skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be very useful with Lua code.
Those examples happened because of people with the wrong incentives doing math correctly, not because of anyone doing math incorrectly.
Agony Unrated has mysteriously appeared on Steam
Given that its causes are still not fully understood I think blaming it on a 3rd degree connection is a bit of a stretch
99.9% is approximately 100% ;) But yeah, that's a number I just pulled out of...thin air.
Christmas tld seems weird
Thing that surprised me is from the IEA, coal fired plants aren't cheap to build. What's cheap to build are combined cycle natural gas plants.

If you want to know where combined cycle natural gas is going in the future, look at GE's stock price.
yeah it's called stock footage. people do buy aerial flyby footage you know, if you just need it for flavor(like in a youtube video about your area) this is an amazing solution vs either finding stock footage or buying a drone and creating your own
The point being made by this new paper is actually substantially different to the original 2003 one
People speculate that the "Hotel Concierge" Tumblr is him, but HC denies.
They put expensive pricing out so that the items covering 90% of their userbase look more appealing. Pricing 101. Look at any free to play game where you can buy in-game currency.

[poor man's offer] [crap offer] [real offer] [expensive crap offer]
I think you're confusing this with the difference between having to make additions available as open source as well (like with the GPL) versus being able to keep additions closed source (like MIT or BSD).

In this case, however, you're not allowed to distribute additions at all, unless you contribute them back to the original project. In other words, forking's not allowed.

That's not commonly considered to be open source.
Services usually offer convenience. If you don't care about it then you can already register on tons of sites with multiple accounts and get vast amounts of free storage.

This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now.
Why would it, though? It's not a new product, it's just Google Drive under new branding and Drive has been around for about 5 years already. It's also a paid service where they now even offer better customer support.

I don't get the "they'll shut this down anyways" sentiment in every Google related submission on HN. It's getting tiresome.
According to "An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couple" (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5864/813.long), third (or fourth) cousins have optimal reproductive success. Reproductive success is not just the number of children (because 1st or 2nd cousins couples tend to have more children but with associated health and/or reproductive problems), but the whole descendance.
So the main advantage is that it scales easily, but then it's only cheaper if you actually don't need it to scale?
You can reach the surface of a lake in a craft that floats on water so you should be able to reach the end of the atmosphere in a craft that floats on it.
That is strange but I heard about apple products and software getting worse every day. (users seem to become beta-testers)

I have an old MBP (the one that has all the ports you'd including a standard HDMI, don't know what year) and never upgraded beyond osx mavericks - it runs fine until today.

A friend told me they use new MBPs @work and they seem to break much too often. I also tried the keyboard on his working machine to find out how bad it is nowadays!
I prefer the oldschool thinkpad keyboard but was surprised by the keyboard on the old MBP. The new one's on the other hand are just a tool for torturing users who like to write much.

iTerm2 was my favourite because of the features (like intuitive tmux usage without learning it's CLI-foo). I also like how it is integrated with the rest of the desktop (searching, copy&paste, url-clicking etc.) but can't really compare to the default terminal emulator as I haven't used it much after trying iTerm2 when it was recommended by the whole world.
I googled and found a test[1]. Running this test with a few modifications (like removing unused variables and using PRIu64 instead of %llu) and disregarding the last two prints, I get:

switch = 5589926
goto = 5752079
goto_opt = 5618938

with -O0, and

switch = 2234105
goto = 2013742
goto_opt = 2016200

with -O2.

EDIT:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516

[1] https://gist.github.com/mmozeiko/7cc858985b57df30eebbf8c6e75...
I paid for 23andMe. I did it mostly out of curiosity, to see if there was anything in their genealogy report that would surprise me (there wasn't). I was also interested in their medical risk reports, although I admit to having very little knowledge about how reliable or extensive those reports are.

The thing is, I actually agree with all your concerns about privacy, but I guess I just disagree about the magnitude of the concerns. Of course there are risks of being targeted for ads, or treated differently by health insurance providers. I can't really justify my stance, but I guess I'm just less worried about the possible downside than I was interested about the possible upside.
Sounds like something The Queen might enquire for looking herself up on Google, "How does one Google one?".
Arq Backup works well as long as you remember your passphrase.
BOOM: A Highly Productive Implementation of an Out-Of-Order Processor Generator
Services dedicated to this purpose like Backblaze and Crashplan allow/enable, maybe even enforce client-side encryption. In some cases, you have quite a lot of control over things like the keys and precise encryption settings.
That is what it sounds like to me. They were shaving down costs down to the pennies and didn't account for any additional wear and tear during actual construction so now it will cost them a lot more than they saved.
It could be a typo. That happens.
Access to all the production code I‘ve written in recent years? How about no? I hope nobody in my connected organizations signs up with that permission. Those are potentially millions of Euros of value (not only my own code!), exposed to someone I don’t have a contract with.

