skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't thinking about it very deeply. Boolean algebra was useful in either case. When people who are working in Quantum Computing are overwhelmingly motivated by the speed increases only possible with real quantum computers, if one never materializes, not that many people are going to be excited about algorithims for pretend quantum computers that run no faster than classical machines.

Furthermore, the bifurcation of computer science and electrical engineering hasn't been all that successful as an academic practice. UC Berkeley recently decided to leave the ABET accreditation process for EECS because they felt they can innovate on a better synthesis of the fields for the fields and students.
“These fees like overdraft fees — they’re not fees millionaires are paying. It’s ordinary folks paying. It’s actually more expensive for those that have less money and it’s cheaper for those that have more money. We think that isn’t right and we think that’s bad business” Bhatt gripes.

================

It's been pretty good business for many banks for years. ???
Robinhood will take on Banks with 3% checking and savings accounts
I know that you're probably talking a lot older than one century, but as a minor counterpoint:

Our house (in Buffalo, NY area) turned 100 this year, and there are thousands of houses just like it in the Buffalo area. In fact, most of the housing that was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s is still standing:

https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2015/06/28/oldhomes...

I think our house could easily go another 100 years with the proper maintenance.
> It is estimated that more than two hundred square miles of coal has burned

Why would they measure the amount burned in square miles??? How thick? This measurement is meaningless!
Yes -- while lauding itself as being very Progressive.
Also, the UK is about to commit national suicide.
Adobe's software is large enough and ingrained deep enough that it seems people give it a pass with today's standards for software stability. Lowering the threshold of well-shaped review nearer to git and libgit2 would yield even more value toward stepping through the software stargate.

Git total loc: 279,993

libgit2 total loc: 219,887

Git CVEs (so far): https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4008...

libgit2 CVEs (so far): https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1606...
Interesting. Is lower power OOE an area of active research?
May I ask how much can one make with such sort of income?
The Great War ran from 1914 to 1918.
A web player for Apple Music has been long sought out by it's users. Now it's here!

Github:
https://github.com/naveedgol/apple-music-web-player/

Mac Rumours:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/13/apple-music-unofficial-...

r/linux:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/a5p8v5/i_built_an_ap...

r/apple:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/a5ux20/apple_music_g...
Ship-hold, data access framework for Postgres on Nodejs
Uhhh...the great war wouldn't start for another two years in 1912....it went from july 28 1914 - November 11 1918 and world war 1 did totally change the way greater society looked at war, death and horror. Actually I read a pretty great article on hn recently that gets into how ww1 changed our perception of horror in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345993
Factory robot impales worker with 10 foot-long steel spikes after malfunction
Pocket is great, and definitely a leader in bookmarking. It's easy, fast, and seamless. They got acquired by Mozilla, so it will be interesting to see how the integration with Firefox will evolve and affect their roadmap. Although I recently read that Firefox market share was down to 9%...
False positive can very well lead to innocent people being beaten for "looking suspicious".
I am not an expert by any means. But asking child at, say, age 13 to read portions of it and explain back to parents, what she/he picked up from there -- will work well.

Probably a type of 'self-awareness' of own's thinking process does not start before 11.
The title is missing a right parenthesis after the date https://www.xkcd.com/859 . EDIT: I originally put one in this comment, but then realised that that would be even worse once the title was fixed ….
You can also easily go to a very brown area and see the same thing. I mean Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Dublin, San Ramon are heavily Indian cities, if not outright majority, and heavily blue. They are also awesome places to live.
Yes lost the SuperSonics, gaining an NHL team
15% for median service. 10% for 1 or more standard deviations below, and 20% for 1 or more standard deviations above.

So you pay 15% on 2/3 of your meals, 10% on 1/6, and 20% on 1/6. But the mean is also 15%.

Giving 20% to everybody is Lake Wobegon syndrome, where all the servers are above average. If you don't adjust your tip based on the quality of service, you remove the incentive to strive for above-average service. You end up with servers that sit down at your table when taking your order and chitchat with you, instead of just doing their job professionally while you can see or hear them, and bitching about it in private later.
Right, but that incentive is only substantial if you’re going to park a lot of money there, which is exactly the sort of customer they don’t want according to the comment I replied to.
Ask: What automated testing approach do you use for browser based UIs?
I am interested in the tools/approaches you use to test browser based UIs in an automated manner. Maybe you can share your experience and the effort to implement it and/or the amount of maintenace this approach entails. I have the feeling there is not yet a somehow industry-standard of solving this problem.

Personally, I am using a protractor based DSL to test the UI in isolation, using a mocked BE or mocked requests. Its quite stable, and maintenance efforts are low, cause we keep the number of explicit assertions at a minimum. I am well aware of the long list of tools you can use (robotframework, nightwatch.js, selenium directly...).

