skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Can someone explain me what is the business model for WSJ of acquiring new readers. If new readers can’t even read the article to know if it’s worth subscribing or not. It looks like they only rely on older people who used to read WSJ when it wasn’t behind a paywall

They give them out for free in colleges, especially in business schools. Many corporate offices and law firms and stuff also have subscriptions that they maintain.
I fled to the US in the mid 60s. And I drifted a lot. I remember walking country roads at night, in summer, and being unable to avoid stepping on frogs. It ain't like that now.
Jan '82, May '84 is 2.5ish years. Buttigieg entered Harvard Fall 2000. Not sure when Zuckerberg entered.
John Gabriel has a decent one: Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Or GIFT for short.
>If someone wants an idea for an app or website - a way to lookup local ERs by price would be great.

>lookup local ERs by price

Incredible. It's absurd that an idea like this is a reasonable suggestion.
“Sartorial” can be related to humor or tailoring.
Why the Startup MVP Has to Change
This won't meet the elements of fraud in the US because while you could argue that the performative activity was a deliberate representation (in contrast to a false claim where I tell you directly about a great deal on a bridge that doesn't really exist), you'll have trouble establishing the detrimental reliance aspect. If you see misleading activity and then jump to an incorrect conclusion instead of verifying its truth or falsehood then that's on you.
Worked for AMTRAK. It’s northeast operations are very profitable. The people who work in their ops center in Wilmington, DE work their butts off. So do their yard staff. The problem is with their top heavy management and admin staff.
I was told that I was rejected at final executive review, supposedly due to a general property of my resume that many might hear as a euphemism for "too old". Particularly annoying, since that property was in plain view from day one.

As I said elsewhere, I can only guess at the true story. And it turned out to be a good thing--I found a better job (for me).

I think my original point stands, though. H-1Bs are almost by definition "diverse", and in the current cultural environment that makes a difference. Unless one is living under a rock, it's impossible to miss the advantage that that gives in the hiring market.
That sentence about pre-opened directory capabilities not being supported is actually outdated. They're supported now, so I've now updated the documentation. Thanks for pointing that out!
as an eexample of: it's not worth to screw your culture to pursue one(1) goal.
I have ran into the poor attitude on SO occasionally and it is definitely great to try to improve. That being said, SO has been such a useful tool for me in my career, I would be care when making changes that they didn't have the unintended consequence of hurting the quality of the product. I think it's similar to HN. HN downvoting can be really frustrating when I am making what I believe to be very good comments but I have to admit that overall I am happy with the product. I have been trained over the years to think a lot more about comments I leave in HN than I did in my early years here.
Unicomp (https://pckeyboard.com) ships internationally and makes the licensed Model M.
I don't mind CWs as much since they finally added a global "show all" setting you can set in your profile. There's definitely some nice uses beyond "trigger warnings", like keeping a long post from dominating your feed view, or as a spoiler tag for discussing movies.
People keep trying to do this. The problem is the grade of plastic is awful, and 3d printing isn’t that fun/useful with bad filament.
This study explores exactly this question. In short, climate change moderated the temp of one climate which would normally kill off the fungus, while amphibians seek cool shelter during the hottest days thus keeping the fungus alive and also speeding transmission.

Key passages:

”In this region, global warming is moderating the naturally severe cool conditions, and among other consequences, as Harvell et al. (2002) pointed out, shorter, milder winters are expected to increase the incidence of disease.“

”...However, this recent warming has not increased the number of days where the maximum temperatures exceed 28°C, the critical threshold for successful persistence of B. dendrobatidis. In addition, even if this limit could be achieved in the area, survival and persistence of the pathogen may occur as a consequence of the active avoidance of high temperatures by the metamorphs preferential selection of damp and cool habitats within which to hide.”

”...On the other hand, the sixth climatic factor, relating to the abundance of mist and dewfall, presents the highest values during May, when the breeding period of the amphibians takes place. Therefore, as may occur with the temperature scenario discussed earlier, a value of 100% relative humidity provided by overnight dewfall and mists during the breeding period could be a key determinant in facilitating the transmission of fungus...”[1]

This is why climate change is so dangerous. We don’t understand how interconnected and complex ecosystems are to truly predict its effects.

