skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Looking forward to any superhero story that takes the old "bitten by a bug -> now has powers" to an actual perspective from an elderly person, and get their unique take on the events following.

This could even refresh the genre.
Spotify starts cracking down on friends who share family plans
Great advice, thank you! We'll make sure the date stuff works.

For EU cards, one experience I'm excited about supporting is the "tap to add" flow which may be even easier than OCR. Unfortunately only Android supports it for now, but love that experience when it's possible.
>but the appalling part is that no one--especially not politicians--is discussing partisanship as a legitimate reason for disqualification...

In fairness, in the modern era, partisanship has been a requirement to be on the Court. Every justice on the court is either liberal or conservative. They would not have been nominated otherwise.

Don't misunderstand me, I agree that maybe partisanship shouldn't be a requirement. I'm just saying that from a pragmatic perspective, it is a requirement. You, unfortunately, can't get nominated if you are not partisan. Even if you could, you certainly would come up against stiff headwinds in the confirmation process. It's just easier to be partisan and have half of those votes on your side no matter what.
>"No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this..."

Exactly, which to say he's just a regular person not some savior who is capable of "saving us all" as the OP stated.
Tika is a very active project that Solr also uses. And they rely on other good libraries.

If libextractor is sufficient for you, that's great. If you hit its limitation, try Tika.

Some use-cases I know of include

- Parsing Microsoft Office Files

- Doing OCR on images

- Running Tika as a standalone server with HTTP interface

Tika is most definitely a secret component inside a lot of systems that extract content/metadata from files. So, Dropbox leveraging Tika was a good move and worth recognizing. Especially, given that the rest of their choices does not quite make sense (based on the limited information provided).
China has "disappeared" more than a million people recently as part of what is fundamentally an ethnic cleansing program. So, yeah, fuck China specifically.

See https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/22/chinas-mass-internment-...
I agree. I regularly fill carts expecting to find a coupon or abandon. At the same time, just make your coupons easily accessible on your site via a google search and save yourself some money. I have noticed this is becoming a trend and use it to avoid one more chance of malware on myrandomcoupons.com.
> The classList API makes modifications to the class property very easily.

So does the dataset interface for custom data attributes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...

> You'd be essentially limited to one identifier in attribute selectors. You can't really select from multiple identifiers with a data attribute…

That's just not true, there's an attribute selector that targets strings in a whitespace separated list: [attr~=value], so you could think of .demo as being a shorthand for [class~="demo"], or #demo as a shorthand for [id="demo"].

[data-hover~=foo][data-hover~=bar] {}

would target a tag like this:

<div data-hover="foo bar"></div>

But not a tag like this:

<div data-hover="foobar"></div>

More info about attribute selectors: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#attribute-representati...
Nowadays quantum computing is rather an engineering task than fundamental or scientific one. I look forward to seeing a working prototype of a quantum computational system which works at room temperature, has a conceivable size and is able to perform Shor's algorithm for example.
Bacteria “Fishing” for DNA from Their Dead Friends
Gosh: interpreted language for Go ecosystem written in Go
This is already a solved problem. Wage workers can get paid for a multiple of their actual hours as a holiday differential. But in order to invoke that system, you do need to declare the holiday.
oh no, it's my favorite science!
>>Its use is low because it is still in the testing phase and there are purposefully few mainnet clients.

There is no proof that it will ever be widely useful/adopted.

>>I'm not claiming they won't, only that they by necessity sacrifice some level of decentralization, because they require more resources.

There is no scientific evidence that it sacrifices too much decentralization to maintain Bitcoin's censorship resistance.

You're making a false appeal to science to give Core's scaling plan intellectual integrity that it doesn't have.

>>I think lots of people support bigger blocks because it seems obvious and makes sense at first glance, but so do a lot of things that aren't good.

Your speculation about why people support on-chain scaling, and your unproven opinion that on-chain scaling is not a good plan, is not evidence that Core's roadmap is more scientific than the original one.

>>I mean I consider myself to be a relatively early adopter and that's not what I signed up for.

Up until 2013, all published plans for Bitcoin scaling, including those written by Bitcoin's lead/original developer, Satoshi, stated it would scale on-chain through large blocks, and implied that the decentralization sacrifice needed to do that was a reasonable trade-off.

The earliest adopters therefore signed up for that roadmap. Any change to that roadmap required consensus, which it never got.
TensorFlow 1.11 released
"all politicians".

Nope. They are not all the same in how they handle the press.

