skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News should only be taken with a grain of salt in 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book-2nd/dp...
Really, they would? Then why are they all buying Teslas?

Also you're crazy if you think either of those cars are 'nicer' than a Model 3, which has rave reviews from its customers and critics.
I kind of feel that you just read the title here. It's not talking about the 'fullest':

An example of this would be if a music composition
program has an easily-reached maximum song size because
the code monkey who wrote it used a 16-bit variable
instead of a 32-bit one. *While there are sometimes
limitations that cannot be overcome*, the actual code
written and the architecture used when it was written
should have as little effect as possible on what the user
sees and works with when using your software.

(emphasis mine)

I think it might be better rephrased as:

1) Don't add unnecessary constraints (or: Don't prioritise efficiency/etc. over the interface).

and

2) A good interface abstracts away technical problems, rather than presenting them in a different form.
Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+
Kaufman / Moveflex Portable Conveyor System
Europeans don't have an American standard of living, on average.
The core difference is it's other people that get harmed on sidewalks vs. the scooter rider on roads. I suspect most people are fine with people risking other own lives more than other people.

At the core scooters don't really change that much about transportation vs bikes or simply running. However, they can be really convenient. So, it's going to be interesting to see how things evolve.
you won't be alive to see it sadly. it would be as if it never existed in the first place.
I mean...whatever, sure I'll take your word for it. I don't recall anyone talking about badgers though.
81% of VC firms don’t have a single black investor
Dubai Police start training on flying motorbikes
A Slack channel to share your favourite Slack channels
Of all the things to work on in blockchain that are more interesting than an IOU coin, the best you could come up with was wallet UX and hardware wallet design?
Do you remember when they changed the domain from "expertsexchange.com" to "experts-exchange.com"?

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why. :)
I really hope the media holds them to their $23k claim as hard as they hold Tesla to $35k.
It's not a problem. The main problem is the assembly code. There is no way to inline it in JS code. After boot time system should make some things like A20, enable paging/protected and long mode, build GDT/IDT.
This is Hacker News, not Manager News or Lawyer News.
And that's in an environment where they are mostly prohibited, in the US, from having dealerships. It's quite a feat, actually.
Photonic Recurrent Ising Sampler
Yah, but most of the awful things that ICE does (stealing children on purpose, deporting legal citizens through carelessness) happen to non-white people; and you're responding to somebody who cannot even _imagine_ having empathy for non-whites.
You know, I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything you've said (especially limitations of SIMD regarding neurons etc). I'm kind of borrowing from Kurzweil with the brute force stuff, but at the same time I think there is truth to the idea that basic evolution can solve any problem, given enough time or computing power.

I guess what I'm getting at, without quite realizing it until just now, is that AI can be applied to ANY problem, even the problem of how to create an AGI. That's where I think we're most likely to see exponential gains in even just the next 5-10 years.

For a concrete example of this, I read Koza's Genetic Programming III edition back when it came out. The most fascinating parts of the book for me were the chapters where he revisited genetic algorithm experiments done in previous decades but with orders of magnitude more computing power at hand so that they could run the same experiment repeatedly. They were able to test meta aspects of evolution and begin to come up with best practices for deriving evolution tuning parameters that reminded me of tuning neural net hyperparameters (which is still a bit of an art).

Thanks for the insight on higher order meaning, I've felt something similar lately, seeing the web and exponential growth of technology as some kind of meta organism recruiting all of our minds/computers/corporations.
Why Linux? It's a simple hybrid kernel. It will be better to rewrite HURD/L4.
Gendered Language Effects [pdf]
> Linux on DeX currently supports one customized Ubuntu image (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version provided by Canonical) which only operates on selected Samsung devices. (Note9 and Tab S4).

A crappy distro on a couple of old devices? No thanks. I'll just wait for the Librem 5 [0]

0) https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Edit: Misread "Note9" as "Note7" (don't ask). Ooops. My conclusion still stands.
Yes, that's why they are pushing the word universal...

"we want to craft a gadget chain that has no dependencies, gadgets can only be sourced from the standard library"

But, you would still need to find something that unmarshalls unstrusted input. Don't know how hard that is to find.
> By 2000, though, Usenet was essentially dead for actual communication use

The groups I frequented were active through 2013 or so (and I didn't start posting on usenet until 1999).
Zero Tolerance Policies, generally also mean Zero Thinking Policies.