Thanks in advance.
Yes. Lost the NHL and gained the MLS
I'm sure there is a catch. Normally whenever banks offer good interest rates there is some maximum amount you can invest, or it's only valid for a year, or etc. etc. etc.
Someone stole HN's source?!
I don't think this is always the case. I graduated in 2014, from a small state university with a CS degree and a decent GPA. Last year after only have a couple years in the field with a big US based Tech company, and I landed interviews with Amazon and Google while searching for jobs after being laid off. I think it really just depends on location, and probably a million other things.
The difference (and why I don't think your statement is particularly true) is one of control. Businesses can and do continuously adjust pricing to reflect the market, workers cannot.
It’s anecdata so take it with a grain of salt, but a lot of red areas like my home town are also extremely resistant to new industries and the changes that they bring on top of being unwelcoming to anybody from out of state and in fact anybody differing significantly from the dominant local culture.

All of this is directly counter to what makes a good location for a new campus. I’m sure that there are red areas that aren’t like my hometown, but from what I’ve gathered a lot of them — maybe even a good majority — are.
I don't remember numbers (and resources aren't always apples-to-apples), but it's bigger than a Zedboard and 60% of a zc706 I believe. It's a ton of wires is the big issue I suspect.
>There were rumors that the ship was trying to break some kind of speed record, but the Titanic was not built for speed.

not exactly. Longest hull means highest hull speed.
Well certainly the front shouldn't have fell off I can tell you that much.

Water is quite heavy and dense. When you are jacking around with differential buoyancy, you're dealing with forces that can break the back of a ship. This is how torpedoes often wreak the worst damage. The overpressure can lift a part of the ship and break its back. Flooding the 1st 3rd or a ship could do something similar.
Agreed, they are trying to buy customers, if it turns out that they can't convert these customers into traders they will lower the rate to a breakeven amount and not care if they lose those accounts.
Most people of a certain age also remember OJ Simpson's famous highway chase and the subsequent murder trial. A nationwide, shared cultural memory doesn't even require large scale tragedy, let alone innocence.

As others have suggested, I would think interest in the Titanic had much to do with the celebrity status of its victims and the ship itself.
Why should small companies be able to collect user data without consent?
There is a lot of talk about elite universities offering full-tuition to those that make under a certain income, but what this ignores is usually you have to be in a certain income bracket to obtain certain SAT, AP scores along with the right ECs and upper division college prep courses. This usually means attending the best private, public, or STEM magnent school in your state, which sadly most families in those income brackets cannot afford. The people getting into these elite schools come from elite secondary schools and the poor people that can't attend these schools are usually excluded from admissions to elite colleges. So the "free tuition" advertisement is nice, but in practice their admissions standards do a good job of keeping such poor folks out.
This is Exhibit N for the "the class keyword is ruining Javascript" prosecution. If you want a "private variable" you just use a closure.

let incrementer = () => {
let x = 0;
return { value: () => x, increment: () => x++ };
};

It's like the OO people are determined to forget about the functional concepts that made JS great.
Why Engineers Should Participate in Product Discovery
Yeah, most of these firms use pretty bad metric comparisons for their marketing efforts to inflate how much better it is when in reality it's par for the course with Ally and others. Now that doesn't mean it's bad. Having used it there aren't that many challenges (I'd argue less because information is clear and the interface is nice to work with) and it's all bonds and the risk is low. Unless you have an argument bonds are risky compared to cash sitting against inflation. It's still all SIPC insured.

> Smart Saver’s built-in portfolio is the Betterment Portfolio Strategy’s allocation at 0% stocks, 100% bonds.

The one big downside could be is if you need cash _now_ it can take a few days (5?) before being able to use it.
I'm not an expert on real estate trends, but Las Vegas real estate is not something that should be used as an indicator of anything.

IMO, what's happening in Vegas is that a lot of people who swooped in and bought houses when the bubble burst and trying to become mini-millionaires off of their investments.

Houses that went for $120,000 four years ago are listed for $400,000+ for no other reason than people think they can cash in, and see all the other listings for the same unrealistic prices, and they're trying to "get theirs while the getting is good."

The problem is that they've priced themselves out of the market, since very few people who move to Vegas are tied to the city. They just move elsewhere. So there's lots of houses sitting around with $500,000 price tags on them that aren't being bought because they're simply not worth that much.

I base this largely on three people I know who are currently trying to sell their homes. The person who best exemplifies this is a guy who bought his house for $200,000 in 2014. He's trying to sell it for $459,000 now. Why? No reason. He just thinks that he can get that much for it.

People have to stop using houses as piggy banks.
You would only mark functions where it’s a bad idea to return the error code that way. Printf isn’t a function like that, and fprintf probably isn’t (use case of printing to stderr), but fwrite is.
She was prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss who in the current government had faked their PhDs, I think it's clear "GDPR" was just the word they waved around as a the token flimsy excuse.

