skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read all about it in this article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-snapchat-is-funding-real...

tl;dr:
The editor wrote an interesting essay that caught the attention of Snapchat CEO, which wanted more of this output.

What's interesting is that Real Life is highly critical about technology, while you would expect based on the funding a sort of think tank creating pro-tech fluff pieces.
They get into the bucket to get the food and are pecked to death by the one that climbs in on top of them, and so on.
Galois has a reputation for being one of the most visible and well-known shops associated with Haskell. I'm curious to see what they can accomplish. A little bit of poking showed this[0] coming up -- I definitely wonder if that's around the same direction they'll be taking.

[0]https://galois.com/project/csfv-crowd-sourced-formal-verific...
WhatsApp is a Facebook product.
Well I'll admit I'm a little unorthodox here, but nothing is more naturally obvious to me than the idea that children belong to their parents, and I don't think there's a lot of middle ground, and I think society has gone much too far in taking away the right of parents to decide anything and everything for their children.

Nothing happens in a bubble. If a parent doesn't want to vaccinate or wants to give their kid marijuana, that's just a data point within the spectrum of the type of decisions that this parent will make for their child over the years. So we draw a few lines in the sand -- you have to vaccinate, you have to send them to school for 8 hours times 9 months a year, you can't give them XYZ to treat their autism, where does it end? Are vegan parents who force their children to be vegan dangerous and child abusing?

Besides, the fact that a parent reads a book does not imply that they will act on it. Maybe they know in the back of their mind that it's all bullshit, but for an hour a night before bed, they get some comfort out of the fantasy.
or people that block facebook entirely from their home network :D
What Students Are Saying About the College Cheating Scam
Not just the ADS-B data, but also from physical evidence collected from the wreckage.
https://www.nfx.com/post/19-marketplace-tactics-for-overcomi...

https://www.applicoinc.com/blog/7-strategies-solving-chicken...

https://blog.elichait.com/2018/04/09/how-the-100-largest-mar...
> I forgot why there are no parachutes on planes ? weight ?

There are parachutes on planes, as in whole airframe parachutes. Just not airliners. See Cirrus aircraft.

However, even in a Cirrus, you can only open the parachute within very specific parameters (altitude, airspeed and so on). Exceed these, and your parachute is worthless.

For obvious reasons, a whole frame parachute in a 737 is a crazy proposition. It is ridiculously heavy. Also, the plane flies much higher and much faster, so even if you COULD fit one made of some form of unobtanium, it would likely be useful only under very specific scenarios.

The other option would be to provide individual parachutes. Much like life vests.

Ok great. Let's assume they are small and can be stowed under the seat. How long would it take for a non-trained individual to put one of these on properly? Do they even have enough space to do it? How would they exit the plane? Most airliners don't have cargo-bay style doors. Exiting through the side doors is a bad idea. Who would inspect and repack hundreds of parachutes per plane?

The plane would have to be under controlled flight and slow enough for this to even have a chance to save any passengers. If you are in a slow and controlled flight, what use is this? Just land somewhere.

For ethiopian and lion air, it all happened so fast after takeoff that it is unlikely the pilots even had time to run their checklists. And we want to don parachutes on 100+ people and have them jump from an out of control plane?

It just doesn't make sense from any angle.
This is just what Evernote did. And it was the beginning of things getting worse.
I don't think I've ever seen a company improve after they degrade their free tier. It's always a sign of someone in finance trying to save a few bucks.

Don't they realize that a lot of their enterprise success happened because the people making the enterprise decisions at companies were happy free tier customers first.... When will these companies learn.

I actually already dumped Dropbox when they made their ridiculous decision to not support anything other than ext4 on Linux.
Because paper ballots increase the cost of manipulating elections.
The industry/NTSB/FAA generally cares more about flight hours, but I agree with you. Both of these accidents happened shortly after takeoff. I am surprised that no accident has happened during landing.
that's what I thought as well, and I can't help but get a major sense of skepticism when Mark mentions "facebook" and "privacy-focused" in the same sentence.
What is inaccurate? The accident happened in 2000 and the last flights were in 2003 by both airlines. What do you mean by one fleet being grounded quickly?

