skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can only be good, right? Less money means earlier IPOs and less dilution of founders and early employees?

I don't read many "More money needed to fund startups in Silicon Valley" headlines recently...
I agree that the looking glass style 3D is fun and gimicky and hard to see added benefit.

At the same time, speaking from personal experience - 3D in VR can give a much stronger sense of overview of many datasources etc. while at the same time can reduce semantic noise.

I get quite a few productive hours out of a successor to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Js7Y1H5D8cY
what does anyone have to do with anything?
I think Intel is starting to fall behind a bit but perhaps not as much as it sounds from the headline, remember their "10 nm" process had better actual sizing numbers than what some were calling their "7 nm" process. That they failed to only come out a little ahead is a big problem for them but it's not like they failed to come out a generation behind.
I'd love to chime in here and specify that this extends to almost every part of a ThinkPad. I had a screen hinge break on my T430, €7 later the replacement hinges were on their way. Replacing them took about 30 minutes and a Philips head screwdriver. Love these machines!
Isn't this essentially a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273213

Aside from the editorialising of the title, of course.
This title for the 4.19 release will be more popular, right?
I wonder what their loan grant rate is to women compared to men, for example.
A lot of clients won't accept a custom CMS due to security concerns. Every line of code I write on the projects I mentioned before go for a security scan with a third party. Scans already cost tens of thousands of dollars, using a custom backend would drive that price up even higher. In terms of PHP CMS's for enterprise, you're very limited, and a lot of companies are moving towards Drupal.

The other major benefit is that it's (fairly) easy to swap out either the frontend or backend. If we need to migrate to another CMS, we don't have to change anything on the frontend as long as the new API confirms with the old. And vice versa for migrating to another frontend. Also if you need to create an app or any other application you already have an API.

I wouldn't necessarily use this same architecture for smaller sites, but for enterprise it's a pretty good option.
It's extremely common across all segments of society. Someone who isn't really that good at anything gets randomly successful, develops a strong case of narcissism fueled by confirmation and survivorship bias, and then proceeds to set fire to massive amounts of money as they fail in subsequent ventures. Analogs exist in politics and military leadership too.

It boils down to a few things: (1) humans (even very savvy ones) are absolute suckers for charisma, (2) it's very hard to tell who is "for real" unless you invest a ton of time looking under the hood and have enough domain expertise to judge yourself, and (3) success itself is determined by so many factors that investment is perilously close to gambling anyway.
I’m considering creating an overall database where AR developers and makers will be presented. Plus, I think it will be great to share contacts with each other so that AR community can grow.

For now I’ve created and shared a simple online Google Spreadsheet where everyone can add their own information. Please, feel free to add your information https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11HRSn4UFf4IUWVOXiy5K...

P.S., Later we might be able to create some new cool project based on this data.

Best,
Dan
I own two ThinkPad T420s and my favorite thing about them - well, besides of course being able to install linux without any headaches due to the work of soooo many FOSS engineers - is the keyboard. Man, I never really thought I would appreciate something so seemingly basic...but the keyboard - as silly as this sounds - makes it so much more fun to type!
Pretty darn common, at least in my limited experience. Sad thing about your situation is that it sounds like the founder is both clueless AND a tyrant. Might be about time to hop over to a clueless-but-nice startup.
He isnt going to get much Whiskey in Edinburgh. Whisky however
Right. What I am also surprised is how dirty the regime is, yet no one seems to care:

* https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how...

* https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikilea...

* https://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/06/08/the-us-g...
Memes can convey powerful messages just as much as words.
Lets do a quick back of the envelope calculation:

Github reports 28,337,706 users by 2018-06-05 [1]. Lets assume 50% of these are active. Lets also assume that, due to the unavailability of GH, around 2 usable hours per developer are lost. Another assumption is that each developer contributes around 50 US$ per hour.

This means, this outage has cost us users: (28337706 * .5 * 2 * 50) = 1.351 billion US$.

Perhaps not use MySQL for such critical systems?

[1] https://github.com/search?q=type:user&type=Users
I would guess that the reason that Fakespot works is that not too many people use it (relative to the total number of Amazon users) so people writing fake reviews don't specifically try to beat it.

Anything Amazon is doing, the people writing fake reviews will specifically try to counter, so Amazon has a much harder job cut out for them.
I use a T420 at home with an i7 2nd Gen (Power hunry) @ 2.3Ghz + 16GB Ram and a 250gb SSD. Its old, but its at the inflection point where its more cost effective for me to do some cloud compute the few times a year I need it rather than spending £1500 on a new laptop. The laptop cost me around £130 all in.
Oddly enough, it is immoral but not illegal/criminal money.
That's assuming you're putting your own organization's code on GitHub. Then of course if GitHub doesn't work, neither does the CI that's hooked to it. This is a separate topic.
When I was in construction all ends longer than a foot (30cm) were saved and most were used. They look like the are to be discarded, because most are created the first day and just sit there. However the very last thing before we leave we look around and verify that there is backing in all the corners to attach the drywall to. This used most of the longer scraps.

