skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Channable - https://www.channable.com | Utrecht, The Netherlands | ONSITE

We are a data feed management company that connects ecommerce companies to all big online marketing channels (marketplaces, price comparison sites etc.) We also optimize and synchronize product data, offers, and orders on various platforms.

We currently have two open positions:

- Frontend Developer [1]

- DevOps Automation Engineer [2]

Our Stack includes: Python (Flask), Haskell, Scala (Apache Spark), PostgreSQL, Redis, HDFS, Ansible, Terraform, Ember.js

We process hundreds of millions of products per day and offer technically interesting and challenging work. We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled engineers to join our team in the center of Utrecht.

See https://www.channable.com/jobs/ for a detailed job description.

[1] https://www.channable.com/career/frontend-developer-24-40-hw...

[2] https://www.channable.com/career/devops-automation-engineer/
The fun thing is that Planet X/Nibiru/Nemesis are basically crazy talk (but different from each other), and Planet IX is quite possibly true, but also distinct from the foregoing.
But they are all synonymous in internet conspiracy land, (and in their eyes, corroborate each other's existence).
They have adware, but spyware is harder to say.
The faster a bicycle goes, the more stable it is and therefore less likely to fall over. But also when it does fall over, the damage is much more devastating.

You're right that there's a keel keeping real estate from tipping. The reason isn't just psychological (although there is a strong sentimental sense of attachment you have to your house); real estate is also less liquid than almost everything else. Other factors, including proximity to work, children's schools, etc. make it a last resort in terms of liquidating. You're right -- as long as someone can keep up the mortgage payments, they'll do so.

The problem is that the bigger the bubble, the more unlikely someone can maintain those payments if suddenly unemployed or underemployed. The crash of 2008 wasn't so much averted as postponed. Subprime mortgages became 'nonprime mortgages'. The practices are still there. The artificially low interest rates are still there. The bicycle is going a thousand miles an hour and when it really crashes, look out.
For Mozilla FF is now only a money making machine, they've lost all interest in a browser, they use it to further their political goals.

As a browser user I have nothing about political goals or making money, as long as the browser experience comes first.
During the presentation they showed a video of a person blowing a ping-pong ball with a hair-dryer, keeping it afloat. What's the relevance to lasers?
As Apple don’t have a market monopoly, antitrust provisions (similar to what Microsoft was hit with) won’t necessarily apply.
So boot the whole problem by swapping from pull to push. Sales tax instead of income tax. Oh that's right, the banking industry relies on income tax to drive everyone into the arms of debt so we can fuel a constant swell of the aggregate money supply. Nevermind, the government is an out of control addict snorting the substance of easy money to prop up a debt ceiling that no longer exists.
Acute Renal Failure Caused by Oil of Wormwood Purchased Through the Internet
Design Ethics
>Goodness yes, everybody knows that a mere engineer can never be a clever lawyer.

Sure, an engineer can be a lawyer (there's no law of physics against it). But it's also much less often than this happens than an engineer NOT being a lawyer. That's the parent's argument, not that it's impossible.
Censorship in China doesn't work like what Orwell would have told. The claim in the article about a "government directive" might as well be true because similar directives have been consistently leaked to Western media over the years and obviously they have credible inside sources for this kind of leaks. If you look at the detail of the directive it says "manage" which means content getting demoted, removed from front-page, retweets disappeared, anything but outright removal, so existence of content doesn't prove its popular visibility is not being manipulated. This is likely them learning to take a page from the book of Western media operation but you can still tell what amateurs they are when supposedly state secrets are leaked left and right like this.
This all sounds very dramatic but I'm pretty sure that to take over the system is not that easy. Most vulnerabilities, if they are mediocre, have zero probability and most scenarios are pretty unlikely
This just showed me how little I know about... this. Most of the words don't make any sense to me :/
But a lot of this dealing with assertions that may or may not be true in logic has been dealt with in a more rigorous way already as far back as the 1960s: Fuzzy Logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic.

A belief like "I think it is raining" can be encoded as a 75% chance of it raining.
> Attempting to frame it as class warfare is a perfect way to lose support from a significant portion of the US population.

Why? That's exactly what it is.
Freetrade launches ‘zero-fee’ UK investment app
Leslie Lamport Thinks Your Code Is Bad
Know those cool features in your editor that allow you to hover over source and get more detail on what you are looking at? Also, know that feature in an editor that lets you go to definition? Imagine this and not within your editor but rather your browser, whatever host you choose, such as GitHub or GitLab. Sourcegraph enables this feature with browser extensions.
Thanks for the feedback, Arnt! You're absolutely right, a video tour or even a few gifs of the core features would be helpful. So far I've been concentrating on the technology side.
article had no teeth whatsoever.
Using React you just have no idea what efficiency is.
Here are 5 reasons why you should care!

