skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Does of course raise the question of why did Verizon pay anything for Yahoo but those are the tough questions Verizon’s executive team will need to answer for its shareholders."

Good question. But let's take it a step further, which Wall Street outfit advised on and brokered that deal?

Of course the Verizon brass is ultimately responsible, but they weren't the only one who got it wrong. That said, I bet the WS firm that got it wrong still made out pretty well.
Imagine a bunch of equally capable people work 9-9-6 with lower pay. Now I know why China’s engineering and manufacturing growth is wild. No bullshit, take your money and get shit done. You complains? Look, thousands lined up outside.

Yeah China nowadays practice social Darwinism
They bought into their own subliminal messaging. They just really like hearing "Google Won".
Basis, with $133M in backing, is shutting down and returning the money
Full Speech: Sir Ivan Rogers on Brexit
Same thing. Effective but overpriced for what it is in my opinion.
>If the law requires that they be considered in the process of creating policy, ...

The important distinction here is that they have to be considered as comments, not votes. For example, if a whole lot of comments say more or less the same thing, then that only counts as one comment. In this case the politics had already been decided so no comment could affect the general outcome. In a very real sense the comments did not matter in this case. In other situations they can matter.

The pointless distraction related to the various attempts to spam the FCC comments in the end prevented actual politics that could of possibly retained net neutrality.
Allusive? I think you mean illusive, or something.
roads...where we're going we don't need roads...
The overall desktop market share is not really relevant, if macOS has a disproportionate share of the designer market.

Which has always been the case. Adobe back when I checked, made something like half of its profits of Suite on the Mac.

John Nack (of Abobe) had commented on 2009:

"Last time I checked, Creative Suite sales were roughly 50/50 Mac/Win." [1]

So, the fact that Windows has more market share is irrelevant regarding whether Adobe should worry.

More relevant things would be:

1) designer share of macOS/Windows might have skewed since 2009 (but even at worst case I'd expect a 30-40% to still be on Macs).

2) Sketch alone just tackles Illustrator duties, not several other things the Suite does. So it wouldn't be enough for Adobe to lose Suite buyers over -- just people only using Illustrator.

But combined with newcomers like Affinity and co, it might.
Chez is compile direct to Native Code

Chicken has much more library and bigger community.

BUT...

Chez is the only commercial compiler (before open source) and very stable and fast...
Probably offtopic, but would you mind expanding a bit on the mentor requirement a bit? Being in a similar position, I'm a little embarrassed that's not something I've considered so far and that made me a little bit anxious.
> A key strength of the PARACHUTE trial was that it was designed and initially powered to detect differences in the combination of death and major traumatic injury. Although the use of softer endpoints, such as levels of fear before and after jumping, or its surrogates, such as loss of urinary continence, could have yielded more power to detect an effect of parachutes, we believe that that our selection of bias-resistant endpoints that are meaningful to all patients increases the clinical relevance of the trial.

I love how much detail into which they go.
The Stanford AI Index 2018 Annual Report [pdf]
Sure, rich democracies are outliers, but you did say "one of the freest societies on the planet", which I parsed as somewhat stronger than "one of the rich democracies" or "not third world".

I think you're wrong about the incarceration rate though, by a lot. China has an official prison pop. of about 1.5 million, to have a rate close to what the US does it'd need to have 7.5 million [1] people in the internment camps, which AFAICT is way higher than anyone estimates (I couldn't really find any good estimates, but for scale the total population of Uyghurs in China is 11 - 15 million)

[1]

(def us-pop 325719178)

(def us-prison 2121600)

(def china-pop 1403500365)

(def china-prison 1649804)

(defn rate [prison population]
(float (* 100000 (/ prison population))))

(rate us-prison us-pop) ;=> ~651

(rate china-prison china-pop) ;=> ~117

(rate (+ china-prison 7.5e6) china-pop) ;=> ~651
Government can do things well, or badly

Private sector can do things well, or badly

I don't see what people find so hard to understand about this
What this shows me is how inefficient and corrupt a private company is. It also shows me how effective this one government agency is at rooting out corruption before 5% of a contracted amount has been spent.

(Edited for spelling)
“There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.”

