skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes down to it. The only thing that makes a company viable is whether they are making more money than they are spending.

Ignoring all other expenses and saying that a company is a good business is ignoring reality.

I’m not just choosing a method that makes Uber look bad. They are not profitable or successful based on a legal GAAP definition of profitable.

If we just cherry pick numbers, we might as well think that WeWork’s made up metric of “community adjusted EBITDA” is valid.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/wework-details-run-rate-rev...
Good. Credit card rewards are great for the few people who have enough self control to not get into debt, but terrible for everyone else. They drive people into a spiral of debt.
signed by one or more entitities

Sounds like another opportunities for the advertising companies like Google and Facebook to uniquely identify us.
By its looks, it should hide the side bar...
From the article (about a book written 50-odd years ago):-

"... and there’s a teeming social network that allows media organisations to put out hits of news and receive real-time fan feedback."

And at the bottom of the page:-

"If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter."
The logs are in my server. I use the cloudflare module to restore original session data.
YouTube Demonetizes One of GamerGate's Biggest Voices
Then the 'fix' appears to be far, far worse than the problem as temperatures are steadily, and rapidly rising.
Since gasoline taxes for road improvements are actually a scam (good luck proving where the money actually goes) , they should just change it to a registration fee for everyone. Eliminating a tax saves a lot of money and I imagine a gas tax is rather complicated to administer.
Why can’t the gas tax be extended to electricity provided to vehicles (ie superchargera) rather than ownership of EV?
Because if a plane has a problem, those behind it can maneuver around in three dimensions. Trains move in one dimension. If a train has an accident (ie comes to an unexpected stop) the trains behind it must be far enough away that they can also stop. They cannot maneuver around the blockage. Allowing for detection and communication times, at 400+kph that safety margin will be much more than a minute.
For what it’s worth, it took me a long time to raise money for my startup. Throughout that process, I relied heavily on my credit cards.

I don’t believe this would have been possible without high interest rates. I took a calculated risk.
True. I was pleasantly surprised when I took a domestic flight in Japan and didn't have to interact with anyone until showing up at the gate and boarding.
I think adults tend to naturally use past knowledge and experiences to build family comfort zones to preserve native culture. They can stay in touch with past or culturally compatible relationships from native environment (digital nimads).

Kids naturally are still developing their worldview and learning how to make relationships thus new culture and language is just an another step in that process.
> How might we make books actually work reliably?

The read is interesting, and it has an interesting premise. But, it is one well known.

Techniques like SQ3R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R) have existed for decades.

Books are a great source of knowledge. But, you need to use the right techniques to read them.

If you read for fun, then don't bother. Whatever sticks is better than nothing.

If you read to memorize, use memory techniques.

If you read to understand (like math), do exercises. All the reading in the world is not going to make you a math expert without tyring it for yourself.
Funnily enough paying their employees somewhat competitive market rate still isn’t on there.
A Project Fi data only sim is probably your best bet.
Americans spend $50k for a car and want their roads for free.
Whack thing about Japan and fossil fuels is it's totally untapped geothermal.
Oops. You're correct.

FWIW I'm using GitLab CI for the cross-platform build pipeline of PhotoStructure (8 jobs over 3 OSes), and it's really great.
How did I aced the toughest technical Interview
>Are you trying to point this out as being a good thing?

No, I'm not. What gives you that impression?
'We wanted a new vibe': the Japanese town that outlawed sprawl
Every time a GitLab's competitor is in the news we get flooded with HN submissions about GitLab. That can't be a good PR strategy.
But using Python is very painful as well for shell use-case. Do you really want to open files, subprocesses, and create fifo manually instead of typing "cmd1 | cmd2 > output"?

Then you have Xonsh, but in my opinion, switching between the two contexts, shell and python, at each part of a command was too difficult. I was totally lost even at writing very basic commands.
So, just to share my thoughts, part of the reason why a question like this seems unpopular is that it kinda is raising completely unjustified doubt on very well established science.

