skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My $100 (or whatever) isn't likely to be the difference between something being funded or not; "

It absolutely will.

I have a very close acquaintaince in the process of doing hardware (and I have experience with this myself).

Getting the first production run is brutally difficult, and the operating captiol requirement just doesn't exist.

VC's don't want to pay for it, and neither do business development banks.

Though I think there is a lot of scamming ... 'hardware is hard'. Really hard.

I actually believe a lot of it is 1/2 way - they raise money with good intentions, but then are just stupid and lazy in getting production up, and then can't afford it. Once a team has 1 million - if they get production up, maybe they get 100K in profit. But if they 'fail' to get production up ... they can keep maybe $700 in 'profit' i.e. what they didn't spend on units.

Maybe a better solution would be to have escrow and pay on delivery, with partial payments or something like that.
New threat models in the face of Five Eyes’ encryption interception strategy
If this was 1980, then I'd be right with you. But it's 2018.

We've had 40 years of unmistakable data, and at this point, anyone pushing this "the science isn't settled" talking point – adopted from the tobacco industry – either has a vested interest in denialism or simply falls really far left on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
A surprisingly large number of people in the libor scandal were doing it openly in Bloomberg chat.
There's no denial, as much as it is what you would ironically believe. There is likely intellectual dishonesty, which was my point.
Australia now has encryption-busting laws as Labor capitulates
>> Sadly, the less-principled [...] care more about who it's targeted towards than the actions.

> about Facebook

:-(
> Damn near anyone can make a BMU (and they do)

For small currents, yes. For the huge current spikes both in draining and charging, or the continuous massive loads of supercharging? No. Same for the actual science: figuring out a way to pull/push hundreds of amps to the pack while taking care that no single cell is overloaded/overheated or that faulty or degraded cells are taken care of.
25 year warranties?! In the US, mattress companies run ad campaigns to convince people that mattresses are consumables that last eight to ten years. Funny how that works.
Indeed. Looks aside (although I liked them too), OS/2 was such an unbelievably good user OS. I wasn't programming enough at the time to know if it had a good developer story or not, although I kind of dug REXX.
Random guess: most of the pople I know who use Lyft do so because they've been put off at one point or another by one or more of Uber's scandals - Uber is widely viewed as the 'default', while Lyft is the more 'moral' option. If this pattern holds true, it means that the Lyft userbase will generally be a group that is A. better informed overall and B. more willing to make purchasing decisions driven by their ethics, which all in all suggests a more thoughtful clientele.
Seems locked down behind iOS devices.
IIRC something like 70%-80% of CO2 emissions are industrial, not personal. By all means do whatever you can, but the idea that global warming is all about our individual habits is essentially a smokescreen. If we want to fix this, the most important thing is to force corporations and governments to take action.
The offered example query is could return no results in the presence of record gaps / deleted records; also the OFFSET value should probably be computed within a sub-query, not exposed.

A corrected version based on being >= or <= the random number (picking the nearest) COULD work (in fact, that's the way my suggest final fallback works), but would still be biased.

That was the reason I suggested taking a limited number of stabs at random numbers within the allowed range; my example still has some slight bias (a little in the 'best case' fallback, and a lot in the absolute fallback), but it tries to deliver a truly random result first, many times.
Hi. Author of the piece here.

It's a repurposed Quora answer; the original question might clarify what I was answering: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Apple-unable-to-complete-Copla...
Spend the money on an office space close to home if you can. I pay ~$350/mo for an office that's a 10 minute walk from home. So I get to see my kids during lunch, and don't waste time commuting in the morning or evening. The physical separation helps me maximize quality time with family. If your headspace is filled with work while you're at home or vice versa, then nobody will feel like they have your full attention, which becomes very stressful for all involved. Clear boundaries really help.
Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL with Pacemaker and Corosync and PAF
There are many scientists that believe solar forcing is responsible for temperature increases on Earth, Mars, Triton, Jupiter, and Pluto.

While CO2 promoters point out the fact that solar irradiance changes are relatively small over time, they ignore that those same irradiance changes correspond to changes in solar magnetism, which means changes in cosmic ray incidence on planetary atmospheres. It is well known that cosmic rays effect cloud formation.

It's really not as clear cut as you have been taught.
> It's a good text editor, first and foremost. Compared to netbeans, eclipse, visual studio, even intellj idea

Have to disagree with VSC being better than Intellij. I find Intellij refactoring, debugging and autocomplete far ahead of VSC, especially when it comes to supporting leaser known features, or recently released language changes.
I've read a lot of their articles. In general they are high on facts, low on fluff, and they are not afraid to criticize Tesla. It's what journalism should be.