I don't know about the other steps you name.
MX3D describes their machine as "Standard Robot + Standard Welding Machine + MX3D’s proprietary software". The stargate machine appears superficially similar aside from using multiple 'print heads'. From their pictures and description it looks like one is a welder and one is a milling machine, no clue what the third one is.
Neither, most probably a side effect of starting before the others, when research wasn't finished, so they dug themselves into a problem too deep to be commercially viable while other were growing on smaller parts of the market. Now that EUV is polished and stable, competition can just jump on the bandwagon while intel has to kill its old pipeline.
Yes, precisely, a 'normal' market would have a 5-6% vacancy rate. If your vacancy rate is only 2% and 5% of the inventory is empty but not for sale or rent, that is a huge distortion.
So that's where OS X got its 3D app dock from...
Hey,

I have been working on y own startups since 2013. My first startup failed.
The second one, it was really hard to find how to get users, but after a few months discover a hack which drove a lot of traffic. 2 years later, I sold it.

Now I am working on a crypto company which we started with a game for the World Cup which was pretty good in terms of users. But now, launched NFL and we are fighting again.

It is not easy at all build stuff and then get users. It takes time and work to find the best alternatives to get them.
Actually, Show HN, I was never able to get a lot of upvotes. So congrats on that and keep the hard work!
>criminal money

First of all, it's Silicon Valley. Check your ethics at the door.

Secondly, it's not illegal if it's not against the laws of a country (and in this case, if the crown prince of a monarchy orders something, that's as close to legal as it gets). You could say that it's immoral, but that's a different statement, and you shouldn't conflate "illegal" with "immoral".
I'm a huge fan of CoC's.

It allows us to codify the spirit of the law, to be used as a fall-back plan when the letter of the law is being gamed. CoC's allow judgement, in contrast to zero tolerance policies which prohibit judgement.

One of orgs I volunteer for had our own #metoo drama. Actual rape, assaults, harassment, etc. Some stomach turning stuff. It made the news. There have been some out of court settlements.

Per the bylaws, we didn't have any way to remove the perpetrator. Adopting a CoC allowed the org membership to impeach the leader. (Maybe like a vote of no confidence works in parliamentary systems.)

Concerns about CoC's being weaponized, misused, abused... Whatever. Of course there's always oversteer, friendly fire. As if abuse didn't exist before CoC's.

I happily accept those occasional failures and let the balance be figured out over time. Rather than going back to denial and inaction.

In other words, I choose 98% awesome over 100% terrible, and happily work to further reduce that 2% gap.
That probably means the factory intended for topside oil changes. I switched to topside oil changing about 7-8 years ago and it's tremendously more convenient. I didn't trust it at first, so the first 3 I did, I did the vacuum process and then removed the plug. Never got enough oil out of the plug area to fill much more than a tablespoon, so I became a believer.

I use the MityVac 07300 and can recommend it highly if you have a good sized compressor to run it. They also sell a manual pump version.
Life is messy and indistinct. 1 out of 7 couples meet via work...
Morgan Knutson on the Google+ project and exec team
On any given day when I'm being really productive I try to go back and count the number of tabs I have open on SO. I certainly enjoy watching my rep go up from the one time I answered a VueJS question when it was still kind of new but really I don't think I could do my job without the site. The amount of negativity that gets thrown towards it is really ridiculous.
But nobody is saying that conventional is better. They are saying that this rig could be improved.
Ha! Saw that on Reddit yesterday. Immediately thought of it.
That's appropriate considering Jeff hasn't worked there for more than half the life of the company. Stack Overflow is a piece of software that I would consider complete. I hope their future is just more of the same. Sure there will be small improvements to be made over time, but the radical days of product changes are far behind. I'm going to guess that in 10 years the site will still be recognizable to anyone who uses it today.
Oh, you have a policy problem rather than a technical problem. In that case, I'm not sure how it would help to have a system where user control was normal, since invariably it would be locked down in exactly the same way. I don't think HURD will prevent mounting /home with noexec.
> 66. Do not love quarreling

I'm seeing a problem here.
My experience is limited, but in America I've seen a few Muslim run restaurants use the word halal in their name, and have heard the term being used similarly to "Chinese food." The author may come from where that happens, and is referring to things like Pakistani cuisine.
It does sound a bit strange when I hear people comparing the reliability of cars driven in conditions that are literally and figuratively worlds apart. And I'm thinking of climate, quality of roads, availability of professional repair, etc.

