skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not now. I happen to have old account so I could still use it for free, not sure for how long.
Those are great questions but at this point in a newbie's path, I think they can be overwhelming even as they are well intentioned. I think it's best to just introduce them to lifting and get them into a gym with a sustainable routine and show them that they can enjoy it and make progress.
> I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant.

I do not. I imagine that there is a point at which the decision-makers and the Azure sales team can have many lunches and have many Serious Conversations.

The further away purchase power is from implementation responsibility, the more likely one is to wind up hands-on with something as immediately-obviously deficient as Azure.
This does not work for us. iTunes does not see the phone.
> Your comment implies the security of a pin code on your phone screen is equivalent to an air-gapped hardware token, which is obviously false.

No, some banks allow only small payments after accessing the app without hardware token.
> The plane was relegated to cargo status

No, it went back into passenger service and received further orders. American Airlines removed the "DC-10" sticker from the nose and carried on.

I flew on the last commercial passenger service of a DC-10 in 2014.
Well, just like there are objective levels of depreciation for certain classes of assets (property vs. equipment), perhaps there could be similar levels of depreciation allowable for sales & marketing costs based on historic customer churn?
Edge is MS's current browser... IE11 was an incremental release over IE10 and several years old at this point. Most browsers update very frequently. IE never did.

Maybe you need to look at whoever locked said computers down to ONLY support IE? Chrome and Firefox are both better options at this point. It really isn't MS's fault that an organization can't be bothered to update their software for what, 4 years now?
Derivation of Hubble’s Law and the End of the Darks Elements
Derivation of Hubble’s Law and the End of the Darks Elements

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=91689
That’s not surprising at all. Sure it would be great if it had a light footprint but it’s usability far outweighs that.
Slack the product was launched in 2013. The company, formally known as Tiny Speck, was founded in 2009. Their business and available products before 2013 had nothing with what Slack is today. So not absolutely farfetched to say launch to IPO in 5-6 years, if we're defining it by the relevant incarnation.
> Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions.

What about non-AI powered machines that mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions? For example, science journal paywalls.
do you agree?
Sounds good. Careful, controlled growth is always better.
> b) Will show me a actual PCB and derive its schematic from it.

So, not quite what you're asking for, but

Have a read of this: http://research.cs.tamu.edu/prism/lectures/mbsd/mbsd_l16.pdf

And watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWNP6igNCY

Then look at this circuit diagram and create a memory map for the ram from it. https://github.com/jefftranter/68000/blob/master/TS2/v2/ts2....

I'm using this example because it's genuinely complex, but simple enough that you should be able to get it.

Other people have mentioned the 555, and that's a nice IC to experiement with because they're cheap and simple and versatile and you can see the output easily with any oscilloscope you buy.
Nothing - we started the company in 2014 and began using Slack. Were much closer to ~$200/year when we started.
Derivation of Hubble’s Law and the End of the Darks Elements

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...
Exactly, the document reads like some kind of numerology for graphical designers...

The new logo itself looked like a vintage airliner logo. I kind of see the one in my mind's eye but cannot quite place it. Googled for it but couldn't find it.
how do you tell the difference between a personal mail server and a spammer?
Well, most log-in forms do not have any captcha, so I wonder how they do it.
Cache Speculation Side-Channels (2017) [pdf]
Used to be, but it's probably popular enough now that still offering free accounts without any way to profit off of them might be too burdensome.
Really the key is to have a TLS-secured connection to a domain that you trust. The EV cert is just icing on the top that anyone doing payments or bank integration should have. It's slightly harder for a scammer to get and keep an EV cert than a standard cert.

And you're right- the issue is with communicating identity to the user. The best way we have for doing this is to have the entire tab be served from the trusted domain, with the browser checking for mixed content to make sure your data is safe. But the problem is that Plaid and Stripe.js don't even support this basic mechanism for communicating to users that they're safe. Someone decided that a slightly slicker UX was worth totally giving up on this identity issue. I think it is fair to blame them for that.
Probably because those people who use the app most do not care about memory usage.
Everytime somebody complains about how resource-hungry Slack is, it usually comes from a developer. I rarely see project managers or designers or even clients complain. And, looking at the company I work for, the developers channel is the one with the lowest usage.
This is why Slack became successful: it works for the people who need it most, not because it is very resource-efficient or well coded.
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Our goal is simple - if we can help folks sleep better we can improve their overall health and ability to flourish.

Happy to chat with anyone who is more interested in any way in what we are working on, has thoughts/feedback or would like to talk more about sleep in general.
That is really impressive, good job
> In fact, you SHOULD have both since 401(k)s are hugely inflexible compared to IRAs so it makes sense to fund an IRA before a 401(k) unless you're getting a match on the 401(k) contributions.

