skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The cure for diabetes has little meaning to pharmas

1. ABC develops an effective treatment for diabetes, but you have to take it for life.

2. DEF develops a cure for diabetes.

Which one do you think is going to make more money? The only way ABC can make money is if a cure cannot be developed, or ABC somehow convinced the government to ban DEF's cure.

Your theory reminds me of the 1970s when everyone was sure that 100 mpg carburetors existed but the oil companies bought up all the patents for it so they could sell more gas.
It's only a stupid question if you're not playing by the rules a ton of your colleagues/competitors are, which makes them a better pick than you.
> ... I'm surprised there wasn't a process already.

There was. The U.S. Airforce had the long-running Project Bluebook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
Greenland's ice sheet has lost 11B,000,000 lbs of water since 1972
Yep. Most smart people, even the most diehard fans, knew tether was at the very least, extremely shady.
Granted, it's not a general purpose programming language, but it has a comparable learning curve. Certainy many times steeper than YAML or JSON or other markup languages.
Project Turris: protecting users' home networks / CZ.NIC research project
I wonder about the privacy concerns of them scanning and uploading your mail especially since proof of identity is strict.

Initially, I was thinking of a PO Box with on-demand mail forwarding. USPS does not have that exact thing, but it looks like there may be a couple of private companies offering it.
so...why are you still the CEO of a medical blockchain startup? Surely you escorted yourself off the premises by now? ;)

But seriously, isn't this putting the cart before the horse? The usual order is "find a problem, build a solution", not "find a technology, build a solution, work out who has a problem it can solve". How's that working out for you?
Early startup employees get paid (humor)
> Not just unlimited addresses/aliases but mailboxes

Yes, Dreamhost shared hosting includes this.
Red Hat's signature fedora logo to disappear from HQ tower May 1 (2019)
Frankly, you don't even need to compare richer vs poorer countries. Just compare today's generation with older generations.

My father was significantly older than me. He didn't have electricity early in his life. He didn't have comforts like an electric fan till he was in his teens. He could afford air conditioners only when he was in his 40's. When he was younger, smallpox was a constant presence in society (measles is nothing in comparison). He went from being close to food insecurity to not having to worry about food and shelter. I could make a really long list.

Now while in general he was a content person, at times it was clear that all these gains (with the possible exception of not having to worry about food and shelter) played little role in his mental happiness. As society progressed, the reference points all got reset.

This isn't all that different from comparing rich with poor societies. If even in a rich society you find that all these gains (which even the poor in society benefited from) haven't made a big impact on one's mental happiness, one shouldn't expect the same when comparing rich with poor societies.
Hmm, given that the current 2-day often turns out to be 3 or 4, I am not wildly optimistic about 1-day. But at least Amazon aren't just ratcheting up the Prime dues without actually offering more to customers.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19748939
Awesome to see how far Coursera has come. I still remember when Coursera exploded onto the scene and showed to the world there was incredible value in putting tons of good educational content online for everyone to access.

Now, online video based educational content is everywhere -- exists for all sorts of topics. Despite never needing to use it to find a new career, I'm definitely at a way better place in life.
WELL, do note that this is about an infraction that occurred in mid-2018, LONG after the "ardent HODL-ers" were skeptical about it and while Tether had its highest level of confidence in the market, instead of like 2016.

So it is almost like a caricature of its own criticisms.
A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture
Yes, on the whole, Asian markets have it going on!
See also at WashPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/04/24/...
Note that I wrote it out as 11,000,000,000,000,000 (11 quadrillion) in the title, but HN converted it to "11B,000,000" so 11-million-billions?
> The primary suspicion about tether was lack of solvency, and the subpoena went out in late 2017

Per the court filing, the investigation of Bitfinex and Tether began in 2018 and the subpoena went out on November 27, 2018.
I used one of their camera this year. Cool API for classical 2D vision, there was an onboard intel computer to perform processing on the camera itself. Did not turn out to be well suited for what I wanted sadly.
Odd. They are extremely common in California. My office mate has one, her second after giving the first to her daughter. A friend has a motorcycle accident and TWO Prius were involved.

