skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vigorously curate and purge my Twitter of anything (or anyone) remotely political, and it makes it a great place to see what people in the industry are up to. Otherwise it's a complete dumpster fire. I'm completely convinced that >90% of all accounts are not a human being.
The actual indictment: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rIz2tT7h... (PDF Warning)

Wire fraud is really serious. It looks like the government intends on going the full distance in this case.
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Also, a few things

1) How much would it cost for Dropbox to build and acquire/steal those users?

2) Even if 1) is not that high, what is the opportunity cost for dropbox to do so? Yes, they could move a bunch of engineers and PMs to work on it, but then they wouldn't be working on other more important parts of Dropbox.

3) It's not always about how much you get by buying a competitor, it's sometimes about how much you will lose in the long-term if that competitor doesn't go away. Think Instagram and Facebook. $1B sounded crazy back then, but how much would have Facebook lost if instagram kept growing and growing?
No, it's not like I said that at all. What point are you trying to make?
My frustrations w/ CSS stemmed from not having respect for the complexity of the problem that CSS solved. I went into it w/ the same attitude of "hey, just center this thing", and didn't really get anywhere. These days I have accepted that CSS is a tool for pros, which I am not.
This does not bode well as well for Nvidia who already had a hard Q4 2018. They expecs to report $2.2 billion in fourth quarter revenue versus the previous guidance of $2.7 billion.
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Apologies, I wasn't trying to be pedantic. My point is that Juno is decoupled from the language itself. You don't have do depend on it to be productive with Julia.

I agree that tooling has a significant influence on the productivity of a language. One does not only adopt a language, but the ecosystem and community around it. I think we both agree on this. I am simply trying to point out that there is an unavoidable delay between the maturity of the language and the maturity of the ecosystem. I think its fair to take this delay into account.
Since it sounds like they didn’t catch it until near the end, it’s probably north of $65k/wafer. Probably single digit billions would be an accurate guess for the total loss to TSMC.
He is more on the introverted side but he has done some of the people leadership stuff as a team captain and he has developed some pretty close friends the past couple years.

Do you have any specific suggestions about activities to broaden or deepen his people skills?
Here's a set of photos from 1980[1], Shenzhen looks pretty provincial at that point.

1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwdemery/sets/7215761115407137...
But also super lethal per vehicle mile traveled. It might be different if you are on a dedicated right-of-way...
Time to act on climate change is not in the next couple of years, it's about 30 years ago. Please post links to real science if this is so. No youtube videos.
>you really believe that all the bekants, after assembly, are perfectly identical so that the only remaining variable is the observer's subjectivity?

They may not be identical but I think subjective detection/annoyance of a wobble is the most likely difference because of the physics of how the desk is assembled.

If you're not familiar with the BEKANT desk, this video[0] shows what the underside looks like. (Please note this is showing the BEKANT version that is motorized to adjust the standing positions.)

You'll see there's not enough support mass, nor enough surface area of metal cross bracing, etc to prevent it from wobbling -- especially at extended heights of 39+ inches. Also notice that the braces are attached to the table top using plastic push pins and not metal lag bolts.

To eliminate perceivable wobble would require increasing the 2 'T' posts to 4 corner posts -- or keeping 2 posts but make them more massive, etc.

But IKEA didn't have to do any of those more expensive engineering designs because a significant number of buyers already praise it as having "no wobble." This makes sense to me.

Some other possibilities for the conflicting observations:

(1) It's possible that some self-reports of "no wobble" are mainly using the desk at sitting height instead of standing height.

(2) Maybe some users have it extended at standing desk but put in a corner so there are 2 walls that stabilize it.

(3) They may be using the BEKANT version that's non-motorized and sitting-height only. (That one has a different underside bracing geometry and also more mass for more rigidity. I wouldn't expect this desk to wobble.)

This thread happens to be about "standing desks" and the comment people are replying to is also talking about "standing desks". Therefore, I discounted the 3rd possibility.

[0] deep link: https://youtu.be/lZ9VmpyXk6g?t=187
Fake website for a class project and / or art?
It should be something derived net present values or discounted cash flow. Same general idea: what is the summation of future cash flows distributable to owners after a suitable discount rate (plus liquidation value, maybe).

It's hard to extrapolate rapid growth correctly, but it can lead to very high present values (ie ~20x sales, depending growth curve of expenses & current margins).

The same formula, given a 10% discount rate zero growth implies a ~9x multiple on earnings, a pretty low valuation.

Craftsman Tools was a brand, if I recall correctly (made by Danaher?). So while asset light and potentially higher margin, there probably wasn't as much liquidation value there. If growth rate wasn't high or decreasing the predicted valuation on earnings might have been low.

Then you just run into human factors like fomo/bidding wars (maybe, like Nicira, Heptio?), things that impact valuation like perceived higher or low risk free rates that might impact the discount rates that are used, et cetera.
>Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me.