A good place to start might be: https://xkcd.com/1732/
And then I recommend you at least read 3-4 wikipedia pages on warming, climate, ice-ages before pushing these questions... They will more than answer them for you.
Ask HN: How many different ways do you know to encode superposition?
True, the error handling could be better, but my main point was really to say that much of that code should not even be necessary; the majority of those calls are really just doing the equivalent of setting a field in a structure in the old way.

Furthermore, because it's a function call and "could" fail, "best" (more like dogmatic) practice dictates that the return values must be checked, despite the fact that failure means something was really wrong (like the hardware failing) and there's no way to recover from that, and you can argue that point as much as you like but your corporate-drone manager isn't going to care, only about whether you're "following the standards" and his precious metrics that are just as uncaring. (That's a rant for another day.)

On the other hand, no one argues whether you need to check for errors when using assignment statements. Doing it the old way is so much simpler and avoids the whole aforementioned argument issue around pointless error-checking.
Getting from the gate to your rental car absolutely SUCKS in any country that's not the US. Easily adds another 1-2 hours to your overhead.
Is writing docs really that different a skill from writing readable code?

Or are these "great programmers" not actually that good at that?
Well, the support network is far from perfect - having a 5yo son in the autistic spectrum I experience this first hand. Not too long ago my kid would be segregated to a "special" school and I'm glad he is able to attend a regular school although he still needs a dedicated tutor.

Do you think weird people that do not endanger their own life or the life of others should be locked away?
That may work, in Europe Netherlands is planning to invest into updating natural gas infrastructure to work with hydrogen, as they have lots of wind, and possibility to store hydrogen in empty gas caverns in Groningen.
Right. I was assuming many of the 150k visitors are there as presenters or have some sort of ticket discount. Either way, that's not chump change.
This feels like it is just trying to throw out the baby with the bath water. A simple rephrasing from "Why Books Don't Work" to "Ways in Which Books Falter" would go a long way to helping the argument, as it leaves the rhetorical opening for "Ways in Which Books Excel".

And the ways are myriad. To name just one exciting one, I can go back to books. Over and over and over. Do I feel like a passage or a program were difficult? Just try again. This is in contrast to such things as talks and lectures, where it is typically one shot. Hope you got it.

To the credit of the argument, this is one of the things that was touted in early Khan Academy points. You can watch the video over and over. Did you get it? No? Try pausing the video and watching again. And again.
It might be "fun" to dump on MS, but the thing with MS tech is that, like it or not, it definitely 'sticks around'. They are probably the best in business at ensuring backwards compatibility. At work we're using windows apps that were sold in 2006, on W10. And these are fairly complicated analytical equipment control softwares that work over COM (well.. usb emulated now). I don't know if you can install and run applications from 13 years ago on any other modern platform.
I live in a country where credit cards can't carry a balance. Everyone pays them off every month.

If you need a loan, you ask the bank.

In the absence of credit card interest rates, we pay yearly fees for cards depending on the rewards offered by each.

It's kind of the best of all worlds if you ask me.
This post is about how did I approached domain modelling using Object Oriented Analysis and Design. Problem mainly revolves around Tictactoe(one of board game) solution in Java
> I can say that early access builds will be available in a couple of months, and that I don't think it's too soon to take Loom into consideration if you're now planning a new long-term project.

That's great to hear. Can anyone contribute to the project to help out?
.....huh?

I admit I skimmed this article. I did so because it is long, and because the initial premise doesn't make much sense.

I was looking for something specific. For some discussion of reading and notetaking strategies. Underlining, highlighting, etc. I saw none. Therefore, I can only repeat the tired old form of dismissal: "it didn't work for you because you did it wrong".

You want to actually absorb and learn something, you aren't supposed to just sit down and read 100 pages of it. Likewise, you aren't supposed to attend lecture and just sit there listening.

