skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am teaching everyone to think. Everyone should read this [1] article by James Somers. Code is a problem not the solution, in my experience we have a huge lack of creativity and domain knowledge. Cultivate those, and please don't rob your children of their childhood with STEM. Like Papert, the computer should be a tool FOR education, not the goal.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin...
Modern CPU performance gets explored by taking advantage of multi-core, and GC is a very helpful tool for writing lock-free data structures.

Additionally dataflow languages are better suited for GPGPU programming than plain old C and C++, as Google is exploring with XLA on Tensorflow, and game engines with graphical tooling for shader generation.

Again, lets come back in 10 years and see who was actually right.
What is the scope of this law with relation to foreigners? I do not think the bill mentions that only Australians can be targeted by the inquiry from the government - it mentions any person who develops software allowing people to communicate. To me, this means that the government can reach out to any person in the world, and, if they tell anyone or refuse to cooperate, they commit an Australian crime, in which case, extradition may be requested and occur, leading the person to be brought to Australia, judged, and imprisoned there.

IANAL and I do hope that my train of thought is horribly wrong somewhere, because if the above is true, then every software developer in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Albania, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Romania, San Marino, Yugoslavia, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Sri Lanka, St Helena, Saint Helena, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Slovenia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Iceland, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, Vanuatu and Western Samoa [1] may now be forced by Australian law to commit espionage against their will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_Australia#C...
It's about time. FB has been shady as shit for an awfully long time, but we're finally in a place where you can publish FB-negative articles and actually get views / no backlash.

I don't think much has changed from FB's behaviour, nor is there a coordinated media campaign against them. Rather, the general public is warming up to the idea that FB might not be all that great, which opens a window for the media to publish stories about FB in a negative light.
I haven't checked the text that passed but I think non-feasibility is a defense. Which might mean that this just inspires a new round of canarying and end-to-end encryption wrapping to defeat the bill. However presumably there are very few companies willing to die on that hill, and it may be too expensive to fight those battles.
> the many scientists ... caused by other factors than the man-made

How many of those are in climate related sciences?

"many"? The consensus amongst scientists in the relevant fields is quite compelling.
If you understand why a purely functional language like Haskell rocks at parallelism without worrying about deadlocks, then: same answer here.

I'll agree this isn't ready yet to be the first example of functional parallelism in someone's life, but I'm pretty excited to play with this computational model.
This seems like retaliation for Twitter blocking Instagram from using its API (after Facebook recently acquired Instagram in 2012).

(Source: https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3189340/twitter-blocks-in...)
Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right.
> The browser vendors taking the lead over standards committees is how we got this far into HTML5, especially including Apple's/Safari's decision to ditch flash, and the WHATWG actually moving us forward vs the W3C.

That takes a somewhat limited in scope view as to what a web standard is; by most measures, what the WHATWG produces is as much a standard as anything the W3C does, and is certainly comparably useful to other implementers.

> Unless Blink has a history or an expectation of deprecating serious functionality in the future, is it really so bad if websites follow what's Chrome-compatible instead of 'a web standard'?

If someone wants to build a new web browser, can they do it without having to spend huge amounts of money on reverse-engineering Chrome and being bug compatible with it?
We've spent a lot of time working on this, and the actual astroturfing that we've found is small compared to the frequency with which users fire this accusation at each other merely because they hold opposing views. That's why the site guidelines ask people not to bring this toxic trope up without evidence. Some users holding opposing views to yours is not evidence of astroturfing, only of divided views.

Perhaps you or someone else knows more than we do about this on Hacker News, but in that case you should be telling us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. That's in the guidelines as well. When there's real information, we take it very seriously. Unfortunately, though, this trope is driven mostly by imagination, not information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was a freelance dev contractor in the 2008/2009 financial crisis.

To what you said above, both can be true. But it depends on the client's business.

I got completely crushed last time. But my clients were primarily in travel and fashion/lifestyle which both got hit hard early. And I was trying to bootstrap a social media startup at the time, which was also in travel. So I got destroyed.

