skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine I know how to fish. I go and teach one million people how to fish. I charge them $1 each, which they gladly pay because they consider the skill worth more than $1. Now I have $1M. I hoard it. Am I greedy? By no means! It's a paradox: you think I'm greedy because I'm hoarding that $1M, but actually I have the $1M because I provided so much value!

Okay so I think I'm getting where you're going with this.. though I feel like it's a separate argument. Honestly it's difficult, so I'm not trying to be dense or coy and argue your point lol.

If I understand you, your saying the $1M does not denote you owe something - and that I can totally agree. You provided value, you have $1M, it was fairly acquired and you don't need to contribute back to society.

However, I don't think it matters to me, honestly. In my personal view, my 5c example still holds true. If I can give someone 5c, I don't care that I earned the 5c - providing value to the population around me. I have enough money that giving 5c away is meaningless, it's a level that I can easily help someone at - not just easily, without question/hesitation even.

Which goes back to what I said earlier, it's all about relative excess. In the $1M example, you don't owe anyone anything - you provided a service, you're better off because of it. Yet, if $1/m is all they make, your level of income os miles above theirs. To the point that, you could spend $25 for a goal you deem helpful to society, and it would mean little to you, but a ton to other people.

So yes, you don't owe anyone anything. But that's why I called it a personal responsibility. I want to be kind, and 5c for me to help someone is a no brainer. I don't owe them, I want to help them. Bezos and other massively rich people might be missing that.

I'm not saying Bezos sell some houses/cars and donate. I'm not saying you should take a loan out and donate. I'm saying we all should want to help people with a an amount that is trivial to us. If you're poor, helping people with trivial money may be of no value (in USD), time is likely more valuable. If you're mega rich however, a trivial value can change lives.
This wasn't National Grid's gas line. It belonged to Columbia Gas.
How interesting. This definitely puts things in a different perspective.
Mylk  Guys (YC S18) Is Hiring Our 2nd Full Stack Engineer
The current food system isn’t working - not for our health and not for our planet. Vegan food is one way to improve the food system. We are a grocery startup making it easier for folks to eat more plant-based food.

Along with solving the hard logistics and operations challenges of building a grocery store, we are also innovating on the customer experience (e.g. creating a community of food lovers, chat with a human for recommendations etc.), using data to build our catalog and rethinking a grocery store from first principles.

Join us as a full stack engineer if one of the 2 strongly resonate with you -
- You love crafting beautiful front end experiences and love talking to customers.
- You love operational challenges, and process improvement to save $$s.

In either case, you are obsessed with data. You have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible. Expect talented, motivated, intense and interesting co-worker.

We are extremely transparent, communicate well, own our pieces and move fast. We are a team of x-Instacart, x-Amazon, looking to build a strong culture, a serious business and work with the best. We are in SF, and are backed by top investors including YC & Khosla Ventures.

Our Stack:

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We promise to thoroughly review every application, so we appreciate you putting in the effort.
Alternatively, if you are more of a let's talk about it person - just shoot us a quick note and we'll pick up the phone and call you !

If not you, then who?
jobs@mylkguys.com
As is the line "Play multiplayer games together", opposed to playing multiplayer games alone?
Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (2014)
People similarly dismissed concerns about information Facebook was sharing with third party apps that seemed to just provide quick entertainment like "the which celebrity are you most like quiz!" Years later, it turned out to be part of a massive data-mining operation meant to get information about voters.

You could point out reasons why this isn't the same thing, but you'd be missing the point. I, as an individual, can't fully assess the privacy impact of every single piece of technology I use, and what seems to be a benign feature backed by a corporation I trust could be anything but.

That being the case, we need to adopt certain heuristics to help defend our privacy. Granting as few permissions as possible for applications we use, and avoiding using a single identity across all of our devices is a good way to mitigate that risk.

Are you an individual that is willing to reduce your privacy a bit for added convenience? That's perfectly fine. But the ethical thing for Google to do would be to make this an opt-in feature, rather than an opt-out. The fact that they made this browser/Google Account sync the default was no accident. They want to gather more data on their users, and know if their users were stopped and prompted to think about whether or not they actually wanted this convenience, they would have less participating users. So they've made the unethical choice, and made this an opt-out feature.
Groking that way that floats work really is a lot of fun.

Years ago a put together a math library (https://github.com/KimBurgess/netlinx-common-libraries/blob/...) for a domain specific language that had some "limited" capabilities. All functionality had to be achieved through a combination of some internal serialisation functions and bit twiddling.