So in the USA, or at least in California they are very common. Part of their popularity is their fleet use makes them direct cheap in the used market, and they tend to be pretty reliable despite the complexity of two separate drive trains.
I use https://www.anytimemailbox.com/
How I Package TypeScript Lambdas for AWS
TOPS per Watt is a highly meaningful metric that matters a lot in the real world. It’s a valid definition of “best”.

No one cares how many TOPS your 500watt non-redundant monster can run, because it’s not being put in an EV.
It is good with a programmable device with feature phone form-factor. For certain applications, old fashioned tactile buttons are better.
farmer here. We grew pigs last year an saved their fat. Just started rendering it wit plans for lard bisquest and gravy this weekend.

Think for your self. Its as critical the information you put in your head as the food you put in your belly.

Consider an information diet and stop eating man made transfats.
Well the ambiguity is "defender" meaning "a player on the defending team" and "a player with the role defender".

Actually the second interpretation could have an interesting effect, since it also doesn't specify team. So if the attacking team puts one of their defenders in the circle the defending team is out of luck.
You short the stock because it has price moves in the opposite direction of the bonds, so you can afford to buy more bonds without undue risk of losses. Like, the trade has several pieces:

1. Buy the corporate bond, getting the credit spread over equivalent treasuries

2. Short the same face value of stock, which gives you back the price of the bonds in case of bankruptcy.

3. Buy call options on the stock to close out your short position, costing you the option premium to go into the trade.

Also, stock buybacks don't (or at least shouldn't) increase stock prices.
Piratebay
While using the free tier, I honestly can't validate a a $19/user/mo ($228/user/annum) expense based solely on a single feature, let alone why I should move to the paid version at all if more and more features start to be gated beyond multiple levels (a la Windows 7).

I love using Gitlab as a part of development cycle, managing issues and handling pull/merge requests but per seat licensing is a bit steep for a single user, even more so for a team.

The norm for pricing products and services is more and more "just for a pint/coffee/sandwich a month" but when everyone wants their share of the cash, the end result is a mismash of services and products that don't work together well (if at all) and you get stuck without a pint/coffee/sandwich for the whole month now.
https://drz.today/2019/mdau-dau-and-the-growth-hacks-for-hig...
Absolutely true. I’m sure the Referral program cost is the majority of that.

They have a highly effective, modestly funded, non-traditional advertising strategy.
I have just spent 4 or 6k on a matrox card and little device that will send/receive KVVVM over fibre. To be used in a power station so the computer can sit in a rack on the other side of the room instead of on the desk beside the 3 monitors. Not why it is worth that much money not to have a tower on or under the desk. Maybe somebody accidentally unplugged the tower once.
I honestly don't consider Walmart to be a "good" store. They're cheap, and that's it. They bring a large cost to the community, too.
not so easy for lower scores :)
I make bacon the same way, in a glass casserole. I'll pass the fat through a coffee filter or a round of cheesecloth before refrigerating it. Use it for everything: it's a near-total replacement for butter/shortening/cooking oil. Olive oil we keep around for dressing salads.
Walgreens and Kroger test cameras that guess age and gender
Why is this downvoted? The truth hurts?
SoftBank Unit Invests $125M in Google's Loon Balloons
Is carrying a printed card around going to be the tinfoil hat of the new millenium?
Soy beans are a top 5 food allergen. In the US, soy beans get into almost everything because most "vegetable oil" and margarine is made from it.

We had to remove soy beans from our diet and we are much healthier as a result. A lot of people who have digestive issues could probably trace the problem back to an intolerance of soy beans. It took us a lot of trial and error to figure this out in our case.

