skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? What about Zork and Inform7 do you like?
Also an American thing. People assumed it would all just be over if there was a big nuclear exchange and all the talk about "duck and cover" was just to make people feel like they had a chance when they didn't.
I would start by trying to scan the site using something like nmap or Metasploit (https://www.metasploit.com/) to see if they find anything.
This site somehow manages to interfere with trackpad gestures on my MBP. I could not swipe back or forward. How is this even possible?
There are many people who seem to enjoy the aesthetics of consumerist-oriented environmental action but are horrified by the idea of mass protest, civil disobedience, worker's strikes, etc.
Theoretically someone could hire a bunch for Red Hat people and continue the business without too much interruption. The software is open source after all. Granted, the infrastructure would not come along and they couldn't use the trademark. But if I'm a customer and my rep tells me "yeah we had a mass exodus over to XYZ corp and are now supporting largely the same Linux stack under a different name" I may well take my business over there.
Getting a Theranos type vibe here where they claim some advanced technology but are just using normal stuff to get the work done. This sounds like a consulting firm essentially.
Amazon – Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj – Netflix
Arcis Biotechnology is fundraising to boost cancer detection
text is not quite as sharp at it would be at 2x

I think that would bother me.
I've worked for small mom and pop shops to national banks to everything in between - and my freelance is full stack (back, front, + server)

Everyone appreciated the time spent outside of the day job and most always found those projects more interesting then what I was hired to do - as they usually are - corporate work can be boring most of the time; freelance is where i can "show off"
You are still free to take a taxi. If the medical practitioner says "we are getting you an ambulance" you can refuse and make your own way to the hospital. That is entirely legal.

However, the medical practitioner themselves cannot tell you to take an Uber to the hospital. Which is sensible.
>> Having a lower corporate tax rate in one country means businesses operating in the EU put their revenue through there

I'm not sure this is true any more, at least not everywhere

"Amazon has become the first technology company to abandon controversial corporate structures that divert sales and profits away from UK in the face of a clampdown imposed by George Osborne.

From the start of [May 2015] the online retailer has started booking its sales through the UK, meaning resulting profits will be taxed by HMRC [the UK tax authority]. The group made $8.3bn (£5.3bn) of worldwide sales from British online shoppers but for 11 years all these internet transactions have been booked in Luxembourg."

source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/23/amazon-to...
Well, at least 24“ are more reasonable for UHD or 1080p at 2x scaling. However I currently use a non-retina iMac 27 at home (which I‘m looking to replace) and an iMac 5k at work - I really want both: Screen real estate and retina-level pixel density.

Concerning the Ultrafine: Yes, it‘s too expensive and since I‘d need to connect it to another PC without Thunderbolt it‘s not an option for me.

edit: There‘s also this option: https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-xb2779qqs-s1/ - it‘s sold for under 700€ here in europe, but the 6bit is concerning.
Huh? I feel like this kind of emotional opinion can only come from someone that has little or no experience with Java beyond reading a few random blogs about it.
And why is one bee more important than the other? Not sure diseases are 'cultivated' by anyone - they are unfortunate wherever they occur. Again, not sure what the idea is.
Note that Apple uses non-integer scaling _on their own computers_ these days. Default for the 15" MBP, which has a native resolution of 2880x1800, is fake 1680x1050.
Computing GCSE could be paper based due to bad school IT
I'd buy that the freedoms to modify and share modifications are developer freedoms, but to use and share are certainly user freedoms.
Sweden was early adopting cards, but it's really changed in the last couple of years. When I went back this year the local pizza place had a sign saying they no longer take cash. Just five years ago pizza places were always happy to get cash, so they could (sometimes) pocket the money and not pay tax.

It's mostly debit cards, not credit. So the merchant fees are low.

Sweden also introduces new coins and bills a few years ago, and then a lot of people just gave up on cash.

There's also the 'Swish' system for sending money to people. You sign up and link your mobile number to your bank account. Then you can send money to a phone number, and it instantly goes to the linked bank account. Swish is popular for splitting bills, selling used items, market stalls, charities and such. Even some local stores take Swish payments, although that's not what the system is intended for.

The UK's PayM is similar to Swish, but the UX is not as good. Sweden is actually a bit behind the UK on contactless though.
Google Patents Eye-Tracking System to Read Expressions for VR
Your Facebook news feed?

AFAIK, no one else outside of people working at Facebook can see how the algorithm decides what should be on top of your feed.
Like being given antibiotics for a viral infection.
Can anyone explain the market for this to me?
In Ireland
Mac Mini:
8th Gen i5 Processor/8GB RAM/256GB SSD
€1269

Dell XPS 13 with:
8th Gen i5 Processor/8GB RAM/256GB SSD
€1189
They claim to have raised $21m (from Videocon and AEC partners) in Feb 2012, but by the end of year the founder(s) claim to have stepped down with $100m payout (according to engineer.ai) while the company carried on and died in 2014.