It was simultaneously one of the most painful and interesting projects I've done.
Ask HN: Is AWS deprecating Windows?
Recently, AWS introduced the new T3 instances. In the AWS blog post T3 instances were described as even more cost-effective than T2[1]

For example, a t3.2xlarge Linux (VPC) instance (1-year) is a 9.5% cheaper than a t2.2xlarge instance. So far so good.

But for Windows, it the opposite scenario: a t3.2xlarge Windows (VPC) instance (1-year reservation) is a 19.2% more expensive than a t2.2xlarge instance (!)

Or from another point of view: for T2 running Windows instead of Linux means a 23% uplift while for T3 the Windows uplift is now 60%(!).

What is the main driver for this trend to make Linux AWS instances ever cheaper and Windows AWS instances ever more expensive?

a) Amazon deprecating Windows on AWS, as to making migration to Linux more compelling to AWS loyal customers.
b) Microsoft raising rates for AWS to eventually drive Windows loyal customers to Azure.
c) Both
d) Other

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t3-instances-burstable-cost-effective-performance/
I am not a reader of The Old New Thing, but it seems LWN fits what you are looking for:

https://lwn.net/

The page is a bit difficult to navigate, and some articles are subscription only, but see e.g. the articles here:

https://lwn.net/Kernel/
Isn't this part of what Tesla has been doing though? At least they sell cars that simultaneously has:

- human drivers in demanding situations

- sensor and compute package planned for autonomous driving

From there it is mostly a question of

1. getting permissions to collect the data

2. finding some efficient way to store -> sift for interesting situations -> magic happens here -> lots of regression testing -> self driving car -> profit!

I would think?
Does anyone know how you could go about installing your own regulator at your house on your gas line?

Would it even be able to mitigate something like this?

Curious..
Why must there be anything else? If you're going to make this argument then you must have a compelling answer, specifically in the context of a corporation.
Yes. It reaches the end of its support at the end of this year, and PHP 7.1 next year.
WebRender newsletter #22
I don't know about Seattle but in NYC there are street-cleaning rules that prevent you from leaving a car in one spot for more than several days, so that a street cleaner can come through.

More residential areas don't have this, though. Some homes have driveways and some buildings have garages. There's always a paid garage nearby or airport parking.
I wonder about the disconcerting counterpart of radical transparency as in everyone surveilled and everyone has access. It would require a lot of soul searching about destroying all of the uncomfortable private hypocrisies but would force honesty and limit corruption. It would probably force either tolerance of previously dark secrets or conformity. Unfortunately cognitive dissonance is also a powerful force. Hypocrisy is only okay when we do it and all that.
I think you got me wrong. What I meant was that, when you're browsing the web with IE, it is IE which is draining your battery. However, when you're using Firefox, it's not only Firefox who drains your battery, but also this always-running IE process. My comment was mostly a joke, I don't know to what extent this might be a thing.
I've seen this idea of storing the precision mentioned many times on HN, but I must say I don't believe in it outside of some few niches.

First reason being that it's much more complex and it's unclear what the complexity buys us.

Second reason is that it doesn't model how variables co-vary. As a toy example imagine that I have a number x: 5+-1.

Then I let y = x - 1: 4+-1

Finally I let z = 1 / (x - y).

Now, by construction z will be very close to 1. But a system naively tracking uncertainties will be very concerned x - y. If it does a worst case analysis it gets 1+-2. If it does an average case analysis assuming independent gaussian errors it gets 1+-sqrt(2). When we perform the division our uncertainty goes infinite.
Get a small private class (up to 5) of kids willing to learn programming. Teaching works great during existential crisis. Sum up everything you know and extract some nontrivial ideas, then go for a conference talk. If it works write a book and continue consulting.

Therapy is a good thing but in case of a low grade chronic condition it kind of gives you prosthetic legs to walk when you have wings to fly.
It’s in WaPo, which should be doing fact checking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/09/13/m...
Mobile here, first load about 5-7s on 4G. Not bad.
Yes, this is the reason 'ops' exists and developers shouldn't just run wild in the organization. DevOps is 'we made our ops people become developers' or worse, 'We let out developers use docker!'

All kidding aside, it is a lot of work, and you have two options: 1) learn these things yourself 2) pay someone else to do them for you.

I'm a fan of #1, as they are valuable skill sets that let you be on the receiving end of option #2.
Your standards are even higher than mine. I salute you for that.