I think everyone without a vested interest in oil or short selling Tesla wants (or should want) to see them succeed. You don't need to own Tesla stock for that.
Another set of games against an outdated Stockfish which appears to make moves that a recent Stockfish at any reasonably depth disagrees with. I've no doubt at all that AlphaZero has a much stronger evaluation algorithm than Stockfish, but I do wish they'd be a bit more transparent about its actual strength (although presumably they're selling access to it right now if you connect all the dots).
Healthcare isn't "just" expensive. The system in the US is uniquely dysfunctional:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

"While the U.S. has similar public spending, its private sector spending is triple that of comparable countries".
Interesting fact: Google recently became majority non-white.
almost the same case here, for me it worked fine for the first 4 months. Now, I decided to take a sabbatical year to take care of the baby while my wife still working.. and i have to say, I'm enjoying it very much!
Activate the Kind of Faith That Gives Result
Yesterday's false cry of "Wolf!" is the worst enemy of action today. Will today's cry of "Wolf!" inhibit action tomorrow? It pays to be correct -- and hurts to be incorrect.

FWIW I'm convinced that it's serious this time, but history abounds with examples of breathless malthusian doomsday predictions that failed to pass.
That’s messed up sure, and I am not a lawyer, but I don’t think how they got the information to act in an anticompetitive way is relevant, in the US at least (as long as it was legal, which buying up smaller companies is).
Am I missing something? Is it fraud because they continued to market the vpn service as being private while they used it to collect market research data for facebook?
I had to stay at my parents' place for a few months where the bed has a soft mattress and I downgraded to the floor after a month because my back started hurting really bad. It took more than two weeks of back excercises and sleeping on the floor to fix that.
A big reason I switched to Lyft was hearing consistently from drivers that they preferred it. This has the added bonus effect of meaning that wait times for Lyft are way lower than Uber on average IME, since drivers are more likely to pick up a Lyft fare.
Not only was it based on OS/2 it even supported some of the OS/2 APIs for awhile, along with things like the HPFS filesystem:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090210125723/http://www.micros...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/100108/overview-of-...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#1990:_Breakup for more information about how they diverged over time.
I disagree. Chakra is a lot more js spec compliant and close to v8 than edgehtml and blink.

They already had chakra working with nodejs.

Rendering engines are mammoth projects. I’ve contributed to Chakra, v8 and nodejs. They are somewhat manageable codebase. Blink codebase is insane.
Solid advice. I'm the guy for the other huge comment. I absolutely considered renting an office at 5min walk from home. I almost did that (but in the end I moved and am working in the office). OP should consider that too.
A lot of people would take advice from someone who played a doctor on tv. Bill Nye is a childrens entertainer. His opinions I’m sure are not well founded, but it simply doesn’t matter. His opinion either way should be totally irrelevant to your judgment of the case.
Why do certificates expire? How is it acceptable to have a piece of data somewhere that contains a timebomb that must be periodically defused? I do not see how this helps security, and it is particularly ridiculous that normal behavior is that one day the system works normally and is deemed secure, and the next day it is so insecure and dangerous that communication simply fails.
> You may not like the process but it is completely legal

I don't. Just like I don't like some things FB does that are legal.

> Not sure what you mean about a formal censure

I just meant denouncing the action as part of a written statement during findings or other rulings on discovery here. I didn't mean to imply there is a legal mechanism that I am aware of. I would at least expect a judge requiring a seal of material in similar cases henceforth to say that it cannot be transferred to anyone on English soil (e.g. an assisting legal team or expert witness) for fear of similar occurrence. At the very least, if I was defense counsel I would ask the judge to make such a restriction while clutching this precedent of taking discovery documents then publishing them to the world.
Maybe a little borderline, but it seems like there are lots of resources to read and game data to play with, so we can probably spring for a “Show HN” in this case.
Buildings don't last forever. "Ideally, the average lifespan of any concrete structure is 75-100 years. But, it is considered that the average life of an apartment is 50-60 years while of a house it is 40 years." [1] Older buildings have been actively maintained.

Designing new cities without the cruft of older ones is a huge opportunity. However, it's likely that most building owners will just add couple extra meters of dirt below when it comes time to rebuild a given structure. Even skyscrapers do not last forever.

[1] https://www.makaan.com/iq/buy-sell-move-property/what-is-the...

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-life-expectancy-of-a-Skysc...
In its lifetime, that Jeep will dump 100+ tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, which spreads over the entire planet and is near-impossible to concentrate again. The impact of disposal of the car itself - a couple of tons of solids in a particular place - is not even close.

And if we're going to talk about people's irrational thought patterns about the environment... I nominate the idea that landfills matter more than atmosphere dumping, which seems to be based on the fact that landfills are more visible.
> "algo": "cryptonight",

Nice, Monero mining

Cryptocurrencies makes the bug bounty market A LOT more efficient than companies, legislation or HackerOne ever could.
hehe that was the first thing that I wanted to do, post command `,` (made me realize how vi is really visual mode for ed)

I love these old restricted programs.
I still remember watching TV in early 90's and seeing clips from Hansen's 1988 senate testimony and hearing first time the "Now is the last time to act on climate change." from someone in TV.