I'm not an expert in this, but one of the founders is nephew to Indian billionaire Venugopal Dhoot (chairman of Videocon); according to Wikipedia and news sources he's wanted by the police since April 2018 for irregular loans between his companies accounting for hundreds of millions.

Videocon filed for bankrupcy procedures in June 2018. That connection is very sketchy.
Consider mapping CapsLock to Esc (and Ctrl when long-pressed) with Karabiner. I haven't used my physical Esc key since 2014 or something. Might help with your issue.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Organizing an Academic Workshop
Seems like it pushes everything to a lukewarm center, change already difficult to enact would be even harder, it goes to "who sorta kinda appeals to the most". I imagine turnout would decline.
> And frankly these discussions on HN always dance around the special protected class of persion - people who use urban real estate as an investment vehicle slash secondary home.

I think a lot of these discussions are inspired by California (SF in particular) where the average homeowner is this person and votes in their financial interests -- to preserve (at all costs) neighborhoods that rarely have the historical cache of Boston brownstones.
I wonder how long the Mac mini will stick around
I guess that's why US media is hyping how China is surpassing the US in AI.
New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances
Scaled down to 1440p yep. Native 4K is no option :D
The choice is depend of quality, comfort.

The problem is that OS community advertising solutions, "product", ideas, and after some time we staying with "nothing" or watching for problems.

Sometime I think that OS leaders cheating my by promises.
Some ppl doing business by books, etc.. but model of all chain is stupid.

Maybe this is question not only about quality but including future.
If we watching some projects like linux (Sue, Redhat, mayby Canonical/Ubuntu), looks better.

Google Sumit Code financing sometimes some ideas.
Maybe should exist some fund, fundation that can collect some project list of task to solve to hit some level?
I never got this point. Are you not then giving them arms for free? Are you not using the output of your country and redirecting it to another?
That’s right and it writes it on two separate nodes if u enable high availability
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Ah I use my mine as a playback front end only, pulling media from a NAS. I guess that's a different use case really.
I'm confused.

According to Wikipedia "A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon." The same article also states that "In common usage in the 21st century, a hypothesis refers to a provisional idea whose merit requires evaluation". Thus what I called "hypothesis" is indeed one by Wikipedia's usage.

I also quoted the sentence "For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it." (my emphasis) in order to point out that what pbhjpbhj called "hypothesis" seems to be normally called "scientific hypothesis".
Ask HN: Features you would like to see in a personal project management software
Hi,
I've been teaching myself web dev. I'm looking at building something along the lines of trello/asana. But instead of building another clone, I thought of doing a bit of market research and make something that can be actually useful. Request you to let me know :

1) Do you have a pain point that the existing tools like asana/trello doesn't address, but you wished it did ? Would you pay for a Personal PM software that addresses the abovementioned issue(s) ?

2) Is a personal project management tool really useful when you are working on your own project ( as compared to using a simple whiteboard/todo list app/paper, pen) ?

3) What are the top 5 must have features in your opinion, that is required of any Personal PM software ?

4) Would you prefer the Personal PM software to be a desktop/mobile app that works offline as well instead of an online only SaaS app ?

Thanks in advance !
Berkshire Hathaway is a different animal, it's a value investing play -- they have access to cheap cash and need a home for it.
But what is IBM truly good at that can be applied at Redhat? A lethal legal department? Super efficient HR processes? Office supplies management?

I doubt something in engineering and sales? Or perhaps sales is the closest answer.
I must be misunderstanding something, because it seems to me that this basically gives the top candidate their votes, and the second top candidate every other vote. What am I missing?

EDIT: Oh, on one of the rounds the top candidate might become the bottom candidate, I see.
Interesting, thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize how nuanced it can be. For example, when using the Condorcet method there's a chance of not having a winner. From wikipedia[1]:

> This is sometimes called a Condorcet cycle or just cycle and can be thought of as Candidate Rock beating Candidate Scissors, Candidate Scissors beating Candidate Paper, and Candidate Paper beating Candidate Rock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
Yes we have customers that standardize their database workloads on memsql and move off of oracle
I'm continually upset and confused by Instant runoff voting's popularity. IRV is, by my reckoning, a much inferior (and more complicated) system than other systems, like range voting or ranked pairs. And it has some bizarre properties that make me wonder if it is even worse than the traditional first-past-the-post.

One property of IRV that makes it so questionable is its non-monotonicity. This means that you can help a candidate by ranking them lower, and hurt a candidate by ranking them higher. It is extremely easy to visualize how ill-behaved IRV is in the charts on this website:

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

Meanwhile, ranked pairs (a "condorcet" method) has the property that, if candidate A is more popular than all other candidates pairwise, then candidate A will always win. This is _not_ true in IRV.

