skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You're right about filthy and understaffed. (Not so sure about understaffed, but the stores were dated aesthetically.)

2. Sears is way past its business cycles. I don't think anyone would disagree. That's why they should have done (a).

A. Advertise that you are going to compete with the competition. Make it easy for the consumer. (Most consumers wouldn't even try to find a lower price, but the Psychological trust would gave been tremendous.

B. Their Internet presence should have been Amazon quality. They had the catalogue. (Their website looks dated, and feels untrustworthy. There's no excuse for that website in 2018?)

C. Offer a no questions asked refund policy. (Yes, many would have abused the policy. It doesn't matter. Goodwill would have been worth the liberal policy, along with the advertising. Customer, "It's warranties, with no questions, or invasive inquiries. Plus--many people buy returned goods.

D. Fire all high paid management. Bring in new blood.

(I had two friends whom worked for Sears. They both were paid minimum wage, and hated the organization on so many levels. One friend complained about the neck tie requirement. Why not let the employees dress comfortably? They will end up doing a better job if they feel comfortable in their appearance? And let's get serious, retail is a stepping stone job. Show some respect for your employees, and you might be suprised when they go the extra distance?

F. Craftsman tools are fine. Work on bringing them to Snap-on quality. Hell--their isn't much difference between Snap-on, and Craftsman. Both are made in third workd countries. There's a perception of quality between the two brand though. Targeted advertising might desolve that perception?

G. And I'm an absolute idiot, talking about stuff I know Nothing about!

I grew up with the store though, and everytime I went through those security doors; I felt depressed. I looked around the bohemeth and just saw a dying dinosaur.

I'm depressed just writing about it. Then again, I can't just let go of the fact that they paid so little to the Help.
Really? Name another smartphpone maker that ships as many VCSELs as Apple did last year. And name a wearable that does as much as the new Apple Watch.
Shameless plug for something that does all of these things (perhaps not exactly as you want, but ..)

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/differential-dataflow
Ask HN: How important is code readability?
Why the short seller hate? They play a very important role in exposing fraud and inefficient allocation of capital.
I would guess that some people may try more than one, or if there are lots of people and few thumbs given time someone more gullible will try them.
Ask HN: Why are lambdas not simply called function literals?
We don't have a special name for any other literals so why do we have one for functions? I get that it's partially for historical reasons but as it has been discussed before this is confusing for anyone new to programming. I have heard them referred to as "anonymous functions" often but I think function literals describes them more accurately.
The longs who bought at the sub-420 peak can also sue.
Yes. Its not dispositive, because “reasonable” is a legal abstraction (so it admits the possibility that there are unreasonable investors who don’t get the joke), but it’s evidence.
> they can't access anything interesting anyway

A "smart" TV is presumably running content ID on everything that shows up on its screen, a fitness tracker is (of necessity) monitoring your physical activity, ... you get the picture.

I'm not paranoid that someone is tracking me in particular, or even that they would find anything interesting if they did (I'm really pretty boring in the greater scheme of things). Rather, not knowing what is being collected, by who, where it is stored, how long it is retained for, what metadata is attached to it, if their database has been (or is likely to be) breached, etc, means that there's no way for me to confidently assess what my future risks might be. Keep in mind that anonymous data often isn't so anonymous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization).

At this point, something not being an IoT device is a major selling point for me.
In addition to lots of the ones mentioned here, I enjoyed OJ: Made in America.
Gandi is good, I think the site upgrade is done now so there won't be much clunkiness for new domains. They're more expensive than most, but I've had no problems. I only use their DNS though, I can't comment on mail, mail forwarding or hosting.
"The IndieWeb is a community of individual personal websites, connected by simple standards, based on the principles of owning your domain, using it as your primary identity, to publish on your own site (optionally syndicate elsewhere), and own your data."

