to keep the VC money flowing.
I think you mean $500M
A threat can be a way to force.

Saying a threat is the opposite of forcing is definitely wrong.
I feel like it would be best to avoid using their extension, but I am more concerned with the features and security of their core products.

And I would think it is analogous to running kbfs on a machine with a virus or keylogger.

And one nice thing is your root key is still protected by a paper key which you can physically secure, and use to de auth any compromised device keys.

For the casual user who is just getting into keybase, social integration like this may be worth the risk in order to help onboarding new users. Once they start seeing the real benefits of using keybase, they can delete the extension and still make use of the good stuff.

Finally, keybase is open source right? They are a small team and might not have the resources to improve the extension, but just getting the first iteration out there might be enough to attract contributors who see its value and can improve its security.
The first version of tcpdump dates from '88[0]. And I'm not sure it was even the first sniffer out there, quite likely not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpdump
The article makes a case against states competing with one another.

I'd argue that competition is a very good thing in this case.
As much as I'm against the Uber corporate culture, which seems to be pretty similarly reflected here in this particular Chinese counterpart; so devils advocate here: it's probably not easy to police a huge pool of contract drivers.

I mean if anything, it's more an argument that ride-share companies should vet their drivers, do basic background checks .. you know, treat them as real employees instead of this "gig economy" bullshit.

Even then, you're still going to get a psycho in the mix, but at least you can say you attempted to do due diligence.
>This is all to say the product culture within Didi is not just cut-throat and competitive, but borderline amoral

Isn't this a characteristic of the asset-sharing industry in general? From Uber's God View [1] to AirBnB's out-of-home campaigns [2] ?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

[2] https://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/10/21/passive-a...
Actual paper from that author.[1] From 2016.

Her real point is that the electronics industry is doing great, while some other parts of of US manufacturing are not. Fig. 2 is useful. Textiles, apparel, furniture, and paper products are the big losers. The apparel industry was totally crushed by imports from low-wage areas. That took out the US textile industry, since exporting textiles to be made into apparel and re-imported was pointless.

US motor vehicle output is up, not down. That hasn't been crushed by imports.

Primary metals (which is mostly steel and aluminum) are up.

More breakdown of the computers and electronics sector would help. We'd probably see semiconductors through the roof and consumer electronics down. That data is available.

This is useful. Trade is an industry-specific problem. The American apparel industry is mostly gone, but we have cheap clothing. The metals industry complains but isn't in real trouble. Motor vehicles are doing OK. A breakdown of consumer goods by category would help. That would show where to apply tariffs.

Paper products are down because newspapers are obsolete, and they used vast amounts of paper, and because offices use far less paper. Not import-related.

[1] https://upjohn.org/sites/default/files/pdf/state-of-american...
Back in December/January they already had similar valuations (around 50bln) in their most recent financing rounds.
Thank you to all the security researchers out there reporting this stuff. Keep the bad press flowing, so apple doesn’t get too lazy and let even more of these through...
Actually, I do.
Now they have the error circle, but all green checks elsewhere [0]. Seems that this might be manually updated.

[0]: https://imgur.com/cEoFUiz
It's still important to note that even with all disadvantages and problems listed Rich think that flat structure is superior to usual hierarchical one. PC Gamer article does mention it, but not to the degree you'll see on his twitter.

https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1018729819243143173

PS: And yeah I strongly recommend to read whole post history since he's really smart guy.
Haya2Now - Hayabusa2 “control panel”
The appeal of the apps for me is:

- I don't need to make calls, I have list of places I go to most often and calling a taxi is couple of clicks away

- I don't need to worry about payment, it's just "Thanks, bye" and you go out of the car.

- I know what car will come to me

- I can see where the car is while it's coming to me

- When abroad it's so much easier to to use an app instead of talking to a driver who barely speaks English (like Thailand)

So it's much more than just a brand.
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Look, I obviously know about this law but this is a completely different thing from what you claimed and it doesn't mean at all that it's forbidden to catalogue police crimes against minorities.

I will concede that it makes it harder to do so by referring to official records (and this is indeed a problem). But your comment sounded like it would be illegal to, for instance, independently collect complaints. And it's emphatically not. Amnesty and others do exactly that, including looking at racial factors.
> BTW, you mention the "interest rate" on those bonds when I think you meant yield. Very big difference.