She could (almost) equally as likely been prevented from attending "for her own safety" if the ladies toilet had ran out of toilet paper.
Glad you mentioned "gliders"… they were on the chopping block, but obviously any and every common sense decision from 2008-2016 will be reversed by this awesome administration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478176
Its determining what sufficiently small is:

Any regulated shop is going to have clerks ambiguously asking you your tolerance level, as if we were all running around getting high for the last 20 years with illegal and consistent reliable sources - like they did.

Then they bombard you with edibles and all kinda of concoctions, most of which are impossible to have an even distribution of THC in them. Smoking being the lowest common denominator on this menu.

This is what consumers are experiencing for now, and it can improve.
Also worth reading: https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-circuit-breaker/java/
All your credit card companies do the same.
Maintaining spontaneity is the criterai?

It's not exactly spontaneous when an organized group of hecklers decides to attend an event with the specific purpose to disrupt it and interrupt or prevent the speaker's message from getting across.

As long as events actually stay spontaneous, I doubt speakers/performers will be motivated to become early adopters of the tech. When attendees with bad intent or repeated bad behavior become too frequent, then it's actually maintaining spontaneity to filter them out.
So it's a tautology. Prestigious schools attract top talent because top talent goes to prestigious schools. The best way to be successful is to be top talent—regardless of where you go to school for the majority—but top talent are likely to be those people who push and stress and play to win the "collegiate sweepstakes".
With the information available in this article, it sounds like Google's claim is that they were not notified of the granted name suppression. It also sounds like name suppression isn't a matter of course in every criminal case, which would mean you shouldn't expect Google to suppress names without direct knowledge of a suppression order.

This is not a claim that "it's all the machine's problem it's nothing to do with us", but rather that "we can't take an action we're not aware we are required to take, and it's on you to make us aware".
My dealer (Taiwanese, direct importer) confessed that she doesn’t even use the accoutrements any more. She just puts the leaves in a cup and refills it when it’s half empty. I can get at least half a day out of a serving of leaves with black or any good green tea.

Interesting little effect of this: the leaves reconstitute when you do this (better teas have whole leaves). By the time you dump it out the tea looks like leaves again.
Ask HN: How do you comply with U.S. Sanctions?
Hi.

I've got a new U.S. SaaS company, and want to make sure we don't break U.S. Sanction law by selling to individuals, IPs, or countries that the U.S. will get upset about.

Has anyone found a solution to this?
It is the embodiment of the slot machine with a 93% payout.
you are getting 3% interest in paper money which has hidden inflation rate of ...?

better to buy gold/silver/real estate IMHO.
Undefined. But somewhere between $1 and $2 would be a decent first guess.
> Now imagine the value of knowing what you spend every single dollar on, how often you're shopping at a competitor, what time of day you're most likely to swipe your card, etc.

I'm curious what the harm here is. Are they going to blackmail people who shop at their competitors?
World record temperature change
You don't see it from street level, though. It's just ugly from an aerial view. At street level, all you see is the outside of the building, which looks like a regular building, and you have a few tunnels here and there that lead to the parking garage.

Here: https://goo.gl/maps/CFbDSxyhkXP2

Other than that little tunnel, you wouldn't be able to tell there's a parking garage inside.
That's modern socialism. In communism company directors needed to be members of the party, in modern socialism it is enough that they bring stuffed envelopes. In exchange party makes sure that competition can't grow big enough (unless they can provide stuffed envelopes). EU is rotten to the core but has so great PR the gullible defend it with passion.
New Class of Metamaterials Changes Physical Properties in Seconds
Some workplaces can split your direct deposit from payroll into multiple accounts. _If_ you can hit the deposit limits that way. The bank doesn't need to know it is not your entire salary.
Ask HN: What are some good review aggregation sites?
As a business owner, which site do you use to bring all the reviews on the internet at one place?
They may be playing this on two sides: the more obvious one which is acquiring customers to feed their trading business, and simply trying to evolve into a financial institution, which should bolster their valuation in their inevitable IPO in 2019 or 2020. Their backers might be content to burn money for a year or so to get a larger multiplier at some point in the future.
Thanks for that. I knew the dates for WWI. For some reason I had it stuck in my head that the Titanic was 1919, not 1912.

Still, my point stands — "innocent" is simply a false way to describe people of that age.
Why have two checking accounts?
So, if I understand it right, Jupyter follows an agent-based model of computation, right? As opposed to spreadsheets, which follow a functional reactive paradigm.

Yes, these are different computation models; although formally it is possible to transform mathematically one into the other, and vice-versa (in the same way that you can transform any computation model to a Turing machine or lambda calculus).