I signed up with public permissions, that should be fine. But please just remove the private part. It’s plain irresponsible even if there is no malicious intent. What if someone stole all the tokens from their DB?
You have a typo in your link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1945%E2%80%...
Is Dropbox supposed to be a better example? I find their homepage horrible.

"Dropbox is a modern workspace"

"Keep everything organized without breaking your flow"

I don't understand why these companies feel the need to describe their services in this way.
Yeah, the hotel benefits creep me out. At first glance, it’s an iCloud-like storage plan, fine. But reading more and finding the hotel benefits makes me think “oh right, Google wants to track everything I do online and offline and sell my info to advertisers.”
Always been piss easy for me, and I've done it for years now.
Ask HN: How to search online for medical issues/symptoms privately?
I'm currently shying away from googling some things because I don't want them recorded in any fashion
Yes why does the app ask for private permissions then? Open source projects are public.
Unless, of course, it doesn't. Visual Studio is notoriously bad, neither Intellisense nor VisualAssist can figure out what something is when you have some really complex types(templated classes with multiple inheritance from other templated classes). Then it just shows you nothing.
Banks have been doing concierge for ages, if you're at a "expensive enough" level (and it's not as expensive as one first might assume, my bank offers a full concierge service for 10 000€ / year that's basically "it's 2 am and you want something specific and you're wherever, call this number and we'll find it for you").

I don't think tech companies can compete with that; if you want a concierge on retainer you want a guy you can talk to and explain your weird request. Nobody is paying 10+k a month to get a "barely close enough" answer. I also don't believe that's what they aim.

Instead they intend to go for the "fake concierge, but close enough": tie-ins into all their sub products, in an unified subscription and interface, at a small fraction of the cost. Oh you want an hotel ? We have that. Renting a car ? Buying a musical instrument ? Make a reservation at a restaurant ? Done. Oh, you want that actually unique request that does not get enough volume by month to be a business on its own ? No, we don't do that, but here is the google search results for it.

In other words, I believe Google One aims to play in the same court as Amazon Prime.
Black box means you have no access to how a system actually does some task. All you know is that given an input the system will provide the output. ODE solver is an ordinary differential equation solver. For example [a]

[a] : https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.i...
This is a perfect example of yet another valley startup that has eschewed industry standards to the detriment of functionality, but mastered convenience and marketing. I hate that it works so well, but the market says I'm the one who is wrong.
I pay 2 quid a month for extra Gmail storage (20gb) and nothing else... Does this get rolled into that?!
Java is not an example of a forward thinking language anymore. It has lagged behind C# in every major feature pretty much since C# arrived in 2000. The JVM has had solid performance improvements since forever, and may still be faster than the CLR, but the JVM still has some pretty glaring shortcomings coming from the .NET world. For example, Java generics (and their underlying implementation in the JVM) suffer from type erasure which makes for an awful developer experience in many scenarios. Java/JVM's story for asynchronous code is also pretty pathetic. This is stuff I don't even think about anymore when writing C# but I groan every time I have to do any "modern" programming in Java.
That stopped working when homeless people became invisible to us.
Wow, you were quick.

Mentioning compiler name + version and exact CPU model would be nice. The difference is small enough that those details can tip the scales.
Quite happy with Backblaze for exactly this reason, as it allows you to set your own private encryption key.

That they're quite reasonably priced doesn't hurt either :)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516
I don't know... Besides big and tech savvy companies like the big G no one seems to be able to create a decent UI with consistent UX as you'd expect it from a good desktop environment.

I prefer using apps with ncurses interface to many web apps. Also the standards are not good enough for my demands. I've worked in web development and I know how tedious it is to re-implement the wheel for each and every user (at least it feels that way) because you have to ensure everything is rendered and works on 10 different browsers (different versions of course because who want's to update?). Also you have the devices (I don't even want to think about that) etc...