Key numbers to get the point across.

* Starting mitigation in 2000 would have required mitigation rate 4%/year. (1.5 C goal)

* Starting mitigation in 2018 will require mitigation rate 18%/year. 18 percent! (1.5 C goal). There is no realistic scenario where this can happen.

* Nine years from now complete halt of all manmade CO2 emissions is too late to prevent crossing 1.5C.

* Global fossil and cement CO2 emissions keep going up, not down: http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCB2018/PNG/s09_2018_FossilFu...

* CO2 mitigation curve becomes steeper and steeper. http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCB2018/PNG/s00_2018_Mitigati...
I wonder if some tech companies need more human audio samples to train their ML?
Harsh but maybe fair. I readily admit that I don't have the heart to say that to my friends who have young kids. Do you say this in person?
Intense! In retrospect would you have gotten a coworking space or started going to the office earlier?

How long were you at home?
Maybe because the consumers are investing in a future product. It is not the same as buying directly online from ECommerce store like Amazon. Investing implies risk. The consumers can probably still get a refund for fraudulent charges from CC.
Sure, but someone who's principled enough to not do business in China is likely principled enough to not do business with private prisons / other cheap labor schemes.

That's why your response sets up a false dichotomy; it pre-supposes that anyone not using China for cheap labor is necessarily looking for cheap labor somewhere else.
We do know that AlphaZero's chess playing style is different. AlphaZero doesn't care as much about material, while Stockfish and humans (presumably learning from Stockfish) do. This is because Stockfish uses a material heuristic to search for moves.

Consider rock-paper-scissor, and agent X which plays X every move. Agent rock beats agent scissor all the time, and agent scissor beats agent paper all the time. But we cannot conclude that agent rock will beat agent paper all the time. Chess and Go might have this intransitivity property. The fact that one game exists which is not transitive means the burden of proof that Chess and Go are transitive rests on the authors.

My own suspicion is that AlphaZero should be weaker against humans compared to AlphaGo Lee since the former is not trained on human games while the latter is.
Foxconn and the village: the $10B factory deal that turned a WI town upside down
The “Sticky Wi-Fi Problem” (and how to solve it)
Father of 2 who were born 11 months apart. So I have a few pro tips for you:

1. One of you (your wife or you) needs to be fully available for taking care of the baby. If both of you need to go back to work right away (probably in America), then you will need a good Nanny who has experience taking care of infants.

2. You cannot wing it. Infants need a lot of attention even though they just sleep and poop all day. Again, one dedicated person needs to be there for them.

3. If you work from home, even with a dedicated caretaker, it will be ideal to have a closed door office/room where you work. You cannot work with a baby close by unless you absolutely have no choice.

4. Depending on your baby, you may have many sleepless nights in the beginning. It cannot just be your wife doing the sleepless nights. She will need your support which translates to "waking up randomly to check on your baby who is crying in their crib"

5. Do some research on this horrible thing called SIDS. Hopefully none of us never ever have to deal with it but it happens to people. Protect your baby as much as possible against SIDS by following a few basic but important rules.

6. Make a list of chores that are needed specifically to take care of the baby and divide the work between the 2 of you. Don't leave things for guessing even though be willing to change things at last min. Pro tip: No matter how much you plan in advance, a baby will make you change things at the last minute. Nature of the beast :) but still plan.

7. Family Support: If you can, get help from immediate family as needed for both emotional and physical support. You may not realize but even a 30 min. break away from the baby can do wonders to your emotional well being. Babies are tough and they will test your patience. That's ok. Just learn to find some time away from all of it. Family members specially moms/dads are the best way to address that if you are lucky enough to have them close by.

8. MOST IMPORTANTLY: Don't worry about things too much and most babies turn out fine. So enjoy the little moments with them as they will grow up so fast that you wouldn't even believe it. You can never be a perfect dad or mom. But you can be a dad. Just be there. Show up. That's the most important thing. All the best!!
I'll never forget the last round of games with everyone gushing over AlphaZero's wonder human-like play as it reached a drawn position only for Stockfish to blunder a whole queen with nobody remarking on it. I played along while watching the Danny King video:

https://twitter.com/DanielKingChess/status/10707559866364887...

Recent Stockfishes recommend many of the quiet, strategic moves that he seems particularly enamoured with.
I'm sorry, it apparently only applies to when the project is going to ship a physical item. https://www.kickstarter.com/rules/prototypes
Just watch the video. They talk about all of this. I don't understand why I am getting so many nasty comments especially when those points are addressed in this video. Both guys are serious scientists and respect each other while feeling completely embarrassed by the zealots.