Yeah, you're not a designer.

Note I'm not insulting you. :)

CSS is very much like magazine or print layout IMO. If you're not used to that, it won't gel well. If you think of layout from a design perspective and _not_ a programming perspective, it's really not that bad. The warts more come down to differing implementations across browsers, which has become far less of an issue in recent years.

I expect you'll get a very different response from the crowd here, though, so consider it my two cents. I've done much backend work (like yourself) but started in frontend, so I feel adept enough to work with CSS well when I need to. shrug
It clicked a bit more for me understanding the box model better.
More recently flexbox makes things a lot more clear/easier and handles a lot of those problems by default.
I have no idea how design works, that seems a bit more art.

EDIT resources

I personally love https://cvan.io/flexboxin5/ for testing and https://flexboxfroggy.com/ for learning flexbox
Thanks for mentioning this. The article at least seems clear from the start it's talking about tax fraud and evasion but that headline had me expecting a very different article.

This may be another case of English speaking communities being separated by the same language.
It sounds like you just haven't put in the effort/time. I very much doubt that CSS is "too hard" for you.

I've had similar experiences with regex, shell, & vim. If you're not doing it all the time, it's easy to just brush it off to the side or google whatever you need to do.

No reason to be an expert in something you're only going to use once in a while.
We live on a planet where ecological damage may cause coffee to be extinct by the end of this century and we are wasting resources sending coffee beans into space.
Deploying ML/Deep Learning Models to Production
What platform do you guys use to deploy your Machine Learning/Deep Learning models to production?

Do you guys prefer building a custom solution (using flask/Docker) or using managed services like Azure, Algorithmia, etc? and Why?

I have never deployed models before so looking at pros/cons of each approach.
Julia is a much bigger language than Python, by a long shot.
Volition is not the same thing as free will.
got a source for that? or was that a low gravity joke? haha
The instagram and features in a german magazine make me think otherwise. Everyday a dumb startup is born.
Not true. USMCA was signed before the arrest. Approx USMCA was finalized on Nov 30 (negotiated in the months before that. Meng was arrested on Dec 1).

Citations:
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672150010/usmca-trump-signs-n...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-cana...
I've seen the glaciers at Garibaldi first hand. Even now they're still awesome to look at. But before we went go there we took a look at some air photos from over the years and some of the first pictures ever taken of it. The difference was dramatic and fairly shocking. The lake itself was about half the size originally and even in the photos from 50-60 years ago the difference was pretty dramatic. The glacier was still twice the size as when I went and covered the whole side of the mountain down to the lake and pretty much the entire opposite side of the shore.

By the time I ended up going there the glacier was about half way up the side of the mountain, the opposite shore was mostly free of ice and had to be about half as wide. It was sad to see but i'm glad I got to see at least what I did.

Also, glacial lakes are fucking cool, Garibaldi lake is colour of ice blue koolaid.
How to Build Burnable and Pausable ERC-721 Tokens with OpenZeppelin and Quiknode
> The comment I'm replying to talks about ways to make money with your hobby online.

That was an example.

> It's a warzone

People still live there. English-speaking people too.
There are two important attributes of a password: they're (often) human-memorable and prone to reuse / inexact reuse on other sites, and they're a long-term authentication token. JWT refresh tokens have the second attribute. But so are many other things, like regular old cookies that don't expire for weeks or months, which browsers store on a regular basis. If you're logged into HN you have one of these.

While the HN cookie is HttpOnly, this isn't really putting it in more-secure storage: an XSS attack against HN can just issue whatever API requests to HN it wants, even though it can't easily walk off with a copy of the cookie.
I'm in Allen which is outside of the DART service area, though, so I'm probably not covered. Although I'm just across the Plano-Allen border. Maybe I could just walk a couple blocks south and summon a ride. :D

Thanks for the info! I'll definitely check it out.
Thanks for the link. Interesting it looks like Redox is writing their own filesystem or at least reimplementing ZFS:

https://github.com/redox-os/tfs

I wonder how that effects the time horizon for maturity. I've always just assumed that a filesystem takes a good 10 years to be really stable. Maybe my assumptions are way off? Or the facts that its a reimplementation makes that matter much less? Didn't it take BTRFS around this length of be considered production stable?
All industries need to arrange cover for accidents (this should not be news in an argument about industrial insurance and liabilities). Some companies are big enough to hold their own funds, for example Shell has payed out $20 billion in settlements for the Deepwater horizon accident. That is more than the $13 billion dollar fund arranged to spend in the event of nuclear accidents in the whole of the US.