Obama, for instance, once said some things indicating he was 'irritated' with Fox News. Trump thinks the press - the one mentioned in the 1st amendment of the US constitution - is an "enemy of the people" and has said so loudly.

So no, they're not all the same. I mean, I'm sure they'd all love it if the press fawned over them 24/7, but there are big differences between a Trump, Erdogan or Maduro, and, say, an Obama or McCain.
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let's see if an open source gpu would unleash user friendly oss machines.
Nice to see the offer getting better! I wonder about moral hazard in early stage funding. What if YC were to offer rent and salary for founders for 12 months? This would similarly change the dynamics around founders worrying about money while avoiding some of the temptation to over-spend and generally waste funding before building a product.
Integrity of our system is important. It doesn’t need to be a partisan issue.
Give it time... Sadly.
You sure you're not bringing in a little nationalist bias there?

Even if you want to constrain the subject to specifically "dealing with central asian muslim separatists over the last couple decades".. seems a little tough for an American to argue with a straight face.

I appreciate the candor, though, so thanks. Nice to know the mental place this is coming from.
I thought so as well, and benchmarked the Julia version inside the REPL (after calling the function once to make sure JIT compilation was done), and the difference was insignificant (maybe 1 to 5 percent - basically same order of magnitude as the measurement error, ie usual run time fluctuations). So Julia runtime was still a bit less than 2x the C/C++ runtime (but faster than C/C++ without the -O3 switch).
They have different versions of code base deployed to different areas of the world all the time. They can reduce the user base nuber based on where the code was deployed and how much is the usage
That’s true, but it’s not yet clear when they will be able to sell lower-priced models without increasing the cash-bleed.
Uneducated people or educated people taking advantage of uneducated people's money. Edit: Undereducated/uneducated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY Munro Teardown Shows Tesla Model 3 Solidly Profitable [video] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17542864 (HN Thread)

Animats mentions labor costs top of thread, which have been falling in Fremont now that they've hitting their stride (rumor I've heard, not material info, can't provide a citation).

If you're interested, highly recommend being on the investor call next month for Q3 rundown.
Seems like the founder should be the one who figures out how to best spend the money no?
>In case anyone's looking for context on this, daily demand for oil is currently around 99-million-barrels a day, so this would be a 2% drop

Keep in mind too though that direct percentages can have non-linear effects. Oil is very fungible, but the inputs have a wide range of extraction costs and levels of pollution/technical risk/geopolitics involved. A 2 million barrel a day reduction isn't going to shave off every input source equally, and oil from sands or ultra deep sea or whatever all have different kinds of effects. If it kills the worst first that could have a bigger benefit then a straight 2% would suggest.

Furthermore, there is a lot of oil infrastructure that is fantastically capitally expensive, most particularly refineries, that will not be equally effected. I think maximum plant capacity tends to be around 800k-900k barrels a day and many are smaller, and running subcapicity isn't ideal. Not all types of oil or products refineries produce are equal either, increasing electric cars would presumably primarily affect refined products, consider for example this piece[0] on refining capacity, and then consider what a significant bigger reduction could mean.

Finally at some point we should start to see more tipping points for economies of scale, the spread of enhanced charging networks, continuing spread of solar, and just changing public consciousness and people become more familiar with it. Public interest is racing way, way ahead of what the energy industry wants. So even 2% worldwide in that short a time would be a real deal and could also just be the shallow end of an S-curve. Next 5 years will be very interesting!

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/an-oil-re...
To be clear, this isn't about doing business in China. It is about responding to 14 human rights organizations having serious concerns [0] about proactive censorship and support for surveillance. And I agree that Google is far from alone in crossing such ethical lines in Silicon Valley.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/28/open-letter-google-repor...
If you love your environment, you drive the oldest available running rust bucket.

Manufacturing a car produces 50% of the emissions it has during its lifetime.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
Facebook Vulnerability Affecting 50M Users Allowed Account Takeover
Well, yes, thanks for pointing that out. And btw. thanks for reading the readme :-)
Or perhaps it’s survivorship bias. Companies that used Rails are around today with big, dated codebases because Rails adequately served the needs of their growing businesses.
Can't you do that in the US via a provisional ballot on the day-of?
yeah, string interpolation is such a killer feature. I love using it in Python 3.6.
>It's not like running a business.