Typically agencies and freelancers are the first to feel a recession. Vendors are more expendable than W-2 employees so contracts get stalled out or cancelled as soon as the warning signs hit the board room.

However... I've known of some people who actually did quite well last time around. Generally they were offering lower rates than the competition and specialized in maintaining software that was essential to recession-proof businesses (like entertainment, education, government etc). They had long-term contracts where they were essential to these businesses, and they lowered their rates to be competitive. This was eventually how I recovered as well.

Basically my advice is - prepare to shift from quality to quantity for a bit, diversify your client portfolio and put effort into building long term clients where you're essential.
Simplify your setup.py
Interestingly, I remember Google's employee training[1] was written to warn against stuff this, something to the effect of:

"Hey, don't leave a papertrail about 'crushing' or 'destroying' competitors. We do not seek to monopolize markets and run afoul of antitrust laws. Instead, talk about how your product can better satisfy users and meet a demand."

(Another common theme I remember was that you shouldn't route stuff through Switzerland to get around export controls.)

[1] I contracted there via a startup.
>My previous thoughts (and still are) was that FB would become a media holding company, similar to Comcast or Fox/News Corp.

Facebook should become a compute platform like AWS/Azure that specalizes in compute services for social services, including but not limited to authentication, spam detection, censorship/moderation tools, social graph, storage, bandwidth, localization, learning, ranking.
How much more do Lyft changes as compared to Uber?

( Sorry Lyft was never in my region )
Stupid money certainly exists but it tends to systematically flow to smarter investors. This causes smarter investors to make up the majority of the money in the market. I don't want to suggest that the market is perfect. It can remain quite ignorant of important facts like "Sometimes housing market values become highly correlated" for quite a while. But once these facts become known it tends to respond very quickly.
Ah I see, and from the perspective of a password manager it would know what password to fill into the password field to get the user into the site. After that, once on the change password screen said manager would also take over generating a new password, yes?
Kubernetes clusters being hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies
This is incredibly misleading. Even if we stopped all CO2 Emissions tomorrow the amount currently in the air would cause significant warming and acidification to the ocean. Without Carbon Sequestration on a massive scale we are in for serious problems worldwide.

In fact the link you yourself added lays this out quite clearly: "A report by United Nations' scientific panel on climate change released this month expects the atmosphere-on our current trajectory-to warm up by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040. Even the effects of a 0.5 degrees increase will have far-reaching consequences. This research indicates that we are already past the tipping point; even if we significantly reduced emissions, climate change would continue (Source IPCC summary C3 section)."

""Phase 1" of climate change is reversible by reducing emissions, but we are no longer in "Phase 1." We're now in "Phase 2" and stopping climate change requires both emission reduction and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. "Phase 2" is occurring faster and hotter than we thought. If we don't act soon, we'll end up in "Phase 3" and be too late for both of these strategies to work."

http://carbon.ycombinator.com/

Not only that but we clearly don't "have all the tools we need." Carbon Sequestration technology is in it's infancy at best.
"Facebook used data provided by the Israeli analytics firm Onavo to determine which other mobile apps were being downloaded and used by the public. It then used this knowledge to decide which apps to acquire or otherwise treat as a threat"

What is wrong with this part?
"Days" is obviously hyperbole, but I typed that while waiting for a Haskell build and I'm still waiting on that same build. Granted that I'm rebuilding a whole lot more of the world than typical, but build times are definitely one of my few complaints about working in Haskell (though it's been improving).
I believe OP mens abusing market power to prevent competition.

Although if it is or not a monopoly and an abuse of market power is dubious, but it clearly is anti-competitive.

This is similar to Amazon shutting off Google Products from any retailers using its platform. It is anti-competitive, but the jury is out on whether it is abusing market power.

TL;DR: you can try to shut off your competitors from the market, as long as you're not abusing your market power to do so.