The idea of holding oil companies liable for climate change has a ring to it, but insurance wont cover it because there is no legal precedent. There is legal precedent to claiming damages on industrial accidents and nuclear industry accidents. If one nuclear plant fails badly for any number of reasons and fallout is blown towards a city or across valuable farmland, the claims could easily exceed 13 billion USD.
Cost absurbing is good.
As far as small projects go, it's useful to take what you've learned from larger projects like Bootstrap, and use a subset of that knowledge.

For virtually everything else in production, you should be using themed Bootstrap or CSS framework x, y, or z that fits to your corporate identity. Usually so you can have a front-end engineer make decisions about symbols and have those changes flow out to the rest of your webpages and web apps without relying much on engineering to hand tune everything all over again. This is sort of ideal CSS usage, though it's probably debatable by folks here.

CSS is development more than it is design. It just helps you accomplish design.

Maybe one of the points glanced over CSS discussions is that the traditional visual formatting model was designed for documents, and not web page and web app layouts for today's world. That's better addressed by flexbox and CSS grids. For instance, the entire concept of floats isn't for aligning things, it's for text to flow around "floated" boxes like images. Most hacks like clear fixes were designed to help utilize floats for page layout versus document composition.
Well, thinking about it more, I did realize there's a pretty nasty edge case with my hypothetical JavaScript syntax:

let let x = 5;
let x = 6;
// should this set the variable "let x"?
// or define a variable named "x"?

One could potentially design around situations like this, but allowing whitespace in identifiers likely does require being much more meticulous about treatment of reserved words, identifiers, and whitespace than more traditional syntaxes, and this is likely why not many people attempt this.

I think the idea is worth experimenting with, though, and that a good implementation of it could be convenient enough for end-users to outweigh the implementation inconvenience.
Mourinho (a famous coach) too.
How President Trump Is Like a Terrible Poker Player
After a Silicon Crystal with 99.99999999+% purity is grown, they are sliced into large pieces called "Wafers". Transistors are then built on top of the crystal structure. All together, these transistors create chips. Somewhere between 75 to 7500 chips are made per wafer, depending on the size of the design.

Yes, 10+ 9 purity. And the impurities in those crystals were put in there on purpose (to make N-type or P-type Silicon). I never personally understood the chemistry or physics behind the process, but its always cool thinking about how exceptionally pure this whole process is.

In any case, if a run of wafers is bad, that can easily be hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of chips per wafer. For whatever reason, it seems like these wafers did not have the 99.99999999% purity needed to successfully make chips, so everyone's chips are ruined. Whatever the issue is, you can rest assured that a ton of business folk are going to be pissed.
Lack of timeliness has affected our appetite for capital punishment.

Consider Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated president William McKinley. The assassin was electrocuted just 45 days after the president died.

Today, 45 days is unimaginable. You couldn't even get the trial started in that time frame. These days, we execute people for crimes done a few decades prior.
I hate css, but one of my colleague (who's really good at it) told me once that people have problems with css because they don't study and take it seriously. I.e. I spend so much time reading on new languages and design architectures, but besides some articles here and there I don't study css or take it seriously at all. So yeah, there you have it.

I also think it's getting better. One major problem with css was getting it to work across all browsers, but now if you're lucky enough to only have to support modern versions it's so much easier than it used to be!
The GTA is also generally leading north america in adoption of dedicated rights-of-way for buses, such as the mississauga transitway and the bus lanes for Viva.

Train-like travel times, with bus-like frequency and construction times.
lol I mistook shutdown as a verb.
The thing with CSS is it's not a programming language. Progamming skills and CSS skills are almost completely orthogonal. It is simply a domain of practical knowledge that takes years and years of dealing with all the idiosyncracies, cross browser issues, and silly warts of historical legacy that come with it to master. That being said, it is without a doubt the most powerful and simplest layout tool in existence. Things like QT can come close, but really nothing else is as as simple and easy to use while still being extremely performant and highly customizable. There's very very good reasons why practically all software nowadays has gone to HTML/CSS based UIs.
If you read the story, the major event is the case against Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng. She was arrested in Vancouver per a US extradition request back in December. Most of this new article is providing background on the charges against her and then talking generally about potential cyber risks of Made-in-China silicon.

Here's the Bloomberg article dated December 5th. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-05/huawei-cf...

That has since ballooned into a huge diplomatic crisis for Canada, which has had it's citizens arrested in China and subjected to sleep deprivation interrogation and who knows what else (can't find source. read somewhere). There are active calls for our national telco's to ban Huawei's tech in our 5G infrastructure. The latest round of controversy was when Telus, one of the three major cellular providers, publicly endorsed Huawei and confirmed it will be moving ahead with their hardware purchase.

So yes, for us it is old news.
FWIW, NJ Transit has operated Park & Ride bus stations for as long as I can remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NJ_Transit_bus_routes_...
On a somewhat related topic - the How I Built This episode with the Zumba founders is fascinating. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i...

spoiler alert
One of their biggest revenue streams is with artists and music labels launching their songs in Zumba classes via the "official" playlists. Zumba is an excellent promotion channel for Latin music/island music and other "tropical" music.