Credit to devoply for posting the paper.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
MIT alum here, found the materials science PhD route very rewarding (from a physics undergrad). You may have done research with K. Berggren it sounds like :)

I jumped into industry hoping to improve how the world makes things on a very large scale. Current project has potential to change how a ubiquitous product is made; it would be the first major manufacturing change in 80 years!
Paper (pdf) — http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/363/6434/1459.full...
The simple builder pattern often looks like a lot of boilerplate, I agree. But you can easily crank the coolness of it up a notch by using one of these properties:

- Hide the fields of your struct to not break your users when adding/changing fields

- automatically convert data in your setters (accept a reference to a string even though you want to store a file system path)

- use type parameters to conditionally set and validate values at compile time (by making your data type generic and implementing some setters so that they return a concrete value for that allowing you to write _different_ setters based on that type)

- by using the session type pattern to disallow incorrect method calls at compile times (e.g. calling `set_content` after calling `submit`)
> If law enforcement went after uber

If they only went after Uber, giving Lyft and traditional cab companies and the drivers for all of them a pass, then yeah, I'd suspect there was something besides fair enforcement of the law going on. That would go double if they were stretching the definition of the law to include Uber's actions when its drafters had no such intent, or if they were simultaneously going after Uber for doing and not doing the same thing (parallel to the flak Facebook gets both for censoring and not censoring content).
You get 10 reputations for each upvote you get and 15 if your answer is accepted. It doesn't take more than a few hours to get there.

There's plenty of simple question that you should be able to answer. Use what you know as tags, look out for new posts, and answers them using the best of your knowledge.

Do you get reputation over upvote on question? A few good questions should easily get 5 upvotes.
You don't have to trust anything, she lays out relevant information from the original study with analysis. It's not conjecture when the info is there plainly to see. Reading studies isn't that hard.
You might think that, but it is my opinion that the immediate users of SO are the readers, not the askers. The askers are but a small minority of SO's users. It's the readers coming into SO from Google that are the primary audience. Therefore, the site should seek to serve them.

Ultra specific homework questions do not help the immediate users (readers) at all which is why it is frowned upon.
XPubs and YPubs and ZPubs Oh My
I 100% agree, however I really didn't like manually curating those circles ... I share a relatively diverse set of things/interests, so would have loved to leave it up to the other party which facet of my "feed" they could have subscribed to.

This isn't my use case, but a perfect example is people with kids. They're gonna share pictures and stuff of their kids, but as I'm sure you've seen, tons of people make comments like, "I wish I could just filter out pictures of babies and dogs!".
I don't know if it matches the "actual" definitions, but to me "rich" is a lifestyle. It means not worrying about having enough to do what you desire to do. "Wealthy", on the other hand, means never having to work again if you don't want to (or if your priorities change).

By those metrics, I'm (sometimes) rich, but I'm not wealthy. I'm working on it. My financial goal in life is to build a process that generates enough of a positive income stream in perpetuity to take care of my family, and to be able to leave that process to my descendants.

Note that this doesn't necessarily require billions (or even millions) of dollars to attain. I've severely cut my recurring expenses, and categorize them into "essential" and "discretionary". For instance: I spend a lot of money right now on high-speed Internet access. I have 300Mbps at home (Gigabit wasn't worth the cost to me), an iPhone X, and an iPad Pro, all with LTE. My 10-year-old has a 6th-Gen iPad LTE, and my wife has a Samsung Galaxy 10+. Monthly costs for all of that is ~$650 / month... and it's entirely discretionary. I can afford it, but I could also turn it off tomorrow if my financial situation were to change. Meanwhile, my mortgage is $850 / month, and that's "essential". My utilities combined are $125 / month, and those are "essential". Add in food and such, and I'm right at $1,400 / month of total essential expenses - I need $17k / year to run my household at a minimum. In order to make that in interest in a traditional investment account, I'd need $340k. That's obvious back-of-the-envelope and doesn't take into account market fluctuations or inflation, but it goes to show what I mean: I would be completely financially independent with less than a half million dollars in traditional investments.

My plan relies on that sort of investment for retirement, because it's a relatively safe platform to build upon. I'm in the process now of saving enough capital to get into real estate in a substantial way. If my planning is remotely accurate, I should be able to use rental properties to grow an income stream there exponentially - barring a major depression, the real challenge will be one of process, not money. Managing a single commercial rental with a long-term lease agreement is one thing; managing a dozen, or a hundred, or a thousand... that's quite another.
Second (aggregation firms) -

http://thasosgroup.com/blog/thasos-data-tesla-wsj/
Not a rustacean, but the builder pattern lets you do things like validation and munging which just providing defaults does not do.
Converted it all to unobtainium?
Yeah, it turns out destabilizing the climate is a big fucking deal.
It's running on EdgeEngine, which is similar to Lambda@Edge.
National security reasons if you're a government or contractor, and likewise financial security reasons if you're a corporation.
Ah, cool.

Performance is really difficult to properly measure, because each of these projects have different performance profiles, and new ones keep popping up, like Lucet did today! And if you write a benchmark, then something like https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a... happens, and all of a sudden the numbers are all different. So it's really hard to speak about wasm generally this way, it's better to talk about specific implementations and use-cases, IMHO. And to understand that benchmarks need to be updated in order to still be relevant.

