skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AMP version linked is barely readable on a large display; but the regular version is at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-wo...
Oh good, another site that wants to show notifications for no good reason
A Greenville improv troupe talks and listens to the homeless in its performances
Federal Railroad Administration Issues High Speed Rules
At this point, Python is probably the second most used language for system programming (after C), one of the top 4 in web development (no idea on their ordering), around the top for other network protocols (I'd guess 3rd), the top language for data science, on the top 5 of scientific computing, on the top 5 for embedded computing (what sounds completely crazy, but there are few languages there), on the top 4 for game creation (probably 4th), the top one for electronics CAD and among the top for other kinds of CAD, the top one for GIS...

I can't think of other niches right now, but whatever one you think, it's probably on the top 5 there.
Sort of. I'm sure they've had people with slow connections give up on downloading the thing.
I think this is a very debatable claim. MSVC is an insignificant compiler in a lot of industries. In something like scientific computing, everything is written with gcc, clang and Intel on mind. Sure, you'll find some companies still using MSVC, but it's not industry standard any more and it's very unclear how an insignificant, outdated compiler can stop the progress of world's most fundamental programming language.
Try.NET
Thanks. P.S. The documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor by the same director about the same story sounds better.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337868/
The speaker is just the user interface. You've effectively hired a large corporation to work in your house. Alexa doesn't work for Amazon, Alexa is Amazon.

Google at least makes this explicit with "Ok, Google".
Ask HN: Are there examples of successfully monetized voice assitance apps?
A lot of these platforms are opening themselves up to third party integration. I'm looking for real world examples of ways third parties have converted Alexa/Siri/Google queries into revenue.
> The Cold War is over. Yet somehow western democracies are still clinging on to alliances with barbarous regimes like Saudi Arabia and UAE.

That's because those in power are the moderate ones, who are able to keep the most extreme elements of Islamic fundamentalism at bay. You want to topple Saudi Arabia and UAE? Great, now it's run by ISIS. Sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil.
HN is not a place to make cheap jokes.
The Self-Serving Myths of Silicon Valley
There is a pincer: Texas on one side and electric vehicles on the other: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18473697.
>Also, can these evangelists take a break? It's not 1600s anymore.

I don't know, the Saudis just started letting women drive earlier this year. People do lots of weird things for religion - some of them you might not agree with, and some of them might be straight up dumb. The year doesn't matter.
A chance of a lifetime that has not materialized versus a world of uncertainty? Broken hope is a burden to wellbeing. Stay there and risk your mental health (anxiety), or do the latter: stay safe, be wise and leave responsibly.
ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space
For some reason "Google" is one of those words that really puts my accent to the test.

I have to repeat it over and over for the device to wake up. "Ok Gogle" ... "Ok Gougle"... "Ok Goo gle"...

I really wish you could change it.
Ubuntu snap of Atom 206 is 178M squashfs, which uncompresses to 1.1GB.
I suppose that most of /Application/Atom is uncompressed data.

Snaps are similar to Mac packages, since they bundle most of the libraries together with them.
Because they aren’t “just” as barbarous and cruel.

Violations of civil liberties occur in every country, but If you really believe that the rate and intensity of such is exactly the same in the UK as it is in Saudi Arabia or UAE, then you’re monumentally deluded.
I wonder if there's a subset of the population that actually reacts to constant government surveillance by feeling safer. To continue the author's baby rat analogy, this would be the equivalent of baby rats believing the propaganda that the government surveillance system is their mother as opposed to a predator.