It is nearly 2k19 and still centering stuff with CSS seems to be a huge deal. That's just not very assuring for me.
This is actually a valid use case and some of my friends desire exactly that from them - i.e., all Google's smarts, without the tracking part (for individuals). I think they'll find a lot of customers willing to pay a good amount for that.
World Record RC “Paper” Airplane (2012)
afaik they run their Cloud Stuff on Google too
The crypto boom really took me back to that time. Suddenly everybody was a poker expert and nobody ever spoke about their losses. Friend of mine made 120k lucking out on a tilt and then lost it all before paying any of the required taxes. (In some countries he could deduct the losses, but here he couldn't.)
And then you thought that millions of websites, a lot of commercialy crafted for customers, adopted it in no time? So an update, to the most used version which has even security isseus is not nessacary? You live in a nice world :)
Good feedback! Haven't had that happen to me yet, but I guess it's just a matter of time.
I don't have an opinion of it! I did search on the topic and found that it is indeed a thing, and the point of it is for farmers to hedge against bad weather. I don't understand it completely but it does seem to make sense in terms of stability. My ??! came across as indignant but it was honest! I watched a Khan video about how options improve stability also, it seems counter-intuitive but my grasp so far is that these instruments are good for stability and stability is important.
I’ve been meaning to write up my expirement in maximizing the amount of things the IL linker removes:

https://github.com/AustinWise/IlLinkerExample/blob/master/RE...

If you are willing to have slower application startup times in exchange for small code, you can disable the ahead of time code generation (crossgen). This gets a self-contained hello world on Windows down to ~10MB. That’s not great for a hello world, but it’s a big improvement over the ~60MB that you get without the linker.
The stuff about CAA is wrong.

CAA is NOT checked by browsers, the BRs do not say browsers should check CAA, and indeed it is specifically NOT designed to be checked by RPs at all. CAA tells the Issuers (Certificate Authorities) whether the name owner authorises them to issue at a moment in time.

If you think "that seems useless" it's probably because you completely misunderstood the security model it's written for. We don't want untrustworthy or incompetent CAs at all, this is not a guard against those. This is a guard against trustworthy, competent CAs that you've got your own reasons to disallow for your specific names.

Example: Facebook for years had a single preferred CA and their contract with that CA said everything gets signed off by the certificates team. After Let's Encrypt came on the scene a subcontractor developing example.facebook.com needed HTTPS, didn't read all the paperwork from Facebook and just got a cert from Let's Encrypt. Facebook security freaked out because their team hadn't authorised this weird new certificate. Let's Encrypt did nothing wrong, but it looked exactly like an attack. CAA lets Facebook tell every CA except the one that knows about their internal policy, "Thanks, but no thanks". Let's Encrypt would have checked CAA and told the subcontractor "Sorry, no, policy forbids, check CAA" and when they went to Facebook to ask why they'd have got an earful for not obeying policy.
I am not sure what the "World Record" part of this video means but this thing is quite a sight to behold
The fact that registration is required for no obvious reason kinda makes the site a no-go zone for me. I only occasionally land there via Google Image search. Maybe I'm just not the right target audience, since I'm not a social media guy. For my specialized interests there are better aggregators such as specific subreddits / HN. Forcing registration is part of the user retention strategy, but for me it makes using the site a non-starter.
article below contains an overview and more pointers.

http://realityforge.org/code/virtual-machines/2011/05/19/int...
Woops! Fixed.
Show HN: Open source code snippet tool – designed for ease of use
Because many people wants no people in jails. Can't stop people from committing crime? Well, don't put them in a jail and bam, you have no people in jails!

Who cares about what someone feels after they get robbed. Public feeling safe does not register on RoI report.
Thanks for taking the time, that is an illuminating point.

I remember spending countless hours arguing with someone who genuinely believed 'greed is good', a total waste of time, no progress whatsoever on either side.

Thinking about it now, my sparring partners attitude makes some sense, if 'advancing our material condition' is indeed the end game. It's like two engineers arguing about implementation details, without realizing they are designing different apps.

Buzzwords like 'Goal Oriented' or 'Understand your clients motivation' fly around, but your point gives them more dimension. Thanks.
Third cousins sounds like a non-issue to me, and it sounds like the author and spouse generally agree. I've never knowingly met any second cousins or any other descendants of my great-grandparents (who are not also in my grandparents' lineage).

I wonder if there are any estimates on how common unaware third-cousin marriages are.
Geometric G = Google. Basically. You can always use the alternative G glyph included in the font!
So if your main use of space is original quality pictures in google photos like me you basically can't use them ?
Great idea! Maybe We'll make that too.
How exactly do you think you'll get your drivers working?

What do you do when the internet is crashed / your app is down?

I like the data-sync & backup part of web apps - you don't have to save etc. and your whole machine can just fall into a river but you still have your work. But I'd rather do this with a seperate solution and keep stuff on my PC so I can access it without a network.
You cannot assume that any remote storage provider will respect your privacy. So you will need to encrypt on your end.