Or...

kowdermister didn't want to care, here is how we fixed it!

I love clickbaity titles for articles. I think that at some point I learned to subconsciously skip them.
Not really. Perversions of the intent of law are easy to stop... just make it clear that the intent is what matters, and judges will force people to declare their corporate heirarchy or be held in contempt of court.

No lawyer will play games when intent is more impprtant than the letter, sonce you cam be held in jail for contempt indefinitely based solely on the judges reputation.
I wasn't shocked at all because UK is part of the 5-eyes alliance, so pretty much everything is monitored
Great post, worth noting that the marketing of the destruction of social housing as "right to buy" was a work of evil genius, and the citizens who know the most about it are people whose parents made a killing from it and are unsurprisingly very happy with the policy.

Catchment areas for schools are also a significant factor, mandatory ballots for school entry would make a massive difference but our government has been going in precisely the opposite direction, privatising the education system and leading to an expulsion crisis which is having knock on effects in crime.

Also London specifically is one of the lowest density major capital cities, the centre is often old and beautiful but we could stand to build a bit higher.
There are a couple of problems with your perspective:

1. Even if re-implementation of libraries in new languages were free due to an excitement factor, real software is not built this way. New languages become old, and software needs maintenance. So what you get for free (supposing you're right) is not worth very much and not what counts, anyway. Most of the cost and value is in prolonged maintenance, which has to be done for multiple implementations in parallel.

2. It's reasonable to assume that work is never really free. But if we're hypothesizing about alternate realities, you may as well imagine that instead of new languages something else is invented to motivate you to do free work.
Many users of this site are used to evaluate comments on merit alone, without ever bothering to check who the comment author is. I personally don't think it's that bad of a situation.
I was so used to the old design, it was more functional to me
NativeScript
I haven't used it btw.
The Gibbs lecture can indeed be found in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Volume III, Unpublished essays and lectures, edited by Feferman et al., 1995.

http://libgen.io/search.php?req=godel+collected+works+3&open...
It's cheap, good quality, and I don't live in China.
Yes, but:

a) the lifting of the ceiling is subject to diminishing returns on resources invested

b) once the ceiling has been lifted it will require some continuous expenditure of resources to stay suspended

c) the higher the ceiling and the more people there are under it, the worse the crashing down will be if/when that happens.
It's special to me, the tv show and the trading cards assisted with that. I rekindled my love of the franchise getting into speed running a few years back. 10yo me would spend weeks slow grind progressing. 22yo me trying to speedrun it in sub 2 hours.
> Named 2015 TG387 and nicknamed The Goblin

I also wondered if it was representative of a class of Goblin objects. I guess the discoverers just liked 'goblin' as a term for something that stays in the dark.
An imaginative way to describe Optical Tweezers, for the real thing see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
If legislation is really required, and I'm not convinced it is, can we start small? This stuff never gets rolled back and tech companies' use of personal data is the new terrorism.

Again I'll take none, but if this ridiculous fervor that's been built requires something, how about not-tech-specific rules around data sharing transparency? Just require details on what's shared and with whom for those seeking it (ideally companies publish it to prevent requiring individual request/response scaling issues, but their choice). You're gonna find most people don't care anyways, so they shouldn't be burdened with more hardline privacy requirements. Just increase the visibility for now.

And please please learn from EU mistakes and establish enforcement mechanisms. Don't just make exorbitant ceilings and move on. Have a framework to punish violators, and again start with small legislation until it can be shown enforcement occurs and is working.

Having said all that, can we just start with pro-privacy PSAs, education, targeted advertisement awareness, punitive measures for breaches, and relaxation of legislation preventing me from scraping/manipulating/proxying these sites however I want? If we all have to hire lawyers and/or compliance assistance, then the first step is too large. We can make our way towards delete-all-my-data-on-request laws later. Not sure what made this an emergency (actually I do know based on media and political driven fervor, but that will be best studied through the lens of history). But all these tech people, OP and commenters here especially, don't speak for many people who accept the current state or reasonably understand heavy-handed government regulations on the internet bring more bad than good.

And for goodness sake, don't use the domain of your should-be-neutral software to make a political post. You aren't gonna feel any pain now because you are in the same line with other popular pitchfork wielders, but your political leanings have bit you before, why would you associate your company with them?
I would agree with you that such techniques could be used, and in fact I suspect they are used. However, I wouldn't say they strictly qualifies as censorship, because you can still get the information if you know where to look at (go to specific websites legally and search for them).
I played Doom like that in win3.11 (which supported disk swapping automatically including for DOS games) on a PC with 4MB RAM while Doom needed 8MB. However, the disk swapping was too slow to make it playable.
Actually I vote that browsers should have stuck with Web 1.0, for plain documents.