You want to talk about spaced repetition? Just put the book down and come back later. Read in small chunks, and liberally re-read difficult or important sections.

Obviously, yes, there are tools other than books that can be used for learning to great effect. By all means, use them if you really do find it difficult to learn from books. But you can't say it's hard to learn from the book, if you've never been taught how to learn from book correctly.

Regarding lectures, you won't learn much from a lecture on its own. The best "school strategy" I know of is to skim the material before lecture, so you can attend lecture with some idea of what is going to happen, so you can take more organized notes and not be caught off guard by anything. Then after lecture you go back and read the book more carefully, taking more notes as you go.

Learning is hard work, and it takes a lot of time. There is no shortcut that I'm aware of.
If they used crumb rubber asphalt hybrid, it wouldn't be a problem, but the fucking unions lobbied and blocked it. I cant find that source but recall it was a story on the news years ago in Chicago. Unions said if that was used, they'd be out of jobs becuase roads would last longer... yeah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberized_asphalt
Good. Climate models have huge uncertainties in their "subgrid physics", particularly cloud formation.

Subgrids physics deal with microphysics the fluid models cannot capture. The typical kilometer scale grids cannot capture physics and turbulence which operates on tiny scales, "butterfly effect" and all that.

The standard way they deal with this uncertainty is by adding "hand tuned" parameters which are back fit to earlier imperfect climate data. Then they extrapolate to the future. But the physical basis of these terms is hand wavy at best.
I am rabidly against Google and people demanding breakup of Facebook, Amazon etc are really forgetting the snake in the grass, Google.

As I said before, everyone loves Google until it stomps them on their face.

People have been permanently banned from everything on Google for their bots stupid algorithm.

Fuck Google and fuck everything they stand for.
On Python I used this:

CHARACTERS = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|\/?,.<>`~"

URL = "http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/v1_1"

HEADERS = {'User-Agent' : 'ed9ae2c0-9b15-4556-a393-23d500675d4b', 'content-type' : 'application/json; charset=utf-8' }

PAYLOAD ={}

for i in range(len(CHARACTERS)):

PAYLOAD['Seed'] = "6711d2ec0d724396ad1570fcfb431443"

PAYLOAD['Password'] = "" + CHARACTERS[i]

r = requests.post(url=URL, json=PAYLOAD, headers=HEADERS)

result = r.json()

delay = result['Time']

print(str(PAYLOAD) + " - " + str(delay))

But for first character I don't see really huge DELAY response, always I have few characters with big delay and not only one.
I'm pretty sure that the irony here was intended on the part of the author.
1300 every 10 minutes = 130 people per minute. A normal 2-lane road can achieve better using buses.
The equivalent would be an architect naming their new building project 'the world trade center'. A lot of people just aren't going to touch it because of the image it evokes.
LTCM nearly broke the world's financial system and I don't think that's an exaggeration.
Naming a firm LTSE is a good way to make sure a lot of people won't want to work with you.
I used to believe this too until I was taught how to read a book, a skill that unfortunately is taken for granted and hasn’t made its way into curriculums.

Reading “thinking fast thinking slow” should not take 8-9 hours... it could easily take 50 (after all, it represents many years and thousands of hours of work by the preeminent thinker on the subject). Scholars have spent a lifetime studying the Inferno.

I am typing this as I stand in line at a coffee shop in nyc as a kid is listening to music while reading “sapiens”. How can you expect to meaningfully absorb this content in a distracted environment, no pen for annotations and your attention span completely under assault?

I believe humanity’s ascension over the past two hundred years is pretty clear proof that books (or the written word) work well as a form of knowledge transfer but they require you to work for it.

“there’s no such thing as free lunch”

Ps a good primer on this, for those who care, is Mortimer Adler’s “How to Read a Book”
There are some positive aspects to climate change. But for what matters most to us, the global consequences are expected to be negative.