Nice. I really like the idea of a return to more simple, light, people oriented websites.
Take a look at this, it was posted some months ago,
https://brutalist-web.design/
I love the work that Musk has done. Everyone has to play by the same rules though. We cannot bend the law because someone has otherwise done amazing work.
Physics has all the same hackery as anything else, often times in a less robust fashion. I saw plenty of dirty behaviour in the physics world.
Bring it to Australia. Solar is growing at a massive rate, gas is expensive, electricity is expensive, and anyone with solar will have the ability and be prepared to spend to get a decent battery.

Assuming this does hit the magical $3000 for 7 kWh of storage installed price point I can see it being installed all over. At that point its not a 10+ year proposition to get your money back but more like 5. Heck I would like to have one as my solar system currently exports 2/3's of the power it produces and I would love to have a battery system.
This. At Toyota corporate, we had a meeting with a lawyer and the lawyer instructed in the event of an investigation (e.g. bad floor mats), provide all of the emails and documents. Make everything easily searchable, and keep emails for 3-4 years. People think that hiding evidence from your lawyer makes things better but according to the lawyer, it actually hurts the case by not being able to have information. So save everything! The Toyota I.T. department must’ve heard something different because outlook now erases all emails older than 90 days.
To be fair, Musk created neither Tesla nor Paypal.
I likely got the "parking lot" impression from Alex Gibney's Zero Days, but it's been a few years since that came out.
It sounds like they don't have enough incentive to stay? I know some others have mentioned financial incentive, but really enjoying the work you're doing and the people you work with may be even more important.
Cal Newports Morning Routine
Winner winner chicken dinner.

Lol. Musk over extended. Plain and simple. He played it risky and now, when it didn’t work out, he is pissed.

In response he waged war via twitter on those who took risks in the other direction. Would have been wiser for him to focus on finding a way to cut his losses so he can continue fighting. Instead he played with fire and was burned.
The NCPPR representative asked Mr. Cook to commit right then and there to doing only those things that were profitable.

What ensued was the only time I can recall seeing Tim Cook angry, and he categorically rejected the worldview behind the NCPPR's advocacy. He said that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues.[1]

Apple leads in recycling, renewable energy use and privacy as well.

So, no, your thesis is flat out wrong.

[1] https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...
They claim about 100 installations, but aren't selling any batteries as product. So it works, but is it cost effective?
335K prescriptions x $150 = 50mil / 7years = 7 milion a year :o
I thought the most fascinating part of the article was the following exchange:

>"About 20 minutes later, the company’s chief financial officer texted Musk: “Elon, am sure you have thought about a broader communication on your rationale and structure to employees and potential investors. Would it help if [Tesla’s head of communications], [Tesla’s General Counsel], and I draft a blog post or employee email for you?”

Musk responded, “Yeah, that would be great.”

Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer then replied, “Working on it. Will send you shortly.”"

The CFO seems oddly nonchalant with this crazy development. Or is this just sarcasm?

The individual then offers to draft up comms without even first inquiring about that "rationale."? Is this what passed for normal at Tesla or were the "WTF" and exclamation points redacted?
A lot of IT security teams do this. On one side it is depressing, but on another side it is annoying to have to hear them talk about it every staff meeting. All companies seem to have people with zero understanding of computers and will fall for anything. I wonder how effective the education is. I guess if it prevents one attack it can pay for itself.
Why would anyone use a drone for spying...

Get a camera with good lense..

Or you know you can just order satellite pictures of the area you want spied on. Legaly and commercially.
Almost all functions are literal, even the ones with names. (A non-literal function in Javascript looks like this: new Function("return 2+2"), which you almost never actually see.)

'Anonymous' describes functions without explicit names, 'closure' describes how functions capture their environment (but again, in most languages all functions capture their environment), and 'lambda' refers back to the "Lambda Calculus" which is a form of mathematics. None of these terms differentiate meaningfully between different types of functions.
Twitter: where the rich and powerful publicly make complete fools of themselves.
Insightful post. Musk has successfully built a cult around his personal brand,for the specific reason of super-charging his ability to raise capital. A poster above provides news coverage about him memorizing rocket science books. I suspect this was part of a well-orchestrated PR campaign and unlikely. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could or want to do this, let alone achieve it. Particular when that person later makes a schoolboy error exposing himself to fraud which could result in him going to prison, presumably.