If it isn't clear - I'm talking about the "if you have nothing to hide then why do you need privacy?" crowd.
I agree that there are very unpleasant aspects of western democracies. But to say that, for example, the UK is as cruel and barbaric as Saudi Arabia is overheated rhetoric.
To be fair, it is my impression that even in data science, python is more a less a scripting language, and all the libraries which do the heavy lifting computing-wise are written in something else, because speed. Has this changed?
Try Sweden... 365 days of policy custody.
The footage is hugely slowed down, hence the deep pitch of the rocket motor sounds (they are usually very 'hissy' at this size), and the slow speed of the sparks coming from the motors. Also if you listen closely when the rocket is descending and deploying parachutes you can hear the greatly-slowed-down sound of a DSLR shutter actuating repeatedly (ka-thunk-beep) as photos are taken of the descent.
Apparently there's not enough interest among those who write C. Back in 2012, Brandon Philips (CoreOS CTO & kernel contributor) tried valiantly to organize a C conference, but there weren't enough speakers and presentations.[1]

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013703/http://www.cconf....
Why the Blockchain Might Change the Future
I mean, how else are you going to get people to stop spitting and cutting in lines en masse.
Lol the look on my 12 year old face when I realiZed how far a rocket launched horizontal can fly. 10/10 would do again
> US to stake out airports and study the US’s airport security protocol. I’m not sure the outcome would be much different

Could you point to a real-life example you have in mind, in which either (or both) the judicial process was so non-transparent, or the punishment so severe? I mean, the obvious situation that comes to mind is Gitmo, but I couldn't think of instances of Gitmo detainees who were legal immigrants or on student visas.

There was recently a Chinese intelligence officer who was extradited to the U.S. to face espionage charges, but AFAIK, that case will be handled in open trial: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/us/politics/china-spy-esp...
Newly discovered comet has two tails…
I think developers probably tree-shake the HTML/CSS/JS that is running inside of Electron, but tree-shaking all of Chromium can't be the easiest thing to do. Not that I disagree with you, that should be a part of the Electron publishing/packaging step.
Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (2013)
The actual language specifies personal gain outside of work.

That said, I don’t think they have any mechanism to enforce it.
As I said,

> Opinions may vary about the convenience, efficiency or "upsides" of that

I highly doubt that the savings on labor cost will translate to "longer open hours, more organized shelves and cleaner, etc", I would guess the savings translate to more profit and more concentration of wealth at the top.

Look, I'm not so much of a luddite that I _refuse_ to use self-checkout lines, I'm just realistic about what the motivations are: maximizing profit.
The hotword phrase is actually baked into a tiny firmware of a separate DSP that's constantly running and waiting for the pattern match. Updating the hotwork requires updating that firmware model (which doesn't really have a lot of RAM) and can sometimes differ between the manufacturers (e.g. it's the reason why Samsungs phones sometimes behave differently).

This makes custom hotwords a bit... complicated :)
It’s not so absurd if he is infact a spy
> The foundation of the web is text links. So the EU wants to charge for HTML links.

What's scary here is how this would effect other aggregators of news: HN, reddit, automated online RSS Feeds, etc. These kinds of overreaching regulations don't happen in a bubble, they trickle down to everyone. So the question: why is Google specifically targeted?

Is this part of the Big Tech Backlash[0] - specifically... the flow and control of information? Or is it more like a Netflix thing, where I think that 'The Old Guard' News Orgs may be overvaluing themselves.

Also, it was my understanding that News Organizations voluntarily submitted and made an effort to be compliant with Google News[1]. That is, Google News doesn't display news source data without permission (I think they did early on?).

I'm certain that if Google (or other large-scale News aggregator) required permission to be listed, most news orgs (enough to make a viable product) would happily comply.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22The%22+%22EU%22+Tech+Backlash&n...

[1] https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/4078...
The futures market comes from the fact that some people are trading actual beans by growing, selling, shipping, buying, or cooking them.

They are typically willing to pay for price insurance to reduce their financial risk. (that could close your factory because of the weather, etc)
(If they trade with other countries they are typically also willing to pay for currency insurance)

At that point a secondary market emerges with arbitrages between different market and points in time.

So far this is to the benefit of everyone. Farmers and Buyers get more stable prices.