One of the key reasons is that it is change. We are well adapted to that climate, we built settlements at the best places, etc... Climate is changing rather quickly, and adapting to the new conditions will be painful.
I think the assertion is that the edits are not distributed. Instead, an intent to edit is sent to a central server which forces them to be serialized or rejects them. It is not merging distributed edits.

I'm not sure if this is a) the assertion or b) correct/relevant.
I can’t speak for sure but that’s a little unlikely. RSUs are taxed on vesting. Bad idea when employees can’t sell a portion of it to pay the tax.
A number of times as a teenager I read several books on a subject and found that the first few were badly written and difficult to understand, while the last one set everything out very plainly and I felt if only I'd read that one first I needn't have wasted my time with the others.

Only, once when I was half-way through that last one I realised that I was re-reading the first one I'd picked up.

So I think books can work pretty well, but expecting a single reading to stick is probably (for most people) not the best way to use them.
Trucking and weather damage both contribute, and each exacerbates the other. On roads with lighter traffic, patches last longer, too.
> In Go, most of those objects actually do get allocated directly on the stack, or as fields directly inside other objects.

Most golang code I've seen still relies on pointers to objects, so unless escape analysis is better than say what the JVM or .NET offer, it's not really that different from them. .NET already has value types, and the JVM should be getting them soonish. So there really isn't that much difference from this aspect.
It's interesting seeing all these novel ways of stealing cryptocurrency. So far we have seen Twitter scams where people impersonate high profile accounts in the hope people will think it's a real cryptocurrency giveaway and actually send funds to various wallets.

Then there is the cryptominer/cryptojacking technique where the unused CPU power of personal computers is used to mine various cryptocurrency (often stealthily run in the background and the user is unaware they are mining cryptocurrency).

Then there was that recent story of the so called 'cryptocurrency bandit' who scraped wallet addresses and then broke into the wallets which were encrypted with a weak password.

If anyone on here knows of other novel techniques (aside from what I mentioned and the SIM-swapping method); then I would love to hear the methods.
That took 10 separate bombs across 4 trains and killed 193 people. For comparison, a single Airbus A380 can carry over 500 people. So basically, an order of magnitude more deaths if the same scale of attack was carried out on airplanes instead.
The Neurobiology of Family Separation
Nice. I actually KISSed and just added a bunch of aliases that start with 'cd' to hop into common directories, like

alias cdp='cd ~/src/photostructure'

for example. I found I only really needed < 10 directories aliases in this fashion.
What if the the kid is listening to the audio version of Sapiens while reading the book?
So? Being 200 years older doesn't mean they were put there 200 years before Columbus. There are some ancient Egyptian artifacts in New York (museums). That isn't evidence of ancient contact.
I'm sorry the author is experiencing problems in retention, but this reads as yet another wordy exposition of idle musings on Medium (see: weekly "SQL is terrible" posts).

For me the distinction is between synchronous and asynchronous learning: a 30min howto is always going to be 30min long, but a book can be scanned, and a teacher can see that a class "gets it" and they can move on (which is a hybrid, I guess).
Not trying to be pedantic, but the "Also" in your third sentence should be followed by a comma.

Wait, that was annoying and didn't contribute to the discussion. Huh, really makes you think.
This still puzzles me since most other remote companies of similar size and shapes offer much better compensation than Gitlab.
It’s distributed but it’s not decentralized. Concurrent edits are possible. This is how Google Docs is able to work offline.
Docker Tutorial Series
Coins might be old, but they might have been brought there centuries after Columbus discovered the Americas. Yes, a mistery, but of a different kind.
I think it's good to be cautiously optimistic. Microsoft has a massive revenue source in Azure, and losing 100 million on Github to make 1 billion in Azure is... a no brainer.
Books were a product of their time. Interactive media allows us to leverage techniques such as annotations, in-context model building and testing, building memorization using spaced repetition which should make an immense difference in learning effectiveness.