This really depends on how good your 401(k) is and what kind of investments you want to make. If you just want the standard (and very good) low-cost three-fund portfolio, all 401(k) programs I’ve seen offer these kinds of index funds. If you really want more exotic investments, then an IRA might be better.

The advise to have both is sound though, but the best reason is you want to maximize your tax-advantaged savings. “Flexibility” is a benefit not important to everyone.
I would wholeheartedly second 'The Art of Electronics'---it is a perfect book to start with. I would add 'The art of designing analog chips' by Camenzind (the inventor of the 555 timer) and 'Multistage Transistor Circuits' (SEEC, vl 5). The last book is a good introduction into the design portion of the process. If one feels particularly adventurous, reading old Bob Pease's columns in ED is also educational.
I was looking at 1820-2008 in Maddison which gives us the 40x increase. Both those numbers are in 1990 dollars, so using your estimate of 20 million after inflation 20/36,232 ~= 1000/1,446,959 ignoring all the confounding coffee stains on the back of the napkin.
It is if Facebook can issue debt to stretch the fine payment into several years or longer. If you make $50k a year, get a $25k fine, and stretch it out into 50 $500 payments, then it's about fifty parking tickets. Which is hard, but doable. And when you're a PM, or somewhere else nice and well far removed from the corporate bank accounts which are paying the fine, then you don't even notice. Actually, you notice something positive since your compensation took a nice bump when your stock options became worth more as a result of investors responding positively to the news.

The amount of money needs to be commensurate with a level at which shareholders feel like they're taking a hit. It's not about the size of the fine, it's about how the fine makes investors feel.
I'm not trolling, nor do I feel I'm dismissing it lightly. I'd rather take a relatively minor risk of death than knowingly inflict whatever psychological trauma comes from forcing an infant to sleep alone. I think the horror of this is seriously downplayed by our society. It's relatively safe to leave a baby in a box now, but this hasn't been the case for our deep evolutionary past. If you're a baby being left in a box at night the proper response is to freak out and try to get an adult to hold you, because otherwise you might get eaten by a wolf.
The Pepsi logo was like an airliner logo, that is
Plectics - The study of simplicity and complexity (1996)
According to Wikipedia the firm wasn’t completely put out of business until the conviction. I don’t know how accurate that is.

They did win a unanimous ruling on appeal to the Supreme Court years later but by then it was too late to save the company.
> They blamed me and said that they weren't interested in a programmer that couldn't set up a mail server.

Tangent, but this kind of stuff is super annoying and probably happens far more often than anyone wants to admit. A few friends and I have been commiserating re the incompetence of potential employers who've rejected us because of their own misconfigured environments or fundamental misunderstandings of the systems they run. We had one interviewer close out a candidacy because the code sample "didn't run" on their interview's system -- the traceback showed he had a broken half-Py2/half-Py3 install.
Nothing compares. Nothing compares to Yew.
I've done a lot of cross-country exploring of the USA by motorcycle in the past, and it always shocked me how obviously harmfully polluted the air can be in residential areas neighboring industrial activity.

I don't understand how it continues unchecked. Sometimes I'd spend as little as an hour breathing the stuff and my nose and throat would be sore for days afterwards.

My assumption is the residents are too poor so they lack representation and likely are employed by the same companies behind the pollution. The government should be more actively monitoring these industrial activities and protecting its citizens from their negligence.
Agreed. I get up every morning around 6am. Some mornings I get up at 5am for a group workout thing, but it's mostly around 6am. I'm normally in bed right before 10 because I have found out through experience that I need ~7-8 hours of sleep/night.

I can shift this a bit, say go to bed around 11 or 12 and sleep later, but I am not nearly as productive in the mornings then. If I push this more extreme and say go to bed at 2-3am, even if I sleep until 10 or 11, I am wrecked the next day. I actually feel worse than if I only got 6 hours of sleep instead, but went to bed earlier.
Personally, I suspect that $120/year from 10,000 people like us is not worth Google's time and effort.

I can also see the criticisms now: "privacy isn't a luxury only for rich people!".
U.S. Climate data by state and city
We're using Elm for our front-end UI. With Erlang in the backend (not Elixir). It's very reliable and predictable. I hope it succeeds.
While you are still explosively growing reducing sales and marketing spend doesn't make a lot of sense. It allows competitors who out spend you to catch up. Instead you should analyze SaaS businesses by the "Rule of 40":

https://saasholic.com/the-rule-of-40-for-saas-and-subscripti...