Have you looked into Hubert Dreyfus yet?
I have Android 7.0 with EMUI 5 - it has built in QR reading, but it's automatic rather than being able to tell it to look for a QR code, which can make getting it to read a bit problematic.
You can add a password or ask for the cvv code. The main thing is not having to re-enter my credit card details every time.
Create a Github account

Which most people have already and it allows you to contribute to a gazillion of repositories.

Run git send-email, Check email for replies

There is one important step missing here: Find out who to send the patch to or subscribe to a mailinglist (and later unsubscribe). In the former case, if a maintainer goes AWOL, the patches that they received are lost. In the latter case, subscribing to a mailinglist, let alone for every project that you want to do a drive-by submission, also involves several steps:

- Figure out how to subscribe

- Subscribe

- Set up filter in your e-mail client to avoid cluttering up your inbox.

- Unsubscribe when you are done

To reply to emails, you can use any email client or even do that in the browser.*

You can also reply to GitHub issue e-mails.

(I am not a big fan of GitHub, but I think it is important to understand why a lot of people find GitHub so convenient.)
I see what you are saying, but at the same time I think it is an inescapable fact that the only ‘essential’ authors on a paper ie the authors without which the work wouldn’t have been done at all, are the senior authors. To suggest that they shouldn’t receive credit for that seems very unfair.
iPhone XS hits $2000+ on ebay
> most people don't seem to care too much about syntax

Speaking as an Erlang enthusiast, I must disagree. I love the syntax, but most people see "different" and think "bad".
Violating someones privacy and actual censorship, while both terrible, are in completely different categories. Censorship is far worse and is almost always a precursor to violence against those being censored.
You cannot guarantee the integrity of a repository that is controlled by a third party. You have to trust them.
I'm not conceding that it's reasonable for a professor to answer something with "they should just know," but I think the issue here is that they seemed incapable of explaining it. It's one thing to say to a class "you should know how to $x, so I'm not going to teach it to you right now" but another entirely to be either unwilling or unable to explain exactly what they mean to a colleague.
To name one example:

Because it still allows you to write to a higher level of abstraction. So you can have all sorts of different data storage classes - lists, sets, hash maps, etc. - and decide that they all implement an "enumerable" interface, and then any functions that just need to be able to apply some operation to every element in a collection can work with every single one of your collection types.

Haskell has ways of getting us that sort of thing with only structs and bare functions - and does a really nice job of it, too - but most of us aren't working in Haskell.
The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Be “Highly Habitable”
Yes. To bring other up to speed, the world of low cost "hobbyist" microcontroller boards has converged on the Arduino development environment, which is based on GCC. In fact I think that offering a widely available, free, and tolerable firmware development environment was a major breakthrough for hobbyist embedded systems.

Using C is not as bad as it seems. For one thing, embedded projects always start out a lot smaller than software projects on a big computer. You spend a lot of your time as a beginner, understanding the hardware side of things, such as interpreting the numbers associated with i/o pins and other devices. In the entire duration of a beginner course, you might never get past programs of maybe 25 lines.

I use microcontrollers in R&D, and have been quite happy sticking with Arduino based boards.
> The abnormalities were passed on for three generations, but faded after that.
To understand article 11, I think you should look at the reason it was created: Journalists (and newspapers) are looking for a way to get paid for their articles beyond luring people to their sites with clickbait titles and tons of ads.

They want their own "article version" of Spotify, where they get a set amount for every article read. Obviously that's difficult to implement given the current way of the Internet (= Facebook sharing) and this is their attempt at getting their dream.

Is this a good idea? You could say it may improve news reporting if it was well implemented. Or it could be completely abused. Anyway, looking at it like this, explains some of the legalese in article 11.
MA is not exactly the first state that comes to mind when one say "lax regulation."

We share a border with a state that prides itself on not over-regulating things and their houses aren't blowing up.

This is just the product of good, old fashioned incompetence and apathy from top to bottom.
That seems like a phenomenon of upper-class neighborhoods. My neighbor has a roof with a bunch of missing shingles and has put a tarp instead of fixing it; I doubt anyone is that bothered what I do if it's not crazy.
Private groups can levy fines. They can raise the costs of ads for these publishers on their platform, take a portion of the revenue from their content, or simply cease doing business with them until it's paid.
I don't use iOS but their QR reader functionality in the stock camera is excellent. My Pixel recently got it in the stock camera but it's an extra swipe and click away compared to the iOS one which makes it both harder to discover (I was told about it by a colleague) and more effort to use.
Everything will devolve to control by rich and powerful unless the public acts to check it.
Qwant – An alternative to Google
Og regulatory framework European infrastructure operators tend to be regulated to a much higher degree then American standards for business independence allows.
Very neat! Good job!
Browse the web of the past with the browsers of the past
Creating a Simple Recommender System in Python Using Pandas
TextArt.io – Little bit of nostalgia, creativity, and a whole lot of fun
You can contact them asking for a refund if that happens. They are pretty much forced to return the money or risk the chargeback.