We found we could only get decent lard off of etsy.com, or from an rural butcher. The best lard is from grass fed animals, which has better taste/nutrition.
"k" is an internationally standardized prefix. Anyone on this site would know it means 1000.
But neither does profit motive. Is facebook maximizing the benefit of their users?
It’s more like maximizing benefits to the minimum amount of people at the expense of the maximum number of people.
$10M+ of funding by the Koch brothers to manufacture outrage against Tesla?

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/26/tesla-musk-hit-by-trife...
This is exactly how my old recruiting sideline (I was a consultant, but recruiter money is great) worked. I spent time not just pre-interviewing candidates, but pre-interviewing companies; it made it pretty easy to connect good candidates with good companies.

(Been thinking about getting back into it for local Boston companies. Anyone out there interested in working with me to find you great, Boston-local candidates? Please feel free to drop me a line.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19752699
Well, generally, perhaps. But any performance oriented C programmer worth his or her salt would be aware of aliasing issues and write code in such a way that it doesn't cause problems for the compiler. Plus, this is a toy benchmark of a few hundred lines so the compiler can do full-program analysis. So the 20% difference is indeed a smell.

Looking at the crb*.c files, structs are passed as pointers and not by value. This makes it harder for the compiler to analyze the data flow which I would bet is part of the reason Rust is faster here.
It can be tunnelled over TLS using openssl
There might be potential uses for distributed ledgers in an industry that is required by law to share your care history. This specific company not having arrived at a concrete product does not negate the potential upside. All it takes for them to do is develop a technology that can be of interest to an industry giant and become acquired. Im not saying this is the case here, but it is a real option.
What blockchain technology are you going with?

I find the private blockchain technologies (Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth) superior for these types of applications especially since Fabric implemented private data.
I use a basic Markdown document, with a bullet-point list of "todo" items.

For things that need further breakdown, I use indented sub-items to decompose features into achievable chunks.

I then use strikethrough formatting to mark things as done. On GitHub this is done with tilde characters; other (proper) Markdown parsers might need to use <del>.

I find it usually means a 1-page overview of the initial scope of the project, which helps me refine the concept as well as the todo list.

Once the initial work is done, I tend to use GitHub issues. That might not be until I've done a few iterations of the Markdown doc though.
The obviously convincing argument would be - after ten years - "something to show for it all."

That is, something that blockchain is clearly and obviously the use case for.

"Potential" goes only so far. Eventually you need kinetic.
> A car's horsepower is not in its carburetor, or its gas, or its manifold, because the horsepower of a car is what it can do, its an ability, a power. In the same sense the brain can compute, but that doesn't mean it is a computer.

A car's horsepower is in the engine. That's what an engine does. Burns fuel, provides work over time. Work over time is denominated in horsepower - or, in saner company, in watts. Categories like "engine" or "computer" are not excluding. That thing in the car can be "an engine", "a hunk of metal" and "an expensive paperweight" at the same time. Similarly, if brain can compute, it is a computer. It's also an organ.

> Humans have other abilities, such as imagination, that are not computational.

Evidence needed. Why would it not be computational? We can, and do, easily build imagination-like computations. A fuzzy search on a graph. A series of simulations with relaxed constraints and somewhat randomized initial states. They all resemble aspects of imagination; it's not a big leap to conclude that imagination is nothing but a more complex variant of such computations.

> It means you can fuzzily model the brain on a computer, but that model will have glaring gaps.

Models exist on a map, not in the territory. So do brains and computers. The territory is made of whatever sub-quark substrate the reality is made of. When you say "brain", what you're really referring to is a model, and a pretty black-boxy one. Viewing the brain as a computer is an attempt to apply a model that's little more transparent (and therefore more useful); as long as it matches observable evidence (and it does), it's the right thing to do.
> technology-based productivity boosts

Productivity increase is the underlying force behind all non-government-spending economic growth
I still have some issues with the Gitlab UX but they've improved it a lot in the past couple of years. Especially knowing that there are way more features than a few years prior (and WAY more features than on Github), they manage really well IMO.
Editors have extensively tested what works and what not for thousands of years. You might notice that I didn't talk about the ideas expressed in the text. Is because the chosen format is too cluttered and distracting. I was expelled in the first two paragraphs and personally couldn't care less about what was written here. I'm not probably the only one.

