skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"In the very near future when climate change has destroyed out planet"

Maybe people are killing themselves because they are addicted to the fear porn spread by mainstream/social media regarding "climate change". I don't mean this as a joke, I was addicted to financial/economic fear porn for a bit and it did have a negative effect on my outlook.
Facebook drops news organizations from its political ad archives
I think they're saying that they are unable to meet the demand (lack of either equipment or people) for the new business those extra advertising dollars would bring in. So they can't just continually pour $ into that pump.

Although I agree it's unusual to see that metric used (revenue per ad-spend) for a product that seemingly can't be scaled very much.
Aside: this question came to mind today, is there any discernible genetic component from a surrogate mother (a womb donor, as it were)? It seems highly likely to me a priori?
> fly up to space, take someone else's satellite and bring it home

(NB. Provided that it was in an accessible low earth orbit and that very simple countermeasures weren't used)

I mean, realistically, putting a small bomb in each sensitive satellite would be enough to dissuade anyone from trying this, and most sensitive satellites wouldn't be in orbits that the shuttle could make anyway. The military applications always seemed like the most fantastical part of the concept.
somewhat late to the commenting party but apparently WinSCP can communicate with S3:

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_amazon_s3
Ask HN: Gamepad over IP?
Is there an application and protocol that simply sends button and axis states to some remote HTTP or websocket server? I have a game I want to try to control this way, and since the server has no peripherals at all this sounds like some small fun project to me.
Kurt Vonnegut once said that no one should start writing before the age of 40.

Given the dire economic prospects of writing as a career, it seems to make a lot of sense to wait until later in life to begin writing professionally. It gives you time to build some kind of financial stability first, and to have lived long enough to have more experience, and perspective as an author.
Personally I'd say that Office365 revenue is great revenue, as it's recurring and has good lock-in.

It is but calling it cloud revenue is a bit of a stretch, I don't know why they are being dishonest about it.
Apple’s lead is largely due to key decisions that competitors failed to emulate — leveraging bsd open source tooling, removing legacy io ports, largely perpetual OS licensing model.

But now that Microsoft is emulating those decisions it will no longer be as crippled by its own past bad decisions.

And in the meantime it has sunk tons of money into cloud and xbox which are massively profitable.

And Apple’s refusal to cater to budget conscious consumers is starting to really hurt market share, while allowing competitors to extract a lot of undeserved profit simply by offering their goods at a relative discount compared to Apple.

Apple’s most consequential f-up in my opinion has been the way it has priced solid state storage across its product line. This has left the door wide open for competitors to win on the basis of consumer ignorance about subtle performance differences, while forcing marginal apple buyers to settle for a highly inferior user experience bc of not enough (and not expandable) storage.

Apple does a lot of things well but its weakness is that it doesn’t understand that not all of its customers work at apple.

Even today Amazon is setting itself up to eat Apple’s lunch in educational tablets and parental controls, a major driver of consumer purchase decisions, but hard to understand if you are a recent grad from a top school seeking status who took a job in product at apple.

Microsoft does a lot of things badly but seems to be willing to revert bad decisions and try hard for market share.

Ultimately market share is what makes developers create high quality experiences for the platform. Microsoft had this and lost it, and doesn’t plan to lose it again.
Not quite, the low level macro facility provides hygiene as well (well, maybe not explicit renaming macros) with the ability to break hygiene when desired. These systems can be used to implement an unhygienic macro system (iirc, my defmacro about 7 lines, including the syntax case boilerplate).

R6RS standardised syntax-case, so any r6rs scheme already has it, but due to many things r6rs was a huge controversy and many implementations never started using it. Guile, chez, racket, Kawa, jscheme, larceny all support it. I expect syntax case in one form or another to make it into r7rs large, but you never know. Lots of cool things are making its way into r7rs large, including HAMT-based maps. There must of course be a vote, but that is just too good to not have :)
I would add sentry.io error logging to this list. Very happy customer. We use them heavily and it’s been really helpful identifying production issues that miss testing.
Orchestrating Game Generation [pdf]
If something is available via HTTP that you didn't want, how is it different than downloading HTML that you did? The protocol knows nothing about your intent.
> I would argue that it's expensive because it is private and unregulated.

Oh, sure, that's likely what makes it inefficient.
White GENOCIDE: “3-year-old girl crucified on kitchen table then raped…”
Not sure if they're the only bank that will lend but he certainly owes them a bundle of money: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/mnuchin-s...

"According to an analysis by Bloomberg, Trump now owes Deutsche around $300m. He has four large mortgages, all issued by Deutsche’s private bank. The loans are guaranteed against the president’s properties: a new deluxe hotel in Washington DC’s old Post Office building, just round the corner from the White House; his Chicago tower hotel; and the Trump National Doral Miami resort."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/deutsche-ban...