The non-english language music is huge and works completely different than the rest of the pop charts.
I actually prefer coding CSS from scratch. Color schemes and making things look nice IS hard, for my previous and current projects I had to get feedback from friends, family, end users, graphic designers, etc. UX is hard, it's a different field than programming, but there is a method, research, and science behind it.

Here's a good resource for UX: https://goodui.org

And here is one for color theory: https://uxplanet.org/color-theory-brief-guide-for-designers-...
It's notable that some of the evidence against Ms. Meng consists of "an electronic device that contained a file in unallocated space -- indicating that the file may have been deleted" (page 8 of the indictment).

Did authorities seize and image her devices at JFK?
But then there's Newspeak by Gilad Bracha et al. which was prototyped and bootstrapped on Squeak: http://newspeaklanguage.org/ns101/ns101.html.
I guess part of my point was that having more domestic or allied consumer electronics manufacturing capacity is what would provide the ability to ramp up the production.

I'm skeptical that peacetime military-dedicated manufacturing capability + peacetime stockpiles would be able to scale to meet wartime needs. I would think it would be significantly advantageous to have plenty of slack, state-of-the-art civilian capacity (+ related expertise) in all needed areas.
Former Munchery employees sue company, blame CEO for shutdown
There are some use cases for Bootstrap for sure, but I feel you need grasp the basics of CSS first. It is like using jQuery for everything instead learn proper Javascript.
From my highly unscientific anecdata, that's been one of their primary use cases. The main problem I've heard reiterated is that they're not always readily available, suddenly turning a can-do trip into no-go.
You opt in for this, and it's kind of the whole point of the PSAT. You're taking the test so that colleges will send you discounted offers. There isn't much other reason to take the PSAT.
Vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health, researchers say
Yes, technology is limited by physics, but by many measures it's still very far from the limits. We build tons of things out of steel, ferchrissakes. Computers use many orders of magnitude too much power, even neglecting reversibility. They don't even use the third dimension!
It depends on that software you are using. But, you might want to check out https://cloud.google.com/ml-engine/. This works pretty good for TensorFlow. Basically, upload your model and it'll expose it as an API. Then you can flip through versions as you evolve it.

If you use something like flask/Docker you are totally owning the entire pipeline and that might be a good/bad thing. By own, I mean hosting it yourself. Do you really want to own the pipeline, are you getting anything out of it, is this a competitive advantage to you some how? If not, you probably want to just off-load it to something else. Then, someone else can worry about all the production issues, and you can focus on what you're good at.
This is a known `Pkg` bug (the patch should be merged this week). In the meantime, you have to `pkg> rm SymEngine` followed by `pkg> add SymEngine#master`.
> impossible to navigate

It is depressing to me how low the bar is for our ability to learn an application. If the UI has more than a single list or button, it becomes "impossible to navigate". There was a time when users would expect some time getting to know their application and even, dare I say, read a guide or manual! Sometimes extremely powerful, creative, and useful tools will have a learning curve. Snap could offer some amazing capabilities, but because of this "simple is everything" mindset, they will face outrage if they expose anything beyond message passing.
How exactly do we know children with some form of mental deficiency don't spend more time in front of a screen?
He finds things interesting but so far I haven't detected a real passion for any subject. I think engineering is his choice because it is at least interesting and foundations in math and science come very easily to him. So it seems logical to him to go down that path even if he isn't 'passionate' about it.
Using my late father's inheritance money.

Jobs pay terribly where I live. At one point, I actually enquired for a job at KFC because it paid better for degree holders and had more job security.

I had intended to sell coffee, but after losing $6000 on that, I had to find a low capex path. Startups were ideal. Growth was fast, low starting capital, less reliance on people like landlords and permits who can screw you however they want. It's also nimble enough that you can just shut down a company and open a new one if things didn't go well with a partner.
Although canvas does do grayscale anti-aliasing, this particular app is blurry because the canvas is being rendered at a lower resolution than your screen. To make it crisp, the author would have to set the canvas' javascript canvas.width property to be twice the canvas' css canvas.style.width property.
Can't argue with that. Thanks for correcting my fuzzy memory! In the same vein, this still removes the "we can always take our business over there" card that our PM was waving around.
Huh. Indeed it is. I'm American, and I did not even realize that "graft" meant "hard work" in British English.
Yea as I can't count how many times I've seen a "stories" feature open on someone's phone and asked "Oh I didn't know Snapchat had that?", only to be told that it was Instagram. Insta ate Snapchat's lunch - pretty brutally.
It boggles my mind why the Chinese choose to take on nefarious endeavors when they are already ahead.