That said, and being an entrepreneur and having spent time in negotiations with entrepreneurs, when people start talking about money, everyone hears what they want to hear regardless of what is said. Which is why lawyers can charge what they do. And why - in this - Musk looked a bit inexperienced IMHO.
Actually, I don't bemoan your ideology. (In fact I suspect I hold the exact same ideology.) I'm just pointing out that we are ideologues. And like all ideologues, our ideology allows us to coexist comfortably with the actual reality we live in. Even though it's highly unlikely that the underlying reality is consistent with our ideology.

This would be true of ALL ideologues. That's my point. In my opinion, nearly every human on Earth, is likely an ideologue. And this model, or analogy, of AR as ideology, is a pretty good representation of that state of affairs.
>Bitcoin will eventually become not less volatile, but involatile. This is because you won't be measuring its value in USD, but you will be measuring the value of USD in Bitcoins.

Accepting a hypothetical future where other currencies are generally compared against bitcoins, bitcoins would still not be "involatile." While markets tend to use one currency as a reference point for another, there are other reference points available. Economists often use a basket of staple goods, like milk and eggs, to get a sense of how much the dollar has fluctuated in value. As you're aware Bitcoin was designed to be deflationary. If we expect human population to rise, and bitcoins to be stagnant in number while remaining a cornerstone of the economy, our hypothetical future should see the value of bitcoins continuing to grow in the long term.
In some neighborhoods, the local KMart was the only local clothing store for miles. This was the case in the neighborhood a few miles away from me until the mid 2000s and the rise of Amazon.
The image at least does exist, even with the same woman.
https://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/309/021/29...
You wanna send everything you write to someone else? Even passwords?
But 10b5 is not just about protecting investors in the company; it's about "the purchase or sale of any security" broadly. Securities representing a short on $TSLA are still securities.
Did you remember to file the SAR paperwork? It's required by US law if you're trying to withdraw more than $3K within 30 days.
A Double-entry bookkeeping library that is available from the Central Repository
The only reason this exists is to prevent people with stolen bank credentials from purchasing a bunch of bitcoins and then running off with them.
> outright denial of any attempt at TCO because "Guido doesn't like recursion".

No, don’t ignore problems of TCO by saying “guys don’t like functional programimg”. Guido cleary states why he doesn’t like it: [1]. Even though TCO is one of the ES6 standard, TCO also is largely denied by JS implementors (Firefox, Chrome, and Edge devs) because of the similar reasons. As a result, Safari is the only browser that supports TCO. [2][3] And Rust team is not eager to introduce TCO [4].

[1]: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimi...

[2]: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5516876633341952

[3]: https://github.com/kangax/compat-table/issues/819

[4]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1888
I thought about Sears at one point when they owned Lands End. Back in the day, our Sears was probably 10% household goods, 30% clothes, 20% tools, 20% appliances, 10% TVs, 10% jewelry. So a lot of clothes.
I don't suppose we could get something like this for vehicles as well?
This feels like it circles back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012334
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Some Martian soil may have hexavalent chromium, which can cause cancer and birth defects at low concentrations.
Can you quote a source for that? I'd very much like the assurance for a claim like that.
Here is a Human Being
Aand it's buried. That's okay, I'll try again later :-) I really want an answer for question 2.
> Both shorts and longs got hurt by his tweet.

The human race has been directed out of an apocalyptic technological cul-de-sac by his hand. I recognize crony behavior when I see it.
Ok, here's an example API:

SomeLibrary.h:

class Foo {

virtual void bar();

virtual ~Foo();

};

The library is compiled into SomeLibrary.dll,dylib,so or what have you.

