skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt this way going through YC - sometimes different partners gave conflicting advice, and that felt confusing. It took a while for me to look back on the experience and realize it was a feature not a bug.

[edit - disclosure: I was one of the presenters in this series.]
Is Travis CI Closing?
All it has to do really is to do some TCP magic so that the messages can flow peer-2-peer!?
If you can think of it, someone can make a computer automate it.
BOE Unseats LG Display to Become Largest LCD TV, Monitor Panel Supplier
This is what I despise about "news". If this was china or russia or venezuela, etc, the headline would be "China tightens grip on their people" or "International community concerned as China becomes more authoritarian" or "Pro freedom activists protest against China's draconian censorship". It would be spun as something more ominous than "reform". But reuters being reuters and also a major supporter of censorship, of course spins it in a pro-censorship manner. Also, considering that google and facebook support these "reforms", how are they "aiming" it at them? These laws will entrench google and facebook and secure their monopoly positions. The biggest beneficiaries of these laws are google and facebook and of course large media companies, like reuters.

I wonder what the headline would be if reuters and the news industry was against these "reforms".
HTC Announces Its First Full 6 DOF VR Standalone Headset Vive Focus Plus
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216827
What difference does it make in practice? Sonos sells their products in the EU as well, do they behave differently there?
The Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata
PostgreSQL Parallel Query walk through with examples
SIMD Projects on GitHub
Smart not to mention Mercer though!

People (both on HN and at large) seem to believe that HFT is somehow unfair, probably because of Flash Boys or some uninformed NYT article.

But back to the point, unless you believe in communism, then the best way to help the world and add value is to make money. Simply put, if you are making money, you are doing good (there are exceptions, of course and they usually involve the government). It is folly to measure social contribution in any other way (charity isn't doing good, it means whoever you are giving it to is doing good).

People, especially with HFT, think the world and the markets are a zero-sum game. I think the problem people have with HFT is that it doesn't seem "fair." Mom and Pop don't have a co-located server with ASICs churning out latency arb trades so they shouldn't be able to do that either! But why would you expect Mom and Pop to be able to compete in the first place? They probably wouldn't be able to compete with dentists, race car drivers, or scientists, so why should they be able to compete with professional investors?
MiGz for Compression and Decompression
Composting the waste is more efficient so it would be hard to see a net increase from the elimination of animal production.
True, but gasses are fuilds. Any gas on the night side will flow towards the day side eventually.
I read an estimate that the majority of rapes that happen in the US are prison rapes. If so then even the public discourse on rape itself is failing to highlight and protect these thousands of victims of sexual violence.
Roger Ver Interviewed about History/Politics of Bitcoin and Development of BCH
Andrej Karpathy's blog has examples of JavaScript implementation of Neural Networks. https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs
> They used to sell dedicated controllers/remotes years ago but these were also bricked as part of an upgrade about a year or two ago.

Would a class-action be successful in a situation like this?
New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth
Really?

If there's no such thing as objective beauty measures, then please explain to me why European cities with predominantly traditional architecture have vastly higher numbers of tourists than European cities with predominantly modern architecture. You can't argue it's due to lack of history, or culture, or any other measure, as Europe is vast and diverse, and you can control for all of those other variables.

There's weirdos who actually enjoy Brutalist architecture. But the vast majority of us clearly do not. That by itself should give you a hint that there is such a thing as "more beautiful" and "less beautiful".
Hybrid Analytics Database Workloads in Galera Cluster Using Asynchronous Slaves
Hippocamp: The Recently Discovered Seventh Inner Moon of Neptune
> how are they supposed to be able to check for copyright infringment against every single upload?

With an upload filter, which is obvious to technically inclined people (I'm not talking about you) and is denied by the supporters of this

BTW thank France for wanting ridiculous exceptions and Germany (#Merkelfilter) for caving up to them
Show HN: Easily Build for Multiple Processors with Archie
> It also involves rebalancing the weights of each stock to account for stock splits,

No.

> dividends,

No.

> and change in market capitalization

No (at least for the changes related to price movements and not share count).

> or the float number (the amount of shares on the public markets).

The last one is the only valid concern. In the end turnover is quite low (a few percentage points per year, including additions/removals and adjustments, if I remember correctly).
This has a good walk through and some examples of testing performance of parallel queries in PostgreSQl, also details how to set up you own test(s) using TPC-H benchmark queries
Per passenger. Therefore, a single passenger on a single 8000 mile flight produces as much CO2 as an average family car in a year (where I live - 13000 Km/year).
Both the Samsung S10 Series and the Fold are technical Marvel. Even if you are an Apple user one should appreciate how Samsung's technology are improving. The OLED is 1200 nit, while the reporting numbers are always off to actual testing results, it is still an amazing achievement to have 1000+ nit.