It sometimes feels that way :-)

I don't really disagree with you although the risk-adjusted finances of rent vs. buy are less clear than a lot of people make them out to be in the absence of 20-20 hindsight. Especially if you reach a point where you're fairly locked into an area for whatever reason, it mostly makes sense to buy if you can. If the work associated with owning a house is a big deterrent, there are lower-effort alternatives like many condos.
Not just Asia, Canada also. Bill Clinton approved harvesting blood from HIV-infected prisoners in Arkansas and selling it to the Canadians.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/04/arkansas-bloodsucker...
The Guardian style is:

> Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, pin number and sim card. Note that pdf and plc are lowercase.

https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a
> The fact of the matter is... ACLs are hard to get right

This sounds similar to different distros of linux. Some are security focused where nothing is allowed until it is explicitly allowed. Other distros try to be more "user-friendly" and pretty much everything is open.

Starting from a wide open starting point and then trying to batten down the hatches afterwards does seem to the harder way to do it, but that's exactly where FB is. They wanted everything open, and then had to decide to start limiting that data. FB was designed as a place to share info. If you posted it, you wanted to share it. I totally get that mentality. However, as devs, I can imagine that we have all built something that the end users use in a way not envisioned, and we've probably all had "you're holding it wrong" lines of thinking. Once you get to that point, you can alienate users by telling them to stop doing it that way or embrace what's happening, and then make it work for them. Seems like the perfect situation to where bugs can get introduced.
AttackDefense is giving free access to their online cybersecurity lab
I wonder how the Fastly crew feels about all this. Great team over there, and they were originally the super configurable CDN, but it seems that is now completely beaten by Workers.
The First “First on Discord” Games
Assuming that the testimony would be to a bipartisan group and presuming the polling is correct and the House flips to Dem control, could this be pushed back to 2019 and the GOP’s larger focus on political bias by Google de-emphasized? Wondering if that’s part of the play here.
But it's a self fulfilling prophecy. It's only "critical" because it exists. If we shutdown every Facebook server tomorrow and set fire to their data center, it would no longer exist. And therefore have no influence on much of anything.
F-35B jet crashes in South Carolina
How Grammy-winning producer Oak Felder turns his laptop into a studio
I'm speaking from a user/customer's perspective.
Yeah fair, but I think at minimum VCs should start throwing in a linkedin recruiter subscription because man, that thing is just annoying to pay for. :D
The press release was almost certainly sent to the NYT in advance of its release, but embargoed.

Source: I spent years at a national PR agency
A soft artificial muscle driven robot with reinforcement learning
Someone should do a study to see if the lottery effect--where winning the lottery leaves you worse off because you don't know how to handle that much money--is at work with VC funding.
I share your opinion of it as well! There is a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics
Are you using --standalone flag? Nuitka scans for dependencies recursively, that's why output bundle's so big.

I don't understand why you've that large .exe, a bunch of DLLs is what should be heavy.
...This is here why?
Obtaining an ID card can be as easy or as painful as our local governments decide it to be. Amazing, it’s the most painful I have ever experience here in California where the DMV borders on insanity. I would think such a progressive state would care more about the burden it places on its citizens than on maintaining tight control over the process but such is California.
This is a luxury vehicle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsMViWFPv_U&feature=youtu.be...

Or this: https://youtu.be/yq9IvgfLFgk?t=360
> I think it's probably closer to 1 million barrels/day if you factor in all the emissions and pollutants associated with mining the nickel/lithium for the batteries.

This is the same type of argument erroneously used against nuclear -- factoring in costs in one place but not the other. As though internal combustion engines, transmissions, radiators, exhaust systems with rare metal catalysts, etc. are not made of raw materials that have to be mined and processed.

The curb weight of a Model 3 is on the same order as a Ford Taurus or BMW 3 series.
anyone have recommended stacks/tooling to be able to integrate security day 1 in development. (CI/CD, continuous monitoring etc all geared towards NIST & ATO?)

Looking to impeded business/mission feature development as little as possible, but security is just as important.
So this is an interesting scenario that I've seen people bring up before, but I've never been completely clear on the answer. Let's say I'm using an online virtual assistant with auto-replies and stuff like that, and I upload your contact information and phone number so it can help me manage my schedule/emails/etc...

Under GDPR, the company I just gave that information to doesn't have your permission. So, let's say that later on, you go to the company and say, "hey, delete any information about me." For them to comply, they can't keep on syncing your contact information in my address book, right?

I guess, how does GDPR handle a situation where a separate customer is going to Facebook and saying, "hey, let me put in that I'm X's cousin"? Should Facebook block that person from specifying the relationship in the UI? Or would that just fall under "essential for business"?
My current company doesn't even lock most of their dependencies. At first I thought it was crazy (and it is crazy) but it does mean we address compatibility issues immediately. We are mostly running background jobs though so it's safer than anything customer facing
Amen. What really bugs me is it loads instantly in Chrome but in Firefox is does it's loading animation and refreshes once or twice usually taking a few seconds just to load the page.
I have recently done a realtime tile software rasterizer and shader in SSE.