If you're interested in falling down the rabbit hole of electoral systems, I recommend looking at this chart that compares their properties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...
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This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered.

But that’s sort of humans in a nutshell, isn’t it?
The Unprecedented Effort to Secure Election Day
What happens if I set hard limit on MemSQL process to use 128GB RAM and it decides it needs more? Will it die demanding more memory or will it behave like traditional rdbms and manage buffers to work within limits?
Tesla is not the most shorted stock in history. It's not even number one right now. Alibaba has more shorts, by absolute value, and Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, General Electric and Procter & Gamble have all recently had larger shorts by relative value.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-16/musk-call...

The shorts aren't behind a massive conspiracy to destroy Tesla. Hell, this summer, Elon Musk almost destroyed Tesla all on his own and he's Tesla's biggest shareholder.

Tesla's problem is a constant failure to properly execute. It's happened with every model they've made, with every endeavor they've undertaken. They've constantly over-promised and just as constantly under-delivered. (And please, none of this BS about how they're trying to accomplish great things. Other companies are also trying to accomplish great things--and actually succeed in doing so without constantly bragging about what they're trying to do.)

Tesla may have a great vision for cars. But a great vision without proper execution just means having the best seats for watching someone else succeed in their place.
There are gov't policies that make it much easier to get money to purchase a home. 30 year mortgages were created by the gov't which locks in low payments. Mortgage tax deduction lowers the effective cost of a mortgage. Easier to get money to buy a home -> price of homes go up.

Normally when prices go up, supplier (homebuilders) have an incentive to produce more housing, countering the increase in price. However, many cities (SF is a great example) make it very hard to build new housing. Restriction on supply with increasing demand -> price of homes go up.
I'm a bit confused by this. I thought (probably incorrectly) that the point of Rust editions was that if you targeted Rust 2015, it would compile with Rust v1.0.

But if you enable NLL in Rust 2015 mode, that code will no longer compile with Rust v1.0. Which means we're still back at square 1 (meaning each crate has to specify which compiler version it requires).

Could you help enlighten me on why this is safe to backport to Rust 2015?
Do you have the random list of parcels available by any chance? I would love to compare against Geocod.io. I suspect that we might able to achieve high 90's as well.
Which of those chosen were not done so on the basis of objective criteria regarding security? The CCW license and student id example is the most commonly trotted out one, and we've already gone over why one can be considered secure and the other can't.
"Rust 2015" and "Rust 2018" are referring to editions[1] of the language.

> Rust ships releases on a six-week cycle. This means that users get a constant stream of new features. This is much faster than updates for other languages, but this also means that each update is smaller. After a while, all of those tiny changes add up. But, from release to release, it can be hard to look back and say "Wow, between Rust 1.10 and Rust 1.20, Rust has changed a lot!"

> Every two or three years, we'll be producing a new edition of Rust. Each edition brings together the features that have landed into a clear package, with fully updated documentation and tooling. New editions ship through the usual release process.

[1] https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/edition-guide/editions/i...
A recipe for offline support in React Apollo
Nope. “Rust 2015” is a term of art in this context. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/07/27/what-is-rust-2018.html
I would be surprised if Heptio made more than $5M in revenue. As far as I can tell, their business model was to first spend a lot of money upfront building a high-profile team of upstream contributors, and developing lots of cool open-source projects; then leverage the upstream brand recognition into service contracts, in the hope of becoming the “Red Hat of Kubernetes”. They certainly were very efficient at the “spending money on great upstream engineers” part. I doubt they got very far along in the “generate revenue” part.

I think they spent roughly half of their series B money on this brilliant plan, with headcount increasing at a steady clip. Meanwhile they probably realized building an enterprise sales and support organization is no fun, and growing it fast enough to justify ballooning R&D costs is not as easy as it looks. Given the profile of the founders - former Google and Microsoft employees with no enterprise sales experience to speak of - they were either deeply bored by the prospect of scaling this part of the company, or the board started pressuring them to bring a more sales-savvy CEO, or possibly both. It’s also possible that there was founder conflict brewing - those guys had zero experience outside of giant corporations, so they jumped straight into the deep end of the pool with a high-profile launch, rapid team growth, etc. For inexperienced founders who haven’t had time to gel as a team, it can be a jarring experience. Given that they still had reasonable runway (let’s say 12 months), they were not desperate to sell. My guess is that their number was $250M: plenty of money for the founders, and it matches the recent CoreOS acquisition. In early stage acquisitions it’s often important to stroke the ego of the founders, so that they can experience the acquisition as a victory rather than a defeat. A lot of times that boils down to a pissing contest on valuation. $250M is a steep price for a $5M business, but it’s still a great deal for Vmware. They need a credible Kubernetes story, and as much open-source DNA as they can.