Your program uses this:

void my_cool_function(Foo* foo) {

foo->bar();

}

Later on the library makes a change, and adds a new virtual method wibble(). The API is stable -- they haven't removed Foo::bar, and they haven't changed its parameters or return type. But this API change can break the library ABI if it declared the new virtual method in the wrong part of the class, because vtable ordering is defined as being order of declaration.

So there are two aspects of ABI compatibility. First, does a given API result in the same ABI irrespective of what compiler version it uses. The second is, given that your language is ABI stable, are your changes to the API also ABI stable. C++ is notoriously bad at this, because of foot guns like vtable ordering, changes to binary layout of superclasses, etc.

Swift is at least in existing versions even less stable, where you're not necessarily guaranteed that a single API will get the same ABI depending on what things it is compiled with, and certainly not through even minor compiler version changes - let alone actual language version changes.
I’m sorry but dropping to a 1080p after using a Retina display or even a 2K dell screen is absolutely horrible. If you’re a programmer you spend your day looking at screens - make it nice.

Also, the difference between a SATA SSD and NVMe is night and day.
Maybe it's that more cryptocurrencies are moving to ASIC resistant hashes to curb Bitmain and the like also
Ex-NSA Hacker Discloses MacOS Mojave 10.14 Zero-Day Vulnerability
The fate of civilization depends on the individuals that share his trait - the trait to desire most strongly a bountiful and amazing future - knowing that they will be able to successfully build companies such as Tesla and SpaceX without ruthless persecution by the government, the media, and short sellers.
Yeah, and I believe some of the shorts may have cause to sue (or have already?) directly. But I tend to think the SEC's focus as to damages is not going to be that Elon screwed the shorts. It's going to be that some people bought shares of Tesla at too high a price. I could be wrong, maybe this is more of a general "integrity of markets" kind of thing, and the SEC doesn't care about direct harm at all, they just want to deter other aspiring short slayers out there.
Wafer Quality Inspection Using Memristive LSTM, ANN, DNN and HTM
Lots of other cars also have 5 star NCAP ratings. I’m willing to bet at any time a Subaru will be in that list.

Adaptive cruise control and lane tracking are also not exclusive to Tesla.
Batteries and solar panels are pure commodities. Solar city had little in the way of new tech.
Impact of IC Packaging on Synaptic Dynamics of Memristive Devices
The outcome wasn't 100% certain? There was supposed to be a settlement, presumably milder in sanctions, but then Musk said no thanks. The share price reflected the possibility that Musk might play nice. Now he won't; now it doesn't.
I think the idea is that python is appropriate for solutions to some problems that are "real" problems (as opposed to being valuable purely as a toy) -- not that python is appropriate for solutions to EVERY "real" problem, and any problem that python would be a poor choice for isn't a "real" problem.
AWS Amplify Announces Vue.js Support for Building Cloud-Powered Web Applications
That's most likely poor retargeting setup
Sorry, I'm not familiar with this paperwork. Could you point me in the right direction?

Its been over a year since I first asked for my BCH (in fact, I asked to receive my bitcoin from the multi-signature account months before that, but it was delayed due to technical issues with Coinbase's system at the time). Coinbase's agents initially told me that the engineers would eventually work on the issue, and I took them at their word.

However, I've waited for more than a year (far beyond a reasonable timeline), and they have gone radio silent since my message to them over 2 months ago.

I've only recently started looking into taking steps to find a lawyer and actually bring Coinbase to court.