Since very few Ladas were ever driven in California, and very few Chevys in Russia it's hard to be fair. They are both the products of local conditions.
> Foreign government hold US debt because it's a safe store of value.

US debt is a safe store of value, because cheap energy can only be obtained by paying in US dollars. If you remove that motivation, the USD is just another fiat currency.
How Instagram is scaling its infrastructure across the ocean
Private companies have to overcome the complaining of the unions (if applicable) and justify their actions to the shareholders. Politicians have to overcome a complaining police/teachers/whatever union that is plastering voters (analogous to shareholders in the private example) eyeballs with negative adds about how politician X "doesn't care about the teachers" or whatever. It's much easier to just go with the flow and blame it on the prior set of politicians since that doesn't make as many people hate you as attempting to change things would.
I see this argument presented over and over and over again but never any supporting information to prove that claim.
Posthumous Avatars
Well the direct mechanism in this case is hedge funds paying "placement agents" which fund the corruption, so they do have responsibility, even if they are not solely responsible.
This is cool for animation demo. From UX stand point is almost a joke. Apple intentionally is using animations only when user attention is low. My problem with window managers are not animations. My problem is that this is old paradigm and desktop needs to be reinvented by extending and changing user experience. 3d interaction with information objects in virtual space is future. But the big companies don't care anymore. They are focused in cashing the cow and capitalizing on old ideas of Apple and S.Jobs. There is a big room for innovation but centralized investment in R&D and testing are needed. I have tinkered with this and generated some ideas, but after estimation the result is that this is too big for small dev teams. So we will wait GUI to become cool again and wait for someone with imagination and skill to penetrate the walls of reason and get the blessing from excel gods.:)
My understanding is that what Intel targeted for 10nm was very ambitious, so much so that it beats out what TSMC calls 7nm. In other words, other fabs haven't gotten it working yet either.

Process node names have been detached from the reality of corresponding to specific feature sizes. It's up to the companies to figure out what performance they want to label 10nm versus 7nm, and Intel's processes have generally been more aggressive than the others. What's changed is that Intel has gone from unreachably ahead to merely in the competition.
Are there any context sensitive help, tooltips, etc ?

Seeing two function definitions, my first inclination was to run them on the next two lines, via

setup();
draw();

So that was wrong.

Ok, so the functions run themselves automagically.

Guessing that there must be line and circle functions, I managed to get those running.

How do I discover new stuff?

Shift - Tab is not doing anything over function signatures(Jupyter can do that in the browser sort of ok).

What would a total newbie do next without going over to Help tab?
I mean a large percentage of the fund should probably be in bonds, shouldn't it? Depending on how many are drawing out vs. paying in.
This is so contrary to facts that I'm confused about where to even start rebutting.

I guess I would just encourage people to look at where multinational companies tend to be created, tend to be headquartered, and tend to get most of their revenue.
Tethered aerostats or solar power are better solutions than beamed power if you need something flying for a long time.
> He cannot speak Chinese. He adheres strictly to a lifelong low-sugar, low-cholesterol diet.

I'm no expert on cholesterol, but does fried Chinese food not have the same cholesterol level as other fried food?
Sure, if you are a brutal dictatorship already and try to upset global financial markets, after a multiyear struggle with the leading military power, while having a huge homegrown resistance... then you might get assassinated.

It is not a coincidence, but it is also not simply because of just one thing.
I’ve honestly wondered if autocorrect machine learning has picked up on poor autocorrect choices, causing a reinforcement loop, causing it to continue getting worse
Clinkle was CEO inexperience and character flaws. Example coverage: https://pando.com/2015/05/19/it-wasnt-youth-that-doomed-clin...
> why it never really took off.

It seems since 2006 the world has gone exactly in the opposite direction: simpler UIs based on windows that fill the screen, one at a time or, in some cases, docked. The idea of having multiple windows open on the same screen space was fancy but often confusing for a lot of people. I have relatives who have had their first approach with computers at the age of 80 and can use quite proficiently an Android phone; others that are still struggling, after twenty years, with the concept of "windows (partially) hidden behind other windows" :).

Relevant quote (in the first 20 seconds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_kaY4K5a8
Note that SQLite is, in it's own words, "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution". SQLite does not accept patches from the public.

See https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

Looking at the commit history for the project, all of the commits for 2018 have been from just three people (with 98% of those coming from just two of those).
> portfolio theory means that serious due diligence isn't worth the effort.