And this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/deutsche-ba...

And this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-donald-trump-needs-a-loan-...

And well, you know where this all goes...
I agree with this. If they succeed in this, like I said, it could potentially save a lot of lives, especially those who have a family history with cancer. But I also agree with what you said, I hope that this modified virus won't kill "good cancer cells" or turn them into something way worse than existing types of cancers.
I guess finding that instance of life would go a long way to proving that it's just a statistical probability. I'm just a doubter by nature. I sometimes wonder what people's motivations are for looking for the things they do. The Universe is so endlessly fascinating, there's so many questions we don't even know to ask yet.
Hypertext should be the default format for a lot of novels, too. DFW and Nabokov both have works that are well-suited to the format.
Some blame needs to rest on the shoulders of the CDC, even the AMA[1] has come out against the guidelines the CDC put up over two years ago that others have used as guidance, incorrectly. The CDC needs to clarify the guidelines or just flat out back off so that those in pain and prescribed pain medication can get it. Far too often the guidelines are being used by non Doctors to deny needed medication

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/11/14/ama-calls...
Is it me or superlatives are used more commonly in todays communication?
Product Hunt's Y Combinator video (and lessons learned)
I think you're on point, and I think it bothers Amazon too. During yesterday's re:Invent keynote, the AWS CEO specifically called out that while Microsoft's cloud numbers were growing faster by percentage, their actual dollar growth was insignificant compared to the power of the force -- I mean compared to AWS.
Spotinst Ocean: The Serverless Kubernetes Engine
Thanks for that pointer, definitely looks like a good entry point. I want to play with announcing BGP routes across to Azure VNets.
The struggle between left and right is actually a war of the genes
Sounds like you have issue with SWAT. What does that have to do with the military? The military is not a local police force. See Posse Comitatus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
The biggest problem in the overdose spike is that fentanyl is killing very large numbers of people that otherwise might not have died of overdoses from heroin a decade or more ago.

The US is being blasted from outside by huge quantities of fentanyl, primarily by China. It's bordering on an act of war (Opium War style). The notion that China can't stop the fentanyl pouring out of their country toward the US is ridiculous. It's going to end up killing hundreds of thousands of Americans over ten years. Imagine if the roles were reversed and US was pumping that kind of drug into China in such quantities, killing a million Chinese every decade, and pretending it couldn't stop it.
Bezos is such a BOZO. From fake reviews to defective chinese merchandise.

Who will be the first to create and post a widely distributed graphic emblem that millions of merchants can all start applying to their product packaging and their websites: NEVER TO BE SOLD ON THE EVIL AMAZON
"phone manufacturer that respects people's privacy"

Small market (outside of HN) :)
And government.

Worldwide desktop government use of MS's operating system and office suite is above four nines. The Linux and Apple fanboys can tell you all the governments using their favorite OS as a desktop.

(says the level-headed Linux fanboy)
Here we are discussing the Real Events the movie was based on when all we've seen are the Movie Adaptation and Metacritic.
I've been doing a lot of self-reflection going into the new year and thought I would share some learnings building Product Hunt over the past 5 years, along with our YC application video (perhaps against my better judgement). :)
>Absolutely scary amounts of the information associated with private wealth management is still paper-based.

Can confirm. I was an AML Officer for a pretty substantial bank that focused on private wealth management. The lack of technology would truly horrify most HN readers.

For example, the height of our technology was our "intranet" - a shared excel file with hyperlinks to other files on the shared drive.
Can you be more specific than just 'rural'? I've been through middle Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas and those areas seem mostly fine to me. Is it because rural farming is still ok but other rural like appalachia or rural Montana isn't doing well? Specifically where is hollowed out?
This is getting very nitpicky here but "DB" usually means Deutsche Bahn. I'm not German (working in Germany though) so I could be wrong.

edit: Google agrees - https://www.google.de/search?q=db , although db.com is Deutsche Bank. Hmm. Never mind.
OK english is not my native lang so maybe I am not formulating things clearly I did not try to suggest that nim does not have good http lib. I was just saying my 2 core requirements good http lib and high quality mature PostgreSQL driver. Nim has good Http lib Nim does not have async PG driver that I would feel confident using in prod.
Recurring Revenue
Gah, I meant L2 cache, but was being entirely too smug. I remember a presentation a KX rep gave at our office a few jobs ago where this was one of their bullet points. I found it amusing, and a bit odd.
That looks brilliant, perfect for regular Rails side projects.