Purely from a Hardware Perspective, this is the best you can buy with no Trade oFfs. Apart from a slightly slower Single Core Pref Compared to Apple, the NAND, the RAM, The Display, 5G, WiFi 6, Battery, UnderScreen SuperSonic Finger Print, better Bezel less design, Best Camera Module on the front and the back. This is Samsung going all out.

Not sure how the market will react to it, but I sure hope Apple takes notes. You cant rely on iOS and Software forever.
Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License – Again
My feeling is that you need to let users choose the demographic rating their photos.

This clearly has a bit of a cold start issue though.

I'd really love for a service using ELO/relative ranking to exist and exactly for this purpose.

I've used https://www.photofeeler.com in the past - I think you're looking to give users a similar service. I have greater faith in your ELO method though.

Perhaps to give you some motivation, I've paid over $50 for that service to get a feel for different profile pictures. I'll continue to use it too as I consider new photos.

They have a slightly clickbaity blog, but it has some interesting posts like this one: https://blog.photofeeler.com/psychology-study-science-best-p...
We don’t just need a carbon tax. We need the public to support it unlike the French public.

So we need to redistribute the carbon tax as UBI. So people say “more carbon tax please!” Climate Justice. Contact Andrew Yang who is running for President and tell him his UBI needs to be funded with a carbon tax!
A comment elsewhere in the thread says Twitter OAuth will be added soon.

>OAuth is supported, so you don't need a new account. If you have a Google/Github account, you're good. I'll be adding more providers soon too (Twitter/Gitlab).
My suspicion, particularly with that example, is that this is something they use in their cars to present various interfaces.
"Seem to"

Japan has nasty edges, just like every other country.
> Not all personal choices warrant civility

True in some cases, but would you seriously put a single-use bottle into that category? The harm from that, while undeniably real, doesn't seem immediate or severe enough to justify jumping past civility to disrespect. You made a statement that disrespect is generally acceptable, and I disagree. While there are exceptions, disrespect should generally be avoided. To make the point even more bluntly, I think normalizing disrespect makes assholes of us all.
BTW, if you want just a teaser to what it is that you may be missing, here's one:

That mathematics explores the theorems derivable from axioms tells us little. Is mathematics about the formal manipulation of the symbolic expression of those axioms, some (nondeterministic) Turing machine, chewing up and spitting out strings of symbols? Nearly all mathematicians would say not (including Hilbert's Formalism, which some gravely mistake for saying mathematics is just what I described). But if not, this means that the linguistic symbols mean something, and in analytical philosophy, meaning is a sort of a mapping from linguistic terms to something outside the language. But if mathematical formulas mean something -- i.e. refer to something outside them -- what is the nature of that thing, and, more importantly, how do we learn about it?
Explaining P-Values with Puppies
I assume why they store them as entered is because it's hard to convert them between formats. In North America you format the number that way, but other countries do it differently. Maybe the phone number is a local number (without area code) or maybe it has an extension?

If you are just storing the phone number to display to a user at a later time, it is a lot simpler just to save it as text field with no validation.
I would add: WhatsApp was there, free and very well done.

Even in countries that had free domestic text messages (where the “free” factor was much less important), WhatsApp nailed group messaging better than anything else available at the time. Also, by using phone numbers they skipped the entire “create account / invite friends” stage, making for a much smoother bootstrap.
As an economist I fully agree. It's not the solution but the measure that helps consumers in ranking all possible solutions. Why is flying without kerosine tax? Why do we spend a few k€ on electric car subsidies per MT less emitted. A tax would make things like this transparant. All we need is some party with the clout of the EU or US to get this thing going. There is no opting out trading with us and no opting out for local citizens. With 1/4th (?) Of global GDP on board it would be the transformative step in starting towards drawdown. All other measures are doomed to fail without it. You can't invest in anything CO2 related when you can't capture the gains. Make no mistakes: CO2 accounting and taxing will be a massive invitation for corruption, gaming and bad actors. But we don't have another option except heavy handed top down regulation.
I am not in the startup scene but why cant one of the best reason to start a company be to make more MONEY. Why is it always about changing the world and the universe needs me type of stuff. This is too SV cartoonish for me.
The icons are available for free - for personal and commercial use. I have no plan to open source the tool, for now :)
JFrog acquires Shippable
i deeply hope, as a EU citizen, that reddit, youtube, and all other platforms kill access by EU citizens the day this law takes effect.