Could you expand on this?
>Because the government can provide them more cheaply than a private entity by its very nature

Please justify this. Public sector is not known for it's low overhead of efficiency.
No, that's what a typical single organization with a typical RDBMS-centric non-resilient architecture can provide. But of course it's very hard for organizations at certain sizes to do it better, it's something they have to start with.
People who are well fed, clothed, properly housed, and with little to spend their time on often criticize the culture that feeds them.
And that should be considered fraud.
Don't forget mortgage-backed securities.. oh wait.

In all seriousness though, large pension plans have very diverse portfolios. Ontario teachers used to own 80% of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System owns Oxford Properties, which owns and manages the office building I work in (and many others).

Edit: Added "Employees" to OMERS.
Is accelerating from 0 to 250 a typical use case? What about steady speeds, or repeated acceleration between speeds? As i said, they will have nerfed this thing. It would be a better car by adding a tramsmission. Performance should not be abandoned just to make a point.
It's about power. Who can do what. It's political.
Some people are just not good for entrepreneurship, even if they do want it very hard. Desire alone is not enough. Success is a multiplication of factors, not a sum, and if you are bad at just one aspect you fail. I think you should find a companion or two and take a couple of shots on short-term projects with them. Not a big-deal-out-of-garage, just a project to check things out. The idea is to complement each other's drawbacks and form a team that is good at everything.
Yeah, us Sparrow-keepers are OFFENDED !
Isn't the whole point of good satire that it's not immediately evident whether it's a joke or not?

Regardless, I don't see how this satire could be considered dangerous.
Of course it is satirical but I think people forget that the CoC's that been gaining traction lately are themselves a response to a real problem.

Yes, some CoC's may be fodder for satire and criticism because they cross the line when it comes to being excessively dogmatic. However, these things exist because online communities have been beset by hordes of assholes for a very long time. Many people feel excluded or are dismissed just because some jerk manages to wield a measure of virtual power.

It would be a mistake to move in the reverse direction now and abandon CoC's. If they're not working, perhaps change them or try something else, but the problem needs to be addressed.
You don't appreciate the difference between knowing what's happening to your system well enough to fix it and hoping that an "update" doesn't cause too much unrecoverable damage when it installs itself behind your back.
Given this though, is the question / answer format really suiting the purpose?
I'm thinking this is not true. This is the core of Intel's business, I'd be shocked if they decided to kill it off. They may miss a deadline, maybe two - however if they want to survive as the behemoth they are today, they'll have to deliver.
> It only becomes political when there is the desire to use the legislative and judicial systems to subvert end users ability to enjoy, enhance and repair the products they have bought.

I mean, even if one were to accept all your promises, this is exactly the world we live in, so the GPL is indeed political. You can put curtains up between Economy and Politics if you want. I guess.
I actually saw this before and was kind of relieved to discover the X220T couldn't do it, I just know I'd've tried to do it otherwise.

It's a remarkably stable Hackintosh though, really regret not buying one 4 years ago. The pen (on windows) is better than I expected too.
I’m gonna catch some flak for this...

Listening to Jeff try to describe what stack overflow is and the “fundamental misunderstanding” by all of us millions of unwashed masses is amazing.

It’s also a bit like listening to a muskox describe why it decided to grow long hair after so much time in the snow; IOW, a complete and total lack of understanding of emergence and a rewriting of history at the behest of Jeff’s enormous ego.

This is what happens when you raise massive amounts of money for what is a simple question and answer site and you have to find some kind of philosophically transcendent exclamation of what it is that you have created. Instead of saying “we created yahoo answers for programmers, but with a better interface”, you come up with something like “We’ve created a valuable resource for the future of the planet and all the programmers hereafter”.

Stack overflow is and always was a question and answer site. To attempt to take credit for the following value of search results containing stack overflow questions that have already been answered that sound like what you’re asking is to take credit for search engines and to take credit for your users’ hard work.

That last bit doesn’t surprise me at all, given that Jeff’s post ends with an insulting meme that implies we are a dumb mob.
Company leaders don't even necessarily have to decide for themselves. They can just discover the facts and communicate them clearly.

If it really doesn't matter where money comes from, they won't object to doing so.

If it really doesn't matter where money comes from, it won't affect their recruiting or marketing.

On the other hand, if company leaders resist the idea of being so transparent, well, maybe that it is a hint.
Incomplete in terms of technical architecture perhaps, but what ends up happening is that it's very incomplete in terms of function as well.

In fact, it's usually overspecced in terms of technical architecture and woefully underspecced in terms of function.
I think this is a good observation, but I still don't think it completely explains the hostility on SO, which quite often seems like an even more hostile and juvenile version of certain Linux distro mailing lists. It honestly seems like most of SO is people screaming "RTFM n00b!" and downvoting questions into oblivion.
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