This secondary market pins into tertiary markets where you can try to outsmart other players, and to the extent that manipulation is possible it will push back into the primary price or more probable the "insurance" cost. This cost is paid by Joe Random.

This is probably not beneficial but unavoidable and acceptable for having access to price insurance.
A very snide remark you start with, not realizing you are proving my point.

He made a statement that is a sweeping generalization that isn't even provable.

Your anecdotal experiences on 4 continents are again, just that. Anecdotes. The American travelers you didn't notice, and therefore don't remember, aren't included in your confirmation bias fueled reasoning.
Genuinly curious: if you don't protect the host, how can you protect the users? Host has the power to change any content, including BTC addresses, text,...
FTP? Are you kidding https://library.panic.com/transmit/transmit5/protocols/
> I can't understand why so few people cycle.

Rain, snow, hills, sweat, cargo, parking, theft, [getting hit by] cars, maintenance.

I have two bicycles, and I'm considering a bikeshare subscription, because hauling them up and down three floors and maneuvering them around a tiny apartment is annoying.

Unrelated, but I was hit by a car on bike to work day.
A bunch of us are trying to change that and make Go the lingua franca for data science and machine learning! The libraries du jour are Gonum (https://gonum.org), a numpy/scipy equiv for Go, and Gorgonia (https://gorgonia.org), a PyTorch/Tensorflow equiv. Do help out!
Does this mean oil will continue do plummet bc of so much supply?
You realize, of course, that you're in complete agreement with GP?
Lmao okay. They're moderate only if you're a privileged European. Have you seen how they treat south and south-east Asians?
> After that there’s a 99.99% confession rate.

That's because prosecutors in Japan and other countries generally go after "sure" cases.

Canada has a 97% conviction. US has a 93% conviction rate.

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

> Carlos Ghosn, president of Nissan, seems to have just discovered it: He will be interrogated for 12 days. I would never go to such countries.

At least he'll get court case rather than disappearing in a japanese embassy.

Japan has its problem but it's absurd to compare it to the horrors in the middle east.
any of my actual email addresses don't show up on that site. Any of the email addresses I use for random web sign ups all appear on that site. I wouldn't use my bank password on any other site, why would I use the same email address?
Rule of thumb: don't enter any country where you need an exit visa to leave.
I think the entire idea of going half way around the planet to tell a bunch of people how they're doing life wrong without putting any effort into understanding why they don't already agree with you (aka nearly all mission work) is the epitome of arrogance.
Saying that Python has "no pointers" is a bit of an oversimplification, somewhere between "technically true, but misleading" and "actually incorrect", depending on how you define your terms and frame the question. Remember that Java has "no pointers" too, it works basically the same way Python does (except for some minor quibbles about primitive types), except if you go to 4.3.1 of the Java SE 11 spec and look for "pointer" you'll find the flat admission that Java has pointers.

The part about pointers that makes programming hard is that you can create multiple references to the same object, and if you don't realize this, you can modify something that you didn't realize you were modifying. In Python this can happen easily enough:

a = []
b = a
a.append(1)

Question: what is the value of b? You might think that this is pretty obvious, but once you can answer this question correctly, you basically understand pointers. In fact, it's not really relevant whether you say that "a" and "b" are pointers or whether you say that they are object references, conceptually, it does not matter what you call them. The fact that Golang has different syntax for pointers and the fact that you can get the address of local variables or member fields is no big deal, since understanding how pointers work is the hard part, and Python already makes you do that.

Package handling in practice I would say is a wash, more or less. Both Python and Golang have multiple different ways of managing packages, depending on your preferences.

It's flat incorrect to say that Python has generics. What Python has is dynamic typing. Golang has interface{}, which is equivalent to what Python has, except it requires casting.
True story : I went on a vacation in Dubai and Abu Dabhi with my wife. 1-2 days priot I sold my iphone to some random guy and brought that cash with me. I imedietly exchanged 100 euros in Dubai after I landed to have some of their currency for small things. I also exchanged larger amount in a hotel before paying for it and moving to a different hotel to explore another part of the emirate.