I'm not very knowledgeable here, but is the key difference that yield is more a result of the market (i.e. bonds fluxuate in value but the return on the bond itself is fixed, so the yield reflects the relationship between cost and payout)?
Enabling Web Packaging and then hiding URLs will produce a lot less blowback than doing it in the reverse order.
Huh? Pandas were doing just fine until humans came along and destroyed most of their natural environment. You've got it backwards. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2rmf6h/til_t...
https://duck.co/help/results/

> We source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
> But he was more than willing to provide a forum for people whose leftist ideas he despised, a group that included Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, Saul Alinsky, Allen Ginsburg and John Kenneth Galbraith.

That's revisionist history.

Buckley allowed Noam Chomsky on his show once, sure. But I'd hardly call him "more than willing" to let Chomsky get his ideas across. He was constantly interrupting him. At the end of the interview Buckley even went so far as pressing a button to go to commercial in order to keep from having to answer one of Chomsky's questions.

"Providing a forum" would be what Amy Goodman did by allowing the 9-11 truthers to debate the Popular Science guys on Democracy Now. That's the standard, and Buckley's interview of Chomsky on Firing Line doesn't live up to that standard.
Nothing, I work for one, but we often won't bother with the smallest of the strategies. It just depends on the markets and the players more than anything. They call us Quantitative Trading Firms or Algo Firms or HFTs.
Why ClassicPress decided to fork WordPress 4.9
I'm not saying it's a good idea. I don't think it is. But it's not just a favicon.
Definitely not for you, you should look into using C++ if all you do is floating point math routines.
They get a twist, but then loop around the cube, which undoes the twist. You can see their full orientation throughout the animation. (Or try getting your own cube and ribbons and try physically turning it to see for yourself.)
> 1) Apple's app review is nigh useless security theater.

It's not useless, it serves the vital purpose of allowing Apple to strong-arm companies when Apple wants to compete with them. :/

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831188
Now that you mention it, can somebody recommend some good starting points for learning F#? That language has been on my bucket list for far too long.
To be clear, when I responded to “Also, who are the ‘unwitting agents’?” I was explaining what boxspam meant.
Maintenance costs are not going to drive up costs for Uber/Lyft. It will just increase driver churn once they've been wrung out of their maintenance subsidy gift to these platforms.
Glad to see I am not the only person who is aware of this.
Location: Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan
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Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywd9pYdy-pIAeGp2u19Yj4TRg7D...

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I never really think about it, but for someone that works remote you feel very lonely when slack is down...
Aha -- sought for and found: https://www.podroom.com/
My concern was more that the logo was outsourced to someone who copied the Waste Management design.
I watched it too. I watch JRE all the time. I guess now by default I'm an Elon defender because I hate slanted news and clickbait lol. He's a decent dude that I would love to sit down with.
How is "opportunity growth" not just a change in the demand curve? And how is "charge what the market will bear" not just higher demand intersecting fixed supply at a higher price point?
> nobody cares

Are you saying everyone is aware about those things?

I for one never use a Chinese app or an app that was bought by a Chinese company ever again (sorry, Opera). But I doubt 99% of the users even realize who owns these apps.
Doesn't the "lake" get filled with sand eventually? Do you need to then excavate/move it away to maintain effectiveness?
How Janet Jackson's Super Bowl 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Helped Start YouTube
What a shell dotfile can do for you – Opensource.com
This is the most constructive comment thread on HN in a long time!
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> you would use an array when you need sequential access and potentially help locality of reference when doing some number crunching

Yes, that's what float arrays were specialized for. From a quick glance at the OCaml compiler code, you might also get effective locality with other unboxed types (ints, chars). Boxed types will likely require an additional lookup even if the values are allocated contiguously. But if you're at the point of being concerned with memory access patterns, then bigarrays will probably work better.

If all you need is sequential access, then a list is much more convenient to use.

I'm not sure how all this translates to ReasonML though, as the JS runtime is very different.
Imprisoned by algorithms: the dark side of California ending cash bail
Logically speaking, this is incorrect. Both could be true given a circumstance, like say, the sun goes red giant in the later case.