-Milton Friedman
Do you know where i can find thrse implementations in ruby or python??
It’s pretty much China’s mode in terms of the workload, and yes it’s sustainable as long as your population structure is healthy
Musk reminds me of the North Korean man-child, touring the factories to dole out his expertise. The only difference is Musk can’t put you in a concentration camp.
Not from designers that live in countries where Apple hardware is out of reach for the standard living costs.
But there is the requirement that the other elements be equal to zero. It's right there in the sentence you quoted.
He doesn't actually spend all his time at the factory. He's mostly in LA. There are people on Twitter who track the flights of his private jet. He's mostly in LA, he'll go to the bay area maybe for a day a week. More rarely to Reno. If he's spending all his time working, it's at SpaceX of anything. But more likely he spends his time at home searching his own name on Twitter.

The insane work hours stories are just part of the mythology.
Sure. Give “Children of Men” another watch, and strap in.
We should see this for what it really is - hidden unemployment benefit for people "working" at Accenture. Or hidden basic income, call it whatever you want. Our level of economic development and accumulated wealth is so great that without these sorts of "stimulus" the majority of the population would be unemployed or work just a couple of days per week [0]. And the conspiracy theorist inside me suspects that the government cannot allow it. With so much free time at their hands people might get creative and get some strange ideas and so on.

[0] http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
Adobe XD is not free - it was free while in beta, now it is a launched product that costs money.

https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/compare-plans.html
QA Tech Talk
There are cultures where they don't dream about accumulating wealth?
This is the kind of content I come to HN for. :)
> I just don't get how we just can't over turn them politically state by state in State Elections. How is this not a thing?

Do most people want to overturn them? I think you're assuming that start state and it's perhaps not the case.

> I can be fired for any reason

And you can also leave for any reason. It's symmetrical. You don't have this right in some countries - I'd be careful about volunteering to give it up.
Very interesting! How hard is it to create a Superbook (why not simply call it a book?) on your site? I have been meaning to write a book that explains the connection between math and music visually. Looks like your site might just solve that for me. How does the authoring process work?
It's a desktop tool to generate video flybys from google earth. Not a website they expect people off the street to visit. How would you deliver such a thing in 2019?

In the past this would have been a standalone app like google earth itself was. With a big download and an icon on your desktop.

Or, they could simply bundle Chrome into the app as electron to give people the exact same thing but avoid snarky hacker news comments.

Or, better still, they could do what they did and ship it as is.

The correct response to this used to be "wow, that's pretty cool that they can make this work in a browser".
And yet again they don't care about gsuite users. I have a gsuite setup for everyone in the family, for pretty much exactly the same needs that are addressed by Google One, but apparently there's absolutely no way to get the benefits of both.
I am researching julia's code.

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl/blob/master/src/PyCall....

I guess it is like this:
Importing the pycall library is to turn on the python interpreter thread and not interrupt it.
Then you can call any python library you want.
> Omvlee decided to design his application to run natively on OS X. This was very smart. Although Omvlee could have reached a considerably wider audience by designing Sketch for Windows (or OS X and Windows), focusing on the Mac market was highly strategic

Sketch exists thanks to the genius of Quartz / Core Graphics. It does not have a rendering engine per se and struggles even with path ops [1].

This technical debt may soon be the end of Sketch. Because apart from Adobe, there is now Figma with smart people like Evan Wallace who can really "decide" [2][3].

With C++ core, Figma can go fully native [4], and it's puzzling why they have done this already.

[1] https://twitter.com/vmdanilov/status/892358827378696194

[2] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...

[3] https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering...

[4] https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/673959396104273921
Yes, that single ad.
That only means it needs to check if there's a new version every 15 minutes though (e.g. by file hash or modification date), not that it has to download it again even if there's no changes every 15 minutes. I haven't looked into the cache settings though.
There goes the weekend...

Do you know of any recent efforts to combine ML and VM optimizations ?

(I read about the VS compiler and profile-based optimizations)
> I managed to bring down 13 CIA offices, all FBI offices east of the Mississippi, and the entire Southeastern university Research Network.

I'm skeptical. Even assuming this is true, would the CIA divulge this info?
Wouldn't it be simpler (better?) to fit a performance model like e.g. linear regression with pairwise interactions and then do bayesian optimization?
IEEE Commemorates the GoPro Hero
Thanks.

I successfully finished my CS degree.

But I often have the feeling that my math problems are getting in the way of getting on the next level, hehe.
It's "of", rather than "in"... this is probably the Python one mentioned:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/d7538dd5e3e04a8db22e1...
And bypassed everyone's filters for list mail. Bravo.
YouTube Hits Spam, Is Iran Behind “Shamoon” Attacks? Creepy Cyber Recon and More
I'm looking forward to seeing who buys the Yahoo "chicken coop" datacenters in Quincy, WA and other places when it finally goes belly up.
Adobe have been working on XD for ages and it still doesn't hold a candle to Sketch. It feels like it's born out of a scramble against Sketch, rather than from a deep desire to create the best interface design tool.