For Slack, if they grew 84% and their profit was -35% they are well above a net of 40 with 49. It is pretty easy to see that if Slack stopped spending on sales & marketing and stopped growing engineering they would be massively profitable. Instead, they should get as big as they can as fast as they can as most markets are becoming winner take all.
Not personally. According to the attached footnote (15): consists of shares held by the entities affiliated with Social Capital, it seems the principal's name is identified in lieu of the firm as they are the custodian in charge.
> The fact that we don't see either of these things tells me that the backing isn't actually "meaningless". Rational traders with their own capital at stake don't appear to be selling.

This is the equivalent of arguing "if roulette was a negative sum game, economically rational actors would cash in their chips". There's plenty of reason to believe that the USDT market doesn't even closely approximate economic rationality, and no reason to believe that there are ordinary investors with large sums of cash tied up in USDT who have superior insight into the level of backing Bitfinex actually have than the people questioning them.

The "why aren't more rational people shorting it?" argument makes slightly more sense, but then if you shorted Madoff when his fraud was first highlighted, you'd have been bankrupted in the ensuing 8 years...
Taxis made money because the medallion situation limited competition, and because fare prices were fixed by the city at levels that ensured a profit.
^ I totally agree with your take, but I think it's worth noting that we really could lose these things. I'm hopeful the current administration is an aberration and we'll return to some degree of normalcy in the future, regardless of which party is in power. But if we don't, institutions like the FBI will eventually erode as well.
Seperating birds bonded to people is very cruel. This creature was socialized in a very strange fashion and can not bond to other birds even of the same kind.
I was about to write a really snarky response here, because it seems intuitive to me that if the government prints more currency that means it's increasing the supply of money, until I realized you might be right. So long as the issued currency is being used specifically the represent money that already exists on a ledger, it's perfectly fine.

My bad?

My one question though is... what's the mechanism for this to happen? My understanding is that when a government issues currency, they are in effect lending it out. They don't just print it out and say "This $1 is the same as the $1 in your account." The Central Bank of whatever country we're talking about has to lend that money out, either to the government itself or to the other banks.

And if THAT's the case, then doesn't every $1 of currency issued increase the total supply of money by $1?

What am I missing? (Not being argumentative, I'm honestly asking.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750014
There are a lot of free services. Sure, they are getting money from someone, but small personal accounts often are free. Like they hook me on free account and then I recommend it or upgrade as I grow or just spread information about it. For example I never paid for DNS hosting. Currently I'm using Cloudflare for free.
Smart. Very smart. You'll go far.
>Rational traders with their own capital at stake don't appear to be selling.

I think that's a good observation but maybe it's just folks who already own Tether are inclined to belive in it... still, maybe not all that rational?
Top C++ API design mistakes and how to avoid them
Ask HN: Do small businesses in USA still use landlines?
So a non-american here; obviously, interested in knowing if small businesses(law, accounting, therapist, and real estate agents offices) still use landline as their main mobile contact?
No because rates aren't 1-2% in a typical savings account from a standard bank. If you want 1-2% interest you'll have to have a "high interest savings account" which have historically been online-only offerings and most people really can't be bothered to open up a new account and manage multiple accounts and do the transfers.

For example, if you had $20,000 in a Chase savings account AND had a "Premier Relationship" with them then you'd get an interest rate of 0.04%, or a whopping $8 in interest for the year.

https://www.chase.com/personal/savings/interest-savings/inte...

Its worth noting that rates have gone up significantly in the last year and a half, at one point it got to the point where checking accounts and savings accounts had the same interest rates at many banks and many people stopped using savings accounts entirely at that point.
Alternatively, we could reject the notion entirely and revive the antitrust movement. Centralized private power is just as, if not more, dangerous than centralized public power and we aught to have a discussion about whether nation-state size companies are really a desirable feature.
too much to read, really
Your local bank might offer a brokerage account. Sometimes they are called depot accounts. Typically, you use it to buy / sell stocks and funds that are traded on stock exchanges in your country, that may or may not include international stocks and funds.
Saudi British Bank Launches Ripple-Based Instant Cross-Border Transfer Services
Paging Dr. Susan Calvin.
I can't fathom how.

If you maintain a fleet of thousands of driverless cars, there are at least some economies of scale you can leverage: More negotiating power with your suppliers, the ability to purchase consumables like fuel and tires at wholesale prices, the ability to have your own in-house team of mechanics who can specialize in just your fleet, etc.

If you crowdsource it, a lot of that stuff is going to have to be purchased at retail prices, which will raise the bottom line. You might be able to hide from that by capitalizing on some information asymmetry, by paying the people you crowdsource cars from less money than it's costing them to let you use their cars. But that's presumably only going to last for a short time, until private car owners wise up.
Losing your primary source of income for the last seven years for an apparently bullshit reason doesn't strike you as adequate justification for extreme distress?
> Hm? That would be factored in already. If I wanted to send money to say, India, I would buy Bitcoin with US dollars and then send it to someone's account on an Indian exchange, where they'd sell it for Rupees. The conversion is already baked in.