EDIT: others are pointing out that the acquisition price might be below $84M. It’s likely that VMware structured the deal into a modest a acquisition price for shareholders, augmented by a somptuous retention package for key employees (basically the founders and engineers). I think they pitched the resulting deal as a $250M “acquisition” from the founder’s perspective. This is very common for acqui-hires, especially when the risk is high that the team will be unhappy and be tempted to leave.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391863
Surely one should be able to give a negative vote to somebody they didn't like?

That would also solve the issue with polarizing candidates, since by definition you now have to care that those who would never vote for you, would at least not vote against you.
A severed finger is a pretty serious and catastrophic injury. You think workplace clinic has the ability stabilize that kind of injury, such that there's little difference between a 10 minute and a 30 minute trip to the hospital? Don't you there's a better outcome than the patient not bleeding to death, like getting to a surgeon ASAP to increase the chances of a successful reattachment surgery?

Besides the dickishness of pressing a typical Uber/Lyft driver into emergency service, ambulances have other advantages, such as the legal authority to speed and clear roads, and on-board medical equipment to continue stabilizing the patient during the trip.
The interesting years are 2 and 3. That's when the parent company tries to optimize things (e.g. streamline the sales force), create synergies, etc and you start seeing the changes.

In my one experience with acquisition, that's when upper management's bonuses got tied to "synergy" metrics and suddenly everybody had to learn a new relationship to reality. Almost everything we did for a whole year was dedicated to gaming those metrics, and our independence as an organization depended on supporting upper management's assertion that we were saving tens of millions of dollars. The opportunity cost in product development was enormous, but it was subtly and not-so-subtly communicated to us that now that we were part of BigCorp, we shouldn't worry about small time stuff like keeping things working and making customers happy. At least not in the reflexive, focused way we had before. Making and keeping deals was 15-dimensional chess to them, and they would tell us exactly if, when, and to what degree the dimensions of quality and product delivery mattered. Meanwhile we should do as little product work as possible and focus on the goal inflating executive bonuses by claiming imaginary synergies through integration.
Yes, that's precisely my point.

I've read the rest of what you have to say on this, and it is precisely the kind of mysticism that bothers me. There are no means of disproving it, it reduces to dogma in the end, but it's philosophically disingenuous to assert that because computers and people feel like different things in some cases, they must be, and then to argue backwards from there; it's question-begging in the original sense.
Wow, I'm super curious about this now. Please keep us posted
> Unfortunately, we still don’t have any great standalone 5K displays. (The LG UltraFine isn’t.)

What’s wrong with the LG display? It gets a lot of criticism, but I find it hard to understand why. There was an interference shielding issue, but it was fixed more than a year ago.

For anyone familiar with the matter, what is it that makes the LG not great?
From experience, at least one EHR system doesn't use UTC because it has never used UTC and is an amalgamation of code going back to the 80s. This can probably never be fixed because reliance on this format is threaded throughout the entire system, which has approximately no unit tests.

It's broken, but it's been broken in this way for decades and hasn't stopped it being very successfully sold.
When I look at the UK for instance, which has real variety of parties, you see a parliamentary system with first-past-the-post voting.
Ask the Greeks how it's working out for them
Nothing wrong with it per se. The externalities of it are a disaster, though: carbon depletion and pollution, traffic congestion, traffic related injuries and death, feeding the automotive industrial beast, less time for family and community commitments, less sense of belonging, etc etc...
I'd guess he means a pop filter.
We were putting in an electrical line for the City, had the utilities marked out, all good. Apprentice cut through an 1-1/4" (32mm) gas main with the ditch witch. Suddenly saw sand puffing up; had the presence of mind to cut the engine before running. It wasn't our fault, though, because the gas utility marked it 5' (1.5m) off. It happens.
My experience of having been through 3 acquisitions: the person driving the process from the acquirer who says nothing will change genuinely believes it.

But a year later he will have moved on to his next role and the business unit the aquiree became now reports to a manager who doesn't see why you are "special" and should be treated any differently to her existing department. That's when things really change.
Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza
While I immensely agree with these approaches, it is unlikely to change with the current incumbents (as they have perfected strategies for the current system).
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Let's say Clinton, Trump, and Sanders on on the ballot. Some voters could rank their choice, from most to least preferable, Sanders -> Clinton -> Trump, while others could rank Sanders -> Trump -> Clinton. If Sanders received the least amount of votes, voters with the first ranking would have their vote transferred to Clinton while the voters with the second ranking would have their votes transferred to Trump. It wouldn't necessarily reallocate votes to third and lower ranking candidates to the second ranking candidate.