The punishment should fit the crime, and most situations are warrant only a warning or a minor punishment - and if behavior improves, all is well.
Instant, Free Contactless Bitcoin Payments with the BitSafe App
the SEC doesn't give a shit.

if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it's probably one in their eyes.
Not endorsing, but allowing is aimed at letting people feel like they aren't being handled like children by their employer, and, as alcohol is a very common component of social interaction in western culture, is meant to make it easier for workers to socialize and make friends with their colleagues. I'd imagine the reason for wanting that is something like that employees who are more connected with each other are more likely:

a) to want to stay at the company with their friends, less turnover

b) to be happier at work which is good for performance, recruiting, and makes them less likely to feel the need to rush out of the office whenever they can.

c) to efficiently organize themselves and find the right people to get things done if they know each other well

d) to be transparent to each other and reduce friction in communications

You might not ever have some beer or wine when you socialize with people, but for a huge number of people that's viewed as an integral part of socializing.
Great tool!
An alternative: https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/printing.html .
> VW group has been leading the world in electric vehicle press releases

ha!
Ask HN: Are there alternatives to TestLink that work well with GitLab?
Hello fellow ycombinator divers, I am looking to improve my team's QA process and wanted to move away from how we log our test scenarios.

We currently use simple XLS spreadsheet and keep them on our google drive. This proves to be quite cumbersome to maintain as our schedule grew significantly.

We looked at TestLink but it does not work well with GitLab. Is there anything out there that you are aware of I can check out?
This is what I've been thinking for awhile. A huge number of the detractors predicted that Tesla would get crushed by commoditized goods that they spent the R&D dollars on, namely batteries. But I don't think the capacity is even remotely there for other manufacturers to come in and just buy up energy storage on the open market.

Eventually it'll show up due to demand but the flywheel is slow to turn. I think a 3-4 year head start is about right and also in line with most technological head starts (Bezos famously talked about it some time ago and why AWS is the reason they are winning since it had no viable competitor for 7+ years), but like Amazon/AWS, if it takes any longer than that... you're handing Elon a huge amount of time.
Historically, 32-bit address space was large on the fledgling internet. It was relatively easy and cheap/free to get a /8.

Amazon probably wants it to sell to their customers who need ipv4 instead of v6
I can offer a personal anecdote here. When I was born, my father was a very healthy 50 who didn't drink or smoke and who got regular aerobic and resistance exercise. He took an early retirement buyout when he was in his mid 50s, so as a toddler I had a ton of time with him and it was, from my perspective at least, absolutely wonderful. He also had children and grandchildren already, and that experience was likewise quite beneficial.

So I can confirm that in at least some cases there are benefits to having an older father. I have no doubt that there are drawbacks also. One of the obvious ones is that on average you will have your father in your life for much less time.

If you're going to have children later in life, man or woman, make sure you've been looking after your health and continue to do so. Young persons can take much more abuse and remain healthy, older ones can't.
> The more a workplace feels like they have to micromanage their employees like children, the more I would expect their workplace to be filled with people who act like children.

This is exactly what I always thought until I ended up working at a place that did not ban anything. I had no idea how far some will take this freedom, until I saw it, and then I thought: Wish this place banned a few things.
Is that true in california? I thought it was always at-will and that employers do not need to provide any reasoning.
Perhaps we need a self-driving scooter?
Are you suggesting that it’s not fair for individuals to vote who have a constitutional right to vote?

Instead of attacking the constitution I’d suggest critiquing the parties (and their policies) in power.
Figures. What a disappointing mystery.
As you can see from the product in the second link, most skirts should work fine: https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB11XeAgwaTBuNjSszfq6xgfpXaD/new... (temporary CDN link may expire)

If a pencil skirt is too constricting it could be a problem, but the same can be said for most seated mobile cycle-based transportation methods.
A quota would be a documented mandate to engage in illegal behavior, while the OKRs will just encourage lower-level employees into doing illegal behavior without the documentation and the corporate liability.

Remember Wells Fargo and how their sales mandates lead to retail bankers opening up fraudulent accounts? Same concept. Don't demand anything specific, just demand that something be done and apply rewards and punishments appropriately.
With no timeline, no pre-production vehicles to show, no specs, range, or even a rough outline of what one might get for $23k. Oh, and no batteries or factories set up for this yet.

In what sense is this even a ‘Tesla rival’, other than the fact that it will be electric? You might as well call a Golf an F-150 competitor.
> Some of the categories that I have been placed in are uncannily specific.

> the data broker Acxiom even placed me in a category called “Alcohol at Home Heavy Spenders” (was it because I went shopping for a birthday party at home?), and a company called Affinity Answers thinks I have a social affinity with the consumer “Baby Nappies & Wipes” (very, very wrong).