There was a gap in the market ever since they killed Fireworks, and if they were serious about filling it they could have done something years before Sketch became big, but instead they slapped a few ui-focused features onto Photoshop, sat back and called it a day.
In other news, Obama paid millions for a broke health exchange website coded by people in a 3rd world country whose day job was tending to livestock.
I'm not deeply familiar with the history, but I assume that the stadium was mostly built to support the Falcons? What are their attendance numbers?

Also, per the same article, the stadium's nominal capacity for soccer is 41K, so average attendance of 53k is pretty damn good.
Re: your final paragraph it seems like it could be a0 > A & b0 > B & ... if you're also trying to (or forced by the market to) minimize the sum of a0 + b0 ...
I would call misapplying mathematical tools being bad at math personally. If you said that because you are intergrating revenue back into investments and are showing nx growth you'll get quadratic growth in exchange for cutting growth in half I would call that being bad at math. An uncommon form of it but still bad due to it being a clear failure to model the underlying domain. They did the same thing really by not taking common cause failures into account at all, thinking one can build low risk out of high risks, and more that an ounce of critical thinking could have saved them from.
Would you say that then gives you the right to get the fingerprints off of the voucher and examine it for traces of other molecules, such as perfumes, cigarette brands, or sexual activity? There are certain lines that people assume others won't cross. What we're finding is that people do cross those lines. Your example honors those lines. The problem, however, lies in what the companies that don't honor those lines are willing to do.

In the case of tech, most people have no idea how to even articulate what crossing those lines would mean in terms of the data they give up. If someone has a medical procedure, most of us assume that sharing that information is a line that shouldn't be crossed. We have laws that even prevent directly sharing the directly acquired information, and those laws make sense to people.

But when you say that the same information can be obtained in other, more roundabout ways, it's hard for them to conceptualize the risk. Companies can't back down because they have no compelling reason to argue against making that next dollar other than "it feels immoral."

That's why we need strong regulations. Strong regulations actually protect the honorable businesses by giving compelling reasons to not cross those lines.
When private sector fails, it goes out of business and other competent businesses take over.

When government fails it spends more tax dollars and does the same thing over again, expecting a different result.
It also seems to symbolize Google's real new mission statement, changed from "Organizing the world's information" to "Collecting all of your information*, whether they publicly admit to it or not.
You can downvote this all you want...that IS what happened and you all know it.
> Google should help develop WebAssembly vs just creating a Chrome only solution

The people who can do Google Earth Flybys might not be the same that could implement WebAssembly Threading, even though they work at the same company.
They should follow the smartphone industry and just use arbitrary algebra expressions. I'm enjoying my OnePlus 5T solve when T = 3.
That's why many mature governments have an office whose job it is to care about those things, e.g. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Offi...
I wish more people realised the truth behind the PR construction that is Elon Musk and stop calling him an 'inventor' and 'engineer'. He is neither. He got lucky a few times and has somehow managed to persuade people that he 'invented' Paypal (he didn't - and was in fact sacked when X.com was bought), that he 'invented' the electric car (nope, the Victorians did that), that he 'invented' the Hyperloop (again, the Victorians) and that he 'invented' reusable rockets (again, not him). He is a massive fraud and a paper tiger.
The Link Between Startups and Privilege
> If Facebook could sell ad slots without revealing information about you they would.

Google literally does this with adsense. It is definitely possible.
Yes they own more than a few trademarks for One in the space. MS OneNote, One guide.

But hey Googlers are gonna downvote when Google spends millions of branding/marketing a new product only to be called on copying MS of all companies.
How else would the people proposing and working on these things internally get promotions?
That's a nice quote, but I don't think it applies here in that way. I don't think any Congressman's salary actually depends on not understanding Facebook's business model.
This is a good quote and I like it, but it's funny- I feel like what this quote best demonstrates is a basic difference in conscientiousness between the Chicago school folks and the Keynes folks.

If I buy a birthday present for someone, I care very much about the content of the present.
I see a free starter plan there.
You see the same debates about military leadership - some very famous military leaders were apparently pretty unpleasant at a personal level - then at the other end of the spectrum you have people like Leonard Cheshire who was tough but thoroughly decent and treated everyone at all levels with respect:

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

Edit:

Worth reading the list of missions he was on then the description of how he led:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cheshire#Cheshire_as_o...
The Safecracker of Last Resort
The explosive rise of Fortnite last year coupled with the popularity of streamers like Ninja to elementary school kids, had me convinced that a boom in gaming pc market was coming and that it would more than make up for the loss due to crypto mining. I know exactly zero people that crypto mine, Yet I know several kids who lack machines to play fortnite properly but watch everything related to the game and lust after there own machine.
I'm not.