You talk about the russian roulette with climate, but the issue is far more complicated. There are bunch of other russian roulettes to consider with policy and society. What if society needs carbon to run the economy and keep the jobs and peace? What if oil-dependent countries collapse and turn to war, terrorism or mass-migration? Those are substantial risks that can kill many people and affect the quality of life for the worse globally too. You see what happened in France when they raised the fuel tax. It's not hard to imagine some worse scenarios.
I recently found out that the fuel efficiency of a prius is comparable to the one of a european city car (meaning a car with a displacement of 1 liter to 1.2 liter.

I really thought that an hybrid car was at least one order of magnitude more fuel efficient, but it's not the case.

I don't understand, because I thought buying a prius was an investment that you could repay in reduced gas bills, but apparently not so much.

Im quite happy to be able to live without a car.
...if you have great insurance or live in a very, very cheap area. Our family was out of pocket over $10k with “standard mediocre” tech company health insurance. A UCSF study found that California women giving birth were charged from $3,296 to $37,227 for an uncomplicated vaginal delivery, depending on which hospital they visited. For a C-section, women were billed between $8,312 and nearly $71,000.

1: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/01/111071/how-much-does-it-co...
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

Especially not when the topic is inflammatory and the discussion has managed to remain civil so far. Then it's vandalism, if not arson.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
shrug I learned to code very young and played with it off and on throughout my school career. If I hadn't done that, I don't know that I would have chosen software engineering as a profession.
Kelloggs use rejected cornflakes to make beer in bid to cut down on food waste
In the light turboprop market, jet engines are surprisingly primitive. The most common engine family (PT6A) was created in the 1970s. Today, the engines cost half a million dollars new because the production volumes are tiny and the liability costs are huge. I don't see a reason why electric airplanes will avoid either cost issue.
May be I am in the extreme minority. I don't have problems with Safari. ( Judging from the 170 Comments so far and not a single supporter of Safari, I really think I am )

Instead of implementing every single iteration of Web Standard that Google dished out, kill it and rework much like all of their products, Safari decide to pick it up once everything has been stabilise.

Instead of trying to turn everything on the Web as Web App and give everything on the computer a Web API, they have been perfecting the Web Pages. ( Which in terms of publishing standard is still far from perfect )
You can use a 2018 crate from a 2015 crate (and vice versa) but you can’t “expose rust 2015” or something. There’s raw identifiers for anything that would be incompatible. That would require a new rustc, of course.
What a great example! I'm realizing that perhaps the "second mover advantage" may be more pronounced in markets with low switching costs. Flyers can easily compare airline prices against one another, and drivers are incentivized to boot up 2nd, 3rd and 4th driving apps.
Low-margin businesses can't afford to spend as much on R&D, make mistakes, etc. They have to win with small executional advantages.
Why is the highest purpose in life children? Of course he had a responsibility for another human being, but why is that the highest good? Are we not allowed to strive for more? Or consider other higher goods?
It doesn't play nicely with tooling like debugging output(#[derive(Debug)]), introspection, serialization, match statements, etc.

My solution to this problem, for i8/u8 enum's only, is just to list of unused values as enum Foo { ..., RESERVED_2=2, RESERVED_3=3,.. RESERVED_255=255,}.
The most amazing story of the 90s was the incredible ball of failure that was Taligent. It's almost impossible to even describe to people the situation around it and get them to understand how crazy the world went for a time. Taligent (and OO, to an extent) was the industry's equivalent to the satanic ritual abuse panic - it dominated the conversation for a brief time but was then solidly forgotten, no one really mentions it, and when you try to tell people born later they don't really believe you.
IE deserves to die. It was responsible by the Middle Ages of Internet in the 2000s. Many corp systems still work solely on IE8 or IE6.
> The alt-right came out of tech circles: gamers, 4chan, etc. If you want some search terms start with Steve Bannon, IGE, weev, Vox Popoli, and Gamergate,

What qualifies these groups as tech circles? Sure 4chan is a website, but there's nothing that seems to indicate that it's primarily populates by tech workers. It seems just as [un]justifiable to point at Tumblr, Jezebel, etc. and claim that far left progressives "came out of tech circles".
That’s a good idea. There are a few really close to my house. I find that when I leave an office it’s easy to leave work behind, but when I’m home and leave my desk, I can always run back really quick.
We have two dominant mainstream paradigms.

We have the browser. And we have the app store.

Arguably, for better or worse, the desktop shifts to a combination of these and probably converges with mobile for mainstream users.
Just a reminder:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.
This imposes no additional requirements on rustc, it’s the same as it previously was. Cargo is no more tightly integrated.