Security is an interesting axis; like the JVM (as far as I know), wasm is memory safe by design. But security is more holistic than that. One interesting thing about wasm is that you have to say up-front what things you want to call in the host, which provides the ability for the host to say "nope, you're not gonna be able to do that." And of course, logic bugs can lead to security vulnerabilities in all of these platforms.
Have you tried suggesting edits to hit the 50 rep threshold?

I think this is an easy route to hitting 50 rep. See my other comment in this thread for more specific examples of edits that are likely to get accepted.
More generally: Leibig's Law of the Minimum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig's_law_of_the_minimum
Congrats to everyone on the Stoplight team! Happy to finally ship some open source projects. Check out the Github repo: https://github.com/stoplightio/spectral
I wouldn't be too surprised if the pollution does its fair share of damage too.

Easily fathomable that it could affect animals immune systems, making them more susceptible to all kinds of diseases.
We have something like that in Brazil, but with cans of weed floating at the beach through the whole summer.

http://www.bemsaopaulo.com/summer-of-the-cans/
It was actually super strange that in all the years it was there, Google never bothered to put ads in Google+. Had they done so, I wonder if they would've considered the platform more viable long-term?
> This has come up with the current president's most-dimwitted son and it's so hysterical it bears repeating. US taxpayers and voters are not the customer. They're the board.

A closer analogy would be that the US government is a non-exclusive consumer coop, and the citizens are the customer-owners, non-citizen residents, visitors, and other tax-or-fee payers a lotre non-owner customers, and Congress is the board.
My fear is that if hospitals start to make their prices publicly available, it will drive prices upward not downward.

Why? Because hospitals have no incentive to compete on price. The majority of people get ambulance'd to the nearest hospital, not necessarily the cheapest one.

So any hospital that notices it's charging less than its competitors will raise its price, because, why not? It's a very inelastic demand.
TIL 0.1% of an average pie crust is roughly 0.0282 inches
> Our analysis shows a significant association between change in local climatic variables and the occurrence of chytridiomycosis within this region. Specifically, we show that rising temperature is linked to the occurrence of chytrid-related disease, consistent with the chytrid-thermal-optimum hypothesis. We show that these local variables are driven by general circulation patterns, principally the North Atlantic Oscillation. Given that B. dendrobatidis is known to be broadly distributed across Europe, there is now an urgent need to assess the generality of our finding and determine whether climate-driven epidemics may be expected to impact on amphibian species across the wider region.

So yes, trade and travel spread the fungus. And increasing temperature decreases resistance to it. Very succinct: "chytrid-thermal-optimum hypothesis".
The 10,000th dollar to a poor person is more valuable to them than the 10,000,000th dollar to a rich person.
Similar to how Lyme disease has spread to ticks over most of the USA because climate change has expanded the viable range, one is still more likely to get exposed to it in the original area of the Northeast but it's now found in ticks spread over the country, and this is true in other countries as well.
I really don't like to think that users are too stupid for good solutions.

I think it is a way to avoid admitting that we fail at ux innso many ways and in even more spectacular ways when we try to be smart and remove options.
Facebook isn't manufacturing hammers. They're offering their hammering services. If you say "sure, we'll hammer some people for the right price," you're offering illegal hitman services.
Each of the individual features of Google+ sounded great on paper. I never used it so I can't comment on the implementation.

What killed it for me is that it came from Google. They'd already showed they're terrible at customer service, and terrible at service longevity/continuity, and it just seems creepy for the same company to want to do my web browser, my phone, my search engine, my social media, my web hosting, my advertising, my payments, my shared documents (editing and storage), etc.

It seems like, to Google engineers, "fully integrated with 173 other Google services" is a feature. To me, it's a red flag. If they want me to use any more services from them, they need to come up with some way to wall it off so I'm assured that any potential issues with X don't affect my usage of Y.
Me neither. I've never understood why it isn't illegal.
The problem with a comment like this is that it only takes into account when something was released publicly and not when the problem was first worked on and implemented internally.

Many internal projects that eventually become open-source often are not NIH projects because when the project was proposed their may have been no public open source projects or at least none that is mature enough. Even if something exists but it still in its early stages, it presents a lot of risk because your company isn't in the driver seat building and maintaining it.

Claiming something is NIH based on when it first became polished enough to be open-source ignores all the history behind the state of the world when a project was first worked on.
Hm, if a journalist is going to describe something as a "much lauded performance," I'd expect her sources to be people lauding the performance, not her own judgment of the performance itself. It is weird if she hasn't seen it herself (so she can judge whether the lauds are sensible enough to pay attention to, to avoid manufactured lauding as you suggest) but it isn't that weird if her primary evidence for the claim that a thing is popular is media sources.
Before I or others go looking for such, what would you consider an acceptable standard of direct evidence?
I was so excited for the circles so I could group content to an audience. I coerced a significant number of people to join Google+.