The exact motives for retiring the plane are hard to know. Safety almost surely played a part if nothing else by reducing demand. I was just correcting that you seemed to be saying the plane has been retired after the accident when it did in fact return to service.
How Tech Companies Own Your Devices [video]
I did a Smalltalk-style OO FizzBuzz in C# a while back: https://gist.github.com/noblethrasher/539f71d60b4768ca514aeb...
Interesting spin from the NYTimes ("Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox"[0]):

"The departures follow two years of scandals for Facebook around data privacy and disinformation. The issues have buffeted the Silicon Valley company, causing internal turmoil and a redirection in strategy."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/technology/facebook-chris...
Here are some benchmarks on an 8-year-old, 4-core i7 running OSX Sierra. Parsing a 115Mb log file for lines containing a 15-character word (regex: \b\w{15}\b) we have:

LANG / TIME* / RAM

JS (Node 11.11) / 8.4s / 100Mb
Ruby 2.6 / 19.1s / 14.8Mb
PHP 7.3 / 4.4s / 5.6Mb
Python 3.7 / 24.7s / 4.2Mb
Perl 5.26 / 14.0s / 1.0Mb

*These figures are for runtime, ie. with startup time deducted. Ruby's startup time (0.55s) is much longer than the other languages (Python:0.06s, Perl:0.02s, PHP:0.14s).

Ruby's memory usage is 3.5 times that of Python for only a 30% speed gain. Perl uses 1/15 of the RAM used by Ruby and is 35% faster but it could be argued that Perl 5's lack of built-in OO accounts for some of this ..... until you look at PHP which has built-in OOP and uses 2/5 of the RAM used by Ruby whilst performing 3.2 times as fast.

I love that Ruby is designed from programmer happiness but the shine starts to wear off when you look at its memory usage. Slow is bearable as it's only marginal but Ruby's memory usage is orders of magnitude higher it seems. Matz's goal of making Ruby 3 times faster is only half the battle, maybe even only a third. If an increase in speed comes at the expense of even greater memory use then Ruby will not survive.
Cloud Firewall (FF addon): block major cloud services
> Neither of those failure modes exist with paper ballots.

Paper ballots stop secret cameras in the ballot room? I mean, they really don't. It depends on your threat-model. A lot of things will come down to trust.

> 2. When the device malfunctions, whether due to a defect or sabotage, and only particular candidates can not be selected, that creates a side channel where the voter is effectively forced to unveil who they want to vote for.

See Butterfly ballots. Paper ballots in USA (Florida specifically) which basically had this flaw. It was confusing to know which circles and lines were going to the correct candidate you wished to vote for. Asking for help on the ballot would leak information on who you wanted to vote for.

A poorly done paper-ballot has its own set of issues.
Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts
Interesting site. I sorted by "Online Now" and the #1 is an Adult Furry MUCK and the next 2 most populated are also labeled "Adult."
Doesn’t he have four more?
http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup is a classic in the genre. Notes from Peter Thiel's Stanford course.
Since you are name dropping projects:

Tox, a P2P Skype alternative.

Unfortunately it is not well known outside of tinfoil hat community.
What literally kills people when they get an alternative opinion or simply information about vaccinations... which is the raison du jour, but the not the only information being blocked by these companies.

What happens when the prevailing opinion in the future becomes that raising boys as boys is dangerous for their health? Girls as girls? Promoting religion to your children seen as dangerous to popular thought? Do we continue down this path and start banning literature on how to raise children properly, the bible? After all, it may disagree with YOUR OWN held opinion, so it must be removed, for the safety of the children, right?

We are entering the territory of cheering on the thought police, where you disregard your own faculties and off load all of your exposure to information and decision making to a highly select group of people, with their own biases, much of it monetarily motivated.

Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Those audits are only triggered when the vote counts are close enough, within a certain margin.

Since whoever controls or hacks the machines gets to set the vote counts, the audit only happens if they want it to.
I suspect lice is more common than an extreme risk.
how does the current system, or any voting system, prevent coercion? If there's a gun to your head, or some other ultimatum, it seems far too late to be worrying about your vote being shared. Even if votes aren't all logged, you can still be tortured for the answer. I would much rather the country have an individual coercion problem than a mass voting fraud problem.

"Voting systems should [...] not permit anyone, including the voters themselves, to learn how they voted" What could possibly be the benefit of that?
Ironically the one recent confirmed case of a rigged election in the U.S. was rigged through paper absentee ballots.
Boeing certainly hasn't been inspiring a lot of confidence lately, given that decisions like this:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

have apparently been leading to decisions like this:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/air-f...
There are subjective and unknowable states. The whole world is not inside your head. By asserting that the cells in my butt can't possibly love each other, you've made a pretty lifeless machine psychology that I don't have to accept, happily. You can't even prove your idea -- I would like you to be aware you are making a faith-based argument. Anyway, cheers. :)
Yep, it's great !FUN! but it essentially kills the fortress since any dwarf in viewing range will drop everything and fight until exhaustion.

Kind of sucks if you like the challenge of evil biomes :(
Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December
We can hope. It would be better if we kept the nuclear online and used those GWs to replace coal plants instead, though.
Andrew Yang’s 2020 Campaign Courted 4chan. Now It's Doxing One of His Staffers
The ides of March are (almost) come. :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
It's a DOS attack on your mailbox. The SNR is approaching 0.
Lawyers don't design planes. CEOs who intentionally lie about their planes' safety do.

Without lawyers, those CEOs could go on killing people and never have any accountability.
You're right, it's not working.

It should always point at this page, which I have just randomly chosen:

https://xkcd.com/221/
It doesn't mean larger allocations, it means more allocations. glibc will try to use different arenas for different OS threads to avoid lock contention, if you allow a lot of arenas then malloc will allocation a lot of chunks of memory assuming you have lots of threads requesting memory.
"Probable cause" is defined using the word "reasonable" in lots of sources. The root of any UK/US difference is more likely related to drift in precedent over the last couple of centuries than to any precise difference in the meaning of words.
Remington and Other Gun Companies Lose Major Ruling over Sandy Hook Liability
Some games do have demos, but not that many.
I think they got the whole article wrong. Amazon is ditching neither FBA nor FBM. They are moving sellers off Vendor Central and Vendor (Two kinds of vendor platforms on which amazon buys wholesale. These products are listed as "Sold and Fulfilled by Amazon" on the amazon site )

Vendor people are being kicked off into FBA and FBM. The article missed this whole important distinction.
> Have there been any competitions to make an open source, highly scalable and verifiable anti-tampering voting system

Yes, for thousands of years. The result is called the paper ballot.

You cannot have a verifiable anti-tampering voting system using computers. You need verifiability by the general public. Auditing a microchip is not something members of the general public know how to do, and in any case, it detroys the chip, so it's kinda useless anyway.
NYPD punished man who filmed Eric Garner killing with targeted harassment
The comparison is apt to the point I was making: that it is not the genetic nature of autism that makes it difficult to treat but our ignorance of its mechanisms (perhaps also the nature of the mechanisms themselves.) I think that you're confusing the etiology of the thing with the thing itself. Just as there is no reason to suspect that gene therapy would be necessary, there is no reason to suspect that it would be helpful in a person who has already developed autism.
The seat is a reference to a software license. Airlines are economies of scale, this is a small run of software that would meet your expectations to run and be verified to do so. Are you aware how much it costs to develop an airplane? It's more than the cost of a single ticket.
India has an intricate history with nuclear technology. Both the Soviet Union and the US courted India in the 1950s, but in the end it was Canada who donated a design for the first Indian reactor that came online in the 1960s. The US assisted with building another. Indian testing of nuclear weapons in the 1970s drew a sharp rebuke from several countries and the US and Canada withdrew their assistance. This also resulted in the creation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an export control regime to prevent nuclear proliferation. Cut off from exporters of nuclear technology, they slowly continued with domestic designs and new research. But their tremendous size and influence made them an attractive partner in geopolitical power plays.