Graphics APIs (openGl, dx) are leaky in that the graphics programmer is knowingly targeting an architecture with GPU performance properties. This means raster is cheap, texture and filter is cheap, free fixed function blending and saturations, free clears, and free compressions.

CPU rendering cannot hope to compete against GPU hardware as GPU style optimizations were made by the graphics programmer in their usage of the GPU APIs to render 3d scenes.
So you're saying it would run in less than 1/4 of the time of the Nim, C, C++ implementations? Sure it's running the same algo?
My biggest complaint is that everything takes longer. Loading the page, searching, etc. Everything feels slower.
The -O3 switch removes a recursive call, among other things (https://godbolt.org/z/oS3Cju).
This is how you are treated when you're not a customer. Glad I left a couple of years back.
That's what I thought it was initially. I kind of forgot that Marzipan was included in Mojave and thought that this was some details about the _next_ incarnation of macOS.
I don't think I tend to be a passionate anti C++ commenter, though I agree with the sentiment.

I've used C++ for around a decade, both professionally and as a hobby, in various domains. I use it because I either need (or merely want, in many cases) the control over the resulting end product that it provides.

The grievances are well known, and most are being addressed in some form, so asking random commenters isn't going to change anything.

But for what it's worth: it just feels like the language is a lost cause.

Everything is so irredeemably hard (without breaking back-compat)- from syntax/name resolution/template expansion, and the accompanying problems with error messages and tooling; to build systems and dependency management, and the impossible task of ever getting anything standard there; to memory+thread safety, where every solution is a partial bandaid and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

It's a big, important, widely-used language. It's just not pleasant to work with- and while that can and will improve, it will always be tied to its rather painful legacy.
Do you have any comparison screenshots? I've been using Thunderbird for years now, and haven't spent much time with the webui. I just looked at it, and it doesn't seem much different from what I remember. Maybe the roll out hasn't hit me yet?
I think you're spot on, but I think that parents of Millenials saw these changes as well and made sure to try to set up their children for a working life regardless of gender. There's still a stigma against stay at home dads though, so while traditionally male gender roles have become more open to women, traditionally female gender roles accepting of men have lagged a bit. It's definitely not a case where equality of opportunity has been reached, however there has been progress and we are still moving forward.
...is that seriously possible with this scope and such little time?
Surprised Stripe didn't explicitly make the list of notable startups from over the years. Bigger than even Dropbox by valuation (obviously not apples to apples vs. public market cap) and arguably has had a bigger positive impact on the world than any other YC startup by actively increasing the GDP of the internet.
Project Manager vs. Project Manager vs. Project Leader
So we would have 20+ tickets and you'd put them in your respective bin for whatever elected position or proposal. Then each bin can be counted later, smaller locations could just have the volunteers count each bin sequentially, larger locations could have each bin be counted by it's own group.
Elixir can be made much faster via tail call optimization.

Something like:

def fibonacci(n) when n >= 0, do: fib(0, 1, n)

defp fib(a, b, n) do
case n do
0 ->
a

_ ->
fib(b, a + b, n - 1)
end
end
yes i hate it, its horrible, its too distracting from the content, too cluttered, please get back the old UI
And this is what happens when as Steve Jobs said about Dropbox - “you’re not a product, you’re a feature”. Spotify’s whole reason for being in existence is just an insignificant line item for Apple, Google and Amazon.

They have no reason to follow suit. If they lose a little money on people sharing accounts, they really don’t care. Their music streaming service is just a way to get people in their ecosystem.
Random question - is there a way to naturalize in the EU and use GDPR to ask Facebook to remove your data? (For example an Estonian digital citizenship)

I might be way way off and I am (obviously) not a lawyer but interested in material about this.
Why take the money when you can televise your crimes? Not as if you can go to jail for that for many years.
Github would not have been the same in any of those. They really took to some of the Rails concepts - a lot better than most Rails companies - and it shows in their product (routing, object structures, etc)
62.7% of the US electricity is created using fossil fuels in 2017, half of that coal, other half natural gas. (1.3% solar, 6.3% wind)

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Microbenchmarks like this can be difficult to perform in practice, as gccgo can perform optimizations on pure functions that prevent Go's benchmarks from actually fully repeating a test. Also, this is a special case in which gccgo shines, specifically because it is completely cpu-bound. Generally, there isn't nearly as much of a performance difference.