I was let down when I found out that when I posted something, it would send people in that circle an e-mail notification.

I stopped posting as soon as I saw that. I'd much rather have people check on my interests at their leisure than having my content forced on them.
Here's an AMA he did, if anyone is interested in reading more about him specifically:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4xmbu9/iama_16_year_o...
agree with your point, but "classmate" is often a reference to "a member of the class of [graduating year]", so it's ambiguous. even to my point, people can enter college almost anytime, not just right after high school.
I buy the $1 Ikea bags and then throw them out :)
The author didn't touch upon what I think is the biggest issue with this. I can be pretty damn sure that 51.50799,-0.12803 is really close to 51.51799,-0.12803 and even closer to 51.50800,-0.12803 just by looking at the numbers because they follow a decimal precision style location system. However, I have no idea if mile.crazy.shade is next to mouth.award.bowl or if they are 1,0000 miles apart.

If anything, they should have designed it such that it follows an IP style system where you get more precise/specific with each period and the words more to the left indicate a larger area and we drill down to other smaller areas with each period. And you could make words in the specific section be similar to things that are near it. For example, it could roughly translate to state.town.subsection within a country. So mouth.award.bowl could be right next to mouth.award.cup because cup and bowl are related.

Regardless, this is a shit system and I can't believe anyone even bothered to create it. Also, I've never heard of it prior to today. Who uses this crap?
Casey did mention that Fabian and cbloom know the math behind this and might elaborate on the topic on their own blogs later.
In addition to what's been mentioned already, another implication is that _politicians are just in it for themselves_, they just want power. They want to get a cushy government job, they want to give handouts to their friends, they want to give handouts to people to vote for them, by running deficits that a business never could get away with. Sometimes the more businesslike candidates sell themselves as outsiders who know how to get things done, and are already successful, so they're not vying for this job to just collect a paycheck.

In theory, at least some of this makes sense. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like businesspeople who have "made enough money" tend to show any desire to rest on their laurels and decide enough is enough. And a businessperson who runs for office is just as likely as anyone else to be running to get power and notoriety.

And of course, businesses do well by leveraging debt. And they have handouts and nepotism and corruption.
I agree but, come on. It's a cop out. Anyone can retroactively fit a model. It's much harder to have a model that makes good predictions. It's tiring when everything from insect populations, to depression in humans, to polar vortexes are all retroactively attributed to AGW. Of course, existing models would never predict these things, they are simply observed, and then a climate related cause is sought out and pinned on.
Sounds cool, but W3W solves a few different problems. It's got to sound natural, be easy to recognize by various voice systems, and easy to communicate between people.

"12 character code" might solve the problem from your perspective, but the point is that barcodes and IDs are annoying to read and copy by hand.
If you can prove that any particular video did so, sure, I don't see a problem with that.
GraphHopper Routing Engine 0.12 Released
it gets so hot that people sleep outdoors on sidewalks

Off topic, but I find it funny how society has changed so much in so little time.

When I was growing up in New York, if it was hot, many people in the neighborhood would sleep outside — especially people in apartment buildings. You'd see dozens of them snoring away on fire escapes.

Now those same families probably can't imagine living without air conditioning, even though the city is so much safer today.
People who serve in the US military, or in jobs requiring DoD security clearance, already (and perhaps ironically) give up substantial US basic rights and privacy. The article sounds like this burden might be worsening.

We can appreciate those who sacrifice their rights for this reason, but that sacrifice can be a lot of ask of them, and of additional people who could also contribute. (Though, if we've been around some of the most selfish industry behavior too much lately, it might be hard to believe/remember that many people in other circles are motivated to serve by some kind of genuine altruism or sense of duty. But they exist.)

Personally, increasing burdens of invasiveness, including pressure to get clearance, are part of the reason that I decided to move back to non-government-related work. Though it's difficult to find dotcoms lately that give a warm-fuzzy sense of positive contribution that I got from a modest consulting role in public sector.
to answer the first question: It is 50us create a new instance from a loaded WebAssembly module. The module is compiled AOT into a shared object file, which is then loaded into the runtime using `dlopen`. We create instances from a region, which is basically a pool of memory that is already mostly setup, to minimize the computation & syscalls required in instance creation.
There was actually a brief period of time, right when google+ started, where everyone would just start a Google Hangout (which was released at the same time), and people were just chilling in the Hangouts.

That experience was cool. It felt like modern social square, to just have open video chats, than anyone would just join.