Right, but if you're comparing apples to apples, you need to compare the cost of, say, going to Walmart.com (or a bunch of other places) with $1,000 and sending it to someone in India vs. starting with the same $1,000 and shipping it. Unless the conversion rates for gating in and out Bitcoin are always exactly the same you need to measure the whole cost.

> I'm not arguing that international wires are the only useful thing it can do. It's simply a counter-example to the idea that there are none.

Note that I wasn't saying that there no things which were technically possible, only that very few people have a situation where it's advantageous to use Bitcoin. A possible modest savings on international transfers does not seem like a viable foundation for a decade of big world-changing rhetoric.

> > “Extremely solvable” but unsolved a decade later suggests that they are
> not in fact that easy and will end up making the cost even less competitive. People have been preaching that Bitcoin will take over for years but even most advocates don’t use it for a non-token percentage of their transactions because it’s simply not financially sensible to do so.
>
> It's already solved if you keep your money on an exchange.

… so, you get rid of banks by creating a new bank, putting a “not a bank” sign on it, and hoping nobody will notice a) how many people have lost money by trusting Bitcoin exchanges and b) how quick the community was to blame them for the loss and saying that they were fools to trust an exchange?
While I would agree with you, driverless tech is in fact the reason behind the valuation and balance sheet deficit. No large investors at this point think they are going to get a dividend paying profitable commodity business.

*edit for grammar
This is the conundrum of creating a better marketplace. An optimal market has 0 profit opportunities. In order to make money the market must be flawed in some way. Luckily in the real world perfect markets don't exist, but in certain sectors technology has made life difficult for people who had previously had a solid reliable income with the old inefficient system.
SF Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse
Patents are not valid indefinitely. Given the ridiculous amounts of money thrown at this, patents will probably expire long before the break-even point is met.

Besides patents, Uber has no way to bind customers. Yes, it's a commodity business, and I see no way around it. Users can simply use a different and cheaper car, which will inevitably exist and become popular.
On mobile so can’t really link decent links. But years ago I read a good fiction book by Stel Pavlou (Decipher) and there was a story in it about how symbols maintaining their meanings over generations was a pointless exercise but that creating a religion was the only way to do it. Belief systems etc. The example given was about radioactive waste being buried.

Pointless comment. The article just reminded me of the book.

Edit: I searched my kindle app. The book referenced the below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sebeok

“In the early 1980s, Sebeok composed a report for the US Office of Nuclear Waste Management titled Communication Measures To Bridge Ten Millennia,[9] discussing solutions to the problem of nuclear semiotics, a system of signs aimed at warning future civilizations from entering geographic areas contaminated by nuclear waste.[10] The report proposed a "folkloric relay system" and the establishment of an "atomic priesthood" of physicists, anthropologists, semioticians to preserve the true nature of hazardous site.[11]”
If it was neither engaging for you nor commercially viable, what's the point of restarting it? Some things just don't work out. It's OK to let them go and move on to something better.
Theoretically, couldn't they just fire almost all non-maintenance engineers and continue running the app without building new features? Wouldn't that make them profitable instantly?
You're kind of ignoring the giant elephant in the room - China is a authoritarian regime, and Emperor Xi recently declared himself Emperor for Life. Criticize Emperor Xi and be sent to the gulag. Not to mention the new dystopian Chinese Social Credit System. Did we forget about the millions of deaths resulting from the Cultural Revolution? Is China a country you would choose to live in for the rest of you life? How about your children?
> China has a lot of retail politics, it's just in the context of a single-party system.

I'll tell you a communist joke:

"Any party member has a primal fear of an election with more than one candidate"

Why? "Because it means that one of choices is wrong"

I my opinion, that is only nominally a joke, and the joke tells a lot about CPCs internal arrangement: pick a wrong side even once, an you are a toast, and you are better off supporting status-quo
There's a limit to that somewhere though? There's some minimum input that the controller needs to put in. If Outlook took it upon itself to send "you're hired" emails to all applicants for a job, that wouldn't be legally binding right?

I suspect the line isn't where I would like it to be in this situation though. Thinking about a generalised rule, requiring the counterparty be human if the original party is human? That seems reasonable and workable?
Probably highly dependent on the location of the actual retail space though, a run-down mall that's been vacant since the 90's will still be considered in those calculations of total retail space even though its highly undesirable.
US10144532B2 – Craft using an inertial mass reduction device
You mean the autonomous territory of Hong Kong? We'll see if Hong Kong stays at 14th as it loses said autonomy to authoritarian China. :)
$280M in Funding for Magic Leap from Docomo to Bring Spatial Computing to Japan
Are you sure about that?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/asia/japan-fukushim...