I struggled with EB a few months ago and ended up breezing through the process with DigitalOcean.
I do not care about driving
Most people are not willing/able to get their debt delinquent enough (ability to pay is a big barrier for most) to get there. But almost everyone, if they are willing to put up with the hassle of a debt collector and a credit-history black mark, can negotiate for the original principal.
What I wonder is why can't I just create an arbitrary username unlinked to email or anything else? This isn't a bank account we're talking about.

Oh right, because they're probably gathering personal information, which is why they want access to my Google or other accounts.

I guess since they appear to have a "reddit" auth option and I think reddit still lets you create arbitrary usernames, that would be a two step process to do it.
Not half as scary as Apple's DEP program. Pretty much everyone is moving this way because it's super convenient for admins -- devices arrive out of the box working and configured. Google has "Zero Touch", Samsung as their Knox program.
When people consider float vs int, performance is seldom a relevant factor.

You have to ask, what do you even mean if you use floating point for representing money?

If you use floating point, the whole point is that you want the behaviour

1e100 = 1e100 + 1

This is exactly what you want for many analysis and decision making problems, but it is a dangerous default.
This is very cool. I'm curious to see how this affects the actual use of the vehicle. Don't Tesla's get OTA updates?
I'll stick with D then :)
A domain name is not a programming language name, oh look this cool stuff I have done in ISOCPP.

You can watch Rob Pike publicly correcting someone at the end of his "Go 2 Draft Specifications" session during Q&A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvL2ONhFBI
Sure, Lisps allow many more characters in the identifiers, including all traditional operators (makes sense, since the "operators" are just functions and they had to be defined somehow in the first place...) You get functions named like add-message! create-response/text bytes->string/utf-8 and so on. Kebab case refers to identifiers with words separated with minus sign, like some-class-member-doing-something etc. Some infix languages borrowed this, like Dylan and LiveScript, among others.
We do use FP numbers for performance reasons occasionally, but we are well aware of their limitations, and when to normalize.

Running option trading models with BigDecimal is unproductive. However, when the calculations are done, we store the results back as decimal representation.
I'm not sure it's really about how shiny the devices are, rather how much of Apple's revenue is tied up in one product.
> The absolute quality of life over the last century across capitalist nations has continued to explode across all societal strata.

1. I think that's true on average and probably true on the median, but it's unclear that's true for everyone. There are a lot of anecdotal stories of people working at a gas station to pay for college or even postgraduate school ~50 years ago, no loans or anything. That's just not possible today. I would bet that in terms of net worth, ~50 years ago the lowest class in the US was at least positive and is definitely not positive today.

2. In any case that's not what the author means by capitalism not working. The claim is not that quality of life has gone up, it's that the market is not operating in the way that advocates of capitalism say that it should. Perhaps you want to argue that oligopolies and regulatory capture and barriers to entry in new markets are morally good because they have had the empirical result of reducing Great Depression-style starvation. I think that's a coherent argument to make. (I'd ask some questions about how the leadup to the Great Depression involved oligopolies and regulatory capture and barriers to entry, but I imagine you could come up with convincing rebuttals.) But then you / the people who believe like you need to start selling capitalism as not free markets because that produces moral good, but as highly regulated and government-intervened markets that are centrally planned in a way that reduces suffering and quality of life and is therefore morally good. If you want to argue that the author's depiction of "capitalism" is a straw man and in fact capitalism is winning by killing needless competition, that's fine - just start saying it.
CIO's love calling Office365 "cloud" and "digital transformation"

Right...
I am sure it will be addressed as ecosystem matures. In general lang is very elegant and I would love to use it when it matures.
as someone who often feels useless (more like impotent rage most times) I can totally see why some people chose the path they chose.
> there was no way to predict which domains the DGA would come up with for any given week.

Wouldn't there be a seed on each infected machine used to determine the current C&C domains to use? Why couldn't we predict them?
>Shopping on Amazon has gotten to the point where I actively try to avoid any 3rd party sellers now.

You can't really avoid it. Amazon comingles its inventory with that of 3rd party sellers who sell as FBA. So even if you choose Amazon as the seller, the actual product you receive could be the one a 3rd party seller shipped to Amazon's warehouses.
I agree. Magenta, Tensorflow, Keras all have WebGL accelerated client side javascript libraries so interactive demos could become the norm.

The Scientific Paper is Obsolete

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scie...
An extensive zoo of somehow problematic people, in management, design, development, and QA areas. Every type is described, complete with the nature and magnitude of the danger to a project, and ways to fix the situation.
I have gone so far as to advise my close relatives the same thing. "Look to see who the seller is -- and try to only buy from Amazon.com, even if it costs a small percentage more". I have had fantastic return experiences with Amazon. 3rd party sellers: Not so much.
I've been using Nim for years and never ran into a collision between different variables due to style insensitivity.

Using name completion in my editor is enough to keep the naming consistent. Try the language for a month before deciding.