Edit: I will probably file a CFTC complaint in the coming days. Not sure how helpful it will be though.
Scalar Arithmetic Multiple Data: Customizable Precision for Deep Neural Networks
I wonder if the best approach would be to target registries with the most domains on CloudFlare? But my personal wish list includes .ca, .is, .to, .eco and .software :)
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it’s because if i’m writing sql, i’m definitely angry
Wouldn’t everything then only charge at 100 mA?
I second this. I have my domain instantfloppy.net hosted on GDomains and use Cloudflare for DNS but I'm going to transfer "mid-November" for sure. I wholeheartedly trust Cloudflare. They've shown their commitment to privacy and I don't understand what their endgame is but I want to believe they support a better Web.
- Privacy. Yes the blockchain might be public, but good luck tying transactions to identities for selling my purchasing habits, or most other purposes outside of state actor law enforcement. (And even that is arguable with attention to opsec)

- Uncensorability. I can pay whoever I want whatever I want, with no third party able to insert themselves between me and the recipient (or dictate who can send or receive money) for any purpose.

- Irreversibility. Yes, often held up as a weakness, but has its uses. Not all transactions are physical merchandise where a third party enforcing refunds is useful.
There is actually an interesting parallel between the idea of prices in a free market as information (distributed knowledge as you put it) and the conservative notion (originally from Burke I believe) of traditions as information (from one generation to the next).

I don’t see conservatism as inherently advocating centralization in the matters you mentioned, just a desire of not throwing away hard-earned good things, due to the realization that they’re much harder to build than to destroy.
http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
Good news. He and his team had negotiated a settlement with the SEC. Then, for some genius reason, destroyed it.

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1045472592595996672
One interesting aspect is that the market was going to peak and crash regardless of P2P, CD-R burning, or whatever.

CDs were the first mass-market audio format that weren't going to wear out through normal use. In a related matter, this made them very viable for used sales-- buying secondhand LPs or tape is a crapshoot by comparison.

So you'd end up with a very clear curve on the valuable back-catalog sales-- ramping up as CD players became affordable, then omnipresent, and then trailing off once the market was primarily composed of replacements for damaged discs and a small amount of new consumer discovery.

The industry's alternatives were limited:

* Try to get people to re-buy their collection again with SACD, DVD-audio, etc.
* Ever broader catalogs hoping people will keep buying.

Neither was sustainable. Even if people went all-in on SACD, it would have just kicked the can 10 years down the road. And trying to constantly groom new acts is expensive, risky, and eventually consumers say "I've got more recorded music than I know what to do with" and stop buying.
>"We need him in this world to save us from ourselves."

He can't even save himself from his own bad impulses. This whole fiasco being a case in point among many. What an absurd statement to make. Speak for yourself.
Amazing that something optimized for when storage was the bottleneck and shockingly expensive compared to people... is still the most popular model today (when people are the expensive and rare resource, with storage abundant and cheap).
FYI: Many US unions are involuntary.
It depends on what you're using it for. I bought a kit for setting up a retro-pi because I didn't feel like checking to ensure the parts were all compatible. It gives you step by step instructions to set it up, and none of it requires knowing anything about Linux. You just download an image file, write it to the ssd, and when you plug it in it does all the setup itself and you're just presented with the retro-pi GUI. The only hint that it's Linux under the hood is when the names of processes scroll past on the screen as it's booting.
Introducing Trashy.css
Sure, what I meant by the "obvious" way of making some polynomials is:

polys = []
for i in range(0,4):
polys.append(lambda x: x**i)

But that actually just yields the same polynomial x -> x^3 in each element of polys array:

polys[0](2)
> 8
polys[1](2)
> 8
polys[2](2)
> 8

The same thing happens if we use a list comprehension:

polys = [lambda x: x**i for i in range(0,4)]

The trick is to add a default argument value to the lambda, which catches "i" by value instead of by reference:

for i in range(0,4):
polys.append(lambda x, i=i: x**i)

And now we get the different polynomials we expected:

polys[0](2)
> 1
polys[1](2)
> 2
polys[2](2)
> 4
polys[3](2)
> 8
Can you contact our support team? All legitimate TLDs should be able to register on Cloudflare.
Natanz was air gapped. Stuxnet penetrated the facility on a phisical device, once inside it spread over the LAN. The Widespread distribution of it on the open Internet was because of a bug in the code.