Shouldn't take longer than a Week to get this rolled back.
i assume for this to work remotely ok the imap idle is a must.
also how is it supposed to work on the receiving site ?
There has to be some "Folder" where those messages are stored and the imap idle should listen to that folder or else my inbox will be huge mess and mess with my regular mail client.

also was there any tests how long does it take for delivery, because the message could hop around and could be scanned, added addotional headers or mess with those there.
Yeah I keep reading "civil" mentioned in news articles. I even say a lawyer on a news video talking about how this applies to civil forfeiture cases.

What you're saying makes sense, but I'm not seeing it reflected in any of these sources, so I'm doubtful now.
> Europeans to talk about conservation in Africa when their own fauna has been wiped out

What has been wiped out? We do have wolves and bears.
Those are all remakes. 1982 "The Thing" is a remake of the 1952 "The Thing from Another World".
IMAP is basically just a way for attackers to test credentials. You should be very very careful about enabling IMAP. Hopefully you (or your provider) are watching the logs and can respond to abnormal login attempts.
Well then matrix developers can develop a bridge for COI then :P
Ask HN: How Do You Structure the Work and Teams in Your Company?
I read recently this old article from Basecamp https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-structure-our-work-and-teams-at-basecamp/ and I found some interesting simple concepts which I think are really helpful for building products.

Now I am more curious to find out more about how other companies are structuring their work and their teams.

I think a lot of lessons can be learned from how other people are working.
This is probably the best book on how the professionals had fun building rockets back in the day. It's a gread read, and full of useful practical chemical engineering advice and cautionary tales. You might find PDFs, but you can also buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ignition-Informal-Propellants-Univers...
Heh, I was curious so:

Hindi/Urdu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Hindi_... : eg Avatar, Bungalow, Cot, Dungaree, Jungle ...

Chinese/Japanese : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chine... : eg Char, Gung-ho, Ketchup, Wok ...

Spanish : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Spani... : eg Adobe, Banana, Canyon, Hurricane ...
Oh, sure. Just download all of the messages. The problem with that is that you run into users like me, who have 25 years of archived email, a mobile phone, and who travel abroad.
Europe has a long history of shooting itself in the foot with respect to copyright. No need to blame the EU in this case.

Relatively short copyrights are good for culture. You need a common understanding to build upon to produce new works. A long time ago, Europe moved to have lifetime-plus copyright terms.

Its not all bad though. For a long time, the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material was expensive. Digital media and the internet mostly solved those issues.

Long copyright terms remain a problem, but there are plenty of opportunities for smaller parties to distribute content.
i'd argue that the Matrix.org Foundation is just as 'recognized' as the XMPP Standards Foundation :) In terms of disingenuousness - i'd argue that the definition of disingenuous is accusing us of reinventing the wheel rather than acknowledging that Matrix is an entirely different type of technology to IRC or XMPP. It's more similar to NNTP or Git than either IRC or XMPP. For better or worse, trying to solve existing problems using new approaches is how things evolve. On which note, it's cool to see delta.chat and COI trying a totally different approach too.
Fair use exists. This law makes it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it, or cut snippets of images to form a collage, or point to examples of art, film, and music in an educational setting.

Copyright was never intended to be pervasive and absolute. Copyright is supposed to protect the commercial potential of the original work by keeping people from making copies that supplant the market for the original, ie, piracy. Content filters and link taxes are a bastardization of Copyright.
Just wondering if anyone who applied for the YC NYC interviews heard back?
Because most employees assume money is a given, and they align with a mission instead. It is also not socially acceptable to be in something just for the money unless it is wall street.
Indeed. The company has now gone to the police to report the newspaper and its journalist for hacking.
I use shared hosting for "client" websites, as I neither have to guarantee uptime nor I do have to guarantee "security" of the hosting system.
Honestly, this is a cool hack. But it's not the best way to shuttle that much data around.

It's a hammer on rocket fuel.
> One of the takeaways is that as bad as palm oil is, other plants consume far more resources to produce equivalent amounts of oil.

Yes people keep saying that. However it is not an argument that should stop the debate. The difference is that palm oil production has a lot of issues due to the location: wildlife like orangutangs is killed, old rainforest is deforested, native people are displaced, and it occurs in very corrupted countries (Malaysia and Indonesia). While for example rapeseed oil production requires more land we don't for example here in Norway have those same issues with production as palm oil.
I don't know if this a bug, but if you choose butt ends then all of the points in symbols like the question marks and exclamation points and information "i"s disappear. I'm not too familiar with SVG, but I'm guessing you're using a single vector point and it ends up having zero width or something like that.