It doesn't have any practical concerns, but it means that you can translate insights gained from one model to the other.
I believe if you want knowledge, then the answer is no. College can teach you a lot and show a ton. That said, ultimately, you will have to become your own teacher anyway and you can do it in your own room at your own house. But if your goal is getting a job, you absolutely want the biggest names (the bigger, the better chance at getting a job) to vouch for you. According to the article, this may not be true for rich white men (presumably, American), but if you are from Kazakhstan or Nigeria, I believe you'll definitely get a bang for your buck waving that Harvard paper in front of a potential employer.
The 25 most-popular passwords of 2018  sigh
In other words no, but if in 1870 someone asked me to work on "Molecular Computer Science" I might not because I could just study "Computer Science"
Ah, sousveillance in action.
Roughly ~50% of the C++ ecosystem compiles with -fno-exceptions[1]. So using return values instead of exceptions is not against the language's idioms at all. It's one of the reasons std::nothrow exists, after all.

Similarly while exceptions are part of the Java idioms, it does after all have checked exceptions even, it's incredibly common to not use that idiom on constructors, where it's weird. Just because a thing is an idiom in some cases doesn't mean it's the expected idiom in ALL cases.

And if an idiom is dumb it doesn't mean you should just do it to follow along with the dumb, nor should you go to a language where you're forced to be less safe & less clear just because "but mah idioms". Be the change you want to see.

1: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070... has the survey data (along with a language proposal to make return-value exceptions a proper C++ feature)
And this: Pattern: Service Mesh - http://philcalcado.com/2017/08/03/pattern_service_mesh.html
Does anyone have an opinion on whether these sorts of PW lists are truly representative?
I believe new space, based on what I know of their current office there.

Obviously I'm not Apple and could be wrong, though.
Yeah, they ran out of the books very quickly. All of my married-with-young-kids coworkers picked up some stuffed animals and pins for their kids.
Robinhood’s reliability, maybe: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/a5iwgh/robi...
Coffee maker! My daily morning coffee now costs me pennies and I can enjoy it in bed.
They're related, but computer science has nothing to do with how electrons interact in different materials. Not that it isn't useful for people to know how the lower level components actually work. For that matter, people building the lower level components will also be more useful knowing how they're used in the abstract level.

And similarly, studying QC in the theoretical form can also lead to discovery and understanding of quantum properties. Even if we have no fully-featured quantum computers.
The app will alert you when your food is ready at the pass-through.

TBH, some restaurants can benefit more from this than others. Portillo's strikes me as one that could greatly benefit from more judicious use of automation. By my count, every order is taken at least two times, and recorded at least three times.

This has no doubt contributed to my orders being at least 20% wrong every single time I have eaten there. I have no idea how they can stay in business.

The payment system has one version of the order. The kitchen system has another version of the order. The bag has yet another shorthand version. Each version is worked by a different employee, but no one ever cross-checks. Madness.
My understanding (which is limited, so someone please jump in if I'm wrong) is that SIPC does not protect against a decline in value of your assets.

I'm wondering:

First, whether Robin Hood is lending out deposits to margin traders. If not, what are they doing with the money? I don't think that they are, as the article implies, making > 3% on US treasuries.

Second, if that investment loses money, are those losses passed on to account holders? If not, someone must be insuring that investment. Who?
I believe that’s the official line but I can’t help noticing that it also gets the little bits of tea leaves that would be missed by the traditional straining method.

I’m fairly sure both are true.
> Can I have a Map<String, Dog?>

yes

> because code written in terms of Map<String, T> will assume that if map.get(someKey) is null that means someKey isn't in the map

And it can safely assume that. Map<String, T?> isn't a subtype of Map<String, T>, so passing Map<String, T?> to a place requiring Map<String, T> will not compile.

T is a subtype of T?, not the other way around. Map is defined as Map<K, out V>, meaning V is covariant.

So you can pass a Map<String, Dog> where a Map<String, Dog?> is required, but not a Map<String, Dog?> where a Map<String, Dog> is required.
Virgin Galactic's supersonic plane reaches space
So it's ok for small companies to leak personal data?

Doctors' surgeries are small companies here in the UK.

The issue here is that literally every company across the world doesn't give a crap past the end of their nose and has abysmal data protection policies in place because it affects the bottom line. They introduced local legislation to help this and a few large fish got fined and that was it. Ultimately it wasn't worth doing anything about it because it wasn't an operational risk.

GDPR is about making it a major operational risk to do a shitty job. The rules should be the same for every company and the fines proportional, which they are.

The "sheer amount of rules" isn't a lot really and you owe it to your customers.

Conclusion: most of the anti-GDPR whiners are worried about spending on data protection and training because it hurts the bottom line. Change my mind?
Have it return by value in an optional then if that's what you want. You're not forced to do it on the heap. Or if for some reason you need to be able to pick you can do the whole templated allocator song & dance.
I've lived in Cincinnati and Atlanta. It's nowhere near as bad as what seems to be coming out of the Bay Area.