The lack of knowledge (or care) about basic typography is particularly surprising among web page creators (one of the groups of people that produce more written texts currently). This hurts everybody in many unexpected ways. We enjoy gray text over white background for some reason, jumpscare videos playing suddenly when you enter a web page, diminutive fontsizes by default guaranteeing to damage your eyes, and too long lines of text that are just the incorrect way to do it (but nobody cares).
Unless you work as a human tester for an email client.
So what if a little peanut butter gets mixed in?
The first 5G phone will cost $1,300 on Verizon
That’s the opposite of selfish.
It's why I prefer quick phone interviews. It gives me enpugh of a glimpse into their culture.
So anyone currently holding USDT is playing a ~$1B game of musical chairs?
Personally I think Amazon is in the right here. Open source projects should not mix proprietary code into their code base period. Build a plugin architecture that supports any proprietary additions you wish to have, but mixing proprietary code with free/open source code should be widely opposed by the community.

And I'd echo the sentiment of others here - Elastic itself has benefited GREATLY by building their product on top of many other open source projects. Java, Lucene, Netty, etc.

Here's a partial list of dependencies:

com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting

com.fasterxml.jackson.core

com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat

com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs

com.fasterxml.jackson.module

com.github.spullara.mustache.java

commons-codec

commons-io

commons-lang

commons-logging

com.nimbusds

com.sun.jersey

com.sun.mail

io.dropwizard.metrics

io.netty

joda-time

junit

net.jcip

net.minidev

net.sf.supercsv

net.shibboleth.utilities

net.sourceforge.csvjdbc

org.antlr

org.apache.hadoop

org.apache.httpcomponents

org.apache.james

org.apache.logging.log4j

org.apache.lucene

org.apache.pdfbox

org.apache.poi

org.apache.santuario

org.apache.tika

org.bouncycastle

org.carrot2

org.cryptacular

org.hamcrest

org.jline

org.locationtech.jts

org.locationtech.spatial4j

org.openjdk.jmh

org.opensaml

org.ow2.asm

org.slf4j

org.yaml

ua.net.nlp
You are holding counterfeit money and hoping you can offload it before the shit hits the fan. When everyone starts running for the exit, you may not be in the front of the pack.
Sometimes I wonder if Bad Blood will be used as a blueprint, instead of a cautionary tale, in the coming years. Much the same way that I've seen the shenanigans of Office Space applied over the last 2 decades. Except that that's a much more frightening prospect than the comparatively benign bullshit in Office Space spreading through the industry.
You might be right about that if Facebook wasn't an exceptionally terrible company with rotten leaders.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the team behind it. The reason I might choose not to use a technology owned by Facebook is that my use would be promoting it; the more popular React becomes, the more encouraged people are to contribute code to it, which helps Facebook in a minuscule way. Nonetheless, the popularity of React does contribute to Facebook's success in some way.

Comcast is a different story, as I'm not aware of people helping them for free by using and developing their own tools. I get what you are saying by generally objecting to Comcast and facing the dilemma of paying them when you have no other options. I guess it depends on how much you dislike Comcast and if you are willing to replace them with free public WiFi and Netflix. At least with Facebook, there are plenty of alternatives(as well as ripoffs of React).
Damn near bankrupting Yahoo!
Our internal recruiter at my previous company had a CS degree so she was quite capable of identifying candidates with good fit.
> Online shopping for groceries currently doesn't work, shipping is to expensive, unless you only shop once a week...