With that in mind, borg backup does a great job at archiving/compressing/encrypting. Then you can sync to GDrive or any other service using e.g. rclone.
12 Storytelling Techniques to Transform Your Pitch
You could probably animate a regular sunset with it a few times before Google sunsets it.
Pointless style is nice in a statically typed language like Haskell if you don't take it overboard, but it's a disaster in a dynamically typed language like JS. Without the types, it is almost impossible to read.
$1.99/mo expert access seems like it could be a valuable selling point to sway older people over to Google One that have never used cloud storage much before. There's still people out there that don't know how to use Dropbox or Google Drive.
Because discussions are good? :-P

The big players tend to be compared, isn't that reasonable?
I grew up in Poland back then. Looking back at those photos, what is amazing is the serenity due to lack of advertising on the streets and on people's clothes. The world's visuals didn't scream at you back then (except for the occasional propagandist poster or banner, but these were not everywhere like today's advertising is).

BTW later, when I was a young teenager in Poland's nineties, already under neoliberal capitalism, I dreamt of the commercials on TV being informative and helpful instead of the brainwashing puke they were (and still are). As an Amiga fanboy, I especially dreamt of a commercial campain that would convince people of Amiga's technical strengths :) Ah, the innocent years of youth.
Whatever floats your boat, but why should everyone have to comply with the most thin-skinned and sensitive of the group?

This clutching at pearls is, from my viewpoint, very silly.

I suppose it's easier to just go along to get along, but sometimes I feel like it's reasonable people in the middle who are constantly giving (to both sides of the political spectrum).
TL;DR Berkson's paradox is a false observation of a negative correlation between two positive traits
GSuite?
What sites did you use ?
I used promethease site, but it was way too much information, and the filters felt complicated.
Is there any other site that makes a better job filtering what is more important for you specifically ?
Any recommendation ?
Quasar-framework is awesome. It is a Vue library with lots of components.
Shakir is a fantastic technical writer. I love that he also traces modern ideas back to their older roots and includes the references.
> Every single C compiler worth mentioning will turn a switch statement into a jump table.

Yes, but that is not the optimization discussed here. The optimization discussed here is looking ahead to the next bytecode instruction's opcode, using it as a key into a different jump table, and jumping to that target. No C compiler I'm aware of does that.

C compilers could try to match on common patterns in interpreter implementation (a switch within a loop, keyed on certain bits of a piece of data read mostly linearly from an array) and heroically generating a dispatch table, but that would still fail in the cases of branches where you don't want to call DISPATCH because execution does not necessarily proceed to the next instruction in the array.
The root cause of which is -- at least as far as I'm aware -- currently unknown to medical science.

It could be a recessive trait (1 in 65536 doesn't mean "impossible")... but it could also be one of a near-infinite number of other possibilities.
> This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now

I disagree with that.

The only "hard" part is stuff that absolutely makes sense during the creation part if you're making several: captcha, not allowing the same phone number to be the recovery for more than ~10 accounts, etc ... It's all very obvious protection against spam/mass registration, and if you are an actual person it takes only a few minutes to get around.

And if you go for paid accounts, all of those limits cease existing.

But beside that, once you have the accounts, it's all very friendly, the multi login where you don't even have to logout / log in other account / logout again / relog in first account, account delegation so you can have a master account with automatic access to others, library (apps, photos, ...) sharing, and all of that is on the free accounts !

It might be far from perfect, but compared to the other big ones Google is very friendly to multi-accounts users.
Because valuation of a software company doesn't come from the products they offer, nor the current user base with credit cards on file. It comes from a perceived potential growth/platform/network effect so all of these companies have to pretend that they will someday be a panopticon that commands your entire life in order to keep that sweet VC money flowing in even if they just repackage s3 with a nice client.
Sure. The US is doing this because they care about the people and countries where their bases are.

It's not because they want to reduce the amount of influence the former USSR and China could exert.

We clearly have very different world views. I'd suggest we end this here.
So how do you measure 'code sharing'?

Most languages will handle file opening transparently, regardless of OS. Is that code sharing? What about the extra bit of logic you have to tack on because file system Y doesn't handle Z?

It also occurs to me that I would rather have 98% code sharing, nicely encapsulated in 1 file, rather than 99% spread over 101 files (not an accusation aimed at this code base).

Still seems impressive.
Not sure what PHP escape method is used in the example on the server, but shouldn't \" escape to \\\" instead of \\"?