I really like the product, by the way. It's a great idea
This is amazing! I hope we get some good clients soon.
> This is still not final, but startups and small business should be exempted from the law

For 3 years
How to Use Yoast SEO on WordPress: Complete Tutorial (2018)
still a simple checkbox with a few well chosen reasons would be valuable. At the very least it would make you actually think of why you choose to downvote that specific comment. There are many nuances of disagreement, some deserving a downvote some not.
I don't think they even want a list. Sounds like they'd be happy with a single SSID. Perhaps passed to it the way a browser file dialog works, where the OS sees the list, the app only sees what was selected.
I believe the incidents of cancer for younger people are predicted to possibly rise in the future due to obesity becoming more of a liability as people age.
i meant roughly half of the 4.2
Opponent Modeling and Exploitation Poker Using Evolved Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
ST Cortex-A7 Chip Makes It Easy for MCU Designers to Adopt Linux
Thanks for sharing your experience. Are 4 days work weeks common in Europe? I worked on a team that had a UK office where some of the people were on a 4-day agreement (although the agreement was in place before the UK office was bought by my employer). Seems like it's very uncommon to find someone working 4-day weeks in North America or even part time as a developer (but, of course my experience is very very limited)
indeed i did thanks
This seems to me like it will have exactly the opposite intended effect, that the large players are the only ones who will be able to operate under this new regulatory burden.
It's nice that they have a python interface. I know everyone has a fetish for TeX/LaTeX, but isn't it time for something better? Don't get me wrong, TeX has probably the best document rendering of anything I've ever come across, but the language itself is quite terrible. I get the impression that no one even knows how to use it anymore, and everyone is just copying and pasting code handed down from generations of professors and students.

I understand the limitations and design decisions made at the time, but I think it's time for something new. Maybe just using TeX as a backend language would be acceptable, though I think it would just be preferable to start anew. I know there's Scribble but I don't think it handles equations.
There is no high barrier to entry here. You literally just have to fill out an HTML form, which everyone knows how to do. It's easier to join HN than it is many other sites, which at least include a second auth factor through email to verify an account. Some sites now require a social media account or validation of a real identity. Lobste.rs won't even talk to you unless someone vouches for you, and they read your existing posts on HN and elsewhere, and decide you're worth letting in. Even 4chan has more friction than HN.

And an API, practically by definition, is not a benefit to membership or a draw for whatever HN considers a typical user, much less the sort of "normie" non-technical user HN wants to keep away. The quality of comments is not maintained to a high standard by the API being more difficult to query than it could be, nor would it be diluted by the API being easier to use.

And as far as Reddit goes, a lot of content gets posted here from Reddit, and a lot of the userbase here are also Reddit users, making the cultural contempt HN has for Reddit more than a bit hypocritical.

A lot of people here, pg included, seem to assume that the "low tech" nature of the featureset here is keeping some flood of unwanted users away but I submit that the title of the site being "Hacker News", it being on a subdomain and the lack of evangelism on mainstream social media do a far better job of gatekeeping than purposely adding "friction" to frustrate people.
I love this but it kind of rules out webapps as clients, no? Who would give their email password to one?
Arbitrary Host Memory Reads/Writes via PCIe DMA despite IOMMU on Linux
It actually works pretty well whenever I use it. They are just responsible hackers and are pointing out that it is not production quality yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Cutting Through to What Matters
What type of mission would that be? Selling ads, gathering your private data? Can we get real please? Time to stop villianizing WS, SV is just modern day WS with more greed. ( Sometimes more useful though. )
TeEther: Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts (2018)
This is very cool and looks like a lot of fun. The price not so much however. Where does a $200 price tag come from for a pack of parts that should go for around $10-20? Are the PCBs so expensive to create?
Announcing the Frictionless Data Tool Fund:$5K Grants to Build Open Source Tools
Does anyone have a link to the actual law? All I can find are news stories with too little information.
Fun with the Spiral of Death
... and midges.
If we take Sweden as a whole, there are very few opportunities outside the three big cities, Stockholm, Malmö, and Göteborg (Gothenburg).

Just saying that it’s nice in the small places like Motala can’t make businesses and people move there, unfortunately.

Motala is really nice though :)
>while navigating the 20 windows needed to reject all consent.

I think that actually is a violation of GDPR, not that it's any less common to encounter.
There's a physical connector also called NVLink, yes, but the cards don't present as unified at the driver level; nvidia-smi shows "link: off" even using the bridge. It's effectively SLI, which can reduce memory bandwidth load and cross-card transfer costs, but doesn't unify the cards the way Volta (actual) NVLink does.
Would you rather give it to an app?