In 1988 the Soviet Union and India announced they would build two new reactors, and the US fiercely protested at the time. The Soviet Union fell apart, and the Russians didn't resume the project for another 10 years, but construction eventually began in 2002. In 2006 the US and India reached an agreement to cooperate and the US lobbied for an exemption for India from the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which was granted. It quickly became obvious that everyone wanted a slice of the Indian nuclear energy market.

Disregarding climate change for a moment, it's clear that the energy demand in India is increasing, and despite a rapid rise in the deployment of renewables, utility-scale generation is still 75% coal. This contributes greatly to pollution. Local coal lower quality than elsewhere, requiring more per unit of power. Nuclear will be an important complement to renewables as the energy mix slowly migrates off of coal. Unlike the US, which is awash in cheap natural gas that's readily stored and piped where needed, helping to even out the mismatch between solar generation and demand, India has very little natural gas, so it can't afford to pursue a strategy that deemphasizes nuclear energy.
Why, yes I do. I've shared a stage with them. You're the one trying to tell people that *core is not metal.
I've been playing MUME, MultiUsers in Middle Earth https://mume.org:4143/ off and on since it came up in late 1991.

It's like playing PvE and PvP inside of Tolkien's books.

The quality of the text in the rooms and zones is extremely and consistently high, and the world is enormous.

As of right now, here's the world map:

https://pastebin.com/L8Yn8EhD

The two G's on the left are the Grey Havens. The R is Rivendell, the double M in the center is Moria, and the E on the bottom is Edoras. The ? zones are under construction.

Each of these zones are large and complex on their own.

I usually play a Hobbit thief, and can fondly recall some of the times, many years ago, when I was out in the wild, doing my own thing, when a band of Orc players came by. This was usually a death sentence, but at times, if I was high enough level, I could hide and sneak my way out of there.

Or...when I was higher level, I'd find some Black Númenórean tracks. After a long and careful hunt, there he was, resting by himself in the woods, unaware of my presence. Moments later, I was going through his stuff, after a quick knife to the back.

Very heart-pounding times!
This sound like run of the mill sales anxiety, which is completely normal and to be expected. Not everyone can do everything!

Try to re-frame the situation, pretend you are a potential buyer and ask yourself what key things you would require or be looking for. Once you have that list, go through it and answer how your app fills those requirements. This exercise will help to remove some of the anxiety as you'll already have some pre-loaded answers to common questions.

I would also consider what has worked on you in the past, as a buyer. Marketing and selling tactics are applicable no matter the industry. So, what has made you eager to try a product? What has turned you off of a product? What have other sales people done that made you close the deal? Physically write these things out in a big list. And again, once the list is complete, make some notes on how you and/or your app can accomplish the things on the list (or avoid the negatives of the list).

Lastly, networking. Cold calls/emails are a starting point and might even be necessary down the road. However, networking is the key. As long as your not shilling some crap app, networking is what is needed. Getting one customer that is enthusiastic about your product and willing to recommend it to others is worth 10 unengaged customers in the long run. It's like hiring a sales person, except they are paying you for the app while they recommend it to others. If your product/app is of high quality, it'll stand on its own.

Some people are able to naturally sell. If you aren't a natural born saleshuman, prepare and practice. Anticipate the questions you'll receive and have answers ready. Role-play different sales scenarios. Role-play being the buyer. As you do this more, you'll naturally become more confident which will help your sales in its own way.
The NVEST numbers (54%) include everyone though.
Show HN: SiriControl – Port Siri Voice Commands into Python
Fukushima was the nail in the coffin. A lot of people don't remember Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl had been spun (not unreasonably) as Soviet incompetence. People in general were cautiously tolerant of nuclear until Fukushima. It's a damn shame.
Starbucks with a staff of 5-7 during peak mornings have a goal of ~40 second drive through times which they routinely achieve, while handling non-drive through customer load as well.