PS: The Hacker News definition of monopoly has nothing to do with the economics, policy and antitrust definition of monopoly.
While I generally agree with the point that teaching problem solving is valuable in itself, my life would be far different if I didn't know how to write code. I have a number of friends that are exceptionally good at problem solving, yet they're struggling in dead end jobs that don't pay enough. Software engineering, while certainly frustrating and occasionally tiresome, has given me the financial flexibility to do more or less whatever I want in my off hours. Hell, it's given me the flexibility to even have "off hours". Programming isn't for everyone, but it's certainly not a bad thing to have at least a little experience with.
In fact, medical debt is the No. 1 source of personal bankruptcy filings in the U.S., and in 2014, an estimated 40% of Americans racked up debt resulting from a medical issue.

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/01/this-is-the-no-1-...
>Otherwise we must admit that the system is built not on allowing the meritorious to rise

If this were true, class mobility between generations wouldn't be so frequent like it is in the US. https://www.fa-mag.com/news/most-millionaires-self-made--stu...
How do you sleep? I don’t mind a firm bed. I’m a side sleeping and my arms and legs will hurt in it’s too firm.

The floor would make me numb.
It's hard for.me to imagine zuck lasting another year as CEO... but what the hell do I know?
I get it. they are the 400# gorilla and when they act competitively like this, it looks bad. However, for most competitive organizations, this would be standard procedure. You see an upstart which is using what sets you apart from others (their social graph) to compete against you, you take actions. I don't see anything extraordinary about this exchange.

The data collection and selling --that's what people should be upset about and lobby against. This kind of thing is a sideshow and will only interest the most hard-core anti-FB people. To get regular folks on board with changing the culture around user data, talk about user data and privacy, concentrate on that.
I used sublime for about a month and couldn't get used to it. Maybe I'm just too indoctrinated into Emacs. :)
Interesting. I have pretty much the opposite experience on MacOS; with Chrome, if I open a bunch of tabs (~50), my memory usage quickly goes to 15.9 of my 16 GB, and then my whole system slows to a crawl. In Firefox, the same number of tabs are using less than half of that, and everything is still running smoothly.
I like your query as a portable version of the written function, but I also think that it could fail to yield the results probably intended before that mess was written.

If the intent is actually to select one, and only one, random row from the table than this Stack Overflow entry has a result that is in most cases in the direction I was thinking (LIMIT 1, and have some way of selecting a random entry, remembering that the ID field might be monotonic, but isn't assured to be continuous (have no gaps))

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19412/how-to-request-a-r...

Unfortunately it seems that it depends on language extensions that are not portable.

EDIT:

It unfortunately also appears that the easiest query scales poorly to large tables as it works by assigning EACH row a random ID and then limiting it to one of those by some order (probably lowest assigned row).

A more effective approach might be a function or procedure based around a pre-recorded 'maximum' ID for the column (assuming it's vaguely monotonic and not a GUID), picking a random result between base and that ID, Verifying it exists, and if it doesn't trying again up to N times before using a fallback procedure. (E.G. after 100 random stabs that fail selecting ~500 records in the range of lastRND +/- 250 and using the ORDER BY rand() or equivalent on that sub-set). If even /that/ fails pick the next or previous record by which is closest.
Sort of. Those mentioned secured funding for a plant:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180924005178/en/Eos...

But the scale isn't there yet since only recently someone was able to finally demonstrate a rechargeable zinc-air battery.
Hey. One of the creators here. Yes we are still missing several tasks and results, the idea is that this could be maintained by the community by making it easy to upload results.
Definitely help is appreciated
We are collecting a lot of feedback
Tools for Insider Trading Analysis
Note they dropped the Spyglass licensing thing from the about prompt in IE7 (8? I don't quite remember), following an internal audit of the codebase. They certainly believe it to be free from Spyglass at this point.
The people behind bitcoin don't read history books. Too busy with disrupting the world and the Singularity I guess.

The State regulates and issues currency, always have always will.
"From a purely investment point of view, why would anyone invest in Lyft over Uber?"

In a word... price. Lyft's IPO will give public markets access to a rapidly growing industry at a lower valuation than Uber.

Post IPO I would guess being publicly traded would be an advantage for Lyft because they will have a broader base of stakeholders who benefit from their success.
That's my main question. There are many many people. But no larger scale influence so far. In Europe there's the shift project, and shifters (associations related to that project) who tries hard to review regulations and educate people on weekends.
Newspaper headline: "Emacs text editor makes people smarter."
Most of my upgrades except for the 5 were not hardware related - directly.