I tried out Amazon's grocery offering out of curiosity. What made me realize that it wasn't for me was the large boxes that ended up on my doorstep. It was embarrassing and seemed really wasteful to me.
Yes, it is - the recipient solves the problem by flagging your emails as spam.
Not that I am aware of. Perhaps deterring people willing to show them to the press, or avoiding class actions.
Having read the article (and being just enough of an amateur photographer to know how hard it is to take good pictures, and how much harder it was when working in film instead of digital) I don't actually think the headline is over-stating the case at all.
Was your experience as a junior? I concur that this can often be the routine for junior team members, who get sold a false sense of importance for the work they do.

Rarely is this the routine for senior team members. Many of the most senior people I worked with only showed up if something bad had happened, or they knew their seniors were going to be around. One member of the board that I reported to only turned up for a day in the entire year, and that was for a meeting with FINMA! That also happened to be the only time I saw his boss in the office... It seems everyone's just taking the piss wherever possible.
It was profit-seeking Bayer that found a way to make aspirin in an industrial process and put it in wide use.

"In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it.[2]:69–75 By 1899, Bayer had dubbed this drug Aspirin and was selling it around the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin
I was going to respond with a similar list. This is close and augments my philosophy well. Thanks!

I personally teach people to code with Python. Because it's easy to get into but can grow with someone where ever they want to go. It has a strong culture of clean code and DRY, and it is fully formed with a great community.

1. Start with Learn Python the Hard Way and do it until you are frustrated.

2. When frustrated with LPTHW, move to setting up a Django website. Do the Hello World of Django.

3. I work with the person to figure out something in their life that they'd like to make a web app of and help them do a simple website with basic Django models and bootstrap (so it looks good and like the familiar face of a finished product).

4. Work with them on simple deployment patterns and looping back into LPTHW to continue rudiments.

What I'm trying to teach here is that when you're staring at a wall of infinite unknown; set yourself up for success. Taking bites out of the elephant and learning to tolerate frustration / lack of knowledge by balancing with feeding yourself success. Always try to back learning of complicated things with a process of exploring something personally relevant to you and keep a sense of play.

I try to emphasize that the feeling of unknown that they are experiencing IS the state of being a programmer, the problems just change. The scale of what you can leverage grows. But at the end of the day, the unknown is what you're exploring and if you take to the process you'll learn to be excited about that. It will still always be scary, annoying, and sometimes really fun.
Have you tried passing everything by value? That is, instead of:

bool hit_sphere(const struct sphere* sp, const struct ray* ray, struct hit* hit)

you write:

static bool
hit_sphere(struct sphere sp, struct ray ray, struct hit hit)

IME, clang is insanely good at optimizing pass by value calls.
The only way it could get even more interesting (though probably unlikely) is if the same people behind Bitfinex and Tether (who are indeed the same people - Tether offered a Line of Credit to Tether, and the same two people signed the documents for both sides - wasn't that another of their lies, that they had no relation to each other??), are also behind Crypto Capital?
Yeah - damn these businesses for using open source rather than building common tools from scratch. Cleary they are just as bad as a company with about a trillion dollar market cap that deliberately cannibalizes fledgling companies once said companies have bled themselves dry exploring a new market.

When will the corporate shilling on HN end?
I'd go as far as saying that most formal CS degrees are often useless. FOUR years, and new grads often still can't code.

I've met some 3-4 year students in "Cybersecurity" programs that couldn't cogently explain the difference between private/public keys.

Think about that.
There's a busines model for high-fixed, zero-marginal cost economic public goods. It's taxes.

The alternatives have all been found wanting: "intellectual property" (copyright and patents), patronage, religious commissions, advertising.

Busking, performance, physical media sales, merch, loss-leaders, widget-frosting, service/support, and shingle-posting all bypass the HFZMC problem by monetising some alternative good, product, or service.

Several of those specifically tie network-effect, rent-generating monopolies with FCZMC goods. Taxes socialise this process.

What to tax is the next question. Adam Smith preferred wealth and land (means of production).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...