Also, the survey indicates that very few people are turned off by this feature:

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/10/27/community-survey-result...
But Microsoft is not competition free in any of those fields. The question then becomes how much of a bundling advantage Microsoft can give itself. Many of these competitors are or should be supporting Kubernetes to pursue a "commoditize the complements" strategy.
nitpick: An instructor may genuinely want to improve their teaching but may only think to solicit feedback until the end of term or may default to end-of-term evals because they do not have a go-to system for soliciting feedback iteratively.

(Unless you define "want" as "what the behavior of this system would lead to" and thereby pretend that no human act is an error)
It's not a bignum library. It's just 64b integer fixed-point with a scale of 10^-7. So, perf-wise it's not going to have any issues, but it's also pretty easy to exceed the representable bounds.
While our media does abuse fear as a way of getting attention, the opioid epidemic has direct lines to pharmaceutical companies.

People dying from their addiction aren't killing themselves, they are struggling to survive.
One would imaging they are testing with much larger datasets internally.
Sure it is. Think of what it looks like, and think of a skewer with kebabs on it ...

Search HN (box at bottom of page) for Perl6 and you will find many articles with references to kebab-case.

As mhd said, it's used in Lisp too.
The worth of the company is what someone will pay for it, although that gets fuzzy when "what someone will pay for it" is rather more than one person or non-governmental entity could raise, but there's no particular reason the market cap is that number. If someone makes a serious offer on a company, i.e., tries to buy all the stock, the stock price usually significantly rises. It has to; to pry the stock out of other people's hands you can't simply offer the market price, or they'd already have sold, so you can't just buy stock at the "market price" (as unaffected by your attempt to buy the company) and end up with all of it. Contrariwise, if someone owns a lot of stock and decides to just dump it all for cash, they won't get the market cap either, because the very act of dumping the stock will cause the price to go down, possibly even crash. So, the "market capitalization" is a "price" that you can neither buy, nor sell, the company for or at... so... it also can't be what "someone will pay for it", or, it isn't a "price" at all.
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What I find most bizarre is that the court has jurisdiction when both the lender and borrower are foreign to it. How's that work?
This seems like a prevailing attitude, but I think it is based on a debunked thought processes.

People used to think that heroin or other substances were inherently addictive in and of themselves. This was because of experiments on mice in Skinner boxes. But that is not how addiction works. Addiction is, in great measure, the result of animals being unhappy and trying to do something about it.

This has been proven both in humans and in mice. Mice, and humans, generally don't get addicted when they have good things to do.

To focus on the opioid side of our social dysfunction is just as useless as focusing on any other SYMPTOM of dysfunction.

When I hear people talking about how horrible the epidemic is, I can't stop helping thinking of a flu analogy:

This sniffling epidemic is really terrible. We should ban sniffling because sniffling people suffer, we need to protect them* if they sniffle. But let's not worry about people washing their hands... that's unrelated.

* Generally implied is that by protecting people it means putting people in cages if they disobey our social commands.
I wish that was the case. The number of third party trackers on web shops is sometimes infuriating.
They are just using synecdoche. From the context of the comment and the shared culture of the audience people can understand what they are talking about. It's no different than how people in America know that if you talk about changes in government policy after "nine eleven" you mean the terrorist attacks not the sports car.
Has anyone had any issue with "Sold By X, Fulfilled By Amazon"? That usually works well for me.
But it's so hard to read: I admit a good IDE might help, but maybe it's not bad to prevent this on lang level.
This is very much a new policy. There was never a written requirement for brands not to sell both through VC and SC, until a few months ago.

Also, the fee is $39/month, not $99/year.
I think Microsoft's biggest mistake with Windows Phone was branding it with "Windows." I wish they would have called it an Xbox Phone and tightly integrated it with Xbox live. Early on, they could focus on getting some really great games built and the lack of "apps" wouldn't have been as big of a deal as it was.
that's such a baseless accusation. I think it's more likely Eric just wanted to spend his time working on the problems and not setting up password resets and building forms.
Several popular devtool sites vulnerable to GitHub username attack (thread)
Never heard of this but it definitely resonates.
Trying to destroy electronic records in a bank is so much a red flag that it would expose the person attempting it immediately. And then you'd find another copy somewhere.

The key to a successful fraud is usually producing more records in order to make something seem legit.
We connect to each other via VPNs (usually wireguard) and then run BGP through those interfaces.
Pros and Cons of Vim in 2018
it is not about the size; paternal mtdna dies after fertilization:
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paternal-mito...
Founder here: We're currently trying to evaluate if it makes sense for Arcentry to go beyond being a diagramming tool to becoming a cloud monitoring dashboard with charts, scale groups etc. directly embedded into the visualisation. Would love to get your thoughts on it.