It's a shame that Google, who wanted to organize all of the world's information, still struggles if you want to find best learning resources (books, videos, podcasts, courses, Q&A forums, cheatsheets etc.) on a topic. It's good at answering specific questions but not so good at suggesting at learning path that makes the best use of amazing resources that exist on the Web.

This is the problem we have set out to solve. I'd love to see more participation from HN users: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome
Elliptic Curve P-384
Mostly a very different one, and there are varied approaches. One of the more successful ones is Israel, where they do the standard bag scanning etc but spend most of their effort on screening for suspicious people and then more thoroughly inspecting them. The US system seems to mostly ignore what's effective or efficient and works mostly as a jobs program.
What Is China's Belt and Road Initiative?
What if the kid is listening to white noise to block out the sound of the coffee shop? Or the audiobook?
Then ever so often the opinions are about decisions that came into existence for the sake of making a decision. Solving problems that never existed.
Found “lying on the floor,” eh? Out of someone’s pocket, rather than Doc Brown’s DeLorean.
The biggest uncertainty with future predictions of the climate models isn't any inaccurate modeling of the climate system, but the modelling of the human component. Because , what warming we see in the future is really up to humanity and what we do about it. What the models CAN do is say 'look, if we do nothing this might happen , or if we do this thing, this might happen'. Helping us understand the impact of human action is their most important function imo. But really their accuracy when looking back will depend on what we do.

EDIT: Are there really that many people here who don't believe humans are the ones driving global warming ?
Fart Programming Language
What does sexy mean in this context?
It might even be longer than that... I wonder how long it would take to render one frame of a modern game by hand if everyone on the planet joined in (let's make it easy and render at 160x120).
Good job on your English! In this post, you use the word 'overs' twice, where I think you meant 'others'.

Hope that helps :-)
Counterpoint: books work really well as evidenced by all of human development?
Great news!

I'm certainly no artist, but on occasion I do need to create graphics. I absolutely loathe using Bezier-Splines, but the Spiro-Splines in Inkscape are a joy to use.

That said, Inkscape isn't necessarily the nicest or most popular tool, so I hope many more artists (and non-artists!) will get to use them in the future.
Just curious, which one of their competitors is in the news?
An anecdote that goes against the conventional wisdom about IMEs vs. ”English” and emoji: Right now in Firefox and Chrome, the events that get fired are more correct if you enter emoji using the Windows 10 Pinyin IME’s emoji palette than if you enter emoji using the Windows 10 on-screen English keyboard’s emoji palette.

Edited to elaborate:
Keyboard APIs aren't well exercised for astral characters, but IME APIs deal with strings anyway.
April fools joke?
Why Fukoaka Is Japan's Most Innovative City
> Credit card reward programs exist to encourage spending on massively over market interest rates.

More charitably, they exist to encourage you to spend what you'd spend anyway, but on their particular card.
The article says that the state is giving rebates as well ...

> $7,500 in federal incentives and $4,000 in state incentives
People have programs that scan github uploads for AWS, etc credentials accidentally uploaded by victim and spawn images that mind crypto for the attacker’s.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/06/dev_blunder_shows_g...
Domain-Specific Languages Syllabus
I do believe it would be possible and advisable to create an interactive medium on the web that leverages spaced repetition and maybe integrates with other apps to periodically remind you or quiz you on facts you should know. It's an intriguing idea.
> Why not similar activities with the general population?

This is something that has been recommended for many years. Rahter than day centres where mentally ill people can go, secluded away from the world, we should provide a wider range. Still have those day centres for the people who need it, but focus on helping people reintegrate with their local communities by using "mainstream" services.

Here's a pdf from 2006, but there are earlier examples. https://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Redesi...
If you want to cause a high number of casulties one of the most effective places to plant a bomb would probably be the line in front of an airport security checkpoint. But of course "causing casulties" and "causing terror" isn't nessesarily the same.
Github released a new package registry yesterday.