I still do most of my web development with server side rendering stacks.
Most of "the DSL craze" in Ruby is just defining methods. It's rarely new languages, but simply a matter of taking full advantage of the language to let you talk about your domain in a more natural way. It's not so much a "dsl craze" in Ruby as writing idiomatic Ruby well, the same was as e.g. Smalltalk or lisps also tend to make you create your own vocabulary that is close to indistinguishable (more so than in Ruby, in fact, where the block syntax and control structure syntax differ) from the language itself.
Well competitors are working on improving their service while udacity did not. Like someone mentioned, they don't really stand out much
EU Member states agree on reduced VAT for e‑publications
NXT, a prototype WebGL Next
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Scientists uncover why you can't decide what to order for lunch
What if you guys are reported to the dictator and the officals sieze your app and revenue?
You can run that just fine too.
The SEC will file against you if it looks like you disrespect them. They do not have the budget to investigate much less enforce their purview across the entire market so the only stability we gain from them is based on their reputation.

Musk threatened that so they came down on him hard.
OP asked "this level", by the way. It is hard to write macros for every such case.

However, OP may read about superoptimization, which is yet in research stage.
Executing high-risk search warrants on drug houses seems pretty intense, even if they don't have to fire a single bullet. Most of the cases involves people that are armed and might be under the influence of some drug, making their behavior erratic and irrational.

And for this SWAT seems to be necessary. Checking out prank calls in the middle of the day should not require them, unless it's a real hostage situation. (Answering a home invasion without securing the perimeter seems a very dumb idea, yet that happens most of the case, the "team" stands around at the front door yelling and then breaching the door.)
I don’t really care either way. There are quite a few very good female string theorists, who presumably got through the hiring process without any affirmative action. High energy physics is a very competitive field you just can’t afford to hire less than excellent people if you want to stay relevant.
If anyone is coming off as an asshole in this thread, it's not him. Some people don't like competition and would like to make a better world for everyone. Some people like are more competitive and like to win over others. It's OK to be either.
While you're technically correct, you're still incorrect.

The area devastated by the Great Fire (allegedly started by Nero) was used to build Nero's Golden House (Domus Aurea) first. After his death, most of the Golden House complex was demolished and it was only then that the infilled artificial lake of the Golden House was chosen as the site for the Colosseum.
There is that cost. On the other hand, there is money, time and energy spent on facilitating tax fraud because the perception is that you can get away with it.
UK will see truly driverless cars on roads in 3-4 years: minister
A poor man's IPC, like HTTP and HTML is a poor man's application platform ...
Why is no one here talking about Georgist land taxation? Has that HN meme completely burnt out? I rather liked it.
Show HN: An electronics bill of materials builder
What Have We Learned from Google?
>it means that once your programming language gains adoption beyond some people playing around with it you can't just walk off and say that it isn't your problem

Assuming that you don't work for them and that you don't have a contract for support with them, then why can't you just walk away?

In fact I'd go further: it would be healthy if people that needed support for open-source got used to the idea of paying for it.
They're cool, but unfortunately in order to use babel-plugin-react-css-modules (which massively improves the experience) you still have to eject.
I gather from this article that its orbital radius varies between 65 AU and 2300 AU, which is an extremely eccentric ellipse. I wonder if that high eccentricity would disqualify it from "planet" status. Most other bodies considered "planets" are far closer to circular.

It's also unclear to me if the Goblin orbits in the usual planetary plane.
Project Kickoff Meeting Checklist
Will never work for companies like oracle / microsoft.
Post matters for companies like Google.
What's the alternative? American spy phones?

I'd be more afraid of the American government than the Chinese one.
In just two years AI has managed to make a slightly more appetizing cheeseburger
The pre-print pdf is https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00013.pdf

Inclination of 11.669 degrees

The diameter listed in the paper is 300km assuming a moderate albedo of 15%.

The paper suggested this object provides more evidence of the existence of Planet X/IX hypotheses of the authors (Trujillo/Shepard/et.al.) and Brown/Batygin.
And the main objective is pretty much beating the Elite 4. If it is difficult to make the bot decide which goal to go for, just pick one goal for it.
> Never understood people's infatuation with reading CEO biographies.

There’s always the biographies of sports people to try I can’t make it though the cover text.
* DNS API

* https://dns-api.com/

* Use (git) revision-control for DNS records, served via AWS.

* Current state: Working, serving, reliable, and giving income.

* Plan for this month? Sporadic self-promotion in places like this ;)

Thank you! :)
I liked the Fighting Fantasy ones by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
this ereaders doesn't have 1024 or 1280, the eink resolution is 2200x1650
For Github release I just subscribe to the RSS feed, and post from there to Slack/Email as things become available.