If you want to spend millions and get no deliverables..Accenture is your answer.

If you want projects late and over budget...Accenture is your answer.

If you want to quickly build your resume with performing little work...Accenture is your answer.
Language wise this sounds like the Trojan horse that eventually becomes their amazon prime as far as being a “one stop” membership. It’s disguised as storage right now but seeing the bit about hotel deals... also prime ~ one... hmm.

Why this wouldn’t also bundle things like YouTube red or google music proves my hypothesis wrong though.

I just don’t know what the hell is going on at Google lately. What is their strategy? What is their vision? Everything they do is so disjointed and incongruent.
I guess we all have these things in side of us and given the wrong circumstances people let them out. I am definitely compassionate towards Musk, as I for myself have made the experience that stress can bring out very negative sides within you, if you don't stay aware and relaxed to not get carried away of such feelings. It cannot be an apology and hopefully Musk recognizes that it is not his true self acting but stress and anxiety projected on others.
Did NPR finally stop tracking its users? It didn't display its usual GDPR banner!

However, those still doubting should probably use: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=675923576
>Importantly, in the ad model the information leakage is an unintended (but unavoidable) side effect.

This is quite a spin! The leakage is unavoidable because it is an essential part of the sale.

>Was that an instance of you selling your customer's data?

Yes. The reason you distribute targeted vouchers is to use the data to help identify qualifying customers.
Mister Rogers Explains the RS 232 Pinout (2005)
You mean Google Two.

Or maybe one Google One will be deprecated in favor of two Google Twos.
I find it interesting you can read this negative article about him and choose to believe the bad things, but dismiss the parts you think some might consider a positive
Do MBAs Make Better CEOs?
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A vivid, surreal Kodachrome love poem to 1980s Florida
Many of these events are but it's irrelevant to the point one way or the other.
It is a funny quote, but obviously not true. Anyone who has worked in, and for, government will tell you that:

"And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government."

Is 100% incorrect. In fact, much of the bureaucracy we have in government is used for ensuring these types of things don't happen. It's why there are committees, reviews, approval chains out the wazoo, etc.
I'm confident that's company politics and bonuses for launching the "new" at play here.
> What this shows me is how inefficient and corrupt a private company is

People tend to forget: private companies are only efficient at keeping the stock price up. If it's not going to have an impact on the bottom line the waste can be insane.

Example off the top of my head: when I was working in Perth I had to process laptops for a mining company. 3-year update on laptops. Employees came to us, offering to pay out of pocket, market price, for their old work laptops -- that was rejected as a security risk; people might take home data or something!

Instead, we tossed em in a dumpster, only the lappys of the executives or senior leaders were wiped or DBAN'd.
No one knows who Leonard Cheshire is so he’s not really on anyone’s spectrum. The military leaders that are household names were all abusive.
I use Inkscape on my mac all the time, though I have to build it with homebrew to make it work nicely.

edit - though it did get borked by a brew update and I had to add a different source to brew to get it back up, so is not that sane admittedly.
But when the private sector does something it optimises for money.

When the government does something it can optimise for other things.

Both are systems that in certain circumstances suck. One isn't better than the other in every circumstance.
I’m sold, let’s get rid of the part of the government that costs the most and delivers the least. I’m talking about the military, of course.
Actually this is a decent collection of data sets.
A Short Story About Choice in an Age of Wearables
Why would anyone work there if this is the case? I agree that Tesla cars are very futuristic, but glory all goes to the company and Elon. Do employee get like a huge bonus or something if they survived long enough? There's got be a reason this article is not mentioning.
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I suppose I should 'view source' to check a few, but are local restaurants actually using tracking code on menu pages?

I'll by the lazy developer / uninformed business owner explanation or the flash cancer analogy, but the tracking explanation seems a little far-fetched.

I get that Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are all running ad networks trying to track me, and that globally this accounts for most of the bloat.

I'm trying to understand the dynamic that causes what should be simple static websites to use JS in such a way that they display no information at all when JS is off.
Affinity is more of a threat to Adobe than Sketch.

At work only the design and video teams have Adobe licences as they're so expensive, even though image editing is a common task throughout the business. When I showed Finance that volume licensing fees for Affinity were less than £20/year for both Photo and Designer, they immediately got licences for the whole company.
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