Also drive through includes multiple drinks and food items as well crammed into that 40 or so seconds.

When timing the serial steps of making a drink, it takes about a minute from start to finish, but their process is to batch and pipeline drinks so that they generally handle 3-5x drinks per batch in a pipeline (repeatable beverage routine), and this is for a lone barista pumping out hot beverages. The other 4-5 people are usually on cashier duty, and drive through duty.
My previous company made software for DOTs. Over the years I learned that DOTs assign a dollar amount to human lives/deaths when calculating the cost benefit ratio of implementing roadway safety improvements. It very much reminds me of the acceptable number of deaths mentioned in the article. DOTs don't like talking about this of course.

There should be a law that grants companies safe harbor for reporting and fixing defects in their product without the risk of accepting liability. Sort of like self-whistle blowing.
I suspect that you'd just get lots of mammoths sunk in the mud.
I think they probably wanted to talk about "Vendor platform" but equated it with FBM or FBA. I agree it's an off tangent article.
In California[0] we audit 1% of all ballots, regardless of the outcome.

[0] - https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-systems/oversight/co...
The concept of collapsed email threads is a terrible idea for the typical user. It probably only makes sense for public figures who get a ton of unsolicited emails (whoever designed Gmail must have been a public figure). It also would explain why Marissa Mayer redesigned Yahoo mail to have collapsed email threads by default.

The average person doesn't get so many emails that they need to have them collapsed and sorted based on the sender. Most people don't have a problem reading every email in their inbox each day - In fact, that's what they want to do.
I don't disagree in the slightest that they should explore all avenues for sale.

Answer this question to satiate my curiosity, what if Stripe and Paypal refuse to process credit card payments for these authors?

What if Square refuses to swipe cards at the flea market for the author?
Quantum computing should supercharge this machine-learning technique
I live in Boston, where Google had a service called WebPass which was fiber with radio dishes for the last mile. They eventually gave up on our market, but two other radio fiber ISPs exist$. So Google isn't the necessarily the best competitor in that market.

$ Due to a wacky series of misunderstandings, both of these ISPs service my building now that Webpass is gone. They periodically send out sales reps who bring snacks and wine.
There are many better candidates, like the Passenger Pigeon or Dodo, which were extincted recently and directly by humans.
This is what pisses me off. I'm more than willing to criticize Facebook when they deserve it but IMO the media blitzkrieg has said more about the media than Facebook. Not that FB hasn't done scummy things but my faith in the whole attack angle has been reduced
Oh the MUDs! Props to Forest’s edge and TempusMUD.

Text is the ultimate medium because it directly connects with our imagination. I remember jumping out of my chair after reading a line of text on my screen.

Recommend watching “Get lamp” documentary to fans of MUDs, text adventures and those born after:

https://youtu.be/LRhbcDzbGSU
Today's precise satellite location data is in part a response to MH370's disappearance:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34793274

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mh370-how-can-we-stop-losing-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rmark/2019/03/04/five-years-mal...
It's not that simple. I'm not an expert at gurangutan scaling and I'd bet you're not either.
If we want to pause extinction we need to pause population growth (because more people means encroachment into wilderness and resource extraction). Climate change is a smaller concern when it comes to immediate effect on endangered species survival.

On the other hand there isn’t much we can do about it, unless you’re India or China who can control population via policies (economic, reproductive and cohercive).

Naturally pops will decline, but that’s decades ahead.
Can this not be the top comment?

I don’t know about you guys but I want an exciting future to look forward to. Space travel, and fantastic cloned animals!

let’s get something hopeful and inspiring up here.