Anyhow, one day later my phone is ringing with some strange number calling. It was a manager from the first hotel saying that I used counterfited euro bills in their hotel. My heart sank reeeally hard in an instant. He said he is sure because only I exchanged euros before they went to the bank to store the money or whatever. The bank informed them that they are fake bills and by the law he said they need to say who used them. BUT, that was my lucky day and the manager said that they did not report me and will not if I repay them with real money. I imidately agreed and asked them for a way to pay with a CC because I was in another part of the emirate, they agreed and that was settled, I overpeyed a bit because he probably saved me.

After that I ran to my room and took out all the bills I got from the iPhone sale and me and my wife needed almost an hour to figgure out that they are really fake, by looking over the internet and checking what is usually harder to fake. Tell tell sign was the 3d lines/bumps on parts of the bill. Everything else looked perfectly well!!! Now, I was confused why the money changer at the airport did not bust me right away so I went to a mall and exhanged another bill (which was real, not counterfited) and they just took it without checking. Few days later when leaving the country I was very scared on the boreder/aurport police check point but everything went well. Uff. I was so close to having a horror story myself... I immidiately reported to the police in my country what has happened.

Before this I never ever had such experience and always naively trusted random people when I bought and sold things on the internet. Now I know better. Was so close to be really screwed by some random guy because of some small amount of money.
You are being downvoted but I don't see any arguments against your points. I agree with the first point. With Instagram and WhatsApp, they have a reach much bigger than people who only have Facebook, and it is common knowledge that they build shadow profiles, in addition to other shady tactics such as using phone microphones to listen to conversations while the app is in the background, and keeping the app in the background by force by abusing audio APIs on iPhones.
I feel slightly nervous the first day or two when I go on holiday in places where I have to disconnect. After that, it’s fine. As soon as I manage to get hold of a phone or newspaper i can read, though, it’s back in the tunnel.
Apple Acquires AI Device Startup Silk Labs
Does facebook follow this practice? I know at least some other FAANG companies do, but does this go against 'move fast and break things'?
There's http://www.hamerfest.nl/

It was a blast! And C actually came up in one conversation...
If you know you're going to be going to NYC, how is this not "in connection with Employee's work"?
First ever plane with no moving parts takes flight
'ok google' seems more like a broad branding effort than button to turn on the service
It's javascript. I think this article does a fine job explaining it: https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo...
Does this mean that if someone already owns an iPhone 7 and does not want to upgrade to the newest iPhone XS or XR, the most frugal thing to do is keep using it and maybe replace the battery rather than buy a new Android phone?
And Maps also loses the ability to save your search history, like, it won't even save it locally, you just can't see recent places you've searched for.
Did anyone else read this title as "D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler (in source control because I think I can do a better job writing it)"?
I agree. I wonder how many of the people that disagree are people of color who do not come from high ses. our prison industry (3 strikes for non violent crimes, people spending years in jail for minor crimes, arrest quotas) and police homocides against unarmed black and disabled people puts us right up there with them.
That's funny! But mostly because you already had other interviews lined up. I'm curious -- did they actually ask you anything in/about Swahili?
I think the common word that would be said aloud, while meaning pity, is charity.

"I don't need/want your charity..." vs "I don't need/want your pity..."
Ok yeah you're right then. That makes it a fair comparison. I'll remember that when I see someone passed out in the subway with a needle in their arm as I walk by with my kids.
Show HN: Minimal, Fast and Accurate Rank Tracking Tool
"Cortana... Ah nevermind."
This is not a scrappy startup though, this is Google. They are anything but non profit.
Just because the West is not 100% perfect doesn't mean that both are the same.

You have tons of appeals in US, UK and other Western countries and judges are (at least in USA) super educated and independent. You can be SCREWED if you're poor, the state is hellbent of jailing you and no one takes up your cause but odds of something like the above happening in US or UK are close to zero.