Seems like you support more sources than that though, so you've got a fun project!
All of the details you're referring to are way above the level of any machine that plays Mario. For SMB1 the branching factor is uncommonly low. Pokemon has an extremely high branching factor by comparison. This being measured at the level of controller inputs and memory content outputs.

SMB1 can be beaten by applying random controller inputs, measuring the player's x value, and seeing what works. Yes, you do need to look a few seconds into the future on some levels but you never need to look ahead further than what's in the current level.

Pokemon has no simple, short term, monotonic measure of progress to work against, akin to Mario's x position. That's it, really.
I interpreted OP's comment as meaning that this particular reuters link is censored, not necessarily all URLs with the same semantic content. Probably censors are not vigilant enough.
How do you combat bit-rot/silent corruption?
Accidentally serverless.
Really only for Germany and Japan, only because those were state-led wars. Not for any of the subsequent conflicts; Korean war isn't even really over yet.
That's what I meant with redundancy.
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> Care to give any examples?

Global warming correlates pretty well with the Industrial Revolution and with technology's breakthroughs from the last 150 years, give or take.

And the second one, which has started actually scaring me more and more lately, is the rate of insects' decline. A couple of years ago I was commenting on this very website about how I could still see lots of dead insects on my car's windshield after a highway trip, while HN-ers from countries like Germany and Austria couldn't (I live in Eastern Europe), but this summer I've noticed for the first time that I've started seeing the same phenomenon, i.e. my windshield is almost clear from insects now after a highway trip. More than that, my dad (60+, has never accessed the Internet, not an environmentalist by any means) has also started noticing this phenomenon while recently making hay in a remote village close to the Carpathians, he told my brother that there weren't that many insects and bugs anymore compared to other summers (when you're making hay you kind of notice the presence of insects and bugs). My brother confirmed that that is true, but that it's a good thing, as those bugs tended to bite the hay-makers.
Find Good Driving School – Adriving School of Motoring
The most difficult things about learning to code alone and how to tackle them
I know how VDOMs work. But the WorkerDOM has an extra one to the one current frameworks bring.

So now there are two VDOMs
I don't think that the second one is okay.. I think it is not only harmful to the whole of humanity its also a vacuous existence where your self worth is based on a others without ever actually respecting them.

I know my comment is shitty, but i get depressed that i work in an industry that has its head so far up its own arse that the people who work in it forget that it only has value in helping people do things.

If you are not helping people do things (e.g. you are not making a tool you are trying to sell some pish or something) then you are not a benefit to humanity. and if it was not for the other peopl ebeing off doing things themselves anyway then everything you do would be of no use.

All technical skill is inherently an order of magnitude less valuable as it is a second order skill - this is something that most people in IT really dont want to accept and they cause a lot of hate and pain in the mean time trying to convince everyone else they are right - normally through bully, intimidation and the general lack of empathy that goes hand in hand with all of this.
I have been using firefly.
https://firefly-iii.org/
I don't see how that's different from having 'cooperative multitasking' in the JS thread unless you are bound by DOM. You have to send data to the UI thread once in a while? Well why can't you let the UI update in the same interruptions? Of course, that will introduce delays, but if they are noticeable to you then maybe you have a DOM tree that's too heavy in the first place?

I'm not saying having the lib is bad, but I don't see a justified use-case for it.
As someone not in crypto, I was really surprised to learn how excited people still are about the space. Three podcasts that a) have me wondering if this is whole thing is real or fake and b) if it’s real, will it really be huge

1) Chris Dixon from a16z’s crypto fund discussing how crypto aligns both user and investor interests (and why Google and Facebook don’t). Expands the discussion on Twitter’s alternative fate if crypto existed when it launched. Also highlights there will be an inflection point in which your digital life will matter more than real life: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711?mt=2&i=...

2) CZ from Binance (mentioned in this article) actively dismissing the US market and any locations with regulatory uncertainty (e.g. the US) or negative regulations toward crypto: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-binance-became-the-most-popul...

3) Travis Klinger, a former equities trader, discussing quant funds as big as DE Shaw using their traditional trading techniques on nascent crypto exchanges to destroy unsophisticated retail traders: https://player.fm/series/off-the-chain-2428336/travis-kling-...

I haven’t fully clarified my thoughts on everything going on other than it’s absolutely fascinating. It seems like there’s a whole world getting built and is globally attracting all sorts of traditional players while creating entirely new applications, infrastructure, and needs.
Wish this allowed you to see the income proportion of the top 1% and 0.1% too, not just the top 10%.
According to Vic Gundotra the Apple team is ahead.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ex-google-svp-vic-gundotra-pra...