That said, I think a phone number changing owner and someone else purchasing in the exact same store within the card expiration date isn't very likely. Can happen, sure, but that's about it.
Control your smart home devices locally thanks to Yeti
Pleasingly the docs here refer to HTTP APIs and not REST APIs.
Most of Europe actually. I was reading a piece I believe CATO put out about this recently.
I mean, Massachusetts is better than others. But that doesn't necessarily mean all the regulation is robust.
What I Learned Making ARKit Prototypes
You can't SSH into Apple AirPort routers, unless I missed something big?
How is .map() not a slow loop? I'm not a js Dev, but my understanding is it loops over all elements in a list, applying a function and creating a new list. With a loop. That would be as fast as any other loop. What am I missing?
Slick app you've made there Matt! Will give it a go this weekend!
Working with a mainframe everyday, the system is very fast and reliable. The hardware was very much ahead of it's time when released. I agree that the platform is an impressive one.

My issue is with the developed software and database design. Although the software is custom written, many mainframe developers do not understand the concepts of modern programming and do not improve over time. Once they learn a concept (sometimes 30 years in the past), they continue to develop this way, rather than improving as it is outside their comfort zone. They are not open to new concepts or ideas. When you have a team of developers doing this over
several decades, you end up with a big ball of mud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud

Trying to port a big ball of mud to another language is very difficult, which contributes to mainframe developer job security and monolithic, antiquated systems. Modern developers are very particular to code portability, readability and modern concepts. Hopefully this is just in my experience and not common across other mainframe developers.
It means "write down a good argument for your solution being correct". And good means roughly that every step of the argument follows trivially from the last. And what counts as trivial depends on which course your are taking.

Oh and the argument doesn't have to be (exclusively) verbal. It can consist of diagrams and symbol manipulation.
While I am sceptical about the hype about autonomous vehicles I fully expect them to be equally good at that long before they go mainstream.

Why?

- They aren't as easily distracted as humans,

- you can program them to stick to the rules even if slowing down results in problems for the passengers

- you can program them to care about any neighborhood, not just the ones we live in
I recall you did an ICO last year around this product (which looks amazing btw).

How do you feel about the blockchain/token angle now that the hype has subsided somewhat? Did the ICO make sense for you as a source of funding?

Contrary to most 2017 ICOs, you have a real product and serious research behind it, so I’m just very curious how you feel about the whole thing a year later.
Another state actor? Though in the light of [1] it'd seem far less probable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17987031
This is a national issue. You'd literally be fighting the rest of the country (who are apparently fine with it as it is) every step of the way.
You can. Git's DAG is a Merkle tree. If we compare the hashes of the latest commit two git repositories and they are identical, then they have exactly the same history up to and including that commit [1].

If GitHub modified a commit, the hashes of all commits starting at that commit would change. This is why commit signing is important, it makes it impossible to change commits up to the signed commit, since it would change the hash of the signed commit and signature verification will fail.

[1] Or you found a way to modify the repository that leads to a hash collision. Which is unlikely.
That's a bit of a shocker really.
I don't trust my ISP (that much), yet I feel fine to use my ISP to access my bank. That's because TLS protects me from malicious modifications by a middle man whose job is just to pipe my data.

Suppose I don't trust GitHub. What makes you think I can't use signatures properly so that I can still trust the code hosted on GitHub, safe from malicious modifications by GitHub whose job is just to host my code?
And even then, it occasionally "corrects" what it thought it heard to instead be some clearly nonsense sentence. Just the morning I asked Siri to "Remind me to set beers aside for the party" and now I have a reminder to "Set Beer's aside for the pantry." after clearly seeing it have the exact right sentence for a second before adjusting to that.
Are there any high-quality studies supporting the efficacy of CBTI? Most of the ones I've seen are terrible.
Why do guys always make the same face in selfies?
I'm currently waiting for my Atom Phone. It was sold good, so I think there is still a market niche, even it is small.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s...
and Brexit hasn't arrived yet...
Ah, so that’s why Brits are clamoring to move to Alabama and Mississippi.