We tried a few of these services that match site visitors to segments/categories at my prior job. None of them worked all that well. I suspect part of the issue is that their customers ask them to create highly specific segments that aren't possible to infer about people, at least not without a huge amount of noise.
Tesla didn't sell mass market cars to jumpstart the industry, because that's not what the market wanted, very obviously. Elon correctly predicted the revolution needed to be an order of magnitude better in all competitive areas, not just slightly better or at par.
No, they are not a problem, nor is this a grey area, they are 1000% legal to buy and sell in the United States. Even importing books for the sole purpose of resale is legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_So....

>Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519 (2013),[1] is a United States Supreme Court copyright decision in which the Court held, 6-3, that the first-sale doctrine applies to copies of copyrighted works lawfully made abroad.
Has anyone here used Now extensively for dynamic sites? What was your experience?
Agreed! They also don't have a single Mongolian or Eskimo, which is so unfair.
Yes, you are off base. We don't care at all about the traffic ratio with 1.1.1.1.
> rather than believing that HTTP-NG is the universal transport for all applications

Joke's on you, we did that anyway.
The e-Golf costs $30k and goes 125 miles and they're going to sell a 220 mile range Tesla rival for $23k?

It's great that they want to make more EVs, but don't expect any car company to have anything like that for at least another car generation (4 years?). Or they'll ship something with 125 miles and call it a Tesla rival.
You can buy a VW e-golf since at least 2015. It's a great car, but by no means a Tesla competitor. It retails for close to $30k, I got mine for under $20k after the federal rebate.

IIRC, VW only really got into the electric car game as a condition of their emissions cheating settlement. FWIW.
There are exceptions to at-will employment public policy.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf (BLS PDF, The employment-at-will doctrine:
three major exceptions)
It definitely sounds like a step in the right direction.

This is from Stephanie Hurlburt's Twitter a while back.

Ah, game industry culture and drinking.

I don’t drink. I also feel unsafe being in a mostly-male group when they’re all drinking.

...

https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/999707171381100544
Why do you want to cite the legality of 2nd generation voters voting, but not cit the illegality of their parents coming here?

It's not fair to embrace law breaking when the consequences disenfranchise 1 party, 1 ideology, along w/ the pressure it applies to wages and social services demands.

I'm quite simply stating, it is unfair to turn your back on law breaking that may benefit some people (and of course certainly benefits the immigrant) while harming others, who happen to be citizens the law is designed to protect.

Can you articulate to me why you think we even have a law against illegal immigration, before you dismiss my point of view out of hand?
I would consider sane maternal/paternal leave, mandatory vacation, and healthcare to offset a lot of the materialistic wealth they don’t have. It’s really nice to be top 10% in US, but it’s nicer to be 20% to 80% in Western Europe, I would think.
I think the offline/portability part comes from the fact that the computer exists in a little box you can carry around.
More like, news from certain sources should be taken with a grain of salt.

There are plenty of good journalists with high reputation that you can certainly take more than a pinch of salt with.
I guess the opposite is the case with "therapist.com" ;) (though both possibilities have different DNS A records).
Ask HN: Are there any nonprofit social networks operating?
Tesla names new chair replacing Elon Musk
Has there been more Bloomberg on the front page since the SuperMicro thing, or am I just noticing it more?
The token sale was administrated by the Asian group that purchased EtherDelta from the founder.
Top ML libraries for Python, with sample code
I don't know what you mean by "in blockchain".

In the Bitcoin ecosystem and with most of its' offshoots, huge quantities of people are using centralized "wallet" software because the decentralized stuff doesn't scale and is too hard to use.

Hardware wallets are part of that. A cryptocurrency with high TPS could support NFC or similar payments on a HW wallet. Type in your amount, tap the terminal, done.

I think that large custodial companies like Coinbase and Gemini represent existential threats to Bitcoin.
There is a semi-famous write up about this: http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html
The original orbits would take ~100 years to decay, which is way longer than the life of the satellite. The new orbit is around 5 years (not taking into account maneuvers from the fuel on board). Makes a lot of sense, especially since it looks like they'll be iterating the design as they go (two that jumped out at me: initially not all satellites will be taking advantage of both Ku and Ka bands, and not all satellites will have phased array antennas)
Note 9 is an old device? What world are you living in? Note 9 will probably be years ahead of that Librem smartphone
Why would one cashier more customers buying duplicate items than another?