The first iPhone I bought was a 4 in 2010. I “upgraded” to a 4s because I got a much better deal through my employer to use Verizon and the 4 had separate GSM/CDMA versions. My son used the 4 from the time I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile until 2013 and upgraded up until iOS 7.

My next upgrade was to the 5 and again it was because of a change of carriers and Verizon wouldn’t unlock the GSM part of the phone for domestic use. The 5/5C were the last 32 bit iPhones.

I consider the first 64-bit iPhone to be like the first Core 2 Duos. At that point the phone was “good enough” and fast enough for most people.

My first 64 bit phone was the 6s in 2015. My son is still using it now with an Apple battery case. I would have kept it, but I needed a larger screen (iPhone 8 plus) to watch text heavy technical videos
and the battery life is much better. I don’t see any reason unless I physically damage this phone that I won’t keep it for another 4 years.

I’ll probably replace my 9.7” iPad before I replace my phone and I don’t see myself doing that anytime soon.
Aliases are not really a solution here. They will just clutter your shell config and could potentially end up shadowing existing commands.
Yeah, this is more of a reverse sunk-cost. If there is a term for that I don't know it.
> I lump climate change deniers into the same category as flat-earthers

> there are no inconsistencies in my testimonies against the government, against the fossil fuel industry

I lump climate change blamers into the same category. The moment you start talking about individual country (or any specific body) per capita and cumulative, you're making a political statements that someone is responsible and needs to be accountable because of their history (back to the 1750s in this one). ie These people are bad because there's metrics that fit my message and all other people are good because they have different metrics.

Seriously, how is the regional political accounting relevant to the objective analysis of what the correlation, causation and projections are?

I guess the idea is something like: "you're historically the worst (even if you're not the worst today) and you have resources, so it's up to you to try to fix it but we're not gonna even suggest how, but just sayin'". It reads like a lack of confidence in their own conclusions.
Some people were predicting the Great Recession ahead of time but not any more than are typically predicting a recession soon.
> Of the 3,142 counties in the United States, median household income declined in 222 counties (7.1 percent), while median household income increased in 521 counties (16.6 percent)

Does this mean that ~75% of counties had excatly zero change in median income? Like down to the cent? With or without inflation? This is difficult to believe. Even with stagnant wages you would expect some up and down across the whole country.
What's more impressive is that Mojave would be really familiar to those users from the year 2000. If I compare it to the mind-blowing UX changes Windows went through in the same time...and none of them were never really all compassing or guaranteed to stick around for a time.
I agree, but I think you know the answer to the question you asked. It's a little sad to me for "the side of science" to fall into such religious belief.

Especially when the "side of science" has become so extremely tied to the idea that the only real solution is taxes that one political side has come up with and of course voting for them. And if you question the tax side of things, you're a filthy denier.
Enforce Flask-wtf 0.8 and see if it works.
Zuckerberg said Facebook was about connecting the world. This looks like its about walling off the world?
How about claiming to actually be a camera company?
Don't be so cynical, any kid could be the next great innovator of progress, re-mediation, solution. And you don't know what the "average" kid of this generation will achieve.
My source is Stacy McGaugh (the guy who wrote that page). On the same page as the original link I found this: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/BBNLCDMMOND.jpg

He is currently active at this blog: https://tritonstation.wordpress.com/

It looks like this doubling happened in ~2000 so it wouldnt show up in your chart.
While true companies don't want to leave this kind of trail of actions, whether its in written form or not, ephemeral or recorded, people will have these kinds of communication. It's not like they should just ignore the competition or act via implicit understanding and winks and nods (they are not covered by anti-collusion like airline pricing is)
I wonder if this corrects for ease of public transportation and how muc independence the parents give the kids? I’d imagine it would be pretty lonely if you always saw people outside but could never actually go out and play.
Facebook: We can do whatever we like.

UK: No, you can't.

This totally works for me. If FB doesn't negotiate in good faith, strong-arm is exactly what's called for.