Federal judges, at least in USA, love to keep their independence and to hold the state's feet at the fire. They are a third and SEPARATE branch, in 99% of cases taking a pay reduction to serve.
If only US and NATO applied that logic to Lybia and Syria
Betsy DeVos reinstates controversial gatekeeper of for-profit colleges
Quantum cryptanalysis is no help with symmetric ciphers. All the data encrypted "at rest" via symmetric ciphers, which is what companies are usually bragging about, isn't affected.

Now, I'm sure there's a ton of data that the NSA will be able to break with quantum computing, because people often do transmit data by encrypting it with an asymmetric cipher, e.g. PGP. But... there's already work on quantum-proof asymmetric ciphers.

And TLS uses RSA, so maybe they can crack all the https traffic? Well, assuming today's algorithms are configured correctly, they employ perfect forward secrecy. That means the key exchange algorithms never transmit or store the encryption key, rather an emphemeral encryption key is recreated by both sides. Of course, even with PFS they do get all the metadata and certs when they crack RSA.
> Theoretical Lisp Machines [0] have been envisioned which do not run C anywhere

I have one at home. It's not theoretically, but factually. About 10000 Lisp Machines had been sold between the late 70s and early 90s. Which probably adds to $500+ million in sales - then.

They actually can run C, but that's usually optional.
My computer has "true" version 8.26, and I miss some place I can go to discover what's new from version 8.25.
Texas is in a funny place. They are pumping oil like crazy, but they are building wind like crazy as well.

Look at the City of Austin and the amount of renewables year over year: https://data.austintexas.gov/Utilities-and-City-Services/Gen...

You can see a real-time chart of energy mix here: https://austinenergy.com/ae/about/environment/renewable-powe...

Most days renewables are 50% of electricity consumes. I pay a bit extra for 100% wind- and it's not that much more than 50/50. I could easily see Texas being a majority renewables while at the same time exporting more and more Oil.
I wouldn't believe it if you had told me before but thanks for sharing that tidbit! Having worked a few Christmas and Christmas Eve nights at Chinese restaurants in the past, I appreciated it.
I'm much more a fan of anthropomorphised voice assistants. Maybe it's because I identify as a socialist, but saying "OK [big brand], everytime is very grating. And "OK" is very awkward, "Alexa" for me is far easier.
Pre-trial detention isn't exactly a japanese invention.
The original author of D is suprisingly missing from conversation.
Oh and after school I did flash fly-over ads. (for BMW, Lego and Ariel though, so cool for me)
Ask HN: FAANG vs. Startup for New Grads in 2018?
VCs often advise new grads to join a mid-sized, hypergrowth company (e.g. Breakout List or Wealthfront Career-Launching Companies); others say a big company is the best place to learn engineering practices and get interviews for the rest of your career.

I wonder how much survivorship bias exists in these recommendations, though - successful "survivors" of the startup world are the ones giving this advice, while those who failed don't have a platform. Optimizing for learning, what would you advise a new grad in 2018?
It wasn't very different 70ish years ago. I don't get why folks think that the West is a stellar beacon of freedom; it is quite possible for conditions to relapse to the period of the British Empire, for example.
Ask HN: Why are passwords still complicated in 2018?
I was reminded the other day of the classic XKCD comic on password strength:

https://www.xkcd.com/936/

What struck me though is that this comic came out in 2011. That was seven years ago.

In all that time I've never seen a website allow, enforce, or recommend phrases of the format recommended by the comic.

I'm also taking a security course right now and the material also recommends longer phrase based passwords without special characters, numbers, or capitals.

So my question is:

What happened?

What I don't understand is if everyone working in security is recommending this approach why does no one actually support it?
Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but anonymization while still having the data be useful for deep learning seems computer science-related.
Other implementations have parts of the runtime written in Assembler, Lisp, Java, ...

A bunch of languages can be used to write a Lisp runtime.