If you flip a coin twice and it comes up heads both times, it might be a coincidence. If you flip a coin 100 times and it comes up heads all 100 times, there is probably something up with the coin.
Does Skype still do the supernode p2p architecture?
No, that was phased out when they merged infrastructures with Microsoft’s existing, post-merge.
That's very funny. Why don't you post it on HN?
Sure, time is relative. It’s also how we calculate standard measures (the distance light travels over some interval). So if time is relative, so is length.
Some states they do. In my state, the Democrats hold caucuses instead of primaries (even though the state runs primaries anyway—weird story), and I think at their own expense. Running an election is a pretty big operation (you need to register voters, check that they're eligible, set up and staff either polling places or mail-in sites, and so on. The state already has most of that infrastructure, and it seems wasteful to duplicate it. I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some (or all) primary states allow third parties to register to have their primaries run as well.
I learned tcl because it was "that thing you had to learn to script an eggdrop" back in the bad good old days of IRC.

I find the syntax particularly obtuse and unwieldy. Most other code I've written I can open up after a few years and more or less pick up where I left off. But I feel like I have to relearn tcl every time because the syntax is so dense.

But I still think it's an awesome toy language.
Coburn never would have settled if the SEC were that sloppy. You might disagree with the laws involved, but I'm pretty sure they had a decent legal case.
>The methods of science, engineering and rational reasoning are the best tools we have for solving world problems.

How do you feel about the fact that was is rational and irrational (indeed our whole meta-rational basis) has changed in time according not to new discoveries but merely the movement of the cultural zeitgeist[0]? What about the differences between instrumental reason (and rationality), technological rationality in which modern technology changes what we see as rational (see Marcuse) and rationality of ends, rather than just the means?

My point is that we can't simply say "rationality" as if it's a fixed tool we can use so easily, at least, we can't use it without also considering the current ideological context in which we are using it. Surely you admit there are different rationalities, such as economic rationality, which would seem to eschew any human factor that does not count towards profit efficiency?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_of_Reason_(Horkheimer)
EtherDelta allows you to trade illegal securities, therefore EtherDelta is also illegal.
Exactly none. I think you’re overestimating the difficulty of taking things apart.
Which protests, specifically?
The industry uses Light as under 7,000kg, medium 7,000 - 136,000kg, and heavy as 136,000kg or more for wake turbulence.

At ~15 Metric Tons (33,000lb) take off weight it's a long way from a light aircraft. However, if your walking around these things, my personal view is a medium is around a Cessna Citation Mustang, double that and their large, and aircraft quickly get into huge and monsters.
> Funny fact I've actually "invented" this philosophy (drivers for every file format being installed, managed and exposed to applications and scripts by an OS) when I was a child.

The Amiga got something like that with Workbench 2.0, actually:

http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Datatypes_Library

This is also very cool:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AREXX

> ARexx can easily communicate with third-party software that implements an "ARexx port". Any Amiga application or script can define a set of commands and functions for ARexx to address, thus making the capabilities of the software available to the scripts written in ARexx.

> ARexx can direct commands and functions to several applications from the same script, thus offering the opportunity to mix and match functions from the different programs. For example, an ARexx script could extract data from a database, insert the data into a spreadsheet to perform calculations on it, then insert tables and charts based on the results into a word processor document.
I don't think using facial recognition is inherently unethical. I think what you do with it may be unethical. That's why government regulations would be much more effective here.
Just as an example where the results of using software surprise users and upset them. I was specifically referring to when Google integrated G+ and YouTube; I mentioned it in passing a couple of sentences before.
FYI GHZ isn't a good indicator of performance difference between 2 different types, models, and architecture;

it's like comparing the revs of your cars, it's just the cycle rate, not the Instruction rate
Beating hash tables with trees? The ART-ful radix trie
Well, you're right that he's a CEO and of course any communication has been carefully calculated.

But that doesn't mean that he's an empty vessel. It sounds like he's thinking about it and trying to weigh upsides against downsides, even if Google would be disproportionately blamed for the downsides.
I'm not sure that's the widespread behavior though. (And I agree that partial cautious sidewalk use is fine.) A lot of users seem not to want to use roads or even non-separated bike lanes period.
Docker was needless before v2 and then making us add it to just run ‘npm start’ is kind of dumb.
I remember the only reason I installed the GreaseMonkey plugin on Firefox was to have a script that would scrub ExpertsExchange from Google search results. Prior to StackOverflow, it had incredible SEO for tech questions.

Opportunities seem so obvious in retrospect :)
Thank you! I've used AbeBooks to get a hold of out of print books - there seems to be a number of Australian sellers that use it. Hopefully I can find a way to buy from them directly.
There is a tutorial in pdf format, that pretty much starts with hello world:

https://www.mercurylang.org/documentation/papers/book.pdf

:- module hello.
:- interface.
:- import_module io.
:- pred main(io::di, io::uo) is det.
:- implementation.
main(IOState_in, IOState_out) :-
io.write_string("Hello, World!\n", IOState_in, IOState_out).

Is the problem that this is pdf, rather than html?