Furthermore, "the reason" can usually be whatever you want it to be if you go far enough back in the chain of causations. My hands were wet this morning when I dropped the jelly jar. But that wasn't my fault, it was the water company's fault for supplying the wetness on my hands. Or perhaps it was the Roman's fault for kickstarting the whole thing with aqueducts. But that's really just mankind's fault for existing, so human activity is at fault for my loose grip on the jelly jar today.

Overall, I found this article interesting, and frankly: Go mankind! We averted an ice age and certain death/destruction with farming. If we want to talk about problematic climate change, look at how living on top of a mile of ice works out for our species.
Ways to support Emacs community developers
Just One valid complaint of harassment/abuse should be more than enough for any system to remove a driver. The problem shouldn't be number of complaints. We seem to equate quantity with veracity in a lot of system designs, but those are absolutely different things. On the one side we see complaints that shouldn't need volume/quantity to make a difference to prevent further harassment, and on the other side we see brigading tactics where volume is easy to bot/sheeple and has no necessary basis in veracity.

Quantity !== Veracity

Quantity is a metric that is easy to program and to understand for systems design, so we use it as an easy stand in, but we need to get better at finding Quality, not Quantity.
How to go fully dark in MacOS Mojave and Windows 10
From my own brief membership at WeWork - can confirm about the cult feeling. Every member of the "WeWork [support] Team" had this airhead quality about them that assured one there wasn't calculation (or anything of depth, really) going on under her/his fanatically happy veneer.

I'm happy I read this article, because I thought I was being judgmental in thinking none were too bright.
catkin_make and catkin-tools (where "catkin build" comes from) both use catkin. They're just different CLI tools, and for the most part compatible, and have been fairly stable for about four years now. How many build tools have come out for JS over that period?

Workspaces are actually super useful. They're a similar idea to virtualenv and conda environments. If you don't find those useful I don't know what to tell you.

Since ROS2 is essentially a fresh restart I'm not surprised there's some churn. I think most people expect it to be fairly unstable for a while.

I've been working with ROS since nearly the beginning (as well as other middleware solutions) and I definitely see a lot of its flaws, but understand the rationale for a lot of the decisions. It's like C or C++, a 'worse-is-better' solution that's overall pretty decent, specially considering it's open source.
It’s also highly inaccurate and exaggerates.
> Performance: better than native `ocaml`

Maybe you could word it as native `ocaml` interpreter instead? Ocaml can compile to machine code.
Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks
Well, we wouldn't really have operating schools or governments without that, so yes it does help people.
I like OCaml, but sorry, I can't take it seriously until it gets proper support for Unicode.
> eh, whatever, it's legal in CA

But it's a federal crime in the USA. So maybe it wasn't a smart thing for a CEO of a publicly traded company to do on camera.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/federal-marij...
You think he sent his car into space solely for the reasons you wrote down?
> Most of the developed world doesn't give a fuck

Most of the world signed the Paris Agreement. The majority of the developed world thinks man-made climate change is real and is a threat. Conflicting priorities and systems of government that are set up for short term decisions make progress much slower than it should be, but saying that we don't care is very unfair to most of the developed world.
For startup investing the pure math explanation to invest in 1,000 companies makes more sense than in public markets. If you have 1 out of 1,000 startups return 1000%, 99 companies break even, and 900 companies go bust, you still make money due to the asymmetric one company generates. In public markets, two deviations of risk is satisfied with 20ish companies where three deviations being around 80 companies assuming a log-normal distribution. Adding more companies does not greatly lower the risk when the outcome isn't so binomial.
Broad discretion in such laws is the problem. It puts you at the mercy of an individual police officer's whim. More broadly it facilitates discrimination. This isn't a theoretical problem: I know people in London who, due to stop and search, would never dare to carry knives, no matter the reason.
Yuck. I installed that a while back to ease dealing with some local files on the phone for some testing, and it's been sitting on there for a while. Uninstalled, since regardless of whether it's true now, it could be true in the future, and an app not used is both an app not needed and a security hole waiting to happen at this point.
Wealthy family or self-made?